BORTHWICK, William 7th Lord Borthwick 1
- Born: About 1540
- Marriage (1): SCOTT, Grissel 1
- Died: October 1582, Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 1
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William married Grissel SCOTT, daughter of Sir Walter SCOTT of Branxholme, 'Wicked Wat' and Janet BETON.1 (Grissel SCOTT was born about 1544.)
Marriage Notes:
"His (William Borthwick's) wife was Grissel, eldest daughter of Sir Walter Scott of Branxholm, who, on 24 September 1578, set forth, in the course of a complaint, that 'Scho, being lauchfullie mareit with Williame Lord Borthuik hir spous, continewit with him in the mutuall societie and band of matrimony this lang tyme bipast, having borne unto him in the menetyme sevin bairnis yit on life. Nochtwithstanding, he, being instigat be Sathan, not onlie abstractit his cumpany and societie fra hir, bot als delt verray unkyndlie with hir, in geving hir mony injurious wordis, stryking and dinging of her to the effusioun of hir blude in greit quantitie, without feir of God, petie or compassioun of her estait, being than greit with cliyld.' The Privy Council took a good deal of trouble, from time to time, in trying to adjust the relations of the unhappy pair."
from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1
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