Mary, Queen of Scots (88 page)

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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