noticed that three holes, each large enough for a man to get through, had
been made in the walls; he asked that these holes, through which
ill-meaning persons could get in, should be stopped up: it was promised
that masons should be sent; but nothing was done, and the holes remained
open.

The day after his arrival at Kirk of Field, the king saw a light in that
house near his which lie believed deserted; next day he asked Alexander
Durham whence it came, and he heard that the Archbishop of St. Andrew's
had left his palace in Edinburgh and had housed there since the preceding
evening, one didn't know why: this news still further increased the
king's uneasiness; the Archbishop of St. Andrew's was one of his most
declared enemies.

The king, little by little abandoned by all his servants lived on the
first floor of an isolated pavilion, having about him only this same
Alexander Durham, whom we have mentioned already, and who was his valet.
Darnley, who had quite a special friendship for him, and who besides, as
we have said, feared some attack on his life at every moment, had made
him move his bed into his own apartment, so that both were sleeping in
the same room.

On the night of the 8th February, Darnley awoke Durham: he thought he
heard footsteps in the apartment beneath him. Durham rose, took a sword
in one hand, a taper in the other, and went down to the ground floor; but
although Darnley was quite certain he had not been deceived, Durham came
up again a moment after, saying he had seen no one.

The morning of the next day passed without bringing anything fresh. The
queen was marrying one of her servants named Sebastian: he was an