Seton Palace
Castle in East Lothian, Scotland
About
Seton Palace was situated in East Lothian, a few miles south-east of Edinburgh near the town of Prestonpans. Often regarded as the most desirable Scottish residence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the palace was erected in the 15th century by George, 4th Lord Seton.
The palace belonged to the Lords Seton by the 1500s and was a popular retreat for Mary, Queen of Scots. She had spent her honeymoon with Lord Darnley 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, "Pall-mall" was an early form of croquet. A marriage contract of Mary and Earl of Bothwell, made at Seton on 5 April 1567, and exhibited by Mary's enemies at the Hampton Court conference on 15 December 1568, was probably a contemporary forgery and the actual contract was made in Edinburgh on 14 May.
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Battle of Prestonpans
Battle in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745
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Seton Castle
Castle in East Lothian, Scotland
Longniddry Bents
Beach in East Lothian, Scotland
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Seton Collegiate Church
Collegiate church in Scotland
Seton Sands
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