218
La Mothe Fénelon, vii. 275-276.
219
Cal. Span. i. 659.
220
Bain, ii. 336.
221
Bain, ii. 338.
222
Bain, ii. 339.
223
Bain, ii. 341.
224
Melville to Cecil, July 1. Bain, ii. 343.
225
Bain, ii. 350, 351.
226
Bain, ii. 322, 360.
227
Ibid. 358.
228
Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 297, 298. Keith, ii. 694, 700.
229
Already, on July 16, Mary had offered verbally, by Robert Melville, to the Lords, to make Moray Regent: or, failing him, to appoint a Council of Regency, Châtelherault, Huntly, Argyll, Atholl, Lennox, and, ‘with much ado,’ Morton, Moray, Mar, and Glencairn. But she would not abandon Bothwell, as she was pregnant. Throckmorton does not say that she now promised to sign an abdication. A letter of Mary’s, to Bothwell’s captain in Dunbar, was intercepted, ‘containing matter little to her advantage.’ It never was produced by her prosecutors (Throckmorton, July 18. Bain, ii. 355,356). Robert Melville, visiting her, declined to carry such a letter to Bothwell. See his examination, in Addit. MSS. British Museum, 33531, fol. 119 et seq.
230
Bain, ii. 367.
231
Bain, ii. 328.
232
Ibid. i. 346-348.
233
Bain, ii. 346.
234
Ibid. 354. July 16.
235
Alava to Philip, July 17. Teulet, v. 29.
236
De Silva, July 26, August 2. Spanish Calendar, i. 662, 665. I have occasionally preferred the Spanish text to Major Hume’s translations. See also Hosack, i. 215, 216.
237
Froude, iii. 118. 1866.
238
Lennox MSS.
239
The words within inverted commas are autograph additions by Lennox himself.
240
Ogilvy of Boyne, who married his old love, Lady Bothwell, after the death of her second husband, the Earl of Sutherland. See pp. 26 (#Page_26), 27 (#Page_27), supra.
241
A Lost Chapter in the History of Mary Stuart.
242
Throckmorton to Elizabeth, July 18. Bain, ii. 355.