Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnole and Broughton (c. 1552 – 27 August 1591) was a Scottish lawyer, who succeeded his father as Lord Justice Clerk on 15 March 1577.
He was not averse to the conspiracies of the period and was one of the conspirators involved in the notorious Raid of Ruthven, and Godscroft represents him as extremely violent on the occasion.
He bore a principal part in the downfall of the Earl of Arran, and the return of the banished Lords, although he was despatched by the former, then ignorant of his intentions, to accuse the latter at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
James VI instructed him to thank Sir Philip Sidney for the present of a lion hound, and asked him to the fairest and youngest bloodhound he could afford.
The latter intended to have slain Bellenden, the Master of Gray, and the Secretary, "but they drew to their armes and stude on their awn defence," and Arran had too much on his hands with his enemies without the walls to attack them.
[5] James VI wrote from Oslo on 1 December 1589 to John, Lord Hamilton asking him to conclude a lawsuit with Bellenden, who the king described as "a man here that I am so much beholden to at this time".
[12] After his death, during the North Berwick Witch Trials there were attempts to connect him with the alleged events, and it was said he had contact with Ritchie Graham, who summoned the devil in Bellenden yard or garden.