The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician

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A physician's diary combined with a detailed synthesis of intercepted letters and state papers reconstructs the final six months of Mary Stuart's captivity. The narrative follows the agents and ministers who monitored, searched, and eventually removed her papers, the procedural steps leading to a trial, and how the Babington conspiracy was used to justify condemnation. It includes the queen's appeals to foreign courts and the pope, intimate observations of her household and treatment, and documentary evidence presented by the editor aimed at exonerating her from participation in the alleged plot against her rival.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that references them. The List of Illustrations was changed accordingly.
Footnotes were moved to the end of the book and numbered in one sequence.
Error not corrected, page 256: "The which was so undoubted...." The missing words could not be found.