Dorothea Stewart, Countess of Gowrie

[6] Dorothea Stewart came to the opening of Parliament on 22 August 1584 and knelt down on the High Street crying to the king for grace for her children.

A disgraced courtier, William Keith of Delny stayed at her house adjacent to Holyrood Palace in July 1590.

There were plans in 1591 for Dorothea Stewart to marry William Keith of Delny but James VI forbade it.

[9] Dorothea Stewart and her second husband Andrew Kerr of Faldonsyde complained in 1597 about a group of local men who stole rabbits from the links of Dirleton and terrorised her tenants.

[10] After the slaughter of her family at Perth on 5 August 1600, the Master of Orkney and Sir James Sandilands rode to Dirleton to arrest her two surviving sons, Patrick and William.