writes letter to be presented to the French Court concerning Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, 331; directs the scheme of garbling the Casket Letters, 353; (?) despatches Melville to Cecil on the day of the finding of the Casket Letters, 355; privately hints that he had counterfeited Mary’s handwriting, 357, 358; case against him, 358, 359; ‘Instructions’ drawn by him, 360; Randolph hints at his tampering with the Letters, 361; Herr Bresslau’s inferences of tampering, 387 Liddesdale reivers, the, 180 Lindsay, Sir David, pardoned, 112; the Lords send him to Loch Leven to induce Mary to abdicate, 204; challenges Herries to combat on Moray’s account, 285; appointed Lyon King at Arms, 376 Livingstone, Lord, member of council, 172; his knowledge of Mary’s amour with Bothwell, 253 Livingstone, Mary (Queen Mary’s attendant), 4; wife of John Sempil, 356; on ill terms with Mary, 356 Loch Leven, Mary imprisoned at, 192; Lindsay sent to, to extort her abdication, 204; Mary’s escape from, 242 Logan of Restalrig, treasure-finding, 375 Lords, Scots, of the Privy Council, banded against Mary, 185; success at Carberry Hill, 195; Casket Letters in their possession, 196, 201; summons against Bothwell, 202; their mixed character, motives, and statements, 203, 204; demand of Mary her abdication, 204; formulate charges against her, 205; extort from her a consent to their proposals, 205; vacillations with regard to the Letters, 206, 207; obtain Mary’s signature to her abdication, 206; forward copies of Casket Letters to Moray, 212; publish their Declaration, 238; accuse Mary of being privy to Darnley’s murder, 239; on Mary’s handwriting, 241; cause of their action against Mary, 355 Luzarche, M. Victor, his Coffret de Bijoux, 365 Maitland of Lethington. _See_ Lethington Mameret, Roche (Mary’s confessor), on the character of the Queen, 210 Mar, Earl of, entertains Mary at Alloa, 80; deprived of the custody of Edinburgh Castle, 172; confederated against Bothwell, 181 Marryat, Mr. Horace, and the body of Bothwell, 373 Mary of Gueldres, 45 Mary of Guise, Regent, 19; her secretary Lethington, 23; deserted by her nobles, 47; Bothwell espouses her cause, 47