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of the following: Mr Andrews, Clerk of the Works, Westminster Abbey; the Duke of Argyll; Sir Charles Barratt, Town Clerk of Coventry; Mr and Mrs Godfrey Bostock of Tixall, Stafford; Dr C.Burns of the Vatican Archives, Rome; Fr Philip Caraman S.J.; Miss Margaret Crum, Deputy Keeper of Western MSS, Bodleian Library, Oxford; Mr Stanley Cursiter; Fr Martin D’Arcy S.J.; Dr Chalmers Davidson; Professor A.A.M. Duncan of Glasgow University; the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon; Mr R.E.Hutcheson, Keeper of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, for advice on the authenticity of Scottish portraits of the period; Mr and Mrs W.J.Keswick of Glenkiln, Dumfriesshire; Mr A.H.King of the Music Room, British Museum and Miss Marion Linton of theMusic Room, National Library of Scotland for help over Riccio’s music; Mr King, Northamptonshire County Archivist; Mr Eric Linklater; Dr Ida Macalpine and Dr Richard Hunter for additional help on the subject of porphyria, beyond their B.M.A. publication; Mr John MacQueen of the University of Edinburgh, for advice on the literature of the period, and for showing me his paper on Alexander Scott in advance of publication; Dr William Marshall of Peterborough; the Earl of Mar and Kellie; Mr James Michie for his translation of George Buchanan’s poem on this page ; Miss Elizabeth Millar of Jedburgh; Mr J.W.Moor, of Stone; the Duke of Norfolk and his archivist Mr Francis Steer; the Earl of Oxford and Asquith; Mr Peter Quennell; Sir Patrick Reilly, then British Ambassador in Paris, and Mr C. S. de Winton, British Council representative in France, for assistance in the course of French researches; Mr Jasper Ridley (whose own life of Knox was unfortunately published after this book went to press), for suggestions and criticism at the manuscript stage; the Marquess of Salisbury for permission to research at Hatfield House and reproduce certain documents in the illustrations, and also his librarian, Miss Clare Talbot for special assistance over the Casket Letters; Mr F.B. Stitt, Staffordshire County Archivist; Dr Roy Strong, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, for generous help over the complicated subject of the iconography of Mary Queen of Scots; M.Marcel Thomas, Conservateur en Chef of the Cabinet des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Mr Hugh Tait of the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, British Museum; Mr F.A.Warner, of the British Embassy, Brussels; Mr Neville Williams, Assistant Keeper at the Public Record Office; the late Mr F.Wismark of Madame Tussaud’s; Mr T.S.Wragg, librarian to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth; Canon A. de Zulueta.
    I am grateful to G. Bell & Sons Ltd for permission to quote passages from
Queen Mary’s Book
edited by Mrs P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot.
    Lastly I should like to thank the Librarian and staff of the London Library; the staff of the Reading Room of the British Museum; my aunt Lady Pansy Lamb who kindly read the proofs; and my mother Elizabeth Longford, who made vital critical suggestions at the manuscript stage, and without whose admirable example I should never have attempted to write the book at all.
    ANTONIA FRASER
    September 1968
    52 Campden Hill Square, London W8
Eilean Aigas, Beauly, Inverness-shire

 
    ‘A King is history’s slave.
    History, that is the unconscious general swarm-life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings, as a tool for its own purposes.’
    TOLSTOY

PART ONE
The Young Queen

PART TWO
The Personal Rule

PART THREE
The Captivity

Appendix

     
The English and Scottish Versions of
     the Long Casket Letter
    1. The contemporary English copy of the long (second) casket letter was made by the clerk at the Westminster Conference, December 1568. Calendar of Scottish Papers, Vol. 2, Appendix 2, pp. 722ff. (An ellipsis of four dots represents a gap left in the original; an ellipsis of three dots represents words torn off or worn from the original.)
    Being gon from the place where I