... time her Privy Council ensured that there would be no reprieve for Mary. The execution was carried out at Fotheringay a week later without Elizabeth being informed in advance. She was buried initially in Peterborough cathedral, being moved later to Westminster Abbey when her son became James I of England. On receiving the news of Mary's execution the streets of Scotland, France and Spain resounded to cries of outrage and vows of revenge, but it was mainly shock speaking, not considered policy. Only Philip II put his money where his mouth was, since Mary's demise made him the official Catholic claimant to Elizabeth's throne. From the time of her marriage to Darnley, Mary had been subject to printed criticism on a scale which had never previously troubled a reigning sovereign. The extent to which this can be attributed solely to religious motives cannot be conclusively judged. Some contemporary attacks, like that of Thomas Jeney in Master Randolphes Phantasy preferred to concentrate on the way in ...

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