[143] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. p. 392. [144] Laing, ii. 256. [145] _Diurnal_, 127, 128. Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 393. [146] Hosack, ii. 245. [147] This was obvious to Laing. Replying to Goodall’s criticism of verbal coincidences in the confessions, Laing says, ‘as if in any subsequent evidence concerning the same fact, the same words were not often dictated by the same Commissioner, or recorded by the Clerk, from the first deposition which they hold in their hands.’ It does not seem quite a scientific way of taking evidence. [148] See the Confessions, Laing, ii. 264. [149] Bain, ii. 312, 313. [150] Arnott and Pitcairn, _Criminal Trials_. [151] Buchanan, _History_ (1582), fol. 215. [152] _Maitland Miscellany_, iv. p. 119. [153] French Foreign Office, _Registre de Depesches d’Ecosse_, 1560-1562, fol. 112. [154] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. p. 7, No. 31. [155] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 229. Drury would not here add to our confidence by saying that ‘Sir Andrew Ker’ (if of Faldonside) ‘with others were on horseback near to the place for aid to the cruel enterprize if need had been.’ Ker, a pitiless wretch, was conspicuous in the Riccio murder, threatened Mary, and had but lately been pardoned. After Langside, he was kept prisoner, in accordance with Mary’s orders, by Whythaugh. But the Sir Andrew of Drury is another Ker. [156] Bain ii. 321, 325. [157] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 252. [158] Bain, ii. 394. Cullen is spelled ‘Callan,’ and is described as Bothwell’s ‘chalmer-chiel.’ [159] Bain, ii. 355. [160] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 500. Hosack, i. 350, note 2, and Schiern’s _Bothwell_. [161] Laing, ii. 269. [162] Bain, ii. 698. [163] See Appendix B, ‘The Burning of the Lyon King at Arms.’ [164] Bain, ii. 667, 668. [165] Laing, i. 256, 257. [166] Laing, ii. 253. [167] Murdin, i. 57. [168] Laing, ii. 286, 287. [169] Laing, ii. 259. [170] Laing, ii. 254. [171] Laing, ii. 267, 268. [172] Laing, ii. 287. [173] Anderson, 1, part II., 76, 77. [174] Nau, Appendix ii. 151, 152. The Jesuits’ evidence was from letters to Archbishop Beaton. [175] Murdin, p. 57. [176] In the ‘Book of Articles,’ and in the series of dated events called ‘Cecil’s Journal.’ [177] Hay Fleming, p. 444. [178] Spanish Calendar, i. 628. For Moray’s dinner party, cf. Bain, ii. 317. [179] Spanish Calendar, i. 635. [180] Laing, ii. 244. [181] Labanoff, ii. 2-4. [182] Venetian Calendar, vii. 388, 389. There were rumours that Lennox had been blown up with Darnley, and, later, that he was attacked at Glasgow, on February 9, by armed men, and owed his escape to Lord Semple. It is incredible that this fact should be unmentioned, if it occurred, by Lennox and Buchanan. [183] Hay Fleming, pp. 442-443. [184] Robertson, _Inventories_, p. 53. [185] Anderson, i. 112. Bain, ii. 322.