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Little more than 338 years after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots** at Fotheringhay Castle, Ainsworth Mitchell, Home Office criminologist, came to the conclusion that the letters written to Babington expressing approval of a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth were not written by Mary but by her secretary and betrayer, William Maitland of Lethington...
...this sketch any one whose experience has led him to sympathize with Daspaw can read words of truth between the lines. The story is very much out of the common order and outshines some of the best of the writing which has appeared in the Advocate this winter. "Fotheringhay" is an interesting description of the castle in which Mary Stuart met her sad fate...
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