Better days, however, were yet in store for the much-tried Mary Fleming, for in February, 1584, the "relict of umquhill William Maitland, younger of Lethington, Secretare to our Soverane Lord", succeeded in obtaining a reversion of her husband's forfeiture. In May of the same year,[78] the Parliament allowed "Marie Flemyng and hir bairns to have bruik and inioy the same and like fauour, grace and priuilege and conditioun as is contenit in the pacificatioun maid and accordit at Perthe, the xxiii day of Februar, the yeir of God I^{m} V^{c} lxxxij yeiris". With this document one of the four Marys disappears from the scene. Of her later life we have no record. That it was thoroughly happy we can scarcely assume, for we know that her only son James died in poverty and exile. FOOTNOTES: for MARY FLEMING [59] _Miscellany of the Maitland Club_, vol. ii, pp. 390-3. [60] _Epigrammatum_, lib. iii. [61] _Calendar of State Papers, Eliz._, vol. ix, No. 47 B. [62] _Calendar of State Papers, Eliz._, vol. x, Feb. 28, 1565. [63] _Calendar of State Papers, Eliz._, vol. x, 31 March, 1565. [64] _Calendar of State Papers, Eliz._, vol. x, 3 June, 1565. [65] _Calendar of State Papers, Eliz._, vol. xi, 31 Oct., 1565. [66] _Inventories_, p. 113. [67] _Inventories_, p. 124. [68] "A Flamy. Vne brodure dor esmaille de blancq et rouge contenante xxxvij pieces. Vne brodure dorelette de mesme façon garnye de lj piece esmaille de blancq et rouge. Vne cottouere de mesme façon contenante soixante piece esmaille de blanc et rouge. Vng quarquan esmaille aussy de blancq et rouge garny de vingt une piece. Vne chesne a saindre en semblable façon contenante lij pieces esmaillez de blanc et rouge et vng vaze pandant au bout."--_Inventories_, p. 116. [69] _Inventories_, p. 69. [70] MS. Fragment in the Register House; cf. _Inventories_, p. 1. [71] Prince Labanoff, _Lettres de Marie Stuart_, t. v, p. 222. [72] _Memoirs_, p. 256. [73] Calderwood, _History of the Kirk of Scotland_, vol. iii, p. 285. [74] G. Chalmers, _Life of Mary Queen of Scots_, vol. iii, p. 615. [75] _Calendar of State Papers_, vol. iv, p. 599. [76] Thomson's _Collection of Inventories_, p. 193; cf. _Calendar of State Papers_, vol. iv, Oct. 19, 1573; and _Inventories of Mary_, p. clvii. [77] Printed in _Letters from Lady Margaret Burnet to John, Duke of Lauderdale_, p. 83. Bannatyne Club. [78] _Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland_, vol. iii, p. 313. MARY LIVINGSTON