Title: Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erle Bothwell. And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erle Bothwell. And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quihilke was written by G. B.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 12mo. f. [1] (blank), [1] (plates), pp. [176] (3 last blank), ff. [2] (blank). 18th-century morocco. Gilded boards, spine and edges. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Robert S Pirie (sale, 3 December 2015, lot 557) and of Charles Chaunoy. Manuscript signature "P. L. 1743". Some marginalia. An enlarged version, in mock Scots, with some French, of De Maria Scotorum regina (also printed by Day in 1571), based in large part on George Buchanan’s manuscript Detectio begun in 1568. The ‘Scots’ version publishes for the first time the entire text of the so-called ‘Casket Letters,’ now widely assumed to have been forgeries. For a quick summary of the enduring controversy see A. Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots. London, 1969, chapter 20; for discussion of the text, see A. Freeman &amp; J. Ing Freeman, Courtship, Slander, and Treason: Studies of Mary Queen of Scots. London, 2019, pp. 104-120. See also STC 3981. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991042483009707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>