General Notes

John Hamilton, b 1512, Abbot of Paisley 1525, Lord High Treasurer 1545-54,
Archbishop of St Andrews and Primate of All Scotland 1547, he was the
principal opponent of John Knox after the murder of Cardinal Beaton and a
leading supporter of Queen Mary. After accusations of complicity in the
assassination of the Regent Moray he was in 1571 hanged, in his episcopal
vestments, on the orders of the Regent Lennox. He cohabited with Grisel,
divorced wife of James Hamilton of Stanehouse, Provost of Edinburgh, elder son
of James Hamilton of Raploch, and dtr of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, and
by her had issue (legitimated 9 Oct 1551, and captured at the battle of
Langsyde in support of Queen Mary)