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Excerpt from Mary, Queen of Scots, and Who Wrote the Casket Letters?, Vol. 1 of 2 The present work is not free from faults and blemishes, for no work on this subject can be so on account of the imperfect nature of the material we have to draw upon. From the murder of Darnley to the assassina tion of Moray it is very doubtful if any of the Records can be relied on. During that period there are some extraordinary exhibitions of reck less and unscrupulous administration, and of Judicial Courts which were a mockery of justice. The trial of Bothwell was a solemn farce, as were also the meetings, during that period, of the Privy Council. These on many occasions were attended by the murderers of Darnley, who nevertheless passed resolutions demanding the punishment of these men, specially Bothwell. Following out this fraudulent policy, they, on more than one occasion, executed several indi viduals who were perfectly innocent and were merely the servants of the conspirators in carry ing out the murder. Actions such as these indicate the character of the whole situation, and point only to one conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.