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Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Orkney

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She subsequently raised money to help her husband. She disputed monies owed to Walter Cranstoun, the steward of the Bellenden lands she held as a widow in "conjunct fie". Her case included a claim that she could not contract new debts without her husband's permission and "advice and knowledge". She
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and had pledged a diamond chain with 13 pieces and a diamond ring. The money lender's final inventory was compiled after Livingstone's marriage, and she was recorded as "Lady Orkney".
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They had three sons and two daughters, of whom his son and heir was James Bellenden of Broughton. Two other sons went to Ulster. Mariota Bellenden married Patrick Murray of
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Lewis Bellenden died on 27 August 1591, after 8 days of "deadly fever" according to a letter of his brother, James Bellenden.
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The exact date of her death is unknown. She signed a receipt in Edinburgh for her royal pension of 1,000
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that she had hoped "Lady Livingstone" would come to England and join her household instead of marrying.
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Margaret was then a gentlewoman in the households of Anna of Denmark at
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has a bill for clothes signed by Margaret Livingstone in 1590.
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HMC Laing Manuscripts preserved in Edinburgh University
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Index

William Livingstone, 6th Lord Livingston
Lewis Bellenden
Lord Justice Clerk
Mary, Queen of Scots
Michel de Castelnau
Falahill
Anne of Denmark
coronation
Holyrood Abbey
University of Edinburgh
Dunfermline Palace
Prince Henry
Stirling Castle
Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar
Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar
Agnes Leslie, Countess of Morton
Lady Dudhope
Lady Abercairny
Janet Fockart
Scots
Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney
Callendar House
Dunfermline
Princess Elizabeth
Linlithgow
Linlithgow Palace
merks
Maureen Meikle
Julian Goodare
Robert Vans Agnew

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