[145] Diurnal, 127, 128. Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 393.
[146] Hosack, ii. 245.
[147] This was obvious to Laing. Replying to Goodall’s criticism of verbal coincidences in the confessions, Laing says, ‘as if in any subsequent evidence concerning the same fact, the same words were not often dictated by the same Commissioner, or recorded by the Clerk, from the first deposition which they hold in their hands.’ It does not seem quite a scientific way of taking evidence.
[148] See the Confessions, Laing, ii. 264.
[149] Bain, ii. 312, 313.
[150] Arnott and Pitcairn, Criminal Trials.
[151] Buchanan, History (1582), fol. 215.
[152] Maitland Miscellany, iv. p. 119.
[153] French Foreign Office, Registre de Depesches d’Ecosse, 1560-1562, fol. 112.
[154] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. p. 7, No. 31.