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 Fifeshire, where he was treacherously slain by Huntly (ib. pp. 88). Ochiltree made strenuous efforts to be revenged on Huntly for his treachery (ib. passim); and in order to achieve his purpose entered into communication with Bothwell and shared in the plot for introducing him to the king in Holyrood (, Memoirs, p. 407;, v. 256). That the second Lord Ochiltree should have favoured the slayer of his son is improbable, and the most plausible supposition would be that the Lord Ochiltree who did so was the third lord, who was merely the nephew of the slain man, but the second lord was certainly alive until 26 Dec. 1593 (Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1593–1608, No. 33). Probably, therefore, it was this same second lord who in the spring of 1594, with Bothwell and the laird of Spot, had a secret meeting, at which they agreed to convene with their forces on 2 April at Dalkeith, and thence proceed to the highlands to join Atholl and Montrose in an attack on Huntly (, p. 113). Their purpose having leaked out, it was frustrated by stopping the boats from sailing to transport the forces across the Firth of Forth, and after encountering and defeating a strong force under Lord Home, they passed south to Kelso and thence into England (ib. pp. 115–16). On 26 May Ochiltree was denounced for not appearing to answer for his treasonable attempts (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iv. 144); but in the beginning of 1595 the king, who, says Moysie, ‘had great favour and liking for the Lord Ochiltree,’ induced him to separate himself from Bothwell, and on coming to the king he received a full pardon for all past offences (, p. 122). Lord Ochiltree was in 1598 appointed lieutenant on the borders, and remained for four or five months at Dumfries, holding courts and pacifying the country (ib. p. 136). He died some time before 21 March 1601–2 (Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1593–1608, No. 1159). By his wife Agnes, daughter of John Cunningham of Caprington, he had five sons and two daughters: Andrew, master of Ochiltree, who died in 1578; of Bothwellmuir, afterwards Earl of Arran [q. v.]; Sir of Monkton (d. 1588) [q. v.]; Sir Henry of Nether Gogar; Robert of Wester Braco; Isabel, married to Thomas Kennedy of Bargeny; and Margaret, who was the second wife of John Knox the reformer, and afterwards married Sir Andrew Ker of Faldonside. He was succeeded in the peerage by his grandson Andrew, who was gentleman of the bedchamber to James VI, and governor of Edinburgh Castle, and who in 1615 resigned his title to Sir James Stewart of Killeith, eldest son of James, earl of Arran; Andrew Stewart was subsequently, on 7 Nov. 1619, created Baron Castle Stewart in the peerage of Ireland, and he died in 1632.



STEWART, ANDREW (d. 1671), Irish divine, was one of the four children of the Rev. Andrew Stewart (d. 1634) of Donegore co. Antrim, whom (1590 [sic]–1666) [q. v.] describes as ‘a learned gentleman and fervent in spirit, and a very successful minister of the Word of God.’ The story of the father's death is graphically told by the elder [q. v.] in his ‘Fulfilling of the Scriptures’ (i. 393).

There is some doubt as to the year of the younger Stewart's birth. The inscription on his tombstone states that at his death in 1671 he was ‘of his age the 46;’ but as he himself in his ‘Short Account’ speaks of having witnessed some of the scenes in the religious movement at Oldstone, co. Antrim, which took place in 1625, and his nephew, the Rev. Andrew Crawford, in a letter to Wodrow, dated 7 Sept. 1724, says that Stewart was ‘a young man’ at the time of this movement, he must certainly have been older than forty-six at death. In 1645 or 1646 he was settled as minister of Donaghadee, co. Down. In 1650 he fled to Scotland, owing to the troubles which arose in Ireland in consequence of the execution of Charles I. He returned to Donaghadee in 1652. In October of that year he appeared with other ministers before the commissioners of the revenue at Belfast to consider how the labours of the presbyterian clergy could be carried on ‘without disturbing the peace of the commonwealth,’ and in 1654 he was one of a deputation which waited on Fleetwood and the council in Dublin with a view to obtaining a share of the payment given by the government to ministers, a mission in which they were successful. Stewart was assigned a salary of 100l. per annum, to be paid by the commissioners of the revenue at Belfast (see, Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its Vicinity, 1896, p. 102). In the same year he took part in drawing up ‘The Act of Bangor,’ intended to prevent the troubles between the resolutioners and protesters in Scotland from spreading to Ireland. In 1661 he was one of the sixty-one presbyterian ministers of Ulster who were