Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 4: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James Vi. To the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne P. S. The Dissertation formerly proposed, on the participation of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the murder of her husband, is now submitted to the public, as a preliminary work to my History of Scotland, and as a necessary supplement to Dr. Robertson's History, of which mine can only be considered as an imperfect continuation. The subject has unavoidably extended to two volumes, as I did not choose, by retrenching the Appendix, to deprive my argument of illustration or of proof. But I trust that the reader will be better pleased to possess the evidence of the Queen's guilt entire, than to be referred to authorities which are not always accessible, and which few, perhaps, would be disposed to consult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.