Margaret Carwood
Margaret Carwood (died 1612), was a maid-of-honour at the court of
Background
Margaret was an heiress of the family of Carwood of that Ilk in Lanarkshire. Her sister Janet married John Fleming of Persellands. Margaret became a lady of the Queen's chamber in May 1564.
When Mary was pregnant in
Margaret worked with Piers Martin,
Events at the end of the reign
In March 1566, according to some accounts, after the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio, Margaret Carwood accompanied Mary, Darnley, and the servant or musician Bastian Pagez on their escape from Edinburgh to Dunbar Castle. A 17th-century history mentions that a Sebastian Broune and a lady-in-waiting rode with the party.[6]
George Buchanan wrote in his Detection that Margaret was privy to all the Queen's secrets. Buchanan's story, published to incriminate the queen, was that Mary lodged in the Exchequer House in Edinburgh rather than her Palace in September 1566. In a night-time escapade the queen and Margaret Carwood dangled another servant Margaret Beaton, Lady Reres, with a string or a belt, over the garden wall to fetch the Earl of Bothwell.[7]
After the murder of
One of the
Two weddings and a funeral
Bastian Pagez married Christily Hogg on 9 February, and Margaret Carwood married John Stewart of Tulliepowrie and Fincastle, on Tuesday 11 February 1567, two days afterwards.[10][11]
Queen Mary gave Margaret Carwood a gift of 15 ells of black velvet for her wedding.
In March 1584 John Stewart and Margaret Carwood complained to the Privy Council about their land near Dunkeld, held from the estate of Dunfermline Abbey.[14] The Commendator Robert Pitcairn had offered them a new tenancy contract called a "tack", but the remaining monks refused to sign it.[15]
Footnotes
- ^ Joseph Robertson, Inventaires de la Royne Descosse (Edinburgh, 1863), pp. 122-3.
- ^ James Balfour PaulAccounts of Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1916), pp. 389, 419, 432, 493, 511.
- ^ Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1970), pp. 21, 41.
- ^ Innes, Cosmo, Registrum de Dunfermelyn, Liber Cartarum Abbatie de Dunfermelyn (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1842) p. 490
- ^ Robertson, Joseph, ed., Inventaires de la Royne Descosse (Edinburgh, 1863), p. 66.
- ^ Herries, John Maxwell, Historical memoirs of the reign of Mary Queen of Scots: and a portion of the reign of King James the Sixth (Abbotsford Club, 1836), p. 78
- ^ Buchanan , George, Ane Detectioun of the Duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes, (1571) Zona in the original Latin means belt.
- ^ Robert Pitcairn, Robert, Criminal Trials in Scotland, vol. 1 part 2 (Edinburgh, 1833) pp. 502-506, une couverture de maytres: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), no. 1117.
- Thomas Randolph.
- ^ Hunter, William, Biggar and the house of Fleming, (1867), 70-71: Joseph Stevenson, Inventaires (Edinburgh, 1863), p. lviii, cites a 1584 contract of Margaret Carwood and John Stewart in the National Archives of Scotland Register of Deeds, RD, vol. xvii, fols. 281-282.
- ^ Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969), pp. 296, 307.
- ^ Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1970), p. 41.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 557 no. 902.
- ^ Gordon Donaldson, Register of the Privy Seal: 1581-84, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1982), p. 265 nos. 1626.
- ^ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1578-1585, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1880), pp. 642-3.