Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland: the Morton portrait, 3; periwig, 3 note; midnight revels and masculine energy, 4, 5, 8; her ‘four Maries,’ 4; costumes and jewels and their donors, 5; moods, spirit, and gratitude, 5, 6, 7; brow-beaten by Knox, 7; causes provoking hardness of heart, 8; centre of intrigue, 8, 9; Elizabeth’s rival, 9; disposition to yield to masterful men, 9; Bothwell’s defects instanced against her, 15; presented by Ruthven with a ring as an antidote to poison, 17, 36; pensions the assassin of Moray, 22; kindness to Lethington, 24; Morton her prosecutor, 31; virulence of the Preachers of Righteousness against her, 35, 36; ‘bewitched’ by Bothwell, 36; social condition of Scotland when she became queen, 43; informed by Arran of Bothwell’s plot to seize her, 51; political position during her first years in Scotland, 52, 53, 54; her compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism, 52; suspected by the Protestant party of favouring Bothwell, 53; intercedes with Elizabeth to allow Bothwell to go to France, 54; efforts to fix her as Elizabeth’s successor, 55; sees Darnley and admires him, 12, 55; action in Bothwell’s outlawry, 56; weds Darnley, 13, 57; summons Bothwell from France against her opponents, 57; estrangement from Darnley, 13, 57; political use made of her intimacy with Riccio, 58; twitted with favouring Riccio and Bothwell, 59; anger against Moray, 56; amour with Riccio not credible, 60, 63; removes Darnley from her Council, 60; illness, 61; letter to Pius V., 63, 64; arranges Bothwell’s marriage with Lady Jane Gordon, 64; insists on free Mass for all men, 65; schemes for killing Riccio in her presence, 68; rescued by Bothwell, Huntly, and Atholl after Riccio’s murder, 69; at Dunbar, 69, 70, 71; seeks to quiet the country, 71; growing hatred of Darnley, 71; threatens that a fatter than Riccio should soon lie anear him, 72; pardon of the rebel Lords demanded of her, 72; befriends Moray, 73; represented by Lennox as trying to induce Darnley to make love to Moray’s wife, 74; her bequests to Darnley, 75; allows Moray and Argyll to be at the Castle during her accouchement, 75; gives birth to James VI., 75; protects Moray from Darnley and Bothwell, 77; Darnley’s jealousy of her favour to Moray, 77; increasing dislike to Darnley, 78, 80; passion for Bothwell, 18, 26, 79; conduct at Alloa and Stirling, 80; gift of a bed to Darnley, 81; reconciles Lethington and Bothwell, 81; Buchanan’s account of her amour with Bothwell, 82, 83; this legend supported by Sonnet IX. and Dalgleish’s confession, 84; strained relations with Darnley, 84, 85; in Jedburgh at a Border session, 93; visits wounded Bothwell at Hermitage Castle, 93, 94; illness at Jedburgh, 94;