[150] Isaiah xlvii. 14.

[151] Ezekiel xxi. 32.

[152] Lingard, Vol. vii. chap, i., footnote.

[153] Ib., Vol. vi. chap. ii.

[154] Recent historical research tends to absolve Mary Queen of Scots from all imputation of complicity in this horrible crime.

[155] Bellesheim’s Hist. Cath. Ch. of Scot., trans. H. Blair, Vol. iii. p. 112.

[156] Narrative, G. P., Gerard, p. 71.

[157] Ib., p. 85.

[158] Jardine’s Gunpowder Plot, p. 52.