22 Labanoff, I, p. 110
23 Ibid., p. 123
24 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 523; Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 295
25 Conyers Read, Cecil, p. 235
26 Wright, Queen Elizabeth, I, p. 84; p. 58
27 Philippson, Marie Stuart, III, p. 457
28 Robertson, Inventaires, p. lxxx
29 Conyers Read, op. cit., p. 237
CHAPTER TEN: Governor Good and Gracious
1 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 582
2 Knox, II, p. 33
3 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 609
4 Ibid., p. 613
5 Ibid., p. 563; Mackinnon, Constitutional History, p. 276
6 Robertson, Inventaires, p. xii
7 Exchequer Rolls, Vol. 19, Introduction, p. lxxi
8 Donaldson, Scotland: James V–James VI, p. 13 3
9 Neale, Queen Elizabeth, p. 215
10 Donaldson, op. cit., p. 169
11 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 206; Hume Brown, Early Travellers, p. 43
12 Lythe, Economy of Scotland, p. 57
13 Hume Brown, op. cit., p. 122
14 Chronicles of Atholl, p. 36
15 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 621
16 Robertson, op. cit., passim
17 Libraries of Mary Queen of Scots; Robertson, Inventaires, p. cxliii
18 Melville, Memoirs, p. 96
19 Ibid., p. 96
20 C.S.P. Scot., p. 675
21 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 148
22 Knox, II, p. 43
23 Robertson, op. cit., p. 125
24 Ibid., p. 60
25 Ibid., p. 75
26 Macgeorge, Miscellaneous Papers, p. 12; C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 448
27 Hume Brown, op. cit., p. 121; Hesketh, Tartan
28 Brantôme, Gallant Ladies, II, p. 215
29 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 148
30 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 579
31 Robertson, op. cit., passim
32 Knox, II, p. 32
33 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 8
34 Knox, II, p. 102
35 Child, Ballads, VI, p. 379
36 Robertson, op. cit., p. xlix, note 3
37 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, Additional notes, p. 490
38 Neale, op. cit., p. 65
39 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 53
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Fall of Huntly
1 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 79
2 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 513
3 Robertson, Inventaires, p. 49
4 Knox, II, p. 63; C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 665
5 R.P.C., I, p. 219
6 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 651
7 Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, II, p. 197; James Fraser, True Geneologie of the Frasers, 1666
8 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 651
9 Batten, Charters of the Priory of Beauly
10 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 665; Knox, II, p. 54
11 Knox, II, p. 59
12 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 74
13 Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, II, p. 205; p. 226
14 Dickinson, Scottish Parliament
15 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 162; Labanoff, I, p. 175
16 Keith, II, p. 182
17 Labanoff, I, p. 112
18 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 684
19 Knox, II, p. 69
20 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 315; Pollen, op. cit., p. 251
21 C.S.P. Foreign, VI, p. 211
22 Ibid., p. 260
CHAPTER TWELVE: A Husband for a Girl
1 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 85
2 Hamilton, I, p. 358
3 C.S.P. Spanish, I, p. 312
4 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 19
5 Keith, II, p. 213
6 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 130
7 Knox, II, p. 73
8 Ibid., pp. 82 et seq.
9 Ibid., p. 85, note 6
10 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 54
11 Ibid., p. 28
12 Melville, Memoirs, p. 92
13 C.S.P. Foreign, VII, p. 264
14 Ibid., p. 268
15 Strong, Eworth
16 Melville, Memoirs, p. 82
17 C.S.P. Foreign, VII, p. 299
18 Melville, op. cit., p. 101; Read, Cecil, p. 315
19 Melville, op. cit., p. 92
20 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 238; Knox, II, p. 203; Teulet, Papiers d’Etat, II, p. 112
21 Bannatyne M.S.S., II, p. 227
22 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 126
23 Teulet, op. cit., II, p. 42
24 Melville, op. cit., p. 107
25 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 126
26 Ibid., p. 75
27 Ibid., p. 129
28 Teulet, op. cit., II, p. 32
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Carnal Marriage
2 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 166
3 Papiers de Granville, XIV, p. 33;
4 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 168
5 Ibid., p. 171
6 Bannatyne M.S.S., II, p. 227
7 Register House, Edinburgh, S.P., 70 A
8 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. lxxv; p. xcv
9 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 348
10 Wright, Queen Elizabeth, I, p. 202
11 Knox, II, p. 158
12 Robertson, Inventaires, p. lxxxiv
13 Hat. Cal., I, p. 33
14 Knox, II, p. 162
15 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 201
16 Ibid., p. 139
17 Ibid., p. 213
18 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 93
19 Melville, Memoirs, p. 102
20 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 232
21 Melville, op. cit., p. 104
22 Labanoff, I, p. 300
23 Ibid., p. 296
24 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 234; p. 236
25 Knox, II, p. 174
26 Gatherer, op. cit., p. 92
27 Labanoff, I, p. 342
28 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 213; p. 241; p. 243; p. 327
29 Leslie, Defence, printed Anderson, Collections, I, p. 11
30 C.S.P. Foreign, VII, pp. 539, 541; Stewart, Scottish Coinage, p. 89
31 Herries, Memoirs, p. 73
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Our Most Special Servant
1 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 232
2 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 254
3 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 13
4 Knox, II, p. 178
5 Keith, II, p. 404
6 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 255
7 Tytler, History, V, p. 334
8 Keith, III, p. 265
9 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 258
10 Gordon, Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland
11 Froude, History, VII, p. 44
12 Melville, Memoirs, p. 113
13 Wright, Queen Elizabeth, I, p. 234
14 Labanoff, I, p. 342; Keith, III. p. 260
15 Chambers, Life of James I, p. 21
16 Birrel, Diary, p. 5 footnote
17 Herries, Memoirs, p. 79
18 Ibid., p. 77
19 Nau, Memorials, p. 4
20 Ibid., p. 15
21 Ibid., p. 16
22 Lennox Narrative: printed Mahon, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix A, p. 129
23 Nau, op. cit., p. 17
24 Labanoff, I, p. 351
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Breakdown
1 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 7; Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 400
2 Nau, Memorials, p. 7; C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 282
3 Nau, op. cit., p. 28
4 Labanoff, VII, p. 297
5 Donaldson, Scotland: James V–James VI, p. 130
6 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 254
7 Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell, p. 351; Herries, Memoirs, p. 80
8 Pitcairn, Criminal Trials, I, pt 1, p. 502
9 Nau, op. cit., p. 41
10 Hat. Cal., XIII, p. 82
11 Robertson, Inventaires, p. xxvi
12 Ibid., p. 93
13 Register House, Edinburgh: Clerk of Penicuik M.S.S. G.D. 18/1305
14 Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, II
, p. 512; p. 499; p. 501
15 R. Bannatyne’s Memorials, p. 238; C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 289
16 Woodgate, Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman
17 Gent, ‘The Edinburgh Castle Mystery’, Chambers Journal, September and October 1944
18 Melville, Memoirs, p. 131
19 Hat. Cat., I, no 1116; Levine, Early Elizabethan Succession Question, p. 188
20 Herries, Memoirs, p. 79
21 C.S.P. Domestic (James I), I, no 102
22 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 168
23 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 114; Keith, III, p. 349
24 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 118; Hay Fleming, op. cit., p. 411
25 Nau, op. cit., p. 30
26 Hay Fleming, op. cit., Appendix, p. 500
27 Keith, II, p. 447; p. 450
28 Labanoff, I, p. 374
29 R.P.C., I, p. 494
30 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, pp. 282 et seq.
31 Tytler, History, new enlarged edition, II, p. 400
32 Nau, op. cit., p. 31; Knox, II, p. 191
33 Nau, op. cit., p. 32
34 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 169
35 Stevenson’s Introduction to Nau, Memorials, p. cxlii
36 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 103
37 Keith, I, p. xcvi
38 Keith, III, p. 290
39 Hosack, Mary Queen of Scots, I, p. 532
40 Lee, Moray, p. 184; Donaldson, op. cit., p. 124
41 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 103
42 Robertson, op. cit., p. 61; p. 63; p. 69
43 Melville, op. cit., p. 143
44 Keith, I, p. xcvii
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Murder of Darnley
1 Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, p. 12; Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 105; Pitscottie, Chronicles, II, p. 91
2 Pearson, ‘Skull and Portraits of Lord Darnley’
3 Armstrong-Davison, Casket Letters, p. 312
4 Mahon, Tragedy of Kirk o’Field, p. 248
5 Keith, II, p. 460
6 C.S.P. Spanish, I, p. 597
7 Labanoff, I, p. 395
8 Keith, I, p. ciii
9 Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell, p. 293
10 Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, p. 12
11 Nau, Memorials, p. 31
12 Henderson, Mary Queen of Scots, II, Appendix C, p. 664
13 Pitcairn, Criminal Trials, I, pt 1, p. 501
14 Nau, op. cit., p. 33; Forbes-Leith, Narratives, p. 117
15 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 111; Mahon, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix A, p. 127
16 Robertson, Inventaires, p. ci
17 Gatherer, op. cit., p. 115; Pitcairn, op. cit., I, pt 1, p. 501; Robertson, op. cit., p. 177
18 Hosack, Mary Queen of Scots, I, p. 5 35
19 Nau, op. cit., p. 34; Mahon, op. cit., p. 115
20 Pitcairn, op. cit., I, pt 1, p. 496
21 Ibid., pt 1, p. 498
22 Ibid., pt 1, p. 502
23 Labanoff, II, p. 3
24 Mahon, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix A, p. 127; C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 389
25 Nau, op. cit., p. 34
26 Pitcairn, op. cit., I, pt 1, p. 493
27 Mahon, Tragedy of Kirk o’Field, p. 57
28 Nau, op. cit., p. 44
29 Knox, II, p. 201
30 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 182
31 Pitcairn, op. cit., I, pt 1, p. 495
32 Ibid., pt 2, p. 149
33 Mahon, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix A, p. 128
34 Pitcairn, op. cit., I, pt 1, p. 502; Herries, Memoirs, p. 84
35 Gatherer, op. cit., p. 116
36 C.S.P. Roman, II, p. 223
37 Labanoff, VII, p. 108
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Mermaid and the Hare
1 Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, p. 13
2 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 388
3 Labanoff, II, p. 3
4 Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, p. 13
5 Knox, II, p. 202
6 Robertson, Inventaires, p. lviii
7 Keith, I, p. xcviii
8 Anderson, Collections, I, p. 24
9C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 389
10 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 211
11 Ibid., p. 182
12 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 318
13 Tytler, History, VII, p. 372
14 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 185
15 R.P.C., I, p. 500
16 Robertson, op. cit., p. 53; C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 198; Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell, p. 374
17 Keith, II, p. 532; C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 198
18 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 108
19 Keith, II, p. 562
20 Nau, Memorials, p. 37
21 Labanoff, II, p. 20
22 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 386
23 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 322
24 Pitcairn, Criminal Trials, I, pt 1, p. 502
25 Melville, Memoirs, p. 149
26 Labanoff, II, p. 31
27 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 217
28 Phillips, Images of a Queen, p. 44
29 Lang, Mystery of Mary Stuart, p. 210
30 Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, Appendix XIV
31 Stuart, A Lost Chapter in the History of Mary Queen of Scots, passim
32 Hat. Cal., XIII, p. 82
33 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 110
34 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 454
35 Mahon, Tragedy of Kirk o’Field, p. 182
36 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 111
37 Robertson, op. cit., p. 175
38 Anderson, op. cit., I, p. 27; Keith, II, p. 588
39 Melville, op. cit., p. 154
40 Teulet, Papiers d’Etat, II, p. 170
41 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 229; Teulet, op. cit., II, p. 170
42 Mahon, op. cit., p. 184
43 Labanoff, II, p. 31
44 Ibid., p. 55
45 Tytler, History, new edition, III, p. 3; Teulet, op. cit., II, p. 156
46 Nau, op. cit., p. 40
47 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 336
48 Macgeorge, Miscellaneous Papers
49 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 246
50 Teulet, op. cit., II, p. 711 et seq.; Keith, II, p. 628; Herries, Memoirs, p. 93
51 Labanoff, II, p. 23
52 Nau, op. cit., p. 47
53 Ibid., p. 48
54 Ibid., p. 51
55 Melville, op. cit., p. 156
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Lochleven
1 Melville, Memoirs, p. 156
2 Nau, Memorials, p. 52
3 Macgeorge, Miscellaneous Papers, pp. 12 et seq.
4 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 730
5 Pitcairn, Criminal Trials, I, pt I, p. 495
6 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 269; p. 287
7 Nau, op. cit., p. 59
8 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 356
9 Ibid., p. 373
10 Ibid., p. 372
11 Ibid., p. 354
12 Ibid., p. 355
13 Nau, op. cit., p. 62
14 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 252; C.S.P. Spanish, I, p. 649
15 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 231
16 Donaldson, Scotland: James V– James VI, p. 125, footnote
17 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 376
18 Castelnau, Memoirs, I, p. 648; Labanoff, II, p. 63, footnote 2
19 Nau, op. cit., p. 62
20 Ibid., p. 64
21 Keith, II, p. 736
22 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 390
23 Nau, op. cit., p. 69
24 Keith, II, p. 738; Nau, op. cit., p. 69; C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 845
25 Labanoff, II, p. 61
26 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 345
27 Macgeorge, op. cit., pp. 12 et seq.
28 C.S.P. Foreign, VIII, p. 363
29 Ibid., p. 333
30 Ibid., p. 356
31 Henderson, The Casket Letters, Appendix D, p. 177
32 Acts of Parliament of Scotland, III, p. 27
33 Nau, op. cit., p. 71
34 Ibid., p. 59
35 Pitcairn, op. cit., I, pt 1, p. 491; Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 128
36 Wright, Queen Elizabeth, I, p. 206
37 Labanoff, II, p. 69
38 Ibid., p. 65
39 Hat. Cal., I, no 1172; Cecil Papers folio no 147/26; Labanoff, II, p. 67
40 Melville, op. cit., p. 168
41 Keith, II, p. 790
42 Nau, op. cit., pp. 84 et seq.
43 Labanoff, III, p. 15
44 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 414
45 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots (unpublished documents), p. 511
CHAPTER NINETEEN: In Foreign Bands
1 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 129
2 Henderson, Mary Queen of Scots, II, p. 494
3 Labanoff, II, p. 76
4 Argyll Papers
5 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, V, p. 99
6 Labanoff, II, p. 117
7 Ibid., VI, p. 472
8 Nau, Memorials, p. 95
9 Labanoff, II, p. 71
10 Strickland, Queens of Scotland, VI, p. 103
11 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 410
12 H.M.C., Vol. V, Appendix to 5th Report, p. 615; Ailsa Muniments folio 7
13 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 416
14 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 409
15 Ibid., p. 428
16 Ibid., p. 416
17 Ibid., p. 420
18 Ibid., p. 448
19 Ibid., p. 453; Macgeorge, Miscellaneous Papers, p. 17
20 Arbuthnot, Queen Mary’s Book, p. 100
21 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 452
22 Labanoff, II, p. 91
23 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 433
24 Conyers Read, Cecil, p. 402
25 Mahon, Indictment, p. 3
26 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 442
27 Conyers Read, op. cit., p. 401
28 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 435
29 Ibid., p. 457
30 Ibid., p. 443
31 Ibid., p. 509; p. 510
32 Goodall, Casket Letters, II, p. 360
33 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 494
34 Ibid., p. 510
35 Ibid., p. 495
36 Labanoff, II, p. 182
37 Ibid., p. 237
38 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 516
39 Ibid., p. 541
40 Labanoff, II, p. 181
CHAPTER TWENTY: Her Privy Letters
1 R.P.C., I, p. 641
2 C.S.P. Scot., II, p. 526
3 Hat. Cal., I, p. 369
4 Ailsa Muniments, folio 31; Labanoff, II, p. 225
5 Labanoff, II, p. 420
6 Hosack, Mary Queen of Scots, I, P. 549
7 Goodall, Casket Letters, II, p. 261
8 Labanoff, II, p. 254
9 Ibid., p. 257
10 Goodall, op. cit., p. 305
11 Macgeorge, Miscellaneous Papers, p. 13
12 Lady Bailie-Hamilton, ‘A Historical Relic’. Quoted Lang, Mystery of Mary Stuart, p. 368
13 Public Record Office, London, SP/52/2; Cecil Papers 252/1–4; Cotton M.S.S.: Caligula, 1, folio 271
14 C.S.P. Scot., II, Appendix II, p. 722; Mahon, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 111
15 Ibid., Appendix II, p. 722
16 Ibid., Appendix II, p. 728
17 Hat. Cal., I, p. 376
18 Gatherer, Buchanan, p. 173