Walter 'Wicked Wat' Scott, 3rd Lord of Buccleuch

SIR WALTER SCOTT OF BRANXHOLM knight

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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18 March 1552-53: Tack by John, commendator of abbey of Dryburgh, and convent thereof, to dame Jonet Betoun, relict of Walter Scott of Branxholm, kt, and to Grizel, Dorothy, Jonet and Margaret Scotts, their daughters, of teinds of town and lands of Lessuden in sheriffdom of Roxburgh, excepting teind peas and beans thereof, for 19 years. Tag, seal gone. Signed by granters. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montague-Douglas-Scott Family, Dukes of Buccleuch, reference GD224/930/43

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19 March 1554-55: Instrument of Sasine following on a precept of clare constat by Walter Scot, grandson of deceased Walter Scot of Branxholm, knight, and son of deceased William Scot of Kirkurd, knight, with consent of Robert Scot of Allanhauch, his tutor, in favour of James Geddes as heir to Edward Geddes, his father, in lands in GD89/1/311. Dated 19 March 1554[/5] and witnessed by William Gib, James Naper, John Melros and Sir John Allane, notary public, 26 March, 1555. Witnesses: James Allane, William Thomsone, John Gib and James Murhouse. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Carmichael Family of Skirling, reference GD89/1/322

Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch

Sir Walter Scott, 1st of Branxholme, 3rd of Buccleuch (c. 1495 – killed 4 October 1552), known as "Wicked Wat",[1] was a nobleman of the Scottish Borders and the chief of Clan Scott who briefly served as Warden of the Middle March. He was an "inveterate English hater"[2] active in the wars known as The Rough Wooing and a noted Border reiver. He was killed on Edinburgh High Street in a feud with Clan Kerr in 1552.[3] His great-grandson was Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch, the "Bold Buccleuch" (1565–1611), a border reiver famed for his role in the rescue of Kinmont Willie Armstrong.[4]

Walter Scott was the son of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, 2nd of Buccleuch, and Elizabeth Kerr, daughter of Walter Kerr of Cessford. The elder Sir Walter succeeded his grandfather, David Scott, 1st of Buccleuch, as baron of Branxholme in 1492 and died before 15 April 1504.[5]

The younger Walter was knighted on the field[6] at the battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, where he lost many of his kinsmen. He was named heir to his father 27 October 1517, and was appointed Baillie of the lands of the Melrose Abbey in 1519, a position that was soon after made hereditary and confirmed in Rome in 1525.[5]

He was warded in Edinburgh in 1524 following a dispute with Margaret Tudor, the Queen Dowager of James IV, regarding her dower lands in Ettrick Forest, but he escaped the same year and associated himself with the opposing party of her husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus and Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox. He received letters of pardon under the Privy Seal, 9 May 1526, for an attempt to capture the Earl of Arran.

Later that year the young king James V enlisted Scott's help to free himself from the tutelage of the Douglas faction led by Angus. Scott led 600 lances to intercept the king and his train, which included Kerrs of Ferniehurst and Cessford, but was defeated by Angus's forces at the Battle of Melrose, near Darnick on 25 July. The Scotts lost 100 men and were driven off, hotly pursued by the Kerrs. In the pursuit, a rider in Scott's service killed Kerr of Cessford, an action that led to a bloody feud between the Kerrs and Scotts that would culminate 26 years later in Scott's murder.[5][7] Scott was exiled for his role in the affair under a penalty of £10,000 Scots, but he was pardoned under the Great Seal on 10 February 1528, and by Act of Parliament on 5 September 1528.[5]

In October 1532 the Earl of Northumberland burned Branxholme Tower, and Buccleuch retaliated by leading 3000 lances on a formidable raid into England.[2][5] In 1535 he was accused of assisting the English Warden Lord Dacre, and warded in Edinburgh, 19 April 1535, at the King's will, but was released before 13 May 1536, though again imprisoned in 1540.[5]

Scott married, first, before 4 September 1523, Elizabeth Carmichael who died before 1530. They had two sons:[5]

• David, to whom his father conveyed the lands and baronies of Branxholme, Rankilburn, Eckford, and Kinkurd, 20 October 1528. He died before 1544, unmarried.
• Sir William Scott of Kincurd (died May 1552), who married Grisel, second daughter of John Beaton of Creich, sister of his father's third wife.[8] Father of Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch (c. 1549 – 17 April 1574). Grandfather of Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

In a short-lived attempt to resolve the Scott-Kerr feud,[7] in 1530 the widowed Sir Walter married as his second wife Janet Kerr, daughter of Andrew Kerr of Fernihirst, widow of George Turnbull of Bedrule. They had no children. They were divorced, and she was still living in 1555.[5]

Sometime before June 1544, he married his third wife, Janet Beaton or Betoun (1519–1569), daughter of John Beaton of Creich, widow of Sir James Crichton of Cranston Riddelm and divorced wife of Simon Preston of Craigmillar. Their children were:[5]

• Walter
• David
• Janet
• Grisel
• Margaret

Later, Dame Janet favoured the alliance of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell and Mary, Queen of Scots, and was said to have infiuenced them by witchcraft.[5]

After the death of James V in 1542, Scott was among those who opposed the proposed marriage of the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, to Henry VIII's son Prince Edward, and became active in the wars with England later known as The Rough Wooing. He was made Keeper of Newark Castle for nineteen years in 1543. In 1545, Scott joined the unlikely alliance of Arran and Angus against the invading English at the Battle of Ancrum Moor, leading a contingent of borderers in the ambush and rout of the English forces.[9]

Scott also fought in the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh on 10 September 1547. Following the Scottish defeat, Scott submitted to Edward VI, now king of England, with the consent of the Regent, Governor Arran, but in 1548 the English took and burned Newark. Scott's mother, Elizabeth Kerr, was burned to death when the tower of Catslack was fired by the English on 19 October 1548.[5]

In 1550 Scott was made Warden of the Middle Marches, and in 1551 Warden and Justiciar of Liddesdale.[5]

Scott was walking in the High Street of Edinburgh on 4 October 1552 when a band of Kerrs and their retainers attacked him. John Hume of Coldenknowes ran Scott through with his sword, "shouting to one of the Kerrs 'Strike! Ain strike for they [sic] father's sake!'",[7] and when the wounded Scott was found to be alive his body was repeatedly stabbed until he died.[5][7] He was succeeded by his grandson, also called Sir Walter Scott (d. 1574), son of William Scott of Kincurd and father of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch, the "Bold Buccleuch" (1565–1611).

Scott plays a significant role in the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. He appears in the first novel of the series, The Game of Kings and his death is a key plot point in the third novel of the series, The Disorderly Knights.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott_of_Branxholme_and_Buccleuch

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• Sir Walter Scott1
• M, #72791, d. 4 October 1552
• Father Sir Walter Scott2 d. 15 Apr 1504
• Mother Elizabeth Ker2 b. c 1460
• Sir Walter Scott married Elizabeth Carmichael before 4 September 1523.3 Sir Walter Scott married Janet Bethune, daughter of Sir John Bethune, 2nd Laird of Creich and Janet Hay, before June 1544.3 Sir Walter Scott died on 4 October 1552 at High St., Edinburgh, Scotland; Killed by the Ker family.4
• Family 1 Elizabeth Carmichael d. b 1530
• Child
  • Janet Scott+5 b. bt 1524 - 1530
• Family 2 Janet Bethune d. a 4 Oct 1552
• Citations
• [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 590, 228-230.
• [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 228.
• [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 230.
• [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 229.
• [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 590, 230.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott_of_Branxholme_and_Buccleuch ____________________
• Sir Walter Scott, 3rd of Buccleuch1
• M, #20684, d. 4 October 1552
• Last Edited=7 May 2008
• Consanguinity Index=0.03%
• Sir Walter Scott, 3rd of Buccleuch was the son of Sir Walter Scott, 2nd of Buccleuch and Elizabeth Kerr.1 He married, firstly, Elizabeth Carmichael circa 1523.1 He married, secondly, Janet Kerr, daughter of Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehirst and Janet Home, circa 1530.1 He married, thirdly, Janet Bethune, daughter of Sir John Bethune, 2nd of Creich and Janet Hay, circa 1544.1 He died on 4 October 1552 at High Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, killed by the Kerrs.1
• He fought in the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513.1 He was invested as a Knight on 9 September 1513 on the field of the Battle of Flodden.1 On 25 July 1526 he had tried to free King James V, but was defeated by the Earl of Angus as Darnick, near Melrose.1 He fought in the Battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547.1 He lived at Branxholm, Scotland.2
• Child of Sir Walter Scott, 3rd of Buccleuch and Elizabeth Carmichael
  • Sir William Scott of Kirkurd and Buccleuch, younger+1 b. c 1525, d. b 19 May 1552
• Child of Sir Walter Scott, 3rd of Buccleuch and Janet Bethune
  • Grissel Scott+2 b. b 1552
• Citations
• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 560. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 222. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2069.htm#i20684 ________________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 51
• Scott, Walter (1490?-1552) by John Anderson
• SCOTT, Sir WALTER (1490?–1552), of Buccleuch and Branxholm, Scottish chieftain, born about 1490, was eldest son of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch (d 1504). He was fourth in lineal descent from Sir Walter Scott (1426–1469), who first took the territorial designation of Buccleuch, and was the first to acquire the whole barony of Branxholm, with the castle, which remained the residence of the family for several generations. His mother, Elizabeth Ker of the Cessford family, was attacked in her residence of Catslack in Yarrow by an English force under Lord Grey de Wilton in 1548, and, with other inmates of the tower, was burnt to death.
• Walter Scott was under age when he succeeded his father in 1504, and his earliest appearance in history was at the battle of Flodden, 9 Sept. 1513; on the eve of the engagement he was made a knight. In 1515 he joined the party of John Stewart, duke of Albany [q. v.], then appointed regent of Scotland, and he opposed himself to Margaret, the queen dowager; but on Albany's return to France in 1524, Scott was imprisoned in the castle of Edinburgh under the pretext that he fomented disorder and misrule on the borders. He soon escaped from ward and joined the Earls of Angus and Lennox in continued opposition to Queen Margaret and her government. In 1526, in obedience to a letter from James V, then a boy, requesting his aid against the power of Angus and the Douglases, Scott assembled his kin and men, but was completely defeated by Angus, who had the king in custody, in a skirmish near Melrose on 25 July 1526. He was obliged to take refuge in France; but after the overthrow of the Douglases in 1528 he was openly received into the royal favour.
• In 1530 various attempts were made to reconcile the feud which had fallen out between the Scotts and the kinsfolk of Ker of Cessford who had been slain in the skirmish at Melrose. Formal agreements were entered into with a view to a pacification, but the result was not permanent (Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. i. p. clvi, ed. 1812). Owing to the influence of the Douglases, who had taken refuge in England, the borders between England and Scotland were at the time more than usually disturbed. Scott's lands suffered severely from the attacks of the English wardens and others, and he retaliated with great effect (State Papers Henry VIII, iv. 625). In 1535 James V, with a view to peace, committed Sir Walter and other border chieftains to ward.
• On the death of King James in 1542 Scott joined the party which opposed the marriage of the infant Queen Mary to an English prince, and, though constant overtures were made to him by the English wardens, and he was at one time credited with an intention of delivering the young queen into the hands of King Henry (Hamilton Papers, i. 447), he scornfully refused all offers of amity with the English (ib. p. 467), and at the battle of Ancrum, 27 Feb. 1545, he took a prominent part in defeating the English forces. Scott fought, too, at the battle of Pinkie on 10 Sept. 1547, where the Scots suffered a severe overthrow. As a result his lands lay at the mercy of the invaders, and during the next two or three years he suffered severely at the hands of the English wardens. In 1551 he was directed to aid in repressing the violence which prevailed on the borders, but in 1552 he begged an exemption from some of his official duties on the ground of advancing years. The old feud with the Kers of Cessford still continued, and on the night of 4 Oct. 1552 he was attacked and killed by partisans of that house.
• Sir Walter Scott was thrice married: first, to Elizabeth Carmichael (of Carmichael), with issue two sons; secondly, to Janet Ker (of Fernihierst), from whom he was apparently divorced; and, thirdly, to Janet Betoun or Beaton, whose name is well known as the heroine of the ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel,’ and by whom he had two sons and three daughters. She was given to Sir Walter ‘in mariag by the Cardinall [Beaton], his other wif being yet on lif’ (Hamilton Papers, i. 740). Sir Walter Scott's eldest son died unmarried, while his second son, Sir William Scott, predeceased him, leaving a son Walter, afterwards Sir Walter (d 1574), who was father of Walter Scott, first Lord Scott of Buccleuch [q. v.]
• [William Fraser's The Scotts of Buccleuch, 2 vols. 1878; Captain Walter Scott's A True History of several Honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scott, &c. ed. 1786; Letters and Papers Henry VIII, Foreign and Dom., vols. i. ii.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scott,_Walter_(1490%3F-1552)_(DNB00) ____________________
• Name Walter\William (Sir) (of Buccleuch) Scott
• Died 4 Oct 1552 Killed In High Street, Edinburgh By Kerrs
• Father Walter (Sir) (of Buccleuch) Scott, d. Bef 15 Apr 1504
• Mother Elizabeth Kerr, d. 19 Oct 1548
• Family 1 Elizabeth Carmichael, b. Abt 1500, d. Bef 1530 (Age ~ 30 years)
• Married Bef 1523
• Children
  • 1. William (Sir) (of Kirkurd Yr of Buccleuch) Scott, d. Bef 19 May 1552
• Family 2 Janet Kerr
• Married Abt 1530
• Family 3 Janet Betoun, b. 1519, d. Jan 1568-1569 (Age 50 years)
• Married Bef 1544
• Children
  • 1. Son A Scott
  • 2. Son B Scott
  • 3. Daughter A Scott
  • 4. Daughter B Scott
  • 5. Daughter C Scott
• Sources
• [S883] Hamish Maclaren.
• From: http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/famgen/getperson.php?personID=I4930... __________________
• Sir Walter "Wicked Wat" Scott
• Birth: 1495, Scotland
• Death: Oct. 5, 1552 Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord of Branxholme, 3rd Lord of Buccleuch, known as "Wicked Wat", was a nobleman of the Scottish Borders. He was killed in the streets of Edinburgh in a feud with Clan Kerr in 1552 and buried at St. Mary's Kirk, Hawick.
• Walter Scott was the son of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, 2nd lord of Buccleuch, and Elizabeth Kerr, daughter of Walter Kerr of Cessford. His great grandson was Sir Walter Scott, "Bold Buccleuch".
• Walter was knighted on the field at the battle of Flodden on Sep. 9, 1513, where he lost many of his kinsmen.
• In 1542 he was accused of stealing the King's own sheep from the lands of Melrose Abbey; this led to his later nickname "Wicked Wat", (Wat being a regional nickname for Walter).
• Walter first married in 1523 to Elizabeth Carmichael who died before 1530. They had two sons:
• - David; died before 1544, unmarried.
• - Sir William Scott of Kincurd (died May 1552), who married Grisel, second daughter of John Beaton of Creich, sister of his father's third wife. Father of Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch (1549–1574). Grandfather of Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch.
• In an attempt to resolve the Scott-Kerr feud, in 1530, the widowed Sir Walter married as his second wife Janet Kerr, daughter of Andrew Kerr of Fernihirst. They had no children. They were divorced, and she was still living in 1555.
• Before June 1544, he married his third wife, Janet Beaton (1519–1569), daughter of John Beaton of Creich, widow of Sir James Crichton of Cranston Riddelm. They had five children.
• Scott was walking in the High Street of Edinburgh on Oct. 4, 1552 when a band of Kerrs and their retainers attacked him. John Hume of Coldenknowes ran Scott through with his sword, "shouting to one of the Kerrs 'Strike! Ain strike for they father's sake!'", and when the wounded Scott was found to be alive his body was repeatedly stabbed until he died.
• Family links:
• Children:
  • Walter Scott (1531 - 1596)*
• Burial: Saint Mary's Kirk, Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland
• Find A Grave Memorial# 105688944
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105688944 _________________
• Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh (1519–1569) was an aristocratic Scottish woman and a mistress of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.[1] She had a total of five husbands. One of her nieces was Mary Beaton, one of the four ladies-in-waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots, known in history as the four Marys. In her lifetime, she was accused of having been a witch.[2] Janet was immortalised as Sir Walter Scott's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his celebrated narrative poem "Lay of the Last Minstrel".[3]
• Janet was born in 1519, one of the eleven children of Sir John Beaton, 2nd Laird of Creich and Janet Hay, daughter of John Hay, provost of Dundee by his wife Elizabeth Crichton. Her father was the hereditary keeper of Falkland Palace. Her brother was Robert Beaton, 4th Laird of Creich, and her sister, Elizabeth Beaton was a mistress of King James V of Scotland, by whom she had an illegitimate daughter, Jean. Her niece was Mary Beaton, one of the celebrated ladies-in-waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots, known as "the four Marys". Janet was also related to Cardinal David Beaton and Queen Mary's ambassador to France, James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow.[4]
• Janet married her first husband, Sir James Crichton of Cranston Riddell in 1538 when she was nineteen years of age. In 1540, a year after Sir James's death, she married Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar Castle; they were divorced in 1543 on grounds of consanguinity and her own admitted adultery with her future third husband. Sometime before June 1544 Janet married, as his third wife, her paramour Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, Chief of the Clan Scott (1495- 4 October 1552), by whom she had five children:
  • Walter Scott
  • David Scott
  • Grisel Scott (born 1552), married firstly, William Borthwick, 6th Lord Borthwick, by whom she had five sons; she married secondly, Walter Cairncross.
  • Janet Scott, married firstly John Cranstoun of Cranstoun, by whom she had issue; she married secondly, Robert Scott of Haining.
  • Margaret Scott, married Robert Scott of Thirlestane, by whom she had issue.
• In 1550, Janet's husband Sir Walter was appointed Warden of the Middle March and the following year, Warden and Justiciar of Liddesdale. On 4 October 1552, Sir Walter was killed in a skirmish in Edinburgh's High Street with members of his clan's rivals, the Clan Kerr who ran him through with swords. In 1558, Janet marched at the head of an armed party consisting of two hundred members of her clan to the Kirk of St. Mary of the Lowes in Yarrow, where she knocked down the doors in an attempt to apprehend Sir Peter Cranstoun. Janet was brought before the Justice; however a warrant issued by the regent Marie of Guise brought the proceedings against her to a halt.[5]
• Janet had a total of five husbands.[6]
• Janet had many love affairs throughout her life, the most significant of these began sometime around the year 1558 with James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. He was twenty-four at the time[7] and she was almost forty. Janet was described as having possessed "an unfading beauty", combined with audacity, determination and sexuality.[8] Her ageless beauty was attributed to Janet's practice of sorcery,[9] and it was rumoured that she and Bothwell may have gone through a form of "hand-fasting" ceremony.[10]
• Janet Beaton was immortalised by Sir Walter Scott in his narrative poem "Lay of the Last Minstrel" as Wizard Lady of Branxholm, who could "bond to her bidding the viewless forms of air". Bothwell would go on to marry in 1566 Lady Jean Gordon a wealthy Highlander heiress, the sister of the 5th Earl of Huntly; immediately following his divorce from Jean in 1567, he became the third husband of Queen Mary of Scotland.
• In 1567, following the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Janet Beaton's name was written on a placard in Edinburgh accusing her of having used witchcraft to influence the queen in consenting to her second husband's murder by Bothwell and the other conspirators.[11] The same sorcery perpetrated by Janet was allegedly used against Queen Mary which caused her to become enamoured of Earl Bothwell. At Dunbar Castle, Janet was one of the three atttendants of Queen Mary following the latter's abduction by Bothwell. The other two women were Janet's younger sister Margaret, Lady Reres and Bothwell's widowed sister, Jean Hepburn.
• Janet Beaton died in January 1568/9.[12]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Beaton ________________
• Links
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott,_1st_Lord_Scott_of_Buccl...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Scott
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Reivers
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Marches
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Wooing
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105696496

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SIR WALTER SCOTT OF BRANXHOLM

The Scots Peerage II: p. 112

Lairds and gentlemen: A study of the landed families of the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders c.1540-1603 Vol 2 pp 55-8 & 118-9

Walter Scott 'Wicked Wat'

s/o Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch & Elizabeth Kerr d/o Walter Kerr of Cessford
x < 4 Sep 1523, Elizabeth Carmichael(-<1530)

• David *Sir William Scott of Kincurd (- May 1552) x Grisel *Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch (c. 1549 – 17 April 1574)

xx 1530 Janet Kerr d/o Andrew Kerr of Fernihirst, widow of George Turnbull of Bedrule
xxx <June 1544 Janet Beaton or Betoun (1519–1569) d/o John Beaton of Creich

• Walter *David *Janet *Grisel x William Borthwick *Margaret

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He was the only son of Robert Scot the younger of Knights-Spottie in Perthshire, representative in the male line of the Scots of Buccleuch. Robert Scot succeeded to the office of director of chancery on the resignation of his father, Robert Scot the elder of Knights-Spottie, but, falling into bad health, resigned the office in 1582 in favor of his father, its former holder. Robert Scot the elder in 1592 again resigned the office to a kinsman, William Scot of Ardross, on condition that his grandson, John Scott (the subject of this article) should succeed to it on attaining majority, which he did in 1606. The Scottish chancery framed and issued crown charters, brieves, and other crown writs.