The Convent of Saint-Pierre in Rhiems
Sometime around 1585 she retired from the Scottish Queen's household in England to the Convent of Saint-Pierre at Rheims in France where the abbess was Renée de Guise, the sister of Mary of Guise and aunt of Mary, Queen of Scots. She died there in 1615. Little is known about her last years at Saint Pierre les Dames other than what was written by James Maitland, the expatriate catholic son of William Maitland of Lethington. Maitland visited the Convent and found Seton to be living in povery and suffering from failing health. He complained to her family, to whom he was remotely related, and to Queen Mary's son James VI of Scotland, but there is no evidence of a response. The bequests in her will show that she was wealthy.
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