[7] Hosack.
[8] Hosack.
[9] Hosack.
[10] Tytler.
[11] For details, see the Author's Queen of Scots, vol. ii. pp. 222-52.
[12] Petit.
[13] Before James I. had ascended the English throne Pope Clément VIII. caused it to be intimated to him that he prayed for him as the son of a virtuous mother; that he desired for him all kinds of prosperity, temporal and spiritual, and trusted yet to see him a Catholic (Ranke's History of the Popes, vol. ii. pp. 222).
[14] Petit.
[15] Labanoff.
[16] See Mary Queen of Scots, by the Author, vol. ii. p. 224.