Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

by Maud Stepney Rawson

[68]. The Queen.

[69]. Labanoff. This translation is the one given by Leader.

[70]. Steele.

[71]. Vol. CCVII State Papers.

[72]. This “dyarium” is reprinted by Wright, Vol. II, Queen Elizabeth and her Times.

[73]. The day after Michaelmas.

[74]. Ere.

[75]. Letter to Liggons, May 18, 1586. State MSS. Mary Queen of Scots.

[76]. Labanoff.

[77]. Killigrew was a deadly enemy of Mary, for he had been sent in 1572 to Scotland by Elizabeth to propose the demand by the Scots of the surrender of Mary on condition that she should be executed.