[{216a}] Bain, i. 627. Randolph to Cecil, May 29.
[{216b}] Cf. Froude, vi. 547-565.
[{216c}] “Book of Discipline,” Knox, ii. 228.
[{216d}] M‘Crie, 187.
[{217a}] Knox, ii. 330-335.
[{217b}] Bain, i. 673.
[{217c}] Randolph mentions the joy of the Court over some Guisian successes against the Huguenots, then up in arms, while Mary was on her expedition against Huntly, in October 1562. On December 30 he says that there is little dancing, less because of Knox’s sermons than on account of bad news from France. Bain, i. 658, 674.
Dr. Hay Fleming dates the wicked dance in December 1562, but of course that date was not the moment when “persecution was begun again in France,” nor would Mary be skipping in December for joy over letters of the previous March. Mary Queen of Scots, 275.
[{218}] Knox, vi. 140, 141.
[{219a}] Keith, iii. 50, 51.