[66] Foreign Calendar, June 8th, 1562.

[67] Foreign Calendar, March 31st, 1561.

[68] Foreign Calendar, 20th August, 1563.

[69] Sir James Melville's Memoirs, pp. 116-130 (Bannatyne Club).

[70] Laing's Knox, vi, p. 541.

[71] Laing's Knox, vol. ii, p. 513. Melville's Memoirs, p. 134.

[72] Foreign Calendar, July-December, 1565.

[73] The evidence for the scandal which associated Mary's name with that of Rizzio will be found in Mr. Hay Fleming's Mary, Queen of Scots, pp. 398-401. It is very far indeed from being conclusive.

[74] Foreign Calendar, March, 1566.

[75] Mary to Elizabeth, July, 1566. Keith's History, ii, p. 442.