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Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
page 80 of 117 (68%)
following extract that they were also married by a priest:--

"Mr. Johne Lermonth, chapline to Alexander Archbishop of St. Andrews,
hath left upon record in a deduction of the descent of the House of
Rowallane collected by him at the command of the said Archbishop (whose
interest in the familie is to be spoken of heirafter), that Robert,
Great Stewart of Scotland, having taken away the said Elizabeth Mure,
drew to Sir Adam her father ane instrument that he should take her to
his lawful wife, (which myself hath seen saith the collector), as also
ane testimonie written in latine by Roger Mc Adame, priest of our Ladie
Marie's chapel (in Kyle), that the said Roger maried Robert and
Elizabeth forsds. But yrafter durring the great troubles in the reign
of King David Bruce, to whom the Earl of Rosse continued long a great
enemie, at perswasion of some of the great ones of the time, the Bishop
of Glasgow, William Rae by name, gave way that the sd marriage should
be abrogate by transaction, which both the chief instrument, the Lord
Duglasse, the Bishope, and in all likelihood the Great Stewart himself,
repented ever hereafter. The Lord Yester Snawdoune, named Gifford, got
to wife the sd Elizabeth, and the Earl of Rosse's daughter was maried
to the Great Stewart, which Lord Yester and Eupheme, daughter to the
Earle of Rosse, departing near to one time, the Great Stewart, being
then king, openly acknowledged the first mariage, and invited home
Elizabeth Mure to his lawfull bed, whose children shortlie yrafter the
nobility did sweare in parliament to maintaine in the right of
succession to the croune as the only lawfull heirs yrof."

"In these harder times shee bare to him Robert (named Johne
Fairneyear), after Earle of Carrick, who succeeded to the croune;
Robert, after Earl of Fyffe and Maneteeth, and Governour; and
Alexander, after Earle of Buchane, Lord Badyenoch; and daughters, the
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