A History of England (1860)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. I.) MAKY HKTORTS THE CHARGE. 33 " ciime of which they themselves were the authors, " inventors, duers, and some of them the very ex- " ecutioners;" that, where they alleged that she had intended to make lier son follow his father, " the natural " love which a mother bears to her only bairn," was aullicient to prove their falsehood, their attempt to have slain him in the womb sufficient to show their hypocrisy; that she could not allow charges so calumnious to I passed over in silence, but demanded that copies of the papers should be given to her commissioners, and the originals submitted to her own inspection; and pledged her word to name certain individuals amonjr her accusers, and to convict them of he murder, provided she might have access to the presence of the queen, and a reasonable time to collect her witnesses aiid proofs . This unexpected declaration perplexed Elizabeth and the secretary: but the Christmas holidays allowed them a respite of a fortnight; and they waited with impatience for the result of the negociation at Bolton (. On the seventh of January the bishop of Ross solicited an 15R9, audience of the queen. He ha I received a new order Jan. from his sovereign to demand copies of the documents, ' that she might answer them in every particular, and p;-ove to the whole world that her accusers were " liars" as well as traitors. Elizabeth replied that she would take time to consider the demand, but thought it best Ooolall, ii. 274?293. Lcttrrl lie Marie, li. 267. 262. Elizabeth wa already informed thiit the persons whom she chit-fly meant t accuse were Morton and Mainland. Goortall, ii. 71. Mary, in Iut instructions to her commissioners, declares that she never wrote such letters to any living creature; that, if any such exist, they arc feigned aud f...

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