Excerpt from Contributions to Modern History From the Modern Museum and the British Museum and the State Paper Office

Mary's Flight from Lochleven - Battle of Langside - Mary's Flight to England - Her Letter to Elizabeth, The Opinions of Elizabeth and Burghley - Mary in Carlisle - Intercession of Catherine de Medicis - Correspondence between Mary and Elizabeth - Knollys's Account of Mary, Mary's Complaints to Elizabeth - The Question of her Guilt or Innocence - Murray's Position - Parties in Scotland - Letters - Knollys and Lord Herries - Armistice, Negotiations at York and Westminster, Mary breaks off the Negotiations - The Warnings of Elizabeth - The Situation of Murray, Report of M. Fenelon, the French Ambassador - Remarkable Instructions of Elizabeth to Sir Henry Norris, Mary's further Plans - Murder of Murray - The Duke of Norfolk - Burghley to Elizabeth on the Proposed Marriage between Mary and the Duke of Norfolk, Deliberations and Negotiations on the Liberation of Mary - Difficulties - The Scotch, the Spaniards, and the French - Lennox Regent, Mary's further Endeavours and Intrigues - The Bishop of Ross - Ridolfi - The Duke of Alva - New Negotiations and Difficulties

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