Margaret Balfour of Burleigh (-) |
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Father:1 | Michael Balfour of Burleigh (-29 November 1577) | ||
Mother:2 | Christian Beaton (-) |
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Married:3 | Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich (-1583) |
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In January 1583-84 Dame Margaret Balfour and her children petitioned the Privy Council for a remission of the forfeiture of her husband, so that his children and posterity might succeed to his lands. This was granted, and the Act of Council received subsequent ratification from Parliament. Lady Burleigh also got in 1587 the monopoly for seven years of making refined salt, or 'salt upon salt' as it was called, at Pittenweem. She died 1590; it is stated in the Peerage Case that she had married as her second husband Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairnie, the King's Secretary of State, but it is almost impossible that this can have been the case, as Melville's first wife, Katherine Adamson, was alive at all events as late as December 1586.13 |
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