Matthew Hairstanes

Matthew Hairstanes (who died in 1625) was a Scottish courtier.

His family was from Dumfries.

Hairstanes was a page and groom of the bedchamber to Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James VI and I.^[1] He may be the "Matheas" mentioned in records of the Scottish wardrobe. In England his annual salary was £40. He was also described as a "wardrober" to King James.^[2] He was rewarded in 1610 for his work as a bedchamber servant to the king and queen with lands at Middilbie in Annandale. Another Scottish servant, the usher James Maxwell, received a similar grant on the same day.^[3]

Hairstanes married Elizabeth (Bessie) Gledstanes.

Bishop of St Andrews, George Gledstanes.^[6]^[7]

It has been suggested that Alexander Gledstanes sold the property to Hairstanes in the hope that the groom could gain the queen's influence to appoint him Archdeacon of St Andrews.[8]

The historian

Roman Catholic servant of Anne of Denmark, among other Catholic bedchamber servants including Jane Drummond, Anne Hay, Anna Livingstone, and Piero Hugon.^[9] Other members of the family, two brothers John and Robert Hairstanes, attended the Scots College at Douai, a Catholic seminary, in this period.^[10]

Hairstanes died in May 1625. His three daughters died in his lifetime, or shortly after, Craigs and his other properties passed to his older brother John Hairstanes.[11]

References

^ Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610, 156.
^ R. C. Reid & Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), pp. 32-33
^ John Maitland Thomson, Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 80 no. 219
^ R. C.Reid & Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), Appendix 4
^ Register of the Privy Council, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1894), p. 226.
^ Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), pp. 32, 127-129: Chris Paton, Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records (Pen & Sword, 2019): John Maitland Thomson, Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 252 no. 678
^ St Lawrence's Chapel, Dumfries
^ Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), p. 129 fn.17.
^ Maureen M. Meikle & Helen M. Payne, 'From Lutheranism to Catholicism: The faith of Anna of Denmark, 1574-1619', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 64 (2013), pp. 62, 66 fn.92
^ William Forbes Leith, Records of the Scots colleges at Douai, Rome, Madrid, Valladolid and Ratisbon (Aberdeen, 1906), pp. 10, 11, 13, 103
^ R. C.Reid & Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), Appendix 5

[1] Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610, 156.

[2] R. C. Reid & Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), pp. 32-33

[3] John Maitland Thomson, Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 80 no. 219

[4] R. C.Reid & Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), Appendix 4

[5] Register of the Privy Council, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1894), p. 226.

[6] Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), pp. 32, 127-129: Chris Paton, Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records (Pen & Sword, 2019): John Maitland Thomson, Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 252 no. 678

[7] St Lawrence's Chapel, Dumfries

[8] Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), p. 129 fn.17.

[9] Maureen M. Meikle & Helen M. Payne, 'From Lutheranism to Catholicism: The faith of Anna of Denmark, 1574-1619', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 64 (2013), pp. 62, 66 fn.92

[10] William Forbes Leith, Records of the Scots colleges at Douai, Rome, Madrid, Valladolid and Ratisbon (Aberdeen, 1906), pp. 10, 11, 13, 103

[11] R. C.Reid & Robert Edgar, An introduction to the history of Dumfries (Dumfries, 1915), Appendix 5

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