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Mary Queen of Scots document signed, ''Marie R''. Vellum document is datelined February 1582, Sheffield Castle, where Mary was imprisoned just three years before her execution by beheading. The Throckmorton plot to kill and supplant Mary's rival Elizabeth I was underway as document appoints John Botz to the prebend at Bitcry, reading in part, ''Today, on the [blank] day of February, in the year of 1582, the Queen of Scotland, Doweress of France, being at the Castle of Sheffield in England, on the strength of the recommendation which has been made to her...of John Botz, granted and awarded to him the first Prebend which shall fall due hereafter, and a vacancy at Bitcry being in her Majesty's disposal, she desires and orders...the letters of Investiture be sent to the said Botz...'' Measures approximately 15.5'' x 3.5''. Creasing, a few tiny worming holes and minor scattered soiling, else near fine.
Mary Queen of Scots Document Signed During The Throckmorton Plot to Kill Queen Elizabeth I -- Scarce
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