[{23a}] Knox, Laing’s edition, i. 180.

[{23b}] Knox, i. 182. “The siege continued to near the end of January.” “The truce was of treacherous purpose,” i. 183.

[{24}] Knox, i. 203-205.

[{25a}] Thorpe’s Calendar, i. 60; Register Privy Council, i. 57, 58; Tytler, vi. 8 (1837).

[{25b}] State Papers, Scotland, Thorpe, i. 61.

[{25c}] Bain, Calendar of Scottish Papers, 1547-69, i. I; Tytler, iii. 51 (1864).

[{26a}] Bain i. 2; Knox, i. 182, 183.

[{26b}] For the offering of the papal remission to the garrison of the castle before April 2, 1547, see Stewart of Cardonald’s letter of that date to Wharton, in Bain’s Calendar of Scottish Papers, 1547-69, i. 4-5.

[{27a}] John Knox, i. 80.

[{27b}] State Papers, Domestic. Addenda, Edward VI., p. 327. Lord Eure says there were twenty galleys.