The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physicianCowan, Samuel
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The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician
Cowan, Samuel
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 -- Death and burial
“The Bishop of Glasgow to travel to Rome by all means to advance the
correspondence of the Pope with the King of Spain, and to try to set up
some new faction against that of England. In France to deal with the
Duke of Guise either to keep France occupied, or, peace being made, to
join with the King of Spain in this enterprise.
“Sir Francis Englefeld and Lord Paget to be earnest in Spain with the
King in her name for his full resolution upon the overtures to be made
him by Mendoza, and thereupon for his advice when and how his forces
shall march.
“To draw the French King's affection from the Scottish Queen and
incense him against her and her servants, and particularly for the
delivery of Morgan and Paget—
(1) By showing the said Queen and her servants' devotion to Spanish
causes to the prejudice of the Crown of France.
“The extract of her own despatch to Charles Paget and Mendoza of 20th
May 1586 concerning the delivery of her son into the King of Spain's
hands, and gift of this Crown unto the Spaniard by testament.” (This
was not the Crown of England, and her letters—21st May 1586—must be
referred to in order to understand the matter. See appendix.)
(2) “By the extract whereby Morgan is discovered to have had
intelligence and practised with Mendoza both against the Queen and the
French King even since his imprisonment.”
(3) “By proving Paget and Morgan to have been special dealers against
Elizabeth. For charging of Paget particularly by his own letter of 29th
May proposing the enterprise to the Scottish Queen.
(4) “For charging Morgan particularly by his own confession to have
been a principal instigator of the plot taken up with Creyton the
Jesuit with the Duke of Guise, the Archbishop of Glasgow, the Pope's
Nuncio, and Father Claude. That he was privy to Gifford's practices
in England, who set Savage at work to kill Elizabeth, and was to
have come over to effect the same (Phillips is founding on the
interpolations); that he was privy to Ballard coming into England and
the cause, Ballard also was a practiser against the Queen's person
(Elizabeth).
“Lastly, the furtherance of his delivery whereby may appear to the King
how both he and Her Majesty were abused in the perusal of Morgan's
papers when he was first demanded.”
“The papers were concealed and his proceedings disguised by Cherelles
and others more careful of the Queen of Scots and the Queen's rebels
than of their Master's honour and satisfaction.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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