Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

232 THE SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENCE OF
doyn gyf I had beyn fra this besrnes ; bot I was heyr
with all tham that I mycht gett on hors and fuit, that
tha had na cumpany to haf cum with tham : prayng your
grace to conseder the samyn, and that I sail mayk na
excus for ony serves your grace wyll command me bot I
salbe ever rady eftir my power and all myn to answer
your grace charge. Ferder, I thynk to se yowr grace in
Styrlyng on Fryday or Setterday 1 for my lord gover-
nour hes licent me to ga spek with my guid moder 2 quha
has wrytyn effectosly to caus me cum owr and spek with
hyr. And I haf seyn your grace wrytyngis to be in
Styrlyng this Fryday, howbeyt it war veray necessair
your grace presens in this town, to quham I recommend
my humyll serves. At Edynborghe, the second day of
May
• be your grace servituir
Hew Campbell oe Lowdoun.3
CLXV
Robert, Master of Boyd, to the Queen Dowager
Dalkeith, 3rd May [1548].
TO THE QUENIS GRACE
Mademe, efter maist humilie recommendationis and
service one to your grace, quham plesit the samyn, my
1 Friday, 5th, or Saturday, 6th May.
2 The widow of the second Earl of Lennox (if she were the mother of
Campbell’s first wife) does not seem to appear on record after 1530. It is
likely, therefore, that at the date of writing he had already married his second
wife; and the ‘ guid moder ’ here referred to was Margaret Stewart, Lady
Drummond of Innerpeffry. His second marriage had apparently drawn the
Sheriflf of Ayr into the Gordon-Catholic interest. The breach with Lennox and
the English party seems to have taken place about November or December
IS47- On 26th December Lennox petitioned Somerset for the abbey of
Holywood, ‘ now vacant within the precinct of the King’s possessions in the
west of Scotland, lately given by the Governor to the Sheriff of Ayr.’ (C.S.P.
i. 113.)
3 Sir Hew Campbell, hereditary sheriff of Ayr, ancestor of the Earls of Loudoun.
The letter is holograph.