Posted on 07/17/2023 7:27:25 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
treason — in the terse entry of the judicial record, combusta.
Knocking around Glamis Castle — where Shakespeare’s great villain Macbeth got his start, as Thane of Glamis* — Janet Douglas had the going enmity of Scottish king James V on the substantial grounds that Janet’s father had held the teen-king his virtual prisoner for a few years in the 1520s. Once James got free, he proscribed the lady’s brother, the Earl of Angus (whom Janet continued to shelter when occasioned), confiscated properties, forbade Douglases from approaching his person, and all that sort of thing.
Presumably according to this same anti-Douglas animus, an abortive attempt was made in 1531 to try our Lady Glamis for poisoning her late first husband, Lord Glamis. However, the charge foundered on the refusal of her peers to participate: “the lairds of Ardoch, Braco, Fingask, Abernethy, Piferran, Lawers, Carnock, Moncreiff, Anstruther, Lord Ruthven, Lord Oliphant, and many others, were fined for absenting themselves from the jury.”
Six years later she was more successfully returned to the dock, this time on a charge of plotting to poison the king himself. There seems to remain very little detail that would trace the precise unfolding of those years and offer later interlocutors a clear interpretation; while “innocent noble railroaded” is the most conventional read — Henry VIII’s agent reported that the conviction was secured “without any substanciall ground or proyf of mattir” — this book gives it a “maybe she did, maybe she didn’t” spin. That whole embittered proscription thing cuts both ways, as motives go....
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Which is why their allowing the Scots King to take the English throne never made any sense. It would be like inviting the government of Mexico to take over the US. At the least you are going to have a clash of cultures.
At worse.... rivers of blood.
I followed Lady Glamis’ line all the way to the present day on Wikipedia. Seems the current lord, the 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a woman in Glamis castle. Probably something his ancestors could do with impunity.
It appears that Lady Glamis was my fourth cousin, many times removed of course.
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