1598 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1598 Events from the year 1598 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents Monarch – James VI Events 17 January – financier Thomas Foulis is bankrupted.Julian Goodare, "The Octavians", in Miles Kerr-Peterson and Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power (Abingdon, 2017), pp. 182, 184–6. 5 August – Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart on Islay: the Clan Donald defeats the Clan Maclean, Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean being killed. 28 December – Issue in Edinburgh by William Schaw, Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland and General Warden of the master stonemasons, of the First Schaw Statutes, "The Statutis and ordinananceis to be obseruit by all the maister maoissounis within this realme", significant in the development of freemasonry.http://www.southchurch.mesh4us.org.uk/pdf/important/firstschawstatute.pdf First Schaw Statute of 1598 2013-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140413145620/http://www.southchurch.mesh4us.org.uk/pdf/important/firstschawstatute.pdf 13 April 2014 dead dmy-all Gentleman Adventurers of Fife awarded forfeited lands on the Isle of Lewis to colonise. Raids on Stornoway.Haswell-Smith Hamish The Scottish Islands https://archive.org/details/scottishislandsc00hasw limited 1996 Canongate Edinburgh 0-86241-579-9 240–241 Publications James VI's The Trew Law of Free Monarchies. Robert Greene's play The Scottish History of James IV (posthumously). Births Elizabeth Bourchier, later Elizabeth Cromwell, Lady Protectress of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1665 in England)Stanford - Auden Bicknell https://web.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I28372&ged=auden-bicknell.ged 2 June 2021 17 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151217015142/http://web.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/redirectfolder/?pid=I10156&ged=auden-bicknell.ged dead John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun, politician and Covenanter (died 1662)http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/loudoun.htm John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun, 1598–1662 BCW Project 2006-12-12 2014-04-11 James Lumsden, soldier (died 1660) 24 December – Margaret Stuart, royal princess (died 1600) Approximate date – John Hepburn, soldier of fortune (killed at siege of Saverne 1636) Deaths 19 April – David Carnegie of Colluthie, administrator.William Fraser, History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 59. August – Alexander Montgomerie, makar and outlaw (born c.1550?) 13 August – David Ferguson, reformer 3 September – John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir, Secretary of State (born 1552) David Beaton of Melgund, master of the royal household Mary Beaton (born 1543), companion of Mary, Queen of Scots See also Timeline of Scottish history References 1598 Scotland