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Isobel, married to James Hamilton of Kincavill, Sheriff of Linlithgow. She was divorced for adultery on 7 September 1560, although she subsequently challenged the divorce in 1568. There is a curious story in a letter from Randolph to Lord Cecil, dated 12 March 1565-66, in Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, ii. 266, that a Scotsman named Sheres, who had been arrested by Lord Bedford, had left Scotland because ‘he stoole awaye the Sheryf of Lythecows wyf called Hamilton, she being the lord Simple dawghter.’ This was bout seven years past, i.e. 1559.
