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His grandfather had risen on the battlefield, was promoted to an earldom and given Bothwell Castle in Lanarkshire.

he exchanged it for the Hermitage, a vast and isolated border citadel in the valley of the Hermitage

Mary was not even English, so how could she be accountable to the queen of England or to English judges?

By Christmas 1568, Mary had not been found innocent, but neither had she been convicted.

and one of the executioners took the medallion from around her neck

As Mary's veil and black outer garments were removed, stifled cries of shock and astonishment reverberated around the hall.

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

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.

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

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

On August 22, Moray was proclaimed regent.

One of Drury's finest contributions was to send a colored drawing of the assassination to Cecil.

her forced abdication and execution, the business on that day was regicide.

Moray was in Glasgow when he heard the news of her escape.

and arranged for her to have her own household, they had run a calculated risk.

Elizabeth's practice to draw hatch marks in pen across the blank spaces of her sensitive and important letters

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

Bothwell now planned to escape to France, hoping to rally Guise support for Mary.

The treaty of Greenwich was a dead letter from the start. Mary of Guise had no intention of honoring it;

the grounds that such action might become a precedent for noble forfeitures generally.

her own priority was Elizabeth's latest offer of a final dynastic accord.

Virginia Woolf pointed out in her classic essay 'The Art of Biography' (1938)

Wittgenstein sent the Tractatus to several publishers who rejected it, including his own university press — Cambridge, which was to distinguish itself by rejecting all his writing.

Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.