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Casket Letters

Scotland · House / House of Hepburn. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1566Date range
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Chronological records

1566

James Hepburn Bothwell, 4th1566

House / House of Hepburn

If authentic throughout, they provide proof of Marys complicity in the murder of her husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. Casket Letters is the name generally given to a group of eight letters and a sequence of irregular sonnets said to have been addressed by Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Earl of Bothwell, between January and April 1566 or 1567

Names involved

James Hepburn Bothwell, 4th

Provenance

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