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CONTENTS. Page Benes emith this ominous verse, was fixed on the palace 
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Moneta Sanctz Bele, by T. Hudson Gare - - 100 “ Mense malas Maio nubere vulgus ait. 
a ihn te, by Bolton Corney. a “a The Contract, which is dated on the fourteenth of 
TO TS TE Gok ee pore nee is preserved in the Register of Deeds in the 
ani @rnesiiar =: Lady, Jane of Weatmoreland :- eae ourt of Session (Vol. IX. p. 86.), and as the copy 
Notes in answer to Queries : — Lobster in Medal of Pre- produced before the House is authenticated —and con- 
> ie cally rad ie oe mee, ec Mie els 103 | sequently it may be presumed a more strictly accurate 
nswers to inor Queries : — Ancien otto— Politica C 7 1 j 
Maxim — Annus Trabeationis — Betterton’s Duties of one than that which Carmichael has given—it seems 
a Player — Betterton’s Essay— Incumbents of Church well deserving of being transferred to our columns, and 
toni = Hare<de Saham — Reinerius — Whelps — 104 | 80 made more available to the purposes of the historian, 
than it has been found to be in Carmichael’s Tract, or 
Queries: — Berkeley’s Theory of Vision < 107 | is likely to be when buried in a Parliamentary Blue 
Dr. Johnson and Professor de Morgan - - - 107 | Book 7] 
Caraccioli’s Life of Lord Clive = - - - - 108 = 
| co -ctsherapapaae sperm el ca lina a res “ Decimo quarto Maij anno domini t@. lxvij. 
Minor Queries: — Christencat — Hexameter Verses in the *“ Sederunt dni sessionis clericus reori. 
Scriptures - - = S = = - 109 
“Tn fns of ye lordis of counsale comperit per- 
MISCELLANEOUS : — sonale ane ry* excellent ryt heicht and michte 
otes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - . : 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - -j10 | princes Marie be ye grace of God queene of 
Notices to Correspondents - 3 - 111 | Seottis douieier of France on that ane pairt and 
Advertisements - - - - t . < 
ane ryt noble and potent prince James duk of 
Orkney erl Bothule lord Hales crychtoun and 
Liddisdeall great admiral of ye realm of Scotland 
on yt vy' pt and gaif in yis contract and appoint- 
nament following subscriuit wt y" handis and de- 
syrit ye samen to be insert in ye bukis of counsale 
{Among the curious documents which have been to haif ye strenth force and effect of y* act and 
produced from time to time before the House of Lords decreit thereupoun the q\* desyre ye saidis lordis 
in support of peerage claims, there have been few of thocht reasonable and y‘for hes decernit and de- 
greater historical interest than the one which we now | cernis ye said contract and appointnament to be 
reprint from the Fourth Part of the Evidence taken | insert and registret in ye said bukis to haif ye 
before the Committee of Privileges on the Claim of | strenth force and effect of y™ act and decreit in 
W. Constable Maxwell, Esquire, to the title of Lord | tyme to cum et ad perpetuam rei memoriam and 
Herries of Terregles. It is a copy of the Contract of | hes interponit and interponis y* autoritie y'to and 
Marriage between Queen Mary and the Earl of Both- | ordenis y™ autentik extract of the samen to be 
well, which, although it is said to have been printed | geliuerit to the foirsaid partiis and the principale 
by Carmichael, in his Variows Tracts relating to the | \. vemane apud registrum Off ye q'* contract ye 
Peerage of Scotland, extracted from the Public Records, | tannoy followis At Edinburgh ye xiii, day of 
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as not been referred to by Robertson, or other his May the year of God I™ye thrie score sevin yeris 
torians of Scotland, not even by the t rec ia EES fea i 5 
them, Mr, Tytler. , y maar tos | ities appointit aggreit contractit and finale con- 
Mr. Tytler tells us that on the 12th of May, 1567, cordit betwix ye r' excellent ryt heich and mychte 
Bothwell was created Duke of Orkney, “the Queen | Princess Marie be ye grace of God queen of Scot- 
with her own hands placing the coronet on his head,” tis douarrier of France on that ane pairt and ye 
and that the marriage took place on the 15th of May, ry* noble and potent prince Jumes duke of Orkney 
at four o'clock in the morning in the presence-chamber | erle Bothul lord Hales creychtoun and Liddisdeall 
at Holyrood; and that on the following morning a | great admiral of yis realm of Scotland on y* vyt 
MARRIAGE CONTRACT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 
AND THE EARL OF BOTHWELL. 
SECOND EDITION, yi - 
