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THE CELTIC MAGAZINE. 31<br />

have escaped the critical notice of Riddell, in his remarks upon the<br />

marriage under notice, and to which I have to acknowledge my obligations ;<br />

though it is strange that he has given the dates of " 20th October 1478,"<br />

for October 22, and " 8th of March, and 4th of July in the same year,"<br />

for June 4, 1478, and March 18, 1479, which was the following year<br />

citing Acta Dominorum Concilii, and Acta Auditorurn.* The date of<br />

Marion, Lady Crechtoun's, death is not recorded, but she was certainly<br />

the first, if not only, wife of William, Lord Crechtoun, and mother of his<br />

son and heir, James, above-mentioned ; who must have been of full age<br />

in the year 1492 and 1493, when he is found receiving grants of lands,<br />

as proved by the Records of the Great Seal, already referred to. It also<br />

appears from a process of October 23, 1493, that " James Crechtoun, the<br />

son and are of vmquhile William, sumtyme lord Crechtoun," without the<br />

concurrence of any tutor or curator, had previously assigned twenty-seven<br />

ounces of gold to a certain Sir Thomas Tod, Knight for the " wranguis<br />

detentioun," of which he now sought a remedy from the Lords of Council<br />

in Civil Causes, who postponed consideration of his complaint until<br />

February 12 following. ["Acta Dow. Cone.," ut supra, p. 311], which<br />

conclusively proves that James could not have been a son of the Princess<br />

Margaret, as hitherto asserted. An interesting fact also transpires from<br />

this marriage (as Eiddell observes), which is, that Marion Livingstone<br />

had obviously been a peace-ottering to reconcile the feuds and animosities<br />

of the great families of Crechtoun and Livingstone, previously, as is well-<br />

known, keen rivals for political power, during the troublous times in the<br />

reigns of Kings James II. and III. The notices of William, in the first<br />

years after his succession to the family title, are<br />

scanty, but the name of<br />

" "<br />

dominus Crechtoun appears as attending the following Parliaments of<br />

Scotland under James III., November 20, 1469 May 6, 1471 November<br />

20, 1475 July 1, and October 4, 1476 April 6, 1478 March<br />

1, and October 4, 1479, at Edinburgh, which is the last occasion on<br />

which his name is found in the Parliamentary rolls. ["Acta Parl.<br />

Scot.," vol. ii. pp. 93, 98, 108, 111, 115, 121, 122, 124.] There are<br />

also five references to "ye lord Crechtoune," from October 15, 1478,<br />

to June 13, ]480, amongst the Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil<br />

Causes, consisting chiefly of claims made against him for the repayment<br />

of sums of money, &c., which had been lent to him, by various persons,<br />

at different times. ["ActaDom. Concil." ut supra, pp. 12, 14, 19, 44,<br />

50.] Before the Lords Auditors of Causes and Complaints "ye lord<br />

Crechtoune" is found at various periods, between August 5, 1473, and<br />

October 1 483, to answer charges of " skathis and danpnage "<br />

preferred<br />

against him, and other matters, in some of which, however, he was com-<br />

plainant. ["Acta Auditorum," ut supra, pp. 29 et seq., to 122.]<br />

There is no positive reason for alleging that, up to October 1479,<br />

Lord Crechtoun had engaged in treasonable proceedings against his<br />

sovereign, nor does he appear to have been directly implicated in the first<br />

rebellion of Alexander, Duke of Albany ; which took place in the above<br />

year, and was quickly suppressed by the decision and energy of the King,<br />

when Albany escaped to France. There is no doubt, however, that he<br />

was uu active adherent of the Duke in his second rebellion and treasonable<br />

'Remarks on Scottish Peerage Law," &c., " By John Riddell, Esq., advocate.<br />

Edinburgh : T. Clark," 8vo., 1833, p. 194 note.

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