History of the Fife Pitcairns

96 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
June 1567, Robert Pitcairn was appointed a Lord of the
Articles ; and on the 29th of July he was present, as one
of the Privy Council, at the Coronation of the young King
at the Kirk at Stirling (Reg. P. C. Scot., i. 537) in 1567.
On the 2nd June 1568, the Commendator of Dunfermline
was appointed an ordinary Lord of Session, when Lord
James Murray was Regent of the kingdom. The King was
then two years old, and, in September of the same year,
Robert Pitcairn was made an Extraordinary Lord of Session,
and one of the principal Commissioners to accompany the
Regent Murray to the conference with the English Com-
missioners at York, in reference to charges against Queen
Mary.
In the Cartulary of Dunfermline x there is an interesting
entry as follows : —
" The Commendator of Dunfermline protests against any enquiry
being made into the character or conduct of Queen Mary, because
such would necessarily tend to her dishonour, and prove them
exceedingly ungrateful."
(Signed) James (Regent) Morton,
Patrick Lindsay,
at the Orchard, Dunfermline, Nov. 26, 1569.
Register of Dunfermline Abbey.