Darnley, and was wretched, is certain. ‘How to be free of him she sees no outgait,’ writes Lethington on October 24. He saw no chance of reconciliation.[89] That she and Bothwell acted profligately together while he was ill at Hermitage, and she almost dead at Jedburgh, is a grotesquely malevolent falsehood. Darnley now visited Jedburgh: it is uncertain whether or not he delayed his visit long after he knew of Mary’s illness. Buchanan says that he was received with cruel contempt.[90] In some pious remarks of hers when she expected death, she only asks Heaven to ‘mend’ Darnley, whose misconduct is the cause of her malady.[91] On November 20, Mary arrived at Craigmillar Castle, hard by Edinburgh. Du Croc mentions her frequent exclamation, ‘I could wish to be dead,’ and, from Darnley, and his own observation, gathered that Darnley would never humble himself, while Mary was full of suspicions when she saw him converse with any noble. For disbelieving that reconciliation was possible du Croc had several reasons, he says; he may have detected the passion for Bothwell, but makes no allusion to that subject; and, when Darnley in December behaved sullenly, his sympathy was with the Queen. In the ‘Book of Articles’ exhibited against Mary in 1568, it is alleged that, at Kelso, on her return from Jedburgh, she received a letter from Darnley, wept, told Lethington and Moray that she could never have a happy day while united to her husband, and spoke of suicide. Possibly Darnley wrote about his letter against her to the Pope, and the Catholic Powers. But the anecdote is dubious. She proceeded to Craigmillar Castle.
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1
Blackwood’s Magazine, December, 1889.
2
Bond.
3
Laing, ii. 284.
4
See Murdin, p. 57.
5
Among the mysteries which surround Mary, we should not reckon the colour of her hair! Just after her flight into England, her gaoler, at Carlisle, told Cecil that in Mary Seton the Queen had ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair to be seen in any country. Yesterday and this day she did set such a curled hair upon the Queen, that was said to be a perewyke, that showed very delicately, and every other day she hath a new device of head dressing that setteth forth a woman gaily well.’ Henceforth Mary varied the colour of her ‘perewykes.’ She had worn them earlier, but she wore them, at least at her first coming into England, for the good reason that, in her flight from Langside, she had her head shaved, probably for purposes of disguise. So we learn from Nau, her secretary. Mary was flying, in fact, as we elsewhere learn, from the fear of the fiery death at the stake, the punishment of husband-murder. Then, and then only, her nerve broke down, like that of James VIII. at Montrose; of Prince Charles after Culloden; of James VII. when he should have ridden with Dundee to the North and headed the clans.
6
The papers used by Lennox in getting up his indictment against Mary are new materials, which we often have occasion to cite.
7
Mr. Henderson doubts if Darnley knew French.
8
M. Jusserand has recently seen the corpse of Bothwell. Appendix A.
9
Actio, probably by Dr. Wilson, appended to Buchanan’s Detection.
10
Teulet, ii. p. 176. Edinburgh, June 17, 1567.
11
See a facsimile in Teulet, ii. 256.
1
Blackwood’s Magazine, December, 1889.
2
Bond.
3
Laing, ii. 284.
4
See Murdin, p. 57.
5
Among the mysteries which surround Mary, we should not reckon the colour of her hair! Just after her flight into England, her gaoler, at Carlisle, told Cecil that in Mary Seton the Queen had ‘the finest busker of a woman’s hair to be seen in any country. Yesterday and this day she did set such a curled hair upon the Queen, that was said to be a perewyke, that showed very delicately, and every other day she hath a new device of head dressing that setteth forth a woman gaily well.’ Henceforth Mary varied the colour of her ‘perewykes.’ She had worn them earlier, but she wore them, at least at her first coming into England, for the good reason that, in her flight from Langside, she had her head shaved, probably for purposes of disguise. So we learn from Nau, her secretary. Mary was flying, in fact, as we elsewhere learn, from the fear of the fiery death at the stake, the punishment of husband-murder. Then, and then only, her nerve broke down, like that of James VIII. at Montrose; of Prince Charles after Culloden; of James VII. when he should have ridden with Dundee to the North and headed the clans.
6
The papers used by Lennox in getting up his indictment against Mary are new materials, which we often have occasion to cite.
7
Mr. Henderson doubts if Darnley knew French.
8
M. Jusserand has recently seen the corpse of Bothwell. Appendix A.
9
Actio, probably by Dr. Wilson, appended to Buchanan’s Detection.
10
Teulet, ii. p. 176. Edinburgh, June 17, 1567.
11
See a facsimile in Teulet, ii. 256.
12
Appendix B. ‘Burning of the Lyon King at Arms.’
13
The private report is in the Lennox MSS.
14
See the sketch, coloured, in Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. i. p. 184.
15
See description by Alesius, about 1550, in Bannatyne Miscellany, i. 185-188.
