The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

SONNET 59
General Notes
1559 Henry II orders heresy stamped out in Scotl
1571 Anjou professes devotion to “the rarest creature that was in Europe these 500 years”
1559-500=1059 (King Arthur?)
Mathilda—only female ruler [Matilda lived from 1102-1167, and was the wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou. After her brother’s death, she was heir to the throne of England, but was unpopular and therefore never crowned.]
Mary of Guise dies + Treaty of Edinburgh
Lines 5-8: How do you compare with other great ones of the past?
Line 12
Revolution: ’59—Revolt in Scotland: John Knox
Be the same: Semper Eadem (theme of this sonnet) [Semper Eadem, meaning “always the same,” was the motto of Anne Boleyn, primarily known because it was also used by her daughter Elizabeth. It was at some point adopted by Leicester as well.]

SONNET 60
General Notes
Sc[otland] abolishes Cath[olicism]
1560—Amy[?] Robert’s death + scandal
1559-60—Jasper Haywood transl. Seneca’s Tragedies
Death of May of Guise—June 10—1560
60—Hertford + Cath. Gray secretly marry
Time’s cruel hand is not only in future, but showing, presently, her [Elizabeth’s] defects[.] Yet he praises.]]>

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