Marie Maitland

The Maitland Quarto is a significant primary source of Scottish and world LGBT history.

She recorded and preserved her father's extensive writings as his sight became increasingly poor, eventually resulting in his blindness.

Her eldest brother, William Maitland of Lethington (died 1573), was Secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots.

These lines, in the Scots language, come from the end of Poem 49, which was almost certainly written by Marie.And thoucht adversitie ws vexYit be our freindschip salbe seinThair is mair constancie in our sexThan evir amang men hes beinAnd though adversity us vexYet by our freindship shall be seenThere is more constancy in our sexThan ever among men has been.

William Lauder hosted the Earl of Bothwell at Hatton on 23 April 1567, the day before he abducted Mary, Queen of Scots.

[17][18] The poet Alexander Scott, who wrote Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary was a connection by marriage of the Lauders.

[19] Jean Cockburn's aunt or great aunt, Elizabeth Douglas, Lady Temple Hall, seems also to have been a poet, working in the same circle of East Lothian poets,[20] but it has also been suggested that this poetic identity was Elizabeth Douglas, Countess of Erroll.

They threatened Alexander McGill, the Provost of Corstorphine "under colour of friendship" because they wanted him to sign a contract.