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Produce from the gardens included strawberries in July. Despite the sea air, the gardens were stocked with sycamores, walnut trees, apple and other fruit trees. It is said that one of the sixteenth-century gardeners had a son who became a pirate. He came back and gave the
134:(d. 1513), completed the "jemmay house", a wing which his grandfather, John, Master of Seton (d. 1476) had begun. His widow, Janet Hepburn, Lady Seton built the fore-work or gatehouse. The palace was burnt by an English army on 16 May 1544 after the
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there in July 1565. Mary played golf at Seton, and it was said she played "pall-mall and golf" as usual in the fields at Seton after
Darnley's murder, taking her "usual amusements in the adjoining fields that were plainly not adapted to women".
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Christmas 1559. The old great tower collapsed in 1561, the structure comprised by new windows. Janet Hepburn's gatehouse was then almost entirely rebuilt.
340:. The ceiling of another room, called "Samson's Hall" incorporated 28 armorial achievements of families of France, Scotland and Lorraine, "curiously embossed and illuminated."
769:'Advice to a Princess: the literary articulation of a religious, political and cultural programme for Mary Queen of Scots', Julian Goodare & A. A. MacDonald,
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in 1638. There would have been a lawn or court for pall-mall, as played by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1567. James VI recommended the game for his son
62:. Often regarded as the most desirable Scottish residence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the palace was erected in the 15th century by
255:. In July 1565 Mary rode to Seton from Edinburgh at night and stayed two days. She came to Seton after the death of Lord Darnley in February 1567.
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was nearby with some horsemen, "so that he might well see his own house and town on fire." Lord Seton was married to a French lady-in-waiting
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1084:"Seton Castle and Collegiate Church | Seton Palace | The Castles of Scotland, Coventry | Goblinshead"
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Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland
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1121:"Scottish castle goes up for sale for over £8m in East Lothian"
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A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries
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767:(Edinburgh, 2013), p. 170: Theo van Heijnsbergen,
538:, vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1827), pp. 497-8: Joseph Bain,
214:. The walled garden was also built at this time.
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885:, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 529 nos. 464-5.
720:Theo van Heijnsbergen, 'Advice to a Princess',
351:The family built another house further inland,
711:, vol. 9 (Edinburgh, 1911), pp. 291, 296, 300.
278:to arrive in Scotland. The English ambassador
765:Glory and Honour: The Renaissance in Scotland
259:mention golf, and allege that she slept with
1214:Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
839:Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
142:wrote that while he was burning the palace,
96:Hampton Court conference on 15 December 1568
1146:The architecture of Robert Adam (1728-1792)
897:Moysie's Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland
813:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 558 no. 902.
73:by the 1500s and was a popular retreat for
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650:Richard Maitland & Viscount Kingston,
923:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
883:Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595
540:Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1563-1603
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1055:(Edinburgh: James Thin, 1978), p. 136.
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553:, the original has "palmall and goif."
536:History of Scotland of George Buchanan
183:, and his children in 1572, including
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525:(New York: Stein and Day, 1969), 177.
456:to build a mansion that would become
157:As the war with England known as the
1019:Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers
925:, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1894), p. 133.
853:, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 154.
549:Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers
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27:Castle in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
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77:. She had spent her honeymoon with
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138:. The English commander
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