James Sandilands (courtier)

Sir James Sandilands (d. 1618) was a courtier to King James VI and I

James Sandilands of Slamannan, Slamanno or Slamannanmure was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the king in 1590 and later keeper of Blackness Castle.[1]

He was a half-brother of Sir James Sandilands of Calder, Lord Torpichen, a son of John Sandilands of Calder and Jean Fleming, who was a daughter of Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming.[2] For a time, he was "Tutor of Calder", in charge of his younger brother's estates.

He married Jean Crawfurd, and secondly Barbara Napier.[3]

In August 1588 the Privy Council decided to raise a force against the threat from the Spanish Armada. Sandilands and George Douglas of Niddry were made captains of 100 light horsemen. The commander was Sir John Carmichael.[4]

Sandilands went with James VI to Norway in 1589 to meet Anne of Denmark.[5] James Melville of Halhill mentions that Sandilands did not sail in the king's ship, but in one of three other ships, along with Lewis Bellenden, John Carmichael, the Provost of Lincluden, William Keith of Delny, George Home, and Peter Young.[6]On his return James VI made his lodgings and privy chamber within Holyrood Palace more private than before, and Sandilands deterred visitors, including Lord John Hamilton.[7]

The king gave him the estate of Cliftonhall, taken from the convicted witch, Euphame MacCalzean in 1591.[8] James VI was riding near Haddington, in pursuit of the Earl of Bothwell, and fell into the River Tyne. He changed clothes with Sandilands.[9] In 1590 and 1591 Sandilands was involved with the English subsidy money, accounting for £6,000 Scots brought by Thomas Foulis, giving £300 to John Wemyss of Logie and to an English woman called Rachael, and £260 to the king to play cards.[10]

In February 1593 Sandilands shot dead John Graham, Lord Hallyards, in Leith Wynd in Edinburgh. He then went travelling in Italy, returning to London in September 1594.[11]

In 1598 Sandilands was one of the Gentleman Adventurers of Fife, who attempted to resettle and colonise the Isle of Lewis.[12]

Will Elliot of Fiddleton stole two of his horses in 1602, and Robin Elliot of Redheugh, chief of the Elliots in Liddesdale had to pay Sandilands their value, £2000.[13]

At court in London

On 27 March 1606 Anne of Denmark and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales gave him silver gilt cups supplied by John Williams as presents at the christening of his child.[14] Although the recorded names of Barbara Napier's children are John, Frederick, and Elizabeth, it is supposed this was the christening of "Anne Sandilands", mentioned below.

At the same period John Sandilands was appointed Groom of Prince Henry's Bedchamber in 1610. John was the eldest son of Sir John Sandilands of Slamanno and Jean Crawford.[15]

In September 1612 Sir James Sandilands "of Craghall" (perhaps Cliftonhall) and David Drummond, living in the Strand, made security for Sir George Carew's appearance in court for wounding William Brockas.[16]

Sandilands was appointed Master of Household to Princess Elizabeth in 1613.[17][18]

On 4 May 1617 his daughter Anne Sandilands danced in Robert White's Masque of Cupid's Banishment, a show performed by young women from the Ladies Hall school at Deptford at Greenwich Palace for Anna of Denmark, with the encouragement of Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford.[19] Anne probably appeared as a companion of the goddess Diana paired with Anne Chalenor, both being Anna of Denmark's god-children.[20]

A son Richard Sandilands was baptised at St Nicholas, Deptford, on 20 July 1615.[21]

In 1615 John Sandilands retired from Elizabeth's household.[22]

John Sandilands was buried at Greenwich on 7 June 1618.[23]

Elizabeth's Master of Household James Sandilands, was said to be alive in 1634 when another christening is mentioned. This was probably a son, also James, and grandson of the Master of Household.[24] Colonel James Sandilands of Slamman was in the service of the Dutch Republic.[25]

References
  1. Amy Juhala, 'The Rise of James VI's Chamber', Miles Kerr-Peterson & Steven Reid, eds, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland (Abington, 2017), pp. 161-2, 165, 174.
  2. Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1911), pp. 388-9.
  3. Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1911), pp. 388-9.
  4. David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1585-1592, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1881), pp. 315-6.
  5. David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (Edinburgh, 1997), p. 121.
  6. Thomas Thomson, James Melville Memoirs of his own life (Edinburgh, 1827), p. 372
  7. Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1589-1593, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 298-9.
  8. Louise Yeoman, 'Hunting the rich witch in Scotland', in Julian Goodare, The Scottish Witch Hunt in Context (Manchester, 2002), pp. 107-8.
  9. HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 4, p. 178: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 627.
  10. Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 5, 55, 57, 69, 72-3: British Library, 'Hopetoun Manuscript', Add. MS 33531: Julian Goodare, 'James VI's English Subsidy', in Julian Goodare and Michael Lynch, Reign of James VI (East Linton, 2000), p. 118.
  11. Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 49, 447.
  12. Aonghas MacCoinnich, Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World (Leiden, 2015), pp. 17, 370, 382.
  13. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1599-1604, vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1884), p. 490.
  14. John Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 604: Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer during the Reign of James I (London, 1836), p. 300.
  15. John Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 78.
  16. Middlesex County Records, vol. 2, p. 77.
  17. John Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), pp. 123-4, 523.
  18. "The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia: 1603-1631 - Elisabeth (Pfalz, Kurfürstin, 1596-1662) - Google Books". Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  19. Lesley Lawson, Out of the Shadows (London, 2007), pp. 140-3.
  20. John Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), pp. 284, 295: S.P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies, Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents (Abingdon, 1996), pp. 76-89.
  21. Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent, vol. 4 (London, 1796), p. 376.
  22. Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (London, 1909), p. 103.
  23. Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent, vol. 4 (London, 1796), p. 473.
  24. Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (London, 1909), p. 320.
  25. "SANDILANDS, JAMES [SSNE 4996] - The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database". St-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
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