143
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. p. 392.
144
Laing, ii. 256.
145
Diurnal, 127, 128. Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 393.
146
Hosack, ii. 245.
147
This was obvious to Laing. Replying to Goodall’s criticism of verbal coincidences in the confessions, Laing says, ‘as if in any subsequent evidence concerning the same fact, the same words were not often dictated by the same Commissioner, or recorded by the Clerk, from the first deposition which they hold in their hands.’ It does not seem quite a scientific way of taking evidence.
148
See the Confessions, Laing, ii. 264.
149
Bain, ii. 312, 313.
150
Arnott and Pitcairn, Criminal Trials.
151
Buchanan, History (1582), fol. 215.
152
Maitland Miscellany, iv. p. 119.
153
French Foreign Office, Registre de Depesches d’Ecosse, 1560-1562, fol. 112.
154
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. p. 7, No. 31.
155
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 229. Drury would not here add to our confidence by saying that ‘Sir Andrew Ker’ (if of Faldonside) ‘with others were on horseback near to the place for aid to the cruel enterprize if need had been.’ Ker, a pitiless wretch, was conspicuous in the Riccio murder, threatened Mary, and had but lately been pardoned. After Langside, he was kept prisoner, in accordance with Mary’s orders, by Whythaugh. But the Sir Andrew of Drury is another Ker.
156
Bain ii. 321, 325.
157
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 252.
158
Bain, ii. 394. Cullen is spelled ‘Callan,’ and is described as Bothwell’s ‘chalmer-chiel.’
159
Bain, ii. 355.
160
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 500. Hosack, i. 350, note 2, and Schiern’s Bothwell.
161
Laing, ii. 269.
162
Bain, ii. 698.
163
See Appendix B (#pgepubid00025), ‘The Burning of the Lyon King at Arms.’
164
Bain, ii. 667, 668.
165
Laing, i. 256, 257.
166
Laing, ii. 253.
167
Murdin, i. 57.