The Love Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell, with Her Love Sonnets and Marriage Contracts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LAING. I have patiently gone through the pages of this, as well as through those of every other author whom I have cited; and, I should not follow the dictates of my own judgment were I to enlarge my volume by extracts from his work-- for such would merely be an affirmance or corroboration of all that has been added by his predecessors against Mary. Laing is a warm opponent of the advocates for the innocence of the Queen, and he has shown a great many Jacobite fallacies. He has also the credit of having brought to light one of the original letters of the Gilt Casket. MR. CHALMERS. This gentleman's Journal, or Diary of Mary, interspersed as it is with historical and official selections, contains but little in favour of her innocence. He praises his partizans, Goodall, Tytler, and Whitaker; and as the two latter sound their gongs on the notes of the former, so he, frisky and fortified with their joint knowledge, rings the changes upon them all; and comes in for the plate in the following brief, confident, and amusing manner: --" He makes the Regent Murray the principal in the murder of Darnley --Bothwell only Murray's agent--and the lovely Queen not even &particeps criminis.'"--Of the Letters he says, whilst speaking of forgeries--" Of the same nature are the documents which Murray gave into Elizabeth's Commissioners as proofs of his charge--the whole may be seen in Goodall." Mr. Chalmers, who so cavalierly takes leave of his readers, without laying the documents before them, may, if he pleases, in his next edition, (should Mr. Murray's shelves be lightened of their Quartos and Octavos, about the Queen of Scots, during his life) tell the world that my volume contains all that is necessary to be known about Queen Mary.--But I cannot leave this subject before I answe...