36 Bothwell.

37 i.e. the Ainslie’s Tavern bond.

38 i.e. Darnley, who was born an Englishman.

39 The Ainslie’s Tavern bond.

40 This letter from Mary to Elizabeth is missing from the archives. Fortunately, its contents can be recovered, as Mary quoted them in 1568. A verbatim extract from that later document is used here.

41 i.e. acquitted.

42 The Ainslie’s Tavern bond.

43 Mary of Guise.

44 i.e. towns.

45 Moray and Arran are chiefly meant here.

46 Moray and the rebels of the Chase-about Raid.

47 Châtelherault and his family.

48 Mary had been confined to her apartments with guards posted on the door.

49 Literally, ‘power’.

50 Queen of Israel.