![]() On the 30th of August, he carried back the spoliated Queen to Chartley as she left Tixhall, she said to the poor people, who were assembled about the door: “I have nothing for you I am a beggar, as well as you all is taken from me.” When she came up to the gentlemen, she said, weeping: “Good gentlemen, I am not privy to any thing intended against the Queen.” When desired Mr. ![]() She had not stirred out of her room, or gallery her attendants had no access to her and they were prevented, from having pen, ink, and paper. He had not spoken with that lady, since their arrival at Tixhall, and did not intend to speak to her. On the morrow, they returned to Stirling, where they remained together, nearly a fortnight.Īs soon as Chartley had been sufficiently searched, by Waad, and the other commissioners, Paulet resolved to carry his charge again to that castle. hunted, for a few days, in Glenartney and they visited Lord Drummond, at Drummond castle, where they were on the 30th of August. There, having embarked, she was conveyed southward along the west coast, and landed safely at Brest on the 30th of August. Mary had been brought from her island home to that fortress. The French squadron sailed down the Forth, but instead of sailing southward with the young queen as the English expected, turned suddenly northwards, and went round Scotland by the Pentland Firth to Dumbarton. When the English heard of this they made arrangements for intercepting D’Essé and his precious charge. The Scots took all manner of securities for the independence of their country, and agreed that D’Essé should take Mary away with him to France. The Scottish Estates soon after met at Haddington, and entered into an arrangement with D’Essé, the French ambassador, for the marriage of the Queen of Scots to the Dauphin of France. – Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, committed suicide, 30 B.C., Alexandria Theodoric the Great, king of the Goths, 526, Ravenna Pope Alexander III., 1181 Louis XI., king of France, 1483, Plessis-les-Tours Sultan Soliman II., the Magnificent, 1566 Sir John Ross, Arctic navigator, 1856, London. – Giovanni Battista Nani, flower and foliage painter, 1616, Venice Johann Cristoph Adelung, grammarian and linguist, 1734, Spantekow, in Pomerania. St Fiaker, Fiacre, or Fefre, anchoret and confessor, about 670. St Agilus or Aile, abbot of Rebais, about 650. Saints Felix and Adauctus, martyrs, about 303.
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