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

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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$religion, but the bottome of it was if tolleracion of religion might not be had without alteracion of the govermente, that the Q[uene] sholde be removed and the Q[ueene] of Scottes. put in her place. He further saieth that he, having intelligens and a cypher with the Q[ueen] of Scottes, she, about June 1583, wrote to hime that if her treatie with the Queenes Majestie for her libertie did not succede, then she referred her cause to the good consideracion and proceding of the Duke of Guyse who had vndertaken and promised to deale in it; and if her hope of libertie by this treatie sholde appere to be frustrate, she willed Fra\_ncis~\ Throck\_merlon~\ to learne what hope here was to he had of hacking of any forces to be sent hither. He saieth that it was a pryncipall matter of debat beyond sea, howe the Q[ueen] of Scottes shoulde saffelye be deliuered at the time of the invasion and the lacke of resolucion therof was the pryncipall staye of thexecucion.1 The Q[ueen] of Scottis, 9 Octobr, in the 26 of her Majesties reigne, wrote to Sir Frauncys Inglefeild that she neither had hope, nor loked for any good issue of the treatye with the Queenes Majestie for her libertie, and therfore willed, what- soeuer sholde becomme of her, to let thexecucion of the great plotte and disseignment goe forewarde, without any respect of perill or danger to her, prayeng hime to vse all possible indevour to procure, at the Pope and Kynge Catholiques hande, such a spedie execucion of there former designmente, that the same might be effectuated the next springe (which was, as Naw explaneth it, to bringe in forreyn forces and to deliuer the S[cottish]. Q[ueene]).2 ' Cf. the official account of the Throgmorton plot which was printed in 1584 (Harl. Miscell. (1808) iii, p. 190). This account is, however, very vague and unsatisfactory upon the point of Mary's connection with the plot. * Burghley refers to this letter in writing to Walsingham on the 4th of October,.$