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&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=+1&gt;1586 &amp;amp; 1587, Letters from Elizabeth I to Mary,
queen of Scots and James VI of Scotland&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;October 1586 and 14 February 1587.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/center&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;To Mary, queen of Scots, October 1586.&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;At the opening of the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots,
at Fotheringhay on 12th October 1586, the Commissioners delivered her this
personal letter from Queen Elizabeth.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It has been translated
from the French.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;blockquote&gt;You have in various ways and manners attempted to take my life
and to bring my kingdom to destruction by bloodshed. I have never proceeded
so harshly against you, but have, on the contrary, protected and maintained
you like myself. These treasons will be proved to you and all made manifest.
Yet it is my will, that you answer the nobles and peers of the kingdom
as if I were myself present. I therefore require, charge, and command that
you make answer for I have been well informed of your arrogance.
&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Act plainly without reserve, and you will sooner
be able to obtain favour of me.
&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Elizabeth.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;To King James VI of Scotland, 14th February 1587.&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;Although she signed the warrant for Mary's execution,
Elizabeth tore it up.&amp;nbsp; Another copy was signed, and - before the queen
could change her mind yet again - Burghley and others upon the council
sent if off.&amp;nbsp; Elizabeth's life was in constant danger while Mary lived,
as numerous plots attested.&amp;nbsp; Her Council was determined to keep her
safe.&amp;nbsp; As for Elizabeth, she was understandably torn between protecting
her throne and taking the life of a fellow sovereign, even one she did
not respect or like.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;The second warrant was sent from London on 4th February,
and reached Fotheringhay on the following evening.&amp;nbsp; On the 7th the
Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent, who were in charge of the execution, warned
Mary to prepare for death on the following day.&amp;nbsp; On the 9th the news
of her execution reached London, and was received by the Queen with surprise
and horror.&amp;nbsp; She openly raged against her councilors; her capable
secretary Davison, who had given her the second warrant, was sent to the
Tower.&amp;nbsp; Four days later she wrote to James of Scotland to protest
her innocence of Mary's death.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;blockquote&gt;My dear Brother, I would you knew (though not felt) the extreme
dolor that overwhelms my mind, for that miserable accident which (far contrary
to my meaning) hath befallen. I have now sent this kinsman of mine, whom
ere now it hath pleased you to favour, to instruct you truly of that which
is too irksome for my pen to tell you. I beseech you that as God and many
more know, how innocent I am in this case : so you will believe me, that
if I had bid aught I would have bid by it. I am not so base minded that
fear of any living creature or Prince should make me so afraid to do that
were just; or done, to deny the same. I am not of so base a lineage, nor
carry so vile a mind. But, as not to disguise, fits not a King, so will
I never dissemble my actions, but cause them show even as I meant them.
Thus assuring yourself of me, that as I know this was deserved, yet if
I had meant it I would never lay it on others' shoulders; no more will
I not damnify myself that thought it not.
&lt;br&gt;The circumstance it may please you to have of this bearer. And for
your part, think you have not in the world a more loving kinswoman, nor
a more dear friend than myself; nor any that will watch more carefully
to preserve you and your estate. And who shall otherwise persuade you,
judge them more partial to others than you. And thus in haste I leave to
trouble you:&amp;nbsp; beseeching God to send you a long reign.
&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Your most assured loving sister and cousin,
&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Elizabeth R.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;_httpextlink_&amp;amp;rl=1&amp;amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fprimary.html&quot;&gt;to
Primary Sources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;_httpextlink_&amp;amp;rl=1&amp;amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqoschron.html&quot;&gt;to
Mary, queen of Scots: Chronology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;


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