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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

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queen, is supposed to have been the 5th

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SETON (Family)

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HALF

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SISTER

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

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French-woman named

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Mary Pieris, maid of

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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

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Guise . She had been educated with Queen Mary in

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France, being about a

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YEAR

year older than her

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MISTRESS

mistress, with whom she returned to

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Scotland in 1561 . She helped Mary to

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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

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

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

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LIFE

life had undermined her

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HEALTH

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SPIRITS

spirits . She retired to the

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abbey of St

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PIERRE

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Reims, and she was still living there, an old

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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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My Grandmother on my fathers side was Mary Seton , we are supposedly decended from the Setons of that time. my father was of course scottish, of french descent.

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