from Melville assuring him the queen was ill, on the testimony of the Mistress of Ochiltree and other gentlewomen. There was some doubt over the queen's illness because a plot was suspected. In August 1595 she come to his house on the way to Perth. In 1616 he was made Lord Melville of Monimail. He died in 1621. Painted Ceiling During the 1590s Melville's apartment at Rossend Castle was decorated with a painted ceiling now displayed at the National Museum of Scotland. References 16th-century Scottish people 17th-century Scottish peers 1621 deaths Court of Mary, Queen of Scots Court of James VI and I Peers of Scotland created by James VI Lords of Parliament (pre-1707) Scottish courtiers Scottish diplomats Ambassadors of Scotland to England Treasurers-depute Year of birth uncertain People from Burntisland People of the Scottish Marian Civil War Robert