Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

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This is a copy letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to Elizabeth I, in which she justifies her actions. The original was dated 8 November 1582.

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Mary, Queen of Scots. Ob. 1587. From the Original in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble The Earl of Morton. Stipple engraving. 1 December 1836. Fry, William Thomas, 1789-1843, Engraver; Harding and Lepard, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Published … by Harding & Lepard, Pall Mall East.

Published in: E. Lodge, Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain (1840 ed), vol. 3.

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This paper consists of a closely written sheet of four pages, in a contemporary hand, and contains the instructions the Queen dictated when lying ill at Jedburgh, after the famous ride she took on horseback to visit the Earl of Bothwell at Hermitage Castle. It was likely transcribed by John Lesley, the Bishop of Ross.

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Notes upon Hume's Elizabeth, relative to the trial of Mary Queen of Scots for the murder of her husband by Sir James Steuart Denham, undated.

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Manuscript copy of 'A vindication of Mr. George Buchanan in two parts' prepared for press by the author Rev John Love (1695-1750). Contains bookplate of Alexander Thomson of Banchory (1798-1868) and note on the flyleaf saying the manuscript was found with the papers of the late Dr. Hamilton of Aberdeen.

Scope and Contents Precept by Queen Mary, with consent of James, Duke of Chatelherault, as regent, directing the sheriff, etc., of Ayr to infeft Alexander, Earl of Glencairn, his heirs, etc., in terms of a charter, in the lands of Boystoun, Lambrochtoun, Langmuir, and Arnoldis Boddome, with meadow, extending to eleven and a half merks, in the lordship of Kilmaurs, bailiary of Cunningham, and shire of Ayr, formerly belonging to David Cunyngham of Robertland, and resigned by him. At Edinburgh, 8th December 1552....

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Precept of Sasine under the quarter seal for infefting John Kennedy in terms of a previous charter. Edinburgh, 13th February 1550-51. [Inclosed in this writ are three receipts by Robert Hamilton, bailie-clerk of Carrick, to John Whitefoord of Blachan for taxation imposed in August 1665. Dated 8th April 1667; 8th October 1667; 22nd July 1668 to 13th October 1670.]

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Precept under the privy seal of Queen Mary directed to the keeper of the great seal, requiring him to expede letters under that seal in favour of the burgh of Perth, in terms of the Act of Parliament of June 1555, granting various privileges in regard to the trades and merchants of the burgh. Edinburgh, 28th May 1556.

Scope and Contents Precept under the quarter seal by Queen Mary, narrating that, by a decree of the lords of council in February last past, James Schaw, son and heir of the late Alexander Schaw of Sauchy, has lost during his lifetime the superiority of the lands of Fynnart belonging to John Schaw, son of the said late Alexander, lying in the bailiary of Renfrew, and held by the said John immediately of his said father Alexander and his heirs, and that the said John is to possess (or hold) the property of the...

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[Queen Mary's gloves]. Wood engraving. 1844. Dickes, William, 1815-1892, Artist; Kirchner, J. (John), active 1840-1884, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.

Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford edition), vol. 5 (1844), The Abbott, p. 444.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'Queen Mary's gloves - Society of Antiquaries - Edinb'.