[58]. Leader.
[59]. Evidently his elder brother Francis Talbot, who was probably about to visit his parents.
[60]. Quoted in Creighton’s Elizabeth.
[61]. Ellis’s Letters (Lansdowne MSS.).
[62]. Ellis’s Letters.
[63]. Labanoff.
[64]. Ibid.
[65]. Ellis’s Letters.
[66]. Labanoff. State Papers, Mary Queen of Scots.
[67]. I have translated this freely. Mary means the tissue of treachery, the fabrications of the Countess during their acquaintance.