Sir William Bowes of Streatlam, (died 1611), was an English ambassador to Scotland, Deputy Warden of the West March, Treasurer of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Member of Parliament for Westmorland.
Bowes cited the delivery by Henry VII of Sir William Heron to Scotland for the murder of Robert Ker of Cessford (1511), and the more recent rendition of Carmichael for the Raid of Redeswire (1575).
[3] In June 1597 William was again sent to Scotland with Robert Bowes to discuss border affairs and incidents at Swinburn and Eslington Road involving the Scottish border warden Sir Robert Kerr of Cessford (later Lord Roxburgh), and they met James VI first at Linlithgow Palace, and on 20 June in the garden of Falkland Palace.
[8] In August 1604 Bowes accompanied Prince Charles and his guardian Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie on their journey from Scotland towards London.
[9] The comptroller of Berwick, John Crane wrote from Worksop Manor to the Mayor of Leicester, asking him to prepare a lodging with twelve beds and seven hogshead barrels of beer.