[104] Keith, i. xcviii. [105] Bain, ii. 293. This Rogers it was who, later, informed Cecil that ‘gentlemen of the west country’ had sent to Darnley a chart of the Scilly Isles. If Darnley, among other dreams, thought of a descent on them, as he did on Scarborough, he made no bad choice. Mr. A. E. W. Mason points out to me that the isles ‘commanded the Channel, and all the ships from the north of England,’ which passed between Scilly and the mainland, twenty-five miles off. The harbours being perilous, and only known to the islesmen, a small fleet at Scilly could do great damage, and would only have to run back to be quite safe. Darnley, in his moods, was capable of picturing himself as a pirate chief. [106] Hay Fleming, p. 415, note 63. [107] Labanoff, ii. [108] Labanoff, i. 396-398. Mary to Beaton, Jan. 20, 1567. [109] Hosack, ii. 580. Crawford’s deposition. [110] Hosack, i. 534. [111] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 163, 164. January 9, 1567. [112] See Appendix C, ‘The date of Mary’s visit to Glasgow.’ [113] The ‘undermining and’ are words added by Lennox himself to the MS. They are important. [114] _Maitland of Lethington._ [115] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 167-168. [116] On July 16, 1583, she wrote from Sheffield to Mauvissière, the French Ambassador, bidding him ask the King of France to give Archibald Douglas a pension, ‘because he is a man of good understanding and serviceable where he chooses to serve, as you know.’ She intended to procure his pardon from James (Labanoff, v. 351, 368). She employed him, and he betrayed her. [117] Laing, ii. 223-236. [118] Bain, ii. 599, 600. [119] _Registrum de Soltre_, p. xxxv, Bannatyne Club, 1861. [120] Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, March 14, 1541. [121] _Registrum de Soltre_, xxxvii. [122] Burgh Records, Nov. 5, 1557. [123] Burgh Records, Feb. 19, 1560, March 12, 1560. [124] Burgh Records. [125] Keith, ii. 151, 152. Editor’s note. [126] _Registrum de Soltre_, p. xli. [127] Burgh Records, Feb. 19, March 12, 1560. [128] Laing, ii. 254. [129] Lennox MSS. [130] See Hay Fleming, p. 434. [131] Lennox’s sources must have been Nelson and the younger Standen, to whom Bothwell gave a horse immediately after the murder. Standen returned to England four months later. [132] _Diurnal_, 105, 106. [133] Keith, i. cii. [134] Register Privy Council, i. 498. [135] Melville, p. 174, Bannatyne Club. [136] Labanoff, vii. 108, 109, Paris. March 16, 1567. [137] Hosack, i. 536, 537. [138] Spanish Calendar, i. 635, April 23. [139] Hosack, i. 534. The ‘Book of Articles,’ of 1568, was obviously written under the impression left by a forged letter of Mary’s, or by the reports of such a letter, as we shall show later. Yet the author cites a Casket Letter as we possess it. [140] Bain, ii. 393. [141] This is not, I think, a letter of September 5, but of September 16, but in Foreign Calendar Elizabeth, viii. p. 342, most of the passage quoted by Mr. Hosack is omitted. [142] Laing, ii. 28.