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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 70: THE HOLOGRAPH LETTERS OF MARGARET TUDOR, QUEEN OF SCOTS (1489–1541) , September 2025 , pp. 35 - 59
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1 Amy Hayes and I are currently in the process of developing such a biography.

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3 A. Hayes, ‘The late medieval Scottish queen, c.1371–c.1513’, PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen (2016), 7.

4 This section is derived in part from an encyclopedia entry on Margaret Tudor, H. Newsome-Chandler, ‘Tudor, Margaret, Queen of Scots’, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (2024), 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_260-1 (accessed 17 January 2025). Reproduced with the permission of Springer Nature.

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7 Quoted ibid., 119.

8 Ibid., 236.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid., 272.

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16 See Appendix 3.

17 For further discussion of Margaret Tudor’s surviving Books of Hours see Macfarlane, L., ‘The book of hours of James IV and Margaret Tudor’, Innes Review 11:1 (1960), 3–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Newsome, H., ‘Reconsidering the provenance of the Henry VII and Margaret Tudor book of hours’, Notes and Queries, 64:2 (2017), 231–23410.1093/notesj/gjx056CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Wingfield, E., Scotland's Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424–1587 (Turnhout, 2023), ch. 7, 187–23410.1484/M.TT-EB.5.137706CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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19 Beer, Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain, 13.

20 Ibid., 28.

21 Ibid.

22 J. Young, ‘The Fyancells of Margaret, eldeft Daughter of King Henry VIIth to James King of Scotland: Together with her Departure from England, Journey into Scotland, her Reception and Marriage there, and the great Feafts held on that Account’, in J. Leland and T. Hearne (eds), De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, 6 vols (London, 1774), IV, 297.

23 Equating to approximately £10,600 in today's money.

24 M. Beer, ‘“Translating” a queen: Material culture and the creation of Margaret Tudor as Queen of Scots’, in R. Netherton and G.R. Owen-Crocker (eds), Medieval and Clothing Textiles, 18 vols to date (Woodbridge, 2014), X, 151–164, 157.

25 Ibid., 158.

26 Ibid., 152

27 Hayes, ‘The late medieval Scottish queen’, 110.

28 Ibid., 121.

29 Margaret Tudor to Henry VIII, 11 April 1513, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 74.

30 James IV to Henry VIII, 11 June [1509], BL, Cotton MS Vespasian F III fo. 77.

31 T. Chalmers, ‘James IV (1478–1513)’, ODNB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14590, (accessed 23 November 2022).

32 For a detailed discussion of the minority of James V, see K. Emond, The Minority of James V: Scotland in Europe, 1513–1528 (Edinburgh, 2019).

33 For a detailed discussion of Margaret Tudor's regency see A. Blakeway, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Suffolk, 2015).

34 See Emond, The Minority of James V, 22–36.

35 Emond, The Minority of James V, 45.

36 Margaret to Jean de Plains, 6 October 1515, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 140.

37 R.G. Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’, ODNB, https://doi-org.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18052 (accessed 28 May 2020).

38 Ibid.

39 Ibid.

40 This is a copy of Margaret's letter to the duke of Albany, preserved at BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 119b.

41 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

42 In a letter sent to Henry VIII on 12 April 1516, Thomas Dacre notes that on the 8 April 1516 Margaret left Morpeth, accompanied by himself, Lord Ogle, Sir Henry Woodrington, and others. BL, Cotton MS Caligula B III fo. 33.

43 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

44 Ibid.

45 Ibid.

46 Emond, The Minority of James V, 81.

47 Ibid.

48 Ibid., 81–82.

49 Ibid., 81.

50 Ibid.

51 Ibid., 82.

52 Margaret Tudor to the duke of Albany, 10 October 1515, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 135.

53 Emond, The Minority of James V, 84–85.

54 N. Macdougall, ‘Hume [Home] family (per. 1424–1516)’, ODNB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/54234 (accessed 29 November 2022).

55 Emond, The Minority of James V, 87.

56 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

57 Emond, The Minority of James V, 104.

58 Copy of a letter sent from Thomas Dacre to Margaret Tudor, 10 July 1519, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B II fo. 204. Margaret makes reference to sending this letter to the king of France in Letter 18 sent to Thomas Dacre on 14 July 1519.

59 Emond, The Minority of James V, 108.

60 E. Bonner, ‘Stewart [Stuart], John, second duke of Albany (c.1482–1536)’, ODNB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26488 (accessed 7 December 2022).

61 Emond, The Minority of James V, 140.

62 Ibid.

63 Ibid.

64 Ibid.

65 John Stewart, duke of Albany to Thomas Dacre, 3 December 1521, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 229; John Stewart, duke of Albany to Henry VIII, 10 December 1521, TNA, SP 49/1 fo. 121; John Stewart, duke of Albany to Katherine of Aragon, 10 December 1521, TNA, SP 49/1 fo. 122; John Stewart, duke of Albany to Thomas Wolsey, 10 December 1521, TNA, SP 49/1 fo. 123.

66 For a more detailed discussion of this episode see Newsome, ‘The function, format, and performance’, 403–424.

67 Thomas Dacre to Henry VIII, December 1521, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 238; Emond, The Minority of James V, 141.

68 Thomas Dacre to Henry VIII, December 1521, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 238; Emond, The Minority of James V, 141.

69 Emond, The Minority of James V, 146.

70 Ibid., 154.

71 Ibid., 155.

72 Ibid.

73 Ibid.

74 Ibid., 164–165.

75 Ibid., 171.

76 Bonner, ‘Stewart [Stuart], John, second duke of Albany’.

77 For further discussion of this episode see H. Newsome-Chandler, ‘“for goddes sake kepe my writing secrete for it is my destruction”: Strategies of epistolary secrecy in the letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489–1541)’, Royal Studies Journal, 11:2 (2024), 103–132.

78 Thomas Howard to Thomas Wolsey, 1 October 1523, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VI fo. 331.

79 Emond, The Minority of James V, 175.

80 Ibid.

81 Bonner, ‘Stewart [Stuart], John, second duke of Albany’.

82 Ibid.

83 The original document (written in French) can be found in Thomas Dacre's letter-book at BL, Add MS 24,965 fo. 231 along with the English translation of this document at fo. 229 of the same manuscript.

84 Emond, The Minority of James V, 184–185.

85 Ibid., 185.

86 ‘Agreement between Queen Margaret and the Duke of Albany’, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. IV: 1524–1530, ed. J.S. Brewer (London, 1875), no. 260.

87 Emond, The Minority of James V, 185.

88 Ibid., 190.

89 Ibid., 189.

90 Ibid., 200.

91 M. Merriman, ‘Douglas, Archibald, sixth earl of Angus (c.1489–1557)’, ODNB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7866 (accessed 4 January 2023).

92 Instructions for John Cantley to be presented to the duke of Albany, 22 February 1525, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. IV, entry no. 1111.

93 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

94 Ibid.

95 Merriman, ‘Douglas, Archibald, sixth earl of Angus’.

96 Ibid.

97 A. Thomas, ‘James V (1512–1542)’, ODNB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14591 (accessed 5 January 2023).

98 Margaret Tudor to Henry VIII, 21 August 1526, BL, Cotton MS Caligula B VIII fo. 160.

99 Thomas, ‘James V (1512–1542)'.

100 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

101 Ibid.

102 This episode is discussed in further detail in the Introduction, pp. 10–13, 20–24.

103 R.K. Marshall, ‘Douglas, Lady Margaret, countess of Lennox (1515–1578)’, ODNB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7911 (accessed 9 January 2023).

104 Ibid.

105 Ibid.

106 Ibid.

107 Ibid.

108 Ibid.

109 Ibid.

110 Thomas, ‘James V (1512–1542)'.

111 Ibid.

112 Ibid.

113 Ibid.

114 Ibid.

115 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

116 Ibid.

117 Ibid.

118 Ibid.

119 Ibid.

120 Henry Ray to the Council, TNA, SP 49/5 fo. 39.

121 Eaves, ‘Margaret Tudor’.

122 Ibid.