History of the life and death of John, Earl of Gowrie

QUEEN MARGARET. 51
tence of the Bishop's Court of St. Andrew's, and
she was then about forty years of age.
It is generally remarked, that this Queen Dowa-
ger of Scotland was, like her brother King Henry
VIII. changeable in her affections. Several prac-
tices were undoubtedly shamefully tolerated in the
popish times. But there is no evidence of any es-
trangement of her affection from Henry Stewart,
her third husband.
Her son, King James V., who was born in April,
151@, was now about fifteen years of age, and had
taken the government upon himself. She obtain-
ed from him lands in behalf of her husband, and
also the dignity of the peerage. A part of her
jointure, as Queen Dowager of Scotland, was the
lordship and castle of Stirling. This part she gave
up to the crown, in exchange for the lands and ba-
rony of Methven and Balquhidder in the county
of Perth. Crawfurd, in his Lives of the Officers
of State, quotes a charter, dated at Edinburgh,
July 17th, 1528, in which the King grants and
confirms to his mother Queen Margaret, and to
her husband Henry Stewart, brother german to
that Andrew, who was then Lord Evandale, and
to the longest liver of them two, and to their heirs