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either to restore them or condemn them. We have no whither to appeal but to your con sciences; we have no friends to make there but your heads and discretions. Take heed, I beseech you, let no colors nor inducements deceive you; let your ground be substantial for your building is weighty."

have been as true subjects as ever the Queen had any." From a legal standpoint, nothing can be said in extenuation of the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots (i St. Tr. 1161). It is almost the only instance in English history of a great state prisoner being condemned by a tribunal

THOMAS HOWARD, DUKE OF NORFOLK.

When asked to speak at the close, he said: "It was not our death that ever we feared. Wre knew that we were not lords of our own lives, and therefore for want of answer would not be guilty of our own deaths. The only thing that we have now to say is, that if our religion do- make us traitors, we are worthy to be condemned; but otherwise are and

before which she neither appeared nor was represented. Mary was tried under a special act by a commission whose jurisdiction she stoutly denied. Even so, the commission had power only to examine as to the alleged con spiracy against Elizabeth's life. But to preju dice Mary's defense a host of statements were made as to her dealings with Spain