James V by Jamie Cameron;R.A. MacDonald;

Author:Jamie Cameron;R.A. MacDonald;
Language: eng
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Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

NOTES

1. Pitcairn, Trials, i, pt. i, 184–5, 190–1; APS, ii, 362.

2. The House of Forbes, edd. A. 38; H. Taylor (Spalding Third Club, 1937), 57. Lord Forbes was brother of Alexander, fourth lord and one of the ‘Rebels without a Cause’ in 1488–9: cf. Macdougall, James IV, 49–71, passim.

3. LP Henry VIII, iv, pt. ii, no. 4531.

4. SRO, RH 2.1.9. (ADC, vol. 38, f. 184); ADCP, 289.

5. ADCP, 290; Spalding, Miscellany, ii, 83–4; cf. chapters 3 and 4.

6. TA, v, 250–1.

7. SRO, Forbes Papers, [GD 52], no. 67.

8. Taylor, op.cit., 62; RMS, iii, no. 1194; ADCP, 341–2.

9. ADCP, 290.

10. SRO, ADC, vol. 39, f. 163v.

11. Taylor, op.cit., 65; ADCP, 341–2; RMS, iii, no. 1194.

12. SRO, ADC, vol. 41, ff. 112, 117v, 118v.

13. ADCP, 341–2; RMS, iii, no. 1194.

14. Taylor, op.cit., 74; cf. ADCP, 344, where Forbes was initially reluctant to sign the agreement.

15. Pitcairn, Trials, i, pt. i, 149–50; RMS, iii, no. 971; Taylor, op.cit., 66. Seventeen lairds from the north-east were fined on 27 August 1530 for failing to appear on the assize to try Lord Forbes for the same crime.

16. SRO, ADC, vol. 41, f. 119.

17. RMS, iii, nos. 1085–6, 1191–2, 1237. In Menzies’ case the intromissions had been over the previous nineteen years; in Fraser’s case since 1520. The Chronicle of Aberdeen, 32, records that Menzies’ ‘howise towik fyir and breintt’ in August 1529, possibly attributable to the Forbes.

18. SRO, Forbes Papers, no. 127, in July 1531, cf. SRO, ADC, vol. 39, ff. 65, 127v. Elphinstone reached his majority in November 1532: SRO, ADCS, ii, f. 30. If the Master was implicated in the 1525 attack, he would have been only fourteen years old.

19. ADCP, 367. It appears that for the whole of 1531, the Master had been absent from the area, and had now returned.

20. Forbes gave his bond of manrent to the third earl in 1522: Wormald, Bonds, App. A, 283, no. 25.

21. I.e. by decree-abitral, with the arbiters being judges of the Court of Session.

22. I.e. for a private out of court settlement.

23. Cf. RSS, ii, no. 326. Huntly then still being a minor, he could not take sasine.

24. Probably Angus’ letter to Forbes of 30 May 1528: A.B. Ill., iv, 415.

25. SRO, ADCS, ii, ff. 197, 199; iii, f. 4.

26. SRO, Forbes Papers no. 311; cf. Taylor, op.cit., 67–8.

27. Pitcairn, Trials, i, pt. i, 162, 163. Fire-raising was one of the four pleas pertaining to the Crown: cf. Regiam Maj. 255; Balfour, Practicks, ii, 509.

28. SRO, ADCS, iii, ff. 97, 172; iv, f. 136v.; vii, f. 119.

29. RSS, ii, no. 1977; TA, vi, 266, 274; Pitcairn, Trials, i, pt. i, 172. The Frasers were mutilated, rather than killed. Sir James Hamilton of Finnart was the specially constituted judge for the occasion.

30. Pitcairn, Trials, i, pt. i, 172. The Master had given caution for the appearance of Forbes of Pitsligo to underlie the law. With Pitsligo not appearing, Huntly had a claim against the Master who could seek relief from Pitsligo. Cf. Balfour, Practicks, i, 192 (in civil law).

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