Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . st son of the 72 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holyrood. Commendator of Coldingham. He was created,in right of his mother (who was the only sisterof the notorious peer), Earl of Bothwell andLord High Admiral of Scotland in 1587. Hebecame an avowed enemy of the king, and Holy-rood was the scene of more than one franticattempt made by him upon the life of James. Oneof these, in 1591, reads like a daring frolic, as re-lated by Sir James Melville, when the earl attackedthe palace at the head of his followers. I was at the Girth C
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . st son of the 72 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holyrood. Commendator of Coldingham. He was created,in right of his mother (who was the only sisterof the notorious peer), Earl of Bothwell andLord High Admiral of Scotland in 1587. Hebecame an avowed enemy of the king, and Holy-rood was the scene of more than one franticattempt made by him upon the life of James. Oneof these, in 1591, reads like a daring frolic, as re-lated by Sir James Melville, when the earl attackedthe palace at the head of his followers. I was at the Girth Cross. On the 24th July, 1593, Both-well, who had been outlawed, again burst into thepalace with his retainers, and reached the royalapartments. Then the king, incapable of resistinghim, desired Bothwell, to consummate his treasonsby piercing his sovereigns heart; but Bothwellfell on his knees and implored pardon, which thegood-natured king at once granted, though a minutebefore he had, as Birrel records, been seeking flightby the back stair, with his breeks in his HOLYROOD AS IT WAS BEFORE THE FIRE OF lOjO. [Faciiinik, after Cordon tif Rothiema}.) at supper with my Lord Duke of , whotook his sword and pressed forth; but he had nocompany and the place was full of enemies. We werecompelled to fortify the doors and stairs with tables,forms, and stools, and be spectators of that strangehurlyburly for the space of an hour, beholdingwith torchlight, forth of the dukes gallery, theirreeling and rumbling with halberts, the clackingof the culverins and pistols, the dunting of mellsand hammers, and crying for justice. The earland his followers ultimately drew off, but left themaster stabler and another lying dead, and theking was compelled to go into the city; but eightof Bothwells accomplices were taken and hanged In 1596 the future Queen of Bohemia was bap-tised in Holyrood, held in the arms of the Englishambassador, while the Lyon King proclaimed herfrom the wind
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