1-272-840 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter from William Cecil to Sir Christopher Hatton, Vice Chamberlain, 12th September 1586. Letter from Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, as one of the Commissioners appointed for the trial of Anthony Babington and his fellow conspiritors (13 and 14th September), conveying Queen Elizabeth I's commands that no violent language be used against Mary Queen of Scots at the trial and that a special clause be added to the judgement. From the second series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V. (London, 1899).