against the Countess of Lennox in Foreign Calendar, 1562. (May 7.)
She loves not the Queen … hearing that the Queen of Scots had passed through the seas, she sat down and gave God thanks, declaring to those by how he had always preserved that Princess at all times, especially now, "for when the Queen's ships were almost near taking of the Scottish Queen, there fell down a mist from heaven that separated them and preserved her."
SECTION II
FROM MARY'S ARRIVAL IN SCOTLAND TO THE DARNLEY MARRIAGE
CONTENTS
| 1. | Knox's description of Mary's reception, and his opinion of the Queen. | ||
| 2. | Randolph's account of Mary's public entry into Edinburgh. | ||
| 3. | Illustrations of the religious difficulty. | ||
| (a) | Proclamation of the Privy Council. | ||
| (b) | Randolph's account of Mary's first High Mass. | ||
| (c) | Popular Songs against the Pope. | ||
| 4. | Mary on the Treaty of Edinburgh. | ||
| 5. | The conduct of affairs at the beginning of the reign. | ||
| (a) | Cecil's opinion. | ||
| (b) | Randolph's impressions of Murray, Lethington, and Knox. | ||
| (c) | The Huntly Rebellion as narrated by Randolph. | ||
| (d) | The passing of the sentence on Huntly's embalmed corpse. | ||
| 6. | Knox's account of the Châtelar affair. | ||
| 7. | Knox's account of the famine of 1563. | ||
| 8. | Knox on the opening of Parliament. | ||
| 9. | One of Knox's interviews with the Queen. | ||
| 10. | Mary's marriage-troubles. | ||
| (a) | References Selected from the diplomatic correspondence from March 1561 to March 1564. | ||
| (b) | Early suspicions of the Darnley marriage. | ||
| (c) | Melville's experiences in London. | ||
| (d) | Further diplomatic correspondence. |
SORROW, DOLOUR, AND DARKNESS
The Queen's Arrival in Scotland.
Laing's Edition of Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland, vol. i. pp. 267–271.
THE FIRST MASS
The 19th day of August 1561, betwixt seven and eight hours before noon, arrived Mary, Queen of Scotland, then widow, with two galleys out of France. In her company (besides her gentlewomen,
