[149] Bannatyne Club, Melville, Memoirs, p. 395. The sycophantic Melville adds; 'And certanly he is a man of God, and dois na wrang wittingly, bot is inclynit to all godlynes, justice and virtu; therfore God hes preserued him in the midis of many dangers.'
[150] Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., No. 565, Feb. 7, 1550/1.
[151] Newes from Scotland. Quoted in Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 213-23.
[152] It is perhaps significant that the confession of John Fian, and the trials of both Barbara Napier and of Bothwell himself for witchcraft, have disappeared from the Justiciary Records.
[153] Burton, v, p. 283.
[154] Sandys, p. 250.
[155] De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 176, 177.
[156] Quibell, pl. xxviii. The palette itself is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
[157] Remigius, pt. i, p. 38.
[158] Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 246. Spelling modernized.