[153] Anderson, vol. iv. p. 6.--Chalmers, vol. i. p. 288. Even at Carlisle, Mary was always strictly watched. In one of his letters to Cecil, Knollys writes thus:--"Yesterday, her Grace went out at a postern, to walk on the playing green, towards Scotland; and we, with twenty-two halberdeers, diverse gentlemen and other servants, waited upon her. About twenty of her retinue played at foot-ball before her the space of two hours, very strongly, nimbly, and skilfully,--without any foul play offered, the smallness of their ball occasioning their fair play. And before yesterday, since our coming, she went but twice out of the town, once to the like play of foot-ball, in the same place, and once she rode out a hunting the hare, she galloping so fast upon every occasion, and her whole retinue being so well horsed, that we, upon experience thereof, doubting that, upon a set course, some of her friends out of Scotland might invade and assault us upon the sudden, for to rescue and take her from us; we mean hereafter, if any such riding pastimes be required that way, so much to fear the endangering of her person by some sudden invasion of her enemies, that she must hold us excused, in that behalf." [154] Anderson, vol. iv. p. 95.--Stuart, vol. i. p. 300. It is of Dr Stuart's translation that we have availed ourselves. [155] Anderson, vol. iv. part ii. p. 33. [156] Buchanan, book xix. It is worth remarking, that of these particular friends of Murray, the two Commissioners, Lord Lindsay and the Commendator of Dunfermlin, and the two lawyers, Macgill and Balnaves, sat on the trial of Bothwell when he was unanimously acquitted. Yet they afterwards accused the Queen of consenting to an unfair trial. [157] Anderson, vol. iv. Part ii. p. 3. [158] Anderson, vol. iv. Part I. p. 12. [159] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 128. [160] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 144. [161] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 162. [162] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 62. [163] We do not at present stop the course of our narrative to examine these letters more minutely, but we shall devote some time to their consideration afterwards. [164] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 182. [165] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 184. [166] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 206. [167] Ibid. p. 220. [168] Ibid. p. 221. [169] Ibid. p. 184 and 206. [170] Ibid. p. 283. [171] Ibid. p. 312. [172] Ibid. p. 300 and 301. [173] There is one other circumstance connected with this conference, which, though not bearing any immediate reference to Mary, is worth mentioning. We allude to the challenges which passed between Lord Lindsay, one of Murray's Commissioners, and Lord Herries, one of Mary's most constant and faithful servants. Lindsay, whose passionate violence we have formerly had occasion to notice, attempted to force a quarrel upon Herries, by writing him the following letter: