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29 | <center><b><font size=+1>1586 &amp; 1587, Letters from Elizabeth I to Mary,
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30 | queen of Scots and James VI of Scotland</font></b>
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31 | <br><font size=-1>October 1586 and 14 February 1587.</font></center>
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35 | <p><b>To Mary, queen of Scots, October 1586.</b>
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36 | <br><font size=-1>At the opening of the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots,
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37 | at Fotheringhay on 12th October 1586, the Commissioners delivered her this
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38 | personal letter from Queen Elizabeth.&nbsp;&nbsp; It has been translated
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39 | from the French.</font>
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40 | <br>&nbsp;
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41 | <blockquote>You have in various ways and manners attempted to take my life
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42 | and to bring my kingdom to destruction by bloodshed. I have never proceeded
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43 | so harshly against you, but have, on the contrary, protected and maintained
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44 | you like myself. These treasons will be proved to you and all made manifest.
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45 | Yet it is my will, that you answer the nobles and peers of the kingdom
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46 | as if I were myself present. I therefore require, charge, and command that
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47 | you make answer for I have been well informed of your arrogance.
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48 | <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Act plainly without reserve, and you will sooner
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49 | be able to obtain favour of me.
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50 | <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elizabeth.</blockquote>
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54 | <p><b>To King James VI of Scotland, 14th February 1587.</b>
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55 | <br><font size=-1>Although she signed the warrant for Mary's execution,
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56 | Elizabeth tore it up.&nbsp; Another copy was signed, and - before the queen
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57 | could change her mind yet again - Burghley and others upon the council
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58 | sent if off.&nbsp; Elizabeth's life was in constant danger while Mary lived,
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59 | as numerous plots attested.&nbsp; Her Council was determined to keep her
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60 | safe.&nbsp; As for Elizabeth, she was understandably torn between protecting
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61 | her throne and taking the life of a fellow sovereign, even one she did
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62 | not respect or like.</font>
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63 | <br><font size=-1>The second warrant was sent from London on 4th February,
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64 | and reached Fotheringhay on the following evening.&nbsp; On the 7th the
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65 | Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent, who were in charge of the execution, warned
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66 | Mary to prepare for death on the following day.&nbsp; On the 9th the news
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67 | of her execution reached London, and was received by the Queen with surprise
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68 | and horror.&nbsp; She openly raged against her councilors; her capable
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69 | secretary Davison, who had given her the second warrant, was sent to the
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70 | Tower.&nbsp; Four days later she wrote to James of Scotland to protest
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71 | her innocence of Mary's death.</font>
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72 | <br>&nbsp;
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73 | <blockquote>My dear Brother, I would you knew (though not felt) the extreme
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74 | dolor that overwhelms my mind, for that miserable accident which (far contrary
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75 | to my meaning) hath befallen. I have now sent this kinsman of mine, whom
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76 | ere now it hath pleased you to favour, to instruct you truly of that which
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77 | is too irksome for my pen to tell you. I beseech you that as God and many
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78 | more know, how innocent I am in this case : so you will believe me, that
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79 | if I had bid aught I would have bid by it. I am not so base minded that
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80 | fear of any living creature or Prince should make me so afraid to do that
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81 | were just; or done, to deny the same. I am not of so base a lineage, nor
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82 | carry so vile a mind. But, as not to disguise, fits not a King, so will
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83 | I never dissemble my actions, but cause them show even as I meant them.
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84 | Thus assuring yourself of me, that as I know this was deserved, yet if
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85 | I had meant it I would never lay it on others' shoulders; no more will
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86 | I not damnify myself that thought it not.
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87 | <br>The circumstance it may please you to have of this bearer. And for
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88 | your part, think you have not in the world a more loving kinswoman, nor
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89 | a more dear friend than myself; nor any that will watch more carefully
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90 | to preserve you and your estate. And who shall otherwise persuade you,
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91 | judge them more partial to others than you. And thus in haste I leave to
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92 | trouble you:&nbsp; beseeching God to send you a long reign.
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93 | <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your most assured loving sister and cousin,
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94 | <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elizabeth R.</blockquote>
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