The Tragedy of Fotheringay / Founded on the journal of D. Bourgoing, physician to Mary Queen of Scots, and on unpublished ms. documents

A documentary narrative reconstructs the final months of Mary, Queen of Scots, drawing on a physician's journal, official correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts to chronicle her imprisonment, interrogation, trial, and execution. The author interweaves first-hand accounts, contemporary notes, illustrations, and documentary appendices to present speeches, procedural exchanges, and differing eyewitness descriptions of the execution and burial, while offering editorial commentary and explanatory notes clarifying provenance and context. The work emphasizes primary testimony and documentary evidence to trace the legal and personal tensions that culminated in her death.