treyes beneath the Over Bow to be removit;? the
meal market, &c., to be removed from the High
Street to foot of James Aikman?s Close, and the
? grass market to the kirkyard foot ; twelve chief
citizens were to be arrayed in velvet gowns ; the
craftsmen to be arrayed in French cloth, with
doublets of velvet, satin, and damask; thirty-seven
citizens to be mounted with velvet foot-mantles
and velvet gowns, and all the town officers to be
To the inexpressible grief of James and the
whole nation, Magdalene, then only in her
seventeenth year, died of her insidious disease on
the 10th of July. She was interred with great
pomp in the royal vault, near the coffin of James II.,
and her untimely death was the occasion of the
first general mourning ever worn in the kingdom.
In the treasurer?s accounts are many entries of
the ? Scots claith, French blak, Holland claith,
and corsses upon the velvet.? On her coffin
was inscribed in Saxon characters, ?? Magdalena
Erancisci R&s Frank, Primogmifa Regina Sotie
Sponsa Jacoh? K Regis, A. D. I 53 7, obiit.?
Jarnes, however, was not long a widower, and
in June, 1538, he brought to Scotland a new bride,
Mary of Guise, the widow of the Duke de
Longuevihe, who landed at Balcomie, escorted by
an admiral of France, and the nuptials were
celebrated with pomp at St. Andrews j and on St.
Margaret?s Day in the same year, this new queendestined
to enact so important a part in the
future history of the realm-made her public entry
into Edinburgh by the Port, and rode tw
Holyrood Palace, while peat sports and gaiety
says Pitscottie. Curious plays were made for
her entertainment, and gold, spices, and wines were
lavished upon her by the magistrates, who wellnigh
exhausted the finances of the city.
Amid the State turnoils and horrors that culminated
in the rout of Solway, Jarnes V. held a
council at Holyrood on the 3rd of November,
1542, when, according to Knox, a scroll was
presented to him by Cardinal Beaton, containing
the names of more than one hundred of the pnncipal
nobles and gentry, including the Earl of
Arran, then, by deaths in the royal family, next
heir to the throne, who were undoubtedly in the
pay of England, tainted with heresy, or in leagie
with the then outlawed clan of Douglas,
