James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour

Sir James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour, Fife (died 1579) was a Scottish courtier.

Sworn of the Privy Council by Mary, Queen of Scots in 1561, he became her Lord Clerk Register (Keeper of the Scots Royal Archives).

MacGill is regarded as having been the chief representative of the Clan Makgill and though engaged in the administration of Queen Mary (of Guise) apparently he remained a committed Protestant. When Master of MacGill, he occupied the manse in Flisk, later being knighted as Sir James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour, an estate three miles south of Cupar in Fife. His successor as Lord Clerk Register, James Balfour (later Lord Pittendreich), previously held the manse in Flisk.

MacGill was appointed Lord Clerk Register of Scotland when Mary of Guise formed her administration in 1554. On 25 May 1557 he was one of a delegation who met with Mary I of England's delegation near Carlisle by the Water of Sark. There, in the run-up to Peace of Cateau-Cambresis, he proposed that the Scots would not break any peace treaty with England to appease French interests. MacGill was a commissioner for the final negotiation of the Peace at the Kirk of Steill in May 1559, called the Treaty of Upsettlington.

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