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clemency Elizabeth desired them to reflect, -- whether it was possible to find any expedient-- besides the death of the Queen of Scots for securing the Public tranqullity, but they answered that mercy to Mary was cruelty to them her subjects and their Children-- A few days after the-- sentence was pronounced against Mary the Parliament ratified the proceedings of the-- Commissioners by whom she had been tried-- Elizabeth commanded the sentence against Mary to be published asserting that it was extorted from her by the entreaty of both Houses of Parliament-- Mary received the intelligence with becoming fortitude--The warrant was dispatched to the Earls of Sharnsbury and Kent and some others ordering them to see the sentence executed upon the Queen of Scots--The Earls came to Fotheringay Castle and being, introduced to Mary informed her of their commission and desired her to prepare for death-- next Morning at eight o'clock--She-- seemed no wise terrefied though some what surprised with the intelligence as she did
