[109] Earl of Morton to the Earl of Bedford, 24 May, 1566.
[110] Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 26 May, 1566.
[111] _Ibid._
[112] Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 26 May, 1566.
[113] _Ibid._
[114] _Ibid._
[115] _Ibid._
[116] Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 20 Aug., 1565.
[117] _Ibid._ 9 Sept., 1565.
[118] _Ibid._ 15 Dec., 1565.
[119] Thomas Randolph to the Earl of Bedford, 30 Sept., 1565.
[120] "Instructions for certain persons to be sent into Scotland to
commune respecting ... assaults upon Thomas Randolph."--_State Papers._
[121] Thomas Randolph to the Earl of Leicester, 18 Oct., 1565.
[122] Thomas Randolph to Sir W. Cecil, 19 Feb., 1566; the Queen of Scots
to Queen Elizabeth, 20 Feb., 1566.
[123] _Ibid._
[124] Queen Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, 3 March, 1566.
[125] Queen Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, 15 March, 1566.
[126] Thomas Randolph to Sir W. Cecil, 6 March, 1566.
[127] Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 26 May, 1566.
[128] Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, Berwick, 7 June, 1566.
[129] Queen Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, Greenwich, 13 June, 1566.
[130] Randolph to Cecil, 26 May, 1566.
[131] Several years after this was written, the _Fantasie_ was published
in one of the volumes of the "Scottish Texts Society". It has not,
however, been thought necessary to alter the present, or any other,
reference to the poem, or the documents bearing on it, as inedited.
[132] _State Papers. Scotland--Elizabeth_, vol xi., 31 Dec., 1565.
[133] _fforwerièd_, wearied out.
[134] _slipper_, slippery.
[135] _pervse_, employ, have recourse to.
[136] _scande_, attended to.
[137] _When as_, whilst.
[138] _decree_, hold sway.
[139] _wone_, wont.
[140] _perst_, pierced.
[141] _mase_, wild fancy.
[142] _rase the seige_, carry on the siege with increased vigour.
[143] _regestreth the found pretence_, shows the infatuation.
[144] _reporte_, quote.
[145] _sturde_, stirred up.
[146] _stiveling sture_, stifling passion.
[147] _mufflled contre-packe_, secret opposition party.
[148] _eche where_, everywhere.
[149] _grated_, sought with importunity.
[150] _curre favell_, curried favour.
[151] _rowme_, position.
[152] _powder it_, create bustle or pother.
[153] _trade_, course.
[154] _alludinge_, deceiving.
[155] _vnlade_, give free scope to.
[156] _brute_, report.
[157] _to bear the freey in court_--this expression, which is evidently
intended to convey the idea of influence or exalted position, may be
connected with the French _faire les frais_.
[158] Randolph to Cecil, 31 Oct., 1565.
[159] Randolph to Cecil, 4 July, 1565.
[160] _Ibid._, 19 July, 1565.
[161] Cecil's Journal.
[162] Randolph to Cecil, 12 Oct., 1565.
[163] _Diurnal of Occurrents._
[164] Randolph to Cecil, 2 July, 1565.
[165] _Diurnal of Occurrents._
[166] Knox's _History of the Reformation_.
[167] Queen Mary to Archbishop Beton, 1 Oct., 1565.
[168] _History of the Reformation_, p. 383.
[169] _pirrye_, peril.
[170] _incest_, given rise to.
[171] _trades_, course of action.
[172] _Gwyssian_, belonging to the Guise family.
[173] _madlie_, maidenly.
[174] _proport_, proportion.
[175] _affatethe_, proclaims.
[176] Probably _Sandyford_, close to the river Cart, between Paisley and
Renfrew. A tradition, still current in the neighbourhood, asserts that
Mary once slept at Crookston Castle then belonging to the Lennox family.
It may have been on this occasion, documentary evidence of any other
opportunity for a visit to the Castle not being extant.
[177] _to wage_, to raise.
[178] _trayns_, bands.
[179] Capt. Cokbourn to Cecil.
[180] _dome_, judgment, opinion.
[181] P. 135.