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no means have until I come amongst them. … But I pray you, Monsieur l'Ambassadeur (quoth she), tell me how vieth this strange affection in the Queen, your mistress, towards me? I desire to know it, to the intent that I may reform myself if I have failed. I answered … As soon as the Queen, my mistress, after the death of her sister, came to the crown of England, you bore the arms of England diversely quartered with your own, and used in your country notoriously the style and title of the Queen, my mistress, which was never by you put in use in Queen Mary's time. … Monsieur l'Ambassadeur (said she), I was then under the commandment of King Henry, my father, and of the King, my lord and husband; and whatsoever was done then by their order and commandments, the same was in like manner continued until both their deaths, since which time, you know, I neither bore the arms nor used the title of England. … It were no great dishonour to the Queen my cousin, your mistress, though I, a Queen also, did bear the arms of England; for, I am sure, some, inferior to me, and that be not on every side so well apparented as I am, do bear the arms of England. You cannot deny (quoth she) but that my grandmother was the King her father's sister, and (I trow) the eldest sister he had. I do assure you, Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, and do speak unto you truly as I think, I never meant nor thought matter against the Queen, my cousin. … And so I took my leave of the said Queen for that time.

      TO DIE MIGHT BE BETTER THAN TO LIVE

      … And to the intent I might better decipher, whether the Queen of Scotland did mind to continue her voyage, I did, the … 21st of July … repair to the said Queen of Scotland to take my leave of her. … The said Queen made answer, Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, if my preparations were not so much advanced as they are, peradventure the Queen your mistress's unkindness might stay my voyage; but now I am determined to adventure the matter, whatsoever come of it. I trust (quoth she) the wind will be so favourable, as I shall not need to come on the coast of England; and if I do, then, Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, the Queen your mistress shall have me in her hands to do her will of me; and if she be so hard-hearted as to desire my end, she may then do her pleasure, and make sacrifice of me; peradventure that casualty might be better for me than to live; in this matter (quoth she) God's will be fulfilled.

      "ADIEU, PLAISANT PAYS DE FRANCE"

1561.—August 12. The Voyage from France to Scotland.

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      Cecil to the Earl of Sussex. Wright's Elizabeth, vol. i. p. 69.

      The Scottish Queen was the 10th of this month at Boulogne, and meaneth to take shipping at Calais. Neither those in Scotland nor we here do like her going home. The Queen's Majesty hath three ships in the north seas to preserve the fishers from pirates. I think they will be sorry to see her pass.

      Cecil to Throgmorton, August 26. Hardwicke's State Papers, vol. i. p. 176.

      The 19th of this present, in the morning early, she {Mary} arrived at Leith with her two galleys, her whole train not exceeding sixty persons of meaner sort. … The Queen's Majesty's ships that were upon the seas to cleanse them from pirates saw her and saluted her galleys, and staying her ships examined them of pirates and dismissed them gently. One Scottish ship they detain, as vehemently suspected of piracy.

      From the Charges against the Countess of Lennox in Foreign Calendar, 1562. (May 7.)

      She loves not the Queen … hearing that the Queen of Scots had passed through the seas, she sat down and gave God thanks, declaring to those by how he had always preserved that Princess at all times, especially now, "for when the Queen's ships were almost near taking of the Scottish Queen, there fell down a mist from heaven that separated them and preserved her."

SECTION II

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FROM MARY'S ARRIVAL IN SCOTLAND TO THE DARNLEY MARRIAGE

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CONTENTS

	1.		Knox's description of Mary's reception, and his opinion of the Queen.
	2.		Randolph's account of Mary's public entry into Edinburgh.
	3.		Illustrations of the religious difficulty.
		(a)	Proclamation of the Privy Council.
		(b)	Randolph's account of Mary's first High Mass.
		(c)	Popular Songs against the Pope.
	4.		Mary on the Treaty of Edinburgh.
	5.		The conduct of affairs at the beginning of the reign.
		(a)	Cecil's opinion.
		(b)	Randolph's impressions of Murray, Lethington, and Knox.
		(c)	The Huntly Rebellion as narrated by Randolph.
		(d)	The passing of the sentence on Huntly's embalmed corpse.
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