Quotes from John Guy

but it became rapidly clear he was gravely ill, probably from a brain tumor.

another the French triumph over the Spanish and papal forces at the battle of Ravenna in 1512.

No sooner had Moray received a transcript of this confession than poor Paris was silenced forever.

Only three months and five days had passed since Darnley was murdered.

There were regional inequalities within Scotland.

pair of globes, one astronomical and the other terrestrial.

On the scaffold, he shouted out the truth to the assembled crowd.

As Mary knelt, she recited in Latin the psalm In te Domino confido, "In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust.

Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX, who was only ten years old.

The lords said afterward that she had agreed to a divorce in principle, as long as it was legal and "not prejudicial to her son.

While Bothwell and his servants were moving into Darnley's old apartments at Holyrood

He denied everything he had said about carrying the two Glasgow letters from Mary to Bothwell.

positioning her chin carefully with her hands and holding them there

hence the palace revolution that had accompanied Francis II's accession only seventeen months before was reversed.

that if one of the executioners had not moved them, they would have been cut off.

as a rule the highlanders and lowlanders had a tacit agreement to ignore one another.

Cecil watched and waited. Unlike Mary, he was entirely prepared for what was about to happen in her country.

Many highlanders spoke Gaelic rather than Lowland Scots, exacerbating cultural differences.

THE DAY BEFORE Darnley's assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember.

the most breathtaking and dramatic

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

An intense rivalry developed between adherents of the Pléiade and those rhetoricians, classicists

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

The language of the lowlanders was in fact much closer to northern English