THE MYSTERY OF MARY STUART
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Mary Stuart
From the portrait in the collection of the Earl of Morton.
THE
MYSTERY OF MARY STUART
BY
ANDREW LANG
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW EDITION
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PREFACE
In revising this book I have corrected a number of misreadings in theArabic numerals of dates of years. I owe much to Mr. David Bruce-Gardyneand Mr. Hay Fleming. In deference to other criticisms offered privately, Ihave somewhat modified certain phrases about the hypothetical forgedletter, as quoted by Moray and Lennox (pp. 211-236). That such a letteronce existed is, of course, an inference on which readers must form theirown opinion. The passage as to the site of Darnley’s house, Kirk o’ Field(pp. 124-131), ought to have been banished to an Appendix. On any theorythe existence of the town wall, shown in the contemporary chart oppositep. 130, is a difficulty. The puzzle is caused by the chart of 1567,reduced in the design given at p. 130. In all published forms the drawingis given as it is here. But it reverses the points of the compass, eastand west. Mr. A. H. Millar has suggested to me that if reflected in amirror some errors of the chart disappear, whence one infers that it wasdrawn[Pg vi] in reverse for an engraving. I ha