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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    XVII BRIEF NOTES OF EVIDENCE AGAINST MARY STUART. November 1586. [Egerton MSS. 2124, f. 47]. These notes are written in the same hand and probably designed for the same purpose as those foregoing. For the same reasons they have been assigned to November, 1586, although they are not dated in the original. The principall partes be : 1583. Whilest she entertayned the Queenes Majestie with tretye for her libertye, she wrote to Francis Throgmerton about forren'-forces and styrring ayd at home. 1584. During the same treatye, she wrote to Sir Francis Inglefyld for thexecution of the great plot and former designe- ment of the Pope and K[ing] of Spayne, to be doone in the spring 1586.1 jjaij This spring, 1586, she fyrst wrote to Mendosa and Charles Paget to styr the K[ing] of Spayne to invade these cuntryes, to take her and her affayres into his proteccion whollye, and she wold gyve all her right in this crowne to hym by her last will, and in the meane delyuer her sonne to his handes, and 3d during her lyfe he became not a Chatholik, he not to haue this crowne but the K[ing] of Spayne imediatlye. * 1 This letter, not printed by Labanoff, is in the Record Office (S.P. Mary Q. of S. xvii, no. 75). * These letters to Paget and Mendoza are dated 20 May, 1586 (Labanoff vi, pp. 309. 312). 6
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