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CASKET LETTERS
DISCOVERED 1567 (OR NOT)
Casket Letters
The Casket Letters might or might not
have been forgery.
If they were real, they were eight
letters and a bunch of poems written by
 Mary Queen of
Scots to her lover James Hepburn, the 4th earl of Bothwell,
proving that they were planning to kill Mary's husband Henry Stewart, the earl of Darnley.
However, many historians think the
Casket Letters, or at least the part of the letters that held the
evidence against Mary, were a fake.
In any event, the letters vanished in
the 1580s.
The correspondence was called the Casket
Letters because they supposedly had been found in James Hepburn's
silver casket.
The date?
June 20, 1567.
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