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PREFATORY NOTICE. ix
professed purpose of considerino; jNIary's claims, he mentions the
efforts whicli were made by her " to stirr up and encouradge her
friends in Scotland" by addressing a long letter to the people of
Scotland from the place of her captivity; but he coolly contents
himself with a notification to his readers, that it "is inserted ad
longum in my original."* This letter and others, he states,
were intercepted by the Regent, " who was not a little astonish-
ed to sie things of the secretest nature divulged."
In I'elation to the authorship of these historical Memoirs, it
is to be regretted that nothing which is at all definite or satis-
factory can now be determined. It is by no means improbable,
however, that materials may have been collected, and the ori-
ginal jNIemoirs commenced, by John Jifth Lord Herries, who
figures most conspicuously during a considerable portion of the
most troubled period of the reign of Alary Queen of Scots.
We first meet with him as SirJohn Maxwell of Terreolcs, knight,
a powerful border baron, ^^'arden of the West Marches of the
Kingdom, and Justiciar within the same bounds. After his
succession to the titles and estates of Herries, his efforts were
distinguished, if possible, by even more uncompromising zeal
and devotion to the interests of his royal mistress; and it is un-
questionable that headhered to her fortunes, duringall thevarious
vicissitudes of her singularly chequered fate, with unshaken
fidelity. Reference may be made for the leading features of his
character and public transactions to the various contemporary
histories, especially to those which have been printed for the use
of the Members of the Bannatyne Club,t to Sadler's State Papers,
and Calderwood's MS. Church History.! In a very interesting
• Hist. p. 1 12. I History of Kiny James VI., Sir James Melville s Memoirs,
Richard Banrmtyne's Memorialed, Diurnal of Occurrent^, &c. | Advocates'
Library. This MS. lias recently been completed from a copy belonging to the Church of
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professed purpose of considerino; jNIary's claims, he mentions the
efforts whicli were made by her " to stirr up and encouradge her
friends in Scotland" by addressing a long letter to the people of
Scotland from the place of her captivity; but he coolly contents
himself with a notification to his readers, that it "is inserted ad
longum in my original."* This letter and others, he states,
were intercepted by the Regent, " who was not a little astonish-
ed to sie things of the secretest nature divulged."
In I'elation to the authorship of these historical Memoirs, it
is to be regretted that nothing which is at all definite or satis-
factory can now be determined. It is by no means improbable,
however, that materials may have been collected, and the ori-
ginal jNIemoirs commenced, by John Jifth Lord Herries, who
figures most conspicuously during a considerable portion of the
most troubled period of the reign of Alary Queen of Scots.
We first meet with him as SirJohn Maxwell of Terreolcs, knight,
a powerful border baron, ^^'arden of the West Marches of the
Kingdom, and Justiciar within the same bounds. After his
succession to the titles and estates of Herries, his efforts were
distinguished, if possible, by even more uncompromising zeal
and devotion to the interests of his royal mistress; and it is un-
questionable that headhered to her fortunes, duringall thevarious
vicissitudes of her singularly chequered fate, with unshaken
fidelity. Reference may be made for the leading features of his
character and public transactions to the various contemporary
histories, especially to those which have been printed for the use
of the Members of the Bannatyne Club,t to Sadler's State Papers,
and Calderwood's MS. Church History.! In a very interesting
• Hist. p. 1 12. I History of Kiny James VI., Sir James Melville s Memoirs,
Richard Banrmtyne's Memorialed, Diurnal of Occurrent^, &c. | Advocates'
Library. This MS. lias recently been completed from a copy belonging to the Church of
b
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| Description | Edited by Robert Pitcairn. Probably collected and the memoirs begun by John, fourth Lord Herries, who figures conspicuously during the most troubled period of the reign of Mary queen of Scots and continued by John, seventh Lord Herries, later Earl of Nithsdale. |
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