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88 GRAY. was iu the highest favour first with Mary, Queen (if Scots imil subsequently (by betray- ing her secrets), with the young King, James VI. [S.] ; Gent, of the Bedchamber, Master of the Wanlrobe(1585), P.O., &c. In Oct. 1584,ns Ambassador to England, he was generally supposed to have connived at the execution (1587), of the Queen of Scots. He was banished in June 1087, but returned iu lf>S9, resuming his seat in the Privy Council, &c., and always retaining the King's favour. In 1609, he sue. to the peerage 3.] He m. firstly, about 1;>80, Klizabeth, id da. of John [Glamis|, 8th Lord Gi.amjs S.J, by Elizabeth, da. of Alexander (Aukhnethy), Lord Saltoun [S.] He repudiated ler within a year of marriage. He m. secondly, July 158. r >, Mary, 1st da. of Robert Stewart), 1st Earl ok Orkney [S.], by Janet, da. of Gilbert (Kennedy!, 3d Earl Of Cassilus [S.J He d. 1(312. VII. 1612. 7. Andrew (Gray), Lord Gray [S.|, p. and li., by second wife, sue. to the peerage [S.], in 1(112. Lieut, of the Scots geus-d'armes in France, 1624, for about 30 years. He resigned to King Charles I. (for about £2,900, which was never paid) the hereditary Sheriffdom of Forfarshire ; was a zealous Uoyalist and was, as a " papist " excommunicated by the den. Assembly [S.], in 1649, and was fined £1,;"00 (reduced to £';p00), under Cromwell's act of grace in 1654. Having in 1639, no rurv. male issue,)' 1 ) he resigned his honours to the crown and obtained a new grunt with the old precedency thereof, S Jan. 1039 (ratified by Pari. 17 Nov. 1641), to himself in life rent, with rem. to [his son in law] William Gray, s. iind h. of Sir William Gray,) 1 ") of Pitteudruui, and the heirs male betwixt him and Ann, Mistress of Gray [his then only da.] then wife of said William, which failing to the said Sir W. G. of P., and his heirs male whatsoever.( c ) He entailed his estates, 5 March 1639/40, on the same set of heirs. Ho m. firstly, Margaret, widow of James (Douglas), Karl ok Biihan [S.], (who d. 1601), da. of Walter (Ogilvy), 1st Lord Oi'.ilvy ok DesKFOBD [S.], by his second wife, Mary. da. of William (Douglas), Earl ok Morton [S.] She was living as his wife, 22" Feb. 1613/4. He m. secondly in 1627, Mary, said to have been widow of Sir John Sydenham, and then aged 80.( d ) It is probable that she d. about 3 years later and that the admon, of Mary, Lady Gray, of St. Giles in the fields., Midx. 1 and 16 Jan. 1631/2 refers to her. lie m. thirdly, Catharine Cadell. He (/. s.p.m.s., 1663. VIII. 1G63. S. Patrick (Gray), Lord Gray [S,], grandson and h., being s. and h. of William Gray, Master of Gray ,(<•') by his first w ife, Anne (" Mistress of Gray ") 1st da. and h. of line of the last Lord, by his first ( a ) His only Bon Patrick Gray, Master of Gray, d. unm. betweeu 1630 and 1639, being slain at the siege of a town in France. ( b ) This Sir William (a merchant of great wealth who tl. in 1648), wass. of Thomas Gray, of Brighouse, who (according to Wood's " Douglas ") was " nephew of Andrew Gray of Schives, whose father Andrew G.of Muirtoun, being a son of the family of Gray, was m. to the heiress of Schives in Aberdeenshire." Andrew Gray of Muirtoun appears to have been a yr. s. of Andrew, 2d Lord Gray, and next br. to Gilbert Gray, of Buttergask, ancestor of the then existing Lord. ( c ) The said William Grey (his son in law) bore, since 1 639, the style of Master of Grey-, a stipulation said iu Wood's " Douglas " (vol. i, p. 672. but not so stated iu vol. ii, p. 661), to be contained in the patent. He was served heir to his own father (Sir William G., of Pitteudrum), 4 April 1619. ("i) " Stale papers (domestic) 1628, p. 28," as quoted iu Stephen's " Nat Biogr." Both her age and her first husband seem doubtful. The admon. of 4 Jan. 1631/2, is granted to Sir John Baker, Bart [" nepot'i ex filio "] her grandson by the son, that of the 16th to her husband, Andrew, Lord [Dominus] Gray. There is, however an admon. 16 July 1633, of Sir Andrew Gray, Knight, of Hcderiffe, co. Surrey, granted to his relict dame, Margaret, which Andrew may possibly be the [Dominus] Andrew, of the admon. of Jan. 1631/2. (o) See note "c," next above, as to such being his designation. He appear to have received 232,000 marks from his father on this marriage with the heiress of Gray. He commanded a regiment, mostly raised at his own expense, at the battle of Worces- ter, in 1651, on behalf of King Charles II. He was killed in a duel near Loudon, Aug. 1660, by the Earl of Southesk [S.] having m. a second wife in April, 1654, by whom, however, he had no issue.