[{167a}] The date may be part of an interpolation.
[{167b}] This account is from the French Archives MS., Angleterre, vol. xv.
[{168}] Knox, ii. 72.
[{169}] It is an inexplicable fact that, less than a month before Glencairn and Lord James signed the first godly Band (December 3, 1557), these two, with Kirkcaldy of Grange, “were acting with the Queen-Dowager against Huntly, Chatelherault, and Argyll,” who in December signed with them the godly Band. The case is thus stated by Mr. Tytler, perhaps too vigorously. It appears that, after the refusal of the Lords to cross Tweed and attack England, in the autumn of 1557, the Regent, with the concurrence of Glencairn, Lord James, and Kirkcaldy of Grange, proposed to recall from exile in England the Earl of Lennox, father of Darnley. He, like the chief of the Hamiltons, had a claim to the crown of Scotland, failing heirs born of Mary Stuart. Lennox, therefore, would be a counterpoise to Hamilton and his ally in mutiny, Argyll. Thus Lord James and Glencairn, in November 1557; support the Regent against the Hamiltons and Argyll, but in December Glencairn, reconciled to Argyll, signs with him the godly Band. We descry the old Stewart versus Hamilton feud in these proceedings.
[{170}] Knox, ii. 87, note.
[{172}] Knox, ii. 89-127.
[{174a}] Randolph to Cecil, September 7; Bain, i. 477, 478.
[{174b}] Knox, vi. 83, 84.
[{174c}] Knox, vi. lxxxii.
[{175}] M‘Crie, Life of John Knox, 162 (1855).