Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-02-05
QUEEN lIARY'S HOUSE
An HISTORIC OLD MANSION IN THE
ANCIENT TOWN OF JEDBURG.

/ Queen OF NA4f f'"AA AAtAu NoNttt NAt thT
Three Weeks Lay Sick of rcvcr-Her
Near Approach TO Death.
There is one house in Jedburg to
rbich, above all others, strangers who
rsit the ancient town are sure to find
heir way, and that is the old and an
/ f0ue mansion known as Queen Mary's
lonse Many will therefore be pleased
nlsarn that stops are about to be taken
or the better preservation Of this his
nrc elifce, and for the Improvement of
A surroundings. On Oct s, 1856, Mary
sN Holyro3i to hold as5ize8 at jed
Arg, the magistrates having been pre-
Il eus,v instructed to prepare meat,
drink and lodgings former and horses
,hl she arrived next day. The queen
vas accompanied by her ministers of
state, her law officers and by many Of
brrOJ.cs, pmanG whom were the Earls
q Moray, E.uIly, Argyll, Eothes and
/ CiNhuess, and the Lords Livingstone,
Seton, Yeslcr, Borthwick, Arbroath,
gume and SOuery!lle. besides a num-
noi haroas and bishops. What stir
there must have been in the old border
lcgg On tAGt occasion, and what
anxiety it would cost the worthy pro-
7st aal Magistrates to keep up the
good name Of their town in the presence
q somany great percentages, and even
royalty itself!
The assizcs continued for SIX success
size days, and terminated without a
single execution. Mary presided at "A
Givy council held on the 10th, and at
8sOther held on the following day. On
ae 18Th, after the pressure of business
vas over, she rode to Hermitage castle
Dsae Boutwell,, who had been wounded
sy"Little Jock Elliott" of the park, a
Eotel freebooter, and after comforting
With her wounded lieutenant for two
hours in presence of several of her
Ebes who accompanied her on the
quincy she returned 10 Jedburg the
4ne evening, having ridden more thar
Hrty-eight miles. Next day Mary was
stacked with an intermittent fever,
Fhlch kept her PROSTATE for over
bytnight, On the same day she took
ID the sum Of six shillings was paid to
'ane boy passing from Jedburg with
le mass of writings Of our sovereign to
the Earl Of Boutwell,"
The room in which Queen Mary lay
trDg her serious illness is, according
tradition, small two Widowed
apartUent in the turret, but Miss Strick-
sld, in her Lives Of the Queens of
Scotland, says in reference to this point
that "the spacious suite of apartments
onthe opposite side of the staircase, one
d which still bears the name of the
Tarlroom is more likely to have been
occupied by royalty as anteroom, privy
chamber and bedroom" 1t is, however.
hesmall back apartment that is pointed
Quito visitors as Queen Mary's bedroom,
hdlt was there, if we are to credit ira
0non, where she lay nigh unto death,
attended by her French physician
Charles Nan,
On the Goth she clay for dead" three
aours-hcr limbs cold and rigid, her
eyes closed, her mouth compressed, her
ieet and arms stiff, every one supposing
hat the vital spark had fed. Master
Man. who was "a perfect man of his
uatt" would not, however, give the
natter mp, but resorted to friction and
Manipulation, which he continued for
2me hours, until the queen recovered
gam her sight and speech and got a
great sweating. When her illness had
hsumed mortal tendency she expressed
af Willingness to resign her spirit TO
Ood She wished to impress on her
aoo'es the necessity of living in unity,
and that they should do all in their
PEer to protect the infant prince-her
why tie to life. To Du Croix, the
Trench ambassador, she made a request
4"t he would ask his royal master "
project her dear son, and she also recon-
gghded his protection TO Queen Eliza
VEIN, as her nearest kinswoman.
Vn the 2Sth Darnley arrived in Jed
ou'g' but left again the next day, and it
suot certain that he was ever allowed
|sse Mary. When she was recovering
Is Wearisome hours were beguiled by
Se John Hume playing to her on the
~'s and John Heron playing on the pipe
sua "quhissil," the former receiving
I'Y Shillings for his services, the latter
"u pounds for his. AS a thank offer
Is Tod for her recovery she caused
"%el,ty pounds to be given to the poor Of
~T Ourg, and the same day she wrote
letter ordering materials for a new
;+[sS' which letter was to be sent to Ed
~WVu rS 'in all possible haste"
"nat curious Old World pictured
~ the scene again changes. On Nov.
Exactly month after her arrival
ES Mary left Jedburg, accompanied
T y Ier mobiles, among whom was Both
W. and with an escort of thousand
Cr.'semen, She arrived on the Goth at
aSaillar castle, with sorrow, suffer
"nu captivity in the near future, and
F, Ie distance the bloody scaffold Of
''Heripgay. -Four months after her