Nicolas Hubert

Named in Latin as Paridem Gallum, Hubert was handed to Scottish authorities, represented by Captain Clarke, at Roskilde in October 1568 by Peder Oxe of Gisselfeld, the Danish Rigshofmester.

[18] There are two copies, one in the British Library Cotton manuscripts, attested by Alexander Hay, and another in the National Archives, which states the confession was made in the presence of George Buchanan, Mr John Wood, and Robert Ramsay.

On the Monday morning after the murder, Madame de Briant (Lady Seton) made eggs for breakfast in Queen's bed chamber at Holyrood Palace, and Mary talked privately to Bothwell behind a curtain.

[25][26] This detail appears to have been included to show collusion in Mary's abduction by Bothwell, said to have taken place at "Foul Briggis", possibly a location close to Hatton and Kirkliston with bridges over the Almond and Gogar Burn.

[28] Nicolas Hubert was mentioned in allegations made against Mary in England by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray and George Buchanan at the York and Westminster Conferences in 1568.

According to the confessions of John Hepburn of Bowton or Bolton and John Hay of Talla or Tallo,[31] and the "Book of Articles", a summary of allegations made against Mary, Hubert was involved in bringing gunpowder to Darnley's lodging by opening the doors to the "nether house":[32]Bot the keyis of the dur betuix the kingis chalmer and the hous under it quhair the quene lay and quhair the pulder wes put in wer deliverit to Archibald Betoun and Parice Frenscheman the quenis awin cubicularis.

[modernised] But the keys of the door between the King's chamber and the house (room) under it where the powder was put in were delivered to Archibald Beaton and Paris, Frenchman, the queen's own bedchamber servants.

[33]Thomas Nelson explained that Paris and Archibald Beaton held keys to the queen's bed chamber, as she was in the habit of singing in the garden at night with Lady Rires.