that Wood was likely to show these letters to Lennox; and
that as Lennox follows Moray's version of Mary's long and murderous
letter, and does _not_ follow Letter II., the murderous letter (a
forgery) was then part of the _dossier_ of Mary's accusers. Again, as
Lennox's indictment of Mary (Cambridge Oo. 7. 47. fol. 17 b.) is rife in
"reports and sayings of Mary's servants" about her cruel words to
Darnley, and as Lennox had not these reports on the 11th of June 1568,
for on that day he wrote to Scotland asking his friends to discover them
and send them to him, the indictment (Oo. 7. 47) must have been composed
long after the 11th of June. This must be so, for Lennox's letters of
the 11th of June were intercepted by his foes, the Hamiltons, and were
found in the Hamilton Muniment Room. Thus answers to his inquiries were
delayed. (The letters of Lennox were published in _Miscellany of the
Maitland Club_, vol. iv.)

Henderson, on the other side, believes that Wood "indubitably" showed to
Lennox the Scots copies of the Casket Letters about the 11th of June
1568. But Lennox, he says, could not quote Letter II. in his indictment
against Mary, and had to rest on Moray's version of July 1567, because
Lennox's indictment was completed, and even laid before Elizabeth, as
early as the 28th of May 1568. Henderson seeks to prove that this is so
by quoting from Chalmers's _Mary Queen of Scots_ (vol. ii. p. 289) the
statement that Lennox and his wife on that day presented to Elizabeth a
"Bill of Supplication"; and (though he submits that the indictment [Oo.
7. 47] is a _draft_ for the Bill) he strengthens his case by heading the
indictment, which he publishes, _Bill of Supplication_. The document, in
fact, is unendorsed, and without a title, and there is not a word of
"supplication" in it. It is a self-contradictory history of the
relations between Mary and Darnley.

Henderson's contention therefore seems erroneous. Lennox could not begin
to prepare an English indictment against Mary till she was in England
and in Elizabeth's power. He could not hear of this fact--Mary's arrival
in England (May 16, 1568)--before, say, the 19th of May; and between the
19th of May and the 28th of May he could not write for and receive from
Scotland "the reports and sayings of her servants." He did not possess
them on the 11th of June, when he asked for them; he did not get them at
once, for his letters were intercepted; the indictment (Oo. 7. 47) is
r