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brother of the Secretary, and Robert Balfour, 

 brother of Sir James, and owner of the house at 

 the Kirk -of- Field. For several . years after the 

 murder of Darnley no one was publicly charged 

 with the murder, except Bothwell and the Queen. In 

 course of time, however, when the nobles began to 

 quarrel among themselves. Regent Morton, Archibald 

 Douglas, Sir James Balfour — who was afterwards 

 President of the Court of Session — Maitland the 

 Secretary, Huntly the Chancellor, Argyll the Lord 

 Justice, and a number of others, were all charged as 

 being prominent actors in the tragedy; but nothing 

 was ever discovered which could incriminate Queen 

 Mary. Who the real culprits were it will perhaps be 

 impossible ever to say with certainty. 



Returning once more to Craigmillar Castle, James 

 VL was the last royal personage who lived in or was 

 connected with it. From there he planned his matri- 

 monial tour to Denmark. In the declaration, written 

 by himself, of his reasons for his resolution to go to 

 Norway, and of his own sole and entire responsibility 



for that resolution, with his narrative of what passed 



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