[59] In consequence of the delays by which the members of Mary's household were kept in a state of quasi-imprisonment for months after their mistress's execution, these letters only reached their destination in the course of the following autumn.

[60] Labanoff, vi. 447.

[61] This passage, we believe, refers to Bourgoing, as before stated.

[62] Burleigh.

[63] Labanoff, vi. 456.

[64] The person referred to appears to have been Pierre Gorion, who took the letter to Mendoça, and presented him likewise with an interesting memoir of his mistress. See Teulet, vi. 500.

[65] Elizabeth Curle and Jane Kennedy.

[66] Labanoff, vol. vi. p. 461.

[67] The Duke of Lorraine.

[68] Letter Books of Sir Amyas Paulet, p. 320.