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Bellenden seems to have been useful in procuring the consent of the clergy to the Act whereby the temporalities of the prelacies were annexed to the Crown in 1587, and was the same year named one of the
Commissioners "for satisfying the clergy of the lyferents."
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to discuss border matters. His servant John Graham wrote to him that his wife and son James were well, and his cousin Thomas
Bannatyne had spoken to the king and treasurer for funding and obtained 600 crowns, and 500
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Livingstone. Bannatyne wanted Bellenden to silk leggings for him and Bible for his wife, and a length of "best coloured" green stemming cloth. James VI instructed him to thank
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represents him as extremely violent on the occasion. Sir Lewis does not seem, however, to have shared in the ruin which attended his co-conspirators, joining the
College of Justice in 1584.
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there were attempts to connect him with the alleged events, and it was said he had contact with
Ritchie Graham, who summoned the devil in Bellenden yard or garden.
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for the present of a lion hound, and asked him to the fairest and youngest bloodhound he could afford. He travelled back to
Scotland with the English diplomat
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Fleming. They had three sons and two daughters, of whom his son and heir was Sir James Bellenden of Broughton. Two other sons went to
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