[7] See The Mystery of Mary Stuart. Longmans, 1901.

[12a] Extracted from the Treasurer’s Accounts, July, August, 1600. MS.

[12b] The King’s Narrative, Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials of Scotland, ii. 210.

[13] The King’s Narrative, ut supra. Treasurer’s Accounts, MS.

[14] Lennox in Pitcairn, ii. 171–174.

[18] The description is taken from diagrams in Pitcairn, derived from a local volume of Antiquarian Proceedings. See, too, The Muses’ Threnodie, by H. Adamson, 1638, with notes by James Cant (Perth, 1774), pp. 163, 164.

[19] Pitcairn, ii. 199.

[23] The evidence of these witnesses is in Pitcairn, ii. 171–191.

[28] Cranstoun’s deposition in Pitcairn, ii. 156, 157. At Falkland August 6.

[30] The adversaries of the King say that these men ran up, and were wounded, later, in another encounter. As to this we have no evidence, but we have evidence of their issuing, wounded, from the dark staircase at the moment when Cranstoun fled thence.