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Originally Mary believed that many nobles supported her marriage, but relations quickly soured between the newly elevated Bothwell created Duke of Orkney and his former peers, and the marriage proved to be deeply unpopular. Catholics considered the marriage unlawful, since they did not recognise Bothwell's divorce or the validity of the Protestant service. Both Protestants and Catholics were shocked that Mary should marry the man accused of murdering her husband.
Mary and Bothwell confronted the lords at Carberry Hill on 15 June, but there was no battle as Mary's forces dwindled away through desertion during negotiations. He was imprisoned in Denmark, became insane and died in Mary apparently expected Elizabeth to help her regain her throne. As an anointed queen, Mary refused to acknowledge the power of any court to try her and refused to attend the inquiry at York personally she sent representatives , but Elizabeth forbade her attendance anyway.
The authenticity of the casket letters has been the source of much controversy among historians.
It is impossible now to prove either way. The originals, written in French, were probably destroyed in by Mary's son.
There are incomplete printed transcriptions in English, Scots, French, and Latin from the s. Moray had sent a messenger in September to Dunbar to get a copy of the proceedings from the town's registers. Mary's biographers, such as Antonia Fraser , Alison Weir , and John Guy , have come to the conclusion that either the documents were complete forgeries, [] or incriminating passages were inserted into genuine letters, [] or that the letters were written to Bothwell by some other person or by Mary to some other person.
The casket letters did not appear publicly until the Conference of , although the Scottish privy council had seen them by December The letters were never made public to support her imprisonment and forced abdication. Historian Jenny Wormald believes this reluctance on the part of the Scots to produce the letters, and their destruction in , whatever their content, constitute proof that they contained real evidence against Mary, [] whereas Weir thinks it demonstrates the lords required time to fabricate them.
Among them was the Duke of Norfolk, [] who secretly conspired to marry Mary in the course of the commission, although he denied it when Elizabeth alluded to his marriage plans, saying "he meant never to marry with a person, where he could not be sure of his pillow". The majority of the commissioners accepted the casket letters as genuine after a study of their contents and comparison of the penmanship with examples of Mary's handwriting.
In the end, Moray returned to Scotland as its regent, and Mary remained in custody in England. Elizabeth had succeeded in maintaining a Protestant government in Scotland, without either condemning or releasing her fellow sovereign. On 26 January , Mary was moved to Tutbury Castle [] and placed in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife Bess of Hardwick.
In May , Elizabeth attempted to mediate the restoration of Mary in return for guarantees of the Protestant religion, but a convention held at Perth rejected the deal overwhelmingly. His death coincided with a rebellion in the North of England , led by Catholic earls, which persuaded Elizabeth that Mary was a threat. English troops intervened in the Scottish civil war, consolidating the power of the anti-Marian forces. Norfolk was executed, and the English Parliament introduced a bill barring Mary from the throne, to which Elizabeth refused to give royal assent.
In , Mary proposed an "association" with her son, James. She announced that she was ready to stay in England, to renounce the Pope's bull of excommunication, and to retire, abandoning her pretensions to the English Crown. She also offered to join an offensive league against France. For Scotland, she proposed a general amnesty, agreed that James should marry with Elizabeth's knowledge, and agreed that there should be no change in religion. Her only condition was the immediate alleviation of the conditions of her captivity.
James went along with the idea for a while but then rejected it and signed an alliance treaty with Elizabeth, abandoning his mother. In February , William Parry was convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth, without Mary's knowledge, although her agent Thomas Morgan was implicated. On 11 August , after being implicated in the Babington Plot , Mary was arrested while out riding and taken to Tixall.
Mary was misled into thinking her letters were secure, while in reality they were deciphered and read by Walsingham. Mary was convicted on 25 October and sentenced to death with only one commissioner, Lord Zouche , expressing any form of dissent. She was concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent and was fearful of the consequences especially if, in retaliation, Mary's son, James, formed an alliance with the Catholic powers and invaded England.
At Fotheringhay, on the evening of 7 February , Mary was told she was to be executed the next morning. It was reached by two or three steps, and furnished with the block, a cushion for her to kneel on, and three stools, for her and the earls of Shrewsbury and Kent , who were there to witness the execution.
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Mary replied, "I forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my troubles. Mary was not beheaded with a single strike. The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head.
The second blow severed the neck, except for a small bit of sinew , which the executioner cut through using the axe. Afterwards, he held her head aloft and declared, "God save the Queen. When the news of the execution reached Elizabeth, she became indignant and asserted that Davison had disobeyed her instructions not to part with the warrant and that the Privy Council had acted without her authority. He was released nineteen months later after Cecil and Walsingham interceded on his behalf. Mary's request to be buried in France was refused by Elizabeth.
Assessments of Mary in the sixteenth century divided between Protestant reformers such as George Buchanan and John Knox , who vilified her mercilessly, and Catholic apologists such as Adam Blackwood , who praised, defended and eulogised her. It condemned Buchanan's work as an invention, [] and "emphasized Mary's evil fortunes rather than her evil character".
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