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APPENDIX.

THE accompanying documents, copies from the originals in the State Paper Office at Westminster, not hitherto printed, bearing upon the foregoing narrative, will doubtless be acceptable, and increase the interest which all will naturally feel in this epoch of Scottish history.

(1.) Domestic Corresp. Eliz. vol. xiii. art. 73. A Note of Occurrences in Scot- land, 15th to 24th June, 1567. Among them is the following :

" The Earl of Bothwell's escape : with a statement that Bothwell was present at the King's (meaning Darnley's) murder." This Note it appears is corrected by Sir William Cecill :

[State Paper Office, Scotland, Elizabeth, vol. xiii. art. 73.]

Note. The corrections and additions to this paper marked by brackets [ ] are in the handwriting of Lord Burghley. The words erased in the original are here printed in Italics.

1567. Sonday the xv th of June tharles of Atholl, Moretou, Glencarne, Marr, w th other lordes [the L. Hume, L. Lyndsaye, L. Byron, L. Symm, L. Sacqwhar] confederate for the psecuting of the late kinges murther, and for the safety of the prince, having gotten the towne and castle of Cdenburgh, w"' eerten other tcncmltipps thereaboutes at their devotion, went towards Du'barr to take, [and y e good will of sodry borough tow's, understanding that] the Erie Bothwell, if the;/ might, being confessed Ity others whom they had. apprehended to be the principall doer of the mtir~ ther, w' k being understood the same Erie 13., [who was certenly know'e to be y 6 pryncipitll murderer of y kyng cum] w th the quenc there and such company as they had, mctt w" 1 the lordes in the feildes not fiirr from [Musselbourgh], where there was not any slawghter don to ether pte, for that diverse that came w" 1 the Q. went to the lordes side, wherupon therle B. escaped to Diibar, but the Q. remayncd still in the feildes, of whom the lordes demanded justice to be don upon the said Erie B. for the murder, w cl ' she denied ; and thorupon those lordes conveyed her to Kdenburgh, and so to Loghlevin, where it is saycd they meane to detcin her untill justice ?nay be don upon the murtherers for the hono r of that controy, etc. [for which purpooss the lordes make c-otynuall sute to hir, offryg to hir all libty and otlicr dutyes, but as yet she will not agree to have any thyg doone wherby the Erie Bothwell shuld be in any dager].

Tlicrle B (as it is sayed) hath joyned him self w th the Hamhletons, who were in the wayc to have come to the Q. before that meting w* the lordcs [and y e Hamiltos make ther, a j?ty ngeynst y e other lordes, to the cd to more cyvill treble, and to, wishyg nether to y Quene nor y e Prynce well in respect of ther own interest to y e crown.]

The xxiiij th of June Captain Blacketer was hanged, hedded, and his armes and legges broken for the murder. A Fleming w ch was his man is also apphended for that matter.