The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-12-02
QUEEN MARY's HOUSE.
TN. Place She Left for the bioody Seal
fold at IotheringaN

which above all others strangers who
visit the ancient town are sure TO ind 1
,b.ir way. and that is the old and
antique mansion known as Queen
Nary's house Many will therefore be-
nleased To learn that steps are about Ia |
ie taken for the better preservation OF
mis- historic edifice and for the improve
m,nt OF its surroundings. on the 18th |
~ October, 1850, Mary left Hollywood 10
hold assizes ut Jedburgh. the magis-
,rates having been previously instruct
"a Ia prepare meat. drink and lodg-
inrs for men and horses" and she
arrived next day. The queen was ac-
cornpaned by her ministers Of state,
her law officers. and by many Of her
mobiles. among whom were the Ears OF
Moray. IInntly. Argyll. Rathes. and
Caithncss. and the Lords Livingstone
seton, Yester. Borthwick. Arbroath.
Hume and Somervile. besides number
Of Barons and Bishops. What a stir
there must have been in the old border
burg on that occasion. and what anxiety
il would cost the worthy provost and
magistrates To keep up the good name
az their town in presence of so many
great personnge> and even royalty it.
self, The assizes continued for six sue
cessive days. and terminated without
single execution. Mary presided at a
rrivy council held on the 10th
and at another held the follow
ing day. The 10th. after the
pressure Of business was over. she rode
10 Hermitage castle 10 see Boutwell,
III l...s ,ttl Il.
lott" of the park. noted freebooter,
and after comforting with her wound
ed lieutenant for two hours in presence
Of several Of her mobiles who accompa-
MED her on the Journey, she returned
10 .Iedburgh the same evening having
ridden more than forty-eight miles.
Next day Mary was attacked with an
intermittent fever. which kept her
PROSTATE for over fortnight. On the
came day that she took III the sum Of
six shillidgs was paid zane boy passing
from Jedburgh with one mass Of writ
!ngs IL our sovereign TO the earl Of
Boutwell,"
The room in which Queen Mary lay
during her serioas illness is. according
10 trad Nion, "A small two-windowed
APARTMENT i'm the turret but Miss
Strickland. in her Lives of the Queens
of scotland" says in reference 10 this
point, that "the spacious suite Of apart
inents on the opposite side Of the stair
ease. one OF which still bears the name
If the guard-room. is more likely 70
have been occupied by royalty as anti
room. privy chamber. and bedroom.
II Is however, the small back apart
ment that is pointed out To visitors nc
Queen Narv's bedroom: and il was
there. if we are to crdit ira.
dition. where she lay nigh unto
death. attended by her French
rhvsician. Charles Nau. On Tn,
Goth she ''lay for dead for three hours
her limbs cold and rigid. her eyes
slosel, her mouth compressed, her fee
and arms stiff. everyone supposinf
that the vital spark had fed. master
Nan, who was "a perfect man of hi'
craft would not, however. give thu
matter up. and resorted 10 friction ans
manipulation. which he continued
for some honrs. until the queen recovered
again her sight and speech and got {
great sweating When her illness hat
assumed mortal tendency she ex
pressed her willingness to resign he
spirit 10 God: she wished to impress OF
her mobiles the necessity of living il
unity. and that they should do all !,
their power to protect the infant prime
her only tie TO life. To Du Crox
the French ambassador. she made a re
Quest that he would ask his roya
master 10 protect her dear son: and sh
also recommended his protection Z
Queen Elizabeth. as her nearest kins
woman. On the 2sth Dnrnley arrive
in .,edburgh, but left again next day
and il is not certain that he was eve
allowed to see Mary. When she was re
covering the wearisome hours were bs
guiled by one John Hume playing I
her on the lutte, and John Heron PLAY
ing on the pipe and 'quhisil. the FOL
mer receiving forty shillings for hi
services and the latter four pounds fo
his. As thank offering To God for he
recovery she caused twenty pounds
be given tn the poor OF the burg: an
the same day she wrote letter orde
ing materials for new drcs
which latter was to be sent I
Edinburgh Tin all possible haste
What curious old world pictur
But the scene again changes Q
November 9--exactly a month afts
her arrival-Qnecn Mary left Jedburgl
accompanied bv her mobiles, anon
whom was Boutwell,. and with an e
cort Of one thousand horsemcn. ST
arrives. ON the Goth at Craigmill'
Castle, with sorrow, suffering an
captivity in the near future, and in u
distance the bloody scaffold Of Fothe
ingay -Four months after her d
parture from our ancient burg" sa,
local chronicle. "hcr husband, Lol
Darnley. was murdered; three montl
more and she was the wife of Bothwe
vet twelve months and she was lodg'
as a prisoner in the castle of Carlisl
As time rolled on and the clouds OF I'M
fortune were closing dark and thi,
around her she was often heard to e
claim in the anguish of wound
spirit: Would that had died in Je
burghr Scotsman.
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