[105] Bain, ii. 293. This Rogers it was who, later, informed Cecil that ‘gentlemen of the west country’ had sent to Darnley a chart of the Scilly Isles. If Darnley, among other dreams, thought of a descent on them, as he did on Scarborough, he made no bad choice. Mr. A. E. W. Mason points out to me that the isles ‘commanded the Channel, and all the ships from the north of England,’ which passed between Scilly and the mainland, twenty-five miles off. The harbours being perilous, and only known to the islesmen, a small fleet at Scilly could do great damage, and would only have to run back to be quite safe. Darnley, in his moods, was capable of picturing himself as a pirate chief.
[106] Hay Fleming, p. 415, note 63.
[107] Labanoff, ii.
[108] Labanoff, i. 396-398. Mary to Beaton, Jan. 20, 1567.
[109] Hosack, ii. 580. Crawford’s deposition.
[110] Hosack, i. 534.
[111] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 163, 164. January 9, 1567.
[112] See [Appendix C], ‘The date of Mary’s visit to Glasgow.’
[113] The ‘undermining and’ are words added by Lennox himself to the MS. They are important.
[114] Maitland of Lethington.