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How Mary, Queen of Scots kept secret her last letter before her execution

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Mary, Queen of Scots extinct a “spiral locking” methodology to seal the final letter she wrote prior to her execution, indicating that she wanted the contents to live secret, according to learn printed within the Electronic British Library Journal.

An example of letterlocking — where contributors doubled letters as envelopes to make particular the safety of a document — the fallen monarch extinct a spiral locking course of to seal a message that used to be “a final will and testament and a expose for martyrdom,” the learn printed on Friday says.

Mary used to be shrouded in political controversy for the length of her lifetime. She used to be subsequent in line to the throne after Henry VIII’s younger contributors, and used to be targeted by conspirators under the reign of her English cousin, Elizabeth I. Mary used to be interned for 19 years, after which she used to be performed at the age of 44, according to the royal family web web site.

‘Highly efficient and transferring’

Mary wrote the letter, which used to be addressed to her brother-in-law, Henry III of France, on the morning of her execution at Fotheringhay Fort in 1587, according to the learn.

She extinct a series of intricate folding and slitting ways to shut the letter, which researchers narrate as “surely one of many most spectacular examples of spiral locking” within the article.

A “mighty and transferring” testimony, the letter used to be seemingly folded by the monarch herself whereas she used to be in her penal advanced cell. There are moreover blotches on the letter, which some historians imply could well well be proof of Mary’s tears staining the paper, according to the learn.

Mary became a political target under the reign of Elizabeth I, and was executed at the age of 44.

Mary modified into a political target under the reign of Elizabeth I, and used to be performed at the age of 44.

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“Sire, my brother-in-law, having by God’s will, for my sins I feel, thrown myself into the strength of the Queen my cousin, at whose hands I beget suffered much for nearly twenty years, I beget at final been condemned to death by her and her Estates,” the letter reads, according to an English translation within the Nationwide Library of Scotland.

“I beget asked for my papers, which they’ve taken away, in expose that I’d make my will, however I beget been unable to recuperate anything else of use to me, or even receive leave either to make my will freely or to beget my body conveyed after my death, as I’d need, to your kingdom where I had the honor to be queen, your sister and extinct ally,” the letter says.

“I am to be performed esteem a criminal at eight within the morning,” the letter adds.

As Mary didn’t beget receive entry to to most of her possessions at the time, alongside with her letter writing utensils, she would beget had to cut the letter the use of an replacement blade — and used to be presumably aided by her females-in-ready Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle.

Letterlocking

Letterlocking used to be extinct broadly for the length of early contemporary Europe, and used to be a significant course of of guaranteeing the safety of letters prior to heavily produced gummed envelopes had been manufactured within the 19th-century.

It carried out a actually mighty goal within the “history of secrecy techniques,” enabling “global correspondence within the early contemporary period as basically as computer coding underpins digital verbal exchange at the quiet time,” the learn paper says.

The learn, which is piece of the Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens exhibition at London’s British Library, moreover divulges the use of spiral locking by other neatly-known European monarchs alongside with Queen Elizabeth I in 1573 and Catherine de’ Medici in 1570.

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