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.