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and her father. On 6 October 1619 after her usual morning prayers at
Bargany Castle, she was walking in the garden with her psalm book in her hands, and was surprised by her husband's servant Patrick Kennedy, who asked where she had been. Patrick complained to Thomas about her answer and said she called him "his tutor". This enraged Thomas who found her in the gardener's house and he punched and kicked her. Although the gardener Thomas Todie intervened as she tried to escape Thomas caught up with her again and dragged her by the hair back towards Bargany House (the distance of three archery butts), and up a narrow stair to the gallery, banging her head against the sides. Thomas left her unconscious on the gallery floor and locked her alone in the castle. Margaret found her way out of the back door and escaped through the hedge and waded through the deep water of the Girvan, hiding in the woods and reaching the safety of her aunt's house at Dailly the next day. Then she rode to Ardstinchar Castle hoping to find her father but had to stay in a barn until
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200:, one is dedicated to a "Jean Stewart". The subject of the poem, identified by an anagram "a trustie ane" for "Jean Stuart", is a woman blessed with a "dowry deck'd". This poem may refer to Jean Stewart, Lady Bargany. The literary historian Sebastiaan Verweij has suggested another lady was the subject, "Jean Stewart", Jean Campbell, who was a great-granddaughter of King
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Their son, Thomas
Kennedy of Bargany married his cousin Margaret Stewart, the daughter of Jean Stewart, and Lady Bargany's brother Josias Stewart of Bonytoun, who had been the executor of Jean's will and Thomas' legal tutor. Margaret Stewart left him in 1619, complaining of his lack of respect to her
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wrote to King James that
Traquair ought not to be liable because Sir William had been following the queen's direction "whose commandment was ever unto him a law". The Privy Council noted that the king and queen were also cautioners for the loan and "personallie bound in the contract". In May, Anne of
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Some details known about the marriage contract and settlement appears to contradict the story found in the chronicles. James VI bought clothes for Jean
Stewart and paid for food and musicians at the wedding in Edinburgh in 1597. Anne of Denmark first tried to obtain Lord Lindsay's forfeit as a dowry
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of red, blue, and yellow taffeta; a scarlet embroidered "pinnacle" (a bed canopy), black figured taffeta bed curtains, red and white embroidered curtains with a red velvet "pinnacle", green damask bed curtains, gray, blue, green curtains and a scarlet canopy, red stemming, red grosgrain, and six
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Among the silverware there was a little silver gilt mazer or quaich. Personal jewelry included three gold chains; three pairs of gold bracelets; a gold belt; two gold hangers of brooches; two small jewels set with diamonds and rubies; two pairs of gold garnishings (back and fore, to wear in her
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The will of Jean
Stewart gives an insight the clothes worn by a Scottish courtier, some of which were gifts from the queen, with the furnishings she owned at Ardstinchar and Bargany, and her farmstock including the four English milk cows at Bargany, her coach horses and six nags.
167:, Jean Stewart's brother-in-law, to be a guarantor. He had protected the king on the day of the riot, and became a cautioner for the money. Years later, in 1615 the loan for dowry or "tochter" money was still not paid, and their son claimed the sum from
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arrived. She came to
Edinburgh where her father and John Jolie, doctor of physic looked after her. Meanwhile, in November Thomas was at Ballintrae and played golf on the links called the Green of Ardstinchar with his friends. The
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arranged this marriage for
Kennedy to a bride without a dowry to punish the family because Thomas Kennedy laird of Bargany had taken part in a riot in Edinburgh on 17 December 1596.
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Bargany's party that day included men who had been denounced by the king as rebels. The Earl had a commission to pursue these rebels with fire and sword. The lawyer
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There were two "hagbuts" or muskets and six small "iron pieces" or pistols. The executor of the will was Josias
Stewart of Bonytoun, sometime friend of the rebel
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stands of tartan curtains. Other household goods listed included "buirdclaith" (tablecloths) of dornick and damask linen, pots, pans, spits and racks.
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and his legal tutor Robert Stuart. It was noted that Jean
Stewart had been a "gentlewoman married out of the queen's company". In April 1615 the
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property was forfeit, and the old Laird Bargany was punished by a marriage for his son Gilbert that was to "the wreck of his house".
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on her way back to Scotland on 16 August 1605. The chronicle said she died of "eittik" or "hectic", meaning pulmonary consumption.
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close to Ardstinchar Castle. The monument has been discussed in connection with the architecture of Anne of Denmark and
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hair); eight knops and finger rings; and a pearl embroidered "shadow". A shadow was the name of a kind of riding veil.
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to write to her husband to intercede with King James to the same effect, to pay what Traquair owed for the dowry.
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Aonghus MacKechnie, 'Sir David Cunningham of Robertland: Murderer and 'Magna Britannia's' First Architect',
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Thomas Kennedy of Bargany died on 7 November 1597 and Gilbert Kennedy became the laird of Bargany and
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Letters to King James the Sixth from the Queen, Prince Henry, Prince Charles, The Princess Elizabeth
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and her mother was the senior lady in waiting. Her marriage is of special interest to historians.
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64:(c.1577 – 1605) was a Scottish lady in waiting to Anne of Denmark. She was a younger daughter of
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challenged this defence, but Cassilis and his followers (all named) were found not guilty.
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and was killed with a lance thrust in his back. The Earl claimed in his defence to the
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492:, 'The Attempted Scottish Coup of 1596', Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald,
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Jean Stewart fell ill from some sort of fever and went to see the queen's physician
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for her favourite, Jean Stewart. Then she arranged a loan for the dowry, asking
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National Records of Scotland, Register of the Privy Seal, PS1/69 ff.182-3.
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607:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 205-6; Jean Drummond's letter is in the
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Burial and the Development of Aisles in Post Reformation Scotland
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Eros and Poetry in the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI
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interests. As the two chronicles mention, after this disturbance
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of Edinburgh and made a religious protest. James VI was in the
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at court in London, but he gave her no hope and she died at
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556:, 'James VI's English Subsidy', Julian Goodare &
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To hurt and heal with the arrows shot from your eyes,
258:- Whatever heaven, earth or man can devise for you –
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With beauty, generosity, wit and lovely gracefulness,
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268:And each one devotes his spirit to serving you -
256:And all the gods have placed their virtues in you,
248:Just as the heavens have bedecked you with dowries
130:, the congregation came out crying "the sword of
371:Jean Stewart was buried with her husband in the
213:Lyke as the heavens with dowries hathe you dect
250:Surpassing the general experience of humankind,
227:To hurt & heale with Archers of your eyes,
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785:'THE SCHAW MONUMENT', Church Monuments Society
430:Thomas Kennedy of Bargany and Margaret Stewart
241:And, mistris myne, if ye my truthe will trye,
233:As you to serue eche one ther spreit applyes,
223:What heaven what earth or man may you devyse,
219:With bewtye, bounty, witt, & comly grace,
635:The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland
476:(Edinburgh, 1830), p. 156: Robert Pitcairn,
278:You will not find anyone trustier than I am.
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276:And mistress mine, if you will try my troth,
270:So by the same token, I wish you to choose '
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536:, vol. v (Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 349, 362-3.
399:Her wardrobe included six gowns with their
221:As all the Gods ther vertues in you place,
122:and the Octavians. After a sermon given by
86:Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany and Ardstinchar
878:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
758:", in Bruce Gordon & Peter Marshall,
718:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
706:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
534:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
510:Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1593-1597
264:And chastity lies deep and hidden in you,
260:And love himself is painted in your face,
231:As al your graces euerye man dothe muse,
215:Aboue the com̄on course of humaine race,
708:, vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. 347-350.
314:Although Bargany had helped the earl at
266:And every man wonders at all your graces
252:And nature has clothed you in every way
225:As loue himself is painted in your face
217:As nature hath you clad in eche respect
72:. Jean was a maiden in the household of
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70:Margaret Stewart, Mistress of Ochiltree
842:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1864), p. 197–98.
813:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1864), p. 197–98.
775:, vol. 52 (2009), pp. 79–115 at p. 91.
564:(Tuckwell: East Linton, 2000), p. 124.
229:As chastety close hidden in you lyes,
94:Hugh Montgomerie, 2nd Earl of Eglinton
853:History of the County of Ayr: Carrick
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798:History of the County of Ayr: Carrick
243:Ye shall not fynde a trustier then I.
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474:A chronicle of the kings of Scotland
827:Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd
745:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1858), p. 361.
188:Among sonnets possibly by the poet
927:Violence against women in Scotland
526:The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context
297:John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis
176:Denmark asked her lady-in-waiting
92:and Agnes Montgomerie daughter of
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178:Jean Ker, Countess of Roxburghe
693:The Scottish Historical Review
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381:David Cunningham of Robertland
118:of Edinburgh with most of the
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912:16th-century Scottish people
907:Nobility from South Ayrshire
866:History of the County of Ayr
609:National Library of Scotland
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496:(Brill, 2008), pp. 311-336.
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39:Jean Stewart was buried at
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611:Adv MS 31.1.1 vol. 6/35.
387:The will of Lady Bargany
196:manuscripts held by the
169:John Stewart of Traquair
154:A dowry for Jean Stewart
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637:(Oxford, 2017), p. 107.
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902:People from Ballantrae
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