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Bothwell

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Both·well  (bthwl, -wl, b-), Fourth Earl of. Title of James Hepburn. 1536?-1578.
Scottish Protestant nobleman and third husband of Mary Queen of Scots who was suspected of plotting the murder of her second husband, Lord Darnley (1567). Soon after wedding Mary he fled Scotland, was captured, and died in a Danish prison.
Bothwell [ˈbɒθwəl ˈbɒð-]
n
(Biographies / Bothwell, Earl of (1535-1578) M, Scottish, POLITICS: statesman) Earl of, title of James Hepburn. 1535-78, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He is generally considered to have instigated the murder of Darnley (1567)
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It is my opinion the fiddler David must have been an insipid sort of fellow; I like black Bothwell better: to my mind a man is nothing without a spice of the devil in him; and history may say what it will of James Hepburn, but I have a notion, he was just the sort of wild, fierce, bandit hero whom I could have consented to gift with my hand.
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