Balfour, Sir James, concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley, 88, 90, 99; gives Bothwell the keys of Mary’s room at Kirk o’ Field, 163; persuaded by Lethington to surrender Edinburgh Castle, 186; charged by Mary with complicity in Darnley’s murder, 189; the Casket in his keeping, 198; holds Edinburgh Castle, 274 Ballantyne, Patrick, said to have menaced Mary’s life, 38 ‘Band of assurance for the murder’ of Riccio, 67, 68 Bannatyne (Knox’s secretary), his account of the death of the Earl of Huntly, 38 Bannister (Norfolk’s servant), Norfolk’s statement to him regarding Letter II., 357 Bargany, Laird of, at cards with Archibald Douglas, 32 Barham, Serjeant, asserts that Lethington stole the Casket Letters and that his wife copied them, 248; denies that Mary received French copies, 249 Beaton, Archbishop (Mary’s ambassador in France), communicates with Mary about Hiegait and Walker, 110, 114; affirms that Moray is Mary’s mortal enemy, 210 Beaton, Archibald (Mary’s usher), Mary’s concern for, 6; misses the keys at Kirk o’ Field, 164, 165 Beaton, James (Archbishop Beaton’s brother), joins Mary at Dunbar, 186; with her at Carberry Hill, 187; on Lethington’s treacherous behaviour to Mary, 190 Beaton, Mary (one of the Queen’s Maries), 4; and Ogilvy of Boyne, 26; her aunts at feud with Mary, 356; her handwriting, 364 Beaufort, Jane (widow of James I.), 45 Bedford, Earl of (Elizabeth’s ambassador), fears that Mary secretly abetted Bothwell, 56; on Riccio, 59; declares Bothwell to be hated in Scotland, 80; instructs his suite not to recognise Darnley as king, 106 Bellenden (Justice Clerk), member of council, 172, 203; implicated in Riccio’s murder, 203 Binning (Archibald Douglas’s servant), his confession, 148 Birrel (‘Diary’), on the blowing up of Kirk o’ Field, 140; on the date Mary left Edinburgh, 292; nd that of her visit to Glasgow, 379, 380 Black Friars, the Dominican Monastery of, 124, 125, 126, 127, 130, 131 Blackader, William (Bothwell’s retainer), hanged denying his guilt, 153, 195; cited, 165 Blackwood, on unsigned letters attributed to Mary, 198, 212 Blavatsky case, the, cited, 278, 279 Bolton, Mary at, 249, 250, 251, 283 Book of Articles, cited, 59, 86, 94, 95, 107, 114, 255, 271, 272, 278, 279, 280, 281, 316, 318 note, 322; on the conference at Craigmillar, 96; on Darnley’s murder, 141, 142, 148; on the Glasgow letters, 308, 317; its supposed author, 318 Borthwick Castle, Mary and Douglas at, 185