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The article explores the story of the Curle-Mowbray family of Scotland in the sixteenth century. This story has diverse elements that are all closely linked to the person of Mary Queen of Scots. The origins of the last name of the Mowbrays are indicated. In addition, this article discusses the position and social status of Gilbert Curle during the period.

The article provides an account of the unusual circumstances governing the household of Philip Robertson Sr., grandfather of Sister Margaret Fraser, a Benedictine nun of Pincethorpe Priory near Rugby in England. The unusual circumstances of the Buchan mission-station over several decades are described. The central episode of the account begins in 1749 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The article provides biographical information about William Cranston, a Catholic protagonist who was from the diocese of Glasgow, Scotland in the sixteenth century. The life of Cranston was changed radically by the Reformation Parliament of August 1560. He was a public figure at a crucial stage of the Scottish reformation. Nothing is known of Cranston's early life.