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Upon this description of the box, it ree with the account given of it by Buchanan; for it would appear, that in the casket preserved at Hamilton, there are only two Italic _F's_; while Buchanan describes it as ”a sarnished in sundry places_ with the Ro's crown,” an expression he would not have used, had there been only two of these letters Besides, there see's crown above each; but on the coffer at Hamilton, there is only one crown on the top of the lock, and not above the letter F Antiquarians, however, have investigated subjects of less curiosity, and have been willing to believe upon far more slender data

[227] Goodall, vol ii p 87

[228] Goodall, vol ii p 140

[229] Goodall, vol ii p 235; and p 257

[230] The authentic ”Warrant” and ”Consent,” has been already described, _supra_, vol ii p 95, and th in Anderson, vol i p

87

[231] Laing, Appendix, vol ii p 356

[232] See in further corroboration of the facts stated above, a Letter of Archibald Douglas to the Queen of Scots, in Robertson's Appendix, or in Laing, vol ii p 363

[233] ”Nec ullainae accusatione, vol ii p 328

[234] Goodall, vol ii p 382

[235] Keith, Appendix, p 141

[236] Jebb, vol ii p 227--Keith, Appendix, p 143

[237] See the New Monthly Magazine, No LIV p 521

[238] Lesley's ”Defence” in Anderson, vol i p 40

[239] Miss Benger, Appendix, vol ii p 494

[240] Buchanan, book xix--Stuart, vol i p 460

[241] Robertson, Appendix to vol i No xxii

[242] Anderson, vol iv Part I p 120 and 125

[243] Keith, Appendix, p 145

[244] Jebb, vol ii p 671

[245] Anderson, vol ii p 185

[246] Anderson, ibid p 187--Laing, vol ii p 296

[247] Laing, Appendix p 323

[248] Laing, vol ii p 298

[249] Ibid p 300