Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-02-07
Mary stawart, Queen OF Scots.
[By Annie Jones, Of walhalla ]

The Sunshine prizes for the best
essay written on Mary, Queen of
Scots, have been awarded TO Misses
Annie Jones and Ethel Bruce.
This offer was made by the Sun
shine Society, through the State
Organizer. This is the "tirst prize"
essay.
This beautiful and accomplished,
hut most unhappy, princess, was the
daughter of King James V by his
second wife, Mary of Lorraine,
daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise,
and widow of Louis of Orleans, Duke
of Longneville. She was born at
Linlithg,w on the 9Th Of December,
1912. Her misfortunes may be said
to have begun with her birth. Its
tidings reached her father on his
death. bed at Falkland, but brought
him no con ISOLATION. "The devil go
with it t" he muttered, as his thoughts
wandered back to the marriage with
Bruce's daughter, which brought the
crown of Scotland to the Stewards
"It came from woman and it will
end in woman!" Mary became
queen before she was week old.
Before she was twelvemopth old
the Regent Arran had promised her
in marriage to Prince Edward of
England, and the Scottish Parlia-
ment had declared the promise null.
War with England followed, and at
Pinkie Clench the Scots met defeat
only less disastrous than Flodden.
But their aversion to an English
match was unconquerable. They
fastened to place the young queen
beyond the reach of English arms,
in the island of Inchmahome, in the
Lake of Montieth, and to offer her
in marriage to the eldest son of
Henry II of France, and Catharine
de'Medici. The offer was accepted,
and in July, 154S, French fleet car
ried Mary from Dumbarton, on the
Clyde, to Roscoff, in Brittany, when
she was at once conveyed to ST.
Germain- en- Laye, and there affianced
to the Daupbin.
Her next ten years were passed at
the French court, where she was
carefully educated along with the
kings family, receiving Instructions
in the art of making verses from the
famous Ronsard. AT a somewhat
later period she had the great Scot
tish scholar, Buchanan, for her Latin
master.
On the Oath of April, 1858, her
marriage with the Dauphin. who was
about two years younger than her.
self, was celebrated with every cir
cumstanoe of pomp and splendor in
the church of Notre Dame, at Paris.
1t was agreed, on the part of Scot
land, that her husband should have
the title of King of Scots. But this
was not enough for the grasping am
bition of France, and Mary was be-
trayed into the signature of secret
deed, by which, if she died childless,
both her Scottish realm and her
right of succession to the English
crown, (she was the great grand
daughter of King Henry viz were
conveyed to France.
On the 10th of July, 1859, the
death of the French king called her
husband to the throne by the title of
Francis III.
The government passed into the
hands of the queens kinsfola, the
Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of
Lorraine, but their rule was short
lived.
The feeble and sickly king died on
the 9Th of December, 1860, when
the reins of power were grasped
by the mother, Catharine
de'Medici, as regent for her son,
Charles TX. q
Mary must have been prepared,
under almost any circumstances, to
quit court which was now swayed
by one whom during her brief reign
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