How the body is bound round with ramparts

Above the Royal Infirmary in its new PFI edge-of-town site stands the castle of Craigmillar. I'd wondered why the area of the hospital is called 'Little France'. 

The answer lies in Mary Queen of Scots' visits to Craigmillar where she  enjoyed hawking and hunting (her French retinue stayed below the castle) and pondered her uncertain fate after her husband, Darnley, had murdered her secretary. 

Her supporters met at the castle and signed the 'Craigmillar Bond' in which they agreed to his assassination. He was duly strangled and his house blown up with him in it.