Ibid. ii. 693.
293
Bain, ii. 541.
294
Ibid. ii. 533.
295
Addit. MSS. ut supra.
296
His letter is given in full by Hosack, i. 518-522.
297
Goodall, ii. 179-182.
298
Bain, ii. 551.
299
Goodall, ii. 182, 186.
300
Goodall, ii. No. lxvi. 189.
301
Anderson, iv. pt. ii. 115-121. Goodall, ii. 203-207.
302
Teulet, ii. 237.
303
Anderson, ii. 125-128. Bain, ii. 562, 563.
304
See Hosack, i. 432, 583. The opinions of the Legists are taken from La Mothe, i. 51, 54. December 15, 1568.
305
Goodall, ii. 222-227. But compare her letter of Nov. 22, p. 265, supra.
306
Bain, ii. 565, 566.
307
Goodall, ii. 229.
308
In my opinion the book is by George Buchanan, who presents many coincident passages in his Detection. On February 25, 1569, one Bishop, an adherent of Mary’s, said, under examination, that ‘there were sundry books in Latin against her, one or both by Mr. George Buchanan,’ books not yet published (Bain, ii. 624). Can the Book of Articles have been done into Scots out of Buchanan’s Latin?
309
When Goodall and Laing wrote (1754, 1804) the Minutes of December 7 had not been discovered.
310
Bain, ii. 569, 570.
311
Bain, ii. 571-573. (Cf. pp. 254, note 3, and 271, supra.)
312
See Appendix E (#pgepubid00028), ‘The Translation of the Casket Letters.’
313
The extant copy is marked as of December viii. That is cancelled, and the date ‘Thursday, December 29’ is given; the real date being December 9. (Bain, ii. 576, 593, 730, 731.) This Declaration was one of the MSS. of Sir Alexander Malet, bought by the British Museum in 1883. The Fifth Report of the Historical MSS. Commission contains a summary, cited by Bresslau, in Kassetenbriefen, pp. 21, 23, 1881. In 1889, Mr. Henderson published a text in his Casket Letters. That of Mr. Bain, ut supra, is more accurate (ii. 730 et seq.). Mr. Henderson substitutes Andrew for the notorious Archibald Douglas, and there are other misreadings in the first edition.
314
See ‘The Internal Evidence,’ pp. 302-313 (#Page_302).
315
Mr. Bain omits December 13; see Goodall, ii. 252.
316
Bain, ii. 579, 580.
317