This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...when all doubts in regard to the integrity of his royal mother were thus cleared away. There is something peculiarly fervent in the aspiration in behalf of the princely boy, with which the Archbishop of Glasgow concludes his letter to Mary on this interesting subject--" May Almighty God be pleased to grant him His grace to augment the happy beginning of all good and virtuous things, which, by the report of every one, are already in him." Young as James VI. then was, he had had opportunities of seeing what manner of men the calumniators of his hapless mother were. "For fifteen years I was among them, but not of them," was his subsequent declaration, when alluding to their treachery and falsehood: "how they treated that poor lady, my mother, is only too well known."2 The regular course of chronology has been a little interrupted by the necessity of giving a full explanation of the fate of Bothwell, and the circumstances under which he rendered his last important testimony of her innocence; 1 Keith"s Appendix, p. 143. 2 King James"s address to the Convocation at Hampton Court. for that it was not the first we have the authority of Camden, "the nourice of antiquity," a contemporary, who, writing with Burleigh"s papers and secret correspondence before him, affirms "that Bothwell himself, when he was prisoner in Denmark, attested several times, in his health as well as on his deathbed, and that with the most solemn asseverations, that the Queen was in no degree privy to the regicide." 1 But important as such testimony, in addition to that of the men who had been executed as accomplices in the murder,2 must be considered, the exculpation of Mary Stuart rests on a stronger foundation, for the date of Lady Lennox"s i...