The Book of Articles is a list of allegations against Mary, Queen of Scots and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.
[5] The material may have been first composed in Latin and sent by Regent Moray to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
The historian John Guy calls this body of evidence against Mary "Buchanan's dossier".
[7] The first section describes the deterioration of Mary's relationship with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley to "extremme disdain" after three months of marriage.
When Darnley came to the lodging at the Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh, she dined with Bothwell at Balfour's house.
Her servant French Paris alias Nicolas Hubert brought gunpowder to Darnley's lodging.