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NOTE1851

DEFENCE OF THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

By J. PAYNE COLLIER.

Allow me to supply a deficiency in my last volume of *Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company*, printed by the Shakspeare Society. It occurs at p. 224., in reference to an entry of 11th Feb., 1587, in the following terms: "John Wyndett. Lycensed alsoe to him, under the B. of London hand and Mr. Denham, An Analogie or Resemblance betweene Johane, Queene of Naples, and Marye, Queene of Scotland." In the note appended to this entry I point out a mistake by Herbert (ii. 1126. of his *History of Printing*), who fancied that the *Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots*, and K…

Topics: Royal History, Historical Printing, Literature, Historical Analogies

Locations: London, Edinburgh, Scotland, Naples, Kirk of Fielde