He, as well as the other conspirators, died in that belief.

There has not occurred, since that time, the least argument to prove that they were mistaken; can there be any reason at present to doubt the truth of their opinion?
Camden, though a professed apologist for Mary, is constrained to tell the story in such a manner as evidently supposes her guilt.

Such was the impossibility of finding any other consistent account, even by a man of parts, who was a contemporary! In this light might the question have appeared even during Mary's trial.
But what now puts her guilt beyond all controversy is the following passage of her letter to Thomas Morgan, dated the 27th of July, 1586: "As to Babington, he hath both kindly and honestly offered himself and all his means to be employed any way I would; whereupon I hope to have satisfied him by two of my several letters since I had his; and the rather for that I opened him the way, thereby I received his with your aforesaid." Murden, p.533.Babington confessed that he had offered her to assassinate the queen.

It appears by this that she had accepted the offer; so that all the suppositions of Walsingham's forgery, or the temerity or treachery of her secretaries, fall to the ground.] [Footnote 27: NOTE AA, p 231 This parliament granted the queen a supply of a subsidy and two fifteenths.

They adjourned, and met again after the execution of the queen of Scots; when there passed some remarkable incidents, which it may be proper not to omit.