Identifier: castlespalacespr00mack (find matches)
Title: The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mackie, Charles, d. 1864
Subjects: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 Castles Palaces
Publisher: London : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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night precluded the view of the departingsquadron, save the alternating glimpses ofasolitary light attached to themast of one of the convoy. On her present Majestys voyage to Scotland in 1842, and as theroyal squadron was off Dunbar, besides the illumination of the town, aroyal salute was fired from the castle. The night was quite dark, and the magnificent sight of the beaconfires, lighted on all the Scottish hills, burst upon the astonished viewof the royal tourists. On all the coasts around, in East Lothian, Mid-lothian, Linlithgow, Fife, and Clackmannanshire, bonfires blazed. Thesummit of Arthur Seat seemed a volcano of fire, shedding a flood oflight over the surrounding crags and valley below, and imparting tothe wild grandeur of the scenery a supernatural effect. The beautifulexpanse of water, over which the squadron flew rather than sailed,throwing off the phosphoric waves on either side, all combined to renderthe scene one of thrilUng interest far beyond our descriptive powers.
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i~^ if r* ^\)t CuBtk nf l^nrljlrntn. De cnp ^7^ r H ^•l^^^t^^ ^-fine-i ^ere-The Douglases of Lochleven- KnoT Sho f ^-««-Q7 Marys first Visit to Lochleven; her Interview withKnox She returns a Prisoner to the Castle-Warrant for her Imprisonment - Throck-mortons Letter to Queen Elizabeth - Queen Marvs CVrespondence-Her Abdicnt on _Alleged B.rth of a Daughter-The Queens Escape from PHson _ Rides to H m ;_Marches towards Dumbarton - Battle of Langside _ Retreat to Dundrennan - clrLsAnecdote-D-scoverj^ of the Keys of the Castle - Other Kevs found, and Queen .WIvory Sceptre - Description of the Ruins - The Island and Monastery f St. Serf- BnZlMetncal Description of Lochleven. -^ *

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