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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    About this tyme, videlicet,—29 May, Cha. Pa[gett] wrote a lettre of the same date to the Q[ueene] of S[cottes], conteyninge an advertisement of Ballardes being in Fraunce and his dispatch againe into England ; that the pryncipall pointz geven hime in chardge was ;— That the saftie of her persone might be wel contynued, And to haue her deliuered &c., A purpose of forreyne aydes, To move assistaunce in England therunto, To knowe what portes most fytte for landing the invadours, (which he thought wolde fall out to be in the north), And the forreyne ayde sholde comme by the Prynce of Parma with such expedicioii, and so farre beyonde thexpectacion of the Q[ueen] of England, as it will wonderfullie vex her, for that she doth not so much as dreame of that course, but thinketh that whatsoeuer is intended shalbe performed from Sp[aine]. 1 The Q[ueene] of S[cottes], 22 Junij last, wrote a lettre to Bab[ington] conteyning ;—albeit it were long synce she hard from hime, as likwise synce he hard from her against her will, yet was she alwaies and euer wilbe myndfull of the effectuall affection he hath shewed towardes all that concerne her, praieng hime by this bearer to sende her such packettes as, synce the ceasing of there intelligens, are comme to his hand (if they be with hime). Bab[ington], by the same messanger, wrote a lettre to her of the coming oner of Ballard, a man of singuler zeale to the Cath[olik] cause and her Majesties service ; Of thentencion beyond the Seas for deliuerance of this contrye and her saftie, That ther was to be advised in this great accion;— 1. First, assuring of invasion, sufficient strengthe in thenvad- ours, 1 Cf. p. 55 n. 2.
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