William Stewart of Monkton
William Stewart of Monkton and Carstairs (died 1588) was a Scottish landowner and courtier.

He was a son of Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree and Agnes Cunningham. His elder brother was James Stewart, Earl of Arran and his sister Margaret Stewart married John Knox.

According to the English diplomat Thomas Randolph, he was known as "William the Sticker." His estates were at Monkton, Ayrshire and Carstairs.

Richard Musgave of Carlisle complained about goods sold at Kirkcudbright in 1581, involving stewart.

In November 1584 James VI granted him a pension from the lands of Whithorn Priory which had previously been paid to his sister-in-law, Margaret Stewart, Mistress of Ochiltree.
He was Provost of Ayr in 1585.

In 1588 James VI hired a ship from Robert Jameson, probably the "James Royall" of Ayr, for Stewart to pursue the rebel Lord Maxwell with 120 musketeers or "hagbutters". Maxwell escaped but Stewart caught him at Crossraguel. Stewart then joined James VI at the siege of Lochmaben Castle. He negotiated a surrender with David Maxwell, but it is said the king insisted on using cannon borrowed from England against the castle, and David Maxwell and the other commanders were hung.

Stewart was keeping custody of Lord Maxwell in Robert Gourlay's house in Edinburgh, when Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell killed him on Blackfriar's Wynd in July 1588. Bothwell stabbed him with his rapier, and Stewart ran and tried to hide in a cellar, where Bothwell's men "stobbed him with whingers till he was despatched. The murder followed a quarrel in the king's presence in which, according to David Calderwood, Stewart asked to Bothwell to kiss him behind. 
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