“My Lady Leinstoun, dame of honour to the quene’s Ma^{te}. M’rez Leinstoun. M’rez Setoun. Maistresse Brusse. M’rez Courcelles. M’rez Kennett. My Lord Leinstoun. M^{re} Betown, mr. howshold. M^{re} Leinstoun, gentilman servāt. M^{re} Castel, physition. Mr Raullett, secretaire. Bastien, page. Balthazar Huylly. James Lander. Gilbert Courll. William Douglas. Jaquece de Sanlie. Archibald Betoun. Thomas Archebald. D—— Chiffland. Guyon l’Oyselon. Andro Matreson. Estien Hauet, escuyer. Martin Huet, m^{re} cooke. Piere Madard, potiger. Jhan de Boyes, pastilar. Mr. Brusse, gentilman to my Lord Leinstoun. Nicholl Fichar, servant to my Lady Leinstoun. Jhon Dumfrys, servant to Maistresse Setoun. William Blake, servant to Maistresse Courcelles, to serve in absence of Florence.” Besides these the following supernumerary servants were kindly allowed by the earl and approved by the queen:— “Christilie Hog, Bastiene’s wyff. Ellen Bog, the Mr cooke’s wyff. Cristiane Grame, my Lady Leinstoun’s gentilwoman. Janet Lindesay, M’rez Setoun’s gentilwoman. Jannette Spetell. Robert Hamiltoun, to bere fyre and water to the quene’s cuysine. Robert Ladel, the quene’s lacquay. Gilbert Bonnar, horskeippar. Francoys, to serve M^{re} Castel, the phesitien.” The earl, to insure her safe-keeping, took to himself forty extra servants, chosen from his tenantry, to keep watch day and night: so this must, indeed, have been a busy and bustling, as well as an anxious time, at Chatsworth and at Sheffield. In the autumn of 1578 Mary was once more at Chatsworth, but in November was back again, as close a prisoner as ever at Sheffield. Again in 1577 she was, for a short time, at Chatsworth, at which period the Countess of Shrewsbury was still building there. It was in this year that the countess wrote to her husband the letter endeavouring to get him to spend the summer there, in which she uses the strange expressions, “Lette me here how you, your charge _and love_ dothe, and commende me I pray you.” In 1581 Mary was again brought to Chatsworth, and probably was there at other times than those we have indicated. In any case, the fact of her being there kept a captive, invests the place with a powerful interest of a far different kind from any other it possesses. One solitary remain—“Mary Queen of Scots’ Bower”—of this ill-starred sovereign’s captivity at Chatsworth now exists; to this reference will be made later on.