It was afterward said that this house was Mary’s choice. This is false. The house was the Old Provost’s Lodging, one of a group of dwellings leading off a quadrangle belonging to the old and partly ruined collegiate church of Kirk o’Field, on a site occupying high ground on the southern fringes of the capital. It was Darnley’s decision to stay there, and there is evidence to prove it. One of his own servants, later employed by Lennox, testified that “it was devised in Glasgow that the king should have lain first at Craigmillar, but because he had no will thereof, the purpose was altered and
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