riales, Ban. Club, p. 255.

[228] Melville's Diary, Wodrow Society, p. 26.

[229] [Archibald Hamilton's letter or protestation is in Bannatyne's
Memoriales, pp. 262, 263.]

[230] [According to Martine, it was built, not for the reception of Mary
of Guise, but when James V. was married to Magdalene, the fair daughter
of Francis I., in 1537, the tradition being that the physicians chose
this place as peculiarly suitable for such a delicate creature; and that
"so many artificers were conveened and employed, and the materials so
quicklie prepared, that the house was begun and finished in a month"
(Reliquiae Divi Andreae, p. 190). There is better evidence to show that
Mary of Guise spent her honeymoon within its substantial walls in the
summer of 1538 (Lesley's History, pp. 155, 156; Pitscottie's History,
1778, pp. 250, 251).]

[231] Melville's Diary, p. 26.

[232] Ibid.

[233] Bannatyne's Memoriales, p. 256.

[234] Melville's Diary, p. 32.

[235] [In the rather scurrilous Legend of the Bischop of St Androis, it
is said:--

"Ane baxters sone, are beggar borne,
That twyse his surnaime hes mensworne;
To be called Constene he thocht shame,
He tuke up Constantine to name.

* * * * *

Thinking that poore professione vaine,
He changed his surname ower agane;
Now Doctor Adamsone at last,
Whairthrow he ower to Paris past."

--Dalyell's Scotish Poems, 1801, ii. 309, 310.

He inherited both names from his ancestors, who were called Constantine
or Adamson (M'Crie's Melville, 1856, p. 461).]

[236] Melville's Diary, p. 32.

[237] Laing's Knox, vi. 481, 482.

[238] [This Assembly met on the 6th of March 1571-72.]

[239] Melville's Diary, p. 31.

[240] [This convention was held in January 1571-72. See Booke of the
Universall Kirk, i. 203-236; Calderwood's History, iii. 168-196.]

[241] Bannatyne's Memorials, p. 223.

[242] Calderwood's History, iii. 206.

[243] [Dr Laing has not only indicated that there has long been much
uncertainty and speculation as to the parentage and social status of
John Douglas, but has stated that he "was descended from the Douglasses
of Pettendreich" (Laing's Knox, i. 286 n.) Principal Lee has said: "All
the accounts of Douglas which I have ever seen in modern books abound
with errors. He is represented as having been an obscure Carmelite friar
whom the Earl of Argyle chose to employ as his chaplain, and for whom
t