Front matter
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THE QUEEN’S MARIES:
A Romance of Holyrood.
BY G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE,
AUTHOR OF “DIGBY GRAND,” “THE INTERPRETER,” “HOLMBY HOUSE,” “GOOD FOR NOTHING,” ETC.
NEW EDITION.
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON
TO A LADY WHOSE UNTIRING ENERGY AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH HAVE ADDED LARGELY TO THE LITERATURE OF OUR COUNTRY, AND WHOSE ELOQUENT DEFENCE OF A CALUMNIATED QUEEN HAS IDENTIFIED WITH MARY STUART THE NAME OF AGNES STRICKLAND, THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
Bartrams, Hampstead, June 1862.
THE QUEEN’S MARIES: A ROMANCE OF HOLYROOD.
‘Yestre’en the Queen had four Maries— The day she’ll hae but three— There was Mary Beton, and Mary Seton, And Mary Carmichael and me.’