Walsingham's Memorial, see [Appendix], p. [266].
[108] La Mort de la Royne, ap. Jebb, ii. 612.
[109] According to M. Kervyn de Lettenhove (Marie Stuart, ii. 329) Shrewsbury expressed himself with more sympathy, and with a return of his former friendliness for the Queen. "Madame," said he, "I would have greatly desired that another than I should announce to you such sad intelligence as that which I now bring on the part of the Queen of England, but he and I being both faithful servants, I could but obey the commandment she gave me. It is to admonish you to prepare yourself to undergo the sentence of death pronounced against you."
[110] Chantelauze, p. 572; La Mort, p. 613, where the document is given at length.
[111] "She seemed not to be in any Terror, for ought that appered by any of hir outward Gesture or Behaviour (other than marvelling shee should die), but rather with smiling Cheer and pleasing Countenance digested and accepted the sayde Admonition of Preparation to hir (as she sayde) unexpected Execution: saying that hir Death should be welcome unto hir, seeing hir Majestie was so resolved, and that that Soule were too too far unworthye the Fruition of the Joyes of Heaven for ever, whose Bodye would not in this World be content to endure the Stroake of the Executioner for a Moment. And that spoken, shee wept bitterlye and became silent."—"Execution of Mary Queen of Scots," R. Wingfield, Clarendon Hist. Soc.
[112] M. Chantelauze, p. 387.
[113] Chantelauze, p. 573.
[114] La Mort de la Royne, p. 621; Chantelauze, p. 575.
[115] Miss Strickland, vii. 469; see Kervyn de Lettenhove, ii. 333.
[116] Jebb, ibid.; Chantelauze, p. 575.