The Bardon papers : documents relating to the imprisonment & trial of Mary Queen of Scots / edited for the Royal Historical Society by Conyers Read ; with a prefatory note by Charles Cotton.

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1909
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Credit: The Bardon papers : documents relating to the imprisonment & trial of Mary Queen of Scots / edited for the Royal Historical Society by Conyers Read ; with a prefatory note by Charles Cotton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Addressed by Burgh ley's clerk] :—To the R. honorable, my verie good trend, Mr. Vicechamberlain. [Indorsed] :—1586. Windsor, Sept., 13. My L. Threr. (e) Burghley to Hatton. 15 September, 1586. Burghley had been labouring with Elizabeth for some weeks to induce her to appoint a place to which Mary Stuart might be removed and her case heard. The Privy Council wished to bring her to the Tower but Elizabeth would not hear of it. Hertford Castle had also been proposed and rejected as being too near London (cf. Burghley to Walsingham, 9 Sept. 1586. R.O., S.P. Dom., cxciii, no. 28). Fotheringay Castle in Northamptonshire was finally pitched upon. Sir Amias Poulet had been ordered to inspect it on the 26,h of August (Morris, p. 273). Sir, I wrote 2 howres past, what hir Majesty ment for the tyme of exeevtion 1 to be not afor Monday, afor which tyme I thynk yow will be here. Now hir Majesty mislyketh of Wood- stock and any other place but Fodrynghaye, so as by her commandment, I have sent both to Sir Amyas Pavlett and to Sir Walter Mildmay, the on to carry hir awey, the other to provyde for hir bestowyng. How long this determination will last I know not, but I have sett it onward, and if farder tyme be delayed the Parlement will com befor the Lords can well retorn.2 of September he reported the arrival of a Spanish fleet at “ Conquest ” (Le Conquet, a smalltown with a good harbour at the western extremity of Brittany, not far from Brest) (Cal. Dom. 1580-90, p. 352). The Privy Council at once sent orders to him to keep close watch upon the Spaniards and to prepare the coast for defence (Acts of Privy Council, xiv, p.216). Burghley's postcript no doubt has reference to this. He was right, the report was untrue. 1 Burghley evidently means by “ execution ” here, the removal of Mary from Chartley to Fotheringay. On the 25th of September Poulet wrote from Fother- ingay that he had accomplished the removal (Morris, p. 293). 3 Parliament had been prorogued and was to meet again on the 15th of October. Burghley was afraid that it would reassemble before the Lords appointed to try 4
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