Excerpt from The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, Vol. 2 of 2: Drawn From the State Papers; With Six Subsidiary Memoirs, Illustrated With Ten Plates of Medals, Portraits, and Prospects Mary's person, whatever might be her beauty, or her wit, _did not protect her throughout an envious reign. Soon after her birth, in an interview, between the queen-mother, and Sir Ralph Sadler, the English ambassador, the queen said, that it had been re ported her child was not likely to live but, you shall see, quoth she, whether that be true, or not; and therewith she caused me to go with her to the chamber, where the child was, and shewed her unto me, and also caused the nurse, to unwrap her out of' her clothes, that I might see her naked. I assure your majesty, it is as goodly a child, as I have seen of her age, and as like to live, with the grace of God It was Hamilton, Earl of Arran, the heir presumptive of the Scotish crown, who had thus spoken of the infant queen, as being unlikely to live; and whose intimation was thus disproved, by the queen-mother, a princess of great sense, as well as, of sound discretion. 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.