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4 The most amiable Princess in Christendom
Mary’s Latin ‘themes’ can be found in Queen Mary’s Book, by Mrs P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot (London, 1907) and her ‘donations’ of the treaty of Fontainebleau are given in full by Labanoff. Details of her wedding are in Discours du Grande et Magnifique Triomphe faict au Marriage de François et Marie Stuart (Roxburghe Club, 1818) and in Douglas Hamer’s ‘The Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to the Dauphin’, Library, vol. 12, 1932.
5 She cannot long continue
Throckmorton’s despatches are given in full in the Calendar of State Papers, Elizabeth under the relevant dates. Noel Williams’s Henry II, His Court and Times (London, 1910) provides a thorough background for the reign.
6 She universally inspires great pity
Again Throckmorton’s despatches are thorough while the Histoire de l’Estat de France . . . sous la regne de François II, by Regnier de la Planche (Paris, 1576) is full of gossip. The coronation of François is covered in An historical and chronological treatise of the anointing and coronation of the kings of France by M. Menin (London, 1723). Elizabeth’s letters are quoted from the Calendar of State Papers, Elizabeth and the Scottish negotiations are in the Calendar of State Papers, Scotland.
7 We had landed in an obscure country
Mary’s arrival in Scotland is covered by Knox and Brantôme and her entry into Edinburgh is given in the Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents and by A. MacDonald in ‘Mary Stewart’s Entry into Edinburgh – An Ambiguous Triumph’ (Innes Review, 1991), as well as the same author’s ‘The Triumph of Protestantism’ (Innes Review, 1997). The interviews with Knox are one-sidedly quoted from his History of the Reformation, and Randolph’s despatches are quoted in both the Calendars of State Papers, Scotland and Elizabeth. A more balanced view of Knox/Mary is given by Jenny Wormald in ‘Godly Reformer, Godless Monarch’, an essay in John Knox and the British Reformations, ed. Roger Mason (Aldershot, 1998).
8 Dynastic entity
Mary’s travels were well reported by Randolph and her establishment at Holyrood is described by J.S. Richardson in The Abbey and Palace of Holyroodhouse (HMSO, 1978), and also in Inventaires de la Royne d’Escosse, ed. Joseph Robertson (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1863). Details of her library are found in John Durkan’s ‘The Library of Mary Queen of Scots’, an essay in Mary Stewart, Queen in Three Kingdoms, ed. Michael Lynch (Oxford, 1988). The interview with de Gouda is detailed in Randolph, who also quotes Mary’s enjoyment while on her campaign in the Highlands.
9 The dancing grows hot
Melville’s visit to Elizabeth is detailed by him in his Memoirs of His Own Life by Sir James Melville of Halhill (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1827) while the extracts from the official despatches are from the relevant Calendars.
10 Yonder long lad
The affairs of the Privy Council are published in the Register of the Scottish Privy Council of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1877–98). Randolph and the Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents give full accounts of the events in Edinburgh. Throckmorton’s despatches are included with Randolph’s in the Calendar of State Papers, Elizabeth. Rizzio’s murder is dealt with in every history of the period, especially in Antonia Fraser’s Mary, Queen of Scots (London, 1969).
11 She wished she had never been married
Mary’s will is cited by Robertson in his edition of Inventaires. Melville in his Memoirs supplements Killigrew’s ambassadorial reports while du Croc can be found in Calendar of State Papers, Foreign. An account of Mary’s sickness can be found in Queen Mary at Jedburgh by John Small (Edinburgh, 1881). These events are also recounted, unreliably, by Claude Nau in Memorials of Mary Stewart, ed. J. Stevenson, S.J. (Edinburgh, 1883). The account of the Craigmillar Bond is in Robert Keith, History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, vol. 2 (Spottiswoode Society, Edinburgh, 1844–50) and is quoted by Labanoff. James’s baptism is found in the Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents as well as in Melville and du Croc.
12 Some evil turn
Darnley’s murder is treated in some detail by Brigadier R.H. Mahon in The Tragedy of Kirk o’ Field (Cambridge, 1930) and by M.H. Armstrong-Davison in The Casket Letters (London, 1965). The aftermath to the murder is given in the Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents as well as in ambassadorial despatches and by John Maxwell, Lord Herries in his Historical Memoirs, ed. R. Pitcairn (Abbotsford Club, Edinburgh, 1836).
13 It does not appertain to subjects to reform their prince
Mary’s imprisonment on Loch Leven is detailed by Nau, Melville, Keith and the ambassadors. The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vols 2, 3 and 4 (Edinburgh, 1814–75) contain the formal results of Moray’s dealings. A.M. Scott gives a detailed account of the battle of Langside in The Battle of Langside (Glasgow, 1885) and Mary’s flight south is found in Herries’ Historical Memoirs and in History of the Burgh of Dumfries by William McDowall (Dumfries, 1867).
14–17
With Mary now a virtual prisoner to the end of her life, her letters as edited by Labanoff become a major source as do the Calendar of State Papers, Elizabeth and Scotland. The Casket Letters are printed in full in Armstrong-Davison, The Casket Letters (London, 1965), and accounts of the examination at York are in The First Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots by Gordon Donaldson (London, 1969) and in John Hosack’s Mary Queen of Scots and her Accusers (Edinburgh, 1869). Nau gives us useful background, while Edmund Lodge’s Illustrations of British History (London, 1791) and William Camden’s Annals of the most renowned and victorious Queen Elizabeth, tr. T. Wallace MacCaffrey (Chicago, 1970) are essential sources. Quotes from Buchanan come from The Tyrannous Reign of Mary, Queen of Scots: George Buchanan’s Account, ed. W.A. Gatherer (Edinburgh, 1958), ‘The Uses of Adversity’ is printed in Queen Mary’s Book, by Mrs P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot (London, 1907).
18–19
Mary’s letters edited by Labanoff now alternate with The Letter-books of Amias Poulet, ed. John Morris, S.J. (London, 1874) and the Calendar of State Papers, Elizabeth, combined with the Hatfield Papers, vols 1 and 2 (Historic Manuscripts Commission, 1883) give the political background. The Babington plot is detailed in J.H. Pollen, S.J.’s Queen Mary and the Babington Plot (Scottish History Society, 1922) while Conyers Read in Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1925) gives an overview. Mrs the Hon. Maxwell-Scott’s The Tragedy of Fotheringhay (London, 1912) is essential as is Marie Stuart, son Procès et son Exècution, d’après le Journal inédit de Bourgoing, edited by M.R. Chantelauze (Paris, 1876). Elizabeth’s behaviour in signing the death warrant is covered in Life of William Davison, N.H. Nicolas (London, 1823). There is an account of Mary’s trial in The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots by A.F. Steuart (London, 1923).
20 A place near the kings
Accounts of Mary’s burial is in History and Antiquities of Peterborough Cathedral by John Britton (London, 1828), and in Collections Relative to the funerals of Mary, Queen of Scots, by R. Pitcairn (Edinburgh, 1822). Royal Westminster Abbey by Bryan Bevan (London, 1976), describes the abbey today while Arthur Penrhyn Stanley’s Historical Monuments of Westminster Abbey (London, 1868) relates the story of the post-burial investigations. Mary’s posthumous reputation is dealt with in some detail by J.E. Phillips in Images of a Queen (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964).
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