. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. e shut, and his followers profligate earl of Arran soon regained his former placein the royal favour. In April, Colonel Stuart was sent am-bassador to England. At a parliament held at Edinburgh,4th December of the same year (1583), those who had beenconcerned in the Raid of Ruthven were declared guilty ofhigh treason. At this parliament it was also, says Calder-wood, (vol. iii. p. 761,) statuted that the old placks, ba-bees, three pennie peeces, and twelve pe
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. e shut, and his followers profligate earl of Arran soon regained his former placein the royal favour. In April, Colonel Stuart was sent am-bassador to England. At a parliament held at Edinburgh,4th December of the same year (1583), those who had beenconcerned in the Raid of Ruthven were declared guilty ofhigh treason. At this parliament it was also, says Calder-wood, (vol. iii. p. 761,) statuted that the old placks, ba-bees, three pennie peeces, and twelve pennie peeces, sould bebrought in betwixt and Julie next, to be brokin; and that anew coine be strickin, foure pennie groats, eight pennie groats,sixteen pennie groats, and that they be tlnec pennie were they not so fyne. This was done to gett silver to P1TTEXWEEM. 293 ILAYFAIR. Colonell Stewart to pay the waiged men of warre. Theburrowes disassented from breaking of the old coin. InAndersons IHplomata et Numismata Scotice are engravings of 13 gold and 23 silver coins of James VI., some of whichare here given:. It was Col. Stewart, or Stuart, as he called himself, who ap-prehended the earl of Gowrie at Dundee, April 13,1584, (seevol. ii. p. 340). The earl was beheaded at Stirling on the 4thof the following month, and on the earls of Mar and Angusand the master of Glammis seizing the castle of that town,Colonel Stuart hastened thither with 500 men. Hearing ofthe approach of James with 20,000 men, they fled to Eng-land, whence they returned in October 1585, with a largeforce, and having laid siege to Stirling castle, succeeded inobtaining possession of it and of the kings person. On thisoccasion, Colonel Stuart, who had been directed to defendthe street at the west port of the town, had a narrow fiercely assaulted he fled to the castle, but was fol-lowed, and overtaken by James Haldane, brother of the lairdof Gleneagles, who, as he was laying hands upon him,
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