Lot 955
QUEEN OF SCOTS, MARY
Auction: Day Two: 15 March 2012 From 10am
Description
An album of manuscripts relating to Blair of Blair, 15-18th century, including: a document [unsigned] from Mary Queen of Scots granting license to John Blair of Blair to stay at home as he is "weak of complexion, sickly in person with the infirmity of the gout and is not able to travel without danger and peril to his life… Given under our Privy Seal at Stirling, 20 March 1554 in the 13th year of our reign", vellum, 21 x 24cm., probably with signature cropped at head;
Deed of Hugo de Blair, giving land of Auchinghyk to John de Knock and Marion de Blair, 1403, on vellum;
A.L.S. from Duke of Lauderdale to the laird of Blair, 1651;
Letter of Lochwood, Baron of Ardrossan to John Montgomerie, Knight, 1574; Letter of John Dunlop of Auchinskeith to A. Crawford, 1581;
Letter of Hamilton Blair, commanding the Scotch Greys Dragoons during the 7 years war, Walwick, 31 Jan. 1747, from Nova Scotia, requesting money, document signed by Alexander, Earl of Eglinton, of monies received from Wm. Blair, 1789;
Account of mourning costs for the servants of the deceased laird of Blair, 1669,
half morocco album lettered "Blair of Blair, old ms."
Note: The document exempting John Blair from service would probably have been signed by Mary of Guise who was Mary Queen of Scots' regent from 1554 to 1560. Mary would have been thirteen years old when the document was signed in 1554.