[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.