. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. QUEEN :FOR THIS HATH TIME ERASED THEE FROM ITS PAGE,AND FILIAL JUSTICE WITH VINDICTIVE RAGEBURST ON THY PRINCELY TOWERS WITH WHELMING TIDE,NOR LEFT ONE VESTIGE TO RELATE THT PRIDE. AN TON AS BANES. Cljf Castle of jFotjjEringjjaij. Etymon of Kotheringhay—Founded by Simon St. Liz in the time of William the Conqueror—Rebuilt by Edmund Langley, Duke of York—Castle the Property of the Scottish Kings-Earl of Albemarle surprises the Fortress—Meeting of P^dward IV. and Alexander Kingof Scotland—The Fitzwilliam Family—King Richard III. born here—
. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. QUEEN :FOR THIS HATH TIME ERASED THEE FROM ITS PAGE,AND FILIAL JUSTICE WITH VINDICTIVE RAGEBURST ON THY PRINCELY TOWERS WITH WHELMING TIDE,NOR LEFT ONE VESTIGE TO RELATE THT PRIDE. AN TON AS BANES. Cljf Castle of jFotjjEringjjaij. Etymon of Kotheringhay—Founded by Simon St. Liz in the time of William the Conqueror—Rebuilt by Edmund Langley, Duke of York—Castle the Property of the Scottish Kings-Earl of Albemarle surprises the Fortress—Meeting of P^dward IV. and Alexander Kingof Scotland—The Fitzwilliam Family—King Richard III. born here—Queen Mary conductedfrom Chartley to Fotheriughay—Meeting of Queen Elizabeths Commissioners—Queen Mar>sTiial in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay—Queen Elizabeths Warrant for her Execution—Deportment of Queen I\Iary—Her Execution—Curious Anecdote of her little Dog—HerRemains treated with Indignity—Her Interment at Peterborough Cathedral—Removal of herBody to Westminster—The Castle demolished by Order of King James HE castle of Fotheringhay, in Northampton-shire, is said to have been erected hy SimonSt. Liz, second Earl of Northampton, in thetime of William the Conqueror. In the reignof Edward III., it was rebuilt by EdmundLangley, Duke of York, who erected the toweror keep in the shape of a fetter-lock, the em-blematic device of the York family, which, withthe occasional addition of a falcon in the centre,was emblazoned in most of the castle is said that Edmund, when he saw hissons gazing upon the painted windows, asked them, being youngscholars, what was the Latin for a. fetter-loch; the youths, looking at oneanother, gave no answer. If, said the baron, you cannot tellme, I will tell you— Hie hcTC hoc tasceatis; and therewithal add,* God knoweth what may happen hereafter ; imd it is a curious factthat King Edward VI., his great-grandcliild, in allusion to the abovepresage, commanded bis younger son, the Duke of York, to use f
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