Mary of Scots arrives in England
Stow reports that Mary, Queen of Scots, arrived at Workington in England on 16 May.
What this does and does not establish
EEBO-TCP A13042, STC 23332, 1618, revision ac7e414bb857. The selected clause concerns her arrival; subsequent custody arrangements in the paragraph are not separately dated.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 16 May 1568, Old Style
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read stow.txt paragraphs 1409–1437 and accession paragraphs 1352–1355. Paragraph 1418 explicitly prints marginal 1568; paragraph 1419 follows directly. Regnal year 10 at 1415 agrees with Elizabeth's accession on 17 November 1558, recorded at 1354. Regnal year 11 appears at 1424, before the following March's marginal 1569 at 1428. May falls after the Old Style year boundary of 25 March, so the event maps to Julian AD 1568. No weekday is stated. Original quotation begins at line 1419, character 406253.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
The abridgement of the English Chronicle (1618)
John Stow and Edmund Howes
Quoted text (English)
The 16. of May, Mary Q. of Scots after her eſcape made out of Loughleuen, where ſhee had béene long impriſoned, arriued at Werkington in England,Plain reading of the quoted text, prepared by AI; the quoted wording governs
On 16 May, Mary, Queen of Scots, after escaping from Lochleven, where she had long been imprisoned, arrived at Workington in England,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Stow and Howes, 1618, EEBO-TCP A13042 (CC0 1.0). Project transcription rendering and working translation.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-07. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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