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Mary Stuart and Simon Preston bronze plaque

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mary Stuart and Simon Preston bronze plaque

On this site stood the lodgings of Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar, Provost of the City of Edinburgh 1566-7, in which lodging Mary Queen of Scotland after her surrender to the confederate lords at Carberry Hill, spent her last night in Edinburgh, 15 June 1567. On the following evening she was conve

yed to Holyrood and thereafter to Lochleven Castle as a state prisoner.

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