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Robert Gourlay (merchant)
Robert Gourlay or Robin Gourlaw ( 1530–c. 1600) was a wealthy Edinburgh merchant and Customar of Edinburgh who built a renowned house in Edinburgh (now demolished). Life Robert Gourlay is first recorded in the employ of Regent Arran as a Groom of the Chamber and Wardrobe and was sometimes called the Regent's "chamber Child". The Regent bought clothes to wear and a horse to travel with, a measure of his importance in the household. In January 1552 he was called "Keeper of the Wardrobe". Another servant in the Wardrobe, the tailor Malcolm Gourlay was probably his older brother, or uncle. In November 1570, as a merchant of Edinburgh, Gourlay supplied two hanks of gold thread to the Edinburgh tailor James Inglis and embroiderer John Young, for clothes for James VI of Scotland. Regent Morton was a friend of Robert Gourlay, and allowed him to export grain, despite shortages. Gourlay was an elder of Edinburgh Kirk. In May 1574 the Kirk censured him for exporting grain and he was compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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John Provand
John Provand (died 1610) was a Scottish merchant in 16th-century Edinburgh. There was at this time a John Provand, Provost of the Collegiate Church of Abernethy, thought to be a different person. Provand dealt in wool, cloth, and imported textiles, and had gained his rights to trade overseas from his first wife, Katherine Henryson, who remained involved in the family business. In 1577 a valuable cargo of his was seized by English sailors or pirates using a fly-boat of Rochester. Perhaps during a trip to London to seek restitution for the loss of this cargo, Provand bought books for the young James VI, who was at this time living at Stirling Castle. These included; John Cheke on Greek pronunciation, Petrus Ramus on logic, and Sebastian Münster's ''Cosmographia''. On other occasions he sold Plutarch's ''Lives'' in two volumes and translations of the psalms by George Buchanan to the king's tutor Peter Young. Provand supplied silver to the mint. In September and October 1580 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Echlin (soldier)
Henry Echlin, Laird of Pittadro (died 1608) was a Scottish soldier and Constable of Edinburgh Castle during the Marian civil war. He was several times a negotiator during the "lang siege" of Edinburgh Castle. Some sources give his first name as Andrew. Family background Henry Echlin was a son of William Echlin of Pittadro and Alison Melville, said to be a daughter of James Melville of Raith. Echlin was known by his territorial designation as the "Laird of Pittadro", a property about a mile north of Dalgety Bay in the parish of Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland. James V granted William and Alison the mill of Pittadro in May 1542, for his loyal service. The mill had been held by the late laird of Barnbougle. In 1566, Henry was named in a document concerning his father-in-law's lands as "Hary Hecklyng of Pittadro". Henry Echlin, as laird of Pittadro or "Pittadrow", is sometimes confused with the comptroller of Scotland, John Wishart of Pitarrow (died 1585). Civil war in Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fleming
Mary Fleming (; also spelled ''Marie Flemyng''; 1542–fl. 1584) was a Scottish noblewoman and childhood companion and cousin of Mary, Queen of Scots. She and three other ladies-in-waiting ( Mary Livingston, Mary Beaton and Mary Seton) were collectively known as "The Four Marys". A granddaughter of James IV of Scotland, she married the queen's renowned secretary, Sir William Maitland of Lethington. Life Mary Fleming was the youngest child of Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming, and Lady Janet Stewart. She was born in 1542, the year her father was taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Solway Moss. Her mother was an illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland. Lady Fleming became a governess to the infant queen, also born in 1542, and the dowager queen, Mary of Guise, chose Lady Fleming's daughter Mary to be one of four companions to the young queen. Mary Fleming and Mary, Queen of Scots, were first cousins. In France In 1548, five-year-old Mary Fleming and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Maitland Of Lethington
William Maitland of Lethington (1525 – 9 June 1573) was a Scottish politician and reformer, and the eldest son of poet Richard Maitland. Life He was educated at the University of St Andrews. William was the renowned "Secretary Lethington" to Mary, Queen of Scots. As her Secretary of State from 1558, he played a prominent part in the various movements of his time, but did not gain the confidence of any party. He adhered to the party of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, illegitimate half-brother of the Queen, against the extreme measures of John Knox, and generally held his own against the preachers. His knowledge of foreign, and especially of English, politics and his general ability were assets of the highest value. The lords sent Maitland to England to ask for assistance from Elizabeth, and his constant aim throughout his political career was to bring about a union between the two crowns. He was the guest of Ralph Sadler at Sutton House. He proved a highly astute amb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home
Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (died 1575) was a Scottish nobleman and Warden of the Eastern March. Early life Alexander Home was the son of George Home, 4th Lord Home and Mariotta Haliburton. He became Lord Home on the death of his father who was injured in a skirmish with the English two days before the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh. Marriages In 1537 Alexander was contracted to marry a natural daughter of James V of Scotland and Elizabeth Beaton. However, he first married Margaret Ker of Cessford, a daughter of Sir Walter Ker of Cessford. Their daughter Margaret married George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal. He subsequently married Agnes Gray, daughter of Patrick, Lord Gray, and widow of Sir Robet Logan of Restalrig. Their son was Alexander Home, 6th Lord Home. Rough Wooing Alexander was captured by the English while riding on Falside Bray on 9 September 1547 the day before the battle of Pinkie. Both William Patten and Jean de Beaugué related how his mother Mariotta Haliburton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kirkcaldy Of Grange
Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (c. 1520 –3 August 1573) was a Scottish politician and soldier who fought for the Scottish Reformation. He ended his career holding Edinburgh castle on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots and was hanged at the conclusion of a long siege. Family William Kirkcaldy of Grange held lands at Hallyards Castle in Fife. William's father, James Kirkcaldy of Grange (died 1556), was lord high treasurer of Scotland from 1537 to 1543 and a determined opponent of Cardinal Beaton, for whose murder in 1546 William and James were partly responsible. William Kirkcaldy married Margaret Learmonth, a sister of Sir Patrick Learmonth of Dairsie and Provost of St Andrews, and George Learmonth of Balcomie. Kirkcaldy's heir was a nephew. A few days before Kirkcaldy's execution in August 1573, Ninian Cockburn reported that he had a child with a young woman. Kirkcaldy wrote a letter in code to the woman from his captivity, which was intercepted and decoded. Later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock (Edinburgh), Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III of Scotland, Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century, the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as a military garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. Edinburgh Castle has played a prominent role in History of Scotland, Scottish history, and has served variously as a Palace, royal residence, an arsenal, a treasury, a national archives, national archive, a Mints of Scotland, mint, a prison, a military fortress, and the home of the Honou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Drury
Sir William Drury (2 October 152713 October 1579) was an English statesman and soldier. Family William Drury, born at Hawstead in Suffolk on 2 October 1527, was the third son of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1503–1577) of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth Brudenell, of Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He was the grandson of another Sir Robert Drury (c. 1456–2 March 1535), Speaker of the House of Commons in 1495. He was a brother of Sir Robert Drury (1525–1593) and Sir Drue Drury (1531/2–1617). Career Drury was educated at Gonville College, Cambridge. Fighting in France, Drury was taken prisoner in 1544; then after his release, he helped Lord Russell, afterwards Earl of Bedford, to quell a rising in Devonshire in 1549, but he did not come to the front until the reign of Elizabeth I. In 1554 he sat as Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe. Berwick and Scotland In 1559, he was sent to Edinburgh to report on the condition of Scottish politics, and five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lockhart, Lord Carnwath
Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath (c. 1630 – 1689) was a Scottish advocate, judge and commissioner to parliament who was murdered. Life In 1644 he purchased from Sir Thomas Hope the mansion of Robert Gourlay (merchant), Robert Gourlay on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, very close to the Law Courts. The second son of Sir James Lockhart of Lee, laird of Lee, he was admitted as an Faculty of Advocates, advocate in 1656. He was knighted in 1663, and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1672. He was celebrated for his persuasive eloquence. In 1674, when he was disbarred for alleged disrespect to the Court of Session in advising an appeal to parliament, fifty advocates showed their sympathy for him by withdrawing from practice. Lockhart was readmitted in 1676, and became the leading advocate in political trials, in which he usually appeared for the defence. He lived on Mauchine's Close, previously the home of Sir Thomas Hope (and later swept way by the construction of Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hope Of Kerse
Sir Thomas Hope of Kerse (1606–1643) was a Scottish judge and politician. Life The second son of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Bennett of Wallingford, Berkshire, he was born on 6 August 1606. On 17 July 1631 he was admitted advocate. On 16 July 1633 Hope was knighted by King Charles I of England, Charles I at Innerwick. He bought the heritable position of the Sheriff of Clackmannan in 1738 from William Livingston and was commissioner in the Scottish parliament for Clackmannanshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency), Clackmannanshire in 1639, 1640, and 1641. In 1639, and again in 1640, he was colonel of the troop raised by the College of Justice to attend General David Leslie, Lord Newark, David Leslie as his bodyguard. In September 1641 he proposed in parliament, on behalf of the barons, that the estates should appoint officers of state and privy councillors by ballot, but the proposal was lost. His Edinburgh house, Hope House, on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall (1573 – 1646) was a Scottish lawyer, and Lord Advocate under Charles I. Life He was the son of an eminent Edinburgh merchant, Henry Hope, and his French wife, Jacqueline de Tott, her parents of Swedish origin. His grandfather John Hope was an Edinburgh merchant of French origin. Admitted as an advocate in 1605, he made his reputation in 1606 defending John Forbes, and five other ministers at Linlithgow who were charged with high treason. In 1608 he was on a team of lawyers, described as "the most learned and best experienced" who defended Margaret Hartsyde, a servant of Anne of Denmark accused of stealing her jewels. He prepared the deed revoking James VI's grants of church property in 1625. He was appointed Lord Advocate under Charles I in 1626, and held the office until 1641. He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia on 11 February 1628. Hope worked for landowners, including Mary, Countess of Home, and Marie Stewart, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
