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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Vol. 1 of 2 Nor was Scotland without her patriots and heroes, whose character, as it must have been formed, should be measured, by the existing standard of civilization. Even then she had champions who gloried in contemning the power, and in re senting the insults of their Southron foes high-spirited chiefs, who placed honour and integrity in preserving unaltered the institutions of their forefathers, and who consequently resisted, with pernicious zeal, every deviation that threatened innova tion or promised improvement. Buchanan has boasted of their good faith and religious fidelity; but their loyalty should seem to have been of a peculiar character. To conspire against the sovereign's life, appears to have been considered as a venial trespass; to have invaded the royal order of succession, was (if the expression can be used) an unimaginable treason. Even in seasons of anarchy or rebellion, nothing like revolution was achieved or attempted. Duringthe long captivity of James the First in England, no usurper ascended the vacant throne. 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.