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Robert Cairncross

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657: 598: 592: 282: 203:, wagered a large sum with James V that he would not present him to the first vacant benefice, while the King, quite well aware of what he referred to, accepted and won the wager. Suspected of favouring the cause of the Douglases, he lost the treasurership almost as soon as he obtained it, although he again held it from 1537 to 1539. On 23 June 1539 he was admitted to the 292: 211:
the abbacy of Fern, the dilapidated state of which his wealth was expected to repair. On the death of James V he was appointed one of the lords of the council to the governor, the
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Haig and Brunton's Senators of the College of Justice, pp. 45–6.
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Robert was a descendant of the ancient family of Balmashannar,
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You can help Knowledge (XXG) by 207:, and shortly afterwards received 14: 724:Lord high treasurers of Scotland 655: 596: 590: 514:Post-Reformation Bishops of Ross 298:Dictionary of National Biography 280: 347:Pre-Reformation Bishops of Ross 186:Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie 158:Lord High Treasurer of Scotland 76: 1: 239:, 1513–1546, (1883), no.646. 755: 719:Bishops of Ross (Scotland) 650: 584: 237:Register of the Great Seal 156:. He also held office as 568: 343: 41: 353:Mac Bethad of Rosemarkie 608:Parliament of Scotland 363:Gregoir of Rosemarkie 425:Alexander de Waghorn 358:Symeon of Rosemarkie 468:William Elphinstone 420:Alexander de Kylwos 178:James V of Scotland 142:. 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Scottish
O.S.A
Bishop of Ross
Catholic Church
Ross
James Hay
David Panter
Abbot of Holyrood
Corstorphine
Corstorphine
abbot of Holyrood
bishop of Ross
in commendam
Fern
Lord High Treasurer of Scotland
Forfarshire
Robert II
James V of Scotland
Earl of Angus
Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie
Andrew Moubray
Abbot of Holyrood
George Buchanan
see of Ross
Earl of Arran
Keith
George Crawfurd
public domain
Cairncross, Robert
Dictionary of National Biography

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