6
The papers used by Lennox in getting up his indictment against Mary are new materials, which we often have occasion to cite.
7
Mr. Henderson doubts if Darnley knew French.
8
M. Jusserand has recently seen the corpse of Bothwell. Appendix A.
9
Actio, probably by Dr. Wilson, appended to Buchanans Detection.
10
Teulet, ii. p. 176. Edinburgh, June 17, 1567.
11
See a facsimile in Teulet, ii. 256.
12
Appendix B. Burning of the Lyon King at Arms.
13
The private report is in the Lennox MSS.
14
See the sketch, coloured, in Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. i. p. 184.
15
See description by Alesius, about 1550, in Bannatyne Miscellany, i. 185-188.
16
Information from Father Pollen, S.J.
17
This gentleman must not be confused with Ormistoun of Ormistoun, in Teviotdale, The Black Laird, a retainer of Bothwell.
18
Riddell, Inquiry into the Law and Practice of the Scottish Peerage, i. 427. Joseph Robertson, Inventories, xcii., xciii. Schiern, Life of Bothwell, p. 53.
19
Randolph to Cecil, Edinburgh, Sept. 23, 1560. Foreign Calendar, 1560-61, p. 311.
20
Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 236, note 32.
21
Cal. For. Eliz. 1561-62, iv. 531-539.
22
Knox, Laings edition, ii. 322-327. Randolph to Cecil ut supra.
23
Knox, ii. 347.
24
Knox, ii. 473.
25
Hay Fleming, p. 359, note 29.
26
Knox, ii. 479.
27
See Cal. For. Eliz. 1565, 306, 312, 314, 319, 320, 327, 340, 341, 347, 351.
28
Calendar, Bain, ii. 223.
29
Bain, ii. 213.
30
Ibid. ii. 242, 243.
31
Hosack, i. 524.
32
Cal. For. Eliz. 1564-5, 464.
33
Bain, ii. 222-223.
34
Bain, ii. 225. Cal. For. Eliz. 1564-5, 464, 495. Hay Fleming, pp. 380, 381.
35
Miss Strickland avers that existing documents afford abundant proof, that whenever Darnley and the Queen were together, his name was written by his own hand.
36
October 31, 1565. Bain, ii. 232.
37
Bain, ii. 234.
38
Randolph to Cecil, Nov. 19, Dec. 1, 1565. Bain, ii. 241, 242.
39
Bain, ii. 242.
40
Buchanan, Historia, 1582, fol. 210.
41
Bain, ii. 247.
42
The Foreign Calendar cites Randolph up to the place where amantium iræ is quoted, but omits that. The point is important, if it indicates that Randolph had ceased to believe in Marys amour with Riccio. Cf. Bain, ii. 248.
43
Nau, p. 192.
44
The subject is discussed, with all the evidence, in Hay Fleming, pp. 379, 380, note 33.
45
Ruthvens Narrative. Keith, iii. 260. There are various forms of this Narrative; one is in the Lennox MSS.
46
Goodall, i. 274.
47
Bain, ii. 255.
48
Printed in a scarce volume, Maitlands Narrative, and in Tytler, iii. 215. 1864.
49
Bain, ii. 259-261.
50
Goodall, i. 266-268.
51
Hosack, ii. 78, note 3.
52
See Dr. Stewart, A Lost Chapter in the History of Mary Queen of Scots, pp. 93, 94.
53
This is alleged by Mary, and by Claude Nau, her secretary.
54
Goodall, i. 264, 265.
55
Bain, ii. 289.
56
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 51.
57
Bain, ii. 276. Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 52.
58
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 62.
59
Bain ii. 278.
60
Ibid. ii. 281.
61
See Joseph Robertsons Inventories, 112.
62
Bain, ii. 283.
63
Melville, pp. 154, 155.
64
Bain, ii. 288, 289.
65
Bain, ii. 290.
66
Bain, ii. 294.
67
Nau, 20, 22.
68
Bain, ii. 296.
69
Detection, 1689, pp. 2, 3.
70
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 118.
71
Stevenson, Selections, pp. 163-165.
72
Cheruel, Marie Stuart et Catherine de Médicis, p. 47.
73
Robertson, Inventories, p. 167.
74
Bain, ii. 300.
75
Detection (1689), p. 4.
76
Bain, ii. 440.
77
Bannatyne, Journal, p. 238. This transference of disease, as from Archbishop Adamson to a pony, was believed in by the preachers.
72
Cheruel, Marie Stuart et Catherine de Médicis, p. 47.
73
Robertson, Inventories, p. 167.
74
Bain, ii. 300.
75
Detection (1689), p. 4.
76
Bain, ii. 440.
77
Bannatyne, Journal, p. 238. This transference of disease, as from Archbishop Adamson to a pony, was believed in by the preachers.
78
Teulet, Papiers dÉtat, ii. 139-146, 147, 151. See also Keith, ii. 448-459.
79
Frazer, The Lennox, ii. 350, 351.
80
Cal. For. Eliz. ix. 354, 355.
81
Laing, ii. 331, 334.
82
Nau, p. 35.
83
Bain, ii. 599, 600.
84
Bain, ii. 276.
85
Diurnal, p. 99.
86
See the evidence in Hay Fleming, 414, note 61.
87
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 139. Diurnal, 101.
88
Teulet, ii. 150.
89
Laing, ii. 72.