Mary, Queen of Scots (87 page)

Nau; Leslie

Nau

CSP Scottish

Nau

Ibid.

Lochleven Castle is now a ruin. However, Mary’s chamber in the south-east tower and the chapel have been identified.

Nau

CSP Foreign

Nau

Cited by Brigden

Nau; Calderwood

CSP Scottish

Bothwell

Ibid.

John Beaton, in Sloane MSS.

CSP Scottish

CSP Foreign

Pitcairn; Keith

Morton’s account was read out to the Westminster Commission on 9 December 1568. It is entitled: “The true declaration and report of me, James, Earl of Morton, how a certain silver box overgilt, containing divers missive writings, sonnets, contracts and obligations for marriage betwixt the Queen, mother to our Sovereign Lord, and James, sometime Earl of Bothwell, was found and used.” (Additional MSS., hereinafter referred to as Morton’s Statement)

Leslie

Diurnal of Occurrents; CSP Scottish

Melville states incorrectly that Dalgleish was arrested in September 1567 in Orkney.

Morton’s Statement

CSP Foreign

CSP Scottish

See Henderson

Morton’s Statement

CSP Scottish

Randolph to Cecil, 15 October 1570,
CSP Foreign

CSP Foreign

Ibid.

CSP Spanish

CSP Scottish
; Teulet

Pitcairn; Anderson:
Collections
; Goodall

CSP Scottish

Pitcairn; Anderson:
Collections
; Goodall

CSP Scottish

Ibid.

CSP Spanish

The Scottish penalty for treason was hanging and quartering, which was less barbaric than the English equivalent, which also involved castration and disembowelling.

Pitcairn; Keith

Pitcairn

CSP Domestic, James I, in the Public Record Office

Melville

CSP Scottish

Ibid.; Spottiswoode

CSP Scottish

Cited by Somerset

CSP Scottish

Ibid.; Keith

CSP Scottish

Papal Negotiations

CSP Foreign

Keith

CSP Spanish

CSP Scottish
; Keith

CSP Scottish

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Nau

CSP Scottish

De Silva to Philip II, 21 July 1567,
CSP Spanish

CSP Scottish

Ibid;
Selections from Unpublished Manuscripts
; Keith

Nau

Ibid.

Register of the Privy Council; Diurnal of Occurrents; CSP Scottish

Nau

Keith

Ibid.;
CSP Foreign

CSP Scottish

25. “FALSE CALUMNIES”

CSP Spanish

CSP Scottish

Ibid.;
Diurnal of Occurrents

CSP Scottish

State Papers in the Public Record Office

CSP Foreign

De Silva to Philip II, 2 August 1567,
CSP Spanish

Ibid.

CSP Scottish

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.;
Register of the Privy Council

CSP Scottish

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Melville

Historie of James the Sext

CSP Scottish

Ibid.; Keith; Nau;
CSP Spanish

CSP Scottish

CSP Spanish

Throckmorton to Cecil, 20 August 1567,
CSP Scottish

CSP Scottish
; Bothwell

CSP Scottish; Register of the Privy Council; Diurnal of Occurrents

CSP Foreign

Cited by Marshall:
Elizabeth I

CSP Scottish

CSP Foreign
. In two reports, dated 15 June and 1 July 1567, Drury reported that Paris had drowned, yet it is clear from later evidence that he was with Bothwell in Scandinavia. Because it was generally believed he was dead, no one thought to ask for his extradition.

Bothwell

This letter no longer exists.

Frederick’s daughter Anne (1574–1619) was married in 1589 to Mary’s son, James VI.

CSP Scottish

State Papers in the Public Record Office

Ibid.

Pitcairn; Anderson:
Collections
; Goodall

CSP Scottish

Pitcairn; Anderson:
Collections
; Goodall

CSP Scottish

Ibid.

CSP Foreign

The word “wanton” could then mean “capricious” or “revelling in luxury,” as well as “promiscuous.”

CSP Foreign

Wright

CSP Foreign

Goodall;
Cecil Papers; CSP Scottish

Nau

Acts of the Parliament of Scotland; Diurnal of Occurrents
; Nau; Goodall

Hosack (see
Book of Articles
)

Schiern

Goodall

This notorious Act was later expunged from the parliamentary record and is only known today because it was printed in 1568.

Acts of the Parliament of Scotland

Ibid.;
CSP Scottish

Nau

Goodall

Drury to Cecil, 4 January 1568,
CSP Foreign

Archbishop Beaton to the Cardinal of Lorraine, 6 February 1568, Sloane MSS.

Diurnal of Occurrents

A slightly later copy of the picture is in the collection of the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood House, and was engraved by George Vertue in the 18th century.

Bothwell. The original manuscript was preserved in the collection of the Comtes d’Esneval at Château Pavilly in France, but was apparently lost in the destruction of the library during the Second World War. A copy of the MS. was once in the royal library at Stockholm, but is also missing. It is only known through a copy made in 1828.

CSP Foreign

Castlenau; Jebb. These memoirs were first published in 1731.

Teulet; Labanoff

Ibid.

26. “I AM NO ENCHANTRESS”

Niddry Castle was built around 1511. It is today in ruins, but has recently undergone some restoration.

Tytler

Diurnal of Occurrents
; Nau

The ruins of Cadzow Castle, which lie to the south of the town of Hamilton, are now in a dangerous state, and may only be viewed from outside.

Seton was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle until 1569. After his release, he continued to work actively on Mary’s behalf.

Nau

Mumby:
Fall of Mary Stuart

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