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140 APOLOGY FOR MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON
Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 1620-1633. No. 240.
Edinburgh, 29 Nov. 1621.
Confirmation to William Dowglas of Toftis, son and heir of Archi¬
bald Dowglas of Toftis, a charter of James Maitland of Lethington,
dated Edinburgh, 10 June 1606, of sale to the said Archibald
and his heirs of the lands of Over and Nether Toftis.
Ibid. No. 603.
Edinburgh, 16 March 1624.
Confirmation to James Douglas, assignee of Richard Douglas of
deed of mortgage of lands in Garvald, in constab. of Hadingtoun,
sold to Richard Douglas for 6000 lib., and redeemable for 6000
lib. upon warning of forty days, by James Maitland of Lythingtoun.
Dated Brussels, 6 Nov. 1613.
Hist. MSS. Commiss. Ilepl. on the MSS. of the Earl of Home, p. 106.
No. 48.
Contract between Alexr., Earl of Home, and Sir Wm. Cockburn
of Langton, in which the former agrees to assign to the latter a
charter granted under reversion of 10,000 lib. Scots, by James
Maitland of Lethington, to Earl Home of the lands of Simprin.
a°. I6l6.
From these extracts it seems that James was driven abroad
in 1612-1613, and that he then parted with his landed
property. He gives us perhaps our last glimpse of the most
loyal of the Queen’s Maries, Mary Seaton, his mother’s friend,
in 1613 ‘ old and decrepid,’ and a pensioner of Madame de
Spier, at Rheims.
As to the details of James’s life before his exile, the informa¬
tion accessible to me is of the scantiest. On April 13, 1589,
we find him writing to Archibald Douglas from Dieppe. The
varied and versatile treacheries of Archie are familiar to every
student: he was associated with nobody—Mary, Morton,
Lethington—whom he did not betray. He had been, like
Lethington, deep in Darnley’s murder; he had served at the
same time Morton and the Castilians, and had been alternately
faithless to both. Mary he had betrayed to the death, and,
in 1584 he was a kind of unofficial agent of King James in
Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 1620-1633. No. 240.
Edinburgh, 29 Nov. 1621.
Confirmation to William Dowglas of Toftis, son and heir of Archi¬
bald Dowglas of Toftis, a charter of James Maitland of Lethington,
dated Edinburgh, 10 June 1606, of sale to the said Archibald
and his heirs of the lands of Over and Nether Toftis.
Ibid. No. 603.
Edinburgh, 16 March 1624.
Confirmation to James Douglas, assignee of Richard Douglas of
deed of mortgage of lands in Garvald, in constab. of Hadingtoun,
sold to Richard Douglas for 6000 lib., and redeemable for 6000
lib. upon warning of forty days, by James Maitland of Lythingtoun.
Dated Brussels, 6 Nov. 1613.
Hist. MSS. Commiss. Ilepl. on the MSS. of the Earl of Home, p. 106.
No. 48.
Contract between Alexr., Earl of Home, and Sir Wm. Cockburn
of Langton, in which the former agrees to assign to the latter a
charter granted under reversion of 10,000 lib. Scots, by James
Maitland of Lethington, to Earl Home of the lands of Simprin.
a°. I6l6.
From these extracts it seems that James was driven abroad
in 1612-1613, and that he then parted with his landed
property. He gives us perhaps our last glimpse of the most
loyal of the Queen’s Maries, Mary Seaton, his mother’s friend,
in 1613 ‘ old and decrepid,’ and a pensioner of Madame de
Spier, at Rheims.
As to the details of James’s life before his exile, the informa¬
tion accessible to me is of the scantiest. On April 13, 1589,
we find him writing to Archibald Douglas from Dieppe. The
varied and versatile treacheries of Archie are familiar to every
student: he was associated with nobody—Mary, Morton,
Lethington—whom he did not betray. He had been, like
Lethington, deep in Darnley’s murder; he had served at the
same time Morton and the Castilians, and had been alternately
faithless to both. Mary he had betrayed to the death, and,
in 1584 he was a kind of unofficial agent of King James in
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| Description | Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson -- The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick -- Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait -- The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law -- The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang -- Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme -- A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth -- Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth -- Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft -- Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul -- The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart -- Index. |
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