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	Bothwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BOTHWELL, earl of, a title in the peerage of Scotland, formerly possessed by the family of Hepburn, and rendered remarkable in Scottish history by the marriage of its possessor, the fourth earl, with the unfortunate Mary, queen of Scots.
		The earl of Bothwell was forfeited by the Scottish parliament 29
		The second son, Richard Bothwell, was prebendary of Glasgow and rector of Ashkirk, doctor of the civil and canon laws, and provost of the church of St. Mary in the Fields, within the walls of the city of Edinburgh.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/nation/bothwell.htm (10494 words)

	Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BOTHWELL, JAMES HEPBURN, 4TH EARL OF [Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th earl of], 1536?-1578, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots.
		In 1562, Bothwell's old enemy, James Hamilton, earl of Arran, accused Bothwell of proposing to kidnap the queen, and Bothwell was imprisoned.
		Bothwell was undoubtedly responsible, but he was acquitted in a trial that was a judicial mockery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bothwell.html (289 words)

	Famous Scots - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1536-78)
		One of the most colourful figures in Scottish history, Bothwell was educated by his grand-uncle, Bishop Hepburn of Moray and he succeeded his father as earl of Bothwell and hereditary lord high admiral of Scotland in 1556 at the age of 21.
		In April, 1567, Bothwell seized and carried off the queen to Dunbar, and on 15 May, after he had divorced his wife, they were married at Holyrood on 15 May 1567.
		Bothwell was made duke of Orkney and Shetland by the queen.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfambothwell.htm (559 words)

	Bothwell - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The lordship was bestowed in 1487 on Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Lord Hailes, 1st earl of Bothwell, who resigned it in 1491 in favour of Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of Angus.
		A dungeon bears the nickname of "Wallace's Beef Barrel." The unpretending mansion near by was built by Archibald Douglas, 1st earl of Forfar (1653-1712).
		The parish of Bothwell contains several flourishing towns and villages, all owing their prosperity to the abundance of coal, iron and oilshale.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bothwell (395 words)

	Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel - A translation of Bothwell's Memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the summer of 1573, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell was moved from captivity in Malmo to close imprisonment at the state prison of Dragsholm.
		If it was true, Bothwell would be admitting to be behind the death of Darnley, that he had had his way with many women, that he meant to do away with the young James VI and many Lords of Scotland once he became King.
		Bothwell was the only loyal Lord she could count on in times of trouble.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /BothwellTestament.htm (1172 words)

	James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Scottish nobleman James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell, played a pivotal role in the string of events that would topple Mary, Queen of Scots, from the throne.
		When Mary’s second husband was murdered, Bothwell hastily divorced his wife and married the queen.
		The ensuing scandal sparked a rebellion of the nobles and forced the couple to abandon the throne and flee the country.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461529104/James_Hepburn_earl_of_Bothwell.html (73 words)

	Scotland's Past - Adam Bothwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Adam Bothwell was the son of the Provost of Edinburgh, Francis Bothwell, who was also a judge.
		Bothwell was a Lord of Session from 1564 and in 1567 he officiated at the marriage of Queen Mary and the Earl of Bothwell.
		He was a part of the group that chased the Earl of Bothwell to Shetland.
	www.scotlandspast.org /bothwell.cfm (285 words)

	Chapter 3 Page 6
		Bothwell having brought a splendid coat which was too large for him to a tailor, asking him to remake it to his measure, the man recognised it as having belonged to the king.
		The Earl of Lennox accused Bothwell, and public opinion, which also accused him, seconded the earl with such violence, that Mary was compelled to bring him to trial: only every precaution was taken to deprive the prosecutor of the power of convicting the accused.
		Bothwell, on the contrary, presented himself at the court, accompanied by five thousand partisans and two hundred picked fusiliers, who guarded the doors directly he had entered; so that he seemed to be rather a king who is about to violate the law than an accused who comes to submit to it.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Dumas/Mary/Dumas_MaryC3P6.htm (871 words)

	James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bothwell was the son of Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, whom he succeeded as earl in 1556.
		Bothwell had married Jean, the daughter of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, in February of that year; the marriage lasted just over a year.
		Bothwell was divorced by his wife on the grounds of adultery with his wife's servant, Bessie Crawford, in May, 1567, three months after the death of Mary's second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, whom Bothwell was accused of murdering by his enemies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Hepburn,_4th_Earl_of_Bothwell (436 words)

	HEPBURN of Hailes & Earls of Bothwell
		The Earl of Bothwell married secondly: in 1491 Margaret Gordon, daughter of George Earl of Huntly.
		Earl of Bothwell was killed at the battle of Flodden, having distinguished himself in command of the reserve during the action.
		Agnes Sinclair, Countess of Bothwell, was on 26
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/htol/hepburn3.html (3087 words)

	Clan Iain Abrach ~ MacIain
		The Earl of Bothwell is tried for the murder of Darnley and found not guilty.
		Bothwell kidnaps Mary on the edge of Edinburgh and takes her to Dunbar Castle, where, assuming Mary is an unwilling participant, he rapes her.
		James Stewart, Earl of Moray and a half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots, proclaimed Regent of Scotland.
	www.iainabrach.org /EventDetail.asp?ID=32 (670 words)

	Mary Queen of Scots third husband James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jean's intention was to shame and embarrass Bothwell, but Bothwell being a brazen, arrogant character was completely unaffected by the exposure and the inevitable gossip that followed.
		Although Bothwell forced Mary into marriage so that he could gain power over Scotland, it is said that he may have been a better match for Mary than her first two husbands who had both been weak and immature.
		Bothwell accepted the challenge and Lord Lindsay was chosen as the champion for the rebel side.
	home.earthlink.net.cob-web.org:8888 /~zzz12/hepburn.htm (670 words)

	Earl Of Bothwell (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Hepburn was born in 1535 to Patrick Hepburn, the Third Earl of Bothwell and Alice Sinclair.
		As Bothwell’s sister Janet’s wedding to John Stewart (another brother of Her Majesty) drew near, Bothwell traveled to Castle Crichton to prepare the Castle, as Her Majesty was going to stay at Crichton, and he of course wanted to make a good impression on her and her brother, John Stewart.
		Bothwell made an effort to solidify his position with Her Majesty by trying to establish a reputation that he wanted to have a better and quieter life at Court and wanted to follow the teachings of the Bible, and so we arrive at today in 1562.
	www.saintandrewsguild.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography.htm (938 words)

	Mary STUART (Queen of Scotland)
		An apparent reconciliation afterwards took place, a new favourite of the Queen appeared in the Earl of Bothwell, and in Feb 1567, Darnley, who had continued to reside separately from the Queen, was assassinated, and the house he occupied, called the Kirk of Field, near Edinburgh, was blown up with gunpowder.
		Bothwell, a fugitive and an outlaw, took refuge in Denmark; and Mary, made a captive, was committed to custody in the castle of Loch Leven.
		She was opposed by the Earl of Moray, the natural son of James V, who had obtained the regency in the minority of her son.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/MaryStuart.htm (2836 words)

	ScotlandOnline.com - scottish leisure directory - maps of scotland - eating drinking guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1562, Bothwell was accused by the powerful but mad Earl of Arran of plotting to kidnap the Queen, and he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle in March of that year.
		Bothwell was recalled to Scotland in 1565, to help Mary suppress a rebellion by her half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, who had opposed her marriage in July 1565 to Lord Darnley.
		By the end of the year, Bothwell was the most powerful noble in southern Scotland, and, after abducting Mary (probably with her persuasion), he divorced his own wife and married Mary.
	www.scotlandonline.com /directory/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=74 (493 words)

	Mary, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bothwell is to go into exile in Denmark and Mary will be forced to leave Scotland for England.
		Bothwell was tried by a sham court which acquitted him; he then kidnaps Mary (meeting with no apparent resistance) and takes her to his castle at Dunbar.
		Bothwell escapes to Norway, but he is captured and imprisoned in various parts of Scandinavia.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/maryscot.html (1746 words)

	Orkneyjar - Earl Patrick Stewart
		When Robert Stewart gained control of the islands, thereafter becoming their earl, he ushered in a period of darkness and oppression, hitherto unrecorded in Orkney.
		He was finally granted title Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland and Knight of Birsay, in 1581.
		Earl Robert remained in Orkney until he died in 1593 — the earldom subsequently passing to his son, Patrick, whose machinations were to bring about the downfall of the Stewart earldom.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/historicalfigures/robertstewart (713 words)

	Earl of Bothwell - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Earl of Bothwell - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of (1536-1578), Scottish nobleman, the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
		Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), British commander on the western front during World War I. Douglas Haig was born in Edinburgh and...
	encarta.msn.com /Earl_of_Bothwell.html (125 words)

	Squashed Writers - Bothwell by James Grant - condensed and abridged
		Bothwell escorted Anna to the castle of Noltland; and as she landed at the pier, a young man sprang forward and helped her across the plank.
		With a pretence of the love he felt no longer, Bothwell bade Anna farewell, and left her to doubts which, as the months went on and his promise to return was not fulfilled, gradually rose to despair.
		Bothwell sat by the fire in his apartments at Holyrood, with knit brows and muttering lips; the word he muttered was, "Murderer." The shriek of the man whose death-blow he had struck still echoed in his ears.
	www.btinternet.com /~glynhughes/squashed/bothwell.htm (3710 words)

	Hamilton Palace : treasures of the palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This miniature of James, 4th Earl of Bothwell was painted in 1566, on copper, by an unknown artist.
		Bothwell, dark-haired and with a long, drooping moustache, wears a yellow doublet with a high neck and a row of small buttons down the front edge.
		James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell was one of the leading Scottish noblemen.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk:7777 /hamilton/treasures16.html (164 words)

	History of Scotland -- Crichton Castle
		At the end of the meal the head of a fl bull was brought to the table, and at this sign all three were murdered.
		William, the Third Laird of Crichton, having conspired against James III in 1483, was besieged at Crichton Castle and forced to flee.
		On Queen Mary and Bothwell's downfall in 1567, James VI gave Crichton to Francis, the child of James Stuart and Janet Hepburn, and in honour of her family name conferred on him the title of Bothwell.
	home.freeuk.com /easson1917/CrichtonCastle.html (491 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Battle is raging for return of Earl of Bothwell's remains
		Bothwell, meanwhile, himself a leading Californian civil rights attorney and a member of the Bothwell clan, is visiting the earl's remains next week when he will petition the Queen of Denmark to support the case for repatriation.
		The earl's descendant, Buchan-Hepburn, a former drinks industry executive from St Andrews, is devoting his retirement to repairing the earl's reputation.
		For the next quarter of a century, Bothwell's remains were on show in a glass case until he was moved into an oak casket in a side chapel following protests from Bothwell descendants that the display was too macabre.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=789302006 (1277 words)

	Seers and Witchcraft
		She is alleged to have used witchcraft to influence Mary, Queen of Scots, to enter her disastrous marriage with James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.
		Margaret Fleming's son by her third marriage, John Stewart, 25th Earl of Atholl, was one of the conspirators who, in 1593, helped her to smuggle her great-grandson Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, into the King's bedroom.
		The 3rd Earl's brothers, William and Patrick, even in their exile after 1600, pursued studies believed at that time to be generally associated with Dianism, and Patrick gave twenty years of his life to research into alchemy while imprisoned in the Tower of London.
	www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-02/moa-05.html (1265 words)

	Famous Scots - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
		One of the most colourful figures in Scottish history, Hepburn succeeded his father as earl of Bothwell (and hereditary lord high admiral of Scotland) at the age of 21.
		In April 1567, Bothwell seized and carried off the queen to Dunbar and the following month, after divorcing his wife, he married Mary at Holyrood on 15 May 1567.
		The Queen's forces began to weaken and drift away and Mary was forced to surrender.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamhepburn.htm (324 words)

	Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
		In 1567, Mary after a failed attempt to reconcile with Lord Darnley became attracted to one of her firm supporters, the Earl of Bothwell.
		The Earl of Bothwell, with the help of others, carried out a plan that caused an explosion at the Kirk of Field, south of Edinburgh's Royal Mile that killed Lord Darnley.
		The marriage between Mary and the Earl of Bothwell is also controversial.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/marystuart.html (2589 words)

	THE ‘FAIR EARL’
		The two men were constantly at Mary’s court in Stirling, and the Earl was so confident of success that he divorced his wife on the grounds of consanguinity, as Agnes was a Hepburn.
		The congregation was so small that it was suspected that the Earl of Bothwell had given orders forbidding attendance.
		The Scottish defeat at Pinkie meant that Patrick was freed, and he almost immediately sent his nephew to the English, with the proposal that he should be given either the Princess Mary or the Princess Elizabeth as his wife, in exchange for Hermitage Castle.
	www.lordbothwell.co.uk /fairearl.html (942 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: Timeline of Scottish History: 1550 to 1600
		Public suspicions grow that the Earl of Bothwell, and possibly Mary herself, is involved in the murder.
		June 1581: The ex-Regent, the Earl of Morton, is executed for his alleged involvement in the murder of Darnley, fourteen years earlier.
		August 1582: 16 year old James VI is taken prisoner by the Earl of Gowrie and the "Lords Enterprisers" at Ruthven Castle now Huntingtower Castle near Perth.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usfeatures/timeline/to1600.html (1660 words)

	Hepburn's of Bothwell Genealogy and History
		I started with the idea that the Hepburns of Bearford were descedants of one of the Earls of Bothwell, but investigation proved that that branch of the family became extinct, in the male line, with the death of James Hepburn, forth Earl of Bothwell.
		Patrick Hepburn, Lord Holes, was created Earl of Bothwell on account of services at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1485.
		Adam, 2nd Earl of Bothwell and High Admiral of Scotland, married Agnes Stewart, and there family were: Patrick, 3rd Earl of Bothwell.
	www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /page25.htm (300 words)

	thePeerage.com - Louis II de Longueville, Duc de Longueville and others
		She was the daughter of Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell and Agnes Sinclair.
		She married, secondly, John Sinclair, Master of Caithness, son of George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness and Elizabeth Graham, from 10 December 1565 to 16 January 1566/67.
		He was the son of Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell and Lady Agnes Stewart.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10833.htm (1429 words)

	Earl of Bothwell - JAMES PATRICK HEPBURN, FOURTH LORD BOTHWELL.
		Earl of Bothwell - JAMES PATRICK HEPBURN, FOURTH LORD BOTHWELL.
		Assassination attempt against Bothwell, the return to Scotland, Bothwell betrayed, the flight to France.
		Bothwell and Mary, Bothwell and Maitland, Bothwell and Moray, Mary and Darnley
	www.lordbothwell.co.uk /bothwellindex.html (302 words)

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