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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... his satisfaction at seeing his half-brother Moray vested in the Regency, appears to have allowed his zeal for the new re'gime to overcome his sense of the consideration due to his unfortunate but distinguished captive, for we are told that he celebrated that event by lighting bonfires and firing all the available pieces of ordnance on the Castle walls, and otherwise indulging in boisterous demonstrations of rejoicing. These could not fail to be distasteful and painful to the Queen. Weakened in health and crushed by the calamities thickly gathering around her, she had evidently not been informed of what was transpiring outside the walls of her room, for when, startled by the noise and commotion, she enquired as to the cause-of the uproar, she was informed that it was in celebra tion of the coronation of her infant son as her successor. This unpalatable explanation was conveyed to her by Sir William Douglas himself, and in course of the painful interview which ensued between the Queen and him in her apartment, the unhappy captive, overwhelmed by a sense of her utter helplessness, and realizing probably for the first time how little she had to expect from the tender mercies of her enemies, in a paroxysm of grief threw herself upon her knees in CHAPTER V the middle of her chamber near the table and wept long and bitterly. Queen Mary's Imprisonment--c0r2tinued Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the glen, And milk-white is the slae: The meanest hind in fair Scotland May rove their sweets amang; But I, the Queen of a' Scotland, Mann lie in prison strang. B u RN s. I-IE extreme haste with which the Council proceeded to carry into effect the Queen's abdication, coupled...