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 MARY THE FIRST. 401 bloodthirsty disposition which has been vulgarly attributed to Mary; but, on the contrary, a beneficent shrinking from acts of injustice and inhumanity. But she was involved in circum- stances of state, of religion, and of domestic life, of which she became the victim, and of which she bears the consolidated in- famy.