...wounded by him in several places, so that his followers were obliged to carry him to Hermitage castle4 Mary instantly flew thither, with an impatience which...marking the anxiety of a lover, but little suited the dignity of a queen.§ Finding that Bothwell was threatened with no dangerous symptom, she returned...

...Robertson, copying Buchanan's misrepresentations, informs us : How Mary, hearing of Bothwell's misfortune, " instantly flew thither, with an impatience, which...of a lover, " but little suited to the dignity of a Queenb." On the morrow, the Queen sent a large parcel of papers to Bothwell, illustrative, perhaps,...

...Robertson, copying Buchanan's misrepresentations, informs us : How Mary, hearing of Bothwell's misfortune, " instantly flew " thither, with an impatience, which...of a " lover, but little suited to the dignity of a " Queen."b On the morrow, the Queen sent a » Birrel's Diary, p. 5, states : " On the 8th of October,...

...wounded by him in several places, so that his followers were obliged to carry him to Hermitage-castle. Mary instantly flew thither, with an impatience which...marking the anxiety of a lover, but little suited the dignity of a queen." Finding that Bothwell was threatened with no dangerous symptom, she returned...

...been wounded in a scuffle on the 16th October, (mistaking the date by eight days,) and carried into Hermitage Castle, " Mary instantly flew thither with...lover, but little suited to the dignity of a queen." Buchanan, in his History, says, that when the news of Bothwell's being dangerously wounded was brought...

...the marshes of Liddes- 1566. dale, infested the rest of the country. But while he was laying hold o^c upon one of those desperadoes, he was wounded by him...of a lover, but little suited to the dignity of a queen1. Finding that Bothwell was threatened with no dangerous symptom, she returned the same day to...

...Hermitage castle. Mary instantly flew thither, with an impatience which has been considered as marking ihe anxiety of a lover, but little suited to the dignity of a queen'. Finding that Bothwell was threatened with no dangerous symptom, she returned the same day to Jcdburgh....

...gross, the story of the queen's ride to Hermitage. " Mary instantly flew thither," says Robertson, " with an impatience which has been considered as marking the anxiety of a lover, but little suited the dignity of a queen. "J And Laing, relying implicitly on the highly-coloured narrative of Buchanan,...

...describes the Queen's journey to Hermitage Castle in language much to the same effect. He remarks : " Mary instantly flew thither, with an impatience which...lover, but little suited to the dignity of a queen." In the " History of Scotland " by Maleolm Laing, there is the follow ing paragraph : — " It is certain...