2»'» S. X. Aug. 4. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



93 



1525. There is clear evidence, however, that her 

 mother was Lady Janet Stewart, daughter of 

 John, Earl of Athol, whom he married after the 

 dissolution on both sides of existing ties. She 

 possessed a temperament similar to that of Queen 

 Margaret, and was four times married, viz. 1st, to 

 Alexander Master of Sutherland ; 2ndly, to Hugh 

 (afterwards Sir Hugh) Kennedy of Grivanmains, 

 whom she divorced in 1544 on account of con- 

 sanguinity, and who lived for thirty years there- 

 after ; 3rdly, to Henry, Lord Methven ; and 4thly, 

 to Patrick, 3rd Lord Ruthven, father of William, 

 1 st Earl of Gowrie, whom she survived. Previous 

 to her marriage with Lord Methven, an adulterous 

 connexion had existed between them, in conse- 



Juence of which four children were born : Henry, 

 anet, Margaret, and Dorothea, all legitimated 

 under the Great Seal in 1551 as bastard natural 

 children of their parents.* Of these, Dorothea 

 was married in 1561 to William Master of Ruth- 

 ven, afterwards 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl 

 of Gowrie, who was executed for the "Raid of 

 Ruthven" in 1584 ; and by him was mother of a 

 numerous progeny, the misfortunes of several of 

 whom are matters of history. Henry, the son, 

 was allowed by royal favour to succeed to his 

 father's estate ; and according to the territorial 

 law that then existed in Scotland, became 2nd 

 Lord Methven. He was killed in 1572, leaving 

 issue by his wife Jean, daughter of Patrick, 3rd 

 Lord Ruthven, and sister of William, 1st Earl of 

 Gowrie, two children : Henry, 3rd Lord Methven, 

 who died without issue ; and Dorothea, who sur- 

 vived her brother, and was in minority in 1587.t 

 The extract made by A Querist (2"^ S. ix.461.), 

 from the Rev. W. M'^Gregor Stirling's Summary 

 View of the Gowrie Conspiracy, in so far as it is 

 intelligible, is very erroneous, and states as facts 

 unauthenticated assertions. R. R. 



* It is singular that a similar blot existed in the pedi- 

 gree of the ituthvens. William, 1st Lord Ruthven, had 

 by his first wife, Isabel Livington, two sons, William and 

 John, born before marriage, and while Isabel's first hus- 

 band, Walter Lindsay of Beaufort, was alive. They were 

 legitimated, and William's son became 2nd Lord Ruthven. 

 The 1st lord had also, by his second wife Christian 

 Forbes, another son of the name of William born in a 

 similar manner before marriage, and legitimated. He 

 was provided with the estate of Ballindean, in Perthshire, 

 and was ancestor of the Earl of Forth and Brentford, and 

 other individuals of note. In these times such irregu- 

 larities seem to have excited little scandal, from their 

 frequent occurrence ; and the purity of descent of many 

 of the first Scottish families has been in some measure 

 affected by them. 



t In an article relative to the Ruthven family which 

 appeared in " N. & Q." (2°<i S. iii. 15.), there are two 

 typographical errors which I beg to correct. In line 14. 

 of the text, Thomas, Lord Ruthven of Freeland, is de- 

 signated of Ireland; and in line 2. of the foot-note, 

 Ruthven is substituted for Methven. 



BELOE'S SEXAGENARIAN. 

 (2°'> S. ix. 300. ; x. 33.) 

 The following additions and variations are tran- 

 scribed from three more or less complete MS. 

 keys in my copy (ed. 1817), which contains also 

 The Sexagenarian, a satire in twelve stanzas, with 

 the motto — • 



"Descende nobis Musa ccelo, 

 As thou wert wont to Mr. B ." 



Has it been printed ? Who was the author ? 

 Vol. I. 



Yorkshire. 



Hartforth, near Richmond. 



Rev. Matthew Raine. 



Pyle. 



Benet College, Cambridge. 



Amyatt and Lady Grosve- 



nor. 

 Bury St. Edmunds. 

 Manners Sutton, Bishop of 



Norwich. 

 Mr. Pretyman. 

 Lincoln. 

 Norwich. 

 Caius College. 

 Caius College. [wich. 



Curacy of St. Andrew, Nor- 

 Buckden, Hunts, and Hol- 



beach, Lincolnshire. 

 Leighton Buzzard. 

 Rev. W. D'Oyley; (Gent. 



Mag. July, 1817.) 

 May. Pembroke.* 



Manners Sutton, Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury. 



Mr. Serjt. Lens (but very 

 incorrect). 



Charles Abbott, now Lord 

 Colchester. 



Duke of Leeds. 



Brand. 



Miss Hare. 



Sir Thomas Beevor. 



Dr. Parr. Beloe was his 

 assistant at Stanmore. 



011a Podrida. 1788. 



Essays on various subjects, 



Lord Maynard. [1790. 



Easton Magna, Essex. 



Henry Alexander. 



Earl of Caledon. 



Government of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Lincoln. 



Earl Spencer's. 



Dr. Parr. 



Preface-monger. 



Miss Trefusis. 



A miserable pun. [M.D. 



Sir George Baker, Bart., 



Lord Percy (Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland). 

 Lord Earl of Bute. 



* I see that Samuel May, M.A., Pembroke, was Mode- 

 rator 1750-51. (^Cambridge Calendar, 1839, p. 68.) 



