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The Casket letters were eight letters and some sonnets said to have been written by Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Earl of Bothwell, between January and April 1567. They were produced as evidence against Queen Mary by the Scottish lords who opposed her rule. [ 1 ]
A year later, the document called "Hay's Article's" claimed that the discovery of the casket letters in June 1567 had resulted in Mary signing at Loch Leven. [10]Mary would later claim that she signed the papers at Loch Leven under compulsion, and on the advice of the English ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton, who had assured her that they could not have legal validity, [11] and when threatened ...
Anna Throndsen has been connected with a set of correspondence called the Casket Letters. These letters were found in the belongings of a servant of Bothwell, after his flight from Scotland. These letters were used by Mary's half-brother Regent Moray to demonstrate her involvement in the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley. The letters include ...
Laing, Malcolm, History of Scotland with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Participation of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the Murder of Darnley, vol. 2 (1819) includes the confessions, the casket letters, and other relevant documents. "Kirk O' Field, the University and the Hospitals" "Kirk o 'Field – Moray's Propaganda Victory".
As evidence against Mary, Moray presented the so-called casket letters [158] —eight unsigned letters purportedly from Mary to Bothwell, two marriage contracts, and a love sonnet or sonnets. All were said to have been found in a silver-gilt casket just less than one foot (30 cm) long and decorated with the monogram of King Francis II. [ 159 ]
There are a few Mary Oliver poems about death—well, a few lines of a few poems—that have made the whole thing a little less awful, or at least a little more natural: ...
Samuel Cowan (1835 – 18 June 1914) [1] was a Scottish historian, antiquarian, biographer, [2] publisher and journalist [3] who wrote several books, including Mary Queen of Scots and Who Wrote the Casket Letters (1901), The Gowrie Conspiracy (1902), The Ancient Capital of Scotland (1904) and The Royal House of Stuart (1908).
The historian John Guy suggests that Mary may have composed the letter with the imagery of mourning jewellery for Lord Darnley. [171] After Mary was deposed, her enemies produced the Casket Letters, which she was said to have written to Bothwell and which demonstrated her involvement in the murder of Lord Darnley. [172]