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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    What forces may be raysid here and what captens ; What portes may be assuerred on all sides ; And what place fittest to assemble the army ; What forren force the require ; What munycion, money, and armor ; By what meanes the 6 gent, will proceade ; After resolucion to emparte all to Mendosa ; After assuerance of forren forces, ther owen too be put in present redines with all secresie ; To culler the same to fortyfye them selves agayne the Puritanes ; And by that coller too establyshe an assotiacion ; Thes thynges thus preparyd, it should be good tyme too sett the six gent, on worke ; Vppon the accomplisement wherof too follow hir delyuery with forces too meete and r[e]ceve hir ; But the six gentlemen must haue at court iiij stowte men with swift horses too aduertise and the[y] must stopp all other posts ; She refferrythe too B[abington] too assure the gentlemen for reward of all thynges requysite on hir behaulfe. Yf this cruell designement succede not, she referrithe to them whether the will pursue hir delyuery or no. When this worke is in hand the Catholickes in Scotland shalbe possessid of hir son, and sum stirre in that realme ; Sum allarme liwise in Irland. She settithe down 3 meanes of hir delyuery, viz ;—&c. 1 1 With the exxeption of the mention of Mary’s favour to Morgan after the Parry plot and of her letters to Allen and Lewis, the brief from p. 84 n. 1 to this point is. nothing more than an abbreviated form of Serjeant Puckering’s notes on the same subject (Document XI1) as may be seen by a comparison of the two.
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