[202] Thorpe, ii. 614, 616, 617. Border Calendar, i. 457.
[203] Privy Council Register, viii. 150–2, 605.
[206a] Pitcairn, ii. 287, n 2.
[206b] Neville to Cecil, Paris, Feb. 27, 1600. Willoughby to Cecil, Berwick, April 22, 1600. Winwood Memorials, p. 166. Border Calendar, ii. 645.
[217] The peculiarities of spelling are those recognised as Logan’s, and easily imitated by the forger.
[221] He had not the letter before him at this moment, and may have forgotten.
[222] Spottiswoode, vol. iii. pp. 274, 282.
[224] Cromarty, An Historical Account, &c., 92 (1713).
[227a] Calderwood, vi. 780.
[227b] In the Auchendrane case (1615), the public, partisans of the murderers, wished the only witness to be hanged, just to see if he would persevere in his confession.