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A37340	A brief history of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the occasions that brought her and Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, to their tragical ends shewing the hopes the Papists then had of a Popish successor in England, and their plots to accomplish them : with a full account of the tryals of that Queen, and of the said Duke, as also the trial of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel : from the papers of a secretary of Sir Francis Walsingham / now published by a person of quality.	M. D.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.	1681 (1681)	Wing D57; ESTC R8596	76,972	72

Martins laid about with Gold Lace and buttoned with Gold Buttons a Black Satten Doublet a pair of Velvet Hose and a long high Black Hat on his head a very tall man looking somewhat Swarth-coloured His Apparel Then was the Earl brought to the Bar with the Axe carryed before him by Mr. Shelton Gent. Porter of the Tower being accompanied with Prisoner brought to the Barr. Sir Owin Hopton Knight Lieftenant of the Tower Sir Drew Drewry Constable of the Tower for the time Mr. Henry Bronkard and others At my Lord of Arundel his coming to the Bar he made two Obeysances to the State and to the Nobles and others there present Then did Mr. Sands Clerk of the Crown say he was Indicted of several Treasons and said unto him Philip Howard Earl of Arundel late of Arundel in the County of Sussex hold up thy hand He held up his hand very high saying Here is as true a mans heart and hand as ever came into this Hall Mr. Sands then read the Indictment THat whereas divers traiterous persons in the parts beyond the Seas being Indictment natural English men viz. Dr. Allen Parsons Champion Mote and divers others have heretofore divers and sundry times with sundry persons as well English men as of other Countries practised to accomplish and bring to pass several dangerous and unnatural Treasons against the Queens Majesty her Royal Person Crown and Dignity viz. to subvert the State invade the Realm to set up Catholick Religion to raise Insurrections c. Amongst which number of unnatural Traitors the Earl of Arundel was well acquainted with that notorious Traitor Dr. Allen by means of Bridges Weston Ithell and other Popish Priests with whom divers times sithence the 20th year of her Majesties Reign he hath had private and secret conference and communication of several Treasons insomuch that the Earl of Arundel did presently dispatch his several Letters by Bridges aforesaid to Dr. Allen to wish him at any hand to do something concerning the Cause Catholick wherein he promised to perform any thing that Dr. Allen should think fit for him to do And whereas the 24th day of April in the 27th year of the Queens Reign he was flying by Sea to Dr. Allen that Arch-Traitor and that the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain were thereupon solicited by Allen aforesaid to raise war against this Realm And whereas also the Earl of Arundel had understanding of a Bull that Sixtus the fifth Pope of that name had sent into England for the excommunication of her Majesty and for the invading of the Realm c. And that at the Tower the 21st of July in the 30th year of her Majesties Reign he did imagine with other traiterous persons that the Queen was an Heretick and not worthy to govern the Realm and that he did move and procure one William Bennet a Seminary Priest to say Mass for the happy success of the Spanish Fleet whereupon he had Mass and did help to say Mass himself to that purpose And having news of the conflict at Sea betwixt the Spanish Fleet and the English he procured Sir Thomas Gerrard and divers others then Prisoners in the Tower to say Mass with him for the fortunate success of Spain and that he made a prayer specially for that purpose to be daily used and exercised amongst them HEreupon Mr. Sands asked the Earl of Arundel if he were guilty or not guilty of the several Treasons comprised in the said Indictment Sands To this the Earl answered he would fain know whether the several points in the Indictment contained were but one Indictment yea or no. Earl The Judges satisfied him it was but one Indictment and a matter he need not stand upon Judges My Lord vouched a Case in Edw. 3. and in the end said not guilty and was well content to be tryed by his Peers and liked the Tryal well that Earl he should be tryed by such good Noble-men there present that knew his Life He said he had been Prisoner four years and 25 weeks close Prisoner and that he had been sick and weak whereby his memory might fail him and therefore humbly desired my Lord Steward's Grace making Three several Obeysances on both knees that he might be heard to make answer to every particular point My Lord Steward answered that there was no other meaning nor intent Lo. Steward and that he should be heard deliberately Then did Mr. Serjeant Puckering deliver to the Lords of the Jury the Puckering effect of the Indictment and other Evidence at large as followeth First that my Lord had private and secret Conference with Bridges aforesaid Conference with Traytors and divers other Traitors and Seminary Priests and that he had written his Letters to Dr. Allen to find which way he might further the Cause Catholick That he did Fast twenty-four hours and prayed for the happy success of Fasting and Prayer Traitors that should kill the Queen the Spanish Fleet. That Allen and others being arrant Traitors had taken order that in the 22d year of her Majesties Reign there should be 50 men in privy Coats and pocket daggers to kill the Queen and that one Pain and one Elliot were put in trust to perform the same That my Lord was a Catholick and favoured their proceedings My Lord answered he was no Catholick in the 22th year of the Queens Earl Reign That he secretly was flying out of the Realm to Dr. Allen being an His flying out of the Realm Throckmortons Opinion Arch-Traitor which doth argue my Lord to be no good Subject That Throckmorton practising his Treasons by sounding the Ports he did set down in his Catalogue that a South-west wind would serve from Spain to Arundel Castle in Sussex and an Easterly wind from the Low-Countries That in Throckmortons Catalogue of all the names of all the Noblemen and Gentlemen of every Shire that affecteth the Catholicks he began in Sussex and set down the Earl of Arundels Name the first That further one Mott a Priest informed Throckmorton that he was come Mott a Priest over to sound the intents of the Earls of Arundel and Northumberland and others My Lord answered when Mott was in Sussex he never came there but alwayes attended at Court Earl Mr. Puckering said the Traitors have a good Conceit of my Lord of Puckering Arundel in knowing him to be affected to the Catholick Cause It was defined that the Catholick Cause was meer Treason Petro Paulo Rossetto came over to sound Noblemen and Gentlemen in England Then said my Lord how prove you me to be a Traitor in these points Earl Because said Mr. Popham you have confederated with Traitors by desiring Popham Dr. Allen in your Letters to employ you any way that concerned the Cause Catholick because you have been reconciled to the Pope and there was a Law made in the 22d year of this Queen that

Court adjourned to the Star-Chamber the 25th of the same Month. THE SCOTISH QUEEN'S LETTER TO ANTHONY BABINGTON To Renew the Intelligence as followeth VIZ. MY Very good Friend albeit it be long since you Qu. of Scots Letter to Anthony Babington heard from me not more than I have done from you it is against my Will yet would I not you should think I have in the mean while nor ever will be unmindful of the effectual affection you have shewed heretofore towards all that concerneth me I have understood that upon the Renewing of your Intelligence there were addressed unto you both from France and Scotland some Packets for me I pray you if any be come to your Hands and be yet in Place to deliver them to the Bearer hereof who will safely convey them unto me and I will pray to God for your Preservation Your Assured Good Friend MARY REGINA June the 28th At Chartley. ANTHONY BABINGTON The Traytor 's LETTER Written by him to the SCOTISH QUEEN As followeth MOst Mighty most Excellent my Dread Sovereign Anthony Babington 's Letter to the Scotish Queen Lady and Queen unto whom I owe all Fidelity and Obedience It may please your Gracious Majesty to admit excuse of my long silence and distance from those dutiful Offices intercepted upon the Remove of your Royal Person from the ancient place of your Abode to the Custody of a wicked Puritan and meer Lecestrain a mortal Enemy both by Faith and Faction to Your Majesty and to the Catholick Estate I held the Hope of our Country's Weal depending next under God upon the Life of Your Majesty to be desperate and thereupon resolved to depart the Realm determining to spend the remnant of my Life in such sollitary sort as the miserable and wretched Estate of my Country doth require only expecting according to the just Judgment of God the present Confusion thereof which God for his Mercy sake prevent The which my purpose being in Execution and standing upon my Departure there was addressed unto me from the Parts beyond the Seas one Ballard a Man of Nurture and Learning and Ballard a Traytor of singular Zeal to the Catholick Cause and Your Majesty's Service The Man informed me of great Preparations by the Christian Princes Your Majesty's Allies for the Deliverance of our Country from the extream and miserable Estate wherein for a long time it hath remained Which when I understood my Spiritual Desire was to advertise by what means I might with the hazard of my Life and all my Friends in general do your Sacred Majesty one days good Service Whereupon most dread Sovereign according to the great care which those Princes have of the preservation and safe deliverance of Your Majesty's Sacred Person I advised of means and considered of Circumstances accordingly to and with so many of the wisest and most trusty as with safety I might commend the Secrecy thereof unto I do find by the Assistance of the Lord Jesus assurance of good Effect and desired Fruit of your Travel These things are first to be advised in this great and honourable Action upon issue of which dependeth not only the Life of Your Most Excellent Majesty which God long preserve to your inestimable Comfort and to the Salvation of English Souls and the Lives of all us Actors therein but also the Honour and Weal of our Country far more dear than our Lives unto us and the last hope ever to recover the Faith of our Fore-fathers and to redeem our selves from the Servitude and Bondage which hereby heretofore hath been imposed upon us with the loss of many thousand Souls First in the assuring of Invasions sufficient strength on the Invaders parts to arrive are appointed with a strong Party at every place to win with them and warrant their Landing the Deliverance of Your Majesty the Dispatch of the Usurping Competitors For the effecting of all may it please Your Majesty to rely upon my Service I protest before the Almighty who hath long miraculously preserved Your Royal Person no doubt to some universal Good that what I have said shall be performed or all our Lives happily lost in the Execution thereof Which Vow all the chief Actors have taken solemnly and are upon Assurance by Your Majesties to me to receive the Blessed Sacrament thereupon either to prevail in the Churches behalf and Your Majesty's or fortunately to die for so honourable a Cause Now for asmuch as Delays are extreme dangerous it might please Your most Excellent Majesty by Your Wisdom to direct us and by Your Princely Authority to enable us and such as may advance the Affairs For seeing there is not any of the Nobility at liberty assured to Your Majesty in this desperate Service except unknown unto us and seeing that it is very necessary that some there be to become Heads to lead the Multitude who are disposed by Nature in this Land to follow Nobility Considering withal it doth not only make the Commons and Country to follow without Contradiction or Contention which is ever found in Equality but also doth add great Courage to the Leaders For which necessary Regard I would recommend some to Your Majesty as are fittest in my knowledge to be Your Lieutenants in the West Parts in the North Parts South-Wales and North-Wales the Countries of Lancaster Darby and Stafford In all which Countries Parties being already made and Fidelity taken in Your Majesty's Name I hold them as most assured and of undoubted Fidelity My self with ten Gentlemen of Quality will undertake the Delivery of Your Person from the Hands of Your Enemies And for the Dispatch of the Usurper from Obedience of whom by executing her we shall be made free there be Six Noble Gentlemen all my private Friends who for the Zeal they bear to the Catholick Cause and Your Majesty's Service will undertake the Tragical Execution It resteth that according to their infinite Deserts and Your Majesty's Bounty their Heroical Attempts may be honourably rewarded in them if they escape with Life or in their Posterity and that so much by Your Majesty's Authority I may be able to assure them Now it remaineth only in Your Majesty's Wisdom that it be reduced into Method that Your happy Deliverance be first for that thereupon dependeth the only Good and that the other Circumstances concur that the Untimely End of the one do not overthrow the rest All which Your Majesty s wonderful Experience and Wisdom will dispose in so good manner as I doubt not through God's Good Assistance shall take deserved effect for the obtaining of which every one of us shall think his Life most happily spent Vpon the Twelfth Day of this Month I will be at Leitchfield expecting Your Majesties Answers and Letters to execute what by them shall be commanded Your Majesties Faithful Subject and Sworn Servant Anthony Babington The Answer of the Scottish Queen to a Letter written by Anthony Babington the Traitor as followeth TRusty and

stirring on this side before you be sure of sufficient Forrein Forces that were but for nothing to put our selves in danger of following the miserable fortune of such as have heretofore travelled in the like Actions and if you take me out of this place be well assured to set me in the midst of a good Army or some very good strength where I may safely stay till the assembly of your Forces and arrival of the said Forrein succors It were sufficient cause given to the Queen in catching me again to inclose me in some hold out of the which I should never escape if she did use me no worse and to pursue with all extremity those that assisted me which would grieve me more than all the unhappiness might fall upon my self Earnestly as you can look and take heed most carefully and vigilantly to compass and assure all so well that shall be necessary for the effecting of the said enterprise as with the grace of God you may bring the same to happy end remitting to the judgment of your principal friends on this side with whom you have to deal therein to ordain and conclude upon this present which may serve you for an overture of such propositions as you shall amongst you find best and to your self in particular I refer the Gent. aforementioned to be assured of all that shall be requisite for the intire execution of their good wills I leave their common resolution to advice in case the design do not take hold as may happen whether they will or no do not pursue my transport and the execution of the rest of the enterprise But if the mishap should fall out that you might not come by me being set in the Tower of London or in any other strength with strong guard yet notwithstanding leave not for Gods sake to proceed in the enterprise for I shall at any time dye most contentedly understanding of your delivery out of the servitude wherein you are holden as Slaves I shall assay that at the same time that the work shall be in hand at that present to make the Catholicks of Scotland to arise and put my Son into their hands to the effect that from thence our enemies here may not prevail by any succor I would also that some stirring were in Ireland and that it were laboured to begin some time before any thing be done here and then that the Alarm might begin thereby on the flat contrary side that the stroak may come from your designs to have some General or chief aid very permanent and therefore were it good to send obscurely for the purpose to the Earl of Arundell or some of his brethren and likewise Earl of Arundel Young Earl of Northumberland Earl of Westmoreland Lord Paget to seek upon the young Earl of Northumberland if he be at liberty from over the Sea the Earl of Westmoreland may be had whose hand and name you know may do much in the North parts also the Lord Paget of good ability in some Shires thereabouts both the one and the other may be had amongst whom secretly some more principal banished may return if the enterprise be once resolute The said Lord Paget is now in Spain and may treat of all that by his brother Charles directly by himself Charles Paget you will commit unto him touching the affairs Beware that none of your messengers that you send forth of the Realm carry any Letters upon themselves but make their dispatches and send them either after or before them by some others Take heed of Spies and false-brethren that are amongst you especially of your practice already practised by your enemies for Beware of Spies false-brethren Queen of Scots counsel to the Traitors your discovery and in any case keep never a paper about you that may in any sort do harm for from like errors have come the Condemnation of all such as have suffered heretofore against whom otherwise nothing could justly have been proved discover as little as you can your names and intentions to the French Ambassador now Leiger at London for although as I understand he is a very honest Gent. yet I fear his Master entertaineth a course far contrary to our designment which may move him to discover us if he had any particular knowledg thereof All this while I have sued to change and remove from this house and for answer the Castle of Dudley only hath been named to serve the turn so as by approbation about the end of Dudley Castle this Summer I may go thither therefore advise so soon as I shall be there what provision may be had about that part for my escape from thence If I stay here there is but one of these Three ways or means to be looked for The First That at a certain day appointed for my walking abroad on horseback on the Mores between this and Stafford where ordinarily you know but few people do pass let Fifty or Threescore Horsemen well Mounted and Armed come to take me away as they may easily my Keeper having with him but XVIII or XX. Horses with only Dogs The Sccond means To come at midnight or soon after and set fire on the Barns and Stables which you know are near the house and whilst my Guardians servants shall come forth to the fire your company having duly on a Mark whereby they may be known one from another some of you may surprise the house where I hope with the few servants I have about me I shall be able to give you correspondent aid And the Third is some there be that bring Carts hither early in the morning Three Carts may be so prepared that being in the midst of the great Gate the Carts might fall down or overthrow that thereupon you might come suddenly and make your selves Masters of the house and carry me suddenly away so you might easily do before any number of Souldiers who lodg in sundry places forth of this place some half a Mile and some a whole Mile could come to relieve whatsoever issue the matter taketh I do and shall think my self obliged so long as I live towards you for the offers you make to hazard your self as you do for my deliverance and by any means that ever I may have I shall do my endeavour to recognise by effects your deserts therein I have commanded a more ample Alphabet to be made for you which herewith you shall receive God Almighty have you in his protection Fail not to burn this privately and quickly Your assured Friend for ever Mary Regina A Letter written to Queen Elizabeth by Anthony Babington the Traitor the night before he was executed for mercy and forgiveness as followeth MOst gracious Soveraign if either bitter tears or a pensive contrite Babington's Letter to her Majesty for mercy heart and doleful sigh of a wretched sinner might work any pity in your Royal Brest I would wring out of my dreined eyes as much blood

be in Conscience 4. Barnwell perswaded that it was a deed lawful and being urged that he came to the Court to spie opportunities for the atchieving of their purposes and that being there her Majesty observing his prying looks acquainted before with their intents she prayed God that all were well To this he answered that it was not unknown to divers of the Councel that he had matters which he solicited which was the cause of his being there at that time but I confess said he at my return Babington asked me what news to whom I told that her Majesty had been abroad that day with all the circumstances that I saw there and if I have offended her Majesty I crave forgiveness and assuredly if the sacrifice of my body might establish her Majesty in the true Religion I would most willingly offer it up Then he prayed to himself in Latin and was executed Chidiocke Tuchborne Esq began to speak as followeth viz. Country-men 5. Tuchborne and my dear friends you expect I should speak something I am a bad Orator and my Text is worse It were in vain to enter into the discourse of the whole matter for which I am brought hither for that it hath been revealed heretofore and is well known to the most of this company Let me be a warning to all young Gentlemen especially generosis adolescentulis I had a friend and a dear friend of whom I made no small accompt whose friendship hath brought me to this he told me the whole matter I cannot deny as they had laid it down to be done but I always thought it impious and denied to be a dealer in it but the regard of my friend caused me to be a man in whom the old Proverb was verified I was silent and so consented Before this thing chanced we lived together in most flourishing estate Of whom went report in the Strand Fleetstreet and elsewhere about London but of Babington and Tuchborne no Threshold was of force to brave our Entry Thus we lived and wanted nothing we could wish for and God knows what less in my head than matters of State Now give me leave to declare the miseries I sustained after I was acquainted with the Action wherein I may justly compare my estate to that of Adam 's who could not abstain one thing forbidden to injoy all other things the world could afford the terror of Conscience awaited me After I considered the dangers whereinto I was fallen I went to Sir John Peters in Essex and appointed my horses should meet me at London intending to go down into the Country I came to London and there heard that all was bewrayed whereupon like Adam we fled into the Woods to hide our selves and there were apprehended My dear Country-men my sorrows may be your joy yet mix your smiles with tears and pity my case I am descended from an house from two hundred years before the Conquest never stained till this my misfortune I have a Wife and one child my Wife Agnes my dear Wife and there 's my grief and six Sisters left on my hand my poor servants I know their Master being taken were dispersed for all which I do most heartily grieve I expected some favour though I deserved nothing less that the remainder of my years might in some sort have recompenced my former guilt which seeing I have missed let me now meditate upon the joys I hope to injoy Thus done he prayed first in Latin and then in English asking her Majesty and all the world heartily forgiveness and that he hoped stedfastly now at this his last hour his faith would not fail and so was executed Charles Tylney said I am a Catholick and believe in Jesus Christ and by 6. Tylney his Passion I hope to be saved and I confess I can do nothing without him which opinion all Catholicks firmly hold and whereas they are thought to hold the contrary they are in that as in all other things greatly abused To Dr. White seeming to School him in Points of Religion differing from those which he held he spake in an anger I came hither to dye Doctor and not to argue He prayed in Latin for himself and after he prayed for Queen Elizabeth that she might live long and warned all young Gentlemen of what degree or calling soever to take warning by him and so he made an end and was executed Edward Abbington said I come hither to dye holding all points firmly 7 Abbington that the Catholick Church doth and for the matters whereof I am condemned I confess all saving the death of her Majesty to the which I never consented He feared as he said great bloodshed in England before it were long Sheriff Ratliffe said Abbington seest thou all these people whose blood shall be demanded at thy hands if thou dying conceal that which may turn to their peril therefore tell why or which way such blood should be shed he said All that I know you have of record and at last said he this Countrey is hated of all Countries for her iniquity and God loves it not and being urged by Dr. White to be of a lively faith he answered he believed stedfastly in the Catholick faith the Doctor asked him how he mean't for I fear me said he thou deceivest thy self he answered That Faith and Religion which is holden almost in all Christendom except here in England Thus done he willed them not to trouble him any longer with any more questions but made his prayers to himself in Latin and so was executed The Examination of Salsbury Donne Jones Charnock Travers Gage and Bellamy all executed for High-Treason in the place aforesaid as by their own Speeches and Confessions did appear And also their several Speeches at the place of Execution the 21st of September 1586. viz. THomas Salsbury Esq said Sithence it hath pleased God to appoint 8. Salsbury this place for my end I thank his infinite goodness for the same I confess that I have deserved death and that I have offended her Majesty whom to forgive me I heartily beseech with all others whom I have any way offended I desire all true Catholicks to pray for me and I desire them as I beseech God they may to indure with patience whatsoever shall be laid upon them and never to enter into any action of violence for remedy then he said his prayers looking earnestly with his eyes to Heaven and prayed in Latin a long while when he had thus done he cryed in Latin and English Father forgive me and so was executed John Donne Yeoman said Do the people expect I should say any thing I was acquainted I confess with their practises but I never did intend to be 9. Donne a dealer in them Babingron oftentimes requested me to be one and said for that he loved me well he would bestow me in one of the best Actions which should have been the delivery of the Queen of Scots to