Print details Picture Sheffield

Mary Queen of Scots, signed letter the Laird of Barnbarrock

Copyright This digital image, and all images on Picture Sheffield, are protected by copyright. You may use it for private study or non-commercial research, with due acknowledgement. You may share it on social media via a linked post or by citing www.picturesheffield.com together with the image Reference, unless its copyright is noted as belonging to another organisation. You must not reproduce it by any other means without permission.

Ref No:	arc02195
Title:	Mary Queen of Scots, signed letter the Laird of Barnbarrock
Location:	Sheffield
Date:	1571
Date Period:	1500-1799
Notes:	Signed by Mary during her imprisonment at Sheffield in 1571. Modern transcription: Truest friend. We greet you well. We are not ignorant of the good intentions you bear towards us and the exertions you have undertaken in our service which, God willing, we hope to acknowledge and to give you such thanks as will content you. And so that we may have the more to remember, we pray you to use your good counsel and assistance to make your friends and our subjects show themselves plainly as defenders of our authority at this time, and we assure you that help for them shall not be lacking in due time; and if they take any other course, we acquit ourselves before God and man of giving them any occasion to do so, seeing that they will be well supported, as the bearer of this can show more fully. And so farewell. At Sheffield, the 10th day of May, 1571. Your good friend MARY R Original at Sheffield City Archives ref. MD1887/2.
Link: