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Heaven forgive me if I misjudge any one, but my belief is this that the letters, whereof only the deciphered copies were shown, did not quit the hands of either the one or the other, such as we heard them at Fotheringhay. So poor Babington said, so saith the Queen of Scots, demanding vehemently to have them read in her presence before Nau and Curll, who could testify to them.
"Let her go beyond their reach, yet where none shall find her to use her name against you. Let me go to her at Fotheringhay with these terms. She will consent and bless and pray for you for ever; and here am I, ready to do what you will with me!" "To hang about Court, and be found secretly wedded to some base groom!" "No, madam.
"That she always knows how to avoid," said the resident ambassador. "At least," said Cicely, "she has permitted that I should bear the terms to my mother at Fotheringhay." "That is true," said Chateauneuf, "and in my opinion no time should be lost in so doing.
"Take him away," said Paulett, collecting himself; "he would cloak his crime by accusing others of his desperate wickedness." "Where, sir?" inquired Humfrey. Sir Amias would have preferred hanging the fellow without inquiry, but as Fotheringhay was not under martial law, he ordered him off to the dungeons for the present, while the nearest justice of the peace was sent for.
Richard, in much anxiety, was to remain another day or two at Fotheringhay, on the plea of his wearied horses and of the Sunday rest. Meantime Mary diligently wrote the conditions, but perhaps more to satisfy her daughter than with much hope of their acceptance. "Yea, madam, they are gone! They stole away at once, and are far on the way to Fotheringhay, with these same conditions."
From what I have now beheld, I have no doubts that be she who she may, it is a marriage made and blessed in heaven." "I thank you, sir," said Humfrey, gravely; "it is my one hope fulfilled." They spoke no more till he had eaten, for he was much spent, having never rested more than a couple of hours, and not slept at all since leaving Fotheringhay.
This gentleman bred me up in our own Church, nor would I leave it." "Strange strange matters," muttered Elizabeth, "and they need to be duly considered." "I will then abide your Majesty's pleasure," said Cicely, "craving license that it may be at Fotheringhay with my mother. Then can I bear her the tidings, and she will write in full her consent to these terms. O madam, I see mercy in your looks.
In Northamptonshire, near Elton, are the remains of the foundations of the castle of Fotheringhay, out in a field, with the mound of the keep rising in front of them; this was the unfortunate queen's last prison. It was a noted castle, dating from the twelfth century, and had been a principal residence of the Plantagenets. Here Mary was tried and beheaded, February 8, 1587.
Talbot might be anxious at Bridgefield, and her son at Fotheringhay, and poor Queen Mary, whose life hung in the balance, more heartsick with what old writers well named 'wanhope' than any of them; but they had to live on, and rise morning after morning without expecting any intelligence, unable to do anything but pray for those who might be in perils unknown.
Mistress Curll is lodging nigh unto the Strand, in hopes of being permitted to see her husband; but that hath not yet been granted to her, although she is assured that he is well in health, and like ere long to be set free, as well as Monsieur Nau. "We came to London the day after the Parliament had pronounced sentence upon the Lady at Fotheringhay.
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