[225] Bain, ii. 350, 351.
[226] Bain, ii. 322, 360.
[227] Ibid. 358.
[228] Cal. For. Eliz. viii. 297, 298. Keith, ii. 694, 700.
[229] Already, on July 16, Mary had offered verbally, by Robert Melville, to the Lords, to make Moray Regent: or, failing him, to appoint a Council of Regency, Châtelherault, Huntly, Argyll, Atholl, Lennox, and, ‘with much ado,’ Morton, Moray, Mar, and Glencairn. But she would not abandon Bothwell, as she was pregnant. Throckmorton does not say that she now promised to sign an abdication. A letter of Mary’s, to Bothwell’s captain in Dunbar, was intercepted, ‘containing matter little to her advantage.’ It never was produced by her prosecutors (Throckmorton, July 18. Bain, ii. 355,356). Robert Melville, visiting her, declined to carry such a letter to Bothwell. See his examination, in Addit. MSS. British Museum, 33531, fol. 119 et seq.
[230] Bain, ii. 367.
[231] Bain, ii. 328.
[232] Ibid. i. 346-348.
[233] Bain, ii. 346.
[234] Ibid. 354. July 16.