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attributed to him. Perhaps the best known of these is the infamous 'Memorial', the spirited defence ofMary's deposition that the Earl of Morton presented to Queen Elizabeth in February 1571, which Hugh Trevor-Roper attributed to Buchanan, and on which depends so much of his case that Buchanan was an intellectual charlatan.2 Another is the hitherto unprinted 'Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis', a satirical attack on the Machiavellianism of the Queen's Party dating from early 1570, which Mark Loughlin has speculated might be from Buchanan's pen.3 And finally, there is a little known pamphlet published anonymously by Robert Lekprevik at St Andrews in 1572 entitled Ane Discourse Tuiching the Estait Present in October Anno Domini 1571, which

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