Drummond

- 1648, He is believed to be the Napier who attempted to help King Charles I escape from Carisbrooke Castle. The plot failed as the King’s girth was to large for the hole. “Record at the Public Land Office, Chancery Lane, London, England”. It reads, February 7, 1647-48 Derby House

In 1501 Margaret Drummond the fair, enraptured King . She was, to him, “The diamond of Delight.” Because of his love for her, James originally declined the marriage to Mary Tudor, daughter of the King of . It is rumored that James had Henry, Earl of Kent in the name of the Committee of both Houses to Col Hammond. Having received some intelligence from a indeed married Margaret and was to have her crowned Queen of Scotland. The nobles, mostly lowlanders and border

source that we formerly found true, we thought it necessary to give you notice of it and recommend the business to your especial Lords, feared that the Drummonds were becoming too powerful. They decided that Margaret must die, thus forcing

care. That the King’s escape is designed thus, by one Napier and a servant of David Murray, whom we take to be the King’s James to marry the Tudor Princess. Margaret, and her two sisters, were poisoned. Shortly after, James married Mary tailor. The King is to be drawn up out of his bedchamber into the room over it, the ceiling whereof is to broken for that purpose, Tudor, which made way for the union of the Scottish and English Crowns a century later.In 1610 James Drummond, 1st then conveyed from one room to another till he passed all the rooms where any guards are at any doors or windows. Sent by Mr.

Lord Madderty built Innerpeffray Castle.James Drummond, descendant of John, Margaret’s father, became the first in Faukeard (Interregnum 24 E., p.10 Copy 1/2p.) “Public Record Office, London; Calendar of State papers Domestic, of the reign 1605, and his brother John became his successor on his death in 1611, and his sons became Earls of Perth like their father of Charles I … preserved in the PRO p. 15”

before them. Lord Drummond led his forces in support of the Covanenters against the Royalists at the in 1644. The chief

- There is sufficient proof that the Napiers were Royalists.

of Clan Drummond, third Earl of Perth joined in August 1645 and was taken prisoner at the the following month. In about 1660 the grandson of James Drummond 1st Lord Madderty established a library in St Mary’s chapel, the burial place

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of Drummonds. Later in 1751 on the same site, Robert Hay Drummond opened Scotland’s first public lending library.

Burial: 24 Nov 1659, Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England.

During the battles that followed in the decades after the Civil War the Clan Drummond fought at the in 1689.

Occupation 1: 1633, Burgess of Dumbarton.

Occupation 2: Barber to King Charles I, of England.