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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 704 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SETON (Family)
SETON , one of the " Four Maries " attendant on the See also:

queen, is supposed to have been the 5th See also:

Lord Seton's See also:

HALF

half-See also:

SISTER

sister, being the daughter of the 4th lord by his second wife, a See also:

French-woman named Mary Pieris, maid of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour to Mary of See also:

Guise. She had been educated with Queen Mary in See also:

France, being about a See also:

YEAR

year older than her See also:

MISTRESS

mistress, with whom she returned to See also:

Scotland in 1561. She helped Mary to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape from Lochleven by assuming her clothes. Later on she joined her at See also:

Carlisle, and remained with her in her various prisons until 1583, when See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison See also:

LIFE

life had undermined her See also:

HEALTH

health and See also:

SPIRITS

spirits. She retired to the See also:

abbey of St See also:

PIERRE

Pierre at See also:

Reims, and she was still living there, an old See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady of seventy-four, in poverty in 1614.

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