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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    England, France and Ireland vpon the King of Spayne.1 Also in her lettre she wold not haue the French embass- ador priuye to the plott fearing his master a frend to the Queen.2 3 She wryteth and beryth fayr shew to her sonne, the King of Scottes : And yet wold haue him surprised and delyuered to the Pope or K[ing] of Spaynes handes to choose how far they will allow hym a Chatholik fyt to haue kingdomes.:! Q[ueene] of Scottes, when she wold haue Lord Clawde Hamelton to serve her turne to make a partye vn Scotland, or to betray the K[ing] of Scottes, to delyuer him into the handes of the Pope or King of Spayne : Then she willed Charles Paget indyrectlye to tell him she meanythe to establishe him Chatholik successor yn Scotland, yf her sonne haue no yssue.4 Sir Francis Inglefield, in his lettre to the Queene of Scottes, sayth that to save her from danger of deathe it is good to occupye the Q[ueene] of England with a conceyte, as before, that her lyfe ys the safetye of the Queene of Englandes lyfe ; wheras they entend by her lyfe all dangers to the Q[ueene] of England.5 1 This charge hnds solid foundation in Mary’s letter to Chas. Paget of May 20, 1586 (Labanoff, vi, p. 343). ■ This sentence is written on the margin in the original. In Mary's letter to Babington of July 17 she warned him not to put too much faith in the French ambassador. 3 Cf. Mary to Chas. Paget, 20 May, 158b, cited in n. 1, and also Mary to Arch, of Glasgow, 20 Jan. 1576/7 (Labanoff, vi, p. 345). * Cf Mary to Paget, just cited. 5 Cf. Englefield to Mary, Jan. 2, 1584/5 in Record Office (S.P. Mary Q. of S., xv, p. 4).
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