Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain, Volume 6 |
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Page 156 - She is to be helped, because she came willingly into the realm upon trust of the Queen's Majesty. She trusted upon the Queen's Majesty's help, because she had in her trouble received many messages to that effect. She is not lawfully condemned, because she was first taken by her subjects, by force kept in prison, put in fear of her life, charged with the murder of her husband, and not admitted to answer thereto, neither in her own person nor by advocate, before them which in Parliament did condemn...
Page 131 - But if they will needs come," continued she, " desire my good sister the Queen to write that Lethington and Morton, who be two of the wisest and most able of them to say most against me, may come, and then to let me be there in her presence, face to face, to hear their accusations, and to be heard how I can make my own exculpation; but I think Lethington would be very loth of that commission,
Page 215 - I never writ any thing concerning that matter to any creature. And if any such writings be, they are false and feigned, forged and invented by themselves, only to my dishonour and slander; and there are divers in Scotland, both men and women, that can counterfeit my handwriting, and write the like manner of writing which I use, as well as myself, and principally such as are in company with themselves.
Page 100 - I entreat you to send for me as soon as possible, for I am in a pitiable condition, not only for a Queen but even for a gentlewoman, having nothing in the world but the clothes in which I escaped, riding sixty miles the first day, and not daring to travel afterwards except by night, as I hope to be able to show you, if it please you to have compassion on my great misfortunes, and permit me to come and bewail them to you.
Page 42 - Bothwell, before his flying away, and was sent for by one George Dalgleish, his servant, who was taken by the Earl of Morton, a small gilt coffer, not fully a foot long, being garnished in sundry places with the Roman letter F, under a king's crown, wherein were certain letters and writings well known, and by oaths, to be affirmed to have been written, with the Queen of Scots...
Page 126 - So that, for victory sake, pain and peril seemeth pleasant unto her ; and in respect of victory, wealth and all things seemeth to her contemptuous and vile. Now what is to be done with such a lady and princess, — or whether such a princess and lady be to be nourished in one's bosom, — or whether it be good to halt and dissemble with such a lady, I refer to your judgment.
Page 351 - I know myself to be unworthy to be so well liked of one of such wisdom and good qualities, yet do I think my hap great in that, yea, much greater than my desert. Therefore I will be about to use myself so that, so far as God shall give me grace, you shall never have cause to diminish your good conceit and favour of me, while I shall esteem and respect you in all my doings as long as I live.
Page 215 - I never writ any thing concerning " that matter to any creature ; and, if any such writings be, they " are false and feigned, forged and invented by themselves...
Page 283 - Queen their sovereign objected against them, and their allegiances ; for so much as there has been nothing deduced against them, as yet, that may impair their honour or allegiances ; and, on the other part, there had been nothing sufficiently produced nor shown by them against the Queen, their sovereign, whereby the Queen of England should conceive or take any evil opinion of the Queen, her good sister, for anything yet seen...