Kings, lords and men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625 : essays in honour of Jenny Wormald

377 Pages·2014·3.653 MB·English

by  Boardman, Stephen I., Goodare, Julian, Wormald, Jenny

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
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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).