page_title: Amias Paulet
hierarchical_section_title: Amias Paulet
caption_attribution_description: English: The exection of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, drawn by Robert Beale (1541-1601),Clerk of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth I, who wrote the official record of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which he was an eyewitness. The evening before the exection he had read-out to Mary, Queen of Scots her death warrant and informed her that she was to be executed the following morning. Key to numbers: George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent are seated to the left (1 &amp; 2) and Sir Amias Paulet, one of Mary’s guards, is seated behind the scaffold (3).
context_page_description: Sir Amias Paulet of Hinton St. George, Somerset, was an English diplomat, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for a period of Mary, Queen of Scots.
context_section_description: Sir Amias Paulet (1532 – 26 September 1588) of Hinton St. George, Somerset, was an English diplomat, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for a period of Mary, Queen of Scots.
caption: The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, drawn by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Privy Council, an eyewitness. Sir Amias Paulet, Mary's gaoler, is identified as 3, top, seated left below dais; the official witnesses, the Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent, are identified as numbers 1 and 2.
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