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- Jane (also sometimes referred to as Joanna and Janet) Hepburne, frequently styled ÙtMistress BothwellÙu. This lady received her motherÙus inheritance of Morham. She married three times. First, on 28th December 1561?, to John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham Abbey, later created Lord Darnley, a natural son of King James V by Katherine Carmichael. He died in October 1563.
Francis Stewart, the eldest son of this marriage, was created Earl of Bothwell by King James VI in consideration of his extraction on his motherÙus side.
Jane married secondly,between 10th December 1565 and 16th January 1567, John Sinclair, Master of Caithness, eldest son of George 4th Earl of Caithness,who died about 1578. His widow married, thirdly, Rev. Archibald Douglas, Rector of Douglas and one of the Senators of the College of Justice. He was also brother to William Douglas of Whittinghame, a cadet of the house of Morton.
2 - John Stuart, the titular abbot of Coldingham, a natural son of James V., was importuned to join the Black Band, but had too much regard for Wedderburn to do so. While he was absent in the north with his brother the Regent Moray, his wife, who had a spite at Wedderburn, made a strange kind of demonstration against him. She ordered the men of her faction to be present on a certain day, and to bring along with them wains, carts, and other things fit for carrying off the corns, all of which was carefully done. But Wedderburn with his friends having gathered together about 500 horse, hastens to the fields, and dissipates the scattered troops before they could unite themselves into one, breaks the wagons, looses the horses, and drives them away. On this they all betake themselves to flight, together with StuartÙus wife (she was called Hepburn, and a sister of old Bothwell). A few received some strokes; none were wounded; but so great was the terror struck into them all, that they all sought hiding-places in their flight. Some hid themselves among the furze or broom; others under the banks of the river; some in the fields of corn, and all either in one place or other. One John Edington (commonly called the Liar, as he was always the messenger of strange news, which was commonly false) hid himself in the ambry of a poor old woman, from which he was dislodged, to the great diversion of his enemies and his own great terror. When their fear a little subsided, and it appeared that none were hurt, the affair appeared so ridiculous both to themselves and others, that Hepburn (as she was a woman of a pretty good genius and poetically inclined) described the whole in some verses. Nor was there ever anything afterwards attempted by the confederates.Source:http://www.electricscotland.com/history/domestic/vol1ch5.htm
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- Bef 1599
d. Sep 1556 (Age 44 years)