Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . d by her son James I.,to Henry the Sevenths chapel, Westminster abbey, where a magnificent monu-ment was erected to her memory. The character and conduct of Mary, queenof Scots, have been made the subject of much controversy; but the fact of hermarrying Bothwell, stained as he was by universal suspicion of Darnleysmurder, is a spot up
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . d by her son James I.,to Henry the Sevenths chapel, Westminster abbey, where a magnificent monu-ment was erected to her memory. The character and conduct of Mary, queenof Scots, have been made the subject of much controversy; but the fact of hermarrying Bothwell, stained as he was by universal suspicion of Darnleysmurder, is a spot upon her character for which we in vain seek an apology. Fotheringay castle was demolished by the order of James I., to markhis indignation at the execution of his mother. Fotheringay church, a viewof which is given below, stands near the site of the castle, and contains themortal remains of several members of the Plantagenet family. It contains anancient stone pulpit, and a fine font. If the remains of the castle had been onan extensive scale, and well preserved, the place would be more familiarlyknown than it is; but its celebrity and consequence are solely the reflection ofpast times, the monuments of which do not exist to attract the visiter to Fotheringay Church. 134 SULTAN AKBEK. SULTAN AKBER. MOHAMMED AKBER, son of the sultan Humayim, was born in 1543, and suc-ceeded to the Mogul throne in India on the death of his father, in 1556, at theearly age of thirteen. As he was yet too young to take the government intohis* own hands, it was intrusted, during his minority, to a Turkish nobleman,by the name of Behram, who had been his fathers most valued friend. Beh-ram was an able minister, but fond of absolute authority; therefore not veryready to bring forward his royal charge, who was kept for some years undermore restraint than suited a high spirit, impatient of control. Akber was handsome in person, courteous in manners, and gifted with allthose princely qualities th
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