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BOTHWELL 239 of Scotland 14 Sep. 1546. On 3 Sep. 1 549, Edward VI proclaimed him as under "our protection." Hew., istly, in 1533 or 1534, his cousin, Agnes, da. of Henry, Lord Sinclair [S.], by Margaret, da. of Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes. She, who was divorced about Oct. 1543, surv. him, being styled, in 1572, Countess of Bothwell. Her will as Dame Agnes Sinclair, Countess of Bothwell, dat. 21 Mar. 1572, pr. at Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1574/5. He is said to have »;., 2ndly, Margaret Home. He d. Sep. 1556, at Dumfries. IV. 1556 4. James (Hepburn), Earl of Bothwell and Lord to Hailes [S.], only s. and h. by ist wife, b. about 1535, was 1567. served h. to his father 3 Nov. i556,() and, though a Protestant, took part with the Court against the Congre- gation. He was expelled in 1563, and again in 1565, by the Earl of Moray, but on Moray's banishment (also in 1565), was received into high favour by the Queen [S.], who gave him a grant of the Abbeys of Haddington and Melrose, the office of High Admiral [S.], and the Wardenship of the three Marches, never before held by one person. He was one of the chief actors in the m.urder, 10 Feb. 1566/7, of (Darnley) the unfortunate King Consort, of which he was acquitted, 12 Apr. 1567, none daring to appear as a witness against him. On 1 2 May 1 567 (in anticipation of his 2nd marriage), (^) he was cr. DUKE OF ORKNEY('=) and possibly C^) MARQUESS OF FIFE [S.], with the jurisdiction and crown rents of Orkney. On 29 Dec. 1567 he and all his honours were ^'■forfeited" by Act of Pari. [S.]. He w., istly (cont. 9, disp. I3),('=) 24Feb. 1565/6, Jean, 3rd and yst. da. of George (Gordon), 4th Earl of Huntly [S.], by Elizabeth, da. of Robert (Keith), Lord Keith [S.]. On 3 May 1 567 she procured a divorce from him for adultery with one of her maids, and on 7 May 1567 this marriage was annulled, as being within the 4th degree of consanguinity.O He w., 2ndly, 15 May 1567, both in the Roman Catholic and the Protestant form, at Holyrood Chapel, the Queen [Mary of Scot- land], he having previously met the Queen at Cramond bridge, whence (24 Apr.) with an armed force (but without any opposition), he had con- ducted her to Dunbar, from which place (3 May) they had come together to Edinburgh. The Scottish nobles confederated against them, to whom the Queen surrendered herself at Carberry Hill on 15 June following, the (^) He is styled by Walsingham a " Glorious, rash and hazardous young man." (*') On 26 Apr. 1559 he was alleged, in an action at law, to have been "quietly married or handfast" to Janet Beton, widow of Sir Walter Scott, of Buccleuch, but this marriage (if it ever took place) was soon dissolved. V.G. i^) This is one of the 4 creations of Queen Mary's reign. See note sub Henry, Lord Methven [1528]. () No authority is known to exist for the title of Fife beyond Douglas's statement. C) See the Sutherland MSS., Hht. MSS. Com., 2nd Rep., p. 177. (') She m., 2ndly, at Strathbogie, 13 Dec. 1 57 3, Alexander (Gordon), Earl of Sutherland [S.].