202, 203, 205, 206, 207 (_see_ Casket Letters); communication from Elizabeth respecting Melville, 202; her abdication demanded by the Council, and charges formulated against her, 204, 205; signs the deeds of her abdication, 207; her confessor’s opinion of her, 210; the Glasgow Letter, 135, 162, 168, 211, 212, 213, 214, 225, 229, 255; complains to Elizabeth of Lady Lennox, 225; the Glasgow Letter as rendered in the Lennox Papers, 234, 235; her love for Bothwell as presented in the Casket Sonnets, 235; the Glasgow Letter discredited, 236; the Lords’ specific charge against her, 239; demands to be heard in the Parliament at Edinburgh, 240; escapes from Loch Leven, 242; claims the right of confronting her accusers, 243; her line of defence, 243, 245; on the handwriting of her accusers, 244; letter to Lesley, 245; Lesley’s details of an interview with her at Bolton, 248; copies of the letters forwarded to her by Lethington, 248, 249; theory of her translation of Scots copies into French, 249 note; arrival of her commissioners at York, 250; assents to Moray’s compromise, 251; attitude at York, 257; consents to the removal of inquiry from York to London, 260; terms of her compromise, 260, 262, 265; change in her plan of defence, 262; plea for a hearing before Elizabeth, 267, 268; injury done to her cause by friends’ renewed efforts for a compromise, 269, 270; withdrawal of her commissioners from Westminster, 275; refuses to acknowledge Elizabeth as a judge, 282; her letter from Bolton, 283; asks to see the copies and originals of the Casket Letters, 284; makes their delivery a condition of her production of charges and proofs, 286, 287; causes of her detestation of Lethington, 288; her submissive attitude to both Bothwell and Norfolk, 315; suggestion of marriage with Norfolk, 155; distrusts Huntly, 330; trusts him, 331; her excuses for marrying Bothwell, addressed to the French Court, 331, 332; sends Bothwell a symbolic mourning ring, 337; letter to Norfolk from Coventry, 337 and note; contract of marriage with Bothwell, 338; receives betrothal ring from Bothwell(?), 340; hypothesis of her contest in literary excellence with Lady Bothwell, 350; tone of her letters to Norfolk, 351; suspicions of Lethington in her instructions to her commissioners, 356; coincidence between Letter VII. and her instructions to the Bishop of Dunblane, 331, 359, 360; facsimiles of her own and imitated handwriting, 363, 364; date of her visit to Glasgow, 379, 380; charges Balfour, Morton and Lethington with complicity in Darnley’s murder, 189, 382 Meggatdale, Mary and Darnley at, 81