Research Notes:
1584 John Beighton was among those faithful to the queen [1]:
In the month of August, 1584, when Sir Ralph Sadler again came down to Sheffield, with Mr. Somer, to remove Queen Mary to Wingfield. ...
There were forty soldiers ordinarily in the house, "most of them being the sons" of the Earl's tenants, "of good account and otherwise well known to his Lordship to be faithful to the Queen's Majesty our Sovereign and trusty to him." They were under the command of Mr. Bentall, the gentleman porter, "a gentleman of good wisdom and good trust by long experience;" and were armed with "calyvers, pertaysans, and halberds," "and such other furniture" as might be appointed them. They also wore swords and daggers, and were ordered not to lay them aside until they went to bed; and even there their weapons were to be ever at the bed side, that each might "be ready of offend and defend when occasion shall require." Among the soldiers, of whom Sadler gives a list, may be recognised the names of many old Hallamshire yeoman families. There were Henry Waterhouse, of Onesacre; two Brownells, two Parkers, two Hawkesworths, Edward Hudson, Rowland Longston, Tho. Darwin, Geo. Ronksley, Thos. Chapman, Wm. Moreton, Wm. Sparrow, Henry Rogers, Thos. Bright, Edw. Creswick, Hy. Wilcoxon, Thos. Machin, John Beighton, Roger Smylter, and some others
[1] John Daniel Leader, Mary queen of Scots in captivity: a narrative of events from January 1569 to December 1584 (London, 1880), 236, [GoogleBooks].