The other conspiracy, of which Murray complained, is much more uncertain, and is founded on very doubtful evidence.] [Footnote 8: NOTE H, p.73.Buchanan confesses that Rizzio was ugly: but it may be inferred, from the narration of that author, that he was young.

He says that, on the return of the duke of Savoy to Turin, Rizzio was "in adolescentiae vigore;" in the vigor of youth.

Now, that event happened only a few years before, (lib.xvii.cap.

44.) That Bothwell was young, appears, among many other invincible proofs, from Mary's instructions to the bishop of Dumblain, her ambassador at Paris; where she says, that in 1559, only eight years before, he was "very young." He might therefore have been about thirty when he married her.

See Keith's History, p.388.From the appendix to the Epistolae Regum Scotorum.