THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND
: Containing an
Historical
and
Genealogical
ACCOUNT OF THE
NOBILITY
of that Kingdom.
Collected from the Publick Records of the NATION, the Charters and other Writings of the NOBILITY, and from the most approved Histories.
By GEORGE CRAWFURD,
Esq
EDINBURGH:
Printed for the AUTHOR: Sold by
George Stewart,
at the
Book
and
Angel
in the
Parliament-Close.
1716.
THE PREFACE.
T HE Nature of this Work seeming to render something of a Preface necessary, I shall, for that Reason, intirely dedicate it to the Service of the Reader, in as few Words as possibly I can.
Having formerly written a short Essay upon the Royal Family of
STEWART,
to which was prefixed an Historical Account and Description of the Shire of
Renfrew:
I had no sooner publish'd that little Book; than several Persons of eminent Distinction for their Learning and Knowledge in the Antiquities of the Nation, for whose Judgment I had the most profound Regard, set upon me to write
A Peerage of SCOTLAND,
a Book very much wanted; which at length, by their Importunity and promised Assistance, I was prevailed with to undertake.
When I first set about this Work, as I did entirely devote and dedicate my Time to the Study of Antiquities, particularly those of our own Country, so I made it my Business to collect all those Historical and Genealogical Tracts that had been done on the Nobility, that I could come to the Knowledge of. The Oldest of that Kind I have met with, was a few loose Sheets on the Genealogies of our Nobility, said to be done by
James
Lord
Ochiltree,
in the Hands of my very worthy Friend, and one of our best Antiquaries, Mr.
Baillie
of
Castlecary;
but the Accounts even of the few Families that Lord treats of, are very lame; and I observe where he goes much higher than his own Time, they are purely traditional, and therefore I could not depend on them.
I perused also the large Genealogical Collections concerning the Nobility, by Sir
James Balfour,
who was Lord Lyon King at Arms, in the Reign of King
Charles
I. but they are written so very loosely, and I have seen them contradicted so frequently by Writs and Charters, that I give them but little Credit. I suppose Sir
James
never intended these Papers should have gone further than his own Closet, for he was a Learned and Curious Gentleman, as appears from his Annals, in which he is much more exact, especially as to what occurred in his own Time.
I procured likewise a Copy of the Historical Essay on the Principal Families of the Kingdom, Alphabetically digested, by the learned Lord Advocate, Sir
George Mackenzie
of
Rosehaugh;
but I apprehend these Papers have been only some first Draught of a greater Work Sir
George
intended, which he lived not to finish: Of this there are many Copies in several Hands, the most exact by very far of any of them I have seen, was that which I had the Use of from
Thomas Crawfurd
of
Cartsburn,
my Brother, who by his own Reading and Knowledge in the Antiquities of the Nation, has rectified a great many of Sir
George
's Mistakes, at least of his Amanuensis, and has with great Accuracy, embellished his own Copy with a vast deal of fine Historical Remarks, that it well deserves the Character of a curious Manuscript.
I had moreover a Sight of the Genealogies of the Nobility, collected by Mr.
Dunlop,
the late Principal of the College of
Glasgow,
who was Historiographer for
Scotland,
a Gentleman of great Integrity and Learning, and an excellent Antiquary. I understand he intended to have written
A Peerage of SCOTLAND,
and for that End made very full Collections on that Subject: But I observe that most of Mr.
Dunlop
's Accounts are composed of those Genealogical Descents that the Nobility have in their own Families, and are handed about by their Friends; and that ingenious Gentleman did with great Accuracy and Judgment, add Historical Memoirs to the Genealogies, which give them a great Ornament; and he is very exact as to his Authorities. The M.S. was communicated to me by my very worthy Friend, Mr.
Dunlop,
the present Professor of
Greek
in the University of
Glasgow,
the Principal's Son.
But after I had made all those Collections I have mentioned, and a great deal more of that Kind, I cannot stay to particularize, I found I had not any tolerable Foundation for the carrying on the Work I had undertaken, for the Honour of the Country, (the Design it was principally for) or my own Reputation; and therefore, by the Advice and Direction of my ingenious Friends, who had engaged me in the Design, I did with as much Humility and Modesty as I was Master of, address every Peer by myself or some Friend, for the Assistance of their own Charters and Writings, to enable me to do their Families Justice in this Undertaking.
Such Helps as I sought were very generously afforded me by the greater Part of the Nobility, who allowed me the Perusal of their Charter-Chests and original Writings, from which I composed the Accounts of their Families as they stand in my Book. Severals indeed I did not see; some were unwilling to shew their Family Writs for divers Reasons, some were Minors, others were Abroad, and out of the Country; and even to such I have done all the Justice was possibly in my Power. But if the Accounts of such Families, whose Charters I have not had Access to, be shorter and less connected than others, that was what cannot be supposed I could help: I took Care timeously to advertise every Body concerned, and if they did not incline to shew me their Writs, the Blame cannot be laid on me.
But that I might be the better able to carry on the Work I had undertaken with Advantage, and to form Accounts of those noble Families whose Writs I had not seen, and to supply, if a
Hiatus
did happen, (as it frequently did) in such Families whose Writings I had perused I searched all the Publick Offices and Libraries about
Edinburgh
By the Publick Offices I mean the Registers of the Great Seal, which I perused from the Charters of King
Robert
I. down to our own Times, in the Laigh Parliament-House, and in the Chancery; I look'd over also the Records of the Justiciary, and all the Chartularies in the Lawyers Library.
, and noted every Thing as exactly as I could; and the Keepers of these Offices were so obliging as to allow me Access at all Hours, ordinary and extraordinary, whenever I call'd, and to whom therefore I do, with all due Gratitude, return my most humble and hearty Acknowledgments.
But after all my Labour, I am so far from being so vain as to imagine this Essay is not capable of any further Improvement, that on the contrary I am sensible, I have, thro' Inadvertency, and the Errors of the Press, especially in Dates and Proper Names of the present Age, fallen into many Mistakes; but I beg the ingenious Reader will pardon these Omissions, which are inevitable in such Books, and where he discovers an Error, he will correct it with his Pen.
Perhaps some may think, that I have been fuller upon some Families, (even some that are extinct) than on others who are much more ancient than those I enlarge more upon. The Reason is plain, the Representatives, Relations, or Descendents of those noble Families shew'd me their Writs, and encouraged my Design. If others had done so, I doubt not but I should have been able to have done them as full, and vouched them as well. For I can say, and do here declare on the Word of a Gentleman, That I had no Regard in the doing of Justice in my Province as an Author, to the Encouragement I received from any Man, otherwise than to reckon myself very much obliged to such; and I own I did not spare either Time or Pains to discover any Particular, I thought could give an Ornament to the Antiquity, or a Lustre to the Honour of their Families.
But where I have been assisted from the Publick Records or Authentick History, I have been as full on those Families who never incouraged the Design, as I have been upon those who gave me the greatest Assistance every Way; and for the Truth of this, I can and do appeal to severals of the Nobility themselves, who will find very long deduced, and well vouched Descents of their Families, in this Peerage, who never encouraged my Undertaking in any Degree. But as I said before, That I had had no Respect to; for my chief and only Regard was, and shall be Truth, and the Honour of our Country, as far as I am capable to discover the one, or defend the other.
As to the Work it self, I shall say nothing: But after so great Labour, and Expence of Time, the Essay (being new and never before attempted) how defective soever it may be, I cannot but hope, will meet with a favourable Reception from the Ingenious, and more particularly have the Approbation and Countenance of Persons of Distinction, who frequently read such Books, and know how useful and acceptable Undertakings of this Kind have ever been accounted in all the Polite Nations of
Europe.
THE Peerage of SCOTLAND.
HAMILTON Earl of
Abercorn.
THE First of this Collateral Branch of the Family of
Hamilton,
was Lord
Claud Hamilton,
third Son of
James
Duke of
Chatlerault,
Governour of
Scotland
by the Lady
Margaret Douglass,
Daughter of
James,
fourth Earl of
Mortoun.
Which Lord
Claud,
was promoted to be Commendator of the Abbacy of
Paisly,
upon the Resignation of
John
Arch-Bishop of St.
Andrews, Anno
1553, which was ratified and approven by Pope
Julius
III.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he adhered to the Interest of Queen
Mary,
by whom he was constituted one of the principal Commanders of her Army at the Field of
Langside, Anno
1568, where he perform'd the Part of a brave and valiant General, and resolutely persisted in her Majesty's Service, for which his Estate was Forfeited, and continued in other Hands, till his Majesty King
James
VI. in 1585, was pleas'd to restore the long injur'd Family of
Hamilton:
And in Testimony of the great Sense he had of that Gentleman's Sufferings for his Loyalty to Queen
Mary,
did create him Lord
Paisly, Anno
1591: He Married
Margaret
Daughter of
George
Lord
Seaton,
by whom he had Issue,
James,
first Earl of
Abercorn.
Sir
Claud Hamilton
the second Son, was first of the Branch of
Eliestoun.
The third, Sir
George.
The fourth, Sir
Frederick,
a Colonel in the
Irish
Wars in the Reign of King
Charles
I.
Beside these Sons, he had likewise a Daughter
Margaret,
Married to
William
first Marquess of
Douglass,
and had Issue.
But before I proceed, 'tis proper to take Notice, That
James
Master of
Paisly
being a Man of great Parts, was by King
James
VI. made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber; and by reason of his special Merit, was advanc'd to the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, by the Stile and Title of Lord
Abercorn, Anno
1604, being the same Year appointed one of the Commissioners on the Part of
Scotland,
to Treat of an Union with
England;
His Majesty being pleas'd further to Dignify him with the Title of Earl of
Abercorn,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 10 of
July
1606.
Creations of the Nobility M.S. penes me.
He Married
Marion
Daughter of
Thomas
Lord
Boyd,
by whom he had five Sons and two Daughters.
1.
James
his Successor in his Estate and Dignity.
2
d. Claud,
whom he provided in his
Irish
Fortune, which he had by the Bounty of King
James,
after his Accession to the Crown of
England, Anno
1603, whom his Majesty by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 8 of
May
1618, created a Baron of
Ireland
by the Designation of Lord
Straband
Sir James Ware on Irish Antiquities.
.
3
d.
Sir
William
died
sans
Issue.
4
th.
Sir
George,
of whom is descended the present Earl of
Abercorn.
5
th.
Sir
Alexander,
Father of Count
Hamilton
in
Germany,
dignified by the late Emperor with the Honour of Prince of
Nowburgh.
His Daughters were,
Anne,
married to
Hugh
Lord
Semple,
and
Margaret
to Sir
William Cauningham
of
Capringtoun.
He dying on the 3
d.
of
March
1618, (his Father surviving him three Years, Died in the Year 1621) his Estate and Dignity devolved upon
James
his Son and Heir.
Which
James,
Earl of
Abercorn,
married
Katharin
the Daughter and sole Heir of
Gervise
Lord
Cliftoun,
of the Kingdom of
England,
Widow of
Esme,
Duke of
Lennex,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, who in the Year 1651, disposed of his Estate in
Scotland,
and retired into
England:
his Male Issue failing, the Dignity came to
Claud
Lord
Straband,
his Heir Male, who dying without Issue, left his Estate and Title to
Charles
his next Brother and Heir, who dying without Male Issue, the Title of Lord
Straband
failed, but the Honour of
Abercorn,
by reason of an Entail upon the Heirs Male, descended and came to
James Hamilton
Esq
his Cousin, Son and Heir of
James Hamilton
Esq
one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber, in the Reign of King
Charles
II. (by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Lord
Culpeper
) who was Son of Sir
George Hamilton,
one of the younger Sons of
James
first Earl of
Abercorn.
Which
James,
the present Earl, was by King
William
created Viscount of
Straband,
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
and is one of the Lords of the Privy Council in that Kingdom.
In 1706, to preserve his
Scots
Peerage, he came over, and sat in that Session of Parliament which concluded the Union; He hath married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
Robert Reading,
by whom he hath Issue
James
Lord
Paisly.
ARMS.
Two Coats quarterly, first and fourth
Gules,
three Cinque foiles
Ermine,
second and third
Argent,
a Ship with her Sails trus'd up,
Sable,
supported by two Antelops, for Crest a Saw cutting through a Tree, Motto,
Through.
SANDIELANDS Lord
Abercromby.
THE first who enjoyed this Dignity, was Sir
James Sandielands
of St.
Monans,
descended of the Family of
Torphichan,
who was Created by King
Charles
I. in Consideration of his good Services Lord
Abercromby,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 12 of
December
1647,
Register of Patents in the Chanccry Office.
.
He married
Anne Carnegy
Daughter of
David
first Earl of
Southesk,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, who dyed without Succession, in the Year 1681, whereby the Dignity became Extinct.
ARMS.
Two Coats quarterly, first
Argent,
a Bend
Azure,
second
Argent,
a Heart proper, crown'd with an Imperial Crown,
Or,
on a chief
Azure,
Three Moletts of the First, the Third as Second, Fourth as First.
GORDON, Earl of
Aberdeen.
DESCENDED of an Ancient Family of that Name, who have been for many Ages possessed of a large Estate in
Aberdeen
-shire, and sprung of a Branch of the Illustrious House of
Gordon,
300 Years ago, of which Family
John Gordon
of
Haddo,
was created a Baronet the 13 of
August
1642.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he eminently distinguish'd himself by his Loyalty to King
Charles
I. ceasing not to hazard either Life or Fortune in assisting the Royal Cause; He defended his Castle of
Haddo
with great Resolution and Courage, against the Parliaments Forces,
Anno
1644; but the Garrison being treacherously Betray'd by the Souldiers, he was seiz'd, sent Prisoner to
Edinburgh,
Condemn'd and Executed the 14 of
July
1644
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs.
.
This Loyal Gentleman married
Mary,
Daughter of
William Forbes
of
Tolquhon,
by whom he had two Sons, Sir
John,
who dying without Issue, left his Estate and Title of Baronet to Sir
George,
his Brother and Heir.
Which Sir
George,
being a Person of excellent Parts and Learning, but more especially in the Laws, was promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
Anno
1680, and thereafter on the first of
November
1681, was constituted President of the Session, in Room of Sir
James Dalrymple
of
Stair,
and the next ensuing Year he was promoted to be Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
upon the decease of
John
Duke of
Rothes.
Having faithfully Demean'd himself in all those great Imployments, he was by his Majesty (King
Charles
II.) in Consideration of the untainted Loyalty of his Ancestors in all preceeding Times, the great Loyalty and Sufferings of his Father, and his own constant Zeal and Affection to the Interest of the Monarchy, by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 30 of
November
1682, advanced to the Dignity and Titles of Earl of
Aberdeen,
Viscount of
Formartin,
Lord
Haddo, Methlick, Tarves,
and
Kellie.
He married
Anne,
Daughter and sole Heir of
George Lockhart
of
Torbreaks,
by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
James Lockhart
of
Lee,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and by her he had Issue
William
Lord
Haddo,
his Son and Heir; likewise four Daughters.
Anne
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun,
and had Issue.
Martha,
to
John Udney
of That Ilk, and had Issue.
Mary,
to
Alexander
Master of
Saltoun,
Son and Heir of
William
Lord
Saltoun,
and has Issue.
Margaret
unmarried.
William
Lord
Haddo
in his Father's time married
Mary,
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Leven,
by whom he has one Daughter.
ARMS.
Azure,
Three Boars Heads Couped
Or,
within a Border, charged with Thistles, Roses, and Flower-de-Lys, supported by two Doctors in their Doctoral Habits, Motto,
Fortuna Sequatur.
Lord
Abernethy.
THE First of this Noble Family I have found upon Record, was
Orme
the Son of
Hugh,
who flourish'd in the Reign of King
William:
He obtained from that Monarch a Grant of the Lands of
Abernethy,
whence, according to the Custom of that Time, he assumed a Sirname; he left Issue a Son
Hugh,
who got from King
Alexander
II. the Lands of
Dunlopyn,
to be holden of him and his Heirs in free Forrestry, by a Charter dated the 15 of
May,
the Eight Year of his Reign. He left a Son
Laurence,
Lord
Abernethy,
who obtained from King
Alexander
II. a Grant of certain Lands in
Roxburgh
Shire, by a Charter, dated at
Edinburgh
the 24 of
June,
the Ninteenth Year of his Reign
Penes Ducem de Douglass.
.
Alexander,
Lord
Abernethy,
his Successor, in the Reign of King
Robert Bruce,
dying without Male Succession, his Inheritance came to be shared betwixt his Three Daughters, and Co Heirs, thus Married
Margaret,
to
John Stewart
Earl of
Angus.
Helen,
to
David Lindsay
of
Crawford.
Mary,
to
Andrew Lesly
of
Rothes.
ARMS.
Or,
a Lyon Rampant
Gules,
surmounted of a Riband
Sable.
GORDON, Earl of
Aboyn.
AMONG many others, who by reason of their special Merits, were advanced to Titles of Honour, upon the Restauration of King
Charles
II. was Lord
Charles Gordon,
Son of
George,
second Marquess of
Huntly,
by the Lady
Anne Campbel
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle.
Which
Charles,
highly manifesting his Loyalty to King
Charles
I. in the time of the Civil War, and firmly adhering to King
Charles
II. during the Usurpation, was, in Consideration of those his acceptable Services, raised to the Degree and Dignity of Earl of
Aboyn,
by Letters Patent, the 10 of
September
1661, and departing this Life
Anno
1680, left Issue by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Strathmore, Charles
his Successor.
2
d. George.
3
d. John
in Arms abroad.
And a Daughter
Elisabeth,
married to
John
Lord
Castlehaven,
Son and Heir of
George
Earl of
Cromerty.
Which
Charles
Earl of
Aboyn,
married
Elisabeth
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Strathmore,
his Cousin German, and dying
Anno
1705, left Issue
Charles
now Earl of
Aboyn,
his Son and Heir, a Minor.
ARMS.
Azure,
a Chiveron betwixt three Boars Heads, erazed,
Or.
within a double Tressore flowr'd with Flowr de-Lys within, and contra Crescents without, supported by two Chevaliers compleatly Armed, holding each a Halbard in his Hand, for Crest a Demi Lyon,
Gules,
armed and langued,
Azure,
Motto,
Stant caetera tigno.
Register of the Lyons Office.
OGILVIE, Earl of
Airly.
THE
Ogilvies,
according to our Historians, derive their Descent from
Gilbert
Son of
Gilebred,
and Brother of
Gilchrist
Earl of
Angus,
who flourish'd in the Days of King
William,
he obtained from that Monarch the Barony of
Ogilvy,
from whence he assumed a Sirname according to the Custom of that Time. Of the Family of
Ogilvy,
that of
Auchterhouse
seems to be the principal Branch, whose Ancestor Sir
Wolter Ogilvy,
in the Fifteenth of King
Robert
II. had a Grant for his good Services done to that Prince,
Annuum redditum vigesimi noni Librorum debiti nobis de Thanagio de
Kinclyes
in Vic. de Forfar.
He likewise had the Barony of
Auchterouse
by the Marriage of the Heir-Female of Sir
William Ramsay,
and was thereafter slain at the Battle of
Hairlaw,
the 29th of
July
1411, leaving Issue by his Wife aforesaid, Sir
Alexander Ogilvy,
Sheriff of
Angus,
and Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Lintrethan,
who laid the Foundation of this noble Family.
Which Sir
Walter
being a Man of Parts and Understanding, was upon the Restauration of King
James
I. chosen of the King's Council, and constituted Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
: In which Office he continued for the Space of Seven Years, till the 1431, he was made Master of the Houshold
Ibid.
, and he held the Place till the Death of the King,
Anno
1437, and giving Way to Fate in 1441, he left Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Sir
John
his Son and Heir, who flourished in the Quality of a Knight under King
James
II
Ibid.
. He married
Marion,
Daughter of Sir
William Seaton
of That-Ilk, by whom he had Sir
James
his Son and Heir, and Three Daughters,
Christian
married to
John Forbes
of
Pitsligo
Ibid.
Elizabeth
to . . . .
Kieth
of
Inverugy,
and
Marion
to
Henry Stewart
of
Rosyth.
Which Sir
James
being a Person of good Parts, was by King
James
IV. sent Ambassador to
Denmark, Anno
1492, in which Negociation he behaved with so much Prudence and Dexterity, that upon his Return he was raised to be a Peer of the Realm, by the Title of Lord
Ogilvy.
He married
Elizabeth,
a Lady of the Family of the
Kennedies,
and had
John
his Successor, and again
Elizabeth,
Daughter to
Archbald
Earl of
Angus.
By her he had
Walter Ogilvy,
the first of the Branch of the
Ogilvies
of
Balfour,
of the County of
Forfar.
Which
John
married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Lord
Graham,
and had Issue,
James
his Successor,
Anthony,
Abbot of
Glenluce,
and Two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
William Wood
of
Bonnieton,
and
Janet
to . . . .
Lichton
of
Ulysses-haven, in Vic. de Forfar.
Which
James
married
Elizabeth
Daughter to the Earl of
Crawfurd
Ibid.
, by whom he had
James
his Successor, also several Daughters.
Margaret
married to
David Lyon
of
Cossins, Isobel
to
David Strachan
of
Carmylie;
and
Beatrix
to . . . . .
Garden
of
Leyes.
James
next Lord
Ogilvy,
married
Margaret
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Sinclair,
and had Issue,
James
his Successor,
Thomas
of whom the
Ogilvies
of
Innerkeilor, Alexander Ogilvy
of
Kinmundy, Archbald Ogilvy
of
Laton;
also Four Daughters,
Marion
married to
Patrick
Lord
Gray, Margaret
to
David Graham
of
Fintry,
and had Issue,
Anne
to Sir
Thomas Erskine
of
Brechin, Helen
to
John
Lord
Innermeath.
Which
James
married
Catharine,
Daughter of Sir
John Campbel
of
Calder;
and departing this Life in the Month of
May
1554, left Issue
James
his Son and Heir, and two Daughters,
Agnes
married to
John Erskine
of
Dun,
and
Helen
to
John Ogilvy
of
Innerwharity,
and had Issue.
Which
James
did firmly adhere to Queen
Mary
during her Troubles; for which he suffer'd a long and tedious Imprisonment till King
James
VI. took the Government on himself, that he was releas'd; and in 1596, sent upon a solemn Embassy to
Denmark,
to assist at the Coronation of King
Cristern
IV. He married
Jean,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Forbes:
By her he had
James
who succeeded him, Sir
John Ogilvy
of
Craig, David Ogilvy
of
Pitmouies, George Ogilvy
of
Fornalt,
and Sir
Francis Ogilvy
of
Grange;
likewise a Daughter
Margaret
married to
George
Earl Mareschal; and departing this Life
Anno
1606, was succeeded by
James
his Son, who married
Jean,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gowrte,
and had by her
James
his Son and Heir, who having given several eminent Instances of his Loyalty and Fidelity to King
Charles
I. at the Beginning of the Troubles, was, in Consideration thereof, as well as the Loyalty and Merit of his Ancestors in all preceeding Times, rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Airly,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date at
York, April
2d, 1639, and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever. When the Civil War broke out, this noble Earl did heartily and personally engage himself in the King's Service, and in all Actions and Interprises of the greatest Hazard and Danger; whereby he became in the first Form of those who were most obnoxious to the Parliament. By
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of
Thomas
first Earl of
Haddingtoun;
he had
James
his Successor, Sir
Thomas,
a young Man of great Courage and Valour, who from the Beginning of the War in the Time of King
Charles
I. served his Majesty very bravely in the Head of a Regiment, which he himself had rais'd, with which he fought several Battles, where he had always Success and Victory, till the Fight at
Inverlochy
where he lost his Life; and was very generally lamented, Sir
David Ogilvy
of
Clova;
likewise a Daughter
Helen,
married to Sir
John Carnagy
of
Bonymoon.
Which
James
was like very faithful to the Crown in the Time of the Civil War, during the Reign of King
Charles
I. for as soon as the Marquis of
Montrose
took the Field, and declared for the King, the Lord
Ogilvy
frankly engaged his Person in the Service, and always behaved with signal Courage. At the unfortunate Adventure of
Philiphaugh
he was taken Prisoner, and tried and condemn'd by the Parliament to be executed, but was so happy as to make his Escape the very Night before his Execution, in his Sister's Dress, and again engaged in the same Service, and with the same Affection: And after very great Sufferings sustained with great Firmness and Constancy, he liv'd to see the King restored. He married
Helen,
Daughter of
George
Lord
Banff:
By her he had
David
his Son and Heir,
Marion
married to
James
Lord
Coupar;
and again to
John
Lord
Lindores, Margaret
to
Alexander
Lord
Halkertoun, Mary
to Sir
John Wood
of
Bonnieton,
and had Issue,
Helen
to Sir
John Gordon
of
Park,
and had Issue.
Which
David
married
Grisel,
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Strathmore;
by whom he had
James
Lord
Ogilvy, John Ogilvy
Esq
and a Daughter Lady
Helen.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Lyon passant guardant,
Gules,
crown'd
Or,
supported by Two Bulls proper. Crest, a Lady from the middle upward, holding a Portcullis in her Arms. Motto,
A Fin.
STEUART, Duke of
Albany.
THE First who enjoyed this Title, was
Robert Stewart,
third Son of King
Robert
II. by
Elisabeth Mure,
who in Right of
Margaret
his Wife, Grandchild and Heir of
Allan
Earl of
Menteth,
came to that Honour, and had the Earldom of
Fife,
by the Resignation of the Countess of
Fife;
both which Titles he used, till he was rais'd to a higher Honour.
The Earl of
Fife
and
Menteth
was a Person of great Parts and Spirit, which he manifested in all his Actions, both in Peace and War. His Father the King had so great an Esteem of his Abilities, that in his old Age, he made him Governor of
Scotland;
and he continued in the Administration till the Death of the King.
Upon the Accession of his Brother
Robert
III. to the Crown, the King being aged and valitudinary, thought fit to continue the Earl of
Fife
his Brother in the Regency, and further dignified him with the Title of Duke of
Albany, Anno
1399, and he discharged that great Trust very well throughout the Whole of his Brother's Reign; and the Prince King
James
I. being a Prisoner in
England
at the Time of his Father's Death, the Duke came of Right to be Governor of the Kingdom, and he enjoyed the Office till his Death,
September
3d,
Anno
1420.
He married first
Margaret,
Daughter and Heir of the Earl of
Menteth
aforesaid, by whom he had
Murdack
his Successor, and several Daughters,
Isobel
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Ross,
and again to Sir
Walter Halliburton
of
Dirleton, Marjory
to Sir
Duncan Campbell
of
Lochow,
and
Elizabeth
to Sir
Malcolm Fleming
of
Biggar;
next,
Mauriella,
Daughter of Sir
William Keith
Mareschal of
Scotland;
by her he had
John
Earl of
Buchan,
and Sir
Robert Stewart
Kt.
The Duke of
Albany
was succeeded by
Murdack
his Son, both in his Estate and in the Government of
Scotland,
but he came very far short of his Father, for being a weak Man, and of small Parts, was scarce able to govern his own Family, much less the Kingdom: But that which should attone for all his Oversights, and preserve his Memory from all unkind Reflections, was the glorious Part he acted, in conducing so much toward the Restauration of King
James
I. in which he was the great Instrument. Not long thereafter, the King growing jealous of the Duke's Power, which no doubt was very great, and discovering some treasonable Intrigue in which he was concern'd, he was first put under Arrest, and sent Prisoner to the Castle of
Carlaverock;
and being shortly after brought to his Trial, he was found guilty of High-Treason by his Peers, for which he lost his Head on the 19th
May
1425.
This great but unfortunate Duke, married
Isobel,
Daughter and Heir of
Duncan
Earl of
Lennox,
by whom he had Sir
Walter,
and
Alexander,
who being found accessory to their Father's Treason, both suffer'd Death for the same, and Sir
James
who fled to
Ireland,
where he spent the after Part of his unfortunate Life, and left a Son behind him, Sir
Andrew Stewart
of
Stratheven,
who came over to
Scotland
in the Time of King
James
II. who afterward rose to great Wealth and Honour, and laid the Foundation of the Family of
Evandale
and
Ochiltree.
The next illustrious Brench of the Royal Family who enjoy'd this Title, was
Alexander
of
Scotland,
second Son to King
James
II. who was created Duke of
Albany, Anno
1452, which he afterwards forfaulted for his unnatural Rebellion against his Brother King
James
III. and all his Measures being broke, he retired to
France,
where he liv'd till his Death. He left Issue by
Katharine,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Orkney,
from whom he was divorced, a Son
Alexander,
who was declared illegitimate, and thereupon he enter'd into Orders, and was made Bishop of
Murray.
Also by
Anne
his second Wife, Daughter to the Count de
Bulloign,
the Duke left a Son.
John
Duke of
Albany,
to whom the Administration of the Affairs of the Kingdom was committed in the Minority of King
James
V. and he discharged that great Trust with invincible Constancy and Courage, till the King came to Age, that he retired into
France,
where he had a fair Fortune in Right of his Wife. In the Service of that Crown he exercised the highest military Commands under
Francis
I. with great Honour and Reputation, even till his Death,
Anno
1536. The Title by Reason he had no lawful Issue, did extinguish with him.
The next who had this Honour by Creation, was that comely and graceful Prince,
Henry
Lord
Darnly,
whom Queen
Mary,
a few Days before she took him to be her Husband, did with great Solemnity invest in the Title of Duke of
Albany;
which ceas'd again upon his Marriage, that he was proclaim'd King of
Scotland,
and had his Name put upon the Coin with the Queen's;
Henricus & Maria Rex & Regina
Scotorum.
Prince
Charles,
the second Son of King
James
VI. was in the Third Year of his Age,
Anno
1601, created Duke of
Albany,
and he bore the Title till by the Death of that incomparable Prince, Prince
Henry
his elder Brother, he became Prince and Steward of
Scotland, Anno
1612; after which this Title lay dormant, till his Majesty King
Charles
II. on the Restauration, did create his Royal Brother
James
Duke of
York,
Duke of
Albany,
by Letters Patent 31st of
December
1660
Charta in Pub. Arch.
: And this Title his Royal Highness always us'd till by the Demise of the King his Brother, he came to the Crown by the Name of King
James
VII.
KER, Earl of
Ancrum.
SIR
Robert Ker,
having long serv'd his Majesty King
James
VI. and King
Charles
I. in the Quality of a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and being a Person of very fine Parts, was rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Ancrum,
the 24th of
June
1633. He married first
Elisabeth,
Daughter of . . . . .
Murray
of
Blackbarrony,
by whom he had
William
Earl of
Lothian;
next,
Anne,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Darby,
to the Heirs of which Marriage the Honour was limited; by her he had
Charles
his Son, Earl of
Ancrum,
who died without Issue, and thereby the Title became extinct.
Earls of
Angus.
GILBERT
is the first Earl of
Angus
we read of in the Time of King
Malcolm
III. and
Gilchrist Comes de Angus
his Son, was famous for his warlike Exploits under King
William.
He married the King's Sister, by whom he had
Duncan, Comes de Angus,
who ratified to the Monks of
Arbroath,
the Grant of his Father to their Convent, of the Churches of
Strathechen
and
Keriemoir.
Malcolm Comes de Angus
was his Son and Successor
Chartulary of Arbroath, wherein he, Comes Malcol. ratifies his Father and Grandfather's Donations to that Convent.
, who dying without Issue, the Earldom devolved to
Matilda, Comitissa de Angus,
his Father's Sister
Ibid, wherein she confirms Earl Gilchrist's Mortifications.
, who married Sir
Gilbert de Umfraville,
an
English
Gentleman, to whom the Lady brought the Title of Earl of
Angus.
By him she had a Son,
Gilbert
Earl of
Angus,
who was forfaulted for adhering to the Interest of the
Baliols.
STEWART, Earl of
Angus.
SIR
John Stewart
Kt. of
Bonkle,
Son of Sir
John Stewart,
who was kill'd at
Falkirk,
and Nephew to the Lord High Steward of
Scotland,
was at the Coronation of King
David
II. created Earl of
Angus
Sir James Dalrymple's Historical Collections.
, and was afterward slain at
Hallydownhill,
leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter and Co-Heir of Sir
Alexander Abernethy,
Kt.
Thomas
his Son and Heir, who by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Sinclair
of
Rosline
Charta penes Ducem de Douglas
, had
Thomas
his Successor;
Margaret
Countess of
Angus,
and
Elizabeth
Wife of Sir
Alexander Hamilton
of
Innerweek,
Kt.
ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Which
Thomas
married
Margaret,
Daughter and Heir of
Donald
Earl of
Marr;
but dying without Issue,
Anno
1377, his Estate and Title came to
Margaret
his Sister, who was married first to
Thomas
Earl of
M
r,
but being left a Widow by him without any Issue, she married again
William
the first Earl of
Douglas,
to whom she was second Wife, and by him had a Son Sir
Gearge Douglas
ibidem.
, first Earl of
Angus.
MURRAY, Earl of
Annandale.
THE ancient Family of
Cockpool
in
Dumfries
-Shire, took Beginning in the Reign of King
Robert
I.
Thomas
Earl of
Murray
then gave Willielmo
de
Moravia,
Nepoti suo, pro homagio & servitio suo, omnes terras, & omnia Tenementa, cum pertinen. totius Medietatis tenementorum de
Cumlongan,
&
Rivell,
in vallis
Annandiae
Charta penes me.
. This Branch of the
Murrays
were well known by the Title of
Cockpool. Cuthbert Murray
of
Cockpool,
was a Person of great Note in the Time of King
James
I. as
Charles
his Son was under
James
II.
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
; by whom he was nam'd one of the Commissioners on a Treaty of Peace with the
English, Anno
1457
ibidem.
,
Cuthbert
his Son flourish'd under King
James
IV. Of him frequent Mention is made in the Annals of that Reign
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
. Sir
John Murray
of
Cockpool
Kt. his Son
ibidem.
, was the Father of
Cuthbert,
of the Place foresaid, and he of Sir
Charles Murray
of
Cockpool,
who was one of the most zealous Barons for the Reformation of Religion. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Hugh
Lord
Somervel
ibidem.
, by whom he had Sir
James,
Sir
David,
and Sir
Richard Murray
of
Cockpool,
Bart. who all died without Issue Male, and Sir
John Murray
of
Dundrenan,
who was the first Earl of
Annandale.
He was early brought into the Court, under the Favour of the Earl of
Mortoun,
where his accomplish'd Parts and Breeding made him quickly taken Notice of, insomuch as he was in short Time made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
VI. Master of the Horse, and knighted: Upon the King's Accession to the
English
Crown, Sir
John Murray
waited on his Master into that Realm, under no other Character than a Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber, and had so great Credit in the Court, that he quickly got the Reputation of a Favourite. The King bestow'd immense Bounties on him, whereby he came to have one of the best Estates in
Scotland;
and therefore, that he might have Titles of Honour equal to his Estate, his Majesty was pleased first to raise him to be Viscount of
Annan
Charra in Pub. Archivis.
, and then Earl of
Annandale,
by Letters Patent, 13th of
March
1624
ibidem.
, wherein his long and faithful Services to his Majesty, are very amply acknowledged. He continued in a good Degree of Favour with King
Charles
I. which he had enjoyed so many Years under the Father, even till his Death,
Anno
1640. By
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Schaw,
Kt. he had
James
his Son and Heir, who in the Time of the Civil War, withdrew to
England;
where he liv'd privately till his Death, 28th of
December
1658
Memoirs of the Murrays of Cockpool, and Earls of Annandale.
, leaving no Issue by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Earl of
Southesk;
so that the Honour became extinct. This Earl entail'd his Estate and Honours to Sir
Robert Crichton,
his near Kinsman, Nephew to the Earl of
Dumfries,
who assumed the Sirname of
Murray
and the Title of
Cockpool;
and he dying without Issue Male, left Two Daughters by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Lord
Madertie,
who were Co-heirs,
Margaret
the Elder, married to
George Stirling
of
Herbert-shire,
and had Issue; and
Anne
the Younger, to Lord
James Murray
of
Doually,
and had Issue.
JOHNSTON, Marquis of
Annandale.
THE first conspicuous Person of this noble Family I have found upon Record, was Sir
John Johnston,
who was a Knight of great Valour and Fame in the Reign of King
Robert
II.
Abercromby's Martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation.
. Sir
Adam Johnston
of that Ilk, was very remarkable for his Loyalty to his Prince, and Love to his Country in the Time of
James
II. and was particularly instrumental in suppressing the Rebellion of the Earl of
Douglas
Mr. David Hume's History of the House of Douglas.
; for which eminent Service to the Crown, he got a Gift of the Lands of
Pitenen
in
Lanerk
-Shire
Which were then given off by the Laird of Johnston to Herbert Johnston his Cousin, who was the Ancestor of the Johnstons of Westerhall, of whom Sir William Johnston, Kt. is the Lineal Heir.
.
John Johnston
of that Ilk, his Son, was one of the Conservators of the Peace with
England, Anno
1457
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, and afterwards signaliz'd his Valour and Courage at the Battle of
Kirkonnel,
in the unnatural Invasion of the Duke of
Albany,
against his own Brother King
James
III.
Anno
1483. By
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
Maxwell
of . . . . . . he had
James
his Heir, and
John,
of whom the Branch of
Wamfray
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, of which Lands he became possessed by the Marriage of
Catharine,
Daughter and Heir of
John Boyle
of
Rysholm.
Which
James
behaved gallantly in several Encounters on the Borders with the
English,
in the Reign of King
James
IV. By . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . his Wife, he had
John
his Successor, 2d
Robert,
3d
Adam
of
Corry,
4th
William.
John Johnston
of that Ilk, his Son, behaved gallantly at the Battle of
Pinky,
and was afterwards one of the Commissioners about the debatable Lands in the Border,
Anno
1552
Rymer.
. He married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of . . . . . .
Jerden
of
Apple-girth,
by whom he had
John
his Successor,
Robert
of
Stabletoun;
and a Daughter
Dorothea,
married to
John Mattland
of
Achincastle
Memoirs of the House of Annandale.
, and again
Nicolas Douglass,
of the House of
Drumlanrig,
by whom he had a Son
William,
of whom the Branch of the
Johnstons
of
Corhead.
Which
John
was a Man of great Spirit and Courage, which he manifested in suppressing of Inroads on the Borders, which much abounded in his Time. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
John Hamilton
of
Samuelstoun,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Morgaret,
married to Sir
Robert Douglas
of
Cashogle.
Which
John
being a Gentleman of great Sagacity and Conduct, was much in the Favour of King
James
VI. by whom he was made Warden of the East Marches, and Justiciary,
Anno
1579
Carta penes M. de Annandale.
; and he discharged the Office with singular Courage and Fidelity till his Death,
June
5th, 1581
Jonstoni Heroes.
. By
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Scot
Younger of
Buccleugh
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, he had Sir
James
his Successor, and several Daughters,
Janet
married to Sir
John Carmichael,
Captain of
Grawfurd,
and had Issue; and
Grisel
to Sir
Robert Maxwell
of
Orchardtoun,
and had Issue.
Sir
James Johnston
of that Ilk, his Son, was likewise a great Favourite of King
James
VI. he was nam'd Warden of the West Marches,
Anno
1596, after his Father, and continued in the Office, till the King's Entrance to
England,
that all National Animosities were remov'd by the happy Union of the Two Nations. He was kill'd in a Family Quarrel by the Lord
Maxwell,
the 6th of
April
1608
B. Spotswood's History.
,
much regreted,
says the Reverend Bishop
Spotiswood, being a Gentleman full of Wisdom, and very well inclin'd.
He married
Sarah,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Harries,
by whom he had Sir
James
his Son and Heir, who was by the special Favour of King
Charles
I. rais'd to the Honour of Lord
Johnston,
20th
June
1633
Charta penes Marchionem de Annandale.
, and that for the greater Splendor of his Majesty's Coronation; and thereafter by other Letters Patent, bearing Date 18th
March
1643, was created Earl of
Hartfiel
Charta in Publicis Archivis.
. In the Time of the Civil War, this noble Earl gave many signal Testimonies of his Loyalty, for which he suffer'd both Imprisonment and the Sequestration of his Estate. He died
Anno
1656, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Queensberry, James
his Son and Heir; likewise three Daughters,
Mary
married to Sir
George Graham
of
Nedderby,
Ancestor to the Viscount of
Preston, Janet
to Sir
William Murray
of
Stanhope,
and had Issue,
Margaret
to Sir
Robert Dalziel
of
Glenae,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Carnwath.
James
Earl of
Hartfiel,
upon the Restauration of King
Charles
II. with the Approbation of the Crown, exchanged his Title of
Hartfiel
to
Annandale, Anno
1661, being then one of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council; and dying 16th
July
1674
Ibidem
, left Issue by
Henrietta
his Wife, Daughter of
William,
first Marquis of
Douglas,
by
Mary
his second Wife. Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntley, William
his Successor: Also Three Daughters,
1st
Mary
married to
William
Earl of
Crawfurd,
and had Issue.
2d,
Margaret,
to Sir
James Montgomery
of
Skelmurly,
Bart. and had Issue.
3d,
Henrietta,
to Sir
John Carmichael
of
Bonnytoun,
Baronet, and had Issue.
Which
William
was after the Revolution, chosen one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
William
and after that one of the Commissioners of the Treasury; likeas he was by the special Favour of the said Prince,
June
24th, 1701
Ibidem.
, rais'd to the Honour of Marquis of
Annandale.
Upon the Accession of her Majesty Queen
Anne
to the Crown, the Marquis was made President of the Council, on the Removal of the Earl of
Melvil;
and thereafter nam'd conjunct Secretary of State,
Anno
1704. From which Office he was soon removed, the Earl of
Mar
being put in his Room. In the Parliament 1706, his Lordship opposed the Union, and deliver'd several Speeches and Protestations, containing the Reasons of his Dissent, which were all enter'd in the Records of Parliament, where they will remain as lasting Monuments to the Honour of his Name.
His Lordship married
Sophia,
Daughter and sole Heir of Mr.
John Fairholm
of
Craigiehall,
by whom he has Issue two Sons and a Daughter,
James,
Lord
Johnston,
Lord
William.
Lady
Henrietta,
married to
Charles
Earl of
Hopetoun,
and has Issue.
ARMS.
Quarterly, first and fourth,
Argent
a Saltyre
Sable,
on a Chief
Gules,
three Cushions
Or.
Second and Third
Or,
an Anchor
Gules,
(for the Name of
Fairholm
) supported on the Dexter with a Lyon rampant,
Gules,
armed and langued,
Azure,
crown'd with an Imperial Crown,
Or;
and on the Sinister, with a Horse,
Argent,
furnished
Gules.
Crest, a wing'd Spur, with this Motto,
Nunquam non paratus.
CAMPBELL, Duke of
Argyle.
THIS noble antient Family is deriv'd from a Series of illustrious Ancestors, who possess'd
Lochow
in
Argyle
-Shire, according to the traditional Accounts by the
Bards
and
Sanachies,
as early as the Time of King
Fergus
II. who restor'd our Monarchy,
Anno Christi
404.
The first Appellation they us'd was
O Dwbin,
which, according to an early Custom they assum'd from
Diarmed O Dwbin,
one of their Ancestors, a brave and warlike Man, who flourish'd under King . . . . from whom they are in the
Irish
Language call'd to this Time,
Seol Diarmed,
that is, the Posterity and Offspring of
Diarmed.
From this
Diarmed O Dwbin,
the
Bards
have recorded a long Series of the Barons of
Lochow
I have seen a very ancient Manuscript History of the Family of Argyle, that derives them from a very long Train of Ancestors, much farther back than can be vouched by Writings or Records, and seems to be founded upon the traditional Accounts of the Sanachies and Bards, whose Office consisted chiefly in recording the Actions and Atchievements of the great Men of the respective Families to whom they were attach'd.
, whose Actions they tell us, were very renown'd both for Valour and Courage.
Paul O Dwbin
Lord of
Lochow
his Successor, call'd
Paul in Spuran,
so denominate from his being the King's Treasurer, having no Male Issue, his Estate went to his Daughter
Eva,
who married
Gilespick O Dwbin,
a Relation of her own, who got the Name first chang'd from
O Dwbin
to
Cambel,
to preserve and perpetuate the Memory of a very noble and heroick Piece of Service perform'd by him in the Service of the Crown of
France,
in the Reign of King
Malcolm Canmore.
By his Lady he left a Son
Duncan,
who was Lord of
Lochow;
He was the Father of
Colin,
and He again of
Archbald,
called
Gilespick,
and he of
Duncan,
Baron of
Lochow.
This last mentioned
Duncan
was the Father of another
Gilespick Cambel,
Kt. Lord of
Lochow,
whose Son and Heir Sir
Colin More,
call'd
Dominus Colinus Cambel, Miles, Filius quondam Domini
Gileaspick Cambell, did acquire from Sir
William Lindsay,
Kt. the Lands of
Symontoun
in
Air
-Shire; the
Reddendo
of which he made over to the Monks of
Newbottle, Die Martis in crastino beati
Clementis
Martyris & Pontificis, Anno
1293
Register of Newbottle, also of the Abbay of Cambuskenneth, transum'd under the Subscription of the Clerk of Register, in the Reign of King James V. Anno 1535, now in the Lawyer's Library at Edinburgh.
. I find he was also one of the great Men who were summon'd to
Berwick
upon the Part of
Robert de Bruce,
in the Competition with
John de Baliol
for the Crown, on the Demise of Queen
Margaret
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae, lately published.
; which is all I have found memorable of him in our pulick Records.
The particular History of the Family of
Argyle
does represent this Sir
Colin More
to have been a very renown'd and warlike Chieftain, they tell us,
That he was slain, in a Conflict with a great Neighbour of his own, the Lord of
Lorn;
that after he had defeat his Adversary, pursuing the Victory too eagerly, he was slain at a Place called the
String
in
Cowall,
and there interr'd, where a great Obelisk was erected over his Grave
Historical and Genealogical Descent of the illustrious Family of Argyle, M.S. penes me.
.
His Death occasion'd great Bloodshed in those Parts, and kindled such a Flame betwixt the Two Families of
Lochow
and
Lorn,
as was not extinguished for many Years thereafter, even so long as the
Argadii,
Lords of
Lorn,
existed.
From this
Colin
it is that the Head of the Family of
Argyle
are call'd by the
Irish, MackCallan More
even to this Time. By his Wife, a Lady of the Family of the
Sinclairs
History of the illustrious Family of the Campbells, in my Hands.
, he had Two Sons, Sir
Neil
his Successor, and Sir
Donald Campbell
of
Redhouse,
of whom the Family of
London
Ibidem. Likewise original Writs I have perus'd, in the Custody of the Earl of London.
, and the other Cadets of this illustrious Branch of the
Campbels
derive themselves.
Sir
Neil
his Son was honoured with Knighthood, by King
Alexander
III. in the End of his Reign
Chartulary of the Monastery of Paisly, in the Hands of the Earl of Dundonald, M.S.
. but from the Silence of our Authors, I can particularize none of his Archievements, till the Year 1292, that upon the Demise of Queen
Margaret,
he was one of the
Magnates Scotiae
summon'd to
Berwick,
upon the Part of
Robert de Bruce,
when he and all the other Competitors for the Crown had referr'd the Decision of their respective Claims to
Edward
I. of
Engalnd
Mr. Prin's large Collections, wherein Sir Nicol or Neil Campbell is there mention'd as one of the great Men who were the Bruce's Friends.
; and when that Prince did declare in Favour of
John de Baliol,
Sir
Neil Campbel
did so far acquiesce in the Decision, as to continue faithful to King
John,
till that unhappy Prince did unking himself by an inglorious Surrender of the Independency of the Crown to a Foreign Potentate the King of
England,
whom he acknowledged Superior and direct Lord of
Scotland
Ibidem.
.
But no sooner did King
Robert Bruce
assert his Title to the Crown, and form a rational Project of recovering his own Right, and of redeeming his Country from the Subjection it was under to a Foreign Power, than Sir
Neil Campbel
was among the earliest Patriots, who first resorted to him, own'd his Title, and gave quickly so many Proofs of his Zeal and Merit, for the Liberty and Honour of his Country, and of his Loyalty to that heroick Prince; insomuch that he was thought most worthy, and pitched upon to command a Party of Loyalists that were sent to
Argyle
-Shire, to curb and overawe the Lord of
Lorn
Arch Deacon Barber's Life and Atchievements of King Robert Bruce.
, who was a declared Enemy to his Country, and of Consequence to the
Brucian
Title; and he perform'd that Service committed to him with Honour and Success, insomuch that in a short Time he recovered the Countries of
Argyle
and
Lorn,
and brought them to submit to King
Robert,
notwithstanding the joint Efforts of the Lord
Lorn,
and his numerous Accomplices on the contrary
Dr. Abercromby's Atchievements of the Scots Nation.
; which shews him to have been a very resolute and hardy Patriot: After which Sir
Neil
stuck close to King
Robert,
and was among the few
Scots
Patriots, who accompanied him to
Scoon,
and assisted at the Solemnity of his Coronation,
anno
1306. After which he gave many signal Instances of his Stedfastness and Loyalty to that Monarch, even in his worst Circumstances: For when he was very far from being firmly established on the Throne, Sir
Niel Campbel
entered into an Association with Sir
Gilbert Hay,
and Sir
Alexander Seton,
wherein, in a most solemn Manner, they bound themselves to desend, till the last Period of their Lives the Liberties of their Country, and Right of
Robert Bruce,
their King, against all Mortals,
French, English,
and
Scots,
to which they appended their Seals at the Abbay of
Cambuskenneth,
9
Sept.
1308.
Anno
1314, he was one of the Commissioners upon the part of
Scotland,
authoris'd to Treat with the
English
for a Peace, which at that Time, took not its desir'd Effect: And the next ensuing Year, he was one of the Barons at the Parliament, held at
Air,
where they made an Entail of the Crown to King
Robert
and his Heirs
Mr. Anderson's Independency.
. About which Time, in Consideration of his good Services, and signal Loyalty, he obtain'd a Grant of several Lands, then in the Crown, by the Forfaulture of those who adhered to the Interest of the
Baliol;
and to oblige him the more, the King bestow'd upon him the Lady
Mary Bruce,
his Sister in Marriage. He departed this Life, in the latter End of the Year 1315, leaving Issue two Sons,
Colin
his Successor, and
John Campbel,
who was by King
David Bruce,
dignified with the Title of Earl of
Athole,
but dying
sans
Issue, the Honour went no further in the Family.
Which Sir
Colin Campbel
of
Lochow,
began early to distinguish himself for Military Atchievements. He was in the Expedition made into
Ireland, anno
1316, in behalf of
Edward Bruce,
then King of that Realm, where he behav'd with exceeding Gallantry, and perform'd many signal Services: In Consideration whereof, he obtained a Grant of diverse Lands in
Argyle
Shire, by a Charter yet extant,
Charta Colini Campbel fi
ii Nigelli 10 Feb. 1316.
, having faithfully demean'd himself during the whole Course of King
Robert
's Reign. He continu'd no less stedfast to King
David
his Son; for whose Service, even when his Affairs were lookt upon to be lost, he rais'd 400 Men, and took the Castle of
Dunoon,
then in the Hands of the
English;
for which notable Service, when that Prince came to be established upon the Throne, he made him hereditary Governour, which his Descendants still enjoy
Charta penes Joannem Ducem de Argyle.
.
He married a Daughter of the Family of
Lennox
Colvil's History of the Family of Argyle M.S. penes me.
, by whom he had Three Sons and a Daughter,
viz. Archbald
his Successor.
John Campbel
was Author of the Branch of
Barbreck,
of whom descended
Campbel
of
Succoch
3
d.
Sir
Dougal Campbel,
who lost his Estate for adhering to
Edward Baloil.
Alicea,
his Daughter, was married to
Allan Lauder
of
Hatton
Charta in publicis Archivis.
.
He had a natural Son,
Niel,
of whom the
Campbel
's of
Melfort
derive their Descent.
He departing this Life about the Year 1340, was succeeded by
Archbald
his Son, who constantly adhered to King
David,
during his Captivity in
England,
after the Battle of
Durham,
and that Prince, upon his Return, to reward his Loyalty, bestow'd upon him several Lands then in the Crown, by the Forfaulture of Sir
Dougal Campbel,
his own Brother,
anno
1357
Penes Ducem de Argyle.
.
He married
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
John Laumont
Colvil's History of the Family of Argyle.
, by whom he had
Colin
his Successor, who obtain'd from King
David
II. a Charter ratifying the Alienation made by
Christian,
Daughter and Heir of Sir
Dougal Campbel,
of the Lands of
Craignish,
to be holden of him and his Heirs in as ample manner as
Duncan Mackdwyne,
his Ancestor, held the Barony of
Lochow,
which bears Date 25
March
1370
Charta penes Ducem de Argyle.
. He was employ'd by King
Robert
II. in restraining the Incursions of the
Highlanders,
who then infested the Western Parts of this Realm, whom he reduc'd to the King's Obedience: In Consideration whereof, he obtain'd from the said King sundry Lands yet in the Family.
He married
Mary Campbel,
a Lady of his own Family, by whom he had two Sons,
Duncan
his Successor.
Colin
the second, was Founder of the Family of
Arkinlass
Charta per Duncanum Campbel, Dominum de Lochow de Terras de Achingounen dilecto nepote suo Joanni Campbel, filio & haeredi Fratris sui Colini Campbel de Arkinlass 6 May 1428 Penes Thomam Yuil de Darlieth.
, of whom Sir
James Campbel,
Baronet, is lineal Heir. Of
Arkinlass
the Families of
Arutenet, Dunoon, Carrick, Skipnish, Blythswood, Shawfield, Rachane, Auchvwillen,
and
Dergachie
are Branches.
Besides which two Sons, he had a Daughter,
Christian,
maried to
Malcolm Mackfarlane
of
Arochar
Charta Christiane Campbel, filiae Colini Campbel de Lochow Sponsae Malcolmi Mackfarlane, penes me.
.
He had likewise two natural Sons,
Dougal,
Progenitor of the Family of
Dunstafuage,
of whom
Colin Campbel
of
Ederlin,
and
Robert Campbel
of
Balvie
are descended.
The second,
Duncan,
was first of that Branch of
Duntroon.
To Sir
Colin Campbel
succeeded Sir
Duncan
his Son: This
Duncan
being a Person of great Parts, arriv'd to very high Advancements, as well in Honour as Estate: He married first the Lady
Marjory Steuart,
Daughter of
Robert
Duke of
Albany,
Governour of
Scotland,
and improv'd the Opportunity of his near Allyance with
Murdoch
Duke of
Albany,
Governour, while King
James
1. was detain'd Prisoner in
England,
so far, that he prevail'd with him, to ransom and restore the King to his Fathers Throne. This prudent Prince, discerning so much his Abilities, he constituted him one of his Privy Council, and his Justiciar, and Lieutenant within the Shire of
Argyle
Writes of the Family of Argyle.
, was continued in the same Office to King
James
II. by whom he was advanc'd to the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, by the Title of Lord
Campbel, anno
1445
Creations of the Nobility, penes Hamilton de Wishaw.
. This much as to his civil Actions. I come to his Works of Piety, which were great and many. He gave in pure Alms to the Monks of the Abbey of
Sandale,
in
Kintyre,
the Lands of
Blairnatiber,
for the Safety of his Soul
Confirmation of the said Charter to the Monastery of Sandale, in the Register.
, and founded the Collegiate Church of
Kilmun,
by his Charter, 4
August
1442
Monasticon Scoticanum penes me M.S.
; which Grant he expresses to be made,
In honorem Dei, heatae virginis Mariae & Sancti Mundi, pro salute Animae olim recolendae Memoriae Jacobi Regis & Joannae Reginae suae; nec non pro salute Animae Jacobi moderni Regis Scotorum meaque propria salute & animae quondam Marjoriae Conjugis meae & modernae Consortis meae, & quondam Caelestini filii mei primogeniti omnium Autecessorum & Successorum meorum.
This noble Lord left Issue by
Marjory
his first Wife, aforesaid, Daughter of
Robert
Duke of
Albany;
three Sons. 1
st. Caelestine,
dyed
sans
Issue.
2
d. Archbald,
from whom the Male Line of this noble Family sprung: He married in his Father's Time
Elisabeth.
Daughter of Sir
John Somervel
of
Carnwath,
Ancestor to the Lord
Somervel,
by whom he had a Son
Colin,
who succeeded his Grand-father.
3
d.
Sir
Colin,
who was first of that Branch of the Family of
Glenurchie,
now dignified with the Title of Earl of
Broadalbin.
By his second Wife
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
John Steuart
of
Blackhall,
natural Son of King
Robert
III. he had three Sons;
Duncan,
first of the Branch of
Achinbreak,
of whom Sir
James Campbel,
Baronet, is lineal Heir Male. This Family hath produc'd the
Campbel
's of
Glencardel, Glensadale, Kilduskland, Kilmorie,
wester
Keams, Kilberry,
and
Dana.
Niel,
the second Son, was Ancestor of
Campbel
of
Ellengreg,
whereof the Heir is Sir
Niel Campbel.
Of this Family, is
Colin Campbel
of
Ormandale,
now Major General in the
Muscovite
Service.
Of the 3
d.
Son Issued the old
Campbel's
of
Ottar,
extinct.
Lord
Duncan
departing this Life, 1453, was buried in the Church of
Kilmun,
where there is a noble Monument erected over him, with the Statue of Himself, as big as the Life, about the Verge of the Tomb, is this Inscription,
Hic Jacet
Dominus Duncanus, Dominus le Campbel, Miles de Lochow.
To
Duncan
Lord
Campbel
succeeded immediately
Colin
his Grand-son and Heir, who was created Earl of
Argyle,
by K.
James
II.
anno
1457
Creations of the Nobility
; being a Man of eminent Parts, was in the Reign of
James
III. employ'd in the highest Offices in the State, as Privy Seal, Master of the Houshold, and Lord high Chancellor; all which he discharged with great Ability and Integrity: He was in no less Favour with King
James
IV. after his Accession to the Throne (tho without having any particular Hand in the Contrivances and barbarous Actions, which were exercis'd in Order thereto) who constituted him again Chancellor,
anno
1488
Catalogue of Statesmen, penes me.
. He enjoy'd that Office till his Death,
anno
1492.
He married
Isabel,
one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of
John Steuart,
Lord
Lorn,
by whom he had two Sons,
Archbald
his Successor, and
Thomas,
a younger Son, of whom descended the Family of
Lundie
in
Angus
Miscellaney Collections penes Mr. James Anderson.
, likewise five Daughters.
1.
Margaret,
married to
George
Lord
Seton,
and had Issue.
2
d. Isabel,
to
William
Master of
Drummond,
Son and Heir of
John
Lord
Drummond,
and had Issue.
3
d. Helen,
to
Hugh,
first Earl of
Eglintoun,
and had Issue.
4
th. Elisabeth,
to
John,
second Lord
Oliphant,
and had Issue.
5
th. Mary,
to
Aeneas Mackdonald,
natural Son and Heir of Tailzie to
John
Earl of
Ross.
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
his Son, succeeded him, being a noble Man of great Parts and Wisdom: He was by King
James
IV. promoted to be Chancellor of
Scotland, anno
1494
List of Statesmen penes Mr. Milne.
, Lord Camberlain,
Anno
1495
Ibidem.
, and Master of the Houshold, 1498
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. At the Battle of
Flowden,
he Commanded the Van-Guard of the Army; and behaving himself with great Valour, was there killed, with his Royal Master King
James
IV. and the Flower of his Nobility, 9 of
September
1513, leaving Issue by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
John,
first Earl of
Lennox,
four Sons,
Colin
his Successor.
Archbald Campbel
of
Skipnish,
was the second, which failed in an Heir Female, in the Reign of Queen
Mary.
Sir
John Campbel,
third Son, came to the Possession of a fair Estate, by the Marriage of
Morella,
Daughter and sole Heir of
John Calder
of that-Ilk, whose Successor is Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Caldar:
Of this Branch of the Family of
Argyle,
are the
Campbel
's of
Archattan, Airds,
and Sir
Archbald Campbel
of
Clunies
descended.
Donald,
fourth and youngest Son, was Abbot of
Couper,
of whom the
Campbel
's of
Kythack
in
Angus
derive their Descent.
Besides these Sons, he had likewise four Daughters.
Margaret,
married to
John
Lord
Erskin,
and had Issue.
Isabel,
to
Gilbert,
second Earl of
Cassils,
and had Issue.
Mary,
to
John Steuart
Earl of
Athole,
and had Issue. And
Jean,
to Sir
John Laumont
of
Inneryne,
and had Issue.
Colin,
Earl of
Argyle,
his Son, was nam'd one of the four Counsellours to King
James
V.
anno
1525; in 1528 he was constituted Lieutenant of the Borders, and Warden of the Marches; which Office he discharged so much to his Majesty's Satisfaction, that he obtain'd first a Grant of the Lordship of
Abernethy,
then in the Crown, by
Angus
's Forfaulture, and after an ample Confirmation of the hereditary Sheriffship of
Argyle
Shire, Justiciary of
Scotland,
and heretable Master of the Houshold
Penes Ducem de Argyle.
.
He married
Janet,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly,
by whom he had two Sons, and one Daughter,
viz. Archbald
who succeeded him.
John Campbel,
second Son, from whom is descended the Branch of
Lochnel,
which produc'd the
Campbel
's of
Balerno
and
Stonfield.
Alexander Campbel,
third Son, Dean of
Murray,
had no Succession.
Margaret,
married first to
James Steuart
Earl of
Murray,
natural Son of King
James
IV. and then to
John
Earl of
Sutherland.
He departing this Life,
anno
1542, was succeeded by
Archbald
his Son and Heir; which
Archbald
was one of the Peers, who upon the Death of King
James
V. entred into an Association to oppose the then intended Match betwixt Queen
Mary
and King
Edward
VI. of
England,
and consequential Union of the Crowns, as tending,
To the high Dishonour, perpetual Skaith, Dammage and Ruin of the Liberty, and Nobleness of this Realm,
as it runs in the Original yet extant, bearing Date the 4th.
July,
1543
Penes Hamilton de Wishaw.
.
Upon the breaking out of the War with
England,
he remarkably distinguish'd himself by his Valour and Conduct, both at the Battle of
Pinkie, anno
1547, and at the Siege of
Haddingtoun,
1548, in Defence of his Queen and Country, related at large by our Historians
Dr. Abercromby's History of the Campaigns 1548, & 1549.
. This noble Lord was the first of his Quality who imbrac'd the Protestant Religion, in the Beginning of the Reformation, of which he was a hearty Promoter, and continu'd stedfast in the Profession thereof; when adying he recommended to his Son, to propogate the preaching of the Gospel, according to the reform'd Principles, and the suppressing
Romish
Superstition and Idolatry. He dyed
anno
1558
History of the Reformation, commonly call'd Knox's.
, leaving Issue by Lady
Helen Hamilton
his first Wife, Daughter of
James
Earl of
Arran; Archbald
his Son and Heir, and by his second Wife
Mary Graham,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Monteith,
Sir
Colin Campbel
of
Buchuan,
and two Daughters,
1.
Margaret,
married to
James Steuart
Lord
Down,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Murray,
and had Issue.
2
d. Janet,
to
Hector Macklane
of
Dowart,
and had Issue
Charta Janetae Campbel filiae Arch. Comitis de Argyle Sponsae Hectoris Macklane de Dowart, anno 1556, in publicis Archivis.
.
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
his Son being a Person of singular accomplishments, was by the Estates of
Scotland,
sent Ambassador to the Queen, then in
France, anno
1559, to Supplicate her Majesty in Favour of the Reformation: But that taking no Effect, he, together with the Earls of
Glencairn, Morton,
and others, entred into an Association, wherein they bound themselves to assist one another in advancing the Cause of Religion, which at last they got happily establish'd by Act of Parliament,
anno
1560
Bishop Spotiswood and Mr. Calderwood's Church Histories.
.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
he espous'd her Interest, and was General of her Forces, at the Battle of
Langside,
against the Earl of
Murray,
then Regent. After which he submitted to the Authority of her Son, King
James,
and came to be so considerable in that Party, that upon the Death of
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox,
Regent,
anno
1571, he stood a Candidate for that Post; but the Earl of
Marr
being preferr'd to the Regency, he was constituted Lord High Chancellor. He enjoy'd that Office with universal Reputation for the Space of Three Years, even to his Death, which happen'd in
September
1575
Mr. Crawford's Memoirs.
, to whose Memory the famous Mr.
Johnston
Johnstoni Heroes.
, compos'd this Epigram.
Gens Albina vetus, gemini incunabula Regni
Quae posuit, (fuerant nam duo Regna prius:)
Illa viris armisque potens, totque aucta tropaeis,
Quae dominos rerum tot dedit una Deos;
Hec & avos, atavosque dedit, loca prisca tenemus,
Tecta, Lares, mores, & decora alta ducum.
Sufficeretque vetus nobis ea gloria: verum
Major ad ignoti nos vehit astra poli.
Adscriptique Dei jam sancta in faedera cives,
Magnanimi audemus pro pietate mori.
Gens quae jura prius dederat, nunc accipit. Ergo
Bis felix: quae dat, quae nova jura capit.
This worthy Lord married two Wives, 1
st.
Lady
Jean Steuart,
natural Daughter of King
James
V. 2
dly. Jane,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Glencairn,
but by none of 'em left any Issue; whereupon his Estate and Honour came to Sir
Colin Campbel
of
Buchuan,
his Brother and Heir.
Which
Colin
was constituted one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
VI.
anno
1577, and Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
upon the Decease of
John
Earl of
Athole,
1579, which, together with several other great Employments in the State, he enjoy'd till his Death, in the Year 1584
Spotiswood
.
He was married first to
Janet Steuart,
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Methven,
but by her he had not any Issue; and by
Agnes
his second Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl
Marishal,
and Widow of
James
Earl of
Murray,
He had two Sons,
Archbald
who succeeded him, and Sir
Colin Campbel
of
Lundy,
Baronet.
Which
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle
was constituted General of the Forces rais'd against the Earls of
Huntly
and
Errol,
at the Battle of
Glenlivet, anno
1594
Ibidem.
, and supprest the Insurrection of the
Mackgregors
1603
Balfour's Annals.
, and another more formidable by the
Mackdonalds,
in the Western Isles, 1614
Ibidem.
: In Respect whereof, and his other great Merits, he obtain'd a Grant of the Country of
Kintyre, anno
1617, which was ratified by a special Act of Parliament
Charta penes Ducem de Argyle.
.
In 1618, he went to
Spain,
and signaliz'd himself in that Service against the States of
Holland,
and assisted at taking several Places of Strength, but by his Majesty's Permission returning to
England,
he dyed at
London, anno
1638
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs.
. He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton,
by whom he had
Archbald
his Successor, and four Daughters.
1.
Anne,
married to
George,
second Marquess of
Huntly,
and had Issue.
2
d. Annabel,
to
Robert,
second Earl of
Lothian,
and had Issue.
3
d. Jean,
to
John,
first Viscount of of
Kenmure,
and had Issue.
4
th. Mary,
to Sir
Robert Montgomery
of
Skelmurly,
and had Issue.
2
dly.
He married
Anne,
Daughter of Sir
William Cornwallis
of
Brome,
Ancestor to the Lord
Cornwalis
in
England,
by
Mary
his Wife, third Daughter, and one of the Coheirs of
John
Lord
Latimer
Sandfords Genealogical History of the Kings of England p. 344.
, by whom he had a Son
James,
created first Lord
Kintyre,
by King
James
VI.
anno
1622, and by King
Charles
I. dignified with the Title of Earl of
Irvine,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 28
March
1642
Creations of the Nobility, from the Register of the Chancery.
, and a Daughter
Mary
married to
James
Lord
Rollo,
and had Issue.
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
his Son, was a Man of great Learning, singular Judgment, and other Endowments, which recommended him so much to the Favour of King
Charles
I. that he constituted him one of the Lords of his Privy Council.
In 1628, he resign'd in his Majesty's hands the Justiciary of all
Scotland
(which had been in his Family for divers Ages) reserving to himself and his Heirs, the Justiciary of
Argyle
and the Western Isles, and where ever else he had Lands in
Scotland,
which was ratified by Act of Parliament, in 1633, where his Majesty was present in Person. Not long after which, in respect of his own Merit, as well as the remarkable Fidelity and Loyalty of his Family in former Times to the Crown, his Majesty was graciously pleas'd to create him Marquess of
Argyle,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 15th.
November
1641.
When the Troubles began in that Reign he joyn'd with the Parliament of
Scotland,
and shew'd himself a Zealous asserter of the Presbyterian Church Government, which was then establish'd.
After the horrid Murder of the King, he contributed much to the dutiful Reception of his Majesty King
Charles
II. into
Scotland, anno
1650, and at the Solemnity of his Coronation 1
st. January
1651, he assisted soeminently as to put the Crown upon his Head: But upon the Restoration of his Majesty,
anno
1660, he was attainted of High Treason, for corresponding and complying with
Oliver Cromwel
(the too too common Fault of the Times) and found guilty by the Parliament, was beheaded at
Edinburgh,
the 27 of
May, anno
1661. Imediately before his Execution, he solemnly declar'd,
That from his Birth, to that Moment, he was free of any Accession to the Death of King
Charles
Trial of the Marquess of Argyle.
, and like a good Christian,
pray'd God to bless his present Majesty, in his Person and Government.
This great Peer was married to
Margaret,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Mortoun,
by whom he had two Sons,
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle.
And
Lord
Niel Campbel
of
Ardmaddie,
sometime Governour of
Dunbartoun
Castle, married first
Vere,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Lothian,
by whom he had Mr.
Archbald Campbel
his Son and Heir, a Gentleman of eminent Learning, and other Accomplishments: Also by his second Wife
Susanna,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Menzies
of
Weim,
he had two Sons, Mr.
Neil Campbel
Advocate, and Mr.
Alexander Campbel.
The Marquess had likewise three Daughters.
1
st. Anne,
a Lady of excellent Endowments, never married.
2
d. Jean,
married to
Robert
first Marquess of
Lothian,
and had Issue.
3
d. Mary,
to
George
Earl of
Caithness, sans
Issue, after his Death, to
John
Earl of
Broadalbin,
and had Issue.
The Title of Marquess of
Argyle
failing by the Forfaulture of this
Archbald,
his Majesty was graciously pleas'd to restore
Archbald
Lord
Lorn
his Son, to the Estate, Title, and Precedency formerly enjoy'd by his Ancestors, Earls of
Argyle
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
.
Which
Archbald,
Earl of
Argyle,
was constituted Captain of his Majesty's Foot Guards,
anno
1650, with this Speciality, That tho all Commissions were then given by the Parliament, yet he would not serve without a Commission from the King
Penes Ducem de Argyle.
. After the Deseat of the Royal Army at
Worcester, anno
1651, he took Arms for his Majesty's Service, which incens'd
Oliver Cromwel
so much against him, that tho he granted a Pardon and general Indemnity to the People of
Scotland,
by his Proclamation the 12 of
April
1654, yet was he, with several other Loyalists, particularly excepted; notwithstanding of which, with singular Constancy, he preserv'd his Duty and Fidelity to his Majesty inviolated, in the worst Times, would never capitulate, till he had General
Midelton
's Order from the King so to do, bearing Date 31 of
December
1655
State Tracts.
: Then he made his Composition, without any other Engagment than laying down his Arms, whereupon he retired to his own House, that he might live quietly, and retain'd still his Affection and Fidelity to the King; of which his Majesty was so perfectly sensible, that he was pleas'd to make his eminent Loyalty and Zeal toward the Restoration, the onerous Cause of restoring him to his Father's Fortune,
anno
1663. Not long after he was nam'd a Privy Counselour, and one of the Commissioners of the Tresaury, which for many Years he discharged with great Fidelity, and thro' all Changes appear'd an earnest Espouser of the Protestant Interest: For seeing to what Pass things were like to come, he propos'd in a Committee of Council, that to the Test might be added some Acts against Popery, which was so ill taken, that all methods imaginable were devis'd to ruin him, which at last was effected, under a Pretence of his putting his own Sense and Explanation upon the Test, when he took
Ibidem.
it in these Words,
I have consider'd the Test, and am desirous to give Obedience, as far as I can; I am confident, the Parliament never intended to impose contradictory Oaths; and therefore I think no Man can explain it, but for himself, and reconcile it, as it is genuine, and agrees in its own Sence; and I take it so far as it is consistent with it self, and the
Protestant Religion:
And I do declare, I mean not to bind up my self, in my Station, but in a lawful Way, to endeavour any thing I think for the Advantage of the Church or State, not repugnant to the
Protestant Religion,
and my Loyalty: And this I understand, as part of my Oath.
For which, by the insinuating Perswasions of some who bore him no good Will, the King was so far incens'd against him, that he not only commanded him Prisoner to the Castle of
Edinburgh,
but gave Order for his Tryal. Being found Guilty of high Treason, he made his Escape out of the Castle, very dexterously, in the Dress of a Lady's Page
Ibidem.
, got over to
Holland,
whence with a few Men he invaded this Kingdom, 1685, in the Beginning of the Reign of King
James
VII. a little before the Duke of
Monmouth
landed in
England,
History of the Reign of King James III.
but never having got together above 2000 Men, was soon after totally routed near
Kilpatrick,
and taken Prisoner: He was Beheaded at the Cross of
Edinburgh
the 30 of
June
1685, upon his former Sentence. 'Tis said, he compos'd this EPITAPH a few Hours before his Death.
Thou Passenger, that shalt have so much Time,
As view my Grave, and ask what was my Crime:
No Stain of Error, no black Vices brand,
Did me compel to leave my native Land.
Love to my Country, Truth condemn'd to die,
Did force my Hands forgotten Arms to try,
More from Friends Fraud my Fall proceeded hath,
Than Foes, the Thrice they did attempt my Death.
On my Design, the Providence did frown,
Yet GOD at last, will surely raise his own:
Another Hand, with more successful Speed.
Shall raise the Remnant, bruise the Serpent's Head.
This
Archbald,
Earl of
Argyle,
married
Mary Steuart,
Daughter of
James
3
d.
Earl of
Murray,
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Home,
by whom he had four Sons,
viz.
Archbald
late Duke of
Argyle.
John Campbel
of
Mamore,
2
d.
Son, Member of Parliament for
Dunbarton
Shire, married ---- Daughter of
John
Lord
Elphingstoun,
and has Issue.
Colonel
Charles Campbel
3
d.
Son.
Colonel
James Campbel
4
th.
Son, married
Margaret,
Daughter of
David Lesly,
Lord
Newark,
and has Issue.
Also two Daughters.
Anne,
married first to
Richard
Earl of
Lauderdale,
and now to
Charles
Earl of
Murray.
Jean,
to
William
Marquess of
Lothian,
and has Issue.
Archbald
Lord
Lorn
his Son, was one of the few
Scots
Peers that came over from
Holland
with the Prince of
Orange,
the late King
William,
into
Britain, anno
1688. He was own'd by the Convention of Estates as Earl of
Argyle,
before the Forfaulture of his Father was rescinded, which, by
The Claim of Right,
was declar'd to be
A Reproach to the Nation.
He was particularly Active to have the Crown established on the Prince and Princess of
Orange,
as the
English
had done; which being by a great Majority carried in the House, his Lordship was sent from the Nobility, with other two from the Barons and Burroughs, to offer the Crown in the Name of the said Convention to their Majesties, and tender'd them the Coronation Oath, for which, and many other good Services, upon their Advancement to the Throne of this Realm, he was admitted one of the Privy Council 1
st.
of
May
1689, and
anno
1690, made one of the Lords of the Tresaury, and after that Colonel of the
Scots
Guards of Horse, and one of the extraordinary Lords of the Session, upon the Decease of
William
Duke of
Hamilton,
in the Year 1694: And further, in Consideration of his good Services, he was by his said Majesty created into the Dignity and Titles of Duke of
Argyle,
Marquess of
Kintyre
and
Lorn,
Earl of
Campbel
and
Coual,
Viscount of
Lochow
and
Glenyla,
Lord
Innerara, Mull, Morvern,
and
Tyrie,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date at
Kensingtoun
the 23 of
June,
1701. Likeas, he carried over a Regiment to
Flanders
for King
William
's Service, consisting almost, both Officers and Souldiers, of his own Name and Family, who bravely distinguish'd themselves thro' the whole Course of the War.
He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Lionel Talmash
of
Helingham,
by
Elisabeth
Dutches of
Lauderdale,
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
William Murray
Earl of
Dysart,
and Sister to
Lionel
now Earl of
Dysart,
by whom he had Issue, two Sons and a Daughter.
John,
the present Duke of
Argyle.
Archbald Campbel
Earl of
Ilay.
Anne,
married to
James Steuart,
2
d.
Earl of
Bute.
He departing this Life the 28 of
September
1703, was succeeded by
John,
the present Duke of
Argyle,
his Son and Heir, who from his Youth, according to the Rule of his great Ancestors, betook himself to a Military Life, was Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, at the End of the last War, when not full Seveenteen Years of Age, and even then gave signal Proofs of his Valour.
In the Beginning of this War, he was constituted Brigadeer and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, Major General, and then Lieutenant General in which Characters he has in a very eminent Mannerdistinguish'd himself thro' the whole Course of this present War; was at the Battle of
Ramllies,
and at the Siege of
Menin,
of which he took Possession; commanded and took the Fort of
Plasandale,
and assisted at the Siege of
Ostend;
was remarkably Active in the Pight at
Audenard,
and afterward took Possession of
Lille,
(the Siege of which Town he had assisted in) as also of
Ghent
and
Bruges,
and particularly signaliz'd himself in the Campaign 1709, at the Siege of
Tournay,
and the Battle of
Blareignes;
In short, there has scarce been a Battle or Siege this War in
Flanders,
at which he did not assist in Person.
Upon his Father's Decease, he was constituted one of the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council, and Captain of the
Scots
Guards of Horse, and one of the extraordinary Lords of Session, and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Thistle, anno
1704.
In the Year 1705, Her Majesty was pleas'd to add to his other Employments, that of Lord High Commissioner to Represent Her Royal Person in the Parliament, when not above 23 Years of Age: And upon his Return to Court, in Consideration of his many signal Services, he was created a Peer of
England,
by the Title of Baron of
Chatham,
and Earl of
Greenwich.
In 1710, He was appointed Generalissimo of Her Majesty's Forces in
Spain,
elected Knight of the
Garter,
and dispatch'd with the Character of Ambassador-Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary to
Charles
III. of
Spain.
His Grace has married
Mary,
Daughter of
Thomas Brown
Esq
and Niece to Sir
Charles Duncomb,
late Lord Mayor of
London.
ARMS.
Quarterly, 1st. and 4th. Girony of Eight,
Sable
and
Or,
2d. and 3d.
Argent,
a Galley with her Oars in Action, supported by two Lyons Rampant,
Gules,
Crest a Boars Head eraz'd,
Or,
Motto,
Ne Obliviscaris.
Earls of
Athole.
AThole
had early Earls in the Reign of King
Malcolm
IV.
Malcolm
is then Earl of
Athole:
He out of his Devotion to God, gave in pure Alms to the Monks of
Scoon
the Church of
Logen-mabed,
with four Chappels thereunto belonging
Register of Scoon, in the Custody of the Viscount of Stormont.
, for the Safety of his Soul, and to the Abbay of
Dumfermling,
the Tithes of the Church of
Mollin, Pro salute animae suae & animae Sponsae suae & Regum Predecessorum suorum ibidem requiescentium,
which was ratified by King
William
Register of Dumfermling.
. He left Issue,
Henry
his Son and Heir, from whom the Title of Earl of
Athole
came to
Alanus Ostiarius Domini Regis:
For I have found him design'd Earl of
Athole,
in a Confirmation he made to the Abbacy of
Arbroth,
of the Wood of
Torfeach
in
Aberdeen
-Shire, formerly given by
Thomas de Lundin Ostiarius Regis
his Father, to that Convent, which King
Alexander
II. ratified by his Charter, the 12th. of
October,
the 19th. Year of his Reign
Register of Arbroth.
.
From this Family the Title of Earl of
Athole
was transfer'd to
Thomas
of
Galloway,
by Marriage of
Isabel,
the Heir Female.
Patrick
Earl of
Athole
their Son, was burnt in his own Lodging at
Haddingtoun, anno
1241
Chron, de Melross.
, whereupon his Estate and Title descended to his Mother's Sister, then the Wife of
David Hastings,
an
English
Gentleman
Chron. de Melross.
, by whom he had one Daughter, married to
John de Strathbolgie
Sir James Balfour's Collections, M.S.
.
David
Earl of
Athole,
their Successor, was Constable of
Scotland,
in the Beginning of the Reign of King
Robert
I. He's so design'd in a Charter granted by that Monarch, erecting the Lands of
Tarves
into a Regality, in favour of the Monks of
Arbroth,
26th. of
February
1311
Register of Arbroth.
. And another
David
Earl of
Athole,
his Successor, who was constituted Governour of
Scotland,
by
Edward Baliol;
for whose Service he rais'd an Army, but was totally routed, and himself killed, at the Battle of
Kilblain,
by the
Scots,
under the Conduct of
Patrick
Earl of
March,
and Sir
Andrew Murray, anno
1335. His Estate by Forsalture falling to the Crown, it so continued till King
David
II. was pleas'd to bestow both the Estate and Title of Earl of
Athole,
upon
John Campbel,
Son of Sir
Neil Campbel
of
Lochow,
by the Lady
Mary Bruce
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Carrick,
and Sister to King
Robert Bruce;
but he dying without Succession, the Title became extinct by his Death, but did not long so continue, for King
Robert
II. was pleas'd to revive it again in the Person of
Walter Steuart
his second Son, by
Eupham Ross
his Queen in the 5th. Year of his Reign,
anno
1375
Sir James Balfour's Genealogical Collections. M.S.
. He founded the Collegiate Church of
Methven, anno
1433, which he amply endow'd with Lands and Tithes within his own Territories, for the Salvation of his Soul, according to the Devotion of these Days; and considerably enrich'd himself by the Marriage of
Margaret,
eldest of the Daughters and Co-Heirs of Sir
David Barclay
of
Brechin,
by whom he had
David
his eldest Son, who died in
England,
one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I. and
Alan Steuart,
Earl of
Caithness,
who was killed, fighting bravely in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Innerlochy, anno
1428
History of the Family of Steuart.
.
This
Walter
Earl of
Athole,
was the principal Actor in the horrid Murder of King
James
I. his Nephew,
which proceeded
(says our Historians)
from a Response he had from some of his Highlanders, that before his Death he should be Crown'd in a solemn Assembly.
For this horrid and unnatural Crime, the Sentence of Death was executed upon him, in a most exemplary Manner, famous over all
Europe;
and his Estate was annexed to the Crown.
STEUART, Earl of
Athole.
THE First of this Illustrious Branch of the Family of
Steuart,
who attain'd this Dignity, was,
John Steuart
Son and Heir of Sir
James Steuart,
for Distinction call'd
The black Knight of Lorn,
by
Jean
his Wife, Dowager of King
James
I. and Daughter of
John
Earl of
Somerset;
which
James
was created Earl of
Athole
by his Uterine Brother, King
James
II.
Printed History of the Family of Athole.
In the Reign of King
James
III. he was constituted his Majesty's Lieutenant, against the Lord of the Isles, then in Rebellion; and by his Valour and Conduct, he reduc'd him to the King's Obedience
Drummonds History.
: For which signal Service, he had thereupon a special Grant of several Lands, and this Motto added to his Arms,
Furth Fortune and fill the Fetters,
in 1457, he was one of the Conservators of the Peace with
England,
and in 14
was join'd in Commission with several others, to treat of a Peace with the
English,
which they then concluded. He married first
Beatrix,
Daughter of
Archibald
fifth Earl of
Douglas,
by whom he had a Daughter
Elisabeth,
married to
Patrick
Lord
Gray.
2
dly. Eleanor Sinclair,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Orkney,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, 2
d. Andrew,
Bishop of
Caithness,
and Daughters.
Jean,
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly,
and had Issue.
Catharine,
to
John
Lord
Forbes,
and had Issue.
Isobel,
to
John
Earl of
Lennox,
and had Issue.
Elisabeth,
to
Alexander Robertson
of
Strowan,
and had Issue.
He departing this Life 19
September
1512; was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who was killed at
Floudoun
9
September
1513, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
Colin
Earl of
Argyle: John
his Son and Heir, and Daughters,
Janet
married first to
Alexander,
Master of
Sutherland,
and had Issue. Then to
Hugh Kennedy
of
Girvanmains.
And 3
dly.
To
Henry Steuart
Lord
Methven,
and had Issue.
Helen
to
John
Lord
Lindsay,
and had Issue.
Elisabeth,
to
John Mackenzie
of
Kintail,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Seaforth.
John,
3
d.
Earl of
Athole
married
Grisal
Daughter and Coheir of Sir
John Ratray
of That-Ilk, by whom he had
John,
4
th.
Earl of
Athole;
his Son who was on the King's side, in the Minority of
James
VI. He was constituted Chancellour 19
April
1578, in the Room of
John
Lord
Glamis
deceased, and continu'd in that Office till his Death, which happen'd 24
April
1579. He was married to
Margaret
Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
Fleeming,
Widow both of
Robert
Master of
Montrose,
and of
Thomas
Master of
Erskine,
by whom he had Issue,
John,
his Successor, and Daughters.
Elisabeth,
married to
Hugh
Lord
Lovat,
and had Issue. 2
dly.
To
Robert Steuart
Earl of
March.
And 3
dly.
She became the Wife of
James Steuart,
then called Earl of
Arran.
Grisal,
to
David
Earl of
Crawfurd,
and had Issue.
Ann,
to
Francis
Earl of
Errol, sans
Issue.
Jean,
to
Duncan Campbel
of
Glenurchie,
and had Issue.
John,
fifth Earl of
Athole,
was one of the Privy Council to King
James
VI.
anno
1590. He married
Mary Ruthven,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gourie,
by whom he had Three Daughters.
Dorothea,
married to
William
Earl of
Tillibairn,
whose Son
John
in her Right, came afterward to possess this Honour.
Mary,
to
James Steuart
Lord
Innermeath, sans
Isue.
Jean,
to
Henry Steuart
Lord St.
Colme,
and had Issue.
He departed this Life 18
November
1594
Balfour's Annals.
, whereby the Honour became Extinct, but did not so continue two Years, when King
James
was pleased to revive it again in the Person of
James
Lord
Innermeath,
by Letters Patent, bearing date 13
April
1596
Balfour.
, but he dying without Issue 1605
Ibidem.
, the Title of
Athole
came to
Dorothea,
Countess of
Tillibairn.
MURRAY Duke of
Athole.
THIS Noble Family is of great Antiquity,
in vice comitatu de Perth,
and descends from Sir
William Murray,
Son of Sir
Malcolm
Murray
Knight. He obtained the Barony of
Tillibairn,
by marrying of
Adda,
Daughter of
Malyse, Senescal
of
Strathern,
as is clear from an Original Charter I have seen, bearing Date the
Thursday
preceeding the Feast of St.
Simon
and St.
Jude, Anno Dom.
1282
Charta penes Ducem de Athole.
. This Sir
William
was one of the
Scots
Barons on the Part of
John Baliol,
who were call'd to
Berwick
when King
Edward
was to determine the Controversy about the Crown of this Realm then in Dispute; betwixt
Robert de Bruce,
and the said
John de Baliol, anno
1292
Rymer's Faedera Angliae.
. By the said
Adda
his Wife he left Issue Sir
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who gave in pure Alms to the Monks of the Abby of
Inchaffry,
an Annual Sum payable out of the Barony of
Tillibairn,
which had formerly been in Dispute between him and the said Convent, and that for the Health of his Soul, bearing Date on St.
Bean's
Day, (
i. e.
16
December
) 1331
Chartulary of Inchaffry, penes M. Mauritium Morray Fratrem Dni Abercairny,
. This is that Sir
Andrew
who took part with
Edward Baliol,
for which disloyal Action his Estate was forfeited, and he beheaded at
Perth
in 1332, leaving Issue.
William
his Son, who obtained a Grant of the Barony of
Tillibairn,
upon the Resignation of
Adda de Moravia,
his Grand-mother, in which Sir
William de Montefix Justitiario Scotiae ex boreali par
e aquae de Forth,
is a Witness. This
William
had Issue.
Sir
Walter Murray
of
Tillibairn
his Son and Heir, who dying
circa Annum
1390, left Issue by
Margaret le Baird
his Wife.
Sir
David Murray
his Son and Heir, who was knighted by King
James
I. He founded the Collegiate Church of
Tillibairn
in
Strathern,
dedicated in Honour of our
Blessed Saviour,
and dyed about 1446 leaving Issue,
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Marion
married to
Malcolm Drummond
of
Cargill,
the Ancestor of the Family of
Perth.
Which
William,
received the Honour of Knighthood from King
James
III. to whom he faithfully adhered, in Consideration whereof he was constituted Stewart of
Strathern, anno
1482, which was ratified by Act of Parliament, in 1491
Penes ducem de Athole.
. He married
Mary
Daughter to the Earl
Marishal,
by whom he had
Sir
John,
who dyed without Issue.
William,
his Successor.
The 3
d.
Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Arngosk,
ancestor to the present Viscount of
Stormont.
4.
David Murray
of
Strathgeth.
And
Christian,
a Daughter married to
George
Lord
Seton,
and had Issue.
He departed this Life in a good advanced Age, about the Year 1509, was succeeded by
William
his Son and Heir, who married
Katharin
Daughter of Sir
Duncan Campbel
of
Glenurchie,
by whom he had Issue.
William,
his Successor.
2
d. Alexander.
3
d. James.
And Daughters, 1.
Anabella
married to
John
Earl of
Mar,
and had Issue. 2.
Eupham
first to
Robert Steuart
of
Rosyth,
then to
Robert Pitcairn
Commendator of
Dunfermling,
Secretary of State in the Minority of King
James
VI. 3.
Katharin,
to
Robert Morray
of
Abercairny,
4.
Jean
to
James Henderson
of
Fordell,
and had Issue; he departing this Life
anno
1562, was succeeded by
William
his Son and Heir, who was of the Privy Council to Queen
Mary,
and Comptroller of Her Majesty's Houshold, upon the breaking out of the Civil War in that Reign. He was one of the Barons who entred into that memorable Association to Defend the young Prince King
James,
and to prosecute
Bothwell
for the Murder of of the King; yet (says Sir
James Melvil
)
He always retain'd a dutiful respect to Her Majesty, and only entred into the Association for
Safety of the young Prince, and Punishment of the Kings Murder. In
1572. he was joined in Commission with Sir
Alexander Erskin
to be Governour to the young King, and joint Keeper of the Castle of
Stirling,
and dyed 1583, leaving Issue by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Montrose, John
his Successor,
Alexander,
who was Colonel of a Regiment in the
Netherlands.
Margaret,
married to Sir
Robert Bruce
of
Clackmanan,
and had Issue.
Which Sir
John Murray
of
Tillibairn
was one of the Privy Council to King
James
VI. he being a well deserving Person, and enjoying a very ample Fortune, was by the Favour of the said King, advanced to the Dignity of Lord
Murray
of
Tillibairn,
25
April
1604, and
July
10 1606, to the Dignity of Earl of
Tillibairn.
He married
Katharin
Daughter of
David
Lord
Drummond,
by whom he had Issue.
1.
William
his Successor, 2. Sir
Patrick Murray
Knight of the
Bath,
and one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber, and afterward Earl of
Tillibairn.
3
d. Mungow
Viscount of
Stormont,
who dyed without Issue. Likewise several Daughters.
Anne,
married to
Patrick
Earl of
Kinghorn,
and had Issue.
Lilias,
married to Sir
John Grant
of That-ilk, and had Issue.
Margaret,
to
James Hadden
of
Gleneagles,
and had Issue.
Katharine
to
David Ross
of
Balnagoun.
William
Earl of
Tillibairn
his Son, being accidentally in the Town of
Perth,
5
August,
1600 fortuned to be the happy Rescuer of his Majesty King
James
VI. from a Tumult of the Citizens, after the Death of
John
Earl of
Gourie;
for which signal Service, he obtained a special Grant of the Sheriffship of
Perth
-shire, which still continues in his Family.
He married
Dorothea Steuart
eldest Daughter of
John
the fifth and last Earl of
Athole,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, who succeeded to the Title, Dignity, and Precedency of
Athole,
(he then resigning the Honour of
Tillibairn
), which
John
Earl of
Athole,
faithfully adhered to King
Charles
I. In the Beginning of his unhappy Troubles he raised his Men for his Majesty's Service, against the the Marquess of
Argyle, anno
1641, and dyed 1642, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Duncan Campbel
of
Glenurchie, John
his Successor,
Mungow
who died unmarried, and
Anne
married to
James
Earl of
Tillibardin,
but had no Issue.
Which
John
Earl of
Athole,
in Defence of King
Charles
II. loyally took up Arms, and had several Encounters with the
English
Usurpers in the North of
Scotland
in 1653, when not above 18 Years of Age, for which he suffered in the common Calamity with other Loyalists; in Consideration whereof, upon his Majesty's Restoration, he was constituted Justice General in 1661, Lord Privy Seal, 1672; Captain of his Majesty's Guards, and one of the extraordinary Lords of the Session. And further, in Regard of his eminent Services, was created Marquess of
Athole,
by Letters Patent, bearing date 17
Feb.
1676.
Upon K.
James
's Accession to the Throne;
anno
1685, His Majesty, confiding much in his Loyalty, commissioned him to go against the Earl of
Argyle,
then in Arms in the
West,
where he contributed much to the suppressing of that Rebellion; for which signal Service he was constituted Lieutenant of
Argyle
-Shire, and in
anno
1687, was elected Knight of the most noble Order of the
Thistle.
This noble Lord married
Aemilia Stanly,
Daughter of that valiant and loyal Nobleman
James
Earl of
Darby,
by whom he had Issue,
John,
the present Duke.
Charles,
Earl of
Dunmore.
Lord
James Murray
of
Dowally,
who married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
Robert Murray
of
Cockpool,
and has Issue,
William
Lord
Nairn,
fourth Son.
Lord
Edward Murray
5th. Son, married
Katharin
Daughter of
Skeen
of
Halyards,
and has Issue, and a Daughter
Aemilia
married to
Hugh
Lord
Lovat,
and had Issue. He departed this Life 6
May
1703, was inter'd in the Vestry of the Cathedral Church of
Dunkeld
under a sumptuous Monument of black and white Marble.
John,
the present Duke of
Athole
has been imploy'd in some of the most eminent Offices in the State, both in this and the former Reign, which he still discharged with the utmost Fidelity. In 1695 he was made Secretary of State, and by Letters Patent, bearing date 27
July
1697, created Earl of
Tillibairn,
in Consideration of his good Services, as well as his near Relation in Blood to King
William,
and the same Year was Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament.
Upon Her Majesties Accession to the Throne, he was nam'd a Privy Counsellour, and 8
December
1702. constituted Lord Privy Seal, and the 30
April
1703, created Duke of
Athole,
and in 1704, elected Knight of the most noble Order of St.
Andrew.
In the Parliament 1706, which concluded the Union of the Crowns, he was one of the Peers who made a very strong and vigorous Opposition to it, and on the 4
November,
when the first Article of the Treaty, was Enacted and Ratified, his Grace enter'd this Protestation, which from the Records of Parliament I transcribed.
I
John
Duke of
Athole,
Protest for my self and all others who shall adhere to this my Protestation, that an Incorporating Union of the Crown of
Scotland
with the Crown of
England,
and that both Nations should be represented by one and the some Parliament, as contain'd in the Articles of the Treaty of Union is contrary to the Honour, Interest, fundamental Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdom, the Birth-right of the Peers, the Privileges of the Barons and Burgesses, and
Act 10. Parl. 8. Ja. 6.
it is ordain'd, that none of the Leiges presume to take upon them to impugn the Dignity and Authority of the Three Estates of Parliament, or to seek or procure the Diminution of the Power and Authority of the said Three Estates under the pain of Treason, and is contrary to the Claim of Right, Property and Liberty of the Subject. And the
3
d. Act of Her Majesty
's
Parliament,
1703,
it is thereby declared high Treason in any of the Subjects of this Kingdom to quarrel or impugn, or endeavour by writing, or malicious and advised speaking, or any other open Act or Deed to innovate the Claim of Right in any Article thereof.
Likeas on the 7
January,
1707, when the 22d. Article of the Treaty of Union in relation to the Number of Representatives for
Scotland
in the Parliament of
Great-Britain,
came to be debated, the Duke gave in this Protest, which in Justice to his Grace I could not forbear to insert.
Forasmuchas the Peers of this Realm who are Hereditary Members of Her Majesty's great Council and Parliament do hereby become Elective, and so Her Majesty is deprived of Her born Counsellours, and the Peers of their Birth-right: And whereas at present they are
160
in Number, they are by this Article reduced to
16,
which
16
are to be joined with the House of Lords in
England,
whose Number at present consists of above
180,
whereby its plain, that the
Scots
Peers share in the Legislative and Judicative Powers in the
British
Parliament is very unequal, to that of the
English,
tho the one be Representative of as Free and Independent a Nation as the other, and is therefore a plain Forfaulture of the Peerage of this Kingdom, contrary to the
Honour of the Monarchy, disgraceful to the Kingdom, and prejudicial to the Barons and Burrows of this Realm.
This noble Lord married first the Lady
Katharine Hamilton,
Daughter of
William
and
Anne
Duke & Dutches of
Hamilton,
a Lady of incomparable prudence, and a singular example of Virtue and Piety, by whom he had Issue,
John
Marquess of
Tillibairn,
a Youth of great Hopes and Expectation, who was killed at the Battle of
Mons,
31 of
August
1709, to the great Grief of his noble Relations,
William
Marquess of
Tillibairn.
Lord
James
Lord
Charles
Lord
George
Lord
Basil
Lady
Susanna
All unmarried.
2
dly.
He married
Mary
Daughter of
William
Lord
Ross,
by whom he has Issue a Son
John,
an Infant.
ARMS
Quarterly 1st. and 4th
Azure,
three Molets
Argent
within a double Tressure floured and Counter floured
Or,
2d. and 3d. quarterly, 1st. and 4th. pale of six
Sable
and
Or,
2d: and 3d
Or,
a Fess Cheque
Azure
and
Argent,
supported on the Dexter with a Lyon Rampant
Gules
coloured
Azure,
charged with three Molets
Argent,
and on the Sinister with a Savage proper, wreathed about the Loins with Lawrel, Crest a Demi Savage, holding in his Dexter Hand a Key
Or,
and in his Sinister a Dagger proper, with this Motto,
Furth Fortune and fill the Fetters.
ARBUTHNET, Viscount of
Arbuthnet.
THIS Family hath been of great Antiquity in the Shire of
Kincardin,
and long possessed of the Barony of
Arbuthnet
there. The Name hath been originally writen
Aberbothenoth, Duncan de Aberbothenoth
is Witness in a Grant by King
Alexander
II. to the Abbacy of
Aberbroth, anno
1242
Register of Aberbroth M.S.
.
In the Time of
Alexander
III.
Hugh de Aberbothenoth,
gave in pure alms to the Monks of
Aberbroth
the Patronage of the Church of
Garvoch pro salute animae suae, Anno Dom.
1282
Ibidem.
, and
Philip de Aberbothenoth Dominus ejusdem,
was a Benefactor to the Church of
Aberdeen,
in
anno
1367
Confirmatio
Regis Dav. in Rotulis.
, in the Time of King
David
II. He married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
James Douglass
of
Dalkeith
Charta penes Comitem de Morton.
, from whom by lineal Succession, was Sir
Robert Arbuthnet
of that Ilk, who manifesting his Loyalty to K.
Charles
I. was by that Monarch created Viscount of
Arbuthnet
16
November,
1641. He married first
Marion
Daughter to
David
first Earl of
Southesk,
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, and by
Margaret
his second Wife, Daughter of
Simon
Lord
Lovat
he likewise had Issue, and dying
anno
1659
Frazers History of Lovat, M.S.
, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son and Heir, who married
Mary
Daughter of
William
Earl
Marishal,
by whom he had
Robert,
who succeeded him in his Estate and Honour; also by
Katharine
his second Wife, Daughter of
John Gordon
of
Pitlurg,
he had Issue
John Arbuthnet
of
Fordon, Alexander,
who changed his Sirname to
Maitland,
by his Marriage with the Heretrix of
Pitrichie,
he's now one of the Barons of Her Majesty's Exchequer in
Scotland,
3
d Thomas;
also several Daughters.
This Lord dying
anno
1684, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son, who departed this Life in 1692, leaving Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Earl of
Sutherland, Robert
his Son and Heir, who died unmarried
anno
1710, and
John
the present Viscount of
Arbuthnet
who married
Jean
Daughter of
William Morison
of
Prestongrange.
ARMS.
Azure
a Crescent betwixt three Stars
Argent
supported by two Dragons, Crest a Peacock's Head proper, Motto
Laus Deo.
CUMMIN, Lord of
Badenoch.
THIS noble and spreading Family of
Norman
Extraction
Mr. Andrew Winton's Genealogy of the Cummins in his M.S. Chron. of Scotland.
, is of very great Antiquity in this Realm. The first I have found mentioned, is,
Comes Robertus Cummin,
who was killed at the Battle of
Anwick, anno
1609
Chron. de M
lross.
. The next is
William Cummin,
who was Lord high Chancellor of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
David
I.
anno
1142, he left Issue Sir
William,
who was Chamberlain to King
William
Winton.
, and married
Hexilda
Grand child of
Donald
King of
Scotland
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
William,
Father of Sir
Richard Cummin,
who gave in pure Alms to the Monks of
Kelso
the Church of
Lyncudric,
with half a Carrucate of Land thereunto belonging,
pro salute
Henrici
Comitis Domini sui qui obiit
1152
Register of Kelso.
: He left Issue three Sons,
Sir
John
of
Badenoch.
Sir
Walter
Earl of
Monteith.
Sir
William
first Earl of
Buchan.
Which Sir
John
for Distinction called
The Reid Cummin,
had Issue Sir
John
and three Daughters, the first married to Sir
Godfrey de Murray,
the 2
d
to
Alexander
of
Argyle,
Lord of
Lorn,
the 3
d
to Sir
VVilliam Murray
of
Bothwell.
Sir
John Cummin
of
Badenoch,
usually designed
The Black Cummin,
was chosen one of the six Governours of
Scotland, anno
1286, upon the Death of K.
Alexander
III. In 1290 he was one of the Competitors for the Crown on the decease of Queen
Margaret,
as Son and Heir of
John
Son and Heir of
Richard,
Son and Heir of
VVilliam,
Son and Heir of
Hexilde,
Daughter and Heir of
Bethock
Daughter and Heir of
Donald,
some time King of
Scotland
Cummins claim to the Crown in the Faedera Angliae, published by Mr. Rymer.
: He left Issue by
Marjory
Daughter of
John,
and Sister to
John Baliol
once King of this Realm,
John
his Son and Heir
Winton.
. This is that
John Cummin,
who in 1305 entered into a solemn Treaty with
Robert Bruce
Earl of
Carrick,
for freeing their Country from
English
Servitude, which he persidiously discovered to King
Edward
of
England,
for which King
Robert Bruce
killed him in the Church of
Drumfrise,
10
February
1306; by whose Death the chief branch of this noble Family expired.
LINDSAY, Earl of
Balcarass.
THIS Family descends from Mr.
John Lindsay
of
Balcarass,
2
d
Son of
David Lindsay
of
Edzle,
(Earl of
Crawfurd,
) by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Campbel
of
Calder.
Which Mr.
John
being a Man of great Parts and Learning, more especially in the Laws, he was constituted one of the Senators of the College of Justice in 1584
List of the Senators of the College of Justice, from the Institution, in the Lawyer's Library M.S.
, and after some time, one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury
Bishop Spotswood's History.
, and Secretary of State,
anno
1596, in room of the Lord
Thirlstane
deceased; all which Offices he enjoyed with an universal Reputation till his Death. In 1598
Ibidem.
, he married
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . . . .
Guthry
of
Lunnen
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, by whom he had Sir
David
his Son and Heir, and Daughters;
Janet
married to Sir
John Lindsay
of
Benholm.
Margaret
to Sir
Alexander Strachan
of
Thornfoun,
and had Issue.
Mary
to
John Brown
of
Fordel,
and had Issue.
Which Sir
David
was created Lord
Lindsay
of
Balcarass,
by K.
Charles
I. the 7
June
1633, immediately preceeding his Majesty's Coronation. He married
Sophia
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor, and two Daughters,
Sophia
married to Sir
Robert Moray,
Justice Clerk in the Reign of King
Charles
II. of the Family of
Abercairny,
but had no Issue.
Isabel
married to
Thomas Boyd
of
Pinkhill, in vice comitatu de Air, sans
Issue.
Which
Alexander,
Lord
Balcarass,
being a Person of great Prudence, examplary Loyalty, and singular Affection to King
Charles
II. was by his Majesty's Favour raised to the Dignity of Earl of
Balcarass,
in 1651. Upon the depression of the Royal cause in
Scotland, anno
1654, he followed the King into Foreign Parts, during the Usurpation, and dyed in
Holland
in the beginning of the Year 1660, upon him the famous Poet Mr.
Cowley
wrote this Epitaph,
Balcaras
who but th' other Day,
Did all our Love and our Respect command,
At whose great Parts, we all amaz'd did stand,
Is from a Storm, alas! cast suddenly on Land,
&c.
He left Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
Colin
Earl of
Seaforth,
two Sons,
Charles
who succeeded him in the Earldom, but dyed unmarried
anno
1662, and
Colin
the present Earl: also three Daughters, 1
st. Anne,
who embraced the
Romish
Perswasion and dyed a Nun in
France, Sophia
married to Colonel
Charles Campbel,
Son to the late Earl of
Argyle,
and
Henrietta
to Sir
Duncan Campbel
of
Auchinbraick,
and had Issue.
Colin
the present Earl was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. and King
James
VII. and one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury, he married first
Margaret
Daughter of
Lewis de Nassaw
Lord
Beverwart
in
Holland.
2
dly. Jean
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Northesk,
by whom he had one Daughter
Anne,
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Kelly,
and had Issue. To his 3
d.
Wife, he marred
Jean
Daughter of
VVilliam
Earl of
Roxburgh,
by whom he had
Colin
Lord
Cumberland,
who dyed unmarried in 1708, and a Daughter Countess of
VVigtoun.
4
thly.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of
James
Earl of
London,
by whom he had Issue,
Alexander
Lord
Cumberland.
James
in Her Majesty's Sea Service.
Lady
Elisabeth.
Lady
Eleanor,
all unmarried.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st. and 4th.
Gules,
a Fess Cheque
Argent
and
Azure,
2d and 3d.
Or,
a Lyon Rampant
Gules
surmounted of a Riban
Sable
within a border,
Azure,
charged with Stars
Or,
supporters two Lyons
Sejant,
Crest a Tent, Motto,
Astra Castra,
&c.
BALLENDEN, Lord
Ballenden.
THIS Family began its Rise in the Reign of King
James
V. at which time
Thomas Ballenden
of
Auchinoule
was Justice Clerk, and Director of the Chancery,
anno
1541
List of States-men penes me.
, he dying
anno
1546, left Issue; Sir
John
his Son and Heir, who was Justice Clerk in the Reign of Queen
Mary
and King
James
VI. for upwards of twenty Years: He married
Barbara
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Kennedy
of . . . . . . and left Issue Sir
Lewis
his Son and Heir and Mr.
Adam,
Doctor of Divinity, first Bishop of
Dunblain,
and thereafter of
Aberdeen.
Which Sir
Lewis
was made one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
anno
1584, he married
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Lord
Livingston,
and left Issue Sir
James
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret
Daughter of
William Ker
of
Cesfurd,
Sister to
Robert
first Earl of
Roxburgh,
by whom he had Sir
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
Henry
Lord
Cardross.
Which Sir
William
having given many signal testimonies of his Loyalty to King
Charles
II. during the Usurpation, in Consideration thereof upon his Majesty's Restoration, he was dignified with the Honour of Lord
Ballenden,
by Letters Patent bearing date 10
June
1661, and the same Year he was constituted Thesaurer Depute, and one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, but dying unmarried, he made over his Estate, and got his Title of Lord conveyed to
John Ker
4
th.
Son of
William
Earl of
Roxburgh,
who thereupon changed his Name to
Ballenden;
he married . . . .
Mure
Daughter to the Earl of
Drogheda
in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
Widow of
William
Earl of
Dalhousy,
by whom he had the present Lord, who succeeded his Father in the Honour upon his Death,
anno
1706.
ARMS.
Gules
a Stags Head couped and attired with ten Tynes betwixt three cross Croslets, all within a double Tressure Counterflour'd
Or.
ELPHINSTON, Lord
Balmerino,
THE First of this collateral Branch, raised to the Dignity of Peerage, was Sir
James Elphinston
3
d
Son of
Robert
Lord
Elphinston,
by
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
John Drummond
of
Innerpeffery,
and of
Janet
his Wife, natural Daughter to King
James
IV.
Which Sir
James
having studied the Laws, in short time became so highly esteemed for his Abilities, that he was constituted one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in the Year 1586
List of the Lords of Session, since the Institution, M.S. in the Lawyers Library
, in 1595 one of the Lords of the Thesaury, then called
The Octavians
Spotswood's History.
, and Secretary of State
anno
1598 in room of
John Lindsay
of
Balcaras
deceased: also President of the Session, upon the promotion of
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling
to be Chancellor, in 1605. In all which Imployments he deported himself with such Learning, Judgment and Sufficiency, that King
James,
soon after his accession to the Crown of
England,
created him Lord
Balmerino,
by Letters Patent, bearing date 25
April
1604, being then appointed one of the Commissioners on the part of
Scotland
to treat of a nearer Union with
England,
he took to Wife, first
Sarah
Daughter of Sir
John Monteith
of
Carse,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, and 2
dly. Marjory
Daughter of
Hugh Maxwell
of
Tyling,
by whom he had
James
Lord
Couper,
also two Daughters,
Anne
married to
Andrew
Lord
Frazer,
and had Issue, and
Mary
to
John Homilton
of
Blair,
and had Issue, he departing this Life in
anno
1612
Thomson's M.S.
, was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, a Person likewise of great Parts and Learning, as appears by the Part he acted in the Reign of King
Charles
I. whereof Bishop
Guthry
in his Memoirs gives a full Account: He married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Ker
of
Ferniehirst,
Sister to
Andrew
Lord
Jedburgh,
and to
Robert
Earl of
Somerset
and dying
anno
1649, by the said
Anne
his Wife left Issue,
John
his Son and Heir, who dyed the 10
th.
of
June
1704, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter to
John
Earl of
Loudon, John
his Son and Heir.
Which
John,
the present Lord
Balmerino,
was one of the Peers, who in 1706, opposed the Union with
England
in the Terms of the Treaty then before the House, tho the Matter was then concluded. In 1710 he was made General of the Mint in place of the Earl of
Lauderdale
deceased: and Sheriff of
Edinburgh
Shire, then in Her Majesty's Hands, by the Death of
William
Earl of
Dalhousie:
and elected one of 16 Peers of
Scotland
to the Parliament of
Great Britain,
also in 1711 he was named one of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Chamberlain, which he at present enjoys.
This worthy Lord married first
Christian
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglington,
by whom he had
Hugh,
who was killed at the Seige of
Lisle, anno
1708,
James
now Master of
Balmerino,
also two Daughters;
Margaret
married to Sir
John Preston
of
Prestounhall,
and had Issue.
Jean
to
Francis Stuart
Esq
Brother to the Earl of
Murray,
and has Issue.
Secondly. Anne
Daughter of Dr.
Arthur Ross
Arch-Bishop of St.
Andrews,
by whom he has
Arthur.
Alexander.
Anne,
all unmarried.
ARMS.
Argent
a Chiveron
Sable,
charged with three Buckles of the sield betwixt three Boars Heads erazed
Gules
Regist. of the Lyon Office, Edin.
, supporters two Griffons proper, Crest a Serpent stinging a Dove, Motto,
Prudentia fraudis nescia.
OGILVY, Lord
Banff.
THE Progenitor of this Family was Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Dunlugass,
Son of Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Boyn
by
Margaret
his Wife, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of of Sir
James Edmonston
of Thatilke
Charta. in pubicis Archivis.
.
This Sir
Walter
acquired a fair Estate by the Marriage of
Alison,
one of the Daughters and Coheirs of
Patrick Hume
of
Fastcastle, tempore Jacobi
arti,
he left Issue.
George Ogilvy
of
Dunlugass
his Son and Heir, who married
Beatrix
Daughter of
George
Lord
Seaton,
by whom he had
Walter
his Successor, and a Daughter married to Sir
Alexander Frazer
of
Philorth,
he departed this Life
anno
1612, in the uncommon Age of 105, upon him Dr.
Johnston
Johnston's Poems.
wrote this Epitaph.
Vixit Olympides ter septem Banfius aetas,
Ter fuit illustri posteritate minor:
Virtutes numera pancos liquise nepotes,
Cum periis pancos evoluisse dies.
Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Dunlugass
his Son, married
Helen
Daughter of Sir
John Urquhart
of
Cromarty,
by whom he had
George
his Son and Heir, who was created Baronet by King
Charles
I. 30
July
1627: He signalized his Loyalty and Valour at the Bridge of
Dee
in his Majesty's behalf against the Covenanters, under the Conduct of
James
Earl of
Montrose, an.
1639, and continuing firm in his Loyalty in the time of the Civil Wars, was in respect thereof raised to the Dignity of Lord
Banff,
by Letters Patent, bearing date 31 of
August
1642. He married first
Helen
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Irvin
of
Drum,
by whom he had a Daughter
Helen,
married to
James
Earl of
Airly,
and had Issue. 2
dly. Mary
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Sutherland
of
Duffus,
by whom he had Issue
George
his Son and Heir, who succeeded him upon his Death, in 1663, he took to Wife
Agnes
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Halkertoun,
by whom he had
George
the present Lord, and Sir
Alexander Ogilvy
of
Forglen,
created Baronet 29
June
1701, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice in 1706.
Which
George
married . . . . . . . Daughter of
William
Earl
Marishal,
by whom he has
George
Master of
Banff,
who married
Helen
Daughter of Sir
John Lauder
of
Fountainhall,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st. and 4th.
Argent
a Lyon passant, guardant,
Gules,
crown'd with an imperial Crown,
Or,
2d and 3d.
Argent
three Papingoes
Vert.
HAMILTON, Lord
Bargeny.
DERIVES his Descent from Sir
John Hamilton
natural Son of
John
Marquess of
Hamilton.
This Sir
John
acquired a fair Estate in
Carrick,
which he transmitted to his Posterity, and left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Mr.
Alexander Campbel
Bishop of
Brechin,
(a Son of the Family of
Arkinlass,
) Sir
John
his Successor, also several Daughters,
Katharine
married to Sir
James Drummond
of
Machany,
ancestor to the present Viscount of
Strathallan.
Helen
to Sir
James Somervel
of
Camnethan,
and had Issue.
. . . . to Sir
William Weir
of
Stonbyres,
but had no Issue.
Mary
to
Alexander Cleland
of that-Ilk, and had Issue.
Sir
John Hamilton
of
Bargeny,
the 2
d.
of this Family, was by the bounty and favour of King
Charles
I. created into the Dignity of Lord
Bargeny, anno
1639
Sir James Dalrymple's Edition of Camden.
, in 1648. He cordially put himself in Arms with others his Majesty's loyal Subjects, in order to rescue him, then a Prisoner in the Isle of
Wight.
After the Murder of his Sovereign, he firmly adhered to King
Charles
II. for which he was forfeited by
Oliver Cromwel,
and suffered diverse other Hardships.
He married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Marquess of
Douglass,
by whom he had
William
his Successor, and four Daughters.
1
st. Margaret
married to Sir
John Kennedy
of
Colzean,
and had Issue, and thereafter to Sir
David Ogilvy
of
Clova,
and had Issue.
2
d. Anne
to Sir
Patrick Houston
of that-Ilk, and had Issue.
3
d. Katharine
to Mr.
William Cuningham
of
Enterkin,
and had Issue.
4
th. Marjory
to
William Baillie
of
Lamingtoun, sans
Issue. He dying
anno
. . . . was succeeded by
William
his Son and Heir, who married
Mary
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Glencairn,
by whom he had
John
Master of
Bargeny,
who dyed in the Lifetime of his Father leaving Issue by . . . . . his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Sinclair
of
Lochermackhouse,
one Daughter
Joanna
married to Sir
Robert Dalrymple
of
North-Berwick
Junior, and has Issue,
William
his Successor, and
Nicolas
married to Sir
Alexander Hope
of
Carse,
and had Issue.
Which
William
late Lord
Bargeny
dying
anno
1711, left Issue by . . . . . his first Wife, Daughter of Sir
James Primrose
of
Carringtoun,
one Daughter
Grisal
unmarried, and by
Margaret
his second Wife Daughter of
Robert Dundass
of
Arniston,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
James
now Lord
Bargeny,
a Child very young.
ARMS.
The quarter'd Coat of the Family of
Hamilton
with a suitable Difference.
DOUGLAS Viscount of
Belhaven.
THE First who derived any Honour from this Place, was Sir
Robert Douglas
of
Spot,
Son of
Malcolm Douglas
of
Mains, in vice-comitatu de Dunbarton
lineally descended of
Nicol Douglas
a Son of the Family of
Dalkeith
in King
Robert
II's time
Mr. David Simson's Genealogical History of the Family of Morton M.S.
.
This Sir
Robert
was at first a Page of Honour to Prince
Henry,
and then Master of his Horse. Upon the Death of that excellent Prince, he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to the King, and continued in the same Office to King
Charles
I. by whom he was also constituted Master of the Houshold, and one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council; And finally, in Recompense of all his acceptable Services he was by Letters Patent bearing date 24
June
1633, created Viscount of
Belhaven
Patent creating Sir Robert Douglas Viscount of Belhaven penes me.
, the Honour being limited to the Heirs Male of his Body. He married
Nicolas
Daughter to
Robert Moray
of
Abercairny,
but dying without Issue 14
January
1639, he was interr'd in the Vestry of the Abby Church of
Holy rood-house,
where there's erected a Monument over him with his Statue in Alabaster as big as the Life, with this Epitaph, wherein most of his remarkable Actions are taken notice of.
QƲ od Reliquum apud nos est hic conditur
Roberti
Vicecomitis de
Belhaven,
Baronis de
Spot,
&c. Regi
Carolo
a secretioribus consiliis, & inter familiares intimi; quippe qui & prius
Henrico Valliae
gratissimus, ejusque stabulis praefectus erat: Illo vero fatis cedente, fratri
Carolo,
nunc rerum potito, in quaesturam Domus adscitus est, singulari favoris gradu acceptus, re & honoribus auctus. In juventute
Nicolaae Moraviae Abercarniae
Comarchae natae ad octodecim non amplius menses,
nicae uxoris in puerperio simul cum faetu extinctae, lectissimo, consortio fruebatur. Ingravescente senectute ab aulico strepitu se subtrabens in patriam reversus est.
Archibaldum
&
Robertum Duglassios
Equites auratos, primaevi fratris filios, terris & bonis, praeter quae Testamento legavit aequa lance divisis haered
s seripsit; qui memoriae ejus gratitudinis suae pignus hoc monumentum poni curarunt.
Ingenium, quod literis cultura non implevit, sagacitate Natura supplevit. Indolis bonitate & Candore, nulli cessit. Facile succendi, at, dum loquimur, facilius defervescere, ei, in moribus, quod aeque ab omnibus vix acciperetur, unicum erat. Fide, in Regem; Pietate, in Patriam; Officiis, in Amicos; Charitate, in Egenos, nulli socundus: Cui, in Prosperis, modus & Comitas; In Adversis, Constantia & Magnanimitas, ad supremum usque diem, invaluere. Obiit
Edinburgi
prid. Idus
Januarii,
anno, ab Incarnatione
Messiae,
supra
MDCxxix;
aetatis vero, ultra Clymactericum magnum, tertio.
HAMILTON, Lord
Belhaven.
AMONGST those who professed the Sense of their Duty and Fidelity to his Majesty King
Charles
I. in the time of his Distress, was Sir
James Hamilton
of
Broomhill,
in whose Defence he Ioyally took up Arms and marched into
England
with the
Scots
Army, under the Conduct of
James
Duke of
Hamilton,
in 1648, being some time before created Lord
Belhaven:
He married
Margaret
natural Daughter to
James
Marquess of
Hamilton,
by whom he had three Daughters,
Margaret
married to Sir
Samuel Baillie
of
Lamingtoun,
and had Issue.
Anne
to Sir
Robert Hamilton
of
Silvertounhill,
and had Issue.
Elisabeth
to
Alexander
Viscount of
Kingstoun,
he departing this Life in 1679, the Honour devolved upon
John Hamilton
Son to Sir
Robert Hamilton
of
Presmanan,
proceeding on his Resignation some Years before.
Which
John
Lord
Belhaven,
I find did particularly signalize himself both in the Parliament 1681 and 1685, discovering then a firm Resolution to support the Protestant Religion. In 1689 he assisted at the meeting of the
Scots
Nobility at
London,
and concurred with them in addressing the Prince of
Orange
to call a Convention of the Estates in
Scotland
for the setling the Government there.
His Lordship was present at the Convention, where he contributed much to the setling the Crown upon King
William
and Queen
Mary,
who upon their Accession thereto, constituted him one of their Privy Council, and one of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Register.
Upon Her Majesty's accession to the Throne, he was named a Privy Counsellour, and after that, one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury, which he executed with no little Approbation.
In the Parliament 1706, when the Union came to be debated, he joined with those who opposed it, and on this Subject made several learned and elaborate Speeches containing his Reasons, for which Posterity will celebrate his Name with Honour as a Patriot of his Country.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Robert Hamilton
of
Silvertounhill,
by
Anne
Daughter of
John
Lord
Belhaven,
by whom he had only two Sons,
John
the present Lord.
Mr.
James Hamilton
Advocate, married
Anne
Daughter of
John Walkingshaw
of that Ilk. He departed this Life at
London
21
June
1708, was succeeded by,
John
his Son and Heir, who married
Mary
Daughter of
Andrew Bruce
of
Edinburgh
Merchant, (of the Family of
Earls-hall,
) by whom he has
John
Master of
Belhaven,
and several other Children.
ARMS.
Gules
a Sword pale-ways proper between three Cinque Foils
Argent,
supported by two Horses
Argent,
Crest an Unicorns Head, Motto
Ride Through.
STUART Lord
Blantyre.
THIS noble Family took beginning in the Reign of
James
III. in the Person of Sir
Thomas Stuart
of
Minto,
Son of Sir
William Stuart
of
Garlies
Charta Alexandri Stuart de Garlies dilecto fratri suo Thom Stuart de Minto filio Willielmi Steuart de Dalsuinton militis, 2 Nov. 1476 confirmatum in Rotulis Jacobi III.
, who greatly enriched himself by the Marriage of
Isobel
Daughter and Coheir of Sir
Walter Stewart
of
Arthurly,
Carta in pub. Archivis
by whom he had Sir
John
his Heir;
William,
who being bred to the Church, the first step he made into it was to the Rectory of
Lochmaben;
after that he was preferred to the Provestry of
Lincluden
and then to the Bishoprick of
Aberdeen:
ibid.
Likewise a Daughter
Agnes,
married to
John Stewart
of
Cardonald.
ibid.
Which Sir
John
married
Janet
Daughter of - - - - - Lord
Fleming,
by whom he had
Robert his
Successur, who by
Janet
his Wife Daughter of - - -
Murray
of - - - had Sir
John,
who carried down the Line of the Family;
Robert
Prior of
Whitern,
and
Elisabeth
married to
John Maxwel
of
Calderwood.
Which Sir
John
married first a Lady of the Family of the
Hepburns,
by whom he had Sir
Matthew
his Successour in the Barony of
Miuto,
whose Male-Line became extinct in Sir
John Stewart
of
Minto,
who died in the Expedition to
Darien,
Anno 1697, next
Margaret
Daughter of Captain
James Stewart
of
Cardonald.
By her he had,
Walter
Commendator of
Blantyre,
who being from his Youth bred in the Court of King
James
VI. was
Anno
1580 made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber, and preferred to be Lord Privy Seal in 1582,
ibid.
in which Office he continued till the 1596, he was promoted to be Lord High-Thesaurer of
Scotland:
But he held the Place only two Years, for upon a Disgust occasioned by some Affair of the Church, in which the Thesaurer had not gone the way of the Court, his Majesty was pleased to take the White Staff from him, which was put into the Hands of the Earl of
Cassils.
He bore the Diminution very well; for he was a wise Man and quickly recovered so much Grace and Favour that he was made a Peer by the Title of Lord
Blantyre, July
10
th
1606. He Married
Nicolas
Daughter of Sir
James Somervel
of
Camnethan,
by whom he had Sir
James Stewart
Knight of the
Bath
his Eldest Son, who was killed in a Duel by Sir
George Wharton Anno
1609,
William
his Successor,
Walter Stewart
Esq
Carta penes D. Blantyre He was the Father of Francess Dutchess of Lenox and Richmond, who left her Estate to the Lord Blantyre, and of Sophia Lady Bulkly wife of Henry Bulkly
Esq
Master of the Houshold to King Charles II.
and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
George
Lord
Saltoun,
and dying
Anno
1616,
Carta in Pub. Arch.
was succeded by
William
his
Son,
who died in the beginning of the Troubles in the Reign of King
Charles
I.
November
29
th
1638,
ibidem.
leaving Issue by
Helen
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Scot
of
Ardross, Walter
his Successor,
Alexander,
who succeded his Brother in the Honour: Likewise a Daughter - - - married to Sir
John Swinton
of that Ilk.
Which
Walter
married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
William Mure
of
Rowallan,
but dying without Issue in the Month of
October
of the Year 1641 was succeded by,
Alexander
his Brother, who by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
John Shaw
of
Greenock
had
Alexander his
Successor, and a Daughter
Helen
married to
James Murehead
of
Brediesolm
and had Issue.
Which
Alexander
married first
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
John Henderson
of
Fordel,
but by her he had no Issue; next
Anne
Daughter of Sir
Robert Hamilton
of
Pressmenen
one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice, and departing this Life 20
th July
1704, left Issue by the Lady aforesaid,
Walter
his Successour,
Robert
the present Lord
Blantyre, John Stewart
Esq
Advocate,
Hugh Stewart
Esq
Likewise four Daughters.
Marion
married to
James Stirling
of
Keir
and had Issue.
Francess
to Sir
James Hamilton
of
Rosehall
Baronet.
Helen
to
John
Master of
Gray,
at that Time Son and Heir apparent of
John
Lord
Gray.
Anne.
Which
Walter
being a young Nobleman of very fine Parts, and a great Lover of his Country, was in the 1710 chosen one of the Sixteen
Scots
-Peers to serve in the ensuing
British
-Parliament. He died at
London
the 23
d
of
June
1713 unmarried, his Estate and Honour devolving to
Captain
Robert Stewart
his Brother, who married Lady
Helen Lyon
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Strathmore,
by whom he has
Alexander
Master of
Blantyre.
BORTHWICK, Lord
Borthwick.
AS this noble Family was undoubtedly very antient, and said to be of a
Hungarion
Extraction, so it was no less illustrious for it's Allyances, as the whole course of this Work doth testify, but in regard I had no Access to see any of their Writes, I cannot make a Deduction of them. I shall only remark, that the last Lord, whose very Name I could never so much as learn, died without Issue, since the Restauration of King
Charles
II. and with him the Honour of the Family failed.
MURRAY, Lord of
Bothwel.
ALL our
Scots
Historians make mention of the
Moravii
as a bold and Warlike Tribe, who about the middle of the first Century were very assistant to King
Corbred
I. in his Wars against the
Romans,
whose Captain
Roderick
and a great many of his followers were slain in that famous Expedition of Queen
Baudicea
related also by
Cornelius Tacitus.
But that I may proceed to my Design in giving a Historical and Genealogical deduction of the antient and noble Family of the
Murrays
properly so called, I shall begin with their Ancestor one
Friskinus,
who was a great Man in the Northern parts in the Reign of King
David
I.
Anno
1124: For it's certain he was not only possessed of the Country of
Moravia
now called
Moray,
but likewise that of
Sutherland,
which he divided betwixt two of his Sons, and from whence they took their respective Sirnames,
Writes of the Episcopal See of Murray in the Registers of that Church in the Lawyers Library M.S.
and his Descendents even to this Time carry the same Coat of Arms,
viz.
Three Molets differing only in the Tincture.
William
de
Moravia
Filius
Friskini,
seems to be a very great Man about the Court of King
William,
as appears from the frequency of his Witnessing the Deeds of that pious Prince to the Cathedral Church of
Moray,
and to the Bishops of that See,
ibidem confirm. by King William Ric. Epis. Moraviae Ecclesiae de Forress.
to which this great Man was likewise himself a Benefactor. He left Issue,
William
de
Moravia
who is intituled
Willielmus
de
Moravia
filius
Willielmi filii Friskini
in a Donation which he made in pure and perpetual Alms
Ecclesiae sancti Trinitatis de Spiny & Collegio Canonicorum ibidem Deo servientium Ecclesiam de Artindoll cum pertinen. coram
Hugone
fratre suo &
Archibaldo
de
Dowglas.
Cartulary of the Cathedral Church of Elgine in Bib. Jurid.
He left Issue, several Sons, of whom diverse antient Families of the
Murray
's branched,
ibidem
beside
Walter
de
Moravia Miles,
who is designed
filius Domini
Willielmi
deMoravia,
ibidem in an Indenture between him and the Bishop of Moray relative to the Church of Artindole ad Annum 1226, and was likewise a Donator to St. Nicolas's Hospital near the Bridge of Spey by his Gift of the Lands of Achinway, ad sustentationem pauperum ibidem recipiendorum, of which the Bishops of Moray were Patrons.
He gave to the Church of
Elgin
and the Chapter of the Episcopal See of
Moray Ecclesiam de Inerallel cum pertinen. pro salute animae suae,
and is the same
Walterus,
as I take
it,
who is one of the great Men,
Magnates Scotiae,
mentioned as a Guarantee in a Treaty of Peace betwixt our King
Alexander
II. and
Henry
III. of
England, Anno
1244.
Rymer's foedera Angliae ad Annum 1244
He left a Son
Willielmus
de
Moravia Filius Walteri
de
Moravia,
who is so designed in the Act declaratory of the Succession of the
Scots
Crown to King
Alexander
III. and his Heirs
Anno
1284.
ibidem. ad Annum 1284.
And is the same noble Person designed
Panetarius Scotiae
and
Dominus
de
Bothwel, & Drumsargard
Rymer's foedera Angliae ad Annum 1290 and 1292.
under which Title there are many Donations made by the Heirs of this noble House to the Chapter of the Episcopal See of
Moray
after they came to have Possessions in the South, and spred there into many noble Branches.
This
Willielmus
de
Moravia Dominus
de
Bothwel & Drumshargard Panetarius Scotiae
was one of the great Barons summoned to
Bervick
as an Auditor of the Claims of the
Bruce
and the
Baliol,
anent the Succession to the Crown
ibidem. His Title of Drumshargard distinguishes him from another Sir William de Moravia de Tilybardin mentioned in the same Write of Summons
when that great Affair was in Agitation, and which afterward was by King
Edward
I. of
England,
determined in favour of
John
de
Baliol,
how justly I shall not say.
The same illustrious Person, according to the Devotion of those Times gave for the Safety of his Soul,
Ecclesiae & Capitulo Glasguen: jus Patronatus Rectoriae Ecclesiae de Woolstoun coram Roberto Epo Glasguen. & D. Andrea de Moravia fratre suo.
Excerpta ex Cartul. Eccesiae Glasguen Donatio. Will. de Moravia Panetarii Scotiae de jure Patronat. Ecclesiae. de Woolstoun data apud Scoon die Mercurii proxima post festum Sancti Valentini Martyris Anno 1292
Likewise he gave
Dicto Capitulo Glasguen. jus Patronatus Ecclesiae de Smalum
ibidem dat. ut supra
under the Seal of his Arms,
Exhiben. dictum Willielm. de Moravia design. Dominum de Bothwel equestrem, & in scato tres slellulas, multum attrito,
much defaced, says my Authority, but still to be seen by the learned and curious in the great Chartulary of the Episcopal See of
Glasgow
in the
Scots
Colledge at
Paris,
ibidem Carta Will. de Moravia D. de Bothwel Panetarii Scotiae de centum Marcis solvendis de Expensis super Ecclesia de Smalum 1293. These and other Excerpts were exactly noted from the said Chartulary of Glasgow and transmitted to me by a Gentleman a great Lover of Antiquities
where they were deposited by Bishop
Beaton
at the Reformation in
Scotland.
By - - - his Wife Daughter of Sir
John Cuming
Lord of
Badenoch
Winton's History in Bib. Jurid, M.S.
he had Sir
Andrew
his Successor, and Sir
John
de
Moravia, Dominus
de
Drumshargard,
who was the Ancestor of the
Murrays
of
Abercarny
Manuscript History of the Moravii Panetari Scotiae Domini de Bothwel penes D. Abercarny, which Piece of History, is the best vouched and instructed of any of that kind, I have ever perused, and it carries a great Air of Antiquity with it, and is very nobly oramented with accurate Historical Remarks, and well deserves the Character of a curious Book. the Author beside other Instructions for the Original descent of the Murrays of Drumshargard and Abercarnie from the Moravii of Bothwel, does very judiciously observe, that both the Baronies of Bothwell and Drumshargard, now called Camslang, were in the Person of Sir William de Moravia Panetarius Scotiae, design'd Dominus de Bothwel, and Drumshargard, and indeed can, I observe, be well made out from comparing the English Foedera, Prynne and the Chartulary of Glasgow together, and that immediately upon his Death they came to be two distinct Lordships, Andrew being Lord of Bothwel, Sir William's Eldest Son whom we know was so by his hereditary Office of Panetarius Scotiae, and Sir John, whom my Author calls his Younger Son, was Lord, Dominus de Drumshargard, and which he makes well appear, and concludes, it's plain he was Sir William's second Son, for his patrimonial Estate of Drumshargard, lay contiguous with, and was a part of his Lordship of Bothwel, and given him off by his Father, for in Matters of so remote Antiquity, we conclude for certain what is instructed so rationally by such Manuscripts as are neither contradicted by Writes nor any Authentick History, but confirmed by constant uninterrupted and universal Tradition
in
Perthshire.
Andrew
de
Moravia Panetarius Scotiae & Dominus
de
Bothwel
was just such a Patriot as his Father, whom he did not long survive; for he lost his Life in the Attempt at
Stirling
to redeem his Country from the Subjection and Slavery it was under to the
English
on the memorable 13
th September
1297
Buchanan and Abercromby.
leaving Sir
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who tracing the Steps of his noble and loyal Father in a firm and resolute Adherence to the Interest of his Country, of which he had given such pregnant Instances, and of his eminent Courage and Conduct in diverse Encounters with the opposite Party, that he was thought worthy to be joined with Sir
William Wallace,
in the Command of the Army which
Anno
1298 entered
England,
and performed such Actions of wonderful Courage, that they became very terrible to the Enemy; and thereafter when
Robert
the
Bruce
took upon him the Title of King of
Scotland,
and declared his Purpose of doing all was in his Power toward the Redemption of his Country, and the retriving of the Independency of the Nation, no body appeared more hearty in his Interest than Sir
Andrew Murray,
or stood more firm to that Glorious Monarch in all the Vicissitudes of Fortune that befell him: And it was no doubt in Reward of his great Merit, that the King bestowed upon him his Sister, the Lady
Christian Bruce,
in Marriage,
Carta Rob. I. Domino Andreae de Moravia Panetario Scotiae & Cristianae Sponsae suae sorori nostrae carissimae de Terris de Garie & here dibus eorum dat. apud Clackmannan 20th July 1327 in Haddingtons Colections in Bib. juridica Edin.
and gave him diverse Lands of great Value and Extent.
As he continued most faithfull to King
Robert,
he was no less so to his Son King
David
the II. to whose Interest inviolably adhering, he was one of those Patriots who joined the Governour and came to his Assistance before the Battle of
Duplin,
where he signalized his Courage, insomuch as he was upon the Death of the Earl of
Mar,
the Governour, unanimously elected Regent in his Room, and he held that great Office (except a little time he was a Prisoner in
England
) with the universal Approbation of the whole Nation, and the Applause of all Men, even till his Death
Anno
1338,
Buchanan says, that having reduced Lothian to the Obedience of his lawful Soveraign King David, to give himself a little Relaxation, he made a progress into the North to visit his own Lands and Possessions, Transmontana praedia intervisit, which no doubt was his own old Northern Estate in Elginshire, and out of which his Sons made Mortifications to the Cathedral Church of Elgine, where their Father was interr'd.
whose Character drawn by the Great
Buchannan,
I cannot pass over. Speaking of his Death, he says
summum apud omnes bonos desiderium sui reliquit,
was much regrated by all good Men, and that
tantas enim res biennio ac semestri quibus in Magistratu fuit, gessit, ut suffecturae cujuslibet magni Ducis aetati viderentur.
He was solemnly interr'd with his Ancestors in the Cathedral Church of
Elgin
under a Canopy of free Stone in Armour as big as the Life, with his Coat of Arms over him. Dr.
Johnstoun
celebrates his praises in a very handsome Poem, which I shall take the Liberty to insert here by way of Epitaph.
Obvius armato quoties sese obtulit hosti,
Cum quateret duro Sors fera cuncta pede!
Constans robur erat circum praecordia. Vincit
Dum capitur, nulla vincere vis potuit.
Victor caedit, agit, quatit, bostes, oppida, & arces.
Nemo unquam parvo tempore plura dedit.
Regum aequat merita: in Reges, pro Rege tuetur
Magnanimus patriae libera jura suae.
Vos
degeneres patriam sic prodere vestram!
Nempe ut MORAVII restituatur ope.
And tho' Mr.
Winton
the old Prior of
Lochlevin
be thought no good Poet now a Days, yet because he has endeavoured to preserve the Memory of so well deserving a Person, and to transmit his Character to Posterity in the best fashion he could, I shall likewise amuse the Reader with his Words in Commendation of the Governour,
Schir Andrew Muref guid and wight,
That was a flout and bald Knight,
That name better was in his Day,
Frae g
id King Robert was away.
By the Lady
Christian Bruce
his Wife he left Issue
John
de
Moravia Panetarius Scotiae
his Son and Heir, who gave in pure and perpetual Alms, an Annuity of eight
Merks
Sterling out of his Lands of
A
kly
and
Croy
in
Moray
for the Maintenance of a Priest, who was perpetually to perform Divine Offices at the Altar of the Holy-Cross, in the Cathedral Church of
Elgin, Pro anima sua & anima bonae memorie D. Andreae de Moravia patris sui
Chartul. of Moray ad Annum 1351, in the Deed he is designed Joannes de Moravia Panetarius Scotiae
: But he dying without Issue
Thomas
his Brother was Heir to him. This noble Person was in the 1351 sent to
England
as an Hostage for King
David
II.
Rymers foedera Angliae, he is designed Frater & Heres Joannis de Murrif
and was afterward one of the Commissioners appointed to treat about the King's final Redemption
Anno
1357
ibidem
which was then happily brought about; likeas he gave, ratified and confirmed to the Church of
Elgin
his Brother's donation, adding by a new Deed of his own ten pounds to be distributed among the Chanons on the Day of his Father Sir
Andrew
's Anniversary
Chartul. of Moray: In the Deed he is designed, Thomas de Moravia Panetarius Scotiae
. But he dying without Male Issue, left a Daughter
Jean
his sole Heir, married to Sir
Archibald Douglass
Lord of
Galloway,
thereafter Earl of
Douglass,
Charta in Magno Chartulario Glasguen. Joannae Comitissae de Douglas Dominae de Bothwel, whereby she gives in pura & simplici viduitate sua pro salute animae suae, nec non animae recolendae memoriae quondam Archibaldi Comitis de Douglas D. Galvidiae et de Bothwel Ecclesiae Glaguen. tres petras cerae annuatim percipiendas de firmis Baroniae
nostrae
de Bothwel datum apud Castrum
nostrum
de Bothwel, 8th Junii 1401
which brought the Lordship of
Bothwell
to that illustrious Family.
The Male Line of this Antient Family was continued in Sir
John
de
Moravia
de
Drumshargard,
a younger Son of Sir
William
de
Moravia
de
Bothwell & Drumshargard Panetarius Scotiae
before mentioned,
History of the Moravii Panetarii Scotiae penes D. Abercarny. M.S.
who fixed his Residence at
Abercarny
in
Perthshire,
in the Time of King
Robert
I, of which Lands he became possessed, as also of
Ogilvie, Glensherrop, &c.
by the Marriage of
Mary
Daughter of
Malise,
Earl of
Strathern,
as from the Earl's Charter to him
& Mariae Filiae nostrae sponsae
dicti Domini Johannis
de
Moravia
de
Drumshargard
Charta penes D. Abercarny.
Upon the Death of this Earl of
Strathern,
it being then customary to renew the Infeftment upon the Change of the Superior, as well as of the Vassal, Sir
John Murray
obtained a new Charter from
Malise
Earl of
Strathern
his Brother in Law, whereby he narrates,
quod nobilis vi
Malisius bonae memoriae Comes
de
Strathern infeodavit Dominum Joannem
de
Moravia
de
Drumshargard, Militem, de diversis terris infrascript.
viz.
Ogilvie, Abercarny, Glensherop & medietat. de Kincousy, nec non annuo reditu de Mochuverd, cum Hybergis infra Comitatum deStrathern, ac etiam de terris de Egy & Arthsmethen prout in Cartadicti Domini quondam Patris mei eidem Domino Joanni & heredibus suis confect. plenius contineur
ibidem.
This noble person gave to the Monks of
Arbroth,
all his Right and Title to the Lands of
Kingoldrum,
which had formerly been in Dispute with the Convent, and that for the health of his Soul
Cartul. of Arbroth in Bib. Juridica Edin. whereby Sir Maurice ratifies to the Convent of Arbroth, his Father Sir John's Grant of the Lands of Kingoldrum ad Annum 1339
; which is all that I have found further memorable of him. By
Mary
his Wife aforsaid, he had Sir
Maurice
his Successor, Sir
Allexander Murray;
and
VValter,
who got off the Lands of
Drumshargard,
from which he is afterward designed
VValterus
de
Moravia
de
Drumshargard.
Carta in Pub. Archivis Rob. II.
Which Sir
Maurice
being a person of great Honour and Merit, was by the Favour of King
David
II. made Earl of
Strathern
Carta David Regis Will. Comiti de Sutherland, in which Maurice Comes de Strathern, is a Witness the 17th of that King's Reign, and produced by the Earl of Sutherland in his Claim of Precedency.
but being slain in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Durham Anno
1346, without Issue of his Body, the Title of Earl became extinct, his paternal estate descending to,
Sir
Alexander
de
Moravia
de
Drumshargard
his Brother, who was served Heir to his Father Sir
John
on the 30
th
of
July
134--
Charta penes D. Abercarny.
He married
Janet
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Ross,
Widow of the Baron of
Monimusk
and Sister to
Euphame
Queen of
Scotland.
The Marriage Articles are very solemn by way of Indenture,
Ibid. And to this noble Contract, the Queens Seal is appended, and prett intire, and serves to correct the mistake of George Buchanan, who says she died in 1373, whereas this Indenture is plainly in 1375.
wherein the Queen and
David
Count
Palatine
of
Strathern
her Son do contract for the Lady: But the Write it self being very curious and singular, I shall for the Satisfaction of the learned, insert it in the original Words.
PResens Indentura per modum alphabeti facta, testatur quod vicesimo quarto die mensis Novembris anno Domini millesimo trecentesimo septuagesimo quinto apud Perth, inter excellentissimam Dominam Dominam Euphemiam Dei gratia Reginam Seotie illustrem, & nobilem virum ac potentem dominum David Comitem Palatinum de Strathern & Comitem Cattanie ex parte una, & Alexandrum de Moravia de Drumsergorth ex altera, in hunc modum extitit concordatum, videlicz quod dictus Alexander ducet in uxorem Dominam Jonetam de Munymusk sororem dicte Domine Regine; & predicta Domina Regina ac Comes fideliter promiserunt facere cum toto consilio suo & auxilio dictum Alexandrum habere consilium Jurisperitorum & Advocatorum sumptibus suis propriis & expensis, pro recuperatione sue hereditatis secundum visum fuerit quod jus habet ad prosecutionem. Insuper concordatum est inter eosdem, quod dicta Domina Regina inveniet sufficientem sustentationem predicte sororis sue ad tempus unius anni vel duorum annorum. Preterea concordatum est
inter eosdem quod Walterus de Moravia frater dicti Alexandri, si velit, pro voluntatis sue libito seniorem filiam predicte domine Jonete habebit in uxorem. In cujus rei testimonium perimplende & fideliter observande parti hujus indenture penes dictum Alexandrum remanenti sigilla predictorum Domine Regine & Comitis sunt appensa, parti vero hujus indenture penes predictum Dominam Reginam remanenti sigillum predicti Alex. est appensum. Acta die anno & loco supradictis.
The Article whereby the Queen and the Earl of
Strathern
her Son do oblige themselves to assist and patronize Sir
Alexander Murray cum confilio suo & auxilio habere consilium Jurisperitorum & Advocatorum pro recuperatione suae hereditatis,
I think, as a person of knowledge in Antiquities has judiciously observed before me, respects Sir
Alexander
's Title to the Lordship of
Bothwel
as Heir Male, out of which he was kept by the power of the Earl of
Dowglas,
and adduces many Arguments to prove that point
History of the Panetarii Scotiae penes D. Abercarny, the Author of this History represents, that Archibald Earl of Dowglass, who married the Heiress of Bothwel, was a very bold Man; That it was he who oppressed Thomas Fleming out of the Earldom of Wigtoun, because it lay contiguous to the Earl's Lordship of Galloway; That it was the same Earl of Dowglas, who influenced King Robert the III. to break the Marriage Articles he had entred into with the Earl of March, whereby the Prince the King's Son was to have married the Earl of March's Daughter, and in place of that Lady to substitute Elisabeth Dowglas his own Daughter: And who, says he, is so much a stranger to our History, as not to know that from the Time of this Earl, till the extinction of the Stem of that Illustrious Family, the Earls of Dowglas did not over-aw the Crown, and were too great Subjects for our Kings?
which I must pass over, in regard they do not suit with the Brevity I intend in carrying on this Work, and only remark, that Sir
Alexander Murray
was overpowered in his Claim, and that he died in the 1410, leaving Issue, by the aforesaid noble Lady his Wife, a Son
Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Ogilvy
and
Abercarny,
who by
Agnes
his Wife Daughter of
Cunningham
of
Glengarnock in Vic. de Air,
had Sir
Humphry
his Successor, who by
Catherine
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Graham,
had
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who took to Wife
Margaret
Daughter of
Alexander Robertson
of
Strowan.
By her he had a Son
George,
who in the Lifetime of his Father was killed in the Service of his Country at the fatal Battle of
Floudoun
with King
James
IV. leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, a Lady of the Family of the
Lindseys,
a Son
John,
who succeeded his Grandfather, to whom he was served and retoured Heir in the 1518. He married
Nicolas
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Montrose,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir, and
Robert,
who was his Brother's Successor. This
John
was slain in the Defence of the Honour and Independency of his Country by the
English
at the Battle of
Pinkycleugh,
the 10
th
of
September
1547 and was succeeded by,
William
his Son, who married
Margaret
Daughter of
Lawrence
Lord
Oliphant,
but dying without Issue 1559, his Estate fell to,
Robert
his Brother, who in the time of the civil War, in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
adhered to that unfortunate Princess, and was much esteemed by her, as appears by several Documents in the Hands of his Heirs. He married
Catherine,
Daughter of Sir
William Murray
of
Tillybairdin.
By her he had Sir
William,
Sir
David
of
Gorthy,
who was Governour to
Henry
Prince of
Wales, Mungo Murray
Esq
Father to Sir
Robert Murray,
who was Justice Clerk in the Reign of King
Charles
II, a learned and polite Gentleman, and of Sir
William Murray
of
Dreghorn,
Mr.
John Murray
Minister of
Dumfermling,
also two Daughters,
Nicolas
married to
Robert
Viscount of
Beil heaven,
and
Anne
to Sir
William Moncrief
of that Ilk, and dying
anno
1595, was succeded by
Sir
William
his Son,
Charta penes Dominum Abercarny. This and all the Writs before-mentioned, in the Hands of the Laird of Abercarny, and those from the Time of Sir Alexander Murray of Drumshargard, which are likewise in Abercarny's Hands, I my self have seen and perused, and from them have framed this Account.
who being from his Youth, bred up at the Court of King
James
VI. was first made a Knight, then one of the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber, and Master of Horse to Queen
Anne.
He married
Christian
Daughter of
Andrew Mercer
of
Aldie,
by whom he had Sir
Robert
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Mary,
married to
William Murray
of
Auchtertyre.
Which Sir
Robert
in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Helen
Daughter of
Alexander Bruce
of
Cultmalundie,
by whom he had a Son Sir
William,
and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
Alexander Murray
of
Strowan,
and dying 1640, was succeeded by
Sir
Wiliam
his Grandson, who survived his Grandfather but a Year, for he dyed in the 1641, and left Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
George Hay
of
Keilour,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Errol,
Sir
Robert
his Successor,
William,
and Captain
George Murray.
Also two Daughters.
Isabel,
married to Sir
Archbald Stewart
of
Burro,
Helen,
to
Mungo Graham
of
Gorthie.
Sir
Robert
his Son was a Gentleman of Parts, and who in a good Degree inherited the Vertue, Loyalty and Merit of his Ancestors. He dyed the 11 of
April
1704, leaving Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of that valiant and loyal Gentleman
Patrick Graham
of
Inshbrakie, William
his Successor.
Robert Murray
Esq
Colonel
John Mu
ray, Maurice Murray
Esq
Likewise two Daughters.
Anne,
married to
David Grahame
o
Fintrie,
Emilia
to
James Graham
of
Garvock.
JOHN RAMSAY, Earl of
Bothwell.
SIR
John Ramsay
of
Balmain,
the great Favorite of King
James
the III. was by the said Prince created Earl of
Bothwell:
Charta in pub. Archiv.
But he did not live long to enjoy the Honour, for he was slain with the King his Master at the Field of
Stirling,
on the 11th of
June
1488.
HEPBURN Earl of
Bothwell.
THIS Noble Family is descended of Sir
Adam Hepburn,
an
English
Knight, who transplanted himself into
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
David
the II. and had the Lands of
Hailes
by the Grant of
George
Earl of
March.
Patrick
Lord
Hailes,
was by King
James
the IV. raised to the Honour of Earl of
Bothwell Anno
1488. By
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter to the Lord
Dalketh,
he had
Adam
his Son and Heir, who was slain at
Floudoun
Field, leaving Issue by
Agnes
his wife, Daughter to the Earl of
Buchan, Patrick
his Son, who was Father of the unhappy
James
Earl of
Bothwell,
who was created by Queen
Mary
Duke of
Orkney,
but was in the same Reign forfeited for Treason, whereupon he fled beyond Sea to
Denmark,
where he died
Anno
1577.
Francis Stewart, Earl of
Bothwel.
THE Title of Earl of
Bothwel,
by the special Favour of King
James
VI. came next to
Francis Stewart
Esq
Son and Heir of
John
Prior of
Coldingham,
Lord Privy-Seal in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
a natural Son of King
James
V. He was also constituted Lord high Admiral of
Scotland;
but in the same Reign, for his treasonable Design of seizing the King's Person in his own Palace of
Holy-rood-house,
he was forfeited
Anno
1593. The Admirality was bestowed on the Duke of
Lennox,
and most of his Estate in
Lidsdale
given to the Lord
Buclugh.
How the rest went, I do not pretend to account for: All that I am to observe, is, that he transported himself into
France,
and thence into
Italy,
where he passed the remainder of his Days.
Sanderson's History of King James VI.
.
BRECHIN Lord of
Brechin.
DAvid
of
Scotland
Earl of
Huntingtoun
and
Garioch,
Brother to King
William
the Lyon, gave the Lordship of
Brechin,
a Part of his own Appanage, to
Henry
his natural Son, from whence he took a Surname; for in a Donation of
John de Scotia Comes de Huntingtoun & Chester
to the Cannons of St.
Andrews,
this
Henry
is designed
de Brechin, filius Comitis David,
Register of the Priory of St. Andrews.
and in a Mortification by the said Earl, of a Toft of Land in his Burgh of
Dundee,
to the Abbay of
Aberbrothock, Henrico de Brechin fratre suo
is a Witness
Chartulary, of Aberbrothock.
; and likewise in many Royal Charters to
Scoon
and
Aberbrothock.
He left Issue by
Julian
his Wife,
William de Brechin
his Son, who design'd himself
Willielmus de Brechin, filius Henrici de Brechin, filii Comitis David,
in his Foundation of the
Mayson Dieu Hospital
of
Brechin,
for the Salvation of the Souls of
William
and
Alexander
Kings of
Scotland, John
Earl of
Chester
and
Huntingtoun
his Brother,
Henry
his Father, and
Julian
his Mother, and for the Welfare of his own Soul, to which
Albinus
Bishop of
Brechin, Robert de Monte alto,
and several other Persons of Note are Witnesses,
Confirmation by King James the III. in 1477, wherein the original Charter is transumed.
. This
William
made a very great Figure in all the publick Transactions both in the Reign of King
Alexander
II. and III. In the 1255, he was one of the great Men,
Magnatum,
as the Record calls them, with whose Counsel,
& aliorum plurium Baronum nostrorum,
the King gave a Commission to the Earls of
Monteith, Buchan
and
Mar,
to treat with the
English, de negotiis regni nostri,
anent the Good and Utility of both Realms
Rymer.
. Likeas I find he was an Arbitrator in the Dispute betwixt Sir
Peter
de
Maulea Dominus de Panmure, & Domina Christina de Valoniis
his Wife, with the Abbot of
Aberbrothock,
about the Marches of the Baronies of
Aberbrothock & Panmure;
which
Alexander Cumin
Earl of
Buchan,
Justiciary of
Scotland,
had perambulate by the King
's
special Command, and was at length to the Satisfaction of the Parties amicably composed
Anno
1254.
Chartulary of Arbroth fol. 27. & Charta pones Comitem de Panmure.
. He also was one of the Privy Council to King
Alexander
III. and one of the
Proceres Scotiae
who oblige themselves
recepturos Margaretam Norvegiae,
Rymer's Foedera, ad annum 1283.
the King's Grandchild,
ut heredem Scotiae
in failzure of his Issue Male. He married - - - Daughter of
John C
in
Earl of
Buchan,
by whom he had,
David
Lord of
Brethin
his Son and Heir, who, after the Abdication of
Baliol,
was at the Battle of
Methven,
and several others, fought in the ensuing War
Rymer's Foedera,
&c.
, being in the
English
Interest, and no Friend to the
Brucian
Title, tho' he had the Honour to be in a very near Degree allied with that illustrious Family: For by his Wife, King
Robert
the
Bruce
's Sister, he had a Son
David,
and a Daughter
Margaret,
married to Sir
David Barclay
Knight,
Charta David Barclay Militis Margaretae filiae Domini David de Brechin de terris de Cairny Barclay &c. pro matrimonio inter
os contrahendo anno 1315 in pub. Arch.
.
Which
David
Lord of
Brechin
was one of the Barons who wrote that bold and loyal Letter to the Pope
Anno
1320: Soon after which, he was so unhappy as to be drawn into a Conspiracy to deliver the Town of
Berwick
to the
English;
but that Combination being happily discovered, he was made Prisoner, and being tryed before the Parliament, was found guilty of high Treason, for as much as he had conceal'd and not reveal'd the Design,
Ab conjurationis popularibus appellatus nunquam assenserat: tantum eicrimini dabatur, quod in conscientiam rei tam f
dae ascitus eam tacitam habuit
Buchanan.
, and suffered Death for the same,
Anno
1321. His Case was much pitied and lamented; for besides that he was the King's Nephew, he was a Person very eminent in the Arts both of Peace and War,
Omnium aetatis suij
venum & belli &, pacis artibus longe primus habebatur,
says my Author. And
Ibidem.
continues he,
Dederat etiam suae virtutis in Syria bello sacro praeclarum specimen.
His Estate was not forfeited as the rest of the Conspirators were, but went to
Margaret
his Sister, who was his Heir.
BARCLAY. Lord of
Brechin.
SIR
David Barclay,
Lord of
Brechin
in Right of his Wife the Heir of
David
de
Brechin,
was a Person of very signal Fidelity to the
Brucian
Interest, and is famous in the Wars of King
Robert Bruce,
to whom he did many remarkable Services.
Abercromby's Mart Atch.
This Sir
David
and
Margaret
his Wife gave in pure Alms to the Monks of
Balmerino
a Fishing upon the Water of
Tay,
for the good of their Souls;
Register of Balmerino
and left Issue Sir
David,
and a Daughter
Jean,
married to Sir
David Fleming
of
Biggar,
by whom he had only one Daughter,
Marion,
married to
William Maule
of
Panmure,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Panmure.
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure data 3 Septemb. 1381
This last mentioned Sir
David Barclay
Lord of
Brechin
was eminent for his Activity and Valour in behalf of King
David Bruce,
to whom he performed many Actions of Honour and Courage; but at last falling into a fatal quarrel with the
Douglasses,
he was murdered by the Contrivance of
William Douglas
of
Lidsdale, Anno
1348.
Buchanan
leaving
Margaret
his only Child, married to
Walter
Earl of
Athole,
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
Son to King
Robert
II.
Walter
Earl of
Athole,
by the aforesaid
Margaret
his Wife, had Issue
David Stewart
Knight, who died in
England,
one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
the I. and
Alan
Earl of
Caithness,
who was killed at the Battel of
Inverlochy
in 1428, leaving no Issue. The Earl of
Athole,
tho' his Lady and Children died before himself, kept Possession of this Lordship till he was execute for the Murder King
James
I. in
Anno
1437. But when he was under Sentence of Death, he declared that he possessed the Lordship of
Brchin
only by the courtesie of
Scotland
since his Wife's Death, and that he had no other Title to that part of his Estate. Whereupon Sir
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure
laid Claim to this Lordship, as nearest Heir to
Margaret Barclay
Countess of
Athole,
to whose Heirs it was provided, failing Heirs of her own Body
Charta data 19 Octobris 1378 in publicis Archivis
, and accordingly he took an Instrument in the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh,
upon the Earl's Declaration immediately before his Execution, wherein his Right and Proximity of Blood to the Lords of
Brechin
is set down
penes Com. de Pan.
. And
Thomas Bisset
of
Balwylo,
judicially declares, That Dame
Jean Barclay,
Wife to Sir
David Fleming,
was Grandmother to Sir
Thomas Maule,
who was killed at
Harlaw
Declaration anno 1437, penes Comitem de Panmure.
. Notwithstanding of all which, the Council of King
James
the II. in his Minority, having in sundry Cases procured Decisions to be made in Favours of the Crown, when the Competition run betwixt the Sovereign and the Subject, the Family of
Panmure
were baulked of their Right, and the Lordship of
Brechin,
in regard the Earl of
Athole
died possessed of it, was with the rest of his Estate annexed to the Crown.
Acts of parliament.
But this Lordship being afterward dissolved, it was purchased by
Patrick
Earl of
Panmure,
and has ever since been used as a Title of that noble Family, who are undoubted Heirs in Blood of the antient Lords of
Brechin,
both of the
Brechin
and
Barclay
Line.
CAMPBEL Earl of
Bradalbin.
THO none of this Family arriv'd to the Dignity of Peerage till the present Earl, yet were they Baron
of great Account long before, and were dignified with the Title of Baronet at the Institution of that Honour,
Anno
1625. Their first Ancestor Sir
Colin Campbel,
was a second Son of the Family of
Lochow,
near three hundred Years ago, who by his Marriage with
Margaret,
one of the three Daughters and Co-heirs of
John Stewart
Lord
Lorn,
obtained a third Part of that Inheritance. From which Sir
Colin
they have continued remarkable in a direct Line, down to the present Time, spreading themselves into several eminent and flourishing Branches by the Way, as are the
Campbels
of
Lawers
(sprung from a Son of a second Marriage of the first Sir
Colin,
by a Daughter of the Family of
Keir
)
Glenlyon, Achriny, Lochbuskie, Mochaster, Monzie, Glenfaloch, Carquhin, Kilpont, Aberuchil, Glendarual,
&c.
The Family of
Glenurchie
has been remarkable in our
Scots
History on several Occasions; nor need I be at much Pains to shew the several Matches they have made with some of the most noble Families of this Kingdom, since the whole Course of this Book sufficiently makes mention thereof, only I shall take notice, that
John,
now Earl of
Bradalbin,
is Son of Sir
John Campbel
of
Glenurchie
Baronet, by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Airth
and
Monteith.
He was created Earl of
Caithness
by King
Charles
II. 28
January
1677, in Consideration of the Loyalty of his Ancestors, as well as his own personal Merit; but this Title being adjudged to another,
Anno
1681. he was then created Earl of
Bradalbin,
with Precedency, according to the former Patent. In 1692 he was named a Privy Counsellour, and one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, which for some Time he enjoy'd.
His first Wife was
Mary Rich,
Daughter of
Henry
Earl of
Holland,
of the Kingdom of
England,
by whom he had
Duncan
Lord
Ormly,
who is not to succeed him, and
John
Lord
Glenurchie.
Also by
Mary
his second Wife, Daughter of
Archbald
Marquis of
Argyle,
he had a Son
Colin,
who died unmarried.
John
Lord
Glenurchie,
married first
Frances
Daughter and Co-heir of
Henry Cavendish
Duke of
New Castle,
but by her he had no Issue; And secondly
Henrietta
Daughter of Sir
Edward Villiers
Sister to
Edward
late Earl of
Jersey,
by whom he has
John
Master of
Glenurchie.
ARMS.
Three Coats quarterly, 1st and 4th. Gyrone of eight Pieces
Sable
and
Or,
2d
Or,
a Fess cheque
Argent
and
Azure,
3d.
Argent,
a Galey with her Oars in Action,
Sable,
supported by two Stags
Proper.
Crest a Stag's Head eraz'd, Motto,
Follow me.
CUMIN Earl of
Buchan.
THE first of this noble Family was Sir
William Cumin,
Son of Sir
Richard Cumin
Knight
Winton's Manuscript History in the Lawyer's Library.
, who married
Margaret
Daughter of
Fergus
Earl of
Buchan
Charter of Confirmation by Margaret Countess of Buchan, of a Donation which Fergus Earl of Buchan, her Father, gave to Arbroth Abbay.
, in Right of whom he came to enjoy that Honour. He was by King
Alexander
II. constituted Justiciary of
Scotland, Anno
1230. which he enjoy'd for many Years. Being a Person of singular Devotion, he founded the Abbay of
Deer
in
Buchan,
for
Cistertian
Monks, and endued it with many Lands in those Parts
Chron. de Melros.
, and dying
Anno
1233
Ibidem.
, left Issue by the said
Margaret
his Wife,
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who was constituted Justiciary of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
Alexander
III. He was commissioned Ambassador to
England, Anno
1284
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, and in 1286 was chosen one of the six Regents of this Realm, upon the Decease of the said King
Alexander
Buchanan.
. His Works of Piety were these; An Hospital of his Foundation at
Turref
in
Buchan,
for twelve poor old Men; Another at the
New-Burgh
of
Buchan,
and a Confirmation in most ample manner to the Monks of
Arbroth
of a Grant which
Fergus
Earl of
Buchan,
his Grand-father, had formerly made for the Salvation of his Soul
Chartulary of Murray and Register of Arbroth, MS.
. All which shew not only the Greatness of his Estate, but also of his Piety. He dying
Anno
1289
Simson's History.
, left Issue by
Isabel
his Wife, Daughther and one of the Co-heirs of
Roger de Quincy
Earl of
Winchester
(by
Helen
his Wife, Daughter of
Alan
Lord of
Galloway
Constable of
Scotland
)
John
Earl of
Buchan
Constable of
Scotland
his Son and Heir, who was sent Ambassador to
France
to treat of a Peace, which was then happily concluded,
Anno
1303
Rymer.
. Upon King
Robert
's Accession to the Throne,
Anno
1306, he adhered to the
English
Interest, for which Action his Estate was seized on, and dying in
England
in 1329 the 1
st.
Year of
David
II. left Issue by
Isabel
his Wife, Daughter of
Duncan
Earl of
Fife,
two Daughters,
Alicia
Wife of Sir
Henry de Beaumont,
and
Margaret
of Sir
John Ross
Knight
Mr. Andrew Winton's Chron. M.S. in the Lawyers Library, in old Scots Rhyme.
.
STEWART, Earl of
Buchan.
THE next that enjoyed any Title from hence was
Alexander Stewart
Lord
Badenoch,
4th Son to King
Robert
II. who was dignifyed with this Title,
Anno
1374. He married
Eupham
Countess of
Ross
Charta in Rotulis Roberti II.
, and dying 20th
February
1394, was interred in the Middle of the
Choir,
of the Cathedral Church of
Dunkeld,
with his Statue over him in a fair Stone, which continued intire, till a Party of
Angus
's Regiment having garrisoned the Church of
Dunkeld
at the Revolution, the Soldiers very much defaced it; but upon the Pedestal, there is this Inscription.
Hic jacet Dominus Alexander Senescallus Comes de Buchan & Dominus de Badenoch bonae Memoriae, qui obiit
20
Die mensts Februarii, Anno Dom.
1394.
From this Time the Honour of
Buchan
lay dormant till the Year 1419, when it was meritoriously bestowed by
Robert
Duke of
Albany,
Governor of
Scotland,
upon
John Steuart
Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland,
his Son. This Earl commanded the 7000
Scots
Auxiliares that were sent to the Assistance of
Charles
VI. against the
English
Buchanan. Hist.
, whose great and memorable Actions and Services to the Crown of
France,
are sufficiently recorded in our
Scots
and
French
Histories, and leave me very little to say here. He was killed at the Battle of
Vernoil, anno
1424
Drummond's History.
, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter to
Archibald
Earl of
Douglass,
one sole Daughter and Heir,
Jean
married to
George
Lord
Seaton,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Wintoun
History of the House of Seaton, M.S.
, which gave Occasion to the noble Family to carry quarterly in the Atchievement the Coat of
Buchan, viz,
Azure,
three Garbs,
Or.
ERSKINE, Earl of
Buchan
THE Honour and Earldom of
Buchan
coming to the Crown, (by the Death of
John
the last Earl without Male-issue), remain'd in the Royal Person of the King, as nearest Heir-male to the said Earl, till the Year 1469, when the same was by King
James
III. with the whole Lands which formerly composed that Earldom, bestowed upon
James Stewart,
second Son of Sir
James Stewart
(sirnamed,
The Black Knight of
Lorn) by Queen
Jean,
Widow of
James
1. of
Scotland,
and Daughter of
John
Duke of
Somerset,
who was Son of
John
of
Gaunt
Duke of
Lancaster,
4th Son of
Edward
III. King of
England,
from whom the same has through several Descents hereafter deduced, devolved on Earls of the Sirname of
Erskine,
a Branch of the Illustrious House of
Mar,
by whom it has been enjoyed for the Space of One hundred and thir
een Years, since the 1601.
Which
James
Earl of
Buchan
was a most faithful Counseller to King
James
III. by whom he was constituted Warden of the Middle Marches toward
England
Charta Jacobi III. dilecto avunculo suo Jacobo Comiti de Buchan, Guardiano mediarum Marchiarum regni nostri, terrarum de Traquair, quae fuere Willielmi Murray & nostrae ratione forisfacturae, 3. Feb
. 1478. Alia. Charta in Rotulis dicti Regis Jacobo Comiti de Buchan Comerario Scotiae ad Annum 1479.
and Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland.
He married first
Margaret,
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Auchterhouse,
high Sheriff of the County of
Forfar,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Son and Heir; also by
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Murray
of
Philiphaugh,
Mr. Martin of Clermont's Collections in the Hands of his Son.
he had
James Stewart
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Traquair;
also two Daughters
Charta in Publicis Archivis.
,
Agnes
married to
Adam
Earl of
Bothwel,
afterwards to
Robert
Lord
Maxwel,
and
Elizabeth
to
John Hume
of
Colding knows,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Hume
Ibidem.
.
Which
Alexander
Earl of
Buchan
married
Jean,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Ruthven,
by whom he had Issue,
John
Earl of
Buchan
his only Son and Heir, who was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
V. who, by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Scrimgeor
of
Duddop
Knight, had Issue
John,
who died before him, and one Daughter, who was married to
Thomas Dempster
of
Muirask
in
Bamff-shire,
and had Issue.
Which
John,
Eldest Son of the said Earl, was with the Flower of the Nobles of
Scotland,
killed at the Battle of
Musteburgh
on the 10th of
September
1547, in the Lifetime of his Father; having been twice married:
First,
To
Mary
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Murray,
by whom he had no Issue; and, 2
dly,
To
Beatrix;
Daughter of Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Boyn,
by whom he had one Daughter
Christiana,
who,
anno
1551, succeeded her Grandfather in the Earldom of
Buchan,
and married
Robert Do
glas
(Brother of
William
Earl of
Mortoun
) in Right of her afterward Earl of
Buchan,
by whom she had Issue
James,
who succeeded her; and two Daughters,
Janet
married to
Alexander Irvine
of
Drum,
and had Issue.
Elizabeth
married to
Andrew Frazer
of
Muchil,
in the County of
Aberdeen,
Ancestor of
Charles,
now Lord
Fraser.
To which
Robert
and
Christiana
(Earl and Countess of
Buchan
) succeeded
James
Earl of
Buchan,
their only Son and Heir, who, by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Walter
Lord
Deskford,
Ancestor of
James
now Earl of
Findlater,
had Issue one Daughter,
Mary,
who,
anno
1601, succeeded the said
James
her Father in the Earldom of
Buchan.
Which
Mary
Countess of
Buchan
married
James Erskine
eldest Son of the second Marriage of
John
Earl of
Mar,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter,
by the Lady
Mary Stewart,
second Daughter of
Esme
Duke of
Lennox:
Upon which Marriage, the Right of Succession to the Earldom of
Buchan
(which before had been to the Heirs whatsoever) was by a Charter under the Great Seal, proceeding upon a Resignation, limited to the said
Mary
Countess of
Buchan,
and the said
James
her Husband, and the Heirs Male of the said Marriage; which failing, to the said
James
's nearest lawful Heirs Male whatsoever.
Which
James
Earl of
Buchan
being a Person of great Merit and Accomplishments, and much in the Favour of King
Charles
I. (to whom he was a Gentleman of his Bed-chamber) lived most of his Time in
England,
where he had Issue by his said Wife,
James
his eldest Son and Heir, and
John
who died unmarried; as also two Daughters.
Mary
married to
Alexander
Lord
Pitstigo,
and had Issue; and
Margaret
married to Sir
James Graham,
Son to the Earl of
Monteith.
After the Death of whom, he married, 2
dly Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Philip Knevit
of
Bucknam Castle,
in the County of
Norfolk,
Bart. by whom he had Issue,
Dorthy
married in
England
to
Walker
in the County of
Middlesex,
Esq
and several other Children, who died young.
To whom succeeded
James
Earl of
Buchan,
his eldest Son and Heir, who by his Wife
Mary,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Dalhousie,
had Issue one Son
William,
who succeeded him, and five Daughters,
Marjory
the eldest, married first to
Fraser
of
Inderalachie
Esq
and 2
dly
to
Charles
Lord
Fraser. Anne
the 2
d
to
James Canaries
D.D.
Henriette
the 3
d.
to
Thomas Forbes
of
Tolquhon
Esq
&
Jean
the 4
th.
to
George Gray
of
Hackerton
Esq
Which
William
Earl of
Buchan
having joined himself at the Revolution in 1688 to those who took up Arms in
Scotland
against the late King
William,
brought himself thereby into much Trouble: For being soon after taken by that King's Troops, he was committed Prisoner to the Castle of
Stirling,
where, tho by the Intercession of his Friends his Prison was at last much enlarged, he continued to his Death, which happened
anno
1695, without leaving any Issue, having never been married.
To whom succeeded
David
Lord
Cardross,
his nearest Heir Male, being great Grandson and Heir to
Henry
the first Lord
Cardross,
who was Brother to
James
Earl of
Buchan,
Grandfather to the said
William
last deceased.
Which
David
Earl of
Buchan
in
anno
1697 married
Frances,
eldest Daughter, and since sole Heir of
Henry Fairfax
of
Hurst,
in the County of
Berks
Esq
only Son and Heir of
Henry Fairfax
Esq
second Son of
Thomas
Viscount
Fairfax:
By the which
Frances
Countess of
Buchan
the said Earl has had nine Sons,
Henry David,
Lord
Auchterhouse,
born in
September
1699, who died very young.
David
Lord
Auchterhouse,
born in
April
1703, who died an Infant.
Henry David,
now Lord
Cardross
&
Auchterhouse,
born 17
th April
1710.
Fairfax,
born
Feb.
8
th
1712.
George Lewis
on
Jan.
30 1714, and
George Augustus
on
December
27
th,
1715, who died very young, and three more, who died soon after they were born.
Also seven Daughters.
Lady
Katharin Anna,
and
Lady
Frances;
yet in their Minority.
Lady
Alethea,
and
Lady
Willelmina Carolina,
who both died Infants; and three others who died soon after they were born.
Which
David
now Earl of
Buchan,
was one of the Council of Trade appointed by Parliament in
anno
1705, when by an Act past in
England,
the Importation of
Scots
Linnen Cloath and Cattle into that Kingdom was prohibited, and Matters seem'd to run high betwixt the two Kingdoms, in which Commission his Lordship behaved himself so as to gain universal Esteem, as he has upon all other Occasions, when employed in the publick Service, wherein he has always eminently distinguish'd himself by his unshaken Zeal and constant appearance for the Honour and Interest of his Country, as well during the Reign of the late King
William,
in which he was a Privy Counsellor from the Year 1697, till the Death of that Prince, as during that of her late Majesty Queen
Anne,
by whom he was also constituted of the Privy Council; as also one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer, and Governour of
Blackness
Castle; in all which he continued till after the Conclusion of the Treaty of Union,
anno
1707, which he opposed in Parliament to the very last, being of Opinion, as his Lordship then declared, that several of the Articles agreed upon, were inconsistent with the Honour of his Country, especially of the Peerage, against which he therefore entred his Protest, and was soon after removed from all publick Trust. But on the Accession of his Majesty King
George
to the Crown, for the Security of whose Succession his Lordship had on all Occasions exerted himself with the outmost Zeal, he had again several Marks of Favour bestowed on him, having been appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of Police, and Lord Lieutenant of the Shires of
Stirling
and
Clackmannan,
as he was also to the general Satisfaction elected one of the sixteen Peers for
Scotland
to the first Parliament of
Great Britain
called after his Majesty's Arrival in this Kingdom.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st.
Azure,
three Garbs,
Or,
2d grand quarter 1st and 4th
Azure,
a Bend betwixt six Cross Croslets,
Or,
2d and 3d,
Argent,
a Pale,
Sable,
3d, great Quarter 1st and 4th
Or,
a Fess Cheque,
Azure
and
Argent,
2d and 3d
Azure,
3 Garbs
Or,
4th
Argent,
three Bars Gamels,
Gules.
Over all a Lyon Rampant
Sable
in Surtout an Escoutcheon,
Gules,
an Eagle displayed,
Or,
looking toward the Sun in his Splendor, p
aced in the Dexter chief Point, supported by two Ostriges proper Crest, a dexter Hard grasping a Batton, Motto,
Judge Nocht.
SCOTT Duke of
Buckclugh.
THE first of the Sirname of
Scott,
I have found upon Record, was
Ricardus Scottus,
who in the Reign of King
David
I. is Witness to a Charter of Confirmation by
Robert
Bishop of St.
Andrews,
to the Abbacy of
Holyrood house;
Dalrymple's Hist. Collect.
but whether
Scottus
was his Sirname, or only so called from his Country, is not so clear. Likeas we find in the Reign of King
Alexander
II. another
Ricardus Scottus,
who obtained a fair Estate in
Roxburgh
-Shire, by Marriage of
Alicia,
one of the Heirs Female of
Henry de Molla,
out of which he gave in pure and perpetual Alms to the Monks of
Kelso,
eight Acres of Land, with Pasturage for divers Oxen, in his Tenement of
Molle,
for the Health of his Soul.
Chartul. of Kelso MS.
In the Reign of
Alexander
III. Sir
Richard Scott
obtained the Barony of
Murthockstoun,
now called
Murdistoun
in
Clidsdale,
by the Marriage of an Heir Female of the same Sirname, & is designed
Ricard le Scott de Murthockstoun,
in the Bond of Submission called the Ragman Roll, wherein as a Baron of
Lanerkshire,
he swears Allegiance to King
Edward
the I. of
England Anno
1296;
Prynne's History.
whose Successor
Robert Scott
designed of . . .
Murdistoun
and
Ranelburn,
flourished under King
Robert
II. who with Consent and Approbation of
Walter
his Son and Heir apparent, gave to the Monks of
Melross
the Lands of
Hinkery
in
Selkirkshire, pro salute animae suae.
Chartul. of Melross, data 28 Maij 1415.
This
Walter
was a gallant brave Man, and performed many Actions of signal Honour and Courage in the Service of the Crown, for which he was nobly rewarded. For King
Robert,
who never failed to reward merit, did with Consent of
John
Earl of
Carrick
his eldest Son, change the holding of the Barony of
Kirkurd
from Ward to Blanch in his Favours, by his Royal Charter of the Date
December
7.
Anno
1390.
He is designed Walter Scott Son and Heir of Robert Scott, Anno Regni Rob. II 19 penes ducem de Buclugh.
The same Sir
Walter,
then a Knight, in the 1426, obtained a Charter from the Earl of
Douglas,
of the Lands of
Lempetlaw,
for his Services done to the Earl, by his Charter
second July
1426;
Charta penes
undem. In the Charter he is designed Son and Heir of Robert Scott of Murdistoun.
and afterward exchanged his Lands of
Murdistoun
with
Thomas Inglis
of
Maner
for
Maners
Lands of
Branxholm, Anno
1446
Ibid.
He was a Person of that Character, that during the Reign of King
James
II. he was frequently employed in Negotiations of Peace betwixt the two Nations, as appears from Mr.
Rymer
's
Foedera
lately published, and did exert his Valour in a very eminent Degree, in suppressing the Rebellion of the Earls of
Douglas, Murray
and
Ormond,
for which he had a Grant from the Crown of the Lands of
Abinigton, Fairholm
and
Glendonary,
wherein his Loyalty and signal Services are very fully narrated and set forth in the King's Charter,
Charta in pub. Archivis.
under the Great-Seal. By . . . Daughter of . . . his Wife, he had
David
his Son and Heir, and
Alexander.
Which
David
made a very great Figure, in the publick Transactions, in the Time of King
James
III. and IV. and was oftner than once appointed one of the Conservators of the Peace betwixt the two Nations. By . . . Daughter of . . . he had Sir
Walter
his eldest Son, and
Robert;
likewise a Daughter
Janet,
married to Sir
James Douglas
of
Drumlanrig,
Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
and departing this Life
Anno
1492, was succeeded by
Sir
Walter
his Grandson and Heir, who was served and retoured Heir to his Grandfather, 6.
November
1492:
Charta penes Ducem de Bucklugh.
He was famous for his many excellent Qualities under King
James
V. whose great Favourite he was. In the 1526 he attempted to relieve at
Melross
his Sovereign out of the Hands of the Earl of
Angus;
and tho the Attempt proved unsuccessfull, yet the King still retained a very lasting Sense of Sir
Walter
's Duty and Loyalty on that Occasion. After the Death of King
James
he signalized his Valour and Courage at the Battle of
Pinky,
soon after which he was constituted Warden of the West-Marches toward
England,
and he discharged the Office with great Honour and Integrity, till his Death in the Month of
October
of the Year 1553.
Charta in pub. Archivis.
He married first
Elizabeth
Daughter of . . .
Carmichael,
Ibid.
of . . . and had Sir
David
his eldest Son, who died without Issue, and Sir
William Scott
Knight his Father's Heir apparent, who likewise died before himself. His second Wife was
Janet
Daughter of
John Bethune
of
Cricht,
Ibid.
by whom he had
Grisel
married to
William
Lord
Borthwick,
and again to
Walter Cairncross
Esq
Son to
John Cairncross
of
Colmesly.
Ibid.
And
Jean
to
John Cranstoun
of that Ilk.
Sir
William Scott
of
Kirkurd,
Son and Heir apparent to Sir
Walter Scott
of
Buckclugh,
in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Grisel
Daughter of
John Bethune
of
Cricht,
Histor. Remarks on the Bethunes of Cricht. MS.
by whom he had Sir
Walter
his Grandfather's Successor, and three Daughters,
Jean
married to Sir
Thomas Ker
of
Fernyherst, Margaret
to Sir
John Johnstoun
of that Ilk, and
Elizabeth
to
John Carmichael
of
Meadowflat,
Captain of
Crawfurd.
Which
Walter
was a Man of excellent Parts and Reputation, and tho a firm Adherer to Queen
Mary,
yet he has a very good Character even by the Historians of the other Party, particulary Sir
James Melvil,
who says,
He was a Man of rare Qualities, wise, brave, stout and modest.
He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Angus,
by whom he had Sir
Walter
his Son and Heir, and two Daughters.
Margaret,
married to
Robert Scott
of
Thirlestane,
and had Issue.
Mary,
to
William Elliot
of
Liriestoun,
and had Issue.
Which
Walter
being a Person of very fine Parts, and in great Favour with King
James
VI. had the Honour of Knighthood conferred on him, at the Coronation of Queen
Anne,
in
Anno
1590,
Rymer.
and after that was constituted Warden of the West-Marches toward
England,
and he discharged the Trust with singular Courage and Fidelity,
Spotiswood's Hist. ad Annum 1596.
till the King's Accession to the Crown of
England, Anno
1603.
Sir
Walter
being a Person of a warlike Genius, and from his Youth much affecting a military Life, carried over a Regiment to the
Netherlands,
where he served under that famous General the Prince of
Orange,
in which valiant Adventures he gained so much Honour, that to countenance his signal Merit, King
James
VI. was pleased to raise him to the Degree and Dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Scott
of
Buckclugh,
on the 16.
March
1606, and departing this Life 5.
December
1611,
Scotstarvet's Histor. Collections MS.
lest-Issue by
Mary
his Wife, (Daughter of
William Ker
of
Cesford,
Sister to
Robert
I. Earl of
Roxburgh
)
Walter
his Successor; likewise two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
James
Lord
Ross,
and again to
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun.
Elizabeth
to
John
Master of
Cranstoun,
Charta in pub. Archivis.
at that Time Son and Heir apparrent to
William
Lord
Cranstoun, sans
Issue.
Which
Walter
was by the special Favour of King
James
VI. raised to the Honour of Earl of
Buckclugh,
by Letters patent 16.
March
1619.
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad Annum 1619.
This noble Earl being likewise a Noblemen of a warlike Temper, had likewise the Command of a Regiment under the States of
Holland
against the
Spaniard,
where he served with singular Honour and Reputation, and coming over to
England
in the Beginning of the Winter, 1633, died at
London
on the 21. of
September
thereafter.
Leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
Francis
Earl of
Errol, Francis
his Son and Heir and two Daughters.
Lady
Mary
married to
John
Earl of
Mar.
Lady
Jean
to
John
first Marquess of
Tweddale.
Francis
Earl of
Buckclugh
was a young Nobleman of very fine Parts, and of singular merit, and very loyally affected to King
Charles
II. for which
Cromwel,
after the Earl's Death, imposed a Fine of 15000
Lib. Sterl.
on his Heir.
Oliver Cromwel's Act of Indemnity to Scotland, Anno 1654.
He was suddenly snatched away by Death in the Flower of his Age,
Anno
1652, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Rothes,
two Daughters,
Mary
Countess of
Buckclugh,
who married
Walter Scot
of
Hychester,
who was thereupon created Earl of
Tarras;
but the Lady dying without Issue,
Anno
1662, her Estate and Honour came to her Sister the Lady
Anne Scott,
who soon thereafter was married to
James
Duke of
Monmouth,
natural Son to King
Charles
II. who changed his Name to
Scot,
and was, together with the Countess his Wife, created Duke and she Dutches of
Buckclugh,
by Letters patent, 20.
April
1673.
Charta penes D. de Bucklugh.
And the Duke of
Lennox
dying in the End of 1672, his Grace was constituted Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland.
In the Year 1679. upon the Insurrection in
Scotland,
which commenced with the Murder of the Arch-Bishop of St.
Andrews,
he was sent with a sufficient Force, as
Generalissimo
to suppress it, where giving them Battle at
Bothwel-Bridge,
he entirely defeated them, and so suppressed that Rebellion.
But the following Year, having shown himself very zealous in prosecuting a full Discovery of the Popish Plot, and joining with those who were the greatest Sticklers at that Time against Popery, by which means he had very much gain'd the Affection of the People, some of his chiefest (supposed) Friends began to invite him to cast an Eye upon the Crown, and the more to flatter his Hopes therewith, a Report was about this time very industriously spread through the Kingdom, That the King had been lawfully married to Mrs.
Walters
the Duke's Mother, which so affected his Majesty, that he thought himself obliged, both in Conscience and Honour to declare the contrary to his Privy Council, and thereupon caused the following Declaration to be entred in the Council Books.
Whitehall,
March 3, 1679.
To avoid any Dispute, which may happen in time to come, concerning the Succession to the Crown, he declares in the Presence of Almighty God, that he never gave, nor made any Contract of Marriage, nor was ever married to any Woman whatsoever, but to his present Wife, Queen
Catharine,
now living.
Sign'd
CHARLES
R.
Not long after this, the King was prevailed with, not only to divest him of all the Offices and Places he held under the Crown, but that he should likewise depart the Kingdom, whereupon he retired to
Utrecht,
and there continued some Time, and then returned to
England,
but was again banished the Court in 1683, and retiring into
Holland,
continued at the
Hague
till the Death of the King his Father. But before K.
James
VII. was well setled on the Throne,
anno
1685, he invaded
England;
but being soon after totally routed at
Sigemore,
and taken Prisoner, he was beheaded on
Towerhill
the 15th
July
1685.
By the Duke of
Monmouth
the Dutchess of
Buckclugh
had two Sons,
James
Earl of
Dalkeith,
who was elected one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the
Thistle, anno
1704, and dyed 14th
March
1705, leaving Issue by
Henrietta
his Wife, Daughter of
Laurence
Earl of
Rochester,
three Sons and two Daughters,
viz.
Francis
now Earl of
Dalkeith.
Lord
James Scot.
Lord
Henry Scot.
Lady
Anne Scot.
Lady
Charlotte Scot.
Lord
Henry Scot,
2
d
Son of
Anne
Dutchess of
Buckclugh,
was by Letters Patent, bearing date the 29th of
March
1706, in the 5th Year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen
Anne,
created Earl of
De Lorain,
Viscount
Hermitage
and Lord
Scot
of
Goldilines,
all in the County of
Roxburgh.
Her Grace married a second Husband
Charles
Lord
Cornwallis,
and by him had Issue, Lord
George Scot,
and Lady
Anne Scot,
who both deceased young, and Lady
Isabella Scot,
yet unmarried.
ARMS.
Or,
on a Bend
Azure,
a Star of six Points betwixt two Crescents of the Field, supported by two Women in Rich antique Apparrel, the Crest is a Stag passant, proper, Motto,
Amo.
BALFOUR, Lord
Burleigh.
THIS Family which originally took its Sirname from the Castle and Barony of
Balfour
in
Fife
-shire, hath been of great Antiquity in the foresaid County, there being some of that Name flourishing there, in the time of
Alexander
II
Ingelramus de Balfour vice comes de Fife, is Witness in a Charter the 15th of Alexander II, Anno Dom. 1229.
. Also it appears, that
Michael de Balfour
vice comes de Fife,
was a Member of Parliament in the Year, 1315
Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife, Pag 141.
. This Family continued in great Lustre till the fifth of King
Robert
II. and then came to an Heir Female, married to Sir
John Beaton
Knight, Progenitor to the Laird of
Balfour.
Of the Family of
Balfour,
that of
Monquhany,
appears to have been a very ancient Branch, for
Michael de Balfour,
obtained the Barony of
Monquhany in vice-comitatu de Fife,
in Exchange with
Duncan
Earl of
Fife,
for his Lands of
Pittencrief
Ibidem.
which was ratified by a Charter of King
David
II.
anno
135
Ibidem.
, as
Balfour
of
Burleigh
was another Family in good Esteem, and possessed the Barony of
Burleigh
since the Days of King
James
II
Charta Jacobi II. de Baronia de Burleigh Johanni Balfour de Balgarvie.
. These two Families of
Monquhany
and
Burleigh,
came to be united in the Person of Sir
Michael Balfour
of
Burleigh,
Son and Heir to Sir
James Balfour
of
Monquhany,
Clerk Register in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
Michael Balfour
of
Burleigh.
This Sir
Michael
was by the Favour of King
James
VI. raised to the Peerage of this Realm by the Title of Lord
Balfour
of
Burleigh,
7th
August
1606
Sibald's History of Fife.
, being then his Majesty's Ambassador to the Dukes of
Tuscany
and
Lorain,
he married . . . . . . Daughter of
Lundy
of that Ilk, by whom he left one Daughter,
Margaret
Baroness of
Burleigh,
his sole Heir, the Honour being to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten, she married
Robert Arnot
of
Ferny,
who changed his Name to
Balfour,
and in her Right became Lord
Burleigh.
He was elected President to the Parliament,
anno
1641, and by his said Wife he had Issue.
John
his Successor, and three Daughters.
Jean,
married to
David
Earl of
Weems,
and had Issue.
Margaret,
to Sir
John Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
Ancestor to the present Viscount of
Garnock.
Isabel,
to
Thomas
Lord
Ruthven,
and had Issue.
John
Lord
Burleigh,
was married to Daughter of Sir
William Balfour
of
Pitcullo
Lieutenant of the Tower of
London,
in the Reign of King
Charles
I. by whom he had three Sons,
Robert
who succeeded him in his Estate and Honour.
John Balfour
of
Ferny,
and
Henry Balfour
of
Dunboig,
also several Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
Andrew
Lord
Rollo,
and had Issue.
. . . . . . . . to Sir
Robert Douglass
of
Kirkness,
and had Issue.
. . . . . . . . to Sir
John Malcolm
of
Lochore,
and has Issue.
. . . . to . . . .
Douglass
of
Strenthry. Isabel,
unmarried.
Anne
to Captain
Robert Sinclair.
Robert
the present Lord
Burleigh,
upon King
William
's Accession to the Crown,
anno
1689, was constituted one of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Register. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Melvil,
by whom he has,
Robert
Master of
Burleigh,
Margaret,
Mary,
all unmarried.
ARMS.
Argent
on a Cheveron
Sable,
an Ottars Head erraz'd of the first, supported on the Dexter with an Ottar, and on the Sinister by a Swan proper, for the Crest, a Maid holding in one Hand an Ottars Head, and in the other a Swans, with this Motto,
Omne solum forti Patria.
STEUART, Earl of
Bute.
THE descent of this noble Family is from Sir
John Steuart,
a Son of King
Robert
II.
Sir James Dalrymple's Edition of Camden, Page 73.
who had by his Fathers Grant a fair Possession in the Isle of
Bute
(the ancient Patrimony of the Royal
Steuarts,
long before they attained to the Crown) with the hereditary Sheriffship of that County, which King
Robert
III. his Brother confirmed by this Charter.
Robertus dei gratia Rex Scotorum sciatis nos dedisse & hac presenti charta nostra confirmasse dilecto fratri nostro Johanni Senescallo de Bute officium vice comitatus de Bute & Arran datum
11
Nov.
1400
Charta penes comitem de Bute.
. Likeas he obtained a Charter from
Robert
Duke of
Albany,
when Governour of
Scotland,
of the Lands of
Fynock,
which runs thus in the Original,
Robertus Dux Albaniae Gubernator Scotiae sciatis nos dedisse dilecto fratrinostro Johanni Steuart vice comiti de Bute totam dimidietatem terrarum de Fynock in Barronia de Renfrew,
&c.
apud Villam de Irvin primo die Januarii
1418
Penes dictum comitem.
.
This Sir
John Steuart
married
Jean
Daughter of Sir
John Semple
of
Eliotstoun
Charta Roberti Ducis Albaniae dilecto fratri suo Johanni Steuart vice comiti de Bute & Jonetae sponsae suae faliae Johannis Semple de Eliotstoun 1418 penes comitem de Bute.
, Ancestor to the present Lord
Semple,
by whom he had three Sons,
Robert
his Successor.
Andrew Steuart
of
Roslyn in vice comitatu de Bute.
William
first of the Branch of
Fynock
Charta confirmationis Jacobi II. dilecto consanguineo suo Willielmo Steuart de Terras de Fynock, anno 1444, penes comitem de Bute & etiam in publicis Archivis.
in vice comitatu de Renfrew.
Which
Robert Steuart
of
Bute
was of the Privy Council to King
James
II.
anno
1440
Indenture betwixt the King and the Lord Erskin, penes comitem de Mar.
. The third of this Family was
James Steuart
of
Bute,
who obtained from King
James
III. in Consideration of his good Services before that time performed, the hereditary Constabulwick of the Castle of
Rothsay,
(which had been anciently a royal Seat, and where King
Robert
III. yielded his last Breath) by a Commission still extant among the Earl of
Bute
's Writes, and bears date, 1
st August
1498.
To this last mentioned
James
succeeded
Ninian
his Son and Heir, who married
Elisabeth
Daughter of
John Blair
of that Ilk
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, and departing this Life
anno
1509, was succeeded by
James
his Son, who was Infeft both in his Estate, and in the hereditary Constabulary of
Rothsay
Castle, 20th.
May
1509
Charta penes Jacobum comitem de Bute.
. He married first a Daughter of the Family of
Argyle
and secondly
Marion
Daughter of
John Fairly
of that Ilk,
in vice comitatu de Air,
Widow of
Thomas Boyd
of
Linn
Charta penes Thomam Boyd de Pitcon.
, by whom he had
John
who succeeded him, and
Robert Steuart
of
Kelspock
Charta Roberti Steuart de Terris de Kelsock filii Jacobi Steuart vice comitis de Bute 1560 in publicis Archivis.
.
Which
John
was in special Favour with King
James
VI. to whom he was one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-Chamber, and in 1580 was constituted Captain of the Castle of
Brodick,
and Chamberlain of
Arran
The original Commission is extant amongst the Earl of Butes Writes, dated 11 August 1580.
, which he enjoyed till the Family of
Hamilton
was restored,
anno
1585. His first Wife was
Mary
Daughter of
John Campbel
of
Skipnish,
and his second
Fynuald,
Daughter of Sir
James Mackdonald
of
Duneyveg
and
Glinns,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Antrim
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
and departing this Life about the Year 1602, was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who was knighted by King
James
VI. He added to the ancient patrimonial Fortune of his Ancestors, the Lands of
Foord in vice comitatu de Haddingtoun,
by the Marriage of
Elisabeth.
eldest of the two Daughters, and Co-heirs of
Robert Hepburn
of
Foord,
by whom he left Issue,
James
his Successor, and Colonel
Thomas Steuart
who died in
France.
Which
James
had the Honour of Baronet conferred on him by King
Charles
I. When the civil War broke out in that Reign, he faithfully adhered to the King's Interest, for which, beside the Sequestration of most of his Estate, he suffered much personally during the Usurpation, notwithstanding whereof he continued constant and unshaken in his Loyalty, and living to see the Restauration, he died at
London
soon after, tho the exact time I cannot assign, and was buried in the Abbay at
Westminster.
His Wife was
Isabel
Daughter of Sir
Dougal Campbel
of
Achinbreak,
by
Isabel
his Wife, Daughter of
Thomas
Lord
Boyd,
by whom he had Sir
Dougal
his Successor, and
Sir
Robert Steuart
of
Tillycutry,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords of her Majesty's Justiciary, who was created Baronet by Patent 29th.
April
1707. He married
Cicil
Daughter of Sir
Robert Hamilton
of
Presmanan,
and had Sir
Robert Steuart
Baronet.
Also three Daughters, 1
st Elisabeth
married to
Ninian Banatyne
of
Keams, in vice comitatu de Bute,
and had Issue. 2
d. Anne
to
Alexander Mackdo
ald
of
Sana, in vice comitatu de Argyle,
and afterwards to
Walter Campbel
of
Skipnish,
of the same County, and had Issue. 3
d. Jean
to
Angus Campbel
of
Skipnish,
Junior and had Issue.
Sir
Dougal
his Son married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Ruthven
of
Dunglass,
by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
Alexander
1
st
Earl of
Leven,
by whom he had two Sons, Sir
James
who succeeded him. Mr.
Dougal Steuart
of
Blairhall,
who having applyed himself to the study of the Law, became soon so fam'd in that Profession, that Her Majesty was pleased to name him one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords of the Justiciary, 12
May
1709, and having served Commissioner in diverse Parliaments, both before and since the commencement of the Union, he still discharged that trust with Honour and Integrity, particularly in relation to the Union of the Kingdoms, where he acted so conscientious and honourable a Part, that Ages to come will equally esteem him for the Regard he then shew'd for the Honour of his Country, as for his Abilities upon the Bench, which he has in the Opinion of all, to a very eminent degree. He married
Mary
Daughter of
— Bruce
of
Blairhall,
and has Issue.
Also several Daughters,
Barbara
married to
Alexander Campbel
of
Barbreak, in vice comitatu de Argyle,
and has Issue, and
Margaret
to
Dougal Laumont,
apparent Heir of
Archibald Laumont
of that Ilk, and has Issue. He departed this Life in
May
1672, and was succeeded by
Sir
James
his Son and Heir, who upon Her Majesty's Accession to the Throne was named a Privy Counsellour, and appointed one of the Commissioners upon the Part of
Scotland
to Treat of a nearer Union with
England, anno
1702, which then took not effect, and by Letters Patent bearing date 14th
April
1703, raised to the Honour of Earl of
Bute,
Viscount of
Kingarth,
Lord
Mont Steuart, Cumra
and
Inchmarnock.
In 1706, he was one of the Peers who dissented from the Union, and when he discovered the Parliament was by a Majority disposed to go into it, he left the House and retired to his Seat in the Country. He married 1
st. Agnes
eldest Daughter of Sir
George Mackenzie
of
Rosehaugh,
Lord Advocate, in the Reign of King
James
VII. by whom he had
James
the present Earl, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
John Crawfurd
Lord
Kilbirny,
and Viscount of
Garnock,
and had Issue. And by
Christian
his second Wife Daughter of
William Dundass
of
Kincavill
he had a Son
John.
This Earl died at the Bath in
England,
4th
June
1710, and was interr'd in the Church of
Rothsay
among his Ancestors, upon him I find this Epitaph,
Per multos proavos Regali stemmate cretus,
Qui fuerant fidi Regibus usque suis,
Pulchra fuit cui mens habitans in corpore pulchro,
Cuique Genus Geniusque Ingeniique vigor,
Ornarunt Animum virtusque scientia juris,
Et Regum & Patriae & Relligionis amor
Ille & Apostolico Clero tot fluctibus acto
Vivens & moriens grande levamen erat.
Which
James
now Earl of
Bute
had a considerable Accession to his Estate by the decease of
George Mackenzie
of
Rosehaugh,
his Uncle, to whose Fortune he succeeded in 1707, and which he is obliged by the Destination to give to his second Son, who is to bear the Sirname, and wear the Arms of
Mackenzie
of
Rosehaugh.
His Lord ship married the Lady
Anne Campbel
Daughter of
Archibald
Duke of
Argyle,
and has a Daughter Lady
Mary.
ARMS.
Or,
a Fess checkque,
Azure
and
Argent,
within a double Tressure Counterflour'd
Gules,
supported on the dexter with a Horse,
Argent,
and on the sinister with a Stag proper, Crest, a Demi Lyon rampant,
Gules,
issuing out of an Earls Coronet, with this Motto,
Nobilis Ira.
Nota,
A Principal Branch of this Family was
Steuart
of
Kilcattan, in vice comitatu de Bute,
whose Descendants now enjoy a fair Estate in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
of whom is
Steuart
of
Ascog,
which remains to this Day seated in the Isle of
Bute, John Steuart
now of
Ascog,
being the fifth Descendant from
John
his Predecessor, a younger Son of
William Steuart
of
Kilcattan,
in the Minority of King
James
VI.
Earl of
Caithness
IN the Time of King
William
one
Harold
was Earl of this Country; but for Rebellion his Estate was forfeited,
anno
1187
Sir James Dalrymple's Preface to his Collections concerning the Scots History.
, and continued in the Crown till the Year 1222
History of the Earls of Sutherland M.S.
, when King
Alexander
II. bestowed it upon
Magnus
the Son of
Gilibred
Earl of
Angus,
for the payment of a yearly Duty of ten Pound
Sterling
to the King and his Successors
Dalrymple.
. The Honour continued in this Race till it expired in a Daughter married to the Earl of
Ro
s,
in the Reign of King
David
II.
History of Sutherland.
The next who had this Title, was
David Steuart
Son to King
Robert
II. by
Eupham Ross.
He was created Count
Palatine
of
Strathern,
and Earl of
Caithness,
upon his Father's Accession to the Sovereignty,
anno gratiae
1370, but he dying without Male Succession, it devolved on
Walter
Earl of
Athole,
his immediate younger Brother, who dispon
d it to
Allan Steuart
his Son, who was killed at the Battel of
Innerlochy
Charter granted by King James I. to Allan Steuart of the Earldom of Caithness, upon the Resignation of Walter Earl of Athole.
, leaving no Issue; so that by his Father's Forfaulture it came to the Crown.
CRICHTON Earl of
Caithness.
CAithness
was again erected into an Earldom, in the Person of Person of
George Crichton
of
Cairns,
Charta Jacobi II. Georgio Crichton comiti de Caithness de Terris de Blackness 1452.
Lord high Admiral of
Scotland, anno
1452, but he dying in the Year 1455
Drummond's History.
, left only a Daughter
Janet
married to
John
Master of
Maxwel,
whereby the Honour extinguished.
SINCLAIR Earl of
Caithness.
WIlliam Sinclair
Earl of
Orkney
Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
James
II. obtained from that Monarch a Grant of the Earldom of
Caithness
in Compensation of a Claim he had to the Lordship of
Nithsdale,
bearing date 29th
April
1456
Hume's History of the Family of Douglass, Pag. 109.
. He convoyed this Earldom with the Honour to
William Sinclair,
one of his Sons
Mackenzies Miscellany Collections, M.S.
, who married
Mary
Daughter of Sir
William Keith
of
Inver
gy.
He was slain at the Field of
Floudon,
1513, leaving Issue by the said
Mary
his Wife.
John
his Son and Heir, and
Alexander Sinclair
founder of the Family of
Dunbeth,
which
John
took to Wife
Mary
Daughter of
William Sutherland
of
Duffus
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
George
who succeeded him. This Earl was killed in an Insurrection of the Inhabitants of
Orkney,
29th
May
1529
Holinshed's History of Scotland, and Mackenzie.
.
George
the 3d Earl of
Caithness,
was constituted Justiciary within the bounds of
Caithness
by Queen
Mary anno
1566, and in 1568 was one of the Peers who sat upon the Trial of
James
Earl of
Bothwell.
He married
Elisabeth.
Daughter of
William
2
d
Earl of
Montrose,
by whom he had,
John
his eldest Son, who died in the Year 1577
Gordonstoun's History of the Family of Sutherland M.S.
, leaving three Sons and a Daughter by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Bothwell, George
who succeeded in the Earldom:
James Sinclair
of
Murthill
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Caithness
Ibidem and Sir George Mackenzie's Miscellany Collections compared.
, and
John Sinclair
of whom descended
Sinclair
of
Greenland
Ibidem.
.
Mary,
first Wife to Sir
John Hume
of
Coldingknows,
and afterward of
Andrew
Earl of
Errol.
George Sinclair
second Son, was Progenitor of the
Sinclairs
of
May
Ibidem.
in the Shire of
Caithness,
his Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Lord
Forbes.
He had likewise several Daughters, 1
st. Beatrix,
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Sutherland
Ibidem.
, but had no Issue. 2
d. Elisabeth
to
Alexander Sutherland
of
Duffus, sans
Issue, and afterward to
Hutcheon Mackcay
of
Far
Ibidem.
, Ancestor to the present Lord
Rae. Margaret
to
William Sutherland
of
Duffus
Ibidem.
.
Barbara
to
Alexander Innes
of that Ilk
Ibidem.
.
This Earl died in a good old Age, in 1583
Ibidem.
, and was immediately succeeded by
George
his Grand-son, who was married with
Jean
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Huntly,
by whom he had
William
Lord
Berrindale,
who married
Mary
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Sinclair
Mackenzie.
, and died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving behind him a Son,
John
Lord
Berrindale,
who died in 1639
Balfour's Annals.
, leaving a Son
George
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Colin
Earl of
Seaforth,
who succeeded to the Earldom upon the decease of his Great Grandfather, in 1643
History of the Family of Sutherland.
.
Which
George
Earl of
Caithness
married
Mary
Daughter of
Archibald
Marquess of
Argyle,
but died without Succession,
anno
1676.
George Sinclair
his Cousin, by reason of his slender Estate, declined to take upon him the Honour, wherefore the Title of Earl of
Caithness
was conferr'd upon Sir
John Campbel
of
Glenurchy,
who had acquired most of the Fortune,
anno
1677. But in the Year 1681, the said
George Sinclair,
Cousin German and Heir Male to the late deceased Earl, laying Claim to the Title, it was allowed him by the Parliament; but he dying unmarried,
anno
1698, by reason of the Entail upon the Heirs Male,
John Sinclair
of
Murthill
succeeded in the Honour. He married
Jean Carmichael,
by whom he had
Alexander
the present Earl of
Caithness.
John.
Francis.
Janet,
All unmarried.
ARMS.
Three Coats quarterly, 1st
Azure,
a Ship at Anchor, her Oars erected in Saltyre, within a double Tressure counterflour'd
Or,
2d and 3d
Or,
a Lyon Rampant,
Gules,
4th
Azure,
a Ship under Sail
Or,
overal dividing the Coats, a Cross ingraled
Sable,
supported by two Griffons, Crest a Cock proper, with this Motto,
Commit thy Work to God.
LIVINGSTON Earl of
Calender.
SIR
James Livingston,
First Earl of
Calendar,
was the 2
d
Son of
Alexander
Earl of
Linlithgow,
by
Eleanor
his Wife, Daughter of
Andrew
Earl of
Erroll.
Which Sir
James
being from his Youth bread up in the Wars of
Bohemia, Holland, Sweden,
and
Germany,
acquired a great Reputation in Martial Affairs: Upon his Return he was constituted one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
Charles
I. and by Patent 19th
June
1633
Patent creating Sir James Livingston Lord Almont.
, created Lord
Livingston
of
Almont,
and Earl of
Calendar, anno
1641.
In the beginning of the Civil War, he accepted of a Command in the Parliaments Service; but withdrawing himself from them, he freely resorted to the Service of his injur'd Sovereign, and was constituted Lieutenant-General of the
Scots
Army, who in the 1648 attempted to rescue the King from his fatal Imprisonment in the Isle of
Wight:
But the enterprise miscarrying, he retired to
Holland,
where he stayed till the Murder of his Majesty. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Lord
Yester,
Widow of
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling,
and dying very aged, in 1672, both his Estate and Title descended to
Alexander Livingston
his Nephew, who marrying
Mary
Daughter of
William
Duke of
Hamilton,
died 1685, leaving no Issue save a natural Son. Sir
Alexander Livingston
of
Glenterren,
Baronet, his Fortune and Honour devolved upon
Alexander Livingston,
his Nephew, Son of
George
Earl of
Linlithgow,
who deceased in the Year 1694, leaving Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Marquess of
Montrose, James
his Son and Heir, who upon the Death of his Uncle,
Alexander
Earl of
L
nlithgow, anno
1695, succeeded him in that Earldom, and two Daughters,
Lady
Henrietta.
unmarried.
Lady
Mary.
unmarried.
FAIRFAX, Lord
Cameron.
THE Family of
Fairfax,
which is unquestionably one of the most Ancient and best allyed in
England,
had first its Seat at
Toucester,
in the County of
Northumberland,
where we find it at the Conquest of that Kingdom,
anno
1060, from whence it removed a
fterwards to the County of
York,
where,
anno
1204, the 6th of King
John,
we find
Richard Fairfax
possessed of several Lands, particularly of the Mannor of
Askham,
to which
Richard,
succeeded
William Fairfax,
who, by
Alicia
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
Nicholas de Bugthorp,
had Issue one Son
William,
who purchased the Mannor of
Walton
in the same County, by which, he and his Successors were afterwards designed, and yet in the Possession of of his Family.
From whom, the 8th in a straight Male Line, was
Thomas Fairfax
o
Walton,
to whom
anno
1415, the 2
d
of
Henry
V, succeeded another
Richard,
who, by
Eustace
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
John Caltrop de Caltrop
Esq
had Issue six Sons,
Viz.
1
st. William
of
Walton
who succeeded him.
2
d. Bryan,
Doctor of the Laws.
3
d.
Sir
Guy Fairfax,
Knight, Justice of the King's Banch.
4
th. Richard.
5
th.
Sir
Nicholas,
Knight of
Rhodes.
6
th. Miles Fairfax.
And three Daughters, of whom
Ellen
the youngest, was Lady
Prioress
of
Nunmuncton.
Of which
William
of
Walton,
eldest Son of the said
Richard,
who died the 31st
Henry
VI.
anno
1453, descended, after five Generations, Sir
Thomas Fairfax,
who the 3
d
of
Charles
I. was created Viscount
Fairfax
of
Emelay,
in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
and by
Katharine
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Henry Constable,
and Sister of the Viscount
Dunbar,
had Issue six Sons and five Daughters, of whom
Thomas,
the eldest Son succeeded him, and
Henry
the second was Father of
Henry Fairfax
of
Hurst
Esq
whose Daughter and sole Heir
Frances
is married to
David
now Earl of
Buchan.
Of which
Thomas, Nicholas
now Lord Viscount of
Fairfax,
is lineal Descendant and Representative, and the One and Twentieth, who has succeeded in this Family in a straight Male-Line, since the said sixth of King
John,
being the space of 507 Years.
But leaving to others, a more particular Account of that noble House, as not belonging to this present Work, We shall proceed to a younger Son,
viz.
Sir
Guy Fairfax
above-mentioned, 3
d
Son of
Richard Fairfax
of
Walton,
of whom the Lord
Cameron
is descended.
Which Sir
Guy,
got from the said
Richard
his Father, the Lands and Mannor of
Steeton,
in the County of
York;
And being a Person eminent for his Parts and Learning, was made Atturney General, the 3
d Edward
IV.
anno
1464, and Judge of the King's Bench the 17th of the same Reign. He built
Steeton
Castle, afterwards the Seat of his Family, and had a Chapel there, consecrated by Arch-Bishop
Rotheram;
He also founded a Chantery at Sheriff-Hutton,
anno
7
mo. Henry
VII. and died in the 11th Year of the same Reign,
anno
1495, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Ryther
of
Ryther,
Knight, four Sons,
viz.
Sir
William
who succeeded him,
Thomas, Guy,
and
Nicholas,
and two Daughters,
Ellen
married to Sir
Miles Wilesthorp,
Knight, and
Maudeline
to Sir
John Waterson
of
Medley,
Master of the Horse to King
Henry
VI.
Which Sir
William,
eldest Son and Heir of Sir
Guy,
was a great Lawyer, and Judge of the common Pleas, from the 1st. to the 6th of
Henry
VIII. and by
Elisabeth
his Wife, eldest Daughter of
George Mannours,
Lord
Roose,
and Sister to
Thomas
Earl of
Rutland,
whose Grand-mother was Sister to
Edward
the 4th King of
England,
had Issue, one Son
William,
who succeeded him, and four Daughters,
Ellen,
married to Sir
William Pickering,
Knight, by whom he had Sir
William Pickering,
so great a Favorite of King
Edward
VI. and Queen
Elisabeth.
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
Robert Vightred.
Anne,
to Sir
Robert Normanville,
Knight.
And
Dorothy
to — Constable of
Kexby
Esq
Which Sir
William Fairfax
of
Steeton,
Knight, Son and Heir of Sir
William
the Judge, married
Isabella,
Daughter and Heir of
John Thwaits,
of
Thwaits
and
Denton,
in the County of
York,
Esq
in whose Right he got the said Mannour of
Denton,
and had by her five Sons,
viz.
Sir
Thomas
who succeeded him,
Francis, Edward, Gabriel,
and
Henry.
Also six Daughters, 1
st Anne
married to Sir
Henry Everingham, Mary
to
— Rockley
Esq
Bridget
to Sir
Cotton Gargrave, Ursula
and
Susanna.
To which Sir
William Fairfax
there are two Letters from King
Henry
VIII. one of the 35th and another the 38th of his Reign, indorsed,
To our Trusty and well beloved Sir
William Fairfax,
Knight,
which Letters are yet extant, and to be seen at
Denton
Castle, in the said County of
York,
whereof he was high Sheriff, the 26th and 31st of the said
Henry
VIII. and a third time nominated, but died
ult. Octob.
the 5th of
Philip
and
Mary, Anno Dom.
1557.
He gave to his 5th Son
Gabriel
the Mannor of
Steeton,
and several other Lands, being (according to the Superstition of these Times) highly offended with Sir
Thomas
his eldest Son, for being with the Duke of
Bourbon,
at the sacking of
Rome,
in the beginning of the Reformation, but that Loss was sufficiently made up to him, by his succeeding, in Right of his Mother, to the said Estate of
Denton,
which became, from that time, the principal Seat of the Family, and of
Gabriel
the younger Brother, who got
Steeton,
is descended another Family, known by the Distinction of
Steeton,
also in the County of
York,
where it has its Residence to this time.
Which Sir
Thomas Fairfax
of
Denton,
was high Sheriff of the County of
York,
the 14th of
Elisabeth,
knighted the 19th of her Reign, and died, alter performing many Services to his Country, the 42d of the same,
Anno Dom.
1599, leaving Issue by
Dorothy
his Wife, Daughter of
George Gayle
of
Acham-Grange,
Tresaurer of the Mint at
York,
five Sons,
viz.
Thomas
that succeeded him.
Henry
and
Ferdinando,
who both died young.
Sir
Charles Fairfax
Colonel of a Regiment at
Ostend,
the time of that famous Siege, where he was slain, after gaining immortal Honour by his brave Actions, as
Camden
and others have recorded.
And
Edward Fairfax
of
Newhall,
an excellent Poet, as appears by several of his Translations yet extant; also two Daughters,
Ursula,
married to Sir
Henry Bellasis
of
Newbourgh,
in the County of
York,
Baronet, Mother by him of
Thomas
first Viscount
Fa
conberg,
Ancestor of
Thomas,
now Viscount of that Name.
And
Christian,
married to
John Ask
Esq
To Sir
Thomas Fairfax
of
Denton,
last mentioned, succeeded Sir
Thomas,
his eldest Son, who,
Anno
1582, married
Ellen,
Daughter of
Robert Ask
Esq
by whom he had six Sons,
viz.
1
st. Ferdinando,
who succeeded him.
2
d. Henry.
3
d. Charles,
of whom the Family of
Menston
is descended.
4
th. William,
and 5
th. John,
both killed in the defence of the City of
Frankendale
in the
Palatinat.
6
th. Peregrine
killed in defence of
Rochel
in
France;
also two Daughters,
Dorothy
the eldest married to Sir
William Constable,
Baronet, and
Anne
the 2
d
to Sir
George Wentworth
of
Wolley,
Knight.
Which Sir
Thomas,
being of a Martial Spirit, accompanied into
France
the Earl of
Essex,
General of the
English
Army, sent by Queen
Elisabeth
to the Assistance of
Henry
IV. of
France,
against the
Spaniards
and Catholick League, where
an.
1591, in the lifetime of his Father, he was knighted by the said General, in the Camp before
Roan
in
Normandy,
from whence returning, not long after, with the said Army, after having performed many brave Actions for the Honour of his Country, he was, by the Queen, received with many marks of Distinction and Favour, and imployed by her in several important Affairs, particularly in carrying a Commission into
Scotland
to King
James
VI. whom, he lived not only to see seated on the Throne of
England,
upon the Death of that Queen, but also till the Reign of his Son, King
Charles
I. in the 3
d
Year of whom by Patent bearing date, 4
th May,
1627. He was created Lord
Fairfax
of
Cameron,
and died not before the 17th of he same Reign,
anno Dom
1642,
Aetat:
80, being full of Years, and no less of Honour, for his many Vertues, and great Skill in the Arts both of Peace and War, of which all allow him to have been a great Master.
To which
Thomas
Lord
Cameron,
succeeded
Ferdinando
his eldest Son, who by the Lady
Mary,
Daughter of
Edmund
Earl of
Mulgrave,
Lord President of the North, Ancestor of
John
now Duke of
Buckingham,
had Issue,
Thomas
Lord
Cameron.
Charles,
Colonel of Horse, slain at the Battle of
Marston-Moor
near
York, Anno
1644.
And
John,
who died an Infant.
Also six Daughters.
Ursula;
who died unmarried;
Ellen,
married to Sir
William Selby
of
Twistle,
in the County of
Northumberland,
Baronet.
Frances
to Sir
Thomas Weddrington,
Knight.
Elisabeth,
to Sir
William Craven,
Knt.
Mary,
to
Henry Arthington
of
Arthington,
Esq
and
Dorothy,
to
Richard Hutton
of
Poppleton,
Esq
all of whom had Issue.
He married 2
dly Rhoda,
Daughter and Heir of
Thomas Chapman,
Esq
and had by her one Daughter,
Ursula,
born at
Denton,
a few Days before the Death of her Father, who died
March
31
st,
1648, & was succeeded by,
Thomas
Lord
Cameron,
his eldest Son and Heir, who married
Anne,
Daughter and Co-heir of
Horatio
Lord
Vere,
Master of the Ordinance, and General of all the
English
Forces in the
Palatinat, Holland
and the
Netherlands,
by whom he had Issue two Daughters,
Mary
the eldest, married to
George
Duke of
Buckingham,
Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter,
and Master of the Horse to King
Charles
II. and
Elisabeth
died young.
Which
Thomas
Lord
Cameron,
so fam'd in
English
History, by the Name of General
Fairfax,
was born at
Denton
Castle, 17
th January
1611, and going into the Low Country Wars in 1627, gave then (tho but sixteen Years old) such Proofs of a great Spirit and Martial Genius, as occasioned his being particularly noticed by the Lord
Vere,
above-mentioned, one of the greatest Captains of that Age, whose Daughter he afterwards married.
In 1640 he was knighted (his Father being then on Life) and the civil Wars beginning not long after, he came soon, to make no small Figure in them, by the many Proofs he gave, of his great Courage and Conduct, in the Service of the Parliament, whose Cause he early espoused, and in 1645, being then but 34 Years of age, was chosen supreme General of their Armies, which he commanded, with great Success and Glory, till 1650, in which time, he performed such Actions, as wanted nothing but a better Cause, to have made his Fame immortal: But War being then decreed against
Scotland,
by the Parliament, and an Army appointed to march thither, he declared his Resolution not to command it, or invade that Kingdom, and, thereupon, laid down his Commission, which, soon after, was bestowed on
Oliver Cromwell,
then Lieutenant General under him:
What the Reasons were, that induced this great Man, to lay down so high and important a Command, was at that time, variously, reported, some (as
Clarendon
relates) imputing it, to his Affection and Kindness to
Scotland,
of which he had always been a great favourer, and whereof he was born a Peer; but others, to his not being satisfied, with the Parliaments, having pusht things, so far, against the King, and to his, secretly, favouring the Interest of his Son K.
Charles
II. then admitted to the Government in that Kingdom, and crowned there; which Opinion was confirmed, by the Part he afterwards acted at the Restauration; In order to which, he entered, very early, into Measures with General
Monk,
to whom he gave considerable Assistance, in the Prosecution of that glorious Design, upon the happy issue whereof, he had the Honour, to be one of the Commissioners which composed the solemn Deputation, sent by the Parliament to the King, upon that great Occasion, and arriving at the
Hague,
was received by his Majesty, with singular Favour and Goodness, and great Marks of Honour and Esteem, which he ever after continued to wards him; notwithstanding whereof, being weary of the great hurry and Confusion, in which he had spent much of his Time; he retired, soon after the Restauration, to his House in the Country, where, he passed, in peace and quiet, the remainder of his Life, highly beloved and honoured by all good Men, for his many great and heroick Qualities, and shining Vertues, for which, he is justly celebrated, by the greatest Pens of that Age, all sides and Parties agreeing, in giving due Praise, to his consummate Merits. He died of a short Sickness,
Novemb.
11th. 1671, the 60th Year of his Age, and lyes buried at
Bilbrough,
near
Tork,
where a stately Monument was erected to his Memory, being succeeded in his Honour and Estate by,
Henry Fairfax,
his Cousin German, eldest Son and Heir of
Henry,
2
d
Son of
Thomas
the first Lord
Cameron.
Which
Henry,
married
Frances,
Daughter and Heir of Sir
Robert Barwick
of
Tolston,
Knight, by whom he had Issue
Thomas,
who succeeded him.
Henry, Bryan,
and
Barwick,
Also four Daughters,
Dorothy,
married first to
Robert Stapleton
of
Wighill
Esq
afterwards to
Bennet Sherrard
of
Whissenden,
in the County of
Rutland,
Esq
Anne,
to
Ralph Ker
of
Kocken,
Esq
in the County of
Durham,
and
Ursula
and
Mary
who died young.
Which
Thomas
Lord
Cameron,
married
Katharin,
only Daughter and Heir of
Thomas
Lord
Colepepper,
and dying 6
th January
1710, left Issue
Thomas,
now Lord
Cameron,
about 18 Years of Age:
Henry
and
Robert.
Also three Daughters,
Margaret.
Katharine.
And
Mary,
All unmarried.
ARMS.
Or, three Bars Gamells
Gules,
over all a Lyon Rampant
Sable,
supported on the Dexter with a Lyon Rampant of the 2d, and on the Sinister with a Horse ready prepared; Crest, a Lyon passant guardant
Sable,
Motto,
Lucem, fer, fax.
ERSKINE Lord
Cardross.
THE Honour and Title of Lord
Cardross,
had its beginning in
anno
1604, when
James
VI. of
Scotland,
and first of
Great Britain,
by his Charter under the Great Seal, bearing date on
March
27th in the said Year, erected the said Lordship, in favours of
John
Earl of
Mar,
Lord Treasaurer of
Scotland,
and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter,
his Heirs and Assigns; In pursuance whereof, the said Earl, in
anno
1615, assigned and disponed the same, and whole Rights thereto belonging, to
Henry Erskine,
his 2
d.
Son, by the Lady
Mary Steuart,
his 2
d.
Wife, Daughter of
Esme,
Duke of
Lennox,
a Lady near in Blood to his said Majesty; who, as a further Mark of his Royal Favour, was also pleased to bestow on the said
Henry,
the Abby of
Dryburgh
in
Teviotdale,
formerly a Seat of Monks of the Order of
Promontre;
the said Abby, with the Lands and Tythes thereto belonging, being, by a special Act of Parliament, for that purpose, dissolved from the Crown.
Which
Henry
Lord
Cardross,
married
Margaret,
only Daughter of Sir
James Ballanden
of
Broughtoun,
and Sister of
William
first Lord
Ballanden,
by whom he had
David
his only Son and Heir, and one Daughter,
Mary,
who was married to Sir
John Buchannan
of that Ilk in the County of
Stirling,
and had Issue; and dying
Anno
1636, was succeeded by,
David
Lord
Cardross,
his only Son, who,
an.
1645, married
Anne,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Hope
of
Craighall,
Lord Advocate, Great Grand-father to the present Earl of
Hopeton,
by whom he had Issue,
Henry,
who succeeded him, and a Daughter,
Margaret,
married to
William Cuningham
of
Boquhan,
in the County of
Stirling,
Mother, by him, of
Henry Cunningham
of
Boquhan,
Junior, Representative of the Burgh of
Stirling,
and District thereof in this present Parliament,
anno
1712.
Which
David
married 2
dly,
(
anno
1655,)
Mary,
2
d
Daughter of
George Bruce
of
Carnock,
and Sister of
Edward
and
Alexander,
both Earls of
Kincardin,
by whom he had Issue four Sons, and three Daughters.
Alexander
the eldest Son, died young.
William
the 2
d,
late Deputy Governour of
Blackness
Castle, a Person of great Integrity and Honour, married
Magdalen,
Daughter of Sir
James Lumsden
of
Innergelly,
in the Shire of
Fife,
and had Issue by her,
William,
his eldest Son and Heir, unmarried, and
James,
yet in his Minority.
John,
the 3
d.
who, upon all occasions, has appeared, with great Zeal, in the Cause of Religion and Liberty, and has thereby acquired an universal Esteem, retired into
Holland,
some Years before the Revolution, in 1688. When he accompanyed the Prince of
Orange,
in his Expedition into
England,
a little before which, he had a Company of Foot bestowed upon him in
Holland;
and soon after, upon that Prince's Accession to the Throne, was made Lieutenant Governour of
Stirling
Castle, and afterwards Governour of
Dumbarton,
and a Lieutenant Colonel of Foot.
In 1695, he was chosen a Director of the Company of
Scotland
trading to
Africa
and the
Indies,
and by them sent, with others, in 1696, into
Holland,
and other Foreign Parts, to manage the Affairs of that Company; In pursuance whereof, such Progress was made at
Hamburgh,
and Encouragement given from other Parts, as had, in all appearance, been attended with the desired Success, had it not been for some Things, very unexpected, and surprising, and too well known to need mentioning.
He married 1
st. Jean,
Daughter and Heir of
VVilliam Muir
of
Caldwell,
in the Shire of
Renfrew;
but she dying soon after, without Issue, he married 2
dly, Anne,
eldest Daughter, and Co-heir of
VVilliam Dundass
of
Kincavill,
in the County of
Linlithgow,
Advocate, by whom he has
John
his eldest Son and Heir, and several other Sons; also one Daughter,
Mary,
yet unmarried.
Charles
the 4
th
Son, being a Captain of Foot in the Low Countries, in the Service of the late King
William,
was killed there, at the Battle of
Stenkirk,
the 24
th
of
July
1692:
Veronica,
his eldest Daughter, married to
Walter Lockhart
of
Kirtoun,
in the County of
Lanerk,
and has Issue,
Magdalen
the 2
d.
to
Alexander Monypenny
of
Pitmilly,
in the Shire of
Fife,
and has Issue.
And
Mary
the 3
d
died young.
To which
David
Lord
Cardross
succeeded,
Anno
1671.
Henry
his eldest Son and Heir, who,
eodem anno,
married
Katharine,
2
d
Daughter, and at length sole Heir, of Sir
James Steuart
of
Strabrock,
in the Country of
West-Lothian,
by which
Katharine,
he had Issue.
David
who succeeded him, now Earl of
Buchan.
Charles Erskine
Advocate.
William,
deputy Governour of
Blackness
Castle, who married
Margagaret
Daughter of Lieutenant Colonel
John Erskine,
deputy Governour of
Stirling
Castle, and has Issue by her, one Son
John,
in his Infancy, and a Daughter
Jean,
yet very young:
Thomas,
yet in his Minority; and five more, who all died young.
Also three Daughters,
Katharine
the eldest, married to Sir
William Denham
of
Westshields,
in the County of
Lanerk,
Baronet, but has no Issue by him.
Mary
the 2
d,
yet unmarried.
And
Anne,
the 3
d.
married to
Archibald Edmondston
of
Duntreth, in vice comitatu de Stirling.
Which
Henry
Lord
Cardross,
being a Person of universally acknowledged Merit, and, upon all occasions, a strenuous asserter of the Rights and Liberties of his Country, met with many Hardships in the late Reigns, with which having strugled long, with great firmness and constancy, he at last withdrew into
Holland,
where he was kindly received by the Prince of
Orange,
afterwards King of
Great Britain,
whom he accompanyed in his Expedition into
England,
in 1688, And upon that Prince's Accession to the Throne (of which he was a zealous Promoter) had several Marks of his Favour bestowed on him, being soon after made a Privy Counsellour, General of the Mint, and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons, As he was, at the same time, appointed by Parliament, one of the Commissioners for treating of an Union with
England.
Upon all which occasions, he behaved himself, so as to maintain the Character, he had all along had, of a Person of untainted Integrity and Honour; and dying at
Edinburgh
the 21
st
of
May,
1693, and 44th Year of his Age, was succeeded by,
David
Lord
Cardross,
his eldest Son and Heir, who, upon the Death of
William
Earl of
Buchan, anno
1695, without Issue, became also Earl of
Buchan,
of whom, and of his Marriage, and Issue, see an Account in Title
Buchan.
ARMS.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th
Gules,
an Eagle displayed
Or,
looking toward the Sun in his Splendor, placed in the dexter chief Point, 2d quarterly, 1st and 4th
Azure,
a Bend betwixt six cross Croslets
Or,
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Pale
Sable,
3d quarterly, 1st and 4th
Or,
a Fess Cheque,
Azure
and
Argent,
2d and 3d
Azure,
three Garbs
Or,
supported, on the dexter by a Griffon proper, and on the Sinister, by a Horse ready prepared,
Argent,
Crest, upon the Point of a Sword, Paleways, a Boars Head craz'd,
Or,
Motto,
Fortitudine.
CARLYLE, Lord
Carlyle.
OF this Family, which is of great Antiquity in the Stewartry of
Annandale,
was Sir
William Cairlyle,
Knight, in the Days of
Robert
I. who was matched with
Margaret Bruce,
Sister to that King, as is evident from a Grant by that Monarch,
Willielmo Cairlyle milite & Margaretae sponsae suae sorori nostrae Carissimae
Charta in Rotulis Roberti I. in Haddingtoun's Collections.
de Terris de Crumanstoun.
Sir
William Cairlyle,
his Son, obtained from King
Robert
the Lands of
Culen, una cum Tennendariis totius Baroniae de Torthorald
Ibidem.
.
The Family continued in the state of Barons till
James
III. called Sir
John Cairlyle
of
Torthorald,
into the number of his Nobility, by the Title of Lord
Cairlyle
of
Torthorald, anno
1473
Charta Errectionis vilae de Torthorald in Burgum Baroniae Johanni Domino Carlyle, 3d Decemb. 1473.
. He had by the Grant of the said King, the Lands and Barony of
Duncow,
then in the Crown by the Forfaulture of
Robert
Lord
Boyd,
in recompence of his great Charge in an Embassy to
France, anno
1477
Charta in Registro.
. His Wife was
Margaret Douglass,
and dying
anno
1500
Simpson's Collections.
, as appears from the Probate of his Testament, his Estate and Title of Lord descended and came to.
William
his Grandson and Heir (his own immediate Son dying in his Lifetime) who married
Janet,
Daughter of
— Maxwell
of —
Charta Johanni Domino Carlyle, Willielmo Carlyle, nepote suo & haerede apparenti & Jonetae Maxwell sponsae suae de Terris de Midleby, anno 1487.
; by whom he had
James
Lord
Cairlyle,
who married
Janet Scrimgeour,
Daughter of
— Scrimgeour
Constable of
Dundee,
he died Issueless,
anno
1629
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. Michaeli Domino Carlyle
ratte & haeredi Jacobi Domino Carlyle de Terris de Torthorald, anno 1529.
.
Michael
his Brother became his Heir. This Lord was on the King's side, in the Minority of
James
VI. and was one of the Peers who bound themselves to maintain his Authority, in 1569, which many of them signed, and this Lord
with his Hand at the Pen,
he dying about the Year 1580, His Estate, went to
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
William
Master of
Cairlyle
his Grand-child, and sole Heir, who married Sir
James Douglass
of
Parkhead.
DOUGLASS, Lord
Cairlyle.
THIS Family owes its Original to
George Douglass,
natural Son to Sir
George Douglass
of
Pitten drich,
(killed at
Pinkie,
) who obtain'd the Lands of
Parkhead,
in
Lanerk
-shire, by the Marriage of
Elisabeth,
Daughter and Heir of
James Douglass
of
Parkhead
Hume and Simpson'
Essay upon the Family of Douglass.
. He left three Sons,
1
st.
Sir
James Douglass
of
Torthorald,
his Son and Heir.
2
d.
Sir
George Douglass
of
Mording toun,
one of the Gentlemen of the Bed chamber to King
James
VI.
Ibidem.
who by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Archibald Dundass
of
Finzies,
had Issue Sir
George Douglass,
who was Ambassador to
Poland
and
Sweden,
from King
Charles
I.
anno
1633, and 1635, and died in that Character; likewise a Daughter
Martha,
married to Sir
James Lockhart
of
Lee,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and Justice Clerk, in the Reign of K.
Charles
II. Mother by him of Sir
William Lockhart
of
Lee,
who was Ambassador from King
Charles
II. to the Crown of
France.
Sir
George Lockhart
of
Carnwath,
President of the College o
Justice, and Sir
John Lockhart
of
Castlehill,
also one of the Lords of Council and Session.
3
d. John Douglass
Doctor in Divinity. Also three Daughters,
— married to Sir
James Dundass
of
Arnestoun.
Martha,
married to Mr.
Robert Bruce
of
Kinnaird,
one of the Ministers of the City of
Edinburgh, Mary
to
John Carruthers,
of
Holmains.
This Sir
James Douglass,
was kill'd by
William Steuart
31
st July,
1608
Balfour's Annals.
, leaving
Sir
James
his Son and Heir to succeed him, who marrying
Elisabeth,
Grandchild and Heir of
Michael
Lord
Carlyle,
was in her Right, created into the Dignity of Lord
Carlyle
of
Torthorald:
He had a Son
James,
who suceeded him.
Which
James
Lord
Carlyle,
&
Torthorald
married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
John Gordon
of
Lochenvar;
but having no Issue, he resigned his Honour to
William
first Earl of
Queensberry, anno
1638
Mr. David Simpson's Collections on the Family of Douglass.
, who had acquir'd his Estate, and thereby the Title became extinct in this Family.
ARMS.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th
Gules,
a Cross florie
Or,
2d and 3d
Or,
a plain Cross
Gules,
in a Shield of pretence, the paternal Coat of
Douglass,
viz.
Argent,
a Heart
Gules,
crowned with an imperial Crown
Or,
on a chief
Azure,
three Stars of the first, supported by two Peacocks proper, Crest, a Dragons Head
Register of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh.
, Motto,
Humilitate.
DALZIEL, Earl of
Carnwath.
THIS ancient Family originally of
Dalziel, in vice comitatu de Lanerk,
is of great Antiquity in that County, having matched with many worthy Families there, before they remov'd to the Shire of
Nithsdale,
where now there principal Seat is. Mr.
Nisbet,
a famous Herauld,
Mr. Nisbets Marks of Cadency.
, gives this Story of the Origine of this Sirname, when he is accounting for there old Bearing, which was anciently,
A Man hanging on the Gallows, and was given
(says he)
as a Reward to one of the Progenitors of the Earl of
Carnwath,
to perpetuate the Memory of a brave and hazardous Exploit perform'd in taking down from the Gallows the Body of a Favorite of King
Kenneth II.
hung up by the Picts. For, as the Story goes, the King being exceedingly grieved that the Body of his Minion and Friend should be so disgracefully treated, he profer'd a considerable Reward to any of his Subjects who would adventure to rescue his Corps, from the Disgrace his Enemies, had put upon him; But
(adds he)
When none would undertake this hazardous Interprise, at last a certain Gentleman came to the King, and said,
Dalziel,
which signifies
I Dare,
and actually did perform that noble Exploit to his immortal Honour: And in Memory of it, got the foresaid remarkable Bearing, and afterward his Posterity took the Word
Dalziel
for their Sirname, and the Interpretation of it,
I Dare,
as the Motto of their Family.
But the first of this Name I have found upon Record, was Sir
Robert de Dalziel,
Knight, who faithfully adhering to King
David Bruce,
during his Captivity in
England,
obtained in Consideration thereof, a Grant from the said Monarch of the Barony of
Selkrig,
of the date 15th
May
1365
Charta in Rotulis Regis David ad Annum 1365.
, his Successor.
Sir
John Dalziel,
Knight,
tempore Roberti
III. was in 1392, joined in Commission with diverse others to treat about the Prorogation of a Peace with the
English
Rymer's Foedera Angliae, lately published.
, and the next ensuing Year, he obtained by the Gift of the said King to himself in Liferent, and to
Walter Dalziel
his Son in Fee, the whole Revenue belonging to St.
Leonard
's Hospital, within the Burgh of
Lanerk,
upon Condition that he and his Heirs shall provide a qualified Person to celebrate three Masses once every seven Years, for the Salvation of
Robert
III. King of
Scotland, Anapbella
his Queen, and all their Children for ever
Charta Roberti III. dilecto & fideli suo Johanni de Dalziel, milite datim 1393, in publicis Archivis.
.
Hence after several Generations, descended
Robert Dalziel
of that Ilk, who was killed in the Burgh of
Drumfries,
30th
July
1508
Holinshed's History of Scotland.
, a in Skirmish betwixt the Lords
Maxwel
and
Crichton,
leaving
Robert
his Son and Heir, Father of another
Robert,
who approv'd himself a loyal Subject to Queen
Mary,
when the civil War broke out in that Reign: I find he was one of the Barons, who upon her Majesty's escape from her Imprisonment in
Lochliven,
bound themselves upon Conscience and Honour, to adhere to her, against her rebelious Subjects, as may be seen from the original yet extant, bearing date, 8th
May
1568
Mr. David Crawfurd of Drumsoy's Collections, relating to Queen Mary, in Manuscript, in the Lawyers Library.
, and accompanyed her to the Battle of
Langside
Mr. Thomson's Collections, M.S.
, where the Queen's Party was totally defeat.
He married
Janet,
Daughter of
Gavin Hamilton
of
Raploch,
Commendator of
Kilwinning
Charta in Publicis Archivis ad Annum 1558.
, by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter,
Christian,
married to
John Hamilton
of
Orbestoun,
and had Issue. He dying
circa annum
1588, was succeeded by,
Robert
his Son and Heir, who received first the Honour of Knighthood from King
James
VI. and being a Baron of an opulent Fortune, was in Consideration of his own proper Merit, as well as the constant Loyalty of his Ancestors in all times past was by the special Favour of King
Charles
I. raised to the Honour of Lord
Dalziel
18th of
September
1628
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I ad Anum 1628
, and thereafter Created Earl of
Carnwath, anno
1639. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Robert Crichton
of
Cluny
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, by whom he had
Robert
his Successor, Sir
John Dalziel
of
Glenae
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Carnwath,
and a Daughter Lady
Mary
married to Sir
James Muirhead
of
Lachop.
Which
Robert
was a Nobleman of great Honour and Reputation, and whose Loyalty and Affection to King
Charles
I. was very Remarkable, for as i
on as the Civil War broke out he was among the first who raised both Horse and Foot upon his own Charge, and served in the Command of them with great Courage and Fidelity, till the very end of the War, for which he suffered very much, both by Sequ
stration and otherways: But all these hardships did not in the least discourage him in venturing Life and Fortune again in the Service of King
Charles
II. for as soon as an Army was raised to March into
England
with the King, the Earl accompanied his Majesty into that Kingdom, and was with him in the Fight at
Worcester,
where his Lordship had the Misfortune to fall into the Enemies Hands, who kept him Prisoner diverse Years which he sustained with great Patience and Magnanimity. He married
Christian
Daughter of Sir
William Dowglas
of
Drumlanrig,
Charta penes Ducem de Qucensbery.
by whom he had
Gavin
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret,
Daughter of
David
Lord
Carnegy,
Carta penes Comitem de Suthesque.
and departing this Life in the Month of
June
1674,
Charta penes Comitem de Carnwath.
left Issue two Sons and a Daughter,
viz. James
and
John
both Earls of
Carnwath,
and a Daughter
Jean,
married to
Claud Muirhead
of
Lachop.
Which
James
married
Mary
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Winton
Ibidem.
, by whom he had only one Daughter,
Elizabeth
married to Lord
John Hay,
Son to
John
Marquis of
Tweddale,
and dying
anno
1683
Records of the Abby-Church of Holy-rood-House.
, was succeeded by,
John
his Brother who died a Batchelour on the 7th of
June
1702
Charta in Publicis Archivis. Retour in the Chancery, whereby Sir Robert Dalziel of Glenae, is served Heir to John Earl of Carnwath, as Son and Heir of Sir John Dalziel of Glenae, Son and Heir of Sir Robert Dalziel of Glenae, who was Son to Sir John Dalziel, and he a younger Son to Robert 1st E
rl of Carnwath.
, his Estate and Honour devolving on Sir
Robert Dalziel
of
Glenae
Baronet his Heir Male. This Earl married
Grace
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Eglinton,
by whom he had a Daughter Lady
Margaret Dalziel.
ARMS.
Sable,
a naked Man with his Arms expanded proper, Supported by two Chevaliers, proper, Crest, a Dagger erected Saltyre-ways, Azure. Motto,
I Dare.
CARRICK, Earl of
Carrick.
DUncan
of
Galloway,
Son of
Gilbert
Lord of
Galloway,
in the 20th of King
William, anno
1185, had by the Bounty of that Prince, the Country of
Carrick,
erected to him in an Earldom
Scotichron. M.S.
, out of which he founded the Abbacy of
Crosragwell,
for Cluniack Monks, and amply indued it with Lands and Tithes within his own Territories, and likewise gave to the Monks of
Paisty
and
Melross
several Donations out of his Estate, for the welfare of his Soul.
Chart. of Melross and Pasty.
He left a Son,
Niel
Earl of
Carrick,
who imitated the Piety of his Father in his Liberality to the Church, of which his Gifts to the Monasteries of
Crosragwell
and
Sandal
are very remarkable Instances. He gave way to Fate on the 23d of
June
1250
Martyrologio Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Glasguensis in Chartulario dicti Ecclesiae penes Alex. Bailie de Castlecarry.
leaving one Daughter,
Margaret
his sole Heir, who married first
Adam de Kilconcath,
who thereupon was Earl of
Carrick,
but he dying in the
Holy Land anno
1272
Chron. de Melross.
without any Issue, She married again
Robert de Bruce
Lord of
Annandale,
to whom she brought the Title of Earl of
Carrick.
BRUCE, Earl of
Carrick.
SIR
William Dugdale
in his Baronage of
England,
makes mention, that among the many valiant and noble
Normans
who accompanied
William
Duke of
Normandy
in his Expedition into
England,
was one
Robert de Bruce,
who had by the Grant of that Victorious Prince the Lordship of
Skeltoun
in
York
Shire, and other Lands in that County of great Value and Extent. A Descendent from him, another
Robert de Bruce
obtained from King
David
1st. of
Scotland,
the Lordship of
Annandale,
with all the Lands from the bounds of
Dunegall
to the Limits of
Ranulph de Meschines,
Lord of
Cumberland
Dugdale's Baronage of England.
. He lef
,
Robert
Lord of
Annandale
his Son and Heir, who gave to the Episcopal See of
Glasgow, cum consensu Roberti de Bruce fi
ii sui,
the Churches of
Moffat Kilpatrick, Drumsdale, Hoddam,
and
Castlemilk, pro salute animae suae
Chartulary of Glasgow.
. He married
Isabel,
natural Daughter to King
Wil
iam
of
Scotland,
Chron. de Melross.
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, who married a Lady of very Royal Birth.
viz. Isabel
second Daughter of
David
Earl o
Huntington,
in Right of whom his Posterity came to injoy the Crown of this Realm. By her he had
Robert
Lord of
Annandale,
who in the 1290 upon the demise of Queen
Margaret,
laid Claim to the Crown of
Scotland,
both in regard he was the nearest Male in Propinquity of Blood, to the deceast King
Alexander,
as well as in respect of a Parliamentary Settlement had been made in his Favours by the foresaid King
Rymers Foedera Angliae.
. But the Right of Succession being adjudged against him, by
Edward
the I. of
England,
to whom all the different Competitors had referred the Decision of their respective Claims, he absolutely refused even in the presence of King
Edward,
to acquiesce in it: Nor did he ever do Homage to, or acknowledge
John Baliol
as King, and to avoid making any such acknowledgement after the definitive Sentence was pronounced, he gave up all his Lands in
Scotland,
to
Robert
Earl of
Carrick
his Eldest Son, and dying
anno
1295,
Dugdale's Baronage of England.
left Issue by
Isabel
his Wife, Daughter of
Richard de Clare
Earl of
Clare
and
Hartford,
Robert
his Son and Heir
Dugdale's Baronage of England.
, and
Christian
married to
Patrick
Earl of
Dunbar
and
March.
Which
Robert
was in his Youth signed with the
Cross
Ibidem.
, and was one of those many
Scotsmen
that went with St.
Lewis
King of
France
in his last Expedition against the Infidels, and afterward accompanied
Edward
the I. then Prince of
England,
to the
Holy-Land,
where he gained singular Honour and Reputation. Upon his return he obtained the Sole Daughter and Heir of the Earl of
Carrick
in Marriage, in whose Right he was Stiled Earl of
Carrick,
and by that Title he was one of the Peers who in 1284, bound themselves in the most solemn manner, that in case King
Alexander
should die without Heirs of his own Body, to own and acknowledge
Margaret
of
Norway
his Grandchild, as their Sovereign & Queen of
Scotland.
Rymers Foedera Angliae.
Upon the Decease of that Princess, when the Succession to the Crown was determined against his Father, he disowned
John Baliol
as King, and was an irreconcileable Enemy to him. After the Death of his Father, he asserted his own Title to the Crown, and resolved to prosecute his Right, but was prevented by Death before a favourable opportunity offered
anno
1303
Dugdale.
, leaving Issue by
Margaret
Countess of
Carrick
his Wife,
Robert
and
Edward
both Earls of
Carrick, Neil, Thomas
and
Alexander,
who all three lost their Lives in the War against the
English;
likewise six Daughters:
Isabel
married to Sir
Thomas Randolph
Charta in Rotulis Roberti I. eiam Charta in Registro Episcopatus Moraviae in Bibliotheca Juridica
, Lord High Chamberlain of Scotland.
Mary,
to Sir
Niel Campbel
Knight, Lord of
Lochow,
and after his Death to Sir
Alexander Fraser
Ibidem
, Lord
Chamberlain of
Scotland.
Christian,
first to
Gratney
Ea
Mar,
next to Sir
Cristopher Se
on
Winton,
and after that to Sir
And
Murray
Lord of
Bothwel.
Matilda,
to
Hugh
Earl of
Ross.
Margaret,
to Sir
William Carlyle
of
Torthorald.
Elizabeth,
to Sir
William Dishi
gton
of
Ardross
Charta in publicis Archivis.
Knight.
(
g
) Charta Roberti I. Dilecto nepoti suo Willielmo Cairlyle militi Terrarum deCullen una cum Tenendriis totius Baroniae de Torthorald, in Bibliotheca Juridica.
(
g
) Charta Roberti I. Dilecto nepoti suo Joanni Dishingtoun militi Terrarum de Langhermestoun.
(
i
) Foedera Angliae ad Annum 1353.
To
Robert
Earl of
Carrick
succeeded
Robert
his Son, who upon the Death of his Father revived his pretentions to the Crown, and being joined by such of the Nobility, and others who were willing to redeem their Country from the Subjection and Slavery it was under; bravely fought his way through innumerable Difficulties to the Crown, into which he was solemnly inaugurated on the 27 of
March
1306, by the Name of
Robert
the first, and that with the universal applause of the whole Kingdom, who thought themselves bound in gratitude, to run the fate of that brave Prince, who had so gloriously redeemed them from Tyranny, Slavery and the Yoke of a Foreign Power. Were it here proper to enter on a particular detail of his Actions, I could even add a great deal more for the Honour of his Memory, than what the latest Writers of his Life have said upon that Subject. But in regard of the Brevity of this Work, it shall suffice to say, no Age has produced a more extraordinary Man than King
Robert
the
Bruce,
examine all the Heroes of
Plutarch,
and all those great Men that have lived since that Historian, and it will be difficult to find any upon Record, who possessed more eminently all those Virtues and Qualities that enter into the Composition of a great Man. All I shall further add, shall he to take notice of his Children, not only such as have been mentioned by our Historians, but others who have been very unaccou
tably omitted by them.
King
Robert
had by
Isabel
his first Wife, Daughter of
Donald
Earl of
Mar,
a Daughter
Majory
married to
Walter
Lord High Steward of
Scotland,
Mother by him to King
Robert
II. the first of our King's of the Royal Line of the
Ste
arts
Historical and Gene
logica
History of the Royal Family of Stewart published in 1710.
. Also by
Mary
his 2
d
Wife, Daughter of
Ailmer
Bur
Earl of
U
ster,
he had
David
II, who succeeded him in the Sovere
gnty of
Scot
and,
who after a Reign of Forty Years, died without any Issue of his Body, and with him the Royal
Brucian
Family did expire
Its evid
t all our Historians have been mistaken as to the time of Kind David Bruce's Death Mr. Buchanan and others place it on the 7th of May, in the 39 Year of his Reign, but they are certainly mistaken, both as to the Year of his Reign, and the day of his Death, for I have seen many Charters, granted by him in the 40th Year of his Reign, which prove him then alive, and from a very good Voucher, we are informed he died festo Cathedrae Sancti Petri,
i. e.
the 22d of February 1371
; likewise three Daughters,
Margaret
married to
William
Earl of
Sutherland
Carta in Rotulis Davidis II. Willielmo Comiti de Sutherland & carissi
ae so
ori suae Margaretae sponsae dicti Comiti, de Comitatu d
Sutherland, & heredibus eorum.
, and had Issue.
Matilda
to
Thomas de Tssack,
by whom she had a Daughter
Jean
married to
John de Ergadia
Lord of
Lorn
Fordon ad annum 1353, Obit Matilda de Br
soror R
gis, q
ae ex T
ma de Ys
ck habuit fi
am nuptam Joanni de Lorn Domino
ju
dem: E
iam Carta in Rotuiis Regis David dilecto & fideli suo J
anni de Lorn & Jon
tae sponsae
uae consanguineae nostrae terrarum de Glenhorm in Comitatu Atholiae, da
a
d
e M
i anno regni sui tricesimo no
o.
.
Elizabeth
married to Sir
Walter Oliphant,
Ancestor to the Lord
Oliphant,
who, tho she has not been taken notice of by any other Writer; yet its beyond all dispute, she was King
Roberts
Daughter, from the Authority of a Charter in the Custody of
Oliphant
of
Gask,
which I have seen, bearing Date on the 11th of
January
1364,
This Charter is in the Custody
James O
phant of Gask, which proves this Daughter of King Robert Bruce beyond dis
e, th
she has not been taken notice of by any of our former Historians, but
no more unaccountabl
h
five or six Daughters of King Robert the II. they have
to make m
ntion of, all which are clearly instructed from our publick Records.
whereby King
David
erects the Lands of
Gask
into a Barony,
Dilecto & fideli suo
Waltero Olyfant. & El
zabethae Sponsae
suae dilectae sorori nostrae cum
peciali Libertate dicto
Waltero, & Elizabeth
piscandi in aqua de
rne tribus diebus septimanae tempore anni probi
ito.
Upon the Accession of King
Robert
I. to the Crown, he gave the Earldom of
Carrick
to his brave and faithful Brother, Sir
Edward Bruce,
thereafter King of
Ireland,
who being slain at the Battle of
Dundalk, anno
1318, le
t a natural Son
Robert Bruce
Lord of
Lydsdale,
on whom his Uncle King
Robert
bestowed the Earldom of
Carrick,
who being slain at the Battle of
Duplin anno
1332 was succeeded in his Estate and Title by
Alexander
his Brother, who lost his Life soon thereafter, at the Battle of
Halydonbill
in 1333, leaving a Daughter
Helen
Countes
f
Carrick
his Heir, who married first Sir
William Cunningham
Knight, and thereafter Sir
Duncan Wallace
of
Sundrum,
but by neither of them had she any Issue, so upon her Death, the Earldom of
Carrick
returned to the Crown, where it remained, till King
David
II. gave it to
John Stewart
Lord
Kyle
his Nephew, eldest Son and Heir of
Robert,
then Earl of
Strathern
(afterward K.
Robert
II.) who was created Earl of
Carrick
the 39th of
David
II.
Sir James Balfour's Ann
ls, M.S.
which Title he bore till he came to the Crown in the 1390, by the Name of
Robert
III. He an nexed this Honour to the Principality,
anno
1404; wherefore the Names of the Successors in this Earldom, are such, as were Princes of
Scotland,
which are not necessary to be inserted here.
STEUART, Earl of
Carrick.
THIS honourary Title was bestowed by King
Charles
I. upon
John Steuart
Lord
Kincliven,
Son of
Robert
Earl of
Or
ney,
natural Son of King
James
V. about the Year 1633; but he died not long after the Acquirement thereof, without any surviving Male Issue.
KENNEDY, Earl of
Cassils.
THAT the
Kennedys
are originally from
Ireland
is without Doubt, but as to the precise Time, when, they transplanted themselves thither, 'tis not certain: The Sirname is from one
Kenneth,
the proper Name of some eminent Person of their Family, which they assumed, when Sirnames became fixed and hereditary; The first of whom, I have found upon Record, was Sir
John Kennedy,
Knight, who is mentioned in a solemn Treaty with the
English,
relative to the Redemption of King
David Bruce, anno
1357
Rymers Foedera Angliae.
He added to his ancient patrimo
al Inheritance the Barony of
Cassils,
by Acquisition, from
Marjory,
Daughter of Sir
John de Montgomery
Knight, which was ratified by King
David
II.
Charta in Rotulis Regis David.
with the special Approbation o
Walter
Bishop of
Glasgow:
He founded a Church at
Maybole,
in
Carrick,
and endoued it for the Maintainance, and Support, of a Clerk, and three Chaplains, perpetually to perform divine Service, in Honour of God and the Blessed Virgin
Mary,
and for the healthful Estate of himself, and
Mary
his Wife, and their Children, while in this Life, and for the Salvation of their Souls, after their Departure hence; and for all the faithful deceased, to which he appends his Seal, at
Dunnure,
the pen
lt of
November
1371,
M. Mabilion de
re Diplomatica.
by the said
Mary
his Wife. He left Issue two Sons.
Gilbert,
his Successor.
Sir
Hugh Kennedy
of
Ardstincher
Crawford's Notes on Buchanan's History.
, who acquired great Reputation and Honour in the
French
Wars.
Which
Gilbert
was one of the Hostages sent to
England,
for the Redemption of King
David Bruce, anno
1357
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, and standing highly in Favour with
Robert
III. he received the Honour of Knighthood from the said King, and several Grants of Lands within the Earldom of
Carrick,
in Consideration of the special Favour he bore him.
His first Wife was
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
James Sandylands
of
Calder
Crawfurd.
, by whom he had
Gilbert,
who died in the
French
Service, without Issue, and
Thomas,
first of the Branch of
Bargany
Dalrymple.
of whom Sir
Thomas Kennedy
of
Kirkhill
is the lineal Male Representative. Also by
Marion
Crawfurd's Notes on Bu
hanan.
, his second Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Maxwel
of
Calderwood:
He had a Son, Sir
James,
on whom his Father settled his Estate, by Reason of his Marriage with the Lady
Mary Steuart,
Daughter of King
Robert
III. Countess Do
ager of
Angus,
which occasioned
Gilbert,
the eldest Son of the first Marriage, and Sir
James
to fall into a
atal Quarrel, in which the latter lost his Li
e; but by the said Lady
Mary
his Wife he had Issue two Sons.
Gilbert,
afterward Lord
Kennedy.
And,
James,
who being educated according to his noble Birth, devoted himself to the Service of God, and entring into Orders, he passed through some inferior Stations in the Church, and came to be promoted to the Episcopal See of
Dunkeld, anno
1438
Miln's Lives of the Bishops of Dunkeld, M.S.
, and translated thence to the Bishoprick of St.
Andrews,
in the Year of our Lord 1440
Balfour upon the Bishops of St. Andrews.
, in place of Bishop
Wardlaw
deceased, and not long after he was constituted; Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland,
and one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
II. In all which Stations, he acquitted himself with such Advantage and Reputation, that he became an Ornament to his Profession. In the Year 1456, he founded a College in the City of St.
Andrews,
dedicated in Honour of our Blessed Lord and Saviour, and competently endowed it, which still continues a Monument of his Piety. This worthy Man, for his Learning and other Vertues, deserves to have his Memory perpetually honoured and esteem'd; not only by those of his own Communion, but also of all who regard Learning and Probity. He has large Encomiums by all our Historians, particularly
George Buchanan,
who says, That
In eo viro, praeter virtutes a
te commemoratas erant summa domi frugalitas & continentia, foris splendor & Magnificentia, omnes superiores, qui eum
sque ad hanc diem secati sunt, Episcopos superavit.
He dyed in a good advanced Age, on the 10th
May
1466, & lyes buried in the Collegiat Church of St.
Andrews,
where you may see a fair Monument, much decayed, more by Reason, of the Brittleness of the Stone, of which 'tis composed, than its Antiquity, having neither Inscription, nor painting, but a plain Coat of Arms.
To Sir
Gilbert Kennedy,
of
Dunnure
succeeded
Gilbert,
his Grandson, who obtained from King
James
I. his Uncle, a Grant of the hereditary Constabulwick of the Castle of
Lochdon,
by a Commission, of the date 14th
May,
1430, and standing highly, in Favour with King
James
II. he was by him constituted heretable Baillie of
he Earldom of
Carrick,
and he and his Heirs Male, in all time coming, by His Majesty's special Appointment, made
Caput totius prosapiae suae,
and about the same time came to be called Lord
Kennedy
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II. ad Annum 1450. in Haddingtoun's Collections.
. In 1460, upon King
James
III. his Accession to the Crown, he was appointed one of the six Governours during the said Kings Minority, which he managed with great Discretion and Applause; and marrying
Agnes,
Daughter of
Herbert
Lord
Maxwel,
had Issue by her.
John
who succeeded him, and two Daughters,
Katharine,
married to
Alexander
Lord
Montgomery
Charta in publicis Archivis.
.
Marion,
to
John Wallace
of
Craigie
Ibidem.
.
John,
the 2
d.
Lord of the Family, was one of the Privy Council to King
James
III. In the Year 1484
Rymers Foedera.
. He was appointed one of the Commissioners upon the part of
Scotland
to treat with the
English
touching a Peace. His first Wife was
Jean,
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Montgomery,
by whom he had
David
his Son and Heir. He second Wife was,
Elisabeth Gordon,
Daughter to the Earl of
Huntly,
Widow of
William
Earl of
Errol
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, by whom he had a Son
Alexander;
of whom came the
Kennedys
of
Girvanmains
and
Barqu
anny
Ibidem ad annum 1495
, and
Jean,
married to
Archibald
Earl of
Angus
Ibidem.
. He dyed about 1508, was succeeded by,
David
his Son; who being of the Privy Council to King
James
IV. was by the special Favour of the said King, honoured with the Title of Earl of
Cassils, anno
1509
Productions at the Decrcet of Ranking, in 1606.
. He took to Wife,
Agnes,
Daughter to
William
Lord
Borthwick;
by whom he had
Gilbert
his Successor, and after her Death
Margaret Boyd,
Daughter of
Thomas
Earl of
Arran,
and was killed at the Battle of
Floudon,
where fell the Flower of the
Scots
Nobility, together with their Sovereign King
James
IV. in 1513.
To
David
Earl of
Cassils,
succeeded
Gilbert
his Son, who was of the Privy Council to King
James
V he was sent Ambassador to
England, anno
1524, & in 1526, together with the Earls of
Lennox
and
Glencairn,
he attempted to rescue the King out of the Custody of the Earl of
Angus;
for which he suffered much by the opposite Party, and at last by their Contrivance, was barbarously Murdered at
Prestick,
22
December
1527
Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's Notes on Buchanan.
, leaving Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle, Gilbert,
who succeeded him in the Honour. 2
d. Quintin,
Abbot of
Corsragwell,
who dyed 1564, and was canoniz'd as a Saint.
Which
Gilbert,
was with King
James
V. at the Battle of
Soloway, anno
1542, where he was taken Prisoner, but was soon afterward released by King
Henry
VIII. with several Marks of his Favour, and dispatched home to use his Interest for the bringing about a Match betwixt Queen
Mary,
and
Edward
Prince of
England,
and so to unite the Crowns, which then met with great Opposition. In the 1554, he was promoted to be Lord high Treasaurer of
Scotland,
upon the Resignation of
John
Arch-Bishop of St.
Andrews;
and in 1558, he was one of the Peers who were sent over to
France
to assist at the Marriage of Queen
Mary
with
Francis
I. and their Died at
Diep
the 28th of
October
1558, he was married to
Elisabeth,
Daughter and Heir of
John Kennedy
of
Colzean,
by whom he had, 1
st. Gilbert.
2
d.
Thomas Kennedy
of
Colzean,
Ancestor of Sir
John Kennedy
Baronet. 3
d. Jean,
married to
Robert Steuart
Earl of
Orkney.
And 4
th. Katharine,
to Sir
Patrick Waus
of
Barnburow,
and both had Issue.
Gilbert
Earl of
Cassils,
Son of the former Earl, was named a Privy Counsellour to Queen
Mary,
in 1562. He adhered to her Interest, upon the breaking out of the Civil War, in that Reign, and assisted her in Person at the Battle of
Lang
ide,
which was sought the 13th
May
1568; but afterward he submitted to the Authority of the young King her Son. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Glammis,
by whom he had two Sons,
John,
and
Gilbert,
then designed Master of
Cassils,
and departing this Life in 1576
Ibidem
, had the Honour of this EPITAPH from the Great
Buchanan.
Hic situs est heros humili Gilbertus in urna,
Kennedus antiquae nobilitatis honos,
Musarum matrisque decus patrisque minister
Et columen patriae consiliumque suae:
Occidit insidiis falla
i exceptus ab hoste
Bis tria post vitae lustra peracta suae
Parce hospes lachrymis & inane comprime luctu
Non misere quisquam, qui bene vixit, obit.
John,
the next Earl of
Cassils,
was constituted Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland, anno
1599, upon the Removal of
Walter,
Prior of
Blantyre,
and marrying
Jean,
Daughter of
James
Lord
Fleeming,
died without Succession, in the 1615, and left his Peerage and Estate to
John
Son of
Gilbert
Master of
Cassils,
his Nephew, who was a Person of great Parts and exemplary Vertues. After the Murder of the King in 1649, he was with the Earl of
Lothian,
the Lord
Burligh,
Sir
John Brody
and Sir
George Windram,
sent Commissioners from the Estates of
Scotland,
to King
Charles
II. then at
Breda,
where they concluded a Treaty, in Pursuance whereof, His Majesty set Sail for
Scotland,
and arriving there, he was crown'd at
Scoon,
1
st January
1651. After the total Suppression of the roval Cause in
Britain,
by the Defeat of the
Scots
Army at the Battle of
Worcester
3
d September
1651. This Earl was so exemplary in his Loyalty and Fidelity to the King, that even when
Cromwel
called himsel
Protecter,
he could never bring, says an Author of no small Credit
Dr. Burne
, Bishop of Saru
.
, this Lord, to advance one step toward him, in outward Civilities; and surviving all our intestine Commotions, he liv'd to see the King restored, but had never any Benefit by the Court, being in Matters of Religion, and in relation to the Church, purely
Presbyterian.
He married two Wives; the first was
Jean,
Daughter of
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun,
by whom he had two Daughters,
Margaret,
married to Dr.
Gilbert Bar
et,
the present Bishop of
Sarum,
in
England;
and
Katharine
to
William
Lord
Cochran,
Son and Heir of
William
first Earl of
Dundonald.
His 2
d
Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Errol,
Widow of
Henry
Lord
Ker,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, and a Daughter, Lady
Mary,
and departing this Life in 1672,
John,
his Son, succeeded him in his Estate and Honour: He was nam'd one of the Lords of the Privy Council, 1
st May
1689, and afterwards constituted one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury: He married first
Susann
,
Daughter of
James
Duke of
Hamilton,
by whom he had a Son and a Daughter,
viz.
1
st. John,
Lord
Kennedy,
who dying in the Spring of the Year 1700, left Issue by
Elisabeth
Daughter of
— Hutchison
Esq
only a Son
John,
the present Earl of
Cassils.
2
d. Anne,
married to
John Hamilton
Earl of
Ruglan.
This Earl married to his second Wife,
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
— Foix
Esq
by whom he had a Son
James,
and a Daughter
Elisabeth,
and departing this Life 2
d July
1702, was immediately succeeded by
John,
now Earl of
Cassils,
his Grand-Son.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Chiveron
Gules,
betwixt three cross Croslets,
Sable,
within a double Tressour of the 2d. Supporters, two Swans proper,
Crest
a Dolphine Najant,
Azure,
Moto,
Avie la fine.
CATHCART, Lord
Cathcart.
THAT which will sufficiently attest the Antiquity of this noble Family, is, That
Rainaldus de Kethcart
is Witness in a Grant, by
Allan
the Son of
Walter Dapiefer Regis
of the Patronage of the Church of
Kethcart,
to the Monastry of
Pasly,
and to the
Monks
serving God there, 500 Years since
Chartulary of Paisly.
.
Alan de Cathcart
appends his Seal to the Resignation made by the Judge of
Lennox
to the Abbot and Convent of
Paisly
of the Lands of
Culbethe, Anno
1234
Ibidem.
. Likeas
William de Cathcart
is one of the Barons mentioned in the Bond of Submission made to King
Edward
I. of
England,
now called the
Ragman Roll
Prin's History.
. He seems to be the Father of the brave Sir
Alan Cathcart,
who so faithfully adhered to the Interest of his Country in the time of King
Robert
the I. and fought stoutly for that renowned Monarch in the Battle of
Lowdonhill,
against a strong Party of the
English,
whom they routed. Which Mr.
Barber
our Historian has thus recorded;
A Knight that then was in his Rout,
Worthy and wight, stalward and stout,
Courteous and fair, and of good Fame,
Sir
Alan Cathcart
was his Name.
This noble Person married the Sister, and at length one of the Coheirs of Sir
Duncan Wallace
of
Sundrum,
and had Sir
Alan
his Son and Heir, who, upon the Demise of his Uncle, came to inherit the Baronies of
Sundrum
and
Achencrew
in
Air
Shire, which still do remain, and may they long continue in the Family. He left a Son Sir
Alan
to inherit his Fortune, a Baron of great Reputation in the time of
Robert
III. This last Sir
Alan
was succeeded by Sir
Alan
his Grandson, who in 1447 redeemed several Lands from
John Kennedy
Lord of the
Coffe,
which had been wadset by Sir
Alan Cathcart
his Grand-father
Charta penes D. de Cathcart.
, within the Earldom of
Carrick.
This
Alan
was knighted by King
James
II. and in the same Reign was ranked among the greater Barons that are now Lords of Parliament, tho' the precise time I cannot assign. He was in special Favour with King
James
III. who appointed him Warden of the West Marches toward
England, Anno
1481
Spotswood's Practicks.
, and in consideration of his special Services before that time performed, made him a Grant of the Barony, together with the Constabulary of the Castle of
Dundonald, Anno
1482, then a part of the Royal Patrimony: But his Master's Favour did not stop to him here, for he by his Royal Deed made over to him the Lands of
Trabath
in King's
Kyle,
then in the Crown by the Forfeiture of the Lord
Boyd,
and made him Master of the Artillery in the Year 1485
Ibidem.
. He married
Janet
Daughter of . . . .
Maxwel
of . . . . and had Issue,
Alan
who died in his own Lifetime. 2
d, David Cathcart
of
Pennyfedoch
Charta penes D. de Cathcart.
. 3
d, Hugh
first of the
Cathcarts
of
Trevour
Ibidem.
. 4
th. John
stiled of
Galryne
Ibidem.
; and
Helen
married to
David Stewart
of
Craigyhall in Vic. de Lithgow
Ibidem.
. This Lord gave way to Fate in a good advanced Age
Anno
1500, and was interred in the Convent of the
Black Friars
of
Air
Ibidem.
, leaving
John
his Grandson, Son of
Alan
his eldest Son, to succeed him in his Estate and Honour: But his Lordship did not follow the Steps of his Ancestors in the path of Vertue, for, from Motives I know not, he spent much of the Estate that his Progenitors had acquired with so much Honour, that the Family since his time have not appeared with that Lustre they did in former Ages. He married to his first Wife
Margaret
Daughter of
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan;
by her he had
Alan
Master of
Cathcart,
who was killed at the Battle of
Flowdon
9
th September
1513, having in his Father's time married, first
Helen
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Lyle
Ibidem.
, by whom he had no Issue, and after her Death
Margaret
Daughter of
Patrick Maxwel
of
Newark
Ibidem.
, by whom he left a Son
Alan
who succeeded his Grandfather. His 2
d
Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
William Douglas
of
Drumla
rig
Charta penes D. de Cathcart.
; by her he had a numerous Issue,
viz.
1
st, Robert,
who married
Margaret
Daughter and Heir of
Alan Cathcart
of
Carltoun
Ibidem.
, who was an old Branch of the Family, and of whom the present Family of
Carltoun
is descended in a lineal Course of Succession. 2
d, John,
who was with his two elder Brothers,
Alan
the Master, and
Robert
of
Carltoun,
killed at
Flowdon
Ibidem.
. 3
d, David
of
Duchray
Ibidem.
, of whom the present Branch of
Carbiestoun
his Ancestor in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
marrying
Margaret
one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of
William Cathcart
of
Carbiestoun,
an old Family of the Name, which was existing in the Time of
James
II.
Ibidem.
. 4
th Hugh,
of him sprung
Cathcart
of
Corff,
now extinct. Besides these Sons, he had also four Daughters.
Janet
married to
John Crawfurd
of
Drongan
Ibidem.
, then an eminent Family in
Air
Shire.
Elizabeth
to
John W
llace
of
Craigy
Ibidem.
,
i
Vic. de Air. Jean
to
John Shaw
of
Haily
Ibidem.
, in the foresaid County.
Margaret
to
John Hunter
of
Hunter stoun
Charta penes Pat. Hunter de Eodem.
in Vi
. de Air,
and had Issue. He died in
December
1535
Charta penes D. Cathcart,
, his Estate and Honour devolving upon
Alan
his Grandson, who lost his Life in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Pinky
against the
English,
upon that fatal Day the 10th of
September
1547
Ibidem.
, as appears from the Probate of his Testament, dated the same Day he lost his Life, whereby he resigns his Soul to Almighty God, and bequeaths his Body to be buried among his Ancestors in the Convent of the
Gray-Friars
of
Air,
appointing his Executors to order
Mass and Dirige to be said for the hele of his Soul.
By
Helen
his Wife Daughter of
William
Lord
Semple
Ibidem.
, he had
Alan
his Successor, who was a hearty Promoter of our happy Reformation from
Popery,
particularly in the Western Parts, where his Reputation and Interest was very great, and was among the first of the Peers, who armed in Defence of King
James
VI. when he was in his Cradle against the Earl of
Bothwel,
who had maried the Queen his Mother, and signalized himself at the Action of
Langside, anno
1568, where Queen
Mary
's Party was totally routed, and always continued on the King's Side, till he came to be peaceably fixed on the Throne, to reward which he was in 1579 constituted Master of the King's Houshold
Ibidem.
, and had several very beneficial Grants from the Crown, in the Time of the Earl of
Mortoun
's Regency, which were again reassumed, when his Majesty came to act by his own Counsels. This noble Lord married
Margaret
Daughter of
John Wallace
of
Craigy,
by
Margaret
Countess of
Casils
Ibidem.
. By her he had a Son,
Alan
Master of
Cathcart,
who died before his Father
anno
1603, leaving Issue by
Isabel
his Wife Daughter of
Thomas Kennedy
of
Barganny,
a Son
Alan
who succeeded his Grandfather upon his Death in
December
1618. Which
Alan
married
Margaret
Daughter of
Francis
Earl of
Bothwel
Ibid.
and again
Jean
Daughter of
Alexander Colquhoun
of
Luss,
and departing this Transitory Life
anno
1628, left a Son, an Infant at his Death,
Alan
late Lord
Cathcart,
a Nobleman of much Goodness and Probity, who died in the 81. Year of his Age, upon the 13
th
of
June
1709, leaving Issue by
Marion
his Wife, Daughter of
David Boswal
of
Achinleck, Alan
the present Lord,
James Cathcart
Esq
and
David
who was killed in the publick Service about the time of the Time of the Revolution.
Which
Alan
married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
James Viscount
of
Stair,
by whom he had three Sons and a Daughter,
viz.
Alan
Master of
Cathcart,
who perished at Sea going for
Holland,
whose Death was much lamented upon the Account of his Affability, excellent Parts, and other rare Qualities.
Charles,
who from his very Youth betaking himself to a Military Life, went over to
Flanders,
where he had a Company in
Mackartny
's Regiment bestowed on him
anno
1704, being then but entered in his eighteenth Year, and soon thereafter was made Captain of the Granadiers. The next Year he had a Troop in the Royal Regiment of
Scots
Dragoons, under the Command of Lord
John Hay,
in which Station he continued till the 1707, he was made Major of Brigade in the Queen's Corps of Dragoons serving in
Flanders,
of which his near Kinsman the present Earl of
Stair
was then Brigadier, in which Character, after he had served two Years, in
March
1709, he obtained a Commission to be Major of the said Royal Regiment; and thereafter in 1711, got a Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army, in all which Stations, with what Applause he acquitted himself, is too well known to such as know him, to need any further Mention here.
Major
James Cathcart.
Margaret
married to Sir
Adam Whiteford
of
Blairquhan
Baronet.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Azure,
three Cross Croslets, issuing out of as many Crescents,
Argent.
2d and 3d,
Gules
a Lion Rampant
Argent.
Supporters two Parrots proper. Crest, a Dexter Hand grasping a Crescent. Motto,
I hope to speed.
ELPHINSTOUN, Lord
Cowpar.
UPON the Distribution made by King
James
VI. of the Lands which came to the Crown upon the Dissolution of the Religious Houses, his said Majesty of his Royal Bounty erected the Abbey of
Cowpar
in
Ang
s
in a Civil Lordship, in Favours of
James Elphinstoun
Son of
James
Lord
Balmerino Anno
1606, but he dying childless in the Year 1669, the Honour devolved to the Lord
Balmerino.
CRICHTON, Lord
Crichton,
Viscount of
Frendraught.
OF this ancient Family, which took its Sirname from the Lands of
Chrichtoun
in the Sheriffdom of
Edinburgh
Dalrymple's Historical Collections.
, was
John Crichton
of That-Ilk, the Father of Sir
William Crichton,
who was Chancellor of
Scotland
in the younger Years of King
James
II. and a great Statesman in the Account of that Time. He made his Exit in the 1455
Lives of the Scots Statesmen MS. penes me, which may sometime see the Light.
, and left Sir
James
Lord of
Crichton
to succeed him in the Barony, and two Daughters,
Elizabeth
Wife of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntley,
and
Agnes
of
Alexander
Lord
Glammis.
Which
James
took to Wife
Janet,
one of the Daughters and Coheirs of
James Dunbar
Earl of
Murray,
and had Issue by her,
William
Lord
Crichton,
who was forfeited for Rebellion against
James
III. but afterward obtaining his Pardon, he was restored to the Barony of
Frendraught
in the North, of which
James Crichton
his Son had a Charter in the 5
th
of King
James
IV.
Anno
1492
Charta in publ. Archivis.
. His Successor
Another Sir
James Crichton
of
Frendraught
was by King
Charles
I. raised to the Honour of Viscount of
Frendraught
20
th August
1642
Ibid.
. He married first
Margaret
Daughter of
Alexander
1
st
Earl of
Leven,
by whom he had a Daughter married to Sir
James Macgill
of
Rankeilor.
2
dly, Marion
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Irvine
of
Dr
m.
By her he had
James
Viscount of
Frendraught,
whose Son
William
died without Issue; so that
Lewis
his Uncle fell to the Honour, who following the Fortune of King
James
VII. into
France
and
Ireland,
died without Issue 26
th February
1698.
COLVIL, Lord
Colvil
of
Culross.
IN the Reign of King
William, Philip de Colvil
is frequently made Mention of in the Donations which that Prince gave to the Abbey of
Melross,
soon after his Accession to the Throne. The Successor of this
Philip,
Sir
John Colvil,
was Proprietor of the Baronies of
Oxname
and
Ochiltree
in the Time of
Alexander
III.
Chart. of Melross.
, whose Son Sir
William
having no Issue Male of his Body,
E
stachia
his only Daughter was Heir to some of his Lands. She became the Wife of Sir
Reginald le Cheyn
Ibid.
, and the Estate abovementioned came to Sir
Robert Colvil,
who continued in the Male Line, till it ended a second Time in the Person of Sir
William Colvil
of
Ochiltree,
who dying the 14
th
of King
James
IV. left two Daughters his Coheirs,
Elizabeth
the elder, married to
Robert Colvil
of
Ravenscraig,
and
Margaret
to
Patrick Colquhoun
Esq
The Barony of
Ochiltree
was again acquired from the Heirs Female
anno
1509, by a Male Relation of the Family
Robert Colvil
of
Hiltoun
Charta in publ. Archivis.
, who in the Reign of
James
IV. was Master of the King's Houshold and Director of the Chancery
Ibidem.
, both which Offices he possest, till he lost his Life with his Master at
Flowdon,
leaving Issue by
Elizabeth Arnot
his Wife
Ibidem.
, Sir
James Colvil
of
Ochiltree
his Son and Heir, who was Director of the Chancery in King
James
V's. Time, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, at the Institution of that Judicature. In the 1530 he exchanged the Estate of
Ochiltree
with Sir
James Hamilton
for his Lands of
Easter-Weems
in
Fife,
from which he and his Successors were stiled, till they came to be Peers. He married
Alison Bruce
Ibidem.
, and had Sir
James
his Successor
Ibidem.
,
Alexander
Commendator of
C
lross
Ibidem.
, of whom the
Colvils
of
Kincarain
are derived, who do now represent this Family: Likewise a Daughter
Margaret
married to
James Lindsay
of
Dowhill.
Which Sir
James,
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of . . . .
Douglas
of
Lochleven,
had
Sir
James
who, from his Youth affecting a Military Course of Life, went over to the Wars of
France,
where he he served under
Henry
IV. with so much Honour and Reputation, that upon his Return home he was by King
James
VI. worthily raised to the Degree and Dignity of a Lord, by the Title of Lord
Colvil
of
Culross, Anno
1604, and that he might the better support the Honour, the King thought fit to augment his Fortune, and made him a Grant of the dissolved Abbey of
Culross,
which heretofore had been a Seat of
Cistertian
Monks. He married
Isabel,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Ruthven,
by whom he had
James
Master of
Colvil,
a young Nobleman of very bright Parts, who died in the Flower of his Age, much regreted by all that knew him. 2
d, Robert
Master of
Colvil,
and a Daughter
Jean
married to Sir
James Campbel
of
Lawers,
Mother by him to
John
Earl of
Lowdon,
Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
Charles
I. My Lord
Colvil
dying about the Year 1620, his Estate and Dignity devolved on
Robert
his Grandson in whom the Honour came to an End.
COLVIL, Lord
Colvil
of
Ochiltree.
THIS noble Family is sprung from
Robert Colvil
Son of Sir
James Colvil
of
Easter-Weems
CartaJacobi Colvil de Easter-Weems Roberto Colvil filio suo naturali Terrarum deCleish in Rotulis Jacobi quinti ad Annum 1535
, who in the Twenty second of King
James
5
th
had a Grant to himself and
Frances Colquhoun
his Wife and to their Heirs from his Father of the Lands of
Cleish
in
Kinross
Shire, whence he and his Descendents were designed till the Time they were raised to the Honour of the Peerage. This
Robert
was a zealous and hearty Promoter of the Reformation, and a strenuous Asserter of the Liberties of his Country, in the Defence whereof he lost his Life at the Seige of
Leith, May
7
th
1560
Mr.
Knox's
History of the Reformation, who gives him the Character of a wise Man and of great Courage and Zeal for the work of God
, leaving Issue by the aforesaid
Frances
his Wife Daughter and Heir of
Patrick Co
quhoun
Esq
of
Drumskeith,
and of
Elizabeth
his Wife, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir
William Colvil
of
Ochiltree
Carta in pub. Archivis
, Robert his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Eupham
married to
James Moniepenny
of
Pitmily,
and had Issue.
Which
Robert
married
Margaret
Daughter of
James Lindsay
of
Dove-hill,
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, who dying in the Month of
January
of the Year 1634
Carta in pub. Archivis
left issue by
Beatrix
his Wife Daughter of Sir.
John Hadden
of
Glenegles, Robert,
his Son and Heir,
David Colvil
Esq
likewise a Daughter
Margaret
married to
David Weems
of
Finzies
and had Issue.
Which
Robert
was made a Knight by King
Charles
I. and thereafter by his Majesty King
Charles
II. raised to the Peerage by the Style and Title of Lord
Colvil
of
Ochiltree
by Letters patent 4
th
of
January
1651, He married
Janet
Daughter of Sir
John Weems
of that ilk
ibidem
, but dying without Issue 25 of
August
13 1662
Carta in Cancellaria. S. D. N. R.
his Estate and honour devolved on.
Robert Colvil
Esq
his Nephew by his Brother, who departing this Life in the 1671, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
David Weems
of
Finzies, Robert
the Present Lord
Colvil;
also two Daughters,
Margaret
Married to Sir
John Aiton
of that Ilk,
in Vic. de. Fyfe
and - - - - to the Reverend Mr.
Logan
Minister at
Torrie,
and had Issue.
ARMS.
A Cross molin sable, supported on the Dexter side with a Reinoceros and on the sinster with a Hercules proper. Crest, a Stag's Head Cupe Argent. Motto,
Oublie ne puis.
RICHARDSON, Lord
Cramond.
HIS Majesty King
Charles
the I. was pleased to raise and advance Dame
Elizabeth Beaumont,
then the Wife of Sir
Thomas Richardson,
Lord Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas in
England,
to the honour of Baroness of
Cramond,
and to her and Sir
Thomas
's Heirs male by Letters patent 28
February
1628,
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I. ad Annum 1628.
which was the only Female Creation I have at any Time observed in this Realm.
CRANSTON, Lord
Cranston.
THE Family of
Cranston
is of very great Antiquity in
Edinburgh
Shire, where in former Times their chief Residence was.
Effric deCranston.
One of their Ancestors is Witness in a Donation which King
William
made to the Monastery of
Newbotle
and to the Monks of that Convent for the Health of his Soul,
Appendix to Sir James Dalrymple's Collections concerning the Scots History, from the Ch
rtulary of Newbotle in the Hands of the Lord Marquess of Lothian
Anno
1170, whose Successor and lineal Deseendant Sir
John Cranston
of that Ilk in the Reign of King
James
VI. married
Margaret
Daughter of . . . .
Ramsay
of
Dalhousie,
but dying without Male Issue, his Estate by his own Destination and Appointment came to
Sarah
his Daughter and Heir, whom he married with a Gentleman of his own Name, Sir
William Cranston
Carta in Public is Archivis ad Annum 1580
Son of Sir
John Cranston
of
Moriston,
a Branch of his own Family, who being a Person of great Merit and Fortune, was by the special favour of King
James
VI. whom he had the Honour to serve long as Captain of his Majesty's Guard, raised to the Honour of Lord
Cranston,
by Letters patent, 19
th
of
November
1609,
Carta penes Dominum Cranstoun,
and dying in the Month of
June
1627,
Account of the Funeral Solemnity of William the first Lord Cranstoun. M.S. penes me ad Annum 1627.
was succeeded by
John
his Son, who married first
Helen
Daughter of
James
Lord
Lindsay,
and again
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Walter
Lord
B
cle
gh,
Carta in public is Archivis
but dying without Issue, was succeeded by
William Cranston
Esq
his Nephew, Son of
James Cranston
Esq
his Brother, by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
Francis Stewart
Earl of
Bothwell.
This Noble Lord did eminently signalize himself in his Loyalty to King
Charles
the II. with whom he marched to the Battle of
Worcester,
where he had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner and sent to the Tower, where he long remained, and had his Estate not only sequestrated, but was particularly excepted out of
Cromwel's
Indemnity in the 1654,
Cromwel's Indemnity to the Kingdom of Scotland in the 1654.
he married
Mary
Daughter of
Alexander
I. Earl of
Leven
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, who married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Don
of
Newton
Baronet, by her he had
William
the present Lord, and
James Cranston
Esq
Which
William
married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Marquess of
Lothian,
by whom he has
James
Master of
Cranstoun.
ARMS.
Gules, three Crans Argent, supported on the Right side by a Lady richly apparelled, and on the Left by a Stag, proper; Crest a Cran dormant. Motto,
Thou shall want or I want.
CRAWFORD, Lord of
Crawford.
BEFORE the Reign of King
Malcolm
III. we had no Sirnames in
Scotland
so far as can be gathered from the most ancient Records, but the ordinary distinctions then were either personal, or from such Offices as they held, or from the Name of their Father as
Malcolm Canmore, Joannes Filius Willielmi, Thor. Longus
Writs of the Priory of Coldingham in the Custody of the Dean and Chapter of Durhame.
Willielmus dictus Niger, Walterus Dapifer, Alan Durward.
But after that great Men began to assume Designations from their own Lands, which by custom, became Hereditary Sirnames to their descendents, as
Dunbar, Murray, Douglas, Gordon, Ersken, Crawfurd,
and innumerable such like Instances could be given.
Dominus Galfridus de Crafurd
is the first I have found using this Sirname in the Time of King
Malcolm
IV and King
William,
Chartulary of the Abbacy of Arbroth in the Lawyers Library, M.S.
who is frequently witnessing the pious Deeds of this last Prince to the Religious of
Arbroath,
and seems to have had some Relation to the Court under that good King.
Dominus
Joannes de Crawfurd, Miles & Dominus Reginaldus de Crawfurd Vicecomes de Air
Chartulary of Kelso in the Lawyers Library, M.S.
in the Reign of King
Alexander
II. seem to be Brothers, and very probably the Sons of the former, Sir
Galfride.
We know that Sir
John
was Baron of the Barony of
Crawford,
in
Lanerk Shire
and from the Chronicle of
Melross,
we are informed, that he died in the 1248,
Chronicle of Melross ad Annum 1248
His Estate, at least that part of it the Barony of
Crawfurd,
went to his Daughters.
Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's History of the Crawfurds. M.S.
The Elder married to
Archibald de Douglass Dominus loci ejusdem,
and the Younger to
David de Lindesay Militi Domino de Crawford.
LINDSAY, Earl of
Crawfurd.
BY our publick Records, as well as the Archives of this most noble and illustrious Family, it appears, That,
William de Lindesay
their Ancestor was a Person of very great Note in the Reign of King
David
I.
Appendix to Sir James Dalrymple's Collections concerning the Scots History.
and seems to have had some near Relation to that Prince's Court.
David de Lindsay,
his Successour made a very great Figure under King
William,
This is that
David de Lindesay, Miles,
who got the Barony of
Crawfurd
by the Marriage of the Daughter of
John de Crawfurd,
Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's History of the Crawfurds M.S. penes me
and was succeeded by
David de Lindesay
his Son, who was a very warlike Man, and in the 35
th
of King
Alexander
II. executed the Office of
Justitiarius Laudoniae.
Carta in publicis Archivis
He had Issue
David
his Successor, and
John de Lindesay
who was
Chamberlain
of
Scotland
in the Time of King
Alexander
III.
Anno
1270,
Chartulary of Dunfermling in Biblioth: Jurid.
which
David
was likewise a very brave and magnanimous Person. He left Issue,
David de Lindesay Miles,
the first I have found designed
Dominus de Crawfurd
Notes from the Chartulary of the Episcopal See of Glasgow M.S. penes me, ad Annum 1329.
in the Time of King
Robert
the I. and
William
de Lindesay
Rector of
Air
and Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland
in the 1317. Under King
Robert
I.
which
David Dominus de Crawfurd
added to his own Paternal Estate many fair Lands by the Marriage of one of the three Daughters and Cohei
s of
Alexander de Abernethy
Knight, by whom he had
David
his Successor in the Ba
ony of
Crawfurd
Sir
Alexander Lindesay
of
Genesk,
of which Lands he became possessed by the Marriage of
Katharine
Daughter and Heir of Sir
John Stirling
Knight,
The Earl of Haddington's Collections in the Law
ers Library M.S.
and Sir
William Lindesay
of
Byres
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Crawford.
Carta in Publicis Archivis
Which
David de Lindsay Dominus de Crawfurd
was in the 1357, one of the Commissioners on the Treaty for the Redemption of King
David
II. He was succeeded by
Sir
James
his Son, who by
Giles
his Wife, Daughter of
Walter
Lord High
Stewart
of
Scotland,
had Sir
James Lindsay Dominus de Crawfurd,
who is a frequent Witness in the Charters of King
Robert
II. his Uncle, in which he is always designed
nepoti nostro,
likewise two Daughters,
Elizabeth
Married to Sir
John Maxwell
of Nether
Pollock
Carta in Rotulis Roberti II. Joanni Maxwel Militi & Elisabethae sponsae suae nepoti nostro carissimae.
Knight, and had Issue.
Margery
to Sir
Henry Dowglass
of
Loch evin
Carta Roberti Secundi Dilecto suo Henrico Dowglass Militi & Marjoriae sponsae suae neptae nostrae in Rotulis dicti Regis,
Knight Ancestor to the present Earl of
Morton.
But he dying without Issue male, the Barony of
Crawford,
and his other Estate came to his Cousin.
Sir
David Lindsay
of
Glenesk,
who was by King
Robert
III. in the 1399 created Earl of
Crawfurd
Carta in pub. Arch.
he married
Jean
Daughter to King
Robert
II.
Carta in publicis Archivis etiam Ford
ni Historia rerum Stoticarum, & Rymer's faedera Angliae
by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor,
Carta in Rotulis Roberti II
David
and
Bernard.
Which
Alexander
was one of the Hostages for the ransom of King
James
I. in 1423,
Rymer's faedera Angliae ad Annum 1423
he died in 1445 leaving Issue.
Alexander
his Successor who made a very great Figure under
James
II. he left Issue
David
his Successor, Sir
Alexander Lindsay
of
Achte
monsie
and
Elisabeth
married to Sir
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure,
ancestor to the present Earl of that Name.
Which
David
was Master of the Household and Lord Chamberlain in the Reign of King
James
III. With whom he was in great favour and was created a Duke by the Title of Duke of
Montrose
during his Life,
Anno
1488,
The Earl of Haddington's Collections from the publick Records M.S. in the Lawyers Library
He Married
E
izabeth
Daughter of
James
Lord
Hamilton
Carta in publicis Archivis
by her he had
Alexander
Master of
Crawfurd,
who dyed before his Father, and
John
his Successour who was slain at the Battle of
Flowden,
leaving no Issue, so that his Estate and honour Came to.
Sir
Alexander Lindsay
of
Auchtermonsy
his Uncle who by
Marion
his Wife; Daughter of
- - - Dunbar
of
Monsie
had
David
the succeeding Earl, who married
Katherine
Daughter of Sir
William Stirling
of
Kei
,
next
E
izabeth
Daughter of
— Lundy
of that Ilk, and had
Carta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
Alexander
Master of
Crawfurd
and two Daughters
Marga
et
married to
James
Lord
Ogilvie
Carta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
and
E
izabeth
to
John E
skine
of
Dun,
Memoirs of the Erskines of Dun, MS. penes me.
This Earl being justly provoked by the folly and insolence of his own Son did disinherit him, and settled his Estate and the Title of Earl with the approbation of the Crown upon Sir
David Lindsay
of
Edz
e
who accordingly succeeded him therein upon his Death,
Anno
1562
Mackenzie.
. He married first
Janet,
Daughter to the Lord
Gray,
but having no Issue, he generously resigned the Estate and Honour in favours of Sir
David Lindsay,
the wicked Master of
Crawfurd
's Son, reserving to himself, during his Life, both the Title, and such a Provision as supported him according to his Quality. He dying
Anno
1570
Ibidem.
Sir
David Lindsay
succeeded in the Honour. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Cardinal
David Beaton,
Bishop of St.
Andrews,
by whom he had,
1
st. David,
2
d.
Sir
Henry Lindsay,
afterwards Earl of
Crawfurd.
3
d.
Sir
Alexander Lindsay,
one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
VI. who honour'd him with the Title of Lord
Spinzie, Anno
1590; also a Daughter
Helen,
married to Sir
David Lindsay
of
Edzil,
and had Issue.
Which
David,
married
Grisel
Daughter of
John Steuart
Earl of
Athole,
by whom he had
David
his Son and Heir, who dying without Issue, his Estate and Honour went to
Sir
Henry Lindsay
his Uncle, who married
Beatrix,
Daughter and Heir of
George Charters
of
Kinfauns,
by whom he had
George,
who deceast without any Issue. He married again
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
James Shaw
of
Sauchie, in Vicecomitatu de Clackmanan,
by whom he had
Lodovick,
who succeeded to the Honour.
This Earl, when the Civil War broke out,
Anno
1639, cordially put himself in Arms in behalf of King
Charles
I. and commanded a Regiment of Horse at the Battle of
Lansdoun, Anno
1643, where he perform'd the Duty of a Colonel most punctually; and tho' he almost out lived his Fortune by his great suffering for the Royal Cause, yet he did not that of Love to his injur'd Sovereign, continuing fix'd in his Duty till the very end of his Life. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Monteith,
but by her he had no Issue, whereupon he made an Entail of his Honour to
John
Earl of
Lindsay,
which was ratified by Act of Parliament,
Anno
1661, upon the King's Restauration.
LINDSAY, Earl of
Crawfurd
and
Lindsay.
A Younger Branch of this noble Family, was
Lindsay
of
Byres, in Vicecomitatu de Haddingtoun,
sprung from Sir
William Lindsay,
Son of Sir
David Lindsay
of
Crawfurd
Gencalogy of the Earl of Crawfurd.
, in the Days of King
David Bruce:
He raised his Fortune by the Marriage of
Christian,
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
William More
of
Abercorn
Charta in Rotulis Roberti II.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Linlithgow;
whereupon he assumed into his Atchievement three Mollets, the Co
t of the said Family, and exchanged his Lands of
Dunnoter, in Vicecomitatu de Kincardin,
with Sir
William Keith
Marshal of
Scotland,
for his Lands of
Struthers
in
Fyfe,
which hencefurth became the chief and ancient Seat of this noble Family. This Sir
William
was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who in 1457, the 20th of
James
II. was constituted chief Justiciar benorth the River of
Forth,
being likewise of the Privy Council to the said King
History of Fyfe by Dr. Sibbald.
. He married . . . . . .
Steuart,
Daughter to the Lord
Lorn,
and had Issue
David,
who succeeded him in his Honour;
John,
who succeeded his Brother
Patrick,
afterward Lord
Lindsay;
Sir
George Lindsay
Knight, Sir
Walter Precptor
of
Torphichen,
and Lord St.
John
in the Reign of King
James
V. Also two Daughters,
1.
Margaret,
married to
Henry Wardlaw
of
Torrie.
2.
Christian,
first to
John,
Son and Heir of
George
Lord
Seaton,
and again to
Robert
Lord
Kilmaurs.
He departed this Life,
Anno
1480.
David
his Son succeeded him. He assisted King
James
III. at the Battle of
Bannockburn
against his Subjects, and dyed without Issue,
Anno
1492, leaving
John
his Brother and Heir to succeed him, who likewise dying
sans
Issue, in 1498,
Patrick
his Brother became his Heir. This Lord was constituted Sheriff of
Fife
by King V. in 1519, which Office he enjoyed till the 1531, when it was heritably conferred upon
George
Earl of
Rothes.
He married
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . . .
Pitcairn
of that Ilk, by whom he had,
1.
John,
who married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Andrew Lundy
of
Balgony,
and had a Son
John,
who succeeded his Grand-father.
2
d. Patrick,
first of the House of
Kirkforther.
3
d. William,
of whom came the
Lindsay's
of
Wormistoun;
also a Daugter
Catharine,
married to Sir
Alexander Seaton
of
Parbroath.
To
Patrick
Lord
Lindsay
succeeded
John
his Grandson, who married
Helen,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
by whom he had
Patrick
his Son and Heir, and five Daughters,
viz.
1.
Isabel,
married to
Norman Lesly,
Son and Heir apparent of
George
Earl of
Rothes.
2
d. Margaret
to
David Beaton
of
Melgum.
3
d. Janet,
to
Henry
Son and Heir of
Henry
Lord
Sinclair.
4
th. Helen,
to
Thomas Fotheringh
m
of
Pourie.
5
th. Elisabeth,
to
David Kinnier
of that Ilk.
Which
Patrick
Lord
Lindsay,
was active for the Reformation of Religion, and was on the King's side. in the Minority of
James
VI. he married
Euphame,
Daughter of
Robert Douglass
of
Lochlevin:
By her he had a Son and a Daughter,
James
his successor, and
Margaret
married to
James
Son and Heir to the Earl of
Rothes.
He made Exit out of this World 11th.
December
1589
Johnston.
, and was succeeded by
James
his Son, who took to Wife
Euphame,
Daughter of
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes,
by whom he had
Robert
and
John
successively Lords; also two Daughters,
Helen,
married to
John,
Son and Heir to
William
Lord
Cranstoun.
Catherine,
to
John Lundy
of that Ilk.
He departed this Life 5th
November
1601; his Estate and Honour devolving on
Robert
his Son, who married
Anne,
Daughter of
Laurence
Lord
Oliphant,
who had only a Daughter married to
Alexander Falconer
of
Halkertoun,
he dying 7th
Nov
1609,
John
his Brother, became his Heir; who dying on the 9th of
July
1616, left Issue by
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of
Thomas
first Earl of
Haddington, John
his Son and Heir, and
Helen
married to Sir
William Scot
of
Ardross.
Which
John,
was by the special Favour of King
Charles
I. and for the greater Splendour of his Coronation,
Anno
1633, raised to the Honour of Earl of
Lindsay,
being then the first Lord in the Rolls of Parliament. In 1641, he was constituted Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland
upon the Removal of
John
Earl of
Traquair;
which Imployment he enjoyed till the 1649, he was laid aside by the Estates of Parliament for his vigorous Appearance in raising the Army which designed the King's Relief out of the Isle of
Wight.
After the Murder of the King, he adhered to the lawful Heir of the Crown, King
Charles
II. from whom he received a Commission to raise Forces for his Service, in order to his Restauration,
Anno
1651, when unluckily he was with several other Lords surprized by the
English
at
Eliot
in
Angus,
and sent Prisoner to the Tower of
London,
where he suffered a long and tedious Imprisonment, till he was released by the Restauration of the King,
Anno
1660: In Consideration whereof, his Majesty was pleased to restore him to the Thesaurer's Office, which in 1664 he resigned to the Earl of
Rothes,
his Son-in-Law; and departing this Life,
Anno
1676, he left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Marques of
Hamilton,
two Sons,
William
his Successor;
Patrick,
who married
Margaret
Daughter and Heir of Sir
John Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
also four Daughters,
1.
Anne,
married to
John
Duke of
Rothes.
2.
Christian,
to
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun.
3.
Helen,
to Sir
Robert Sinclair
of
Stinstoun,
Baronet.
4.
Elisabeth,
to
David
Earl of
Northesk,
and all had Issue.
Which
William,
was constituted President of the Privy Council,
Anno
1689, and one of the Lords of the Thesaury. He married first,
Mary
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Annandale,
by whom he had
John
the present Earl, Colonel
James Lindsay
who was killed at the Battle of
Almanza, Anno
1708, and
Henrietta,
married to
William Baillie
of
Lamingtoun,
and has Issue. 2
dly. Henrietta,
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Dumfermling,
Widow of
William
Earl of
Wigton,
by whom he had a Son
Thomas,
and six Daughters;
Lady
Anne.
Lady
Christian.
Lady
Margaret.
Lady
Helen.
Lady
Susanna.
Lady
Catharine.
all unmarried.
He departing this Life,
March
6th
Anno
1698, was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who betaking himself to a Military Life, has had several considerable Commands in the Army, and was made Brigadeer before the end of the late War. He married
Aemelia,
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Down,
by whom he had
John
Lord
Lindsay,
and
William.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Gules,
a Fess Cheque,
Azure
and
Argent,
2d and 3d
Or,
a Lyon Rampant
Gules
surmounted of a Ribban
Sable,
Supporters two Lyons
Gules;
Crest, an Ostrich with a Key in its Mouth, with this Motto,
Indure Furth.
MACKENZIE Earl of
Cromarty.
THIS Family has its Descent from Sir
Roderick Mackenzie,
second Son of Sir
Colin Mackenzie
of
Kintail,
by
Barbara
his Wife, Daughter of
James Grant
of that Ilk, which Sir
Roderick
being a Person of singular Courage and Conduct was very Instrumental in civilizing the
Northern
Parts, especially in
Ross
shire, in Recompence of which acceptable Service King
James
VI. conferred on him the Honour of Knighthood, and gave him several Lands then in the Crown by Forfeiture. He married
Margaret,
Daughter and Heir of
Torquill Macleod
of the
Lewes,
whereupon he added to his Arms
Or,
a Mountain in a flame
Azure
and
Gules,
and departing this Life,
Anno
1625, left Issue by the said
Margaret
his Wife
1. Sir
John
his Successor.
2
d.
Sir
Kenneth
of
Scatwell.
3
d. Colin.
4
th. Alexander
of
Baloon.
5
th. Margaret,
married to Sir
James Mackdonald
of
Slate,
Baronet, and had Issue.
Which
John
so succeeding, was made Baronet by King
Charles
I.
Anno
1628, three Years after the Institution of that Honour. He married
Margaret
Daughter and Co-heir of Sir
George Erskine
of
Innertail,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Brother to
Thomas
first Earl of
Kelly,
by whom he had Sir
George
and Mr.
Roderick Mackenzie
of
Prestonhall,
who was promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
Anno
1702, and dyed 4th
January
1712, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Dr.
Alexander Burnet
Arch-Bishop of St.
Andrews,
a Son
Alexander Mackenzie
(alias
Frazer
) of
Frazerdale
Esq
who changed his Name by reason of his Marriage with
Aemelia
Baroness of
Lovat.
Besides these Sons he had likewise five Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
Roderick Mackleod
of that Ilk, but had no Issue.
Anne
to
Hugh
Lord
Lovat.
Isabel,
to
Kenneth
Earl of
Seaforth.
Barbara,
to
Alexander Mackenzie
of
Garloch.
Catherine,
to Sir
Colin Campbel
of
Aberuchill.
He departed this Life the 10th
September
1654, and was succeeded by
Sir
George
his Son and Heir: This noble Lord in the 1654 obtained a Commission from King
Charles
II. during his Exile, to raise what Forces he could for his Majesty's Service, in order to his Restauration, and therewith joined Lieutenant General
John Middleton,
who sustained a War with the
English
for a whole Year, till
were defeated by Colonel
; then his Lordship capitu
ed with the Enemy upon very honourable Terms. This signal Appearance for his distressed Sovereign, probably seemed one Cause that upon his Majesty's Restauration, when he constituted a new Set of Judges in the 1661, he named him one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords of his Privy Council.
Anno
1678, he was constituted Justice General upon the decease of Sir
Archibald Primrose,
and three Years thereafter he was made Lord Clerk Register, in which Station he continued till the Death of King
Charles
II,
Anno
1685.
King
James
VII. had no less Value for his Abilities, for in the first Year of his Reign, he renewed his Patent for being Register, and on the 15th of
April
the same Year, created him Viscount of
Tarbat,
Lord
Macleod
and
Castlehaven,
and continued him in that Imployment till the Dissolution of the Government in 1689.
In the 3
d
of
William
and
Mary, An.
1692, he was again restored to the Registers Office: Then it was he put furth a Vindication of King
Robert
III. from the Imputation of Bastardy, an Error all our Historians of former Times, either maliciously or ignorantly had fallen into; and from the national Archives clearly evinced, that
Elisabeth More
was the first and lawful Wife of King
Robert
II, when Earl of
Strathern;
that she was long dead before he came to the Crown; that
Robert
III. her Son, was not only owned as the eldest lawful Son of his Father in all publick Deeds, after he became King, but also in the time of King
David Bruce
his Grand-Uncle.
In 1702 the first of Queen
Anne
he was constituted Secretary of State, and the first of
January
the next Year raised to the Honour of Earl of
Cromarty,
his Age making the Fatigue of the Secretarie's Place uneasie to him, he dimitted, and in Lieu thereof, her Majesty was pleased to give him an Imployment of a much easier Nature, making him Justice General, which he resigned to the Earl of
Ilay, Anno
1710. He married first
Anne
Daughter of Sir
James Sinclair
of
May,
by whom he had Issue,
1
st. John
Lord
Mackleod.
2
d.
Sir
Kenneth Mackenzie
of
Cromarty,
Baronet.
3
d.
Sir
James
of
Roystoun
created Baronet, 8
February
1704, and promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in 1710.
Also four Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
David Bruce
of
Clackmannan, Elisabeth
to Sir
George Brown
of
Colstoun, Jean
to Sir
Thomas Steuart
of
Balcasky,
and Lady
Anne.
He married next
Margaret
Countess Dowager of
Weems,
but by her he had no Issue, and became a Widower by her Death, in 1705.
ARMS.
Four Coats quarterly, 1st
Or,
a Mountain in a flame
Azure
and
Gules,
2d
Azure
a Dears Head coboss'd
Or,
3d
Argent
on a Pale
Sable,
an imperial Crown
Or,
within a double Tressure, counter-flour'd
Gules,
4 Gules 3 Legs armed proper, conjoined in Fess at the upper part of the Thigh, flex'd in a Triangle, garnished and spur'd
Or,
and supported by two Savages proper, Crest, the Sun in his Splendor, Motto,
Luceo non uro.
RAMSAY. Earl of
Dalhousie.
AMong those who were Witnesses to the Grant of the Church of
Livingstoun,
by
Thurstanus filius Livingi
to the Monastery of
Holy-Rood-house,
in the time of King
David
I. 600 Years since,
Simundus de Ramesie,
is there taken notice of for one, from which
Simund
did Sir
William de Ramesie
of
Dalhousie
Knight descend, who firmly adhered to King
Robert Bruce,
and upon his Accession to the Throne, did Homage for his Lands in
Edinburgh
Shire. Likeas, he was one of the many
Scots
Barons who wrote and seal'd that memorable Letter to the Pope, declaring the Independency of the Kingdom of
Scotland, Anno
1320, which is all I have found on Record concerning him. To this Sir
William,
succeeded Sir
Alexander Ramsay
of
Dalhousie,
who signally raised the Grandeur of his Family, by his great and loyal Services to King
David Bruce,
against
Edward Baliol,
who then call'd himself King of this Realm; in Consideration whereof, he was by the said King
David
constituted Warden of the Middle Marches, and Constable of the Castle of
Roxburgh, Anno
1342, which he had by his Valour taken from the
English.
This brave Man, who well deserves, and I know will have a Place among the
Scots
Heroes, was slain by
William Douglass
of
Liddesdale,
7
July
1348, and to him succeeded
Sir
William Ramsay
his Son, who tracing the Steps of his loyal Father, took up Arms for the Service of his King and Countrey, was in the Wars of
England,
and acted a very noble Part, in Recompence whereof, no doubt, it was, that he obtained a Grant to him, and
Agnes
his Wife, of the Lands of
Nether Libertoun, Anno
1370, by a Charter still extant under the Great Seal. This Sir
William
was succeeded by
Sir
Alexander
his Son, who came nothing behind his Ancestors for Loyalty, Courage and Conduct, which he manifested in a very eminent Degree, in the Battle of
Nisbet
against the
English,
and afterwards at
Homildon
in
Northumberland,
in which Action he lost his Life in the Service of his Country, 5
May
1401.
Sir
Alexander Ramsay
of
Dalhousie
his Son, was one of the Barons of this Realm, who obtained Letters of safe Conduct from the King of
England,
to come into that Kingdom, to accompany King
James
I. home to
Scotland, Anno
1423, he being one of the Barons on whom he conferred the Honour of Knighthood, for the greater Splendor of his Coronation,
Anno
1424. By . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . . his Wife, he left Issue,
Sir
Alexander,
who flourished under King
James
II. and III. Being like his Ancestors, a Man of a Martial Spirit, he accompanied the Earl of
Angus
the King's Lieutenant, in that Expedition against the
English,
whereupon ensued the Battle of
Piperdein,
where the
Scots
obtain'd the Victory over the
English.
To this Sir
Alexander
succeeded
Alexander
his Grand-son and Heir, Son of
George
his eldest Son, who dyed before him. This Sir
Alexander
was (according to common Fame) a M
n of prodigious Stature, and of Strength answerable to his Hight.
By . . . . . .
Douglass
his Wife, he had Issue,
Nicol
his Son and Heir, who succeeded him upon his Death, which happened the 9th
September
1513, at the Battle of
Flowdon.
Which
Nicol Ramsay
of
Dalhousie,
married
Isabel
Daughter of . . . . . . Lord
Livingston,
by whom he had,
George
his Successor, who loyally adhered to Queen
Mary,
when the War broke out in that Reign, and was one of the Barons who entred into that memorable Association in her behalf, bearing date the 7th of
May
1568. He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Hepburn
of . . . . . . by whom he had,
John,
who succeeded him, but he dying without Male Succession, his Estate descended to
Sir
George Ramsay
his Nephew, who obtaining first the Honour of Knighthood from King
James
VI, afterwards by the special Favour of the the said Prince, was raised to the Honour of Lord
Ramsay,
by Letters Patent, bearing date 25 of
August
1618
Register of the Chancery Office.
. He married
Margaret,
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
George Douglass
of
Ellenhill,
brother of
William
Earl of
Morton,
by whom he had
William
his Successor, and
Margaret
married to
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth.
He departed this Life
Anno
1630, and was succeeded by
William
Lord
Ramsay
his Son, who was by King
Charles
I. raised to the Honour of Earl of
Dalhousie,
19th
June
1633, at the saids King's Coronation. He married
Catherine,
Daughter of
David,
first Earl of
Southesk,
by whom he had,
George,
his Successor.
Captain
John Ramsay,
Father to the present Earl; also two Daughters.
1.
Mary,
married to
James
Earl of
Buchan.
2.
Margaret,
to
John Scrimgeor
Earl of
Dundee,
but had no Issue. 2
dly.
To Sir
Henry Bruce
of
Clackmanan.
He dying the 11th of
February
1674. his Estate and Honour devolved upon
George
his Son and Heir, who married
Anne,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Wigton,
Widow of
Robert
Lord
Boyd,
by whom he had,
1.
William,
his Successor.
2.
George,
who in his Youth carried Arms in
Holland,
and in the Low Countries, in
Balfour
's Regiment: He rose gradually to be Ensign, Lieutenant, Captain and Major in the same Regiment, after that he was preferred to be Lieutenant Colonel, and not long after, to be Colonel of a Regiment.
In the 1690, he was made Brigadeer after the Action of
Valcour,
and Colonel of the
Scots
Regiment of Guards. In the Year 1693, after the Battle of
Landen,
he was made Major General, and in 1702, the first of Queen
Anne,
Lieutenant General of the Army, and Commander in Chief of the Forces in
Scotland,
which he injoyed till his Death, which happened in
November
1705.
Besides which two Sons, he had likewise two Daughters,
Jean,
married first to
George
Lord
Ross,
next to
Robert
Viscount of
Oxenford,
and
Anne
to
James
Earl of
Hume.
This Earl dyed in 1675, and was succeeded by
William
his Son, who married . . . . . .
More,
Daughter to the Earl of
Drocheda
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
by whom he had two Sons and a Daughter,
viz.
1.
George,
who was killed in
Holland
by one Mr.
Hamilton, Anno
1696.
2.
William,
who dyed Colonel in the
Scots
Regiment of Guards in
Spain, Anno
1711, both unmarried.
Elisabeth,
married to
William
Lord
Halley
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
and has Issue.
William,
Earl of
Dalhousie,
dying without Issue, the Honour devolved on Colonel
William Ramsay,
his Father's Cousin German, who married
Jean,
Daughter of
George
Lord
Ross,
by whom he had,
George
Lord
Ramsay.
Charles.
Malcolm.
Anne.
Jean.
ARMS.
Argent,
an Eagle display'd,
Sable,
Supporters, two Griffons display'd of the 2d; Crest, an Unicorns Head coupé, Motto,
Ora & Labora.
SCOT Earl of
Delorain.
LORD
Henry Scot,
Son of
James
Duke of
Monmouth,
by
Anne
Dutchess of
Buclugh,
was in the fifth Year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen
Anne,
by Letters Patent, bearing date the 29th of
March
1706, created into the Dignity and Titles of Earl of
Delorain,
Viscount of
Hermitage,
and Lord
Scot
of
Goldylinds,
all in the County of
Roxburgh.
He married
Anne
Daughter of
William Duncomb
of
Batlesdin,
in the County of
Bedford,
Esq
and has Issue.
ARMS.
The same with the Family of
Buclugh,
with a proper Difference.
DENNISTON, Lord of
Denniston.
THIS Family is one of the most ancient in the Shire of
Renfrew,
and was of great Repute there, long before the Time of King
Robert
II, insomuch, that we find
Ronnaldus de Denniston,
is a Witness to the Inquisition, which
David
Prince of
Cumberland
made of the ancient Possessions of the Church of
Glasgow, Anno
1116, when
John Achaian
was promoted to that See. Hence descended Sir
John Denniston,
Knight, who flourished under King
David Bruce,
he married . . . . . . Daughter of
Malcolm Fleeming
Earl of
Wigton
Chatta penes Comitem de Glencairn.
, by whom he had Sir
Robert
his Son and Heir, who obtain'd a Grant from King
Robert
II. of the Barony of
Glencairn, Anno
1370, and dying without Male Issue, in the beginning of King
Robert
III, his Estate went to his Daughters, and Co heirs,
Margaret,
married to Sir
William Cuningham
of
Kilma
rs,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Glencairn,
who thereby acquired the Baronies of
Glencairn, Finlaystoun
and
Kilmaronock.
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
Robert Maxwel
of
Calderwood,
who thereupon added to his paternal Coat, the Arms of the Family of
Denniston, viz. Argent,
a Bend
Azure,
which is still born by Sir
William Maxwel
Baronet, his lineal Heir Male. A Branch of this Family,
Denniston
of
Cowgra
n,
doth still remain in
Dunbarton
shire.
KEITH, Lord
Dingwall.
A Collateral Branch of
Keith
Earl of
Marishal,
was
Andrew Keith
Esq
In the Time of King
James
VI. who coming to Court, he soon grew so popular, that he was first Knighted, and then by his Majesty's special Favour attained to the Dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Keith
of
Dingwall,
before the Year 1584
Act of Parliament in favours of Andrew Lord Dingwall, Anno 1584.
. Being a Person of excellent Parts, he was with
George
Earl of
Marishal
sent Ambassador to
Denmark,
to Treat about a Marriage betwixt King
James
and
Anne
a Daughter of that Crown, which was happily concluded in 1589, but he dyed soon after, without either Wife or Issue that I find.
PRESTON, Lord
Dingwall.
THIS Sirname was first assumed from the Lordship of
Preston, in Vicecomitatu Edinburgi,
where they have been seated as early as the Reign of
Alexander
III. The first of whom I have found upon Record, is Sir
William Preston
Knight, who was one of the Barons of
Scotland,
who were summoned to
Berwick
in the 1291
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, when the Controversy run high betwixt
Robert Bruce
and
John Baliol,
for the Crown of this Realm.
The principal Family of the Name seems to have been
Craigmiller:
Sir
Henry Preston
Knight in the 2
d
of
Robert
III, is joined in Commission with Sir
John Swinton,
Sir
Henry Douglass,
and Sir
John Dalziel
Ibidem.
to treat with the
English,
touching a Peace betwixt the two Crowns. Of this Family.
Sir
Richard Preston
was a younger Son in the Reign of
James
VI, whose high Advancements to Honour, added no small Lustre to this worthy Family. He was educated at the Court, and being of an agreeable and winning Deportment, he soon grew into his Majesty's special Favour, attaining first the Honour of Knighthood, and e're long, was made one of the Grooms of the Bed-Chamber. Upon King
James
's attaining the
English
Crown, he accompanied him into that Realm, where he received further Honour, being made one of the Knights of the
Bath,
at his Majesty's Coronation the 30 of
July
1603
Lift of the Knights of the Bath, in 1603.
. Also in 1607, he was further dignify'd with the Title of Lord
Dingwall,
the Constabulary of which Castle, the King then bestowed on him. His faithful Services, together with the King's Countenance, procured him the Marriage of
Elisabeth
Daughter and Heir of the Earl of
Desmond
in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
into which Dignity he was created, by Letters Patent, bearing date 24
July
1619, and departing this Life
Anno
1622, the
Irish
Honour expired, but the Title of Lord
Dingwall
being to the Heirs of his Body whatsoever lawfully begotten, devolved upon the Lady
Elisabeth
his only Daughter and sole Heir, married to
James
Duke of
Ormond,
by whom she had Issue,
Thomas
Earl of
Ossory, Richard
Earl of
Aran
in
Ireland;
also two Daughters,
1.
Elisabeth,
married to
Philip
Earl of
Chesterfield,
by whom he had only one Daughter
Elisabeth,
married to
John
late Earl of
Strathmore.
2.
Mary,
to
William
Duke of
Devonshire
in
England.
But to return to
Thomas
Earl of
Ossory
(the eldest Son) he being
ummoned to the
English
Parliament by the Title of Lord
Butler
of
Moor-Park,
was made Knight of the
Garter,
and Rear-Admiral of his Majesty's Fleet; and being a Person of singular Worth, gave many eminent Proofs of his Prudence and Valour both by Sea
nd Land, but was suddenly snatched away by Death in the flower of his Age,
Anno
1680. He married the Lady
Aemelia de Nassau,
Daughter to
Lewis de Nassau,
Lord
Beverwart,
Son to
Maurice
Prince of
Orange,
by whom he had,
James
now Duke of
Ormond, Charles
Lord
Butler
of
Westoun,
also three Daughters,
1.
Elisabeih,
married to
William
Earl of
Darby.
2.
Aemelia,
unmarried.
3.
Henrietta,
to
Henry
Earl of
Grantham.
His Father surviving him eight Years, then gave way to Fate, his Estate and Honour devolving upon the present Duke his Grandson, a lively Example of the Valour and Gallantry of his two great Ancestors. In 1689, his Grace was constituted one of the Bed-Chamber to the King, Captain of the second Troop of Guards, and Knight of the
Garter.
On the Accession of her present Majesty to the Throne, he was appointed
Generalissimo
of the Forces sent against
Spain;
in his Return from whence he had a large share in the Service of destroying the
French
Fleet in the Harbour of
Vigo,
and was afterwards sent Lord Lieutenant into
Ireland;
also he was named
Generalissimo
of her Majesty's Forces in
Flanders,
upon the Removal of
John
Duke of
Marleborough.
In 1710, he laid Claim to the Honour of Lord
Dingwall,
as being the Heir gradually and lineally descending from
Richard
Lord
Dingwall:
Being found to have Right, his Claim was allowed, and accordingly he Voted by his Proxy in the Election of the Sixteen
Scots
Peers, (who by the Treaty of Union are to sit in the House of Peers of
Great Britain
) 10th
November
the same Year.
He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
Laurence
Earl of
Rochester,
who deceased without any surviving Issue; and to his second Wife
Mary,
Daughter of
Henry
Duke of
Beaufort,
by whom he had
Thomas
Earl of
Ossory,
who dyed in 1694,
Elisabeth
and
Mary,
both living unmarried.
ARMS.
Argent,
three Unicorns Heads eras'd,
Sable.
DOUGLASS, Duke of
Douglass,
THIS Family is a very great and ancient one in
Lanark
shire, of which there is a particular History wrote by a very learned Pen, who equalizes them to any of the ancient
Roman
Families, and gives them the preference to all other in
Europe,
those of crown'd Heads excepted. They have been particularly famous for great Generals, there having been more of this Name, than any other that is to be met with in History; neither was it their native Countrey alone that was indebted to their Valour, but they signaliz'd themselves in most places of
Europe,
and particularly in
France,
where they have had great Commands and Titles, as Duke of
Turrin, Count de Longoville,
&c. In short, this Family exceeded all the rest in the Kingdom, for the Number of Nobility and Gentry of their own Name, according to those old Lines,
So many so good as of the
Douglasses
have been,
Of one Sirname was ne'er in
Scotland
seen.
The Origin of this illustrious House is derived from one
Sholto,
who in the Reign of
Solvathius
King of
Scotland, Anno Christi
770, having been the principal Man that routed
Donald Bane
and his Forces, who invaded the Countrey, and being a
Dou glass,
or a black pale Man, as these Words signify (says my Author) both in old
British
and
Irish,
the King royaly rewarded his Services, and made him a Grant of large Possessions in the County of
Lanerk,
which either he or his Successors called
Douglass,
and from thence took the Sirname of the Family. This
Sholto
was the Father of
Hugh,
of whom there is nothing memorable. He was succeeded in his Inheritance by his eldest Son
Hugh
II. whose younger Brother
William,
being sent by
Achaius
King of
Scotland,
pursuant to his League with
Charlemaign,
with 4000 choice Men into
Italy
against the
Lombard
's, he performed many glorious Actions, and became the Root of the Family of
Scoti
at
Placentia.
But to leave the Family of the
Scoti
in
Italy, William
is supposed to be the Son of
Hugh
Lord of
Douglass,
and the Father of
John,
who was the Father of
William,
the next Lord of the Family, who is Witness among others to the Charter of King
William,
whereby he confirm'd the Lands of
Dalgarnac
given by
Adger
the Son of
Dovenald,
to the Church of the Holy Cross at
Edinburgh,
in the former part of that Reign: He left Issue two Sons,
Archibald,
who succeeded in the Lordship, and
Bricius,
first Prior of
Lisma
agoe,
afterwards Bishop of
Murray
Chartulary of the Episcopal See of Murray, and the Chronicle of Melross.
.
Archibald
first of the Name, married one of the Co-heirs of the Barony of
Crawfurd
of the same Sirame,
Simson's Essay on the Family of Douglass.
and was succeeded by
William
III, the Father of Sir
Hugh de Douglass,
who lived in the Time of
Alexander
III, and did signalize himself at the Battle of the
Largs,
where the
Scots
obtained a glorious Victory over the
Norvegians, Anno
1263. He married
Marjory,
Daughter of
Alexander,
and Sister to
Hugh
Lord of
Abernethy
Charta penes Ducem de Douglass.
; but having no Children by her, at least that survived him, his Brother
William,
for Distinction called the
Hardy,
succeeded him. In the time of the War with
England,
upon all Occasions he distinguished himself in the Service of his Country. In the 1295, he was chosen Governor of
Berwick,
then in the Hands of the
Scots,
which he defended with great Resolution and Courage; but afterwards falling into the Enemies hand, he dyed there Prisoner,
Anno
1303
Mr. Hume:
, leaving Issue by . . . . . . his Wife, Daughter of
Keith
of that Ilk,
James
Lord of
Douglass,
and
Hugh;
also by
Margaret
Daughter to
Ferrairs
Earl of
Darby,
of the Kingdom of
England
Mr. Simson.
,
Archibald
Lord of
Galloway,
of whom the Family descended, and
John,
Progenitor to the Earl of
Morton.
Which
James
Lord
Douglass,
commonly called
The good Sir
James, laid the Fundation of the Grandeur of the House of
Douglass:
He was famous all the World over for his Valour and glorious Actions in the Service of his Country, for which his Memory will still be honoured: He entred early into the Service of King
Robert Bruce,
and in 1313
Abercrombie's Martial Atchievments.
he assaulted and took the Castle of
Roxburgh
from the
English,
and the next Year he commanded the left Wing of the
Scots
Army, at the famous Battle of
Bannockburn,
where he behav'd so well, as to merit the Honour of Knighthood in the Field
Barber's Life of King Robert I.
, after which, he was constituted Warden of the Marches toward
England
Abercromby.
, and entring
Cumberland,
wasted that County. In Consideration of his good Services before that time perform'd, he had a Grant of the Castle, Village, and Forrest of
Jedworth
Charta penes ducem de Douglass, data 6 May 1319, alia data apud Berwick 8 Nov. 1329.
, then erected into a free Forrestry,
Cum indictamentis latrociniorum & ministrationem earundem in omnibus terris suis infra regnum nostrum; & si aliquis de hominibus suis per justitiarios nostros fuerint judicati, volumus quod dictus Jacobus, haeredes sui, & eorum ministri habeant liberam earundem ministrationem cum omnibus libertatibus, commoditatibus ad predicta indictamenta pertinen. in feudo & haereditate perpetuo, salvo tantum communi auxilio pro defensione regni nostri contingenti,
And the Seasin is declared to be the giving him the King's Ring with the Emerauld Stone.
An Author reckons this illustrious Person to have been in fifty seven Battles and Re-encounters against the
English,
thirteen times victorious against the
Saracens,
and other Infidels, thrice as often as he had been Years in Action, which were about twenty four, from King
Robert Bruce's
Coronation, 1306, to the time of his Death, in 1330, which happened fighting against the
Saracens,
the Enemies of our Faith. Now tho what is above recorded of this noble Lord were alone sufficient to preserve his Memory, yet cannot I omit adding this Epitaph which Mr.
Hume
gives him.
Quicquid sors potuit mortali in pectore ferre,
Vel facere, hoc didici perficere, atque pati.
Prima ubi luctando vici, sors affuit ausis
Omnibus: & quid non pro patria ausus eram?
Hosti terror ego: nullus me terruit hostis:
Consiliis junxi rob
a dura meis.
Praelia quot numerat, titulos, actos
que
triumph
Brucius,
hinc totidem pene trophaea mihi.
Qua jam signa feram? major quaerendus & orbi
,
Atque hostis; famam non cap
iste meam.
Arma
Saraceno
objeci prope littora
Calpes
Herculeae,
hic tellus me male fausta tegit.
Herculea Graecis
memoretur gloria lud
,
Fallor an
Herculea
stant potiora mea.
Sir
James
was succeeded by his Brother
Hugh,
but an unactive Man, of whom there is little on Record, having no Issue of his own Body. In 1343, he resigned the Lordship of
Douglass,
in favours of Sir
William
his Nephew (Son of
Archibald
Lord of
Galloway,
who was slain at the Battle of
Halydonhill,
so fatal to the
Scots, Anno
1333) whereupon he obtained from King
David Bruce
a Charter
De omnibus terris reditus & possessiones per totum regnum Scotiae, de quibus quondam Jacobus Dominus de Douglass avunculus suus & Archibaldus pater suus obierunt vestiti, cum regalitate & libera warena, integre & honorifice, una cum ducatu hominum Vicecomitatum de Roxburgh & Selkrig.
In the 1346, he was Warden of the East Marches toward
England,
and accompanying King
David
to the Battle of
Durham,
he was taken Prisoner with his Sovereign
Hume.
, but was soon afterward released. In 1357, he was one of the Commissioners on the part of
Scotland,
authorized to treat with the
English
about the Redemption of the King
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, and among other Nobles bound to
Edward
III, for a hundred thousand Pound
Sterling
Ransom, in which Deed he's designed
Willielmus Dominus de Douglass miles.
Much about the same time he was dignified with the Honour of Earl of
Douglass;
for I find him intituled
Willielmus comes de Douglass,
when he's joined in Commission with diverse Lords to treat with
English
Commissioners about King
David
's Inlargement
Rymer.
. This Earl was deeply engaged on the
French
side, in the memorable Battle of
P
ictiers
(where
John
King of
France
was taken Prisoner by the
Black Prince
) and very narrowly escaped, being then Ambassador from King
Robert
II. to the
French
Court, where the ancient Alliance betwixt the two Crowns was renewed and confirmed. As for his Works of Piety, I have only discover'd, that he gave in pure Alms to the Abby of
Melross,
and the Monks serving, and perpetually to serve God there, the Patronage of the Church of
Cavers,
with its Tithes, for celebrating Divine Service there, according to the Tenor of a special Ordination by him made,
viz.
for certain Priests, who were to perform that Service for the good Estate of his Sovereign Lord King
David,
and of himself, during his Life, and for the health of his Soul, and his Ancestors and Successors after his Departure hence; and which Donation the said King ratified in the 30th of his Reign.
He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Donald,
Sister, and at length sole Heir of
Thomas
Earl of
Mar
Here I take the liberty to differ from Mr. Hume, who says, this Earl's first Marriage, was with the Earl of March's Daughter, and that he had by her James Earl of Douglass, killed at Otterburn, which is a Mistake, for I have seen a Mortification by Margaret Countess of Douglass and Mar, to the Church of St. Mary of Garrioch, for the Soul of William Earl of Douglass, her Husband, and James Earl of Douglass her Son and Heir: Also there's a Confirmation by the same Earl James to the Monks of Melross of the Church of Cavers, wherein he's designed Comes de Douglass & Mar: Moreover, 'tis to be considered, that upon the Decease of Earl James, Isabel his Sister, of the whole Blood, succeeded him in the Honour of Mar, when the Earldom of Douglass devolved upon Archibald their Brother of the half Blood.
, by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, and
Isabel,
a Daughter, after the Death of her Brother Countess of
Mar,
who became first the Wife of Sir
Malcolm Drummond
of
Cargill,
who in Right of her was intituled Lord
Mar
Charta penes Ducem de Douglass.
, and thereafter of Sir
Alexander Steuart
Knight, in whose favour she resign'd the said Earldom,
Anno
1404,
Causa
(says she)
Matrimonii contracti inter dominum Alexandrum Senescal & nos dictam Isabellam
Charta in Rotulis Roberti III.
, which Honour he enjoy'd till his Death.
This Earl
William
's second Marriage (having Divorc'd his former Wife) was with
Margaret,
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
March
This is with greater Probability, than that he was Brother by the same Mother to James Earl of Douglass, killed at Otterburn; for when he succeeded to the Honour and Estate of Douglass, he made no Claim to Mar, which descended to Isabel, Earl James's Sister, as is above narrated.
, by whom he had
Archibald
Lord
Galloway,
afterward Earl of
Douglass:
And his third and last was
Margaret,
Daughter and Heir of
Thomas Steuart
Earl of
Angus,
by whom he had
George Douglass
first Earl of
Angus
of that Name: He departed this Life in 1384, and was interr'd in the Abby Church of
Melross,
according to Mr.
Winton,
whose Words are these,
To
Douglasdale
as I heard say,
An Sickness took him by the way,
And there he dyed in short space,
: : : : : : : : : : :
To
Melrose
then they took his Body,
And there it bury it right honourably.
This Earl was succeeded by
James
his Son, between whom and Sir
Henry Percy
there were glorious Feats of Arms performed in Honour of their Country. He was killed at the Battle of
Otterburn,
31 of
July
1388, fought betwixt him and Sir
Henry Hotspur,
Son to the Earl of
Northumberland,
an Encounter, says one, managed with that unparallelled Courage on both sides, that it was hardly to be matched in History, and was the Occasion of an old Rhime, of which this is a part,
It fell about the
Lammas
Tide,
When Yeoman win the Hay,
The doughtie
Douglass
gan to ride
In
England
to take a Prey.
Mr.
John Johnston,
our famous Poet, has endeavoured on his Part, to perpetuate his Memory by the following Elegy,
Quaeritis ô quid agam? en animam jam ago: fata meorum
Hac sequor. Innumero huc vulnere facta via est.
Nesciat hoc hostis: sequitor quam quis
que
secat spem,
Atque aliquis nestri funeris ulter ades.
Finiit, & subito redivivo funere surgens
Mars novus intonuit, victor & ultor obit.
This Heroick Earl was married with the Lady
Isabel Steuart,
Daughter to King
Robert
II
History of the Royal Family of Steuart, Anno 1710.
, but dying without lawful Issue, he was succeeded in the Earldom by
Archibald
Lord
Galloway,
his Brother, commonly called
Archibald the Grim.
In 1381 he was sent Ambassador to
France,
which Negotiation he managed with Success and Honour. This Earl added to his ancient patrimonial Inheritance the Lordship of
Bothwel, in Vicecomitatu Lanerici,
by Marriage of
Elisabeth,
only Daughter and sole Heir of
Thomas Murray,
Lord of
Bothwell,
and thereupon had an Augmentation to his ancient Arms,
viz.
Azure,
three Molle
s within a double Tressure, Or.
He founded the Collegiate Church of
Bothwell,
establishing Maintenance for a Provost and eight Prebends, out of the Lands of
Osbairnstoun
and
Nether-Urd,
who were continually to perform the Offices of the Church for the Soul of him and his Successors, of the Date 10th
Octob.
1398
Spotiswood's Practiques.
, and departing this Life in the Month of
February
1400
Simson.
, he was interr'd at
Bothwell
Church, without any Epitaph on his Monument, leaving Issue by the said
Elisabeth
his Wife,
Archibald
his Successor, and a Daughter
Marjory,
married to
David
Prince of
Scotland,
elder Brother to King
James
I.
Which
Archibald
was a Nobleman of great Valour, and much addicted to Arms. In 1401, he had a Command in the South against the
English,
ravaged the Country as far as
Newcastle,
carried of the Stores, and then returned Home without any manner of Loss.
This Earl was in such Esteem for his Conduct, Valour, and other bright Qualities, that he was made Captain General of all the Forces then designed to be transported into
France,
in behalf of the
French
against the
English,
where he did such signal Service to that Crown, that King
Charles
VII. invested him in the Dutchy of
Turrin,
and to his Heirs Male for ever, and made him Marishal of
France
(
d
) Hume.
: He had the chief Command in the Battle of
Vernoil,
where he lost his Li
e, 7th of
August
1425, and was interr'd in St.
Gratians
Church in
Tours.
This Earl had Issue by his Wife
Margaret,
Daughter of King
Robert
III.
Archibald,
who succeeded him,
James,
Lord
Abercorn.
Margaret,
married to
William
Earl of
Orkney.
Elisabeth,
to
John Steuart
Earl of
Buchan,
Constable of
France,
and Chamberlain of
Scotland.
Helen,
to
Alexander Lauder
of
Hatton.
Mary,
to Sir
Simon Glenddining
of that Ilk
Simson.
.
Archibald,
next Earl of
Douglass,
his Son, was a Person of great Accomplishments either for Peace or War: I find him in 1424, appointed to go upon a solemn Embassy into
England
to treat upon the Redemption of King
James
I.
Henry
Bishop of
Aberdeen,
and Sir
William Hay
of
Err
ll,
were appointed to accompany him, and to be his Collegues: The first mention of his Martial Actions is in 1420, the first of the Government of
Murdack
Duke of
Albany,
when he, with his Brother-in-law,
John
Earl of
Buchan,
were sent into
France
with 7000 Auxiliaries, wherewith they perform'd many signal Services against the
English:
He gave way to Fate on the 26
June
1438, and was buried in the Church of
Douglass,
with this Epitaph on his Monument,
Hic jacet Dominus
Archibaldus Douglass
Dux
Turroniae,
Co
es de
Douglass
&
Longoville,
Dominus
Gallovidiae.
&
Annandiae,
locum tenens Regis
Scotiae,
obiit
26 June, Anno Dom.
Millefi
o quadringentesimo Trigesimo
ctavo.
This Earl had no Issue by his first Wife
Matilda
Simson.
, Daughter of
David
Earl of
Crawfurd:
But
Eupham Graham
Ibidem.
, Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Strathern,
his second Wife, bore him two Sons,
viz. William,
who succeeded him. 2
d. David,
and
Margaret
a Daughter, first Countess of
Douglass,
and thereafter the Wife of
John Steuart,
Earl of
Athole, Uterine
Brother to King
James
II.
To
Archibald
Earl of
Douglass
succeeded
William
his Son, a Youth of great Expectation, of an high Spirit and a sweet Disposition, but the Vanity of his followers, and his own want of Experience, led him into several Misdemeanors, and being on his Journey to a designed Parliament, he was met, and sumptuously entertain'd by
William
Lord
Crichton,
then Chancellour, who minded him of the Greatness and Merit of the Family, and his own Duty to the Crown; the Earl in Return acknowledged his Fault lay in his Youth and Ignorance, blaim'd his evil Counsellors, chided his Dependents, promised Obedience for the future, and gave all the Marks of a sincere and generous Resolution: But after all this, he was invited to the Castle of
Edinburgh,
and being set at the King's Table, was suddenly remov'd, and instantly murdered, in the 16th Year of his Age, together with his younger Brother
David,
and Sir
Malcolm Fleeming
of
Cumbernald,
his Friend,
Anno.
1441.
To
William
last mentioned, succeeded
James
Lord
Abercorn,
his Uncle, for Distinction called
The gross Earl,
of whom I find nothing remarkable, save that he was Warden of the Marches toward
England,
in the Reign of King
James
II. He married
Beatrix Sinclair,
Daughter to the Earl of
Orkney,
who bore him six Sons,
viz. William,
who succeeded him.
James Douglass,
Knight, who took to Wife
Mary,
one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of
James Dunbar
Earl of
Murray,
in Right of whom he came to possess that Honour. Sir
Hugh Douglass
4th Son, was Earl of
Ormond. John
Lord
Balveny,
and
Henry
the youngest; also four Daughters,
1.
Margaret,
married to
James
Earl of
Morton,
and had Issue.
2.
Beatrix
to the Lord
Aubignie.
3.
Janet,
to
Robert
Lord
Fleeming,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Wigton.
4.
Elisabeth,
to
Wallace
of
Craigie in Vicecomitatu de Aire
Simson.
.
This Earl died the 24th of
March
1443, and was interr'd at
Douglass
-Church: Upon his Tomb ye may read this Epitaph,
Hic jacet magnus & potens Princeps
Jacobus
Comes de
Douglass,
Dominus
Annandiae
&
Gallovidiae, Liddaliae,
&
Jedburgh-forestiae,
& Dominus de
Balvenia
magnus Wardanus Regni
Scotiae
versus Angliam, &c. qui obiit vicesimo quarto die mensis
Martii,
Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo tertio.
William,
Son and Heir of the former Earl, being unwilling that so great an Inheritance as the Earldom of
Douglass
was, should be divided, married
Margaret,
Daughter of
William,
and Sister and Heir to
William
Earl of
Douglass
his Cousin,
A Marriage
(says one)
made him as much hated by his Friends, as feared by his Enemies.
This Earl prosecuted Revenge on Chancellour
Crichton,
as the Author of his Cousins Death with more Violence than Success, his Affectation of a mighty Pomp and Splendor, procur'd him Envy: His Contempt of the Courtiers begot Hatred, and incurr'd him their Displeasure. They improv'd his Faillings, magnified his Designs, and plotted his Ruine; His Power and haughty Conduct rendred him suspected to his Sovereign K.
James
II, whose Hand and Dagger put a period to his Life in
Stirling
Castle, the 13th of
February
1452.
James
succeeded to
William
his Brother in the Earldom, he took up Arms against his Prince; and coming to a Battle, he was intirely routed by the Earl of
Angus,
the King's Lieutenant,
Anno
1455. Retireing then to the Court of
England,
he was intertain'd by King
Edward,
who made him one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the
Garter;
but invading the Kingdom again with with the Duke of
Albany,
assisted from
England, Anno
1483, he was taken Prisoner, and confined in the Abby of
Lindores,
where he took upon him religious Orders,
nd continued in Devotion till his Life's End, which happned to fall out on 15th of
April
1488: He was inter'd before the high Altar, under a Marble Stone, to which was affixed a Tablet of Brass
Sir James Balfout's Peerage of Scotland M.S. penes me.
containing this Inscription,
Hic Requiescunt
Ossa
Jacobi
quondam Comitis de
Douglass,
inclyti hujus Monasterii Monachi, qui po
vitae discrimina obiit in summa pace
di
Aprilis,
Anno Domini millesimo
simo octogesimo octavo.
This Earl is thus Characteriz'd by a good Historian
Mr. Simson.
, who says,
He was a Nobleman of a Majestick Presence, Valiant, Learn'd, and Wise, but of a resolute and precise Temper, yet somewhat over distr
stful of his own Power, and other Performances, and if he had been either a more resolute Adventurer, or a more complying and submissive Subject, he might have made Peace on his own Terms.
I shall conclude with Mr.
Hume
's Epitaph on him, as Follows,
Quid rides rasumque caput, cellaeque recessum?
Quod que cucullatis Fratribus anumeror?
Si fortuna volvente vices fiet modo Princeps,
Plebeius: Monachus saepe Monarcha fuit.
English'd,
Why do you laugh to see my shaven Crown?
My Cell, my Cloister, and my Hooded-Gown?
This is the Power of that Sovereign Queen,
By whom Monks, Monarchs, Monarchs Monks have been.
The principal Branch of the Illustrious Family of
Douglass,
thus expiring, I shall at present confine my Memoirs to the House of
Angus,
the next great Family of the Name, who, tho inferior to that of the old Earls of
Douglass
yet exceeded most others for Royalties, Greatness, number of Vassals, and Military Glory. They had many Privileges inherent in their Family, as, that
e Earls of
Angus
should have the first Place and Vote in Parliament or Council, that he should carry the Crown in Riding of Parliaments, to be the King's hereditary Lieutenant, and to have the leading of the Van of the Army in the Day of Battle; all which were confirmed by King
James
VI. to
William
Earl of
Angus Anno
1591.
George Douglass,
first Earl of
Angus,
was only Son of
William
first Earl of
Douglass,
by
Margaret
his 3
d
Wife, Daughter and Heir of
Thomas Steuart
Earl of
Angus:
He was invested in this H
our upon his Mother's Resignation by a Charter, of which this is a part,
Robertus Dei gratia Rex Scotorum,
&c.
sciatis nos dedisse & hac Charta confirmasse Georgio Douglas totam & integrum Comitatum Angusie, cum Dominio de Ahernethy jacent. in Vicecomitatu de Perth & Berwick, & heredibus masculis corporis dicti Georgi
; quibus deficientibus Alexandro Hamilton militi & Elisabethae Steuart sponsae suae sorori dicte Comit
sse Angusie, &c. Test. Waltero Episcopo sancte Andreae, Joanne Episcopo Dunkelden. Cancellario, Joanne Comite de Carrick Senescallo Scotiae primogenito nostro, Roberto Comite de Fife & Montieth Custode Scotiae, filio nostro. Apud Edinburg decimo die Aprilis, Anno Regni nostri decimo nono, Anno Dom.
1389.
This
George,
in the 1397, married the Lady
Mary Steuart,
Daughter to King
Robert
III
The original Contract extant in the Writes of the Family of Douglass.
, by whom he had
William
his Successor, Sir
George Douglass
Knight, and a Daughter
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
William Hay
of
Lockhart
Charta penes Marchionem de Twedal ad Annum 1409.
, Ancestor to the present Marquess of
Tweddal.
All that I have found in History of this Earl, is, that he accompanied the Earl of
Douglass
to the Battle of
Homildon,
where he was taken Prisoner, and there falling Sick, he dyed
Anno
1402, his Lady re-marrying with Sir
James Kennedy
Knight, after that she became the Wife of Sir
William Graham
of
Kincardin,
whom surviving, also she was a fourth time married to Sir
William Edmiston
of
Duntreath
Charta Jacobi II. Willielmo Edmiston de Colodin militi & Mariae Comitissae Angusiae sponsae suae amitae nostrae de terris de Duntreath, Anno 1452, penes Dominum Duntreath.
.
William,
second Earl of
Angus,
in the 1423, was sent to
England
one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I. his Uncle
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, at the Solemnity of whose Coronation he had the Honour of Knighthood conferr'd on him, an Honour much more valued in ancient Times than we have since sound it to be: And in the Year 1424, he was one of the Peers that sat upon the Trial of
Murdock
Duke of
Albany
History of the Royal Family put fu
h in 1710.
, and the 29th of the said Reign he was appointed Warden of the middle Marches toward
England,
and the next Year after, had a special Grant of all the Mannors, Castles, and Lands descended to him from his Ancestors, in as ample manner as they held the same.
In 1436, the
English
making several Incursions upon the Borders, under the command of the valiant
Percy,
he was sent against them, where he destroyed several Towns upon the Marches, and routed them at
Piperdeen.
He departing this Life the following Year 1437
Simson.
, left Issue by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Hay
of
Locherret
Dispensation by William Bishop of Glasgow for William Douglass Earl of Angus to marry Margaret Daughter of Sir William Hay of Locherret, in the 1425, in the Writes of the Family of Yester.
, my Lord
Tweddal
's Ancestor,
James
who succeeded in the Honour.
Which
James,
in the second of
James
II. was one of the Conservators of the Peace with
England
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, a Truce being then concluded betwixt the two Realms. He married the Lady
Jean Steuart,
Daughter to King
James
I, but dying without Issue, he was succeeded both in his Honour and Estate by
Sir
George Douglass
his Uncle
Mr. Hume.
, a Man of great Parts, and much esteem'd for Wisdom, Loyalty, and Valour. The first notice of him, is in the 1449, that he was one of the Commissioners on the part of
Scotland,
who met with several
English
Lords at
Berwick,
and there concluded a League of stricter Amity, as they termed it, betwixt both Nations; and soon after he was constituted Warden of the East and Middle Marches
Ibidem.
. In 1457, the 20th of
James
II, he was sent against the Earl of
Douglass,
then in Rebellion, which he successfully quell'd; in Consideration of which special Service so perform'd by him, he had a Grant of the Lordship and Barony of
Douglass.
Finally he Indents with
Henry
VI. of
England,
then dispossessed of the Crown by
Edward
Duke of
York,
that for the Earl's Assistance towards his Restauration, he obliges himself
in verbo Principis,
that he shall erect to his Lordship and his Heirs, as much Land betwixt
Humber
and
Trent
as shall amount to two thousand Merks
Sterling
a Year; and at the same time by a bold Interprise, he relived Monsieur
Brisack
and the
French
Troops under his Command, then besieged in the Castle of
Alnwick,
in the sight of the
English
Army, and brought them safe into
Scotland,
but after all his great and loyal Services, he gave way to Fate, well advanced in Age, 14th
November
1462, and was buried with his Ancestors at
Abernethy.
His Wife was
Elisabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Andrew Sibbald
of
Balgony in Vicecomitatu de Fife,
by whom he had
Archibald
the next Earl,
George Douglass
of
Bonjedward
Simson's Notes on the Family of Douglass.
, and three Daughters,
Jean,
married to
William
Lord
Graham
Charta Willielmi Domini Graham, & Jeanae Douglass sponsae suae Georgio Graham
orum filio de terris de Calendar.
.
Elisabeth,
to Sir
Robert Graham
of
Fintrie,
and had Issue.
Margaret,
to Sir
Duncan Campbel
of
Glenurchie,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Breadalbin.
Archibald
his Son and Heir succeeding, commonly designed
The great Earl,
he made a considerable Figure in the Reigns of
James
III, and IV. In 1488, he was one of the associating Lords who at
Lawder-Bridge,
in presence of the King seized on
Thomas Homil
and
Robert Cochran
the mean Favorites of that Prince, and caused Execute them as the Authors of the Mismanagement of the publick Affairs, tho I don't find he was in the Prince's Army at
Bannockburn,
where the unfortunate King lost his Life. In the 24th of
James
IV,
Anno
1492, he was made Warden of the Marches, also one of the King's Privy Council, and the next Year constituted Lord high Chancellor of
Scotland,
then void by the Decease of
Colin
Earl of
Argyle,
from which he was removed in 1498,
George
Earl of
Huntly
being put in his stead.
H
s first Wife was
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Boyd,
Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland,
by whom he had three Sons,
1.
George,
Master of
Angus.
2. Sir
William Douglass
of
Braidwood,
who was killed at
Flowdon,
of whom and his Descendants more will be said afterwards.
3.
Gavin Douglass
third Son, devoting himself to the Service of the Church, was put into Orders about 1493: His first Preferment was to the Rectory of
Heriot,
and then to the Provostry of St.
Giles, Edinburgh,
in which Station he continued till the 1515, he was promoted to the Episcopal See of
Dunkeld,
then void by the Death of Bishop
Brown,
where he exercised his Episcopal Function till Death took him away,
Anno
1522
Vitae Episcoporum Dunkelden. M.S. penes me.
.
His second Wife was
Catherine,
Daughter of Sir
William Stirling
of
Keir, in Vicecomitatu de Perth
Remarks upon the Family of Angus, by Mr. David Simson.
, who bore him a Son
Archibald Douglass
of
Kilspindy
Ibidem.
, and three Daughters. 1
st. Marjory,
married to
C
thbert
Earl of
Glencairn.
2
d. Elisabeth
to
Robert
Lord
Lyle,
Justice General of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
James
IV. 3
d. Janet,
to
Robert
Lord
Herris,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Nithsdale.
But its requisite here to observe, That
George
Master of
Angus,
married
Margaret,
Daughter of
John,
first Lord
Drummond:
His Children by her were three Sons,
1.
Archibald,
who succeeded his Grand-father.
2. Sir
George Douglass,
who by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter and sole Heir of
David Douglass
of
Pittendrich
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi quinti ad Annum 1535.
had Issue
David,
afterward Earl of
Angus, James
Earl of
Morton,
Regent of
Scotland,
in the Minority of King
James
VI.
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
John Carmichael
of that Ilk, and
Mary
to Sir
George Anchinleck
of
Balmanno
Manuscript History of the House of Angus, in the Custody of Sir Robert Douglass of Glenbervy, Baronet.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Perth.
3.
William,
Prior of
Coldingham,
afterward promoted to be Abbot of
Holy-rood-house, Anno
1522, upon the Promotion of
George Crichton
to the Episcopal See of
Dunkeld.
Also six Daughters,
Elisabeth
married to
John
Lord
Yester,
Progenitor to the Marquess of
Tweddale. Janet
to
John
Lord
Glammis,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Strathmore. Janet,
to Sir
James Douglass
of
Drumlanrig,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Queensberry. Alison,
married first to
Robert Blackader
of that Ilk,
in Vicecomitatu de Berwick,
and secondly to Sir
David Hume
of
Wedderburn, in dicto Vicecomitatu. Margaret,
to
Robert Crawfurd
of
Achinnaims, in Vicecomitatu de Renfrew.
This
George
behaving himself very gallantly at
Flowdonfield,
there lost his Life, with two hundred Gentlemen of his Name and Family, 9th
September
1513; which Disaster so affected his aged Father, that he retired from the World to prepare himself for Death, which he was sensible was approaching, and it happened in the Beginning of the next Year 1514.
To
Archibald
the great Earl of
Angus
succeeded
Archibald
his Grandson, a Person of great Accomplishments, either for Peace or War. This noble Person in his Youth travelled into
France
and other Foreign Parts, where he received great Honours from the Princes themselves of these respective Countrys, particularly from
Henry
II. of
France,
who made him a Knight of the most noble Order of St.
Michael.
About the Time of his Return,
Anno
1515,
Scotland
was then afflicted with the Death of King
James
IV. who left his Son very Young, and the Regency to the Queen Mother, who for her better Support married this Earl.
Upon the Resignation of the Government by the Duke of
Albany,
he together with the Earls of
Aran, Lennox,
and
Argyle,
by a special Act were made Counsellours to the young King
James
V.
Anno
1521, and the Year after constituted Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland;
he held the Office till the Year 1528, at which time, upon a Disgust taken against him by the King, he was removed and out-law'd, whereupon he retir'd into
England,
where he was nobly entertain'd by
Henry
VIII. and taken into the Number of his Privy Council, where he sojourn'd fifteen Years, till the Death of King
James
V.
Anno
1542. Then returning
ome, he was Parliamentarily restor'd to his Estate and Titles of Honour, and at the fatal Battle of
Pinkiefield
he commanded the Van-guard of the Army against the
English,
where he behaved very worthily, and living peaceably the remainder of his Days, he departed this Life at his Castle of
Tantallon,
in the 1557, aged 64, and was interr'd at
Abernethy.
This gallant Earl married thrice, his first Wife being
Margaret Hepburn
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Bothwell,
by her he had no Children. Next, he had the Honour to marry
Margaret
of
England,
Widow of
James
IV. of
Scotland,
eldest Daughter of
Henry
VII. and Sister to
Henry
VIII. Kings of
England,
who bore him one Daughter, the Lady
Margaret Douglass,
married to
Matthew
third Earl of
Lennox,
Mother by him of
Henry
Duke of
Albany,
Lord
Darnly,
&c. Father of
James
VI. first Monarch of
Great Britain.
His third Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Lord
Maxwell,
by whom he had a Son
James,
who dyed in his Childhood. To
Archibald
Earl of
Angus
succeeded,
Sir
David Douglass
of
Pittendrich,
his Nephew, who did not live long to enjoy the Honour: He departing this Life in 1558, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Hamilton
of
Clidesdale,
Brother to
James
Duke of
Chatlerault,
Widow of Sir
John Johnston
of that Ilk, a Son
Archibald,
who succeeded into the Honour; also two Daughters,
Margaret,
married to Sir
Walter Scot
of
Buclugh,
and after his Death to
Francis Steuart
Earl of
Bothwell.
Elisabeth,
to
John
Lord
Maxwell,
afterward Earl of
Morton.
Which
Archibald,
for his vertuous Endowments, was Sirnamed
The good Earl.
He married first
Margaret E
skine
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar.
Next,
Margaret
Daughter to the Earl of
Rothes,
but by neither of these had he any Issue. 3
dly Jean,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Glammis,
who bore him a Daughter
Elisabeth,
who dyed a Maid.
The first time I find this Earl in publick Business, is in 1573, he was constituted Sheriff of
Berwick,
and one of the Wardens on the Borders, which he exerced with an universal Reputation for five or six Years, Justice never being better administred.
Upon the fall of his Uncle the Earl of
Morton,
the King grew jealous of him, whereupon he retir'd to
England,
where he was bountifully entertained by Queen
Elisabeth,
and there he had Opportunity to contract a Friendship with the famous Sir
Philip Sidney,
very much to their mutual Satisfaction: But after some Years, upon better Information, his Majesty not only restored him to his former Favour and Familiarity, but appointed him Lieutenant on the Borders, which he defended with great Reputation for several Years; but at last being seiz'd with a Sickness, which was thought to be Sorcery, he languished under his Distemper till about the end of
July
1588, at which time he gave way to Fate, with the Character of being a good Man in all respects, well versed in Learning, and tho endowed with many excellent Qualities, his Piety was allowed to be the reigning Vertue in him. He was interr'd at the Collegiate Church of
Abernethy;
upon him I find this Epitaph,
Morte jacet saeva Angusius, spes illa bonorum,
Terror malorum maximus:
Cui, laude & luctu meritis, pia turba parentat;
Patrem, Parentem ingeminans.
Par studium impietas simulat: quem carpere livor
Vivum solebat, mortuum
Aut veris sequitur lacrymis, aut gaudià fictis
Celat pudenda; & laudibus
Saltem non fictis os pene invita resolvit,
Seque arguit mendacii.
O laus! O veri vis! O victoria! honosque
Cunctis triumphis clarior!
Englished,
Angus
by cruel Death lies here,
The good Mans hope, the wickeds Fear,
The Praise and Sorrow of the most
Religious, who, as having
st
A Father, mourn, most Men are known
To find a Woe if they have none.
Envy, accustomed to wrong
His guiltless Life, imploys her Tongue
Now a loud Trumpet of his Fame,
And weeps, if not for Grief, for Shame,
Enforc'd to give her self the Lie,
O Power of Truth! O Victory!
By which more Honour is obtain'd,
Than is in greatest Triumphs gain'd.
The Male Line of
George
Master of
Angus
terminating in this Earl, the Honour and Estate, by reason of the entail upon the Heirs Male, devolved on Sir
William Douglass
of
Glenbervy.
Glenbervy
is a Barony in the Shire of
Kincardin,
which was the Possession of the
Melvil's:
As far back as the Time of
Alexander
II.
Philip de Melvil
Knight, executed the Office of Sheriff of
Aberdeen,
in the beginning of that Reign
Chartulary of Arbroth.
. In his Line the Barony continued till the the 8th of
James
III,
Anno
1468
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III. ad Annum 1468.
, and then determined in
Elisabeth,
Daughter, and at length sole Heir of
Alexander Melvil
of
Glenbervy,
married to Sir
John Achinleck
of that Ilk, an ancient Family in
Air
-Shire
Charta in Rotulis dicti Regis.
, by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, who marrying
Giles
Daughter of Sir
John Ross
of
Halkhead,
Knight
Charta penes Ducem de Douglass.
, left a Daughter
Elisabeth
his sole Heir, whose Ward and Marriage falling to the King,
James
IV. he assigned it to Sir
William Douglass
of
Braidwood,
Knight, Son to
Archibald
Earl of
Angus
Ibidem.
,
Anno
1492: Whereupon there happned a Contest betwixt the said
Elisabeth
and
James Achinleck
of that Ilk, her Cousin German, about the Right of Succession: The Matter at length, after long Dispute, was referred by both Parties to certain Noblemen, who determined the Barony of
Glenbervy
to the said
Elisabeth,
and Sir
William Douglass
her Husband, whereupon he took the Coat of
Achinleck, viz. A Cross imbattled,
Sable, into his Atchievment. He was killed at the fatal Battle of
Flowdon, Anno
1513, leaving Issue by the said
Elisabeth
his Wife,
Archibald
his Son and Heir, on whom King
James
V. conferred the Honour of Knighthood. His first Wife was
Agnes,
Daughter of
William
Earl
Marishall,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir: Also by his second Marriage with
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Irvine
of
Drum,
he had two Sons,
1.
James,
a Clergyman, Parson of the Paroch Church of
Glenbervy,
Grandfather by
Robert Douglass
of
Kilmonth,
his eldest Son, of the right reverend Dr.
Robert Douglass
Bishop of
Dumblain,
he was born
Anno
1626, and had his
Grammar
Education in the Country, from whence being sent to the University of
Aberdeen,
he proceeded to the Degree of Master of Arts, continuing to pursue, his Theological Sudies with great Assiduity, he commenced Preacher about the Year 1650, but what was his first ministerial Charge before he was Parson of
Renfrew
in the
West,
does not occurr to me. From thence, after some Years stay, he was removed to the Provostry of
Bothwell,
and not long after that, to the Deanry of
Glasgow,
& Parsonage of
Hamilton,
where he continued to exercise his Ministerial Function, till Dr.
Robert Lawry,
who had presided over the Episcopal See of
Brechin,
from the Year 1671, to the 1682, departing this Life, Mr.
Douglass
was consecrated in his Room, and on the 29th of
June
1684 translated to the See of
Dumblain,
where he continued in the exercise of his Episcopal Function till the 1689, he was deprived of his Bishoprick; since which time, he has made Conscience to live peaceably under King
William
's Government, and that of her present Majesty, and is now arrived to the uncommon age of 87, exercising himself daily in Works of Devotion and Piety, patiently waiting till the great Change come of translating him from this World, to the State of endless Felicity in the other.
2.
John Douglass,
second Son.
To Sir
Archibald Douglass
of
Glenbervy,
succeeded Sir
William
his Son and Heir, to whom the Honour of Earl of
Angus
devolved
Anno
1588.
This Earl, while a private Gentleman, accompanyed Queen
Mary
in her
Northern
Expedition,
Anno
1562, and was active in the Fight at
Corrichie,
where
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly
was slain. Upon the turn of the Reformation, in the memorable Year 1560, when both the Doctrine of the Church, and Authority of the Bishop, of
Rome
was parliamentarly abolished; he did eminently signalize himself by his firm Adherence to, and zealous Profession of the Protestant Religion, of which he was a very great Promoter, and of Consequence was a mighty Supporter of King
James
VI's. Authority during the Administration of the Regents
Murray, Lennox, Mar,
and
Morton;
which in that Prince's Minority, very much to his Detriment, he maintained, assisting both with his Money and Counsel; but having no Opportunity of signalizing himsely by Arms, we hear no more of moment concerning him, till the time of his Death, which happened 14
April
1591, leaving a numerous Family by
Giles
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Graham
of
Morphie, in Vicecomitatu de Kincardin;
1.
William
his Successor in the Honour.
2. Sir
Robert,
who got his Father's paternal Estate of
Glenbervy,
and was created Baronet, by King
Charles
I. the 30th of
May
1625, being the sixth in Number of Precedency in that Honour. His Wife was
Elisabeth,
Daughter of Sir
George Auchinleck
of
Balmanno,
by whom he had Sir
William
his Successor, and Dr.
George Douglass
Rector of
Stepney,
Grand-father to Sir
Robert Douglass
now of
Glenbervy,
Baronet.
3
d
Son
Gavin Douglass
of
Bridgeford.
4
th. John Douglass
of
Barras.
Margar
eldest Daughter, married to
John Forbes
of
Monimusk, in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen. Elisabeth
the second, to Sir
Alexander Gordon
of
Cluny. Jean
the third, to
James Wishart
of
Pittarow, in Vicecomitatu de Kincardin. Sarah
ourth and youngest, to Sir
Alexander Strachan
of
Thorntoun
Baronet, and after his Death to Sir
George Auchinleck
of
Balmanno.
William
his eldest Son, succeeded in the Honour, was a Nobleman well versed in the Antiquities and History of his Country, especially in that Part relating to Genealogies; and from the
Scots
History, and the Documents of his Family, he wrote a Chronicle of the
Douglasses,
a much more elaborate Work than that put out in the Year 1644, Dedicated to the Marquis of
Douglass.
This Earl, in the latter part of his Life, made Defection to the
Romish
Faith, which put him so much under the King's Displeasure, that with leave he retired into
France,
where he spun out his Time in the Devotions of that Church till his Death, in the Year 1616. His wife was
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
Lawrence
Lord
Oliphant,
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Earl o
Errol,
by whom he had three Sons, and two Daughters,
William
Lord
Angus
his Successor, Sir
James Douglass
afterward Lord
Mordingtoun,
S
r
Francis Douglass
of
Sandilands,
Knight.
Mary,
second Wife of
Alexander
Earl of
Linlithgow, Margaret,
to Sir
Alexander Campbel
of
Calder, in Vicecamitatu Moraviae,
and had Issue.
To this Earl succeeded
William
his Son, who as he was Master of a most plentiful Fortune, so he kept up the old
Scots
Hospitality and Grandeur at his Castle
Douglass,
where he usually resided, having perhaps a more numerous Family and Attendance than any Nobleman in the Kingdom. King
Charles
I, constituted him chief Commander or Lieutenant on the Borders
Mr. Simson.
, and created him Marquis of
Douglass
on the 17th of
June
1633, the Day immediately preceeding his Majesty's Coronation. Upon the commencing of the Civil War, in that Reign, I do not find this noble Lord engaged much on either side, but kept himself out of the Broils of these times, as much as any of his Quality in the Kingdom, till the 1645, perceiving the hard Usage of the King, and the Miseries that threatned his native Country, he took up Arms in Defence of both, and joining his Forces with these under the Command of the Great Marquis of
Montrose,
his Majesty's Captain General in
Scotland,
He accompanyed him to the Battle of
Philiphaugh,
where he behaved himself with great Valour and admirable Courage. Upon the loss of the D
, he had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner; and notwithstanding all the Disadvantages and Dangers he lay under from the usurping Powers of these Times, continued steady in his Loyalty to his Prince King
Charles
II, tho in Exile, to the frequent hazard of his Life, and Detriment of his Fortune,
Oliver Cromwell
imposing a considerable Fine upon him in the 1654.
H
s first Marriage was with
Margaret
Daughter of
Claude Hamilton
Lord
Paisly,
Sister to
James
first Earl of
Abercorn,
by whom he had two Sons and four Daughters.
1.
Archibald,
Lord
Angus,
who upon the breaking out of the Civil War, in the Reign of King
Charles
I, was on the Parliament's side for some time, but afterward disliking the Service; and finding Things carried on to Extremities, he left them, and appeared very forward to testify his Loyalty to King
Charles
II, at whose Coronation, which was solemniz'd the first of
January
1651, his Lordship was constituted Lord high Chamberlain for the Day. He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
Esmae Steuart
Duke of
Lennox,
by whom he had
James
who succeeded his Grandfather. 2
dly Jean,
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Weems,
by whom he had
Archibald
Earl of
Forfar,
and
Margaret
fourth Wife of
Alexander
Viscount of
Kingstoun.
This Lord dyed in the prime of his Age,
Anno
1655, his Wife surviving him, re-married with
George
Earl of
Sutherland.
2
d. James
the 2
d
Son, whose Genius leading him to the Wars, he went over to
France,
where he signaliz'd himself in the Service of
Lewis
XIV, on every Occasion that offered, and more particularly at the Siege of
Doway,
where he was killed, his Death preventing his being honoured with a Marshal's Batton. Besides these Sons, he had also three Daughters.
Jean,
married to
William
Lord
Alexander,
Son and Heir of
William
first Earl of
Stirling.
Margaret,
to Sir
John Hamilton,
who was created Lord
Bargany
by King
Charles
I.
Grisel
the third, to Sir
William Carmichael.
His Lordships second Wife was
Mary
Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntly,
by
Henrietta
his Wife, Daughter of
Esmae
Duke of
Lennox,
by whom he had
William,
created Earl of
Selkirk, Anno
1646, and afterward Duke o
Hamilton
1661. The second,
George
Earl of
Dunbarton;
Colonel
James Douglass,
third Son, dyed unmarried; likewise four Daughters,
1.
Henrietta,
married to
James
Earl of
Annandale.
2.
Catherine,
to Sir
William Ruthven
of
Douglass, in Vicecomitatu de Berwick.
3.
Isabel,
to
William
the first Duke of
Queensberry.
4
Jean,
to
James
4th Earl of
Perth,
Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
Charles
II. and King
James
VII.
5.
Lucy,
to
Robert
Earl of
Nithsdale,
and all had Issue.
My Lord Marquis surviving all our intestine Commotions, which were not a few, the detail of which, I need not at this time enter into, he at last gave way to Fate in a good advanced Age, in the Spring of the Year, 1660
Mr. Simson's Essay on the Family of Douglass, penes me.
.
James
succeeded his Grandfather in the Honour, he was sworn one of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. about 1670, and so continued to two succeeding Kings, for the space of 30 Years, even to his Death. He married first
Barbara,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
by whom he had a Son,
James
Lord
Angus,
a very brave Youth, who engaging early in the Wars, signaliz'd his Courage upon every Occasion that offered it self especially at the Battle o
Stenkirk,
where he was unfortunately slain, 3
d.
of
August
1692, in his 21 Year, generally lamented, being a Nobleman of great Hopes and Expectation, and would have been an Honour and Ornament to his Country, had not an untimely Death too soon depriv'd his illustrous Family of the great Advantages it might have reaped by his Enjoyment of a longer Life. His Lordship married to his second Wife,
Mary,
Daughter of
Robert
Marquis of
Lothian,
by whom he had
Archibald
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter Lady
Jean.
He departed this mortal Life in a most Christian manner, and with an entire Resignation to the Will of the Creator, on the 25th of
February
1700, at the Age of fifty four, and was interr'd at
Douglass
without any Funeral Solemnity.
Archibald
the present Duke, a young Nobleman of great Hopes, succeeded his Father at six Years old, and Her Majesty Queen
Anne
was pleased in the nineth Year of his Age, to augment his Lordships Honours, by creating him Duke of
Douglass,
on the 18th of
April
1703: The Reasons for bestowing the Honour upon him, is thus set forth in the Preamble to his Patent.
Quod nos in Regio nostro animo revolventes fidelissimum & dilectissimum nostrum
onsanguineum Archibaldum Marchionem de Douglass. ex familia nobili & illustri ortum esse & a progenitoribus qui maximae fi
uciae munia illis concredita immaculata virtute & singulari fide obierunt quique ob res ab illis clarissime gestis. Regium diadema tuendo & sustentando summis honoris & dignitatis titulis per nostros Regios predecessores exornati fuerunt: Nos quoque hujus maxime memores & cupidae per ulteriorem honoris additionem d
ctum Archiba
d
m Marchienem de Douglass ejusque heredibus masculis ipsius corporis, sibi animum addere, ut nobiles suos predecessores imitetur; Noveritis i
itur nos f
sse, constituisse, creasse & inaugu
asse Archibaldum Marchionem de Douglass Ducem a
Douglass, Marchionem de Angus & Abernethy, Vicecomitem de J
dburgh Forrest Dominum Douglass de Lonckle, Prestoun, & Robertoun.
ARMS.
Four Coats quarterly. 1st
Azure,
a Lyon Rampant crown'd with an imperial Crown
Or:
2d
Or,
a Lyon rampant
Gules,
surmounted of a Ribban,
Sable:
3d
Or,
a Fesse Cheque,
Azure
and
Argent,
surmounted of a Bend,
Sable,
charged with five Buckles,
Or:
4th
Argent,
three Pyles,
Gules;
over all in a Shield of Pretence,
Argent,
a Heart,
Gules,
ensign'd with an imperial Crown,
Or,
on a Chief,
Azure,
three Mollets of the first, supported on the Dexter, with a Savage, wreathed about the Loins with Lawrel, and on the Sinister by a Stag
Proper: Crest,
a Salamander vomiting Fire:
Motto, Jamais Arriere,
all within a Compartment of Stakes impal'd.
MAXWEL, Earl of
Dirleton.
THE first and last Earl of this Place, was Sir
James Maxwel
of
Innerweek,
Knight, Son o
John Maxwel
of
Kirkhouse
(a Branch of the Family of
Maxwel
) by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter o
Sir
Charles Murray
of
Cockpool.
Which Sir
James
was first introduc'd to Court by the means of his Uncle
John
Earl of
Annandale,
the great Favorite of
James
VI. where he soon obtain'd so much of his Majesty's Favour, as to be made a Knight, and one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber. King
Charles
not only continued him in his Service, but further to reward his long and constant Fidelity in that Im
loyment, created him into the Dignity and Titles of Earl of
Dirle
on,
and Lord
Elbotle,
in the Year 1646. He married
Elisabeth de Bousoyn,
a Foreigner, by whom he had two Daughters,
Elisabeth,
married to
William
second Duke of
Hamilton.
Jean,
to
Charles
Lord
Cranburn,
eldest Son of
William
Earl of
Salisbury
in
England,
and had Issue.
ARMS.
Argent,
Saltyre,
Sable.
SUTHERLAND, Lord
Duffus.
THE
Murray's
were the first Proprietors of the Barony of
Duffus,
in the County of
Murray,
and that as early as the time of King
William
the
Lyon, Hugh de Moravia,
being Brother to
William de Moravia,
who first assum'd the Sirname of
Murray:
He's Witness in several Grants made to the Episcopal See of
Murray,
by his Brother, therein designed
filius Willielmi filii Friskini
Chartulary of Murray in the Lawyers Liberary, M.S.
.
This
Hugh
left Issue
Walter de Moravia,
who cedes his Right of the Wood of
Spiny
to
Archibald
Bishop of
Murray
Ibidem.
, in pure and perpetual Alms,
Anno Dom.
1226. He was succeeded by
Frsikinus de Moravia
his Son, who designs himself
Dominus de Duffus,
in a solemn Contract bebetwixt him and the Bishop of
Murray,
relative to several Lands that had been in Dispute between Sir
Walter
his Father, and the former Bishop of that See, dated on St.
Cuthberts
Day 1248. By
Jean
his Wife, he left Issue two Daughters his Coheirs
Ibidem.
,
Mary
married to Sir
Reginald le Chien,
Knight, and
Christian
to
William de Federeth,
who divided the Inheritance.
The Lands of
Duffus
falling to the Share of the eldest Sister, Sir
Reginald de Chein,
and
Mary
his Wife foresaid, they gave a Donation to the Cathedral of
Elgin,
1
st May
1269, for the good of their Souls. After some Descents this Barony was transferred by the Marriage of
Mary
Daughter and Heir of
Rynald Chine,
Knight, to
Nicol
a younger Son of
Kenneth
Earl of
Sutherland,
who was slain at the Battle of
Halydonhill, Anno
1333
Sir Robert Gordon's History of the Family of Sutherland.
, he obtained by his Brother's Grant on the 30th of
September
1360, the fourty pound Land of
Therboll,
to be holden of the said Earl, which King
David
II, confirmed by his Charter under the Great Seal, in the 1364
Information for the Earl of Sutherland against the Earls of Argyle, Crawfurd, Errol and Marshal.
, and by reason of this Marriage, the
Sutherlands
of
Duffus
added to their paternal Coat, the three
Cross Croslets,
the Arms of
Chine,
which is still in their Atchivement. This
Nicol
was succeeded by
Henry Sutherland
of
Duffus,
his Son and Heir
Ibidem.
, as he was by
Alexander,
who obtain'd a Charter of the Lands of
Therboll
from
John
then Earl of
Sutherland,
his Superior, dated the 12th of
July
1444. He added much to the Wealth of his Family by the Marriage of the Heir Female of
Chisholme
of that Ilk,
Sir George Mackinzies Baronage of Scotland MS. penes me.
and thereupon assumed into the Center of his Coat of Arms
a Boars Head coupe. Alexander Sutherland
of
Duffus,
Successor to the former, dying without Male Issue, in the Reign of
James
IV.
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad Annum 1507.
Christian
his only Daughter and Heir, was married to
William Oliphant
of
Berrindale:
the Barohy of
Duffus
after a long Dispute, came to
William Sutherland
of
Querrelwood
Ibidem.
as Heir Male. He departing this Life in 1529, left Issue by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of
Alexander Innes
of that Ilk
Chartulary of Murray.
,
William
his Successor, and
Alexander
a Clergyman, who was Dean of
Caithness
Ibidem.
.
As to the Descendents of this
William,
seeing they did not stand in the rank of Peers, tho' a considerable Family, I shall not trace them, but come down to the Reign of King
Charles
II. in whose Time Sir
Alexander Sutherland
of
Duffus,
was one of the Barons, who by Reason of his special Merit was advanced to the Honour of Lord
Duffus,
8th
December
1650, some Days preceeding his Majesty's Coronation.
He married to his first Wife,
Jean
Daughter of
Colin
Lord
Kintail,
Widow of
William
Lord
Berrindale.
2
dly.
. . . . . . . . . Daughter of Sir
Robert Innes
of that Ilk. And next,
Margaret
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Murray,
by whom he had
James
his Successor, and
Henrietta
a Daughter married to
George
Earl of
Linlithgow.
James
late Lord
Duffus,
married
Margaret
Daughter to
Kenneth
Earl of
Seaforth,
by whom he had
Kenneth
the present Lord, who succeeded his Father in the 1705. His Lordship having acquired great Knowledge in Maritime Affairs, was meritoriously advanced to the Command of
The Advice,
one of her Majesty's Ships of War, in which Character, in several Expeditions he has behaved with admirable Courage and Bravery. He married
Charlota Christina,
Daughter of
Eri
de Siobladhe
Governour and Admiral of
Gottenburgh
in
Sweden,
by whom he has a Son
Erick,
Master of
Duffus.
The present Lord has two Brothers,
James Sutherland
Esq
who changed his Name for that of
Dunbar,
by reason of his marrying
Mary,
Daughter, and Heir of Sir
William Dunbar
of
Hemprigs;
he was created Baronet 10th of
December
1706, and
William Sutherland
of
Roscommon.
Ibidem.
OSBURN, Viscount of
Dumblain.
AMONG many others, whose great Deserts and special Services inclin'd his Majesty King
Charles
II. to confer sundry Titles of Honour upon them, was Sir
Thomas Osburn,
Son and Heir of Sir
Edward Osburn
Baronet, vice President of the Council to King
Charles
I. for the Northern Parts of
England,
and Lieutenant General of the Forces that were raised for the Service of that Prince, upon the first breaking out of the Rebellion in
England, Anno
1642.
This Sir
Thomas
faithfully adhering to the royal Interest during the Usurpation, and Co-operating with many others his Majesty's loyal Subjects, in order to his Restauration, and afterwards constantly applying himself to his Service, with all Fidelity and Diligence, was sworn of his Privy Council, 3
d
of
May
1672, and made Thesaurer of the Navy, as a further Testimony of his Majesty's Esteem, He was by Letters patent bearing date the 19th
July
1673, created Viscount of
Dumblain
in this Realm; and in 1674, honoured with the Title of Viscount of
Latimer
and Earl of
Danby
in
England,
and soon after instal'd Knight of the
Garter;
afterward concurring in the Revolution,
Ann
1688, he was upon the Prince of
Orange
Accession to the Crown of
England,
constituted President of the Council, and on the 9th of
August
1689, created Marquis of
Carmarthan,
and afterward Duke of
Leeds,
4th
May
1694; he married
Briget,
Daughter of
Montague
Earl of
Lindsay,
by whom he had
1.
Edward,
Lord
Latimer,
who dyed without Issue.
2
d. Peregrine,
who became Viscount
Dumblain,
upon his Father's surrender of the Honour; also four Daughters,
Anne,
married to
Robert Cock
of
Hoskham,
in the County of
Norfolk,
Esq
and since to
Horatio Valpole
Esq
Bridget,
to
Charles
Earl of
Plymouth,
to whom she had no Issue, since whose Decease she has married with
Philip Bliss,
Doctor of Divinity.
Catherine,
to
James Herbert
Esq
Martha,
to
Charles
Earl of
Bath.
Sophia,
first to
Donatus
Lord
Obrien,
and again to
William
late Lord
Lempster.
His Grace dyed full of Days and Honour, the 29th of
July
1712, aged 81 Years, and was succeeded by
Peregrine,
Lord Viscount of
Dumblain,
and now Duke of
Leeds,
his Son and Heir. This noble Lord, having experienced himself in Maritime Affairs, and commanding as an Admiral in several Expeditions at Sea, has on many Occasions distinguished his gallant Behaviour,
especially at the Business of
Cameret,
where his Conduct and Bravery were very remarkable. He married
Bridget
Daughter and Heir of Sir
Thomas Hide
of
Worthmyms,
in the County of
Hartfort,
by whom he had
William
Marquis of
Carmarthan,
who dyed at
Utrecht,
returning from his Travels, 16th of
August
1711, aged 21.
Peregrine,
now Marquis of
Carmarthan,
who is married with
Elisabeth
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Oxford,
Lord high Thesaurer of Great
Britain;
also two Daughters,
Lady
Bridget,
Lady
Mary.
ARMS.
Quarterly
Ermine
and
Azure,
a Cross
Or.
SETON, Earl of
Dumfermling.
THAT the Study and Practice of the Law, has raised many to great Wealth and Honour, is evident enough from sundry Examples of that kind; amongst which Sir
Alexander Seton,
the first of this Family is not the least; he was a Younger Son of
George
Lord
Seton,
by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Hamilton
of
Sorn,
Knight, Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland,
in the Reign of
James
V. he was educated in
Italy,
where he studied the Laws, in which Profession he became so great a Proficient, that King
James
VI. upon his return home, constituted him one of the extraordinary Lords of the Session, 12th of
March
1585, that he might thereby come to the knowledge of the Forms here used: After which, in
February
1587, he was admitted one of the ordinary Senators of the College of Justice, and on the 3
d
of
August
1591, his Majesty advanced him to the Dignity of a Lord of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Urquhart;
and that he might the better support the Honour he had conferred on him, that Prince took the first Opportunity to augment his Fortune, and in the 21
st.
of his Reign, upon the Dissolution of the Monastries, made a Grant to him and the Heirs of his Body, lawfully begotten, of the whole Lands and Tithes of the rich Priory of
Pluscarden
in
Murray;
his Lordship ascending still higher in Esteem, in Respect of his eminent Knowledge, was preferred to be President of the Session, in the Room of
William Baillie
of
Provan,
deceased 12th of
May
1593; as also in 1595, to be one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury. Rising by these Gradations, in the 36 of the said King,
Anno
1604, he was advanced to that eminent Post of Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland,
and upon the 3
d
of
March
the Year after dignified with the Honour of Earl of
Dumfermling,
he was likewise appointed one of the Commissioners to treat of a nearer Union betwix
Scotland
and
England,
which was not compleated at that time; after which continuing in the Chancellours Office with much Honour, for the full Term of 18 Years, He departed this Life 16th of
June
1622, and was interr'd at the Paroch Church of
Dalgaty
in
Fife,
with great Funeral Solemnity.
His first Wife was
Lilias,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Drummond,
by whom he had four Daughters,
1.
Anne,
married to
Thomas
second Earl of
Kelly.
2.
Isabel,
to
John
first Earl of
Lauderdale.
3.
Margaret,
to
Colin
Earl of
Seaforth.
4.
Sophia,
to
David
first Lord
Balcares.
His second Marriage was with
Grisel,
Daughter of
James,
Son and Heir of
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes,
by whom he had only a Daughter
Jean,
married to
John
first Earl of
Twedale.
He married to his third Wife,
Margaret
Daughter to
John
Lord
Yester,
by whom he had
Charles
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Grisel,
who dyed unmarried.
Alexander,
Earl of
Dumfermling,
was succeeded in his Honours and Estate by his Son
Charles,
who upon the breaking out of the Civil War, in 1638, was at first on the Covenanters side: However, such was his Prudence and Moderation, that he endeavour'd to advance all Motions toward a Peace, and was the first Lord in the King's Commission to treat with the
English,
in order to compose the unhappy Differences between his Majesty and his Subjects in
Scotland,
which was by his Endeavours happily concluded in the Year 1641. And that he might be further able to serve the King with the Church, he was appointed Commissioner to the General Assembly,
Anno
1641, wherein he proposed very temperate Counsels, and earnestly recommended to the Clergy, that in return of all his Majesty's Favours toward their Church, they would make Conscience by their Doctrine and Example to keep the People in their Duty to God and the King, during the succeeding Times of Anarchy and Usurpation. This noble Lord affecting to lead a retired Life, I find no Account of him in any of the publick Transactions that ensued, but upon the Dawn of the Restauration of King
Charles
II. he appeared very forward to express his Loyalty, and to re-establish the old
Scots
Constitution, to which he firmly adhered, not long after, he was constituted one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, and in 1671 made Lord Privy Seal, in the Room of
William
Earl of
Marshal
deceased; which Office he enjoy'd till his Death,
Anno
1674. By
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton,
he had three Sons and a Daughter,
1.
Alexander,
who succeeded in the Honour, but dyed unmarried.
2.
Charles,
killed aboard the Fleet in the great Sea Fight against the
Dutch, Anno
1672.
3.
James,
who succeeded his Broin the Honour.
4.
Henrietta,
married first to
William
Earl of
Wigton,
and after to
William
Earl of
Crawfurd,
and had Issue.
Which
James
Earl of
Dumfermling,
in his Youth, having a Genius to War, he betook himself to Arms in the Service of the States of
Holland,
and was in several memorable Expeditions under the Prince of
Orange;
but quiting those Military Imployments, upon his Accession to the Honour, he lived at home in great Splendor, till the Revolution, in 1688. He was one of the
Scots
Peers who faithfully adhered to the Interest of King
James:
And the Viscount of
Dundee
no sooner took the Field, and declared for the King, than his Lordship brought and joined him with a Troop of Horse, upon the Head of which he was personally engaged in the Battle of
Killicrankie,
where he behaved very bravely, for which he was Forfeited by Authority of the Parliament, 1690. Upon the Capitulation of the
Highlanders,
when there was no probability of supporting King
James
's Interest any longer in
Scotland,
he retired to the Court of St.
Germans
in
France,
where the said King, to alleviate his Misfortunes, was pleased to honour his Lordship with the most noble Order of the
Thistlo,
as a distinguishing Mark of his royal Favour (and as he said)
An Earnest of what he intended to do for him and his Family, when it would please God to restore him to the peaceable Possession of his own;
here he sojourned till his Death, in the Year 1694, leaving no Issue that survived him by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Lewis
Marquis of
Huntly;
so that the Honour by Reason of the entail to Heirs Male, wou'd descend to
George Seton
of
Barns,
descended of Sir
John Seton
Knight, immediate elder Brother to
Alexander
first Earl of
Dumfermling,
were it not for the Forfaulture.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st. and 4th.
Or:
Three Crescents
Gules,
within a double Tressure flowr'd and Counterflowr'd,
Or:
2d. and 3d.
Argent,
on a Fess,
Gules:
Three cinque Foils of the first, supported by two Horses,
Argent: Crest,
a Crescent,
Gules:
Motto,
Semper.
HUME, Earl of
Dunbar,
IN ancient Deeds and Charters,
Cospatricius
is styled
Comes de Dunbar, tempore David
I. but his Successors came to be designed Earls of
March,
under which Title they will be more properly spoken of. The first then who enjoyed this Honour since, was Sir
George Hume
Knight, Son of
Alexander Hume
of
Manderstoun, in Vicecomitatu de Berwick,
a Cadet to the Branch of
Wedderburn
(
in praedicto Vicecomitatu
) who being a Person of great Learning, singular Judgment, and other great Indowments, was first admitted Gentleman of the Bed-chamber
Johnstoni Historia rerum Britannicarum.
, 18
vo. Jacobi
VI.
Anno
1585, Knighted
Anno
1590, and constituted Master of the Wardrobe
Ibidem & Melvil's Memoirs.
. Also in 1601, he was made Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland, Alexander
Lord
Elphinston
resigning the Office. Upon his Majesty's Accession to the Crown of
England, Anno
1603, he accompanyed him into that Realm, being then of the Privy Council, and was by his Majesty's special Favour, by Letters patent, bearing date 7th of
July
1604, created a Baron of
England,
by the Title of Lord
Hume
of
Berwick
Dugdale's Baronage of England, Tom 2.
, and on the 3
d
of
March
1605, dignified with the Title of Earl of
Dunbar
Creation of the Scots Nobility.
, and instituted Knight of the
Garter, Anno
1609.
Dugdale.
His Lordship having discharged all the great and weighty Imployments he engaged in with admirable Prudence and Dexterity, at length gave way to Fate on the 29th
January
1611, and was interr'd at the Collegiate Church of
Dunbar.
Over his Grave was a stately Monument erected of black and white Marble, with his Portraiture lying thereon, below this Inscription,
Here lyes the Body of the Right Honourable
George Hume
Earl of
Dunbar,
Baron
Hume
of
Berwick,
Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland,
Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter,
and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, who departed this Life the
29th
of
January, MDCXI.
This Earl left Issue by
Catherine
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Alexander Gordon
of
Gight,
Knight,
in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen,
by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter to Cardinal
David Beaton
Bishop of St.
Andrews
Mr. Martin of Claremont's Genealogical Collections, in the Hands of Claremont his Son.
, two Daughters his Coheirs;
Anne,
the eldest, married to Sir
James Hume
of
Coldingknows, in Vicecomitatu de Berwick,
Mother by him to
James
3
d
Earl of
Hume; Elisabeth,
the second, to
Theophilus
Earl of
Suffolk
of the Kingdom of
England,
and had Issue.
ARMS.
Three Coats quarterly: 1st. and 4th
Vert,
A Lyon rampant,
Argent:
2d
Argent,
Three Papingoes
Vert:
3d.
Argent,
Three Escutcheons,
Vert:
and in surtout
Gules,
A Lyon rampant,
Argent,
within a Border, charged with eight Crosses of the second.
CONSTABLE, Viscount of
Dunbar.
THE next who enjoyed any honourary Title from this Place, was Sir
Henry Constable
of
Halsham,
Knight, of a good Family, in the County of
York
in
England.
He was by the Favour of King
James
VI, raised to the Honour of Viscount of
Dunbar
in
Scotland,
by Letters Patent, bearing date the 14th of
November
1620. He married
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
John Tuffton,
Baronet
Peerage of England Vol. I.
.
John
his Son and Successor in the Honour, married
Mary
Daughter to
Robert
Earl of
Cardigan.
To this
John
succeeded
Robert
Lord Viscount of
Dunbar,
who took to Wife
Mary
Daughter of
John
Lord
Bellaisses,
and
Robert
the next Viscount, married
Dorothea,
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Cardigan,
Widow of
Charles
Earl of
Westmoreland,
Mother by him, I presume; to
Edward
the present Lord Viscount of
Dunbar,
whose paternal Coat of
ARMS.
Is,
Or,
three Bars,
Azure,
supported on the Dexter with a Bull,
Sable,
and on the Sinister with a Lyon rampant,
Gules:
Crest, a Dragons Head: Motto,
Sans maivaise Desire.
DOUGLASS, Earl of
Dunbarton.
FROM this royal Burongh, hone derived any Title of Honour till King
Charles
II. raised Lord
George Douglass,
younger Son of
William
first Marquis of
Douglass,
to the Dignity of Earl of
Dunbarton,
the 9th of
March
1675.
This noble Person served
Lewis
XIV. of
France
in the Quality of one of his Pages of Honour; afterward taking himself to the Profession of Arms, he rose gradually to be Colonel Brigadeer, and at last Major General: He was present in most of the Sieges and Actions betwixt the
French
and the Confederates, wherein he acquired immortal Honour by his unparalleled Valour, in 1678. Upon the Conclusion of the Peace with the States of
Holland,
by the Treaty of
Nimiguen,
He was called over to
Britain,
and resided most at Court during the remainder of King
Charles
's Reign.
Upon the Accession of King
James
VII. to the Crown, in the 1685, he was constituted General of the Forces in
Scotland;
and in that Station he commanded against the Earl of
Argyle
upon his Invasion of this Realm, whom he so closely pursued, that his Men were soon dispersed, and himself taken Prisoner, whose Fate I need not re-count here. Also in the 1687, he was elected one of the twelve Knights, Companions of the most noble Order of St.
Andrew
of
Scotland,
which his Majesty was then pleased to revive, after it had lyen dormant for 145 Years.
Upon the landing of the Prince of
Orange
in
England,
his Lordship stuck closs to King
James,
and together with the Earls of
Aran, Salisbury,
and
Leitchfield,
attended his Majesty to
Rochester,
from whence he set Sail for
France,
whether my Lord
Dunbarton
soon followed, and dyed at the Court of St.
Germans, Anno
1692, leaving Issue by . . . . . . . his Wife, Sister to the Dutchess of
Northumberland, George
the present Earl of
Dunbarton,
now in the
British
Service.
ARMS.
The four quartered Coats of the Family of
Douglass,
with the paternal Arms, over all in a Shield of Pretence; for Destinction within a Border quartered, 1st
Azure:
Three Flower-de-Lys
Or,
2d
Gules,
three Lyons passant guardant
Or,
3d as 2d. 4th as 1st.
SCRIMGEOUR, Earl of
Dundee.
ACcording to the Authority of our Historians, this noble and ancient Family derive their Origine from one Sir
Alexander Caron,
a brave and valiant Knight, who in the first of
Alexander
I.
Anno Dom.
1107, signaliz'd his Valour against the Northern Rebels, who had attempted no less than the Murder of the King, for which (continue they) he had his Name changed to
Scrimgeour,
that is a
Sharp Fight;
Wherefore he had a special Grant from the King to himself, and the Heirs Male of his Body, to be hereditary Standard-bearers to the Kings of
Scotland,
and for his Coat of Arms,
Gules,
a Lyon rampant,
Argent,
holding in his dexter Paw a crooked Sword
Proper,
and the word
Dissipate
for his Motto. Mr.
Johnston
the Poet, has left us the following Verses to the Honour of his Memory,
Quid trepidas? da signa mihi, superabimus amnem;
Terreat an pavidos nos fugitiva cohors?
Dixit, & areptis signis ruit acer in hostem,
Nil rapidi metuens agmina torva vadi:
Hine decus augusto surgit sub Principe, ab armis
Scrimgerae
genti fama decusque manent.
Arma alius jactet, nos scimus fortibus armis
Ʋ tier, hand dici, malumus esse viri.
This Name has been remarkable in our
Scots
History on several other Occasions, particularly Sir
Alexander Scrimgeor,
was among the first who took the Field for King
Robert Bruce,
and faithfully adhered to him; in Consideration whereof, when that valiant Prince came to be established on the Throne, he gave him sundry Lands about the Burgh of
Innerkeithing,
then in the Crown, by the Attainder of Sir
Philip de Moubray,
Knight. Also Sir
John Scrimgeor
was killed at the fatal Battle of
Halydonhill
1333; and another Sir
James Scrimgeor
Constable of
Dundee,
his Successor, was slain in the Governours Army against
Donald
Lord of the Isles, at the Battle of
Harlaw, Anno
1411. I need not be at much Pains to show the several Matches they have made with some of the most noble Families of this Kingdom, since the whole Course of this Book makes mention thereof, only I shall take notice, that in process of Time, after having flourished long in the State of Barons, they came to the Honour of Peerage the in Person of Sir
James Scrimgeor
Constable of
Dundee,
who was raised to the Honour of Viscount of
Duddop,
by King
Charles
I. in the Year 1641. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he accepted of a Command in those Forces that were sent from
Scotland
to the Aid of the
English
Parliament, against the King, and lost his Life in the Battle of
Marstoun Moor,
2
d July, Anno
1644,
A Person
(says one)
who for the Nobleness of his Extraction, and many personal Endowments, deserved a better fate, at least to have dyed in a better Cause.
He left a Son
John,
by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
first Earl of
Roxburgh,
who succeeded him in the Honour.
This Lord put himself in Arms in behalf of King
Charles
II. and marched with him to the Battle of
Worcester,
3
d September
1651, after which he suffered much for his Loyalty, but living to see the Restauration, he received some part of amends, being created Earl of
Dundee, Anno
1661, and made one of the Privy Council. His Wife was
Mary
Daughter of
William
first Earl of
Dalhousie,
but dying without Issue, in 1668, by reason of an Entail of his Estate, which (purely thro' Inadvertency) terminated in the Heirs Male, the King succeeded thereto as
ultimus haeres,
and the Honour became extinct, and lay dormant till the Year 1688, that the Title of Viscount of
Dundee
was bestowed on General
Graham.
GRAHAM, Viscount of
Dundee.
THE Family of
Fintry
anciently seated in
Stirling
shire, of which the Viscount of
Dundee
was sprung, descended from Sir
Robert Graham
eldest Son of Sir
William Graham
of
Kincardin,
by the Lady
Mary Steuart
his second Wife, Daughter of
Robert
third King of
Scotland.
This Sir
Robert Graham
of
Fintry
's second Son
John Graham
of
Balargus,
was Founder of the Family of
Claverhouse:
He obtain'd from
Archibald
Earl of
Angus
a Grant to himself and
Marjory
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
James Scrimgeor
of
Duddop,
Constable of
Dundee,
of the Lands of
Balargus
in
Forfar
-shire,
Anno
1482
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, where he fixed his Residence,
tempore Jacobi Tertii,
from whom descended in a direct Line,
William Graham
of
Claverhouse,
who marring
Anne,
Daughter of
Robert Lundy
of
Balgony, in Vicecomitatu de Fife,
had Issue by her
William
his Successor, and
Walter
first of the Branch of
Duntroon.
The next
William
by his Vertue and good Conduct, much bettered the Condition of his Family, acquiring a great Estate, he obtained the Honour of Knighthood. His Wife was
Marion,
Daughter of
Thomas Fotheringham
of
Poury, in Vicecomitatu de Forfar,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir, who taking to Wife
Jean Carnegy,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Ethy,
Sister to
David
1
st.
Earl of
Northesk,
he had,
John,
Viscount of
Dundee.
Mr.
David Graham.
Margaret,
married to
Robert Graham
of
Morphie.
Anne,
to
Robert Young
of
Auldbar.
Which
John,
after he had gone through the Course of his Studies at the University of St.
Andrews,
he went into Foreign Parts to accomplish himself by Travels, betaking himself to a Military Life, he served at first Volunteer in the
French
Service, where he learned the Rudiments of War, after some time he engaged in the Service of the States of
Holland,
1672. His first step to Advancement was a Cornet's Commission in the Prince of
Orange
's Guard of Horse; in which Character he did eminently signalize himself in the Battle of
Senef,
fought betwixt the Confederates, under the Command of
William
Prince of
Orange,
and the
French
under the Prince of
Conde,
in
August
1674; after this he was immediately preferred to be Captain of a Troop of Horse; in which Station he served with the highest Reputation for his Valour. Leaving the
Dutch
Service upon some disgust given him, he came over to
Britain;
by a particular Character from the Prince of
Orange
to his Royal Highness the Duke of
York,
he was recommended to King
Charles
II. who was pleased, as a Testimony of the Esteem he had for Mr.
Graham,
to nominate him one of the Captains of the three independent Troops which were raised to force the Dissenters in the Western Shires to comply with the Constitution of the Church, as established by Law,
Anno
1678, the Earls of
Hume
and
Airly,
having the Command of the other two.
When the Troops came to be regularly modell'd, 1684, he was constituted Captain of the Royal Regiment of Horse, the late Duke of
Queensberry,
then Earl of
Drumlanrig,
being his Lieutenant Colonel.
King
James
ascending the Throne on the Decease of his Brother King
Charles
II. 6th
February
1685, he was sworn a Privy Councilour, and made a Brigadeer in the beginning of 1686, which was his higest Preferment, till the 1688. Upon the Prince of
Orange
's landing in
England,
he marched with his Regiment thither for King
James
Service: Then his Majesty was pleased to advance him to the Degree of Major General, and on the 12th of
November,
the 4th Year of his Reign, raised him to the Honour of Viscount of
Dundee
(the Constabulary of which Burough, together with the Barony of
Duddop,
being some time before bestowed on him.) This Dignity, his Patent mentions, was granted him,
Propter egregia servitia & praeclara admodum officia & nobismetipsis & carissimo nostro Fratri Carolo secundo sempiternae memoriae in singulis muneribus & publicae fiduciae provinciis tum civilibus tum militaribus multis retro annis fidei suae demandatis fideliter praestita & peracta, fidemque ejus intemeratam; quodque omni occasione sibi data coronae nostrae juribus firmus semper adhaeserat; Hisce igitur multisque aliis magni mementi rationibus praeviis, durabilem quandam nostri regii favoris tesseram in ipsum & famimiliam suam conferre; Noveritis igitur Nos creasse fecisse & inaugurasse Majorem Generalem Joannem Graham de Claverhouse, Vicecomitem de Dundee, Dominum Graham de Claverhouse, & haeredes Masculos ex ejus corpore legitime procreatos seu procreandos; quibus dificientibus in alios ejus haeredes masculos,
&c.
In the beginning of the Year 1689, his Lordship came down to
Scotland,
and sat some Days in the Convention of Estates, which the Prince of
Orange
had called, till he discern'd the House disposed by a great Majority to declare the Throne vacnat, and Forfault King
James;
as also a Design the Mobb had to Assassinate him, of which he informed the Meeting, but his Complaint not being regarded; and Justice denyed him, he absented from the Convention; and after having had a private Conference with the Duke of
Gordon,
at the
Postern-Gate
of the Castle of
Edinburgh,
which held out for King
James,
he retired to
Linlithgow
with a small Party of Horse, and so by the Way of
Stirling
-Bridge, rode home to his House in the Country, whereupon the Convention voted him an intercommuned Person, and sent a Messenger to require him to appear before them at
Edinburgh;
but his Lordship excusing himself upon pretence of Danger, there was a Party sent to apprehend him. This necessarly obliged him to go into the
Highlands
for Refuge, where he raised the Clans by King
James
's Authority, and having got a Reinforcement of 300
Irish,
Headed by Colonel
Cannon,
with a Body of about 1600 Horse and Foot, he engaged Major Geneneral
Mackay,
who was advancing toward him with 4000 Foot, and some Troops of Horse and Dragoons at
Kilicrankie
in
Athole,
27
th
of
July
1689. In the first Charge, his Lordship received a Shot of a Musket-Ball in his right Side, of which he instantly expired; and notwithstanding this Discouragement, his Men Fought like
Lyons,
and routed
Mackay;
yet the Death of my Lord
Dundee
did more than overballance the others Loss of 2000 Men killed on his side. After the Battle, his Body was found and deposited in the Vault of of the Family of
Athole,
within the Church of
Blair,
where I leave him to his Rest, and shall only add this Epitaph done on him by the learned Dr.
Archibald Pitcairn,
Ʋ ltime Scotorum, potuit quo sospite solo
Libertas patriae salva fuisse tuae:
Te moriente novos accepit Scotia Cives,
Accepitque novos te moriente Deos.
Illa tibi superesse negat, Tu non potes illi,
Ergo Caledoniae nomen inane vale:
Tuque vale gentis priscae fortissime ductor,
Optime Scotorum atque ultime, GRAME, vale.
Englished by Mr.
Dryden,
O last and best of
Scots!
who did'st maintain
Thy Country's Freedom from a foreign Reign;
New People fill the Land, now they are gone;
New Gods the
Temples,
& new Kings the
Throne.
Scotland
and thou, did each in other live,
Thou coud'st not
Her,
nor cou'd
theesurvive
Farewell thou living that did support the
State,
And coud'st not fall, but by thy Countrys fate.
He married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Lord
Cochran,
Son and Heir of
William
first Earl of
Dundonald,
by whom he had a Son
James,
who dyed an Infant, in the Month of
December
1689, the Honour devolving on
Mr.
David Graham
his Uncle, who heartily espousing King
James
's Inteterest at the Revolution, he was present with his Brother in the Battle of
Kiliecrankie,
for which he was Outlaw'd,
Anno
1690, retiring to the Court of St.
Germans,
in 1692, the said King, as a special Mark of his Favour, and to testify the great Esteem he had for his Lordship, was pleased to make him a Knight of the most noble Order of St.
Andrew,
and tho he continued a very zealous Protestant, yet he was King
James
particular Favorite till his Death, which happened in the 1700, unmarried; so that had not his Estate and Honour been forfeited,
William Graham
of
Duntroon
would have succeeded him in both the one and the other.
ARMS.
Or,
three Pyls wave within a double Tressure counterflour'd,
Sable,
on a chief of the second: three Escalops of the first.
COCHRAN, Earl of
Dundonald.
THIS Family, which originally took its Sirname from the Barony of
Cochran
in
Renfrew
-shire, is of very great Antiquity, and tho none of the Family arriv'd not to the Dignity of Peerage till the Reign of K.
Charles
I. yet its undeniable that they were Barons of special Account for many Ages before, and indowed with large Possessions in these Parts, and elsewhere.
The first of whom I have found upon Record, is
Waldenus de Coveran,
i. e.
Cochran,
who in the 1262, is Witness to the Grant which
Dungal
the the Son of
Suayn
made to
[Walter Steuart
Earl of
Monteith,
of sundry Lands in the County of
Argyle
Chartularly of Paisly penes Joannem Comitem de Dundonald.
, which came in After-times to be transmited to
Forrester
of
Carden.
Another
William de Coveran
is mentioned by
Pryn,
as a Person of a Account in this County, who makes his Submission to King
Edward
I.
Anno Dom.
1296
Pryn's History.
in the
Ragman Roll;
also
John de Coveran
is Witness in the regular Election of
James
Abbot of
Paisly
17th of
David
II,
Anno
1346
Chartulary of Paisly.
. The next remarkable Person of the Family, is
Gosiline de Cochran,
who flourished under King
David Bruce,
he is Witness to several Grants made by
Robert
second, when Earl of
Strathern,
to the Religious of
Paisly,
an Abbacy he assumed into his particular Patronage, wherein his Ancestors Donations being made to the Glory of God, are particularly narrated. He left Issue,
William de Cochran
of that Ilk, his Son, who obtained from King
Robert
II. a Charter of the Lands of
Cochran
to be held in as ample a manner as any of his Progenitors held the same of the Lord high Stewart of
Scotland,
dated on the 22 of
September
1389; as he stood in special Favour with this King, so was he in no less with
Robert
3
d
his Son, to whom it seems he had been serviceable, for when he came to the Crown, he had so greatful a Sense thereof, that in the second Year of his Reign,
Anno
1392, he made him a Grant of fourty Shilling
Sterling
in Annuity arising out of the Profits of the Burgh of
Rutherglen
Charta in Rotulis Roberti III.
. He was succeeded by
Robert
his Son, who resigned his Estate in favours of
Allan
his Son,
Anno
1456. This
Allan,
in 1452 is Witness to the Mortification which
Robert
Lord
Lyle
made to the Abbot & conventwal Brethern of the Monastry of
Paisly,
of the Fishing on the River of
Clyde,
at the place called
Crokatshot,
for the help of there Prayers to advance his spiritual Estate, in in which Deed he's designed
Allanus Cochran Armiger,
his Father being then alive, and to whom he succeeded before the 1480. He married . . . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . by whom he had
Robert
a Son, who was Father of
John Cochran
of that Ilk, who immediately succeeded his Grand-father, upon his Death.
Which
John,
for some Considerations, I know not, obtained a Licence from his Sovereign Lord King
James
IV. under the Great Seal, impouring him to dispose of either his Lands of Easter
Cochran
in
Renfrew
-shire, or his Lands of
Pitfour
in
Perth
-shire, Accordingly he alienated a part of his Lands of
Cochran
to
James
Arch-Bishop of
Glasgow, Anno
1519, to which Deed he appends his Seal, the Impression bearing
Three Boars Heads eraz'd,
and circumscribed,
Sigillum Johannis de Cochran.
His Wife was
Elisabeth
Daughter of
John Semple
of
Fullwood
Charta penes Comitem de Dundonald.
, who bore him a Son
John,
who was served and retoured Heir to his Father on the 12th of
May
1539, he dying in the 1557, left Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
Lindsay
of
Dunrod, in Vicecomitatu de Renfrew,
a Son.
William,
who succeeded him. In 1593, he erected from the Foundation, at
Cochran
the ancient Seat of his Family, a very high Tower of Free-stone, and adorned it with large Plantations, he marrying
Margaret
Daughter of
Robert Montgomery
of
Skelmurly, in Viceomita
u de Air,
by
Mary
his Wife Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Semple,
had a Daughter
Elisabeth,
his sole Heir.
He wisely considering the proper way of supporting his Family, was to settle his Daughter in his own own time, and declining to Marry her into a richer Family than his own; he made a prudent and discreet Match for her with
Alexaader Blair,
a younger Son of an ancient and genteel Family in Air-shire
He was the third Son of John Blair of that Ilk, by Grisel his Wife, Daughter of Robert Lord Semple.
, whose Ancestors had been seated in the County foresaid for many Ages before, so that beside a noble Alliaance, and a competent Patrimony, he yielded to change his Name to
Cochran,
which was almost the only Condition the old Gentleman required. This
Alexander
so taking upon him the Sirname of
Cochran,
was a vertous and frugal Man, and studied as much the good of the Family, as if he himself had been born the Heir thereof. In 1622, he acquired the Lands of
Cowdoun,
with an Intention to unite them to the ancient patrimonial Inheritance of
Cochran;
but he afterwards sold them to Sir
William
his second Son, as a Fund to provide his younger Children; for beside Sir
John
his eldest Son, he had six other Sons and two Daughters.
Sir
William Cochran
of
Cowdoun.
Alexander,
a Colonel in the King's Service, in the Wars of
Ireland,
which commenc'd in the 1641, with the Murder of upwards of fifty thousand
Scots
and
English
by the Native
Irish.
Hugh,
Author of the Branch of
Fergusly,
he was a Colonel first under the renoun'd
Gustavous Adolphus
King of
Sweden,
and afterward to King
Charle
I. in the time of the Civil War in
Ireland.
Bryse,
a Colonel in the time of the Civil War, who lost his Life in the King's Service,
Anno
1650.
Captain
Ochter Cochran.
Gavin Cochran
of
Craigmure,
was the seventh and youngest Son.
Elisabeth,
married to
John Lennox
of
Woodhead
in
Stirling
-shire.
Grisel,
to
Thomas Dunlop
of
Housle.
Which Sir
John,
in the Time of the unhappy Civil War in
Britain,
firmly adhered to the Interest of King
Charles
I. and had a Colonel's Commission in the Army. In the Year 1644, he was sent Ambassador to several Princes to sollicit their Assistance in his Majesty's behalf
Montrose's Life by Dr. Wishart.
, which he perform'd with such Diligence and Conduct, that in the Treaty of Peace which was set on Foot betwixt the King and the Parliament of
England
and the Estates of
Scotland, Anno
1646, he was together with the Marquis of
Huntly
and
Montrose,
the Earls of
Nithsdale, Crawfurd, Tra quair,
&c. proposed to be excepted from the King's Pardon, which his Majesty generously refused
Guthrie's Memoirs.
. Upon the Murder of the King, he attended King
Charles
II. into Foreign Parts, and in the 1650, was sent into
Polland
to crave Aid of the
Scots
Merchants there; but be
ore his Return the King and the
Scots
Army were defeated at
Worcester,
he continuing with the King, during his Exile, dyed about the time of the Restauration without Issue; so that his next Brother Sir
William
became his Heir.
Which Sir
William
was very carefully educated in Grammar learning in his Youth, whence he was remov'd to the University, where having applyed himself indefatigably to his Studies, and highly improv'd his natural Endowments with Academical Learning, he removed from thence after he had taken the Degree of Master of Arts, and studied our Laws; in which Profession he attained to an uncommon Perfection. Soon after his entering on the Stage of Business, he became much sam'd for his prudent Management and Conduct, by which he acquired a fair Estate, both in the Shires of
Renfrew
and
Air,
for the last of which he had the Honour to serve as a Member in the Parliament, 1647, wherein his Abilities were soon discovered by the great and leading Men of the House, and he shewed himself thro' the Course of the Sitting of that Parliament, a good and even Patriot, wholly Intent upon the Honour and Safety of the King, whose Interest he did visibly advance, and the Welfare and Tranquillity of the Nation, then in no small Ferment. He appeared very forward to raise the Army for the Relief of his Majesty, then under Restraint, in Consideration whereof, he was by Letters Patent,
bearing date at
Scarsborough,
27th
December
1647, created Lord
Cochran
of
Cowdon.
Increasing still more and more in Wealth and Honour, not long after he acquired the Lordship of
Paisly,
where he fixed h
s Seat, and lived with great Splendor and Hospitality for many Years. After the barbarous Murder of the King, his Lordship contributed his best and hearty Endeavours toward bringing home King
Charles
II. to inherit the rightful Possession of the Throne of these Realms, which no doubt was the Cause, when
Oliver Cromwel
came to be called
Protector,
he fined my Lord
Cochran
among other Loyalists, in 5000 Pound
Sterling,
by a special Ordinance of the Commonwealth of
England,
the 12th of
April
1654
Original Print pene
me.
.
The King being happily restored in the 1660, he was soon after sworn a Privy Counsellour, and by his Majesty's special Choice constituted one of the Commissioners of the The saury and Exchequer, which great and weighty Imployment he discharged with admirable Prudence and Integrity, to the general Satisfaction of the whole Nation, of which his Majesty was so fully satisfied, that he was pleased to advance him to the Title of Earl of
Dundonald,
the 12th of
May
1669, and that in Consideration of the special Services he had render'd the Crown in those high and eminent Stations, continuing in great Esteem with King
Charles,
during the whole Course of his Reign.
He married
Euphame
Daughter of Sir
William Scot
of
Ardross, in Vicecomitatu de Fife,
by whom he had two Sons and a Daughter.
1.
William
Lord
Cochran,
who dyed in the flower of his Age,
Anno
1680, leaving Issue by the Lady
Catherine
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Cassils, John
who succeeded his Grand-father in the Honour,
William Cochran
of
Kilmaronock,
a Member of Parliament for the Burgh of
Wigtoun,
and the other Towns in that District, and one of the Commissioners for keeping her Majesty's Signet, Sir
Alexander Erskin
Lord
Lyon,
and
John Pringle
of
Haining,
being joined in Commission with him. He married
Grisel,
Daughter of
James,
second Marquis of
Montrose,
and has Issue;
Thomas Cochran
of
Polkely,
third Son, dyed without Children;
Alexander Cochran
of
Bonshaw,
the youngest; also three Daughters, 1
st. Margaret,
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun.
2
d. Helen,
to
John
Earl of
Sutherland.
3
d. Jean,
to
John
Viscount of
Dundee,
and afterward to
William
Viscount of
Kilsyth.
2
d
Son, Sir
John Cochran
of
Ochiltree,
in
Air
-shire.
Likewise a Daughter
Grisel,
married to
George
Lord
Ross.
This Earl gave way to Nature in the spring of the Year 1686, and was by his own Direction interr'd in the Paroch Church of
Dundonald,
without any Funeral Monument, but upon his Escutcheon I find the Arms of these noble and ancient Families.
Paternal Side.
Cochran
of that Ilk.
Lord
Semple.
Cunningham
of
Glengarnock.
Lord
Cairlyle
of
Torthorald.
Maternal Side.
Cochran
of that Ilk.
Montgomery
of
Skelmurly.
Lindsay
of
Dunrod.
Lord
Semple.
To
William
Earl of
Dundonald
succeeded
John
his Grandson and Heir, a Nobleman of great Goodness and excellent Parts; he dyed in the prime of his Years,
Anno
1691, regrated by all those who knew him, leaving Issue by the Lady
Susanna
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Duke of
Hamilton,
two Sons,
William
who succeeded in the Honour, but dyed unmarried the 19th of
November
1705. And
John
the present Earl, who married
Anne
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Dunmore,
a Lady who wanted no Vertue to make her an acceptable Wife; she dyed in the 1711, universally lamented, whose Conduct in all Conditions of Life render'd her Loss a lasting Grief to her Relations; he had by her a Son and three Daughters.
William
Lord
Cochran
Lady
Anne,
Lady
Catherine,
Lady
Susanne,
all Young.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Chiveron,
Gules,
betwixt three Boars Heads
Azure,
supported by two Ratch Hounds of the first,
Crest,
a Horse,
Argent,
Motto,
Virtute & Labore.
GALLOWAY, Lord
Dunkeld.
THE Ancestor of this Family was Mr.
Patrick Galloway,
first Minister of the Gospel in the Burgh of
Pearth
Calderwood's History of the Church of Scotland.
, whence he was translated to the City of
Edinburgh,
where he exercised his Function till the 1624, he departed this Life, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of Mr.
James Lawson,
one of the Ministers of the City of
Edinburgh,
a Son
Sir
James Galloway
of
Carnby,
who was Master of Requests both to King
James
VI. and King
Charles
I.
Dalrymple's Camden.
and conjunct Secretary of State with
William
Earl of
Stirling, Anno
1640, when the Troubles broke out in that Reign, he approved himself a most faithful Servant to his Majesty in the Times of his greatest Exigency, in Testimony whereof he was by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 15th
May
1645, created Lord
Dunkeld
Registration of the Patent in the Chancery Office, Edinburgh.
. He married . . . . . Daughter of Sir
Robert Norter,
Knight, by whom he had
Thomas
Lord
Dunkeld,
his Son and Heir, who marrying
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Thomson
of
Duddingstoun,
by
Jean
Daughter of Sir
James Scrimgeor
of
Duddop,
had Issue
1.
James,
late Lord
Dunkeld.
2.
Andrew Galloway
Esq
3.
John Galloway
Esq
Catherine,
married to
Thomas Forbes
of
Watertoun,
in
Aberdeen
shire.
Margaret,
to
James Ratry
of
Craighall, in Vicecomitatu de Pearth.
Mary,
to the Reverend Mr.
John Falconer,
a Divine.
Which
James
Lord
Dunkeld,
being Abroad in the Army, at the Revolution freely resorted to the Service of King
James
VII, and had a Command in the Battle of
Killiecrankie,
for which he was Forfeited, and retiring to the Court of St.
Germans,
he dyed not long ago.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Lyon rampant
Azure,
the Supporters two Eagles
Sable, Crest,
a Mound bespread with the Rayes of the Sun, embraced betwixt two Corn-Ears, Saltyre ways,
Or,
Motto,
Higher.
MURRAY, Earl of
Dunmore.
KING
James
VII. was pleased to raise Lord
Charles Murray,
second Son of
John
Marquis of
Athole,
by the Lady
Aemilia Stanly,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Darby,
to the Honour of Earl of
Dunmore,
by Letters Patent the 16th of
August
1686. His first Preferment was, to be Lieutenant Colonel to a Regiment of Horse commanded by General
Thomas Dalziel, Anno
1679, and Master of Horse to her Royal Highness the Princess
Anne,
now Queen of
Great Britain:
He was afterward made Colonel of the same Regiment, upon the Death of the General his Superior Officer,
Anno
1685, and Master of Horse to Queen
Mary,
Wife of King
James
VII. both which Offices he held till the Revolution depriv'd him: All King
William
's time he lived retir'dly, but upon the Queen's Accession to the Crown, he was constituted one of her Majesty's Privy Council, the 4th of
February
1703, and Captain of the Castle of
Blackness, Anno
1707, upon the removal of
David
Earl of
Buchan,
and departing this Life in 1710. He left Issue by
Catherine
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert Watts
of the County of
Hertfort,
Esq
1.
James
Lord
Fincastle,
dyed without Issue. 2
d. John
now Earl of
Dunmore,
Lieutenant Colonel in the
English
Foot Guards, Commanded by his Grace
James
Duke of
Ormond.
3
d. Rorert,
a Colonel in the
Scots
Foot-Guards. 4
th. Charles.
5
th. William.
6
th. Thomas,
a Page of Honour to her Majesty Queen
Anne;
also three Daughters,
Henrietta,
married to
Patrick
Lord
Kinnaird, sans
Issue.
Anne,
to
John
Earl of
Dundonald.
Catherine,
to
John
Master of
Nairn,
Son and Heir of
William
Lord
Nairn.
ARMS.
The Coat of the Duke of
Athole,
viz. The Arms of the old
Steuarts
Earls of
Athole,
quarter'd with the paternal Coat of
Murray
Earl of
Tilliebardin;
and in an Escutcheon over all, a proper Difference taken from his Relation to the noble Family of
Stanly
Earls of
Darby,
Lord of the Isle of
Man.
CRICHTON, Earl of
Drumfrees.
THIS Family was a Branch of
Crichton
in
Lothian;
in the Time of King
Robert Bruce, William Crichton
Knight, then obtaining the half of the Barony of
Sanquhar
in
Drumfrees
-shire, by the Marriage of
Isobel de Ross,
one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of
Ross
of
Sanquhar
Charta Roberti I. Ficardo dicto Edgar de Manerio capitale cum medietate totius Baroniae de Sanquhar ad ipsum capitale manerium pertinente sicut dicta Baronia inter Willielmum de Crichton & ipsum Ricardum nuper fuert Divisa. Dalrymple's Collections.
, whence they came to carry the Coat of
Ross, viz.
Azure,
three Water-Budgets,
Or. Hence descended,
Robert Crichton
of
Sanquhar, tempore Jacobi
II. who stood in special Favour with that Prince, from whom he obtained first the Honour of Knighthood; and in the 1452, being also one of the Lords of Privy Council, he greatly inriched himself, by the Marriage of
Catherine,
the Heir of Sir
Nicol Erskine
of
Kinoule, in Vicecomitatu de Perth,
and had Issue,
1
st. Robert,
his Successor.
The 2
d. Edward Crichton,
who had by his Father's Grant, the Lands of
Kilpatrick,
which was confirmed by the King's Charter,
Anno
1483
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II. ad Annum 1485
, and at the same time, he had divers Lands then in the Crown, by the Forsaulture of those who assisted the Duke of
Albany,
and other
Rebels.
This Branch terminated in a Daughter, in the Reign of
James
V. married to
James Gordon
of
Lochinvar.
The 3
d.
was
Alexander,
from whom the
Crichtons
of
Crawfurdstoun
in
Nithsdale
descended
Charta Roberti Crichton de Sanquha
militis Alexandro Crichton filio suo de Terras de Crawfurdstoun, Anno 1466.
, and their Cadets.
4
th. Lawrance Crichton,
of
Balnamuchty;
Also several Daughters,
Elisabeth;
married to Sir
William Douglass
of
Drumlanrig, Margaret
to
David Cairlyle
of
Torthorald:
But to return to the aforesaid
Robert Crichton
of
Sanquhar.
This
Robert
signalized himself, both for his Loyalty and Valour in the Wars, against
Alexander
Duke of
Albany,
and
James
Earl of
Douglass,
in behalf of King
James
III, at the Battle of
Kirkonel Anno
1483, in Recompence whereof he had several of the Rebels Lands bestowed upon him; in the Grant his Services to the Crown are particularly narrated with Honour
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III. ad Annum 1466.
; having thus augmented his Fortune, he came in the same Reign to be called Lord
Crichton
of
Sanquhar.
He married
Marion,
Daughter of
John
first Earl of
Lennox,
and had Issue
Robert
his Successor.
Marion,
married to
Malcolme Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
Ancestor to the Viscount of
Garnock.
Which
Robert
married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of . . . . .
Murray
of . . . . . & had
William
his Successor, who was Killed by the Lord
Semple
Buchanan's History.
,
Anno
1550, leaving Issue by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
Fleeming,
1
st. Robert
his Successor in the Honour, but dyed without Issue, 2
d. Edward
who after his Brothers Death was Lord
Sanquhar.
3
d. John Crichton
of
Rayhill,
who married
Mary
Daughter of Sir
John Carmichael
of
Crawfurd,
and had
William
afterward Earl of
Drumfrees,
which
Edward
so succeeding his Brother, married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
James Douglass
of
Drumlanrig,
by whom he had
Robert
his only Son and Heir, who residing at the Court, after King
James
's Accession to the Crown, acquired great skill in most of the Exercises then in Vogue, particularly in Fencing, whereby he came to value himself much upon his Skill therein, and intending to disparage one
John Turner
a Fencing-Master in his own School, and he apprehensive of his Design, press'd so rudely upon this Lord, that he put out one of his Eyes; his Lordship being afterward in the Court of
France,
and the King understanding that he lost his Eye by a common Fencing Master, said to the Lord
Sanquhar, Vit t' il encore? Is the Man still alive that did it?
This Question put him upon meditating a Revenge, and some Years after, coming to
England,
he hired one
Robert Cairlye
to Murder
Turner,
which he did with
Pistol at his own House in
Whitefriars, London;
whereupon his Lordship absconded; and hearing a thousand Pound was offered for his Head, he resigned himself to the King's Mercy, and acknowledged the Murder, but no Intercession could prevail, his Life satisfied the Law, for he was executed before the Gates of
Westminster,
the 29th of
June
1612. He married
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
George Farmour
of
Easton,
in the County of
Northampton,
Ancestor to the Lord
Lempster
in
England,
but by her he had no Issue, and therefore so far as he could, made over his Estate to
William Crichton
his natural Son, and the Honour came to
William Crichton
of
Rayhill,
his Cousin German, and Heir Male, who by the King's Determination, had also most of the Estate; he was by the said King
James
in 1622 raised to the Honour of Viscount of
Air,
and King
Charles
I. some Days preceeding his Coronation in
Scotland,
created him Earl of
Drumfrees.
by Letters patent, bearing date the 10th of
June
1633, and to the Heirs of his Body for ever, and departing this Life in 1641; he left Issue by
Eupham
his Wife, Daughter of
James Seton
of
Touch, in Vicecomitatu de Stirling,
1
st. William,
who succeed- him. 2
d.
Sir
James Crichton
of St.
Leonards.
3
d. John,
a Colonel in the
German
Wars; also two Daughters,
1.
Mary,
married to
Edward Swift,
Viscount of
Carlingford,
in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
and had Issue.
2.
Catherine,
to Sir
John Charters
of
Aimesfield, in Vicecomitatu de Drumfrees.
Which
William
was one of Lords of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. He married
Penelope,
Daughter of Sir
Robert Swift,
Knight, of the County of
York
by
Ursilla
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . .
Barnham
Esq
by whom he had
Charles
Lord
Crichton,
who died before himself and two Daughters
Elisabeth,
Wife of
Alexander
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
and Lady
Mary
who dyed unmarried.
Charles
Lord
Crichton,
married
Sarah
Daughter of
James
first Viscount of
Stair,
by whom he had
William
who succeeded his Grandfather, and four Daughters,
1.
Penelope,
now Countess of
Drumfrees.
2.
Margaret.
3.
Mary.
4.
Elisabeth.
This Earl resigned the Honour,
Anno
1690; and got a Patent to his Heirs Male or Female, with the Precedency, according to the former Creation
Charta in publicis Archivis, ad Annum 1690.
, and dying in the 1691, he was succeeded by
William
his Grandson, who dying a Minor,
Anno
1694, the Honour devolv'd upon
Penelope
his Sister, who is married with
Willim Dalrymple
Esq
Son to
John
first Earl of
Stair,
and has Issue,
William
Lord
Crichton,
and several other Children.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Argent,
a Lyon rampant,
Azure,
2d and 3d
Azure,
three Water Budgets,
Or,
supported by two Lyons,
Azure,
crowned with an Earls Coronet Proper,
Crest,
a Dragons Head,
Vert,
spouting Fire, Motto,
God send Grace.
TALMASH, Earl of
Dysart.
WIlliam Murray,
created Earl of
Dysart,
by the Favour of King
Charles
I.
Anno
1646
Sir James Dalrymple's Edition of Camden Anno 1694.
, was the Son of Mr.
William Murray
Parson of
Dysert,
a younger Brother of the Family of
Wood-end
in
Perth
-shire, branched from
Patrick Murray
Son of Sir
David Murray
of
Tillibardin,
in King
James
III's Time.
Which
William
was Educated at Court by Mr.
Thomas Murray
his Uncle, who was Preceptor, and then Secretary to King
Charles
I. when Prince of
Wales,
the Prince and Mr.
Murray
being about an Age, they contracted a more than ordinary Intimacy in their younger Years; when his Majesty came to the Crown,
Anno
1626, he made him one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber, which was a fair and probable way to Preserment; had it not been for the Changes that ensu'd during the Civil War; he was imployed by the King in diverse secret Negotiations of the highest Importance: Likeas, he was with the Earl of
Carnwath
sent over with Instructions to the
Scots
Commissioners at
Breda,
then treating with King
Charles
II. in order to his Restauration
Life of King Charles II.
,
Anno
1650, which he performed with great Diligence and Conduct.
He married
Elisabeth Bruce,
of the Family of
Clackmanan,
by whom he had two Daughters,
Elisabeth
Countess of
Dysart,
and
Margaret,
married to
William
Lord
Maynard,
in
England.
This
Elisabeth
by the special Favour of his Majesty King
Charles
II. whose great Favorite the Countess was, procured certain Letters Patent, whereby the Dignity and Title of Countess of
Dysart
was conferr'd on her, and after her Death, the Honour of Earl to descend to her Heirs. Her first Husband, was Sir
Lionel Talmash
of
Hellingham
in the County of
Suffolk,
by whom she had two Sons and two Daughters,
Lionel Talmash,
the present Earl of
Dysert.
Lieutenant General
Thomas Talmash,
who received his Death-Wounds in the Fight of
Cameret, Anno
1694
Sandford's History.
; also two Daughters,
Elisabeth,
married to
Archibald,
first Duke of
Argyle.
Catherine,
to
James
Lord
Down,
Son and Heir of
Alexander
Earl of
Murray,
2
do.
To
John
Earl of
Sutherland,
to whom she had no Issue.
She married after the Death of Sir
Lionel Talmash, John
Duke of
Lauderdale,
to whom she was likewise second Wife, whom surviving also, she dyed in the Year . . . ., being then well advanced in Age, whereupon the Title of Earl, by vertue of the Grant above-mentioned, devolved to Sir
Lionel Talmash
her Son, the present Earl.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Frette,
Sable.
MONTGOMERY, Earl of
Eglintoun,
EGlintoun
is the Name of a Lordship and Castle in
Air
-shire, from whence its Owner took a Denomination,
tempore regis Malcomi, Bryce de Eglintoun,
Son and Heir of
Eglun,
Lord of
Eglintoun,
who acquired certain Lands from the Community of the Village of
Irvine, quas Radulphus fili
s & haeres quondam Hugonis de Eglintoun, dedit Communitati & Burgensibus dicte villae datum in vigilia sancti Mattheii, Anno gratiae millesimo ducentesimo quinto
Charta penes Burgum de Irvine.
, from whom in a continued Series descended
Sir
Hugh Eglintoun
of that Ilk, who was Justiciary of
Lothian, Anno
1361
Drummond's History published Anno. 1710.
. He married
Giles,
Daughter of
Walter
Lord high Stewart of
Scotland,
Sister to King
Robert
II, upon whose Advancement to the Throne, he obtained diverse Grants of Lands, and several Imployments, but leaving no Male Issue, his Estate went to his Daughter and Heir, married to Sir
John de Montgomery
of
Eglesham,
Knight, whose Ancestor
Roger de Montgomery,
Son to
Hugh de Montgomery,
a noble Knight of
French
Extraction, near allyed to
William
Duke of
Normandy;
he was one of those Nobles who accompanyed this victorious Duke into
England,
& commanded the Body of his Army in the memorable Battle of
Hastings
in
Sussex, Anno
1066, where King
Harold
was slain, and the Victory and Crown of
England
accrewed to the Conqueror, for which signal Service King
William
bestowed on him very large Gifts, and both gave him the Territory and Honour of Earl of
Arundel,
with the Earldom of
Salsburry
Dugdale's Baronage of England.
, being also a Person of singular Devotion, he founded, and most amply endowed the Abby of St.
Peters
at
Salisburry,
where he at length took upon him the Habite of a Monk, and dyed 1094, leaving Issue by
Mable
his Wife, Daughter of
William de Talvaise,
a great Baron in
Bolesm,
five Sons, 1
st. Hugh,
dyed without Issue,
Robert, Roger, Philip,
and
Arnulph.
Which
Robert
was knighted by the Conqueror the 6th of his Reign, and always enjoyed his Favour, but upon his Death he adhered to
Robert Curthose,
against
Henry
I. and assisted him in the Battle, where he was routed, and taken Prisoner. This exasperated K.
Henry
so much, that he banished this Earl, and discountenanced his Friends, then it is, and with much Probability supposed, that
Philip de Montgomery,
come for
Scotland,
and fixed his Residence in the County of
Tiviotdale
upon the Border, where he became a powerful Man. In the Time of
Malcolm
IV. frequent mention is made of
Robert de Mundegumery,
i. e.
Montgomery,
who is one of the many Witnesses to
Walter
high Stewart of
Scotland
's Foundation-Charter of the Monastery of
Paisly, Anno Christi
1160
Chartulary of Paisly.
. The next in Order of Succession taken notice of, if not his Son, is
Allan de Mundegumbri,
Knight, who held diverse Lands in the Tenement of
Innerwick,
of the Lord high Stewart of
Scotland
Ibidem.
, he's a Witness to the Charter of
Robert Avenel
of his Wood of
Polwarth
to
Arnold
Abbot of
Kelso, Anno
1221,
Chartulary of Kelso.
with whom he himself settles about the Tiths of his Lands of
Innerwick,
which had been in Dispute between him and the Convent; he left Issue, Sir
John de Montgomery,
Knight, his Son, who shar'd the Inheritance with
William de Haukerstoun,
which he obtained by
Helen
his Wife, Daughter and Cohier of
Robert de Kent
in
Innerwick
Ibidem.
, but more of this Sir
John
I have not discovered, saving that jointly with the foresaid
William,
he was a Benefactor to the Monks of
Kelso
for the Health of his Soul
Ibidem.
: From this to the Time of
Robert
II. by many advantageous and honourable Marriages, and their great and signal Services done to the Crown, both in the Wars and otherways, this Family became possessed of diverse fair Lordships.
But omitting some Traditions, I descend to Sir
John Montgomery
of
Eglesham,
Knight; who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir
Hugh Eglintoun
of that Ilk, which Sir
John
was in that Expedition made against the
English
at the Battle of
Otterburn, Anno
1388, where
James
Earl of
Douglass
was slain; here he behaved very valiantly, and took
Henry Percy,
Son to the Earl of
Northumberland
Prisoner, and for his Ransom obliged him to build the Castle of
Punoon,
the chief Messuage of the Lordship of
Eglesham,
he had Issue two Sons,
1. Sir
Hugh,
a brave and gallant Youth, who lost his Life in the Service of his Country, at the Field of
Otterburn,
where his Death is particularly remarked in this old Heroick Poem,
He had a Bow bent in his Hand,
Made of a trusty Tree,
An Arrow of a Cloath-yeard long
Into the Head drew he.
Against Sir
Hugh Montgomery,
So right his Shaft he set,
The gray Goose Wing that was therein,
In his Heart-blood was weet.
Sir
John
the second Son succeeded into the Estate, he was sent into
England
one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I.
Anno
1423
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
and at the solemn Inauguration of the said Prince; he was one of the Barons on whom the Honour of Knighthood was conferr'd in 1424, and one of the Peers, who sat upon the Trial of
Murdo
Duke of
Albany,
where we find that unhappy Duke condemn'd to lose his Head, tho the Records are wholly silent as to his Crime. This Lord married
Agnes
Daughter to the Lord
Maxwel,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who indeed first raised the Grandeur of the Family, being a Man of great Parts. King
James
I. choose him a Privy Councilour, and in 1430, constituted him jointly in Commission with Sir
Alexander Cuningham
to be Governour of
Kintyre & Knapdale,
and the next ensuing Year he was with
Alexander
Lord
Gordon
and Mr.
John Methven
Secretary of State, sent to
England
to treat of the continuing a Peace betwixt the two Realms, which was at length concluded by them, having survived the many Difficulties and Factions of King
James
I's. Reign. I find he was of the Privy Council to his Son King
James
II,
Anno
1440, from whom he obtained several beneficial Grants from the Crown, in Consideration of his good and laudable Services, not only performed to himself, but to his Father of blessed Memory. This Lord was twice sent Commissioner into
England
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
the first time in the 1444, and the other in 1457. In both the Commissions he's designed
Alexander Dominus Montgomery.
Simply he took to Wife,
Margaret
Daughter of
Thomas Boyd
of
Kilmaronock
Genealogy of Eglintoun.
by whom he had Issue,
Alexander,
who dyed in his Lifetime, but left two Sons behind him, by
Elisabeth
his Wife Daughter of . . . . .
Hepburn
of
Hales
Ibidem.
,
viz. Alexander
who after his Grand-father's Death, was Lord
Montgomery,
and
Robert
first of the
Montgomerys
of
Broadstone
Charta penes Dominum Grenock.
, of whom
Hugh
Earl of
Mount-Alexander
of the Kingdom of
Ireland
in the Linal Heir.
George Montgomery
of
Skelmurly,
was this Lords second Son () whose Successor is Sir
Robert Montgomery
Baronet.
Mr.
Thomas Montgomery,
the third Son, was Parson of
Egelsham.
He had likeways several Daughters, 1.
Margaret
married to
John
first Earl of
Lennox.
2
d. Janet
to Sir
Robert Cunningham
of
Kilmaures,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Glencairn.
3
d.
. . . . . . to
Alexander Hume
of that Ilk. 4
th. Jean,
to
John
Lord
Kennedy.
5
th. Agnes,
to
William Cuningham
of
Glen garnock;
as to the precise Time of this Lords Death, I have not found, but he was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
Alexander
his Grandson, whom he married in his own time to
Catherine
Charta in publicis Archivis.
Daughter of
Gilbert
Lord
Kennedy,
by whom he had
Hugh
his Successor. 2
d. James Montgomery
of
Smeithston.
3
d. John.
Which
Hugh,
upon the Accession of King
James
IV. to the Crown, was named of his Council, and in 1489 he obtained a Grant of the Constabulary of his Majesty's Castle of
Rothsay
Ibidem.
, this King ever treating him with particular Marks of his Favour, and at last was pleased to creat him into the Dignity of Earl of
Eglintoun, Anno
1503
Ibidem.
, he married
Helen,
Daughter of
Colin
first Earl of
Argyle,
by whom he had three Sons and several Daughters.
1.
John
called Master of
Eglintoun,
2. Son Sir
Neil Montgomery
of
Lainshaw,
who had a Grant from his Father of the Lands of
Lainshaw, Galowbery, Crevoch, Kilbryde, Milstonflet, Bradfurow,
the Temple Land of
Stewartoun, Holowchaple, Langanfee, Charlewrak, Longford; Crochdow, and Lochdernell
in
Air
-shire
Charta penes Jacobum Montgomery de Lainshaw.
, the Lands of
Airdoch
and
Nether-Craig
in
Renfrew
shire. Moreover by Marriage of
Margaret,
Daughter and sole Heir of
Quintine Mure
of
Skeldon,
he considerably increased his Fortune, his Estate in all amounting to 100 Merk Land of old Extent, and thereupon he added to his Coat of Arms Argent,
three Molets
Azure.
He was killed in a Feud by the Lord
Boyd
in
June
1547, having had two Sons by the said
Margaret,
his Wife;
John
who married
Margaret
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Boyd,
but dyed without Succession, and Sir
Neil
who succeeded him, of whom and his Descendents more shall be said under the Title of
Lyle,
he marrying
Jean,
Daughter and sole Heir of
John
last Lord
Lyle.
3
d.
Son was Mr.
William Montgomery
of
Greenfield,
who acquired the Lands of
Stane
in
Air
-shire, by Marriage of
Elisabeth
Daughter and sole Heir of
Robert Frances
of
Stane
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad Annum 1508.
. This Branch divided it self afterward by Means of
Hugh,
a younger Son, who became the Root of the
Montgomery's
of
Achinhood,
and his Cadets.
Margaret,
1
st.
Daughter, married to
William
Lord
Semple.
2
d. Marjory,
to
William
Lord
Somervel.
The 3
d. Maud
to
Colin Campbel
of
Arkinglass
Account of the Family of Eglintoun.
but had no Issue. 4
th. Isobel
to
John Mure
of
Caldwell, in Vicecomitatu deRenfrew,
and had Issue. 5
th Elisabeth,
to
John Blair
of that Ilk. 6
th. Agnes,
to
John Ker
of
Kersland, in Vicecomitatu de Air,
and had Issue.
Here its requisite to observe, that
John,
Son and Heir apparent to this Earl, when the Feuds run high betwixt the contending Parties of the Nobility in the Minority of King
James
V, he was killed in a Scuffle betwixt the Earls of
Aran
and
Angus
on the Street of
Edinburgh,
30 of
April
1520
Hume's History of the Family of Douglass.
, leaving behind him a Son and a Daughter by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Archibald Edmonston
of
Duntreath
Charta penes commitem de Eglintoun.
,
Hugh
who succeeded his Grand-father, and
Christian,
Wife of Sir
William Douglass
of
Drumlanrig,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Queensberry.
Which
Hugh
was of the Privy Council to King
James
V. as he had been before to
John
Duke of
Albany,
Governour of
Scotland,
in the said King's Minority, and was one of the Lords to whom his Grace committed the Tuition of that Prince, upon his going to
France
to concert Measures with that Court for carrying on a War with
England, Anno
1520
Holinshed's History of Scotland.
: Yea, the said King had such an Esteem of this Lord, that when he went to
France
in order to espouse
Magdalen,
Daughter of
Francis
I.
Anno
1536, he appointed him one of the Governours of
Scotland,
the Earl of
Huntly
being joined in Commission with him. His Wife was
Marion,
Daughter of
George
Lord
Seton,
by whom he had only a Son,
Hugh
his Successor in the Honour, who, as soon as he came to Man's Estate, married the Lady
Jean Hamilton,
Daughter of
James
Duke of
Chattlerault
Governour of
Scotland,
which Marriage was disolved in the 1562, they standing in the fourth Degree of Consanguinity, the Pope's Dispensation not being obtained
Original Divorce still extant.
, & then by, the Permission of the Bishop of
Rome,
he's allowed to Marry
Agnes
Daughter of Sir
John Drummond
of
Innerpeffrey,
Widow of Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Lowdon:
By her he had four Children.
1.
Hugh
Earl of
Eglintoun.
2.
Robert Montgomery
of
Giffen,
who married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Matthew Campbel
of
Lowdon,
by whom he had one Daughter,
Elisabeth,
his sole Heir, married to
Hugh
Earl of
Eglintoun.
Margaret,
eldest Daughter, was married to
Robert
1
st.
Earl of
Winton,
Mother by him of
George
2
d
Earl of
Winton,
and of
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun.
Agnes
the second, married to
Robert
Lord
Semple,
and had Issue.
This Earl stuck close to Queen
Mary
in the Time of her greatest Distress: He put himself in Arms in her behalf, and was personally engaged in the Battle of
Lang-side
Crawfurd's Memoirs.
, were he, together with the Lord
Seton,
and many Barons of Account, were taken Prisoners, after which he thought sit to tender his Submission to King
James
VI. and lived peaceably till his Death, which happened in the Month of
June
1585
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, his Estate devolving on
Hugh
his Son, who was barbarously murdered on the score of a private Quarrel, by
John Cuningham
of
Colnbeith,
and his Adherents, the 12th Day of
April
1586
Dr. Johnston's Scots Heroes.
, whereby his Country was deprived of an Honour and Ornament, his Prince of a faithful and able Subject, and his Family of a singular Advantage, Mr.
John Johnston
wrote the following Epitaph in Praise of him.
Illa opifex sollers rerum, magni amula Olympi
Natura, immensis ambitiosa opibus;
Illa sibi de te certans quae singula, rara,
Vix aliis, dedit haec cunta benigna tibi.
Sic artus, sic ora, animos, sic pectora finxit,
Caeteraque humanis anteferenda notis:
Vix aliqu
m ut credas mortali semine cretum,
Ast quales tulerunt secula prisca deos.
Invidiosa nimis visa haec mortalibus. Ergo
Tollere mox properat infidiosa manus.
Pertunam ingentem gravior saepe exitus urget:
Praecipitique vides fulmine magna quati.
He left a Son by
Giles
his Wife, Daughter to
Robert
Lord
Boyd, Hugh
who succeeded him in his Estate and Honour. This Earl in the 1603
Charta in publicis Archivis, 5 January 1603,
, obtained a Grant to himself, his Heirs and Assigneys, upon the Resignation of Mr.
William Melvil,
erecting the dissolved Abbay of
Kilwining
formerly a Seat of Benedictine Monks, with all the Lands and Tithes, either in Property or Superiority which had belonged at any time thereto into a temporal Lordship, with the Patronage of the Churches of
Kilwining, Irvine, Dunbartoun, Kilmarnock, Loudoun, Ardrossan, Kilbirny, Dalry, Dunlop, Beith, Stewar toun, Stevenson, Dreghorn, Pearston, Kilbryde,
and
Kilmachornal.
He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
Robert Montgomery
of
Giffen,
but dying without Issue in the 1612
Spotiswood's History.
, his Estate by vertue of an Entail made by him, came to Sir
Alexander Seton
his Cousin German, who changed his Name to
Montgomery,
but he could not enjoy the Title of Earl, without the King's special Allowance, which soon after, his Majesty was pleased to bestow upon him, for the great Merit of his Ancestors, with the Dignity and precedency formerly enjoyed by
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
last deceased.
This Earl was among the Number of those Peers, who engaged themselves against the King,
Anno
1638, upon the first commencing of our bloody Civil War; he had the Command of a Regiment in the Army that was sent to
Ireland, Anno
1642, toward the suppressing the Rebellion, of the Native
Irish
Guthry's Memoirs.
: He was likeways personally engaged in the Battle of
Longmarstonmuir, Anno
1643, in the Service of the Parliament of
England,
against the King, where he behaved with aboundance of Courage, yet his Lordship still retained a Respect and Affection to his Majesty's Person, and no Man more abominated the Murder of the Lords Anointed than he.
He heartily concurred with, and was extremely satisfied with the Restauration of King
Charles
II. by whom he was constituted Captain of his Guard of Horse
My Lord Kingston's History of the Family of Winton.
,
Anno
1650; and the next Year while he was raising Forces in the Western Parts for the King's Service, he was surprised at
Dunbarton
by a Party of
English
Horse, and sent Prisoner to the Town of
Hull,
and afterward removed to
Berwick
upon
Tweed,
suffering likeways the Sequestration of his Estate till the Restauration reponed him,
Anno
1660, his first Wife was
Anne,
Daughter of
Alexander
first Earl of
Linlithgow,
by whom he had
1.
Hugh
his Successor in the Honour.
2. Sir
Henry Montgomery
of
Giffen,
dyed without Children.
3
d.
Sir
Alexander,
a Colonel in
Ireland,
in which Kingdom he dyed.
4. Colonel
James Montgomery
of
Coelsfield.
5.
Robert,
who in his Youth making choice of a Military Life, went over to the Wars in
Ireland, Ann
1642, he was first made a Captain in his Father's Regiment, after which he listed himself in the Service of the Parliament of
England,
where in Time he arrived to the Degree of a Major General, and acquired the Reputation of a Man of Courage, and a good Officer, he firmly adhered to King
Charles
II. and in his Majesty's Service he gave many signal Proofs of his Loyalty and Valour on several occasions, especially at that memorable Encounter at
Dunbar,
3
d.
of
September
1650, in which Action he performed the part of a brave and valiant Commander; likeways he commanded in the Quality of Major General of the Horse in the Royal Army at
Worcester.
3
d
of
September
1651, where he received diverse Wounds, and had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner, whence making his Escape out of the Castle of
Edinburgh
n Disguise,
Anno
1659
History of Seton by the Lord Kingstoun.
, he got beyond Sea to the King, and returned with his Master,
Anno
1660, being one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed Chamber. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
James
Viscount of
Kilsyth,
by whom he had
James Montgomery
Esq
his Son and Heir.
His Lordships had likeways two Daughters, 1
st. Margaret,
married to
John
1
st.
Earl of
Twedale
after his Death to
William
Earl of
Glencairn,
the 2
d. Anne
dyed unmarried. He married to his second Wife
Margaret
Daughter of
Walter
Lord
Buclugh
Widow of
James
Lord
Ross,
but by her he had no Succession, and arriving to the 73
d
Year of his Age, he departed this Life the 7th of
January
1661, his Estate and Honour devolving on
Hugh
his Son. This noble Earl was a Man of perfect Loyalty in the time of our Civil Troubles, as appears in all the Accounts of those Times, particularly by the Memoiers of the Bishop of
Dunkeld,
his Cotemporary. In the 1643, he raised a Troop of Horse, with which he marched in Person, and fought valiantly at
Langmarstonmuir,
and several other Battles and Skirmishes, and continuing to adhere faithfully to the Royal Cause, he was therefore excepted out of
Cromwel
's Indemnity, in the 1654
History of Seton by the Lord Kingstoun.
, by
Anne
his first Wife, Daughter of
James
Marquis of
Hamilton,
he had one Daughter
Anne,
married to
James
Earl of
Finlator;
also by
Mary
his second Wife Daughter of
John
Earl of
Rothes,
he had
Alexander
his Successor.
Francis Montgomery
of
Giffen,
who was one of the Lords of the Privy Council, and one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury in the Reign of K.
William
& Q.
Anne.
He was appointed one of the Commissioners upon the Part of
Scotland
to treat upon a nearer Union with
England
in 1706, which was at that time compleated, he had no Issue by
Margaret
his first Wife, Daughter and sole Heir of
Alexander
Earl of
Leven,
but by
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
Robert Sinclair
of
Lochermackhouse, in Vicecomitatu de Haddingtoun;
He had
John Montgomery
Esq
a Member of Parliament for the County of
Air. Alexander,
one of the Colonels in Her Majesty's Foot Guards, who dyed a very hopeful Youth of his Death woun
s at the Battle of
Almanara,
in the 1711; also
Elisabeth
a Daughter, married to
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Lonmay.
This Earl had moreover five Daughters,
1.
Mary,
married to
George
Earl of
Winton, sans
Issue.
2.
Margaret,
to
James
2
d
Earl of
Loudon.
3.
Christian,
to
John
4
th
Lord
Balmerinoch.
4.
Eleanor,
to Sir
David Dunbar
of
Baldoon,
Baronet,
in Vicecomitatu de Wigtoun,
and had Issue.
5.
Anne,
to Sir
Andrew Ramsay
of
Abbotshall,
Baronet. He departing this Life,
Anno
1669, was succeeded by
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who was named one of the Lords of the Privy Council, 1
st
of
May
1689, and dying in the end of the Year 1701, he left Issue by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Drumfrees, Alexander
the present Earl, Major
Hugh
and Major
John Montgomery,
Original Act of Indemnity pones me.
and
Mary
married to Sir
James Agnew
of
Lochnaw,
and had Issue.
Which
Alexander,
was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
William,
and one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury. In 1700, he had a Patent to sit and Vote in the Parliament of
Scotland,
as Lord High Thesaurer, all Officers of State tho neither Peers, nor elected as Commissioners, having by the Constitution a Place in Parliament, and the Crown a Right, when any one of the Officers were vacant, to appoint one to Represent in Parliament the said Office. Upon the Dissolution of the Parliament in 1710, he was on the 10th of
November
the same Year elected one of the sixteen Peers of
Scotland
to the Parliament of
Great Britain;
also in 1711, his Lordship was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Chamberlian-Court, which was then erected. He married first
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Lord
Cochran,
Son and Heir of
William
Earl of
Dundonald,
by whom he had two Sons,
Hugh
and
Alexander,
who both dyed in the Year 1696; also four Daughters,
1.
Catherine,
married to
James
Earl of
Galloway.
2.
Eupham,
to
George Lockhart
of
Carnwath,
and has Issue.
3.
Grace,
to
Robert
Earl of
Carnwath.
4.
Jean,
to Sir
Aexander Maxwel
of
Monrieth,
Baronet.
His second Wife was
Anne
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Aberdeen,
by whom he had a Daughter, Lady
Mary.
His third Marriage was with
Susanna,
Daughter of Sir
Archibald Kennedy
of
Colzean,
Baronet, by whom he has two Daughters,
Lady
Elisabeth.
Lady
Helen.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Azure,
three Flower de lyces,
Or:
2d and 3d,
Gules,
three Annulets,
Or,
ston'd,
Azure,
all within a Border,
Or,
flour'd and counter flowr'd,
Gules,
supported by two Dragons
Vert
vomiting Fire, and for
Crest,
a Maid holding in her Dexter Hand a Mans Head, and in the Sinister an Anchor, Motto,
Garde bien.
BRUCE, Earl of
Elgin.
THAT the ancient and noble Family of
Clackmanan,
is branched from the Earls of
Carrick,
all our Antiquaries do agree, tho they do not deduce the Line of that Descent in each Point alike, to the intent that it may clearly appear that it is, I thought fit to take notice, that King
David
II. made a Grant to
Robert Bruce, dilecto consanguineo suo,
of the Castle and Barony of
Clackmanan,
the 39th Year of his Reign
Sir George Mackenzies Collections from the publick Archieves of the Kingdom.
, which is sufficient to show he was of the said King's Kindred.
Sir
Edward Bruce
of
Shires-Mill,
a younger Son of Sir
Edward Bruce
of
Clackmanan,
by
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Patrick Blackader
of
Tilliallan
in the Time of King
James
V. acquiring several Lands from
John
Abbot of
Culross,
in 1541
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V.
, he raised to himself a fair Fortune. By . . . . . his Wife, Daughter to the Lord
Semple
Genealogy of the Family of Elgin.
, he had
Robert Bruce
of
Blairhall, Edward Bruce
of
Kinloss,
and
George Bruce
of
Carnock
Ancestor to the Earls of
Kincairn.
Of these his Children,
Edward
the second being the Person of whom I'm chiefly to speak here, I shall deduce what I found related of him from unquestionable Authority.
This
Edward
being bred a Lawyer, was first made one of the Commissarrs of
Edinburgh,
and after that pre
erred to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice by King
James
VI. 2
d December
1597, by the Title of Commendator of
Kinloss:
And being a Person of great Parts, was by the said King, with the Earl of
Mar
sent Ambassador to Queen
Elisabeth, Anno
1601, to Congratulate her upon her good Success in repressing that Audacious Attempt of the Earl of
Essex;
and upon the Death of that Queen, being eminently instrumental to the pe
ceful Entrance of King
James
to the Crown of
England,
by the Intelligence, which he held privately in her Lifetime with Sir
Robert Cicel,
one of her principal Secretaries of State, and accompanying the King into
England, Anno
1603, in Recompence of his faithful Services, he had the Office of Master of the Rolls conferred on him during Life; and as a further Testimony of his Majesty's Favour, he had a Grant of the dissolved Abbay of
Kinloss
in
Murray
erected to him and his Heirs in a Temporal Lordship, by Letters Patent bearing date 8th of
July
1604
Charta ad Annum 1604.
, being of the Privy Council to his Majesty in both Kingdoms, he departed this Life in the 62 Year of his Age, on the 14th of
January
1610, and was interred in the Chapel of the Rolls in
Chancery Lane, London,
where there is a fair Monument erected to his Memory, with this Inscription upon it.
FUIMUS
Sacrae Memoriae
Domini
Edwardi Bruce,
Baronis
Bruce, Kinlossensis,
sacrorum scriniorum Magistri dicatum qui obiit
14 Jan. Anno
sal.
1610.
Aetat.
62. Jacobi
Regis
8
vo.
Brucius Edwardus situs hic & Scotus & Anglus,
Scotus ut ortu Anglis sic oriundus avis,
Regno in utroque decus tulit auctus honoribus amplis
Regi a consiliis Regni utriusque fuit,
Conjuge prole, nuru, genero, spe, reque beatus
Vivere nos docuit, nune docet ecce mori.
He left Issue by
Magdalen
his Wife Daughter of
Alexander Clark
of
Balbirny, in Vicecomitatu de Fife,
two Sons and a Daughter,
1.
Edward
Lord
Kinloss.
2.
Thomas Bruce
Esq
3.
Christian,
married to
William
Earl of
Devon
-shire of the Kingdom of
England,
and had Issue; Also
Janet,
a natural Daughter, married to
Thomas Dalziel
of
Binns,
Mother by him of Lieutenant General
Thomas Dalziel.
Which
Edward
Lord
Kinloss
was made Knight of the
Bath
at the Creation of
Henry
Prince of
Wales,
and afterward one of the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber to K.
James
VI. in 1613 he had the Misfortune to fall into a fatal quarrel with Sir
Edward Sackville,
afterward Earl of
Dorset,
upon which says a noble Historian
The Earl of Clarenden's History.
,
They both transported themselves into
Flanders,
attended only by two Chirurgeons, placed at a Distance, and under an Obligation not to stir but upon the fall of one of them, they fought under the Walls of
Antwerp,
where this Lord was killed,
whereupon
Thomas
his Brother became his Heir.
Which
Thomas
attended King
Charles
I. into
Scotland,
and at the Solemnity of his Coronation, was by Letters Patent bearing date the 19th of
June
1633, created Earl of
Elgin,
afterward in the 17 of
Charles
I. advanced to the Dignity of a Baron of
England,
by the Title of Lord
Bruce
of
Whorletoun,
in the County of
York,
he married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
Robert Chichester,
Knight. 2
dly. Diana,
Daughter, and one of the Coheirs of
William
Lord
Burleigh,
Son and Heir of
Thomas
Earl of
Exeter,
and departing this Life,
Anno
1663, he left Issue by
Anne
his first Wife,
Robert
his Son and Heir, who being Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Bedford;
and having given great Testimony of his Loyalty to King
Charles
II. under his misfortunate Troubles; as also been instrumental in the Restauration, he was in the 19th of
Charles
II. created Lord
Bruce
of
Skeltoun,
Viscount
Bruce
of
Ampthil,
and Earl of
Ailesbury.
He married
Diana
Daughter to
Henry
Earl of
Stamford,
by whom he had Issue,
Thomas
Lord
Kinloss.
James Bruce
Esq
Diana
eldest Daughter, married first to Sir
Seymour Shirely,
Baro net, and after to
John
Duke of
Rutland.
Anne,
to Sir
William
ich
of
Sunning.
Christian,
to
John Rolls
Esq
eldest Son of Sir
John Rolls
of
Stephenson,
and afterward to Sir
Robert Guyer
of
Stoke.
Mary,
to Sir
John Walter
of
Saresdon,
in the County of
Oxford,
Baronet.
Anne-Charlotte,
to
Nicolas Bagnal
Esq
Henrietta,
to
Thomas Ogle
Esq
only Son of Sir
Thomas Ogle
Governour of
Chelsea
College.
Which
Thomas
eldest Son succeed ed him in the Earldom, and married
Elisabeth
Daughter of
Henry Beauc
mp,
Son of
William
Marquis of
Hartford,
Sister, and at length Heir to
William
Duke of
Somerset,
by whom he had Issue,
1.
Charles,
now Lord
Bruce
of
Kinloss,
who has married
Anne
Daughter and Co-heir to
William
Marquis of
Halifax,
and had Issue a Son
Robert,
born 1707.
This Earl's eldest Daughter
Elisabeth,
was married to
George
Earl of
Cardigan,
and Lady
Mary
dyed young.
His Lordship has since married the Countess of
Sanaw
in
Brabant,
by whom he had a Daughter
Charlot-Maria.
ARMS.
Or,
a Saltyre and Chief,
Gules,
on a Canton
Argent,
a Lyon rampant,
Azure,
Supporters two Savages
Proper,
wreathed about the Head and Loins with Lawrel, Motto,
Fuimus.
MURRAY, Lord
Elibank.
IS a Cadet of the Family of
Blackbarony:
His Ancestor was Sir
Gideon Murray
Son of Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Blackbarony,
by
Grisel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Beaton
of
Crich
Mr. Martin.
, Relict of Sir
Walter Scot
of
Buclugh.
From a short Abstract of his L
e, I find that Mr.
Murray
in his Youth, resolving to follow the Ministry, while he was a Student in D
vinity, he happened unluckily to kill a Man by Accident
Scots-tarvets MS.
, which made him relinquish that Profession, & become Chamberlain to the Laird of
Buclugh;
which Trust he managed with great Prudence, and considerably improved that opulent Fortune. He was first brought to Acquaintance with the Court, by means of his Nephew
Robert
Earl of
Somerset,
once the great Favourite of King
James
VI. who procured him first the Honour of Knighthood
Balfour.
,
Anno
1605: and upon his Lordships Promotion to the Thesaurers Office, on the Decease of
George
Earl of
Dunbar,
in the 1611 Sir
Gideon Murray
was constituted Thesaurer Depute, which Office he managed so much to the Advantage of the Crown, that beside the Charge of the Government, he both repaired and enlarged the Palaces of
Holy-rood-house, Falkland, Linlithgow, Dumfermling,
and the Castles of
Edinburgh,
and
Dumbartoun,
and had the Treasury so full at the King's coming to
Scotland
1617, that he defrayed the whole Charge of the Court, his Majesty appearing with as much Splendor at
Holy-rood-house
as at
Whitehall.
He departed this Life
Anno
1621
Historical Collections
, leaving Issue by
Margaret Pentland
his Wife
Charta in Rotulis 1603.
,
Sir
Patrick
his Successor;
Walter Murray
of
Livingstoun;
and a Daughter . . . . . . married to Sir
William Scot
of
Harden.
Which
Patrick
was by King
Charles
I.
Anno
1628
List of Baronets.
first made a Baroner, and afterward, in respect of his approved Loyalty to the said King, was advanced to the Dignity of Lord
Elibank, March
18th 1643
Charta in pub. Arch.
. He married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
James Dundas
of
Arnistoun,
by whom he had a Son, 1
st, Patrick
his Successor; 2
d,
. . . . . .
Murray
of
Spot,
and several Daughters;
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
Archibald Stiling
of
Carden.
Patrick
Lord
Elibank
his Son, married
Elisabeth Steuart,
Daughter of
John
1
st,
Earl of
Traquair,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who married
Anne
Daughter of Dr.
Alexander Burnet
Archbishop of St.
Andrews,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor in the Honour, and two Daughters,
Anne,
married to
John
Lord
Mackleod,
Son and Heir of
George
Earl of
Cromarty.
. . . . . . . . to Sir
John Mackenzie
of
Coul, in Vic. de Ross.
Alexander
the present Lord, has married . . . . Daughter of
George Stirling
Chirurgeon in
Edinburgh,
by whom he has Issue the Master of
Elibank
his Son and Heir apparent.
ARMS.
Azure,
A Martlet betwixt Three Stars, within a double Tressure,
Argent.
Supporters, Two Horses bridleed,
Argent.
Crest, A Lyon Rampant Saliant on a Pole Ax,
Sable
Motto,
Virtute fideque.
ELPHINSTON, Lord
Elphinston.
THIS ancient noble Family originally took the Sirname of
Elphinston
from their own Lands of that Name in
Edinburghshire,
the first of whom I have found was
John de Elphinston,
who is Witness in that Grant which
Roger de Quincy
Earl of
Winchester
made to the Monks of
Dryburgh, de uno Tofto Terrae in Glaswoode circa Annum
1252
Original Gift to the Abbay of Dryburgh.
.
Another
Alexander Elphinston de Elphinston
in the Time of King
David
II, had the Lands of
Kinchinbar, in Baronia de Stenhouse, in Vicecomit. de Stirling
Charta in Rotulis Regis David.
, from
Godofredus de Ross, Dominus ejusdem in feudo & haereditate:
He was succeeded by
Alexander Elphinston Dominus ejusdem,
his Son, who in the 33d of King
David
II. exchanged the foresaid Lands with
Alexander
Son of Sir
Adam More
Knight, for the Lands of
Arthbeg
in
Stirlingshire,
since called
Elphinston.
Sir
William Elphinston
his Son, was slain fighting gallantly against the
English
at the Battle of
Piperdain, Anno
1436, to whose Valour chiefly our Historians ascribe the Victory; leaving only a Daughter,
Agnes
his sole Heir, married to
Gilbert
Son of Sir
Adam Johnston
of that Ilk
Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's Notes on Buchanan.
, who thereby came to the Possession of the Lands of
Elphinston
in
Lothian:
The rest of the Estate of the Family in
Stirling-shire,
by a solemn Arbitration, in the 1471, came to
Henry Elphinstoun,
Brother to the aforesaid
Alexander
whch he then called
Elphinston.
Sir
Alexander Elphinstoun
of that Ilk, Son and Heir of Sir
John Elphinstoun
Knight, was by the Bounty and Favour of K.
James
IV. created Lord
Elphinstoun,
by whose special Countenance he obtained in Marriage
Elisabeth Barlow
an
English
Lady, one of the Maids of Honour to Queen
Margaret.
He was slain at the Battle of
Flowdon,
with the said King his Master, 9th
September
1513, leaving Issue,
Alexander,
who succeeded him in the Honour,
Isobel,
married to
David Lindsay
of
Dunrod,
2
dly,
To
Robert Maxwell
of
Calderwood, in Vic. de Lanerk
Charta ad Annum 1527.
,
Eupham,
to
John Bruce
of
Cultmalindie
Gen. of Elphinstoun.
,
Elizabeth
to Sir
David Somervel
of
Plain.
Which
Alexander
married
Catherine
Daughter of
John
Lord
Erskine,
by whom he had Issue, 1
st, Robert
the next Lord, 2
d John
Parson of
In
er
ochty,
3
d, James Elphinstoun
of
Innerdovat
Charta penes Gavinum Hamilton de Innerdovat.
, 4
th,
Sir
Michael Elphinstoun,
Master of the Houshold to King
James
VI. 5
th. William,
who was the Author of that Branch of the
Elphinstouns
of
Calderhall
in
Stirling
-Shire; also several Daughters,
Isobel,
married to
James Hamilton
of
Haggs,
and had Issue.
Marjory,
to Sir
Robert Drummond
of
Carnock,
and had Issue.
Margaret,
to
Alexander Livingston
of
Dunipace.
This Lord was killed at the Battle of
Pinkie,
10th of
September
1547
Gen. of Elphinstoun.
, and was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
Robert
his Son and Heir, who married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
John Drummond
of
Innerpeffery,
by whom he had, 1.
Alexander
his Successor, 2.
George
Ibidem.
; Rector of the
Scots
College at
Rome,
3. Sir
James Elphlnstoun,
1st Lord
Balmerinoch;
likewise several Daughters.
1st,
Agnes,
married to
Walter
Lord
Deskford.
2
d. Jean
to
Walter Barclay
of
Towie, in Vic. de Aberdeen.
3.
Elizabeth
Ibidem.
, to Sir
Robert Innes
of that Ilk, and had Issue.
4.
Margaret
to
John Cunningham
Ibidem.
of
Drumwhasle, in Vic. de Stirling,
and had Issue.
He departed this Life,
Anno
1602, and was succeeded by
Alexander
his Son, who was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
VI. by whom he was prefer'd to be Lord high Theasurer of
Scotland, Anno
1599, which Office he resigned to the Earl of
Dunbar
in 1601. By
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Lord
Livingstoun,
he had
1.
Alexander
his Successor in the Honour. 2.
James Elphinston
of
Barns,
Ancestor to the present Lord
Elphinston.
3.
John Elphinston
of
Wortle
in
Aberdeen
-Shire. 4.
Michael Elphonstin
of
Quarrel. in Vic de Stirling;
also five Daughters.
Anne,
married to
John
Earl of
Sutherland,
and had Issue.
Jean,
to
Arthur
Lord
Forbes,
and had Issue.
Elizabeth,
to Sir
John Bruce
of
Airth,
and had Issue.
Christian,
to Sir
Thomas Urquhart
of
Cromarty.
Helen,
to Sir
William Cockburn
of
Langtoun,
and had Issue. And again to Mr.
Henry Rollo
of
Woodside,
Grandfather and Grandmother to the present Sir
Henry Rollo
of
Woodside
Knight.
Which
Alexander
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Drummond,
Sister to
James
first Earl of
Perth
Charta penes Dominum de Perth.
, by whom he had one Daughter
Lillias;
and departing this Life
Anno
1649
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, the Title of Lord descended to
Alexander Elphinstoun
of
Barns
his Nephew, who, that the Honour might be properly supported, married
Lillias
Daughter and Heir of
Alexander
Lord
Elphinstoun
his Uncle: He dying
Anno
1654
Ibidem.
, left Issue, 1.
Alexander.
2
d. John,
and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
Walter
Lord
Torphichen.
Which
Alexander
married
Anne
Daughter of Dr.
Alexander Burnet
then Archbishop of
Glasgow,
and afterwards of St.
Andrews,
but he dying without Issue,
Anno
1669
Ibidem.
, his Estate and Title came to
John
his Brother, who married
Isobel,
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Lauderdale,
by whom he had,
1.
Charles.
2.
John,
who dyed in the blossom of his promising Youth, unmarried.
3. Captain
William Elphinstoun.
Elisabeth,
eldest Daughter, married to
John Campbel
of
Mamore,
Son to
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle,
and has Issue.
Margaret,
to
George
Count
Lesly
of
Balquhain,
and has Issue.
Mary.
Charles
Master of
Elphinstoun,
married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Sir
William Primrose
of
Caringtoun,
by whom he has Issue,
ARMS.
Argent,
a Cheveron
Sable,
betwixt three Boars Heads eras'd
Gules,
supported by two Savages
Proper,
Crest, a Lady above the middle, holding in her Dexter-hand a Castle, and in the Sinister a Lawrel, Motto,
Caus Causit.
HAY, Earl of
Errol.
BOTH our ancient and modern Historians say, that this noble Family had its Rise
Anno
980,
tempore Kennethi Tertii,
when the
Danes
invaded this Nation, and gave Battle to the
Scots;
whom they had routed near
Perth,
but for the Courage and Conduct of a certain Labourer, who perceiving his Country-men flying before the conquering Enemy, he and his two Sons stopped them with their
Plow Gear
in a certain Defile, and upbrading them for their Cowardice, obliged them to rally: whom the
Danes
supposing to be fresh Succours, he became thereby the means of transferring the Victory to the
Scots
side: And King
Kenneth
advanced him into the first Rank of those about him, and rewarded him with as much Land as a
Falcon
flying from a Fist, should measure out before he settled: To which Exploit, the Arms, Crest, and Supporters of the Family of
Errol,
are allusive. The praise of this illustrious Person and his Sons are celebrated by the polite Poet Dr.
John Johnston,
as follows,
Quo ruitis cives? Heia! hosti obvertite vultus
Non pudet infami vertere terga fuga?
Hostis ego vobis; aut ferrum vertite in hostem.
Dixit, & armatus dux praeit ipse jugo.
Quaqua ibat vastam condensa per agmina Danum
Dat stragem. hinc omnis consequiturque fugae.
Servavit cives. Victorem reppulit hostem.
Ʋ nus cum natis agminis instar erat.
Hic Decios agnosce tuos magnae aemula Romae,
Aut prior hac; aut te his Scotia major adhue.
In the Reign of King
Malcolm
IV.
William de Haia
is Possessor of the Lands of
Errol
in
Forfar
-shire, and is among many other noble Persons Witness in that King's Charter to the Abbay of
Scoon,
he gave to the Monastry of
Couper
in pure Charity, the Lands of
Lyderpoyls,
which King
William
by his Royal Charter ratified and confirmed,
Comite Duncano Justiciario, Comite Gilberto de Strathern, Willielmofilio Thori,
being Witnesses therein, sufficiently prove it a very ancient Deed
Original Writes of the Abbay of Couper.
. He left behind him three Sons,
David, Robert,
and
Malcolm.
Which
David
was a Benefactor to the Monks of
Couper
in
Angus,
by his Gift and Donation of three Acres of arable Land, with the Fishing of one Net upon the River of
Tay, Pro anima piae memoriae Regis Willielmi, & anima Willielmi de Haia patris mei & salute mea & Elene sponsae meae & Antecessorum & Heredum meorum, cum consensu Gilberti Heredis mei.
Sir
Gilbert Hay
of
Errol
his Son, was one of the first Barons of
Scotland,
who assisted King
Robert
I. in retrieving the Independency of his Native Country, then almost subjected to the
English
by
John Baliol;
and assisted at the Solemnity of his Coronation,
Anno
1306. In Consideration of his good and faithful Services he had diverse Grants of Lands then in the Crown; and that Monarch being further desirous to put a lasting Mark of Esteem upon him and his Family, he was graciously pleased to make him and his Heirs for ever Lord High Constables or
Scotland,
by his Charter 12th
Nov.
1315
Charta penes Comitem Errol.
. He died
Anno
1330
Genealogy of Errol.
, and was interred in the Abbay of
Couper,
to which he and his Ancestors had been Benefactors. He was succeeded by
Sir
William
his Son, who adhered firmly to the Interest of King
David Bruce,
in whose Service he lost his Life at the Battle of
Duplin, Anno
1333
Ibidem.
, together with the whole Gentlemen of his Name; so that had not his Lady been with Child, and supported it by the Birth of a Postumous Son, it had been quite extinguished. Mr.
Johnston
the Poet writes thus of him,
Me simul, & mecum spemque & genus omne meorum
Vulnere non uno sustulit una dies.
At vos crudeles Parcae miserescite. nobis
Degener haud tant is spes nova surgat avis.
Audivere Deae Dabitur quod poscitis, ajunt,
Aut dabis, aut conjux te tibi dante dabit.
Stat rediviva igitur, potuitque excisa renasci,
Et tibi gens a te posthuma surget avo.
Si fas morte etiam victuram condere gentem,
Qualia, quanta olim vita datura fuit!
Sir
William
was succeeded by Sir
David
his Son, born after his Father's Death, and on that account came not into Action for a long time: He lest a Son
Sir
Thomas,
who is one of the Barons who recognosced
John
Earl of
Carrick's
Right to the Crown, upon his Father's Accession to the imperial Dignity of this Realm
Earl of Cromarty's Vindication of King Robert III.
. He married
Elisabeth
Daughter to King
Robert
II.
Charta Roberti II. dilecto filio suo Thomae Hay Constabulario Scotae & Elisabethae sponsae suae filiae nostrae, ad Annum 1376.
and departing this Life
Anno
1406
Gen. of Errol.
. he left Issue
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
George Lesly
Knight
Charta penes Comitem de Rothes.
.
Which
William
was one of the Commissioners deputed by the Estates of
Scotland
to treat with the
English,
touching the Redemption of King
James
I.
Anno
1424, which was then happily effected
Drummond's History of King James I.
, at the Solemnity of whose Coronation he receiv'd the Honour of Knighthood. He married
Alice,
Daughter of Sir
William Hay
of
Tester,
Progenitor to the Marquis of
Tweddale
Charter by William Earl of Errol to Sir David Hay of Yester, his Uncle, in the Year 1454, among the Writes of the Family of Tweddale.
, by whom he had
William
his Successor in his Estate and Honour, and
Gilbert Hay
Charter by Nicol Earl of Errol to Gilbert his Uncle, of the Lands of Urrie in 1477.
of
Urrie.
This Sir
William
being a Person of singular Merit, was by the favour of King
James
II. created Earl of
Errol Anno
1452, and departing this mortal Life in the 1455
Hawthornden's History of King James. II.
, he left Issue by
Beatrix
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Lord
Dalkeith
Genealogy of Errol.
.
Nicol
his Son and Heir, who was one of the Privy Council to King
James
III. and one of the Commissioners upon the Part of
Scotland
nominated to treat with the
English,
touching the keeping a good Understanding betwixt the two Realms
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
,
Anno Dom.
1472: He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter to the Earl of
Huntly,
Genealogy of the Family of Errol MS.
by whom he had,
William
Earl of
Errol
his Son and Heir, who married
Janet
Daughter to
John
Earl of
Athole,
by whom he had two Sons,
William,
and Sir
Thomas Hay
of
Logie,
Knight
Charta Jacobi IV. Thomae Hay filio Willielmi Comitis de Errol & Margaretae de Logy dominae de Logy-Amond sponsae suae. Anno 1493. in Registro.
.
Which
William
married
Elisabeth Lesly,
Daughter to the Earl of
Rothes
Charta Willielmo Comiti Errol & Elisabethae Lesly sponsae suae ad Annum 1501.
, by whom he had,
William
Earl of
Errol
Genealogy of the Family of Errol.
, who was constituted Sheriff of
Aberdeen, Anno
1510
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. He took to Wi
e, first
Christian,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Glamis
Geneaology of Errol.
, and again
Elisabeth
Daughter to the Lord
Ruthven
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. Elisabethae Ruthven Comitissae de Errol sponsae Niniani Domini R
ss.
. This Lord accompanying King
James
IV. to the Battle of
Flowdon,
was there slain with his Sovereign Lord, and the Flower of the Nobil
ty on the fatal 9th of
September
1513, leaving
William
his Son and Heir to succeed him, who was of the Privy Council to King
James
V. and his special Favorite. He married
Helen,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Lennox,
by whom he had one Daughter
Jean,
married to
Andrew
Earl of
Errol
her Cousin; his Estate and Honour devolving on
George Hay
of
Logie,
his Heir Male
Manuscript History of the Family of Errol.
. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Robertson
of
Strowan
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
Andrew
his Successor; also two younger Sons,
John Hay
of
Muchill, George Hay
of
Ardlithan,
and two Daughters,
1.
Elisabeth,
married to
William
Earl
Marishal,
and had Issue.
2.
Margaret,
to
Laurence
Lord
Oliphant,
and had Issue. He departed this Life
Anno
1563
Ibidem.
. and was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
Andrew
his Son, who was constituted one of the Lords of Queen
Marys
Privy Council in 1567, when the Civil War broke out in that Reign. I do not find him much engaged in either Party during all the Confusions of King
James
's Minority. He married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Errol
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
Francis,
who succeeded him, and a Daughter
Eleanor,
married to
Alexander
first Earl of
Linlithgow,
and had Issue.
His second wife was
Mary,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Caithness,
Widow of
Hume
of
Coldingknows,
by whom he had
George Hay
of
Kilour,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Errol.
He dying
Anno
1585
Ibidem.
.
Francis
his Son succeeded him, who was one of the Commissioners appointed to treat about a nearer Union of
Scotland
and
England, Anno
1604
Spotiswood.
. He married first
Mary,
Sister to
James
Earl of
Murray,
next
Anne,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
and last of all
Elisabeth
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir, and
Francis
who died unmarried; also four Daughters,
1.
Anne,
married to
George
Earl of
Winton.
2.
Jean,
to
John
Earl of
Mar.
3.
Elisabeth,
to
Hugh
Lord
Semple.
4.
Mary,
to
Walter
Earl of
Buclugh.
5.
Sophia,
to
John
Viscount
Melgum.
This Earl arriving to a great Age, at last his long Life was brought to a period on the 14th of
July
1631. Upon him Dr.
Arthur Johnston
wrote this Epitaph.
Occidit Hayorum Princeps Errolius, orbis
Nunc defiderium, qui fuit ante decus.
Adscripsit procerum numero domus edita Regum
Stemmate, sanguineis nobilitata jugis.
Manibus Heroum sociavit Martia virtus,
Partaque fulminea mille trophea manu.
Donavit coelo pietas spectata. Quid ultra
Vel maruere homines, vel tribuere Dei?
William
Earl of
Errol
his Son, was much in the Favour of King
Charles
I. and assisted at the said King's Coronation, 18
June
1633. He married
Anne
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Kinghorn,
by whom he had
Gilbert
his Successor, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
Henry
Lord
Ker,
Son and Heir of
Robert
Earl of
Roxburgh,
2
dly
to
John
Earl of
Cassils,
and departing this Life, 17th of
December
1636
Balfour's Annals.
his Estate and Honour descended to
Gilbert
his Son and Heir, then very young, and upon that account was not engaged in the Civil War; for I find no mention of him till the Restauration of King
Charles
II. when he was constituted one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council,
Anno
1661. He married
Catherine
Daughter of
James
second Earl of
Southesque,
but dying without Issue,
Anno
1674, both his Estate and Honour, by vertue of an Entail to the Heirs Male, came to
John Hay
of
Kilour,
Son and Heir of Sir
Andrew Hay
(by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick Kinnaird
of
I
chture
) Son and Heir of Sir
George Hay
of
Kilour
(by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . .
Cheyne
of
Eslemont
) Son and Heir of
Andrew
Earl of
Errol,
as has been observed.
Which
John
so succeeding in the Earldom, married
Anne
Daughter to
James
Earl of
Perth,
by whom he had
Charles
his Successor,
James
and
Thomas,
who both dyed unmarried; also two Daughters,
Lady
Mary.
Lady
Margaret,
married to
James
Earl of
Linlithgow.
He dying
Anno
1705, was succeeded by
Charles
his Son,
Which
Charles
now Earl of
Errol,
was one of the Peers who in the Parliament 1706, dissented in every Article of the Union with
England,
in the Terms of the Treaty then before the House, before the Conclusion of which, his Lordship entred a Protestation, which chiefly respected his own Heritable Constabulary, in these Terms,
I
Charles
Earl of
Errol,
Lord high Constable of
Scotland,
do hereby Protest, that the Office of high Constable of
Scotland,
with all the Rights and Priviledges of the same, belonging to me Heritably, and depending upon the Monarchy, Sovereignty, and ancient Constitution of this Kingdom, may not be weakned nor prejudged by the Conclusion of the Treaty of Union betwixt
Scotland
and
England,
nor any Article, Clause or Condition thereof, but that the said Heritable Office, with all the Rights and Priviledges thereof, may continue and remain to me and my Successors intire and unhurt by any Votes or Acts of Parliament, or other Proceedings whatsomever relative to the said Union: And I crave this my Protestation may be admitted and Recorded in the Registers and Rolls of Parliament.
ARMS.
Argent,
three Eschutcheons,
Gules,
supported by two Savages carrying upon their Shoulder, two Oxen, Yoaks,
Crest,
a Falcon
Proper,
with this Motto,
Serva Jugum.
CHURCH-HILL, Lord
Eymouth.
THE first who enjoyed this honourary Title, was
John Churchhill
Esq
Son of Sir
Winston Churchhill
of
Wottonbasset,
in the County of
Wilts,
by . . . . . . his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Drake
of the County of
Devon,
Baronet.
His first step to Advancement in martial Affairs, was the Honour of a Colours in the Royal Foot-Guards, which was procured him by his Royal Highness the Duke of
York,
while a Youth, rather to humour his forward Inclination that way, than any Advantage to be made by it. He soon after went to
France
with the Duke of
Monmouth,
who gave him a Company of his own Regiment, and served at the Siege of
Maestricht,
then under the Direction of the present
French
King. Upon his Return to
England,
by a particular Character of his Bravery and Conduct from the Duke of
Monmouth,
he was made Lieutenant-Colonel to Sir
Thomas Littleton
Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, and Master of the Robes to the Duke of
York:
Not long after which, he was created Lord
Church-hill
of
Eymouth
in
Scotland,
by Letters Patent bearing date 21
December
1682
Diploma in Cancellaria supremae Dominae nostrae Reginae.
.
King
James
ascending the Throne, he was immediately made Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, and Captain of a Troop of his Life-Guard. Also in the first Year of his Reign, 14th of
May
1685. he created him a Baron of
England,
by the Title of Lord
Churchhill
of
Sandridge;
But notwithstanding these Honours, upon the Revolution he went over to the Prince of
Orange
then at
Sherburn.
King
William
was no sooner on the Throne, but he was made Gentleman of the King's Bed-Chamber; also 9th of
April
1689, he was raised to the Honour of Earl of
Marlborough.
The same Year he commanded the
English
Forces in
Flanders,
and was present with Prince
Waldeck
at the Shock at
Walcourt:
And
Anno
1690, was sent General of the Forces to reduce
Cork
and
Kinsale;
which Service he perform'd with great Dispatch and Conduct.
The next Year, he made the Campagne under King
William
in
Flanders,
was constituted Governour to the Duke of
Gloucester,
sworn of his Majesty's Privy-Council, and made one of the Lords Justices; which he serv'd three times successively, in the King's Absence, who, at length,
Anno
1701, appointed him General of the Foot, and Commander in Chief of the
English
Forces in
Holland,
also Ambassador-Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary for the Negotiation at the
Hague.
In the first of Queen
Anne,
he was constituted Captain-General of Her Majesty's Land Forces, both at Home and Abroad, elected Knight of the Garter, and dispatch'd with the Character of Her Majesty's Ambassador-Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary to the States of
Holland.
Anno
1702, he commanded the Army in
Flanders,
took
Venlo, Ruremond, Stevenswaert, Liege, &c.
and on his Return to
England,
was made Marquis of
Blandford,
and Duke of
Marlborough.
In the Year 1704, he march'd to the
Danube,
routed the
French
and
Bavarian
Forces at
Schellenbergh,
and afterwards gave them a total Defeat at
Hochstet;
was made a Prince of the Sacred
Roman
Empire; and on his Return to
England,
had the Honour and Mannour of
Woodstock,
and Hundred of
Wooton,
voted to him and his Heirs; and next Year settled by Act of Parliament.
In the Year 1705, he march'd to the
Moselle,
return'd to the
Netherlands,
raised the Siege of
Liege,
and forc'd the
French
Lines: At the end of which Campagne, he made a Tour to
Vienna,
where the Emperor made him a Grant of the Lordship of
Mildenheim,
in
Suabia,
formerly possess'd by Duke
Maximilian,
Uncle to the present Duke of
Bavaria;
from which time, he was distinguish'd throughout the Empire, by the Style and Title of Prince of
Mildenheim:
And was afterwards invested therein, and admitted, by his Plenipotentiary Mr.
Stepney,
to sit and vote in the College of Princes.
In the Year 1706, he gave an intire Defeat to the
French
and
Bavarian
Forces at
Ramillies,
and gain'd the whole Country of
Brabant
to the Allies.
In the Year 1708, he (with Prince
Eugene
of
Savoy
) defeated the
French
and
Spanish
Army at
Audenarde,
cover'd the Siege of
Lisle,
succour'd
Brussels,
then besieg'd by the Duke of
Bavaria,
and re-took
Ghent
and
Bruges.
He married
Sarah,
Daughter, and at length, one of the Co-Heirs of
Richard Jennings
of
Sandridge,
in the County of
Hertford,
Esq
by whom he had four Daughters,
Henrietta
eldest Daughter, married to
Francis
Earl of
Godolphin.
Anne,
second Daughter, married to
Charles Spencer
Earl of
Sunderland;
to whom she is second Wife.
Elisabeth,
third Daughter, married to
Scroop Egerton
Earl of
Bridgewater.
Mary,
fourth and youngest Daughter, married to
John
now Duke of
Mountague.
ARMS.
Sable,
a Lyon Rampant
Argent,
in a Canton of the Second, the Cross of
England.
KING, Lord
Eythen.
SIR
James King
of
Birness
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I
in
Aberdeen
shire, was first train'd up in the Wars of
Germany,
under
Gustavus Adolphus,
King of
Sweden,
where he rose gradually, till at last he came to be Lieutenant General; in which Character he serv'd with the highest Reputation; afterward upon the breaking out of the Civil War in
England,
he repair'd to his Majesty's Service, was constituted General of his Army against the
English
Parliament, which he ordered with great Wisdom and Dexterity: In Consideration whereof, the King was pleased to create him a Peer of
Scotland,
by the Title of Lord
Eythen
Ibidem.
, the 28
March
1642.
OGILVY, Earl of
Finlater.
IN the Reign of King
Robert
II. Sir
John Sinclair
Knight is possessor of the Barony of
Deskford
in
Banff
-shire
Charta aliquando in Rotulis Robert II.
. He was succeeded by
Ingeram
his Son and Heir
Resignation by Alexander Sinclair Son to Ingeram Sinclair of Deskford to Sir Walter Ogilvy of Ach
en, Knight, and Margaret Sinclair Lady Deskford his Neice, quam Deo
dictus Dominus Walterus ducet in uxorem 1437. penes Comitem deFinlater.
, as he was by
John
his Son, who was slain at the Battle of
Harlaw, Anno Dom.
1411, leaving
Margaret
his only Daughter and sole Heir to succeed him in the Barony. In 1437 She was married to Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Achyven,
Knight, (a Branch of the Family of
Ogilvy,
) whereupon he assumed into his Coat of Arms,
Argent,
a Cross ingrail'd,
Sable,
which hisPosterity still wear. This Sir
Walter,
in the 18th of
James
II. got leave of the King to fortify his Castle of
Finlater
with an embattled Wall of Lime and Stone, and all other Necessaries for a place of Strength
Licence under the great Seal by King James II. Anno 1455, to Sir Walter Ogilvy of Deskford to build a Tower and Fortalice at the Castle of Finlater, still preserved among the Writs of the Family of Finlater.
. By the said
Margaret
his Wife, he had two Sons,
Sir
James Ogilvy
of
Deskford.
Sir
Walter Ogilvy
who obtained the Lands and Thanedom of
Boyn
in the North, by the Marriage of
Margaret,
Daughter and one of the Coheirs of Sir
James Edmonston
of that Ilk
Charta in publicis Archivis tempore Jacobi III.
. Of this Branch the
Ogilvies
of
Dunlugus
and
Strathern
are sprung. He departed this Life
Anno
1456.
Sir
James
his Son succeeded him; he was made a Knight by King
James
III. and married
Mary
Daughter of
Mr. George Martine of Clermont's Genealogical Collections.
Sir
Robert Innes
of that Ilk,
in Vicecomitatu Moraviae:
By her he had,
Sir
James,
succeeded in the Fortune.
Walter Ogilvy
of
Glashaugh.
Alexander
killed at
Flowdoun
Ibidem.
.
George
a Church-man: Also several Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
James Abercromby
of
Birkenbog.
Marion,
to
Patrick Gordon
of
Haddo,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Aberdeen
Ibidem.
.
Catherine,
to
William Crawfurd
of
Federat, in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen.
Elisabeth,
to
John Grant
of
Freuchie.
Mary
to
Alexander Urquhart
Sheriff of
Cromarty.
Which Sir
James Ogilvy
of
Deskford
married
Agnes,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Huntly
Ibidem.
, by whom he had,
1.
Alexander
his Successor,
2.
James.
3.
Patrick.
4.
George.
5.
Elisabeth,
married to Sir
James Dunbar
of
West-field
Charta in publicis Archivis.
Sheriff of
Murray.
Alexander Ogilvy
of
Deskford
his Son, got from King
James
V. a Charter erecting his Lands of
Deskford, Finlater, Cathmore,
the Forrest of
Glensudech,
the third part of the Lands of
Inernach, Achinstank, Buchhaw,
with the Fishing on the River of
Dovern,
the Lands of
Sandlacht, Castle-field,
the Constabulary of
Cullen
and
Achendorn
in
Banff
-shire, the one half of the Lands of
Balhall,
and the fourth Part of
Manmure
in
Forfar
-shire, into one intire Barony in all time coming, to be called the Barony of
Ogilvy,
of the date 22d of
May
1527
Ibidem.
. This
Alexander Ogilvy
of that Ilk, (for so he's after this designed) took to Wife first
Jean Abernethy,
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Saltoun,
by whom he had
James Ogilvy
of
Cardal,
his only Son. His second Wife was
Elisabeth Gordon,
a Lady of the Family of
Huntly
Genealogy of Finlater.
, by whom he had a Daughter
Margaret
married to
John Gordon
Son of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly.
This Laird of
Finlater,
and
Ogilvy,
by the Influence and evil Counsel of his Wife, was prevailed upon to disinherit his Son, and to settle the most part of his Fortune on
John Gordon
his Son-in-law, upon Condi
on he should change his Name to
Ogilvy,
and he and his Heirs in all time coming, wear his Coat of Arms: Accordingly the said
John Gordon
succeeded into the Estate of
Finlater,
and kept Possession thereof till the 1562, it came to be forfaulted for his being present in the Fight of
Corr
chie,
whereupon
James Ogilvy
of
Cardal,
Son and Heir of the said
Alexander Ogilvy
of that Ilk, represents to Queen
Mary,
how far he had been wronged by his Father's unjust Act, and therefore Her Majesty was graciously pleased to restore him to the Estate of
Finlater
by way of Justice, in the 1564
Charta in publicis Archivis.
. When the Civil War broke out in that Reign, he was not so ungrate as to forget the good Offices the Queen had done him, but most loyally adhered to her Interest, and was one of the Barons who entred into an Association to stand by her against her rebellious Subjects (as they call them) who had deprived her of her Authority, and would to the outmost of their Power, endeavour her Restauration, bearing date, 8th of
May
1568. He married . . . . . .
Gordon,
Daughter of . . . . .
Gordon
of
Lochenvar
Genealogy of the Family of Finlater.
, by whom he had a Son
Alexander,
who died before him, leaving Issue by
Barbara
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Boyn
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, a Son,
Walter,
who succeeded his Grandfather; he was first knighted by King
James
VI. before the Institution of the Honour of Baronet: And being a Baron of an ample Fortune, he was by the special Bounty of the said King, raised to the Peerage of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Ogilvy
of
ford,
by Letters patent, bearing date 4th of
October
1616
Sir George Mackenzies MS. of the Baronage of Scotland
.
He married first
Jean,
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Elphinston,
by whom he had only one Daughter
Christian,
who was married to Sir
Alexander Forbes,
afterward created Lord
Pitsligo.
His second Wife was
Marion,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, and two Daughters,
1.
Jean,
married to
James Douglass
Earl of
Buchan,
and afterward to
Andrew
Lord
Gray.
2.
Margaret,
married to Sir
John Grant
of that Ilk,
in Vicecomitatu de Murray,
and had Issue.
Which
James
Lord
Deskford,
was by K.
Charles
I. advanced to the Honour of Earl of
Finlater,
by Letters patent, bearing date the 20th of
February
1638
The Registrated Patent in the Chancery Office.
, and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever.
He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter to the Earl of
Rothes,
by whom he had two Daughters.
Mary
Countess of
Finlater.
Anne,
Wife of
William
Earl of
Glencairn.
This Earl having no Male Issue of his Body, he procured from King
Charles
I. on the behalf of his Daughter, and her Descendants certain Letters Patent, whereby the Dignity and Title of Earl of
Finlater
was conferred upon her and
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Inchmartin
her Husband. This
Patrick
Earl of
Finlater,
in the time of the Civil War, suffered much both in his Person and Fortune, for his firm and loyal Adherence to King
Charles
II. Departing this frail Life, the 30th of
March Anno Dom.
1658
Retour of James Earl of Finlater to Patrick Earl of Finlater his Father in the Chancery Office.
. he left Issue by the aforesaid
Elisabeth
Countess of
Finlater
his Wife,
James
his Son and Heir, who married
Anne
only Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglinton,
by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Marquis of
Hamilton,
by whom he had,
1.
James
the present Earl.
2. Colonel
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Lonmay,
who married
Elisabeth
Daughter of Mr.
Francis Montgomery
of
Giffen,
and has Issue.
3.
Anne,
married to
George Allardice
of that Ilk, and had Issue. This Earl dying
Anno
1711, his Estate and Honour devolved on
James
the present Earl of
Finlater
and
Seafield,
his Son, whose personal Endowments were the principal Cause of the great Honour and Preferments he has attained to, both in this and the former Reign.
In his Youth having accomplished himself by Travels into foreign Countries, he studied the Civil Law: After his Return to his native Country, he was admitted Advocate 16th of
January
1685, in which honourable Profession he made a very considerable Figure, tho there's nothing memorable concerning him, till the Meeting of the Convention in
March
1689, (where he had the Honour to serve as a Member for the Burgh of
Cullen
) wherein his Abilities began to be very soon taken notice of, and he was imployed in several Committees to examine and give the Opinion to the Meeting concerning diverse Grievances. In the Debates about King
James
's Forfaulture, he argued learnedly in favours of that unfortunate Monarch. In the 4th of King
William
and Queen
Mary,
he was constituted Solicitor; and after that, in 1696, appointed conjunct Secretary of State with
John
then Earl of
Tilliardin.
He being then only a Knight, his Majesty was pleased to confer upon him the Title of Viscount of
Seafield,
by Letters Patent bearing Date 28th of
June
1698; and thereafter by other Letters Patent of the Date 24th
June
1701, to create him Earl of
Seafield.
Upon Queen
Anne
's coming to the Throne,
Anno
1702, he was constituted conjunct Secretary of State with the Duk of
Queensberry;
but the same Year, upon a Change of the Ministry, he was removed from the Secretary's Imployment, & constituted Lord High Chancellour of
Scotland;
from which Office he was removed, & in 1704 made a third time conjunct Secretary of State; but the next Year 1705 he was restored to be Chancellour, and therein continued till the commencing of the Union, the 1
st
of
May
1707. Then his Lordship was named Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer, which he again was pleased to resign, Mr.
Smith
being put in his Room. All which, and several other high Trusts his Lordship still discharged with great Learning and Sufficiency. Also in 1712, he was elected one of the sixteen Peers of
Scotland
to the Parliament of
Great-Britain,
by a Vacancy, through the Demise of
William
Earl
Marshall.
He married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
William Dunbar
of
Durn,
Baronet, by whom he has,
1.
James
Lord
Deskford.
2. Mr.
George Ogilvy.
3.
Anne,
married to
Charles
Earl of
Lauderdale,
and has Issue.
4.
Janet.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent,
a Lyon passant guardant,
Gules,
crown'd,
Or;
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Cross ingrail'd,
Sable,
supported by two Lyons rampant, Crest, a Lyon rampant, all
Gules,
holding a Plumb Line betwixt his Feet, Motto,
Tout Jour.
FORBES, Lord
Forbes.
THAT which will sufficiently attest the Antiquity of this numerous and far spreading Family, is a Grant by King
Alexander
II. to
Fergus
the Son of
John,
of the Lands and Tenement of
Forbes
in
Aberdeen
-shire
Original Charter in the Custody of the Lord Forbes.
, whence the Sirname has been originally assumed. The first conspicuous Person of this Line, was
Alexander Forbes,
who resolutely defended his Castle of
Urquhart
in
Murray,
against
Edward
I. of
England
Dr. Abercromby's Martial Atchievements.
,
Anno
1303, upon the storming of which, he and the whole Garrison were put to the Sword: By this fatal Stroak his Family would have perished, had not his Wife preserved it by the Birth of a postumous Son,
Alexander,
who obtained from
Robert Bruce
certain Lands in Compensation for what his Father had lost in his, and his Countrys Quarrel. This
Alexander
treading in the Steps of his gallant Father, loyally adhered to the better Title of
David Bruce,
against
Edward Baliol,
who invaded this Kingdom, and called himself King of this Realm, and by the Assistance of the
English
routed the loyal
Scots
Army at the Battle of
Duplin, Anno
1332, where many brave
Scots-men
fell, and among others this Sir
Alexander Forbes,
leaving, says my Author
Mr. Lumsden's Historical and Genealogical History of the Family of Forbes.
, no Issue but a postumous Child, this Family having the parallel Fate with the Family of the
Fabii
in
Rome,
of whom 'tis said,
Ʋ na dies Fabios ad bellum miserat amnes,
Ad bellum missos perdidit una dies.
Sir
John Forbes
of that Ilk, the next of the Family, lived in the Time of King
Robert
II. and seems to be the Son of the former
Alexander,
who acquired from
Thomas
Earl of
Mar,
several Lands in
Aberdeen
shire, which the aforesaid King, in the 3
d
of his Reign, ratified by his Charter under the great Seal. Likeas, he obtained from
Alexander
Bishop of
Murray, pro fideli & utili servitio suo & assistentia personali in nostris agendis totam terram nostram de Fyntr
ffie
19 of
July
1378
Charrulary of Murray.
. In the 5th of King
Robert
III. he was constituted his Majesty's Justitiary within the bounds of
Aberdeen
and Coroner of the said County. His Wife was
Elisabeth Kennedy,
a Daughter of the Family of
Dunure
in the West, by whom he had three Sons,
viz.
Sir
Alexander Forbes
his Successor.
Sir
William Forbes
Knight, Ancestor to the Lord
Pitsligo.
Sir
John,
who obtained the Thanedom of
Formartin,
by the Marriage of
Marjory
Daughter and Heir of Sir
Henry Preston
of
Formartin
Knight, whereupon he added to his paternal Coat of Arms the three
Unicorns
Heads, which is still born by his Descendents He was the Founder of the Family of
Tolquhon,
of whom branched the
Forbesses
of
Foveran, Watertoun, Colloden, &c.
and their several Cadets.
Which
Alexander
obtained the Honour of Knighthood before the 1424. He had a Grant to himself and
Elisabeth Douglass
his Wife, and to their Heirs, from
John
Earl of
Buchan,
of the Lands of
Mikle Fintry, Blacktoun,
and
Balcross,
by his Charter 10th
December
1423
Charta penes Dominum Samuelem Forbes de Foveran Baronet.
. He departed this Life in, or near to the Year 1444, leaving Issue by the said
Elisabeth
his Wife,
James
his Successor, and a Daughter
Annabella,
married to Sir
Patrick Gray
of
Fowlis,
Ancestor to the Lord
Gray
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IL ad annum 1446.
.
This
James
was Knighted by King
James
III. and was the first of his Family who in that Reign came to be called Lord
Forbes
He married
Egidia
Daughter of
William
Earl
Marshal
Mr Lumsden.
, by whom he had
William,
and
Patrick,
first of the Branch of
Corse,
(which produced the Earl of
Granards
Family in
Ireland,
and
Forbes
of
Craigievar
in
Aberdeen
shire, Baronet) and a Daughter married to
Malcolm Forbes
of
Tolquhon
Mr Lumsden.
.
Which
William
made a considerable Figure in the Reign of King
James
III. He married
Christian,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly
Charta Alexandri Comitis de Huntly, Williemo Domino Forbes filio suo, in publicis Archivis.
, by whom he had four Sons,
Alexander, Arthur,
and
John,
all three successively Lords, 4th.
Duncan
Author of the Branch of
Cor
indae,
of whom issued the
Forbesses
of
Monymusk, Kilmuck, Lesly,
&c.
Which
Alexander
adhered to King
James
III. and upon his Death in 1488, he rose in Arms in order to bring them to condign Punishment, who had imbrew'd their Hands in the Blood of the King
Drummond.
, but afterward submitting to King
James
IV. he departed this Life not long after, leaving no Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter to
Thomas Boyd
Earl of
Aran,
so that his Estate and Honour sell to
Arthur
his Brother, who likewise dying without Issue, his Brother
John
became his Heir, His Lordship married,
Catherine,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
by whom he had a Daughter
Elisabeth,
married to
Grant
of that Ilk
Lumsden's History of the Family of Forbes.
.
His second Wife was
Christian
Daughter of Sir
John Lundy
of that Ilk
Ibidem.
, by whom he had two Sons,
John
Master of
Forbes,
who died in
Edinburgh,
17th
July
1537
Mackenzie's Criminals.
.
William,
who succeeded in the Honour: And three Daughters,
1.
Margaret,
married to
Andrew Fraser
of
Muchill, in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen,
Ancestor to the Lord
Fraser
Charta in publicis Archivis ad Annum 1509.
.
2.
Elisabeth,
to
Gilbert Keith
of
Troup.
2
dly.
To
Alexander Innes
of that Ilk
Lumsden's Account of the Family of Forbes.
.
3.
Marjory,
to
Gilbert Forbes
of
Brux
Ibidem.
.
He married 3
dly. Elisabeth Barlow
Widow of
Alexander
Lord
Elphinston,
by whom he had a Son
Arthur Forbes
of
Putuchie
Ibidem.
, in
Aberdeen
shire, and a Daughter
Janet,
married first to
John
Earl of
Athole.
2
dly
to
Alexander Hay
of
Dalgety,
and again to
William Lesly
of
Balquhain,
and had Issue
Ibidem.
. He departed this Life
Anno Dem.
1547, and was succeded by
William
his Son, who was constituted one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
V.
Miscellanea Scotica.
Anno
1539, and always enjoyed his Favour. He married
Elisabeth
Daughter and Co-heir (with her Sister
Margaret,
Countess
Marshal
) of Sir
William Keith
of
Inneruggie
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, by whom he had,
1.
John
his Successor.
2.
William Forbes
of
Foderhouse
Lumsden.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen.
3.
James Forbes
of
Lethinty.
4.
Robert
Prior of
Monymusk,
in
Aberdeen
-shire, formerly a Cell to the Priory of St.
Andrews.
5.
Arthur Forbes
of
Logie.
6.
Abraham Forbes
of
Blacktoun.
1
st.
Daughter
Jean,
married to
James
Lord
Ogilvy.
2.
Elisabeth
to the Lord
Sinclair.
3.
Christian,
to
George Johnston
of
Caskieben,
and had Issue.
4.
Isabel,
to
John Gordon
of
Pitlurg,
and had Issue.
5. . . . . . to
Barclay
of
Gairtly in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen.
6.
Margaret,
to
George Sinclair
of
May
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, Son to
George
Earl of
Caitness.
7.
Barbara,
to
Alexander Allardice
of that Ilk.
8.
Anne,
to Sir
John Seton
of
Barus,
Son of
George
Lord
Seton,
and had Issue. He dying
Anno
1593, was succeeded by,
John
Lord
Forbes
his Son, who married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly,
by whom he had a Son
John,
who entred into a religious Order abroad, and died without Succession. 2
dly. Janet,
Daughter of
James Seton
of
Touch,
by whom he had,
Arthur
his Successor in his Estate and Honour, who married
Jean
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Elphinston,
by whom he had a Son
William,
and a Daughter
Barbara,
married to
George
Earl of
Seaforth,
and had Issue.
Which
Alexander
affecting a Military Life, went over to
Germany,
and entred into the Service of the renowned
Gustavus Adolphus
King of
Sweden,
against the Imperialists, where he attained to the Degree of a Lieutenant General, and acquired the Reputation of an excellent Officer. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in
Britain,
he returned to his Native Country, and had a considerable Command in the Army that was sent from
Scotland
to
Ireland, Anno
1643, to suppress the
Irish
Rebellion. Afterward retiring from the violence of these Times, he returned to
Germany,
where he spent the Remainder of his Days.
His first Wife was
Anne,
Daughter of Sir
John Forbes
of
Pitsligo,
by whom he had
William
his Successor. His second Marriage was with
Mary
Daughter of . . . . . . . .
Forbes
of
Riress
by whom he had Colonel
James Forbes, Mary,
married to . . . . .
Rose
of
Kilravock,
and . . . . to . . . .
Forbes
of
Balflug.
Which
William
married
Jean
Daughter of
John Campbel
of
Calder,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir,
Arthur Forbes
of
Breda, Archibald Forbes
of
Putachie,
and two Daughters.
1.
Mary,
married to
James
Lord
Duffu
, sans
Issue. 2
dly.
To Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Gordonstoun,
and had Issue.
2. . . . . . . to
John Leith
of
White haugh, in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen,
and had Issue.
He departing this Life
Anno
1691, was succeeded by
William
his Son. This Lord was one of the first of the
S
ts
Nobility who declared for King
William,
for which, upon his Accession to the Crown, he was named a Privy Counsellour, 1
st
of
May
1689, and constituted Captain of a Troop of Horse, then a Lieutenant Colonel of Dragoons and not long after made Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons and since the Accession of her Majesty to the Throne, he was Lieutenant Colonel to the Horse-Guards commanded by his Grace
John
Duke of
Argyle.
His Lordship married
Anne
Daughter of
James Brody
of that Ilk,
in Vicecomitatu de Elgin,
by whom he has,
William
Master of
Forbes.
James Forbes
Esq
who married
Mary
Daughter to
Alexander
Lord
Pitsligo,
Also a Daughter
Mary.
ARMS.
Azure,
three Bears Heads. Coupé,
Argent,
muzl'd,
Gules,
supported by two Boars
Proper,
Crest, a Stag's Head eraz'd,
Argent,
Motto,
Grace me guide.
FORRESTER, Lord
Forrester.
THIS Sirname has been assumed from an Office, as
Stewart, Durward, Constable,
and others were, which their bearing,
viz.
three hunting Horns, seems to confirm. The principal Family appears to be this of
Forrester,
whose Ancestor Sir
Adam Forrester,
Citizen of
Edinburgh
in the 6th of
Robert
II. acquired the Barony of
Corstorphin,
from Sir
VVilliam More
of
Abercorn
Charta in Rotulis Roberti II.
, whence his Successors took their Designation. Upon the Accession of King
Robert
III. to the Throne,
Anno
1390, he was constituted Lord Privy-Seal
Mr. Rymer's Faedera Angliae.
. In the 2d of the said King, he was commissioned to treat with certain
English
Commissioners for maintaining the Peace betwixt the two Realms
Ibidem.
. Likeas in 1405, he was a second time one of the Commissioners authorized to treat with the
English,
about composing of certain Differences betwixt the two Kingdoms
Ibidem.
. By
Margaret
his Wife he had Issue,
Sir
John
his Son and Heir, who being a Man of good Parts, was
Anno
1421 named Lord Privy Seal to
Murdach
Duke of
Albany
Governour of
Scotland
Charta in Rotulis Murdaci Ducis Albaniae.
, and in 1423 he was with
VVilliam
Bishop of
Glasgow, George
Earl of
March, John Montgomery
of
Ardrossan, Patrick Dunbar
of
Beill,
and
VVilliam Borthwick
of that Ilk, sent Commissioners to
England
to Treat with that State, about the Redemption of King
James
I.
Rymer's Federa Angliae.
. Upon that King's Return home,
Anno
1424, he was constituted Master of the Houshold
Charta in Rotolis Jacobi I ad annum 1424.
, and Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland
Ibidem anno Praedicto.
. After which, in 1428 he was named a Commissioner with divers others, to treat with the
English
about a Peace. Thus much for his Civil Actions. His Works of Piety were these, The founding a Chaplaniry at the Altar of St.
Ninian,
within the Church of St.
Giles
of
Eidnburgh, Pro salubri statu serenissimi Principis Jacobi
I.
& Joannae sponsae s
ae; & pro salute animae quondam Adae Forrester de Corstorphin, Militis, Patris mei & Margaretae matris meae
to which he mortified
sex libras tredecem solidos & quatuor denarios de tenemento suo in dicto Burgo
Ibidem.
. Likeas, he doted a sufficient Subsistence for three Chaplainries in the Chapel of St.
John
the Baptist, contiguous to the Paroch Church of
Corstorphin,
founded by Sir
Adam Forrester
his Father
Ibidem.
which in the 1429, he erected into a Collegiate Church, and procured the Annexation of several Lands and Tithes thereunto. He married
Jean,
Sister to
Henry Sinclair
Earl of
Orkney
Charta Confirmattionis Jacobi I. de impignoratione quas Henricus Comes Orkadiae fecit delecto fratre suo Joan
Forrester de Corstorphin militi in 1424.
; and departing this Life about the 1440, was inter'd in the Church of
Corstorphin,
under an Arch, with the Portraiture of himself and his Wife, as big as the Life in free Stone, without any monumental Inscription but a Coat of Arms, he had Issue,
1. Sir
John
his Successor.
2.
Henry Forrester
of
Oxgang.
3.
Jean,
married to Sir
Robert Maxwel
of
Carlaverock
Charta in Rotolis dicti Regis.
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Nithsdale.
4.
Elisabeth,
to Sir
Alexander Lauder
Knight
Ibidem.
.
Which Sir
John
obtained a Grant from King
James
I. of the Lands of
Blackburn
in
Linlithgow
shire, upon the Resignation of Sir
Robert Cuningham
of
Kilmaures, Anno
1424, wherein he's designed
filio & heredi apparenti Joannis Forrester de Corstorphin Militis Camerarii Scotiae.
He was succeeded by
Archibald Forrester
of
Corstorphin,
who by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . . .
Hepburn
of . . . . . . had
Ibidem.
Alexander
his Son and Heir, in whose Favours he resigned his Estate
Anno
1482, reserving a Liferent to himself. He had to Wife
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Duncan Forrester
of
Gairden,
Master of the Houshold, in the Reign of King
James
IV.
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
Alexander Forrester
of
Corstorphin,
his Son and Heir, who married
Janet
Daughter to . . . .
Lauder
of
Hatton
Ibidem.
, by whom he had Sir
James
his Son, who succeeded him; but he dying without Male Issue,
Anno
1587
Charta in Cancellaria supremae Dominae Nostrae Reginae ad annum 1587.
, his Estate fell to
Henry
his Brother, who marrying
Helen
Daughter of . . . .
Preston
of
Craigmillar, in Vicecomitatu de Edinburgh
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, by her he had,
George
his Son and Heir, who was first created Baronet by King
Charles
I. 27
th November
1625, and thereafter Lord
Forrester,
22
July
1633
Charta in Registro.
. He married
Christian,
Daughter of Sir
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth,
by whom he had several Daughters,
viz. Helen
married to
VVilliam
Lord
Ross, Margaret
to
John Shaw
of
Sornbeg,
. . . . . . . to
Hamilton
of
Grange, Jean,
to
James Baillie
of
Torwood-head,
Son of Lieutenant-General
VVilliam Baillie,
in whose Favours my Lord
Forrester
resigned the Honour, and to the Heirs of their Body, which failing to his other Heirs therein specified, which was ratified by King
Charles
II.
Anno
1651, but he having no Issue by her, the Honour by vertue of the said Entail, came to
VVilliam Baillie,
alias
Forrester
of
Torwoodhead,
his Brother, who married also
Lilias
the youngest Daughter of
George
Lord
Forrester,
by whom he had
VVilliam
Lord
Forrester,
who departed this Life,
Anno
1705, leaving Issue by . . . . . . his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Andrew Birnie
of
Saline,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
George
the present Lord
Forrester.
ASHTOUN, Lord
Ashtoun
of
Forfar.
KING
Charles
I. was pleased to raise Sir
VValter Ashoun
an
English
Gentleman Knight of the
Bath,
and Baronet, to the Honour of Lord
Forfar
in this Realm, by Letters Patent bearing date 8th
November
1628
Diploma Domini Ashtoun de Forfar.
whose Successor
Walter
Lord
Ashtoun
enjoys the Honour.
DOUGLAS, Earl of
Forfar.
WHEN King
Charles
II. was in
Scotland, Anno
1651, his Majesty thought fit upon the 3
d
of
April
that Year, to grant a Patent to
Archbald
Lord
Angus
to be Earl of
Ormond,
Lord
Bothwel
and
Hartside,
and to limit the Honour to his Heirs Male by Lady
Jean Weems
his Spouse, and upon the Restauration, his said Majesty by a new Patent, bearing Date the 2d of
October
1661, created
Archbald Douglass,
the Son of the said Marriage, Earl of
Forfar,
Lord
Wandale
and
Hartside,
Diploma Archibaldi Douglass Co
tis de Forfar in Rotulis Caroli II. ad Annum 1661.
.
Upon the Advancement of King
William
to the Throne,
Anno
1689, he was named a Privy Councellour and one of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord Privy-Seal, in which he continued several Years. In the first of Queen
Anne,
he was again made one of her Majestys Privy Council, and one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury, in which Station he continued till the Dissolution of that Court, as one of the Consequences of the Union of the two Kingdoms, and departing this Life the 12th of
December
1712, left Issue by
Rabina
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Lockhart
of
Lee,
Ambassador-extraordinary from King
Charles
II. to the Court of
France, Archbald
the present Earl his only Son, a Lieutenant Colonel of Dragoons in her Majesty's Army.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Argent,
a Man's Heart crown'd,
Proper,
on a chief,
Azure,
three Stars of the 1st. 2d. and 3d. four Coats quarterly, 1st.
Mackdoual.
2d.
Abernethy.
3d.
Wishart.
4th.
Stewart,
as born by the Duke of
Douglass,
supported by a Savage, on the Dexter with a Chain about his Neck pendent to it a crown'd Heart proper; on the Sinister, a Buck colour'd with three Molets.
Crest,
a Phenix in a Flame, Motto,
Extinctus orior,
and on the Compartment,
Jamais Arrier.
Patrick Ruthven,
Earl of
Forth,
THIS Gentleman was the Son of
William Ruthven
of
Banden,
in the County of
Perth,
whose Descent was from the Ancient Barons
Ruthven,
Men famous many Ages since in
Scotland,
by
William
a younger Son of
William
1
st.
Lord
Ruthven
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. Willielmo Ruthven filio Willielmi Domini Ruthven ge
ito inter ipsum & Dominam Christianam Forbes sponsam suam ad annum 1527
, and
Christian
his second Wife Daughter to Sir
John Forbes
of
Pitsligo
Litera prosapiae Dominae Margretae Hay filiae Francisci Comitis Erolliae in Rotulis Caroli I.
Which
Patrick,
the first and only Earl of
Forth,
in his Youth much affecting Military Exercises, went over to
Sweden,
where he served in the
German
Wars under that great Prince and famous Souldier
Gustavus Adol phus,
then King of
Sweden,
in which valiant Adventures he deported himself with such Eminent Courage, that he arrived to the Degree of a Lieutenant General, and gain'd so much Honour, that upon his Return, King
Charles
I. was pleased to raise him to the Dignity of a Lord of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Ruthven
of
Ettrick, Anno
1639, and the same Year
Guthry's Memoirs.
made him Governour of
Edinburgh
-Castle, which he kept for the King's Service, and positively refused to deliver it to the Parliament without his Majesty's special Order, for which Contumacy (as it was then termed) his Estate was forfaulted
Ibidem.
Anno
1640. Upon the commencing of the Civil War in
England,
in 1642, he freely resorted to the Service of his injur'd Sovereign, who appointed him General of his Army; and by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 27th of
March
1642
Diploma Patricii Comitis de Forth in Rotulis Caroli I.
, created him Earl of
Forth.
In the Battles of
Edgehill, Brentford,
and
Newbery,
performing the part of a most Prudent, and experienced General, he was further in Consideration of his eminent Services, in the 1645, created Earl of
Brentford
in the Kingdom of
England.
He died very aged,
Anno
1651
Sir William Dugdale's Baronage of England.
, leaving one Daughter
Jean
his sole Heir, married to
James
Lord
Forrester;
so that this Honour became extinct, and was since one of the subsequent Titles of
John
Earl of
Melfore.
Argent,
three Bars,
Gules.
FRASER, Lord
Fraser.
ANdrew Fraser
of
Muchill, in Vicecomitatu de Aberdeen,
Son and Heir of
Andrew Fraser
of
Muchill,
by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert Douglass
Earl of
Buchan,
was the first honoured with this Title by King
Charles
I. 19th
June
1633
Diploma Andreae Domini Fraser.
. His Wife was
Anne
Daughter of
James
Lord
Balmerin
,
and dying 10th
November
1636
Balfour's Annals.
,
Andrew
his Son succeeded into his Estate and Honour: He married
Anne
Daughter of . . . . .
Hadden
of
Gleneagles
Charta in Rotolis Caroli II.
, by whom he had,
Andrew
is Successor, who departing this Life 24
May
1674
Retour of the Lord Frasar to his Father in the Chancery.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Hugh
Lord
L
vat,
a Son
Charles
Lord
Fraser,
who married
Mary
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Buchan,
but had no Issue.
ARMS.
Argent,
three Frazes,
Argent.
CARY, Viscount of
Falkland.
SIR
Henry Cary
Knight, Son and Heir of Sir
Edward Cary
of
Aldenham,
an
English-man,
Comptroller of the Houshold, and one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
VI. was by his Majesty's special Favour created a Peer of
Scotland,
by the Title of Viscount
Falkland,
10th
November
1620
Deploma Henrici Vicecomitatis de Falkland in Rotolis ad annum 1620.
. Afterward, he was constituted Lieutenant of
Ireland;
in which Government he behaved himself with much Prudence, and dying
Anno
1633
Dugdal's Baronage of England.
, by
Elisabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Laurence Taunfield
Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer, he had a Son
Lucius
and a Daughter,
Ann
married to
James
Earl of
Hume.
Which
Lucius
Lord Viscount
Falkland,
was a Person singularly well accomplished with Learning, and other excellent Parts: He was chosen Member to the Parliament,
Anno
1641
Rushworth's Collections.
for the Burgh of
Newport,
in the County of
Southampton,
where he merited so well of the King, that he was worthily advanced to be one of the Principal Secretary's of State, upon the removal of Sir
Henry Vane,
which Office he executed with great Applause. Shortly after which, out of his great Zeal to his Majesty's Service, venturing himself in the Battle of
Newberry,
20th
September
1643, he there lost his Life in his 34 Year. His intimate Friend, no less a Man than the Earl of
Clarendon,
in his History of the Rebellion, characterizes him thus,
That he was a Person of such prodigious Parts, of Learning and Knowledge, of that inimitable Sweetness and Delight in Conversation, of so flowing and obliging a Humanity and Goodness to Mankind, and of that primitive Simplicity and Integrity of Life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed Civil War, than that one single loss, it must be most infamous to all Posterity.
He was married with
Letice
Daughter of
Richard Morison
of
Tolay-Park,
in the County of
Leicester
Esq
Dugdale.
, by whom he had
Henry
his Son and Heir, a Person of the highest Accomplishments, excellently vers'd in Learning and good Letters; and not only a great incourager of Poetry, but a principal Ornament of it himself
Account of the English Dramatick Poets by Gerrard Shakespear, publish'd Anno 1691.
. He wrote a Play called,
The Marriage Night,
very well esteem'd. His Lordship was elected to serve in the House of Commons upon the Restauration, and was constituted Lord Leiutenant of
Oxford
-shire, he was out off in the prime of his Years,
Anno
1664
Shakespear's Account of the English Dramatick Poets,
, as much missed (says one) when Dead, as lov'd when Living.
Anthony
Viscount of
Falkland
his Son
History of England.
, was sworn of the Privy Council 17th of
March
1691, serving then a Burgess in Parliament; and 3d of
March
1692, appointed one of the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord high Admiral of
England
Ibidem.
, he made his Exit out of this to another World, in 1694, and was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
Edward
the present Lord Viscount of
Falkland.
ARMS.
Argent,
on a bend
Sable,
three Cinque Foils of the first, the paternal Coat of
Cary,
supported on the Dexter with a Lyon rampant,
Gules,
colour'd
Or,
on the Sinister by a Unicorn,
Argent,
Motto,
In utroque fidelis.
MACKDUFF, Thane, afterward Earl of
Fyfe.
A Thane in Ancient Times, is thought by the learned
Spelman
and
Selden,
to have been the King's principal Minister in a Province, no doubt invested with a Power of Administration of Justice, to which certain honourary Priviledges were annexed. 'Tis thought it was not at the first Institution, properly a Title of Dignity, but of Service. They were of two kinds, either such as served the King in greater Places of Eminency, who were called
Thani Majores,
or
Thani Regis,
as the Thanes of
Fife, Caithness, Argyle,
and
Murray
were, these that served under them were termed
Thani Minores:
But when the Title of
Comes
and
Dux
became Hereditary (so the Learned are of Opinion) the Title and Privileges of
Thani Majores
did descend with the Lands from Fathers to their Children, tho the lesser did not, yet they still retained the old Name of Thanes and Thanedoms, as the Baronies of
Boyn
in
Ba
ff
shire and
Calder
in
Murray,
&c. are called to this Time: And perhaps the Difference betwixt the two consisted in this, That the greater
Thanes
derived their Power and Authority immediately from the King, and held them of the Crown
in capite,
for Knights Service, which by a certain Constitution made them Hereditary, and were of the same kind with them that afterward came to be Parliamentary Barons. The lesser
Thanes,
had only Commissions from them, and were held in the ordinary way for Services done, and to be done. All our Histories do agree, that
Mackduff,
formerly
Thane,
was created Earl of
Fyfe,
by King
Malcolme Canmore, Anno
1057
Balfour and other Scots Historians.
, and that in Consideration of his extraordinary Services to that Prince, in assisting him to revenge his Father's Death upon
Mackbeth,
and to recover his Crown, for which he gave him and his Heirs these great and noble Privileges,
I. That his Posterity should have the Honour to place the succeeding Kings in the Chair of State, at their Coronations.
II. That they should lead the Van of the Royal Armies.
III. That, if any within the 9th. Degree in Relation to his Family, should be guilty of the unpremeditated Slaughter or casual Homicide of a Gentleman, he should pay twenty four Merks of Silver, and but twelve if a Plebeian, for Expiation of the Crime; flying to a Sanctuary near
Newburgh
in
Fyfe,
on the Confines of
Strathern:
Which was much the same Privilege granted to
Mackduff's
Kindred, as the Cities of Refuge were to the
Isralites, Joshua
20. At the Place of
Girth,
there was an high Cross erected, containing an Inscription of old
Macaronick
Verses, a Mixture of
Latin, Saxon, Danish,
and old
French
Words, to this Purpose,
Maldraradum dragos, Mairia, laghstita, Larges,
Spaland
spados, five nig fig knighthite gnares
Lothea lendiscos laricingen lairia lisc
Et Colovurtes sic fit tibi bursia burtus
Exitus, & bladadrum five lim five lam five labrum
Propter Magridin & hoc oblatum
Accipe s
eleridem super limthide lamthida labrum.
This last Privilege was observed as long as the Family existed, and was claimed and enjoyed by severals within the Degree of Consanguinity to the Earls of
Fife
afterward. The learned
Skeen,
in his
Verborum Significatione,
remarks, that
Spence
of
W
rmistoun
enjoyed this Benefit for the Slaughter of one
Kinninmonth:
Sir
George Mackenzie
mentions another, whereby Sir
Hugh Abernethy
was assoilzied for the Slaughter of
John Melvil
of
Glenbervy:
and I have seen an Instrument in the Year of God 1397, wherein Sir
Alexander Murray
of
Abercarny
did plead the Privileges of Clan
Mackduff,
for the Slaughter of one
John Spalding,
as standing in the ninth degree of Kin to the Earl of
Fyfe.
To
Mackduff
Earl of
Fyfe,
succeeded
Duffgan Comes,
his Son, who is one of the
Comites
assenting to the Charter of
Alexander
I. to the Trinity-Church at
Scoon
Sir James Dalrymple's Collections.
, He left a Son
Constantine
Sir Robert Sibald's History of Fife.
Earl of
Fyfe,
who is one of the many Witnesses to King
David's
Charter to the Monastery of
Dunfermling, Anno Dom.
1126. The next Earl to
Constantine,
was
Gillemichel,
who is Witness in the Foundation Charter of the Abby of
Holyrood-house,
and dying 1139
Ibidem.
, he was succeeded by Earl
Duncan
his Son, who is a frequent Witness in Charters by King
David
to religious Persons and Places; and dying 1154
Cron. de Melross.
,
Duncan
his Son was his Successor: He was Justiciary of
Scotland
in the time of King
William,
and a constant Witness in Donations by him to the Church, to which he also himself was a liberal Benefactor: For besides, his erecting the Nunnery of
North-berwick;
He gave many Donations to Churchmen, which was then believed to be the most compendious way to save the Soul. He gave way to Fate in 1203
Sir Robert Sibbald's History.
leaving
Malcolm
his Son to inherit his Estate and Honour, who in the 1217 founded, and richly indowed the Abbacy of
Culross
in
Perth
-shire, in Honour of St.
Servan
the Confessor
Cron. de Melross.
; and departing this Life
Anno Christi
1230
Ibidem.
, his Estate devolved to
Malcolm
his Nephew
Ibidem.
, who was Father of
Colban
Earl of
Fyfe
who died in 1270
Balfour's Annals.
leaving
Duncan
his Son to succeed him. This Earl of
Fyfe
was elected on of the six Guardians of
Scotland,
upon the decease of
Alexander
III. in the 1286, and died before the Accession of
John Baliol
to the Crown.
Duncan
Earl of
Fyfe
his Successor, was slain in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Falkirk, Anno
1298
Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife.
; and to him succeeded
Duncan
his Son, who was killed at the Battle of
Durham, Anno
1346; the Honour and Privileges of the Family devolving to
Isabel
his Daughter, who brought the Honour first to Sir
William Ramsay
Knight, her Husband, and afterwards to Sir
Thomas Bisset,
but she having no Issue of her Body, resigned the Honour to
Robert
Earl of
Montieth,
her Brother-in-law, afterward Duke of
Albany.
And so this noble Family was extinguished.
ARMS.
Or,
a Lyon Rampant,
Gules.
Lord of
Galloway.
THE first intituled Lord from this Country, was
Fergus de Galweya,
who flourished under King
Malcolm
III. He founded the Monastery of
Saul-seat,
and the Priory of
Whitern
Monasticon Scoticanum.
for Monks of the Order of
Premontre,
and was a Benefactor to the Abby of
Holy-rood-house,
by his Gift of the Village of
Dundrenan
Cron. de Melross, & Cronicon Sanctae Crucis de Edinburck.
, in pure and perpetual Alms: After which he took upon him the Habit of a Monk in that Monastery,
Anno
1160. He left two Sons,
Uchtred
Lord of
Galloway,
and
Gilbert,
who fraudulently seized upon his elder Brother, made him his Prisoner, ema sculated him, pulled out his Eyes, and then put him to Death: But upon the Death of this
Gilbert, Anno Christi
1185
Dalrymple's Edition of Camden 1694.
.
Rolland
Son of
Uchtred
his Brother, recovered the Lordship of
Galloway,
and encreased the Wealth and Honour of his Family by the Marriage of
Elisabeth
Daughter, and at length sole Heir to
Richard Morvil
Chartularly of Melross.
Constable of
Scotland,
whereby that Dignity was transferred to his Race. By
Elisabeth
his Wife He had two Sons and a Daughter,
viz.
Alan
Lord of
Galloway.
Thomas de Galloway
Earl of
Athole.
Ada,
Wife of Sir
Walter Bisset
Balfour.
.
Which
Alan
was a great Benefactor to the Church; for besides that he founded the Abbacy of
T
ngland
Monasticon Scoticanum MS.
, He ratified to the Monks of
Melross
Chartulary of Melross.
,
Annuum redditum quem habere solebant de Galweya temporibus Predecessoris mei, pro animabus Rollandi patris mei, & Uchtredi avi mei.
This Man married
Margaret
eldest Daughter of
David
Earl of
Huntington,
Brother to King
William
the
Lyon,
by whom he had three Daughters his Co-heirs.
1.
Helen,
married to
Roger de Quincy
Earl of
Winchester
in
England,
but had no Succession.
2.
Christian,
to
William de Fortibus
Earl of
Albemarle sans
Issue.
3.
Dornagilla
to
John Baliol
Knight, who convoyed the Right to the Crown of
Scotland
to her Son.
This
Alan
dying
Anno Dom.
1233
Cron de Melross.
, was interr'd in the Abby Church of
Dundrenan
Balsour's Annals.
before the high Altar, and had this Monkish Epitaph,
M. semel & bis C si jungas X ter & I ter,
Hoc anno subiit mortis Alanus iter.
Gloria Scotorum, rosa Cleri, flos laicorum,
Dandi larga manus, jacet hic venerandus Alanus.
Tot bona qui deder at vix fuit, est vel erit.
O tu qui legere vel qui cupis ista videre,
Disce bona facere, sic mortuus non moriere.
Qui legis haec metra, quae continet haec mea petra,
Ores ut petra Christus me ponat in aethra.
Alan
thus dying without Male Issue, the Lordship of
Galloway
fell to the share of
Dornagilla
his second Daughter, Wife of
John de Baliol, Signeur de Castubernard.
He founded
Baliol
College in the University of
Oxford
Dr. Gibson on Camden; 1694,
, and with Consent of
Dernogilla
his Wife, released to the Bishop of
Glasgow
all Right he had to the Church of
Edilstoun,
which had been long in dispute between his Ancestors and the Chapter of that See
Chartulary of Glasgow MS.
, departing this Life
Anno
1269
Dr. Cibson on Camden.
, was interr'd at
New-Abbay
in
Galloway,
founded by his Wife in Honour of the Place of his Sepulture, of which Mr.
Winton
informs us thus,
When
Baliol
that was her Lord
Spousit, as ye hard record,
H
s Sau
send till his Creatoure
Or he w
s laid in Sepulture
She gart opyne his Body tyte,
And gart take his Hart out quite,
With Spicery right well savorand,
And of kind well fleworand,
That ilk Heart, as men said,
She balm
and gart be laid
In a Coffore of Ebore
That she gart be maid thairfore,
Enamylit and perfectly dight
Locket and bunden with Silver bright,
She foundit intil
Galoway
Of
Cistertians
order an Abby,
Dulce Cor
she gart thame all
That is
Sweet Heart
that Abby call,
But now the Men of
Galloway
Call that Steid
New-Abby.
He left Issue by the said
Dornagilla
his Wife,
John
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter married to
John Cummin
Lord of
Badenoch.
Which
John,
upon the decease of
Margaret
Queen of
Scotland, Anno
1290, competed with
Robert Bruce
for the Crown of this Realm.
However, both of them at length unanimously resolved to refer the Matter to the Arbitration of
Edward
King of
England,
who determined in Favours of this
John Baliol,
who accordingly was placed on the Throne 29th of
November
1292
Dr. Abercromb
's Martial Atchievements.
, by the Name of
John
I. the Lordship of
Galloway
and the Constabulary of
Scotland
being thereby involved in the regal Dignity; and so continued
ll
Robert
I. meritonously bestowed the Lordship of
Galloway
upon Sir
Edward Bruce
his own Brother, afterward Earl of
Carrick
and King of
Ireland, Anno
1313
Charta in Rotulis Roberti I.
, by whose Death it again returned to the Crown, and so continued till that victorious Monarch erected it to Sir
Archibald Douglass,
Knight, who being an active Person, served King
David Bruce
with great Fidelity against the
Baliol,
whom he totally routed at
Annand, Anno
1332, after which he was chosen Governour of
Scotland;
and fighting gallantly in the Battle of
Halydonhill,
was there slain in the Defence of his Country, 22
July
1333, leaving Issue by . . . . . . . his Wife Daughter of
John Cumin
Lord
Badenoch, William
Lord of
Galloway,
afterward Earl of
Douglass.
STEUART, Earl of
Galloway.
THIS collateral Branch of the illustrious Family of
Steuart,
sprang from Sir
Walter Stewart
Knight
The Learded Mr. David Simson conjectures this Sir Walter Steuart was Son of Sir John Steuart of Bute who was killed at Falkirk.
, who had by the bounty of King
Robert Bruce,
a Grant of the Barony of
Dalswinton,
in reward of his good and faithful Services to that glorious Monarch
Ibidem.
, not long after his Accession to the Crown. Likeas he had a Charter from his Nephew
Ibidem.
John Randolph
Earl of
Murray,
of the Lands and Barony of
Garlies,
then in
Drumfries
-shire, but now in the Stewartry of
Kircudbrught,
without Date, a Thing usual enough in these Days. The next of the Family was,
John Stewart
of
Dalswinton,
who seems to have been a very considerable Person, both on the account of his Birth, and the many Lands he held in diverse Counties, since we find by the Transactions with the
English
in the
Foedera
published by Mr.
Rymer,
that this
John
was given one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
David Bruce
in the 1357. After him (and apparently his Son) was,
Sir
Walter Stewart
Lord of
Dalswinton,
who lived in the Time of
Robert
II. & III. He having no Male Issue of his Body, in the 1396 married his only Daughter
The original Contract is still extant in the Lawyer's Library at Edinburgh.
to
John Stewart
Esq
Son and Heir of Sir
William Stewart
Sheriff of
Teviotdale
This Sir William was a Son of the Family of Darnly, afterwards Earls and Dukes of Lennox, as appears from the Patent creating Sir Alexander Steuart Lord Garlies in the 1607, and several other Accounts.
. They with Consent and Assent of each other, in the 1418
Genealogy of the Family of Garlies by Mr. David Simson in the Custody of Alexander Bailie
Esq
, give to Sir
John Stewart
Lord
Grytoun,
the Barony of
Callie, in comitatu Gallovidioe,
which is all I have found memorable concerning him, save that he left a Son,
Sir
William Stewart
of
Dalswinton,
who made a considerable Figure in the Reign of King
James
II. by whom he was made a Knight, sometime before the 1453
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
. He had Issue three Sons,
Alexander
his Successor, Sir
Thomas Stewart
of
Minto
Knight, Ancestor to the present Lord
Blantyre
Ibidem in Rotulis dicti Regis ad annum 1476.
,
Walter,
of whom came
Simson's MS. of the House of Garlies.
the
Stewarts
of
Tongrie.
Which
Alexander Stewart
of
Garlies
obtain'd a Grant of the Barony of
Dalswinton,
upon the Resignation of Sir
William
his Father, 13
January
1453
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, and in the 1465, he resigns sundry Lands in
Teviotdale
in favours of
Alexander Scot
of
Howpaslet.
By
Elisabeth Stewart
his Wife, he had Issue
John
his eldest Son, who dyed without Succession
Charta Jacobi III. Joanni Steuart filio & haeredi apparenti Alexandri Steuart de Garlies & Elisabethae Shaw sponsae suae 20 Octob. 1477.
, and
Sir
Alexander
his Successor, who departing this Life
Anno
1490
Simson's Collections.
left Issue
Alexander
a Son, and
Agnes
a Daughter, who was married to
John
Lord
Maxwel
Genealogy of the Family of Maxwel.
, and had Issue.
Which
Alexander
was Knighted in the Time of King
James
IV. being then a powerful Baron. He was slain at the Battle of
Flowdon
9th
September
1513, leaving Issue a Son
Alexander
to succeed him, by
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Archbald Douglass
of
Cavers,
Sheriff of
Teviotdale
History of the Family of Garlies by Mr. David Simson MS. penes Alexandrum Bailie de Castlecary.
.
This Sir
Alexander Steuart
of
Garlies
was much favoured by King
James
V. of whose Privy-Council he was. He married first
Catherine
Daughter of Sir
James Crichton
of
Cranston-riddel
Charta in publicis Archivis.
. 2
dly Margaret
Daughter of
Patrick Dunbar
of
Clugston,
by whom he had two Sons,
Alexander,
and
John Stewart
Parson of
Kirkmahoe
Mr. Simson.
, Progenitor of
John Stewart
of
Phisgill, in Vicecomitatu de Wigtoun.
His third Wife was
Catherine
Daughter to
William Stewart
of
Barcly,
by whom he had
William,
first of the House of
Clarie,
and
Robert,
who in the Year 1561 purchased the Lands of
Cardonald
in
Renfrew
shire by the Marriage of
Mary
Daughter and Co Heir of
James Stewart
of
Cordonald
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
, and
Helen
married to
William Gordon
of
Murefade, in Vicecomitatu de Wigton.
Alexander Stewart
younger of
Garlies,
was in the Interest of King
James
VI. in the said King's Minority, and was slain at the surprise of the Town of
Stirling
by the Earl of
Huntly
and the Laird of
Buclugh,
3d
September
1571
Crawfurd's Memoirs.
, leaving Issue by
Catherine
his Wife, Daughter and Co-heir of
Andrew
Lord
Herris
of
Terregles.
Alexander,
who succeeded his Grandfather, and obtained the Honour of Knighthood, at the Coronation of Queen
Anne,
Wife of
James
VI.
Anno
1590
Dr. Patrick Anderson's History of Scotland MS.
. He married
Christian,
Daughter of Sir
William Douglas
of
Drumlanrig,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Queensberry
Mr. Simson's Genealogy of Gairlies.
. By her he had
Alexander,
the first Earl, and
William Steuart
of
Mains,
Ancestor to Sir
Jame Stewart
of
Burrow
Baronet; likewise two Daughters. 1
st. Helen,
married to
John Douglas
of
Stanhouse.
2
d. Jean,
to
James Kennedy
of
Colzean.
He departing this Life in
October
1596
Charta in Cancellaria supremae Dominae nostrae Reginae.
, his Estate descended to
Alexander
his Son, who was first knighted by King
James
VI. then by his Majesty's special Favour raised to the Dignity of Lord
Garlies,
by Letters Patent 2
d
of
September
1607
Diploma Alexandri Domini Garlies in Ro
ulis Jacobi VI.
, his Descent from the illustrous Family of
Lennox,
being one of the principal Reasons for bestowing the Honour. Further, his said Majesty was pleased to create him Earl of
Galloway,
9th of
September
1523
Ibidem.
. He married
Grisel
Daughter of Sir
John Gordon
of
Lochenvar, in Vicecomitatu de Wigtoun:
By whom he had, 1
st. Alexander
Lord
Garlies,
who married
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Monteith,
by whom he had a Son
Alexander,
who died young. 2
d.
Sir
James Steuart
Baronet; likewise
Anne,
married to
Andrew Agnew
of
Lochnaw.
This Earl died very aged,
Ann
1649
Retour of James Earl of Galloway to Alexander Earl of Galloway his Father, in the Chancery.
, his Estate and Honour devolving on
Sir
James
his Son and Heir, who during the Usurpation, was very active in the King's Cause, and on that accound suffered in the common Calamity with other Loyalists, surviving the Usurpation eleven Years, he gave way to Fate in
June
1671
Retour of Alexander Earl of Galloway to Earl James his Father, registrated in the Chancery Office at Edinburgh;
' leaving Issue by
Nicolas
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Grierson
of
Lag,
three Sons and a Daughter,
viz. Alexander
his Successor,
Robert Steuart
of
Reimstoun, William Steuart
of
Castle-Steuart, Grisel
married to
Alexander
Viscount of
Kenmure.
Which
Alexander
married
Mary
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Queensberry,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor, who died unmarried,
Anno
1694. 2
d. James,
now Earl of
Galloway.
3
d.
Colonel
John Steuart
of
Sorbie.
4
th. Andrew Steuart
Esq
who died in the Expedition to
Darien
in the 1699. 5
th. William Steuart
Esq
6
th. Robert Steuart
Esq
also two Daughters, 1
st. Margaret,
marrried to
John Clark
of
Penniecook
Junior, one of the Barons of Exchequer, and had Issue. 2
d. Heurietta,
to
William
Earl of
Glen
airn.
Which
James
so succeeding into the Estate and Honour of
Galloway,
upon the Decease of his Brother, was constituted one of the Lords of her Majesty's Privy-Council. Soon after her Accession to the Throne, his Lordship was appointed one of the Committee of Parliament, 18th of
June
1702, for revising the Accompts of Money laid on by the former Sessions of that Parliament. And in the great Affair of the Union of the two Kingdoms. I find his Lordship dissenting from the Court in several very momentous Articles of the Treaty, as appears from the Minutes of the last Parliament. He married
Catherine
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun,
by whom he has Issue
Alexander
Lord
Gairlies,
&c.
ARMS.
A Fess Checquie,
Azure
and
Argent,
surmounted of a Bend
Gules,
within a double Tresure Flower'd and Counterflower'd of the last, supported on the Dexter with a Savage, and on the Sinister by a Lyon Rampant
Gules. Crest,
a Pelican feeding her Young,
Proper.
Motto,
Virescit vulnere virtus.
CRAWFURD, Viscount of
Garnock.
THE Sirname of the Family of
Kilbirny
was first
Barclay,
descended of Sir
Walter Barclay,
who executed the Office of Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland,
the 9th of King
William
the
Lyon
Charta Willielmi Regis Scotorum Waltero de Barcklay Cameraro Scotiae terrarum de Inerkilor pro servitio dimidii Militis Test. Comite Waldeno, Comite Gilberto. Ricardo de Morevil Constabulario.
Anno Dom.
1174
Dr. Abercromby's Martial Atchievemants of the Scots Nation, Page 252.
. From this noble Person the several Ancient Families of that Sirname in the Counties of
Aberdeen, Fyfe,
and
Air,
derive themselves. The first Person of Note of this Branch, was Sir
Hugh Barclay
of
Kilbirny
Knight, who flourished under King
David
II. in the 18th of whose Reign, he gave to his Vassal
John Mackmoran,
his Lands of
Haymore,
for Services done by him, and to be done
Charta Hugonis de Barclay Domini dimidiatae Baroniae de Crawfurd-John, Joanni Macmoran & Margaretae sponsae suae terrarum de Haymore Test. Willielmo Comite de Douglas, Willielmo Baillie, Roberto de Livingston, Joanne Heris militibus, Rogero Hog apud Edinburgum 26 Februarii 1357, penes Macmoran deGlaspen
. This Sir
Hugh
was succeeded in his Inheritance by
Hugh
his Son, who obtain'd the Honour of Knighthood from
Robert
III. For I have found him designed
Hugo Barclay de Kilbirny miles, Anno
1397
Charta penes Marchionem de Twedale.
. He left behind him, but by whom I have not discovered, two Sons,
David
the eldest, and
Archbald
Charta Hugonis Barclay deKilbirny, militis Archibaldo de Barclay filio suo, Dimidieatem Terrarum de Ladyland Test. Willielmo Cuningham de Kilmaures Hugone Campbel deLoudoun, Joanne Semple de Eliotstoun, Hugone Blair de eodem Militibus, Thoma Boyd de Kilmarnock, Ronaldo Fulartoun de Crosby & Thoma Crawfurd de Achinames, confirmata
a Jacobo I. 26 May 1431 in Rotulis dicti Regis.
first of the Branch of
Ladyland, in Vicecomitatu de Air,
which determin'd in Sir
Hugh Barclay
Knight, who died without Male Issue in 1596. Which
David
obtained a Grant of the whole Lordship of
Kilbirny,
and half of
Ladyland
from King
James
I. upon the Resignation of his Father Sir
Hugh,
26 of
May
1431
Charta in Rotulis dicti Regis.
. He was succeeded by
John
his Son, who dying without Male Succession the 10th of King
James
III. 1470
Precept for infefting Marjory Barclay as Heir to John Barclay of Kilbirny, her Father, in the Viscount of Garnock's Charter Chest.
, with him the Male Line of the
Barclay
's determined, after having flourished in great Splendor for a considerable space, the Barony of
Kilbirny
devolving to
Marjory
his Daughter and sole Heir, married to
Malcolm Crawfurd
Esquire.
Tho the
Crawfurds
have not possessed
Kilbirny
above 243 Years, yet were they a very ancient Family before. A Branch of the House of
Loudoun
came first to possess the Barony of
Easter-Greenock
in
Renfrew
-shire, about the Time of
Robert
III.
Malcolm Crawfurd
Esq
then taking to Wife . . . . . . . . . Daughter and Co-heir of
Malcolm Galbraith
of
Greenock,
an ancient Family in those Parts
The Sirname of Galbraith, as is evident from the Chartulary of Dunbartoun, has been taken from a proper Christian Name; for in the time of Alexander II. Mauritius filius Galbrat, is Witness in a Charter by the Earl of Lennox to the Abby of Paisly, and Willielmus de Galbraith Dominus de Gartconnel, is a Person of good account in the time of King David II, as is evident from sundry Charters, in my Hands, and many others elsewhere.
, by whom he had
Malcolm Crawfurd
Esq
his Son and Heir, who came to be
Kilbirny
in Right of
Marjory Barclay
his Wife aforesaid, whereupon he assumed the Coat of
Barclay
and impail'd it with his own: Here it may be remarked, that all the Estate the Family ever had, or yet possesses, was acquired to them by Marriage; or Lands so obtained were exchanged for others lying more contiguous to the rest of their Fortune, which gave occasion to a Friend to apply to them the following Distich,
Aulam alii jactent, at tu Kilbirnie nube,
Nam qua Fors aliis, dat Venus alma tibi.
This
Malcolm Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
by
Marjory Barclay
his Wife, had Issue
Malcolm Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny.
James Crawfurd
first of the Line of
Monock, in Vicecomitatu de Air.
Thomas.
John.
Isobel,
married to Sir
Adam Cuningham
of
Capringtoun
Knight
The Discharge of the Portion is still extant in the Viscount of Garnock's Charter-Chest.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Air,
Mother by him of Sir
John Cunningham,
and of
Margaret
Wife of
Andrew
Lord
Ochiltree,
Malcom Crawfurd,
Son and Heir of
Marjory Barclay
of
Kilbirny,
had a Charter of the Barony of
Kilbirny
and others
Charta Marjoriae Barclay Dnae Kilbirny dilecto filio suo primogenito & haeredi apparenti terrarum de Kilbirny, &c. 24 of April 1499, in Rotulis Jacobi IV. Test. Thoma & Joanne Crawfurds filiis suis.
, upon the Resignation of his Mother, 24th of
April
1499, which
Malcolm
married
Marion Crichton
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV ad annum 1499
Daughter to
Robert
Lord
Sanquhar,
Ancestor to the present Countess of
Dramfries,
by whom he had two Sons,
Robert
his Successor, and
John Crawfurd
Esq
Which
Robert
had a Charter of the whole Lordship of
Kilbirny,
following on his Father's Resignation, he reserving a Competency to himself, 8th of
May
1499
Ibidem.
, which was ratified by King
James
IV. by a Charter under the Great-Seal; his Death happening not long after,
viz.
in the 1500
Gift of the Ward of Robert Crawfurd of Kilbirny, Son and Heir of umquhile Malcolm Crawfurd of Kilbirny, then in the King's Hands thro' Decease of the said Malcolm, dated 27 of April 1500 in the Registers of the Privy-Seal.
. This
Robert Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny
in
Anno
1505, had a Dispensation from
James Beaton
Abbot of
Dunfermling,
the Pope's Delegate, for marrying
Margaret Semple
Writs of the Family of Kilbirny, in the Custody of the Viscount of Garnock
, notwithstanding of their Consanguinity within the Degrees prohibited by the Canon Law. He dying about 1513, left Issue by the said
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Thomas Semple
of
Eliotstoun,
Lawrence
his Son and Heir, a Person of eminent Note in those Days, both for the considerable Lands he held in diverse Counties, and the many Services to his Country; in Consideration whereof, he had several beneficial Grants from the Crown, in Reward of his good and laudable Services, but living in a Reign of no great Action, there is not any thing to be seen further memorable of him, but that he exchanged the Barony of
Crawfurd-John,
the ancient Inheritance of his Ancestors, with Sir
James Hamilton
of
Finart,
for the Lands of
Drumray,
in the County of
Dunbarton,
by a solemn Agreement, bearing date 29th of
January
1528
Original Charter of Excambion of the above-mentioned Lands, still extant in the Viscount of Garnock's Charter-Chest.
, and founded a Chaplainry in the little Church of
Drumray,
of his own Patronage, for certain Priests, to celebrate Divine Service for the Soul's Health of his late Sovereign Lord King
James
V. the good State of himself, and
Helen Campbel
his Wife, during their Lives here; likewise for the Well-fare of their Souls after their Departure out of this World, their Children, Successors, and all the faithful deceased, to which he appends his Seal
Charta penes Patricium Vicecomitem de Garnock, data 1547.
. Living to the Age of about 41, he departed this Life the 4th of
June
1547, happily taken away from seeing the sad Calamity of his Country by abloody War that soon followed after, leaving a numerous Family by
Helen Campbel
his Wife Daughter of Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Loudoun,
Ancestor to the present Earl of that Name,
Hugh
his Successor.
William Crawfurd
died without Issue.
Robert Crawfurd
Esq
John Crawfurd
of
Greenock-Easter.
David Crawfurd
of
Campel.
Thomas,
Progenitor of the
Crawfurds
of
Jordan-hill,
also of
Cartsburn
Thomas Crawfurd first of the Branch of Cartsburn, was the second Son of Cornelius Crawfurd of Jordan-hill, by Mary Daughter of Sir James Lockhart of Lee.
in
Renfrew
-shire, who taking himself to Arms, was early engaged in the Service of his Country, more particularly when in the utmost Danger of being ruined by the
English, Anno
1547, & was present in the Battle of
Pinkie-field,
where he had the misfortune to be taken Prisoner
Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's Notes on Buchanan.
, and for some time remained in Durance, till by a Sum of Money his Ransom was procured. Seeing his native Country imbroil'd in a War, he retired into
France An.
1550, & listed himself in the Service of
Henry
II. in the Quality of one of the Gensd' Arms, then under the Command of
James
Earl of
Aran
Vita Thomae Crawfurd de Jordan-hill, penes me.
, where his prudent Conduct and generous Behaviour gain'd him a general Esteem. Upon the Demise of
Francis
II. he returned with Queen
Mary
to his native Country,
Anno
1561, and so far as I can discover, he liv'd in a private Capacity till the Nation was alarmed with the Murder of
Henry
Lord
Darnly,
Queen
Mary
's Husband, to whom he had the Honour to be nearly related: Then it was he entred into an Association with the Earls of
Argyle, Morton, Athole, Mar, Glencairn, Lindsay, Boyd,
and others, for the Defence of the young Prince King
James
VI. who was in Danger of being murdred by the Earl of
Bothwel,
as his Father had been: This they solemnly declared, and that they had no other View but the Honour and Safety of Her Majesty's Person, and the Preservation of their Natural Prince, and to bring the Regicide to a fair Trial. How a Civil War broke out, I need not mention in this place, the Anarchy and Confusion of the succeeding Times, I rather pass over in Silence, than enter on the Detail of so ungrateful a Subject: But true it is, that this Gentleman was on the young King's side against Queen
Mary,
and commanded in several Expeditions against the Loyalists, with abundance of Reputation for his Valour and Conduct, being then Captain of the King's Forces all the time of these unhappy Troubles. He signaliz'd himself in the Siege of the Castle of
Edinburgh,
as appears at large by Mr.
Hume
's Annals
In his History of the Family of Douglas
, and in surprising
Dunbarton
Castle, then he'd out for Queen
Mary
by
John
Lord
Fleeming,
2d of
April
1572
George Buchanans History of Scotland of the Year 1572, where he gives Captain Crawfurd a very good Character.
, a Strength which was in these Days thought impregnable: In Consideration of which Services, he obtained from the King the Lands of
Blackstoun, Barns, Bishops-Meadow,
with an Annuity of 200
l.
out of the Bishoprick of St.
Andrews,
to enjoy it during Life,
Pro remuneratione dicto Thomae Crawfurd Capitaneo, militi prudenti ac in rebus bellicis audaci & experto, ob Castrum Dunbritonense omnium judicio inexpugnabile labore & industria ipsius Thomae captum & expugnatum
Charta penes Laurentium Crawfurd de Jordan-hill.
. He married first
Marion,
Daughter of Sir
John Colquhoun
of
Luss
Charta penes Vicecomitem deGarnock, data 1562.
, by whom he had only
Marion,
married to Sir
Robert Fairly
of that Ilk,
in Vicecomitatu de Air;
after her Death,
Janet,
eldest Daughter and Heir of
Robert Ker
of
Kersland,
an ancient Family in
Air
-shire, by whom he had two Sons and a Daughter, 1
st. Daniel,
who succeeded to his Mother's Estate, and therefore changed his Name to
Ker
The Family of Kersland continued from this Daniel Crawfurd, alias Ker of Kersland, in the Male Line, till Major Daniel Ker of Kersland was killed at the Battle of Stainkirk, Anno 1692.
. 2
d. Hugh Crawfurd
of
Jordan-hill,
Heir of his Father's Fortune, and
Susanna
married to
Colin Campbel
of
Elengreg, in Vicecomitatu de Argyle.
Having so prudently settled his Estate, as that both the Families might be supported, he made his Exit out of this to another World the 3d of
January
1603, and lyes buried at the Church of
Kilbirny,
under a plain Tomb, where you may still discover the Figure of a Man in full length in Armour, with a Coat of Arms, wherein
Crawfurd
quartered with
Barclay
is to be seen, and this Inscription upon the Pedestal,
Here lies Captain
Thomas Crawfurd
of
Jordan-hill,
Sixth Son to
Laurence Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
and
Janet Ker,
eldest Daughter of
Robert Ker
of
Kersland,
his Spouse.
Catherine,
eldest Daughter of
Laurence Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
was married to
David Fairly
of that Ilk
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Garnock. Of this Marriage of David Fairly of that Ilk, and Catherine Crawfurd, there were three Daughters, 1st. Margaret Heiress of Fairly. 2d. Marion to John Steuart of A
cog, in Vicecomitatu de Bute, Son to William Steuart of Kilcattan. 3d. Elisabeth to Robert Boyd of Portencross, in Vicecomitatu de Air.
.
Isabel
the second, married to
Gavin Blair
of
Hally, in Vicecomitatu de Air.
To
Laurence
succeeded
Hugh Crawfurd
his Son and Heir, of whom there is nothing recorded in History till the breaking out of the Civil Troubles in Queen
Mary
's time,
Anno
1568. He was a forward Asserter of her Right, and faithfully adhered to her Interest. He was the same Year one of the Barons who signed a Bond for Defence of the Queen's Majesty, against all Persons whatsoever, and against
all deadly,
(as they speak) and marched in Person with two of his Sons, and several of his Vassals and Retainers to the Field of
Lang-fide;
which Action happened 13th of
May
1568, for which he was obliged to accept of a Remission from the Regent
Remishon to Hugh Crawfurd of Kilbirny, 8th of September 1571, in Archivis Jacobi VI.
. He first married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
John Colquhoun
of
Luss
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Garnock.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Dunbartoun,
by whom he had
Malcolns
his Son and Heir. Next
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
David Barclay
of
Ladyland
Ibidem.
, who bore him a Son
William Crawfurd
of
Knights-wood in Vicecomitatu de Dunbartoun:
And three Daughters.
1.
Margaret,
married to
James Galbraith
of
Kilcroich, in Vicecomitatu de Stirling
Ibidem.
, and afterwards to Sir
Aulay Mackaulay
of
Ardincaple.
2.
Marion,
to
John Boyle
of
Kelburn,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Glasgow,
and had Issue.
3.
Elisabeth,
to
David Brody
of
Castletoun
Ibidem.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Clackmanan,
and had Issue. There being nothing more memorable concerning this Loyal Gentleman, I shall only notice, that he dying in the Year 1576, was succeeded by,
Malcolm
his Son and Heir, who took to Wife
Margaret
Daughter of
John Cuningham
of
Glengarnock, in Vicecomitatu de Air
Ibidem.
, by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Lord
Fleeming,
by whom he had
John
and
Alexander;
likewise a Daughter
Anne,
married to
William Cuningham
of
Leglane,
Ancestor to Sir
William Cuningham
Baronet. He departing this Life,
Anno
1592
Ibidem.
.
John
his Son succeeded, who spent much of his Time in Foreign Parts, and died young,
viz.
16th of
January
1622
Retour of John Crawfurd of Kilbirny to John his Father.
. He left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John Blair
of that Ilk, by
Grisel
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Semple, John
his Successor,
Malcolm Crawfurd
of
Newtoun, James Crawfurd
of
Knights-wood;
Also two Daughters.
1.
Margaret,
married to
Hugh Kennedy
of
Ardmillan, in Vicecomitatu de Air,
and had Issue.
2.
Jean,
to
John Lindsay
of
Blacksolme, in Vicecomitatu de Renfrew,
2
dly.
To
John Buchanan
of
Drumiekill,
and had Issue.
Which
John
liv'd in great Plenty and Respect, and agreeably spent his Time in Re-building the House of
Kilbirny,
a large and magnificent Fabrick from the very Foundation, which he finished in the 1627. His Wife was
Mary,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Glencairn:
By her he had
John
his Successor,
James
who died unmarried; also two Daughters,
Anne
married to
Alexander Cuningham
of
Corsehill, in Vicecomitatu de Air,
and
Margaret
to Colonel
William Crawfurd
elder Brother to
Thomas Crawfurd
of
Carse, sans
Issue. He died the 12th of
November
1629, his Estate descending to
John
his Son, who obtained the Honour of Knighthood from King
Charles
I.
Anno
1642, and had the Command of a Regiment in the time of the Civil War, but lived retir'd during the Usurpation, which he had the Happiness to survive. He was elected a Member of Parliament for the County of
Air
Record of the Parliament 1661.
, which began the 1
st
of
January
1661,
John
Earl of
Midletoun
being his Majesty's High Commissioner; in which Year he also died at
Edinburgh,
from whence his Body was convoyed to
Kilbirny
Church, and was buried among his Ancestors. By
Margaret
his first Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Burleigh,
he had no Children came to Maturity: But by
Magdalen
his second Wife, Daughter of
David
Lord
Carnegy,
he had two Daughters,
Anne
married to Sir
Archbald Steuart
of
Blackhall
Baronet, and
Margaret,
on whom, by a special Entail, he settled his Estate, and to the Heirs Male or Female to be procreate betwixt her and Mr.
Patrick Lindsay
Son of
John
Earl of
Crawfurd,
upon Condition every such Heir should carry the Sirname and Arms of
Crawfurd:
She died in the 29th Year of her Age, the 4th. of
October
1680, leaving Issue by the aforesaid Mr.
Patrick Lindsay
her Husband,
John Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny
her Son and Heir,
Patrick Crawfurd
Esq
Captain
Archbald Crawfurd;
Likewise three Daughters.
1.
Margaret,
married to
David
Earl of
Glasgow.
2.
Anne,
to Master
Harry Maul
of
Kelly,
Brother to
James
Earl of
Panmure.
3.
Magdalen,
to
George Dundass
of
Duddingstoun, in Vicecomitatu de Linlithgow,
and has Issue.
Which
John
was born the 12th of
May
1669. He had his Education in Grammar at
Irvine,
and his Academical in the University of St.
Andrews,
where he spent the usual Years. The Revolution coming about in 1689, upon his first Appearance in the World, he engaged with the Party who were active in it. I find he was one of those Persons to whom the Militia of
Air
-shire was intrusted
Record of the Convention of Estates.
, and which on a surmise of an Invasion from
Ireland
(if I be not mistaken) he once commanded. After the Convention was turned into a Parliament, He was in the 1693 chosen to serve for
Air
-shire, which he did without Interruption, till the Dissolution thereof upon the Death of King
William,
8th of
March
1702. Her Majesty Queen
Anne,
upon her Accession to the Crown, appointed him one of the Commissioners on the Part of
Scotland
for treating of an Union between both Nations, and the 4th of
February
1703, named him one of the Lords of the Privy-Council. He was again chosen to serve for the County of
Air,
to her Majesty's first Parliament, which met at
Edinburgh
the 6th of
May
1703, where he merited so well of the Queen, that she was pleased in the second Year of her Reign to make him a Peer, by creating him Viscount of
Mount-Crawfurd,
which he changed again to the Title of
Garnock:
And among other Reasons for conferring the Honour, her Majesty declares, this was not the least,
propter multa & conspicua officia per Predecessores ejus Crawfurdios de Kilbirny, pro Coronae nostrae & Monarchiae sustentatione peracta.
Tho this Lord was one of the Commissioners for the Treaty of Union,
Anno
1702, yet I don't find his Name among those appointed for that Affair in the 1706, to which however his Lordship being in the Measures of the Court, contributed, when the Articles came to be considered in Parliament. After which he continued in the Council till its Dissolution. In the Month of
March
1708 he was taken ill with an
Asthma
and a
Cough,
the Malignity of which all the Art of his Physicians not being able to remove, it put an End to his Days on the 24th of
December
thereafter, and upon the 13th of
January
1709, he was deposited in a Vault within the Church of
Kilbirny
among his Ancestors, where I leave him, how soon I have given this Epitaph upon him.
Ante diem, querimur, tua cingi busta cupresso,
Crawfurdae gentis lausque decusque tuae.
Invida
rs paucis passa est te vivere lustris,
Et generi & pr
vis noluit esse parem:
Saepe laboranti patriae, qui saepe tulerunt
Regi, cum promeret civis iniquus, opem.
At, si vita tibi seros mansisset in annos,
Fulsisset magnis gloria major avis.
By the only Wife he ever had, and who survived him,
viz. Margaret
Daughter of
James Stewart
1
st.
Earl of
Bute,
he had
Patrick
now Viscount of
Garnock, John, James, David,
and
Charles:
Also three Daughters,
Margaret.
Anne.
Magdalen.
All Young.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Gules,
a Fess Ermine, 2d and 3d
Azure,
a Chiveron betwixt three Cross Patees
Or,
supported by two Gray-Hounds,
Crest,
an Ermine
Argent,
Motto,
Sine labe nota.
A learned Gentleman of this Name
Mr. Thomas Crawfurd Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh,
paraphras'd on this Coat of Arms in these fine Elegiacks.
Sanguineum scutum praecingit balteus albens,
Quem variant nigrae sed sine labe notae.
Sic labem ut vitet, mustela Armenica strictum
In ferrum & structos non timet ire rogos:
Martia vis animi, vacuum formidine pectus,
Cana fides, nulla labe notatus honos:
Haec Crafurdiacae gentilia symbola stirpit,
Artibus his veteres emicuere patres.
RUTHVEN, Earl of
Gaurie.
FROM the Barony of
Ruthven
in
Perth
-shire, did
Walter
the Son of
Alan,
Proprietar of the said Lands assume a Denomination, which before that Time appears not to have been Hereditary. However, he was a Person of so much Consideration, that he obtained the Lands of
Cowgask
in Marriage with
Cecily,
Daughter of
Gilbert
Earl of
Strathern
Sir John Cuningham's Historical Collections courteously furnished me by the favour of John Corss Writer in Edinburgh.
. in the Reign of
Alexander
II.
He left a Son
Walter de Rochven,
who obtained a Confirmation from
Malise
Earl of
Strathern
of the Lands above-mentioned, which
Gilbert
his Father had formerly given
Walter filio Alani & Ceciliae filiae suae.
Walter de Rochven
his Successor in the 13th of
Alexander
III. resigns his Right of the Lands of
Fowlis per decessum aviae suae Ceciliae filiae Domini Willielmi Maule Militis
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
. This noble Family continued for many Generations in the County of
Perth,
where they were hereditary Sheriffs among the superior Rank of the Gentry, till the Reign of King
James
III. that Sir
William Ruthven
of that Ilk came to be ranked among the Parliamentary Barons. I find he married to his first Wife,
Isabel Livingston
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, Relict of
Walter Lindsay
of
Beaufort,
by whom he had Sir
William
his eldest Son
Charta Willielmi Domini Ruthven Willielmo Ruthven filio su
terarum de Cowgask in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1506.
, who was killed at
Flowdon
Sir George Mackenzie's Genealogical Collections.
; also a Daughter
Jean,
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Buchan,
and again to
John Erskine
of
Dun, in Vicecomitatu de Forfar
Charta in publicis Archivis ad annum 1508.
, Mother by him to Sir
John Erskin
of
Dun,
Superintendent of
Angus.
He married 2
dly Christian
Daughter of Sir
John Forbes
of
Pitsligo
Charta in publicis Archivis ad Annum 1521. Etiam litera prosopiae Dominae Margaretae Hay.
, by whom he had
William Ruthven
of
Banden, in vicecomitatu de Perth
Ibidem ad annum 1525.
, Grand-father of
Patrick
Earl of
Forth,
and a Daughter
Elisabeth,
married first to
William
Earl of
Errol,
and again to
Ninian
Lord
Ross
Ibidem ad annum 1521.
, and had Issue.
To
William
Lord
Ruthven
succeeded
William
his Grandson
Ibidem.
, who augmented his Fortune by the Marriage of
Janet,
one of the three Daughters and Co-heirs of
Patrick
Lord
Dirletoun
Ibidem.
, and thereon added to his own Coat of Arms
Argent,
a Bend
Azure.
He was made Lord Privy-Seal
Ibidem.
Anno
1547, upon the removal of
John
Abbot of
Paisly,
which he held till the 1553. By the aforesaid
Janet
his Wife, he had Issue
Patrick
his Successor, &
Alexander
of
Freeland,
and Daughters, 1
st. Lilias,
married to
David
Lord
Drummond
Ibid ad annum 1564
, 2
d. Catherine,
to
Colin Campbel
of
Glenurchie,
3
d. Cecilia,
to Sir
David Weems
of
Weems,
4
th. Barbara,
to
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
5
th. Janet,
to
John Crichton
of
Strathurd
Ibidem ad annum 1543.
. 2
dly
to
Laurence Mercer
of
Addie
Ibidem & Genealogia Ruthvanorum.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Perth.
6
th. Margaret,
to
James Johnston
of
Elphinstoun, in Vicecomitatu de Haddingtoun.
7
th. Christian,
to Mr.
William Lundy
of that Ilk
Ibidem, etiam Charta in Rotulis Reginae Mariae ad annum 1562.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Fife.
Patrick
Lord
Ruthven
his Son, was very active in the Reformation of Religion, which indeed was very commendable and Praise-worthy; but that which lyes heaviest on this Lord's Memory, is, the Hand he had in the Murder of
David Rizio,
a Deed so odious, both in it self, and attended with such Circumstances, that none will take upon them to justify. His Wife was
Jean,
natural Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Angus
Hume's History of the Family of Douglas.
, by
Margaret
Daughter of
James Steuart
of
Traquair,
by whom he had two Sons,
William
and
Alexander;
likewise two Daughters,
Jean,
married to
Henry
Lord
Methven,
2
dly
to
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad annum 1573.
,
Isabel
to Sir
James Colvil
of
Easter-Weems, in Vicecomitatu de Fife.
This Lord gave Way to Fate on the 13 Day of
June
1566
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad annum 1566.
, and was succeeded by
William
his Son, who was on the King's Side in the Minority of
James
VI. by whom he was constituted Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland
24th of
June
1571
Gift of the Thesaurer's Office to William Lord Ruthven, under the Privy-Seal
, and created Earl of
Gourie
23 of
August
1681
Bishop Spotswood's History.
; but three Years after he entred into a Conspiracy to seize the King's Person, and remove some Councellours from the Court, for which he was attainted of Treason, and lost his Head 28th
April
1584
Sir James Melvil's Memoirs.
, leaving Issue by
Dorothea
his Wife, Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Methven,
& of
Janet
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
1
st. James.
2
d. John,
3
d. Alexander,
4
th. Patrick Ruthven
Doctor of Medicine: Also seven Daughters,
1.
Margaret
married to
John
Earl of
Montr
se.
2.
Mary
to
John Stewart
Earl of
Athole.
3.
Sophia
to
Lodovick
Duke of
Lennox, sans
Issue.
4.
Jean
to
James
Lord
Ogilvy.
5.
Beatrix,
to Sir
James Hume
of
Colding knows in Vicecom. de Berwick.
6.
Isabel,
to Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Lochenvar,
2
dly
to
Hugh
first Lord
Londo
n.
7.
Dorothea,
to
John Weems
of
Pittencrief
Charta in Rotulis Jac. VI.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Fife.
James
Son of
William
Earl of
Goury
was restored to his Estate and Honour,
Anno
1586, but dying young in 1588
John
his Brother became his Heir. This Earl, with
Alexander Ruthven
his Brother, entred into a most hellish Conspiracy to have murder'd the King at his own House in the Town of
Perth,
on the 5th of
August
1600, which was by the good Providence of God detected at the very instant of Execution, both the Earl and his Brother being killed in the Enterprize. Thereafter, upon the 19th of
October
their dead Bodies were carried to the common Place of Execution in the City of
Edinburgh,
hanged on a Gibbet, and their Heads cut off and affixed on the Jayl, there to remain
till the Wind should blow them off
This Conspiracy of the Earl of Goury is set in a true Light from the Records of Council and Parliament, by the Right Honourable and Learn'd, George Earl of Cromarty, published in the 1713
. The Earldom of
Goury
was annexed to the Crown, and the Sirname of
Ruthven
discharged by Act of Parliament, and the 5th of
August
ordered in all time coming to be religiously observed as a Day of Thanksgiving, in remembrance of his Majesty's happy Deliverance.
ARMS.
Three Coats quarterly, 1st and 4th
Argent,
three Bars
Gules.
2d
Or,
three Bars
Gules,
3d
Or,
on a Bend
Azure,
three Lozanges of the first, all within a Border
Or
flowr'd and Counter-flowr'd
Gules,
supporred by two Goats proper,
Crest,
a Goats Head cabos'd, issuing out a Crown
Or,
Moto,
Facta Probant,
and on the Dexter a Chivaleer garnish'd with the Earl's Coat of Arms, pointing with a Sword upward to an imperial Crown, with this Devise,
Tibi soli
This from an Authentick Copy of his Arms, richly illuminated in the Year 1597, with his Name and Titles,
viz.
Joannes Ruthven, Comes de Goury, Dominus de Ruthven, &c. in my Hands.
.
Francis Abercromby,
Lord
Glasfurd.
THIS
Francis
was the Son and Heir of
Alexander Abercromby
of
Fiterneir, in Vicecomitatu de
Aberdeen,
by
Jean
Daughter of
John Seto
of
Newark,
branched from the Family of
Birkenbog,
seated in the Shire of
Banff,
before the Time of King
Robert
I. as appears from the Authorities
re cited
This local Sirname was assumed from the Lands of Abercromby in Fife, according to Sir George Mackenzie, tempore Malcomi III. and continued a Family in good Respect, till it came to a Close in the Person of Thomas Abercromby of that I
k, in the Reign of King Charles I. One of Birkenbog's Predecessors Umphray Abercromby got a Charter from King Robert I. of the Lands of Ardun, and Hart-hill, and has since ally'd with the Families of Errol, Finlater, &c.
: Which
Francis
having married
Anne
Baroness of
Semple,
was in Respect thereof, and in Reward of his Father's Loyalty during the civil Commotions in the time of King
Charles
I. honour'd with the Title of Lord
Glasfurd,
for his own Life, by King
James
VII. 25th of
July
1685.
The Brothers of this Lord are,
John Abercromby
Esq
and
Patrick Abercromby
Doctor of Medicine, my worthy Friend, who has obliged his Country with a most exact and curious History of
Scotland,
refined from the Dross and Errors of our former Authors, and put our Affairs in such a Light, that no Nation I know of can shew any Performance of that kind done with greater Exactness and Ingenuity.
CUNINGHAM, Earl of
Glencairn.
THE Sirname of
Cuningham,
which properly signifies the King's Habitation, has no doubt been taken from the Bailliary of
Cuningham
in the Shire of
Air,
the Patrimony of the
Morvils,
formerly Constables of
Scotland,
to whom the
Cuninghams
of
Kilmaures
were Vassals. The first of them I have found is
Robertus filius Varnebaldi de Cuningham,
who is Proprietar of
Kilmaures,
in the Reign of K.
William
the
Lyon.
He gave in pure & perpetual Alms to the Monks of the Abby of
Kelso
the Patronage of the Church of
Kilmaures, cum dimi
ia carucata terrae ad dictam Ecclesiam pertinen. pro salute animae suae,
which is ratified by
Richard Morvil
before the Year 1189
According to the Cron. of Melross, Richard Morvil then died.
. He married
Richenda
Daughter and Heir of
Umphray Barclay
Knight
Charter of Mortification by Richenda de Barclay, Daughter of Sir Umphra Barclay Knight to the Abby of Arbroth, with Consent of Robert the Son of Warnebald her Spouse.
, They had a Son
Robert,
who designs himself
Robertus filius Roberti filii Warnebaldi de Cuningham,
in a Grant which he made to the Religious of
Arbroth
of the Lands of
Glenfarquharlin, in Vicecomitatu de Kincardin, pro salute animae suae, Patris & Matris suae, ac pro animabus omnium antecessorum & successorum:
Hence descended Sir
William Cuningham
of
Kilmaures
Knight, who purchased the Lands of
Waterstoun
in
Renfrew
shire, from
William Waterstoun
of that Ilk,
Anno
1384
Charta penes Alexandrum Porterfield de eodem.
. He left two Sons,
William
his Successor, and
Thomas
first of the House of
Capringtoun
Sir John Cuningham, a very learned Lawyer, and an excellent Antiquary, mentions a Charter by William Lord of Kilmaures, with Consent of William his Son and Heir apparent, Thomae Cuningham filio suo
uniori,
rra
um de Bedla
in tenemento de Dalray, 9th May 1385, and says that he was Ancestor to Capringtoun.
, of whom came the
Cuninghams
of
Leglan
and
Enterkin.
Which Sir
William Cuningham
of
Kilmaures,
in the Reign of King
Robert
III. added to his old patrin onial Inheritance the Barony of
Fynlastoun
in
Renfrew
-shire,
Kilmaronock
in the County of
Dunbartoun, Redhall
and
Collingtoun
in
Lothian,
by the Marriage of
Margaret,
Daughter, and one of the two Co-heirs of
Robert Denniston
Lord of
Dennistoun
Original Contract of Division of the Co-heirs of Sir Robert Denniston Knight, betwixt Sir William Cuningham of Kilmaures & Sir Robert Maxwel of Calderw
od. Anno 1404, penes Domi
um Pollock
Knight. He founded the Prebendaries of
Kilmaures
Sir John Cuningham's Collections relating to the Family of Glencairn, pen
s Joannem Cross Scribam Edinburgensem.
, or more properly the collegiate Church there, by his Charter the 13th of
May
1403, consisting of a Provost and six or eight Prebends; and doted certain Lands both within that Barony and elsewhere for their Support and Subsistance, which was dissolved upon the Reformation. To the Abbot and Convent of
Kilwining,
he gave the Lands of
Grange
for the Health of his Soul, and the safety of the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors for ever
Mr. Richard Cuningham of Bedlan mentions this in his Notes on the Family of Glencairn.
. By the said
Margaret
his Wife he had Issue
Robert
his Successor, and
William
first of the Branch of
Cuningham-head
in
Air
-shire
Sir John Cuningham remarks a Charter by Sir William Cuningham of Kilmaures to William Cuningham his Son, of the Lands of Wood-hall
.
This
Robert
the next of the Line, was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I. who honour'd him with Knighthood,
Anno
1424
Balfour's Annals
, and afterward put him in Commission with
Alexander
Lord
Montgomery
in the Joint Government of
Kintyre
and
Knapdale
Haddingtoun's Collections ad annum 1434
. He married
Janet
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Montgomery,
by whom he had
Alexander
Lord of
Kilmaures
his his Son and Heir, who was one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to King
James
III. He faithfully adhered to that Prince in his good and bad Fortune: In Consideration of which he was by a very formal Patent 28th
May
1488, created Earl of
Glencairn
Penes Willielmium Comitem de Glencairn.
, which Honour he did not long enjoy, for he lost his Life with his Master the King at the Field of
Bannockburn,
11th
June
1488. He had Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick Hepburn
Lord
Hales
Genealogy of the Family of Glencairn by Mr. Cuningham of Bedlan.
,
Robert
his Successor, and
William Cuningham
of
Craigends
Charter by Alexander Lord Kilmaures to William Cuningham his Son, of the Lands of Dennistoun, Anno 1480, which Sir John Cuningham has a Note of.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Re
ew,
of whom the Families of
Robertland, Carncuren, Bedlan, Achinharvy,
and
Achenyards
are sprung.
Which
Robert
marrying
Marjory
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Angus,
had
Cuthbert
Earl of
Glencairn
his Son, who was of the Privy-Council to King
James
IV.
Anno
1509
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. He married
Marion
Daughter of
John
Lord
Lindsay
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
William
Earl of
Glencairn
his Son and Heir, who was of the Privy-Council, to King
James
V. He was taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Solway
by the
English, Anno
1542, for his Ransom I find he paid 1000 l.
Sterl.
Rymer's Feedera Angliae.
. The next ensuing Year he was joined in Commission with Sir
George Douglas, William Hamilton
of
Sanquhar, James Learmonth
of
Balcomy,
and Mr.
Henry Balnavis
of
Hall-hill,
Secretary of State to treat with the
English
about a Marriage betwixt Queen
Mary
and King
Edward
VI.
Rymer ad Annum 1543.
which was much opposed by all who were in the
French
Interest. He married first
Catherine
Daughter of
William
Lord
Borthwick
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V.
. 2
dly. Elisabeth Campbel;
and dying
Anno
1547, he left behind him, 1
st. Alexander,
2
d. Andrew,
Ancestor of Sir
Alexander Cuningham
of
Corse-hill
Genealogy of Glencairn.
Baronet, 3
d. Hugh
Progenitor of the
Cuninghams
of
Waterstoun
and
Carlung
Ibidem.
, 4
th. Robert,
Minister of the
Mistry
or Priory of
Fell in vicecomitatu de Air
5.
William,
who was Bishop of
Argyle,
also a Daughter
Elisabeth
married to
John Cuningham
of
Capringtoun.
Which
Alexander
for Distinction, called
The Good Earl,
was one of the first of the Peers of
Scotland
who concur'd in the Reformation of the Church from Popery, and was a strenuous asserter of King
James
's Title to the Crown, when his Mother Queen
Mary
resign'd the Government
Anno
1567. Upon the Dissolution of the Religious Houses, he obtained a Grant of the Abby of
Kilwinning,
a Seat formerly of Benedictine Monks, and of which one of his Sons came to be Titular Commendator. He married first
Jean
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Aran,
and had
William
the next Earl,
Andrew
the second Son, and
James
Prior of
Lismahago;
also a Daughter
Margaret,
Wife of
John Wallace
of
Craigie
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae ad annum 1552.
,
in Vicecomitatu de Air.
2
dly Jean
Daughter of
John Cuningham
of
Capringtoun,
by her he had a Son
Alexander,
and a Daughter
Jean,
married first to
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
2
dly.
to Sir
Humphray Colquhoun
of
Luss,
Knight,
in Vicecomitatu de Dunbarton.
This Earl dying in the Year of God 1574
Johnston's Heroes.
, his Estate and Honour descended to
William
his Son, who had to Wife
Janet
Daughter of
James Gordon
of
Lochenvar,
who bore him a Son
James,
and four Daughters, 1
st. Jean
married to
George Haldan
of
Gleneagles in Vic. de Perth.
2
d. Margaret
to
Hector Macklain
of
Dowart, in Vic. de Argyle.
3
d. Jean
to
James Crawfurd
of
Achinnames;
after his Death to
Alexander Cuningham
of
Craigends.
4
th. Susanna
to
John Napier
of
Kilmahew, in Vic. de Dunbartoun.
Which
James
was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
VI. and in some Degree a Favorite of that wise Prince, who named him one of the Commissioners on the Part of
Scotland
to treat upon a nearer Union with
England
the Year immediately after his Majesty's Accession to that Crown,
viz.
in 1604. This noble Earl left Issue by
Margaret
his Wise Daughter of
Colin Campbel
of
Glenurquhie, William
Earl of
Glencairn, John Cuningham
of
Camskeith, Catherine
married to Sir
James Cuningham
of
Glengarnock, in Vic. de Air, Anne
to
James
Marquis of
Hamilton, Margaret
to Sir
James Hamilton
of
Evandale,
2
dly.
to Sir
James Maxwel
of
Calderwood, Mary
to
John Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny, Susanna
to
Alexander Lauder
of
Hatton.
Which
William
the succeeding Earl, was married to
Janet
Daughter of
Mark,
Earl of
Lothian,
by whom he had Issue
William
his Son and Heir, and Colonel
Robert Cuningham;
also four Daughters,
Elisabeth
married to Sir
Lodovick Stewart
of
Minto.
Jean
to
John Blair
of that Ilk.
Margaret
to
David Beaton
of
Crich.
Marion
to
James
Earl of
Finlater.
He died in
October
1631
Charta in Cancellaria.
, and was succeeded by
William
his Son. This noble Lord, during the Usurpation of
Oliver Cromwel,
being highly sensible of the Calamities brought upon this Nation by the Ruin of the Monarchy, in order to the Restauration of his Sovereign, and the Redemption of his Country from the Slavery it was in, cordially put himself in Arms, having before obtained a Commission from the King as General of all the Forces he could raise for his Majesty's Service, in which Character he behaved himself very worthily, and gave General
Monk
much Trouble; but upon the arrival of General
Middleton,
he delivered up to him (says a noble Historian)
Earl of Clarenden.
,
His thin unarmed Troops, and retired first to his own House, and then made his Peace with
Monk,
that he might live quietly, and retain his Affection and Fidelity to the King, which
e made manifest afterwards in a more favourable Conjuncture, and at the same time he excused himself for giving over an Enterprize he was not able to prosecute,
but living to see the King restored, he was constituted Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland
on the 19
January
1661, in which Office he continued till the 10th of
July
1664. when he made his Exit out of this World. By
Anne
his first Wise Daughter of
James
Earl of
Finlater.
he had Issue,
1.
James
Lord
Kilmaures,
who married
Elisabeth
Daughter of
William
Duke of
Hamilton,
but dyed without Issue.
2
Alexander
his Successor.
3.
John
who succeeded his Brother in the Honour.
Jean
eldest Daughter, was married to
William
Earl of
Kilmarnock, Margaret
the second to
William
Lord
Bargany, Elisabeth
the third to
VVilliam Hamilton
of
Orbistoun.
Alexander
Earl of
Glencairn
his Son married
Nicolas
Daughter and Coheir of Sir
James Stewart
of
Stra brock
and
Kirkhill in Vicecomitatu de Linlithgow,
by whom he had one Daughter
Margaret
married to
John
Earl of
Lawderale,
and departing this Life the 26 of
May
1670
Retour John Earl of Glencairn to Alexander Earl of Glencairn, his Brother, in the Chancery Office.
, his Estate and Honour devolved to
John
his Brother, who was one of the Peers who in the first and only Parliament of King
James
VII.
Anno
1686 appeared against the repealing of the Laws against Popery, and for securing the Protestant Religion
Minuts of Parliament.
. Upon King
VVilliam
's Accession to the Corwn, he was named a Privy Councellour 1
st. May
1689, and constituted Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, as his Lordship was also Captain and Governour of the Castle of
Dunbartoun
in the Reign of Queen
Anne.
He married first
Jean
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
and after her Death
Margaret
Daughter and Heir of
John Napier
of
Kilmahew,
Relict of
Patrick Maxwel
of
Newark,
and departing this Life in the end of the Year 1703, he was succeeded by
VVilliam
his Son and Heir, who married
Henrietta
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Galloway,
and has Issue.
VVilliam
Lord
Kilmaures,
&c.
ARMS.
Argent,
a shake Fork
Sable,
supported by two Rabbets
Proper,
Crest, an Unicorns Head
Coupé,
Motto,
Over Fork over.
BOYLE, Earl of
Glasgow.
THAT this Family has been of great Antiquity in
Air
-shire, and possessed of a fair Inheritance in those parts, where they still remain, undeniably appears from several old Deeds and evidences still preserved in the Family: For in the Reign of
Alexander
III.
Richard Boyle Dominus de Caulburn,
had an Acquittance from
Walter Cummin Dominus de Rougallan, de quadraginta solidis annui-redditus terrarum de Malderland cum Multuris dictae Terrae in Tenemento suo de Rougallan, in quibus dictus Ricardus & Antecessores ejus mihi & Antecessoribus meis annuatim solvere tenebantur. Test. Dno Galfredo de Ross, Willielmo de Keith, Willielmo Abbate de Kilwining, Willielmo Sympl, Adam
filio Ucttredi
Original Charter in the Custody of my Lord Glasgow, which I have seen Cut in a Coper-plate by the ingenious Mr. James Anderson.
. This
Richard
married
Marjory
Daughter of Sir
Walter Cummin
Knight of
Rowallan
Sir George Mackenzie's Collections MS.
, and left
Robert
his Son to succeed him, whom I find one of the Barons in
Air-shir,
who took an Oath of Fidelity to
Edward
I. King of
England,
to whom all, or most of the Kingdom of
Scotland
rendered a Submission,
Anno Dom.
1296
Pryn's Collections.
. A Descendent of the former
Robert
was
Hugo de Boyle,
who gave to the Abby of
Pasly,
and to the Monks there in free Alms,
dimidiam petram Cerae de firmis terrarum suarum de Rysholm ex eo quod ipse & Janeta uxor sua suscepti sunt tanquam frater & soror in Domo de Paslit & in toto ordine Cluniacensi. Data septimo Februarii millessimo trecentesimo nonagesimo nono
Register of the Abby of Pasly, belonging to the Earl of Dundonald.
. Since which time they have remarkably continued in a direct Line spreading themselves into several Branches by the way, as were the
Boyle's
of
Wamfray
in
Dumfries
-shire, and of
Raysholm
in
Air
-shire. Much likewise might be said as to their Matches with Persons eminent for their Parentage; As also of the Acquisitions made to their personal Inheritance by Marriage, and otherwise; but omitting several things, I shall observe that after a long and continued Series of worthy Ancestors descended
John Boyle
of
Kelburn,
who lost his Life and Fortune for his loyal Adherence to King
James
III. in the Battle of
Bannockburn,
11
June
1488, against the Rebellious Barons of that Age; but upon the general Indemnity in the third of King
James
IV.
John
his Son obtained the King's Precept to the Sheriff of the County for Restitution of the same. This
John
obtained a Grant from King
James
V. of the Lands of South
Bullochmartin
in the Isle of
Cumra,
to be held of the Crown, 8th of
April
1536
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. sub privato sigillo.
, and being then Aged, he had by the King's favour an Exemption indemnifying him from attending the royal Army in time of War
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. ad annum 1531.
, and lived till the 1549. (his Wife
Agnes,
a Daughter of the Family of
Ross
surviving him,) He had three Sons,
David
who died before himself,
John
the second, of whom the
Boyle's
of
Halks-hill, Belliecun
and
Portray
derive themselves. He had by a Grant of King
James
V. to himself and
Christian Wallace
his Spouse, and their Heirs, the Lands of
Beliecun,
with the hereditary Crowrary of the Isle of
Cumra
on the the 8th of
April
1536
Charta in publicis Archivis & Charta penes Jacobum Boyle de Beliecun.
. The third
Robert,
who was Ancestor of
Bullochmartin,
another Branch of this Family that existed long in these Parts, he had from his Father a Charter of the Lands of
Bullochmartin,
6th of
October
1554
Chartain in Rotulis Reginae M
riae.
. This
John
was succeeded by
John
his Grand-son, in whose Favour he resign'd the Barony of
Kelburn,
and his other Lands, on the 28 of
April
1549
Ibidem.
. Which
John
marrying
Jean
Daughter of
John Fraser
of
Knock,
an ancient Family in
Air
-shire
Attested Pedegree of the Family of Kelburn, penes Comitem de Glasgow.
, by her he had
John
his Successor, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
John Cuningham
of
Caddel.
John Boyle
of
Kelburn
his Son, was a most zealous Loyalist in the Service of Queen
Mary,
during the Civil War, in the Minority of King
James
VI. He took to Wife
Marion
Daughter of
Hugh Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny,
Ancestor to the Viscount of
Garnock,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, and Six Daughters.
Jean
married to
William Barclay
of
Pearstoun, in Vic. de Air.
Marion
to
Matthew Ross
of
Haining,
and afterward to Dr.
James Law
Arch-Bishop of
Glasgow.
Margaret
to
Robert Bruce
of
Achinbowie, in Vic. de Stirling.
Elisabeth
to
Robert Sempel
of
Milbank, in Vic. de Renfrew.
Agnes
to
Robert Boyle
of
Bullochmartin, in Vic. de Bute.
Mary
to
William Hamilton
Esq
of the County of
Down, in Regno Hiberniae,
and all the Six had Posterity.
Which
John
so succeeding, being a Person much esteem'd for his Abilities, was joined in Commission with diverse of the first Quality to revise and rectify the Practice of our Law,
Anno
1630
Acts of Parliament.
, the 5th of
Charles
I. When the Civil War broke out in that Reign
Anno
1639, he did signally manifest his Loyalty to his said Majesty, whose Interest he zealously asserted during that fierce and unnatural War, for which he suffered no less than Ten Years Banishment, to the Ruin almost of his Estate, for his being reckoned amongst the number of Loyalists. He was married to
Agnes
only Daughter of Sir
John Maxwel
of
Pollock, in Vicecomitatu de Renfrew,
by
Margaret
Daughter of
William Cuningham
of
Capringtoun,
by whom he had only one Daughter
Grisel
his sole Heir, whom he wisely married, (after having rejected many Offers) to Terms of great Advantage for his Family with
David Boyle
of
Halks-hill,
a near Relation of his own
This David Boyle of Halks-hill, was Son and Heir of James Boyle of Halkshill by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of David Crawfurd of Bedlane, Son and Heir of David Boyle of Halkshill, by Christian his Wife Niece to the Lord Boyd, Son of John Boyle by Christian his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . . Wallace of Cairn-hill 2d Son to John Boyle of Kelburn, as before remarked.
, who being a prudent and vertuous Man in all his Affairs, he improv'd his Estate, and took care to let it descend entire to Posterity, and died in 1672. leaving Issue by the said
Grisel
his Wife,
John
his Son and Heir,
James Boyle
of
Montgomeristoun
This James obtained the Lands of Montgomeriestoun, by the Marriage of Janet Daughter and Heir of Mr. Robert Barclay Provo
t of Irvine, and by her was Father of James Boyle one of the Commissioners of the Excise in Scotland, Anno 1713.
, and
Patrick:
Also a Daughter
Grisel
married to
William Wallace
of
Shewaltoun, in Vic. de Air.
Which
John
being a Man of Parts and Business, made a great Addition to his Estate, the bulk of which he settled on his eldest Son. He was chosen Member for the Shire of
Bute
to the Parliament 1681, where his Royal Highness
James
then Duke of
York
sat High Commissioner
Records of Parliament 1681.
, and from thence forward without Interruption, continued a Member till his Death, which happened on the 7th of
October
1685
Ibidem, and Retour of David Boyle of Kelburn to his Father in the Chancery Office.
. He married twice, first
Marion
Daughter of Sir
Walter Stewart
of
Allantoun, in Vic. de Lanark,
and next
Jean
Daughter of Sir
William Mure
of
Rowallan:
By the first he had
David
Earl of
Glasgow, William
one of the Commissioners of the Customs for
Scotland,
and
Margaret
married to Sir
Alexander Cuningham
of
Corsehill
Baronet,
in Vic. de Air.
Which
David
having been return'd a Member of the Convention of Estates to the Shire of
Bute,
in the Year 1689, which declared the Prince of
Orange
King of
Scotland,
his said Majesty called him to his Council some time after, tho' he was not created Lord
Boyle
till the 31th of
January
1699
Patent creating David Boyle of Kelburn Lord Boyle.
.
Upon Her Majesty's Accession to the Crown, his Lordship was nominated one of the Commissioners to treat of an Union with
England;
which Treaty at that time not taking effect, he was soon after constituted Thesaurer Depute in the room of
Adam Cockburn
of
Ormestoun,
and on 10th of
April
1703, raised to the Dignity, of Earl of
Glasgow,
with Limitation of the Honour for lack of Male Issue of his own Body, to his Heirs Male whatsoever. Her Majesty being again impower'd by the Parliament 1705, to appoint Commissioners to treat of a nearer Union
Patent creating David Lord Boyle Earl of Glasgow, both Registed in the Chancery Court.
between the two Kingdoms, his Lordship by a Commission under the Great-Seal of
Scotland,
was appointed one of that Number under whose Management that great Work was accomplished. The same Year he had the Honour to represent Her Majesty's Person as High Commissioner in the General-Assembly of the Church, and in several subsequent Assemblies; also in the 1708, he was made Lord Register of
Scotland.
He married first
Margaret
Sister to
John Crawfurd
Viscount of
Garnock,
by whom he had
John
Lord
Boyle. Patrick
an Advocate,
Charles.
2
dly. Jean
Daughter and sole Heir of
William Mure
of
Rowallan,
and by her has two Daughters
Jean
and
Anne.
John
Lord
Boyle
is married with
Helen
Daughter of
William Morison
of
Prestoungrange,
and had Issue
David
a Son, and two Daughters,
Janet
and
Margaret.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th.
Argent,
a double Eagle display'd
Gules,
2d and 3d
party per Bend Crenele, Argent
and
Gules.
Over all in a Shield of Pretence, the paternal Coat of
Boyle, Or,
three Harts Horns
Gules,
supported on the Dexter by a Savage
Proper,
and on the Sinister with a Lyon
party per Bend Crenele, Argent
and
Gules;
Crest, a double Eagle display'd
party per Bend Crenele, Argent
and
Gules,
Motto,
Dominus Providebit.
GORDON, Duke of
Gordon.
IN the Time of King
Malcolm
IV. 600 Years since, the
Gordons
were then a flourishing and numerous Family in
Berwick
shire, where they had large Possessions, besides the Lordship of
Gordon
in that County, which they retain'd till of late Years.
Richer de Gordon
their Ancestor, first mentioned on Record, gave in pure Alms,
Deo & Sanctae Mariae de Kelso & Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus ecclesiam suam Sancti Michaelis deGordon pro salute animae suae
Register of the Abby of Kelso in Bibliotheca Juridica Edinburg.
. This
Richer
left a Son,
Thomas de Gordon,
who was a Benefactor to the Religious of
Kelso,
as his Father had been; for besides what he gave himself, he ratified the Donation of the Tithes of his Lands of
Gordon,
formerly given by his Father to the Abbot and Convent of that Monastery for the good of his Soul
Ibidem.
. This
Thomas
left behind him a Son,
Thomas,
who, according to the Devotion of those Times, took upon him the Sign of the Cross, and was not behind his Ancestors in Liberality to the Church, which the Abby of
Kelso
shar'd of in a right liberal manner, for to them he confirmed, and amply ratified all the pious Grants
quas Richer de Gordon avus suus aut Thomas de Gordon Fater suus dictis Monachis dederunt in puram & perpetuam Eleemosin
m
Ibidem.
. He dying without Male Issue,
Alicia de Gordon
his Daughter succeeded in his Inheritance, and was married with
Adam de Gordon
Knight, her Kinsman: They with Consent and Assent of each other, ratified all the Mortifications, and which she particularly confirms, made by
Richer de Gordon, Proavus suus, Thomas de Gordon avus suus, aut Thomas de Gordon Pater suus Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae de Kelso.
Moreover, she appends her Seal to a Gift of certain Lands and Pasturage within the Territory of
Gordon,
lying betwixt the Lands of
Huntly
and
Spotiswood,
given to the Monks of
Kelso
by her Father, and expresses the Confirmation to be made
pro salute animae suae & animae Adae de Gordon quondam spousae suae.
To this
Adam
&
Alicia
his Wife succeeded
Register of the Abby of Kelso in Bibliotheca Juridica Edinburg.
.
Sir
Adam
his Son, who in a Charter of Mortification to the Abby of
Kelso
of a Pasturage for Thirty Oxen
in Mansione sua de Westrocher,
designs himself
Adam de Gordon filius & haeres quondam Adae de Gordon
Ibidem.
, releasing for ever all the Lands that had been in dispute between him and the Abbot,
in Domini
de Gordon,
to which he appends his Seal the
Friday
immediately after the Feast of St.
Peter
1308. This noble Person was none of the last Barons of
Scotland
who stuck closs to King
Robert Bruce,
and zealously asserted the Independency and Freedom of his Native Country; in Consideration of which he had from that Prince, a Grant of the Lordship of
Strathbogy
in
Aberdeen
-shire, which was then in the Crown by the Attainder of
David de Strathbogy
Charta in publicis Archivis.
. By
Annabell
Chartulary of Kelso.
his Wife, he left Issue,
Alexander de Gordon
Knight his Son and Heir, who did considerable Service against the
English
in behalf of King
David Bruce.
He lost his Life in the Battle of
Durham
14
Octob.
1346, leaving Sir
John
his Son to succeed him in his Inheritance. In the 28th of King
David
II. he obtained a Charter of Confirmation of the Lands of
Strathbogy,
which had formerly been given to Sir
Adam Gordon
his Grandfather, by King
Robert
I.
History of the Family of Huntly
By . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . his Wife, he had Issue,
Sir
John
his Son and Heir, who obtained from King
Robert
II. a Charter erecting all and haill the Lands of
Strathbogie
into one intire Barony, narrating, that
Do
inus Robertus illustris Rex Scotiae avus dicti Regis dedit quondam Adae de Gordon, Militi, proavo Domini dicti Joannis ratione forisfacturae David de Strathbogie,
dated at
Perth
16
June
1376. This Sir
John
was succeeded by
Sir
Adam
his Son, who following the Example of his loyal Ancestors in a forward Zeal to serve his Country, was unhappily slain at the Battle of
Homildon,
5
May
1401
Ibidem.
, leaving Issue by
Elisabeth Keith
his Wife
Genealogical History of Drummond by the Viscount of Strathallan MS.
, Daughter to the Lord
Keith,
one sole Daughter his Heir,
Elisabeth,
married in the 1408
Charta in Rotulis Roberti Ducis Alb
iae.
to Sir
William Seaton,
Son of Sir
William Seaton
of that Ilk. By her he had Issue,
Alexander
Lord
Gordon,
and
William
first of that Branch of
Meldrum, in Vic. de Aberdeen,
he marrying the Heir Female of
William Meldrum
of
Meldrum,
of whom the
Seatons
of
Pitmedden
Branch themselves.
Which
Alexander
Lord of
Gordon,
tho' then called
Seaton
Rymer's Foedera.
, was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I.
Anno
1423
Rymer.
; also in the Year 1437, he was joined in Commission with
John
Bishop of
Glasgow,
Sir
Walter Ogilvy,
and Sir
John Forrester
Knights, to treat of a Peace with
England,
which they happily concluded for Nine Years. This noble Lord having performed many notable Services to King
James
II. in his Minority, was by him in the Year 1449, created Earl of
Huntly
Hawthornden's History of the five King James's, last Edition.
resuming the Sirname of
Gordon.
This Earl defeated my Lord
Crawfurd,
then in Rebellion at
Brechin,
on the 18th of
May
1452; and therefore King
James
rewarded him with the Sheriff-ship of
Inverness,
and diverse other Mannors and Lordships: Also he was one of the Conservators of the Peace with
England, Anno
1457, and again in the 1459, living till the 1470, he then made his Exit out of this World. He married three Wives, 1
st. Jean
Daughter and Heir of
Robert Keith,
Grandson of Sir
William Keith
Marshall of
Scotland,
by whom he had no Issue. 2
dly. Giles,
Daughter and Heir of
John Hay
of
Tillybody, in Vicecomitatu de Clackmanan
Charta in publicis Archivis, etiam Charta penes Dominum Gray ad annum 1437.
, by whom he had Sir
Alexander Seaton
Knight, first of the Family of
Touch
in
Stirling
-shire
I have many Writes in my Hands that sufficiently make out this Assertion
. 3
dly. Margaret
Daughter of
William
Lord
Crichtoun
Chancellour of
Scotland,
to whose Posterity it seems the Honour was limited. By her he had
George
his Successor, and Sir
Alexander Gordon
of
Mid-mar
Knight
Charta in Rotulis.
; also three Daughters,
Janet
married to
James Dunbar
Earl of
Murray, Elisabeth
to
William
Earl
Marshal, Christian
to
William
Lord
Forbes
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
.
George
his Son, was one of the Privy Council to King
James
III. and in 1484, when a Peace was concluded by the Commissioners of both Kingdoms betwixt
Scotland
and
England,
this Earl was one of the Conservators thereof
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, what Part his Lordship acted in that turbulent Reign, our Historians are altogether Silent: But upon King
James
IV. his Accession to the Crown, he was sworn of his Privy Council, and constituted Lieutenant of the Northern Parts of
Scotland
beyond the River of
North-Esk,
on the 13th of
May
1491
Charta in Registro.
. Likewise in the 10th of the same Reign, preferred to be Lord high Chancellour in place of
Archibald
Earl of
Angus;
in which eminent Station he continued till his Death, which happened on the 8th of
June
1507
Manuscript History of the Family of Gordon.
. He married first the Lady
Jean Stewart
Daughter of King
James
I.
History of the Royal Family published in 1710:
and after her Death
Agnes
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Errol
Charta penes Joannem Duminum Gray.
, and left behind him four Sons, and as many Daughters.
Alexander
his Successor in the Honour.
Sir
Adam Gordon
of
Aboyne,
who came to inherit the Title of Earl of
Sutherland,
by Marriage of
Elisabeth
Daughter of
John,
Sister, and at length sole Heir of
John
13th Earl of
Sutherland.
Sir
William Gordon
of
Gight,
who was slain in the fatal Year 1513, at the Battle of
Flowdon
Balsour's Genealogical Collections MS.
.
Sir
James Gordon
of
Letterfury
Admiral of
Scotland
in the Reign of
James
IV.
Catherine
eldest Daughter married to
Perkin Werbeck
the pretended Duke of
York.
Janet
to
Alexander,
Son and Heir of
David
Earl of
Crawfurd,
and again to
Patrick
Lord
Gray
Charta penes Dominum Gray.
.
Agnes
to Sir
James Ogilvy
of
Finlater,
and had Issue.
Mary
to Sir
William Sinclair
of
Westraw
Balfour.
,
in Vic. de Caithness.
Sophia
to Sir
Gilbert Hay
Knight
Ibidem.
.
Which
Alexander
was one of the Lords of the Council to K.
James
IV. he accompanied that Prince to the Battle of
Flowdon,
and commanded the Van of the Army with Valour and Conduct
Drummond's History of King James IV.
Surviving that fatal Day, he was in the Minority of
James
V. made Lieutenant of the North beyond the River of
Forth:
Also in 1517, appointed one of the Governours to the young King, the Earls of
Aran, Angus,
and
Argyle
being joined in the Commission with him. He married
Jean
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, by whom he had
1.
John
Master of
Huntly,
who married
Jean,
natural Daughter of King
James
IV. by
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Lord
Drummond,
and had Issue,
George
who succeeded his Grand-father, and
Alexander,
who being a Person of Learning, as the Times went, was preferred to the Bishoprick of the Isles, 26
November
1553
Charta in publicis Archivis.
when but young. In which Station, when he had some time continued, he was translated to the Episcopal See of
Galloway Anno
1558.
2.
William,
who applying to the Service of the Church, was first made Chancellour of
Elgin,
and then preferred to the Bishoprick of
Aberdeen,
a Man of great Power and Authority in those Days.
3. Sir
Alexander Gordon
of
Strathavin
Balfour's MS.
Progenitor to
Cluny.
Also several Daughters, 1
st. Janet,
married to
Colin
3
d
Earl of
Argyle.
2
d. Isobel
to . . . . . Lord
Innermeath
Ibidem.
. This Earl dying aged at
Perth
16
July
1523
Ibidem.
, was interr'd in the Estate of the
Carthusians
there, his Priory and Honour descending to
George
his Grand-son and Heir, who being a Nobleman of great and eminent Parts, was constituted Lieutenant of
Scotland, Anno
1536, when the King went to
France
to Espouse Queen
M
gdalen
Drummond.
, being then one of the Privy Council; also in the 28 of the same Reign, he was sent against the
English,
to prevent their Incursions upon the Borders, in which he was successful, having repuls'd them with Loss. Upon the Death of his Master, he was one of the Peers who sign'd and seal'd that Association to oppose the intended Match betwixt Queen
Mary
and
Edward
VI. of
England, Anno
1543, and three Years after, he was promoted to be Lord high Chancellour of
Scotland
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, upon the decease of Cardinal
Beaton:
Likeas, he was personally present at the Battle of
Pinkie-Cleugh,
in Defence of his Country against the
English,
where he was taken Prisoner, and after one Years Confinement
Dr. Anderson's MS History of Scotland.
made his escape: Then it was in Consideration of his extraordinary Services to the Crown, that he had a Grant of the Earldom of
Murray
and Lordship of
Abernethy
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae ad annum 1548.
, which he enjoy'd for diverse Years. This Earl continued sometime in great Favour with Queen
Mary,
both on the account of his Religion, which was
Roman Catholick,
and his approv'd Loyalty, till from some Motives of State, he attempting to surprise her Majesty's Royal Person in Progress to the North, was slain in the heat of the Action at
Corichie,
28th of
October
1563.
This great Earl left Issue by
Elisabeth
Daughter of
Robert
Son and Heir apparent of
William
Earl
Marshal,
1.
Alexander
Lord
Gordon,
who married
Margaret
Daughter of
James
Duke of
Chattlerault,
but dyed without Succession.
2.
George,
of whom and his Descendents more will be said hereafter.
3.
John Gordon
of
Finlater,
who was executed after the Battle of
Corichie.
4.
James
who entred into a Religious Order abroad.
5. Sir
Adam Gordon
of
Achingown,
who appeared eminently for Queen
Mary
in the time of the Civil War.
6. Sir
Patrick Gordon
of
Gartly.
1
st. Jean
Eldest Daughter, married to
James
Earl of
Bothwel,
and 2
dly
to
Alexander
Earl of
Sutherland,
2
d. Elisabeth
to
John
Earl of
Athole,
3
d. Margaret
to
John
Lord
Forbes.
George,
Son of
George
Earl of
Huntly,
was parliamentarly restor'd to the Title of Honour and Estate lost by his Father's Forsaulture, by the special Favour of Queen
Mary,
27th
June
1566
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
, and constituted one of her Majesty's Privy Council. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in the 1567, he heartily Espous'd the Queen's Interest, and obtain'd a Commission not only to be Lord Chancellor upon the Earl of
Morton
's Removal, but also to be a Lieutenant General of all the Forces rais'd, or to be rais'd in the
North,
for her Interest; and his Lordship being a Person of great Honour and Fortune, quickly engaged those Parts into a chearful Association for her Service, and rais'd a considerable Body of Horse and Foot, which gave the other Party who adhered to the young King's Interest much Trouble. He died in the Month of
May,
of the Year 1576, leaving Issue by the Lady
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Duke of
Chatlerault, George
his Successor, and a Daughter
Jean,
married to
George
Earl of
Caithness.
Which
George
being a Nobleman of great Spirit and Courage, was much in the Favour of King
James
VI. from whom he had a Grant of the dissolved Abbacy of
Dunfermling,
then in the Crown by the Dissolution of the Church-Lands: Soon after which he was constituted Lieutenant of the
North,
and by Letters Patent the 17th of
April
1599, rais'd to the Honour of Marquis of
Huntly;
and dying the 15th of
October
1636, left Issue by the Lady
Henrietta
his Wife, Daughter of
Esmae
Duke of
Lennox, George
his Successor,
John
Viscount of
Aboyne,
likewise Four Daughters,
Lady
Anne
married to
James
Earl of
Murray.
Lady
Elizabeth
to
Alexander
Earl of
Linlithgow.
Lady
Mary
to
William
Marquis of
Douglass,
Lady
Jean
to
Cloud Hamilton,
Lord
Strabane,
of the Kingdom of
Ireland.
Which
George
was Captain of the
Scots Gens d' Armes,
to
Lewis
XIII. of
France,
while he was only Lord
Gordon,
in the Lifetime of his Father, upon the breaking out of the Troubles in the Reign of King
Charles
I. He was very firm to that Prince's Interest, and had a Commission to be Lieutenant of the
North,
during the Rage of the Civil War, at the End of which he was executed for his Loyalty at
Edinburgh,
30th of
March
1649. By
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
he left Issue,
George
Lord
Gordon,
who was kill'd in the King's Service at the Battle of
Aldford, Anno
1645.
Lewis
Marquis of
Huntly.
Charles
Earl of
Aboyne.
Lady
Anne
married to
James
Earl of
Perth.
Lady
Henrietta
to
George
Lord
Seaton,
and again to
John
Earl of
Traquair.
Lady
Jean
to
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun.
Which
Lewis
married
Isobel,
Daughter of Sir
John Grant
of That-Ilk, by whom he had
George
his Successor; likewise Three Daughters,
Lady
Anne
married to the Count
de Crolly.
Lady
Mary
to
Adam Urquhart
of
Meldrum,
and again to
James
Earl of
Perth.
Lady
Jean
to
Charles
Earl of
Dunfermling.
George
Marquis of
Huntly,
was Parliamentarly restored to his Estate; which had been forfaulted during the Time of the Civil War in the 1661, and was by King
Charles
II. created Duke of
Gordon,
by Letters Patent, 1st
November
1684. Upon the Accession of King
James
VII. to the Crown, his Grace the Duke was made one of the Lords of the Treasury, one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy - Council, Governour of
Edinburgh
-Castle, and one of the Twelve Knights of the most noble, and most antient Order of the Thistle. At the Revolution the Duke held out the Castle of
Edinburgh
for King
James
's Interest some Time, but seeing no Hope of Relief from his Master, and that Prince's Condition growing every Day worse and worse, he thought it the most advisable Course to surrender the Castle and referred himself and the Garison to King
William
's Discretion.
His Grace married the Lady
Elizabeth Howard,
Daughter of
Henry
Duke of
Norfolk,
of the Kingdom of
England,
by whom he had
Alexander
Marquis of
Huntly,
and a Daughter Lady
Jean,
married to
James
Lord
Drummond.
Alexander
Marquis of
Huntly,
in his Father's Lifetime married
Henrietta,
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Peterborough,
of the Kingdom of
England,
and has Issue.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st,
Azure,
Three Boars Heads
coupé Or,
2d
Or,
Three Lions Heads eraz'd
Gules,
3d
Or,
Three Crescents within a double Tressure counter-flower'd,
Gules,
4th
Azure,
Three Frazes
Argent,
supported by Two Hounds
Argent,
collar'd
Gules,
charged with Three Buckles,
Or.
Crest, a Hart's Head
Coupé.
Motto,
Bydand.
GRAY, Lord
Gray.
AS many Families in
Britain
and
France,
and in most Parts of
Europe,
derive their Sirnames from the Lands which their Ancestors possest, when Sirnames became first fashionable; so 'tis not to be doubted, but the Sirname of
Gray
has the same Derivation: Some are of Opinion, that it took its Rise from a City in the
Franche Compte,
which is still so named; others, and among those
Francis de Bellowforest
derives the Sirname of
Gray
from the Castle of
Gray
in
Picardy;
and adds, That one
Rollo,
Chamberlain to
Robert
Duke of
Normandy,
who possest the aforesaid Castle, was the first who assumed that Sirname: However, 'tis certain one
Anchitil de Gray
came over to
England
with
William
the Conqueror; and that when the general Survey was made in the 20th of that King's Reign, he held many Lands in
Oxford
-Shire and elsewhere; From him many great and illustrious Families in
England
are descended, as the Dukes of
Kent
and
Suffolk,
the Earl of
Stamford,
the Barons
Gray
of
Chilingham
and
Werk,
with their numerous Cadets, whose Names and Heroick Actions are frequently to be met with in the
English
History.
That the Lord
Gray
in
Scotland
has his Descent from some of these, cannot be doubted. Mr.
Camden
the great
English
Antiquary, and others of our own Country also, are mistaken as to the Time of their Ancestors coming to
Scotland,
as will appear afterward; but they assert, and with great Probability, That the first of this most noble Family was a Son of the House of
Chilingham
(indeed the Armorial Bearing of both Families are still the same); and 'tis observable, that the Lands of
Browfield,
the first Inheritance of the
Grays
in
Scotland,
ly in the County of
Roxburgh
or
Teviotdale,
at no great Distance from
Chilingham
in
Northumberland,
which Lands were given off in the Reign of King
Robert
I. to Sir
Andrew Gray
his Son, who, and his Posterity enjoyed the same for several Generations, till
Andrew
Lord
Gray,
who was Justice-General in the Time of King
James
III. exchanged them with the Earl of
Angus
for
Brughtie
-Castle,
Bagilo,
and the Fishings thereof. Now, every Body knows, that some Northern Counties of
England,
and
Northumberland
in particular, were some Times possest by the Kings of
Scotland;
and 'tis well known, that some of those who held Lands of the Crown of
Scotland,
in the Northern Counties of
England
had also Possessions within
Scotland;
the
Bruces
and
Baliols,
and many others did so: And when War broke out betwixt the Two Nations, the Families so stated divided among themselves, and adhered to either of the Kings in whose Dominions they had largest Possessions. Thus it is probable, that Sir
Andrew Gray,
the first whom we find on Record with us, adhered to King
Robert the Bruce,
whose Subject he was, upon the Account of his
Scots
Estate. This Sir
Andrew
was undoubtedly a brave Man, and a great Favourite of that glorious Monarch
Robert
I. from whom he had a Grant the 12th of
February,
the 5th Year of his Reign,
Anno
1315, of the Barony of
Long forgan,
in the Shire of
Perth,
and of many other Lands in
Forfar
-Shire, for his good and faithful Services, as the Charter bears
Charta penes Dominum Gray.
. He also acquired the Lands of
Broxmouth
in the County of
Roxburgh,
from Sir
Alexander Fraser
Kt. and these Two Records which I my self have seen and perused, tho' there were no other extant, do sufficiently confute a very gross Mistake of
Boethius, Buchanan,
and
Camden,
who say, That the first of this noble Family came only to
Scotland
with King
James
I. when he was relieved from his Captivity out of
England, Anno
1424, whereas the Chief of this Family, another Sir
Andrew Gray
was by the Estates of
Scotland
sent to
England,
one of the Hostages for that King's Ransom; but of this afterward. With whom this gallant Sir
Andrew
was married it does not appear; but from the Archives of the Family of
Gray
'tis evident he left a Son Sir
John Gray,
who succeeded him in his Estate, who in several Records is stil'd Lord of
Broxmouth,
as are several of his Descendents after him.
This
John Gray de Gray, Dominus de Broxmouth,
had a Grant of the Lands of
Craigie,
in the County of
Forfar,
from
William de Troup,
for a very valuable Consideration mentioned therein, and that Grant was confirmed to him by King
David
II. the 8th of
September,
the Twenty Seventh Year of his Reign,
Anno
1356, with whom it would appear he was no less in Favour than his Father had been with the great King
Robert.
I find this noble Person had very great Superiorities beside his own proper Estate, as a Proof of which there is a Charter granted to him by
Hugode Giffard,
whereby he acknowledges Sir
John Gray
to be Superior Lord to
Henry de Fotheringham,
of the Lands of
Lourenston
and
Huhcuman,
now call'd
Littleton,
of the Date at
Langforgan, ultime Februarii
1355
Ibidem.
. I find also, that
John Gray
was
Custos Rotulorum & Registri,
in the Reign of King
David Bruce,
and likewise of his Successor King
Robert
II. who had for Pension during Life
ducentos solidos Sterlingorum,
out of the Profits of the Court of the Chamberlain and Justiciary
Charta in Archivis David II. ad Annu
1463. etiam Charta in Rotulis Roberti II.
, a Sallary that has been observed by a learned and judicious Person, to amount to as much as the Constable or Marischal enjoyed as the Fees of their Offices in those Days. To whom Sir
John Gray,
the Lord of
Broxmouth,
was married, it does not appear from any Record of the Family, but 'tis clear that he left Two Sons,
John
the eldest, who was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of his Royal Sovereign King
David, Anno
1357
Rymer's l'oedera Angli
.
, with whom he had been made a Prisoner at the Battle of
Durham
in the Year 1346, and Sir
Patrick
who succeeded him in his great Estate, and in the Royal Favour, for King
Robert
II. in a Charter to this Sir
Patrick Gray,
designed Lord of
Broxmouth,
and to
Margaret
his Wife, of sundry Lands in the Barony of
Longforgan,
the King gives him the distinguishing Appellation of
Co
sanguineus Noster
Charta penes Dominum Gray.
; likeas, he had by the said King
pro Retinentia sua,
a yearly Pension of 26
L.
13
s.
4
d. Sterling,
and that during Life
Ibidem.
, which is all I have found memorable of him. By
Margaret
his Wife aforesaid, but of what Name or Family the Record doth not mention, he left Issue Four Sons,
Andrew, Alexander, Patrick
and
George;
also Two Daughters, . . . . married to . . . .
Lindsay
of
Crawfurd,
and
Elizabeth
to
Andrew Moncur
of That-Ilk.
Sir
Andrew Gray,
the next of this noble Family, added to the old Paternal Estate of his Family, the Barony and Lordship of
Fowlis
in
Perth
-Shire, by his Marriage with
Janet,
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
Roger Mortimer
Kt. Lord of
Fowlis
Ibidem.
. It was this Sir
Angrew Gray
who in his old Age had the Honour to be one of the Hostages for the Redemption of King
James
I. when he was relieved out of
England,
in the Year 1423
Rymer.
, by the aforesaid Lady his Wife, he left Issue Sir
Andrew
his Successor; and several Daughters, 1st . . . . married to Sir
Alexander Ogilvie
of
Auchterhouse,
2d
Elizabeth
to Sir
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure,
and thereafter to Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Tillibardin,
and had Issue
Family Book of the House of Panmute, M.S.
. 3d . . . . to
John Ross
of
Kinfauns,
4 . . . . . . to . . . . .
Herring
of
Glasclune.
5 . . . . to
William Auchterlony
of
Kelly.
6 . . . . . . to
David Annand
of
Melgum.
Sir
Andrew Gray
of
Fowlis,
made a very bright Figure in the Time of King
James
I. and II. and was in that Reign one of the great Barons who were fixed Hereditary Lords. He was in the 1452, constituted
Magister Hospitii
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II.
, which Office he enjoyed for several Years thereafter, about which Time he got a Royal Licence to build the strong and beautiful Castle of
Huntly
in the Carse of
Gowry,
now call'd
Castle-Lyon
Charta penes Dominum Gray.
, which continued with his Family for many Ages thereafter. He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
John
of
Weems,
Lord of
Rires
Ibidem.
. By her he had Issue Sir
Andrew
his Successor, and Two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
Robert
Lord
Lyle,
and . . . . to . . . .
Crichton
of
Strathurd.
Andrew
Lord
Gray,
Son to the last
Andrew,
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Walter Buchannan,
Kt. by whom he had
Patrick,
and
Andrew,
Author of that Branch of the
Grays
of
Bal
gerno.
Sir
Patrick Gray
his eldest Son, in the Life-time of his Father, was Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to, and a great Favourite to King
James
II. He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Malcolm Fleeming,
Lord of
Biggar,
by whom he had no Issue, and thereafter
Annabella,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Forbes,
Lord of
Forbes,
by whom he had
Andrew
his Grandfather's Successor; and Three Daughters. 1st
Elizabeth
married to Sir
David Rollo
of
Ballachie
and
Manmore,
2d . . . to
Andrew Monorgund
of That-Ilk, 3d . . . . . to . . . .
Coless
of
Bonymoon:
He died before his Father in 1462.
To
Andrew
Lord
Gray
succeeded
Andrew
his Grandson. He was retoured Heir to his Grandfather,
October
31st, 1471. He was a Nobleman of very great Parts, and much augmented the Wealth and Grandeur of his Family.
In the 1488, upon the Accession of King
James
IV. to the Crown, he was nam'd one of the Lords of the Privy-Council, and constituted High-Sheriff of
Forfar
-Shire, upon the Surrender of
David
Duke of
Montrose;
also in 1489, his Lordship was made Justice-General besouth the River of
Forth,
on the Forfaulture of the Lord
Lyle;
and was at length appointed Justice General of all
Scotland;
and he held the Office till his Death in the Month of
February
1514. He married first,
Janet,
only Daughter of
John
Lord
Keith,
Son to
William
Earl Marshal. By her he had
Patrick
his Successor, and Two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married first to
John
Lord
Glamis,
next to
George
Earl of
Hunt
ey;
and last of all to
George
Earl of
Rothes,
and
Isabel
to
Alexander Straton
of
Lauristoun, in Vic de Kincardine,
and had Issue. His second Wife was
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
Niece to King
James
II. By her he had
Robert Gray
of
Lutfie,
who was slain at the Battle of
Flowdoun,
leaving no Issue.
Gilbert Gray
of
Buttergask,
and
Andrew Gray
of
Muretoun,
who by Marriage of the Heir Female of
Schives
in
Aberdeen
-Shire, was the Root of that Branch of the
Grays
and the Paternal Ancestor of the present Lord
Gray:
He had also Four Daughters, 1.
Isabel
married to Sir
James Scrimzeor,
Constable of
Dundee,
and thereafter to
James Crichton
of
Ruthven.
2
Janet,
first to
John Charters
of
Cuthlegourdy,
and again to Sir
David Weems
of that Ilk, and had Issue. 3.
Jean
to
Alexander Blair
of
Bethayck;
next, to
Hugh
Lord
Lovat;
and last of all to
David
Earl of
Crawfurd.
4.
Marjery
to . . . . .
Kininmount
of that Ilk
Notand. Sir Andrew Gray Lord Foulis, had by Dame Janet Mortimer, another Daughter
on the other Page, . . . . . . married to Maclellan of Bomby, Ancestor to the Lord Kircudbright.
Patrick
the next Lord
Gray
was first betrothed to
Christian,
Daughter of
David Ogilvy
of
Inchmartin
Paternal Ancestor to the present Earl of
Findlater,
and afterward married to
Janet,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntley,
Widow of
Alexander
Master of
Crawfurd:
By her he had several Daughters, 1
Margaret
married to Sir
William Keith
of
Innerugie,
by whom he had two Daughters his Co-heirs,
Elizabeth
married to
William
Earl Marshal, and
Mary
to
William
Lord
Forbes,
2.
Marjory
to Sir
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Inch martin,
3.
Isobel
to Sir
Adam Crichton
of
Ruthven,
and afterward to Sir
John Ca
of
Lundy, Ld
high Treasurer of
Scotland,
and 4 . . . . to . . .
Monorgund
of that Ilk, and dying without Male Issue at his Castle of
Huntley,
the . . . . Day of
April
1541, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by,
Patrick Gray
his Nephew, Son and Heir of
Patrick Gray
of
Buttergask,
and of
Giles
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Laurence Mercer
of
Aldie.
This noble Lord, in the 1541, was one of the Peers who accompanied King
James
V. to the Battle of
Soloway;
where his Lordship was taken Prisoner: but upon the paying a Ransom of
L.
500
Sterling,
he was soon thereafter released. In the Minority of Queen
Mary
he was among the first of his Quality who concurr'd and countenanc'd the Reformation of Religion, which came to be happily established
Anno
1560; and departing this Life
Anno
1581, left Issue by
Marion
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Ld .
Ogilvy
of
Airlie, Patrick
his Successor, and another Son, Sir
Patrick Gray
of
Innergowrie, James
who was Archer to Queen
Mary
's Guards,
Robert. Gray
of
Drumelie,
also seven Daughters.
1.
Margaret
married to
Patrick
Master of
Ruthven
ans Issue.
2.
Mary
to
William
Master of
Ruthven.
3.
Margaret
to Mr.
James Ogilvy
of
Balfour.
4.
Agnes
to Sir
Robert Logan
of
Restalrig
next to
Alexander
Lord
Home,
and again to Sir
Thomas Lyon
of
Aldbar,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland.
5.
Lilias
to
David Tyrie
of
Drumki
o,
and after his Death to
John
Master of
Oliphant,
and had Issue. 6.
Elizabeth
to
Laurence Bruce
of
Cultmali
die.
7.
Anne
to
Patrick Douglas
of
Kilspindie.
Which
Patrick
married first
B
rbara,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Ruthven,
by whom he had
Patrick
the brave Master of
Gray,
so fam'd in the History of King
James
VI
James Gray
Esq
Gentleman of the Bedchamber,
Gilbert Gray
of
Bandirran,
who left two Daughters his Heirs,
Eupham
married to Sir
Patrick Kinnaird
of
Inchture,
Ancestor to the Lord
Kinnaird,
and . . . . . to
Hay
of
Kirkland,
and
Robert Gray
of
Milhill;
also Four Daughters,
Mary
married to
David Seton
of
Parbroath,
C
mptroller of
Scotland, Helen
to Sir
Hugh Maxwell
of
Tyling, Isabel
to
David Strachan
of
Carmylie,
and had Issue; and
Elizabeth
to
William Gordon
of
Aberzeldie;
and dying in the Year 1611, was succeeded by
Patrick
his Son and Heir, who was Gentleman of the Bed chamber, and Master of the Wardrop to King
James
VI. in 1584. He was constituted one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council, and sent Ambassador to Queen
Elizabeth,
to interpose in Behalf of Queen
Mary,
then under Sentence of Death. He was also Commendator of the Abbacy of
Dunfermling,
beside several other Beneficial Gifts and Grants he had from the Crown. He married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Glamis,
Chancellor of
Scotland,
but by her he had no Issue; and next
Mary,
Daughter of
Robert Stewart
Earl of
Orkney,
by whom he had
Andrew
his Successor, and Seven Daughters,
Jean
married to
John
first Earl of
Weems, Agnes
to
William
Earl of
Menteith
and
Strathern,
President of the Council in the Reign of King
Charles
I.
Mary
to
James
Lord
Lindores, Elizabeth
to Sir
John Lesly
of
Newtoun,
Brother to the Earl of
Rothes, Agnes
to
Alexander
first Lord
Halkertoun, Helen
to
Andrew Bruce
oo
Earlshall,
. . . . . to
Robert Carnegy
of
Dunichen,
and all had Issue.
Andrew
Lord
Gray,
Son and Heir to the last Lord
Patrick,
was Lieutenant to the
Gens d' Armes
in
France,
under the Duke of
York,
Captain thereof; which honourable and advantagious Post, he resign'd at the Desire of King
Charles
II. and of his Brother the said Duke when in Exile, in Favours of Monsieur
Schomberg,
thereafter Marshal
Schomberg,
which Office for many Generations had been enjoyed by
Scotsmen,
but since could never be recovered; he was also engaged by King
Charles
I. to resign the heretable Jurisdiction of the Sheriffdom of
Angus,
which had continued in the Family near 200 Years, for which he got his Majesty's Bond for 50000 Merks, which was never recovered by Reason of the ensuing Troubles of that Reign; he was also fined in the Sum of 1500
lib. Sterl.
for his Loyalty, and forced to flee the Kingdom. This with his other Sufferings and Losses of the Family, brought his Estate very low, which for many Generations past, had been amongst the most opulent in the Kingdom. He married Dame
Anna Ogilvy,
Countess of
Buchan,
Daughter to
Walter Ogilvy,
Lord
Deskford,
and Sister to
James
the first Earl of
Findlater.
He died
Anno
1663, and had Issue by her
Patrick
Master of
Gray,
who was slain at the Siege of . . . . . in
France,
unmarried, and one Daughter
Anna,
to whom he provided his Estate. His Second Wife was Dame
Catharine Caddel,
with whom he had only one Daughter,
Frances,
married to Captain . . . .
Mackenzie,
Son to the Bishop of
Murray.
The said
Anna
Mrs. of
Gray,
was married with the Advice and Consent of her Father and Friends to
William Gray,
eldest Son and Heir to Sir
William Gray
of
Pittendrum,
Knight, and Bart.
This Sir William Gray was Son to Thomas Gray of Brighouse, for so I find him called in a Record
Aberdeen, 10th June 1620: Which Thomas Gray I find design'd in another Record, Nephew to Andrew Gray of
, who was sl
in at the Battle of Flowdoun, whose Father Andrew Gray of Mure
bei
g a Son of the Family of Gray, was married to the Heiress of
in Aberdeen-shire. This Sir William Gray, by Merchandizing, and other worthy Means, aquired the greatest Wealth not only to himself, but to the whole Nation, by improving and enla
ing its Trade with all Countries in Europe, in
much that the Evidences relating to the Trade in which he was concerned, and the Estate which he acquired, would scarce be believed, if they were not still extant in the Famil
, which I my self have perused: But his Merit was yet greater than his Wealth, the one having been much lessen'd by the other, for he was fin'd by the Parliament at St. Andrews, in the Sum of 1
000 Merks, for corresponding with the great Montrose, and imprison'd in the Castle of Edinburgh, which refusing to pay, by Order of the Committee of
, was brought down to the Tolbooth or common Prison, where he was kept, till his
Master Gray, and his other Friends, upon Application to the said Committee, got it m
ied to
Merks, which was instantly paid, as the Discharge yet extant testifies; besides the Sum of
Sterl. was extorted from him by Way of Loan, but never repaid. These Hardships with the encreasing Troubles of the Country and Royal Family, put an End to his Life Anno 164
. He married Dame Giles Smith, Sister to Sir John Smith of Grotel, Provost of Edinburgh, and by her had Six Sons and Twelve Daughters, Robert the Second Son was kill'd at the Battle of Inver
hing, David killed at Tangier with the Earl of Teviot; Alexander died unmarried; Mr. Andrew died Minister at Glasgow, a young Man of great Piety and Learning; Ten of his Daugters were honourably married, the other Two died Maids.
, whereupon his Majesty King
Charles
I. was pleased to grant a Patent of Honour upon the 8th
January
1638, to the said
William Gray
and his Heirs Male to be procreate betwixt him and the said Lady, which faillieing to the Heirs Male of his own and his Father's Body whatsomever; and because
Andrew
Lord
Gray
his Lady's Father was not yet dead, he is thereby allowed to take upon him the Stile and Title of, Master of
Gray,
and to enjoy the same Precedency as if he had been a Son of his own Body. This Patent was ratified in Parliament 17th
November
1541, and is very ample, containing an Account of the Antiquity, Alliances, Offices Civil and Military
&c.
of the House of
Gray,
and asserts the said
William Gray
to be lineally and fairly descended of the said House.
This
William
Master of
Gray,
(as his Father-in law and Father) was a firm and resolute Abettor of the Royal Cause, for which he suffered much both in his Person and Fortune: He had the Command of a Regiment
Anno
1650, which he kept together for the most Part on his own Charge, till the total Subversion of the Royal Family after the Battle of
Worcester,
and he had the Satisfaction to survive the Restauration, but died soon after in
September
1660, leaving Issue by
Anna
Mrs. of
Gray, Patrick
Lord
Gray, William
who died unmarried, and Mr.
Charles Gray
Advocate.
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
eldest Son to
William
Master of
Gray,
married
Barbara,
Daughter to
Andrew
Lord
Balvaird,
and Sister to
David
Viscount of
Stormount,
by whom he had one Daughter
Marjory,
who only survived him, married to
John Gray
of
Crichie,
her Father's Cousin-German, and Grandson by his Father to the above mentioned Sir
William Gray
of
Pittendrum,
by Consequence next Heir-Male in the last Patent of Honour to
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
and his Brother Mr.
Charles,
who having both resigned in his Favours before the Union of the Two Kingdoms, a new Patent of Honour was obtained to him and his Heirs whatsomever.
Patrick
Lord
Gray
died 30th
January
1711.
John
the present Lord
Gray,
had by his above-mentioned Lady
Marjory
Mrs. of
Gray, John
Master of
Gray, William,
and
Alexander;
likewise Three Daughters,
Barbara, Catharine
married to
James Paterson
of
Kirktoun,
Advocate, and
Elizabeth.
John
Master of
Gray,
in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Helen,
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Blantyre,
and has a Son
John.
ARMS.
Gules,
a Lyon rampant within a Border ingraled
Argent.
Supporters, two Lyons rampant, guardant
Gules.
Crest, an Anchor, Motto,
Anchor, fast Anchor.
RAMSAY, Viscount of
Haddingtoun.
SIR
John Ramsay
of
East-Barns,
a Branch of the Family of
Dalhousie,
in Consideration of his good Services in Rescuing King
James
from the traiterous Attempt of the Earl of
Gowry
and his Brother at
Perth,
5th of
August
1600, was created Viscount
Haddingtoun;
and accompanying his Majesty to
England,
he was created a Peer of that Realm, by the Title of Earl of
Holderness;
but dying without Issue, his Honours died with himself,
Anno
1625.
HAMILTON, Earl of
Haddingtoun,
IS descended from the Family of
Innerwick. Thomas
the first Earl of
Haddingtoun
was the Son of
Thomas Hamilton
of
Priestfield,
by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
James Heriot
of
Trabrown,
who being bred to the Law, he soon made an eminent Progress in that honourable Profession, in Reputation and Practice; insomuch as he was when very young, advanced first to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and then to be Lord Advocate
Anno
1595, which Office he discharged to his Majesty's Satisfaction for many Years thereafter. In the 1612, Sir
Thomas Hamilton
was made Lord Register, and shortly after Secretary in Place of Sir
Alexander Hay,
and without parting with the Secretary's Place, he was in 1616, preferred to be President of the Session, on the Demise of Sir
John Preston,
and raised to the Dignity of a Peer by the Title of Lord
Binny;
and thereafter created Earl of
Melross,
20th
March
1619, which with his Majesty's Approbation, he exchanged to the Title of Earl of
Haddingtoun.
In the 1627, the Earl was removed from the Secretary's Place, and was thereupon made Privy Seal, and he continued in the Office till his Death,
May
29th, 1637.
He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
James Borthwick
of
Newbuyres,
by whom he had a Daughter
Christian,
married to
Robert
Lord
Lindsay,
and after his Decease to
Robert
Lord
Boyd;
next
Margaret
Daughter of . . . . . .
Fowlis
of
Colingtoun,
by whom he had
Thomas
his Successor, Sir
James Hamilton
of
Priestfield,
Sir
John Hamilton
of
Reidhall;
likewise three Daughters,
Isobel
married to
James
first Earl of
Airly, Margaret
to
David
Lord
Car
agie,
Son of
David
Earl of
Southesk,
and after his Death to
James
Earl of
Hartfiel,
and
Jean
to
John
Earl of
Cassils:
His last Wife was
Julian,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Ker
of
Ferniehirst,
Widow of Sir
Patrick Hume
of
Polwarth,
by whom he had a Son
Patrick,
who was slain at the blowing up of the House of
Dunglass.
Thomas
the second Earl of
Haddingtoun,
in the Beginning of the Troubles was on the Side of the Covenant, and when the
Scots
Army marched toward
England,
he had the Command of the Garison of
Dunglass,
which by the Treachery of his own Page, an
English
Boy, was blown up, by firing the Magazine, whereby the Earl and several Gentlemen of Quality, miserably perished on the 30th of
August
1640. By
Catharine
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
he had
Thomas
his eldest Son, who married a Lady of Quality in
France,
o
the Family of
Chatilon,
but died without Issue, and
John
Earl of
Haddingtoun;
also by
Jean,
Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Hantl
,
his second Wife, he had a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
John
first Earl of
Kintore.
John
the next Earl of
Haddingtoun
married
Christian,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Crawfurd,
by whom he had
Charles
his Son and Heir, and Three Daughters,
Margaret
married to
John Hope
of
Hopetoun, Eleanor
to Sir
William Anstruther
of That-Ilk, one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
Susanna
to
Adam Cockburn
of
Ormistoun,
Lord Justice-Clerk, and all had Issue. He dying the 1st of
September
1669, was succeeded by
Charles
his Son, who married
Margaret
Countess of
Rothes,
eldest Daughter of
John
Duke of
Rothes.
By her he had
John
the present Earl of
Rothes,
and
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun,
who married
Helen,
Daughter of
John Hope
of
Hopetoun,
and has Issue,
Charles
Lord
Binning, John, Margaret, Christian.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Gules
on a Chiveron betwixt Three Cinque Foils,
Argent,
a Buckle
Azure
betwixt Two Spots of
Ermine,
all within a Border,
Or,
charged with eight Thistles
Vert,
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Fess wave betwixt Three Roses,
Gules.
Supporters, Two Spaniel Dogs. Crest, Two Dexter Hands holding betwixt them a Branch of Lawrel. Motto,
Praesto & Persto.
HALIBURTON, Lord
Haliburton.
SIR
James Dalrymple,
a very learned Person in the Antiquities of his Country, upon good Grounds, is of Opinion, that the Sirname of
Haliburton
was taken at first from the Chappel of
Haliburton,
depending upon the Church of
Green-Law
in
Berwick
-shire, as appears from a Grant thereof by
David Filius Tructe
about the Time of
Malcolm
IV. as may be inferred from a Charter by
Philip de Haliburton,
designing the fore-mentioned
David
the original Granter his Grand-father,
Anno
1261. In the Reign of
Robert
I. the
Haliburtons
came to be Lords of the Barony of
Dirltoun,
by Right from the
Vausses,
an ancient Family, whose Arms they carried, and so probably, by Marriage of an Heir Female. The Family came to be considered as Lords in the Time of King
James
II. in the Person of Sir
Walter Haliburton
of
Dirltoun.
He was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
John
Lord
Haliburton,
who flourished under King
James
III.
Patrick
Lord
Haliburton
was his Son, who obtain'd a Grant to himself and
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
Patrick Hepburn
of
Hales
of the Barony of
Dirltoun,
on his Father's Resignation.
George
Lord
Haliburton
was his Successor, and
James
Lord
Haliburton
succeeded him. After this
James, Patrick
was Lord
Haliburton,
who dying without Male Issue, in the Reign of King
James
V. the Honour failed, and his Estate came to his three Daughters Coheirs thus married.
1.
Janet
to
William
Lord
Ruthven.
2.
Marion
to
George
Lord
Hume.
3.
Margaret
to
George Ker
of
Faudenside in Vic. de Roxburgh.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st. and 4th.
Or,
on a Bend,
Azure,
3 Lozanges of the 1st, 2d, and 3d
Or,
a Bend
Gules.
FALCONER, Lord
Halkertoun.
THIS ancient Family is derived from one
Ranulphus filius Walteri de Lenorp,
who was Falconer to King
William
of
Scotland,
as appears by a Deed of the said Prince to him of the Lands of
Lachra
and
Balbegno, in Vic. de Kincardin,
wherein he is designed
Falconario nostro
Sir George Mackenzies Collections for a Baronage of Scotland, MS. penes me.
Nota,
I have not had any Opportunity to see the Writes of this ancient Family: but what I have glean'd up in the Course of my perusing the Records of the Nation, and other Documents, is as follows. I find that George Falconer of Halkertoun died in the 1511, and was succeeded by David his Son, who married Marion Dunbar, Daughter of . . . . . . Dunbar of . . . . . . . and was succeeded by Alexander his Son, who improved his Estate, and purchased the Lands of Midletoun to his Family, in the 1539: He had to Wife Elisabeth Daughter of Sir Archibald Douglass of Glenbervy, immediate Ancestor to the present Duke of Douglass, and had by her Alexander Falconer of Halkertoun his successor, Archibald Progenitor of Sir James Falconer of Phesdo, Samuel of Kincorth, in Vic. de Elgin, William of Dinduff, Progenitor of Mr. Colin Falconer first Bishop of Argyle, and thereafter of Murray, in the Reign of King Charles II. Sir Alexander Falconer the next Baron of Halkertoun married Margaret Daughter to Patrick Lord Gray, by whom he had two Sons, Sir Alexander and Patrick Falconer of Newtoun, Ancestor to Falconer of Montoun, in Vic. de Edinburgh. This Sir Alexander was by the after-mentioned Agnes Carnegy, Father to Sir Alexander Falconer the first Lord Halkertoun, and of two younger Sons, Sir David Falconer of Glenfarquhar, and Sir John Falconer of Balmakellie, who was Master of the Mint in the Time of King Charles II. This Sir David Falconer of Glenfarquhar, had two Sons, Sir Alexander Falconer of Glenfarquhar, and Sir David Falconer of Newton, who was promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Anno 1676, and President of the Session on the 5th of July 1682, whose Son and Heir is David Falconer of Newtoun
Esq
in Vic. de Kincardin.
. In process of time his Descendants rose to be great Barons, and were well known by the Designation of
Halkertoun,
their principal Residence in the County foresaid. They have for many Years enjoyed the Honour of Knighthood, and have been frequently elected to sit in Parliament as Knights of the Shire, and in other publick Stations have served their Country on occasions with great Reputation.
Sir
Alexander Falconer
of
Halkertoun,
the first who attained the Honour of Peerage, was Son and Heir of Sir
Alexander Falconer
by
Agnes
his Wife Daughter of Mr.
David Carnegie
of
Coluthie
Ancestor to the Earl o
Southesk,
being a Gentleman well vers'd in Learning, and competently skill'd in the Laws, was by the Favour of King
Charles
I. promoted to be one of the Lords of Council and Session 19th of
July
1639
List of the Lords of Session since the Institution of the College of Justice, in the Lawyers Library MS.
, and deporting himself both in Parliament and otherways with Honour and Honesty in the King's Service during the Civil War, his Majesty was graciously pleased to put a lasting Mar
of his Esteem upon him and his Family, by creating him Lord
Halkertoun
on the 20 of
December
1647
Charta in Cancellaria Sanctae Dominae Nostrae Reginae
, and living to see his Royal Master King
Charles
II. restor'd; his Lordship was again nominated to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in which Imployment he continued till his dying Day, the 1st. of
October
1671
Ibidem, where Alexander Lord Halkertoun is retoured to his Father.
, leaving Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter to
John
Lord
Lindsay
Ancestor to the Earl of
Crawfurd Alexander
his Successor, and a Daughter
Agnes
married to
George
Lord
Banff.
Which
Alexander
married
Margaret
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Airly.
and departing this Life the 4th of
March
1684
Retour of David Lord Halkertoun to Alexander his Father in the Chancery Office, Edinburgh
, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
David
the present Lord his Son, who is not married, and consequently has no lawful Issue. His nearest Relation on the Male Line is Sir
Alexander Falkoner
of
Glenfarquhar,
his presumptive Heir.
ARMS.
Azure,
a Falcon display'd
Argent
crown'd
Or,
betwixt three Stars of the second, and on her Breast a Mans Heart
proper,
Supporters
Or,
two Eagles
proper,
Crest, an Angel incircl'd with Lawrel, Motto,
Vive ut Vivas.
BOTHWEL, Lord
Haly-Rud-House.
WHEN King
James
V. did Institute the College of Justice,
Anno
1532
Acts of Parliament.
, he promoted Mr.
Francis Bothwel,
a Person well vers'd in the Civil and Canon Law, to be one of the Lords of Council and Session. By
Anne
his Wife, Daughter to the Lord
Livingston
he had two Sons,
Richard Bothwel
Provost of
Edinburgh
in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
Ancestor of
Bothwel
of
Glencorss in Vic. de Edinburgh,
and Mr.
Adam Bothwell
who having gone through the Course of his Studies at the University and the Inferior Schools, applyed himself particularly to Theology; and after some inferior Station in the Church, which no doubt he passed through, he was elected Bishop of
Orkney
by the Chapter, and obtained the Royal Assent thereto, the 8th of
October
1562
Charta in pub. Arch.
,
Nota,
I have seen a Memorial of the Lineage of this Family, which makes this Mr. Francis the Son of Mr. Richard Bothwel, by Jean Somervel his Wife, a Daughter of Somervel of Plain, in Vic. de Stirling.
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
that See being then void by the Decease of Bishop
Reid,
and two Years after nominated to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice
List of the Lords of Session with the time of their Admissions MS. in the Lawyers Library.
. He was one of the four Popish Bishops who imbraced the Protestant Religion, and zealously concured in reforming the Errors in Doctrine of the
Romish
Church till then established in the Nation by Law, and continued long in the exercise of his Bishoprick, notwithstanding of the Prejudice the Church then had to that Order
Mr. Wallace History of Orkney.
. In the 1570, he made an exchange of the Revenue of the Episcopal See of
Orkney,
then in his Person, and which he was impower'd to dispose of as he had a mind, with
Robert Stewart
Prior of
Haly-Rud-House,
and thereby came to be Commendator of that Abbey, which he enjoyed till the the 23 of
August
of 1593. He was called from this transitory to an Eternal Life, and was interred in the Abbey-Church of
Haly-Rud-House,
near his Grave was affixed this Inscription and Epitaph,
Hic reconditus jacet Nobilissimus Vir, Dominus
Adamus Bothuelius,
Episcopus
Orcadum
&
Zetlandiae;
Commendatarius
Monasterii Sanct
Crucis; Senator
& Consiliarius Regius: qui Obiit anno aetatis suae 67. 23. die Mensis
Augusti,
anno Domini, 1593
Epitaphium,
N
te Senatoris magni; magne ipse Senator;
Magne Senatoris, triplice laude, Parens;
Tempore cujus opem poscens Ecclesia sensit;
Amplexa est cujus Cura forensis opem;
Vixisti, ex animi voto: Jam, plenus Honorum,
Plenus opum, senii jam quoque plenus obit.
Sic nihil Ʋ rna Tui, nisi membra senilia, celat;
Teque vetat Virtus Vir tua Magne mori.
I faelix Mortem requie superato suprema;
Sic, Patriae & Liberis, Fama perennis erit.
Mr.
John Bothwel
of
Allhammar
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad annum 1607.
his Son succeeded him in the Commendatory of
Haly-Rud-House,
who being a very polite and learned Person, was by the Bounty of King
James
VI. promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, upon the Dimission of his Father, 26th
June
1593
List of the Lords of Session.
, he was one of those the said King chose to accompany him into
England, Anno
1603, when he went to take Possession of that Crown, being then one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and continuing much in his Masters Favour and Esteem. He obtained a Charter and Patent bearing Date at
Whitehall
20th of
December
1607, erecting
Totas & integras terras & Baroniam de Dunrod, nec non Terras de Mikle & Little Kirklands jacent in Seneschallatu de Kirkcudbright & Vicecomit. de Drumfries ac etiam omnes & singulas feudae firmarum augmentationis annuus redditus ad conventum & conventuales fratres Monasterii & Abbaciae de Haly-rud-house pro tempore solvi solit. & Consuet. ac etiam totas & integras Terras & Baroniam de Alhammer alias Whitekirk in unam liberam Baroniam & Regalitatem; nec non Damus & Concedimus Magistro Joanni Bothwell suisque heredibus & assignatis Heredita
iae totum & integrum Monasterium & Abbaciae locum de Haly-rud house una cum omnibus & singulis decimis garbalibus aliisque decimis quibuscunque tam rectoriarum quam vicariarum omnium & singularum Ecclesi
rum & Parochiarum de Whitekirk, Libertoun, Tranent, Crawfurd-Lindsay, St. Cuthberts, & Haly-rud-house, per prius ad dictum Monasterium & Abbaciam de Haly-rud-house, tanquam spiritualitatem ejusdem spectan. quas omnes Terras, Baronia & Abbacias erigimus
unimus, & annexamus in unum integr
& liberum temporale dominium omni tempore futur
, Dominium de Halyrud house
cupa
d. praefato Magistro Joanni Both
el, suisque heredibus Masculis de Corpore suo legitime procreatis seu procreandis, quibus deficien. heredibus masculis qu
ndam Adami Episcopi Orcaden. sui Patris, quibus deficientibus legitimis & propinquioribus heredibus & assignatis dicti Magistri Joannis quibuscunque.
This Lord married
Mary
Daughter of Sir
John Carmichael
o
that Ilk
Charta penes Comitem de Hyndford.
, and dying in
November
1609
Charta in Cancell
ria Sanctae Dominae Nostrae Reginae.
, he left a Son
John
to succee
him in the Honour, who died unmarried
Anno
1635, to whom
Alexander Bothwel
of
Glencorss
was served and retoured Heir
Generalis retornatus Alexandri Bothuel de Giencorss ad Joannem quondam Dominum Haly-rude-house penes D. Glencorss.
on the 4th o
February
1704.
ARMS.
Azure
a Cheveron betwixt three Trefoils
Or,
supported on the right Side by a Gray-Hound, and on the other with a Gose-Hawlk
Proper,
Crest, a Palm Tree, with a naked Boy on it, Motto,
Surgendum adversus urgentia,
HAMILTON, Duke of
Hamiltoun.
AS this illustrious and most noble Family is the first of the Peerage of
Scotland,
so it is one of the most considerable, whether we Respect the Nobleness of its Extraction, the Multiplicity of its Branches, or the Grandeur of its Alliances; and tho' they are not of so long a Continuance in this Realm, as some others mentioned in this Work; yet 'tis sufficient to say, That this noble House has been established by an undenyable and uninterrupted Succession of full Four Hundred Years, and had the Honour to be grac'd with the Intail of the Crown, and imperial Dignity of this Realm, One Hundred and Sixty Years ago, which was ratified in a full Assembly of the three Estates of Parliament, to which all of them set their Seals.
I must acknowledge I have not had the Honour to peruse the more ancient Writes of the Family of
Hamiltoun,
wherefore I am obliged to rely upon the Account given me from Mr.
Hamilton
of
Wishaw,
an Antiquary of no little Fame, who says,
"That Sir
Gilbert Hamilton,
the first of this illustrious Race who transplanted himself from the Kingdom of
England,
was extracted from the ancient Earls of
Licester,
of whose Grant his Progenitor had Lands in that County, called
Hamilton,
from whence they assumed a Sirname, and that the occasion of his coming to
Scotland
is delivered by Historians, after this manner:"
Sir
Gilbert (say they)
at the Court of
Edward II.
chanced to talk with Honour and Respect of the great Merit of King
Robert
the
Bruce,
whereupon one
John del Spencer
gave him a Blow, which arrogant Treatment he resented so highly, that encountering him the next Day, he killed him; and to avoid punishment, fled to
Scotland,
where he was well received by King
Robert:
Who to make amends for what he had forfaulted on his account at home, generously rewarded him with the Barony of
Cadzow,
in the county of
Lanerk,
then an appendage of the Crown.
He was a very brave Man, and to him are ascribed a vast many great Exploits, particularly, that he distinguished his Valour and Conduct in the decisive Battle of
Bannock-burn,
(which happened on the the 25th of
July
1314,) so eminently, that he was knighted in the Field, and got a Gift of diverse Lands. My former Author further informs me, that he was matched with a Lady of the Family of the
Randolphs,
rais'd in that Reign to the Honour of Earl of
Murray,
by whom he had two Sons, Sir
Walter
his Successor, and Sir
John Hamilton
of
Ross-aven
Knight, of whom sprung the Family of
Prestoun in Vicde Edinburgh,
and its Branches. To Sir
Gilbert
's Memory this Epitaph was composed by a famous Author.
Iure ego deserui patriam, veteresque penates,
Nempe fidem, jus, fas deserit illa prius.
Jam nova jura libens inii sub rege benigno,
Qui profugo patriam, qui potiora dedit.
Hinc res, at que decus, fortunaque laeta secuta est,
Hinc regum thalamis nobilitata domus.
Esto, solum verti, at patriam inveni, haec dedit auxit,
Quae modo perdideram: quae potui, illa dedi.
Sir
Walter
his Son was a Man of great Fame and Character, he had several Military Commands in the Service of
Robert
I. which he perform'd with great Diligence and Success, in Consideration whereof, he had by that Prince's Grant a Charter of the Barony of
Cadzow,
to be held in as ample manner as Sir
Gilbert
his Father held the same: Also in the 9th of the same Reign, to reward his great Merit and acceptable Services, he had a Grant of the Barony of
Machan-shire
in the County of
Lanark,
which formerly belonged to
John Cumin
Knight. Further, in the 1324, the King bestowed on him the Lands of
Kinneil, Larber, Brimage,
and
Auldcathie
in the Shire of
Linlithgow,
and the very same Year the Lands of
Kirkinder
and
Kirkowen
in the County of
Wigtoun,
for good Services done and to be done by him, as the Charter bears. Thus by his Princes Bounty and Favour arriving to great Wealth and Honour, he strengthened his Family by a very noble Alliance, taking to Wife
Isobel
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Ross
Wishaw's Account of the Family of Hamilton.
, and Neice to the King by her Mother, by whom he had two Sons, who survived him, Sir
David,
and Sir
John Hamilton,
from whom the Families of
Innerweek Ballincrieff,
and the present Earl of
Haddingtoun
are descended.
To Sir
Walter Hamilton
succeeded Sir
David
his Son, who served King
David
II. in his Wars against the
English:
He was with the King at the unfortunate Battle of
Durham, Anno
1348, where he was taken Prisoner with his Master
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angli
, but paying a Ransom he was released. That he had great esteem from that King, is plain enough, for in the 40th of his Reign, he had a special Grant of all the Lands which belonged either to Sir
Gilbert
his Grand-father or Sir
Walter
his Father in any part of the Realm;
The Charter is dated 27 September 1369.
and at the same time the King was pleased to discharge for ever to him and his Heirs, a Feu-duty that had been formerly payable to the Exchequer out of the Barony of
Cadzow,
a Sign of the Prevalency of his Interest at that Prince's Court, where Men of Merit were only imployed. In the 4th of King
Robert
II.
Anno
1373, he had Summons to Parliament, and appends his Seal to the Act recognizing his Majesty's Title to the Crown, and in settling the Succession upon all the King's Children lawfully begotten, either by
Elisabeth Mure
his first Wife, or
Euphame Ross
then his Queen
Acts of Parliament still extan
in the Records, where he is mentioned in both.
. What is further remarkable of this Sir
David,
is, That according to the Devotion of that Age, when Donatives to the Church could sanctifie and merit for any Person, he gave in pure and perpetual Alms to the Cathedral Church of
Glasgow
an Annuity of Ten Merks
Sterl
out of the Barony of
Kinneil,
for the Support of a qualified Person to celebrate Divine Service at the Altar of the Blessed
Virgin Mary,
in the said Church,
Pro salute animae Roberti quondam Regis Scotiae, nec no
pr
prosperitate serenissimi Principis Domini David Regis Scotiae, ac etiam pro salute animae suae, & animarum omnium antec
ssorum & successorum suorum in perpetuum
Chartulary of Glasgow in the Hands of Alexander Baillie of Castlecarry.
. My former worthy Author
Mr. William Hamilton of Wishaw.
informs me, that this Sir
David
dying in the 1373, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
Walter Lesly
Lord of
Ross,
by
Euphame
Daughter and Heir of
William
Earl of
Ross, David
his Successor, and
Walter
Progenitor of the Branch of
Camskeith, in Vic. de Air
From Writs in my Hands, I find that Hamilton of Camskeith is now represented by Alexander Hamilton of Grange in Air-shire.
and its Cadets.
Which Sir
David
attained the Honour of Knighthood from King
Robert
II. in the 7th of whose Reign he had a Grant of the Lands of
Bothwell-Mure,
in the County of
Lanark
Wishaw's Account of the Duke of Hamilton's Family MS.
, and by other Acquisitions, he raised a great Fortune. Marrying
Janet
Daughter of Sir
William Keith
Marishal of
Scotland
Penes Eundem.
, by her he had five Sons and a Daughter.
Sir
John
who continued on the Line of the Family.
Sir
William
the second Son, was Ancestor of the
Hamilton
's of
Bathgate in Vic. de Linlithgow
This from Wishaw's Account of the Family of Hamilton. Etiam Charta penes Alexandrum Baillie de Castlecarry, ad annum 1407.
.
Sir
Robert
the third, from whom the Family of
Bruntwood
and
Udstoun
did descend, out of which branched the
Hamiltons
of
Barncluth,
the Lord
Belhaven, Rosehall, Pencaitland,
and
Wishaw.
George
the fourth Son, was Author of the Family of
Boarland, in Vic. de Air.
David
the fifth, who fixed his Residence in the County of
Stirling,
where he acquired a fair Estate by the marrying one of the Co-heirs of
Galbreath,
a great Baron in those Parts, and became the Root of the
Hamiltons
of
Bardowie,
who still continue there.
Elisabeth
only Daughter, married to Sir
Alexander Fraser, Thane
of
Cowie
and
Dores
Charter by Sir Alexander Fraser, Thane of Cowie and Dores, with Consent of Elisabeth Hamilton his Spouse, to Alexander Fraser his Son, of the Lands of Dores in the 1400; and is presently in my Hands by the favour of Sir Peter Fraser of Dores.
.
But to return to Sir
John Hamilton
Lord of
Cadzow,
who appears to have been a Person of special Account, but living in a Time of no great Action under
Robert
III. a peaceable Prince, I could not procure any Memoirs of him proper to be inserted here. His Wife was
Janet
Daughter of Sir
James Douglass
of
Dalkeith,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Morton.
By her he had
Sir
James
his Successor.
David,
who first founded the Family of
Dalserf, in Vic. de Lanark,
of whom the
Hamiltons
of
Blackburn, Allarshaw, Ladyland, Green,
and others derive themselves.
Thomas,
of whom descended the House of
Raploch,
out of which issued the
Hamiltons
of
Torrence, Stanhouse, Woodhall, Aikenhead, Dechmont, Barns,
and several flourishing Branches in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
of which the Earl of
Glenbrysall
was the Head.
Having done with the younger Brothers, I proceed with Sir
James Hamilton
of
Cadzow
the eldest Son, who in the 1411, with
David
his Brother, obtained Letters of safe Conduct from
Henry
IV. to come into
England,
as far as the Castle of
Calthorp,
in the County of
Lincoln,
yet on what occasion is not said
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae ad Annum 1411.
: And twelve Years after, when the Sum of Fourty Thousand Pound
Sterling
was agreed on as the Ransom of King
James
I. He was sent into
England
as one of the Hostages for the payment thereof
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae ad Annum 1423.
, an Evidence he was then looked upon as one of the most considerable Barons of
Scotland.
Soon after which, King
James
conferred on him the Honour o
Knighthood, and called him to his Privy Council. In the Reign of King
James
II. when our Constitution of Parliaments came to be modelled according to the Frame they are now in, this noble Person was in the 8th of the same King,
Anno
1445, entred among the Lords of Parliament, all his Lands being then erected into a Lordship in all time coming, to be called the Lordship of
Hamilton
Charta penes D. de Hamilton.
. Also in the 1449, he was joined in Commission with
John
Bishop of
Glasgow, Andrew
Abbot of
Melross, Patrick Cockburn
Provost of
Edinburgh, Peter Young
Dean of
Dunkeld,
to treat with the
English
touching a Peace betwixt the two Nations, which they concluded
Rymer's Foedera.
. Upon the Rebellion of the Earl of
Douglass,
he was with the Earl of
Angus
sent to command against the Rebels, by whom they were intirely routed: In Consideration of which signal Service, he was rewarded with the Baronies of
Drumshargard
and
Carmonock,
with the heritable Sheriffship of
Lanark
shire, then in the Crown, by the Forfaulture of the said
James
Earl of
Douglass
Charta penes D. de Hamilton.
. This noble Lord founded, and amply endowed the Collegiate Church of
Hamilton
in the 1451, which was ratified and approven by the
Popes Bull,
which he went to
Rome
in Person to procure, being accompanyed with
James
Lord
Livingstoun
and
Gavin Hamilton
Provost of the Collegiate Church of
Bothwell,
having got a safe Conduct from
Henry
VI. to pass through
England
Rymer's Foedera.
. He was likewise a Benefactor to the University of
Glasgow,
then founded by Bishop
Turnbull,
by his Charter of Mortification, bearing Date the 14th of
January
1459
Charta Mortificationis Jacobi Domini Hamilton Academiae Glasguen. de quatuor acris terrae Montis Columbarum, ac etiam Tenementum in Magno vico ex parte orientali loci Fratrum praedicatorum. The Reddendo is, Quod omnes Magistri & Successores eorum singulis diebus fine prandii aut coenae cum universis studen. orabunt pro animabus Jacobi Domini Hamilton & Euphemiae sponsae suae, heredum & successorum suorum in perpetuum. The Charter moreover has this Clause, that he makes the Donation above-specified, Ob salutem animarum omnium a quibus bona aliqua habui directe aut indirecte, & hactenus restitutionem non feci.
, which he did not long survive, departing this mortal Life in the Year 1460
Wishaw's Notes on the Family of Hamilton.
, tho' I cannot meet with the Day and Month. His first Wife was
Janet
Daughter to Sir
Alexander Livingston
of
Calendar
Ibidem.
, by her he had
1.
James
his Successor Lord
Hamilton.
2.
Andrew
first of the
Hamiltons
of
Silver-Town-Hill, in Vic. de Lanark.
3.
Gavin,
Provost of the Collegiate Church of
Bothwell,
Ancestor of the Family of
Orbistoun,
of whom also
Haggs, Kilbrachmont, Dalztel, Monkland, Bothwel-haugh, Parkhead,
and
Bar
Nota
This Gavin Hamilton Provost of Bothwel, I'm told, was an aged Man before he entred into Orders, and long before had been married and had Children, of whom came Orbistoun and its Cadets.
.
4.
John Hamilton
of
Whisleberry
Dr. Baillies Notes on the Family of Hamiltoun.
,
in Vic. de Lanark.
His second Wife was
Euphame
Daughter of
Patrick Graham
Earl of
Strathern,
Countess Dowager of
Douglass,
by whom he had a Son and two Daughters,
Sir
John Hamilton
of
Shawfield, in Vic. de Lanark.
Mary,
married to
William
Earl
Marishal.
Elisabeth
to
David
Earl of
Crawfurd
afterward Duke of
Montrose.
NOTA,
Here it will, I apprehend, be neither improper nor ungrateful to my Reader, to offer some Considerations to obviate that Ass
rtion of George Buchanan, and other Historians who have copied and translated from him, who insinuate, th
t the Lady Mary the King's Sister, was forced by her Brother to marry James Lord Hamilton, when Thomas Boyd Earl of Arran her Husband was alive: And this is generally believed by every Body who reads George Buchanan's History, and enquire no more about it, but depend on our Affairs as wrote by him, who indeed, to do him Justice, was a very learned and polite Person, and has wrote the History of Scotland not much inferior in Style to the best Roman Authors. I shall here offer what I have observed in relation to this Affair. All Histories commend the Lady Mary's Affection to her Husband, and tell us, That she could not be prevailed with to forsake or desert him when he fell into Disgrace, but transported her self with him into foreign Parts to share with him in his Misfortunes, and sojourned with him in Denmark and Flanders for some time, till she understood from Scotland, that her Presence and Solicitation with her Brother might prevail with him to suffer my Lord Arran to return home to his Native Country, and accordingly she came to Scotland: But the King continuing inexorable, and the Lady detain'd from going abroad, the poor unfortunate Earl of Arran soon after died of Grief at Antwerp: She continuing a Widow till the 1474. is then, I find, married to James Lord Hamilton. Moreover, I'm told by Mr. Hamilton of Wishaw, that the Contract of Marriage is still preserved among the Archives of the Family, but I have not seen it; but there is a Charter in my hands dated the 12th of July 1474, to James Lord Hamilton and the Lady Mary Stewart the King's Sister, of the Lands of Kinneil, &c. Moreover, I think the Testimony of Mr John Ballenden Arch Dean of Murray, who was Co temporary with the Lady whom we find alive in the 1515, and for ought I know lived much longer, ought to be regarded. He at the Command of King James V. translated Hector Boethius History of Scotland into English, printed in the Year 1536, under this Title,
The History and Cronicles of
Scotland
compleated, and newly corrected and amended by the reverend and noble Clerk Mr.
Hector Boeis
Canon of
Aberdeen,
translated by Mr.
John Ballenden
Arch-Dean of
Murray
and Canon of
Ross. And there he says, Book 12 Cap 5.
The first Daughter of King
James II.
was married to the Lord
Boyd,
of whom was begotten a Son, whilk was slain by the Lord
Montgomery,
and a Daughter married to the Earl of
Cassils;
and after the Death of the Lord
Boyd,
this Daughter of King
James II.
was married on the Lord
Hamilton,
and that way the House of
Hamilton
is Decorit in the King
's
Blood.
I say, I think the Authority of this learned and ingenuous Author should determine any Man of Judgment more than a posterior Party-writer, such as every one knows George Buchanan was, with all Deference to his Character otherways: For every Body may perceive, who reads his Book, that he takes all Opportunities to blacken and misrepresent this nob
e Family, sometimes with very great Inconsistency with himself, as a judicious Historian; and if this be not sufficient to disprove this part of Buchanan's History, take also the Testimony of a very ingenious Foreign Historian Ralph Holinshed; who wrote a History of Scotland, wherein he says,
"That after the Death of the Lord Boyd, the Daughter of King James II. was married to the Lord Hamilton."
But how far will not an Author depart from Truth, who is the devoted Servant of any Party, as Buchanan was, who wrote the latter part of his History to serve a particular turn, well enough known?
James
Lord
Hamilton
was succeeded by
James
his Son, who was constituted one of the Lords of the Privy Council,
Anno
1440; in which Station he continued, till from some Mistake he entred into that memorable League with the Earls of
Douglass, Ross, Crawfurd, Murray,
and
Ormond,
wherein they solemnly swore never to desert one another during their Lives; that Injuries done to any one of them, should be considered as done to them all; that they should concurr against whatsoever Persons within or without the Realm, and spend their Lives, Goods and Fortunes in Defence of each other. But when Sir
James Hamilton
discerned their violent purposes against the King, he sever'd himself from them, and returned to his Duty, whereupon ensued the ruin of the Earl of
Douglass,
who persisted in his Rebellion. In the Reign of King
James
III. he was no less considered and valued than he had been by the former King; for in the 1471, when a Treaty of Peace was set on foot with the
English,
he was one of those noble Persons who met the Lord
Howard
and other Commissioners on the Part of the King of
England,
and treated of a League and Amity betwixt the two Nations. Thereafter on the 6th of
March
1472, he was with
William
Bishop of
Aberdeen, David
Earl of
Crawfurd, John
Lord
Darnly,
and
Archibald Whitelaw
Secretary of State, by a Commission under the Great Seal, appointed to treat with the Ambassadours of
England
upon a lasting Peace betwixt the two Realms. His excellent Qualities and heroick Virtues gain'd so much upon his Sovereign King
James
III. that he was pleased to bestow upon him his Sister the Lady
Mary
Countess of
Arran
in Marriage, the greatest Honour any Subject was capable of. With this most vertuous Lady he lived in all conjugal Affection, till the 6th of
November
1479, he departed this Life
Obituary of Glasgow in the Chartulary of that Metropolitan See, in the Hands of Alexander Baillie of Castle-Carrie, a Gentleman well known in the Antiquities of his Country, and who has been at great Pains to make considerable Collections very useful for illustrating the History of the Kingdom.
, leaving Issue
James
his Successor, and a Daughter
Elisabeth
married to
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox,
Grand-mother by him of
Henry
Lord
Darnly
Duke of
Albany
Father of King
James
VI. first Monarch of
Great Britain.
Which
James
being a Nobleman endowed with all the great Qualities suitable to his high Birth, began early to distinguish himself in the publick Service in the Reign of King
James
IV. for when he was very young his Majesty called him to his Privy Council, and in the 1503 sent him to
England
to conclude his Marriage with
Margaret
eldest Daughter to
Henry
VII. Soon after which the said King being sensible of his great Merit and eminent Services, was pleased to give him the Earldom, and create him Earl of
Arran
on the 10th of
August
1503, where the remarkable Expressions used by his Majesty, as the just Motives of bestowing the Honour, are sufficient to illustrate those of his Posterity, and are thus set furth in the preamble of his Patent.
Sciatis nos, propter propinquitatem sanguinis inter nos & dilectum consanguineum nostrum Jacobum Dominum Hamilton, & pro suo gratuito servitio nobis impenso & impendendo, ac pro suis magnis laboribus & expensis factis & sustentatis pro nostro & Regni nostri honore, tempore contractus Matrimonii nostri in facie Ecclesiae solemnizati apud nostrum Monasterium Sanctae Crucis prope Edinburg ac cum avisamento & consensu nostri Concilii, ac trium nostri Regni statuum; pro tempore praedicto mature avisatos & ex nostra expressa scientia ac proprio motu dedisse, conc
ssisse, & hac presenti charta nostra confirmasse eidem Jacobo Domino Hamilton totum & integrum Comitatum de Arran jacen. in Vicecomitatu
e Bute
&c.
Charter of Erection of the Earldom of Arran in favours of James Lord Hamilton, in the publick Register of Charters. This may likeways serve to correct the Mistake of those Historians, who say, That when James Lord Hamilton married the Sister of King James III, that he got with her the Earldom of Arran, which Marriage I have made evident, was in the 1474, and yet this Grant of the Earldom of Arran was not to him, nor his Son for Twenty Nine Years after the Marriage of his Father and Mother. From this we may remark how George Buchanan, and other Historians who copy from him, are to be relyed on, who take Materials and Vouchers of their Histories from other Authors who have wrote before them, and never looked into the National Records, where proper Materials for a Historian are to be found: For I cannot imagine that Mr. Buchanan ever gave himself the Trouble to turn over one Roll in the publick Archives of the Kingdom, otherwise he could not but have discovered the Error of Robert III's Illegitmacy, and many other Things relating both to the Royal Family, as well as to this Noble Family I now write of; for since the Time of King Robert the Bruce the Records are pretty full, so that if diligently perused, would have rectified many very gross Errors all our old Historians have fallen into, whom Buchanan, as to the History, has followed exactly; for he only turned their Books into that ornate Latine Style we now read his History of Scotland in. For I cannot imagine Buchanan saw the Records, otherwise he could not have been so Wicked, or so Perverse an Historian as to have concealed Matters of Fact so evident there, and of such importance to the Royal Family, except ye suppose, (as indeed many do) that he was well pleased to find that any before him had wrote of the illegitimacy of King Robert III, and thereby to make it a Precedent for the Succession of another Bastard to the Crown, who was his Patron, in Prejudice of the lawful Heirs; and James Duke of Chatlerault being then the presumptive Heir of the Crown failling of Queen Mary and her young Son King James VI. I believe Mr. Buchanan had a particular View to that in his malicious and false Aspersions against that most Noble and Worthy Lord and his Family, both in his History, and in another scurrilous Pasquil he wrote, entitul'd,
An Admonition to the true Lords,
and which is the most false, and most scandalous writing that ever flowed from the Pen of any Man of the least Worth, which shall be answered elsewhere, to the Conviction of any who will allow themselves to believe Truth, all clearly made out from original Writings, accidentally come into my Hands.
,
His Lordship being now higher in Dignity, the Year following had the Command of the Forces sent from
Scotland
to the Assistance of
Christian
II. of
Denmark;
which Service he happily perform'd with Conduct, Diligence, and Fidelity. Having gone thus successfully through this Affair, his royal Master again intrusted him with the Command of the Four Thousand Men sent into
France
to the Assistance of
Lewis
XII. where he acquired immortal Honour; and when that Service was over, he returned Home richly rewarded by that Prince, besides a Pension during Life. While he stay'd in
France
the Death of King
James
IV. happned in the unfortunate Battle of
Flowdon;
then he returned home to settle the disturbed State of his Native Country, which ordinarily falls out in all Minorities, and stood fair to have been elected Regent to the young King.
Many,
says my Author,
gave their Voices for him, as being nearest in Blood to the King, and a Man affecting Peace more than others, and every way sufficient for such a Charge;
but he generously and justly yielded his Pretensions to his Cousin-German
John
Duke of
Albany,
who was as near to the King in the Male, as his Lordship was in the Female Line. Upon the Duke's Promotion to the Supreme Government, his Lordship was named Captain of the Castle of
Edinburgh
Drummond's History.
, Provost of that City, and not long after Warden of the Marches toward
England.
Also in the 1517, this Earl was appointed one of the Six Guardians of the Realm, who were to Rule by Turns, when
John
Duke of
Albany
went to
France
to renew the ancient League which had been kept inviolable for many Centuries past betwixt the two Realms: There being nothing more to be found in History concerning this great Earl, we shall draw toward the Close of his Life, and observe his Marriages and Issue.
His first Wife was
Beatrix
Daughter of
John
Lord
Drummond
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, by whom he had only one Daughter
Margaret,
married to
Andrew Stewart
Lord
Evandale
and
Ochiltree
My Lord Strathallan's Historical Account of the Family of Perth, penes Jo. Drummond M.D.
, and after her Death,
Elisabeth
Sister to
Alexander
Lord
Hume,
Lord High Chamberlane of
Scotland;
but being divorced from her
This is fully made evident from the Process of Divorce at the instance of the said James Earl of Arran, as it was led and deduced before Mr. Patrick Coventree, and other Judges delegate for that Effect, in the 1513, and is still preserved in the Charter Chest of the Family, whereby it appears she had been formerly married to Sir Thomas Hay, who then was alive, and so could not be married to any other Man. This, by the by, is sufficient to correct the Mistake of the Author of a History of the Church of Scotland, called
Knox's History,
who makes James Duke of Chatlerault born in unlawful Wedlock, in regard Elisabeth Hume his Father's first Wife was alive; but that Author had not access to see or know of this Divorce, otherwise I have more Charity for him than to think he would have transmitted a Falshood to Posterity.
, he was again enabled to marry, so he next took to Wife
Janet
Daughter of Sir
David Beaton
of
Crich in Vic. de Fife
Comptroller in the Reign of King
James
IV. Widow of Sir
Robert Livingston
of
Easter-Weems,
by whom he had,
James
Earl of
Arran.
Helen
married to
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle.
Jane
to
Alexander
Earl of
Glencairn.
This Earl giving way to Fate in the 1530, was succeeded by
James
his Son, a Person of singular Prudence and Integrity, as will appear in the whole Conduct of his Life. In the 1536, when he was but a very young Man, he was one of the Lords who attended King
James
V. by his special Appointment in his Voyage to
France,
when he espoused
Magdalen
Daughter to
Francis
I.
Drummonds History of King James V.
, afterward in 1539, when the foresaid King had a Prince born to him by
Mary
of
Lorrain
his next Queen he had the Honour to stand God-father to him
Ibidem.
. His Lordship was very forward in offering the King his Service toward the suppressing the Incursions of the
English,
under the Command of Sir
Thomas Wharton,
and had the Command of that Body which was sent to Desend the East-Border, where he soon heard the mortifying News of the Loss of the Army at
Solway,
which was not long after attended with the Death of that Monarch, who yielded his last Breath on the 14 of
December
1542: Then my Lord
Arran
was, by the unanimous Consent of Parliament chosen Protector to the young Queen
Mary,
and Governour of
Scotland,
which was ratified by an Act of the three Estates, in which,
The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commissioners of Burghs, declare
James
Earl of
Arran
Lord
Hamilton,
second Person of the Realm, and nearest to succeed to the Crown of the same, failling of our Sovereign Lady, and the Bairns lawfully to be begotten of her and none others; and by Reason thereof Tutor lawful to the Queen's Grace and Governour of the Realm, and he to use the said Office in all things until the perfect Age of our said Sovereign Lady, and all the Leiges of this Realm, to Answer and Obey the said Earl as Tutor lawful to her Grace, and Governour foresaid, in all things concerning the said Office, conform to the Act made hereupon
The Original of this Act is in the Custody of the Family of Hamilton, bearing date 13th of March 1543, to which all the Seals of the Noblemen, Prelates and Burroughs are appended, which I have seen, and from which I took this Note.
.
As soon as the Earl was in Possession of the Government, he sent the Earl of
Glencairn,
Sir
George Douglass, William Hamilton
of
Sanquhar, James Learmont
of
Balcomy,
and Mr.
Henry Balnaves
of
Hall-hill,
Secretary of State unto
England,
in order to treat both about a Peace, which was become necessary, by reason of the King's Death, and other concurring Circumstances, and a Match betwixt the Infant Queen and
Edward
Prince of
England.
Accordingly a Peace, or at least an Abstinence, as it was then termed, and a Marriage betwixt the Queen and Prince
Edward
were agreed to, and ratified by a great Majority in the Parliament, which met at
Edinburgh
in
August
1543.
I need not mention in this place, how this advantagious Union was spoiled by the then Clergy and the
French
Faction, it being so fully treated on by Bishop
Lesly
and Mr.
Buchanan,
only I shall add what neither of them have taken much notice of, That the Earls of
Huntly, Argyle, Montrose, Bothwel, Monteith,
Lord
Fleeming,
and a great many more of all Ranks, entred into a most solemn Bond; and notwithstanding of the Act of Parliament, bound and obliged themselves to oppose the intended Match with
England,
and consequential Union, with all their Power, tho' with the hazard of their Fortunes and Lives, at the same time they endeavoured all they could to bring the Governour into a Complyance with the breach of the Treaty, and the more effectually to win him over to them, they proposed to secure the Crown to his Posterity, by bestowing the Infant Queen upon the Lord
Hamilton,
his eldest Son. But so invincibly was he attached to what he thought the Interest of his Country and his own Reputation and Honour in the Observation of a Treaty he himself had caused to be ratified in Parliament, that he kept it inviolated on his part, till King
Henry
VIII. not only refused to ratify it on the other Part, but also caused his Officers to seise upon a great many
Scots
Ships that had sailed to
England
loaden with
French
and
Scots
Commodities, upon the Faith of the Treaty of Peace before concluded. This undenyable Breach of the Articles condescended on, the Governour resented to that degree, that he called a Parliament in
December
1543, and in it declared the Treaty to be void and null, in regard the
English
had broke it first. Then he applyed himself with the utmost Diligence to carry on a War, and immediately raised what Forces he could, to oppose the
English
Army that had invaded
Scotland,
under the Command of the Lord
Evers,
whom he encountred at
Ancrum
in
Teviotdale;
and tho' they were 7000 to not above 800, put them to the rout with considerable Loss on their Side, and scarce a Man on his Lordship's. Not long after this, he was join'd by Monsieur
de Lerges
Count of
Montgomery,
with 3500
French
Auxiliaries, and marched toward
England
in search of the Earl of
Hartford,
who to retrieve the former Loss, had entred
Scotland,
and had already laid waste a great part of the
Merse
and
Teviotdale,
but retir'd upon the approach of the
Scots
Army. The Governour in his Turn invaded
England,
beat the Enemy where ever he found them, ravag'd the Country, and return'd with the Glory of having defeated one Army, and given the Chase to another in one Campaign. Neither am I to forget, that at this time King
Francis
I. sent him the Ensigns of the most noble Order of St.
Michael.
To proceed, in the 1547, when the Duke of
Somerset
was made Protector of
England,
and Tutor to
Edward
VI. upon the demise of
Henry
VIII. in Prosecution of the War, he invaded
Scotland
upon the head of a mighty Army, seconded by a Fleet by Sea. His Grace hastning to raise all the Force he could to oppose him, so advancing toward
Pinkie-cleugh,
where the Enemy were incamped, the
English
obtained the Victory on the 10th of
September
1547, and left Eight Thousand
Scots
killed on the Field. After which they ravaged the Country five Miles round, sacked
Leith,
and made an Attempt upon
Edinburgh,
but by the Activity of the Governour they were repulsed with Loss. After which his Lordship repaired to
Stirling,
where he had appointed the Nobility to meet him. In this Assembly he appeared not at all dejected or dispirited, but addressed himself in this Speech, that Monsieur
de Larrey
has thought fit to insert in his
French
History of
England,
translated by an ingenious Author, from whom I have presumed to borrow it.
"I Doubt not but that many of you, My Lords, and more of the Vulgar, (whose forward preposterous Understandings seldom judge of Things but by the various Events they are liable to) may be apt to disapprove a War that has been attended with Consequences so fatal to most of us. I own that I advis'd you to Undertake it; and as then, so I am still of Opinion, that 'tis one of these Evils the Glory and Liberty of the Nation do not allow us to avoid: I know not but you may have other Sentiments at this time, and have therefore call'd you together, to congratulate your Magnanimity, if you remain unshaken, as I am, in your Resolution to repulse the Encroachments made upon us; and, if you are otherwise dispos'd, as I hope you are not, to upbraid your Fear, the Inglorious Enemy of Reason and Courage. When I took the Command of our Armies upon me, you unanimously preferr'd an Honourable War, to a Peace you thought equally Unsafe and Disgraceful; and shall we be so Mean as to yield to the first Signal Injustice of Fortune? No: I am perswaded, that, as Grating as our Misfortune at
Pinky
must needs be to you all, you'll nevertheless choose to pursue a Noble Revenge, rather than sit down with the Affront, or submit to the threatn'd Slavery. Come on't what will, I am fix'd in my first Opinion; and I had rather preserve the Monarchy at any rate, I mean, tho' at the Expence of such of the Subjects Fortunes and Blood as have been, or may yet chance to be wasted, than to spare the Estates and Lives of private Men, tho' ever so Great or Deserving, with the Loss of our Common Country. Let us labour by all Means to save the Ship, that saves all; and to effect this, let us not grudge to cut down the Mast, nor to see our own Shares of the Loading thrown over Board: If the Foundation of an Edifice stands firm, 'tis no great Matter what comes of the Ceiling or Furniture. Our private Losses are so many Sacrifices that are due to the Publick, they weaken the State, I own it, but the Ruin of the State it self must needs involve us all in Universal Irretrivable Miseries. Consider, My Lords, with what an Enemy we have to do, and on what Terms we may purchase a Peace. Our Enemy, is he not the same old Inveterate One, whose Avarice has, by Unjust Wars, so often attempted to Devour our Existence? And is not this present War alone sufficient to make us tremble at the very Thought of, falling under the Power of Tyrants so unconscionably Implacable? We cannot descend to the Terms they propose, without stooping under the Imperious Yoke of a People that thirst for our Blood, and whose Insolence is whetted with Fury. Cast your Eyes, on the other Hand, on your Ancient Unalterable Allies the
French;
they never yet fail'd us in our greatest Exigencies, and will not in the present Juncture of our Affairs: Neither do we want Friends in
Italy:
Nay, there are few Potentates in
Europe,
that will unconcernedly look on and behold our Destruction. Resolve, in fine, Whether we had best Defend our Liberties, or give them up; Whether 'tis most expedient to die, if it must be so, Free and Independent, or to live Eternal Slaves to our greatest Foes. 'Tis true, they offer us fair Things; our Laws and Rights are, by the Treaty, to remain untouch'd: But pray, who is Guarrantee for this? And if the
English
shall, in an After-game, either Break or Encroach upon the Articles agreed to, Who will Redress our Grievances? To what Tribunal shall we appeal? 'Tis a Jest to offer to set up either for Liberty or Property, when in effect we shall have given them away. We must begin, by surrendering our Mistress to a Husband, that is, to a Master; which done, I don't see why he may not, as such, subject her Crown to his own, or rather Unite and Confound them in one: And thus
Scotland
must inevitably become a County or Province of
England.
'Tis impossible to reflect on the Ambitious Project without Horror and Detestation: And how can we choose, but to have the meanest Sentiments of, and greatest Contempt imaginable for such of our Countrymen as shall shew themselves Villains enough to comply. The uncertain Events and Length of the War, may perhaps intimidate some of us: But is't the first time that
Scotland
has seen herself expos'd to Dangers of this kind? When reduc'd to the like Extremities, did ever our Ancestors hesitate to prefer their Honour to Life? And are we so far Degenerated as to render our selves, their Off-spring, unworthy of the inesteemable Treasure they purchas'd with so much Valour, and transmitted to us with so much Glory? Had the malign Influence of our Birth involv'd us in Slavery, how far we had been oblig'd to endeavour the Recovery of that Freedom we had never enjoy'd, I shall not determine; but since we were born Free, 'tis plain, that our Posterity can never pardon our Cowardice, if we become willing to resign the Independency our own Birth and Forefathers Courage have entitl'd us to. I
but a part of our Estates and Honours were invaded, we might plead some Pretence or Excuse for dispensing with it: But the Body of the Nation is attack'd; our Country, nothing less than our Country, is at Stake; its Ancient Laws and Fundamental Constitution are on the Point of being subverted. I cannot disown, but that 'tis hard to tell what Success it shall please the Almighty to give to our Arms; 'tis certain however, that as we must bear with Patience those Maladies the Infirmity of Nature has made us liable to, so we are oblig'd to suffer with Constancy such further Losses as the Enemy's good Fortune may procure us. 'Tis not only in these our Days that the
Scots
Nation, equal to the
Romans
in this Point, have stood firm in the midst of Dangers, or that they have conquer'd their hard Fate by the Steddiness of their Courage: Let us for no reason affront the Memory of those Heroes that gave us a Being, and far from following the Example of those in the
March
and
Teviotdale,
let us rather detest the Infamy of their Defection. The more Vigor we shall express by our Unanimity in this Meeting, so much the more may we expect the Assistance of our Friends beyond Seas: Nay, Fortune her self seems to take Pleasure in raising that Virtue she has in vain attempted to depress. One thing at least we are sure of, the Boldness of our Resolutions cannot fail of conveying the Praises we shall deserve, down to the old Age of Time; whereas our Cowardice, if express'd on this Occasion, would render us Infamous and Unhappy at once."
This Speech so lively, and so admirably well adapted to the Humour of the Nation at that time, had its desired Effect: The Nobility applauded his Design, they talked of nothing but of Means to prosecute the War; and whatever the Event might be, they resolved to hazard all, rather than submit to the
English.
So it was agreed to have recourse to the King of
France,
who they thought alone able to retrieve their Losses, and to transact with him about marrying the Queen when fit for a Husband, to
Francis
the first his Son the
Daulphine.
Then the said King was pleased to create his Lordship Duke of
Chattlerault
in that Kingdom, and to assign him for the better support of the Honour a Revenue of 30000 Livres a Year to him his Heirs and Assigneys for ever. After which his Grace continued Governour of
Scotland
for six Years, till the 1555, he resigned that great Post in full Parliament to the Queens Mother. He was again declared to be the presumptive Heir of the Crown, failing Queen
Mary
and the Issue of her Body, and this at a Time when he had devested himself of all Authority, delivered up the
Regalia,
and consequently was not in a Condition to influence the Members, nor byass the Judgment of the Nation; after which his Grace liv'd much at Home in a State suitable to his Quality, imploying himself in the Service of his Country upon all Occasions with untainted Honour.
When Queen
Mary
returned Home from
France, Anno
1561, her Majesty was pleased prudently to make choice of a new Privy Council, all or most of whom were Protestants, the better to conform her self to the present posture of Affairs; and confiding much in the Duke of
Chattlerault,
he was chose one of that Number, wherein he worthily served her Majesty in settling the Kingdom, then in no small Ferment, always showing a great steddyness to the Interest of his Country and the Protestant Rel
gion. The Queen having found the benefit of his faithful Services at Home, was pleased in 1566
Letter under the Privy Seal.
to send him over to
France
to take care of her Interest there, where he did all the Service he could that was consistent with his Honour and the Protestant Cause. Here he continued till the Queen was forc'd to make the Resignation of the Government in favours of her Son the Prince: Then the Duke of
Chattlerault
was called home to be the Head of the Loyalists
History of Scotland ad annum 1569.
. So soon as he came to
Scotland,
his Grace used his utmost endeavours to have had the Earl of
Murray
then Regent, degraded from his usurped Authority, the Queen reponed to the Exercise of her royal Power, and the Peace of the Country restored; and for that end by vertue of a Commission from her Majesty, he gathered together what Forces he could raise in so short a time; but seeing no manner of hopes of Assistance from
England,
and knowing that a Civil War was just breaking out in
France,
he resolved to make no other use of his Arms than to obtain to himself and his Friends honourable Conditions of Peace, and the benefit of living quietly at Home, till indulgent Providence should afford him an Opportunity of serving his Queen and his Country, for which End the Bishop of St.
Andrews
his Brother, was sent to the Regent to procure a safe Meeting, in order to bring their Differences to an Accomodation; and the Time and Place being agreed to, after many Disputes on both Sides, the following Articles were drawn up, and mutually signed, which I shall set down in the primitive Style.
"IT is desired for the part of my Lord Regent, that my Lord Duke and his Adherents, shall recognosce the King and his Authority, and acknowledge themselves to be his Subjects, and promise unto him Service, Obedience and Fidelity, in all time coming, as their Sovereign."
"IT is required on the part of the Duke's Grace and his Adherents, that every Nobleman be admitted to have his Place in Council, as their Predecessors have been in all time of other Princes of this Realm? And my Lord Regent bearing the King's Authority, shall be sworn solemnly, from that time forward, to behave himself uprightly and indifferently to them, as the remanent Noblemen of this Realm, in all their honest and just Causes, without Particularity, or remembrance of any Offence, conceived amongst them during the time of their Contraversies."
"
Item,
That all these who shall be content in time coming to behave themselves as faithful Subjects to the King, and acknowledge their Obedience to him, shall be restored to their Lands, Bounds, Heritages, and Possessions, notwithstanding the Doom of forefaulture led against them. Providing always that this Benefit shall not extend to them, that has been forfaulted for Art and Pa
rt of the Slaughter of umquhile the King's Father."
"
Item,
That my Lord Regent, and remanent Noblemen joyned with himself, shall condescend to sick Heads and Articles, as may redound
o the Queen's Honour, Advancement and Commodit
, and may best serve her Turn, providing that the same be not prejudicial to the King nor his Sovereignty, whereupon depends the Security of all Noblemen and others, professing themselves to be his Subjects."
"And because my Lord Regent, and others on his part, are as well content to yield to thir reasonable Desir
s foresaid; as to crave the Performance of his Desire towards the King's Obedience at their hands, and w
lleth that all come toge
her at a time, because now publick Leisure cannot serve to compleat these things that are necessary to be done to the Queen, it is thought convenient, that on tenth day of
April
next to come, shall be assembled and conveened together at
Edinburgh,
in quiet and peaceable manner, thir Persons following, They are to say, my Lord
Regent,
my Lord
Duke,
the Earls of
Huntly, Argyle, Athol, Mortone, Marr, Glencairn,
and my Lord
Herries.
"
"And in case of Absence of any of thir Nine Persons, be Sickness or other lawful Impediment, ane other Nobleman of that Party shall be chosen to supply his Place. And there in Friendly manner to Treat, Conclude and Agree, upon sick Heads as shall be performed to the Queen, and what the saids Persons shall find redound to her Honour, (without prejudice to the King) the hail Noblemen on both sides, shall condescend thereto. And for the Security of the coming of the Nobility foresaid, my Lord
Regent
promises on his Honour, that they shall be Skaithless, and without Danger, in their Coming, Remaining, and Returning."
"
Item
It is agreed that my Lord Duke
Chattlerault,
nor his Adherents, shall not Challenge, Use nor Execute, no Authority of Lieutenandry be any Commission of the Queen, or that any Impediment be made be them, against the King's Authority in the mean time, and ordains Forces of fensible Men on all sides to be dissolved, that no Injury be done to any Subject be way of Deed."
"The Regent promises to perform upon his Honour, so far as concerns his Part; and therefore Wills the Duke's Grace, the Earl of
Cassilis,
and my Lord
Herries
to enter sufficient Pledges presently, for performance of their Parts; to wit, for the Duke, one of my Lord Duke's Sons, for the Earl of
Cassilis,
the said Earl's Brother, and for my Lord
Herries,
the said Lord's eldest Son."
According to Articles, most of the Persons concerned met at
Edinburgh
on the 10th of
April
1569, to treat at large of a thorow Agreement, and especially of such Points as related to the banished Queen. Being all in one Room, the Regent first rose, and drawing out a Paper, asked the Duke, if he would instantly subscribe an Acknowledgment of the young King's Authority, or not, to which he modestly replyed,
That he and his Friends had laid down their Arms conditionally, nor could he think himself, or them, obliged to subscribe their Allegiance to the King, unless according to
these Conditions, the Regent at the same time should grant what might be reasonably demanded, in behalf of the distressed Queen, and therefore hoped he would not proceed to Acts of Force and Fraud too, since not only he and his Friends, but their Hostages likewise were in his Hands, desiring him to remember that they had religiously observed every Article of the late Treaty, and had come secure and unarmed as to a Friend, faithfully relying on his Honour, and those assurances of Safety he had given them in the most solemn manner under his own Hand.
To this easie Remonstrance of the Duk's,
Murray
made no manner of return (says my Author)
Drumsoy's Memoirs.
but against all the Laws of Honour sent him to the Castle of
Edinburgh
Melvil's Memoirs.
, where he was kept close Prisoner till the Regent was murdered by
James Hamilton
of
Bothwell-haugh
on the 23 of
January
1570, then he had his Liberation, after having purged himself by Oath from all manner of Suspicion in that Affair.
What a loyal and honest Part my Lord Duke of
Chattlerault
acted for the Interest of his Sovereign Queen
Mary
in the time of her greatest Distress, is so well known & was so frequently own'd & acknowledg'd, by her Majesty, that I don't think it necessary to be further insisted on here
Queen Mary always called the Duke of Chattlerault
Father.
, and that his Loyalty was not easie to him, is evident from the manifold Sufferings and Hardships he underwent during the continuance of the Civil War; for as soon as the Earl of
Lennox
was elected Regent, he burnt down the Castle & Town of
Hamiltoun;
and that these honest Patriots might be heartily humbled, not so much as the Corn-Fields and Trees belonging to a
Hamiltoun
were spared, the Duke himself with his two Sons, and most of the Gentlemen of the Name of
Hamilton
were all forfaulted for their Rebellion against the young King; notwithstanding he resolutely persisted in the Queen's Service, and had a large share in the Misfortunes of that unfortunate Queen, but being aged, for the better Security of his Person from the violence of his Enemies, he retired into
France,
where he stayed some time during the Rage of the War, which had reduced his Country to the last extremity; and returning home he gave way to Fate on the 22 of
January
1575. As for his Character, notwithstanding the Envy of some, and the Malice of others, it shone very bright, in that great and difficult Trust of Governour of
Scotland,
which he held in the most difficult Times, so he discharged it for twelve Years with no less Prudence and Dexterity than Honour and Reputation, a Praise which few of his Enemies ever denyed him in any time. For in his Court, says a reverend Historian
Arch-Bishop Spottiswood's History of the Church of Scotland.
,
There was nothing to be seen the severest Eye could censure in the publick Administration, such a Moderation was kept as no Man was heard to complain.
And continues my Author,
He was a Nobleman well inclined, plain, and without all Dissimulation and Fraud, that by the goodness of God, who always favoureth the Upright, he was carryed thro many Difficulties, and died in Peace and Honour, well advanced in Age.
This noble Duke married
Margaret
eldest Daughter of
James Douglas
Earl of
Morton,
by whom he had Issue,
James
Earl of
Arran
his eldest Son, a Gentleman of the highest Expectations, who gave early Proofs of inheriting all the Vertues of his Ancestors to an eminent Degree, but he became Defective in his Understanding, and thereupon retired from the World, dying without Succession,
Anno
1609.
Lord
John,
thereafter Marquess of
Hamilton.
Lord
Claud
Progenitor to the Earl of
Abercorn.
Lord
David
who dyed a young Man.
Lady
Margaret
married to
Alexander
Lord
Gordon,
Son and Heir of
George
Earl of
Huntly, sans
Issue, and after his Death to
James
Lord
Fleming,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Wigton.
Lady
Anne
to
George
Earl of
Huntly,
Lord High Chancellour of
Scotland,
Progenitor to the present Duke of
Gordon.
Lady
Jean
married to
Hugh
3
d
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
but had no Succession.
His Successor in the Honour was
James
Earl of
Arran
his eldest Son, but he being
non compos mentis, John
his next Brother represented the Family. This noble Lord was born in the 1532, and had by the bounty of King
James
V. the Commendatory of
Arbroath
Abbey, one of the richest Benefices in
Scotland,
bestowed on him,
Anno
1541
Charta in Bibliotheca Juridica MS. a Gulielmo Wilson Clerico Sessionis deputato, Facultati Juridicae donata, codemque in Regni hujus Antiquitatibus haud parum versato.
, by which Title he was designed for some time after. We hear not much of his Conduct till the breaking out of the Civil War in Queen
Mary
's Time
Anno
1567, that he most faithfully adher'd to her Majesty's Interest, and upon her Imprisonment in the Castle of
Lochlevin,
his Lordship with several others entered into an Association, wherein they promise
"To use their utmost Endeavours by all reasonable Means to procure her Majesty's Freedom and Liberty, upon such honest Conditions as may stand with her Majesty's Honour, the Commonweal of the whole Realm, and Security of the whole Nobility, who at present have her Majesty in keeping. Whereby this our Native Rea
m, may be govern'd, rul'd, and guided by her Majesty and her Nobility, for the common Quietness, the Administration o
Justice, and Weal o
the Country. And in case the Noblemen, who have at present her Majesty in their Hands, refuse to set her at Liberty upon such reasonable Conditions, as said is, in that Case, We shall employ our Selves, our Kindred, Friends, Servants and Partakers, our Bodies and Lives to set her Highness at Liberty, as said is; and also to concur to the Punishment of the Murther of the King her Majesty's Husband; and for sure Preservation of the Person of the Prince, as We shall Answer to God, and on our own Honours and Credit; and to that effect shall concur every one with other at our utmost Power. And if any shall set upon Us, or any of Us, for the doing, as aforesaid, in that Case, We promise faithfully to espouse one another's Interest under pain of Perjury and Infamy, as We shall answer to God."
My Lord
Hamilton
's most Loyal and firm Adherence to the Crown was very dear to him, for the contrary Faction who were Masters of the young King, prosecuted him and his Family with the utmost Severity, for no other Reason but because they owned Queen
Mary's
Authority, and therefore in one of their Parliaments held in
October
1579, both he and his Brother Lord
Claud
were forfaulted. My Lord
John
to avoid the Storm that threatned him, fled on Foot in a Sea-mans Habit into
England,
and from thence made his Escape into
France,
where he was kindly entertained by
James Beaton
Bishop of
Glasgow,
then Ambassador at the
French
Court for Queen
Mary,
here he had great Offers made him by the House of
Guise,
if he would change his Religion, and imbrace Popery, but such was the goodness of God toward him, that he persever'd in his Religion, which tho' it lost him the Favour of the
French
Court, it preserv'd him the Peace of his Conscience, which he ever afterward reckoned one of the most signal Favours of Heaven toward him. Notwithstanding the hard Usage his Lordship met with, he continued true and faithful to the Queen to the last, of which her Majesty was so sensible, that when that severe and unparalleled Sentence of Death was passed on her in
England,
she took a Ring off her Finger and gave it to one of her Servants, and order'd him to carry it to her Cousin Lord
John Hamilton, and tell him that, that was all she had to Witness her great Sense of his Families constant Fidelity to her, and their Sufferings for her Interest, and desired it might be still kept in the Family as a lasting Evidence of her Kindness to it
This Ring is still preserved with a due regard in the Family to this Day, and I have seen it in my Lady Dutchess of Hamilton's Custody.
.
This noble Lord in the Course of his Exile sojourned in diverse foreign Parts till some time after King
James
IV. came to manage by his own Councils, that he returned to
Scotland,
and on the first of
November
1585, together with several other Lords and Barons, petitioned the King to redress certain Grievances of the Nation
Sir James Melvil's Memoirs.
, representing to him in a humble manner,
That the hard handling by partial Persons about his Majesty, had compelled them upon plain Necessity, and for their last Refuge to take the boldness to come into his Presence in Arms for the Surety of their Lives and Lands;
Adding,
That they were ever humbly minded to serve his Majesty, and obey him hereafter, as became dutiful and loyal Subjects.
To which the King replyed,
That tho' their Enterprise was Treasonable yet in Respect of their Necessity, and in hope of their good Behaviour in time coming, he would remit the Crime:
And further directing himself to my Lord
Hamilton,
He said,
My Lord, I did never see you before, and must confess, that of all this Company you have been the most wronged, you were a faithful Servant to the Queen my Mother in my Minority, and when I understood not, as I do now, the State of Things, hardly used.
Hereupon a Parliament was called, wherein the Act of Forfaulture of the
Hamilton
's was repealed, and the Family again restored to all the Titles of Honour, Estate and Precedency, lost either by the Attainder of himself, or of
James
Earl of
Arran
his Brother; and the same Year his Lordship was sworn of the Privy Council, and constituted Captain of his Majesty's Castle of
Dumbartoun.
The King placing great Confidence in the Fidelity of this Lord, was pleased in the 1588
Writes of the Privy Seal in the publick Records.
to give him a Commission under his Privy Seal to be Ambassador Extraordinary to accomplish the Marriage betwixt his Majesty and the Princess
Anne
of
Denmark,
and this with full Consent of his Privy Council; but his Lordship declining that Honour by reason of his Age, and the King himself going in Person to
Denmark,
his Majesty named my Lord
Hamilton
Lieutenant of the South of
Scotland,
which great Trust he discharged fully to his Majesty's Satisfaction, and the Expectations he had conceived of him. The Royal Favour toward his Lordship did not stop here, but the King in Memory of his long and faithful Services, was pleased to raise him, to the Degree and Dignity of Marquess of
Hamilton
with great Ceremony on the 19 of
April
1599
Sir George Mackenzies Herauldry.
, continuing ever afterward without any the least Interruption in great Esteem with that Prince who gave him frequent Visits at his Palace of
Hamilton,
and treated him with the same Respect, the Queen his Mother had done the Duke of
Chattlerault,
and called him always
Father.
To conclude, this noble Person died in the highest Favour with Prince and People, the 12th of
April
1604
Chart
in Cancellaria S D. N R.
, and was interr'd among his Ancestors in the Collegiate Church of
Hamilton,
leaving a Son and a Daughter behind him by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Lord
Glamis,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Strath more, James
his Successor, and
Margaret
married to
John
Lord
Max well
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Nithsdale.
John
Marquess of
Hamilton
was succeeded by
James
his Son, who was born in the 1589. After his Accession to the Honour, he was appointed one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, and afterward preferred to be one of the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber; and that he might the better support his Character, his Majesty was pleased to dissolve from the Crown the Abbey Lands, with the Patronages and Tithes of the Monastery of
Arbroath
in
Forfar-shire,
and to e
ect them into a temporal Lord ship in favour of my Lord Marquess, and that especially in Consideration of his Fathers Faithfulness and Sufferings for Queen
Mary,
by his royal Charter bearing Date the 5th of
May
1608
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad annum 1608.
.
Besides this vast Augmentation of his Fortune in Lands, he likewise bore several great Offices in that Princes Reign, as Lord High Steward of his Majesty's Houshold, and Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament which began on the 25 of
July
1621
Mr. Calderwood's History of the Church of Scotland.
, wherein the five Articles of
Perth
Assembly were ratified, and after having surmounted all the Difficulties that occurred in that Ticklish Juncture, he put a period to that Session on the 27th Day of
August
ensuing. His Lordship highly meriting for his Services to the Crown, his Majesty was pleased in Recompence thereof, on the 16 of
June
1619 to creat him a Peer of
England
by the Honour of Earl of
Cambridge
(a Title that had only been born by very illustrious Persons, all of the Royal Family of
England:
) And as a further Instance of his Royal Favour, to admit his Lordship into the most noble Order of the
Garter,
and accordingly he was installed at
Windsor
7th of
July
1623; from henceforth living in the highest Favour with his Prince, whose Affection and Esteem he had a greater Power over than any Man of that time, says one, the Duke of
Buckinghame
only excepted: He departed this Life at
London
in the prime of his Age 3
d
of
March
1625, aged 36 Years, to the great Grief of the King, who prophetically apprehended, that as the Branches were now cut down, the Root would quickly follow, for the Duke of
Lennox
died the 16 of
February
preceeding, and his Majesty's Death happened on the 27th of
March
ensuing.
He married
Anne
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Glencairn,
by whom he had Issue three Sons and three Daughters
James
Duke of
Hamilton.
William
Duke of
Hamiltoun.
Lord
John Hamilton
died young.
Lady
Anne
married to
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
and had Issue,
Lady
Margaret
to
John
Earl of
Crawfurd
and had Issue,
Lady
Mary
to
James
Earl of
Queensberry,
but had no Issue.
James
Marquess of
Hamilton
his Son was born on the 19th of
June
1606, he had his Education in
Scotland
till the 14th Year of his Age. He was sent for to Court, and married to the Lady
Mary Feilding
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Denbigh,
by
Susanna
Sister to
George
Duke of
Buckinghame.
After which he went to the University of
Oxford,
where he continued during the Time it was judged necessary his Lordship should follow his Studies there.
The next Qualification for a young Nobleman, was to accomplish himself with travelling into Foreign Countries, which he did into
France, Spain,
and several other Parts beyond Sea, Dr.
James Baillie
of
Carnbrew
accompanying him as his Governour, who faithfully discharged the Trust reposed in him.
Upon King
Charles
's coming to the Crown he was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council in both Kingdoms; and that he might have a nearer Relation to the Court, was constituted Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, and on the 18th of
June
1628, preferred to be Master of the Horse, then void by the Death of the Duke of
Buckingham
Dr Burnet's Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton.
. Neither are we to forget that his Majesty was pleased to honour his Lordship with the Dignity of the most noble Order of the
Garter, Anno
1630, at the Baptism of K.
Charles
II. where my Lord Marquess had the Honour to Represent the King of
Bohemia
as one of the Godfathers at the Font.
In the 1629, his Majesty taking into his Consideration the State of the King of
Bohemia
his Brother-in-Law, was pleased from the entire Confidence he had in the Marquess to allow him to Treat with
Gustavus Adolphus
King of
Sweden
for raising an Army of Six Thousand Men to join that Monarch in his Expedition into
Germany,
to be imployed against the
Imperialists,
for the Recovery of the
Palatinate
Dr. Burnet makes out this fully.
. And 'tis more remarkable, that this Lord should be intrusted with so great a Command, because he was but then Twenty three Years of Age, but that Enterprise ending without so much Advantage as was expected from such an Army to the Protestant Cause, neither his Absence, nor want of thorough Success in his Negotiation, diminished in the least his Masters Esteem of him, for upon his return to Court, he was received with all the Respect that could be given a Subject.
Upon the first Insurrection in
Scotland, Anno
1638, occasioned by the pressing of the
Liturgy,
he was sent down as his Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church, with Instructions to compose and appease the Disorders of the Nation, then in a great Ferment, but in that Judicature my Lord Marquess not being able to carry what the King designed, he according to Order dissolved the Meeting, and Inhibited them to sit any longer under pain of Rebellion, which was all his Lordship could do. Next Year he was intrusted with the Command of the Fleet sent down to reduce the Covenanters to their Duty to the King, his Majesty himself being on the Head of Six Thousand Land-Forces, advanced as far as
Berwick,
but by the Marquess's Mediation and good Offices with the King, a Treaty was set on Foot, and a Pacification ensued.
On the breaking out of the Civil War in
England, Anno
1642, he was one of the Peers who sign'd a solemn Declaration,
That his Majesty abhor'd all Designs of making War upon his Parliament, and that all his Endeavours tended to the firm and constant Settlement of the true Protestant Religion, the Privileges of Parliament, and the Laws, the Peace and Prosperity of the Subject
The Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
; and at the same time he offered to the King to go into
Scotland,
undertaking, that he would at least keep that People from doing any Thing that might seem to countenance the Carriage of the
English
Parliament, but to be only Spectators of what was done in
England
without engaging themselves in the Quarrel, and would endeavour, if possible, to oppose the Calling of a Parliament in
Scotland,
which the King had absolutely refused to do, till the time came agreed on at his Majesty's last being there
The Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion & Civil War.
, but as soon as he came down to
Scotland,
he quickly discerning the strength of the Covenanters, gave way to it that there should be a Meeting of the Estates, reasonably enough concluding that the absolutely refusing to suffer a Parliament to be called, would not quiet the Debates, nor secure the King, but more inflame those who desir'd it, and who would take some other time, when many of them who opposed it should be absent to propose it, and so would carry it; and that therefore they were better be absent at first, whereby the other Party might without Opposition send out their Summons fo
a Parliament to assemble at the Day they should think fit; and that as they who would serve the King, would not be there, so they should prevail with as many others as they could, not to be there like wise, where by the Number which appeared would be so inconsiderable, that they would not dare to sit and perfectly disperse, and this Disappointment would for ever quash that Design, and render those who advised it odious to the People, as Men who desir'd illegally to engage the Nation in unjustifiable Ways to disturb the publick Peace; but his Lordship changing his former Opinion concerning their being absent at the time of the Meeting or Parliament, since their meer absence would not be discountenance enough, and that they who sat, as indeed many would have done, would carry the Reputation of a Parliament, and the People would be guided by them, and therefore he proposed to the King's Friends, that they would all resolve to be present and take their Places, that when the House should be set, and any Man should stand up to propose the taking any Business into Consideration, he would first make his Protestation against proceeding in so unlawful a Convention, and that they should all make the same Protestation, and he did hope that the Number of the Protesters would be great enough to dissolve the Meeting, and thus they should put the best End to the Matter that could be desir'd; but if it should succeed otherways, then would be the time to withdraw, and put themselves in Arms, towards which he would make the best Preparation he could, and desired them to do the like, and this last Overture the King himself liked best & approv'd of, that they should meet in the Convention, which they did accordingly at the Day appointed. Then his Lordship, according to his Promise and Concert, took an Opportunity to make a Protestation against the Legality of the Meeting, upon which many of the Members who had been always most engaged against the King were very warm, and demanded that he should declare himself clearly, whether he did protest against the Parliament; but his Lordship fearing, as he declared, the fatal Issue of adhereing to his Protestation to the King's Service, he excused himself after the best manner he could, tho' no Man had a greater dislike of the high Proceedings of that Meeting, in exceeding the Limits of their Duty to the King, or had a greater Affection for his Majesty's Service than my Lord Marquess had, for he oppos'd all their Determinations with all the vigor he thought seasonable, concurring only so far with them as was necessary to keep up his Credit, whereby he might with the more Authority advance the King's Cause and a Peace, which he and all good Men so passionately desired. His Majesty, that he might testify the Esteem he had of my Lord Marquess's Services, and of his Fidelity to his Interest, was graciously pleased to promote him to be Duke of
Hamilton
on the 12th of
April
1643
Diploma Jacobi Ducis de Hamilton in Rotulis Car: I.
. How this Convention in
Scotland
was consen'd and over-reached by Sir
Henry Vane,
every one knows: for he perswaded them that there was nothing intended against the King by the
English
Nation, but only that they should interpose for a good Peace to them, which would be an Honour to them, and a great Obligation to his Majesty
Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion,
: As for the History of this Convention and its subsequent Acts, and the fatal Effects as well as Infamy of the
Scots
joining with the
English
Parliament against the King as the consequent of the
Solemn League
and
Covenant,
are all particulars so well known, and have been so much enlarg'd on in several Treatises particularly wrote to that purpose, that the further mentioning of them in this place, will be but needless, seeing the noble Person whose Memoirs I write, was free from any Accession or Guilt therein.
As soon as the Convention was over, the Duke and his Brother the Earl of
Lanerk
left
Scotland
to give the King, then at
Oxford,
an Account of all their proceedings; but notwithstanding of his Grace's good Intention toward the King, his Enemies, for not a few he had, used all the Artifi
es they could to render him suspected to his Majesty, as if he secretly countenanc'd, at least did not sufficiently abhor the unnatural Rebellion of his Country-men, and this Imputation was with so great Art insinuated, that it got so much Credit, with those about the Court, that the King upon my Lord Duke and his Brothers arrival, commanded them to keep their Chambers, and ordered a Guard to attend them
Ibidem.
, so after some time his Grace was sent in Custody to the Castle of
Bristol,
and from thence to
Exeter,
and so to the Castle of
Pendinnis,
whence he was removed to St.
Michael
's
Mount
in
Cornwall,
upon the surrender of which to the Parliaments Forces,
Anno
1646, he obtain'd his Liberty, which he imployed with much Zeal in the King's Service to the loss of his Life, by which he was not only vindicated in the Opinion of all Men from all those Jealousies and Aspersions he had lyen long under, but the proceedings that had been against him at
Oxford,
were looked upon by many as void of that Justice and Policy which had been requisite, and they concluded by what he did after a long Imprisonment, how much he might have done more successfully if he had never been restrain'd
Ibidem.
.
As soon as my Lord Duke was at Liberty, it was believ'd that the Animosity was so great between him and some others of great Name, that he would rather meditate a Revenge, than concur in any Action which might advance the King's Interest, but his Grace well consider'd both his Duty to his Majesty, and his own Danger at such a Juncture, to think of private Contention and matters of Revenge, when the publick was so much at Stake, so that his former Treatment made no other Impression upon him, then to make him show his steadiness more and more to his Majesty's Service, who then so much stood in need of the Assistance of his faithful Subjects.
When the King put himself into the
Scots
Army before
Newark
in the 1646, my Lord Duke having obtain'd his Liberty, came to wait on his Majesty
Bishop Burnet's Memoir's of James Du
e of Hamilton.
, and was well received by him. After they had conversed some time together, his Majesty was pleased to express the sense he had of his long Sufferings, and told him in these Words,
That he had ever judged him Innocent as to the bulk of things, tho he confess'd there were some particulars he was not so well
satisfied with, but that his Restraint was extorted from him against his Heart, for he had stood out against all the Importunities of his Enemies till the very Morning he came to
Oxford.
His Lordship's next Care was to bring his Majesty and the Committee of Estates to a happy Peace and Accommodation
Dr. Burnet's Memoirs.
; and as he earnestly endeavour'd to have them satisfied with the Kings Concessions, so he dealt fervently with his Majesty to yield to the abolishing of Episcopacy in
England,
as he had in
Scotland,
as the only way to induce the Presbyterian Party to declare for him, but the good King could not be be prevailed on to consent to buy his Peace, as he said,
at so dear a Rate as the peace of his Conscience,
so the Treaty at that time had not its desir'd effect.
When it came to be considered in Parliament what way his Majesty's Person should be disposed of, still in the
Scots
Army, my Lord Duke finding that the House by a Majority were inclin'd to deliver him up to the
English
Parliament, his Grace took an Opportunity that he might declare to the World his abhorrence of an Action attended with so much Infamy, and spoke against it to this purpose,
Would
Scotland
now quit a Possession of
1500
Years Date, which was their Interest in their Sovereign, and do it to those, whose Enmity both against Him and them did visibly appear? Was this the effect of all their Protestations of Duty and Affection to his Majesty? Was this their keeping of their Covenant, wherein they had sworn to defend the King's Majesty's Person and Authority? Was this a suitable return to the King's Goodness, both in his consenting to all the Desires of that Kingdom,
An. 1641.
and in His late trusting His Person to them? What Censures will be past upon this through the whole World? What a stain would it be to the whole Reformed Rel
gion? and in fine, what Danger might be apprehended both to the King's Person, and to
Scotland,
from the Party that was now prevalent in
England.
But notwithstanding all the Opposition the Duke and his Friends could make against it, yet the same was carryed upon the 16th of
January
1647,
That the King should be delivered up into such Hands as the
English
Parliament had appointed to receive him
Ibidem.
, to the great Grief of the Duke, and all true hearted
Scots
-Men, and that his Grace might again in any Degree retrive the Dishonour the Nation suffered in the giving up that excellent Prince, he endeavour'd all he could to infuse a sense of Shame and Horror in all People for the late Action, which might prepare them to a Reparation of it by a generous engaging in the King's Quarrel, and in doing so, most of the Year 1647 was spent even till the meeting of the next Parliament, which sat down the 2
d
of
March
1648
Bishop Guthrie's Memoirs.
, at the opening of which my Lord Duke did all he could to inflame the People with Zeal for his Majesty's Relief, & against the Army of
England
who he said,
"had forced the Parliament there to break the Treaty between the two Kingdoms in their ill usage of the King, who was Imprison'd by the Army, nor was it in the power of the Parliament to set him at Liberty, That they had now upon the matter, absolutely deposed him, by not suffering him to perform the Office of a King, not permitting any of his Subjects to repair to him; in which the Kingdom of
Scotland
was concern'd, in that being independent upon
England
and the Paliament of
England,
they were by them depriv'd of their King, and could not be admitted to speak with him, nor his Majesty to send to them; which was such a Presumption, and violation of the Law of Nations, and such a perfidious breach and contempt of the
Solemn League
and
Covenant,
and of the Treaty between the two Kingdoms, that they were bound by all the Obligations Human and Divine to be sensible of it, and to redeem their King's Liberty, and their own Honour, with the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes, and all that was dear to them: and therefore he desired that they might enter upon those Counsels, which might soonest get an Army together, which should no sooner enter
England,
but it would find a conjunction from that whole Kingdom, except only the Army; and that it would then quickly appear that the Parliament of both Kingdoms desired the same thing, and to live happily under the Government of the same King."
This Discourse urg'd by the Duke & seconded by many of the principal Members, was entertain'd with so general a Reception, that it was agreed to,
hat an Army should be raised for the Relief of his Majesty, whereof his Grace was appointed General, which being Levied with all the Diligence imaginable, entered
England
about the 8th of
July
1648, consisting of twelve thousand Foot, and five thousand Horse, and next day had the Town of
Carlyle
delivered to them from Sir
Philip Musgrave
The Life of James Duke of Hamilton.
, and after some Days stay there, he march'd to
Kendal,
and thence to
Prestoun
in
Lancashire,
where he was so closly pursued by
Cromwell
's Horse, under
Lambert,
that on the 20th of
August
1648, his whole Army was routed, and his Grace put to the necessity of rendering himself Pri
oner upon Articles of Capitulation at
Exeter
in
Stafford-shire
to the Lord
Gray
of
Groby
The Capitulation is set down a
length in Dr. Burnet's Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton, & Peerage of England.
, from whence he was carried to
Ashby,
where he continued till the beginning of
December,
he was sent Prisoner to
Windsor,
where he had the Society of the Earls of
Norwich
and
Holland
& the Lord
Capell,
common Sufferers in the same Cause with himself, where they were all kept in close restraint till the murder of the King. The Duke then perceiving his own Danger, attempted to make an escapec , in which he had so well succeeded that he was out of his Enemies hands full three Days, but being impatient to be at a greater distance from them, he was apprehended as he was taking Horse in
Southwark
and carried Prisoner to the Tower, from whence he was on the 6th of
February
1649 brought before that monstrous High Court of Justice, whose Hands were still reeking in the Blood of their Sovereign. Mr.
Steel
and Mr.
Cook
Council for the Parliament
Life of James Duke of Hamilton.
, exhibited a Charge of high Treason against him,
That he the Earl of
Cambridge
had traiterously invaded the Nation in a hostile manner, and levied War to assist the King against the Kingdom and People of
England,
&c.
In his Defence he us'd all the lawful means in the World, and insisted
upon the Right and Priviledge of the Kingdom of
Scotland,
that it had not the least Dependence upon the Kingdom of
England,
but was intirely govern'd by its own Laws, that he being a Subject of that Kingdom, was bound to obey the Commands thereof, and the Parliament of that Kingdom having thought it necessary to raise an Army for the relief of their King, and constituted him General of that Army, it was not lawful for him to refuse the Command thereof, and whatever Misfortune he had undergone with it, he could not be understood to be liable to any Punishment but what a Prisoner
of War was bound to undergo.
He was told,
That the Rights and Laws of the Kingdom of
Scotland
were not call'd in question, nor could be violated by their proceedings against him, who was a Subject of
England,
against which he was charg'd with Rebellion and Treason, that they did not proceed against him as Duke
Hamilton
of
Scotland,
but as Earl of
Cambridge
of
England,
and they would judge him as such.
His Council Mr.
Hales,
Mr.
Chute,
and Mr.
Parsons
defended him with great Learning and Judgement, as may be seen in Bishop
Burnet
's Memoirs of his Life at large, but all Arguments in his favour signified nothing, he was born down with the Torrent of the Times, and together with the Earls of
Holland
and
Norwich,
the Lord
Capel,
and Sir
John Oven,
had Sentence of Death pronounced against them to
los
their Heads.
To conclude the Fate of this great Person, he was on the 9th Day of
March
1649 brought to
Westminster,
the Place appointed for his Execution, and ascending the Scaffold with a composed and undaunted Courage,
He spoke of his Devotion to the Church of
Scotland
and the Protestant Religion established by Law, and profest in that Church, of his Loyalty to the King, whose Restauration and Prosperity he heartily prayed for, and Affection to the Welfare & Happiness of the Kingdom as Matters unquestionable.
After which with a marvellous Tranquillity of Mind he delivered his Head to the Block, which sever'd it from his Body at one Blow, which, together with the Body was convoyed by Sea into
Scotland,
and buried in the Church of
Hamilton,
according to his own Order.
His Grace by
Mary
his Wife aforesaid, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Denbigh,
besides three Sons and a Daughter who died in their Childhood, he had two Daughters who surviv'd him, Lady
Anne
Dutchess of
Hamilton
and Lady
Susanna
married to
John
Earl of
Cassils.
James
Duke of
Hamilton
being thus impiously cut off, leaving no Sons behind him, his Estate and Honour did descend to
William
Earl of
Lanerk
his Brother; he was born 14th
December
1616
Life of William Duke of Hamilton
, being deprived of his Father in the 9th Year of his Age: his Mother, a Lady among the most Eminent in all Vertues, redoubled her Care of his Education in the Schools and University at home, and then his Brother the Duke sent him abroad
Bishop Burnet's Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton.
to qualify him by Travel and otherways for the service of his Country, continuing beyond Sea till his twenty first Year
Ibidem.
Anno
1637. His Majesty King
Charles
I. conceiving an extraordinary good Opinion of him, was graciously pleased as a distinguishing mark of his Favour, by Letters Patent bearing Date the 31 of
March
1639, to honour him with the Titles of Earl of
La
erk,
Lord
Machanshire
and
Polmont
Diploma Gulielmi Comitis de Lanerk in Rotulis Car. I. ad annum 1639.
, and
William
Earl of
Stirling
Secretary for
Scotland
giving way to
ate in the beginning of the Year 1640
Lives of the Officers of State, MS. penes me.
, the King discerning my Lord
Lanerk
adorn'd with all the Qualifications he judg'd necessary for the discharge of that Imployment, was pleased to promote him thereto, an Office his Lordship discharg'd with eminent Sufficiency, and the general applause of all Men for some Years after, tho' it's remarkable he was but aged twenty four Years at his Promotion.
The cruel and bloody Civil War hast'ning on, my Lord
Lanerk
used his utmost Endeavours to allay the unhappy Differences which had arisen between his Majesty and his Subjects of both Kingdoms, and bent all his Thoughts to mediate a Peace to the Honour and Safety of the King, and the Wel
are and Happiness of the Kingdom. In the Convention of Estates which met on the 22 of
June
1643
The Bishop of Duakeid's Memoir of the Civil War.
, his Lordship acted with his usual Zeal for the publick good, but discerning that the Royal Party in that Assembly had not Authority or Power enough to cross any thing that was done to the prejudice of the King
Earl of Clarendon's History, and Bishop Burnet's Memoirs compar'd.
, and that a direct Protestation against the Convention in that conjuncture of time was to destroy themselves to no purpose, his Lordship and other loyal Peers did give in a Declaration, and took Instruments both in the King's Name and their own
Burnet's Memoirs.
, which was all that could be pradently done in that Season, soon after which my Lord
Lanerk,
for Reasons, and from Motives that History is altogether silent in, & which is not clear enough to this time, he put the King's Signet, with which he was intrusted as Secretary, to the Proclamation for the general Rendevouz of all Men in the Kingdom from such an Age to such an Age, whereby the Army was presently formed, which afterward join'd with the Parliament of
England
against the King, the fatal Consequences of which are so well known, that they need not be told
Clarendon's History.
. This Action was not thought capable of any Excuse, & was afterward very much represented to his Disadvantage, and was the first Cause of the King's Jealousie both of the Duke his Brother and his Lordship, and thereby their Sincerity and Affection to his Majesty's Service came to be very much call'd in question, but the Earl of
Lanerk
presuming he had enough to excuse himself of any Disloyalty, as soon as the Convention was over, went with his Brother the Duke to wait on the King at
Oxford
Guthrie's Memoirs.
, being confident that when he should be admitted to speak with his Majesty, he would give him satisfaction in that Affair
Clarendon's History.
. Upon their arrival there, both the Brothers were put under a Confinement, but the
Earl perceiving
Burnet's Memoirs.
that they were not like to obtain a Trial for clearing their Innocence, and discovering the Forgeries of their Accusers; and his Lordship fearing a long and cruel Imprisonment, he made his escape by means of Sir
James Cuningham, and presently repair'd to
London;
After some stay there, returning to
Scotland,
he easily found means to make his Peace with the Estates by taking of the Covenant
Guthrie's Memoirs.
, whereby he came to have a great Influence on their Counsels and did not a little contribute to moderate the fury of the leading Men of that side to hearken to Propositions for Peace and Accomodation with the King.
After this we hear not much of the Conduct of the Earl till the 1646, when the King came to the
Scots
Army at
Newark,
he was with other two Lords sent Commissioner from the Committee of Estates
with an humble Offer of their Duty to his Majesty, and of their sincere Intentions to serve him, and withal to give him assurance that the Preservation of his sacred Person, and his just Power and Greatness, was and should ever be dear to them.
Here my Lord
Lanerk
us'd all the Perswasions, and all the Importunities he could with his Majesty, to give Satisfaction to the Desires of his Subjects, and as a Preparation to this, that he would send his positive Orders to the Marquess of
Montrose
to lay down his Arms, extirpate Prelacy out of
England
as he had done in
Scotland,
and to agree to such Propositions as should be brought from the two Houses in
England.
The first Proposal he graciously condescended to; To the next, he returned this Answer,
That when he was satisfied in his Conscience of the lawfulness of what they desired, then and never till then would he grant their Demands.
As for the Message from the
English
Parliament, it was so high, that his Majesty could not gra
t
,
or my Lord
Clarendon
says,
It contain'd such
an Eradication of the Government of the Church and State, that the King told them, he knew not what Answer to make to them till he should be informed what Power or Authority they had left him and his Heirs, when he had given all to them which they desired.
On that ominous Day 16th of
January
1647, when the great Transaction came to be debated in Parliament about the disposing of his Majesty's Person, who was in the Hands of the Army,
Whether they should leave him in
England
to the two Houses, yea or not.
Thus was the Question stated, against giving up of the King, my Lord
Lanerk
argued strenously, and spoke against it,
as the most barefac'd Violation of their Faith and Allegiance to deliver up their Native Prince, who had put himself into their Hands against his Will and Consent, into the Custody of such as would put his Sacred Person in eminent hazard,
but to the eternal Infamy of the Majority of that Convention it was carried,
To deliver up the King,
whereat his Lordship was so perfectly overwhelm'd with the horror of so sinful and shameful a Deed, that he expressed his Dissent from it in so passionate a manner, that it would be to do him wrong to omit to give it in his own Words,
As God shall have mercy on my Soul
(said he)
at the great Day, I would rather choose to have my Head struck off at the Cross of
Edinburgh,
than give my Consent to this Vote,
and then adds,
That this was the blackest Day that ever
Scotland
saw
Bishop Burnet's Memoirs, I wish latest Posterity may not for ever have cause to remark, with equal Sorrow and Regret the same ominous Day threescore Years,
viz.
sixteenth of January one thousand seven hundred and seven, on which the late Treaty of Union betwixt the two Nations was ratified and approven b
Act of Parliament, whereby alas! Scotland is now no more; well may Scots-Men, who think on the Transactions of that Day say with the Poet,
Quis talia fand
temperes a lachrimis.
.
As the Earl of
Lanerk
had from the very beginning of the War been always disposed to Peace, so shortly after this by his Dexterity and Influence, a Treaty was set on foot betwixt the King and the Parliament of
Scotland,
his Lordship, with the Earls of
Lauderdale
and
Loudon
being appointed Commissioners for that end, in pursuance of which laudable design they repair'd to his Majesty as soon as he was at the Isle of
Wight,
and undertook to invade
England
with an Army to restore him to his just Rights, and in order to this they proposed to him many Conditions which would be necessary for his Majesty to perform toward the Nation, without whichit
ould not be easie to induce them to be so unanimous in an Engagement for him, as was necessary for such an Enterprise. They requir'd that the Prince of
Wales
should be present with them, and march in the Head of their Army. That such a number of
Scots
-Men should be always in the Court, of the Bed-chamber, and all other Places about the Persons of the King, Prince, and Duke of
York.
That
Berwick
and
Carlyle
should be put into their Hands. They demanded moreover, that as soon as his Majesty could with Freedom, Honour and Safety be present in a free Parliament, to confirm the
Solemn League
and
Covenant
by Act of Parliament
Clarendon's History.
, providing that none who was unwilling should be constrain'd to take it. They likewise oblig'd his Majesty to confirm Presbyterian Government in
England
for three Years, and after the Expiration of that time, such a Government shall be determined by his Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament as was most agreeable to the Word of God. That an effectual course shall be taken for the suppressing of all Heresies, and all Principles and Practices contrary to the Principles of Christianity. This Agreement his Majesty was pleased to sign the 26 of
December
1647
The Earl of Clarendon in his History has the Substance of the Treaty.
, and to oblige himself
in the Word of a King to perform his part of the Treaty,
as the Commissioners also engaged themselves,
upon their Honour, Faith and Conscience, and all that is dear to honest Men, to endeavour to the utmost of their Power that the Kingdom of
Scotland
should engage to perform what was on its part to be performed.
Any Body who reads this Treaty, in which his Majesty's Concessions are so full, could scarcely have thought that any Party would not have been perfectly pleased with it, and so all would indifferently concur in that dutiful, loyal and generous Design of relieving the King, then made a close Prisoner by
Oliver Cromwell
and the Officers of the Army: but the rigid Clergy and the Lords of that Side, not only declared against the Engagement as unlawful and sinful
Bishop Guthrie's Memoirs.
, and all the Persons who advanc'd and promoted it as Deserters of the Covenant, but also raised what Force they could in the
Western
Counties to oppose it, which at last came to be formed into a kind of an Army under the Command of the Earls of
Eglintoun, Lowdoun,
and some of the leading Clergy
Ibidem.
, whom for Respect to their Character, as Church men, I won't name. Against this illegal Insurrection the Committee of Estates ordered some Troops to be levied, which the Earl of
Lanerk
was chosen to command, but his Lordship was
o sincerely & throughly devouted to preserve the Peace of his Country, and to accommodate Matters calmly and without Blood, that he brought the Matter to an Agreement very much against his Mind, and to his Prejudice; yet so violent and Perfidious, beyond what can be imagin'd, were these Times, that tho' my Lord
Lanerk
comply'd with them in their own Terms, in whatever they demanded, yet knowing his Lordship to be a through-paced Loyalist, and that his Principles were quite opposite to their Designs, they resolved to be rid of him at any rate: and therefore, without the least Pretence of any Breach of any Article of their Treaty, they put him under a Restraint, resolving to send him to their Brethren in
England,
who had by this time barbarously murder'd the King, to be punish'd as an Incendiary, that is, to have his Head cut off; wherefore he thought it his most adviseable course to get out of the sight of the Calamity of his Country, and to retire beyond Sea, which he did into
Holland,
with an offer of his Service to King
Charles
II.
And brought with him,
says the Lord
Clarendon, A Heart and Affection clearer and less clogg'd with Scruples and Reservations for the King's Service, than any other of the Nation had.
When his Lordship arrived at the
Hague,
he first came to know that he was Duke of
Hamilton
by the Slaughter of his Brother, this sad News afflicted him so much, that he kept his Chamber for some Days, without so much as waiting on the King, who sent a gracious Message to him to condole for the loss of his Brother: And all the Lords, and other persons of Qualility about the King made their Visits of Condolence to him with all Civility. His Grace stayed in the
Netherlands
till the King and the Commissioners from
Scotland
had agreed to the Terms on which they would make him their King: My Lord Duke being very instrumental to prevailupon his Majesty to submit to the most rigid Terms the Kirk requir'd of him. At the same time, in the end of the 1649, his Majesty was pleased to acknowledge and recompense the Dukes Loyalty and Merit, by bestowing the
Garter
on him as a distinguishing mark of his Royal Favour. He accompanyed his Majesty to
Scotland Anno
1650, but his Enemies would not permit him to come to Court; so having given his Majesty the best Advice he could, with his leave, he retir'd to the Isle of
Arran,
where he stayed till the Parliament met at
Stirling
in 1651, then his Grace was suffered to come to Court, being welcomed by the King, and nearest in his Confidence. So soon as the Army was rais'd for restoring the King, my Lord Duke rais'd a Troop of Horse for his Majesty's Service on his own Charge, with which he march'd to the fatal Battle of
Worcester
3d of
September
1651, charging the Enemy very vigorously, he received a Shot in his Leg, whereby he fell into the Enemies hands, and on the 11 of
September
died of his Wounds, and thereby prevented the being made a Spectacle as his Brother had been, which the Pride and Animosity of his Enemies would no doubt have caus'd to be, having the same Pretence for it by his being a Peer of
England,
as the other was. The Earl of
Clarendon
having furnish'd me a Character of this noble Duke in his History of the Civil War, I shall presume to insert it in his Words.
He was
(says that noble Lord)
A Man not inferior in Wisdom and Parts of Understanding to the wisest Men of the Nation, of great Honour, Courage and Sincerity in his Nature, and which was a rare Virtue in the Men of that time, was still the same Men he pretended to be, and in truth was in all Respects a very accomplish'd Person, of an excellent Judgement, and clear and ready Expression, and tho' he had been driven into several unwarrantable Actions, he made it very evident he had not been led by any Inclination of his own, and passionately and heartily run to all Opportunities of redeeming it, and in the very Article of his Death he express'd a marvellous Cheerfulness, that he had the Honour to lose his Life in the King's Service, and thereby to wipe out the Memory of his former Transgressions which he always professed were odi
us to himself.
He married, in the 1637,
Elisabeth
Daughter and Co-heir of
James Maxwell
Earl of
Dirletoun,
by whom he had a Son
James,
who died an Infant; also four Daughters.
Lady
Anne
married to
Robert
third Earl of
Southesk,
and had Issue.
Lady
Elisabeth
to
James
Lord
Kilmaurs,
Son to the Earl of
Glencairn,
and again to Sir
David Cuningham
of
Robertland, sans
Issue.
Lady
Mary
to
Alexander
Earl of
Callendar,
after his Death to Sir
James Livingstoun
of
West Quarter,
and last of all to
James
Earl of
Finlater.
Lady
Margaret
to
William Blair
of that Ilk,
in Vicecomit. de Air,
and had Issue.
Upon the decease of
William
Duke of
Hamilton
without Issue Male of his own Body, the Estate and Honour of the Family, did devolve on his Niece the Lady
Anne,
eldest Daughter of
James
Duke of
Hamilton,
a Lady, who for constancy of Mind, evenness of Temper, solidity of Judgment, and an unaffected Piety, will leave a shining Character, as well as Example to Posterity, for her Conduct as a Wife, a Mother, a Mistress and in all other Conditions of Life. Her Grace married
William Douglass
Earl of
Selkirk
eldest Son of
William
the first Marquess of
Douglass,
by
Mary
his second Wife, Daughter of
George
Marquess of
Huntly,
who by the Marriage Articles yielded to change both his Sirname, and the Sirname of all his Children to
Hamilton,
whereupon he was by King
Charles
II. raised to the Dignity of Duke of
Hamilton
for his own Lifetime
Charta in Rotulis Car. II. ad annum 1660.
by Letters Patent on the 20th of
September
1660, but such was the Humour of the Times & the prevalency of Parties, that save that his Grace was in the Council, he had no Employment in the State during all King
Charles
's Reign, tho' he had a large share of his Majesty's Esteem, which he testified when he chose him into the Society of the most noble Order of the
Garter
Miscellany Collections.
Anno
1682.
When King
James
VII. came to the Throne in the beginning of the 1685, he found more Favour with the Court than he had done in the former Reign, for he was not only a Lord of Council, but also of the Treasaury, and Session, an extraordinary Lord; Also on the 14th of
October
1687, he was sworn a Privy Councellour for
England
History of England Vol. III.
, in all which Offices he continued till his Majesty retir'd into
France,
in the end of the 1688. On the grand Revolution of the Government, upon the Prince of
Orange
's coming over to
England,
the Duke being at
London
at the Head of diverse of the
Scots
Nobility and Gentry, who were then in Town, waited on his Highness the Prince, who received them with great Respect, and soon a
ter making choice of the Duke their President, they addressed the Prince to take upon him the Administration of all Affairs Civil and Military, the disposal of the publick Revenue and Fortresses of the Kingdom, that he would do every thing that was necessary for the Preservation of the Peace of the Kingdom, until a Meeting of the Estates of the Nation, which they desir'd his Highness to Call, to be holden at
Edinburgh
the 14th of
March
1689.
The Convention, upon the Prince of
Orange
's Letters, meeting at the Day appointed, began with the choice of a President, which fell on his Grace the Duke of
Hamilton,
by a Majority of ten Voices more than the Marquess of
Athole
Memoirs
f the Convention of Estates MS.
, a
ter which they passed an Act asserting and maintaining the lawfulness of the Meeting, and declaring that they would not dissolve, but continue sitting until the Government, Religion and Property were settled and established
Acts of the Convention of Estates.
. Their next care was to publish a Proclamation requiring all Persons from the Age of Sixty to Sixteen to be ready to take Arms upon Advertisement from the meeting of Estates, for securing the Protestant Religion, the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom
Acts and Orders of the Convention of Estates.
. At length on the 11th of
April
they proceeded, and came to the following Resolution,
viz. That King
James VII.
being a profest Papist, did assume the regal Power, and acted as King without ever taking the Oath required by Law, and hath by the Advice of evil and wicked Counsellours invaded the fundamental Constitution of the Kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary despotick Power, and hath exercis'd the same to the Subversion of the Protestant Religion, and the Violation of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, inverting all the Ends of Government, whereby he hath forfaulted the Right to the Crown, and the Throne is become vacant.
Upon which the Estates ordered a Committee to bring in an Act for settling the Crown upon
William
and
Mary
King and Queen of
England,
and likewise to prepare an Instrument of Government to be offered with the Crown, for redressing the Grievances, and securing the Liberties of the People, in pursuance whereof the Committee drew up an Act
Ibidem.
reciting, in fourteen Articles, the method by which King
James
had invaded the Constitution of the Kingdom, and in other twenty four Articles, their Claim and Declaration of their ancient Rights and Liberties; which Act being read and agreed to, it was enacted that King
William
and Queen
Mary
should be declared King and Queen of
Scotland, To hold the Crown and royal Dignity of the said Kingdom, to them the said King and Queen during their Lives, and the longest Liver of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal Power be only in, and exercised by him the said King, in the Names of the said King and Queen during their joint Lives, and after their decease to the Heirs of the Body of the said Queen, which failing, to the Princess
Anne
of
Denmark,
and the Heirs of her Body; which also failing to the Heirs of the Body of the said
William
King of
England. After which the Meeting of Estates was adjourned on the 24 of
May,
till the 5th of
June
Acts and Orders of the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland Anno 1689.
: My Lord Duke being again their Majesties High Commissioner, the Convention was turn'd into a Parliament, wherein they abolished Episcopal Government, rescinded the Forfaulture of the Earl of
Argyle,
and adjourn'd on the 2d of
August
1689. The Throne being filled with King
William
and Queen
Mary,
his Grace became the Prime Minister, was Lord President of the Privy Council, one of the extraordinary Lords of Session, & Lord high Admiral of
Scotland.
But it seems that King thought not all this enough to reward his signal Merit and Services, so he was pleased again to make him Lord high Commissioner in that Session of Parliament, which began on the 18th of
April
1693
Acts of Parliament.
, wherein several Acts for the benefit of Trade and Commerce pass'd, his Grace having order'd the Lord Chancellor to prorogue the Parliament to the 12th of
September,
he set out for
London
some time after, from whence returning in the Month of
March,
he was taken ill in his Health after an Indisposition that would not yield to the Art of the Physitian, that handsom Body of his sunk extremely, yet without any Alteration in his Mind and Senses, and with a full prospect of Death, and a Christian Preparation for it, he departed this transitory Life, at the Abby of
Holy-rood house
on the 18
April
1694, in the 60 Year of his Age, and was interr'd in the Collegiate Church of
Hamilton
in the Vault of the Family, where there is a Monument erected for him of various colour'd Marble embellish'd with his own Coat of Arms, and the Coats of these Eight noble and ancient Families Engraven upon the Pillars thereof,
viz.
Marquess of
Douglass,
Lord
Oliphant, Graham
of
Morphie,
Earl of
Errol:
Marquess of
Huntly,
Duke of
Lennox,
Duke of
Chattlerault, M. de Antraguess,
and upon a Tablet of black Marble there is the Inscription that here follows,
Memoriae Sacrum
Illustrissimi Principis
Gulielmi secundi Hamiltoniorum Ducis,
Clydsdaliae Marchionis Arraniae Lanerici
&c.
Comitis
Avaniae, Polmontis, Macchaniae,
&c.
Reguli,
Celsissim
Duglassiorum Marchionis ex secundis
Nuptiis cum Maria Gordon Marchionis de
Huntlie Filia
Filii natu maximi
Regii palatii Sanctae Crucis Custodis perpetui,
in Trium Regni Ordin Comit. saepius Proregis
Secretioribus Conciliis Regni Scotiae Praesidis,
Tribus etiam Regibus succedaneis
Ab intimis Regni Angliae Coneiliis
Sacri io
dem Aerarii comitis
In supremo Foro Juridico senatoris Extraordinarii,
Regni Scotiae Thalassiarchae,
Nobilissimi Ordinis Periscelidis Equitis Socii,
Patriae Propugnatoris strenui,
Familiae Instauratoris tanquam divinitus missi
Hoc (Famae nunquam interiturae) Monumentum
M
rens posuit Vidua Anna
(Post seriem tredecim procerum Familiae principem)
Ipsa Familias Haeres
Praeter Jacobum Haeredem
Quinque alios reliquit Filios
Tres itidem Filias illustrissimis Familiis
in Matrimonium collocatas.
Natus
24
die Decem
1634.
Denat.
18
April
1694.
The Duke of
Hamilton
's Character being easily to be collected from what has already been said, there remains nothing more to be observed of him, but that by her Grace
Anne
Dutchess of
Hamilton
he had a numerous Posterity of Sons and Daughters,
viz.
James
Duke of
Hamilton.
Charles
Earl of
Selkirk.
John
Earl of
Ruglen.
George
Earl of
Orkney.
Lord
Basile Hamilton
of
Baldoon,
a Gentleman of singular Accomplishments, and of an affable and generous Disposition, which procur'd him a general Esteem, and had undoubtedly appear'd an Ornament to his Country, had not Death taken him away in the bloom of his Life,
Anno
1701. By
Mary
his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
David Dunbar
of
Baldoon
Baronet, he left Issue
Basil Hamilton
Esq
his Son and Heir.
Lord
Archibald Hamilton
late Member of Parliament for the County of
Lanerk,
who was by her Majesty Queen
Anne
in the Month of
August
1710
State of Europe for the Year 1710.
appointed Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Island of
Jamaica.
Lady
Catherine
married to
John
1
st
Duke of
Athole.
Lady
Susanna
to
John
2
d
Earl of
Dundonald,
and thereafter to
Charles
3
d
Marquess of
Tweddale.
Lady
Margaret
married to
James
4
th
Earl of
Panmure.
His Grace's eldest Son
James
late Duke of
Hamilton,
in his Father's time call'd Earl of
Arran,
was born the 11th of
April
1658
Memoirs of James fourth Duke of Hamilton.
. His Education was suitable to his illustrious Birth, which being qualified by Travels rendered him a most accomplished young Lord. Upon his return home, he was by the Favour of King
Charles
II. on the 17th of
January
1679 made one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed-chamber
History of England Vol. III.
with ample Acknowledgements of the Loyalty of his illustrious Family whic
had not fuffered a little for the Crown: his Lordship continuing in great Esteem with that Prince, he was sent Envoy-extraordinary to the Court of
France,
to congratulate the
Dauphine
upon the Birth of his second Son
Philip
Duke of
Anjou,
the present King of
Spain,
of whom the Dauphiness was delivered,
November
9th 1683
Genealogical History of the House of Burboun.
.
When King
James
VII. came to the Throne, my Lord
Arran
was no less that Prince's Favorite than he had been his Brothers, for his Majesty named him one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber, Master of the Wardrobe
Memoirs of James late Duke of Hamilton MS.
, and conferred on him the Command of a Regiment of Horse
Ibidem.
; also in
April
1687, he elected him one of the twelve Knights of the most noble Order of St.
Andrew
called
The Thistle
Howels History:
, which his Majesty was then pleased to revive. At the Revolution his Lordship firmly adhered to his unfortunate Master, and never left him till he attended him to
Rochester
Sand
ord's Genealogical History of the Kings of England.
, where his Majesty embarked for
France,
23d
December
1688. In the beginning of
January
1689, when the Prince of
Orange
desired the advice of the
Scots
Nobility and Gentry then at
London,
what was fit for him to do in reference to the Affairs of
Scotland,
this occasioned a free Conference among them, and my Lord
Arran
offered his Opinion in these Words
Miscellany Collections of the Year 1689.
,
I have all the Honour and Deference for the Prince of
Orange
imaginable, I think him a brave Prince, and that we owe him great Obligations in contributing so much for our Delivery from Popery; but while I pay those Praises, I cannot violate my Duty to my Master, I must distinguish betwixt his Popery and his Person, I dislike the one, but have sworn and do owe Allegiance to the other, which makes it impossible for me to sign away
that which I cannot forbear believing is the King my Masters Right, for his present absence from us in
France
can no more affect my Duty, than his longer absence from us has done all this while, and the Prince desiring our Advice, mine is, that we should move his Majesty to return and call a free Parliament for the securing our Religion and Property, which in my humble Opinion, will at last be found the best way to heal all our Breaches.
His Lordships Constancy to the Interest of King
James,
even after the Prince of
Orange
was declared King of
England,
occasioned such a Suspicion of his Conduct, that he was sent Prisoner to the Tower
History of England Vol. III.
, but being discharged some time after, he retir
d for a time into
Scotland,
his Father's Death happening in the 1694. brought no Accession either o
Honour or Estate to the Earl, the same being hereditary to the Dutchess his Mother, who nevertheless, with the Consent of King
William,
before the end of that Princes Reign, resigned that Title to him
The Patent making the Earl of Arran Duke of Hamiltoun bears Date at Loe the 10th of August 1698. but it allows him the Precedency by his G
nd-father's Creation, 12th of July 1643.
, whereby he became a Peer.
His Grace for many Years after was not engaged in any publick Affairs except Parliamentary ones as they occurred, where he ever on all occasions show'd a tender Concern for the Honour and Prosperity of
Scotland,
more particularly in the great Opposition he made in the Union of the two Kingdoms, which as it did demonstrate his entire Affection to his Country, so on that account it c
allenges a just Esteem and honourable Remembrance of his Memory as a noble Patriot by all the Lovers of their Country to perpetuity.
The Matter of the Union being concluded in Parliament, his Grace retir'd to his Country House in
Staffordshire
History of Europe for the 1708.
, upon the News of the Invasion from
France Anno
1708, he was by Order of the Council taken into the Custody of a Messenger upon Suspicion of his being privy to that Expedition; but his Grace was admitted to Bail, the Duke o
Newcastle,
the Earl of
Whartoun,
the Lord
Hailyfax
being Surities for him. Whatever sinister Opinion some in
England
might entertain of the Duke at this Juncture, it's certain the
Scots
Nobility had quite different Sentiments of him, for on the 17th of
June,
at a solemn Election of the Peers, to testify the Honour and Esteem they had of him, he was nominated and chosen one of the Sixteen Peers to the ensuing Parliament.
When things came to take a new turn at Court, upon her Majesty's change of her Ministry, his Grace was on the 1st of
October
1710, appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County
Palatine
of
Lancaster
History of Europe for the 1710.
in the room of
James
Earl of
Darby,
and on the 13th of
December
thereafter, he was sworn of the Privy Council
Ibidem.
, and accordingly took his place at the Board; Also in the Month of
June
1711, the Queen was pleased to make him a Peer of
Great Britain
by the Titles of Baron of
Dutton,
and Duke of
Brandon,
and the Preamble to his Patent runs thus.
Cum generis claritate promeritorum praestantia, constanti & immaculata fidelitate, vel ad mortem usque & sanguinis etiam propinquitate, Majores perquam fideles & intime admodum dilecti Consanguinei & Consiliarii Nostri Jacobi Ducis Hamiltonii, Machionis Clidsdaliae, Comitis Arraniae & Lanarci, Domini Polmontiae, Avenniae, Manchanshiriae & Innerdaliae, sese Praedecessoribus Nostris Regiis Gloriosissimae Memoriae plurimum commendaverint: Nos animadvertentes quod praedictus Jacobus Dux Hamiltoni praeclaris nobilissimae suae Familiae
vestigiis insistens & virtutis laude & inconcussa Fidelitatis constantia sanguinis Conjunctionem quae Regiam Nostram Domum prope attingit porro illustrare perrexerit; quo ipse & singularis Nostrae Benevolentiae Monumenta habeat & posteri ipsius Gloriae & Dignitatis amplitudine ad res eximias ad Nominis Exce
lentiae pares efficiendas accendantur, novis Titulorum honoribus avitum splendorem ornare at
que
exaugere de crevimus. Sciatis,
&c.
At the sitting down of the Parliament in
December
thereafter, the Duke claim'd his Place in the House of Peers, upon which many of the
English
Lords apprehending it might be dangerous to their Constitution to admit into their House a greater Number of the
Scots
Peers than were agreed to by the Act of Union, and therefore resolved to oppose the said Claim. Hereupon,
Monday
the 10th, a Motion was made for taking that Matter into Consideration, which was done accordingly, but after a few Speeches the Debate was adjourn'd to the 12th. and after some time spent therein, the further Consideration of that Business was put off till the 20th. Upon which Day the Lords resum'd the Debate, the Queen being present
incognito,
after learned Council in the Law for her Majesty, the House of Lords and the Duke of
Hamilton,
several Speeches were made on both sides, so that the Debate lasted till near Eighth in the Evening, when the Question was put whether the Twelve Judges should be consulted with, which being carried in the Negative by Fourteen Voices, Proxies included. Another Question was put, Whether
Scots
Peers created Peers of
Great Britain
since the Union, have a Right to sit in that House, which was also carried in the Negative by five Voices. Altho by this Decision the Royal Prerogative, the Duke of
Hamilton
and the whole Peerage of
Scotland
receiv'd a great Mortification, yet her Majesty was pleased to continue her Royal Favour to his Grace, by making him Master General of the
Ordnance,
and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter,
at a Chapter held at
Windsor
26th of
October
1712, and shortly after appointed him to go Ambassador extraordinary to
France
upon the Conclusion of the Peace; but while he was preparing his Equippage suitable to the Grandeur of his Character, he had the Mis
ortune upon the 15th of
November
1712, to fight a Duel in
Hyde-Park
with the Lord
Mohun,
where he kill'd that Lord upon the Spot, and his Grace died of his Wounds by the time he got into his Lodgings
Nota,
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and the Lord Mohun had married two Ladies who were near Relations, both Nieces to Charles late Earl of Maclesfield, and having been at Law for some time about an Estate, they met twice, and the last time on the 13th of December at Mr. Orlebars in Chancery, at his Chamber in the Rolls, where, upon the Examination of Mr. Whiteworth, who had been Steward to the Lady Gerard and the Maclesfield Family, the Duke happening to say,
He had neither Truth nor Justice in him.
Mohun in Answer reply'd
He had as much
ruth as his Grace:
This was the unhapp
beginning of the Quarrel, upon which a Challenge was carried by Lieutenant-General Mack
rtney, the Lord Mohun's Second, who according to the positive Oath of Colonel Hamilton the Duke's Second and the general Clamour, wounded the Duke in the Side after the Lord M
h
n
ell, which I suppose was the immediate Cause of his Death, notwithstanding the Rewards promised both by the Government, and her Grace the Dutchess of Hamiltoun, and the
trictest Search after him, he made his escape and got off.
, his Death was universally lamented for the many noble Qualities he was endu'd with, of which Love and Zeal for his Native Country was not the least, and for that Reason his Loss can never be sufficiently be
ail'd by all true
Scots
-Men, and who ever after him shall deserve best of the
Scots
Nation, he can never think himself undervalu'd when he is laid in the Ballance with, and compar'd to the Duke of
Hamilton.
He married two Wives, first
Anne
Daughter of
Robert Spencer
Earl of
Sunderland,
and again
Elisabeth
Daughter and sole Heir of
Digby
Lord
Gerard
of
Bromly
of the Kingdom of
England,
by
Elisabeth
his Wife Sister to
Charles
late Earl of
Maclesfield,
by whom he had Issue,
James
Lord Marquess of
Clidsdale,
now Duke of
Hamiltoun,
Lord
William,
and Lord
Anne,
so Cristen'd, in regard of her Majesty's standing God Mother, Lady
Catherin
who died young, Lady
Charlott
and Lady
Susanna.
ARMS.
Quarterly
Gules,
three Cinquefoils
Ermine,
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Ship with her Sails turss'd up
Sable,
Supporters two Antilops
Proper,
Crest, a Saw sawing through a growing Oak, Motto,
Through.
HARRIES, Lord
Harries.
THAT this ancient Family is of much longer continuance in
Scotland
than the Reign of King
David
II. to which some assign their Original, is evident from the Register of the Abbey of
Kelso,
where
Nigellus de Herize
is mention'd in the Time of King
William
the
Lyon
Sir James Dalrymple's Collections.
. They are said to be deriv'd from a Son of the
Count de Vendome
in
France,
whose Arms they carry,
viz. Argent
three Hurcheons
Azure
Mackenzie's Herauldy.
, tho the first remarkable Person of the Lineage, is Sir
John Harries
Knight, who had a Grant of the Barony of
Terregles
from King
David
II.
Dalrymple's Miscellany Collections.
in reward of some remarkable Service, whence his Successors were commonly design'd, till the Reign of King
James
IV. that in the 1493,
Herbert Herries
of
Terregles
Knight, came to be Lord
Herries
Charta Herberto Domino Harries in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, he married
Marion
Daughter to the Lord
Carlyle
of
Torthorald
Ibidem.
, by her he had
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who was killed in the Battle of
Flowdoun,
leaving Issue by
Janet
his Wife Daughter of
Archibald
Earl of
Angus
Charta penes Ducem de Douglass.
,
William
his Son and Heir, who dying 26th of
September
1543
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. etiam Genealogia Familiae Harreziae MS.
, by
Catherin
Daughter of
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan
his Wife
Charta in publicis Archivis.
in Vic. de Air,
he left three Daughters his Co-heirs.
Agnes
married to Sir
John Maxwel
Knight, who came to inherit the Honour of Lord
Harries.
Catherine
to
Alexander Stewart
of
Garlies
Gen. Harreziae.
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Galloway.
Janet
to
William Cockburn
of
Sk
rling
Ibidem.
in Vic. de Roxburgh.
HOPE, Earl of
Hopetoun.
THE first Raiser of the Family of the
Hopes,
was Sir
Thomas Hope
of
Craighall,
Son of
Henry Hope,
an eminent and wealthy Merchant of the City of
Edinburgh,
by
Jaque de Tott
his Wife a
French
Woman
Genealogical Deduction of the Family of the Hope's in MS.
, who after he had gone thro' his Humanity and Philosophy, applyed himself to the Law, & made such progress in that Study, that he was admitted to the Bar at an Age very little advanced. He was not taken notice of for Practice, till the 1606 he was chosen to plead the Cause of the Presbyterian Ministers who were Indicted of high Treason for declining the King's Authority in Matters Ecclesiastical
Mr. Calderwood's History of the Affairs of the Church of Scotland.
, which gave him much Reputation with that People afterward, and grafted him in the intire Confidence of them, that he was looked on as the Oracle of the Party, and advised with them in all their Counsels and Designs
Bishop of Dunkeld's Memoirs.
. Upon the Fame of his Abilities and Learning in the Profession of the Law, his Majesty King
James
VI. in the end of his Reign, was pleased to make him joint Advocate with Sir
William Oliphant,
who giving way to Fate on the 13 of
April
1628, Sir
Thomas Hope
was not long after constituted sole Lord Advocate, and enjoyed the place till a
ter the Civil War broke out with great Reputation for Learning, and all other Advantages which attend the most eminent Men of that Profession, as the several Works he left behind him do undeniably evince, of which this is a Catalogue,
Carmen seculate in serenissimum Carolum
I.
Britanniarum Monarcham,
Edin. 1626.
Major
Practicks
MS.
Minor
Practicks
M.S.
Paratitillo ex universo juris Corpore
MS.
Psalmi Davidis & Canticum Solomonis Latino Carmine
M.S.
A Genealogie of the Earls of Mar
Bishop Nicolson's Scots Historical Library All his Works are in the Lawyer's Library, save the Genealogy of the Earls of Mar
MS.
His Wife was
Elisabeth
Daughter of
John Bennet
of
Wallingford
Registers of the Heraulds Office.
, by whom he had 1
st.
Sir
John Hope
of
Craighall,
2
d.
Sir
Thomas Hope
of
Carse,
3
d.
Sir
James Hope
who was the Origin of the House of
Hopetoun,
to which Branch I shall at present confine my Memoirs of the
Hopes.
This Sir
James
pursuing his Father's Steps in the Study and Practice of the Law, in short time became so much taken notice of for his Abilities, that he was chosen one of the Senators of the College of Justice
Anno
1649
Guthry's Memoirs.
, in which Station he continued till that Judicature was dissolved by
Oliver Cromwell Anno
1651. He married
Anne
Daughter of
John Fowlis
of
Lead-hills, in Vic. de Lanerk,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, and a Daughter
Rachel
married to
David Beaton
of
Balfour, in Vic. de Fife,
and after her Death
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Earl
Marshal,
by whom he had only one Son Sir
William Hope
of
Balcomy.
John Hope
of
Hopetoun
his Son, among other Persons of Quality accompanying his Royal Highness
James
Duke of
York
from
London
by Sea into
Scotland,
was cast away the 7th of
May
1682
Vita Jacobi VII.
, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
John
Earl of
Haddingtoun,
a Lady eminent in all the Vertues of her Sex,
Charles
his only Son and Heir, and
Heleanor
a Daughter married to
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun.
Which
Charles,
as soon as he came of Age, being returned Member of Parliament for the County of
Linlithgow,
of which he is high Sheriff, in the first Parliament of Queen
Anne,
her Majesty was pleased to call him to her Privy Council, and by Letters Patent bearing date 15th of
April
1703
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Reginae.
, to raise him to the Honour of Earl of
Hopetoun,
and to his Heirs Male; in default of which to his Heirs Female for ever. He married
Henrietta
Daughter of
William
1
st.
Marquis of
Annandale,
by whom he had Issue,
John
Lord
Hope.
Charles.
Sophia.
Henrietta.
Margaret.
Helen.
all young.
ARMS.
Azure,
a Cheveron charged with a Bay Leaf
Vert,
betwixt three Beasants
Or,
Supporters two Women holding Anchors in their Hands, Crest, a Rainbow surmounted of a Globe, Motto,
At spes infracta.
HUME, Earl of
Hume.
'TIS evident that this Noble ancient Family are derived from Sir
William
a Son of
Patrick
Earl of
Dunbar,
who assum'd a Sirname from his Patrimonial Lands of
Hume
Patricius Comes makes a Donative of the Church of Hume to the Abbey of Kelso before the Year 1166, that according to the Chron. of Melross he made his Exit out of this World, and Willielmus Dominus de Hume & de Greenlaw filius Patricii afterward ratifies the Grant of Lands to the same Abbey, which Dominus Willielmus Dominus de Greenlaw filius Patr cii quondam Domini de Dunbar fecit Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae de Kelso, in Registro dicti Monasterii
, as early as the Sirname of
Dunbar
became Hereditary to the Earls of
March.
This
William
gave in pure Alms to the Monastery of
Kelso unum Toftum & unum Croftum & d
as bovatas terrae in territorio villae suae de Greenlaw
Chartulary of Kelso in Bib. Juridica Edin.
pro salute animae suae.
This Sir
William
of
Home
was succeeded by a Son of the same Name, who designes himself
Willielmus Dominus de Hume filius & heres nobilis viri Domini Willielmi Militis quondam Dominus dictae villae de Hume,
when he yields his Right to some Lands that had been the Matter of Dispute betwixt him and the Abbot of
Kelso, Crastino conceptionis Beatae virginis Mariae
1268. The Family after several descents became very powerful, and in the Reign of King
Robert
III. Sir
Thomas Hume
of that Ilk then taking to Wife
Nicolas
Heir of the Pepdie Family in the County of
Berwick
Mr. David Hume in his History of the Family of Douglass, and Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's Notes on Buchanan's History
, who brought him the Lordship of
Dunglass,
whereby his Fortune was much encreased, and in gratitude of that Match, he added to his paternal Coat of Arms
Azure,
three Papingoes
Vert
Mr. Alexander Nisbet's Treatise of Herauldry.
. By the said
Nicolas
his Wife he had
Alexander
his Successor, and
David
the first Baron of
Wedderburn, in Vic. de Berwick
This David Hume obtain'd the Lands of Wedderburn from Arch. Earl of Douglas propter sua Multiplicia servitia, as the original Grant bears, dated Anno 1414, mentioned by Mr David Hume of Godscroft a Son of the Family in his Preface to the History of the Douglasses, of this Branch are come the Earls of Dunbar and Marchmont, the Barons of Manderstoun, Blackadder, Renton, and there several Cadets.
.
To Sir
Thomas Hume
succeeded Sir
Alexander
his Son, a very warlike Person, he was in that Expedition against the
English
at
Homildown,
where he was taken Prisoner, and died a Captive in
England, Anno
1402
Mr. David Hume in his History of the Douglasses, for this he cites the black Book of Scoon.
, leaving
Alexander
his Son to succeed him, who distinguish'd himself in the Wars of
France
in the Reign of
Henry
VI. he accompany'd the Earl of
Douglas
to the Battle of
Vernoil,
where he was slain with that valiant Earl
Anno
1424
Ibidem.
, having married
Jean
Daughter of . . . . . .
Hay
of
Yester,
he had
Alexander
his Successor in the Family,
Thomas
first of the
Humes
of
Tinningham
This from Mr. David Hume of Godscrofts Preface to the History of the Douglasses
, and
George
who was the Stock of the Family of
Spot.
Sir
Alexander Hume
the next of the Line of this noble House raised the Glory and Reputation of the Family, by the vaste Estate he acquir'd both by Marriage and otherways, ou
of which he erected the Collegiate Church of
Dunglass,
a very noble Foundation, and that out of Piety to his Ancestors and Relations, for whom the good Man thought he could Merit in the other World, and whom he commemorates with a very tender Concern and Respect
Foundation of the Collegiate Kirk of Dunglass, among the other Foundations collected from the Records and elsewhere, since the Days of King James I. MS. wherein there is mention of Sir Alexander Hume his Father, Jean Hay his Mother, Thomas his Grand-father and several other collateral Relations.
. He married two Wives, first
Marjory
Heiress of
Landal
I have both the Authority of Sir George Mackenzie in his MS. Baronage of Scotland, and Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's Notes on Buchanan.
in Vic. de Berwick,
by whom he had first
Alexander
who died in his own Lifetime, second
George Hume
first of
Aitoun
All the Sons are made out from an Entail of their Father of his Estate, Anno 1453, in the Rolls of King James III. etjam charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, third
Patrick
of
Fastcastle
in the County of
Berwick.
His second Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Montgomery
Charta Alexandri Hume de Eodem Militi & Margar
tae Montgomery sponsae suae in Rotulis Jacobi III.
, by whom he had
Thomas Hume
of
Langshaw in Vic. de Air
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III. ad annum 1467.
.
Alexander Hume
of that Ilk
Junior
dying before his Father, he left Issue five Sons,
Alexander
who succeeded his Grand-father
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1489.
, 2
d George
Lord
Hume,
after his Brother's Death. 3
d David
Prior of
Coldingham,
died
Anno
1517
Holinshed's Chronicle
. 4
th. John Hume
of
Coldingknows
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1489.
, Ancestor to the present Earl of
Hume.
5
th. William
who was Execute with his Brother
Alexander;
also several Daughters,
Elisabeth
married to
James
Earl of
Arran
Charta in Rotulis dicti Regis
,
Helen
to
Alexander
Lord
Erskin
Ibidem.
, . . . . . . to
James Hepburn
Esq
Master of
Bothwell.
Sir
Alexander Hume
of that Ilk dying a very old Man, his Estate devolved on
Alexander
his Grand-son and Heir, who was the first Peer of the Family: Upon the Accession of K.
James
IV. to the Crown he was appointed one of the Privy Council, &
October
7th. 1488 constituted Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. The next Year
January
10
h. 1489, he was made Captain of
Stirling
Castle, and Governour to
John
Earl of
Marr
the King's Brother then in Minority
Ibidem.
, likewise on the 25th of
August
thereafter made Warden of the East-Marches for the space of seven Years
Ibidem.
and in or about the 1493, came to the Honour and Title of Lord
Hume
Charta Alexandri Domino Hume in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1493.
, he continued the principal Favorite of that Prince during his Life, and had the chief Administration of all Affairs sometime after the King's Dea
h, till he procured
John
Duke of
Albany
to be made Governour to the young King
James
V. but after all this Honour and Greatness, he was by the Governour charged with Crimes of a very high Nature, for which being put in the Castle of
Edinburgh,
he was found guilty of high Treason, and together with
William
his Brother, on the 16th of
October
1516 lost their Heads
Sir James Balfour's Annals MS. in Bibliotheca Juridica Edin.
. By
Nicolas
his Wife Daughter and Heir of
George Kerr
of
Suma
lstoun
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, he had only one Daughter
Janet
who survived him, married to Sir
John Hamilton
natural Brother to
James
Duke of
Chatlerault
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. ad annum 1531.
.
George
Brother and Heir of
Alexander
Lord
Hume
was repon'd to his Estate and Honour
Anno
1521
Hume and Drummonds Histories.
, he was a very brave Man, and perform'd many Warlike Exploits for the Service of his King and Country during the Reign of King
James
V. particularly at the Fight of
Haldinrig
against the
English,
where his Conduct and Valour was very notable
Drummond.
. He took to Wife
Marion
second Daughter and Co-heir of
Patrick
Lord
Halyburton
Charta in Rotulis Mariae R.
, by her he had a Son
Alexander,
and a Daughter
Margaret
married to Sir
Alexander Erskin
o
Gogar
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad annum 1586.
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Kelly.
Alexander
Lord
Hume
his Son was made Warden of the East Marches
Anno
1565
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, he was on the young King's side at first in the time of the Civil War in Queen
Mary
's days
Melvil's Memoirs.
, and was with the Earl of
Murray
Regent at the Battle of
Langside,
but he afterward join'd himself to the Queen's Party, and deported himself so honourably afterward, that a certain Author says,
He was so true a
Scots man
that he was unwinnable to
England
to do any thing prejudicial to his Country
Ibidem.
. He married twice, first
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Walter Kerr
of
Cessfoord,
Ancestor to the Duke of
R
xburgh
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae ad annum 1563.
, by whom he had one Daughter
Margaret
married to
George
Earl
Marshall,
2
dly. Agnes
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
Widow of Sir
Robert Logan
of
Restalrig
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, by her he had
Alexander
first Earl of
Hume,
and a Daughter
Isobel
married to Sir
James Hume
of
Eccles
and had Issue
The most famous and learned Antiquary Mr. Thomas Crawfurd's Notes of Buchanan's History, likewise Mr. Alexander Nisbet's Treatise of Herauldry Page 151
. This Lord departing this Life in the Year 1576
Johnston's Poems.
was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
Alexander
his Son, who was a great Favorite with King
James
VI. whom he accompanyed to
England Anno
1603, being then one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. He was very instrumental in the suppressing of the Rebellion of
Francis
Earl of
Bothwell:
In Consideration of which sigular Service he had a Grant of the dissolved Priory of
Coldingham
to him and his Heirs, and was on the 4th of
March
1605 dignified by that Prince with the Honour of Earl of
Hume
Balfour's Annals
. His first Wife was
Margaret
Sister to
William
Earl of
Morton,
by her he had no Succession. He next married
Mary
Daughter of
Edward Sutton
Lord
Dudly
of the Realm of
England
Peerage of England.
, by her he had
James
his Successor in the Honour, and two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
James
Earl of
Murray,
and
Anne
to
John
Duke of
Lauderdale,
and dying the 5th of
April
1619
The famous William Camden's Annals.
.
James
his Son succeeded in the Title of Earl, he married first
Catherin
Daughter of
Henry
Viscount of
Falkland
Lord Leiutenant of
Ireland
Genealogy of the Family of Hume.
. 2
dly Grace
Daughter of
Francis
Earl of
Westmoreland
Peerage of England new Edition of 1713. Vol. I.
, but dying without Issue
Anno
1634, the Honour of Earl, by reason of an Entail on Heirs Male, came to Sir
James Hume
of
Colding-knows
his nearest Cousin on the Male line
This Sir James Hume of Coldingknows who succeeded to the Honour of Earl of Hume, was Son of Sir John Hume of Coldingknows by Mary eldest Daughter and Co-heir of George Hume Earl of Dunbar.
, who obtain'd a Ratification of the Honour of Earl of
Hume
from King
Charles
I. with all the Privileges and Precedency formerly enjoy'd by
Alexander
or
James
Earls of
Hume
his Predecessors 22
May
1636
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
. This Earl married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton,
by whom he had three Sons all successively Earls of
Hume, Alexander, James
and
Charles,
and dying
Anno
1666
Mr. Thomson's Miscellany Collections MS.
.
Alexander
succeeded him in his Honours, and married
Anne
Daughter of
Richard
Earl of
Dorset
Peerage of England.
, but dyed without Issue
Anno
1674
Mr. William Dunlop late Principal of the College of Glasgow his Collections for a Peerage of Scotland MS.
, the Honour devolving to
James
his Brother, who marrying . . . . . . . Daughter of
George
Earl of
Dalhousie,
dyed
Anno
1688, leaving no Issue, so that his Estate and Honour came to
Charles
his next Brother, who married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
William Purves
of that Ilk, and dying 20th of
August
1706, left Issue three Sons and three Daughters, 1
st. Alexander
his Successor, 2
d. James,
3
d. George, Jean
1
st.
Daughter married to
Patrick
Lord
Polwarth,
2
d. Marjory,
3
d. Margaret.
Which
Alexander
was on the 10th of
November
1710 elected one of the 16 Peers of
Scotland
to the Parliament of Great
Britain,
and the next Year was made General of the Mint in the Room of
John
Lord
Balmerino,
he married
Anne
Daughter of
William
Marquis of
Lothian,
and has Issue,
Charles
Lord
Dunglass, William
and
James.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st. and 4th.
Vert,
a Lyon rampant
Argent,
2d. and 3d.
Argent,
three Papingoes
Vert,
beck'd and membred
Gules,
over all in a Sheild
Or,
an Orle
Azure,
supported by two Lyons rampant, Crest a Lyons Head eras'd
Argent,
Motto,
True to the End.
CARMICHAEL, Earl of
Hyndford.
OF this Family which assum'd its Sirname from the Lands of
Carmichael
in
Lanerk-shire,
where they still have their chief Seat, was
John de Carmichael
who was infest in the said Lands, by a Precept of
James
Earl of
Douglas
and
Marr,
who was kill'd at the Battle of
Otterburn Anno Dom.
1388
Charta penes Jacobum comitem de Hyndford, I could not condescend of the particular date of the Precept, but it must be betwixt the 1586 and the 1588.
. This
John
attaining the Honour of Knighthood, was one of the many brave
Scots-men
who accompanyed
Archibald
Earl of
Douglas
to the Assistance of
Charles
VI. of
France
against the
English,
was at the Battle of
Baug
Anno
1422, where he did eminentiy signalize his Valour in dismounting the Duke of
Clarence
the
English
General, whereby the Glory of the Victory accru'd to the
French
and
Scots
Memoirs of the Family of Carmichael.
, in the Action he broke his Spear, in remembrance of which renown'd & remarkable piece of Service his Successors had a Badge added to their Coat of Arms
viz.
A dexter Hand and Arm armed, holding a broken Spear proper, which is still born as the Crest of the Family. This Sir
John
by . . . . . . . . . his Wife Daughter to the Earl of
Angus
Ibidem.
, had
William
his Successor, and of a younger Son
Robert,
did the Family of
Meadowflat
descend
Ibidem.
of whom the
Carmichaels
of
Balmadie
did spring.
Which
William Carmichael
of that Ilk is one of the Barons upon the Retour of Sir
David Hay
of
Tester Anno
1437
Charta penes Marchionem de Twedale.
. He was succeeded by
John Carmichael
of
Carmichael
his Son:
George Carmichael
Doctor in Divinity a younger Son of the Family, at this time was promoted to the Episcopal See of
Glasgow Anno
1482, then void by the decease of Bishop
Laing
Reliquiae sancti Kentigerni sive vitae Episcoporum Glasguen. penes me MS.
, and the same Year he was joined in Commission with sundry Lords and Barons to treat of a firm and lasting Peace with the
English
Nation
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
.
Which
John
above-mention'd, in the 1482, obtain'd from King
James
III. diverse Lands in Consideration of his good and faithful Services done, and to be done by him
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III. ad annum 1482.
. He left behind him two Sons,
William,
and
Walter
first of the Branch of
Hyndford
and
Park
Genealogia familiae de Carmichael MS.
.
William
the next of the Family flourish'd under King
James
IV. and is particularly mentioned in the Records of that Reign
Charta sub magno sigillo Jacobi IV. ad annum 1507.
he was succeeded by
John
his Son, who married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Hugh
Lord
Somervel
Charta in publicis Archivis ad annum 1541.
, by whom he had
Sir
John
his Successor.
Archibald Carmichael
of
Edrem
Hume's History of the Family of Douglas
,
in Vic. de Berwick.
Which Sir
John
was knighted in the time of Queen
Mary,
and constituted Warden of the Midle-Marches toward
England,
in which Station he behav'd himself very worthily, and with General Applause. In 1588 he was with Sir
John Va
ss
of
Barnburrow
and Mr.
Peter Young
sent Ambassadors to
Denmark
to propose a Match betwixt King
James
VI. and
Anne
a Daughter of that Crown, which was soon after happily accomplish'd, and about the same time he was constituted Captain of his Majesty's Guard
Johnstoni Historia rerum Britannicarum.
, and the next Year sent Ambassadour to Queen
Elizabeth
of
England
Ibidem ad annum 1590.
to confer with that Princess upon Matters of the highest Importance to the two Nations, which Service he worthily discharged: Also in 1598, he was again constituted Warden of the Midle-Marches
Ibidem.
, in the exercise of which Office he was barbarously murdered by some dissolute Borderers of the Sirname of
Armstrong
on the 16th of
June
1600
Johnstoni Hist. Brit.
to the universal Regret of all good Men; and the famous Dr.
John Johnston
testified his Grief for him in this Epitaph.
Dum parat extremis populis prope limite in ipso,
Aevus ubi
Anglorum distinet amnis agros.
Dicer
jus, ac jure, va
s cohibere latro
s,
Principis August
vicemque obiens.
Gens legum impatie
, gens rapto vivere sueta,
Exceptum diris sustulit infidiis.
Ne
magis gravidas callens torquere sarissas,
Et patrii moris nemo magis retinens,
He
, ubi nunc jus fas, si sic impune verendi
Sacra Magistratus contemerare licet.
This gallant Man was wedded with
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
David Douglass
of
Pittendreich,
Sister to
David
Earl of
Angus
& to
James
Earl of
Morton
Regent of
Scotland
in the Minority of King
James
VI
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
. by whom he had
Sir
Hugh Carmichael
his Successor.
Mary
married to
John Bothwel
Commendator of
Holy-rood-house,
afterward created Lord
Holy-rood house Anno
1607
Charta penes comitem de Hyndford.
, and had Issue.
Abigail
to
Hugh Weir
of
Clowburn in Vic. de Lanerk.
Anne
to Dr.
Walter Whiteford
Bishop of
Brechin,
in the Reign of King
Charles
I. and had Issue.
Sir
Hugh Carmichael
of that Ilk being a Person of great Parts, was of the Privy Council to King
James
VI. and in the 1593, was constituted Master of the Horse, and the same Year imploy'd in an Embassy to
Denmark;
which great Trust he discharg'd to his Majesty's Satisfaction and his own Honour. He married
Sybilla
Daughter of . . . . .
Baillie
of
Lammingtoun,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, who dying without Issue, the Estate came to
James Carmichael
of
Hyndford
a Collateral Branch of the Family; whose Ancestor.
Walter Carmichael
was a younger Son of the House of
Carmichael,
as appears from an ancient Roll written about the time of King
James
VI. which sheweth the Descent of this
Walter
from the Family
The Roll is in the Custody of the Earl of Hyndford.
, whose Grandson
James Carmichael
of
Hyndford
and
Park
marrying
Marion
Daughter of Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Lowdoun
Genealogia familiae de Hyndford ac etiam Genealogia familiae de Lowdoun.
, by her he had
Walter
his Son and Heir, who by his vertuous & prudent Conduct, considerably improv'd his Estate, and consequently raised the Reputation of his Family in the Country, departing this Life about the 1612, he left Issue by
Grisel
his Wife Daughter of
John Carmichael
of
Meadowflat
Captain of
Crawfurd
Charta penes Jacobum Comitem de Hyndford.
James
his Successor, and several Daughters.
1.
Marion
married to
James Stewart
of
Allantoun in Vic. de Lanerk.
2
dly
to
Robert Denholm
of
West-shiell in Vic. Praedicto,
and had Issue.
2.
Rachel
to
Archibald Hamilton
of
Halcraig in Vic. de Lanerk.
3.
Margaret
to
Stephen Lockhart
of
Wicket-shaw
in the County of
Lanerk.
Which
James
was a Gentleman of excellent Parts, and came first to be taken notice of at Court by the Patronage of
George
Earl of
Dunbar
Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland.
His agreeable and winning Deportment was first seen and liked by King
James
at a Match of Jumping, in which Exercise he exceeded all the Court. He was first preferred to be one of the Cup-bearers, and soon after his Majesty's Carver, advancing daily in favour he was appointed Chamberlain of the Principality, in which Imployment he deported himself with Prudence and Integrity for many Years.
King
Charles
I. had so great an Esteem of his Conduct and Dexterity in his Business, that he continued him in his former Imployment, and created him Knight Baronet 17th
July
1627
Charta in Rotulis Car. I.
. The Justice Clerks Office falling vacant through the decease of Sir
George Elphinstoun
in the 1634, Sir
James Carmichael
was promoted thereto, which he demitted two Years after in favours of Sir
John Hamilton
of
Orbistoun,
being in lieu thereof made Thesaurer Depute, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice.
Upon the breaking out of the unhappy Civil War in that Reign, he approv'd himself a most faithful Subject and Servant to his Sovereign in his greatest Distress, and lent him considerable Sums of Money at a time when they were look'd upon as Enemies to the Peace of their Country who own'd the King's Cause: Of this his Majesty was so sensible, that when he had nothing left to reward such of his Subjects as firmly adhered to him then, by conferring sundry Titles of Honour on them, he was graciously pleased to advance him to the Honour of Peerage, by the Title of Lord
Carmichael
27th of
December
1647
Diploma Jacobi Domini Carmichael penes Comitem de Hyndford.
.
Upon the Accession of K.
Charles
II. to the Throne of
Scotland
1
st. January
1651, he had his former Patent of Lord ratified, and was constituted one of the Lords of the Privy Council, and Justice Clerk, of which he was soon after deprived by the
English
Usurpation, and thro' the whole course of the Exile of the King, and Suppression of the Royal Cause, he deported himself with great Caution, and retain'd a dutiful Affection to the King, and heartily concurr'd in the Restauration, which he survived 14 Years, giving way to Fate 29th
December
1672
Retour of John Lord Carmichael to James Lord Carmichael his Grandfather in the Chancery.
. His Wife was
Agnes
Sister to
John Wilkie
of
Foultoun,
by whom he had three Sons and four Daughters,
viz.
1. Sir
William
his eldest Son, who in his Youth went over to
France,
where he learn'd the Art of War, and was one of the
Gens d' Armes
to
Lewis
XIII. returning home some time after the commencing of the Civil War, he engag'd in the Service of the Parliament, and commanded, as Colonel, the Regiment of the Shire of
Clidsdale
against the Marquis of
Montrose
at the Battle of
Philiphaugh
1646. He married
Grisel
Daughter of
William
first Marquis of
Douglas,
by whom he had
John
who succeeded his Grandfather, and two Daughters, 1
st. Mary
married to Sir
Archibald Stewart
of
Castlemilk,
and had Issue,
Martha
to
James Weir
of
Stonebyres,
and had Issue.
2. Sir
Daniel Carmichael
of
Mauldsly
Thesaurer Depute to King
Charles
II. who dyed without Succession.
3. Sir
James Carmichael
of
Bonnytoun,
who was a Colonel in the Service of King
Charles
II. at the Battle of
Dunbar,
3d.
September
1650.
1
st.
Daughter
Mary
married to Sir
William Lockhart
of
Carstairs,
Son of Sir
James Lockhart
of
Lee.
2
dly.
to Sir
William Weir
of
Stonebyres,
and had Issue.
2
d. Agnes
to Sir
John Wilkie
of
Foultoun,
and had one Daughter
Agnes
his sole Heir, married to
William
Lord
Ross.
3
d. Anne
to Sir
David Carmichael
of
Balmadie
Baronet, and had one Daughter
Agnes
married to
John Dundass
of
Duddingstoun.
4
th. Martha
to
John Kennedy
of
Kirkmichael
in the County of
Air,
but had no Issue.
To
James
Lord
Carmichael
succeeded
John
his Grandson and Heir, who was one of the
Scots
Peers, who appear'd most early in the Revolution, for which, and many other good Services upon the Prince of
Orange
's advancement to the Throne of these Realms
Anno
1689, he was made one of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord Privy Seal, and sworn of his Privy Council. In the 1690 he was Commissioner to the General Assembly; in which Character he serv'd several times: Likewise in the 1693, he was constituted Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons, which he kept till the Peace at
Reswick
was concluded. In the 1696, his Lordship was promoted to be one of the principal Secretaries of State, and by the favour of the same King raised to the Honour of Earl of
Hyndford,
25th
June
1701, the Narrative of the Patent being,
Propter fidelitatem continuam & affectum fidelissimi nostri Joannis Domini Carmichael nostrae personae & Regnum & quod diversis insignis muneribus nobis ipsi concreditis summo cum honore & fidelitate sancitus sit.
This noble Lord in the great Affair of
Darien,
did show a more than ordinary Concern for the Interest of his Country, which ought to derive his Name down to Posterity as a Patriot of his Country. His Lordship married
Beatrix
Daughter of
David
Lord
Maderty,
by
Beatrix
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Montrose,
by whom he had three Sons who came to Maturity.
1.
James
now Earl of
Hyndford.
2. Mr.
William Carmichael
Advocate.
3
d.
Mr.
Daniel Carmichael
of
Mauldsly.
Beatrix
1st Daughter married to
John Cockburn
Esq
Son and Heir apparent of
Adam Cockburn
of
Ormiestoun
one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
sans
Issue.
Mary
2
d
to
John Montgomery
Esq
Son and Heir apparent of Mr.
Francis Montgomery
of
Giffen,
and had Issue.
Anne
3
d
to
John Maxwell
Esq
first Cousin & apparent Heir to Sir
John Maxwell
of
Pollock
Baronet, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and has Issue.
He departed this Life the 20th of
September
1710
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
, and was succeeded by
James
his Son the present Earl of
Hyndford,
who was in the 1706 made Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons, and
Anno
1710 constituted a Brigadeer General. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Lauderdale,
by whom he has Issue
John
Lord
Carmichael.
ARMS.
Argent
a Fess wrethie
Azure
and
Gules,
supported on the Dexter with a Chevaleer Arm'd in all Points, holding in his Hand a Batton proper, and on the Sinister with a Horse
Argent
furnish'd
Gules,
Crest a dexter Hand and Arm issuing out of a
Torse
armed holding a broken Spear
Proper,
and for Motto,
Tout jour Prest.
KER, Lord
Jedburgh.
N.B.
There is a very ancient Family of this Sirname in the County of Air, Entitul'd Ker of Kersland, where they have been fix'd since the Reign of King Alexander II. as appears from Authorities I have seen, they give a Coat of Arms much the same that the Peers of this Name do, with this difference, that Kersland wears the three Molets on a Bend dexter, and they bear them upon a Cheveron. This Family continu'd from that time in a direct Male Succession till the Days of Queen Mary, that Robert Ker of Kersland having no Male Issue of his Body, Janet his eldest Daughter became his Heir, then the Wife of the famous Captain Thomas Crawfurd of Jordanhill, a younger Brother of the House of Kilbirny, sorenown'd in the History of King James VI. by whom she had several Children, the eldest Son Daniel assumed the Name of Ker, and was the great Grand-father of Major Daniel Ker of Kersland, who was killed at the Battle of Stainkirk Anno 1692.
THERE are two eminent Families of the
Ker
's in the County of
Roxburgh, Cessfurd
and
Ferniehirst,
both long since raised to the Peerage of this Realm, of the latter was Sir
Andrew Ker
of
Ferniehirst,
who was one of the Wardens of the Borders in the time of King
James
V.
Anno
1516
Sir George Mackenzies Account of the Family of Ferniehirst in his Baronage MS.
. He was afterward in 1528, by the same King join'd in Commission with Sir
William Scot
of
Balwery
and
Adam Otterburn
of
Aldam,
to treat about a Peace with the
English,
which they concluded for the space of five Years
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. He married
Janet
Daughter of Sir
Patrick Hume
of
Polwarth,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Marchmont,
and by her he had two Sons, Sir
John
his immediate Successor, and
Robert Ker
of
Ancrum,
Progenitor to the Marquiss of
Lothian,
by whom the Male Line of this noble Family became preserv'd.
Which Sir
John
was knighted by the Duke of
Chatlerault
for his good Service against the
English,
in restraining the Incursions of the Borderers in the time of Queen
Mary Anno
1548, he departing this Life in
July
1562
Charta penes Marchionem de Tweddale.
, left Issue by
Catharin
his Wife Daughter of Sir
Andrew Ker
of
Cessfurd,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Roxburgh, Thomas
his Successor, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
John
Lord
Yester
Charta penes Marchionem de Tweddale.
.
Sir
Thomas Ker
of
Ferniehirst
his Son, was a very Loyal Subject to Queen
Mary,
and asserted her Interest upon all occasions with great Zeal, for which he suffered much from the opposite Party who had the Power in their Hands. He first Married
Janet
Daughter of Sir
William Kirkaldy
of
Grange
Charta in Publicis Archivis.
, by whom he had
Andrew
his Successor, and
Margaret
Wife of
Robert
Lord
Melvil
Ibidem.
. 2
dly Jean
Daughter of Sir
Walter Scot
of
Buccleugh
Ibidem.
, by her he had Sir
James Ker
of
Crailing,
Sir
Robert Ker
the great Favorite of King
James
VI. first created Viscount of
Rochester
and then Earl of
Somerset,
who left a Daughter his sole Heir
Mary,
married to
William
Duke of
Bedford;
also two Daughters,
Juliana
married first to Sir
Patrick Hume
of
Polwarth,
after his Death to
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun,
and
Anne
to
John
Lord
Balmerino,
he dying in
March
1586
Ibidem.
, was succeeded by Sir
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who was constituted one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
VI.
Anno
1584
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, and continuing long in his Favour, he was at length pleased to create him Lord
Jedburgh,
by Letters patent bearing date 2d
February
1622
Ibidem.
. He married
Anne
Daughter of
Andrew
Master of
Ochiltree,
by whom he had
Andrew
his eldest Son, who was one of the Senators of the College of Justice and Captain of his Majesty's Guards
Calderwood's Hist.
, he dyed 20
December
1628, leaving no Issue.
This Lord by his Excess of Expence so intirely consum'd almost the whole Fortune, that at his Death when the Title came to his Brother Sir
James Ker,
there was left upon the Matter nothing to support it; so that he declined to take upon him the Honour, but
Robert,
Sir
James
's Son, by his Industry and Frugality recovering a part of the old Estate of the Family, reassumed the Title of Lord, but having no Children of his own, he made a Resignation of his Honour in favour of
William
Lord
Newbottle,
Son of
Robert
then Earl afterward Marquis of
Lothian,
his nearest Heir Male, to be inherited by the eldest Son of that Family, as a distinct Peerage for ever.
ARMS.
Gules
on a Cheveron
Argent,
three Molets of the first, Supporters two Angels, Crest, a Bucks Head caboss'd
Proper,
Register of the Lyons Office.
Motto,
Forward in the Name of God.
CAMPBEL, Earl of
Islay.
ARchibald
Earl of
Islay
is the second Son of
Archibald
1st Duke of
Argyle
and
Elizabeth Talmash
his Dutchess, who being a young Nobleman of very bright Parts, his Polite and early Accomplishments appear'd first publickly in the Parliament 1705, where he had the place of Lord high Thesaurer of
Scotland,
being then but 21 Years of Age, herein his excellent Faculties became soon very much perceiv'd and admir'd, in so much that when her Majesty nominated certain Commissioners to treat upon that important Affair of uniting the two Crowns, his Lordship was appointed one of that Number for the Kingdom of
Scotland;
and soon after the Conclusion of the Treaty by them, her Majesty was graciously pleased to raise him to an hereditary Honour by the Titles of Earl of
Islay,
Viscount of
Islay,
Lord
Ornsay, Dunoon
and
Aross,
29th of
October
1706,
Charta in Rotulis Annae Reginae.
and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten. When the Parliament of
Scotland
determined upon the Commencement of the Union, my Lord
Islay
was chosen one of the 16 Peers that first composed the Parliament of Great
Britain;
likewise to two Parliaments following since that time, in which he distinguish'd himself as a Person truly interested in the Service of his Country.
In the 1708 his Lordship was made an Extraordinary Lord of the Session; but that being a place of Honour not of Profit, the Queen to reward his Services preferred him to be Justice General of
Scotland,
upon the surrender of
George
Earl of
Cromarty Anno
1710, which together with the Government of
Dunbarton
Castle, he at present enjoys, and is one of her Majestys most honourable Privy Council, to which he was called, the 13th
December
1711.
James Campbel,
Earl of
Irvine.
WAS the only Son of
Archibald
7th Earl of
Argyle,
by
Anne
his second Wife Daughter of Sir
William Cornwallis
of
Bromme, in Vic. de Suffolk,
who betaking himself early to the profession of Arms, enter'd into the Service of
Lewis
XIII. of
France,
and had the Command of a Regiment in the War against the
Spaniards,
which broke out in the 1634, wherein he deported himself so worthily, that King
Charles
I
to countenance his Merit, was pleased to confer on him the Honour of Earl of
Irvine,
28th of
March
1642
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
but he left no Son to succeed him in the Honour, which thereby became extinct sometime before the Restauration of King
Charles
II.
INGRAM, Viscount of
Irvine.
AMong other well deserving and worthy Persons of the
English
Nation, who have been raised to
Scots
Honour since the Union of the Crowns, was Sir
Arthur Ingram
of
Temple-Newson
of the County of
York,
who was by King
Charles
II. honour'd with this Title, by Letters patent, bearing Date the 3d of
May
1661,
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
.
MACDONALD, Lord of the
Isles.
ALtho' the
Macdonalds
do not yield to any other Name or Family in
Scotland
either in Antiquity or Grandeur, yet the History of them does not run higher than
Somerled Thane
of
Argyle
in the Time of
Malcolm
IV. yet the Monuments that remain of him do show that his Race was great and anterior to the Age he liv'd in. This
Somerled
the first conspicuous Person of this Line being a very great and powerful Man by his own hereditary Possessions upon the Western Continent, became yet greater, by adding the
Aebudae
or West Isles to his Fortune, by the Marriage of the Heir Female of
Olaus,
formerly the Lord thereof, whereupon he assum'd to himself the Title of
King of the Isles,
which was so ill taken by King
Malcolm,
that he proclaim'd
Somerled
a Rebel, and sent a Body of Men against him under the Command of
Walter
high Stewart of
Scotland,
by whom his Army was routed, and himself killed in the Battle
Anno Chr.
1164
Chron. de Melross.
, but the
Macdonald
's contravert this upon the Authority of their Bards and S
chies, whose memorial Records are in great Veneration with that People: Be this as it will, it's certain that
Somerled
was succeeded in the Jurisdiction and Property of the Isles by his Son.
Reginald
always design'd
filius Sorleti,
and promiscuously
Dominus de Ergyle & Inchegal
Charta fundations Monasterii de Sandal in publicis Archivis & Chartulario Monasterii Pasletensis.
. He was a prodigious Benefactor to the Church, when the Faith of the Age was, That whatever was given to the Church and the Clergy, did not a little Merit with God Almighty, for he founded the Abbey of
Sandale
within his own Territory of
Kintyre
for Cistertian Monks
Monasticon Scoticanum penes me MS.
, and mortified thereunto the Lands of
Glassaddill
and
Baltebean,
together with the Lands of
Casken
in the Island of
Arran
Charta Confirmationis in Rot
lis Jacobi IV Davidi Episcopo Lismoren. Abbaciae de Sandal annexatum Episcopatui suo Anno 1507.
: and to the Monastery of
Paisly
he gave very great and ample Donations that he and
Fonia
his Wife be entitul'd to all the Privileges of Brotherhood in that Convent, and of the whole Rights and Order of
Cluny
Chartula Pasletensis penes Comitem de Dundonald.
, when or where he passed from this to another Life, does not appear to me; but he left a Son behind him to inherit his Estate,
Dovenald
by Name
In the Mortifications to Paisly he is designed Dovenaldus filius Reginaldi filii Somerledi.
, who imitated the Liberality of his Father to the Church, particularly the Monks of
Paisly
shared of his Munificence right liberally, for to that House he gave in free Gift and Donation many and very ample Testimonies of his Charity and good will, on the Condition,
Quod ille, uxor sua, haeredes sui & homines sui participes sint in perpetuum omnium bonorum quae in Domo de Paslet & in toto ordine Cluniacensi fient tam in orrationibus quam in coeteris divinis servitiis.
This
Dovenald
left Issue two Sons,
Aengus
of
Isles,
and
Alexander
who founded another Tribe, called
The Macalasters,
of whom
Loup
in
Argyle
-shire is reckoned to be the Stem and Chief.
This
Aengus,
as his Father and Grand-father had done, entred himself a Brother in the Convent of
Paisly,
for which he gave the House
Dimidiam Marcam argenti de Domo sua propria & de singulis domibus per omnes terras suas de quibus fumus exit unum denarium singulis Annis in perpetuum in puram Eleemosynam.
Moreover, he gave to the same Monastery the Patronage of the Church of
Kilkeran
in
Kintyre, Pro salute animae Domini sui Alexandri illustris Regis Scotiae & Alexandri filii ejus, etiam pro salute sua propria & haeredum suorum
Charta Mortif. Aengusii filii Dovenaldi Ecclesiae de Kelkeran Abbati & Conventui de P
slet in Chartulario Dicti Monasterii in mea Custodia per favorem Nobilissimi Comitis Joa
nis Comitis de Dundonald.
. During the Reign of
Alexander
III. this great Person deported himself very loyally and dutifully to the Crown, and when that King came to settle the Succession upon his Grandchild
Margaret
of
Norway.
He was one of the
Primores Regni,
Prime Nobles, who swore that they would faithfully adhere to and defend her Title, to which he set his Seal in a solemn Assembly held in the Year 1284 for that effect. He died not long after this, leaving two Sons,
Alexander,
and
John
of whom the Clan
Ean
of
Ardnamurchan
and its Branches are sprung.
Which
Alexander
Lord of the
Isles
I find this Alexander designed Filius & haeres Aengusii Donaldi de Insulis, in a Confirmation by him to the Monks of Paisly, of the Patronage of the Church of St. Querran, recorded in the Register of that Abbey.
, whom I have found entitul'd
Alexander de Insulis Scotiae filius Aengusii filii Dovenaldi,
in a Commission directed to him for keeping the Peace within his Bounds of the Isles,. after the Death of Queen
Margaret, Anno Dom.
1292
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, and was one of the Loyal Barons who declared he would own the Title of whatever Person should be adjudged to have the nearest Right in Blood to the deceast
Alexander
III. Accordingly, when the Crown was decreed to
John de Baliol,
he owned his Title, submitted to his Authority, and stood by him as long as that unworthy Prince could think any honest
Scots
Man was bound to adhere to him. As he was a most loyal, so he seems to have been a very Devout Man, according to the Piety of the Time, for he ratified to the Monks of
Sandal
the Donations and Concessions of his Ancestors, adding also several more of his own to that Convent for the ordinary Performances that Gifts were then given to the Church for;
Memorial of the Mackdonalds, in the hands of Sir Donald Mackdonald of Slate.
and to the Abbacy of
Paisly
he ratified his Father's Grant of the Church of
Kilkeran,
to which he appends his own Seal, together with the Seals of
Laurence
Bishop of
Argyle,
and
Robert Bruce
Earl of
Carrick,
for the more sure Verification of his Deed
Register of the Abbey of Paisly.
. He made his Exit out of this Life in the 1303, and was succeeded by
Aengus More,
his Son, a Person of eminent Affection and Fidelity to King
Robert
the
Bruce.
He was among the first who did engage himself with the Royal Party, and raised a Body of two thousand Men, and on the Head of them charged at the Battle of
Bannockburn
against the
English,
with as much Courage and Gallantry as Man could do, which the venerable Mr.
Barber
has recorded as follows.
Angus
of
Isles
and
Boot
alswa,
And of the plain Lands, he had
Of armed Men a noble Rout,
His Battle stalward was and Stout,
He said the Rear guard he would ma
,
And even before him should ga
The Van-Guard, and on either hand
The other Battle should be gangand,
Behind oneside a little space,
And the King that behind them was
Should see, whair there was maist mister
And then reli
them with his Banner.
As this illustrious Person had no little share in the Honour of that glorious Victory, so he continued in his Princes Service with singular Loyalty and Constancy to the End with all the Disadvantages it was liable to, only out of Conscience to the justice of the Cause, and Compassion to his bleeding Country, which has derived his Name down to Posterity, as a noble and most worthy Patriot. By . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . his Wife, he had Issue,
Aengus
Lord of the
Isles,
his Son, of whom I find nothing remarkable either in History, or in their own Traditions, only that by his Wife a Daughter of
O Cane,
the Chistain of a Tribe in
Ireland
Genealogy of the Mackdonalds, in the Custody of Sir Donald Mackdonald of Slate.
, he had a Son
John
of
Isle,
Lord of the Isles who being a very powerful and well deserving Person, stood in so great favour with King
Robert
II. especially for his loyal Deportment toward him in the beginning of his Reign, that he gave him the Lady
Margaret
his Daughter in Marriage
There are three distinct Charters in the Rolls of King Robert II. to this John Lord of the Isles, and Margaret his Wife the King's Daughter in the 1376.
, which produc'd three Sons and two Daughters,
viz. Donald
Lord of the
Isles, John
of
Isle
the 2d was first of the Branch of
Dunniveg
and
Gli
s
I have several Documents to prove this Descent of Dunniveg
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Antrim
of the Kingdom of
Ireland, Alexander
the 3d Progenitor of
Mackdonald
of
Keppoch
Sir George Mackenzie's Collections MS.
,
in Vic. de Inverness.
Margaret
first Daughter married to
Nicolas
Earl of
Sutherland
Genealogical History of the Earls of Sutherland, by Sir Robert Gordon MS
, and had Issue.
Elisabeth
the 2d to
Lachlan Mackgillean
of
Dowart
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, and had Issue.
Donald
Lord of the
Isles,
Son of the last named
John,
thought fit to strengthen himself in the beginning of his Days by bestowing several Vassalages on great Men, upon Condition to become his Retainers
Ibidem.
, which made him very powerful in these Parts. He continued Loyal till that
Robert
Duke of
Albany
the Governour of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
James
I. prevailed upon
Eupha
e
the young Countess. of
Ross,
to resign the Earldom of
Ross,
when she render'd her self a Religious in
Northberwick
Nunnery, in favours of
John
Earl of
Buchan
his Son, in pre judice of this Lord and his Wife; who was Aunt to the said Countess of
Ross,
and so undoubted Heir of that Earldom after her decease: But when he put in his Claim, the Governour told him the Resignation was legal, and that he would maintain it. Whereupon
Donald
Lord of the
Isles
resolved to assert his Right by force of Arms, and incontinently raised an Army of ten thousand Highlanders, and marched through
Ross
and
Murray
down to
Aberdeen
shire, where he was encounter'd by
Alexander Stewart
Earl of
Mar,
with the Army under his Command the Governo
r had raised to oppose him, at a Village called
Hairlaw,
on St.
James
's Day 1411, Where a bloody Conflict happened, with great Loss on both sides; yet the Lord of the
Isles
had the better, and thereby put himself in Possession of the Earldom of
Ross,
which was such a vast Addition to his paternal Fortune, that he became too great a Subject, and afterward was the occasion of the fall of his Family. This
Donald
Earl of
Ross,
died
Anno
1427
Sir George Mackenzie's Genealogical Collections.
, leaving Issue by
Euphame
his Wife, Daughter of
Walter Lesly
Lord of the Earldom of
Ross
by
Euphame
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Ross
Charta penes Dominum Saltoun
,
Alexander
Earl of
Ross
his Son and Heir, who was one of the Peers that sat upon the Trial of
Murdo
Duke of
Albany,
by whom that unhappy Duke was adjudged to lose his Head,
Anno
1424
History of Scotland by John Major compared with the History of the Royal Family published 1710.
. After which he fell into several disloyal Practices, but upon his humble Submission was pardoned, and to repair for all these Transgressions, he gave several Donations to the Monks of
Sandal,
and to other religious Persons, as the most compendious way to atone God's Justice, and procure him the favour of Heaven, as was the Belief of that Age
Charta in publicis Archivis ad annum 1507.
. He was also in the 3d of King
James
II.
Anno
1440 Justiciar of
Scotland
benorth the River of
Forth
Ibidem.
, which Office he executed for some Years after. His Wife was . . . . . . Daughter of Sir
Alexander Seaton
of
Gordon,
Sister to
Alexander
first Earl of
Huntly
Mr. Ferrerius History of the Family of Huntly courteously afforded me by that great and noble Patron of Learning and Antiquity George Earl of Cromerty.
, by whom he left Issue,
John
Earl of
Ross
Hugh
of
Isle
of
Slate,
Ancestor to Sir
Donald Mackdonald
of
Slate
Baronet.
Elisabeth
married to
John
Earl of
Sutherland.
Which
John
Lord of the
Isles
and Earl of
Ross,
continued a very loyal Subject to King
James
II. till he entred into an offensive and defensive League with the Earls of
Douglass, Crawfurd, Murray,
and
Ormond,
by which each Party was obliged to assist one another upon all extraordinary occasions: But that Combination being adjudged treasonable, he submited himself to the King's Clemency, and was received into favour. Soon after which, when a Treaty of Peace was concluded with the
English Anno
1457, he was appointed one of the Conservators thereof
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae lately published.
.
Upon the untimely Death of King
James
II. this Lord being dissatisfied with the Government of the Regents, to whom the Administration of Affairs was committed during the Minority of the young King
James
III. he broke out into an open Rebellion, and so far renounced his Allegiance to his Native Prince, as to bind himself to become Liege-man and Subject to
Edward
IV. of
England,
by a solemn Indenture betwixt them in the 1460
Ibidem.
, for which, and other high Misdemeanours, he was on the 27 of
Nov.
1475 forfaulted by a Sentence of Parliament
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, notwithstanding the King at the Request of his Queen, and the whole Parliament assembled at
Edinburgh,
25
July
1476, and by reason of the Propinquity of Blood the said
John
stood in to the Crown, his Majesty with Consent of the Estates of Parliament, was pleased to restore him,
in Dominium nostrum Parliamenti & Baronum, & de novo facimus & creamus ipsum Joannem Dominum Insularum perpetuis temporibus nuncupand & damus dicto Joanni suisque haeredibu
& Successoribus temporibus futuris Insulam de Tla, & omnes alias insulas quae sibi Joanni ante dictam forisfacturam haereditarie pertinuerunt, ac terras de Morvern, Garmorvern cum pertinen. in Vic. de Innerness, ac terras de Greenend cum pertinen. in Comitatu de Carrick & Vic. de Air, Dominium de Lochaber, Terras de Dunern, Glatail, in Vic. de Innerness, ac Terras de Kinedward in Vic. de Aberdeen, cum omnibus aliis Terris suis excepto Commitatu de Ross, Dominium de Kintyre & Knapdail dicto Joanni & haeredibus masculis ipsius corporis quibus deficientibus Aengusio de Tle filio suo naturali & haeredibus masculis ipsius corporis legitime procreatis, quibus deficientibus, legitimis haeredibus masculis dicti Joannis quibuscunque
Ibidem ad annum 1476.
.
This Earl married
Elisabeth
Daughter of
James
Lord
Livingstoun,
Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland,
by whom he had no Issue, so that the Lordship of the Isles upon his decease in the 1493, devolved to
Donald
his Grandson, Son of
Aengus
his natural Son, by
Isobel
Daughter of
Colin
Earl of
Argyle,
who dying unmarried, about the 1535, King
James
V. assumed the Lordship of the Isles into his own hands, tho, according to the Conception of the Act of Restauration of
John
Earl of
Ross
above-mentioned, it was provided to his Heirs Male, and consequently the Right of Succession came to the Family of
Slate,
the Descendents of
Hugh
of
Isle,
younger Brother of
John
Earl of
Ross,
whose Descendents have been always distinguished from the other Tribes of the Name, and called
Mackdonalds
absolutely, and by way of Eminence.
Mr. Martin's Description of the Isles pag. 211.
This
John
Earl of
Ross,
gave by his Charter
Carissimo fratri suo Hugoni
Alexandri de Insulis Domino de Slate, Terras de Sherb
g
Charta in publicis Archivis.
. He married
Fyn vola
Daughter of
John Mackean
Baron of
Arduamurchan, in Vic. de Argyle
Genealogy of Slate penes D. Donaldum Mackdonald Baronet.
, by whom he had a Son
John,
who succeeded him; also by his second Wife Daughter of . . . . . . . .
Gunn
of
Sutherland,
he had
Donald
of whom the Family of
Slate
is descended. This
Hugh
dying
Anno
1498
Ibidem.
,
John
his Son succeeded him, and died
sans
Issue,
Anno
1502
Ibidem.
, his Estate descending to
Donald
his Brother, who died a young Man about the 1506
Ibidem.
, leaving a Son
Donald
by . . . . . . his Wife Daughter of . . . . .
Mackdonald,
a Branch of that Name of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
Who succeeded him, and married a Daughter of
Mackdonald
of
Mudort,
by whom he had
Donald
who succeeded him. He died
Anno
1534.
Which
Donald
upon the Death of his Cousin Lord
Donald
of the
Isles
in the 1535
Ibidem.
, claimed the Lordship of the Isles, as lawful Heir Male of
John
Earl of
Ross,
but King
James
V. for the better effectuating the Project of civilizing the
Highlanders,
thought the suppressing the greatness of the Lord of the Isles, and the dissolving his Vassalage, a very proper and expedient Mean for attaining that End, and positively refused to give him Possession of the Lands and Lordship of the Isles, which had formerly been erected by Act of Parliament in favours of
John
Earl of
Ross,
and his Heirs Male: Whereupon he resolved to possess himself of what he thought was his Right by force of Arms, and raising a considerable Body of Men, he laid formal Siege to the Fort of
Elendounan,
where the King had placed a Garrison, before which he was shot dead with an Arrow,
Anno
1537
Ibidem.
, leaving a young Child his Son
Donald
by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
Roderick Mackleod
of the
Lewes,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Cromerty,
who notwithstanding of the For
aulture of his Father, was afterward restored by Queen
Mary
to his Estate of
Slate,
tho never to the Lordship of the Isles, he making no Claim thereto, by reason of the unquiet State of the Country, occasioned through the Civil War, which broke out in the 1567: this Gentleman then acting a very loyal and grateful part for the Interest of the Queen, and persisting in her Service to the end of the War. He wedded
Mary
Daughter of
Hector Mackclean
of
Dowart,
and departing this Life
Anno
1585, left Issue three Sons,
Donald, Archibald
and
Alexander.
Which
Donald
being a Man of Parts and Letters, was particularly favour'd and esteem'd by King
James
VI. at whose Command he contributed very much towards suppressing the In
olencies of the
Mackleods
of
Lewes,
and other disorderly
Highlanders,
and reduc'd them to much greater Civility and Loyalty than they had been accustomed to, or was formerly known in these Parts. He married
Margaret
Sister to
Colin Mackenzie
Lord
Kintail
Ibidem.
, by whom he had no Issue, and departing this Life in the Month of
December
1616
Chart
in Cancellaria Sereniffimae D
min
nostrae Reginae.
, his Fortune came immediately to
Donald Mackdonald
his Nephew, Son of
Archibald
his Brother, by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Aeneas Mackdonald
of
Dunniveg
and
Glins, in Vic. de Argyle,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Antrim
in
Ireland.
Which
Donald
being a Gentleman of a fair Fortune, and standing much in the Favour of King
Charles
I. his said Majesty on the 14 of
July
1625, the Year he erected the Degree and Dignity of Baronet, promoted him to that Honour, his Patent having this Speciality,
viz. Quod dictus Dominus Donaldus Mackdonald de Slate, haeredes sui masculi & assignati locum habebunt ante Dominum Willielmum Douglas de Glenbervy Militem Baronettum, Dominum Alexandrum Strachan de Thorntoun Militem Baronettum & Dominum Davidem Livingstoun de Dunipace militem Baronettum, non obstan. quod ipsorum literae patentes sub sigillo nostro hactenus expeditae sunt, hac ratione, quod priusquam nos ipsorum signaturas signavimus expresse nobis pacti sunt & concordarunt & volenter consenserunt quod dictus Dominus Donaldus Mackdonald ante ipsos locum haberet ut praemititur.
So by vertue of this Clause he came to be immediate next Baronet to Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Gordonstoun,
and the second of that Order in the Kingdom of
Scotland.
When the Civil War broke out,
Anno
1639, be devoted himself entirely to the King's Service, and contributed very much to make some Discoveries of the secret Designs of the Covenanters of great Consequence to his Majesty: But he died not long thereafter in
October
1643, leaving Issue by
Janet
his Wife, Sister to
Colin
first Earl of
Seaforth,
Sir
James,
of whom hereafter;
Donald Mackdonald
of
Castletoun,
who was famous for his Loyalty in the time of the Civil War,
Archibald, Aeneas
&
Alexander;
likewise four Daughters.
1.
Margaret
married to
Aeneas
Lord
Mackdonald.
2.
Catharine
to
Kenneth Mackenzie
of
Garloch.
3.
Janet
to
Donald Mackdonald
Captain of
Clan Ronald.
4.
Mary
to Sir
Evan Cameron
of
Lochiel.
Sir
James Mackdonald
of
Slate
his Son followed his Father's steps in adhering to the Royal Cause in the time of the Civil War, was with the Marquis of
Montrose
at the Siege of
Innerness Anno
1645, and contributed much in making the Clans join that renown'd General, when he promulgated the King's Commission. After the Murder of the King, and the total Suppression of the Royal Party, he, like many others of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom, affected to lead a retir'd Life during the Usurpation that followed for several Years after, taking care to live with that Circumspection which was necessary in so ticklish Times. But this did not secure him from being called in Question upon the King's Restauration for his not being active enough against the Rebels; tho I'm credibly informed from a very noble and worthy Person, who knew him particularly well
The Right Honourable George Earl of Cromerty his Nephew in Law.
, that there was not a more Loyal Gentleman in
Scotland.
His first Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Roderick Mackenzie
of
Tarbat,
Grandfather to the Earl of
Cromerty.
By her he had Sir
Donald
his eldest Son,
Hugh Mackdonald
of
Glenmore, Sorlie Mackdonald
of
Sartle, Catharine
Wife of Sir
Norman Mackleod
of
Bernary,
and
Florence
married to
John Mackleod
of that Ilk. His second Wife was
Mary
Daughter of
Roderick Mackleod
of that Ilk, by whom he had a Son
John Mackdonald
of
Backny.
He departed this mortal Life 8 of
December
1678.
Sir
Donald Mackdonald
his Son, married
Mary
Daughter to
Robert
Earl of
Morton.
By her he had 1
st,
Sir
Donald
his Son and Heir. 2
d, James
of
Oransay.
3
d, William Mackdonald
Esq
Isobel
eldest Daughter married to Sir
Alexander Bannerman
of
Elsick, in Vic. de Aberdeen;
and
Barbara
to Coll.
Mackdonald
of
Keppoch.
He made his Exit out of this Life 5
Feb.
1695, and was succeeded by Sir
Donald
his Son, who married
Mary
Daughter to
Donald Mackdonald
of
Castletoun,
and had
Donald
his Son and Heir.
ERSKINE Earl of
Kelly.
IS descended of Sir
Alexander Erskine
of
Gogar
Son of
John
Lord
Erskine
by
Margaret
Daughter of
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle,
who upon the Death of his Brother
John
Earl of
Mar
Regent of
Scotland,
was entrusted with the Custody of the young King, and the keeping of the Castle of
Stirling:
Which great Trust he discharged with Honour and Integrity. Likewise in the 1578, he was constituted Governour of the Castle of
Edinburgh,
and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and last of all, Vice-Chamberlain of
Scotland, Anno
1580.
Crawfurd's Memoirs.
His Character is thus drawn by Sir
James Melvill
his Contemporary,
That he was a gallant well natur'd Gentleman, lov'd and honour'd by all Men for his good Qualities and great Discretion, noways Factious or Envious, a lover of all honest Men, and desired ever to see Men of good Conversation about the Prince, rather than his own Friends, if he found them not so meet.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of
George
Lord
Hume,
Charta in publicis Archivis.
by whom he had Sir
Alexander
his eldest Son, a very hopeful young Gentleman, who was slain at the Surprize of the Castle of
Stirling,
20 of
April
1578.
Crawfurd's Memoirs.
Sir
Thomas
the first Earl of
Kelly,
Sir
George Erskine
of
Innertyle,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice. Likewise three Daughters,
Jean
married to
James Crichton
of
Ruthven,
and had Issue,
Janet
to
John Lesly
of
Balquhain,
Mother by him to
Walter
the first Count
Lesly
of
Germany; Mary
to Sir
Dugal Campbel
of
Achinbreck,
and had Issue.
Sir
Thomas Erskine
the first Earl of
Kelly,
being educated with King
James
VI. from his very Childhood, came thereby to have a more than ordinary Familiarity with that Prince, who made him one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber,
Anno
1585, and bestowed many Marks of his special Esteem on him. He lived always at Court without doing any thing on Record till the 5 of
August
1600. He was one of those who were the happy Instruments in rescuing the King from the treasonable Attempt of
John
Earl of
Gowrie
and his Brother
Alexander Ruthven,
Sir
Thomas
happning to kill the latter as he came down Stairs, where he and his Majesty had the Conference. In regard of which signal & m
ritorious Service, he was rewarded with the Lands and Lordship of
Dirletoun,
from which place he had the Title of Lord conferr'd on him,
Anno
1603, at which time accompanying his Majesty to
England,
he was made Captain of the
English
Guard, upon the removal of Sir
Walter Rawleigh.
Further, in the 1606, he was raised to the Dignity of Viscount of
Fentoun;
and finally, in Consideration of his long & faithful Services to that Prince, he was created Earl of
Kelly
12
March
1619, and elected Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter;
and departing this Life 12
June
1639,
Balfour's Annals.
he left Issue by
Anne
his Wife Daughter of
Gilbert Ogilvy
of
Pourie,
two Sons
Thomas
and
Alexander,
and a Daughter
Anne,
Wife of Sir
Robert Moubray
of
Barnbougal.
Which
Thomas
second Earl of
Kelly
died unmarried in the 1643,
Guthrie's Mem
irs.
his Estate and Honour devolving on
Alexander
his Brother, who suffered much for his Loyalty during the Usurpation, but living to see the King restored, he died
Anno
1677,
Charta in Cancellaria sereniss. D. N. R.
leaving Issue by
Anne
his Wife Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Dumferm
ing, Alexander
his Successor, and Sir
Charles Erskine
of
Cambo
Lord
Lyon
King at Arms: Likewise three Daughters,
Mary
married to
Gavin
Earl of
Carnwath, Sophia
to
Alexander
Lord
Saltoun, Margaret
to
William
Lord
Forbes,
but had no Issue.
Which
Alexander
married first
Mary
Daughter of Colonel
Kilpatrick
Governour of the
Bush
in
Holland,
by whom he had only a Daughter
Mary
married to Sir
Alexander Erskine
of
Cambo
Lord
Lyon
King at Arms. His second Wife was
Mary
Daughter of Sir
John Dalziel
of
Glenae,
by whom he had a Son
Alexander
who succeeded him upon his Death,
Anno
1692.
Ibid.
He married
Anne
Daughter of
Colin
Earl of
Balcarras,
and departing this Life 8
March
1710,
Ibid.
left a Son
Alexander
now Earl of
Kelly
to inherit his Estate and Honour, and a Daughter Lady
Jean.
ARMS.
Quarterly first
Gules,
an imperial Crown within a double Tressure counterflowr'd
Or,
2d
Argent,
a Pale
Sable
supported by two Griffons. Crest, a Demi-Lyon Rampant
Gules.
Motto,
Decori Decus addit avito.
MACLELLAN, Lord
Kirkcudbright.
ANY who reads the History of the
Scots
Nation, will plainly perceive the Antiquity as well as the Grandeur of this Family: That they were likewise Sheriffs of
Galloway
in ancient Times, is past Dispute; which Office continued in their Family till the Reign of King
James
II. that by a Forfaulture it came to the Crown. Then it was erected into two distinct Jurisdictions,
viz.
The Sherifship of
Wigtoun,
and the Stewartry of
Kirkcudbright,
both these Offices being given to other Families. It was at that time likewise, I'm told, that the Writs and Evidents of
Bombie
were destroyed, which is the Reason I have not seen much concerning them before that Period, tho by the Tradition they were then so numerous and well spread in Branches, that there were no fewer than twelve Knights of the Name, concerning some of whom I have seen Writings which make them very considerable in the Government of
Murdoch
Duke of
Albany.
I have seen a Charter in the Hands of Robert Maclellan of Barclay in the 1422, wherein there is mention of Sir John Maclellan of Gelstoun▪ The rest of the Knights of the Maclellans before the Forfaulture. the Tradition says, were Ravenstoun, Kilchrichie, Sorby, Glenshinnock, Troquhain, Barholm, Kirkonell, Kirkormock, Kirkgaunan, Bardrochat, Borg, Coven and Barscob, all extinct save the last, which of consequence is an ancient Family.
Sir
Patrick Maclellan
of
Bombie,
Nephew to the Lord
Gray
by his Mother in the Reign of King
James
II. happening to take part with the Lord
Harris
his near Ally against the Earl of
Douglas, Maclellan
was besieged by the Earl in his own Castle of
Raebery,
which at last he forced him to surrender; and notwithstanding the King's Interposition, he put him to Death; which Deed afterwards cost the Earl his Life. Sir
Patrick Maclellan
was interr'd in the
Abbey Church
of
Dundrenan,
under a Monument of Free-Stone, containing his Effigies, as big as the Life, with this Inscription in great
Roman
Capitals.
Hic jacet vir honorabilis Dominus Patricius Maclellanus. Dominus de Wigtoun, & Vice comes Gallovidiae qui obiit Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo secundo, cujus anima requiescat in pace.
The Death of this Gentleman Sir
Patrick Maclellan
was so deeply resented by his Relations of the Sirname of
Mackclellan,
that they committed great Depredations upon the
Douglas's
Lands within the bounds of
Galloway,
without any Warrant or Authority; for which Action, the Laird of
Bom
i
himself, and most of his Friends who were engaged in that Enterprize were forfaulted in the Reign of King
James
II. The B
rony of
Bombie
was again recovered by the
M
clellans,
as the Tradition goes, after this Manner. In the same Reign, says an Author of no small Credit,
Sir George Mackenzie in his Baronage MS.
it happned that a Company of
Sarace
s
or
Gipsies
from
Ireland,
infested the Country of
Galloway;
whereupon the King emitted a Proclamation, bearing,
That whoever should disperse them, and bring in their Captain dead or alive, should have the Barony of
Bombie
for his Reward.
So it chanced that a brave young Gentleman the Laird of
Bombie
's Son fortun'd to kill the Person for which the Reward was promised, and he brought his Head on the point of his Sword to the King, and thereupon he was immediately seized in the Barony of
Bombie;
and to perpetnate the Memory of that brave and remarkable Action, he took for his Crest a
More
's Head on the point of a Sword, and THINK ON for his Motto.
His Successor
Thomas Maclellan
of
Bombie,
in the Reign of King
James
IV. was active and serviceable to the Crown on sundry Occasions, and seems to have been a very considerable Man in the account of that Age. By
Agnes
his Wife Daughter of Sir
James Dunbar
of
Mochrum,
Mr. Thomson's Genealogical Collections.
he had three Sons, Sir
William
his Successor.
Gilbert
the second Son was Ancestor of the
Maclellans
of
Barmagachan
in the Stewartry of
Kirkcudbright
There is a Charter in the Hands of Ephraim Maclellan of Barmagachan, which instructs that this Gilbert his Predecessor, was married to Janet Daughter to the Lord Harris, and that he had by her two Sons, Thomas Maclellan his Successor in Barmagachan, and William Maclellan of Balmangan, of which Branch Sir Samuel Maclellan late Provost of Edinburgh was descended by a younger Brother. The foresaid Thomas the elder Brother, was Father of another William Maclellan of Barmagachan, and he of Thomas, as he was of another Robert Maclellan of the Place foresaid, Father of another Robert, whose eldest Son is Ephraim Maclellan of Barmagachan, and Robert Maclellan of Barclay is his 2d Son, by whom I had the most part of the Memoirs of this Family transmitted to me, of which I have composed this Account.
, and
John Mackclellan
of
Achlean,
which Branch is long ago extinct.
William Maclellan
of
Bombie,
Son to the former
Thomas,
was knighted by King
James
IV. who likewise gave him many Lands in the parts of
Galloway.
He was slain with the said King his Master at the Battle of
Flowdoun
9
Sept.
1513. leaving Issue by
Elizabeth Mur
his Wife
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
a Son
Thomas Maclellan
of
Bombie,
who was killed by the Barons of
Drumlanrig
and
Lochiuvar
his potent Neighbours, with whom he had a Feud at the time on the high Street of
Edinburgh
the 11 of
July
1526,
History of Scotland in Manuscript.
leaving a Son Sir
Thomas
to succeed him, then in Minority, who in the 1542 obtained a Charter from Queen
Mary,
of all the Lands which he held of the Crown, belonging either to
Thomas Maclellan
of
Bombie
his Father, or which Sir
William
his Grandfather died possessed of,
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
which in those Days was a very fair Fortune. He made a prudent and discreet Match with
Helen
Daughter of
James Gordon
of
Lochinvar,
Ibidem.
to reconcile and agree a Feud betwixt the Families; and after her Death
Grisel
Daughter of
John Maxwel
Lord
Harris,
by whom he had Sir
Robert Maclellan
the first Lord
Kirkcudbright, William Maclellan
of
Glenshinnoch,
and
John Maclellan
of
Bourg.
He departed this mortal Life
Anno
1607, and was interred in the Vault of the Family, within the Church of
Kirkcudbright,
with this Inscription on his Tomb,
Hic situs est D. T. Maclellanus & uxor,
D. Grisel Maxwell marmor utrumque tegit
Hic Genitus R. L. Kircubrius; ecce Sepulchrum
Posuit hoc Chari patris honore sui,
Sir
Robert Maclellan
of
Bombie
his Son, was made a Knight by King
James
VI. whose Favourite he was, and afterwards one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber. King
Charles
continued him in the same Imployment, and first raised him to the Honour of Baronet; and thereafter by Letters Patent bearing Date the 25 of
May
1633, preserred him to the Peerage by the Title of Lord
Kirkcudbright.
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
He married first
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Matthew Campbel
of
Lowdoun,
by whom he had a Daughter
Marion,
married to Sir
Robert Maxwel
of
Orchardtoun;
2
dly, Mary
Daughter of
Hugh Montgomery
Viscount of
Airds
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
but by her he had no Issue, and departing this Life
Anno
1641, his Estate and Title of Lord came to
Thomas Maclellan
his Nephew, who marrying
Janet
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Queensberry,
died without Issue in
May
1648
Charta in Cancellaria Serenis. D. N. R.
.
John Maclellan
of
Bourg
succeeding him in the Honour, this Lord did signalize himself in his Loyalty to King
Charles
II. in the time of the Civil Troubles, and at his own proper Charge raised a Regiment of Foot for his Majesty's Service, which necessarly brought a vast Burden of Debt on him, and the Expence being never refounded, his Estate was evicted by his Creditors after the Restauration of the King, and dying
Anno
1664, he left Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Maxwel
of
Orchardtoun, William
Lord
Kirkcudbright
his Son and Heir, who died a young Man unmarried,
Anno
1669, so that the honorary Title of Lord should descend to
James Maclellan
of
Achlean,
his Cousin and nearest Heir Male; but there being nothing remaining of the Fortune to support the Dignity, it has not been used since that Time.
ARMS.
Or,
A Cheveron surmounted of another,
Sable;
Suppporters two Chevaliers, Crest a Moor's Head on the point of a Sword, Motto,
Think on.
GORDON, Viscount of
Kenmure.
SIR
Adam Gordon
Knight, his Ancestor, obtained from King
Robert
I. the Barony of
Stichhell
in
Roxburgh
-shire, in the ninth Year of his Reign, in reward of his good Services.
Miscellany Collections of Charters.
Hence in the time of
James
III. descended
John Gordon
of
Lochinvar,
who by
Margaret Lindsay
his Wife
Charta in publicis Archivis. There are sundry Charters under the Great Seal by King James IV. to this John Gordon of Lochinvar: As also I have seen a Charter of Confirmation by the same King, ratifying a Grant which Dougal Maclellan made of the Lands of Traquhain to George Gordon Brother to John Gordon of Lochinvar, 2d March 1494, whose lineal Successor is James Gordon now of Traquhain.
had Sir
Alexander
his eldest Son, who was killed at
Flowdoun,
leaving no Male Issue: Sir
Robert
his Successor, and
William
who was first of the Branch of
Crichlaw,
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1506.
which Sir
Robert
married
Marion
Daughter and Heiress of
John Carsen
of
Glen,
Ibidem
and had
James
his Son and Successor, who was killed at the Battel of
Pinky,
10
September
1547, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert Crichton
of
Kilpatrick,
Ibidem.
a Son Sir
John
and several Daughters.
Janet,
married to
William
Earl of
Glencairn, Margaret
to Sir
William Douglas
of
Drumlanrig,
Charta in publicis Archivis.
Helen
to
Thomas Maclellan
of
Bomby,
Ibidem.
Elisabeth
to
John Grierson
of
Lagg,
and afterward to
William Adair
of
Kilhilt,
Ibidem.
Jean
to
Patrick Agnew
of
Lochnaw,
Sheriff of
Galloway
Ibidem.
.
Sir
John Gordon
of
Lochinvar
was a zealous Loyalist for Queen
Mary
's Interest, for which he suffered both in his Person and Fortune. He married first
Juliana
Daughter of Sir
David Hunce
of
Wedderburn,
Charta in publicis Archvis.
by whom he had one Daughter
Margaret
married to
Hugh
Lord
Loudoun,
Ibidem.
and again
Elisabeth
Daughter of
John
Lord
Harries
Ibidem.
. By her he had Sir
Robert
his Successor,
William Gordon
of
Penningham, Grisel
married to
Alexander
1
st
Earl of
Galloway, Elisabeth
to
James
Lord
Torthorald,
he died on the 23 of
August
1604
Ibidem.
.
Sir
Robert
his Son succeeding him, who was one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to
Henry
Prince of
Wales.
His Wife was
Isabel
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gowrie,
by her he had
John
the first Viscount of
Kenmure, James Gordon
of
Buttle,
and
Elisabeth
a Daughter married to
John
Lord
Harries.
He died
Anno
1627,
Johnstoni Historia rerum Britannicarum.
and was succeeded by
Sir
John
his Son and Heir, who was by King
Charles
I. on the 8 of
May
1633 created Viscount of
Kenmure
Charta in Cancellaria Serenissimi Domini Nostri Regis.
, and to his Heirs Male for ever. He departed this Life 21 of
September
1634, leaving a Son
John
to succeed him in the Honour, but he dying young the Title came to
John Gordon
his Cousin German, who dying unmarried,
Robert
his Brother was Heir to him, and he dying without Issue in the Year 1663, his Estate and Honour devolved to
Alexander Gordon
of
Penningham
his nearest Heir Male, who married
Marion
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Maculloch
of
Ardwell,
by whom he had
William
his Successor in the Honour,
Jean
married to
William Gordon
of
Shirmers, Marion
to
Alexander Gordon
of
Earlstoun,
and
Elisabeth
to
William Maxwel
of
Newlaw,
next
Grisel
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Galloway.
By her he had
John Gordon
of
Gree
law, James Gordon
of
Grange;
also three Daughters, 1
st Mary
married to Sir
Patrick Maxwel
of
Sprinkel,
Baronet; 2
d, Isobel
to
John Mackgie
of
Balmagie.
3
d,
. . . . . . . he dying
Anno
1698, was succeded by
William
his Son and Heir, who married
Mary
Daughter of Sir
John Dalziel
of
Glenae,
and had two Sons,
Robert
Master of
Kenmure,
and
John.
ARMS.
Azure,
three Boars Heads Coupe,
Or,
LIVINGSTON, Viscount of
Kilsyth.
THE Barony of
Kilsyth
in the Shire of
Stirling,
in the Reign of King
Alexander
II. was given by
Maldwin
Earl of
Lennox,
to
Malcolm
the Son of
Duncan
of
Calentyre
in Marriage with
Eva
his Sister,
Charta penes Wil. Vice-comitem de Kilsyth.
and so continued in the Family of
Callendar
till the Reign of King
James
I. That
William Livingston
younger Son of Sir
John Livingston
of
Callendar,
by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
James Douglas
of
Dalkeith,
got the Lands of Wester
Kilsyth
in Patrimony, his Successors since acquiring the whole
Ibidem.
, This
William
married
Elisabeth
Daughter and one of the Coheirs of
William de Caldcoat,
whereby he got the Lands of
Greden
in
Berwick
-shire,
Ibidem.
and by her he had
Edward
his Successor, and Sir
Henry Livingston
Preceptor of
Torphichen,
Ibidem.
which
Edward
was retoured to his Father on the 23 of
April
1460,
Ibidem.
and left a Son
William
to succeed him in the Barony of
Kilsyth,
who married . . . . . . Daughter of
Thomas
Lord
Erskine
Charta penes Wil. Vice-comitem de Kilsyth.
, and had
William
his Son and Heir, who by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . .
Graham
of . . . . . . . had
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth
his Son and Successor, who was killed at the Battel of
Flowdoun,
leaving a Son
William
by
Janet
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Bruce
of
Airth,
who was retoured Heir to his Father on the 3
d
of
January
1514
Ibidem.
. He married
Mary
Daughter of Sir
Duncan Forrester
of
Garden,
Comptroller of the Houshold in the Reign of King
James
IV.
Genealogy of the Family of Garden.
By her he had three Sons,
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth, Alexander Livingston
of
Inches,
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Kilsyth.
and
Robert Livingston
of
Baldoran.
Charta in publicis Archivis, ad Annum 1545.
Likewise three Daughters,
Elisabeth
married to
Gabriel Cunningham
of
Craigends,
Charta penes Vice-comitem de Kilsyth.
Isabel
to
Colin Campbel
of
Achinhove,
Ibidem.
and
Margaret
to
Ninian Bruce
of
Kinnard,
2
dly
to
Alexander Baillie
of
Jervistoun,
Ibidem.
which
William
was knighted at the Creation of
Henry
Duke of
Albany, Anno
1565. He married
Christian
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Monteith,
Ibidem.
by whom he had Sir
William
his Son and Heir, and
Christian
Wife of
John Lawson
of
Boghall.
Which Sir
William
being a Man of Parts and Learning, was made one of the Senators of the College of Justice
Anno
1609,
List of the Lords of Session, &c.
and swo
of his Majesty's Privy Council 13 of
May
1613
Balfour's Annals.
, and the same Day constituted Vice Chamberlain of
Scotland.
He married first
Antonia de Board,
a Lady of Quality of the Kingdom of
France,
by whom he had Sir
William Livingston
of
Darnchester,
his eldest Son, who was knighted at the Baptism of Prince
Henry
in the 1595, and a Daughter
Christian
married to
George
Lord
Forrester,
and had Issue. His second Wife was
Margaret
Daughter of
John Houston
of that Ilk; By her he had Sir
James Livingston
of
Bancloich,
afterward Viscount of
Kilsyth,
and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
Robert Montgomery
of
Haslehead, in vic. de Air.
Here it will not be improper to take notice, that Sir
William Livingston
of
Darnchester,
younger of
Kilsyth,
in his Father's time married
Anne
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Wigtoun,
Charta penes Vic. de Kilsyth.
and died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving a Son
William
who succeeded his Grandfather upon his Death, which happened in the Year 1627
Charta in Cancellaria Serenissimi Domini Nostrae Regis.
, which
William
so succeeding, wedded
Margaret
Daughter of
George
Lord
Ramsay;
By her he had a Son
William
and two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Andrew Rutherford
of
Hunthill,
Charta penes Vic. de Kilsyth.
and
Christian
to
James
Viscount of
Oxenford;
which
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth
died in his Minority,
Anno
1647,
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
his Estate devolving upon Sir
James Livingston
of
Bancloich,
his great Uncle, who having suffered much for his steady and constant Loyalty during the Usurpation, was, in regard of his great Merit upon the King's Restauration, honoured with the Peerage of this Realm by the Titles of Viscount
Kilsyth
and Lord
Campsy,
17
August
1661
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II. ad annum 1661.
, but he did not enjoy the Honour one whole Month, for he died at
London
on the 9 of
September
thereafter, and was interr'd at
Kilsyth
among his Ancestors, leaving Issue by
Euphame
his Wife Daughter of Sir
David Cunningham
of
Robertland,
Baronet,
in Vic. de Air. James
Viscount of
Kilsyth
who died a Batchelor in 1706, and
William
the present Viscount, also a Daughter
Elisabeth
married to Major General
Robert Montgomery
Son to
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun,
and had Issue.
Which
William
was one of the Sixteen Peers elected for
Scotland
to sit in the Parliament of
Great Britain,
in the last Parliament of Queen
Anne.
He took to Wife first
Jean
Daughter of
William
Lord
Cochran
Son and Heir of
William
Earl of
Dundonald,
by whom he had a Son
William,
who died an Infant, 2
dly Barbara
Daughter of . . . . . .
Mackdonal
of
Macker stoun in Vic. de Roxburgh.
By her he had a Daughter
Barbara,
who died young,
Anno
1700.
ARMS.
Argent,
three Gellie Flowers slipped,
Gules,
within a double Tressure Counter-flowered,
Vert,
supported by two Lyans rampant,
Gules,
Crest, a Dem: Savage wreathed about the middle with Lawrel, Motto,
Spe expecto.
BOYD, Earl of
Kilmarnock.
THE common bearing of the
Boyds
and
Stewarts,
has given ground to a Conjecture that they are branched from the Royal Family of
Stewart,
long before the Sirname o
Stewart
was u
ed by the younger Sons of that illustrious Family, but upon what occasion they assumed this Name, I shall not account
or. Sir
Robert Boyd
did signalize his Valour in the Battel of the
Largs
against the
Norvegians, Anno
1263, for which Service he had a Grant of diverse Lands in
Cunningham.
Another Sir
Robert Boyd
a descendant from him, added no small Lustre to the Famimily by his Loyalty to King
Robert
the
Bruce,
to whom he most faithfully adhered in all the Vicissitudes of Fortune that besel him, in reward of which signal Merit, in the second Year of his Reign he gave him
terras de Kilmarnock, Bondingtoun & Hairshaw quae fuere Joannis de Balliolo totam terram de Kilbride ac totam terram de Arneil quae fuere Godofridi de Ross, & totam terram quae fuere Wil. de Mora in tenemento de Dalray
Charta penes Comitem de Kilmarnock.
. This Sir
Robert
was succeeded by Sir
Thomas
his Son, who by . . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . left three Sons, Sir
Thomas
his Successor,
William
Author of the
Boyds
of
Badinheath,
Charta in Rotulis Rob. II. ad Annum 1374. per Tho Fleming de Fulwood dudum Comitem de Wigton, Wilielmo Boyd filio Thomae Boyd de Kilmarnock, militi de omnibus terris ejusdem Thomae in Baronia de Lanzie.
and
Robert
first of the House of
Portencross
in
Airshire
I have seen a Charter on the 10th of June 1444, per Thomam Boyd de Kilmarnock dilecto avunculo suo Roberto Boyd terrarum de Arneil.
.
Which Sir
Thomas
obtained the third part of the Barony of
Tester
by Marriage of . . . . . . one of the four Daughters and Co-Heirs of Sir
John Giffard,
Charta pene
Marchionem de Twedale.
by whom he had
Thomas
his Son and Successor, who was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I. He married
Janet
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Montgomery
of
Ardrossan,
and departing this Life 7
July
1432, was interred in the Paroch Church of
Kilmarnock
Historical Collections by Mr. Timothy Pont, in the Hand
of Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D. MS.
, where the Portraiture of himself and his Wife are to be seen in fair Stone as big as the Life, with this Inscription over; them.
Hic jacet Thomas Boyd de Kilmarnock qui obiit septimo die Julii Millessimo quadringentesimo tricesim
secundo & Joanna Montgomery ejus sponsa orate pro illis.
Sir
Thomas Boyd
of
Kilmarnock
his Son did not long survive his Father, for he was killed at
Craignaught-hill
in
Renfrew
shire, by Sir
Alexander Stewart,
on the 9 of
July
1439,
Buchan. Historia rerum Scoticarum.
in Revenge of the Lord
Darnly
's Death, whom Sir
Thomas Boyd
had killed in a Feud some time before, leaving Issue by . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . his Wife,
Robert,
thereafter Lord
Boyd,
Sir
Alexander Boyd
of
Duncow,
Ancestor to the present Lord
Boyd
Charta penes Alanum Dominum Cathcart.
, and a Daughter . . . . . married to
John Maxwel
of
Calderwood.
Which
Robert,
being a Person of great Parts, was one of the six Noblemen who were chosen Regents of
Scotland
in the Minority of King
James
III.
Anno
1460; after which in 1466 he was chosen sole Governour of the Realm
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
, and on the 25 of
August
1467, constituted Lord high Chamberlain
Charta penes comitem de Kilmarnock.
: Being thus advanced to the highest pitch of Honour, the more to strengthen himself, he married the Lady
Mary
the King's eldest Sister to
Thomas
Master of
Boyd
his eldest Son, who thereupon was created Earl of
Arran
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
Nota,
Robert Lord Boyd the Governor was married to Marion Daughter to Sir Robert Maxwel of Calderwood. By her, beside Thomas Earl of Aran, he had another Son Archibald Boyd of Bonshaw, and Elizabeth a Daughter married to Archibald E. of Angus.
, and sent Ambassador to
Denmark
to treat about a Marriage with the young King and
Margaret
Daughter of
Christian
the I. But behold the Instability of humane Affairs: During his absence, his Enemies contrive the ruin of his Family. They represent the
Boyds
to be ambitious, and too great Subjects, and they prevailed so far with the King, that he called a Parliament, before which the Lord
Boyd,
the Earl of
Arran
his Son, Sir
Alexander Boyd
his Brother were summoned to give an account of their Administration. The old man himself, being afraid of the power of his Enemies, fled to
England,
where in a short time he died of Heart-broken. Sir
Alexander
his Brother appearing, was indicted of high Treason, and was executed. The Earl of
Arran
having brought the Queen from
Denmark
into the Firth of
Forth,
being informed of the Circumstances he and his Friends were in, immediately with his Wife in his Company retired again into that Country, whence he travelled into
France,
and thence into
Burgundy,
where shortly after he ended his Days, leaving Issue by the Lady
Mary
his Wife foresaid,
James
a Son, and
Margaret
a Daughter, married to Sir
Alexander Forbes,
and afterwards to
David
Earl of
Cassils.
After the fall of the
Boyds
the Barony and Lordship of
Kilmarnock
came to the Crown, and so continued till the 24 of
October
1482, that King
James
III. for t
e Love and Affection he bore to his Sister, made a Grant to
James Boyd
her Son of the Baronies of
Kilmarnock, Dalray, Kilbride, Noodsdale, Muirfad, Gairnhill, Warrockland, Ormsheugh, Dolyra, Robertoun, Bolinshaw, Chapeltoun, Miltoun, Crevoch, Cultstra, Corshill, Clerkland, Blacklaw,
and
Nether Robertland, quae fuerunt quondam olim Roberti Domini Boyd, & quondam Thomae Boyd militis filii sui avi & patris dicti Jacobi
In the Charter he is only designed James Boyd, in the Sasine following thereupon he is designed Nobili & Illustri Domino Jacobo Domino Boyd.
: But he dying
Anno
1484 without any Children, the Lordship of
Kilmarnock
returned again to the Crown.
The present Earl of
Kilmarnock
is descended from
Alexander Boyd
Son of Sir
Alexander Boyd
of
Duncow,
Brother to
Robert
the great Lord
Boyd:
Which
Alexander
was by King
James
IV. made Baillie and Chamberlain for the Lordship of
Kilmarnock
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, from whom he had a Grant of diverse Lands within the said Lordship
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
by
Janet
his Wife Daughter of . . . . . .
Colvil
of . . . . . . . He had three Sons,
Robert,
afterward Lord
Boyd, Thomas,
first of the Branch of
Pitcon
Charta penes Tho. Boyd de Pitcon.
, and
Adam,
of whom sprung the
Boyds
of
Pinkhill
and
Trochrig
Preface to Mr. Robert Boyd's Commentary on the Ephesians.
.
Robert Boyd
Esq
Son and Heir of the former
Alexander,
was a Person much in favour with King
James
V. whom he faithfully served both at Home and Abroad, wherefore that Prince bestowed upon him the Lordship of
Kilmarnock,
20
May
1
36
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, as he afterwards had, by the Grant of
James Earl
of
Arran
Governor of
Scotland
in the Minority of Queen
Mary,
many Lands that had formerly pertained to his Ancestors, and at the same time he is served and retoured Heir to
James Boyd
of
Kilmarnock
his Father's Brother's Son
Charta penes comitem de Kilmarnock, data 23 of October 1544.
. He married
Helen
Daughter of Sir
John Somervel
of
Camnethan,
by whom he had
Robert
his Successor, and
Margaret
married to
John
Son and Heir of Sir
Niel Montgomery
of
Lainshaw, sa
s
Issue.
Robert
Lord
Boyd
his Son, being a Man of Parts, was much trusted by Queen
Mary,
to whom he faithfully adhered till the total Suppression of her Interest. He was also in the 1578 appointed one of the Commissioners to Treat with the
English
about suppressing the Incursions of the Borderers; and again
Anno
1586 he was with the Earl of
Bothwel
and
Hume
of
Coldingknows
sent Ambassador to
England
to Treat about the Continuation of a firm and lasting Peace betwixt the two Realms
Camden's History of Queen Elizabeth.
. He married
Margaret
Daughter and sole Heir of
George colquhoun
of
Glins
Charta penes comitem de Kilmarnock.
, by whom he had
Robert
Master of
Boyd,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father. 2
d. Thomas,
his Successor in the Honour. 3
d. William,
who obtained the Lands of
Badinheath
by Marriage of an Heiress of his own Name; likewise sundry Daughters,
Giles,
married to
Hugh
Earl of
Eglinton, Agnes
to Sir
John Colquhoun
of
Luss,
and had Issue,
Christian
to Sir
James Hamilton
of
Evandale;
and had Issue,
Elizabeth
to
John Cuningham
of
Drumquhasle.
He gave way to Fate on the 3
d
of
January
1589, aged 72, and was interr'd with his Ancestors at the Church of
Kilmarnock
under a fair Tomb, whereupon you may read this Epitaph.
Here lyes yat godly, noble, wise Lord
Boyd,
Who Kirk and King, and Commonwell decor'd,
Which were, while they this Jewel all enjoy'd,
Maintain'd, govern'd, and council'd by that Lord.
His ancient House so oft peril'd he restor'd,
Twice six and sixty Years he liv'd, and sine
By Death the third of
January
devor'd,
In
Anno
thrice five hundred eighty nine.
Thomas
Lord
Boyd
his Son married
Marion
Daughter of Sir
Matthew Campbel
of
Lowdoun,
by whom he had
Robert
Master of
Boyd,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father,
Anno
1597
Monumental Inscriptions at the Church of Kilmarnock.
, and Sir
Thomas Boyd
of
Bedlay. Marion
his eldest Daughter was married to
James
Earl of
Abercorn, Isobel
the second to
John Blair
of that Ilk, and after his Death to Sir
Dougal Campbel
of
Auchinbreak;
and had Issue,
Agnes
the youngest to Sir
George Elphinston
of
Blythswood,
and had Issue; and departing this Life in the 1611,
Robert
his Grandson, Son of
Robert
Master of
Boyd
by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Mark
Earl of
Lothian,
succeeded him in the Honour, and married first
Margaret
Daughter to
Robert Montgomery
of
Giffen
Charta penes comitem de Kilmarnock ad A
num 1614.
, and next
Christian
Daughter of
Thomas
Earl of
Hadingtoun,
and departing this Life in the end of
August
1628, left Issue by the said
Christian
his Wife,
Robert
his Son and Heir, and four Daughters,
Jean
married to Sir
Alexander Morison
of
Prestongrange,
and had Issue.
Isobel
to Sir
John Sinclair
of
Stevenson,
and had Issue,
Christian
to Sir
William Scot
of
Harden,
and had Issue,
Marion
to Sir
James Dundass
of
Arnistoun,
and had Issue. Which
Robert
was a young Nobleman of great Hopes and Parts, died much regrated on the 17 of
November
1640
Balfour's Annals.
, leaving no Issue by
Anne
his Wife Daughter of
John
Earl of
Wigton,
so that his Estate and Honour came to
James Boyd
his Father's Brother, who married
Katharine
Daughter of . . . . . .
Craik
Esq
of the City of
York.
By her he had
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Eva
married to Sir
David Cunningham
of
Robertland,
he dying in
May
1654, was succeeded by
William
his Son
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Regis.
. Which
William
was by the special favour of King
Charles
II, by Letters patent bearing Date 7 of
August
1661, promoted to the Honour of Earl of
Kilmarnock,
and to his Heirs Male for ever
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
. He married
Jean
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Glencairn,
by whom he had
William
his Successor in the Honour, Captain
James, Charles, Robert, Mary
Wife of Sir
Alexander Mackclean,
and
Katharine
married to
Alexander Porterfield
of that Ilk,
in Vic. de Renfrew,
and had Issue. He dying in the Spring of the Year 1692 was succeeded by
William
his Son and Heir, who did not survive his Father full two Months, for his Death happened on the 20 of
May
thereafter, leaving two Sons by
Lettice
his Wife Daughter and Heir of
Thomas Boyd
of the City of
Dublin
Merchant,
William
the present Earl, and Mr.
Thomas Boyd
Advocate, which
William,
the present Earl, married
Euphame
eldest Daughter of
William
Lord
Ross,
and had Issue
William
Lord
Boyd.
ARMS.
Azure,
A Fess Checque
Argent
and
Gules.
Supporters two Squirrels proper. Crest, a Dexter Hand pointing forth the Thumb and two Fingers. Motto,
Confido,
and on a Compartment the Word,
Gold-Berry.
BRUCE, Earl of
Kincardin,
IS descended of Sir
George Bruce
of
Carnock,
third Son of Sir
Edward Bruce
of
Blairhall
This Sir George Bruce of Carnock, was immediate younger Brother to Edward Lord Kinloss, Ancestor to the Earl of Ailsburry & Elgin.
, who by Merchandize and other means attaining to great Wealth, he purchased a fair Estate about
Culross
in
Perth
-shire, for which Burrough he was frequently elected Member of Parliament, and was one of the Commissioners for the Treaty of Union then designed betwixt the two Nations,
Anno
1604
Spotiswood's History.
, soon after which he had the Honour of Knighthood conferred on him. He married
Mary
Daughter of . . . . . .
Primrose
of . . . . . . by whom he had two Sons, Sir
George Bruce
of
Carnock,
and
Robert Bruce
of
Broomhall,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Ancestor to the present Earl of
Kincardin,
and departing this mortal Life 3d of
May
1625,
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Regis ad Annum 1625.
was succeeded by Sir
George
his Son, who taking to Wife
Mary
Daughter of Sir
John Preston
of
Valleyfield,
had by her
Edward
and
Alexander,
both Earls of
Kincardin;
likewise three Daughters,
1.
Margaret
married to Sir
John Lumisden
of
Innergelly.
2.
Magdalen
to Sir
John Arnot
of
Cockburnspath, sans
Issue.
3.
Mary
to
David
Lord
Cardross,
and had Issue.
Which
Edward
was by King
Charles
I. honoured with the Title of Earl of
Kincardin,
26
December
1647
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Regis ad Annum 1647.
, and to his Heirs Male, but his Lordship dying unmarried
Anno
1662, the Honour devolved on
Alexander
his Brother and Heir, who was one of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. and one of the Commissioners of the Thesaury during that Reign, and dying
Anno
1680
Memoirs of the Earls of Kincardin MS. penes me.
left Issue by
Veronica Van Arsen
his Wife, Daughter to the Baron of
Sommerdyke
in
Holland, Alexander
his Son and Heir.
Mary
married to
William Cochran
of
Ochiltree,
and had Issue.
Anne
to Sir
David Murray
of
Stenhope,
and had Issue.
Elizabeth
to Mr.
James Boswel
of
A
chinleck
Advocate, and had Issue.
Which
Alexander
died a Batchellor in
November
1705, whereupon there arose a Competition for the Title of Honour betwixt Lady
Mary Bruce
the Earl of
Kincardin
's eldest Sister and Sir
Alexander Bruce
of
Broomhall
the Heir Male, which at length was adjudged to belong to Sir
Alexander Bruce,
and accordingly he was admitted Earl of
Kincardin
on the 10 of
October
1706. By
Christian
his Wife Daughter of
Robert Bruce
of
Blairhall,
he had
Robert
Lord
Bruce, Alexander, Thomas Bruce
Esq
married
Rachel
Daughter of
Robert Pauncefort
of the County of
Glocester
Esq
and had Issue
William Bruce
Esq
Likewise five Daughters,
Janet, Christian, Helen, Mary
and
Veronica
married to
Duncan Campbel
of
Keames.
ARMS.
Quarterly, first
Argent,
a Lyon rampant
Azure,
second
Or,
a Saltyre and chief
Gules.
Motto,
Fuimus.
SEATON, Viscount of
Kingstoun.
SIR
Alexander Seaton,
the first of this Branch of
Seaton,
was a younger Son of
George
2
d
Earl of
Winton,
by
Anne
his Wife Daughter of
Francis
Earl of
Errol.
He obtained first the Honour of Knighthood from King
Charles
I.
Anno
1633, and having faithfully served the said King in diverse Negotiations during the Heat of the Civil War, King
Charles
II. to reward and countenance his Merit, created him Viscount of
Kingstoun
6 of
January
1650
Memoirs of the Family of Seaton by this noble Lord himself, who was a curious Searcher into Antiquities, MS. penes me.
. He married first
Jean
Daughter of Sir
George Fletcher
Knight, by whom he had one Daughter married to
James
Lord
Mordingtoun.
His second Wife was
Elizabeth
Daughter of Sir
Archibald Douglass
of
Whittingham,
by whom he had
Archibald
his Successor,
James
who succeeded his Brother in the Honour, and
Elizabeth
Wife of
William Hay
of
Drumelzier.
He married to his third Wife
Elizabeth
Daughter of
John
Lord
Belhaven;
and last of all
Margaret
Daughter of
Archibald
Lord
Angus,
but by neither of these had he any Issue.
Archibald
Viscount of
Kingstoun
succeeded his Father in the Honour, and died a Batchellor in 1714, his Estate and Title of Honour falling to
James Seaton
Esq
his Brother, who married
Jean
Daughter of
Colin
Earl of
Balcarass,
Widow of
Alexander
Earl of
Kelly.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Or,
three Crescents within a double Tressure flowr'd
Gules.
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Dragon
Vert.
Supporters two Blackmores armed with Darts. Crest, a Crescent flaming. Motto,
Habet & suam.
KEITH, Earl of
Kintore.
THE First of this Family was Sir
John Keith
third Son of
William
Earl
Marshal,
by the Lady
Mary Erskine
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Marr,
who having been instrumental in preserving the
Regalia
of the Kingdom, the Crown, Sword and Scepter, during the Usurpation, was in Consideration thereof upon the Rest
uration of King
Charles,
created Knight
Marshal Anno
1660
Mercurius Britanicus published Anno 1661.
: Afterward his said Majesty called him to his Council, and honoured him with the Title of Earl of
Kintore
on the 26 of
June
1677
Charta in Rotulis Car. II.
, and thereafter constituted his Lordship Thesaurer Depute, and one of the Lords of his Privy Council in the Year 1682, in which Office he was continued till the Thesaury was turned into Commission, sometime after King
James
's Accession to the Throne. He married
Margaret
Daughter to
Thomas
Earl of
Hadingtoun,
by whom he had
William
Lord
Inverrurie
his Son and Heir,
Jean
married to Sir
William Forbes
of
Monimusk,
and
Margaret
to
Gavin Hamilton
of
Raploch,
and had Issue.
Which
William
married
Katharine
Daughter to
David
Viscount of
Stor
nt,
and had
John
his eldest Son. and
Katharine
married to
David Falc
ner
of
Newtoun.
ARMS.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th
Gules,
a Scepter and Sword Saltirways, with an Imperial Crown betwixt the upper Corners, all
Proper
within a Border of eight Thistles
Or.
2d and 3d
Argent
on a Chief
Gules.
Three Paletts,
Or,
supported by two Chevaleers compleatly armed with Picks in their Hands. Crest, an aged Lady from the middle upward, holding in her right Hand a Garland of Lawrel
Proper
Register of the Lyon Office.
. Motto,
Quae amissa salva.
KINNAIRD, Lord
Kinnaird.
THAT the Family of
Kinnaird
in the Shire of
Perth,
was of a very fair Antiquity, the following Authorities do sufficiently manifest, for King
William
gave
Radulph
dicto Rufo
the Lands of
Kinnaird
I have seen the original Charter in the hands of my Lord Kinnaird; likewise in the Historical Collections by the learned and laborious Antiquary Mr. Robert Martin of Clermont, and civilly communicated to me by the present Clermont his Son MS
, from whence
Richard
his Son took the Sirname and Denomination of
Kinnaird,
and his Descendants continued to possess these Lands till the time of King
Charles
I.
The Lord
Kinnaird
's Ancestor,
Kinnaird
of
Inchture,
a Branch of this Family, took beginning in the Reign of King
Robert
III.
Reginald de Kinnaird
Son to Sir
Richard de Kinnaird,
Knight, then taking to Wife
Marjory
Daughter and sole Heir of
John de Kirkaldy,
and in her Right became possessed of the Barony of
Inchture
in the County of
Perth,
which was ratified to them and their Heirs, by a Charter bearing date 28
January
1399
Charta penes D. Kinnaird, presently in my Hands by the favour of Mr. Charles Kinnaird his Lordships Uncle.
, whereupon he and his Successors added the Coat of
Kirkaldy
to their Paternal Arms.
Walter Kinnaird
of
Inchture
the next of the Line in the 26 of King
James
III. made a Resignation in the Hands of his Sovereign Lord the King, of all the Lands which he held of the Crown, for new Infestment to be given to
John Kinnaird
his Grandson, and Heir apparent
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
, whose Son
Patrick Kinnaird
of
Inchture
by
Mari
n
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . .
Hepburn
of . . . . . .
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Regin
, ad annum 1542.
, had
John
his Son and Heir, who resigns the Land and Barony of
Kinnaird
in favours of
Patrick
his Son and Heir apparent, 23 of Queen
Mary, Anno
1565, which last
Patrick
by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
Moncur
of that Ilk,
in Vic. de Perth
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, had
Patrick
his Son and Heir, who married first a Daughter of the Family of
Kinnaird
of that Ilk, and again
Euphame
Daughter of
James Gray
of
Ballegarno,
and had by her
Patrick
his Son and Successor in the Barony of
Inchture,
who took to Wife
Euphame
Daughter and Co-heir of
Gilbert Gray
of
Balindoran
Son to the Lord
Gray
Ibidem.
, by her he had
John
who died unmarried, and
George;
likewise a Daughter
Margaret
married to Sir
Andrew Hay
of
Kil
r,
Mother by him to
John
Earl of
Errol.
Which
George
having not a little testified his Loyalty to the Crown during
Cromwel
's Usurpation, upon the King's Return he was in Commemoration thereof knighted
Anno
1661, having likewise served Member in diverse Parliaments for the County of
Perth,
was called to his Majesty's Council, and at last on the 28 of
December
1682 raised to the honour of Lord
Kinnaird
of
Inchture,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II. ad annum 1682.
, and departing this Life 29
Decemb.
1689, he left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
James Crichton
of
Ruthven, Patrick
his Successor in the Honour,
Charles Kinnaird
Esq
George Kinnaird
Esq
Which
Patrick
married
Anne
Daughter of
Hugh
Lord
Lovat,
by whom he had
George
Master of
Kinnaird,
who died 27 of
August
1698
Register of the Lyon Office.
.
Patrick
his Successor, and
Charles Kinnaird
Esq
likewise a Daughter
Anne
married to
Thomas Drummond
of
Logi
almond.
This Lord dying 18
February
1701
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Regis.
, was succeeded by
Patrick
his Son, who married first
Henrietta
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Dunmore,
and after her Death
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Strathmore,
Countess Dowager of
Aboyn,
by whom he had
Patrick
his Son and Heir.
ARMS.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th
Or.
A Fess waved betwixt three Molets
Gules.
2d and 3d
Gules.
A Saltyre betwixt four Crescents
Or.
HAY, Earl of
Kinnowl.
AMONG the various ways by which Men in all Times have ascended to Honour and Preferments, that of personal Merit is without doubt the fairest and most likely way to climb by. This cannot be more properly said in any Case than in that of the Person I am now to speak of,
viz. George Hay
the first Earl of
Kinnowl,
his Birth could be no Impediment to his future Greatness, for he was the Son of
Peter Hay
of
Meggi
s
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Inchmartine
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI, ad Annum 1609.
, a collateral Branch of the illustrious Family of
Errol,
that had been fixed in
Perth
-shire for some Descents, and very honourably allied in that County.
He was by the Care of his Father well brought up, and for the Improvement of his Education sent into
France,
where he spent some Years under the Tuition of Mr.
Edmund Hay
his Uncle
Scots Tarvets Memorial of the Officers of State for one hundred Years, MS.
, and returning to
Scotland
by the time he was 21 Years old, he was brought into the Court by his Kinsman Sir
James Hay,
afterward Earl of
Carlyle,
a most accomplished Courtier, under no other Character than a Person well qualified, by his Breeding and Study in human Learning fit for any Service his Master should honour him with. By these Means, and a notable Affability in his Behaviour, he wrought himself into a particular Affection and Interest with the King, who quickly raised him to be one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber, and gave him the Priory of the Charter House of
Perth,
by his Royal Grant, 18
Febrary
1598
Charta in publicis Archivis ad annum 1598.
. Sir
George
being eminently qualified, and advancing daily in Favour at Court, his Majesty was pleased to make him Clerk Register,
Anno
1616
Lives of the Officers of State in Scotland.
, in which Function he behaved himself very well, and appeared equal to it, continuing in that Imployment till the 1622, that
Alexander
Earl of
Dumfermling
Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland
giving way to Fate, he was preferred thereto, and had the Great Seal delivered him on the 12 of
July
the same Year. Which Office he had continued on him by King
Charles
I. who looked upon him as a wise and able Servant, and worthy of the Trust he reposed in him, therefore his Majesty as a Testimony of his gracious Esteem, by Letters Patent bearing date 4 of
May
1627, advanced him to the Degree of Viscount of
Dupline
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
; and by other Letters Patent 25
May
1633, honoured him with the Title of Earl of
Kinnowl
Ibidem.
. His Lordship enjoyed the Chancellor's Place with the universal Approbation of the whole Kingdom, and the general Applause of all good Men for his Justice, Integrity, sound Judgment and eminent Sufficiency in the discharge of his Office for the Space of about fourteen Years, even to his Death, 16
December
1634
Balfours Annals.
, some Months before he was sixty Years of Age. He was interred at the Church of
Kinnowl
on the 19 of
August
1635, where there is a very sumptuous Monument erected over him, with his Statue as big as the Life, habited in his Robes, and Dr.
Johnston
composed an Epitaph for him
Sir Robert Sibbald's Collection of Epitaphs MS.
, of which this is a Part.
Gone is the wise Licurgus of our Time,
The great and grave Dictator of our Clime,
To whose Desert the sacred Sisters ow,
As much as e'er of old they did bestow,
Of their Pirean Treasure to give Fame
To painful
Curius,
or grave
Cato
's Name,
Had thou, brave Judge, liv'd in such golden Days,
Thy Head had long e'er now been crown'd with Bays,
But Wisdom now is richly priz'd by none,
Nor Virtue Guardian finds, till she be gone.
Six hundred Years ago how happy I,
That Day when thy brave Ancestor did dy,
His Face with
Danick
Blood, he did bequeath
Life to his Country at the Doors of Death,
Yet this brave Act was clos'd with one fair Day,
But thou didst still for many Years display
The Ensigns of thy Vertue, and fierce Jarrs,
Intestine Broils worse than the worst of Wars
Did quell, Combustions safe did keep from Harm,
Chast Piety and raging Wrath disarm,
&c.
By
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of Sir
James Haliburton
of
Pitcur
Balfour's Genealogical Collections MS.,
,
in Vicecomitatu de Forfar,
Widow of
Patrick Ogilvy
of
Inchmartine
paternal Ancestor to the present Earl of
Finlater;
he had Issue Sir
Peter Hay
his eldest Son, who died unmarried,
George
his Successor in the Honour, and
Margaret
Wife of
Alexander Lindsay
Lord
Spainzie.
Which
George
was Captain of the Yeomen of Guards to King
Charles
I. and one of the Lords of his Privy Council. Upon the breaking out of the War in that Reign, he applied himself to his Majesty's Service with great Resolution, Courage and Constancy, and often ventured his Person, and lost most of his Estate in the steady Pursuit of Loyalty and Duty to the King, in which he continued to his Life's end. He married the Lady
Anne Douglass,
eldest Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton
Lord High Thesaurer of
Scotland,
by whom he had
William
the next Earl, and two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
William
Earl
Marshal,
and
Katharine
to Sir
James Baird
of
Auchmedden
and had Issue.
Which
William
Earl of
Kinnowl
took to wife
Mary
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Cardinghan,
by whom he had no Issue; and again
Elizabeth
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Salisbury,
by her he had
George
Earl of
Kinnowl,
who died in
Hungary Anno
1687, and
William
the late Earl who died a Batchelor on the 10 of
May
1709. The Honour devolving on
Thomas
Viscount of
Duplin
his nearest Heir Male
The present Earl of Kinnowl is the Son and Heir of Thomas Hay of Balhousie by . . . . . . his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, Son of Mr. Francis Hay of Balhousie, by Margaret Daughter of James Oliphant of Bachiltoun, Son of Thomas Hay Brother to George the first Earl of Kinnowl; so that the two great Grandfathers of William the late Earl and Thomas now Earl of Kinnowl were Brothers both Sons of the House of Meggins; of which Family also Sir James Hay Father to the Earl of Carlyle, the great Favorite of King James VI. was a younger Son.
, who was on the 3 of
October
1713, elected one of the sixteen Peers from
Scotland
to the Parliament of
Great Britain;
but it was not the first time his Lordship had served his Country in that Character. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
William Drummond
Viscount of
Strathallan,
by whom he had
1.
George
Lord
Duplin.
2. Colonel
John Hay.
3.
Margaret
married to
John
Earl of
Marr
one of the Secretaries of
Great Britain.
4.
Elizabeth
to
James
Lord
Deskford,
Son and Heir of
James
Earl of
Finlater
and
Seafield.
Which
George
Lord
Duplin
being first constituted one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer, Her Majesty was pleased to make him a Peer of
Great Britain
by the Title of Lord
Hay
of
Berwarden
on the 31 of
December
1712
Memoirs of the Life of Queen Anne, published 1714.
. He married
Elizabeth Harlaw
eldest Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Oxford,
Lord High Thesaurer of
Great Britain,
by whom he has two Sons,
Thomas
Master of
Duplin,
and
Robert Hay
Esq
ARMS.
Argent,
Three Escutcheons,
Gules,
within a Border
Ermine,
supported by two venerable old Men. Crest, an old Man from the middle upward. Motto,
Renovate Animos.
MAITLAND, Earl of
Lawderdale.
IT appears from sundry ancient Deeds and Evidents, that the
Maitlands
were very early Possessors of the Barony of
Thirlstane
in
Hadingtoun
-shire, for I find that
Dominus Ricardus de Mautlant
gave to the Monks of
Dryburgh Terras suas de Haubentside in Territorio suo de Thirlestane pro salute animae suae & sponsae suae Antecessorum & Successorum suorum in perpetuum
Chartulary of Dryburgh in the Lawyers Library MS.
. Likeas he gave in pure Alms to the said Convent
Omnes Terras quas Walterus de Giling tenuit in feod
suo de Thirlestane & pastara in communi de Thirlestane ad quadraginta oves sexaginta vaccas & ad viginti equos.
To Sir
Richard
succeeded
William de Mautlant
his Son in the Barony of
Thirlestane,
who ratified and confirmed to the Monastery of
Dryburgh omnes Terras quas Dominus Ricardus de Mautlant Pater suus fecit dictis Monachis in Territorio de Thirlestane
Chartulary of Dryburgh in the Lawyers Library, MS.
.
The next of this noble Family I have found, is
Thomas de Thirlestane,
who gave in free Alms to the Religious of
Dryburgh, Decimas Molendini sui de Thirlestane
Ibidem.
,
pro salute animae suae;
and to the Abbot of
Kelso
he grants a Wadset of diverse Lands within the Territory of
Thirlestane
Memoirs of the Family of Lawderdale MS.
, for a certain Feu-duty to be paid to him by the Convent for ever.
Sir
Robert Maitland,
Successor to the former, obtained a Grant of the Lands of
Lethingtoun
from Sir
John Giffard
Knight, Lord of
Tester,
to be holden Blanch of the Granter, which is confirmed the 15 of
October
17, of King
David
II.
Anno
1346
Ibidem.
. He was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who designs himself
Joannes de Mautlant, Dominus de Thirlestane, filius & haeres Roberti Mautlant quondam Domini ejusdem,
when he makes a Donation of the Lands of
Snaldon
to the Monks of
Dryburgh, pro salute animae suae, Patris & Matris suae.
He married
Agnes Dunbar
Daughter to
Patrick
Earl of
March
Charta penes Carolum Maitland de Eccles M.D. of the Lands of Tibbers Joanni Maitlant de Thirlestane & Agnetae Dunbar sponsae suae.
, by her he had
Robert Maitland
of
Thirlestane
his Son and Heir, who had the charge of the Castle of
Dumbar
from his Uncle
George
Earl of
March,
when he went to
England
in discontent, conceiving himself affronted by King
Robert
III. when he espoused
David
his Son the Prince, to the Earl of
Douglas
Daughter, after he had been affianced to
Elizabeth Dunbar March
's Daughter, and when the Earl of
March
was forfeited,
Thirlestane
his Nephew run the same Fate
Sir George Mackenzie's Baronage of Scotland MS. penes me.
, but was again restored by the King's Bounty. He took to Wife
Marion
Daughter of
James Scrimgeor
of
Dudop,
Constable of
Dundee
Memoirs of the Family of Lawderdale MS. penes me.
, and left a Son,
William
to succeed him in his Fortune, who obtained from
Archibald
Duke of
Tourain
and Earl of
Douglas
a Grant to himself and
Margaret Wardlaw
his Wife of the Lands of
Blyth, Hedderwick, Tullus
and
BurncleUgh
on the 23
January
1432
Ibidem.
. He was succeeded by his Son
John Maitland
of
Thirlestane,
who by . . . . . Daughter of . . . . his Wife had two Sons,
William Maitland
of
Lethingtoun,
and
James Maitland
of
Archincastle
in
Drumfries
-shire, of whom branched the
Maitlands
of
Eccles
I have seen a Charter in the 1506, granted by William Maitland of Lethingtoun to James Maitland of Achincastle his Brother, of the Property of the Barony of Tibbers whose lineal Male Descendant and Representative is Dr. Charles Maitland of Eccles Physician in Glasgow, whose Predecessor was Robert Maitland Son to the said James Maitland of Achincastle.
. Here 'tis not improper to take notice, that
William Maitland
of
Lethingtoun,
Son and Heir apparent of
John Maitland
of
Thirlestane
married
Martha
Daughter of
George
Lord
Seaton,
and was killed at
Flowdon Field
with King
James
IV. 9
September
1513, leaving Issue by his Wife foresaid, Sir
Richard
who succeeded his Grandfather, and a Daughter
Janet
married to
Hugh
Lord
Somervel.
Which Sir
Richard
was served Heir to his Father
William
on the 15
October
1513. This noble Person who first raised the Grandeur of his Family, being a Man of Parts and Literature, was made one of the Senators of the College of Justice the 12
November
1561
Memoirs of the Family of Lawderdale penes me
in place of Sir
William Hamilton
of
Sanquhar,
and on the 20 of
December
1562, was constituted Lord privy Seal
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae, ad Annum 1562.
then void by the Demise of
Donald
Abbot of
Cowper,
which Office he held till the 1567, he resigned and gave up the Signer, whereupon Mr.
John Maitland
his second Son was invested in that Office. Sir
Richard
continued a Lord of the Session during all the turbulent Times of the Regents in the Minority of King
James
VI. till the 1584. He resigned his Place to Sir
Lewis Ballenden,
and his last Breath on the first of
April
1586
Historical account of the College of Justice MS.
, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife Daughter of
Thomas Cranston
of
Corsby
Memoirs of the Family of Lawderdale MS.
, three Sons, Sir
William,
Sir
John,
and Mr.
Thomas,
who is the Prolocutor with Mr.
Buchanan
in his Treatise
De Jure Regni apud Scot
s;
likewise several Daughters.
Helen
married to
John Cockburn
of
Clerkingtoun
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, and had Issue.
Margaret
to
James Heriot
of
Trabroun
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Mary
to
Alexander Lawder
of
Hattoun,
and had Issue.
Isobel
to
William Douglas
of
Whitingham
Memoirs of the Family of Lawderdale.
and had Issue.
But to return to Sir
William Maitland
of
Lethingtoun,
Sir
Richard
's eldest Son; the first Preferment I find he had was in the 1558, when he was constituted Secretary of State to Queen
Mary
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae, data 4 December 1558.
, and one of her Majestie's Privy Council 1561. When the Civil War broke out
Anno
1567,
Lethingtoun
's Wisdom and Reputation was such, that both Parties courted him to be of their side; but he did not determine himself to any Party at first, but did fall in with either of them as he thought they intended the Honour and Safety of the Queen, and the Good of the Country; and as he could not justify the Queen's Actings, so he was a strenuous Opposer of those Methods that were taken against her by her own Subjects at the Court of
England,
as importing high Contempt against their Native Princes, and highly derogatory to the Honour of
Scotland,
in subjecting it and their Sovereign to the Cognizance of a foreign Court; but his warmest Side was ever toward the Queen, in whose Interest he appeared, by joining with Sir
William Kirkaldy
in keeping out the Castle of
Edinburgh
against the young King and the Authority of the Regent, for which he was deprived of the Secretaries place
Anno
1570
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
. Notwithstanding he continued his faithful Services to the Queen till his last Moments, his Death happening on the 9 of
June
1573
Mr. Hume's History of the Douglasses.
, leaving Issue, by
Mary
his Wife Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
Fleming,
a Son
James,
who died without Male Issue, and a Daughter
Mary
married to
Robert
first Earl of
Roxburgh
Johnstoni Historia rerum Britannicarum.
.
Sir
John Maitland
Sir
Richard
's 2d Son, being a Gentleman of great Parts and Learning, was first preferred to be Lord privy Seal by Queen
Mary
26 of
August
1567
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae.
, bearing then the Title of Commendator of
Coldingham.
This Office he kept till the 1570, he lost the Seal for his Loyalty to the Queen, and it was given to Mr.
George Buchanan
the Historian
Lives of the Keepers of the privy S
al MS. penes me.
: But King
James
who was ever mindful of those who had been faithful to the Queen his Mother, was pleased to make Sir
John Maitland
one of the Senators of the College of Justice 26 of
April
1581
Memoirs concerning the College of Justice.
, thereafter to be Secretary of State
Lives of the Secretaries of State penes me MS.
in the room of
Robert
Commendator of
Dumfermling
in the Year 1584, and the Chancellors Place falling vacant by the Deprivation of Sir
James Stewart,
then stiled Earl of
Arran,
he was promoted thereto the 1st of
June
1586
Lives of the Chancellors of Scotland penes me MS.
, which Office he discharged worthily to himself, justly to the Prince who imployed him, and advantagiously for his Country: In Consideration of all his great and loyal Services, his said Majesty, who had a singular Value and esteem for him as a wise and faithful Servant, was pleased to put a lasting Mark of his royal Favour upon his Family, and therefore raised him to the Honour of Lord
Maitland
of
Thirlestane,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body
Anno
1590
Memoirs of the Family of Lawderdale MS.
. He married
Jean
only Daughter of
James
Lord
Fleming,
by
Barbara
his Wife Daughter of
James
Duke of
Chatlerault.
By her he had
John
his Successor, and one Daughter
Anne
married to
Robert
Lord
Seaton
Son and Heir apparent to
George
1
st
Earl of
Winton.
This worthy Lord made his Exit out of this World on the 3d of
October
1595, and was interred at the Church of
Hadingtoun,
King
James
honouring him with this Epitaph of his own Composure.
Thou Passenger that spies with gazing Eyes,
This Trophie sad of Death's triumphant Dart,
Consider when this outward Tomb thou sees,
How rare a Man leaves here his earthly Part.
His Wisdom and his uprightness of Heart,
His Piety, his practice of our State;
His quick Engine so verst in every Art,
As equally not all were in Debate.
Thus justly hath his Death brought forth of late
An beavie Grief in Prince and Subjects all,
That Vertue, Love, and Vice do bear at hate,
Though vitious Men rejoices at his Fall.
As for himself, most Happy doth he die,
Though for his Prince it most unhappy be.
John
Lord
Thirlestane
the Chancellor's Son, was a Nobleman of great Honour and Probity, and managed his Affairs with that Conduct and Discretion, that he made considerable Additions to his Fortune. He was much favoured by King
James
VI. who created him first Viscount of
Lawderdale,
and thereafter honoured him with the Title of Earl of
Lawderdale,
by Letters Patent bearing date 24 of
March
1624
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
. For what I know he had no State Imployment, save that he was some short time President of the Council and one of the ordinary Lords of the Session, from which he was removed
Anno
1626
Balfour's Annals.
. I think it not foreign here to remark of this noble Lord that he was so very well acquainted with his own Affairs, that he made exact Inventars of all his Charters and Writs, which was very happy for the Family afterwards, for the Charter Chest being concealed under ground for Preservation in the time of the Civil War, the Writs were so intirely defaced at the Restauration, that they were become illegible, but by reason of the Character this Earl had of Integrity, these very Inventars were by Order of Parliament appointed to supply the place of the ancient Records and Evidents of the Family, the Clerk Register signing every Page of the Book in which they were written. This worthy Lord departing this Life in
February
1645
Bishop Guthri
Memoirs from the 1638, to the 1649.
, was interr'd at the Church of
Hadingtoun
with his Ancestors; and the learned Mr.
Drummond
of
Hawthornden
made this Epitaph upon him.
Of those rare Worthies who adorn'd our North,
And shin'd like Constellations, thou alone
Remaind'st last, great
Maitland,
charg'd with worth
Second in vertues Theatre to none,
But finding all Excentrick in our times,
Religion into Superstition turn'd,
Justice silenc'd, exiled or inurn'd,
Truth, Faith and Charity reputed Crimes,
The young Man destinate by Sword to fall,
And Trophies of their Countries Spoils to rear;
Strange Laws the ag'd and prudent to apal,
And forc'd sad Yokes of Tyranny to bear,
And for, nor great, nor virtuous Minds a Room,
Disdaining Life thou shroud'st thee in thy Tomb.
By
Isobel
his Wife only Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Dumfermling,
Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
by
Lilias
his Wife Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Drummond,
he had first
John
Duke of
Lawderdale.
2d
Robert
who married
Margaret
Daughter and sole Heir of
John Lundin
of that Ilk, by whom he had one Daughter
Sophia Lundin
of that Ilk, married to
John
Earl of
Melfort.
3
d Charles
thereafter Earl of
Lawderdale.
John
Earl, afterward Duke of
Lawderdale,
in the beginning of the Civil War was among the most forward for the Covenant, and prosecuted it for some time with the most eminent Animosity
The Earl of Clarendon's History of the Civil War.
. He was much trusted by that Party in the management of Affairs both in Church and State. When he was a very young Man his Lordship was sent one of the Commissioners from the Church of
Scotland
to the Assembly of Divines who met at
Westminster Anno
1643, for the framing a new Model of Government in the Church. The next Year he was appointed one of the Commissioners from the States of
Scotland
to treat with the King at
Uxbridge
Ibidem.
, but that Treaty ending without the Effect desired, he was again commissioned from the Parliament to treat with his Majesty at
Hampton
Court in the Year 1647
Ibidem.
, the Conclusion of which was the raising an Army from
Scotland
toward the rescue of his Majesty. As soon as the Army was ready to march into
England,
his Lordship was sent over to
Holland
to require that the Prince of
Wales
might repair to the
Scots
Army, which was agreed to in the Treaty, but the Misfortune that befel the Army at
Prestoun
put a stop thereto, so that the Earl, after a few Weeks stay at the
Hague,
bent his Course homeward to imploy his Interest for serving the King, but before he came thither he came to understand that the state of Affairs were so much altered, that the Engagement was declared unlawful, and to what Penalties he himself and all others who were the Promoters thereof were liable to; whereupon, without suffering his Ship to go into any Port, he returned again into
Holland
Ibidem.
to offer his Service to the Prince, who by that time was become King by the Murder of his Father. Here my Lord
Lawderdale
staid till after his Majesty's coming over to
Scotland
in 1650, his Lordship soon followed, tho he was not admitted to come near the Court, or so much as wait upon the King till the meeting of the Parliament 1651, wherein all the different Parties seemed to be unite for his Majesty's Service
Ibidem.
. His Lordship marched with the King into
England
upon the loss of the Army at
Worcester,
he was taken Prisoner and committed to the Tower, where he underwent a long and severe Imprisonment for the space of nine Years, till by the Restauration of his Majesty in 1660, he obtained his Liberty, when his Lordship became the prime Minister of State and for the space of twenty Years
e disposed of all the Offices and Honours of the Kingdom intirely without a Rival. He was first constituted sole Secretary of State
Anno
1661, President of the Council, one of the extraordinary Lords of the Session, first Commissioner of the Thesaury, when the Thesaury was turned into Commission, and one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber: Also in the 1669 he was appointed high Commissioner to the Parliament, and bore the same Character in four succeeding Sessions, and had the Honour likewise to represent his Majesty's Person in the Convention of Estates 1678: In all which important Trusts deporting himself with great Ability, his Majesty in Testimony thereof upon the 2d of
May
1672, raised him to the Dignity of Duke of
Lawderdale,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II. ad Annum 1672.
; also upon the 25
June
26 of
Charles
II. his Grace was made a Peer of
England
by the Title of Earl of
Guildford
Sir William Dugdale's Baronage of England, Vol. 2.
, and one of the Privy Council in that Kingdom; and last of all, as a further Testimony of his Majesty's Favour, he was elected one of the Knights, Companions of the most noble Order of the
Garter.
But notwithstanding all those high Advancements in Honour and Preferments, together with the long and uninterrupted Favour of his Prince, upon a new Turn of Affairs at Court toward the end of King
Charles
's Reign, his Grace was obliged to resign all his Offices, except those that were to continue during his Life, and he died under a Cloud soon thereafter on the 24 of
August
1682, and was interr'd in the Vault of his Family at
Hadingtoun
Church, where you may read this Inscription on a Tablet of Brass fixed on his Coffin.
In Spem beatae Resurrectionis,
Hic conditur illustrissimus & nobilissimus Prin-ceps
Dominus,
D. Joannes
Dux de
Lawderdale,
Marchi
de
March,
Comes de
Lawderdale
&
Guildford,
Vicecomes
Maitland,
Dominus de
Thirlestane, Musleburgh, Bolton
&
Petersham;
saepius ad Parliamenta & Ordinum hujus Regni Conventus tenenda Prorex; a Restauratione Regiae Majestatis, per
20
Annos solus, pro Regno
Scotiae,
Regum optimo,
Carolo
Secundo, a Secretis; Praeses Secreti Concilii; praedicto potentissimo Regi, in Regno
Angliae,
a Secretioribus Conciliis & ex Cubiculariis Primariis unus; Castelli Regii
Edinburgeni
Constabularius & Gubernator: Nobilissimi Ordinis Garterii Eques.
Natus
21. Maii
M.DC.XVI.
Leidintonae.
Obiit
24
Die
Augusti,
prope Fontes de
Tunbridge,
Anno humanae Salutis M.DC.LXXXII. Aetatis
68.
This great Duke married first
Anne
Daughter and Co-heir of
Alexander
Earl of
Hume,
by whom he had only one Daughter
Anne
married to
John
2d Marquis of
Tweddale,
and after her Death
Elizabeth
eldest Daughter and Heir of
William Murray
Earl of
Dysart,
Widow of Sir
Lionel Talmash
of
Helingham,
but by her he had no Succession.
The Duke of
Lawderdale
dying thus without Male Children, the Dignity of Duke extinguished with himself, the Honour of Earl devolving upon
Charles Maitland
of
Hattoun
his Brother; which
Charles
was constituted Thesaurer Depute
Anno
1670, as his Lordship was also one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and General of the Mint during the Ministry of the Duke his Brother. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter and Heir of
Richard Lawder
of
Hattoun,
by whom he had a numerous Issue.
Richard
Earl of
Lawderdale.
John
Earl of
Lawderdale.
Charles Maitland
Esq
who married
Lilias
Daughter to Sir
John Colquhoun
of
Luss,
Widow of Sir
John Stirling
of
Kier.
William Maitland
Esq
who married
Christian
Daughter and Heir of
Robert
Viscount of
Oxenford.
Alexander Maitland
Esq
Isobel
the eldest Daughter married to
John
Lord
Elphinston.
Mary
the youngest to
Charles
Earl of
Southesk.
This Earl died upon the 9 of
June
1691
Publick Prints of 1691 in the Lawyers Library.
, the Honour devolving upon
Richard
his Son and Heir, who in his younger Years was bred up to every thing that was proper to qualify him for those great Imployments his Ancestors had enjoyed in the State, and his Improvement so far exceeded his Years that he was very early admitted into the Privy Council, and made Lord Justice Clerk
Anno
1681, but his Father-in-law the Earl of
Argyle
having made his escape out of the Castle of
Edinburgh,
and some Letters of his being intercepted and deciphered, whereby it appeared some had been written to him, and tho the Matter of them was very innocent, yet it being Correspondence with a Person condemned, it brought him under a Cloud
Memoirs of the Earls of Lawderdale.
, and he was depriv'd of his Place; but notwithstanding he continued inviolably devoted to the Interest of King
James,
and upon the Revolution he followed the Fortune of the said King into
France,
where he died some Years thereafter, leaving no surviving Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle,
so that the Title of Earl of
Lawderdale
came to
Sir
John
his Brother, who being bred a Lawyer, was promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice
Anno
1689, and thereafter to be General of the Mint, which Office he enjoyed till his Death, which happened the 13 of
August
1710
History of Europe for 1710.
. By
Margaret
his Wife only Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Glencairn
he had three Sons,
viz. John
Lord
Maitland,
who in his Father's time married
Jean
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Sutherland,
and dying in the beginning of the Year 1710, left one Daughter Lady
Jean.
2
d Charles
the present Earl 3
d Alexander,
and a Daughter
Elizabeth
married to
James
Earl of
Hyndford.
Which
Charles
was constituted General of the Mint upon the removal of
Alexander
Earl of
Hume,
so after King
George
's Accession to the Crown, which Office his Lordship at present enjoys, he married
Anne
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Finlater
and
Seafield,
and his Issue
John
Lord
Maitland.
ARMS.
Or,
a Lyon Rampant couped in all its Joints
Gules,
within a double Tressure counterflowr'd
Azure.
Supporters two Eagles proper. Crest, a Lyon sejant full faced
Gules,
holding in his dexter Paw a Sword
Proper,
hilted and pomell'd
Or,
in the Sinister a Flower-de-Luce
Azure,
corwn'd
Or,
Motto,
Consilio & animis.
LENNOX, Earl of
Lennox.
I Find from ancient Records and Writings that
Aluin M'Arkill, i e.
the Son of
Arkill,
the Founder of this illustrious Family, was a great Man in the time of King
David
and
Malcolm
IV.
In the Chartulary of Dumfermling there is a Charter granted by Constantine Comes, who is Earl of Fife, to that Monastery de Schyra de Kirkaldy, which King David confirms, in which Deed this Aluin M'Arkill is a Witness.
, and appears to have been a Favourite, and is frequently a Witness in the Grants of both these Princes to the Religious of
Dumfermling
In a Donation to this Abbacy of the Lands of Inchmaduchan for the Soul of King David by King Malcolm, this Aluin filius M'Arkill is a Witness.
. He had a Son
Aluin
who was made Earl of
Lennox
by King
William,
probably upon the Demise of
David
Earl of
Huntington
the King's Brother, who formerly had Right to the Lands which composed this Earldom
I find in the Chartulary of Paisly an Instrument of Possession of some Lands in Kilpatrick by the Monks of Paisly, which they had tempore quo David frater Regis Scotiae tenuit Comitatum de Levinax.
. This Earl imitated the Piety of the King his Master in his Charity to the Church and the Clergy, for he gave to the Monks of
Paisly in honorem sancti Patricii & Ecclesiae de Kilpatrick Terras de Cochnach & Edenbarren
Chartulary of Paisly.
, and that in presence of
Joceline
Bishop of
Glasgow
Chartulary of Paisly.
, he left Issue
Malduin
his Successor in the Earldom,
Dungal
Rector of the Church of
Kilpatrick
Ibidem.
,
Malcolm
This Malcolm Brother to Malduin Earl of Lennox had a Son who I find is designed Finlay de Campsey, who left three Daughters his Co-heirs, Mary Wife of John de Wardroba, Helen of Bernard of Erth and Feneleth of Norine de Monorgan, all which is evident from the Registers of Paisly.
,
Amalick,
and a Daughter
Eva
married to
Malcolm Thane
of
Calender
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Kilsyth.
.
Which
Malduin
Earl of
Lennox
was a great Benefactor to the Church, for he gave to the Monks of
Paisly, Divinae Charitatis intuitu & pro salute domini sui Alexandri Regis, nec non pro salute sui ipsius & anima patris sui & matris suae omnium parentem suorum & haeredum ecclesiam de Kilpatrick cum omnibus pertinentiis suis.
Moreover he gave to the said Abbey
pro salute Domini sui Alexandri Regis & salute sua & Elzabethae Sponsae suae totas Terras de Drumthoch
r & Drumthaglanen,
that he might have the benefit of a burying Place within the Abbey-Church, and that the Aniversary of himself and his Wife should be celebrated with all due Solemnity in the Convent for ever
Chartulary of Paisly.
. By the said
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
Walter
Lord High Steward of
Scotland
I have seen an original Charter granted by Walter Senescallus Scotiae confirming the Donations of his Grandfather Walter, to the Abbey of Kelso, in which Deed Malcolm
ilius Comitis de Lennox nepoti suo is a Witness.
, he had
Malcolm
his Son and Heir, Father to Earl
Malcolm,
who was one of those noble and loyal Patriots who intirely and without Reserve devoted himself to the Service of his Country in the Wars of
Bruce
and
Baliol,
and stood always firm in his Loyalty to King
Robert
the
Bruce,
for which that Monarch did royally reward him upon his Accession to the Crown, and gave him many great and singular Privileges and Immunities which were not ordinarly given to Subjects in these Times
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
, as the Reward of his constant Fidelity to him. This noble Earl was one of the
Scots
Nobility who wrote that memorable Letter to the Pope, asserting the Independency of
Scotland
so valuable a piece of Antiquity, that most of all the modern
Scots
Authors have Copies of it in their Writings
Spotiswood, Mackenzie, &c.
. This Earl was succeeded by
Donald
Earl of
Lennox
his Son
I have seen sundry Charters granted by him to Vassals, particularly one of a Carrucate of Land Mauritio filio & haeredi quondam Mauritii de Buchanan ad Annum 1353, contained in the Register of Charters belonging to the Burgh of Dunbartoun.
, who dying without Male Issue, the Earldom devolved to
Margaret
his Daughter and Heir who married
Walter
Lord of
Foscelen
Ibidem.
, who in her Right became Lord of the
Lennox,
they had a Son Sir
Duncan Lennox
Knight, in whose favour they resigned the Earldom of
Lennox
in the Hands of King
Robert
II.
Register of Dunbartoun.
whereupon he became Earl. This is that
Duncan
Earl of
Lennox
who being attainted of High Treason with his Son in-law
Murdoch
Duke of
Albany
in the Reign of King
James
I. was executed at
Stirling
upon the 23 of
May
1426
Extracta & Chron. Scor
MS.
, and his Estate came to the Crown by Forsalture. He left behind him three Daughters,
Isobel
married to
Murdoch
Duke of
Albany, Elizabeth
to Sir
John Stewart
of
Darnly,
Ancestor to the latter Dukes and Earls of
Lennox, Margaret
to
Robert Monteith
of
Rusky,
by whom he had
Murdoch Monteith
of
Rusky
his Son, who left two Daughters Co-heirs to him
Charta penes Joannem Haldane de Gleneagles.
,
Agnes
married to Sir
John Haldane
of
Gleneagles,
and
Margaret
to
John Napier
of
Merchistoun,
Ancestor to the present Lord
Napier
Charta penes Georgi
m
pier de
ilmahew, ad Annum 1491.
.
In the Reign of King
James
III. there was a long Dispute betwixt
John
Lord
Darnly
Grandson of
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Duncan
Earl of
Lennox,
and
Agnes Monteith
Lady
Gleneagles,
Grand child of
Margaret
another Daughter of the said Earl's, anent the Superiority of the Earldom of
Lennox,
which was afterwards amicably composed betwixt them by certain Arbiters chosen for that effect,
Anno
1477
I have seen several Charters and Writings belonging to the Laird of Gleneagles, that instruct this Competition about the Earldom of Lennox, as also the Settlement that was agreed to.
, so that in the 1483
John
Lord
Darnly
came to be created Earl of
Lennox.
STEWART, Duke of
Lennox.
THIS illustrious House which has produced so many glorious Patriots and Heroes both at Home and Abroad, was the first collateral Branch that sprang from the Royal Family of
Stewart.
Sir
Robert Stewart
their Ancestor, was the Son of
Walter
second of that Name, Lord High Steward of
Scotland
Lesly Hist. Scot.
, who being by his Father's Grant Lord of the Barony of
Torboltoun
in the County of
Air,
added to that and his other Possessions the Lands of
Crucksfie
and
Neilstoun
in
Renfrew
-shire by the Heir Female of
Robert de Crock
a great Baron of that Time
The Crooks of Neilstoun and Cruicksfie were great Men in the Barony of Renfrew, as soon as the Records of the County begin.
, whom he obtained in Marriage, and had
Robert Stewart
Lord of
Cruickstoun
and
Darnly
I find in the 1513, That Robert Stewart Lord of Cruikstoun, was Baillie to the High Steward of Scotland within the Barony of Renfrew, from the Registers of the Monastery of Paisly.
, who seems to be the Father of Sir
Ala
Stewart
of
Darnly,
who was early in the Interest of King
Robert
I. upon whose Advancement to the Throne he obtained the Lands of
Dreghorn,
which before that time belonged to
John Bali
l
for Service and Homage to be done by him, as the Charter bears
This Charter is extant in the Rolls of King Robert I.
. He was slain at the Battle of
Halidonhill
in the Service of his Country upon St.
Mary Magdalen
's Day 1333, leaving
John
Lord of
Darnly
his Son and Heir, who was a Person of great Consideration in his Time, for when King
David Bruce
was taken Prisoner by the
English
at the Battle of
Durham, John Stewart
Son and Heir to this Sir
John Stewart
Lord of
Darnly
was given as one of the Hostages for his Ransom,
Anno
1348
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. This last
John
is Witness in many Charters of King
Robert
II. when he was Earl of
Strathern,
and on the 31 of
January
1361 he obtained from
Robert
Earl of
Strathern
a Charter of the Lands of
Cr
cksfie, Inchennan
and
Perthick
upon his own Resignation, and to
Robert Stewart
his Son in Fie, and to the Heirs Male of his Body, which failing, to
Walter
and
Alexander Stewarts
his Brothers successively
Collection of Charters by the Earl of Hadingtoun in the Lawyers Library.
. This
Alexander
did actually succe ed to the Lordship no doubt upon the failure of the other Members of the Tailzie
This Sir Alexander Stewart of Cruickstoun is so designed in a Record Anno 1397.
, and further augmenting his Estate by marrying of
Janet
Daughter and Heir of Sir
William Keith
of
Galstoun
Charta penes me ad Annum 1407.
, by her he had 1
st
Sir
John
his Successor, 2d
Alexander Stewart
of
Torbane
Ibidem.
, and a Daughter
Janet
married to
Thomas Somervel
of
Carnwath
Charta in Rotulis Roberti III. ad Annum 1390 in publicis Archivis.
, Ancestor to the Lord
Som
el.
Which Sir
John
being a Gentleman of a Military Temper betook himself to the
French
Service, and had a considerable Command against the
English
at the Siege of
Bauge.
Afterwards upon the Death of the Earl of
Buchan, Anno
1424, he was constituted General of all the
Scots
Forces in
France
and made a Marshal of that Kingdom, having performed many noble Services to that Crown, King
Charles
VII. raised him to be a Peer of
France,
by the Titles of Count
d' E
reux Seigneur de Counterfald & d' Aubigny
Scoti Chron.
: Also in the 1426 he was sent Ambassador to
Scotland
to renew the old League betwixt the Two Crowns, and to propose a Match betwixt
Lewis
the
Dauphine
and
Margaret
Daughter of King
James
I.
Drummond's History of Scotland.
. and continuing in the
French
Service with much Honour and Reputation: He was thereafter slain in the Battle of
Hering,
fighting against the
English, Anno
1429, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs of
Duncan
Earl of
Lennox,
Sir
Alan
his Successor, Sir
Alexander Stewart
of
Bielmouth
Ibidem.
,
John
Lord
d' Aubigny,
Father to
Bernard
Lord
d' Aubigny,
famous in the
Neapolitan
War under
Charles
VIII. and
Lewis
XII. of
France.
Which Sir
Alan
took to Wife
Katharine
Daughter to Sir
John Seton
Lord of
Seton;
and had Issue 1
st, John
Earl of
Lennox.
2
d, Alexander,
of whom the House of
Galstoun
and the Lord
Pitenweem
did descend.
Charta penes D. Gals
n ad Annum 1452.
: 3
d, Thomas,
who was Ancestor to
Stewart
of
Barscabe
I have seen a Charter granted by Matthew Earl of Lennox dilecto consangineo suo Thomae Stewart of the Lands of Barscabe 1495.
. And,
Elizabeth,
a Daughter, married to Sir
John Maxwel
of
Pollock:
He was slain
September
29th,
Anno
1439, by
Thomas Boyd
of
Kilmarnock,
which was the Occasion of great Bloodshed and Devastation in the
Western
Parts, and kindled such a Flame, as was not extinguish'd for a long Time thereafter.
Which
John,
in the 3d of King
James
III.
Anno
1463, having served himself Heir to
Duncan
Earl of
Lennox,
his Great Grandfather, did assume that Title, but it being found he had not Right to the whole Earldom, he was obliged for a long Time to disuse it, till Dame
Agnes Monteith
Lady
Gleneagles,
another of the Co-heirs, came to compose the Matter amicably, that then with the Approbation of King
James
III. he ass
med the Stile of Earl of
Lennox, Anno
1483. This Noble Lord was in the 1472 appointed one of the Commissioners from
Scotland
to treat with the
English
touching a Peace betwixt the Two Nations
Rymer'
Foedera Angliae.
; also in the 1481, he was constituted Warden of the
West
Marches
Black Acts of Parliament.
; and in 1484, was one of the Ambassadors that were nominated to treat with
English
Commissioners, for the Good, Peace, and Utility of the Two Kingdoms
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
.
When the Civil War broke out in the Time of King
James
III. he was upon the King's Side against the Prince; nevertheless upon King
James
IV's coming to the Crown, he was made Captain of
Dumbartoun, Anno
1488
Ch
rta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
and giving Way to Fate
Anno
1494, he left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Montgomery,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Eglingtoun;
1
st. Matthew
his Successor. 2
d, Robert
Lord
d' Aubigny
Historical Deduction of the House of Lennox.
. 3
d, William,
who was Captain of the
Scots Gens' d' Arms
in
France.
4
th, John Stewart
of
Glanderstoun,
who by
Marion
Daughter of Sir
Thomas S
pil
of of
Eliotstoun
had one Daughter his Heir,
Margaret,
married to
John Fraser
of
Knock
in
Airshire
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. 5
th. Alan
first of that Branch of the
Stewarts
of
Cardonald
Charta in Publicis Archivis ad Annum 1494.
, of whom by an Heir Female is descended the Lord
Blantyre,
who is now the only remaining Branch of this Illustrious Family. Besides those Sons, he had moreover several Daughters.
1.
Elizabeth
married to
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle
and had Issue.
2.
Marion,
to
Robert
Lord
Crichton
of
Sanquhar
Simson's Collections from the Writs of the Family of Sanquhar.
, and had Issue.
3.
Janet,
to
Ninian
Lord
Ross
of
Halkhead
Charta in Publicis Archivis ad Annum 1515.
, and had Issue.
4.
to Sir
John Colquhoun
of
Luss,
and had Issue.
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox,
the next of this Illustrious Family, was of the Privy Council to King
James
IV. with whom he lost his Life at the Battle of
Flowdon
9
September
1513, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife Daughter of
James
Lord
Hamilton,
by the Lady
Mary
his Wife Daughter of
James
II. King of
Scotland; John
thereafter Earl of
Lennox.
1.
Margaret
married to
John
Lord
Fleming
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
and again to
Alexander Douglas
of
Mains,
and had Issue.
2.
Elizabeth,
to Sir
Hugh Campbell
of
Lowdon
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V.
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Lowdon.
3.
Agnes,
to
William Edmonston
of
Duntreath
Charta penes Arch. Edmonston de Duntreath.
, and had Issue.
Which
John
was appointed one of the Lords of the Regency by King
James
V.
Anno
1524, but the Earl of
Angus
taking upon himself the whole Administration, and detaining the young King upon the Matter a Prisoner, this Earl with diverse others of the Nobility endeavouring his Majesty's Enlargement, was slain in the Attempt by Sir
James Hamilton,
at a Conflict near
Linlithgow
-Bridge, on the 4th of
September
1526
Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland MS. penes me.
. By
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
John Stewart,
Earl of
Athole,
he had
Matthew
the next Earl,
Robert
Bishop of
Caithness,
thereafter Earl of
Lennox, John
Lord
d' Aubigny,
who was Captain of the
Scots Gens d' Arms,
and Governour of
Avignon,
of whom descended the late Dukes of
Lennox;
likewise a Daughter
Helen,
married first to
Andrew
Earl of
Errol,
and thereafter to
John
Earl of
Sutherland.
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox,
like other great Men of that Age betook himself to Arms, and served the Crown of
France
in the Wars of
Italy,
where his gallant Behaviour procured him a very great Name and Reputation. He was always in very high Esteem with his own Prince, King
James
V. for his Father's Sake, after whose Death he was sent over from
France,
to prevent any Detriment to that Crown by the Minority of the young Queen, but being a frank and open-hearted Person, he fell into the Snare laid by Cardinal
Beaton
Bishop of St.
Andrews
for him, and in a little Time lost the
French
King's Favour; and when it was come to that Pass, that he could neither stay at Home, nor return to
France
with Safety, he went into
England Anno
1543, and put himself under the Protection of
Henry
VIII. who generously received him into his Favour, and gave him his Neice Lady
Margaret Douglas
in Marriage, and an Estate in
England,
to the Value of Seventeen Hundred Merks
Sterling per Annum,
as an Equivalent for his own Fortune, which was forfeited in
Scotland;
and this Agreement the Earl made with that Prince, that he should deliver into his Hands the Castle of
Dumbartoun,
with the Isle of
Bute,
and the Castle of
Rothesay
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, which tho' the Earl resolutely undertook, yet the Success did not answer. He lived at the Court of
England
till the 1563; he was called Home by Queen
Mary,
and his Forfeiture repealed by Act of Parliament, after he had been banished from his Country for 20 Years, his Son
Henry
Lord
Darnly
soon following him, who being a young Nobleman of Illustrious Birth, extremely handsome, and of a Temper as well mix'd as his outward Proportions, Queen
Mary
at first Sight became so enamour'd of him, that neither the Menaces of Queen
Elizabeth,
nor any other Considerations, could deter her from marrying him, when, to render him the fitter Match for her, she rais'd him to the Dignity of Duke of
Albany.
After this, when he had not been above Five Months in
Scotland,
and did not exceed his Nineteenth Year, she married him, and with the Consent of most of the Peers declared him King, of which happy Marriage upon the 19th
June
1566, to the perpetual Advantage of all
Britain,
her Majesty was delivered of a Son King
James
VI. First Monarch of
Great-Britain.
But tho' the Queen's Love to the Lord
Darnly
at first had been very warm, yet it began soon afterwards as much to cool toward him, the Unkindness between them being chiefly fomented by one
David Rizio
an
Italian,
her Secretary for the
French
Tongue; which Indignity the King revenged, by entering into the Cabal with those who contrived and and murdered the poor old Man, with Circumstances that were not at all allowable; and 'tis probable that it was in Resentment of
Rizio
's Death, that the Earl of
Bothwel
and Others, officiously as thinking it might gratify the Queen, most inhumanly murder'd this lovely Prince, in his own Lodgings as he lay a Bed, on the 9th of
Feburuary
1567; tho'
Bothwel
who was the Murderer did maintain the Queen's Innocency to his last Moments: And I think there was no other Ground for believing the Queen to be concerned in that
oul Action, but her imprudent marrying that profligate Person so soon thereafter, who, by common Fame, was reputed to be the Murderer of her Husband.
Upon the Death of King
Henry,
the Earl of
Lennox,
his Father, prosecuted the Earl of
Bothwel
as the Regicide, but that Earl's Interest at Court so over ruled the Jury, that he was formally acquitted of all Sus
cion as well as Action in the Murder, which
Lennox
was forced to acquiesce in, and from that Time forth he lived in Retirement till the Death of the Earl of
Murray
the Regent, that he was unanimous
y chosen Reg
nt to the young King
James
VI. his Grandson; which great Tru
he executed for 13 Months till he was murdered by a Party of the Queen's Friends, on the 4th of
September
1571
Buchanan's History.
. He was interred in the Chapel within the Castle of
Stirling,
with this Inscription on his Tomb,
Lo here a Prince and Potentate,
Whose Life to understand
Was good, he Just and Fortunate,
Though from his Native Land,
His Enemies Thrice did him out-thring,
He Thrice return'd again;
Was lawful Tutor to the King,
And Regent did remain,
While he with Rigor Rebels rackt,
They wrought his fatal End.
Lo this Respects the Death, no Might,
When GOD permits the Time.
Yet shall the Vengeance on them light
That wrought this cursed Crime.
Mr.
George Buchanan
his very humble Servant, who had a great Attachment to his Lordship and his Family, has left us the following Epitaph on the Regent, in a more polite Strain;
Regis avus, Regis Pater, alto e sanguine Regum
Imperio quorum terra Britanna subest,
Matthaeus: genuit Levinia, Gallia fovit,
Pulso Anglus thalamum, remque decusque dedit.
Coepi invicta manu, famam virtute refelli,
Arma armis vici, consilioque dolos.
Gratus in ingratos, patriam justèque pièque
Cum regerem, hostili perfidia cecidi.
Care nepos, spes una domus, meliore senectam
Attingas fato, caetera dignus avo.
To
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox
succeeded
Charles
his Second Son in his Estate and Honour, he took to Wife
Elizabeth
Daughter of Sir
William Cavendish,
Sister to the Earl of
Devonshire,
by whom he had one Daughter the Lady
Arabella Stewart,
who was married to
William
Marquis of
Hartford,
but had no Issue. He died a young Man at
London, Anno
1576, where he was interred with this Inscription over his Grave;
Hic situs est
Carolus Comes Lennoxiae qui duxit filiam Willielmi Cavendish Militis, ex qua cum Arabellam unicam filiam suscepisse
, diem obiit Anno aetatis suae
21,
& Salutis humanae
1576.
To
Charles
Earl of
Lennox
succeeded
Robert
Bishop of
Caithness
his Uncle. This noble Person being at first a younger Brother, applied himself to Learning, and devoting himself to the Service of the Church, entred young into Orders. He was elected Bishop of
Cathness Anno
1542
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, but taking Part with his Brother the Earl of
Lennox,
against the Earl of
Arran
the Governour, he was forfeited and lived mostly in Exile till the 1563; he returned to his Native Country, and concurred in reforming the Church from the Errors of Popery, tho not as a Bishop, and turned Protestant himself. He did not long retain the Title of Earl of
Lennox,
but voluntarly resigned it in Favours of
Esme
Lord
d' Aubigny
his Great Nephew, and in lieu thereof had the Stile and Title of Earl of
March
conferred on him by King
James
VI. his Nephew, together with the Priory of St.
Andrews,
which he enjoyed till Death took him away on the 29th of
August
1586
Spotiswood's Church History.
, leaving no no other Issue than a natural Daughter
Margaret,
married to
Robert Algoe
of
Easter-Walking shaw.
When
Robert
Earl of
Lennox
resigned the Earldom, as before mentioned, his Majesty King
James
VI. erected it into a Dutchy in Favours of
Esme
Lord
d' Aubigny
his Cousin, Son and Heir of
John
Lord
d' Aubigny,
Brother of
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox,
who coming over from
France Anno
1579, his Majesty King
James
embraced his Lordship with singular Kindness, admitted him into his inwardest Councils, and made him Duke of
Lennox,
and Lord High Chamberl
in of
Scotland, Anno
1580. This extraordinary Favour of his with the King, procured him Envy from many who secre
ly matter'd that he being a Man most devoted to the
Romish
Religion, was sent from
France
to subvert the true Religion, and that which increased the Suspicion the more, was, that he applied himself, and gave Countenance to those who were most in the Interest of the King's Mother; so that
William
Earl of
Gowrie
and Others imployed all their Wi
o remove him from the King,
d thus they went to Work.
The Duke having gone from
Perth
where the King then lay, to
Edinburgh,
to exercise his Jurisdiction as Chamberlain,
Gowrie
and Others taking the Opportunity when he was out of the Way, invited the King to
Ruthven
Castle,
Gowrie
's own House, and there detain'd him against his Will, all his faithfullest Servants they removed from him, constrained him to call Home the Earl of
Angus
and Others from Banishment, and to send
Lennox
back again to
France.
The Duke being a Man of a very mild Spirit, did for the Publick Quiet's Sake, and at the King's seeming Perswasion (which they had forced him to use with him) return to
France,
where, he soon after contracting Sickness, died at
Paris
26th
May
1583, and at the Point of Death openly professed, as he had done before, the Protestant Religion, confuting thereby the Malice of those who had falsly defamed him to be a Papist. He was married with
Katharine
Daughter of
William Seigneur d' Antrague;
by whom he had
Lodovick
Duke of
Lennox.
Esme
Lord
d' Aubigny.
Lady
Henrieta,
married to
George
first Marquis of
Huntley,
of whom his Grace the Duke of
Gordon
is descended.
Lady
Mary,
2d Wife to
John
Earl of
Mar,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
James
VI. of which illustrious Marriage the Lineal Heir is
David
Earl of
Buchan.
No sooner was the Duke of
Lennox
dead, but King
James
called over from
France Lodovick
his Son, and in grateful Remembrance to the Memomory and Merit of his Father, gave him both the Estate and Offices that had belonged to his Ancestors, taking
likewise to have him educated according to his noble Birth and Fortune, and by Degrees advanced him to Honour and Preserments, as he grew in Years. He was both High Chamberlain and Admiral of
Scotland
when his Majesty sent him Ambassador to
France Anno
1601. In which Negotiation he behaved very well, and to his Majesty's Satisfaction. Upon the King's Accession to the Crown of
England,
his Grace accompanied his Majesty
o that Realm, where he was likewise made a Peer, first by the Title of Earl of
Newcastle,
and thereafter raised to the Honour of Duke of
Richmond,
being likewise Master of the Houshold, first Gentleman of the Bed-chamber, and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter.
He married first
Sophia
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gowrie,
next
Jean
Daughter of Sir
Matthew Campbel
of
Lowdon,
and last of all
Frances
Daughter of
Thomas
Viscount of
Bindon
of the Kingdom of
England,
and dying without Issue, 11.
February
1623, was interred at
Westminster,
where a stately Tomb was erected to his Memory, with this Epitaph upon it.
Depositum illustrissimi & excellentissimi Princi pis Ludovici Stuarti Esm
i Leviniae Ducis filii, Joannis Propatrui serenissimi Regis Jacobi Nepotis, Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducis, Novi Castelli ad Tinam, & Darnliae Comitis
&c.
Magni Scotiae Camerarii & Thalassiarchae Hereditarii, sacri Palatii Jacobi Regis Senes
ali, Cubieulariorumque Principalium primi, Regi a sanctioribus Conciliis, Sanct. Georgiani ordinis equ. Scoticorum, que per Gallias Cataphractorum Praefecti, viri excelsi ad omnia magna & bonanati, ad meliora defuncti: Vixit ann
s
49,
menses
4,
dies
17.
To
Ludovick
Duke of
Lennox
succeeded
Esme
Lord
d'Aubigny
his Brother, who enjoyed the Honour but a short time, his Death happening on the 14
th
of
February
1624, leaving Issue by
Katharine
his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of
Gervaise
Lord
Lightoun
of
Bromswold,
1
st James
his Successor in the Honour.
2
d George
Lord
d'Aubigny,
who lost his Life in the King's Service at the Battle of
Kennetoun
23. of
October
1642, leaving Issue by
Frances
his Wife Daughter of
Theophilus
Earl of
Suffolk, Charles
his Son, who was honoured by King
Charles
I. with the Title of Earl of
Lichfield
upon the Demise of
Bernard
Earl of
Lichfield
his Uncle, and a Daughter
Katharine
married to
Henry
Lord
O'Brian
Son and Heir of
Henry
Earl of
Thomond
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
by whom he had one Daughter
Katharine
married to
Edward
Earl of
Clarendon.
3
d Bernard
who had the Command of the King's Troop of Guards in the time of the Civil War, and was slain fighting bravely at the Battle of
Chester
1645, whom the Earl of
Clarendon
characterizes thus,
He was,
says he,
a very faultless young Man, of a most gentle, courteous and affable Nature, and of a Spirit and Courage invincible; whose Loss,
continues he,
all Men exceedingly lamented, and the King bore it with extraordinary Grief.
4
th
Lord
John Stewart,
who was General of the Horse in the King's Service in the time of the Civil War, being the third Brother of this illustrious Family that sacrificed their Lives in this Quarrel; for he was killed at the Battle of
Alresford,
little more than one and twenty Years of Age, whose Courage was so signal that Day, that too much, says an Historian of that Time, could not be expected from it if he had out-lived it, and he was so generally beloved, that he could not but be very generally lamented.
Lady
Elizabeth
his eldest Daughter was married to
Thomas Howard
Earl of
Arundel.
Lady
Anne
to
Archibald
Lord
Angus,
Son and Heir to
William
first Marquis of
Douglas.
Lady
Frances
to
Jerome Westoun
Earl of
Portland.
James
Duke of
Lennox,
as he was of the noblest Extraction, so his Majesty King
Charles
I. took great care of his Education, and sent him to
France, Italy
and
Spain,
where he was created a Grandee of that Kingdom
Clarendon's History.
, and as soon as he returned, tho' he was scarce one and twenty Years of Age, made him a Privy Councellor: And as he had many great Offices by Inheritance, so his Majesty, out of his abundant Kindness to him, made him Master of the Houshold, Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports, and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter.
When the War began in 1642 he adhered to the King's Interest with signal Fidelity and Affection, and made so entire a Resignation of himself to his Majesty, that he abhorred all Artifices to shelter himself from the Pejudice of those, who, how powerful soever, failed in their Duty to the King, and therefore he was pursued with all imaginable Malice by them, as one that would have no Quarter; and as he had received great Bounties from the King, so he sacrificed all he had to his Service, as soon as his Occasions stood in need of it, and he lived with unspotted Fidelity some Years after the Murder of his Master, and was suffered by those that then governed to pay that last Duty to him of putting him into his Grave, and died without the Comfort of seeing the Restauration of the Crown on the 30. of
March
1655
Dugdal's Baronage of England.
. By
Mary
Daughter of
George
Duke of
Buckingham
his Wife, he had
Esme
who succeeded him, and died in his Minority
Anno
1660, and a Daughter
Mary
married to
Richard Butler
Earl of
Arran
of the Kingdom of
Ireland.
To
Esme
Duke of
Lennox
succeeded
Charles
of Earl of
Lichfield
his Cousin German, who being sent Ambassador extraordinary from King
Charles
II. to the Crown of
Denmark,
his Grace died at
Elsenure
in that Kingdom 21.
December
1672
Ibidem.
, leaving no Issue of
Farnces
his Wife Daughter of
Walter Stewart
Esq
Son of
Walter
Lord
Blantyre,
so that the Honour of this princely Family became extinct, and his great Fortune and Hereditary Offices came to King
Charles
II. as his nearest Heir Male, the King's Great Grand-father's Father and the Duke's being two Brothers.
But his Majesty considering with what Lustre and Glory the House of
Lennox
had shone in former Times, and that while the Dignity was in his Majesty's own Royal Person, it was suppressed in the Crown; wherefore, that the Honour might be again revived, and his Majesty having bestowed the Estate of
Lennox
upon the Lord
Charles Lennox
one of his Natural Sons, whom he so sirnamed by
Lovisa de Querovale
Dutchess of
Portsmouth,
was pleased to create him Duke of
Lennox,
Earl of
Darnly,
Lord
Torboltoun,
9
th
of
September
1675, and to the Heirs Male lawfully descending of his Body
Char
in publ. Arch.
. Likewise by other Letters Patent passed in
England, August
9, 27 of King
Charles
II. he was created Baron of
Sitiringtoun,
Earl of
March,
and Duke of
Richmond,
and on the 20
th
of
April
1681, was installed Knight of the
Garter.
Upon the Removal of the Duke of
Monmouth,
he was made Master of the Horse to the King, in which Office he continued till his Father's Death,
Anno
1685. He married
Anne
Daughter of
Frances
Lord
Brundnell,
by whom he had
Charles
Earl of
Darnly
his Son and Heir, Lady
Lovisa
married to
James
Earl of
Berkly,
and Lady
Anne Lennox.
LESLY, Earl of
Leven.
SIR
Alexander Lesly
first Earl of
Leven,
was the Son of Captain
George Lesly,
extracted from the House of
Balquhain
in the County of
Aberdeen,
one of the most illustrious Families of the
Leslies
Laurus Lesl
ana.
. Being a younger Brother he entred early into the Life and Condition of a Souldier, upon that Stage, where some of all Europe then acted, between the
Spainard
and the
Dutch,
in the Lord
Vere
's Regiment in
Holland,
where he attained the Reputation of a very good Officer in the Quality of a Captain, to which he attained after few Years Service.
After which he went to
Sweden
and entered into the Service of the greatest General of that Age,
Gustavus Adolphus
King of
Sweden
against the Imperialists, where he performed such great Actions as procured him a general Estimation, and thereby gained so much Honour, that the King promoted him to be Lieutenant General and then Velt Marshal of his Armies, with general Approbation, as a Person who well deserved the Preferment. Yea, that King had so great an Opinion of Sir
Alexander Lesly,
that in the 1628, when the Emperor had reduced all
Germany
except
Strals
nd,
which was then invested by Count
Walstein,
the Citizens having a Jealousy of their Governor, at the desire of some of the
German
Princes, made application to the King of
Sweden,
to send them an Officer to command in that Place, which he willingly granted, and pitched upon Sir
Alexander Lesly,
as a Person fit for that Station, and he acquitted himself with so much Conduct and Gallantry, that tho' the Plague was in the City, the out-Works in a very ill condition, and Count
Walstein
the
Imperial
General before it with a formidable and victorious Army, he obliged him to raise the Siege with considerable loss; tho' 'tis reported the Count was so confident of Success, that he swore:
Tho'
Stralsund
were hung in Chains, betwixt Heaven and Earth he would have it;
and General
Lesly
's behaviour was so agreeable to the Burghers, that they made him a rich Present in Gold, and struck several glorious Medals upon that Occasion, some of which they presented him with
One of which I have had
he Honour to see still preserved in his Family.
.
In the 1630, General
Lesly
was sent by the King of
Sweden,
to make an Attack upon the Isle of
Rugen,
in order to drive the Imperialists out of it; which he effected: And his Conduct and Bravery on this occasion was so very remarkable, that it drew upon him the greatest
Encomiums
both from Friends and Enemies that could be devised, by which means he opened a Way for the King of
Sweden
's marching into
Germany.
General
Lesly
continued in the
Swedish
Service, after the Death of King
Gustavus,
under his Daughter Queen
Christiana,
till the Year 1638, that the Troubles began in
Scotland,
he returned to his Native Country, upon an Invitation from the disaffected Nobility, and as soon as the Covenanters began to list Men toward the raising an Army under the Obligation of the Covenant, he was chosen to be their General, to which he was by all Men held very equal, having had good Experience of the most active Armies of that time, and a Courage very notorious: But that Enterprize ending without any Action, by reason of a Pacification, which was then agreed to; the General had no Opportunity to signalize himself at that time: But the Peace being of a short Duration, and a new War breaking out the next Year, Sir
Alexander Lesly
was again constituted General of the
Scots
Army, which entred
England
in
August
1640, who, having routed a Party under the Lord
Conway
at
Newburn,
took Possession of
Newcastle,
where they kept their head Quarter. Soon after which a Cessation was agreed to, and a Treaty appointed at
Rippon,
and afterward carried to
London,
where a Peace was happily concluded. The particular Articles whereof were ratified by his Majesty in the Parliament 1641, at the Conclusion of which General
Lesly
was created Earl of
Leven.
The
Irish
Rebellion breaking out at this time, his Lordship was appointed General of the
Scots
Forces that were raised and transported into that Kingdom upon the Charge of
England,
for suppressing the Rebellion there; in which Service he continued till the 1643, he was called over by the Parliament to form and command the
Scots
Army that was sent into
England,
to assist the Parliament against the King, by whose help the Paliament's Forces obtained their great Victory at
Marston-Moor
16.
July
1644, where a noble and judicious Memoirist of the
English
Nation, I mean the Lord
Hollis,
does General
Lesly
the Honour, as well as the Justice, to ackowledge that his Lordship, who commanded the
Scots
Horse, and his Country-man Major General
Crawford,
who was Major General to the Earl of
Manchester
's Brigade,
were the Persons who did the principal Service that Day,
quite contrary to what another celebrated Historian of the same Nation says of the General's Conduct in the Battle: Only it is to be observed, that that Author's Account of this Affair is wrote with so much Rancor and Prejudice, and with such Circumstances of Inconsistency, that the manner of the Narrative takes off much of the Credit of what he wrote in that Matter.
In the Year 1648, when the Estates of
Scotland
raised an Army for the Relief of King
Charles,
when he was made a Prisoner in the Isle of
Wight,
General
Lesly
so well preserved his Reputation with those of his own Country, who wedded the King's Interest most, that he had the Command of the Army offered him; but he thought fit to decline it upon Account of his Age and Infirmities: which was happy for him considering the unfortunate Issue of it.
After the Murder of the King, his Lordship appeared mighty earnest and forwad for restoring of King
Charles
II. and the Re-establishment of our Old Constitution, and frankly entred into those Designs and Measures that were set on foot for the raising an Army for his Majesty's Service, and was at the Battle of
Dumb
r
in Person, in the Quality of a Volunteer. After the Defeat of the
Scots
Army there, and when another Design was set on foot, for raising an Army to march with the King into
England,
no Body appeared more forward in that Service than his Lordship; but while General
Monk
lay before
Dundee,
the old General, with several other Noblemen, having appointed a Meeting at
Eliot
in
Angus,
to consult of Means to relieve the Town, and other Matters concerning the War, of which
Monk
having got Advertisement, sent a strong Party of Horse and Dragoons, commanded by Colonel
Morgan,
to surprise them: Which he did in the Night, and the old General and the Principals of them being taken, were sent to
London,
and committed Prisoners to the
Tower.
And notwithstanding all the Services he had done the
English
Parliament, his Lordship did not receive the least Favour from them, nor from
Cromwel;
but underwent Sequestration, and all other Severities the most loyal of his Country-men suffered: But the Crown of
Sweden
having entred into an Alliance with the Parliament of
England,
her
Swedish
Majesty, calling to Remembrance the great Services performed by General
Lesly
to the Crown of
Sweden,
was pleased to interpose by her Resident then at
London
for his Liberation; which being obtained, his Lordship was so sensible of the Honour that Princess had done him, that to shew his Gratitude for so singular a Favour, he went over in Person to
Sweden,
to return her Majesty his humble and hearty Thanks. At which Court his Lordship was treated with all the Civility and Respect due to his Quality and Merit, and returning thence to his Native Country, lived mostly at his Seat of
Balgony
in a voluntary Retirement, till Death put a Period to his Life, some time of the Year 1662, leaving Issue by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
— Renton
of
Billy, Alexander
Lord
Balgony,
likewise five Daughters.
1.
Anne
married to
Hugh
Master of
Lovat,
Son and Heir of
Hugh
Lord
Lovat,
and again to Sir
Ralph de la Vall,
and had Issue.
2.
Margaret
to Sir
James Crichton
of
Frendraught
1
st
Viscount of
Frendraught.
3
Mary
to
William
Lord
Cranstoun.
4.
Barbara
to Sir
John Ruthven
of
Dunglass.
5.
Christian
to
Walter Dundas junior
of that Ilk.
Alexander
Lord
Balgony
addicting himself to a military Life, was a Collonel in the
Scots
auxiliary Troops that went over to
Ireland
in the Year 1642, under the Command of General
Lesly
his Father, Death preventing his rising to other Preferments in the very Blossom of his Youth, to the Regrate of his noble Relations, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Rothes,
a Son
Alexander,
who succeeded his Grandfather in the Honour, and a Daughter
Catharine,
married to
George
1
st
Earl of
Melvil.
Which
Alexander,
second Earl of
Leven,
married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
William Howard,
Sister to
Charles
1
st
Earl of
Carlisle
Peerage of England.
, and dying without Issue Male of his Body,
Anno
1663, his Estate and Honour devolved on
Margaret
his eldest Daughter, who married Mr.
Montgomery,
a Brother of the Earl of
Eglington
's, and she dying
Anno
1674, the Honour came to
Catharine
Countess of
Leven
her Sister, and this Lady dying a Maiden, the Estate & Title fell, by Reason of an Entail, to
David Melvil
Esquire her Cousin-german, at that Time second Son of
George
Lord
Melvil.
Which
David,
in Imitation of his Ancestors on the maternal Side, dedicated himself from his Youth to the Profession of Arms, and transporting himself Abroad
Anno
1585, entred into the Service of the Duke of
Brandeburgh,
where his Lordship first served in the Quality of a Captain of Horse, and then was made Collonel of a Regiment of Foot by his Electoral Highness, which he brought over with the Prince of
Orange
in his Expedition into
Great Britain Anno
1688. Upon that Prince's Accession to the Crown, my Lord
Leven
was sworn of the Privy Council, and made Constable and Governor of
Edinburgh
Castle, on the 4
th
of
July
1689
Charta penes Comitem de Leven.
. His Majesty King
William
reposing great Trust and Confidence in his Lordship's Affection to his Service, was pleased to join him in Commission with Major General
Mackay,
and Major General Sir
George Monro,
to model the Forces in this Kingdom, which were to be employed in the Reduction of the Highlands; and accordingly his Lordship was present at the Head of his Regiment in the Action at
Gillycranky
on the 27
th
of
July
1689, where his Courage and Conduct was very signal and brave. Also in 1692 he carried over his Regiment to
Flanders,
where he continued during the Campaign. His Lordship continued Governor of
Edinburgh
Castle, till, after the Death of King
William,
he was removed from that Station, the Earl of
March
being put in his Room: But upon another Turn at Court his Lordship quickly recovered so much Favour, that her Majesty Queen
Anne
was pleased on the 1
st
of
January
1703 to make him Major General of the Forces in
Scotland,
and in little more than a Year thereafter reinstalled him in the Government of the Castle of
Edinburgh,
& soon thereafter appointed him General of the Ordnance, and without parting with any of his other Employments, on the 2
d
of
March
1706 he was constituted Lieutenant General and Commander in chief of all her Majesty's Forces in this Kingdom: All which Stations his Lordship held till the 1712, when he was removed from all publick Employments. He married
Anne
Daughter of
Margaret
Countess of
Weems,
by whom he had
George
Lord
Balgony
and
Raith, Alexander Lesly
Esquire, and a Daughter
Mary,
married to
William
Lord
Haddo,
at that Time Son and Heir apparent of
George
1
st
Earl of
Aberdeen.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th.
Azure,
a Thistle proper, Ensign'd with an Imperial Croun,
Or,
2d and 3d
Argent,
on a Bend
Azure,
Three Buckles,
Or.
Supporters two Chevaliers carrying the Banner of
Scotland.
Crest a Chevalier. Motto,
Pro Rege & Patria.
KER. Marquis of
Lothian,
IS descended of
Mark Ker
Son of Sir
Walter Ker
of
Cesford
by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Crichton
of
Sanquhar
Ch. in publ. Arch.
, who being the younger Son of his Father, was educated in the Schools of Learning, with a Prospect of engaging in the Service of the Church; and entring into Orders, he was at length, after having passed through some inferior Station in the Church, promoted to be Abbot of
Newbottle anno
1546. In which Function he continued till the blessed Turn of the Reformation, in the Year of our Lord 1560: He was one of the few of the dignified Clergy who renounced Popery, and with it all the Errors and Idolatry of the
Romish
Church, by which means he held his Benefice
in Commendam
till the time of his Death
anno
1582. By
Grizel
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Earl of
Rothes,
he had three Sons and a Daughter,
viz. Mark
thereafter Earl of
Lothian, Andrew Ker
of
Fentoun
Hope's Decisions.
, Mr.
George Ker,
and
Katharine
married to
William Maxwel
Lord
Harries.
Which
Mark
was by the Care of his Father, who himself had been a Judge in the Session, bred up in the study of the Law, in which he made a notable progress, insomuch as he was made a Lord of the Session
anno
1582
Memoirs of the Sess.
, tho then but a very young Man, and thereafter constituted Master of Requests to King
James
VI.
Ch. in publ. Arch.
, by whose Bounty he had a Grant of the Lands of the Abbacy of
Newbottle
by Letters Patent
October
15
th
1591, then erected into a Temporal Lordship
Ibidem.
, and thereafter was by his Majesty's Favour, dignified with the Honour of Earl of
L
thian
on the 10 of
July
1606
Ibid.
; and departing this Life in the Month of
April
1609
Ibid.
, he left Issue by
Margaret
his Wi
e, Daughter of
John
Lord
Harries, Robert
his Successor, Sir
William Ker
of
Blackhope,
Sir
Mark Ker;
likewise Seven Daughters.
1
st. Jean
married to
Robert
Master of
Boyd,
and next to
David
Earl of
Crawfurd.
2
d. Janet
to
William
Earl of
Glencairn.
3
d. Margaret
to
John
Lord
Yester,
and afterward to
Andrew
Master of
Jedburgh.
4
th. Isabel
to
William
1
st
Earl of
Queensberry.
5
th. Lilias
to
John
Lord
Borthwick.
6
th. Mary
to Sir
James Richardson
of
Smeatoun.
7
th. Elizabeth
to Sir
Alexander Hamiltoun
of
Innerweek.
Which
Robert
married
Annabella,
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
but having no Male Issue of his Body, with his Majesty's approbation, he made over his Estate and Honour to
Anne
his eldest Daughter, and the Heirs of her Body; to which she accordingly succeeded on the Death of her Father, which happened
July
15 1624
Balfour's Annals.
. This Countess married Sir
William Ker,
Son to Sir
Robert Ker,
thereafter Earl of
Ancrum,
his Majesty King
Charles
I. conferring the same Honour upon him. When the Troubles began in 1638, his Lordship appeared very zealous for the Liberty and Property of the Subject against the inchroachments the Court was then thought to intend upon the Constitution, and after the taking of the Covenant, he carried the Prosecution of the ends of it as high as any, tho he bore no publick Character in the State till the 1648, that the Parliament, or that Remains of the Convention of Estates who called themselves so, had declared the Engagement for the Relief of the King unlawful, and the Assembly of the Church joining with them, had excommunicated all who had the most eminent Parts in the promoting of it, and made them incapable of bearing any Office in the State: By which Judgment the Earl of
Lanerk
being deprived of the Secretary's Office, it was by the governing Party that then prevailed, conferred on the Earl of
Lothian anno
1649; soon after which he was sent from
Scotland
to the Parliament of
England,
as soon as it was known they intended to proceed against his Majesty before the high Court of Justice, to take away his Life
Clarendon's Hist.
, when he did in the name of the Parliament and Kingdom of
Scotland,
declare their Dissent from the said Proceedings, and that it might be manifest to the World, how much they did abominate and detest so horrid a Design, he did protest that as they were altogether free from the same, so they might be free from all the Miseries and evil Consequences that might follow thereupon. After the Murder of the King, he contributed his hearty Endeavours to bring King
Charles
the II. to the Exercise of his Royal Power in
Scotland,
in which as one of the Commissioners from the Parliament at the Treaty of
Breda anno
1650, he had been very instrumental. By
Anne
Countess of
Lothian
his Wife, he had
Robert
his Successor, Sir
William
who was made Director of the Chancery upon the Restauration of the King
anno
1661,
Charles Ker
of
Abbots-rule;
likewise seven Daughters.
Anne
married to
Alexander
Master of
Saltoun.
Elizabeth
to
John
Lord
Borthwick.
Mary
to
James Brody
of that Ilk.
Margaret
to Sir
James Richardson
of
Smeat
un.
Vere
to Lord
Niel Campbel,
Son to the Marquis of
Argyle.
Henrietta
to Sir
Francis Scot
of
Thir
stane.
Lady
Lilias Ker.
Which
Robert
was, upon the first establishing of the Government under King
William,
named of the Privy Council, and constituted Lord Justice General of
Scotland,
and thereafter by the Favour of his said Majesty, his Lordship was raised to the honour of Marquis of
Lothian,
by Letters Patent 23
June
1701, and departing this Life 16
Frebruary
1703, he left Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Archibald
Marquis of
Argyle, William
the present Marquis of
Lothian,
Lord
Charles Ker
Director of the Chancery, Lord
John
and Lord
Mark
both Brigadiers, and Collonels in the Army, and a Daughter
Mary
married to
James
Marquis of
Douglas.
Which
William
being one of the Lords of the Privy Council in the Reign of Queen
Anne,
and a Collonel of Dragoons, was by her Majesty's special Favour elected a Knight of the most Noble Order of the Thistle, into which he was invested in
November
1705. He married
Jean
Daughter of
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle,
by whom he had
William
Lord
Jedburgh,
likewise four Daughters;
Jean
married to
William
Lord
Cranstoun, Anne
to
Alexander
Earl of
Hume, Elizabeth
to
George
Master of
Ross,
at that time Son and Heir apparent to
William
Lord
Ross,
and Lady
Mary.
William,
Lord
Jedburgh,
married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Nicolson,
by whom he has Lord
William
his Son and apparent Heir.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Azur,
the Sun in his Splendor
Or,
2d and 3d
Gules
on a Cheveron
Argent,
three Moletts of the first. Supported on the dexter by a Cherub and on the Sinister by a Hart proper. Crest, the Sun in his Splendor. Motto,
Sero sed Serio.
FRASER Lord
Lovat.
THe Sirname of
Fraser
is upon Record as ancient as the Time of King
Malcolm
IV. that
Adam Fraser, filius Udardi filii Kelvert,
gave in pure and perpetual Alms to the Convent of
Newbottle
sundry Lands
in tenemento de Southale prosalute animae suae.
In the Reign of King
Alexander
III.
Gilbert Fraser
the Head of the Family was
Vicecomes de Travoquair,
as is manifest from his Donations to the Monks of
Newbottle;
and it appears the
Frasers
were even then extended into divers Branches; for
Bernard Fraser
is Sheriff of
Stirling
in that Reign, and another
William
was Lord high Chancellor of
Scotland:
It likewise appears that Sir
Gilbert
was succeeded by Sir
Andrew
his Son, and he by Sir
Simon,
who is the Loyal and eminent Patriot mentioned in the History of King
Robert
I. who dying without Male Issue, his Estate, together with the Sheriffship of
Tweddale
went to his two Heirs Female, the one married to Sir
Gilbert Hay
of
Locherwart,
Ancestor to the Marquis of
Tweddale,
and the other to Sir
Malcolm Fleming
Predecessor to the Earl of
Wigtoun,
for which Cause these two noble Families carry the Coat of
Fraser
in their Atchievement even to this Time.
Sir
Alexander Fraser,
called Brother to Sir
Simon,
was one of those worthy Men who strenuously adhered to the Interest of
Robert de Bruce
against the
Baliol
and all his Adherents and Abettors; for which, after the Accession of that Prince to the Crown, he had a Grant
de omnibus terris suis de Strachachy
, de E
ly, Balbrochy, & de Achincrosks
I have seen this Charter in the Custody of Sir Peter Fraser of Dores, which, for the satisfaction of the Curious, who may not so well understand the Stile of Old Charter Latin. I shall Translate into English as follows. Robert by the Grace of God, King of Scots, Know ye we have given and Granted, and by the Tenour hereof, gives and Grants to our well beloved Sir Alexander Fraser, for his Service and Homage done to Us, all and hail the Lands of Strachychen, Essuly, Balebrouchy and Achencroskes, with their Pertinents, to be held by the said Sir Alexander and his Heirs, of Us and our Heirs, in one intire Barony. In Testimony whereof, we have caused append our Seal to this Our Deed, at Air the fourth Day of November, and of Our Reign the Tenth Year. 1316;
,
dicto Alex. & heredibus suis de nobis & heredibus nostris in feudo & hereditate per omnes rectas metas & divisas suas in unam liberam baron
am faciendo nobis & heredibus nostris dictis Alex. & heredes sui forinsicum servitium quantum pertinet ad baroniam praedictam. In cujus rei testimonium praesenti cartae nostrae sigillum nostrum praecepimus apponi apud Air, primo die Novembris, anno Regni nostri decimo.
1316.
This Sir
Alexander
being highly in Favour with King
Robert,
was in the 20
th
of his Reign constituted Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland,
which Office, the greatest then in the Kingdom, he exercised till the Death of the King. He married the Lady
Mary Bruce
Sister to King
Robert
I. Widow of Sir
Neil Campbel
of
Lochow,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Argyle,
by whom he had several Sons,
John,
and
Alexander,
who thereafter obtained the Thanedom of
Dores
from King
David Bruce,
and was the Root of that ancient Family of the
Frasers:
But Sir
John,
the elder of the Brothers, dying without Male Issue, the Baronies of
Strachachyn, Fetteresso, Dalpercy,
&c. fell to the Share of
Margaret
his Daughter, who became the Wife of Sir
William Keith
Marishall of
Scotland.
By her he had Sir
John Keith
his Son and Heir apparent, who married . . . . . Daughter to King
Robert
II. by whom he had a Son
Robert,
whose only Daughter and sole Heir, was married to
Alexander
the 1
st
Earl of
Huntley,
with whom he got the Baronies of
Aboyne, Glentanner, Glenmuck, Sachin,
and
Touch;
by Reason whereof he assumed the Coat of
Fraser
into his own, which is still bore by his Successor the Duke of
Gordon
in his Grace's Atchievement.
But to return to Sir
Alexander Fraser
the younger Son of Sir
Alexander
the Chamberlain; this noble Person treading in the Steps of his loyal Father, faithfully served King
David
II. and it could not well choose to be otherwise, considering the Nearness of his Alliance to the Crown, in Consideration whereof he obtained, no doubt, in Reward of his Loyalty and Merit, as well as his near Relation in Blood to that King, a Grant of the Thanedom of
Dores,
by his Royal Charter under the great Seal
David by the Grace of God King of Scots, Wit ye Us to have given, and by the Tenour hereof, gives and Grants to Our well beloved Cousin Alexander Fraser, all and hail the Lands and Thanedom of Dores, within our County of Kincardin, to be held by the said Alexander and his Heirs, in Feu and Heritage, in one intire Barony, paying to Us and Our Heirs, by him and his Heirs, their Suit and Presents, at Our Three head Courts of the County of Kincardin, and the Service of one great Tenent in Our Army. In Witness whereof We have Appended Our Great Seal to this Charter, at Edinburgh the fourth of September, and of Our Reign the Fortieth Year.
.
David, Dei gratia, Rex Scotorum, omnibus probis hominibus totius terrae suae, salutem. Sciatis nos dedisse, & hac praesenti charta nostra confirmasse dilecto cansanguineo nostro Alexandro Fraser, omnes & singulas terras nostras Thanagii de Duirys cum pertinen. infra vicecomitat. de Kyncardyn tenend. & habend. eidem Alex. & haeredibus suis de nobis & haeredibus nostris in feudo & hereditate in unam integram liberam Baroniam per omnes rectas metas & divisas suas, in boscis & planis, in pratis & pasturis, in moris, maresiis, viis, semitis, aquis, stagnis, molendinis, mulcturis, & eorum sequelis, aucupationibus, venationibus, & piscariis, cum forca & fossa, sacca & sacco, cum thol & theme, & cum omnibus aliis & singulis libertatibus, commoditatibus, aysiamentis, & justis pertinen. suis quibuscunque ad dictas terras spectantibus, libere, quiete, integre, & in pace; faciendo inde annuatim tres sectas ad tria placita nostra capitalia vicecomitat. de Kyncardyn, ac servitium unius archietenentis ad exercitum nostrum pro omni alio servitio quae de dictis terris aliquo tempore exigi poterint seu requiri. In cujus rei testimonium praesenti chartae sigillum nostrum praec
pimus apponi, apud Edinburgh quarto die mensis Septembris, Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo
1369.
From this Sir
Alexander Fraser
is Sir
Peter Fraser
of
Dores
Baronet descended in a lineal Course of Succession, as appears from his Writings, which proves the Family beyond Dispute to be one of the most ancient and best extracted Families in the County of
Kincardin,
where it hath still remained, and, except for a short Interval, still continues with Lustre. A more particular Account of which may be deduced in the subsequent part of this Work, whereby it will appear to be very honourable, as well considered in it self, as in its illustrious Alliances and Branches.
The Family of
Lovat,
which this Title leads me more particularly to treat of, as it is one of the best extracted, so it is one of the most noble and most numerous of all the
Frasers.
They are derived from Sir
Simon Fraser
Son of Sir
Alexander Fraser,
and Nephew to King
Robert
I. who obtained the Barony of
Lovat,
and other fair Possessions in the northern Parts, by Marriage of the Heir Female of the
Bissets,
in the latter end of King
David
II. whose Arms he thereupon took into his own, and which is still bore by his Descendants. The Wealth and Reputation of the
Lovat
Family was not a little advanced thereafter by the marrying of a Lady of the
Fentouns,
whom
Hugh Fraser
of
Lovat
took to Wife in the Reign of King
James
I.
Geneal Famil. Lovat.
since which time they have been accounted among the Number of the greater Barons, who were called Lords of Parliament. He left a Son,
Hugh
Baron of
Lovat,
who married
Janet,
Daughter of
Thomas Dunbar
Earl of
Murray
by whom he had
Thomas
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Agnes
married to
Kenneth Mackenzie
of
Kintail.
Which
Thomas
made no small Figure in the Northern Parts under
James
IV. whose Justiciar he was. He married first
Janet,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Gordon
of
Midmar,
and Niece to the Earl of
Huntley:
By her he had
Thomas
his eldest Son, who was slain at the Battle of
Flowdon
Geneal. Famil. de Lovat.
, and
Hugh
his Successor in the Honour; secondly
Janet
Daughter to the Lord
Gray,
by whom he had
James Fraser
of
Kinkel,
and
Janet
Wife of
John Crichton
of
Ruthven.
This Lord dying very aged,
Anno
1530, was succeeded by
Hugh
his Son, who married first
Katharine,
Daughter of
John Grant
of
Freuchie,
by whom he had
Simon
Master of
Lovat,
next
Janet
Daughter of
Walter Ross
of
Balnagown,
Ibid.
who bore him
Alexander
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Agnes
married to
William Mackleod
of
Dunwegan.
This Lord entred into a fatal Quarrel with the
Mackraynolds,
which cost him dear; for in a Conflict with that other Clan at
Lochrochty
in
Ross
-Shire on the 2
d
of
June
1544, both he and his eldest Son lost their Lives
Ibid.
, besides a great many other Gentlemen of the
Frasers,
to the Number, say they, of eighty.
To
Hugh
Lord
Lovat
succeeded
Alexander
his Son, who dying
Anno
1558
Chart. in publ. Arch.
, left Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Campbel
Thane of
Calder,
Niece to the Earl of
Argyle,
two Sons,
Hugh
his Successor, and
Thomas
first of that Branch of the
Frasers
of
Strichen
Geneal. Famil. Lovat. MS.
, which
Hugh
at the Dissolution of the Church Lands in the Time of the Reformation acquired the Lands and Tithes of the Priory of
Beuly
from the Abbot of that Convent, whereby he increased the Wealth and Dependency of his Family. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
and giving way to Fate on the 1
st
Day of
January
1576
Ch. in Cancel. S. D. N. R.
left a Son
Simon
to succeed him in the Honour, who took to Wife first
Margaret
Daughter of
Colin Mackenzie
of
Kintail,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Seafort,
by whom he had
Hugh
his Successor, and after her Death,
Jean
Daughter of
James Stewart
Lord
Doun:
By her he had two Sons and a Daughter,
viz.
Sir
Simon Fraser
of
Inerallachy,
Sir
James Fraser
of
Brae, Margaret
married first to Sir
Robert Arbuth
t
of that Ilk; 2
dly,
to Sir
John Haldane
of
Gleneagles.
This noble Lord made his Exit out of this World on the 3
d
of
April,
1633
Ibid.
.
Hugh
his Son succeeding him in his Estate and Title, he married
Isabel
Daughter of Sir
John Weems
of that Ilk, Ancestor to the Earl of
Weems,
by whom he had
Hugh
Master of
Lovat,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father, and
Thomas Fraser
of
Beaufort;
also three Daughters,
Anne
married to
John
Earl of
Sutherland, Mary
to
David Ross
of
Balnagown, Katharine
to
Robert
first Viscount of
Arbuthnot,
and thereafter to
Andrew
Lord
Fraser.
Here 'tis proper to take Notice that
Hugh
Master of
Lovat
in his Father's Time married
Anne
Daughter of
Alexander
1
st
Earl of
Leven,
and dying in the Blossom of his Days in the Month of
May
1643
Ibid.
, left a Son
Hugh
who succeeded his Grandfather in his Estate and Honour, upon his Death, which happened
February
16
th
1646
Ibid.
. Which
Hugh
married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
John Mackenzie
of
Tarbat,
by whom he had a Son
Hugh
and three Daughters,
Anne
married to
Patrick
Lord
Kinnaird, Isabel
to
Alexander Mackdonald
of
Glengary, Margaret
to Collonel
Andrew Monro,
and departing this Life upon the 27
th
of
April
1672
Geneal. Familiae de Lovat.
, was succeeded by
Hugh
his Son, who married
Aemilia
Daughter of
John
Marquis of
Athole;
but having no male Issue, and his Estate being by his Marriage-Articles provided to his Heirs what someover, and considering that the Title of Honour, in default of Heirs-Male of his Body, was to descend to Captain
Simon Fraser
of
Beaufort
his first Cousin, and that little would have accompanied the Dignity after his Death, his Lordship for these Reasons resigned the Honour in the King's hand, who was pleased to confer it again upon himself, and to his Daughters in case of Failure of his Heirs Male, and dying
anno
1696, left behind him four Daughters, 1
st. Aemilia
Baroness of
Lovat,
who married
Alexander Macke
zie
of
Prestonhall,
who changed his Name to
Fraser,
and has a Son
Hugh
Master of
Lovat.
2
d. Anne
married to
Norman Mackleod
of that Ilk, next to
Peter Fotheringham
of
Powrie.
3
d. Katharine
to
William Murray
then Son and Heir apparent to Sir
Patrick Murray
of
Auchtertyre.
4
th. Margaret.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Azure,
three Frazes
Argent;
2d and 3d
Gules,
three antick Crowns,
Or.
Supporters two Bucks sejant in the middle of a Bush of Holin. Crest, a Buck's Head erased proper. Motto,
I am ready.
STEWART, Lord
Lorn
&
Innermeath.
OF the illustrious Family of
Darnly
the
Stewarts
of
Lorn
were a Branch, which took Beginning in the Reign of King
Robert
I. Sir
Alexander Stewart
their Ancestor then obtaining from that Prince a Grant of the Lands of
Garmeltoun
and
Dunning
in
Perth
-Shire
Ch. in Rotul. Rob. I.
. Sir
Robert Stewart
of
Innermeath
was his Successor; he is one of the Barons who recognised the Earl of
Carrick
's Right to the Crown
anno
1374. And dying
anno
1386 left Issue
John Stewart
of
Innermeath
and
Lorn,
and
Robert Stewart
of
Durisdier,
of whom were the later
Stewarts
of
Rossyth
Mr. Day. Symson's Geneal. of the House of Rossyth.
, which
John
was frequently imployed in Negotiations of Peace with the
English,
in the Beginning of the Duke of
Albany
's Government
Rymer's Foed.
. By . . . his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Duke of
Albany
Symson's Collect.
, he had
Robert
his Successor, Sir
James Stewart
called
The Black Knight
of
Lorn,
and a Daughter
Christian
married to
James Dundas
of that Ilk. Which
Robert Stewart,
designed Lord of
Lorn,
was one of the Commissioners appointed to treat with the
English
about the Redemption of King
James
I. and thereafter one of the Hostages for the Ransom
Rymer.
. Likeas he was in the 1436 named by the Parliament one of the Judges who were to hear and report all Causes and Controversies which were to be moved and insisted on during that Session
Black Acts of Parl.
. He left a Son
John
to succeed him in the Title of Lord
Lorn,
who dying without Issue Male
anno
1469, left three Daughters Co-heirs to him,
Isabel
married to
Colin
1
st
Earl of
Argyle, Margaret
to Sir
Colin Campbel
of
Ottar.
However the Title of Lord
Lorn
was not discontinued, but fell to
Walter Stewart
his nearest Heir upon the Male-Line, who resigned the Title of Lord
Lorn
together with all Right he had to the Lordship of
Lorn,
to
Colin
Earl of
Argyle
in Exchange for the Earl's Lands of
Innermeath,
of which he obliged himself to procure him the Title of Lord from King
James
III. and which he actually did perform
Ch, penes Ducem de Argyle.
. From which
Walter,
in a direct Line in the fifth Descent, was
John
Lord
Innermeath,
who by the special Favour of King
James
VI. was raised to the Honour and Title of Earl of
Athole,
by Letters Patent on the 6
th
of
March
1596, upon the Demise of
John
5
th
of that line, Earl of
Athole
Charta in Pub. Archivis ad Annum 1596.
. This Earl married first
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
David Lindsay
of
Edzle,
who was Farl of
Crawfurd,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to Sir
James Stewart
of
Balliechin,
next to Sir
Robert C
ichton
of
Cluny.
2
dly, Mary
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gowrie
Widow of
John
the former Earl of
Athole,
and dying
anno
16
5,
James
his Son succeeded him in the Honour, and married
Mary
second Daughter of
John
5
th
Earl of
Athole,
but having no Issue, he resigned the Earldom of
Athole
in Favours of
William
Master of
Tillibardin,
and Dame
Dorothea Stewart
Mistress of
Tillibardin
his Sister-in-law
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, on the 17
h
of
October
1612.
LESLY, Lord
Lindores.
PAtrick Lesly
Commendator of
Lindores
Abbey, Son of
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes,
had by the Bounty of King
James
VI. the said Abbacy erected into a Temporal Lordship to him on the 25
th December
1600
Ibidem.
. He married
Jean
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Orkney
This is supported by Mr. Lesly's
I
na.
, by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, Collonel
Lodovick Lesly,
and Lieutenant General
David Lesly
1
st
Lord
Newark;
also several Daughters,
Margaret
married to
John
Lord
Maderty, ELizabeth
to Sir
William Sinclair
of
May,
. . . . to
George Lesly
of that Ilk,
Mary
to
David Barclay
of
Colearny.
Which
James
married
Mary
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
by whom he had
John
his Successor in the Honour. 2
dly
. . . Daughter of . . .
York
Esq
by whom he had a Daughter
Mary
married first to
John Stewart
of
Innernity,
and again to
John Bruce
of
Blairhall.
John
Lord
Lindores
married
Marion
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Airly,
and dying
anno
1706, left
David
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret
Daughter of
Archibald Stewart
of
Dune
n,
Niece to the Earl of
Murray.
LIVINGSTON, Earl of
Lithgow.
IT is clear from the Records of
Holy-rood-house
Abbey, that in the Time of King
David
I. one
Livingius
was then possessed of that Barony in
West-Lothian,
which he called
Livingstoun
from his own Name, according to the Custom of that Age, for he makes a Donation to the Monks of the Holy-Cross at
Edinburgh, de Ecclesia de Livingstoun cum dimidia carrucata Terrae ad dictam Ecclesiam pertinente, prosalute animae suae
Records of Holy-rood-house Abbey in the publick Registers of King
. He was succeeded in the Barony of
Livingstoun
by his Son
Thurstanus,
called
filius Livingii
in a Charter of Confirmation to the Convent of
Holy-rood-house
of the Church of
Livingstoun,
with the Lands and Tithes thereunto belonging for the Prosperity of his Soul, both here and hereafter
Sir James Dalrymple's Historical Collections.
. He left a Son
Alexander filius Thurstani,
as he is designed in a Charter of King
William
's, who being Lord of the Barony of
Livingstoun,
assumed first that Appellation, and transmitted it to his Posterity for a Sirname, in whose Line it continued above 400 Years, till the Reign of King
James
IV. that Mr.
Bartholomew Livingstoun
of that Ilk, died without Issue
Ch. in pub. Arch.
, and with him the Family was extinct.
The immediate Ancestor of this Noble Family was Sir
William Livingston,
who in the 17th of King
David
II. had a Grant of the Barony of
Calendar
in the County of
Stirling,
then in the Crown by the Forfaulture of
Patrick de Calendar
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Kilsyth.
; whose only Daughter and Heir
Christian
he took to Wife, the better to fortify his Title thereto: Likeas in the 34th of the said King, they had a Grant to themselves and their Heirs, of the Lands of
Kilsyth,
then in the King's Hands, by the Decease of
Margaret
Daughter of
Robert De la Wall,
This Robert De la Wall had acquir'd, I find, the Barony of Kilsyth from Malcom Fleming Earl of Wigton, who was the King's Donatar upon the Forfaulture of Patrick de Calendar.
.
This Sir
William
was a brave Man, and one of the
Scots
Barons who were taken Prisoners with King
David Bruce
at the Battle of
Durham,
on the 17th of
October
1346,
Rymer's Foedera.
: But being afterward releas'd, the next ensuing Year, when a Treaty was set on foot for the King's Redemption, he was one of the Commissioners employed in that honourable Negotiation
Ibidem.
, tho without Success at that Time: Likewise in the 1357, he was together with
William
Bishop of St.
Andrews, Thomas
Bishop of
Caithness, Patrick
Bishop of
Brechin, Patrick
Earl of
March,
& Sir
Robert Erskine
appointed by
Robert
Lord high Steward of
Scotland
Lieutenant, as he's design'd, to the most illustrious Prince
David
by the Grace of God King of
Scotland
in a full Council holden at
Perth,
with Advice and Consent of the Prelates, Nobles and whole Community of the Kingdom, Plenipotentiaries and Commissioners with Power to them, to treat about the Redemption of the King, and a final Peace with
England;
which was happily agreed to on the 3d of
October
thereafter, the Ransom being a 100000 Merks
Sterl.
Money
Ibidem.
, for which Sir
William Livingston
's Son and Heir was delivered one of the Hostages.
By the foresaid
Christian de Calendar
his Wife, he had Sir
William
his Son and Heir, Father of Sir
John Livingstoun
of the
Calendar;
who was slain in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Homildoun
against the
English
on the 4th of
March
1401
Hume's History of the Earls of Douglas and Angus.
. His first Marriage was with . . . .
Monteith
Daughter to . . . .
Monteith
of
Carse
Genealogy of the House of Livingston penes me.
. By her he had Sir
Alexander,
and two younger Sons,
Robert
Progenitor of the first Branch of the
Livingstons
of
Westquarter,
of whom sprung the House of
Kinnaird,
first raised to the honour of Viscount, and then Earl of
Newburgh;
and
John Livingston
Esquire. His second Wife was
Agnes
Daughter of Sir
James Douglas
of
Dalkeith
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Kilsyth.
, by whom he had Sir
William Livingston
first of the House of
Kilsyth
Ibidem.
, and a Daughter
Agnes
Wife of Sir
John Gordon
of
Gordoun.
Which
Alexander
was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I. when he was relieved from his Captivity in
England Anno
1423
Rymer's Foed.
: By whom he was made a Knight, and frequently employed in Affairs of the highest Importance; for I find he was one of the Barons that sat upon the Trial of
Murdoch
Duke of
Albany,
by whom that Duke was Sentenced and condemn'd to lose his Head. Upon the Death of King
James
I. he was by the Advice and Consent of the three Estates of Parliament appointed Tutor to the young King
James
II. whose Person was still in the Custody of Sir
William Crichton
the Chancellor, in the Castle of
Edinburgh,
of which he was Governor; tho very probably he was kept by him contrary to Law: Wherefore that Sir
Alexander Livingston
on whom the Parliament had conferr'd that high Trust might get the King's Person into his own Custody, he fell upon this Stratagem to bring it about.
The Queen Mother was intirely in Sir
Alexander
's Interest, and to effectuate her Purpose cometh from
Stirling
to
Edinburgh,
pretending a friendly Visit to her Son, which the Chancellor very willingly allowed her in the Castle several Days: During which Time she cajolled the Prince into an Obedience to her Will, and the Chancellor into a Belief that she designed nothing but what she own'd: At length she told the Chancellor, that she would but stay one Night longer in the Castle, being the next Day to set out for
Whitekirk
in
Buchan,
to perform a Vow which she had made for the Health of the King, whose Person she earnestly recommended to his Care till she should return. He assured her of his Fidelity both in that and all other respects, and so left her. Thus all Eyes, but those of a trusty Few being asleep, the young King was carefully put up in a Chest among his Mother's Furniture, and then convoyed to
Leith,
and from thence by Water to
Stirling;
where Sir
Alexander Livingston,
and those of his Party received him with great Joy.
But notwithstanding this great Favour of the Queen's to Sir
Alexander Livingston,
yet, for some Reasons of State, not long thereafter, he and some of his Friends did restrain her Majesty in the Liberty she had some while enjoyed of the Company of her Son. Which her Majesty resented as a very high Indignity: But on the 4th of
September
1439, the Business was settled betwixt the Queen and
Livingston
by a solemn Indenture still extant in the Earl of
Linlithgow
's Custody: And because it seems very much to correct all our Historians, even the very latest Writers of the Life of King
James
II. in the Chronology, and sets the History of that Prince's Minority in a truer light, than it has been hitherto done; I shall here insert the original Indenture.
"This Appoyntment made at
Strivyline
the furd Day of the Moneth of
September
the Yher of our Lord M.CCCC.XXXIX, proportis, yat it is accordit betwix a right hye and mighti Princesse,
Jehane
be the Grace of God Queen of
Scotland,
on the ta part, and Sir
Alexander
of
Livingston
of
Kalentar,
Sir
William
of
Cranston
Knightis,
James
of
Livingston
Son and Heir to the said Sir
Alexander,
and
John
of
Livingston
Brother to the foresaid Sir
Alexander,
on the tother part, with the Avyse and the Consent of the thre Estats be and yare in the general Counsele, there halden and gaderit in fourme and manner efter folowande, That is to saye, In the first touching the Declaracion of the Fame and Worship of the foresaids Persons, for the Restriction of the said Princess Will and Liberte made be thaym and their Assistance: The said Princess with her Counsele, has ripely examinit and discussit the Causes and the Motyvis, be the whilks the foresaid Persons war stirit to withdraw the foresaid Liberte fra hir, and has consider it and knawleges yat what thing the saids Persons did in yat Matter touching hir, y
i did it of gude Zele and Motife and of grete Truth and Leaute yat was in yam, bath to our Soveryne Lord the King and his sawfte, and to the said Princess in hir Worship: And in yat Matter and all utheris, Scho reputes haldes and trustis yam all and yair Assistance tharin bath lele and trewe to hir, doand that thing as trew Lieges, aw to do for yair Soveryne Lord and hir Estate and Worship, and nane utherwyse.
Item
touching the Declaracione of the Fame and Worstship of the said Princesse, the foresaid Sir
Alexander,
Sir
William, James
and
John,
and yair foresaid Assistentes, declaris and knawleges in yair Leaute yat yair withdrawing of whilk Liberte fra hir, and yat yai did in yat Matter was nought done in Vilany na for Vilany, harme na Sclandre to hir Personne, na for na Lak, Cryme, na Faute yat yai or ony of yaim wist or knewe to hir Womanhede, but anevely for the Safete of our Soveryn Lord, the Worstship of hir Persone, and the Common Gude of the Reamme.
Atour
for sa mikle as the said Princesse be the occasioun of whilk withdrawing of Liberte fra hir consaved griefe and displeasance again the saids Sir
Alexander,
Sir
Willam, James
and
John
and yair Assistantes, considering yat whilk thing was done of gude Zele and Motif, as before is declared. Scho has remittit and removes all the faide grief and displeasance yat scho consavit agayn yaim or any of yaim, for the foresaid Cause, or any uther done or said in time begane: And forther out forth yat the said Princesse had fulle declaracione and varry witting of trouth and leaute yat was and is in the forsaid Sir
Alexander
and all the other Persones for written in mare appert takin of Traiste and hartliness; in time cummyng scho has be the Avyse of the saids thre Estates committit to the said Sir
Alexander
's keping our saids Soueryne Lord the King hir derrast Son, unto the time of his Age, and lent to him for his Residence for the said tyme her Castel of
Strivylyne,
and assignit to the said Sir
Alexander
to the Uphald of our said Soueryn Lord and his Sistris in the forsaid Castel, to his said Age 4000 Markis of the usuale Monee of
Scotlande,
the whilkis war assignit to hir be the said thre Estates, and for the same Cause.
Alsua
the said Princesse sal have accesse to visit our said Soveryn Lorde hir Son in the said Place with unsuspect Personis at hir liking as is accordit betwix yaim.
Item
for the mair sikernes, the said Princesse sal mak sic Lordis as are hir Men and retenewe at the desyre of the said Sir
Alexander,
and of the Personis befor written, gif the forsaid Sir
Alexander
and Personis yair Letters under yair Seelis, yat gi
the said Princesse cummis in the contrar of ony of the Appointment accordit in this Writ, yat yai sal nought assist to hir, na be in contrar of him, na of the saids Personis in ya Materis, but erar with him and them in the fulfilling thereof. And the saids Lordis yat are Men and Retenew to hir sal be oblyst in yair saids Letters, yat yai sal nouther do na say to the said Sir
Alexander
na to the said Personis, na yair Assistents, na procure to be done, na say to him na yaim, Schame, Vilany nar Harme in ony wyse for the forsaid Cause.
Item
gif it happins, as God forebide, yat our said Soueryn Lord deceese, or yat he cum to his said Eld, the said Sir
Alexander
sal ressave the forsaid Princesse in hir forsaid Castel frely, with mony or Fewe at hir Plesance; likeas he is obliste to hir of before be his Letters.
Item
give it happenis the said Sir
Alexander
to decese within the said Age of our forsaid Soueryn Lord, his said Son and Ayr, and all the Persons for written or yat sal be in the said Castel, sal be obliste to delyver the said Castel freli to hir togidder with our said Soueryn Lord withoutten obstakle or demande at hir desyre, and asking outher be hir Worde or her Letters under hir Sele: Sa yat nouther the said Sir
Alexander,
Sir
William, James
and
John,
be nought the ne
rar the Deede, be the miene of the said Princesse, hir Procuracione or Servants. To the whilkis all and sundry things foresaid leleli and truili to be kepit without Fraude or G
le, the said Princesse and Sir
Alexander,
Sir
Willam, James
and
John
the haly Ewangelis touchit, has geven yair bodilie Aiths: And the sud Princesse and Sir
Alexander
has enterchangeably to yis Writ indentit, set yair Seeles togidder with the Seeles of reueren des Fadres in Crist
John, John, John,
and
Michael
be the Grace of God Bishopis of
Glasgu, Murreve, Ross
and
Dunblane,
for the part of the Clergy; and the Signet of a hye and mighti Lord
Willam
Erl of
Douglas
havand the force and the effect of his Seele; the Seele of a Noble Lord, Sir
Alexander
Lord of
Gordon
procurit be the Lord of
Crechton
Chancellar of
Scotland
for him in Absence of his own Seele, and for the said Lord of
Gordon
for himself, and the Seele of a Noble Lord, Sir
Walter
Lord of
Dirlton
for the part of the Barouns; and the Seeles of
James
of
Parcle,
Commissare of
Linlithgu,
and of a venerable Fader in Criste,
David
Abbot of
Cambuskynneth
procured be
Willam
of
Cranston
Burges and Commissare of
Edinburgh,
and
Androw Rede
Burges and Commissare of
Innernes,
Day, Year and Place before writen; for the part of the Burrows."
Sir
Alexander Livingstoun
having thus got the young King into his Custody, in order to countenance his after Actions; he began to carry with a very high Hand, as being assured that none would dare to controul him, in so much that he created many Enemies to himself, and among the rest the Queen Mother, whom upon Suspicion or Pretence that she and Sir
James Stewart
her Husband were carrying on some Intrigue with the Earl of
Douglas,
committed Sir
James
to Prison, and the Queen her self to a narrow Apartment in the Castle of
Stirling,
which so much incensed her, that she resolv'd upon Revenge, and being as yet Mistress of her Son's Inclinations, very soon brought about a second Turn of Affairs at Court: For while Sir
Alexander Livingston
was at
Perth,
employed in the publick Affairs,
Drummond's Hist. of King James the II.
She carried on a Plot so closely and dextrously with the Chancellor, that one Morning as the King was Hunting in the Park of
Sirling,
his small Retinue were on a sudden surrounded with a Body of about 4000 Horse commanded by the Lord Chancellor in Person, so that the King was carried off, without any Opposition, to
Edinburgh,
where he was welcomed by the Acclamations of the People.
Sir
Alexander Livingston,
upon Advice of what had happened, came to
Edinburgh,
and wisely considering that the Chancellor could not more probably stand his Ground amidst so many Difficulties without him, than he had done without his Assistance, he thought the best way was to endeavour to bring him to Terms of Accommodation, which by the Mediation of the Bishops of
Aberdeen
and
Murray
was at length effected; the Chancellor continuing in his Office as formerly, and the Custody of the King's Person was again committed to Sir
Alexander,
which high Trust he executed with great Fidelity, till the 1444, that the King now arriv'd to the Age of 14 Years, began to govern in some Measure by himself. Soon after which, the Earl of
Douglas
became the principal Favourite at Court, who bearing no good Will to Sir
Alexander Livingston
or any of the former Ministry, prevail'd so far with the King as
o call a Parliament: Which accordingly met at
Perth
Black Acts of Parliament.
. Thither he and others of his Party were Summon'd to Answer to such Accusations, as should be ex
ited against them. Sir
Alexander
was accused of having alienated the Crown Lands, wasted the Royal Revenues, and seized upon the King's Jewels, the Furniture of his Houses, and what else he could divert to his own private Use: In consequence of which he was declared Rebel, his Estate confiscated, and sent Prisoner to
Dunbartoun,
there to remain during Pleasure. This Treatment of Sir
Alexander
's was thought very hard: But the Fate of
William Livingston
his second Son, Sir
Robert Livingston
of
Drumray
late Lord Treasaurer was much harder; for they were both beheaded in the Castle of
Edinburgh,
where Authors say that Mr.
Livingston
being a young Man of admirable Parts and great Eloquence made such a moving Discourse upon the Vanity of the World, and the Vicissitude of humane Affairs, as drew Tears from the Eyes of all that were present. But after some time of Imprisonment, the King was pleased to restore Sir
Alexander Livings
on
to his Estate, call'd him to his Council, and constituted him Justice General of
Scotland, Anno
1449
Rymer's Foedera.
. The same Year he was appointed one of the Plenipotentiaries to treat with the
English
anent the Prorogation of a Truce betwixt the two Nations. He married . . . . . .
Dundas
Daughter to
Dundas
of that
Ilk,
Genealogy of the House of Livingston.
. By her he had
James
Lord
Livings
on
his Successor,
William,
and
A
exander
of whom the House of
Dunipace
and its Cadets
The House of Dunipace is now represented by Livingston of Pantasken, as appears from Writs I have seen in his Hands.
: Also two Daughters,
Janet
married to
James
Lord
Hamilton,
and
Elisabeth
to
James Dundas
of that
Ilk,
Genealogy of the House of Dundas MS
and had Issue.
To Sir
Alexander Livingston
Lord
Calendar
succeeded
James,
stil'd Lord
Livingston,
his Son, who being a Nobleman of great Courage and Prudence, was constituted Captain of the Castle of
Stirling,
and had the Custody of the young King committed to him by his Father, when he was the King's Governour
Charta penes me ad Annum 1447.
. Which great Trust he faithfully discharged, and I have Ground to believe that when his Father was discourted, the King still re
ain'd a Favour to Sir
James,
perhaps for his Civility to him when he was Governour of
Stirling
I have seen the Note of a Charter among the Collections of Mr. David Simpson granted of the half of the Lands of Kelwood to John Son to Asplan Crawford, dated 3d April 1444, wherein James Livingston, Custos personae Regiae & Capit. de Stirling, is a Witness.
. In 1452 he made him Master of his Houshold, and one of the Lords of his Privy Council; and two Years thereafter rais'd him to be Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland,
in which great Office
continued even till his Death
Anno
1467, leaving four Children behind him,
viz.
James
Lord
Livingston.
Alexander Livingston
Esq
Elisabeth
married to
John Mackdonald
Lord of the Isles, and Earl of
Ross.
Euphame
to Sir
Malcolm Fleming
Charta penes Comitem de Lithgow.
Son and Heir of
Robert
Lord
Fleming.
Which
James
Lord
Livingston
was first espoused to
Christian
Daughter and Sole Heir of Sir
John Erskine
of
Kinnoul
Ibidem:
; but that Design not taking effect, he married afterward
Christian
Daughter of Sir
Robert Crichton
Lord
Sanquhar,
but dying w
thout Issue, his Estate and honour o
Lord
Livingston
fell to Sir
James Livingston
Knight, his Nephew; who took to Wife first
Elisabeth
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Fleming
Charta penes Comitem de Wigton.
, by whom he had
William
his Successor, next
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
John Houstoun
of that Ilk
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. By her he had a Son
Alexander,
of whom sprang the
Livingstons
of
Glentyran,
long since extinct.
Which
William
Lord
Livingston
by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick Hepburn
Lord
Hales,
Sister to
Patrick
Earl of
Bothwel
Charter by James Hepburn Bishop of Murray to Alexander Lord Livingston his Nephew, of the Lands of Birthwood 1518, in the Rolls of King James IV. and this Bishop was Brother to Pat. Earl of Bothwel. Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, had
Alexander
his Son and Heir, and two Daughters.
Margaret
married to
John
Lord
Hay
of
Yester,
Ancestor to the Marquis of
Tweddale.
Isabel
to
Nicol Ramsay
of
Dalhousie,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Dalhousie.
Which
Alexander
had the Tuition of Queen
Mary
committed to him in her Nonage: His Lordship also accompanied her Majesty into
France Anno
1548, where he died
Anno
1550,
Genealogy of the Lord Livingston.
, leaving Issue by
Agnes
his Wife Daughter of
James
Earl of
Mortoun,
John
Master of
Livingston
his eldest Son, who married
Janet
Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
Fleming
Charta in publicis Archivis
, and was kill'd at the Battle of
Pinky,
leaving no Issue.
William
afterward Lord
Livingston.
Thomas,
who obtained the Barony of
Haining
by Marriage of
Agnes
eldest of the two Daughters and Coheirs of
William Crawfurd
of
Haining
Ibidem.
, was the first of that Branch of the
Livingstons.
Elizabeth
married to
John Buchanan
of that Ilk
Charta penes Comitem de Lithgow
, and had Issue.
Janet
to Sir
Alexander Bruce
of
Airth
Charta in publicis Archivis.
, and had Issue.
Magdalene
to
Arthur Erskine
of
Grang
Brother to
John
Earl of
Marr,
2
dly
to Sir
James Scrimgeour
of
Dudop
Ibidem
,
sans
Issue.
Mary
to
John Semple
of
Beltrees
Charta penes Robertum Semple de Beltrees.
, Son to
Robert
Lord
Semple,
and had Issue.
William
Lord
Livingston
adher'd firmly to Queen
Mary,
and was intirely trusted by her. So great a Confidence his Princess had in him, that when her Majesty was a Prisoner in
Lochlevin,
she named him one of the Commissioners for her, to treat with the Earl of
Murray
the Regent, about restoring her to the Exercise of her Authority, and to represent to him, that her Consent was not spontaneous in resigning the Crown, or to his being preferred to the Regency: But he flatly refusing to do so, the Business came to nothing. Upon the Queen's Escape from
Lochlevin,
he was one of the Peers who met her at
Hamiltoun
with his Friends and Followers, whereupon ensued the Fight at
Langfide.
When her Majesty fled into
England,
upon the Loss of that Day, he was one of the Commissioners on the Queen's part, who met at
York
the 8th of
October
1568, for informing the Queen of
England
of the true State of the Quarrel betwixt Queen
Mary
and her Subjects, who had dethron'd her, and were then accusing her in a foreign Country; and he continued loyal to his distressed Sovereign till the end of the Civil War, to the great Prejudice of his Fortune. He married
Agnes
Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
Fleming,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Wigtoun.
By her he had
Alexander
first Earl of
Lithgow, John Livingston
of
Westquarter,
&
William
of whom the Branch of
Badlormie, Jean
eldest Daughter married to
Alexander
Lord
Elphinstoun,
and
Margaret
to Sir
Lewis Ballenden
of
Broughtoun
Justice-Clerk in the Reign of King
James
VI. and afterward to
Patrick Stewart
Earl of
Orkney
Sir John Scot's Memoirs of the Officers of State, from 1550 to 1650 MS penes me.
, and had Issue.
Which
Alexander
Lord
Livingston
was much esteemed by King
James
VI. to whose Care that Prince committed the Education of his Daughter the Princess
Elizabeth,
afterward Queen of
Bohemia;
and when his Majesty King
James
did succeed to the Crown of
England Anno
1603, his Lordship carried the Princess from
Lithgow
to
London
with a Retinue, upon his own Charge, suitable to her Birth and Dignity; which her Royal Highness did always gratefully remember and acknowledge to him and his Family. His Lordship was by the Favour and Bounty of the said King rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Lithgow
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 15th
November
1600, and appointed one of the Commissioners to treat about an Union of the Kingdoms upon his Majesty's Accession to the
English
Crown, and departing this Life within the Month of
September Anno
1622
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Regis.
, left Issue by
Eleanor
his Wife Daughter of
Andrew
Earl of
Errol,
Alexander
his Son and Heir.
Sir
James Livingston
first Earl of
Calendar.
Anne
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Eglintoun.
Margaret
to
John
Earl of
Wigton.
Which
Alexander
married first
Anne
Daughter of
George
1
st
Marquis of
Huntley,
by whom he had
George
his Successor, and again
Mary
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Angus,
by whom he had
Alexander
second Earl of
Calendar,
and two Daughters,
Margaret
married to Sir
Thomas Nicolson
of
Carnock,
and had Issue: 2
dly,
To Sir
George Stirling
of
Keir.
And last of all to Sir
John Stirling
of
Keir, sans
Issue: And Lady
Eleanor
who died unmarried; his Lordship dying
Anno
164.
George
his Son succeeded him in the Honour: He adher'd to the Cause of King
Charles
II. in the time of the Civil War, and suffered for it; but upon the Restoration he was made one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, and constituted Captain of the Royal Regiment of Foot Guards: Which Office he held till the Year 1681, he was remov'd from that Employment, and in Compensation thereof was made Justice General of
Scotland:
In which Station he continued till the Revolution of the Government
Anno
1689, which he surviv'd but short while; for he died on the first Day of
February
1690
Ibidem.
, leaving two Sons and a Daughter by
Elizabeth
his Wise Daughter of
Patrick
first Earl of
Panmure,
Widow of
John
Earl of
Kinghorn, George
Earl of
Lithgow, Alexander
third Earl of
Calendar,
and
Henrietta
married to
Robert
Viscount of
Oxenford.
Which
George
was
Anno
1692 sworn of the Privy Council to King
William
and Queen
Mary,
and made one of the Commissioners of the Treasury; and it is said the King design'd him the Chancellor's Place, had not Death prevented his Promotion to the Honour. He died on the 7th Day of
August
1695
Ibidem.
, leaving no Issue by
Henrietta
his Wi
e Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Duffus,
so that his Estate and Honour devolv'd to
James
Earl of
Calendar
his Nephew, who is Governor of the Castle of
Blackness
by Inheritance, and hereditary Sheriff of
Stirling
Shire. His Lordship was in
Anno
1713 elected a Peer from
Scotland
to the Parliament of
Great Britain,
upon a Vacancy through the Demise of
James
Duke of
Hamilton
He married
Anne
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Errol,
by whom he had
James
Lord
Livingston
who died on the 30th of
April
1715, and a Daughter Lady
Anne.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent,
3 Cinquefoils
Gules,
within a double Tressour Counter-flowr'd
Vert.
2d and 3d
Sable,
a Bend betwixt 6 Billets
Or,
in Surtout
Azure,
an Oak Tree
Or,
within a Border
Argent,
charged with 8 Gelliefl
wers
Gules.
Supporters two Savages, carrying Battons, wreathed about the Head and Loins with Lawrel Crest a De
savage holding in his left Hand a Batton, and a Serpent linked about the other proper,
Motto, Si je puis.
CAMPBEL, Earl of
Lowdon.
ACcording to the Custom of Families of the greatest Antiquity, this of
Lowdon
seems to have taken its Sirname from the Lordship of
Lowdon
in the County of
Air,
where it flourished in the earliest Ages, as one of the most considerable in that Shire; for 'tis certain from very clear Accounts, that in the Reign of King
William
called the
Lyon, Richard Morvil
Lord High Constable of
Scotland,
gave the Barony of
Lowdon Jacobo filio Lambini
Charta penes Comitem de Lowdon.
, who assum'd a Sirname from thence, and left it with his Lands to his Posterity: But it did not last a full Century in the Male-Line, for it became extinct in
James de Lowdon,
whose Heir Female was married to Sir
Reynald Crawfurd
Knight, a Branch of the Family of
Crawfurd
in the County of
Lanerk,
who besides the Barony of
Lowdon,
had Possession of many other Lands in
Lanerk
-Shire the paternal Estate of his Ancestors, and had the Honour to execute the Office of high Sheriff of the County of
Air
in the 17th of King
Alexander
II.
Anno
1228
Chartulary of Kelso in the Lawyers Library MS.
; by which Title he's a frequent Witness to the Grants of that Prince to the Religious of
Kelso
Abbey, which is all I can find in History concerning him proper to be inserted here. He left a Son
Hugh
his Successor, who added to the Barony of
Lowdon
the Lands of
Crosby,
and a Portion of the Village of
Stevinstoun
in
Cuningham
by the Donation of
Alan
of
Galloway
high Constable of
Scotland
his Superior Lord, Grand-child and Heir to the forementioned
Richard Morvil,
to be held of him and his Heirs for ever. This
Hugh
together with
Malise
Earl of
Strathern, Alexander
Lord high Steward of
Scotland,
with divers other Barons of the first Quality, obtains Letters of safe Conduct and Protection from the King of
England Anno
1255, to come into that Realm, but upon what Occasion or for what Cause the Record doth not mention
Mr. Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
.
Sir
Reynald Crawfurd
high Sheriff of
Air
was his Son and Successor, so much celebrated in the History of these Times. In the grand Competition for the Crown betwixt
Bruce
and
Baliol,
of which King
Edward
I. of
England
was made Arbitrator, he was one of the Barons chosen on the part of
Robert de Bruce,
who met at
Berwick
on the 2d of
June
1292 to be a Witness to the Decision which was then to be made of that Affair
Ibidem.
; which at length that King having adjudged to
Baliol,
and afterward having extorted a Superiority from the most part of the Kingdom, and among others Sir
Ronald Crawfurd
swore Allegiance to him: Yet such was the Iniquity of the Times, that, upon what pretended Crime I know not, he was basely murdered in the
English
Garrison at
Air, Anno
1297; and the Fact was still the more horrid that it was upon a Day of Truce, when a Justice Air had been proclaimed to be held there. He left Issue by
Cecil
his Wife, Daughter of . . Sir
Ronald
his Successor, & a Daughter . . . married to Sir
Malcolm Wallace
Knight, Mother by him to the immortal Heroe Sir
William Wallace
Governour of
Scotland.
Sir
Ronald Crawfurd,
commonly called the Younger, was a strenuous Asserter of the Honour and Independency of his Country, in Defence of which he lost his Life,
Anno
1303, leaving only a Daughter his sole Heir
Susanne
married to Sir
Duncan Campbel,
Son of Sir
Donald Campbel
of
Redcastle
Charta penes Comitem de Lowdon.
, who in the 12
th
of King
Robert
I. had a Grant to himself and his Wife
de omnibus terris de Loudon & de Stenston, praedict. Duncanum & Susannam sponsam suam hereditarie contingent. ratione dictae sponsae, & eorum heredibus inter eos legitime procreatis; quibus deficientibus ad praefatam Susannam & propinquiores heredes suos fine aliqua con tradictione reversuros. Test. Bernardo Abbate de Arbroath Cancellario, Will. de Linasay Camerario nostro, apud Penycook quarto Januarii, Anno Regni duodecimo
Charta penes Comitem de Lowdon.
. By the foresaid
Susanne
his Wife he left Issue
Sir
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who in the 30
th
of King
David
II. had a Grant in Reward of his Loyalty & Merit, of
omnes terrae, reditus, & Burgagium in villa & territorio de Innerbervy in Vic. de Kincardin
Ibidem.
. He afterwards resigned the Lands and Barony of
Redcastle
in
Forfar
Shire in Favours of Sir
Robert Stewart
Knight, which is all I have found memorable of him. By . . . Daughter of . . . his Wife he left Issue, Sir
Hugh
his Son and Heir, who made a very great Figure in the Reign of King
Robert
III. and in that of his Son and Successor
James
I. I find in 1423 he was one of the great Barons who were appointed to attend and wait on King
James
from
Durham
to
Scotland,
when he was relieved from his Captivity out of
England
Rymers Foedera Angliae ad Annum 1423.
. By . . . Daughter of . . . his Wife he had Issue,
Sir
George
his Son and Heir, who was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I.
Ibid.
. By his Wife Daughter of . . .
Stewart
of
Darnly
Martin's Genealogical Descent of the House of Lowdon penes me.
he had
Sir
George
his Son and Heir, who had the Honour of Knighthood conferred on him by King
James
II. in the 13. of whose Reign he resigned the Sheriffship of
Air
Shire in the Sovereign's Hands for a new Gift in Favours of himself, which he obtained, and to his Heirs Male for ever. By . . his Wife Daughter of . . . he had
Sir
George
his Son and Heir, who had a new Grant of the Sheriffship of
Air
-Shire from King
James
IV.
Anno
1489
Charta in pub. Archivis.
By his Wife, Daughter of . . . Lord
Kennedy
he had Issue
Hugh
his Successor,
George
first of that Branch of the
Campbels
of
Killoch
Ibidem.
, likewise a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to
Robert
Lord
Erskine,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Mar.
Which
Hugh
was made a Knight by King
James
IV. He married
Isabel
Daughter of . . .
Wallace
of
Craigy
Gift by King James IV. to Sir Hugh Campbel of Lowdon Knight, and Isabel Wallace his Spouse of the Ward of the Lands belonging to John Wallace of Craigy, then in the King's Hands, through the Decease of Hutcheon Wallace of Craigy his Father, in the 18th of the said King, Anno 1506, in the Registers of the Privy Seal.
and departing this Life,
Anno
1508
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, left Issue,
Hugh
his Successor; and five Daughters.
Annabel
married to
Thomas Boswel
of
Auchinleck
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. ad Annum 1515, where she gets the Gift of the Ward of her Son David Boswel's Lands, in Regard Thomas his Father was killed at Flowdon.
, and again to
John Cunningham
of
Caprington
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi V. ad Annum 1521.
, and had Issue.
Helen
to
Laurence Crawfurd
of
Kilbiruy
Charta penes Pat. Vicecomitem de Garnock, ad Annum 1547.
, Ancestor to the Viscount of
Garnock.
Isabel
to
Mungo Mure
of
Rowallan
Charta in pub. Archivis.
in Vic. de Air,
and had Issue.
Janet
to
John Campbel
of
Cesnock
Ibidem ad Annum 1533.
, and had Issue.
Margaret
to
Thomas Kennedy
of
Bargany
Charta in Rotulis Mariae Reginae ad Annum 1558.
,
in Vic de Air,
and had Issue.
Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Lowdon
was knighted by King
James
V. whom he served with great Fidelity upon all Occasions. He marred first the Lady
Elizabeth Stewart,
Daughter of
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox
Ibidem ad Annum 1535.
, and again
Agnes
Daughter of
John Drummond
of
Innerpeffrey,
and died in the Month of
February
1561
Ibidem ad Annum 1562.
. By the Lady
Elizabeth
his first Wife he left Issue,
Sir
Matthew
his Son and Heir, who was very zealous for the Reformation of Religion, and yet very loyal to Queen
Mary.
When the War broke out in that Reign, he was on the Queen's Side at the Battle of
Langside,
where he was taken Prisoner,
Anno
1568
Crawfurd's Memoirs.
.
He married
Isabel
Daughter of Sir
John Drummond
of
Innerpeffrey
Charta penes Comitem de Lowdon.
, by
Janet
his Wife, natural Daughter of King
James
IV. By her he had several Children,
viz.
Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Tarrinzen,
thereafter Lord
Lowdon.
Jean
married 1
st
to
Robert Montgomery
of
Giffen,
Master of
Eglinton,
& after his Death to
Ludovick
Duke of
Lennox
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI ad Annum 1607.
.
Marion
to
Thomas
Lord
Boyd
Charta penes Comitem de Kilmarnock.
, and had Issue.
Margaret
to
John Wallace
of
Craigy
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad Annum 1586.
, and had Issue.
Agnes
to
William Cunningham
of
Caprington
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Isabel
to
William Crawfurd
of
Lochnoris
Genealogy of the House of Lochnoris penes me.
, and had Issue.
Jean
to Sir
Robert Maclellan,
1
st
Lord
Kirkcudbright.
Annabel
to
Daniel Ker
of
Kersland,
and had Issue
Charta penes Dom. Annam Ker de Kersland.
; and again to
David Dunbar
of
Enterkin.
Which Sir
Hugh
being a Gentleman of a fair Fortune, was by the Favour of King
James
VI. first called to his Majesty's Council, and thereafter raised to the Honour of Lord
Lowdon, Anno
1604.
He married to his first Wife
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
John Gordon
of
Lochinvar
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad Annum 1581.
, Ancestor to the Viscount of
Kenmure:
By whom he had
George
Master of
Lowdon
his only Son, who dying in the Lifetime of his Father,
Anno
1612
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. Regis ad Annum 1612.
, left Issue by
Jean
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Wigtoun,
two Daughters,
Margaret
Baroness of
Lowdon,
and
Anne
Wife of Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Cesnock,
and had Issue.
Beside the Master his Son, his Lordship had also three Daughters, first
Juliana
married to Sir
John Campbel
of
Glenurchy
Baronet,
Sans
Issue; second
Isabel
to Sir
John Maxwel
of
Pollock
Knight, and had Issue; third
Margaret
to
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan.
His second Wife was
Isabel
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gowrie,
formerly Wife of Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Lochinvar,
by whom he had two Daughters, . . . married to Sir
William Cunningham
of
Cunningham head,
and . . . to
David Crawfurd
of
Kerse.
He married to his third Wife
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
David Home
of
Wedderburn,
but by her he had not any Succession; and dying very aged on the 15
th
of
December
1622
Charta in pub. Archivis.
, his Estate and Honours devolved on
Margaret
Baroness of
Lowdon
his Grand-child, who was married with
John Campbel
Esq
at that Time Son and Heir of Sir
James Campbel
of
Lawers
This Sir James was the lineal Descendant of John Campbel the Founder of the House of Lawers, who was the eldest Son of Sir Colin Campbel of Glenurchy, by Margaret Stirling his second Wife, a Daughter of the House of Keir.
, by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Lord
Colvil
of
Culross,
whom his Majesty King
Charles
I. honoured with the Title of Earl of
Lowdon
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I. ad Annum 1633.
, by Letters patent, bearing Date 12
th
of
May
1633, and that for the greater Splendor of his Majesty's Coronation.
When the Troubles broke out in the Year 1637, the Earl of
Lowdon
was one of the most leading of the Peers, who testified a Dislike of the Ways and Methods had been taken in Reference to the Liturgy, and the other Innovations then brought into the Church; and assoon as the Party who pressed for Reformation, did resolve themselves into Societies, his Lordship was one of the Nobility who were chosen to conduct their Affairs, and to represent their Grievances, which he did in a Speech before the Council on the 21
st
of
December,
to this Purpose.
"That by the Methods lately taken, it appeared there was an entire new Model of Government in Church and State intended; That the late Service Book, and the Book of Canons, which were then set out and imposed on the Nation, had passed no Approbation of the Assembly, nor any Convocation of of the Clergy, nor had been so much as communicated to the Privy-Council, but appeared to be so many new Laws imposed on the Kingdom by the King's sole Authority, contarary to the established Laws of the Land, merely contrived by the Bishops, on whom he craved Justice in a legal way."
When his Majesty had raised an Army against the Covenanters in 1639, and was advanced as far as the Borders, my Lord
Lowdon
was one of the Peers who signed an Address to the King,
"Lamenting their ill Fortune, that their Enemies had so great Credit with his Majesty as to perswade him to believe that they were or could be disobedient to him; a Thing that could never enter into their loyal Hearts; that they desired nothing but to be admitted into the Presence of their gracious Sovereign, to lay their Grievances at his Royal Feet, and leave the Determination of them entirely to his own Wisdom and Pleasure."
The Humility of the Stile wrought so upon the King's Nature, who thought it great Pity that any Blood should be spilt in a Contention which he himself might put an End to by his own Royal Word, as soon as he should hear their Complaints; That he easily consented to bring the Business to a fair Treaty, to which the Earl was named one of the Commissioners upon the Part of the Covenanters, and who accordingly met with such
English
Commissioners as his Majesty was pleased to appoint at the
Berks,
where they entred upon, and concluded a Pacification, whereby
"The Armies were to be disbanded; an Act of Oblivion pass'd; the King's Forts and Castles to be restored, and a Parliament and a General Assembly to be called, for a full Settlement, & that thereby all Factions & Animosities might be reconciled and composed."
But this Peace was of a very short Duration; for the Pacification being ill kept on both Sides, the King disowning what had been said to have been transacted upon his Part, and the Covenanters remitting nothing of their Zeal against the Bishops and the Liturgy, having likewise entred a Protestation
"That they did not intend by any Thing contained in the Treaty to vacate any of the Proceedings which had been in the late General Assembly of
Glasgow
:"
By these Proceedings the Breach became greater and wider, and Preparations for War began to be renewed on both Sides with more Vigour than ever. But before Things should come to the last Extremity, and that, if possible, Matters might be composed without Blood, his Majesty thought fit to require the Covenanters to send some Persons intrusted by their Body to attend him, to give an Account of their Proceedings, and which was the Thing they always most desired. Accordingly certain Commissioners were named, of which Number the Earl of
Lowdon
was one. At this Time when the Commissioners repaired to
London
there happened to be a Letter intercepted, and transmitted to his Majesty, that had been signed by the Earl of
Lowdon
and the chief of the Covenanters, written to the
French
King, & directed
An Roy,
a Stile only used by Subjects to their natural King:
"In which they complained of the Hardness & Injustice of the Government that was exercised over them, put him in mind of the Dependence
Scotland
formerly had upon that Crown, and desired him now to take them into his Protection, and give them Assistance
Clarendon's History of the Civil War.
."
This Letter being seen and perused by the Lords of the Council of
England,
and the Lord
Lowdon
being examined, and refusing to give any other Answer than,
"That it was writ before the Agreement; and thereupon reserved, and never sent, that if he had committed any Offence, he ought to be questioned for it in
Scotland,
& not in
England;
& insisting upon his safe Conduct, demanded Liberty to return."
But notwithstanding all the Defences the Earl was able to make, he was committed Prisoner to the Tower, and tho his Commitment was highly resented by the Parliament, as a Breach of the publick Faith, yet he continued in Prison some Months thereafter, till, by the Interposition and Intercession of the Marquis of
Hamilton,
he was enlarged on the 27
th
of
June
1640
Burnet's History of the two Dukes of Hamilton.
, when his Lordship renewed all Professions of Duty to the King, and a Readiness to engage in his Service, as
oon as he should return to his native Country, (where his Power & Interest was as great as any Mans,) which he did by disposing all those upon whom he had Influence to hearken to all Over tures for a Peace with his Majesty. But notwithstanding all the Endeavours of the Lord
Lowdon
and others, who heartily desired an Accommodation, Matters came to a second Rupture, and upon a Party of the Covenanters having routed the Lord
Conway
at
Newburn,
who appeared for the King, and having taken
Newcastle,
they thought fit after that to present a humble Petition and Address to the King for a new Treaty, which his Majesty condescending to, and
Rippon
being named the Place of Meeting, the Earl of
Lowdon
was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Treaty. But all they they did there was only to agree to a Cessation of Arms, a safe Conduct being granted to his Lordship and the rest of his Collegues for going to
London
to carry on and conclude the Treaty there: Which they did with all possible Diligence, and which his Majesty confirmed, and the Lords of the Privy Council were made the Conservators of the Peace, during the Interval of Parliaments.
The Peace betwixt the two Nations being thus happily concluded, it was judged necessary that the Treaty should be ratified by the Parliament of
Scotland,
which in the 1641, his Majesty was pleased to hold himself in his own Royal Person, for the full Satisfaction of his People, and wherein all Particulars that had been in Dispute were adjusted to the seeming Joy and Satisfaction of every Man, and the Security of all that was then established was sufficiently provided for. In the End of the Session his Majesty was pleased to bestow Honours and Offices on some principal Persons, who had merited well at his Hands, and who were best able to serve him; so the Chancellour's Place was bestowed upon the Lord
Lowdon,
during Life, and that with the full Consent and Approbation of the Parliament
Rescinded Acts of Parliament.
, who looked on him, as he was throughout the whole Kingdom, as a very wise Man, excellently fitted and qualified for the Discharge of that great Trust, as the Exigence of Affairs then stood.
When the Civil War broke out in
England,
the Chancellour repaired to the King at
York
Clarendon's History.
, when his Majesty did so fully satisfy his Lordship with the Justice and Honour of his Carriage toward his
English
Parliament, that he wrote to the
Scots
Commissioners at
London,
in the Name and by the Direction of the Lords of the Secret Council;
"That they should present to the two Houses, the deep Sense they had of the Injuries and Indignities which were offered to the King, whose just Rights they were bound to desend, and that they should conjure them to bind up those Wounds which were made, and not to widen them by Sharpness of Language, and to give his Majesty such real Security for his Safety among them, by an effectual declaring against Tumults, and such other Actions as were justly offensive to his Majesty, that he might be induced to reside nearer to them, and comply with them in such Propositions as should be reasonably made
Ibid.
."
Soon after which, taking leave of the King, his Lordship renewed all imaginable Professions of Duty to his Majesty, and a Readiness to ingage in his Service; which the King was very well assured he could do.
In the 1643, the Chancellour was sent Commissioner from the Privy Council of
Scotland,
who called themselves
the Conservators of the Peace between the two Kingdoms,
to his Majesty while he was at
Oxford,
desiring to pass as a Mediator betwixt the King and the two Houses in
England,
when his Lordship used all Importunity and Arguments to perswade the King in private to consent to the Alteration of the Government of the Church of
England,
assuring him that it would be a Mean not only to hinder the Subjects of
Scotland
from adhering to the
English
Parliament, but that it would oblige them to assist his Majesty to the outmost, in the Vindication of all his Rights: But he found the King too strongly fixed to be sway'd, in what he thought a Case of Conscience, by a Consideration of Convenience.
He then betook himself to his own proper Errand, which consisted of two Parts; the one, to offer the Mediation of the Conservators of the Peace of the Kingdom, for the Composure of the Differences between his Majesty and the two Houses; the other, to desire his Majesty that he would summon a Parliament in
Scotland.
In Answer to the first Demand of Mediation; His Majesty told him,
"That he could not find any colour or pretence of Authority granted by the Act of Pacification, by which the Commissioners for
Scotland
could conceive themselves interested in a Faculty of Mediation; that the Clause mentioned by them related only to the Differences that might grow between the two Nations, which his Majesty said had been and should be inviolably observed by him; and therefore he could not admit of any such Mediation as they proposed."
For the other Demand, of a Parliament in
Scotland;
The King told him and the rest of the Commissioners,
"That against the Time by which they could legally demand a Parliament, naming the Day, which was to be on the first Tuesday of
June
1644, he would issue out his Writs, and there being no emergent Cause to do it sooner, he would forbear to put his Subjects there to that Trouble, which those Meetings (how necessary soever) would naturally carry with them."
So his Lordship perceiving that he should not receive Satisfaction in either of these Proposals, at last returned home
re infecta.
In the 1644, when his Majesty did renew his Offer of Peace to the two Houses of Parliament, which they likewise agreeing to, and
Uxbridge
being assigned for the Place of Meeting, the Chancellour, the Earl of
Lawderdale,
Sir
Charles Erskine,
and Mr.
Robert Barclay
Member of Parliament for the Burgh of
Irvine,
and Mr.
Alexander Henderson
(in Matters only which related to the Church) were sent Commissioners from
Scotland:
But that Treaty unhappily coming to nothing, a bloody civil War thereupon ensued.
When the King put himself into the
Scots
Army before
Newwark,
and the
English
positively demanded the Delivery up of the King's Person, the Earl of
Lowdon
was appointed to treat with the Parliament of
England
about that important Affair, where, in a free Conference with the two Houses, he publickly declared,
"That an eternal Infamy would ly upon the whole Nation, if they should deliver up the Person of the King, the securing of which was equally their Duty, as it was the Parliament's, and the Disposal of his Person in order to that Security, did equally belong to them as to the Parliament: However he said, he would use all the Perswasion, and all the Importunity he could with the King, that his Majesty might yield and consent to the Propositions the Parliament had sent to him."
In the 1647, the Lord Chancellour was one of the Commissioners appointed to attend the King from the Parliament of
Scotland,
while he was at the Isle of
Wight,
to treat with his Majesty anent a full Accomodation with that Kingdom, and which they at last concluded on Terms of great Advantage to the Nation; in Recompense of which, the Chancellour and his Collegues undertook to raise an Army to rescue and relieve his Majesty from the Captivity he was then under, and to restore him to his just Rights, and that no Time might be lost, as soon as the Treaty was signed, the Chancellour departed for
Scotland,
where (at first) he used his outmost Endeavours to procure such Persons to be elected Members to the Parliament, as he knew to be most inclined to the Service in hand, in which the Honour of the Country was so much concerned.
When the Parliament met on the 2d of
March
1648
Rescinded Acts.
, the Lord Chancellour was chosen President of the Convention, wherein he employed all his Power and Interest to bring the Parliament to comply with the Engagement & declare for the King; & tho the Affair met with great Opposition, yet the Resolution was carried in putting the Country in a Posture Defence, and raising an Army to relieve the King. I need not here recount the Fate of that Army which marched into
England
under the Conduct of the Duke of
Hamilton,
nor how unsuccesfull it proved for the Design it was intended.
(
b
) Cromwel's Indemnity to the People of Scotland.
All I shall further observe is, that as there had been a Party in the Parliament whom the King's Concessions did not satisfy, so they declared against the Engagement as unlawfull and ungodly, and the violent Party of the Clergy joining with them, they passed an Act against the
Engagers,
that was, all those who had been the Promoters of it, ranking them into several
Classes,
whereby they were excluded from all Offices of publick Trust, and vote in Parliament till they had satisfied the Church by a publick Profession of their Repentance, for their Accession to the
unlawfull Engagement
as it was called.
When the Parliament met, after the Murder of King
Charles
I. the Lord Chancellour was chosen President of that Session, who by their 14 Act, proclaimed King
Charles
II. 'Tis beyond all Doubt the Chancellour gave all imaginable Assistance he could to bring over the King from
Holland,
and to raise the Army that marched with his Majesty into
England,
but that Army being unhappily defeated at
Worcester,
and the Usurpers absolutely prevailing over all the three Kingdoms; the Chancellour was not only outed of his Office, but was for ced, for the Security of his Person, to fly to the
Highlands,
where he lay concealed, till the Earl of
Glencairn
by vertue of his Majesty's Commission drew together a small Body of Horse and Foot for his Majesty's Service, that the Earl of
Lowdon
repaired to him, for which he was for
eited by the Powers that then prevailed; and thereafter when
Cromwel
granted an Indemnity to the People of
Scotland,
both the Earl of
Lowdon
& the Lord
Machline
his Son were particularly excepted. After which his Lordship the Chancellour continued in the
Hills
till all Hope of serving the King was given over, that he capitulated to lay down his Arms, and live quietly at his own House, which he did in a Country Retirement, till it pleased God to bring back King
Charles
II. to his Throne, which the Lord
Lowdon
did not long survive, for he died in the Beginning of the 1663. This noble Lord left Issue by
Margaret
Baroness of
Lowdon,
his Wife aforesaid,
James
his Successor, Lady
Jean
married to
George
Earl of
Panmure,
Lady
Anne
to
John
Lord
Balmerino.
Which
James
married
Margaret
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
and dying
Anno
1683, left Issue,
Hugh
his Successor in the Honour, Colonel
John Campbel
of
Shankstoun,
and Colonel
James Campbel,
Colonel of the Royal Gray-Dragoons, likewise four Daughters.
1
st, Margaret
married to
Colin
Earl of
Balcarras.
2
d, Jean
to Sir
James Campbel
of
Aberuchel
Baronet.
3
d, Christian
to
George Ross
of
Galstoun, in Vic de Air.
4
th, Eleanor
to
James
1
st
Viscount of
Primrose,
and again to
John
2
d
Earl of
Stair.
Hugh
Earl of
Lowdon
being a Nobleman of Parts and Abilities, was first constituted one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to King
William,
and then named one of the Extraordinary Lords of the Session
Anno
1699.
In 1704 his Lordship was made one of the Lords of the Thesaury and one of her Majesty's Knights of the most noble Order of the Thistle; and the next ensuing Year her Majesty Queen
Anne
was pleased to prefer him to be one of the principal Secretary's of State: In which Station his Lordship served first in Conjunction with the Marques of
Annandale,
and thereafter with the Earl of
Mar,
to the general Satisfaction of all Men, and the universal Approbation of the whole Nation, till after the Union of the Kingdom, that in the 1708 the
Scots
Secretary-Office was taken away; in Lieu of which, his Lordship was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, which Office he held till the Year 1713 he was removed, and the Earl of
Finlater
got the Great Seal, with the Title of Lord Chancellour of
Scotland.
After the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, the Earl of
Lowdon
was made Lord Lieutenant of
Air shire, Anno
1715. And I cannot but remark that this noble Lord has ever been since the Union, and now is one of the most honourable Privy-Council of
Great Britain.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of
John
1
st
Earl of
Stair,
by whom he had Issue
John
Lord
Machline.
Lady
Margaret.
Lady
Jean.
ARMS.
Gyronee of Eight Pieces
Ermine
and
Gules,
supported on the Dexter, with a Chevalier holding a Lance in his Hand, and on the Sinister, with a Lady holding a Letter of Challenge in her Hand.
Crest
a Phenix display'd; proper.
Motto, I bide my Time.
LYLE, Lord
Lyle.
SOme who have enquired into the Antiquity of Sirnames with much Curiosity, think that the first Ancestor of this Family was one of those
Scotsmen
who fled from the Usurpation of
Mackbeath
into
England,
and returned with
Edgar Atheling
and his Sister the Princess
Margaret,
afterward Wife to King
Malcolm Canmore,
upon the Invasion by
William
the Conqueror, and got Possessions in the Isle of
Bute,
in the Western Parts of this Realm, from whence they took the Demonation of
Le Isle,
which they kept after they came to be settled upon the Continent at
Duchal-Castle
in
Renfrew
-shire. Tho I have not seen directly any Mention of them till King
William
's Time, that
William de Isle
is one of the Witnesses to that Deed, which
Walterus Dapifer Regis
made to the Monks of
Paisley,
when he founded that Convent of the Lands of
Espinder
Chartulary of Paisley.
. He is the same Person, as I take it, who is one of the Barons taken Prisoner with King
William
at the Battle of
Alnwick
Rymer's Foedera.
on the 13th
July
1174.
The next in order of Succession, if not his Son, to be taken notice of is
Radulphus de Isle,
who is a Witness to the Donation, which
Baldwin de Bigris,
Sheriff of
Lanerk
made to the Abbot and Convent of
Paisley,
and to the Monks serving GOD there, as the Gift bears, in pure Alms,
Ecclesiam de Innerkip cum tota illa terra inter tumulos ubi Ecclesia est fundata, ita libere sicut dicti Monachi possident reliquas Ecclesias de
Strath-Grief,
ex dono Walteri filii Alani-Dapiferi Regis
Scotiae.
The next of this Lineage is
Alanus de Isle,
who is a Witness to that Excambion which
Walter
High Steward of
Scotland
made of the Lands of
Kylingtoun
for the Lands of
Innerweek,
the Tithes of which he made over to the Abbot of
Paisley,
for the Welfare of himself and his Successors, both here and hereafter
Chartulary of Paisley.
. He is also to be found in the Confirmation which
Alexander
High Steward of
Scotland
made to the Monks of
Paisley,
of all the Donations made by himself or his Ancestors down to that Period of Time, in the Year of our Lord 1151.
Radulphus de Isle, Insula, dominus de Duchal,
probably the Son of the former, is Witness to the Vendition of the Lands of
Aldingstoun
to the Abbot of
Paisley,
and his Title being added to the Sirname, is an undoubted Evidence that he was then a very remarkable Person; for I cannot but observe, that this is the very first time I have found any in the Western Parts adding a local Title to the Sirname.
In the grand Competition betwixt
Bruce
and
Baliol
for the Crown, Sir
Walter Lyle
was upon the
Bruce
's Side, as his Friend and Namesake; Sir
Allan Lyle
was upon the
Baliol
's afterward, and adhered to the Interest of
Edward Baliol,
in all the Turns of the Times: In Consideration whereof, upon his coming to the Crown, he made him Sheriff and Governor of
Bute,
and Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland
Sir James Balfour's List of Chamberlains.
. But whether this Sir
Alan Lyle
was the Head and Representative, or only a Branch of the Family, I do not know; however it is certain, that
John Lyle
of
Duchal
was in Favour with King
David Bruce,
in the 39th of whose Reign he had a Grant to himself and
Margaret de Vauss
his Wife, of the King's Lands of
Buch
han,
in the County of
Stirling,
and to their Heirs
Charta in Rotulis Dav. 11.
: After which he obtained the Honour of Knighthood; for I have found him designed
Joannes de Lyle Dominus de Duchal M
les,
in a Charter of Confirmation by
Alan Erskine
of
Baruchan
to Sir
Robert Erskine,
of the Lands of
Dunerbook
and
Achintorly,
in the End of King
David
's Reign. He left a Son
John,
whom I have found design'd
Filio & haeredi apparents Joannis Lyle de Duchal, militis,
in Charters of King
Robert
II. when Earl of
Strathern,
He married a Lady who was one of the Co-heirs of the Earldom of
Mar,
tho' I know not precisely who she was: But in her Right the Lord
Lyle,
in the Time of King
James
II. laid Claim to a Part of that Estate, and from thenceforth added the Coat of
Mar
to his Paternal Arms. This
John
was succeeded by his Son
Robert Lyle,
stiled
Chevalier de Duchal,
in the Letters of safe Conduct that were granted by the King of
England,
to a Number of great Men of
Scotland,
to come into his Dominions in the 1422, to wait on King
James
home, when he was relieved from his Captivity out of
England.
I find he was also one of the Hostages for the King's Ransom
Rymer's foedera.
. When the King possessed himself of the Earldom of
Mar,
upon the Death of
Alexander Stewart
Earl of
Mar,
who was not born in lawful Marriage he put in his Claim as one of the Heirs of that Earldom, to which he and the Lord
Erskine
should have succeeded by Right and Proximity of Blood, as
Fordon
's Continuator says,
Anno
1438,
Obiit
Alexander Stewart
Comes de
Marr,
& quia Bastardus erat, Rex illi successit, quamvis jure haereditario Domini
Erskine
&
Lyle
successisse debuissent.
'Tis probable the King componed with Sir
Robert Lyle
about his Right, for in all the Disputes betwixt the King and the Lord
Erskine
about his Claim to the Half of the Earldom of
Marr,
there is no Mention made of his Title. He married . . . . Daughter of Sir
William Stewart
of
Castlemilk,
Charta in Publ. Archivis.
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, who in the Reign of King
James
II. was raised to the Peerage of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Lyle:
For in a Charter of Lands by him to Sir
John de Ross
of
Haulkhead, Anno
1445, he is designed
Dominus de Douchal;
and in a Confirmation of the same Charter, under the Great Seal in the Year 1458, he is designed,
Dilectus Consanguineus Noster
Robertus
Dominus
Lyle, which doth plainly show the Time he was rais'd to the Honour; after which he had sundry Grants from the Crown, particularly of the Royal Castle of
Re
frew,
with the Orchards and Meadows, for the Payment of a Tack-duty of Five Pounds yearly to the King's Exchequer
Charta penes D. Ross.
. He founded a Hermitage at
Syde,
within the Barony of
Duchal,
and a Chantry within the Abbey Church of
Paisly,
for celebrating Divine Service for the Health of his Soul, the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors for ever, to which he gives the Fishing of
Crockat-shot
upon
Clyde Anno
1452. He married first
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Andrew Gray
Lord of
Fowlis
Charta penes D. Gray.
; and next
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . .
Wallace
of . . . . . by whom he had
Robert
Lord
Lyle,
and a Daughter
Agnes
married to
Alan Lyle
of
Craigbra
Charta in Publ. Archivis.
.
Which
Robert
did very remark ably distinguish himself in his Service to his Country, in the time of
James
III. In the 1472, being then one of the King's Privy Council, he was joined in Commission with diverse Lords and Barons, to treat upon a Truce with the
English;
which being concluded, he was again named one of the Ambassadors on the Part of
Scotland,
to treat of a Marriage betwixt the Prince of
Scotland,
and
Anne
Daughter of
John
Duke of
Suffolk:
At which times a Truce was agreed on between the two Nations, from the 29
September
1484, for the full Term of three Years thereafter
Rymer's foedera.
, he being named one of the Conservators thereof. Likewise in
May
1488 he was one of the Commissioners sent into
England,
to treat with that State, anent the keeping of a firm and lasting Peace betwixt the two Crowns. Before their return Home, the King being killed at the Battle of
Stirling,
his Lordship was by Act of Parliament appointed one of the Privy Council to King
James
IV.
Black Acts of Parliament.
, and constituted Justice General by South the River of
Forth
Charta in Publ. Arch.
.
But notwithstanding of these Promotions, his Lordship being dissatisfied with the Measures that had been taken in Reference to the late King, he together with
Matthew
Master of
Lennox
took up Arms, in order to revenge his Death, but was defeated in the Attempt by the Lord
Drummond,
for which he was forfeited; But again restored upon the general Indemnity
Anno
1491, and restored to be Justiciary by South the Water of
Forth
Charta penes Jacobum Montgomery de Lainshaw.
. Which Office he discharged with Courage and Fidelity for several Years thereafter. He married first . . . . Daughter of
John Seaton
Son and Heir apparent of
George
Lord
Seaton,
and again
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Angus,
and had Issue,
Robert
his Successor,
George Lyle
of
Langlebank, Margaret
married to
James Stewart
of
Blackhal
Charta in Publ. Arch.
,
Marion
to
Peter Houstoun
Esq
Ibidem.
and
Agnes
to
John Maxwel
of
Stainly.
Robert
Lord
Lyle
his Son married
Marion
Daughter of . . . .
Lindsay
of
Dunrod,
and dying
Anno
1511, left Issue,
John
his Son and Heir, and two Daughters,
Agnes
married to
Alan Cathcart,
at that time Son and Heir apparent of
John
Lord
Cathcart
Ibidem.
, and
Katharine
to
Archibald Macklachlane
of that Ilk.
Which
John,
being under Age at the Death of his Father, the Ward and Benefit of his Marriage was assigned by his Majesty King
James
IV. to
James
Bishop of
Glasgow,
whose Niece
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
David Beaton
of
Crich,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland;
a very good Alliance, tho' she was only a Gentlewoman; (for the Countess of
Arran
and the Lady
Buckcleuch
were Daughters of the same Family,) he had by her
James,
Master of
Lyle,
and a Daughter
Jean
married to Sir
Neil Montgomery
of
Lainshaw.
This Lord upon the Death of King
James
V. was one of the Peers who entred into a solemn Association to maintain and defend the Infant Queen
Mary
against
all Assaults either of
Scots
Men or
English
Men, who were in the Interest of
England. The Master of
Lyle
being a profuse Man and of no Expectation, the Father caused first interdict him: But that Methode proving ineffectual, he resolved to dispose of his Estate to his Daughter and her Heirs, and that he might more easily and securely convoy it to her and her Children, he disposed of a great many considerable Baronies in a short Time, and upon the Master's Death Sir
Neil Montgomery
came to be the Heir of this Ancient Noble Family
N
tandum,
I find, that upon the Death of John Lord Lyle, Jean Lyle his Daughter and Heir, with Consent of Sir Neil Montgomery of Lainshaw her Spouse, makes several Transactions with those who had acquired her Father's Estate, particularly with Sir Colin Campbel of Lundy, about the Barony of Lundy, the Instructions of which are still in the Hands of James Montgomery of Lainshaw his Heir of Line. This Sir Neil Montgomery by Jean Lyle his Wife, had Sir Neil his Successor, and two Daughters . . . . married to the Laird of Ardross, and Margaret to John Pollock of that Ilk. Which Neil as Heir to John Lord Lyle, and Jean Lyle his Mother, made an Agreement with William Porterfield of that Ilk, about his Right to the Mains and Forty Shillings Land of Duchal Anno 1599, which had been long in dispute betwixt them. His Wife was Elizabeth Daughter of . . . Cuningham of Aiket he had Neil his Successor, John Montgomery of Cocklibee, and William Montgomery of Bridgend; of whom the Montgomeries of Bridgend, Belliskeoch, Clonies and Beoch are descended, and two Daughters . . . to . . . Graham of Grugar, and . . . to . . . Johnstoun of Wamfr
y. Neil Montgomery next of Lainshaw married Marion Daughter of Sir William Muir of Rowalan, and had Neil his Successor, Jean married to William Buntin of Airdoch . . . to . . . Montgomery of Achinhood . . . to . . . Campbel of Skeldon . . . to . . . Houstoun of Park. Neil Montgomery next of Lainshaw married Margaret Daughter of . . . Lockhart of Barr, and had John his Son, who married Helen Daughter of Sir Lodovick Houstoun of that Ilk, but having no Issue they disponed their Estate to their Cousin and Heir-Male David Montgomery eldest Son of John Montgomery of Cocklibee: Which John married first . . . Cuningham Daughter to Cuninghame of chinharvie, and had a Daughter Jean married to William Caldwel of that Ilk. Secondly, Jean Daughter of Captain Daniel Forrester of the House of Carden, Envoy in King James V
's Time to Italy and Spain; by whom he had David Montgomery of Lainshaw, John Montgomery of Crivock, and four Daughters. Agnes married to Thomas Kennedy of Kirkmichael. Karharine to Fergus Macubin of Knockdolian. Barbara to William Montgomery of Belliskeoch. Margaret to Mr. Miller Minister at Neilstoun. David Montgomery of Lainshaw his Son married Marion Daughter of James Dunlop of that Ilk, and had James Montgomery of Lainshaw, and a Daughter Jean married to the Reverend Mr. Laing Parson of Donachadee. Which James upon the Revolution, was made Clerk to the Justiciary during Life; which he at present enjoys, and is married with Barbara Daughter of John Kennedy of Craig, Heir and Representative of an ancient Family of the Kennedies of Barc
anachan in Air-shire.
. And since the Right of Blood does not prescribe his Heirs may claim the Lord
Lyle
's Honours when they think fit.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Azure
a Bend betwixt six Cross Croslets,
Or,
a Frete
Gules,
2d and 3d,
Or,
Supporters two Cats Sable.
Crest,
a Cock crowing.
Motto, An I may.
DRUMMOND, Lord
Maderty.
THE first of this Family was
James Drummond
Commendator of
Inchaffrey,
Son to
David
Lord
Drummond
by
Lilias
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Lord
Ruthven,
who having acquired a Right to the Monastery of
Inchaffrey
from
Alexander Gordon
Bishop of
Galloway,
then Commendator of that Convent, had by the favour of King
James
VI. the Lands and Tithes which composed that Benefice erected to him in a temporal Lordship by the Stile of Lord
Maderty Anno
1607. He married
Jean
Daughter of Sir
James Chisholm
of
Cromlix,
and had Issue,
John
Lord
Maderty,
Sir
James Drummond
of
Machany;
likewise four Daughters.
1
st Lilias
married to
Lawrence
Lord
Oliphant.
2
d Jean
to
Andrew Wood
of
Largo in vic. de Fife.
3
d Margaret
to
James Muirhead
of
Braidesholm in Vic. de Lanerk.
4
th Katherine
to
Andrew
1
st
Lord
Rollo.
John
2
d
Lord
Maderty
married
Margaret
Daughter of
Patrick
1
st
Lord
Lindores;
and had two Sons,
David
his Successor, and Lieutenant General
William Drummond
of
Cromlix,
1
st
Viscount of
Strathalan,
and three Daughters.
1
st Anne
married to
Patrick Rattray
of
Craighal in Vic. de Perth.
2
d Jean
to
Patrick Graham
of
Inchbracko, in Vic. de Perth.
3
d Margaret
to Sir
Robert Crichtoun,
alias
Murray
of
Cookpool
Knight.
Which
David
married
Beatrix,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Montrose;
by whom he had three Daughters,
Margaret
married to
John Graham
Son to
Patrick Graham
of
Inchbracko,
Post-Master-General of
Scotland. Beatrix
to
John
1
st
Earl of
Hindford, Mary
to
John Halden
of
Gleneagles,
the Dignity of Lord
Maderty
falling to
William
Viscount of
Strathalan
his Nephew.
MAR, Earl of
Mar.
WE shall look no further back into the Antiquity of this noble illustrious Family, than the Reign of King
Alexander
I. in the seventh Year of which 1114,
Gratnach Comes
Earl of
Mar
was one of the Nobles who gave their Assent to that Prince's founding the Priory of
Scoon
for
Augustine Monks
Chartulary of Scoon, in the Custody of the Viscount of Stormont.
, which is all I have discovered of him.
The next in order of Succession of this illustrious House is
Morgund Comes,
Earl of
Mar,
who is one of the Witnesses to that Deed which King
David
made to the
Monks
of
Dumfermling,
of the Lands of
Balchristan
Chartul. of Dumfermling, This Morgund Comes is also a Witness to the Mortification which King Malcolm made of the Lands of Inchmalder to that Convent pro anima Regis i avidis avi sui.
, for the health of his Soul. This Earl imitated the Piety of the King in his Liberality to the Church; for he gave
Deo & Ecclesiae Sancti
Andreae
& Canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus & servituris Ecclesiam sancti Mathulnoth de Thartulend, cum decimis & oblationibus eidem Ecclesiae pertinentibus cum Molendino in eadem terra sundato, & unam carrucatam terrae quae dicitur Gochilstoun, pro salute animae suae, & Agnetis Comitissae sponsae meae omnium antecessorum & successorum meorum in perpetuum
Chartulary of the Priory of St. Andrew's, in the Hands of Mr. Samuel Semple Minister of the Gospel at Libertoun.
. By the said
Agnes
his Wife he had three Sons,
Gilchrist
and
Duncan,
successively Earls of
Mar.
&
Malcolm
who ratified and confirmed the Grant of the Church of
Mulnoth,
to the Priory of St.
Andrew
's
Charta in Biblioth. jurid.
din.
. In which Deed he's designed
Malcolmus filius Morgundi Comitis de
Mar.
Gilchrist
Earl of
Mar
made a considerable Figure in the time of King
William,
he is a frequent Witness in the Deeds of that Prince to the Episcopal See of
Murray,
to which he was himself a Benefactor by his Gift of the Church of
Aberdour,
which had been formerly in dispute between him and
Brice
Bishop of
Murray,
they both making over their respective Claims to the
Monks
of
Dumfermling
at the King's special Instance
Charta in Bibliotheca Juridica. Chart. of Dumfermling. This Earl Gilchrist is much earlier found mentioned than Earl Duncan, which makes me think he was the elder of the Brothers, as will, by the Authorities here cited, appear.
. He dying without Issue.
Duncan
his Brother fell to be Earl of
Mar,
of whose Munificence to the Church there is this Memorial,
viz.
that he gave
Deo & Sancta Maria de Minimus, & Keldeis ibidem Deo servientibus Ecclesiam de Lochyl, pro anima Domini sui Willelmi Regis & pro anima
Morgundi Comitis de
Mar
patris sui, &
Agnetis
Comitissae matris suae antecessorum & successorum suorum, & pro salute & prosperitate Domini sui
Alexandri
Regis & omnium suorum, & pro prosperitate sui ipsius, & uxoris suae &
mnium Heredum
Register of the Priory of St. Andrews.
. This
Duncan
left Issue
William
Earl of
Mar,
who in the 5
th
of King
Alexander
III. was constituted Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland,
in place of
Henry de Baliol
Chartul. of Dumfermling.
. Also in the 1250 he is one of the Peers, who entred into a solemn Agreement with the
Welsh
that
Scotland
shall not make a separate Peace with the
English
without the Consent of that State
Rymer's foedera.
: He was likewise a Benefactor to the Prior and Canons of St.
Andrews,
and ratified the Donations which
Morgund Comes avus suus &
Agnes
Comi tissa avia sua fecerunt dictis Monachis Ecclesiae de Umycht
Register of the Priory of St. Andrews.
decimo Calendas
Februarii M.CCLX.
Donald
Earl of
Mar
his Son
This Donald and Duncan his Brother are both Witnesses, in their Father's Mortification to St. Andrews abovementioned.
, in the 1284 was one of the Nobility who obliged themselves to own and acknowledge
Margaret
the Maiden of
Norway,
as lawful Queen of
Scotland,
in case that King
Alexander
III. her Grand-Father should die without Heirs Male of his Body
Rymer's foedera.
. Upon the Death of that Princess when the grand Competition for the Crown arose, he openly declared for the Right of
Robert de Bruce;
but the contrary Faction prevailing, he was obliged to submit to the Fate of the Nation at that Time, and afterward to take an Oath of Fidelity to the prevailing Power of
Edward
I. of
England,
when he had over-run
Scotland.
This Earl dying in or about the 1294, left Issue, but by whom I have not discovered, a Son
Gratney
his Successor, and a Daughter
Isabel
married to King
Robert Bruce,
by whom he had only one Daughter, the Princess
Marj
ry
Wife of
Walter
Lord High Steward of
Scotland,
Mother by him to King
Robert
II. first of the
Stewartine
Line.
Of
Gratney
Earl of
Mar
History has taken no Notice, save that he married . . . .
Bruce
Daughter to
Robert
Earl of
Carrick
Mr. Andrew Winton's History of Scotland MS. in Biblioth. J
rid.
, and Sister to King
Robert
I. by whom he had
Donald
his Successor, and
Helen
married to Sir
John Montieth
Knight, by whom he had one Daughter
Christian,
married to Sir
Edward Keith,
whose only Daughter and Heir
Janet
was married to
Thomas
Lord
Erskine,
Mother by him to
Robert
Lord
Erskine,
who laid Claim to the half of the Earldom of
Mar
in the Reign of King
James
II.
Donald
Earl of
Mar
made a very considerable Figure in all the Transactions of the Times he lived in; for no sooner did his Uncle King
Robert Bruce
take the Fields in the Year 1306, in order to free his Country from the Yoke of Servitude it was under, than this noble Earl joined with him, and fought stoutly in his behalf, a
the Battle of
Methven,
against the
English,
where he had the hard Fate to be taken Prisoner, and sent to
England,
where he endured a long and tedious Imprisonment, of no less than eight Years, till after the Battle of
Bannockburn,
he was exchanged for another Person of Quality
Anno
1314
Rymer's foedera.
. How, or where he passed the rest of his Life, till the 1331, I cannot take upon me to ascertain, that
Thomas
Earl of
Murray
(Governour of
Scotland
in the Nonage of King
David Bruce
dying,) the Earl was chosen Guardian of that part of
Scotland
that lieth upon the North side of
Forth:
But he did not long enjoy the Honour, for he lost his Life at the Battle of
Duplin,
on the 3
d
of
August
1332
Mackenzie.
, leaving Issue by
Isabel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Alexander Stewart
of
Bonkill,
Sister to
John
Earl of
Angus
History of the Royal Family of Stewart.
,
Thomas
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
William
1
st
Earl of
Douglas,
and again to Sir
John Swinton
I have seen a Charter granted by James Earl of Douglas and Marr, to the Monks of Melross in the 1388, in which this Sir John Swinton is called the Earl's dearest Father.
Knight.
Thomas
Earl of
Mar
in the 29
th
of King
David
II.
Anno
1358 executed the Office of Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland
I have seen a Charter for this in my hands.
. He married first the Heir of the
Montieth
Family
Fordon. Much about this time, I find the Earl granting a Charter, Adae de Strachan & Margaretae Sponsae suae cousanguineae dicti Comitis de una Davata Terrae quae vocatur Glenkindy, still extant in the Laird of Glenkindy's hands, which I have seen.
, and next
Margaret
eldest Daughter and Coheir of
Thomas Stewart
Earl of
Angus,
but dying without Issue in the Year 1379, his Estate and Honour devolved to
Margaret
Countess of
Douglas
his Sister, who convoyed the Honour of
Mar
to
James
Earl of
Douglas
her Son, who being slain at the Battle of
Otterburn
on the 31 of
July
1388, without any Child of his own Body, Lady
Isabel Douglas
his Sister was Heir to him in the Earldom of
Mar.
She married first Sir
Malcolm Drummond
of
Cargil,
who in her Right was entitled Lord of
Mar;
but she being left a Widow by him, without any surviving Children, remarried Sir
Alexander Stewart
eldest Son of
Alexander
Earl of
Buchan,
Brother to King
Robert
III. when she resigned the Earldom of
Mar
and Lordship of
Garioch,
which was vested and seased in her Person, in the hands of King
Robert
III. for new Infeftment to them and the Heirs of the Marriage; failing of which to the Heirs of the said Sir
Alexander Stewart,
bearing Date on the 12
th
of
August
1404
Chart in Rotulis Rob. III.
, whereupon he was stiled Earl of
Mar,
and as such in the 1406 was one of the Ambassadors sent from
Scotland,
to treat with the
English
for the Prorogation of a Peace betwixt the two Crowns
Rymer's foedera.
, which was done accordingly. In the 1411 he commanded the Royal Army at the Battle of
Harlaw,
against
Donald
Earl of
Ross,
and having made a great Slaughter upon the
Highlanders,
effectually secured the Government against the like Attempts for many Years thereafter: But tho he had great Wealth at home, yet he shewed himself so averse to Idleness and Pleasure, that with a gallant Company of his Countrymen Volunteers, he went over to the Low-Countries after the Battle of
Harlaw,
and entred into the Service of the Duke of
Burgundy
Abercromby.
, where he made so fine a Figure in that Country, that after the Death of his first Lady, he gained the Countess of
Holland
in Marriage, and in her Right laid Claim to that Sovereignty. But the
Hollanders
would not submit to the Government of a Foreigner, which obliged him to return to
Scotland
in the Reign of King
Jomes
I. in whose hands he resigned the Earldom of
Mar,
in favours of Sir
Thomas Stewart
his Natural Son
Charta in Rotulis Jac. I.
, reserving his own Liferent; but he dying without Issue, as well as his Father, whom Death overtook in the Year 1436, there arose a Competition betwixt the King and
Robert
Lord
Erskine
about the Earldom of
Mar,
the main Plea for the King was a Right from the last Earl. It was pleaded in behalf of the Lord
Erskine
that his Right was derived from his Ancestors by Proximity of Blood, as nearest Heir of Lady
Isabel Douglas
the last Countess of
Mar.
In the End Judgment was given against his Lordship, in favours of the King, who thereupon possessed himself of the Earldom of
Mar,
and annexed it to the Crown, where it continued till King
James
II. gave it to his Brother
John
then created Earl of
Mar
Charta in publ. Archivis.
: But he dying without Issue, it fell back again to the Crown, where it remained till the 1562, Queen
Mary
erected it into an Earldom, in Favours of
James
Prior of St.
Andrews
her natural Brother, and thereafter restored
John
Lord
Erskine
to be Earl of
Mar
by way of Justice
Anno
1565, in lieu of which the other noble Lord was made Earl of
Murray.
ERSKINE, Earl of
Mar.
ALtho 'tis not above three hundred Years since the
Erskines
had any Title to the Earldom of
Mar,
yet this illustrious Family considered in it self is very great and eminent, if we respect either its Antiquity, or the many great Employments and Perferments they have been honoured with these four Hundred Years past, and tho I cannot show the precise Time when, or by whom the Name was first assumed, yet 'tis certain, it was derived from the Barony of
Erskine
in the Shire of
Renfrew,
and so being a local Sirname, is of Consequence very ancient; tho the first mention I have found of them, is no higher than the Time of King
Alexander
II. in the 12
th
of whose Reign
Henry de Erskine
is Witness in the Gift which
Amelick
Brother of
Maldwin,
Earl of
Lennox,
made to the Chanons of
Paisly
of the Patronage of the Church of
Roseneth,
with the Tithes thereunto belonging, for the welfare of the King his Sovereign Lord
Char. of Paisly ad Annum 12
6.
. Sir
John de Erskine
Knight his Successor is a Witness to that Donation, which
Walter Stewart
Earl of
Montieth
made to the Abbot of
Paisly
of the Church of St.
Colmonel,
for the Good of his Soul, according to the Devotion of those Days
Ibidem ad Annum 1262.
. He was the Father of Sir
John de Erskine,
and he of
William,
who succeeded him in the Barony of
Erskine,
and of
John
who obtained a Grant from
James
High Steward of
Scotland
of sundry Lands within his Tenement of
Largis;
in which Deed he's designed
Joannes de Erskine filius Joannis de Erskine filii & heredis Joannis de Erskine Militis
This Charter I have seen, and it is a noble Document for the Family of Marr, for it distinctly instructs three distinct Generations, and tho it be without Date, yet 'tis certainly before the 1309 that the Granter died, I apprehend it has been about the 1300 from the Witnesses. Viz. Ro. Episc. Glasguen, Reginald. de Crawfurd, Milite Joann, de Erskine, Walter. de Logan, &c.
, reserving the Lands which
William
the Son of Sir
John Erskine,
held of him there.
Sir
William Erskine
the next of this Noble Family, was a forward Asserter of the Right of King
Robert Bruce,
to whose Interest faithfully adhering, he was one of those Patriots, who in the 1322 joined the Earl of
Murray
and Sir
James Douglas,
when they made an Expedition into
England,
where his gallant Behaviour procured him the Honour of Knighthood
Barber and Abercromby.
and other Marks of the royal Favour. He le
t behind him two Sons
Robert
his Successor, and Sir
Alan Erskine
who
ined the Barony of
Inchmartine
in
Perth Shire,
by the marriage of the Heir of Sir
John
of
Inchmartine
Knight, which came the same way to the
Glens,
and so to Sir
Andrew Ogilvy
Ancestor to the Earl of
Finlater
in the Reign of King
James
II.
Which Sir
Robert Erskine
of
Erskine
being a Person well versed both in Peace and War, was no less conspicuous for his firm and stedfast Loyalty to King
David,
than his Father had been to King
Robert,
even when his Interest was at the very lowest, and the Usurper
Baliol
upon the Throne; for as soon as the Loyalists took the Fields, and Declared for their lawful Sovereign, Sir
Robert Erskine
joined the Lord High Steward and other Patriots, who fought with, and defeated the Rebels, and thereby recovered a great part of the Country to the King's Obedience; for which he was afterward rewarded as his singular Merit deserved.
When a Treaty was set on Foot for redeeming King
David
from Captivity, when he was taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Durham Anno
1346, Sir
Robert Erskine
Lord of
Erskine,
as he is called in the Record, was one of the Commissioners employed in that honourable Negotiation
Rymer's foedera.
; but that Treaty not taking effect, he was always one of the Plenipotentiaries that were appointed for the same purpose, and renewed every Year, tho all of them were unsuccessful till the 1357, that
Robert
Lord High Steward, Guardian of
Scotland,
then commissioned Sir
Robert Erskine
and other Noble Persons to treat about the Redemption of the King, and a final Peace with the
English
Nation, who at length agreed, that King
David
should be released, set free, and ransomed for 100000 Merks
Sterling
Money, to be paid Yearly by 10000 Merks, till the whole Sum was paid; to which no Man seems to have contributed more frankly than Sir
Robert,
and gave his eldest Son one of the Hostages for Performance of the Treaty
Rymer.
. This signal Loyalty to his distressed Sovereign could not fail to be nobly rewarded; and therefore his Majesty no sooner returned home, than he constituted him Justiciary for the Northern District of
Scotland Anno
1359
Charta in publ. Archivis.
, and the same Year he was appointed to go upon a solemn Embassy to
France,
to renew the ancient League betwixt the two Crowns, Sir
John Grant
and
Norman Lesly
Esq
being his Colleagues
Rymer's foedera.
. Also in the 1364 he was appointed one of the Commissioners to treat about a final Peace with those named by the King of
England
for the same effect, when a Truce was prorogued betwixt the two Nations
Ibidem.
; not long after which, Sir
Robert Erskine
was constituted Lord High Chamberlain, in place of Mr.
Walter Biggar
Parson of
Errol
Memoirs of the Officers of State MS. penes me.
, in the 40
th
of his Reign, and made High Sheriff of the County, and Governour of the Castle of
Stirling
during Life
Charta. in Rotulis Dav. II.
, likewise of
Edinburgh
and
Dumbartoun.
All which he had under his Command at the Death of the King
Anno
1371
Mr. Winton's History MS.
, when he declared for King
Robert
II. which Contributed not a little to bring that Prince peaceably to the Throne, and to extinguish the hopes of any other Pretender to the Crown. Having done all the Service he could for King
Robert
II. toward his advancement to the Throne, his Majesty did not then forget to dispence his Royal Favours to him, and more particularly he made him a Grant of an Annuity of Forty
Me
ks Sterling
for merly payable to the Crown, out of the Barony of
Cadzow,
which he exchanged with Sir
David Hamilton
for his Lands of
Alands, Barns
and
Barn hill,
within the Barony of
Renfrew
Charta in Rotulis Roberti II.
;
But his Majesty's Bounty did not stop to him here, for soon thereafter he bestowed on him a third part of the Revenue acrescing to the Crown out of the Burrough of
Dundee,
together with a third of the Lands of
Pitcarach
Hadington's Collections from the Registers.
then in the Crown, by the demise of
John Campbel
Earl of
Athole.
He was a great Benefactor to the Church; for to the Cathedral of
Brichen,
he gave an Yearly Rent out of the Barony of
Dundee,
for the support of two Priests, to celebrate Divine Service for the good Estate of himself and his Wife during their Lives, and for the health of his Soul after his Departure hence, and the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors for ever. Also to the Monks of
Cambuskenneth,
he made over his Right of the Patronage of the Church of
Kinnoul,
with the Lands of
Fintalach, pro salubritate status nostri & Christianae
Keith
Sponsae nostrae dum vixerimus, & pro salute Animarum nostrarum, cum ab hac luce migraverimus; nec non pro salute Animarum omnium Antecessorum, & Successorum nostrorum, & omnium fidelium defunctorum
Chartulary of Cambuskenneth belonging to the Earl of Mar.
.
He married first
Beatrix
Daughter of . . .
Lindsay
of . . . . and again
Christian
Relict of Sir
Edward Keith
Charta in publ. Arch.
, and dying
Anno
1385, left Issue, two Sons and a Daughter.
Sir
Thomas
his Successor.
Sir
Nicol Erskine
of
Kinnoul
I find a Charter granted by King David II. to this Nicol Erskine of the Lands of Kinnoul, upon the Resignation of his Father anno 1366,
. Which Branch in the Reign of King
James
II. determined in an Heir Female,
Christian,
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
John Erskine
of
Kinnoul,
married to Sir
Robert Crichton
of
Sanquhar,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Drumfrise.
Marion
married to Sir
Maurice Drummond
of
Concraig
Genealogy of the Drummonds by Major General Drummond.
.
Sir
Thomas Erskine
had a large share of Favour with King
Robert
II. by whom he was raised to the Honour of Knighthood, and in 1384 appointed to go to
England,
upon a solemn Embassy, to treat about the Prorogation of a Truce betwixt the two Realms. He was no less valu'd and esteem'd by
Robert
III. for his Wisdom, Prudence and Experience; for in 1392 that King sent him his Ambassador into
England,
to treat with that State upon Affairs of the highest Consequence
Rymer's foedera.
. 'Tis not unworthy our Remark, that in both the Commissions the King calls Sir
Thomas Erskine Consanguineus noster.
He married first
Janet
Daughter of Sir
Edward Keith
of
Sinton
Knight, by
Christian
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of Sir
John Montieth,
and of
Helen
his Wife, Daughter of
Gratney
Earl of
Mar
Charta penes Comitem de Mar
, by whom he had
Robert
his Successor: And next
Jean
Daughter of . . . .
Barclay
of . . . . By her he had a Son
John,
who was the first Baron of
Dun
Charta in Rotulis Roberti. III. ad annum 1399.
, in
Forfar-Shire,
of whom branched the
Erskine
's of
Pittodry
Charta in Publ. Archivis.
, whose Ancestor Sir
Thomas Erskine
of
Brichen,
was Secretary of State in the Reign of King
James
V.
Robert
Lord of
Erskine
the next of this noble Family, in Imitation of his Ancestors, signalized his Loyalty to King
James
I. when that Prince was a Prisoner in
England,
and as soon as an Attempt was made by the Governour toward effecting his Majesty's Freedom
anno
1421
Rymer's foedera.
,
Robert
Lord of
Erskine
was one of the Commissioners appointed to go to
England,
to ascertain the Faith of the Treaty: And as soon as it was finally concluded in the 1424, he was one of the Hostages sent into
England
for the Security of the Ransom
Mr. Rymer's foedera Angliae, where I find that at this time the yearly Revenue of the Lord Erskine's Estate did then amount to 1000 Merks Sterling Money, which was a very great Sum in those Days
. But the King being unwilling to be deprived of Sir
Robert
's Services, upon the payment of the first Moiety of 2000 Merks, he was by the King of
England
's Order set at Liberty upon the 19
th
of
June
1425
Ibidem.
. Upon the Death of
Alexander
Earl of
Mar anno
1436, he laid Claim to the half of that Earldom, for the Reasons which have been mentioned before; and accordingly was served Heir to
Isabel
Countess of
Mar
his Cousin, before the Sheriff of
Aberdeen,
on the 22
d
of
April
1438
The Writs relating to this, I have seen among Sir John Cuningham's Papers.
, and thereupon assumed the Title of Earl of
Mar
I have seen a Charter granted by him, wherein he's designed Rob. Comes de Mar, Dominus Erskine Patricio Galbraith terrarum de Garscadne data 1444.
. But the Ministry in the Minority of King
James
II. intenting a Process against his Lordship in reference to his Right, and the Case coming to be tried, it continued a long Plea with the Crown, which was not determined in his Days, Death putting a Period to his Life
Anno
1453
Cuningham's Collections
. Leaving Issue by . . . .
Stewart
his Wife, Daughter to the Lord
Lorn, Thomas
his Successor, and a Daughter
Agnes,
married to
Henry Douglas
of
Lochlevin,
Ancestor to the Earl of
M
r
u
.
Which
Thomas
did prosecute his Father's Claim to the Earldom of
Ma
with all the Vigour imaginable, but, having a powerful Party, the King, to deal with, at length a final Sentence was given against him in Parliament, on the 5
th
of
November
1457
Information of the Earl of Mar. anent his Right to the Earldom of Mar.
, which he was obliged to acquiesce in: But notwithstanding the hard Measure he thought he had undergone from the Crown, and which might have been thought would have made him ready to have taken all Occasions of being severe to it, yet he was a Person of so much Honour and Vertue, that in the succeeding Reign of
James
III. when he had a very fair Opportunity to be revenged, yet he no sooner saw the ways of Duty toward the King declined, and his just Power invaded by a strong Party of the Nobility, than out of pure Conscience to serve his Majesty when he was in Distress, he frankly ingaged in his Quarrel, and when the War broke out, accepted a Command in the Army, in which he continued till the very End, that the King was miserably killed in the Field of
Stirling
on the 11
th
of
June
1488, where some Authors, without any just Ground, have asserted that his Lordship had the same Fate with his Master; But that it was not so, evidently appears from several Memorials concerning him, which I have seen after that time
There are several Charters in the Register of Charters granted to him in the Year 1489.
. He married
Janet
Daughter to the Earl of
Morton;
By her he had
Alexander
his Successor, and two Daughters;
Elizabeth
married to Sir
Alexander Seaton
of
Touch
The Viscount of Kingstoun's History of the Family of Seton, MS. penes me.
, and had Issue.
Mary
to
William Livingstoun
of
Kilsyth
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Kilsyth.
and had Issue
Alexander
Lord
Erskine
was Governour of
Dumbartoun
Castle in the 15
th
of King
James
IV. and of the Privy Council to that Prince. He sounded a Chaplainry within the Paroch Church of
Alloa
of his own Patronage,
In honorem sanctae & individuae Trinitatis, Patris, Filii & Spiritus Sancti, Beatae
Mariae
virginis, & Sancti Kentigerni,
to which he mortified a certain Annuity, for the Maintenance of a fit and qualified Person, to celebrate Divine Service at St.
Katharines
Altar,
pro salute animae quondam
Jacobi III.
Regis
Scotorum,
pro prosperitate
Jacobi
moderni Regis, necnon prosalute animae sui ipsius, & animae
Christianae Crichton
quondam sponsae suae, & pro salute
Elenae Hume
sponsae suae modernae, & omnium heredum & successorum suorum
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1497
. By
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Crichton
of
Sanquhar
Genealogy of the House of Erskine MS.
, he had
Robert
a Son, and two Daughters,
Christian
married to
David Stewart
of
Rossyth
Genealogy of the Family of Rossyth from the Writs of that House, MS. penes me.
; and
Agnes
to Sir
William Montieth
of
Carse.
Which
Robert
married
Elizabeth
Daughter of Sir
George Campbel
of
Lowdo
,
Ancestor to the present Earl of that Name, and had Issue,
John
Lord
Erskine, James Erskine
of
Sauchy,
first of that Branch of
Balgony
I have seen a Charter in the publick Rolls to this James Erskine of the Lands of Little Sauchy and Katharine Stirling his Spouse and to their Heirs: They had Issue James Erskine of Balgony, and Mr. William, who got the Parsonage of Campsay upon the Reformation in
Commendam:
he was afterward promoted to the Commendatory of Paisly anno 1579, and after that in 1587 made Titular Bishop of Glasgow, tho all the while he was a Laick: He afterward was Knighted by King James VI. and left a Daughter Janet, married to Sir William Alexander of Menstry, first Earl of Stirling.
,
Katharine
married to
Alexander
Lord
Elphinstoun,
and
Margaret
to
John Halden
of
Gleneagles
Charta in Rotulis Jac. V.
, and had Issue. This Lord accompanying his Soveraign King
James
IV. to the Battle of
Flowdon,
was there slain with the Flower of the Nobility and Gentry, on that memorable Day 9
th September
1513, and was succeeded by
John
his Son, who being a Noble-Man of great Honour and Probity, upon the untimely Death of
James
IV. had the Tuition of the young King,
James
V. committed to him, and
Stirling
Castle being thought the most proper place for his Residence, his Lordship was then made Governor thereof. In that High Trust he approved himself with so much Fidelity, that the King, when he came to Age, highly valued him, insomuch that he sent him upon a solemn Embassy into
France anno
1534, to propose a Match betwixt the King and a Daughter of that Crown; which having performed to his Majesty's Satisfaction
Buchanani Historia Rerum Scoticarum.
, he soon thereafter employed his Lordship in the same Quality to
Henry
VIII. of
England,
to congratulate that King for their joint Prosperity, and to consult with him about a Marriage betwixt his Nephew King
James,
and a Daughter of the Duke of
Vendosme
's, whom the
French
King had offered him, his own Daughter being of a weak and sickly Constitution
Mr. Drummond of Hawthorden's Life of King James V.
, which Office he discharged with Exactness and Fidelity, and was one of those Peers who attended his Master into
France
when he espoused
Magdalene
Daughter of
Francis
I.
anno
1537.
Upon the King's Death in the end of the Year 1542, he had the keeping of the Young Queen
Mary
his Infant Sovereign committed to him in
Stirling
Castle: which great Trust his Lordship discharged with the same Fidelity he had done in her Father's Minority till the 1548, when the Governor and the Three Estates thought fit to order him to carry over his Royal Pupil into
France.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of
Archibald
Earl of
Argyle,
by whom he had
1.
Robert
Master of
Erskine
who was taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Solway anno
1542, for which he was obliged to pay a Ransom of 200
Lib
Rymer's foed. Ang.
. before he obtained his Freedom. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Montrose
I have seen the Contract in my Lord Montrose's Charter Chest.
; But was slain at the Feild of
Pinky September
10
th
1547
Balfour's Annals. There is a Genealogy of the House of Mar that mentions that Robert Mr. of Erskine left a Natural Son Mr. David Erskine who was Commendator of Dryburgh.
, leaving no lawful Children.
2.
Thomas
Master of
Erskine,
who being a Nobleman of great Parts was imployed in several Embassies into
England
Rymer's foedera Angliae.
, whereby he won great Reputation to himself, and served his Country very faithfully. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
F
eeming
Charta penes Comitem de Wigton.
: But was taken away in the Flower of his Age, leaving no lawful Issue behind him
The Genealogy of the House of Mar mentions that Thomas Mr. of Erskine left a Natural Son Mr. Adam Erskine who was Commendator of Cambuskenneth, he with his friend the Commendator of Dryburgh, were two of the Instructors of King James VI.
.
3.
John
who succeeded his Father in the Honour, and was thereafter Earl of
Mar.
4. Sir
Alexander Erskine
of
Gogar,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Kelly.
5.
Arth
r Erskine
of
Blackgrange. Margaret
married to
Robert Douglas
of
Lochlevin,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Mortoun.
Elizabeth
to
Walter Seaton
of
Touch
Charta in publ. Archivis.
, and had Issue.
Janet
to
John Murray
of
Polmais
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
John
Lord
Erskin
was a Person of such noble Nature generous Disposition, and other bright Qualities, as rendred him very capable of acting the Part of a most consummate Statesman, which he did afterward in the highest and most eminent Stations a Subject could attain to. Being at first a younger Brother, his Father judged the best way was to provide for him in the Church, and therefore having given him Education accordingly, he was in due time made Commendator of
Inchmach
mo
in the end of King
James
V's. Reign, no doubt for his better Support in the prosecution of his Studies to qualif
e him for a higher Office in the Church; but both his Brothers dying without Heirs of their Bodies, he was obliged to quit the Character of a Churchman and marry, in order to raise up Heirs to the Family: Which he did, and matched with
Annabella
Daughter of
William Murray
of
Tillibardin,
Paternal Ancestor to the present Duke of
Athole,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, and a Daughter
Margaret
married to
Archibald
Earl of
Angus.
Upon his Accession to the Honour, through the Demise of his Father, tho he was but then a very young Man, he had so fair a Reputation, and was so generally well esteemed, that the Queen Regent thought fit in the 1553,
Dr. Anderson's History of Scotland MS. in Biblioth jurid Edin.
to give his Lordship the Command of the Castle of
Edinburgh,
in which Station he behaved so well, that he preserved himself in the good Opinion of the Queen's Majesty, and the whole Nation.
When Queen
Mary
returned from
France Anno
1561, her Majesty having made Choice of a new Privy Council, my Lord
Erskine
was named one of that Number, in which Station he soon rendred himself very gracious to the Queen, insomuch that she made him a Grant of the Abbey of
Inchmachomoe
and diverse other Church Lands then newly dissolved. His Interest at Court now being very great, he thought it a favourable Opportunity, and a proper Season for him to renew his Claim to the Earldom of
Mar,
and having made good a Title through a long deduced Pedigree from
Gratney
Earl of
Mar,
his Pretensions being supported by the Queen's Countenance, his Claim was allowed and ratified by Act of Parliament: And tho' my Lord
Mar
was a very zealous Protestant, 'tis worthy our Remark, Queen
Mary
trusted him as much as she could have done any of her own Profession, which she did eminently manifest by the Confidence she reposed in him, for as soon as she was happily delivered of the Prince,
James
VI. her Majesty committed him to the Tuition and Custody of the Earl, in the Castle of
Edinburgh,
then under his Command, and he discharged that great Trust so well, and was so much superior to all Tentations of Infidelity that when the Earl of
Bothwell
had married the Queen, he could not prevail with my Lord
Mar,
either by Promises or Menaces, to deliver up the Prince to him, which was the Thing in the World, that wicked Earl had set his Heart most upon, when 'tis known his Lordship could have made his own Terms: In the End, when
Bothwell
found all his Offers rejected, he was glad to allow the Earl to carry the Prince to
Stirling
-Castle, of which he himself was heritable Governor, and then delivered up
Edinburgh
Castle to
Bothwell,
on the 21st of
May,
1566, who immediately plac'd a Creature of his own, Sir
James Balfour,
in it, by which Means, the Earl of
Mar
became, under God, the happy Instrument of the Prince's miraculous Preservation, during his long Minority: However, he still retained great Duty and Affection to the Queen, even after Things came to an Extremity; so it would appear, that nothing but a pure Principle of Conscience for the Preservation of the Heir of the Kingdom, first engaged his Lordship in the Company of those who set the Crown upon the Head of the Prince, when he was an Infant little more than one Year old. When the Civil War began, I do'nt find this generous and prudent Lord much engaged on either Side, for his particular Province being to take Care of his Royal Pupil, he stay'd himself much with him, and as he grew up in Years, gave him a Princely Education, appointing the famous Mr.
Buchannan,
Mr.
Peter Young,
Mr.
David Eriskine,
Commendator of
Cambuskenneth,
and Mr.
Adam Erskine,
Commendator of
Dryburgh,
to be his Instructors, Gentlemen who wanted none of those Qualities which were to be wished to be in the Persons to whom the Education of a great and hopeful Prince was committed, and for framing his Mind and Manners, in his young and tender Years.
My Lord
Mar
bore no publick Office in the State till the 1571, that upon the Death of
Matthew
Earl of
Lennox,
the Regent, the Earl of
Mar,
was a Nobleman so generally well esteemed, that he was, by the unanimous Consent of the King's Party, chosen Regent of
Scotland,
in his Room,
Sept.
5, 1571. In which great Office he had, says one,
Less Satisfaction than he expected, for when he had strugled no less under the turbulent Councils of his own Party, than the Insolencies of his Adversaries, died for very Grief, after he had governed only Thirteen Months, upon the
28
th of
October 1572,
and left behind him so unblemished a Reputation, as cannot be very easily parallel'd in the like Circumstances:
He was interr'd in the Vault of his Family, among his Ancestors, in the Paroch Church of
Alloa,
under a plain Monument, without any other Inscription, than signifying him to be the Person there interr'd.
To
John
Earl of
Mar
succeeded
John
his Son, then under Age, of whom I have found little memorable, till the 1582, his Lordship being then very young, he was induced to join with others of the discontented Nobility, who seized on the King at
Ruthven
-Castle, and petition'd his Majesty, that he would remove Sir
James Stewart,
who then stiled himself Earl of
Arran,
from his Councils, being a Person of evil Fame, and Disaffection to the publick Peace of the Kingdom, and an Instrument of Discontent between the King and his Nobility: But the Way and Manner of that Enterprize being afterwards adjudged treasonable, the Earl was obliged to give up the Command of
Stirling
-Castle, and to leave his Majesty's Dominions, which he did, and transporting himself into
Ireland,
from whence he came over to
England,
and joined the the Lord
Hamiltoun,
and others who had been outlaw'd during the Regency of the Earl of
Mortoun,
with whom he returned to
Scotland Anno
1585, when he obtained his Majesty's Pardon, was restored to his Command of
Stirling
-Castle, and to a more than ordinary Share of his Majesty's Favour, which his Lordship never afterward forfaulted by any undutiful Behaviour.
In the 1593, when it pleased God to bless his Majesty with a Son, Prince
Henry,
the King reposing full Confidence in his Lordship's Fidelity, committed the Tuition of his Royal Highness to him, and his Majesty was at the same Time pleased to write with his own Hand the following Letter to his Lordship.
My Lord of
Mar,
BEcause in the Security of my Son, consisteth my Security, I have concredited to you the Charge of his Keeping, upon the Trust I have in your Honesty. This I command you out of my own Mouth, being in the Company of those I like, otherwise from any Charge that can come from me, you shall not deliver him; and in Case God call me at any Time, see that neither for the Queen, nor Estates, their Pleasure, you deliver him, till he be Eighteen Years of Age, and then he command you himself.
How the Earl discharged this great Trust, will best appear from the Exoneration which his Majesty gave him, under the Great Seal, when his Lordship carried the Prince to
London,
upon his Father's Accession to the
English
Crown, a Copy of which I shall here insert.
JAMES,
by the Grace of GOD, King of
Great-Britain, France,
and
Ireland, &c.
Whereas it is not unknown, that upon just and necessary Considerations, we did commit in the Year of our Lord
1596,
the Custody of the Prince our Son, to our Right Trusty and wellbeloved Cousin and Councellor, the Earl of
Mar,
as well in Regard of our Security, which consisteth in his Security, as in Respect there was none more fit to take that Charge than the Earl, of whose Sincerity in Religion, Affection and Fidelity to our Person, to our State, together with his Discretion and Judgment, we have had so good Experience, having now otherwise resolved to dispose of him, and considering how just and necessary it is for us to give as ample a Discharge to our Cusin, the Earl of
Mar,
as may be. We do therefore first declare to all Persons whatsoever, by these Presents, That we have very great Cause most graciously to allow of that great Care which he hath shewed in providing for his vertuous Education. Next, That he hath observed our Directions for his Delivery. And lastly, That he hath been received in so good State of Health and Constitution of Body and Mind, that we have Occasion not only to take Comfort in God's Favour thereby, so confirmed to us, but do now testifie and declare by Vertue of these present Letters, that we do discharge, acquit, and exonerate against us, our Heirs, and Successors, our said Cousin, the Earl of
Mar,
concerning the Education and Delivery of our Son, as foresaid, and do hereby notifie to the World, that we have received full and intire Satisfaction, answerable to the Trust reposed in him, and are resolved to lay it up in Memory, as a Record of his constant Love and Duty towards us, and
taking ourselves bound on the Honour and Gratitude of a Prince, not only to give him Acquittance, but to reward him in Time coming, for so great and memorable a Service.
28 June 1603.
Neither are we to forget, That in the 1601, his Majesty sent him Ambassador to Queen
Elizabeth,
to congratulate that Princess, upon her suppressing the audacious Attempt of the Earl of
Essex:
In which Negotiation, his Lordship deported himself with such Prudence and Conduct, that he brought the Principals of the
English
Ministry to favour his Majesty's Succession to that Crown, which took Effect in less than Two Years there after; which, upon another Occasion, his Majesty did very gratefully acknowledge, and own,
that next to the Goodness of God, he ascrib
d to the Earl of
Mar
's last Negotiation in that Kingdom, his peaceab
e Accession to the Crown of
England.
His Majesty, upon his Accession to the Crown of
England,
did not forget to dispense his Royal Favours to his Lordship: More particularly, he began with conferring the Garter upon him, the Ensigns of which he was invested with on St.
George
's Day,
April
23d, 1603, and shortly thereafter caused him to be sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council of
England,
and made him a Grant of sundry Abbacies and other Church-Lands then dissolved from the Crown. But his Majesty being still more and more desirous to confer greater Honours on his Lordship, was graciously pleased to constitute him Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
upon the Removal of Sir
Robert Ker,
Earl of
Somerset,
and had the White-Staff delivered to him, on the 2d of
December
1615, in which Office he demean'd himself so well, that he did his Master much Service, and preserved himself in the good Opinion and Acceptation of the whole Nation; and he had the Treasury so full at the King's coming down to
Scotland,
in 1617, that the Court were entertain'd with the greatest Magnificence imaginable, out of the Profits of the Crown, and it was observed by the
English
Nobility, who attended the King in that Progress, that his Majesty appear'd with no less Lusture at
Holy-Rood-House
than at
Whitehall.
He continu'd in the Treasurer's Place till the 1630, his Lordship being grown aged and infirm, he resigned the Office, which was immediately put into the Hands of the Earl of
Mortoun,
and declining to be put into any other publick Employment, he retired to his Seat in the Country, where Death put a Period to his Days, on the 16th of
December,
1635, aged 79.
He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
David,
Lord
Drummond,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir: Next, the Lady
Mary Stewart,
Daughter of
Esmae,
Duke of
Lennox,
by whom he had a numerous Issue,
viz.
1. Sir
James Erskine,
who, in Right of
Christian,
his Wife, Daughter and sole Heir of
Robert Douglas,
Earl of
Buchan,
came to enjoy that Honour, the King bestowing the Title
de novo
upon him and his Heirs-Male.
2.
Henry,
Commendator of
Dryburgh,
Lord
Cardross,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Buchan.
3. Sir
Alexander Erskine,
Commendator of
Cambuskenneth,
and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in the Reign of K.
Ch.
I.
4. Sir
Charles Erskine
of
Alva.
5. Sir
John Erskine
of
Otterstoun.
6. Sir
Arthur Erskine
of
Scots-craig.
7.
William Erskine,
Esq
Lady
Mary,
Eldest Daughter, married to
William,
Earl
Marishal;
and next, to
Patrick,
first Earl of
Panmure.
Lady
Margaret,
to
John,
Earl of
Rothes.
Lady
Martha,
to
John,
Earl of
Kinghorn.
Lady
Catharine,
to
John,
Earl of
Haddingtoun.
John,
Earl of
Mar,
was made One of the Knights of the
Bath,
at the Creation of
Henry,
Prince of
Wales,
on the 30th of
May,
1610, and thereafter,
July
20th, 1615, he was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council, and named One of the Senators of the College of Justice: Which Station he prudently and faithfully discharged till the 1626, his Lordship was removed upon a general Statute That no Peer could be an Ordinary Lord of the Session. Whether it was this or any other Act of Unkindness he met with from the Court, I cannot say, but 'tis certain, upon the first Appearance of the Troubles in 1638, his Lordship being then Governor of
Edinburgh
-Castle, his Majesty did not seem to be absolutely satisfied of the Affection of the Earl to his Service, and therefore removed him from that Command, and put the Castle into the Hands of Major General Ruthven, as a Person on whom he could firmly rely, and yet his Majesty was willing that his Lordship's Remove might not be attended with any Act of Disobligation, and therefore gave him 3000
lib.
which the Marquis of
Hamiltoun
gave Security for. When the Civil War broke out, he apply'd himself with great Resolution and Fidelity to the King's Service, and therefore was reckon'd among the first Rank of Malignants, and suffer'd accordingly.
He married
Jean,
Daughter of
Francis,
Earl of
Errol,
by whom he had
John,
his Successor in the Honour, and a Daughter,
Elizabeth,
married to
Archibald,
Lord
Napier;
and departing this Life in the 1654, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who, during the whole Course of the Civil War, most eminently signaliz'd his Loyalty to King
Charles
I. He was one of the Peers who joy'nd the Marquis of
Montrose
at the Battle of
Philiphaugh;
after which he had the General's Leave to capitulate, which he did upon no other Terms, than laying down his Arms, and living quietly at his own House, retaining always his Affection and Fidelity to the Crown, to his dying Day.
He married first,
Mary,
Daughter of
Walter,
Earl of
Bucleugh;
and again,
Mary,
Daughter of
George,
Earl of
Seaforth.
By her he had
Charles,
his Son and Heir, likewise Three Daughters.
Barbara,
married to
James,
Marquis of
Douglas.
Mary,
to
John,
Earl of
Glencairn.
Sophia,
to
Alexander,
Lord
Pitsligo.
Charles,
Earl of
Mar,
his Son, was one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to King
Charles
II. and King
James
VII. During whose Reign he was Colonel of a Regiment of Foot. He died in the Flower of his Age,
April
23. 1689, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
George,
Earl of
Panmure,
1.
John
his Son and Heir.
2.
James Erskine
of
Grange,
whose Parts in the Profession of the Law, being very conspicuous, was by the special Favour of her Majesty Queen
Anne,
promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in 1706, and thereafter made Justice-Clerk. Of whose real Worth and Merit, every one that knows him, can say a great Deal, and all I can mention in this Place, would be too little.
3. Colonel
Henry Erskine,
who was kill'd at the Battle of
Almanza,
in
Spain, Anno
1707, to the great Grief of his noble Relations.
4.
Jean,
married to Sir
Hugh Paterson
of
Bannockburn,
Bart.
John.
Earl of
Mar,
being the Heir of a noble and illustrious Family, as soon as he came to Age, her Majesty Queen
Anne
took him into her immediate Care, made him first a Privy-Councellor, gave him the Command of a Regiment of Foot, and made him a Knight of the Order of St.
Andrew,
in the Beginning of her Reign.
In 1705, her Majesty promoted him to be Secretary of State, in the Room of the Marquis of
Annandale;
and the next ensuing Year, his Lordship was named one of the Commissioners to treat of an Union betwixt the Two Nations; which being agreed to by the respective Parliaments of both Kingdoms, his Lordship, throughout the whole Affair, merited so well of the Court, that he had a Pension settled on him, as an Equivalent for his Secretary's Place; which was then suppress'd, and consolidated into the Secretary-Office of
Great-Britain.
In 1708, the Queen named his Lordship of her most honourable Privy Council, and striking in with the Earl of
Oxford,
on the Change of the Ministry, he was in 1713, prefer'd to be Third Secretary of
Great-Britain,
which had been vacant from the Death of the Duke of
Queensberry;
in which eminent Station his Lordship continued till after the Death of his Mistriss, the Queen. Upon the Arrival of King
George
in
Britain,
his Majesty was pleased to acquaint the Earl a few Days thereafter, that he had no longer Occasion for his Service, in the Quality of Secretary of State; to which his Grace the Duke of
Montrose
was preferred on the 24th of
September,
1714.
He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Thomas,
Earl of
Kinoul,
All the original Writs mentioned, on which the foregoing Account of the Family of Mar is supported, are taken from the Writs of the Family, the publick Registers, Spotiswood's History, and Rymer's foedera Angliae.
by whom he had only one Son
John,
Lord
Erskine.
Secondly,
Frances Pierpont,
Daughter of
Evelyn,
Marquis of
Dorchester,
by whom he had one Daughter,
Lady
Frances Erskine,
an Infant.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Azure,
a Bend betwixt Six Cross-Croslets,
Or,
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Pale
Sable
supported on the Dexter by a Lyon,
Gules,
and on the Sinister with a Griffin Proper. Crest, a savage Hand, holding a Cutless,
Register of the Lyon's Office.
Motto,
Je Pense plus.
DUNBAR. Earl of
March.
GOspatrick,
Son of
Gospatrick,
Earl of
Northamberland,
being deprived of his Estate by
William
the Conqueror,
Kennet's Pariochial Antiquities.
fled to
Scotland,
where King
Malcom
III gave him the Territory of
Dunbar,
and the adjacent Lands in
Lothian,
Mr. David Simpson's Account of the Earls of Dunbar and March.
of great Value and Extent.
Gospatrick
his Son, was created Earl of
Dunbar
by King
David
I.
Anno
1130,
Ibidem.
he's designed
Gospatrick Comes,
without any local Appellation, in a Deed which he made to the Religious of
Kelso,
of the Churches of
H
me, Lamden,
and
Greenlaw,
Register of Kelso.
and dying
anno
1147, was succeeded by
Gospatrick
who was a great Benefactor to the Church, as his Donations to the Abbeys of
Kelso
and
Caldstream
do manifest
Symson.
; who giving Way to Fate in 1167,
Cron. de Melross.
left a Son,
Waldav
,
the next Earl of
Dunbar,
of whom History is altogether silent, save that following the Example of other great Men, he gave great Donations to religious Persons and Places. He died
anno
1182,
Ibidem.
leaving
Patrick
his Son and Heir, a Man famous for warlike Exploits, in his Time. He married
Adda,
natural Daughter to King
William,
and dying in 1232
Cron. de Melross.
left Two Sons
Patrick,
and
William,
who assuming his Surname fom his Patrimonial Lands of
Hume
in
Berwick
-Shire
Chat. of Kelso.
, was the Ancestor of the Earl of
Hume,
and the other Branches of that illustrious Family.
Patrick,
Earl of
Dunbar,
his Son, died in an Expedition to the Holy-Land,
anno
1248,
Cron. de Melross.
leaving a Son,
Patrick,
Earl of
March
and
Dunbar,
who by
Christian de B
uce,
his Wife, had
Patrick,
Earl of
Dunbar
and
March,
his Son, who in 1291; upon the Demise of Queen
Margaret,
laid Claim to the Crown of this Realm, as deriving a Title from King
William
Rymer's Foedera.
but the Right of Succession being adjudged to
John B
liol,
he did not peaceably acquiesce as the other Competitors did, but kept up his Pretensions till Death took him away in 1294, leaving Issue by
Cicilia
his Wife, Daughter of
John de Wer
Symson.
.
Patrick,
the Succeeding Earl, who was most loyal and faithful to King
Robert
I. He died in the 1315
Ibidem.
.
Patrick
his Son, was his Successor in the Earldom and Honour, who in 1332, was chosen Governor of
Scotland
besouth the River of
Forth,
upon the Death of
Thomas
Earl of
Murray,
in the Minority of King
David
II. and he discharged the Trust reposed in him with great Wisdom and Fidelity.
Patrick,
Earl of
March,
his Son and Successor, had a very considerable Share in all the Transactions of that Time, in which he made a very great Figure. He married
Agnes Randolph,
Daughter of
Thomas,
Earl of
Murray,
Sister, and at Length sole Heir of
John,
Earl of
Murray,
by whom he had
George,
Earl of
March,
and Earl of
Murray,
in Right of his Wife, also several Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
William,
Earl of
Douglas.
Agnes
to Sir
James Douglas,
Lord of
Dalkeith;
Charta penes me.
Elizabeth,
to
John Maitland
of
Leidingtoun.
Which
George
was Warden of the Marches toward
England,
in the Time of King
Robert
II.
Anno
1380, when the War broke out with
England,
in that Reign, the Earl, with a strong Body of Horse and Foot, enter'd
England,
burnt
Penreith,
plunder'd the Country, took and demolished the Fortresses of
Werk, Ford
and
Cornwall;
but after all these great and loyal Services to his Prince and Country, he revolted to the
English,
in the Time of
Robert
III. the Occasion of which is thus delivered by our Historians.
The King, in Consideration of a great Sum of Money, say they, a Part of which he actually received, had contracted his eldest Son, the Prince, to
Elizabeth Dunbar,
the Earl of
March
's Daughter: But
Archbald,
Earl of
Douglas,
having endeavoured all he could to obstruct the Marriage, and having great Interest with the King at the Time, prevailed with his Majesty to rescind the former Contract, and to substitute the Lady
Marjory Douglas,
his own Daughter, in Place of
Elizabeth Dunbar.
The Earl of
March
's high Spirit being unable to bear so signal Affront, he therefore committed the Care of his Castle of
Dunbar
to Sir
Robert Maitland
of
Leidingtoun,
his Nephew, renounced his Allegiance to the Crown of
Scotland,
and withdrew into
England
with 100 Horse in his Retinue. When he was there, he entered into a close Friendship with Sir
Henry Piercy,
and some other Borderers, with whom he continually harassed the Borders of his native Country, making a great Havock wherever he came, especially upon the
Douglas
's Lands, for which his Estate was forfaulted. But afterward he sued for Pardon to the Duke of
Albany,
then Governor, which having obtained, he returned to
Scotland,
where he pass'd the Remainder of his Life in great Concord with his Neighbours, and faithful Subjection to the Crown till his Death, which happen'd
Anno
1416,
Mr. Baillie of Castlecarry's Historical Collections.
leaving Issue by
Christian
his Wife,
George
his Son and Heir,
John
Earl of
Murray,
Sir
Gavin Dunbar,
Kt. and Sir
Patrick Dunbar
of
Beill.
George,
Earl of
March,
his Son, was one of those noble Persons employ'd to treat with the
English, Anno
1423, about the Relief of King
James
I. which at last was successful, and happily terminated in the King's Redemption,
Rymer's Foedera.
at the Solemnity of whose Coronation he had the Honour of Knighthood among other Noblemen conferr
d on him: But afterward the King calling to Mind the long and obstinate Rebellion of the Earl's Father against his Father, committed him Prisoner to
Edinburgh
-Castle, and gave Orders to seize his Castle of
Dunbar:
And to shew, that he meant to do nothing contrary to Law, he appointed a Parliament to meet at
Perth,
the 10th of
January
1434. The next Day, both the King as Pursuer, and the Earl, stiled Sir
George Dunbar,
as Defendant, compeared by their Procurators. They for the Earl, pled, That his Father had been pardon'd by the Duke of
Albany,
the supreme Magistrate for the Time; but the Advocates for the King replied, That the Power of restoring Exiles was never lodged in the Person of a Governor. In the End, after a long Debate, the Parliament found and declared,
Quod Ratione forisfacturae Domini
Georgii
de
Dunbar,
quondam Comitis
Marchiae
& Domini de
Dunbar,
mne jus tam, proprietatis quam possessionis, omnium & singularum terrarum Comitatus
Marchiae,
& Dominii de
Dunbar,
aliarumque terrarum quae de Domino nostro Rege tenuit in capite, cum omnibus & singulis suis pertinentiis, fu
sse, spectasse, & pertinuisse; ac esse, spectare, & pertinere, debere, tam in possessorio quam in Petitorto, ad Dominum nostrum Regem.d
Yet such was the King's Bounty towards the poor Earl, that commiserating his low Condition, his Majesty was graciously pleased to give him a Pension out of the Earldom of
Buchan,
which supported him according to his Quality, during his Life.
The Earldom of
March
being thus annexed to the Crown, it therein remained till the 1478, King
James
III. gave it to his Brother
Alexander,
Duke of
Albany;
which he having for faulted by his unnatural Rebellion, it was again unite in the Crown, where it continued till King
James
VI. revived the Title, and bestowed it upon his Uncle, the Bishop of
Cathness,
in Liew of the Earldom of
Lennox.
Acts of Parliament.
Robert Stewart, Earl of
March,
WAS the second Son of
John,
Earl of
Lennox,
by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
John,
Earl of
Athole;
who being educated suitable to his noble Birth, with a View to the Service of the Church, the first Step he made into it, was to be Provost of the Collegiat-Church of
Dunbartoun,
and after that he was preferr'd to the Episcopal See of
Cathness, Anno
1542, but while he wasonly Elect, taking Part with his Brother the Earl of
Lennox,
against the Earl of
Arran,
the Governor in Queen
Mary
's Minority, he was deprived of his Bishoprick, and lived in Exile upwards of 20 Years, till the 1563, he was again restored, at least to the Profits of the See; and complying with the Reformation of Religion, he had for his Share of the Riches of the Church, the Priory of St.
Andrews
given him from the Crown. In the 1576, the Honour of Earl of
Lennox
devolved on him by the Death of
Charles
Earl of
Lennox,
his Nephew, but having no Male Issue of his Body, he resigned the Honour to his great-Nephew
Es
ae,
Lord
d' Aubigny,
and in Place thereof was made Earl of
March,
in the 1579, after which he liv'd privately at St.
Andrews,
where he spent his old Age in a studious and retired Manner, happily free from any Faction, till the 29th of
March
1586, Death brought his Life to a Period, in the 70th Year of his Age.
DOUGLAS. Earl of
March.
THE Title of Earl of
March,
lay dormant for the Space of One Hundred and Eleven Years, that it was revived again, in the Person of Lord
William Douglas,
second Son of
William,
first Duke of
Queensberry,
whom King
William
honoured with this Title, by Letters Patent, on the 20th of
April,
1697
Charta in Cancellario S. D. N. R.
.
He married
Jean,
Daughter of
John,
first Marquis of
Twadel,
and departing this Life in
September
1705
Ibidem.
, left Issue
William,
the present Earl, and a younger Brother, Mr.
Douglas,
a Youth.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th, the quarter'd Coat of the Family of
Queensberry,
2d and 3d
Gules,
a Lyon rampant
Argent,
within a Border charged with Eight Roses of the first. The Coat of the
Dunbars,
Earls of
March,
supported on the Dexter with a Horse winged
Argent,
and on the Sinister with a Lyon Rampant,
Gules.
Crest, a Hart-winged, ensign'd with an Imperial Crown, issuing out of a Ducal-Coronet. Motto,
Forward.
HUME. Earl of
Marchmont.
SUrnames given for Difference of Families, and continued as hereditary, were used by no People antiently but the
Romans.
This Custom, the Learned observe, they took up after the League with the
Sabines,
and call'd such Names
Nomina,
or
Nomina Gentilitia.
The
English
and we call them Surnames, not as if they were the Name of the Sire or Father, but because they are superadded to the Christian Name. The
Hebrews,
to keep up the Memory of their Tribe, in their Genealogies, instead of Surnames, us'd the Name of the Father, with
Ben, i. e.
Son, as
Melchi Ben Addi.
The old
Britons
us'd
Ap
in the same Sense, as
Oven Ap Harry;
and our Ancestors made Use of
Mac
to the same Purpose as
Donald MacDonald,
and so on. About the Year of our Lord 1000, Surnames began to be taken up in
France;
in
England
about the Time of the Conquest, and with us in
Scotland,
not before the Time of King
Malcolm Kanmore.
And I have observed, at first Surnames were only us'd by the better Sort, and that they were not fully settled among the common People till about the Time of King
Robert
I.
The most ancient Surnames are local, with
de
before them, as
Patrick de Dunbar, Archibaldus de Douglas, Will
elmus de Hume, Reginaldus de Crawford, Patricius de Polworth,
Many curious and judicious Remarks have been made by Patrick the first Earl of Marchmont, in an Essay by his Lordship on Surnames in Mr. Collier's Dictionary, wherein is interspers'd an unusual Variety of useful and curious Observations worthy so noble and celebrated an Author, and which the Reader will find to be very diverting as well as instructing; and in both Respects highly deserving his diligent Perusal.
having been either the patrimonial Possessions or Birth-Places of great Persons. In
Scotland
infinite Numbers of Families have had their Surnames from Places; for it is a sufficient Proof, says Mr.
Camden, of antient Descent, when the Inhabitant hath the Name from the Place he inhabiteth.
According to this Custom, the Proprietors of the Barony of
Polwarth,
in the County of
Berwick,
assumed a Surname from their own Lands when local Appellations were first assumed, tho' I have not found any Mention of them sooner than the Time of King
Alexander
II. in the End of whose Reign,
Adam de Polworth de Polworth,
Kt. had the Lands of
Beeth
given him from Sir
Alexander Seato
n
of
Wintoun,
in frank Marriage wi
h
Eva
his Sister, as the Deed yet extant doth confirm
Chartul. of Dunfermling in Biblioth. Jurid. Edin.
. He left Issue
Patrick
his Successor in the Barony of
Polwarth,
and
Adam,
who by a solemn Deed made over
Domino
David
de
Gram
cognato suo, totum tenementum illud quod frater suus
Patricius
de
Polworth
dedit sibi in foeudo de
Dunipace,
in excamb
um quatuor accrarum terrae in foeudo de
Wedderly
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose. In the Deed this Adam designs himself, Filius Adae de Polworth.
. From this Time the Family of
Polwarth
continued in the direct male Line till the Reign of King
Robert
II. that Sir
Patrick de Polwarth,
Kt. having no Heir male of his Body, married his only Daughter
Elizabeth
to Sir
John Sinclair
of
Herdmanstoun,
Kt. the Heir of a very ancient and nobly ally'd Family of the
Sinclairs,
in whose Favours he resigned his Lands and Barony of
Polwarth,
on the 12th of
November
1377
Charta penes Comitem d
Marchmont. The first Ancestor of the Sinclairs of Herdmanstoun in Lothian, as appears from the Writs of that Family, was Henry de Sancto Claro, who got the Lands of Herdmanstoun from Richard Morvile, Constable of Scotland, before the Year 1162, whose Successor was Sir William Sinclair, who by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of Sir William Sinclair of Rossin, Sister to Henry, first Earl of Orkney, had Sir John his Son and Heir, who married
Elizabeth,
Daughter and Heir of Sir Patrick de Polwarth of that Ilk.
. By her he had Sir
William Sinc
air
of
Herdmanstoun
and
Polwarth
his Son and Heir, Father of another Sir
John Sinclair
of
Herdmanstoun,
whose Son and Heir apparent
John Sinclair
Esq
obtained a Charter from King
James
II. on the 27th of
July,
1444, to himself and
Catharine Hume
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Thomas Hume
of that Ilk, of the Barony of
Polwarth,
and to their Heirs: But he dying without Male Issue, the Barony of
Herdmanstoun,
by Reason of an Entail to Heirs Male, fell to Sir
William Sinclair
his Brother, and
Polwarth
and
Kimmergham
to his Two Daughters,
Marion
the elder marrying Sir
George Hume
of
Wedderburn,
and
Margaret
the Younger
Patrick Hume,
Esq
Son of Sir
David Hume,
first Baron of
Wedderburn,
younger Son of Sir
Thomas Hume
of that Ilk. With her he got the Barony of
Polwarth,
and thereupon
ok
a Cross ingrail'd,
Azure,
the Coat of
Sinclair,
and three Piles ingrail'd
Gules,
in a Field,
Argent,
the Arms of Polwarth of Polwarth.
Both which he quarter'd with his own Paternal Arms.
This Sir
Patrick Hume
being a warlike Man, gave many signal Proofs of his Valour, on several Occasions; more particularly he signaliz'd himself at the Siege of
Roxburgh,
where King
James
II. was
ain and in most of the other Actions betwixt the
Scots
and the
English
in his Time. By the foresaid
Margaret Sinclair
his Wife, he had
Patrick
his Son and Heir, who inherited his Father's Valour and martial Qualities, as well as his Fortune. Being a Baron of great Power and Authority on the Borders, the Duke of
Albany,
when he was forming his unnatural Rebellion against his own Brother King
James
III. thought to secure the Laird of
Polwarth
to his Interest, by giving him Lands and other Favours
Charta penes Comitem de Marchmont.
: But the Duke no sooner invaded his native Country by the Assistance of an
English
Army, than he joined the King's Forces, and did his Majesty so notable and eminent Services, that he had the same Lands confirmed to him by a Charter under the Great Seal, wherein his Services i
resisting the
English
Invasion are set forth in very honourable Terms
Charta in Publicis Archivis.
. He made a very great Figure in the Time of King
James
IV. was much in that Prince's Favour, who bestowed upon him many Lands in the Counties of
Stirling
and
Perth,
and at last preferred him to be Comptroler of
Scotland
in the 1499
Ibidem.
, which Office he discharged with singular Ability and Integrity, till the 1502. Being aged, he was removed, and
John Stirling
of
Craigbarnet
put in his Room; and departing this mortal Life
Anno
1504, was interr'd with his Ancestors in the Collegiat-Church of
Dunglass.
He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
John Edmondstoun
of that Ilk
Litera prosapiae D. Alex. Hume fratris germani D. Pat. Hume de Polwarth, militis Baronetti ad annum 1669.
, by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor; Secondly,
Helen,
Daugter of Sir
James Shaw
of
Sauchie
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, Widow of
Archbald Haliburton,
Esq
Son and Heir apparent of
George
Lord
Dirletoun:
By her he had
George,
first of the Line of the
Humes
of
Argathy
in
Stirling
-Shire; likewise four Daughters,
Alison
married to Sir
James Shaw
of
Sauchie
Ibidem.
,
Janet
to Sir
Andrew Kerr
of
Ferni
hirst,
Ancestor to to the present Marquis of
Lothian
Ibidem.
,
Marion
to Sir
William Baillie
of
Lamingtoun,
and
Margaret,
who render'd herself religious, and was Abbess of the Nunnery of
North-Berwick.
Alexander Hume,
3d Baron of
Polworth,
of that Name, by his good Oeconomy and other virtuous Means, very considerably augmented his Fortune, which he made a Fund for the Provision of his younger Sons, and took care to let his paternal Inheritance descend intire to the Heir of his Family. His first Wife was
Margaret,
Daughter to
Robert
Lord
Crichtoun
of
Sanquhar,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Dumfries
Charta in Rot. Jacobi V.
: 2dly, he married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Robert Lawder
of
Bass;
and departing this Life in the End of the 1532, as appears from the Probate of his Testament, he left Issue,
Patrick
his Son and Heir,
Alexander,
of whom sprung the
Humes
of
Heugh, Gavin Hume,
first of the Branch of
Rhodes;
also Three Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
Patrick Hepburn
of
Craig
Charta penes Comitem de Marchmont.
,
Catharine
to
Robert Pringle
of that Ilk, and
Isobel
Abbess of
North-Berwick
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, who was a very bountiful Lady to the Family.
Patrick,
the next of the Family, married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Patrick Hepburn
of
Wauchtoun
Ibidem.
. By her he had Three Sons,
Patrick,
who succeeded him in his Estate, Sir
Alexander Hume
of
North-Berwick,
who was chosen Provost of
Edinburgh, Oct.
2d. 1593
Calderwood's Church-History, M.S.
. which Office he discharged with Prudence and Moderation, insomuch that he became so acceptable to King
James
VI. that his Majesty sent him Ambassador to
England:
In which Negotiation he behaved himself so well, that he has the concurring Testimony of our Historians, of being a wise and prudent Man. Mr.
Adam Hume,
first Protestant Rector of the Church of
Polwarth,
where he exerced his pastoral Function, till Death took him away very aged,
Anno
1596, leaving behind him the Character of a pious and devout Man. Besides these Sons, he had also Two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
John Baillie
of St.
John's-Kirk
Charta penes Comitem de Marchmont, etiam in Pub. Archivis.
, and
Anne
to
French
of . . . .
Thornydike
Ibidem.
, in the County of
Berwick.
Patrick Hume
the next Baron of
Polwarth,
was zealous for the Reformation of Religion. I find he was one of those who in the 1560, entred into a mutual League and Bond of Association to promote the sincere Preaching of the Word, and to defend the Teachers thereof
The Copy of the Bond in my Hands, the Original is in the Custody of the Family of Hamiltoun.
. When the Civil War broke out, he was on the young King's Side, as most of the Professors of the Reform'd Religion were, and was unfortunately slain in a Conflict by a Party who appeared for Queen
Mary,
at
Cairny,
2d
June,
1571
Crawford's Memoirs.
, leaving Issue by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
Alexander Hume
of
Manderstoun,
Ancestor of
George
Earl of
Dumbar,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
in the Reign of K.
James
VI. Sir
Patrick
his Successor;
Alexander
Rector of
L
gr; Gavin,
of whom came the
Humes
of
Johns-Cleugh
in
Berwick
-Shire, Sir
John Hume
of
North-Berwick,
Ancestor of that Branch of
Castle-Hume,
in the County of
Fermanach
in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
where they still continue with Lustre,
David Hume
of
Rowiestoun, George Hume
of
Belyhose, Jean
married to
David Hume
of
Law, Agnes
to . . .
Edmondstoun
of
Woolmet,
and
Margaret
to
Thomas Cranstoun
of
Crosby;
and dying in the Month of
May,
1592
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R. ad Annum 1592.
, was succeeded by
Patrick
his Son and Heir, who was in great Favour with King
James
VI. His said Majesty first preferred him to be Master of his Houshold,
anno
1591, one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber, and Warden of the Marches toward
England,
which Office was suppress'd upon the Union of the Crowns in 1603; and departing this Life the 15th of
June
1609
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1609.
, left Issue by
Juliana
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Thomas Kerr
of
Ferniehirst,
Sister to
Andrew
Lord
Jedburgh,
and to
Robert
Earl of
Somerset,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
the great but unfortunate Favourite of King
James
VI. Sir
Patrick
his Successor,
Thomas Hume
of
Caldstream,
Mr.
George Hume
of
Kimmergham, Elizabeth
married to Sir
John Carmichael
of that Ilk,
Jean
to
Christopher Cockburn
of
Chausley,
and
Sophia
to Mr.
Joseph Johnstoun
of
Hiltoun,
and had Issue.
Which Sir
Patrick
was much respected by King
James
VI. who in 1621, gave him a Pension of 100
lib. Sterling,
and bestowed sundry other Marks of his Royal Favour on him. King
Charles
had also a Value for Sir
Patrick,
and made him a Knight Bart. soon after the first Institution of that Order in the 1625. He married
Christian,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Hamilton
of
Innerweek,
by whom he has
Patrick,
first Earl of
Marchmont, Alexander Hume,
Esq
a Gentleman of great Parts of Learning, who betaking himself to the Profession of Arms, attained in few Years to the Degree of a Colonel, but was taken away by Death in the Prime of his Days, much lamented, and the more that he left no Issue to be remembred by; also Two Daughters,
Juliana,
married to
Richard Newtoun
of that Ilk,
in Vicecom. de Berwick;
and
Anne
to
Alexander Hume
Esq
Son of
John Hume
of
Manderstoun;
and dying in
April
1648, was succeeded by
Sir
Patrick
his Son and Heir, who was born on the 13th of
January
1641: Being young at his Father's Death, his Mother, a Lady eminent in all Vertue, took great Care of his Education under the best Masters, and he made such Proficiency in all the Parts of Learning that were proper for a Gentleman, that he fully answered what could be expected from the most eminent Instructers.
In the 1665, he was chosen Knight of the Shire for the County of
Berwick
to the Parliament, wherein he serv'd with distinguishing Zeal for the Liberties of his Country, and upon every Occasion oppos'd and contradicted all Taxes and Impositions on the Subject, that were not exactly according to Law.
In 1676, the Privy Council having arbitrarily imposed a Tax upon the Shire of
Berwick,
that was not altogether legal, Sir
Patrick Hume
was chosen to remonstrate against it, and to apply to the Lords of Session for Redress in the ordinary Course of Justice; which was so highly resented by the Council, as an Act of Insolence, and a Contempt of their Authority, that he was ordered to crave Pardon in the most submissive Manner, and to submit to their Sentence: But S
Patrick
insisting on the Legali
of what he had done, and absol
ely refusing to make any such Compliance for what he thought so solemn an Act of his Duty, his Attendance was continued from Day to Day, to his great Charge & Vexation; & when he could neither be persuaded nor threatned to submit, was at length cast into Prison, in the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh,
where he continued some Time, till he was sent under a strong Guard to
Dumbartoun
-Castle, and from thence to the Castle of
Stirling,
where he underwent an Imprisonment of no less than 13 Months, with all the Circumstances of Severity and Rigour, till at Length, by the Interposition of some of his Relations at Court, particularly the Countess of
Northumberland,
he obtained his Liberty.
After this, Sir
Patrick
went to
England;
but the Malice and Animosity of the chief Ministers of State was so great against him, that assoon as the Court had Notice of his being at
London,
it was resolved he should be apprehended and imprisoned as a Man worthy of their Fear; tho' they could not charge him with any Practices that were not precisely agreeable to the Duty of a good and faithful Subject, but only a Suspicion of his Disaffection to the Government from the Company he haunted, the Principals of whom were the Earl of
Shaftsbury
and the Lord
Russel,
his near Relation. But Sir
Patrick
having got timeous Warning of the Design of the Court, thought it his most advisable Course, to step out of the Way, and travelling beyond Sea he retired to
Geneva,
from whence he came down to
Holland,
where he was received with great Kindness and Generosity by
e Prince of
Orange,
who looked
n him as a Confessor for the Prot
ant Religion, and the Liberties of his Country. Here he sojourn'd
ll the Death of King
Charles
II.
Upon the Duke of
York
's coming to the Throne, Sir
Patrick Hume
having always with more than ordinary Zeal shown himself against a Popish Successor to the Crown, which was the Sourse of all his Troubles, and King
James
having made open Profession of Popery, he joined with the Earl of
Argyle,
and came over with him in the Invasion 1685; but that Attempt being, by the Providence of GOD, overthrown, and the Party dispersed, Sir
Patrick
found Means to conceal himself in
Air
-Shire for Three Weeks, a Report being industriously spread abroad by his Friends, that he was dead, that the Search for him might be discontinued, till a Vessel was provided for him on the
West-Coast,
which in a few Days safely landed him at
Dublin;
but not thinking it safe for him long to continue in
Ireland;
for by this Time he was forfaulted and declared a Rebel, he went over to
Holland,
where he met with the same kind and generous Reception from the Prince of
Orange
as formerly, tho' perhaps not so avowedly: And there he continued to reside till the 1688, he came over with the Prince of
Orange,
in his Expedition to
Britain.
The Prince had so great an Esteem of his Sincerity to the Protestant Religion, and of his Fidelity and Affection to his Highness's Design, that he thought fit particularly to consult with Sir
Patrick
in that difficult Juncture: And when the Government was dissolved, upon King
James
's withdrawing into
France,
Sir
Patrick Hume
was one of the most leading and forward in the Address from
Scotland
to the Prince of
Orange,
to take upon him the Administration of Affairs both Civil and Military, till a Meeting of the Estates should be call'd to settle the Nation; which his Highness having call'd, Sir
Patrick
was chosen a Member thereof for the Shire of
Berwick,
wherein he became very instrumental in bringing about the Revolution, and in procuring the Settling of the Crown on King
William
and Queen
Mary.
Assoon as their Majesties came to constitute a Privy Council, Sir
Patrick
was nam'd a Privy Councellor, and appointed one of the Commissioners to treat of an Union betwixt the Two Nations; and as a farther Mark of their Royal Favour, he was raised to be a Peer of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Polwarth
of
Polwarth,
on the 26th of
December
1690. wherein their Majesties did express their great Esteem of Si
Patrick
's Services and Merit, in the Preamble of his Patent, in these Words,
Quand
quidem nos grato admodum animo recolentes merita egregia & singularia servitia admodum fidelis & praedilecti nostr
Conciliarii Domini
Patricii Hume
de
Polwarth,
Mili
is Baronetti, propter firmam suam Re
ormatae Religioni Adhaesionem, Fidelitatem ipsius insignem ac fidem intemeratam, tum in justis Diadematis & Monarchiae juribus, tum in Legibus & Libertatibus hujus antiqui Regni nostri
Scotiae
conservandis, claram & conspicuam, idque temp
ribus difficillimis & asperrimis; nos
que
itidem perpendentes, quod in nuper a generosa & celeberrima nostra expeditione, pro bac, coeteris
que
Nostris Regnis, a Papismo & Tyrannide liberandis, alacriter Nos a Belgio est concomitatus; quod
que
nobis summa
ide & studio in i
ustrs illo proposito promovendo & per
iciendo inservivit; ut
que
idem Dominus
Patricius
ulterius excitetur ad firmiter & immobiliter persistendum in fidelitate
ua erga Nos, & cura
ssidua ad ministeria nostra praestanda. Noveritis igitur, Nos cre
sse,
&c.
Charta penes Comitem de Marchmonti
.
Here I cannot omit taking Notice, that King
William
was pleased in the very Patent creating his Lordship into the Honour, to assign him an
Orange
proper, ensign'd with an Imperial Crown, to be placed in a
Su
tout,
in his Arms, in all Time coming, as a lasting Mark of his Majesty's Royal Favour to the Family of
Polwarth;
and in Commemoration of his Lordship's great Affection to his said Majesty, a Warrant being directed to the Lord Lyon for that Effect. And that his Lordship might have the more Interest in his own County, and appear the more considerable there, their Majesties King
William
and Queen
Mary,
were pleased to constitute him Sheriff Principal of
Berwick
-Shire, on the 2d of
Octob:
1692. And to aggrandize him more and more, he was named one of the Four Extraordinary Lords of the Session, and took his Place accordingly the 28th of
November
1693,
Charra penes Comitem de Marchmont.
. But these Employments being mostly honorary, that his Lordship might a little more effectually taste of the Royal Bounty, his Majesty was pleased to prefer him to be Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
on the 2d of
May
1660
Ibidem.
, upon the Removal of the Marqui
of
Tweddale;
and the Title of Lord Baron, being thought too low a Degree of Honour for the Lord Chancellor, before his Lordship had continued one whole Year in the Place, his Majesty was pleased to augment his Honours, and therefore advanced him to be an Earl, by the Stile and Title of Earl of
Marchmont,
Viscount of
Blassonberry,
Lord
Polwarth
of
Polwarth, Redbrays
and
Greenlaw,
by Letters Patent, 23d of
April
1697
Ibidem.
, and the next ensuing Year was named High Comissioner to represent his Majesty's Person in Parliament, and was likewise one of the Commissioners both of the Treasury and Admiralty. After which he held the Chancellor's Place above Four Years, with the universal Approbation of the whole Kingdom, and the general Applause of all Men, for his Justice, Integrity, sound Judgment, and eminent Sufficiency in the Discharge of that Office, a Praise which none of his Enemies ever denied him in any Time. And the King his Master was so fully satisfied with his faithful Discharge of that and all the other great Employments committed to him, while he was the first and prime Minister of State, that he was pleased to give him a very ample Approbation of his Services, under the Great Seal,
April
19th, 1700, wherein his Majesty declared,
Quod praefatus Comes, in omnibus muneribus a nobis concreditis,
andore & integritate summa, cum approbatione & satisfactione nostra sese gessit & exoneravit.
In 1702, his Majesty was pleased to appoint the Lord Chancellor to be Commissioner to represent his Royal Person in the Assembly of the Church: But during the Sitting of the Assembly, King
William
died, which did very sensibly affect his Lordship and all the hearty Lovers of the Revolution. His Commission being determined by the Death of the King, her Majesty Queen
Anne,
the very Day she came to the Crown, granted a new Commission to the Lord Chancellor to represent her Royal Person, and hold her Place in the Assembly. In the End of 1702, her Majesty having made some Alterations in the Ministry, the Earl of
March
ont
was removed from being Chancellor, to which Office the Earl of
Seafield
was preferred: But his Remove did not in the least diminish his Lordship's Zeal for what he thought the Interest of his Country, but rather
eightned his publick Spirit; for having always most at Heart the Security of the Protestant Religion, and a Successor to the Crown of that Religion, in the first Parliament after the Queen's coming to the Crown, the Earl was the first who proposed an Overture for settling the Succession to the Crown on the Princess
Sophia,
Dutchess Dowager of
Hanover,
and the Heirs of her Body, being Protestants, in Default of Issue of her Majesty Queen
Anne;
and at the same Time presented another Act for securing and settling the Presbyterian Government in Doctrine and Worship, as being most agreeable to the Word of GOD. But tho' the first Overture did not at that Time take, the Parliament having a View of an Union with
England,
yet the last carried, and was approved by a great Majority: And when the Treaty of Union came before the Parliament, his Lordship there, as well as in the Commission of the General Assembly of the Church, us'd his utmost Endeavours to have it brought about, as the only Means he thought could secure Religion, and establish a firm and lasting Peace betwixt the Two Nations; a Protestant Successor to the Crown being thereby secured, which was the Thing his Lordship long'd most passionately to see before he should leave this World. And when that Settlement took Place by the Accession of King
George
to the Throne, his Majesty was pleased to restore the Earl to be Sheriff of
Berwick
-Shire, on the 16th of
November
1714, in the Room of the Earl of
Hume,
who had been made Sheriff in the End of Queen
Anne
's Reign.
He married
Grisel,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Kerr
of
Cavers,
a Lady adorn'd with all Virtues that enter into the Character of a good Wife; by whom he had
1.
Patrick
Lord
Polwarth,
a young Nobleman of great Honour and Generosity, who in the Parliament 1698, had the Honour to sit and vote as Lord High-Treasurer. He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of Sir
John Hume
of
Hume-Castle,
in the Kingdom of
Ireland;
and again,
Jean,
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Hume,
but died in the Prime of his Years, without any Issue,
Anno
1710.
2.
Alexander,
Lord
Polwarth.
3. Sir
Andrew Hume
of
Kimmergham,
Bart. who being educated a Lawyer, was promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, upon his Brother the Lord
Polwarth
's resigning that Office.
4. Lady
Grisel
married to
George Ba
llie
of
Jerviswood,
and had Issue.
5. Lady
Anne
to Sir
John Hall
of
Dunglass,
Bart.
6. Lady
Julian
to
Charles Billingham,
Esq
and had Issue.
7. Lady
Jean
to
James
Lord
Torphichen.
Alexander
Lord
Polwarth,
being at first a younger Brother, was bred to the Law, in which he made a notable Progress, by an early Eminence in Practice as an Advocate, insomuch that he was preferred to be one of the Lords of the Session in 1704, before he was 30 Years of Age; which Office he discharged with great Abilities and singular Reputation for Learning and Integrity. After the Death of his elder Brother, his Lordship being then the Head and Representative of the Family, resigned his Place in the Session; and upon the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, betook himself to the Court, where he has had Offices and Employments more suited to his Humour and Nature, and to the Character and Dignity of a young Peer.
He married
Margaret,
Daughter and Heir by Entail of Sir
George Campbell
of
Cesnock,
Lord Justice Clerk in the Reign of King
William;
by whom he had
George,
Master of
Polwarth, Hugh,
who being to succeed to the Estate of
Cesnock,
is call'd
Compbell,
and
Alexander;
likewise 3 Daughters, Lady
Anne,
Lady
Grisel,
and Lady
Jean.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th, the quarter'd Coats of the Earl of
Hume.
2d
Argent,
Three Piles conjoining in the Top ingrail'd,
Gules.
3d
Argent,
a Cross ingrail'd,
Azure,
Over all in a Surtout
Argent,
an Orange proper, leased, stalked and slipped,
Vert.
ensign'd with an Imperial Crown, supported by Two Lyons regardant,
Argent.
Crest, a Dexter Hand and Arm issuing out of a Heart,
Gules,
holding a Cymeter. Motto,
True to the End.
Aeneas MacDonald, Lord
MacDonald,
HIS Ancestor was
Celestine de Insulis
of
Lochalsh, Fr
ter carnalis,
as he's design'd, to
John
Earl of
Ross,
in a Charter by the said Earl to him, of many
Highland
Lands in
Inverness
-Shire, and to the Heirs Male to be procreated betwixt him and
Finvola
his Spouse, Daughter of
La
chlan Mac-Lean
of
Dowart
Charta in
blicis Archivis. The Defignation of
Carnalis
will not infer this Celestine to have been a Bastard So
. of Alexander Earl of Ross, for several Reasons, and particularly in a Charter by John Earl of Ross, Hugoni Alexandri de Insulis de Slate. This Celestine de Insulis de Lochalsh the Earl designs
fratri nostr
simply.
. He left a Son,
Alexander,
who is designed
Alexander Celesti
i de Insulis,
who was made a Knight by King
James
IV. whose Son and Successor Sir
Donald MacDonald,
dying without Issue,
Margaret
his Sister and Co-Heir, was married to
Alexander MacDonald
of
Glengary
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, by whom he had
Angus
or
Aeneas
his Son and Heir, Father of
Donald MacDonald
of
Glengary,
who is designed
Donald Mac Angus Mac Alaster,
in a Retour
Margaretae de Insulis Aviae suae
Ibidem, ad Annum 1584.
. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Alexander MacDonald,
Captain of
Clan-Ronald
Probative Quarters of Aeneas Lord MacDonald, M.S. penes me.
, by whom he had a Son,
Alexander,
who by
Jean
his Wife. Daughter of
Allan Cameron
of
Lochiel,
had
Aeneas MacDonald
of
Glengary,
his Son and Heir, who in a most eminent Manner manifested his Loyalty to King
Charles
I. and II. throughout the whole Civil War and Usurpation that follow'd, and living to see a happy End of them, was upon the King's Return, in Commemoration thereof, rais'd to the Honour of Lord
MacDonald
of
Aross
Charta in Pub. Arc
.
, and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever, on the 20th of
September,
1660.
He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Donald MacDonald
of
Slate,
but dying without Issue in 1680, the Honour died with himself, and his Estate devolved to
MacDonald
of
Glengary,
his Heir Male.
KEITH, Earl Marischal,
ACcording to our Historians, this noble ancient Family derives its Origin from a certain brave Man who signaliz'd himself in the Battle of
Barry
against the
Danes,
in the Reign of King
Malcolm
II. where
Camus
the
Danish
General was slain
Hist. Scot.
. His noble Services were rewarded by that Prince with the Barony of
Keith
in
Lothian,
from whence his Posterity took their Surname; and either he or some of the first who descended from him, were dignified with the hereditary Title and Office of Marischal of
Scotland;
for we don't find by our History, or any other Document, that this Office was ever in any other Family, than that of the
Keith's.
In the Reign of King
William,
call'd,
The Lyon, Henry,
the Son of
Philip de Kieth,
was the King's Marischal, as appears from a Deed which he made to the Monks of
Kelso,
of the Patronage of the Church of
Kieth,
in pure and perpetual Alms, for the Health of his Soul
Reg. of Kelso, M S. in Bibleoth. Jurid.
. By
Adda
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
Hugo de Lorens
Ibidem.
, he had
Harveus
his Son, Father of Sir
John Kieth,
Kt. who releas'd to the Convent of
Kelso,
all Right or Title he had to the said Church,
Sicut
says he,
Charta Herveii Marischalli Patris mei testatur
Ibidem.
.
Robert Kieth
his Son confirmed to the Religious of
Kelso
the Deeds of his Ancestors to that Convent, adding moreover, of his own Gift, the Church of
Hundebeth,
with the Lands thereunto belonging,
pro salute animae suae,
whose Son or Successor, another
Robert de Kieth,
upon the Accession of
John Baliol
to the Crown,
Anno
1292, had a Charter from that Prince of his own Lands of
Kieth, Michalstoun, Ellem, Mule net, in liberam warrenam
Dalrymple's Historical Collections.
. But no sooner did that misfortunate Prince unking himself by surrendring the Sovereignty of his Crown to a Foreign Prince, then the Marischal deserted him, and went over to
Robert Bruce,
and contributed his utmost Endeavours to bring that brave Prince to the Throne, who had so gloriously redeemed his Country from Slavery and Usurpation, King
Robert
had a great Value and Esteem of Sir
Robert Kieth,
insomuch as in 1325, he sent him Ambassador together with the E. of
Murray,
to
France,
to treat with that Crown upon very weighty Affairs relating to the Two Nations, which was performed by them with Honour and Conduct
Foedera Scotiae, M S.
. This brave Man had so lively a Sense of Freedom and the Liberty of his Country, that when the
English
attack'd us in both during the Minority of King
David
II. tho' Sir
Robert Kieth
could not, but by this Time be well advanced in Age. yet he was personally ingaged in the Battle of
Duplin,
in Defence of his Country, where he had the Misfortune to lose his Life, the 3d of
August
1332
Hist. Scot. by Mackenzie.
, leaving Two Sons,
Robert
his Successor, and Sir
William Kieth,
Kt. who was slain at the Battle of
Durham,
in the Service of his Country.
Which Sir
Robert Kieth
was conspicuous for his Wisdom, Loyalty, and Valour in the Time of King
David
II. He left a Son Sir
Edward Kieth,
who was slain at the Battle of
Durham, Anno
1346
Abercrombie.
, leaving Issue by
Isobel de Kieth
his Wife, Sir
William,
and
John,
who was the Founder of the House of
Inner
gie,
which Lands he obtained by a Marriage of an Heir Female of the
Chynes
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, whose Arms he thereupon took into his own.
Sir
William Kieth,
Marischal, made a very great Figure under King
David Bruce,
in the 1369, he was appointed one of the Commissioners on the Part of
Scotland,
to treat with the
English
touching a Peace betwixt the Two Realms, which was concluded by them
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. He married
Margaret,
Daughter and Heir of Sir
John Fraser
Charta penes D. P. Fraser de Dores.
, with whom he obtained a vast Estate in the County of
Kincardine
and elsewhere, by her he had
John
his eldest Son, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving Issue by . . . . his Wife, Daughter of King
Robert
II.
Charta in Rotolis Roberti II.
a Son,
Robert,
apparent Heir to his Grandfather
Ibidem.
, But he dying without Male Issue, his Heir Female was married to
Alexander,
first Earl of
Huntly,
and his Estate and Honour fell to
Robert Kieth
his Uncle
Charta in Rotolis Roberti II.
. Sir
William
had likewise Two Daughters,
M
uriella
married to
Bobert,
Duke of
Albany
Ibidem.
, and
Christian
to Sir
William Lindsay
of
Byres
Charta penes me
, Ancestor to the present Earl of
Crawford.
Which Sir
Robert
was in great Favour with King
Robert
III. under whom he held sundry Offices of Honour and Trust, besides his own hereditary Honour, which he discharged with Reputation and Fidelity. He married . . . . Daughter of . . . . By her he had
William
his Heir, and
Elisabeth
married to Sir
Alexander Irvin
of
D
um
Menteth's Theatre of Mortality, Pag. 86.
,
in vicecom. de Aberdeen.
Sir
William Kieth
Marischal was one of the great Men who shew'd themselves most forward for the redeeming and restoring of King
James
I. from his Captivity in
England.
And when the Treaty for his Liberation was happily brought about, Sir
William
gave his Obligation in the strictest Manner, that either he himself o
his eldest Son should be an Hostage for the Ransom
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. By
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
David,
first Earl of
Cranford
Geneal. familiae Kiethorum, M S.
, he had
John,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father,
Sans Issue,
and Sir
William,
who was by the Favour of King
James
II. created Earl Marischal,
anno
1455
Ibidem.
, He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
James,
Lord
Hamiltoun
Ibidem.
. By her he had a Son,
William,
and a Daughter,
Janet,
married to
John L
st,
Grandson and Heir apparent to
George,
first Earl of
Rothes
Charta penes Comitem de Rothes.
, but had no Issue.
Which
William,
Earl Marischal, in the turbulent Times of King
James
III. acted a most wise and prudent Part, and so tempered his Duty to that misfortunate Prince with his Affection to his Country, that he endeavoured by all possible Means to preserve the Honour of the one, and the Interest of the other. He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntly,
by whom he had
Robert
his eldest Son, who was slain at the Battle of
Flowdoun,
9th
September
1513, in the Blossom of his Youth, before his Father, and
William,
of whom came the
Kieths
of
Troup
Charta in Pub. Arch
vis.
; also two Daughters,
Janet
married to
William,
Earl of
Montrose
Charta penes Duc
m de Montrose, ad annum 1516.
, and
Elizabeth
to
William
Lord
Sinclair
Charta in Pub. Archivis, ad annum 152
.
, and had Issue
Robert Kieth,
Esq
Son and Heir apparent of
William
Earl Marischal, in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Beatrix,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mortoun
Ibidem, ad annum 1506.
, by whom he had
William,
who was Heir to his Grandfather, and
Robert
Abbot of
Deer
Letters of State during the Reign of Queen Mary, ad annum 1544, M S. in Bio. Ju
id. Edinb.
, of whom was the Lord
Dingwall,
in the Time of King
James
VI.
Elizabeth
married to
George
Earl of
Huntly
Charta in Pub. Arch.
,
Janet
to
John
Lord
Glames
Ibidem.
,
Agnes
to Sir
Archbald Douglas
of
Glenbervy,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Douglas.
Which
William,
Earl Marischal, was one of the Peers who concurr'd in the Reformation of Religion, tho' I don't find he did otherways meddle in the great Changes that ensued. He married
Elizabeth,
eldest Daughter and Co-Heir of Sir
William Kieth
of
Innerugie
Ibidem.
, by whom he had Two Sons and Seven Daughters.
William
his eldest Son, who married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
George
Ea
l of
Errol
Ibidem ad annum 1553.
, and dying on the 10th of
August
1580
Johnstoni Heroes.
, le
t a Son
George,
who succeeded his Grandfather, likewise Three Daughters,
Mary
married to Sir
Robert Arbuthnot
of that Ilk
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
,
Barbara
to
Alexander Forbes
of
Pi
l
go
Ibidem.
,
Mary
to
William Kieth
of
L
dquhairn
Mr. David C
lderwood's Church-History, M S. in Bibl. Academiae Glasguen.
, and had Issue.
Robert
Commendator of
Deer,
who had by the special Favour of King
James
VI. that Abbacy erected to him in a Temporal Lordship, by the Stile and Title of Lord
Altree.
He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter and Heir of
Robert Lundy
of
Benholm
Charta in Rotolis Jacobi VI.
, by whom he had One Daughter,
Margaret
married to
John Erskine
of
Dan
Ibidem.
; so the Peerage fail'd, and his Estate fell to the Family of Marischal.
Alison
eldest Daughter, married to
Alexander
Lord
Abernethy
of
Saltoun,
and had Issue.
Agnes
to
James
Earl of
Murray,
Regent; and again, to
Colin
Earl of
Argyle.
Marion
to
John Campbel
of
Calder
Ibidem, ad annum 1577.
: and had Issue.
Elizabeth
to Sir
Alexander Irvine
of
Drum
Ibidem.
and had Issue.
Beatrix
to
John Allardice
of that ilk
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Jean
to
James Crichton
of
Frendraught
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Margaret
to Sir
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan
Ibidem.
and had Issue.
This Earl dying very aged, on the 7th of
October
1581
Johnstoni Heroes.
, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by his Grandson
George
Earl Marischal, who was by the Care of his Grandfather well brought up; and for the further Improvement of his Education, was sent Abroad, where he spent Two or Three Years in Foreign Parts, and studied under the best Masters, parti cularly the celebrated Mr.
Beza.
Upon his Return, having the Reputation of a very fine Gentleman, he was made a Privy Councellor, and then in 1589, was sent Ambassador-Extraordinary to
Denmark,
to espouse
Anne
a Daughter of that Crown, in Name of King
James
VI. in which he appeared with all the Lustre the Wealth of
Scotland
could adorn him with, all or most being upon his own proper Charge; which the King received as so great an Obligation, that he always lov'd and esteem'd him very much as a Man to be rely'd on in Point of Honour and Fidelity.
In the 1593, when a Rising toward a Rebellion was threatned in the Northern Parts, His Majesty named the Earl Marischal his Lieutenant, with a Power to raise what Forces he should judge necessary for that Service, and he behav'd so well throughout the whole Affair, that he intirely suppress'd the Insurrection, without the Effusion of one Drop of Blood, which made his pacifick Master very much applaud and commend his Conduct. The same Year his Lordship made a noble Foundation of a College at
Aberdeen
Middleton's Appendix to Bishop Spotiswood's History.
, which he indued with sufficient Funds toward the Support and Maintenance of a Principal and Three Professors of Philosophy; and tho'other Professors have been since added by the Piety and Bounty of other great and learned Men; yet the Earl being the first Founder, his Memory on that Account, ought to be alwise honoured by all the Lovers of Learning, with that Gratitude and Respect which so signal a Piece of Service to his Country and Posterity deserves.
Tho' the Earl Marischal was his Master, the King's particular Favourite, I don't find he was ever in any publick Character or Office in the State, save that he was High Commissioner to the Parliament 1609, which his Majesty conferr'd on the Earl, more to do him Honour than for any Profit could accrue to him thereby: But that was what he did not care for, his own Estate being one of the best in
Scotland.
And continuing in great Favour with his Prince, and Men of all Qualities, he died exceedingly lamented, on the 2d of
April
1623
Mr. Arch. Simson's Hist. of the Church of Scotland, from whom I borrowed this Epitaph.
, and was inter'd with his Ancestors, at the Church of St.
Brides,
with this Epitaph upon him.
Cum Patriam & Proavos raris virtutibus ornes,
nonne ergo debet
Scotia
multa tibi.
Ecclesia, Turrts, Pallatia splendida abunde,
ingenio jam stant edificata tuo.
Est
Marischalla
domus Borea lux maxime pura,
Semper
Romani
a Dogmate Pontificis.
Rex & Regna tibi debent quo
que
Danica, quod tu
Curaris Thalamis consociare suis.
Sic merito Rex, Religio, Respub. musae
L
gens in Tumulo nunc
Marischalle
tuo.
Struxit
Aberdoniae
Solymam, fundavit Athenas,
Phoebus
ubi cantant, & sacra turba vigent.
This noble Lord married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Hume,
by whom he had
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
William
Earl of
Mortoun;
Secondly,
Margaret
Daughter of
James
Lord
Ogilvy,
by whom he had Sir
James Kieth
of
Benholm,
who by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
David Lindsay
of
Edziel
Charta in Rotolis Jacobi VI.
, had a Daughter married to Sir
Archbald Primrose
of
Dalmeny,
Clerk-Register in the Reign of King of
Charles
II. Ancestor to the Viscount of
Primrose.
William
Earl Marischal was a great Patron of Learning and Virtue, which recommended him much to the Favour of King
Charles
I. who finding him a Man of great Honour and Fidelity, call'd him to his Privy Council, where the carry'd himself very well in every Thing relating to the Crown and to the Government in Church and State. He died in the Prime of his Age, on the 28th of
October
1635
Balfour's Annals, M S.
, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
Three Sons,
William
and
George,
both Earls Marischal,
John
Earl of
Kintore;
also Two Daughters,
Mary
married to
John
Lord
Kilpon
,
Son and Heir of
William
Earl of
Airth
and
Monteith,
and
Jean
to
Alexander
Lord
Pitsligo.
Which
William,
in the Time of the Civil War, adhered to the King, and upon his own Charge, levied a Troop of Horse, for his Majesty's Service, at the Head of which he behaved with great Courage at the Battle of
Preston.
Afterward remaining firm in his Fidelity to the Crown, he appear'd no less zealous for the Restoration of K.
Charles
II. but while he was raising Forces by his Interest and Industry in the Northern Parts, he was surpriz'd at
Eliot,
and taken Prisoner by a Party of
English
detach'd from the Garison at
Dundee, Anno
1560, and from thence sent to
London
by Sea, and imprisoned in the Tower; where, after Ten Years Imprisonment sustain'd with great Firmness and Constancy, he lived to receive some Reward of his Merit, after the Return of the King, who made him first a Privy Councellor, and afterward Lord Privy-Seal; which Office he discharged till his Death, in 1670. He married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Winton,
by whom he had Three Daughters,
Margaret
married to Sir
James Hope
of
Hoptoun;
and again to Sir
Archbald Murray
of
Blackbarony, Mary
to
Robert
Viscount of
Arbuthnot, Jean
to
George
Lord
Banff;
Secondly,
Anne
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Mortoun,
but by her he had no Issue.
To
William
Earl Marischal, succeeded Colonel
George Kieth
his Brother, who was a great Asserter of and Sufferer for the Royal Cause. During the Usurpation, he married
Mary,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Kinoul,
and departing this Life in 1694, was succeed by
William
Earl Marischal his Son, who was not in the Measures of the Court, either in the Reign of King
William,
or in the first Years of Queen
Anne,
was very opposite to the Union of the Kingdoms; for, beside what other Reasons he might have for his Opposition, he thought his Family might suffer by the suppressing his heritable Office of Great Marischal of
Scotland,
with Relation to which he entred a Protestation in Parliament
Rolls of Parliament.
, before the Conclusion of the Union, in these Words.
'I do hereby protest, that whatever is contained in any Article of the Treaty of Union betwixt
Scotland
and
England,
shall in no Manner of Way derogate from, or be prejudicial to me or my Successors in our heretable Office of Great Marischal of
Scotland
in all Time coming, or in the full and free Enjoyment and Exercise of the whole Rights, Dignities, Titles, Honours, Powers, and Privileges thereto belonging, which my Ancestors and I have possessed and exercised as Rights of Property these Seven Hundred Years; and I do further protest, that the Parliament of
Scotland,
and Constitution thereof may remain and continue as formerly: And I desire this my Protestation to be inserted in the Minutes, and recorded in the Books of Parliament, and thereupon take Instruments.'
Upon the great Change which happen'd in 1710, when the Earl of
Oxford
came to be the chief Minister of State, the Earl Marischal was elected one of the Peers to serve in the Parliament of
Great-Britain,
as one of the Representatives of the Peerage of
Scotland;
in which Capacity when he had not served full Two Years, Death cut the Thread of his Life, on the 27th Day of
May
1712
History of Europe for 1712.
, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Earl of
Perth, George
his Son and Heir,
James Kieth
Esq
Lady
Mary
married to
John
Earl of
Wigtoun,
and Lady
Anne Kieth,
a Lady justly esteemed for her Wit and Beauty, and all the Qualities worthy her noble Birth.
Which
George
being a young Nobleman of very bright Parts, and his Genius leading him to a military Life, Queen
Anne,
to encourage and countenance his promising Inclinations, gave him, when he was Lord
Kieth,
and only a Youth, a Troop of Horse, and then preferred him to be Captain of her Majesty's Guards, upon a Vacancy thro' Demise of the Earl of
Crawford, February
3
d,
1714
Life of Q. Anne.
; and he continued in the Post till some Time after the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, his Lordship was removed, and his Command given to the Earl of
Delorain.
ARMS.
Argent
on a Chief,
Gules,
Three Palets
Or,
Supporters Two Stags. Crest, a Stag's Head, all proper, Motto,
Veritas vincit.
MELVIL. Earl of
Melvil.
IF Tradition may be credited, the
Melvils
are as ancient in
Scotland
as the Reign of King
Malcolm
III. that a Gentleman from
Hungary
accompanied Queen
Margaret
the Wife of that Prince into this Realm, where he got Lands in
Lothian,
which he call'd
Melvil
after his own Name, and there fixed his Residence. But be this as it will, it appears from Writs I have seen, the
Melvils
were very considerable in the Time of King
William,
both for the many Lands they enjoyed, and the great Offices they held under the Crown.
Galfred de Malevile,
in that Reign, gave the Church of
Malevile
to the Monks of
Dunfermling, cum
tota illa Terra quam eidem Feclesiae assig navit in Dedicatione coram
Hugone
Episcopo
Sanctae Andreae
Chartulary of Dunfermling. And 'tis to be remarked, That this Hugh Bishop of St. Andrews was by King William promoted to the Episcopal See, soon after the Year 1178, and died 1188. And further, 'tis worth taking Notice of that some Families Abroad in Foreign Parts, particularly in Hungary, still carry the Surname of Malevile, and give a Coat of Arms much the same with the Earl of Melvil,
viz.
Gules,
Three Crescents,
Argent,
within a Border, charged with Eight Roses of the First.
. This Family divided itself into Three collateral Branches from as many Brothers,
viz.
William de Malevile,
who was Progenitor of the
Melvils
of
Melvil,
which ended in an Heir Female married with Sir
John Ross
of
Haukhead,
Kt. Ancestor to the Lord
Ross;
whereupon he took her Arms into his own, which is still quartered in the Atchievment of that noble Family.
Philip de Malevile, Vicecomes de Merns,
in the Time of King
Alexander
II.
Chartul. of Arbroth.
, was Ancestor of the
Melvils
of
Glenbervy
in the County of
Kincardine,
which likewise in the Reign of King
James
II. ended in an Heir Female,
Giles,
Daughter and Heir of
Alexander Melvil
of
Glenbervy,
married to Sir
John Auchinleck
of that Ilk
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, in the County of
Air,
by whose Grandchild, and Heir Female in the Time of King
James
IV, the Barony of
Glenbervy
went by Marriage to Sir
William Douglas
of
Braidwood,
Son to
Archbald
Earl of
Angus.
Walter de Malevile,
another Son of
Galfred de Malevile
Chartul. of Dumfermling.
was the Root of the
Melvils
of
Raith,
the only remaining Branch of that ancient Family, whose Successor Sir
John de Malevile,
Kt. of the County of
Fife,
is one of those Barons who swore Felty to King
Edward
I. of
England, Anno
1296; from whom descended Sir
John Melvil
of
Raith,
Kt. in the Time of King
James
II. who married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
William Scot
of
Balweary
Geneal. of the House of Raith.
, by whom he had
William
his Successor, and
Alexander Melvil
of
Finnaly
Charta penes me, ad annum 1458.
, in the County of
Roxburgh.
Which
William
married
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . . . .
Douglas
of
Longniddry
Geneal. of the House of Raith, etiam Chartul. de Dumfermling.
; and again,
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Robert Lundy
of
Balgony
Geneal. of the House of Raith.
, by whom he had a Son
John,
and a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
James Bonnar
of
Rossie.
Which
John
was made a Knight by King
James
IV. with whom he lost his Life at the Battle of
Flowdoun,
9th
September
1513, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
William Bonnar
of
Rossie,
John
his Son and Heir, who had the Honour particularly to be known and favour'd by King
James
V. For the King, finding him a Person of Wisdom and Integrity, made him General of the Ordnance
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad annum 1525.
, and Captain of his Majesty's Castle of
Dunbar
Melvil's Memoirs.
, and a Knight; and to the very Hour of his Death, prosecuted him with all Manner of Kindness and Respect. This worthy Man was among the first of Note, in those Parts, who embraced and favoured the Reformed Religion, which made him the Object of the Hatred and Malice of the
Romish
Clergy: Bishop
Beaton
of
St. Andrews,
and Mr.
Durie,
the Abbot of
Dunfermling,
his Neighbours, did particularly own it. The Bishop accused him before the King of Heresy; at least a Favourer of
Luther
's Doctrine, which as the Times went, could not fail of being penal to him, if the King, who had a particular Favour to Sir
John Melvil,
had not interpos'd, and sav'd him from their further Prosecution. But the wicked Bishop did not rest here, for what he could not effect in Course of Law, he intended to execute by a barbarous Assassination, having for that End hired some Villains to intercept and murder Sir
John
in the Way, as he rode Home to his own House: But by the good Providence of Almighty GOD, and the Courage and Fidelity of his own Servants and Retainers, who were very
umerous, the Design was prevented. But what Bishop
Beaton
could not bring to pass, his Successor Bishop
Hamilton
effected, on Pretence of a treasonable Correspondence with the Nation's Enemies abroad, and the Matter was thus. In the Minority of Queen
Mary,
a War breaking out betwixt
Scotland
and
England,
upon the Breach of the Marriage-Articles that had been agreed on betwixt
Edward
Prince of
Wales
and Queen
Mary,
whereupon all Correspondence betwixt the Two Nations was forbid, upon the highest Penalties: And it happening that Sir
John Melvil
having before that sent his eldest Son to
England
for the Improvement of his Education, after the War broke out he wrote to him, wherein the good old Man admonished his Son to live and demean himself as became a Christian, and a Gentleman, without any Thing relating to a treasonable Correspondence or Intelligence, as was pretended; but the Letter being intercepted, was brought to the Bishop of St.
Andrews;
and his Interest being th
n superior to any Man's, with his Brother the Earl of
Aran
the Governor, Sir
John
was suddenly seised, and sent Prisoner under a strong Guard to
St
rling;
and it being resolved he should be cut off in a seeming Way of Justice, an Indictment of High Treason was prepared against him; and Care being taken before by his Accuser, the Bishop, to provide Witnesses to prove the Charge, he was found Guilty, and condemn'd to lose his Head, which was accordingly executed on him in the End of the Year 1549: Nor did Bishop
Hamilton
's Malice abate toward him after his Death, for they seised on his Estate, dispossessed his Lady and Children with all the Circumstances of Barbarity Malice could invent, and never left persecuting his Family, till they had reduced it to the lowest Penury and Want, by disposing and giving away all the Fortune that should have supported them: But they were under the Care of a higher Hand, for the Almighty ordered Matters so, that all the younger Children were better provided for than they could have been by their Father if he had been alive, as Sir
John
himself had
oretold his Lady to comfort her under the disconsolate Circumstances of his Death. By
Helen
his Wife, Daughter of
Alexander Napter
of
Merchistoun,
Ancestor to the Lord
Napier,
he had, 1.
John
his eldest Son, thereafter Laird of
Raith.
2.
Robert
Lord
Melvil.
3. Sir
James Melvil
of
Hallhill,
a great Statesman and Courtier, who wrote Memoirs of his own Time, with great Judgment and Learning, which will be a lasting Monum
nt of his Fame. 4. Mr.
William Melvil,
Commendator of
Tungland
and
Kilwinning,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice. 5. Sir
Andrew Melvil
of
Garvock,
who was Steward of the Houshold to Queen
Mary
and King
James
VI. 6. Captain
David Melvil
of
Newmill:
Also Two Daughters,
Janet
married to Sir
William Kirkaldie
of
Grange
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
James
V. and
Margaret
to
James Johnstoun
of
Elphinstoun
Melvil's Memoirs.
, and had Issue.
Of these Sons Sir
Robert
the Second being the Person who laid the Foundation of this Honour, I'm to speak of him more particularly. He was by the Care of his Mother well brought up, and for his further Improvement, at a proper Age, was sent abroad to travel, which he did into Foreign Parts, where he spent divers Years. After which he betook himself to the Court of
France,
where he was much taken Notice of for his prudent and generous Behaviour, insomuch as
Henry
II. soon placed him in his Service, in a very honourable Station, in which he continued many Years, to his Master's great Satisfaction.
Upon his Return to
Scotland,
his known great Parts, and the very good general Reputation he had acquired, inclined Queen
Mary
to call him to her Privy-Council, and to send him Ambassador to
England, Anno
1562, and he discharged his Trust with Prudence and Dexterity, insomuch as when King
James
VI. came to act by himself, his Majesty sent Sir
Robert
Ambassador to
England,
in Conjunction with the Master of
Gray,
to inte
pose with Queen
Elis
beth
in Behalf of Queen
Mary,
that the Sentence of Death, which was passed on her, might not be put in Execution; where, says my Author
Sir James Melvil's Memoirs.
,
He spoke such brave and st
t Language before the Council of
England,
that the Queen threatned his Life, and would have retained him Captive, had not the Master of
Gray
's Interest prevented it who was his Collegue.
But as this faithful Discharge of his Trust did and alwise will reflect Honour on his Memory, so it endeared him very much to King
James,
who reposing great Confidence in Sir
Rob
rt,
named him Vice-Chancellor of
Scotland,
when the Chancellor the Lord
Thir
stane
was abroad in
Denmark,
negotiating the King's Marriage, made him also Treasurer-Depute, and a Lord of the Session; and last of all, to reward his Merit and Services. made him a P
er, by the Title of Lord
Melvil
S
bald's History of Fife.
,
April
30. 1616.
He married first
Catharine,
Daughter of
William Adamson
of
Graycrook,
next,
Mary,
Daughter of
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes;
and again,
Jean,
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Orkney,
Widow of
Patrick
first Lord
Lindores,
and dying in the uncommon Age of 94,
Anno
1621
Mr. Martin of Clermon's Historical Collections.
, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son, who was a Lord of the Session and of the Privy-Council to King
James
VI. He married first
Anne,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Kerr
of
Ferniehirst
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, and again
Jean,
Daughter of
Gavin Hamilton
of
Raploch,
Widow of
Robert
Lord
Ross,
and dying without Issue on the Ninth of
March
1635
Balfour's Annals.
, the Honour, by Reason of an Entail, came to
John Melvil
of
Rait
.
Which
John
Lord
Melvil
so succeeding, married
Anne,
Daughter and Co-Heir of Sir
George Erskine
of
Innerteill,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Brother to
Alexander
first Earl of
Ke
ly,
by whom he had
George
his Successor,
James Melvil
of
Cossingray,
and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
Thomas Boyd
of
Pinkhill;
and departing this Life in 1642
Charta in Rot. Caroli
. N. B. John Melvil of Raith, who succeeded Robert Lord Melvil in the Honour, was the Son and Heir of John Melvil of Raith, who died on the 17th of January 1626, by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of Sir William Scot of Balweary, and he Son of another John Melvil of Raith, who died 13 of January 1603, Brother to Robert first Lord Melvil, by . . . . . his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . . Lundin of that Ilk: Which John Melvil of Raith, was restored to his Estate by the Queen Regent of Scotland, about the 1553, at the special Instance of Henry II. of France, in Favo
r to Sir Robert Melvil his Brother, who was then in that Prince's Service.
, was succeeded by
George
his Son and Heir, who during the Reign of King
Charles
II. liv'd in a private and retired Manner notwithstanding, because of the Prejudice some in Authority had against him, upon the Account of his Principles and Relations was obliged to fly over to
Holland,
and because he did not appear when cited, his Estate was for faulted upon very slender Grounds.
While his Lordship was abroad, he had the Honour to be acquainted with the Prince of
Orange,
King
William,
who had a great Value and Esteem for him. After the Prince's accepting of the Crown, he was restored to his Estate and Honour, made an Earl
Patent creating the Lord Melvil Earl of Melvil, in the Records of 1690.
, sole Secretary of State, and Lord High Commissioner to the first and second Sessions of the Parliament 1690
Records of Parliament 1690.
, But the next ensuing Year, upon a Change in the Ministry, he was removed from being Secretary, and named Lord Privy-Seal, and the Master of
Stair,
and
James Johnstoun
Esq
were made Conjunct Secretaries. The Earl of
Melvil
kept the Privy-Seal till the 1696, it was given to the Duke of
Queensbery:
Whereupon his Lordship was constituted President of the Council, and he enjoyed the Office till, after the Death of King
William,
in the End of the 1702, he was removed, and the Marquis of
Annandale
put in his Room
Memoirs of Scotland in 1714.
: And the Earl being now grown aged he lived most Part privately at his Seat in the Country, where Death overtook him on the 20th of
June
1707
State of Europe for 1707.
leaving Issue by
Catharine
his Wife, Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Balgony,
Son of
Alexander
first Earl of
Leven,
Three Sons and a Daughter.
Alexander
Lord
Raith,
who being a Nobleman, of very pregnant Parts, was in the 1689, made Treasurer-Depute
Sir James Dalrymple's Edition of Camden 1695.
; which Office he held for the Space of Nine Years, even till his Death, which happened on the 21st of
March
1698
Epitaph of Alexander Lord Raith.
, leaving no Issue by
Barbara
his Wife, Daughter of
Walter Dundas
of That-Ilk.
David
Earl of
Leven,
who succeeded his Father in his Estate and Honour; but the Dignity of
Leven
being the Elder Peerage, his Lordship now goes by that Title.
Mr.
James Melvil
of
Balgarvie.
Margaret,
married to
Robert
Lord
Burleigh;
and had Issue.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent,
a Fess
Gules,
2d and 3d
Gules,
Three Crescents within a Border
Argent,
charged with Eight Roses of the First, supported on the Dexter with a Ratch-Hound, and on the Sinister by an Eagle. Crest, a Ratch-Head eras'd Sable. Motto,
Denique Coelum.
DRUMMOND. Earl of
Melfort.
THE first who bore this Title, was
John Drummond
of
Lundin,
second Son of
James
Earl of
Perth,
by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntly.
Which
John,
toward the End of the Reign of King
Charles
II.
Anno
1680, was made General of the Ordnance; after that in 1682 constituted Treasurer Depute, when the Duke of
Queensberry
was made Lord High-Treasurer: In which Station he continued till the 1684, he was preferred to be Conjunct Secretary of State, upon the Promotion of
Charles
Earl of
Middleton,
to be One of the Principal Secretaries for the Kingdom of
England;
and he held the Office till the Death of King
Charles.
Upon King
James
's coming to the Crown in 1685, he made him again Secretary, and advanced him to the Honour of Viscount
Melfort,
on the 20th of
April
1685
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
& that he might the better support the Honours his Majesty had conferred on him, he had a Grant of the Lands & Barony of
Muirhall,
in
Argyle
-Shire dissolved from the Crown for that Effect, and ratified by Act of Parliament. But his Majesty being desirous to confer a higher Dignity on the Secretary, who was by this Time become his Master's great Favourite, he was
y Letters Patent, bearing Date 12th of
August
1686, rais'd to the Title of Earl of
M
lfort
Ibidem.
, and the next ensuing Year chosen one of the Twelve Knights of the most noble Order of the Thistle. He continued Secretary till the Revolution, he accompanied King
James
into
Ireland,
and thence into
France,
and not returning in the Time limited by Law he was forfaulted by Act of Parliament,
July
2d, 1695
Act of Parliament, whereby it was declared, T
at the Forfaulture of the said Ear should no ways affect or
aint the Blood of the Children procrea
ed betwixt him and Sophia Lundin, Heiress of Lundin.
. He sojourned in
France
upwards of Three and Twenty Years, till the 15th of
January
1714, he paid his last Debt to Nature, at
St. Germains,
where he was interr'd.
He married first
Sophia,
Daughter and Heir of
Robert Lunain
of that Ilk, by whom he had
James,
who by express Stipulation, bore the Surname of
Lunain,
as all the other Sons of the Marriage did; but dying a very hopeful young Man unmarried, his Estate fell to his Brother,
Robert Lunain
of that Ilk. The Earl had likewise Th
ee Daughters, who all used their Father's Surname of
Drummond, viz.
Lady
Anne
married to Sir
John Houston
of that Ilk, Bart. and had Issue.
Lady
Elisabeth
to
William
Viscount of
Strathallan,
and had Issue.
Lady
Mary
to
Walter Scot
of
Highchester,
and had Issue.
His second Wife was
Eupham,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Wallace
of
Craigie
Bart. Lord Justice Clerk, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice in the Reign of King
Charles
II. to the Heirs of which Marriage, the Honour was specially provided. By her he had, beside
Thomas
his eldest Son, who lives in
France,
and there stiles himself Duke of
Melfort,
several younger Children, all abroad.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th, Three Bars wave,
Gules;
2d and 3d,
Or,
a Lyon rampant,
Gules,
armed and languid,
Azure,
within a double Tressure, flower'd and counter-flower'd of the Second, supported by Two Lyons,
Gules,
coloured
Or,
Crest, a Demi-Lyon,
Gules,
crown'd with an Antick Crown,
Or,
holding in his Dexter-Paw a Sword proper, and in the Sinister a Flower de Lis,
Azure.
Motto,
Dei dono sum quod sum.
STEWART. Lord
Methven.
HEnry Stewart
Lord
Methven,
was the younger Son of
Andrew
Lord
Evandale,
by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan,
who betaking himself to the Court of King
James
V. had the good Fortune to be taken Notice of for the Beauty and Gracefulness of his Person, particularly by the Queen Mother, who carrying a singular Favour and Affection toward him, insomuch as she was pleased to do him the Honour to marry him, and then got him made a Peer by the Title of Lord
Methven, Anno
1528
Drummond's History of King James V.
, from a Barony in the County of
Perth,
then dissolved from the Crown, and erected in a Lordship to him and his Heirs Male, upon the Queen's resigning her Join
ure of the Lordship of
Stirling
Mr. Baillie of Castlecarry's Notes upon Dalrymple's Edition of Camden 1695.
: But by her Majesty his Lordship had no Child save one, who died an Infant before her self.
He married after the Death of the Queen,
Janet
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole,
Widow of
Alexander
Master of
Suth
rland,
by whom he had a Son and Three Daughters,
viz. Henry,
who liv'd long to enjoy the Honour of Lord
Methven,
but was kill'd at
Brughtoun,
by a Shot of a Cannon-Bullet from the Castle of
Edinburgh, Anno
1572
Crawford's Memoirs.
, leaving no Issue.
Janet,
married to Sir
Colin Campbel
of
B
chquhan
Charta penes Ducem de Argyle.
, thereafter Earl of
Argyle.
Dorothea
to
William
Lord
Ruthven
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, first Earl of
Gowrte.
Margaret
to
Andrew
Master of
Ochiltree
Ibidem ad annum 1563.
, Son of
Andrew
Lord
Ochiltree.
Some not knowing of the Lord
Methven
's second Marriage, did imagine, that the Children he had, were born him by Queen
Margaret,
who was Daughter of
Henry
VII. of
England,
and have of late improv'd it so far as to alledge, that this was one of the Motives of the Death of
John
Earl of
Gowrie
at
Perth,
5th of
August
1600, because he stood in an equal Degree of Relation in Blood with King
James
VI. to the Crown of
England:
But this being now known and own'd as a Mistake, I need not inlarge much upon disproving what has been said upon that Subject: But to put the Matter beyond Dispute, I have seen Marriage-Articles betwixt Sir
Colin Campbel,
Son to
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
and who was thereafter Earl him self, and
Janet Stewart,
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Methven,
wherein her Mother
Janet Stewart,
Mistress of
Sutherland,
Spouse to
Henry
Lord
Methven,
is expresly mentioned as a Party Contracter with her said Daughter
Charta penes Ducem de Argyle.
. And when in the 1661, the Funerals of the great Marquis of
Montrose
who was Grandson, by his Mother, of Dame
Dorothea Stewart,
Countess of
Gowrie,
the Lord
Methven
's Daughter, were performed in the most solemn Manner, upon the Eschutcheons of his maternal Line, the Arms of the Earl of
Athole,
were placed as the Father of the Lady
Methven,
which appears from the printed Account of the Marquis's Funerals. And 'tis not to be imagined, if this illustrious Person had been descended of the Royal Family of
England,
that such a great Mistake would have been committed, as to have placed the Arms of the House of
Athole
instead of the Royal Arms of
England,
at his Obscquies, where the outmost Care and Charge was bestowed to perform them with all imaginable State and Solemnity. So it would appear this Story has been the Invention of later Years.
MENTETH. Earl of
Menteth.
THE Country of
Menteth
had Earls very early. In the Beginning of the Reign of King
Davia
I.
Murdack
was Earl of
Menteth
Chart. of Dunfermling.
, and
Gilchrist
was
Comes de Menteth
in the Time of
Malcolm
IV.
Register of Scoon.
, by whose Heir Female the Earldom came to Sir
Walter Cumming,
who in Right of his Wife, was Earl of
Menteth,
and he dying without Issue Male, his Daughter & Heir was married with that noble Patriot and Hero Sir
Walter Stewart,
so much celebrated in the History of his Time, to whom she brought the Title of Earl of
Menteth
Chart. of Pasley.
, who being put to Death by the
English, anno
1296, left Issue
Alexander
his Successor, and Sir
John Menteth,
designed
Custos Comitatus de Menteth,
in that memorable Letter written by the Nobility of
Scotland
to the Pope,
Anno
1320
This Sir John Menteth had a Son John, designed Dominus de Arran, who took to Wife Helen Daughter of Gratney Earl of Mar, whose Heir Female was married to Sir Thomas Erskine of That-Ilk.
. This is that Sir
John Menteth
who betrayed and delivered up the brave Sir
William Wallace
to
Edward
I. of
England;
but he had the Prudence and Fore-Sight to make a very seasonable Atonement, for the Villany he had committed, by his early Appearance in Behalf of King
Robert the Bruce,
whose great Favourite he afterward became.
Alexander
Earl of
Menteth,
was a strenuous Asserter of the Honour, Freedom and Independency of his Country in the Time of the War with the
English,
under
Edward
I. which will derive his Name down to latest Posterity, as a Patriot of his Country. By
Matilda
his Wife, he left Three Sons,
Allan
and
Murdack,
Earls of
Menteth,
and Sir
John
first of the Branch of the
Menteths
of
Rusky
Charta penes me, Murdaci Comitis de Menteth, filius Domini Alexandri Comitis de Menteth, terrarum de Thora, in Comitat. de Menteth. Waltero de Menteth, filio quondam D. Joan. de Menteth The Family of Rusky continued in the Male Line till the Reign of King James III. that Murdack Menteth of Rusky dying without Heirs Male, his Daughters became his Heirs; Elizabeth the elder marrying Sir John Halden of Gleneagles; and Margaret the Younger, John Napier of Merchistoun.
, of whom by a younger Brother, did the
Menteths
of
Carse
The first of the House of Carse was Sir John Menteth, Son of Sir Walter Menteth. He obtained the Barony of Carse, together with the Sheriffship of Clackmannan-Shire, by the Marriage of Mary, Daughter and Heir of Sir John Stirling, Kt. toward the End of the Reign of King David II. as appears from Authorities in my Hands. And there is a Charter in the Chartul. of Arbroth, granted by the Abbot of that Convent, Joanni de Menteth, filio quondam Walteri de Menteth, militis de Salina in le Carse, ad annum 1366. This Family continued till the Reign of King Charles I. that Sir William Menteth sold his Estate to Sir William Livingston Lord Kilsyth, Anno 1631.
descend.
Which
Allan
Earl of
Menteth
was slain at the Battle of
Duplin,
3d of
August
1332
Hist. Gentis Scot.
, leaving one Daughter,
Mary,
thereafter Countess of
Menteth,
his Estate and Honour devolving on
Murdack
his Brother, who being slain at the Battle of
Hallid
nhill,
soon thereafter,
viz. Anno
1333
Ibidem.
, both his Estate and Honour fell to
Mary
Countess of
Menteth,
his Neece, who brought the Title to her Husband the brave Sir
John Graham,
who was cruelly executed in
England
after the Battle of
Durham, Anno
1346
Rymer's Foedera Angliae, ad annum 1346.
, leaving Issue one Daughter his sole Heir,
Margaret
Countess of
Menteth,
who was married to the Lord
Robert Stewart,
second Son of King
Robert
II.
Sir Robert Sibald in his List of the Earls of Fife, in his Description of that County, mentions an Indenture that had passed betwixt Allan Earl of Menteth, the Grandfather of the Lady Margaret, Wife of Robert Senischal, Earl of Menteth and Isobel Countess of Fife, of the Date, Penult of March 1371.
who thereupon was Earl of
Menteth,
thereafter Duke of
Albany;
and by the Forfaulture of Duke
Murdack
his Son,
Anno
1424, the Earldom of
Menteth
was annexed to the Crown.
GRAHAM. Earl of
Menteth.
THE first of this noble Family was Sir
Patrick Graham,
eldest Son of Sir
Patrick Graham,
Lord of
Kincardine,
by
Eupham
his second Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Stewart
Lord of
Railston,
Brother to King
Robert
II. who came to be Earl of
Strathern,
in Right of
Eupham
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
David
Earl of
Strathern,
but he did not live long to enjoy the Honour, for he was kill'd by Sir
John Drum mond
in 1413, leaving Issue by
Eupham
his Wife,
Maliss
his Son and Heir; also two Daughters,
Eupham,
married first to
William
Earl of
Douglas;
and thereafter to
James
Lord
Hamilton;
and
Elizabeth
to Sir
Patrick Lyon,
Lord
Glames.
Which
Maliss
was in 1423, sent to
England
one of the Hostages for the Ra
som of King
James
I. Upon the Return of the King, when his Majesty began more narrowly to inquire into his Royal Patrimony, it was found, that tho' both this
Maliss
and his Mother had used the Title of Earl and Countess of
Strathern,
yet they had no other Right to it than a
e
r Connivence of the Governors in the Absence and Minority of the King; in Respect that King
Robert
II. had given that Earldom to his Son
David,
and his Heirs Male: Whereupon King
James
resumed it, and gave Sir
Maliss Graham
the Earldom of
Menteth,
in Recompence of his Claim to the other,
September
6, 1428.
This Earl, while he was in
England
an Hostage for the King, married a Lady of that Nation,
Anne,
Daughter to the Earl of
Oxford,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Son and Heir apparent, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, Sir
John Graham
of
Kilbride,
Ancestor of that Branch of the
Grahams
now of
Gartmore,
and to those of
Nedderly
and
Esk
There is a Charter in the Custody of Robert Graham of Galangad and Gartmore, granted by Maliss Earl of Menteth, to John Graham his Son, of the Lands of Kilbride, on the 7th of April 1464, and another I have seen in the Publick Records, by the Earl to the said John his Son, of the Lands of Port-Coldon, Monievrechie, &c. with the Loch of Inchma
omo, and Isles thereof, on the 8th of December 1485. This Sir John
y his Wife, a Lady of the Family of the Campbells, had beside Thomas the Heir of his Family, who carried on the Line directly of this Branch of the Grahams, two younger Sons, one of whom fixed his Residence in the Northern Parts of England, and was the Root of that Branch of the Grahams of Nedderly and Esk, the Lord Viscount of Preston's Ancestor; and the other Brother settled himself in Argyle-shire, where his Posterity were called M'Uilwarnocks, tho' now according to the modern Way, they use the Name of Graham, and go by the Title of M'Uilwarnock alias Graham of Oibb. Of his Family was Dr. Archbald Graham, who in the 1680, was by King Charles II. preferr'd from being Parson of Rothsay to be Bishop of the Isles, where he exerced his Function, till the Revolution he was deprived of his Bishoprick. The immediate Successor of Sir John Graham was Thomas his eldest Son, Father of John Graham, stil'd of Duchray, who was Father of another William, who by a Daughter of Stewert of Kilbeg, his Wife, a Brother of the noble Family of Ochiltry, had John his Son and Heir, who sold the Lands of Duchray, and acquired Galangad; from whom he took his Title. Which John was a gallant Gentleman; and in the Time of the Civil War, in the Reign of King Charles I. gave frequent Testimony of his signal Courage in several Actions in the Service of his Country, particularly in suppressing the Insolencies of the Highlanders, in the more remote Corners of the Shires of Perth, Stirling, and Dunba
toun, the Chief of whom he apprehended, and brought to exemplary Justice: After which the Peace and Order of the Country was secured; and he was very terrible to those dissolute People who choice to live by Stealing and Robbing on the High-way. William Graham his eldest Son and Heir, acquired the Lands of Gartmore from John Alexander,
Esq
the Earl of Stirling's Son, who had married the Heir Female of that House, whence he took his Title and Designation. He was a Gentleman who eminently signal
z'd his Loyalty in the Time of King Charles II. And, when the Parliament rais'd an Army, Anno 1650, to oppose the Invasion of the English under the Command of Oliver Cromwel, the Earl of Airth being then infirm, and not able, by Reason of his Age, to lead out his Men, his Lordship reposed so much Confidence in Gartmore's Loyalty and Sufficiency, that he directed a Commission to his well beloved Cousin, William Graham of Gartmore, to call together and command all the Earl's sencible Men, whenever he should judge it necessary for the Service of the Country: And his Majesty King Charles II. placed so great Confidence in Gartmore's Loyalty, and Affection to his Service, that on the 12th of July 1651, he gave him a Commission to guard the Passes on the River of Forth, and to apprehend and secure all Deserters from the Army: And he discharged the Trust reposed in him with such Fidelity and Diligence, that William Duke of Hamilton wrote him a Letter of Thanks in the King's Name, dated at Stirling the 22d July 1651, a few Days before the King march'd into England, wherein his good Services are very thankfully acknowledged. After the Return of the King, in Reward of his Loyalty and Merit, he was made a Knight Baronet, by Letters Patent, bearing Date, 28th June 1665. He married the Lady Elizabeth Graham, Daughter of John Lord Kilpont, by whom he had Sir John his Son and Heir, who died unmarried on the 12th of June 1708, and was succeeded by Robert Graham of Gallangad, his Cousin-German, who is now the Heir Male and Representative of Sir John Graham, Son to Maliss, first Earl of Menteth, for his Bravery, call'd,
Sir John with the bright Sword,
the first Cadet of this noble Family.
; and
Walter,
first of the Family of
Buchquhaple,
who had by his Father's Grant the Lands of
Lochton, Glaskalzie, Colyart, &c.
on the 8th of
December,
1485.
To this Earl succeeded
Alexander
his Grandson and Heir, Son of
Alexander
Master of
Menteth,
who was retoured Heir to his Grandfather, 6th
May
1493
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
. He married . . . . .
Wauchop,
Daughter of . . . . . . .
Wauchop
of
Nidd
,
and dying,
Anno
1537, left
William
his Successor, and
Walter,
of whom is the Branch of
Gartur.
William
the next Earl, married
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . . . .
Moubray
of
Barnbougal,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir,
Robert Graham
of
Gartmore,
who died without Issue, and was succeeded in his Estate by
Gilbert Graham
his Brother, whose Successors continued in good Reputation till the Reign of King
Charles
I. that
Robert Graham
of
Gartmore
dying without Male Issue, his Estate went by Marriage of his Daughter and Heir, to
John Alexander,
Esq
Son of
William
first Earl of
Stirling.
Beside these three Sons, this Earl had also a Daughter,
Margaret,
married to
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle.
To
William
succeeded
John
Earl of
Menteth,
his Son, who married
Marion
Daughter to
George
Lord
Seaton,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Successor; also Two Daughters,
Mary
married to
John Buchanan
of That-Ilk, and
Christian
to Sir
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth;
and dying
Anno
1570, was succeeded by
William
his Son, who married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
James Douglas
of
Drumlanrig,
and had Issue
John
his Successor,
George Graham
of
Rednock;
which Lands, by Marriage of
Marion
his Grandchild and Heir Female, went to
John Graham,
Grandfather to the present
Alexander Graham
of
Duchray.
John
Earl of
Menteth
was served Heir to his Father, 29th of
October
1587▪ He married
Mary,
Daughter of
Colin Campbel
of
Glenurchy,
by whom he had
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Christian,
married to Sir
John Blackadder
of
Tulliallan.
Which
William
Earl of
Menteth,
being a Man of excellent Parts, was by King
Charles
I. call'd to his Majesty's Council, and made Justice General of
Scotland,
upon the Surrender of that Office by the Earl of
Argyle,
in 1628, and in little more than a Year thereafter, constituted President of the Council; and he discharged all the Offices committed to him with great Honour and Sufficiency: But while his Lordship was in the Height of his Greatness, and very much in the King's Favour, he serv'd himself Heir to his Ancestor
David
Earl of
Strathern,
and thereupon applied to his Majesty, to have that Title confer'd upon him; and the King, without considering any Inconveniency that might attend that Creation, gave him a Patent, ratifying and approving him in that Dignity. But 'tis reported, being very much exalted with that Title, his Vanity was not a little supported with the general Error of our Historians of
David
Earl of
Strathern
's being the eldest Son of King
Robert
II's first Marriage with
Eupham Ross
his Queen; and some high Expressions in Reference to his Right to the Crown, having inadvertently dropt from the Earl, the Matter came to be talk'd at Court, and his Majesty was pleas'd so far to take Notice of it, that he deprived his Lordship of all the Offices he held under the Crown, and gave Order to Sir
Thomas Hope,
Lord Advocate, to raise a Decreet of Reduction of his Title, whereby he was not only deprived of the Title of Earl of
Strathern,
but also of that of
Menteth:
But his Majesty was graciously pleased, soon thereafter, to make him Earl of
Airth,
with Precedency due to the Creation of
Maliss
Earl of
Menteth,
his Ancestor, by King
James
I. He married
Agnes,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
by whom he had
John
Lord
Kilpont,
Sir
Charles Graham,
Sir
James Graham,
and several Daughters,
Mary
married to Sir
John Campbel
of
Glenurchy; Margaret
to
Alexander
Lord
Gairles,
next to
Lodovick
Earl of
Crawford;
and
Anne
to Sir
Mungo Murray
of
Blebo.
John
Lord
Kilpont,
after the breaking out of the War in the Reign of King
Charles
I. adhered to his Majesty, and assoon as the Marquis of
Montrose
declared for the King, he resorted to him; but was soon thereafter most barbarously assassinated in the Camp,
Anno
1644, by
James Stewart
of
Ardv
rlich,
leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl Marischal, a Son,
William,
who succeeded his Grandfather in the Honour; and Two Daughters,
Mary
married to
George Allardice
of That-Ilk, and
Elizabeth
to Sir
William Graham
of
Gartmore,
Bart.
Which
William
having no Issue of his Body, convoy'd his Estate to
James,
then Marquis, now Duke of
Montrose,
and died on the 12th of
September
1694.
MIDDLETON, Earl of
Middleton.
OF this Ancient Family, which originally took its Surname from the Lands and Barony of
Middleton,
in the County of
Kincardin,
was
Humphredus de Middleton,
who in the 24th of
Alexander
III. is a Witness to the Grant which
Robertus Filius Warnebaldi de Cunningham, & Sponsa ejus Richenda, Filia & Haeres Humphredi de Bar
,
made
Ecclesiae sanctae Thomae Martyris de Arbroath, de toto feudo suo in Parc
de Fordun, pro salute Animarum suarum
Chartulary of Arbroath.
. And a Descendant from him, another
Humphredus de Middleton,
was one of those Barons who did Homage for his Lands, which he held of the Crown, in the County of
Forfar, Anno
1306
Rymer's Foedera Angliae, ad Annum 1306.
. Likeas
Gilbert Middleton
of That-Ilk, did execute the Office of Sheriff of
Forfar,
the 3d of King
James
V.
Charta penes me.
. In the 26th of whose Reign
John Middleton
of
Middleton,
disposed of the Lands of
Middleton
to
David Falconar
of
Halkerton;
after which his Successors, I think, went by the Title and Designation of
Cadham,
in the County foresaid.
Lieutenant General
John Middleton
was the Son of
John Middleton
of
Cadham,
by
Helen
his Wife, Daughter of
John Strachan,
of the Family of
Thornton,
who being bred a Scholar, intended to have made his Fortune that Way, but the Civil War breaking out, he laid aside that Resolution, and betaking himself to the Profession of Arms, engaged in the Service of the
English
Parliament, where the Eminency of his Courage made him so much taken Notice of, when he was not above the Degree of a Captain of a Troop of Horse, that by the Time Sir
William Waller
was sent with an Army into the West of
England,
distinct from the other commanded by the Earl of
Essex,
Captain
Middleton
was made his Lieutenant General
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
; and he continued in that Service with singular Reputation, till the Parliament cashier'd the Earl of
Essex,
and made their new Model; he quit all Command there, and betook himself to the Service of the Estates of
Scotland,
where he gave frequent Testimonies of signal Courage and Valour, in several Actions, insomuch as when the Parliament,
Anno
1647, rais'd an Army for the Rescue of the King, upon his being made Prisoner in the Isle of
Wight,
he was appointed Lieutenant General of the Horse; and at the Battle of
Preston,
he maintained a Dispute with the Enemy with great Courage, and with very great Loss to them for several Hours
Memoirs of John first Earl of Middleton, M.S.
till losing his Horse, he had the ill Fortune to be taken Prisoner, and sent to
Newcastle
Ludlow's Memoirs.
, where he continued till after the Murder of the King, he found Means to corrupt the Marshal who had the Keeping of him, and made his Escape into
Scotland
by the Time K.
Charles
II. arrived in this Kingdom, where he was received by his Friends with great Joy, to whom such a brave Officer, and of such intire Affections to his Majesty, could not at such a Season but be very acceptable, and when the Parliament had raised another Army to march into
England
with the King
Clarendon.
, whereof his Majesty himself was General, Lieutenant General
Middleton
had the Command of the Horse; and at the Fight of
Worcester,
3d of
September
1651, at that Part where
Middleton
commanded there was a very brave Resistance made, and he charged the Enemy so vigorously, that he beat that Body that charged them, back in great Disorder, and with great Loss
Ibidem.
: But in the Action he received several Wounds whereby he fell into the Enemy's Hands; and assoon as he was fit to be removed, was sent Prisoner to the Tower of
London
Ibidem.
, and destin'd to be sacrificed by
Cromwel,
against whom he thought he might more warrantably proceed, than against any other of the
Scots
Prisoners, because he had heretofore, in the Beginning of the War, serv'd the Parliament; and to that Purpose he erected a high Court of Justice, for the Tryal of some Persons that had been troublesom to him, especially Major-General
Middleton:
And the Time approaching that he was to be try'd, his Friends in
London
gave him so good and so particular Advertisement, that he ma
his Escape, and after he had co
c
aled himself there a Fortnight or Three Weeks, that the Diligence of the first Examination and Enquiry was over, he had the good Fortune to get himself safely transported over to
France,
and came to the King to
Parts,
to the Grief and Vexation of the very Soul of
Cromwel,
who earnestly thirsted after the Blood of this noble Person.
Lieutenant General
Middleton
continued to attend on the King till the 1653, his Majesty being importun'd by many Exp
esses, as well from the
Scots
Lords who were Prisoners in
England,
as from those who were at Liberty, that Lieutenant General
Middleton
might be sent over to the
Highlands
with his Majesty's Commission, and with some Supply of Arms; and that by the next Spring they would have an Army ready, strong enough to meet with General
Monk;
and tho' the King did not (says the Lord
Clarendon
) expect that any notable Service would be performed by his Friends in
Scotland,
for his Advantage, or their own Redemption; yet did not think fit to seem to undervalue the Professions and Overtu
es of those who had, during his being among them, made all Professions of Duty to him, and therefore gave such a Commission and Instructions to the Lieutenant General as were necessary, and dispatched him to
Scotland,
where he arrived with some few Officers, and such a Supply of Arms and Ammunition as could be got upon his own Credit and Activity, in the Winter of the Year 1653, when the Earl of
Glencairn
delivered up the Command of the Troops to him, and he continued at the Head of them for a whole Year thereafter, but never getting any Supplies from Abroad, he was at length totally routed and suppress'd by General
Monk,
after which he found Shelter in some honest Mens Houses, where he was conceal'd, till Opportunity serv'd to transport him beyond Sea; that he came to the King at
Cologn,
1655, and attended his Majesty's Fortune throughout the rest of the Exile.
Upon the Restoration, his Majesty, in Commemoration of the long and faithful Services of General
Middleton.
was pleased to raise him to the Degree of an Earl, by the Title of Earl of
Middleton,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 1st of
October
1660
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
, made him Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in
Scotland,
Governor of
Edinburgh
Castle, one of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council; and appointed him Lord High Commissioner to the 1st and 2d Sessions of the Parliament 1661 and 1662. But being impatient to be the sole Favourite, in his last Session of Parliament, he procured an Act to pass, by which certain Persons were to be incapacitated from all Offices of Honour or Trust, and that by a very new and unheard of Way of Billoting: By which Act the Secretary of State the Earl of
Lauderdale,
the Treasurer, the Earl of
Crawfurd,
the Justice-Clerk, Sir
Robert Murray,
and Others, who had given very signal Testimony of their Affection and Fidelity to the King, were particularly levell'd at: But his Majesty finding the Earl had very far exceeded the Limits of his Commission, in the framing and passing of that Act; and that it was highly derogatory to his Majesty's Justice and innate Goodness he had such a deep Resentment of the Indignity, that he gave Orders to reseind the Act of Billoting, and it fell heavy on the Earl himself, for he was immediately removed from all the Offices he held under the Crown, the Castle of
Edinburgh
was given to the Earl of
Lauderdale,
and the Command of the Forces to the Earl of
Rothes,
who had contributed very much to his Overthrow. But his Majesty calling to Mind the great Merit and Services of the Earl of
Middleton
during the Exile, thought it improper he should be dismiss'd with any further Marks of the Royal Displeasure; and therefore, that he might be out of the Way, and never more in a Condition to compete with, or controul the Earl of
Lauderdale,
who had the Ascendant of the other in the King's Affections, he was made Governor of the new
English
Fort of
Tangier
in
Africa,
which was little other than a more decent Exile; there he liv'd till the 1673. Death overtook him in that remote Corner of the World, where his Body was committed to its Rest. He married first
Grisel
Daughter of
Durham
of
Pi
kar
,
Sister to Sir
Alexander Durham
of
Large,
and again
Martha,
Daughter of
Henry
Earl of
Monmouth
Dugdale's Baronage of England.
. By his first Wife, he had
Charles
his Son and Heir, and Two Daughters,
Helen
married to
Patrick
Earl of
Strathmore,
and
Grisel
to
William
Earl of
Morton.
Which
Charles
was bred up at the Court of King
Charles
II. But whether he had any Preferment there before the 1682, I cannot take upon me to determine. But at that Time
Complete History of England, Vol. II.
his Majesty made Choice of his Lordship to go Envoy-Extraordinary to the Emperor, where he proved so successful in his Negotiation, that upon his Return he was made conjunct Secretary of State for the Kingdom of
Scotland
with the Earl of
Murray,
26.
September
the same Year
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
, also, on the 11th of
July
1684, he was sworn of his Majesty's Privy-Council of
England,
and upon the 24th of
August
next ensuing, was promoted to be one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for that Kingdom in the Room of
Sidney Godolphin,
Esq
History of England.
; in which Office he serv'd the Remainder of King
Charles
's Reign, and thro' the whole of that of his Successor King
James
VII, till the Revolution,
Anno
1688, he followed the Fortune of his unfortunate Master, the King into
France,
and not returning in due Time, he was forfeited by Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament.
, 1695.
He married
Catharine,
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Cardigan,
of the Kingdom of
England,
by whom he had
Charles
Lord
Clermont,
and
John Middelton,
Esq
also Two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
Edward Drummond,
Esq
Son to
James
Earl of
Pearth,
and
Mary
to Sir
John Giffard
Knight.
ARMS
Parted per Fess,
Or,
and
Gules,
a Lyon Rampant within a double Tressure, counter flower'd and counter-changed of the same, armed and languid,
Azure.
supported by Two Eagles volant,
Sable.
Crest, A Lyon Rampant,
Gules,
issuing out of a Tower,
Massone
Motto,
Fortis in Arduis.
GRAHAM, Duke of
Montrose.
ACCORDING to our Historians, this noble illustrious Family, is as ancient as the Restauration of our Monarchy by King
Fergns
II. and derive their Origin from no meaner Person than the renowned
Greme,
who govern'd
Scotland
during the Minority of his Grandchild King
Eugene
II. fought with the
Britons,
and by forcing that mighty Rampart they had rear'd up between the Rivers of
Forth
and
Clyde,
immortaliz'd his Name so much, that to this Day that Trench is call'd
Graham's Dyke.
But should the Rise of the
Grahams
be of a more modern Date, 'tis certain, they are as ancient as any in the Nation now upon Record, for
William de Greme
is one of the Witnesses to the Foundation of
Holy-Rood-House
Abbey, by King
David
I.
Anno Christi
1125
Chron. Sanctae Crucis, coepit fundari Ecclesia Sanctae Crucis Anno 1125.
; and thereafter, at the special Instance of the said King, he perambulate to the Monks of
Hadingtoun,
the Lands of
Clerkingtoun,
when
Adda,
Countess of
Northumberland
laid the Foundation of that Convent.
(
d
) Register of the Priory of St. Andrews. M.S.
Sir
David Greme,
Kt.
Pater,
the direct Ancestor of the illustrious Family of
Montrose,
obtained from King
William
a Grant of the Lands of
Charltoun
and
Burrowfield, infra Vic. de
Forfar,
cum Dominiis & Tenendariis Thanagi de
Kinaber
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
.
(
f
) Ibidem.
He left Issue,
Sir
David
his Son and Heir, who had a Grant from
Maldwin
Earl of
Lennox,
of the Lands of
Strathblane
and
Mugdock;
and from the Earl of
Dumbar
he got the Lands of
Dundaff
and
Strathcaron, quod fuit forrestum Regis,
in Exchange with Sir
David
for his Lands of
Gartonquhar
in
Galoueya.
By
Agnes
his Wife he had,
Sir
David,
the Third of that Name, his Son & Heir, who obtained distinct Charters of his whole Lands, which were all ratified to him under the Great-Seal of
Alexander
III. He got the Barony of
Kincardine
in the County of
Perth,
from
Maliss
Earl of
Strathern,
whose Sister
Anabella
he married
Ibidem.
, and by her he had Two Sons, Sir
Patrick
the Heir of the Family, and Sir
David Greme
Knight
In the Foedera Angliae ad Annum 129
, Sir David de Graham is designed Frater Pat. de Graham.
.
Which Sir
Patrick
did execute the Office of High-Sheriff of the County of
Stirling,
in the Time of King
Aleander
III, in the 35th of whose Reign,
Anno
1284, he was one of the
Magnates Scotiae,
who in a most solemn Manner bound themselves by their Oaths and Seals, that in case King
Alexander
should die without Heirs of his own Body, to receive and acknowledge the Princes
Margaret,
the Maid of
Norway,
the King's Grandchild, as their lawful Queen. He was afterward kill'd at the Battle of
Dunbar,
against the
English, Anno
1296
Abercomby's martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation.
, strenuously asserting the Honour and Independency of his Country, leaving Issue Sir
David
his Successor, Sir
Nicol Graham,
Kt. who got the Lordship of
Eskdale
in the South, by the Marriage of the Heir Female of
Robert de Avenel
Chartul. of Melross.
; and was the Root of the
Grahams
of
Abercorn,
and the Progenitor of Sir
John Graham,
that renoun'd Patriot who lost his Life in his Country's Service at the Battle of
Falkirk
whom all our Historians do celebrate as the bravest
Scotsman,
next to Sir
William Wallace,
in the Age he liv'd.
Sir
David Graham,
the next of this noble Family, was a great Patron of the Liberties of his Country, after the Abdication of
John Baliol,
and a strenuous Opposer of the Incroachments made upon our old Constitution by King
Edward
I. of
England,
for which, when that Prince made an Offer of Indemnity to such of the
Scots
Nation as would submit to the Yoke he had imposed on them, Sir
David
had the Honour to be one of those few Patriots who were particularly excepted
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. As he was a great Patriot of his Country; so he was a very zealous Loyalist in Behalf of King
Robert
the
Bruce,
upon whose Accession to the Throne, he had divers Grants of Lands, in Consideration of his good and faithful Services before that Time performed. He exchang'd his Lands of
Cardross
in
Dumbarton
Shire with King
Robert,
for the Lands of
Old Montrose
in the Country of
Forfar.
The same Sir
David
was one of those Barons who in 1320, wrote that noble Letter to the Pope, asserting the Independency of
Scotland,
wherein they highly extol King
Robert Bruce,
as the Nation's glorious Deliverer, and the Preserver of the Liberties of the People; in which famous Record the Seal of this Noble Person, I observe, is still intire
Charta in Pub. Arch.
. By . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . . . his Wife, he had
Sir
David.
his Son, was one of the
Magnates Scotiae
appointed to treat with the
English
touching the Redemption of King
David Bruce,
when he was taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Durham, Anno,
1346, by . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . . his Wife, he had Issue, Sir
Patrick
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter married to
William
Earl of
Ross
Charta penes me Hugonis Comitis de Ross, terrarum de Scatrig. Patricio Graham avunculo suo.
;
Which Sir
Patrick de Grame
Lord of
Dundaf,
as he is design'd was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
David,
when the Terms of his Redemption were concerted by the Commissioners of both Kingdoms, who were apointed for that Effect,
Anno
1357
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. Upon the Accession of King
Robert
II. to the Crown, when the two great Entails were made in Favours of the King's eldest Son the Earl of
Carrick,
Sir
Patrick
's Name is inserted in the one, and his Seal, I think, is appended to the other.
He married first
Matilda
Daughter of . . . . . . . . . . by whom he had
William
Lord of
Graham
his Successor; And again
Eupham,
Daughter to Sir
John Stewart,
Brother to King
Robert
II. Sister to
Walter Stewart,
Lord of
Railston
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
; by her he had Issue Sir
Patrick Graham
of
Elieston,
the Progenitor of the Earls of
Menteth
Ibidem.
2.
Robert,
3.
David,
4.
Alexander,
and a Daughter
Matilda,
married to Sir
John Drummond
of
Concraig.
Which Sir
William
of
Graham,
Lord of
Kincardine,
in the 1404, was joined in Commission with divers other Lords and Barons, to treat with the
English
anent the keeping of a Peace and Amity betwixt the two Realms
Rymer's Foedera Angli
.
, and Two Years thereafter was sent upon an Embassy to
England,
with the Earls of
Crawford
and
Mar,
which Negotiation they performed with Honour and Success. He married first
Mariota
Daughter of Sir
John Oliphant
of
Aberdalgy,
by whom he had
Alexxander
his eldest Son, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, and
John;
next the Lady
Mary Stewart,
Daughter of King
Robert
III. Widow of
George
Earl of
Angus,
and of
James Kennedy
of
Dennure
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, by whom he had Sir
Robert Graham
of
Strathcar
n,
first of the Branch of the
Grahams
of
Finitrie
and
Claverhouse
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
. Second,
Patrick,
who being educated a Church man, and entring into Orders, was first promoted to the Episcopal See of
Bre
hen,
and translated thence to the Bishoprick of
St. Andrews,
then void by the Death of Bishop
Kennedy, Anno
1466. Third,
William,
of whom came the
Grahams
of
Garvock
Charta in Pub. Arch. etiam Charta penes Dominum de Duntreath.
and
Balgoun
Fourth,
Walter Graham
of
Wallacetoun
Charta penes me, ad Annum 1444, Pat. D. Graham Waltero Graham Avunculo suo, terrarum de Wallacetoun.
, who was the Ancestor of the
Grahams
of
Knockdolian
and its Cadets: And departing this Life in 1424
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
, his Estate and Honour devolved to
Patrick
his Grandson and Heir, who was appointed one of the Lords of the Regency in the Minority of King
James
II. and he prudently and faithfully discharged that Trust for several Years thereafter. He died in the Month of
January
1467
Ibidem.
, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife,
William
Lord
Graham
his Son and Heir, who married
Jean,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Angus
Charta penes me.
, and giving Way to Fate in the Beginning of the Year 1472, left Issue,
William
his Successor,
George,
of whom is the Branch of the
Grahams
of
Callender
Ibidem.
; and a Daughter,
Christian,
married to
James Halden
of
Gleneagle
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, and thereafter to Sir
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure.
Which
William
Lord
Graham,
adhered firmly to King
James
III, in the Time of his greatst Distress; and when that misfortunate Prince was forced to take the Field, and raise an Army in his own Defence, the Lord
Graham
resorted to him, and cheerfully took a Command in the Army, in which he continued till the Death of the King. He was also in great Favour with King
James
IV, who was graciously pleased, by Letters of Creation to raise him to the Dignity of Earl of
Montrose, March
3d, 1504
Charta penes Duoem de Montrose.
. He married first
Annabella,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Drummond
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
William
the Heir of the Family; next,
Janet,
Daughter of Sir
Archibald Edmonston
of
Duntreath
Charta penes Dominum de Duntreath.
, by her he had
Margaret,
espoused to
John
Earl of
Lennox; Elizabeth,
to
Walter Drummond
Grandson and Heir of
John
first Lord
Drummond
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
;
Nicolas,
to
William Murray
of
Aberairny;
and last of all,
Christian Wavane,
by whom he had Two Sons
Patrick,
first of the Family of
Inchbrakoe
Charta penes Dominum de Inchbracko, ad Annum 1513.
, out of which branch'd the
Grahams
of
Gorthy
in the County of
Perth;
and
Andrew,
who was the first Protestant Bishop of
Dunblain,
to which he was promoted upon the Deprivation of Bishop
Chisolme, Anno
1572
Charta penes D
cem de Montrose.
. This Earl was slain at
Flowdon
with King
James
IV.
September
9th, 1513.
William
the second Earl of
Montrose
was one of the Peers to whom
John
Duke of
Albany,
Regent of
Scotland,
in the Minority of King
James
V. committed the Tuition of the young King, when his Highness the Duke went over to
France,
to secure that Crown in the Interest of
Scotland.
He married
Janet,
Daughter of
William
Earl Marshal, by whom he had
Robert
Master of
Montrose,
who was slain at the Battle of
Pinky, Alexander
Pensioner of
Cambuskenneth, Mungo
and
William,
of whom the Families of
Killern
and
Orchil
are descended
Charta penes D. Orchil, etiam Charta penes D. Killern, Wil. C. de Montrose, Will. Graham fili
suo terrarum de Killern, Ibert & Drumbeg, ad Annum 1560.
. Likewise sundry Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Robert
Master of
Erskine, Elizabeth
to
John
Earl of
Caithness, Agnes
to Sir
William Murray
of
Tilybardin, Janet
to Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Balvaiad, Catharine
to
John Graham
of
Knockdolean,
and dying on the 24th of
May
1571, was succeeded by
John
his Grandson, Son of
Robert
Master of
Montrose,
by
Margaret
Daughter of
Malcolm
Lord
Fleeming.
Upon the Fall of the Earl of
Goury
the Lord Treasurer, this noble Lord got the White-Staff on the 1st of
May
1582, which he did not hold long, for upon another Turn at Court, the Earl demitted the Treasurer's Place to Sir
Thomas Lyon
of
Auldbar
in the End of the Year 1585; after which the Earl of
Montrose
continued in the Council, tho he had no other Office in the State, till the Chancelour's Place falling to vaik, by the Demise of
John
Lord
Thirlstane,
he was preferred thereunto in
January
1598, in which Station his Lordship continued till the 1604, that it being judged necessary that the Chancelour should be a Lawyer, his Lordship did resign the Place: But it was far from being done but with all imaginable Respect to his Lordship; for upon the Lord
Fivie
's being made Chancelour, the Earl of
Montrose
was made Viceroy of
Scotland
during Life
Charta penes D. de Montrose.
, which great Office he accordingly enjoyed till his Death,
November
9th 1608
Ibidem.
, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
David
Lord
Drummond, John
his Successor, Sir
Robert Graham
of
Innermeath,
Sir
William Graham
of
Braco;
and a Daughter
Lilias,
married to
John
1st Earl of
Wigtoun.
John
Earl of
Montrose,
being a Person of great Parts and Abilities, was after the Accession of King
Charles
I. to the Crown, named President of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and he enjoy'd the Office even till his Death,
November
24th 1626. By
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Gowrie,
he had
James
his Son and Heir, the first Marquis of
Montrose;
also Four Daughters,
Lilias
married to Sir
John Colquhoun
of
Luss
Bart. and had Issue;
Margaret
to
Archibald
first Lord
Napier; Dorothea
to
James
first Lord
Rollo; Beatrix
to
David
Lord
Maderty.
James
Earl, afternam'd Marquis of
Montrose,
was born in the 1612, having had the Misfortune to lose his Father when he was young, and being I think the only Son of the Family, his Friends, in order to raise up Heirs to his illustrious House, prevail'd with him, when he was but a Youth, to marry, which he did into a very noble Family: This Marriage broke off the Course, and gave a great Interruption to his Studies, but quickly finding the Loss he should sustain if he did not go thro' with his Education, he got good Masters at Home, and enter'd into a close Course of Study, wherein he made so great a Proficiency and Progress, that in a very little Time he became not only a great Master, but a Critick in the
Greek
and
Latin,
after which, for his greater Improvement, and giving an Ornament to his hopeful Person, he travel'd into Foreign Parts, where he spent some Years in attaining the Language, and in learning the Exercises then in Vogue, in which he excel'd most Men, and came over to
England,
by the Time he was Twenty two Years of Age.
He then betook himself to the Court, intending to live there in a View of serving the Crown, and of raising himself to those Honours and Imployments both his Birth and personal Qualifications did intitle him to; but in his Attendance there, meeting with some Discountenance of the King, which was very artfully brought about, he left the Court, and returning to
Scotland,
just before the breaking out of the Troubles, he joined with the discontented Party, who appeared most forward for the Redress of Grievances of the Church, which was all that was at that Time pretended, insomuch as he soon became one of the principal and most active Lords for the Covenant and Reformation: But after the first Expedition of the Covenanters into
England,
the Earl upon his Observation of the unwarrantable Prosecution of the Ends of the Covenant, he gave over that Party, and his Command in the Army; and made a full Tender of his Service to his Majesty, which brought him so much into the Jealousy of the Party he had formerly been of, that there was no Room left to doubt of his Sincerity to the King. The Earl of
Clarendon
does very unjustly insinuate in his History of the Civil War, that while the King was in
Scotland,
the Earl of
Montrose
offer'd to make away Two Great Men, he thinks, were not so cordial in the King's Interest as could have been wish'd; but as this Calumny is most false, as I am fully able from Original Writs and Papers to justify him from that Aspersion, so I shall offer no more here for his Vindication, but to declare to the World, and which I'm able to demonstrate, that the Marquis of
Montrose
was a Prisoner in the Castle of
Edinburgh,
for corresponding with the King from the Month of
June
1641 till
January
thereafter, and the King came down in
August
and returned in
November;
so 'tis clear he was a Prisoner all the while his Majesty was in
Scotland
Original Instructions of all this I have had the Honour to peruse in the Duke of Montrose's Custody.
. After his Releasment he liv'd most part privately at his Seat in the Country, till the Meeting of the Convention 1643, he privately withdrew out of
Scotland,
and came to the King a few Days before the Siege was rais'd from
Glocester,
and gave his Majesty the first clear Information of the Proceedings of the Convention, of the Resolutions would be there taken, and of the Posture the Kingdom would speedily be in; and made some Propositions to the King for the Remedy; which there was not, says the Earl of
Clarendon,
then Time to consult of: But assoon as his Majesty return'd to
Oxford,
after the Battle of
Newburry,
he was very willing to hearken to any Overture the Earl should make in Reference to what could be done, to prevent the Mischief was like to ensue to his Majesty's Affairs, by a Combination betwixt the
Scots
Covenanters and the
English
Parliament; wherefore, that his Majesty might have this important Affair brought to a full Resolution, he was pleas'd to hold several Conferences with the Earl: But all the Advances which were made toward the Execution of any Attempt for the King's Service, were check'd by his Majesty's not being able to give any Troops to the Earl, by the Protection whereof, the Loyal Party of the Kingdom might come to his Assistance, and discover their Affections to his Majesty, notwithstanding of which, the vigorous Spirit of the Earl of
Montrose,
stirred him up to make some Attempt, which he thought might be of Service to the King: And therefore proposed that his Majesty should give a Command to the Earl of
Antrim,
to raise, and send over a Body of Two Thousand Men, into the Highlands of
Scotland,
to be a Foundation for raising Forces there, and that if his Majesty would grant him a Commission to command that Army, he would himself be in the
Highlands
to receive them, and run his Fortune with them; and that if no Time were lost in prosecuting that Design, he did hope that by the Time the
Scots
Army should be ready to take the Field, they should receive such an Alarm from their own Country, as should hinder their Advance into
England
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
. Upon this Overture the King conser'd with the Two Lords, and finding the Earl of
Antrim
forward to undertake the raising as many Men as should be desir'd, his Majesty resolv'd to encourage it all he could; and therefore, that the Earl of
Montrose
might depart with the better Character, and Testimony of his Majesty▪ s Favour and good Opinion, and be thereby the better qualified to per form the great Trust reposed in him, his Majesty was pleased to give Order for a Warrant to make the Earl Marquis of
Montrose
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose, data 6 May, 1644.
, and gave him a Commission, constituting his Lordship Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of all the Forces to be rais'd in
Scotland
for his Majesty's Service; and so taking his Leave of the King, accompany'd with several Gentlemen, he began his Journey, as if he meant to make his Way in Company with them into
Scotland;
but after he had continued his Journey two or three Days in that Equipage, which he knew could be no Secret, and that it would draw the Enemies Troops together, for the Guard of all Passes to meet with him, the Marquis was found missing one Morning by his Company, who after some Stay and Enquiry returned back to
Oxford,
whilst this noble Person with incredible Address and Fatigue, had not only quitted his Company and his Servants, but his Horse also, and found a safe Passage, most Part on Foot, thro' all the Enemies Quarters, till he came to the very Borders
Clarendon.
; from whence, by the Assistance of Friends whom he trusted, he found himself secure in the Border of the
Highlands,
with his most faithful Friend the Laird of
Inchbrackie
Guthry's Memoirs.
; where he lay quiet without undertaking any Action, until the Earl of
Antrim
did make good so much of his Undertaking, that he sent over Colonel
Alexander M
Donald,
with a Regiment of Fifteen Hundred Soldiers, who landed in the
Highlands,
at or near the Place that had been agreed on
Bishop Wishart's Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose.
, where the Marquis was ready to receive him, which he did with great Joy, and quickly published his Commission of being General for the King over all the Kingdom.
With this Handful of Men thus brought together, with those Circumstances, he brought in so many of his Countrymen to join with him, as were soon strong enough to arm themselves at the Charge of their Enemies, whom they first defeated, and every Day encreased in Power, till he fought, and prevailed in the several Battles of
Tippermuir, Alfuird, Aldearn, Aberdeen, Inverlochy,
and
Kilsyth,
that he made himself in little more than one Year, upon the Matter, Master of the Kingdom; and did all those stupenduous Acts which are deservedly the Subject of a History excellently written in
Latin
by Dr.
George Wishart,
thereafter Bishop of
Edinburgh,
tho' very ill translated since by an unknown Hand.
After the Battle of
Kilsyth,
his Excellency the Marquis mareh'd Eastward, took the City of
Edinbutgh
The Bishop of Dunkeld's Memoirs.
; and advancing his Course toward
England,
he was unexpectedly attack'd by Major General
David Lesly,
with the whole Strength of the
Scots
Horse, at
Philiphaugh,
on the 13th of
September
1645
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs.
, where he was totally defeated; so that his future Triumph was not only prevented, but he was compel'd with great Loss to retire again to the
Highlands,
for recruiting of his Army, in which he had wonderfully succeeded, when he received his Majesty's positive Orders, while he was in the Hands of the
Scots
Army before
Newark,
to lay down his Arms by a certain Day prefixed, and to leave the Kingdom
Lord C
rendon's History.
, till when they pretended they could no
declare for his Majesty; and this was done with so much Earnestness, and by a particular Messenger known and trusted, that the Marquis obey'd and transported himself into
France,
toward the End of the Year 1646
Bishop Wishart's Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose. Clarendon.
, where he did for some Time reside, and took the Opportunity while he attended at that Court, to make some Overtures to Cardinal
Mazerine,
to raise any Army for the Service of the King, which the crafty Cardinal did not receive, says the Lord
Clarendon,
with that Regard the Marquis's great Name deserv'd. Thereupon his Excellency left
France,
and made a Journey into
Germany,
to the Emperor's Court; and thence to
Brussels,
where he lay privately, and as
incognito
for some Time, till he hear'd of the Murther of the King, that he came to the
Hague,
and presented himself to King
Charles
II. with the Tender of his Service
(c)
; and his Majesty received him with a very good Countenance, and as a most gracious Testimony of his great Fidelity and Merit, presented him with the Ensigns of the most noble Order of the Garter.
While the King remained at the
Hague,
there were at this Time, beside the Marquis of
Montrose,
and those of the Nobility who adhered to him, the Commissioners who came from the Council and the Kirk, to invite his Majesty into
Scotland,
and the Duke of
Hamilton,
and others of the Nobility who joined with him; and tho' there was nothing the King wished more than that some Expedient might be found out to unite all those Parties; especially that there might be an Union and Reconciliation betwixt
Mentrose
and the
Ha
iltonion
Faction, who had an equal Desire to serve the King, and were as much persecuted by the Party who then govern'd, as the Marquis was; yet the Animosity of each of them was such against him, that they were equally his implacable Enemies, insomuch as they did not only refuse to meet with him, but assoon as he came into the Room where they were, tho' his Majesty himself was present, they immediately withdrew and left the Room
Ibidem.
, and desir'd that the Marquis, whom they call'd
James Graham,
might be forbidden to come into his Majesty's Presence, because he stood excommunicated by the Kirk, and degraded and forfaulted by the Judicatory of the Kingdom: With which Demand his Majesty declared his being very much offended, which he made manifest by using the Marquis with the more Countenance, and in holding the more frequent Conferences with him.
But when the Marquis clearly perceived that it was not possible that the Lords of the other Parties would ever unite with him, and that his Attendance on the King might possibly bring some Prejudice to his Service, he therefore propos'd, that his Majesty would give him Letters and Credentials to several Princes in
Germany;
and to the Northern Crowns, by which he might appear Ambassador Extraordinary from the King, if he should find it expedient, to the End he might, by the Help of these Princes, obtain the Loan of Monies, Arms and Ammunition, to enable him to prosecute his intended Descent into
Scotland;
and the King, says my Author the Earl of
Clarendon,
glad that he did not press for ready Money, which he was not able to supply him with, gave him such Letters as he desir'd, and a Commission to gather such a Force together, as by the Help of those Princes he might be enabled to do: Upon which the Marquis went for
Hamburgh,
which he appointed for the Rendezvous for all those Troops, which he expected from
Germany,
and from whence he could in the mean Time visit such Courts of the Neighbour Princes, as he should be encouraged to do, and keep such Intelligence with his Friends in
Scotland,
as should provide for his Reception. In a Word, he sent or went in Person, both to
Sweden
and
Denmark,
where he found the Performance very disproportionable to the Hopes and Encouragement he had received from thence; so that the Marquis was obliged to return to
Hamburgh,
with very small Supplies, from either or both these Kingdoms; and there he received no better Account from those Officers whom he had sent to
Germany;
and therefore concluding upon the Whole, that all his Hopes from
Germany
and those Northern Princes would not increase the Strength he had already, which did not amount to above Five Hundred, he caus'd those Soldiers he had drawn together, to be imbark'd for
Scotland,
and sent Officers with them, who knew the Country, with Directions that they should land in such a Place, and remain there till he came to them, or sent them Orders; and then in another Vessel commanded by a Captain very faithful to the King, he embarked himself, and near an Hundred Officers, and landed in another Creek, not far from the other Place whither his Soldiers were directed; and both the one and the other Party were set safely on Shore, in the
Orkneys,
on the 15th of
April
1650
Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose.
; from thence he came over to
Caithness
History of the Revolutions in England, by a French Clergyman, where Montrose's Expedition is particularly narrated.
, and presently repair'd to the House of a Gentleman of Quality, with whom he corresponded; by whom he was well received, and thought himself to be in Security, till he might put his Affairs in some Method: After he had staid there a short Time, he quickly possess'd himself of an old Castle, which, in Respect of the Situation, in a Country so impossible for an Army to march in, thought strong enough for his Purpose. Thither he convoy'd the Arms, Ammunition and Troops, which he had brought with him; and then he published his Declaration,
That he came with the King's Commission, to assist those his good Subjects, and to preserve them from Oppression: That he did not intend to give any Interruption to the Treaty that he hear'd was enter'd into with his Majesty; but, on the contrary, hoped, that his being in the Head of an Army, how small soever, that was faithful to the King, might advance the same. However, he had given sufficient Proof in his former Actions, that if any Agreement were made with the King, upon the first Order from his Majesty, he should lay down his Arms, and dispose himself according to his Majesty's good Pleasure.
With these Declarations which he sent to his Friends, to be scatter'd by them, and dispersed among the People, as they could be able, he writ likewise to those of the Nobility, and the principal Heads of the
Highland
Clans, to draw such Forces together as they thought necessary, to join with him; and he received Answers from many of them, by which they desir'd him to advance more into the Low-Lands, and assured him, that they would resort to him, with good Numbers of their Friends and Followers, which many of them did prepare to do, with great Sincerity.
The Alarm of
Montrose
's Landing startled the Parliament, which was then sitting at
Edinburgh,
in so much, that it gave them no Leisure to think of any Thing else, than of sending Forces to hinder the Recourse of others to join with him; and therefore, sent Colonel
Strachan
with a choice Party of the best Horse they had, to make all possible Haste toward him, and to prevent the Insurrections which they feared would be in several Parts of the
Highlands;
and within few Days after, Lieutenant General
Lesly
followed with a stronger Party of Horse and Foot. The Encouragement the Marquis received from his Friends, and the Unpleasantness of the Quarters, in which he was, prevail'd with him to march with these few Troops more into the Land; and the
Highlanders
flocking to him from all Quarters, made him undervalue any Enemy who he thought was yet like to encounter him; and the Marquis being without any Body of Horse to discover the Motion of an Enemy, but depending upon all necessary Intelligence from the Affections of the People;
Strachan
made such Haste toward him, that he was within a small Distance of him, before he heard of his Approach, and those
Highlanders
who had seem'd to come with much Zeal to him, whether terrified or corrupted, left him on a sudden, or threw down their Arms; so that he had none left but a Company of good Officers, and Five or Six Hundred Foreigners,
Dutch
and
Germans;
with these he betook himself to a Place of some Advantage, by the Inequality of the Ground; and there they made a Defence for some Time with notable Courage; but the Enemy being so much superior in Number, the common Soldiers being all Foreigners, after about a Hundred of them were kill'd upon the Place, threw down their Arms; And the Marquis seeing all lost, threw away his Ribband and
George,
and found Means to change his Clothes with a Fellow of the Country; and so after having gone on Foot Two or Three Miles, he got into a House of a Gentleman,
M'Leod
of
Assint,
Mercurius Politicus ad Annum 1661.
, where he remain'd conceal'd about Two Days; but whether by the Owner of the House, or any other Way, the Marquis was discovered, and became their Prisoner, and was the next Day or soon thereafter delivered to the General, who was come up with his Forces, and had now nothing left to do, but to carry him in Triumph to
Edinburgh.
When he came to one of the Gates of
Edinburgh,
he was met by some of the Magistrates, to whom he was delivered, and by them presently put into a new Cart purposely made, in which there was a high Chair, or Bench, upon which he sat, that the People might have a full View of him, being bound with a Cord drawn over his Breast and Shoulders, and fasten'd thro' Holes made in the Cart. When he was in this Posture, the Hangman took off his Hat, and rode himself before the Cart in his Livery, and with his Bonnet on; the other Officers, who were taken Prisoners with him, walking Two and Two before the Cart; in this Manner he was carried to the common Goal, and received and treated as a common Malefactor.
Within Two Days after, he was brought before the Parliament, where the Chancellor made a very bitter and virulent Speech against him, told him,
He had broken all the Covenants by which the Nation stood obliged, and had impiously rebelled against GOD, the King and the Kingdom; that he had committed many horrible Murthers, Treasons and Impieties, for all which he was now brought to suffer condign Punishment;
with all those Reproaches, says my Author, against his Person and his Actions, which the Liberty of that Place gave him Leave to use.
Permission was then given him to speak, and without the least Trouble in his Countenance, or Disorder, upon all the Indignities he had suffer'd, he told them,
Since the King had own'd them
o far as to treat with them, he had appear'd before them with Reverence, and bare headed, which otherwise he would not willingly have done: That he had done nothing of which he was asham'd, or had Cause to repent; that the first Covenant, he had taken, and comply'd with it, and with them who took it, as long as the Ends for which it was ordain'd were observ'd; but when he discover'd, which was now evident to all the World, that private and particular Men design'd to satisfy their own Ambition and Interest, instead of considering the Publick Benefit; and that, under the Pretence of reforming some Errors in Religion, they resolv'd to abridge, and take away the King's just Power, and lawful Authority, he had withdrawn himself from that Engagement: That for the League and Covenant, he had never taken it, and therefore could not break it: And it was now too apparent to the whole Christian World, what monstruous Mischiefs it had produced: That when, under Colour of it, an Army from
Scotland
had invaded
England
in Assistance of the Rebellion that was then against their Lawful King, he had, by his Majesty's Command, received a Commission from him to raise Forces in
Scotland,
that he might thereby divert them from the other odious Persecution: That he had executed that Commission with the Obedience and Duty he ow'd to the King; and in all the Circumstances of it, had proceeded like a Gentleman; and had never suffer'd any Blood to be shed but in the Heat of the Battle; and that he saw many Persons there, whose Lives he had saved: that when the King commanded him, he laid down his Arms, and withdrew out of the Kingdom; which they could not have compell'd him to have done.
He said,
he was now again enter'd into the Kingdom by his Majesty's Command, and with his Authority: And what Success soever it might have pleased GOD to have given him, he would always have obeyed any Commands he should have received from him.
He advised them,
to consider well of the Consequence before they proceeded against him, and that all his Actions might be examin'd, and judged by the Laws of the Land, or those of Nations.
Assoon as he had ended his Discourse, he was ordered to withdraw; and, after a short Space, was again brought in; and told by the Chancellor,
That he was, on the Morrow, being the one and Twentieth of
May 1650,
to be carried to
Edinburgh
Cross, and there to be hanged up on a Gallows Thirty Foot high, for the Space of Three Hours, and then to be taken down, and his Head to be cut off upon a Scoffold, and hanged on
Edinburgh
Tolboth; his Legs and Arms to be hanged up in other publick Towns of the Kingdom, and his Body to be buried at the Place where he was to be executed, except the Kirk should take off his Excommunication; and then his Body might be buried in the common Place of Burial.
And 'tis admirable to consider with what Magnanimity & Firmness of Soul he heard the Judgment that condemned him to be quartered, concerning which he said to the Chancellor that pronounced it,
That he was prouder to have his Head set upon the Place it was appointed to be, than he could have been to have had his Picture hang in the King's Bed-Chamber: That he was so far from being troubled, that his Four
Limbs were to be hang'd in Four principal Cities of the Kingdom, that he heartily wished he had Flesh enough to be sent to every City in
Christendom,
as a Testimony of the Cause for which he suffer'd.
He desir'd after the Sentence to have said somewhat to the Parliament, but was not suffer'd, and so was carried back to Prison; and the next Day every Part and Circumstance of the Sentence was executed upon him with all the Inhumanity imaginable; and he bore it with all the Courage and Magnanimity, and the greatest Piety that a good Christian could manifest. When he had ended all he had to say, and was expecting to expire, they acted yet one Scene more of their Barbarity upon him; the Hangman brought the Book that had been published, of his truly Heroick Actions whilst he commanded in the Kingdom, which, together with his Declaration, was tied in a small Cord, that was put about his Neck. At this new Instance of their Malice the Marquis smil'd, and thanked them for it, and said,
he was glad it should be there, and was prouder of wearing it, than ever he had been of the Garter.
and so renewing some devote Ejaculations, he patiently endured the last Act of the Executioner.
Thus died the gallant Marquis of
Montrose,
after he had given, says the Earl of
Clarendon,
in his Character of him,
'as great a Testimony of Loyalty and Courage as a Subject can do, and performed as wonderful Actions in several Battles, upon as great Inequality of Numbers, and as great Disadvantages in Respect of Arms, and other Preparations for War, as have been performed in this Age.' And he adds, 'That
Montrose
was in his Nature fearless of Danger, and never declined any Enterprise for the Difficulty of going thro' with it, but exceedingly affected those which seem'd desperate to other Men, and did believe somewhat to be in himself above other Men, which made him live more easy towards those who were, or were wi
ing to be inferior to him, toward whom he exercised wonderful Civility and Generosity, than with his Superiors or Equals. He was naturally jealous, and suspected those who did not concur with him in the Way, not to mean so well as he. He was not without Vanity, but his Vertues were much superior, and he well deserved to have his Memory preserv'd and celebrated amongst the most illustrious Persons of the Age in which he liv'd.'
His Body was interr'd at the Place of Execution, where it rested till the Restoration of the King, that by his Majesty's special Appointment, his scattered Parts were gathered together and deposited in the Abbey-Church of
Holy-Rood-House,
where it remained till the 14th of
May
1661, his Corps was with the greatest Magnificence and Solemnity that could be devised, carried to the Cathedral Church of St.
Giles,
and interr'd in the Isle belonging to his Family
Relation of the Funerals of the great Marquis of Montrose, printed in 1661.
, b
i
g accompanied by the Lord High Commissioner, the Earl of
Middleton,
and all the Members of Parliament, to the Grave; over which this Inscription was intended to be set up, which I have for the Satisfaction of the Curious, here insert.
Immortali verae Nobilitatis, inaequandae Magnanimitatis, incontaminati Honoris, & intemeratae Fidelitatis, Magni
GRAMI,
M.S.
SI quis hic jacet quaeris, Viator, Magnus hic est ille
Montis-Rosarum
March
, generosi genii suae Famil
ae generosus Haeres, qui virescentibus adhuc (licet ann
sis) majorum suorum pal
nis tot victrices contexuit lauros, ut si omnes
illi huic uni an unus hic illis omnibus plus Gloriae contulerii scire sii nefas. Hic est nobilis ille
Montis-Rosarum
Marchio, qui si Prosapia an Virtute illustrior, Consilio an Dextra prompiior, Aulae an Castris charior, Principibus suis an exteris gratior, Perduellionis Malleus durior, an Monarchiae Assertor acrior, Fama an Fortuna clarior, in Vita denique insignior an in Morie constantior exstiterit, dictu difficile. Hic est, Viator, magnus ille Dux Ducum sui seculi facile Prin ceps; Dux qui cum Peditum manipulo (ne dicam Exercitulo) pene inermi, Victus & Amictus inope, Causae, Aequitati, Du cis Magnanimitati & Gladiis confiso suis, ingentes Hostium Acies armatas duodecim mensium (plus minus) Spatio sep ties vidit, vicit, delevit. Majora haec
Caesaris
oculata Victoria. Sed proh instabilem lubrici Fati rotam! qui Arma, Castra, Oppida, Turres, Propugnacalo, qui Frigus, Famem, Sit
, inaccessa montium juga, immo omnia superare consueverat tandem maligno Fortunae Errore victus, nequissimè Hostibus traditus, quid non passus! Protomartyris Regis sui Martyr pedissequus plus quam barbaro
nimicorum Furori (nisi tam generoso S
nguine implacabili) & effraenae Praest igiatorum Druidum Insolentiae Victima oblatus, invictam Malis exspiravii Animam. Sic concidit nobile illud Diadematis Ful
rum, sic occidit resplendens ille
Caledoniae
Ph
sphorus, sic occubuii magnus ille Martis Alumnus, & cum illo Mascula quaeque superfoetantis Virtutis Soboles, per Obstitrices indigenas ipsis
Aegyptiis
crudeliores trucidata. Post undecennium Ossa effodi, Membra recol. ligi, & per Proceres & Regni Comitia à Coenobio Regio S. Crucis per Metropolim, summo cum Splendore ad Aedes D.
Aegidio
sacras comitata, impensis suis Regiis sub hoc Monumento magnifico, cum Avo suo nobili, quondam
Scotiae
Prorege, sepeliri mandavit August issimus Regum
Carolus II.
Imperio suo divinitus restitutus. Vale Viator, & quisquis es, immensam ferenissimi Principis erga suos Pietatem & posthumum hunc Magni
GRAMI
pristinae suae Gloriae redivivi cole
Triumphum.
The noble Marquis married
Magdalen,
Daughter of
David,
first Earl of
Southesk,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir.
This noble Lord was too young to have had a Part in the War under his Father: After whose Death being divested of his Estate, he liv'd quietly and privately under the Powers that then prevail'd, retaining his Affection and Fidelity to the Crown, which he made manifest in performing all the Offices of Fidelity and Duty to the King, throughout the whole Course of the Usurpation, that a generous and worthy Person could find any Opportunity for; with which his Majesty was abundanty satisfied and pleas'd.
Upon the Return of the King, the Marquis was restor'd to his Estate, and the Act of his Father's Forfaulture repell'd, and he was nam'd one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy-Council: But that which was thought strange, and administred much Discourse, both then and afterwards, was, that his Lordship was not preferr'd to any of the great Offices of the Crown, considering the transcendent Merit of his Father, and the great Value and Esteem the King had of himself, as a Nobleman of great Honour and Integrity; but the Reason I have ever hear'd assign'd for it, was, that the Marquis did not affect any publick Character, a Life of Privacy and Quiet being really his own Choice, and what was more suited to his Humour and Nature; and dying in the Month of
February,
in the 1669
Charta in Cancellaria, S. D. N. R.
, was upon the 23d of of
April
thereafter interr'd at the Chapel of
Aber-Ruthven
in
Perth
Shire, where the Bones of his Ancestors were committed to their Rest, and his Funeral Sermon was preached by Dr.
Alexander Burnet,
then Arch-Bishop of
Glasgow,
wherein he gave the Marquis a very good Character. He was a Nobleman of great Honour and Probity, so great a Lover of Justice, and so strict in the Observation of his Word and Promise, that no Man was ever more worthy the Title of,
An honest Man.
He married
Isobel,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton,
Widow of
Robert,
first Earl of
Roxburgh,
by whom he had
James
his Successor, and Lord
Charles,
who died a young Man of great Hopes and Courage; like wise three Daughters,
Lady
Anne,
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Calendar.
Lady
Jean
to Sir
Jonathan Urquhart
of
Cromarty.
Lady
Grisel
to Mr.
William Co
hran
of
Kilmaronock,
Son to
William
Lord
Cochran.
James
Marquis of
Montrose
his Son was a Nobleman of great Parts, which were improved by a good Education. Upon the Death of his Father the King took him into his immediate and eminent Care, made him first, Captain of the Guard; and then, that he might fit him by Degrees for the greatest Trust and Employments, preferr'd him to be President of the Privy-Council; but Death overtook him not long thereafter, in the Prime of his Years, upon the 25th of
April
1684
Charta in Cancellatia, S. D. N. R. data 23d February 1705.
, to the general Regret of the whole Nation, and the particular Sorrow of his own Relations, who lamented his Death exceedingly, as a great Loss to his Family. By
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Duke of
Rothes,
he had only a Son
James,
the present Duke of
Montrose.
This noble Lord being a Person of very bright and distinguishing Parts, and the Head of a very noble Family, that had in no Time swerv'd in its Fidelity to the Crown, her Majesty Queen
Anne,
soon after he came to Age, called him to her Privy-Council, made him first, Lord High Admiral of
Scotland,
in the Beginning of the 1705
Ibidem, data 28 February 1706.
, and then Lord President of the Council in little more as a Year thereafter
Ibidem.
; in which Station, and in all other Capacities, his Lordship did exert himself with the most ardent Zeal and Vigour, in promoting the Succession to the Crown in the Protestant Line, and on that Account did all he could to consolidate the Two Kingdoms in an incorporating Union, and thereby giving a Sanction to the Title of the most serene House of
Hanover,
to the Crown of this Realm; in Consideration whereof, as well as in Respect of his Lordship's personal Merit, and in Honour of his noble Family, for which the Queen did always prosess a very great Value and Regard, her Majesty was pleas'd by Letters Patent 24th of
April
1707, to make the Marquis Duke of
Montrose
Ibidem.
; and 'tis to be observed as a special Instance of her Majesty's more immediate Favou
, that the Honour was not restricted to the Heirs Male of the Duke's own Body; but was to descend to his Heirs of Entail.
His Grace continued Lord President of the Council, till the Parliament of
Great Britain
thought fit to dissolve the
Scots
Privy-Council some Time after the commencing of the Union, that the Duke of
Montrose
was made Lord Privy-Seal, upon the Removal of the Duke of
Queensberry,
the 28th
February
1709; and he held that Office, till the 1713
Ibid.
, he was laid aside for not complying with the Measures of the Court during the Earl of
Oxford
's Administration, and the Duke of
Athole
was made Privy-Seal in his Place.
The Duke's firm and inviolable Adherence to the Protestant Succession, which his Grace had so early, and with so much Zeal maintain'd and asserted, could not fail to intitle him to a more than ordinary Favour of the illustrious Family, in whom the Right was established by Law; and therefore, when the Successor, his Electoral Highness the Duke of
Brunswick
was by Act of Parliament impower'd to nominate so many Persons as he should think proper, to be joined with the Seven great Officers of State, in the Administration of the Government till his Arrival
An Historical Account of the Affairs of Great Britain, with the most remarkable Occurrences from the Accession of King George to the Throne, 1714.
, his Royal Highness did repose such Confidence in the Duke's Affection and Fidelity to his Interest, that he had the Honour to be named one of the Lords of the Regency: But being at his Seat in the Country when the Act of Settlement of the Crown did actually take Effect, by the Demise of Queen
Anne,
of glorious Memory, on the 31st of
July
1714, his Grace made Haste to
Edinburgh,
where he was present at the Proclamation of King
George;
and taking Post for
London,
he arrived there on the 10th of
August
thereafter, where he concur'd cordially and chearfully with the other Lords Justices, in taking Care to issue out such Orders as were necessary to support the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, and to secure the Peace and Tranquillity of the Kingdom. King
George
having arrived in
Britain
on the 18th of
September,
Six Days thereafter his Majesty was pleased to appoint his Grace the Duke to be One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in the Room of the Earl of
Mar,
and in a very gracious Manner to honour him with several distinguishing Marks of his Royal Favour.
His Grace married the Lady
Christian Carnegie,
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Northesk,
a Lady of the most consummated Vertue, by whom he had
James
Lord
Graham,
who died in his Infancy,
David
Marquis of
Graham,
Lord
William;
and a Daughter, Lady
Margaret.
ARMS.
Quarterly First and Fourth on a Chief,
Sable,
Three Escalops of the First. Second and Third,
Argent,
Three Roses,
Gules.
Supporters, Two Storks proper. Crest, a Falcon
Azure,
killing a Heron,
Argent.
Motto,
Nè Obliè.
MONYPENNY, Lord
Monypenny.
THE first of this Surname I have found upon Record, was
Richardus de Monypenny,
who in the Reign of King
Alexander
II. obtained from
Thomas,
Prior of St.
Andrews,
the Lands of
Pitmulin,
in the Shire of
Fife
Sir Robert Sibbald's History of the Shire of Fife.
, which Lands of
Pitmilly
his Posterity enjoy even to this Time.
Sir
William Monypenny
of
Monypenny,
Kt. a Son of this Family, having faithfully served King
James
I. and II. in divers Foreign Negotiations, with Diligence, Honour, and Success, was in Reward of these his acceptable Services, by the special Favour of King
James
II. rais'd to the Honour of Lord
Monypenny, May
1st, 1450
Charta in Pub. Archivis, whereby several Lands are erected into the Barony of Monypenny, in Favours of this Sir William, after which he's always designed in the Records, Wil
elmus Dominus Monypenny.
. He left a Son,
Alexander
Lord
Monypenny
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, who having no Male Issue of his Body, exchanged the Barony of
Earlshall
in
Fife,
with Sir
Alexander Bruce,
for his Lands call'd
Escariot
in
France, Anno
1495
Ibidem.
, and the Peerage fail'd in himself.
DOUGLASS, Lord
Mordington.
SIR
James Douglass,
Second Son to
William
Earl of
Angus,
having married
Anne
only Daughter and Heir of
Laurence
Lord
Oliphant,
was by the Favour of King
Charles
I. created Lord
Mordington,
with the Precedency of the Peerage of
Oliphant.
By the said
Anne
his Wife, he had Issue
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
Robert
Lord
Semple.
Which
William,
by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
Hugh,
Lord
Semple,
had
James
his Successor, who married . . . . . . . . Daughter of
Alexander
Viscount of
Kingston,
and left Issue
George
the present Lord.
DOUGLASS, Earl of
Morton.
THE first of this collateral Branch of the illustrious Family of
Douglass,
was Sir
James Douglass
of
Louden,
Kt. who in the First of King
Robert
the
Bruce, Anno
1306, had a Grant from that Prince of the Lands of
Kincavel
and
Calderclear,
and to his Heirs
Charta penes Comitem de Morton.
. He left Issue Two Sons, Sir
William Douglass,
Lord of
Lydsdale,
who, for his Bravery was call'd,
The Flower of Chivalry,
who died without Issue,
Anno
1353, and Sir
John Douglass,
Captain of the Castle of
L
chliven,
under King
David
II. who in the Minority of that King strenuously defended that Fort against the
English,
who ofnter than once assaulted it, for which Service to his Country, the Historians of that Time have not been wanting to transmit such a Character of him to Posterity, as his Merit deserved. By
Agnes Monfode
his Wife
Ibidem.
, he had Issue Sir
James Douglass
of
Dalkieth,
his Son and Heir, Sir
Henry Douglass
of
Lugton
and
Lochliven,
Progenitor to the present Earl of
Morton,
and
Nicolus,
of whom the Branch of the
Douglasses
of
Mains
Ibidem.
, in the County of
Dunbarton.
Sir
James
succeeded his Father in his paternal Estate, and his Uncle the Lord
Lydsdale,
in the Baronies of
Dalkieth
and
Aberdour;
and the rest of his Fortune, which was of great Exte
and Value, whereby he came to be placed among the first Rank of the greater Barons. He married first
Agnes Dunbar,
Daughter to the Earl of
March
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir,
William Douglass,
design'd of
Mordington
Ibidem.
; likewise Three Daughters,
Janeta
married to Sir
John Hamilton
of
Cadzio
Ibidem, ad Annum 1388.
,
Agnes
to Sir
John Livingston
of
Calendar
Ibidem, ad Annum 1381.
,
Margaret
to
Philip Arbuthnot
of That Ilk
Ibidem, ad Annum 1372.
; next,
Giles,
Daughter of
Walter,
Lord High Stewart of
Scotland,
Widow both of Sir
David Lindsay
of
Crawford,
and of Sir
Hugh Eglington
of That-Ilk
Ibidem.
by whom he had no Issue.
James
Lord
Dalkieth,
his Son, married the Lady
Elizabeth Stewart,
Daughter of King
Robert
III.
Charta penes Comitem de Morton, Roberti tertii dilecto filio suo Jacobo Douglass, filio & haer
j Jacobi de Douglass, Domini de Dalkieth, & sponsae suae Elizabethae, filiae nostrae carissimae, ad Annum 1402.
, by whom he had
James
his Successor; and after her Death,
Janet,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Borthwick,
by whom he had
William Douglass,
the first of the House of
Whitingham
Ibid.
.
Which
James
married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Douglass;
and after that
Elizabeth,
Daughter of . . . . .
Giffard
of
Shireffhall,
by whom he had
James,
thereafter Earl of
Morton,
and
Henry Douglass,
first of
Corhead
Ibid.
and
Lang Niddry.
Which
James
was, by the special Favour of King
James
II. rais'd to the Dignity of Earl of
Morton,
in Parliament on the 14th of
March
1457
Ibid.
. He married the Lady
Jean,
Daughter of King
James
I. Dowager Countess of
Angus
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, by whom he had
John
his Successor, who married
Janet,
Daughter of . . . . . . . .
Crichton
of
Cranston-Riddle.
By her he had
James
his Son and Heir,
Richard Douglass,
Esq
Elizabeth
married to
Robert
Lord
Kieth,
and
Agnes
to
Alexander
Lord
Livingston.
Which
James
married
Catharine,
Natural Daughter of King
James
IV. by whom he had Three Daughters,
Margaret
married to
James
Earl of
Arran,
thereafter Duke of
Chattlerault.
Beatrix
to
Robert
Lord
Maxwell.
Elizabeth
to
James Douglass,
Son of Sir
George Douglass
of
Pittendrich.
This Earl having no Male Issue of his Body, made an Entail of his Estate and Honour to
Robert Douglass
of
Lochliven,
a Male Relation of his own, which was ratified by a Charter under the Great-Seal of King
James
V.
Anno
1540
Charta penes Comitem de Morton.
, But after the Death of that King, the Earl having it still in his Power to alter that Destination any Time in his own Life, thought fit actually to change the Settlement, and to make a new Convoyance of his Estate and Honour to
James Douglass
his Son-in-Law; by Vertue of which he came to enjoy both on the Death of the old Earl, in the 1553, but he having no Issue by his Lady the Earl of
Morton
's Daughter, in the 1567, made an Entail of the Earldom of
Morton,
in Favours of
Archbald
Earl of
Angus
his own Nephew, and in Case of Failure of his Issue Male, to
William Douglass
of
Lochliven,
Son to the before-mentioned
Robert,
who had been slain in the Service of his Country, at the Battle of
Pinky;
which Settlement thereafter took Place upon the Death of the Earl of
Angus.
In the 1558. the Earl of
Morton
was one of the Peers who entered into a Bond of Association to promote the Reformation of Religion, and the Year thereafter was sent Ambassador to
England
to treat with Queen
Elizabeth,
about the maintaining a firm and lasting Peace betwixt the Two Crowns, when he established himself so much in the Favour of that Princess, that her Friendship was never in any Degree diminished toward him till his dying Day.
After Queen
Mary
returned home from
France
in 1561, her Majesty made Choice of the Earl as one of her Privy-Council, and in less than a Year thereafter, he was sent Ambassador to the Queen of
England,
in which Negotiation he behaved himself with great Prudence and Dexterity, insomuch as upon his Return he was prefer'd to be Lord High-Chancellor; and he continued in the Office till the 20th of
March
1565, he was deprived, and forced to flee to
England,
for alledged Accession to the Murder of
David Rizio,
the Queen's
French
Secretary: But in a short Time thereafter, by the Mediation and Interposition of the Earl of
Bothwell,
he obtained his Pardon, which he paid dear for afterward; for that Earl thought by this Favour, to bring the Earl of
Morton
over to his Interest; but he soon found himself mistaken. For tho' he had all Duty and Gratitude to him as a Friend, yet the wicked Earl
Bothwel
did no sooner propose to him the Design, and craved his Assistance, toward the Murder of the Lord
Darnly,
the Queen's Husband, as a Piece of Service which would be very acceptable to her Majesty; but he conjured him to lay
side the Thoughts of so base and unworthy an Enterprize; and which would be attended with so much Infamy and Danger: And when he could not prevail in that Point, in Testimony he did abhor so detestable a Design, he left the Court, and retired to the Country, when that bloody and barbarous Tragedy was to be acted. And I think the Earl of
Morton
's Circumstances at this Time, cannot but be pitied; for if he had revealed the Earl of
Bothwel
's Design of taking away the King's Life, it had cost him his own; and his concealing it then, brought him to die upon a Scaffold many Years thereafter.
After the Murder of King
Henry,
when the Nation, both Protestants and Papists, began to be alarmed with the Queen's Marriage with the Earl of
Bothwell,
who was shrewdly suspected as the Murderer of her former Husband, and the Danger the young Prince was in by such an Union; the Earl of
Morton
was one of the most forward among the Nobility, who enter'd into an Association for the Preservation of the Prince; and when the Queen resigned the Government to the End her Son might be invested in the Sovereignty the Earl of
Morton
took the Coronation Oath for the Infant King, at his Inauguration, on the 29th of
July
1567.
In this new Turn of Affairs the Earl of
Morton's
Share was so considerable, that assoon as the Earl of
Murray
had accepted the Regency, the Earl of
Morton
was declared Chancellor, upon the Removal of the Earl of
Huntly,
who adhered to the Queen, and made heritable Lord High Admiral of
Scotland,
and Sheriff-Principal of
Edinburgh
-Shire
Charta penes Comitem de Morton, ad Annum 1570.
. He held the Chancellor's Place till the 24th of
November
1572, he was by the unanimous Choice of the King's Party, elected Regent, a Month after the Death of his Predecessor in Office, the Earl of
Mar.
I shall not here enter upon the Detail of the Earl of
Morton
's Administration during his Regency, that would not consist with the Brevity of this Work; and generally his Proceedings are complain'd of on one Side, or commended on the other, as Opinions and Party lead Men to, I shall only take Notice, that the first Motion he made to resign the Government in the 1578, was accepted in a general Convention of the Nobility, wherein it was agreed to, that the young King should take upon him the Administration, when he was not full Thirteen Years of Age; and yet the new Court kept fair with the Earl, for they procur'd a Parliament to be call'd, wherein the late Regent obtain'd a Remission and Exoneration during his Regency, in the most ample Manner he himself could devise; and after that he play'd his Game so well, that he was in a short Time again made President of the Council,
and was in great Credit with his Majesty
Melvil's Memoirs.
; but that being what was not at all acceptable to the other Party, who had the young King in their Hands, and who were willing to be rid of the Earl of
Morton
at any Rate; for that End Sir
John Mattland
and Sir
Robert Melvil,
his profess'd Enemies, brought about his Ruin, by pushing on Captain
James Stewart,
the Lord
Ochiltree
's Son, to accuse him as accessory to the Murder of the King's Father, which the Captain did before the Council, where the Earl himself was present, on the 31st of
December
1580; whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Castle of
Edinburgh,
and was thence sent under a strong Guard to
Dunbarton;
from whence he was on the first of
June
thereafter brought to his Tryal at
Edinburgh;
and being found guilty by his Peers, of
Art and Part
in the Murther of the King's Father, in so far as he had conceal'd and not revealed it when the Earl of
Bothwell
propos'd it to him; he was condemn'd to be hang'd, drawn and quarter'd, which the King was pleas'd to mitigate so far, that instead of being hanged, he had the Favour to be beheaded, which was accordingly execute on him at the Cross of
Edinburgh,
on the 2d of
June
1581.
Upon the Death and Forfaulture of the Regent, the Title of, Earl of
Morton
was bestowed upon the Lord
Maxwell;
but his Majesty having recalled and revoked that Deed, and being further willing and desirous, that all Animosities and Grounds of Contention among the Nobility might be removed, for that End a Parliament was call'd in the 1585, wherein his Majesty pass'd an Act of Oblivion, whereby every Body who had been forfaulted during the Troubles in the King's Minority were indemnified, except such as had been accessory to his Father's Murder: And tho' the Earl of
Morton
had been convicted of that Crime, and suffer'd for it, yet his Majesty considering,
Bona, fidelia, gratuita Servitia Nobis facta per quondam Comitem de
Morton,
in Gubernatione & Administratione Nostri Regni; nec non alia debita & egregia Officia Nobis in Nostra Minoritate per ipsum praestita & impensa; considerantes etiam quod dictus quondam Comes de
Morton,
nullatenus conscius fuit Artis & Partis dicti Criminis, neque ejusdem Fac
noris & Caedis Perpetrationi ullatenus consensit, sed tantummodo predict
m Caedem praecognovit, & celavit; quam ob causam praefatus Comes de
Morton
in Corpore satis superque luit juxta dictam Sententiam Forisfacturae contra eum latam & promulgatam, unde Legibus & Nostro Honori abunde ex hac Parte satisfactum fuit
Charta penes Comitem de Morton, data 2
January, 1585.
.
Nos igitur,
&c. For these and other Reasons, his Majesty was pleased by Letters under his Great Seal, in Pursuance of the Act of Parliament to rehabilitate the Earl of
Morton,
in the most ample Manner, thereby enabling his Heirs to succeed to his Lands and Honours, by Vertue whereof,
Archbald
Earl of
Angus,
the Earl's Nephew, did succeed as Heir of Entail to the Earldom of
Morton,
and which he accordingly enjoyed till his Death, which happen'd in the 1588, the Estate and Title of Earl of
Morton,
came to
William Douglass
of
Lochliven,
as the next Heir of Entail
Ibidem ad Annum 1589.
. This Earl so succeeding, married
Agnes,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Rothes;
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir apparent, who perished going over to the Low Countries in the 1583
Hume's Hist. of Douglass.
, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Lord
Glames
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, a Son
William,
who succeeded his Grandfather. The Earl's second Son was
James
Commendator of
Melross,
the Third Sir
Archbald Douglass
of
Kirkness,
the Fourth Sir
George Douglass
of
Killour;
likewise Five Daughters,
Christian
married to
Laurence
Master of
Oliphant,
and thereafter to
Alexander
first Earl of
Hume.
Mary
to Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Findlater,
first Lord
Deskford.
Eupham
to Sir
Thomas Lyon
of
Aldbar
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ad Annum 1589.
, Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
James
VI.
Agnes
to
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle.
Elizabeth
to
Francis
Earl of
Errol.
This Earl dying on the 27th of
September
1606
Hist. Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Authore Arch. Symson, Pastore Dalkiethensi, M.S. in Bibliotheca Academiae Glasguensis.
, was succeeded by
William
his Grandson and Heir, who being a Nobleman of great Parts and Reputation, was by King
Charles
I. call'd to his Council, and thereafter prefer'd to be Lord High Treasurer,
Anno
1630, upon the Surrender of the Earl of
Mar
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I data 12 April 1630.
; and he continued Treasurer till the 1635, he was removed, and the White Staff given to the Earl of
Traquair;
in Recompence of which he was constituted Captain of his Majesty's Guard, and installed a Knight of the Garter.
He married
Agnes,
Daughter of
George
Earl Marischal, and dying the 7th of
October
1648
Memoirs of William Earl of Morton, the Treasurer, penes me.
, left Issue
Robert
his Successor, Sir
James Douglass,
thereafter Earl of
Morton, John,
who was kill'd in the King's Service at
Carbersdale, in
1650
Memoirs of the Family of Morton.
, and
George Douglass,
Esq
likewise Five Daughters,
Anne
married to
George
Earl of
Kinoule.
Margaret
to
Archbald
Marquis of
Argyle.
Mary
to
Charles
Earl of
Dunfermling.
Jean
to
James
Earl of
Hume.
Isobel
to
Robert
first Earl of
Roxburgh;
and again to
James
Marquis of
Montrose.
Which
Robert
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Edward Williers,
Sister to the Lord Viscount
Grandison,
and Niece to the great Duke of
Buckingham,
and dying
Anno
1649, left Issue,
William
his Successor, and Two Daughters,
Anne
married to
William
Earl Marischal; and
Mary
to Sir
Donald Macdonald
of
Slate,
Bart.
Which
William
married
Grisel,
Daughter of
John
first Earl of
Middleton
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
; but dying without Issue 1681, his Estate and Honour devolved on Sir
James Douglass
his Uncle, who dying 25th of
August,
1686
Memoirs of the Earls of Morton.
, left Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of Sir
James Hay
of
Smithfield,
Three Sons.
James
his Successor, who was one of the Lords of the Privy Council in the Reign of Queen
Anne,
and one of the Commissioners for the late Treaty of Union, which commenced in 1707. He died a Batchellor 10th
December
1715.
Robert,
the present Earl, a Peer of good Parts, of great Integrity, and well affected to the Crown and Protestant Interest, as his Predecessors were.
Colonel
George Douglass,
a Member of the present Parliament.
ARMS.
Quarterly First and Fourth
Argent,
a Hart,
Gules,
crown'd with an Imperial Crown,
Or,
on a Chief,
Azure,
Three Mollets of the First. Second and Third,
Argent,
Three Pyles,
Gules,
and in Chief, Two Stars of the First, supported by Two Savages wreath'd about the Head and Middle with Lawrel, holding a Club downward in their Dexter Hand. Crest, a Sanglier proper, sticking in the Clift of an Oak-Tree, with a Lock holding the Clifts of the Tree together. Motto,
Lock Sicker.
RANDOLPH, Earl of
Murray.
THE Earldom of
Murray
is of a very ancient Erection, for in the Reign of King
David
I.
Angus
Earl of
Murray,
rais'd a Rebellion in the Northern Parts,
Anno
1330
Chron. Sanctae Crucis de Edinburc, mentions, that in 1130, Anegus Comes Moraviensis, a Scotis interfectus est.
, which ended in the Ruin of himself and his Abettors.
King
Robert the Bruce,
in the 1321 gave the Earldom of
Murray,
to his Favourite Nephew, the renown'd Sir
Thomas Randolph,
comprehending
omnes Terras suas in
Moravia,
sicut fue runt in Manibus Domini
Alexandri
Regis
Scotorum,
Predecessoris nostri ultimo defuncti
Haddington's Collections from the Publick Records.
. This nobel Earl was upon the Death of his Uncle, King
Robert,
by the unanimous Consent of the Estates, as well as by the Destination of the King, named Regent to the young King,
David
II. but before he had continued two full Years in that exalted Station, which he very worthily discharged, he was taken away by Death in the 1331, leaving Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Alexander Stewart
of
Bonkil, John
his Son and Heir, and several Daughters,
Agnes
married to
Patrick,
Earl of
March,
and
Isobel
to Sir
William Murray,
Kt.
Which
John
did eminently signalize himself in his Loyalty to King
David,
and in his Affection and Duty to his Country, during all the Attacks were made upon our Constitution, either by the
English
or a disloyal Party of our own Country-Men, who adhered to
Edward Bal
ol
at that Time.
He married
Eupham,
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Ross,
but was slain fighting gallantly in the Service of his Country, at the Battle of
Durham,
in 1346
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, leaving no Issue, so that his Estate and Title devolved to the Countess of
March
his Sister, in whose Right, or by the Courtesy of
Scotland,
the Earl her Husband design'd himself Earl of
March
and
Murray.
DUNBAR, Earl of
Murray.
IN the 1373, King
Robert
II. did by his Royal Charter under the Great Seal, erect the Earldom of
Murray
in Favours of
John Dunbar,
the Earl of
March
's Son, and
Marjory
his Wife, the King's Daughter
Charta in Rotulis Roberti II. data in pleno Parliamento, 9 March, Anno Regni R. R. Secundo.
, and to their Heirs.
They had Issue,
Thomas
Earl of
Murray,
and
Alexander Dunbar
of
Frendraught.
This
Thomas
was the Father of another Earl of the Name of
Thomas,
one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I. but dying without Issue Male, his Estate and Title fell to
James Dunbar
of
Frendraught,
his Cousin, who espoused first
Isobel,
a Lady of the Family of the
Inneses,
who bare him a Son Sir
Alexander Dunbar,
who was thereafter Sheriff of
Murray:
But this Lady dying before the Marriage could be consummated according to the Rites of the
Romish
Church, which behoved to proceed upon a Dispensation, by Reason of Consanguinity betwixt the Parties. The Earl married again
Janet,
Daughter to the Earl of
Huntly,
by whom he had Two Daughters,
Janet
the Elder, marry'd to the Lord
Crichton
's Son, and
Marion
the Younger to
Archbald Douglass,
Son to the Earl of
Douglass,
who in Right of his Wife was Earl of
Murray,
but unhappily taking Part with his Brother the Earl of
Douglass,
in his Rebellion, in the Reign of King
James
II. was forfaulted with him and others his Adherents, in 1455.
STEWART, Earl of
Murray.
FROM the Time of King
James
III, the Earldom of
Murray
continued in the Crown, and there remained till the Reign of King
James
V. that that Prince by Letters Patent, bearing Date on the 20th of
J
ne
1501
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, gave it to
James Stewart
his Natural Son, whom he had by
Jean Kennedy,
the Lord
Kennedy
's Daughter, his Paramont.
He married
Isobel,
Daughter to the Earl of
Argyle,
and dying 12th of
June
1544, left only one Daughter
Mary
married to
John
Master of
Buchan,
so the Earldom of
M
rray
went back again to the Crown; and being in the Sovereign's Disposal, Queen
Mary
on the 18th of
February
1548
Ibid. in Rotuiis Mariae R.
, gave it to
George
Earl of
Huntly:
But her Majesty recalling that Deed, she was afterward graciously pleased to bestow the Earldom of
Murray
upon
James
Prior of
St. Andrews.
He was the natural Son of King
James
V. by
Margaret,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Erskine,
who being by the Care of his Father as of all the rest of his illegitimate Sons were, bred to the Church; he was when very young provided to the Priory of St.
Andrews, Anno
1539, then void by the Promotion of
Patrick Hepburn,
to the Episcopal See of
Murray;
but by Reason of his Non-age, Dr.
Alexander Miln,
Abbot of
Cambuskenneth,
and President of the College of Justice, was appointed Administrator of the Benefice,
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, both with Respect to the Spiritual and Temporal Discharge of the Function.
By Reason of the Prior's Youth, I have met with nothing memorable of him, till the Beginning of the Reformation, he was among the first who embraced the Protestant Reform'd Religion, tho'he was far from giving any Countenance to the Popular Reformation, as is manifest from the many and frequent Addresses he and others of the Protestant Nobility, made to the Queen Regent, that she would please to concur by her Authority in reforming of the Church.
But the Queen peremptorily refusing not only to comply with their Supplications, but having also violated some Articles of Pacification, she had very solemnly enter'd into with the Protestant Lords, of which the Prior of St.
Andrews
himself stood Guarantee; he thereupon left her, and join'd himself with
the Lords of the Congregation,
as they were call'd, whereupon the Prior, the Lord
James,
was summon'd before the Council, but he did not think fit to answer the Charge otherwise, than to return this Answer to the Messenger,
That her Majesty had broken the Conditions with the Lords of the Congregation, which by Warrant from herself, he had made and entred into with them, he would have no more Meddling in such dishonest Courses, and would do the best to repair Things he
could.
This Answer gave Occasion to the Queen to signifie to the Prior,
That she suspected that Religion was the least Thing he or his Party had in their Thoughts, and that she did not doubt, but that under the Covert and Pretext of Religion, he intended to make an Attempt upon the Crown.
The Prior in the mean Time disowns the Charge, and thought himself obliged for his further Vindication, to make a very solemn Protestation, that he had no other View or Design in what he had done, than the Advancement of the true Reformed Religion, and the Preservation of the Liberties of his Country, which he could not but bewail he saw so signally invaded by her, at least by those who pretended to act by, and derive their Authority from her; after which he was so hearty a Promoter of the Reformation, that he became the Head of the Protestant Party.
When Queen
Mary
became a Widow by the Death of King
Francis
II. the Prior of
St. Andrews
was sent by the Protestant Nobility, to invite the Queen home; and soon after her Arrival, her Majesty having nam'd a new Privy Council, the Lord
James
her Brother was appointed one of the Number, and not long thereafter he was sent with a Commission of Lieutenancy to the Borders, to suppress an Insurrection that was threatned in those Parts; and he discharged the Trust reposed in him with such Courage and Fidelity, that upon his Return the Queen was graciously pleas'd to bestow upon her Brother the Earldom of
Mar,
then in the Crown; but the Lord
Erskine
being found to have Right to the Earldom of
Mar,
that Lord was by Way of Justice restored to that Honour, in Lieu whereof the Prior of
St. Andrews
was made Earl of
Murray,
10th
February
1562
Charta in Pub. Arch.
.
After this the Earl continued in the greatest Favour with the Queen, without any Interruption, till the 1565 that her Majesty declared her Resolution to marry the Lord
Darnly,
that my Lord
Murray
and many others did oppose the Match, upon Pretext of the Danger that might arise to Religion and to the State by that Union, forasmuch as it had not been practised at any Time, to impose a King upon the Nation without the Advice and Consent of Parliament; and in order to put a more effectual Stop thereto,
They made,
says Sir
James Melvil, an Essay to take the Lord
Darnly
in the Queen's Company at the Raid of
Baith,
and as they alledged, to have sent him to
England: But sailing in their Enterprise, they were so closely pursued by the Queen's Troops, that they thought it the safest Course for them to flee to
England,
where they met but with a very cold Reception from Queen
Elizabeth,
tho' she had very much encourag'd them under-hand to enter into those Measures, to disturb the Peace and Tranquillity of
Scotland,
and to fully the Glory of Queen
Mary
's Reign.
After the Queen's Marriage with the Lord
Darnly,
a Parliament was call'd, before which the Earl of
Murray
and his Associates were summon'd to answer a Charge of High-Treason, which was prepar'd against them, and the Earl would have undoubtedly been denounced Rebel, and forfaulted, had not the Murther of
David Rizio
prevented it, which happen'd Three Days before the sitting down of the Parliament. At the Day appointed the Earl of
Murray
returned home, and went straight to the Parliament House, and took Instruments that he was ready to answer the Summons of Treason; but such was the Confusion of Affairs, that no Evidence came against him, and the Queen believing him innocent of
Rizio
's Murther, was pleased to give him a gracious Pardon, restore him to her wonted Favour, and to place an unsuspected Confidence in him; but the Broils of the Country still increasing more and more, especially after the Murther of the Lord
Darnly,
he obtain'd the Queen's Leave to travel, which he did, first into
England,
and thence into
France,
where he remained till the Queen had made a Resignation of the Government, and the Prince King
James
VI. her Son, set upon the Throne, that he was call'd hom
to be Regent to the young King; to which Office he was chosen by those of the Nobility who adhered to the Prince in his Absence, on the 22d of
August
1567. In
December
thereafter he call'd a Parliament, wherein the Pope's Authority was abolished, and the true Protestant Religion receiv'd a new Sanction; thereafter having settled the Government, and seeming secure in it, he was on the 23d of
January
1570, unexpectedly, as he was riding thro' the Street of
Linlithgow,
far from apprehending any Danger, shot from a Window with a Musket, in the lower Part of his Belly, by
James Hamilton
of
Bothwel-haugh,
in Revenge of a private Injury the Regent had done him, and in the Instant falling from his Horse, died the same Evening. Few Days after his Body was removed to
Edinburgh,
and with great Funeral Solemnity interr'd in St.
Giles
's Church, where a Monument was erected over his Grave, with this Inscription upon it.
Pietas sine Vindice luget:
Jus exarmatum est.
23.
Januarii
1570.
JACOBO STEWARTO,
Moraviae
Comiti,
SCOTIAE
Proregi,
Viro, Aetatis suae longe optimo, ab Inimicis omnis Memoriae deterrimis, ex insidiis extincto, ce
Patri communi, Patria maerens posuit.
As to the Regent's Character Mr.
Buchanan
his old Tutor and faithful Friend, draws a very fair and bright one of him; and some later Writers, whose Pens perhaps have been directed as much by Malice as Truth, have endeavoured to give the World a very ill Impression of him; and I observe that generally Men pass their Judgments upon him according to the Party they are of; for these Reasons I shall not take his Character from any Party Writer, either of the one or the other Side. And therefore shall rather choice to recite that given by Bishop
Spotiswood,
than add any of my own.
His Death,
says that Reverend Author,
was by all Men greatly lamented, especially by the Commons, who loved him as their Father, whilst he liv'd, and now m
urn'd grievously at his Death, the great Things he had wrought in his Life (having in the Space of one Year and little more, quieted the State which he found broken and disorder'd) made his very Enemies speak of him with Praise and Commendation, above all his Vertues which were not a few, he shined in Piety toward GOD, ordering himself and his Family in such Sort, as it did more resemble a Church than a Court; for therein, besides the Exercise of Devotion which he never omitted, there was no Wickedness to be seen, nay not an un
eemly wanton Word to be heard, a Man truly good, and worthy to be ranked among the best Governors that this Kingdom hath enjoyed; and therefore to this Day is honoured with the Title of,
The Good Regent.
The Regent married
Agnes,
Daughter of
William
Earl Marischal, by whom he had Two Daughters,
Margaret
Countess of
Murray,
the Heir of his Honour and Estate, and
Mary
married to
Francis
Earl of
Errol.
Which
Margaret
was married with
James Stewart
Lord
Down,
who in Right of her, his Wife, became Earl of
Murray.
He was a Person of great Parts, Magnanimity and Courage,
Nota,
The Lord Down's Paternal Ancessor was Sir James Stewart of Bieth, Third Son of Andrew Lord Evandale, who being one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King James V. and in great Favour with that Prince, was made Captain of Down, and after that Stewart of Menteth. By Margaret Lindsay his Wife, Dowager Barroness of Innermeath, he had James and Henry, of whom is Stewart of
urro. Which James was Commendator of St. Colm, at the Time of the Reformation; and thereafter was by King James VI. created Lord Down, and made Collector General of his Majesty's Revenue. He married Margaret, Daughter to the Earl of Argyle. By her he had James his eldest Son, who married the Countess of Murray as above, Henry Lord St. Colm, and Two Daughters, Mary married to Sir John Weems of That-Ilk, and Jean to Simon, Lord Lovat.
and wanted nothing but Age and Experience to have render'd him a most accomplish'd Nobleman. Upon some Maters of Interest there fell a Misunderstanding betwixt him and the Earl of
Hantly,
which grew into such an Animosity between them, that the King very much apprehended the Danger of those Divisions, there having been some Blood shed, and Men kill'd upon thei
private Contests, so that the Country was passionately divided between them; his Majesty therefore, in order to settle the whole Dispute, upon the hearing all that could be said by either Party, and being desirous to accommodate the Mater himself, caus'd summon them before the Council, and both the Earls obeying the Charge, it was determined that the Earl of
Huntly
should be ordered home to the Country, and my Lord
Murray
to stay at Court for some Time.
But asso
n,
says Sir
James Melvil, as
Huntly
went home, he triumphed, and took sundry Advantages upon the Earl of
Murray
's Lands, giving him just Cause of Complaint; and
Murray,
after sundry Representations, getting no Redress, he retired himself from the Court, and became so malecontent, that he took plain Part with the Earl of
Bothwell, wh
had attempted to seize upon the King's Person at his Palace of
Holy-Rood-House,
in order to oblige his Majesty to receive him into Favour.
The Earl of
Huntly
being advertis'd,
continues my Author,
that his Adversary
Murray
was an Out-law, with the Earl of
Bothwell,
he return'd to Court, to get some Advantage of him: But in the mean Time the Lord
Ochiltree
endeavouring to agree them with Consent of his Majesty, in order thereto drew the Earl of
Murray
to
Dunibirsel, a Seat of his own in
Fife, to be near Hand, that Conditions and Articles might be added and pared at the Pleasure of their Friends. The Earl of
Huntly
being made Privy to
Murray
's coming to
Dunibirsel,
obtain'd incontinently a Commission to pursue the Earl of
Bothwell,
and all his Partakers;
whereupon with an armed Force, consisting most of his own Vassals and Retainers, he unexpectedly beset the House of
Dunibirsel;
and upon the Earl's refusing to surrender himself to
Huntly,
the House was set on Fire; notwithstanding the Earl made his Way thro' the Flames, and also bravely thro' his more merciless Enemies, and had so far succeeded in his Escape, that he was got fairly out of their Hands, and had concealed himself among the Rocks by the Sea; But the Tip of his Head-Piece which had taken Fire before he left the House, discover'd him thro' the Darkness of the Night
Mr. David Simpson's Historical Narrative of the Murther of the Earl of Murray by the Earl of Huntly, M.S. penes me.
, whereupon his Enemies set upon, and instantly murther'd him with many Circumstances of Barbarity, on the 7th of
February
1592. His Death was universally regreted, and the King bore it with extraordinary Grief.
For little knew,
says Sir
James Melvil, his Majesty that
Huntly
under this general Clause of pursuing
Bothwell
and his Accomplices, he was minded to assail the Earl of
Murray
at his own House, and to kill him as he did, to the Regret of many.
By the Countess of
Murray
his Wife, he left Two Sons,
James
the next Earl,
Francis Stewart,
Esq
also Three Daughters.
Margaret
married to
Charles
Earl of
Nottingham,
of the Kingdom of
England;
and thereafter to Sir
William Munso
,
Viscount of
Castlemain.
Mary
to
Alexander
Lord
Saltoun.
Grisel
to Sir
Robert Innes
of That-Ilk, and had Issue.
Which
James
married
Anne
Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntly,
by the special Appointment of King
James,
to remove the Animosity betwixt the Families of
Huntly
and
Murray,
and to dispose and unite them in a firm Union and Friendship. By this Lady he had
James
his Son and Heir; also Two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Charles
Earl of
Nottingham,
and
Mary
to the Laird of
Grant,
and departing this Life on the . . . . . . . . . Day of
August
1638
Balfour's Annals.
, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
James
his Son, who married
Margaret,
Daughter and Co-heir of
Alexander
Earl of
Hum
,
and dying in
March
1635
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1653.
, left Issue by the foresaid
Margaret
his Wife,
James
Lord
Down,
who died a Youth,
Alexander
his Successor,
A
chba
d Stewart
of
Dunnern:
likewise Four Daughters,
1.
Mary
married to
Archbald
Earl of
Arg
le.
2.
Margaret
to Sir
Alexander Sutherland,
thereafter Lord
Duffus.
3.
Henrietta
to Sir
Hugh Campbel
of
Calder,
Kt.
4.
Anne
to
David Ross
of
Balnagown.
Which
Alexander
being a Man of Reputation for Parts and Learning, came to be in great Favour with King
Charles
II. toward the End of his Reign. He was first made Justice General, and then on the 10th of
October
1680, promoted to be sole Secretary of State upon the Dimission of the Duke of
Lauderdale
Ibidem.
, he continued sole Secretary till the 1682, that then the Earl of
Middleton,
and thereafter, the Lord
Melfort
were join'd in Commission with him.
When King
James
VII. came to the Crown, his Majesty made the Earl again One of his Principal Secretaries, and appointed him Lord High Commissioner to the Second Session of the Parliament 1686, and as a further Mark of his special Grace and Favour, elected him one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the
Thistle
in 1687. The Earl continued Secretary till the Revolution, that King
James
went over to
France,
he was then remov'd from all Employments, and thenceforth liv'd retiredly, enjoying the Felicities of a private Life, till he exchang'd this mortal Life with a State of Immortality on the 1st of
November
1700, leaving Issue by
Aemtlia
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Balfour
of
Pitcull
,
Lieutenant of the Tower of
London
in the Reign of King
Charles
I.
James
Lord
Down,
who married
Catharine,
Daughter of Sir
Lionel Talmash,
and of
Elizabeth
Dutchess of
Louderdale,
and died before his Father, leaving Two Daughters behind him,
Elizabeth
married to Brigadier
Alexander Grant
of That-Ilk, and
Aemtlia
first to . . . .
Frazer
of
Strichen,
and again to
John
Earl of
Crawfurd,
Sir
Charles Stewart
Bart. who succeeded his Father in the Honour, and is now Earl of
Murray.
He married the Lady
Anne Campbell,
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
Widow of
Richard
Earl of
Lauderdale.
Francis Stewart,
Esq
who married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
John Murray
of
Drumcairn,
by whom he had no Issue that came to any Maturity; 2dly
Jean,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Balmerino,
by whom he has
James Stewart,
Esq
and several other younger Children.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Or,
a Lion Rampant, within a double Tressure, Flower'd and Counter-flower'd
Gules,
within a Border componed,
Azure
and
Argent;
2d,
Or,
a Fess Chequie,
Azure
and
Argent;
3d,
Or,
Three Cushions within a Double Tressure, Flower'd and Counter-flower'd,
Gules;
supported by Two Gray-hounds. Crest, a Pelican feeding her Young. Motto,
Salus per Christum Redemptorem.
NAIRN, Lord
Nairn.
THE First of this Surname I have observ'd in any Writing or Record, was
Michael de Nairn,
who is a Witness in that Grant which
Robert
Duke of
Albany
made to
John
Earl of
Buchan
his Son, of the Lands of
Stew
rtoun
in
Air
Shire
Charta penes me, data 23 November 1413.
, and another
Alexander Nairn
was comptroller of
Scotland
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II.
, for many Years in the Reign of King
James
II.
Mr.
Robert Nairn
of
Strathurd,
in the Time of King
James
VI. and King
Charles
I. being a Lawyer of good Reputation in his Profession, by his Practice and Industry rais'd to himself a competent Fortune in Land, which he transmitted to the Heir of his Family; and departing this Life in the 1652
Charta in Cancellaria D. S. N. R. ad Annum 1652.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Preston
of
Pennycook,
President of the College of Justice, in the Reign of King
James
VI.
Robert
his Successor,
John Nairn
of
Muckersy, Alexander Nairn
of
Greenyards, William,
who was slain a Captain in the King's Service at
Worcester;
also several Daughters,
Agnes
married to
William Blair
of
Tarsapie,
and
Margaret
to Sir
David Falconar
of
Newtoun,
President of the College of Justice in the Reign of King
Charles
II.
Which
Robert
being bred to the Law, commenc'd Advocate,
Anno
1644
Admission of Advocates from the Institution of the College of Justice, M.S. in the Lawyer's Library.
, but thereafter during the Civil War he cast off his Gown, as many other gallant Men of that Profession did, and cordially and chearfully put himself in Arms, in Behalf of his Majesty King
Charles
II. immediately after the Murder of his Royal Father; but being with many other Lords and Persons of Quality, at a Meeting at
Eliot
in
Angus, Anno
1650, in order to concert Measures toward carrying on the Levies for the Army that was to march to
England
with the King, he was unfortunately surpriz'd by a strong Party of the
English,
and sent Prisoner to
London,
and committed to the Tower, where he endured a long and t
dious Imprisonment of Ten Years; but living to receive the Reward of his Merit after the Return of the King, his Majesty made him first a Knight, and afterwards a Judge in the Session, where he sat many Years, and discharged the Office with much Gravity and Learning, insomuch as his Majesty was graciously pleas'd to make him a Peer, by the Stile and Title of Lord
Nairn,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 27th
January
1681
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, for his own Life, and the Honour after his Death, to descend to his only Daughter, and the Heirs to be procreated betwixt her and a Son of the Marquis of
Athole
's, whom the Lady was restricted to marry; and dying
Anno
1683, he left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick Graham
of
Inch-brackie,
the foresaid
Margaret
his only Daughter and Heir, who according to the Concert in the Patent of Honour, married Lord
William Murray,
younger Son of
John
Marquis of
Athole,
by whom she had Issue.
John,
Master of
Nairn, Robert Nairn,
Esq
William Nairn,
Esq
James Nairn,
Esq
likewise Eight Daughters,
Margaret
married to
William
Viscount of
Strathalian.
Aemilia.
Catharine,
Marjory.
Charlota.
Mary.
Louisa.
Henrietta.
John,
Master of
Nairn,
in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Catharine,
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Dunmore,
by whom he has Issue,
James Francis Edward Nairn,
Esq
NAPIER, Lord
Napier.
ALTHO' the
Napiers
be a very ancient Family, yet I have not found any of them upon Record before the Time of the Competition between the
Bruce
and the
Baliol
for the Crown, that
John de le Napier,
was one of the Free-holders of the County of
Dumbarton,
who swore Fealty to King
Edward
I. of
England,
when the general Submission was made to that Prince,
Anno
1296
Prin's History 2d Annum 1296.
. Another
William de Napier
had by the Grant of King
David
II. the Lands of
Pitfour
and
Picknot
in the County of
Perth,
with sundry others in
Dumbarton
-Shire
Haddington's Collections from the Publick Records.
, then in the Disposal of the Crown, by the Forfaulture of
Dornagaile de Montefix.
The first conspicuous Person of this noble Family, was Sir
Alexander Napier
of
Merchistoun,
Kt. who being a Man of great Activity and Prudence, was by King
James
II, made Comptroller of
Scotland, Anno
1450
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II.
, and the next ensuing Year was one of the Commissioners sent to
England,
to treat with the Deputies of that Crown, anent the keeping of a Peace betwixt the Two Realms
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
.
Upon the Accession of King
James
III. to the Crown, he was made Vice Admiral of
Scotland,
and joined in Commission with divers other great Men, to treat with the Commissioners of the Crown of
England,
about the keeping & maintaining of a Peace and Amity betwixt the Two Kingdoms
Ibidem.
. He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of . . . .
Lauder
of
Hatton
Charta in Pub. Arch. 2d Annum 1492.
, by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, who was Provost of the City of
Edinburgh
in the Year 1484
Charta penes Dominum Cathcart.
, and being a Person of great Wealth and Reputation, he made a very noble and advantagious Allyance by his Marriage with
Margaret Menteth,
Daughter and Coheir of
Murdack Monteith
of
Rusky,
and one of the Heirs of Line to
Duncan
Earl of
Lennox
Charta penes D. Gleneagles,
. By her he had
Archbald
his Successor, and
John Napier
of
Balerno.
Which
Archbald
married
Elizabeth Douglass
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, a Lady of the
Douglasses
of
Morton,
by whom he had a Son.
Sir
Alexander,
who lost his Life with King
James
IV. and the Flower of the Kingdom, at
Flowdoun
-Field, the 9th
September
1513
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, leaving Issue by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of
Edmund Chisolm
of
Cromlix
Ibidem.
,
Alexander
his Successor, and a Daughter
Helen,
married to Sir
John Melvil
of
Raith,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Melvil.
Which
Alexander
took to Wife
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Duncan Campbell
of
Glenurchy,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Brodalbin
Ibidem.
, and was slain at the Battle of
Pinky,
in Defence of his Country, 10th
September
1547
Ibidem.
, leaving Two Sons, by his Wife aforesaid, Sir
Archibald
his Successor, and
Alexander
who transported himself in to
England,
and settled at
Luttenhoe
in the County of
Bedford,
where his Successors still continue in Lustre.
Sir
Archibald
succeeded his Father in his Estate, and went generally by the Title of
Edinbelly.
He was much honoured and respected by King
James
VI. who made him a Knight, and Master of the Mint,
Anno
1587
Balcaras's Collections in the Lawyer's Library.
: He married first
Janet Bothwel,
Daughter of Mr.
Francis Bothwel,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in the Reign of King
James
V. Ancestor to the Lord
Holy-Road House
Charta penes D. Napier.
; by her he had
John
his Son and Heir: And again,
Elizabeth Moubray,
Daughter of . . . . . . . . .
Moubray
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
, of
Barnbougal,
by whom he had Sir
Alexander Napier
of
Lawriestoun,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice in the Time of King
Charles
I.
Margaret
married to
James
Lord
Ogilvy;
and
Agnes
to Sir
Patrick Gray
of
Innergowrie
Ibidem.
, and departing this Life on
Whitsunday
1608
Sir Thomas Hope's Decisions in the Lawyer's Library.
, was succeeded by,
John
his Son and Heir, who being a Man of great natural Parts, he took Care to improve them by a good Education in the Schools of Learning, first at Home, and then by travelling abroad into Foreign Parts, where he spent some Years. Upon his Return he declined the Court, tho' he liv'd near it, and might have found a very easy Admission to it; and enter'd into a most vehement Course of Study, insomuch as in Time he arrived to that immense Knowledge in all the Parts of solid and useful Learning, that few have equall'd him in the Age he liv'd; and his great Experience and Abilities in Mathematical Learning, hath render'd him so conspicuous and eminent, especially his Logarithms, that they will to his great Renown, remain to the World's End a Monument of his being a Scholar of the most sublime Parts and Penetration; and the Learned have not been wanting to celebrate his Memory, and preserve him in the List of those who by their great Learning have render'd themselves Ornaments to the Country they were of, as well as to the Family they sprang from. He died in a good advanc'd Age, on the 3d of
April
1617 aged 67
Charta penes Francis. D. Napier.
. His Works that have been publish'd are,
1.
Mirifici ipsius Canonis Constructio, & Logarithmorum ad naturales ipsorum Numeros Habitudines.
1619.
2.
Appendix de alia at
que
praestantiore Logarithmorum Specie constituenda in qua scilicet Unitas Logarithmus est.
3.
Propositiones quaedam eminentissimae, ad Triangula sphaerica, mira Facultate resolvenda.
4.
Rhabdologiae seu Numerationis per Virgulas, Lib. d
o.
5.
Arithmeticae localis Lib. unus.
6.
Ouverture de tous les Secrets de l' Apocalypse, Rochel.
1607.
7.
A plain Discovery of the whole Revelation of St.
John 1611.
Nota,
Dr. Brigs Geometry-Professor at Oxford, spares no Elogies upon the learned Merchistoun, speaking of him in one Place, he says, he was
Vir sanè omnium seculorum memoria dignissimus,
in
ita Hen. Brigs. And Petrus Crugerus Dantzicanus, a famous Mathematician abroad, extols him highly, for mentioning his Logarithms, he writes,
Ob id unicum, si
oetera deessent, immortali laude dignissimus.
This learned Gentleman was twice married; his first Wife was
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
James Stirling
of
Keir
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, by whom he had one Son, Sir
Archibald,
who was thereafter Lord
Napier;
and after her Death he married
Agnes,
Daughter of Sir
James Chisolm
of
Cromlix
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
John Napier
of
Easter-Torrie
Ibidem.
, Mr.
Robert Napier,
of whom the Branch of the
Napiers
of
Kilcroich;
Mr.
Alexander Napier
of
Gellets, William Napier
of
Ard
ore;
of whom also is
Napier
of
Craigan
t; Adam,
of whom the
Napiers
of
Blackstoun
are descended; also several Daughters,
Margaret
married to
James Stewart
of
Rossyth, in Vic. de
Fife, and had Issue;
Jean
to
James Hamilton
of
Kilbrach
nt,
and had Issue;
Elizabeth
to
William Cunningham
of
Craigends,
and had Issue;
Agnes
to
George Drummond
of
Balloch;
and
Helen
to a Reverend and Worthy Divine, Mr.
Matthew Brisbane,
Parson of
Erskine,
and had Issue.
Which Sir
Archibald
being a Person of admirable Parts and Endowments, was sworn of the Privy-Council to King
James
VI. 20th of
July
1615
Balfour's Annals.
, and after that in 1622, preferr'd to be Lord Treasurer Depute; and the next ensuing Year the Lord Justice-Clerk's Place falling vacant by the Dimission of Sir
John Cockburn
of
Ormistoun,
it was conferr'd on Sir
Archibald Napier
Charta in Pub. Arch. data 23. Nov. 1623.
, and so he became Justice-Clerk as well as Treasurer-Depute. He was also the same Year named one of the Senators of the College of Justice: Soon after which he resigned his Place of Justice-Clerk, which was thereupon given to Sir
George Elphinston
of
Blythswood,
9th of
Angust
1624.
Upon the Accession of King
Charles
I. to the Crown, his Majesty was pleas'd to continue Sir
Archibald Napier
both in the Treasurer-Depute's Place and in the Session, till the 1626, that some new Regulations were made in the College of Justice, whereby all Peers and Officers of State were declared incapable of being ordinary Lords of the Session, the Treasurer Depute was removed, and named one of the Four extraordinary Lords
Balfour's Annals, MS.
: And further to reward his signal Merit, and to testify his Majesty's gracious Acceptation and Estimation of his Services, he was first created a Baronet, and rais'd to the Honour of Peerage by Letters Patent bearing Date the 4th of
May
1627, by the Title of Lord
Napier,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
; after which the Lord
Napier
continued in his Place in the Treasury till the 1630, he was removed, and the Lord
Traquair
made Treasurer-Depute.
But the Lord
Napier
did not think, as too many in that Time did, that his Removal did absolve him from all Obligations to the Crown; for assoon as the Troubles broke out in that Reign, his Lordship adhered with great Firmness and Fidelity to the King: And tho' he was a Nobleman of unblemished Reputation, yet being known to be of eminent Affection to his Majesty, he was seized by the Covenanters for no other Reason, but declaring himself dissatisfied with their Proceedings; and without ever being charged with any particular Crime, they committed him Prisoner to the Castle of
Edinburgh,
and afterwards sent him to the common Goal at
Linlithgow
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs, P. 132, 145, 146.
, where he remained till he was set at Liberty by the Marquis of
Montrose
after the Battle of
Kilsyth;
and tho' he was then very old, yet he joined the Marquis, and accompanied him to the Battle of
Philiphaugh.
Upon the Loss of the Day, he found Means to make his Escape with the General to the
Highlands;
but by the Infirmities he had contracted by the severe Fatigues he was exposed to in the March, and the Coldness of the Season, he liv'd not to the End of three Months, Death overtaking him at
Fincastle
in
Athole
on the 11th of
November
1645
Charta in Publis Archivis.
, to the great Grief of the Marquis, who looked on his Death as a wonderful Loss to the King's Service, he being a Man of great Wisdom and Experience. He left behind him a full Relation of all material Passages, as well from the Beginning of King
Charles
's Reign, as from the breaking out of the Troubles, that the Nation is at a great Loss in the Concealment of it, and that it hath not been communicated to the World.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Montrose,
and Sister to
James
the Great Marquis of
Montrose,
by whom he had
Archibald
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to Sir
George Stirling
of
Kier.
Which
Archibald
being a Nobleman of most intire Loyalty and Affection to the King, did from the Beginning of the Troubles in the Reign of King
Charles
I. heartily and personally engage himself in his Majesty's Service, whereby he came to be ranked in the first Form of those who made themselves most obnoxious to the Powers that then prevailed
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs.
, and at the End of the War he went into
Holland
where he dy'd at
Defshaven
in the Spring of the Year 1660.
He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
by whom he had Issue,
Archibald
his Son and Successor,
John Napier,
Esq
a young Gentleman of great Honour and Courage, who lost his Life in the great Sea-Fight against the
Dutch, May
28th 1672; also Three Daughters,
Jean
married to Sir
Thomas Nicolson
of
Carnock; Margaret
to
John Brisbane,
Esq
Secretary to the Royal Navy, and Resident from King
Charles
II. to the Court of
France;
and
Mary
who dy'd umarried.
Archibald,
Lord
Napier,
being a Nobleman of great Honour and Worth, was much favoured and esteemed by King
Charles
II. who was graciously pleas'd to receive and accept of a Resignation of his Lordship's Honour, and to confer the Title again by a new Patent dated the 7th of
February
1677 on himself, and to the Heirs Male of his own Body, in Remainder of which to the Heirs of the Bodies of his Sisters successively
Charta penes Franciscum Dominum Napier ad Annum 1674.
, and dying a Batchellor on the 6th of
August
1683
Ibidem.
, the Honour of Lord
Napier
devolved to
Sir
Thomas Nicolson
of
Carnock
his Nephew by his Sister, but he dying before he had fully attained the Age of Twenty one Years,
June
9th, 1686
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VII.
, as much lamented as any young Man of his Time, the Honour thereby devolving on
Margaret
Baroness of
Napier
his Aunt, who by Mr.
Brisbane
her Husband had Issue,
John
Mr. of
Napier,
who in his younger Years being bred to the Sea was enter'd Second Lieutenant of the
Somerset
Man of War, at the Attack on
Vigo,
under the Command of Sir
George Rook
Admiral, who was on board the said Ship, and for his singular good Behaviour on that Occasion got for some Time the Command of a Fire-Ship, and afterwards became first Lieutenant of the
Deptford
Man of War, aboard which Ship he died on the Coast of
Guinea
1704, to the great Grief of his noble Relations; likewise a Daughter
Elizabeth,
who was married
December
1699 to
William Scot
Esq
at that Time only Son and Heir apparent to Sir
Francis Scot
of
Thirlstone,
Bart. to whom she had one Son
Francis
the present Lord
Napier,
and Two Daughters,
viz. Margaret,
and
Anne Isobella Elizabeth
who both died young; this
Elizabeth
Mistress of
Napier
died
August
11th 1705, and
Margaret
Lady
Napier
her Mother dying at
Bath,
in the Month of
September
1706, the Honour of Lord
Napier
devolved to her Grandson by her Daughter, Sir
William Scot
's Son,
Francis
the present Lord
Napier,
who as he enjoys the Estate and Titles, so I wish he may inherit the Virtues of his noble Ancestors, and that they may shine out in him with additional Splendor.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent,
a Saltyr, ingrail'd betwixt Four Roses,
Gules,
2d and 3d
Or,
on a Bend,
Azure,
a Mollet betwixt Two Crescents of the 1st, within a double Tressure, flower'd and counterflower'd
Azure,
supported on the Dexter by an Eagle proper, and on the Sinister by a Chevalier, holding in his Hand a Standard, Crest, an Arm from the Elbow grasping a Crescent proper, Motto,
Sans Tache;
and for his Compartment
Argent,
an Embattlement of a Tour Mosso
e Sable, 6 Lances dispos'd Saltyrways with this Motto,
Ready ay Ready.
Edward Barret,
Lord
Newburgh.
AMONG other
English
Gentlemen whom King
Charles
I. did naturalize, and prefer to
Scots
Honours, Sir
Edward Barret
of
Evely,
of the County of
Essex,
Kt. was one whom his Majesty did raise to the Dignity of Lord
Barret
of
Newburgh,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 17th of
October
1627
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
. He married
Anne
Daughter of Sir
Edward Carrey
Sandford's Genealogical History of the Kings of England.
, but dying without Issue Male, the Peerage did extinguish by his Death.
LIVINGSTON, Earl of
Newburgh.
SIR
James Livingston,
Bart. Son and Heir of Sir
John Livingston
of
Kinnaird,
one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
Charles
I. having serv'd his Majesty in that Station with great Fidelity, he was graciously pleas'd to raise him to the Honour of Viscount of
Newburgh
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
, the 13th of
September
1647.
After the Murther of King
Charles,
he was compell'd to flee out of
England,
by Reason of the Discoveries that
Cromwell
every Day made, of his corresponding with the King, and came to the
Hague,
to his Majesty King
Charles
II. in the 1650
Clarendon's History.
, and thenceforth attended his Royal Master throughout the whole of the Exile.
Upon his Majesty's Restauration, the Lord
Newburgh
was constituted Captain of his Majesty's Guards, and rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Newburgh,
Viscount of
Kinnaird,
Lord
Livingstoun
of
Flaccraig,
by Letters Patent 31st of
December
1660
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
, and was ever thereafter in great Favour with his Majesty.
He married
Catharine,
Daughter of
Theophilus
Earl of
Suffolk,
Widow of the Lord
Aubigny,
and giving Way to Fate on the 26th of
December
1670
Charta in Cancellaria D. S. N. R.
, left behind him the Reputation of a very fine Gentleman: The Earl of
Clarendon
has been so kind to thi
Earl, as to give him an excellent Character, in his History of the Rebellion, a Favour, I observe, that noble Author has thought fit to distribute, with a very sparing Hand, to this Lord's Countrymen, a very few excepted.
Charles
Earl of
Newburgh
his Son, succeeded his Father in the Honour, and married
Frances
Daughter of
Francis
Lord
Brudenel
Peerage of England, Edit. 3. P. 282.
, and died without any Male Issue, about the 1694, tho' I think the Dignity is not extinct, if it were claimed by any of the Earl's Relations, in Regard the Title was granted to the Earl of
Newburgh,
and to his Heirs whatsoever.
CHEYNE, Viscount of
Newhaven.
AS King
James
VI. and King
Charles
I. did prefer sundry honourable and well deserving Persons of the Kingdom of
England,
to the Peerage of this Realm, during their respective Reigns, so his Majesty King
Charles
II. thought fit to continue the same Practice; and after he had conferr'd sundry
Scots
Honours upon several of that Nation, he was pleas'd likewise, by Letters Patent, bearing Date at
Windsor
17th of
May,
1681, to dignify
Charles Cheyne
of
Chelsy,
of the County of
Middlesex,
Esq
with the Peerage of
Scotland,
by the Title of Viscount of
Newhaven,
from a Place so call'd in the Sheriffdom of
Edinburgh,
and Lord
Cheyne,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, whose lineal Male Descendant is
William
the present Lord Viscount
Newhaven,
who was in the End of the Reign of Queen
Anne, Anno
1712, constituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Bucks,
in Place of the Earl of
Bridgewater,
from which he was removed upon King
George
's coming over in the 1714.
LESLY, Lord
Newark.
LIEUTENANT General
David Lesly
was the Son of
Patrick,
first Lord
Lindores,
by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Orknay,
being a younger Brother, he entered when he was a Youth into the Life and Condition of a Soldier, in the Service of the King of
Sweden,
in the Wars of
Germany,
where he grew to be a Colonel of Horse
Sir Tho. Urquhart's Vindication of the Honour of Scotland, 1652.
, and to have the Reputation of an excellent Officer.
When the Civil War broke out, he left the
Swedish
Service, and betook himself to the Service of the Parliament of
Scotland,
by whom he was preferr'd to be Lieutenant General of the Army, which in the 1643, was sent to
England,
to the Assistance of the Parliament there against the King; and after that, he continued in the Head of the
Scots
Army, in all their prosperous Successes, with singular Reputation, till the End of the War.
When the Parliament declared for King
Charles
II. and rais'd an Army to oppose the
English
Invasion under
Oliver Cromwell
in 1680, Lieutenant General
Lesly
was chosen General; and tho' that Army under his Command was quickly and intirely routed at
Dunbar;
yet his Reputation was so intire, as an Officer of great Experience, and the King thought him so faithful to him, and worthy of any Trust or Command he should confer on him, that assoon as another Army was rais'd, to march into
England
with the King, of which his Majesty was himself General, he appointed Lieutenant General
Lesly,
Lieutenant General under him. And tho' neither in the March, nor yet in the fatal Day at
Worcester,
did he perform the Office of a General, with that Vigour and Spirit as he had done formerly on other Occasions; yet the King did not believe he had been false to him: For upon all the Enquiries that were afterward made, when most of the false and treacherous Actions which had been committed were discovered, there appeared no Cause to suspect, that the Lieutenant General had been unfaithful in his Charge; and as it was not a little Vindication to him, that from the Time of his Imprison ment that he was taken after
Worcester,
till the Restauration of the King, he never received any Favour from the
English
Parliament, nor from
Cromwell;
but underwent the same Hardships and Severities the most loyal of his Countrymen suffered
Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion.
: And that which put his Fidelity to the King beyond what the utmost Calumny of his Enemies could invent, was, that his Majesty after his Return immediately created him a Peer of the Realm, by the Title of Lord
Newark,
31st of
August
1660
Charta in Rotulis Caroli II.
; and thereafter wrote him a Letter in his Vindication, in these Words.
Although we have upon all Occasions both abroad and since our happy Return, declared our self fully satisfied with your Conduct and Loyalty in our Service; and although in Consideration of the same we have given you the Title and Honour of a Lord, with other Marks of our Favour and Esteem; yet seeing we are told, that Malice and Slander do not give over to persecute you, We have thought fit to give you this further Testimony, and to declare under our Hand, that while ye was our Lieutenant General of our Army of
Scotland,
you did both in
Scotland
and
England
behave yourself with als much Conduct, Resolution and Honesty as was possible, or could be expected from a Person in that Trust; and as we told you, so we do again repeat it, that if we had Occasion to levie an Army, fit for our self to command, we would not fail to give you an Employment in it, fit for your Quality. &c.
Charta penes D. Newark, data 10 June 1667.
.
He married
Jean,
Daughter of Sir
John York,
Kt. by whom he had
David
his Successor in the Honour; also Three Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to Sir
Archbald Kennedy
of
Colzean,
Bart. and had Issue.
Mary,
first to Sir
Francis Kinloch
of
Gilmertoun,
and had Issue; and after that to Sir
Alexander Ogilvy
of
Forglen,
Bart. one of the Senators of the College of Justice.
Margaret
to Colonel
James Campbel,
Son to the Earl of
Argyle,
and had Issue.
Which
David
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Stewart
of
Gairntilly,
by whom he had 5 Daughters,
Jean
married to Sir
Alexander Anstruther,
Kt.
Mary, Christian, Grisel,
and
Elizabeth.
He died on the 15th of
May,
1694, without Male Issue, whereby the Title, according to the Conception of the original Patent of Honour, if there was no other granted by the Sovereign since, did extinguish with himself, it being to the Heirs Male of the General's own Body.
MAXWEL, Earl of
Nithsdale,
THAT this most noble Family, which originally took its Surname from the Lordship of
Maxwel,
of old called
Macuswell
in
Dumfries
-Shire, hath been of great and eminent Antiquity, doth manifestly appear even from the Authorities our Publick, National, and other Records have furnished me with; and no doubt had I had Access to peruse the Writings of the Family of
Maxwel
as I have done most others, I should have been able to carry up the Antiquity of the Name to those Ages, when Sirnames were first taken up, and written Records preserved with our Ancestors, which, for what I have seen, was not before the Time of King
Malcolm
III.
The first using this Sirname was
Herbert de Macuswell,
who in the Time of King
Malcolm
IV. gave in pure Alms to the Monks of
Kelso, Ecclesiam suam de Macuswell
Register of Kelso.
,
pro salute Animae suae, &c.
whose Successor
John de Macuswell,
upon the Accession of King
Alexander
II. to the Crown, in 1215, was one of the Commissioners sent to
England,
to treat about a Marriage betwixt King
Alexander
and a Daughter of that Crown, which they then concluded
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. He was thereafter by the same King constituted Lord Great Chamberlain of
Scotland;
and he held the Office for many Years, even till his Death in the 1241
Chron. de Melross.
. Then
Eumerus de Macuswell,
probably his Son, did execute the Office of Lord Chamberlain of
Scotland,
under King
Alexander
III.
Anno
1258, when he was one of the
Magnates Scotiae,
who became Guarantee,
Quod
Scoti
&
Wallenses
non facient Pacem cum Rege
Angliae
sine mutuo Assensu & Consensu
Rymer's Foedera.
. He was also in the same Reign Justiciary of
Galoway,
when the Justiciary was divided into the Three Districts of
Scotiae, Laudoniae, & Galuidiae.
This noble Person added to his paternal Estate the Barony of the
Mearns
in
Renfrew
-Shire, by the Marriage of an Heir Female, which thenceforth continued in the Family till the Reign of King
Charles
I. He left Issue
Herbert
his Successor, and Sir
John Maxwel,
first of the
Maxwels
of
Nether-Pollock
In the Donation which Herbert Maxwel made to the Monks of Pasly out of the Lands of Merns, Jo. de Macuswell, Domino de Nether Pollock, frater dicti Herberti, is a Witness, in the Register of Pasly.
, the Root and Stem of all the
Maxwels
in the Western Parts, one only Family excepted. The Successor of
Eumer
was
Sir
Herbert de Macuswell,
who in the 1284, is one of those great Men who swore to King
Alexander
to maintain the Succession in his Grandchild the Maid of
Norway,
if the King himself should happen to die without Heirs Male of his own Body
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. The same Sir
Herbert,
as I take it, gave
D E O, & Ecclesiae Sanctae
Mariae
& Sanct
Jacobi
de
Paslet,
& Monachis ibidem D E O servtentibus, & in perpetuum servituru, octo Acras & dimidium & viginti octo Particat as Terrae in nova Villa sua de
Merns,
& sex Mercas Argenti de Proventibus Molendinorum suorum de
Merns,
pro Salute Animae suae, & Animarum omnium Antecessorum & Successorum suorum
perpetuum
Register of the Monastry of Pasly, in my Hands by Favour of the Earl of Dundonald.
.
Herbert de Macuswell,
the next I have found of this noble Family, tho' I cannot certainly say, he was the Son of the former Sir
Herbert,
is one of those Barons who was joined with the Regents and other great Men of the Clergy and Laity, who were chosen to treat of a Marriage between the young Queen of
Scotland,
King
Alexander's
Granchild, and the Prince of
England, Anno
1290
Rymer's Foedera.
; but the Lady dying soon thereafter, the Treaty took no Effect. Sir
Herbert
's Son,
Sir
Eustache Maxwell
of
Carlaverock
was one of those noble Patriots who most strenuously adhered to King
Robert
the
Bruce,
and stuck close to him in all the Vicissitudes of Fortune that befel him in attaining the Crown.
Upon the
English
Invasion he held out his Castle of
Carlaverock,
and forced them to raise the Siege, after they had lain some Weeks before it; but least it might afterwards been made a Garrison by the Enemy, and from whence they might have annoy'd the Country, he dismantled it himself, and threw it down to the Ground; in Recompence of which he afterward obtained from King
Robert,
in Commemoration of that noble Piece of Service to his Country,
pro fractione & prostratione Castri de
Carlaverock,
decem Libras Sterlingorum de Annuo redditu, viginti duarum Librarum Sterlingorum in quibus ipsi & Haeredes sui, nobis & Haeredibus nostris Regibus
Scotiae
annuatim tenebantur pro Terris suis de
Carlaverock;
unde dict as decem Libris praedicto
Eustachio
& Haeredibus suis per praesentes remittimus in perpetuum
Haddingtoun's Collections from the Publick Records in the Lawyer's Library, M.S.
. He married
Agnes,
Daughter of . . . . .
Maxwel
of
Nether-Pollock
Geneal. of the House of Maxwel, M.S.
, by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, who was taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Durham
Dr. Abercromby's Martial Atchievements.
; and dying not long thereafter, left Issue, by . . . . . Daughter of . . . . his Wife,
John,
his Son and Heir, who designed himself
Joannes de Macuswell, Filius Domini
Joannis
de
Macuswell,
de
Pencaitland, in a Donation which he made
DEO, & Ecclesiae Sanctae
Mariae
de
Dryburgh,
de Jure Patronatus Ecclesiae de
Pencaitland,
& Capellae de
Pystoun,
cum Terra Ecclesiastica ejusdem, pro Salute Animae Patris & Matris suae & omnium Antecessorum & Successorum suorum in perpetuum
Charta penes Comitem de Lauderdale.
. He was likewise a Benefactor to the Monastry of
Kilwining;
for to that Convent he gave
in Honorem sancti
Wynini
jus Patronatus Ecclesiae de
Liberton,
cum una Acra Terrae juxta dictam Ecclesiam, pro Salute Animae suae &
Agnetis
Sponsae suae
Charta in Rotulis David II. ad Annum 1357.
: In which Deed he's design'd
Joannes de Macuswell, Dominus ejusdem.
By the said
Agnes
his Wife, he left Issue,
Robert
his Successor, and a Daughter
Agnes,
married to
Robert Pollock
of That-Ilk
Charta penes Dominum Rot. Pollock, de eod. Bart.
, and had Issue.
Which
Robert
was made a Knight by King
Robert
II. and obtained from that Prince a Grant
de omnibus Terris quas Dominus
Joannes
de
Maxwel
de
Carlaverock,
Pater Domini
Roberti
de
Maxwel,
tenet de nobis in Capite, & quas dictus Dominus
Joannes,
in manibus nostris resignavit
Charta in Rotulis Roberti II.
. This Sir
Robert, Dominus de Carlaverock,
gave in pure and perpetual Alms,
D E O, & Sanctae
Mariae
de
Dryburgh,
illam Terram in Territorio suo de
Pencaitland,
quam
Joannes
de
Maitland,
Dominus de
Thirlstane
de me tenet pro Salute Animae meae, &
Herberti
de
Maxwel
Filii mei & Haeredis
Charta penes Comitem de Lauderdale.
. By . . . . Daughter of . . . . . he had
Herbert
his Successor, who had by the Grant of
Archbald
Earl of
Douglass,
the Stewartry of
Annandale, Anno
1409, which gave him great Authority and Interest in those Parts, and which the Duke of
Albany
the Governor ratified and confirmed.
This
Herbert
was one of the Barons, who were sent to
England
as Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I.
Anno
1423
Rymer's Foedera.
, at the Solemnity of whose Coronation he had the Honour of Knighthood conferred on him.
He married the Heiress of the Barony of
Balmacluchie
in
Forfar
-Shire
Geneal. of the House of Maxwel.
; by whom he had
Robert
his Heir, and
Eustache,
of whom the Branch of the
Maxwels
of
Teyling
in
Angus,
which Lands he obtained in Marriage with
Agnes,
one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir
John Giffard
Kt.
Charta penes Marchionem de Tweedale.
, Lord of
Tester.
Which
Robert
married
Janet,
Daughter of Sir
John Forrester
of
Carstorphine,
Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, and had his Son and Heir,
Herbert,
designed,
Dominus de Carlaverock,
who in 1438, was one of the Conservators of a Peace which was then concluded betwixt the Two Kingdoms of
Scotland
and
England
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. He married first . . . . . Daughter of
Herbert Harries
of
Tareagles
Geneal. of Maxwell.
. By her he had
Robert
his Successor, and Sir
Edward,
of whom issued the
Maxwells
of
Finnald
and
Monreith
Ibidem.
; and again
Catharine,
Daughter to the Lord
Seaton,
Widow of Sir
Allan Stewart
of
Darnly
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
, and had by her
George,
of whom descended the Branch of the
Maxwells
of
Garnsalloch, Adam,
of whom sprung the
Maxwells
of
Suthbar
in
Renfrew
Shire
Ibidem ad Annum 1473. Etiam Charta Joannis Comitis de Lenox, Joanni Stewart filio suo, Terrarum de Henerstoun, on the Resignation of the Earl's Brother, Adam Maxwell of Southbar, in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
; and dying 11th of
October
1452
Gen. of the Family of Maxwell.
, was succeeded by,
Robert
his Son and Heir, who was the First of the Family who i
intitled simply
Dominus Maxwel;
for by that Designation he's in the 1457, one of the Conservators of the Peace, which was then concluded betwixt the two Nations of
Scotland
and
England
Rymer's Foedera.
. By . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . his Wife, he had
John
his Son and Heir apparent, and
Thomas,
of whom issued the
Maxwels
of
Kirkonel
Gen. of Maxwell.
.
Which
John
Master of
Maxwel,
died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving Issue by
J
net
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
George Crichton,
Earl of
Caithness
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III.
a Son,
John
Lord
Maxwel,
who succeeded his Grandfather, and in the 1494, was one of the Commissioners sent to
England
to treat with that State about the Continuation of a Peace betwixt the Two Realms. He married
Agnes,
Daughter of Sir
Alexander Stewart
of
Garles
Ibid. in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
, by whom he had
Robert
his Successor,
Herbert,
of whom the Branch of the House of
Clouden
Gen. of Maxwel.
; and three Daughters, 1st . . . . married to
James Johnstoun
of That Ilk. 2d . . . . to . . .
Charters
of
Aimesfield.
3d. . . . . . to . . . .
Jerden
of
Aplegirth.
This Lord was slain at
Flowdon,
with King
James
IV. 9
September
1513.
Robert
Lord
Maxwel,
his Son, being a Nobleman of great Parts and Courage, made a very considerable Figure in the Minority of King
James
V. with whom he was in great Favour: For when that Prince took upon him the Administration of the Government, the Lord
Maxwel
was made Captain of
Lochmaben,
Colonel of his Majesty's Guard
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, and thereafter constituted Guardian of the East Marches toward
England
Ibidem.
. In 1538 he was sent Ambassador to
France,
to treat of a Marriage betwixt King
James
and
Mary
of
Lorain,
Daughter to the Duke of
Guise,
which being concluded, he espoused the Lady in his Master's Name, and brought her over to
Scotland,
not long thereafter, to the great Satisfaction of the King, who in Reward of that and other signal Services bestow'd on him the Lands of
Eusdale, Eskdale,
and
Wachopdale;
and made him first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber. He accompanied the King to the fatal Battle of
Solloway,
where he was taken Prisoner, and sent to the Tower of
London,
where he remained till he was forced to procure his Freedom at 100 Merks
Sterl.
Ransom
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
.
He married first,
Janet,
Daughter of Sir
William Douglass
of
Drumlanrig,
Ancestor to the Duke of
Queensberry,
by whom he had
Robert
the Heir of the Family, Sir
John Maxwel
of
Terreag
es,
thereafter Lord
Harries,
and a Daughter
Margaret
married first to
Archbald
Earl of
Angus,
and after that to Sir
William Ba
ll
e
of
Lamington.
He married to his second Wife
Agnes,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Buchan,
and Widow of
Adam
Earl of
Bothwel,
by whom he had no Issue; and dying on the 9th of
July
1646
Geneal of the House of Maxwel.
, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son and Heir, who in 1551, was one of the Commissioners chosen to treat with the
English,
touching the Conservation of the Peace betwixt the Two Crowns
Rymer's Foedera.
. He married
Beatrix,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Morton,
and dying 14th
September
1552, left his Lady with Child of his Son
John,
who succeeded him in his Estate and Honour.
In the 1578 this noble Lord, when he came to Age, was made Warden of the West Marches, and being in great Favour with King
James
VI. was,
October
29th, 1581
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, created Earl of
Morton,
upon the Death and Forfaulture of the Earl of
Morton
the Regent: But, upon a new Turn at Court, the Lord
Maxwel
's Right to the Title of Earl of
Morton
was revoked, and he removed from his Charge of the Borders, and his Office given to the Laird of
Johnston;
which occasioned a great Bloodshed and Discord betwixt the two Families, and was at last fatal to this Lord himself; for in a Scuffle betwixt a Party of his Friends and the
Johnstons,
he was kill'd on the 7th of
December
1593
Ibidem.
, leaving Issue, by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
David
Master of
Angus, John
his Successor,
Robert,
thereafter Earl of
Nithsdale,
likewise Three Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
William
Lord
Harris, Agnes
to
William Douglas
of
Pinzrie,
and
Margaret
to
Hugh Wallace
of
Craigie.
Which
John
being a very turbulent and unruly Man, was by King
James
VI. imprison'd in the Castle of
Edinburgh,
from whence he made his Escape, and found Means to conceal himself till he had an Opportunity to kill the Laird of
Johnstoun,
in Revenge of
Johnstoun
's killing this Lord's Father; for which he was afterwards beheaded at the Cross of
Edinburgh,
21st
May
1613, leaving no Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Marquis of
Hamilton.
But tho' the Lord
Maxwel
had been forfaulted as well as executed for his murthering the Laird of
Johnstoun,
yet his Majesty King
James
VI. was graciously pleas'd to rehabilitate
Robert
his Brother,
Anno
1620, whereby he was restored to his Estate, and created Earl of
Nithsdale,
with Precedency according to his Father's Creation of Earl of
Morton,
by Vertue of which he was ranked in the Precedency of the Peerage, immediately before the Earl of
Winton,
and took his Place accordingly in the Parliament of 1621.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in the Reign of King
Charles
I. he adhered to the King with the outmost Fidelity, for which he suffered much in his Person and Fortune, by Imprisonment and Sequestration; but toward the End of the War he transported himself to the Isle of
Man,
where he died in the 1647, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Francis Beaumont,
a near Relation to the great Duke of
B
ckingham,
Robert
his Son and Heir, who died unmarried on the 5th of
October
1667 whereby his Estate and Honour devolved to his Cousin and Heir Male,
John
Lord
Harris.
This Earl so succeeding, married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Lochinvar,
Ancestor to the Viscount of
Kenmure,
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir,
John Maxwel,
Esq
William Maxwel,
Esq
Which
Robert
married
Lucy,
Daughter of
William,
Marquis of
Douglass,
by whom he had
William
his Heir, and a Daughter,
Mary,
married to
Charles
Earl of
Traquair,
and dying in
March
1695, was succeeded by,
William
his Son, the present Earl, who married
Winifrid,
Daughter of
William
Marquis of
Powis,
of the Kingdom of
England,
by whom he has my Lord
Maxwel
his Son and Heir apparent.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Double Eagle displayed,
Sable,
Beaked and Membred,
Gules,
surmounted of a Shield of the first, charged with a Saltyre of the Second, surcharged with an Hedge-Hog,
Or.
Supporters, Two Staggs proper. Motto,
Reviresco.
CARNAGY, Earl of
Northesk.
THE first of this noble Family was Sir
John Carnagy
of
Ethie,
a younger Son of
David Carnagy
of
Coluthy,
by
Eupham
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
David Weems
of That-Ilk.
Which Sir
John
being a Person of great Parts, Learning and Industry, acquired a fair Fortune in Land, which he took Care should descend full and intire to the Heir of his Family; and his Majesty King
Charles
I. to countenance and encourage his Vertue and Merit, was pleas'd to make him a Peer, by the Stile and Title of, Lord
Lour,
the 20th of
April,
1639
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
, and his Lordship having eminently approv'd himself in his Loyalty during the Civil War, his Majesty in Consideration thereof was graciously pleas'd to raise him to the Honour of Earl of
Ethie,
Lord
Lour
and
Inglismadie,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 1st of
November
1647
Ibidem.
; and departing this mortal Life, on the 18th of
January
1667
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Magdalen
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
James Halliburton
of
Pitcur,
David his
Successor in the Honour,
Sir
John Carnagy
of
Baysack,
Anne
married to
Patrick Wood,
at that Time Son and Heir apparent to Sir
Henry Wood
of
Bonniton
Ibidem.
.
Margaret
to
George Lindsay
Lord
Spainzie, sans Issue.
Marjory
to
James Scot,
Son and Heir apparent to Sir
John Scot
of
Scotstarvet
Ibidem.
, Director of the Chancery in the Reign of King
Charles
I. and had Issue,
Jean
to
William Graham
of
Claverhouse,
Mother by him to
John
Viscount of
Dundee.
David
Earl of
Ethie,
his Son, did with the Permission and Approbation of his Majesty King
Charles
II. exchange his Title of Earl of
Ethie
to Earl of
Northesk,
and Lord
Lour
to Lord
Rose-hill.
He married
Jean,
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Panmure.
By her he had Four Sons and a Daughter,
David
his eldest Son, the Heir of the Family.
James Carnagy
of
Finhaven.
Patrick Carnagy
of
Lour.
Alexander Carnagy
of
Kinfaunes.
Jean
married to
Colin
Earl of
Balcarras.
This Earl giving Way to Fate 12th of
December
1679
Charta in Rot. Caroli I.
, was succeeded by,
David
the next Earl, his Son and Heir, who dying in the Month of
October
1688
Ibidem.
, left Issue by the Lady
Elizabeth Lindsay
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Crawsurd, David
his Son and Heir; likewise two Daughters,
Lady
Margaret,
Lady
Christian
married to
James
Duke of
Montrose.
Which
David
was by Queen
Anne
in 1702, constituted Sheriff of
Forfar
-Shire, and named one of the Lords of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and thereafter in 1710, his Lordship was elected one of the Sixteen Peers out of the Nobility of
Scotland,
to sit and vote in the
English
House of Lords, and made one of the Commissioners of the Court of Chamberlanry, to which I think that of the Police has succeeded. He married the Lady
Margaret Weems,
Daughter of
Margaret
Countess of
Weems,
by whom he has Issue,
David
Lord
Rose-hill.
Lady
Margaret.
Lady
Bettie.
Lady
Anne.
Lady
Christian.
Lady
Mary.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Or,
an Eagle displayed,
Azure,
Beaked and Membred,
Gules,
2d and 3d
Argent,
a Pale,
Gules.
Supporters Two Leopards. Crest, a Leopard's Head all proper. Motto,
Tache sans Tache.
STEWART, Lord
Ochiltree.
THE first of this Branch of the illustrious Family of
Stewart,
was Sir
Andrew Stewart,
Knight, Grandchild of
Murdack
Duke of
Albany,
by the Lord
James Stewart
his Son, who being a Person of great Courage and Merit, was by King
James
II. toward the End of his Reign taken into his immediate and eminent Favour; and first in the 1458
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II.
, constituted Warden of the East Marches toward
England,
and made a Kt. But this being judged too low an Honour for his illustrious Birth and Quality, his said Majesty did confer on him the Title of Lord
Evandale, Anno
1459
Ibidem.
, a Barony the King gave him, and which came to the Crown by the Forfaulture of the Earl of
Douglass.
In the Beginning of the Reign of King
James
III. the Lord
Evandale
was constituted Lord High Chancellor,
Anno
1463, and he held the Office for the Space of Nineteen Years, till the 1482
Lives of the Lords Chancellors, penes me.
, he was removed, and the Bishop of
Glasgow
made Chancellor in his Room, and dying without Issue Male of his own Body, in the 1488, his Estate and Title devolved to
Alexander Stewart
Esq
his Nephew, Son of
Walter Stewart
of
Morphy,
his Brother-German.
He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan,
by whom he had
Andrew
his Successor,
Henry
Lord
Methven,
and Sir
James Stewart
of
Beith,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Murray,
on the paternal Line.
Which
Andrew
was in great Favour with King
James
IV. to whom he was Groom of the Stool, then called
Primus Hostiarius
Camerae
Regis
Rymer's Foedera Angliae ad Annum 1503.
, and thereafter made Captain of His Majesty's Castle of
Dunbarton
Charta in Pub. Arch.
.
This Lord in the 1534
Ibid.
, exchanged the Lordship of
Evandale
with Sir
James Hamilton
of
Finnart,
for Sir
James
's Barony of
Ochiltree,
and the Exchange of the Title of, Lord
Evandale
to Lord
Stewart
of
Ochiltree,
was ratified by Act of Parliament by the Regent the Earl of
Arran, Anno
1543. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Arran;
and dying
Anno
1548, left Issue
Andrew
his Successor; and several Daughters,
Marjory
married to Mr.
Knox
the great Reformer, and
Christian
to
John Boswel
of
Auchinleck.
Which
Andrew,
for Distinction, call'd,
The good Lord
Ochiltree, was a very glorious and happy Instrument in our blessed Reformation from Popery, when the Light of the Gospel began first to shine in the Western Parts, in the Minority of Queen
Mary.
He married
Agnes,
Daughter of
John Cunningham
of
Caprington,
by whom he had
Andrew
Master of
Ochiltree
his eldest Son, Sir
James Stewart,
who was Chancellor, and Earl of
Arran,
in the Minority of King
James
VI. he was looked on to be one of the evil Councellors of those Times, Sir
William Stewart
of
Monktoun,
Sir
Henry Stewart,
Kt.
Robert Stewart
of
Wester-Bracko.
Andrew
Master of
Ochiltree,
in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Methven,
by whom he had
Andrew,
who succeeded his Grandfather,
Josias Stewart
of
Bonnietoun;
likewise several Daughters,
Anne
married to Sir.
Andrew Ker
of
Ferniehirst,
thereafter Lord
Jedburgh.
Margaret
to Sir
George Crawfard
of
Liffnorris,
and had Issue.
Isobel
to
Gilbert Kennedy
of
Bargeny.
Mary
to
John Stewart
of
Trequair,
Junior and had Issue.
Martha
to
Nicol Rutherford
of
Hundely,
and had Issue.
To
Andrew
Lord
Ochiltree
succeeded
Andrew
his Grandson and Heir, who was one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
VI. General of the Ordnance, and Governor of
Edinburgh
Castle in that Reign. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
John Kennedy
of
Blairquhan,
by whom he had
Andrew
Master of
Ochiltree,
with whose Consent he alienated his Estate, and with his Majesty's Approbation and Acceptation, the Title of Lord
Stewart
of
Ochiltree
to Sir
James Stewart
of
Killeth,
Kt. his Uncle the Chancellor's Son, which the King ratified by a Charter under the Great Sea
, 9th of
Jane
1615
Ibid.
, in Lieu whereof King
James
created the other Lord
Stewart
of
Castle-Stewart
in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
by Letters Patent, 9th
November,
1619.
This
James
Lord
Ochiltree
did afterward in the Reign of King
Charles
I. accuse the Marquis of
Hamilton
of Treason; but when the Affair came to be try'd, the Story appear'd to be a Piece of the most notorious Folly and Forgery that ever was invented; for which he was condemned to perpetual Imprisonment in
Blackness
-Castle, where he continued for Twenty Years till the 1652, the
English
set him at Liberty; and he dyed before the Restauration, leaving a Grandson to succeed him in the Honour,
William
Lord
Ochiltree,
a very hopeful young Nobleman, who died about the Age of Sixteen at the University of
Eainburgh,
the 12th of
February,
1675, with many Circumstances of Regret, of which this was not the least, that with him did the Honour of this illustrious Family expire, and come to an End. I have been told by some who knew this Lord
Och
ltree,
that he was a most hopeful Scholar, a great Friend to the Muses; and there are some Fragments of his Poetical Fancy extant, which very much discover the Excellency of his Genius that Way.
OLIPHANT, Lord
Oliphant.
THE Ancestor of this ancient Family
David de Oliphard,
was one of those Barons who accompanied King
David
I. to
England,
with an Army to the Assistance of
Maude
the Empress, his Niece, against King
Stephen,
of whom 'tis memorable, that after the raising of the Siege of
Winchester,
in the 1142, King
David
was so closely pursu'd, that he was in a very great Hazard of being made a Prisoner, had it not been for the singular Valour of this noble Person, who had the Honour to rescue and bring off the King his Sovereign, to his immortal Honour
Dalrymple's Collections, P. 174.
. This Piece of signal and eminent Service was enough to intitle him to a more than ordinary Share of that good King's Favour, who with out doubt rewarded him according to his Merit; and that he was much about him afterward in some Office of Trust or Attendance, appears from the Frequency of his being found witnessing the Deeds of that Prince to many religious Places
He's Witness to the King's Grants to Coldingham and Dunfermling.
, particularly in one to the Prio
y o
,
whereto his Seal is append
d, which by the bearing thereupon,
viz.
Crescents,
clearly prove him to be the Ancestor of this noble Family, who still bear the same Figures in their Ensigns Armorial.
Another
David de Oliphard,
perhaps the Son of the former
David,
was no less the Favourite of King
Malcolm
and King
William,
than his Predecessor had been of King
David
In a Charter by King Malcolm to the Monks of Scoon, he David de Olyphard is a Witness thereto; and in another by King Wil. to the same Convent; likewise in a Charter by the same King, Fratribus hospitalis Sa
cti Andreae; also in one to the same Priory of St. Andrews by King William with Nicol. Cancel.
, in the Beginning of whose Reign he was constituted
Justiciartus Laodoniae
David de Olphard Justiciario is Witness in a Grant by King Wil. to the Abbay of Scoon, ratifying the Gift of the Earl of Athole, of the Church of Logy, Mobed & Justiciario Laodon
ae, as he's designed in a Charter by the said King, ratifying a G
ant o
Robert Bishop of St. Andrews, to the Priory there.
; at the same Time, when
Comes Dunec
us
was
Justiciarius Scotiae,
which Office he held for any Thing I have discovered to the contrary, even till his Death. To this
David
succeeded,
Walter de Oliphard,
his Son, who in the 9th of King
William
was one of the Hostages given for the Ransom of the said King, when he was taken Prisoner by the
English
at the Battle of
Alnwick,
on the 13th of
July
1174; and that which shows Sir
Walter
was a very great Man, are the Collegues who were joined with him,
viz. Comes Waldave, Comes Dunecan, Comes Gilebert,
together with
Richard Morvil,
Great Constable of
Scotland
Rymer's Foedera.
.
This
Walter
made a very great Figure under
Alexander
II. in the 6th of whose Reign,
Anno
1220, he was named one of the Guarantees in a Treaty bet wixt that Prince and King
Henry
I. relative to a Marriage betwixt King
Alexander
and a Daughter of
England,
King
Henry
's Sister
Ibid.
; and the next ensuing Year he was made
Justiciarius Laodoniae
Ibid. ad Annum 1221, he's designed Justiciarius Laodoniae; also in a Grant to Dumfermling the
of King Alex. III. he's in the same Office; and in a Grant by King Alexander to the Canons of St. Andrews, the 14th of his Reign.
, and he held the Office without any Interruption, even till his Death in the 1242
Chron. de Melross.
. He left Issue by
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of
Ferchard
Earl of
Strathern
Mr. Freebairn's Hist. of the Families of the Sirname of Drummond, M.S.
,
Walter
his Son and Heir, who renounced any Claim he had to the Church of
Strathgeth
to
Gilbert
Earl of
Strathern,
the Patronage of which that Earl made over to the Monks of
Inchaffrey,
for the Health of his Soul.
Sir
William Oliphard
or
Olyfend,
in the 1297, was one of the great Barons of
Scotland,
whom King
Edward
I. as pretending to be direct Superior of the Kingdom of
Scotland,
required, upon his Alledgance to attend him in Person with his Men, Horse and Arms, to go over with him to
France,
in order to assist him in the recovering of his Province of
Gascony
Rymer's Foedera.
; But I don't think he obey'd the Summons, for soon thereafter, when the War brok
out betwixt the Two Kingdoms, Sir
William
had the ill Fate to fall into the Enemies Hands, who sent him Prisoner to
London,
where he remained till the 1298, he was liberated upon Condition to return by a certain Day prefix'd; and withal to stay no longer at Home than was necessary to put himself in Equipage to attend and serve King
Edward
in the Army he design'd to employ against
France:
But I have all the Reason in the World to believe he had little Regard to the Promise he had made, for assoon as he came home, he heartily and personally engag
d himself in the War against King
Edward,
for recovering the Honour and Freedom of his Country which that Prince had so signally invaded; and thereafter, when the
English
invaded
Scotland
in 1303, Sir
William Olyfend
was appointed Governor of
Stirling
-Castle, which he defended with great Resolution and Courage, for the Space of Three Months, notwithstanding the
English
press'd the Siege very hard; but being reduced to Straits for Want of Provisions, they could not contend with, he was compell'd at last to deliver the Castle upon Articles which were not sacredly observed to the gallant Man. By
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of . . . .
Douglass
of . . . . . he had
Sir
Walter de Olyfend,
who is one of the Barons who swore Fealty, and did Homage for the Lands which he held of the Crown in the 1304
II
d.
. He left a Son.
Sir
William Olyfand,
who in the 12th King
Robert
I. had a Grant from that Prince, of the Lands of
Newtyle
and
Kil
pynzie,
for Homage and Service done and to be done by him, as the Charter bears
Invenrory of the Writings of the House of Oliphant.
, & was afterward one of the Subscribers of that famous Letter sent to the Pope in 1320, from the Earls, Barons,
&c.
of
Scotland:
And departing this Life the 5th of
February
1329, was interr'd at the Paroch Church of
Aberdalgy,
under a Monument of black Marble, with his Statue thereupon in Armour, as big as the Life, and this Inscription in great
Saxon
Capitals,
Hic jacet Dominus
Willielmus
de
Olyphant,
Dominus de
Aberdalgy,
qui obi
t Quinto Die Mensis
Februarii,
millesimo tricentesimo vigesimo nono, Orate, &c.
Sir
Walter Olyfant
his Son, was so gallant and brave a Man, that his Merit preferr'd him to a Marriage with the Lady
Elizabeth Bruce,
Daughter to King
Robert
I. and Sister to King
David
II. for which I have seen a Charter of King
David,
to instruct this Royal Allyance, Waltero Olyfant
Dilecto & Fideli suo, pro bono Servitio nobis impenso, &
Elisabethae
Sp
nsae suae dilectae Sorort nostrae;
erecting the Lands of
Gask
into a Barony, with the Privilege of fishing the Water of
Ern
Three Days of the Week in forbidden Time
Charta penes Jacobum Oliphant de Gask; etiam Charta David II. Waltero Oliphant & Elizabethae Sponsae suae Terrarum de Pitterrie, ultimo Februarii, 1364.
. By this noble Lady he had Issue,
Walter
his Son and Heir, who on the 20th of
October,
8th of King
Robert
II.
Anno
1379, obtained a Grant of the Lands and Barony of
Kelly
and
Pitkereie,
on the Resignation of Sir
William
his Father
Inventory of the Writs of the House of Oliphant, in the Custody of the Laird of Gask.
. By
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Erskine
of That-Ilk
Geneal. of the House of Oliphant.
, he had Sir
John
his Son and Heir, and
Malcolm Oliphant
of
Haslehead
in the County of
Air
Charta penes Jacobum Oliphant de Gask.
.
Which
John
had the Honour of Knighthood conferr'd on him by King
Robert
II. from whom he had a Grant in the 1388 of all the Lands he held of the Crown within the Realm, bearing to have proceeded upon his own Resignation, which is all I have found memorable concerning him, save that he married, first . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . .
Borthwick
of That Ilk, by whom he had
William
his Successor; secondly, . . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . .
Hume
of That-Ilk. By her he had a Son
Thomas,
who was the first of the House of
Kelly,
in the County of
Fife.
Sir
William Oliphant,
of
Aberdalgy,
in 1421, was one of the great Barons who were appointed to go to
England,
in order to concert Measures for the Redemption of King
James
I.
Rymer's Foedera Angliae, ad Annum 1421.
, for which he was afterward one of the Hostages
Ibidem ad Annum 1423.
. He married
Isobel
Daughter of Sir
John Stewart
of
Innermeath,
Lord of
Lorn,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, and a Daughter
Isobel,
married to Sir
James Scrimzeor
of
Dudop
Charta penes Comitem de Lauderdale.
, Constable of
Dundee.
Which Sir
John
having taken Part with the
Ogilvies,
with whom he was ally'd by Marriage, in that great Feud they had with the
Lindsays
in the Minority of King
James
II. was slain at the Battle of
Arbroth,
25th
January
1445
Hathornden's History of the Five King James's.
, leaving Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Walter Ogilvie,
Lord of
Auchterhouse
Charta in Pub. Arch.
,
Laurence
the next of the Family,
James Oliphant
of
Archalzie
Ibidem.
,
Margaret
married to
William Wardlaw
of
Torrie
Charta penes Jaco
um Oliphant de Gask.
,
Isobel
to
Alexander Blair
of
Bethayick
Ibidem.
,
in vicecomit. de
Perth.
Sir
Laurence Oliphant
of
Aberdalgy,
in his Youth went over to
France,
in Company with the Earl of
Douglass,
and other young Noblemen, to learn the Art of War
Hathornden's History.
; and after that he travell'd into
Italy
and several Foreign Parts. Upon his Return, he was by King
James
III. constituted one of the Lords of the Privy-Council, and raised to the Honour of Lord
Oliphant;
also in the 1470, he was made Sheriff of the County of
Perth
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, and appointed one of the Lords of the Session, for Administration of Justice, whose Power was then, if we may believe some Authors, so great that from them there was no Appeal, either to the King or Parliament.
In the 1484, the Lord
Oliphant
was named one of the Plenipotentiaries on the Part of
Scotland,
who met at the Congress at
Nottingham,
with others commission'd by the King of
England,
in order to take away all Grievances betwixt the Two Realms; by whom at Length a Truce was agreed to, which was to begin at the Rising of the Sun on the 29th of the Instant Month of
September,
and to last till the Setting of the Sun on the 29th of
September
1487, of which his Lordship was one of the Conservators
Rymer.
; And in order to take away, as much as possible, all Grounds and Occasions of Discord betwixt the Two Nations, he was one of the Ambassadors on the Part of
Scotland,
authoriz'd to treat about a Marriage betwixt
James
Prince of
Scotland,
and
Anne de la Pool,
Daughter of
John
Duke of
Suffolk,
and Niece of King
Richard
of
England;
which, tho' it was agreed to, yet by Reason of the short Life of King
Richard
her Uncle, and the subsequent Revolution in
England,
the Marriage did never take Effect. What Part this Lord acted in the troublesome Times that ensu'd in the End of this Reign, I have not been able to discover. But upon the Accession of King
James
IV. to the Crown, his Lordship was appointed by the Parliament, one of the Lords of the King's Privy-Council,
Anno
1490
Black Acts of Parliament.
, and impower'd and ordained to exercise Justice, and to suppress all Sorts of Disorders, not only within the Bounds of his own Lands; but had the Country of
Strathbrawin
appointed him for the Exercise of that Jurisdiction
Ibidem.
.
Thereafter, in the 1491, he was sent upon a Foreign Embassy; and upon his Return, when a new Treaty was set on Foot,
Anno
1492, for prolonging the Truce with
England,
the Lord
Oliphant
was one of the
Scots
Lords appointed for that Effect
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
; who accordingly met at
Coldstream;
and on the 21st of
December
agreed to a Truce, which was to continue till the 21st of the same Month 1496, for the Ratification of which the Commissioners set to the Seals of their respective Kings, which seemed to be a Practice was not observed till that Time. And besides what else I have observed of this Lord to make a further Manifestation of his Greatness; and of the Interest and Dependency he had in the County where he resided, I shall here exhibite a Catalogue of the Names of such Persons, as were retained to serve him both in Peace and War, during their respective Lives, as I extracted them from the very Indentures themselves, in the Custody of
James Oliphant
of
Gask,
his lineal Descendant.
Thomas Blair
of
Bethayick.
Humphrey Murray
of
Ogilvy.
Robert Mercer
of
Balieff.
David Ogilvy
of
Inchmartin.
Silvester Rattray
of That-Ilk.
Cristerim Gorthy
of That-Ilk.
Andrew Rollock
of
Duncrub.
Robert Rollock
of
Duncrub, Junior.
John Fothring hame
of
Powrie.
William Ferny
of That-Ilk.
Robert Bruce
of
Cultmalindie.
William Rollock
of
Findon.
David Mercer
of
Innerpeffrey.
Niel Stewart
of
Fothergil.
Lucus Bruce
of
Cultmalindie.
This noble Lord martied
Isobel,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Errol;
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir,
William Oliphant
of
Berindale,
of whom the present Branch of the
Oliphants
of
Gask,
who obtained the Lands of
Berindale
and
Strabrock,
by the Marriage of
Christian
Daughter and Heir of
Alexander Sutherland
of
Duffus
Charta in Pnb. Arch. ad Annum 1526, whereby Andrew Oliphant of Berindale, dispones the Lands of Berindale and Ald-Wick in Inverness-Shire, and Strabrock in Linlithgow-Shire, to his Cousin Laurence Lord Oliphant; wherein 'tis narrated, that by the Death of umquhile Alexander Sutherland of Duffus, the Marriage of Christian his only Daughter, fell in the King's Hands, who disponed it to Laurence Lord Oliphant, Grandfather to the Disponer, who gave her in Marriage to William Oliphant his second Son, this Disponer's Father. This Andrew had a younger Brother, Laurence Oliphant of whom the Family of Gask is lineally descended.
,
George Oliphant
of
Balmactorn,
and a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
George
Master of
Angus,
Son and Heir of
George
Earl of
Angus;
and departing this Life in 1500, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
John
his Son and Heir, who wedded the Lady
Elizabeth Campbel,
Daughter of
Colin,
Earl of
Argyle,
by whom he had
Colin,
Master of
Oliphant,
and
Laurence
Abbot of
Inchaffrey,
who was kill'd with the Master his elder Brother, at the Battle of
Flowdoun,
the 9th of
September
1513, the Father surviving his Sons Three Years, Death overtaking him in the 1516, whereby his Estate and Honour devolved on,
Laurence
his Grandson and Heir, Son of
Laurence
Master of
Oliphant,
by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl Mareschal. Which
Laurence
married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
James Sandilands
of
Calder,
by whom he had
Laurence
his Successor,
Peter Oliphant
of
Turring;
likewise Four Daughters,
Catharine
married first to Sir
Alexander Oliphant
of
Kelly,
and thereafter to
George Dundass
of That-Ilk, and had Issue.
Margaret
to
William Murray
of
Abercairny, sans Issue;
and again to
James Clepen
of
Carslogy.
Jean
to
William Moncrief
of That-Ilk, and had Issue.
Lilias
to
Robert Lundy
of
Balgony.
This Lord dying the 26th of
March,
1566
Charta in Publicis Archivis.
, was succeeded by
Laurence
his Son, who was one of the Lords who adhered with the greatest Firmness and Constancy to Queen
Mary,
upon the breaking out of the Troubles in that Reign. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Errol,
by whom he had
Laurence
Master of
Oliphant,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father, and
John Oliphant
of
Newland,
call'd Master of
Oliphant,
Ancestor to the present Lord
Oliphant;
likewise Three Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
William
Earl of
Angus.
Jean
to Mr.
Alexander Bruce
of
Cultmalindie, in vicecomitatu de Perth,
and had Issue.
Margaret
to Sir
James Johnstoun
of
Westerhall, in Vicecomitatu de Lanerk, sans Issae.
Laurence
Master of
Oliphant;
in the Lifetime of his Father, perished going over to the Low Countries in the 1583, leaving Issue by
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Morton, Laurence
a Son, who succeeded his Grandfather; and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
Robert
Lord
Lindsay.
To
Laurence
Lord
Oliphant
succeeded
Laurence
his Grandson, upon the Death of his Grandfather, in the 1592. He married
Lilias
Daughter of
James
Lord
Madertie,
by whom he had only one Daughter,
Anne,
married to
James
first Lord
Mordington.
This Lord by an Excess in his Way of Living, squandred away his Estate that little of the Fortune at his Death fell to his Nephew
Patrick,
Lord
Oliphant,
Son of
John
Master of
Oliphant
his Brother, to support the Title, so that the Family has not since appeared with that Lustre it did in former Times. This
Patrick
married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Patrick Chyne
of
Eslemont,
by whom he had one Daughter,
Lilias,
married to Sir
Laurence Oliphant
of
Gask;
secondly,
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
James Crichton
of
Frendraught,
by whom he had
Charles
his Successor, Colonel
William Oliphant,
and Captain
Francis Oliphant.
Which
Charles
married
Mary,
Daughter of . . . . .
Ogilvy
of
Milltown,
by whom he had
Patrick,
the present Lord
Oliphant,
his Son and Heir.
ARMS.
Gules,
Three Crescents,
Argent.
Supporters, Two Elephants proper. Crest, an Unicorn's Head, Coupe,
Argent,
Motto,
A Tout Prouvour.
SINCLAIR, Earl of
Orkney.
THE Sirname of
Sinclair,
tho' no doubt originally
French,
is nevertheless very ancient in
Scotland,
for the Lands and Barony of
Hermistoun
have been possess'd by the
Sinclairs
since the Reign of King
William,
that
Henricus de Sancto-Claro
had then these Lands by the Grant of
Richard de Morvil,
Constable of
Scotland
Charta penes Mat. Sinclair de Hermistoun, M.D.
; and tho' I have not found any Evidence so old of the
Sinclairs
of
Roslin,
the Ancestors of the Earls of
Orkney
and
Caithness;
yet this noble illustrious House did not only very far surpass the other, but even most Families within the Kingdom, for Wealth and Grandeur. They continued their Splendor till the Reign of King
James
III. that
William
Earl of
Orkney
and
Caithness,
from Motives, which, at this Distance of Time, cannot be so well known, did make a Division of his Estate among Three of his Sons, the Bulk whereof, together with the Title of Earl, he made over with Consent of King
James
III. to
William Sinclair,
the eldest Son of his second Marriage, whereby the Family lost a great deal of its Lustre, with which it had flowrish'd for many Ages before, not only in
Scotland,
but also in
Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
and other Kingdoms beyond Sea.
Sir
William Sinclair,
Lord of
Roslin,
was High-Sheriff of
Edinburgh
-Shire in the 30th of King
Alexander
III.
Anno
1278
Chartul. of Dunfermling.
; and after the Death of that Prince was one of the great Barons who were present at
Berwick,
in the Plea for the Crown that was betwixt the
Bruce
and
Baliol,
the Decision whereof was referred to King
Edward
I. of
England.
This great Man had Issue
Henry
his Successor in the Barony of
Roslin, William
the martial Prelate of
Dunkeld,
and very probably Sir
Gregory Sinclair,
the Founder of the ancient Family of the
Sinclairs
of
Longformacus
Gregory Sinclair swears Fealty to King Edward I. among other Barons of Berwick-Shire, and I have seen in the Hands of Sir Robert Sinclair of Longformacus, Bart. an Obligation by Henry the first Earl of Orkney in the 1384, to his well beloved Cousin Sir James Sinclair of Longformacus, Kt. whereby the Earl obliges himself to give his Cousin Sir James a Twenty-Merk-Land, &c. which if it does not prove the particular Descent, it is certainly a very noble Document for the Antiquity of the Family of Longformacus.
, in
Berwick
-Shire.
Sir
Henry Sinclair
of
Roslin,
was one of the great Men who swore Fealty to King
Edward
I as Direct and Superior Lord of
Scotland,
an Acknowledgment seems to have been extorted from them, and which they disowned whenever an Opportunity offered to assert their own Liberty, and the Nation's Independency. He was succeeded by
Sir
William
his Son, who assisted King
Robert the Bruce
in his Wars, and was one of the Subscribers of that famous Letter sent to the Pope in 1320, from the Earls, Barons,
&c.
of
Scotland.
He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter and Co-heir of
Maliss,
Earl of
Strathern,
and one of the Heirs of
Magnus
Earl of
Caithness,
by whom he had
Henry
1st Earl of
Orkney,
& two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Thomas
Earl of
Angus,
and after his Death to Sir
William Sinclair
of
Hermiestoun,
and had Issue
Charta penes Comitem de Marchmont.
; and
Jean
to Sir
John Forrester
of
Carstorphine.
Which
Henry
was created Earl of
Orkney
by
Hack
King of
Norway, Anno
1379
Terfeu's History of Orkney.
, which was ratified by his own Sovereign, if he did not also himself confer the same Honour on Sir
Henry;
for I have seen a Charter granted by King
Robert
of
Scotland
to this Earl of the Barony of
Roslin,
resigned by himself, wherein he's designed
Comes Orcadiae, & Dominus de Roslin
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
. He married first
Florentina,
Daughter to the King of
Denmark;
and thereafter
Jean,
Daughter of Sir
Walter Hall
burton,
Lord of
Dirleton
Deduction of the Line of the Earls of Orkney, in Dr. Wallace's History of Orkney.
. By her he had
Henry
his Heir,
Elizabeth
married to Sir
John Drummond
of
Stobhall
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Perth,
and
Mary
to Sir
Thomas Somervel
of
Carnwath.
Henry
second Earl of
Orkney,
made a very great Figure in the Time of King
James
I. in whose Reign he was Lord High Admiral of
Scotland,
and Governor to that Prince in his younger Years. He married
Giles,
Daughter and Heir of
William Douglass,
Lord of
Nithsdale;
by her he had
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Beatrix,
married to
James
Earl of
Douglass.
William
his Son, a mighty Favourite of King
James
II. was in the 1454 made Chancellor of
Scotland
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi II.
, and the same Year sent upon a solemn Embassy to
England
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
: Upon his Return he had a Grant from that Prince of the Earldom of
Caithness,
then in the Crown, by the Death of Sir
George Crichton:
After which he designed himself promiscuously
Comes
Orkadiae
&
Cathaniae
Ibid. ad Annum 1461, & 1457, & 1471.
; but thereafter, upon some Transaction with the King, in the Reign of King
James
III. the Earldom of
Orkney
was, by Act of Parliament, 20th of
February
1471
The Act of Parliament is at Length in Haddington's Collections from the Records in the Lawyer's Library.
, annexed to the Crown; but that it did not proceed upon a Forfaulture of the Earl, as a late Author conjectu
'd, is most plain, for the very same Year he was in great Favour with his Prince, and named one of the Ambassadors to treat of a Peace with
England,
which is the last Time I have found him in any publick Character. He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Douglass,
by whom he had
William Sinclair
of
Ravensheugh,
the lineal Ancestor of the present Lord
Sinclair,
his eldest Son, whom he disinherited, and a Daughter
Catharine,
married to
Alexander
Duke of
Albany;
next,
Marjory
Daughter of
Alexander
Master of
Sutherland:
by her he had
William,
in whose Favours he resigned the Earldom of
Caithness;
whereupon the King confer'd it
de nov
on him, by a Charter under the Great Seal, 8th of
December
1476
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, Sir-
Oliver Sinclair
of
Roslin
Charta Wi
. Comitis Cathaniae, Olivero Sinclair, filio suo, Terrarum de Roflin & Harbertshire, data 10 December 147
.
, Sir
David Sinclair,
Kt.
John
Bishop of
Caithness;
likewise Three Daughters,
Eleanora
married to
John
Earl of
Athole, Marion
to Sir
John Houstoun
of That-Ilk, and
Elizabeth,
second Wife of Sir
David Boswell
of
Balmuto,
Mother by him to
David Boswel,
the first Baron of the Family of
Auchinleck,
in
Air
-Shire.
HEPBURN, Duke of
Orkney.
FROM the 1471, for the Space of Ninety Six Years, no body bare the Title of
Orkney,
that then Queen
Mary
being abus'd by the evil Council of some about her, in Places of nearest Trust and Confidence, was not only advised, but very solemnly address'd to marry the Earl of
Bothwel,
as the most effectual Mean to quiet the Peace of the Country, which was broken and divided by Faction and Party, her Majesty, in Complyance with their Desires, having resolved to marry the Earl, she thought his Title too low a Dignity for the Person she intended to make the Partner of her Ro
al Bed, and therefore the better to fit and qualifie him for that Honour, her Majesty was pleas'd to raise and advance him to the highest Dignity a Subject was capable to receive, or the Sovereign to bestow, that was, to make him a Duke, by the Title of, Duke of
Orkney:
But no sooner was the Marriage consummate between the Queen and the Duke, than some of those very Persons who advised and most advanced the Match, which was certainly the most unfortunate Step of her Life, entered into Cabals and Associations to ruin them both, and which they very speedily and successfully effected. For in less than a Year thereafter, they imprisoned the Queen, and forced the unhappy Duke to fly out of the Country; and then condemned and forfaulted him, whereby he was not only depr
ved of his new acquired Title of Duke, but also of Earl, which had been in his Family for full Eighty Years, and his own He
editary Offices given to those who had been his principal Conductors to Destruction.
STEWART, Earl of
Orkney.
QUEEN
Mary
did, by a Charter under her Great-Seal, bestow the Crown Lands of
Orkney
and
Z
land
upon her natural Brother, Sir
Robert Stewart
of
Strathdon,
Prior of
Holy-Road-House,
26th
May
1565, in Pursuance of which King
James
VI. did erect the same Lands into an Earldom, in Favours of his Uncle Sir
Robert,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 28th of
October
1581. This Earl married
Jean
Daughter of
Gilbert
Earl of
Cassils;
by whom he had Three Sons, and Four Daughters,
Patrick
Earl of
Orkney
his Son and Heir,
John
Lord
Kincliven,
and Earl of
Carrick,
Sir
James Stewart,
Kt. one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to King
James
VI. Lady
Mary
married to
Patrick
Lord
Gray,
Lady
Jean
to
Patrick
Lord
Lindores,
Lady
Elizabeth
to Sir
James Sinclair
of
Murthil,
Lady
Barbara
to
Rorie MacLeod
of the
Lewes.
Which
Patrick
was forfaulted for Treason and Oppressions, and beheaded at
Edinburgh,
6th
February
1614, whereby the Title of Ear
of
Orkney,
was suppress'd: And tho' the same Title was not conferr'd upon his Brother, the Lord
Ki
cliven,
yet his Majesty King
Charles
I. in the 1632, was graciously pleas'd, in Lieu thereof, to create him Earl of
Carrick,
from a Village so call'd in the Isle of
Ethy,
in the
Orkneys,
which was then erected in a Burgh of Barony, in Favours of the Earl; but he dying without Issue Male of his own Body, the Title did not descend to his other Heirs, but became extinct with himself.
HAMILTON, Earl of
Orkney.
LORD
George Hamilton,
Fourth surviving Son of
William
and
Anne,
Duke and Dutchess of
Hamilton,
from his Youth betaking himself to Arms, and having given early Proofs of a martial Spirit, and distinguished a particular Bravery and Fortitude in the Battles of
Boyne, Achrim, Stank
k
and
Landen;
and no less in the several Sieges of
Athlone, Limeri
k
and
Namur;
in Consideration whereof, and to reward his great Merit, King
William
was graciously pleas'd to bestow upon him the old standing Regiment that had been formerly his Uncle the Earl of
Dunb
rton
's, immediately after the Battle of
Stank
rk,
where the Golonel Sir
Robert Douglass
of
Glenbervy
was slain: But that being thought too little to recompense Lord
George
's great Services, his Majesty was further pleas'd to make him a Brigadier, and to raise him to be an Earl, by the Title of Earl of
Orkney,
and to the Hei
s Male of his Body, by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 3d of
January
1696; and beside the Motives from the most illustrio
s Family, of which his Lordship was Son, his own signal Services, are so fully set forth in the Narrative of the Patent, that I should not think it just to pass them by, without mentioning them as they are expressed in the Sovereign's own Words,
Quin etiam Considerantes quod idem Dom
nus
Georgius Hamilton,
Generis sui & Sang
nis Nobilitati, propria s
Virtute superadd
it; ac eximiae suae Fidei & Fortitudinis; multa & praeclar
dederit Specimina tum in prael
is apud
Boyne, Achrim, Sta
kirk,
&
Landen;
tum in Obsid
onibus de
Athlone
&
Limerick,
nuperrime et
am & em
nenter in Obs
d
one Civit
t
s de
Namur,
sub intuitu nostro & observatione. O
has igitur, plur
masque al
as magni momenti Res & Rat
ones i
signem & durabilem Regni nostri Favoris Tesseram, in illum, ejusque
miliam conferre, noveritis igitur Nos,
&c.
In the Beginning of the last War, her Majesty Queen
Anne,
soon after her coming to the Crown, was pleas'd to promote the Earl of
Orkney
to be a Lieutenant General,
June
8th 1702. But this was not all, for her Majesty would accumulate more Honours on his Lordship, and therefore on the 4th of
February
1704, he was chosen one of the Twelve Knights of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, which her Majesty was pleas'd in Honour of her ancient Kingdom of
Scotland,
then to revive. Upon the Commencing of the Union of the two Crowns, tho' I don't find the E
l of
Orkney
was one of the Peers named by the
Scots
Parliament to sit in the e
suing Session, in the
English
House of Peers, yet in the first new Parliament thereafter, the
Scots
Nobility to testifie the Value and Esteem they had of his Lordship, elected him one of their Number to represent the Peerage of
Scotland,
in the
British
Parliament on the 17th of
June
1708. And when that Parliament was dissolved upon the Change of the Ministry, the Earl of
Orkney
had the Honour to be rechosen one of the Sixteen
Scots
Peers, to the next ensuing Parliament, on the 10th of
November
1710, and the Choice of his Lordship being agreeable to the Queen, her Majesty was pleas'd upon the 11th of
March
thereafter to name him one of her most honourable Privy Council; and in
April
1712, to declare him Lieutenant General of the Foot that were to serve in the ensuing Campaign in
Flanders,
under the Duke of
Ormond,
who was then made General and Commander in Chief of all the
British
Forces. Thereafter the Queen made him Governor of
Edinburgh
-Castle, upon the Removal of the Duke of
Argyle;
in which Station King
George
continued his Lordship upon his Accession to the Throne; and moreover appointed him one of the Gentlemen Extraordinary of his Majesty's Bed Chamber; and he took the Oath of the Office on the 28 of
October
1714.
His Lordship married
Flizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Edward Villiars,
Kt. Sister to
Edward
Earl of
Jersey,
by whom he has Three Daughters,
Lady
Anne.
Lady
Frances.
Lady
Henrietta.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st
Azure,
a Ship within a double Tressure, flower'd and counterflower'd,
Or.
2d and 3d, the quartered Coats of the Family of
Hamilton;
4th
Argent,
a Hart
Gules,
ensign'd with an Imperial Crown,
Or,
on a Chief,
Azure,
Three Molets of the First, supported on the Dexter with an Antelop, and on the Sinister with an Hart proper. Crest and Motto the same with the House of
Hamilton, viz.
a Saw sawing thro' a growing Tree, with the Word
Through.
MACGIL, Viscount of
Oxenford.
THE first of this Family was Mr.
David Macgill
of
Nisbet,
Son of
James Macgill,
Citizen of
Edinburgh,
and Brother to Mr.
James Macgil
of
Nether Rankilour,
Clerk of Register in the Reign of Queen
Mary
and King
James
VI.
Which Mr.
David
being a Lawyer of good Reputation, was preferred by King
James
to be his Majesty's Advocate, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
Anno
1582; both which Offices he held till his Death, which happened in the 1596
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . .
Forrester
of
Carstorphine
Ibidem.
.
David
his Son and Heir, who by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Sinclair
of
Hermistoun
Ibidem.
, had Mr.
David Macgil
of
Cranstoun-Rid
le
his Son and Heir, who was one of the Senators of the College of Justice
Dalrymple's Cambden.
, and died without Issue, and Sir
James Macgil,
Bart. likewise a Daughter,
Elizabeth,
married to
James Cranstoun,
Esq
Son of
William
first Lord
Cranstoun.
Which Sir
James
being a Gentleman of great Integrity and Learning, was by King
Charles
I. made one of the Lords of Council and Session; and thereafter was by the special Favour of King
Charles
II. rais'd to the Honour of Viscount of
Oxenford,
by Letters Patent, 19th of
April
1651
Charta
Pub. Arch.
. He married first
Catharine,
Daughter of Sir
John Cockburn
of
Ormistoun
Ibidem.
, by whom he had Two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
Patrick Hamilton
of
Preston,
and
Anne
to Sir
James Richardson
of
Smeatoun;
next
Christian,
Daughter of
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth,
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Christian
married first to
Alexander Craw
urd
of
Carse,
and again to
George Ross
of
Gaulstoun;
and dying
Anno
1663, was succeeded by,
Robert
his Son and Heir, who married
Henrietta,
Daughter of
George,
Earl of
Linlithgow,
by whom he had a Son
George,
Master of
Oxenford,
who died before himself, in
September
1701, and two Daughters,
Christian
the Heir of his Honour and Estate, and
Margaret
married to
James Hamilton
of
Orbist
un,
and dying 18th
December
1706. was succeeded by his Daughter
Christian
Viscountess of
Oxenford,
who married
William Maitland,
Esq
Son of
Charles
Earl of
Lauderdale,
by whom he had
Robert
the present Viscount of
Oxenford,
who succeeded to the Honour on the Viscountess his Mother's Death in the 1707.
ARMS.
Gules,
Three Martlets,
Or,
supported on the Dexter by a Horse at Liberty,
Argent,
garnished with a Viscount's Coronet, whereto a Chain is affixed; and on the Sinister with a Bull,
Sable,
colourred and charged as the other
Register of the Lyon's Office.
. Crest, A Phenix in Flames. Motto,
Sine Fine.
VALONIIS, Lord of
Panmure.
IN the Time of King
William
flourished Sir
Philip de Valoniis,
who in the 11th of that Reign executed the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of
Scotland
Chartul. of Scoon.
; and he held the Place under that Prince for many Years: As the Lord Chamberlain seems to have been in the highest Favour with that Prince, so it appears he made a very considerable Figure in the Publick Transactions of those Times, for when King
William
had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner by the
English
at the Battle of
Alnwick, Anno
1174, Sir
Philip de Valoniis
was one of the Hostages sent to
England,
for the King's Ransom
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. Upon the Return of the King to reward and commemorate Sir
Philip
's good and faithful Services, his Master made him a Grant of the Baronies of
Panmure
and
Be
vin
in the County of
Forfar,
out of which he gave a Donation to the Monks of
Coupar,
in pure and perpetual Alms,
Pro salute Animarum quondam Regis
David,
Comitis
Hen
ici
Filii sui, Regis
Malcolmi,
nec non pro salute Animae Regis
Willielmi David
Comitis Fratris sui, & salute sui ipsius, Antecessorum & Successorum suorum in perpetuum
Chartul. of Coupar, penes D. Balmerino.
; and departing this Life 5th
November
1215
Chron. de Melross.
, was interr'd in the Convent of
Melross,
leaving a Son,
Sir
William de Valoniis,
who had a Grant from King
William,
in the Lifetime of his Father, of the Baronies of
Panmure
and
Benvin,
bearing to be made
Willielmo de Valontis, Filio
Philippi
de
Valoniis
de Terris illis in
Scotia
quas eidem
Philippo
Patri ejus dedi, scz.
Benvin,
per rectas divisas suas, & cum omnibus justis Pertinentiis suis, &
Panmore
per rectas divisas suas & cum omnibus justis Pertinentiis, per servitium dimidii Militis sicut charta praedicti
Philippi
de
Valoniis
Patris sui testatur
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure. which is engraven in Mr. Anderson's Collection of Charters.
. This Sir
William
being a Man of Parts and Merit, King
Alexander
II. was pleas'd to make him Lord Chamberlain of
Scotland,
a Place his Father had long and worthily held in the former Reign
Chartul. of Scoon and Aberbrothock.
, upon his Father's Demise; and he discharged that great Office for the Space of Four Years, even till his Death in the 1219 he was buried at
Melross
beside his Father
Chron. de Melross.
, leaving Issue one Daughter,
Christian
his sole Heir, who brought the Baronies of
Benvin
and
Panmure
to her Husband, Sir
Peter de Maulia,
Kt. the lineal Ancestor of the present Earl of
Panmure,
and the other Branches of that most noble Family.
MAULE, Earl of
Panmure.
BOETHIUS,
and some other Historians of the
Scots
Nation do reckon, that the first Ancestor of this ancient and noble Family, came from
Hungary
to
Scotland,
in the Reign of King
Malcolm
III. in the Retinue of
Edward
the Out-law of
England,
and of
Margaret
his Sister, thereafter Queen of
Scotland.
But as this Assertion of Mr.
Bois
's is without Authority, or even so much as Probability; so I rather incline with some modern Antiquaries, who have enquired with great Curiosity into the Origin and Progress of Sirnames among us, to think the first Ancestor of the
Maules
to have come from
France,
and extracted from the noble Family of
de Maulia,
so call'd from a fair Lordship of that Name in the Dutchy of
Nor mandy;
the first of whom I have found using the Sirname, was
Petrus de Maulia, Filtus
Ansoldi,
Filit Guarini,
who gave,
Anno
1076, to the Monks of
Uttica,
the Churches of St.
Mary,
St.
Vincent,
and St.
Germain, in villa quae nuncupatur
Maulia, for the Salvation of his Soul
Odericus Vitalis in his Ecclesiastical History, Book V. printed in Andrew du Chyne's Collecton of the Norman Writers.
, according to the Devotion of these Times, when good Works were believed to be meritorious with Almighty GOD; and departing this Life in
January
1101
Ibidem.
, was inter
'd in the Cloister of
Uttica,
with an Epitaph over his Grave, of which this is a Part,
Post Annos Agni centum cum mille superni,
Flos Procerum
Petrus
prope
Jani
decidit idus,
&c.
He left Issue by
Guindismoth
his Wife, a Lady of a noble Family at
Troyes,
Four Sons,
Ansold, Theobald, Guarin,
and
William.
Which
Ansold
was a very warlike Man, and did eminently signalize himself in the Wars of
Italy
Ibidem.
, particularly in the Battle where
Alexius
the Emperor of
Constantinople,
received a signal Overthrow; likeas in 1106, he ratified to the Monastry of
Uttica
the Rights his Father had made to that Church; and afterward retiring from the World, for the better disposing himself, as he thought, to Devotion, he took upon him the Habit of a Monk of St.
Bennet,
in that Cloister, where he ended his Days not long after, and was there interr'd with this Epitaph upon his Tomb, writ by
Odo
of
Monstrewel,
Si quis erit si scire velit, dum vivus adesset
Quis fuerat quem Tumba tegit, quod nomen haberet,
Ansoldi
nomen suit huic, & Militis omen,
&c.
By
Oldenine
his Wife, Daughter of
Radulphus de Malevicine,
he had seven Sons,
Petrus, Radulphus, Guarinus, Liscardus, Guido, Ansoldus,
and
Hugo.
Which
Petrus de Maulia
married
Addo,
Daughter of the Count
de Ghisne,
but being a turbulent Man,
Louis
the Gross, King of
France,
for his insolent Demeanour, demolished his Castle, and deprived him of his Lordship of
Maulta;
and tho' he was afterward so far reconciled to his Prince, as that he accompanied him to the Battle of
Breunivil,
against
Henry
I. of
England,
in the 1
19
Ibidem.
; yet for what I have found, he never recovered so much Favour as to be restored to the Possession of his Estate. And 'tis highly probable, at least much more, so, than
Boethius
Story, that upon the falling low of the Family of
De Maulia
in
France,
a Branch of them was transplanted to
S
tland,
in the Time of King
David
I. who
e Bounty and Generosity we know, was not confin'd to his own Subjects; but was also very liberally extended to Foreigners of Birth and Merit, who were willing to put themselves under his Protection; for in the End of that Reign,
William de M
ulia
is Witness in a Donation by Prince
H
nry,
of the Lands of
Clerkingtoun
to the Church of
Haddingtoun
Reg
sters of the Priory of St. Andrews.
. But what were the first Lands the
M
uies
were possessed of, I have not been able to discover; but they were
pread into sundry Branches as early as the succeeding Reign of King
Malcolm
IV. when that Prince of his Royal Bounty gave the same
William de Ma
a
promiscuously design'd
Masculus
and
e M
u
a,
the Lands and Tenement of
in
Perth
-Shire, out of whi
he mertified in pure and perpetual Alms,
DEO, & Canonicalt Ecclesiae Sancti
Andreae
Capelam de
Foulis,
cum Terra quae eidem Cap
lae competebat, antequam
Foulis
esset mihi data, cum decem acris Terrae, quas in incrementum ded
ipsi Capelae, pro salute Animae m
,
&c.
coram
Roberto
Episcopo Sancti
Andreae
Ibid.
. The same
William Ma
culus de Foulis,
gave to the Chanons of the Priory of St.
Andrews &
Thomae Masculo
clertco nepoti suo, ecclesiam suam de
Foulis,
in puram eleemosinam
Ibidem.
,
coram
Willielmo
Priore Sancti
Andreae
Comite
Dunecano. Adamo
pratre Comitis,
Michaele Masculo, Ricardo
nep
te suo.
But he dying without Issue Male, his Estate went with his two Daughters, the Elder married to
R
ger de Mortimer;
and the Younger
to
Walter de Rothven,
Paternal Ancestor to the Earls of
Gowrie.
For the further Illustration of this Descent, there is a Donation made by
Hugo ae Mortuomari,
Lord of
,
whereby he confirms to the Chanons of Sr.
Andrews, Capelam de
Foulis,
cum terra quae eidem Capelae competeba
, antequam
Foulis
esset data
Willielmo
de
Masculo
avo suo
Chartul. of St. Andrew's. M.S.
; and thereafter
Gilbertus de Rothven,
Son of
Walter de Rothven, in praesentia Domini
Alexandri
Regis, in curia apud
Schonen,
die Veneris ante Dominicam Palmarum, Anno Gratiae
1262
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, resigns in due Form,
Wi
ielmo de Mortuomar
, cognato suo & haeredibus suis in perpetuum, totum jus illud quod ille & haeredes sui habuerunt vel habuere potuerunt per decessum
Ciciliae
aviae suae filiae domini
Willielmi
de
Maulia,
vel aliquo alio jure, mihi & haeredious meis, contingente in tota terra de
Foulis
in
Gaurin,
vel medietato ipsius, vel in parte ejusdem.
The direct Ancestor of this noble Family was Sir
Peter de Maulia,
great Nephew and Heir Male of Sir
William de Maulia,
Lord of
Foulis,
who in the Beginning of the Reign of King
Alexander
II. obtained the Barony of
Panmure,
by the Marriage of
Christian
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
William de Valoniis,
Lord of
Panmure,
Great Chamberlain of
Scotland.
This Sir
Peter
and the said
Christian
his Wife, did mortifie the Lands of
Brakis
and
Bothmernock,
to the Monks of
Arbroth
Ibidem, & Chartul. of Arbroth, in the Lawyers Library.
, in the Tenement of
Panmure,
for the Salvation of their Souls, as appears from a Perambulation betwixt them and the Abbot of the said Convent, which narrates, that after some Dispute betwixt the Two Parties anent the Right of these Lands, the King had ordered the Earl of
Buchan
his Justiciary, to march and perambulate the said Lands; and the Parties having amicably agreed, by the Mediation of certain noble Persons,
viz. William
Lord
Brichen, Gilbert de
Haya,
and
Robert de Montealto,
the Affair at length was amicably compos'd
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
. He dying in the 1254, left Issue
Sir
William
his Successor, and
Sir
Thomas,
who in the 1303, bravely defended the Castle of
Brichen,
against a strong Party of the
English,
for several Weeks, with the outmost Resolution and Magnanimity: Of whom
Matthew Westminster,
an Author not to be suspected of Flattery, when he speaks in Favour of the
Scots,
says,
That he was a Soldier of undaunted Boldness and Resolution of Mind, that the Vigour and Strength of his Body were very great, and that he did not fear to hold out the small Fortress committed to his Charge against a Royal Army.
And notwithstanding King
Edward
was very sollicitous to have the Place, and for that Purpose brought great Preparations against it, yet all was to no Purpose, insomuch, says the former Author, that one Day as the Governor was standing upon the Wall, and watching where a Stone hit against it, he in Derision wiped the Place with his Handkerchief: But some Days after, when another Attack was made, the brave Governor had the Misfortune to receive a Wound in the Breast, of which he died the same Evening, whereupon the Castle was surrender'd.
Which Sir
Willi
m,
in the 1293, ratified and confirmed to
Rodolph
of
Dundee,
the Grant of
Christian de Valoniis
his Mother, of the Lands of
Benvin
and
Balruthry,
with the Patronage of the Church of
Benvin,
to which his Seal is appended; and still intire, as it is bore by his Descendants, the Heirs of this noble Family
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
. He was also one of those Barons who in the 1292, did Homage to King
Edward
I. for his Lands which he held of the Crown in the County of
Forfar,
when the Bulk of the Nation swore Fealty to that ambitious Prince
P
n's History.
. He married
Etham de Vallibus
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, Daughter of . . . . . .
de Vallibus,
Lord of
Dirleton,
by whom he had
Sir
Henry
his Son and Heir, Lord of the Barony of
Panmure,
who received the Honour of Knighthood from King
Robert
I. on Account of his Merit and Services to that Prince, who was a very bountiful Patron to worthy Men.
This Sir
Henry Maule
confirmed to
John
of
Glassirth,
Son and Heir of
Radulph de Dundee
the Lands of
Benvie
and
Balruthry,
which his Father Sir
William
had formerly given to the said
Radolph.
Whereupon King
Robert
I. confirms by his Charter under the Great Seal,
Donationem illam quam
Willielmus
de
Maule,
Miles Dominus de
Panmure
fecit
Radulpho
de
Dundee.
Militi de Terris de
Banevy
&
Balruthry,
cum advocatione ecclesiae ejusdem, cum molendino, & cum omnibus aliis justis pertinentiis suis, ac ratificationem, approbationem, & confirmationem
Henrici
de
Maule,
militis filii & haeredis
Willielmi
de
Maule
praedicti, factas
Johanni
de Glassrith, filio & haeredi quondam
Radulphi
de
Dundee,
de terris praedict. cum advocatione ecclesiae,
&c.
Charta penes Magistrum Henricum Maule de Kelly, fratrem Comitis de Panmure.
.
Test.
Waltero
de
Tuinham,
Cancellario nostro,
Thoma Randulpho
Comite
Moraviae,
Domino
Vallis Anandiae
&
Manniae,
nepote nostro
Jacobo
Domino de
Duglas, Gilberto
de
Haya
Constabulario nostro,
Roberto
de
Kieth
Marischallo nastro
Scotiae,
&
Roberto Boyde,
:
Apud
Dundee
quarto decimo
Aprilis,
Anno Regni nostri vicesimo quarto.
He married
Margaret,
Daughter of . . . . . . . . .
Hay
of
, Predecessor to the Marquis, of
Tweedale,
G
neal. of the House of Lockarit & Yester, & Dunlop's Collections, M.S.
, by whom he had
Walter
his Successor,
William,
and
, who
king himself to the Service of the Church, enter'd into Orders, and had a Dignity in the Chapter of the See of St.
Andrews,
as appears from the Grants of Bishop
Lamberton,
who exerced the Episcopal Function there, under King
David
II.
Chartul
of Arbroath.
; likewise a Daughter,
Christian
married to
Alexander Strachan
of
Carmylie
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
,
in vicecom. de Forfar.
Walter,
the next of this noble Family, flourished under King
David
II. he gave in free Alms to the Episcopal See of
Brichen,
the Chaplanry of
Boath
of his own Patronage, with his Lands of
Carncorthy,
for the Salvation of his Soul
Ibid.
, which Charter of this
Walterus de Mau
ta
King
David
ratified to his Favourite Chancellor the Bishop of that See, 20th of
November
1360
Ibid.
. By . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . . . his Wife, he had Sir
William
his Successor, and
Henry Maule,
first of the Branch of the
Maules
of
Glaster
Ibid.
.
Which Sir
William
married
Marion,
only Daughter of Sir
David Fleeming
of
Biggar,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Wigtoun
Ibid.
, by
Jean
his first Wife, Daughter of Sir
David Barclay
Lord of
Brichen,
by whom he had
Thomas
his Successor, and a Daughter
Jean,
married to
Alexander Ouchterleny
of
Kelly
Ibid.
,
in vicecomitatu de
Forfar.
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure
his Son, was made a Kt. by King
Robert
III. and thereafter during the Regency of the Duke of
Albany,
when the Troubles broke out upon the Descent of
Donald
of the Isles, when an Army was sent against that Lord, under the Command of the Earl of
Mar,
Sir
Thomas Maule
was one of those loyal Barons who joined the General in his March northward, and had a Command in the Army at the bloody Battle of
Hairlaw,
where he was slain, in the Flower of his Age,
July
25th, 1411, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Andrew Gray
of
Fouls,
Ancestor to the Lord
Gray
Ibidem.
, a Son born after his Death,
viz.
Sir
Thomas,
who was served and retoured Heir to his Father in 1412
Ibidem.
, notwithstanding of his Non-Age, in Respect of a Statute of General Council, made in Favours of those whose Predecessors were kill'd in the King's Service.
Upon the Death of that Arch-Traitor,
Walter
Earl of
Athole,
who murdered King
James
I. Sir
Thomas Maule
laid Claim to the Lordship of
Brichen,
in Right of his great Grandmother, who was Sister to Sir
David Barclay,
Lord of
Brichen,
whose Daughter and Heir the Earl had married; but the Ministry in the Minority of King
James
II. having in sundry Cases procured Decisions to be made in Favours of the Crown, when the Competition run betwixt the Sovereign and the Subject, so Sir
Thomas Maule
and the Friends of the Family of
Brichen
were baulked of their Right to that Lordship, which on the Earl of
Athole
's Forfaulture was immediately vested in the Crown, in Regard he was possessed of it at his Death
There is in the Hands of the Earl of Panmure, an Instrument taken in the 1437, by Thomas Maule of Panmure, upon Walter Earl of Athole, acknowledging, that he enjoyed the Lordship of Brichen, only by Courtesy, since the Decease of his Wife Elizabeth Barclay, and that he had resigned the same in the King's Hands: And another Declaration in the 1435, by Thomas Bisset of Ballquillo, whereby he judicially declares, that D
me Jean Barclay, Wife of Sir David Fleeming, was Grandmother to Sir Thomas Maule, who was kill
d at Hairlaw.
. But if ever Sir
Thomas
received afterward any Compensation for his Claim thereto, when the King came to Age, I have not been able to discover. He married
Margaret,
Daughter, as the Contrract designs her, of a
Nobleman,
Sir
Thomas Abercromby
of That-Ilk
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, in the County of
Fife,
one of the Lords of the Session in the Reign of King
James
II.
Black Ac
of Parliament.
, and dying in the 1450
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, left Issue
Sir
Thomas
his Son and Heir, who was a Gentleman of great Account in that Time; from a Principle of Devotion, according to the Piety of those Times, he ratified and confirmed to the Abbacy of
Coupar,
and to the Monks serving GOD there, certain Lands within the Barony of
Panmure,
with a Right to a Fishing in the east Haven of
Panmure,
which had been formerly given to the said Abbacy by Sir
Thomas
's Predecessor, Sir
Philip de Valoniis,
and that
pro salute animae suae,
Elizabethae
sponsae suae,
Alexandri Maule
filii sui & haeredis, omntum antecessorum & successorum suorum in perpetu
m
Ibidem ad Annum 1456.
. He likewise founded a Chapel at his own Manor-House of
Panmure,
dedicated in Honour of the
Blessed Virgin,
for the Con
cration of which he obtained a Licence and Order from
Julian
Bishop of
Ostia,
the Pope's Legate, to perform there Divine Service, and all other Offices competent to a Chapel-Devotion for him and his Family continually, dated in the Year 1487
Cl
a penes Comitem de Panmure.
, the 3d of Pope
Innocen.
VIII. He married first the Lady
Elizabeth Lindsay,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Crawsurd
Ibidem.
, by whom he had a Son
Alexander,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to . . . . . . . . . .
Lindsay
of
Evelick;
and again when he was an old Man.
Catharine,
Daughter of . . . . . .
Craumond
of
Ald-Bar,
and departing this Life in the 1498, was immediately succeeded by,
Sir
Thomas
his Grandson, Son and Heir of
Alexander Maule
of
Panmure, Ju
tor,
by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
David Gathry
of That-Ilk, Kt. Lord High-Treasurer of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
James
III.
Ibidem, etiam Charta in Pub. Arch.
. This Sir
Thomas
was made a Kt. by King
James
IV. by whom he was much valued and esteemed, as a Person well affected to the Government both in Church and State.
As the King had a great Regard for Sir
Thomas Maule,
so the Churchmen profess'd a more than ordinary Honour and Esteem of him; for the then Abbot of
Coupar,
with full Consent and Approbation of his Convent made him Baily of their Barony of
Barry,
a Jurisdiction, tho' of no great Value of itself, yet was such as the great Men before the Reformation affected to exerce, that they might be thought friendly to the Church, which was then no ill Politick, all Things considered. He married first
Elizabeth,
eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Sir
David Rollo
of
Ballachie
Ibidem.
, by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
Andrew
Lord
Gray;
by whom he had
Robert
his Successor, and
William,
who married
Janet,
Daughter of
John Carnagy
of
Kinnaird,
the Earl of
Southesk
's Ancestor, and was the Root of that Branch of the
Maules
of
Boath
Ibid.
; next,
Christian,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Graham,
by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Earl of
Angus,
and Widow of the Laird of
Gleneagles,
but by her he had no Issue.
Sir
Thomas
being the particular Favourite of his Master, King
James
IV. he accompanied him to the Battle of
Flowdon;
and while he was on his Way thither, he made his Testament at
Dundee,
that he might free himself of all worldly Intanglemonts, and the better, as he expresses it himself, to dispose him to the Service of his King and Country
Ibidem.
, in the War. And 'tis recorded of this Gentleman, to his immortal Honour, that tho' many of the first Quality left the King, before the Army engaged with the Enemy; yet he would not, tho' he was a very corpulent Man, and advanced in Age, but personally engaged in the Battle, where he fought with remarkable Courage, and received many Wounds, of which he instantly died, on the fatal 9th of
September
1513
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, his Estate by his Death devolving on
Robert,
his Son and Heir, who was retoured to Sir
Thomas
his Father, in the Year 1514, the King's Precept for infefting him bears,
Quod est legitimae aetatis per actum dispensationis a quondam c
rissim
patre nostro, desuper concess.
Ibidem.
. He was afterward one of those Barons who made that loyal and dutiful Attempt to rescue King
James
V. from the Earls of
Arran
and
Angus,
who kept him in little other Condition than that of a Captive, and in order to his Liberation, joined the Earl of
Lenn
x
at the Fight at
Linlithgow
-Bridge, in 1526
The History of the Family of Panmure, wrote by Mr. Robert Maule, Commissar of St. Andrews. M.S. penes Comitem de Panmure.
. Tho' this generous Design prov'd abortive, and the young King still detain'd by those who had him in their Hands, and the Laird of
Panmure
oblig'd to take a Remission for it, as it had been the foulest Treason; yet the King when he came to Age, retained a very lasting Sense of that Service, as a very loyal Appearance; and ever afterward treated
Panmure
on that Account with the greatest Respect and Esteem, insomuch as after his Majesty assumed the Government on himself, he grants a Dispensation to this
Robert Maule
of
Panmure, For the true, good and thankful Service done to his said Majesty by him, to remain and bide at Home during all the Days of his Life, from all Hosts, Roads within the Realm, or without the same, by Sea or Land, and from all Attendance on Parliaments, Courts of Justiciary, of Chamberlanry,
&c
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
. But how the Lairds of
Panmure
came to relinquish their Privilege of sitting in Parliament, I am at a Loss to know, in regard I find several of them design'd in old Writs
Nobiles & potentes Domini,
a Title which was afterward made a sufficient Authority, to establish a Family in the Dignity of Lord Barons, in the Decreet of Ranking,
Anno
1606.
Tho' this Loyal Gentleman was after this under no Necessity of ever appearing in any publick Action, by vertue of the King's Dispensation; yet he no sooner saw his Country threatned with Danger by Party and Faction, after the Death of King
James
V. than at the Command of the Regent the Earl of
Arran,
he rais'd his Vassals and Re
ainers, joined the Lord
Gray
and others, and attacked the Town of
Perth,
which the Lord
Ruthven
held out against the Queen's Authority; Tho' they were at first repuls'd, and the Laird of
Panmure,
who first made the Attack, was taken Prisoner; yet in the End the Affair came to be adjusted to the Satisfaction of the Governor
Mr. Maule's Hist. M.S.
. At the same Time the Laird of
Panmure
was a strenuous Opposer of the intended Match betwixt Queen
Mary
and
Edward
VI. of
England,
from an Apprehension his Country might suffer, not only in its Freedom and Independency, but also in its other valuable Privileges, by such an Union. So that when the War broke out betwixt the two Nations, on the Breach of the Articles that had been formerly agreed to, and on which ensu'd the Battle of
Pinky, Panmure
's Affections being known that Way, the
English
Governor of
Bruchty
detached a strong Party from the Garison to seize and apprehend him in his own House; and notwithstanding of the Surprize, yet a very noble and brisk Defence was made within, and the old Gentleman himself received divers Wounds; but not being prepared for a Siege, he was at length forced to surrender
Mr. Robert Maule's History, M.S.
. Whereupon he was sent Prisoner to
London
by Sea, and committed to the Tower, where he remained a whole Year, till he was set at Liberty at the special Instances of the Marquis de
Elbuife,
the
French
Ambassador to
Scotland,
with the Regent of
England,
in whose Company he came Home in the 1549, and being by this Time aged, he thenceforth pass'd the Residue of his Time. in a happy Retirement, till Death took him away on the 2d of
May
1560
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
. He was interr'd at the Church of
Panb
de,
among his Ancestors, where a Monument was erected over his Grave. He married
Isobel,
Daughter of Sir
Laurence Mercer
of
Aldie
Ibidem,
, an anicent Family in
Perth
-Shire, by whom he had
Thomas
his Son and Heir,
John Moule,
Esq
Robert Maule,
Esq
likewise a Daughter
Margaret,
married to the Laird of
Pitcur.
After the Death of his first Wife, he married again
Isobel,
Daughter of Sir
Robert Arbuthnot
of That-Ilk
Ibidem.
. Ancestor to the present Viscount of
Arbuthnot.
By her he had Three Sons,
Henry,
of whom sp
ang the
Maules
of
Melgum,
whose Son and Successor
Henry Maule
of
Melgum
wa
a learn'd Antiquary, and the Author of the History of the
Picts,
which he left behind him in Manuscript, but is since publish'd;
Andrew Maule
of
Guildie,
and
William Maule
of
G
aster,
who being a Person of great Reputation for Integrity, acquir'd an opulent Fortune, which at his Death was divided among his seven Daughters, who were all Co-heirs,
Marion
married to Sir
Alexander Seton
of
Kilcroich,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice.
Bethea
to
James Murray
of
Skirling,
and had Issue.
Margaret
to Sir
Archbald Murray
of
Blackbarony,
and had Issue.
Eleanor
to
Alexander Morison
of
Prestongrange,
and had Issue.
Jean
to
William Oliphant
of
Kirkhill.
Isobel,
to
James Dundas
of
Dudingstoun;
and again to
James Hamilton
of
Parkly,
and had Issue.
Beatrix
to Mr.
Robert Burnet
of
Crimond.
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure,
the next of this noble Family, was by the singular Care of his Father brought up in all Accomplishments suitable to his Birth; and for his further Improvement sent to
France
in the Year 1538
Mr. Maule's History.
, in the Retinue of the Abbot of
Arbroth,
Dr.
Beaton,
thereafter Bishop of St.
Andrew
's, who was Ambassador from
Scotland
to that Court. Upon his Return he signaliz'd his Courage and Valour at the Fight of
Haldonrig
Ibidem.
against the
English,
where he had the ill Fortune to be taken Prisoner, and was sent to
Morpeth,
where he remained till after the Death of King
James
V. that King
Henry
VIII. did then politically release all the
Scots
Prisoners of Note and Character, in Hopes to engage them to promote the Union he designed of the Two Kingdoms, by the Marriage of his Son Prince
Edward,
and Queen
Mary.
But tho' the Laird of
Panmure
had a very grateful Sense of the Favour that Prince had done him, yet it had never the least Influence on him, to engage him in any Interest or Party that prov'd prejudicial to his Country; but upon the breaking out of the War with
England,
he heartily and personally engaged in the publick Service, and was at the Battle of
Pinky-Cleugh
Ibidem.
, where with great Difficulty he got his Escape made; having lost many of his Friends and Vassals, particularly
Thomas Maule
of
Boath,
his own Consin-German. After the End of the War, as he liv'd in great Splendor at home, and made a very considerable Figure in the Country, so he had severals of Notes who were retained to serve him; and among others, I find
John Scrimzeor,
Constable of
Dundee,
gives him his Bond of Manrent and Service, as his Superior, in Consequence of a former Obligation of the same Nature, which Sir
James Scrimzeor
his Predecessor had formerly made to Sir
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure,
which by his own Obligation he ratifies and renews, of the Date, 10th of
May
1563
Comitem de Panmure. I have seen other Bonds of Manrent in the Custody of the
Panmure, by the Gentry of Forfar-shire, but this single one I thought sufficient to mention.
. This loyal and brave Man afterward accompanied Queen
Mary
in her Northern Progress as far as
Aberdeen,
and would have march'd with her all the Length she design'd in those Parts, had not the afflicted Circumstances of his Family call'd him to return Home, with the Queen's Permission, so that he was not at the Fight of
Corichy,
which happen'd soon thereafter; but her Majesty did not want any further Testimony of his Loyalty, having been fully satisfied in his Fidelity and Affection to the Crown, by many repeated Instances through the whole Course of his Life before.
When the Troubles broke out in this Reign he did not meddle much with either Party, but kept himself as much, if not more, out of the Broils of the Times, than any other of his Quality in the Kingdom; for in all the publick Transactions during the Course of the War, I don't find him ever concerned in any publick Deed, save in that Association
Bond at G
asgow, now printed.
which was entered into, in the Year of GOD 1567, by the Bulk of the Nation, for the Inauguration of the young Prince King
James
VI. upon the Queen his Mother's Resignation: And I observe the Bond is not only signed by those who were the greatest Promoters of the Reformation, but even by others of the Nobility and Gentry who were of the
Roman
Religion, and afterward adhered to the Queen with great Firmness and Fidelity, which gives me Ground to believe they were not then throughly acquainted with the Circumstances by which the Dimission was extorted from her, otherwise I cannot think, that Men of Honour, could have shifted as so many of them did, all of a sudden, and become most inveterate Enemies to the Government that succeeded during the whole of the young King's Minority.
This Gentleman was first espoused to the Lady
Elizabeth Lindsay,
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Crawfurd
Contract of Marriage penes Comitem de Panmure, a
1526.
, and thereafter he married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
George Halliburton
of
Pitcur
Ibidem.
, and giving Way to Fate the 7th of
March
1600
Ibidem
, left Issue by his Wife foresaid, beside
Patrick
the Heir of his Fortune, Five other Sons and a Daughter,
William, David, Robert
who was Commissary of St.
Andrew
's; in his Time he had the Reputation of a good universal Scholar, and a Person of great Integrity. Mr.
Maule
had a Turn to Antiquities, particularly of his own Country, in which he was very exact. He wrote several Treaties with great Judgment and Learning, one, which he calls,
Periodi Gentis
Scotorum, the Abstract whereof he gives in these Words,
Has in septem partiti sumus; quarum prima initium ducit a primo
Scotorum
ex
Hispaniâ
adventu, & in
Albium
appulsu, & tempus illud totum occupabit quo nostri sub Philarchis, usque ad primum creatum
Regem, fuerunt. Secunda vero exordium inde suum habebit quo primus apud Nos Monarcha ordinatus fuit, ad exilium
Scotorum.
Tertia vero a reditu ab exilio ordietur; quae & desinet in excidium
Picticae
gentis. Quarta vero a deletis
Pictis,
& duplicato jam Regno, ad
Milcolumbi Canmori
principatum; quo imperante novae apud Nostros Leges, novi item Honorum Tituli orti. Quinta a
Milcolumbo
quicquid est annorum complectitur, ad interitum lachrymabilem
Alexandri
Tertii. Sexta autem, ab
Alexandro
optimo Rege extincto, durabit in obitum
Jacobi
Quinti. Septima tandem, atque ultima, a
Jacobi
Quinti immatura morte, ad abitum
Jacobi
Sexti in
Angliam.
He wrote likewise a History of the noble Family of which he was a Son, and in which, no Doubt, there were several great Men; as also another Treatise
De Antiquitate Gentis
Scotorum, in a tolerable pure
Latin
Stile, which he says, was written
contra
Anglorum
Calumnias & Mendacia,
and seems to be plainly levelled against the
English
Antiquary Mr.
Cambden,
who about that Time, I think, had published his
Britannia,
wherein he asserts some Things that the
Scots
Antiquaries were mightily displeas'd with, and none more than Commissar
Maule,
who was one of the most strenuous Asserters of the Freedom and Independency of
Scotland,
and among the first who attacked
Cambden;
in which he was seconded by Mr.
Hume
of
Godscroft,
and afterward by the learned Mr.
Drummond
of
Hawthornden.
Beside other very judicious Remarks on the History of his Country, I observe from the little I have seen of Mr.
Maule
's M S. that he hath happily hit upon a better Notion of the ancient
Culdees,
than any Author before him; and when I have Occasion to peruse more of his Book in Relation to that Matter, I shall not fail to do his Memory all imaginable Justice, and frankly own the Helps I had from him in a Dissertation concerning the
Culdees
I have by me, and which I intend, GOD willing, to communicate to the World.
Thomas Maule
of
Pitlivie
the fifth Son, married
Mary
Daughter to . . . . . .
Lighton
of
Ulishaven,
by whom he had two Sons,
Thomas
and
Robert Maules,
Esquires, which last was Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to King
Charles
I.
Thomas Maule
the elder Brother, transported himself to the Kingdom of
Ireland,
where he established a Family, which still continues in that Kingdom with Lustre, and being a gallant brave Man, and a most hearty Loyalist in the Service of King
Charles
I. in the Time of the Civil War, was Lieutenant Colonel to the Marquis of
Ormond
's own Regiment, when he acted as Lieutenant General for the King in that Kingdom. The Colonel left behind him two Sons,
William Maule,
Esq
Surveyor General of the Customs of
Dublin,
and
Thomas Maule,
Esq
one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to Prince
George
of
Denmark,
and Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard in
England,
a Gentleman of Honour and Merit.
George Maule,
Esq
the sixth Son.
James Maule,
Esq
the seventh Son.
Margaret,
only Daughter, married to
James Stewart,
Esq
Son of
John
Earl of
Athole.
Patrick,
the next in the direct Line of this noble Family, tho he was a Gentleman of very good Parts, yet did not make so great an Appearance as some of his Predecessors, it being a Time of profound Peace he lived in; tho we cannot say what Figure he might have made, had he had any Opportunity to exert himself in the Service of his Country in the Wars against the
English;
but then all National Animosities were outwardly removed by the Union of the Crowns in the Person of King
James
VI. of glorious Memory, who before the Time of his Accession to the
English
Crown, as a Mark of his Favour to the Laird of
Panmure,
did make him heretable Bailiff of the Barony of
Barry,
an Office his Ancestors had exerced by Commission from the Abbots of
Balmerino,
or others who had that Abbacy
in Commendam,
and which Office his Successors enjoy heretably to this Time; and dying the first of
May
1605
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Erskine
of
Dun
Charta penes eundem Comitem.
, Superintendant of
Angus
and
Mearns
after the Reformation, and, as I have found him design'd, Bishop of that Diocese
Presentation in my Hands by Sir James Scrimzeor to one Mr. Gray, wherein he is so designed.
, by
Barbara du Borle
his Wife, a
French
Lady, one of the Maids of Honour to
Mary
of
Lorrain,
Wife of King
James
V.
Patrick
the first Earl of
Panmure,
and several Daughters;
Jean
married to
David Erskine
of
Dun,
and had Issue. And,
Barbara
to
James Strachan
of
Carmylie,
and had Issue.
Which
Patrick
being a Person of good Parts and Qualities, and of a Family which had always been firm to the Crown, in his Youth betook himself to the Court of King
James,
and being of a pleasant Humor and Disposition, of a notable Affability in his Behaviour, and well qualified by his Breeding for any Service his Master should think fit to employ him in, he quickly grew to be very acceptable to the King, and into a general Esteem with the Court, insomuch as his Majesty in a short Time made him one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, about the Time or a little after his Entrance to
England
in 1603, and as he attended his Majesty into that Kingdom, so he lived upon his own Fortune, without any other Support than the Profits of his Place, and his Majesty's Favour. Mr.
Maule
liv'd always decently, and in a fair Intelligence with the Favourites, having always Credit enough to provide for his own Interest, without troubling himself with that of other Men. And that which made him exceedingly beloved in the Court, was, that he never desired to get that for himself which others laboured for, but was ever ready to use his Interest with his Master, to promote the Pretences of worthy Men. As this his Behaviour made him many Friends, so few or none had the Confidence to avow themselves to be his Enemies: and as he had always a full Share in his Majesty's Esteem and Favour, who looked on him as a wise and faithful Servant, so he was graciously pleased to give many Testimonies thereof, particularly in a new Charter to him, under the Great Seal, of his ancient Barony of
Panmure
in 1610. The Narrative bears the Grant to be made by his Majesty,
i
Consideration of the good, loyal and acceptab
e Service done and performed to Us, by Our intirely beloved, familiar, faithful and domestick Servant
Patrick Maule
of
Panmure,
one of the Gentlemen of Our Bedchamber, in his faithful and diligent Attendance upon Our Royal Person for these many Years past, even from his Youth, and his ready Disposition and Capacity to do Us all laudable Service at all Times and on all Occasions, as he shall be commanded by Us, of which his most faithful and acceptable Service, We have full and sufficient Experience.
Moreover in the new Gift of the same Charter, whereby the King dispones to him the Patronage of the Church of
Panbride;
His Majesty declares his Motive to the Grant, to be
upon His own sufficient Experience of the Wisdom, Di
cretion and Judgment of the said
Patrick Maule
of
Panmure,
and his prudent
Management of his own Affairs, and of the ardent Zeal and Affection which he has for the Propagation of the Gospel.
For King
James
was ever most solicitous, after the restoring of Episcopacy, to have the Laick Patronages in the Hands of such Persons as were Friends to the Church as then established by Law; and his Son King
Charles
of ever blessed Memory, who did not come short of his Royal Father, but rather exceeded him in his Zeal for the Church, being fully satisfied of Mr.
Maule
's Affection that Way, and of his unblemished Integrity in the Protestant Religion, his Majesty gave his Royal Consent and Approbation to the Transaction, which passed betwixt him and the Earl of
Dysart,
by which he purchased the Abbacy of
Aberbrothock,
which was erected into a temporal Lordship, with the Right of Patronage of the Churches of
Aberbrothock, Arbirlot, Monikie, Muirhouse, Dunighton, Maynes, Lunan, Inverkilor, Ethie, Monisuith, Clova, Ruthven, Glamis, Kirriemuir, Kingoldrum, Newtyle, Gaval, Dunbug, Abernethy, Inverness, Aberchirdor, Bamff, Glamrie, Langlie, Guildie, Kinernie, Banchorie Trinity, Bethelvie, Forgie, Fyvie, Tarves, Nig
and
Feterangus
Charta penes Coinitem de Panmure.
, all sormerly belonging to the dissolved Monastry of
Aberl rothock,
which besides the old Patronages of his own Family, made him among the greatest Patrons of any in
Scotland.
As Mr.
Maule
of
Panmure
liv'd in the greatest Favour a
d Esteem with King
James,
who had always a very good Opinion of him, so at his Death he commended him to his Son King
Charles,
as a Person to be relied on in Honour and Fidelity, of which that Prince himself was also very well satisfied and pleased, for he not only continued him in his Bedchamber, but made him also Sheriff-Principal of
Forfarshire,
when the Crown acquired the Hereditary Right of that Office from the Family of
Gray
in 1632
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I. ad Annum 163
, the King always lodging these new acquired Jurisdictions in the Hands of such Persons as he could confide in.
When the Troubles broke out, Mr.
Maule,
being a Person of most eminent Affection and of intire Devotion to the Crown, adhered to the King with great Honour and Fidelity, was with him in all the Battles in which his Majesty was ingaged in his own Royal Person, and thereafter went with him to
Oxford,
where he stay'd till the first War was brought to an End, by his Majesty's putting himself in the
Scots
Army before
Newark.
Assoon as it was known where the King was, Mr.
Maule
repaired to him and waited on him thence to
Newcastle,
when his Majesty thought fit to put a lasting Mark of his Favour on his old faithful Servant, and made him a Peer, by the Title of
Earl of Panmure, August
3d 1646
Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
, with as great Circumstances of Grace and Favour as could be expressed: For in the Preamble to the Patent, his Majesty was graciously pleased to call to Remembrance his Lordship's Services to his Father, and his Fidelity to himself, which he declared in these Words,
WHEREAS We have particular Knowledge of the long and faithful Service of Our well beloved
Patrick Maule
Baron of
Panmure,
one of the Gentlemen of Our Bedchamber, both in the Reign of Our most dear Father of ever blessed Memory, and also ever since Our Accession to the Throne, now these one and twenty Years, by a close Adherence to Our Sacred Person; and seeing We are most ready to bestow some Mark of Our Royal Favour on the said
Patrick,
now that he is turning old:
KNOW YE THERFORE, That We have created,
&c.
Thereafter when the King was delivered up by the
Scots
Army, to such Persons whom the
English
Parliament had appointed to receive him, the Earl of
Panmure
attended on his Majesty to
Holmby
in
Northamptonshire;
and tho the Parliament's Commissioners had declared, that his Majesty should be treated with all Demonstration of Respect and Duty, and waited on by such of his Servants as he should appoint, yet he had not continued there many Days before the Parliament gave Orders to dismiss such of his Servants as were there, and had waited on him at
Oxford:
And tho the Demand was very grating to the King
Journal by the Earl of Panmure of what pass'd during his Lordship's Attendance on his Majesty at Holmb
, penes Comitem de Panmure.
, yet that he might not seem to refuse to give them Satisfaction in any Thing they required, he yielded to their Desire, but in the Instant they were to be discharged, the King signified that it would be well pleasing to him, that the Commissioners would allow only Two of his old trusty Servants to attend him, and this he would look upon as a Testimony of their Respect to him; which being granted, his Majesty was pleased to pitch upon the Earl of
Panmure
and the Earl of
Dirletoun,
both the Earls being Persons in whom his Majesty had an absolute Confidence, and that he was sure neither of them would either deceive or betray him. The Earl of
Panmure
was with his Majesty, when Cornet
Joice
came on the 3d of
June
1647, with a Troop of Horse, and violently seized on the King's Person, and carried him from
Holmby
to the Army, and after to
Hampton-Court;
his Lordship having Liberty to attend his Master in all the Removes he made, which was to his Majesty's great Satisfaction: And tho at first the King enjoyed himself much more, having the Liberty of his own Servants, than he had before, when he was at
Ho
mby:
Yet alas! It was not long before the chief Officers of the Army seem'd more regardless of the King, and treated his Servants with less Civility, insomuch as his Majesty (
rom an Apprehension they had some secret Design upon his Life) made his Escape upon the 11th
November
1648 from
Hampton Court
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
, and unhappily went to the Island of
Wight,
which prov'd so fatal to him. Thither his Lordship, so soon as he had Intelligence where the King was gone, repaired to him, having no Reason to doubt but that his Presence would be very acceptable to his Master
Journal by the Earl of Panmure, while his Lordship waited on the King during his Imprisonment.
: And his Lordship attended in his Office in the Bedchamber, till his Majesty having refused to give his Royal Assent to the four Bills the Parliament had then sent to him, which he said did divest him of all Sovereignty, that Colonel
Hamond
the Governor of the Place, by Order from his Masters, caused all the King's Servants to be immediately put out of
Carisbrook castle,
and forbid any of them to repair thither any more upon their Peril
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
; whereupon the Earl, after the King had used many gracious Expressions of his Lordships faithful Services, kissed his Majesty's Hands, and took a sad Farewell of his Master, appearing to have little Hope ever to see him again in this World, and departing for
Scotland,
lived quietly at his own House in the Country, keeping his Heart and Affections always intire for the King.
After the Murther of his Majesty, and the total Suppression of the Royal Cause, tho the Earl of
Panmure
was very aged, and so out of Capacity himself to have appeared in any Action for the King's Service, yet when
Cromwel
prevail'd, and got himself made Protector, that Arch-Tyrant and Traytor, did by an Ordinance of his Council very arbitrarily impose a Fine on the Earl of
Panmure
of 10000
lib Sterl.
Printed Ordinance of Cromwel's Council in 1654, penes me.
, for no other Reason, but his being a Person of known Loyalty, and having his Sons engaged in the King's Service.
After which he lived with Ease and Plenty in his Fortune, which was very great, and in great Reputation with all those who wished well to the Crown; the Restoration of which, as no Man more heartily wished, so he had the Comfort of seeing it brought about, by a most surprising Act of Providence, when there appeared least Hope of it, and least worldly Means to bring it to pass, which was the Thing his Lordship had longed most passionately to see before he should leave the World. He died on the 22d of
December
1661, and was inter'd in the Vault of his Family at
Panbride
Church, with his Ancestors.
This noble Earl married three Wives, first,
Frances
Daughter of Sir
Edward Stanhope
of
Grimstoun,
of the County of
York,
Knight, of the same Family with the Earl of
Chesterfield
in
England;
by whom he had four Children,
viz.
George
Lord
Brechin,
his Successor in the Honour.
Colonel
Hary Maule
of
Balmakelly,
who in the End of the Reign of King
Charles
I. betook himself to the Service of the King, and had a Regiment bestowed on him in the Army, that was raised in order to redeem his Majesty from Prison, and restore him to his Freedom and Liberty: but being taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Preston,
he found Means to make his Escape into
Scotland,
and with the same Affections the Colonel engaged again in the Service of King
Charles
II. and had the Command of a Regiment of Foot, at the unfortunate Battle of
Dunbar,
where he gain'd the Reputation of a stout and active Officer.
He married first
Jean
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Weems,
by whom he had a Daughter
Mary,
who died at
Panmure Anno
1693; and again
Margaret,
a Lady of the
Douglasses
of
Spot,
by whom he left only one Daughter,
Margaret
married to
Alexander Cochran
of
Barbachly,
and had Issue, and dying in the Spring of the Year 1667, was on the 8th of
April
Register of the Church of Holy-rood-house.
interred in the Abbay Church of
Holy-roodhouse.
Lady
Jean
eldest Daughter to
Patrick
Earl of
Panmure,
was married to
David
Earl of
Ethie
and
Northesk,
and had a numerous Issue.
Lady
Elizabeth
first to
John
Earl of
Kinghorn,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Strathmore;
and again to
George
Earl of
Linlithgow,
Justice-General of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
Charles
II. and was Mother to three Earls,
viz. Strathmore, Linlithgow,
and
Calendar.
The Earl married to his second Wife Mrs.
Mary Waldrum,
one of the Maids of Honour to the Queen; and after that the Lady
Mary Erskine,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
Lord High-Treasurer of
Scotland,
by the Lady
Mary Stewart
his Wife, Daughter of
Esme
Duke of
Lennox,
Widow of
William
Earl
Marshal;
but by neither the other Lady, nor the Countess
Marshal,
had he any Children that came to Age.
To
Patrick
Earl of
Panmure
succeeded
George
Lord
Brechin
his Son. This noble Lord was too young to be engaged in the War when it first broke out, during which Time he had his Education in
France
and
Italy:
But by the Time King
Charles
II. arrived in
Scotland
in 1650, pursuant to the Treaty of
Breda,
his Lordship being now of Age, of Parts, and undoubted Loyalty and Affection to the Crown, waited on his Majesty, his Father the old Earl being now struck in Years and troubled with the Infirmities of Age: And assoon as the Parliament raised an Army for the King, the Lord
Brechin
being a Nobleman not only firm to the Principles of Monarchy, but also of great Duty and Affection to the Person of the King, heartily engaged in the Service himself, and endeavoured to dispose all those, upon whom he had Influence, to take the same Resolutions; and it soon appeared his Interest in the Country was very great, for his Lordship being appointed Colonel of the
Forfarshi
e
Regiment of Horse, many of the principal Gentlemen engaged themselves in the Service, and came to his Regiment out of Devotion and Respect to his Lordship, as well as Duty to the King, and served under him as Officers. His Lordship was at the Head of his Regiment at the unsuccessful Battles of
Dunbar
and
Inverkeithing,
at both which he fought with very remarkable Courage, and at the last of these his Regiment behaved so well, and suffered so much, that he himself was wounded, his Lieutenant Colonel and Major and many other of his Officers killed; and when the Action was over, his Soldiers were so dispersed, that scarce sixty of them could ever be got together again. But that Misfortune did not in the least discourage him from being every Way as active and forward again in advancing and conducing all he could toward his Majesty's Service, for after the Coronation was over, in which his Lordship assisted as a young Peer
Mr. Douglass's Sermon preached at the Coronation of King Charles II. first of January 1650.
, when the Parliament appointed another Army to be raised for the Recovery of his other two Kingdoms,
Scotland
being intirely united in his Majesty's Service, no Body appeared more forward to advance the Work in Hand than the Lord
Brechin,
in order to which his Lordship was one of those who met with old General
Lesly
Earl of
Levin,
and several other Peers and Officers of Note, at
Eliot
in
Augus,
as a Place which was thought very favourable for making Levies, which they all intended; but they had not stay'd long there, when the Lord
Brechin
gave it as his Opinion, that the Place where they were had nothing for Defence, and advised the General to draw further into the Country for their Security, and told the General, that he was not sure, that if a Detachment from the Garrison of
Dundee
should make a brisk Attempt, they might not be all surprised and taken out of their Beds: But the General being of another Mind, his Lordship, who better knew the Country than any of the other Lords, and so more sensible of the Danger, to secure himself left the Committee, and retired to
Sidlawhills;
and it was soon evident what the Lord
Brechin
had advised was right, for the very Evening of the Day, or soon after he had left them, the whole Committee was surprised and taken Prisoners by a strong Party of the
English,
and sent to
London,
and committed to the
Tower,
where all of them except General
Lesly
underwent a long Imprisonment, even till the Restoration of the King.
The Lord
Brechin
being at Liberty in the
Hills,
the Loyalists, from all Quarters, resorted to him, after the Fight of
Worcester,
and put themselves under his Command; and his Lordship behaved in that Station very worthily, and made often Skirmishes
N. B. When the Government was first alarmed by an Insurrection in the South in 1666, so soon as the Resolution was declared to raise an Army to suppress it, they who had the chief Direction of Affairs did repose such Confidence both in the Earl of Panmnre's Loyalty and Skill in military Affairs, that he was appointed to command the Gentry of Forfar-shire; but the Defeat at Pentland by General Dalziel prevented the raising that or any of the Northern Counties, the Peace of the Kingdom being thereby secured.
with the Enemy, and sometimes with notable Advantage, and made frequent Incursions in the Night into the
English
Quarters, which gave General
Monk
some Trouble; But being convinced of the Impossibility of keeping up an Attempt, which at last must prove ruinous to himself, and could do the King no Service, he made his Peace with the General next Year, without any other Compliance to the present Powers than the laying down his Arms, and thereupon retired to his own House, where he remained quietly, prepared and disposed to run the Fortune of the Crown, to which he was most entirely devoted, in any other Attempt.
When the King came Home in 1660, his Lordship repaired to
London,
to congratulate his Majesty and the Royal Family upon their happy Restoration; and tho' his Majesty received his Lordship with a very good Countenance, yet he was not rewarded with any great Dignity or Preferment, as was expected, and with which some others were, who had not been so faithfull to the King, as the Earl of
Panmure.
But as that was the Fate of very many of the loyal Party, who had served the King with the utmost Fidelity, as well as his Lordship, so it was much more to be imputed to the Ministry than to the King himself: For 'tis reported, that some in great Credit with his Majesty endeavoured to instill into the King's Mind a Principle, that he must prefer his Enemies, and advance them, to gain them to be his Friends; and for his old Friends, it was no matter how he used them, for they would be so still: And indeed it fell out so, that very many, who had suffered most in their Persons and Fortunes for the Crown, were not recompensed upon the Restoration, according to their Merit, or considered as they deserved: Of which Number this Noble Earl, I may truly say, was one of the most eminent Instances; which mistaken Politick of the then States-men, as it was observed thro' that whole Reign, so many great and wise Men have thought, that its being followed, did bring no small Prejudice and Inconve
ence to the Crown thereafter. But notwithstanding his Lordship was overlooked as to any Preserment, yet he did not on that Account, as many others did, oppose himself to the Court, but in all the Parliaments and National Conventions, which were called while he lived, and on which his Lordship constantly attended, he always distinguished himself by a hearty Concurrence in whatsoever was proposed for advancing the Honour of the Crown, and the Welfare and Happiness of the Kingdom, which he made manifest by his several Speeches, whereby he left behind him lasting Monuments of his great Knowledge in our Constitution and Laws, of his unshaken Loyalty to his Prince, and his intire Love to his Country, insomuch as I have heard some eminent Men, who were his Contemporaries, speak of him with great Honour, as a Nobleman in as high Reputation for his great Abilities and eminent Integrity as any Man of his Time, and dying 24. of
March
1671, he was interr'd at
Panbride
with his Ancestors.
This Noble Earl married
Jean
eldest Daughter of
John
Earl of
Lowdoun,
Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
Charles
I. by whom he had three Sons and a Daughter,
viz.
George,
Lord
Maule,
his Successor in the Honour,
James Maule
of
Balumby
now Earl of
Panmure,
Hary Maule
of
Kelly,
who in his younger Years travelled into foreign Parts, and spent much of his Time at the Courts of
France
and
England.
At the Revolution he was a Member of the Convention of Estates, which he left when he perceived they would forfeit King
James,
and has never since been concerned in any publick Affairs, having always continued a Non-juror; but in his Retirement has greatly improved his natural Parts, by a close Application to the History and Laws of his Country. He married first
Mary,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Wigton,
by
Henrietta
his Wife, Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Dumfermling,
Lord Privy-Seal in the Reign of King
Charles
II. by whom he had
George,
who died an Infant,
James Maule
Esq
William Maule
Esq
and two Daughters,
Henrietta,
who died young, and
Jean.
He married to his second Wife,
Anne
Daughter of Mr.
Patrick Lindsay
of
Kilbirny,
and of
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of Sir
John Crawford
of
Kilbirny,
and Sister to
John
first Viscount of
Garnock:
By her he had
Patrick, John, Thomas,
and a Daughter
Margaret,
all young, and
David
and
Charles
who died Infants.
Lady
Mary Maule,
only Daughter of
George
Earl of
Panmure,
was married first to
Charles
Earl of
Mar,
and thereafter to Colonel
John Erskine,
Son of Sir
Charles Erskine
of
Alva.
George
Earl of
Panmure
being a young Nobleman of very bright and conspicuous Parts, was by King
Charles
II. when he came to Age, call'd to his Majesty's Privy Council, as he was likewise of the Council to King
James.
He married
Jean,
only Daughter of
John
Earl of
Wigton,
by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Kerr,
by whom he had a Son,
George
Lord
Maule,
who died an Infant, whom the Earl himself did not long survive, for Death overtook him on the 1. of
February
1686
Charta in Publicis Archivis.
, to the great Grief, not only of his own Relations, but of all those who had the Honour to know him, who exceedingly lamented his immature Death, as a great Loss to his Country. He was interr'd in the same Vault with his Father and Grandfather, at the Church of
Panbride,
the Estate and Honour of the Family devolving on
James Maule
of
Balumby
his Brother, who alter having passed the Course of his Studies at Home, together with his younger Brother, travel'd abroad into foreign Parts: He serv'd as a Volunteer at the Siege of
Luxemburgh,
where he eminently signaliz'd his Courage, insomuch as his Valour was very particulary taken Notice of.
Upon his Accession to the Honour he was named one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy-Council, from which he was soon thereafter removed, for not complying with the Design of the Court, in taking away the penal Laws against Popery. But tho' his Lordship did always shew himself very firm to the Protestant Interest thro' the whole of that Reign, yet in the Convention of Estates he vigorously appeared for the Interest of King
James;
and when the Crown was settled on King
William
and Queen
Mary,
he left the Meeting, and has since continued a Non-juror.
When the great Affair of the Union with
England
came to be considered in the Parliament, tho' his Lordship did not think fit to qualify himself by taking the Oaths enjoined by Law, to enter his Dissent against it in a Parliamentary Way as a Peer, yet no Body was more heartily averse to it, as appeared both from his meeting with the Principals of those who were the most zealous Opposers of it, and in promoting and influencing Addresses against it, from the Places where his Interest lay, judging it against the Honour and Interest of the Nation, and subversive of the Sovereignty and fundamental Constitution of the Kingdom. His Lordship married the Lady
Margaret,
third and youngest Daughter of
William
and
Anne,
Duke and Dutchess of
Hamilton,
but hath no Issue.
ARMS.
Parted per Pale,
Argent
and
Gules,
a Border charged with Eight Escalops, countercharged of the same. Supporters, Two Grayhounds,
Argent,
coloured
Gules.
Crest, a Dragon
Vert,
spouting Fire. Motto,
Inest Clementia Forti.
DRUMMOND, Earl of
Perth.
IN the Time of King
Alexander
II. flourish'd
Malcolm Beg Drymen,
who was then possess'd of the Lands of
Drymen
in the County of
Stirling,
from which no doubt the Sirname was first assumed, and was Seneschal to
Malduin
Earl of
Lennox,
the Paternal Ancestor to all our
British
Kings of the
Stuartine
Family, whose Daughter
Adda
he married
Mr. John Freebairn's History of the Drummonds, and improven by the Viscount of Strathallan, M.S.
; and by her he had
Malcolm
his Successor, the Father of another
Malcolm,
who is design'd
Malcolm de Drymen Filius Malcolmi Drymen,
in a Grant which he obtained from
Malis
Earl of
Strathern,
of the Lands of
Culkelly,
within that Earldom,
sine data.
This noble antient Family extended it self into two principal Branches,
viz.
the
Dromonds
of
Stobhall
and
Concraig.
And tho' 'tis clear the last was the Younger of the Two
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
, yet it not only continued to flourish for many Ages among the first Rank of the Gentry of
Perth
-Shire, but also produced many other Families who still continue there in Lustre, of which Lieutenant General
Drummond
has given a very distinct and exact Account, in a curious Collection which he left behind him, the Perusal of which I have had by the Favour of
John Drummond,
M.D.
Sir
John Drummond
of
Stobhall,
the Head of the
Drummond
Family in the Reign of King
David
II. maintain'd a long and fatal Fewd with the great Family of the
Menteiths,
which at Length was amicably compos'd by the Mediation of
Robert
High Steward of
Scotland,
and Earl of
Strathern,
the Earls of
Douglass
and
Angus,
and the Lord of
Arran,
in Presence of the two great Justiciaries Sir
Robert Erskine
and Sir
Hugh Eglintoun
on Terms of great Honour to Sir
John Drummond,
his Friends and Allies, on the 1st of
May
1360
Ibidem.
. He encreased and enlarged his Estate by the Marriage of
Mary,
one of the Daughters and Co-Heirs of Sir
William de Montefix,
Kt.
Ibidem, Charta D. Joanni de Drummond, partem omnium terrarum & tenementarum quae fuere Mariae de Montefixo filiae & unius haeredum quondam Will. de Montefixo Militis.
, Justiciar of
Scotland,
by whom he had
Malcolm
his Successor, Sir
John Drummond
of
Cargil,
and
William Drummond
first of that Branch of the
Drummonds
of
Carnock
in the County of
Stirling
Ibidem. Charter in Drummond of Hathornden's Works by King James I. to his Uncle William Drummond of Carnock. The Family is now represented by Drummond of Hathornden.
, of whom sprang the Family of
Hathornden,
the Heir of which,
William Drummond
Esq
in the Reign of King
Charles
I. was an Honour to his Name, and an Ornament to his Country for his great Learning and excellent Parts, as his immortal Writings do sufficiently testify to Posterity. Besides these Three Sons, Sir
John Drummond
left likewise a Daughter,
Annabella
married to
John
Ea
l of
Carrick,
thereafter King of
Scotland,
by the Name of
Robert
III. by which illustrious Alliance not only our Kings in particular are descended or allyed with the Family of
Drummond,
but most of all the other crown'd Heads of
Europe,
an Honour which few private Families can boast of, our Royal Family never having married with any of their own Subjects after King
Robert
III. married this Lady of the
Drummond
Family, but always thereafter intermarried with other Princes abroad.
Which Sir
Malcolm Drummond
married the Lady
Isobel Douglass,
Daughter of
William
the first Earl of
Douglass,
and of
Margaret,
Countess and Heiress of
Mar,
Heir at length of the Earldom of
Mar,
to
James
Earl of
Douglass
her Brother; in whose Right Sir
Malcolm Drummond
was not only stil'd Lord of
Mar
Charta penes Ducem de Douglas.
, but also of
Garrioch
and
Lydsdale;
but he dying
Anno
1400. without any Issue by the Lady, her Estate reverted to herself, and his hereditary Fortune devolved to his Brother
Sir
John Drummond,
who was one of the Barons delegated to attend King
James
I. home from
England
when he was liberated from his Captivity,
Anno
1423
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
. He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
Henry
Earl of
Orkney
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
, by whom he had
Walter
his Successor,
John
a younger Son who went abroad, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to
Thomas Kinnaird
of That-Ilk,
in vicecom. de Perth.
Sir
Walter Drummond
was made a Knight by King
James
II. and married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Patrick Ruthven
of That Ilk
Major General Drummond's History of the Drummonds, M.S.
; by her he had Sir
Malcolm, John
who was Dean of
Dunblain, Walter Drummond
of
Liddercrief,
of whom sprang the
Drummonds
of
Blair-Drummond
Ibidem.
, and their Cadets.
Sir
Malcolm Drummond,
his Father's Successor, married
Marion,
Daughter of Sir
David Murray
of
Tillybardin,
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
John,
the first Lord
Drummond, Walt
r
Dean of
D
nblain,
who was Clerk Register in the Reign of King
James
IV.
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. and
James Drummond
of
Corrievester, Thomas,
of whom
Innermay, Cultmalind
e, &c.
Which
John
being a Man of Parts and Activity, was in 1471 named one of the Lords of the Session, for the Administration of Justice, and was afterward made Steward of
Strathern,
by the special Favour of King
James
III. After the Death of that Prince, Sir
John Drummond
defeat the Earl of
Lennox
and the Lord
Lyle,
who had raised Forces, and were marching northward, endeavouring to join with others who had taken the same Resolutions with themselves to revenge King
James
's Death; for which signal Service he was created Lord
Drummond,
and constituted Justiciar of
Scotland,
in Place of the Lord
Lyle
Drummond's History, etiam Charta in Rotolis Jacobi IV.
; which Office he enjoyed till that Lord was again restored.
He married
Ebizabeth,
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Crawfurd
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
, by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir apparent, who died before himself in 1511, Sir
John Drummond
of
Innerpeffrey,
of whom by a younger Son
Henry,
sprung the
Drummonds
of
Riccartoun
in
Lithgow
-Shire; which Lands he obtained by Marriage of an Heir Female of the
Crichtons;
likewise Five Daughters,
Margaret
affianced, says my Author, to King
James
IV. by whom he had a Daughter
Jean,
married to
John
Master of
Huntly
Major General Drummonds History of the Drummonds.
, Son and Heir apparent to
George
Earl of
Huntly,
Elizabeth
married to
George
Master of
Angus
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
, Son and Heir of
Archbald
Earl of
Angus.
Beatrix
to
James
Earl of
Arran,
by whom he had one Daughter
General Drummond's History.
,
Margaret
married to
Andrew
Lord
Ochiltree.
Annabell
to
William
Lord
Graham
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, first Earl of
Montrose.
Eupham
to
John Fleeming
Charta penes Comitem de Perth.
, at that Time Grandson and Heir apparent to
Robert
Lord
Fleeming.
William
Master of
Drummond,
married
Isabel,
Daughter of
Colin
Ea
l of
Argyle,
by whom he had
Walter,
who carried on the Line of the Family, and
Andrew Drummond,
of whom the
Drummonds
of
Belliclon
General Drummond's History.
.
Which
Walter
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Montrose,
and died before his Grandfather, leaving a Son
David,
who immediately succeeded his Great-Grandfather upon his Death, which happen'd in the 1519
Charta penes C. de Perth.
.
Which
David
married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Alexander Stewart,
Son of
Alexander
Duke of
Albany,
by whom he had one Daughter
Sibilla,
married to
Gilbert Ogilvy
of
Powrie;
next
Lilias,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Ruthven,
by whom he had
Patrick
his Successor,
James
the first Lord
Madertie,
also Five Daughters.
Jean
married to
John
Earl of
Montrose
I have seen a Discharge for 6000 Merks of Tocher, which William Earl of Montrose had received from David Lord Drummond, and Lilias Ruthven his Spou
e, for the Marriage o
John Master of Montrose
randson and Heir, before these Witnesses, William Murray o
. Alexander Graham Pensioner of Cambuskenneth, William Graham
of
am of
, his Sons, data 21 Sept. 1363. penes Comitem de Perth.
.
, Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland.
Anne
to
John
Earl of
Mar.
Lilias
to
David
Earl of
Crawfurd.
Catharine
to
John
Earl of
Tillybardin.
Mary
to Sir
Archbald Stirl
ng
of
K
r.
Patrick,
Lord
Drummond
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
David Lindsay
of
E
ziel,
who was Earl of
Crawfurd
, by whom he had Two Sons,
James
and
John,
who were successively Earls of
Perth,
and Five Daughters,
Catharine
married to
James
Master of
Rothes,
Son and Heir of
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes.
Lilias
to
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling.
Jean
to
Robert
Earl of
Roxburgh.
Elizabeth
to
Alexander
Lord
Elphinstoun,
Anne
to
Patrick Barclay
of
Towie.
Which
James
was by the special Care of his Father well educated both at Home and Abroad, upon the Accession of King
James
VI. to the Crown of
Great Britain,
he was sent Ambassador with
Charles
Earl of
Notingham,
Lord High Admiral of
England,
to
Philip
III. of
Spain,
for taking that King's Oath upon the Ratification of the Articles of Peace concluded betwixt the two Crowns; which Negotiation he performed with Honour and Success. After his Return his Majesty was pleas'd to raise him to the Honour of, Earl of
Perth,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date,
March
4th, 1605
. He married
Isobel,
Daughter of
Robert
first Earl of
Winton,
by whom he had only one Daughter
Jean
married to
John
Earl of
Sutherland;
and dying very young in
December
1611, his Estate and Title devolved to
John
his Brother and Heir, who married
Jean
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Roxburgh,
by
Mary
his first Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Maitland
of
Lethington,
by whom he had
James
his Successor, Sir
John Drummond
of
Logie-Almond,
Sir
William,
who became Earl of
Roxburgh,
by the Marriage of the Lady
Jean Kerr,
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Kerr,
Grandchild and Heir of
Robert
first Earl of
Roxburgh;
likewise two Daughters,
Jean
married to
John
Earl of
Wigtoun,
and
Lilias
to
James
Earl of
Tillybardin;
and dying on the 11th of
June
1662
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, was succeeded by
James
his Son and Heir, who departing this Life on the 2d of
June
1675
Charta in Cancellaria.
, left Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntly, James
his Successor,
John
Earl of
Melfort,
and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
John
Earl of
Errol.
Which
James
was in the End of the Reign of King
Charles
II. constituted first Justice General on the 1st of
May
1682
Ibidem.
, and thereafter preferred to be Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland
the 23d of
June
1684
Ibidem.
, on the Removal of the Earl of
Aberdeen.
In which high Station his Lordship not only continued the Remainder of that Reign, but also thro' the whole of the Reign of King
James
VII. with whom he was the great Favourite, even till the Revolution, that the Government was dissolved. Upon the King's withdrawing into
France,
the Earl after some Time of Imprisonment was suffer'd to transport himself thither, to run the Fortune of his Master, who to allay the Sense of his Sufferings on his Acc
nt continued him Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for
Scotland,
and created him a Duke, and bestowed the Garter on him, as he had done the Thistle before.
He married first
Jean
Daughter of
William
Marquis of
Douglas,
by whom he had
James
Lord
Drummond
his Son and Heir apparent, and a Daughter
M
ry
married to
William
Earl Marischal.
His second Wife was
Lilias,
Daughter of Sir
James Drummond
of
Machany,
Widow of
James
Earl of
Tillybardin;
by whom he had
John Drummond
of
Balegerno:
And last of all, he married
Mary,
Daughter of
Lewis
Marquis of
Huntly;
by her he had a Son
Edward Drummond,
Esq
who lives Abroad in
France.
James
Lord
Drummond,
in his Father's Time married the Lady
Jean,
Daughter of
George
Duke of
Gordon,
by whom he has Issue
James, John,
Lady
Mary,
Lady
Catharine, &c.
ARMS.
Or,
Three Bars vave,
Gules,
supported by Two Savages, wreath'd about the Loins proper. Crest, a slouth Hound standing on a Ducal Coronet. Motto,
Gang warily.
Frederick Stewart,
Lord
Pitenweem,
WAS the Son and Heir of Colonel
William Stewart
of
Houston,
Commendator of
Pitenweem,
Captain of the Guard in the Time of King
James
VI. a Brother of the House of
Galstoun
in
Air
-Shire, who was by the Favour of King
James
rais'd to the Dignity of Lord
Pittenweem
in 1609
Ibid.
, but dying without Issue Male, the Honour did not descend to his other Heirs.
FORBES, Lord
Pitsligo.
THE First of this noble Family was Sir
William Forbes,
a younger Son of Sir
John Forbes
of
Drummanor,
who in the Time of King
James
I. got the Barony of
Pitsligo
in
Aberdeen
-Shire, by the Marriage of
Margaret,
only Daughter of Sir
William Fraser
of
Philorth,
by
Helen
his Wife, a Lady of the
Douglasses
Charta penes Dominum Saltoun.
, by whom he had
Alexander
his Heir, the lineal Ancestor of Sir
John Forbes
of
Pitsligo,
who by
Christian
his Wife, Daughter of
Walter
Lord
Deskford
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, had
Sir
Alexander
his Son and Heir, whom King
Charles
I. was pleas'd to honour with the Peerage, by the Title of Lord
Pitsligo, June
24th, 1633
Ibidem.
. He married
Jean,
Daughter of
William
Earl Marischal, by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor, and a Daughter married to Sir
John Gordon
of
Haddo,
and dying 26th of
October
1635
Balfour's Annals.
, was succeeded by
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Earl of
Buchan,
had
Alexan
er
his Successor, who departing this Life in 1691, left Issue by
Sophiae
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar, Alexander
the present Lord, who married
Rebecca,
Daughter of
John Nortoun
of
London
Merchant, by whom he has a Son
Alexander,
Master of
Pitsligo.
COLLIER, Earl of
Portmore.
COLONEL
David Collier,
Son of Sir
Alexander Collier,
was by King
William
honoured with the Peerage of this Realm, by the Title of Lord
Portmore,
the 1st of
J
ne
1699
Charta in Pub. Arch.
; and was
y her Majesty Queen
Anne
further honoured with the Dignity of Earl of
Portmore,
by Letters Patent 16th
April
1703
Ibid. in Rotulis Regis Willielmi.
. He married the Countess of
Dochester,
by whom he has
J
mes
Lord
Collier,
and
David Collier,
Esq
GRAHAM, Viscount of
Preston.
SIR
Richard Graham
of
Neederby,
in the County of
Northumberland,
Son and Heir of Sir
George Graham
of
Esk,
by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
J
mes
Earl of
Annandale,
and Grandson and Heir of Sir
Richard Graham
of
Nortoun
in
York
-Shire; branch'd from the Family of
Menteth,
was, in Consideration both of his Grandfather's Sufferings and Loyalty for King
Charles
I. as well as his own personal Merit, by the special Favour of King
Charles
II. raised to the Honour of Viscount
Preston,
Lord
Graham
of
Esk,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 22d of
May
1681
Charta in Rotulis Carol
II.
. He was afterward by King
James
VII. constituted one of the Principal Secretaries of State for the Kingdom of
England;
which Office he enjoyed till the Revolution. He married
Anne,
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Carlisle,
by whom he had
Edward
his Successor, whose Son and Heir is
Richard
the present Lord Viscount
Preston.
PRIMEROSE, Viscount of
Primerose.
THE Sirname of
Primerose,
like many others, is local, and has without doubt been assumed from the Lands of
Primerose
in
Fife
-Shire, but the precise Time when, I have not been able to discover. The direct Ancestor of this noble Family was
Duncan Primerose,
descended of an ancient Stock of that Name near the Burrough of
Culross
in
Perth
-Shire, where he fixed his Residence in the Time of Queen
Mary,
and left Issue by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . .
Main
of
Arthurhouse
Charta Penes Vicecomitem Pr
merose.
,
Archbald;
and
Gilbert Primerose,
D.D. who was Minister of the Protestant Church at
Bourdeaux
in
France,
and a Person of good Scholastick Learning. He wrote a Treatise,
La Trumpete de Sion, or, Exhortation a Repentance & J
sne. Edit.
Bergar. 1610
The Book I have seen in the Custody of the Author's Kinsman the Earl of Rosebery, who has likewise a Book wrote by Dr. Primerose's Son, Mr. David Primerose, Batchellor of Divinity
the University of Oxford, and Minister of the Gospel to the Protestant Church of Ro
n, Englished out of the French M.S. by his Father Dr. Primerose. Printed at London in 1626. intituled.
A Treatise of the Sabbath, and of the Lord's Day.
.
Which
Archbald
being bred a Scholar, and withal a Man of good natural Parts, he was, when young, imployed by the Abbot of
Culross
Mr.
C
lvil,
in setting out the Feus of that Abbacy, of which he acquir'd a Part himself; and also got confirm'd to
Primerose
of
Burnbrae,
the Lands of
Burnbrae,
which continues with his Posterity to this Time. He married
Janet,
Daughter of . . . .
Bleau
of
Castlehill, in vicecom. de Perth,
by whom he had
David Primerose
of
Whitehouse,
who besides a Son
James,
in whom his Male Line fail'd, he left also a Daughter married to
Alexander Monro
of
Bearcrosis.
James,
who carried on the Line of the Family of
Primerose.
Eupham
married to Sir
George Bruce
of
Carnock,
Ancestor to the present Earl of
Kincardine.
Which
James
being bred to the Law, and a Man of great Industry and Sagacity in Business, found Means to work himself into the good Opinion of King
James
VI. who in 1602, was pleas'd to make him Clerk of his Majesty's Privy-Council; in which honourable Employment he continued many Years thereafter, and discharged the Office with singular Fidelity and Approbation, even till his Death in the Year 1641, leaving Issue by
Catharine
his Wife. Daughter of
Richard Lawson
of
Boghall
Charta penes Vicecomitem de Primerose.
,
in vicecom. de Bathgate, Gilbert
his eldest Son, who was Clerk to the Council. He married . . . .
Foulis,
Daughter of . . . . .
Foulis
of
Ravelstoun,
by whom he had a Son
James Primerose
Esq
who died without Issue.
Archbald,
his Successor both in his Estate and Office.
James Primerose
Esq
who was likewise one of the Clerks of the Council. He married
Christian,
Daughter of . . .
Mercer
of
Aldie,
by whom he left a Son who died young, and a Daughter
Christian
his sole Heir, married to
Walter
Lord
Torphichen.
He had also several Daughters,
Alison
married to the Famous
George
Ibid.
Heriot,
Jeweller to King
James
VI. and Founder of that great Hospital at
Edinburgh,
which bears his Name, and which he endowed with great Lands and Revenues; and
Margaret
to Mr.
Thomas Young
of
Lainie.
Which
Archbald
being a Person of excellent Parts of Nature, his Father took great Care to breed him in the Study of the Law; and in which he made a very notable Progress by an early Eminence in Practice and Learning, insomuch as he was by the Choice of his Majesty King
Charles
I. and the full and hearty Approbation of the Council, preferred to be Clerk to the Privy-Council, on the 2d of
September
1641
Charta penes Comitem de Rosebery.
, a Place his Father had long and worthily fill'd; and the King had so good an Opinion of Mr.
Primerose
's Fidelity, Judgment and Discrerion, that by a Letter under his own Royal Hand, bearing Date 18th
December
1641, he ordered him to transmit to Court an Account weekly of what was transacted in the Council, as his Father had done; and which he continued to do, till all private Correspondence with his Majesty and all about the Court, was discharged upon the highest Penalty. During the Civil War he was a great Loyalist; and after the Battle of
Kilsyth
repair'd to the Marquis of
Montrose,
at the Time when he was join'd by divers of the Nobility and Officers of State
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs, Page 156.
, and continued with him till the unfortunate Battle of
Philiphaugh,
he was made Prisoner, and try'd, and found guilty of High Treason by the Parliament at St.
Andrew
's 1646; and tho' several others who were not more guilty than he were put to Death, yet by the Intercession and Interposition of his Friends, particularly the Marquis of
Argyle,
who was his Lady's near Relation, his Life was sp
r'd; yet he continued a Prisoner till the Marquis of
Montrose
and the Committee of Estates came to a Capitulation, whereby the Marquis was to depart the Kingdom, which he did; and thereupon several of his Friends were set at Liberty, of which Number this worthy Person, whose Memoirs I write, was one. Thereafter when the Parliament declar'd for the King, and
ais'd an Army to relieve him, when he was a Prisoner in the Isle of
Wight,
no Body appear'd more forward in a prudent Way, to advance that Enterprize, than Sir
Archbald Primerose,
which was afterward very gratefully remember'd by the Crown upon a more favourable Conjuncture.
When Sir
Archbald
had the Honour of Knighthood confer'd on him, I cannot say, but I apprehend it was in the End of 1646, when he was set at Liberty, that he waited on his Majesty when he put himself into the Hands of the
Scots
Army before
Newark,
tho' I have not found him so designed in any Write for some Time after.
Sir
Archbald
having continued his faithful Services to King
Charles
II. the Time he remained in
Scotland,
he likewise marched with him into
England,
when his Majesty, by a Patent under his Royal Hand, bearing Date,
At
Woodhouse,
in our Royal Army on the South Borders of
Scotland, 1
st of
August 1651
Charta penes Comitem de Rosebery.
, made him a Baronet,
In Consideration of the many good and faithful Services performed to us and our Royal Father of blessed Memory, in our most special Affairs, by Sir
Archbald Primerose,
Clerk to our Privy Council; and being desirous to gratify the Deserving of so faithful a Servant, with some special Mark of our Royal Favour,
therefore
&c. After the Defeat at
,
that the Royal Party were totally suppress'd Sir
Archbald Primerose
being reckon'd among the first Form of Malignants, his Estate was not only
questrated. but even what S
m
of Money could be discovered to be owing him in private Hands, were discharged to be paid him; for Sir
Archbald
being a great Creditor upon Sir
John J
h
ston
of
Elphing
oun
's Estate, I have seen an Order from General
Disborough,
straitly
inhibiting and discharging Sir
John
to pay to the said Sir
Archbald
any Su
s of Money he might be owing him, upon his Peril.
During the Remainder of the Usurpation, Sir
Archbald
liv'd in a private and retir'd Manner till the joyful Restauration of the King, the
he received the Reward of his Merit, for his Majesty in
August
1660, did appoint him Lord Register of
Scotland
Charta penes Comitem de Rosebery.
, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, where he sat many Years, and discharged the Office with great Judgment and Learning.
The great Services he did his Master the King, and his Country when he was first made Lord Register, were acknowledged not only by Letters under his Majesty's own Royal Hand, but by several of the great Men in
England,
particularly the Earl of
Clarendon,
then Lord Chancellor of
England,
who wrote him a very civil Letter, wherein he has these remarkable Words,
I cannot, my Lord, but congratulate you for the meritorious Part you have had in restoring the King and Kingdom
(meaning
Scotland, to its primitive Hon
ur and Interest
Ibid.
; and concluding he says,
I with the same good Spirit may possess you to the End, and with the same Success while we here endeavour to follow your Example, which indeed hath already been of great Use to us.
He was a great Lover of his Country, which he alwise manifested; for in the Matter of the Billoting in Parliament, tho' he was the Parl of
Middleton
's Friend, yet he could never be brought to favour that Project but opposed it with all his Power: Which the Earl of
Middleton
did not resent against Sir
Archbald,
well knowing, as he himself owns, that the Lord Register's opposing him in the Project of the Billoting, did not proceed from any Dislike to his Lordships Person, but from his known Principles of Moderation, and the Earl did not only then acknowledge the Sincerity of the Register's Friendship to him, but even afterwards, at a Time when Professing to be the Lord
Middleton
's Friend, was not thought very meritorious.
Thereafter, when the Ministry in that Reign did, as was thought, outface the Law by many bold Pressures upon the Subject, Sir
Archbald Primerose,
tho' he was courted to enter into a strict Union with them, and that on his own Terms, yet could never be induced to concur in any Thing that had not a sufficient Foundation in Law, but rejected all Offers that were made for his own private Advantage, that were not consistent with the Good of his Country, and therefore he joined with those Lords who appeared most zealous for the Redress of Grievances, which brought him so much into the Jealousy of the Court-Party, that upon a very trivial Account, he was, together with the Duke of
Hamilton,
the Earls of
Drumfrieze
and
Kineardine,
and the Lord
Cochran,
all in one Day turn'd out of the Council; but the Resentment was carried further against the Lord
Carringtoun,
and
(
a
) Charta penes Comitem de Rosebery.
many and very powerful Efforts were made to get him turned out of his Place too; but his Majesty, who had a great Esteem of him, as a very wise Man, and very worthy the Trust he had reposed in him, could not for a long Time be prevail'd with to hearken to any Overture that could be made for his Removal, till the Court Party, which the King resolved to support, did represent that it was necessary to have a Person in his Post, in whom they could confide, and that Sir
Archbald
being struck in Years, he himself desired to exchange his Office with another of an easier Nature; and upon this very Supposition, and on no other Consideration, did the King give Order for his Removal from the Register's Place, and at the same Time p
efer'd him to be Justice General: But he continuing still firm to his Party, the Torrent against him ran so high, that his Majesty, who still retain'd a very great Kindness for, and Esteem of him, thought fit at length to take his Place from him, to which Sir
George Mackenzie
of
Tarbat,
a Person of great Honour and Worth was prefer'd the 16th of
October
1678.
Thereafter, when the Differences run high betwixt the Two Parties, the Duke of
Hamilton,
the Marquis of
Athole,
and the other Lords of that Side, who desir'd the Grievances of the Nation might be redressed, humbly petitioned the King for a Hearing in his own Royal Presence, that the Matters in Difference might be more clearly understood, and more freely transacted; and his Majesty having granted their Desire, thought fit to propose that some fit Persons might be allowed to treat with the like Number of the other Side, in such a Manner as might best tend to compose all Things in a peaceable Way; and Sir
Archbald Primer
s
being look'd on as a Person of the greatest Wisdom and Experience, and one who throughly understood the whole Frame and Constitution of the Government in Church and State. The Duke of
Hamilton,
the Marquis of
Athole,
the Earls of
Cassils, Perth,
and
Kincardine,
Lieutenant General
Drummond,
and the Lord
Cochran,
well knowing how very useful Sir
Archbald
would be in the present Exigence, did all conjunctly write very pressingly, That he should hasten up to
London,
to be present at the Conference which was to be in his Majesty's Presence; and the Earl of
Perth
wrote him a most pathetical Letter, lively representing the Dangers which threatned, and were like to overwhelm the Nation, if not prevented by a speedy Remedy, that now they had an Opportunity of making their Country happy, by removing all Grievances, if he and others would do their Duty; and therefore conjured him by many Arguments no longer to defer his Coming up; and concludes with these Words,
My Lord, you see how
Scotland
is, you see how your Friends Reputation lyes at Stake, you see there is but this Pull for it; and you see how fairly it lyes at your Hand. The great God direct you toward doing what is for his Honour, your Country's Good, the King's Interest, your Friends Reputation, and your perpetual Credit.
Sir
Archbald
thinking he had now a fair Opportunity of advancing the publick Good, and doing all those Offices to his Country he had ever so earnestly desir'd; and notwithstanding he was stricken in Years, and troubled with the Infirmities of Age, yet he undertook a Journey to
London,
that he might be assisting in carrying on this good Work. Both Parties being heard before the King; and his Majesty finding there could be no compounding this Dispute amicably, but that one Side must be suppress'd, he resolved therefore in the End, by the Advice of some in his nearest Confidence, to dismiss the Lords of the Country Party, without a present Redress; forasmuch as it would reflect Dishonour upon his own Government, if he did not approve of the Administration of a great Minister, whom he had so long employed in his Service, and solely and entirely trusted in all that related to
Scotland
and
Scots
Affairs: And now all Endeavours for Redress of the Nation's Grievances being render'd fruitless and to no Effect, Sir
Archbald
with all convenient Expedition, set out for
Scotland,
and sickning in his Return, died within a few Weeks thereafter, on the 27th of
November,
1679.
He married first,
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
James Keith
of
Benholm,
Son of
George
Earl Marischal, by whom he had Issue,
Sir
James Primerose
of
Barnbougle,
who was a Gentleman of good Parts and Learning; he died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Sinclair
of
Longformacus,
one Daughter his sole Heir, married to
George Hume
of
Kimmergham.
Sir
William Primerose
of
Carringtoun,
the Heir of the Family.
Gilbert Primerose,
a Major General in the
British
Service.
Margaret
married to Sir
John Fowlis
of
Ravelstoun,
Bart. to whom he gave the Estate of
Dunipace,
on Condition his Heir should assume the Name of
Primerose,
which Sir
John
his Son actually did; whose Son and Heir is Sir
Archbald Primerose
of
Dunipace,
Bart.
Catharine
to Sir
David Carnagy
of
Pitarow,
Bart.
He married after the Death of his first Wife,
Agnes,
Daughter of Sir
William Gray
of
Pitendrum,
and Sister to
William
Master of
Gray,
by whom he had
Archbald
Earl of
Rosebery,
and a Daughter
Grisel,
married to
Francis
Lord
Semple.
Sir
William Primerose
of
Caringtoun
married
Mary,
Daughter of
Patrick Scot
of
Thirlstane,
by whom he had Sir
James
his Successor, thereafter Viscount of
Primerose,
and Captain
William Primerose,
who was kill'd abroad; likewise Three Daughters,
Mary
married to
William
Lord
Bargeny, Jean
to
Hugh Montgomery
of
C
eilsfield,
and
Elizabeth
to
Charles
Master of
Elphingstoun,
at that Time Son and Heir apparent of
John
Lord
Elphinstoun;
and dying on the 23d of
September
1687
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, was succeeded by
Sir
James
his Son and Heir, who being chosen one of the Commissioners for the Shire of
Edinburgh,
to the Parliament the 1st of Queen
Anne,
was by her Majesty's special Favour rais'd to the Honour of Viscount
Primerose,
Lord
Primerose
of
Castlefield,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date,
November
30th 1703, and departing this Life the 13th of
June
1706
Ibidem.
, left Issue by the Lady
Eleanor Campbel
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Earl of
Loudoun, Archbald
his Successor in the Honour,
Hugh Primerose,
Esq
William Primerose,
Esq
and a Daughter
Margaret.
ARMS.
Vert,
Three Primeroses within a double Tressure, flower'd and counterflower'd,
Or.
Supporters, Two Leopards proper. Crest, A Demi-Lyon rampant, holding in his Dexter Paw a Primerose proper. Motto,
Fide & fiducia.
DOUGLAS, Duke of
Queensberry.
THE Barony of
Drumlanrig
in
Drumfrieze
-Shire, did antiently belong to the Earls of
Mar. Thoma
Earl of
Mar,
gave these Lands to
William
Lord of
Douglas,
whose Sister, the Lady
Margaret
he had married which King
David
II did, by his Royal Charter, confirm
Willielmo Domino de Douglas, Omnes Terras Barroniae de
Drumlanrig,
cum Pertinen. Tenend. & Habend. eidem
Willielmo
Domino de
Douglas,
& haeredibus suis, libere & quiete, plenarie, integrè & honorifice, cum omnibus libertatibus, commoditatibus, Assiamentis, & justis pertinentiis suis, sicut charta dilecti consanguinet nostri
Thomae
Comitis
Marriae,
eidem
Willielmo
Domino de
Douglass,
&
Margaretae
Sponsae suae, consanguineae nostrae, inde confecta plenius proportat & testatur.
To this
William,
Lord, thereafter Earl of
Douglass,
succeeded
James
Earl of
Douglass
his Son, who by his Charter gave the Barony of
Drumlanrig
to
William Douglass
his Son, which, for the fixing the Origin of this illustrious Branch of the House of
Douglass,
I shall present the Reader with an exact Copy of it, as I transcribed it from the Original.
Omnibus hanc chartam visuris vel audituris,
Jacobus
Comes de
Douglass,
Dominus vailis de
Lydale,
ac baroniae de
Drumlanrig,
salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noveritis nos dedisse, concessisse, & hac charta nostra confirmasse
Willielmo
de
Douglass,
filio nostro, pro homagio & servitio suo, omnes terras nostras totius baroniae de
Drumlanrig,
infra vicecom. de
Dum
rise,
tenend, & habend, omnes dictas terras praefatae baroniae, cum pertinen, eidem
Willielmo
& haeredibus suis, de corpore suo legitime procreandis; quibus deficientibus,
Archibaldo
de
Douglass
filio nostro, & haeredibus suis, de corpore s
o legitime procreandis, in feudo & haereditate in perpetuum reservata, nobis & haeredibus nostris, re
alitas ejusdem faciendo inde nobis & haeredibus nostris, servitium
nius militis in exercitu nostro, nomine
Albae firmae.
In cujus rei testimonium presenti chartae sigillum nostrum fecimus appon
, his testibus, Domino
Archibaldo
de
Douglass,
Domin
Galuidiae, Jacobo
de
Douglass,
Domino de
Dalkeith, Jacobo
de
Lindsay,
Domino de
Crawfurd, Willielmo
de
Lindsay, Roberto Colevyle, Willielmo
de
Borthewick,
consanguineis nostris militibus,
Adamo Forrester, Adamo
de
Hoppringle, Allano
de
Laudere,
& multis altis.
This Sir
Willam Douglass,
the first Baron of
Drumlanrig,
being a brave Gentleman, signaliz'd himself in the Wars against the
English
in his Time; in the 1411, together with
Gavin Dunbar,
Son to the Earl of
March,
he burnt and plundered the Town of
Roxburgh
Extract
e Ch
on. Scotiae.
, then in the Possession of the
English,
which was performed with great Resolution and Courage. The War at length ending in a Truce in the 1412
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, Sir
William Douglass
and the Lord
Clifford
were the chief Challengers at a solemn Tournament held by the Earl of
Westmorland
at
Carlisle,
but my Author
Sir William Dugdale in his Baronage of England.
is not particular as to the Event. The same Year he had the Honour to be sent by the Governor of
Scotland,
the Duke of
Albany,
Ambassador to the Court of
England,
to solicite the Release of King
James
I. who was then keept a Prisoner in that Realm
Rymer's Foedera.
, when he obtain'd from his Captive Sovereign a Charter, all written fair out in the King's own Hand, on Vellom
Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
, the very finest I ever saw, in these Words,
'
James,
throw the Grace of GOD, Kyinge of
Scottis,
til all that this Lettre her is or seis, sendis Gretynge; wit ze, that we haue grantit, and be this present Lettre grantis a special Confirmation in the mast Forme, til our Trust and wele belofit Cosyng, Sir
William
of
Douglass
of
Drumlanrig
of all the Lands that he is posest and charterit of within the Kyngdome of
Scotland,
that is to say, the Landis of
Drumlanrig,
of
Hanyke,
and of
Selkirk:
The which Charter and Posessions be this Lettre we confirm. In Witnes of the whilk, this present Lettres we wrate with our proper Hand, and the Signet ussit in selying of our Lettres as now at
Croydon,
the last Day of
Novembre,
the Yeir of our Lord 1412.'
In the 1416, Sir
William Douglass
of
Drumlanrig
was joined in Commission with the Earls of
Athole, Fife, Buchan, Mar, Douglass,
and
Crawfard, George Dunbar,
Son and Heir to the Earl of
March,
the Bishop of
Glasgow,
and Si
William Graham,
to treat with the
English
about the relieving of King
James
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
, but for some Reasons of State, that Grand Affair could not be brought to a Close, tho' 'tis not to be doubted but those great Men, who had the Honour to be employed in the Treaty, did all they could to have it concluded. Thereafter in 1420. when the
English
carried over King
James
into
France
Abercromby's Life of King James I.
, to try if his Presence could draw the
Scots,
who were in the
French
Service, over to that of the
English,
Sir
William Douglass
of
Drumlanrig,
went over to wait on his Master; in order to which he had a safe Conduct granted him from the King of
England,
but with this remarkable
Proviso,
that he should do nothing prejudicial to him, or to his dearest Father the King of
France;
but the
Scots
did well then distinguish the Deference which they owed to their King when captivated, and when independent and free; for tho' they sent Persons to guard his sacred Person, yet they adhered firmly to that Interest which he seemed outwardly to oppose, tho' I have no Reason to believe, but that Sir
William Douglass
kept his Promise to the King of
England,
and did not ingage against the
English
Interest at that Time, yet he afterward lost his Life in the Service of
France,
at the Battle of
Ag
ncourt
in 1427
Mr. David Simpson▪ s Account o
the House of Drumlanrig. M.S. penes me.
, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter o
Sir
Robert Stewart
of
Durisdeer
and
Rosyth.
William Douglass,
Lord of
Drumlanrig,
his Son and Hei
Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry, in an Indenture between William Douglass Lord of Drumlanrig, and William Douglass, Lord of Leswalt, in the 1427.
, who was one of the Host
ges sent to
England,
for the Redemption of King
James
I. in the 1427, in Exchange of another Baron of the same Rank and Fortune with himself, which was expresly provided in the Treaty of Redemption, but when he was relieved again, it has not occu
red to me.
This Sir
William
being like his Father a warlike Man, signaliz'd himself in most of the Actions between the
Sc
ts
and
English,
particularly at the Battle of
Sark, Anno
1448, where the
Scots
obtained a most glorious Victory, under the Command of
Hugh
Earl of
Ormond,
Brother to the Earl of
Douglass,
where Sir
William
did to a very eminent Degree manifest his Valour and Conduct; and departing this Life in the 1458
Mr. Simpson's Account of the House of Drumlanrig.
, left Issue by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Herbert Maxwell,
Lord of
Carlaverock
Mr. Simpson's Account of the House of Drumlanrig.
.
William
his Son and Heir, who, tho' he did not long outlive his Father, yet he gave many signal Proofs of his Valour in several Actions, particularly at the Siege of
Roxburgh,
where King
James
II. lost his Life, and in that other bold Attempt at
Alnwick, Anno
1463, where the
French
Garrison was relieved by the Earl of
Angus,
in the Face of a numerous
English
Army
Ibidem.
, which was double the Number of the Troops the Earl had under his Command, and departing this Life in the 1464
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . .
Carlyle,
Lord of
Torthoral
,
William
his Son and Heir, who treading in the Steps of his heroick Ancestors, was slain in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Kirkonel
in that unnatural Invasion of the Duke of
Albany
against his own Brother King
James
II. on the 22d of
July
1484
M
. Thomson's Hist. Collections.
, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Robert Crichton
Lord of
Sanquhar,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Drumfrise
Charta penes Ducem de Queensbery.
,
James
his Successor,
Archbald,
of whom the
Douglasses
of
Cashogle, George,
of whom the Branch of
Pinzire
Mr. Simpson's Account of the House of Queensbery.
,
John
Vicar of
Kirkonnel
Charta penes Dominum Cathcart ad Annum 1497.
; likewise several Daughters,
Margaret
married to
John
Lord
Cathcart
Ibid.
, and had Issue.
Elizabeth
to
John Campbell,
Son and Heir apparent of
James Campbell
Charta penes Ducem de Queensbery, ad Annum 1496.
of
Wester-Loudoun.
Janet
to
Alexander Gordon,
at that Time Son and Heir apparent of
John Gordon
of
Lochinvar
Charta penes Dominum Cathcart.
, Ancestor to the Viscount of
Kenmure.
Which
James
in 1470, married
Janet,
Daughter of
David Scot
of
Bu
hleugh
Charta penes Ducem de Queensbery, ad annum 1470, Novemb. 5th.
, by whom he had
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Janet,
married to
Roger Grierson
of
Lag,
and dying soon after the 1496
I find him then alive from the Writs of the Famil
.
, was succeeded by
William
his Son, who did not long survive his Father, for he lost his Life with King
James
IV. and the Flower of the Kingdom, at the fatal Battle of
Flowdoun, September
9th, 1513,
Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John G
rdon
of
Lochinva
, James
his Successor,
Robert,
Provo
t of
Lincluden,
of whom the Branch of the
Douglasses
of
Barfurd
Ib, etiam Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1612.
, and Two Daughters,
Janet,
married to
Robert
Lord
Maxwell,
and
Agnes
to
Andrew Cunningham
of
Kirkshaw.
Which
James
was one of those loyal Barons, who in the 1526, attempted to relieve King
James
V. from the Earl of
Angus,
who kept him in no other Condition than that of a Prisoner; but the Attempt proving unsuccessful, he was obliged to take out a Remission for it. During the War i
the Minority of Queen
Mary,
he behaved very loyally, for which the Duke of
Chattlerault
the Governour, confer'd the Honour of Knighthood on him; and in the 1553 the Queen made him Warden of the East Marches, with a full Power of Justiciary on the Surrender of Sir
John Maxwell
of
Tareagles
Ibidem.
. Which Office he discharged with great Wisdom and Courage for many Years thereafter, even till his old Age, that he resigned the Office, which was thereupon given to Sir
John Maxwell
Kt. He married first
Margaret Douglass
Chart
penes Ducem de Queensberry. ad Annum 1530.
, Daughter of
George
Master of
Angus,
by whom he had Two Daughters,
Janet
married to
William Douglass
of
Ca
gle
Ibidem.
, and again to
John Charters
of
Aimsfield,
and
Margaret
to
John Jerdan
of
Applegirth
Ibidem.
. From this Lady Sir
William
was divorced, and thereafter by a Dispensation from the Pope's Legate, he was married again to
Christian,
Daughter of
John,
Master of
Eglintoun,
Son of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglintoun;
by her he had Sir
William Douglass
of
Ha
ick,
who died before his Father, and Four Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Robert
Lord
Sanquhair,
and again to
William
Earl of
Menteth.
Helen
to
Roger Grierson
of
Lag
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Janet,
first to
James Tweedie
of
Drumlezer
Ibidem.
; and afterward to
William Kerr
of
Cesfoord
Ibidem.
, Ancestor to the Duke of
Roxburgh.
Christian
to Sir
Alexander Stewart
of
Garlies
Ibid. etiam Charta in Pub. Arch.
, Ancestor to the Earl of
Galloway,
and had Issue.
Sir
William Douglass
of
Hayick,
Sir
James
's Son, tho' he died a young Man, yet he gave many Proofs of his Prudence and Courage in suppressing the
English
Inroads, and the Disorders committed on the Borders. When the War broke out in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
he adhered to the Interest of the young Prince King
James
VI. with singular Fidelity, was at the Field of
Langside,
where he signaliz'd his Valour, and contributed very much to the Overthrow of the Queen's Party; and he was so zealous in the Cause, that afterward he commanded in that Action betwixt
Le
&
Edinburgh,
in 1572, where the Earl of
Huntly,
who maintain'd the Queen's Authority, was worsted, and many of his Adherents slain; and dying
Anno
1574, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
James Gordon
of
Lochinvar
Charta in Pub. Arch. etiam Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
,
James
who succeeded his Grandfather, likewise Daughters,
Margaret
married to Sir
Robert Montgomery
of
Skelmurly,
Bart.
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Janet
to Sir
James Murray
of
Cockpool
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Christian
to
Robert Dalziel
Younger of That-Ilk
Ibidem.
, thereafter Earl of
Carnwath.
Sir
James Douglass
of
Drumlanrig
dying on the 27th of
September
1578
Ibidem.
, was immediately succeeded in his Estate by his Grandson Sir
James,
who being a Person of great Wisdom and Prudence, was a very happy Instrument in reconciling the Discords among the Nobility and the contending Factions at Court, which had render'd the Reign of King
James
less pleasant to him, till his Accession to the
English
Crown. Sir
James
was no less wise than valiant, he having frequent Occasions of exerting his Courage and Conduct in those unhappy Feuds and mutual Incursions, which infested the South-west Parts of the Kingdom before the Union of the Crowns. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Lord
Fleeming,
Sister to
John
first Earl of
Wigtoun
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
William
his Successor, the first Earl of
Queensberry,
Sir
James Douglass
of
Mouswald, David Douglass
of
A
rdoch, George Douglass
of
Pinzrie,
likewise two Daughters,
Janet
married to
William Livingston
of
Jer
swood,
and
Helen
to
John Menzies
of
Castlehill;
and departing this Life 16th of
October
1615, was succeeded by
Sir
William
his Son and Heir, who being a Gentleman of great Parts and singular Prudence, was particularly known and favour'd by King
James
VI. whom he had the Honour to entertain at his House of
Drumlanrig,
in his Return into
England,
in the Year 1617: Nor was he less regarded by King
Charles
I. who was graciously pleas'd to create him a Peer by the Title of Lord Viscount
Drumlanrig,
on the 1st of
April
1628
Charta in Pub. Arch.
; and further, for the greate
Splendor of his Majesty's Coronation, he was by Letters Patent, bearing D
te 13th of
June
1633, rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Queensbery
Ibid
. He married
I
obel
Daughter of
Mark
fi
st Earl of
Lothi
n,
by whom he had
James
his Suc
essor, Sir
William Douglass
of
Killhead, Archbald Dougl
s
of
Dornock;
and Two Daughters
Margaret
married to
James
Earl of
Hartsiel,
and
Janet
to
Thomas
Lord
Kircudbright,
and dying on the 8th of
March
1640, was succeeded by
James
his Son, who suffe
'd much for his Loyalty to King
Coarles
I. during the Civil War, for when he was endeavouring to join the Marquis of
Montrose,
before the Battle of
Philiphaugh,
he was made Prisoner, and afterward fined in 120000 M
rks, which he paid. He married fi
st
M
ry,
Daughter of
James
Ma
quis of
Hamilton,
by whom he had no Issue; and again
Margaret,
Daughter o
John
Earl of
Tr
quair,
Lord Hig
Treasurer of
Scotland,
by whom he had
William
his Successor, Lieutenant General
James Dougl
s
,
who died at
Namur
in 1691,
John,
kill'd at the Siege of
Treves
1675,
Rob
rt
kill'd at the Siege of
M
estricht
1676; like wife Five Daughters, 1.
Mary
married to
Alexander
Earl of
Gallow
y,
2
Catharine
to Sir
James Douglass
of
Kellhead,
Bart. and had Issue. 3
Henrietta
to Sir
Robert Gr
erson
of
Lagg,
and had Issue. 4
Margaret,
to Sir
Alexander Jerdan
of
Appleg
rth,
Bart. and had Issue. 5
Isobel
to Sir
William Lockhart
of
Carstairs,
Bart. and had Issue. And dying on the 15th of
August
1671, was succeeded by
William
his Son, who being a Nobleman of very great Parts, was in 1667 sworn of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. and thereafter,
June
1st 1680, made Justice-General
Ibid. etiam Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
, on the Removal of Sir
George Mackenzie
of
Tarbat;
also his Majesty as a Testimony of his special Favour, was pleased to create the Ea
l, Marquis of
Queensbery,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 11th of
February
1682
Ibidem.
, and in less than Six Months thereafter, upon some Alterations in the Ministry, the Marquis of
Queensbery
was prefer'd to be Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
and the Earl of
Perth
made Justice General in his Room
Charta in Pub. Arch. May 1st, 1682, making the Earl of Perth Justice General, and another making the Marquis of Queensberry Lord High Treasurer, 15th of July 1672.
; likewise in
September
thereafter he was made Constable and Governor of
Edinburgh
Castle, and one of the extraordinary Lords of the Session. Finally, that no Honour might be wanting which his Majesty could con
er upon him, he was rais'd to the Honour of Duke of
Queensbery,
the 3d of
February
1684
Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
; about which Time he was ad
tted one of the Lords of the Privy Council for the Kingdom of
England.
As the Duke had been in great Favour in the Reign of King
Charles
II. he was no less in so the B
ginni
g of King
James
VII. who not only continued him in his former Posts, but likewise made him Lord High Commissioner to represent his Royal Person in his first Session of Parliament 1685; and the same Year he and
J
mes
Lord
Drumlanr
g
his Son, were constituted his Majesty's Lieu
enants in the S
ires of
Drumfrieze
and
Wigtoun,
and the Stewartries of
Annandale
and
Kirkcudbright.
In the 1686, the Treasury being turned into Commission, the Duke of
Queensbery
was made President of the Council, but the Measures that were soon after taken at Court, not suiting with his Temper and Principles, and for his not complying with the Project of taking away the penal Laws against Popery; he was in Six Months thereafter deprived of all publick Employments, and thereafter liv'd prudently and cautiously thro' the rest of that Reign.
His Grace married
Isobel,
Daughter of
William
Marquis of
Douglass,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir,
William
Earl of
March,
and Lord
George,
a young Nobleman of great Hopes, who died in 1693, and a Daughter
Anne,
married to
David
Earl of
Weems,
and departing this Life at
Ediaburgh
the 28th of
March
1695, was with great Funeral Solemnity interr'd at the Church of
D
risdeer,
with his Ancestors, where there is a magnificent Monument erected for him.
James
Duke of
Queensbery
his Son and Successor, was born on the 18th of
December
1662, after he had gone thro' the Course of his Studies at the University of
Glasgow,
he went into Foreign Parts, to accomplish himself by Travels,
Anno
1680. and upon his Return in 1684, was by King
Charles
II. made one of the Privy Council, and Lieutenant Colonel of a Regiment of Horse commanded by Lieutenant General
Graham,
thereafter Viscount of
Dundee;
and he continued in these Posts till the Year 1688, about which Time he quitted them for Ill Usage at Court, and upon the Account of the Disagreement of his Principles with their Measures.
The Revolution then happening to come on, he appear'd early in it, and was by the Prince of
Orange,
upon his Acceptance of the Government, made Colonel of the
Scots
Horse-Guards, and at the same Time one of the Privy Council, and one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber.
In the 1690 King
William
sent him into
Scotland,
to command a separate Body of Troops under Lieutenant General
Mackay;
Two Years after, he was made one of the Lords of the Treasury; and in the Parliament 1693, he was authorized to sit and vote as Lord High Treasurer, his Father being then alive, and he not a Peer, could not otherwise sit, but as an Officer of State, which depends on the Sovereign's Nomination.
The Duke his Father departing this Life as aforesaid in 1695, he laid aside all Thoughts of Military Employments, quitted the Command of the Guards, and was thereupon made Lord Privy Seal, and one of the Extraordinary Lords of the Session.
His Majesty in 1700 was pleas'd to make him Lord High Commissioner to represent his Royal Person in Parliament, where he held Two Sessions by virtue of Two distinct Patents; and upon his Return to Court, his Majesty on the 18th
June
1701, was pleas'd to honour the Duke with a distinguishing Mark of his Royal Favour, for that Evening, a Chapter being held of the most noble Order of the Garter at
Kensingtoun,
where the Sovereign was present, the Duke was then elected a Companion of the Order, and install'd at
Windsor
the 10th of
July
thereafter. His Grace having serv'd King
William
as long as he liv'd with great Fidelity, her Majesty Queen
Anne,
upon her Acc
ssion to the Throne, first made him Secretary of State; and entertaining the same just Sentiments of his Ability and Conduct, appointed him to be her Commissioner to represent her Royal Person in that Session of Parliament which met at
Edinburgh,
the 9th of
June
1702; but the Legality of that Session meeting with great Opposition from a strong Party in the Parliament, who declared openly that they did not conceive themselves warranted to meet and act in that Session as a Parliament
The Duke of Hamilton presented a Paper, which contained the Reasons of his Dissent, which may be seen at large in the History of Europe, and the Memoirs of Scotland, but is foreign to my Purpose to insert it here.
, and therefore did not only dissent from any Thing that should be done or acted therein, but withdrew, and remov'd from their Attendance: Wherefore her Majesty, to quiet the Minds of her People, was pleas'd to order the Duke to prorogue the Parliament, which his Grace did, and thereupon set out for
London;
where he was soon thereafter appointed One of the Commissioners upon the Part of
Scotland,
for treating of an Union betwixt both Nations; but tho' the Commissioners of the respective Kingdoms met several Times, and settled Preliminaries on both Sides; yet upon a more mature Deliberation, the Court concluded that it was not a fit Season to promote that Business, but to suspend the further Prosecution of it until a more favourable Conjuncture. The former Parliament being dissolved, it was necessary another should be call'd, as had been usual at the Entrance of all Sovereigns to the Crown; and therefore her Majesty issued out Writs for the Calling of a new Parliament, which met according to Summons upon the 6th of
May
1703, to which the Queen was pleas'd to honour the Duke of
Queensberry,
by appointing his Grace to represent her Royal Person, as Lord High Commissioner. The Parliament being open'd with great Solemnity, they began chearfully in passing an Act, recognizing her Majesty's Title to the Crown; but that Unanimity did not long continue among them; for a very strong Party in the Parliament having brought in and carried an Act for the Security of the Kingdom, presented it to the Lord Commissioner, for the Royal Assent; but the
Act of Security
being transmitted to the Court, the
English
Ministry were so wholly averse to it, and the Country Party in the Parliament of
Scotland
as strenuously insisting to have it pass, all the Duke could well do in such a Conjuncture, was to keep it off till he should receive Instructions from above; which he did with the outmost Dexterity, till her Maj
sty having declared that some Difficulties having fallen in in that Affair, so much press'd, she would take Time to consider them before she could be determined to give the Royal Approbation; and therefore ordered the Lord High Commissioner to adjourn the Parliament on the 16th of
September,
after they had sat full Three Months, which the Lord Chancellor did in the usual Forms.
How great soever these Services of the Duke's were esteemed to be for a Time, yet 'tis certain, that in less than a Year thereafter, upon a Change of some Measures at Court, his Grace was remov'd from all Publick Employments, except that of one of the Extraordinary Lords of the Session, which was for Life, and of which he could not be deprived.
But upon another Change at Court in the 1705, when the Duke of
Argyle
was declared Commissioner for holding the Session of Parliament that Year, the Duke of
Queensbe
ry
was made Lord Privy Seal in Place of the Earl of
Rothes,
and one of the Commissioners of the Treasu
y. 'Tis foreign to my Design to assign the Reasons here of the Change that was found in the Disposition of the
English
Ministry, in Reference to the Act of Security, which h
d passed in the Parliament 1704 from what it had been in the Session before, wherein the Duke preceded as Lord High Commissioner. However, the forementioned Act of Security put the
English
Ministry under a Necessity of effecting the Union of the Two Kingdoms; and in order thereto, her Majesty being imp
wered by the Parliament in 1705. did nominate and appoint Commissioners to treat with those of
England,
for uniting the two Kingdoms, of which Number the Duke of
Queensberry
the Lord Privy Seal was one.
The Commissioners of both Kingdoms having accordingly met at
London
on the 16th of
April
1706, the Preliminaries were easily agreed to on the 24th. The Two succeeding Months were taken up in carrying on of the Treaty, and being much forwarded by her Majesty's Royal Presence and Recommendation to bring it to a Conclusion, the Articles were compleated and signed on the 22d of
July
there
f
er.
Tho' the Treaty of Union was concluded by the respective Commissioners of
Scotland
and
England,
yet it b
hooved to be approven and confi
med by both Parliaments before it could be perfected; and the Parliament of
Scotland
being to meet for that End the 6th of
Oct
ber,
the Duke of
Queensberry
was pitch'd on as the fitte
Person to be her Majesty's Commissioner to bring that great Affair about in Parliament.
So difficult and nice a Work as incorporating the Two Kingdoms, could not be effected without very considerable Opposition, both from within Doors and without; but his Grace being supported by her Majesty's Authority, and a f
ll and hearty Concu
re
ce of a Majority in the Parliament, (who were well affected to the Union) went on vigorously in the Prosecution of his Duty, and with so much Dispatch, that the whole Treaty was enacted and ratified on the 16th of
January
1707, by the Lord Commissioner by the Touch
f the Royal Scepter, in the usual Manner.
The Duke of
Queensberry
having thus concluded the Union, and surmounted all the Difficulties he met in his Way to compleat it, in
April
thereafter set out for
London,
where he
ound that gracious Reception from the Queen which his eminent Services h
d deserved: And it was but very just that he who had expended so much of his Time in the publick Service, should have some suitable Compensation; and therefore the Queen gave him the Compliment of a Pension of 3000
L per Annum
out of the Fost Office. Her Majesty's Goodness and Bounty did not stop here, seeing she was pleas'd in
May
1708, to create him a Peer of
Great Britain,
by the Titles of Baron
Rippon,
Ma
quis of
Beverly,
and Du
e of
Dover;
which Honours were to descend to the Earl of
Solloway
his second Son.
The Queen continuing still her Royal Favours to his Grace, was pleas'd on the 9th of
February
1709, to declare in Council, that by Reason of the Increase of the publick Business, she thought fit to appoint a 3d Secretary of State of
Great Britain,
and having named the Duke of
Queensberry
the Person, he was thereupon sworn into the Office, which he enjoyed till his Death,
July
6th 1711, after a short Indisp
sition, which the Physicians call the
I'liack Passion.
He married the Lady
Mary B
yl
,
Daughter of
Charles
Lord
Clifford,
Son of
Richard
Earl of
B
rlingtoun
and
Cork,
by whom he had
James
Ea
l of
Drumlanrig,
Lord
Charles Douglass,
who for the Services of his Father and his Ancestors, was, in the 1707, created Earl of
Solloway,
and is now Duke of
Queensberry
and
Dover,
a young Nobleman of excellent Parts and great Expectation, and Lord
George Douglass,
likewise Two Daughters,
Lady
Jean,
Lady
Anne.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent,
a Heart
Gules,
ensign'd with an Imperial Crown,
Or,
on a Chief,
Azure,
Three Molets of the first. 2d and 3d
Azure
a Bend betwixt Six cross Croslets,
Or,
all within a double Tressure,
Or,
flower'd and counterflower'd,
Gules.
Supporters, Two Horses
Argent,
winged
Or,
Crest, a Hart winged
Gules,
crown'd with an Imperial Crown, surmounted of a Ducal Coronet proper. Motto,
Forward.
MACKAY, Lord
Rae.
THE first of this Sirname I have found on Record, was
Odo, al
as Y Macy,
who obtained from King
James
IV.
pro bono & sideli servitiotam tempore pacis, quam guerae impenso & assportatione nobis quondam
Alex Sutherland
de
Delred,
& altarum decem personarum, ejus complicum nostrorum rebellium, omnes & singulas terras subscriptas, viz. Terras de
Fare, Gosesbey, Catack, Croyn, Kilblachman,
in vicecom. de
Inverness,
quae quidem Terrae cum s
is Per
nent
is fuerunt quondam dicti
Alexandri Sutherland
haereditar
ae & nunc nobis pertinen. & in manibus nostris legitime devenerunt, ratione Forisfacturae dicti quondam
Alexandri,
&c. Apud
Inverness 4
to die Mensis
Novembris, 1499
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV.
. He left a Son
Donald Mackay
of
Fare,
whose Son and Successor
Y Mackay
of
Fare,
by
Catharine
his Wife, Daughter of . . . .
Sinclair
of
Dun,
left
Hugh
his Heir, and
Donald Mackay
of
Scauray
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
, the Ancestor of Lieutenant General
Hugh Mackay,
who was Commander in Chief of the Forces in
Scotland, Anno
1689, and was thereafter kill'd at
St
nktrk,
a brave Man, and esteem'd an excellent Officer.
Which
Hugh
married
Jean
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Sutherland,
by whom he had
Donald
his Son and Heir, who being a Person of a martial Spirit, and a Man of great Honour and Courage, carried over a Regiment of his own Name and Followers, to the Service of the King of
Sweden,
under whom he serv'd long in very eminent Commands, with extraordinary Ability and Success.
Upon his Return to
England,
his Majesty King
Charles
I. to countenance his Merit, was pleas'd to make him a Peer, by the Title of Lord
Rae
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
,
June
20th 1628.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in
England,
the Lord
Rae
repaired to his Majesty, and heartily and personally engaged in his Service; but being taken Prisoner at the Surrender of
Newcastle
to the
Scots
Army, he was sent down to
Scotland
to be tried, but he had the good Fortune to be relieved by the Marquis of
Montrose,
after the Battle of
Killyth,
out of the Goal of
Edinburgh;
after which he went over to
Denmark
where he died in 1649, leaving Issue by
Barbara
his Wife, Daughter of
Kenneth
Lord
Kintail, John
his Successor, who married
Barbara,
Daughter of
Donald Mackay
of
Scauray:
By her he left
Donald
his Successor, Colonel
Aeneas Mackay,
Colonel
Robert Mackay.
Which
Donald
married
Anne,
Daughter of Sir
George Monro
of
Culrain,
by whom he had
George
the present Lord, who married first
Margaret,
Daughter of Lieutenant General
Hugh Mackay;
by her he had
Donald
Master of
Rae;
next
Janet,
Daughter of
John Sinclair
of
Ulbster,
by whom he likewise has Issue.
ROLLO, Lord
Rollo.
THIS noble Family is of very ancient Extraction in the County of
Perth,
where they have long remained, and still continue in Honour; and tho' they have extended themselves into divers Branches elsewhere, of very good Reputation
I find from Writs that have passed my Hands, that the Rolloes of Mannor, Balmont, Ballachie, Powis, and Monksholme, of whom Woodfide, are all Cadets to the Family of Duncruib, and some of them were descended very early from this House.
John de Rollo was
, Secretary to Robert Duke of Albany, while he was Regent of Scotland in the Time of King James the First's Minority. Mr. Robert Rollock, but really as it should, and was ab origine Rollo, in the Time of King James VI. was Primarius Professor in the new erected University of Edinburgh, a Person of exemplary Piety and Vertue. He wrote much wherein such a Strain of Piety runs thro' his Writings, as will ever render his Memory dear to all good Men. Mr. Peter Rollock or Rollo, a Minister of good Account in the Time of King James VI. and a Lord of the Session, by the Title of Lord Piltoun, was in the 1600 promoted to the Bishoprick of Dunkeld. He accompanied the King into England, and was there prefer'd to a very good Benefice, the Rectory of Mispertoun, and Brundesburton in the Diocess of York in the 1603. I may also mention another Minister of very good Esteem, in the Time of King Charles I. Mr. Henry Rollo, one of the Ministers of the City of Edinburgh.
, yet that which adds a peculiar Lustre to the Family of
Rollo,
is the many eminent Churchmen it has produced who have been in their several Times, great Ornaments to the Church for their Learning, Piety and Moderation, a particular Account of whom, and of their Writings will be found among our learned Country-men, in an intended Work which will perhaps very soon see the Light, and be communicated to the World; and therefore I shall forbear to give the Memoirs of them here, but only mention their Names among the Authorities I have here cited
In the Reign of King
Robert
II.
John Rollo
the immediate Ancestor of this noble Family, had by the Grant of
David
Earl of
Strathern,
with the Consent of King
Robert
his Father, the Lands of
Duncruib, Fyndony, Pitinclethy, L
dcathy, & Pitmedie,
bearing Date 13th
February
1380
Charta penes Dominum Rollo.
. He left Issue
Duncan
his Son and Heir, whose Son and Successor was
Andrew Rollo
of
Duncruib,
the Father of another
Robert Rollo
of
Duncruib,
and he of
William Rollo
of the Place foresaid, who took Possession of his Estate as Heir to his Grandfather, 9th
July
1481
Ibid.
, and afterwards obtained from King
James
IV. a Charter under the Broad Seal, erecting all his Lands into one entire Barony, the Barony of
Duncruib,
of the Date
October
26th 1511
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, He married a Lady of the Family of the
Oliphants,
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, who married
Janet
Daughter of
William
Lord
Graham,
and had
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who married
Marion,
Daughter and Co-Heir of Sir
David Rollo
of
Ballachie
Charta penes Dominum Rollo.
, by whom he had
George
his Successor,
James Rollo
of
Thanestand, William Rollo
of
Balogrie,
Sir
Walter Rollo
of
Gairn;
likewise Two Daughters,
Marion
married to
George Graham
of
Inchbracko;
and again to
John Graham
of
Balgown
Charta penes Dominum Rollo, etiam Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad Annum 1603.
; and
Mary
to . . . . .
Oliphant
of
Gask.
Which
George
married
Isobel,
Daughter of
William Moncrief
of That-Ilk, but dying without Issue, 6th of
May,
1581
Charta penes Dominum Rollo.
, was succeded by
James
his Brother and Heir, who departing this Life in
May
1684
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert Collice
of
Bonnymoon,
an antient Family in
Forfar
Shire
Ibidem.
,
Andrew
his Successor, also Two Daughters,
Marion
married to
James Bruce
of
Powfouls,
and
Jean
to
Alexander Blair
of
Rossiehall
in the County of
Perth.
Which
Andrew
had the Honour of Knighthood confer'd on him by King
James
VI. and afterward in his old Age was by King
Charles
II. in Consideration, as the Patent bears, of the Antiquity of the Family, and the constant Fidelity of his Ancestors to the Crown, rais'd to the Honour of Lord
Rollo
of
Duncruib,
by Letters Patent, hearing Date at
Perth
10th
January
1651
Ibidem.
: And giving Way to Fate 2d of
May
1659, left Issue by
Catharine Drummond
his Wife, Daughter of
James
first Lord
Madertie,
Sir
James
his Successor in the Honour, Sir
John Rollo
of
Bannockburn,
Mr.
Lawrence Rollo
of
Rossy,
Mr.
Andrew Rollo
Parson of
Dunning,
Sir
William Rollo
a young Gentleman of excellent Parts, and unblemished Reputation for Loyalty and Courage, who from the Beginning of the Troubles in the Reign of King
Charles
I. heartily and personally engaged himself for the King, and served his Majesty till the End of his Life, with singular Diligence and Fidelity. He joined the Marquis of
Montrose
as soon as he declared for his Majesty, and continued with him till the unhappy Adventure of
Philiphaugh,
that being apprehended, he was no sooner known, but an Order was sent for his Commitment and Tryal, and notwithstanding all the Defence he could make for himself, he was, for being in Arms with
Montrose,
which they easily found him guilty of, sentenced to lose his Head, which Judgment was executed on him at
Glasgow,
the 28th of
October
1645.
Margaret,
eldest Daughter to
Andrew
Lord
Rollo,
was married to Sir
John Drummond
of
Carnock,
and had Issue.
Jean
to
John Rollo
of
Powhouse,
and afterward to
John Drummond
of
Pitkellony.
Anne
to
William Merser
of
Clevedge,
and had Issue.
Isobel
to
William Hallyday
of
Tillybool,
and had Issue.
James
second Lord
Rollo,
was a Person of known great Parts, and of a general good Reputation with all Men, which he manifested thro' the whole Course of the Civil War, by his laying Hold of all Opportunities to advance all Motions toward a Peace, for which no Man was ever more sollicitous. He married first
Dorothea
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Montrose,
by whom he had no Issue; and again
Mary,
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
by
Anne
his second Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Cornwallis
of
Broomo,
of the County of
Norfolk,
by her he had
Andrew
his Heir, Major
Archbald Rollo,
also a Daughter
Margaret
married to Sir
George Oliphant
of
Newtoun, sans
Issue, and departing this Life in the 1671, was succeeded by
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Burleigh,
by whom he had
John
Master of
Rollo,
a young Nobleman of good Reputation, who upon some private Contest was murdered by the young Laird of
Inchbracko,
29th of
May
1691
I would have been loath to have expressed the Death and Slaughter of the Master of Rollo in so harsh a Term, but having for that End perused the Journal of the Justiciary, in the Denunciation of young Inchbracko, the Lords declare him Fugitive on the 11th November 169
, for the Murder and Slaughter of
quile John Master of Rollo.
,
Robert
his Successor, likewise Three Daughters,
Aemelia
married to
William Irvine
of
B
w, Isabella
to
R
bert
of
W
,
and
J
;
and dying the 1st of
March
1700. was succeeded by
Robert
his Son and Heir, the present Lord
Rollo,
who married
Mary,
eldest Daughter of Sir
Hary Rollo
of
Wo
side,
by whom he had Issue,
Andrew
Master of
Rollo.
ARMS.
Or.
A Chiveron betwixt Three Bears Heads erazed,
Azure,
supported by Two Stags. Crest, a Stag's Head Coupe proper. Metto,
La Fortune passe par Tout.
PRIMEROSE, Earl of
Roseberry.
ARCHBALD
Earl of
Roseberry
was the only Son of Sir
Archbald Primerose
Lord
Dalmeny,
Ancestor to the Viscount of
Primerose,
by
Agnes
his second Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Gray,
Grandfather to the present Lord
Gray,
who being well educated at Schools and Colleges at Home, for his further Improvement, travell'd into Foreign Parts, and made a Campaign or Two in
Hungary.
Upon his Return he married a Lady of a Fortune, and betook himself to a Country Life. In the 1695, he he was chosen Member of Parliament for the County of
Edinburgh;
but before he sat long in that Quality in ths House, his Majesty King
William
was pleas'd to raise him to be a Peer, by the Title of Viscount
Roseberry,
by Letters Patents, bearing Date 1st of
April
1700. Upon the Accession of Queen
Anne
to the Crown, he was made one of the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council, and rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Roseberry,
the 10th of
April
1703, his Lordship was also one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to his Royal Highness Prince
George
of
D
nmark,
who alwise professed a more than ordinary Friendship for him.
He was also one of the Commissioners on the Treaty of Union, and was chosen one of the Sixteen
Scots
Peers, who first sat in the House of Lords in the Parliament of
Great Britain;
and was ever thereafter a Member throughout all the subsequent Parliaments of Queen
Anne.
He married
Dorothea,
Daughter and Heir of
Everingham Cressy
of
Birking,
of the County of
York,
Esq
Sir William Dugdale in his Baronage of England, takes Notice, that Birking was of old a Peerage, and that the Everinghams succeeded thereto in Right of Blood, and the same Way to them the Cresseys; and the Countess of Rosebery being the Heir of all these Three ancient Families, some are of Opinion, the Right of that Peerage belongs to her by Descent from the Birknies, who had Summons to Parliament in the Time of Henry III. and the Earl of Rosebery has a Warrant in the due Form, from the Lyon-Office of England, allowing and authorizing him in his Lady's Right, to carry the Arms of Birking, Everingham, Normanville and Cressy.
, by whom he had
James
Lord
Dalmeny, Richard Primerose
Esq
John Primerose
Esq
likewise Four Daughters,
Lady
Mary,
Lady
Margaret,
Lady
Dorothea,
Lady
Elizabeth.
ARMS.
Or,
Three Primeroses within a double Tressure, flower'd und counter-flower'd
Gules.
Supporters, Two Lyons
Vert.
Crest, a Demi-Lyon Rampant,
Gules,
holding in his Dexter Paw a Primerose
Gules.
Motto,
Fide & fiducia.
ROSS, Earl of
Ross.
IN the Reign of King
Alexander
II.
Ferquhard
was first Earl of
Ross.
He left a Son
William,
who was his Successor in the Honour
Boethius.
. He was the Father of another Earl of the Name of
William,
who made a very great Figure in the Competition betwixt the
Bruce
and the
Baliol
for the Crown. He married
Matilda,
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Carrick,
by whom he had
Hugh
his Successor, who was kill'd at the Battle of
Hallydownhill
in the 1333, leaving
William
his Heir,
Hugh Ross
of
R
riches,
of whom the
Rosses
of
Balnagown
descended
Charta penes Dominum Saltoun.
; and Two Daughters,
Eupham
married to
John Randolph
Earl of
Murray,
and afterward to King
Robert
II. and
Janet
first to
Monimusk
of
Monimusk,
and again to Sir
Alexander Murray
of
Abercairny
Charta penes Dominum Abercairny.
.
Which
William
dying without Male Issue, left Two Daughters his Heirs,
Eupham
Countess of
Ross,
and
Jean,
Wife of Sir
Alexander Fraser
of
Philorth
Charta penes Dominum Saltoun.
.
Eupham
Countess of
Ross,
married first Sir
Walter Lesly,
who in her Right was call'd Lord of
Ross,
and had Issue by him, Sir
Alexander Lesly
her Son and H
ir, who upon the Death of his Mother, was Earl of
Ross,
and a Daughter
Eupham
married to
Donald
Lord of the Isles. The Countess, after the Death of Sir
Walter Lesly
married again
Alexander
Earl of
Buchan,
Son to King
Robert
II. but by her he had no Issue.
To
Eupham
Countess of
Ross
succeeded Sir
Alexander Lesly
her Son
Charta penes me.
, who married
Eupham,
Daughter of
Robert
Duke of
Albany,
by whom he had no other Child but a Daughter
Eupham,
who being deformed, did render herself religious; and by the Influence of her Grandfather the old Duke, resign'd the Ea
ldom of
Ross
in Favours of his Son, her Uncle,
John
Earl of
Buchan,
who thereupon used the Title of Earl of
Ross,
but
Donald
Lord of the Isles quarrelling the Destination of the religious Countess, as being done in Prejudice of his Wife, who was her lawful Heir, and the Duke of
Albany
and his Son the Earl of
Buchan
intending to keep what they had got, the Battle of
Harlaw
ensued thereupon. Yet I think that hot Dispute did not determine the Quarrel, but upon the Restauration of King
James
I.
Alexander
Lord of the Isles got the Earldom of
Ross,
which he enjoyed all his Time, as his Son
John
did also, till the 1476, by his Forfaulture for Treason and Rebellion it came to the Crown.
ROSS, Lord
Ross.
THIS noble Family is of
English
Extraction, and descended of the
Rosses
of
Werk,
who came to
Scotland
in the Time of King
Alexander
III. and flowrish'd in the Quality of Barons till the Reign of King
James
IV. that Sir
John Ross
of
Haulkhead,
came to be ranked among the Lords of Parliament. He was slain at
Flowdoun,
leaving Issue by
Christian
Daughter of
Archbald Edmonstoun
of
D
ntreath, Ninian
his Successor, who married first
Janet,
Daughter to the Earl of
Lennox,
and again
Elizabeth
Daughter of
William
Lord
Ruthven,
Dowager-Countess of
Errol,
and had
Robert
Master of
Ross,
who was slain at
Pinky
-Field 1544, leaving a Daughter
Elizabeth
his Heir, married to
John
Lord
Fleming, James
his Father's Successor, who by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Semple,
had
Robert
his Son and Heir, and Sir
William Ross,
Kt. Which
Robert
married
Jean,
Daughter of
Gavin Hamilton
of
Raploch,
and dying in 1596, left Issue by his Wife aforesaid,
James
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Grisel,
married to Sir
Archbald Stirling
of
Keir.
Which
James
married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Walter
Lord
Buccleugh,
by whom he had
James, William,
and
Robert,
all successively Lords; also Three Daughters,
Margaret
married to Sir
George Stirling
of
Keir, Jean
to
John Hepburn
of
Wa
c
toun,
and
Mary
to Sir
Robert Innes
of That-Ilk; and giving Way to Fate in the Month of
December
1633
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, was succeeded by
James
his Son and Heir, who dying a young Man on the 7th of
March
1636
Ibidem.
, was succeeded by
William
his Brother; who likewise dying a Minor in 1640
Ibidem.
,
Robert
his younger Brother came to the Honour; and he dying in 1656
Ibidem.
, was succeeded by
Sir
William Ross
of
M
riestoun,
his Great Uncle, who by
Helen
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Lord
Forrester,
had
George
his Son and Heir, who married first
Grisel,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
D
ndonald,
by whom he had
William
his Successor, and a Daughter
Grisel
married to Sir
Alexander Gilmoir
of
Craigmiller,
and had Issue; and again
Jean,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Dalhousy;
by her he had Lieutenant General
Charles Ross
of
Balnagown,
and a Daughter
Jean,
married to
William
Earl of
Dalhousy.
And departing this Life in the 1682, was succeeded by
William
his Son and Heir, who in the Reign of Queen
Anne
had the Honour to represent her Majesty's Royal Person in the General Assembly of the Church,
Anno
1704. and was also during that Reign one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and one of the Lords of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.
In the 1705, her Majesty was pleased to appoint his Lordship to be one of the Commissioners for the Union between
Scotland
and
England;
for the accomplishing of which he was very zealous, by Reason that the Protestant Succession to the Crown was thereby secured, to which he always shew'd himself a firm and hearty Friend.
After the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, his Lordship was chosen one of the Sixteen Peers for
Scotland,
to his first Parliament call'd by his Majesty, and thereafter appointed Lord Lieutenant of
Renfrew
-Shire, in the 1715.
He married first
Agnes,
Daughter and sole Heir of Sir
John Wilkie
of
Foultoun,
by whom he had
George
Master of
Ross;
likewise Three Daughters,
Eupham
married to
William
Earl of
Kilmarnock, Mary
to
John
Duke of
Athole,
and
Grisel
to Sir
James Lockhart
of
Carstairs,
and has Issue; next, . . . . Daughter of
Philip
Lord
Wharton,
by whom he had no Issue, and after that
Anne,
Daughter of
John
Marquis of
Tweedale,
by whom he has one Daughter
Anne.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Or,
a Chiveron Checkie,
Sable
and
Argent,
betwixt Three Water Budgets
Or,
2d and 3d
Gules,
Three Crescents within a Border
Argent,
charged with Eight Roses of the Field
This Coat of Melvil of Melvil, the Family of Ross carry quartered with their own, by Reason that one of their Ancestors married with the Heir Female of that ancient Family; but not having seen any of the Lord Ross's Writs, I could not assign the precise Time when they got the Addition of that Barony to their Estate.
. Supporters, Two Haulks. Crest, a Haulk's Head erazed, all proper. Motto,
Think on.
LESLY, Earl of
Rothes.
IN regard I had not an Opportunity of doing the Justice to this noble Family, by perusing their Writings, as I could have wished, it cannot be reasonably expected, but that my Memoirs of the House of
Rothes
should be less connected than others, whose Line and Descent I deduced from the Writings of their own Families; for, tho' one Mr.
Lesly
has set out a Book in
Germany,
of the Name of
Lesly,
he calls
Laurus Leslaeana,
yet in his Accounts of the Families he treats of except
Balquhain,
whose Writs it would appear he had seen and perused the rest, especially
Rothes,
is such a Mass of confused unchronological Stuff, that no Man now a Days, will venture to cite him for an Authority, if he think he himself is to be believed; and therefore I shall proceed to mention such Writs and Charters, without Respect to the
Laurus Leslaeana,
I either observed from our national Archives or otherwise, as are proper to illustrate the Honour and Antiquity of this most noble Family.
'Tis certain that the first Possessions of this illustrious Family was in
Aberdeen
-Shire, the Barony of
Lesly
in the
Garrioch;
and from whence, without all doubt, the Sirname has been assumed; for in the Reign of
William the Lyon, David
Earl of
Huntingtoun
and
Garrioch,
the King's Brother, made a Grant, Malcolmo
silio
Bartholf,
de terris suis de
Leslyn,
sicut perambulatae fuerunt ei coram
A.
Episcopo
Aberdeen,
per probis hominibus suis, &
Hachengart,
&
Mailiae,
per rectas divisas suas
Copy of a Charter in the Custody of the Laird of Lesly, which seems to have been taken very exactly from the Original, which was procured me by Sir Samuel Forbes of Foveran: This first is in the Reign of King William.
. This
Malcolm
left a Son
Norman, filius Malcolmi
Ibidem.
, who obtained a Charter from
John
Earl of
Huntingtoun, de terris de
Leslyn,
sicut Charta Patris sui inde testatur.
The Family of
Rothes
took Beginning in the Reign of King
Robert
I. Sir
Andrew Lesly
Kt. Son of Sir
Norman Lesly,
then obtaining the Baronies of
Rothes, Banbrech,
and others, by the Marriage of
Mary,
one of the Three Daughters and Co-Heirs of Sir
Alexander Abernethy
Copy of a Charter I saw in Mr. Lesly's Hands, from the Earl of Rothes's Charter-Chest, which makes th
clear; and there are several other concurring Writs in the Duke of Douglass's Hands, fully clearing this Marriage.
. He is one of the Barons in the Letter to the Pope
Anno
1320, wherein the Independency of
Scotland
is very fully asserted and vindicated, which is all I have found memorable of him. A Successor of Sir
Andrew
was another Sir
Andrew Lesly,
who in the First of King
Robert
III. 1390, resign'd in the Sovereign's Hands, the Lands and Barony of
Banbrech
in
Fife,
the Lands of
Lour
and
Dulopy
in
Forfar,
the Lands and Barony of
Rothey-Norman,
and
C
cychne,
in
Aberdeen
-Shire, reserving the Liferent of the whole to
Andrew de Lesly
his Father
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, but he dying without Issue Male of his Body, was succeeded by
Sir
George Lesly,
Kt. his Heir of Entail
Copy of a Charter furnished me by Mr. James Lesly, Sheriff-Clerk of Cowpar, which he took the Note of from the Earl of Rothes's Charter-Chist.
, who first assumed the Title of
Rothes
Ibid.
. He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of Sir
Thomas Hay,
Lord of
Errol
Ibid.
, by whom he had
Norman
his Heir, who in the 1423, was one of the Barons sent to
England,
to attend King
James
home, when he was relieved out of his Captivity from
England
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
; and dying
Anno
1539, left Issue by
Christian de Seton
his Wife,
Sir
George Lesly
his Son and Heir, who was by King
James
II. in 1449, rais'd to the Dignity of Earl of
Rothes.
He married
Christian,
Daughter of Sir
Walter Hallyburton
Lord of
Dirletoun
Charta penes Comitem de Rothes.
. By her he had
Andrew
Master of
Rothes,
who in the Lifetime of his Father married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
William
Earl of
Orkney
and
Caithness
Ibidem.
, and left Three Sons,
John
who left no Issue,
George
who was his Grandfather's Successor; but he dying likewise without any Issue Male, the Honour fell to his younger Brother
William,
who was slain at
Pinky,
leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Michael Balfour
of
Montquhany, George
his Successor, and
John Lesly
of
Parkhill.
Which
George
being a Nobleman of great Wisdom and Prudence, was much esteemed by King
James
V. who carried him over to
France
in the 1537, when his Majesty was espoused to
Magdalen
a Daughter of that Crown: After whose Death, during the Regency of the Duke of
Chattlerault,
he was sent Ambassador to
Denmark,
in which Negociation he behav'd himself with great Prudence and Dexterity; and being look'd on generally throughout the Kingdom as a very wise Man, he was named one of the Commissioners to go to
France,
to the Queen's Marriage with the Dauphine, where he died at
Deip,
on the 9th of
November
1558, not without Suspicion of being poisoned.
I'm heartily sorry, there are not such Documents in my Hands as should fully enable me to set the Marriages of this noble Earl in a true Light. Mr.
Lesly
gives the Preference to Lady
Margaret Crichton,
as the Earl's first Lawful Wife, tho' I think his Authority is little to be valued; for 'tis clear from a Charter of
George
Earl of
Rothes
in the 1528, wherein he gives both
Nicolas Somervel
and
Margaret Crichton
a Liferent out of the same Lands; Mrs.
Somervel
is expresly call'd his Wife, and is first mentioned before the other Lady, who is no otherwise designed than by her Name, tho' she was of much greater Quality of Birth than the other: Yet 'tis also clear by another Charter, in the 1542, That Lady
Margaret Crichton
is designed,
Countess of Rothes
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1542.
, and then is certainly his lawful Wife. For the clearing this Matter, I shall humbly offer my Opinion about it, from such Writs, as I have seen relative to it. The Case I take to have been this, The Earl of
Rothes
in the Heat of Youth, and without a Dispensation, according to the Rites of the Chuch, for the Earl and the Lady were within the forbidden Degrees, did uncanonically marry Lady
Mary Crichton,
the Lord
Crichton
's Daughter, which then in the Construction of the Law, could not be valid without a Dispensation, or the Children considered as begot in lawful Marriage, tho' certainly the Earl thought otherwise himself; for when
Norman
his Son by her, was a very young Man, he put him in Fie of his Estate, and in all the Transactions afterwards about it, upon his Forfaulture, he's never designed the Earl's natural Son, but only his Son simply, and Fiar of the Earldom of
Rothes,
And probably the Earl and the Lady disagreeing, they chose to live separate, or she left him, and he married again, as was commonly done in that Time,
Nicholas Somervel,
Daughter of Sir
John Somervel
of
Camnethan,
and Widow of
John
Lord
Fleming,
by whom he had
Andrew
his Father's Successor in the Estate and Honour; and the Lady dying soon thereafter, the Earl was again reconciled to Lady
Margaret Chrichton,
and legally married her, otherwise she could not have been, as I observed, she was, designed Countess of
Rothes;
and in this State of lawful Marriage, she bare the Earl a Son,
Robert Lesly,
the Founder of the House of
Findrassy;
and from his being Brother to
Norman
the Master of
Rothes,
both of the same Father and Mother, has the Mistake proceeded, and the Story been patch'd up of his being, as he is call'd, the
righteous Rothes;
for 'tis plain, that
Norman
being forfaulted for the Murder of Cardinal
Beaton,
his Father the Earl redeemed his own Estate again in the Terms he had made it over to him, and so could not but in Justice settle it upon his Son
Andrew,
who being indisputeably born in lawful Marriage, was preferable to
Robert,
who was not born of
Margaret Crichton,
till very long after the Death of Dame
Nicholas Somervel;
for 'tis plain at first the Earl had no other Son by
Margaret Crichton,
but the aforesaid
Norman
Master of
Rothes.
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes
so succeeding, his Father, was very faithful to Queen
Mary,
throughout her whole unfortunate Life, and was highly honoured by King
James
as a Nobleman of great Honour and Probity. He married first
Jean,
Daughter of Sir
James Hamilton
of
Evandale,
by whom he had
James
Master of
Rothes,
and
Andrew
Lord
Lindores;
likewise Three Daughters, 1
Margaret,
married to
Archbald
Earl of
Angus,
2
Eupham,
to
James
Lord
Lindsay,
3
Elizabeth
to
David Weems.
Younger of That-Ilk, and again to
James
first Earl of
Findlater.
He married again
Jean,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Ruthven;
and after that
Margaret
Daughter of
Durrie
of That-Ilk, and had
Margaret
married to Sir
William Cunninghame
of
Capringtoun, Mary
to
Robert
Lord
Melvil,
and
Isobel
to
James
Master of
Sinclair,
James
Master of
Rothes
in the Lifetime of his Father, married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Lindsay,
by whom he had Four Daughters,
Margaret
married to Mr.
John Murray
Minister of
Dunfermling,
a Brother of the Family of
Abercairny.
Isobel
to . . . . . . . of
Newhall.
Anne
to
Alexander Wardlaw
of
Torrie.
Grisel
to
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling.
His Second Wife was
Catharine,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Drummond,
by whom he had a Son
John,
who succeeded his Grandfather, and a Daughter
Jean,
married to
Alexander Menzies
of
Weem.
Which
John
being a Nobleman of very good Parts, and great Address, was one of those Peers who were most forward and leading for the R
dress of Grievances, when the Troubles first broke out in 1637; and the Earl being the Person of the greatest Parts, Interest, and Experience, in all the Popular Party, it cannot be denied, but he came to be generally look'd on as the Principal and governing Person of the Nation at that Time; and after the Treaty of
Rippon,
at which he was the first Commissioner, when the Pacification was concluded, his Majesty resolved and actually did adjust all his Business with that Party by the Earl, who undertook that
Scotland
should rest satisfied with the Concessions which were in the Treaty; and his Majesty was well satisfied, says my Author
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
,
'with the Promises made to him by the Earl':
And 'tis certain the King expected by his Help and Interest, to have found such a Party in
Scotland,
as would, he adds,
'have been more tender of his Honour, than they after expressed themselves; and did alwise impute the Failing thereof to the Absence of the Earl, who falling sick, at the King's coming down to
Scotland,
within Six Weeks thereafter, died at
London,
in
August
1641',
which his Majesty thought an irreparable Loss to his Service.
He married
Anne,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, and Two Daughters,
Margaret
married first to
Alexander
Lord
Balgony,
next to
Francis
Earl of
Buccleugh,
and last of all to
David
Earl of
Weems;
and
Christian
to
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun.
John
Earl of
Rothes
was too young to have been concern'd in the War when it first broke out in the Time of King
Charles
I. but when the Parliament 1651, rais'd an Army for the Service of King
Charles
II. for the Recovery of
England,
the Earl being then of Age, put himself into the Army, and attended the King thither. Upon the Defeat at
Worcester,
he had the Misfortune to fall into the Enemies Hand, who committed him to Prison, where he remained till the King's Restauration, that his Majesty King
Charles
II. to reward his Merit and Sufferings, was pleased to make him Lord President of the Council, and thereafter General of the Forces in
Scotland;
he had the Honour also to represent his Majesty's Person, as Lord High Commissioner to the Session of Parliament 1663; and the same Year was constituted Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland,
upon the Resignation of the Earl of
Crawfurd;
and the Chancellor's Place falling void by the Death of the Earl of
Glen
airn,
in
July
1664, the Lord Treasurer was not long after prefer'd thereto; and having discharged this and all the other great Offices committed to him, to his Majesty's great Satisfaction, he was graciously pleas'd, in Consideration of all the Lord Chancellor's eminent Services, to create him Duke of
Rothes,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever, the 29th
June
1680; but his Grace did not long survive his Promotion, for he died in
July
1681, the Dignity of Duke by his Death did extinguish with himself, by Reason of his Want of Heirs Male.
He married
Anne,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Crawfurd,
by whom he had
Margaret
Countess of
Rothes,
and
Christian
married to
James
Marquis of
Montrose,
and again to Sir
John Bruce
of
Kinross,
Bart.
Margaret
Countess of
Rothes,
a Lady of incomparable Piety and Goodness, was married to
Charles
Earl of
Haddingtoun,
by whom he had Issue
John
Earl of
Rothes,
and
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun;
and departing this Life 20th of
August
1700, was succeeded by
John
the present Earl of
Rothes
her Son and Heir, who, upon his coming into the Measures of the Court, was by her Majesty Queen
Anne,
prefer'd to be Lord Privy Seal in the 1704; but upon a Change in the Ministry, the Year thereafter, he was removed, and the Duke of
Queensberry
made Lord Privy Seal; from henceforth his Lordship was alwise a firm Friend to the Protestant Succession, and when it came to take Place upon the Demise of Queen
Anne,
his Majesty King
George
was pleased to make the Earl Vice-Admiral of
Scotland,
in Place of the Earl of
Weems,
and Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Fife,
in 1715, when the Militia were first model'd under the Lieutenants.
He married
Jean,
Daughter of
John
Marquis of
Tweedale,
by whom he has
John
Lord
Lesly, Charles, Thomas, James, William, Andrew,
Lady
Jean,
and Lady
Margaret.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th Or, on a Bend
Azure,
Three Buckles of the first. 2d and 3d
Or,
a Lyon Rampant
Gules,
surmounted of a Bend
Sable.
Supporters, Two Griffins. Crest, a Demi-Griffin all
Gules.
Motto,
Grip Fast.
Dukes of
Rothsay.
DAVID
Prince of
Scotland,
eldest Son of King
Robert
III. was the first dignified by his Father with this Title in the 1399. He was a young Prince of great Courage, and of a Spirit that desir'd to be in Action, yet it was his Misfortune to indulge himself in Pleasures of all Kinds, in too exorbitant a Proportion; and Complaints being daily carried to his Father of his Excesses, the good old King, with a View to reclaim his Son, gave Orders to put him under Arrest: And the ambitious Governor his Uncle, laying hold of this Opportunity of cutting off all that stood in his Way to the Crown, did, in Pursuance of these Orders, first arrest the Prince, and then confined him a close Prisoner in the Castle of
Faulkland,
where, by his Uncle's Command, if we may believe our Historians, he was starved to Death,
Anno
1401: Since which Time the Prince and Stewart of
Scotland,
the King's eldest Son is born Duke of
Rothsay,
Earl of
Carrick,
and Lord of
Renfrew.
KER, Duke of
Roxburgh.
THE first of this noble Family who was advanced to the Peerage of this Realm, was Sir
Robert Ker
of
Cesfoord,
Son and Heir of
William Ker
of
Cesford,
by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of
James Douglas
of
Drumlanrig,
who being from his Youth much liked and favour'd by King
James
VI. was promoted by him, first to be a Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, and had the Honour of Knighthood confer'd on him at the Coronation of Queen
Anne
of
Denmark, Anno
1590.
Sir
Robert Ker
was one of those Barons, who by his Majest's Appointment accompanied him into
England,
at his first Entrance into that Realm,
Anno
1603, when he was honoured with the Title of Lord
Ker
of
Cesford,
and the next ensuing Year appointed one of the Commissioners for the Treaty of Union which was then s
on Foot betwixt the Two Nations: A
in 1605, he had a Grant of the
solved Abbacy of
K
,
which was then in the Crown, by the Forfaultu
e of
Earl of
Bothwell
Charta in Pub. Arch.
; and continuing in great Favour and Esteem with King
James,
he was by his said Majesty further honoured with the Title of Earl of
Roxburgh,
19th
September
1616. This noble Earl was likewise very much in the good Graces of King
Charles
I. by whom he was promoted to be Lord Privy Seal,
Anno
1637, then void by the Demise of
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtoun,
which Office he held for the Space of Twelve Years, till the 1649. He died in
January
1650
Ibidem.
.
He married first
Mary,
Daughter of Sir
William Maitland
of
Lethingtoun,
by whom he had Three Daughters.
Jean
married to
John
Earl of
Perth.
Isobel
to
James
Viscount of
Duddop.
Mary
to
James Halliburton
of
Pitcur,
and thereafter to
James
Earl of
S
uthesk.
His second Wife was
Jean,
Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Drummond,
by whom he had
Henry
Lord
Ker,
who died before his Father in 1643, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Errol,
Three Daughters,
Jean
her Grandfather's Heir both of his Estate and Honour,
Anne
married to
John
Earl of
Wigtoun,
and
Margaret
to Sir
Henry Innes
of That-Ilk.
Jean
Countess of
Roxburgh,
by the Destination and Appointment of the old Earl, her Grandfather, did marry Sir
William Drummond,
the Earl of
Perth
's Son, her own Cousin-German, who thereupon by the Conveyance of the Honour, was Earl of
Roxburgh.
He died in the 1675
Ibidem.
, leaving Issue by the Countess his Wife aforesaid,
Robert
his Son and Heir,
John
Lord
Ballenden,
and a Daughter
Jean,
married to
Colin
Earl of
Balcarras.
Which
Robert
was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
Charles
the Second. He was cast away aboard the
Glocester
Frigate, waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of
York
by Sea from
London
to
Scotland,
7th
May
1682, leaving Issue by
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Marquis of
Tweedale,
Three Sons,
Robert
his Father's Successor, who died in his Travels abroad, on the 13th of
July
1696
Ibidem.
,
John
the present Duke of
Roxburgh,
and Colonel
William Ker.
Which
John
being a young Nobleman of very great Parts and Learning, was by her Majesty Queen
Anne
promoted to be one of the Principal Secretaries of State in the 1704: And further, immediately before the Commencement of the Union of the two Nations, of which his Lordship had been a most hearty Promoter, he was rais'd to the Honour of Duke of
Roxburgh,
by Letters Patent, bearing Date 27th
April
1707. His Grace having been alwise a most sincere Friend to the Protestant Succession in the House of
Hannover;
his Electoral Highness the Duke of
Brunswick,
now his Majesty King
George,
reposed so much Confidence in his Grace's Affection and Fidelity to his Interest, that he named him one of the Lords of the Regency, which was the greatest Honour his illustrious Highness could do the Duke, till he should come to the Crown of
Great Britain.
His Grace married the Lady
Mary Finch,
Daughter of
Daniel
Earl of
Nottingham,
Widow of
William
Marquis of
Halifax,
by whom he has
Robert
Marquis of
Cesford.
ARMS.
Quarterly first,
Vert.
on a Chiveron betwixt Three Unicorn's Heads erazed
Argent,
Three Mollets
Sable.
2d and 3d
Gules,
Three Mascles,
Or.
Supporters Two Savages wreath'd about the Head and Loins, with Battons. Crest, an Unicorn's Head erazed,
Argent.
Motto,
Pro Christo & Patria dulce periculum.
HAMILTON, Earl of
Ruglen.
THE first who was honoured with this Title, was Lord
John Hamilton,
Third Son of
William
and
Anne,
Duke and Dutchess of
Hamilton,
whom King
William
created Earl of
Ruglen,
15th of
April
1697.
He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Cassils,
by whom he had Issue, a Son and Two Daughters,
William
Lord
Riccartoun.
Lady
Anne.
Lady
Susanna.
He married next the Lady
Kennedy,
the Relict of the Lord
Kennedy,
by whom he has no Issue.
ARMS.
The quartered Coats of the Family of
Hamilton,
and in Surtout, the Paternal Arms of
Douglas.
Supporters, Crest, and Motto the same as the Duke of
Hamilton.
RUTHERFOORD, Lord
Rutherfoord.
THIS Family is very ancient in the County of
Roxburgh,
where they have long continued in great Reputation, and pr
duc'd Men of great Courage, and very signal in their Fidelity to, and Service of the Crown. Sir
Robert de Rutherfoord
in the
English
War, in the Time of King
Edward
I. appeared eminently in the Interest of his Country, insomuch as his Memory ought to be preserved and honoured to Posterity.
Richard Rutherfoord,
Lord of That-Ilk, made a very bright Figure in the Reign of King
Robert
III
Charta in Rotulis Roberti III.
, and
James Rutherfoord
of
Rutherfoord
was frequently imployed by King
James
II. in managing and concluding Treaties with
England,
as an Ambassador, and in particular was one of those who concluded the Treaty with that Crown,
Anno
1457. By
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . . .
Erskine
of . . . . . . .
Ibidem.
, he had
Richard,
who died before himself,
Thomas,
with whom the Barony of
Edzerstoun
remained as the Heir Male of the
Rutherfoords,
and
Robert;
and dying
Anno
1492, was succeeded by
Richard
his Grandson and Heir
Ibidem.
, who dying soon thereafter, without any Issue of his Body, his Two Sisters became Heirs to him;
Helen
the eld
r married to Sir
John F
reman
of
Davene,
Kt. and after his Death to
Andrew Rutherfoord
of
Hunthill,
and
Catharine
to
James St
wart
of
Traquair
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Of the Family of
Rutherfoord
the House of
Hunthill
was a Branch, as early as the Time of King
James
I.
Charta penes Dominum Rutherfoord.
, of whom again by a younger Brother, did
Andrew Ratherfoord
descend, who first laid the Foundation of this Honour.
He was the Son of
William Rutherfoord
of
Qu
relh
les,
by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of
James Stewart
of
Traquair,
who being a younger Son, he enter'd early into the Life and Condition of a Soldier, in the
French
Service, where he had the Reputation of a very good Officer, when he was yet in no higher Quality of Command than of a Captain of Foot: But having alwise behaved himself with great Courage and Vigilance, he was rais'd to the Degree of a Lieutenant General. He serv'd in that Army with singular Reputation for Courage and Conduct till the Conclusion of the Peace betwixt the Two Crowns in 1659. Upon the Restauration of King
Charles
II. General
Rutherfoord
came over to
England,
with a very fair Reputation, and a very good Testimony from the
French
King; whereupon his Majesty, to countenance his Merit, was pleased to create him a Peer of
Scotland,
by the Title of Lord
Rutherfoord, January
19th. 1661
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, but having no Issue of his Body, the Honour was to his Heirs or Assignies, or whomever he should name in the very Article of his Death. Soon after which the, Lord
Rutherfoord
was made Governor of
Dunkirk,
and he managed that Trust so much to the Satisfaction of the
British
Court, especially in the Sale of that important Place to the
French,
which he transacted, that upon his coming over to
England,
his Majesty, to express the due Sense of his Merit, and of his acceptable Services, did raise him to the Honour of Earl of
Teviot,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body, by Letters Patent, the 2d of
February
1663
Ibidem.
, and shortly thereafter plac'd him in the Government of
Tangier;
but the General enjoy'd that Command very little Time, for within a few Months or thereabout, after his Arrival there, making a sharp and bold Sally upon the
Moors,
he and most of his Party were unfortunately cut off on the 3d of
May
1664
English Annals by George Muretoun 1678.
, the Title of Lord
Rutherfoord
by his Latter-Will did devolve to Sir
Thomas Rutherfoord
of
Hunthill,
who dying without Issue on the 14th of
April
1668
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, was succeeded in the Honour of Lord
Rutherfoord,
by
Archbald
his Brother, who likewise dying without any Issue of his Body,
March
16th 1685
Ibidem.
, the Peerage fell to his Brother
Robert
now Lord
Rutherfoord;
who neither having any Issue, has made over his Estate and Title to
Thomas Rutherfoord
of That-Ilk, his Cousin, Brother and Heir apparent to
Andrew Rutherfoord
of
Edzerstoun,
reserving the Honour and such a Provision for himself, as supports him according to his Quality, during his Life.
RUTHVEN, Lord
Ruthven.
SIR
Thomas Ruthven
of
Freeland,
was created Lord
Ruthven
by King
Charles
the Second, in the 1651. And departing this Life 6th
May
1674, left Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Burleigh, David
his Son and Heir, who died unmarried in the 1704, and thereby the Honour became extinct; likewise Three Daughters,
1
Anne
married to Sir
William Cunninghame
of
Cunninghame-Head,
and has Issue; again to
William Cunninghame
of
Craigends,
but had no Issue.
2
Isobel
to Sir
Francis Ruthven
of
Redcastle,
and had Issue.
3
Jean,
who was never married.
ABERNETHY, Lord
Saltoun.
FROM the Family of
Abernethy
of
Abernethy
in
Fife,
did the
Abernethies
of
Saltoun
fetch their Origine.
William de Abernethy
their Ancestor, obtained the Lands of
Rothiemay
in the Time of King
David
II. for his good Services to the Crown. They were very early ranked among the Peers, & in that Quality flowrish'd in the Male Line, till the 1669, that
Alexander
Lord
Abernethy
of
Saltoun,
then dying without Issue, the Honour devolved to his Nephew by his Sister, Sir
Alexander Fraser
of
Philorth.
FRASER, Lord
Saltoun.
THE Paternal Ancestor of this noble Family, was Sir
Alexander Fraser,
Kt. who in the Reign of King
Robert
II. obtain'd the Lands and Barony of
Philorth
by the Marriage of
Jean,
second Daughter and Co-Heir of
William
Earl of
Ross
Charta penes Dominum Saltoun.
, and from him did lineally descend Sir
Alexander Fraser
of
Philorth,
who became Lord
Saltoun
on the Death of his Uncle aforesaid. He married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of . . . . .
Seaton
of
Meldrum,
by whom he had
Alezander
his Son and Heir apparent, who died before himself, leaving Issue by
Anne
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Lothian,
a Son
William,
who succeeded his Grandfather in the Honour, and married
Margaret,
Daughter of Dr.
James Sharp,
Arch-bishop of St.
Andrew
's, by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor,
William Fraser
Advocate,
James Fraser
Esq
likewise Three Daughters,
Helen
married to Sir
James Gordon
of
Park, Mary
and
Isobel,
and departing this Life the 18th of
March
1715, was succeeeded by
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who married
Mary;
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Aberdeen,
by whom he has Issue.
William
Master of
Saltoun.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Azure,
Three Frazes
Argent.
2d,
Gules,
a Lyon rampant
Argent,
3d
Argent,
Three Pyles
Gules.
Supporters, Two Cherubims proper: Crest, an Ostrich holding in her Beck a Horse Shoe, Motto,
In God is All.
MACKENZIE, Earl of
Seaforth.
AMong the many brave
Scots
-Men who signaliz'd themselves for the Service of their Country at the Battle of the
Largs,
in 1263, there was a Gentleman, a Foreigner, one
Colin
Fitz Gerald,
Son to the Earl of
Kildare
or
Desmond,
of the Kingdom of
Ireland,
whose Courage and Valour on that Occasion was so singularly remarkable, that King
Alexander
took him into his special Protection, and was afterward pleas'd to bestow upon him the Lands of
Kintail
in
Ross
-Shire,
pro bono & fideli servitio, tam in Bello quam in Pace;
and to be held by him
in liberam b
roniam,
as the original Charter bears, dated from
Kincardine,
9th of
January
1266
Original Charter of the Lands of Kintail, by King Alexander III. to this Colino Hybernio, is in the Hands of the Earl of Seaforth, and was kindly communicated to me by that noble Lord and excellent Antiquary the Earl of Cromarty, who wrote an Essay on his own Name and Family of the Mackenzies, which is in many Hands in M.S. The most exact Copy I have seen of these Memo
s, is in the Custody of Mr. John Mackenzie of Delvin, who very civily gave me the Perusal of
and allowed me to take Notes from it.
. From
Kenneth,
the Son of the first
Colin,
his Descendants are call'd
Mackenneths
by the Highlanders, and English'd
Mackenzie.
This last
Kenneth
was succeeded by a Son of the same Name, and he by
Murdo,
who is design'd
Filius Kennethi,
in a Grant which he had from King
David
II. of his Lands of
Kintail,
in the Year 1360.
Alexander Mackenzie
of
Kintail
his Heir and Successor in Descent in the Reign of King
James
III. was look'd on as a wise and prudent Man. It was to his Conduct and Courage the reducing of that formidable Rebel
John
Earl of
Ross,
was in a great Part owing: For which acceptable Service he had a Grant from the Crown of the Lands of
Strachonnan, Str
g
rvie,
and several other of the Earl's Lands, by a Charter under the Great Seal, 7th
September
1477
Ibidem.
. By
Agnes
his Wife, a Lady of the
Mackdougals,
he had
Kenneth
his Successor, and Two younger Sons,
Duncan
and
Hector;
of the first did the
Mackenzies
of
Logie
and
Hilton
descend, and of the other sprang the Branch of the
Mackenzies
of
Garloch,
all in the County of
Ross.
Which
Kenneth
was slain at the Battle of
Flowdoun
with King
James
IV. the 9th of
September
1513, leaving Issue by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
Hugh
Lord
Lovat, John
his Heir,
Alexander,
of whom came the Branch of
Davachmulnack, Roderick,
the Root of the
Mackenzies
of
Achilty,
and their Descendants, and
Kenneth,
of whom issued the Families of
Suddy, Ord,
and
Inveral
ll
Ibidem.
, likewise a Daughter
Agnes,
married to
Roderick Mackleod
of the
Lewis.
John Mackenzie
the next Baron of
Kintail,
was, for his great Wisdom and Knowledge, taken by King
James
V. into the Number of his Privy-Council, and much favour'd and esteem'd by him. He married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of . . . .
Stewart
Charta in Rotulis Mar
ae Reginae, ad Annum 1543.
of . . . . . . and had
Kenneth
his Successor, who married
Elisabeth,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Athole.
By her he had
Colin
his Son and Heir, and
Roderick,
who was the Author of the
Mackenzies
of
Reidcastle
and
Kincraig;
likewise sundry Daughters,
Janet
married to
Alexander Mackdonald
of
Glengary,
and again to
Alexander Chisolm
of
Comer
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1577.
,
Agnes
to
Lauchlan Mackintosh
of
Dunachtane
Ibidem.
, . . . . to
David Ross
of
Balnagown, Elisabeth
to
Walter Urquhart
of
Cromarty
Ibidem.
, and had Issue, and . . . . . to . . . . .
Innes
of
Innerbaackie,
and departing this Life the 6th of
June
1568, was succeeded by
Colin
his Son, who in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
after the Troubles broke out, adhered firmly to that unfortunate Princess, was on her Behalf at the Battle of
Langside,
for which he was obliged to take a Remission from the Regent; but upon King
James
's accepting the Government on himself, he chose this Gentleman to be of his Privy Council, and committed the quelling of several Insurrections in the
Highlands
to him, which he performed with Courage, Dexterity, and Success. He married first
Barbara,
Daughter of
John Grant
of That-Ilk
Earl of Cromarty's Essay on the Family of Seaforth.
, by whom he had
Kenneth,
thereafter Lord
Kintail,
Sir
Roderick Mackenzie
of
Ta
bat,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Cromarty,
and
Clin,
of whom the Branch of
Kin
ock
Ibidem.
; also Three Daughters, 1
M
rgaret
married to
Sinn
Lord
L
vat.
2 . . . . . to
Lauchlan Maclean
of
Dowart,
3 . . . . . . to Sir
Donald Mackdonald
of
Slate,
but had no Issue. His second Wife was
Mary,
Daughter of . . . . .
Mackenzie
of
Davachmulanack:
By her he had a Son
Alexander,
of whom the
Mackenzies
of
Applecross, Cowl,
and
Assint
are descended
Ibidem.
, and departing this Life the 14th
June
1594
Charta in Cancel. S
. N. R.
, was succeeded by
Kenneth
his Son, who being a Person of great Spi
it and Courage, and of a fair Fortune, his Majesty King
James
VI. was pleased to raise him to the Honour of Peerage by the Title of Lord
Mackenzie
of
Kintail,
on the 19th of
November
1609 and giving Way to Fa
e in
March
1611
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Anne
his first Wife, Daughter of
George Ross
of
Balnagown, Colin
his Successor; also Two Daughters,
Barb
ra
married to
Donald
Lord
Rae,
and
Janet
to Sir
Donald Mackdonald
of
Slate.
Bart. and had Issue; also by
Isobel
his second Wife, Daughter of
Gilbert Ogilvie
of
Powrie,
he had
George
thereafter Earl of
Seaforth, Thomas Mackenzie
of
Pl
scarty, Simon Mackenzie
of
Lochslin,
the Father of Sir
George Mackenzie
of
Rose
augh;
and a Daughter
Sibilla,
married to
John M
Leod
of That Ilk.
Which
Kenneth
being a Nobleman of great Parts and signal Loyalty, was by the special Favour of King
James
VI. honoured with the Title of Earl of
Seaforth,
by Letters Pa
ent, bearing Date the 3d of
December
1623
Ibidem.
. He married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling,
by whom he had only Two Daughters,
Jean,
married first to
John
Lord
Berindale,
and after to
Alexander
Lord
Duffus;
and
Anne
to
Alexander
Earl of
Balcarras,
and again to
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle;
and dying on the 15th of
April
1633
Ibidem.
,
George
his Brother of the Half-Blood succeeded him in his Estate and Honour. This noble Earl, for his fi
m Adherence to King
Charles
I. had his Estate sequstrated, and himself excommunicated, and forced to leave the Kingdom. A
ter the Murder of the King, he repaired to his Majesty King
Charles
II. while he sojourned in
Holland,
who received him graciously, and made him Principal Secretary of State for
Scotland;
in which honourable, tho' not at that
ime very profitable Employment. He died
Anno
1651
Memoirs of the Family of Seaforth, in the Dedication to the Lord Seaforth, by Dr. George Mackenzie, in his first Volume of his Biography, who. I'm hopeful will ob
ige the Nation, by writing at large the Memoirs of this noble Family, o
which he has the Honour to derive his Descent, and which I know the Dr. is so well supp
y
d with M
terials for, and for that very Reason I have been the le
s particular in my Account of this noble Family, than perhaps I might have been, presuming that that more exact Work of his wil
due Time be communicated to the World.
. He married
Barbara,
Daughter of
Arthur
Lord
Forbes,
by whom he had
George
his Son and Heir, Mr.
Colin Mackenzie,
the Father of my excellent Friend the learned Dr.
George Mackenzie,
who hath already obliged the World with Two Volumes of a Biography of his learn'd Countrymen; for whose great Worth and Vertues I have that Esteem which he has from all the Lovers of his Country, and very deservedly.
Kenneth
Earl of
Seaforth
his Son, was very eminent in his L
yalty to King
Charles
II. during the Usurpation; for he was so far from being discouraged by the Sufferings of his Father for the Royal Family, that he did very firmly adhere to, and support the Royal Cause as long as there was any to appear in the Field for it; and when he was obliged to submit to the Powers that then prevailed, he was committed to Prison, where with great Constancy and Firmness of Mind, he endured a long and tedious Imprisonment, till he was relieved by the Restauration of the King.
He married
Isobel,
Daughter of Sir
John Mackenzie
of
Tarbat,
and departing this Life in the Month of
December
1678, left Issue by his Wife aforesaid,
Kenneth
his Successor, Master
John Mackenzie
of
Assint,
and Colonel
Alexander Mackenzie;
likewise Four Daughters,
Lady
Margaret
married to
James
Lord
Duff
s.
Lady
Anne.
Lady
Isobel
to
Roderick Mackleod
of That-Ilk, but had no Issue; and again to Sir
Duncan Campbell
of
Lochenell.
Lady
Mary
to
Alexander Mackdonald
of
Glengary,
and had Issue.
Which
Kenneth
was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
VII. by whom he was chosen one of the Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Thistle,
Anno
1687, which that Prince was then pleased to revive. Upon the Revolution, when his unfortunate Master was forced to retire into
France,
and thence into
Ireland,
the Earl soon followed him thither; at which Time King
James
did create him a Marquis; but that Honour is not allowed here. He married the Lady
Fran
es Herbert,
Daughter of
William
Marquis of
Powis,
of the Kingdom of
England,
by whom he had
Kenneth
his Successor, and a Daughter
Mary
married to . . . . . .
Careyll,
Esq
and dying in
January
1701. was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
Kenneth
his Son, the present Earl; who is married with
Mary,
only Daughter and Heir of
Ni
olas Kennet
of
Coxhow,
Esq
of the County of
Northumberland.
ARMS:
Azure,
a Dear's Head caboss'd
Or.
Supporters, Two Savages with Clubs, burning on the Top. Crest, a Mountain in a Flame. Motto,
Luceo non uro.
DOUGLASS, Earl of
Selkirk.
LORD
William Douglass,
eldest Son of
William
first Marquis of
Douglass,
by his second Wife
Mary,
Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntly,
was by King
Charles
I. by Letters Patent, the 14th of
August
1646, created Earl of
Selkirk;
and thereafter, upon his marrying of
Anne
Dutchess of
Hamilton,
he was created Duke of
Hamilton.
HAMILTON, Earl of
Selkirk.
WILLIAM
Duke of
Hamilton,
having in the Year 1687, resigned the Honour of Earl of
Selkirk,
in the Hands of King
James
VII. his Majesty was pleased to confer it again with the first Precedency on Lord
Charles Hamilton,
his Grace's second Son, who had likewise the Command of his Borther the Earl of
Arran
's Regiment bestowed on him, upon the Earl's getting the Lord of
Oxford
's Regiment; and his Lordship having afterward comply'd, and been as far instrumental in the Revolution, as giving his Voice in the Convention for settling the Crown on the Prince and Princess of
Orange,
the Prince being declared King of
Scotland,
he was pleased so far to reward the Earl's Merit, as to name his Lordship one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-Chamber, as did also his Majesty King
George,
on his Accession to the Crown in 1714.
SEMPLE, Lord
Semple.
THIS noble Family is very ancient in the County of
Renfrew,
where they had great Possessions, and held an Office which made them very considerable there; for when the illustrious Family of the
Stewarts,
long before they came to the Crown, held that County by the Tenure of a Barony, the Ancestors of this ancient Family were their hereditary Bailiffs and Stewarts. The first remarkable Person of this noble Family, at least that has come to my Knowledge, was
Robert de Semple, Seneschal. Baroniae de
Renfrew, who is Witness in a Grant which
James
Lord High Stewart of
Scotland,
Grandfather to King
Robert
II. made
Step
ano filio Nicolaii, de illa terra quae data fuit
Patricio
de
Selvinland,
ubi
quam de
Greif
cadit in aquam de
Clyde
Charta penes Robertum Hall de Fulbar.
. The same
Robert
was one of those heroick Persons, who was alwise firm to the Interest of King
Robert
I. upon whose Accession to the Crown, he had a Grant from that Prince, in Reward of his Merit,
de omnibus Terris, cumpertinen quae fuerunt
Joannis
de
Baliolo,
in tenemento de
Largis
Charta in Rotulis Roberti I.
. He was succeeded by
William
his Son, and he again by Sir
Thomas Semple,
the first I have observed, who was designed
Dominus de
Elliotstoun, who seems to be a Man of Mettle and Spirit, and a great Favourite w
Robert
Stewart of
Scotland,
and Earl of
Strathern,
after King
Robert
II. as appears from many Evidences, and particularly the Frequency of his Witnessing the Earl's Donations to the Monastry of
Paisley
Chartulary o
Pa
y.
. He left a Son
John,
who obtained from
John
Earl of
Carrick,
upon his Father's coming to the Crown, the Lands and Barony of
Glassord,
of which, in the 4th of King
Robert
II.
Anno
1375, he had a Charter of Confirmation, under the Great Seal, whereby the King ratifies
Donationem illam quam Primogenitus noster
Joannes
Comes de
Carrick,
fecit & concessit dilecto & fideli nostro
Joanni Symple,
filio & haeredi D.
Thomae Symple
de Terris de
Glasford,
cum advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem.
By . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . his Wife, he had
John
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Jean,
married to Sir
John Stewart,
Sheriff of
Bute
Charta penes Comitem de Bute
, and had Issue.
Which
John
made a very good Figure under King
Robert
III. and in the Regency that ensued upon his Death, and was particularly employed in transacting the Redemption of King
James
I. and when the Treaty was concluded, he was one of those
who went to wait upon the King
Durham
to present his Duty to his Majesty, and to congratulate his happy Restauration. He was succeeded by his Son
Sir
Robert Semple
of
Elliotstou
,
who received the Honour of Knighthood from King
James
II. He had also from the same Prince a Grant of the Lands of
S
thennen
on his own Resignation
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, in which there is this remarkable Clause,
Quae Terrae fuerunt quondam
Joannis
ae
Baliolo; from which I presume these Lands were given originally by King
Robert the Bruce,
for some very notable and eminent Serv
performed by Sir
Robert Semple
against the
Baliol,
the King's Rival; the Particulars whereof have not come to my Knowledge. This Sir
Robert
was succeeded by his Son,
Sir
William Semple
of
Elliotstoun,
who is the first design'd Sheriff of
Renfrew,
in the Reign of King
James
III
Charta penes Dominum Semple.
, who by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . . of . . . . . . . had
Sir
Thomas
his Son and Heir, who, upon the breaking out of the Troubles in the Reign of King
James
III. adhered to that unfortunate Prince, and engaged in his Service, in which he lost his Life with his Master, at the Battle of
Bann
ckburn,
on the 10th of
June
1488, leaving Issue Sir
John
his Successor; likewise Two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Robert Crawfurd
of
Kilbirny
Ibidem, ad Annum 1505.
, and had Issue, and
Marion
to
John Stewart
of
Glanderstoun,
Son to
John
first Earl of
Lennox,
and had Issue.
Which Sir
John
being a Person of excellent Parts; and standing highly in the Favour of his Prince King
James
IV. was by him first dignified with the Title of Lord
Semple.
He was very devoted to the Church, for from Motives which he thought tended to a vance the Honour and Glory of Aimighty GOD, he made a very noble Foundation of a Collegiate Church, near his own Castle of
Semple,
a handsome large Fabrick, which he endowed with many Lands and Tithes, for the Support of a Provost and a Number of Prebends, who were pe
petually to perform all the Divine Offices,
Pro salute & prosperitate serenissimi Principis
Jacobi IV.
Regis
Scotorum,
&
Margaretae
Reginae suae, nec non pro salute
Margaretae Colvil
quondam sponsae suae, ettam pro salute animae suae, &
Margaratae Crichton
sponsae modernae, omnium antecessorum & successorum, & omnium fidelium defunctoru
in perpetuum
Ibidem.
.
As this noble Lord was alwise very faithful to his Prince in his Life, so 'tis certain he went with him to the Battle of
Flowdoun,
where he was slain, fighting gallantly in the Service of his Country, on the memorable 9th of
September
1513. After the Battle his Body was brought off the Field, and buried in the Collegiate Church of
Semple,
where a Monument is erected over him, embellish'd with his Arms, without any other Inscription, than signifying him to be the Person there interr'd. His first Wife was
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Robert Colvil,
Lord of
Ochiltree,
by whom he had Two Sons,
William
his Successor, and
G
bri
l Semple
of
Ladymure
Ibidem.
the Ancest
r of the
Semples
of
Cathcart.
He married again
Margaret,
Daughter of
James Crichton
of
Ruthvendeny
Charta penes me.
, Relict of Sir
William Stirling
of
Keir,
but by her he had no Issue.
William
Lord
Semple
his Son, the next of this noble Family, was a Nobleman of very good Parts, and of great Wisdom and Prudence, and alwise very well esteem'd both in the Court and in the Country. King
James
V. made him one of the Lords of his Privy Council, and Justiciary within the Regality of
Pa
sly
and the Abbots of that Monastry paid him all Manner of Honours and Respect, particularly in the 1546, Mr.
Hamilton
the then Abbot, with the full and hearty Concurrence and Approbation of the Convent, made him heritable Bailiff of their Regality, which gave him a very great Interest and Influence in the Western Parts, where he lived. He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglintoun,
by whom he had
Robert
his Son and Heir, and
David,
Author of the
Semples
of
Craigbett
Charta penes Dominum Semple.
, a Branch whereof settled in
Spain
above a Hundred Years ago, and are now very considerable in that Kingdom, who still own with great Satisfaction their
Scots
Original, and the Honour they have to be deriv'd from this illustrious House; besides, these Sons, he had also several Daughters,
Helen
married to
Allan
Lord
Cathcart.
and
Marion
to Sir
John Stirling
of
Keir.
His second Wife was Dame
Elizabeth Arnot,
Widow of Sir
Robert Colvil
of
Ochil
ree;
and his Third and last Wife was
Marion,
Daughter of
H
gh Montgomery
of
Haslehead;
but by neither of these had he any Issue; and dying in the Year 1548, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son and Heir, who being a Man of great Courage and Magnanimity, did eminently signalize his Valour at the Battle of
Pinky,
in the Service of his Country, where he had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner, and sent to
England,
where he remained till the Peace was concluded betwixt the Two Realms.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in the Reign of Queen
Mary,
tho' this Lord was a great Zealot for the
Roman
Catholick Religion, and very devoted to the Queen yet no Body more heartily concur'd in the Preservation of the young Prince, King
James,
or contributed more to settle and establish him on the Throne; and it ought not to be forgotten, that the brought to the Battle of
Langside,
to the Assistance of the Earl of
Marray
the Regent, a greater Number of his Retainers, and better appointed than any other Lord on the King's Side, for his Interest and the Reputation of his Family in the Country was very great. In Consideration of these his good Services to the young King, the Regent bestowed on him the dissolved Abbacy of
Paisley,
then in the Crown by the Forfaulture of Lord
Claud Hamilton,
who held that Benefice
in commendam
Ibidem.
. He married first
Isobel,
Daughter of . . . . .
Hamilton
of . . . . . by whom he
ad
Robert
Master of
Semple,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father,
A
no
1569,
Andrew,
commonly call'd Master of
Semple,
of whom descended the
Semples
of
Br
ntshiel
and
M
llbank;
also sundry Daughters,
Grisel
married to
James Hamilton
of
Stanhouse,
and had Issue.
Margaret
to
John Hamilton
of
Broomhill,
and again to
John Whiteford
of That-Ilk.
Janet
to
Hugh Montgomery
of
Haslehead,
and had Issue.
. . . . to
Alexander Fle
ming
of
Barochan,
and had Issue.
His Second Wife was
Elizabeth Cairlyle,
an
English
Lady, by her he had
John Semple
of
Bell
rees,
and Three Daughters,
Jean
married to
James
Lord
Ross,
and had Issue.
Gri
el
to
John Blair
of That-Ilk, and had Issue.
Dorothy
to
Robert Montgomery
of
Skelmurly,
and had Issue; and dying very aged in the End of the 1571, his Estate and Honour devolved on
Robert
his Grandson, only Son of
Robert
Master of
Semple,
by
Barbara
his Wife, Daughter of
Archbald Preston
of
Valleyfield
Charta pe
e
Domi
um Semple.
, who being young at his Grandfather's Death, the Earl of
Morton,
the Regent, took him into his immediate Care and Tuition. He was far from being of that Earl's Principles in Politicks, for he was alwise a most devoted Servant of the Crown; and tho' he was of that Religion that does not dispose Men to be the quietest Subjects, yet when other
Roman
Catholick Lords entered into a Combination with the King of
Spain,
to overturn the Reformed Religion in
Scotland,
the Lord
Semple
would never meddle in any Degree with them, which made the King alwise after love and esteem him, as a Man to be depended on in Point of Honour and Loyalty. In the 1596, his Majesty was pleased to send him Ambassador Extraordinary into
Spain;
in which Negotiation he behaved with great Prudence, and with the concurrent Testimony of his being a very wise Man; and tho' King
James
had a great Value of him, yet he could never employ him in any of the Civil Offices of the State, because of his Religion, which he never dissembled; which, considering his Parts, few would have discharged with greater Sufficiency.
He married first
Agnes,
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
by whom he had
Hugh
his Successor; also Four Daughters,
1
Anne
married to Sir
Archbald Stewart
of
Castle
isk,
and had Issue.
2
Barbara
to Sir
Coll Laumont
of
I
eryne,
and had Issue.
3
Grisel
to
John Logan
of
Raiss,
and had Issue.
4
Margaret
to
Robert Brishane
of
Bishoptoun,
and had Issue.
Secondly, he married Dame
Joanna de Evieland,
a Lady of the Low-Countries, by whom he had Sir
William Semple
of
Letterke
y,
who settled in the Kingdom of
Ireland,
and left one Daughter his Heir, married to Sir
Francis Hamilton,
Kt. This Lord dying on the 25th of
March
1611
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, was succeeded by
Hugh
his Son, who was a Nobleman of confess'd Parts and Abilities, yet because of his Religion, he had no Opportunity to shew them in any other Capacity than a private Gentleman. He liv'd in great Splendor and Magnificence; was alwise well attended with a very numerous and noble Equipage when he went abroad, yet being a frugal Man, he left his Estate in a very opulent Condition at his Death, which his Successors soon
ound a Way to diminish. He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Abercorn,
by whom he had one Daughter,
Marion
married to Sir
George Preston
of
Valleyfield:
and next,
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
Francis
Earl of
Errol,;
by her he had
Fran
is
his Son and Heir,
Robert
his Brother's Successor in the Honour,
Archbald Semple
of
Dikehead, James
who entred into a religious Order abroad; also Two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
William
Lord
Mordingtoun,
and
Jean
to
William Menzies
of
Pitfoddel,
and had Issue; and giving Way to Fate in 1637, was succeeded by
Francis
his Son, who married
Elizabeth.
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Winton;
but dying without Issue on the 8th of
Novomber
1644, his Estate and Honour devolved on
Robert
his Brother, who married
Anne,
Daughter of
James
Lord
Mordingtoun,
Brother to
William
first Marquis of
Douglass,
by whom he had
Robert
Master of
Semple,
who died in his 18th Year, a very hopeful Youth,
Franc
s
his Successor; likewise several Daughters,
Anne
married to
Francis Abercrombie
of
Feternier,
and
J
n
to
Alexander Sinclair
o
R
s
n,
and had Issue; and departing this Life 8th of
September
1675, was succeeded by
Francis
his Son and Heir, who after the Death of his Father, was by the Care of his noble Relations educated in the Protestant Religion; so that when he came to Age, he took his Place in Parliament, where hi
Ancestors had never sat from the Time of the Reformation of Religion for above a Hundred Years. He married
Grisel,
Daughter of Sir
Archbald Primerose
of
Dalmeny,
Ancestor to the Viscount of
Primerose;
but dying without Issue in the Year 1684, his Estate and Dignity came to
Anne
Lady
Semple
his Sister and Heir, who being married to
Francis Abercromby
of
Feterne
r,
as aforesaid, he was, by Reason of his Marriage with this noble Lady, by King
James
VII. dignified with the Title of Lord
Glassfurd,
by Letters Patent, 25th
July
1685, for his own Lifetime, in regard the Honour of
Semple
was to descend to the Lady's Heirs; and which it actually did upon her Demise in the 1691, on
Francis
Lord
Semple,
her elde
t Son, a young Man of the most eminent and sublime Parts, who, to the great Joy of his Relations, did quit the Superstitions of the Church of
Rome,
in which he had been educated, and embrac'd the Protestant Religion, as practis'd in this Church, and took his Place in the first Parliament of Queen
Anne, Anno
1703; in which and all the subsequent Sessions thereof, he behaved himself with singular Honour and Integrity, for tho' he was under very great Temptations, and at the same Time had very considerable. Offers made him, if he would comply with the Measures of the Court, in Relation to the Union, yet nothing could corrupt him, or make him swerve from what he thought was the Interst of his Country; so that he gave the Union all the Opposition that was in his Power, and voted against every Article of it; and he was wont to say,
That tho' the Union was attended with no other Inconveniency, than the making the Peers elective, he wonder'd very much how any of that Rank, could be for it, for being all Peers by Right of Inheritance; their being made elective, he took to be a divesting them of their Peerage, because not being sure of being always chosen to every Par
iament of
Great Britain,
they consequently must lose, when left out, the Benefit of sitting in Parliament, what was ever deem'd an inseparable Right of the Peerage.
Beside his Lordship there were also several other younger Children, Captain
Robert Semple
who was kill'd abroad,
John Semple
Esq
Captain
H
gh Semple,
and a Daughter Mrs.
Jane.
ARMS.
Argent,
a Cheveron, Checkie,
Gules
and
Argent
betwixt Three Bugles Sable, Garnished of the Second, supported by Two Ratches
Or,
coloured
Gules.
Crest, a Stag's Head,
Coupe Proper.
Motto,
Keep Tryst.
SINCLAIR, Lord
Sinclair.
IT is plain from many Evidences, that
William Sinclair
of
Newburgh
was the eldest Son of
William
Earl of
Orkney
and
Caithness
by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of
James
Earl of
Douglass;
but why he had so small a Share of his Father's Estate, I cannot assign the Reason precisely. 'Tis said he was a very profuse Man, and for that Reason his Father gave his Estate and the Title of Earl to a younger Son of his own by a Second Wife, and the Barony of
Roslyn
to another Son of the same Marriage, Sir
Oliver Sinclair.
All this is plain from a Contract dated the 9th of
February
1481, betwixt
William Sinclair
Son and Heir of the deceast
William
Earl of
Caithness,
and
Henry Sinclair
Son and Heir of the said
William,
on the one Part, and Sir
Oliver Sinclair
Brother to the said
William,
on the other; whereby Sir
Oliver
resigns to the said
William
the Lands of
Dysart, Cousland
and
Ravenscraig;
on the other Hand, the said
William,
and
Henry
his Son and Heir apparent, make over in the same Manner to the said Sir
Oliver
and his Heirs, all Right, Claim and Title, which they may have to the Lands of
Roslyn, Pentland
and
Pentland
Moor,
Morton, Mortonhall
and
Herbert-shire.
Moreover the said Sir
Oliver
obliges himself in Time to come to honour and worship the said
William,
as effeirs and accords him to do to his elder Brother; and that if there shall be any Debate or Competition betwixt the said
William
and
William
his younger Brother, for the Earldom of
Caithness,
in that Case to stand neuter between them
Charta penes D. Sinclair, which was in the Hands of William Wilson, one of the Under-Clerks of the Session; a Person well seen in the Antiquities of his Country.
. This
William
married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Rothess,
by whom he had
Henry Sinclair
of
Dysart,
Kt. who was created Lord
Sinclair
by King
James
the IV. in 1489, and declared Chief of the Blood, and the Heir of
William
Earl of
Caithness
his Grandfather. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Bothwell,
by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir, and Two Daughters,
Katharine
married to Sir
David Weems
of that Ilk
Charta in Pub. Archivis ad Annum 1512.
, and
Margaret
to
James
Lord
Ogilvie.
This Lord was slain at
Flowdoun
the 9th of
September
1513.
Which
William
married
Eliz.
Daughter of
William
Earl
Marischal
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
Henry
his Son and Heir, who, by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of the Lord
Lindsay,
had
James
Master of
Sinclair,
who married
Isobel
Daughter of
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes,
by whom he had
James
Lord
Sinclair,
who succeeded his Grandfather in his Estate and Honour, on his Death in the 1601
Ibidem.
; but he dying without Issue, was succeeded by
Patrick
his Brother and Heir, who married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
John Cockburn
of
Ormistoun,
by whom he had
John
his Heir, and
Elizabeth
married to Sir
Duncan Campbell
of
Glenurchy,
and had Issue, and dying in 1615, was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who married
Mary
Daughter of
John
1st Earl of
Weems,
by whom he had only one Daughter
Katharine,
his sole Heir, on whom he settled his Estate and his Title. She married
John Sinclair,
eldest Son and Heir apparent of Sir
John Sinclair
of
Hermiestoun,
by whom he had
Henry
the present Lord
Sinclair,
who married
Grissel
Daughter of Sir
James Cockburn
of
Cockburn,
by her he had Issue,
John
Master of
Sinclair,
Col.
James Sinclair,
Capt.
William Sinclair, Henry
and
Matthew.
1
Grissel,
married to
John Paterson
of
Prestonhall.
2.
Katharine,
to Sir
John Erskine
of
Alva.
3.
Mary,
to Sir
William Baird
of
Newbyth.
4.
Elizabeth.
5.
Anne.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
Azure,
a Ship at Anchor, her Sails truss'd up within a DoubleTressure flower'd and counterflower'd
Or,
2d and 3d.
Azure,
a Ship under Sail
Or,
over all in a
surtout Argent.
a
Saltyre
ingrail'd Sable. Supporters, Two Griffins. Crest, a Swan expanded proper. Motto,
Fight.
SOMERVILE, Lord
Somervile.
THE Family of
Somervile,
tho' originally extracted from
Normandy,
is very ancient among us;
William de Sumerville
is a common Witness to the Grants of King
David
I. to the Religious of
Dumfermling
and
Melross.
They were Barons of very great Account, and possessed of a fair Estate in the Reign of King
William,
in the County of
Lanerk
and elsewhere.
Willielmus de Sumervilla, consilio Willielmi Patris sui,
gave to the Episcopal See of
Glasgow, Ecclesiam de
Carnuad,
i. e.
Carnwath,
pro salute Animae suae & Haeredum in perpetuum
Excerpt of the Chartulary of Glasgow penes me.
. Sir
John Somervile
was very signal in his Fidelity to, and Service of the Crown in the Time of King
R
bert
I. and Sir
Thomas de Somerville
was no less faithful to King
Davi
Bruce
his Son; for when a Treaty was set on Foot to relieve the King, after he had been taken Prisoner at the Battel of
Durham, Willi
m de Somerville,
Sir
Thomas
's Son and Heir, was nam'd one of the Hostages for the Ransom
Rymer ad Annum 1357.
of the King. Another Sir
Thomas Somervile
of
Carnwath
was one of the Commissioners on the Treaty for the Redemption of King
James
I. and one of the Hostages for the Ransom; which is a further Manifestation of the Lustre of this noble Family, that in those great Transactions, in which they bore so good a Part, no other were employ'd but such as were Possessors of very considerable Estates, and of the most unblemish'd Honour and Reputation. This Sir
Thomas
obtain'd the Ba
ony of
Cam
ethan
by the Marriage of
Janet
Daughter of Sir
Alexander S
ewart
of
Darnly
In Pu
Archivis.
, which was afterward given off as a Patrimony by
John
Lord
Somervile,
to Sir
J
hn
his Son by a Second Marriage with
Mary,
a Lady of the Family of the
Baill
es,
who came afterward by the Favour of King
James
IV. and his own Virtue and Industry, to raise a great Fortune, which in Du
y, as well as Gratitude, made him run the Fat
of his bountiful Master, with whom he lost his Life at the Battle of
Flowdoun,
9th
September
1513. His lineal Heir in a direct Succes
ion is
Somervile
of
Corhouse.
The elder Branch of the
Somerviles,
the Family of
Somervile
itself being so long worn out, and their Estate dispersed, their Writs are in different Hands, which I have not had Access to see; so that I cannot exactly t
ace them till we come down to
Hugh
Lord
Somervile
in King
James
he VI's Time; who being provoked by the Folly and Insolence of his eldest Son
Gilbert
Master of
Somervile,
resolv'd to dispose of his Fortune to his other Children, that little should have accompanied the Honour after his Death: And therefore to do all he could in a prudent Way to preserve, as far as in him lay, the Memory of his Family, he made over a good Part of his Estate to
Hugh Somervile
of
Drum
his Second Son,
viz.
The Lands of
Drum, Gilmerton
and
Gutters, Anno
1593
Ibidem,
, and the old Man was not disappointed in his eldest Son; for in few Years. by an Excess in his Way of Living, he so entirely consumed the whole Fortune that descended to him, that when at his Death he was forc'd to leave the Honour to his younger Brother, having no Male Child of his own to inherit it, he left nothing to him to support it, which made his Brother decline to take on him the Title; tho' his Descendents have undoubted Right in Blood,
Somervile
of
Drum,
to make Use of it, when they find a proper Season, tho' it has been neglected ever since the 1618, that the last
Gilbert
Lord
Somervile
died.
CARNEGY, Earl of
Southesk.
THIS noble Family were anciently Proprietors of the Lands of
Balenherd,
in the County of
Forfar,
which was for a long Time possessed by them. In the Reign of King
David
the II.
Walterus de Maulia
then made a Grant
Johanni Filio & Haeredi quondam
Joannis
filii
Cristini
de
Belenherd, of the Lands of
Carynegy in baronia de
Panmure,
infra vic. de
Forfar, from whence he took the Sirname of
Carnegy;
for the Charter hath these remarkable Words,
Tenend. & habend. eidem
Joanni
de
Carnegy
filio & haeredi praedicti quondam
Joannis
filii
Joannis
filii
Cristini
filii
Joannis
de
Belenherd,
& haeredibus suis in feudo & haereditate
of the Granter Sir
Walter Maule,
which was confirm'd under the Great Seal of King
David
II. but the precise Time is not set down
ad. Collect. MS.
.
Duthacus de Carnegy,
a Descendent from him, did in the 1401. acquire a Part of the Lands of
Kinnaird
from
Richard Air,
and thereafter on the 1st of
February
1409
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, purchased the other full Half of the Lands of
Kinnaird
from
Mariota de Kinnaird,
which was the Title of his Successors till they were raised to the Honour of Peerage. This Gentleman was kill'd at the Battle of
Harlaw
in 1411, and was succeeded by
Walter
his Son and Heir, who under the Sense of his Duty to his Sovereign King
James
II. join'd the Earl of
Huntly
against the
Lindsays
at the Battle of
B
chen,
which was fought on the 1st of
May
1452; but how soon the Earl of
Huntly
was oblig'd to march homeward in Defence of his own Country, which was invaded and overrun by the Earl of
Murray,
the Earl of
Crawford
harass'd all those that had appeared against him; and among others the Laird of
Kinnaird,
whose House he burnt, and therein all his Writs and Evidents were miserably consum'd
Charta penes C. de Southesk.
, which perhaps is one Reason why the Connection betwixt the first
John de Carnegy
and
Duthack Carnegy
of
Kinnaird,
is not so clear and distinct as might be wish'd. He died in the 1479, and was succeeded by his Son,
John de Carnegy
of
Kinnaird,
who on the 4th of
November
1479, had a Grant from
David
Earl of
Crawford
his Cousin, of a Liferent out of the Earl's Barony of
Glenesk
Ibidem.
, and dying in the 1508, left
John
his Son and Heir, who was slain at the Battle of
Flowdoun
with King
James
IV. 9th
September
1513, leaving Issue by . . . .
Vauss
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . .
Vauss
of . . . . . .
Robert
his Heir, and a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
William Maule
of
Boath,
Son of Sir
Thomas Maule
of
Panmure,
and had Issue.
Which
Robert
being a Gentleman of great Parts and Abilities, was promoted by the Duke of
Chattlerault
the Governor to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice the 7th of
July
1547
Ibidem.
, and the next ensuing Year was sent Ambassador to
England,
to treat about the Redemption of the Earl of
Huntly
the Lord Chancellor, who had been taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Pinkie,
and upon his Return had the Honour of Knighthood conferred on him.
In the 1551, the Governor reposing great Confidence in Sir
Robert
's Abilities, was pleased to send him upon a solemn Embassy to
France,
when the
French
King fi
st discover'd to him the Design he had that the Duke of
Chattlerault
should resign the Regency in Favours of the Queen-Mother of
Scotland,
which was afterward brought about to the general Satisfaction of the whole Nation, in which Sir
Robert Carnegy,
whom all Men knew to have a very great Interest with the Duke, had a very considerable Hand
Charta penes C. de Southesk.
. He was again in the Year 1555, together with Sir
John Ballanden
of
Auchinoul,
sent Plenipotentiaries to
England,
to conclude a Treaty about Commerce and Trade, which was settled to the general Satisfaction of both Nations; and Two Years thereafter
Buchanan and Lesly.
, he was one of the Commissioners sent to
England
to treat with that State about the keeping of a firm and lasting Peace betwixt the Two Nations
Rymer's Foedera A
gliae, etiam Charta penes C. de Southesk.
, and which was inviolably preserved for many Years thereafter. Likewise I find Sir
Robert Carnegy
and Mr.
David Borthwick
of
Lochhill
were sent over to
France
in the 1559, from the Lords of the Congregation, to wait on the Queen their Sovereign, to endeavour to remove the Prejudice she seem'd to entertain against them and their Proceedings; but what was the Success of this Negotiation, I have not been able to discover. He died in a good advanc'd Age, on the 5th of
January
1565
Ibidem,
, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of . . . .
Guthry
of
Lunan in vic. de Forfar
Ibidem.
, Sir
John
his Successor, Mr.
David Carnegy
of
Coll
thy, John Carnegy
of
Leuchland,
Mr.
Robert Carnegy
Preceptor of the Maisen Diu of
Brichen, James,
of whom the Branch of
Balmachie, Hercules
of
Cookstoun,
and Mr.
William Carnegie
of
Futhie;
also five Daughters.
Margaret,
married to Sir
James Scrimzeour
of
Duddop,
Constable of
Dundee
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Helen,
to
William Lundie
of
Benholm,
and again to
William Turring
of
Foveran.
Elizabeth,
to
Andrew Arbuthnot
of That-Ilk, Ancestor to the Viscount of
Arbuthnot.
Katharine,
to
David Ramsay
of
Balmain,
and had Issue.
Isobel,
to . . . . .
Gordon
of
Glenbucket.
Sir
John Carnegy
was a Gentleman of great Parts, and a firm and stedfast Friend to Queen
Mary,
when she fell into her Troubles; and her Majesty had so great an Esteem of his Fidelity and Prudence, that in the 1570, when a Cessation was obtained by the Bishop of
Ross,
she wrote to Sir
John Carnegy,
craving his Advice thereupon. He married first
Agnes,
Daughter of
David Wood
of
Craig,
Comptroller of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
James
the V. by whom he had only one Daughter, married to
Patrick Kinnaird
of That-Ilk, and had Issue. 2
dly,
Dame
Margaret Keith,
and dying without Issue Male, his Estate devolved to
Mr.
David Carnegy
of
Colluthy
his Brother, who being bred to the Law, and a Person of good Reputation for Wisdom and Integrity, was by K.
James
VI. named one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and in the 1595, appoi
ted one of the Commissioners of the Treasury: All which Offices he held till his Death,
April
9th 1598. Bishop
Spotswood
gives this Character of him,
He was,
says that Reverend Author,
a wise, peaceable
and so
er Man, in good Cr
t and Estimation with the King, and taken into his Priv
Counc
l, for his Skill and Knowledge in Civil Affairs.
He married fi
st
El
z.
Daughter and Heir of
William Ramsay
of
Collut
y,
by whom he had Two Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
William Dundass
of
Feinzies
Charter of Alien
tion by Margaret Carnegy, one of the Two Daughters and Heirs of Elizabeth Ramsay of Colluthy, with Consent of William Dundass of Feinzies her Spouse, of the Lands of Coliuthy, to Mr. David Carnegy her Father, in the Publick Records Anno 1582.
,
Elizabeth
to
John Inglis
of
Tarvet
Charta penes C. de Southesk.
. After the Death of his first Wife, he married again
Eupham
Daughter of Sir
DavidWeems
of That-Ilk, by whom he had
David
his Successor, Sir
John Carnegy
of
Ethie,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Northesk,
Sir
Robert Carnegie
of
Dunich
n,
Sir
Alexander Carnegy
the First of the
Carnegies
of
Bo
ymoon;
like wise Three Daughters.
1
Agnes,
married to
Alexander Falconer
of
Halkertoun
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
2
Jean,
to
James Carmichael
of
Balmeadie
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
3
Eupham,
to
Robert Graham
of
Morphie.
Which
David
being by the Care of his Father, tho' his eldest Son, bred a Lawyer, was by King
James
VI. preserred to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and by Letters Patent, bearing Date 24th of
April
1616, raised to the Honour of Lord
Carnegy
of
Kinnaird,
having served King
James
with great Fidelity, King
Charles
I. had a very good Opinion of him, as a very wi
e Man; and therefore was graciously pleased to create him an Earl, by the Title of Earl of
Southesk,
by Letters Patent bearing Date at
Holyroodho
se
the 22d of
June
1633
Ibidem.
. In the Preamble to the Patent, the eminent and remarkable Services of Sir
Robert Carnegy
his Grandfather to Queen
Mary,
and in the Service of his Country, and the Services of his own Father to King
James,
are very fully illustrated and set forth: When the Troubles broke out in that Reign, he approv'd himself a very faithful and loyal Subject to his Majesty, for which he was imprisoned; which the King particularly complain'd of in his Expostulation with the leading Men of the Covenant
Nalson's Collections, Vol. 1. Page 275.
. Thereafter when the Times grew worse, he liv'd retired at his Seat in the Country, keeping his Heart and Affections intire for the King: But all this Caution was not sufficient to secure him from Trouble; for when
Cromwel
prevail'd, and made himself Protector, he very arbitrarily fin'd the old Earl of
Southesk
in Three thousand Pound, for no other Reason but wishing well to the King, and being inclined to the Monarchy. He married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
David Lin
say
of
Edzel,
by whom he had Four Sons and Six Daughters,
1
David
Lord
Carnagie,
who died long before his Father on the 29th of
October
1633
Bal
our's Annals MS.
, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Thomas
Earl of
Haddingtou
,
only Two Daughters,
Margaret,
married to
Gavin
Earl of
Carnwath,
and
Magdalene
to Sir
Gideon Ba
llie
of
Lochend,
and thereafter to Sir
John Crawford
of
Kilbirny,
Ancestor to the present Viscount of
Garnock,
and had Issue.
2 Sir
James Car
agie,
his Father's Successor in the Honour.
3 Sir
John Carnagie
of
Craig.
4 Sir
Alexander Carnagie
of
Pittarrow.
Lady
Margaret
the eldest Daughter was married to
William
Earl of
Dalhousie.
Lady
Agnes,
the 2d, to
James
1st Lord
Abercromby.
Lady
Katharine,
the 3d, to
John
1st Earl of
Traqua
.
Lady
Marjory,
the 4th, to
William
Haliburton
of
Pitcur,
and after that to
Robert
Viscount of
Arbuthnot.
Lady
Elizabeth,
the 5th, to Sir
Andrew Murray
Lord
Balvaird.
Lady
Magdalene,
the 6th, to
James
1st Marquis of
Montrose.
James
Earl of
Southesk
his Son and Successor, was a Person of eminent Loyalty to King
Charles
I. and his Majesty was so fully pleased and satisfied of the Fidelity and Affection of this noble Lo
d to his Interest, that he was one of those for whom his Majesty desir'd a safe Conduct, to give him a clear Information of the State of
Scotland,
in order to compose the unhappy Differences that had arisen among those who on the Matter all equally wish'd well to the King; but the Demand was refused, by a particular Resolve by the Lords and Commons, on Pretence that he was a Prisoner in
England
Walker's Treaty at the Isle of Wight, Page 25.
, but the true Reason was, The Earl was a wise Man, and would have proposed and advised moderate Courses, which the Leading Men in both Houses were very much disinclin'd to. He liv'd in a private Manner in the Country during the Usurpation; but upon the Restauration of the King, he was named one of the Lords of the Privy Council, and had the Gift renewed to him and his Son for their joint Lives, which had been formerly given by King
Charles
I. to the old Earl, this Lord's Father, of the principal Sheriff-ship of
Forfar
-shire, then in the Disposal of the Crown, by the Surrender of that Office by the Lord
Gray
in the former Reign. This noble Earl married
Mary
Daughter of
Robert
1st Earl of
Roxburgh,
by whom he had
Robert
his Successor; likewise Two Daughters,
Jean
married first to
James Murray
Earl of
Annandale,
and after to
David
Viscount of
Stormont,
and
Katharine
to
Gilbert
Earl of
Errol;
and departing this Life in the Month of
January
1669, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son, who, after he had been nobly educated at Home, for his further Improvement travelled abroad into
France, Italy,
and other Parts, where he received great Respect from the Princes themselves of those respective Countries, particularly
Lewis
the XIV. made him Captain of one of the Companies of the
Scots
Guards in
France
Commission under the Great Se
of France, in the Custody of the Earl of Southesk, June 24th, 1659.
. After his Return, his own Prince King
Charles
II. named him Colonel of the Militia of
Forfar
shire, and made him a new Grant of the Office of High-Sheriff of the County of
Forfar,
in which his Son the Lord
Carnagie
was like wise included, by a Commission bearing Date at
Windsor
29
h of
April
1682. He married the Lady
Anne,
eldest Daughter of
William
Duke of
Hamilton,
by whom he had
Charles
his Son and Heir, and
William
a young Gentleman of great Hopes and Expectations, who was unfortunately kill'd in his Travels abroad; and the Earl himself dying on the 19th of
February
1688, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour, by
Charles
his Son, whose Principles in no Degree suiting to the Times after the Revolution, he chose to live retiredly in the Country, demeaning himself always with great Firmness of Temper, and inviolable Adherence to the Interest he had heretofore heartily espoused. He married
Mary
Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Lauderdale,
by whom he had only
James
the present Earl of
Southesk,
who married
Margaret
eldest Daughter of
James
Earl of
Galloway,
by whom he has
James
Lord
Carnagie
his Son and Heir.
ARMS.
Or.
an Eagle displared
Azure,
becked and Membred Gules. Supporters, Two Gray Hounds,
Argent.
Coloured Gules. Crest, a Thunderbolt. Motto,
Dead GOD.
LINDSAY, Lord
Spainzie.
THE First who enjoyed this Title was Sir
Alexander Lindsay,
a younger Son of the Earl of
Crawford,
who being one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King
James
VI. and sometime a great Favorite, was on the 6th of
May
1590, created Lord
Spainzie:
He was assassinated by the Laird of
Edzle
in 1607, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Lord
Glamis,
Widow of
Robert Douglass
of
Lochlevin,
and of
Archibald
Earl of
Angus, Alexander
his Son and Heir, who serv'd the King of
Sweden
long in
Germany
in very high Commands, with great Valour and Courage. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Kinno
l,
and dying in 1647, left Issue by his Wife foresaid,
George
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Northesk;
but dying without Issue in 1670, the Honour came to an End with himself.
STEUART, Lord
St. Colme.
THE Ancestor of the Lord
St. Colme
was Sir
James Steuart
of
Beith,
a younger Brother of the Lord
Ochiltree,
who having long served King
James
V. in very eminent Commands, and with Honour and Success, was made Captain of the Castle of
Doun
in the 1534 and dying on
Whitsunday
1547, left Issue,
James
and
Henry,
of whom branch'd the
Steuarts
of
Burray
in
Orkney
Charta penes me.
Which
James,
tho' his Father's First-born, being educated in his Youth for the Service of the Church, was made Commendator of
St. Colme,
on the Surrender of
Henry
Abbot of that Monastry,
Anno
1543
State Letters during the Reign of King James V. MS.
. Upon the Reformation he renounced Popery, and embraced the Protestant Religion; and being a wise Man, and of great Industry and Sagacity in Business, King
James
the VI. when he came to Age, made him Collector-General of his Revenue, and erected his Abbacy of
St. Colme
to himself in a Temporal Lordship, and created him a Peer by the Title of Lord
Doun
in 1581. He married
Margaret
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
by whom he had
James
his eldest Son, who became Earl of
Murray
by the Marriage of
Margaret
the Daughter and Heir of
James
Earl of
Murray
the Regent, and thereby the Honour of Lord
Doun,
which was in his Person, was supprest as a distinct Peerage, and
Henry,
to whom his Father gave the erected Lordship of
St. Colme;
also Two Daughters,
Mary
married to Sir
John Weems
of That-Ilk, and
Jean
to
Simon
Lord
Lovat;
and departing this Life on the 20th of
July
1590, was succeeded in the Estate of
St. Colme
by
Henry
his Son, who was by the special Favour of King
James
created a Peer by the Title of Lord
St. Colme, Anno
1611
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, and dying the 12th of
July
1612, left a Son,
James
Lord
St. Colme,
upon whose Demise the Honour expir'd, and the Estate went to the Earl of
Murray.
DALRYMPLE, Earl of
Stair.
ALL Antiquaries are agreed, that the most ancient Sirnames are local; the Aera we reckon they were first hereditarily affi
'd to Families, at least, with us, was in the Reign of King
David
I. for before that the most eminent Persons, we find, are distinguished either by some personal Appellative, or Patronymically, by the Name of the Father, as is clear from the most ancient Writs that are extant, and of which many Instances could here be given: And that which further confirms this Opinion is, That the very first Sirnames are all taken from Lands, as
Douglass, Hume, Crawford, Cathcart, Dalrymple, &c.
all which have been assumed from their own Lands by the then Proprietars, when hereditary Appellations became customary.
The First using this Sirname is
Adam de Dalrymple,
who was possessed of the Barony of
Dalrymple
in
Air
-shire in the Time of King
Alexander
III.
There is a Charte
in the Rolls of King Robert II. the first Year of his Reign, Anno 1371, ratifying a
ant which Malcolm filius Gilchrist filius Adae de Dalrymple made of the Half of the Barony of Dalrymple to Sir John Kennedy; and the Granter having then a Son John Dalrymple, who ge
s a Charter about the same Time of the whole
Dominium
de Dalrymple, 'tis no Stretch, but a very modest Computation in Chronology, to place Adam the Great Grandfather as high as
lexander the III's
me.
.
Adam
was succeeded by
Gilchrist
his Son, and he again by
Malcolm
his Son, from whom sprang
John
and
Roland de Dalrymples,
who had the Barony of
Dalrymple
divided betwixt them, which their Heirs made over to Sir
John Kennedy
in the 1378.
Altho' the
Dalrymples
ceased to possess their old original Estate of
Dalrymple;
yet some of them continued to make a very considerable Figure.
Jacobus de Dalrymple
was
Clericus R
gis
in the Time of King
Robert
III.
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, and another
John de Dalrymple
of
Bolton,
in the Time of King
James
II. being a Man of Parts and Experience in Affairs, was join'd in Commission with Dr.
Nicol Otterburn,
and sent upon a solemn Embassy to the Duke of
Burgundy
Ibidem ad Annum 1449.
, to congratulate that Prince for their joint Prosperity.
The Family of
Stair,
to which I shall now confine my Memoirs of the
Dalrymples,
has of a long Time been consider'd as the chief Family of all the
Dalrymples.
They came first to possess the Barony of
Stair,
which lies near to
Dalrymple,
in Right of
Marjory
the Daughter and Heir of Sir
John de Montgomery
The Montgomeries of Sta
were certainly one of the ancientest and best Extracted Families in Air shire. I observe that
an de Mundegumbri del Cont. de Air, their Ancestor, is in the Rogman Roll, or the Submission of the Scots Barons to King Edward I. of England, Anno 1296.
, who brought i
to her Husband
Malcolm de Carrick,
the Son of
Henry,
the Son of
Fergus
a Branch of the old Earls of that Name and Title; for tho' the Earldom of
Carrick
went very long before to the
Bruces
by Marriage, yet the Sirname was carried on by several Male Branches; for beside this
Malcolm
afore mentioned, there was at this Time another
Malcolm de Carrick
of
Newbigging
He is designed, Filius Joannis filius Negeli de Carrick, Charta penes me ad Annum 1359.
, and a
John de Carrick
who was Chancellor of
Scotlan
,
both in the Reign of King
David Bruse,
and of King
Robert
II.
Malcolm de Carrick de Stair
was succeeded in that Barony by
John
his Son
Charta penes C. de Sta
ad Annum 1412.
, who dying without Male Issue, left a Daughter his sole Heir, married first to
Ronald de Shanks,
but being left a Widow by him without any Issue, she married again a Gentleman of the Name of
Kennedy,
by whom he had a Daughter,
Agnes;
at length, the sole Heir of the Barony of
Stair-Montgomery,
who was married to
William Dalrymple,
Esq
the paternal Ancestor of this noble Family: But Mr.
Dalrymple
and the Lady standing in the Degrees of Consanguinity prohibited by the Laws of the Church, then in Force, the Marriage did proceed upon a Dispensation granted by Bishop
Kennedy
of
St. Andrews
Charta penes Comitem de Stair ad Annum 1451.
, by a Delegation from the Pope to that Effect. By the said
Agnes
his Wife he left Issue,
William Dalrymple
of
Stair
his Son who married
Mar
on
Daughter of Sir
John Chalmers
of
Gadgirth,
a Lady o
great Piety and Virtue
Knox's History mentions this Lady, whose Name he mistakes, and calls Isobel, was summoned before the Bishop of Glasgow's Court, as one of the Lollards of Shyle in 1494, and was a Lady of excellent Worth and Virtue.
, by whom he had a Son who died before himself, but left a Son
William,
who being his Grandfather's Heir apparent, the old Man in 1541, made over his Estate to him, reserving such a Provision for himself and
is Wife, as supported them during their joint Lives
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, which they did not long survive. This last mentioned
William
married
Margaret
Daughter of . . . .
Wallace
of
Ca
rnhill
Ibidem.
, and had by her
James
his Son and Heir, who in the Beginning of the Reign of Queen
Mary,
was among the very First of any Account who made open Profession of the Protestant Religion, to which he always continued very firm and constant. In the Year 1544. he joined with the Earls of
Lennox
and
Glenca
rn
against the Governor the Earl of
Arran,
whom the Protestants pretended was not then altogether so zealous for the Reformation as he had been at first, and was at the Conflict on
Glasgow
Moor; for which he got afterward from the Duke of
Chattlerault
the Regent, a Remission
for his being in Feir of Weir at the unlawful Convocation of the Queen's Leidges on the Moor of
Glasgow,
with
Matthew
sumetime Earl of
Lennox,
and
William
Earl of
Glencairn
Ibidem ad Annum 1555.
. He married
Isobel
Daughter of
George Crawford
of
Lochnorris,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir, who, with his Father's other Virtues inherited his Zeal for the Protestant Religion; for as soon as a Confession of Faith was compil'd by our Reformers, and ratified by Act of Parliament, he was one of those who sign'd it, and enter'd into a solemn Association for the Defence of the Tree Reform'd Religion, as it was then publickly professed in the Kingdom
Knox's History.
. In the 1565. we find he was one of those, who with the Duke of
Chat
lerault
and others, opposed the Queen's Marriage with the Lord
Darnley,
by Reason of the Danger they apprehended might arise to Religion by that Union; but the Duke sailing in the Attempt he made to seize
Darnley,
and to send him to
England,
his Adherents were oblig'd to take Remissions for it; the Laird of
Stair
's I have seen in 1566
Charta in Rotulis Priva
Sigilli ad Annum 1566, for Treason, and assisting the Duke of Chattlerault to defend the Castles of Drassan and Hamilton against the Queen
s Authority.
. Soon after this, when the Nation was alarmed with the Murder of the Lord
Darnley
the Queen's Husband, and the Measures that were then taken, no Body appear'd more zealous in a prudent Way than this Gentleman, for the Safety of the young Prince King
James
VI. and the Preservation of the Protestant Religion; for we find he was one of the many Barons, who, together with the Bulk of the Nation, entred into that famous Association
Bond at Edinburgh 1567.
, wherein they
bind themselves to Inaugurate the Prince, and with all their Strenth and Forcis promote, concur, fortifie, and assist to the promoting and establishing him in his Kingdom and Government, as becumis Faithful and Trew Subjects to do to their Prince, and to resist all sick as would oppon them theirto, or to make any Trouble or Impediement to him theirin;
and dying in 1586, left Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of
Thomas Kennedy
of
Bargany
Memorial of the Viscount of Stair.
,
James Dalrymple
of
Stair,
who by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter of
Fergus Kennedy
of
Knockdaw,
had
James
the first Viscount of
Stair.
This excellent Person was born in
May
1619
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, his Father dying when he was very young: He was by the singular Care and Affection of his Mother, well brought up, and at a proper Age having been taught his Humanity at the best Schools in the Country, was sent to the University of
Glasgow,
where, having run through his Course of Philosophy with great Application and Success, he took the Degree of Master of Arts in the 1637. The Civil War breaking out soon thereafter, Mr.
Dalrymple
betook himself to the Service of the Parliament, and had a Company of Foot bestow'd on him in the Earl of
Glencairn
's Regiment. While he was a Captain, upon the earnest Sollicitation of some of the Professors of
Glasgow,
upon the falling vacant of a Philosophy Chair in that University, he was prevail'd on to stand a Candidate at a comparative Trial for the Post, to which he was preferred with great Applause; and he successfully perform'd that Provence for some Time, and bred several Schollars, who prov'd afterward very eminent both in Church and State. While Mr.
Dalrymple
continued in this Station, he studied the
Greek
and
Latin
with the History and Antiquities of
Greece
and
Rome,
the better to qualifie him for the Study of the Civil Law, to which he betook himself, and wherein he made a very eminent Progress.
Mr.
Dalrymple
being esteemed a Man of great Parts and good Address, was employ'd by the University to sollicite Grants for the Increase of their Revenues and other Affairs, which led him to see the Form of Proceedings in the Courts of Justice, and brought him to be known and acquainted with the great Men who were then at the Head of Affairs, and the most eminent Lawyers both on the Bench and at the Bar. At length in the Beginning of the 1648, Mr,
Dalrymple,
with these useful Preparations and Advantages, entred an Advocate, and in short Time Time became very eminent in his Profession, for his Abilities and Reputation for Judgment and Integrity; in so much as when the Parliament 1649. proclaimed King
Charles
II. and named certain Commissioners to go over to
Breda
to treat with him about his coming to the Exercise of his Royal Power, Mr.
Dalrymple
was pitch'd on to be Secretary to the Committee, whereby he had an Opportunity to be known to the King and the great Men about the Court, who were very well pleased with the Abilities, Sincerity, and Moderation he shew'd in the whole of his Demeanour on that critical Occasion, for which the King did ever afterward esteem him, and was pleased to express himself very obligingly of him, even at the Time when he was prevail'd on by his Ministers to remove him from the President-ship of the Session, as being in no Degree a Friend to the Designs then on Foot: And I cannot but remark, that tho' Mr.
Dalrymple
was then but a young Lawyer; yet he was so well esteem'd for his Knowledge in the Laws, that the Parliament in his Absence, while he was in
Holland.
nam'd him one of the Commissioners to revise the Laws, Acts of Parliament, and Practice of the several Judicatures; but what Advances they made in that Matter is to me unknown.
Mr.
Dalrymple
return'd with the Commissioners before the King in the 1650, and so soon as his Majesty arrived, he waited on him at his first Landing, and was very well receiv'd; and thereafter in the Cou
se of Affairs he used his outmost Endeavours, and did all he could to unite all Parties for his Majesty's Service, especially in the grand Affair of raising an Army to invade
England,
upon which all the Hope, of his Restauration depended.
After the Defeat of the Royal Party at
Worcester,
Mr.
Dalrymple
continued his Practice in the Law during the U su
pation, till the Oath called the
Tender,
abjuring the Royal Family of the
S
e
arts,
was imposed, that he and most of the eminent Men of that Profession withdrew from the Bar, till
Cromwel
thought fit by some Act of Connivance to dispense with it; and a Correspondence being made up betwixt the Bench and the Bar, we find Mr.
Dalrymple
was one of the Four deputed by the Faculty of Advocates to declare to the Judges,
That it was their Opinion, That for the better Administration of Justice, to restore the ancient Form of the Outer-House, which had been supprest,
and which they accordingly thought fit to comply with.
Mr.
Dalrymple
still increasing in Reputation and Practice, he was upon the Death of Judge
Learmont
of
Balcomy,
pitch'd on by General
Monk,
with Consent of the Protector's Council, to be his Successor, and the Choice proceeded merely upon the Fame of his Abilities and Integrity; and he was far from seeking after the Employment, he having no Inclination to have any Office under that Administration; but there being such an universal Desire of the People, that the Post should be fi
led with a
Scotsman,
and a Person eminent for Integrity and Knowledge of the Laws, and being importun'd from People of all Ranks and Perswasions, he was at last perswaded to accept of the Place, and so he suffered himself to be made one of the Judges, without any other Compliance with the then prevailing Powers, than taking the Oath
de fideli Administratione,
as the Act of his
Admission
bears,
July
1st. 1657. While this worthy Judge continued in this Station, he took all Opportunities that offered to serve his Country, and to do all the good Offices he could for his Friends with those in Power, in getting Grievances redressed, which, as it mightily increased his Reputation, and very much recommended him to Men of all Degrees, so it brought him into a particular Acquaintance with General
Monk,
who had a great Esteem and Value for him; insomuch as the Day before he marched with his Army to
England,
he reposed so much Considence in Judge
Dalrymple,
as a very wise Man, and of an excellent Understanding, that he call'd him to a private Conference, and desired he would give his Opinion freely, what he thought was the likeliest Way to settle the Three Nations? To which he readily answered,
That the wisest and fairest Way was to procure a free and full Parliament to be called;
and at the same Time he very earnestly recommended to the General, to interpose at
London
for setting the Courts of Justice a going, which were then stopped by reason of the Disorder and Discomposures of the Times; which Counsel the General followed, as appears from his Letter to Judge
Dalrymple,
dated from
Dunstable
the 7th Day of
January
1659.
Upon the Restauration Mr.
Dalrymple
went up with the Earl of
Cassils
to
London,
to pay his Duty to the King, and congratulate his Majesties happy Restauration; and the King, the first Time Mr.
Dalrymple
waited on him, was graciously pleased, as a Mark of his Favour, to make him a Knight; and as a further Testimony of the Trust and Confidence he reposed in him, named him one of the Senators of the College of Justice at the first Settlement of that Judicature in the Year 1661, and in
November
thereafter, the Lord President Sir
John Gilmoir
being call'd up to
London,
the Lords applied to the Earl of
Middleton
his Majesty's Commissioner, to name a President in the Absence of the President; and his Grace was pleased to name the Lord
Stair
to be Vice-President: And I cannot fail to remark, that the Lords themselves had such an Esteem for the Lord
Stair,
that they ever choos'd him Vice-President, as often as Sir
John Gilmoir
's Health, or other Occasions hinder'd him to be present, except once when he was at
London
in the Winter-Session 1670, as one of the Commissioners for the Treaty that was then set on Foot betwixt the Two Nations.
The Parliament 1663 having appointed an Oath to be taken, called,
The Declaration,
by which all who were in Publick Offices, were oblig'd to declare against defensive Arms, and the Conduct of the late Troubles, particularly against the National Covenant, as explain'd in the Year 1638, and the Solemn League and Covenant entred into betwixt the Two Nations in 1643, as contrary to the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom: This caused no small Uneasiness to the Lord
Stair,
some Things being in the Oath disagreeable to his Principles, and withal being absent in the Country at his Mother's Funeral-Obsequies, when the rest of the Lords subscribed the Declaration, they acquainted him,
That the King in his Letter to the Privy Council, had ordered the Places of such of the Lords as did not sign the Declaration by a precise Day, should be declared Void, and that no written Explanation or Declaration should be admitted, which would look like the stating of a Party.
To which the Lord
Stair
return'd Answer, excusing his not Compliance; for that he had sent his Demission to the King before the Date of the Letter: Whereupon the Lords declared his Place vacant on the 19th of
January
1664.
The Lord
Stair
being thus at Liberty, took a Tour into
France
with
John
his eldest Son, who then about Sixteen Years of Age began to travel for his Improvement; and my Lord
Stair
returning by the Way of
London,
and having had the Honour to wait on the King, his Majesty was pleased to tell him that he would not accept of his Demission, and allow'd him to clear or explain his Mind, in what Sense he would take the Declaration; and accordingly his Lordship having satisfied his Majesty, the King by a Letter to the Lords, signified,
That bei
g well satisfied with Sir
James Dalrymple
of
Stair,
one of their Number, his clearing himself in the Matter of the Declaration, and of his Affection to his Service, and of his great Abilities to serve in that Station; therefore it was his Pleasure, that the Lord
Stair
signing the Declaration, continue in his Place as if the Demission had never been made.
Upon Receipt of the Letter, and Sir
James
's signing the Declaration, the Lords rescinded their former Act declaring his Place void, and he took his Place on the Bench again at the sitting down of the Summer-Session 1664. About this Time his Majesty, as a further Mark of his Royal Favour to the Lord
Stair,
was pleased to create him a Knight Baronet, and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever.
In the 1670, when a Treaty was set on Foot for uniting the Two Kingdoms of
Scotland
and
England,
the Lord
Stair
was named one of the Commissioners for that important Affair; and tho the Treaty did not take Effect, yet the Lord
Stair
in the several Discourses that passed on that Subject, gave such clear Proofs of his great Knowledge in our Constitution and the Laws, that the next ensuing Year Sir
John Gilmoir
Lord President resigning his Office, his Majesty was pleased to confer it upon him, and his Promotion was not attended with any Envy or Dislike, so far as I have ever heard.
As my Lord
Stair
was a great Lover of his Country, and had the true Interest of it always very much at Heart, so he embraced every Opportunity to promote and advance the Good of the Nation; for it was the Lord President, and several other Patriots, who concur'd with him, who represented to the Duke of
Lauderdale,
upon his coming down in the 1677, several Abuses and illegal Practices that had been committed; and the Duke thereupon was pleased to get several Acts of Council made correctory of these Abuses, particularly that of citing Persons for Church-Irregularities, without libelling special Circumstances of Time and Place, which was very ill taken, and highly resented by the Archbishop of
St. Andrews,
and several of his High-flying Brethren.
My Lord
Stair
did with the same Fidelity labour to disswade the Duke from bringing in the
Highland
Host upon the West, and from obtaining an Order of Council for a Bond to be taken for discovering, apprehending, and bringing to Judgment,
Presbyterian
Ministers who held Conventicles: But tho' he did not prevail in this Point, yet the Lord President could never be induc'd either to subscribe the Bond, or approve the
Highland
Inroad, for Reasons founded both in Law and Religion.
When his Royal Highness the Duke of
Albany
came down to
Scotland
in the End of the 1679, the Lords of the Session and other Members of the College of Justice thought it their Duty to wait on his Highness at the
Abbay
of
Holy-rood-house,
when the Lord President made a fine congratulatory Speech in the Name of the Society, wherein among other Expressions he had one to this Effect,
That it was a Matter of great Joy to the Nation to see one of the Royal Family among them, after being for so many Years depriv'd of that Honour; and the Nation being intirely Protestant, it was the fittest Place his Highness could make his Recess to at that Time.
His Lordship did afterward, with a becoming Freedom and the ourmost Fidelity, disswade his Highness not to attempt any Thing that might seem to have the least Tendency to weaken the Establishment of the reform'd Religion, as it was secur'd by the Laws. In the Parliament 1681, to which his Royal Highness the Duke of
Albany
was his Majesty's High Commissioner, the Lord President was chosen a Member for the Shire of
Wigtoun.
In the Beginning of the Session, his Lordship, the Earl of
Argile,
and several others, were named on a Committee of the Articles for Religion, which by the Custom of all
Scots
Parliaments was the first Thing treated of: Accordingly the Committee did prepare an Act securing the Protestant Religion; which Act did ratifie the Act approving the Confession of Faith, and also the Act containing the Coronation Oath appointed by several standing Laws and Acts of Parliament, to be taken by our Kings before their Entry to the Exercise of the Government: But this Draught which the Committee had prepar'd was laid aside, in respect it was thought to limit too much the Power of a Popish Successor to the Crown; in Place whereof a general Statute did pass, ratifying all former Laws for settling and securing the Liberty and Freedom of the Protestant Religion. However, when the Act
asserting the Right of Succession to the Crown, according to the Proximity of Blood, without Respect to any Difference in Religion,
did pass, it was thought expedient, even by those who promoted it, to have a more special Law made for Security of the Protestant Religion: Accordingly a D
aught of the Act about Religion was transmitted to the Parliament, which provided only for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion, as contained in the Word of GOD, which could not discover Papists, who pretend to walk conform to that Rule. The Lord
Stair,
the Earl of
Argyle,
and other Patriots were forward to have a particular Standard of the Protestant Religion established, that might more effectually prevent
Roman Catholicks
getting into Publick Offices, in the Event of a Popish Prince upon the Throne; and the Lord President urged the Matter with so much Strength of Reason, that the first Clause in the
Test
which was agreed to, did exclude all Persons from Publick Trust in the Government, who did not swear,
That they own'd and sincerely professed the true Protestant Religion, contain'd in the Confession of Faith, recorded in the Parliament
1567;
and that they believed the same to be founded on and agreeable to the written Word of GOD; and that they should adhere thereunto all the Days of their Lifetime, and educate their Children therein, and that they should never consent to any Change or Alteration contrary thereunto.
Tho' the Act passed, yet the urging of that Clause by the Lord President was highly re
ented by his Royal Highness the Duke of
Albany
the Lord High Commissioner, who the very Night the Act passed, said to some about him, and in his nearest Confidence,
That the Lord
Stair, by bringing in the Confession of Faith into the
Test, had ruined all honest Men,
meaning
Roman Catholicks
Tho' the Lord President was pleased with the first Part of the Test-Act, which seem'd to be a very effectual Security against Popery; yet he could not sign the latter Part of it, which struck against
Presbyterian
Dissenters, therein call'd
Fanaticks;
and therefore he went up to the King to declare so much, and to desire his Majesty's Leave to retire, and to lay down his Employment; but before he arrived at
London,
his Behaviour in the Parliament was improv'd as so heavy a Charge against him at Court, that he was remov'd from his Office in the Session, without mentioning of any Cause, tho' he held his Place in the ordinary Way of Judges,
ad vitam aut culpam.
But his Remove from his Place was not all he was like to suffer; for after that he was not allowed to live without Disturbance in his Retirement at his Seat in the Country; for his Tenents were harassed with grievous Fynes for Non-conformity; and he got a Hint from his Friend Sir
George Mackenzie
the Lord Advocate; that he could not secure him, that he might not be thrown in Prison. My Lord
Stair
finding himself in these Circumstances, thought it safer for him to retire, and to go into a voluntary Exile into
Holland
in the End of 1682, where he printed his
Philosophia nova Experimentalis,
which, as it gain'd him great Reputation with the Learned, so 'tis generally read with great Applause.
While the Lord
Stair
was abroad, many Witnesses were examined and re-examined, not only his own Domesticks, but some of his nearest Relations, to find out Matter for a Criminal Pursuit against him; but nothing was discovered, save that some Persons suspected to have been engaged in the Rebellion 1679 liv'd upon his Ground, or lu
ked about his House in the Country, while he attended on the Session at
Edinburgh.
However he was pursued for Treason, first before the Justiciary, and then before the Parliament, upon the common Ground of Harbour and Reset of Rebels: But the Probation was so scrimp, that by their own Rules they could not condemn him; for he was a wise Man, and had taken Care to live with all possible Circumspection and Caution.
The Lord
Stair
sojourn'd in
Holland
till the 1688, he came over with the Prince of
Orange,
in his Expedition to
Britain,
to relieve these Nations from Popery and Arbitrary Power; in which glorious Design no Man engaged more frankly than the old Lord
Stair:
And when the Prince was just setting Sail for
England,
'tis reported his Lordship took the Freedom to ask his Highness,
What his true Design was in going to
England? To which the Prince was pleased to answer,
That he designed the Glory of GOD, and the Security of the Protestant Religion:
Upon which, 'tis said, the Lord
Stair
pulled off his Wig, and said,
Tho' I be now in the
70
th Year of mine Age, I'm willing to venture that,
meaning his Head,
and his own and his Childrens Fortunes in such an Undertaking.
This the Prince took in very good Part, and reported it to others, as that which very much encouraged him to prosecute his Design.
When the Prince landed at
Torby,
his Highness expressed a particular Concern about the Lord
Stair,
and sent to enquire concerning his Health, and understanding his Horses were not come up, the Prince sent him Horses of his for his Accomodation.
Upon the Advancement of the Prince and Princess of
Orange
to the Throne, their Majesties, who had a very great Kindness and Esteem for the Lord
Stair,
as a Person of great Integrity, and of unquestionable Zeal for the Protestant Religion, were pleased to restore him to his Office of President of the Session in the 1689, conform to the
Claim of Right:
But their Majesties thought this Piece of Justice was not enough to reward the Lord
Stair
's great Merit; wherefore they were further pleased to raise him to the Peerage, by the Stile and Title of Viscount of
Stair,
by Letters Patent bearing Date 20th
April
1690, after which his Lordship continued without the least Interruption in the favour of his Prince, and enjoyed his Office, which he had discharged in all Times, with great Abilities and singular Integrity till his Death, which happened on the 25th of
November
1695, aged 76, and was with great Funeral Solemnity interred in the Cathedral Church of St.
Giles.
This excellent Person married
Margaret,
eldest Daughter of
James Ross
of
Balneel,
with whom he had a fair Fortune in Land, and had Issue by her.
1 Sir
John Dalrymple,
thereafter Earl of
Stair.
2 Sir
James Dalrymple
of
Borthwick,
who being a Person of great Parts and Learning, was bred to the Law, and became an Advocate, and was afterward made one of the principal Clerks of the Session, and a Baronet. Sir
James
's Genius, even from his Youth, having led him to the Study of Antiquities
My noble and very worthy Friend Sir James Dalrymple did collect and furnish Sir George Mackenzie with the most of the Materials of what he wrote in Defence of the Royal Line, and his Jus Regium, tho' without any Acknowledgment to his Friend Mr. Dalrymple, which I and many others have wondred at, when it was so well known at that Time. Sir James has also publish'd a new Edition of Cambden's Britannia, wherein he gives us the first right Draught of the Line of the Royal Family of the Stewarts, and rescued it from the Blunders and Mistakes of all that ever wrote before him: which is such an eminent and notable Service to the Crown and his Country, that ought never to be forgotten, but gratefully remembred to his Honour and the Honour of his Memory; for I can well say, that all that has been advanced since on the History of the Royal Family, are but Superstructures upon that Foundation which Sir James has there laid down.
, particularly those of his own Country, he became a wonderful Proficient, and one of the Learnedst Men of that Prof
ssion, of which his Book,
Collections concerning the Scots History,
is a pregnant Instance; a Book full of Learning, and that Learning so closely and solidly applied: that it has justly gain'd him a very great Reputation with learned Men, as one of the greatest Antiquaries this, or indeed any other Age has produc'd.
3 Sir
Hugh Dalrymple
of
Nort
berwick,
Baronet, who likewise applying himself from his Youth to the Study of the Law, commenced Advocate, and advancing daily in Reputation and Practice, after he had been some time one of the Commissaries of
Edinburgh,
he was in the 1698. promoted to be Lord President of the Session, which had been vacant from the Death of his Father. Here is a large Field to expatiate upon the great Learning and other Qualities of this Gentleman; but he being still alive, I shall entirely wave it.
4 Dr.
Thomas Dalrymple,
first Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty for the Kingdom of
Scotland.
5 Sir
David Dalrymple
of
Hailes,
Baronet, who being a Person of incomparable Parts, and having studied the Law in his younger Years, came to the Bar with great Applause, and growing very eminent in Reputation and Practice, insomuch as her Majesty Queen
Anne
was pleased to make him Sollicitor, and then Lord Advocate, from which Office he was removed toward the End of that Reign; but upon the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, he was restored to his former Digaity, which he at present enjoys with the universal Approbation of the whole Nation, and the general Applause of all Men for his Justice, Integrity, sound Judgment, and eminent Sufficiency in the Discharge of his Office; a Praise which was never denied him at any Time.
Janet,
eldest Daughter of
James
Viscount of
Stair,
was married to
David Dunbar,
Son and Heir apparent to Sir
David Dunbar
of
Buldoon,
Bart. but had no Issue.
2
Elizabeth,
to
Allan
the present Lord
Cathcart.
3
Sarah,
to
Charles
Lord
Crichton,
Son and Heir of
William
Earl of
Dumfreis.
4
Isobel,
to Sir
David Cuninghame
of
Miln
raig,
Bart. and had Issue.
John,
first Viscount, thereafter Earl of
Stair,
was by the Care of his Father, though his eldest Son, bred to the Study of the Law, and being admitted to the Bar, in short Time became very eminent in Practice; insomuch as when the Earl of
Argyle
was pursued for High Treason in the 1681, for his giving an Explanation of the Test, when he took it, Sir
John Dalrymple,
who was by this Time very much taken Notice of as a Lawyer of great Ability and Learning, was one of the Earl's Council: But quickly after this, the Court conceiving a Displeasure against the Lord
Stair,
Sir
John
's Father, and it being well known that his own Principles were altogether against the Measures that were then taken, they had a very jealous Eye upon him, and he became so much the Object of their Envy, that in the End of the 1682, upon Pretence that he, as heritable Baillie of the Regality of
Glenlace,
interfeiring in Jurisdiction with the new nam'd Justiciar and She
iff of
Galloway, Graham
of
Claverhoase,
had fined his own and his Father's Tenents too low for haunting Conventicles; and tho' he had never meddled in any publick Matters, yet he was committed Prisoner to the Castle of
Edinbargh,
and fined in 500
lib. sterl.
but being set at Liberty, he was again in the 1684, upon various Pretences, seiz'd on at his own House in the Country; and tho' the Officer that apprehended him, brought him to the
Abbay
of
Holy ro
d house,
in Expectation that he might have been bail'd: Yet so great was the Torrent against him, that tho' they could not find any Ground of Accusation whereupon to found an Indictment; yet he was committed to the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh,
where he lay three Months, and for some Weeks was a close Prisoner.
Tho' Sir
John Dalrymple
was very much frown'd on at this Time by the Court, he would by no Means forego his Principles, tho' his Wisdom and Experience put him upon acting circumspectly, and with great Caution, during the Remainder of King
Charles
his Reign: But after King
James
's coming to the Crown, that Prince, upon his own Observation of Sir
John Dalrymple
's Abilities in his Pleadings as a Lawyer, was pleased to conceive a very good Opinion of him; insomuch as he was pleased to make him Lord Advocate, upon the Removal of Sir
George Mackenzie,
who was laid aside in the 1686, for not complying with the Design of the Court, in taking away the penal Laws against Popery; tho' it could never be said by Sir
John Dalrymple
's greatest Enemies, that he had in any Degree contributed thereto; but on the contrary endeavour'd all he could to animate the Members of Parliament to stand firm to their Religion, and not to open a Door to let in Popery and many other Inconveniencies. Sir
John
behav'd with great Moderation and Temper while he held that Office; but Sir
George Mackenzie
having found Means to reconcile himself to the Court, he was restored to be Advocate, and Sir
John Dalrymple
was thereupon made Justice-Clerk, upon a Vacancy thro' the Demise of Sir
James Foulis
of
Colingtoun,
and he continued in the Office till the Government was disso
v'd by King
James
's leaving
England,
and retiring to
France.
Sir
John Dalrymple
being a very zealous Protestant, all the Favours he had confer'd on him by King
James
and others, he might have expected were no Temptations to bring him into the Court-Measures at that Time; and the Revolution coming about, he fell heartily in with it, and with those who were the most zealous Promoters of it.
In the Convention of Estates 1689, Sir
John Dalrymple
shewed himself a steady Asserter of the Religion and Liberties of his Country, and particularly expressed on that Occasion a hearty Desire, that a Treaty might be set on Foot for a nearer Union of the Two Nations: But that Design meeting with Opposition from Persons of very different Principles, it was dropt at that Time; and when the grand Affair of settling the Crown came to be debated, the Estates found at first great Difficulty how to declare the Throne vacant; at length Sir
John Dalrymple
ended the Debate by such Reasons, that the Convention went into his Proposals, and settled the Crown upon the Prince and Princess of
Orange.
So soon as it passed into an Act, he was one of the Commissioners sent up from the Convention with the Offer of the Crown to the Prince and Princess of
Orange,
with the Nations Grievances and Claim of Right, which their Highnesses having accepted of, they were graciously pleased to reward Sir
John
's Merit and Zeal shown for their Advancement to the Throne, by making him Lord Advocate in 1690, and in less than a Year thereafter he was constituted one of the Principal Secretaries of State; and he discharged the Office with eminent Sufficiency, till the 1695, that the Parliament having made some Attempts against him about the Affair of the horrid Massacre of
Glenco,
he resigned his Place, merely that the King might not be made uneasie by his continuing in so eminent a Post so near his Royal Person, tho' his Majesty did highly resent the Treatment the Secretary had met with, and turn'd all those out of his Service, who had been the greatest Sticklers against him.
Tho' the Master of
Stair
did not think he had been well used, yet he never shewed the least Resentment against the Court; but on the contrary by his great Wisdom and Temper interposed to moderate the Heats and Animosities which arose both in the Parliament and in the Country, upon the Disappointments of
Darien;
and the Figure he made in the publick Debates by his Speeches in Parliament were sufficient to convince every Body that he might have been employed again in some of the highest Offices of State, but he constantly declin'd Preferment; for he was resolv'd never to be further concern'd in publick Affairs, than as a Privy Councellour;
et at the same Time, not to omit what he really thought his Duty to his Country upon any Occasion.
When Queen
Anne
came to the Crown, the Viscount of
Stair
was named on of the Lords of the Privy Council; and as a further Testimony of her Majesties Favour, was raised to the Honour of Earl of
Stair,
by Letters Patent the 8th of
April
1703
Charta in p
b. Archi
is.
.
The Earl of
Stair
had from his Youth entertained an Opinion, That an intire Union of both Kingdoms was the most likely Way to procure the lasting Tranquillity and Happiness of
Britain,
and for that End very readily concurred in the Session of Parliament 1702, that Power should be given to the Queen to name Commissioners to treat of an Union; pursuant to which, Commissioners were n
med by h
r Majesty, of which Number the Earl himself was one: But that Treaty breaking off without coming
o any Conclusion, it had no other Effect than
o let bo
h Nations s
e it w
s practicable; and it being ag
in resumed in the 1705, by new Authority from the Parliament of both Kingdoms, his Lordship was by her Majesty named one of the Commissioners upon the Part of
Scotland;
in the carrying on of which he had so considerable a Share, both in the Time of the Treaty, and in the Parliament of
Scotland,
that many have thought that without the Earl of
Stair
it could not have been brought to a Conclusion, considering the many Difficulties were raised against it, all which he just liv'd to see overcome; for being exceedingly sollicitous to have the Union perfected, he assisted the Day before his Death at the Debates on that Subject in the Parliament, pressing the Point with great Earnestness: And tho he walked home, and dined very chearfully with Company, yet about Four next Morning he
ll into an Apoplexy, which in a few Hours put an End to his Days, the 8th of
January
1707, aged 59.
He married
Elizabeth
Daughter and Heir of Sir
John Dundas
of
New-Liston,
by whom he had
John
the present Earl, of
Stair
Colonel
William Dalrymple
of
Glenmure, George Dalrymple
Esq
one o
the Barons of Exchequer; also a Daughter,
Margaret,
married to
Hugh
Earl of
Loudoun.
John
the present Earl of
Stair
was born at
Edinburgh
the 20th of
July
1673. He gave very early Marks of a lively and great Genius, having succeeded beyond his Fellows in his first Studies of Latin and Greek, both at home and in
Holland,
whether, at the Desire of his Grandfather then at
Le
den,
our young Student was sent, when he was about Eleven Years old. In a very few Months he acquired the Habit of speaking
French
and
Dutch;
in both which he has been since improved to a Degree of Perfection, to which seldom any Stranger has attained. His Masters at
Leyden
were exceedingly pleased with him, and remaked, that though he seem'd fond of Play, and solicited his Fellows to it, yet he was never found out of his Place at School: But while he seemed thus devoted to his Play, he advanc'd in his Learning as if he had minded nothing else: He was promoted from Class to Class, with the Approbation of the Magistrates, Professors and Masters of the School at
Leyden,
and had one of the first
Praemiums
at every Promotion, according to the Custom of that School, for distinguishing the Merit of the best Scholars, and for exciting in them a greater Desire of going forward.
After the Earl had made a good Progress in the Schools there, he returned to his Father in
Scotland,
and in the University of
Edinburgh
pursued the Study of the Greek and Latin, adding the Study of the Logicks and other Parts of Philosophy, under Mr.
Kennedy,
then Regent in that University. He studied the Mathematicks under the learned and very justly celebrated Doctor
David Gregory,
then Professor at
Edinburgh,
and afterwards
Savilian
Professor at
Oxford.
The Earl had also the Assistance of Mr.
Gregory
the present Professor of the Mathematicks at
Edinburgh.
And he had the constant Happiness to be the Favourite of his Masters, and to be much beloved by his follow Students.
In the Beginning of the Year 1688 he went again to
Holland
to visit his Grandfather and Grandmother, to whom he was very dear, and returned in
October
that Year to
Scotland,
to reassume his Studies in the University, but the Commotions that happened at
Edinburgh
in
November,
interrupted the stated Course of every Thing till the Revolution was completed, and the Government established in the Person of King
William.
In the Beginning of the Year 1689 he went with his Father to
London.
From this Time forward the present Earl, then Mr.
Dalrymple,
begun to ply the Study of the living Languages, as well as that of the dead, and to improve himself in these Kinds of Exercises that belong to a young Gentleman, still with the same Constancy and good Effect.
He returned again to
Scotland
with his Father, and saw the Meeting of the Estates, and the two first Sessions of the Parliament of
Scotland
under King
William
and Queen
Mary
in the Year 1689 and 1690.
His Father being made Secretary of State in the Beginning of the Year 1691, his Son, the present Earl, had the Advantage to be much at Court, which was a new Kind of Education, that added both Ornament and useful Improvement to those he had acquired before: And when his Father followed the King to
Flanders,
the Earl went along. In the Summer he was in the Camp, and was present at the Battle of
Steenkirk,
where the brave Earl of
Angus
was kill'd on the Head of his Regiment, with whom the present Earl of
Stair
advanced to the Enemy as a Volunteer.
In the Winter the Earl returned once more to his Studies at
Leyden,
heard the famous Professors there read on
Grotius
and the Institutions of the Civil Law, and had at the same Time Colleges of History, imploying every Minute to the best Advantage.
After these Foundations laid, there remained nothing more to fit the Earl for Business but travelling to see how Men of different Tempers and Religions lived among themselves and other Men, and to learn from the first Hand the Genius, Manners, Constitutions and Languages of some of the most considerable Nations in
Europe.
He set out with the Lord
Lexington,
who went in the Year 1700 to
Vienna
Ambassador. The Earl having been some Time at that Court went on to
Italy,
visiting on his Way the several great Cities, Republicks and Courts in
Italy.
At
Rome
he applied himself to the Knowlege of Antiquities, Architecture, and other Things which are taught there, studying with much Application the
Italian
Language; and because he could not then go into
France,
during the War then between King
William
and that Crown, he studied the
French
very carefully by the Help of a
French Abbé,
whom he found at
Rome,
that he might enter deeper into the Strength, Genius and Beauties of that Language so universally in Use.
Having made the Tour of
Germany
and
Italy,
he returned to
England
in the 1701, and that Year came to
Scotland
with his Father, where he continued until the 1702, at which Time there being new Regiments to be raised in
Scotland,
he went to Court, to offer his Service upon the Appearance of an approaching War. The King received him very graciously, but a Scheme of Officers was formed for these Regiments leaving him out. His Majesty having observed it, told, that he was resolved to provide for Mr.
Dalrymple,
who by that Scheme was neglected, and for that Reason his Majesty resolved to make him Second Lieutenant Colonel of his Regiment of Foot Guards in
Scotland.
But King
William
's Death happening just then, his Commission as Second Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment of Foot Guards was signed by Queen
Anne,
on one of the first Days of her Reign.
Being now in the Army (where his Inclination had ever led him to serve) he embraced the first Opportunities to appear in that Way, which soon happened: For the late Queen being engaged with the Confederates in the Second War against
France,
and having sent over an Army under the Command of the Duke of
Marlborough,
the Earl made the very first Campaign as a Volunteer, and distinguished himself in the Actions of greatest Hazard and Consequence, as at the taking of
Venlo
and
Liege,
and at the Cannonade of
Peer.
He was also imployed by the Duke as his
Aidde Camp.
It was in this Campaign that he laid the Foundation of that Friendship with which that great General has constantly honoured him since.
The Account of the Earl from that Period is so interwoven with the great Events Civil and Military, that have happen'd, that tho all the Materials for going thro' with a just and exact History were at Hand, yet the Nature of this Undertaking would not admit of pursuing it, or the Share he had in these great Actions; which besides has been remarkable enough by many very considerable Circumstances well known. I have therefore contented my self in a plain Way, and without enlarging on Particulars, to set forth what concerns his Youth and Education, which has been one constant Series of Application to those Things which might fit him for the eminent Station where he is now placed.
I shall therefore finish what concerns him with the bare Enumeration of the Employments he has gone through.
He had a Commission as Colonel of Foot in the
Dutch
Service in
April
1703; in the Year 1705 he succeeded Brigadeer General
Fergusson
deceast, in a Regiment of Foot on the
English
Establishment; and after the Death of Lord
John Hay,
he had the Command given him of the Royal
Scots
Dragoons, by the Name of the
Royal Greys,
by a Commission bearing Date the 24th
August
1706, which he continued to command till the last Year of the late Queen, when he was ordered to sell it to the Earl of
Portmore.
He commanded a Brigade of Foot at the Battle of
Ramellies,
and was immediately after that Battle made Brigadeer. His Commission bears Date from the Day of that Battle. He was Brigadeer in the Battle of
Audenard,
and carried the News of the Victory into
England;
he commarded as Major-General at the Battle of
Tanier
near
Mons;
and was made Lieutenant-General at the Siege of
Deway
He was sent Envoy Extraordinary to the King of
Poland
in the Winter of the Year 1709, where he resided till
May
1710, that he returned to the Siege of
Doway,
and having left his Secretary in
Poland,
continued in that Character till the Year 1711, that Mr.
Scot
was sent to that Court.
Since King
George
's Accession to the Crown, the Earl has been made Lord of the Bedchamber; one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council in the 17
4; and in
January
thereafter he was sent Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of
France,
but at the same time he had Powers and Credentials to treat as Ambassador and Plenipotentiary, and when his Lordship should judge it necessary, to assume that Character.
His Lordship married the Lady
Eleanor Campbell,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Loudoun,
Widow of
James
Viscount of
Primerose;
but as yet hath not any Issue.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Or,
on a Saltyre,
Azure,
Nine Mascles of the 1st, 2d and 3d,
Argent,
a Cheveron Checkie betwixt Three Water-Budgets
Sable,
over all in a
surtout Argent,
a Lion Rampant, Gules, Supporters, Two Swans Proper,
Crest,
a Rock. Motto,
Quiescam.
ALEXANDER, Earl of
Stirling.
ALL our Antiquaries agree, that this Family is originally a Branch of the
Macdonalds. Alexander Macdonald
their Ancestor obtained from the Family of
Argyle
a Feu of the Lands of
Menstry
in
Clackmananshire,
where they fix'd their Residence, and took their Sirname from the proper Name of their Predecessor.
Andrew Alexander
or
Menstry,
in the Reign of King
James
V. is the First of this Family I have found any Mention of in our Records
Charta in pub. Archivis.
. By
Catherine
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . .
Graham
of . . . . . he had
Alexander
his Son and Heir, who had a Grant from
Archibald
Master of
Argyle
his Superior, of the Lands of
Menstry,
to himself and
Elizabeth Douglas,
Daughter of
Robert Douglas
o
Lochlevin,
his Wife in Li
erent, and to
Andrew Alexander
their Son in Fee, which was ratified by a Charter under the Great Seal, 15th of
January
1529
Ibidem,
, whose Heir and Successor,
William Alexander
of
Menstry,
being a young Man of very great Parts, he much improv'd them by a good Education, which being seasoned with Years, qualified him for the highest Trusts. He travelled at first abroad as Tutor to the Earl of
Argyle,
and was a considerable time with that noble Lord in Foreign Parts. After his Return he betook himself to the Court, where he liv'd in great Reputation, under no other Character than a Gentleman of the most polite Parts and Learning. Mr.
Alexander
having an Inclination and a Talent from his Youth to Poetry, he declined all other Business, and delivered himself up intirely to his own Genius, in which he made a wonderful Proficiency in the Study of the ancient Poets, by whom he form'd an excellent
Goust
of Poetry; insomuch as in a short Time he came to be looked on as one of the most eminent of that Profession. K.
James
who then reigned, was a Prince of great Learning and Knowledge, and delighted much in the Conversation of learned Men, particularly Mr.
Alexander,
who presented him with several elegant Poems to the King's great Delight, and the gaining the Applause of Persons of the first Rank for Quality and Wit to himself, to whom in a short Time he grew very acceptable. After he had lived some Years about the Court, his Majesty, who looked on him as a wise Man, was pleased to prefer him to be Master of Requests, and a Knight in 1614: But his Majesty's Bounty did not rest in the conferring one single Favour on him; for Sir
William
being a learned and projecting Man, and having settled a Colony in
Nova Scotia
in
America
upon his own Charges, King
James
made him a Grant of it by his Royal Deed on the 21. of
September
1621, and did intend to erect the Order of Baronet for encouraging and advancing so good a Work: But the Two or Three last Years of that Prince's Reign having been less pleasant to him, by the Jealousies which about that Time began in
England,
he thought fit to suspend the further Prosecution of that Affair until a more favourable Conjuncture, which he lived not to see. But King
Charles
I. who with his Father's other Virtues, inherited his Affection to his native Kingdom, immediately upon his coming to the Crown, proposed nothing more than the furthering of that Design, which was projected to be of so great a Benefit to the Nation, and therefore made Sir
William Alexander
Lieutenant of
New Scotland,
and instituted the Order of Knight-Baronet for the encouraging and advancing of that Colony, and gave him the Privilege of coining small Copper-Money, a Gift which was inveighed against, even at that Time, with great Bitterness: But his Majesty, who thought that too great Encouragement could not be given to learned and worthy Men, such as Sir
William
was, and being fully satisfied of his great Abilities and Integrity, was graciously pleased in 1626 to make him Secretary of State, in place of the Earl of
Haddingtoun,
and a Peer, by the Title of Viscount
Stirling
Charta in Pub. Archivis, dated 4. September, 1630.
, and after raised him to the Honour of Earl of
Stirling,
by Letters Patent the 14th of
June
1633, at the Solemnity of his Majesty's Coronation at the Palace of
Holyroodhouse,
and his Lordship enjoyed the Secretary's Place with universal Reputation, for the Space of about Fifteen Years, even to his Death on the 12th of
February
1640.
He married
Janet
Daughter and Heir of Sir
William Erskine
Kt. Parson of
Camsy,
Commendator of the Bishoprick of
Glasgow,
a younger Brother of the Family of
Balgony,
and Cousin German to the Earl of
Mar
the Regent
Charta penes me.
, by whom he had
William
Lord
Alexander
his eldest Son, who died his Majesty's Resident in
Nova Scotia,
in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Marquis of
Douglass,
a Son,
William,
his Grandfather's Successor, and two Daughters,
Margaret
married to
Walter
Lord
Torphichen,
and
Beatrix
to Sir
Robert Sinclair
of
Lochermakhouse,
and had Issue.
2
Henry Alexander
Esq
afterward Earl of
Stirling.
3 Sir
Anthony Alexander,
Knight.
4
John Alexander
Esq
Lady
Margaret,
married to
Hugh Montgomery,
Lord Viscount of
Airds,
of the Kingdom of
Ireland.
Lady
Mary,
to Sir
William Murray
of
Knockdowie,
and had Issue.
To
William
1st Earl of
Stirling
succeeded
William
his Grandson, who did not live long to enjoy the Honour; for he died in the Month of
March
1640, his Estate and Honour devolving to
Henry Alexander
Esq
his Un
le, who married . . . . . Daughter of Sir
Peter V
l
e
Alderman of
London,
by whom he had a Son, whose Heir resides in
England,
and votes by his Proxy at the Election of our Peers since the Union.
MURRAY, Viscount of
Stormont.
THE first of this collateral Branch of the
Murrays
was Sir
Andrew Murray,
younger Son of Sir
William Murray
of
Tullibardine,
who in the Reign of King
James
IV. came to enjoy a fair Estate, by the Marriage of
Margaret,
Daughter and sole Heir of
James Barclay
of
Arngosk
and
Kippo
Chartulary of Cambuskenneth MS. etiam Charta penes Ducem de Athole.
, by her he had Issue, Sir
David Murray
of
Arngosk,
his Son and Heir, who dying
Anno
1550
Charta i
Pub. Archivis.
, left Issue by
Janet
his Wife, Daughter to the Lord
Lindsay,
Sir
Andrew
his Son and Heir, who by
Agnes
his Wife, Daughter of
William
Earl of
Montrose
Ibidem.
, had Sir
Andrew
his Successor, and Sir
David Murray
of
Gosparty,
who first laid the Foundation of this Honour.
Sir
David Murray
being from his Youth bred at the Court of King
James
VI. was first made Cup-bearer to his Majesty, in which Employment he soon rendred himself very gracious to his Master; insomuch that in few Years he was preferred to be Master of the Horse, and Captain of the Guard, and being knighted, was made Comptroller of
Scotland
in 1599, and thereafter a Peer, by the Title of Lord
Scoon, Anno
1604, and having served his said Majesty with great Fidelity in all the several Employments he was intrusted with, in Reward of his long and faithful Services, was created Viscount of
Stormont,
and to the Heirs Male of his Body, and in Failure of such, to his Heirs of Entail, by Letters Patent the 26th of
August
1621
Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of Sir
David Beaton
of
Crich,
but dying without Issue, 27th of
August
1631
Form of the Funeral-Sol
nity of David first Viscount of Stormont,
.
.
, he was with great Funeral-Solemnity interred in a Vault within the Church of
Scoon,
on the 23d of
September
thereafter, under a noble Monument erected by himself of various colour'd Marble, with his Statue as big as the Life, in a Pos
ure of Devotion, with this Inscription upon a Tablet of black Marble, wherein most of his remarkable Actions are set forth.
The Right Honourable Sir
DAVID MURRAY
of
Gospartie,
Son to Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Balvaird;
his Grandfire Brother to the E. of
Tillybardin;
his Mother Daughter to the Earl of
Montrose;
his Gooddame of the Father, Daughter to the Lord
Lindsay;
his Gooddame of the Mother Daughter to the Earl
Marishal;
who for his good Services done to King
James VI.
whom he faithfully served from his Youth in many honourable Employments, from a
Cup-bearer, Master of his Horse, Comptroller of his Rents, Captain of his Majesty's Guard, one of his honourable Privy-Council, was created Lord
Scoon.
He married Dame
Elizabeth Beaton,
an ancient Baron's Daughter of
Crich,
died without Issue, left his Estate to his Nephew of
Balvaird,
and to Dame
Agnes Murray
his Neice, whom he married to a Brother of the Earl of
Tillybardin's,
from whom he first descended; he helped his other Friends, who enjoy the Fruits of his Labour; his Buildings pruifs he was politique; good Men knew he loved Virtue, and Malefactors that he maintained Justice; he founded the Hospital, and builded the Church; his So
l enjoys Happiness: And under this Tomb builded by himself, lyeth his Body, expecting the joyful Resurrection.
To
David
Viscount of
Stormont
succeeded, by Entail, Sir
Mungo Murray,
Brother to the Earl of
Tillybardine
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
, in a Part of his Estate, and to the Honour. He married
Ann
Daughter of Sir
Andrew Murray
of
Balvaird;
but he likewise dying without Issue in
March
1642
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
, the Honour of Viscount of
Stormont,
by Virtue of the first Entail, came to
James Murray
Earl of
Annandale,
and a Part of his Estate to Mr.
Andrew Murray
of
Balvaird,
the first Viscount of
Stormont
's Nephew, then Minister at
Ebdie,
whom his Majesty King
Charles
I. was pleased to make a Knight in 1633
Bishop
uthry's Memoin.
, and thereafter by Letters Patent, bearing Da
e 17.
November
1641, to raise to the Honour of Lord
Balvaird
Charta in Rotulis Caroli I.
, notwithstanding he was a Minister at the time of his Promotion. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Southesk,
by whom he had
David
his Successor, Sir
John Murray
of
Drumcairn,
one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
James Murray
Doctor of Physick, and Mr.
William Murray
a Lawyer; likewise several Daughters,
Barbara
married to
Andrew
Lord
Gray,
and
Marjory
to Sir
Alexander Gibson
of
Durie,
and had Issue; and departing this Life in the Month of
September
1644
Ibidem.
, was succeeded by
David
Lord
Balvaird
his Son, who came to be Viscount of
Stormont
upon the Demise of
James Murray
Earl of
Annandale,
who had that Honour in his Person. He married
Jean
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Southesk,
Widow of
James
Earl of
Annandale
aforesaid, by whom he had
David
his Successor, and a Daughter
Katharine
married to
William
Earl of
Kintore;
and dying 7th
July
1667
Ibidem.
, was succeeded by
David
his Son, the present Viscount of
Stormont,
who married
Marjory,
Daughter of
David Scot
of
Scotst
rvet,
by whom he has Issue,
David
Master of
St
rmont,
Mr.
James Murray
Advocate, a young Lawyer of great Parts and Reputation,
William, Charles;
likewise six Daughters.
1
Katharine.
2
Elizabeth.
3
Marjory
married to Col.
John Hay of Cromlix.
4
Aemilia.
5
Margaret.
6
Jean.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Azure,
Three Mollets within a Double Tressure, flower'd and counterflower'd.
Or,
2d and 3d. Gules, Three Cross-patees,
Argent.
Supported by Two Lions Rampant. Gules, Crest, a Stag's Head, Coupee proper. Motto,
Spero meliora.
DRUMMOND, Viscount of
Strathalan
THE First who laid the Foundation of this Honour was Lieutenant General
William Drummond,
a younger Brother of the Lord
Maderty
's, who from his Youth having dedicated himself to the Profession of Arms, he entred into the Service of his own Prince King
Charles
I. after the breaking out of the Civil War, and had a considerable Command in the Army that was raised in the 1648, for the Relief of his Majesty, while he was a Prisoner in the Isle of
Wight.
After that unfortunate Expedition he transported himself into
Ireland,
and join'd the Marquis of
Ormond
who was then in Arms for the King, and continued in that Service till the 1651, he came over to
Scotland,
and had the Command of a Regiment in the
Scots
Army at the Battle of
Worcester,
where he was taken Prisoner; but afterward making his Escape, he went into the
Highlands
in that Adventure where
Middleton
commanded; at which Time he had a Commission to be a Major General. When that Design was broke, and no further Hope left of serving the King, he went abroad, and entred into the Service of the King of
Prussia,
under whom he exercised very high Commands, and with great Honour and Reputation, till after the Restauration of King
Charles
II. that his Majesty call'd him home, and made him Major General of the Forces in
Scotland;
and in that Caracter he serv'd the Crown for many Years thereafter. Upon King
James
's coming to the Throne, he was made General of all the Forces in the Kingdom, and one of the Lords of the Treasury, and a Peer by the Title of Viscount of
Strathallan,
by Letters Patent 16th
August
1686
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
, and to his Heirs Male for ever. He died in the Month of
January
1688, leaving Issue by
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Archbald Johnston
of
Waristoun, William
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to
Thomas
Earl of
Kinnoul.
Which
William
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Melfort,
and departing this Life 7th
July
1702, was succeeded by
James
his Son and Heir, who died a Youth of great Hopes in his 16th Year at
London,
26th
May
1711, his his Estate devolving to his Cousin the Lord
Duplin,
and the Honour of Viscount, which was to the General's Heirs Male, fell to
William Drummond
of
Machanny,
a remote Relation, tho' the nearest to his Lordship in the Male Line, who became thereby also Lord
Maderty.
He married
Margaret
Daughter of
William
Lord
Nairn,
by whom he has Issue.
STRATHERN, Earl of
Strathern.
THE Title of
Comes de Strathern
is certainly one of the most ancient Dig
ities we can instruct, and no doubt was erected into a
Comitatus
by King
Malcolm Canmore,
when he first divided his Lands, and raised to Honours the best deserving and most loyal of his Subjects, who had been instrumental in his Restauration. In the very oldest Record we have extant, the Foundation-Charter of the Priory of
Scoon
by King
Alexander
I.
Anno
1115
Chron. de Melross Anno 1115, Canonicis tradita est Ecclesia de Scoon.
,
Mallus Comes Strathjerniae
is mentioned among the other
Comites
who gave their Assent and Consent to that Erection
Chartulary of Scoon penes Vicecomitem de Stormont.
. The same Earl
Malise Comes Stradarniae
signaliz'd his Valour very eminently at the Battle of
Standard
Abbas Rivalis, Page 342.
, which the Abbot of
Revel
in his History hath taken particular Notice of. He was succeeded by
Fereth, Comes de Stradern,
his Son, who is a Witness in a Grant by King
Malcolm
IV. to the Convent of
Scoon.
He left Issue Three Sons,
Robert
his Successor in the Honour,
Gilbert
thereafter Earl of
Strathern,
and
Malise
to whom King
William
gave the Lands of
Kincardine
in the County of
Perth,
to be held
de Comite Roberto fratre suo
Charta penes Ducem de Montrose.
.
In the 1200, this pious Earl, by the Perswasion of the then Bishop of
Dumblain,
erected a Convent at
Inchaffery,
and endued it with a sufficient annual Revenue for the Support and Maintenance of a certain Number of Religious Persons to attend the Service of the Church, for the Soul of himself and his Successors for ever
Chartulary of Inchaffery penes Mauritium Murray fratrem Domini Abercairny.
. He married
Mary
Daughter of
William de Aubigni
Ibidem.
Earl of
Albemarle,
by whom he had
Malise
his Son and Heir, and Two Daughters,
Anabella
married to Sir
David Graham
of
Dundaff,
with whom he got the Barony of
Kincardin
Charta penes D. de Montrose.
, and
Matilda
to
Malcolm
Earl of
Fife
Originol Charter of Lands by Earl Gilbert to his Daughter in Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife, Page 96.
.
Which
Malise
made a great Figure in his Time, and was a very warlike Man: By
Mary
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Cummin
of
Badenoch,
he had
Malise
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Mary,
married to Sir
John Murray
of
Drumshargard,
Knight; with her he obtained the Lands of
Ogilvil, Abercairny,
and
Glenshirop
Charta penes D. Abercairny.
, which was afterward ratified by
Malise
Earl of
Strathern,
narrating, That
Malisius quondam Comes de Strathern Pater suus infeodavit Dominum Joannem de Moravia de Drumshargard,
in the foresaid Lands,
cum Mariae de Strathern filiae suae sponsae dicti Domini Joannis.
Malise
the next Earl of
Strathern
was a most hearty Asserter of the Honour and Liberty of his Country in the turbulent Times of the
Bruce
and
Baliol.
He married one of the Co-heirs of the Earl of
Orkney,
by whom he had one Daughter,
Joanna
Countess of
Strathern,
who married the Earl of
Warren
an
English
Lord, which engaged the Lady into Treasonable Practices against her Country; for with sundry unnatural
Scotsmen
she entred into a Conspiracy with the
English
to depose King
Robert,
and subject the Independency of this Nation to the
English
Crown: But the Combination being happily discovered, the Countess and her Associates were forfeited, and the most considerable of the Party, as the Lord
Brichen
and the Lord
Souls,
suffered Death for the same.
The Earldom of
Strathern
being thus vested in the Crown, it was in 1543, bestowed by King
David
the II. upon his great Favourite Sir
Maurice Murray
of
Drumshargard
Mauricio Comite de Strathern is mentioned a Witness in a Charter by King David to William Earl of Sutherland, Anno Regni sui decimo septimo.
, not of
Bothwell,
as our Historians have mistaken.
Thie gallant Earl in the Minority of King
David
II. perform'd many Actions of signal Courage and Bravery in Defence of his Country, and of the Title of his lawful Sovereign, which ought to be very particularly remembred for the Honour of his Memory, but being slain at the Battle of
Durham
on the 17. of
October
1346, and leaving no Issue behind him, his Brother Sir
John Murray
succeeded only to his personal Estate, the Earldom of
Strathern
returning again to the Crown.
STEWART, Earl of
Strathern.
IN the 1367, King
David
II. did dignifie his Nephew
Robert
Lord High-Stewart of
Scotland
with the Title of Earl of
Strathern
In a Charter 5th March, Anno Regni Regis David 38, Robertus Seneschallus Scotiae is so designed, and the first Time I have met with him, Comes de Strathern, penes Dom. Torphichen.
, which he enjoyed, till upon the Demise of his Uncle he came to the Crown, by the Name of
Robert
the II. in the 1371, that his Majesty did then erect the Earldom of
Strathern
into a County Palatine, in favours of Sir
David Steuart,
his eldest by his Second Wife
Eupham,
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Ross,
to be enjoyed by him as freely as any other Earl of
Strathern
had done,
& quod dictus David & haeredes sui teneant & possideant ipsum Comitatum in perpetuum, in liberam Regalitatem, Tertio
Julii,
Anno Regni nostri primo.
He left a Daughter
Eupham
his Heir, who, I have observ'd, was designed
Comitissa Palotinae de Strathern.
She married Sir
Patrick Graham,
Son of
Patrick
Lord
Graham,
who in her Right was Earl of
Strathern.
Their Son
Malise
was also Earl of
Strathern:
But King
James
I. having recover'd that Earldom from him, as belonging to the Royal Patrimony, his Majesty in lieu thereof, and of his Royal Bounty gave him the Earldom of
Monteith, September
6th, 1428.
LYON, Earl of
Strathmore.
SIR
Patrick Lyon
Lord
Carse,
a learned Lawyer, and a Lord of the Session in the Time of King
James
VII. wrote a History of this noble Family, from which he himself had the Honour to be descended, wherein he deduces thei
Origin from an illustrious and very ancient Family, call,d
D' Lyon
in
France;
a Branch whereof settled in
Scotland
above Five hundred Years ago, and had by the Bounty of one of our Kings, sundry Lands in the Shire of
Perth,
which were called
Glen-Lyon,
after their own Sirname, whose Successor Sir
John Lyon
got from King
David
II. the Baronies of
Forteviot
and
Forgundeny
in
Perth
-shire, the Lands of
Courtestoun
and
Drumgovan
in
Aberdeen
-shire,
propter fortem & fidelem operam sibi & Patri s
o praestitam
Charta penes C. de Strathmore.
.
Sir
John Lyon
his Son being a Man of of very good Parts and Qualities, and a very graceful and comely Person, was a great Favourite of King
Robert
II. for upon that Prince's Accession to the Crown, he gave him the Lands of the Thanedom of
Glamis
in
Forfar
-shire,
propter laudabili & fideli servitio & continuis labor
us,
as the Charter bears, 7th
January
1374
Ibidem.
, and not long after preferred him to be Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland,
upon the Removal of Mr.
Walter Biggar
Parson of
Errol
Memoirs of the Chamberlain
of Scotland MS. penes me.
, and bestow'd his Daughter the Lady
Jean
upon him in Marriage, and at the same Time the Barony of
Kinghorn nomine dotis,
in which the King designs him,
carissimo filio nostro Joanni Lyon militi camerario Scotiae.
In the 1382. the Lord Chamberlain was sent Ambassador to
England;
upon his Return he had the Misfortune to fall into a fatal Quarrel with Sir
James Lindsay
of
Crawfurd,
by whom he was slain at the Moss of
Balhal,
to the great Regret of the King, who could never be prevail'd with to pardon Sir
James,
tho' he was his own Nephew by his Sister. By the Lady
Jean Steuart
his Wife he left Issue,
John
his only Son and Heir, who being young at his Father's Death, the King his Grandfather took him into his own immediate Care and Patronage,
Terras suas, homines suos, & universas possessiones, omnia bona sua mobilia & immobilia,
strictly inhibiting and discharging any to harm him under the highest Penalty the Law could inflict. He married
Mary
Daughter of
Patrick Graham
Earl of
Strathern,
by whom he had
Patrick
his Son and Heir, who was sent to
England
in 1423. one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I.
Rymer's Foedera Angliae.
He was of the Privy Council to King
James
II. by whom he was preferred to be Master of the Houshold, upon the Promotion of
William
Lord
Crechtoun
to be Chancellor, 1452
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
, and giving Way to Fate in the 1459
Lord Carse's Account of the Family of Strathmore.
, left Issue by
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
Alexander Ogilvie
of
A
chterhouse
Ibidem.
,
Alexander
his Successor,
John Lyon
of
Courtestoun,
thereafter Lord
Glamis,
and
William,
of whom are descended both the
Lyons
of
Easter
and
Wester-Ogil
Ibidem.
.
Which
Alexander
married
Agnes
Daughter of
William
Lord
Crichtoun,
and dying without Issue in 1473
Ibidem.
, his Estate and Honour devolved on
John
his Brother and Heir, who, upon the Accession of King
James
IV. to the Crown, was named one of the Lords of the Privy Council, and constituted Justiciary of
Scotland, Anno
1489
Charta in Pub. Arch. likewise the Black Acts of Parliament.
, and departing this Life
Anno
1497
Lord Carse's Account of the Family of Strathmore.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
John Scrimzeor
Constable of
Dundee, John
his Son and Heir,
David Lyon
first of the Family of
Cossins,
and a Daughter
Christian,
married to
William
Earl of
Errol.
Which
John
married
Eliz.
Daughter of
Andrew
Lord
Gray,
and had
George
his Successor, and
John
who succeeded to his Brother, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to
John
Master of
Forbes,
and dying in 1500, was succeeded by
George
his Son and Heir, who dying in his Minority,
Anno
1505, his Estate and Honour came to
John
his Brother, who married
Jean
Daughter of
George
Master of
Angus,
and dying a young Man in his 37th Year, on the 8th of
August
1528
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who in the Year 1537. when but a Boy, was convicted of High Treason, in that with his Mother he had conspir'd the Death of the King. By the Sentence he is declared to have been guilty
Arte & Parte proditoriae Conciliationis, non Revelationis proditoriae Imaginationis, & Destructionis nobilissimae Personae Serenissimi Domini nostri Regis per venenum:
His Estate being forfeited, it was annexed to the Crown,
Anno
1540
Records of the Court of Justiciary.
, and the Sentence of Death, by reason of his Youth, was suspended; yet he was order'd to remain in Prison till he was of Age, and then to be executed. The young Gentleman's Case was much pitied; for he was only a Boy, and could not be thought to have any Malice in his Heart against the King, or any Body else. The true Cause was thought to be the Resentment the King carried against the Earl of
Angus,
whose Sister this young Lord's Mother was, and who suffered Death for the Crime afore-mentioned: But upon the Death of King
James
V. in the first Parliament of Queen
Mary, Anno
1543, held by the Earl of
Arran
the Governor, the Lord
Glamis
's Forfeiture was reduced, and he restor'd to his Estate and Honour
Records of Parliament 1543, in the Laigh Parliament-House MS.
. He married
Janet
Daughter of
William
Earl
Marishal,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, Sir
Thomas Lyon
of
Auldbar,
Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
James
VI. and a Daughter
Margaret,
married first to
Gilbert
Earl of
Cassils,
and after his Death, to
John
Marquis of
Hamilton,
and giving Way to Fate in 1558, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
John
his Son, who being a Nobleman of great Parts and Learning, was preferred to be Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland
in 1575, upon the Demise of the Earl of
Argyle;
and he held the Office till he was killed by a Pistolshot in a Tumult on the Street of
Siirling, March
7th 1577. The King sustained a wonderful Loss in his Death, he being a Man of great Wisdom and Temper, and one very universally lov'd and esteem'd. Bishop
Spot swood
speaking of that dismal Accident, says,
The Death of the Chancellor was much lamented, falling out in the Time when the King and Country stood in most Need of his Service: He had carried himself with much Commendation in his Place, and acquired a great Authority. Most careful was
e to have Peace conserv'd both in the Country and Church, and labour'd much to have the Question of Church-Policy settled; upon which Subject he interchanged divers Letters with
Theodore Beza, a learned foreign Divine. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Abernethy
of
Saltoun,
by whom he had
Patrick
his Son and Heir; also several Daughters.
Jean,
married to
Robert Douglas
younger of
Lochlevin,
Son and Heir apparent to
William
Earl of
Mortoun;
next, to
Archibald
Earl of
Angus,
and after that to
Alexander
first Lord
Spainzie.
Elizabeth,
to
Patrick
Lord
Gray, sans Issue.
Which
Patrick
being one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
James
VI. and a Person of Fame and Reputation for Prudence and Integrity, was named one of the Commissioners on the Part of
Scotland
to treat of an Union with
England
1604
B. Spotswood's Church-History.
, and by his Majesty's most gracious Favour, was by Letters Patent bearing Date 10th
July
1606, created Earl of
Kinghorn
Charta in Pub. Arch.
. He married
Ann
Daughter of
John
1st Earl of
Tillybardin
by whom he had
John
his Successor,
James Lyon
of
Auldbar, Frederick,
of whom issued the Branch of the
Lyons
of
Brigtoun,
and a Daughter
Ann,
married to
William
Earl of
Errol;
and departing this Life on the 19th of
December
1615, was succeeded in his Estate and Honour by
John
his Son, who married first
Margaret
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Mar,
by whom he had no Issue, and again
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Patrick
1st Earl of
Panmure,
by whom he had
Patrick
his Successor, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married to
Charles
1st Earl of
Aboyne.
He died on the 12th
May
1647
Lord Carse's Account of the Family of Strathmore.
, and was succeeded by
Patrick
his Son, who with the Consent and Approbation of his Majesty King
Charles
II. did change his Title from
Kinghorn
to
Srathmore.
He was one of the Lords of the Privy Council both in this and the succeeding Reign of King
James
VII. and one of the Four Extraordinary Lords of the Session. He married
Helen
Daughter of
John
1st Earl of
Middleton,
by whom he had
John
his Successor, Master
Patrick Lyon
of
Auchterhouse;
also Two Daughters,
Grissel
married to
David
Earl of
Airly,
and
Elizabeth
first to
Charles
Earl of
Aboyne,
and after to
Patrick
Lord
Kinnaird;
and dying in the 1695, was succeeded by,
John
Earl of
Strathmore
his Son, who married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Philip
Earl of
Chesterfield,
of the Kingdom of
England;
and departing this Life the 10th of
May
1712, left Issue by his Lady aforesaid,
Patrick
Lord
Glamis,
who died a very hopeful Youth,
Philip,
who died likewise Lord
Glamis,
not long before his Father,
John
his Successor, the present Earl of
Strathmore,
Charles,
James,
Thomas,
Lady
Helen
married to
Robert
Lord
Blantyre.
Lady
Mary.
ARMS.
Argent.
A Lyon rampant.
Azure,
armed and langued Gules within a double Tressure, flower'd and counterflower'd of the Second. The Supporters, an Unicorn
Argent.
on the Dexter, and on the Sinister a Lyon rampant,
Gules.
Crest, A Lady above the Middle, holding in her Hand a Thistle,
Vert,
encircled with a Garland of Bay proper. Motto,
In te Domine speravi.
SUTHERLAND, Earl of
Sutherland
THERE is a particular History written of this noble ancient Family in
English,
by a very able Pen, the Learned Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Gordonstoun,
Baronet; and very accurately epitomiz'd by Mr.
Ross,
in
Latin
the Author of the
Pansebeia;
wherein both Sir
Robert
and Mr.
Ross
have been at much Pains to vouch the Antiquity, and illustrate the Descent of the Earls of
Sutherlands,
and they have done it so well, and instructed it so clear, that the Peerage of this illustrious Family is not only one of the oldest with us in
Scotland,
but for what I know of any other Nation of
Europe.
And I can't but remark, that our Historians do make mention, that the Family of
Sutherland
were Thanes before the Title of Earl was introduced among us; for not only Sir
Robert Gordon
and Mr.
Ross,
but even our publick National Historians do take Notice, That
Allan
Thane of
Sutherland,
a brave and warlike Man, gave a very signal Defeat to a Detachment of the
Danish
Army who invaded the Country of
Sutherland,
and that he was cruelly put to Death and murdered under the Usurpation of
Macbeth,
for his firm Adherence to his rightful Sovereign King
Malcolm Canmore,
King
Duncan
's Son, and for endeavouring to set him on his Father's Throne; and when in Providence that was happily brought about, that heroick and generous Prince thought it but just to restore the Children of such who had been forfeited on his Account during the Usurpation; and therefore,
Walter,
the Son of
Allan
Thane of
Sutherland,
in Memory of his Father's Merit, as well as his own signal Services in contributing toward the Restoration, was not only restored to his Estate and Honour, but was likewise one of those whom that King further dignify'd with the then introduc'd Title of Earl 1057
Sir Robert Gordon, Buchanan, and Hume.
, and dying 1097, was succeeded by,
Robert
his Son and Heir who built the Castle of
Dunrobin,
which he called after his own Name, which is still the principal Seat of this noble Family. This Earl was imployed to apprehend
Harold
Earl of
Caithness,
who had committed a very horrible and barbarous Murder upon the Bishop of
Caithness,
whom he brought to exemplary Justice. He was succceeded by,
Hugh
his Son, call'd for Distinction
Hugh Friskin,
i. e.
Hugh with the ready Whinger,
because he was a bold daring Man. He attack'd the
Danes
when they invaded his Country, whom he de
eat in Battle at
Embo
in
Sutherland,
and slew their General.
To
Hugh
Earl of
Sutherland
succeeded
William
his Son, who died 1248, and was succeeded by
William
his Son who in the Reign of King
Alexander
II. enter'd into a solemn Agreement with
Archibald
then Bishop of
Caithness,
wherein both Parties narrate, That there had been a long Dispute and Controversy
inter venerabiles Patres Predecessores nostros,
Gilbertum, Willielmum,
&
Walterum,
bonae memoriae, Episcopos
Cathaniae,
ex una parte, & nobiles viros
Willielmum
clarae memoriae, &
Willielmum
ejus filium, Comites Sutherlandiae,
relative to the Lands of
Skilbo, Pronsie, Therbolt,
and Others claimed by the Chapter of that See, which after a long Dispute was amicably composed by a solemn Agreement, dated
decimo Kalendarum Octobris
1275
Gordon.
. This Earl the younger made a very great Figure in the Reign of
Alexander
III. in the 1284, he is one of the
Magnates Scotiae,
who solemnly bound themselves with their Oaths and Seals, That in Default of Male Issue of the King's Body, to acknowledge and receive
Margaret
Daughter of
Erick
King of
Norway,
King
Alexander
's Grandchild by his Daughter, as their Sovereign and Queen of
Scotland
Rymer.
. And when the Succession did take Place in the Person of that young Princess, thro' the Demise of her Grandfather, this noble Earl was one of the Peers who addressed King
Edward
I. of
England,
That a Treaty of Marriage might be set on Foot betwixt his Son the Prince of
Wales
and the young Queen of
Scotland,
whereby the Two Kingdoms might be for ever unite under one Sovereign; but the Death of the young Princess falling out soon thereafter, the Treaty which was concluded, had no Effect. When the Competition happened about the Succession to the Crown betwixt
Robert Bruce
and
John Baliol,
the Earl of
Sutherland
was one of those great Men who were appointed to go to
Berwick
to hear King
Edward
's Decision of that grand Affair; the Determination of which had been referred to him. Upon the breaking out of the War thereafter, he was firm to that Side which did most regard the Honour, Interest, and Independency of his Country, and was very assistant in bringing King
Robert the Bruce
to, and maintaing him on the Throne. He did in a very eminent Manner signalize his Valour and Courage at the famous Battle of
Banno
kburn,
whereby the Slavery and Usurpation under which
Scotland
had long groand, was gloriously redem'd and retriev'd. The same Earl is one of the Peers, who, with other great Men of the Kingdom, wrote that memorable Letter to the Pope in 1320, to which all of them put their Seals; a rare Piece of Antiquity. The learned Mr.
Anderson
has with great Exactness and Curiosity caused finely engrave it on Copper-Plate in his elaborate Treatise,
De Rebus Diplomaticis Scotiae,
collected and published by him at the Command of the Parliament of
Scotland,
under the Title of
Litera Communitatis Scotiae ad Papam, A. D.
1320.
To
William
Earl of
Sutherland
succeeded
Kenneth
his Son, who was very faithful to King
David Bruce,
as his Father had been to King
Robert,
in whose Service, and in that of his Country (for they were inseparable) he lost his Life fighting gallantly at the Battle of
Halidon-hill,
where he commanded the Van of the Army, on the 19th of
July
1333 (
c
), leaving Issue,
William
his Son and Heir, and
Nicol,
of whom the
Sutherlands
of the Family of
Duffus
are derived.
Which
William
was one of those valiant and loyal Peers who accompanied King
David
to the Battle of
Durham Anno
1346, and was taken Prisoner with him. After the Earl's Releasment he was one of the
Scots
Plenipotentiaries, authoriz'd to treat with the
English
anent the Redemption of the King; and when that Treaty prov'd successful,
Alexander
the Earl of
Sutherland
's Son and Heir was sent to
England
one of the Hostages for the Ransom, and how soon the King took Journey for his own Dominions, he was met and attended by certain of the Nobility with a great Retinue, of which Number this noble Earl, who had the Honour to be his Brother-in-law, was one. He married the Lady
Margaret Bruce,
Daughter of King
Robert
I. and Sister of the full Blood to King
David
the II. from whom he obtained a very noble Charter, on the 10th of
November
1347, to himself and his Wife the Lady
Margaret
the King's Sister, which is still preserved in the Annals of this illustrious Family, as well as our national Records,
Willielmo Comiti de Sutherland, & Margaret
sponsae suae, carissimae sorori nostrae, quod ipsi & haeredes legi
imae inter ipsos procreand, habeant, tenean. & possideant totum Comitatum
Sutherlandiae,
in liberam Regalitatem in perpetuum.
By the Lady
Margaret Bruce
aforesaid his Wife, he had
Alexander
his his eldest Son, who died in
England
one of the Hostages for the Ransom of the King his Uncle, in the Li
etime of his Father, and
John,
called
John
orn out of Time
by the
Highlanders,
his Successor in the Earldom. This noble Earl
John
signalised his Courage during the War betwixt the two Nations, in the Reign of King
Robert
II. particularly in the 1380, together with the Lord
Galloway
he entred
England,
spoiled
Cumberland,
and returned with a great Booty, and dying
Anno
1389 le
t Issue by
Mabella
his Wife, Daughter to the Earl of
March, Nicolas
his Successor, and
Hector,
of whom the
Sutherlands
of
Dalrite.
Which
Nicolas
was a Person of great Courage and Conduct, which he manifested very much in those turbulent Times in which he lived. He married . . . . . . . Daughter to the Lord of the Isses, by whom he had
Robert
his Successor,
John
of whom the
Sutherlands
of
Berindale,
and
Kenneth,
of whom came the
Sutherlands
of
Forse,
and departing this Life
Anno
1399, was succeeded by
Robert
his Son, who signalized his Valour and Courage at the Battle of
Hamildon
against the
English, Anno
1401. This Earl had many Contests with his Neighbours the
Mackays,
which prov'd fatal to the Latter; and tho he lived in very turbulent Times, he had the Happiness, by his Prudence and Conduct, to preserve his Country both from Faction and Invasion. He marrid . . . . . . . Daughter of
Thomas Dunbar
Earl of
Murray,
by her he had
John
his Successor, and
Kenneth Sutherland
of
Torish,
and dying
Anno
1442, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
William Baillie
of
Lamingtoun,
by whom he had
Alexander
Master of
Sutherland,
who died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving no Issue save a Daughter
Marjorie,
married to
William
Earl of
Orkney
and
Caithness, John
the next Earl,
Nicolas
and
Thomas;
also two Daughters,
Jean
married to Sir
James Dunbar
of
Cum
ock,
and
Elizabeth
to . . . . . .
Meld
um
of that Ilk. He died in the 1460, and was succeeded by
John
his Son, who married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Ross,
by her he had
John
his Successor in the Earldom, who died without Issue,
Anno
1508, and a Daughter
Elizabeth
Countess of
Sutherland,
who was her Brother's Heir both in his Estate and Honour. She married
Adam Gor don
of
A
oyne,
Son of
George
Earl of
Hu
tley,
who it appears plainly according to the Custom with us, was only in the Lady's R
ght Earl of
Sutherland.
This
Adam
and the Countess his Wife did resign the Earldom of
Sutherland
in the Hands of King
James
V. in Favours of
Alexander
Master of
Sutherland
their Son, who thereupon obtain'd a Charter under the Great Seal, of the same which heritably belonged to the Countess his Mother, to be held as freely and as honourably by him
in omnibus, & per omnia, ficut dicta E
izabetha, vel predecessores sui dictum Commitatum tenuerunt se
poss
derunt, reservato tamen
iber
tenemento totius dicti Comitatus & suis pertinen dictae Elizabethae Comi
issae de Sutherland, & Adae Gordon sponso suo, pro toto tempore vitae suae, ratione Curialitatis Scotiae,
dated 15th
December
1527. This Master of
Sutherland
married
Janet Stewart
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Ath
le,
by whom he had a Son,
John,
who succeeded to the Earldom on the Demise of his Gandmother, and Grandfather, whom Death overtook the 7th of
March
1537. This Earl was a Man of great Parts, and most zealously affected to the
Roman
Catholick Church at the Beginning of the Reformation, insomuch as the Queen Regent made him Governor and Lieutenant of the Kingdom from
Spey
Northward, and of the Shires of
Murray
and
Ross,
and got him made a Knight of St.
Michael
by
Henry
III of
France,
to whose Interest he was very well affected. He married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
Archbald
Earl of
Argyle,
Widow of
James
Earl of
Murray,
but had no Issue by her; next,
Helen
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Lennox,
Countess Dowger of
Errol,
by whom he had
Alexander
his Successor and a Daughter,
Janet,
married to
Robert Innes
of that Ilk, and last of all,
Marion,
Daughter of
George
Lord
Seton,
Rel
ct of
William
Earl of
Monteith,
but by her he had no Issue; and giving Way to Fate in the Month of
July
1567, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who married first
Barbara
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Caithness,
and again
Jean
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Huntley,
formerly the Wi
e of
James
Earl of
Bothwell,
by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, Sir
Robert Gordon
of
Gordonstoun
Baronet, Sir
Alexander Gordon
of
Averdale
Knight; also two Daughters,
Jean
married to
Hugh Mackay
of
Fare,
and
Margaret
to
David Ross
of
Balnagown.
He died the 6th of
December
1594, his Estate and Honour devolving on
John
his Son, who married
Ann
Daughter of
John
Lord
Elphingstoun,
by whom he had
John
his Successor; also two Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to Sir
James Crichton
of
Frendraught,
and
Ann
to Sir
Gilbert Menzies
of
Pitfoddel;
and departing this Life the 4th of
December
1615, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who being educated in the Protestant Religion, was very zealous in that Communion, insomuch as he was one of the Peers who were most violent against the Liturgy and the Service-book, which the King introduced in the 1637; and from the Beginning of the Troubles to the very End of the War, he adhered to the Parliament with great Firmness and Constancy, and with as full a Zeal as any Man of that Time; and when the Parliament 1649 would no longer trust the Privy Seal in the Hands of the Earl of
Roxburgh,
who was deprived by the Act of Classes, they preferred the Earl of
Sutherland
to it, who kindly accepted it as a Testimony of their Favour, and he held the Place till all the Offices of State were supprest by
Oliver Cromwell.
This noble Lord married
Jean
only Daughter of
James
1st Earl of
Perth,
by whom he had
George
his Son and Heir, a Nobleman of great Goodness and most exemplary Virtue, who throughout his whole Life had the Reputation of a Person of singular Integrity. He married
Jean
Daughter of
David
Earl of
Weems,
Widow of
Archibald
Lord
Angus,
an eminent and devout Lady, by whom he had
John
his Successor, and a Daughter
Anne
married to
Robert
Viscount of
Arbuthnot,
and departing this Life 4th
March
1703, was interred at the
Abbay
Church of
Holyroodhouse,
where a sumptuous Monument is erected to
is Memory.
Which
John
was one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
William,
during whose Reign he had the Command of a Regiment of Foot. His Lordship was also of the Privy Council to Queen
Anne,
by whom he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Treaty of Union with
England,
on the Conclusion of which he was chosen one of the Sixteen Peers to the first Parliament of
Great Britain;
and after the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, the Earl was named Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of
Inverness, Elgin, Nairn, Cromarty, Ross, Sutherland
and
Caithness,
and Stewartries of
Orkney
and
Zetland, Anno
1715. He married first
Helen
Daughter of
William
Lord
Cochran,
by whom he had Issue,
William
Lord
Strathnaver.
Lady
Jean
married to
John
Lord
Maitland.
Lady
Helen.
He married next Dame
Katharine Talmash,
Widow of
James
Lord
Down,
but by her he had no Issue.
John
Lord
Strathnaver
married
Katharine
Daughter of
William Morison
of
Prestongrange,
by whom he has Issue,
John
Master of
Strathnaver.
ARMS.
Gules, Three Mollets, within a double Tressure, flour'd and counterflour'd,
Or,
This ancient Family bears a double Treassure, as descended from a Daughter of King Robert I. which as this illustrious Descent is nobly documented by the Earl's own Charters, so 'tis very Honourably attested by the Crown, in the Warrant to the Lord Lyon for that Effect.
Supporters, Two Savages wreathed about the Head and Loins with Laurel, holding Batons in their Hands. Crest, a Cat. Motto,
Without Fear.
WALTER SCOT, Earl of
Tarras.
WAS of a very ancient and worthy Family, of the
Scots
of
Harden
in
Roxburgh
-Shire. Mr.
Scot
being a young Gentleman of good Parts and Breeding, and of a competent Fortune for a younger Brother, was preferred to the Marriage of the eldest Daughter and Heiress of
Francis
Earl of
Buccleugh,
the Lady Mary
Scot;
whereupon he was by King
Charles
II. dignified with the Title of Earl of
Tarras
for his own Lifetime, by Letters Patent, bearing Date the 4th of
September
1660.
RUTHERFORD, Earl of
Teviot.
LIEUTENANT General
Thomas Rutherford,
being first honoured by King
Charles
II. with the Title of Lord
Rutherford,
to him and his Heirs and Assignies, as I observed on that Pe
r
ge, was further dignified by his said Majesty, with the Honour of Earl of
Teviot:
But the Title of Earl being restricted to the Heirs Male of the General's own Body, it expir'd with himself,
Ma
4th, 1664.
ROB. SPENCER, Viscount of
Teviot.
THE Honour of Viscount of
Teviot
was conferred by King
VII.
1686, upon
Robert
Lord
, eldest Son of
Robert
Earl of
Sunderland,
of the Kingdom of
England;
but his Lordship dying in
France
unmarried, in the Lifetime of his Father, the Title became extinct.
THO. LIVINGSTON, Viscount of
Teviot.
THE next who was dignified with this Title, was Sir
Thomas Livingston,
Son of Sir
Alexander Livingston
Baronet; who, tho' he liv'd in
Holland,
yet was of the most ancient Extract of the
Livingstons
of
Jerviswood
in
Lanerkshire
in this Kingdom.
Sir
Thomas
from his Youth dedicated himself to the Profession of a Soldier, under the Prince of
Orange,
the late King
William;
and having serv'd in several lesser Commands with great Reputation for Courage, was made Colonel of a Regiment of Foot in the Prince of
Orange
's Expedition to
Britain.
Upon the Prince's coming to the Crown, Sir
Thomas Livingston
had the Command of a Regiment of Dragoons, wherewith having performed many Actions of signal Courage and Conduct, he was sometime thereafter preferred to be Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces in
Scotland,
and named one of the Lords of the Privy Council. King
William
had so great a Value for him, that besides the particular Marks of his Favour, which on many Occasions he evidenced to him before, as a further Instance of his gracious Favour, was pleased to honour him with the Title of Viscount of
Teviot,
by Letters Patent 4th of
December:
1698.
Charta in Rotulis R. Will.
, and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever: But his Lordship had the same Fate with his Predecessors in this Title to leave no Issue behind him; for he died at
London
on the 14th of
January
1711, in the 60th Year of his Age, and was inter'd at the Abbay of
Westminster,
where Sir
Alexander Livingston
his Brother, who was his Heir, caused erect a noble Monument to his Memory.
MURRAY, Earl of
Tillybardin.
THE Ancestor of this illustrious and most noble Family, was one
Friskinus,
a great Baron in the Northern Parts, in the Time of King
Malcolm,
whose Son
William
took the Sirname
de Moravia
from the County of
Murray,
which was his own Inheritance by Descent, and left a Son
William
his Heir,
Willielmus de Moravia, filius Willielmi filii Friskini,
whose Son Sir
Malcom de Moravia,
Kt . was possest of a fair Estate in the County of
Perth,
in the Time of King
Alexander
II. and elsewhere, who by his Charter gave
Willielmo de Moravia filio suo totas Terras suas de
Lamabude
coram A. Episcopo Moraviae, Willielmo de Haya de Locheruard, & Michaele de Weems Militibus
Charta penes Ducem de Athole.
. The same noble Person, design'd afterward
Dominus Willielmus de Moravia Miles, filius Domini Malcolmi de Moravia Militis,
got the Barony of
Tillybardine
by the Marriage of
Adda
Daughter of Sir
Henry Senescal de Strathern,
by
Mauriel
his Wife, Daughter and Heir of
Congal
Baron of
Tillybardine
Confirm. Alexandri Regis Scotorum, quod Robertus Comes de Strathern fecit Congal filio Duncani silii Malcolmi, de illis Terris in villa sua Cacherlanach, quae dicitur Tillybardine, Teste Williclmo Episcopo Glasguensi Cancellario, Tertio Aprilis Anno Reg
Regis vicesimo.
, which was ratified to Sir
William Murray
by
Henricus filius quondam Domini Malissi Seneschalli de Strathern, illam Donationem quam Domina Mauriella mater mea, filta Congal, dedit & concessit Domin
Willielmo de Moravia, filio Domini Malcolmi de Moravia, & Addae filiae dictae Dominae Mauriellae, sororis meae, de Tillybardine, secundum tenorem Chartae quam dictus Dominus Willielmus & Adda soror mea habent de praedicta Mauriella maire mea, apud
Duffally,
die Martis, in Vigilia omnium Sanctorum, Anno Aerae
llesimo ducentesimo octogesimoo quarto.
F
om this Sir
William
the Line of the Family of
Tillybardine
being regularly deduced on the House of
Athol,
I shall not repeat what is there said; only for illustrating the Title here, 'tis necessary to observe, that
William
the 2d Earl of
Tillybardine
succeeding to the Dignity of Earl of
Athol,
in Right of his Wife
Dorothea,
the eldest of the Four Daughters, and Coheirs of
John
5th Earl of
Athol
of the
Stewartine
Line, did in the 1626. resign the Title of Earl of
Tillybardine,
to the End it might be conferred on his Brother Sir
Patrick Murray,
which his Majesty King
Charles
I. was pleased to do by Letters Patent 31st
January
1628. He married
Elizabeth
Daughter of . . . .
Dent,
Esq
by whom he had
James
his Successor, and
William Murray
Esq
a young Man of great Magnanimity and Courage, who was put to Death at
St. Andrews,
after
Philiphaugh,
for being in Arms under the Marquis of
Montrose,
whose Memory ought to be patricularly honoured and preserved.
Which
James
married first
Lilias
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Perth,
and again
Lilias
Daughter of Sir
James Drummond
of
Machany;
but dying without Issue, both his Estate and Honour devolved on
John
Marquis of
Athole.
SANDILANDS, Lord
Torphichen.
IN the 17th Year of the Reign of King
David
the II.
Anno
1346,
Willielmus de Douglas Dom. ejusdem loci,
gave
dilecto Armigero suo Jacobo de Sandilands, pro homagio & servitio suo, omnes Terras suas de Sandilands & Reidmyre per suas rectas Metas & divisas antiquas infra dominium Vallis de Douglas
(c). This gallant Man did very eminent Service to the Crown in the War with
England
in that Reign, in which he did very notably signalize his Valour in several bold Encounters under the Conduct of the brave Lord
Douglass,
in which they had always the better of the Enemy, I presume it was in Consideration of his great Worth and Virtue, that the Lord
Douglas
bestowed upon him his Sister the Lady
Eleanor Bruce
in Marriage, and with her he gave him
totam Baroniam de
Wester-Calder,
Charta penes D. Torphicnen.
cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, in liberam Moritagiam, & eorum haeredibus mascults
eu faemellis inter se pro creandis, in fendo & haereditate in per petuum, adeo libere, quiete, integre, honorifice, sicut ego aut Prederessores mei dictam baroatam de Domino Duncano Comite de
Fife,
liberius aut quietius tenui vel ten
crunt.
By the said noble Lady he had Issue,
James
his Successor, and
married to Sir
Gilbert Kennedy
of
Dunnure.
Which
James
being a Person of great Honour an Merit, was made a Knight by King
Robert
the II. who had a great Value and Esteem of him, insomuch as he gave him the Lady
Jean,
one of his own lawful Daughters, in Marriage; about which time the King gave
& fideli suo Jacobo de Sandiiands mi
iti baroniam de
Dalyel
&
Modervile,
baroniam de
Wistoun,
cum perti
n, infra Vic. de
Lanerk,
terr as de
Otter bannock
&
Erthby sat,
& de
Slamenen
infra Vic. de
Strivelyn, which Sir
James
himself resigned
tenend. & habend. eidem Domino Jacobo & Johannae filiae meae charissimae, quam idem Dominus Jacobus Deo Duce ducet in
xorem
Datum apud Edinb. vicesimo die Novembris, Anno Regni Regis decimo quarto.
, and the next ensuing Year, when the Marriage was solemnized, the King his Father in Law did by his Royal Deed discharge and make over
dilecto filis suo Jacobo Sandilands militi illas quadr
ginta solidas Sterling
rum nobis debit. pro Castri war da bar
niae de
Calder,
tenend. & habend. eidem Jacobo & Johannae sponsae suae filiae nostrae charissimae, & haeredibus inter ipsos legi
ime procreat seu procreandis
Datum apud Calder vicefimo quarto die Maii, Anno Regni nostri decimo quarto.
in perpetuum.
By the Lady
Jean
his Wife he had
James
his Son and Heir, whom King
Robert,
in a Right to him of the Barony of
Cavers,
designs
dilecto nepoti suo
Charta penes Dom. Torphichen.
. The same Sir
James,
design'd
Dominus de Calder,
was one of the Barons who attended King
James
the I. from
Durham
home to
Scotland,
when he was released from his Captivity in
England,
and was after that one of the Hostages for the King's Ransom
Rymera Foedera Angliae.
, and dying in 1434, was succeeded by
Sir
John Sandilands
Lord of
Calder
his Son, who was infeft in the Lands of
Sandilands,
upon his Superior the Earl of
Douglass
's Precept
Charta penes D. Torphichen.
. This noble Person was in great Favour with his Sovereign King
James
II. who looked on him as a Man of great Honour and Integrity, and being superior to all Temptation of Infidelity, he was by the dark Contrivance of the Earl of
Douglass,
most barbarously assassinated by an obscure Fellow on
Thor
toun,
within the Verge of the Court,
Anno
1456
Drummond's History of King James II. likewise Bucnanan.
, leaving Issue by . . . . Daughter of . . . . . his Wife,
John
his Son and Heir, who in the 1446. made over his Estate to Sir
James
his Son and Heir apparent who married first
Margaret
Daughter and Heir of
John Kinolch
of
Crovy
Charta penes D. Torphichen.
, by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir apparent, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter and Coheir of Sir
James Scrimzeor
of
Duddop
Charta in Pub.
rch. ad Annum 1478, collected by Scotstarvet, MS. penes me, when he was Director, of the Chancery.
, a Son
James,
who was his Grandfather's Successor in the hereditary Estate of the Family, who carried on the Line of this noble House. Sir
James
the old Man married to his 2d Wife,
Margaret
Daughter of . . . . .
K
r
of . . . . by whom he had Sir
James Sandilands,
the First of the
Saint M
nans
Branch, the Ancestor of the Family of
Abercromby
Charta penes D. Torphichen ad Annum 1506.
in the County of
Fife.
To Sir
James Sandilands
of
Calder
succeeded Sir
James
his Grandson, who was a Person of great Wisdom and of the most exemplary Piety and Virtue. He married
Marion
Daughter of
Archibald Forrester
of
Corstorphin
Charta in Pub. Arch. etiam penes D. Torphichen.
, by whom he had
John
his Successor in the Barony of
Calder,
and Sir
James Sandilands
Lord
St. John;
also several Daughters.
Alison
married to Sir
John Cockburn
of
Ormistoun,
Kt.
Ibidem.
and had Issue.
Margaret,
to
William Wauchop
of
Niddery
Ibidem.
, and had Issue:
Of these Sons Sir
James
the younger being the Person who was first raised to this Honour, I shall for that Reason be a little more particular in my Memoirs of him.
Sir
James Sandilands
being a young Man of good Parts, and bred a Scholar, was by Sir
Walter Lindsay
Lord
St. John
recommended to the Great Master of the Order of the Knights of
Malta,
as a Person well qualified to be his Successor in the Preceptory of
Torphichen;
and Mr.
Sandilands
travelling into those Parts, and having resided for some Years at the Isle of
Malta,
he gave such Proofs of his Learning and Sufficiency for the Discharge of that Function, that he was with all the necessary Forms received by the Grand P
io
of the Hospital and his Chapter, to be one of the Knights of that ancient military Order, and inaugurate future Successor to Sir
Walter Lindsay,
by whose Death in the 1543. he was fully invested in the Title, Power, and Jurisdiction of Lord
St. John
of
Jerusalem
in
Scotland,
and intirely in the Possession of the Revenue thereof, which was very great, and spread through the whole Kingdom. Sir
James
being looked on as a Man of a wonderful Gravity and Wisdom was employed, both in the Time of King
James
V. and Queen
Mary,
in several Embassies, as in
England
and in
France,
in which Negotiations he behaved with great P
udence and Dexterity.
Upon the great Change which fell out at the Time of the Reformation, the Lord
St. John
renounced Popery, and embraced the Protestant Religion; and having resigned the Lordship of
St. John
in the Hands of Queen
Mary,
her Highness was graciously pleased, in Consideration of Sir
James
's great Merit and Services, to grant and dispone heritably to him, his Heirs and Assigneys, the foresaid Lordship and hail Preceptory of
Torphichen,
for the Sum of Ten thousand Crowns of the Sun, which he presently paid down, besides an yearly Annuity of Five hundred Merks, which was then erected into the Lordship of
Torphichen,
by a Charter under the Great Seal 24th of
January
1563
Ibidem.
. He married
Janet
Daughter of . . . . .
Murray
of
Polmais
Ibidem.
, but dying without Issue, his Estate and Honour of Lord
Torphichen
devolved to
James Sandilands
of
Calder
his Great Nephew
This noble Person so succeeding was the Son o
Sir James Sandilands of Calder, by Jean his Wife Daughter of James Lord Ross, and he of Jo
n Sandilands of Calder, Elder Brother to James Lord St. John the first Lord Torphichen, by Margaret his Wi
e, Daug
ter of Sir Robert Barton of Over-barton, Lord High-Treasurer of Scotland in the Reign of King James V. The same John, by Jean his 2d Wife, Daughter of John Lord Fleeming, had Sir James Sandilands of Slamenen, one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to King James VI. of w
om frequent Mention is made in the History of that Reign by Dr. John Spotsw
od Archbishop of St. Andrews.
, who married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
James Heriot
of
Trabroun,
and after that
Mary
Daughter of
Gilbert
Lord
Somervile
Charta penes D. Torphichen.
. By the former he had
James
his Successor, and
John
afterward Lord
Torphichen, Walter Sandilands
of
Hilderstoun;
likewise a Daughter
Isobel,
married to
Hugh Wallace
of
Ellerslie in Vic. de Renfrew,
and had Issue; and departing thi
Life 17.
August
1617
Charta penes D. Torphichen.
, was succeeded by
J
mes
his Son, who dying unmarried in the Month of
January
1622, his Estate and Honour fell to his Brother,
John
Lord
Torphichen,
who married
Isobel
Daughter of Sir
Walter D
nd
s
of That-Ilk
Ibidem.
, and departing this Life 12th of
July
1637
Ibidem.
, left Issue,
John
his Son and Heir, who died unmarried the 10th
July
1649,
Walter
his Brother's Successor in the Honou
, also Two Daughters, . . . . married to Sir
Thomas Kilpatri
k
of
Closeburn in Vic. de Dumfrile,
and had Issue, and
M
rgaret
to
Thomas M
rybanks
o
That Ilk
in Vic. de Lithgow,
and had Issue.
Which
Walter
married first
Jean,
only Daughter of
Alexander L
ndsay
of
Edzle
by
Ann
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Weems,
by whom he had no Issue; next,
Katharine
Daughter of
William
Lord
Alexander,
Son and Heir of
William
1st Earl of
Stirling,
by whom he had two Daughters,
Ann
married to . . . . .
Menzies
of
Weem in Vic. de Perth,
and had Issue, and
Katharine
to
David Dr
mmond
of
Cul
malindie, sans Issue.
His Third Wife was
Ann
Daughter of
Alexander
Lord
Elphingstoun;
and last of all,
Co
stian
Daughter and sole Heir of
James Prim
rose
Esq
Brother to Sir
Archibald Primerose
of
Dalmeny.
Ancesto
to the present Viscount of
Primerose,
by whom he had
James
his Son and Heir,
John Sandilands
Esq
likewise Two Daughters,
Christian
married to
Robert Pringle
Esq
and had Issue, and
Magdalene
as yet unmarriried; and dying in
May
1696, was succeeded by
James
the present Lord
Torphichen
his
on, who married
Jean
Daughter of
Patrick
Earl of
Marchmount,
Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
by whom he has Issue,
James
Master of
Torphichen, Walter, Andrew, Gr
ssil,
and
Christian.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th,
parti per fess Azure
and
Or,
an Imperial Crown on a Thistle Sinople flower'd Gules 2d and 3d. Quarterly, Quartered, 1st and 4th.
Argent.
a bend
Azure,
2d and 3d, a Heart, Gules Ensign'd with an Imperial Crown,
Or.
on a Chief Azure, Three Stars of the First. Supporters, Two Lions Rampant, Gules. Crest, an Eagle displayed,
Or.
Motto,
Spero meliora.
STEWART, Earl of
Traquair.
THE Paternal Ancestor of this most noble Family was
James
Earl of
Buchan,
uterine Brother to King
James
II. and Lord high Chamberlain of
Scotland
in the Reign of King
James
III. who had by the Bounty of that Prince, the Lands and Barony of
Traquair,
then in the Crown by the Forfeiture of
William de Moravia
Charta in Pub. Arch.
d Annum 1478.
, which the Earl gave off as a Patrimony to
James Steuart
his Son, by
Margaret
his 2d Wife, Daughter of . . . .
Murray
of
Philliphaugh
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1492. likewise Mr. Martine of Clearmont's Genealogical Collections.
, which was confirm'd to him by a Charter under the Great Seal of King
James
IV.
May
18th 1492. He obtained the Baronies of
Rutherfoord
and
Wells
in the County of
Roxburgh,
by the Marriage of
Katharin
Daughter, and at length sole Heir of
R
chara Rutherford
of That-Ilk
Charta penes me.
, whereupon he conjoined the Arms of his Wife with his own, which is still bore in the At chievment of this illustrious Family. This noble Person waited on his Sovereign King
James
IV. to the Battle of
F
udoun,
with whom he lost his Life in the Service of his Country, on the dismal 9th of
September
1513, leaving Issue by
Katha
ine
his Wife aforesaid,
William
his Son and Heir, who had a Charter under the B
oad Seal of King
James
IV. erecting all his Lands into the Barony of
Traqu
ir, Anno
1511
Charta in Pub. Arch. ad Annum 1511.
, upon the Surrender of
James Steuart
of
Traquatr
his Father, and of
Kathar
ne R
therford
his Mother. He married
Christian Hay
Daughter of
John
Lord
Hay
of
Yester
Ibidem, etiam Charta penes March. de Tweddale.
, by whom he had
William
his Son and Heir, who by . . . . his Wife Daughter of . . . . had
Robert
his Successon, who dying with out Issue 9th
September
1548
Charta penes C. de Traquair.
, was succeeded by
John
his Brother and Heir, who had the Honour of Knighthood conferred on him at the Creation of
Henry
Duke of
Aloany,
and was constituted Captain of the Guard to Queen
Mary, Anno
1566
Ibidem.
, but he dying without Issue,
Sir
William Steuart
of
Caverston
his Brother was retoured Heir to him on the 14th of
March
1594
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, he was by the Favour of the Duke of
Lennox,
made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed chamber to King
James
VI. and Captain and Governor of
Dumbartoan
Castle
Ibidem.
Anno
1582, but he dying likewise unmarried 20th
May
1605, was succeeded by
James
his Brother, who dying an old Man 9th
May
1606, was succeeded by
John
his Grandson, Son of
John Steuart
of
Caverston
his eldest Son, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, by
Margaret
his Wife, a Daughterof the Lord
Ochiltree
's Family.
Which
John
being a Person of great Parts, and of an excellent Understanding, was elected Knight of the Shire to the Parliament 1621
Sir James Dalrymple's Cambden, Edit, 1694.
, for the County of
Twedale,
where his Parts were quickly taken Notice of, and having behav'd himself very well in all Things relating to the Crown, his Majesty King
James
VI. was pleased to call him to his Council, and to confer the Honour of Knighthood on him.
King
Charles
I. soon after his coming to the Crown, contracted an extraordinary Opinion of Sir
John Stewart,
as a Man w
ll versed in all Parts of Learning, and of great Experience in Affairs, insomuch as he pre
erred him to the Honour of the Peerage, 19th of
April
1628
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
by the Title of Lord
Steuart
of
Traqua
r,
and made him Treasurer-Depute, at the Time when the Earl of
Mortoun
was made Lord High-Treasurer; and his Lordship having a near Relation to the Court, and much in it, he contracted a great Friendship and Familiarity
ith Dr.
Laud
then Bishop of
London,
and being well able to spea
in the Affairs of the Church, took Care to be thought by the Bishop a very zealous Defender of it, and of the Episcopal O
der, which very much endear'd him to the Bishop, by whom he was recommended to the King as fittest to be trusted, not only in the Administration of Civil Affairs, in which indeed it cannot be denied but he had great Experience; but also in the conferring of Ecclesiastical Preferments, in which he was not always very fortunate.
When King
Charles
made a Journey into his Kingdom of
Scotland,
to be there crown'd, the Lord
Traquair
attended on his Majesty throughout that whole Progress, and at the Solemnity of the Coronation was raised to the Honour of Earl of
Traquair,
by Letters Patent bearing Date at
Holyroodhouse, June
22. 1633
Charta in Cancellaria S. D. N. R.
, and growing every Day more in Credit with the King, and in Favour with Dr.
Laud,
who by this Time was become Archbishop of
Canterbury,
his Majesty was pleased to make him Lord High-Treasurer of
Scotland
in the 1635, upon the Surrender of that Office by the Earl of
Mortoun.
The Earl being thus invested in the greatest Office of Benefit in the Kingdom, and his Majesty believing he had provided a strong Support to his Government both in Church and State, and having exceedingly set his Heart upon the uniting of his Three Kingdoms in one Form of GOD's Worship, and publick Devotions, by a publick Liturgy, he committed intirely the bringing about of that Business, so far as related to the Civil Part of it, to the Lord Treasurer; and tho' his Lordship was very well affected to the Work in Hand, in his own Judgment, yet he did not think the Season was ripe for it's being published, when it was by the King's Proclamation appointed to be first read at
Easter
1637; and therefore the Lord Treasurer perswaded his Majesty to defer it for a Time, till some good Preparation might be made for the more favourable Reception of it: And as this Pause gave the discontented Party more Time for their Negotiations, so the Consequence of it made him suspected to be secretly an Enemy to the Liturgy and the Bishops. Of this the Lord
Clarendon
clears him, and says,
That there was never any Ground, either then, or in all the after Part of his Life, for that Suspicion; but that if the Lord Treasurer had been as much depended upon to advise the Bishops in the Prosecution of the Liturgy, and for the Conduct of it, as he was to assist them in the carrying on whatsoever they proposed, it is very probable either so much would not have been undertaken together, or that it would have succeeded better.
But whatever Suspicion some of the Bishops might entertain of the Lord Treasurer's not being devoted to some of them, 'tis certain the King had no Jealousie of the Earl, as if he had been in any Degree corrupted or disaffected to the Government as it was establish'd by Law; insomuch as when his Majesty was pleased in the 1639. to call a Parliament and an Assembly of the Clergy, in order to appease the Commotions, and to extinguish the Fire that the Endeavour of bringing in the Liturgy and the Book of Canons had kindled, he pitch'd on the Lord Treasurer, whom he knew to be as wise a Man as the Nation then had, and very equal to the Work to represent his Royal Person, both in the Parliament and the Assembly; in that great and difficult Trust he acquitted himself to his Majesty's great Satisfaction, and did with the outmost Vigour and Fidelity assert the Royal Prerogative, as established by Law or ancient Custom; and when he thought that was invaded either in the Parliament, or in the Assembly of the Church, he opposed it with all his Power, and gave them all the Trouble he could.
As the faithful Discharge of his great Trust did very much establish and confirm the Treasurer in his Majesty's good Opinion, so it drew upon him the implacable Resentment of the other Party, who pursued him with so extraordinary Animosity, that in the next Parliament of 1641, they prevailed with his Majesty to take the White-Staff from him, and impeach'd him of High Treason, of which they likewise found him guilty; but having refer'd his Punishment to the King, his Majesty was so far from conceiving the Earl had merited such a severe Prosecution, that he gave Orders, that in all Events a Pardon might be prepared under the Great Seal
The Remission I have seen and perused in the Hands of the Earl of Traquair.
, wherein his Majesty does not only very fully absolve him from the Crimes objected against him in the Impeachment, but annexes to the Remission an ample Testimony of his great Abilities and singular Integrity in the Discharge of all the great Employments he had been intrusted with under the Crown:
But this Testimony of the King's gracious Affection to the Earl did him very little Service; for during the Civil War, by Virtue of the Judgments that had formerly passed on him, his Estate was sequestrated and taken from him; and for the greater Security of his Person, he was forced to flee out of the Country; and tho' they allowed him to return Home, and live at his own House, yet he continued under Restraint till the 1647, that he was enlarged and suffered to sit in the Parliament, where he endeavoured all he could to bring the Nation to a thorough Engagement to redeem and relieve the King, who was then a Prisoner in the Isle of
Wight;
and the Parliament having raised an Army, the Earl of
Traquair
upon his own Charges levied a Regiment of Horse, and ma
ched
the Head of them to the Battle of
Prestoun,
where both his Lordship and the Lord
Linton
his Son were taken Prisoners, and by Order of the
English
Parliament sent to
Warwick
Castle, where the old Earl continued for the Space of Four Years; and tho' he was set at Liberty, yet the Sequestration of his Estate was continued: Nor did the Malice of the Usurpers abate toward him, till they had reduced him to the lowest Penury and Want that can be imagined, and in that disconsolate low Condition of Fortune he spent the after Part of his Life, till the End of
September Anno
1659, Death put an End to his Days.
This noble Lord married
Katharine
Daughter of
David
the first Earl of
Southesk,
by whom he had
Charles
his Son and Heir, and Four Daughters.
Lady
Margaret
married to
James
Earl of
Queensberry.
Lady
Elizabeth
to Sir
Patrick Murray
1st Lord
Elibank.
Lady
Ann
to Sir
John Hamilton
of
Reidhouse in Vic. de Edinburgh,
and had Issue.
Lady
Katharine
to
John Stewart
Esq
and had Issue.
Which
Charles
did likewise during the Civil War adhere to the Royal Interest with very signal Fidelity; for albeit all the Pressures his Father lay under, yet he still preserv'd a very good Reputation and a very great Interest in his Country, as appeared by the Supplies he brought to the King's Army at
Philiphaugh,
many Gentlemen of
Twedale
-shire engaging themselves in the Service, out of their personal Affection to him, as well as Conscience of the Cause: And tho' he surviv'd those Times of Usurpation and Anarchy, and saw the King restor'd, yet it cannot be denied he was not recompensed according to his Merit, or considered as his Sufferings deserved: But in this his Lordship was not singular; for the current Doctrine of that Time was,
That it was no Matter how the King used his old Friends; f
r they would be so still.
He married first
Henrietta
Daughter of
George
Marquis of
H
ntly,
Widow of
George
Lord
Seton,
by whom he had no Issue; and again,
Ann
Daughter of
George
Earl of
Wintoun;
and departing this Life in
April
1666, was succeeded by
William
his Son, who dying unmarried,
Charles
his Brother became his Heir. He married
Mary
Daughter of
Robert
Earl of
Nithsdale,
by whom he has Issue,
Charles
Lord
Linto
,
and Master
John Steuart;
likewise six Daughters.
Lady
Lucie.
Lady
Ann.
Lady
Mary.
Lady
Katharine.
Lady
Barbara.
Lady
Margaret.
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Azure
and
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2d.
Azure,
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Or.
3d.
Argent.
an Orle, Gules in Chief, Three Martlets Sable, 4
Argent.
a Mollet Sable. Supporters, Two Bears Proper. Crest, a Raven on the Top of a Garb. Motto,
Judge noucht.
HAY, Marquis of
Tweddale.
THIS noble and most illustrious Family of the
Hays
is of very ancient Extraction in the Shire of
Edinburgh,
even from the Time of King
William the Lyon,
that
John de Haya miles, filius Willielm i de Haya
In a Donation by Willielmus de Haya to the Monks of Cowpar, Joannes de Haya frater ejus is a Witness.
, and Brother to
William de Haya Dominus de Errol,
transplanted himself out of the
North,
and fixed his Residence in the County foresaid, by Reason of his Marriage with the Heir Female of
Robert de Lyne,
with whom he obtained the Barony of
Locherret.
He left a Son
William de Haya,
design'd
Dominus de Locheru
rna,
who is a frequent Witness in the Grants of King
Alexander
II.
Charta penes Ducem de Athole, etiam penes Mar
. de Tweddale.
. He gave in pure and perpetual Alms to the Monks of
Newbottle,
the Liberty of a Moss call'd
Woolnstrocher,
in which Deed he is designed
Willielmus de Haya filius Joannis de Haya miles, Dominus de Lochusworwood
Chartulary of Newbottle penes M. de Lothian.
.
Sir
William de Haya de Locheret
was very signal in his Fidelity to and Service of the Crown, during the Commotions about the Succession betwixt the
Bruce
and
Baliol;
and Sir
Gilbert Hay
of
Locherrt
was no less faithful to King
Robert the Bruce,
and very assisting to him both before and after his Accession to the Crown. He married
Mary,
one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir
Simon Frazer
Lord of
Oliver-Castle,
with whom he obtained a fair Estate in
Selkirk
-shire, and had by her
Sir
Thomas
his Son and Heir, who was a Person of great Courage and Magnanimity, which he manifested in several Encounters against the
English,
under the Conduct of the heroick King
Robert
I.
Sir
William de
aya de Locheret
made a very bright Figure under King
David
II. for when that Prince had the Misfortune to be taken a Prisoner at the Battle of
Durham,
he was one of the great Barons who were appointed to treat about the Ransom of the King, and his Son and Heir,
Thomas Fitz & Haeres Wil. de la Hay de Locherword,
was given one of the Hostages for the Ransom,
Anno
1357.
Another Sir
William Hay
of
Locherret
being a Man of Parts and Courage, was employed in divers Embassies to
England,
both in the Time of King
Robert
III. and during the Regency of the Duke of
Albany
Rymers Foedera Angliae.
, which he performed with Honour and Fidelity. In the Commission he is stiled
Willielmus de Haya de Locherwood, Vicecomes de Peebles.
He married
Jean
eldest of the Four Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir
John Gifford
Lord of
Yester
Charta penes March. de Tweddale, ad Annum 14
0, in the Foundation of the Church of Bothans.
is design'd Sir William Hay Knight, Sheriff of Peebles.
, and again Dame
Alicia de Hay,
and left Issue,
Sir
William
his Son and Heir apparent
Charta penes M. de Tweddale, in an Indenture betwixt nobilem vi
urr W. de Haya Vic
comi
em de Peebles, cum consensu D. Williem
fil
i sui &
aeredis, and William Bishop of G
asgow,
d Annum 1418.
, who died without Issue, Sir
Thomas
his Successor, Sir
David Hay
of
Yester, Edmund Hay
of
Talla,
the First of that Branch of the
Hays
of
Linplum
Ibidem ad Annum 1444, by Alicia Hay Relict of Sir William Hay of Yester, to the College-Church of Yester, Test. Edmond. Hay of Linplum her Son.
, likewise a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
William
Earl of
Angus
Ibidem ad Annum 1425.
, and had Issue.
Which Sir
Thomas
was one of those Barons who were appointed to wait on King
James
I. when he was releas'd from his Captivity, out of
England,
and was likewise one of the Hostages for the Ransom
Rymer's Foedera Angliae ad
nnum 1423, and is design'd Tho. Hay D. de Yester.
, but he dying without Issue, was succeeded by
Sir
David Hay
Lord of
Yester
his Brother, who was retoured to him 6th
April
1434
Ibidem.
, he, with Consent of the other Heirs Portioners of the Lordship of
Yester,
did enla
ge and augment the Revenue of the Collegiate Church of St.
Cuthbert
of
Yester,
adding several Prebends thereto for the Health of his Soul, and of his Ancesto
s and Successors for ever
Ibidem ad Annum 1441.
, and dying
Anno
1462, left Issue,
John
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter married to
William Cuninghame
of
Beltoun.
Which
John
married first
Marion
Daughter of . . .
Lindsay
of . . .
Ibidem ad Annum 1462.
, and again
Elizabeth
Daughter; and at length sole Heir of
George Cuningha
e
of
Beltoun
Ibidem ad Annum 1468, the Contract betwixt John Hay, Son and Heir apparent of Sir David Hay of Yester, and Eliz. Cuninghame Daughter of George Cuninghame, Son and Heir apparent of Sir William Cuninghame of Beltoun.
, by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir,
George Hay
of
Menzien;
likewise several Daughters,
Margaret
married to
William
Lord
Borthwick
Ibidem ad Annum 1491.
, and
I
obel
to
Robers Louder
of
Boss
Ibidem 2d Annum 1496.
, and had Issue, and giving Way to Fate in the 1509
Ibidem.
, was succeeded by
John
Lord
Yester
his Son and Heir, who married
Elizabeth
Daughter of . . . .
Crichtoun
of . . . .
Ibidem and Annum 1519, in a Grant of Lands by John Lord Yester, with Consent of Elizabeth Crichton his Mother, &c.
, by whom he had
John
his Successor,
George Hay
of
Oliver Castle, William
of whom the Branch of the
Hays
of
Monktoun
is descended, and a Daughter,
Elizabeth,
married to
Jomes Twee
ie
of
Drumlezer in Vic. de Selkirk,
and had Issue
He was slain at the Battle of
Floudon
with King
James
IV. the 9th of
September
1513.
John
Lord
Yester
his Son married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
George
Master of
Angus,
Son of
Archibald
Earl of
Angus
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, by whom he had
John
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Elizabeth,
married first to
George
Lord
Scton
C
arta penes M. de Tweddale ad Annum 1527.
, and again to
VVilliam
Lord
Saltoun.
He married to his 2d Wife . . . . Daughter and Co-heir of
John Dickson
of
Smithfield,
by whom he had
John,
of whom the
Hays
of
Smithfield
are de scended, and a Daughter
Jean
married to . . . .
Brown
of
Col
oun,
and dying
Anno
1543, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who signaliz'd his Courage and Valour at the Battle of
Pinky cleugh,
where he was taken Prisoner, and sent to the Tower of
London,
where he continued till the Pacification was concluded betwixt the Two Nations, and dying
Anno
1557
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
VVilliam
Lord
Livingston
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
,
VVilliam
his Successor, and
Christian
married to
VVilliam Stewart
of
Traquair
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
Which
VVilliam
was one of those Peers who concurred with the outmost Zeal in the Reformation of Religion, and was withal a most faithful Friend to Queen
Mary,
when the Troubles broke out in that Reign; and thereafter when King
James
took the Administration upon himself, the Lord
Tester
was one of the Lords who join'd in the Attempt at
Ruthven,
whereby they seiz'd on the King's Person, put such of his Council from about him, as they conceiv'd had not used their Power for the Interest of the Country, or the Honour of the Crown; but that Action being declared Treasonable, he was forced to flee beyond Sea, and remained abroad, till his Majesty of his a Royal Clemency was pleased to pass most Gracious Act of Indemnity 1585. He married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
John Ker
of
Far
harst
Charta penes March. de Tweddale.
, by whom he had
VVilliam
his Son and Heir,
James
thereafter Lord
Yester, Margaret
married to
VVilliam
Lord
Borthwick, Katharine
to Sir
John Swinton
of That-Ilk, and
Jean
to Mr.
James Hay
of
Barra.
Which
William,
married
Elizabeth
Daughter of
John
Lord
Harris,
by whom he had only Four Daughters,
Elizabeth
married to
James Tweedi
of
Drumelzer, Christian
to
Archibald Newton
of That-Ilk
Ibidem.
,
Grissil
to
George Hay
of
Adderstoun,
and
Jean
to
Alexander Horsebrugh
of That-Ilk
Ibidem.
, and had Issue; and departing this Life 16th of
March
1591
Dr. Anderson's History of Scotland MS. in Bibl. Juridica Edinb.
, his Estate and Honour devolved on
James
his Brother and Heir, who married
Margaret
Daughter of
Mark
1st Earl of
Lothian,
a Lady eminent for her Piety and Charity; by her he had Issue,
John
his Successor, Sir
William Hay
of
Linplum;
likewise a Daughter
Margaret,
married first to
Alexander
Earl of
Dumsermling,
and again to
James
Earl of
Calendar.
John
Lord
Yester
his Son was a Man of Parts, and of great Industry and Sagacity in Business; in the Parliament of 1633. he opposed all he could the Act anent the King's appointing the Apparel of Churchmen, and with the outmost Vigour, the Introduction of the Liturgy in the 1637, and when the first Troubles began, he had the Command of a Regiment in the Army, but after the Pacification he would never meddle any further in the great Alterations that ensued, which endeared him exceedingly to the King; insomuch as his Majesty was graciously pleased to raise him to be an Earl, by the Stile and Title of Earl of
Tweddale, December
1st. 1646. He married first
Jean
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Dunfermling;
by her he had only one Son
John
his Successor, thereafter Marquis of
Tweddale,
and next,
Margaret
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
by whom he had
William Hay
of
Drumiezer;
and dying in the 1654
Memoirs of the House of Yester, M.S. penes me.
, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who being a Nobleman of very good Parts, and of great Experience in Affairs, his Majesty King
Charles
II. upon the Restauration, was pleased to call him to his Privy Council, and make him one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and afterward one of the Extraordina-Lords of the Session; but was soon after that, by the Power of the Duke of
Lauderdale,
removed from all publick Trust, for no other Reason, but that he declared his Dislike of the high Courses that were taken during the Administration of that great Favourite, but the Duke was no sooner dead, than he was again brought into the Council, and was one of the Lords of the Treasury in the Reign of K.
James
VII. in which Office he continued even till the Revolution; and the Earl of
Tweddale
having complyed with the Government under King
William
and Queen
Mary,
their Majesties had so great an Esteem of his Wisdom and Parts, and whose Councils and Assistance would be of great Use for their Service, that they were pleased to make him one of the Lords of the Treasury; and after he had serv'd a Year or Two in that Capacity, prefer'd him to be Lord High-Chancellor of
Scotland
in the Beginning of the 1692; and having forther Regard to the unblemished Reputation and approved Fidelity of the Lord Chancellour, their Majesties were pleased to honour him with the Splendour of a higher Title; and therefore by Letters Patent, 26
December
1694, his Lordship was rais'd to be Marquis of
Tweddale
Charta in Pub. Arch.
, after which he continued in the Chancellor's Place, and discharged the Duties of his Function with great Application and Fidelity till
May
1696, upon a Disgust about the Affair of
Darien,
he was removed, and the Lord
Polwarth
was made Chancellor in his Room. He died 11th of
August
1697.
This noble Lord married
Jean,
Daughter of
Walter
Earl of
Bucleugh,
by whom he had
John
his Successor in the Honour;
Lord
David Hay,
Lord
Alexander Hay.
Lady
Margaret
married to
Robert
Earl of
Roxburgh.
Lady
Jean
to
William
first Earl of
March.
Which
John
was of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. and Colonel of the
East-Lothian
Regiment, upon the Earl of
Argyle
's Invasion in 1685. He was likewise of the Privy Council to King
William
and Queen
Anne,
by whom he was in the 1704, promoted to be Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland,
and appointed Lord High Commissioner to represent her Majesty's Royal Person in that Session of Parliament, when the Act of Security did receive the Royal Assent, and pass into a Law.
He married
Anne,
only Daughter of
John
Duke of
Lauderdale,
by whom he had
Charles
his Successor, Lord
John Hay,
who was Colonel of the Royal Regiment of
Scots
Dragoons, and a Brigadier General of the Army, Lord
William Hay;
and two Daughters,
Anne
married to
William
Lord
Ross,
and
Jean
to
John
Earl of
Rothes;
and departing this Life
May
20th, 1713, was succeeded by
Charles
his Son and Heir, who was a Nobleman of great Abilities and most consummate Experience in Civil Affairs, upon the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, the Marquis of
T
eddale
was elected one of the Peers to the first Parliament summoned by his said Majesty, and soon thereafter named Lord President of the Court of Police, and Lord Lieutenant of East
Lothian
Shire; but shortly after falling sick, he died the 15th of
December
1715, leaving Issue by the Lady
Susanna
his Wife, Daughter of
William
and
Anne,
Duke and Dutchess of
Hamilton,
Widow of
John
Earl of
Dundonald, John
the present Marquis, a young Nobleman of fair Expectations, Lord
James,
Lord
Charles,
Lord
George;
also Three Daughters,
Lady
Susanna,
Lady
Catharine,
Lady
Anne.
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Argent,
2d and 3d
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Three Bars Ermine over all in a Surtout
Argent,
Three Escutcheons
Gules.
Supporters, Two Staggs. Crest, a Stagg's Head crazed
Argent.
Motto,
Spare Nought.
WEEMS, Earl of
Weems.
THE antient and noble Family of
Weems
is descended origiginally from
John,
Lord of the Barony of the
Weems,
a younger Son of the Earls of
Fife
Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife-Shire.
, from whence his Descendants assumed their Surname, tho' I have not found any Mention of them till the Reign of K.
Alexander
II. that Sir
Michael de Weymis miles,
is to be met with in the Archivis of that Time
Charta penes Ducem de Athole.
, and Sir
David de Weems,
Knight of the
Weems,
was in the 1290, together with Sir
Michael Scot
sent over to
Norway,
by the Lords of the Regency of
Scotland,
to bring over their young Queen
Margaret,
who, to the universal Grief and Regrete of the whole Nation, died at the
Orkneys;
whereupon happen'd the fatal Competition about the Right of Succession, which was at length settled upon
John de Baliol.
Sir
David de Weems
in the Time of King
Robert
I. was one of the great Men of the Kingdom, who wrote that noble Letter to the Pope, so often mentioned, so rare a Piece of Antiquity, that it deserves to be set in Characters of Gold, and preserved to all Posterity. This Sir
David
obtained from the said Prince a Charter of the Lands of
Glasnock in tenemento de Kinghorn,
erected to him
in lib
ram baroniam
Charta penes Co
ite
de Weems, ad Annum 1529.
. By
Marjory
his Wife, he had Sir
Michael
his Successor, and Sir
John Weems,
Lord of
Kincaldrum.
Which Sir
Michael
had a Grant from
Duncan
Earl of
Eife,
of the Lands of
Monickie
and
Easter-Dron,
in which Deed he is designed
Filius quondam Domini
David
de
Weems
Militis
Ibidem ad Annum 1333.
. By . . . . Daughter of . . . . his Wife, he had
Sir
David
his Son and Heir, in whom the principal Male Line fail'd. This Sir
David
I have found design'd
Filius & Hares Domini
Michaelis
de
Weems
Militis,
in a Deed whereby he makes over the Lands of
Borch in Baronia de
Lochhor,
Domine
Johanni
de
Weems,
avunculo suo
Ibidem.
, and afterwards resigns
in manibus nobilis Domini
Roberti Styward,
Comitis de
Fyfe
& de
Menteth,
omnes Terras
quas idem Dom
nus
David
de
Weems
tenet de praedicto suo Comite
Charta penes Comitem de Weems, Test, Roberto de Norvyle, Alano de Myrton, Allan
Macmorin, & Michaeli de Comray.
, in Favours of Sir
John Weems
Kt. who was his Heir Male. The same Sir
John
obtained a Charter from King
Robert
III. ratifying and confirming the Grant which
Robert
Earl of
Fife
made
Johanni de Weems Militi de Terris de Rires, Myrcatrny, Markinch,
and
Nether-Cambrun;
and likewise the Concession and Donation, which Sir
Alexander Abernethy
Kt. made heritably
quondam Domino
Joanni
de
Weems
Militi, avo dicti
Joannis,
de Terr
s de
Kincaldrnm. He obtained also a fair Estate by the Marriage of
Isobel,
one of the Daughters and Co-Heirs of Sir
Allan Erskine
of
Inchmartine,
Kt.
Ibidem. ad Annum 1401.
. And of
Isobell de Inchmartine
his Wife, one of the Heirs Female of the Baronies of
Inchmartine
and of
Weems,
by whom he had Issue
David
his Successor, and Two Daughters.
Elizabeth
married to Sir
Andrew Gray
Lord of
Foulis
Charta pene
Dominum Gray, ad Annum 1418.
, and
Eupham
to Sir
William Livingston,
Lord of
Drumray
Ibidem. ad Annum 1428.
and
Easter-Weems.
Which
David
married
Christian,
Daughter of . . . .
Douglass
of . . . .
Ibidem ad Annum 1431.
, by whom he had
Sir
John
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret
Daughter of Sir
Robert Livingston
Lord
Drumrey
Ibidem. ad Annum 1446.
. By her he had
John
his Son and Heir, designed of
Strath
rdel, vita patris,
and a Daughter
Grisel,
married to
David Boswell
of
Balmutto.
Which
John
married
Christian,
Daughter of . . . .
Abernethy
of . . . .
Ibidem. ad Annum 1468.
, and had
David
his Heir, and a Daughter
Agnes
married to
Andrew Kininmunt
of That-Ilk
Ibibem ad Annum 1482.
, and dying in 1508, was succeeded by
Sir
David
his Son and Heir, who obtained a Charter from King
James
IV. erecting all his Lands into the Barony of
Weems,
the 28th of
August
1511
Ibidem.
. He married first
Elizabeth,
Daughter of . . . . .
Lundy
of That Ilk, by whom he had
David
his Successor; and next,
Janet
Daughter of
Andrew
Lord
Gray,
by whom he had no Issue. He was kill'd at the Battle of
Flowdoun.
Sir
David
his Son, married
Katharine
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Sinclair
C
arta in Pub. Archivis.
, by whom he had
John
his Successor,
James
the first of the Family of
Caskeberry,
the Paternal Ancestor of the present Earl of
Weems,
and of several other illustrious Persons abroad in Foreign Parts; and dying in
May
1544
Charta penes Comitem de Weems.
, was succeeded by
John
his Son and Heir, who married
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
Adam Otterburn
of
Reid-hall,
Lord Advocate in the Reign of King
James
V.
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
David
his Son and Heir, likewise several Daughters,
1
Margaret
married to
David Barclay
of
Colearny
Ibidem.
,
in Vic. de Fif
,
and had Issue.
2
Elizabeth
to
David Balfour
of
Montquhany
Ibidem.
,
in Vic. de Fife.
3
Agnes
to
John Aitoun
of
Denmure
Ibidem.
, and had Issue.
4
Eupham
to Mr.
David Carnagy
of
Coluthy,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Southesk.
He married to his second Wife
Janet,
Daughter of
Alexander Trail
of
Blebo
Ibidem.
, but by her he had no Issue; and dying in
January
1572, was succeeded by
Sir
David
his Son and Heir, who married
Cicil,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Ruthven
Ibidem.
, and dying in 1582, left Issue by his Wife aforesaid,
John
his Son and Heir,
James Weems,
first of the Family of
Bog
e
Ibidem ad Annum 1582.
,
David
Weems
of
Finzies, Henry
of whom the Branch of
Foodie
Charta penes Comitem de Weems.
,
Patrick Weems
of
Rumgay;
likewise several Daughters,
Margaret
married to
James Beatoun
of
Cricht,
and had Issue,
Jean
to Mr.
James Macgill
of
Rankillour,
and had Issue.
. . . to . . .
Fotheringhame
of
Powrie.
Janet
to Sir
David Auchmutie
of That-Ilk, and again to
James Learmont
of
Dairsie.
Which Sir
John
married
Mary,
Daughter of
James Stewart
Lord
Down
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
David
his eldest Son, who married
Elizabeth,
Daughter to
Andrew
Earl of
Rothes
Ibidem.
, but died without Issue, 7th of
August
1608, Sir
John
his Successor, the first Earl of
Weems;
also Two Daughters,
Janet
married to
Robert
Lord
Colvil,
and
Isobel
to
Hugh
Lord
Lovat.
Which Sir
John
was by the Favour of King
Charles
I. first made a Baronet
Ibidem 29th May 1625.
also by Letters Patent, bearing Date 1st of
April
1628, raised to the Honour of the Peerage by the Title of Lord
Weems
of
Elcho
C
arta in Pub. Arch.
, and finally created Earl of
Weems
25th of
May
1633
Ibidem.
. He dying
Anno
1653
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick
Lord
Gray, David
his Successor; and five Daughters,
Mary
married to
John
Lord
Sinclair,
and had Issue,
Anne
to
Alexander Lindsay
of
Ed
le,
and again to
M
ngo
Viscount of
Stormoint.
Jean
to Sir
John Tours
of
Innerleth,
and nixt to Colonel
Hary Maule
of
Balmakelly,
and had Issue.
Elizabeth
to Sir
John Aiton
of That-Ilk, and had Issue.
Catharine
to Sir
David Carnaigie
of
Craig
Knight, but had no Issue.
Which
David
married first
Jean
Daughter of
Robert
Lord
Burleigh,
by whom he had one Daughter,
Jean,
married first to
Archbald
Earl of
Angus;
and next, to
George
Earl of
Sutherland:
His second Wife was
Eleanor,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Wigtoun,
by whom he had no Issue; and his Third and last Wife was
Margaret,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Rothes,
Widow both of
Alexander
Lord
Balgony,
and of
Francis
Earl of
Bucleugh,
by whom he had only one Daughter, Lady
Margaret Weems,
on whom her Father, during his own Lifetime, settled the Honours of his Family, with Consent and Approbation of the Crown, with the Precedency of her Grand-Father's Creation
Charta in Cancellaria, S. D. N. R. ad Annum 1672.
, to which she succeeded on his Demise
An.
1679
Ibidem.
. The Countess married Sir
James Weems
Kt. descended from the
Caskeberry
Branch of the
Weemses
Borbriefe James Lord Burntisland.
, who thereupon was by the Favour of King
Charles
II. honoured with the Title of Lord
Burntisland
for his Lifetime
Ibidem, of the Date 15th of April 1672.
, and dying in 1685, left Issue by the Countess,
David
Lord
Elcho,
the present Earl of
Weems,
who succeed his Mother in her Honours, and Two Daughters,
Anne
married to
David
Earl of
Leven
and Earl of
Melvil.
Margaret
to
David
the present Earl of
Northesk.
Which
David
was one of the Lords of the Privy Council in the Reign of Queen
Anne,
by whom he was constituted Lord High Admiral of
Scotland,
upon the Surrender of that Office by the Marquis of
Montrose
in the 1706; and the same Year his Lordship was one of the Commissioners on the Treaty of Union with
England;
upon the Commencement of which, he was declared Vice Admiral of
Scotland,
and he held the Office till the Accession of King
George
to the Crown, that his Lordship was removed, and the Earl of
Rothes
put in his Room,
Anno
1714.
He married
Anne,
Daughter of
William
Duke of
Queensberry,
by whom he had Two Sons,
David
Lord
Elcho,
a noble Youth of fine Parts, and of very promising Hopes, who took great Care from his very Childhood to inform and qualify himself with the Knowledge of such Things as might be necessary and useful to him when he should come to act his Part in a publick Station, suitable to his High and Illustrious Extraction; but alas he was untimely snacht away by a malignant Fever, which brought his Life to an End, on the 16th of
December
1715, when he had not fully attained to the Age of Seventeen; whose Loss was not only lamented by his own noble Relations, but very universally throughout the Kingdom, as a young Nobleman, who in Time was like to prove an Honour to the noble Family of
Weems,
and an Ornament and Support to his Country.
James
Lord
Elcho.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Or,
a Lyon Rampant,
Gules,
2d and 3d
Argent.
a Lyon Rampant
Sable.
Supporters, Two Swans. Crest, a Swan all proper. Motto,
Je Pense.
FLEMING, Earl of
Wigtoun.
THE Sirname of this illustrious Family, according to the Sentiments of the most approven Historians and Antiquaries, was at first assumed from a Person of Distinction, who in the Days of King
D
vid
I. a
Fleming
by Nation, transplanted himself into this Realm, and took his Sirname
Flandrensis
or
Le Fleming,
from the Country of his Origin.
Baldwin le Flamang
in that Reign is mentioned a Witness in the Grant which
Robertus Episcopus St. Andreae
made
Herbert. Episcopo Glasgu. de Ecclesia de Locherworna,
with Consent of King
David
and Prince
Henry
his Son,
& per Librum Saisiisse
Excerpt from the Registers of the Episcopal See of Glasgow, which has been at Paris since the 1560, that Bishop Beatoun carried them over at the Reformation, The Charter of Bishop Robert is without Date, but he was consecrate Bis
op of St. Andrews about the 1126.
, by the Symbol of a Book.
Jordanus le Flamang
is likewise a Witness in a Charter which
Adda Comitissa,
the Wife of
Henry
Earl of
Northumberland,
made to the Abbacy of
Dunfermling
for the Welfare of her Soul
Charta in Regis. de Dunfermling ad Annum 1178.
, and is the same Person who was taken Prisoner at the Battle of
Anwick
Rymer's Foedera Ang
ae, Roger Hovendu, and other English Historians.
with King
William, An.
1174.
William Flandrensis
or
le Flamang
is a Witness in a Deed which King
William
made to the Monks of
Kels
,
and is joined with
Hugo Cancellarius, Comes Patricius Justiciarius, & Robertus de Lundoniis, filius Regis
Charta in Regis. Calch, Folio 42.
. He as a Person of Quality and of eminent Knowledge in Antiquities judiciously observ'd before me, is the same
William Flandrensis,
who is Witness to that King's Confirmation of the Lands of
Monisbrook
in
Strathgrief,
which
Allan, Filius Walteri Dapifer,
made to the Monks of
Paisly,
and seems to be the first of this noble Family, who fix'd his Residence in the Western Parts.
Dom. Duncan Flandrensii
in the Time of King
Alexander
II. is a Witness in the Donation of the Lands of
Haldinstoun
to the Convent of
Paisly
Chartulary of Pa
s
ey, which I had the Us
of by the Favour of the Earl of Dundonald.
, which that Prince did by his Charter ratifie and confirm; like as in the Reign of
Alexander
III.
Dom. Simon Flandrensis
is mentioned in the Resignation which
Johannes Fi
us Rogert
made to the Monks of
Paisly,
of the Lands of
Aldhouse,
for the Health of his Soul.
Robert le Fleming,
the direct and immediate Ancestor of the Earls of
Wig
oun,
was one of the great Barons of
Scotland,
to whom King
Edward
I. of
England
in the 1290, wrote that memorable Letter anent the settling of the Succession of the Crown upon the Demise of Queen
Margaret
Mr. Rymers Foedera Angliae.
, the Decision whereof had been by all the different Competitors refer'd to him as a Neighbour Prince, in whose Judgment and Integrity they reposed the fullest Confidence.
Whatever Sentiments Sir
Robert
had of King
Edward
's Decision in Favours of
J
n Baliol
I cannot say, but as soon as the Heroick
Robert the Bruce
took the Field, and declared his Resolution to shake off the Yoke of Thraldom and Tyranny, under which the Nation gr
an'd by the
English
Usurpation. Sir
Robert le Fleming
repaired to his Standart, and with a few trusty Friends, all brave Men, accompanied him whom they thought their lawful Sovereign, in the Adventure at
Dumfries,
where they kill'd that perjur'd Traitor Sir
J
n Cumming
In all this our Historians concur.
, and never rested till they set the Crown upon the He
d of that immortal Monarch, on the Feast of the Annunciation,
Anno
1306.
Sir
Robert Fleming
having in this Manner highly merited of his Royal Master, his Majesty was graciously pleased to bestow upon him the Lordship of
L
z
e,
and Barony of
C
mber
ald,
then in the Crown by the Forfaulture of
John Cumming
Earl of
Buchan
There are Writs and Char
ers in the Earl of Wigtoun's Hands making this clear, that the Barony of Cumbernald belonged
Cummings from the Time of King William.
, besides other Donations of a less Value. By . . . . Daughter of . . . . . his Wife, he had Issue, Sir
Malcolm
his Successor, and Sir
Patrick Fleming
Kt. Sheriff of
Peebles
Charta penes Marchionem de Tweddale. T
Writ is a Charter by King David II. Patric
o F
eeming M
ti, of the Sheriff, ip of Peeble
, dated
September, the 18th Year of the King's Reign.
, who got the Barony of
Biggar,
by the Marriage of one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir
Simon Frazer,
Lord of
Oliver-Castle,
which gave his Descendants a Title to assume the Coat of
Frazer
into the A
chievements of their own Family, and which they still wear even to this Time.
Which Sir
Malcolm Fleming,
Lord of
Fulwood
and
Cumbernald,
was in great Favour with King
Robert
I. who in Memory of his Father's Services and his own Merit, made him a Grant of the Lands of
Achindenan
and of
Pontoun
in
Wigtoun
-Shire
Inventar of the Registers of the Chancery pene Ha
ton de Wi
haw.
; but King
Robert
his Favours to Sir
Malcolm
did not stop here, for he did afterward make him Sheriff of the County, and Governor of
Dun
rtoun
Castle; both which Offices he discharged with singular Fidelity. The same great Man obtained from
Walter
Lord High-Steward of
Scotland,
in Consideration of Services done and to be done by him, an Annuity payable to him from the Abbot and Convent of
Holy-rood-house,
out of the Barony of the
Carse,
dated on the Feast of St.
Dunstan, Anno Domini
1321
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
. He was succeeded in his Estate by
Sir
Malcolm
his Son and Heir, who seems to have been a forward Asser
er of the Right and Title of King
David
II. and of the
Bruc
an
Line, to whose Interest faithfully adhering, he was, I think, on the Demise of his own Father, constituted Governour of
Dunbartoun
-Castle
B
e
s's History of King David the Bruce.
, and he discharged the Trust with the outmost Fidelity; for after the fatal Overthrow of
Duplin,
whereby the Royal Interest was much weaken'd. The Governor having an entire Confidence in Sir
Malcolm
's Loyalty, committed the Tuition of the young King
David
and his Royal Consort to his Care: and Things growing every Day worse on the King's Side, after the Loss of the Battle of
Hall
downhill,
when it was resolved, that for the Security of his Majesty's Royal Person, that he might not fall into the Enemies Hands, to send him over to
France,
Sir
Malcolm Fleming
was pitch'd on to wait on his young Master, which he did, and performed the whole of that Service with Honour and Approbation. Having left the young King in
France
in full Security,
e returned to his Command of
Dunbertoun
-Castle, and tho most other Places of Strength submitted to
Edward Bal
o
after the Battle of
Hallydownhill,
yet Sir
Malcolm
keept out his Fo
ess for his lawful Sovereign; and during the whole of the Usurpation of
Bali
l,
this Castle was a Place to which the Royalists did freely, and with great Security resort to: And it would not be forgot that Sir
Malc
lm Fleming
had the Honour to shelter and protect in that evil Time, that i
lustrious and magnanimous Prince,
Robert
Lord High-Steward of
Scotland,
afterward King
Robert
II. the King's Nephew, whose Blood
Baliol
did in a very particular Manner thirst after; but afterward when the King's Affairs took a more favourable Turn, and that his own Presence at Home was judged necessary, the brave and generous Sir
Malcolm Fleming
was again sent over to
France
to attend and wait on the King home who happily arriving on the 2
of
July
1342, on the 9th of
November
thereafter, his Highness was graciously pleased, in Reward of Sir
M
m
's signal Loyalty and Fidelity in his Service, to create him Earl of
Wigtoun,
by his Royal Charter, which, for the Singularity of the Stile, and the illustrating the Gentleman's great Merit. I shall here insert it in the very original Words.
DAVID,
DEI
gratia, Rex
Scotorum,
omnibus probis Hominibus totius Terrae suae, Clericis & Laicis, Salutem. Sciatis Nos dedisse, concessisse, & hac praesenti Charta Nostra confirmasse
Malcolmo Fleming
Militi dilecto & Fideli nostro, pro homagio & laudabili servitio suo nobis impenso & impendendo, omnes terras meas de
Faryes
& del
Rynnes,
& totum Burgum Nostrum de
Wigtoun,
cum omnimodis pertinentiis suis, ac omnes terras Meas totius Vicecomitatus de
Wigtoun,
per metas & divisas suas subscriptas a Capite, viz. Aquae de
Creech,
& sic sequendo illam aquam quousque perveniatur, ad mare
bi aqua de
Creech
currit in mare, & sic per mare usque
Molerennysuage,
& de
Molerennysuage
per mare usque ad antiquas metas Comitatus de
Carrick,
& sic per easdemmetas de
Carrick,
quousque perveniatur adpraedictum caput aquae de
Creech,
tenendas & habendas omnes terras praedictas, una cum Burgo praedicto, eidem
Malcolmo,
& haeredibus suis legitime procreatis seu procreandis de corpore suo, per lineam Masculinam descendentibus, de Nobis & Haeredibus nostris in Feudo & hereditate, per omnes rectas metas & divisas suprascriptas, in liberum Comitatum, cum homagiis & servitiis libere tenentium omnium terrarum praedictarum, cum feodis & forisfacturis, cum c
r
s & eschetis, cum furca & fossa, sok & sak, Thol & Theam, & Infangthief, cum multuris, molendinis & eorum sequelis, cum
pationibus, piscati
nibus & venationibus, & cum omnimodis aliis libertatibus, commadita
us, assiamentis, & just is
in omnibus & per omnia tam non nominatis Juam nominatis, ad liber
m Comitat
spectantibus, se
jus
e spec
are valentibus in futur
m,
na cum advocation
bus
Ec
lesiarum, & cum jare ac Patronatus Monastertorum & Abachiarum, infra praedictum Comitatum existentium, reservata Nobis & Haeredibus Nostris
ure Patronatus sedis Episcopalis candidae Casae, vacante dicta
eae, cum omni modis pertinentiis & libertatibus suis quibuscunque volumus & concedimus pro Nobis & H
redibus nostr
s, quod Burgenses sui de
Wigtoun,
easdem libertates in omnibus habeant, quas juste babuerint temporibus Predec
ssorum Nostrorum Regum
Scotiae:
Et cum dictus locus de
Wigtoun,
pro principali Manerio totius Vicecomitatus de
Wigtoun
habebatur, ordinamus & perpetuo confirmanous, ut ipse
Malcolmus
& haeredes sui praedicti ab
nde, nomen Co
itis accipiant, & Comites de
Wigtoun
de Caeteronuncupentur; quia veroidem
Malcolmus
Alum
s Noster extitit, & erga Nos se semper fideliter & laudabiliter habuit in canctis Prosperis & Adversis, ad perpetuam Rei Memoriam adjec
mus concessioni nostrae sibi factae de Comitatu praedicto, quod
pse & haeredes su
praedict
habeant, teneant & possideant
o
um Comita
m praedictum, cum Pertinentiis in adeo liberam Regalitatem, sicu
aliqua Regalitas per totum Reg
um Nostrum possidetur liberius seutenetur. Et quod dictus
Malcolmus
& Haerede
su
praedicti libere cognofcere valeant in C
ria sui Comi
atus praedicti super quatuor articul
spectantibus, ad Coronam; faciendo Nobis & Haeredibus Nostris praedictus
Malcolmus
& haeredes sui praedicti Comites de
Wigtoun,
servitium quinque Mili
um in Exercitu nostro. In cujus Rei Testimonium praesents Char
ae Nostrae Sigillum Nostrum praecepimus
pponi. Testibus
Roberto
Senes
allo
Scotiae
Nepote Nostre,
Johanne Ranulphi
Comite
Moraviae,
Domino vallis
Annandiae
&
Manniae
Consanguineo Nostro,
Patricio
de
Dumbar
Comite
Marchiae, Mauricio
de
Moravia, Thoma
de
Carnoco
Cancellario Nostro, &
Philippo
de
Meldrum,
Militibus. Apud Villam de
Air,
nono die
Novembris,
Anno Regni Nostri, Tertio decimo.
This noble Earl continuing in great Favour with his Prince, did, with the Bulk of the Nation, accompany him to the Battle of
Durham,
where he had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner with the King
Rymer's Acta publica, ad An. 1357.
; but being released in order to accelerate, as I take it, the Redemption of his Royal Master, he was one of the great Men who in 1351, gave a Commission to Sir
Robert Erskine
Sir
William Livingston
and others, to treat with the
English
about the King's Relief
Ibid.
; and when the Terms were happily concerted,
Thomas le Fleming
his Grandson and Heir was named an Hostage for the Ransom: Soon after which the good old Earl fell sick, and died, and left his Estate and Title to
Thomas
Earl of
Wigtoun
his Grandson, who upon the Return of King
David,
had a new Charter of the Earldom with its Pertinents, as freely as it was enjoyed by his Grandfather
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun, 36th of King David the Second.
, suspending nevertheless, for some Reasons of State, the Regality, probably at the Instance of
Archb
ld Douglas,
Lord of
Galloway,
whose Power and Interest at that Time was very great, both in the Court and in the Country, and who had a great Estate within the Regality of
Wi
oun;
but the Earl having no Issue Male of his Body, on the 6th of
February
1371
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun, after this Earl had sold the Earldom of Wig
oun to Sir Archbald Douglass Lord of Galloway,
e designs himself Dudum Comes de Wigtoun, & Dominus de Fulwood, as in several Charters both in the publick Records, and in the Hands of the Earl of Wigtoun.
, he first sold and made over for the Sum of Five Hundred Pound
Sterling, totum & integrum Comitatum de
Wigtoun,
nobili vero
Archibaldo
de
Douglass
militi, Domino
Galvidiae,
ex orientali Parte Aquae de
Creech,
& maxime propter magnam atque gravem inimicitiam inter me & majores indigenos dicti Comitatus.
And then in his old Age he resign'd
dilecto Consanguineo suo
Malcolmo Fleming
de
Biggar,
Baroniam de
Leinzy, which King
Robert
II. ratified by his Charter under the Great Seal, 20th
September
1383
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
.
This Sir
Malcolm,
as he was a Person of very great Fortune, so he made no small Figure throughout the whole of the Reign of King
Robert
II. and that of his Successor
Robert
III. even till his own Death, leaving Issue by
Christian
his Wife, Sir
David
his Successor, and Sir
Patrick,
of whom the Branch of the
Flemings
of
Bord
Ibidem.
descended.
Which Sir
David
seems to have been a Person of very eminent Parts and Courage; he signaliz'd his Valour in a very distinguishing Manner at the Battle of
Otterburn,
where the brave General the Earl of
Douglass,
and many other gallant Men were slain.
In the 1405 Sir
David
was imployed in an Embassy to
England,
when he concluded a Truce betwixt the Two Realms
Rymer.
; and upon his Return he had, in Consideration of his acceptable Services, a Grant of the Lands of
Barbeth, Castles
and
Henrule, in Comitatu de Carrick
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
, and of the Barony of
Cavers,
together with the Sheriffship of
Roxburgh
-Shire
By Recognition Isobel Countess of Mar having dispon'd these Lands and that Office without the King's Consent.
, which was ratified by the Countess's Husband Sir
Alexander Stewart, Kt.
As to his Works of Piety I find this memorable,
viz.
That he gave to the Abbacy of
Cambuskenneth
the Lands of
Muretoun
for the Health of his Soul, and to the Convent of
Holy-rood-house,
he gave in pure and perpetual Alms, an Annuity of Twenty Five Merks out of his Estate, which he made redeemable from the Monks for a hundred Pounds, when he or his Heirs should offer the Redemption in any Time thereafter. As Sir
David
was a very wise and devout Man, so he seems to have been a Person of great Generosity, for our Historians tell us, that it was he who gave the exil'd Earl of
Northumberland
Notice of his being to be given up to his Sovereign the King of
England,
by an Article in a Treaty which was then concluded betwixt the Two Nations; whereupon the Earl shifted for himself; and this Act of Generosity was so highly resented by Sir
James Douglass,
who had some Pretence that the Earl was his Prisoner, that he set upon Sir
David
at
Langhermistoun,
as he was returning home after having conducted Prince
James
to the
Bass,
whence he embarked for
France,
and most cruelly murdered him
Winton's History.
, with many Circumstances of Barbarity. He married first
Margaret,
Daughter of Sir
David Barclay
Lord of
Brichen,
by whom he had one Daughter
Marion,
married to
William Maule
of
Panmure;
next,
Isobel,
Heiress of the Barony of
Monycabo,
by whom he had Sir
Malcolm
the Heir of the Family, and Sir
David
of whom sprung the
Flemings
of
Boghall.
Which
Malcolm
had the Honour of Knighthood confer'd on him by King
Robert
III. by whose Favour he obtained the Lady
Elizabeth Stewart,
Daughter of
Robert
Duke of
Albany,
in Marriage
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun, of the Barony of Biggar, which is finely engraven by Mr. Anderson in his Book de Rebus Diplom.
. During the Government of Duke
Murdo
his Brother in Law, Sir
Malcolm Fleming
was frequently employed in managing Treaties with
England,
particularly with Relation to the Redemption of King
James
I. which being happily brought about, he was one of the Hostages for the Ransom; but all this signal Loyalty did not secure him upon the King's Return from being suspected of having concur'd in the Duke's illegal Administration; and therefore when the Duke of
Albany
was first arrested and made Prisoner, so was Sir
Malcolm Fleming
Drummond's History of King James I.
, and others who had been in the Duke's greatest Confidence; but as his greatest Crime seems to have been his near Alliance with the late Regent, so the Court were soon so sensible of his Innocency, that he was shortly thereafter released without ever being charged with any particular Crime. 'Tis plain Sir
Malcolm Fleming
liv'd retir'd, and did not meddle in any Faction during the Reign of King
James
I. probably he was disgusted with the Treatment the Duke of
Albany
's Family had met with, yet he stuck close to his Friends the
Douglasses,
which cost him dear, for he was, together with the Earl of
Douglass
and his younger Brother, by the Contrivance of the Lord
Crichton
the Chancellor, all Three executed on the Mote of the Castle-Hill of
Edinburgh,
the 20th of
November
1441
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
. By the Lady
Elizabeth Stewart
his Wife aforesaid, he left Issue
Robert
his Son and Heir, and a Daughter
Marion
married to Sir
Patrick Gray
Lord of
F
ulis.
Which
Robert
soon after the Death of his Father took Instruments, that the Sentence pronounced against him was unwarrantable and illegal, in Regard he had not that Time allowed him for clearing himself that the Law allows the greatest Criminal
Ibidem.
; and protested that it should not be prejudicial to him; likeas there was another Instrument taken by Sir
Alexander Livingston
of
Calendar,
who was in the Ministry, in Presence of the Bishops of
St. Andrews, Glasgow, Dunkeld,
and
Dunblain,
and of the Earl of
Douglass
Justice-General besouth the River of
Forth,
whereby he declared upon Oath, That he had given no Counsel, Assistance or Consent to the Death and Slaughter of Sir
Malcolm Fleming
this Lord's Father.
Moreover, it would appear, that when King
James
II. himself came to Age, he was so much satisfied with the Injustice Sir
Mal
lm Fleming
had met with, that he gave Order to direct Precepts to the Sheriffs of the several Counties where Sir
Robert Fleming
's Estate lay, to inseft him as Heir to his Father, who by several Inquests of Persons of great Honour, is found and declared to have died at the Faith and Peace of his Sovereign Lord King
James
II. then reigning
Ibidem.
, notwithstanding of his pretended Forfaulture.
But it seems the King did not think the Justice of restoring Sir
Robert,
enough to attone for the Sufferings of his Father, wherefore he was graciously pleased to raise and establish him in the Rank of those Barons who were henceforth fixed heredetary Peers
Ibidem. ad Annum 1465.
. This noble Lord married
Janet,
Daughter of
James
Earl of
Douglass;
and again
M
rgaret,
Daughter of
John Lindsay
of
Covingtoun
Ibid.
. By the first Lady he had a Son Sir
Malcolm
his Heir apparent; and Two Daughters,
Beatrix
married to
James
Lord
Livingstoun,
and
Elizabeth
to Sir
William Stirling
of
Kier,
Kt.
Sir
Malcolm Fleming
of
Monycab
,
whom we shall call Master of
Fleming
in the Lifetime of his Father, married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
James
Lord
Livingstoun,
by whom he had Sir
David,
who died after he was contracted to the Lord
Drummond
's Daughter, and
John,
who came to be the Head of the Family on the Demise of his Grand-father, whom Death overtook in the Spring of the Year 1500:
Which
John
being a Gentleman of most accomplish'd Parts, was in the End of the Reign of King
James
V. sent upon a solemn Embassy to
France
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
; and upon his Return, was in the 1515 constituted Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland;
likeas in the 1518, he was again sent Ambassador to
France,
to treat with that State about the maintaining the ancient Alliance betwixt the Two Crowns
Ibidem.
; but not long after his Return, to the universal Regrete of the whole Nation, he was most barbarously assassinated by
Twedie
of
Drumelzer,
in the Month of
November,
of the Year 1523
Ibidem.
. He married first
E
pham,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Drummond,
by whom he had
Malcolm
his Successor, and another younger Son, who was Prior of
Whitern;
also a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
John Cunningham
of
Glengarnock.
Which
Malcolm
was in great Favour with King
James
V. by whom he was constituted Lord High Chamberlain of
Scotland;
and he held the Office even till his Death, that he was slain in the Service of his Country at the Battle of
Pinky,
10th
September
1545
Ibidem. This noble Lord in
he 1545 did make a noble Foundation of a Collegiate Church at Biggar, and richly endow'd it with Lands and Tithes for a Provost, Eight Prebends, Four Singing Boys, and Six poor Men, which was ratified both by the Bishop of St. Andrews the Cardinal, and the Pope's Bull; wherein his Zeal to the Church is highly extol'd.
. By
Janet
his Wife, natural Daughter of King
James
IV. he had
James
Lord
Fleming
his Heir, and
John
his Brother's Successor in the Honour; also Five Daughters,
Janet
married to
John
Master of
Livingstoun,
Margaret
to
Robert
Master of
Montrose;
next to
Thomas
Master of
Erskine;
and after that to
John
Earl of
Athole.
Mary
to Sir
William Maitland
of
Lidingtoun,
Elizabeth
to
Robert
Lord
Crichtoun
of
Sanquhar,
Jean
to
John Sandilands
of
Calder,
and again to
David Crawfurd
of
Kerse.
Which
James
being a Nobleman of very fine and polite Parts, was by the special Favour of Queen
Mary
made Lord High Chamberlain during Life,
Anno
1553
Ibidem.
, and soon thereafter named Guardian of the East and Middle Marches toward
England;
but that was not all, for in the Commission he is likewise invested with a Power of Justiciary within the Limits of his Jurisdiction; all which Offices he discharged to the general Satisfaction of the whole Nation.
When the Marriage was to be solemnized betwixt Queen
Mary
and the Dauphine, the Lord Chamberlain being one of wisest Men the Nation had, and very universally esteemed, was one of the Peers whom the Parliament sent over to
France
upon that solemn Occasion: Soon after which he died at
Paris,
on the 1st of
December
1558
Ibidem.
, not without Suspicion of being poison'd. He married
Barbara,
Daughter of
James
Duke of
Chattlerault,
by whom he had only one Daughter,
Jean,
married first to
John
Lord
Thirlstane,
and thereafter to
Gilbert
Earl of
Cossils.
This noble Lord dying without Male Issue, his Estate and Honour devolved on
John
his Brother, who being likewise a Person of great Parts, was by Queen
Mary
preferred to be Lord Chamberlain of
Scotland
for Life, the 10th
June
1565
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
, likewise Governour of
Dunbartoun
-Castle, which he held out several Years for the Interest of the Queen, to whom he adhered with very signal Fidelity till it was by the singular Courage and Dexterity of Captain
Thomas Crawfurd
of
Jordanhi
surpris'd
Anno
1571: But the Governour having found Means to make his Escape, got over to
France,
where he negociate the Affairs of his distressed Sovereign; and returning the next Year with new Supplies to the Queen's Party, was accidentally kill'd on the Street of
Edinburgh
by the Shot of a Musket-Bullet a little above the Knee, of which he died the 6th of
September
1572
Bishop Spotiswood's History.
. By
Elizabeth
his Wife, Daughter and sole Heir of
Robert
Master of
Ross
Charta penes C. de Wigtoun.
, he had
John
his Son and Heir; likewise Three Daughters,
Mary
married to Sir
James Douglass
of
Drumlan
g.
Elizabeth
to Sir
Alexander Bruce
of
Airth,
Kt.
Margaret
to Sir
James Forrester
of
Garden.
Kt.
John
Lord
Fleming
was serv'd Heir to his Father, notwithstanding he had been forfaulted in the Time of the Troubles during the Minority of King
James
VI.
The Lord Fleming is restor'd by virtue of an Act of Parliament, giving him the Benefit of the Pacification at Perth in 1572.
, for his being of the Queen's Party. He was afterwards by the special Favour of King
James
VI. created Earl of
Wigtoun, March
19th 1606
Charta penes Comitem de Wigtoun.
. He married first
Lil
as,
Daughter of
John
Earl of
Montrose;
by her he had
John
his Successor,
James Fleming
of
B
ghall;
also Five Daughters, 1st
Jean,
married to
George
Master of
Loudoun.
2d
Ann
to
William Livingston
of
Kilsyth,
and had Issue. 3d
Margaret,
to Sir
John Charters
of
Aimesfield.
4th
L
l
as,
to Sir
David Murray
of
Stenhope,
and had Issue. 5th
Mary
to Sir
Archbald Stewart
of
Castlemilk,
and had Issue. His second Wife was
Sarah,
Daughter of
William
Lord
Herries,
by whom he had a Daughter
Rachael
married to
John Lindsay
of
Covingtoun;
and departing this Life in
May
1619
Ibid.
, was succeeded by
John
his Son, who married
Margaret,
Daughter of
Alexander
Earl of
Linlithgow.
By her he had
John
his Heir, Sir
William,
who was Gentleman-Usher to King
Charles
I. and Chamberlain of the Houshold to King
Charles
II. in
Scotland;
also several Daughters,
Elean
r
married to
David
Earl of
Weems, Anne
to
Robert
Lord
Boyd,
and thereafter to
George
Earl of
Dalhousy,
and
Jean
to Sir
John Grierson
of
Lag,
and had Issue. He died the 7th
May
1650, and was succeeded by
John
his Son, who was a Person of intire Loyalty to King
Charles
I. when the War broke out he joined the Marquis of
Montrose,
and was at the unfortunate Adventure of
Philiphaugh;
after which he was obliged to flie to the
Highlands,
where he lay conceal'd till his Friends compounded for his Delinquency: And living to see the King restored, he died in the 1663, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
John
Earl of
Perth, John
his Successor, Sir
Robert, Henry
and
James,
who all three died unmarried,
William
who succeeded to his Brother in the Honours, and
Charles,
and Two Daughters, Lady
Margaret
and Lady
Jean,
who both died unmarried.
Which
John
married
Anne,
Daughter of
Henry
Lord
Kerr,
by whom he had only one Daughter,
Jean,
married to
George
Earl of
Panmure;
and dying
Anno
1668, his Estate and Honour devolved to
William
his Brother and Heir, who upon his Accession to the Honour was named one of the Lords of the Privy Council to King
Charles
II. and thereafter constituted Sheriff of the Shire, and Governour of the Castle of
Dunbartoun;
in which Offices he continued till his Death, 8th of
April
1681. By
Henrietta
his Wife. Daughter of
Charles
Earl of
Dunfermling
he had
John
his Son and Heir, and Master
Charles Fleming;
likewise a Daughter Lady
Mary,
married to Master
Harry Maule
of
Kelly.
Which
John
was one of the Pee
s who in the Parliament of 1706, oppos'd the Union of the Kingdoms upon the Foot of the Treaty then before the House; and tho' his Lordship did not formally protest against it himself, yet be joined in all the Protestations which were made against it, as appears by the Records of that Session both in the printed Minutes and Registers of Parliament. His Lordship married first a Daughter of the Earl of
Balcarras,
(by whom he had one Daughter) against whom he obtain'd a Divorce; and married next Lady
Mary Keith,
Daughter of
William
Earl Marischal.
ARMS.
Quarterly 1st and 4th
Argent,
a Cheveron within a double Tressure, flower'd and counterflower'd,
Gules.
2d and 3d
Azure,
Three Frases
Argent.
Supporters, Two Staggs proper. Crest, a Goat's Head erazed
Argent.
Motto,
Let the Deid shaw.
SEATON, Earl of
Winton.
THE first of this noble Family I have found upon Record, was
Alexander de Seaton,
who is one of the Witnesses in a Charter granted by King
David
I. to
Walter de Ridel,
of the Lands of
Ridel,
in the County of
Roxburgh
Dalrymple's Collections.
. He left a Son
Philip,
who was the Father of
Alexander de Seaton,
who had a Grant from King
William, Alexandro fil
o Philippi de Seaton, terras quae fuere patris sui, sciz. Seaton, Winton, & Winshburgh, per servitium unius militis
Charta pene
Comitem de Winton.
.
All our Historians shew the Valour and Fidelity of Sir
Christopher
of
Seaton
to King
Robert
I. in whose Service he lost his Life, fighting gallantly in a Conflict with the
English,
near the Town of
Drumfrise;
in Commemoration whereof King
Robert
did erect a Chapel, and provided certain Priests to say Mass for his Soul. In the Preamble of the Erection-Charter the King declares the Grant to be made,
Quia Christopherus de Seaton, Miles Gener noster dilect
, mortuus est in servitio nostro;
and therefore founds the Chaplanry
in loco quo mortem subiit prope
Drumfrise
Haddingtoun's Go
lections in Bib. Jurid.
. He left Issue by the Lady
Christion Bruce
his Wife, Sister to King
Robert
I. Sir
Alexander Seaton
his Son and Heir, who made a great Figure during the Reign of his Uncle, from whom he obtained sundry Grants of Lands, and particularly of the
Barns juxta Haddingtoun infra vicecomit. de Edinburgh,
as the Charter bears; likeas be obtained a Charter under the Great Seal, erecting his Village of
Seaton
in
liberum Burgum,
and his Lands of
Seaton
into a free Barony
Charta penes Comitem de Winton.
. He was a strenuous Assertor of the Title of King
David Bruce,
in Defence of which he performed many Actions of Honour and Courage during the Minority of that Prince. In the 1332, he was made Governour of the Town of
Ber
ick
Abercromby.
, which he defended with great Courage and Resolution, for to his immortal Honour, when King
Edward
of
England,
contrary to Capitulation, desir'd him to surrender the Town, threatning in case of a Refusal, to hang his Two Sons who were in his Hands among the Hostages for a Truce, and Sir
Alexander
persisting in his Resolution to keep the Town, King
Edward
put the innocent young Men to Death with many Circumstances of Barbarity, on which O
casion Sir
Alexander
gave such Proofs of his Magnanimity, as will for ever ennoble his Memory, and render him dear to all
Scotsmen.
By his Wife a Lady of the
C
ey
s
History of the House of Seaton.
, besides the Two eldest Sons who were murdered by the
English,
he had
William
his Successor, and Sir
John,
who by the Marriage of an Heir Female of the
R
msars
Ibidem.
, became the Root of the
Se
t
s
of
Parbroath,
and
Lathriesh.
Which Sir
William
married
Catharine,
Daughter of Sir
William Si
clair
of
Hermies
oun:
By her he had
John
his Heir,
Alexander,
who by Marriage of
Elizabeth,
Daughter and Heir of
Adam Gordon
of
Gordon,
was not only the common Ancestor of the Family of
Gordon,
and all the
Seaton-Gordons,
but also of the
Seatons
of
Touch,
and
M
ldrum
Writs in the Hands of Captain Robert Seaton, the Heir and Representative o
the Seatons of M
ldrum.
, who retained their Father's Sirname, being provided to Estates, which they did not derive from the Family of
Gordon,
but came to them by Marriage; likewise several Daughters,
Isobel
married to Sir
Allan Stewart
of
Darnly,
and again to Sir
Herbert Maxwell
of
C
l
vrock
Charta in Pub. Archivis.
,
Marion
to
John Ogilvy
of
Linrethan,
Kt.
Jean
to
Bernard Halden
of
Glen
agles
Hist. of the Seatons. M.S.
.
John
Lord of
Seaton
was one of the Hostages for the Ransom of King
James
I.
Rymer.
. He married
J
net,
Daughter of
George
Earl of
March
Hist. of the Seatons.
; and had by her
George
his Successor, and a Daughter . . . . . married to Sir
Robert Keith
Marischal of
Scotland.
Which
George
married the Lady
Jean Stewart,
only Daughter and Heir of
John
Earl of
Buchan
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
John
his eldest Son, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, leaving Issue by
Marion
his Wife, Daughter of . . . . Lord
Lindsay
Ibidem.
,
George,
who succeeded his Grandfather in his Estate and Honou; and a Daughter . . . . married to
Robert
Lord
Lyle.
Which
George
married
Isobel,
Daughter of
Colin,
first Earl of
Argyle
Ibidem.
, by whom he had
George
his Successor,
John,
the Root of that Branch of the
Sinclairs
of
Northrig,
and a Daughter
M
rgaret
married to
William M
itland
of
Lidingtoun
Ibidem.
; and dying
Anno
1508, was succeeded by
George
his Son and Heir, who was sl
in at the Battle of
Flowdoun
Ibidem.
, leaving Issue by
Jean
his Wife, Daughter of
Patrick
first Earl of
Bothwell
Ibidem.
,
George
his Successor, and a Daughter
Marion
married to
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun.
Which
George
married
Elizabeth,
Daughter of
John
Lord
Yester
Ibidem.
, and dying the 17th
Ju
y
1545, left Issue by the Lady aforesaid,
George
the succeeding Lord,
John,
who by Marriage of an Heiress of the
Balfours,
became possessed of the Barony of
Cariestoun,
and was the first of that Branch of the
Seatons
Hist. of the Seaton
.
; likewise Four Daughters,
Marion
married to
William
Earl of
Menreth,
Margaret
to Sir
Robert Logan
of
Restalrig
Helen
to
Hugh
Lord
Somervell.
Beatrix
to Sir
Walter Ogilvy
of
Dunlugus.
Which
George
was Provost of
Edinburgh
during the Regency of Queen
Mary
of
Lorrain,
and in the 1558, was one of the Commissioners sent to
France
to the Marriage of Queen
Mary
with the Dauphine King
Francis
II. and had much better Fortune in that Negociation than his Colleagues had, for most of them died in
France
by Poison, as was suspected, but his Lordship not only return'd in Safety, but had likewise, by the Bounty of King
Henry
II. a Pension of 2000 Franks, for his good Services to that Crown. He was a most faithful and loyal Subject to Queen
Mary,
by whom he was named one of the Lords of her Privy Council, and made one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Thistle
Mr. Nisbet's Historical Remarks upon the Family of Sea
on.
. When the Troubles broke out in that Reign, he adhered to that unfortunate Princess with inviolable Fidelity, and never made the least false Step in her Service, and many others did but remained firm in his Loyalty.
King
James
VI. had a great Value for this noble Lord, insomuch as he was pleased in the 1583, to send him Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of
France,
and he performed the Negociation with Reputation and Success, and died soon after his Return on the 8th of
January
1584
Hist: of the Family of Seaton in the Hands of Capt. Robert Seaton of Meldrum, who civily allowed me the Use of the Manuscript.
. By
Isobel
his Wife, Daughter of Sir
William Hamilton
of
Sorne
Ibidem.
, he had Issue,
Robert
his Successor, Sir
John Seaton,
of whom are descended the
Seatons
of
Ba
ns
Ibidem.
,
Alexander
first Earl of
Dunsermling,
Sir
William Seaton,
Kt. and a Daughter
Margaret,
married to
Claud
Lord
Pa
sley,
Ancestor to the Earl of
Abercorn.
Which
Robert
being a Nobleman of great Honour and Fortune, and much favour'd and esteemed by King
James
VI. was by his Majesty'e special Favour rais'd to the Honour of Earl of
Wintoun,
by Letters Patent, 5th of
November
1600; and departing this Life in the Spring of the Year 1603
Ibidem.
, left Issue by
Margaret
his Wife, Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun, Robert
Lord
Seaton,
who died without Issue,
George
his Successor, Sir
Alexander Seaton
Kt. afterward Earl of
Eglingtoun,
Sir
Thomas Seaton,
and Sir
John Seaton
of St.
Germains,
also a Daughter
Isobel
married to
James
Earl of
Perth,
and again to
Francis Stewart
Esq
Son of
Francis
Earl of
Bothwell.
Which
George
was of the Privy-Council to King
James
VI. and King
Charles
I whom he had the Honour to entertain in his Progress to
Scotland
in 1633, at his House of
Seaton,
at his own Charge, with the highest Splendor and Magnificence; and was very eminent in his Fidelity to that Prince during the Time of the Civil War.
He married first
Anne,
Daughter of
Francis
Earl of
Errol,
by whom he had
George
Lord
Seaton,
who dyed before his Father on the 4th of
June
1648
Ibidem.
, leaving a Son by
Henrietta
his Wife, Daughter of
George
Marquis of
Huntly, George
who was his Grandfather's Successor in the Honour, Sir
Alexander Seaton
the Earl's second Son was the first Viscount of
Kingstoun;
likewise a Daughter Lady
Elizabeth,
married to
William
Earl Marischal. His second Wife was
Elizabeth,
Eaughter of
J
hn
Lord
Harries.
By her he had Sir
J
hn Seato
of
Gairltoun;
likewise Three Daughters,
Isobel
married to
Francis
Lord
S
ple, Anne
to
John
Earl of
Traqua
,
and
Mary
to
James
Earl of
Carnwath;
and dying on the 17th of
December
1650, was succeeded by
George
his Grandson and Heir, who married first
M
ry,
Daughter of
Hugh
Earl of
Eglingtoun,
by whom he had no Issue that survived him; and again
Christian,
Daughter and Heir of
John Hep
rn
of
Add
esto
n;
and departing this Life 6th
March
1704, left Issue,
George
the present Earl of
Wintoun.
his Son and Heir.
GIFFARD, Lord of
Yester.
IN the Reign of King
William, Hugh de Giffard,
had by the Grant of that Prince the Lands of
Yes
red, i. e. Yester,
Ri
. de Morvile Co
stabul. & Philip. de V
llo
, Camerarius Regis.
He gave in pure Alms
Convent
i de
, & Manachis ibidem, Deo ser
,
um Tostum in Villa sua de Yestred, & duas B
v
t
s Terrae in villa pradicta pro salute Anima suae.
He left a Son
William de Giffard,
who had a G
ant of his own Lands from the Crown, which is witnessed by
Floren
.
lecto Glasguens
Cancellarto.
He was succeeded by Si
John de Giffard
his Son, who ratified to the Conventual Brethren of
Melross,
the Grant which
Hugh de G
ffard, avus suus,
made to
hat
Abbey, in puram & perpetuam El
emo
ynam.
He marri
d
Eupham,
the Daughter and Heir of Sir
Thomas de M
rham,
Kt. by whom he had
Hugh
his Son and Heir, who is designed
Hugo G
ff
rd Dominus de Yester,
il
us & Haeres Dominae Euphamiae Giffard, Domina de M
ram & de Baru, sponsa quondam Domini Joannis de Giffard,
in a Charter whereby he confi
ms the Donation which
Thomas de Morham
his Grandfather made to the Monks of
Holy-rood-house
at
Eainburgh, super jure patronatus Ecclesiae d
B
rn.
But the Issue Male of both Sir
John,
and
Hugh
his Son failing, his Four Daughter
were his Co
heirs.
Jean
married to Sir
William Hay
of
Locherret,
Ancestor to the Marquis of
Tweddale.
Alice
to Sir
Thomas Boyd,
Kt. Lord of
Kilmarnock.
Mary
to
Eustache Maxwell
of
Tyling,
Eupham to Dougall Mackdougall
of
Mackerstoun.
FINIS.
INDEX.
A.
ABercorn
Page 1
Abercromby
2
Aberdeen
3
Abernethy ibid.
Aboyn
4
Airly ibid.
Albany
6
Ancrum
8
Angus ibid.
Angus
Earl 9
Annandale
Earl
ibid.
Annandale
Marquis 10
Argyle
13
Athole
Earl 23
Athole
Duke 25
Arbuthnet
29
B.
BAdenoch
30
Balcarrass ibid.
Ballenden
32
Balmerino ibid.
Bamff
33
Bargeny
34
Belhaven
Viscount 35
Belhaven
Lord 36
Blantyre ibid.
Borthwick
38
Bothwel Murray ibid.
Bothwel Ramsay
44
Bothwel Hepburn ibid.
Bothwel Stewart
45
Brechin ibid.
Brechin Barclay ibid.
Broadalbin ibid.
Buchan
46
Buchan Stewart
47
Buchan Erskine ibid.
Buckclengh
50
Burligh
53
Bute
55
C.
CAithness
57
Caithness Crichton
58
Caithness Sinclair ibid.
Calendar
59
Cameron
60
Cardross
64
Carlyle
66
Carlyle Douglas
67
Carnwath ibid.
Carrick
69
Carrick Bruce
70
Carrick Stewart
72
Cassils
73
Cathcart
76
Coupar
79
Crichton ibid.
Colvil
of
Culross
80
Colvil
of
Ochiltree
81
Cramond ibid.
Cranston
82
Crawfurd
Lord
ibid.
Crawfurd
Earl 83
Crawfurd Lindsay
85
Cromarty
87
D.
DAlhousie
89
Delorain
91
Denniston
Dingwal Keith
Dingwal Preston
Douglas
Dirlton
Duffus
Dunblain
Dunfermling
Dunbar
Earl 113
Dunbar
Viscount
ibid.
Dunbarton
114
Dundee
Earl 115
Dundee
Viscount 116
Dundonald
118
Dunkeld
122
Dunmore ibid.
Drumfries
123
Dysart
125
E.
EGlinton
126
Elgin
132
Eliebank
134
Elphinston
135
Errol
137
Eymouth
141
Eythen
142
F.
FInlater
142
Forbes
145
Forrester
148
Lord 150
Earl
ibid.
th 151
ibid.
land
152
Fy
153
G.
GAloway
Lord 155
Galoway
Earl 156
ock
159
164
Glasfurd
166
cairn
167
ow
170
173
178
H.
ton
count 181
ton
Earl
ibid.
ton
182
183
-
-
se 184
Hamilton
186
Harries
218
Hopeton ibid.
Hume
220
Hyndford
223
I.
JEdburgh
227
Islay
228
Irvine
Earl 229
Irvine
Viscount
ibid.
Isles ibid.
K.
KElly
235
Kirkcudbright
237
Kenmure
239
Kilsyth
240
Kilmarnock
242
Kincairdin
245
Kingston
246
Kintore
247
Kinnaird ibid.
Kinnoul
248
L.
LAwderdale
250
Lennox
Earl 256
Lennox
Duke 258
Leven
264
Lothian
268
Lovat
270
Lorn
273
Lindores
274
Lithgow ibid.
London
282
Lyle
290
M.
MAderty
293
Marr
294
Marr Erskine
297
March Dunbar
307
March Stewart
309
March Douglas
310
Marchmont ibid.
Mc Donald
318
Marishal ibid.
Melvil
323
Melfort
327
Methven
328
Menteith
329
Menteith Graham
330
Middleton
333
Montrose
336
Monypenny
349
Mordington
350
Morton ibid.
Murray Randolph
355
Murray Dunbar ibid.
Murray Stewart
356
N.
NAirn
361
Napier
363
Newburgh
Lord 366
Newburgh
Earl
ibid.
Newhaven
367
Newark ibid.
Nithsdale
368
Northesk
373
O.
OChiltree
374
Oliphant
376
Orkney Sinclair
381
Orkney Hepburn
Duke 382
Orkney Stewart
383
Orkney Hamilton ibid.
Oxenford
385
P.
PAnmure
Lord 386
Panmure
Earl 387
Perth
403
Pittenweem
406
Pitsligo
407
Portmore ibid.
Preston ibid.
Primrose
408
Q.
QUeensberry
413
R.
RAe
421
Rollo
422
Roseberry
424
Ross
Earl 425
Ross
Lord 426
Rothes
427
Rothsay
431
Roxburgh ibid.
Ruglen
433
Rutherford ibid.
Ruthven
434
S.
SAlton Abernethy
435
Salton Frazer ibid.
Seaforth ibid.
Selkirk Douglas
438
Selkirk Hamilton ibid.
Semple
439
Sinclair
443
Somerwell
445
Southesk
446
Spainzie
450
St. Colme ibid.
Stair
451
Stirling
462
Stormont
464
Strathallan
466
Strathern ibid.
Strathern Stewart
468
Strathmore ibid.
Sutherland
471
T.
TAras
475
Teviot
Earl
ibid.
Teviot
Viscount
ibid.
Tillybardin
476
Torphichen
477
Traquair
480
Tweddale
484
W.
WEems
488
Wigton
491
Winton
499
Y.
YEster
502
FINIS.