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 15630 THE ENGLISH AT HA VRE. 47 of the nobility have access to her/ * She leant upon his shoulder in public, she bewitched him in private with her fascinating confidence ; 2 and interpreting her be- haviour and perhaps her words too favourably, he one night concealed himself in her bedroom. He was dis- covered by the ladies of the bedchamber before the Queen retired ; and the next morning she commanded him with a sharp reprimand to leave the Court. But Mary Stuart pardoned easily the faults of those whom she liked. Chatelar was forgiven, and again miscon- struing her kindness, four nights later the poor youth repeated his rash adventure. He came out upon the Queen while she was undressing, and ' set upon her with such force and in such impudent sort that she was fain to cry out for help/ Hearing her shrieks Murray rushed into the room : Chatelar was of course seized and carried off and tor- tured. Confessing the worst intentions with wild bra- vado, he was executed a week after in the Market Place at St Andrew's, chanting a love-song as he died ; and the Queen after some natural distress recovered her spirits. 1 KNOX. 2 Randolph, Avho was describing what he had himself seen, said in a -etter to Cecil, 'Your Honour heareth the beginning of a lamentable story, whereof such infamy will arise as I fear, howsoever well the wound be healed, the scar will for ever remain. Thus your Honour seeth what mischief cometh of the over-great familiarity that any such personage showeth unto so unworthy a creature and abject a varlet, as her Grace used with him. Whatsoever colour can be laid upon it, that it was done for his master's sake (Chatelar had been in the train of M. d'Amville), I cannot but say it had been too much to have been used to his master's self by any princess alive Scotch MSS, Rolls House.