HERIOT, Elizabeth 'of Trabroun' ¹

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Elizabeth married Thomas HAMILTON Lord Priestfield, Senator of the Court of Justice, son of Thomas(2) HAMILTON Merchant and Burgess of Edinburgh and Elizabeth LESLIE 'of Innerpeffer', in 1558.¹ (Thomas HAMILTON Lord Priestfield, Senator of the Court of Justice was born about 1536 and died before 1612 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Thomas Hamilton, the eldest son, was a minor when his father was killed at Pinkie, but, as was usual when the head of a family fell in battle, was at once retoured heir to his father. It is probable, indeed, that he did not reach majority till 1561, in which year he was made a burgess of Edinburgh in right of his father. [....]

It was not till 1603 that he had any actual appointment in the public service ; in that year he was appointed one of the commissioners for managing the Queen's property in Scotland, and on 29 May 1607 he was raised to the Bench of the Court of Session, under the title of Lord Priestfield. On 12 January 1608 he was admitted a member of the Privy Council, and held that position till the reconstruction of the body in 1610. His judgeship did not last long, as he resigned in 1608 ; promotion and active service had in fact come too late in age, and he was dead before 1612.

He married, first, in 1558, Elizabeth, daughter of James Heriot of Trabroun, who apparently did not survive long .... By his first wife he had :

1. Thomas, first Earl of Haddington."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹