by John Guy
Buchanan report on Bothwell to, [>], [>]
Clark as spy of, [>]
and conservative English nobles, [>]
and Casket Letters, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Paris’s confession, [>]
and tribunal examining case against Mary, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Moray as regent, [>]
Shrewsbury’s opinions of, [>]
Shrewsbury reports to on Mary’s illness, [>]
and Walsingham, [>]
and Philip II’s designs, [>]
and Mary’s appeal to Philip II, [>]
de Spes on, [>]
English lords wish to overthrow, [>]
and pope’s decree against Elizabeth, [>]
and Enterprise of England plot, [>], [>]
visits Mary at Chatsworth, [>]
distributes Buchanan’s dossier with Casket Letters (Detection), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and parliamentary debate about Mary, [>]–[>]
succession procedure proposed by, [>]
warns Elizabeth about safety, [>]
inner caucus of, [>]
in pretense of new plot to kill Elizabeth, [>]
private and public duties of, [>]
Camden’s knowledge of papers of, [>]
and Moray on accusations against Mary, [>]
and Morton, [>]
Knox letter to, [>]
old age of, [>]–[>], [>]
death of, [>]
epitaph of, [>]
Cellini, Benvenuto, [>]
Chalmers, David, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Chambord château, [>]
Charles, Archduke of Austria, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Darnley compared with, [>], [>]
Cecil urges as husband for Elizabeth, [>]
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. See Cardinal of Lorraine
Charles, Duke of Lorraine, [>], [>]
Charles V (king of Spain), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Charles IX (king of France), [>]
as child, [>], [>]
at wedding of Mary and Francis, [>]
and Catherine de Medici, [>]
and Elizabeth [>], [>], [>]
and Mary as wife, [>], [>]
Castelnau sent by, [>]
and Darnley, [>]
at Bayonne meeting, [>]
sends ambassador to Darnley’s investiture, [>], [>]
advises Mary to pardon Moray, [>]
Darnley’s letters to, [>]
representative of at Prince James’s baptism, [>]
ultimatum from on Darnley murder case, [>]
in secret pact with lords over Mary’s future, [>]
Bothwell appeals to, [>]
and Mary in captivity, [>]–[>]
succeeded by Henry III, [>]
Chartley manor house, [>], [>], [>]
Chase-about Raid, [>]
Bothwell’s service during, [>], [>], [>]
in Mary’s account, [>]
exiled lords of, [>], [>]
and Castelnau, [>]
all-or-nothing approach in, [>]
and mustering of entire army, [>]
and Rizzio plotters, [>]
Chastelard, Seigneur de (Pierre de Bocosel) [>], [>]
Châteauneuf, Baron de (Guillaume de l’Aubépine), [>], [>]–[>]
Châtelherault, duchy of, [>]
Châtelherault, Duke of (title assumed by Earl of Arran), [>], [>]
in revolt of lords, [>]
Mary’s suspicions toward, [>]
Mary’s entrée boycotted by, [>]
on Privy Council, [>]
in factional realignment, [>]
threatened by Darnley, [>]–[>]
refuses to attend wedding banquet, [>]
Mary seizes stronghold of, [>]
and Lord Gordon, [>]
apologizes for role in rebellion, [>]
Mary’s pardoning of, [>], [>]
as heir apparent, [>]
in voluntary exile, [>]
in Mary’s account, [>]
imprisoned by Moray, [>]–[>]
See also Arran, Earl of
Châtillon, Gaspard de, Admiral Coligny, [>]
Chatsworth, Mary at, [>], [>], [>]
Chaumont, [>]
Chenonceaux, [>], [>]
and Linlithgow, [>]
Childbirth, in sixteenth century, [>]
Chisholm, William, Bishop of Dunblane, [>], [>], [>]
Cicero, in Mary’s education, [>], [>]
Ciphers
used for Mary’s communications, [>], [>], [>]
seized by Walsingham, [>]
and Mary’s defense in trial, [>]
and Enterprise of England plot, [>]
Civil war, and fear over marriage to Darnley, [>], [>]–[>]
Clark, John, [>], [>]
Claude, Duke of Guise (grandfather of
Mary). See Guise, Duke of (Claude, father of Francis)
Claude, Princess, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Clement VII (pope), [>]
Clernault, Monsieur de, [>], [>], [>]
Clouet, François, [>], [>]
Cockburn, Captain, Laird of Ormiston, [>], [>]
Cockburn, James, Laird of Skirling, [>], [>], [>]
Coding of Mary’s letters, [>]. See also Ciphers
Coins
Francis I’s debasement of, [>], [>]–[>]
relation of Mary to Darnley shown on, [>]
influx of fake foreign coins, [>]
Coligny, Gaspard de Châtillon, [>]
Condé, Prince of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Confederate Lords, [>], [>], [>]
Mary’s reaction to, [>]
Maitland overtures to, [>]
in revolt against Bothwell and Mary, [>]
mustering of troops by Mary, [>]
Bothwell and Mary at Borthwick Castle, [>]–[>]
declaration of grievances issued by, [>]
Edinburgh captured, [>]–[>]
Mary escapes to Dunbar, [>]
troops mustered on both sides, [>]–[>]
confrontation at Carberry Hill, [>]–[>]
single combat with Bothwell negotiated, [>]–[>]
Mary surrenders herself, [>]–[>]
lords’ deception and secret pact with France, [>]
imprisonment of Mary, [>]–[>]
in Bothwell’s memoirs, [>]–[>]
and Buchanan, [>]
and conservative English nobles, [>]
Bothwell outlawed by, [>]
Bothwell against propaganda of, [>]
in attempt to extradite Bothwell, [>]
accusations against Bothwell, [>]
accusations against Mary, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
moral turpitude legend, [>], [>]
Buchanan’s dossier on Mary, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Cecil’s vernacular edition of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Casket Letters, [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Casket Letters)
and Duke of Norfolk, [>]–[>]
and English tribunal, [>]
King James attends to, [>]
Conseil des Affaires, [>], [>]
Contay, Françoise de, Lady Humières, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Contracts, accompanying Casket Letters, [>], [>]–[>]
Corrichie, battle of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Council of Regency, [>]
Council of Trent, [>], [>]
Court of Session, [>]
Craig, John, [>]–[>], [>]
and Buchanan, [>]
Craigmillar Castle, [>]
Mary stays at, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Mary’s wish to be dead, [>], [>]
bond signed at, [>]
as destination for Darnley, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
in Casket Letter, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Craik, Allison, [>]
Crawford, Bessie, [>], [>]
Crawford, Earl of, [>], [>
]
Crawford chronicle, [>], [>]
Crichton Castle, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Crokat, Meg, [>]
Crown matrimonial
given to French dauphin, [>]
Mary denies to Darnley, [>]
plotters agree to grant to Darnley, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and accusations against Rizzio, [>]
Darnley sees as within reach, [>]
and Mary on lords’ intentions toward Darnley, [>]
and Rizzio’s death, [>]
Cullen, James, [>]–[>]
Curel, Madame de, [>]
Curie, Elizabeth, [>]
Dacre, Lord, [>]
Dancing, Mary’s love of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Danès, Pierre, [>]
Danjou, Pierre, [>]
Darnley, Charles, [>]
Darnley, Henry Lord, [>]–[>]
and Mary’s ring, [>]
as candidate to wed Mary (after death of Francis), [>]
as likely prospect to wed Mary (in Scotland), [>], [>], [>]
passport for, [>]
Elizabeth’s attitude toward, [>]
and Lennox Jewel, [>]
given passport to Scotland, [>]
Mary’s meeting with, [>]–[>]
and Moray, [>], [>]
Mary watches games of, [>]
nobles’ suspicion toward, [>]
syphilis of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Casket Letters, [>], [>]
and letters of recall, [>], [>]
character defects of, [>]
drunkenness, [>]–[>]
jealousy and paranoia, [>], [>], [>]
marriage to Mary, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in Mary’s justifying account, [>]–[>]
Buchanan’s dossier on, [>]
in Casket Letters, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Protestants and Catholics behind, [>]
(see also Mary Queen of Scots AND DARNLEY)
created Duke of Albany, [>]
as king of Scotland, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
demotion from, [>], [>]
and rebels’ grievances, [>], [>]
in battle against rebel lords, [>]
in argument with Mary over selecting commander of army, [>], [>]–[>]
in interview with Castelnau, [>], [>]
ambition of, [>]–[>]
Catholicism promoted by, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and pardoning of Châtelherault, [>]
in plot to assassinate Rizzio and usurp power, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and suspicion of adultery against Rizzio, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
in Rizzio’s assassination, [>]–[>]
in aftermath, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Parliament discharged by, [>]
Mary’s reaction toward, [>], [>]
lets lords take blame, [>], [>]
and Mary’s downward spiral, [>]
in Bothwell’s memoirs, [>]
(see also Rizzio assassination plot)
and Morton, [>], [>]
and regency in event of Mary’s death, [>]
in Mary’s will, [>]
on reinstatement of Maitland, [>]
as reason for lords wanting to keep Mary alive, [>]–[>]
and Bothwell, [>]
as all-around problem, [>]
assassination of, [>] (see also Darnley assassination)
lords blame for Mary’s breakdown, [>]
and Prince James’s baptism, [>]
Douglases’ revenge on, [>]
reported plotting coup d’état, [>]–[>]
funeral of, [>]–[>]
Buchanan’s dossier on, [>]
Darnley assassination, [>]
accounts of, [>]
of Moretta, [>]–[>], [>]
of Drury, [>]–[>]
refined hypothesis, [>]–[>]
and archival distortions, [>]
as conspiracy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
first becomes assassination plot, [>]–[>]
bond supposedly signed by lords, [>]
and Darnley’s reported planning of coup d’état, [>]–[>]
Mary’s transfer of husband to Old Provost’s Lodgings, [>]–[>]
and Casket Letter, [>]–[>], [>]
and Mary’s disincentive to murder Darnley, [>]
cover-up of
and Mary’s plans for night of murder, [>]–[>]
and women’s testimony, [>], [>], [>]
turnabout in, [>]–[>]
gunpowder brought into house, [>]
and Darnley’s thoughts on last night, [>]–[>]
and activities on day preceding explosion, [>]–[>]
the explosion, [>], [>]
mysteries around bodies of Darnley and servant, [>]–[>]
Mary believes aimed at her, [>]–[>]
conjecture of several plots, [>]
conjecture of plot to kill Mary, [>], [>]
and women’s testimony, [>]–[>]
Mary offers pardon to informant on, [>], [>]
Bothwell denounced for, [>]–[>]
Mary denounced for, [>]–[>]
aftermath of
Guise family turns against Mary, [>]
Mary led to turn to Bothwell, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
public opinion against Mary, [>], [>]
and relationship between Mary and Bothwell, [>]
and masque showing Bothwell guilty, [>]
and Bothwell’s hold on fellow accomplices, [>]
Bothwell’s revelation to Mary and Mary’s unhappiness, [>]
and Confederate Lords’ declared grievances, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Balfour defects to Confederate Lords in return for pardon, [>]
humiliating accusations against Mary, [>]
as excuse for Mary’s imprisonment, [>]
in Mary’s justifying account, [>]–[>]
and Morton’s fear of Bothwell, [>]
Mary’s lack of effort to find perpetrators of, [>]–[>]
and Mary’s failure to observe mourning period, [>]–[>]
Confederate Lords’ accusations on, [>]
in Bothwell’s memoirs, [>]
Buchanan’s dossier on, [>], [>]–[>]
Cecil’s vernacular version, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Casket Letters, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>] (see also Casket Letters)
Mary’s statement on, [>]
and English tribunal, [>]–[>], [>]
and Mary’s portrait case, [>]
Morton executed for, [>], [>]
and English Parliament’s debate on Mary, [>
