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John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (1566–1603)

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In November 1597, Atholl and Marie Ruthven armed their followers and marched to the House of Moircleuch and besieged Walter Leslie, and brought him back to
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Marie Ruthven and Atholl arrested Agnes McCawis and Bessie Ireland as suspected witches. The two women accused two more women from
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of witchcraft, Margaret Stewart and Isobel Douglas, who complained in 1598 of their unjust imprisonment to the
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from Dunkeld asking for his help in her lawsuits. In 1605 she was in litigation with the new earl.
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heard that the Countess of Atholl had made an alternative plan to have her daughters marry the
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and twice tried to assassinate him by entering his house in disguise armed with a pistol.
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on 25 March, after Marie Ruthven had bought back the rights to the earldom for £10,000
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and imprisoned him. Around this time he and his followers attacked Andrew Spalding at
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In March 1592 his brother Robert Stewart, who had been a servant of the murdered
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John Stewart died in 1603. The next earl was his son from his first marriage,
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mentioning a previous meeting with the Ogilvy family at
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Index

Lord Innermeath
Earl of Atholl
James Stewart, 5th Lord Innermeath
Lord Airlie
John Stewart of Baldynneis
Earl of Moray
Earl of Huntly
David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford
Katherine Campbell
Marie Ruthven
John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl
Anne of Denmark
William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
Dorothea Stewart
Earl of Atholl
Holyrood Palace
Scots
Lord Ochiltree
Esmé Stewart
Duke Lennox
George Nicholson
Earl of Moray
Francis Stewart
Earl of Moray
Blair Atholl
Inverquharity
Cupar
Balfour
Blair Atholl
Ashintully Castle

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