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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    2. Portes to aryve at apoynted, with a strong partie at euery place to joyne with them and warrant there landing, 3. Her deliuerance &c., 4. The dispatch of the vsurping competitour, Desyring her direction and authoritie to enhable such as maye advance the affaires, Promising that hime self with tenne gentlemen and c there followers will vndertake deliuerye of her person from her enymies, That for the dispatch of the vsurper (from the obedience of whome by thexcommunication they are made free) there be six noble gentlemen, his freindes, will vndertake that tragicall execucion, That according to ther infinite good desertes and herbountye, there hereticall [s/c] attemptes may be honorablie rewarded, and that so much he may be liable by her authoritie to assure them. The Q[ueen] of Scottes, the 27 of Julie last, wrote answer to Bab[ington] conteyning her commending of his deserte [?] to prevent in tyme the designe of there enymies for thextirpating of religion ; Assuring that she will therin employe her lief and all she maye ; And to grounde substauncialie thentreprise, to bring it to good successe, advised him to examine deplye ;— 1. First, what forces on horse and on foot maie be raised here, what captaynes in euery shire in case a chief generall cannot be had ; 2. What portes may be assured in the northe, west and south to recevve succors from the Lowe Contreys, Spayne and France; What place fittest to assemble the pryncipall forces and which waie then to march the same ; What forreyne forces on horse and on foot they require, for how long to be paide ;
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