In Byways of Scottish History

Inventories, p. cv.

22

"Concionero de Romances", Inventories, p. cxlvi.

23

Unless it be he that is meant in the entry: "Danies Vgieri in Italian", Inventories, p. cxliv.

24

Haynes's Collection of State Papers, p. 509.

25

Sir H. Ellis's Original Letters Illustrative of English History, First Series, vol. ii, p. 252.

26

Inventories, p. 179.

27

"Pantagruell in Frenche", Inventories, p. cxlvi.

28

Œuvres de Ronsard, vol. ii, p. 1171.

29

For a full account of this literary forgery, see below, pp. 79-90.

30

The following scheme shows how these anagrams were formed: —

31

"G. Conaei vita Mariae Stuartae, 1624", in Jebb, vol. ii, p. 15.

32

Diary, 24 Nov., 1665.

33

Letter from Randolph to Cecil, 15 May, 1563.

34

P. 87.

35

Con, in Jebb, vol. ii, p. 15.

36

P. 125.

37

Ibid.

38

In Jebb, l. c.

39

Basilikon Doron, p. 125, edit. 1603.

40

Compotum Thesaurarii Reginæ Scotorum, 30 Nov., 1565.

41

Thomson's Collection of Inventories, pp. 238-40.

42

Inventories, p. cxxi.

43

Letter to Cecil, in Haynes's State Papers, pp. 509-10.

44

De Regno et Regali Potestate, edit. 1612, pp. 279-80.

45

Inventories, pp. xc, 141, 148.

46

Prince Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, t. iv, pp. 228-9.

47

Cf. "Le Vray Rapport de l'exécution faicte sur la personne de la Royne d'Escosse", published by Teulet, Papiers d'Etat, &c., p. 884.

48

History of the Reformation, vol. ii, p. 373.

49

Inventories, p. lxix.

50

Knox's History of the Reformation, pp. 373, 374.

51

Writing to Cecil on the 31st of December, 1563, Randolph reports: "The frenche potticarie and the woman he gotte with chylde were bothe hanged thys present Fridaye".

52

In Mr. Andrew Lang's book, The Valet's Tragedy and other Studies, pp. 291-311, there is an exhaustive discussion of the various points that arise in connection with the ballad of "The Queen's Marie".

53

Bishop Lesley's History of Scotland, p. 209.

54

Brantôme, t. v, p. 74.

55

Knox's History of the Reformation, book v, vol. ii, p. 495.

56

Annals of Scotland, p. 14.

57

Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 87.

58

Calendar of State Papers, Eliz., vol. ix.

59

Miscellany of the Maitland Club, vol. ii, pp. 390-3.

60

Epigrammatum, lib. iii.

61

Calendar of State Papers, Eliz., vol. ix, No. 47 B.

62

Calendar of State Papers, Eliz., vol. x, Feb. 28, 1565.

63

Calendar of State Papers, Eliz., vol. x, 31 March, 1565.

64

Calendar of State Papers, Eliz., vol. x, 3 June, 1565.

65

Calendar of State Papers, Eliz., vol. xi, 31 Oct., 1565.

66

Inventories, p. 113.

67

Inventories, p. 124.

68

"A Flamy. Vne brodure dor esmaille de blancq et rouge contenante xxxvij pieces.

Vne brodure dorelette de mesme façon garnye de lj piece esmaille de blancq et rouge.

Vne cottouere de mesme façon contenante soixante piece esmaille de blanc et rouge.

Vng quarquan esmaille aussy de blancq et rouge garny de vingt une piece.

Vne chesne a saindre en semblable façon contenante lij pieces esmaillez de blanc et ouge et vng vaze pandant au bout." —Inventories, p. 116.

69

Inventories, p. 69.

70

MS. Fragment in the Register House; cf. Inventories, p. 1.

71

Prince Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, t. v, p. 222.

72

Memoirs, p. 256.

73

Calderwood, History of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. iii, p. 285.

74

G. Chalmers, Life of Mary Queen of Scots, vol. iii, p. 615.

75

Calendar of State Papers, vol. iv, p. 599.

76

Thomson's Collection of Inventories, p. 193; cf. Calendar of State Papers, vol. iv, Oct. 19, 1573; and Inventories of Mary, p. clvii.

77

Printed in Letters from Lady Margaret Burnet to John, Duke of Lauderdale, p. 83. Bannatyne Club.

78

Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. iii, p. 313.

79

G. Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, vol. i, p. 109.

80

Inventories, p. 139.

81

Ibid., p. 145.

82

Teulet, Papiers d'Etat relatifs à l'Histoire de l'Ecoss, t. ii, p. 32.

83

Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland, vol. iv, p. 95.

84

Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, vol. i, p. 204.

85

Ibid., p. 207.

86

History of the Reformation, vol. ii, p. 415.

87

Prince Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, t. iv, p. 341.

88

Inventories, pp. xlvii, 31, 65, 68, 70.

89

Ibid., p. xlvii.

90

Teulet, op. cit., p. 167.

91

Inventories, xlviii.

92

Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, vol. i, p. 208.

93

Inventories, p. xlviii.

94

Inventories, p. 124.

95

Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, vol. ii, p. 825.

96

Inventories, p. 63.

97

P. 42.

98

Inventories, p. lii.

99

Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland, vol. vii, pp. 266, 271, 441.

100

G. Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, vol. i, pp. 443-4.

101

Labanoff, op. cit., t. vii, p. 123; t. iii, p. 116; t. iv, p. 215.

102

T. v, p. 98.

103

The original is written in French.

104

Labanoff, op. cit., t. iv, pp. 341-4, 377-81, 389, 390, 401, 402.

105

Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, vol. ii, p. 1014.

106

T. v, pp. 84, 85, 88-90, 123.

107

Périgueux, Cassard fréres.

108

Ibid.

109

– letters with macrons over them are shown as "y¯" – the letters vr with a tilde over them are shown as "vr~"

110

Earl of Morton to the Earl of Bedford, 24 May, 1566.

111

Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 26 May, 1566.

112

Ibid.

113

Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 26 May, 1566.

114

Ibid.

115

Ibid.

116

Ibid.

117

Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 20 Aug., 1565.

118

Ibid. 9 Sept., 1565.

119

Ibid. 15 Dec., 1565.

120

Thomas Randolph to the Earl of Bedford, 30 Sept., 1565.

121

"Instructions for certain persons to be sent into Scotland to commune respecting … assaults upon Thomas Randolph." —State Papers.

122

Thomas Randolph to the Earl of Leicester, 18 Oct., 1565.

123

Thomas Randolph to Sir W. Cecil, 19 Feb., 1566; the Queen of Scots to Queen Elizabeth, 20 Feb., 1566.

124

Ibid.

125

Queen Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, 3 March, 1566.

126

Queen Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, 15 March, 1566.

127

Thomas Randolph to Sir W. Cecil, 6 March, 1566.

128

Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, 26 May, 1566.

129

Thomas Randolph to Sir William Cecil, Berwick, 7 June, 1566.

130

Queen Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, Greenwich, 13 June, 1566.

131

Randolph to Cecil, 26 May, 1566.

132

Several years after this was written, the Fantasie was published in one of the volumes of the "Scottish Texts Society". It has not, however, been thought necessary to alter the present, or any other, reference to the poem, or the documents bearing on it, as inedited.

133

State Papers. Scotland – Elizabeth, vol xi., 31 Dec., 1565.

134

fforweriéd, wearied out.

135

slipper, slippery.

136

pervse, employ, have recourse to.

137

scande, attended to.

138

When as, whilst.

139

decree, hold sway.

140

wone, wont.

141

perst, pierced.

142

mase, wild fancy.

143

rase the seige, carry on the siege with increased vigour.

144

regestreth the found pretence, shows the infatuation.

145

reporte, quote.

146

sturde, stirred up.

147

stiveling sture, stifling passion.

148

mufflled contre-packe, secret opposition party.

149

eche where, everywhere.

150

grated, sought with importunity.

151

curre favell, curried favour.

152

rowme, position.

153

powder it, create bustle or pother.

154

trade, course.

155

alludinge, deceiving.

156

vnlade, give free scope to.

157

brute, report.

158

to bear the freey in court– this expression, which is evidently intended to convey the idea of influence or exalted position, may be connected with the French faire les frais.

159

Randolph to Cecil, 31 Oct., 1565.

160

Randolph to Cecil, 4 July, 1565.

161

Ibid., 19 July, 1565.

162

Cecil's Journal.

163

Randolph to Cecil, 12 Oct., 1565.

164

Diurnal of Occurrents.

165

Randolph to Cecil, 2 July, 1565.

166

Diurnal of Occurrents.

167

Knox's History of the Reformation.

168

Queen Mary to Archbishop Beton, 1 Oct., 1565.

169

History of the Reformation, p. 383.

170

pirrye, peril.

171

incest, given rise to.

172

trades, course of action.

173

Gwyssian, belonging to the Guise family.

174

madlie, maidenly.

175

proport, proportion.

176

affatethe, proclaims.

177

Probably Sandyford, close to the river Cart, between Paisley and Renfrew. A tradition, still current in the neighbourhood, asserts that Mary once slept at Crookston Castle then belonging to the Lennox family. It may have been on this occasion, documentary evidence of any other opportunity for a visit to the Castle not being extant.

178

to wage, to raise.

179

trayns, bands.

180

Capt. Cokbourn to Cecil.

181

dome, judgment, opinion.

182

P. 135.

183

Les Tragédies de Montchrestien, Paris, 1891, p. xxij.

184

Op. cit., pp. 72-3.

185

Op. cit., p. 80.

186

Op. cit., p. 87.

187

Op. cit., pp. 88, 89.

188

Op. cit., p. 92.

189

Op. cit., p. 93.

190

Op. cit., pp. 101, 102.

191

Op. cit., pp. 109, 110.

192

History of the Regality of Musselburgh, p. 95.

193

Item, for xxxvj elnis and ane quarter blechit bertane canwes to be thre albis, thre ametis, and thre altar towellis to oure Lady Chapell of Laureit, price of the elne iijs. iiijd.; summa… vjli. xd.

Item, to be thre croces to the chesabillis and to paill the fruntale, v-1/2 elnis quhite

satyne, price of the elne xxxijs.; summa… viijli. xvjs.

Item, to be armes apoun the thre chesabillis and fruntell, ane quarter yallow satyne, price… viijs.

Item, to be frenzeis to the fruntell, ij unces silk, price thairof… xs.

Item, for bukrem, rubanis, making and uthir furnessing of the thre vestimentis, fruntell, stoill and parolis… iiijli. vs.

Item, to the broidstar for brodering of the Kingis armes apoun the saidis thre vestimentis and fruntell… xxvjs. viijd.

Item, for weving of the frenzeis to the fruntell, sewing of the albis, and croces to the towellis… xxvjs. viijd.

– Vol. vi, pp. 200-1.

194

Accounts, vol. vi, p. lxij.

195

Accounts, p. 299.

196

Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, ll. 2661, et seq.

197

Ibid., l. 2665.

198

Ibid., ll. 2690-2.

199

"In these tymes there was besyde Mussilburgh, St. Allarit's chapell, and in these tymes of ignorance and superstition, it was believed that if women that were in hard labour did sent ane offering to the Preist and Freirs there, they wold get easy delyverance." —History of the Regality of Musselburgh, p. 101.

200

Calderwood, History of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. i, pp. 101-2. Another and less prejudiced account of this John Scott is given by Peder Swave, who visited Scotland in 1535, as Ambassador from Christian II of Denmark to James V: "On the 11th of May I met with a hermit, named John Scott, a person of noble rank, who had quitted a beautiful wife, and children, and all his household, and determined to live by himself in solitude. He ate nothing but bread, and drank nothing save water or milk. He is believed to have endured a fast of forty days and nights in Scotland, England, and Italy. He also says that, when impelled by a higher power, he could not perish by fasting, as by the kindness of the Holy Virgin he has already been able to prove; if he should wish to do this by way of wager or bargain, that he would fail. He declares that he has no sensation of hunger when he fasts, that he loses neither his strength nor his flesh, feels neither heat nor cold, goes about with head and feet naked equally in summer and winter, and that his manner of life does not induce the approaches of age. Asked by me why he left such a beautiful wife, he replied that he wished to be a soldier of Heaven, and that whether his wife determined to serve God or the world was a matter of indifference to him. By chance there was amongst us a canon regular who said that he had been asked by the hermit's wife to reconcile them, but had taken the task upon him to no purpose." – Hume Brown, Early Travellers in Scotland, p. 56.

201

Row, History of the Kirk of Scotland, Woodrow Society's edition.

202

History of the Regality of Musselburgh, p. 106.

203

Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iii, p. 84.

204

Sibbald, History of Fife, p. 101.

205

Hume Brown, Early Travellers in Scotland, pp. 68-69.

206

Hume Brown, Scotland before 1700, p. 78.

207

Breviar. Aberdonen., Pars Hyemalis, fol. lxii.

208

Book vi, c. 8.

209

Vita S. Kentigerni, pp. lxxxiii-iv.

210

Carte Prioratus Insule de May, Charters 12-18.

211

Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. xiv.

212

Carte Prioratus, Charter 24.

213

Carte Prioratus, Charter 25.

214

Charters 26, 27, 33.

215

Carte Prioratus, Charters 29, 30.

216

Charter 35.

217

Carte Prioratus, Charter 38.

218

Charter 39.

219

Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. xx and Charter 40.

220

Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. xxi and Charter 41.

221

Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. ix.

222

"Proceedings Relative to the Claim of the Abbot and Convent of Reading on the Priory of the Isle of May", op. cit., p. lxxxv, et seq.

223

Op. cit., p. xxv.

224

Op. cit., p. lxxxiij.

225

Op. cit., p. xxviij.

226

Op. cit., p. xxvi.

227

Op. cit., pp. xcvij, et seq.

228

Pinkerton, History of Scotland, vol. i, p. 208.

229

Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. lxxvi, et seq.

230

Lockhart, Life of Sir Walter Scott, chap. xxviii.

231

Pars Estiva, Folio xcvi.

232

History of Edinburgh, pp. 267-8.

233

History of Edinburgh, pp. 267-8.

234

History of the Reformation, pp. 95-6.

235

Sir W. Fraser, The Lennox, vol. i, p. 43.

236

Ware, Irish Antiquities, p. 108.

237

Sir W. Fraser, op. cit., p. 76.

238

Sir W. Fraser, op. cit., pp. 78 and 236.

239

Ibid., p. 77.

240

Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil, vol. ii, p. 397.

241

Ibid., p. 398.

242

State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. xviii, No. 45.

243

Bannatyne's Memoriales, p. 196.

244

History of the Troubles in Scotland and England, vol. i, pp. 157, 158.

245

Essay on John Hampden.

246

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vii, p. xxvii.

247

Tytler, History of Scotland, p. 238.

248

Tytler, History of Scotland, p. 238.

249

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vi, pp. 581-2.

250

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vi, p. 594.

251

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vii, p. xxv.

252

Westcott, New Poems by James I of England.