The warrant which authorised the execution of Mary Queen of Scots has been bought by the Church of England for $150,00. Mary, the Catholic queen, who claimed both the Scottish and English crowns, was executed in 1587 on the order of her Protestant cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Dressed in scarlet, a Catholic colour of martyrdom, with her pet dog hidden among her skirts, legend has it that it took two blows of the executioner's axe to kill her. Reuters reports the warrant, a copy of the lost original, was purchased from a California auction house by the Lambeth Palace Library....