[224] See Laing's Knox, vi. 651.
[225] M'Crie's Knox, 1855, p. 459; Rogers' Three Scottish Reformers, p. 97.
[226] [Archbishop Hamilton was hanged at the market cross of Stirling on the 7th of April 1571.]
[227] Bannatyne's Memoriales, 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" (Reliquiæ Divi Andreæ, 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.