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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: as to save themselves from utter anarchy, the great majority of the
Scotch nation had taken measures against Mary which required
explicit justification in the sight of Europe, as Buchanan frankly
confesses in the opening of his "De Jure Regni." The chief authors
of those measures had been summoned, perhaps unwisely and unjustly,
to answer for their conduct to the Queen of England. Queen
Elizabeth--a fact which was notorious enough then, though it has
been forgotten till the last few years--was doing her utmost to
shield Mary. Buchanan was deputed, it seems, to speak out for the
people of Scotland; and certainly never people had an abler
apologist. If he spoke fiercely, savagely, it must be remembered
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