Lives of the queens of Scotland and English princesses Volume 7; connected with the regal succession of Great Britain

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...