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[250] Tytler, vol i p 20

[251] It is unnecessary to enter into any discussion regarding the second Confession of Paris, which has been so satisfactorily proved to be spurious, by Tytler, Whittaker, and Chales ”no stress is to be laid,” on account of the ”improbable circumstances” it contains See Tytler, vol i p 286--Whittaker, vol

ii p 305--Chalmers, vol ii p 50--Robertson, vol iii p 20

[252] Robertson, vol iii p 21

[253] Goodall, vol ii p 371 and 375--Robertson, vol iii p 28

[254] The French edition of the Detection, p 2--Goodall, vol i p 103

[255] Goodall, vol ii p 235

[256] Laing, vol i p 250

[257] See the Letter in Laing, vol ii p 202; and an unsuccessful atteive a criminal interpretation to it, in vol i p 311 It is quite unnecessary to allude here to several other flieries which, at a later period, have been atteenuine letters of Mary In 1726, a book was published, entitled, ”The genuine Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, to James Earl of Bothwell, found in his Secretary's Closet after his Decease, and now in the Possession of a Gentleman at Oxford Translated froe, Oxford” These had only to be read, to be seen to be fabrications Yet so late as the year 1824, a co other things, eleven letters, which the Doctor thought were original love-letters of the Queen to Bothwell, although, with a very trifling variation, they were the sa described as translations, and being written in colish, which Mary never could write, they bear still ery This is put beyond a doubt, by a short Examination of them, published by Murray, London, 1825, and entitled, ”A Detection of the Love-Letters, lately attributed, in Hugh Caiarisms are proved, and his fictions fixed”

[258] Whittaker, vol ii p 79

[259] Goodall, vol i p 79--Laing, vol i p 209