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David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford

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during the king's pleasure; he received his release the following September. He possibly then went to France, but in any case was in Scotland by 3 February 1591, when he was present at a meeting of the privy council. His attendance at the council continued during subsequent years, as did his feuds
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Isobel Morris, a servant of Helen Huntar, the wife of Alan Lentroun in St Andrews, stated that the "Lord of Crawfurd" was in bed with Huntar when Lentroun returned from his voyages in 1585. She was also said to have committed adultery with the earl's brother,
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happened, with their followers, to meet; they made way for each other, and ordered their followers to do the same, but the hindmost came to blows. In the fray, the chancellor was shot dead, and the blame for the murder was assigned by many to Crawford.
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Crawford delivered himself up at Edinburgh on 20 May 1589, asserting that Huntly had beguiled him into the belief that he had a commission from the king for gathering his forces. He was on the 21st convicted of
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The 11th earl had a reputation for extravagance, was francophile, and of uncertain religious views. On 17 March 1577–8 he became involved in an affray which resulted in the death of his hereditary enemy, the
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in a correspondence with Spain in reference to a Spanish invasion of England; and he was also associated with other schemes of the Catholic nobles. In the spring of 1589, he and Huntly appeared in arms at
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on giving sureties again to enter into ward on fifteen days' notice. For his failure to act on this arrangement on 5 March 1579, his sureties, David Lindsay of Edzell and
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He was at the reconciliation banquet at Holyrood House in May 1587, and in the procession on the following day walked arm in arm with his hereditary enemy, the
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and shortly afterwards waylaid the treasurer Glamis, whom for some time they kept in captivity in the north. From Perth they proceeded northwards to the
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in May 1584, and after the earl's forfeiture, received from the king the barony and regality of Scone and the church lands of
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by the banished lords on 1 November, and for a short time was committed to the charge of Lord Hamilton at Kinneil.
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wrote that Crawford was a good shot and Glamis presented an easy target as he was so tall.
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were fined, and on 1 September they gave a caution in £20,000 for his appearance at the
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He married first Lilias, one of "seven bonnie sisters", daughters of
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Not long afterwards the earl went over to France in company with
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Crawford was one of those who, in 1582, assembled at
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Index

David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford
Cardinal Beaton
Marion Ogilvy
Sir Henry Lindsay of Kinfauns
Alexander Lindsay, 1st Lord Spynie
Sir David Lindsay, Lord Edzell
Lord-chancellor Glamis
Stirling
David Hume of Godscroft
Edinburgh Castle
Cairnie
Fife
Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay
Tolbooth of Edinburgh
Sir James Balfour
Thomas Lyon of Balduckie
Patrick Lyon, 9th Lord Glamis
George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly
St Andrews
escape from Ruthven
Dundee
Earl of Arran
Duke of Lennox
Leith
Kinneil
William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
Abernethy
Stirling Castle
Alexander Lindsay
Master of Glamis

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