Lesley (Bishop of Ross), considers Bothwell a handsome man, 18; wishes Mary to put Moray in ward, 75; Huntly’s statement to, respecting Mary’s counter accusations, 96; member of council, 172, 178; asserts the Letters were not signed, 198; on unsigned Letters attributed to Mary, 212; one of Mary’s commissioners at York, 246; share in the schemes of the Duke of Norfolk, 246; report of an interview with Mary at Bolton, 247; confession contradicted by Melville’s, 250; conference with Lethington about the Letters, 258; pleads for Mary to be heard in person before Elizabeth, 267; protests against Moray’s production of the Letters, 270; Elizabeth’s three choices to him, 283; charge against Moray and the Lords, 285; curious letter to John Fitzwilliam, 286 note; on counterfeiters of Mary’s handwriting, 356 Lethington, Sir Richard (father of Maitland of Lethington), 23 Lethington (William Maitland, the younger), early life and culture, 23; arguments with Knox, 23, 24; Secretary to Mary of Guise, 23; desires the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, 23; friendly advances to Mary before her arrival in Scotland, 24; character, 24; allied by marriage with the Earl of Atholl, 24; love affair with Mary Fleming, 24; in every scheme against Darnley, 25; dislikes and is hated by Bothwell, 25; joins Mary’s enemies, 25; nicknamed Michael Wylie (Machiavelli), 26; political principles, 52; counsels drastic measures against Riccio, 66; reconciled by Mary to Bothwell, 81; concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley, 88, 90; his method of dealing with Darnley, which Parliament would support, 98, 99, 103; favours a project of marriage between Norfolk and Mary, 155; charged with complicity in the Darnley murder, 155, 156, 159; refuses to aid Moray in betraying Norfolk, 156; in attendance on Mary, 179; prisoner at Dunbar, 179, 180, 181; declares that Mary means to marry Bothwell, 181; escapes from Bothwell, 182; question of friendship for or enmity to Mary, 182; flies to confederated Lords, 185; persuades Sir J. Balfour to surrender Edinburgh Castle, 186; interview with Mary, 188, 189; reasons for his treachery to Mary, 190, 191, 192; statement to Throckmorton respecting his conduct towards her, 204; Randolph accuses him of advising Mary’s death, 204; statement to Throckmorton about the letters, 205; Mary’s documentary charge against him, 243, 244; conduct at the York Conference, 246, 252; accused of stealing the Casket Letters, and having them copied by his wife, 248; explains the reason for Mary’s abduction, 255; his privy disclosure of the Letters, 257; shakes Norfolk’s belief in same, 258; discriminating attitude between private and public exhibition of Letters, 287;