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Gillis Mowbray
Gillis Mowbray or Gilles Moubray was a servant of Mary, Queen of Scots, associated with a small collection of jewellery held by the National Museums of Scotland, known as the "Penicuik jewels". Her first name is also spelled "Geillis" or "Geilles". Career Gillis was a daughter of John Mowbray of Barnbougle and Elizabeth or Elspeth Kirkcaldy, a sister of the soldier William Kirkcaldy of Grange. When William Kirkcaldy of Grange was about to be executed in 1573, Gillis Mowbray's father, the Laird of Barnbougle, who was Kirkcaldy's brother-in-law, wrote to Regent Morton to plead for his life, offering money, service, and royal jewels worth £20,000 Scots. Mary made a will in 1577, bequeathing 100 Écu to a "Gilles", probably another member of her household. Gillis Mowbray travelled to London in 1585, hoping for permission to join her sister Barbara in Mary's household. Mary wrote to Francis Walsingham for a passport for Gillis Mowbray on 30 September 1585. Barbara Mowbray marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary, Queen Of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was List of Scottish monarchs, Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne. During her childhood, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland was governed by regents, first by the heir to the throne, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and then by her mother, Mary of Guise. In 1548, she was betrothed to Francis II of France, Francis, the Dauphin of France, and was sent to be brought up in Kingdom of France, France, where she would be safe from invading Kingdom of England, English forces during the Rough Wooing. Mary Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin of France, married Francis in 1558, becoming queen consort of France from his accession in 1559 until his death in December 1560. Widowed, Mary Entry of Mary, Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Cowan (historian)
Samuel Cowan (1835 – 18 June 1914) was a Scottish historian, antiquarian, biographer, publisher and journalist who wrote several books, including ''Mary Queen of Scots and Who Wrote the Casket Letters'' (1901), ''The Gowrie Conspiracy'' (1902), ''The Ancient Capital of Scotland'' (1904) and ''The Royal House of Stuart'' (1908). Cowan was also a justice of the peace. Between 1866 and 1907, Cowan was the printer and publisher of the '' Perthshire Advertiser''.''Perthshire Advertiser'', 7 August 1979. Personal life His father was James Cowan, registrar of Monkton and Prestwick. In 1864, Cowan married Jane Jack, of Largs, with whom he had one son and two daughters. At the time of his death, the family was living at 33 Fountainhall Road in Edinburgh. Cowan was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body of Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet
Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 1st Baronet (died 1722) was a Scottish politician, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia on 24 March 1679. Sir John was the eldest son of John Clerk of Penicuik and Mary, daughter of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum. From 1690 until 1702 he was MP for Edinburghshire (Lothian) in the Scottish Parliament. In 1700, he acquired the lands and barony of Leswade, near Edinburgh.Burkep. 257/ref> He served as a shire commissioner in the Parliament of Scotland for Edinburghshire from 1690 to 1702. He married twice. With his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Henderson, of Elrington, he had three sons and three daughters including Barbara. His son-in-law, Barbara's second husband, Dr. William Arthur, became embroiled in the Jacobite rising of 1715 The Jacobite rising of 1715 ( ; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart, James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnton, Edinburgh
Barnton () is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the north-west of the city, between Cramond and Corstorphine Hill and west of Davidsons Mains. Part of the area was traditionally known as "Cramond Muir" in reference to Cramond to the north. Notable buildings It is home to the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Royal High School of Edinburgh designed by Reid and Forbes in 1964. Braehead House, a complex house centred on a 15th-century remodelled Scottish tower house hides amongst modern housing. The Royal Burgess Golfing Society, one of the oldest golf societies in the world with a clubhouse dating from 1896. Cargilfield Preparatory School lies to the north. The most notable landmark is the former Barnton Hotel at the junction of Whitehouse Loan and Queensferry Road which dates from 1895 and was converted to flats in 2016. The White House (which gives its name to Whitehouse Road) dates from 1615. It was extended and remodelled by MacGibbon and Ross in 1895. The area centres on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pitcairn (antiquary)
Robert Pitcairn (14 August 1793 – 11 July 1855) was a Scottish antiquary and scholar who contributed to works published by Walter Scott and the Bannatyne Club. He was the author of ''Criminal Trials and other Proceedings before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland (1829-1833)''. He was head of the Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Company and secretary of the Calvin Translating Society Pitcairn was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a Writer to His Majesty’s Signet, and a member of the Maitland Club. Life He was born in Edinburgh in 1793, second son of Jean Kincaid and Robert Pitcairn (1749-1828), Principal Keeper at Register House. He was first cousin to William Fettes Pitcairn. He trained as a lawyer and was admitted to the Society of Writers to HM Signet on 21 November 1815. He was a friend and collaborator of Sir Walter Scott, often obtaining historical information for his use. He lived more or less opposite Scott, at 50 Castle Street in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graham Dalyell
Sir John Graham Dalyell PSSA (August 1775 – 7 June 1851), 6th Baronet of the Binns was a Scottish advocate, antiquary and naturalist. Life The second son of Sir Robert Dalyell, fourth baronet (d. 1791) and his wife Elizabeth Graham, only daughter of Nicol Graham of Gartmore, Perthshire, was born at Binns, Linlithgowshire, in August 1775. When an infant he fell from a table upon a stone floor and became lame for life. He attended classes first at St. Andrews, and secondly at the University of Edinburgh, and while there qualified himself for the Scotch bar, and became a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1796. The work in the parliament-house proved to be too fatiguing for him, but he acquired a considerable business as a consulting advocate, and although a younger son and not wealthy he made it a rule of his legal practice not to accept a fee from a relative, a widow, or an orphan. In 1797 he was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and was chosen the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Mowbray
Francis Mowbray or Moubray (died 1603) was a Scottish intriguer. Career Francis Mowbray was a son of John Mowbray, Laird of Barnbougle Castle and Elspeth or Elizabeth Kirkcaldy, daughter of James Kirkcaldy. His sisters, or half-sisters, Barbara Mowbray and Gillis Mowbray were servants of Mary, Queen of Scots in England. Barbara married the queen's secretary Gilbert Curle and lived in the Spanish Netherlands. Gillis Mowbray is associated with the jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots. Another sister, Agnes Mowbray (died 1595), married Robert Crichton of Eliok. He met Francis Walsingham in December 1580. Some intercepted letters sent to the French ambassador Michel de Castelnau showed that he wished to serve Elizabeth I. Francis was probably the son of Laird of Barnbougle who carried letters between Mr Archibald Douglas and his nephew Richard Douglas in 1587. He spent some time at the court of Isabella Clara Eugenia in Brussels. In July 1592 the English ambassador Robert Bowes repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Melville Of Garvock
Andrew Melville of Garvock (died 1617) was a Scottish courtier and servant of Mary, Queen of Scots. Family background Andrew Melville was a younger son of John Melville of Raith in Fife and Helen Napier of Merchiston. His older brother James Melville of Halhill wrote a famous political memoir. Another brother, Robert Melville, was a noted politician and administrator. He was an uncle of the poet Elizabeth Melville. Garvock was an estate to the east of Dunfermline. The House of Garvock was on a hill. It was demolished at the end of the 18th century. The last vestiges of the building included a massive wall with a stair. Servant of Mary, Queen of Scots Andrew Melville was sent by his elder brother Robert Melville to Mary, Queen of Scots when she was imprisoned at Lochleven Castle. He brought her jewels, one piece from the Edinburgh goldsmith James Mosman and other items from her cabinet at Holyrood Palace. Subsequently he carried three gowns to Mary at Carlisle Castle in Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough Cathedral
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. The seat of the Church of England, Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, it is dedicated to the Apostles in the New Testament, Apostles Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the West Front. Founded in the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon period as a Minster (church)#History, minster it became one of England's most important Benedictine abbeys, becoming a cathedral only in 1542. Its architecture is mainly Norman architecture, Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. Alongside the cathedrals of Durham Cathedral, Durham and Ely Cathedral, Ely, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration, and is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funeral Of Mary, Queen Of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots, was buried at Peterborough Cathedral on 1 August 1587 with a heraldic funeral, following Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587. In 1612, her son James VI and I ordered her reburial at Westminster Abbey. Preparations Mary's servants who were held at Chartley Castle, Chartley were brought to Fotheringhay in February after the execution. Much of the furnishings and silver plate from Mary's lodging were sent to London. Amias Paulet described this as the "best stuff". Mary had made verbal bequests of jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots, many of her jewels and other items to her gentlewomen and male servants. These were retained at Fotheringhay in the custody of Andrew Melville of Garvock, Andrew Melville, Dominique Bourgoing, and Jane Kennedy (courtier), Jane Kennedy. Paulet sent an inventory of these latter items to Francis Walsingham which survives in The National Archives (United Kingdom), The National Archives (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cittern
The cittern or cithren ( Fr. ''cistre'', It. ''cetra'', Ger. ''Cister,'' Sp. ''cistro, cedra, cítola'') is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the medieval citole (or cytole). Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more portable. Played by people of all social classes, the cittern was a popular instrument of casual music-making much like the guitar is today. History Pre-modern citterns The cittern is one of the few metal-strung instruments known from the Renaissance music period. It generally has four courses of strings (single, pairs or threes depending on design or regional variation), one or more courses being usually tuned in octaves, though instruments with more or fewer courses were made. The cittern may have a range of only an octave between its lowest and highest st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
