sentences:  After Bothwell's interview with King James in Holyrood Palace in July of this year, the king, regarding himself as practically a prisoner, entered into communications with Home to aid him to escape to Falkland Palace, but the king's plan was discovered, and frustrated by Bothwell.Home was made captain of the king's bodyguard, and openly expressed his contempt for Bothwell.Meantime, having failed to satisfy the demands of the kirk, Home was on 25 September excommunicated by the synod of Fife.