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Hace 4 días · -, -, "Copy of an Act of Secret Counsell," concerning Darnley's murder and the Bothwell marriage, 83.
Hace 4 días · Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 5, 1642-1643. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.
Hace 3 días · 2. Mary Queen of Scots (reigned 1542-1567) On February 10 1567, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, died in an explosion in Edinburgh. On subsequent nights, mysterious voices were heard in the streets, accusing Mary’s rumoured paramour, the Earl of Bothwell James Hepburn, of murder. Placards appeared depicting the queen as a bare ...
Hace 5 días · James Douglas, 4th earl of Morton (born c. 1516—died June 2, 1581, Edinburgh, Scot.) was a Scottish lord who played a leading role in the overthrow of Mary, Queen of Scots. As regent of Scotland for young king James VI (later James I of England) from 1572 to 1578, he restored the authority of the central government, which had been weakened by years of civil strife.
Hace 1 día · The groom of the stole was the effective head of the royal bedchamber, with the right to attend the Sovereign at all times and to regulate access to the bedchamber and closet even when absent. The office, which was invariably coupled with that of first gentleman or first lady of the bedchamber from 1660, was in the gift of the Crown, appointments being made by royal warrant. The groom of the ...
Hace 2 días · I. The Fifteen Articles of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. The Fifteen Articles were drawn up in 1783 and read at the first ordination of the Connexion. In 1793 they were enrolled in Chancery as a schedule to Cheshunt College trust deed, from which this copy (Cheshunt MS. C16/3) is taken. 252.
Hace 17 horas · The Mystery of "Joe Piker". In February 1823, a young man moved into Toft Hill, a small mining and agricultural village in South Durham, England. Although he boasted the impressive name of “Josiah Charles Stephenson,” the fact that he settled into a cottage adjoining a turnpike gate soon earned him the snappier nickname of “Joe Piker.”.
