History of the Fife Pitcairns

32 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
the Earl of Athole, he had three sons — Patrick, sixth
lord ; John, who died in France ; Norman, ancestor of
the Lindsays of Kilquhiss — and six daughters : Isabel,
married to Norman Leslie ; Catherine, to Thomas Myre-
ton of Cambo ; Margaret, to David Beaton of Melgund,
son of Cardinal Beaton ; Janet, wife of, first, Henry,
Master of Sinclair, and, secondly, of Sir George Douglas ;
Helen, wife of Thomas Fotheringhame of Powrie ; and
Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Kinnear of Kinnear.
Patrick Lindsay, sixth Lord Lindsay of the Byres (d.
1589), a prominent supporter of the Reformers, eldest son
of John, fifth Lord Lindsay of the Byres, by Helen
Stewart, daughter of John, third Earl of Athole, helped
Kirkcaldy of Grange to keep the French in check in Fife.
He was a staunch supporter of the Regent Murray. At
the battle of Langside, after Mary's escape from Loch-
leven, he turned the tide of battle against her. He, with
Robert Pitcairn his cousin, was one of the four commis-
sioners appointed to accompany the Regent in September
1568 to conferences first held at York, and then adjourned
to Westminster. Lord Lindsay was concerned in the Raid
of Ruthven in 1582, and after the king's rescue at St
Andrews fled with many others to England. On his return
he took part in the Gowrie Conspiracy in 1584, and was
committed to Tantallon Castle ; but on the fall of Arran
in November he was released. 1
By his wife, Euphemia, eldest daughter of Sir Robert
Douglas of Lochleven and sister uterine of the Regent
Murray, Patrick had a son James, seventh Lord Lindsay,
and two daughters — Margaret, married to James, Master
of Rothes, and Mauslie, wife of William Ballingall of
Ballingall.
By his second wife, Euphemia Leslie, eldest daughter
of Andrew, fifth Earl of Rothes, he had two sons — John,
eighth lord, and Robert, ninth lord — and three daughters :
Jean, married to Robert Lundey of Balgonie ; Catherine,
to John Lundey of Lundin ; and Helen, wife of John,
1 Conolly's Eminent Men of Fife, and Lee's National Biography.