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HOLYROOD ABBEY AND PALACE. I 73
By the fyftem there revealed in incontrovertible and im-
perifhable characters, Mary of Scotland, from the hour of her
birth, was enveloped in a web of Englifh policy and of Scotch
treafon, fine as a cobweb, but infrangible as a net of fteel !
When fhe returned, a young and beautiful widow of feventeen,
full of wit and knowledge and accomplifhment, (he came
home into the midft of a nobility, not only rude and ferocious
beyond any other in Europe, but all in the pay of Elizabeth of
England. She came amongft a defperate fet of traitors fee’d for
her deftrucftion, and the more prompt to it from being the
greater part of them profelytes of Knox and of the Genevan
faith,—a faith which had more of the old leaven of the ven-
geance of Judaifm than of the love and mercy of Chrift.
It was in this palace of Holyrood that Mary was hunted down,
bearded and infulted, by Knox, and her own bafe brother, the
Earl of Murray 5 by the fteel-clad and fteel-hearted nobles,
Morton, Lethington, Ruthven, and the reft of them. Here it
was that they incited her hufband Darnley with jealous rage to
affift them in murdering her fecretary and mufician, Rizzio, in
her prefence, in 1556. By them Bothwell was inftigated to
murder her hufband, Earl Darnley, in February, 1567; and
by their machinations Mary was carried off by Bothwell, and
compelled to marry him in May of the fame year. By thefe
means the fame of Mary was irrevocably ruined with her
people, and the ends of Elizabeth fo far gained. The moft
audacious forgeries were committed by the Englifh minifter
Cecil and his agents, both of ftate documents and of pretended
love-letters of Mary to Bothwell. The details and proofs of
thefe matters are too voluminous for thefe pages, but they
ftand broadly difplayed in the official publication referred to.
George Chalmers alfo, in his “Caledonia,” (vol. ii., quarto,)
fays, “ When the heart and hand of forgery are bufy in any age,
By the fyftem there revealed in incontrovertible and im-
perifhable characters, Mary of Scotland, from the hour of her
birth, was enveloped in a web of Englifh policy and of Scotch
treafon, fine as a cobweb, but infrangible as a net of fteel !
When fhe returned, a young and beautiful widow of feventeen,
full of wit and knowledge and accomplifhment, (he came
home into the midft of a nobility, not only rude and ferocious
beyond any other in Europe, but all in the pay of Elizabeth of
England. She came amongft a defperate fet of traitors fee’d for
her deftrucftion, and the more prompt to it from being the
greater part of them profelytes of Knox and of the Genevan
faith,—a faith which had more of the old leaven of the ven-
geance of Judaifm than of the love and mercy of Chrift.
It was in this palace of Holyrood that Mary was hunted down,
bearded and infulted, by Knox, and her own bafe brother, the
Earl of Murray 5 by the fteel-clad and fteel-hearted nobles,
Morton, Lethington, Ruthven, and the reft of them. Here it
was that they incited her hufband Darnley with jealous rage to
affift them in murdering her fecretary and mufician, Rizzio, in
her prefence, in 1556. By them Bothwell was inftigated to
murder her hufband, Earl Darnley, in February, 1567; and
by their machinations Mary was carried off by Bothwell, and
compelled to marry him in May of the fame year. By thefe
means the fame of Mary was irrevocably ruined with her
people, and the ends of Elizabeth fo far gained. The moft
audacious forgeries were committed by the Englifh minifter
Cecil and his agents, both of ftate documents and of pretended
love-letters of Mary to Bothwell. The details and proofs of
thefe matters are too voluminous for thefe pages, but they
ftand broadly difplayed in the official publication referred to.
George Chalmers alfo, in his “Caledonia,” (vol. ii., quarto,)
fays, “ When the heart and hand of forgery are bufy in any age,