MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10076, 23 June 1910, Page 4

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

When Mary Queen of Scots sac in her prison chamber at Chateworth inditing tearful notas for aid to her brother in-law, Charles IX., she could have had no idea that in coursn of time one of these letters would Lj in England again, and would be the prize of the highest bidder. Yet this was the denouement at Sotheby's recently, when Mr Quaritch paid £715 for this touching bf quest to intercede with England's Queen, coupled with the practical suggestion to send troops into Scotland. Other pages of history were lit up again, and it required little imagination to conjure up a scene in Stirling Castle on October, 1543, when one sjw the original treaty signed between the Regents of Scotland on behalf of the infant Queen of Scots, and the Papal Legate and the French Ambassador acting for Henri Deux. From that day Mary's fate was cast, and this document that was the fount of her troubles now realised £295, given by Mr Quaritch. A sad Mary trinity of relics was completed by the original order of Queen Elizabeth's Council for the payment of the "blood money" to the Crown Prosecutor, Sir 'John Popham, who did his worst at Fotheringay, and the auction curtain fell on this doleful document at £240 (Stanley).