Stuart Tracts —— 1603-1693

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ISBN: 9781331407935 出版年：2016 页码：549 C H Firth Forgotten Books

The French ambassador is solely responsible for the state ment that she at an earlier period admitted by word of mouth that the King of Scotland would hereafter become King of Great Britain. More trustworthy witnesses merely depose that on two occasions in her latest weeks, when the comments of others in her presence compelled her to break silence, she took refuge in oracular utterances which owe all their significance to the interpretation that their hearers deemed it politic to place on them.