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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    Mai], Charles Paget wrote to her of Ballardes dispatch out of France, and his dealinges.1 Babington vndertoke the whole plottes of the tresons. The Q[ueene] of Scottes, 25 Junij, wrytes to Babington to renew intelligens with him. Then Babington wryteth to her of the whole plottes of the treasons, desiring her aduise, dyrectyon and authoritye. She by her lettre alloweth dyrectythe and authorisethe the same ;3 And wryt ouer to Mendosa, Bishop of Glascow, Lord Paget, Sir Francis Inglefeld, Charles Paget, of her dispache to the Chatholikes here, and that they shall further the forren forces.3 [.Indorsed in another hand] :—Objections against the Queene of Scottes. XVIII SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON’S BRIEF OF THE CASE AGAINST THE QUEEN OF SCOTS. [3 November, 1586.] [Egerton MSS. 2124, ff. 39-44.] This paper is in Hatton’s own hand. It contains a brief summary of the whole case against Mary Stuart, based not only upon her supposed complicity in the Babington plot but also upon her supposed complicity in ' Chas. Paget to Mary, j§ May, 1586 (Murdin p. 516). 2 Cf. the Mary—Babington correspondence printed above. s For these letters cf. Labanoff vi, pp. 399, 404, 412.
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