Identifier: castlespalacespr00mack (find matches)
Title: The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mackie, Charles, d. 1864
Subjects: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 Castles Palaces
Publisher: London : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a maskto be given on that night at the palace, on the occasion of the marriageof her French servant Sebastian to Margaret Garwood, one of herwaiting-maids; Bothwell knew, therefore, that she could not sleep atKirk-of-field that night, and he took measures accordingly. At duskhe assembled his accomplices, and desired them to be ready; hehimself supped between seven and eight at a banquet given to thequeen by the Bishop of Argyle, which he left to join in the assassination,having taken Paris aside, and conveyed him to the lodgings of the Lairdof Ormiston. There he met Hay and Hepburn, and they passed downthe Blackfriars-wynd together. The wall which surrounded the gardensof the Dominican monastery ran near the foot of this wynd. Theypassed through a gate in the wall, which Bothwell had contrived toopen by stealth, and, crossing the gardens, came to another wall whichseparated the convent-grounds from the Kirk-of-field. Pariss deposition, Laing, vol. ii., p, 296. Bells History, vol. ii.
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