BIB_ID
292468
Accession number
MA 294.1
Creator
Morton, James Douglas, Earl of, ca. 1516-1581.
Display Date
1567 May 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.2 x 17.9 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso "Iame[s] (i.e., James) 4th Earl Regent of Scot. 13 May 1567."
Written from "Eggell," and dated the xiij day of Maij 1567. The Earl of Morton was probably writing from the family seat of the Lairds of Eggell, whose lands were "at the head of the Mearns," modern Kincardineshire, Scotland. (cf. History of Scotland, Its Highlands, Regiments and Clans by Browne Jamesin, reprinted 2009, p. 225).
Written from "Eggell," and dated the xiij day of Maij 1567. The Earl of Morton was probably writing from the family seat of the Lairds of Eggell, whose lands were "at the head of the Mearns," modern Kincardineshire, Scotland. (cf. History of Scotland, Its Highlands, Regiments and Clans by Browne Jamesin, reprinted 2009, p. 225).
Summary
Receipt for the silver "quhich Dame Katherene Campbell counctes of crawford had of Myne in keeping" (i.e., "which Dame Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford had of mine in keeping").
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