93
Goodall, ii. 359.
94
Historia, fol. 214.
95
Keith, iii. 294. Bain, ii. 600.
96
Laing, ii. 293, 294.
97
The original MS. has been corrected by Lennox, in the passages within brackets. The italics are my own.
98
Bain, ii. 516, 517.
99
De Brienne came to Craigmillar on November 21, 1566, Diurnal.
100
Nau, p. 33.
101
Bain, ii. 293, 310.
102
Melville, p. 172. (1827.)
103
Crawford, in his deposition against Mary, says that she spoke sharp words of Lennox, at Stirling, to his servant, Robert Cunningham.
104
Keith, i. xcviii.
105
Bain, ii. 293. This Rogers it was who, later, informed Cecil that ‘gentlemen of the west country’ had sent to Darnley a chart of the Scilly Isles. If Darnley, among other dreams, thought of a descent on them, as he did on Scarborough, he made no bad choice. Mr. A. E. W. Mason points out to me that the isles ‘commanded the Channel, and all the ships from the north of England,’ which passed between Scilly and the mainland, twenty-five miles off. The harbours being perilous, and only known to the islesmen, a small fleet at Scilly could do great damage, and would only have to run back to be quite safe. Darnley, in his moods, was capable of picturing himself as a pirate chief.
106
Hay Fleming, p. 415, note 63.
107
Labanoff, ii.
108
Labanoff, i. 396-398. Mary to Beaton, Jan. 20, 1567.
109
Hosack, ii. 580. Crawford’s deposition.
110
Hosack, i. 534.
111
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 163, 164. January 9, 1567.
112
See Appendix C (#pgepubid00026), ‘The date of Mary’s visit to Glasgow.’
113
The ‘undermining and’ are words added by Lennox himself to the MS. They are important.
114
Maitland of Lethington.
115
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 167-168.
116
On July 16, 1583, she wrote from Sheffield to Mauvissière, the French Ambassador, bidding him ask the King of France to give Archibald Douglas a pension, ‘because he is a man of good understanding and serviceable where he chooses to serve, as you know.’ She intended to procure his pardon from James (Labanoff, v. 351, 368). She employed him, and he betrayed her.
117
Laing, ii. 223-236.