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[205] Aoine, who afterwards wrote a long and circumstantial narrative of her death, and Jane Kennedy, formerly mentioned on the occasion of Mary's escape from Loch-Leven

[206] Narratio Supplicii Mortis Mariae Stuart in Jebb, vol ii p

163--La Mort de la Royne d'Ecosse in Jebb, vol ii p 636 and 639--Camden, p 535

[207] Jebb, vol ii p 640, et seq

[208] See Mezeray, Histoire de France, tome iii

[209] ”We may say of Mary, I believe, with strict propriety,” observes Whittaker, ”what has been said of one of her Royal predecessors,--'the gracious Duncan,' that she

”Had borne her faculties so reat office, that her virtues, Will plead, like angels, tru off_”

[210] ”Oraison Funebre” in Jebb, vol ii p 671

[211] Anderson, vol ii p 92

[212] Keith, p 79

[213] Anderson, vol i p 117--Keith, p 379

[214] Melville, p 175 et seq

[215] Goodall, vol ii p 90

[216] Keith, p 406

[217] Anderson, vol i p 139

[218] Keith, p 417

[219] Haynes, p 454--Stuart, vol i p 361

[220] Goodall, vol ii p 66

[221] Keith, p 467--Anderson, vol ii p 173

[222] Goodall, vol ii p 140

[223] Goodall, vol ii p 235

[224] Ibid 256

[225] Tytler, vol i p 144

[226] There is preserved at Hamilton Palace, a small silver box, said to be the very casket which once contained the Letters Laing, who appears to believe in the genuineness of this relic somewhat too hastily, mentions, that ”the casket was purchased frohter of the Huntly family) about the period of the Restoration

After her death, her plate was sold to a goldshter-in-law Anne, heiress and Dutchess of Ha accurate and satisfactory account of the casket,” adds Mr Laing, ”I a, W S, to whoiven in Morton's receipt, and in the Memorandum prefixed to the Letters in Buchanan's 'Detection'”

”'The silver box is carefully preserved in the Charter-room at Haiven of it, both in size and general appearance I exalance I was led to state, that it had none of those ornaments to which you allude, and, in particular, that it wanted the croith the Italic letter _F_ Instead of these, I found on one of the sides the arraved on a compartment, which had previously contained some other ornament On the top of the lock, which is of curious worke embossed croith _fleurs de lis_, but without any letters Upon the bottom, however, of the casket, there are two other sht, I thought resembled our silver-smiths' marks; but, on closer inspection, I found they consisted each of a royal crown above a _fleur de lis_, sur, vol ii p 235