The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots

The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots By student’s name Course code+name Professor’s name University name City, State Date of submission On a typical day like no other Mary Queen of Scots was captured by Gorges and Stallenge from the Chartley Hall to a place she was not aware. The two guys were armed, and due to that fact, Mary was frightened because of the way the situation has been handled. Her servants did not have the chance of seeing their queen departure. Instead, they were locked in rooms that were heavily guarded by armed men. The situation was handled intensely and fearfully. The treatment given to Mary Queen of Scots raised a lot of eyebrows, but she believed that she was going to a nearby royal castle that was thirty miles from London.[Hodgkin, Katharine. Women, madness and sin in early modern England: the autobiographical writings of Dionys Fitzherbert. Routledge, 2017.] The queen spends her first night at Hill Hall. The following day the Gorges received instructions from Elizabeth on her guilt and Ingratitude, but Mary stood firmly and refused to admit the charges made on her. Mary spends the next two days at Leicester, and the people around were seen to favor Mary and not the Elizabeth who is considering making her accept that she was guilty of the charges. The guards in the area heavily guarded to avoid demonstrations from the people. She finally arrives in a castle Fotheringhay on the 25th of September.[McBride, Kari Boyd. Country House Discourse in Early Modern England: A Cultural Study of Landscape and Legitimacy. Routledge, 2017.] The castle was huge with a chapel, high wall and large courtyard and had a large gate. The villa was huge and being alone in there with guards, Mary Queen of Scots started to fear for the worst because of the way she was excluded. She even worried that she would be secretly killed like Barbarous death that stained the history of English medieval castles. The situation was the same in the way she was kept in a castle alone. After receiving a report from her servants that many of the Staterooms were empty and she concluded that she is going to be tried rather than being killed in the castle. The staterooms were in wait of dignitaries from London. Mary was happy at last that there will be a trial and that made her feel happed and contented.[North, Janice, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Premodern Rulers and PostmodernViewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture. Springer, 2018.] On the 1st October Paulet come to see Mary and informed her of what was about to happen and she even advised her to accept the charges levelled against her and avoid interrogation from the Lords. Paulet went to inform her of facing the law if she didn't admit that she was guilty. In her statement, Mary Queen of Scot answered Paulet that she had no doubt whatsoever that she was at no offence about any unlawful act. She stood firmly about her innocence, and she was not frightened of what will happen. Mary stated it's only a sinner who confesses her sins to the Creator and seeks for mercy and forgiveness. After several days the arrival of Steward Melville and his daughter made Mary happy. Commissioners were appointed in London to judge the Mary Queen of Scots. Letters were read, and evidence presented. They agreed that she was to be brought to trial under the Act of Association enacted in 1585. A commission was constituted to investigate any conspiracy to hurt Elizabeth. By the law ant person found guilty like in our case, the queen will lose her English crown forever, and also a death penalty would follow. The Law was clear, but it seemed that it had been reframed to execute the queen of Scots. Commissioners and peers who were selected to investigate Mary's case were summoned at Fotheringhay. The jail partner of Mary, Shrewsbury was told to appear in court, and even the Lord sent a message to him not to be absent on the courtroom.[Daybell, James. Women and politics in early modern England, 1450–1700. Routledge, 2017.] The provisions of the act were compromised to making it hard for the queen of Scots to be acquitted not guilty. They had it all planned, and she believed that the case had been pre-judged. They even had scheduled for an option if Shrewsbury if her health worsened and that she would authorize Cecil to provide testimony on Mary's guilt. All the parties conspired against her pretending that it would be a fair trial. The then French ambassador Chateauneuf pleaded with Elizabeth to allow Mary to have her counsel to defend in court, but she denied and said she did not want any advice from strangers. Mary trail was unfair because she did not have her witness, secretary and more so a council to help her prepare for the forthcoming trial. She was left all alone in a foreign country and knew nothing about the laws nor customs in England. It was difficult for her to win the case, first because she was in the verge of learning their language and also the fact that she was organizing herself against the best brains in the country.[Coote, Charles Henry. Early voyages and travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen: with some account of the first intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by way of the Caspian Sea. Hakluyt Society, 2017.] In the 16 century the inmate injustice of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, in which the accused was never allowed to have a counsel at an English treason trial. Mary was a queen in a foreign country was being tried for treason, without the knowledge of Elizabeth’s subjects. It was difficult to guarantee a fair trial to Mary because she was a foreigner in another country despite being Queen of Scots. The trial of foreigners in the England courts encountered difficulties in the English law. Other considerations may be made expelling her from the country but given that she had been jailed in London prisons. Mary's only peer at the time was Elizabeth, but she was against her. The fact that Elizabeth was not defending her fellow peer in the best way possible it left her with no option but to wait for her fate in the foreign court. The trial of Mary Queen of England was blinded by the justice system that was torn by the English commissioners who influenced their desired verdict. The English Law favored only its citizens, but when foreigners were tried on treason, they were denied privileges.[Gutierrez, Nancy A. 'Shall She Famish Then?': Female Food Refusal in Early Modern England. Routledge, 2016.] [White, S. D. (2016). 7 The Evils of the Court: Judicial Melodramas in Medieval French Literature. In " The Making of Europe" (pp. 184-204). BRILL.] [Lasa Álvarez, Begoña. "The Spanish Monarchy in Mary Hays’s Biographical Works." Women's Writing 25, no. 2 (2018): 200-218.] The commissioners brought a copy of commission at Fotheringhay which was the most critical lodging in the castle. The text was to be signed by Mary to allow her to appear in court in person for the trial. Mary has denied any deadly plot against Elizabeth despite the proofs that she was part of a conspiracy. Mary expresses herself well in the letter she wrote stating that the reason she comes to England was to seek help from her cousin who had promised to help me fight my enemies and the rebel subjects. That was not the case because after reaching London I was imprisoned. Mary expresses how she does not recognize the laws of England nor do I understand them.[Kaffenberger, Thomas. "A Newly Discovered Church in Cyprus. Remarks on New Architectural Forms' Modes of Transmission in Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean." Convivium5, no. 2 (2018): 130-136.] Mary only admitted the protection of Catholic kings and princes but denied her involvement in the conspiracy against Elizabeth. She come to seek help but not to conspire against her cousin Elizabeth. Despite Elizabeth not believing in her innocence she pressed on the trial without giving up. The then Lord Chancellor affirmed to Queen Mary she was under the laws of England and she out to recognize and allow due process to follow. Mary was unhappy with what was happening at the time, and she was not going to betray majesty of kings. Mary was willing to appear before a free parliament and answer questions rather than submit to the commissioners who sounded as if they had already determined her case. She finally agreed to appear in court to answer the charges against the allegations that she planned the assassination of Elizabeth. A letter from Elizabeth in London to Mary Queen of Scots accusing her of plotting to take away my life and as well ruin my kingdom. Elizabeth also portrays how she cares much about her as she cares for herself. Mary sacrificed her royal position and betrayed the king when she appeared in the trial courtroom, in which the tribunal did not have the right to try her — looking before the judges was a bold decision to undertake. In my view, Mary should have been accorded the queen-ship trial and allow her to have a council to represent her. And the fact that England tribunal is not permitted to try, they should have sent her back to her country and be worked there. England laws should respect other people's rights and freedom. England should respect the international relations between the two countries and respect each other. Mary Queen was jailed without trial and put under strict regulations which should not have been the case. When she went to the court, she was unable to walk to the stand to testify, and she was helped to the chair. The number of counsellors in the tribunal were many, but the surprising fact was that she had no lawyer to represent her.[Locklin, Nancy. Women's work and identity in eighteenth-century Brittany. Routledge, 2016.] [Osherow, Michele. Biblical women's voices in early modern England. Routledge, 2016.] The Lord Chancellor made the opening statement and explained what made queen Elizabeth to...