Archibald Wauchope of Niddrie

[5] The king remained angry with Wauchope, and in May 1590 interrupted a ceremony where he was riding with his bride Anne of Denmark on the sands at Leith in view of the ships of the departing Danish ambassadors, and rode off to try and capture the laird.

[9] In March 1592 the ringleaders of the Holyrood raid including Wauchope and Bothwell's half-brother Hercules Stewart, were thought to be in hiding in Northumberland with the earl.

[10] Apparently after attacking Falkland Palace with Bothwell's men, on 1 July 1592 Wauchope was captured with others at the meadow of Lesmahagow by Lord John Hamilton and imprisoned in Craignethan Castle.

[12] In July 1592 Bothwell and his followers made an elaborate plan to capture James VI from a ferry boat while he was crossing the Forth, but the plot was revealed to Robert Bowes by an informer who wanted the reward of a licence to import English beer.

[15] Wauchope waited with horses outside Dalkeith Palace at night while his friend John Wemyss of Logie escaped out of Anne of Denmark's window helped by his Danish lover Margaret Vinstarr.

[16] The English ambassador Robert Bowes heard that Wauchope set up a written challenge, a "cartell" on the mercat cross of Dalkeith, offering to fight dressed only in his shirt against any who dared question his loyalty to the king.

[18] On 4 September 1592 he was nearly captured in Leith by the Master of Glamis and James Sandilands, who arrested Captain Halkerston and John Hamilton of Airdrie.

Airdrie and Halkerston were taken to Dalkeith Palace by John Carmichael, Captain of the royal guard, who threatened to torture them with the boot, a device for crushing their legs.

[20] In April 1594 James VI went to Rossend Castle the house of Sir Robert Melville in Fife with his guard, and unsuccessfully tried to capture Wauchope and John Wemyss of Logie.

[22] On 18 June 1597, he was surrounded in a house on Skinner's Close on Edinburgh's Royal Mile by followers of the Laird of Edmondstone, and fell to his death trying to escape from a dormer or "storm window".

[25] In 1592 when Wauchope was a forfeited rebel, an Act of Parliament allowed Rachael MacGill her "terce", the third of the estate of her first husband George Stewart acquired by her father in name of "tocher" or dowry, and property and incomes from her marriage settlement with Wauchope, because it "was notoriously known to all the country in what miserable estate she was in during the time of the said Archibald remaining in this country, by reason of his own living and hers being all consumed in his vain uses and ungodly fantasies."