PERKIN WARBECK.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14204, 18 November 1911, Page 5

PERKIN WARBECK.

TO THE EDITOU OK "THE I , HESS." Sir, — Iv your account of Pcrkin Warbeck, in. your very interesting series ci Historical "Anniversaries," you speakof Perkiii's wife, 'Catherine Gordon, as being s. kinswoman of the Scottish King. In doing ko you aro but following the, 1 think, universal statement of the historians; but the publication of the Aboyne Papers has now shown that sho was Jiot the King's cousin, as had boon supposed. It appears that George Gordon, second Karl of Huntly. married three times. By his first wife, the Countess of Moray, whom ho divorced, ho had no children; by his second wife, Arabella, daughter of King James 1., whom ho also divorced, he had, besides sons, three daughters, Isabel, said to have married Win. Earl, of Errol; Elizabeth married Win. Earl Marischal; Janet married suecessivelv to Lord Lindsayj Lord Gray, and Halkerston, of So nth wood: those children of the T'hrl of ly by the Princess Arabella were, of course, cousins of James II.; but the Earl of Huntly marnVd Lady EHz.ab.pth Hay as his third wife, and one of his three daughters by her was Catherine, wife first of Perkin Warbeck, and afterof Sir Matthew Cradock. Catherine Gordon, wife of Warbeck, was therefore not kinswoman to the Scottish King'," though her half-sisters were.—Yours, etc., C.H.G.