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Church records confirm that Sir
Richard had at least seven illegitimate children, all born in Edinburgh, with one or more unrecorded women. Jeane was born in April 1599. Anna was born in March 1604. Johne was born in April 1605. Helene was born in December 1606. Richard was born in July 1608. William
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who were appointed by James in
January of that same year as commissioners to reform the financial processes of the Scottish government. On 14 November he returned to the Privy Council the original signed copy of a letter which Elizabeth had written on 2 June 1586, offering annual gifts of money for
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since the early part of the 14th century. The marriage brought together the wealthy
Langton and politically influential Clerkington branches of that family. Sir Richard and Margaret had a daughter, born in March 1612 in Edinburgh; a son Patrick, born in March 1613 who died in infancy; and a second
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Denmark, and gave money to the skipper of the Scottish ships when the king visited the dockyard at Copenhagen on 3 March 1590. Subsequently, he was appointed to a committee to audit the account of money spent by his uncle, John Maitland, on the
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gave him a letter from the queen to carry back to James VI. He was given £3,000 or £2,000 for James VI. Elizabeth let it be known that the money should be taken to
Scotland, and not spent in London, as had happened to the
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In 1595 Cockburn's trip to
England to see the queen was mentioned in a letter from James to Elizabeth. Cockburn wrote to Hudson on 22 May in the "spirit of prophecy" about the fortunes of his uncle the
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for the wages of his soldiers in the north of
Scotland. The cost of Cockburn's embassy was met with £1,000 Scots from the Danish dowry, which had been invested with the town council of
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In July 1594 he was sent as ambassador to London to advise on the danger posed by the
Catholic Earls in Scotland and to ask for assistance, especially money, James VI hoped for £3,000
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was born in August 1609. Issobel was born in
December 1610. In 1620 Jeane married James Pringle, the 5th Laird of Torwoodlee.
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In about 1611 Sir Richard married his distant cousin, Margaret Cockburn, the daughter of Sir William Cockburn of Langton. The
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for church affairs. But in February 1626 he was removed from the bench as a result of the resolution by the new king,
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son Patrick who was born in November 1614. Sir Richard was succeeded as Laird of Clerkington by his son Patrick.
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Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588-1596',
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He was Secretary of State to James VI from April 1591 to 1596. In September 1591 Cockburn was admitted as a
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He was the eldest son and heir of Sir John Cockburn of Clerkington, and Helen Maitland, a daughter of
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had arranged for him to have a present of a gold chain, but the gift fell through.
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His sister Marion Cockburn married Thomas Otterburn of Redhall and
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at least. He also complained about the entertainment of the poet
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Cockburn trained as a lawyer and became a judge. He accompanied
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for the king's use. The rest of the money was sent to the
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Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1621
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Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1617
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573:, 'James VI's English Subsidy', in Julian Goodare &
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at the English court, and the residence of the outlawed
25:(1565–1627) was a senior government official in
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53:. He was born around 1565 at Clerkington House near
248:and his adversaries. In July Maitland wrote to the
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808:Ambassadors of Scotland to the Kingdom of England
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329:were an important land-owning family in the
287:In 1598 Sir Richard regained the office of
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149:. These appointments followed the death of
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156:In November 1591, he was elected a
19:Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington
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158:Senator of the College of Justice
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162:Andrew Wemyss, Lord Myrecairnie
612:(Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 74-86.
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475:Calendar State Papers Scotland
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55:Haddington
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