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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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The
seer
then
had
a
view
of
Sizzle's
murder,
which
he
had
probably
read
about.
Three
weeks
later,
in
another
trance,
the
seer
finished
his
design
of
the
vellum.
The
words
A
M
DE
LA
PART
probably
stand
for
a
Marie,
de
la
part
de--
The
thistle
heads
and
leaves
in
gold
at
the
corners
were
a
usual
decoration
of
the
period;
compare
the
ceiling
of
the
room
in
Edinburgh
Castle
where
James
VI.
was
born,
four
months
after
Rizzio's
murder.
They
also
occur
in
documents.
Dr.
Gregory
conjectures
that
so
valuable
a
present
as
a
diamond
cross
may
have
been
made
not
by
Rizzio,
but
through
Rizzio
by
the
Pope.
It
did
not
seem
good
to
the
doctor
to
consult
Mary's
lists
of
jewels,
nor,
if
he
had
done
so,
would
he
have
been
any
the
wiser.
In
1566,
just
before
the
birth
of
James
VI.,
Mary
had
an
inventory
drawn
up,
and
added
the
names
of
the
persons
to
whom
she
bequeathed
her
treasures
in
case
she
died
in
child-bed.
But
this
inventory,
hidden
among
a
mass
of
law-papers
in
the
Record
Office,
was
not
discovered
till
1854,
nine
years
after
the
vision
of
1845,
and
three
after
its
publication
by
Dr.
Gregory
in
1851.
Not
till
1863
was
the
inventory
of
1566,
discovered
in
1854,
published
for
the
Bannatyne
Club
by
Dr.
Joseph
Robertson.
Turning
to
the
inventory
we
read
of
a
valuable
present
made
by
David
Rizzio
to
Mary,
a
tortoise
of
rubies,
which
she
kept
till
her
death,
for
it
appears
in
a
list
made
after
her
execution
at
Fotheringay.
The
murdered
David
Rizzio
left
a
brother
Joseph.
Him
the
queen
made
her
secretary,
and
in
her
will
of
1566
mentions
him
thus:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
