Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

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absence, to be entitled henceforth * of Redhall, knight.’ He appears
thereafter under this title (e.g. Reg. S. Egid., 135 ; Cambuskenneth, p. 2 ;
ADC., 1501-54, pp. 445-447). (Pinkerton, History of Scotland, ii. p. 324,
and Brunton and Haig, Senators, p. 26, state that he was knighted before
16 Feb. 1534.) On 15 Jan. 1517/18, he is acting as Sheriff of Fife {Exch.
Rolls, xiv. p. 604). He was auditor of Exchequer 1527 (ibid., xv. pp. 357,
373). The Diurnal of Occurrents records that he went to England as
ambassador for peace in April 1533, and 13 March 1535/36 (op. cit., pp. 17,
18). Otterbum fell under the King’s displeasure in 1537, for having held
intercourse with the Douglases in England and was warded in Dumbarton
Castle. He was delivered from prison in Sept. 1538, on payment of a
large fine (Brunton and Haig, Senators, p. 26; Pinkerton, History, ii.
pp. 350, 353 ; Douglas Blc., ii. p. 257 ; cf. Diurnal of Occurrents). Sir
Adam Otterburn was ambassador to France in 1546 (Henry VIII, State
Papers, xi. p. 360). He died, according to Brunton and Haig (Senators,
p. 27), in 1548, and certainly before 4 Feb. 1549/50 (ADC., 1501-54, p. 598).
His wife, Euphemia Mowbray (RMS., iii. 1487 ; RSS., ii. 1712) survived
him (ADC., 1501-54, p. 598) ; and his son and heir, John (RMS., iii. 2955 ;
RSS., ii. 1243,1820), his son Robert (RMS., iii. 572,1487) and his daughter
Margaret, who married and was later divorced from John Wemyss
(Wemyss, ii. p. 183 seq., pp. 208, 281), are mentioned. For further details
of his career see Brunton and Haig, Senators of the College of Justice.
Otterbum appears frequently in Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. Adam
Ottirbum, M.A., of St. Andrews diocese, appears in a record of 1519
(Laing Charters, 316), but it is doubtful if he is identical with the present
Otterbum.
Nicoll Craufurd justice clerk. Nicol or Nicholas Crawford of Oxgangs
likewise is frequently mentioned and held many offices. From 1524,
in which year his appointment is recorded (RSS., i. 3323), he appears
as Clerk of Justiciary (RMS., iii., passim ; Exch. Rolls, xv. p. 282 ; Menteith,
92 ; Edin. B.R., i. p. 229 ; Tester Writs, 443, etc.). He was Sheriff of
Peebles, 20 June 1523 (Tester Writs, 403a) ; one of the Lords of Council,
1 Aug. 1524 (ADC.. 1501-54, p. 205); on the Session, 15 Sept. 1524
(ibid., p. 211) ; commissioner for letting Crown lands, 4 July 1525 (Exch.
Rolls, xv. p. 559); custumar of Linlithgow, 1523-29 (ibid., pp. 58, 510);
special Sheriff of Aberdeen, Forfar and Perth (Exch. Rolls, xv. pp. 628,
629) and of Lanark, 1527, 1528 (ibid., pp. 657, 667) ; lord of Exchequer,
1527 (ibid., p. 357) ; auditor of Exchequer, 1524-27 (ibid., pp. 84, 373) ;
member of Secret Council, 19 May 1530 (ADC., 1501-54, p. 327). He
was dead by 13 April 1536, on which date the office of clerk-general of
Justiciary was vacant ‘ per mortem quondam Nicholaii Craufurd de
Oxingangis ’ (RSS., ii. 2004).
Mr. James Lausoun provest of Edinburgh. Second son of Richard
Lawson of Hariggs, Justice Clerk in the reign of James IV (Brunton and
Haig, Senators, p. 29). Perhaps the James Lausoun, of St. Andrews
diocese, who was elected procurator of the Scottish nation at. Orleans,
3 Oct. 1510 (Misc. SHS., ii. p. 82). Master James Lawson witnesses a