[372] By the way, she says to Norfolk, in the same Letter, ‘I am resolvid that weale nor wo shall never remove me from yow, If yow cast me not away.’ Compare the end of this Letter VIII.: ‘Till death nor weal nor woe shall estrange me’ (jusques à la mort ne changera, _car mal ni bien oncque ne m’estrangera_). Now the forger could not copy a letter not yet written (Labanoff, iii. 5). This conclusion of her epistle is not on the same level as the _customary_ conclusion--the prayer that God will give the recipient long life, and to her--something else. _That_ formula was usual: ‘Je supplie Dieu et de vous donner bonne vie, et longue, et a moy l’eur de votre bonne grasse.’ This formula, found in Mary’s Letters and in the Casket Letters, also occurs in a note from Marguerite de France to the Duchesse de Montmorency (De Maulde, _Women of the Renaissance_, p. 309). A forger would know, and would insert the stereotyped phrase, if he chose. [373] On the point of wearing a concealed jewel in her bosom, the curious may consult the anecdote, ‘Queen Mary’s Jewels,’ in the author’s _Book of Dreams and Ghosts_. [374] In Laing, ii. 234. [375] _Cecil’s Journal._ [376] _Cecil’s Journal._ [377] Laing, ii. 285. [378] Laing, ii. 289. [379] Laing, ii. 325, 326. Laing holds that between April 21 and April 23 Mary wrote Letters V. VI. VII. VIII. and Eleven Sonnets to Bothwell: strange literary activity! [380] Froude, iii. 75, note 1. [381] Teulet, ii. 169, 170. [382] Labanoff, iii. 5. [383] Labanoff, iii. 64. [384] Spanish Calendar, i. 659. [385] Bain, ii. 329, 330. [386] Privy Council Register. [387] Bain, ii. 336. Sir John Skelton did not observe the coincidence between the opening of the Casket and the ‘sudden dispatch’ of Robert Melville to London. The letter in full is in _Maitland of Lethington_, ii. 226, 227. [388] Bain, ii. 339. [389] Goodall, ii. 342, 343. [390] Goodall, ii. 388, 389. [391] Camden, _Annals_, 143-5. Laing, i. 226. [392] Laing, ii. 224-240. [393] Bain, ii. 322. [394] As to Randolph’s dark hint, Chalmers says, ‘he means their participation in Darnley’s murder’ (ii. 487). But that, from Randolph’s point of view, was no offence against Mary, and Kirkcaldy was not one of Darnley’s murderers. [395] Cal. For. Eliz. ix. 390. [396] See Hosack, ii. 217, 218. Bowes to Walsingham, March 25, 1581. _Bowes Papers_, 174. Ogilvie to Archibald Beaton. Hosack, ii. 550, 551. [397] Bain, ii. 569. [398] Robertson _Inventories_, 124. [399] _Bowes Correspondence_, 236. [400] Bowes, 265. [401] Goodall, i. 35, 36. [402] Vol. lxxx. 131, _et seq._ [403] Before the Reformation it belonged to the Bishops of Roskilde, and was confiscated from them, Henry VIII.’s fashion. [404] Bain, ii. 250. [405] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 413, 414. [406] This picture seems to be lost. [407] _Diurnal_, p. 134. [408] Birrel’s _Diary_, p. 17. [409] Cot. Lib. Calig. B. ix. fol. 272. Apud Chalmers, i. 441, 442. [410] Bain, ii. 516. [411] _Diurnal_, p. 146.