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Title: Unknown to History
A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Posting Date: July 19, 2009 [EBook #4596]
Release Date: October, 2003
First Posted: February 13, 2002
Language: English
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Unknown to History
A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
By
Charlotte M. Yonge
PREFACE.
In p. 58 of vol. ii. of the second edition of Miss Strickland's Life of
Mary Queen of Scots, or p. 100, vol. v. of Burton's History of
Scotland, will be found the report on which this tale is founded.
If circumstances regarding the Queen's captivity and Babington's plot
have been found to be omitted, as well as many interesting personages
in the suite of the captive Queen, it must be remembered that the art
of the story-teller makes it needful to curtail some of the incidents
which would render the narrative too complicated to be interesting to
those who wish more for a view of noted characters in remarkable
situations, than for a minute and accurate sifting of facts and
evidence.
C. M. YONGE.
February 27, 1882.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE LITTLE WAIF
CHAPTER II. EVIL TIDINGS
CHAPTER III. THE CAPTIVE
CHAPTER IV. THE OAK AND THE OAKEN HALL
CHAPTER V. THE HUCKSTERING WOMAN
CHAPTER VI. THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE
CHAPTER VII. THE BLAST OF THE WHISTLE
CHAPTER VIII. THE KEY OF THE CIPHER
CHAPTER IX. UNQUIET
CHAPTER X. THE LADY ARBELL
CHAPTER XI. QUEEN MARY'S PRESENCE CHAMBER
CHAPTER XII. A FURIOUS LETTER
CHAPTER XIII. BEADS AND BRACELETS
CHAPTER XIV. THE MONOGRAMS
CHAPTER XV. MOTHER AND CHILD
CHAPTER XVI. THE PEAK CAVERN
CHAPTER XVII. THE EBBING WELL
CHAPTER XVIII. CIS OR SISTER
CHAPTER XIX. THE CLASH OF SWORDS
CHAPTER XX. WINGFIELD MANOR
CHAPTER XXI. A TANGLE
CHAPTER XXII. TUTBURY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LOVE TOKEN
CHAPTER XXIV. A LIONESS AT BAY
CHAPTER XXV. PAUL'
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