Sedition and Succession
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R. C. [Robert Cecil]
The Copie of a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586) Newberry Library (Case DA 787 .A2 S2 1586)
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The government laid out its case against Mary Queen of Scots in The Copie of a Letter, a narrative of the trial and the evidence. Parliament's pleas to Elizabeth and the queen's replies were also included, carefully polished up by the queen herself.

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