[205] Teulet, ii. 179.
[206] Teulet, ii. 169, 170. June 17.
[207] Bannatyne’s Memorials, p. 126.
[208] Nau, 50-54.
[209] Laing, ii, 115.
[210] Bannatyne, Journal, 477, 482.
[211] Chalmers, Life of Mary, Queen of Scots (1818), ii. 486, 487, note. I do not understand Randolph to bring these charges merely on the ground of Mary’s word. That he only adds as corroboration, I think, of facts otherwise familiar to him.
[212] Mr. Froude has observed that the Lords, ‘uncertain what to do, sent one of their number in haste to Paris, to the Earl of Moray, to inform him of the discovery of the Letters, and to entreat him to return immediately.’ Mr. Hosack says that Mr. Froude owes this circumstance ‘entirely to his imagination.’ This is too severe. The Lords did not send ‘one of their number’ to Moray, but they sent letters which Robert Melville carried as far as London, and, seventeen days later, they did send a man who, if not ‘one of their number,’ was probably Moray’s agent, John Wood (Hosack, i. 352).
[213] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. p. 261.
[214] Spanish Calendar, i. 657.