[145] Keith, p. 345.
[146] Knox, p. 386—Anderson, vol. i. p. 90—Tytler, vol. ii. p. 39—Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 206-207.
[147] Knox, p. 396, and Chalmers, p. 219.
[148] Knox, p. 392. Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 206 and 218. Laing, vol. i. p. 359. In the first edition of Tytler’s “Vindication,” Bothwell, being confounded with the former Earl, his father, was said to be about fifty-nine at this period. In the second edition, Tytler partly corrected his error, but not entirely; for he stated Bothwell’s age to be forty-three when he married. Chalmers, who is seldom wrong in the matter of dates, has settled the question.
[149] Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 217.
[150] Chalmers, vol. i. p. 183 and 184.
[151] Maitland’s Official Letter to Catherine de Medicis, in Keith, p. 348.
[152] These noblemen, it may be observed, instead of being the friends, were the personal and political enemies of Bothwell, with whom Darnley was less displeased than with them.
[153] Goodall, vol. i. p. 284.—Keith, p. 348.
[154] Le Croc’s Letter in Keith, p. 346.