Bothwell (James Hepburn, Earl of), personal appearance, 14, 18; age at Darnley’s murder, 14; literary tastes, 15; character as depicted by his foes, 15; his courage in question, 16; handwriting, 17; study of works on art magic, 17; accused of winning Mary’s favour by witchcraft, 17, 36; his standard of culture compared with that of Scots nobles, 18; masterful nature, 18; hatred of Maitland of Lethington, 25; epitome of early career, 46; espouses the cause of Mary of Guise, 47; seizes Cockburn of Ormiston, 47, 49; deceives and deserts Anne Throndsön under promise of marriage, 47; said to have had three wives simultaneously, 48; at the French Court, 49; feud and reconciliation with Earl of Arran, 47, 49, 50; solicits Arran’s aid in a plot to seize Mary, 50; warded in, but escapes from, Edinburgh Castle, 51, 53; in league with Huntly, 53; Lieut.-General and Admiral, 54; Elizabeth’s prisoner at Holy Island, 54; Captain of the Scottish Guards in France, 54; said to have accused Mary of incestuous relations with her uncle the Cardinal, 54; returns to Scotland and his Border fastness, 56; outlawed, 56; summoned by Mary to assist her, 57; ill-feeling towards Darnley, 57; marries Lady Jane Gordon, 26, 68; rescues Mary from prison after Riccio’s murder, 69; intrigues with Darnley for the ruin of Moray and Lethington, 72, 73; at the Border during Mary’s accouchement, 76; Bedford’s statement that he was the most hated man in Scotland, 80; reconciled by Mary to Lethington, 81; his guilty intimacy with Mary, 82, 83; concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley, 90, 98, 99; wounded in Liddesdale, 93; visited by Mary at Hermitage Castle, 93; his share in Darnley’s murder, 117, 118, 136, 139, 142, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 171, 172, 175; escapes to Denmark, 154; Paris’s evidence as to familiarities between him and Mary, 162; his possession of the keys to Mary’s room at Kirk o’ Field, 163, 164, 165; influence over Mary, 176; objects of ‘Ainslie’s band,’ 177, 178, 181, 329, 330, 383; seizes Mary and takes her to Dunbar, 179, 330, 332; is created by Mary Duke of Orkney, and marries her, 183; intimacy with his divorced wife after marriage with Mary, 27, 184; at Carberry Hill, 16, 186; gives Mary a copy of the Darnley murder band, 187; summons from the Lords for Darnley’s murder and Mary’s abduction, 202; tried and declared innocent of Darnley’s murder, 177; Mary’s alleged letter inciting him to Darnley’s murder, 211, 212 (_see_ Casket Letter II.); the Privy Council’s Declaration, 239; Mary’s submissive attitude to him, 315; said to have been present at the brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart, 328;