Right Reverend William Stewart, Bishop of Aberdeen

THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM STEWART Bishop of Aberdeen

Biographical Summary

William [Stewart], the second son [of Sir Thomas Stewart of Minton], an eminent churchman of his day, was, whilst dean of Glasgow, 2d October, 1530, appointed high treasurer of Scotland, and about the same time was made provost of Lincluden, an ecclesiastical title, under which he sat in parliament, 26th April 1531. In November of the following year, he was elected bishop of Aberdeen, and in February 1534, along with Sir Adam Otterburn of Redhall, his Majesty’s advocate, he was sent on an embassy to England, to treat of a pacification, which was happily concluded. In 1537, he resigned the office of high treasurer, and died 17th April 1545. Electric Scotland

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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1 February 1544-45: Apud Edinburgh. REGINA etc., concessit AGNETI STEWART, sororis filie Willelmi episcopi Abirdonen., ac filie legitime quondam Johannis S. filii et heredis apparentis quond. Alani S. de Cardonald, heredibus dictr Ag. et assignatis, - 5 marcatas terrarium antique extentus de Polmailate, cum tenentibus etc., in parocia de Cruikiltoun, vic. Wigtoun; - quas Geo. Stewart filius Archibaldi S. de Grenelaw resignavit: - Test. ut in aliisRegistrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum : The register of the Great seal of Scotland, A.D. cartis etc. xxix. 105. RMS: 3052

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18 June 1548: Apud Edinburgh. REGINA., confirmavit AGNETI STEWART, filie sororis quondam Willelmi episc. Abirdonen, et filie legitime quond. Johannis S. filii et heredis apparentis Alani S, de Cardonald, et WILLELMO HAMILTOUN fratri germano quond. Johannis H, de Colmiskeith, sponso dicte Ag., - 5 marcatas terrarium antique extentus de Poilmaillate, cum tenentibus etc. in parochial de Cruikiltoun, vic. Wigtoun; - quas eadem Agnes resignavit :- Tenend. dictis Ag. et Wil. et eorum alteri diutius viventi in conjuncta infeodatione, et heredibus inter Ipsos legit, procreates, quibus defficientibus, legitimis et propinquioribus heredibus dicti Wil. quibuscunque :- Test. ut in aliis cartis etc. xxx. 439. RMS: 217

Secondary Source Evidence

1. Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum : The register of the Great seal of Scotland, A.D. 1513-1546. Edited by James Balfour Paul, FSA Scot., and John Maitland Thomson MA., Advocates. (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1883), 1066 pp. including indexes and Errata
2. Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum : The register of the Great seal of Scotland, A.D. 1546-1580. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advoate (H.H. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1886), 1179 pp. including indexes and Errata