{175} M’Crie, Life of John Knox, 162 (1855).

{177a} Keith, iii. 4-7.

{177b} Bain, i. 461.

{177c} Cf.  Edinburgh Burgh Records.

{182} Knox, ii. 193.

{186} Queen Mary’s Letter to Guise, p. xlii., Scottish History Society, 1904.

{191a} Lesley, ii. 454 (1895).

{191b} See Lord James to Throckmorton, London, May 20, a passage quoted by Mr. Murray Rose, Scot.  Hist.  Review, No. 6, 154.  Additional MSS.  Brit.  Mus., 358, 30, f. 117, 121.  Lord James to Throckmorton, May 20- June 3, 1561.

{191c} Bain, i. 540, 541.

{191d} Lord James to Dudley, October 7, 1561, Bain, i. 557.

{192} Pollen, Papal Negotiations, 62.

{193a} Knox, ii, 266.

{193b} Bain, ii. 543.

{194} Bain, ii. 547.

{195} Knox, ii. 276, 277.

{196} Knox, vi. 131.

{197} Knox, ii. 279, 280.

{199} Tracts by David Fergusson, Bannatyne Club, 1860.

{200a} Bain, i. 551, 552.

{200b} Lord James to Lord Robert Dudley, October 7, 1561.  Bain, i. 557, 558.  Lethington’s account of his reasonings with Elizabeth is not very hopeful.  Pollen, “Queen Mary’s Letter to Guise,” Scot.  Hist.  Soc., 38- 45.

{201a} Bain, i. 565.

{201b} Knox, vi. 131, 132; ii. 289.

{201c} The proclamation against “all monks, friars, priests, nuns, adulterers, fornicators, and all such filthy persons,” was of October 2.  On October 5 the Queen bade the council and community of the town to meet in the Tolbooth, depose the Provost and Bailies, and elect others.  On October 8 the order was carried out, and protests were put in.  A note from Lethington was received, containing three names, out of which the Queen commanded that one must be Provost.  The Council “thought good to pass to her Grace,” show that they had already made their election, and await her pleasure.  “Jezebel’s letter and wicked will is obeyed as law,” says Knox.—­Extracts from Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 126, 127.

{202} Knox, vi. 133-135.  Corp.  Refor., xlvii. 74.

{203a} Corp.  Refor., xlvii. 114, 115.

{203b} Bain, i. 582, 583.

{203c} Ibid., i. 491.  Randolph to Cecil.

{205} Bain, i. 565, 566.

{206a} Froude, iii. 265-270 (1866).

{206b} Knox, vi. 83.

{207a} Knox, vi. 11-14.

{207b} Bain, i. 569.  Randolph to Cecil, November 11.

{207c} Ibid., i. 568-570.

{208a} There was a small guard, but no powerful guard existed till after Riccio’s murder.

{208b} Bain, i. 575.  Randolph to Cecil, December 7.

{208c} Ibid., i. 571.

{209} It is plain from Randolph (Bain, i. 575) that the precise feared that Mary, if secured by the English alliance, would be severe with “true professors of Christ.”

{210} Keith, iii. 384, 385.