it appears, by authentic documents, that Patrick, earl of Bothwell, father to James, who espoused Queen Mary, was alive till near the year 1560.
Buchanan, by a mistake which has been long ago corrected, calls him James.] [Footnote 9: NOTE I, p.84.Mary herself confessed, in her instructions to the ambassadors, whom she sent to France, that Bothwell persuaded all the noblemen, that their application in favor of his marriage was agreeable to her.

Keith, p.389.Anderson, vol.i.p.

94.

Murray afterwards produced, to Queen Elizabeth's commissioners, a paper signed by Mary, by which she permitted them to make this application to her.
This permission was a sufficient declaration of her intentions, and was esteemed equivalent to a command.

Anderson, vol.iv.p.