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[103] Laing, Appendix, p 115

[104] Laing, Appendix, vol ii p 116 Knox says that it was Bothho drew back; but the authority to which we have referred is more to be depended on

[105] Melville, p 182

[106] Laing, Appendix, vol ii p 116

[107] Keith, p 402

[108] Keith, p 403--Melville, p 184--Knox, p 409--Laing, Appendix, vol ii p 117

[109] Laing, Appendix, vol ii p 119--Anderson, vol i p 128--Keith, p 418

[110] Anderson, vol i p 134

[111] Keith, p 408

[112] Buchanan's History, Book XVIII

[113] Keith, p 406, et seq

[114] Anderson, vol i p 139

[115] The above account of Bothwell's adventures and fate, after he left Scotland, is taken principally from Melville, and the History of Jainal manuscript, entitled a ”Declaration of the Earl of Bothwell,” which was en, in the year 1568, for the satisfaction apparently of the Danish government, has recently been discovered, and an authenticated copy of it having been transust 1824, a careful translation from the old French in which it is written, was presented to the public in ”The New Monthly Magazine,” for June 1825 Satisfied as we are of the authenticity of this ”Declaration,” we have availed ourselves of soreat allowance iven to the transactions he details We shall have more to say of this ”Declaration” afterwards; at present, it is necessary only to refer to it

[116] Keith, p 411 and 414

[117] Keith, p 418 It is worth noticing, that no proof of this absurd falsehood is offered--no allusion being even e, and which, though only the first of a series of forgeries, yet having been hastily prepared to serve the purpose of the hour, seems to have been destroyed immediately

[118] Keith, Ibid

[119] Keith, p 420

[120] Throckmorton's Letter in Keith, p 420, et seq

[121] Melville's Memoirs, p 197

[122] Whittaker, vol i p 228

[123] Throckmorton in Keith, p 422

[124] Robertson, Appendix to vol i No XXI

[125] Robertson, Appendix to vol i No XXII

[126] Throckmorton, in one of his letters, iven hi to renounce Bothwell But as Throckh the channel of the rebel Lords, who, he says, ”_had sent hie e in Throckmorton's letter is as follows:--”I have also persuaded her to conform herself to renounce Bothwell for her husband, and to be contented to suffer a divorce to pass betwixt them She hath sent me word, that she will in no wise consent unto that, but rather die: grounding herself upon this reason, taking herself to be seven weeks gone with child; by renouncing Bothwell, she should acknowledge herself to be with child of a bastard, and to have forfeited her honour, which she will not do to die for it I have persuaded her to save her own life and her child, to choose the least hard condition” Robertson--Appendix to vol i

No XXII It was, perhaps, this passage in Throckar rumour, which was of course much improved by the time it reached France Le Laboureur, an historian of much respectability, actually asserts that the Queen of Scots had a daughter to Bothwell, as educated as a religieuse in the Convent of Notre Dame at Soissons _Vide_ Laboureur Addit aux Meether unfounded

[127] Some historians have asserted, that Lord Ruthven accompanied the two Commissioners mentioned in the text But this is not the case, for he was present at a conference with the English ambassador, Throckmorton, on the very day the others were at Lochleven Throckmorton in Keith, p 426