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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    And so, making hast because hir Majesty may have answer this daye and hir plesvr also knowe in tyme, I end. From Wyndsor Castel, 12 of September, 1586, past term of clock. Yours assuredly, W. Burgh ley. [Addressed in Burghley’s hand'] :—To the Right Honorable Sir Christofer Hatton, knight, Vichamberlain to hir Majesty. [Indorsed] :—1586. Windsor, Sept. 12. The L. Threr. (c) Burghley to Hatton. 12 September, 1586. This letter is written on the evening of the same day as the letter preceding. Evidently Hatton had sent a reply to Burghley’s letter of the morning. This reply is missing, but the tenor of it may be gathered from the letter which follows. It is apparent from this letter, as from the preceding one, that Hatton was the especial representative of the Queen at the trial of Babington and his fellows, although several other members of the Privy Council were named as well in the Commission of Oyer and Determiner appointed for the trial. After my very harty Commendations. I have receaved and shewed the lettre signed by yow and others of her Majesties Prive and Lerned Counsell, and, settyng asyde myn opinion concurryng with the tenor of your lettre, I must delyver her Majesties answer resolvt. She semeth to mislyke that the par- ticularetyis of the Scotish Quene lettres war conteaned in the indytment, but how soever I allowed therof, and hir Majestv mislykyng, yet now I concluded with hir Majesty ther was no remedy left to change that, and for the prosequutyng therof in delyveryng of the evidence, hir pleasvr is that ther be no enlargment of hir cryme, but breffly declared for mayntenance of the endytment, that she allowed of Babyntons wrytyng or lettre. Nether wold she that ether by my Lord Cobham, your
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