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Bargany, Laird of, at cards with Archibald Douglas, 32

Barham, Serjeant, asserts that Lethington stole the Casket Letters and
that his wife copied them, 248;
denies that Mary received French copies, 249

Beaton, Archbishop (Mary’s ambassador in France), communicates with Mary
about Hiegait and Walker, 110, 114;
affirms that Moray is Mary’s mortal enemy, 210

Beaton, Archibald (Mary’s usher), Mary’s concern for, 6;
misses the keys at Kirk o’ Field, 164, 165

Beaton, James (Archbishop Beaton’s brother), joins Mary at Dunbar, 186;
with her at Carberry Hill, 187;
on Lethington’s treacherous behaviour to Mary, 190

Beaton, Mary (one of the Queen’s Maries), 4;
and Ogilvy of Boyne, 26;
her aunts at feud with Mary, 356;
her handwriting, 364

Beaufort, Jane (widow of James I.), 45

Bedford, Earl of (Elizabeth’s ambassador), fears that Mary secretly
abetted Bothwell, 56;
on Riccio, 59;
declares Bothwell to be hated in Scotland, 80;
instructs his suite not to recognise Darnley as king, 106

Bellenden (Justice Clerk), member of council, 172, 203;
implicated in Riccio’s murder, 203

Binning (Archibald Douglas’s servant), his confession, 148

Birrel (‘Diary’), on the blowing up of Kirk o’ Field, 140;
on the date Mary left Edinburgh, 292;
nd that of her visit to Glasgow, 379, 380

Black Friars, the Dominican Monastery of, 124, 125, 126, 127, 130, 131

Blackader, William (Bothwell’s retainer), hanged denying his guilt, 153,
195;
cited, 165

Blackwood, on unsigned letters attributed to Mary, 198, 212

Blavatsky case, the, cited, 278, 279

Bolton, Mary at, 249, 250, 251, 283

Book of Articles, cited, 59, 86, 94, 95, 107, 114, 255, 271, 272, 278,
279, 280, 281, 316, 318 note, 322;
on the conference at Craigmillar, 96;
on Darnley’s murder, 141, 142, 148;
on the Glasgow letters, 308, 317;
its supposed author, 318

Borthwick Castle, Mary and Douglas at, 185

Bothwell (James Hepburn, Earl of), personal appearance, 14, 18;
age at Darnley’s murder, 14;
literary tastes, 15;
character as depicted by his foes, 15;
his courage in question, 16;
handwriting, 17;
study of works on art magic, 17;
accused of winning Mary’s favour by witchcraft, 17, 36;
his standard of culture compared with that of Scots nobles, 18;
masterful nature, 18;
hatred of Maitland of Lethington, 25;
epitome of early career, 46;
espouses the cause of Mary of Guise, 47;
seizes Cockburn of Ormiston, 47, 49;
deceives and deserts Anne Throndsön under promise of marriage, 47;
said to have had three wives simultaneously, 48;
at the French Court, 49;
feud and reconciliation with Earl of Arran, 47, 49, 50;
solicits Arran’s aid in a plot to seize Mary, 50;
warded in, but escapes from, Edinburgh Castle, 51, 53;
in league with Huntly, 53;
Lieut.-General and Admiral, 54;
Elizabeth’s prisoner at Holy Island, 54;
Captain of the Scottish Guards in France, 54;
said to have accused Mary of incestuous relations with her uncle the
Cardinal, 54;
returns to Scotland and his Border fastness, 56;
outlawed, 56;
summoned by Mary to assist her, 57;
ill-feeling towards Darnley, 57;
marries Lady Jane Gordon, 26, 68;
rescues Mary from prison after Riccio’s murder, 69;
intrigues with Darnley for the ruin of Moray and Lethington, 72, 73;
at the Border during Mary’s accouchement, 76;
Bedford’s statement that he was the most hated man in Scotland, 80;
reconciled by Mary to Lethington, 81;
his guilty intimacy with Mary, 82, 83;
concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley, 90, 98, 99;
wounded in Liddesdale, 93;
visited by Mary at Hermitage Castle, 93;
his share in Darnley’s murder, 117, 118, 136, 139, 142, 144, 145, 147,
148, 149, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 171,
172, 175;
escapes to Denmark, 154;
Paris’s evidence as to familiarities between him and Mary, 162;
his possession of the keys to Mary’s room at Kirk o’ Field, 163, 164,
165;
influence over Mary, 176;
objects of ‘Ainslie’s band,’ 177, 178, 181, 329, 330, 383;
seizes Mary and takes her to Dunbar, 179, 330, 332;
is created by Mary Duke of Orkney, and marries her, 183;
intimacy with his divorced wife after marriage with Mary, 27, 184;
at Carberry Hill, 16, 186;
gives Mary a copy of the Darnley murder band, 187;
summons from the Lords for Darnley’s murder and Mary’s abduction, 202;
tried and declared innocent of Darnley’s murder, 177;
Mary’s alleged letter inciting him to Darnley’s murder, 211, 212
(_see_ Casket Letter II.);
the Privy Council’s Declaration, 239;
Mary’s submissive attitude to him, 315;
said to have been present at the brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert
Stuart, 328;
advice given by Mary as to his relations with the Lords, 331;
ring sent him by Mary, 335, 337, 341;
betrothal ring given by him to Mary, 340;
letters to his wife after his marriage with Mary, 351;
place of his death and burial, 371, 372, 373.
_See_ Mary Stuart

Bothwell, Lady. _See_ Lady Jane Gordon

Bowes (Elizabeth’s envoy to Scotland), 365;
tries to induce Gowrie to give up the Casket, 366

Bowton, Hepburn of, his statement of Darnley’s murder, 143, 144, 146,
158, 165, 170, 233, 278, 280, 310;
dying confession, 167;
execution, 139

Boyd, Lord, 73

Brantôme, on Bothwell’s personal appearance, 18;
on the Casket Sonnets, 344

Branxholme, the Lady of, rails at Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, 184

Bresslau, Herr, on the Casket Letters, 387

Buchan, Earl of (grandfather of Christian Stewart), 19

Buchan, Master of, killed at Pinkie, 19

Buchanan, George (poet and historian), celebrates Mary’s virtues, 15;
his inaccurate accounts of her behaviour, 33, 34;
anecdotes of visions portending Darnley’s fate, 37;
tale of Mary at Alloa with Bothwell, 80;
on the guilty intimacy of Mary and Bothwell, 81;
respecting Lady Reres, 82, 83;
on the Craigmillar conference, 96, 97, 98;
Latin elegiacs on Mary, 105;
on Darnley’s murder, 141;
his treatment of the Darnley case, 148-151;
on Paris’s Deposition, 157;
on Darnley’s meek endurance of Mary’s slights, 314;
account of a brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart, 323, 328

Caithness, Earl of (member of council), 172

Calderwood, on Morton’s warrant from Mary for signing Ainslie’s band, 254

Callendar, Mary at, 112, 318 note

Camden, on Lethington counterfeiting Mary’s handwriting, 357, 358

Carberry Hill, Mary and Bothwell at, 186

Cardauns, M., on the translations of the Casket Letters, 386

Carwood, Margaret, Mary’s intended bequest of a casket to, 365

Casket, the, official description of, 365;
the one in possession of the Hamilton family, 367-370

Casket Letter I., its place in order of composition, 290, 291;
question of date, 291, 292;
intelligible if classed as Letter II., 293;
purport, 293;
reference to Lethington in English copy, 294;
possibly authentic and indicating a presumptively authentic Letter
II., 295;
published Scots and English translations, 391-393

Casket Letter II., shows Mary’s complicity in the murder of Darnley, 14;
not genuine if the chronology of Cecil’s Journal be accepted, 296;
authenticity opposed by the letter cited by Moray and Lennox, 296, 320;
probably garbled, 297, 300;
difficulties of internal chronology, 297;
Crawford’s corroboration of parts, 297;
theory of dovetailing by a forger, 300 et seq.;
objections based on Crawford’s written Deposition, 302-304;
verbal identities with Crawford’s account, 305, 306;
differences from, 307;
reveals Darnley’s unconcealed knowledge of Mary’s relations with
Bothwell, 307;
German theory respecting correspondence of deposition with, 308;
influence of Mary’s memoranda with regard to genuineness, 309;
forgery--balance of probabilities, 309, 313, 314;
not inconsistent with Mary’s style and character, 313;
shows Mary’s remorse and submission to Bothwell, 315;
reasons pointing to partial genuineness, 316;
the phrase ‘a more secret way by medicine,’ 317;
confused by Buchanan with the letter described by Moray and Lennox,
318;
the ‘ludgeing’ in Edinburgh, 318;
the Craigmillar reference, 319, 320;
represents Mary as tortured by remorse, 348;
published Scots and English translations, 393-414;
concerning, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 229, 232, 245, 253

Casket Letter III., copy of the French original, 322;
gives brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart, 323-328;
its affected style, 325, 328;
original French version at Hatfield, 414, 415

Casket Letter IV., subject of, 329;
original French version, 416

Casket Letter V., concerning Mary’s abduction by Bothwell, 329, 330;
the several translations, 330;
original French version at Hatfield, 417, 418

Casket Letter VI., Mary advises Bothwell as to his relations with the
Lords, 331;
her excuses for her marriage with Bothwell, 331, 332;
published Scots translation, 418

Casket Letter VII., subject of, 333;
coincidence with Mary’s instructions to Bishop of Dunblane, 359, 360;
Scots version, 419

Casket Letter VIII. (III. in Henderson): reproaches Bothwell with
coldness, 334;
concerning the enamel ring sent by Mary to Bothwell, 335;
refers to a betrothal ring received by her from Bothwell, 336;
affectation of its style, 336;
Mary’s gift of a symbolic mourning ring to Bothwell, 337, 341;
contract of marriage with Bothwell, 337, 338;
unknown date, 339;
theory of its having been written to Darnley, 339;
circumstances in Mary’s relations with Bothwell referred to, 339;
original French version, 420, 421

Casket Letter IX.: the French Sonnets, 422, 426

Casket Letters: their discovery, 195, 274, 275;
early tampering with suggested, 198, 199, 200, 208;
published in Scots, Latin, and French, 198;
Scots versions compared with French originals, 226, 243;
unsigned copies, 240;
Scots versions sent to Mary by Lethington’s wife, 248;
French copies, 273;
English translations, 274;
original language in which they were written, 346;
phraseology and orthography, 347;
tone and style, 347, 348;
compared with the Sonnets, 349, 350;
uniformity of sentiment and passion, 350, 351, 352;
authenticity considered, 352;
Lethington’s suspected garbling, 361;
Archibald Douglas a possible forger, 362;
translations of, 385-391.
_See_ under each Casket Letter

Casket Sonnets, 217;
Mary’s love for Bothwell depicted, 235;
topics of, 345;
prove Mary’s passion for Bothwell, 345;
compared with the Letters, 349;
the French, 422, 426

Cassilis (member of council), 172

Catherine de Medicis, 84, 85, 87, 89, 92, 192

Catholic League, the, 64

Cauldwell, Alexander (a retainer of Eglintoun’s), arrested by Mary, 103;
denies the rumour that Darnley was to be put in ward, 110, 111

Cecil (William Lord Burghley), his account of Riccio’s murder, 68;
avers that Bothwell obtained his divorce by accusing himself of an
amour with Lady Reres, 82;
circulates libels about Mary, but does not use Paris’s confession, 168;
knows of the existence of the Casket Letters and their proposed uses,
201;
Jhone a Forret’s mission to him, 209;
receives the Itinerary of Mary, 277, 291, 296;
on Mary’s stay at Callendar, 318 note;
Kirkcaldy’s letter to him, 359;
hints at Lethington’s manipulation of the Casket Letters, 361;
his description of the Casket, 369

Chalmers, David (a friend of Bothwell), 82

Charles IX. of France, 80;
resents the publication of the Casket Letters, 200

Chastelard, cited, 39

Chatelherault, Duke of (heir to the Scottish Crown), 10;
suit to be restored, 61;
acquires and builds a château on land near Kirk o’ Field, 125

Clark, Captain (in command of Scots in Danish service), Paris extradited
to him, 154, 374;
in correspondence with Moray, 154

Clernault (Frenchman), on the blowing up of Kirk o’ Field, 140

Cockburn of Ormiston, seized by Bothwell while carrying English money to
the Lords, 47;
his son carried off by Bothwell, 49

Coventry, Mary at, 337 and note

Craig (Protestant preacher), denounces Mary’s marriage with Bothwell,
183;
Lethington’s statement to him of his offer to Mary, 188

Craigmillar Castle, conference at, 91, 95, 96, 98, 99, 103, 319, 320

Crawford, Thomas (Lennox’s retainer), 35;
on Mary’s visit to Darnley at Glasgow, 113;
Lennox’s letter to him, 226;
deposition at Westminster, 276;
second deposition, 280, 310;
substantiates part of Letter II., 297;
verbal identities of his deposition with, and differences from, Letter
II., 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 385, 389, 390;
his private character, 309, 310, 312;
one indication of the truth of his oath, 311;
deposition anglicised from the Scots, 312;
full text of his deposition, 427-431

Crokat, May (Mrs. Stirling), sees the murderers of Darnley, 147

Cullen, Captain James (a soldier of fortune), 35;
officer of the guard to Mary, 151;
share in the Darnley murder, 152;
executed, 153;
his evidence burked, 156

Cunningham, Robert (Lennox’s retainer), Lennox’s letter to him, 226

Dalgleish, George (Bothwell’s valet), his confession regarding Darnley’s
murder, 84, 143, 144, 145, 146, 167, 195, 274, 278;
under torture reveals the Casket, 275;
executed, 144

Darnley, Henry Lord (son of Earl of Lennox), genealogy, 10;
letter to Mary Tudor, 10;
physical, moral and mental characteristics, 11, 18;
influence on Mary, 12;
marries her, 13, 57;
petulance and arrogance of his disposition, 13;
habits and health, 13;
on the possessions of Moray, 19;
his tragic end foretold in spiritual visions, 37;
at feud with the Lennox Stewarts, 58;
estranged from Mary, 59;
fondness for hunting, 60, 61, 62, 63;
removed from Mary’s Council, 60, 62;
at Peebles, 62;
affects to believe in, and have proofs of, Riccio’s amour with Mary,
63, 65, 67;
schemes with his father to obtain the crown, 66;
in league with Ruthven and Morton, 67;
present at Riccio’s slaying, 67;
list of those who aided him in the murder, 67;
his treachery to his associates after Riccio’s murder, 71;
Mary’s growing dislike of him, 73;
tale of Mary’s proposal to him to make Lady Moray his mistress, 74, 86;
urged to ruin Moray and Lethington, 76;
Mary’s gift of a bed to him, 81;
at Meggatdale with Mary, 81;
threatens to fly the country, 84, 85;
invited to state his grievances before the Council, 85;
powerful nobles against him, 85, 87;
determined not to be present at the baptism of his son, 86;
evidence of a signed ‘band’ against him, 87, 88, 90;
visits Mary at Jedburgh, 95, 96;
warned by Lennox of a plan to put him in ward, 101;
does not attend his son’s baptism, 105;
denied his title to the kingship, 106;
will not associate with the English therefor, 106;
anecdote of his treatment by Mary, at Stirling, 107;
wild projects attributed to him, 108;
complains of Mary to the Pope and Catholic Powers, 109;
rumours of his intended arrest, 111;
falls ill at Glasgow, 112;
his reply to Mary when she offers to visit him, 112;
Crawford’s account of his interview with Mary, 113;
returns with her to Edinburgh, 113;
the poison suggestion of his illness, 114;
brought to Kirk o’ Field, 115;
situation, environs, and interior of Kirk o’ Field, 123-133;
his letter to Lennox three days before his death, 133;
Mary’s interview with him on the eve of the explosion, 135;
his last hours, 136;
statements and theories of the manner of his death, 136, 138, 139,
140, 141, 142, 149, 150;
confessions of some of his murderers, 141-153;
his probable murderers, 169;
the band for his murder, 381-385

De Foix (French ambassador), Cecil’s account to him of Riccio’s murder,
68

De Silva (Spanish ambassador) discusses, with Elizabeth, Mary’s share in
Darnley’s murder, 171, 172;
knowledge of the Casket Letters, 197;
mentions their existence to Elizabeth, 201;
statement made to him by Mary’s confessor, 210;
Moray reports a guilty letter of Mary’s, 211, 214;
notifies Elizabeth of the Lords’ possession of the Casket Letters, 353

‘Detection,’ on the Craigmillar conference, 96;
on the Casket Letters, 200

‘Diurnal of Occurrents,’ quoted, 36, 139, 292, 378, 380

Douglas, Archibald (cousin of Morton), the ‘parson of Glasgow,’ 30, 31;
in Riccio’s murder, 31;
in Darnley’s murder, 31, 147, 148, 274;
Morton’s go-between, 31;
judge of Court of Session, 32, 147;
career of treachery, 32, 33;
states the existence of the Darnley murder band, 87, 90;
letter to Mary in exile, 89;
account of the band signed by Moray, 91;
endeavours to propitiate Mary, 117, 118, 119;
considered as a forger of the Letters, 362

Douglas, George, concerned in Riccio’s murder, 65;
witness against Moray and Lethington, 76

Douglas, Lady (Moray’s mother), 20

Douglas, Robert (brother of Archibald), at the discovery of the Casket
Letters, 275

Douglas, Sir George (father of the Earl of Morton), his treacherous
character, 29

Douglas, William, rescuer of Mary from Loch Leven, 6, 7, 34

Douglas, William (of Whittingham), accuses his brother Archibald of
forging letters, 32, 362

Dragsholm, Castle of, in Denmark, where Bothwell died, 372, 373

Drummond Castle, Mary at, 112

Drumquhassel, 35

Drury, quoted, on Captain Cullen, 152;
aware of Bothwell’s projected seizure of Mary, 180;
stays Nelson at Berwick, 319 note

Du Croc (French ambassador), on Bothwell’s courage, 16;
on differences between Darnley and Mary, 85, 86, 95;
high opinion of Mary, 87;
on Bothwell’s wound, 93;
declines to meet Darnley, 106;
finds Mary in tears at Stirling, 107;
opposed to Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, 183;
on Lethington’s interview with Mary after Carberry, 188;
leaves Scotland with copies of Casket Letters, 197, 198, 199

Dunbar, Mary at, 180, 186

Dunblane, Bishop of, letter presented by him to the Court of France in
excuse of Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, 331, 333;
coincidence of Mary’s instruction to, with Letter VII., 359, 360

Durham, Sandy (Bothwell’s servant), asks Paris for the key of Kirk o’
Field, 163

Durie, Rev. John, receives Morton’s confession, 148

Edinburgh, Mary’s midnight revels in, 4;
in Mary’s time, 40, 41, 42;
insanitariness, 41;
street brawling, 43;
social condition, 43;
house in, referred to in Mary’s letters, 316, 317, 318

Edinburgh Castle, Bothwell prisoner in, 51, 53;
Mary gives birth to James VI. at, 75;
Sir James Balfour holds, 274

Eglintoun, Lord, an untrustworthy Lennoxite, 110, 111;
evades subscription to the Ainslie band, 178

Elizabeth, Queen, acknowledges Mary’s physical and mental charm, 3, 4;
regards her as a rival, 9;
opinion of Maitland of Lethington, 24;
pestered to recognise Mary as her successor, 55;
congratulations on birth of James VI., 76;
her baptismal gift as godmother, 105;
receives Paris’s deposition, 154;
discusses with De Silva Darnley’s murder, 171, 172;
Lords appeal to her against Mary, 184, 185;
wavers between Mary and the dominant Scots party, 195;
acquainted with the discovery of the Casket Letters, 196;
angry with Lethington about them, 201;
communicates with Mary in Lochleven, 202;
demands of Moray the reason of the Lords’ rebellion, 228, 229;
favourably inclined to Mary, 237;
removes the conference from York to London, 260;
her Council at Hampton Court, 264;
declines Mary’s appeal for a hearing before her, 269;
asks for the Letters, 269;
adds to commissioners at Westminster, 277;
debars Mary her presence, 281, 282;
offers Mary three choices, 283;
refuses to permit Mary the sight of originals or copies of the
Letters, 284;
absolves both Moray and Mary, 285;
suspects Lethington of tampering with Letters, 353, 355, 358;
acquaints Mary with Robert Melville’s efforts, 355

Elphinstone, Nicholas (Moray’s messenger), not allowed to give Mary
Moray’s letters at Loch Leven, 210

Erskine, Arthur, 34;
escorts Mary to Dunbar, 69

Faarvejle Church, Denmark, Bothwell’s body and grave in, 371 et seq.

Fitzwilliam, John (of Gray’s Inn), Lesley’s letter to him, 286 note

Fleming, Dr. Hay, on Bothwell’s outlawry, 56

Fleming, Mary (Queen Mary’s favourite attendant), 4;
her love affair with Maitland of Lethington, 24;
when Lethington’s wife, copies the Letters, 247, 248

Fleming (member of council), 172

Forbes of Reres, kills Moray’s secretary, 33

Foster, Sir John, 54;
on Mary’s visit to Bothwell, 94;
on the Liddesdale reivers, 180

Froude, Mr. (historian), his opinion of Moray, 22;
on the discovery of the Casket Letters, 196;
on the Glasgow Letter, 212, 213;
on Mary’s attitude towards the Letters, 245

Galloway, Bishop of (member of council), 172

Glasgow, in the sixteenth century, 39;
Darnley ill at, 112

Glasgow Letter, the, 135, 162, 168, 211, 212, 213, 214, 225, 229, 255.
_See_ Letter II.

Glencairn, Earl of, received by Mary at Edinburgh Castle, 73, 92

Goodall, quoted, 312 note

Gordon, John (Mary’s servant), 7

Gordon, Lady Jane (daughter of Huntly, the Cock of the North), wife of
Bothwell, 26, 53, 68;
her literary love letters, 26;
conditions of her consent to a divorce with Bothwell, 27, 218;
relations with Bothwell after her divorce, 27, 184;
marries the Earl of Sutherland, and, on his death, Ogilvy of Boyne,
27, 218;
literary contest with Mary, 349, 350

Gowrie, Earl of, in possession of the Casket Letters, 366;
Bowes seeks to obtain them from him, 366;
insists on James’s consent before giving them up, 367;
executed for treason, 367

Greville, Fulke, attracted by the personality of Archibald Douglas, 33

Gueldres, Mary of (widow of James II.), 45

Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, resides at Hamilton House to
prevent Darnley’s occupation, 116;
there on the eve of Kirk o’ Field explosion, 149;
accessory to Darnley’s murder, 150;
member of council, 172;
hanged by Lennox, 150

Hamilton Casket, the, doubts as to its being the true Casket, 369

Hamilton, present Duke of, the Casket in his possession, 367, 368

Hamilton House, 115, 116, 131, 149

Hamilton, John, singular death of, 37

Hamilton, Lord Claude (Gloade), 149

Hampton Court, 264, 279

Handwriting, problems of, 363, 364

Hay, the Younger, of Tala, his complicity in Darnley’s murder, 35, 90,
143, 144, 145, 146, 157, 160, 165, 169, 328;
confession, 278;
execution, 139, 280

Henderson, quoted, on Letter II. and Crawford’s Deposition, 310, 312
note;
his text of the Casket Letters, 387

Henri II. of France, 5

Hepburn of Riccartoun (Bothwell’s agent), 56, 57

Hepburn, Patrick (Bishop of Moray), Bothwell’s great-uncle, 14

Hepburn, Patrick (parson of Kynmoir), evidence to a plot to kill Moray,
375, 376, 377, 378

Hepburns, the, character of, 45, 46

Hermitage Castle, Bothwell visited by Mary at, 39, 54, 93, 94

Herries, Lord, on Mary’s abduction, 241;
at the York Conference, 251;
at Westminster, 267;
challenged to battle by Lindsay, 285

Hiegait, William (Town Clerk of Glasgow), arrested by Mary, 103;
his tale of Darnley’s scheme to kidnap James VI., 108, 109, 110;
denies same before the Council, 110, 111;
cited, 301

Holy Island, Bothwell prisoner at, 54

Holyrood, fable of secret passage between it and Kirk o’ Field, 115, 116;
its environs, 124;
Sebastian’s marriage, 136

Hosack, Mr., on the authenticity of Letter II., 232;
on Glasgow Letter, 296

Hubert, Nicholas, his dying confession, 166

Hume, on Hubert’s confession, 166

Hume, Major Martin, on the Casket Letters, 197

Hunter, Michael, slain by the Black Laird of Ormistoun, 35, 36

Huntly, Earl of (Cock of the North), Mary’s chief Catholic supporter, 52;
dies in battle against her, 53

Huntly, Earl of (son of the Cock of the North; Bothwell’s
brother-in-law), influences his sister Lady Jane in her marriage
to and divorce from Bothwell, 53;
rescues Mary from prison after Riccio’s murder, 69;
complicity in Darnley’s murder, 90, 167, 168;
at Craigmillar, 98;
evidence against him suppressed, 143;
on the Council, 172;
Mary distrusts him, 330;
trusts him, 331;
manner of his death, 37, 38

James V. of Scotland, 18

James VI. of Scotland (I. of England), birth of, 59, 75;
baptism, 105;
his godmother Queen Elizabeth’s gift, 105;
crowned, 222

James Stuart (Mary’s great-great-grandson), 3

Jedburgh, Mary at, 93, 94, 95, 96

Jhone a Forret (? John Wood), supposed bearer of copies of Casket
Letters to Moray and Cecil, 209, 212, 219, 226, 233, 321 note

Joachim (a servant of Mary), cited, 298, 299

Jordan, Sandy (Earl of Morton’s servant), bearer of the Casket to
Gowrie, 366

Jusserand, M., on the corpse of Bothwell, 14 note;
on Bothwell’s remains and burial place, 371 et seq.

Keith, Agnes (daughter of the Earl Marischal), married to Moray, 20

Ker, Andrew, of Faldonside (one of Riccio’s murderers), 101, 152 note

Killigrew, his report of the Darnley case, 171

Kirk o’ Field (St. Mary in the Fields), 41, 124;
house prepared for Darnley, 115, 140, 141, 142;
blown up, 140;
site, situation, and environs, 123-132;
map of 1647 and chart of 1567, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131;
interior of the house, 132, 133;
cited in Letter II., 316, 317

Kirkcaldy of Grange, 34;
action against Mary, 184, 185;
Mary’s surrender to him at Carberry Hill, 187;
letter to Cecil, 359

Knollys, his estimate of the character of Mary, 3;
Mary’s accusation against him, 245;
on Mary at the York Conference, 257

Knox, John, denounces the fripperies of women, 4;
in argument on the Mass with Maitland of Lethington, 23, 24;
credited with winning a bride by witchcraft, 37;
patches up a reconciliation between Bothwell and Arran, 50;
Arran reveals to him Bothwell’s plot to seize Mary, 51;
on Bothwell’s escape from Edinburgh Castle, 53;
on Darnley’s sporting tastes, 60;
his drastic advice in the case of Mary, 66;
witch story concerning Lady Reres related to him, 82

Koot Hoomi’s (Blavatsky case) correspondence, cited, 278, 279

La Forest (French ambassador), reports the existence of letters proving
Mary’s complicity in the death of Darnley, 197;
his copies and the published Letters, 200

La Mothe Fénelon (French ambassador), on the Lords’ possession of
Letters written and signed by Mary, 198, 199;
on their publication in ‘Detection,’ 200;
pleads for Mary to be allowed to see originals or copies of Casket
Letters, 284;
opinion of the Casket Sonnets, 344, 345

Laing, Malcolm (historian), on Letter III., 325, 326;
on the Hamilton Casket, 367

Lennox, Earl of (Darnley’s father), 10;
forfeited estates restored, 55;
complains of Mary’s intimacy with Riccio, 58;
a competitor for the Scottish crown, 62;
wishes to see Darnley at Peebles, 62, 63;
schemes to get the crown for Darnley, 66;
accuses Mary of threatening to avenge Riccio with her own hands, 72;
avers that improper relations began between Mary and Bothwell soon
after the birth of James VI., 79;
on Mary’s behaviour at Stirling, 80;
warned of a plot to put Darnley in ward, 100;
‘Discourse’ prepared by him for York conference, 101;
‘Brief Discourse’ put in at Westminster, 102;
on a second conference at Craigmillar, 103;
not present at James VI.’s baptism, 105;
sends men to guard Darnley at Stirling, 107, 110, 111;
Minto, Walker, and Hiegait working in his interests, 111;
denies that either Darnley or himself suspected foul play from Mary,
113;
Darnley’s letter to him respecting Mary, 133;
urges the collection of the sayings and reports of all Mary’s
servants, 138;
account of his son’s murder, 141;
asks for the deposition of the priest of Paisley, 150;
states that Mary caused a hagbut to be fired as a signal for the Kirk
o’ Field explosion, 173;
describes Mary’s conduct at Seton, 175;
asks for the arrest of Bothwell, 176;
flight after his son’s death, 180;
his account of the Glasgow Letter tallies with Moray’s, 214, 215;
his additions to and differences from that Letter, 216 et seq.;
marginal note to Sonnet IV., 217, 218;
common source of his and Moray’s reports, 221;
proposed co-regency, 223;
collects extraneous evidence regarding Mary, 224, 226;
avers that Wood knows the murderers of Darnley, 227;
knowledge of the contents of the Casket Letters, 227, 228;
his indictments against Mary, 222, 223, 229, 230;
cites Letter II., 231;
activity in getting up evidence against Mary before the York
Commissioners, 253;
attitude at Westminster, 266;
on Crawford’s talk with Mary, 311, 312 note;
seeks to prove that the Kirk o’ Field plan was arranged between
Bothwell and Mary before Mary met Darnley at Glasgow, 316;
Papers, quoted, 58, 59, 74

Lennox, Lady, Mary complains to Elizabeth of her, 225

Lesley (Bishop of Ross), considers Bothwell a handsome man, 18;
wishes Mary to put Moray in ward, 75;
Huntly’s statement to, respecting Mary’s counter accusations, 96;
member of council, 172, 178;
asserts the Letters were not signed, 198;
on unsigned Letters attributed to Mary, 212;
one of Mary’s commissioners at York, 246;
share in the schemes of the Duke of Norfolk, 246;
report of an interview with Mary at Bolton, 247;
confession contradicted by Melville’s, 250;
conference with Lethington about the Letters, 258;
pleads for Mary to be heard in person before Elizabeth, 267;
protests against Moray’s production of the Letters, 270;
Elizabeth’s three choices to him, 283;
charge against Moray and the Lords, 285;
curious letter to John Fitzwilliam, 286 note;
on counterfeiters of Mary’s handwriting, 356

Lethington, Sir Richard (father of Maitland of Lethington), 23

Lethington (William Maitland, the younger), early life and culture, 23;
arguments with Knox, 23, 24;
Secretary to Mary of Guise, 23;
desires the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, 23;
friendly advances to Mary before her arrival in Scotland, 24;
character, 24;
allied by marriage with the Earl of Atholl, 24;
love affair with Mary Fleming, 24;
in every scheme against Darnley, 25;
dislikes and is hated by Bothwell, 25;
joins Mary’s enemies, 25;
nicknamed Michael Wylie (Machiavelli), 26;
political principles, 52;
counsels drastic measures against Riccio, 66;
reconciled by Mary to Bothwell, 81;
concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley, 88, 90;
his method of dealing with Darnley, which Parliament would support,
98, 99, 103;
favours a project of marriage between Norfolk and Mary, 155;
charged with complicity in the Darnley murder, 155, 156, 159;
refuses to aid Moray in betraying Norfolk, 156;
in attendance on Mary, 179;
prisoner at Dunbar, 179, 180, 181;
declares that Mary means to marry Bothwell, 181;
escapes from Bothwell, 182;
question of friendship for or enmity to Mary, 182;
flies to confederated Lords, 185;
persuades Sir J. Balfour to surrender Edinburgh Castle, 186;
interview with Mary, 188, 189;
reasons for his treachery to Mary, 190, 191, 192;
statement to Throckmorton respecting his conduct towards her, 204;
Randolph accuses him of advising Mary’s death, 204;
statement to Throckmorton about the letters, 205;
Mary’s documentary charge against him, 243, 244;
conduct at the York Conference, 246, 252;
accused of stealing the Casket Letters, and having them copied by his
wife, 248;
explains the reason for Mary’s abduction, 255;
his privy disclosure of the Letters, 257;
shakes Norfolk’s belief in same, 258;
discriminating attitude between private and public exhibition of
Letters, 287;
writes letter to be presented to the French Court concerning Mary’s
marriage with Bothwell, 331;
directs the scheme of garbling the Casket Letters, 353;
(?) despatches Melville to Cecil on the day of the finding of the
Casket Letters, 355;
privately hints that he had counterfeited Mary’s handwriting, 357,
358;
case against him, 358, 359;
‘Instructions’ drawn by him, 360;
Randolph hints at his tampering with the Letters, 361;
Herr Bresslau’s inferences of tampering, 387

Liddesdale reivers, the, 180

Lindsay, Sir David, pardoned, 112;
the Lords send him to Loch Leven to induce Mary to abdicate, 204;
challenges Herries to combat on Moray’s account, 285;
appointed Lyon King at Arms, 376

Livingstone, Lord, member of council, 172;
his knowledge of Mary’s amour with Bothwell, 253

Livingstone, Mary (Queen Mary’s attendant), 4;
wife of John Sempil, 356;
on ill terms with Mary, 356

Loch Leven, Mary imprisoned at, 192;
Lindsay sent to, to extort her abdication, 204;
Mary’s escape from, 242

Logan of Restalrig, treasure-finding, 375

Lords, Scots, of the Privy Council, banded against Mary, 185;
success at Carberry Hill, 195;
Casket Letters in their possession, 196, 201;
summons against Bothwell, 202;
their mixed character, motives, and statements, 203, 204;
demand of Mary her abdication, 204;
formulate charges against her, 205;
extort from her a consent to their proposals, 205;
vacillations with regard to the Letters, 206, 207;
obtain Mary’s signature to her abdication, 206;
forward copies of Casket Letters to Moray, 212;
publish their Declaration, 238;
accuse Mary of being privy to Darnley’s murder, 239;
on Mary’s handwriting, 241;
cause of their action against Mary, 355

Luzarche, M. Victor, his Coffret de Bijoux, 365

Maitland of Lethington. _See_ Lethington

Mameret, Roche (Mary’s confessor), on the character of the Queen, 210

Mar, Earl of, entertains Mary at Alloa, 80;
deprived of the custody of Edinburgh Castle, 172;
confederated against Bothwell, 181

Marryat, Mr. Horace, and the body of Bothwell, 373

Mary of Gueldres, 45

Mary of Guise, Regent, 19;
her secretary Lethington, 23;
deserted by her nobles, 47;
Bothwell espouses her cause, 47

Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland: the Morton portrait, 3;
periwig, 3 note;
midnight revels and masculine energy, 4, 5, 8;
her ‘four Maries,’ 4;
costumes and jewels and their donors, 5;
moods, spirit, and gratitude, 5, 6, 7;
brow-beaten by Knox, 7;
causes provoking hardness of heart, 8;
centre of intrigue, 8, 9;
Elizabeth’s rival, 9;
disposition to yield to masterful men, 9;
Bothwell’s defects instanced against her, 15;
presented by Ruthven with a ring as an antidote to poison, 17, 36;
pensions the assassin of Moray, 22;
kindness to Lethington, 24;
Morton her prosecutor, 31;
virulence of the Preachers of Righteousness against her, 35, 36;
‘bewitched’ by Bothwell, 36;
social condition of Scotland when she became queen, 43;
informed by Arran of Bothwell’s plot to seize her, 51;
political position during her first years in Scotland, 52, 53, 54;
her compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism, 52;
suspected by the Protestant party of favouring Bothwell, 53;
intercedes with Elizabeth to allow Bothwell to go to France, 54;
efforts to fix her as Elizabeth’s successor, 55;
sees Darnley and admires him, 12, 55;
action in Bothwell’s outlawry, 56;
weds Darnley, 13, 57;
summons Bothwell from France against her opponents, 57;
estrangement from Darnley, 13, 57;
political use made of her intimacy with Riccio, 58;
twitted with favouring Riccio and Bothwell, 59;
anger against Moray, 56;
amour with Riccio not credible, 60, 63;
removes Darnley from her Council, 60;
illness, 61;
letter to Pius V., 63, 64;
arranges Bothwell’s marriage with Lady Jane Gordon, 64;
insists on free Mass for all men, 65;
schemes for killing Riccio in her presence, 68;
rescued by Bothwell, Huntly, and Atholl after Riccio’s murder, 69;
at Dunbar, 69, 70, 71;
seeks to quiet the country, 71;
growing hatred of Darnley, 71;
threatens that a fatter than Riccio should soon lie anear him, 72;
pardon of the rebel Lords demanded of her, 72;
befriends Moray, 73;
represented by Lennox as trying to induce Darnley to make love to
Moray’s wife, 74;
her bequests to Darnley, 75;
allows Moray and Argyll to be at the Castle during her accouchement,
75;
gives birth to James VI., 75;
protects Moray from Darnley and Bothwell, 77;
Darnley’s jealousy of her favour to Moray, 77;
increasing dislike to Darnley, 78, 80;
passion for Bothwell, 18, 26, 79;
conduct at Alloa and Stirling, 80;
gift of a bed to Darnley, 81;
reconciles Lethington and Bothwell, 81;
Buchanan’s account of her amour with Bothwell, 82, 83;
this legend supported by Sonnet IX. and Dalgleish’s confession, 84;
strained relations with Darnley, 84, 85;
in Jedburgh at a Border session, 93;
visits wounded Bothwell at Hermitage Castle, 93, 94;
illness at Jedburgh, 94;
returns to Craigmillar Castle, 95;
letter from Darnley, 95;
divorce proposed, 96;
Buchanan insinuates her desire to involve Moray in the Darnley murder,
97;
Lennox’s statement that she would have Darnley in ward after James’s
baptism, 100, 102;
arrests Hiegait, Walker, Laird of Minto, Cauldwell, 103;
festivities at the baptism of her child at Stirling, 105;
baptizes him by the Catholic rite, 105;
Bedford’s advice, 106;
treatment of Darnley at Stirling, 107;
anxiety concerning Darnley’s projects, 108, 109;
warned by Beaton and the Spanish ambassador of Darnley’s intention to
kidnap James VI., 109;
causes Hiegait and Walker to be questioned before the Council, 110;
distress of mind, 111;
at Drummond Castle, Tullibardine, Callendar, and Holyrood, 112;
letter to Beaton, 110, 114;
offers to visit sick Darnley at Glasgow, 112;
Crawford’s account of her visit to Darnley, 113;
induces Darnley to return with her to Edinburgh, 113, 119;
brings him to Kirk o’ Field, 115;
aware of the plot against Darnley, 116, 117;
refuses a written warrant asked for by the conspirators, 118;
hypotheses for her conduct, 120, 121;
her shift of beds at Kirk o’ Field, 134, 162;
story drawn from a Casket Letter, 135, 136, 142;
visits Darnley on the eve of the explosion, 135;
at the marriage of her servant Sebastian that same night, 135, 136,
173;
curious anecdote respecting her, 137;
at supper with the Bishop of Argyle on the night of the murder, 161;
Paris’s evidence as to familiarities between her and Bothwell, 162;
Bothwell asks for the key of her room at Kirk o’ Field, 163, 164, 165;
said to have endeavoured to incite her brother Lord Robert Stuart
against Darnley, 135, 165, 166, 323-328, 353;
dying confessions regarding her participation, 167, 169, 170;
theory of her accusers, 170;
conduct after Darnley’s murder, 171;
her letters from and to Beaton, 173;
inference which her letters were meant to suggest, 174;
makes no effort to avenge Darnley, 175, 176;
seized by Bothwell and conveyed to Dunbar, 179;
evidence of the Casket Letters as to her collusion, 179;
Lethington’s attitude towards her, 182;
creates Bothwell Duke of Orkney and is married to him, 183;
her distrust of Huntly, 185;
appeals to the loyalty of her subjects, 185;
surrenders to Kirkcaldy at Carberry Hill, 186;
parting with Bothwell, 187;
conditions of her surrender, 187;
interview with Lethington, 188, 189;
complains of being parted from Bothwell, 188, 194;
denounces Lethington and the members of the Darnley murder band, 189;
incarcerated in Loch Leven Castle, 192;
reported to have prematurely given birth to twins, 194;
motives of the Lords against her, 194;
the compromising Casket Letters, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201,
202, 203, 205, 206, 207 (_see_ Casket Letters);
communication from Elizabeth respecting Melville, 202;
her abdication demanded by the Council, and charges formulated
against her, 204, 205;
signs the deeds of her abdication, 207;
her confessor’s opinion of her, 210;
the Glasgow Letter, 135, 162, 168, 211, 212, 213, 214, 225, 229, 255;
complains to Elizabeth of Lady Lennox, 225;
the Glasgow Letter as rendered in the Lennox Papers, 234, 235;
her love for Bothwell as presented in the Casket Sonnets, 235;
the Glasgow Letter discredited, 236;
the Lords’ specific charge against her, 239;
demands to be heard in the Parliament at Edinburgh, 240;
escapes from Loch Leven, 242;
claims the right of confronting her accusers, 243;
her line of defence, 243, 245;
on the handwriting of her accusers, 244;
letter to Lesley, 245;
Lesley’s details of an interview with her at Bolton, 248;
copies of the letters forwarded to her by Lethington, 248, 249;
theory of her translation of Scots copies into French, 249 note;
arrival of her commissioners at York, 250;
assents to Moray’s compromise, 251;
attitude at York, 257;
consents to the removal of inquiry from York to London, 260;
terms of her compromise, 260, 262, 265;
change in her plan of defence, 262;
plea for a hearing before Elizabeth, 267, 268;
injury done to her cause by friends’ renewed efforts for a compromise,
269, 270;
withdrawal of her commissioners from Westminster, 275;
refuses to acknowledge Elizabeth as a judge, 282;
her letter from Bolton, 283;
asks to see the copies and originals of the Casket Letters, 284;
makes their delivery a condition of her production of charges and
proofs, 286, 287;
causes of her detestation of Lethington, 288;
her submissive attitude to both Bothwell and Norfolk, 315;
suggestion of marriage with Norfolk, 155;
distrusts Huntly, 330;
trusts him, 331;
her excuses for marrying Bothwell, addressed to the French Court, 331,
332;
sends Bothwell a symbolic mourning ring, 337;
letter to Norfolk from Coventry, 337 and note;
contract of marriage with Bothwell, 338;
receives betrothal ring from Bothwell(?), 340;
hypothesis of her contest in literary excellence with Lady Bothwell,
350;
tone of her letters to Norfolk, 351;
suspicions of Lethington in her instructions to her commissioners,
356;
coincidence between Letter VII. and her instructions to the Bishop of
Dunblane, 331, 359, 360;
facsimiles of her own and imitated handwriting, 363, 364;
date of her visit to Glasgow, 379, 380;
charges Balfour, Morton and Lethington with complicity in Darnley’s
murder, 189, 382

Meggatdale, Mary and Darnley at, 81

Melville, Robert, against Mary, 185;
sent to Elizabeth with news of the discovery of the Casket Letters,
196, 201, 320, 355;
acting for the Lords, 202;
denies his visit to Mary at Bolton before going to commissioners at
York, 249, 250;
Lesley’s confession contravened by his, 250;
Moray sends him to Bolton to compromise with Mary, 251;
negotiates with Mary on a compromise, 259;
his statement, 261;
sent by Lethington on ‘sudden despatch’ to Cecil, 354, 355;
friendly efforts in Mary’s behalf, 355;
suspects Kirkcaldy of Grange of counterfeiting Moray’s handwriting, 361

Melville, Sir James, on George Buchanan’s veracity as a historian, 34;
dissuades Mary from putting Moray in ward, 75;
on Darnley’s murder, 140;
on Bothwell’s behaviour in the Queen’s chamber, 181;
at the York conference, 259

Mertine, Barbara, encounters the murderers of Darnley, 147

Middlemore, Mary’s statement to him regarding her accusers, 245

Minto, Laird of, arrested by Mary, 103;
working in Lennox’s interests, 111;
cited, 150

Moray, Regent (natural son of James V.), an enigma, 19;
Protestant and warrior, 19;
acquisitiveness, 19, 20;
secures the Buchan estates in spite of the legal rights of Christian
Stewart, 20;
marries Agnes Keith, 20;
ambition, 20;
treachery and caution, 21, 22;
alibis, 21;
as Regent, 22;
Mr. Froude’s estimate of him, 22;
his secretary, John Wood, 33;
believes that Ruthven gave Mary a ring with magical properties, 36;
urged by the preachers to burn witches, 36;
political bias and theological tenets, 52;
tells Mary that either he or Bothwell must quit Scotland, 56;
his rising to prevent Mary marrying Darnley, 59;
seeks for the restoration of Morton and Ruthven, 72;
in favour with Mary, 73, 76, 121;
permitted by Mary to reside in the Castle during her accouchement, 75;
said to be banded against Darnley, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98;
denies that any unlawful ends were mooted at Craigmillar, 98;
winks at the conspiracy against Darnley, 116, 122;
account of the numbers engaged in Darnley’s murder, 141;
laxity in their prosecution, 144, 145;
gives records of examinations to English commissioners, 145;
reasons for not summoning Paris as witness, 154, 155;
opposes marriage between Mary and Norfolk, 155;
takes the evidence of Paris, 155;
delays in forwarding it to Cecil, 156;
seeks to betray Norfolk, 156;
story of his presence at a wrangle between Darnley and Lord Robert
Stuart, 166, 323, 327;
informed of the Casket Letters, 196 note;
his sources of information as to Mary’s correspondence, 208;
from friend becomes enemy of Mary, 209, 210;
reports a guilty letter from Mary to Bothwell, 211, 213;
his additions to and differences from the Glasgow letter, 216 et seq.;
common source of his and Lennox’s reports, 221;
‘not capable’ of employing a forged document, 234;
‘most loth’ to accuse Mary, 242;
Scots translations and French originals of Casket Letters, 242;
treats for a compromise with Mary at York, 251;
seeks to know the powers of the English commissioners at York, 253;
exhibits ‘privately’ to them the Casket Letters and other papers, 254;
confers with Norfolk at York, 259;
puts in his proofs at Westminster, 266, 270, 271, 272, 273;
complains of being slandered by Mary’s commissioners, 285;
Mary’s joy at the news of his murder, 22

Moretta (Savoyard ambassador), on Darnley’s murder, 140

Morton, Earl of, joins the Protestants, 29;
sanctimonious remark to Throckmorton, 29;
private life, 30;
schemes with all parties in his own ends, 30;
helps to organise the murder of Riccio, 30;
portrait of, 31;
Regent, 32;
political principles, 52;
in league with Darnley to restore Moray, 67;
Moray endeavours his recall, 73;
feud with Darnley, 78;
pardoned, 89, 112;
concerned in Darnley’s murder, 31, 90;
desires the Queen’s warrant before proceeding to extremities with
Darnley, 117;
his confession, 118, 147, 148, 167, 168;
confederated against Bothwell, 181;
advised by Lethington to espouse Mary’s cause, 191;
accused by Mary of Darnley’s murder, 244;
Casket Letters entrusted to him, 195, 365;
declaration at Westminster respecting them, 272;
his story of the discovery of the Casket Letters, 274, 275, 276, 277;
in his dying declaration denounces Archibald Douglas, 32;
executed, 382

Napier of Merchistoun (soothsayer), 17, 36

Napier of Merchistoun (inventor of logarithms), 17;
treasure-finding, 375

Nau, Claude, on Mary’s escape to Dunbar, 72;
on the motives of Darnley’s murderers, 90;
on Mary’s abdication, 241;
on the band for Darnley’s murder given to Mary by Bothwell, 243;
account of Lethington’s conduct towards Mary, 288

Nelson (Darnley’s servant), in Kirk o’ Field at the explosion, 116;
on the position of Kirk o’ Field, 129;
escape, 140;
statement on the custody of the keys, 165, 175;
evidence at Westminster, 276;
on Darnley’s refusal to stay at Craigmillar, 319;
detained by Drury at Berwick, 319 note

Norfolk, Duke of, his proposed marriage with Mary, 155;
schemes, 246;
on the York commission of inquiry, 246, 252;
excuses delays of Scots Lords, 256;
for a compromise, 256;
confers with Moray, 259;
opposes a compromise, 261, 262;
doubts authenticity of Letters and would marry Mary, 257, 258, 259,
262;
prevents Mary from abdicating, 262;
Mary’s submissive attitude to him, 315;
Lethington asks him not to believe in Mary’s guilt, 357, 358

Northumberland, Earl of, in arms for Mary, 277

Ogilvy of Boyne, loved by Lady Jane Gordon and Mary Beaton, 26;
marries the divorced Lady Bothwell, 27, 218

Orkney, Bishop of, marries Mary to Bothwell, 62, 183

Orkney, Duke of, Bothwell created, 183

Ormistoun, Black Laird of (one of Darnley’s murderers), his treatment by
Mary in prison, 6;
his exordium before being hanged, 35;
confession of a murder-band against Darnley, 99;
executed, 139

Ormistoun, Hob (one of Darnley’s murderers), 101, 139, 339, 341;
executed, 139

Paris (Nicholas Hubert), on the Craigmillar plot against Darnley, 103;
escapes with Bothwell to Denmark, 154;
extradited to Captain Clark, 154;
evidence taken by Moray, 155, 156;
nature of his deposition and the circumstances under which it was
made, 156-170;
account of Lady Reres, 162;
receipt and delivery of Glasgow Letter, 292, 293, 299;
on the Glasgow Letter, 316, 327;
cited, 339, 340, 341, 342;
hanged at St. Andrews, 157, 378

Percy, Sir Harry, on Bothwell, 54

Periwigs, worn by Mary, 3 note

Philippson, M., on the translations of the Casket Letters, 386, 388

Pinkie, battle of, 19

Pitcairn’s ‘Criminal Trials,’ cited, 56

Pius V., Mary’s letter to him on political matters, 63

Pluscarden, Prior of, and the Casket, 365

Pollen, Father, cited, 230

Powrie (Bothwell’s servant), statement of, concerning Darnley’s murder,
142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 195, 280

Preston, Laird of Craigmillar (Provost of Edinburgh), Mary imprisoned in
his house, 188

Price, Mr. F. Compton, cited, 363

Ramsay, Robert (Moray’s servant), hears Paris avouch the truth of his
deposition, 157

Randolph (English ambassador at Holyrood), his opinion of Darnley, 11,
12;
on the Earl of Arran, 49;
reports Bothwell and Atholl all-powerful, 57;
on Lennox at Glasgow, 61;
reports ‘private disorders’ between Mary and Darnley, 63;
on Mary’s demand for free Mass for all men, 65;
aware of Darnley’s and Lennox’s schemes for obtaining the crown, 66;
favours Moray, 73;
on a murder-band, kept in a casket, aimed at Darnley, 87;
on the conduct of Lethington and Kirkcaldy towards Mary, 194, 360;
accuses Lethington of advising Mary’s death, 204;
hints at Lethington having tampered with the Letters(?), 361

Read, John (Buchanan’s secretary), supplies Cecil with a list of the
signatories to Ainslie’s band, 177

‘Relation,’ the, cited on Riccio’s murder, 65

Reres, Lady, alleged confidant of Mary’s amour with Bothwell, 33, 48,
82, 83;
telepathic story assigned to her, 82;
Paris’s account of her as a go-between, 162;
rails at Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, 184

Reres, Laird of (son of Lady Reres), 83

Riccio, David, his intimacy with Mary, 58, 59;
complained of as a foreign upstart by Scots nobles, 58, 65;
reasons for discrediting his amour with Mary, 60;
Darnley’s hatred and jealousy of him, 63, 64, 65, 66;
‘band of assurance’ for his murder, 67;
nobles and others concerned, 67;
murdered, 69

Ridolfi plot, the, 6

Robertson, Dr. Joseph, on Lady Reres as wet nurse to Mary’s baby, 83;
on the Paris deposition, 158;
on the Glasgow Letter, 296

Rogers, William, informs Cecil of Darnley’s design to seize the Scilly
Isles, 108 note

Ronsard (poet), quoted, 314;
on the Casket Sonnets, 344, 349

Ross, Bishop of. _See_ Lesley

Ruthven Earl of, his account of Riccio’s murder, 17;
presents Mary with a ring as an antidote to poison, 17;
conspiring with Darnley, 67;
seeks refuge in England, 70;
his dying vision, 37;
death, 73

Sadleyr (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), at the York inquiry, 246

St. Andrews, in Mary’s time, 40

St. Mary in the Fields. _See_ Kirk o’ Field

Sanquhar, signs the band for delivering Mary from Loch Leven, 275, 276

Scarborough, Darnley’s designs on, 108

Schiller’s ‘Marie Stewart,’ cited, 2

Scilly Isles, Darnley’s designs on, 108 note

Scots Parliament, Casket Letters produced before, 241

Scottish Guards (in France), Bothwell captain of, 54

Scott’s ‘Abbot,’ cited, 2

Scrope, quoted, on Captain Cullen, 151-3

Sebastian (Mary’s servant), his marriage at Holyrood, 136, 148

Sempil, John, husband of Mary Livingstone, 356

Sepp, Dr., on the Casket Letters, 242

Seton, Mary (Mary’s attendant), ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair,’
3, 4

Seton, Mary’s conduct at, 175

Skelton, Sir John, on Bothwell’s age, 14;
his ‘Maitland of Lethington’ cited, 23;
on Mary’s knowledge of the plot against Darnley, 116, 117;
on Mary’s submissive attitude to Bothwell, 315

Sorcery, belief in, in the sixteenth century, 36

Spens (Black Mr. John), 175

Standen (brothers Anthony), one of them boasts that he saved Mary from
assassination, 38;
Darnley’s companions, 60;
their immorality put to Darnley’s account, 75;
romantic memoirs of one of them imprisoned in the Tower, 75;
assist Darnley in his schemes, 108;
the younger, 137, 319 note

Stewart, Christian (heiress to the Buchan earldom), contracted in
marriage with Lord James Stewart, 19;
legal inheritress to Buchan estates, 20;
married to Lord James, 20

Stewart d’Aubigny (Duke of Lennox), James’s banished favourite, 367

Stewart, Lord James (Moray’s brother), contracts himself in marriage to
the Buchan child-heiress, 19;
secures the right of redemption of the Buchan estates, 19;
marries the heiress but loses the estates, 20

Stewart of Periven (Lennox’s retainer), 226

Stewart of Traquair, escorts Mary to Dunbar, 69

Stewart, Sir William (Lyon Herald), burnt for sorcery, 17, 36, 156,
374-379

Stirling, Mary at, 80;
baptism of James VI. at, 105, 106, 107;
full of ‘honest men of the Lennox,’ 109

Strickland, Miss, on Darnley’s signature to State documents, 60 note

Stuart, Lord Robert (Mary’s brother), account of him drawn from a Casket
Letter, 135;
concerned in Darnley’s murder, 162, 165, 166;
Mary’s alleged attempt to provoke a quarrel between him and Darnley,
323, 327

Sussex, Earl of (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), on Mary’s defence,
245;
believes in an intended compromise, 263;
doubts in judicial proof of Mary’s guilt, 264;
on Mary’s proofs, 287

Sutherland, Earl of, marries Bothwell’s divorced wife, 27;
member of council, 172

Tala. _See_ Hay of Tala

Taylor (Darnley’s servant), killed at Kirk o’ Field, 132, 137, 139, 148

‘The Purpose’ or talking dance, 39

Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas (English envoy), visits Mary in prison, 29;
in communication with Lords of Council, 203, 204;
Lethington acquaints him with Casket Letters, 205, 237;
mentions them to Elizabeth, 355

Throndssön, Anne (Norwegian lady), Bothwell’s treatment of her, 47;
alleges breach of promise of marriage against Bothwell, 48

Tombs of the Kings, the, 39

Tulchan bishops, the, 30

Tullibardine, Mary at, 112

Tullibardine, signs band for releasing Mary from Loch Leven, 276

Walker (Archbishop Beaton’s retainer), on Darnley’s plot to kidnap the
infant James, 108, 110, 111

Walsingham, Sir Francis, and the Casket Letters, 365

Westminster Conference, proceedings at, 240, 266, 270-276

Westmorland, Earl of, in arms for Mary, 277

Whithaugh, Laird of, holds Ker of Faldonside prisoner, 101;
shelters the Ormistouns, 101

Wilson, Dr., asks Cecil for Paris’s confession, 168;
on Mary, 247

Witchcraft and sorcery, 17, 36

Wood, John (Moray’s secretary), helps Lennox in his case against Mary,
150;
hears Paris testify to his deposition, 157;
bears letters to Moray and Cecil, 209, 226;
in custody of the Casket Letters, 196, 227, 228, 229;
on Lethington as a commissioner at Mary’s trial, 244;
slain by Forbes of Reres, 33

York, Commission of Inquiry at, 101, 226, 227, 230, 233, 246, 250 et seq.

Zytphen-Adeler, Baron, his care of Bothwell’s remains, 372

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Blackwood’s Magazine_, December, 1889.

[2] Bond.

[3] Laing, ii. 284.

[4] See Murdin, p. 57.

[5] Among the mysteries which surround Mary, we should not reckon the colour of her hair! Just after her flight into England, her gaoler, at Carlisle, told Cecil that in Mary Seton the Queen had ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair to be seen in any country. Yesterday and this day she did set such a curled hair upon the Queen, that was said to be a perewyke, that showed very delicately, and every other day she hath a new device of head dressing that setteth forth a woman gaily well.’ Henceforth Mary varied the colour of her ‘perewykes.’ She had worn them earlier, but she wore them, at least at her first coming into England, for the good reason that, in her flight from Langside, she had her head shaved, probably for purposes of disguise. So we learn from Nau, her secretary. Mary was flying, in fact, as we elsewhere learn, from the fear of the fiery death at the stake, the punishment of husband-murder. Then, and then only, her nerve broke down, like that of James VIII. at Montrose; of Prince Charles after Culloden; of James VII. when he should have ridden with Dundee to the North and headed the clans.

[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 Buchanan’s _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.