MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1932, Page 1

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

“Not guilty on all counts,” is the judgment of Sir Edward Parry, the county court judge, who has retried Alary Queen of Scots. Sir Edward sets out his reasons for believing Alary Queen of Scots Innocent of the crimes charged against- her in the book called “The Persecution of Alary Stewart.” Here is Sir Edward’s or his publishers own disruption of the hook printed on the dust cover:

“A highly diverting analysis of the «videncc garnered from State papers that Alary Queen of Scots was the victim of a criminal conspiracy effected by murder, fraud, falsehood, forgery, and duress, engineered by a set of gangsters, ol whom 1 1 he Mustard .Moray, Alortoii. and Ala tland were the chief, with ‘John Knox as cheerful accessory.”

Fronde, the historian, called Aloray “Stainless Aloray.” Sir Edward writes him down as one of the most unscrupulous of the “gangster ’ guilty of tc-achcry and other crimes, who engineered the judicial murder of George Gordon, Earl of Iluutly, chief of the Gordon Gian, in order to got some of h's estates. Sir Edward Parry, writing as a Protestant, holds the view that Alary was a victim. partly of Prate-taut hatred and partly of sheer seU-scck-ing villainy on the part ol leading Scottish noblemen. POSSIBLE PERIL.

“It is generally admitted. ’ lie says, “that she was marked for destruction :n file interests of r ligion and i tateerni't by Wiliiam ('ceil. Queen Elizabeth's minister.”

Aiiirv was a Konr.n Gatlmlie. There : ore, she was 11 eos.-.ible peril Lo Pro. le,mutism in England. It Eli'/.abu It died, ami Alary became Queen ni England it was I cared (lull .-lie would restore Roman Gatlmlhism. (ceil made sure that this would mat happen bv lulling her head struck oil with an

“Alary.” says Sir Edward, “was from nrly life the victim of a criminal conspiracy aga list her sovereign power cngin ered Irom oun4\ political motives by William Cec'l." ••'|'|i" story of Alary.” lie adds, “re,,elves itself into the history of lie ■r i 111 i 11 ; 1 1 conspiracy oi three men — •James Sl-ewart. b .il l of Alora.v. her lastard hroiiier; William .Maitland, laird of I.eLliicgtmi. Secretary of Scot■jaiid. and James Douglas, It :i I o. Aim ton, the sou of her luldur's cu-

“All these nidi noted 111iilev the d ; - l ei•t. io 11 *>!' M ill in in ( i'ini. niiil wt'ic not. ( in 1 U'liitnrs 1 1 > tlu'ir country, Imt ucr,. aelunCd hy selfish motives mill 1 1 1,. lie'si iv of persona I train.

“Wi' have Ik-cii to apt to regard ill,, dost l iK-t ioi) nl Mary ns in'.roly a jH.riicnl a Hair. II »',■ viewd il from a Pmt.osl.imt [joint of view wo rejoiced. il' I'nnn n ('atliwlic st;inrl|<i>int we Mioii imuml .

‘•Pill ;( ! t!i<1111.-; 1 1 (coil paid the »>i P«*r :m ,| ,-idled the time. tlx- criminals who destroyed Mary were the | have mimed and their accomplices. mid havin': "a lied their end |,V nunder and fraud they Man, hy 11,,. ns,, of I'oivory. and other villa'iiies. soiii/lit lo hlnelen her mini" hy eh:ir*lji lt r her which crimes which they themselves had planned and carried

Sir Kdward stives Mary's eiiem'os a had time of it. It is a I AVlint. Scots Calvinists will think “I a Welsh Protestant championin': a Pe mail CntlioPe <>iieo„ Mary is dill'n nil