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.

Date:
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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    Are ;— The Scot Queene, The Poope, The Kinge of Spayn, The Jesuites, etc., And the Papistes at home, And ther ministers, as apperythe. [.Indorsed in a clerk's hand] :—Your Honors notes of the principall poinctes of the conspiracie. XII SERJEANT PUCKERING’S NOTES ON THE CASE AGAINST MARY STUART. 29 September, 1586. [Egerton MSS. 2124, ff. 50-54.] John Puckering, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1584 and again in 1586, was named Queen’s Serjeant, probably in the latter year. He spoke for the crown in the trial of Babington and his colleagues and he may have been present at the trial of Mary Stuart, although his name is not mentioned in the official account of the trial. These notes would seem to indicate that he was present and that he assisted in the prosecution. It is to be observed that though they are written in a contemporary clerkly hand, they are endorsed by Hatton. Probably Puckering supplied Hatton with a copy of them to assist him in preparing the speech which he delivered against Mary in the House of Commons on the 3rd Novem- ber, 1586. Francis Throckmerton, Saieth where there was a purpose 1583 ;— of foreyne invasion to be made into this realme and Catholiques were sounded to give ayde, the pre- tence therof to be not to alter the gouernemente but to reforme
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