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  *William, 2nd Earl of Caithness, Oliver’s full brother; Justiciar, chamberlain and sheriff for Bishops of Caithness

  *Eleanora Sinclair, Oliver’s full sister, second wife of John, Earl of Atholl, q.v.; cousin of Phemie

  *John Sinclair, another of Oliver’s full brothers

  *Catherine Sinclair, Oliver’s half-sister, daughter of Earl William by his first wife; first wife of Alexander, Duke of Albany, q.v.

  *William (the Waster) of Cousland, Dysart and Ravenscraig, Oliver’s half-brother and eventual 2nd Lord Sinclair of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire; son of Earl William by his first wife

  *Henry Sinclair, son of William the Waster; farmer of Sinclair lordships in Orkney

  *Cristina Dunbar, Phemie’s sister, married to *Alexander Innes, heir to *James Innes of Innes of north-east Scotland

  *William, Thane of Cawdor; Constable of Nairn Castle; trading partner of *Hugh Ross, q.v.

  *William Cumming of Inverallochy (Marchmont Herald)

  *Cristina Preston, his second wife

  *Thomas and *Alexander Cumming, Aberdeenshire kinsmen of Marchmont Herald, q.v., in business with *Thomas (Bistan) Cochrane and *Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, q.v.

  *Hugh Ross of Kilravock, Nairn; trading partner of Cawdor

  *Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre, 3rd Baron Hailes, Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed Castle; sheriff of Berwick; grandson of *Alexander, 1st Lord Home

  *Alexander Hepburn of Whitsome, sheriff of Edinburgh

  *John Murray of Touchadam, by Stirling, temporary royal captain of Dunbar Castle

  *James Shaw of Sauchie, Governor of Stirling Castle and of person of Prince James

  *Robert Lauder of the Bass, Keeper of Berwick-upon-Tweed Castle

  *Alexander Lauder

  *George, 2nd Lord Seton

  *Robert, 2nd Lord Lyle

  *Andrew, 2nd Lord Grey, supporter of the *Earl of Angus, q.v.

  *Sir James Liddell of Halkerston, Creich, Dunbar and Edinburgh, steward to Albany

  *William, 3rd Lord Crichton, son of *Janet Dunbar; cousin of Phemie

  *Marion Livingstone, his wife

  *John Ellem of Butterdene, captain of Dunbar Castle for Albany

  *John and *Alexander Trotter, supporters of Albany

  *William Dickson, bailie of Peebles and *Patrick, *David and *Thomas, supporters of Albany

  *John Jardine of Applegarth and Jardinefield, Berwickshire

  *Alexander Jardine, his nephew and subsequent heir

  *Alexander (Sander) Jardine of Applegarth, his son, supporter of Angus and Albany

  *David Purves, supporter of Albany

  *James Gifford of Sheriffhall, kinsman of James Douglas, Earl of Morton, q.v.

  *Archibald (Bell-the-Cat) Douglas of Tantallon (Red Douglas), 5th Earl of Angus and lord of Abernethy, married to *Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, Lord Boyd, q.v.

  *Sir James Douglas, Earl of Morton and lord of Dalkeith, married to Joanna Stewart, q.v.

  *John Douglas of Morton, their son

  *Joanne, their daughter, married to *Thomas, Lord Erskine, q.v.

  *Janet, another daughter, married to Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, q.v.

  *Margaret Hepburn, daughter of Janet and Patrick, granddaughter of Joanna Stewart, q.v.

  *James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas (Black Douglas), son of Beatrix Sinclair, q.v., and cousin of Sir Oliver Sinclair, q.v.; pensioner at English Court

  *Robert Douglas of Lochleven, son of *Margaret Erskine and Keeper of castle

  *Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, shipowner, trader; Chamberlain to the King; former royal Comptroller

  *Elizabeth Dunbar, Countess of Moray, Lady of Luss, his wife; cousin of Phemie; claimant with James Shaw, q.v., to Sauchie

  *Humphrey Colquhoun, their son

  *Sir John (Johnny) Stewart, 1st Lord Darnley, grandson of 1st *Lord Aubigny, cousin of *Bernard Stuart of Aubigny; claimant to earldom of Lennox

  *Walter Stewart of Morphie, half-brother of Avandale, q.v.

  *Sir John Haldane of Gleneagles, claimant to earldom of Lennox through his wife, *Agnes Menteith; kin to Cristina Haldane, wife of Sir Oliver Sinclair, q.v.

  *Sir John (Jock) Ross of Hawkhead, sheriff of Linlithgow and Keeper of Blackness Castle; champion jouster and poet

  *Egidia (Gelis) Ross, his daughter, married to *James, son of *Sir James Auchinleck, q.v.

  Jordan de St Pol of Kilmirren, formerly vicomte de Ribérac when royal adviser and merchant in France

  Simon de St Pol of Kilmirren, his son

  Henry de St Pol, son of Simon’s late wife Katelina van Borselen, sister of Gelis van Borselen, q.v.

  Isobella (Bel) of Cuthilgurdy, one-time neighbour to the St Pols of Kilmirren

  *David Simpson (de Salmeton), former Scots Archer in France, former agent of Jordan de St Pol; agent and Procurator for Prosper de Camulio, q.v.

  *Dame Elizabeth Stewart, widow of *Sir William Charteris, Perth

  *Robert Colville of Hilton, Clackmannan, seneschal of Queen Margaret

  *Malcolm McClery, Queen’s legal agent; armiger to Earl William Sinclair, q.v., by whom enfeoffed with Garton-Sinclair, Menteith

  *Sir Thomas Semple of Elliotstoun, sheriff of Renfrew; son of Sir William Semple

  Oliver Semple, kinsman, once factor to Nicholas at Beltrees

  *Sir William Wallace of Craigie, Ayrshire

  *James Wardlaw of Riccarton and *John, his brother

  *Robert, Lord Fleming and *David and *John Fleming, his grandsons and heirs

  *George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, eldest son of *Alexander Seton, lord of Gordon

  *Elizabeth Dunbar, q.v., widowed Countess of Moray, niece of George, Earl of March; cousin of Phemie; Huntly’s first (divorced) wife

  *Annabella Stewart, q.v., Huntly’s second (divorced) wife

  *Elizabeth Hay, daughter of William, Earl of Erroll, q.v., Huntly’s third wife

  *Alexander Gordon, Huntly’s son, married to *Joanna, daughter of John, Earl of Atholl, q.v.

  *James Ogilvy of Deskford and Findlater *Sir Robert Arbuthnott of Arbuthnott, married to a daughter of *John Ogilvy of Airlie

  *William, Lord Forbes

  *William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll, Constable of Scotland

  *Alexander Home of Home, grandson of 1st Lord Home

  *Patrick Home of Fast Castle *William, 2nd Lord Borthwick

  *James Borthwick, his son, captain of Home Castle

  *Thomas (Tom) Kilpatrick, laird of Closeburn, captain of Lochmaben Castle

  *John, Lord Kennedy, married to *Elizabeth Gordon, former Countess of Erroll

  *William, Lord Ruthven, tenant of Cousland

  *William, his son

  *Alan, 1st Lord Cathcart

  *Thomas, Lord Erskine, sheriff of Stirling, married to a daughter of Joanna Stewart, q.v.

  Constantine (Conn) Malloch, Border’s landowner

  John and Muriella, children of his late wife

  Benedict (Ben) Bailzie, landowner and merchant

  *Angus Og MacDonald of Islay, illegitimate son of John, Lord of the Isles, and married to a daughter of Colin, Earl of Argyll, q.v.

  RELIGIOUS:

  *Patrick Graham, excommunicated Archbishop of St Andrews

  *William Scheves, q.v., his successor

  *Bishop Thomas Spens, Bishop of Aberdeen, escort of young Albany and Scottish Princesses abroad

  *Robert Blackadder, next Bishop of Aberdeen

  *James Livingstone, Bishop of Dunkeld

  *John Hepburn (Herspolz), Bishop of Dunblane

  *Robert Colquhoun, Bishop of Argyll; related to Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, q.v.

  *John Laing, Bishop of Glasgow; later Chancellor, q.v.

  *Andrew Painter, Bishop of Orkney

  *John Wodman, Prior of May and Postulate Bishop of Ross; brother of Andro Wodman, q.v.

  *William Elphinstone, Official of Lothian, Archdeacon of Argyll, Bishop-elect of Ross

  *Andrew Stewart, Bishop-elect of Moray, q.v.

  *Archibald Crawford, A
bbot of Holyrood, q.v.

  *Abbot Henry Arnot of Cambuskenneth, former King’s Procurator in Rome

  *Abbot James Crichton, Newbattle Abbey

  *Abbot John Brown of Melrose

  *Abbot George Shaw of Paisley

  *Abbot Andrew Cavers of Lindores

  *Abbot Henry Crichton of Dunfermline

  *Abbot William Bonkle of Arbroath

  *Prioress Euphemia Graham, half-sister of the late *Bishop Kennedy, St Mary’s Cistercian Priory, Eccles, by Coldstream

  *Prioress Elizabeth Forman, Cistercian Priory, North Berwick

  *Prioress Elizabeth, Cistercian Priory, Haddington

  *Alisia Maitland, nun at Haddington Priory

  *Prioress, Cistercian Priory, Elcho, Perthshire

  *Sir Edward Bonkle, Provost of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, Edinburgh

  *Alexander Bonkle of Bruges and Edinburgh, his brother; merchant

  *John (Jannekin) Bonkle, his illegitimate son; once agent, now churchman

  *John Bonkle, his nephew; merchant; briefly Treasurer of Edinburgh

  *Master of Santra

  *William (Will) Bell, priest, public notary and Rector of Church of Upsettlington

  *Brother John Yare, Guardian of the Minorite Friars in Haddington

  *Sir William Knollys of Torphichen, Preceptor of Scotland of the Order of Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem

  *John Knollys, his brother; burgess of Aberdeen

  *Robert Knollys, Berwickshire, one of his four illegitimate sons

  *Prospero Schiaffino de Camulio de’ Medici, Collector for the Apostolic Camera in England, Ireland and Scotland

  TRADERS, BURGESSES, CRAFTSMEN AND SHIPMASTERS:

  *William (Old Will) of Berecrofts, merchant

  *Archibald the Younger of Berecrofts (Archie), his son

  *Robin, son of Archie and husband of Katelijne Sersanders, q.v.

  *Thomas (Tom) Yare, merchant, dealer, bailie and chancellor of Berwick-upon-Tweed; burgess and Treasurer of Edinburgh

  *Margaret Home, his wife

  *Walter (Wattie) Bertram, merchant of Edinburgh and Leith; Provost of Edinburgh; sailed the Marie with *Henry Cant, q.v., married to *Elizabeth Cant

  *George (Dod) Robieson, Customar of Edinburgh

  *James (Jamie) Hommyll, King James’s servant, envoy, tailor

  *Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar Castle and Lauderdale, merchant

  *Margaret Preston, his sister, married to *Andrew Bertram, brother of Walter, q.v.

  *Thomas (Leithie) Preston, shipmaster and merchant; with Tam Cochrane and Master Conrad, q.v., tenant of Cousland under the Sinclairs; also in Middle Pitcairn under Lord Ruthven

  *Alison Russell, Leithie’s wife, formerly married to *Alan Cochrane of Cleghorn and Grugfoot, Tam Cochrane’s brother

  *Archibald Preston, Leithie’s young son

  *Thomas Preston, brother of Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar

  *Cristina Preston, second wife of William Cumming, Marchmont Herald, q.v.

  *Agnes (Nanse) Preston, nurse to Prince James; married to burgess

  *John Turing

  *John Preston, burgess of Edinburgh

  *Elizabeth Monypenny, his wife, of Franco-Scottish family

  *Thomas (Big Tam) Cochrane, mason, dealer, master of defensive building and artillery movement; Constable of Kildrummy Castle

  *Robert (Dob) Cochrane, Tam’s cousin; Edinburgh burgess

  *Edward (Ned) Cochrane, Renfrewshire kinsman serving John, Lord Darnley, q.v.

  *James Cochrane, sheriff-depute of Renfrew

  *Andrew Lisouris, lay Brother of Cupar, Fife; King’s carpenter

  *Walter and *John Merlioun, master masons

  *John Bonar, bombadier, Mill of Dron, Fife; member of artillery family

  *Alexander (Alec) Brown of Leith, Colstoun, Ratho and Berwick-upon-Tweed, master of the Marie and the James, trading to England with Thomas Yare, q.v., and others

  *Peter Brown of Colstoun, his brother

  *Sir Andrew Wood of Largo, Fife; Leith captain and merchant

  *Gilbert (Gibbie) Fish, Berwick coiner in Berwick-upon-Tweed, goldsmith; burgess of Edinburgh

  *William Goldsmith, ‘the Halfpenny Man’, moneyer, gun-smelter

  *William Tor of Tor, hammerman; descendant of Warden of the Royal Mint

  *Matthew Auchinleck, goldsmith, Canongate

  *Alan Landells, of moneyer family, former occupant of King’s secure Blackness house

  *Thomas Mulliken, of Florentine mint masters, in Scotland for three generations

  *James MacCalzeane, Edinburgh burgess and goldsmith, and burgess brother *John

  Alexander (Eck) Scougal, manager of East Lothian stud of Knights of St John

  *John of Scougal, East Lothian, cousin of *John Scougal of that Ilk

  *Patrick Flockhart, commander of the Archers of the Guard of the French King

  *Thomas Swift, merchant, with great mansion in High Street, Edinburgh

  *Dean Walter Swift, his brother; Holyrood chaplain; occupant of former Royal Mint

  *Robert Grey, butcher, of Canongate and High Street booths

  *Isabel (Isa) Williamson, Tolbooth trader; supplier to King James

  Lang Bessie, brewster-wife, High Street tavern

  *Hector Meldrum, royal macer, of Canongate and High Street booths

  *Henry Cant, merchant with booth in Edinburgh; sailed with Walter

  Bertram, q.v., and kin to his wife

  *John Napier of Merchiston, variously merchant, Provost of Edinburgh, Master of the Royal Household; married to *Margaret Preston; claimant to earldom of Lennox through second marriage to *Elizabeth Menteith, elder sister of Agnes, wife of Sir John Haldane, q.v.

  *Janet Napier, of the same family, married to *John Wilson, burgess of Edinburgh

  *John (Johnnie) Ramsay, heir and probable son of Janet Napier; married to *Isobel Cant

  *Sir Gilbert Johnstone of Elphinstone, King’s armiger and future Deputy Constable and sheriff of Edinburgh

  *Adam, his son, and *Adam, his brother

  *James Russell, associate of Johnstone

  *John Heriot of Longniddry, another associate

  *James Gullane of Newbattle, another associate

  MUSICIANS AND POETS:

  *William Roger (Whistle Willie), English musician long resident at Scottish Court

  *Blind Harry, travelling ballad-maker

  *John Reid (Stobo), churchman, royal clerk and poet

  *Sir Richard Holland, clerk, poet and English pensioner

  *Robert Henryson, law graduate and notary; schoolmaster at Dunfermline

  *Sir John Ross of Hawkhead, q.v., poet

  *James Auchinleck, poet, husband of Sir John’s daughter Gelis, q.v.

  England:

  *King Edward IV, House of York

  *Cicely Nevill, Duchess of York, his mother

  *Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, his sister, q.v.

  *Elizabeth Woodville, his Queen

  *Cecilia, their second daughter, contracted in childhood to son of King James III of Scotland

  *George, Duke of Clarence, King Edward’s brother

  *Richard (Dickon), Duke of Gloucester, sheriff of Cumberland, Warden of the West March, Admiral of England, George’s younger brother

  *Anne Nevill, Richard’s wife

  *Dr Alexander Leigh, canon of Windsor, Almoner to King Edward

  *Humphrey, Lord Dacre of Gilsland

  *Henry (Harry) Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, sheriff of Northumberland, Constable of Bamburgh Castle and Warden of East and Middle Marches