| She was one of the Queen's Maries, and her marriage was celebrated with great magnificence at the Queen's expense. Three days after the wedding, by a grant dated 9 March 1564-65, in recognition of the long and continual faithful service of Mary's brother, Lord Livingston, and herself on the one part, and of John Sempill on the other part, during all the 'youth-heid,' and minority of the Queen, and to knit them together in lawful marriage with provision of a reasonable living for their estate, the young couple were infeft in the lands of Over Drumdelgie and others, forfeited by George, sometime Earl of Huntly, and in special security and warrandice in the lands of Auchtermuchty in Fife and Stewarton in Ayrshire, the Little Cumbrae in Bute, and Yethie, Blawarthill, and King's Meadow of Renfrew, together with an annualrent from the lands of Ballincrieff in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh. On the restoration of the Earl of Huntly the Parliament, held on 16 April 1567, approved of the ratification of the grant to Marie Livingston and her husband of the lands held by them in warrandice and of their infeftment in them de novo. When Queen Mary made her will in prospect of her confinement in June 1566, an inventory of her jewels was drawn up by Marie Livingston and Margaret Carwood, and this inventory, subscribed by the Queen and 'Marie Leuiston,' has been preserved. Opposite each article is written in the Queen's handwriting the name of the person to whom she bequeathed it in the event of her infant dying with herself, and Mary Livingstone, along with her sister Magdalen, and her sister-in-law Lady Livingston, are among the legatees. A payment out of the feu-maillis of the Little Cumbrae, dated 30 July 1583, shows that Mary Livingston survived her husband, who died in April 1579.9 |