124 THE MarriaGE OF JOHN, Lord MAXweELL. 
the Earl of Huntly, and his followers in February, 1591-2. 
The object, no doubt, in each case of leaving the bodies of 
these lords unburied and exposed was to incite their clans and 
followers to take vengeance for their deaths. 
Elizabeth Douglas survived Lord Maxwell for many 
years, and had two more husbands. Her second husband was 
Alexander Stewart of Garlies, father by a previous marriage 
of the first Earl of Galloway. He died in 1596. Her third 
husband was John Wallace of Craigie, the marriage contract 
being dated the 31st October, 1597.12 Soon after this last 
marriage she married her daughter, Margaret Maxwell, to 
her step-son, John Wallace, her husband’s eldest son and 
heir apparent by a former marriage. 
In addition to the misfortune of losing her first husband 
by a violent death, much anxiety and grief must have come 
to her through the conduct of her eldest son, John, Lord 
Maxwell, who was beheaded at Edinburgh in 1613 for the 
““ murder under trust ’’ of the Chief of the Johnstones. She 
lived, however, to see her second son, Robert Maxwell, 
restored to the family honours. This son in 1620 received 
from the King, in lieu of the title of Earl of Morton, that of 
Earl of Nithsdale, with precedence from 29th October, 1581, 
the date of his father’s creation as Earl of Morton. After 
this time his mother seems to have called herself Countess of 
Nithsdale. She died at Edinburgh in 1637, sixty-five years 
after her marriage to Lord Maxwell. ‘‘ The Earle Nithsdale 
her son gave her a sumptuous buriall and after transported 
her corps to the Colledge Kirk of Lincluden to be interr’d with 
her first husband in a Vault therein.’’!4 
12 R.M.S., 1593-1608, No. 762. 
13 Ibid., No. 763. 
14 Terregles MS. Family History of the Maxwells, printed in the 
Herries Peerage Case Minutes of Evidence, p. 299. 
NOTE. 
Robert Chambers (Domestic Annals of Scotland, 1859, vol. i., 
p. 79) quotes from Crawford’s Memoirs, 215, as follows:—‘‘ These 
three scuffles [between Kirkcaldy and the Earl of Morton] went all 
under one name, and were ever after called Lord Maxwell’s Hand- 
fasting.’ ’—EDITOR. 
