Mary Queen of Scots
* On margin ‘your purpose’.
* Follows here on margin, ‘I have disclosed all, I have known what I wold’.
* ‘By and by’ written above.
* On margin, ‘Jay bien la vogue avec vois’.
Reference Notes
The following abbreviations have been commonly used:
C.S.P. Foreign Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, Elizabeth
C.S.P. Roman Calender of State Papers relating to English affairs (Rome)
C.S.P. Scot.: Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland
C.S.P. Spanish Calendar of State Papers relating to Spain, Elizabeth
C.S.P. Venetian Calendar of State Papers, Venetian
D.N.B. Dictionary of National Biography
Hamilton Hamilton Papers
Hat. Cal.: Calendar of manuscripts at Hatfield House
Keith: R. Keith, History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland
Knox: John Knox, History of the Reformation, translated and edited by W. C. Dickinson
Labanoff: Lettres de Marie Stuart, edited by Prince Labanoff
R.P.C.: Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
For further details of these and other books cited (which have been described below in the shortest convenient form) the reader is referred to the bibliography.
CHAPTER ONE: All Men Lamented
1 Leslie, Historie, II, p. 260
2 Knox, I, p. 28
3 Letters of James v, p. 172
4 See entry under Lineage for Moray in Burke’s Peerage, etc., 1963
5 Michel, Les Français en Ecosse, p. 420
6 Pitscottie, Chronicles, I, p. 377 et seq.
7 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 22
8 Hamilton, I, p. 329
9 Balcarres Papers, I, passim
10 Ibid., I, p. 81 et seq
11 Ibid., I, p. 83
12 Ibid., I, p. 149
13 Pitscottie, op. cit., I, p. 394
14 Balcarres Papers, I, p. 61
15 Knox, I, p. 29
16 Hamilton, I, p. 328
17 Balcarres Papers, I, p. 228
18 Knox, I, p. 37
19 Hamilton, I, p. 307
20 Knox, I, p. 38
21 Pitscottie, op. cit., I, p. 406
22 Letters of James v, p. 417
23 Hamilton, I, p. 348
24 Knox, I, p. 39; Leslie, op. cit., II, p. 259
25 Labanoff, VI, p. 68
26 Hamilton, I, p. 328; p. 340; p. 342; C.S.P. Spanish, VI (II), p. 189
27 Knox, I, p. 40
28 Leslie, op. cit., I, p. 24; Hume Brown, Early Travellers, p. 236
29 Leslie, ibid., II, p. 260; Hamilton, I, p. 342
30 Sadler State Papers, I, p. 115
31 Mathew, Scotland under Charles I, p. 152
32 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 180
33 Knox, I, p. 11–12; p. 40
34 Hamilton, 1, p. 342
35 Sadler, State Papers, I, p. 88
36 Knox, I, p. 45
37 Pitscottie, op. cit., II, p. 8
38 Hume Brown, op. cit., p. 118
39 Hamilton, I, p. 633
40 Knox, I, p. 50
41 Hamilton, II, p. 33
CHAPTER TWO: England’s Rough Wooing
1 Leslie, History, II, p. 310
2 Hamilton, II, p. 326
3 Dalyell, Scottish Fragments: The Late Expedition in Scotland, sent to Lord Russell, Lord Privy Seal, by a friend of his, 1544
4 Archivo di Stati di Napoli, Carte Famesiane, tascio 709
5 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 528; Donaldson, Accounts of the Collector of the Thirds of Benefices, Introduction, p. xv
6 Knox, I, p. 19; Knox, II, Appendix V, p. 255; Donaldson, Scottish Reformation, p. 12; p. 33
7 Pitscottie, Chronicles, II, p. 84
8 Ibid., II, p. 85; Knox, I, p. 95
9 R.P.C., I, pp. 77 et seq.
10 Fergusson, The White Hind, p. 19; Dalyell, Scottish Fragments; William Patten, Diary of Somerset’s Campaign, 1547
11 R.P.C., I, p. 11
12 Leslie, op. cit., p. 310; Fraser, Red Book of Menteith, I, p. 503; Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 192
13 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, II, p. 460
14 De Beaugué, Histoir de la Guerre en Ecosse, p. 12
15 Teulet, Papiers d’Etat, I, p. 662; C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 99
16 C.S.P. Scot, I, p. 157
17 Leslie, op. cit., II, p. 311; Jamieson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Vol. 3
18 Hamilton, II, p. 618
19 Printed in full, Stoddart, Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix
20 W. M. Bryce, Voyage of Mary Queen of Scots in 1548
21 Ibid.
22 Knox, I, p. 103
CHAPTER THREE: The Most Perfect Child
1 De Ruble, La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart, p. 19
2 Albert le Grand, Les Saints de la Bretagne Armorique, Part II, p. 279
3 Stoddart, Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix, p. 416
4 Bouillé, Dues de Guise, I, p. 225
5 Balcarres Papers, II, p. 6; p. 32
6 Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, I, p. 66
7 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 17
8 Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, I, p. 6
9 Guiffrey, Lettres inédites de Dianne de Poytiers, Introduction, p. xxxiii
10 Ibid., p. 35; p. 42
11 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 30
12 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, V, p. 85
13 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 31; Labanoff, I, p. 10
14 Balcarres Papers, II, p. 135
15 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 63
16 Guiffrey, op. cit., p. 91
17 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 69
18 Shorter Oxford Dictionary, Vol. 1
19 Tresorier des Enfants de France. Fonds français. 11207f., pp. 128 et seq. Printed De Ruble, pp. 281 et seq.
20 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 51
21 Brantôme, op. cit., V, p. 83; Montaiglon, Latin Themes of Mary Queen of Scots
22 Brantôme, op. cit., V, p. 86
23 Labanoff, I, p. 4
24 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 300
25 Register House, Edinburgh: GD/97/3 no 7
26 Labanoff, VII, 2nd supplement, p. 277
27 Balcarres Papers, II, Introduction, p. xxvi
28 Cameron, Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine, p. 149
29 C.S.P. Foreign (Edward VI), p. 103
30 Ibid., p. 97
31 Ibid., p. 109
32 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 414
33 Brantôme, op. cit., IX, p. 490
34 Pimodan, La Mère des Guises, p. 380
CHAPTER FOUR: Betrothal
1 Labanoff, I, p. 10
2 Bouillé, Dues de Guise, II, p. 27
3 Balcarres Papers, II, p. 110
4 Labanoff, I, p. 45
5 Claude de l’Aubespine, Histoire Particulière de la Court de Henry II
6 Labanoff, I, p. 14
7 Neale, Catherine de Medici, p. 12; C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 187
8 Bouillé, op. cit., I, p. 229
9 Stoddart, Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix B, p. 450; Labanoff, I, p. 29
10 Balcarres Papers, II, p. 253; p. 271
11 Ibid., II, p. 237; Introduction, p. li
12 Labanoff, I, p. 29
13 Ibid., p. 41
14 Ibid., p. 34
15 Ibid., p. 21
16 Stoddart, op. cit., Appendix B, p. 448
17 C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 3, p. 1365
18 Ibid., pt 1, p. 532
19 Stoddart, op. cit., p. 143
20 Regnier de la Planche, Estat de France sous François, II, p. 75
21 Baschet, La Diplomatic Vénitienne, p. 486
22 De Ruble, La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart, p. 35
23 Phillips, Images of a Queen, p. 14
24 Hume Brown, Early Travellers, P. 75
CHAPTER FIVE: Queen-Dauphiness
 
; 1 Discours du Grand et Magnifique Triomphe Faict du Mariage de François et Marie Stuart; Hamer, Marriage of the Queen of Scots to the Dauphin
2 De Ruble, La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart, p. 149
3 C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 3, p. 1486
4 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix, p. 491
5 Knox, II, p. 78; Ronsard, Poésies choisie, p. 3 5 3
6 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, V, p. 83; Knox, II, p. 78; Hat. Cal., I, p. 400
7 Brantôme, op. cit., V, p. 94
8 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 383
9 Printed Maxwell-Scott, Tragedy of Fotheringhay, Appendix; Melville, Memoirs, p. 96
10 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 251; Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (N.P.G.), p. 219
11 C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 2, p. 1058
12 Brantôme, op. cit., V, p. 86
13 See Arbuthnot, Queen Mary’s Book
14 Blanchemain, Ronsard, VIII, p. 28
15 Hay Fleming, op. cit., p. 29; p. 213 note
16 Arbuthnot, op. cit., p. 131; Castelnau, Memoirs, I, p. 528
17 C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 14
18 MacNalty, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix 1, p. 214
19 Labanoff, I, p. 57
20 Leslie, History, II, p. 385
21 C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 3, p. 1571
22 Phillips, Images of a Queen, p. 12 et seq.; p. 237
23 C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 145; C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 29
24 Melville, op. cit., p. 49
25 C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 382; p. 406; p. 434; p. 466
26 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 167
27 Ibid., p. 75
28 C.S.P. Foreign, I, p. 347
29 Ibid., p. 256
30 Bouillé, Duc de Guise, I, p. 526
31 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 173
32 Bouillé, op. cit., I, p. 529
CHAPTER SIX: The White Lily of France
1 C.S.P. Foreign, I, p. 561
2 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 113
3 De Ruble, La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart, p. 181
4 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 138, 178
5 Baldwin Smith, Elizabethan Epic, p. 120; Belleval, Les fils de Henri II, p. 43
6 Bouillé, Dues de Guise, II, p. 29
7 Stoddart, Girlhood of Mary Queen of Scots, p. 258
8 De Ruble, op. cit., pp. 187–88; C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 171
9 C.S.P. Venetian, VI, pt 3, p. 1486; De Ruble, op. cit., p. 188
10 C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 111
11 Hamer, Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots
12 Labanoff, I, p. 70
13 Knox, I, p. 319; p. 116
14 Teulet, Papiers d’Etat, I, p. 721; Regnier de la Planche, Estat de France sous François, II, p. 279
15 Melville, Memoirs, p. 51; C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 511; III, p. 73
16 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 227; p. 234
17 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 394
18 Ibid., p. 394; C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 410
19 Forneron, Dues de Guise, p. 290
20 C.S.P. Foreign, II, p. 186; Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 220
21 Regnier de la Planche, op. cit., p. 203
22 De Ruble, op. cit., p. 202
23 See Dr Potiquet, La Maladie et La Mort de François II; Armstrong-Davison, The Casket Fetters, Appendix A
24 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 275
25 Ibid.; p. 269; Hardwicke State Papers, I, 156
26 Ibid., p. 275
27 Foneron, op. cit., p. 327
28 Stoddart, op. cit., p. 316; C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 278
CHAPTER SEVEN: Mary the Widow
1 Froude, History, VI, p. 443
2 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 472
3 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 201
4 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 472
5 Conyers Read, Cecil, p. 285
6 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 472; Wright, Queen Elizabeth, I, p. 58
7 Labanoff, I, p. 80
8 C.S.P. Venetian, VII, p. 290
9 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 423
10 Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, I, p. 158; p. 576; Chéruel, Marie Stuart et Catherine de Médicis, pp. 17–28
11 Hat. Cal., I, p. 258
12 Strong, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth, I, p. 24
13 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 565
14 Melville, Memoirs, p. 62
15 Leslie, History, II, p. 453
16 Knox, I, p. 354
17 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 84
18 Camden, Annales, p. 53
19 Melville, op. cit., p. 62
20 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 154
21 Keith, History, II, p. 268
22 Leslie, op. cit., II, p. 256
23 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 154
24 Ibid., p. 200
25 Keith, op. cit., III, p. 211; Dispatches of Suriano and Barbaro, p. 33
26 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 246
27 Ibid., p. 246
28 Leslie, ed. Bannatyne Club, p. 297
29 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 243
30 Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, p. 7
31 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 409
32 Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell, p. 128
33 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, V, p. 93
34 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 263
CHAPTER EIGHT: The State of the Realm
1 Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, I, p. 605
2 Brantôme, Oeuvres Complètes, V, p. 92
3 Hardwicke State Papers, I, p. 176
4 C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 260; p. 261
5 Knox, II, p. 7
6 Herries, Memoirs, p. 56; Knox, II, p. 8
7 Robertson, Inventaires, p. cxviii; Hume Brown, Early Travellers, p. 73; Cameron, Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine, p. xix
8 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 224; Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 132
9 Hume Brown, op. cit., p. 83
10 Painted Ceilings of Scotland, p. 9
11 Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, p. 255
12 Knox, II, p. 8
13 Leslie, History, II, p. 281 footnote
14 MacQueen, Alexander Scott and the Scottish Court Poetry
15 Leslie, op. cit., I, p. 116
16 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 205
17 Michel, Les Français en Ecosse, pp. 9–10
18 Castelnau, Memoirs, I, p. 186
19 Hume Brown, Scotland in the Time of Queen Mary, pp. 7 et seq.
20 Leslie, op. cit., I, p. 5
21 Hume Brown, op. cit., p. 77
22 Hume Brown, op. cit., p. 52; Levassieur, La Population Française
23 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 649
24 Leslie, op. cit., I, p. 95; Hume Brown, Early Travellers, p. 39
25 Pitscottie, Chronicles, p. 275
26 Chronicles of the Families of Atholl and Tullibardine, I, p. 32
27 Robertson, Inventaires, p. 49
28 G. Seton, History of Seton Family; Leslie, op. cit., I, p. 93
29 Cameron, Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine, p. xx; Hume Brown, Early Travellers, p. 47
30 Hat. Cal., II, p. 285
31 Fergusson, Lowland Lairds, p. 14
32 C.S.P. Spanish, I, p. 381
33 Macqueen, op. cit.; C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the 16th Century, p. 94
34 Child, Ballads, VI, p. 411
35 Hat. Cal., III, p. 47
36 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 206
CHAPTER NINE: Conciliation and Reconciliation
1 Knox, II, p. 8; C.S.P. Foreign, IV, p. 278
2 Laing, Knox, IV, p. 439
3 Eustace Percy, Knox, p. 59
4 Laing, Knox, IV, p. 373
5 Knox, II, p. 13 et seq.
6 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 551; Knox, II, p. 20; Laing, Knox, VI, p. 132
7 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 67; Knox, II, p. 21
8 C.S.P. Scot, I, p. 555
9 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 69
10 Donaldson, Scottish Reformation, p. 45
11 Knox, II, p. 21
12 C.S.P. Scot., I, p. 566
13 R.P.C., I, Intro
duction, p. xl
14 Melville, Memoirs, p. 102; Castelnau, Memoirs, I, p. 179
15 Pollen, Papal Negotiations, p. 75
16 Skelton, Maitland, I, p. 305
17 Ibid., II, p. 395
18 Levine, Early Elizabethan Succession Questions, p. 7
19 Kervyn de Letterhoven, II, pp. 24–5
20 Neale, Queen Elizabeth, p. 114
21 C.S.P. Foreign, III, p. 573