Sir Peter Young, Tutor to James VI, King of Scots

SIR PETER YOUNG OF SEATOUN

Scottish Diplomat; Tutor to James VI, King of Scots; The King's Elemosinar

Sir Peter Young of Seatoune, here treated, is the son of John Young, Burgess of Edinburgh, and his wife Margaret Scrymgeour. East Neuk of Fife: 284

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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27 June 1612: Assignation by David Lyndesay to Michael Young, son of Sir Peter Young of Seatoun, of his rights of relief under GD45/16/2220, GD45/16/2223 and GD45/16/2224. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/2225

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2 November 1613: Assignation by David Lyndsay of Kinnetlis to Michael Young, son of Sir Peter Young of Seatoun, kt., of his right of relief as cautioner in GD45/16/2222. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/2227

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30 October 1618: Back-bond by Michael Young, son of Sir Peter Young of Setton, kt., the King's Elemosinar, to David Maull of Both in respect of a contract for disposition by said David of the lands of Both and the lands of Carnecorthe and Achrynie in real warrandice. National Records of Scotland, Lord Forbes, reference GD45/16/2240

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20-24 November 1620: Renunciation by George Maule in Banhard and Janet Miln, his spouse, in favour of Michael Young, son of Sir Peter Young of Seatoun, kt., of all claim to the lands of Bothe. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/2241

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27 August 1621: Instrument of resignation ad perpetuam remanentiam by David Maule of Bothe with consent of Michael Young, son of Sir Peter Young of Seatoun, kt., Mr. Henry Maule, son of said David, Elizabeth Kinloche, relict of Mr. John Ramsay, parson of Teilling, Catherine and Helen Ramsay, daughters of said Mr. John, William Ouchterlownie, fiar of Vester Seatoun, spouse of said Catherine, and Mr. Alexander Durhame, spouse of said Helen, in the hands of Patrick Maule of Panmure of the lands of Awchryne. Registered P.R.S. Forfar, 28 August 1621. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/899

Biographical Summary by Wikipedia

Young was the second son of John Young, burgess of Edinburgh and Dundee, and of Margaret, daughter of Walter Scrymgeour of Glasswell, and was born at Dundee on 15 August 1544.

Young was three times married. By his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Gibb, a gentleman of the king's bedchamber (m. 1577, d. 1595), he had twelve children, seven sons and three daughters. The fifth son was Patrick Young; another son, John (1585–1654), received his M.A. at University of St. Andrews in 1606, when he was elected fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He held various livings, a canonry in Wells Cathedral from 1611, and the deanery of Winchester from 1616 until 1645. His gift of ground for the erection of a school in St. Andrews has erroneously been credited to his brother Patrick.

Sir Peter's second wife was Dame Joanna Murray, widow of Lord Torphichen, who survived her marriage for only six months, dying in November 1596.

In 1600, Sir Peter married his third wife, Marjory, daughter of Nairne of Sandfurd, Fife, by whom he had four daughters. She survived him, and in 1642 made application to the House of Lords for payment of arrears of pension. Previous to this time (in 1631) Charles I had directed that a pension of two hundred marks conferred on Young should be paid to his son, Sir Peter Young.

References

• Smith, Thomas, Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum, (1707) (Latin), Petrus Junius, life VI.
• "Young, Peter". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Attribution This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Young, Peter". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
• ArtUK

Genealogy

1. Wikipedia
2. East Neuk of Fife: 285-6
3. Stirnet: Young 01

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gibb_(courtier)_

Robert Gibb married Elizabeth Schaw, daughter of Sir James Schaw of Sauchie.

Their children included:[17]

8. Elizabeth, married to Peter Young, the King’s Master Almoner

References

• “Life and Times of Robert Gib, lord of Carriber.”PDF, page 223, page 183, page 184

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David Ogilvie was Dame Ephame Youngs first husband not his daughter