Magdalen Livingstone

[6] Arthur Erskine, who was a gentleman of the royal stables with Anthony Standen, helped the queen escape from Holyrood Palace to Seton after the murder of David Rizzio in March 1566.

[8] When Mary gave linen to her household for Easter in 1567, Magdalen was named in the account as "Madame Dasquin", among the "dames", the ladies.

[14] This marriage "infinitely" displeased Mary, Queen of Scots, who wrote to cancel a present previously ordered for "Magdelaine Levingston".

[16] With her niece Margaret Livingstone, Countess of Orkney, widow of the Justice Clerk Lewis Bellenden, she was appointed a lady in waiting at Stirling Castle in the household of Prince Henry in 1594.

[17] Scrimgeour died on 13 July 1612 at Holyrood Palace, in the lodging of Christian Lindsay, poet and baker, wife of William Murray, Master of the carriage.

She left the locket with the queen's portrait to her nephew the Earl of Linlithgow, and other jewels and clothes to Margaret Semple, daughter of her sister Mary Livingston.