1569 — January 7. Proceedings at Hampton Court
Goodall , vol. ii. p. 297, from Queen Mary’s Register .
The which day the said Bishop of Ross, Lord Herries, and Abbot of Kilwinning, passed to the presence of the Queen’s Majesty of England, her Highness’s council being also present, and declared, that they had presently received writings from the Queen’s Majesty of Scotland, their sovereign, by the which they were of new commanded to signify unto her Majesty, that she would answer to the calumnious accusation of her subjects, and also would accuse them as principal authors, inventors, and executors of that deid for the which she was falsely accused by them, conform to the writings presented of before in her name, and therefore desired the writings produced by her inobedient subjects, or, at the least, the copies thereof, to be delivered unto thame, that their mistress might fully answer thereto as was desired.
And the Queen’s Majesty of England took to be advised therewith, and promised to give answer within two or three days.
ELIZABETH’S DECISION