forfeited estates restored,55;complains of Mary’s intimacy with Riccio,58;a competitor for the Scottish crown,62;wishes to see Darnley at Peebles,62,63;schemes to get the crown for Darnley,66;accuses Mary of threatening to avenge Riccio with her own hands,72;avers that improper relations began between Mary and Bothwell soon after the birth of James VI.,79;on Mary’s behaviour at Stirling,80;warned of a plot to put Darnley in ward,100;‘Discourse’ prepared by him for York conference,101;‘Brief Discourse’ put in at Westminster,102;on a second conference at Craigmillar,103;not present at James VI.’s baptism,105;sends men to guard Darnley at Stirling,107,110,111;Minto, Walker, and Hiegait working in his interests,111;denies that either Darnley or himself suspected foul play from Mary,113;Darnley’s letter to him respecting Mary,133;urges the collection of the sayings and reports of all Mary’s servants,138;account of his son’s murder,141;asks for the deposition of the priest of Paisley,150;states that Mary caused a hagbut to be fired as a signal for the Kirk o’ Field explosion,173;describes Mary’s conduct at Seton,175;asks for the arrest of Bothwell,176;flight after his son’s death,180;his account of the Glasgow Letter tallies with Moray’s,214,215;his additions to and differences from that Letter,216et seq.;marginal note to Sonnet IV.,217,218;common source of his and Moray’s reports,221;proposed co-regency,223;collects extraneous evidence regarding Mary,224,226;avers that Wood knows the murderers of Darnley,227;knowledge of the contents of the Casket Letters,227,228;his indictments against Mary,222,223,229,230;cites Letter II.,231;activity in getting up evidence against Mary before the York Commissioners,253;attitude at Westminster,266;on Crawford’s talk with Mary,311,312note;seeks to prove that the Kirk o’ Field plan was arranged between Bothwell and Mary before Mary met Darnley at Glasgow,316;Papers, quoted,58,59,74Lennox, Lady, Mary complains to Elizabeth of her,225Lesley (Bishop of Ross), considers Bothwell a handsome man,18;wishes Mary to put Moray in ward,75;Huntly’s statement to, respecting Mary’s counter accusations,96;member of council,172,178;asserts the Letters were not signed,198;on unsigned Letters attributed to Mary,212;one of Mary’s commissioners at York,246;share in the schemes of the Duke of Norfolk,246;report of an interview with Mary at Bolton,247;confession contradicted by Melville’s,250;conference with Lethington about the Letters,258;pleads for Mary to be heard in person before Elizabeth,267;protests against Moray’s production of the Letters,270;Elizabeth’s three choices to him,283;charge against Moray and the Lords,285;curious letter to John Fitzwilliam,286note;on counterfeiters of Mary’s handwriting,356Lethington, Sir Richard (father of Maitland of Lethington),23Lethington (William Maitland, the younger), early life and culture,23;arguments with Knox,23,24;Secretary to Mary of Guise,23;desires the union of the crowns of England and Scotland,23;friendly advances to Mary before her arrival in Scotland,24;character,24;allied by marriage with the Earl of Atholl,24;love affair with Mary Fleming,24;in every scheme against Darnley,25;dislikes and is hated by Bothwell,25;joins Mary’s enemies,25;nicknamed Michael Wylie (Machiavelli),26;political principles,52;counsels drastic measures against Riccio,66;reconciled by Mary to Bothwell,81;concerned in the murder ‘band’ against Darnley,88,90;his method of dealing with Darnley, which Parliament would support,98,99,103;favours a project of marriage between Norfolk and Mary,155;charged with complicity in the Darnley murder,155,156,159;refuses to aid Moray in betraying Norfolk,156;in attendance on Mary,179;prisoner at Dunbar,179,180,181;declares that Mary means to marry Bothwell,181;escapes from Bothwell,182;question of friendship for or enmity to Mary,182;flies to confederated Lords,185;persuades Sir J. Balfour to surrender Edinburgh Castle,186;interview with Mary,188,189;reasons for his treachery to Mary,190,191,192;statement to Throckmorton respecting his conduct towards her,204;Randolph accuses him of advising Mary’s death,204;statement to Throckmorton about the letters,205;Mary’s documentary charge against him,243,244;conduct at the York Conference,246,252;accused of stealing the Casket Letters, and having them copied by his wife,248;explains the reason for Mary’s abduction,255;his privy disclosure of the Letters,257;shakes Norfolk’s belief in same,258;discriminating attitude between private and public exhibition of Letters,287;writes letter to be presented to the French Court concerning Mary’s marriage with Bothwell,331;directs the scheme of garbling the Casket Letters,353;(?) despatches Melville to Cecil on the day of the finding of the Casket Letters,355;privately hints that he had counterfeited Mary’s handwriting,357,358;case against him,358,359;‘Instructions’ drawn by him,360;Randolph hints at his tampering with the Letters,361;Herr Bresslau’s inferences of tampering,387Liddesdale reivers, the,180Lindsay, Sir David, pardoned,112;the Lords send him to Loch Leven to induce Mary to abdicate,204;challenges Herries to combat on Moray’s account,285;appointed Lyon King at Arms,376Livingstone, Lord, member of council,172;his knowledge of Mary’s amour with Bothwell,253Livingstone, Mary (Queen Mary’s attendant),4;wife of John Sempil,356;on ill terms with Mary,356Loch Leven, Mary imprisoned at,192;Lindsay sent to, to extort her abdication,204;Mary’s escape from,242Logan of Restalrig, treasure-finding,375Lords, Scots, of the Privy Council, banded against Mary,185;success at Carberry Hill,195;Casket Letters in their possession,196,201;summons against Bothwell,202;their mixed character, motives, and statements,203,204;demand of Mary her abdication,204;formulate charges against her,205;extort from her a consent to their proposals,205;vacillations with regard to the Letters,206,207;obtain Mary’s signature to her abdication,206;forward copies of Casket Letters to Moray,212;publish their Declaration,238;accuse Mary of being privy to Darnley’s murder,239;on Mary’s handwriting,241;cause of their action against Mary,355Luzarche, M. Victor, his Coffret de Bijoux,365Maitland of Lethington.SeeLethingtonMameret, Roche (Mary’s confessor), on the character of the Queen,210Mar, Earl of, entertains Mary at Alloa,80;deprived of the custody of Edinburgh Castle,172;confederated against Bothwell,181Marryat, Mr. Horace, and the body of Bothwell,373Mary of Gueldres,45Mary of Guise, Regent,19;her secretary Lethington,23;deserted by her nobles,47;Bothwell espouses her cause,47Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland: the Morton portrait,3;periwig,3note;midnight revels and masculine energy,4,5,8;her ‘four Maries,’4;costumes and jewels and their donors,5;moods, spirit, and gratitude,5,6,7;brow-beaten by Knox,7;causes provoking hardness of heart,8;centre of intrigue,8,9;Elizabeth’s rival,9;disposition to yield to masterful men,9;Bothwell’s defects instanced against her,15;presented by Ruthven with a ring as an antidote to poison,17,36;pensions the assassin of Moray,22;kindness to Lethington,24;Morton her prosecutor,31;virulence of the Preachers of Righteousness against her,35,36;‘bewitched’ by Bothwell,36;social condition of Scotland when she became queen,43;informed by Arran of Bothwell’s plot to seize her,51;political position during her first years in Scotland,52,53,54;her compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism,52;suspected by the Protestant party of favouring Bothwell,53;intercedes with Elizabeth to allow Bothwell to go to France,54;efforts to fix her as Elizabeth’s successor,55;sees Darnley and admires him,12,55;action in Bothwell’s outlawry,56;weds Darnley,13,57;summons Bothwell from France against her opponents,57;estrangement from Darnley,13,57;political use made of her intimacy with Riccio,58;twitted with favouring Riccio and Bothwell,59;anger against Moray,56;amour with Riccio not credible,60,63;removes Darnley from her Council,60;illness,61;letter to Pius V.,63,64;arranges Bothwell’s marriage with Lady Jane Gordon,64;insists on free Mass for all men,65;schemes for killing Riccio in her presence,68;rescued by Bothwell, Huntly, and Atholl after Riccio’s murder,69;at Dunbar,69,70,71;seeks to quiet the country,71;growing hatred of Darnley,71;threatens that a fatter than Riccio should soon lie anear him,72;pardon of the rebel Lords demanded of her,72;befriends Moray,73;represented by Lennox as trying to induce Darnley to make love to Moray’s wife,74;her bequests to Darnley,75;allows Moray and Argyll to be at the Castle during her accouchement,75;gives birth to James VI.,75;protects Moray from Darnley and Bothwell,77;Darnley’s jealousy of her favour to Moray,77;increasing dislike to Darnley,78,80;passion for Bothwell,18,26,79;conduct at Alloa and Stirling,80;gift of a bed to Darnley,81;reconciles Lethington and Bothwell,81;Buchanan’s account of her amour with Bothwell,82,83;this legend supported by Sonnet IX. and Dalgleish’s confession,84;strained relations with Darnley,84,85;in Jedburgh at a Border session,93;visits wounded Bothwell at Hermitage Castle,93,94;illness at Jedburgh,94;returns to Craigmillar Castle,95;letter from Darnley,95;divorce proposed,96;Buchanan insinuates her desire to involve Moray in the Darnley murder,97;Lennox’s statement that she would have Darnley in ward after James’s baptism,100,102;arrests Hiegait, Walker, Laird of Minto, Cauldwell,103;festivities at the baptism of her child at Stirling,105;baptizes him by the Catholic rite,105;Bedford’s advice,106;treatment of Darnley at Stirling,107;anxiety concerning Darnley’s projects,108,109;warned by Beaton and the Spanish ambassador of Darnley’s intention to kidnap James VI.,109;causes Hiegait and Walker to be questioned before the Council,110;distress of mind,111;at Drummond Castle, Tullibardine, Callendar, and Holyrood,112;letter to Beaton,110,114;offers to visit sick Darnley at Glasgow,112;Crawford’s account of her visit to Darnley,113;induces Darnley to return with her to Edinburgh,113,119;brings him to Kirk o’ Field,115;aware of the plot against Darnley,116,117;refuses a written warrant asked for by the conspirators,118;hypotheses for her conduct,120,121;her shift of beds at Kirk o’ Field,134,162;story drawn from a Casket Letter,135,136,142;visits Darnley on the eve of the explosion,135;at the marriage of her servant Sebastian that same night,135,136,173;curious anecdote respecting her,137;at supper with the Bishop of Argyle on the night of the murder,161;Paris’s evidence as to familiarities between her and Bothwell,162;Bothwell asks for the key of her room at Kirk o’ Field,163,164,165;said to have endeavoured to incite her brother Lord Robert Stuart against Darnley,135,165,166,323-328,353;dying confessions regarding her participation,167,169,170;theory of her accusers,170;conduct after Darnley’s murder,171;her letters from and to Beaton,173;inference which her letters were meant to suggest,174;makes no effort to avenge Darnley,175,176;seized by Bothwell and conveyed to Dunbar,179;evidence of the Casket Letters as to her collusion,179;Lethington’s attitude towards her,182;creates Bothwell Duke of Orkney and is married to him,183;her distrust of Huntly,185;appeals to the loyalty of her subjects,185;surrenders to Kirkcaldy at Carberry Hill,186;parting with Bothwell,187;conditions of her surrender,187;interview with Lethington,188,189;complains of being parted from Bothwell,188,194;denounces Lethington and the members of the Darnley murder band,189;incarcerated in Loch Leven Castle,192;reported to have prematurely given birth to twins,194;motives of the Lords against her,194;the compromising Casket Letters,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,202,203,205,206,207(seeCasket Letters);communication from Elizabeth respecting Melville,202;her abdication demanded by the Council, and charges formulated against her,204,205;signs the deeds of her abdication,207;her confessor’s opinion of her,210;the Glasgow Letter,135,162,168,211,212,213,214,225,229,255;complains to Elizabeth of Lady Lennox,225;the Glasgow Letter as rendered in the Lennox Papers,234,235;her love for Bothwell as presented in the Casket Sonnets,235;the Glasgow Letter discredited,236;the Lords’ specific charge against her,239;demands to be heard in the Parliament at Edinburgh,240;escapes from Loch Leven,242;claims the right of confronting her accusers,243;her line of defence,243,245;on the handwriting of her accusers,244;letter to Lesley,245;Lesley’s details of an interview with her at Bolton,248;copies of the letters forwarded to her by Lethington,248,249;theory of her translation of Scots copies into French,249note;arrival of her commissioners at York,250;assents to Moray’s compromise,251;attitude at York,257;consents to the removal of inquiry from York to London,260;terms of her compromise,260,262,265;change in her plan of defence,262;plea for a hearing before Elizabeth,267,268;injury done to her cause by friends’ renewed efforts for a compromise,269,270;withdrawal of her commissioners from Westminster,275;refuses to acknowledge Elizabeth as a judge,282;her letter from Bolton,283;asks to see the copies and originals of the Casket Letters,284;makes their delivery a condition of her production of charges and proofs,286,287;causes of her detestation of Lethington,288;her submissive attitude to both Bothwell and Norfolk,315;suggestion of marriage with Norfolk,155;distrusts Huntly,330;trusts him,331;her excuses for marrying Bothwell, addressed to the French Court,331,332;sends Bothwell a symbolic mourning ring,337;letter to Norfolk from Coventry,337and note;contract of marriage with Bothwell,338;receives betrothal ring from Bothwell(?),340;hypothesis of her contest in literary excellence with Lady Bothwell,350;tone of her letters to Norfolk,351;suspicions of Lethington in her instructions to her commissioners,356;coincidence between Letter VII. and her instructions to the Bishop of Dunblane,331,359,360;facsimiles of her own and imitated handwriting,363,364;date of her visit to Glasgow,379,380;charges Balfour, Morton and Lethington with complicity in Darnley’s murder,189,382Meggatdale, Mary and Darnley at,81Melville, Robert, against Mary,185;sent to Elizabeth with news of the discovery of the Casket Letters,196,201,320,355;acting for the Lords,202;