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It appears from Camden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth and other authorities, that this Charles Bailly, or Bailif, as Camden fpells his name, was a perfon engaged in the fervice and practices of the queen of Scots, who, coming over to England early in the year 1571, was the moment he landed at Dover feized and imprifoned, By the firft infcription he appears to have been in the Tower on the i Oth of April that year. x- In Murdin's Collection of State Papers relating to Affairs in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, there is preferved a great deal of infor- mation concerning him. In a letter dated from his prifon in the Tower, " this month of October, the 7th of my imprifonment, 1571," to lord Burghley, he moft humbly befeeches his lordfhip " for God's fake, and for the paffion that he fuffered for us, to take pitie of me, and to bend your mercyfull eyes toward me, Charles Bailly, a poor prifoner and ftranger." Camden fays he was a Dutchman by birth, but his name is plainly Scottifh. Having difcovered, as he fays, all he knew, he concludes with faying, there te reftith no more for me, but after my prayer to God, all the quenes' majefties and your lordfliips enemys knowen, to the end they may be overthrowen and deftroyed, and all their purpofes and enterprifes broken, moft humbly to befcech your lordfhip to take companion of me, in putting me $o liberty ; affuring your lordfhip that I will make an othe never to ferve any Scottifhman agayn, or ftranger, whileft I lyve, but the queenes' majefty and your lordfhip, to whofe fervice I have been addicted all the tyme of my being in this realme, and have been carefull to fhew it in deede ; and that your lordfhip will confyder that I am a ftranger, who have no frend at all to help me with a penny, and that I am allready all naked and torne ; and that all thofe that be touched by that I have already opened to your lordfhip, do laughe me to fcorne for this

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