denies his visit to Mary at Bolton before going to commissioners at York,249,250;Lesley’s confession contravened by his,250;Moray sends him to Bolton to compromise with Mary,251;negotiates with Mary on a compromise,259;his statement,261;sent by Lethington on ‘sudden despatch’ to Cecil,354,355;friendly efforts in Mary’s behalf,355;suspects Kirkcaldy of Grange of counterfeiting Moray’s handwriting,361Melville, Sir James, on George Buchanan’s veracity as a historian,34;dissuades Mary from putting Moray in ward,75;on Darnley’s murder,140;on Bothwell’s behaviour in the Queen’s chamber,181;at the York conference,259Mertine, Barbara, encounters the murderers of Darnley,147Middlemore, Mary’s statement to him regarding her accusers,245Minto, Laird of, arrested by Mary,103;working in Lennox’s interests,111;cited,150Moray, Regent (natural son of James V.), an enigma,19;Protestant and warrior,19;acquisitiveness,19,20;secures the Buchan estates in spite of the legal rights of Christian Stewart,20;marries Agnes Keith,20;ambition,20;treachery and caution,21,22;alibis,21;as Regent,22;Mr. Froude’s estimate of him,22;his secretary, John Wood,33;believes that Ruthven gave Mary a ring with magical properties,36;urged by the preachers to burn witches,36;political bias and theological tenets,52;tells Mary that either he or Bothwell must quit Scotland,56;his rising to prevent Mary marrying Darnley,59;seeks for the restoration of Morton and Ruthven,72;in favour with Mary,73,76,121;permitted by Mary to reside in the Castle during her accouchement,75;said to be banded against Darnley,89,90,91,92,98;denies that any unlawful ends were mooted at Craigmillar,98;winks at the conspiracy against Darnley,116,122;account of the numbers engaged in Darnley’s murder,141;laxity in their prosecution,144,145;gives records of examinations to English commissioners,145;reasons for not summoning Paris as witness,154,155;opposes marriage between Mary and Norfolk,155;takes the evidence of Paris,155;delays in forwarding it to Cecil,156;seeks to betray Norfolk,156;story of his presence at a wrangle between Darnley and Lord Robert Stuart,166,323,327;informed of the Casket Letters,196note;his sources of information as to Mary’s correspondence,208;from friend becomes enemy of Mary,209,210;reports a guilty letter from Mary to Bothwell,211,213;his additions to and differences from the Glasgow letter,216et seq.;common source of his and Lennox’s reports,221;‘not capable’ of employing a forged document,234;‘most loth’ to accuse Mary,242;Scots translations and French originals of Casket Letters,242;treats for a compromise with Mary at York,251;seeks to know the powers of the English commissioners at York,253;exhibits ‘privately’ to them the Casket Letters and other papers,254;confers with Norfolk at York,259;puts in his proofs at Westminster,266,270,271,272,273;complains of being slandered by Mary’s commissioners,285;Mary’s joy at the news of his murder,22Moretta (Savoyard ambassador), on Darnley’s murder,140Morton, Earl of, joins the Protestants,29;sanctimonious remark to Throckmorton,29;private life,30;schemes with all parties in his own ends,30;helps to organise the murder of Riccio,30;portrait of,31;Regent,32;political principles,52;in league with Darnley to restore Moray,67;Moray endeavours his recall,73;feud with Darnley,78;pardoned,89,112;concerned in Darnley’s murder,31,90;desires the Queen’s warrant before proceeding to extremities with Darnley,117;his confession,118,147,148,167,168;confederated against Bothwell,181;advised by Lethington to espouse Mary’s cause,191;accused by Mary of Darnley’s murder,244;Casket Letters entrusted to him,195,365;declaration at Westminster respecting them,272;his story of the discovery of the Casket Letters,274,275,276,277;in his dying declaration denounces Archibald Douglas,32;executed,382Napier of Merchistoun (soothsayer),17,36Napier of Merchistoun (inventor of logarithms),17;treasure-finding,375Nau, Claude, on Mary’s escape to Dunbar,72;on the motives of Darnley’s murderers,90;on Mary’s abdication,241;on the band for Darnley’s murder given to Mary by Bothwell,243;account of Lethington’s conduct towards Mary,288Nelson (Darnley’s servant), in Kirk o’ Field at the explosion,116;on the position of Kirk o’ Field,129;escape,140;statement on the custody of the keys,165,175;evidence at Westminster,276;on Darnley’s refusal to stay at Craigmillar,319;detained by Drury at Berwick,319noteNorfolk, Duke of, his proposed marriage with Mary,155;schemes,246;on the York commission of inquiry,246,252;excuses delays of Scots Lords,256;for a compromise,256;confers with Moray,259;opposes a compromise,261,262;doubts authenticity of Letters and would marry Mary,257,258,259,262;prevents Mary from abdicating,262;Mary’s submissive attitude to him,315;Lethington asks him not to believe in Mary’s guilt,357,358Northumberland, Earl of, in arms for Mary,277Ogilvy of Boyne, loved by Lady Jane Gordon and Mary Beaton,26;marries the divorced Lady Bothwell,27,218Orkney, Bishop of, marries Mary to Bothwell,62,183Orkney, Duke of, Bothwell created,183Ormistoun, Black Laird of (one of Darnley’s murderers), his treatment by Mary in prison,6;his exordium before being hanged,35;confession of a murder-band against Darnley,99;executed,139Ormistoun, Hob (one of Darnley’s murderers),101,139,339,341;executed,139Paris (Nicholas Hubert), on the Craigmillar plot against Darnley,103;escapes with Bothwell to Denmark,154;extradited to Captain Clark,154;evidence taken by Moray,155,156;nature of his deposition and the circumstances under which it was made,156-170;account of Lady Reres,162;receipt and delivery of Glasgow Letter,292,293,299;on the Glasgow Letter,316,327;cited,339,340,341,342;hanged at St. Andrews,157,378Percy, Sir Harry, on Bothwell,54Periwigs, worn by Mary,3notePhilippson, M., on the translations of the Casket Letters,386,388Pinkie, battle of,19Pitcairn’s ‘Criminal Trials,’ cited,56Pius V., Mary’s letter to him on political matters,63Pluscarden, Prior of, and the Casket,365Pollen, Father, cited,230Powrie (Bothwell’s servant), statement of, concerning Darnley’s murder,142,143,144,145,146,148,149,195,280Preston, Laird of Craigmillar (Provost of Edinburgh), Mary imprisoned in his house,188Price, Mr. F. Compton, cited,363Ramsay, Robert (Moray’s servant), hears Paris avouch the truth of his deposition,157Randolph (English ambassador at Holyrood), his opinion of Darnley,11,12;on the Earl of Arran,49;reports Bothwell and Atholl all-powerful,57;on Lennox at Glasgow,61;reports ‘private disorders’ between Mary and Darnley,63;on Mary’s demand for free Mass for all men,65;aware of Darnley’s and Lennox’s schemes for obtaining the crown,66;favours Moray,73;on a murder-band, kept in a casket, aimed at Darnley,87;on the conduct of Lethington and Kirkcaldy towards Mary,194,360;accuses Lethington of advising Mary’s death,204;hints at Lethington having tampered with the Letters(?),361Read, John (Buchanan’s secretary), supplies Cecil with a list of the signatories to Ainslie’s band,177‘Relation,’ the, cited on Riccio’s murder,65Reres, Lady, alleged confidant of Mary’s amour with Bothwell,33,48,82,83;telepathic story assigned to her,82;Paris’s account of her as a go-between,162;rails at Mary’s marriage with Bothwell,184Reres, Laird of (son of Lady Reres),83Riccio, David, his intimacy with Mary,58,59;complained of as a foreign upstart by Scots nobles,58,65;reasons for discrediting his amour with Mary,60;Darnley’s hatred and jealousy of him,63,64,65,66;‘band of assurance’ for his murder,67;nobles and others concerned,67;murdered,69Ridolfi plot, the,6Robertson, Dr. Joseph, on Lady Reres as wet nurse to Mary’s baby,83;on the Paris deposition,158;on the Glasgow Letter,296Rogers, William, informs Cecil of Darnley’s design to seize the Scilly Isles,108noteRonsard (poet), quoted,314;on the Casket Sonnets,344,349Ross, Bishop of.SeeLesleyRuthven Earl of, his account of Riccio’s murder,17;presents Mary with a ring as an antidote to poison,17;conspiring with Darnley,67;seeks refuge in England,70;his dying vision,37;death,73Sadleyr (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), at the York inquiry,246St. Andrews, in Mary’s time,40St. Mary in the Fields.SeeKirk o’ FieldSanquhar, signs the band for delivering Mary from Loch Leven,275,276Scarborough, Darnley’s designs on,108Schiller’s ‘Marie Stewart,’ cited,2Scilly Isles, Darnley’s designs on,108noteScots Parliament, Casket Letters produced before,241Scottish Guards (in France), Bothwell captain of,54Scott’s ‘Abbot,’ cited,2Scrope, quoted, on Captain Cullen,151-3Sebastian (Mary’s servant), his marriage at Holyrood,136,148Sempil, John, husband of Mary Livingstone,356Sepp, Dr., on the Casket Letters,242Seton, Mary (Mary’s attendant), ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair,’3,4Seton, Mary’s conduct at,175Skelton, Sir John, on Bothwell’s age,14;his ‘Maitland of Lethington’ cited,23;on Mary’s knowledge of the plot against Darnley,116,117;on Mary’s submissive attitude to Bothwell,315Sorcery, belief in, in the sixteenth century,36Spens (Black Mr. John),175Standen (brothers Anthony), one of them boasts that he saved Mary from assassination,38;Darnley’s companions,60;their immorality put to Darnley’s account,75;romantic memoirs of one of them imprisoned in the Tower,75;assist Darnley in his schemes,108;the younger,137,319noteStewart, Christian (heiress to the Buchan earldom), contracted in marriage with Lord James Stewart,19;legal inheritress to Buchan estates,20;married to Lord James,20Stewart d’Aubigny (Duke of Lennox), James’s banished favourite,367Stewart, Lord James (Moray’s brother), contracts himself in marriage to the Buchan child-heiress,19;secures the right of redemption of the Buchan estates,19;marries the heiress but loses the estates,20Stewart of Periven (Lennox’s retainer),226Stewart of Traquair, escorts Mary to Dunbar,69Stewart, Sir William (Lyon Herald), burnt for sorcery,17,36,156,374-379Stirling, Mary at,80;baptism of James VI. at,105,106,107;full of ‘honest men of the Lennox,’109Strickland, Miss, on Darnley’s signature to State documents,60noteStuart, Lord Robert (Mary’s brother), account of him drawn from a Casket Letter,135;concerned in Darnley’s murder,162,165,166;Mary’s alleged attempt to provoke a quarrel between him and Darnley,323,327Sussex, Earl of (one of Elizabeth’s commissioners), on Mary’s defence,245;believes in an intended compromise,263;doubts in judicial proof of Mary’s guilt,264;on Mary’s proofs,287Sutherland, Earl of, marries Bothwell’s divorced wife,27;member of council,172Tala.SeeHay of TalaTaylor (Darnley’s servant), killed at Kirk o’ Field,132,137,139,148‘The Purpose’ or talking dance,39Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas (English envoy), visits Mary in prison,29;in communication with Lords of Council,203,204;Lethington acquaints him with Casket Letters,205,237;mentions them to Elizabeth,355Throndssön, Anne (Norwegian lady), Bothwell’s treatment of her,47;alleges breach of promise of marriage against Bothwell,48Tombs of the Kings, the,39Tulchan bishops, the,30Tullibardine, Mary at,112Tullibardine, signs band for releasing Mary from Loch Leven,276Walker (Archbishop Beaton’s retainer), on Darnley’s plot to kidnap the infant James,108,110,111Walsingham, Sir Francis, and the Casket Letters,365Westminster Conference, proceedings at,240,266,270-276Westmorland, Earl of, in arms for Mary,277Whithaugh, Laird of, holds Ker of Faldonside prisoner,101;shelters the Ormistouns,101Wilson, Dr., asks Cecil for Paris’s confession,168;on Mary,247Witchcraft and sorcery,17,36Wood, John (Moray’s secretary), helps Lennox in his case against Mary,150;hears Paris testify to his deposition,157;bears letters to Moray and Cecil,209,226;in custody of the Casket Letters,196,227,228,229;on Lethington as a commissioner at Mary’s trial,244;slain by Forbes of Reres,33York, Commission of Inquiry at,101,226,227,230,233,246,250et seq.Zytphen-Adeler, Baron, his care of Bothwell’s remains,372