In November 1600, Robert Hepburn was resident at the "Place of Markle" when his kinsmen abducted Margaret Carkettle from Monkrigg (near Lennoxlove) and brought her to Markle, treating her in "abominable and destable form".Maureen Meikle, The Scottish People 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013), p. 111.
