But seeing that they proceeded none the less, and that every calumny was allowed, no one being there to refute it, she resolved to appear before the commissioners.

We quote the two interrogatories to which Mary Stuart submitted as they are set down in the report of M.de Bellievre to M.
de Villeroy.

M.de Bellievre, as we shall see later, had been specially sent by King Henry III to Elizabeth.

[Intelligence for M.Villeroy of what was done in England by M.de Bellievre about the affairs of the Queen of Scotland, in the months of November and December 1586 and January 1587.] The said lady being seated at the end of the table in the said hall, and the said commissioners about her-- The Queen of Scotland began to speak in these terms: "I do not admit that any one of you here assembled is my peer or my judge to examine me upon any charge.

Thus what I do, and now tell you, is of my own free will, taking God to witness that I am innocent and pure in conscience of the accusations and slanders of which they wish to accuse me.