Excerpt from The Stuarts: Being Outlines of the Personal History of the Family; Illustrated From Portraits, Miniatures, &C. In the Most Celebrated Collections The work has been carefully revised, and contains the whole of the letter-press of the first edition, except references to certain plates which are omitted; and the Appendices, one of which latter, namely, a list Of portraits of Mary Stuart, has been treated of by me in a separate volume, lately published, and styled, Concerning the True Portraiture of Mary Stuart, to which those of my readers who desire fuller information on that fascinating subject are referred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.