Abercairnie, Laird of, Mary’s appeal to him on behalf of evicted cottars,8‘Actio,’ the, quoted, on Darnley’s murder,141,142‘Admonition to the Trew Lordis,’ cited,151Ainslie’s band, purport of,177,178;defaulters from,181;Morton’s stipulation,254;signers of,329,330;Morton’s adhesion to,383Alava, Beaton’s statement to him about Moray,210Alloa, Mary at,80‘Appeal to Christian Princes,’ cited,240Argyll, Earl of, disliked by Darnley,73;lodged by Mary in Edinburgh Castle during her labour,73,75;at Craigmillar,98;Paris’s statement as to him and Mary on the night of Darnley’s murder,161;in confederation against Bothwell,181;cited,38Arran, Earl of, blamed by Bothwell as the cause of the Protestant rebellion,47;feud with Bothwell,47,49;reconciled to him through Knox,50;discloses to Knox Bothwell’s plot to seize Mary,50;apprises Mary of the plot,51Atholl, Earl of (member of council),172;confederated against Bothwell,181;cited,203Baillie Hamilton, Lady, on the Hamilton casket,368,369,370Balcanquell, Rev. Walter, receives Morton’s confession,148Balfour, Sir James, concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley,88,90,99;gives Bothwell the keys of Mary’s room at Kirk o’ Field,163;persuaded by Lethington to surrender Edinburgh Castle,186;charged by Mary with complicity in Darnley’s murder,189;the Casket in his keeping,198;holds Edinburgh Castle,274Ballantyne, Patrick, said to have menaced Mary’s life,38‘Band of assurance for the murder’ of Riccio,67,68Bannatyne (Knox’s secretary), his account of the death of the Earl of Huntly,38Bannister (Norfolk’s servant), Norfolk’s statement to him regarding Letter II.,357Bargany, Laird of, at cards with Archibald Douglas,32Barham, Serjeant, asserts that Lethington stole the Casket Letters and that his wife copied them,248;denies that Mary received French copies,249Beaton, Archbishop (Mary’s ambassador in France), communicates with Mary about Hiegait and Walker,110,114;affirms that Moray is Mary’s mortal enemy,210Beaton, Archibald (Mary’s usher), Mary’s concern for,6;misses the keys at Kirk o’ Field,164,165Beaton, James (Archbishop Beaton’s brother), joins Mary at Dunbar,186;with her at Carberry Hill,187;on Lethington’s treacherous behaviour to Mary,190Beaton, Mary (one of the Queen’s Maries),4;and Ogilvy of Boyne,26;her aunts at feud with Mary,356;her handwriting,364Beaufort, Jane (widow of James I.),45Bedford, Earl of (Elizabeth’s ambassador), fears that Mary secretly abetted Bothwell,56;on Riccio,59;declares Bothwell to be hated in Scotland,80;instructs his suite not to recognise Darnley as king,106Bellenden (Justice Clerk), member of council,172,203;implicated in Riccio’s murder,203Binning (Archibald Douglas’s servant), his confession,148Birrel (‘Diary’), on the blowing up of Kirk o’ Field,140;on the date Mary left Edinburgh,292;nd that of her visit to Glasgow,379,380Black Friars, the Dominican Monastery of,124,125,126,127,130,131Blackader, William (Bothwell’s retainer), hanged denying his guilt,153,195;cited,165Blackwood, on unsigned letters attributed to Mary,198,212Blavatsky case, the, cited,278,279Bolton, Mary at,249,250,251,283Book of Articles, cited,59,86,94,95,107,114,255,271,272,278,279,280,281,316,318note,322;on the conference at Craigmillar,96;on Darnley’s murder,141,142,148;on the Glasgow letters,308,317;its supposed author,318Borthwick Castle, Mary and Douglas at,185Bothwell (James Hepburn, Earl of), personal appearance,14,18;age at Darnley’s murder,14;literary tastes,15;character as depicted by his foes,15;his courage in question,16;handwriting,17;study of works on art magic,17;accused of winning Mary’s favour by witchcraft,17,36;his standard of culture compared with that of Scots nobles,18;masterful nature,18;hatred of Maitland of Lethington,25;epitome of early career,46;espouses the cause of Mary of Guise,47;seizes Cockburn of Ormiston,47,49;deceives and deserts Anne Throndsön under promise of marriage,47;said to have had three wives simultaneously,48;at the French Court,49;feud and reconciliation with Earl of Arran,47,49,50;solicits Arran’s aid in a plot to seize Mary,50;warded in, but escapes from, Edinburgh Castle,51,53;in league with Huntly,53;Lieut.-General and Admiral,54;Elizabeth’s prisoner at Holy Island,54;Captain of the Scottish Guards in France,54;said to have accused Mary of incestuous relations with her uncle the Cardinal,54;returns to Scotland and his Border fastness,56;outlawed,56;summoned by Mary to assist her,57;ill-feeling towards Darnley,57;marries Lady Jane Gordon,26,68;rescues Mary from prison after Riccio’s murder,69;intrigues with Darnley for the ruin of Moray and Lethington,72,73;at the Border during Mary’s accouchement,76;Bedford’s statement that he was the most hated man in Scotland,80;reconciled by Mary to Lethington,81;his guilty intimacy with Mary,82,83;concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley,90,98,99;wounded in Liddesdale,93;visited by Mary at Hermitage Castle,93;his share in Darnley’s murder,117,118,136,139,142,144,145,147,148,149,150,158,159,160,161,163,164,165,166,167,171,172,175;escapes to Denmark,154;Paris’s evidence as to familiarities between him and Mary,162;his possession of the keys to Mary’s room at Kirk o’ Field,163,164,165;influence over Mary,176;objects of ‘Ainslie’s band,’177,178,181,329,330,383;seizes Mary and takes her to Dunbar,179,330,332;is created by Mary Duke of Orkney, and marries her,183;intimacy with his divorced wife after marriage with Mary,27,184;at Carberry Hill,16,186;gives Mary a copy of the Darnley murder band,187;summons from the Lords for Darnley’s murder and Mary’s abduction,202;tried and declared innocent of Darnley’s murder,177;Mary’s alleged letter inciting him to Darnley’s murder,211,212(seeCasket Letter II.);the Privy Council’s Declaration,239;Mary’s submissive attitude to him,315;said to have been present at the brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart,328;advice given by Mary as to his relations with the Lords,331;ring sent him by Mary,335,337,341;betrothal ring given by him to Mary,340;letters to his wife after his marriage with Mary,351;place of his death and burial,371,372,373.SeeMary StuartBothwell, Lady.SeeLady Jane GordonBowes (Elizabeth’s envoy to Scotland),365;tries to induce Gowrie to give up the Casket,366Bowton, Hepburn of, his statement of Darnley’s murder,143,144,146,158,165,170,233,278,280,310;dying confession,167;execution,139Boyd, Lord,73Brantôme, on Bothwell’s personal appearance,18;on the Casket Sonnets,344Branxholme, the Lady of, rails at Mary’s marriage with Bothwell,184Bresslau, Herr, on the Casket Letters,387Buchan, Earl of (grandfather of Christian Stewart),19Buchan, Master of, killed at Pinkie,19Buchanan, George (poet and historian), celebrates Mary’s virtues,15;his inaccurate accounts of her behaviour,33,34;anecdotes of visions portending Darnley’s fate,37;tale of Mary at Alloa with Bothwell,80;on the guilty intimacy of Mary and Bothwell,81;respecting Lady Reres,82,83;on the Craigmillar conference,96,97,98;Latin elegiacs on Mary,105;on Darnley’s murder,141;his treatment of the Darnley case,148-151;on Paris’s Deposition,157;on Darnley’s meek endurance of Mary’s slights,314;account of a brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart,323,328Caithness, Earl of (member of council),172Calderwood, on Morton’s warrant from Mary for signing Ainslie’s band,254Callendar, Mary at,112,318noteCamden, on Lethington counterfeiting Mary’s handwriting,357,358Carberry Hill, Mary and Bothwell at,186Cardauns, M., on the translations of the Casket Letters,386Carwood, Margaret, Mary’s intended bequest of a casket to,365Casket, the, official description of,365;the one in possession of the Hamilton family,367-370Casket Letter I., its place in order of composition,290,291;question of date,291,292;intelligible if classed as Letter II.,293;purport,293;reference to Lethington in English copy,294;possibly authentic and indicating a presumptively authentic Letter II.,295;published Scots and English translations,391-393Casket Letter II., shows Mary’s complicity in the murder of Darnley,14;not genuine if the chronology of Cecil’s Journal be accepted,296;authenticity opposed by the letter cited by Moray and Lennox,296,320;probably garbled,297,300;difficulties of internal chronology,297;Crawford’s corroboration of parts,297;theory of dovetailing by a forger,300et seq.;objections based on Crawford’s written Deposition,302-304;verbal identities with Crawford’s account,305,306;differences from,307;reveals Darnley’s unconcealed knowledge of Mary’s relations with Bothwell,307;German theory respecting correspondence of deposition with,308;influence of Mary’s memoranda with regard to genuineness,309;forgery—balance of probabilities,309,313,314;not inconsistent with Mary’s style and character,313;shows Mary’s remorse and submission to Bothwell,315;reasons pointing to partial genuineness,316;the phrase ‘a more secret way by medicine,’317;confused by Buchanan with the letter described by Moray and Lennox,318;the ‘ludgeing’ in Edinburgh,318;the Craigmillar reference,319,320;represents Mary as tortured by remorse,348;published Scots and English translations,393-414;concerning,211,212,213,214,215,229,232,245,253Casket Letter III., copy of the French original,322;gives brawl between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart,323-328;its affected style,325,328;original French version at Hatfield,414,415Casket Letter IV., subject of,329;original French version,416Casket Letter V., concerning Mary’s abduction by Bothwell,329,330;the several translations,330;original French version at Hatfield,417,418Casket Letter VI., Mary advises Bothwell as to his relations with the Lords,331;her excuses for her marriage with Bothwell,331,332;published Scots translation,418Casket Letter VII., subject of,333;coincidence with Mary’s instructions to Bishop of Dunblane,359,360;Scots version,419Casket Letter VIII. (III. in Henderson): reproaches Bothwell with coldness,334;concerning the enamel ring sent by Mary to Bothwell,335;refers to a betrothal ring received by her from Bothwell,336;affectation of its style,336;Mary’s gift of a symbolic mourning ring to Bothwell,337,341;contract of marriage with Bothwell,337,338;unknown date,339;theory of its having been written to Darnley,339;circumstances in Mary’s relations with Bothwell referred to,339;original French version,420,421Casket Letter IX.: the French Sonnets,422,426Casket Letters: their discovery,195,274,275;early tampering with suggested,198,199,200,208;published in Scots, Latin, and French,198;Scots versions compared with French originals,226,243;unsigned copies,240;Scots versions sent to Mary by Lethington’s wife,248;French copies,273;English translations,274;original language in which they were written,346;phraseology and orthography,347;tone and style,347,348;compared with the Sonnets,349,350;uniformity of sentiment and passion,350,351,352;authenticity considered,352;Lethington’s suspected garbling,361;Archibald Douglas a possible forger,362;translations of,385-391.Seeunder eachCasket LetterCasket Sonnets,217;Mary’s love for Bothwell depicted,235;topics of,345;prove Mary’s passion for Bothwell,345;compared with the Letters,349;the French,422,426Cassilis (member of council),172Catherine de Medicis,84,85,87,89,92,192Catholic League, the,64Cauldwell, Alexander (a retainer of Eglintoun’s), arrested by Mary,103;denies the rumour that Darnley was to be put in ward,110,111Cecil (William Lord Burghley), his account of Riccio’s murder,68;avers that Bothwell obtained his divorce by accusing himself of an amour with Lady Reres,82;circulates libels about Mary, but does not use Paris’s confession,168;knows of the existence of the Casket Letters and their proposed uses,201;Jhone a Forret’s mission to him,209;receives the Itinerary of Mary,277,291,296;on Mary’s stay at Callendar,318note;Kirkcaldy’s letter to him,359;hints at Lethington’s manipulation of the Casket Letters,361;his description of the Casket,369Chalmers, David (a friend of Bothwell),82Charles IX. of France,80;resents the publication of the Casket Letters,200Chastelard, cited,39Chatelherault, Duke of (heir to the Scottish Crown),10;suit to be restored,61;acquires and builds a château on land near Kirk o’ Field,125Clark, Captain (in command of Scots in Danish service), Paris extradited to him,154,374;in correspondence with Moray,154Clernault (Frenchman), on the blowing up of Kirk o’ Field,140Cockburn of Ormiston, seized by Bothwell while carrying English money to the Lords,47;his son carried off by Bothwell,49Coventry, Mary at,337and noteCraig (Protestant preacher), denounces Mary’s marriage with Bothwell,183;Lethington’s statement to him of his offer to Mary,188Craigmillar Castle, conference at,91,95,96,98,99,103,319,320Crawford, Thomas (Lennox’s retainer),35;on Mary’s visit to Darnley at Glasgow,113;Lennox’s letter to him,226;deposition at Westminster,276;second deposition,280,310;substantiates part of Letter II.,297;