[2] In September 1566 she was part of the household of James VI of Scotland at Stirling Castle, provided with a bed with curtains made from blue wool cloth called "ostage".
[4] Lord Darnley's chamber servant Thomas Nelson said that Mary, Queen of Scots and Lady Reres used to play and sing in the garden at Kirk o'Field at night time.
[7] George Buchanan wrote that she was old and fat in the 1560s, "a woman very heavy both by unweildy age and massy substance", and had been a mistress of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.
[8] He tells a story of Mary and Margaret Carwood helping Lady Reres with her girdle or belt to climb down a garden wall in Edinburgh's Cowgate in order to bring the Earl of Bothwell to a secret liaison with the queen.
[9][10] This incident or story was also described with more detail at the York Conference in 1568 and recorded in a document called the "Book of Articles"; Mary stayed in the Cowgate house where the Court of the Exchequer met for a few days in 1566.
[12] A summary of arguments against Mary produced in 1568 by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, called the "Contra Reginam Scotorum" asserted that Bothwell obtained his divorce from Jean Gordon because of his "frequent advouterie" – adulteries, especially with Lady Reres.