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[93] Of Chatelherault, Argyle, Murray, Morton, and Glencairn, all of ere summoned to the Convention, only Morton came Keith, p 287

[94] Keith, p 291, et seq--Chalmers, vol i p 139, et seq; vol ii

p 141--Tytler, vol i p 374, et seq Melville's account of this conspiracy is, that Murray and the other Lords ”had made a mynt to tak the Lord Darnley, in the Queen's coland as they allegit I wot not as in their minds, but it was ane evil-favoured enterprise whereintil the Queen was in danger, either of kepping (i; and as they had failed in their foolish enterprise, they took on plainly their arms of rebellion” Melville, p 135 There is some reason to believe, that Knox was implicated in this conspiracy; for, in the continuation of his History, written by his amanuensis, Richard Bannatyne, under the authority of the General assembly, it appears that a Mr Hamilton, minister of St Andrews, had openly accused hih Knox noticed the accusation, it does not appear that he ever satisfactorily refuted it--Goodall, vol i p 207

[95] Keith, p 293--Spottiswoode, p 190

[96] Keith, p 294, _et seq_

[97] Keith, p 297

[98] Buchanan says, foolishly enough, that the predictions of ”wizardly woe They prophesied, it seems, that if it was consummated before the end of July, it would be happy for both; if not, it would be the source of much misery It is a pity that these predictions were not true

[99] Randolph in Robertson, Appendix, No XI--Keith, p 307 Miss Benger, vol ii p 214

[100] Keith, p 303 and 304 This was a day or two before Darnley's e

[101] Keith, Appendix No VII p 99, et seq

[102] M'Crie's Life of Knox, vol ii p 106; and Tytler's Enquiry, vol

i p 362 and 367

[103] Knox, p 389

[104] Keith, Appendix, p 264

[105] Robertson, Appendix to Vol i Nos XII and XIII

[106] Keith, Appendix, p 114

[107] Keith, p 316, and Chalmers, vol i p 155

[108] Chalmers, vol i p 156

[109] Chalmers, vol i p 157, and Keith, p 319

[110] Keith, p 319--Melville, p 135

[111] Blackwood in Jebb, vol ii p 204

[112] Keith, p 331

[113] Melville's Memoirs, p 147

[114] Conaeus in Jebb, vol ii p 25

[115] Dr Stuart, in support of his statements on this subject, quotes, in addition to the authorities already mentioned, Mezeray ”Histoire de France,” tome 3, and Thuanus, ”Historia sui Temporis,” lib xxxvii But we suspect he has done so at rando to these works, we have been unable to discover any thing which bears upon the eneral acute and explicit enough, says, that these ambassadors came ”to advise the Queen not to pardon the expatriated nobles;” vol ii p 158 Laing, rites with so ainst Mary that he almost makes ”the worse appear the better reason,” has avoided falling into the gross error of Robertson ”It would be unjust,” he says, ”to suppose, that, upon acceding to the Holy League, for the preservation of the Catholic faith, she was apprised of the full extent of the design to exterhout Christendom; but the instructions from her uncle rendered her inexorable towards the banished Lords”--Laing's Preliminary Dissertation to the History of Scotland, vol i p 9