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5. Shortly after October, while James was abroad, Bothwell began plotting, with the aid of witchcraft, to procure the king's death; his machinations are described in the anonymous tract Newes from Scotland (London, 1591)Google Scholar and in King James's treatise on Daemonologie (Edinburgh, 1597)Google Scholar; both works were reprinted in one volume by G. B. Harrison (London: John Lane, 1924). For a discussion of the possible reflection of the Bothwell affair in Shakespeare's Scottish play, see my paper ‘Witchcraft and Politics in Macbeth’ in the forthcoming centenary volume of the Folklore Society.

6. Stowe, John, A Survey of London (1603), ed. Kingsford, C. L. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1908]), I, p. 166.Google Scholar

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9. The Queen's players performed before the English Court on 26 December 1589; see Chambers, , Eliz. Stage, IV, p. 163.Google Scholar