Additional Source

At Edinburgh, 6 August 1591

[A1591/8/1]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]

Sederunt

• Sederunt
• The king
• [John Maitland of Thirlestane], chancellor
• [Ludovic Stewart, duke of] Lennox
• [John Hamilton, lord] Hamilton
• [George Gordon, earl of] Huntly
• [Andrew Leslie, earl of] Rothes
• [John Maxwell, lord] Maxwell†
• [Robert Lindsay, lord] Lindsay
• [Mark Kerr, commendator of] Newbattle
• [Alexander Livingston, lord] Livingston
• [John Fleming, lord] Fleming
• [Alexander Lindsay, lord] Spynie
• [Richard Cockburn of Clerkington], secretary
• [John Cockburn of] Ormiston
• [James Home of] Cowdenknowes
• [Sir Robert Melville of] Murdocairnie
• [Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnoull], justice clerk
• [David Seaton of Parbroath], comptroller
• [Robert Douglas, provost of Lincluden], collector
• [Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet], clerk register
• [David Carnegie of] Colluthie
• [John] Carmichael [of that Ilk]

1. NAS, PC1/15, p.35. Back
2. This would appear to be John Maxwell, former earl of Morton, who resigned those lands in 1585, not William Maxwell, always styled Lord Herries. Back