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Oatlands: Court at, 140; letters dated at, 140, 144, 156.

Obony, Lord: See Aubigny, Lord.

Ochiltree, House of: feud between Bothwell and, to end, 415.

—— (Okletre), Lord, Andrew (second): father of Captain James Stuart, sometime Earl of Arran, 32; to bring Glamis to the King, 551; comes to Glamis to apprehend the Master, 556; death of, 594.

—— ——, Andrew (third): to lead part of King's guard, 551; receives commission to apprehend Bothwell, 551, 559; takes profits of Bothwell for the King's use, 566; succeeds to his grandfather, Lord Ochiltree, 594; finds coining tools, said to be Bothwell's, 608; 614; employed in pursuit of Bothwell, 616; well-affected to England, 620; Moray to meet, at Donibristle, 633, 635; has commission to burn houses of Gordons, 636-8; his task of persuading Moray, 640; brings Gordon to execution; asked to avenge Moray's death, 641; committed to prison; kept from attending the King, 642; against Huntly; Bothwell, and friends of, 644-5; attitude of, to Huntly, 650; summoned to Court, 656; in earnest for revenge against Huntly; charged to keep his house, 657; plans revenge against Huntly, 664; denies plotting with Bothwell, ib.; to be sent to the King concerning justice for Moray's death, 705; notes on, 715; to be of assize to examine Spynie, 771; brings his uncle, Captain James Stewart, to the King, 821.

O'Donnell (Odonelles): suit for liberty of son of, 518; 691.

Offerton: coal mines at, 537, 601.

Officers of State (Scottish): 372-4, 522, 683.

Ogilvie, Captain: corn belonging to Duke of Florence, taken by, 160.

——, John, young Laird of Powrie Ogilvie: writes to Walsingham, 43, 100; writes on behalf of his uncle, Sir Alexander Stewart, 449; seeks passport to England, 559; seeks the King's favour for Sir William Keith, 576; in England, 581; begs for English passports for Ogilvie, etc., 593; offers to serve Elizabeth abroad, 614; desires to go to Spain, 634-6; 638; suspected, ib.; Aston to prevent him going to Spain, 649; Bowes writes to, ib., 655; receives despatch for Spain; attempts to prevent him going, 656; his departure for Spain stopped, 657, 659; baptism of his child, 858.

——, Lady: demands justice, 575.

——, Lord (of Airlie), James: family connections of, 33; with the King, 61; Jesuits in his house, 100; his house in Arbroath may be occupied by Huntly, 246; his relations with Maitland and Glamis, 469; hostilities between and Argyle, 566-7; Argyle to seek redress against, 569-70; feuds of, 572-3; the King orders to execute two of the Clan Gregor, 572; many slain in feud of, 574; the King's attitude to outrages of, 575; feuds of, not yet appeased, 579; order by King and Council concerning disturbances of, 585; to mediate between Crawford and Glamis, 592; agreement with Argyle likely, ib.; agrees to marriage of Seton and daughter of Drummond, 633; accompanies Huntly, 653; notes on, 715; gathers forces, 732; Crawford and forces of, 764; Andrew Clark gives assurance for (to King of Spain), 804; Bothwell reported to have been at his house, 841, 842; at Scone with Huntly and others, 849.

Ogilvie, Master of: 33, 478; insults the Dean of Brechin, 566; Argyle to seek redress against, 569-70; banished; desires to pass through England, 593.

——, Mr. William: band of nobility against, and others, 662.

——, William: a Jesuit, received by Erroll, 686.

Old Elizabeth, The, of Shields: taken by Spaniards, 396.

Old Montrose, in Angus: home of Montrose, 714.

Oliphant, Barony of: 33.

——, Laurance, Lord: (Olyphant) 30; family connections of, 33; with the King, 61; 224; 491; 620; 715.

——, Lawrence, Master of: 30; 33; a slave in Algiers, 224.

——, Mistress of: 32.

Oliver, John: to Mr. Archibald Douglas (23 Dec., 1591) concerning suit against Henrick Barkhoult, 604-5.

——, . . . .: (Oliphaire), is shot, 89.

O'Neil, Henry: 691.

——, Hugh: son of Shane O'Neil, hanged, 284.

——, Shane: his son hanged, 284; 612.

——, . . . . (in Kintyre): not willing to risk a rising, 266; letters of Anna Campbell, his wife, to Elizabeth and others, 266, 286; complaints of, against the Earl of Tyrone, 284; letters in favour of, from the Earl of Argyle, 286; his dutiful service to Elizabeth; his treatment by the Earl of Tyrone, ib.

Orkney, Bishop of (Adam Bothwell): to attend coronation, 289; member of Privy Council (1587), 372, 373; encounter with bearer of Bowes' letters, 510. See also Bothwell, Mr. Adam.

——, Castle of: Bothwell purposes seizing, 590.

——, Countess of: Bothwell at her house, 39; assures Bowes that Spaniards are gone, 397.

——, Earl of, and Lord of Shetland (Lord Robert Stewart): family connections of, 29; 31; 33; his eldest son robbed by English pirate, 322; reported to have captured English fishermen, 336, 353; relations with pirates, 364, 370, 395, 396; his son with Spanish pirates, 394; sends John Caprington to Bowes, 397; offers remains of ships spoiled by pirates, 430; Bothwell, his nephew, intends to make use of, 482; 590; proposed marriage of his son to Morton's daughter, 654; to be asked to protect English fishermen against Spaniards, 660, 666-7; letters to, concerning Spanish pirates, 665; notes on, 714; 842.

Orkney, Islands of: 29; 82; 104; Spaniards to go by, to Spain, 193, 212; ships despoiled there, 197, 198; 346; Spanish barque at, 353, 358, 364, 369; Thomas Gray sent back to, 369; William Sibbeth sets sail for, against Spaniards, 370; Spaniards reported to be there still, 381, 386, 387; Spaniards to be apprehended in, 390; Spaniards reported to have left, 392; Spaniards rumoured to be returning to, 394, 397-9; 448; Spanish ships take prisoners near, 477; Bothwell to repair to, 482; pirates on coasts of, 519, 532, 545; Bothwell's purpose to seize, to provide security for Spanish ships, 590, 593, 842; Hollanders seek Spaniards in, 730; inhabitants of, charged to give no help to Spaniards, 735; Spanish pirates bound for, 740.

——, Master of: robbed by English pirates, 318, 331, 336, 369; proposed marriage of, with Morton's daughter, 654, 661, 687.

Orme, David, of Mugdrum: attainted, 687.

Ormiston, Hob: attainted, also his son, 687.

——, Laird of: a rebel, escapes from prison, 89; in Council, 184; signs Council's letter to Elizabeth (2 Jan. 1589-90), 228; father of Samuel Cockburn, 245; created Sir John Cockburn at coronation (17 May, 1590), 300, 479; See also Cockburn, Sir John.

O'Rourke (O'Rork, Orowrick, Owrorke), Brian: an Irish rebel, kept at Glasgow as a suspect, 470-2, 480; Bowes consults Alley about, 472; Elizabeth desires apprehension of, 478, 481; James to deliver, 482-5; his escape, 487-8; Maclean forms party against, 488-9; arrangements for apprehension of, 4925; riot in Glasgow in favour of; Bowes to look after debts of; his expectations from Macdonald, 496; Elizabeth pleased with treatment of, by James VI., 501; his company go to Ireland, 502; his allegiance to Elizabeth promised, if she spares his life, 505; Trevor said to have been secretary of, 507; suspected of intelligence with Earl of Tyrone, 512; sent to London, 514; 520; boats despoiled to avenge, 532; report on attainder and execution of, 589; the taking of, 613; plans of, 672; 691; James VI has given offence by delivery of, 739; James VI reminds Elizabeth of his delivery of him, 756-7.

Orpher, Mr.: commends two Englishmen, 581.

Oslo (Ansloe, Apslow, Houslo): proposal to send Bothwell there for Anne of Denmark, 168; Anne of Denmark at, 187; William Hunter's letter dated at (29 Nov. 1589), 188; the King and others at, 847, 848.

Ostend: 607; 690.

Oxfordness: 417, 422.