[1] Petit.

[2] M. M. Shoemaker.

[3] Petit.

[4] For a narrative of it see Author's work on Mary Queen of Scots, and who wrote the Casket Letters?

[5] Strickland.

[6] State Paper Office.

[7] Hosack.

[8] Hosack.

[9] Hosack.

[10] Tytler.

[11] For details, see the Author's Queen of Scots, vol. ii. pp. 222-52.

[12] Petit.

[13] Before James I. had ascended the English throne Pope Clément VIII. caused it to be intimated to him that he prayed for him as the son of a virtuous mother; that he desired for him all kinds of prosperity, temporal and spiritual, and trusted yet to see him a Catholic (Ranke's History of the Popes, vol. ii. pp. 222).

[14] Petit.

[15] Labanoff.

[16] See Mary Queen of Scots, by the Author, vol. ii. p. 224.

[17] Petit.

[18] Strickland.

[19] Life of Egerton.

[20] Mary Queen of Scots, and who wrote the Casket Letters?

[21] Labanoff, vol. vi. p. 343.

[22] Translated by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott, of Abbotsford, and the Rev. Dr. Conway, Manchester.