Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300‒1625 Dr Jenny Wormald. (Photo: Luke Wormald) Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland 1300‒1625 and Britain, Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald Edited by Steve Boardman and Julian Goodare © editorial matter and organisation Steve Boardman and Julian Goodare, 2014 © the chapters their several authors, 2014 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ www.euppublishing.com Typeset in Ehrhardt by 3btype.com, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 9150 0(hardback) ISBN 978 0 7486 9151 7(webready PDF) The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003(SI No. 2498). Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface viii List of Abbreviations ix List of Contributors xii Introduction: Kings, Lords and Jenny Wormald 1 Steve Boardman and Julian Goodare 1. The Stewart Realm: Changing the Landscape 19 Keith M. Brown Part I Lords and Men 2. Lords and Women, Women as Lords: The Career of Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus and Mar, c.1354–c.1418 37 Steve Boardman 3. Bastard Feudalism in England in the Fourteenth Century 59 Christine Carpenter 4. Tame Magnates? The Justiciars of Later Medieval Scotland 93 Hector MacQueen 5. King, Lords and Men in Renaissance England: The Poetry of John Skelton 121 John Watts 6. Rethinking the Justice of the Feud in Sixteenth-Century Scotland 136 A. Mark Godfrey 7. Bonding, Religious Allegiance and Covenanting 155 Jane E. A. Dawson 8. ‘We Bund and Obleiss Us Never More to Querrell’: Bonds, Private Obligations and Public Justice in the Reign of James VI 173 Anna Groundwater vi KINGS, LORDS AND MEN IN SCOTLAND AND BRITAIN Part II Kings and Lords 19. Murder Will Out: Kingship, Kinship and Killing in Medieval Scotland 193 Alexander Grant 10. The Lanark Bond 227 Michael Brown 11. James III: Kingship and Contested Reputation 246 Alasdair A. MacDonald 12. Beyond the Declaration of Arbroath: Kingship, Counsel and Consent in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland 265 Roger A. Mason 13. Royal Gifts and Gift-Exchange in Sixteenth-Century Anglo-Scottish Politics 283 Felicity Heal 14. The Ainslie Bond 301 Julian Goodare 15. ‘Scotland will be the Ending of all Empires’: Mr Thomas Murray and King James VI and I 320 Jamie Reid-Baxter Publications of Jenny Wormald 341 Index 346 Illustrations Figures Frontispiece: Dr Jenny Wormald ii 12.1 The earls and countesses of Angus in the fourteenth century 43 12.2 The Douglas inheritance, 1388–c.1400 52 11.1 The chapel of St Quirinus, Trier 256 11.2 The chapel of Restalrig: conjectural drawing by Richard Fawcett 257 15.1 James VI as Protestant warrior 321 15.2 Thomas Murray, Lamentationum Ieremiae Paraphrasis Poetica, prefatory epigram to James VI 333 Tables 14.1 Earls and the Ainslie Bond in 1567 307 14.2 Lords and the Ainslie Bond in 1567 309 14.3 Bishops and the Ainslie Bond in 1567 310 Preface We are grateful to our colleague Judith Green for reminding us of the hostage to fortune that Jenny Wormald left buried in the acknowledgements to her book Lords and Men in Scotland: Bonds of Manrent, 1442‒1603(Edinburgh, 1985). By remarking on the coincidence that the earliest known bond of manrent was dated exactly 500years before her own date of birth, Jenny had enabled scholars of 2011 to work out that her seventieth birthday was approaching. The result was a conference in 2012 celebrating her achievements – a conference in which Jenny participated with éclat, being one of the last to leave the restaurant, with her sons, at the end of a long and enjoyable day. It was always intended that the conference would be a first step towards an edited volume, and this book is the result. We are grateful to all those who spoke at the conference; mention should be made here of Steven Gunn, whose paper was promised for publication elsewhere but was much appre- ciated on the day. Revised versions of the other conference papers appear below, along with a number of other chapters that all address themes prominent in Jenny’s work. Thanks are due to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, and to the conference adminis- trator, Adrienne Miller. Edinburgh University Press expressed early interest in the project and has been a consistently supportive publisher. Steve Boardman Julian Goodare November 2013 Abbreviations AB Ill. Joseph Robertson and George Grub (eds), Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, 4vols (Spalding Club, 1847‒69) APS The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 12vols, eds Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes (Edinburgh, 1814‒75) BL British Library, London BUK Booke of the Universall Kirk: Acts and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3vols, ed. Thomas Thomson (Bannatyne Club, 1839‒45) Calderwood, History David Calderwood, History of the Kirk of Scotland, 8vols, eds Thomas Thomson and David Laing (Wodrow Society, 1842‒9) CBP Calendar of Letters and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the Borders of England and Scotland, 1560‒1603, 2vols, ed. Joseph Bain (London, 1894‒6) CDS Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, 1108‒1516, 5vols, eds Joseph Bain et al. (Edinburgh, 1881‒1986) Chron. Bower (Watt) Walter Bower, Scotichronicon, 9vols, eds D. E. R. Watt et al.(Aberdeen and Edinburgh, 1987‒98) Chron. Wyntoun (Laing) Androw of Wyntoun, The Orygenale Cronykil of Scotland, 3vols, ed. David Laing (Edinburgh, 1872‒79) Complete Peerage G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 13vols in 14(2nd edn, London, 1910‒1959) CSP Dom. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 94 vols, eds R. Lemon et al.(London, 1856– ) CSP For. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, 25vols, eds W. B. Turnbull et al.(London, 1861‒1950).