[175] Calderwood.
[176] ‘Wha were lately pardonit by his majesty for slaughter of the Laird of Dawick’s son.’
[177] Mr C. Innes’s preface to Black Book of Taymouth, xxv.
[178] Anderson’s Hist. of the Frasers, p. 102.
[179] See onward, under May 1600.
[180] See onward, under August 1618.
[181] Britain’s Distemper, by Patrick Gordon, Spald. Club.
[182] Tytler’s History, quoting letters in the State-paper Office.
[183] This lady did not long enjoy the position of a duchess. She died on the 11th of May 1592, and was ‘buried in the Trinity College, in the east end thereof, very solemnly.’—Jo. Hist. When the Trinity College Church was taken down, that its site might form part of a railway station, the remains of a female, believed to be those of the royal foundress, Mary de Gueldres, were found in a side-aisle, and duly re-interred in the royal sepulchre at Holyrood. Afterwards, the remains of another female, who had apparently been buried under circumstances of distinction, were found in the east end of the church, and suspected by some to be the remains of the queen. The probability is, that these latter remains were those of the youthful Sophia Ruthven, Duchess of Lennox.
[184] May 19, 1591, the town-council of Aberdeen made arrangements for the support of one Robert Abell, who was ‘visited with leprosy, and thereby unable to win his living or frequent honest men’s society.’ He was placed in the house here described.—Ab. C. R. In 1612, the magistrates made the like provision for Agnes Jameson, spouse to Patrick Jack, ‘vexed and diseased with the sickness of leprosy,’ although she was not born and bred in the burgh.