Mary Stuart, Her Guilt Or Innocence: An Inquiry Into the Secret History of Her Times

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A. and C. Black, 1866 - Scotland - 271 pages
 

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Page 189 - Albeit that my Lord of Murray here present be little less scrupulous for a Protestant than your Grace is for a Papist, I am assured he will look through his fingers thereto, and will behold our doings, saying nothing to the same.
Page 216 - ... she rose up, and after a turn or two went into the gallery, whither I followed her, and there renewing her former speech, blaming the niceness of those precise fellows...
Page 44 - ... are already given and granted ; no man pleaseth her that contenteth not him ; and what may I say more, she hath given over to him her whole will, to be ruled and guided as himself best liketh...
Page 215 - I would not fail, according to your directions, to return my answer with all possible speed ; which [I] shall deliver unto you with great grief and bitterness of mind, in that I am so unhappy...
Page 189 - I will that ye do nothing whereby any spot may be laid upon my honour or conscience, and therefore I pray you rather let the matter be in the estate as it is, abiding till God of His goodness put remedy thereto ; that ye, believing to do me service, may possibly turn to my hurt and displeasure.
Page 239 - The provost and town of Edinburgh having understood this tumult in our palace , caused ring their common bell, came to us in great number, and desired to have seen our presence...
Page 81 - She likewise took him by the hand, and besought him for God's sake to declare if she had given him any occasion for this resolution ; and entreated he might deal plainly, and not spare her.
Page 190 - said Lethington, ' let us guide the matter among us, and your grace shall see nothing but good ; and approved by Parliament.
Page 217 - I am not so bace minded that feare of any livinge creature or prince should make me afrayde to do that were just, or don to denye the same. I am not of so base a linage, nor cary so vile a minde. But, as not to disguise, fits not a Kinge, so will I never dissemble my actions, but cawse them shewe even as I ment them.
Page 216 - God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without Law or Warrant...

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