[135] Keith, p. 332—and Appendix, 126.
[136] That something of the kind was actually contemplated, we learn from Mary herself. “In their council,” she says in the letter already quoted, “they thought it most expedient we should be warded in our castle of Stirling, there to remain till we had approved in Parliament all their wicked enterprises, established their religion, and given to the King the crown-matrimonial, and the whole government of our realm; or else, by all appearance, firmly purposed to have put us to death, or detained us in perpetual captivity.”—Keith, Appendix, p. 132.
[137] Ruthven’s “Discourse” concerning the murder of Rizzio, in Keith, Appendix, p. 128.
[138] Keith, p. 334.—Stuart’s History of Scotland, p. 138, et seq.
[139] Melville’s Memoirs, p. 154—Goodall, vol. i. p. 286.—Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 164.
[140] Melville’s Memoirs, p. 156.—Keith, p. 337.
[141] Melville’s Memoirs, p. 158.
[142] Keith, p. 345, and Chalmers, vol. i. p. 180.
[143] Buchanan’s History, Book XVIII.—His “Detection,” in Anderson’s Collections, vol. ii. p. 6.; and his “Oration,” p. 44.
[144] Chalmers, vol. i. p. 181, et seq. Goodall, vol. i. p. 292, et seq.