Melville, Robert, against Mary, 185; sent to Elizabeth with news of the discovery of the Casket Letters, 196, 201, 320, 355; acting for the Lords, 202; denies his visit to Mary at Bolton before going to commissioners at York, 249, 250; Lesley’s confession contravened by his, 250; Moray sends him to Bolton to compromise with Mary, 251; negotiates with Mary on a compromise, 259; his statement, 261; sent by Lethington on ‘sudden despatch’ to Cecil, 354, 355; friendly efforts in Mary’s behalf, 355; suspects Kirkcaldy of Grange of counterfeiting Moray’s handwriting, 361 Melville, Sir James, on George Buchanan’s veracity as a historian, 34; dissuades Mary from putting Moray in ward, 75; on Darnley’s murder, 140; on Bothwell’s behaviour in the Queen’s chamber, 181; at the York conference, 259 Mertine, Barbara, encounters the murderers of Darnley, 147 Middlemore, Mary’s statement to him regarding her accusers, 245 Minto, Laird of, arrested by Mary, 103; working in Lennox’s interests, 111; cited, 150 Moray, Regent (natural son of James V.), an enigma, 19; Protestant and warrior, 19; acquisitiveness, 19, 20; secures the Buchan estates in spite of the legal rights of Christian Stewart, 20; marries Agnes Keith, 20; ambition, 20; treachery and caution, 21, 22; alibis, 21; as Regent, 22; Mr. Froude’s estimate of him, 22; his secretary, John Wood, 33; believes that Ruthven gave Mary a ring with magical properties, 36; urged by the preachers to burn witches, 36; political bias and theological tenets, 52; tells Mary that either he or Bothwell must quit Scotland, 56; his rising to prevent Mary marrying Darnley, 59; seeks for the restoration of Morton and Ruthven, 72; in favour with Mary, 73, 76, 121; permitted by Mary to reside in the Castle during her accouchement, 75; said to be banded against Darnley, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98; denies that any unlawful ends were mooted at Craigmillar, 98; winks at the conspiracy against Darnley, 116, 122; account of the numbers engaged in Darnley’s murder, 141; laxity in their prosecution, 144, 145; gives records of examinations to English commissioners, 145; reasons for not summoning Paris as witness, 154, 155; opposes marriage between Mary and Norfolk, 155; takes the evidence of Paris, 155; delays in forwarding it to Cecil, 156; seeks to betray Norfolk, 156; story of his presence at a wrangle between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart, 166, 323, 327; informed of the Casket Letters, 196 note; his sources of information as to Mary’s correspondence, 208; from friend becomes enemy of Mary, 209, 210; reports a guilty letter from Mary to Bothwell, 211, 213; his additions to and differences from the Glasgow letter, 216 et seq.; common source of his and Lennox’s reports, 221;