The Mystery of Mary Stuart

by Andrew Lang

verbal identities of his deposition with, and differences from, Letter II., [303], [304], [305], [306], [307], [385], [389], [390];
his private character, [309], [310], [312];
one indication of the truth of his oath, [311];
deposition anglicised from the Scots, [312];
full text of his deposition, [427-431]
Crokat, May (Mrs. Stirling), sees the murderers of Darnley, [147]
Cullen, Captain James (a soldier of fortune), [35];
officer of the guard to Mary, [151];
share in the Darnley murder, [152];
executed, [153];
his evidence burked, [156]
Cunningham, Robert (Lennox’s retainer), Lennox’s letter to him, [226]
Dalgleish, George (Bothwell’s valet), his confession regarding Darnley’s murder, [84], [143], [144], [145], [146], [167], [195], [274], [278];
under torture reveals the Casket, [275];
executed, [144]
Darnley, Henry Lord (son of Earl of Lennox), genealogy, [10];
letter to Mary Tudor, [10];
physical, moral and mental characteristics, [11], [18];
influence on Mary, [12];
marries her, [13], [57];
petulance and arrogance of his disposition, [13];
habits and health, [13];
on the possessions of Moray, [19];
his tragic end foretold in spiritual visions, [37];
at feud with the Lennox Stewarts, [58];
estranged from Mary, [59];
fondness for hunting, [60], [61], [62], [63];
removed from Mary’s Council, [60], [62];
at Peebles, [62];
affects to believe in, and have proofs of, Riccio’s amour with Mary, [63], [65], [67];
schemes with his father to obtain the crown, [66];
in league with Ruthven and Morton, [67];
present at Riccio’s slaying, [67];
list of those who aided him in the murder, [67];
his treachery to his associates after Riccio’s murder, [71];
Mary’s growing dislike of him, [73];
tale of Mary’s proposal to him to make Lady Moray his mistress, [74], [86];
urged to ruin Moray and Lethington, [76];
Mary’s gift of a bed to him, [81];
at Meggatdale with Mary, [81];
threatens to fly the country, [84], [85];
invited to state his grievances before the Council, [85];
powerful nobles against him, [85], [87];
determined not to be present at the baptism of his son, [86];
evidence of a signed ‘band’ against him, [87], [88], [90];
visits Mary at Jedburgh, [95], [96];
warned by Lennox of a plan to put him in ward, [101];
does not attend his son’s baptism, [105];
denied his title to the kingship, [106];
will not associate with the English therefor, [106];
anecdote of his treatment by Mary, at Stirling, [107];
wild projects attributed to him, [108];
complains of Mary to the Pope and Catholic Powers, [109];
rumours of his intended arrest, [111];
falls ill at Glasgow, [112];
his reply to Mary when she offers to visit him, [112];
Crawford’s account of his interview with Mary, [113];
returns with her to Edinburgh, [113];
the poison suggestion of his illness, [114];
brought to Kirk o’ Field, [115];
situation, environs, and interior of Kirk o’ Field, [123-133];
his letter to Lennox three days before his death, [133];
Mary’s interview with him on the eve of the explosion, [135];
his last hours, [136];
statements and theories of the manner of his death, [136], [138], [139], [140], [141], [142], [149], [150];
confessions of some of his murderers, [141-153];
his probable murderers, [169];
the band for his murder, [381-385]
De Foix (French ambassador), Cecil’s account to him of Riccio’s murder, [68]
De Silva (Spanish ambassador) discusses, with Elizabeth, Mary’s share in Darnley’s murder, [171], [172];
knowledge of the Casket Letters, [197];
mentions their existence to Elizabeth, [201];
statement made to him by Mary’s confessor, [210];
Moray reports a guilty letter of Mary’s, [211], [214];
notifies Elizabeth of the Lords’ possession of the Casket Letters, [353]
‘Detection,’ on the Craigmillar conference, [96];
on the Casket Letters, [200]
‘Diurnal of Occurrents,’ quoted, [36], [139], [292], [378], [380]
Douglas, Archibald (cousin of Morton), the ‘parson of Glasgow,’ [30], [31];
in Riccio’s murder, [31];
in Darnley’s murder, [31], [147], [148], [274];
Morton’s go-between, [31];
judge of Court of Session, [32], [147];
career of treachery, [32], [33];
states the existence of the Darnley murder band, [87], [90];
letter to Mary in exile, [89];
account of the band signed by Moray, [91];
endeavours to propitiate Mary, [117], [118], [119];
considered as a forger of the Letters, [362]
Douglas, George, concerned in Riccio’s murder, [65];
witness against Moray and Lethington, [76]
Douglas, Lady (Moray’s mother), [20]
Douglas, Robert (brother of Archibald), at the discovery of the Casket Letters, [275]
Douglas, Sir George (father of the Earl of Morton), his treacherous character, [29]
Douglas, William, rescuer of Mary from Loch Leven, [6], [7], [34]
Douglas, William (of Whittingham), accuses his brother Archibald of forging letters, [32], [362]
Dragsholm, Castle of, in Denmark, where Bothwell died, [372], [373]
Drummond Castle, Mary at, [112]
Drumquhassel, [35]
Drury, quoted, on Captain Cullen, [152];
aware of Bothwell’s projected seizure of Mary, [180];
stays Nelson at Berwick, [319] note
Du Croc (French ambassador), on Bothwell’s courage, [16];
on differences between Darnley and Mary, [85], [86], [95];
high opinion of Mary, [87];
on Bothwell’s wound, [93];
declines to meet Darnley, [106];
finds Mary in tears at Stirling, [107];
opposed to Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, [183];
on Lethington’s interview with Mary after Carberry, [188];
leaves Scotland with copies of Casket Letters, [197], [198], [199]
Dunbar, Mary at, [180], [186]
Dunblane, Bishop of, letter presented by him to the Court of France in excuse of Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, [331], [333];
coincidence of Mary’s instruction to, with Letter VII., [359], [360]
Durham, Sandy (Bothwell’s servant), asks Paris for the key of Kirk o’ Field, [163]
Durie, Rev. John, receives Morton’s confession, [148]
Edinburgh, Mary’s midnight revels in, [4];
in Mary’s time, [40], [41], [42];
insanitariness, [41];
street brawling, [43];
social condition, [43];
house in, referred to in Mary’s letters, [316], [317], [318]
Edinburgh Castle, Bothwell prisoner in, [51], [53];
Mary gives birth to James VI. at, [75];
Sir James Balfour holds, [274]
Eglintoun, Lord, an untrustworthy Lennoxite, [110], [111];
evades subscription to the Ainslie band, [178]
Elizabeth, Queen, acknowledges Mary’s physical and mental charm, [3], [4];
regards her as a rival, [9];
opinion of Maitland of Lethington, [24];
pestered to recognise Mary as her successor, [55];
congratulations on birth of James VI., [76];
her baptismal gift as godmother, [105];
receives Paris’s deposition, [154];
discusses with De Silva Darnley’s murder, [171], [172];
Lords appeal to her against Mary, [184], [185];
wavers between Mary and the dominant Scots party, [195];
acquainted with the discovery of the Casket Letters, [196];
angry with Lethington about them, [201];
communicates with Mary in Lochleven, [202];
demands of Moray the reason of the Lords’ rebellion, [228], [229];
favourably inclined to Mary, [237];
removes the conference from York to London, [260];
her Council at Hampton Court, [264];
declines Mary’s appeal for a hearing before her, [269];
asks for the Letters, [269];
adds to commissioners at Westminster, [277];
debars Mary her presence, [281], [282];
offers Mary three choices, [283];
refuses to permit Mary the sight of originals or copies of the Letters, [284];
absolves both Moray and Mary, [285];
suspects Lethington of tampering with Letters, [353], [355], [358];
acquaints Mary with Robert Melville’s efforts, [355]
Elphinstone, Nicholas (Moray’s messenger), not allowed to give Mary Moray’s letters at Loch Leven, [210]
Erskine, Arthur, [34];
escorts Mary to Dunbar, [69]
Faarvejle Church, Denmark, Bothwell’s body and grave in, [371] et seq.
Fitzwilliam, John (of Gray’s Inn), Lesley’s letter to him, [286] note
Fleming, Dr. Hay, on Bothwell’s outlawry, [56]
Fleming, Mary (Queen Mary’s favourite attendant), [4];
her love affair with Maitland of Lethington, [24];
when Lethington’s wife, copies the Letters, [247], [248]
Fleming (member of council), [172]
Forbes of Reres, kills Moray’s secretary, [33]
Foster, Sir John, [54];
on Mary’s visit to Bothwell, [94];
on the Liddesdale reivers, [180]
Froude, Mr. (historian), his opinion of Moray, [22];
on the discovery of the Casket Letters, [196];
on the Glasgow Letter, [212], [213];
on Mary’s attitude towards the Letters, [245]
Galloway, Bishop of (member of council), [172]
Glasgow, in the sixteenth century, [39];
Darnley ill at, [112]
Glasgow Letter, the, [135], [162], [168], [211], [212], [213], [214], [225], [229], [255].
See [Letter II.]
Glencairn, Earl of, received by Mary at Edinburgh Castle, [73], [92]
Goodall, quoted, [312] note
Gordon, John (Mary’s servant), [7]
Gordon, Lady Jane (daughter of Huntly, the Cock of the North), wife of Bothwell, [26], [53], [68];
her literary love letters, [26];
conditions of her consent to a divorce with Bothwell, [27], [218];
relations with Bothwell after her divorce, [27], [184];
marries the Earl of Sutherland, and, on his death, Ogilvy of Boyne, [27], [218];
literary contest with Mary, [349], [350]
Gowrie, Earl of, in possession of the Casket Letters, [366];
Bowes seeks to obtain them from him, [366];
insists on James’s consent before giving them up, [367];
executed for treason, [367]
Greville, Fulke, attracted by the personality of Archibald Douglas, [33]
Gueldres, Mary of (widow of James II.), [45]
Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, resides at Hamilton House to prevent Darnley’s occupation, [116];
there on the eve of Kirk o’ Field explosion, [149];
accessory to Darnley’s murder, [150];
member of council, [172];
hanged by Lennox, [150]
Hamilton Casket, the, doubts as to its being the true Casket, [369]
Hamilton, present Duke of, the Casket in his possession, [367], [368]
Hamilton House, [115], [116], [131], [149]
Hamilton, John, singular death of, [37]
Hamilton, Lord Claude (Gloade), [149]
Hampton Court, [264], [279]
Handwriting, problems of, [363], [364]
Hay, the Younger, of Tala, his complicity in Darnley’s murder, [35], [90], [143], [144], [145], [146], [157], [160], [165], [169], [328];
confession, [278];
execution, [139], [280]
Henderson, quoted, on Letter II. and Crawford’s Deposition, [310], [312] note;
his text of the Casket Letters, [387]
Henri II. of France, [5]
Hepburn of Riccartoun (Bothwell’s agent), [56], [57]
Hepburn, Patrick (Bishop of Moray), Bothwell’s great-uncle, [14]
Hepburn, Patrick (parson of Kynmoir), evidence to a plot to kill Moray, [375], [376], [377], [378]
Hepburns, the, character of, [45], [46]
Hermitage Castle, Bothwell visited by Mary at, [39], [54], [93], [94]
Herries, Lord, on Mary’s abduction, [241];
at the York Conference, [251];
at Westminster, [267];
challenged to battle by Lindsay, [285]
Hiegait, William (Town Clerk of Glasgow), arrested by Mary, [103];
his tale of Darnley’s scheme to kidnap James VI., [108], [109], [110];
denies same before the Council, [110], [111];
cited, [301]
Holy Island, Bothwell prisoner at, [54]
Holyrood, fable of secret passage between it and Kirk o’ Field, [115], [116];
its environs, [124];
Sebastian’s marriage, [136]
Hosack, Mr., on the authenticity of Letter II., [232];
on Glasgow Letter, [296]
Hubert, Nicholas, his dying confession, [166]
Hume, on Hubert’s confession, [166]
Hume, Major Martin, on the Casket Letters, [197]
Hunter, Michael, slain by the Black Laird of Ormistoun, [35], [36]
Huntly, Earl of (Cock of the North), Mary’s chief Catholic supporter, [52];
dies in battle against her, [53]
Huntly, Earl of (son of the Cock of the North; Bothwell’s brother-in-law), influences his sister Lady Jane in her marriage to and divorce from Bothwell, [53];
rescues Mary from prison after Riccio’s murder, [69];
complicity in Darnley’s murder, [90], [167], [168];
at Craigmillar, [98];
evidence against him suppressed, [143];
on the Council, [172];
Mary distrusts him, [330];
trusts him, [331];
manner of his death, [37], [38]
James V. of Scotland, [18]
James VI. of Scotland (I. of England), birth of, [59], [75];
baptism, [105];
his godmother Queen Elizabeth’s gift, [105];
crowned, [222]
James Stuart (Mary’s great-great-grandson), [3]
Jedburgh, Mary at, [93], [94], [95], [96]
Jhone a Forret (? John Wood), supposed bearer of copies of Casket Letters to Moray and Cecil, [209], [212], [219], [226], [233], [321] note
Joachim (a servant of Mary), cited, [298], [299]
Jordan, Sandy (Earl of Morton’s servant), bearer of the Casket to Gowrie, [366]
Jusserand, M., on the corpse of Bothwell, [14] note;
on Bothwell’s remains and burial place, [371] et seq.
Keith, Agnes (daughter of the Earl Marischal), married to Moray, [20]
Ker, Andrew, of Faldonside (one of Riccio’s murderers), [101], [152] note
Killigrew, his report of the Darnley case, [171]
Kirk o’ Field (St. Mary in the Fields), [41], [124];
house prepared for Darnley, [115], [140], [141], [142];
blown up, [140];
site, situation, and environs, [123-132];
map of 1647 and chart of 1567, [127], [128], [129], [130], [131];
interior of the house, [132], [133];
cited in Letter II., [316], [317]
Kirkcaldy of Grange, [34];
action against Mary, [184], [185];
Mary’s surrender to him at Carberry Hill, [187];
letter to Cecil, [359]
Knollys, his estimate of the character of Mary, [3];
Mary’s accusation against him, [245];
on Mary at the York Conference, [257]
Knox, John, denounces the fripperies of women, [4];
in argument on the Mass with Maitland of Lethington, [23], [24];
credited with winning a bride by witchcraft, [37];
patches up a reconciliation between Bothwell and Arran, [50];
Arran reveals to him Bothwell’s plot to seize Mary, [51];
on Bothwell’s escape from Edinburgh Castle, [53];
on Darnley’s sporting tastes, [60];
his drastic advice in the case of Mary, [66];
witch story concerning Lady Reres related to him, [82]
Koot Hoomi’s (Blavatsky case) correspondence, cited, [278], [279]
La Forest (French ambassador), reports the existence of letters proving Mary’s complicity in the death of Darnley, [197];
his copies and the published Letters, [200]
La Mothe Fénelon (French ambassador), on the Lords’ possession of Letters written and signed by Mary, [198], [199];
on their publication in ‘Detection,’ [200];
pleads for Mary to be allowed to see originals or copies of Casket Letters, [284];
opinion of the Casket Sonnets, [344], [345]
Laing, Malcolm (historian), on Letter III., [325], [326];
on the Hamilton Casket, [367]
Lennox, Earl of (Darnley’s father), [10];

forfeited estates restored, [55];
complains of Mary’s intimacy with Riccio, [58];
a competitor for the Scottish crown, [62];
wishes to see Darnley at Peebles, [62], [63];
schemes to get the crown for Darnley, [66];
accuses Mary of threatening to avenge Riccio with her own hands, [72];
avers that improper relations began between Mary and Bothwell soon after the birth of James VI., [79];
on Mary’s behaviour at Stirling, [80];
warned of a plot to put Darnley in ward, [100];
‘Discourse’ prepared by him for York conference, [101];
‘Brief Discourse’ put in at Westminster, [102];
on a second conference at Craigmillar, [103];
not present at James VI.’s baptism, [105];
sends men to guard Darnley at Stirling, [107], [110], [111];
Minto, Walker, and Hiegait working in his interests, [111];
denies that either Darnley or himself suspected foul play from Mary, [113];
Darnley’s letter to him respecting Mary, [133];
urges the collection of the sayings and reports of all Mary’s servants, [138];
account of his son’s murder, [141];
asks for the deposition of the priest of Paisley, [150];
states that Mary caused a hagbut to be fired as a signal for the Kirk o’ Field explosion, [173];
describes Mary’s conduct at Seton, [175];
asks for the arrest of Bothwell, [176];
flight after his son’s death, [180];
his account of the Glasgow Letter tallies with Moray’s, [214], [215];
his additions to and differences from that Letter, [216] et seq.;
marginal note to Sonnet IV., [217], [218];
common source of his and Moray’s reports, [221];
proposed co-regency, [223];
collects extraneous evidence regarding Mary, [224], [226];
avers that Wood knows the murderers of Darnley, [227];
knowledge of the contents of the Casket Letters, [227], [228];
his indictments against Mary, [222], [223], [229], [230];
cites Letter II., [231];
activity in getting up evidence against Mary before the York Commissioners, [253];
attitude at Westminster, [266];
on Crawford’s talk with Mary, [311], [312] note;
seeks to prove that the Kirk o’ Field plan was arranged between Bothwell and Mary before Mary met Darnley at Glasgow, [316];
Papers, quoted, [58], [59], [74]
Lennox, Lady, Mary complains to Elizabeth of her, [225]
Lesley (Bishop of Ross), considers Bothwell a handsome man, [18];
wishes Mary to put Moray in ward, [75];
Huntly’s statement to, respecting Mary’s counter accusations, [96];
member of council, [172], [178];
asserts the Letters were not signed, [198];
on unsigned Letters attributed to Mary, [212];
one of Mary’s commissioners at York, [246];
share in the schemes of the Duke of Norfolk, [246];
report of an interview with Mary at Bolton, [247];
confession contradicted by Melville’s, [250];
conference with Lethington about the Letters, [258];
pleads for Mary to be heard in person before Elizabeth, [267];
protests against Moray’s production of the Letters, [270];
Elizabeth’s three choices to him, [283];
charge against Moray and the Lords, [285];
curious letter to John Fitzwilliam, [286] note;
on counterfeiters of Mary’s handwriting, [356]
Lethington, Sir Richard (father of Maitland of Lethington), [23]
Lethington (William Maitland, the younger), early life and culture, [23];
arguments with Knox, [23], [24];
Secretary to Mary of Guise, [23];
desires the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, [23];
friendly advances to Mary before her arrival in Scotland, [24];
character, [24];
allied by marriage with the Earl of Atholl, [24];
love affair with Mary Fleming, [24];
in every scheme against Darnley, [25];
dislikes and is hated by Bothwell, [25];
joins Mary’s enemies, [25];
nicknamed Michael Wylie (Machiavelli), [26];
political principles, [52];
counsels drastic measures against Riccio, [66];
reconciled by Mary to Bothwell, [81];
concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley, [88], [90];
his method of dealing with Darnley, which Parliament would support, [98], [99], [103];
favours a project of marriage between Norfolk and Mary, [155];
charged with complicity in the Darnley murder, [155], [156], [159];
refuses to aid Moray in betraying Norfolk, [156];
in attendance on Mary, [179];
prisoner at Dunbar, [179], [180], [181];
declares that Mary means to marry Bothwell, [181];
escapes from Bothwell, [182];
question of friendship for or enmity to Mary, [182];
flies to confederated Lords, [185];
persuades Sir J. Balfour to surrender Edinburgh Castle, [186];
interview with Mary, [188], [189];
reasons for his treachery to Mary, [190], [191], [192];
statement to Throckmorton respecting his conduct towards her, [204];
Randolph accuses him of advising Mary’s death, [204];
statement to Throckmorton about the letters, [205];
Mary’s documentary charge against him, [243], [244];
conduct at the York Conference, [246], [252];
accused of stealing the Casket Letters, and having them copied by his wife, [248];
explains the reason for Mary’s abduction, [255];
his privy disclosure of the Letters, [257];
shakes Norfolk’s belief in same, [258];
discriminating attitude between private and public exhibition of Letters, [287];
writes letter to be presented to the French Court concerning Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, [331];
directs the scheme of garbling the Casket Letters, [353];
(?) despatches Melville to Cecil on the day of the finding of the Casket Letters, [355];
privately hints that he had counterfeited Mary’s handwriting, [357], [358];
case against him, [358], [359];
‘Instructions’ drawn by him, [360];
Randolph hints at his tampering with the Letters, [361];
Herr Bresslau’s inferences of tampering, [387]
Liddesdale reivers, the, [180]
Lindsay, Sir David, pardoned, [112];
the Lords send him to Loch Leven to induce Mary to abdicate, [204];
challenges Herries to combat on Moray’s account, [285];
appointed Lyon King at Arms, [376]
Livingstone, Lord, member of council, [172];
his knowledge of Mary’s amour with Bothwell, [253]
Livingstone, Mary (Queen Mary’s attendant), [4];
wife of John Sempil, [356];
on ill terms with Mary, [356]
Loch Leven, Mary imprisoned at, [192];
Lindsay sent to, to extort her abdication, [204];
Mary’s escape from, [242]
Logan of Restalrig, treasure-finding, [375]
Lords, Scots, of the Privy Council, banded against Mary, [185];
success at Carberry Hill, [195];
Casket Letters in their possession, [196], [201];
summons against Bothwell, [202];
their mixed character, motives, and statements, [203], [204];
demand of Mary her abdication, [204];
formulate charges against her, [205];
extort from her a consent to their proposals, [205];
vacillations with regard to the Letters, [206], [207];
obtain Mary’s signature to her abdication, [206];
forward copies of Casket Letters to Moray, [212];
publish their Declaration, [238];
accuse Mary of being privy to Darnley’s murder, [239];
on Mary’s handwriting, [241];
cause of their action against Mary, [355]
Luzarche, M. Victor, his Coffret de Bijoux, [365]
Maitland of Lethington. See [Lethington]
Mameret, Roche (Mary’s confessor), on the character of the Queen, [210]
Mar, Earl of, entertains Mary at Alloa, [80];
deprived of the custody of Edinburgh Castle, [172];
confederated against Bothwell, [181]
Marryat, Mr. Horace, and the body of Bothwell, [373]
Mary of Gueldres, [45]
Mary of Guise, Regent, [19];
her secretary Lethington, [23];
deserted by her nobles, [47];
Bothwell espouses her cause, [47]
Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland: the Morton portrait, [3];
periwig, [3] note;
midnight revels and masculine energy, [4], [5], [8];
her ‘four Maries,’ [4];
costumes and jewels and their donors, [5];
moods, spirit, and gratitude, [5], [6], [7];
brow-beaten by Knox, [7];
causes provoking hardness of heart, [8];
centre of intrigue, [8], [9];
Elizabeth’s rival, [9];
disposition to yield to masterful men, [9];
Bothwell’s defects instanced against her, [15];
presented by Ruthven with a ring as an antidote to poison, [17], [36];
pensions the assassin of Moray, [22];
kindness to Lethington, [24];
Morton her prosecutor, [31];
virulence of the Preachers of Righteousness against her, [35], [36];
‘bewitched’ by Bothwell, [36];
social condition of Scotland when she became queen, [43];
informed by Arran of Bothwell’s plot to seize her, [51];
political position during her first years in Scotland, [52], [53], [54];
her compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism, [52];
suspected by the Protestant party of favouring Bothwell, [53];
intercedes with Elizabeth to allow Bothwell to go to France, [54];
efforts to fix her as Elizabeth’s successor, [55];
sees Darnley and admires him, [12], [55];
action in Bothwell’s outlawry, [56];
weds Darnley, [13], [57];
summons Bothwell from France against her opponents, [57];
estrangement from Darnley, [13], [57];
political use made of her intimacy with Riccio, [58];
twitted with favouring Riccio and Bothwell, [59];
anger against Moray, [56];
amour with Riccio not credible, [60], [63];
removes Darnley from her Council, [60];
illness, [61];
letter to Pius V., [63], [64];
arranges Bothwell’s marriage with Lady Jane Gordon, [64];
insists on free Mass for all men, [65];
schemes for killing Riccio in her presence, [68];
rescued by Bothwell, Huntly, and Atholl after Riccio’s murder, [69];
at Dunbar, [69], [70], [71];
seeks to quiet the country, [71];
growing hatred of Darnley, [71];
threatens that a fatter than Riccio should soon lie anear him, [72];
pardon of the rebel Lords demanded of her, [72];
befriends Moray, [73];
represented by Lennox as trying to induce Darnley to make love to Moray’s wife, [74];
her bequests to Darnley, [75];
allows Moray and Argyll to be at the Castle during her accouchement, [75];
gives birth to James VI., [75];
protects Moray from Darnley and Bothwell, [77];
Darnley’s jealousy of her favour to Moray, [77];
increasing dislike to Darnley, [78], [80];
passion for Bothwell, [18], [26], [79];
conduct at Alloa and Stirling, [80];
gift of a bed to Darnley, [81];
reconciles Lethington and Bothwell, [81];
Buchanan’s account of her amour with Bothwell, [82], [83];
this legend supported by Sonnet IX. and Dalgleish’s confession, [84];
strained relations with Darnley, [84], [85];
in Jedburgh at a Border session, [93];
visits wounded Bothwell at Hermitage Castle, [93], [94];
illness at Jedburgh, [94];
returns to Craigmillar Castle, [95];
letter from Darnley, [95];
divorce proposed, [96];
Buchanan insinuates her desire to involve Moray in the Darnley murder, [97];
Lennox’s statement that she would have Darnley in ward after James’s baptism, [100], [102];
arrests Hiegait, Walker, Laird of Minto, Cauldwell, [103];
festivities at the baptism of her child at Stirling, [105];
baptizes him by the Catholic rite, [105];
Bedford’s advice, [106];
treatment of Darnley at Stirling, [107];
anxiety concerning Darnley’s projects, [108], [109];
warned by Beaton and the Spanish ambassador of Darnley’s intention to kidnap James VI., [109];
causes Hiegait and Walker to be questioned before the Council, [110];
distress of mind, [111];
at Drummond Castle, Tullibardine, Callendar, and Holyrood, [112];
letter to Beaton, [110], [114];
offers to visit sick Darnley at Glasgow, [112];
Crawford’s account of her visit to Darnley, [113];
induces Darnley to return with her to Edinburgh, [113], [119];
brings him to Kirk o’ Field, [115];
aware of the plot against Darnley, [116], [117];
refuses a written warrant asked for by the conspirators, [118];
hypotheses for her conduct, [120], [121];
her shift of beds at Kirk o’ Field, [134], [162];
story drawn from a Casket Letter, [135], [136], [142];
visits Darnley on the eve of the explosion, [135];
at the marriage of her servant Sebastian that same night, [135], [136], [173];
curious anecdote respecting her, [137];
at supper with the Bishop of Argyle on the night of the murder, [161];
Paris’s evidence as to familiarities between her and Bothwell, [162];
Bothwell asks for the key of her room at Kirk o’ Field, [163], [164], [165];
said to have endeavoured to incite her brother Lord Robert Stuart against Darnley, [135], [165], [166], [323-328], [353];
dying confessions regarding her participation, [167], [169], [170];
theory of her accusers, [170];
conduct after Darnley’s murder, [171];
her letters from and to Beaton, [173];
inference which her letters were meant to suggest, [174];
makes no effort to avenge Darnley, [175], [176];
seized by Bothwell and conveyed to Dunbar, [179];
evidence of the Casket Letters as to her collusion, [179];
Lethington’s attitude towards her, [182];
creates Bothwell Duke of Orkney and is married to him, [183];
her distrust of Huntly, [185];
appeals to the loyalty of her subjects, [185];
surrenders to Kirkcaldy at Carberry Hill, [186];
parting with Bothwell, [187];
conditions of her surrender, [187];
interview with Lethington, [188], [189];
complains of being parted from Bothwell, [188], [194];
denounces Lethington and the members of the Darnley murder band, [189];
incarcerated in Loch Leven Castle, [192];
reported to have prematurely given birth to twins, [194];
motives of the Lords against her, [194];
the compromising Casket Letters, [195], [196], [197], [198], [199], [200], [201], [202], [203], [205], [206], [207] (see [Casket Letters]);
communication from Elizabeth respecting Melville, [202];
her abdication demanded by the Council, and charges formulated against her, [204], [205];
signs the deeds of her abdication, [207];
her confessor’s opinion of her, [210];
the Glasgow Letter, [135], [162], [168], [211], [212], [213], [214], [225], [229], [255];
complains to Elizabeth of Lady Lennox, [225];
the Glasgow Letter as rendered in the Lennox Papers, [234], [235];
her love for Bothwell as presented in the Casket Sonnets, [235];
the Glasgow Letter discredited, [236];
the Lords’ specific charge against her, [239];
demands to be heard in the Parliament at Edinburgh, [240];
escapes from Loch Leven, [242];
claims the right of confronting her accusers, [243];
her line of defence, [243], [245];
on the handwriting of her accusers, [244];
letter to Lesley, [245];
Lesley’s details of an interview with her at Bolton, [248];
copies of the letters forwarded to her by Lethington, [248], [249];
theory of her translation of Scots copies into French, [249] note;
arrival of her commissioners at York, [250];
assents to Moray’s compromise, [251];
attitude at York, [257];
consents to the removal of inquiry from York to London, [260];
terms of her compromise, [260], [262], [265];
change in her plan of defence, [262];
plea for a hearing before Elizabeth, [267], [268];
injury done to her cause by friends’ renewed efforts for a compromise, [269], [270];
withdrawal of her commissioners from Westminster, [275];
refuses to acknowledge Elizabeth as a judge, [282];
her letter from Bolton, [283];
asks to see the copies and originals of the Casket Letters, [284];
makes their delivery a condition of her production of charges and proofs, [286], [287];
causes of her detestation of Lethington, [288];
her submissive attitude to both Bothwell and Norfolk, [315];
suggestion of marriage with Norfolk, [155];
distrusts Huntly, [330];
trusts him, [331];
her excuses for marrying Bothwell, addressed to the French Court, [331], [332];
sends Bothwell a symbolic mourning ring, [337];
letter to Norfolk from Coventry, [337] and note;
contract of marriage with Bothwell, [338];
receives betrothal ring from Bothwell(?), [340];
hypothesis of her contest in literary excellence with Lady Bothwell, [350];
tone of her letters to Norfolk, [351];
suspicions of Lethington in her instructions to her commissioners, [356];
coincidence between Letter VII. and her instructions to the Bishop of Dunblane, [331], [359], [360];
facsimiles of her own and imitated handwriting, [363], [364];
date of her visit to Glasgow, [379], [380];
charges Balfour, Morton and Lethington with complicity in Darnley’s murder, [189], [382]
Meggatdale, Mary and Darnley at, [81]
Melville, Robert, against Mary, [185];
sent to Elizabeth with news of the discovery of the Casket Letters, [196], [201], [320], [355];
acting for the Lords, [202];

denies his visit to Mary at Bolton before going to commissioners at York, [249], [250];
Lesley’s confession contravened by his, [250];
Moray sends him to Bolton to compromise with Mary, [251];
negotiates with Mary on a compromise, [259];
his statement, [261];
sent by Lethington on ‘sudden despatch’ to Cecil, [354], [355];
friendly efforts in Mary’s behalf, [355];
suspects Kirkcaldy of Grange of counterfeiting Moray’s handwriting, [361]
Melville, Sir James, on George Buchanan’s veracity as a historian, [34];
dissuades Mary from putting Moray in ward, [75];
on Darnley’s murder, [140];
on Bothwell’s behaviour in the Queen’s chamber, [181];
at the York conference, [259]
Mertine, Barbara, encounters the murderers of Darnley, [147]
Middlemore, Mary’s statement to him regarding her accusers, [245]
Minto, Laird of, arrested by Mary, [103];
working in Lennox’s interests, [111];
cited, [150]
Moray, Regent (natural son of James V.), an enigma, [19];
Protestant and warrior, [19];
acquisitiveness, [19], [20];
secures the Buchan estates in spite of the legal rights of Christian Stewart, [20];
marries Agnes Keith, [20];
ambition, [20];
treachery and caution, [21], [22];
alibis, [21];
as Regent, [22];
Mr. Froude’s estimate of him, [22];
his secretary, John Wood, [33];
believes that Ruthven gave Mary a ring with magical properties, [36];
urged by the preachers to burn witches, [36];
political bias and theological tenets, [52];
tells Mary that either he or Bothwell must quit Scotland, [56];
his rising to prevent Mary marrying Darnley, [59];
seeks for the restoration of Morton and Ruthven, [72];
in favour with Mary, [73], [76], [121];
permitted by Mary to reside in the Castle during her accouchement, [75];
said to be banded against Darnley, [89], [90], [91], [92], [98];
denies that any unlawful ends were mooted at Craigmillar, [98];
winks at the conspiracy against Darnley, [116], [122];
account of the numbers engaged in Darnley’s murder, [141];
laxity in their prosecution, [144], [145];
gives records of examinations to English commissioners, [145];
reasons for not summoning Paris as witness, [154], [155];
opposes marriage between Mary and Norfolk, [155];
takes the evidence of Paris, [155];
delays in forwarding it to Cecil, [156];
seeks to betray Norfolk, [156];
story of his presence at a wrangle between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart, [166], [323], [327];
informed of the Casket Letters, [196] note;
his sources of information as to Mary’s correspondence, [208];
from friend becomes enemy of Mary, [209], [210];
reports a guilty letter from Mary to Bothwell, [211], [213];
his additions to and differences from the Glasgow letter, [216] et seq.;
common source of his and Lennox’s reports, [221];
‘not capable’ of employing a forged document, [234];
‘most loth’ to accuse Mary, [242];
Scots translations and French originals of Casket Letters, [242];
treats for a compromise with Mary at York, [251];
seeks to know the powers of the English commissioners at York, [253];
exhibits ‘privately’ to them the Casket Letters and other papers, [254];
confers with Norfolk at York, [259];
puts in his proofs at Westminster, [266], [270], [271], [272], [273];
complains of being slandered by Mary’s commissioners, [285];
Mary’s joy at the news of his murder, [22]
Moretta (Savoyard ambassador), on Darnley’s murder, [140]
Morton, Earl of, joins the Protestants, [29];
sanctimonious remark to Throckmorton, [29];
private life, [30];
schemes with all parties in his own ends, [30];
helps to organise the murder of Riccio, [30];
portrait of, [31];
Regent, [32];
political principles, [52];
in league with Darnley to restore Moray, [67];
Moray endeavours his recall, [73];
feud with Darnley, [78];
pardoned, [89], [112];
concerned in Darnley’s murder, [31], [90];
desires the Queen’s warrant before proceeding to extremities with Darnley, [117];
his confession, [118], [147], [148], [167], [168];
confederated against Bothwell, [181];
advised by Lethington to espouse Mary’s cause, [191];
accused by Mary of Darnley’s murder, [244];
Casket Letters entrusted to him, [195], [365];
declaration at Westminster respecting them, [272];
his story of the discovery of the Casket Letters, [274], [275], [276], [277];
in his dying declaration denounces Archibald Douglas, [32];
executed, [382]
Napier of Merchistoun (soothsayer), [17], [36]
Napier of Merchistoun (inventor of logarithms), [17];
treasure-finding, [375]
Nau, Claude, on Mary’s escape to Dunbar, [72];
on the motives of Darnley’s murderers, [90];
on Mary’s abdication, [241];
on the band for Darnley’s murder given to Mary by Bothwell, [243];
account of Lethington’s conduct towards Mary, [288]
Nelson (Darnley’s servant), in Kirk o’ Field at the explosion, [116];
on the position of Kirk o’ Field, [129];
escape, [140];
statement on the custody of the keys, [165], [175];
evidence at Westminster, [276];
on Darnley’s refusal to stay at Craigmillar, [319];
detained by Drury at Berwick, [319] note
Norfolk, Duke of, his proposed marriage with Mary, [155];
schemes, [246];
on the York commission of inquiry, [246], [252];
excuses delays of Scots Lords, [256];
for a compromise, [256];
confers with Moray, [259];
opposes a compromise, [261], [262];
doubts authenticity of Letters and would marry Mary, [257], [258], [259], [262];
prevents Mary from abdicating, [262];
Mary’s submissive attitude to him, [315];
Lethington asks him not to believe in Mary’s guilt, [357], [358]
Northumberland, Earl of, in arms for Mary, [277]
Ogilvy of Boyne, loved by Lady Jane Gordon and Mary Beaton, [26];
marries the divorced Lady Bothwell, [27], [218]
Orkney, Bishop of, marries Mary to Bothwell, [62], [183]
Orkney, Duke of, Bothwell created, [183]
Ormistoun, Black Laird of (one of Darnley’s murderers), his treatment by Mary in prison, [6];
his exordium before being hanged, [35];
confession of a murder-band against Darnley, [99];
executed, [139]
Ormistoun, Hob (one of Darnley’s murderers), [101], [139], [339], [341];
executed, [139]
Paris (Nicholas Hubert), on the Craigmillar plot against Darnley, [103];
escapes with Bothwell to Denmark, [154];
extradited to Captain Clark, [154];
evidence taken by Moray, [155], [156];
nature of his deposition and the circumstances under which it was made, [156-170];
account of Lady Reres, [162];
receipt and delivery of Glasgow Letter, [292], [293], [299];
on the Glasgow Letter, [316], [327];
cited, [339], [340], [341], [342];
hanged at St. Andrews, [157], [378]
Percy, Sir Harry, on Bothwell, [54]
Periwigs, worn by Mary, [3] note
Philippson, M., on the translations of the Casket Letters, [386], [388]
Pinkie, battle of, [19]
Pitcairn’s ‘Criminal Trials,’ cited, [56]
Pius V., Mary’s letter to him on political matters, [63]
Pluscarden, Prior of, and the Casket, [365]
Pollen, Father, cited, [230]
Powrie (Bothwell’s servant), statement of, concerning Darnley’s murder, [142], [143], [144], [145], [146], [148], [149], [195], [280]
Preston, Laird of Craigmillar (Provost of Edinburgh), Mary imprisoned in his house, [188]
Price, Mr. F. Compton, cited, [363]
Ramsay, Robert (Moray’s servant), hears Paris avouch the truth of his deposition, [157]
Randolph (English ambassador at Holyrood), his opinion of Darnley, [11], [12];
on the Earl of Arran, [49];
reports Bothwell and Atholl all-powerful, [57];
on Lennox at Glasgow, [61];
reports ‘private disorders’ between Mary and Darnley, [63];
on Mary’s demand for free Mass for all men, [65];
aware of Darnley’s and Lennox’s schemes for obtaining the crown, [66];
favours Moray, [73];
on a murder-band, kept in a casket, aimed at Darnley, [87];
on the conduct of Lethington and Kirkcaldy towards Mary, [194], [360];
accuses Lethington of advising Mary’s death, [204];
hints at Lethington having tampered with the Letters(?), [361]
Read, John (Buchanan’s secretary), supplies Cecil with a list of the signatories to Ainslie’s band, [177]
‘Relation,’ the, cited on Riccio’s murder, [65]
Reres, Lady, alleged confidant of Mary’s amour with Bothwell, [33], [48], [82], [83];
telepathic story assigned to her, [82];
Paris’s account of her as a go-between, [162];
rails at Mary’s marriage with Bothwell, [184]
Reres, Laird of (son of Lady Reres), [83]
Riccio, David, his intimacy with Mary, [58], [59];
complained of as a foreign upstart by Scots nobles, [58], [65];
reasons for discrediting his amour with Mary, [60];
Darnley’s hatred and jealousy of him, [63], [64], [65], [66];
‘band of assurance’ for his murder, [67];
nobles and others concerned, [67];
murdered, [69]
Ridolfi plot, the, [6]
Robertson, Dr. Joseph, on Lady Reres as wet nurse to Mary’s baby, [83];
on the Paris deposition, [158];
on the Glasgow Letter, [296]
Rogers, William, informs Cecil of Darnley’s design to seize the Scilly Isles, [108] note
Ronsard (poet), quoted, [314];
on the Casket Sonnets, [344], [349]
Ross, Bishop of. See [Lesley]
Ruthven Earl of, his account of Riccio’s murder, [17];
presents Mary with a ring as an antidote to poison, [17];
conspiring with Darnley, [67];
seeks refuge in England, [70];
his dying vision, [37];
death, [73]
Sadleyr (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), at the York inquiry, [246]
St. Andrews, in Mary’s time, [40]
St. Mary in the Fields. See [Kirk o’ Field]
Sanquhar, signs the band for delivering Mary from Loch Leven, [275], [276]
Scarborough, Darnley’s designs on, [108]
Schiller’s ‘Marie Stewart,’ cited, [2]
Scilly Isles, Darnley’s designs on, [108] note
Scots Parliament, Casket Letters produced before, [241]
Scottish Guards (in France), Bothwell captain of, [54]
Scott’s ‘Abbot,’ cited, [2]
Scrope, quoted, on Captain Cullen, [151-3]
Sebastian (Mary’s servant), his marriage at Holyrood, [136], [148]
Sempil, John, husband of Mary Livingstone, [356]
Sepp, Dr., on the Casket Letters, [242]
Seton, Mary (Mary’s attendant), ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair,’ [3], [4]
Seton, Mary’s conduct at, [175]
Skelton, Sir John, on Bothwell’s age, [14];
his ‘Maitland of Lethington’ cited, [23];
on Mary’s knowledge of the plot against Darnley, [116], [117];
on Mary’s submissive attitude to Bothwell, [315]
Sorcery, belief in, in the sixteenth century, [36]
Spens (Black Mr. John), [175]
Standen (brothers Anthony), one of them boasts that he saved Mary from assassination, [38];
Darnley’s companions, [60];
their immorality put to Darnley’s account, [75];
romantic memoirs of one of them imprisoned in the Tower, [75];
assist Darnley in his schemes, [108];
the younger, [137], [319] note
Stewart, Christian (heiress to the Buchan earldom), contracted in marriage with Lord James Stewart, [19];
legal inheritress to Buchan estates, [20];
married to Lord James, [20]
Stewart d’Aubigny (Duke of Lennox), James’s banished favourite, [367]
Stewart, Lord James (Moray’s brother), contracts himself in marriage to the Buchan child-heiress, [19];
secures the right of redemption of the Buchan estates, [19];
marries the heiress but loses the estates, [20]
Stewart of Periven (Lennox’s retainer), [226]
Stewart of Traquair, escorts Mary to Dunbar, [69]
Stewart, Sir William (Lyon Herald), burnt for sorcery, [17], [36], [156], [374-379]
Stirling, Mary at, [80];
baptism of James VI. at, [105], [106], [107];
full of ‘honest men of the Lennox,’ [109]
Strickland, Miss, on Darnley’s signature to State documents, [60] note
Stuart, Lord Robert (Mary’s brother), account of him drawn from a Casket Letter, [135];
concerned in Darnley’s murder, [162], [165], [166];
Mary’s alleged attempt to provoke a quarrel between him and Darnley, [323], [327]
Sussex, Earl of (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), on Mary’s defence, [245];
believes in an intended compromise, [263];
doubts in judicial proof of Mary’s guilt, [264];
on Mary’s proofs, [287]
Sutherland, Earl of, marries Bothwell’s divorced wife, [27];
member of council, [172]
Tala. See [Hay of Tala]
Taylor (Darnley’s servant), killed at Kirk o’ Field, [132], [137], [139], [148]
‘The Purpose’ or talking dance, [39]
Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas (English envoy), visits Mary in prison, [29];
in communication with Lords of Council, [203], [204];
Lethington acquaints him with Casket Letters, [205], [237];
mentions them to Elizabeth, [355]
Throndssön, Anne (Norwegian lady), Bothwell’s treatment of her, [47];
alleges breach of promise of marriage against Bothwell, [48]
Tombs of the Kings, the, [39]
Tulchan bishops, the, [30]
Tullibardine, Mary at, [112]
Tullibardine, signs band for releasing Mary from Loch Leven, [276]
Walker (Archbishop Beaton’s retainer), on Darnley’s plot to kidnap the infant James, [108], [110], [111]
Walsingham, Sir Francis, and the Casket Letters, [365]
Westminster Conference, proceedings at, [240], [266], [270-276]
Westmorland, Earl of, in arms for Mary, [277]
Whithaugh, Laird of, holds Ker of Faldonside prisoner, [101];
shelters the Ormistouns, [101]
Wilson, Dr., asks Cecil for Paris’s confession, [168];
on Mary, [247]
Witchcraft and sorcery, [17], [36]
Wood, John (Moray’s secretary), helps Lennox in his case against Mary, [150];
hears Paris testify to his deposition, [157];
bears letters to Moray and Cecil, [209], [226];
in custody of the Casket Letters, [196], [227], [228], [229];
on Lethington as a commissioner at Mary’s trial, [244];
slain by Forbes of Reres, [33]
York, Commission of Inquiry at, [101], [226], [227], [230], [233], [246], [250] et seq.
Zytphen-Adeler, Baron, his care of Bothwell’s remains, [372]

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Footnotes:

[1] Blackwood’s Magazine, December, 1889.

[2] Bond.

[3] Laing, ii. 284.

[4] See Murdin, p. 57.