Events in the year 1608 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Monarch – James VI
Events Architecture May 8 – Works by Bevis Bulmer commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at Hilderston, West Lothian.Samuel Lythe, The Economy of Scotland in Its European Setting, 1550-1625 (Edinburgh, 1960), pp. 55–6. Tullibole Castle constructed
Sport The Lanark Silver Bell (horse racing trophy) established
Births
James Steuart of Coltness, merchant, banker, landowner, politician and Covenanter (died 1681).
Deaths 26 February – Thomas Craig, jurist and poet (born c.1538) 15 May – Archibald Napier landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and seventh Laird of Merchiston (born 1534) 9 November – John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, peer, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (born 1548).
Full date missing George Bannatyne, merchant, collector of Scottish poems (born 1545) Alexander Campbell of Carco, noble and prelate William Barclay, jurist (born 1546)
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