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entertained the conviction , that it was their right to correct the enormities of their princes ; and all the kings have acknowledged this , as well when they eiercised tyranny , as when flattery altered them and hardened their hearts . "—p . 152 ,
For thfe same re&goti i # e believe that it Was a trtie feeiihjg , tiot a hypocritical pretence ; Which ttiade Eite&beth titillate so lorig about the execution of Mary . She itturdered the pHubipli 6 f royalty in the person of her rival Queen , Had the rank of the victim been blit one step lower , her executioners would hkite experienced no Such comptinctuous visitings . experienced no Such comptinctuous visitings .
M . Vofi tt&umer expresses a very decided opinion oh the stibject of Mary ' s guilt with regard to the murder bf t ) arriky- — " As far as I am myself concerned * a mathematical problem is hardly more clearly demonstrated than the historical one , that Mary was not ifmoeent of tlie death of her husband , riot ignorant that she faas marrying his murderer . "—!) . 3 ? 4 .
While we do not perceive that this problem is proved , we think the evidence very strong which favours its correctness . At the time of the murder , Mary was entirely under subjection to the ruffian Bothwell , through her devotion to him ; and even could no proof be adduced of her knowledge of his designs , it Would be a natural conjecture that she knew of them . Her
own wrongs from Darnley were sufficient to have created resentment arid a desire for revenge , being of a kind \ Vhich a woman , such as she was , could least brook ; and though she might never have committed the crime herself , she may easily be imagined to have connived at it in another . She had loved t ) arnley passionately . She offended Elizabeth and alienated
hef own suWects by her resolute determination to hiarry him . It appears that she nursed him through a dangerous illness wiih the greatest care and tenderiiess , and after the marriage she was entirely devoted to him ; but he almost immediately Began to give proofs of his morose and brutal nature . On the piflt July , 1565 , when they had only been married two days , Randolph writes to Leicester : —
" All honour that may be attributed to any man by a wife * he hath it wholly and fully . All praise that may be spoken of him he lacketh not from herselfi All dignities that she can endue him # ith * are alread y Jgiveia atld grafted . Nd man pleaseth her that coritetiteth riot him ; ftfta ( I my iridre ) she hath given tltlto him her Whole Will td be nifed Md gnidtfd m himself best liketh . She cmintit as much prevail \ v $ th Mm ih any thing that is against his will "—p . 64 .
Within a few months we find it hinted that ' Darnlejr followed his pleasures more than was agreeable to thfc Qtteift ;' and in Feb . 1666 , the following account of him is given in a MUr ftom Mr t ) mv $ 0 the English finvoy to Cecil : — " iFta people guy thfct Dlvruley is too much given to drinktok . It id
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l ? g ContributidM to Modern HMoiy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/52/
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