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19
. Lennox to the Kirk, 14 July 1580, St Andrews. Calderwood 3: 468–9.

20
. Calderwood 3: 468, 472, 474, 477.

21
. Calderwood 3: 480, 583.

22
. See
DNB;
s.v. Stewart, James, of Bothwellmuir, Earl of Arran (d. 1596);
RPCS
3: 323.

23
. Calderwood 3: 480–85.

24
. Donaldson,
Scotland,
173.

25
. Melvill,
Autobiography and Diary,
119–20.

26
. Melvill,
Autobiography and Diary,
133.

27
. Calderwood 3: 473.

28
. Calderwood 3: 486.

29
. Cit. Willson 34.

30
. Calderwood 3: 486–7.

31
. Calderwood 3: 488–95.

32
. Calderwood 3: 507–10.

33
. See ‘Reasons for which the King of Scots is unacceptable to the people of England’.
HMCS
3: 210. Willson 34.

34
. J to E, 19 June 1582, Stirling Castle. Akrigg 48–9.

35
. Calderwood 3: 557–8, 569, 559, 575; Bingham,
James VI,
58–9.

36
. Calderwood 3: 576.

37
. See Shire,
Song, Dance and Poetry; Poems by James,
ed. Craigie, introduction; Hudson,
Historie of Judith,
ed. Craigie, introduction;
DNB
s.v. Montgomerie, Alexander.

38
. Hudson,
Historie of Ivdith,
A ij
^r–
A iij
^v
.

39
. Hudson,
Historie of Ivdith;
James VI,
Essayes of a Prentise;
James VI,
His Majesties Poeticall Exercises.

40
. J to M, 28 May 1582, Dalkeith. Akrigg 46.

41
. J to M, 29 January 1581, Edinburgh. Akrigg 45.

42
. Calderwood 3: 592, 592–3, 594. See also J to M, 28 May 1582, Dalkeith. Akrigg 46.

43
. Calderwood 3: 593, 595–6.

44
. Kirk’s supplication to J, 23 August 1582. Calderwood 3: 637–8.

45
. Calderwood lists Mar, Gowrie, the Master of Glamis, the Master of Oliphant, young Lochleven, the Laird of Cleish, the Laird of Easter Wemes, Sir Lewes Bellenden (Justice Clerk) the Lord Boyd, the Lord Lindsay, the Abbot of Dunfermline (Secretary), the Abbots of Cambuskenneth, Dryburgh and Paisley, the Prior of Pittenweeme and the Constable of Dundee. Calderwood 3: 637.

46
. A ‘tulchan’ bishop was a titular bishop, most of whose see’s income went to the layman who appointed him. ‘Tulchan’ is the Scots word for the stuffed calfskin placed beside a cow to induce it to give milk. Reid,
Kirk and Nation,
45.

47
. Calderwood 3: 640–42.

48
. Calderwood 3: 643.

49
. Statement of offences committed by Lennox [17 September 1582].
CSPSc
6: 171–4.

50
. Melville,
Memoirs,
133–4.

51
. Lennox’s proclamation, 20 September 1582, Dumbarton Castle. Calderwood 3: 665–8. Answer to ‘the declaration of the dissembled innocency’ of Lennox. Calderwood 3: 668–73.

52
. Calderwood 3: 673, 689.

53
. Calderwood 3: 689–93.

54
. Lennox to J, 16 December 1582.
CSPSc
6: 222–3; Bergeron 47–8.

55
. Lennox to J, 18 December 1582, Dumbarton.
CSPSc
6: 223–4; Bergeron 49–50.

56
. Bowes to FW, 1 May 1583 and 29 May 1583.
CSPSc
6: 439, 475.

57
. Calderwood 8: 243.

58
. Spottiswoode,
History
(1677 edn), 298.

59
. Melville,
Memoirs,
134.

60
. Cobham to FW, 9 June 1583.
CSPF
17: 394.

61
. James VI, ‘A Tragedie called Phoenix’ in
Essayes of a Prentise;
see also
Poems of James VI,
ed. Craigie 1: 40–59; Bergeron 220–29. For discussions see Bingham,
James VI,
63–5; Akrigg, ‘Literary Achievement of King James I’; Goldberg,
James I;
McClure, “‘O Phoenix Escossois”’; Bergeron 54–63.

62
. As suggested by Bergeron 60.

63
. Melville,
Memoirs,
134.

64
. ‘A Tragedie called Phoenix’, in James VI,
Essayes of a Prentise.

65
. Woddryngton to FW, 21 November 1583, Berwick.
Border Papers
1: 116–17.

NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE

1
. Calderwood 3: 645.

2
. Melville,
Memoirs,
110–11.

3
. Melville,
Memoirs,
287.

4
.
Historie of King James the Sext,
198.

5
. Hoby to WC, 15 August 1584. Tytler,
History of Scotland,
3: 164; Melville,
Memoirs,
109.

6
.
RPCS
3: 626.

7
. FW to E, 11 September 1583.
CSPSc
6: 603.

8
. Calderwood 4: 25.

9
. Melville,
Memoirs,
326; Calderwood 4: 32.

10
. Davison to FW, 27 May 1584.
CSPSc
7: 155.

11
. Reid,
Kirk and Nation,
52; Donaldson,
Scotland,
181.

12
. Fontenay to Nau, 15 August 1584, Edinburgh.
CSPSc
7: 274–5.

13
. James later declared that he had no further ‘intelligence with my mother sen [since] the Master of Gray’s being in England’. Gray’s mission started in October 1584. See J to Leicester, 15 December 1586, Holyroodhouse. Rait & Cameron 101–2. See also Rait & Cameron 10.

14
. Fontenay to Nau. 15 August 1584.
CSPSc
7: 275.

15
. Lee,
Maitland of Thirlestane,
86; Bingham,
James VI,
80–81.

16
. ‘Articles of a treaty’, 31 July 1585, and response.
CSPSc
8: 44, 45.

17
. ‘The League’, June 1586.
CSPSc
8: 491.

18
. Bingham,
James VI,
84–5.

19
. Courcelles to Henri III, 4 October 1586. Bell,
Despatches of Courcelles,
4.

20
. Moysie,
Memoirs,
152.

21
. Gray to Douglas, [1] October 1586, Dumfries. HMCS 3: 178; the dating here follows Rait & Cameron 25.

22
. J to Douglas, 20 October 1586.
Warrender Papers
1: 235–6.

23
. Mary, Queen of Scots,
Lettres, Instructions et Mémoires de Marie, Reine d’Ecosse,
7: 36. See also Scott,
Tragedy of Fotheringhay,
31.

24
. [Douglas] to [Gray], [21 September 1586]. HMCS 13: 308–9.

25
. Douglas to Gray, 22 November 1586.
Warrender Papers
1: 236–7.

26
. Courcelles to Henri III, 4 October 1586. Bell,
Despatches of Courcelles,
6–7.

27
. See Courcelles to Henri III, 31 October 1586. Bell,
Despatches of Courcelles,
12–13.

28
. Gray to Douglas, 23 November 1586, Holyroodhouse. HMCS 3: 196.

29
. Courcelles to Henri III, 30 November 1586. Bell,
Despatches of Courcelles,
18–19.

30
. J to Keith, 27 November 1586. Rait & Cameron 60–62, who pluralise ‘bedfellow’. I follow Bingham here, who reads it in the singular.

31
. Douglas to J, 8 December 1586. Rait & Cameron 72–82; Keith to [Maitland], 8 December 1586.
Warrender Papers
1: 245.

32
. Instructions by J to Gray, [17 December 1586].
Warrender Papers,
250–1.

33
. J to [Leicester], 15 December 1586, Holyroodhouse. Rait & Cameron 101;
Warrender Papers
1: 248–9.

34
. Young to Maitland, 10 January 1587.
Warrender Papers
1: 255–8.

35
. Gray to J, 12 January 1587, London. Warrender ed.,
Illustrations of Scottish History,
19–25.

36
. Courcelles to Henri III, 10 February 1587. Bell,
Despatches of Courcelles,
31–2.