She held a parley at the "fore blockhouse at the first gate of the castle" before the commencement of the siege of Leith with the English commander James Croft. According to John Knox she watched the fighting at Leith from the "foir wall" of the Castle on 7 May 1560 and commented that the bodies of English soldiers on the walls of Leith were the "fairest tapestry that ever I saw".John Bruce, ed., John Hayward's First Four Years of Elizabeth (London, 1840), p. 55: David Laing, History of the Reformation by John Knox, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 67-8.
