The Mystery of Mary Stuart

Letter III. she says ‘your affair.’ In Buchanan’s mind (if he was, as I

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feel convinced, the author of the ‘Book of Articles’) the forged letter described by Moray and Lennox, with its insistence on Kirk o’ Field, was confused with Letter II., in which there is nothing of the sort. The same confusion pervades Lennox’s indictment in Scots, perhaps followed by Buchanan. When parts of the Scots indictment are translated into Lennox’s last extant English indictment, we no longer hear that Kirk o’ Field is mentioned in the Letters, but we _do_ read of ‘such a house in Edinburgh as she had prepared for him to finish his days in’--which Mary had not done when she wrote Letter II. Consequently the memorandum at the end of