As a modern commentator has pointed out, her detailed account is of importance also as "evidence of the acute vulnerability of wives and the inability of law, custom, and even powerful kinsmen to guarantee protection from brutal husbands.
"[3] Later, while reconciled with Hamilton, Lady Margaret expressed her strong Protestantism and rejoiced in the possibility of her husband's salvation from "that most detestable idollatrie of the papists."
The close of this letter declares an intention to add a "poor basket of stones to the strengthening of the walls of Jerusalem".
[5] However, after bearing Hamilton five children, Lady Margaret refused to sleep with him any more because of his adultery and his "excommunication for slaughter".
near Crawfordjohn After Hamilton's death in or after 1608, Lady Margaret was remarried as the third wife of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood.