[133] Vide M'Crie's Life of Knox, vol. i. p. 47. [134] Knox, p. 339.--Buchanan, Book XVII. [135] Keith, p. 332--and Appendix, 126. [136] That something of the kind was actually contemplated, we learn from Mary herself. "In their council," she says in the letter already quoted, "they thought it most expedient we should be warded in our castle of Stirling, there to remain till we had approved in Parliament all their wicked enterprises, established their religion, and given to the King the crown-matrimonial, and the whole government of our realm; or else, by all appearance, firmly purposed to have put us to death, or detained us in perpetual captivity."--Keith, Appendix, p. 132. [137] Ruthven's "Discourse" concerning the murder of Rizzio, in Keith, Appendix, p. 128. [138] Keith, p. 334.--Stuart's History of Scotland, p. 138, et seq. [139] Melville's Memoirs, p. 154--Goodall, vol. i. p. 286.--Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 164. [140] Melville's Memoirs, p. 156.--Keith, p. 337. [141] Melville's Memoirs, p. 158. [142] Keith, p. 345, and Chalmers, vol. i. p. 180. [143] Buchanan's History, Book XVIII.--His "Detection," in Anderson's Collections, vol. ii. p. 6.; and his "Oration," p. 44. [144] Chalmers, vol. i. p. 181, et seq. Goodall, vol. i. p. 292, et seq. [145] Keith, p. 345. [146] Knox, p. 386--Anderson, vol. i. p. 90--Tytler, vol. ii. p. 39--Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 206-207. [147] Knox, p. 396, and Chalmers, p. 219. [148] Knox, p. 392. Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 206 and 218. Laing, vol. i. p. 359. In the first edition of Tytler's "Vindication," Bothwell, being confounded with the former Earl, his father, was said to be about fifty-nine at this period. In the second edition, Tytler partly corrected his error, but not entirely; for he stated Bothwell's age to be forty-three when he married. Chalmers, who is seldom wrong in the matter of dates, has settled the question. [149] Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 217. [150] Chalmers, vol. i. p. 183 and 184. [151] Maitland's Official Letter to Catherine de Medicis, in Keith, p. 348. [152] These noblemen, it may be observed, instead of being the friends, were the personal and political enemies of Bothwell, with whom Darnley was less displeased than with them. [153] Goodall, vol. i. p. 284.--Keith, p. 348. [154] Le Croc's Letter in Keith, p. 346. [155] Maitland's Letter in Keith, p. 349. [156] Keith, idem, p. 346 and 349. [157] Keith, idem, p. 350. [158] Knox, p. 399.