p.389.2.The letters are very long, much longer than they needed to have been, in order to serve the purposes of Mary's enemies; a circumstance which increased the difficulty, and exposed any forgery the more to the risk of a detection.
3.

They are not so gross and palpable as forgeries commonly are, for they still left a pretext for Mary's friends to assert that their meaning was strained to make them appear criminal.

See Goodall, vol.ii.
p.361.4.There is a long contract of marriage, said to be written by the earl of Huntley, and signed by the queen, before Bothwells acquittal.

Would Morton, without any necessity, have thus doubled the difficulties of the forgery, and the danger of detection?
5.

The letters are indiscreet; but such was apparently Mary's conduct at that time.
They are inelegant; but they have a careless, natural air, like letters hastily written between familiar friends.6.They contain such a variety of particular circumstances as nobody could have thought of inventing, especially as they must necessarily have afforded her many means of detection.7.We have not the originals of the letters, which were in French.