Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay
Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, (1521–1589), Scottish courtier and Confederate lord.
Patrick was the son of John Lindsay, 5th Lord Lindsay, who died in December 1563, and Helen Stewart, daughter of John, 2nd Earl of Atholl.
Career
Scottish Reformation
According to
In February 1560 Patrick took part in the negotiation of the
Mary's personal reign
Lindsay was specially devoted to Lord James, who was his brother-in-law, and through his mediation Lindsay and the queen were soon reconciled.
After succeeding to the lordship on the death of his father in December 1563, Lindsay contended with the Earl of Rothes on the right to the sheriffdom of Fife.[9] Rothes obtained the sheriffdom, though on 12 January 1565 he agreed that Lindsay should be exempted from its jurisdiction,[10] Lindsay was never reconciled to the loss of the office.
Being related to Darnley, Lindsay, in opposition to Moray and the stricter Reformers, favoured Darnley's marriage to the queen. In the
Mary's abdication
There is no evidence that Lindsay was aware of any scheme to murder Darnley, and perhaps, like his kinsman Atholl, he deeply resented Darnley's murder. Such resentment may partly account for the prominent part he played in proceedings against Mary. He signed at Stirling the bond against Bothwell. At the
Lindsay, along with Lord Ruthven, conveyed Mary to Lochleven Castle, and they and the lord of the castle, Robert Douglas, Lindsay's father-in-law, were jointly made her guardians. On 24 July 1567 Lindsay went to obtain her signature to the deed abdicating the crown. According to a later Catholic account, Lindsay told her "that if she did not sign the document she would compel them to cut her throat, however unwilling they might be."[17] James Melville of Halhill wrote that Mary was told that Lindsay was in a "boasting humour" before his arrival, and that she signed the document without demur.[18]
The next day Lindsay brought this resignation, or commission, to the
After Mary's escape from Lochleven, Lindsay fought against her at Langside, and by reinforcing the right wing of the Regent's army as it was about to give way turned the tide of the battle.[22]
In 1568 Lindsay was a commissioner at the York and Westminster conferences discussing the
Marian civil war
After the assassination of Regent Moray in January 1570, Lord Lindsay assisted in carrying the corpse of the Regent Moray at his funeral at St Giles, Edinburgh.
During the absence of the Regent at the parliament at Stirling, Lindsay on 23 August was chosen lieutenant in Leith. On 31 August a powerful attack was made upon him, but he drove the enemy back to Edinburgh.
Under Morton
Lindsay played a less conspicuous part during the remainder of Morton's regency. In March 1578, he combined with other noblemen to effect Morton's overthrow. It was to Lindsay and Ruthven that the castle of Edinburgh was surrendered on 1 April 1578, and he was chosen one of the council in whom the administration of affairs was vested till the meeting of parliament. When Morton, after regaining possession of the king and the castle of Stirling, summoned a convention to be held there, Lindsay and Montrose, as deputies of the discontented nobles, protested that a convention held in an armed fortress could not be regarded as a free parliament.
Family
By his wife Euphemia Douglas, eldest daughter of
James, 7th Lord Lindsay like his father, was a zealous supporter of Protestantism. He was chiefly responsible for the Protestant tumult in the Tolbooth, 17 December 1596, and was fined in large sums of money. He died 5 November 1601. By his wife Euphemia Leslie, eldest daughter of Andrew, 5th Earl of Rothes, he had two sons — John, 8th Lord Lindsay, and Robert, 9th Lord Lindsay — and three daughters: Jean, married to Rohert Lundin of Balgony; Catherine, married to John Lundin of Lundin; and Helen, married to John, 2nd Lord Cranston.
References
- Lindsay, Patrick (d.1589) (DNB00)
- Register Privy Council Scotland, vols. i-iii.; Calendar State Papers, For. Ser.. reign of Elizabeth; Cal. State Papers. Scott. Ser.; Histories of Calderwood, Buchanan, Spotiswood, and Keith; Knox's Works, ed. Laing; Diurnal of Occurrents, Bannatyne Club; History of James the Sext, Bannatyne Club; James Melville of Halhill's Memoirs, Bannatyne Club; Lord Herries's Memoirs, Bannatyne Club; Moysie's Memoirs, Bannatyne Club; Richard Bannatyne's Memorials, Bannatyne Club; Lord Lindsay's Lives of the Lindsays; Douglas's Scottish Peerage (Wood), i. 385-6; Pedigree of the Lindsays, by W. A. Lindsay, in the College of Arms.
- ^ Knox, John, History, vol.1, p. 339
- ^ Calendar State Papers, Foreign, 1558–9, no. 908
- ^ Knox, vol.2, p.11
- ^ Knox, History, vol.2, p. 45, 63, 129, 163, 270
- ^ Stevenson, Joseph, ed., Life of Queen Mary, (1887) p. 326
- ^ Knox, Works, vol. 2, p. 270
- ^ Randolph to Cecil in Calendar State Papers, For. Ser. 1562, no. 718
- ^ Buchanan, bk. xvi.; Knox, ii. 275: ancient ballad on the battle
- ^ Cal. State Papers, For. Ser. 1563–4, no.1523
- ^ Reg. P. C. Scotland, i. 315
- ^ RPCS, p. 379
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol.2 (1900), p.270
- ^ Bedford to Cecil, 30 Dec. 1566, in Cal. State Papers, For. Ser. 1566–8, no. 872
- ^ Hewitt, Scotland under Morton (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982), p. 10, citing Calderwood, History of the Kirk of Scotland, (1843), pp. 363-4.
- ^ Hume of Godscroft, House of Douglas, p. 297; Knox; ii. 561; James Melville, Memoirs, p. 184
- ^ Drury to Cecil, 18 June 1567
- ^ Joseph Stevenson, Nau's Queen Mary, p. 60, 'Report upon the State of Scotland by the Jesuit Priests'
- ^ Melville, Memoirs, p. 190.
- ^ Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1877), pp. 531–4.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol.2 (1900), p.370
- ^ Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. 1. 38; Calderwood, vol.2, 516
- ^ James Melville, Memoirs, p. 202; History of James the Sext, p. 26; Calderwood, ii. 364
- ^ Agnes Strickland, Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, vol. 3 (London: Colburn, 1843), pp. 267-269: Appendix to Keith's History of Scotland
- ^ Randolph to Cecil, 22 Feb. 1569–70, printed in Knox's Works, vi. 571
- ^ Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 224; Calderwood, iii. 101
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol.3 (1903), pp.478-480, 485-7, 529, 532-3, 535, 620-1, 623-4, 636
- ^ Calderwood, iii. 101, 105, 113
- ^ Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 241
- ^ Richard Bannatyne, Memorials, p. 113, 138, 179, 180
- ^ Calderwood, iii. 235
- ^ Hist. of James the Sext, p. 167; Calderwood, iii. 413; Moysie, Memoirs, p. 6
- ^ Reg. P. C. Scotl. iii. 8
- ^ Calderwood, iii. 417
- ^ Moysie, Memoirs, p. 13
- ^ Register Privy Council Scotl., iii. 243