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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

as in bewraying my dreary Tragedy should lamentably bewail my fall and somewhat no doubt move you to compassion but sith hence there is no proportion betwixt the quantity of my crime and any humane consideration shew sweet Queen some miracle upon a wretch that lieth prostrate in your prison most grievously bewailing his offence and imploring such comfort at your anointed hands as my poor Wives misfortune doth beg my Childs innocency doth crave my guiltless Family doth wish and my heinous treachery doth less deserve so shall your divine Mercy make your glory shine as far above all Princes as my most horrible practises are detestable amongst your best Subjects whom that you may long live and happily govern I beseech the Mercy-maker to grant for his sweet Son's sake Jesus Christ Your Majesties unfortunate because disloyal subject Anthony Babington A Letter written by Chidiocke Tuchborne the night before he died unto his Wife as followeth viz. 1586. MOst loving Wife I commend me unto thee and desire God to bless Tuchborne's Letter to his Wife thee with all happiness Pray for thy dead Husband and be of good comfort for I hope in Jesus Christ this morning to see the face of my Maker and Redeemer in the most joyful Throne of his Kingdom Commend me to all my friends and desire them to pray for me and in all Charity to pardon me if I have offended them commend me to my Six Sisters poor desolate souls advise them to serve God for without him no goodness is to be expected were it possible my little Sister Bab. the darling of my care might be brought up and bred by thee God would reward thee But I do thee wrong I confess that hast by my dissolute negligence so little for thy self to add further charge unto thee Dear Wife forgive me that have by this means so much impoverished thy fortunes Patience and pardon good Wife I crave make of these our necessities a vertue and lay no further burthen upon my neck than already hath been There be certain debts which I owe and because I know not the order of the Law sithence it hath taken from me all forfeited by course of my offence to her Majesty I cannot advise you to benefit me herein But if there fall out wherewith let them be discharged for Gods sake I will not that you trouble your self with these matters my own heart but make it known to my Uncles and desire them for the honour of God and ease of their Nephews soul to take care of them as they may and especial care of my Sisters bringing up the burden whereof is now laid upon them Now sweet Chick what is left for me to bestow on thee a small Joynture a slender recompence for thy deservings These Legacies following be thy own God of his goodness give thee grace always to remain his true and faithful servant and that through the merits of his most blessed and bitter Passion thou maist become inheritrix of his Kingdom with the blessed woman in Heaven Jesus give thee of his fear and to his glory all the benefits of this Transitory life the Holy Ghost bless thee with all necessaries for the weal of thy soul in the world to come where till it please Almighty God that I meet thee farewel loving Wife farewel the dearest to me on earth farewel By the hand from the heart of thy most loving faithful Husband Chidiocke Tuchborne Certain Verses which the said Tuchborne the Traitor made of himself in the Tower the night before he suffered death MY prime of Youth is but a frost of Cares Tuchborne's Verses My feast of Joy is but a dish of Pain My Crop of Corn is but a field of Tares And all my good is but vain hope of Gain The day is fled and yet I saw no Sun And now I live and now my life is done The Spring is past and yet it hath not sprung The Fruit is dead and yet the Leaves are green My Youth is past and yet I was but young I saw the world and yet I was not seen My Thred is cut and yet it is not spun And now I live and now my life is done I sought for Death and found it in my Womb I look't for Life and saw it was a shade I trod the ground and knew it was my Tomb And now I die and now I am but made The Glass is full and yet my Glass is run And now I live and now my life is done The Examination of Ballard a Priest Babington Savidge Barnwell Tuchborn Tylney and Abbington all executed for High-Treason in Holborn-fields upon a large Scaffold made with a high pair of Gallows as by their own Confessions may appear and their several speeches at the place of Execution the 20th of September 1586. JOHN Ballard the Priest confest that he had been a dealer in those matters September 20. 1586. and that he was guilty of those things whereof he was Condemned 1. Ballard which he protested was never enterprised by him upon any hope of preferment but only as he said for the advancement of true Religion He craved pardon and forgiveness of all persons to whom his doings had been any scandal and so he made an end making his prayers to himself in Latin not asking her Majesty forgiveness otherwise than if he had offended and so was executed Anthony Babington Esq also confessed that he was come to die as he had deserved howbeit he as Ballard before protested that he was not 2. Babington led into those Actions upon hope of preferment or for any temporal respect nor had ever attempted them but that he was perswaded by reasons alledged to this effect That it was a deed lawful and meritorious He craved forgiveness of all whom he had any way offended he would gladly also have been resolved whether his lands should have been confiscate to her Majesty or whether they should descend to his brother But howsoever his request was to the Lords and others the Commissioners there present that consideration might be had of one whose money he had received for lands which he had passed no Fine for for which the conveyance was void in Law he requested also that consideration might be had of a certain servant of his whom he had sent for certain Merchandise into the East Countries who by his means was greatly impoverished for his Wife he said she had good friends to whose consideration he would leave her And thus he finished asking her Majesty forgiveness and making his prayers in Latin and so was executed John Savidge Gent. confessed his guilt and said as the other two before that he did attempt it for that in Conscience he thought it a deed meritorious 3. Savidge and a common good to the weal publick and for no private preferment and so was executed Robert Barnwell Gent. confessed that he was made acquainted with their drifts but denied that ever he consented or could

tempt God than to hope in him Hereupon Babington and the rest were sought after and having in vain endeavour'd to abscond were apprehended and upon a fair Tryal and their own Confessions condemned and executed Hereupon Queen Elizabeth being much exasperated against the Queen of Scots caused her Cabinets and Papers to be seized wherein many Letters were found and Copies of Letters both to and from Strangers and also from divers Noblemen of England which Queen Elizabeth prudently dissembled and buried in silence As for Gifford who made the discovery he was soon after sent into France under the notion of Banishment Now that this Gifford might be set on work by the Jesuits is very suspitious for 't is very unlikely that he who first labour'd to perswade Savage of the lawfulness and merit of murdering of Queen Elizabeth and came over on purpose to remind him of that Vow should all on a sudden have so tender a Conscience or so much love forsooth to his Prince and Country as of his own accord to discover the Intrigue had he not a secret design to manage thereby which is more probable because 't is plain they were now grown out of hope of restoring their Religion either by the Queen of Scots or her Son and therefore began to set up a feigned Title for the King of Spain and imploy'd one of their Society into England as is affirmed by Pasquier a French Author to draw off the Gentry from her to the Spaniard and to thrust her headlong into these dangerous counsels which brought her to her end and at the same time lest the Guises her kindred should give her any assistance stirred them up to new enterprises against the King of Navarr and the Prince of Conde Nay the Queen of Scots her self was not unacquainted with their designs to set up the Spaniard for amongst other things we find she one time used these words When I being in Prison and languished with care without hope of Liberty and there was not any more hope left for ever bringing to pass these things which very many expected of me in my sickness and declining age many thought it fit that the Succession of the Realm of England should be established in the Spaniard or in a Catholick English man and a Book was brought to prove the Right of the Spaniard which being not admitted by me I offended many History of the Life and Death of Mary Steuart Queen of Scotland dedicated to her Son King James p. 400. But leaving this Conjecture to the Judicious Reader however it was design'd the event proved Funerous to the Scottish Queen for her Secretaries being examined about the Papers found in her Closet of their own accord acknowledged that these in her Name were of their hand-writings but Indited by her in French that she receiv'd Letters from Babington and that they wrote back by her commandment the Answers there found Hereupon the English Queen after some debate resolved to proceed against her upon the before recited Act of 26th of Eliz. But when it was said That according to the Formalities of Law she ought to be Tried at the Assizes by a Country Jury and to hold up her hand at the Bar Queen Elizabeth would by no means hear thereof judging it very unbecoming her Royal Quality and therefore chose rather to issue forth a Commission to divers Noblemen and chief Personages of the Realm together with the Judges c. who met at Fodringhay-Castle in Northamptonshire where she was then kept on the 11th of October 1586. and proceeded as in the subsequent Papers is related And afterwards viz. the 25th of the same Month in the Star-Chamber at Westminster to which time and place the Commissioners had adjourn'd themselves the sentence against her was pronounc'd and confirm'd with the Seals and Subscriptions of the Commissioners Whereupon both the King of Scots and the French King speedily sent their Ambassadors to intercede on her behalf with Queen Elizabeth using all perswasive Arguments that natural affection in the one and likeness of Condition and ancient friendship in the other could suggest But when the loud voice of necessity of State seem'd to drown all their Reasons the French Ambassador l' Aubespine resolves to prevent Blood with Blood and to save the Queen of Scots life contrives to take away Queen Elizabeths and deals with one Mr. Stafford whose Mother was of the Bed-Chamber to Queen Elizabeth about it who having not an heart to act such a Villany himself recommended one Moody a desperate Russian taken out of the Common Goal who for money undertook it But then they could not agree in the manner Moody propounded Poyson or to lay a Bag of Gunpowder under the Queens Bed and suddenly fire it so that the Treason of that kind against King James was not altogether a new invention but the Devil had long before inspired some bloody Papists with the notion but Trap the French Ambassadors Secretary liked neither of there Expedients but would have her kill'd as the Prince of Orange was late before who was shot into the Body with three Bullets by one Balthazar Gerard a Burgundian instigated thereunto by the Jesuits But whilst they were th●● consulting Stafford discovers all whereupon Moody and Trap were apprehended and confest the whole Contrivance This fresh and dangerous Plot much startled Queen Elizabeth who perceiv'd that her own Life could not be safe if she did not proceed to execute the Sentence upon the Scottish Queen For from the prospect of her succeeding to the Crown the Popish Conspirators laid the foundation of all their Trayterous practises Yet never did Clemency and good nature more bravely resist the charms of Interest and dread of danger than in the noble breast of our Queen for how extreamly loth she was to consent to the death of the Queen of Scots appears by the several Applications made by the Parliament to move her thereunto As first at Richmond on the 12th of Nov. Serjeant Puckering Speaker of the House of Commons did in the name of that House represent unto her Majesty the divers apparent and imminent dangers that might grow to her Royal person and to her Realm from the Scottish Queen and her Adherents if remedy were not provided which he delivered as follows First touching the danger of her Majesties Person Both this Scotish Queen and her Favourers do think her to have Right not only to succeed but to enjoy your Crown in possession and therefore as she is a most Impatient Competitor so will she not spare any means whatsoever that may bereave us of your Majesty the only impediment that she enjoyeth not her desire 2. She is obdurate in malice against your Royal Person notwithstanding you have shewed her all favour and mercy as well in preserving her Kingdom as saving her life and salving her honour And therefore there is no place for mercy since there is no hope she will desist from most wicked attempts the rather

for that her malice appeareth such that she maketh as it were her Testament of the same to be executed after her death and appointeth her Executors to perform it 3. She openly and boldly professed it lawful for her to move Invasion upon you and therefore as of Invasion victory may ensue and of victory the death of the vanquished so did she thereby not obscurely bewray that she thought it lawful for her to destroy your Sacred Person 4. She thinks it not only lawful but honourable also and meritorious to take your life from you as being already deprived of your Crown by the Excommunication of the Holy Father and therefore it is like she will as hitherto she hath done continually seek it by whatsoever means 5. That she is greedy of your Majesties death and preferred it before her own life and safety For in her direction to one of her late Complices she advised under covert terms that whatsoever should become of her that Tragical Execution should be perform'd on you Secondly Touching the danger of the overthrow of the true Religion 1. It is most perilous to spare her that continually hath sought the overthrow and suppression of true Religion infected with Popery from her tender youth and being after confederate in that Holy League when she came to age and ever since a professed enemy against the Truth 2. She resteth wholly upon Popish hopes to deliver and advance her and is thereby so devoted to that profession that as well for satisfaction of others as for feeding of her own humour she will supplant the Gospel where and whensoever she may which evil is so much the greater and the more to be avoided as that it slayeth the very soul and will spread it self not only over England and Scotland but also in those parts beyond Sea where the Gospel of God is maintained the which cannot but be exceedingly weakned by the defection of this Noble Island Thirdly Touching the peril of the state of the Realm 1. As the Lydians said Unum Regem agnoscunt Lydi duos autem tolerare non possunt so we say Unicam Reginam Elizabethem agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt 2. As she hath already by her allurements brought to destruction more Noblemen and their houses together with a greater multitude of the Commons of this Realm during her being here than she should have been able to do if she had been in possession of her own Crown and armed in the Field against us so will she be the continual cause of the like spoils to the greater loss and peril of this Estate and therefore this Realm neither can nor may endure her 3. Again She is the only hope of all discontented Subjects she is the foundation whereon all the evil-disposed do build she is the Root from whence all Rebellions and Treacheries do spring and therefore whilst this hope lasteth this foundation standeth and this Root liveth they will retain heart and set on foot all their devises against the Realm which otherwise will fall away die and come to nothing 4. Mercy now in this case towards her would in the end prove Cruelty against us all Nam est quaedam Crudelis Misericordia and therefore to spare her is to spill us 5. Besides It will exceedingly grieve and in a manner deadly wound the hearts of all good Subjects of your Land if they shall see a Conspiracy so horrible not condignly punished 6. Thousands of your Majesties most Leige and Loving Subjects of all sorts and degrees that in a tender zeal of your Majesties safety have most willingly both by open Subscription and solemn Vow entered into a firm and loyal Association and have thereby protested to pursue unto the death by all forcible and possible means such as she is by just Sentence found to be can neither discharge their love nor well save their Oaths if your Majesty shall keep her alive of which burden your Majesties Subjects are most desirous to be relieved as the same may be if Justice be done 7. Lastly Your Majesties most loving and dutiful Commons doubt not but as your Majesty is duly exercised in reading the Book of God so it will please you to call to your Princely remembrance how fearful the examples of Gods vengeance be that are to be found against King Saul for sparing King Agag and against King Ahab for saving the life of Benhadad both which were by the just Judgment of God deprived of their Kingdoms for sparing those wicked Princes whom God had delivered into their hands of purpose to be slain by them as by the Ministers of his Eternal and Divine Justice wherein full wisely Solomon proceeded to punishment when he took the life of his own natural elder Brother Adonias for the only intention of a Marriage that gave suspition of Treason against him Herein We your Majesties most loving and dutiful Subjects earnestly depend upon your Princely resolution which we assure our selves shall be to God most acceptable and to us no other than the state of your Regal Authority may afford us and the approved Arguments of your tender care for our safety under your Charge doth promise to our expectation To this Address the Queen returned Answer in a large Speech soon after Printed and too long here to recite but amongst other things she used these expressions Albeit I find my life hath been dangerously sought and my death contrived without desert yet I am therein so clear from malice as I protest it is and hath been to me the greatest grief that one not different in Sex of like Estate and near of kin should fall into so great a crime yea I had so little purpose to pursue her with malice that as it is not unknown to some of my Lords here I secretly wrote her a Better upon the discovery of several Treasons that if she would privately acknowledg them by her Letters to my self she should never be called so publickly in question for them neither did I that to circumvent her for I knew then as much as she could confess and so did I write And if even yet now that the matter is made but too apparent I thought she truly would repent as perhaps she would easily appear in outward shew to do and that for her none other would take the matter upon them or that but mine own life only were in danger and not the whole estate of your Religion and well doings I protest I would most willingly pardon and remit this offence Or if by my death other Nations and Kingdoms might say that this Realm had attained an ever prosperous and flourishing Estate I would I assure you not desire to live but gladly give my life to the end it might procure you a better Prince I am not unmindful of your Oath made in the Association manifesting your great good wills and affections taken and entred into upon good Conscience and true knowledg of the guilt for safety of my

day sent him a Countermand but he then acquainted her Majesty that the Commission was already made and pass'd the Seal at which the Queen appear'd angry and blam'd him for his haste And indeed he had Communicated the business to several of the Council and perswaded them who were apt enough to believe what they desired that the Queen Commanded that it should be put in Execution without delay And so having obtain'd such Warrant and Commission they without her Majesties privity sent down one Beal with Authority directed to the Earls of Shrewsbury Kent Darby and others to see her Executed Which was perform'd accordingly The Manner and Circumstances whereof the Reader may find in the ensuing Narrative She was put to Death the 18th of February 1587. in the Six and fortieth year of her Age and 18th of her Confinement her Body being Honourably Buried in the Cathedeal of Peterborough and from thence afterwards removed by her Son King Jame's and laid under a Royal Monument in King Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster Variously was this Action censur'd and I shall only say That though the Physick was violent and extraordinary yet it wrought a Cure and preserv'd the Body-politick from those Domestick Paroxisms of Treason and Rebellion that before daily disturb'd and endanger'd it for we do not find after that any or at least very few Conspiracies carried on against the Queens Life or the Government though she lived afterwards between 14 and 15 years For the Spanish Invasion though it happened two years after was not only a thing Foreign but Contriv'd and Design'd before the Queen of Scots Death And as for the Proceedings against the Earl of Arundel the Crimes for which he was prosecuted had their Rise likewise in precedent times For first having been questioned and confined to his House and then set at Liberty he attempted to fly beyond Sea and therefore was Committed to the Tower not only for the same but likewise for Harbouring Priests and Corresponding with Allen and Parsons the Jesuits was fined 10000 Marks and afterwards continuing his Disloyal practises was for the Reasons in the following Papers specified Condemned though by the Queens mercy Reprieved and dyed naturally in the Tower in the year 1595. Two things further I must Remark 1. What a strange Bias and almost prodigious Influence Popery has even on the best dispositions prevailing so far with this unfortunate Earl that even contrary to Nature it self and yet bate but his Religion he is Represented as a good-Natur'd man He rejoyced with hopes of the Ruine of his Countrey 2ly That if you look over the Lists of the Lords Commissionated in these Transactions you will find them to be of great and ancient Houses and though some of their Families have almost ever since been of the Roman perswasion yet they were then so well satisfied with the Proceedings that we meet not with One Voice pronouncing a Not Guilty in all the three Tryals History is one of the best Tutors of Policy whereby the Ingenious will easily perceive how far former Occurrences hold parallel with or may be considered in relation to Modern Affairs THE Reader may be pleas'd to correct the Errata's p. 2. instead of 1588. the year of the Marriage of the Queen of Scots should be 1558. And in other places the Names Gray for Grey Perian for Periam and some other literal mistakes and faults by the Context may easily be rectified or pardoned The whole Discourse of the Duke of Norfolks Arraignement the 17th day of January Anno 1571. in the 14th year of the Raign of our Soveraigne Lady Queen Elizabeth c. FIrst the O yes was made by Littleton a Serjeant at Arms and then Proclamation Cryer Lo. Steward was made as followeth viz. My Lords grace the Queens Majesties Commissioner High Steward of England doth Charge every man to keep silence and hear the Queens Majesties Commission Read The same Commission was read by Mr. Sands Clarke of the Crown of the Kings Bench the Test whereof was the 14th day of February Anno Elizabethoe Sands Reg. 14th then was a large White Rod delivered to my Lord Steward by Garter Principal King at Armes who held the same a while Lo. Steward Garter Norris Serjeant at Armes Call of the Court. and after delivered it to Mr. Norris the Great Vsher who held the same all the time of the Arraignement Then was called Thomas Edwards Serjeant at Armes and willed to return his Writ which being returned was read Then was called all the Earls Vicounts and Barons summoned to appear there that day and every one to answer to their Names the Earls and Lords that sate there that day were these following viz. Earles Vicount Lords 1. Reginald Gray Earl of Kent 2. William Somerset Earl of Worcester 3. Thomas Ratlife Earl of Sussex 4. Henry Hastings Earl of Huntington 5. Ambrose Dudly Earl of Warwick 6. Francis Russel Earl of Bedford 7. William Herbert Earl of Penbroke 8. Robert Dudly Earl of Leicester 9. Edward Seymor Earl of Hartford 10. Walter Devereux Vicount Hereford 11. Edward Fynes Lord Clinton 12. William Howard Lord of Effingham 13. William Cecil Lord Burleigh 14. Arthur Gray Lord Wilton 15. James Blunt Lord Mountjoy 16. William Lord Sands 17. Thomas Lord Wentworth 18. William Lord Borrough 19. Lewis Lord Mordant 20. John Pawlet Lord S. John 21. Robert Lord Rich. 22. Roger Lord North. 23. Edward Lord Chandois 24. Oliver Lord S. John of Bletsoe 25. Thomas Sackvile Lord Buckhurst 26. Lord De-La-Ware Nine Earls One Vicount and Sixteen Lords in all Twenty Six Then was Robert Catlin Chief Justice of England Commanded to return his Precept upon the peril should follow thereof which was returned and read Then was called the Lieutenant of the Tower to return his Lieutenant Duke Precept and to bring forth his Prisoner Thomas Duke of Norfolke Then was the Duke brought to the Bar being held between Sir Owin Hopton on the right hand and Sir Peter Carew on the left hand And next unto Sir Peter stood one holding the Axe of the Tower with the Edge from Axe of the Tower the Duke The Duke immediately at his comming to the Bar viewed all the Lords both on the Right hand and on the left hand of the Lord Steward Then the Lieutenant delivered in the Precept which was Read And then was Proclamation made that every man should keep silence And Mr. Sands spake to the Prisoner in this manner Thomas Duke of Norfolke Proclamation Sands late of Hemming Hall in the County of Norfolke hold up thy Hand which done he Read the Indictment the Effect whereof was That the 26th day of September in the 11th year of the Queens Majesties Reign and before and after he did Traiterously compact and imagine to deprive and destroy and to put to Death our Sovereign Lady the Queen and to raise Rebellion to subvert the Common-Wealth and so stir up Forraigners to invade the

which I could not for a long time agree at length by many urgent perswasions he won me so as I told him I would do my best and being asked as he was ascending the Ladder whether he thought it lawful to kill her Majesty he answered No no for I take her to be my lawful and natural Prince and as Salsbury he desired all Catholicks to indure with patience and never to attempt any thing against her Majesty under whose Government he had lived quietly until within these Ten Weeks that those things were first imparted unto him and whereas he was indebted to divers and divers in like manner to him he forgave all that was owing to him and craved forgiveness of what he owed He desired God to forgive Babington the only cause of his fall and death and was right sorry for a Gentlewoman one Mrs. Bellamy at whose house he with the rest were relieved after they fled he prayed God whom he had chiefly offended next her Majesty and last of all the people forgiveness saying no soul was more sorrowful than his nor none more sinful and prayed for her Majesty wishing she might live in all happiness and after this life be eternized in everlasting bliss and so he prayed in Latin and English and was executed Edward Jones said I come hither to die but how rightfully God knows for thus stands my case At Trinity Term last Mr. Salsbury made me acquainted 10. Jones with their purposes and for that he knew me to be well horsed he thought me as fit as any to attempt the delivery of the Queen of Scots and requested me to be one which I utterly denied altogether misliking their practises and perswading him by what means I might from it and told him this was the haughty and ambitious mind of Anthony Babington which would be the destruction of himself and friends whose company I wished him to refrain and for that I would have him out of his company I have divers times lent him money and pawned my Chain and Jewels to buy him necessaries to go into the Country and whereas I had made conveyance of my lands to divers uses with some Annuities and placed my Wife with my friends and given over house-keeping and by reason of my conscience thought to live at ease I called my servants together again and began to keep house more freshly than ever I did only because I was weary to see Salsbury 's stragling and for that I was willing to keep him about home and never consented to any of his Treasons but always advised him to beware for though I was and am a Catholick yet I took it to be a most wicked act to offer violence to my natural Prince I did intend to go into Ireland with Mr. Edward Fitton and there to have served until at length very shortly after this my determinate mind being not setled I received a Note of their names amongst whom was the name of my dear friend Then I began to fear what hath happened I heard that night he would be at my house and indeed he came thither about Twelve of the Clock and the door being opened him as he was very familiar with me he came running up to my Bed-side with a candle in his hand which he took from one of my men saluting me with these words Ned Jones how dost thou Ah! Tom said I art thou one of them that should have killed the Queen yea said he what meanest thou by that see and read this said I giving him the Note wherein his name was he seeing turned about and said there be many Catholicks in England as far in this Act as we are the more the worse quoth I. Here is the sum of my fault in which I know I have offended her Majesty First Because I did conceal it at London And Lastly Because I did not apprehend my dear friend Tom being in my house for which fault I am heartily sorry and do ask her Majesty forgiveness There is one thing wherein I am to move you concerning my debts I have set them down so near as I could what they are good Sir Francis Knowles I shall intreat you to be a mean to her Majesty that there may be some care had of my Creditors and debtors The debts which I owe do amount in the whole to 980. l. The debts which are owing me are 1600. l. But who shall look into my Compting-house shall find many of 100. l. 200. l. or 300. l. whereof all is discharged except of some 50. l. and some 40. l. and such like without any defeasance and lye only in my credit so that unless some man of conscience enter into the Action of my Compting house it is like to be the utter undoing of a number but God he knows my mind and I hope it shall not be laid to my charge and so concluded with his prayers first in Latin and then in English that the people might better understand what he prayed and so was executed 11. Charnocke John Charnocke Gent. excuted 12. Travers John Travers Gent. executed 13. Gaget Robert Gage Gent. executed 14. Bellamy Jeremy Bellamy Gent. executed Queen Elizabeths Letter directed to Sir Amias Paulet Knight Keeper of the Queen of Scots at the Castle of Fotheringhay viz. AMias my most faithful servant God reward thee treble-fold in the Her Majesties Letter to Sir Amias Paulet double of thy most troublesome charge so well discharged if you knew my Amias how kindly besides dutifully my grateful heart accepts your double labours and faithful actions your wise orders and safe regards performed in so dangerous a charge it would ease your travel and rejoice your heart in that I cannot ballance in any weight of my judgment the value that I prise you at and suppose no treasure to countervail such faith and shall condemn my self in that thought I never committed if I reward not such deserts yea let me lack when I most need if I acknowledg not such a merit with a reward not omnibus datum but let your wicked Murtheress know how with hearty sorrow her vile deserts compel these Orders and bid her from me ask God forgiveness for her treacherous dealing against my life many years to the intollerable peril of her own and yet not content with so many forgivenesses but must fall again so horribly far passing a womans thought much less a Princes instead of excusing whereof not one can serve it being so plainly confessed by the Author of my guiltless death let repentance take place and let not the Feind possess her so that the better part be lost which I pray with hands lifted up to him that can both save and spill with my most loving adieu and prayer for thy long life Your assured and loving Soveraign as heart by good desert indureth Elizabeth Regina The Commission for executing the Queen of Scots ELIZABETH by the Grace of God Queen of England France and