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admitted Master of Requests to Queen Mary two days after her marriage with Bothwell, and he was tried and convicted for aiding the Queen in her escape from Lochleven.[1]

Fig. 1578.—Oldhamstocks Church.

This church is of an old foundation. In 1127 Aldulph, the presbyter of Aldehamstoc, witnessed a charter of Robert, the Bishop of St. Andrews, and the church is rated in the ancient Taxatio and in Bagimond's Roll. It is also recorded as an existing rectory in the Archbishop's Roll of 1547.

  1. See Caledonia, Vol. II. pp. 479 and 550.