168
Laing, ii. 286, 287.
169
Laing, ii. 259.
170
Laing, ii. 254.
171
Laing, ii. 267, 268.
172
Laing, ii. 287.
173
Anderson, 1, part II., 76, 77.
174
Nau, Appendix ii. 151, 152. The Jesuits’ evidence was from letters to Archbishop Beaton.
175
Murdin, p. 57.
176
In the ‘Book of Articles,’ and in the series of dated events called ‘Cecil’s Journal.’
177
Hay Fleming, p. 444.
178
Spanish Calendar, i. 628. For Moray’s dinner party, cf. Bain, ii. 317.
179
Spanish Calendar, i. 635.
180
Laing, ii. 244.
181
Labanoff, ii. 2-4.
182
Venetian Calendar, vii. 388, 389. There were rumours that Lennox had been blown up with Darnley, and, later, that he was attacked at Glasgow, on February 9, by armed men, and owed his escape to Lord Semple. It is incredible that this fact should be unmentioned, if it occurred, by Lennox and Buchanan.
183
Hay Fleming, pp. 442-443.
184
Robertson, Inventories, p. 53.
185
Anderson, i. 112. Bain, ii. 322.
186
Keith knew a copy in the Scots College at Paris, attested by Sir James Balfour as ‘the authentick copy of the principall band.’ This copy Sir James sent to Mary, in January, 1581, after Morton’s arrest. The names of laymen are Huntly, Argyll, Morton, Cassilis, Sutherland, Errol, Crawford, Caithness, Rothes, Boyd, Glamis, Ruthven, Semple, Herries, Ogilvy, Fleming. John Read’s memory must have been fallacious. There are eight prelates in Balfour’s band, including Archbishop Hamilton, the Bishop of Orkney, who joined in prosecuting Mary, and Lesley, Bishop of Ross (Keith, ii. 562-569). On the whole subject see a discussion by Mr. Bain and Mr. Hay Fleming, in The Genealogist, 1900-1901. Some copies are dated April 20. See Fraser, The Melvilles, i. 89.
187
Spanish Calendar, i. 662.
188
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 213.
189
Bain, ii. 323, 324.
190
Melville, p. 177.
191
Melville, p. 178.
192
Drury to Cecil, Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 222.