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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    [.Indorsed, in another hand]:—The Sco: Queene... determinacion for her not arrainement. [,Second indorsement, same hand as Ms.] :—Scottishe Queene. XIV CHARGES MADE AGAINST MARY STUART. [1586]. [Egerton MSS. 2x24, f. 11-15]. This paper is written in two separate columns. The right hand column contains a list of charges against Mary ; the left hand column, which is evidently incomplete, contains a statement of the proofs for some of the charges made. The former is written in a clerkly hand in the ordinary Gothic script of the Elizabethan period, the latter, probably by the same hand, in Italian script. There is an exact copy of this paper written in the same manner and by the same hand among the papers relating to Mary Stuart in the Record Office (Vol. viii, no. 54) which has been wrongly calendared in the Scottish Calendar under the year 1577. It is impossible to fix the date of this paper exactly, but it certainly belongs sometime after the execution of Dr. Parry (March 2, 1584/5) and before the trial of the Scottish Queen (October 1586). Very likely it has some connection with the proceedings against Mary in 1586 although the charges which it lodges against her do not seem to have been brought forward at her trial. It is somewhat surprising to find in it no reference whatsoever to the Throgmorton plot, Mary’s complicity in which was well known to the English government. The association of this paper with so many papers of Sir Christopher Hatton’s suggests that it at one time belonged to him. The existence of another copy of it in the Record Office, however, discountenances the idea that he himself was the author of it. Possibly he secured the copy from Walsingham or Burghley for use in drafting his speech against Mary which he made in the House of Commons on the 3r(1 of November, 1586.
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