Abstract of Matters Showed to the Queen’s Majesty’s Commissioners by the Scots, Sent the 11th of October
Goodall , pp. 148-153.
... She wrote to Bothwell, that according to her commission, she would bring the man with her; praying him to work wisely, or else the whole burden would lie on her shoulders; and specially to make good watch, that the bird escaped not out of the cage. {Letter iv., see pp. 185-189.}
QUOTATIONS FROM THE LETTERS