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speik; for he assuris himself yat he hes not an evill opinioun of him. He speikis nathing of thame that is out, nouther gude nor evill, bot fleis that point. His father keipis his chalmer, I have not sene him. All the Hammiltounis ar heir, that accompanyis me verray honorabilly. All the freindis of the uther convoyis me quhen I gang to see him. He desyris me to come and se him ryse the morne betyme. For to mak schort, this beirer will tell zow the rest. And gif I leirne ony thing heir, I will mak zow memoriall at evin. He will tel zow the occasioun of my remaning. Burne this letter, for it is ovir dangerous, and nathing weill said in it: for I am thinkand upon nathing bot fascherie. Gif ze be in Edinburgh at the ressait of it, send me word sone. Be not offendit, for I gif not ovir greit credite. Now seing to obey zow, my deir lufe, I spair nouther honour, conscience, hasarde, nor greitnes quhat sumevir tak it, I pray zow, in gude part, and not efter the interpretatioun of zour fals gude-brother, to quhome, I pray zou, gif na credite agains the maist faithful luifer that ever ze had, or ever sall have. Se not hir, quhais fenzeit teiris suld not be sa mekle praisit nor estemit, as the trew and faithful travellis quhilk I sustene for to merite hir place. For obtening of the quhilk aganis my naturall, I betrayis thame that may impesche me. God forgive me, and God give zow, my only lufe, the hap and prosperitie quhilk your humble and faithful lufe desyris unto zow, quha hopis to be schortly ane uther thing to zow, for the reward of my irksum travellis. It is lait: I desyre never to ceis fra wryting unto zou; zit now, efter the kissing of zour handis, I will end my letter. Excuse my evill wryting, and reid it twyse over. Excuse that thing that is scriblit, for I had na paper zisterday quhen I wrait that of ye memoriall. Remember upon zour lufe, and wryte unto hir, and that verray oft. Lufe me as I sall do zow. Remember zow of the purpois of the Lady Reres. Of the Inglismen. Of his mother. Of the Erle of Argyle. Of the Erle Bothwell. Of the ludgeing in Edinburgh.
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On margin ‘your purpose’.
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Follows here on margin, ‘I have disclosed all, I have known what I wold’.
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‘By and by’ written above.
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On margin, ‘Jay bien la vogue avec vois’.
The following abbreviations have been commonly used:
C.S.P. Foreign: Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, Elizabeth
C.S.P. Roman: Calendar of State Papers relating to English affairs (Rome)
C.S.P. Scot.: Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland
C.S.P. Spanish: Calendar of State Papers relating to Spain, Elizabeth
C.S.P. Venetian: Calendar of State Papers, Venetian
D.N.B.: Dictionary of National Biography
Hamilton: Hamilton Papers
Hat. Cal.: Calendar of manuscripts at Hatfield House
Keith: R. Keith,
History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland
Knox: John Knox,
History of the Reformation
, translated and edited by W. C. Dickinson
Labanoff:
Lettres de Marie Stuart
, edited by Prince Labanoff
R.P.C.: Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
For further details of these and other books cited (which have been described below in the shortest convenient form) the reader is referred to the
bibliography
.
1
Leslie,
Historie
, II, p. 260
2
Knox, I, p. 28
3
Letters of James V
, p. 172
4
See entry under
Lineage
for Moray in
Burke’s Peerage
, etc., 1963
5
Michel,
Les Français en Ecosse
, p. 420
6
Pitscottie,
Chronicles
, I, p. 377
et seq.
7
Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 22
8
Hamilton, I, p. 329
9
Balcarres Papers
, I,
passim
10
Ibid.
, I, p. 81
et seq.
11
Ibid.
, I, p. 83
12
Ibid
; I, p. 149
13
Pitscottie,
op. cit.
, I, p. 394
14
Balcarres Papers
, I, p. 61
15
Knox, I, p. 29
16
Hamilton, I, p. 328
17
Balcarres Papers
, I, p. 228
18
Knox, I, p. 37
19
Hamilton, I, p. 307
20
Knox, I, p. 38
21
Pitscottie,
op. cit.
, I, p. 406
22
Letters of James V
, p. 417
23
Hamilton, I, p. 348
24
Knox, I, p. 39; Leslie,
op. cit.
, II, p. 259
25
Labanoff, VI, p. 68
26
Hamilton, I, p. 328; p. 340; p. 342; C.S.P. Spanish, VI (11), p. 189
27
Knox, I, p. 40
28
Leslie,
op. cit.
, I, p. 24; Hume Brown,
Early Travellers
, p. 236
29
Leslie,
ibid.
, II, p. 260; Hamilton, I, p. 342
30
Sadler State Papers, I, p. 115
31
Mathew,
Scotland under Charles I
, p. 152
32
Hay Fleming,
Mary Queen of Scots
, p. 180
33
Knox, I, p. 11–12; p. 40
34
Hamilton, 1, p. 342
35
Sadler, State Papers, I, p. 88
36
Knox, I, p. 45
37
Pitscottie,
op. cit.
, II, p. 8
38
Hume Brown,
op. cit.
, p. 118
39
Hamilton, I, p. 633
40
Knox, I, p. 50
41
Hamilton, II, p. 33
1
Leslie,
History
, II, p. 310
2
Hamilton, II, p. 326
3
Dalyell,
Scottish Fragments: The Late Expedition in Scotland
, sent to Lord Russell, Lord Privy Seal, by a friend of his, 1544
4
Archivo di Stati di Napoli, Carte Famesiane, tascio 709
5
Pollen,
Papal Negotiations
, p. 528; Donaldson,
Accounts of the Collector of the Thirds of Benefices
, Introduction, p. xv
6
Knox, I, p. 19; Knox, II, Appendix V, p. 255; Donaldson,
Scottish Reformation
, p. 12; p. 33
7
Pitscottie,
Chronicles
, II, p. 84
8
Ibid.
, II, p. 85; Knox, I, p. 95
9
R.P.C., I, pp. 77
et seq.
10
Fergusson,
The White Hind
, p. 19; Dalyell,
Scottish Fragments
; William Patten,
Diary of Somerset’s Campaign
, 1547
11
R.P.C., I, p. 11
12
Leslie,
op. cit.
, p. 310; Fraser,
Red Book of Menteith
, I, p. 503; Hay Fleming,
Mary Queen of Scots
, p. 192
13
Brantôme,
Oeuvres Complètes
, II, p. 460
14
De Beaugué,
Histoire de la Guerre en Ecosse
, p. 12
15
Teulet,
Papiers d’Etat
, I, p. 662; C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 99
16
C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 157
17
Leslie,
op. cit.
, II, p. 311; Jamieson,
Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
, Vol. 3
18
Hamilton, II, p. 618
19
Printed in full, Stoddart,
Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots
, Appendix
20
W. M. Bryce,
Voyage of Mary Queen of Scots in 1548
21
Ibid.
22
Knox I, p. 103
1
De Ruble,
La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart
, p. 19
2
Albert le Grand,
Les Saints de la Bretagne Armorique
, Part II, p. 279
3
Stoddart,
Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots
, Appendix, p. 416
4
Bouillé,
Ducs de Guise
, I, p. 225
5
Balcarres Papers
, II, p, 6; p. 32
6
Lettres de Catherine de Medicis
, I, p. 66
7
De Ruble,
op. cit.
, p. 17
8
Lettres de Catherine de Medicis
, I, p. 6
9
Guiffrey,
Lettres inédites de Dianne de Poytiers
, Introduction, p. xxxiii
10
Ibid.
, p. 35; p. 42
11
De Ruble,
op. cit.
, p. 30
12
Brantôme,
Oeuvres Complètes
, V, p. 85
13
De Ruble,
op. cit.
, p. 31; Labanoff, I, p. 10
14
Balcarres Papers
, II, p. 135
15
De Ruble, op.
cit.
, p. 63
16
Guiffrey,
op. cit.
, p. 91
17
De Ruble,
op. cit.
, p. 69
18
Shorter Oxford Dictionary
, Vol. 1
19
Tresorier des Enfants de France. Fonds français.
11207f., pp. 128
et seq.
Printed De Ruble, pp. 281
et seq.
20
De Ruble,
op. cit.
, p. 51
21
Brantôme,
op. cit.
, V, p. 83; Montaiglon,
Latin Themes of Mary Queen of Scots
22
Brantôme,
op. cit.
, V, p. 86
23
Labanoff, I, p. 4
24
De Ruble,
op. cit.
, p. 300
25
Register House, Edinburgh: GD/97/3/ no 7
26
Labanoff, VII, 2nd supplement, p. 277
27
Balcarres Papers
, II, Introduction, p. xxvi
28
Cameron,
Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine
, p. 149
29
C.S.P. Foreign (Edward
VI
), p. 103
30
Ibid.
, p. 97
31
Ibid.
, p. 109
32
Pollen,
Papal Negotiations
, p. 414
33
Brantôme,
op. cit.
, IX, p. 490
34
Pimodan,
La Mère des Guises
, p. 380
1
Labanoff, I, p. 10
2
Bouillé,
Ducs de Guise
, II, p. 27
3
Balcarres Papers
, II, p. 110
4
Labanoff, I, p. 45
5
Claude de l’Aubespine,
Histoire Particulière de la Court de Henry II
6
Labanoff, I, p. 14
7
Neale,
Catherine de Medici
, p. 12; C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 187
8
Bouillé,
op. cit.
, I, p. 229
9
Stoddart,
Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots
, Appendix B, p. 450; Labanoff, I, p. 29
10
Balcarres Papers
, II, p. 253; p. 271
11
Ibid.
, II, p. 237; Introduction, p. li
12
Labanoff, I, p. 29
13
Ibid.
, p. 41
14
Ibid.
, p. 34
15
Ibid.
, p. 21
16
Stoddart,
op. cit.
, Appendix B, p. 448
17
C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 3, p. 1365
18
Ibid.
, pt 1, p. 532
19
Stoddart,
op. cit.
, p. 143
20
Baschet,
La Diplomatic Vénitienne
, p. 486
21
Regnier de La Planche,
Estat de France sous François
, II, p. 75
22
De Ruble,
La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart
, p. 35
23
Phillips,
Images of a Queen
, p. 14
24
Hume Brown,
Early Travellers
, p. 75
1
Discours du Grand et Magnifique Triomphe Faict du Mariage de François et Marie Stuart
; Hamer,
Marriage of the Queen of Scots to the Dauphin
2
De Ruble,
La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart
, p. 149
3
C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 3, p. 1486
4
Hay Fleming,
Mary Queen of Scots
Appendix, p. 491
5
Knox, II, p. 78; Ronsard,
Poésies choisies
, p. 353
6
Brantôme,
Oeuvres Complètes
, V, p. 83; Knox, II, p. 78; Hat. Cal., I, p. 400
7
Brantôme,
op. cit.
, V, p. 94
8
C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 383
9
Printed Maxwell-Stuart,
Tragedy of Fotheringhay
, Appendix; Melville,
Memoirs
, p. 96
10
C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 251;
Tudor and Jacobean Portraits
(N.P.G.), p. 219