hanan confesses that Rizzio was ugly:
but it may be inferred, from the narration of that author, that he was
young. He says that, on the return of the duke of Savoy to Turin, Rizzio
was "in adolescentiae vigore;" in the vigor of youth. Now, that event
happened only a few years before, (lib. xvii. cap. 44.) That Bothwell
was young, appears, among many other invincible proofs, from Mary's
instructions to the bishop of Dumblain, her ambassador at Paris; where
she says, that in 1559, only eight years before, he was "very young." He
might therefore have been about thirty when he married her. See Keith's
History, p. 388. From the appendix to the Epistolae Regum Scotorum. it
appears, by authentic documents, that Patrick, earl of Bothwell, father
to James, who espoused Queen Mary, was alive till near the year 1560.
Buchanan, by a mistake which has been long ago corrected, calls him
James.]

[Footnote 9: NOTE I, p. 84. Mary herself confessed, in her instructions
to the ambassadors, whom she sent to France, that Bothwell persuaded
all the noblemen, that their application in favor of his marriage
was agreeable to her. Keith, p. 389. Anderson, vol. i. p. 94. Murray
afterwards produced, to Queen Elizabeth's commissioners, a paper signed
by Mary, by which she permitted them to make this application to her.
This permission was a sufficient declaration of her intentions, and was
esteemed equivalent to a command. Anderson, vol. iv. p. 59. They even
asserted that the house in which they met was surrounded with armed men.
Goodall, vol. ii. p 141.]

[Footnote 11: NOTE K, p. 108 Mary's complaints of the queen's partiality
in admitting Murray to a conference was a mere pretext, in order to
break off the conference. She indeed employs that reason in her order
for that purpose, (see Goodall, vol. ii. p. 184;) but in her private
letter, her commissioners are directed to make use of that order to
prevent her honor from being attacked. Goodall, vol. ii. p. 183. It was
therefore the accusation only she was afraid of. Murray was the least
obnoxious of all her enemies. He was abroad when her subjects rebelled,
and reduced her to captivity. He had only accepted of the regency, when
voluntarily proffered him by the nation. His being admitted to Queen
Elizabeth's presence was therefore a very bad foundation for a quarrel,
or for breaking off the conference, and was plainly a mere pretence.]

[Footnote 12: NOTE L, p. 110. We shall not enter into