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[81] Keith, p 390

[82] Anderson, vol i p 97--Keith, p 390

[83] Melville, p 197

[84] Anderson, vol i p 95

[85] Anderson, vol i p 95

[86] Anderson, vol i p 97 et seq There is soe quoted above, and Bothwell's conduct was so despotic, during the whole of the time he had Mary's person at his disposal, that Whittaker's supposition seems by no means unlikely, that the _force_ to which Mary alludes was of the hout the whole of the Queen's own account of these transactions,”

he observes, ”the delicacy of the lady, and the prudence of the wife, are in a continual struggle with facts,--willing to lay open the whole for her own vindication, yet unable to do it for her own sake and her husband's, and yet doing it in effect” Vide Whittaker, vol iii p 112 et seq--Melville is still more explicit upon the subject, p 177 And in a letter frolish ambassador, six weeks after the ravishment, it is expressly said, that ”the Queen was led captive, and by fear, force, and (as by many conjectures may be well suspected) other extraordinary and more unlawful means, compelled to become the bedfellow to another wife's husband”--See the letter in Keith p 418

[87] Vide Laing, vol i p 86, and vol ii p 105, and Whittaker, vol

iii p 116

[88] Keith, p 383

[89] History of James VI, p 10--Buchanan's History, Book XVII--Keith, p 384--Whittaker, vol iii p 120

[90] ”I plainly refused,” says Craig, in his account of thisthe records of the General asse; and also the constant bruit that my Lord had both ravished her and kept her in captivity”--Anderson, vol ii

p 299

[91] Anderson, vol ii p 280

[92] Anderson, vol i p 111--Keith, p 384

[93] Anderson, vol i p 87

[94] History of James VI p 10--Keith, p 386--Melville, p

78--Whittaker, vol iii p 127 et seq Upon this subject, Lord Hailes has judiciously reht under the power of a daring profligate adventurer, few foreign princes would have solicited her hand Soht that honour, but her co beyond measure It would have left her at the mercy of a capricious husband,--it would have exposed her to the disgrace of being reproached in some sullen hour, for the adventure at Dunbar Mary was so situated, at this critical period, that she was reduced to this horrid alternative, either to remain in a friendless and most hazardous celibacy, or to yield her hand to Bothwell”--_Remarks on the History of Scotland_, _p_ 204

[95] Melville, p 178

[96] Letter from the Lords of Scotland to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, in Keith, p 417

[97] Melville, p 180

[98] Melville, p 199

[99] Keith, p 394--Melville, p 179--Knox, p 406

[100] Anderson, vol i p 131

[101] Anderson, vol i p 128

[102] Knox, p 409