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I.] APPENDIX. 335
IV. — THE ACT OR PROCESS AGAINST SIR JOHN BORTHWICKE
Sir John Borthwicke, Knight, commonly called Captain e
Borthwicke, being accused, suspected, slandered, and con-
vict by witnesses, without all doubt, of greater estimation
then hee himselfe, in the year of our Lord 1540, the eight
and twentieth day of May, in cloyster of St Andrewes, in
the presence of the Most Reverend Fathers, Gawine Arch-
bishop of Glasgow, Chancellour of Scotland, 2 William Bishop
of Aberdeen, 3 Henry of Candida Casa, 4 John Bishop of
Brechin, 5 and William of Dunbar Bishop of , 6 Andrew
of Melross, 7 George of Dunfermling, 8 John of Paisly, 9 John of
Lundores, 10 Robert of Kelso, 11 and William of Culross, 12
1 Fox's Martyrol. vol. ii. p. 605, &c.
2 [Gavin Dunbar. See the first note,p. 331, No. II. of this Appendix. — E.]
3 [William Stewart, of the Family of Garlies, formerly Parson of Loch-
maben, Rector of Ayr, Prebendary and Dean of Glasgow, Provost of Lin-
cluden, and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, elected Bishop of Aberdeen
in 1532.— E.]
4 [Henry, Bishop of Galloway, or Candida Casa, is supposed to have been
a near relative of the Noble Family of Wemyss, Earls of Wemysa in the
Peerage of Scotland. — E.]
5 [John Hepburn, of the Family of Bothwell, Bishop of Brechin. — E. j
,; [The Prelate mentioned is not known. — E.]
7 [Andrew Durie, Abbot of Melrose. Charters to and by Andrew,
Abbot of Melrose, are in the " Liber Sancte Marie de Melros," presented
to the Bannatynb Club by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, 4to. Edin.
1S37, vol. ii. p. 626, 627, 628, 634.— E.]
8 [George Durie, Abbot of Dunfermline. See the seventh note, p. 331,
No. II. of this Appendix. — E.]
9 [John Hamilton, illegitimate brother of the Duke of Chatelherault,
Earl of Arran, and Regent of Scotland. He was appointed Abbot of
Paisley in 1525, Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1543, and subsequently Lord
High Treasurer, and the successor of Cardinal Beaton as Archbishop of
St Andrews and Primate of Scotland. — E.]
10 [John, whose surname is unknown, Abbot of Lindores, was appointed
a member of a Committee of the Parliament of 1542, Acta Pari. Scot,
folio, vol. ii. p. 411. He was elected one of the same Committee in the
Parliament, 4th December 1543, Ibid, vol. ii. p. 428 ; and the Abbot of
Lindores was elected one of the Lords of the Articles in the Parliament
held on the 7th of November 1544. John Abbot of Lindores was in the
Parliament of 1560 which ratified the Confession of Faith, and was
elected a Lord of the Articles. It is said that he conformed to the " Re-
formed" opinions. Introduction to " Liber Sancte Marie," printed for the
Abbotsford Clcb, 4to. Edinburgh, 1841. — E.]
11 [Robert, Abbot of Kelso. Surname unknown. — E.]
12 [On the 14th March 1542, William, Abbot of Culross, protested in
the Parliament on behalf of the "bairns" of "umcpihill James Colville