Margaret Douglas, Countess of Arran

The Earl's half-brother James Hamilton of Finnart arranged the marriage and took charge of a payment of 4000 merks from her father.

[2] She was granted Hamilton lands in West Lothian, confirmed by royal charter, including Kinneil House, Bo'ness, Inveravon, and the coal mines and salt pans on the shore.

Margaret was bought a mourning cap of state, which is perhaps one of the few references to her position as wife of a premier or the "Lady Governor".

These items were only a part of the costume supplied to her wardrobe over the decade, and no clothes were bought for her from the treasury funds between February 1545 and October 1549.

[7] The English diplomat Thomas Randolph, who was a friend of her son James, mentioned her illness in April 1562 after James had become unwell, and heard he "takes it of his mother whoe indeade with bothe her systers (of which the Erle of Morton hathe married one, and th'other was wyf unto the Lord Maxwell) are certeyne tymes or the most parte of the yere distempered with an unquiet humour".