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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

rose up and pulled of his Velvet Gown his Black Sattin Doublet and his Velvet Night-cap and gave them to His Apparel given to the Executioner the Executioner and being in a White Fustian Wastcoat he said to Mr. Dean of Pauls this is the White Sattin Doublet I made to die in which the Preacher did speak of and so kneeling down at the Block he laid down himself and did rise again and did lay the Straw and other things in such sort Block as he might in a more convenient manner yield himself for the speedier Execution this done his Eyes and Hands lifted up Mr Dean desired the People of silence and said Now all together with one voice pray for him saying Mr. Dean Lord Jesus receive thy Soul The Duke yielding himself to the Block refusing to have any Hankerchief before his Eyes his Head was by the singular dexterity of the Executioner with the appointed Ax at one Chop cut off and shewed to all the People Head cut off Thus he finished his Life and afterwards his Corps were put into a Coffin appertaining to Barking Church with the Head also and the Burial-Cloath laid over him and so was carried by four of the Lieutenants men and was buried in the Chappel of the Tower by Mr. Dean of Pauls 1572. THE EXAMINATION OF MARY Queen of SCOTS LYING AT Fotheringhay-Castle BY THE LORDS OF Her MAJESTIES most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL AND OTHER COMMISSIONERS Appointed for that purpose for the Hearing of the same Anno Dom. 1586 VIZ. UPon Wednesday the twelfth of October 1586. the Lords Commissioners for the hearing of the Scotish Queen came to the Castle of Fotheringhay in the County of Northampton about nine of the Clock in the Morning at which time in the Chappel of the said Castle the Dean of Peterborough preached before them And from thence they sent Sir Walter Mildmay and Sir Amias Pawlet Governor of the House to the Scotish Queen to know whether she would appear There was delivered unto her a Letter from Her Majesty to that effect After which Summons she refused to appear and so stood all that day tho often required thereunto by some of the Commissioners sent unto her Upon Thursday they went unto her into her Lodging the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Earls or Oxford Shrewsbury Kent and Worcester Viscount Mountague Lord Zouch Gray and Lomley Sir Ralph Sadler Sir James Acrofter Mr. Vice Chancellor Sir Amias Pawlet the two Chief Justices of England Doctor Dale and Doctor Ford with Barker and Wheeler Notaries who remained with her almost two hours signifying that if she would not come forth before the Commissioners they would proceed against her according to their Commission But that whole day was spent in Council and sending in unto her Upon Fryday in the Morning she resolved to appear And so about nine of the Clock came forth into the Presence Chamber prepared and hanged with Cloth 〈◊〉 ●tate in the upper part and down along both sides stood Forms covered with Green for the Lords first Earls on the right side and Barons on the left Somewhat below the midst of the Chamber was a Bar within which Bar there was set a Form for the Knights of the Privy Council and before their Forms a Chair with a Cushion and a Foot-carpet for the Queen of Scots directly against the State In the middle of the Chamber was a Table whereat sat the Queens Attorney and Solicitor the Queens Serjeants the Clerks of the Crown and the Notaries Directly above that Table in the middle of the Chamber were Forms set whereon sat on the right side the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench the Lord Chief Baron Doctor Dale and Doctor Ford Over against them sat the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Justice Clench and Justice Perrain Below the Bar such Gentlemen as came to see the Action The right side of the Lords The left side of the Lords 1. The Lord Chancellour 14. The Lord of Aburgevenny 2. The Lord Treasurer 15. The Lord Zouch 3. The Earl of Oxford 16. The Lord Morley 4. The Earl of Kent 17. The Lord Stafford 5. The Earl of Darby 18. The Lord Gray 6. The Earl of Shrewsbury 19. The Lord Lomley 7. The Earl of Worcester 20. The Lord Sturton 8. The Earl of Rutland 21. The Lord Sands 9. The Earl of Comberland 22. The Lord Wentworth 10. The Earl of Warwick 23. The Lord Mordaunt 11. The Earl of Lincoln 24. The Lord St. John of Bletsoe 12. The Earl of Penbrook 25. The Lord Compton 13. The Viscount Mountacue 26. The Lord Cheyney Knights Knights 27. Sir Walter Mildmay 29. Sir Francis Walsingham 28. Sir Ralph Sadler 30. Sir Christopher Hatton 31. Sir James Acrofte The Lords being thus sat and all things ready the Queen was brought First day Lords sit Queen of Scots in having a way or Lane made from her Lodging Door which was in the lower Corner of the Chamber with Halberts She was in a black Gown covered over with a white Vail of Lawn a very Her attire tall and big woman being lame and supported by Melvin her Gentleman Supperted and her Physitian one of her Women carried up her Train and three other attended on her one of her Servants brought her a Chair and a Cushion covered with crimson Velvet a little before her coming in her Chair Chair was removed from the bottom of the Chamber to the upper part below the State and set as it were corner-wise towards the Lords and Barons Then silence being made the Lord Chancellour stood up and being uncovered he spake to this effect Silence Lord Chancellour named Sir Tho. Bromeley Madam the Queen being strongly informed of sundry practices by you made against her hath caused this meeting as hath been signified unto you you have read the Queens Letters certifying the same and I must say thus much unto you from her Majesties Mouth that having born so many things at your hands she cannot forbear any longer to proceed against you not for the peril may fall upon her self for God she trusteth who hath ever defended her will still deliver her from them But there dependeth more upon it she seeth that you are made a foundation of all practices against her and if she should forget it she should neglect the cause of God and bear the Sword in vain It is not Malice Madam nor regard of her Person that causeth her to do it And albeit she might otherways proceed against you yet she hath dealt thus in honour towards you that you should be heard and speak for your self The Queen answered to this effect by way of Protestation that Queen of Scots she was a free Prince and born a Queen not Subject to any but to God to whom she must give accompt and therefore that her appearing should not be either prejudicial to Kings or Princes nor Allyes nor her Son and thereupon desired an

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