Leicester would have been welcome to Knox; Darnley was a Catholic, if anything, and a weak passionate young fool.

Mary, in the clash of interests, was a lost woman, as Randolph truly said, with sincere pity.

Her long endurance, her attempts to "run the English course," were wasted.
David Riccio, who came to Scotland as a musician in 1561, was now high in her and in Darnley's favour.

Murray was accused of a conspiracy to seize Darnley and Lennox; the godly began to organise an armed force (June 1565); Mary summoned from exile Bothwell, a man of the sword.

On July 29th she married Darnley, and on August 6th Murray, who had refused to appear to answer the charges of treason brought against him, though a safe-conduct was offered, was outlawed and proclaimed a rebel, while Huntly's son, Lord George, was to be restored to his estates.