se, Callendar, where
they did rest on their journey, is intended. If this failed, Mary would
put Darnley "in the house where the explosion was arranged for the night
upon which one of the servants was to be married." No such arrangement
had been made, as the confessions of the murderers, at which Moray was
present, clearly prove. It may be said that de Silva means "the house in
which the explosion was _afterwards_ arranged." But the earl of Lennox,
Darnley's father, understood Moray to mean that as early as January
21-22, 1567, the house of Kirk o' Field, where Darnley was slain, had
already been mined. Moray's version of the letter made Mary tell
Bothwell to poison or put away his wife. No such matters occur in Letter
II.; Moray spoke, he said, on the authority of "a man who had read the
letter." A similar account of this letter is given in a document of
Darnley's father, the earl of Lennox (Cambridge University Library MSS.
Oo. 7. 47; f. 17 b.). Can we suppose that "the man who had read the
letter" invented much of its contents, and told them to Moray, who told
de Silva, and told Darnley's father, Lennox, then in or near London?

At this point comes in the evidence--unknown to Froude, Skelton, Hosack,
and Henderson in his book _The Casket Letters_--of a number of
documents, notes of information, and indictments of Mary, written for or
by the earl of Lennox. These MSS are in the University Library of
Cambridge, and were transcribed by Father Stevenson. His transcripts
were brought to light by Father Pollen, S.J., who lent them, with his
own notes on them, to Andrew Lang for use in his book, _The Mystery of
Mary Stuart_ (1900-1904).

Not one of the Lennox documents is dated; all but one are endorsed in an
English hand of the period. It may be conjectured that they were
selected by Lennox from his papers, and lent by him to some one who was
writing against Mary. Among them (Cambridge University MSS. Oo. 7. 47.
fol. 17 b.) is a long indictment of Mary, in which Lennox describes a
wicked letter of hers. As has been said, he closely follows Moray's
version reported by de Silva in July 1567. Lennox also gives several
stories of cruel words of Mary spoken to Darnley in the hearing of her
servants.

Now, on the 11th of June 1568, Lennox was in the company of John Wood, a
creature of Moray's, and Wood, as we saw, brought copies of the Scots
renderings of the Letters into England in May-June 1568. It was argued
by Andrew Lang