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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

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about the Scaffold went a Rail half a Yard high round covered with black Cotton so was her Stool the Boards and the Block and a Pillow to kneel upon There did sit upon the Scaffold the two Earls the Sheriff stood and the two Executiones When they were placed Mr. Beale Clerk of the Council did read her Majesties Commission aforesaid under the great Seal after which the Dean of Peterborough by direction of the Lords being provided began to speak unto her for her better preparation to die as a penitent Christian in the true faith of Christ But when he began his exhortation she staid him immediately refusing to hear him and said she had nothing to do with him nor he with her for she was settled in the Catholick Roman Faith which she would die in Then the Earl of Kent willed Mr. Dean to pray for her that if it might stand with Gods Will she might have her heart lightned with the true knowledg of God and die therein which was pronounced by him accordingly and followed of the beholders All which while she having a Crucifix of white bone between her hands prayed in Latin very loud prayer being ended she kneeled down and prayed to this effect for Christs afflicted Church and an end of their troubles for her Son for the Queens Majesty that she might prosper and serve God and confessed that she hoped to be saved only by the blood of Jesus Christ at the foot of whose Crucifix she would shed her blood that God would avert his plagues from this Island that God would give her grace and forgiveness of her sins Then she rose up and was by both the Executioners disrobed She said she was not wont to be undressed by such Grooms and desired to have two of her Gentlewomen to unrobe her the which was granted and being stripped into her Petticoat which being done she kissed her women and willed them not to cry for her but to rejoice and lifted up her hand and blessed them and also her men not standing far off Then she kneeled down most resolutely without all fear of death and after one of her women had knit a Kerchew before her eyes she spake aloud the Psalm in Latin In te Domine confido non confundor in eternum Justitia tua libera me Then lay she down and stretched out her body and her neck upon the Block she cryed In manus tuus Domine c. and so received two stroaks The people cryed God save the Queen and so perish all Papists and her Majesties enemies All things were taken from the Executioners and not suffered to have so much as the Aprons before they were washed the Blood and Cloaths and whatsoever was bloody was burned in the fire made in the Chimney in the Hall and by the Scaffold The whole discourse of the Arraignment of Philip Howard Earl of Arundel the 18th day of April 1589. and in the 31st year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth FRom the outward Bar in the Kings-Bench was there a Court made of Thirty Foot square within which was a Table of Twelve Foot square The form of the Scaffold covered with Green Cloth and in the same Court were Benches to sit upon covered with Green Say in the midst of the same Court at the upper end was placed a Cloth of State with a Chair and Cushion for the Lord Steward from the midst of the same Court to the midst of the Hall was built a Gallery for the Prisoner to come upon to the Court in length One Hundred and Ten Foot and in breadth Fifteen Foot and in height from the ground Six Foot railed round about and going down with Seven Steps Between Eight and Nine of the Clock in the morning the Earl of Derby Earl of Derby Lord Steward Lord Steward his Grace entered the Hall attended on by divers Noblemen and Officers Four Serjeants at Arms with their Maces waiting before him next before his Grace the Earl of Oxford Lord great Chamberlain of England My Lord of Derby's Grace being seated in his Chair of State every Nobleman was placed in his degree by Garter King of Heraults At his Graces feet did sit Mr. Winckefield one of her Majesties Gentlemen-Ushers holding a long white Wand in his hand being accompanied with Mr. Norris Serjeant of the Garter Before them did sit Mr. Sands Clerk of the Crown of the Kings-Bench Opposite against my Lord's Grace did sit the Queens Majesties Learned Council viz. 1. Sejeant Puckering 2. Serjeant Shettleworth 3. Mr. Popham the Queens Attorney-General 4. Mr. Edgerton the Queens Solicitor The Names of the Commissioners on the right hand sitting upon a lower Bench under the Lords of the Jury 1. SIR Francis Knowles Knight Treasurer of the Houshold Commissioners on the right hand 2. Sir James Acrofte Knight Controler of the Houshold 3. Sir John Parrat one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council 4. Mr. Woolley Secretary of the Latin tongue of the Privy-Council 5. John Fortescue Master of the Wardrobe and of the Privy-Council 6. Dr. Dale one of the Masters of Request to her Majesty 7. William Fleetwood Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London 8. Mr. Rockby Master of Requests and Master of St. Katherines The Names of the Comissioners on the left hand 9. THE Lord Chief Justice of England 10. The Master of the Rolls Commissioners on the left hand 11. The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 12. The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 13. Justice Perryman of the Common Pleas. 14. Justice Gamdy of the Kings Bench. The Serjeant at Arms usually attendant on the Lord Chancellor named Roger Wood was commanded to make on O Yes Three times Roger Wood. Cryer Then Mr. Sands Clerk of the Crown read the Commission And Sir Francis Knowles Knight gave up the Verdict of the great Assize Verdict Then was called Mathew Spencer Serjeant at Arms to return his Precept which was returned and read After that the Noblemen and Peers of the Jury for his Tryal were severally called by their Names as followeth 1. William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England 2. Edward of Oxford Lord great Chamberlain of England 3. William Lord Marquess of Winchester 4. Henry Earl of Kent 5. Henry Earl of Sussex 6. Henry Earl of Pembrook 7. Edward Earl of Hartford 8. Henry Earl of Lincoln 9. Henry Lord Hundsdon Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties Houshold 10. Peregrin Lord Willoby and Earsby 11. Lord Morley 12. Lord Cobham 13. Arthur Lord Gray 14. Lord Darcy of the North. 15. Lord Sands 16. Lord Wentworth 17. Lord Willoughby of Parham 18. Lord North. 19. Lord Rich. 20. Lord St. John of Bletsoe 21. Lord Buckhurst 22. Lord De La Ware 23. Lord Norris Then the Lieftenant of the Tower was called to return his Precept and to bring forth his Prisoner Philip Earl of Arundel The Earl came into Lieftenant the Hall being in a wrought Velvet Gown furred about with