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Queen of Scots, Makers of History, by Jacob Abbott
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Title: Mary Queen of Scots, Makers of History
Author: Jacob Abbott
Release Date: March 9, 2009 [EBook #28283]
Language: English
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Makers of History
Mary Queen of Scots
BY
JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1904
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT.
[Illustration: DUMBARTON CASTLE, on the Clyde.]
[Illustration: MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.]
PREFACE.
The history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason, attracted extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in a great variety of ways by a multitude of authors, and persons sometimes wonder why we should have so many different accounts of the same thing. The reason is, that each one of these accounts is intende