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