Series 3 > Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington plot

cxiv MARY STUART AND THE BABINGTON PLOT
State Trials. The two following parallel passages tell
their own story.
Abstract of the original indictment Declaration of the Indictment by
quoted above, printed in the ‘ Fourth Sandys, Clerk of the Crown, from
Report of the Deputy Keeper of the ‘ State Trials ’ (1730, i. p. 123).
Public Records,’ 1843, p. 276 ; Re¬
ferences to Gifford are here italicised.
And that Ballard and Gilbert
Gifford afterwards, to wit, 7 June,
28 Elizabeth at St. Giles’, had a
discourse with Babington how they
should fulfil their treacherous in¬
tentions, and conferred with him
concerning the invasion intended
and prepared by the then Bishop of
Rome, with the aid of Philip, king
of Spain, and other foreign Princes :
And that they treacherously told
and declared to Babington that. . .
Mendoza and Paget had required
aid and assistance to the invaders,
as also for the delivery of Mary late
Queen of Scots.
Whereupon Ballard, Gilbert
Gifford and Babington, 7 June, 28
Elizabeth, at St. Giles’ ; resolved
that this could not be done except
by the destruction of the Queen.
And Babington on the same day
traitorously agreed with the other
two, that the Queen should be slain,
the late Queen of Scots delivered by
force, from her imprisonment, and
help raised . . . and that all things
should be done simultaneously.
And Thou, the said John Ballard,
the 7th day of June in the 28th
year at St. Giles, didst go to have
speech and confer with the said
Anthony Babington, by what means
and ways your false, traitorous,
imagined practices might be brought
to pass.
And that Thou the said John
Ballard didst oftentimes declare of
an Army of the Pope and the king
of Spain for to invade this realm;
and didst also declare that Paget
and Mendoza required them the said
Babington, Savage, etc., to procure
means how this realm of England
might be invaded.
And that there Thou, the said
Anthony Babington didst say the
same could not be brought to pass
without the murder of the Queen’s
most excellent Majesty.
And afterwards, that is to say the
seventh day of June at St Giles,
Thou the said Anthony Babington
didst falsely, horribly, and traitor¬
ously and devilishly conspire to kill
the Queen’s most excellent Majesty,
and for to deliver the said Mary
Queen of Scots, out of the custody
wherein she was, and how to bring
foreign enemies for to invade the
realm.