X. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
(Landing at the mouth of the Derwent, Workington.)
‘The fears and impatience of Mary were so great,’ says
Robertson, ‘that she got into a fisher-boat, and with about
twenty attendants landed at Workington, in Cumberland; and
thence she was conducted with many marks of respect to Carlisle.’
The apartment in which the Queen had slept at Workington Hall
(where she was received by Sir Henry Curwen as became her
rank and misfortunes) was long preserved, out of respect to her
memory, as she had left it; and one cannot but regret that some
necessary alterations in the mansion could not be effected without
its destruction.
