17
Keith, p. 73.
18
Goodall’s Examination, vol. l. p. 159, et seq. The motto which Goodall put upon his title page,
he has in more than one instance amply justified.
19
Mezeray, Castelnau, Brantome, Thuanus, Chalmers, Miss Benger.
20
This picture originally belonged to Lord Robert Stuart, Earl of Orkney, one of Mary’s natural brothers, and is now in the possession of William Trail, Esq. of Woodwick, Orkney, into whose family it came, together with other relics of the Earl, by the marriage of an ancestor of Mr Trail, to one of his descendants.
21
It is to the kindness of John Watson Gordon, Esq. deservedly one of the most eminent portrait-painters in Scotland, that we are indebted, both for the use of the painting from which the engraving has been made, and for several of the facts we have stated above. Mr Gordon has executed three copies of the picture – all of them exceedingly beautiful and accurate – possessing the merits, without any of the dusky dimness, which time has thrown over the original.