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John Stewart, of Fincastle, and Margaret Carwood, confidante of Mary Queen of Scots, were married on 11 February 1567 in Holyrood Palace. The marriage of Margaret Carwod took place at Hol3rrood (the Queen giving the bridal feast) on Shrove Tuesday (nth of February) 1567, two days after the marriage of Bastian Pagez, a valet of the Queen's chamber, to whose bridal masque at Holyrood, on the night of Sunday the 9th of February, Mary hurried from her husband's bedside at the Kirk of the Field, an hour or two before his murder.¹