The Tudors Dynasty Podcast.

In our last episode, we left off with the commissioners finding Mary Queen of Scott's guilty.

Their verdict was then delivered to Queen Elizabeth.

And that's where we'll continue this story.

Most of the subsequent steps taken by Elizabeth in this unhappy business are marked with the features of that intense selfishness,

which, scrupling, nothing for the attainment of its own mean objects, seldom fails by exaggerated efforts and overstrained

maneuvers, to expose itself to detection and merited contempt.

Never had she enjoyed a higher degree of popularity than at this juncture.

The late discoveries had opened to view a series of popish machinations, which had fully justified in the eyes of an alarmed and irritated people, even those previous measures of severity on the part of her government, which had most contributed to provoke these attempts.

The queen was more than ever the heroine of the Protestant Party, and the image of those imminent and hourly perils to which her zeal in the good cause had exposed her, inflamed to enthusiasm the sentiment of loyalty.

On the occasion of the detection of Babington's plot, the whole people gave themselves up for rejoicing.

Sixty bonfires, says the chronicler, were kindled between Ludgate and Sharing Cross,

and tables were set out in the open streets, at which happy neighbors feasted together.

The condemnation of the Queen of Scots produced similar demonstrations.

After her sentence had been ratified by both houses of Parliament, it was thought expedient,

probably by the way of feeling the pulse of the people.

The solemn proclamation of it should be made in London by the Lord Mayor and City Officers, and by

the magistrates of the County in Westminster. The multitude, untouched by the long misfortunes of an

unhappy princess, born of the Blood Royal of England, and heiress to its throne, insensible too,

of everything arbitrary, unprecedented, or unjust,

and the treatment to which she had been subjected, received the notification of her doom,

with expressions of triumph and exaltation, truly shocking.

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