Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . tom of the Sea Tower [of the Castle], a place wheremany of Gods children had been imprisoned before, to await what exsequies his brethren the Bishopswould prepare forhim. [Hist. , vol. i., p. 179.]Sir James Balfour,in his MS. Accountof the Bishops of , says of theCardinal, that hiscorpse, after it hadlain salted in thebottom of the SeaTower, within theCastle, was ninemonths thereaftertaken from thence,and obscurely inter-red in the Conventof the Black Friarsof St. Andrews, inanno 1547. Holm-shed [Chron. of Scot-land, p. 466, edit. T
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . tom of the Sea Tower [of the Castle], a place wheremany of Gods children had been imprisoned before, to await what exsequies his brethren the Bishopswould prepare forhim. [Hist. , vol. i., p. 179.]Sir James Balfour,in his MS. Accountof the Bishops of , says of theCardinal, that hiscorpse, after it hadlain salted in thebottom of the SeaTower, within theCastle, was ninemonths thereaftertaken from thence,and obscurely inter-red in the Conventof the Black Friarsof St. Andrews, inanno 1547. Holm-shed [Chron. of Scot-land, p. 466, edit. The same as the first, excepting the Circumscription, 15 M J adds, *-&[and SS. Peter and Paul on either side of S. Andrew, delivered also the[Morton Charters. AJD. 1545.] deacl body of the Cardinal, after it had lain buried in a dunghill, within the Castle,ever since the day when they slew him. Probably, the Car-dinals body lies in the present Play-ground of the MadrasSchool, a few yards east from the Ruin of the Blackfriars Chapel,. 278 ARCHBISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. where was the Choir—the usual Cemetery of persons of rank andeminence. Lyon says that Cardinal Beatons moral character has beenas much mangled by Knox, Buchanan, and Sir D. Lindsay, ashis body was by his assassins. The unproved assertions ofavowed enemies can be of no weight against any man, and wouldbe rejected in every Court of Justice. It has been asserted, orhinted, that he poisoned his master, and forged his Will; that hehad an intrigue with the Queen; that he caused, or endeavouredto cause, various murders to be committed; and that he keptnumerous mistresses : but they who bring those charges againsthim, betray so much hatred of the man, that, without moreevidence than they have ever yet produced, they cannot be cred-ited. The charges were never raised till after his Death [?]; theyare often absurd and contradictory; and they are strenuouslydenied by his admirers, Lesley, Winzet, and Burne, who are
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