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james V (1513-42) James V was bom on IOApril1512atLinlithgowand succeeded 10 the throne on 9 September 1513. The early years of the minority Wete spent at Stirling.until he was moved 10 Edinburgh for safer keeping in the Dukeof A lbany's absence from the summerof 1517. Thereafter he travelled rarely until his escape from the Douglases in 1528. (This is reOected in the registered great seal chaners: 504 out of 596 were granted al Edinburgh in the period September 1513 -June 1528). Apart from the journeys undertaken 10 use royal resources in kind and for hygienic reasons. principally between Edinburgh. Linlithgow. Slirling and Falkland. there were four main reasons for travel. These were to oversee justice. for religious reasons. for pleasure and 10 show himself and his brides to the people. These reasons were not mutually exclusive. The pursuit ofjustice led to the trip of July 1526 with the earl of Angus, but it seems to have been ineffective because of the opposition which led to armed conflict near Melrose (at Damick Moor) where Sir Waiter Scott of Buccleuch attempted to wrest the king from Douglas control. Other trips to the Borders were made in June 1527; May-June 1529:July 1530: May 1532; June andOct-Dec. 1534: April-May 1535: June 1536 and January 1539. Pacification oflhe west and of the Isles and showing the royal nag on lhe fringes of the kingdom were the principal reasons for the trips to Argyll in 1533. the nonh in 1537 and the mosl famous journey of James V, round the north of Scotland via Orkney to the Weslern Isles in 1540. Religious pilgrimages were made 10 SI. Ninian' s (Whilhorn) in July 1531 and September 1533 and 10 SI. Duthac's (Tain) in March 1534. James's favourite hunting grounds were at Meggetland in lhe Borders (visited in Augusl 1531 and June 1534) and al Glenanney and Benmore in Perthshire (visited in September 1531 and July 1534). He also hunted in Atholl in 1532. Queen Madeleine's tragically early death in July 1537 was followed by a trip to Tantallon in August and thence on the northern tour through Ruthven, Invemess, Aberdeen, Dunnottar and Brechin, in September-October 1537. Mane de Guise landed at Fifeness near Crail in May 1538 and married James at St Andrews. A tour of Fife followed. War accounted for James's final journey and he was at Lochmaben when he heard the news ofthe rout at Solway Moss. He relUmed to Mane at Linlilhgow and travelled on to Falkland where he died on 14 December 1542 aged 30. Linlithgow· \ .,l· .... ! ......... ...i '"'- Itineraries July 1526 kms ---... August to September 1531 o 25 50 75 100 , , , I u' o 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles The itinerary of James V 1526 to 1531 WKE 124

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