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HAMILTON. 139 as LORD HAMILTON [S.], all his Lordships and Baronies being erected into the Lordship of Hamilton. He was Commissioner of a peace with England in 1449 ; was founder of the Collegiate church of Hamilton in Hoi, in which year he joined the Douglas family in their opposition to the King. He m. Janet (living Get. 1122) sister of James, 1st LORD LIVINGSTON [8.1 da. of Sir Alexander Livingston, of Caleudar, by (— ) da. of (— ) Dundas. He was living 1451, but probably d. soon afterwards and before 1455.( a ) II. 1453? £ James (Hamilton), Lord Hamilton [S. |, s. and h. 6. probably about 1415 ; mentioned iu a charter, 18 April 142G, his father being alive ; was in 1440, made a Privy Councillor to James II. [S.], wliom he appears to have supported against the Douglas insurrection and by whom he was rewarded with the grant of the hereditary Shrievalty of Lanarkshire, 1 July 1455, and with other grants in Aug. and Oct. 1457. He was on various embassies to England from 1401 to 1472. He had dispensation^) Aug. 14UU to marry Janet Maxwell, which marriage was never consummated. He in. firstly (dispensation^) March 1440 v Euphemia,^) widow of Archibald, 5th Eaul of Douglas [S.], da. of Eupheniia, suo jure Countess of Sthathekn [S.], by Sir Patrick Graham. She d. between 19 June 14(i8 and 10 July 1469.( a ) He m. secondly bef.re 12 July 1474, (°) the dispensation from the Pope (legitimatising the 2 children ulrea ly born), not being till 25 April 1476, ( r ) the Lady Mary Stewart, formerly wife ul Thomas (Boyd), (<•) He was "at least alive in 1451." See Mr. Riddell's remarks p. 138, note "e." Iu the old edit. (1764) of Douglas's Baronage the date of 1460 is given as that of his death. His son, however, was Lord Hamilton before 22 Oct. 1455, as, at that date he is so styled iu a royal charter to himself and Euphcmia his spouse. (_ b ) The dispensations of 1439 and 1440 are among 19 {not to be found in " Tkeincr") which were taken by Andrew Stuart from the office of the Dataria in Rome and printed iu his " Ocncal. Hist- of the Stewarts " (1798), pp. 463—464. See appendix to this vol. (contributed by Mr. M. J. Shaw-Stewart) as to these and other papal dispensations referring to Scotland. (°) The dispensation of 1176, clearly asserts that Eupheuiia was first wife of this Lord, and not a second wife to his father as is often stated, and as was the old view of the case. Mr. M. J. Shaw-Stewart (a most competent authority on such a point) is (still) somewhat inclined to this view, and to the date of death of the first Lord (i.e., the Lord Hamilton mentioned in 1455 as the husband of Euphemia) being in 1460, as stated iu the Glasgow obitus, following the mortification of 14 January in that year. He writes, " No one will suggest that a Papal letter is infallible iu matter of pedigree " and tho' he states that he is unable to broach " any plausible theory for accounting for the strange fact that the Pope is made to say that Euphemia was the first wife of the Lord Hamilton who obtained the dispensation iu 1476 " suggests that it possibly might be " Somebody's object to envelope the whole thing in a maze of difficulty and this it would perhaps be, if the secoud Lord (Mary's husband) was the natural son, named " James de Hamilton " who is mentioned iu the charter of 23 Oct. 1455, as Jirst in remainder to the Barony of Hamilton after the first Lord (his father) and the heirs male to be born of his marriage with Euphemia, Countess of Douglas." This last conjecture, however, opens a very wide field and one in which there is but little to guide one. ( d ) Burnets " Exch. Rolls [S.] " vii. 619. (°) Charter under the great seal of that date. O Seven calends of May, anno a Sextus iv, who was elected Pope, 9 Aug. 1471. No mention is made of any previous husband of the Lady, whose relationship (in the 3d and 4th degrees) to Euphemia, the former wife of the said James (as also to various ladies with whom he had intrigued) is alluded to. The parties are somewhat strangely described as "Jacobus Hamilton, taicus" and " Marie Stewart, midicr." This last word seems to imply that the lady was neither a virgin, nor a widow. Amoug the 49 dispensations (1322—1452) set out in the appendix to this vol. the word •' Mulier" occurs but once, viz. (No. 38) iu 1427. Iu those giveu by Theinrr the word " Vidua " occurs as early as 1362, " JJomicelle" being the usual designation of a spinster. Ex. inform. W. A. Lindsay.