George Buchanan,

The Tyrannous Reign of Mary Stewart,

trans. and ed. W. A. Gatherer (Edinburgh: University Press, 1958). Includes Buchanan’s 1571

A Detection of Mary Queen of Scots

and the relevant sections of his 1582

History of Scotland . A pretty good idea of Buchanan’s attitude toward Mary can be gauged from his tale (completely invented) of how Mary’s servant was ordered to haul a half-naked Bothwell up by a rope out of his wife’s bed and directly into that of the queen .

James Emerson Phillips,

Images of a Queen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965). How her contemporaries turned Mary into a symbol of everything good and everything evil .

M. H. Armstrong Davis,

The Casket Letters (Washington, D.C.: University Press of Washington, D.C., 1965). The most recent book-length study of the letters, in which Armstrong Davis argues that they were forged to frame Mary. So certain is Armstrong Davis of Mary’s innocence that he also argues, much less persuasively, that the Kirk O’Field explosion that killed the king was actually Henry’s botched attempt to kill Mary .

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