Show DADS LETTER DY jamrs JAMES it WALLIS intelligence of plots now began begam to thicken every dai the people of england never did live under such continual terrors as aa those t they ey were possessed now of cath lie c uprisings and burnings and ison ings the government had the same fear and did not take the best means of discovering the truth for besides torturing the suspected it employed ed paid spies a ho lied for their own profit it even eien initiated some of the con spiracles spir acles it brought to light by sending bending false falie letters to disaffect ed d people inviting them to join in pretended plots abich they too readily did mt but one great plot was at length disco discovered cred and it ended the career of mary queen of scots A priest named ballard and a spanish soldier named savage set out and encouraged by certain french priests imparted to one anthony babington Babin glon ton who had been for some time a secret agent of mabys a desire for murdering the queen elizabeth Rab ington then confided the scheme to some other ether catholic gentlemen aho vho ho bere his fi lends and they joined in it if heartily they nere ere vain eak headid oung men and proud of their plan they had a painting made of the six choice spirits who were to murder elizabeth with mith babington Dab ington in an attitude for the central figure two of their number however one of nhom was a kept ellza eliza beths beth s wisest minister sir francis walsingham in touch with the hol plot biorn the first the conspirators spira tors were completely deceived to the final point when hen babington pave gave savage because he was shabby a ring from his finger and some money from his purse wherewith to buy himself new clothes in which to kill the queen walsingham having full evidence against the whole band and two tro letters of nf marys besides resolved to aleze them suspecting something wrong fi conspirators stole out of the city one by one and hid bid themselves in st bt johns wood mood and other places but they were all taken and executed when they were seized a gentleman was hent bent from court to inform mary of the fact and of her being involved in the discovery queen elizabeth had been previously warned by one in prance france who ho had good information of what was secretly doing that in hold ing mary alive she held the wolf mho ho would devour her the bishop hop of london had also given the queens minister the ad vice in writing forthwith to cut off the scottish SLot tish qui ens head the question now was v hat to do with her the earl of leicester wrote tote a little note home from holland recommending that she should be quietly pol poisoned all such advice ho however weer was disregarded and she v as aa tried at ingay castle in Northampton shire before a trl tri bunal of forty composed of both religions eli giOns there and in the star chamber at westminster the trial last two weeks she defended herself with great ability but could only deny the confessions that had been made by babington and others she called her own letters for kerles ceries she was found guilty and incurred the penalty of death par met approved appi oved the sentence slid and pealed tho the queen to have baie it executed queen elizabeth that she requested them to consider whether there were no means of paring N marys rya life val without t hout en dan danwin gering her own the parlia ment rejoined not the citizens illuminated lumina ted their homes and lighted bonfires in token of their joy that all these plots and troubles U ere to be ended by the death of the queen of scots mary feeling that her time was now ow come wrote a letter to the queen of england making three entreaties frist filst that she might be e burled buried in france secondly that she might not be executed in se cret but before her servants and ithome others thirdly that after her blath her servants servant should be permitted to go home with the legacies she left them it was an affecting letter lette r and elizabeth shed tears ov over I 1 it t but sent no answer amer then en came a special ambassador rom irom prance france and another from scotland land to ir mercede for marys lua life then the nation began to barnor amor more and more tor for her death aill what the real feelings or intentions tent ions of euzabeth were tre can ever VT be known now Ito however wever le e strongly suspects that she fahed hed one thing more than mary s ith ath and that waa as to be kept jee e of the blame of it when the warrant for the ex atlon Tt tun lon of marr mar ww auary ry I 1 iua the queen sent to Conti continued vuel an a pw anve DAWS DADS LETTER IETTER fic nii pi paga ei 6 anc no the secretary of ii i i ni DEV 1 son con for it that she might sign it which she did the next day when told by the secretary that it was sealed she angrily asked hirn him why uch such haste wu waa necessary two days afterwards after warda she ehe joked about it and swore a little on betro retro ary 7 the sheriff of northampton shire cline to tell the queen of scots to prepare for death when thi ft as dane mary maya ate a frug frugal meal read over her ua went ent to bed slept tic pit for some hours and then arcee and passed the remainder ot of the night saying her payers p afcin in the morning slie iho dressed herself in her best clothes and at eight 0 clock when lien the sheriff ithe rift varie came for her the she took leave of her serva servants lits ho were there assembled pray toe ing v ith rier her and ent doli stairs earning caming a bible in one hand and a crucifix tn in the other efto IN 0 of hl hr r ladies in attendance and four of her men sc ivanti aei vanta viere ere permitted to be ba present in the hall here a low scaffold only two fret feet from the ground wm was arted and covered sith alth black here the executioner from the tower and hla his BS as lastant dressed in black velet the hall was wa full of people while the sentence flo aa belne being read the she bat at upon a stool and when hen it was waa finished the bhe again dented denied her guilt g as the she had done before the earl of kent and the dean of peterborough Peter borough in their protestant zeal made some very unnecessary speeches to her to which she replied that she ehe died in the cath olic faith and they need not trouble themselves about the matter when her head and neck were unco cred by the executioners execution ers she said she had not been wt to be ing undressed by such hands and before so BO much company finally one of her nomen if stoned a cloth over her face and she laid her neck ock upon the hideous ba block ock and repeated more than once in latin into thy hands 0 0 lord I 1 commend my spirit some se historians historian nay her head wax struck off in ini two blow blame a same me say may three lim how 1 ever that may le be then hen it ana as held up after the savage fashion dashto 1 I of the times streaming alth ith blood the red hair beneath the false hair she bhe had long since worn wa as ten een to be as grey as that of 0 woman of 70 though alia was wa at that time only in her forti sixth year AU all her beauty was golle eoe but abe he as beautiful enough to her little dog doe who ho cowered under th folds fold of her daml terrified when mile he went upon the scaffold and who toy lay dorn don beside her head less leas body when all her earthly barrona were over and could not be induced to leave it on its ita being formally made known to elizabeth ElU obeth that the wn nen tence had been executed on the queen of scots she ehe showed chosed the inmost grief and rake rage drove her favorites from froin her with violent indignation dig nation and sent davison to the from which place he ha was a only released in the end by paying an immense fine which completely ruined him elizabeth not only over acted her part in making these pretences pretenses but most basely to poverty one of her faithful ser servant vanta for no other reft rea nori than obeying her command elizabeths one anxiety was wake to escape all responsibility for the ex cx elution of her cousin jarnes james king of scotland marys mary son ma made de show likewise ot of be zig very unco on the th occasion W bui ig ha having v 1 g aown tutt 0 t l li t h and nd regarding her its the murdered of 0 his hl rather father he wt toot tool it quietly had james stevn en e n any nv other than james the anger of c his hl eibl lime hai dalven him 0 br with ell 1112 L sixth hse have been attlen to prove her innocence and counter vol volume units to lier her gu fut t but innocent or guilty the he has haa grieer lust lost her hold bou on the hearts and Imana tlona of men our next letter all close clo se the boath d ith of queen elizaboth El LI anat 1 the accession to the of ct her king aein umea the ho wn son and only child of mary eteen qi oen 01 or scot |