David Murray became keeper of the garden, park, and Lomond Hills and was allowed to build a house on the site of the old castle, called the Castlestead or Nether Palace of Falkland. Lord Walden stayed for a night in August 1613.Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1858), p. 451. This house was inherited by the next keeper of the park, John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale.Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry, vol. 2 (reprint 1984), pp. 204-6: Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 6, no. 1101: Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1816), p. 665. The palace was occasionally used as a prison. In November 1608 James instructed David Murray to keep James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino, prisoner in the tower of the palace, for treasonable correspondence with the Pope. Balmerino was released in October 1609.HMC Laing Manuscripts in the University of Edinburgh, vol. 1 (London, 1914), p. 112. After hearing Anne of Denmark speak of her love of Scotland, the Venetian ambassador Antonio Foscarini came to Falkland in September 1613.Allen Hinds, Calendar State Papers Venice, 1613-1615, vol. 13 (London, 1907), p. 46 no. 95.
