A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . pp. place of meeting with Lord Seton was notwhere the Queen landed, but about a milefurther south, to which point Seton and hisfifty cavaliers had ridden from their place of con-cealment on the Hill of Benarty, as soon as theyperceived the Queens preconcerted signal. In her Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies, Miss Strickland states, on the authority ofCaussin, Queen Marys French biographer, thatshe wrote her instructions with
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . pp. place of meeting with Lord Seton was notwhere the Queen landed, but about a milefurther south, to which point Seton and hisfifty cavaliers had ridden from their place of con-cealment on the Hill of Benarty, as soon as theyperceived the Queens preconcerted signal. In her Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies, Miss Strickland states, on the authority ofCaussin, Queen Marys French biographer, thatshe wrote her instructions with a piece of char-coal, on her handkerchief, which she employedthe boy Willie Douglas to despatch to LordSeton. Early in November 1894, along with the T. Grant of Leven, I was accompanied toBenarty by Mr. Robert Burns-Begg, grand-nephew of the poet, and author of the Historyof Lochleven, for the purpose of inspecting acertain hollow on the north-east side of the hillfrom the immediate vicinity of which an excel-lent view can be obtained of the Castle Islandof Lochleven, as well as of the spot on the shorenear the old churchyard, where the Queen is. OUEEN MARY AT NIDDRY CASTLE 171 In the Historie and Life of King James the Sext, theauthor1 gives a curious account of the Queens escape fromLoch Leven : The rest of the pairt of the Queenes liberty wasperformit be a gentillman callit Johnne Betoun, quha past ofttymes betwix Lochlevin, Hamiltoun, and Setoun, with intelli-gence, sa as all things were perfectly and privily agreit uponwithin the hous. Thair was a certaine day prefixt to GeorgeLord Setoun, James Hamiltoun of Rochbank, ather of thirhaving severall companyes to attend upoun hir out if shoe should happen to be within the bait, shoe shouldgive a syne unto thame, for thair assurance, quhilk was perfytlieperformit. Ouhen shoe was come to the land, they horsett hirimediatlie with gladnes on all syde, as ye may suppose, bot howlang it indurit ye shall heir. The
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