of our royal person as well by the Queen of Scots, by the name of Marie, the daughter and heir of James V., late King of Scots, commonly called the Queen of Scots and Dowager of France, as by any other by her privity, and all the circumstances thereof, and according to the tenor of the said Act of Parliament to give sentence or judgment as upon good proof the matter to them should appear. Afterwards the greater part of these councillors, lords, and judges—that is to say, the number of thirty-six—did in the presence and hearing of the Queen of Scots at Fotheringay, at divers days and times in public place, very exactly, uprightly, and with great deliberation, examine all the matters and offences whereof she was accused, and all the circumstances thereof, and heard also what the same Queen did or could say for her defence. Afterwards on the 25th October last, all the said council, lords, and judges who had heard and examined the cause in the said Queen's presence, with one assent and consent, after deliberation, did give their sentence in manner following:—That after the first day of June in the 27th year of our reign and before the date of the said commission, divers things were compassed and imagined within this realm by Anthony Babington and others with the knowledge of the Scottish Queen, she pretending a title to the crown of our realm, tending to the hurt, death, and destruction of our royal person; which sentence the same lords and commissioners had caused to be put in writing and duly engrossed, with the whole process of their proceedings, and have subscribed the same as by a record thereof shown to us. And whereas the same sentence so given and recorded, the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled have also at sundry times heard and considered the principal evidence, proofs, and circumstances whereupon the sentence was founded, and have by their assent in Parliament affirmed the same to be a full, lawful, and true sentence, and so have allowed and approved the same in writing presented to us. They have also notified to us how deeply they did foresee the great and imminent dangers which otherwise might and would grow to our person and to the whole realm if this sentence were not fully executed. Therefore they did by their humble petitions most instantly upon their knees, pray, beseech, and with many reasons of great force and importance move and press us that the said sentence so justly given and approved might, according to the express tenor of the said Act of Parliament by our proclamation under the Great Seal, be declared and published and finally executed. But after such request made to us by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, they perceiving by our own speeches and answers how deeply we were grieved to hear of these horrible and unnatural attempts of that Queen whose many former offences, manifestly and dangerously committed against us, our crown and realm, we had