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held the sceptre, and Campbell of Argyll held the sword of estate. The role played by Mary of Guise was not recorded, but she may have appeared in her own coronation robes. The crown jewels used in the coronation ritual (which survive) are known as the
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convenit with the young quein with gret solempnitie, trieumphe, plays, phrassis , and bankatting and greit danceing befor the quene with greit lordis and Frinche ladyis.
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Only a little is known of the ceremony and celebrations at Stirling Castle. A few details of the preparations are known from the
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of Mary of Guise, which mention some food for the day and the preparation and cleaning of silverware. An English diplomat,
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Lucinda H. S. Dean, 'In the Absence of an Adult Monarch', Kate Buchanan, Lucinda Dean, Michael Penman,
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Lucinda H. S. Dean, 'In the Absence of an Adult Monarch', Kate Buchanan, Lucinda Dean, Michael Penman,
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Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles
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Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles
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Lucinda H. S. Dean, 'Crowning the Child', Sean McGlynn & Elena Woodacre,
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Mary's father, James V, died in December 1542 six days after Mary's birth.
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The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Marcus Merriman, The Rough Wooings (Tuckwell, 2000), p. 126.
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to rule on her behalf. Mary and her mother remained at
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Mary, Queen of Scots
James V of Scotland
Mary of Guise
Stirling Castle
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran
Regent of Scotland
Linlithgow Palace
Cardinal Beaton
standoff between the two factions
Kirkliston

Stirling Castle
household books
Ralph Sadler
Henry Ray
William Parr
Claude Nau
Earl of Lennox
Honours of Scotland
Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie
Julian Goodare
Joseph Stevenson
History of Mary Stewart (Edinburgh, 1889), pp. 311-2
John Guy
Historie and cronicles of Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, SHS, 1899), p. 15
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