CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. JANE SETON II. MAGDALENE OF FRANCE III. THE MASTER OF THE ORDNANCE IV. REDHALL V. THE WITCH-PRICKER VI. THE ILLUMINATED SPIRE VII. TWO OFFICIALS VIII. THE QUEEN'S MASQUE IX. LA VOLTA X. LOVE AND ABHORRENCE XI. SWORDBLADES AND SALVE XII. EDINBURGH IN 1537 XIII. SAINT GILES XIV. THE CHANCELLOR OF SCOTLAND XV. THE NOON OF LOVE XVI. VIPONT'S HOUSEHOLD XVII. A LORD ADVOCATE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY XVIII. THE CASTLE OF INCHKEITH XIX. THE FORTUNATE SWORD-THRUST XX. THE BLACK PAGE XXI. JOHN OF THE SILVERMILLS XXII. TEN RED GRAINS XXIII. THE FIRST VISIT XXIV. THE KNIFE XXV. DOUGLASDALE XXVI. THE BARMKYN OF CAIRNTABLE XXVII. THE POMMEL OF THE POINARD XXVIII. A DRAUGHT OF WATER XXIX. THE SECOND VISIT XXX. SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY! XXXI. THE PORTE OF THE SPUR XXXII. THE THREE TREES OF DYSART XXXIII. THE WEEM XXXIV. THE DEATH OF MAGDALENE XXXV. THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE XXXVI. THE RACK--THE DEVIL'S MARK XXXVII. THE GAGE OF BATTLE XXXVIII. THE EARL'S DARING XXXIX. THE EARL'S SUCCESS XL. SYBIL XLI. A HAMILTON! A HAMILTON! XLII. DAVID'S TOWER--THE PHYSICIAN XLIII. DAVID'S TOWER--THE PRIEST XLIV. DAVID'S TOWER--THE LOVER XLV. THE BOON XLVI. THIRST! XLVII. WHAT THE PAPER CONTAINED XLVIII. THE CROSS AND GILLSTOUP XLIX. THE CASTAWAYS L. FALKLAND LI. THE KING AND THE CARDINAL LII. THE LAIRD OF CLATTO LIII. THE FIGHT AT INVERTEIL LIV. THE KING'S HORN LV. THE BLUEGOWN LVI. THE TEMPTATION LVII. THE LOCH LVIII. THE LAW OF THE SWORD LIX. THE PLACE OF DOOM LX. CONCLUSION NOTES JANE SETON: OR, THE KING'S ADVOCATE. CHAPTER I. JANE SETON. "I prithee mark His countenance; unlike bold calumny, Which sometime dare not speak the thing it looks, He dare not look the thing he speaks, but bends His gaze on the blind earth."--_The Cenci_. On the 19th of May, 1537, the bells of Edinburgh rang joyously. It was a day of loyalty and merriment such as never more may gladden Scotland's ancient capital. After a nine months' absence, James V.--"the good king James, the commons' king, the father of the poor," the patron of the infant arts and sciences, the mirror of chivalry and romance, as he was affectionately named by a people who idolized him--had arrived in the Firth of Forth with his young queen Magdalene of Valois, whom for her dazzling beauty he had chosen from among three princesses, all possessed of unusual charms, and whom he had espoused in the great cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, in presence of her father, the magnificent and magnanimous Francis I., seven cardinals, and all the noblesse and beauty of France. After spending the honeymoon at the Hôtel de Cluny, a beautiful old gothic house belonging to the family of Lorraine, they had sailed for Scotland.