The numerous Catholic and Scottish plots end…
February 1587 CE
The numerous Catholic and Scottish plots end in Elizabeth’s execution of Mary, convicted for treason on the basis of information gathered by Walsingham, on February 8, 1587, at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.
Her son James VI of Scotland, eager to inherit the childless Elizabeth’s throne, merely protests when his mother is beheaded for treason.
Mary’s body is to lie here for some months before its burial at Peterborough Cathedral and then its final burial in Westminster Abbey.