ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
redit must go to four hundred and thirty years of authors responsible for the primary, secondary, and tertiary texts that provided the research and resources for this work.
On the matter of dates: at the time of this story, England still used the old Julian calendar while the rest of Europe had adopted the new Gregorian calendar, with which we are all familiar today. To avoid any confusion, I have used the Gregorian dates for all events.
Spies are men of doubtful credit, who make a show of one thing and speak another.
-Mary, Queen of Scots