FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 61: Cf. the present writer’s “Mary, Queen of Scots” (Scottish History from Contemporary Writers).]
[Footnote 62: The spelling “Stuart”, which Queen Mary brought with her from France, now superseded the older “Stewart".]
[Footnote 63: Foreign Calendar: Elizabeth, December 31st, 1560.]
[Footnote 64: Cabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra, pp. 345-349.]
[Footnote 65: Foreign Calendar, May 7th, 1562.]
[Footnote 66: Foreign Calendar, June 8th, 1562.]
[Footnote 67: Foreign Calendar, March 31st, 1561.]
[Footnote 68: Foreign Calendar, 20th August, 1563.]
[Footnote 69: Sir James Melville’s Memoirs, pp. 116-130 (Bannatyne Club).]
[Footnote 70: Laing’s Knox, vi, p. 541.]
[Footnote 71: Laing’s Knox, vol. ii, p. 513. Melville’s Memoirs, p. 134.]
[Footnote 72: Foreign Calendar, July-December, 1565.]
[Footnote 73: The evidence for the scandal which associated Mary’s name with that of Rizzio will be found in Mr. Hay Fleming’s Mary, Queen of Scots, pp. 398-401. It is very far indeed from being conclusive.]
[Footnote 74: Foreign Calendar, March, 1566.]
[Footnote 75: Mary to Elizabeth, July, 1566. Keith’s History, ii, p. 442.]
[Footnote 76: It is almost certain that Darnley was murdered before the explosion.]
[Footnote 77: Mary’s defenders point out that her 25th birthday fell in November, 1567, and that it was necessary to prevent her from taking any steps for the restitution of Church land; and they look on the plot as devised by Bothwell and the other nobles, the latter aiming at using Bothwell as a tool to ruin Mary. On the question of the Casket Letters, see Mr. Lang’s Mystery of Mary Stuart.]
[Footnote 78: Keith’s History, ii, pp. 736-739.]
[Footnote 79: In forming any moral judgment with regard to Elizabeth’s conduct towards Mary, it must be remembered that Mary fled to England trusting to the English Queen’s invitation.]
CHAPTER IX
THE UNION OF THE CROWNS
1568-1625