Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
Page 77
CSP Foreign
CSP Scottish
Teulet
CSP Foreign
Nau
Now in Cambridge University Library. The Narrative is 14 pages long. The first page and part of the second are in Lennox’s handwriting; the rest was probably dictated to a clerk, suggesting that a degree of urgency was involved.
Lennox Narrative
CSP Scottish; Goodall
CSP Foreign
CSP Scottish
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Nau
CSP Scottish
Ibid.
Mary, Queen of Scots: Letters, ed. Strickland
Nau
Ibid.; Teulet
Cotton MSS. Caligula
Nau; Herries to Mary, 23 June 1568, Teulet
Herries to Mary, 23 June 1568, Teulet
CSP Scottish; Goodall
CSP Scottish
Ibid.
Cotton MSS. Caligula; Perry
Moray to Elizabeth, 13 July 1568, CSP Scottish
CSP Scottish
Ibid.
Ibid.
CSP Spanish; Teulet
Additional MSS., British Library
CSP Scottish
The proclamation was repeated on 17 November.
CSP Scottish
Ibid.
Goodall
Register of the Privy Council; Goodall
Goodall
CSP Scottish
Ibid.
Goodall
CSP Scottish
27. “THESE RIGOROUS ACCUSATIONS”
Cecil Papers; CSP Scottish; Goodall
CSP Scottish; Goodall. The records of the York and Westminster conferences are preserved in CSP Scottish and Goodall. Unless otherwise stated, all references in this chapter come from these sources.
CSP Scottish; Goodall; Anderson: Collections; Cotton MSS. Caligula
Ibid.
Cecil Papers. This was revealed by Leslie under interrogation in the Tower of London in 1571.
Cecil Papers; CSP Scottish; Melville
Melville
Cecil Papers
Labanoff
Calendar of the Manuscripts at Hatfield
Labanoff
Goodall; Cecil Papers; Calendar of the Manuscripts at Hatfield
This document was found by Schiern in the Danish archives at Roskilde.
She had heard it from the French ambassador.
Cecil Papers
Ibid.
Labanoff
It is not amongst the companion documents in the Public Record Office or the Cotton MSS., but is to be found in the Hopetoun MSS. in the Register House, Edinburgh.
28. “PRETENDED WRITINGS”
Goodall claimed incorrectly that Morton left the Casket Letters to his nephew and heir, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus and Morton.
Henderson
CSP Scottish; Goodall
The texts of the Casket Documents can be found in the appendix to CSP Scottish.
Of the copies made during the Westminster conference in 1568, the following survive:
In the Public Record Office: Casket Letters I, II and V in English, and Casket Letters III and V in French.
Among the Cecil Papers at Hatfield: Casket Letters IV and VI in French and English.
A copy of the French marriage contract is in Cotton MSS. Caligula.
There are no contemporay copies of the other documents.
Casket Letters I, II and IV were printed in the Latin edition of Buchanan’s Detectio (1571).
All eight letters were printed in the Scots edition of the Detectio (1571) and in Thomas Wilson’s English edition of 1572.
Seven of the letters, omitting Casket Letter III, were printed in the French edition of 1573.
Casket Letters VII and VIII, the love poem and the marriage contract in Scots exist only in printed form.
Henderson
CSP Scottish; Goodall
Armstrong Davison
CSP Scottish; Goodall
Lang; Antonia Fraser; James Mackay
CSP Scottish; Goodall
CSP Scottish; Goodall
CSP Scottish; Goodall
CSP Scottish
Teulet
Inventaires
29. “MUCH REMAINS TO BE EXPLAINED”
Unless otherwise stated, all references in this chapter come from CSP Scottish and Goodall.
Morton’s original declaration has been lost; it is known through a copy in Additional MSS.
CSP Spanish
Labanoff
Cotton MSS. Caligula
Calendar of the Manuscripts at Hatfield
Labanoff
Cotton MSS. Caligula; Cecil Papers
State Papers in the Public Record Office
Keith
CSP Spanish
Cited by Bowen
Leslie
30. “THE DAUGHTER OF DEBATE”
Nau’s original Latin manuscript is in the Vatican Archives.
Watkins
The Catholic martyr image was well developed by the time Leslie published his Latin history of Scotland in 1578 in Rome; his work emphasises Mary’s sufferings for her faith.
Cotton MSS. Caligula
State Papers in the Public Record Office
Chalmers
Cecil Papers
They included Atholl and Huntly.
Tytler
Nau
Laing
Paris’s original depositions are in the Public Record Office; copies are in Cotton MSS. Caligula. They were first published in Anderson’s Collections in 1725.
CSP Scottish; Historie of James the Sext
Nau
CSP Scottish
Cotton MSS. Caligula
Buchanan
Labanoff
Cited by Robertson: History of Scotland
Cited by Froude
Cited by Robertson: History of Scotland
Cited by Mahon: Lennox Narrative
CSP Scottish
Teulet
Ibid.
State Papers in the Public Record Office
CSP Foreign
CSP Scottish
Herries
CSP Scottish
Calendar of the Manuscripts at Hatfield; Cecil Papers
Ibid.
Melville
Knox was buried in St. Giles’s Churchyard in Edinburgh, the site of which is now occupied by the Law Courts. Knox’s grave is marked by a slab in the car park, which is marked “I.K. 1572.” His young widow married Ker of Fawdonside.
Register of the Privy Council, 8 January 1573
Spottiswoode
Keith
A plaque in Edinburgh Castle now commemorates Grange’s gallant defence of it.
He is said to have been imprisoned in a vault under Leith parish church (Bingham: Making of a King).
CSP Scottish. Maitland’s burial place is unknown.
Cited by Gore-Browne
Gore-Browne
In the late 17th century, parts of Dragsholm Castle were destroyed during a war between Denmark and Sweden. The castle was partially rebuilt in 1694–7, although large parts of the mediaeval building survive. Nowadays, Dragsholm is surrounded by woodland and farms.
Register of the Privy Council
Pitcairn
CSP Domestic Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth
Lennox was married in December 1574 to Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury. Their only child was Arbella Stuart (1575–1615), who inherited Darnley’s claim to the English throne.
CSP Scottish
Robertson: History of Scotland
Cited by Ashdown
CSP Foreign. Mary’s undated instructions to Leslie are in Cotton MSS. Caligula.
Calendar of Letters and State Papers . . . in Rome
State Papers in the Public Record Office
Ashdown
For a fuller discussion of
this local tradition, see Gore-Browne.
Melville. Buchanan says that Bothwell “ended his life in well-deserved misery.” Spottiswoode says he “made an ignominious and desperate end.” For evidence for the date of his death, see Gore-Browne.
Cheetham suggested that the head was Bothwell’s and the body Clerk’s, but this theory was based on the erroneous assumption that they died in the same week. Clerk had already been dead for over two years.
See, chiefly, Lang: Mystery of Mary Stuart, and Gore-Browne.
Labanoff
Archibald Douglas had been a judge or Lord of the Court of Session since 1565.
Spottiswoode
Melville
Ibid.
CSP Scottish
Tytler
Melville
Ibid.
Labanoff
Pitcairn. The record of his trial is incomplete and may have been deliberately destroyed in part.
CSP Scottish
Cited by Thomson
Nau
Jebb
Pitcairn; Gore-Browne
He had succeeded his brother Charles IX in 1574.
This letter is in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Cited by Neale
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