"I have had a strange dream about your ring" (a "medallion" of Anthonyand Cleopatra); "it is very valuable."Major Buckley said it was worth 60 pounds, and put the ring into hisfriend's hand."It belonged to royalty.""In what country?""I see Mary, Queen of Scots. It was given to her by a man, aforeigner, with other things from Italy. It came from Naples. It isnot in the old setting. She wore it only once. The person who gaveit to her was a musician."The seer then "saw" the donor's signature, "Rizzio". But Rizziospelled his name Riccio! The seer now copied on paper a writing whichin his trance he saw on vellum. The design here engraved (p. 32) isonly from a rough copy of the seer's original drawing, which was madeby Major Buckley.[Picture of vellum as described in the text - images/rizzo.gif]"Here" (pointing to the middle) "I see a diamond cross." Thesmallest stone was above the size of one of four carats. "It" (thecross) "was worn out of sight by Mary. The vellum has been shown inthe House of Lords." {31}" . . . The ring was taken off Mary's finger by a man in anger andjealousy: he threw it into the water. When he took it off, she wasbeing carried in a kind of bed with curtains" (a litter).Just before Rizzio's murder Mary was enceinte, and might well becarried in a litter, though she usually rode.The seer then had a view of Sizzle's murder, which he had probablyread about.Three weeks later, in another trance, the seer finished his design ofthe vellum. The words
