Riccio, David, his intimacy with Mary, 58, 59; complained of as a foreign upstart by Scots nobles, 58, 65; reasons for discrediting his amour with Mary, 60; Darnley’s hatred and jealousy of him, 63, 64, 65, 66; ‘band of assurance’ for his murder, 67; nobles and others concerned, 67; murdered, 69 Ridolfi plot, the, 6 Robertson, Dr. Joseph, on Lady Reres as wet nurse to Mary’s baby, 83; on the Paris deposition, 158; on the Glasgow Letter, 296 Rogers, William, informs Cecil of Darnley’s design to seize the Scilly Isles, 108 note Ronsard (poet), quoted, 314; on the Casket Sonnets, 344, 349 Ross, Bishop of. _See_ Lesley Ruthven Earl of, his account of Riccio’s murder, 17; presents Mary with a ring as an antidote to poison, 17; conspiring with Darnley, 67; seeks refuge in England, 70; his dying vision, 37; death, 73 Sadleyr (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), at the York inquiry, 246 St. Andrews, in Mary’s time, 40 St. Mary in the Fields. _See_ Kirk o’ Field Sanquhar, signs the band for delivering Mary from Loch Leven, 275, 276 Scarborough, Darnley’s designs on, 108 Schiller’s ‘Marie Stewart,’ cited, 2 Scilly Isles, Darnley’s designs on, 108 note Scots Parliament, Casket Letters produced before, 241 Scottish Guards (in France), Bothwell captain of, 54 Scott’s ‘Abbot,’ cited, 2 Scrope, quoted, on Captain Cullen, 151-3 Sebastian (Mary’s servant), his marriage at Holyrood, 136, 148 Sempil, John, husband of Mary Livingstone, 356 Sepp, Dr., on the Casket Letters, 242 Seton, Mary (Mary’s attendant), ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair,’ 3, 4 Seton, Mary’s conduct at, 175 Skelton, Sir John, on Bothwell’s age, 14; his ‘Maitland of Lethington’ cited, 23; on Mary’s knowledge of the plot against Darnley, 116, 117; on Mary’s submissive attitude to Bothwell, 315 Sorcery, belief in, in the sixteenth century, 36 Spens (Black Mr. John), 175 Standen (brothers Anthony), one of them boasts that he saved Mary from assassination, 38; Darnley’s companions, 60; their immorality put to Darnley’s account, 75; romantic memoirs of one of them imprisoned in the Tower, 75; assist Darnley in his schemes, 108; the younger, 137, 319 note Stewart, Christian (heiress to the Buchan earldom), contracted in marriage with Lord James Stewart, 19; legal inheritress to Buchan estates, 20; married to Lord James, 20 Stewart d’Aubigny (Duke of Lennox), James’s banished favourite, 367 Stewart, Lord James (Moray’s brother), contracts himself in marriage to the Buchan child-heiress, 19; secures the right of redemption of the Buchan estates, 19; marries the heiress but loses the estates, 20 Stewart of Periven (Lennox’s retainer), 226 Stewart of Traquair, escorts Mary to Dunbar, 69