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Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected With the Regal Succession of Great Britain, Vol. 4
Early in December, Mary returned to Holyrood for dispatch of business and her birthday celebration. It was the anniversary on which she completed her twenty-first year. The commemoration was made as usual on her name day, one of the great festivals in honor of the Virgin Mary the morning was devoted to a relig ious service, and the evening to a grand ball. Both were appa rently attended with bad effects to the Queen, for she took a severe cold in consequence of being over-long at her prayers in the damp Chapel-royal, and did not improve her feverish symptoms by the fatigue of dancing over-much at her ball in the evening.
Randolph, the English embassador, writes to Cecil on the 13th of December, that when he arrived in Edinburgh, he understood the Queen kept her'bed, and that her illness was attributed to her exertions in dancing on the above occasion but that he was inclined to think with her, that she had taken cold in the chapel with the length of the service.1 The real cause of her illness was probably her return to Edinburgh - a climate almost as in imical to her as it had proved to Magdalene of France.
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