1-272-784 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter from Mary Queen of Scots to Queen Elizabeth I, Sheffield, 29 October 1571. Letter, in French, from Mary Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth, praying to be allowed to confer once with her French servants or with one of the retinue of the French Ambassador, to have a priest of the Catholic Church, and to correspond in open with her son. From the first series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I - V, (London, 1899).