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Stowe MS 157
- Record Id:
- 040-001952945
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x0002b3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 157
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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1. " ORIGINAL LETTERs of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell " : a transcript of eleven love-letters so entitled, each having a short explanatory introduction. They are not identical, either in number or contents, with the " Casket Letters " generally so called. Letters 1-3 relate to the projects of the Queen's marriage with Darnley or Leicester; letters 4 and 5 belong to the period immediately after the marriage with Darnley; the remainder refer to the murder of Darnley and the seizure of Mary by Bothwell, and imply that Murray and Morton were privy to both schemes. The same series, together with the introductory headings, was printed under the title The Genuine Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell . . . Translated from the French originals by Edward Simmonds, etc., Westminster, 1721, 2nd ed. 1726, and was re-edited by Hugh Campbell, The Love Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, etc., London, [1824]. ff. 1-13. Followed (f 14) by extracts from Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum Historia, lib. 18, and De Thou's Hist. Universelle, liv. 40.
2. " Observations on a Picture representing the Cenotaph of Lord Darnley &printed description (pp. 13-28) of a picture professing to have been painted by order of the Earl of Lennox, Darnley's father, in 1567/8 of which One Copy was in the possession of the Earl of Pomfret, the other in that of the Duke of Richmond. It represents a tomb of Darnley, with his father, mother, and son [James I.] kneeling by it, with medallions showing the manner of the murder, and in one corner a representation of the battle array of Carberry Hill, and the surrender of Mary to the confederate Lords. [1735- 1750.] f 15 b. Paper; ff. 30. xviiith cent. Small Quarto.
includes:
- ff. 1-22 Mary of Scotland: Letters to Lord Bothwell: Copy, 18th cent.
- ff. 1-22 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell: Letters to, purporting to be from Mary, Queen of Scots: 18th cent.
- ff. 23-30 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley: Observations on a picture representing his cenotaph: [1735-1750].: Printed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952833
037-001952918
040-001952945 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 54-310 : CLASS IV.HISTORY.
Stowe MS 132-267 : SECT. V. - STATE PAPERS, DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
Stowe MS 157 : 1. " ORIGINAL LETTERs of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell " : a transcript of eleven love-letters so entitled,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0004]/036-001952833[0005]/037-001952918[0021]/040-001952945
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hepburn, James, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Mary, of Scotland
Stuart, Henry, Lord Darnley