JOHN KNOX AND WILLIAM MAITLAND.
RY landed at Leith on the
of August 1561; she was
d to her cousin Henry Stuart,
Darnley, on the 29th of July
During these years her life,
uneventful, was not un-
Holyrood was the head
f the Court, and the
pile, which had more
been gutted by the
en my," put on something
brightness during her
May had the easy manners
e; she cared little for
r ceremonial state; had
man she would have
enture like her father-
it through any part of
m alone, unknown that
g." She dined with
er citizens; for the
had a ready smile and
word. The Reformers
that she was addicted
to dancing,-"her common speech
in secret was, she saw nothing in
Scotland but gravitie, which she
could not agree weill with, for she
was brought up in joyousitie-so
termed she dancing and other
things thereto belonging; " and
there were frequent sports and
masques among the courtiers and
the ladies of the Court, after the
somewhat ponderous fashions of
the time. Yet graver matters
were not neglected, she read
Livy "daily
"with Buchanan, she
sat in Council with her nobles, the
envoys of foreign princes were duly
welcomed and hospitably enter-
tained. She did not, however, I
believe, care much for Holyrood;
the palace lay low among its
marshes; and the turbulent Cal-
vinism of the capital was a con-
stant menace to a Catholic queen.
It was at Falkland and St Andrews