8 February; on this date in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringay Castle in Northamptonshire for treason and plotting to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

FOTHERINGAY written by Sandy Denny

How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er,
And watched the daylight passing within her captive wall,
With no-one to heed her call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIycNGPyHzI Fotheringay
Performed by Fairport Convention; BBC John Peel Session 1968

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Link to post above MARY'S RHAPSODY