[35] Miss Strickland avers that ‘existing documents afford abundant proof, that whenever Darnley and the Queen were together, his name was written by his own hand.’
[36] October 31, 1565. Bain, ii. 232.
[37] Bain, ii. 234.
[38] Randolph to Cecil, Nov. 19, Dec. 1, 1565. Bain, ii. 241, 242.
[39] Bain, ii. 242.
[40] Buchanan, Historia, 1582, fol. 210.
[41] Bain, ii. 247.
[42] The Foreign Calendar cites Randolph up to the place where amantium iræ is quoted, but omits that. The point is important, if it indicates that Randolph had ceased to believe in Mary’s amour with Riccio. Cf. Bain, ii. 248.
[43] Nau, p. 192.
[44] The subject is discussed, with all the evidence, in Hay Fleming, pp. 379, 380, note 33.