


Leonardo da Vinci

Tower of London

Henry VIII's Coronation

Jousting Rules

Catherine of Aragon's pregnancy

Utopia by Thomas More

Songs written by Henry VIII

The Field of Cloth of Gold

First printed Bible in English

Henry VIII's 'Great Matter'

Last letter from Thomas More to Henry VIII

Dissolution of the Monasteries

Henry VIII's Great Bible

Henry VIII's Psalter

Minstrels at a feast

Chopping Wood

Vesalius's anatomy lessons

Copernicus

Edward VI's diary

Henry VIII's assets

Letter from Elizabeth I

Circular zodiac chart

Elizabeth I's Map

The First National Lottery

Elizabeth I in a golden chariot

Handwritten recipe

Elizabethan dress codes

First English Dictionary

Recipe for pancakes

Mary Queen of Scots

Elizabeth's Tilbury speech

Elizabethan thieves

Doctor Faustus by Marlowe

A cure for drunkenness
Mary (1542-1587) was a Catholic with a claim to the English throne, and became a target for plotters under Elizabeth I. After being detained for nearly 20 years in England, she was brought to trial in 1586 for conspiracy, and was executed in Fotheringay Castle, Leicestershire. This drawing shows the execution. It was found in the papers of Robert Beale, the clerk who read out the death warrant before the execution. It shows Mary entering the hall attended by her women, on the scaffold, and lying on the block.
Shelfmark: Add. MS 48027, f.650.