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Marian civil war (6,720 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Alexander Hume of Manderston, the vanguard was commanded by the Earl of Morton and Lord Hume. Behind was the "carriage", namely the artillery train

Cunningham of Drumquhassle (4,767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

regent for about a year, but was effectively under the control of the Earl of Morton, who became Regent of Scotland in 1572. Drumquhassle was Mar's cousin

Drayton Beauchamp (726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

awarded land which later became known as Drayton Beauchamp to Robert, Earl of Morton who as Magno le Breton had accompanied William at the time of the Norman

Alexander Abernethy, 6th Lord Saltoun (611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1570 Saltoun wrote with the Laird of Pitsligo from Rothiemay to the Earl of Morton with news of a ship arrived at Aberdeen and its passengers. It was a

Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas (1,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assassination of Darnley, and acted as the agent between them and the Earl of Morton. According to the on-the-scaffold confession of his servant Thomas Binning

Clan Little (1,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

They were pardoned in 1585, while Maxwell was briefly serving as the Earl of Morton. The Union of the Crowns in 1603 meant that James I of England and VI

Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty's Coronation 1567 (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

committee of seven joint depute regents to rule till he returned. The Earl of Morton made the oath of regency on behalf of Moray, then the infant king was

Bannatyne Club (941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

William Leslie Melville The Earl of Minto James Moncreiff, Esq., MP The Earl of Morton James Patrick Muirhead, Esq Hon. Sir John A. Murray, Lord Murray Robert

Wilton Castle, North Yorkshire (1,209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Doomsday Book the estate is recorded as held by Nigel on behalf of Robert Earl of Morton. John de Bulmer and the Bulmer family became lords of the manor of Wilton

John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale (683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

uncle, George Hay. Frances was described by Horace Walpole and the Earl of Morton as merry, good company, and able to sing French, Greek, and Scotch songs

Bedrule Castle (1,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

historian David Hume of Godscroft describes how the Hume lairds met the Earl of Morton at Leith, and were reluctant to sign a band to join with the lawless

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus (1,074 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Douglas studied at St. Andrews University and joined the household of the Earl of Morton. Subsequently, while visiting the French court, he became a Catholic

Cornelius de Vos (2,307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

October 1566. He gives the names of four partners in the enterprise; the Earl of Morton, "Robert Bellenden (Secretary of Scotland)" perhaps intending John Bellenden

Tullibardine Castle (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 533–5. Amy Blakeway, 'James VI and the Earl of Morton', Miles Kerr-Peterson & Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power in

Murder of Lord Darnley (3,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

furthering the tryall of the veritie." The Privy Council, led by the Earl of Morton, noted this application of torture was a special case, and the method

Nor Loch (1,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the winter of 1571, as part of a plan to end the "Lang Siege", the Earl of Morton explained that, "One side of the town is 'unwallit', and the frost may

Ladykirk, Scottish Borders (1,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commissioners of Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis II of France were the Earl of Morton, Alexander, Lord Hume, Henry Sinclair, Dean of Glasgow and James MacGill

Henry Raeburn (2,488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Countess of Aboyne, (Lady Mary Douglas, daughter of James, fourteenth Earl of Morton) Dr Alexander Adam Robert Adam Mrs Robert Adam Archibald Alison Alexander

Treaty of Union (2,962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Prestongrange, Commissioner for Peeblesshire James Douglas, 11th Earl of Morton Sir Alexander Ogilvy of Forglen, 1st Baronet, Commissioner for Banff

George Auchinleck of Balmanno (602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

servant of Regent Morton in the 1570s. Auchinleck was a nephew of the Earl of Morton. In 1566 he received a pardon for involvement in the murder of David

Cranshaws Castle (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

there were extensive renovations carried out by George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton (1662–1738). The building was restored in 1896/97 by Andrew Smith of

John Spens, Lord Condie (367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

drafted a strongly-worded revocation of her demission, denouncing the Earl of Morton, the Earl of Moray, the Earl of Mar, and many others. He died in 1573

Marie Stuart (opera) (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Stuart bass Louis-Henri Obin Randolph, an English officer Molinier Earl of Morton bass Brémont Mary Fleming, Mary Stuart's lady-in-waiting Éléonore Duclos

Tim Eliott (563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sykes Winners (1985) – Simon Captain James Cook (1988, miniseries) – Earl of Morton Joe Wilson (1988, miniseries) – Jack Barnes Mission: Impossible (1988)

Alexander McNaughton (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baronet) and Lady Mary Douglas (daughter of Sir Robert Douglas, tenth Earl of Morton). McNaughton’s wife was a descendant of John MacDonald, Lord of the

James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

playing traitor and revealed the secrets of his party to James, Douglas, Earl of Morton. He obtained a pardon from Morton in 1573 and negotiated the pacification

Henry Killigrew (diplomat) (1,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

courtier Nicolas Elphinstone to gain the support of Regent Mar and the Earl of Morton. This was a scheme so secret that, apart from Killigrew, only Queen

Alexander Erskine of Gogar (1,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lost his position. The crisis of 1575 blew over. After James Douglas, Earl of Morton resigned the Regency of Scotland, on 28 March 1578, Alexander was appointed

George Douglas of Longniddry (586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

affairs of Francis Douglas of Longniddry. Seton hurt Longniddry. The Earl of Morton sided with Lethington and the Laird of Longniddry. George Douglas was

Margaret Chalmers (464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

said to have been the son of a Lord Provost of Aberdeen, factor to Earl of Morton and tacksman of various local estates. Her mother Catherine (Kitty)

James Halyburton (1707 MP) (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Halyburton of Pitcur and of Agatha, who married James Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton. He was married secondly, by contract dated 8 December 1710, Mary, daughter

William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton (2,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

December 1560 Grey hosted Scottish ambassadors at Berwick and gave the Earl of Morton a personal tour of the latest fortifications. Grey retired from active

Sir John Carmichael (2,670 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lanarkshire. He was active in the Marian Civil War, and in September 1571 the Earl of Morton wrote approvingly of an incident where he had chased and fought some

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun (2,602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

estates would not give their consent to the nomination either of the Earl of Morton or of Lord Almond, as lord high treasurer, the treasury was put into

Stephen Atkinson (metallurgist) (742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

story dating back 40 years before his time, during the regency of the Earl of Morton. He says that three painters, Nicolas Hilliard, Arnold Bronckorst, and

Henry Middlemore (1,222 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mynistered to the Kynge this realme at his coronation was taken by the Earl of Morton and the Laird of Dun on the Prynces behalfe". In 1568 he was given a

George Seton, 7th Lord Seton (3,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Seton fought a duel with Francis Douglas who was badly injured. The Earl of Morton and the Laird of Lethington tried to take legal action so Seton went

Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay (2,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

combat "in regard of his nearness of blood to the defunct king." The Earl of Morton presented him with the famous two-handed sword of his ancestor Archibald

St Leonard's, Edinburgh (5,494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Edinburgh boundaries extension and tramways order 1920: Opposition by the Earl of Morton. Plan showing the present area of the Burgh of Edinburgh with the successive

List of monastic houses in County Kilkenny (366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1180, grant of church confirmed by charter of John, Lord of Ireland, Earl of Morton c.1185; dissolved 1540; church in parochial use by 7 January 1541; granted

John Wishart of Pitarrow (1,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he was appointed in the pacification between Châtelherault and the Earl of Morton one of the arbitrators to see that the conditions were carried out north

List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, 1740–1744 (1,200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Orkney and Lordship of Zetland and vesting them irredeemably in James Earl of Morton and his heirs, discharged from any right or power of redemption in his

General Assembly of Aberdeen (1,994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Castle. Of the whole number, one was released at the request of the Earl of Morton ; four were not summoned at all ; and about a third, through the exertions

Condor of Cornwall (3,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

earldom, the same being given to the Conqueror's half-brother, Robert Earl of Morton in Normandy, whose son William for a long time succeeded him in that

Saint Neot (monk) (6,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

importance after his death, and in fact the lands were later seized by the Earl of Morton. It is likely that in the reign of William the Conqueror the building

William Ogilby (5,395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Douglas, was a daughter of the local Rector at Donagheady, a niece of the Earl of Morton and a cousin of the Marquess of Abercorn. For the next twenty years

Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots, into Edinburgh (1,679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

psalm. A cupboard of gilt plate, bought by the town council from the Earl of Morton and Richard Maitland of Lethington, was presented to the queen in her

List of monastic houses in Scotland (4,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Priory Franciscan nuns founded 1548 by James, Earl of Morton; secularised 1560, leased to Earl of Morton 18 August 1560 Aberdene Priory (erroneous[citation

Newington, Edinburgh (9,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Edinburgh boundaries extension and tramways order 1920: Opposition by the Earl of Morton. Plan showing the present area of the Burgh of Edinburgh with the successive

Jean de Monluc (3,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques de la Brosse.Amongst the Protestant leaders, he spoke to the Earl of Morton and Mary's half-brother Lord James. Amongst his proposals, he asked

Edmund MacGauran (6,341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Earl of Huntly; Fathers Holt and Dury are in the West with the Earl of Morton i.e., Lord Maxwell at Dumfries. The number of Catholics increases rapidly

Kilwinning Abbey (6,218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

supporting the Queen and the opposing Protestant faction under the Earl of Morton. Although he supported the Reformation, he was also a supporter of Mary

Nicolas Elphinstone (2,898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

liaising between the English diplomat Henry Killigrew and Regent and the Earl of Morton. Killigrew mentioned that Elphinstone was a "wise and trusty instrument

Lyon's Whelp (4,465 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lord Steward - Earl of Suffolk - Earl of Dorset - Earl of Exeter - Earl of Morton - Earl of Kelley - Viscount Wimbledon - Viscount Grandison - Mr. Treasurer

List of monastic houses in Ireland (6,565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1180, grant of church confirmed by charter of John, Lord of Ireland, Earl of Morton c.1185; dissolved 1540; church in parochial use by 7 January 1541; granted

Archibald Simson (1,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

7 June 1620, which he avoided through the intercession of William, Earl of Morton (ib. vii. 444). He died in December 1628 at Dalkeith. Simson is known

List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1870 (949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Maintenance by the Right Honourable Sholto John Watson Douglas, Earl of Morton, of a several or exclusive Mussel Fishery in the Frith of Forth in the