* * _The Elizabeth Files » Plots Against Elizabeth I_ (http://www.elizabethfiles.com/plots-against-elizabeth-i/3509/) Jan 29, 2010 ... In 1586 Mary Q of S was involved in an encrypted correspondence with a conspirator ... and when he was 5 years old was sent to Kat Ashley's husband to be educated! .... This plot was the undoing of Mary, Queen of Scots. ... She was beheaded at Fotheringay Castle on the 8th February 1587 after a special ... www.elizabethfiles.com/plots-against-elizabeth-i/3509/ - _Similar_ (http://search.aol.com/aol/search?s_it=similarPages.search&v_t=client_searchbox&o_q= beheading mary queen of scots ashley&q=related:www.elizabethfiles.com/plots-against-elizabeth-i/3509/+beheading mary queen of scots ashley) * Small world My wife mother( in law) maiden name is Gilchrist she and her Aunt Bernie told me back in 1957 and has always stated her family descended from Mary Queen of Scots .the very same Gilchrist that are related to our Duncan ....??? My wife of 46 years dated 8 years before marriage, maybe its part of the never fading enduring chemistry.Gene There were three successive MacGilchrist generations that followed Gilchrist as Lords (or, Lairds) of Arrochar. In his authoritative book: THE CLANS, SEPTS, AND REGIMENTS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, Mr. Frank Adam stated (Page: 243) that the family first made Inveruglas the seat of its authority, then Tarbert (on Loch Lomond), and lastly Arrochar. From this family would descend the Clan MacFarlane. Gilchrist’s elder son, was Duncan MacGilchrist who became the The Third Lord of Arrochar was Malduin MacGilchrist, the son of Duncan. (Possibility exists that his name may have been Malcolm.) Malduin, it is known, was an ardent supporter of Robert the Bruce, even providing the future king with protection when he fled through the Lennox. Becoming the Fourth Lord of Arrochar was Malduin’s son, Parlan (Gaelic for Bartholomew). It would be from Parlan MacGilchrist, an outstanding warrior who gained fame at the age of fifteen by leading an assault on the Vikings in the Battle of Largs that the family would acquire the surname of MacFarlane. Of great interest, however, is the statement made by Mr. Donald Whyte in his book, SCOTTISH SURNAMES & FAMILIES (Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, l996, pg. 172) that not all members of the clan changed their name from MacGilchrist to MacFarlane. Nevertheless, according to Mr. William Buchanan of Auchmar in his book, AN INQUIRY INTO THE GENEALOGY AND PRESENT STATE OF ANCIENT SCOTTISH SURNAMES (pub. 1820) the MacGilchrists would be regarded as a cadet of the Clan MacFarlane. With the tragic execution-style slaying in 1425 of Duncan, Eighth Earl of Lennox, by King James I the original line of earls ended; the Clan MacFarlane now became the senior male inheritor of the earldom. But in an insulting rejection the MacFarlane claim was ignored and the title was conferred on Sir John Stewart of Darnley who had married Elizabeth, second of the three daughters of the eighth earl. It was Henry, younger son of the fourth of the new Stewart Earls of Lennox who became the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and subsequently father of King James VI. Thus, the Earldom of Lennox ultimately passed to James VI. The strong resistance to the new Stewart earls by the MacFarlanes resulted in the loss of their lands and the dispersal of many of their clansmen. Later, however, with the marriage of Andrew MacFarlane, leader of a cadet branch of the clan, to the daughter of John Stewart, the Lands of Arrochar again became MacFarlane and Andrew became recognized as the tenth chief. It is probable that it was this Andrew MacFarlane who Andrew McKerral notes in his book, KINTYRE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (Page: 12), who received a tack (lease) of land at Askomel near Campbeltown, Kintyre in l506. Thereafter, the clan, with their chiefs referred to as "Captains", gave complete unswerving loyalty and support to the Stewarts. Sir John, the eleventh chief, was killed in l5l3 while fighting with the Lennox brigade in the Battle of Flodden. His grandson, Duncan, the thirteenth chief, was killed fighting the English in the Battle of Pinkie in l547. It was this Duncan who was among the first of the highland chiefs to accept the new Presbyterian faith. The clan supported, along with the Stewart Earls of Lennox, the enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots following the murder of her husband Henry, Lord Darnley, son of the Earl of Lennox. In the Battle of Langside fought in l568 against the forces loyal to the queen, the MacFarlane contribution was so outstanding that the clan received for its motto: "THIS I’LL DEFEND". It was their loyalty to the Stewarts that caused the MacFarlanes to align themselves with the Marquess of Montrose in his seventeenth century fight in support of King Charles I --- joined also by the Clan MacDonald of the western isles. The end of the sixteenth century saw the MacFarlanes become a broken _The Elizabeth Files » Plots Against Elizabeth I_ (http:// www.elizabethfiles.com/plots-against-elizabeth-i/3509/) Jan 29, 2010 ... In 1586 Mary Q of S was involved in an encrypted correspondence with a conspirator ... and when he was 5 years old was sent to Kat Ashley's husband to be educated! .... This plot was the undoing of Mary, Queen of Scots. ... 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