HAY, Helen ¹

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  General Notes:

"...I have also showen in what caisse were her affairs left by Mr. Adam Strachane, who, after he had made himself up, married her gentlewoman, Barbara Hay, and, after some years, did come to my ladye seiking a tochar for his wyffe, he called it a recompense for her good service, and another for his own; and my good ladye, haveing pitie upon them, and forgetting the domage he had done her, gave them her bond for fyve hundreth markes; and through that same tendernes of her hart, did give another bond for as much to Agnes Gordon, who did not serve her halfe of an year, but left her betwixt termes, and served my Ladye Marqueis of Huntly; and she, through that same pitie of younge mades destitute of provision, did give another bond for as much to Bellamor, with Helen Hay, sister to the forsaid Barbara."

from Brief Narration... ¹