Fortunately Drury, Bedford’s deputy and right-hand man at Berwick had his spies in Scotland and was watching events closely. He too was alert to the rendezvous. His reports, previously known only from brief printed extracts, prove that Morton and Bothwell were the joint ringleaders, not Bothwell on his own. When those responsible for the cover-up rewrote history to exonerate themselves, Morton’s role was airbrushed out of the picture. Always the invisible man where assassinations were concerned, he was agile enough to cast the blame on others. But the handwritten originals of Drury’s reports
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