of the cardinal and the persuasions and flatteries of the queen-dowager were too much for Bothwell's constancy (ib. p. 143); but it would appear from the ‘Register of the Privy Council’ that to induce him to deliver up Wishart threats had to be employed as well as promises. On 19 Jan. he bound himself to deliver up the reformer before the last day of the month, and meantime to answer for him under ‘all the highest pain and charge’ (Reg. P. C. Scotl. i. 20). Wishart was burnt as a heretic (1 March 1546–7).
After the surrender of the castle of St. Andrews in July 1547, Bothwell's name was discovered in a register of the names of Scottish noblemen and gentlemen who had secretly bound themselves to the service of England. Bothwell, on condition that he married the Duchess of Suffolk, aunt of Edward VI, agreed to surrender his castle of Hermitage and renounce allegiance to the Scottish government. He was sent to prison, but was released shortly after the battle of Pinkie on 10 Sept. 1548. On the 17th he waited on the Duke of Somerset, the invading general. He was then described as a ‘gentleman of a right cumly porte and stature, and heretofore of right honourable and just meaning and dealing towards the King's majesty’ (Somerset, Expedition, ed. Dalzell, p. 77). In August 1549 he signed a bond of fealty to the king of England; and an instrument, dated at Westminster 3 Sept. 1549, sets forth that King Edward had taken him under his protection, granting him a yearly rent of one thousand crowns and one hundred light horsemen for his protection, and, in case of his losing his lands in Scotland, guaranteeing him lands of similar value in England (Bannatyne Club Miscellany, iii. 410–11). On 3 May 1550 Bothwell was summoned before the Scottish council to answer the charge of high treason, but there is no record of further proceedings against him, and probably he had already fled to England. There he remained till 1553, when in November he was induced by the queen-dowager to return to Scotland (letter of Bothwell to the queen-dowager, printed in Chalmers, Memoirs of James, Earl Bothwell). On 26 March following he received from the queen-dowager a remission for all his treasons. Soon after he joined the convention at Stirling, at which the agreement between the Duke of Châtelherault and the queen-dowager, by which the former resigned the regency, was ratified (Lodge, Illustrations, i. 195). He also signed the indemnity to the duke in the parliament which assembled at Edinburgh on 10 April. Shortly afterwards Bothwell was made by the queen-dowager her lieutenant on the borders. He is usually stated to have died in exile, but according to the ‘Diurnal of Occurrents’ (p. 67) his death took place at Dumfries in September 1556. Dumfries is also specified as the place of his death in the process for proving the consanguinity of his son with Lady Jane Gordon.
In Douglas's ‘Peerage’ his wife's name is given as Margaret Home of the family of Lord Home. She was, as above mentioned, Agnes Sinclair, daughter of Henry, lord Sinclair, and by her he had one son, James Hepburn, fourth earl of Bothwell [q. v.], and one daughter, Jane. The latter married, on 4 Jan. 1561–2, John Stewart, prior of Coldingham, a natural son of James V, by whom she had a son, Francis Stewart Hepburn [q. v.], fifth earl of Bothwell. Her first husband died in 1563, and in 1567 she married John Sinclair, master of Caithness, after whose death in 1577 she took for her third husband Archibald Douglas, parson of Glasgow (fl. 1568) [q. v.]
[Letters of Patrick, Earl of Bothwell, in Bannatyne Club Miscellany, iii. 403–23; and Letters of Assedation of Agnes, Countess of Bothwell (ib.), pp. 273–312; Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot.; Reg. P. C. Scotl.; Cal. State Papers, reign of Henry VIII; Sadler's State Papers; Acta Parl. Scot. vol. ii.; Lindsay of Pitscottie's Chronicles; Histories of Lesley, Buchanan, Knox, and Calderwood; Lodge's Illustrations; Douglas's Scottish Peerage (Wood), i. 226–7.]
HEPBURN, PATRICK (d. 1573), bishop of Moray, may have been the natural son of Patrick, first earl of Bothwell [q. v.], but has been wrongly identified with Patrick, the third son by lawful wedlock, who is styled in several documents Patrick in Bolton, was for some time master of Hailes, and died in October 1576. The future bishop is stated to have been educated under his relative John Hepburn [q. v.], prior of St. Andrews, whom he succeeded in the priory in 1522. From 1524 to 1527 he held the office of secretary to James V of Scotland. He was one of those who passed sentence against Patrick Hamilton [q. v.] in February 1527 (Calderwood, Hist. of the Church of Scotland, i. 80). The profligacy of Hepburn is the subject of ‘a merry bourd’ or jest, related with somewhat indecorous gusto by Knox (Works, i. 41), and the letters of legitimation made under the great seal for the children of Moray proves that the ‘bourd’ did not seriously malign him. He was advanced to the see of Moray in 1535, and at the same time received the abbey of Scone in perpetual commendam. His name first occurs as a member of the privy council at St. Andrews 2 Oct. 1546 (Reg. P. C. Scotl. i. 43). In 1553 he was a commissioner for settling the affairs
