[315] Mr. Bain omits December 13; see Goodall, ii. 252.
[316] Bain, ii. 579, 580.
[317] Froude, 1866, iii. 347.
[318] Proceedings of Society for Psychical Research, vol. iii. pp. 282, 283, 294.
[319] See Bain, ii. 581, for Crawford; the matter of this his second deposition, made on December 13, is not given; we know it from the Lennox Papers. The Diurnal avers that Tala, on the scaffold, accused Huntly, Argyll, Lethington, Balfour, and others of signing the band for the murder, ‘whereto the Queen’s grace consented.’ Naturally the Queen’s accusers did not put the confession about Lethington forward, but if Tala publicly accused Mary, why did they omit the circumstance?
[320] Ballad by Tom Truth, in Bain under date of December, 1568.
[321] Goodall, ii. 257-260. Bain, ii. 580, 581.
[322] Froude, viii. 484. Mr. Froude’s page-heading runs: ‘The English nobles pronounce them’ (the Letters) ‘genuine.’ But this, as he shows in the passage cited, they really did not do. They only said that Elizabeth must not see Mary, ‘until some answer had been made first....’ However, Elizabeth would not even let Mary see the Letters; and so no ‘answer’ was possible.
[323] Lingard, vi. 94, note 2 (1855).
[324] Bain, ii. 583.