Assured Scots information

Assured Scots were Scottish people who pledged to support English plans for Mary, Queen of Scots to marry Edward VI of England during the war of the Rough...

Mary, Queen of Scots gave her a termly pension of £75. She may have been a connection of Janet Sinclair, the nurse of Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry Kemp...

Other Scots were induced to sign bonds and take payments from the English and became "assured men". A sample bond for assurance was drafted by a Scot, Henry...

David Beaton and supported the plan for the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots and Prince Edward of England. In contemporary letters and documents Alexander...

Queen of Scots at the age of six days old. James V's death thrust Mary of Guise into the political arena as mother of the infant Queen of Scots, with the...

that the House of Commons was ever possessed of such an authority, he assured them he could produce many. But having begun with the Saxon times, he was...

Their website has quality-assured information for young people. Information is published in both English and Gaelic. Young Scot works with partners and...

the Reformation (Edinburgh, 1846), p. 106. Marcus H. Merriman, 'The Assured Scots: Scottish Collaborators with England during the Rough Wooing', Scottish...

south east of Jedburgh, was held by the Rutherfurds but was seized by "assured" Scots for the English in 1544. Although the Rutherfords were amongst the clans...

The Parliament of Scotland (Scots: Pairlament o Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the...

James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline...

Historical Review, vol. 8 no. 30, (1911), pp. 113–131 Merriman, Marcus, 'The Assured Scots: Scottish collaborators with England during the Rough Wooing', Scottish...

the English army, overseen by Queen Catherine, decisively defeated the Scots at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513. Among the dead was the Scottish...

monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland...

refers to Brythonic peoples, while "Scots" refers to Gaelic-speaking peoples. Skene however, asserted that here "Scots" refers to all of the peoples living...

an oath on 23 September 1547 to be loyal to Edward VI of England as "Assured Scots". John and Alexander Crichton of Brunstane tried to hold three houses...

consort of Scots Royal arms of Mary, Queen of Scots, impaled with those of Francis Royal arms of Francis II Royal arms of Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen consort...

experience and provide a benefit to others. Merriman, M.H. (1968), "The Assured Scots: Scottish Collaborators with England during the Rough Wooing, 1543–1550"...

Chapel Royal at St James's, and was named after her ancestor Mary, Queen of Scots. Her godparents included her father's cousin Prince Rupert of the Rhine...

the castle for the English commander Grey of Wilton. Cockburn was an 'assured' Scot, one who agreed with the English point of view during the "Rough Wooing"...

A short assured tenancy is a type of tenancy in Scotland that was introduced by the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988. A short assured tenancy gives landlords...

first cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots. In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and siblings...