Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . e auxiliary troops quartered in theCanongate and the in-habitants. We maycharitably conclude, itwas only subsequent toher husbands Deaththat she became theavowed Mistress ofthe Archbishop. Knoxsays—He took alsopossession of his Ernes[kinsmans] wife, theLady Stanehouse. [ACharter under the Great Round Seal of Hamilton, the first of Elizabethan style. Qqq] -nro g granted of the Lands of Kittiemuir, on the 10th March, 1539, Jacobi Hamiltonde Stanehouse et Grizeldi Sempill ejus conjugi.] The woman isand has been famous, and is called Lady Gilston. Her Ladysh
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . e auxiliary troops quartered in theCanongate and the in-habitants. We maycharitably conclude, itwas only subsequent toher husbands Deaththat she became theavowed Mistress ofthe Archbishop. Knoxsays—He took alsopossession of his Ernes[kinsmans] wife, theLady Stanehouse. [ACharter under the Great Round Seal of Hamilton, the first of Elizabethan style. Qqq] -nro g granted of the Lands of Kittiemuir, on the 10th March, 1539, Jacobi Hamiltonde Stanehouse et Grizeldi Sempill ejus conjugi.] The woman isand has been famous, and is called Lady Gilston. Her Ladyshipwas holden always in property; but how many wives and virginshe has had since that time in common, the world knows, albeitnot all; and his bastard birds bear some witness. Two of hersons are thus styled in the Register of the Great Seal—Legi-timatis Johannis Hammyltoun junioris bastardi filii naturalisGrissillidis Sempill filiae Roberti Magistri de Sempill, et WillielmiHammyltoun ejus fratris etiam bastardi, 9th October, 1551. It. VOL. I. 2o 290 ARCHBISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. was in virtue of some Property she acquired that she obtained thetitle of Lady Gilton or Gilston, as there is no evidence of herhaving been twice Married: indeed, her connexion with theArchbishop was too cohesive for anything like Holy Matrimony. On the 11th July, 1550, William, third Lord Creichton ofSanquhar, was slain in the Governors chamber by Robert,Master of Sempill, who was acquitted by the Governor, on the10th September, 1550. [Pitcairns Grim. Trials, vol. i., p. 354*.]Pitscottie says that he escaped punishment by means of JohnHamilton, Bishop of St. Andrews, brother to the Governor, whoentertained the Lady Stenhouse, commonly called Lady Gilton,daughter to this Robert Lord Semple, as his concubine. Fromthe Date of the Reprieve, it must have been her brother whohad committed this Murder. Buchanan and other Authoritieslikewise attribute his acquittal to the same influences; and oneCom
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