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Udward (Uddert), Nicoll or Nicholas, provost of Edinburgh (1592–3): 58, 189.

Uist (Ewist): 253.

Ulster: 466.

Ulva (Ullowaye): 254.

United Provinces (States, Estates, States of the Low Countries): Elizabeth's charges in, 20, 242, 357, 392, 409, 432; answer to James VI.'s propositions (27th June 1593), 104, 106; Chancellor speaks of league with, 246; James VI. revokes subjects serving in, 262; send ambassadors to Baptism, 368, 376, 377, 378, 391, 405, 411, (Flemish ambassadors) 426, 445, 446; ambassadors have commission to renew league, 405, 446, 532; plot to capture them, 445, 446 (see also Broderode; Valca); Colonel Stewart sent to, 487, 489, 493, 498, 499, 512; 502; James VI. to (15th Jan. 1594–5), 514; instructions to Colonel Stewart for (14th Feb.), 532; delay to answer Colonel Stewart, 557, 570, 589; letters intercepted by, and sent to James, 557, 558, 560, 567, 570; 664 n. See also Holland.

Urie (Eurye), Laird of. See Hay.

Urquhart, Lord (Mr. Alexander Seton, Prior of Pluscardine), President of Court of Session: 18; assigned as councillor to Queen, 120, 697; at opening of Parliament, 124, 701; signs remission to Bothwell, 148, 163; Colville's accounts perused by, 179; 280; in Parliament, 347; Queen's greatest counsellor, a counterpoise to Chancellor, 387, 399; at Baptism, 412; flatly against Queen going north, 472; reconciliation between Chancellor and Queen hindered by grudge of, 498; Queen reconciles Chancellor and, 537.

— of Cromarty: 257.

—: 255.

Urwell. See Orwell.

Usan (Owsen), near Montrose: 336.