This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...Norfolk was still in the Tower, and in january, surrounded with gloom though she was, Mary's letters to him shewed that she was still buoyed up with hope. Subscribing herself, "your own, faithful to death, Queen of Scots, my Norfo," she said, "I wrote to you before, to know your pleasure, if I should seek to make any enterprise; if it please you, I care not for my danger; but I would wish you seek to do the like, for if you and I should escape both, we sliould find friends enough, and for your lands, I hope they should not be lost, for being free and honourably bound together, you might make such good ofl'ers for the countries, and the Queen of England, as they should not refuse. Our fault were not shameful; you have promised to be mine, and I yours; I believe the Queen of England and country should like of it." Letters between the two were frequent, she writing to him in cipher, which Higford one of his private secretaries deciphered and transcribed for the Duke. We learn that several of Mary's letters were smuggled into the Tower in ale bottles, the corks of which were marked, and that Norfolk's answers were returned the same way. During this year Mary's hopes were clouded, not only by the imprisonment of Norfolk, but also by the murder of her half.brother, the Regent Murray, in the streets of Linlithgow, as narrated in a previous chapter. Indirectly this resulted in the arrest of Mary's over.zealous friend, Bishop Leslie, on a charge of treason, which affected her position, and greatly interfered with plans made for her escape. After some weeks, however, the Bishop was set at liberty and again allowed to act for his Royal mistress. In the Spring of 1570 Shrewsbury again sought...