advice given by Mary as to his relations with the Lords, 331; ring sent him by Mary, 335, 337, 341; betrothal ring given by him to Mary, 340; letters to his wife after his marriage with Mary, 351; place of his death and burial, 371, 372, 373. _See_ Mary Stuart Bothwell, Lady. _See_ Lady Jane Gordon Bowes (Elizabeth’s envoy to Scotland), 365; tries to induce Gowrie to give up the Casket, 366 Bowton, Hepburn of, his statement of Darnley’s murder, 143, 144, 146, 158, 165, 170, 233, 278, 280, 310; dying confession, 167; execution, 139 Boyd, Lord, 73 Brantôme, on Bothwell’s personal appearance, 18; on the Casket Sonnets, 344 Branxholme, the Lady of, rails at Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, 184 Bresslau, Herr, on the Casket Letters, 387 Buchan, Earl of (grandfather of Christian Stewart), 19 Buchan, Master of, killed at Pinkie, 19 Buchanan, George (poet and historian), celebrates Mary’s virtues, 15; his inaccurate accounts of her behaviour, 33, 34; anecdotes of visions portending Darnley’s fate, 37; tale of Mary at Alloa with Bothwell, 80; on the guilty intimacy of Mary and Bothwell, 81; respecting Lady Reres, 82, 83; on the Craigmillar conference, 96, 97, 98; Latin elegiacs on Mary, 105; on Darnley’s murder, 141; his treatment of the Darnley case, 148-151; on Paris’s Deposition, 157; on Darnley’s meek endurance of Mary’s slights, 314; account of a brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart, 323, 328 Caithness, Earl of (member of council), 172 Calderwood, on Morton’s warrant from Mary for signing Ainslie’s band, 254 Callendar, Mary at, 112, 318 note Camden, on Lethington counterfeiting Mary’s handwriting, 357, 358 Carberry Hill, Mary and Bothwell at, 186 Cardauns, M., on the translations of the Casket Letters, 386 Carwood, Margaret, Mary’s intended bequest of a casket to, 365 Casket, the, official description of, 365; the one in possession of the Hamilton family, 367-370 Casket Letter I., its place in order of composition, 290, 291; question of date, 291, 292; intelligible if classed as Letter II., 293; purport, 293; reference to Lethington in English copy, 294; possibly authentic and indicating a presumptively authentic Letter II., 295; published Scots and English translations, 391-393