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    Nicolas or Nicoll Elphinstone (died 1579) was a Scottish courtier and diplomatic messenger. He was the son of Lawrence Elphinstone of Selmys, 1435–1515...
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  • Alexander Mountstuart Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone and 5th Baron Elphinstone (born 15 April 1980), is a Scottish peer in both the Peerage of Scotland...
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  • James Alexander Elphinstone, 18th Lord Elphinstone and 4th Baron Elphinstone, AssocRICS (22 April 1953 – 19 December 1994), was a British nobleman, farmer...
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    by Parliament in December. To raise money, Moray sent his agent Nicolas Elphinstone to London to sell Mary's jewels and pearls. Moray bought clothes...
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    when they were in Hamilton". Possibly Regent Moray and his agent Nicolas Elphinstone sold tapestries abroad in 1568 along with Mary's pearls, selected...
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  • events, and was about to send his envoy Nicolas Elphinstone to London, but she was outraged and sent Nicolas Errington and Henry Killigrew to demand immediate...
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    Drury in England, particularly by letters and messages carried by Nicolas Elphinstone. On 1 August 1572, he declared a two-month truce with the Queen's...
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    "H" with other jewels to England hoping to sell it. Moray's agent Nicolas Elphinstone sold Mary's pearls to Queen Elizabeth. After Regent Moray was assassinated...
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    Scottish Renaissance painted ceiling at Prestongrange, in 1581. Nicolas Elphinstone gave James VI a copy, and another was in the library of Adam Bothwell...
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    Richard Breton's Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, Paris (1565). Nicolas Elphinstone gave James VI a copy of this book, and there was another in the library...
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