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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    this realme, upon confydence of her Majestie, she was commytted to a gard and shutt up in dyuerse castels, and, in fyne, brought beyond all shame into captyuitie, with the sufferance of a thousand deathes. 4. That diuerse of her chefest frendes in Scotlande were pursued and beseged in the castell of Edenborough by her Majesties forces, emprysoned and hanged after slice had caused them twysse to disarme them selfes at her Majesties request, 1 vpon assurance of agreement].3 5. That agaynst all lawe and justis [she] was forbydden not onlye to helpe [her] sonne in his extremytie, but also to [be made] acquaynted with his state. 6. That her Majesties wrongefull prysons of all ryghtfull ground have alreadie destroyed her bodie.3 [Indorsed] :— 1. [Illegible], 2. Concerninge the Q. of Scottes. and the bond of friendship are subject to evile interpretations and grounded uppon vertue. By her miscariage of herself afterwards, this ground failed, and therefore her Majestie was consequently noe more tyed to such a promise. ” [S. P. Mary Q. of S. xii, no. 49]. 1 Independent evidence upon this point is wanting. Elizabeth herself avoids the charge in her reply, which suggests that it was probably well founded. 3 The manuscript is badly frayed along the lower edge. 3 In Mary's letter, already referred to, this charge reads;—“ Vostre prison, sans aucun droict et juste fondement, a ja destruict mon corps.” (Labanoff, v, P- 33i).