Excerpt from Mary Queen of Scots in Captivity: A Narrative of Events From January, 1569, to December, 1584, Whilst George Earl of Shrewsbury Was the Guardian of the Scottish QueenHE author who ventures to approach that well worn subject, the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, needs some hardihood and assurance. Yet I am emboldened in this adventure by the re¿ection, that the portion of the life of this remarkable woman dealt with in the following pages, is that which has least occupied the attention of historians and bio graphers. The stirring events of Mary's brief and troubled reign have been narrated in minutest de tail, and we have many volumes dealing with the crisis of her fate from the discovery of the Babington conspiracy to the memorable scene in the castle hall at Fotheringhay. Controversy has raged, through three centuries, around her connection with the murder of Darnley, and nearly as long about her complicity with Babington in compassing the death of Queen Elizabeth. Both these events occur out side the range I have prescribed for myself. But Mary Stuart's was not a life marked by an occa sioual conspiracy. It was from first to last one long conspiracy of vast intricacy and varying interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.