Mary, Queen of Scots, was herself a signatory of the bond, giving her assent at Wingfield Manor on 5 January 1585.[5] In March 1585, the Bond of Association was in part incorporated in the Act for the Queen's Safety.[6]
The Bond was a key legal precedent for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587.[7] Walsingham discovered alleged evidence that Mary, in a letter to Anthony Babington, had given her approval to a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and by Right of Succession take the English throne.[8][9]
↑ Stephen Alford, The Watchers (Penguin, 2013), pp. 136-7.
↑ A. R. Braunmuller, A seventeenth-century letter-book: a facsimile edition of Folger MS. V.a. 321 (University of Delaware, 1983), pp. 197–202.
↑ Alexander Courtney, James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566–1603 (Routledge, 2024), p. 81: Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, 2 (London, 1791), pp. 299–300.
↑ John Guy, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (London: Fourth Estate, 2009), pp. 466–475.
↑ HMC Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Salisbury, 3, p. 128.
↑ Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023), p. 258: Alexander Courtney, James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566–1603 (Routledge, 2024), pp. 82–83, 214.
↑ David Templeman, Mary, Queen of Scots: The Captive Queen in England (Exeter: 2016), p. 209.
↑ Robert Hutchinson, Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that saved England (London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 118.
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