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A   HISTORY 

OF   THE 

FAMILY    OF    SETON 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE 

FAMILY  of  SETON 


DURING  EIGHT  CENTURIES,  BY 

GEORGE  SETON,  ADVOCATE 

MA.   OXON.,   ETC. 
VOLUME    II 


EDINBURGH 

PRIVATELY  PRINTED  BY  T.  AND  A.  CONSTABLE 
PRINTERS  TO  HER  MAJESTY 

1896 


'  I  do  love  these  ancient  ruins : 
We  never  tread  upon  them  but  we  set 
Our  foot  upon  some  reverend  history.' 

Webster's  Duchess  of  Malfi. 


'Make  thy  proud  name  still  prouder  for 
thy  sons,  Aubrey  de  Vere.' 

W.  S.  Landor. 


FAMILY  OF  CARISTON 


577 


XVI.  Cariston 


John  Seton,  first  Baron  of  Cariston. 


HE  first  of  this  family  was  John,  born  about  1532, 
second  son  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  by  his 
first  wife,  Elizabeth  Hay,  daughter  of  John,  third 
Lord  Yester,1  who  married  Isabel,  daughter 
(niece  ?)  of  David  Balfour  of  Cariston,  in  the 
county  of  Fife. 

Sibbald,  in  his  Memoria  Balfouriana,  says  that 
'  the  House  of  Balfour  is  divided  into  several 
families,  of  which  those  of  Balgarvy,  Mount- 
whanney,  Denmylne,  Ballovy,  Careston,  and  Kirk- 
ton  are  the  principal — ex  quibus  multi  viri  exorti  sunt,  cum  virtute  bellica 
turn  pacis  artibus  illustres.'  In  a  manuscript  account  of  the  Setons  of 
Cariston  in  my  possession,  written  about  one  hundred  years  ago,  the 
Balfours  of  Cariston  are  said  to  have  been  descended  from  a  second  son 
of  Balfour  of  that  ilk,  '  before  that  ancient  heritage  came  to  the  Bethunes 
by  the  marriage  of  the  heiress.'  The  oldest  residence  of  note  in  the  parish 
of  Markinch  was  the  Castle  of  Balfour,  or  Ball-orr,  so  designated  from  its 
situation  near  the  confluence  of  the  rivers  Orr  and  Leven.    It  was  originally 


1  The  Yester  motto,  usually  given  as  '  Spare 
Nought,'  appears  as  '  Spair  quhen  you  has 
nocht1 — a   very   different    sentiment — in   Scot- 


land's Nobility  and  Gentry  (Bibl.    Harl.    1423, 
f.  33)  in  the  British  Museum. 


4D 


578  HOUSE   OF   BALFOUR 

the  seat  of  the  family  of  Balfour,  who  thence  derive  their  surname,  and 
reckon  their  descent  from  the  time  of  King  Duncan.  A  David  Balfour  of 
Carraldstone  is  mentioned  in  Hume's  Commentaries,  as  living  in  1476,  and 
in  the  records  of  the  Parliament  of  Scotland  in  1495.  The  following 
pedigree,  showing  some  of  the  earlier  generations  of  the  family,  is  compiled 
from  Conolly's  Eminent  Men  of  Fife  : — 

Sir  Michael  Balfour,  died  1344. 


Sir  John  Balfour  of  that  ilk,  Adam  Balfour,  who  married  a  granddaughter 

died  1375.  of  Macduff,  brother  of  Colbane,  Earl  of  Fife. 

I  I 

Margaret,  heiress  of  Balfour,  Sir  Michael  Balfour, 

married  to  Sir  Robert  Bethune.  died  1385. 

Michael  Balfour  of  Mountquhany. 
Marjory =Sir  Laurence  Balfour  of  Strathor  and  Mountquhany. 

1  ~~ i  1 

George  Balfour  John  Balfour  David  Balfour 

of  Mountquhany.  of  Balgarvie.  of  Carraldstone. 


Michael  Balfour  of  Burleigh.        James  Balfour  of  Denmylne. 

The  surname  of  Balfour  occupies  a  very  prominent  position  in  the 
present  day,  being  borne  by  distinguished  personages  in  both  Houses  of 
Parliament,  as  well  as  in  the  learned  professions,  in  the  Universities,  and 
elsewhere.  In  his  recent  work  on  Scottish  Landnames,  Sir  Herbert 
Maxwell  correctly  tells  us  that,  like  Cathcart,  the  name  is  pronounced  Balfour 
(G.  baile  fuar =cold  place),  with  the  accent  on  the  last  syllable  ;  while  on 
the  south  side  of  the  Tweed  the  '  stress '  is  thrown  forward,  and  the  two 
names  are  Anglicised  into  Balfour  and  Cathcart.1 

Mr.  Warden,  in  his  Angus  or  Forfarshire,  makes  the  following  state- 
ment relative  to  the  derivation  of  the  name  of  Careston  in  that  county  : — 
'  There  are  various  opinions  regarding  the  origin  of  the  name.  By  one 
party  it  is  said  to  be  from  Caril,  one  of  Ossian's  heroes,  who  is  supposed 
to  have  been  killed  here.  .  .  .  Another  party  supposes  that  a  barrow  and 
standing-stones,  formerly  near  the  farm-house  of  Nether  Careston,  marked 
the  spot  where  Carald,  a  Danish  leader,  in  his  flight  from  the  battle  of 
Aberlemno  (1012),  was  killed.  .  .  .  There  are  other  places  in  Scotland 
called  Careston.  In  Banffshire  the  Earl  of  Seaforth  is  the  owner  of 
Careston,  formerly  the  property  of  the  Lords  of  Deskford  ;  and  the  ancient 
and  noble  family  of  Seton  were  long  in  the  possession  of  the  lands  of 
Careston  in  Fife.  .  .  .   Mention  is  made  in  early  charters  of  a  "  Judex  "  of 


1  Sir    Herbert    also    refers    to    the    correct        Last  Minstrel),  viz.,  Delorain,  thus  bringing  out 
Scottish  pronunciation  of  Delorain  {Lay  of  the        its  true  meaning — dal  Arain,  or  Oran's  Land. 


AN   UNFORTUNATE   REPORT  579 

Angus,  probably  holding  his  office  under  the  great  Earls.  In  12 19  Adam 
was  "  Judex  "  of  the  Earl's  court.  Some  years  later  he  became  "  Judex  "  of 
the  King's  court,  and  his  brother  Keraldus  succeeded  to  his  office  in  the 
court  of  the  Earl.  .  .  .  The  dwelling  of  Keraldus  received  the  name  of 
"  Keraldistone,"  then  "  Caraldstoun,"  and  the  office  of  "  Judex"  becoming 
hereditary,  and  taking  its  Scotch  style  of  "  Dempster,"  gave  name  to  the 
family  who,  for  many  generations,  held  the  lands  of  Caraldstoun,  and 
performed  the  office  of  Dempster  of  the  Parliaments  of  Scotland.' 1 

To  return  to  John  Seton  :  being  a  favourite  with  his  grandmother, 
Lady  Janet  Hepburn  (widow  of  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton,  who  fell  at 
Flodden),  she  acquired  for  him  the  lands  of  Foulstruther,  in  East  Lothian, 
and  added  them  to  his  patrimony.2  During  the  absence  of  his  elder 
brother,  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  abroad,  a  report  of  his  Lordship's 
decease  having  reached  Scotland,  the  Laird  of  Cariston  was  put  in  posses- 
sion of  the  whole  estate.  He  also  assumed  the  title  of  Lord  Seton,  and 
sat  in  Parliament  as  a  peer,  but  on  his  brother's  return  was  dispossessed 
of  both  estate  and  honours.  The  temporary  acquisition  of  the  Lordship  of 
Seton  proved  very  unfortunate  to  John  and  his  posterity,  as  he  was  obliged, 
in  order  to  clear  off  the  extraordinary  expenses  incurred  thereby,  to  sell  his 
lands  in  Lothian,  as  well  as  a  portion  of  his  Fifeshire  estate. 

Some  of  these  circumstances  are  embraced  in  the  Genealogy  of  the 
Family  of  Setoun,  in  Robert  Mylne's 3  ms.  volume  of  Collections  in  the 
Advocates'  Library  (34.  6.  12): — 'George,  sixth  Lord  Setoun,  married 
Elizabeth  Hay,  daughter  to  John  Lord  Yester,  who  bore  him  two  sons — Lord 
George,  his  successor,  and  John,  his  second  and  only  brother,  who  married 
the  Heretrix  of  Karistoune,  and  gott  with  the  sd  Heretrix  many  good 
lands  lying  in  Fyfe  and  Strathearn,  and  some  in  Lothian.  The  Heretrix' 
name  was  Issobell  Balfour,  of  a  very  old  standing  family  in  that  name  of 
Balfoure.' 

Again :  '  This  Lord  George  being  banished  for  his  Loyalltie,  his  brother 
John,  Laird  of  Karistoune,  hearing  report  of  his  death,  entered  into  the 
possession  of  the  estate  and  honours,  and  att  his  brother's  return  home  was 
dispossessed  of  the  samen.  As  also  this  John  of  Karistoune  had  two  sons 
by  Issobell  Balfour — the  eldest,  George,  who  succeeded  to  himself,  and  the 
second,  John,  Knight,  who  went  to  France  and  was  made  by  the  King  of 
France  Captain  of  the  Gen  d'Armes,  being  no  small  honour  to  a  gentleman 
to  attain  into.' 

An  interesting  notice  of  the  French  King's  Scottish  bodyguard — 
instituted  by  Charles  vn.,  dr.  1425 — will  be  found  in  the  fifth  chapter  of 
Scott's  Quentin  Durward}  In  Le  Sacre  et  Couronnement  de  Louis  XVI., 
Roi  de  France  et  de  Navarre  (1775),  mention  is  made   of  'Six  Gardes 


1  See  also  Jervise's  Land  of  the  Lindsays,  Jacobite,'  and  a  curious  and  laborious  antiquary. 
p.  290.  4  See    also   Forsyth's   Beauties  of  Scotland, 

2  See  page  1 14  supra.  i.   442;   Archceologia  Scotica,   i.    58;   Burton's 

3  Mylne  is  described  in  Scott's  Introduction  Scot  Abroad,  pp.  33-40 ;  and  Scott's  Familiar 
to  the  Bride  of  Lammermoor  as   a   'virulent  Letters  (1894),  ii.  163. 


580  THE   HEIRESS   OF  CARISTON 

Ecossois,  revetus  de  leurs  cottes-d'armes,  escorterent  le  Roi,  trois  de 
chaque  cote  ' ;  and  among  the  illustrations  are  (i)  a  portrait  of  the  '  Due  de 
Noailles,  Capitaine  de  la  Compagnie  Ecossoise  des  Gardes  Ecossois ' ;  and 
(2)  one  of  the  six  Scottish  Guards  in  his  uniform,  which  is  fully  described 
in  the  text.  Again,  in  Fieffe's  Histoire  des  Troupes  Etrangeres  cm  service 
de  France  (1854)  there  is  an  engraving  of  an  archer  of  the  Scots  Guard, 
in  1559.  His  cuirass  bears  the  letter  '  H.'  between  three  crescents,  sur- 
mounted by  a  royal  crown. 

That  the  heiress  of  Cariston  was  the  niece  and  not  daughter  of  David 
Balfour  of  Cariston  seems  to  be  clearly  established  by  an  entry,  dated  8th 
June  1559,  in  the  Register  of  Acts  and  Decreets  (vol.  xx.  fol.  3),  relative 
to  a  successful  action  at  the  instance  of  '  Issobell  Balfour  of  Carraldstoun, 
niece  and  heiress  of  the  deceased  David  Balfour  of  Carraldstoun,'  and 
John  Seytoun  her  spouse,  for  his  interest,  against  '  David  Monypeny  now 
of  Petmuly,'  respecting  the  ownership  of  the  lands  of  Drumravok.1  Again, 
in  the  Fife  Retours,  under  date  2nd  April  1558,  she  is  described  as  '  Isso- 
bella  Balfour  de  Carreldstoun  hsres  Davidis  de  Carreldstoun  patrui 
(paternal  uncle)  in  terris  Rathmelry.' 

In  all  probability  Isabel's  uncle,  David  Balfour  of  Cariston,  fell  on  the 
fatal  field  of  Flodden.  The  Christian  name  of  her  father  may  have  been 
John  ;  but  this  does  not  clearly  appear,  as  the  notes  in  my  possession 
relative  to  the  pedigree  of  the  family  are  somewhat  conflicting. 

We  have  already  seen  that  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  was  born  in 
1 53 1.  Accordingly  his  younger  brother  John  could  not  have  been  born 
before  the  following  year.  He  was  husband  of  Isabel  Balfour  in  1553  " 
when  he  was  probably  about  twenty-one  years  of  age.  From  a  recorded 
process  at  Cupar  in  15 17  it  would  appear  that  an  Isabel  Balfour,  heiress  of 
Cariston,  was  alive  at  that  date  ;  and  if  this  was  John's  wife,  she  must  have 
been  at  least  fifteen  years  his  senior.  This,  however,  is  not  the  only 
mystery  connected  with  the  heiress  of  Cariston,  from  the  record  of  whose 
will  it  transpires  that  '  Isobell  Balfoure,  Lady  Carrelstoun,  died  at 
Rameldrie,'  in  the  parochin  of  Lathrisk,  on  the  23rd  of  March  1579,  sur- 
vived by  her  husband,  '■James  Seytoun,  in  Rameldrie,'  to  whom  she  left  all 
her  goods  and  gear,  'for  the  wele  of  hir  bairnes.'3  It  would  therefore 
appear  that  she  had  two  husbands,  both  bearing  the  surname  of  Seton ;  but, 
notwithstanding  a  careful  search  in  the  public  records,  I  have  hitherto 
failed  to  identify  the  second  spouse.  That  her  first  husband  died  before 
20th  July  1573 — when  he  was  only  about  forty  years  of  age — distinctly 
appears  from  the  gift  of  the  marriage  of  his  eldest  son,  to  be  afterwards 
referred  to. 

Among  the  family  papers  in  my  possession  are  the  following : — 

(1)   Instrument  of  sasine  given  by  'an  honourable  man,  John  Seytoun 


2 


1  See  also  Acts  and  Decreets,  vol.  iv.  fol.  452,         1553. 

1 2th  September  1562.  3  Commissariot  of  Edinburgh,  vol.  viii.,  22nd 

2  Register  of  Privy  Seal,  xxv.  66,  19th  April         October  1580. 


FIFESHIRE   POSSESSIONS  581 

of  Carrelstoun,  in  presence  of  Isabella  Balfour,  his  spouse,  heretrix  of  the 

said  town,'  in  favour  of  William  Heriot  of  Burnturk  of  an  annual  rent  of 

ten  pounds  furth  of  the  lands  of  Carrelstoun,  which  sasine 

was  renounced  by  the  said  Walter  on  his  receiving  from 

the  said  John  '  the  complete  sum  of  80  merks.'    '  Done  at  the 

manor  of  Carrelstoun,  about  the  first  hour  after  noon  of  the 

1  ith  day  of  June  1560,'  in  the  presence  of  a  notary  and  three 

witnesses. 

(2)  Letters  of  arrestment  under  the  Privy  Seal,  dated 
2nd  July,  and  executed  20th  September  1563,  at  the  instance 
of  Isobell   Balfour  of  Carrelstoun,   and  John  Seytoun,  her 
spouse,  against  David  Pitcairn  of  Forther  and  others,  his 
tenants,  for  infringing  their  rights  of  commonty  of  the  muir 
of  Drummie,  in  the  county  of  Fife. 

(3)  Agreement  and  compromise — now  much  worn  and  defaced — dated 
29th  January  1566,  relative  to  a  dispute  between  the  Lairds  of  Balfour  and 
Cariston  regarding  a  water-gang  and  other  matters.  The  document  is 
signed  by  the  parties;  by  John  Wemis  of  that  ilk,  Knight,  Mr.  Robert 
Pitcarne,  Commendator  of  Dunfermline,  John  Blacater  of  Tullyallane,  and 
Captain  Robert  Anstruther,  as  judges  and  arbitrators  for  Beton ;  by  James 
Hereot  of  Trabroun,  James  Johnstoun  of  Commistoun,  William  Bonar  of 
Rossy,  Patrick  Hepburn  of  Wauchton,  and  Mark  Ker,  Commendator  of 
Newbottell,  as  judges  and  arbitrators  for  Seton ;  and  by  George,  Earl  of 
Huntly,  and  Archibald,  Earl  of  Argyll,  as  oversmen.  In  the  course  of  the 
following  March  the  compromise  appears  to  have  been  more  than  once 
prorogued,  but  the  result  does  not  transpire. 

The  Fifeshire  possessions  of  the  Setons  of  Cariston,  extending  to 
about  nine  hundred  acres,  were  situated  in  the  three  adjoining  parishes  of 
Kettle  (olim  Lathrisk),  Kennoway,  and  Markinch,  and  included,  besides 
Cariston,  the  lands  of  Ballinkirk,  Rumeldrie,  Kumeldrie,  etc.  Rumeldrie 
— now  the  property  of  Mr.  Balfour  of  Balbirnie — belonged  to  the  Setons 
in  1620,  if  not  sixty  years  earlier.  From  a  beautiful  small  charter  in  my 
possession,  by  Duncan,  Earl  of  Fife  {c.  1320),  it  appears,  under  the  name 
of  Rothmelry,  to  have  been  the  property  of  the  Monypenys,  along  with  the 
lands  of  Hyltoun,  at  a  pretty  early  date.  The  gradual  alienation  of  the 
estate  will  be  referred  to  under  the  notice  of  the  eighth  Baron  of  Cariston. 
The  last  fragment  was  sold,  towards  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century,  to 
Mr.  William  Fidler,  formerly  of  the  island  of  Antigua,  and  connected  with 
Aberdeen,  who  died,  unmarried,  in  1809,  his  nephew  being  Professor 
Spalding  of  St.  Andrews.  From  him  the  property  passed  to  Major 
Wemyss,  after  about  ten  years'  possession,  and  was  purchased  from  the 
Major,  in  1820,  by  the  grandfather  of  Mr.  Lawson,  the  present  proprietor, 
who  removed  the  foundation  of  the  old  tower,  behind  the  modern  house. 
According  to  my  aunt,  Mrs.  Dawson,  some  of  the  carvings  of  the  old 
mansion-house  were  to  be  seen,  about  sixty  years  ago,  in  the  adjoining 
offices.      A  small  portion   of   the  old  avenue  is  still  traceable.      Major 


582  JOHN   SETON,   FIRST   BARON 

Wemyss  cut  down  a  good  deal  of  timber ;  and  in  1858  a  beech,  of  five  feet 
in  diameter,  and  about  three  hundred  years  old,  was  blown  down.  In  the 
present  garden  there  are  two  fine  horse-chestnuts,  and  a  large  ash  outside. 
At  a  short  distance  from  the  modern  mansion-house  is  a  picturesque  sheet 
of  water,  of  twenty-six  acres,  which  was  constructed  in  1877-8. 

The  first  Baron  of  Cariston  and  his  wife,  Isabel  Balfour,  turn  up  pretty 
frequently  in  the  public  records.  On  the  18th  of  May  1545 — when  John 
Seton  was  only  about  thirteen  years  of  age — we  find  a  confirmation  by 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots  of  a  charter  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  to  his 
second  son,  John,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  of  'the  lands  of 
Wountoun,  with  manor,  mansion,  yards,  orchyards,  and  mill,  in  the  barony 
of  Seytoun,  Constabulary  of  Hadington,  and  shire  of  Edinburgh,'  with 
certain  substitutions  in  case  of  failure.1 

Eight  years  later  (9th  April  1553)  the  same  Queen  grants  a  charter 
to  'John  Seyttoun,  brother-german  of  George,  Lord  Seyttoun,  and  Isobella 
Balfour  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Carraldstoun,  with  manor,  houses,'  etc., 
which  the  said  Isobella  resigned,  'to  be  holden  to  them  and  the  survivor 
of  them  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs  procreated  between  them  ;  whom 
failing,  to  the  heirs  whatsoever  of  the  said  John.'2  In  the  same  year  the 
Laird  of  Cariston  is  mentioned  in  an  obligation  by  his  brother,  Lord  Seton, 
to  Sir  Richard  Maitland,  relative  to  the  receipt  of  certain  silver  vessels,  to 
which  reference  has  already  been  made.3 

On  the  20th  of  July  1558  there  is  a  gift  to  'John  Seytoun  of  Carrald- 
stoun' of  the  non-entries,  etc.,  of  the  lands  of  Ramelry  (Rumeldrie)  in 
right  of  his  wife,  Isabel  Balfour,  through  the  decease  of  her  uncle  David's 
wife,  Margaret  Duddingstoun.4 

The  following  year  (5th  April  1559)  Lord  Seton  compels  his  brother, 
the  Laird  of  Cariston,  to  furnish  him  with  a  copy  of  the  charter  of  1545,  in 
terms  of  which  Cariston  was  bound  to  pay  certain  '  mails  and  duties.'5 

In  the  course  of  1562-3  the  Laird  of  Cariston  and  his  spouse  appear 
to  have  been  concerned  in  various  litigations,  including  actions  against 
John  Thomsoun  for  the  'wrongous  occupation  '  of  their  lands  of  Drumraw, 
and  David  Lindesay  of  Pyetstoun,  relative  to  the  removal  of  '  forty  days' 
work  of  peats '  from  the  '  sward  of  Carraldstoun ' ;  decreet  being  given,  in 
the  latter  case,  against  Lindesay.6 

By  his  wife,  Isabel  Balfour,  the  first  Baron7  of  Cariston  had  three  sons 
and  four  daughters  : — 

1.  George,  his  heir. 

2.  Sir  John,   Captain  in  the  Scots  Guards  in  France,  married  to  a 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  xxix.  230.      See  also  7  Baronies  were  granted  by  and  held  direct 
Privy  Seal  Register,  xix.  13.  of  the   King,  and  their  attendant  rights  and 

2  Great  Seal  Register,  xxxi.  172.  privileges  included  sac  and  soc,  tol  and  tehm, 

3  See  page  155  supra.  infangenethef,   and  pit  and  gallows.     'These 

4  Privy  Seal  Register,  xxix.  43.  feudal  terms  signify  the  right  of  holding  courts, 
6  Acts  and  Decreets,  vol.  xix.  fol.  252.  deciding  pleas,  imposing  fines,  taking  tolls  upon 
0  Ibid.  vol.  xxiv.  fol.  380  ;  vol.  xxv.  fol.  220  ;  vol.  the  sale  of  goods,  and  punishing  equally  the 

xxvi.  fol.  145  and  151  ;  and  vol.  xxviii.  fol.  215.  thief  caught  with  the  stolen  property,  or  the 


SIR  JOHN   SETON,   'CHEVALIER' 


583 


daughter  of  the  Count  de  Bourbon,1  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter  who 

married  Adinston  of  that  ilk,  an  ancient 

Baron  in  East   Lothian,  from  whom  was 

lineally    descended    Christian     Hepburn, 

Countess  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Winton.2 

From  the  time  of  King  Robert  the  Bruce 

the  family  of  Adinston  were  the  hereditary 

standard-bearers  of  the  House  of  Seton. 

3.  James,  residing  in  France  in  1601. 
On  the  23rd  of  July  1586  we  come  across 
a  letter  of  gift,  'At  Falkland,'  to  Patrick 
Murray,  domestic  servant  to  the  King,  his 
heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  escheat  of  all 
goods,  etc.,  which  pertained  to  'James 
Seton  in  Carrestoun'  now  in  the  King's 
hands,  'through  the  said  James  being  at 
the  home  for  the  slaughter  of  umquhile 
David  Sibbit  in  Orkymylne,  or  otherwise 
for  mutilation  of  him.' 3 

From  the  records  in  the  National  Library  at  Paris  it  appears  that 
'  Jehan  Seton,  ecuyer,  Sieur  de  Cariston,  Lieutenant  exempt  des  Gardes 
Ecossais  du  Corps  du  Roi,'  married,  in  1622,  'Demoiselle  Catherine 
Eustache,'  and  that  he  died  in  1661.  He  was  probably  the  son  of  Sir  John, 
of  the  French  Guard. 

I  have  lately  obtained  from  the  same  records  (M.  544)  a  copy  of  his 
Testament,4  in  which  he  is  described  as  '  Sir  John  Seton,  Chevalier,  Lord 
of  Cariston  and  of  Coulonniers  in  Brye  and  other  places,'  and  from  which 
it  appears  that  he  resided  in  a  manor-house  and  '  hotel '  at  Coulonniers, 
about  two  leagues  from  the  town  of  Meaux.  After  commending  himself, 
'  like  a  good  Christian  and  Catholic,'  to  God  his  Creator,  through  the  merits 
of  Jesus  Christ,  and  imploring  the  intercession  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary 
and  all  the  Saints,  of  both  sexes,  in  Paradise,  he  directs  his  body  to  be 
interred  in  the  Church  of  St.  Laurence,  beside  his  deceased  wife,  and  makes 
provision  for  certain  memorial  services.     Desiring  that  the  title  and  rank 


homicide  taken  "red  hand"  within  the  boun- 
dary of  the  manor.' — Warden's  Angus  or  For- 
farshire, ii.  283. 

All  the  principal  writers  on  Scottish  Heraldry 
concur  in  holding  that  'Minor  Barons'  were 
entitled  to  carry  supporters  to  their  coats  ar- 
morial ;  but  in  many  cases  the  privilege  does 
not  appear  to  have  been  exercised. 

1  I  have  failed  to  find  this  marriage  in  Ge'ne'a- 
logie  de  la  Maison  de  Bourbon,  12  56- 1869,  par 
L.  Dussieux  ;  Genealogie  de  la  Maison  de  Bour- 
bon, par  1'Abbe  V.  Dumax  (1873) ;  and  The 
Marriages  of  the  Bourbons,  2  vols.,  by  Captain 
the  Hon.  D.  Bingham  (1890).  Possibly  it  may 
be  mentioned  in  Charles  Bernard's  House  of 


Bourbon,  published  in  Paris  in  1644,  which  is 
not  in  the  British  Museum. 

2  See  page  248  supra. 

3  Privy  Seal  Register,  liv.  56. 

4  Appendix  of  Miscellanies. 

A  'Jehan  Seton,  Archer,'  is  mentioned  in 
Francisque-Michel's  Ecossais  en  France,  i.  201  ; 
and  in  the  same  work  (ii.  292-4),  a  Sir  John 
Seton  is  specified  as  one  of  the  '  Officiers 
Ecossais  au  service  de  Louis  XIII.'  Two  other 
John  Setons  are  referred  to  by  Michel  (ii.  298-9) ; 
and  at  p.  295  of  the  same  volume  he  speaks  of 
the  Setons  as  'une  famille  etroitement  liee,  a 
toutes  les  epoques,  avec  notre  pays.' 


584      DAUGHTERS   OF  THE   FIRST   BARON 

of  his  family  should  be  maintained  by  his  eldest  son,  Jean  de  Seton,  he 
bequeaths  to  him  the  manor-house  and  adjoining  lands  ;  and  to  his  second 
son,  Henry  de  Seton,  a  little  farm  at  Coulonniers.  The  other  bequests  are 
to  his  daughters,  Catherine  de  Seton,  wife  of  Claude  de  Bertin  de  Relin- 
court,  Knight ;  Angelique  de  Seton,  his  devoted  housekeeper ;  and  four 
other  daughters,  'professed  nuns.'  He  directs  his  debts  to  be  paid,  and 
his  wrongs  repaired  and  amended,  '  if  any  are  to  be  found ' ;  and  provides 
for  the  distribution  of  thirty  pounds  among  the  poor  of  Coulonniers,  on  the 
day  of  his  burial,  according  to  the  direction  of  '  Madame  sa  fille.'  The 
testament '  includes  legacies  to  his  coachman,  four  maid-servants,  two 
lacqueys,  the  '  fille-de-chambre '  of  Demoiselle  Angelique,  M.  Nicolas 
Patron,  King's  Advocate  at  Meaux ;  and  the  balance  of  his  carter's  and 
gardener's  wages. 

The  four  daughters  of  the  first  Baron  of  Cariston  were : — 

1.  Geilles  (or  Egidia),  who  died  unmarried. 

2.  Elspeth  (or  Elizabeth),  who  appears  to  have  married  a  '  Swyntoun,' 
by  whom  she  had  two  daughters,  Isobel  and  Jean.  Like  her  brother,  the 
second  Baron,  she  had  a  legacy  from  her  'cousing,'  Robert,  first  Earl  of 
Winton  (see  page  216  supra). 

3  and  4.  Margaret,  and  Jonet. 

The  eldest  daughter,  Geilles,  turns  up  at  least  twice  in  the  public 
records.  In  April  1586  we  find  a  contract  between  'George  Seytoun  of 
Carraldstoun,  on  the  one  part,  and  Geilles  Seytoun,  his  sister,  on  the  other 
part,'  making  mention  that  the  deceased  George,  seventh  Lord  Seytoun, 
being  willing  to  help  the  said  Geilles  '  for  support  of  her  in  honest  marriage,' 
made  and  constitute  her  his  cessioner  and  assignee  in  and  to  the  sum  of 
2000  merks,  which  he  had  lying  upon  the  lands  of  Foulstruther,  pertaining 
to  the  said  George,  within  the  Constabulary  of  Haddington  and  Sheriffdom 
of  Edinburgh,  for  which  he  was  infeft  in  an  annual  rent  of  200  merks  yearly 
to  be  uplifted  furth  of  the  same,  and  annalied  and  wadset  by  the  said 
George  Seytoun  of  Carraldstoun  to  the  said  deceased  Lord  George  and 
his  heirs  and  assignees,  under  reversion  of  the  sum  of  200  merks  :  and  the 
said  Geilles  renounces  her  right  thereto,  on  the  said  Lord  George  paying 
to  her  the  sums  of  200  merks  annual  rent  and  2000  merks  principal — 
dated  at  Edinburgh  2nd  March  1585-6.  David  Seytoun  of  Parbrothe  is 
cautioner  for  the  said  George,  and  Alexander  Seton,  Commendator  of 
Pluscardine  (afterwards  Earl  of  Dunfermline),  is  a  witness.1 

The  contemplated  marriage  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  place,  as 
we  find  from  the  record  of  her  testament  that  she  died  a  spinster  in  1601. 
The  relative  entry  is  so  curious  that  I  give  it  without  abridgment : — 

'  The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Geillis 
Seytoun,  sister  german  to  George  Seytoun  of  Caristoun,  the  time  of  her  decease,  on  18th  Novem- 
ber 1601,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  herself  on  17th  November  foresaid,  as  concerns  the 


Register  of  Deeds,  Scott  Office,  xxiv.  195. 


GEORGE  SETON,  SECOND  BARON 


585 


nomination  of  Executors,  and  partly  given  up  by  John  Seytoun,  her  brother,  in  so  far  as 
concerns  the  Inventory  of  the  goods. 


Sum  of  the  Inventory 
Debts  owing  to  her 
Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 
No  Division — Quota  is  xxlib- 


vijcxxxvjllb  xiiij3  viijd 

;4mic  lib 

ijmviijcxxxyjlib  xiiis  viijd 


In  her  latter  Will  she  confesses  that  there  is  due  to  her,  by  James,  Master  of  Paisley, 
2000  merks ;  of  which  sum  she  leaves  to  Elspeth  Seytoun,  her  sister,  600  merks.  To  her 
brother  James  Seytoun,  who  is  presently  in  France,  500  merks.  To  her  brother  John  Seytoun, 
other  500  merks.  To  her  sister's  daughter,  Issobell  Swyntoun,  400  merks — '  the  said  four 
hundrethe  merks  to  remayne  in  the  handis  of  the  said  Johnne  Seytoun,  my  brother,  and  to  be 
imployd  be  him  to  her  utilitie  and  proffeit  quhill  sho  be  of  the  aige  of  auchtene  yeiris,  and 
failzeing  of  hir  be  deceis,  I  leif  the  said  sowme  to  be  imployd  be  the  said  Johnne  Seytoun  in 
maner  foirsaid  to  Jean  Swyntoun  hir  sister,  to  her  aige  of  auchtene  yeiris,  and  failing  of  thame 
be  deceis  befoir  thair  aige  of  auchtene  yeiris  aboue  writtin,  na  lawfull  bairnes  gottin  of  thair 
body,  I  leif  the  said  sowme  of  four  hundrethe  merks  to  the  said  Johne  Seytoun,  my  brother; 
Item,  I  leif  to  my  sister  Margaret  Seytoun  my  chamlet  silk  goun  with  the  zeit  (?)  pasmentis 
{stripes  of  lace)  and  my  rid  seaclaith  .  .  .  petticot;  I  leif  to  the  said  Elspeth  Seytoun,  my  sister 
my  blak  taffatie  goun ;  Item,  to  my  sister,  Jonet  Seytoun,  my  hairsey  goun  with  the  tannie 
sating  sieves ;  Item,  to  the  said  Margaret  Seytoun  ane  fedder  bed  with  ane  bouster  and  reische 
work  cowering,  with  ane  pend  of  erisch  wark ;  Item,  I  mak  and  constitute  the  said  Johnne 
Seytoun,  my  brother,  my  executor,'  etc.  Dated  in  Lady  Seytoun's  house  in  Edinburgh,  17 
November  1601.  Confirmed  2  January  1602.  Alexander  Inglis,  'servitor  to  old  Lady  Seytoun 
is  cautioner.1 


2.   George  Seton,  second  Baron  of  Carts  ton, 

eldest  son  of  the  first  Baron,  who  was  born  about  the  year  1554,  succeeded 

his   father    before    20th   July    1573,    and 

married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  John 

Ayton  of  that  ilk,  county  Fife,2  by  whom 

he  had — besides  four  daughters,  Elspeth, 

Margaret,     Christian,    and     Isobel  —  four 

sons  : — 

1.  George,  his  successor. 

2,  3,  4.  Alexander,  Andrew,  and 
Christopher,  of  whom  nothing  appears  to 
be  known. 

An  approximation  to  the  date  of  the 
second  Baron's  succession  is  obtained  from 
a  letter  of  gift,  dated  at  Holyroodhouse, 
20th  July  1573,  to  'Margaret  Seytoun, 
daughter  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun'  (after- 
wards wife  of  Lord  Claude  Hamilton),  her 
heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  marriage  of 
'  George  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  of  umquhile 


1  Commissariot  Register  of  Edinburgh,  vol. 
xxxvi. 


2  The  old  family  of  Ayton  of  that  ilk,  in  Ber- 
wickshire, ended,  in  the  time  of  James  in.,  in 


4E 


586  GIFTS   OF   ESCHEAT 

John  Seytoun  of  Carralstoun ' ;  and  in  the  event  of  his  dying  unmarried, 
the  marriage  of  any  other  heirs-male  or  female  that  shall  succeed  to  the 
lands  and  heritage  of  the  said  John  Seytoun  and  Isabel  Balfour,  his 
spouse.1 

Eleven  years  later  (1584),  we  come  across  two  letters  of  gift  to 
'  George  Seytoun  of  Carrestoun,'  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  escheat  of 
all  goods,  etc.,  that  pertained  (1)  to  his  uncle,  George,  seventh  Lord 
Seytoun,  and  Robert,  Master  of  Seytoun,  his  son  and  heir-apparent,  in 
consequence  of  their  having  been  'put  to  the  home,' at  the  instance  of 
Nicoll  Adwart,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  for  the  non-payment  of  certain 
sums  of  money;  and  (2)  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  (of  Barns),  'lawful  son 
to  zimquhile  George  Lord  Seytoun,'  for  failure  to  pay  ^80  Scots  '  for 
his  part  of  the  taxation  of  £40,000  of  his  pension  of  the  lands  and 
lordship  of  Kylesmure,  pertaining  to  him  furth  of  the  Abbacy  of 
Melrose,  etc.2 

On  the  21st  of  August  1588,  we  find  a  decreet-arbitral  in  submission 
between  Robert,  eighth  Lord  Seytoun,  for  himself,  and  taking  the  burden 
upon  him  for  George  Seytoun  of  Carelstoun,  offering  him  to  be  donator, 
and  to  have  the  gift  of  the  escheat  of  the  deceased  George,  seventh  Lord 
Seytoun,  and  of  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  now  comptroller  to 
the  King ;  and  also  taking  the  burden  upon  him  for  the  prebendaries  of 
the  College  Kirk  of  Seytoun,  on  the  one  part,  and  the  said  Sir  John 
Seytoun  of  Barnis  and  William  Seytoun,  his  brother-german,  for  them- 
selves, and  taking  the  burden  upon  them  for  Dame  Margaret  Seytoun, 
Lady  of  Hallsyde,  and  for  Lord  Claude  Hammyltoun,  Commendator  of 
Paisley,  her  spouse,  and  their  children,  for  all  right  and  title  to  certain  sums 
of  money,  one  the  other  part,  anent  the  amicable  settlement  of  all  disputes 
between  the  said  parties  concerning  the  said  escheats  and  gift  of  the  same. 
Alexander  Seton,  late  Commendator  of  Pluscardine,  one  of  the  Senators  of 
the  College  of  Justice,  is  sole  arbitrator,  whose  decision  is  to  be  final ;  while 
James  Seytoun  of  Tullybody,  and  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  brother-german 
to  the  laird  of  Meldrum,  are  witnesses.3 

On  the  14th  of  June  1591,  George  Seytoun  of  Careston,  David 
Sibbald  of  Lethaine,  and  others,  are  summoned,  for  the  second  time,  as 


an  heiress,  who  married  George  Home,  second  the  British  Museum,  under  the  year  1683,  we 

son  of  Alexander,  Lord  Home.     The  next  heir-  find  a  petition  by  Sir  John  Ayton  of  Ayton,  in 

male  was  Ayton  of  Dunmure  in  Fife,  who  pro-  Fife,  to   the    King's  most   sacred   Majesty  for 

cured  a  royal  warrant  to  call  the  lands  of  Dun-  remission  of  a  fine.     After  a  statement  relative 

mure  Ayton,  after  which  the  family  was  designed  to  the  loyalty  of  his  'poore  House,'  he  says: 

'  Ayton  of  that  ilk,' as  of  old.    One  of  this  family  'Besides  that  it  is  very  well  knowne  that  his 

was  Andrew  Ayton,  Captain  of  the  Castle  of  estate  is  small,  with  a  greate  burden  of  debt 

Stirling  in  the  reign  of  James  v.,  whose  quartered  and  chilldren  to  provide  for.' 

coat  is  described  in  Nisbet's  System  of  Heraldry,  l  Privy  Seal  Register,  xli.  44. 

i.   123.     See  also   Sibbald's  Fife  and  Kinross,  2  Ibid.W.   166,  and  lii.  8.     The  second  entry 

p.  409,  and  Lamont's  Diary,  passim.     An  in-  is  dated  '13  February  1584-5,'  and  the  seventh 

teresting  account  of  the  Aytons  was  privately  Lord  Seton  died  on  the  8th  of  the  preceding 

printed  by  Colonel  Ayton,  R.A.,  in  1887.  January. 

In  the  Lauderdale  Papers  (23,120,  f.  151)  in  3  Register  of  Deeds,  Scott  Office,  xxxii.  44. 


GEORGE  SETON,  THIRD  BARON 


587 


witnesses  in  the  action  of  spuilzie  by  George  Multray  of  Seyfield,1  against 
Robert  Lundy  of  Balgony.2 

About  four  years  later  (28th  February  1595)  there  is  another  letter 
of  gift  to  George  Seytoun  of  Carraldstoun  of  the  escheat  of  William 
Coilzear,  'sometime  in  Kilmux,'  and  David  his  son,  for  their  failure  to 
relieve  the  said  George  of  'certain  cautionaries  ' ;  and  on  the  27th  of 
July  1597,  David  Coilzear  sues  the  Laird  of  Cariston,  and  Stevin 
Patersone,  notary  in  Falkland,  for  the  production  of  a  certain  contract 
apparently  connected  with  the  preceding  gift  of  escheat.  The  cause  is 
continued  to  the  31st  of  May  following,  but  the  result  does  not  transpire.3 


3.   George  Seton,  third  Baron  of  Cariston, 

was  probably  born  about  1585,  but  the  date  of  his  father's  death  does  not 

appear   to   be   known.      He   married,    in 

1620,   Cecilia,   eldest  daughter  of  David 

Kynynmond  of  that    ilk    and    Craighall, 

co.   Fife,  by  his  wife,   Marion    Seton,    of 

the   family   of   Parbroath,  and  had  three 

sons  and  three  daughters  : — 

1.  George,  his  heir. 

2.  David,  who  married  and  settled  in 
Yorkshire.4 

3.  Alexander,  one  of  the  magistrates 
of  St.  Andrews,  who  was  twice  married, 
his  first  wife  being  Helen  Napier,  '  Ladye 
of  Dunninow,'  widow  of  James  Binning, 
whom  he  married,  27th  March  1657,  and 
by  whom  he  had  several  children.5  Of 
these,  David  married,  first,  Anne,  daughter 
of  Watson  of  Athernie,  by  whom  he  had 
four  daughters,  three  of  whom  were  mar- 
ried ;    and,  secondly, Weir  of  Edinburgh,    without    issue.      One  of 

Alexander  Seton's  daughters  married  Cassie  of  Kirkhouse,  near  Traquair. 

4.  Anne,  died  unmarried. 

5.  Isabel,  married  to  George  Seton,  representative  of  the  family  of 
Parbroath,  by  whom  she  had  a  son,  James,  who  died  in  Spain.  (See  p.  294 
sripra. ) 

6.  Cecilia,  married  to  David  Craigengelt. 

An  interesting  account  of  the  family  of  Kynynmond  will  be  found  in 


1  The  arms  of  Moutray,  or  Moultrie,  of  Sea- 
field,  are  quartered  with  those  of  Abernethy  on 
a  quaint  monumental  slab  at  Dalgety  Church, 
Fifeshire,  dated  1540  : — azure,  on  a  chevron 
between  three  escallops  argent,  a  sanglier's 
head    couped   sable,  between   two   spur-rowels 


gules.    See  Nisbet's  Heraldry,  i.  361. 

2  Register  of  Acts  and  Decreets,  cxxix.  374. 

3  Privy  Seal  Register,  Ixviii.   122  ;  and  Acts 
and  Decreets,  clxxi.  118. 

4  See  No.  xxvi.  infra. 

5  Dunino  Parochial  Register. 


588    GEORGE  SETON,  FOURTH  BARON 

Martin  of  Clermont's  Genealogical  Collections  in  the  Advocates'  Library, 
which  deduces  the  descent  from  '  Elizeus  de  Kynnynmond,  Dominus 
ejusdem,'  who,  on  the  20th  of  October  1395,  exhibited  eleven  charters  and 
desired  them  to  be  '  transumed '  by  a  notary  '  on  account  of  the  hazards 
they  might  be  exposed  to  from  fire,  water,'  etc.  From  one  of  these  charters 
it  appears  that  Matthew  Kynnymond,  Archdeacon  of  St.  Andrews, 
became  Bishop  of  Aberdeen  in  1172  ;  and  in  1304  John  de  Kynnynmond 
was  Bishop  of  .Brechin.  From  the  same  source  we  learn  that,  as  per  dis- 
charge by  her  husband,  the  Laird  of  Cariston,  dated  10th  June  1620, 
Cecilia  Kynynmond's  tocher  amounted  to  3000  merks.  '  George  Seytoun 
of  Carrestoun'  is  mentioned  in  a  complaint  of  Walter  Kinnimonth  of 
Callinche  and  the  Sheriff- Deputes  of  Fife,  in  the  year  161 7,  against 
David  Kinnimonth  of  Craighall  and  others,  for  forcible  resistance  to  a 
decree  of  ejectment.1 

Sibbald  informs  us  that '  on  an  eminence  to  the  north  of  Lochgellie,  is 
the  house  of  Easter  Lochgellie,  one  of  the  seats  of  Sir  Alexander  Murray 
of  Melgum  (Melgund),  of  the  family  of  Philiphaugh,  by  his  marrying 
(Grissel)  the  heiress  of  Kinninmonth  ;  for  after  the  Barons  of  Kinninmonth 
sold  Craighall,  they  bought  an  estate  here,  one  part  of  which  was  anciently 
called  Kinninmonth,  and  is  now  the  property  of  Lord  Minto.' 2 

The  same  writer  also  states  that  '  Craighall,  the  seat  of  Sir  Thomas 
Hope,  the  chief  of  that  name,  belonged  anciently  to  the  Kynninmonds,  and 
one  of  the  baronies  is  named  Kynninmond.  It  was  purchased  from  the 
family  of  Kynnimond  by  Sir  Thomas  Hope,  Advocate  to  King  Charles  i.'3 

4.   George  Seton,  fourth  Baron  of  Cariston, 

who  appears  to  have  succeeded  his  father  before  28th  June  1637  (when  he 
__ —  was  probably  about  twenty-one  years  of  age),  was  educated  at  Seton 
Palace  with  Lord  Seton,  eldest  son  of  the  third  Earl  of  Winton,  and  '  was 
a  man  of  large  stature  and  fine  accomplishments.'  By  the  interest  of  his 
kinsman,  Charles,  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  he  had  an  offer  of  Knight- 
hood, which  he  declined,  and  was  on  the  leet  for  being  a  Lord  of  Session, 
which  the  death  of  that  noble  Earl  prevented.  '  There  are  many  docu- 
ments among  the  family  papers  which  show  that  he  had  the  management 
of  the  affairs  of  the  regality  of  Dunfermline ;  and,  from  the  affectionate 
letters  still  preserved,  he  appears  to  have  been  on  very  friendly  terms  with 
the  Earl.'4 

Contrary  to  his  inclination,  he  was  obliged  to  join  the  Covenanters  of 
Fife  at  the  battle  of  Kilsyth  ;  but  afterwards,  with  his  son  Christopher,  he 
accompanied  his  chief,   the   Earl  of  Winton,   when    he  commanded  the 


1  Register  of  Privy  Seal,  xi.  96-7.  4  MS.  Account  of  the  Family  of  Cariston  in 

«  e-ut.  ui     e--^       j  ^-  „o  my  possession,  drawn  up  by  my  grand-uncle, 

-  Sibbald's  Fife  and  Kinross,  p.  378.  M>£r  christ0'pher  Set0^  in  l8oo,  of  which  a 

3  Ibid.  p.  361.     See  also  Marryat's  One  Year  duplicate  is  in  the  Advocates'  Library  (34.  3.  6). 

in  Sweden,  ii.  491.  See  Analecta  Scotica,  second  series,  pp.  32-3. 


HIS   MARRIAGE,    ETC. 


589 


Lothian  Militia  at  Bothwell  Bridge.  His  brother  David  having  had  some 
hostile  encounters  with  Oliver  Cromwell's  troopers,  he  was  most  unjustly 
implicated  in  that  affair,  and  his  estate  sequestrated  for  some  years,  during 
which  he  resided  in  the  Mearns  with  his  wife's  brother-in-law,  Sheriff 
Keith ;  but  on  its  being  ascertained  that  he  had  no  concern  in  the  matter, 
his  lands  were  duly  restored  to  him.1 

The  fourth  Baron  of  Cariston  married,  in  1638,  Margaret,  eldest 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Seton  of  Olive- 
stob,  fourth  son  of  Robert,  first  Earl  of 
Winton.  In  the  relative  contract  of  mar- 
riage, which  is  dated  at  Seton  Palace, 
Cariston's  mother,  Cecilia  Kynynmond, 
and  his  uncle,  Alexander  Seton,  are 
parties  contractors  on  the  one  part,  while 
Margaret  Seton's  mother,  Agnes,  daughter 
of  Drummond  of  Corskelpy,  and  her 
uncle,  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  are 
parties  contractors  on  the  other  part.2 

The  following  passage  relative  to  the 
fourth  Baron  of  Cariston  occurs  in  Sir 
John  Lauder  of  Fountainhall's  Historical 
Notices  of  Scottish  Affairs  (i.  89  and  196) : 
'About  the  same  tyme  (October  1674) 
Seton  of  Carriston,  falling  at  variance  with 
another  man,  gave  command  to  his  servant 

to  shoot  him ;  who  did  so,  and  the  man  with  much  difficulty  recovered : 
whereupon  it  fell  to  be  questioned  in  discourse  how  far  one  was  tyed,  ob 
mandatum  criminis,  for  bidding  or  commanding  another  to  commit  a 
cryme.' 

Again,  six  years  later  (October  1680),  'Seton  of  Cariston's  two 
daughters  raised  a  libel  for  aliment  against  their  father  and  his  creditors. 
The  Lords  considering  that  they  were  come  to  age,  and  their  father  offered 
to  entertain  them  in  his  own  family  (though  they  affirmed  that  he  had  used 
them  most  barbarously),  referred  them  to  the  Judge  Ordinary,  and  recom- 
mended to  them  to  go  home  and  stay  in  their  father's  house.' 3 

Possibly  this  may  have  been  the  Laird  of  Cariston  of  whom  there  is  a 
tradition  that,  on  his  consulting  the  family  lawyer  as  to  the  proper  provision 
for  his  daughters,  he  was  curtly  informed  that  'a  spinning-wheel  was  a 
sufficient  tocher ' ! 

Besides  three  daughters — Mary,  married  to  Binning  of  Dunino,  Eliza- 
beth, and  Anne,  who  died  young — the  fourth  Baron  had,  by  his  wife 
Margaret  Seton,  six  sons  : — 


1  MS.  Account  ot  the  Family  of  Cariston,  ut 
supra. 

:From  an    Inventory  in    my  possession,  it 
would  appear  that  two  copies  of  this  contract, 


which  cannot  now  be  found,  were   among  the 
family  papers  at  the  end  of  the  last  century. 
3  Fountainhall,  i.  113. 


59° 


SLAB  AT   KENNOWAY 


i.  George,  who  died  young,  and  thus  broke,  for  a  generation,  the 
continuous  succession  of  Georges. 

2.  Christopher,  his  father's  heir. 

3.  Alexander,  an  officer  in  General  Dalyell's  troop  of  horse  at  the 
battle  of  Pentland  Hills,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Lindsay  of  Pitscandly, 
co.  Forfar,1  and  had  one  child,  who  died  young.  It  was  probably 
under  the  roof  of  Alexander  Seton  that  Archbishop  Sharpe  passed  the 
night  of  the  day  before  his  murder  (3rd  May  1679)  at  Magus  Muir,  near 
St.  Andrews.  'On  Friday,  the  2nd  of  May  1679,  Archbishop  Sharpe 
left  Edinburgh  for  St.  Andrews,  accompanied  by  one  of  his  daughters — 
Isabella,  who  married  Cunningham  of  Barns,  near  Elie — intending  to 
return  to  Edinburgh  on  Monday,  preparatory  to  a  journey  to  London. 
He  crossed  the  Firth  of  Forth  by  the  usual  passage  between  Leith  and 
Kinghorn,  and  in  the  evening  reached  the  village  of  Kennoway,  nearly 
half-way  between  Kinghorn  and  St.  Andrews,  where  he  lodged  during  the 

night  in  the  house  of  a  gentleman  who  is 
designated  Captain  Seton.'2 

The  following  inscription  on  a  lime- 
stone slab  (c.  6  ft.  6  in.  x  4  ft.),  at 
Kennoway,  commemorates  the  death 
of  Alexander  Seton's  wife :  '  Hie  jacet 
corpus  Isabellas  Lindesise  quondam  uxor: 
Alexandri  Setonii  in  Lalethen.  Obiit 
Martii  die  x  An.  Dom.  1683.' 3  Her  testa- 
ment-dative, in  which  she  is  described 
as  '  Isobell  Lindesay,  spouse  to  Alex- 
ander Seton,  lawful  son  to  George  Seton 
of  Careston,'  is  recorded  in  vol.  xiv.  of 
the  Commissariot  Register  of  St.  An- 
drews. 

4.  David,  baptized  8th  April  1653, 
who  married  Marjory,  daughter  and 
heiress    of    Archibald   of    Blackhall,    co. 


1  The  lands  of  Pitscandly  were  for  a  long 
period  in  the  possession  of  the  Lindsays.  David 
Lindsay  was  laird  of  Pitscandly  from  162 1  to 
1642  and  onward.  John  Lindsay  of  Pitscandly 
was  an  elder  of  the  parish  (Rescobie)  in  17 18. 
In  1726  he  granted  a  disposition  of  Pitscandly 
to  George  Lauder,  from  whom  Miss  Elizabeth 
Farquhar  purchased  the  estate.  Her  son 
Thomas  got  a  crown  charter  of  Pitscandly  in 
1766.  Pitscandly  is  supposed  to  mean  'the 
grave  of  the  multitude.'  Near  the  mansion- 
house  are  several  huge  stones,  which  are  locally 
associated  with  the  battle  between  the  Scots 
and  the  Picts,  fought  between  833  and  836. — 
Warden's  Angus  or  Forfarshire,  pp.  96,  98. 
The  present  owner  of  Pitscandly  is  the  mother  of 
Canon  Farquhar  of  St.  Ninian's  Cathedral,  Perth. 


2  Lawson's  Scottish  Episcopal  Church,  i.  836. 
See  also  the  True  and  Impartial  Account  of 
Sharpe's  Life,  printed  in  1723,  Preface,  p.  31  ; 
Stephen's  History  of  his  Life  and  Times,  1839  ; 
Diary  of  Alexander  Brodie  of  Brodie  (Spalding 
Club),  p.  447 ;  Charles  Kirkpatrick  Sharpe's 
edition  of  Kirkton's  Secret  and  True  History  of 
the  Church  of  Scotland,  1817  ;  and  Dodds'  Fifty 
Years'  Struggle  of  the  Scottish  Covenanters. 

3  When  I  copied  the  inscription,  fifty  years 
ago  (23rd  July  1845),  the  slab  was  inside  the  old 
church  of  Kennoway.  Now  (thanks  to  the 
heritors  !)  it  forms  a  stepping-stone  at  the  main 
entrance  of  the  present  church,  erected  in  1846  ; 
and  the  inscription,  which  consists  of  incised 
Roman  letters,  is  rapidly  becoming  illegible. 


SETONS  OF   BLACKHALL  591 

Fife,  with  whom  he  acquired  the  lands  of  Blackhall,  etc.,  and  by  her  had 
five  sons  and  two  daughters  : — 

(1)  Alexander,  factor  to  the  Duke  of  Hamilton,  'a  most  respectable 
character,'  who  died  at  Bo'ness,  unmarried. 

(2)  Robert,  born  5th  October  1691,  bred  a  surgeon,  but  ultimately 
took  to  farming,  grazing,  etc.  He  rented  the  parks  of  Balgonie  from 
the  Earl  of  Leven,  and  was  well  known  throughout  Scotland  as  an 
extensive  dealer  in  cattle.  He  succeeded  his  elder  brother  in  the  lands 
of  Blackhall,  which  he  sold  to  James  Lundin  of  Auchtermairnie  ;  and 
at  his  death — which  occurred  at  Kennoway  in  1765 — he  divided  the 
price  between  his  two  surviving  brothers,  William  and  David. 

(3)  Christopher,  born  21st  October  1693,  who  followed  the  profession 
of  a  writer,  at  Kennoway,  'with  much  reputation,'  and  married  a  daughter 
of  Lamont  of  Newton,  without  issue. 

(4)  William,  an  officer  of  the  Customs  at  Methil,  married  Anne, 
daughter  of  Alexander  Wallace  of  Leven,  by  whom  he  had — besides  two 
daughters  (Mrs.  Carfrae  and  Mrs.  Douglas),  three  sons  : — 

(a)  David,  a  lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Navy,  married  to  Janet,  daughter 
of  James  Paterson  ,of  Edinburgh,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Robert,  of 
72  Upper  Norton  Street,  London,  who  died  subsequently  to  1845. 

(6)  Robert,  also  an  officer  in  the  Navy,  married  to  Lily  Cobham,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son, 

Robert  (died  16th  October  1846),  married  to  Elizabeth-Jane  (who 
died  28th  February  1880),  daughter  of  William  Finlason  of  Jamaica,  by 
whom  he  had — besides  three  sons,  Henry-James,  William- Alfred,  and  John- 
Hunt,  who  all  died  unmarried,  and  four  daughters — a  fourth  son, 

Robert- William,  born  28th  April  182 1,  died  6th  February  1892, 
having  married,  7th  October  1845,  Cordelia- Hancock  (born  21st  September 
18 1 5),  second  daughter  of  Alfred- Augustus  Fry  of  Philadelphia,  U.S.A., 
afterwards  of  London,1  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters: — 
1.  Robert- Alfred,  born  17th  August  1847,  and  died  17th  April  1875, 
having  married  Catherine- Binns,  daughter  of  Joseph  Rourke  of  London, 
by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Robert- Arthur. 

11.   Louis-Frederick-Finlason,  born  13th  April    1851,    and  died,   un- 
married, 7th  May  1874. 

in.   Reginald- Vernon-Fry,  born  22nd  October  1857. 

iv.  Cordelia- Harriet- Jane,  born  13th  May  1849,  married,  30th  Sep- 
tember 1892,  Frederick,  son  of  Thomas  Boskett  of  London. 

v.   Evangeline-Palmer-Westcott,  born  1st  December  1852. 

vi.  Lavinia-Sarah,  born  18th  July  1854,  and  died  12th  November 
1874. 

(c)  Christopher,  who  settled  as  a  planter  in  the  West  Indies. 

The  youngest  son  of  David  Seton  and  Marjory  Archibald  of  Blackhall 
was 


1  The  family  of  Fry  can  trace  its   descent,        shire,   and  the    Montagues   of   Somersetshire, 
through  the  Westcotts  and  Walters  of  Devon-        from  Edward  1.,  king  of  England. 


592 


THE   CLERKS   OF   PENICUIK 


(5)  David,  born  22nd  July  1703,  died  3rd  January  1774,  bred  to  the 

medical  profession,  was  '  of  a  versatile  and 
enterprising  genius,  and  a  man  of  much  in- 
tegrity.' He  married  Christian,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Clerk,  Baronet,  of  Penicuik, 
Midlothian,  by  his  second  wife,  Christian, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Kilpatrick,1 
minister  of  Carrington,  by  whom  he  had 
— besides  three  daughters,  Christian, 
Marjory,  and  Susanna,  one  of  whom 
(Mrs.  Ranken)  had  a  daughter  married 
to  Mr.  Ziegler,  goldsmith  in  Edinburgh — 
two  sons : — 

{a)  David,  born  28th  July  1732,  who 
settled  at  Newcastle,  and  of  whom  nothing 
appears  to  be  known. 

(6)  Henry,    born    9th    April     1741, 

and    died    19th    June    1797,    Captain    in 

the      French      regiment      of     Chasseurs 

Britanniques     (Emerick's    British    Chasseurs),2    with    which    he    served 

in  the    American    War,    where    he    was    severely    wounded.      He    went 


1  I  happen  to  possess  a  napkin  (c.  fx.i\  ft.), 
marked  in  cross-stitch  '  C.  K.,  1715.  G.  C.,'  the 
two  first  letters  being  the  maiden  initials  of  my 
great-grandmother,  Christian  Clerk,  which  I 
received  many  years  ago  from  Miss  Euphemia 
Balderstone,  a  relative  of  the  Penicuik  family. 
One  of  Christian's  sisters  married  Moncrieff  of 
Culfargie,  ancestor  of  Sir  Alexander  Moncrieff, 
K.C.B.,  and  another  Belshes  of  Invermay.  The 
family  of  Little-Gilmour  were  descended  from 
Sir  John  Clerk's  first  wife,  Elizabeth  Henderson. 
A  curious  letter  of  Sir  John  Clerk's  will  be  found 
in  a  subsequent  appendix.  The  two  following 
entries  are  from  the  Parochial  Register  of 
Carrington  : — 

'26  August  1692.  Sr  John  Clerk  of  Penicook 
sent  a  testificate  to  our  Session  of  Carringtoun 
holden  y*  day  signifieing  his  purpose  of  marriage 
with  Mrs  Christian  Kilpatrick  of  this  congrega- 
tion. Ye  Session  can  say  nothing  to  (sic)  her 
cariage  shee  haveing  remained  in  her  father's 
house  from  hir  infancy  and  caryed  her  selfe 
Christianly  w*out  publick  scandall.  Appoints 
the  Session  Clerk  to  wryte  a  testificat  signi- 
fieing the  same  to  the  minister  and  elders  of  the 
paroch  of  Penycook  yt  they  may  be  proclaimed 
in  both  congregations  upon  Sabath  in  order  to 
marriage.  Consigned  two  legit  dollers  put  into 
the  box.  Also  put  into  the  box  for  the  use  of 
the  poor  one  legit  doller  and  ane  halfe.' 

'15  Septr  1692.  Sr  John  Clerk  of  Penicoke 
and  M3  Christian  Kilpatrick  was  maried  at 
Carringtoun  in  Mr  James  Kilpatrick's  oun  Hall 


at  seven  acloke  at  night  by  Mr  James  ffrazer 
Knight,  minister  of  the  gospel  at  Currie.' 

The  highly  interesting  diary  of  the  second 
Baronet  of  Penicuik,  edited  for  the  Scottish 
Historical  Society  by  the  lamented  John-Miller 
Gray,  has  been  reprinted,  in  a  sumptuous  form, 
by  Mr.  Charles  Butler  of  Warren  Wood,  Hert- 
fordshire, for  the  Roxburgh  Club. 

2  There  is  a  notice  of  this  regiment  in  the 
Journal  of  the  United  Service  Institutio7i,  vol. 
xxxi.  (1887),  p.  34,  where  it  is  stated  that  it  was 
'  originally  a  portion  of  the  Prince  de  Conde's 
Army  of  Emigrants,  and  was  embodied  in  May 
1801,  with  Colonel  John  Ramsay  at  its  head, 
most  of  the  officers  being  foreigners.  The  corps 
attained  distinction  under  Lieutenant-Colonel, 
afterwards  Sir  William,  Eustace,  who  led  the 
Chasseurs  at  Fuentes,  Salamanca,  etc.  At 
Fuentes  the  regiment  was  on  the  extreme  right, 
and  the  testimony  of  the  Commander-in-chief  as 
to  its  conduct  on  that  occasion  is  very  favour- 
able. "  I  particularly  observed  the  Chasseurs 
Britanniques,"  he  writes,  "under  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Eustace,  as  behaving  in  the  most  steady 
manner."     The  regiment  was  disbanded  in  181 5. 

The  date  given  for  the  embodiment  of  the  regi- 
ment (1801)  seems  to  be  erroneous,  as  my  grand- 
father, Henry  Seton,  was  in  his  grave  four  years 
previously.  Notwithstanding  kind  assistance 
from  my  kinsman  Sir  Bruce-Maxwell  Seton,  I 
have  failed  to  discover  any  solution  of  the  diffi- 
culty either  at  the  War  Office  or  the  British 
Museum. 


CAPTAIN   HENRY   SETON 


593 


whom 


(of 
ultimately 


to  the  West   Indies  in  1773  and  did  not  return  to  England  till    1784. 
He   married   his   second     cousin,    Margaret,    third   daughter   of  George 
Seton,   seventh    Baron   of    Cariston,    on    whose    descendants 
afterwards)    the    representation     of    the    family    of    Cariston 
devolved. 

Mrs.  David  Seton  (Christian  Clerk)  appears  to  have  died  very  shortly 
after  the  birth  of  her  son  Henry. 

The   two   daughters   of    David    Seton   of    Blackhall1  and    Marjory 
Archibald  were : — 


1  David  Seton  of  Blackhall  had  also  an 
illegitimate  son,  called  David,  who  became 
Bailie  of  Kennoway,  and  to  whose  memory  there 
is  a  handsome  monument  in  the  churchyard  of 
that  parish,  bearing  a  monogram  composed  of 
the  letters  '  D.  S.'  and  '  I.  W.',  and  an  epitaph, 
in  which  he  is  described  as  '  Homo  pietatis  et 


justitias  amator.'  He  died  in  1733.  By  his  wife, 
Isabella  Williamson,  whom  he  married  in  1702, 
he  had  six  sons  and  three  daughters,  most  of 
whom  left  descendants,  including  Alexander- 
Brodie  Seton  of  Glasgow,  Dr.  Elphinstone  Seton 
of  London,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Craik,  Moderator  of 
the  General  Assembly  of  the  Church  of  Scotland 


4F 


594    CHRISTOPHER  SETON,   FIFTH   BARON 

(6)  Jean,  who  died  unmarried. 

(7)  Henrietta,  born  24th  August  1695,  married  to  Macaulay, 

by  whom  she  had  one  son   'bred  to  the  sea,'  who  died   at  an   early 
age. 

The  two  other  sons  of  the  fourth  Baron  of  Cariston  were  : — 

5.  John,  killed  in  a  scuffle  at  Falkland,  in  1683,  by  a  party  of 
Cromwell's  troopers.  The  following  reference  to  the  occurrence  is  from 
Sir  John  Lauder  of  Fountainhall's  Historical  Notices  of  Scottish  Affairs, 
i.  454  : — '15  Septembris  1683.  At  night  Mr  John  Dick  and  22  mo  prisoners 
brok  the  Tolbooth  of  Edinburgh,  and  escaped  out  of  a  window  by  ropes, 
having  cutted  the  iron  stanchells  :  2  or  3  of  them  ware  in  only  for  civill 
debts ;  the  rest,  as  Aitken,  Lapsley,  and  the  2  dragouns  who  killed  Seton 
of  Carriston's  son,  were  in  for  crymes,  and  some  of  them  shortly  after  to  be 
hanged.' 

6.  William,  who  died  at  Pyetstoun  in  1698,  leaving  a  considerable 
fortune. 

The  fourth  Baron  of  Cariston  died  in  1688,  aged  sixty-six,  and  was 
succeeded  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 


5.  Christopher  Seton,  fifth  Baron  of  Cariston, 

born  in  1645,  who  was  appointed  lieutenant  of  one  of  the  independent 
troops  of  horse  raised  during  the  reign  of  King  James  vn.,  and  commanded 
by  Colin,  Earl  of  Balcarres,  who  '  from  many  letters  still  preserved  seems 
to  have  had  a  great  friendship  for  Cariston.' 

He  married,  first,  in  1685,  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Patrick 
Lindsay  of  Woolmerston,1  co.  Fife  (ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  of 
Lindsay),  by  whom  he  had,  with  one  daughter,  Catharine,  married 
to  John  Lindsay  of  Kirkforthar,2  two  sons  : — 


in  1863,  Dr.  Peel  Ritchie  of  Edinburgh,  the  late 
Mrs.  M'Inroy  of  Lude  (Margaret-Seton  Lillie), 
and  Mrs.  William  Clark  of  Kennoway  (Janet 
Seton),  from  whom  I  received  the  interesting 
Winton  napkin  engraved  at  page  276  supra. 

One  of  the  Kennoway  communion  cups — 
bearing  the  Seton  arms  and  an  anchor  for  crest, 
under  the  motto  'Hazerd  et  Forvard' — is  thus 
inscribed  : — '  Dux  Robertus  Seton  Portionarius 
de  Drumaird  hoc  poculum  in  usum  ecclesias 
Kennoquhensis  dedicavit,  anno  1704.  E.  S.'  I 
have  hitherto  been  unable  to  identify  the  donor 
(Captain  Robert  Seton),  who  died  in  1703. 

1  The  relative  entry  in  the  Crail  Parochial 
Register  is  as  follows  : — '  1685,  Octr  29.  Chris- 
topher Seton  of  Caristone  and  Mrs  Elspeth 
Lindsay  d.  to  the  Laird  of  Wormeston  was 
married  without  proclamation  by  a  licence  from 
my  Lo.  St.  Andrews.' 

Woolmerston,  or  Wormiston,  '  was  anciently 


the  possession  of  gentlemen  of  the  name  of 
Spence  (Sfiens),  who  were  of  blood  to  the 
Macduffs,  Earls  of  Fife  ;  now  it  belongs  to  Mr. 
John  Lindesay,  Commissary  of  St.  Andrews,  a 
cadet  of  the  Earl  of  Crawford.' — Sibbald's  Fife 
and  Kinross,  p.  347.  See  also  New  Statistical 
Account  of  Scotland,  Fife,  p.  951. 

2  David  Lindsay  of  Kirkforthar  'led  his 
father's  vassals  to  the  field  of  Flodden,  and 
perished  with  his  chief  and  king ;  of  all  his 
followers  but  one  single  survivor  returned  to  the 
"bonnie  parks  of  Garleton.'"  (Fragment  of  an 
old  ballad  cited  in  Miller's  Baldred  and  the 
Bass.) — Lives  of  the  Lindsays,  i.  187. 

If  the  family  of  Kirkforthar  had  continued  in 
the  male  line,  it  is  understood  that  it  would  have 
inherited  the  earldom  of  Crawford. 

'  Southward  of  Forthar  is  Kirkforthar,  the 
place  of  an  old  parsonage  now  suppressed  :  it 
hath,    since    King    James    the    Fifth's    reign, 


HIS    IRISH    DESCENDANTS 


595 


i.  George,  his  heir. 

2.  Christopher  (died  8th  August  1767),  who  was  'bred  a  merchant,' 
and     married     Elizabeth,     daughter     of 
John  Adair,  Geographer  for  Scotland,1  by 
whom    he    had     three     sons     and     four 
daughters  : — 

(1)  Alexander,  who  engaged  in  the 
'rising'  of  1745,  and  married  Amelia, 
daughter  of  Michael  Malcolm  of  Balbedie, 
by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Alexander, 
who  died  at  sea. 

(2)  Robert,  'bred  to  the  sea'  (born 
1722,  died  1795),  having  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Richard  Cox  of  Dublin,  by 
whom  he  had — besides  two  daughters, 
Sarah,  married  to  Miles  Marley,  and 
Juliana,  who  died  unmarried  —  four 
sons : — 

1.  Robert- Eglinton,    an     officer     in 
the  Army,  killed  in  the  American  War. 

11.  and  in.  Winton,  and  Christopher-Melville,  who  both  died  in 
childhood. 

iv.  William-Carden,  born  1775,  Colonel  in  the  Army  andC.B.,  served 
as  a  volunteer  in  Holland,  under  the  Duke  of  York,  commanded  the  88th 
regiment  at  Badajoz  and  Salamanca,  was  present  at  various  other  battles 
during  the  Peninsular  War  (medals  and  clasps),  and  died  24th  March 
1842,  having  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  E.  Hazlett,  Esq.,  by  whom 
he  had — with  two  daughters,  Juliana- Josephine  (died  24th  March  1895), 
married  to  the  Rev.  William-Henry  Macalpine,  M.A.,  and  Margaret,  who 
died  unmarried — four  sons  : — 

(a)   Miles-Charles,2    an    officer    in    the    85th    regiment,    born    23rd 


belonged  to  Lindsays,  cadets  of  the  Earls  of 
Crawford.  It  is  now  (1803)  the  property  of 
Christopher  Seton,  Esq.' — Sibbald's  Fife  and 
Kinross,  p.  363. 

The  ruins  of  the  old  chapel  of  Kirkforthar, 
within  which  the  Lindsays  and  the  Setons  of 
Cariston  were  for  many  generations  interred, 
stand  in  the  middle  of  a  little  roundle  of  trees, 
close  to  Kirkforthar  House.  The  only  carved 
stone  which  remains  is  triangular  in  form,  and 
exhibits  the  impaled  arms  of  Lindsay  and 
Pitcairn,  with  relative  initials. 

1  For  interesting  notices  of  John  Adair,  see 
Chambers's  Do?nestic  Annals  of  Scotland,  ii. 
483-5,  and  iii.  42  ;  Chalmers's  Caledonia,  ii.  58  ; 
Bannatyne  Miscellany,  ii.  347  ;  Analecta 
Scotica,  i.  142  ;  and  Bishop  Nicolson's  Scottish 
Historical  Library,  pp.  8,  9.  John  Adair  died 
in   London    about    1722 ;    and  for    his    useful 


services  his  widow  received  a  pension  of  ^40. 

2  Upwards  of  fifty  years  ago  (31st  March 
1838)  Miles-Charles  Seton,  going  a  generation 
further  back  than  Captain  Marryat's  Japhet, 
inserted  an  advertisement  to  session-clerks,  in 
the  North  British  Advertiser,  offering  a  reward 
of  two  guineas  for  the  discovery  of  the  record  of 
his  grandfather's  birth — replies  to  be  addressed 
to  Walter  Dickson,  W.S.,  3  Royal  Circus,  Edin- 
burgh. Somewhere  about  the  year  1842  I  com- 
municated certain  particulars,  furnished  by  Mr. 
Dickson's  eldest  son,  to  my  aunt,  Mrs.  Dawson 
— the  genealogist  of  her  generation — and  was 
ultimately  able  to  establish,  pretty  satisfactorily, 
that  Miles-Charles's  Irish  grandfather  was  a 
cadet  of  the  Cariston  line.  We  shall  afterwards 
see  that  the  characteristic  of  lofty  stature  is  a 
very  striking  feature  in  the  Irish  branch  of  the 
family. 


596  CHILDREN   AND   BROTHERS   OF 

September  1808,  died  18th  September  1877,  married,  first,  in  1832, 
Ann-Maria,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Josias  Cocke  of  Camborne  and 
Trekersby,  co.  Cornwall,1  by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  one 
daughter  : — 

1.  William-Carden,  of  Trekersby,  presently  residing  in  Edinburgh, 
born  1836,  formerly  Captain  in  the  82nd  regiment,  married,  in  1871, 
Amy- Isabel,  daughter  of  James  Forsyth  of  Glengorm,  co.  Argyll,  by 
whom  he  has^besides  three  daughters,  Isabel- Margaret,  Amy-Magdalen, 
and  Dorothea- Eva — two  sons  : — 

(1)  Miles-Charles-Cariston,  born  1874. 

(2)  James-Nigel-Cariston,  born  1875. 

Captain  W.  C.  Seton  retired  from  the  Army  in  187 1,  after  having 
been  sixteen  years  in  the  82nd  regiment,  in  India  and  elsewhere,  on 
which  occasion  he  was  entertained  at  a  farewell  dinner  at  Aldershot, 
and  presented  with  a  handsome  plated  tobacco-jar,  bearing  a  suitable 
inscription. 

2.  Miles-Charles,  born  1838,  Major  Hampshire  (67th)  Regiment, 
married,  in  1866,  Mabel-Catherine  Court. 

3.  Julia,  married,  4th  December  1858,  Caesar- Hastings  Otway, 
Esq. 

Miles-Charles  Seton,  senior,  married,  secondly,  15th  April  1841,  the 
Hon.  Mary- Ursula,  eldest  daughter  of  William-Leonard,  second  Viscount 
Sidmouth,  by  whom  he  had  eight  sons  and  three  daughters : — 

4.  Henry-Cariston,  born  1842,  Captain  R.A.,  d.  s.p.  nth  September 
1880. 

5.  Bertram-William,  born  1845,  married,  in  1869,  Isabel  la- Mary, 
second  daughter  of  Nelson-Kearsey  Cotter,  M.D.,  son  of  Sir  Laurence 
Cotter,  Baronet,  by  whom  he  has  a  son,  Malcolm-Cotter-Cariston,  born 
1872,  of  Oriel  College,  Oxford. 

6.  Leonard-Miles-Cariston,  born  1847,  married,  in  1882,  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Wyndham  of  Bukkulla,  N.S.W.,  by  whom  he  has  a 
son,  Bertram- Wyndham. 

7.  Malcolm- Robert,  born  1850,  died  1858. 

8.  Ronald  -  Cariston,  born  1853,  married,  in  1874,  Augusta- 
Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Robert  R.  Christie,  Esq.,  late  Madras  Light 
Cavalry,  by  whom  he  has  four  sons,  Hubert-Addington-Arniel-Cariston, 
Ronald-Miles-Cariston,  Charles- Henry-Cariston,  and  Archibald-Eardley- 
Eglinton. 

9.  Basil,  born  1858,  married,  in  1886,  Ellen-Georgina,  only  daughter 
of  Colonel  Logan-Home,  K.L.H.,  of  Edrom,  co.  Berwick. 
10.  Winton-Cariston,  born  1862. 


1  The  surname  of  Cocke  frequently  appears  Charles  Cock  figures  as  a  smuggler — his  ship 

in   Cornish   records.      In    1546,   Robert   Cocke  being  called  the  'Pynnace  of  Lubeck';   1631, 

occurs  in  a  'subsidy-roll'  pertaining  to  'Seynt  Christopher  Cocke,  warden  of  the  market-house 

Iysse'(St.  Ives);  1576,  Thomas  Cocke,  church-  of  St.   Ives.  —  Matthew's  History  of  St.  Ives, 

warden    of   the   same    parish;    159S,    Captain  Lelant,  etc.  (1892). 


MILES-CHARLES   SETON  597 

11.  Hubert- Addington,  born  1864,  and  died  in  infancy. 

12.  Edith-Mary,  married  to  George  Dickson,  Esq.,  Advocate,  Sheriff- 
Substitute  of  Berwickshire,  and  died  in  1869,  leaving  issue. 

13.  Margaret-Ursula,  married  to  Philip  Peck,  Esq. 

14.  Eva,  married  to  George-Ninian  Logan-Home,  16th  regiment,  of 
Broom  House  and  Edrom,  co.  Berwick,  by  whom  she  has  two  sons  and 
three  daughters. 

15.  Maude,  residing  with  her  mother,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Seton. 

The  three  younger  sons  of  Colonel  William-Carden  Seton  were  : — 
(d)  William-Carden,   born    181 3,    Major  41st  regiment,  retired   from 
the  army,  after  twenty  years'  service,  in  1852  ;  married,  in  1847,  to  Anna- 
Shaw,  only  daughter  of  Henry-Shaw  Jones  of  Dollardstoun,  co.   Meath, 
and  has  issue  two  sons,  Henry-Carden  and  Robert- Eglinton. 

Major  Seton,  who  was  a  fearless  rider,  on  at  least  one  occasion  rode 
a  steeplechase  across  ice,  of  which  an  account  appeared  in  the  journals 
of  the  day. 

(c)  John-Harris,  born  1817,  d.  s.p.  1844. 

(d)  Robert-Eglinton,  formerly  an  officer  in  the  93rd  Highlanders, 
afterwards  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Colonel  commanding  the  Dublin  City 
Militia  (now  the  fourth  battalion  Royal  Dublin  Fusiliers),  of  which  he 
is  honorary  Colonel ;  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Henry  Garnett  of  Green 
Park,  co.  Meath,  by  whom  he  has — besides  three  daughters,  Margaret, 
Mary,  and  Maud,  who  died  young — four  sons  and  two  daughters  : — 

1.  Winton,  born  1854,  Major  Leinster  Regiment  (Royal  Canadians), 
now  holding  a  military  appointment  in  British  Guiana,  married,  in  1885, 
Ethelreda,  only  surviving  child  of  Colonel  James  Fitzgerald,  Indian  Staff 
Corps,  and  formerly  Deputy- Commissioner  at  Berar,  by  whom  he  has — 
besides  a  daughter,  Brenda-Kate,  who  died  in  infancy — two  sons  and  two 
daughters,  Bruce-Eglinton,  born  1890,  Jernie,  born  1891  ;  Ethelreda- 
Hermione,  born  1886,  and  Lena,  born  1892. 

2.  Augustus-Saint  John,  Captain  8th  (King's)  regiment,  married  to 
Bessie,  daughter  of  General  Colin  Troup,  Indian  Army,  and  widow  of 
Frederick-Saint  George  Tucker,  Lieutenant  R.  A.  and  Indian  Staff  Corps, 
by  whom  he  has  two  daughters,  Linda  and  Mary. 

3.  Carden- Henry,  Lieutenant  Worcestershire  Regiment. 

4.  Robert-Eglinton-Douglas-Cariston,  died,  unmarried,  1887. 

5.  Florence-Mary. 

6.  Linda,  died  1890,  having  married  James-Gilbert  Kennedy,  only 
surviving  son  of  Dr.  Evory  Kennedy  of  Belgard  Castle,  co.  Dublin,  by 
whom  she  had  a  daughter,  Eileen. 

The  youngest  son  of  Christopher  Seton  and  Elizabeth  Adair  {supra 
p.  595)  was 

(3)  James,  who  died  abroad. 

Their  four  daughters  were  as  follows  : — 

(1)  Jean,  died  26th  September  1769,  married  to  her  cousin,  George 
Seton,  seventh  Baron  of  Cariston,  of  whom  afterwards. 


598 


SUCCESSION   SETTLEMENT 


(2)  Elizabeth,  married  to  David  Boswell,  representative  of  the  Bos- 
wells  of  Balmuto.1 

(3)  Margaret. 

(4)  Janet,  married  to  Mr.  John  Scot  of  the  Customs. 

The  fifth  Baron  of  Cariston  married,  secondly,  Helen,  eldest  daughter 

of  Watson  of  Athernie  2  by Scot  his  wife,  of  the  family  of  Ardross, 

and  by  her  had  issue,  David,  Robert,  and  James,  who  all  died  young ; 
Christian,  married  to  '  Graham  in  Perthshire ' ;  Annie ;  Margaret ;  Mary, 
married  to  John  Lamont,  surgeon ;  and  Jean,  married  to  Christopher,  son 
of  Lamont  of  Newton.3 

In  a  procuratory  of  resignation,  in  my  possession,  executed  by  the 
fifth  Baron  of  Cariston  on  the  6th  of  March  1706,  'considering  the  weal 
and  standing  of  his  family,'  he  formally  settles  the  succession  to  his  lands 
and  estate  as  follows  : — 

1st,  On  his  eldest  son  George,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body  ; 
'  2nd,  on  any  other  sons  or  heirs-male  of  their  bodies  ; 
3rd,  on  his  daughters,  or  heirs-female  of  his  body,  and  the  heirs- 
male  of  their  bodies ; 
4th,  on  the  heirs  whatsoever  of  his  eldest  son  and  other  heirs-male 

of  his  own  body ; 
5  th,  on  the  heirs  whatsoever  of  his  daughters'  bodies  ; 
_  6th,  on  his  heirs  and  assignees  whatsoever ; 
with  the  express  proviso  '  that  if  the  said  lands  .  .  .  shall  happen  to  fall  or 
be  devolved  upon  a  daughter  or  heir-female,  then  and  in  that  case  the 
eldest  daughter  shall  always  succeed  thereto  without  division,  and  shall  be 
obliged  to  marry  a  gentleman  of  the  same  name  of  Seton,  at  least,  who, 
and  the  heirs  to  be  procreated  betwixt  them,  shall  be  obliged  to  assume  and 
retain  the  said  surname  of  Seton,  and  carry  and  bear  the  arms  of  the  family 
of  Cariston,  under  the  pain  of  amitting  and  losing  their  right  to  the  said 
lands  and  estate.' 

It  is  not  a  little  strange  that  the  fifth  Baron's  great-granddaughter 
Margaret  (daughter  of  the  seventh  Baron)  should  have  practically  carried 
out  this  proviso  by  marrying  her  cousin,  Henry  Seton,  and  thus  conveyed 
to  her  descendants — not  the  succession  to  the  estate  (which  unfortunately 
had  been  alienated)  but — the  representation  of  the  family,  on  the  death  of 
her  brother,  Major  Christopher  Seton,  in  1819.4 


DO 


a 

o 


1  Their  great-grandson,  Hugo  Reid — the 
author  of  numerous  well-known  books,  and, 
longo  intervallo,  the  most  versatile  man  I  ever 
came  across — was,  through  this  union,  my  third 
cousin. 

2  For  a  notice  of  this  family  see  Jervise's 
Land  of  the  Lindsays,  p.  418. 

3  See  the  Prefatory  Notice'  in  Lamont's 
Diary  (of  which  a  new  edition  is  in  preparation 
by  the  Rev.  A.  T.  Grant  of  Elie),  and  New 
Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  Fife,  p.  378. 

*  In  Scotland,  the  rights  of  the  eldest  daughter 


and  of  her  representative,  as  'heir  of  line,'  pre- 
sent a  marked  contrast  to  the  English  practice. 
The  Burleigh  case,  deliberately  considered  by 
the  Law  Lords,  completely  overturned  Lord 
Mansfield's  assertion  that,  in  Scotland,  heirs- 
male  were  uniformly  preferred  to  heirs-female. 
The  old  Earldoms  invariably  went  to  the  Earl 
and  his  heirs,  as  proved  by  Lord  Hailes  in  the 
Sutherland  case.  It  is  believed  that  the 
Douglases,  by  means  of  their  entails,  first 
favoured  heirs-male  to  the  prejudice  of  heirs- 
female.     In  the  Burleigh  case,  the  patent  had 


GEORGE   SETON,   SIXTH   BARON 


599 


Among  the  Cariston  writs,  in  my  possession,  is  an  elaborate  contract 
(upwards  of  six  feet  in  length)  dated  20th  December  1690,  between  the 
Commissioners  appointed,  in  the  preceding  year,  by  George,  fourth  Earl  of 
Winton,  for  managing  his  affairs  during  his  absence  abroad,  and  Christopher 
Seton  of  Cariston,  relative  to  certain  bonds  granted  by  his  father,  the  fourth 
Baron,  and  subsequent  apprisings. 

I  have  also  a  memorandum  which  I  received  from  the  late  Mr.  John 
Riddell,  Advocate,  regarding  an  action  at  the  instance  of  David  Lindsay 
of  Kirkforthar  against  Christopher  Seton  of  Cariston,  in  February  1697, 
for  the  sum  of  250  merks  Scots,  alleged  to  be  due  to  the  pursuer  by  the 
defender. 

The  fifth  Baron  died  in  1 718,  in  the  seventy-third  year  of  his  age,  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 

6.  George  Seton,  sixth  Baron  of  Cariston, 

who  married,  first,  Margaret,  eldest  daughter  of  David  Boswell  of  Balmuto,1 
co.  Fife,  and  widow  of  Thomas  Marjoribanks  of  that  ilk,  by  whom  he  had 
one  son : — 

1.  George,  his  heir 


HELEN   WATSON. 


MARGARET   BOSWELL. 


MARGARET  LAW. 


no  remainder ;  and  it  was  the  creation  of  a 
barony  with  no  destination.  The  first  Baron 
left  a  daughter  and  no  son.  The  daughter  mar- 
ried, and  her  husband  took  the  peerage  and  sat 
in  Parliament.  In  a  competition  between  the 
heir  of  line  and  a  male  descendant,  the  Com- 
mittee unanimously  decided  that  the  title  of 
honour  was  an  heritable  estate,  the  succession 
to  which  must  be  regulated  by  ordinary  rules. 


The  opinions  given  by  Lords  Chelmsford,  West- 
bury,  and  Colonsay,  were  admirable  and  con- 
vincing, and  may  be  accepted  as  sound  law. 

1  This  was  probably  the  laird  of  1693,  who 
appears  to  have  been  a  strong  Jacobite.  See 
Chambers's  Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland,  iii. 
S4.  '  South-east  of  Auchtertule  is  Balmuto,  the 
seat  of  a  gentleman,  chief  of  the  ancient  name 
of  Boisvills ;  a  good   old  house.     It  belonged 


6oo 


BALMUTO  AND   BRUNTON 


The  sixth    Baron  married,  secondly,  in  1722,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
James  Law  of  Brunton,1  co.  Fife,  by  Margaret  his  wife,  daughter  of  David 


anciently  to  the  Glens  of  Inchmartin,  and  came 
by  marriage  of  an  heiress  to  the  Boisvills.' — 
Sibbald's  Fife  and Kinross,^.  316.  The  square 
tower  of  'great  antiquity.' 

In  a  folio  MS.  in  the  British  Museum  (20,701) 
bearing  the  book-stamp  of  Alexander  Deuchar, 
seal  engraver,  Edinburgh,  and  entitled  '  Arms 
of  the  Nobility  and  Gentry  of  Scotland,  regis- 
tered in  the  Lyon  Office  of  Arms,  1721,'  we  find 
the  coat  of  this  family  thus  blazoned  :  '  Boswell 
of  Balmutto,  Esqre.  bears  quarterly,  istand4th, 
argent,  on  a  fess  sable  between  two  thistles 
proper  in  chief  and  a  garb  gules,  banded  or,  in 
base,  three  cinquefoils  of  the  field  ;  2d  and  3d, 
or,  a  lion  rampant  gules  bruised  with  a  ribbon 
in  bend  sable,  for  Abernethy.  Crest,  a  dexter 
hand  issuing,  holding  a  symeter  (sic)  all  proper. 
Motto  '  Fortiter.1    See  illustration  on  p.  1  r  1  supra. 

The  following  blazon   is   given  in  Professor 


Crawford's  MS.  (31.  4.  4)  in  the  Advocates' 
Library  :  '  Boswell  of  Balmuto  ane  old  great 
Baron  in  Fife,  quarterlie,  first  Boswell ;  second 
Wallace,  viz.  azure  a  lion  rampant  argent,  but 
by  evill  custome  the  tincture  is  changed  to  or 
and  gules.  See,  however,  Nisbet's  System  of 
Heraldry,  i.  44. 

1  '  Eastv/ard  of  Balbirne  is  Brunton,  a  part  of 
the  barony  of  Dalginche,  belonging  to  the  repre- 
sentative of  Law,  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews, 
who  purchased  it  from  Wardlaw  of  Torry.' — 
Sibbald's  Fife  and  Kinross,  p.  364. 

Brunton,  now  called  Barnslee,  is  the  reputed 
site  of  one  of  the  castles  of  Macduff,  Thane  of 
Fife,  and  appears  from  the  Regiam  Majestate?n 
to  have  been  one  of  the  principal  places  of 
Justice.  It  passed  from  the  Wardlaws  to  the 
Cockburns,  and  from  the  Laws  to  the  Simsons. 


SIXTH    BARON'S  SECOND   MARRIAGE     601 


Clephane  of  Carslogie,  and  by  her  had — besides  two  sons,  David  and 
Henry,  who  both  died  young ;  and  three  daughters,  Margaret,  who  died 
young,  Elizabeth,  married  to  Captain  George  Lindsay  of  Kirkforthar, 
and  died  a  few  months  after  her  marriage,  in  1750,  and  Margaret  (No.  2), 
who  died  unmarried  in  1 748 — three  sons  : — 

1.  Christopher,  'a  rare  genius,'  who  died  at  sea,  off  the  coast  of  Guinea, 
in  174-. 

2.  James,  an  officer  in  the  Army,  from  family  prejudices  engaged  in  the 
'  rising '  of  1 745,  when  only  fifteen  years  of  age — '  a  lovely  youth ' — and  was 
wounded  in  the  heel  at  the  battle  of  Culloden.  Soon  after  the  engagement, 
riding  in  the  disguise  of  a  peasant,  he  was  discovered  by  some  English 
soldiers,  who  happened  to  notice  blood  streaming  from  his  foot,  and  taken 
as  a  prisoner  to  Carlisle,  but  was  liberated  through  the  interest  of  John, 

Nisbet  supposes  that  the  family  of  Law  bear  cock's  crow  ends  in  'laa'  or  'law'! — System  of 
cocks  in  their  arms,  because  the  last  part  of  the        Heraldry,  i.  348. 

4G 


602  AN   OLD   SCOTTISH   GENTLEMAN 

Earl  of  Crawford,  with  Frederick,  Prince  of  Hesse,  who  commanded  6000 
Hessians  in  Scotland.1 

He  afterwards  went  to  Holland  and  was  present  at  the  memorable 
siege  of  Bergen-op-Zoom.2  On  quitting  the  Dutch  service,  he  was,  in  1761, 
appointed  senior  lieutenant  of  the  105th  regiment,  raised  by  General  David 
Grseme  of  Gorthy ;  and,  after  serving  some  years  in  the  54th  regiment, 
retired  from  the  Army  in  1774,  and  resided  for  some  time  at  Cariston,  after 
it  was  sold  to  Major  Wemyss. 

James  Seton  died  at  Markinch,  2nd  February  18 17,  in  the  eighty-eighth 
year  of  his  age,  having  married,  29th  March  1783,  Anne,  youngest  daughter 
of  John  Simson  of  Brunton,  by  Anne,  daughter  of  Patrick  Murray  of  Ayton, 
by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  Anne,  who,  '  to  the  inexpressible  grief  of 
her  parents,  died  at  Cariston,  in  the  seventeenth  year  of  her  age,  25th  May 
1803.  She  died  in  the  Lord.'  The  following  notice  of  the  fine  old  soldier 
appeared  in  a  Perth  newspaper  a  few  years  before  his  death  : — '  The  Pilot 
in  a  late  number  observes  that  the  Hon.  Mr.  Nairn,  residing  in  this  city,  is 
the  only  gentleman  now  alive  who  espoused  the  desperate  fortunes  of 
Charles  in  the  year  1745.  The  statement  is  incorrect.  There  yet  remains 
another  at  least  who  fought  in  the  famous  battle  of  Culloden, — James  Seton, 
Esquire,  a  younger  son  of  the  ancient  family  of  Cariston,  in  Fifeshire.  He 
was  saved  from  suffering  the  fate  of  unfortunate  loyalty  by  some  ladies  of 
distinction,  who  warmly  interested  themselves  in  his  behalf,  and  interceded 
for  him,  on  account  of  his  extreme  youth,  with  the  Duke  of  Cumberland. 
Mr.  Seton  still  lives,  respected  and  beloved  by  all  who  know  him,  distin- 
guished by  an  uncommon  kindness  of  heart  and  suavity  of  deportment,  and 
a  model  of  those  refined  and  pleasing  manners  which  distinguished  the 
gentleman  of  former  times,  and  which  he  acquired  during  a  long  period  of 
military  service  in  the  cause  of  his  country,  in  Flanders  and  other  places  of 
the  Continent' 

James  Seton  was  survived  by  his  widow  for  upwards  of  twenty  years, 
and  the  Fife  Herald  made  the  following  reference  to  her  death,  which 
occurred  on  the  15th  of  March  1838  : — 'This  amiable  lady,  the  relict  of 
Captain  Seton,  who  was  tried  at  Carlisle  for  being  "  out "  in  the  '45,  and 
who  has  long  resided  in  Markinch,  enjoying  the  esteem  and  affectionate 
regard  of  all  who  had  the  honour  of  her  acquaintance,  has  at  last  paid  the 
debt  of  nature,  in  her  ninetieth  year.  Her  virtues,  of  which  charity  in  its 
most  enlarged  sense  was  predominant,  were  the  fruit  of  thought  and 
reflection,  engrafted  on  a  kindly  natural  disposition.  Her  happiness 
consisted  in  doing  good,  and  that  in  the  most  noiseless  and  unostentatious 
manner ;  and  the  aim  of  her  life  was  rather  to  be  than  to  seem  virtuous — 
esse  quam  videri.  She  will  bear  with  her  the  affectionate  regards  of  all 
her  friends,  and  of  the  many  who  shared  her  bounty.' 

1  Like  Sir  Walter  Scott's   great-grandfather,  2  The    almost    impregnable    fortress    which 

my  great-grand-uncle  James  Seton  '  had  nearly  secures  the   intercourse  between  Holland  and 

the  honour  of  being   hanged,'  for  having  been  Zealand,  and  bars  the  way  to  Spanish  Brabant, 

'out' in  the '45.     See  Scott's  Familiar  Letters,  — Grant's  Memoirs  of Sir  John  H 'epbitrn,  p.  18. 

i.  66.  See  also  Russell's  Modem  Europe,  iii.  255. 


GEORGE  SETON,  SEVENTH  BARON   603 

The  youngest  son  of  the  sixth  Baron  of  Cariston,  by  his  second  wife,  was, 
3.  John,   captain  of  a  West    India  merchant  ship,    who   settled   in 

Dublin,  and  married  Lucinda,  daughter  of  Captain  Causier,  of  the  Revenue 

Service,  by  whom,  besides  other  sons  who  died  young,  he  had  a  son,  John, 

and  three  daughters — Jean,  Margaret,  and  Elizabeth. 

The  sixth  Baron  died,  9th  June  1760,1  in  the  seventy-second  year 

of  his  age,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 


7.   George  Seton,  seventh  Baron  of 
Cariston, 

who  married  Jean,  eldest  daughter  of  his 
paternal  uncle  Christopher,  and  had  three 
sons  and  six  daughters  : — 

1.  George,  who  died  in  infancy. 

2.  George  (No.  2),  his  father's  heir. 

3.  Christopher,  born  about  1754, 
joined  the  54th  regiment  in  1776,  served 
during  the  whole  of  the  American  War, 
and  after  the  peace  was  several  years  with 
his  regiment  in  Nova  Scotia  and  New 
Brunswick.  He  was  also  in  the  campaign 
in  Flanders  and  Holland,  1794-5,  under 
the  Duke  of  York ;  and  was  afterwards 
sent  to  the  West  Indies  against  the  French 
and  Caribs  of  St.  Vincent,  commanding 

the  Grenadiers  at  the  storming  of  the  Vigii,  when  he  was  severely 
wounded. 

In  1792  Lieutenant  Christopher  Seton  was  arraigned  before  a  court- 
martial  at  the  Horse  Guards,  as  paymaster  of  the  54th  regiment,  along 
with  two  brother  officers  (Captain  Powell  and  Lieutenant  Hall),  at  the 
instigation  of  the  celebrated  William  Cobbett,  formerly  sergeant-major  of 
the  regiment,  who  failed  to  appear  on  the  day  appointed  for  the  trial, 
when  all  the  accused  were  honourably  acquitted. 

A  report  of  the  proceedings  was  published  in  1809,  and  the  following 
passage  occurs  in  the  case  submitted  by  the  authorities  to  the  Attorney 
and  Solicitor-General : — '  There  is  every  reason  to  suppose  that  the  accu- 
sation was  destitute  of  foundation,  and  wilfully  and  maliciously  set  on  foot 
for  the  purpose  of  calumniating  the  characters  of  the  three  officers  in 
question,  and  of  putting  them  to  expense,  the  accuser  not  hesitating,  in 


1  'I  spent  most  of  the  summer  of  1760  at 
Markinch  Manse,  with  the  minister,  Mr.  Pinker- 
ton,  who  owing  to  some  kindness  shown  him  by 
my  father  in  his  youth,  treated  me  with  paternal 
affection.  During  my  stay  at  Markinch  I  en- 
joyed much  pleasant  intercourse  with  the  neigh- 
bouring  families    of   Balbirnie,    Brunton,   and 


Cariston,  with  young  persons  of  both  sexes  of 
my  own  age.' — Somerville's  Life  and  Times, 
p.  49. 

Mr.  Pinkerton  married  a  Drummond  of  Haw- 
thornden,  whose  son,  Captain  Pinkerton-Drum- 
mond,  professed  to  be  the  representative  of  the 
family  of  Hawthornden. 


604 


COURT-MARTIAL   IN    1792 


order  to  obtain  this  end,  to  deceive  the  Crown  and  make  a  mockery  of 
public  justice.' 

The  two  following  quotations  appear  in  startling  juxtaposition  on  the 
title-page  of  the  printed  report : — 

'  If  my  accusation  is  without  foundation,  the  authors  of  cruelty  have 
not  yet  devised  the  tortures  I  ought  to  endure.  Hell  itself,  as  painted  by 
the  most  fiery  bigot,  is  too  mild  a  punishment  for  me!' — (Cobbett's  Letter 
to  Sir  Charles  Gould,  Judge-Advocate-General,  nth  March  1792.) 

'  The  said  several  charges  against  those  officers  respectively  are,  and 
every  part  thereof  is,  totally  unfounded.' — (Sentence  of  the  Court-martial.') 

In  the  spirit  of  the  first  of  these  quotations,  Christopher  Seton 
indites  an  epistle  to  his  uncle  James  (the  young  soldier  of  Culloden)  from 
'  No.  1 1  Haymarket,  London,'  on  the  5th  of  April  1792,  in  which  he  says  : 
— 'In  my  letter  to  Peggie1  of  the  27th  ult°  I  desired  her  to  inform  you  that 


1  The  writer's  sister  and  the  author's  grandmother. 


STRONG   LANGUAGE'   OF  THAT   PERIOD    605 


the  Villain  who  had  exhibited  the  charges  against  us  thought  proper  to 
disappear,  though  not  till  after  he  had  put  us  to  all  the  trouble  and 
expense  in  his  power.  Report  says  he  has  gone  to  France,  and  I  shall 
only  add  that  I  wish  he  was  in  Hell,  as  he  fully  deserves  a  warm  berth. 
He  gave  in  the  names  of  47  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  of  the 
regiment  to  Sir  Charles  Gould,  as  his  evidence  to  support  him  in  the 
business,  all  of  whom  appeared  at  the  Horse  Guards,  and  before  the  Court, 
not  one  of  them  having  a  word  to  say,  nor  did  they  know  what  brought 
them  there.  We  were  also  obliged  to  have  all  or  the  greater  part  of  the 
officers  here  who  came  home  with  us,  with  upwards  of  20  non-commissioned 
officers  and  privates ;  so  you  can  easily  judge  what  trouble  the  scoundrel 
has  put  us  to  on  the  occasion,  for  which  I  hope  he  will  be  Damned.' 

It  must  be  remembered  that  in  1792  'strong  language'  was  in 
fashion,  especially  among  military  men ;  and,  accordingly,  some  allowance 
must  be  made  for  the  somewhat  vigorous  statement  of  the  indignant  pay- 
master. 


606  WILLIAM   COBBETT 

The  following  extract  from  a  notice  of  Smith's  Biography  of  Cobbett, 
in  the  Edinburgh  Review  of  April  1879,  appears  to  embrace  a  fair  and 
unprejudiced  summary  of  the  extraordinary  episode  : — 

'In  the  autumn  of  1791  the  54th  regiment  was  sent  home.  Its 
serjeant-major  (Cobbett)  might  have  hoped  for  a  commission ;  but  he  had 
seen  enough  of  soldiering,  and  had  fallen  in  love.  He  had  conceived  also 
a  great  scheme,  which  required  that  he  should  be  out  of  the  army.  He 
applied  for  his  discharge,  and  it  was  granted,  with  a  laudatory  testimonial 
from  his  Major,  the  unfortunate  Lord  Edward  Fitzgerald,  to  the  services 
he  had  rendered  to  the  regiment.  His  future  bride,  Ann  Reid,  the  young 
daughter  of  an  artillery-man,  had  already  returned  to  England,  intrusted 
with  her  lover's  savings  of  a  hundred  and  forty  or  fifty  guineas.  The 
grand  project  Cobbett  had  conceived  as  his  new  introduction  to  civil  life 
was  nothing  Jess  than  the  prosecution  of  several  officers  of  his  old  regiment 
for  defrauding  the  men  of  their  bread,  clothes,  and  fuel,  and  cheating  the 
revenue  by  false  musters.  His  position  had  enabled  him  to  collect 
materials  ;  and  the  War  Office  agreed  to  submit  the  case  to  a  court-martial. 
When,  however,  the  trial  was  at  hand,  disputes  arose  between  Cobbett  and 
the  Judge-Advocate-General  on  the  manner  of  conducting  the  inquiry. 
Cobbett  refused  to  proceed  with  it.  On  the  day  the  Court  met  no  pro- 
secutors appeared.  The  charges  were  read  out,  and  an  acquittal  recorded. 
The  Attorney  and  Solicitor-General  were  consulted  whether  Cobbett  could 
be  criminally  prosecuted.  As  there  was  no  evidence  of  conspiracy  with 
others,  their  opinion  was  that  he  could  not  be,  but  that  the  officers  he  had 
slandered  might  bring  actions  for  damages.  But  by  this  time  Cobbett  was 
in  France,  where  he  passed  a  few  months  before  his  final  departure  to  the 
United  States  of  America. 

'  The  affair  of  the  court-martial  is  a  perplexed  one,  and  Mr. 
Edward  Smith  lends  us  no  real  help  in  disentangling  it.  He  simply 
accepts  Cobbett's  version  of  the  story.  On  such  evidence  as  has  been 
produced,  though  the  War  Office  archives  might  clear  up  an  obscure 
question,  we  incline  to  a  belief  that  the  serjeant-major  had  discovered  a 
mare's  nest. 

'  Cobbett,  at  a  later  period,  ridicules  his  own  book-keeping.  His 
publishing  accounts  he  defies  "the  devil  to  unravel."  The  Judge- Advocate 
probably  came  to  the  conclusion  that  the  main  offence  of  Cobbett's  former 
officers  consisted  in  keeping  accounts  of  much  the  same  character  as  those 
subsequently  kept  by  their  accuser.  When  Cobbett  discovered,  as  appar- 
ently he  did,  that  the  ordnance  he  had  laboriously  charged  against  his 
regimental  superiors  would  not  go  off,  the  shame,  and  some  little  appre- 
hension of  private  retaliation,  drove  him  from  England.  That  the  War 
Office  had  resolved  to  procure  an  acquittal  of  dishonest  officials  requires 
more  proof  than  the  assertion  of  a  man  who  launched  an  accusation  and 
ran  away  before  it  was  brought  home.  This  is  not  Mr.  Edward  Smith's 
way  of  judging  Cobbett's  acts.  The  London  Chronicle  of  March  28,  1792, 
had  explained  what  certainly  looked  like  a  flight  by  the  suggestion  that 


GEORGE   SETON,    EIGHTH    BARON         607 

"some  misconduct"  was  the  motive.  Mr.  Smith  thereupon  apostrophises 
the  circulators  of  such  rumours  in  a  tone  recalling  equally  Mr.  Carlyle  and 
the  prophet  Jeremiah:  "No  such  thing  at  all,  paragraph-monger!  and  no 
such  thing  at  all,  ye  rapid  writers !  You  don't  know  this  man.  You  don't 
know  how  he  retires  from  the  unequal  conflict  with  money,  prescription, 
aristocratic  influence.  Let  him  flee  from  anticipated  vengeance ;  and  see 
him  return  one  day,  himself  always  incorruptible,  with  such  a  budget,  such 
a  quiverful !  "  ' 

Finally,  on  the  subject  of  Cobbett,  George  Dawson,  in  his  Biographical 
Lectures  (pp.  516^  set/.)  tells  us  that  he  was  'one  of  the  most  mighty  egotists 
the  world  ever  had' — that,  'for  some  unexplained  reason,'  he  went  to  France 
at  the  time  of  the  court-martial — that  '  he  was  several  times  tried  for  libel, 
and  was  on  one  occasion  imprisoned  for  two  years  in  Newgate.' 

After  about  twenty-four  years'  service,  Christopher  Seton  retired  from 
the  Army  with  the  brevet  rank  of  Major. 

He  married,  10th  August  1795  (1797?),  Catherine  (died  1814),  eldest 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  George  Lindsay  of  Kirkforthar,  and  widow  of 
Robert  Carmichael  of  Balmblae,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  George- James 
Lindsay,  who  died  in  infancy.1 

The  six  daughters  of  the  seventh  Baron  were  : — 

1.  Margaret,  who  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Elizabeth,  died,  unmarried,  at  Methil,  3rd  December  1788,  aged 
forty-seven  years. 

3.  Margaret  (No.  2),  of  whom  afterwards. 

4.  Anne,  died  unmarried  in  November  18 14. 

5.  Jean,  called  the  '  Countess  Sobieski '  on  account  of  her  beauty,  also 
died  unmarried  in  January  18 15. 

6.  Christian,  married,  22nd  April  1795,  to  Thomas  Barland  of  Rose- 
bank,  Perth. 

There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  respecting  the  genealogical  qualifi- 
cations of  Jean  Seton,  who  was  in  the  habit  of  moving  about  with 
the  Bible  in  one  hand  and  the  Peerage  in  the  other.  In  a  letter  to  my 
father  from  his  friend  Sir  Henry  Oakes,  the  writer  refers  to  'old  aunt  Jean,' 
as  '  having  the  Baronage  and  Peerage  of  Scotland  by  heart.' 

The  seventh  Baron  of  Cariston  died  2nd  November  1762,  aged  forty- 
eight,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 


8.   George  Seton,  eighth  Baron  of  Cariston, 

born  in    1752,  and  consequently  only  ten  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his 
father's  death.     His  uncle,   James   Seton,   was  his  tutor-in-law,    and   his 


1  Major  Seton  had  an  illegitimate  son,  Chris-        Balmblae,  near  Falkland,  and  whose  descendants 
topher,  who  succeeded  to  the  small  estate  of        are  believed  to  exist. 


608  MAJOR  CHRISTOPHER  SETON 

affairs  being  in  an  embarrassed  condition,  the  authority  of  the  Court  of 
Session  was  obtained  for  the  sale  of  a  part  of  his  estate,  situated  in 
the  parish  of  Kettle,  viz.  : — Rumeldrie,  Hilton  Mill,  etc. ;  but,  not  being  a 
good  economist,  he  sold  the  remaining  portion — Cariston,  Ballinkirk,  etc. 
— a  few  years  after  he  attained  his  majority. 

About  1 780  he  betook  himself  to  a  military  career,  first  as  Lieutenant 
in  the  50th  regiment,  and  afterwards  he  had  the  brevet  rank  of  Captain  in 
the  78th  Highlanders.  In  June  1781  he  went  to  the  East  Indies  ;  but  as 
the  climate  did  not  agree  with  him,  he  returned  to  Scotland  in  1793,  was 
put  on  half-pay,  and  lived  for  a  few  years  at  Rumgally,  near  Cupar,  where 
he  died  unmarried,  of  a  broken  constitution,  iotn  February  1797,  at  the 
early  age  of  forty-five.  His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  York  allowed 
his  commission  to  be  sold  for  the  benefit  of  his  heirs.  Sic  transit  gloria 
mundi  ! 

The  alienation  of  the  estate  is  referred  to  in  a  letter  from  James  Seton 
to  a  young  relative,  dated  'Cariston,  31st  March  18 10.'  '  The  family  of 
Cariston,'  he  says,  '  continued,  by  many  respectable  marriages,  in  direct 
succession,  till  it  came  to  George,  my  oldest  nephew,  elder  brother  to 
Major  Seton,  a  very  weak,  foolish,  young  man.  I  was  his  tutor-in-law 
during  his  minority,  and  sold  the  last  part  of  the  estate,  in  Kettle  parish, 
to  pay  off  original  debts,  so  that  when  he  became  major,  he  had  the  present 
part  of  the  property — Cariston  and  Ballinkirk — free,  and  had  likewise  a 
commission  in  the  50th  regiment.  But  he  had  not  been  laird  many  years 
when  all  was  sold,  and  likewise  his  commission.  Another  commission  was 
procured  for  him,  but  it  was  not  so  easy  to  procure  an  estate.  Had  Major 
(Christopher)  Seton  been  the  first-born,  the  property  would  have  still 
been  in  the  family.  But  Providence  ordered  otherwise — and  God's  will  be 
done  ! ' 

The  eighth  and  last  Baron  was  succeeded  in  the  representation  of 
the  family  by  his  brother, 


8  (a).  Major  Christopher  Seton, 

at  whose  death,  in  18 19,  it  devolved  on  the  descendants  of  his  sister, 
Margaret,  born  15th  May  1745,  died  19th  October  1803,  who  married  her 
kinsman,  Henry  Seton,1  already  referred  to,  grandson  of  David  Seton  of 
Blackhall,  and  great-grandson  of  George  Seton,  fourth  Baron  of  Cariston  ; 
by  whom  she  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters  : — 

1.  David,  born  22nd  July  1768,  who  began  life  as  an  apprentice  to  Mr. 


1  This  was  the  third  Seton  intermarriage  cousin-german,  Jean  Seton  ;  while,  further,  the 
in  the  course  of  five  generations,  the  first  maternal  grandmother  of  the  fourth  Baron  was 
having  been  between  George,  fourth  Baron  of  Marion  Seton,  of  the  family  of  Parbroath. 
Cariston  and  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Accordingly,  my  late  lamented  friend  and  kins- 
Seton  of  Olivestob,  and  the  second  between  man,  Hugo  Reid  (already  referred  to),  pro- 
George,  seventh  Baron  of  Cariston,  and  his  own  nounced  me  to  be  '  Setonissimus  Setonorum' ! 


CAPTAIN   DAVID   SETON  609 

Bruce,  shipbuilder  in  Dysart,  in  November  1785;  and  on  the  1st  of 
February  1790  sailed  for  the  East  Indies,  as  ship  carpenter  in  the  York, 
commanded  by  Captain  Donnelly.  After  eight  years'  unrewarded  perse- 
verance, he  determined  to  enter  the  Army,  and  obtained  an  Ensigncy  in 
the  71st  regiment,  in  November  1797.  In  February  1800  he  became 
Lieutenant  in  the  40th  regiment ;  and  early  in  the  following  year  he 
exchanged  into  the  1  ith  West  India  regiment,  ultimately  attaining  the  rank 
of  Captain. 

He  married  Penelope  Waddell,  'an  officer's  daughter,'  and  widow  of 
Monsieur  Fredayne,  possessed  of  considerable  property  in  the  West  Indies. 
[On  the  death  of  his  uncle  Christopher,  in  18 19, 

9.   Captain  David  Seton 

succeeded  to  the  representation  of  the  family  of  Cariston,  and  died,  without 
issue,  9th  September  1826.     (See  p.  615  infra.  j\ 

2.  George,  born  at  Leven  6th  August  1769,  Commander  in  the 
H.E.I.C.S.  From  an  imperfect  memorandum-book  of  births,  deaths,  and 
marriages,  etc.,  kept  by  his  mother,  it  appears  that  he  sailed  from  Dysart 
for  Amsterdam,  on  his  'first  trial  voyage,'  in  the  May  and  Nancy — Captain 
Dryborough — on  the  24th  of  February  1785,  and  returned  on  the  17th  of 
November.  On  the  18th  of  August  1786  he  sailed  from  Leith  for  Copen- 
hagen and  St.  Petersburg,  with  Captain  Skirven,  and  returned  on  the  16th 
of  August.  Eight  months  later  (13th  December),  he  left  Scotland  with 
the  intention  of  embarking  with  Captain  Boswell  of  the  Chesterfield 
Indiaman ;  but  owing  to  a  change  of  plans,  Boswell  recommended  him  to 
Captain  Paiba  (?)  of  the  Lord  Walsingham,  with  whom  he  sailed  for  China 
on  the  1  st  of  April  1787.  His  fond  mother  received  a  welcome  letter 
from  the  young  sailor,  dated  '  16th  May,  under  the  line,'  by  a  homeward 
vessel;  while  his  next  epistle,  dated  'Wampo,  12th  December,'  only 
reached  its  destination  on  the  15th  of  May  1788.  Six  months  afterwards 
(20th  November)  the  absent  son  arrived  at  Gravesend,  '  in  perfect  health '  ; 
and  on  the  13th  of  February  1789  he  sailed  in  the  Britannia — Captain 
Cumming — along  with  three  other  '  Indiamen,'  for  Batavia  and  Sumatra, 
en  route  to  China. 

In  July  1790,  when  residing  at  Rumgally,  near  Cupar,  his  mother 
received  a  letter  from  her  'dear  son  George,'  announcing  that  he  had 
obtained  permission  from  Captain  Cumming  to  remain  in  the  East  Indies, 
and  that  he  had  sailed  in  a  country  ship  called  the  Surat  Castle — Captain 
Lowrie — for  Bombay,  where  he  went  on  board  the  Yarmottth — Captain 
Thomas  Bruce  of  Grangemuir — as  second  officer.  In  June  1794  he  got 
the  command  of  the  country  ship  Alexander,  and  changed  her  name  to 
Helen. 

Among  my  family  records  are  a  series  of  upwards  of  twenty  of  my 
father's  beautifully  written  folio  and  smaller  volumes,  of  which  the  earliest 
is  a  small  quarto  containing,  inter  alia,  copy  of  a  letter  dated  '  Edinburgh, 

4H 


6io    JOURNALS  AND   CORRESPONDENCE   OF 


20th  April  1792,'  relative  to  the  Massacre  of  Glencoe,  and  a  number  of 
arithmetical  exercises.  It  bears  the  following  inscription : — '  George 
Seton  his  Book,  Methell  1786,  given  him  in  a  present  by  Mr.  George 
Seton,  78th  Regiment,  Madras,  India'  (his  uncle,  the  eighth  and  last 
Baron  of  Cariston).  Several  of  the  volumes  are  filled  with  elaborate 
calculations  of  latitude  and  longitude  ;  while  two  of  the  largest  bear  the 
following  titles,  exquisitely  engrossed  : — 

(1)  'A  Journal  of  the  proceedings  on  board  the  ship  Helen,  by  George 
Seton,  Commander,'  with  a  tasteful  vignette  representing  a  bee-hive,  bear- 
ing a  crescent  on  a  heraldic  wreath,  and  the  motto,  '  Studio  fallente 
laborem.' 

(2)  '  Journal  kept  by  George  Seton,  of  the  proceedings  on  board  the 
ship  Marquis  JVellesley' — -13th  April  to  22nd  October  1804. 

In  the  case  of  the  former  there  are  a  number  of  prettily  executed 
water-colour    drawings    of    mountains   and    other    striking    objects,     'as 


CAPTAIN   GEORGE   SETON 


611 


seen  from  the  quarter-deck,'  and  both  Journals  are  very  beautifully 
kept. 

Captain  Seton  appears  to  have  settled  at  Penang  (Prince  of  Wales 
Island),  in  the  course  of  the  year  1806,  and  early  in  the  following  year 
(23rd  April  1807)  it  was  his  'painful  duty'  to  write  to  'Sir  David 
Wedderburn,  Bart.,  London,'  announcing  the  deaths  of  Sir  David's  two 
brothers-in-law,  Messrs.  John  Hope-Oliphant  (aged  thirty-four),  and 
Philip  Dundas  (aged  forty-five),  which  occurred  on  the  23rd  of  March  and 
8th  of  April  respectively.  Mr.  Dundas,  of  the  family  of  Arniston,  was 
Governor  of  Prince  of  Wales  Island,  while  Mr.  Oliphant,  younger  of 
Rossie,  was  the  second  member  of  Council.  Captain  Seton  was  Mr. 
Dundas's  sole  executor  in  India ;  and  at  the  request  of  Mr.  Oliphant's 
widow  and  daughter  he  took  out  letters  of  administration  to  that  gentle- 
man's  estate.  In  the  aforesaid  letter  he  states  that  '  Mr.  Dundas's  dear 
boys,  Robert  and  Philip,1  are  under  my  immediate  charge.  .  .  .  The  con- 
versation that  passed  between  Mr.  Dundas  and  myself  when  he  put  them 
into  my  arms  can  never  be  obliterated  from  my  mind ' ;  and  he  explains  the 
arrangements  that  he  had  made  for  their  immediate  return  to  England, 
under  the  care  of  Mrs.  Oliphant.  In  another  letter  of  the  same  date,  to 
the  '  R*  Hon.  William  Dundas,  London,'  Captain  Seton  says:  'I  have 
had  the  honour  of  Mr.  Dundas's  acquaintance  for  many  years,  and  pos- 
sessed his  friendship  and  confidence  ever  since  he  came  to  this  island.  I 
came  with  him  from  Madras,  at  his  own  desire ;  and  it  was  his  anxious 
wish  to  have  placed  me  in  the  Marine  Department  here,  as  Master 
Attendant,  twenty  years'  experience  in  India,  and  commander  of  the  finest 
Bombay  ships  for  the  last  fourteen  years,2  made  him  think  that  my  know- 
ledge of  the  country,  languages,  customs,  and  manners  of  the  natives  fitted 
me  for  the  situation.'  One  of  Captain  Seton's  letter-books  shows  that  he 
had  a  very  extensive  and  troublesome  correspondence  relative  to  the  affairs 
of  his  two  deceased  friends,  while  another  folio  volume  embraces  a  series 
of  detailed  accounts,  extending  over  seven  years. 

From  another  letter-book  it  appears  that  Captain  Seton  returned  to 
Scotland  and  settled  in  Perth  towards  the  end  of  the  year  181 1.  During 
the  last  fourteen  years  of  his  life  he  conducted  a  large  correspondence  with 
both  home  and  foreign  friends,  from  which  it  would  seem  that  at  one  time 
he  contemplated  returning  to  the  East.     One  of  his  most  frequent  corre- 


1  (1)  Robert-Adam  Dundas,  afterwards  the 
Right  Hon.  Robert  Hamilton-Nisbet-Hamilton, 
M.P.  for  the  county  of  Lincoln,  who  married 
Lady  Mary  Bruce,  daughter  of  the  seventh  Earl 
of  Elgin,!by  whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Constance, 
wife  of  Henry-Thomas  Ogilvy,  Esq.,  younger 
son  of  Sir  John  Ogilvy  of  Inverquharity,  Bart. 

(2)  Lieutenant- Colonel  Philip  Dundas,  mar- 
ried to  Lady  Jane  Charteris,  daughter  of  the 
seventh  Earl  of  Wemyss. 

2  An  interesting  notice  of  the  East  India 
Company's    '  regular    chartered     ships  '  —  'a 


splendid  service,  now  extinct ' — will  be  found  at 
page  45  of  the  Memoirs  of  Robert  and  James 
Haldane,  published  in  1852.  The  crews  ranged 
from  126  to  145,  and  the  charge  for  freight  was 
as  high  as  ,£40  per  ton.  Each  vessel  carried  from 
twenty-six  to  thirty-six  guns,  and  occasionally 
ships  of  war  were  either  beaten  off  or  captured 
by  them.  Many  of  the  Captains  were  younger 
sons  of  the  nobility,  and  all  of  them  indulged  in 
expensive  habits,  '  which  rendered  them  objects 
of  jealousy  to  the  juniors  in  the  Royal  Navy,  who 
had  not  the  same  means  of  acquiring  fortune.' 


6l2 


MRS.    EDWARD-JAMES   JACKSON 


spondents,  already  referred  to,  was  Lieutenant-General  Sir  Henry  Oakes,1 
residing  at  Mitcham,  in  Surrey  ;  while  others  were  Mr.  William  Mactaggart, 
Bombay ;  Mr.  Thomas  Beale,  Canton ;  Captain  Robert  Scott,  Penang ; 
James  Horsburgh,  East  India  House,  Lieutenant -Colonel  Gordon, 
Montagu  Square,  and  Mr.  William  Crawford,  Broad  Street,  London ; 
Captain  W.  J.  Lye,  R.N.,  Bath;  Mr.  Henry  Hall,  Carlisle;  William 
Lindesay  of  Feddinch,  Richard  Lundin  of  Auchtermairnie,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Pastbn  of  Barnslee,  David  Wemyss  of  Denbrae,  Colonel  Wemyss 
of  Wemysshall,  and  Peter  Wedderburn  of  Isla  Bank. 

Captain  Seton  was  married,  on  the  12th  of  January  1819,  to  Margaret, 
second  daughter  of  James  Hunter  of  Seaside,  co.  Perth,  and  died  21st 
June  1825,  leaving  one  son  and  two  daughters  : — 

1 .  George,  of  whom  afterwards. 

2.  Elizabeth,  born  5th  January  1820, 
married,  25th  July  1838,  to  Edward-James 
Jackson,  B.A.  Oxon.  (who  died  in  1878), 
of  Upwell,  co.  Norfolk,  and  the  Priory,  St. 
Andrews,  Fife,  and  died  28th  April  1885, 
leaving  four  sons  and  four  daughters  : — 

(1)  Randle,  born  2nd  June  1839,  of 
Swordale,  Ross-shire,  and  Upwell,  co. 
Norfolk ;  educated  at  Sandhurst ;  served 
with  the  77th  and  32nd  regiments  and  the 
8th  Royai  Irish  Hussars ;  subsequently 
Hon.  Major  in  the  Fife  Light  Horse 
Volunteers;  J. P.  for  Fifeshire,  and  J. P. 
and  D.L.  for  the  county  of  Ross.  Major 
Jackson  sold  the  Priory,  St.  Andrews,  to 
the  Marquis  of  Bute  in  1894. 

He  married,  6th  September  1882, 
Emily-Margaret,  daughter  of  Edward  Baxter  of  Kincaldrum,  Forfarshire, 
and  Gilston,  co.  Fife,  by  whom  he  has  two  daughters,  Annie-Constance 
and  Dorothy- Jean. 

The  ring  which  is  engraved  at  p.  618  contains  the  hair  of  Prince 
Charles  Edward,  and  was  inherited  by  Major  Jackson  from  his  mother, 
who  received  it  from  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Dawson.  It  was  presented  to  my 
great-grandmother,  Jean  Seton,  already  referred  to,  by  the  Prince,  after 
dancing  with  her  at  Holyrood,  along  with  a  drinking-cup,  still  in  my 
possession. 

(2)  George-Henry,  born  14th  July  1842,  late  Captain  in  the  Bengal 
Native  Infantry,  now  residing  at  St.  Andrews,  married,  28th  June  1888, 
Helena-Elizabeth,  daughter  of  J.  M.  Koecher,  Esq.,  of  Manchester. 

(3)  Edward-James,  C.E.,  born  26th  October  1845,  and  married,  25th 


1  Author  of  a  Narrative  relative  to  the  English  Prisoners  taken  by  Tippoo  Said,  on  the  reduction 
of  Bednore,  1 783-4. 


MRS.    BUCHANAN-HAMILTON  613 

March  1882,  Eliza-Sophia,  daughter  of  Colonel  Matthew  Poole,  of  the 
Madras  Army,  by  whom,  besides  a  daughter  who  died  in  1887,  he  has  two 
sons  and  one  daughter,  Edward- Darby,  Conway,  and  Joan. 

(4)  John- William,  born  27th  April  1847,  now  residing  in  Edinburgh, 
after  having  spent  many  years  in  North  and  South  America. 

(5)  Eliza-Margaret,  born  23rd  September  1840,  married,  13th  January 
1870,  Mackenzie  Murray  of  Woodside,  co.  Perth,  H.E.I.C.S.,  of  the 
family  of  Lintrose  (died  14th  February  1876),  by  whom  she  had  one  son, 
Edward-Mackenzie,  of  Oriel  College,  Oxford,  born  3rd  June  1874. 

(6)  Joan-Laura,  born  14th  October  1843,  and  died,  unmarried,  13th 
February  1892. 

(7)  Mary-Seyton,  born  8th  December  1854,  married,  10th  October 
1885,  Charles- Hotham  Purvis,  Captain  17th  Lancers,  of  the  family  of 
Bury  Hall,  Hampshire,  by  whom  she  has  two  sons  and  one  daughter, 
Charles- Brett,  Ronald,  and  Renira-Elizabeth. 

(8)  Frances-Harriet-Hamilton,  born  15th  October  1857,  married,  first, 
26th  January  1882,  William-Wilkes  Unett,  Captain  21st  Hussars,  who 
died  three  months  afterwards ;  secondly,  William  H.  F.  Verschoyle,  son  of 
J.  J.  Verschoyle  of  Tassaggart,  co.  Dublin,  by  whom  she  has  two  sons  and 
one  daughter,  George- John-Foster,  Arthur,  and  Kathleen- Laura. 

3.  Margaret,  born  13th  September  1824,  and  died  5th  July  1892, 
having  married,  9th  July  1845,  John  Buchanan- Hamilton,  of  Leny,  Spittal, 
and  Bardowie,  chief  of  the  clan  Buchanan,  by  whom  she  had  three  sons 
and  three  daughters  : — 

(1)  Francis- Wellesley,  popularly  known  as  'the  young  Laird,'  born 
1 8th  September  1853,  died,  unmarried,  28th  October  1893. 

(2)  George- Buchanan,  of  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  born  5th 
March  1856,  died,  unmarried,  6th  May  1886. 

(3)  John-Hamilton,  Chartered  Accountant,  born  14th  July  1861,  and 
married,  3rd  June  1884,  Phcebe- Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John-Clerk  Brodie, 
Writer  to  the  Signet,  of  Idvies,  co.  Forfar,  and  half-sister  of  Sir 
Thomas  Dawson-Brodie,  Baronet. 

(4)  Margaret-Seton,  born  9th  April  1846,  and  died  7th  March  1868, 
having  married,  4th  April  1867,  Robert  Jardine  of  Castlemilk,  co. 
Dumfries  (afterwards  Sir  Robert  Jardine,  Baronet),  successively  M.P. 
for  Ashburton,  Dumfries  Burghs,  and  the  county  of  Dumfries,  by 
whom  she  had  a  son,  Robert-William,  born  21st  January  1868,  and 
married,  4th  July  1894,  to  Ethel-Mary,  fifth  daughter  of  Benjamin  Piercy 
of  Marchwiel  Hall,  co.  Denbigh,  and  Macomer,  Sardinia,  a  Commander 
(Commendatore)  of  the  Crown  of  Italy  (who  died  in  1888),  by  whom  he 
had  a  son,  Robert- Buchanan,  born  9th  April  and  died  14th  September 
1895. 

(5)  Anne-Helen,  born  23rd  July  1849,  and  died  9th  June  1851. 

(6)  Catherine-Elizabeth,  born  27th  March  1852. 

Captain  George  Seton  was  survived  by  his  widow  till  6th  September 
1868,  a  period  of  forty-three  years;  and  both  are  buried  in  the  Greyfriars 


6h  MRS.    BLAIR  AND   MRS.    DAWSON 

Cemetery,  Perth,  where  the  inscription  on  their  monument  concludes  as 
follows  : — 

'Nos,  quos  certus  amor  primis  conjunxit  ab  annis 
Junxit  idem  tumulus,  junxit  idemque  polus.' 

The  two  daughters  of  Margaret  and  Henry  Seton  (p.  608  supra) 
were  : — 

1.  Jean,  who  died  in  1826,  having  married,  8th  March  1799,  Mr. 
William  Blair,  factor  to  the  Earl  of  Mansfield,  by  whom  she  had  five  sons 
and  three  daughters,  most  of  whom  married  and  settled  in  North  America. 
The  eldest  daughter,  Margaret-Seton,  born  26th  April  1805,  d.  s.p.  7th 
December  1884,  having  married,  first,  7th  June  1830,  John  Willison,  M.D., 
who  died  25th  February  1835  ;  and,  secondly,  20th  December  1842, 
William  Dawson,  merchant  in  Glasgow. 

2.  Melville,  named  after  General  Robert  Melville,'1  grand-uncle  of  the 
late  Mr.  Whyte-Melville  of  Bennochy,  born  20th  November  1785,  after 
her  father's  return  from  the  American  War,  and  died  20th  April  1851, 
having  married,  11th  December  181 5,  William  Dawson  of  Tayside,  Perth, 
Commander  in  the  H.E.I.C.S.  (born  1768,  died  1841),  by  whom  she  had 
one  son  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  only  the  son,  Robert,  born  21st 
October  18 19,  is  now  alive.  He  married,  17th  November  1857,  Jessie, 
daughter  of  Mr.  James  Meall,  by  whom  he  has  no  issue.  The  three  eldest 
daughters,  Margaret,  Mary,  and  Georgina,  all  died  unmarried,  while  the 
youngest,  Melville-Helen,  born  19th  January  1823,  married,  21st  June  1848, 
her  cousin  Henry  Dawson,  Captain  in  the  Indian  Merchant  Service,  with 
whom  she  was  drowned  in  a  squall  off  Madras,  24th  May  1850,  without 
issue.2 

From  the  imperfect  memorandum-book  (already  referred  to)  kept 
by  my  grandmother,  Margaret  Seton,  it  appears  that,  after  residing  for 
some  time  in  Edinburgh,  she  went  to  Cariston  in  November  1773,  and 
thence,  four  years  afterwards,  to  Leven,  where  she  remained  upwards 
of  seven  years,  removing  to  Methil  towards  the  end  of  1785,  about  a  year 
after  her  husband's  return  from  foreign  service.  The  latter  years  of 
their  lives  appear  to  have  been  passed  at  Rumgally,  in  the  parish  of 
Kemback. 

In  the  Parochial  Register  of  Scoonie  (in  which  parish  Leven  is 
situated)  there  are  a  number  of  entries,  between  1777  and  1783,  relative  to 
Mrs.  Seton's  modest  payments  for  the  education  of  her  three  eldest  children. 
Occasional  reference  is  made  in  the  record  to  the  teaching  of  Navigation  ; 
and  doubtless  it  was  in  the  parish  school  at  Leven  that  my  father  received 


1  The  Geneia  had  several  'name-children,'  son.  When  his  sister  Melville  was  drowned 
to  each  of  whom  he  left  an  annuity  oi  £10.  with  her  husband,  she  had  the  miniature  in  a 

2  The  portrait  of  my  grandfather,  Henry  dressing-case,  which  went  down  in  the  vessel, 
Seton,  engraved  at  page  593  supra,  is  from  a  and  was  recovered  shortly  afterwards,  along 
miniature  in  my  possession  which  I  received  with  other  articles — the  miniature  being  quite 
several  years  ago  from  my  cousin,  Robert  Daw-  uninjured. 


GEORGE   SETON,  ADVOCATE  615 

the  elements  of  his  professional  education.  During  her  husband's  length- 
ened absence  in  the  West  Indies  and  elsewhere  (already  referred  to),  she 
appears  to  have  carefully  superintended  the  upbringing  of  her  children 
on  very  scanty  means ;  as,  by  this  time,  the  family  fortunes  had  fallen 
very  low. 

I  possess  a  copy  of  an  unsigned  and  undated  letter,  in  the  handwriting 
of  the  decayed  gentlewoman,  inscribed  '  To  be  sent  to  my  two  dear  sons 
after  my  death,'  which  will  be  found  in  the  Appendix ;  and  I  am  pleased  to 
know  that  the  younger  of  them  did  not  fail  to  carry  out  the  touching  in- 
structions which  the  letter  contains.  She  closed  her  chequered  career 
on  the  19th  of  October  1803,  and  was  buried  in  the  quiet  churchyard  of 
Kemback,  beside  her  husband,  Henry  Seton,  who,  as  already  stated,  died 
six  years  previously. 

On  the  death,  without  issue,  of  Captain  David  Seton,  9th  September 
1826,  the  representation  of  the  family  of  Cariston  devolved  upon  his 
nephew, 

10.   George  Seton,  present  representative, 

born  25th  June  1822;  M.A.  of  Exeter  College,  Oxford;  F.R.S.E., 
F.S.A.S. ;  called  to  the  Scottish  Bar  1846;  appointed  Secretary  in  the 
General  Registry  Office,  Edinburgh,  1854,  and  Superintendent  of  Civil 
Service  Examinations  in  Scotland,  1862,  both  of  which  posts  he  resigned 
31st  December  1889;  one  of  the  founders  and  first  Secretary  of  the  St. 
Andrew  Boat  Club,  1846;  for  many  years  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Edinburgh 
Society  for  Improving  the  Condition  of  the  Poor  ;  '  right-hand  man '  in  the 
Royal  Archers,  Her  Majesty's  Body-guard  for  Scotland ;  author  of  this 
History  of  the  Seton  Family  and  various  other  works;1  senior  co-heir  of 
Sir  Thomas  Seton  of  Olivestob,  fourth  son  of  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton; 
and  representative  of  Mary  Seton,  one  of  the  '  Four  Maries '  in  attendance 
upon  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  who  was  half-sister  of  John,  first  Baron  of 
Cariston. 

Among  other  heirlooms  in  his  possession  is  the  two-handed  sword  of 
Sir  Christopher  Seton,  who  married  Christian,  sister  of  King  Robert  Bruce. 
(See  page  74  supra.) 

Mr.  Seton  has  travelled  extensively,  having  visited  every  country  in 
Europe  except  Russia,  besides  Algeria,  Egypt,  the  Holy  Land,  Madeira, 
and  South  Africa. 

He  married,  26th  September  1849,  Sarah-Elizabeth,  second  daughter 
of  James  Hunter  of  Thurston,  co.  Haddington,  and  by  her,  who  died  4th 
July  1883,  had  one  son  and  three  daughters  : — 

1.  George,  born  13th  February  1852,  educated  at  Merchiston  Castle 
School  and    Edinburgh    University,    and    afterwards    in    Normandy   and 


1  See  Bibliographical  Appendix. 


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FAMILY  OF  THE  AUTHOR 


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Hanover.  He  was  six  years  in  the 
house  of  F inlay,  Muir,  and  Co.,  Calcutta, 
and  is  now  engaged  in  East  Indian 
business  in  London.  He  married,  2nd 
November  1895,  Amy-Geraldine,  only 
daughter  of  the  late  Charles  Moore,  Esq., 
of  Boston,  U.S.A. 

2.  Elizabeth-Lindsay,  born  23rd  July 
1850,  for  some  years  joint-editor  of  the 
Attempt,  afterwards  the  Ladies  Edinburgh 
Magazine;  married,  13th  February  1878, 
William  -  Livingstone  Watson  of  Ayton, 
co.  Perth,  by  whom  she  has  a  son, 
Robert-William-Seton,  born  20th  August 
1879,  now  at  Winchester  College. 

3.  Margaret-Montgomerie,  born  1 7th 
April  1854,  married,  18th  December 
1886,    Vyvyan-D'Oyly,    eldest    surviving 


FAMILY  PORTRAITS  617 

son  of  Major-General  Alfred  Wintle,  R.H.A.  and  died  without  issue  at 
Shanghai,  25th  September  1890. 

The  following  true  and  touching  words  are  inscribed  upon  the 
monument  to  her  'loving  memory,'  in  the  English  cemetery  at  Shanghai : 
'  Many  of  us  will  henceforth  go  "softlier  and  sadlier,"  as  those  who  feel 
that  a  light  has  gone  from  their  life,  yet  as  those  who  give  thanks  to  the 
Lord  and  Saviour  for  having  one  in  good  keeping  that  it  was  once  their 
joy  to  know  and  to  love.' 

4.  Mary-Stuart,  born  3rd  April  1856,  like  her  ancestor  George,  fourth 
Lord  Seton  (page  103  supra),  a  '  settar  in  museik,'  several  of  her  com- 
positions having  been  published  and  favourably  received. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  family  portraits  in  the  possession  of  the 
author  of  this  work  : — 

1.  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie  his 
wife,  and  their  daughter  Lady  Isabella,  Countess  of  Perth,  by  Jameson. 
Formerly  in  the  possession  of  Charles  Kirkpatrick-Sharpe.  (Engraved  at 
pp.  206-7  supra.) 

2.  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  from  the  original  at  Yester, 
by  Zuccaro(?).     (Engraved  at  page  634  infra.) 

3.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton.     (Engraved  at  page  222  supra.) 

4.  Lady  Anne  Hay,  his  first  Countess. 

5.  Christopher  Seton,  fifth  Baron  of  Cariston. 

6.  George  Seton,  sixth  Baron  of  Cariston.  1     (Engraved  at 

7.  Margaret  Boswell  of  Balmuto,  his  first  wife,  J  pp.  600-1  supra.) 

8.  T'iomas  Marjoribanks  of  that  ilk,  first  husband  of  No.  7. 

9.  Margaret  Law  of  Brunton,  second  wife  of  No.  6. 

ic    George  Seton,  seventh  Baron  of  Cariston.     )     (Engraved  at 

11.  Jean  Seton,  his  wife.  J  pp.  604-5  supra.) 

12.  Henry  Seton,  Chasseurs  Britanniques.  (Original  miniature  and 
coloured  photographic  enlargement ;  engraved  at  page  593  supra.) 

13.  Margaret  Seton,  his  wife,  daughter  of  George,  seventh  Baron  of 
Cariston. 

14.  George  Seton,  Commander  H.E.I.C.S. 

15.  Do.  do.  (Miniature;  engraved  at 
page  6io  supra.) 

16.  Margaret  Hunter  of  Seaside,  his  wife. 

17.  Do.  do.  (Crayon  drawing  by  A rcher.) 

18.  James  Hunter  of  Thurston.  (Replica  by  Robertson  of  Liver- 
pool.) 

19.  Elizabeth  Jennings,  his  wife.  (Enlarged  coloured  photograph  by 
Moffat.) 

20.  George  Seton,  Advocate,  a^t.  5,  and  his  two  sisters,  by  Gianetti. 

21.  Do.  do.        a^t.  10;  by  Thomas  Duncan. 

(Frontispiece  of  Vol.  11.) 

22.  Do.  do.        aet.  65  ;  by  Kay- Robertson. 

23.  Do.  do.        in  the  uniform  of  the  Queen's  Scottish 

4i 


618  ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 

Body-guard.  (Photograph  by  John- Hamilton  Buchanan,  younger  of 
Leny  and  Bardowie,  engraved  at  p.  616.) 

24.  Sarah-Elizabeth  Hunter  of  Thurston,  his  wife,  by  Archer. 

25-6.  Elizabeth  Seton  (Mrs.  Jackson),  and  Margaret  Seton  (Mrs. 
Buchanan-Hamilton) ;  by  Archer. 

27-8.  Elizabeth- Lindsay  Seton  (Mrs.  Watson)  and  her  brother  George 
Seton,  in  1853  ;  by  Archer. 


29.   No.  27  in  Greek  dress. 


30.  Margaret-Montgomerie  Seton  (Mrs.  I         /Enlareed  coiOUred 
Wintle),  as  Marie  Antoinette.  \     1  v  s,     ,      M  ff  t\ 

31.  Mary-Stuart  Seton,  as  a  Lombardy  I    "        &    P        Y       Jj     •) 
peasant.  / 

The  author  also  possesses  a  view  of  Niddry  Castle  by  William  Simson  ; 
an  interior  of  Seton  Chapel,  showing  the  monument  of  George,  fourth 
Lord  Seton,  and  his  wife,  Lady  Margaret  Campbell,  by  S.  Edmonston ;  a 
coloured  lithograph  of  the  scuffle  between  the  Setons  and  the  Leslies  in 
the  Canongate,  by  Cattermole  ;  and  a  framed  Armorial  Pedigree,  embracing 
forty  coats,  by  Henry  Laing,  author  of  the  well-known  volumes  on 
Scottish  Charter  Seals. 


Armorial  Bearings. 

Or,  three  crescents  within  a  royal  tressure  gules,  for  Seton ;  and  in 
the  centre  an  otter's  head  couped  sable,  for  Balfour. 

Crest — on  a  ducal  coronet,  a  dragon  vert,  wings  elevated,  spouting  fire 
proper,  and  charged  with  a  star  argent. 

Motto — '  Hazard  zet  ford  ward.' 

This  family  has  sometimes  been  in  the  habit  of  quartering  the  entire 
arms  of  Balfour  of  Cariston  with  their  paternal  coat,  thus: — 1st  and  4th, 
Seton,  as  above,  without  the  otter's  head ;  2nd  and  3rd,  Balfour,  argent,  on 
a  chevron  sable,  betwixt  two  otters'  heads  erased  in  chief  of  the  second 
and  a  fleur-de-lis  in  base  azure,  an  otter's  head  erased  of  the  first.  This  is 
the  blazon  of  Balfour  of  Cariston  in  Sir  David  Lindsay's  Register. 


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For  a  short  time  the  Cariston  family  appear  to  have  carried  the 
paternal  arms  of  Seton  only,  with  a  bezant  on  the  first  of  the  three 
crescents,  as  on  a  steel  seal  in  my  possession.1 

The  varied  blazons  are  referred  to  by  Nisbet  at  page 
108  of  his  Essay  on  Armories.  '  Seton  of  Cariston,  in  Fife,' 
he  says,  'carries  now  Seton  and  Balfour  quarterly.  The 
first  of  this  family  was  John  Seton,  second  son  of  George, 
Lord  Seton,  and  his  lady,  Elizabeth  Hay,  daughter  to 
George  (a  mistake  for  John),  Lord  Yester.  John  Seton 
carried,  first,  or,  three  crescents  within  a  double  tressure 
counter-flowered  gules ;  and  for  his  difference,  as  a  younger 
son  of  the  House  of  Seton,  charged  one  of  the  crescents  with  a  bezant,  as  on 
the  roof  of  Samson's  Hall  in  the  House  of  Seton.  He  married  Isabel  Balfour, 
heiress  of  Cariston,  and  their  son,  George  Seton  of  Cariston,  laid  aside  the 
bezant  and  placed  in  the  centre  of  his  paternal  arms,  between  the  three 
crescents,  an  otter's  head  for  Balfour,  as  in  Mr.  Thomas  Crawford's 
manuscript  of  blazons ;  and  afterwards  the  family  carried  quarterly,  1st 
and  4th,  Seton  ;  2nd  and  3rd,  gules,  on  a  chevron  or,  between  two  otters' 
heads  erased  in  chief,  and  a  flower-de-lis  in  base  of  the  second,  an  otter's 
head  erased  of  the  first ;  which  coat  of  Balfour  of  Cariston  is  so  blazoned 
in  Sir  James  Balfour,  sometime  Lion  King  of  Arms,  his  Register.' 


The  tinctures,  as  well  as  the  charges,  in  the  coat  of  Balfour  of 
Cariston,  vary  considerably  in  the  heraldic  manuscripts  in  the  Advocates' 
Library  and  British  Museum,  and  in  Nisbet's  System  of  Heraldry. 

1.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  an  eagle's  head  erased  or,  between  two 
otters'  heads  also  erased  in  chief  of  the  second,  and  a  fleur-de-lis  in  base 
azure. — Formans  Roll. 

2.  Gules,  on  a  chevron  or,  an  eagle's  head  erased  between  two  otters' 
heads,  also  erased  in  chief,  and  a  fleur-de-lis  in  base. — Balfour's  MSS. 
33-  2.  37. 

3.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  three  otters'  heads  erased  argent. — 
MS.  Blazon,  by  Sawers  and  Crawford,  3 1 .  4.  4. 


1  See  Laing's  Supplemental  Catalogue  of  Scottish  Seals,  No.  896. 


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4.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  an  otter's  head  erased  of  the  field, 
between  two  otters'  heads  erased  of  the  second  in  chief,  and  a  fleur-de-lis 
in  base,  azure. — Nisbet's  MSS.,  W.  4.  2. — 31.  4.  2.  (This  is  the  same  as 
Sir  David  Lindsay's  blazon.) 

5.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  betwixt  two  boars'  heads  couped  of  the 
last,  langued  gules,  in  chief,  and  a  fleur-de-lis  in  base  a  lyon's  head  of  the 
first  couped  and  langued,  gules. — Nisbet's  MS.  43  (20). 

6.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  a  bear's  head  erased  of  the  first 
between  two  wolves'  heads  erased  in  chief,  and  a  fleur-de-lis  in  base  of  the 
second. — R.  Holme,  Irish  and  Scotch  Pedigrees,  etc.  (Harl.  2120), 
British  Museum. 

7.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  a  pike's  head  erased  of  the  first 
between  two  pikes'  heads  erased  in  chief  of  the  second,  and  a  flower-de-luce 
in  base  azure. — Arms  and  Pedigrees  (5522),  British  Museum. 

8.  Gules,  on  a  chevron,  or,  betwixt  two  otters'  heads  in  chief  and  a 
fleur-de-lis  in  base  of  the  second,  an  otter's  head  erased  of  the  first. — 
Nisbet's  System  of  Heraldry,  i.  167. 


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XVII.   Barns 


1.   Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns. 


iHE  first  of  the  family  of  Barns  was  John,  third  (and 
second  surviving)  son  of  George,  seventh  Lord 
Seton,  born  about  1553,  who  has  already  been 
referred  to  under  the  memoir  of  his  father  {supra, 
pp.  183  et  seq.). 

In  the  Lauderdale  Papers  in  the  British 
Museum  (23,108,  f.  20)  we  find  royal  instructions 
to  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  '  Mr  of  or  Horss,'  as 
ambassador  to  England,  in  the  following  terms  : 
'  Instructiouns  to  or  trustie  and  well-beloued  Servand 
.  .  .  directit  be  us  with  auise  of  the  Lordis  of  or  Privie  Counsell  to  or 
dearest  Suster  and  Cousing  the  Oueene  of  England  at  Halyrudehouse  the 
tent  day  of  Aprile  1 58 1 . '  ' 

On  the  25th  of  January  1585  Sir  Henry  Wodrington  informs  Walsing- 
ham  that  '  Sr  John  Seton  is  come  to  court  and  well  accepted  of  the  K.,  and 
presently  made  Mr  of  the  K.'s  householde  or  else  shortly  shal  be.'2 

The  year  following  (28th  March  1586)  R.  Douglas  writes  as  follows 
to  Archibald  Douglas  :  '  Sir  John  Seton  and  the  laird  of  Barmbairoch  are 


1  See  also  State  Papers  relating  to  Scottish 
Affairs,  1308-16 19,  British  Museum,  4637  C. 


2  MS.  British  Museum,  Cal.  C.  viii.  f.  279. 


622      SIR  JOHN   SETON,   FIRST  OF   BARNS 

nominated  Ambassadors,  he  for  Spain  and  this  for  Denmark,  if  money 
could  be  had  for  their  voyage.'1 

From  Berwick,  on  the  2nd  of  February  1587-8,  Hunsdon  announces 
to  Walsingham  that  the  King  had  sent  Sir  John  Seton  'to  comaund  the 
Lord  Huntley,  uppon  payne  of  treason,  to  make  his  present  repaire  to  the 
King ;  who  denyed  flatlie  so  to  doe  ! ' 2 

Again,  on  the  10th  of  September  1588,  Bowes  informs  Burghly  that 
'  on  Sonday  last  at  the  howse  of  the  Lorde  Ogleby,  Sir  John  Seton  haith 
maryed  the  doughter  of  the  Lorde  Forbess,  where  many  of  the  northern 
Lordes  and  their  frendes  are  assembled.'3  The  same  event  is  thus  referred 
to  in  a  letter  from  Richard  to  Archibald  Douglas,  dated  16th  September 
1588  :  'There  has  been  in  a  house  of  the  Lord  Ogilvie  in  Angus,  at  the 
marriage  of  Sir  John  Seton,  a  number  of  noblemen,  as  is  thought,  malcon- 
tented  of  the  present  state.'  * 

Sir  John  Seton  turns  up  in  the  following  extracts  from  the  public 
Registers  : — 

At  Falkland,  12th  August  1586,  Letter  of  Gift  to  Sir  John  Seytoun 
of  Barnis,  Knight,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  ward  and  non-entry  of 
the  ;£io  land  of  Peirstoun  Barclay,  with  tour  and  mansion-place  thereof, 
lying  within  the  bailliary  of  Cunyngham  and  Sheriffdom  of  Ayr,6  etc. 

At  Holyroodhouse,  3rd  January  1586,  Letter  constituting  Sir  John 
Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  first  Master  of  his  Majesty's  Household,  and 
giving  him  the  office  thereof  for  his  lifetime,  with  all  the  privileges  and 
fees  thereof,  for  his  good  services  done  to  the  King.6 

At  Falkland,  8th  July  1587,  Letter  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis, 
Knight,  first  Master  of  H.M.'s  Household,  constituting  him  Comptroller 
and  Intromitter  with  all  revenues  and  casualties  of  H.M.'s  property,  during 
his  lifetime,  with  all  the  privileges  thereof,  and  500  merks  '  for  exercing 
of  the  said  office.'7 

Obligation  by  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  to  George  Mak, 
writer,  in  name  and  behalf  of  the  Right  Honourable  John  Touris  of 
Innerleith  for  ^"iooo  of  borrowed  money.  Dated  at  Holyroodhouse,  25th 
October  1587.8 

Obligation  by  John  Hammyltoun,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
and  two  others,  as  cautioners  and  sureties  for  Robert,  Earl  of  Orkney,  to 
Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  sometime  Comptroller  to  the  King, 
for  ^2000  owing  by  the  said  Earl  for  the  feu  mails  of  the  lands  of  Orkney, 
for  the  year  1588.     Dated  at  Edinburgh,  29th  March  1589.9 

Contract  between  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  and  William 


1  Calendar  of  MSS.   at    Hatfield,  part   iii.            6  Privy  Seal  Register,  lv.  2. 
(1889),  p.  135.  7  Ibid.  lv.  98. 

2  Calendarof  Border  Papers,  edited  by  Joseph  8  Register    of   Deeds,     Scott     Office,    xxxii. 
Bain,  vol.  i.,  1560-94.  156. 

3  Ibid.  9  Ibid,   xxxiii.    172.      The    same    matter  re- 

4  Calendar  of  MSS.   at  Hatfield,  part    iii.        appears  in  a  later  entry  in  the  same  volume 
(1889),  p.  360.  (fol.  311),  under  date  3rd  March  1589-90;  and 

5  Privy  Seal  Register,  liv.  75.  also  in  vol.  xxxvii.  fol.  36,  4th  August  1590. 


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Seytoun,  his  brother-german,  sons  of  the  deceased  George,  Lord  Seytoun, 
professing  and  affirming  themselves  to  have  sufficient  right,  assignation, 
and  disposition  made  to  them  of  the  pension  after  mentioned  during  the 
lifetime  of  the  said  Sir  John  and  his  two  other  brothers  after  named,  and 
the  said  Sir  John  and  William,  with  consent  of  Robert,  now  Lord  Seytoun, 
and  Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  their  brothers,  and  all  the  said  four  brothers 
with  one  mutual  consent  and  assent,  for  any  right  or  title  which  they,  or 
any  one  of  them,  may  have  to  the  pension  after  mentioned,  on  the  one 
part,  and  Hew  Campbell  of  Trinzeane,  whereby  the  said  Sir  John  and 
William  Seytoun  have  set,  and  in  tack  and  assedation  let,  all  and  sundry 
the  feu,  mails,  teind  sheaves,  both  parsonage  and  vicarage,  of  the  lands 
and  lordship  of  Kylesmure  and  Barmure,  part  of  the  gift  of  pension  by 
the  King,  and  pertaining  to  the  Abbey  of  Melrose — the  said  Hew  Camp- 
bell paying  the  sum  of  900  merks  yearly.  Dated  at  Newmylnis  27th,  and 
at  Edinburgh  29th,  December  1591,  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Northrig  being  a 
witness.1 

At  Holyroodhouse,  20th  December  1588,  Letter  of  Gift  to  Sir  John 
Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods,  etc.,  which  pertained 
to  Mr.  John  Bartane,  Dean  of  Dunkeld,  through  his  being  put  to  the  horn, 
by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Alexander  Robertson,  reader 
at  Cluny,  for  non-payment  of  ^20  for  his  assigned  stipend.2 

21st  May  1596,  In  presence  of  the  Lords  of  Council  compeared  Mr. 
Alexander  King,  procurator  constitute  for  Dame  Issobell  Hammiltoun, 
Lady  Seytoun,  executrix  testamentar  to  the  deceased  Sir  John  Seytoun  of 
Barnis,  Knight,  her  son,  and  gave  in  the  copy  of  letter  dated  1st  April 
1596,  whereby  the  said  Dame  Issobell  was  charged  at  the  instance  of 
Dame  Marie  Ruthvene,  Countess  of  Athole,  to  have  compeared  before  the 
Lords,  at  a  certain  day  bypast,  anent  the  said  Letters,  bearing  that  the 
said  deceased  Sir  John  Seytoun  was  donator  to  the  escheat  of  the  deceased 
Mr.  John  Bartane,  Dean  of  Dunkeld,  of  the  goods  which  belonged  to  him. 
Decreet  is  given  in  favour  of  the  pursuer.3 

Sir  John  Seton  is  thus  described  by  Lord  Kingston  in  his  Continuation 
of  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  History  of  the  House  of  Seytoun:  'This  Sir  John 
Seton  was  a  brave  young  man ;  he  went  to  Spaine,  to  King  Phillip  the 
Second  his  court,  by  whom  he  was  made  Knight  of  the  Royal  Order  of 
St.  Jago,  att  that  tyme  the  order  of  Knighthood  in  that  kingdome  of 
greatest  esteem.  In  memory  whereof,  he  and  his  heirs  has  a  sword  in 
their  coat  of  armes,  being  the  badge  of  that  order.4     King  Phillip  also 


1  Register  of  Deeds,  Scott  Office,  xl.  177. 
1  Privy  Seal  Register,  lviii.   102.     See  also 
lxi.  27,  10th  August  1590. 

3  Acts  and  Decreets,  clxiv.  55. 

4  Nisbet  gives  a  different  explanation  of  the 
sword  in  the  Barns  escutcheon  :  '  The  lineal 
descent  of  the  Dunfermline  family  being  now 
failed,  George  Seton  of  Barns  is  next  heir-male 
to  the  fortune  and  honours,  who  carries  or,  a 


sword  gules,  supporting  an  imperial  crown 
proper,  betwixt  three  crescents  within  a  double 
tressure  counterflowered  of  the  second,  being 
lineally  descended  from  Sir  John  Seton,  im- 
mediate younger  brother  to  Robert,  first  Earl  of 
Winton,  and  immediate  elder  brother  to  Sir 
Alexander  Seton,  first  Earl  of  Dumfermling. 
Sir  John  was  bred  up  in  the  Court  of  Spain, 
and  by  King  Philip  of  Spain  was  honoured  with 


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BARNS   CASTLE 


preferred  him  to  be  gentleman  of  his  chamber,  and  cavalier  de  la  Boca 
(which  is  master  household) :  he  also  carried  the  golden  key  att  his  syde, 
in  a  blew  ribbing  :  all  which  were  the  greatest  honours  King  Phillip  of 
Spaine  could  give  to  any  of  his  subjects,  except  to  be  made  a  grandee  of 
Spaine.  He  had  a  pension  granted  to  him  and  his  heirs  of  two  thousand 
crowns  yearly  :  when  I,  the  wryter  hereof,  was  att  the  King  of  Spaine  his 
court,  I  was  certainely  informed  of  the  truth  of  all  this. 

'  The  said  Sir  John,  in  the  heights  of  his  favour  with  King  Phillip  of 
Spaine,  was  commanded  home  by  King  James  the  Sixth,  unwilling  to 
want  so  gallant  a  subject  out  of  his  court  and  service.  Att  his  return 
home,  he  preferred  him  to  be  thesaurer  of  his  house  ;  was  in  great  favour 
with  his  Majestie.  It  was  not  doubted,  if  he  had  lived  some  time  after 
the  King's  coming  to  the  crown  of  England,  he  would  have  highly 
advanced  him  in  honour  and  fortune ;  but  he  dyed  before  King  James 
went  from  Scotland.  He  made  ane  great  building  att  the  Barnes  Voult 
height,  before  his  death,  intending  that  building  bound  a  court.'1 

The  annexed  illustration  exhibits  the  present  appearance  of  Barns 
Castle,  and  indicates  a  structure  of  considerable  dimensions.  '  This  remark- 
able ruin  is  situated  on  the  eastern  slope  of  the  Garleton  Hills,  about  midway 
between  Longniddry  and  Haddington,  and  commands  most  extensive 
outlooks  on  all  sides.  .  .  .  The  plan  combines  the  formally  balanced  and 
symmetrically  arranged  plan  of  a  somewhat  later  time,  with  the  stern  fortified 
character  of  more  ancient  edifices.  .  .  .  Barnes  Castle  comprises  an  oblong 
space  163  feet  by  126  feet,  with  square  projecting  towers  on  all  sides. 
Measuring  over  the  towers,  the  longest  front  extends  to  191  feet  4  inches 
by  148  feet  in  the  other  direction.  .  .  .  An  extensive  courtyard,  surrounded 
with  high  walls,  completes  the  quadrangle.  The  buildings  as  they  now  exist 
are  one  story  high,  and  in  the  main  block  and  three  towers  they  are  all 
vaulted.  From  this  circumstance  the  place  is  locally  known  as  the  "Vaults." 
The  height  of  the  vaults  is  about  10  feet.  .  .  .  The  remark'  in  the  House 
of  Seytoun  'that  the  building  was  intended  for  a  Court  is  quite  descriptive 
of  a  certain  stateliness  of  arrangement,  apparent  even  in  its  present  ruinous 
condition.  The  place  has  the  appearance  of  never  having  been  com- 
pleted.' 2 

On  the  5th  of  March  1 591-2  there  is  a  confirmation  by  the  King  of  a 
charter  by  '  William  Seytoun,  brother-german  of  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  to 
John  Seytoun  of  Barns,  Knight,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Ouhytepark  and 


the  knighthood  of  the  Order  of  Calatrava,  and 
after  he  came  home  was,  by  King  James  VI., 
made  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  his  Majesty's 
bedchamber,  and  got  for  his  appanage,  from  his 
father  George,  Lord  Seton,  the  lands  of  Barns, 
for  which  the  family  of  Barns  has  been  in  use 
to  carry  the  sword  supporting  an  imperial  crown, 
as  an  additional  figure  in  the  arms  of  Seton, 
because,  as  Sir  George  Mackenzie  observes,  in 
his  Science  of  Herauldry,  the  lands  of  Barns 


were  given  by  King  Robert  the  Bruce  to  Sir 
Alexander  Seton  of  Seton,  with  that  badge  of 
honour,  as  in  the  charter.' — Essay  on  Armories, 
p.  131. 

1  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  History 
of  the  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  61. 

2  The  Castellated  and  Domestic  Architecture 
of  Scotland,  ii.  333-6.  Messrs.  Macgibbon  and 
Ross  give  a  detailed  account,  as  well  as  a  ground 
plan  and  small  view,  of  the  interesting  structure. 


SIR  JOHN   SETON,   SECOND   OF   BARNS    625 

others,  in  the  lordship  of  Galloway,  below  Cree,  and  of  Aultoun  and  others 
above  Cree,  with  manors,  castles,  etc.'1 

In  the  Edinburgh  Register  (vol.  xlv.)  we  find  an  entry  relative  to  the 
testament-dative  and  inventory  of  the  goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir 
John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knycht,  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of 
Justice,  who  died  in  May  1594,  given  up  by  John  Seton,  now  of  Barnis, 
his  eldest  lawful  son,  and  executor-dative  surrogate  to  him. 


Sum  of  Inventory 

. 

jmjcxxxjUb  xiij3  4d 

Debts  owing  to  him     . 

iiijm  Ub 

Summa  of  Inventory  with  debts 

vmjcxxxjub  1 3s  4d 

Debts  due  by  him 

jmljjlib 

Free  gear 

iiijmlxxixub  13s  4d 

To  be  divided  in  three  parts — 

His  part  is 

jmiij0lixlib  1 7s  8d 

Quota .... 

xx  merks. 

Confirmed  30th  June  1607 — Sir  William 

Seytoun  of 

Kylismure,  Knight,  being  cautioner 

By  his  wife,   Anne,   youngest  daughter   of  William,   seventh    Lord 
Forbes,   Sir  John  Seton  had  (besides  a 
daughter)  two  sons  : — • 

1.  Sir  John,  his  successor. 

2.  ,  who  died  young. 

Sir  John  Seton  died  '  in  the  strength 

of  his  age,'  in  May  1594,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  only  surviving  son, 


2.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns, 

'  ane  gallant  man  ;  likeways  gentleman  of 

the  privy  chamber  to  King  Charles  the 

First.     He  did  acquire,  from  Sir  Robert 

Gordon  of  Lochinvar,  land  in  Irland  worth 

five  hundreth  pound  sterling  a  year.     The 

said  Sir  John  was  imprisoned  and  fyned 

in  a  considerable  soume  of  money,  by  the 

then  rebells  in   Scotland,   for  being  with 

the  Marques  of  Montross,  King  Charles  the  First  his  generall,  by  ane 

ample  commission,  against  the  Scots  rebells,  in  the  year  1646. 


1615. 


According  to  Douglas 3  he  was  served  heir  to  his  father,  3rd  October 

The  second  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns  was  thrice  married  : — 

First,  to  Isabella,  daughter  of  Ogilvy  of  Powrie,  by  whom  he  had  one 


son  and  three  daughters  :- 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  xxxviii.  No.  7. 

2  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation,  p.  62. 


Peerage  of  Scotland,  ii.  645. 


4K 


626 


HIS  THREE   MARRIAGES 


i    Alexander,  who  married  a  daughter  of  '  ane  noble  Irish  family  of 

Ophual'  (O'Farral),  but  died  without  suc- 
cession. 

2.  Isabel,  married  to  the  Laird  of 
Barfoord. 

3.  Margaret,  married  to  the  Tutor  of 
Duffus,  in  Moray. 

4.  Lilias,  married  to  Sir  James 
Ramsay  of  Benhame  (Benholm),  Kin- 
cardineshire. 

Sir  John  Seton's  first  wife  appears  in 
a  caption  in  November  1617  against  the 
Laird  of  Cowdenknowes  as  '  Dame  Isobell 
Ogilbie,  Lady  Kintale,  with  consent  of  her 
husband,  Sir  Johnne  Seatoun,  Knight.'1 

About  the  same  date  certain  tenants 

of  Sir  John  Seton's  lands  of  Incharoth, 

in    Moray,    along   with    the    Laird    their 

master,  lodge  a  complaint  against  certain 

specified  persons    for  a  violent  attack — coming  '  by  way  of  hamesucken 

disagwysit  in  weymenis  clothes  undir  cloud  and  silence  of  nicht.'2 

Sir  John  Seton's  secondwik,  by  whom 
he  had  no  issue,  was  Lady  Anne  Fleming, 
'  Dowager  of  Kilsyth,' 3  and  second  daugh- 
ter of  John,  sixth  Lord  Fleming,  whose 
death  is  thus  recorded  in  Boyd  of 
Trochrig's  Obituary,  MS.  in  the  library  of 
the  University  of  Glasgow  :  '  At  the  same 
time  [July  1625],  dyed  at  Edinburgh  the 
Lady  Kilsyth,  younger ;  since  her  hus- 
band's death,  married  to  Sir  John  Seton 
of  Barnes  :  a  virtuous  lady,  fearing  God ; 
the  worthy  daughter  of  her  excellent 
mother,  the  Lady  Fleming.'  Her  '  Latter 
Will'  was  confirmed  17th  June  1626.'4 

By   his  third  wife,    ,    the    only 

daughter  of  Sir  John  Home  of  North 
Berwick,  Sir  John  Seton  had  two  sons 
and  one  daughter  : — 

5.  George,  who  succeeded  his  father. 

6.  Charles,  who  died  young,  soon  after  his  father. 


1  Register  of  the  Privy  Council  of  Scotland, 
edited  by  Professor  Masson,  xi.  232. 

2  Ibid.  265,  566  ;  and  xii.  6. 

?  Lady  Anne  Fleming's  first  husband  was  Sir 
William  Livingstone  of  Darnchester,  eldest  son 


of  Sir  William  Livingstone  of  Kilsyth,  who  died 
without  male  issue,  and  whose  younger  brother 
James  became  first  Viscount  of  Kilsyth.     See 
Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland,  ii.  38  and  635. 
4  Edinburgh  Testaments,  vol.  liii. 


CHARLES   SETON'S   TESTAMENT 


627 


This  appears  from  the  testament  testamentary  and  inventory  of  the 
goods,  etc.,  that  pertained  to  the  deceased 
'  Charles  Seattoune,   son  to  the  late  Sir 
John  Seattoune  of  Barnes,   Knight,  who 

died  in  the   month   of  jmvjc   three 

score,  etc.,  years,'  given  up  by  himself  on 
the  4th  May  1660  as  to  nomination  of  his 
executrix,  etc.,  and  given  up  partly  by 
Jane  Seattoune,  spouse  to  John  Hay  of 
Aberlady,  whom  he  nominates  his  only 
executrix. 

Amount  of  debt  owing  to  the  de- 
ceased, ^6666,  13s.  4d.,  which  sum  was 
owing  to  him  by  '  George  Seattoune,  now 
of  Barnes.'  The  testator  nominates  the 
foresaid  Jeane  Seattoune,  spouse  to  John 
Hay,  his  only  heir,  executrix,  and  uni- 
versal legator  of  his  goods,  gear,  etc.,  to 
dispone  at  her  pleasure  to  any  two  of  her 

children  '  gotten  betwixt  the  said  John  of  Aberlady  and  the  said  Jeanne 
Seattoune,  sister  of  the  testator,  whatever  fell  to  him  by  portion  from  his 
deceased  father,  Sir  John  Seattoune  of  Barnes,  or  may  fall.'  The  'abulzie- 
ments  of  his  bodie '  he  leaves  to  her  in  like  manner.  Confirmed  28th  June 
1 66 1,  William  Hay,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  being  cautioner.1 

7.  Jean,  married  to  John  Hay  of  Aberlady. 

Among  the  Edinburgh  Protocols  (vol.  v.  fol.  6  and  70)  we  find  the 
two  following  references  to  the  first  and  second  wives  of  Sir  John 
Seton  : — 

(1)  Sasine  on  charter  by  the  Magistrates  of  Edinburgh,  in  favour  of 
Sir  John  Seyton  of  Barnis,  Knight,  and  the.  heirs  procreate  between 
him  and  the  late  Lady  Isobel  Ogilvie,  Lady  Kyntaill,  his  spouse,  of  the 
lands  of  St.  Laurence  House,  beside  the  burgh  of  Haddington,  extending 
to  about  80  acres  of  arable  land.  Dated  at  Edinburgh  27th  November 
161 7,  and  sasine  on  6th  June  1618. 

(2)  Resignation  by  the  said  Sir  John  Seyton  of  Barnis,  Knight,  in 
favour  of  himself  and  Lady  Anne  Fleyming,  his  spouse,  and  the  heirs-male 
procreate  or  to  be  procreate  of  their  bodies,  whom  failing,  the  heirs-male 
of  the  said  Sir  John  whomsoever,  of  the  foresaid  lands  of  St.  Laurence 
House,  near  Haddington,  in  implement  of  contract  of  marriage  between 
the  said  Sir  John  Seyton  on  the  one  part,  and  the  said  Lady  Anne 
Fleyming,  relict  of  Sir  William  Levingston  of  Darnchester,  Knight,  with 
consent  of  Mr.  Robert  Scott,  one  of  the  ministers  of  Glasgow,  on  the  other 
part.  Of  date  at  Glasgow  1 8th  September  1 61 8.  Mr.  Alexander  Guthrie, 
younger,  Clerk  of  Edinburgh,  witness. 


Cmmnissariot  of  Edinburgh  Testaments  kept  at  Haddington,  vol.  lxx. 


628 


SUBSEQUENT   LAIRDS   OF   BARNS 


3.  George  Seton  of  Barns, 

eldest  surviving  son  of  Sir  John  Seton,  succeeded  his  father.  The  name 
of  his  wife  I  have  failed  to  ascertain,  and  otherwise  very  little  appears  to 
be  known  respecting  him.  He  probably  died  young,  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  son, 

4.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns, 

who  died  in  March  1659,  and  from  whose  testament  it  transpires  that  the 

name  of  his  wife  was  Margaret  Hay, 
whom  he  nominates  as  his  only  executrix. 
The  will  is  subscribed  at  Edinburgh  on 
the  1 8th  of  February  1659,  and  therein 
he  ordains  '  that  my  bodie,  in  caice  of  my 
deceis  in  Edinburgh,  my  corpes  {sic)  to  be 
transported  from  thence  to  Seattoune,  and 
there  to  continew  for  ane  competent  tyme, 
quhill  with  conveniencie  they  may  be 
interred  in  the  place  of  my  father's  buriell, 
with  decensie,  bot  without  pomp  or  great 
schow  thairat'  The  will  was  confirmed 
20th  February  1662,  the  'cautioner'  being 
George  Hay  of  Kinninmonth.1 
Sir  John  Seton's  son, 

5.  Sir  (?)  George  Seton  of  Barns, 

appears  to  have  been  served  heir  to  his  grandfather,  George  Seton  of 
Barns,  in  1704,  and  in  1707  he  had  a  disposition  of  the  lordship  and 
barony  of  Fyvie  from  Lady  Jean,  Countess  of  Dunfermline,  so  far  as  she 
had  right.  Four  years  afterwards  we  find  a  registered  minute  of  agree- 
ment between  Sir  George  Suttie  of  Balgone  and  George  Seton  of  Barns, 
reciting  that  Sir  George  had  acquired  from  Alexander,  Earl  (sic)  of  Huntly, 
a  right  to  an  advocation  at  the  Countess  of  Dunfermline's  instance  for 
^6000,  with  a  statement  relative  to  the  subsequent  procedure.2 

He  has  been  already  mentioned,  under  the  notice  of  the  fifth  Earl  of 
Winton,  as  having  assumed  the  title  of  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  under  which 
he  proclaimed  the  'Pretender 'at  Kelso  on  the  24th  of  October  1715,  and  as 
having  surrendered  at  Preston,  about  three  weeks  later,  along  with  seventy- 
four  noblemen  and  gentlemen.3 

The  same  year  he  sold  the  lands  of  Barns  to  the  celebrated  Colonel 


1  Edinburgh  Testaments,  vol.  lxx. 

2  Richmond  and  Gordon  Writs. 


parties  occur  in  various  subsequent  documents. 
The  same  3  See  pages  256-7  supra. 


JAMES   SETON   OF  ST.  VINCENT 


629 


he  is  described  as  '  George 


Charteris.     In  a  bond  dated  29th  June  1727 
Seton,   late  of  Barns,  alias  Lord    Dum- 
fermling' ;  and  in  1732  he  appears  to  have 
resided  in  Haddington. 

By  his  wife,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
George  Suttie  of  Balgone,  he  had  one  son 
and  one  daughter  : — 

1.  James,  of  whom  afterwards. 

2.  Anne,  who  married  John  Don  of 
the  city  of  Edinburgh,  by  whom  she  had 

(besides   a  daughter,  who  married  

Anderson)  two  sons  : — 

(1)  Sir  George  Don,  Governor  of 
Gibraltar,  and  afterwards  of  Scarborough 
Castle,  buried  in  Seton  Church. 

(2)  Captain Don. 

6.  James  Seton,  Governor  of  St.  Vincent, 

son  of  Sir  George  Seton  of  Barns,  was  Governor  of  the    island   of  St. 
Vincent,  West  Indies.     In  1773  he  presented  a  petition  to  King  George  in. 
claiming   the    Earldom   of    Dunfermline,    a   copy   of  which,   and   of  the 
subsequent  proceedings,  will  be  found  in 
the  Appendix. 

In  the  year  1768  we  find  a  disposi- 
tion and  assignment  by  '  Colonel  James 
Seton,  Esqre,  only  lawful  son  and  heir  of 
the  deceest  George  Seton  of  Barns '  in 
favour  of  Alexander,  Duke  of  Gordon, 
and  the  Hon.  Colonel  William  Gordon  of 
Fyvie,  eldest  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Aber- 
deen, by  his  last  marriage  with  Lady  Anne 
Gordon,  his  spouse.1 

By  his  wife  Susan,  daughter  of  James 
Moray  of  Abercairney,  in  the  county  of 
Perth,  by  Lady  Christian,  daughter  of 
Alexander,  ninth  Earl  of  Eglinton,2  he  had 
two  sons  and  two  daughters  : — 

1.  James,  of  whom  afterwards. 

2.  George,  who  died  unmarried. 

3.  Susan,  died  young. 

4.  Charlotte,   married,  first,  to   Colonel  Leith  ;    secondly  to  Captain 
Evans,  and  died  without  issue. 


1  Richmond  and  Gordon  Writs. 

2  At  Burgate  House,  Hampshire,  there  is  a 


mezzotint  engraving  by  Faber,  after  Davison, 
of  Lady  Christian  Moray. 


630  JAMES   SETON   OF   BROOKHEATH 

An  interesting  letter,  dated  17th  April  1779,  from  Mrs.  Seton  (Susan 
Moray)  to  her  eldest  son,  James,  will  be  found  in  the  Appendix.  The 
Governor  of  St.  Vincent  died  in  Harley  Street,  London,  at  an  advanced 
age. 

7.  James  Seton  of  Brookheath, 

eldest  son  of  the  Governor  of  St.  Vincent,  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the 

Army,  married  Margaret,  only  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  John  Findlater  of  the  same 
island  (afterwards  Mrs.  Waller),  by  whom 
he  had  two  sons  and  four  daughters  : — 

1.  James,  born  28th  June  1799,  and 
died  20th  April  1809. 

2.  James- Alexander,  born  5th  Octo- 
ber 18 16,  and  died  2nd  June  1845,  having 
married,  3rd  May  1838,  Annie,  sister  of 
the  Rev.  J.  B.  Wakefield  (afterwards  Mrs. 
Righy),  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter, 
Marion,  married  to  Captain  Brown. 

3.  Susan,  born  23rd  July  1803,  and 
died,  unmarried,  19th  March  1829. 

4.  Marion-Frances,  born  30th  May 
1808,  and  died,  unmarried,  15th  Novem- 
ber 1821. 

5.  Eglinton,  born  17th  November 
1812,  and  died  in  1865,  having  married,  15th  July  1834,  the  Rev.  J.  B. 
Wakefield,  by  whom  she  had  issue.1 

6.  Catherine,  born  23rd  May  1818,  married,  21st  June  1842,  the  Rev. 
John  Coventry  of  Burgate  House,  Hants,  formerly  Rector  of  Tyward- 
reath,  co.  Cornwall,  and  great-grandson  of  George- William,  sixth  Earl  of 
Coventry,  by  whom  she  has  five  sons  and  six  daughters : — 

(1)  John,  born  19th  February  1845,  married,  1876,  Emily-Mary, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Weld,  Esq.,  of  Lymington,  Hants,  by  whom  he  has 
two  sons  and  five  daughters. 

(2)  James-Seton,  born  26th  February  1849. 

(3)  Walter- Bulkeley,  born  1850. 

(4)  Alexander- Murray,  born  7th  July  1853. 

(5)  Bernard,  born  1859,  married,  16th  February  1892,  Ella-Gordon, 
daughter  of  Edward  Dalgleish,  Esq. 

(1)  Margaret-Elizabeth,  died  30th  October  1894. 

(2)  Florence-Catherine. 

(3)  Marion  ('  Sister  Mary- Paul '),  St.  Catherine's  Convent,  Edin- 
burgh. 


1  Some  clever  lines  on  the  surname  of  Seton, 
written  for  Miss  Eglinton  Seton  by  her  gover- 


ness, Miss  Evans,  will  be  found  in  the  Appendix 
of  Miscellanies. 


HIS   USEFUL  SERVICES  631 

(4)  Isabella-Anne. 

^5)  Barbara  ('  Sister  Joachim  '),  St.  Catherine's  Convent,  Edinburgh. 

(6)  Gertrude- Mary-Philomena. 

The  armorial  bearings  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  James  Seton,  who  died 
in  183 1,  were  recorded  in  the  Lyon  Register,  in  1806,  as  follows  : — 

Quarterly :  1st  and  4th,  or,  a  sword  in  pale  proper,  hiked  and 
pommelled  of  the  first,  supporting  an  imperial  crown  between  three 
crescents,  gules,  all  within  a  royal  tressure  of  the  last ;  2nd  and  3rd,  argent, 
on  a  tess  gules,  three  cinquefoils  of  the  first.  Supporters — two  horses  argent, 
maned  and  tailed,  or.  Crest — a  crescent  gules.  On  a  scroll  above  the 
crest,  the  Motto — '  Set  on,'  and  below  the  shield,  '  Virtus  durat  avorum.' 

A  small  silver  salver  (one  of  a  service  of  plate  presented  to  Colonel 
Seton),  now  in  the  possession  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Coventry,  bears  the 
following  inscription  between  two  oval  shields,  respectively  charged  with 
the  arms  of  Seton  and  St.  Vincent :  '  From  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Island  of 
St.  Vincent  to  James  Seton,  Junior,  Esquire,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Comman- 
dant of  the  Colony  Rangers — a  token  of  gratitude  for  his  having  accepted 
the  command  of  them,  for  his  judicious  conduct  and  gallantry  in  expedi- 
tiously training  them  and  leading  them  to  Glory,  by  which  exertions  the 
Colony  was  saved  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain,  in  the  year  1795,  from 
the  united  efforts  of  the  French  and  Charraibs.' 

In  connection  with  the  attack  of  the  Island  of  Grenada  by  a  French 
force  in  March  1795,  the  following  proclamation  was  recommended  by  the 
Privy  Council  of  St.  Vincent  : — 

'  By  His  Excellency  James  Seton,  Esquire,  Captain-General  and 
Governor-in-chief  in  and  over  His  Majesty's  islands  of  St.  Vincent,  Bequia, 
and  such  other  the  islands  commonly  called  the  Grenadines,  as  lie  to  the 
northward  of  Carriacou  in  America,  Chancellor  Ordinary  and  Vice-Admiral 
of  the  same,  etc.  etc.  etc. 

'Whereas  I  have  thought  it  expedient,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  His 
Majesty's  Privy  Council,  to  order,  and  it  is  hereby  ordered,  that  all  the 
French  inhabitants  within  this  government  do  remain  at  home  during  the 
continuance  of  the  present  alarm.  Their  conduct  and  behaviour  will  be 
watchfully  observed,  and  in  case  of  any  appearance  of  disaffection  on  the 
part  of  any  individual  amongst  them,  they  will  be  subjected  to  the  utmost 
rigour  of  Martial  Law.'     Certified  by  J.  Bernard,  Clerk  of  the  Council. 

'St.  Vincent,  a  true  copy  from  the  Minutes  of  H.M.'s  Privy  Council, 
9th  February  1796.' 

The  Royal  St.  Vincent  Gazette  of  May  12,  1798,  in  the  possession  of 
Mrs.  Coventry,  contains  an  address  to  'James  Seton,  Esquire,'  dated  '  St. 
Vincent,  May  7/98,'  signed  by  sixty-six  persons,  including  Andrew  Ross, 
Alexander  Cumming,  John  Murray,  Charles  Grant,  George  Maitland,  W. 
Hepburn,  Robert  Gordon,  D.  Macdowall,  W.  M'Kenzie,  Robert  Douglas, 
Donald  Fraser,  and  Farq.  Campbell,  in  which  reference  is  made  to  the  '  per- 
sonal exertions  and  the  dangers  encountered  by  you  during  the  late  insur- 
rection.'    '  We  cannot  forbear  to  mention,   because  it  is  always  in  our 


632         FAMILY  PORTRAITS  AT   BURGATE 

recollection,  the  events  of  the  morning  of  8th  May  1795,  when  the  enemy 
possessed  themselves  of  Dorsetshire  Hill.  The  fate  of  this  island  then 
depended  on  the  operations  of  a  few  hours.  .  .  .  Happily  the  required 
qualifications  were  possessed  by  you ;  and  the  force  .  .  .  placed  under  your 
command  .  .  .  braved  all  danger,  and,  surmounting  all  difficulties,  was  in  the 
event  crowned  with  success.  .  .  .  To  perpetuate  the  remembrance  of  our 
gratitude  for  your  services,  we  have  appointed  Colonel  Fairbairn  of  the 
Rangers,  and  Major  Fraser,  late  of  your  corps,  to  present  this  letter  to  you, 
and  to  request  your  acceptance  of  a  sword  and  piece  of  plate  (to  the  value 
of  three  hundred  guineas)  with  a  suitable  inscription.' 

From  a  printed  catalogue  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Coventry,  it 
appears  that,  on  the  23rd  of  October  1849,  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the 
High  Court  of  Chancery,  1000  ounces  of  plate,  etc.  (fifty-seven  lots),  and 
fourteen  portraits  belonging  to  Colonel  James  Seton,  were  sold  by  Messrs. 
Davis  and  Vigers,  at  the  auction  mart  opposite  the  Bank  of  England. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Portraits,  of  which  those  indicated  by  an 
asterisk  are  at  Burgate  House. 

*i.  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline  (on  panel). 

*2.  Lady  Grissel  Leslie,  daughter  of  James,  Master  of  Rothes,  and 
second  wife  of  No.  1  (on  panel). 

3.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton. 

4.  Charles,  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 

5.  Lady  Elizabeth  Seton,  Countess  Marischal,  daughter   of  No.  3 
(now  in  the  possession  of  the  Wakefield  family). 

6.  Lady  Mary  Seton,  Countess  of  Carnwath,  another  daughter  of 
the  same. 

*y.  Governor  Seton,  three-quarter  length,  painted  by  R.  Cosway,  R.  A., 
in  1798. 

*8.  Governor  Seton,  half-length. 

9.  A  Lady,  in  the  costume  of  a  Nun. 

10.  George  in.,  full-length. 

11.  Queen  Charlotte. 

12.  A  Gentleman,  unknown. 

13.  Colonel  James  Seton  of  Brookheath  (in  the  possession  of  Mrs. 
Righy. 

*I4.  Margaret  Findlater,  his  wife,  afterwards  Mrs.  Waller  (on  panel),  by 
Cosway. 

Mrs.  Coventry  also  possesses  a  small  enamelled  (gold  and  white) 
locket,  in  the  form  of  an  urn,  inscribed  : — '  Martha  Seton  morte  le  6 
Decembre  :  1750.  V  :S.,'  and  two  copper  book-plates,  of  which  the  larger 
one  bears  the  full  arms,  crest,  and  supporters  of  Dunfermline  ;  in  the 
centre  of  the  1st  and  4th  quarters,  a  sword  supporting  a  crown  ;  as  motto, 
above  the  crest,  '  Set  on ' ;  and  under  the  shield  '  Virtus  durat  avorum,' 
with  'James  Seton'  below. 

The  smaller  of  the  two  plates  bears  Seton  only,  with  sword  supporting 
a  crown  in  the  centre.     Crest — an  arm  embowed  in  armour,  grasping  a  small 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS  633 

sword  supporting  a  crown.     Motto — '  Hazard  zet  Forward.'     Suspended 
from  the  shield  is  a  floriated  cross  beneath  a  blazing  star. 


Ar?norial  Bearings. 

Or,  a  sword  gules,  supporting  an  imperial  crown  proper,  betwixt  three 
crescents  within  a  royal  tressure  of  the  second.1 

Crest  and  Motto — see  page  631  supra. 

On  the  death  of  James,  fourth  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  in  1694  (see 
page  668  infra),  the  representation  of  the  family  appears  to  have  devolved 
upon  John  Seton  of  Barns,  great-grandson  of  Sir  John  Seton,  first  of 
Barns,  the  immediate  elder  brother  of  Chancellor  Seton.  John's  son, 
George  Seton  of  Barns,  who  in  1704  was  served  heir  of  his  grandfather 
(also  George  Seton  of  Barns),  sold  the  lands  of  Barns,  as  already  stated, 
in  17 15.  In  a  bond  dated  29th  June  1727  he  is  described  as  'George 
Seton,  late  of  Barns,  alias  Lord  Dunfermling'  ;  and  in  1732  he  appears 
to  have  resided  in  Haddington.  His  son  was  Colonel  James  Seton, 
Governor  of  St.  Vincent,  who  was  father  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  James 
Seton,  by  whom  the  Earldom  of  Dunfermline  was  claimed  under  the  pro- 
visions of  the  regrant  of  that  title  in  161 1,  which  extended  the  succession 
to  'heirs-male  whatsoever,'  of  the  original  grantee.  It  would  appear, 
however,  that  there  are  no  existing  heirs-male  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  James 
Seton,  who  died  in  June  183 1. 


1  The  blazon  given  in  Joseph  Stacey's  MS.  in  croune  on  the  poynt  thereof  betwixt  three 
the  Lyon  Office  is  :  'or  ane  sword  palewayes  crescents  within  a  double  tressure  counter- 
azttrt,   hiked    and   pommelled   arge?it,   and    a         flowered  gules.' 


4L 


634 


DUNFERMLINE   BRANCH 


XVIII.  Dunfermline 

S  I  have  already  given  a  pretty  full  account  of  this 
distinguished  branch  of  the  family  in  my  Memoir 
of  Chancellor  Seton,  published  in  1882,  I  shall 
make  my  narrative  somewhat  shorter  than  it  would 
otherwise  have  been,  besides  introducing  a  good 
deal  of  matter  not  embraced  in  the  Biography. 

1 .  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline, 

born  about  1555,  was  the  fourth  son  of  George, 
seventh  Lord  Seton,  and  one  of  the  younger  brothers  of  Robert,  first  Earl 
of  Winton.  He  was  originally  destined  for  the  Church  ;  and  'finding  him 
of  a  great  spirit,'  his  father  sent  him  to  Rome,  at  an  early  age,  where  he 
studied  for  some  time  in  the  Jesuits'  College.  '  He  declaimed,  not  being 
sixteen  years  of  age,  ane  learned  oration  of  his  own  composing,  De 
Ascensione  Domini,  on  that  festivall  day,  publickly  before  the  Pope, 
Gregory  xni.,  the  cardinall,  and  other  prelats  present,  in  the  Pope's 
chapel  in  the  Vatican,  with  great  applause.  He  was  in  great  esteem  att 
Rome  for  his  learning,  being  a  great  humanist  in  prose  and  poecie,  Greek 
and  Latine ;  well  versed  in  the  mathematicks,  and  had  great  skill  in  archi- 
tecture and  herauldrie.' '     It  is  supposed  that  he  was  diverted  from  his 


1  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  History 
of  the  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  63.     Lord  Kingston 


adds  that  if  Seton  had  remained  at  Rome  he 
would  have  been  a  Cardinal. 


ALEXANDER   SETON  635 

original  purpose  by  the  establishment  of  the  Reformed  religion,  and  that 
he  therefore  betook  himself  to  the  study  of  the  civil  and  canon  law,  to 
which  he  diligently  applied  himself. 

On  the  17th  of  April  1561  we  find  a  letter  ratifying  the  gift  of  certain 
pensions  to  the  sons  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  extending  in  all  to 
,£1060  yearly,  of  which  Alexander's  share  amounted  to  ^260,  'to  be  taken 
furth  of  the  readiest  of  the  maills  and  duties  of  the  Abbacy  of  Melrose,  as 
is  more  fully  contained  in  a  previous  gift  by  the  Queen  Regent.' * 

About  four  years  later  (17th  September  1565)  there  is  another  letter 
of  gift,  for  good  services  rendered  by  George,  (seventh)  Lord  Seton,  to 
Alexander  Seytoun,  son  to  the  said  George,  of  the  Priory  of  Pluscardine, 
a  cell  of  the  Abbey  of  Dunfermline,  lying  in  the  diocese  of  Moray.2 

After  a  residence  of  several  years  in  France,  Alexander  Seton  returned 
to  Scotland,  and  was  taken  by  James  vi.  under  his  immediate  favour.  He 
'  made  his  public  lesson  of  the  law  before  the  King,  the  Senators  of  the 
Colledge  of  Justice,  and  advocats  present,  in  the  chapell  royall  of  Holy- 
roodhouse,  in  his  lawer  goun  and  four-nooked  cape,  as  lawers  use  to  pass 
their  tryalls  in  the  universities  abroad,  to  the  great  applause  of  the  King 
and  all  present,  after  which  he  was  received  by  the  Colledge  of  Justice  as 
ane  lawer.'3  He  was  probably  called  to  the  Bar  about  the  year  1577, 
when  he  was  twenty-two  years  of  age. 

On  the  6th  of  February  1576-7  we  come  across  a  curious  entry  in  the 
Great  Seal  Register,  in  the  shape  of  a  grant,  during  life,  by  the  King  to 
James  Douglas,  illegitimate  son  of  James,  Earl  of  Morton,  Regent  of 
Scotland,  of  the  Priory  of  Pluscardine,  with  its  dignities  and  patrimony, 
which  belonged  to  '  Alexander  Seytoun,  alleged  Prior  of  Pluscardyn,  son  of 
George  Lord  Seytoun';  and  the  Lords  of  the  Council,  on  the  16th  of 
January  of  the  same  year,  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  David  Borthwick,  the 
King's  Advocate,  '  decerned  the  said  Alexander  to  have  lost  all  his  benefices, 
because  he  had  not  as  yet  submitted  to  the  discipline  of  the  true  church, 
and  participated  of  the  sacraments  thereof,  nor  had  he  come  to  the  bishop, 
superintendent,  or  commissary  of  the  diocese  or  province  for  adhibiting  his 
assent :  nor  had  he  subscribed  the  articles  of  the  true  and  Christian  religion, 
contained  in  the  Acts  of  Parliament,  and  given  his  oath  for  acknowledging 
the  King,  nor  had  brought  a  testimonial  thereupon ;  neither  had  he 
presented  himself  on  a  Lord's  day  in  time  of  sermon  or  public  prayer  in 
the  church  of  the  said  Priory,  and  read  his  said  testimonial  and  confession, 
and  of  new  taken  the  said  oath  according  to  the  order  of  the  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment.'4 About  four  years  later  (3rd  July  1581)  there  is  a  decreet  of 
reduction  at  the  instance  of  Alexander  Seton,  against  the  aforesaid  James 
Douglas,  and  Crichton,  the  King's  Advocate,  restoring  the  said  Alexander 
to  the   Priory  of  Pluscardine,   and   reducing    Douglas's   pretended  right 


1  Register  of  Privy  Seal,  xxx.  40.  3  Kingston's  Continuation,  p.  65. 

2  Ibid,  xxxiii.  98.  4  Vol.  xxxiv.  No.  451. 


636 


LORD  URQUHART 


thereto;  and  on  the  26th  April  1586  we  find  a  signed  agreement  between 
Seton  and  Douglas.1 

Towards  the  end  of  1582  (28th  October)  there  is  a  confirmation  by  the 

King  of  a  charter  by  Alexander  Seytoun 
as  'Prior  of  Pluscardine,'  to  James  Geddie, 
and  Janet  Davidson,  his  spouse,  of  ten 
acres  of  the  lands  of  Urquhart,  in  the 
county  of  Elgin — James  Seytoun,  'lawful 
brother  of  the  Laird  of  Lathrisk,  appear- 
ing as  a  witness.' 2 

In  1583  the  young  lawyer  accom- 
panied his  father  in  an  embassy  to  King 
Henry  in.  of  France  ;  and  two  years  after- 
wards (27th  January  1585-6)  he  was 
admitted  as  an  Extraordinary  Lord  of 
Session  by  the  style  of  '  Prior  of  Plus- 
cardine.' 

In  1587  the  lands  of  Urquhart  and  Pluscardine  were  erected  into  a 
barony  and  granted  to  Alexander  Seton 3 ;  and  in  the  beginning  of  the 
following  year  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  an  Ordinary  Lord  of 
Session,  under  the  title  of  'Lord  Urquhart'  At  the  same  period  (25th 
April  1587)  we  come  across  a  confirmation  by  the  King  of  a  charter 
granted  by  his  councillor,  Alexander  Seton,  Commendator  of  Pluscardine, 
to  his  brother,  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  Knight  {sive  equiti  aurato),  of  the 
salmon-fishings  of  one  boat  upon  the  water  of  Inverspey,  in  the  regality  of 
Urquhart  and  shire  of  Elgin.4 

From  the  record  of  Seton's  admission  as  a  Lord  of  Session  it  would 
appear  that  the  suspicion  of  his  still  being  a  Roman  Catholic  excited  the 
jealousy  of  the  Court,  and  special  provision  was  made  for  his  communicat- 
ing at  the  sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  '  with  the  rest  of  the  brethren 
of  the  Sessioun,  at  the  prefixt  time,  appointed  be  the  ministers  of  Edin- 
burgh.' 

In  the  course  of  the  year  1588-9  he  appears  to  have  been  absent  from 
the  Court  in  consequence  of  his  having  '  gottin  ane  fall  of  ane  horse,  and 
thairthrow  wes  ewill  hurte.'5 

It  has  been  generally  supposed  that  his  elevation  to  the  peerage  did 
not  take  place  till  1597,  when  he  was  created  Baron  Fyvie ;  but  there 
seems  to  be  good  ground  for  holding  that  '  Urquhart'  was  something  more 
than  a  judicial  title.  Crawfurd,  in  his  Peerage  of  Scotland,  expressly  states 
that  he  was  '  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  a  Lord  of  this  realm '  on  the  3rd 
of  August  1 59 1  ;  and  this  view  appears  to  be  confirmed  by  a  document  in 
the  Record  Office  (vol.  xlviii.,  No.  62)  relative  to  the  nobility  of  Scotland 


1  Richmond  and  Gordon  Writs. 

2  Register  of  Great  Seal,  xxxv.  918. 

3  See  also  Privy  Seal  Register,  lxiii.  146,  28th 
January  1591. 


4  Great  Seal  Register,  xxxvi.  359. 
6  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Hadding- 
ton, i.  79-80. 


PRESIDENT  OF  COURT  OF  SESSION      637 

in  1592,  in  which  he  is  entered  as  'Lord  Urquhart'  under  'Lords  or 
Barons,  created  of  lands  appertaining  to  Busshopricks  and  Abacies.' 

Five  years  after  his  appointment  as  an  ordinary  judge  (22nd  May1 
1 593)>  Lord  Urquhart  was  elected  to  the  President's  chair,  at  the  com- 
paratively early  age  of  thirty-eight.  The  relative  minute  concludes  with 
an  undertaking  upon  his  part  to  '  trewlie  minister  justice  to  all  our 
soverane  lordis  leiges,'  which  we  shall  afterwards  see  was  duly  ful- 
filled. 

After  Seton's  advancement  to  the  office  of  Lord  President,  he  con- 
tinues to  be  entered  in  the  sederunt  as  '  Urquhart,'  but  always  first  in  order, 
except  when  the  Chancellor  happens  to  be  present.  His  last  appearance 
under  that  title  is  in  the  sedertmt  of  8th  December  1597,  after  which  he  is 
entered  as  '  Fyvie  Preses':  while  his  last  appearance  as  President  is  10th 
March  1604.  On  the  5th  of  March  1605 — four  days  after  the  admission 
of  Lord  Balmerino,  his  successor  in  the  office  of  President — he  appears 
first  in  the  sederunt  as  '  Alexander  Erie  of  Dunfermling,  Lord  Fyvie  and 
Urquhart,  Cancellarius.'2 

The  death  of  Chancellor  Maitland  towards  the  end  of  the  year  1595 
was  followed  by  a  period  of  considerable  excitement ;  and  the  embarrass- 
ment of  the  national  finances  induced  the  King  to  dismiss  the  various 
officials  by  whom  they  were  controlled,  and  to  commit  the  management  of 
his  revenues  to  the  Queen's  favourite  councillors.  These  were  President 
Seton  and  three  of  his  colleagues  on  the  bench,  viz.  : — John  Lindsay, 
'  Parson  of  Menmuir ' ;  James  Elphinstone,  afterwards  Lord  Balmerino  ; 
and  Thomas  Hamilton,  afterwards  Earl  of  Haddington,3  of  whom  the  two 
last  ultimately  occupied  the  President's  chair.  Owing  to  the  laborious 
nature  of  their  duties,  it  was  found  necessary  to  associate  four  others  with 
them,  in  the  persons  of  Walter  Stewart,  Prior  of  Blantyre,  Sir  John  Skene, 
Lord  Clerk  Register,  Sir  David  Carnegie  of  Colluthie,  and  Peter  Young, 
Master  Almoner.  They  held  daily  meetings  in  the  Tolbooth,  acting 
without  salary,  and  in  allusion  to  their  number  were  called  the  Octavians. 
Vested  with  almost  unlimited  powers,  by  their  vigorous  and  judicious 
arrangements  they  soon  gave  promise  of  a  thorough  reform  in  all  financial 
abuses ;  and  '  there  was  now  exhibited,  for  the  first  time  in  Scotland,  a 
ministry  selected  upon  principles  approaching  to  those  which  dictate  the 
construction  of  a  British  Cabinet  in  modern  times.'4 

The  commission  to  the  Octavians  by  King  James  vi.  is  dated  at  Holy- 
roodhouse  19th  January  1595,  and  the  relative  oath  is  subscribed  by  the 
Lord  President,  '  Seatoun  Urqrt.'5 


1  His  election  appears  to  have  been  on  the  Fyvie,  when  President  of  the  Court  of  Session. 
22nd,  and  his  admission  on  the  28th,  of  May.  — Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Hadding- 

2  Books  of  Sederunt.  ton,  i.  16. 

3  John   Hamilton,    a   secular  priest    of  the  4   r  y     f  jr;n„  rames  ;  2i7 
Church  of  Rome,  second  son  of  Thomas  Hamil-  '      *        *  •*          ' 

ton  of  Priestfield  and  grandfather  of  the  first  6  Copies    of    'Documents    relating     to    the 

Earl  of  Haddington,  is  said  to  have  taken  refuge  Revenues  of  Scotland,  xvi.  xvii.  Cent.  —British 

in  the  house  in  the  Cowgate  occupied  by  Lord  Museum,  24,275,  ff.  1-5. 


638  BAILERY  OF  DUNFERMLINE 

About  this  period  we  encounter  numerous  entries  in  the  public  records 
relative  to  President  Seton. 

Thus,  on  the  27th  June  and  2nd  July  1592,  he  obtains  two  royal 
letters  of  gift  of  the  escheat  of  Mr.  James  Dundas,  '  chantour  of  Murray,' 
and  of  William  Dunbar  of  Hempriggs,  in  consequence  of  their  having  been 
put  to  the  horn  for  failure  to  make  certain  payments.'1 

Two  years  later  (1st  June  1594)  James  vi.  grants  a  charter  to  Lord 
Urquhart  and  his  heirs-male  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Easter  and  Wester 
Barns,  in  the  Constabulary  of  Haddington  and  shire  of  Edinburgh,  which 
had  come  into  the  King's  hands  owing  to  their  alienation  by  the  late 
George,  Lord  Seton,  without  the  royal  licence.2 

On  the  2nd  of  September  1595  we  find  a  confirmation  by  the  King  of 
a  charter  by  President  Seton,  whereby,  with  consent  of  '  Lady  Lilias 
Drummond,  his  spouse,'  he  sold  to  Kenneth  Mackenzie  of  Kintail,  for  the 
sum  of  ^40,000,  the  manor  of  Pluscardine,  etc.,  reserving  the  privilege  of 
holding  courts  upon  the  hill  at  the  Mill  of  Elgin,  called  the  Courthill  of 
Pluscardine.3  He  also  retained  the  lordship  of  Urquhart  and  the  mansion- 
house  in  Elgin,  where  he  appears  to  have  frequently  resided.  That 
mansion  probably  received  the  name  of  'Dunfermline  House'  from  the 
circumstance  of  the  Priories  of  Urquhart  and  Pluscardine  being  dependent 
upon  the  great  Fifeshire  Abbey.4  It  seems  to  be  pretty  clearly  established 
that  Alexander  Seton  held  the  office  of  Provost  of  Elgin  about  the  year 
1 59 1,  and  also  in  or  about  1606.5 

On  the  15th  of  February  1596  he  obtained  a  charter  from  Queen  Anne, 
as  '  Lady  of  Dunfermline,'  of  the  office  of  heritable  bailie 
and  justiciary  of  the  regality  of  Dunfermline ;  and  fifteen 
years  afterwards  (3rd  April  161 1)  he  received  another 
charter  from  the  Queen,  embracing,  among  other  subjects, 
the  heritable  offices  of  bailery  and  justiciary  of  the  lord- 
ship and  regality  of  Dunfermline,  '  on  both  sides  of  the 
river  and  water  of  Forth.'  Besides  the  office  of  bailie 
of  the  regality  there  was  also  that  of  Constable,  or  Keeper 
of  the  Palace,  which  was  first  conferred  on  Seton,  when  Lord  Urquhart, 
in  1 596,  and  confirmed  to  him  and  his  heirs  for  ever  by  Act  of  Parliament 
in  1606,  after  he  had  become  Earl  of  Dunfermline, 

In  the  summer  of  1596  the  King  grants  to  '  Lady  Isabella  Hamiltoun, 


1  Privy  Seal  Register,  lxiv.  41,  and  Ixix.  49.  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  his  Countess,  Jean, 

2  Great  Seal  Register,  xl.  19.  sister  of  George,  first  Duke  of  Gordon. 

3  Ibid.  xli.  53.  Another    old    stone    at    Elgin    bears    three 

4  A  detailed  account  of  the  edifice  will  be  curiously  shaped  escutcheons  charged  with  the 
found  in  Chalmers's  History  of  Dunfermline,  arms  of  Seton,  Dunbar,  and  Falconer.  The 
ii.  404  and  432.  A  shield  of  arms,  surmounted  first  exhibits  Seton  and  Buchan  quarterly, 
by  a  coronet  and  accompanied  by  the  date  between  the  letters  'A.  S.'  (the  initials  of 
'  1688,'  and  the  initials  '  I.  E.  D.J  and  '  I.  C.  D.,'  Chancellor  Seton),  and  surmounted  by  the 
was  formerly  over  a  door  in  the  north  court  of  words  :  'IESVS  renve  a  right  spirit  within 
the   building,   the   initials   being   those   of  the  O  GOD.' 

Chancellor's  grandson,  James,  fourth  and  last  5  Young's  Annals  of  Elgin. 


CREATED   LORD   FYVIE  639 

Lady  Setoun,'  in  liferent,  and  to  Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  President  of 
the  College  of  Justice,  and  Lady  Lilias  Drummond  his  spouse,  in  conjunct 
fee,  and  to  the  heirs-male  of  their  marriage,  whom  failing,  to  the  heirs-male 
and  assignees  of  the  said  Alexander,  the  lands  and  barony  of  Fyvie,  alias 
Foirmartene,  with  fortalice,  manor-place,  wood,  parks,  etc.,  in  the  parish  of 
Fyvie  and  shire  of  Aberdeen ;  and  on  account  of  the  eminent  services 
rendered  by  the  said  Lord  Urquhart  for  many  years  past  in  the  Privy 
Council,  Session,  and  Exchequer,  and  in  other  public  affairs,  as  well  within 
as  without  the  kingdom,  the  King  of  new  grants  the  said  lands  to  him  and 
his  aforesaids,  erecting  the  same  into  the  free  barony  of  Foirmartene,  of 
which  seizin  is  to  be  taken  at  the  Castle  of  Fyvie,  rendering  therefor  yearly 
one  penny  of  silver  in  name  of  free  blench.1 

Again,  on  the  4th  of  March  1597-8,  narrating  the  preceding  grant, 
the  King,  calling  to  mind  the  honourable  service  of  the  said  Alexander, 
and  the  many  good  qualities  wherewith  he  is  endued,  respecting  also  his 
descent  from  the  ancient  House  of  Lord  Seton,  and  weighing  what  a 
number  of  the  Lords  of  Parliament  had  decreed,  erects  the  aforesaid 
barony  into  a  free  lordship  of  Parliament,  giving  to  the  said  Alexander 
and  his  heirs-male  (as  in  the  former  charter)  the  title  and  honour  of  a  Lord 
of  Parliament,  vote  and  suffrage  in  Parliaments,  etc.,  and  providing  that 
he  should  be  'decorated  with  an  addition  of  insignia  and  arms  to  the 
proper  arms  of  his  House,  for  the  memory  of  the  said  Lordship ' ;  and  that 
the  said  Alexander  and  his  heirs  should  be  called  Lords  Fyvie.2 

During  the  year  1596  there  were  several  squabbles  between  the 
Octavians  and  the  Commissioners  of  the  Kirk  relative  to  the  high-handed 
conduct  of  David  Black,  one  of  the  ministers  of  St.  Andrews,  and  the 
position  of  the  Earl  of  Huntly.  The  bitter  animosity  entertained  in  certain 
quarters  towards  Seton  and  some  of  his  colleagues  is  indicated  by  Calder- 
wood  in  his  account  of  a  missive  sent  to  the  King  in  January  1597  by  John 
Rutherford,  minister  of  Kilconquhar — 'a  brawler  and  boster,  to  the  grit 
sclander  of  his  professioun ' — in  which  the  writer  describes  the  '  Romanist 
President'  as  'a  shaveling  and  a  priest,  more  meet  to  say  masse  in 
Salamanca  nor  to  beare  office  in  Christian  and  Reformed  Common- 
wealls.' 

Little  more  than  a  year  after  the  arrival  of  the  Kilconquhar  fulmina- 
tion,  Seton  gave  a  spirited  proof  of  his  independence  as  a  judge  by  vindicat- 
ing the  rights  of  Mr.  Robert  Bruce,  a  celebrated  minister  of  the  Kirk,  in 
opposition  to  the  wishes  of  his  royal  master.  Having  been  deprived  of  his 
stipend  by  the  King,  Bruce  sued  the  Crown  in  the  Court  of  Session,  and 
obtained  a  decision  in  his  favour.  The  disappointed  monarch  appealed  to 
the  Court  in  person,  pleaded  his  own  cause,  and  commanded  the  senators 
to  pronounce  judgment  against  Bruce.  The  scene  is  graphically  described 
by  Tytler  in  his  History  of  Scotland?     '  The   President  Seton,'  he  says, 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  xli.  93.  -  Ibid.  250.  3  Vol.  ix.  p.  290. 


640    SETON'S   INDEPENDENT  CHARACTER 

'  then  rose  :  "  My  liege,"  said  he,  "  it  is  my  part  to  speak  first  in  this  Court, 
of  which  your  Highness  has  made  me  head.  You  are  our  King;  we  your 
subjects,  bound  and  ready  to  obey  you  from  the  heart,  and,  with  all  devo- 
tion, to  serve  you  with  our  lives  and  substance  ;  but  this  is  a  matter  of  law, 
in  which  we  are  sworn  to  do  justice  according  to  our  conscience  and  the 
Statutes  of  the  realm.  Your  Majesty  may,  indeed,  command  us  to  the 
contrary ;  in  which  case  I  and  every  honest  man  on  this  bench  will  either 
vote  according  to  conscience,  or  resign  and  not  vote  at  all."  Another  of 
the  judges,  Lord  Newbattle,  then  rose  and  observed  "that  it  had  been 
spoken  in  the  city,  to  his  Majesty's  great  slander,  and  theirs,  who  were  his 
judges,  that  they  dared  not  do  justice  to  all  classes,  but  were  compelled  to 
vote  as  the  King  commanded — a  foul  imputation,  to  which  the  lie  that  day 
should  be  given  ;  for  they  would  now  deliver  a  unanimous  opinion  against 
the  Crown."  For  this  brave  and  dignified  conduct  James  was  unprepared, 
and  he  proceeded  to  reason  long  and  earnestly  with  the  recusants ;  but 
persuasions,  arguments,  taunts,  and  threats  were  unavailing.  The  judges, 
with  only  two  dissentient  votes,  pronounced  their  decision  in  favour  of  Mr. 
Robert  Bruce ;  and  the  mortified  monarch  flung  out  of  Court,  as  a  letter 
of  the  day  informs  us,  muttering  revenge  and  raging  marvellously.'1 

As  the  historian  justly  observes :  '  When  the  subservient  temper  of  the 
times  is  considered,  and  we  remember  that  Seton,  the  President,  was  a 
Roman  Catholic,  whilst  Bruce,  in  whose  favour  he  and  his  brethren 
decided,  was  a  chief  leader  of  the  Presbyterian  ministers,  it  would  be  unjust 
to  withhold  our  admiration  from  a  judge  and  a  Court  which  had  the  courage 
thus  fearlessly  to  assert  the  supremacy  of  the  law.' 

A  curious  little  volume  by  Robert  Pont,2  an  aged  pastor  of  the  Kirk  of 
Scotland,  entitled  A  Newe  Treatise  of  the  right  reckoning  of  Yeares  and 
Ages  of  the  World,  and  published  at  Edinburgh  in  1599,  contains  a  highly 
laudatory  dedication  to  President  Seton,  as  one  of  the  '  rare  Maecenases  of 
this  land.'  The  allusion  to  Seton's  familiarity  with  the  manners  of  Rome, 
and  the  learned  author's  pointed  statement  as  to  his  disapproval  of  her 
'pompose  superstition,'  may  be  regarded  as  at  least  a  qualification  of  the 
allegations  of  other  more  prejudiced  writers  respecting  the  President's 
Popish  tendencies. 

In  the  course  of  the  following  summer  (1600)  President  Seton  fur- 
nished a  second  illustration  of  his  independent  character.  The  thoughts 
of  the  Scottish  monarch  had  for  some  time  been  engrossed  by  the  idea  of 
raising  a  formidable  force,  with  the  view  of  maintaining  his  prospective  title 
to  the  English  Crown  ;  and  at  the  Convention  of  the  Estates  the  King 
delivered  an  elaborate  harangue  on  the  subject.  In  reply  to  his  assertion  that 
it  was  indispensable  for  him  to  have  an  army  in  readiness,  Seton  strongly 
argued  against  the  folly  of  the  proposal ;  and,  backed  by  the  youthful 
Earl  of  Gowrie,  the  opinions  of  the  opposition  ultimately  prevailed. 


1  MS.  letter  in  the  Record  Office,  Nicolson  to  2  Father  of  Timothy  Pont,  minister  of  Dunnet, 

Cecil,  16th  March  1598-9.  and  the  first  projector  of  a  Survey  of  Scotland. 


DUKE   OF  YORK  AT   LEICESTER  641 

In  the  first  edition  of  Sir  Robert  Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland,  it  is 
stated  that  'upon  the  birth  of  Prince  Henry  in  1593,  President  Seton  was 
intrusted  with  his  tuition  till  he  went  to  England,  anno  1603.'  The  Prince 
is  usually  represented  to  have  been  committed  to  the  care  of  the  Earl  of 
Mar,  while  Seton  undoubtedly  had  the  charge  of  his  younger  brother, 
afterwards  Charles  1. 

After  the  King  took  up  his  abode  in  the  English  metropolis,  Lord 
Fyvie's  communications  became  very  frequent,  and  almost  invariably  refer 
to  matters  of  interest  and  importance.  Probably  one  of  the  earliest  of 
these  is  the  letter  which  he  addressed  from  Edinburgh  to  Sir  Robert  Cecil, 
'  Principall  Secretair  to  his  Matie  in  the  estate  of  Ingland,'  on  the  5th  of 
April  1603 — the  very  day  on  which  the  King  left  Edinburgh,  and  twelve 
days  after  the  death  of  Queen  Elizabeth.1 

Early  in  1604  Seton  was  appointed  Vice-Chancellor,  and  also  a  Com- 
missioner for  the  incorporate  Union  then  projected  between  England  and 
Scotland  ;  and  in  August  of  the  same  year  he  spent  a  couple  of  nights  at 
Leicester,  on  his  way  to  London,  with  his  juvenile  charge,  then  known  as 
the  Duke  of  York.  As  the  required  sleeping  accommodation  amounted  to 
twelve  beds,  and  the  beer  to  seven  hogsheads,  the  young  Prince  must  have 
been  attended  by  a  considerable  retinue.  From  the  records  of  the  Corpora- 
tion of  Leicester  we  gather  several  curious  particulars  of  the  royal  visit  ; 
and  it  is  humiliating  to  acknowledge  that,  in  return  for  the  hospitality 
experienced  by  them,  some  of  the  '  banquetting  dishes '  were  broken,  and 
some  '  pewter  and  linen '  carried  away  by  certain  unworthy  followers  of  the 
infant  Prince,  who  had  not  quite  completed  his  fourth  year. 

In  his  Continuation  of  the  History  of  the  House  of  Seytoun,  Lord 
Kingston  states  that,  on  the  departure  of  the  King  and  Queen  to  England, 
in  1 603,  they  committed  the  custody  of  Prince  Charles  to  President  Seton 
— adding  that  '  he  keeped  him  in  his  house  three  years,  and  carried  him 
into  England  himselfe,  by  land,  to  the  King  and  Queen's  Majesties,  well 
and  in  health  ;  for  which  faithfull  service  the  King's  Majestie  was  thankfull 
to  him.'  From  a  minute  by  Cecil,  dated  12th  May  1605  (to  be  afterwards 
referred  to),  it  would  appear  that  Lord  Kingston's  statement  as  to  the 
period  during  which  the  Prince  was  under  the  President's  care  cannot  be 
correct.  Possibly  he  may  have  been  intrusted  to  Seton's  custody,  when  a 
mere  infant,  in  1601  ;  in  which  case  the  journey  of  1604  was  probably 
the  occasion  on  which  the  President  surrendered  his  royal  charge.2 

Shortly  after  Seton's  appointment  to  the  office  of  President,  several 
important  Acts  of  Sederunt  were  passed  relative  to  the  '  presentation  and 
admission  '  of  the  Ordinary  Lords  of  Session  and  other  judicial  matters. 
Under  the  date  of  nth  June  1594  an  interesting  Latin  entry  appears  in 


1  This  and  other  letters,  from   the  valuable  Charles's  health, 

collection  of  mss.  at  Hatfield  and  other  sources,  2  See  Memoirs  of  Robert  Carey,  Earl  of  Mon- 

have  already  been   printed  in   my  Memoir  of  mouth,  published  in  1759,  of  which  a  subsequent 

Chancellor    Seton.      Some    of    them    contain  edition  appeared  in  1808,  under  the  editorship 

special  reference  to  the  state  of  the  young  Prince  of  Sir  Walter  Scott. 

4  M 


642 


SETON   APPOINTED   CHANCELLOR 


the  record  respecting  the  ancient  alliance  between  France  and  Scotland  ; 1 
and  about  ten  years  later  (nth  January  1604),  we  find  a  series  of  elaborate 
directions  from  the  King  regarding  the  despatch  1  of  business  in  the  Court 
of  Session,  which  were  doubtless  inspired  by  an  appeal  made  by  the  Presi- 
dent a  few  months  previously. 

In  the  list  of  Commissioners  for  the  proposed  Union,  on  the  part  of 
Scotland,  we  find  the  names  of  '  Alexander,  Lord  Fivie,  President  of  the 
Counsell  of  Scotland,'  and  '  Sir  Thomas  Craig  of  Wrichtisland,  Knight, 
Lawyer,'  of  whom  the  former  was  selected,  along  with  Lord  Cranborne 
(Robert  Cecil),  to  prepare  a  preface  for  the  instrument  of  Union,  the  body 
of  which  was  to  be  put  into  shape  by  Bacon  and  Sir  Thomas  Hamilton, 
the  Lord  Advocate.2 

During  the  year  1603,  Lord  Fyvie  appears  to  have  been  very  much 
engaged  in  connection  with  the  negotiations  relative  to  the  custody  of 
Prince  Henry  by  the  Earl  of  Mar.  '  Lord  Fyvie  went  to  Stirling  to  see 
the  Queen  and  represent  to  her  the  King's  wishes,  but  he  found  her  not  in 
a  condition  to  listen  to  reasonable  counsels.' 3 

In  October  1604  the  Earl  of  Montrose,  Lord  Fyvie,  and  the  other 
Scottish  Commissioners,  proceeded  to  England,  and  there  conferred  upon 
sundry  matters  which  concerned  the  Union.  In  order  that  this  favourite 
measure  of  King  James  might  secure  the  full  benefit  of  Seton's  legal  know- 
ledge and  political  sagacity,  Montrose  (Thirlstane's  successor)  was 
persuaded  to  resign  the  Office  of  Chancellor,  which  was  bestowed  upon 
Seton.  In  alluding  to  the  appointment,  Crawfurd  states  that  Lord  Fyvie 
'  was  fully  able,  by  his  wisdom  and  learning,  to  support  the  honour  and 
dignity  of  Scotland,  in  relation  to  the  treaty  of  Union,  especially  in 
matters  of  law,  which  no  man  better  understood,  or  could  more  solidly 
apply.'4 

Lord  Fyvie  appears  to  have  remained  about  five  months  in  the  south, 
and  his  return  to  Scotland  is  thus  chronicled  by  Calderwood :  '  The  last  of 
Februar  (1605),  the  chanceller,  who  before  was  president,  came  to  Edin- 
burgh out  of  England,  convoyed  with  manie  people  of  all  rankes.  No 
subject  was  seen  before  to  come  accompanied  to  Edinburgh  after  the 
maner.'  A  few  weeks  before  leaving  London  (9th  January  1605),  Lord 
Fyvie  indited  a  short  epistle  to  Cecil,  in  which  he  speaks  of  the  '  particular 
favour  quhilk  it  has  pleasit  his  gracious  Matie  to  bestow  on  me,  mair  be  yr 
Lo.  favorabill  procurements,   nor  onye  desert  or  sute  off  my  awin ' — an 


1  A  Scoto-Franco  Society  has  lately  been 
formed  in  Paris,  having  for  its  object  the  preser- 
vation and  illustration  of  the  leading  incidents 
in  the  alliance  between  the  two  countries. 

2  Spedding's  Letters  and  Life  of  Francis 
Bacon,  iv.  43. 

In  the  same  work  (iii.  98),  in  his  Discourse  on 
the  Union  of  Kingdoms,  Bacon  refers  to  two 
conditions  of  perfect  mixture,  'whereof  the 
former  is  Time  :    for  the  natural   philosophers 


say  well  that  co??ipositio  is  opus  hominis,  and 
mistio,  opus  natures? 

3  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Had- 
dington, i.  84. 

4  Officers  of  State,  p.  156. 

Seton's  appointment  to  the  Chancellorship 
seems  to  have  been  contemplated  as  early  as 
1596.  See  Spottis  wood's  History  of  the  Church 
of  Scotland,  p.  413. 


FATHER  JAMES   SETON 


643 


obvious  allusion  to  his  promotion  to  the  office  of  Chancellor.  On  the  4th 
of  March  1605  Lord  Fyvie  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  of  Dun- 
fermline— the  destination  being  to  himself  and  his  heirs-male — while  at 
the  same  time  Lords  Home  and  Drummond  were  respectively  promoted 
to  the  earldoms  of  Home  and  Perth. 


Among  the  Hatfield  papers  is  an  interesting  document,  consisting  of 
a  draft  in  Cecil's  handwriting,  and  indorsed  '1605,  May  12.  Mynute  to 
the  Lord  Fivye,'  in  which  the  'goodwill  and  frendshipp'  which  prevailed 
between  the  two  statesmen  is  clearly  indicated.1 

In  the  summer  of  1605  certain  ministers  were  'warded'  in  Blackness 
Castle,  and  Calderwood  informs  us  that '  within  two  days  after  the  brethren 
were  imprisoned,  the  "pest"  breaketh  out  in  Edinburgh,  Leith,  and  St. 
Andrews,'  and  the  historian  adds,  doubtless  as  a  special  instance  of  divine 
retribution,  that  '  the  chanceller's  hous  was  infected ;  his  eldest  sonne  and 
his  brother's  daughter,  a  young  damosel,  died.  A  byle  brake  furth  on  his 
owne  daughter.  He  was  forced  to  dissolve  his  familie.  He  was  beaten 
by  the  curse  pronounced  by  Joshua  upon  the  builders  of  Jericho' ! 

On  the  30th  of  September  1605  Father  James  Seton  writes  as  follows 
to  Father  C.  Aquaviva,  General  of  the  Society  of  Jesus:  'The  government 
is  entirely  in  the  hands  of  Lord  Alexander  Seton,  whom  the  King  has 
made  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  who  is  favourably  known  to  your  paternity. 
He  is,  or  should  be,  Abbot  of  that  place,  where  there  was  once  a  famous 
monastery.  He  was  formerly  President  of  the  Council,  and  is  now 
Chancellor  of  the  kingdom.     The  Viceroy  is  the  Earl  of  Montrose,  the 


1  See  Memoir  of  Chancellor  Seton,  p.  68. 


644    THE   CHANCELLOR'S   CORRESPONDENCE 

President  of  the  Council  the  Lord  James  Elphinstone,  brother  of  Father 
George;  but  they  are  all  directed  by  Lord  Alexander  Seton.  He  is  a 
Catholic,  as  is  also  the  Lord  President  and  the  Royal  Advocate.  In 
political  wisdom,  in  learning,  in  high  birth,  wealth  and  authority,  he 
possesses  far  more  influence  than  the  rest,  and  his  power  is  universally 
acknowledged.  But  he  publicly  professes  the  State  religion,  rendering 
external  obedience  to  the  King  and  the  ministers,  and  goes  occasionally, 
though  rarely,  to  the  sermons,  sometimes  to  their  heretical  communion. 
He  has  also  subscribed  their  Confession  of  faith,  without  which  he  would 
not  be  able  to  retain  peaceable  possession  of  the  rank,  office,  and  estates, 
with  which  he  is  so  richly  endowed.  He  has  brought  all  the  principal  men 
of  the  kingdom  round  to  the  same  view,  and  very  few  venture  to  differ 
from  him,  owing  to  his  eloquence,  learning,  and  authority.  Two  or  three 
times  a  year  he  comes  to  Catholic  confession,  and  communicates  with  his 
mother,  brother,  sister,  and  nephews,  who  are  better  Catholics  than 
himself.' x 

Several  curious  letters  from  Seton,  about  this  period,  turn  up  in  the 
Harleian  Collection  of  mss.  in  the  British  Museum.  Thus,  on  the  nth  of 
September  1604,  he  writes  to  '  Mr  Harry  Savele,  Escuyer,'  relative  to  a 
theological  work  translated  by  '  Seigneur  de  Montaigne,'  in  which  he  refers 
to  the  'barbarous  Latine  ye  booke  was  first  written  in.'3 

Three  years  later  (8th  April  1607),  in  writing  to  '  Mr  Adame  Newtoun, 
Edinburgh,  Deane  of  Duresme  (Durham)  and  preceptor  to  the  Prince 
his  Grace,'  he  refers  to  his  recommendation  of  '  ane  freind  of  myne  callit 
George  Setoun.'3  The  seal  on  the  letter  bears  the  Chancellor's  favourite 
device  of  a  cinquefoil  within  a  crescent,  surmounted  by  a 
coronet. 

The  year  following  (13th  July  1608)  he  communi- 
cates  with    Lord    Salisbury,    Lord    High    Treasurer   of 
England,  relative  to  troops  (200  men)  sent  to  Ireland, 
with  the  account  of  the  expenses.4 
X^     ,<>>  On  ^e  25th  of  May  1606  the  Chancellor  indites  a 

long  and  indignant  letter5  to  his  '  maist  sacred  Soverane,' 
with  reference  to  certain  aspersions  that  had  been  cast  upon  him  by  a 
certain  '  Maister  Jhone  Forbes,'  in  which  the  courtier  and  the  scholar  are 
both  admirably  represented,  and  he  confidently  leaves  it  to  the  King  to 
determine  whether  'a  condemned  traitour'  or  his  Majesty's  Chancellor  is 
'  maist  worthie  of  credeit ' ! 

In  the  course  of  the  two  following  years  (1607-8)  a  good  many  letters 
appear  to  have  been  addressed  to  the  King  by  Lord  Dunfermline  relative 
to  the  disorderly  condition  of  the  district  of  Athole,  the  feud  between  the 
Earls  of  Eglinton  and  Glencairn,  and  the  Gowrie  Conspiracy. 


1  Narratives    of   Scottish    Catholics    (1885),  3  Harl.  MSS.  7004,  f.  33. 
p.  278.                                                                                        «  32,476,  ff.  9- 1 1. 

2  Harl.  MSS.  7002,  f.  37.  6  See  Memoir  of  Chancellor  Seton,  p.  74. 


LORD   PROVOST  OF   EDINBURGH  645 

In  addition  to  his  judicial  and  other  appointments,  like  his  chivalric 
father,  Seton  filled  the  office  of  Provost  of  Edinburgh,  for  the  long  period 
of  ten  years,  having  been  originally  elected  in  1598.  From  numerous 
entries  in  the  accounts  of  the  '  Thesaurer '  to  the  burgh  during  the  period 
in  question,  it  would  appear  that  the  chief  magistrate  of  the  metropolis 
was  liberally  supplied  by  the  Council  with  the  wine  of  the  sunny  South ; 
and  that,  in  other  respects,  due  honour  was  done  to  him.1 

Thus  : — 'Item,  the  23  of  Marche  1598,  payit  to  Andro  Purves,  for  ane 
pece  (cask)  of  Spanes  wyne,  ane  hundreth  threttie  thrie  poundis  sex 
schillingis  aucht  penneis  ;  and  to  David  Aikenheid  the  sowme  of  tua 
hundreth  twentie  aucht  poundis  money,  for  ane  tun  off  Burdeux  wyne, 
quhilk  was  delyverit  to  my  Lord  Proveist  at  the  Counsellis  command 
conforme  to  a  precept,  extending  in  the  haill  to    .         .         iijclxju  vjs  viijd.' 

Under  1 600-1  we  find: — 'Item,  the  xxij  day  of  December,  payit  for 
twelf  torches  to  convoy  the  Provest  the  nicht  of  the  baptisme  [the 
christening  of  Prince  Charles]      .......         iiiju.' 

Again,  under  1604-5  : — 'Item,  the  6  of  Merch,  payit  to  the  trumpeters 
quha  raid  with  the  Guid  Toun  to  the  meitting  of  my  Lord  Prouest  .  iiju.' 2 

Towards  the  end  of  the  year  1608  the  Chancellor  reports  to  the  King 
all  the  painful  circumstances  of  the  well-known  '  Auchindrane  Tragedy ' ; 
and  about  a  year  later  he  gives  some  curious  details  of  the  successful  steps 
adopted  by  the  Earl  of  Dunbar  to  bring  the  Borders  into  a  state  of 
tranquillity  and  subjection. 

We  have  already  seen  that  both  the  father  and  grandfather  of  Lord 
Dunfermline  were  addicted  to  sport,  and  an  interesting  illustration  of  the 
Chancellor's  patronage  of  the  '  Turf  crops  up  in  the  records  of  the  Burgh 
of  Dunfermline.  In  a  minute,  dated  19th  April  16 10,  reference  is  made 
to  the  '  Sylver  Race  Bell,  double  overgilt,'  pertaining  to  '  ane  noble  lord 
Alexander  Erie  of  Dunfnlyne,  lord  Fyvie  and  Urqhat,  heich  chancelure  of 
Scotland,'  which  had  been  won  by  the  '  blak  hors '  of  David  Boswell  of 
Craigincat,  brother  of  Sir  John  Boswell  of  Balmuto.  The  course  was  on 
the  Stirling  road,  immediately  to  the  west  of  the  town  of  Dunfermline,  and 
must  have  been  upwards  of  two  miles  long. 

In  the  course  of  the  year  161 1  several  letters  were  addressed  by  the 
Scottish  Chancellor  to  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  which  include  references  to 
the  King's  resolution  to  establish  consuls  in  Spain ;  to  the  unexpected 
decease  of  the  Earl  of  Dunbar,  implying  that  '  the  burden  of  Scotch  affairs 
will  now  weigh  heavily  on  himself ' ;  to  the  escape  and  re-capture  of  Lady 
Arabella  (Stuart  ?) ;  and  to  the  continuance  to  his  son  of  the  pension  of 
1 2d.  per  diem,  enjoyed  by  Aristotle  Knowsley,  long  schoolmaster  at 
Berwick. 

In  an  undated  letter  to  the  King  written  prior  to  January  1611,  Sir 
Robert  Melville  (afterwards  Lord  Melville  of  Monymail)  speaks  in  very 


SeeMe?noir of 'Chancellor  Seton,pp.Z6etseq.        Records  during  the  Provostship  of  Alexander 
Some  extracts  from  the  Edinburgh  Council         Seton  will  be  given  in  a  subsequent  Appendix. 


646  DEATH   OF  PRINCE   HENRY 

high  terms  of  the  Chancellor,  whom  he  describes  as  '  ane  gret  staitsman,' 
and  as  having,  'nixt  your  Maiesties  awin  pairt,  the  prais  of  the  blissit  and 
happie  conditioun  quhairin  the  cuntrye  standis,  quhilk,  be  your  Maiesties 
absence,  was  thocht  to  haif  beine  hard  to  pacific ' 

On  the  6th  of  April  161 1  Lord  Dunfermline  was  appointed  Keeper  of 
the  Palace  of  Holyroodhouse,  during  life,  in  succession  to  George,  Earl 
of  Dunbar.1 

Ten  days  later  (16th  April)  we  find  a  charter  by  the  King  conveying 
to  the  Chancellor  the  lands  of  Urquhart,  Fyvie,  Dalgety,  and  others,  and 
regranting  the  title  and  dignity  of  Earl  of  Dunfermline  to  himself  and 
the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  whom  failing,  to  Sir  William  Seton  of  Kyles- 
mure,  Knight,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  whom  failing,  to  the  grantee, 
and  his  heirs-male  whatsoever,  bearing  the  surname  and  arms  of  Seton.2 

In  the  spring  of  161 2  a  small  Popish  scandal  turns  up  in  the  Minutes 
of  the  Synod  of  Fife,  in  which  Mr.  Andrew  Forrester,  minister  at  Dun- 
fermline, was  indirectly  implicated.  It  appears  that  the  Chancellor  had 
given  great  offence  to  '  the  haill  country  '  by  having  had  a  crucifix  '  payntit 
vpon  his  dask '  in  the  church  of  Dunfermline  ;  but  a  few  months  afterwards 
the  matter  appears  to  have  been  amicably  settled.  Writing  to  the  King 
in  the  course  of  the  same  year,  George  Gladstanes,  Archbishop  of  St. 
Andrews,  expresses  considerable  animus  against  Lord  Dunfermline,  who, 
it  is  well  known,  was  no  favourite  with  the  clergy.3 

In  a  document  dated  'at  the  Palace  of  Theobalds,  20  September 
161 2/  the  King  appoints  Chancellor  Seton  his  Commissioner  vicegerent 
in  the  Parliament  to  be  holden  in  Edinburgh  on  the  12th  of  October,  with 
power  to  represent  his  person,  and  to  do  other  things  towards  the  perfecting 
of  the  said  Parliament,  as  lawfully  as  Ludovick,  Duke  of  Lennox,  and  the 
other  previous  commissioners.4 

The  death  of  Prince  Henry,  the  King's  eldest  son,  occurred  in  London 
on  the  2nd  of  November;  and,  being  a  youth  of  the  highest  promise,  the 
event  was  regarded  as  a  public  calamity.  According  to  Calderwood,  the 
Chancellor,  the  Bishop  of  Glasgow,  and  a  few  others,  were  'sent  by 
the  Councell  to  condole.  But  before  they  came  to  Newcastle,  they  were 
commandit  to  returne,  by  a  letter  sent  from  the  King ;  wherat  manie 
wondered.'  About  the  same  period  the  Chancellor  had  an  endless  amount 
of  trouble  in  connection  with  the  succession  of  his  nephew,  Alexander,  to 
the  Earldom  of  Eglinton,  to  which  reference  will  afterwards  be  made  in 
the  notice  of  that  branch  of  the  family. 

On  the  1  st  of  June  161 3  the  King  confirms  a  charter  to  Lord  Dun- 
fermline by  Alexander  Hay  of  Forresterseat,  one  of  the  Senators  of  the 
College  of  Justice,  of  the  manse,  garden,  and  dovecot  of  the  vicarage  of 
Elgin,  within  the  Cathedral  College  thereof.5 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  Paper  Register,  i.  127.         ton,  i.  115. 

2  Ibid.  xlvi.  374.  4  Great  Seal  Register,  xlvii.  39. 

3  Eraser's  Memorials  of the  Earls  of  Hadding-  5  Ibid.  163. 


ROYAL  VISIT  TO   SCOTLAND  647 

There  is  a  similar  confirmation  of  a  charter  granted  on  the  2nd  of  July 
of  the  same  year  to  the  Chancellor  by  John,  son  and  apparent  heir  of 
Mark  Swinton,  Provost  of  Inverkeithing,  of  the  'place,  tenement,  or 
hospice  of  Inverkeithing' ;  and  on  the  17th  of  November  following  there 
is  a  charter  to  him  of  the  teind  sheaves  of  the  lands  and  mains  of  Fyvie 
and  others,  on  the  resignation  of  James,  Marquis  of  Hamilton.1 

In  the  course  of  the  year  16 14  the  Chancellor  appears  to  have  been 
somewhat  unpleasantly  mixed  up  with  the  proceedings  connected  with  the 
rebellion  of  the  Clandonald  of  Isla2 ;  and  about  the  same  period  he  had  a 
pretty  brisk  correspondence  with  John  Murray,  '  of  his  sacred  Majesties 
bedchalmer,'  afterwards  Earl  of  Annandale.  On  the  24th  of  November 
he  states  obstacles  of  a  very  homely  kind  to  his  making  the  journey  to 
London,  to  wit,  the  immediate  prospect  of  his  bedfellow  (his  third  wife) 
being  confined,  and  the  approach  of  '  the  dead  off  the  yeir,  maist  difficill 
and  hard  to  onye  man  to  trauell,  and  I  am  now  na  chikkin,  drawing  to 
threescore,  was  nieuer  werye  ruide  nor  strong,  albeit  nather  too  delicat  nor 
sparing  off  my  self.' 

In  1 61 5  the  newly  appointed  Archbishops  of  St.  Andrews  and  Glasgow, 
John  Spottiswood  and  James  Law,  took  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and  did 
homage  for  their  Archbishoprics,  kneeling  before  Lord  Chancellor 
Dunfermline,  who  sat  under  a  velvet  canopy  in  the  chapel-royal  of  Holy- 
rood,  and  acted  as  Commissioner  for  the  King.3 

On  the  nth  of  February  16 16,  Lord  Dunfermline,  in  writing  to 
Thomas,  Lord  Binning,  relative  to  the  King's  visit  to  Scotland,  makes  a 
quaint  allusion  to  two  interviews  with  the  Queen ;  and  a  few  days  after- 
wards (18th  February),  in  another  letter  to  the  same  correspondent,  he 
refers  to  his  sister's  death  and  the  misrule  of  the  Laird  of  Gight.  With 
reference  to  the  former  he  writes  :  '  I  can  nocht  bot  be  sorie  of  my  sister's 
deathe,  yett  as  I  remember  the  onpleasand  lyffe  shea  hes  had  thir  monye 
yeares,  butt  {without)  appearance  of  recowerie,  and  hir  continuall  wisches 
to  be  fred  be  Goddis  will  of  that  miserie,  be  passage  to  a  better  lyffe  ; 
considering  also  what  good  childring  shea  leiffis  behind  hir,  I  digest  it  the 
better.'4 

A  few  weeks  later  (15th  April),  at  the  instigation  of  Hew  Mont- 
gomerie,  the  Chancellor  writes,  from  Newmarket,  to  Sir  Julius  Caesar, 
Master  of  the  Rolls,  relative  to  an  unfounded  charge  by  a  certain  Wilke- 
soun,  against  Sir  James  Hamilton,5  and  towards  the  end  of  the  following 
year  (17th  October  1617)  he  acknowledges  a  communication  from  Sir 
Julius  (delivered  to  Seton  by  Sir  Patrick  Murray,  Caesar's  son-in-law,  on 
the  occasion  of  the  King's  visit  to  Scotland),  in  which  he  thanked  the 
Chancellor  for  his  good  report  of  him  to  the  King.  Lord  Dunfermline 
writes: — 'I   lye  far  of;  has  bot  seldome  access  to  his  Matie.     I  sail  doe 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  xlvii.  139  and  385.  ton,  i.  124. 

2  See  Donald  Gregory's  Western  Highlands  t  ?,-,  _„_   ,^„ 
and  Isles  of  Scotland  '  ffod.  130,  133. 

3  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Hadding-  6  12,504,  f.  244,  British  Museum. 


648  SETON'S   ADVANCING  YEARS 

quhat  I  may  ather  be  myself  or  other  good  friends,  at  all  good  occasions, 
to  renew  the  memorie  off  ziour  good  deseruings.' ' 

In  a  letter  from  William,  seventh  Lord  Sanquhar  (afterwards  Earl  of 
Dumfries),  to  John  Murray,  dated  9th  January  16 16,  the  writer  makes  the 
following  allusion  to  Dunfermline  : — '  Giffe  ye  wnderstude  his  lordschip 
reichtlie  ye  wald  find  his  lordschip  ane  worddie  man  ;  and  I  dar  assure 
yow,  the  more  ye  haiffe  ado  with  him,  ye  sail  ewer  find  the  more  worthe  in 
his  lordschip.  .  .  I  knowe  his  lordschip  to  be  ane  of  the  honestest  myndit 
men  within  oure  kingdome,  and  it  is  ewer  sik  men  I  wald  wisse  yow  to  be 
in  greitest  formes  with.' 

About  the  same  period  the  Chancellor  was  mixed  up  with  a  curious 
fraternal  difference  in  the  house  of  Haig  of  Bemersyde,  which  is  fully 
described  in  Mr.  Russell's  History  of  that  ancient  family.2 

A  few  months  before  his  death,  in  161 7,  one  of  Seton's  most  distin- 
guished contemporaries,  John  Napier  of  Merchiston,  the  inventor  of 
Logarithms,  dedicated  his  latest  work  to  the  Chancellor  in  very  flattering 
terms,  and  of  course  in  elegant  Latin ; 3  and  in  the  course  of  the  same 
year  the  King  visited  Scotland,  as  already  mentioned  in  the  notice  of 
George,  third  Earl  of  Winton. 

Sir  Anthony  Weldon,  in  his  Description  of  the  People  and  Country  of 
Scotland  (161 7),  says: — 'The  wonders  of  their  kingdom  are  those;  the 
Lord  Chancellor,  he  is  believed,  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  well  spoken  off, 
and  the  whole  council,  who  are  the  judges  for  all  causes,  are  free  from 
suspicion  of  corruption.'4 

One  of  the  last  public  acts  of  Lord  Dunfermline  occurred  at  Holyrood, 
on  the  17th  of  June  1621,  when  Sir  Jerome  Lindsay  of  Annatland  was 
knighted  and  created  Lyon  King  of  Arms  by  the  Chancellor,  who 
'  delyverit  to  the  said  Lyoun  his  coat  of  armes,  quhilk  wes  putt  upon  him, 
patt  the  croun  on  his  heade,  and  delyverit  him  the  battoun.' 5 

The  Correspondence  of  the  Earls  of  Ancram  and  Lothian,  privately 
printed  by  the  Marquis  of  Lothian  in  1875,  contains  a  very  interesting 
epistle  from  the  venerable  Chancellor  to  Sir  Robert  Kerr  (afterwards 
Earl  of  Ancram),  dated  'Pinkie,  24  May  1621  ' — little  more  than  a  year 
before  his  death,  and  embracing  a  touching  allusion  to  his  advancing  years. 
'  I  hope  shortlie,'  he  writes,  '  to  discouer  my  port.  Think  nocht  for  this,  Sir 
Robert,  that  I  think  me  onye  neirar  to  death,  farder  nor  that  I  knaw  there 
is  sa  monye  yiers  of  my  mortalitie  past.  Ego  jam  post  terga  reliqui  sexa- 
ginta  annos,  and  fyue  maa  ;  bot  I  think  tyme  now  to  be  mair  circumspect, 
nocht  sa  readie  to  tak  meikill  in  hand  for  monye  respects.  I  find  me  now 
far  remoued  from  the  springs  or  sprentis  {forces)  that  mouis  all  the  resortis 
off  our  gouerment,  and  thairfore  layis  for  suirest  ground  to  moue.  I  hald 
or  latt  goe  as  our  first  motors  settis  us  to,  otherwayis  in  (bulk)  or  banis  I 


1  12,504,  f.  246,  British  Museum.  of  Merchiston,  p.  413. 

2  Pp.  126-170.     See   also   Memoir  of  Chan-  4  Hume   Brown's  Early  Travellers  in  Scot- 
cellor  Selon,  pp.  1 17-19.  land,  p.  102. 

3  See  Mark  Napier's  Memoirs  of  John  Napier  6  Register  of  the  Privy  Council,  xii.  499. 


DEATH   OF  THE   CHANCELLOR  649 

find  yit  leitill  decay  in  me.  I  haue  bein  twayis  or  thrise  this  spring  ellis 
{already)  at  Archerie,  and  the  same  bowis  that  serued  me  40  yiers  sence 
fittis  me  als  weill  now  as  eiuer,  and  ar  als  far  at  my  command.  Suim  yiow 
left  me  also  seruis  me  als  weill  now  as  then.  It  is  bot  greate  viris  decayis 
fast  and  soune  ;  mediocritie  contented  me  eiuir,  and  sua  sail  still  be  God  his 
grace.' 

The  '  port '  to  which  the  worthy  Chancellor  referred  was  nearer  than 
he  imagined.  After  a  brief  illness  of  fourteen  days,  he  closed  his  distin- 
guished career  at  Pinkie,  on  the  16th  of  June  1622,  in  the  sixty-seventh 
year  of  his  age,  '  with  the  regreat  of  all  that  knew  him,  and  the  love  of  his 
countrie.'1 

In  more  than  one  letter  from  Lord  Melros  to  either  the  King  or  John 
Murray  (afterwards  Earl  of  Annandale),  during  the  preceding  week,  he 
alludes  to  the  critical  condition  of  the  Chancellor,  and  several  communica- 
tions are  extant  in  which  the  death  is  announced.  Besides  a  formal 
intimation  to  the  King  by  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council,  in  which  Lord 
Dunfermline  is  described  as  '  your  Maiesties  faithfull  and  trustie  Counsel- 
lour,  by  whose  death  we  ar  depryued  of  grite  assistance,  solide  counsell, 
and  perfyte  resolutioun,'  the  event  is  reported  to  Murray  by  both  the  Earl 
and  Countess  of  Mar.  '  I  am  sory  att  my  hart,'  writes  the  latter,  '  saving 
God's  pleasur,  to  have  this  occasion  to  advertis  you  of  the  death  of  my 
Lord  Chanceller,  who  deceassed  this  morning,  betwixt  sax  and  seaven.  I 
pray  God  direct  his  magesty  to  take  the  best  cours  for  the  estaytt  of  this 
poore  kingdome,  for  it  will  be  fownd  thatt  ther  will  be  greatt  missing  of 
him  that  is  gone.' 

In  the  letter  from  the  Privy  Council  special  reference  is  made  to  the 
devoted  attendance  of  Lord  Winton  on  his  respected  uncle  during  his  last 
illness ;  and  in  a  later  communication  from  the  same  quarter,  very  high 
testimony  is  borne  to  '  the  dewtifull  behaviour  and  cariage  of  the  late  Lord 
Chancellour.'  On  the  4th  of  July,  Sir  Thomas  Henryson,  in  a  short  letter 
to  Murray,  speaks  of  Lord  Dunfermline  as  the  '  most  woorthie  and  incom- 
parable subject  as  euer  I  knew  in  justice  seat.' 

According  to  one  account,  Lord  Dunfermline's  body  was  laid  out  in 
state  in  the  Church  of  St.  Michael,  at  Inveresk,  and  on  the  19th  of  July 
was  buried  with  great  solemnity  at  Dalgety,  in  Fife.  I  have  failed  to 
discover  any  authority  for  the  former  statement.  It  so  happens  that, 
according  to  the  inscription  on  a  marble  tablet  in  Inveresk  Church,  the 
body  of  the  Chancellor's  grandson,  the  famous  Duke  of  Lauderdale,  who 
died  in  1682,  'in  suo  templo  Musselburgensi  a  25  Octobris  ad  5m  Aprilis 
diem  permansit ' ;  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  some  mistake  may  have 
arisen  from  the  circumstance  of  the  dates  of  death  of  the  grandfather  and 
grandson  differing  only  in  a  single  figure  (1622  and  1682). 


1  History  of  the  House  o/Seytoun,  p.  66.    The  Robert  Cecil,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  died  in  1612,  at 

event  occurred   three  years  after  the   death  of  the    age    of    sixty-two,    worn    out    by    public 

Queen   Anne,   and   three   years  before  that   of  business. 
James  VI.     Seton's  friend  and  correspondent, 

4  N 


650 


BURIAL  AT   DALGETY 


~1 


In  a  very  circumstantial  description  of  the  funeral,  embraced  in  an 
untitled  ms.  in  the  Lyon  Office,  and  printed  ad  longum  in  my  Memoir  of 
Chancellor  Seton,  the  body  is  said  to  have  been  embalmed  and  removed  to 
Dalgety  *  three  days  after  the  death,  while  the  ninth  of  July  is  given  as  the 
date  of  the  interment.  The  function  appears  to  have  been  accompanied 
by  the  usual  heraldic  ceremonial ;  and  among  others  present  on  the  occa- 
sion there  were  numerous  noblemen,  barons,  knights,  and  gentlemen, 
including  William  Seton  of  Udny,  Alexander  Seton  of  Gargunnock, 
Alexander  Seton  of  Lathrisk,  John  (George  ?)  Seton  of  Cariston,  Walter 
Seton  of  Meldrum,  James  Seton  of  Touch,  Sir  William  Seton  of  Kyles- 
mure  and  his  son,  also  William,  George  Seton  of  Barra,  John  Seton  of 
Menies  (Mounie  ?),  James  Seton  of  Fawside,  and  John  and  Thomas  Seton, 
brothers  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  who  appears  to  have  acted  as 
chief  mourner. 

Lord   Dunfermline  had   for   his   three   wives   a  fair   Drummond,  a 

sprightly  Leslie,  and  a  handsome  Hay. 
His  first  wife  was  Lilias,  second  daughter 
of  Patrick,  third  Lord  Drummond,  and 
sister  of  James,  first  Earl  of  Perth,  to 
whom  he  was  married  about  1592,  and  by 
whom  he  had  five  daughters  : — 

1.  Lady  Anne,  married  to  Alexander, 
Viscount  Fentoun,  only  son  of  Thomas, 
first  Earl  of  Kellie,  who  predeceased  his 
father. 

In  the  Register  of  the  Great  Seal 
(xlvi.  219)  we  find  a  confirmation  of  a 
charter  granted  by  '  Thomas,  Viscount 
Fentoun,  Lord  Dirletoun,'  to  Alexander, 
Master  of  Fentoun,  his  son  and  apparent 
heir,  and  Lady  Anne  Seton,  his  affianced 
spouse,  eldest  daughter  of  Alexander, 
Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Chancellor  of  Scot- 
land, of  the  lands  of  Fentoun  tower,  called  Over  Sydeserf,  etc.,  dated  at 
Westminster  6th  April,  and  confirmed  6th  June  16 10. 

2.  Lady  Isabel — commemorated  in  Arthur  Johnston's  poems — married 
to  John,  first  Earl  of  Lauderdale  (only  son  of  Chancellor  Maitland,  Lord 
Thirlstane),  by  whom  she  was  the  mother  of  the  celebrated  John,  Duke  of 
Lauderdale. 

Another  charter  appears  in  the  Great  Seal  Register  (xlvi.   218)  to 


^ 


1  According  to  Groome's  Ordnance  Gazetteer, 
'of  Dalgety  House,  Seton's  favourite  residence, 
not  so  much  as  a  stone  remains.'  Thomas  Kirk, 
in  his  Tour  in  Scotland,  in  1677  (Supplement  to 
Hume  Brown's  Early  Travellers  in  Scotland), 
makes  the  following   statement :    '  From  Lord 


Morton's  house  at  Aberdore  to  my  Lord  Dum- 
fermling's  house  at  Dogetty,  a  mile  further. 
The  garden  and  walks  here  are  in  very  good 
order.  The  house  is  little,  and  very  low,  having 
no  chambers  in  it,  though  the  few  rooms  there 
are  are  in  indifferent  good  order ' 


HIS  THREE   MARRIAGES 


651 


John,  Lord  Thirlstane,  and  Lady  Isabel  Seton  his  spouse,  daughter  of 
Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  in  conjunct  fee, 
and  to  their  heirs-male,  etc.,  of  the  lands  of  Gilbertoun,  Ugstoun,  etc.,  in 
the  regality  of  Thirlstane,  dated  18th  June  1610. 

3.  Lady  Margaret  (1.),  who  died  in  infancy. 

4.  Lady  Margaret  (11.),  married  to  Colin,  first  Earl  of  Seaforth,  by 
whom  she  had  Lady  Anna  Mackenzie,  successively  Countess  of  Balcarres 
and  Countess  of  Argyll,  of  whom  an  interesting  memoir  appeared  in  1868 
from  the  pen  of  the  late  Earl  of  Crawford. 

5.  Lady  Sophia,  married  to  David,  first  Lord  Lindsay  of  Balcarres, 
ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Crawford. 

Lord  Dunfermline  married,  secondly,  in  1601,  Grizel  Leslie,1  fourth 


1  From  the  record  of  the  Testaments-Dative 
of  Dames  Lilias  Drummond  and  Grizel  Leslie, 
successively  Countesses  of  Dunfermline,  it  ap- 
pears that  the  former  died  'in  the  place  of  Dal- 
gatie  in  Fyff,'  8th  May  1601,  and  the  latter  on 
6th  of  September  1606.    It  further  appears  that 


the  'Vtencilis  and  Domicilis,  with  the  orna- 
mentis  of  thair  bodies,  goldsmyth  and  siluer 
wark,  jewellis,  and  abulyiementis,'  were  respec- 
tively estimated  at  6000  merks  and  ,£10,000 
Scots. — Co?nmissariot  of  Edinburgh  Testaments, 
1609. 


652 


'ANE   COMELY  WENCHE' 


daughter  of  James,  Master  of  Rothes,  and  sister  of  John,  sixth  Earl  of  Rothes, 

by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Charles  (i.),  who 
died  young,  and  two  daughters  : — ( i )  Lady 
Lilias,  who  died  unmarried,  and  (2)  Lady 
Jean,  born  about  1606,  married  to  John, 
eighth  Lord  Yester  (afterwards  Earl  of 
Tweeddale),  by  whom  she  was  mother  of 
the  first  Marquis  of  Tweeddale.  In  an 
amusing  letter  to  his  friend  Sir  Robert 
Kerr  of  Ancram,  relative  to  his  contem- 
plated marriage,  dated  3rd  April  162 1, 
Lord  Yester  thus  refers  to  his  future  wife  : 
'  As  for  my  Lord  Chancellor  his  daughter, 
I  sweare  I  have  nothing  to  mislyk  of  hir, 
for  shee  is  ane  comely  wenche,  and  may 
be  a  wyfe  to  the  beste  in  the  kingdome. 
I  am  als  neir  to  him  already  as  when  I 
have  matched  with  his  daughter,1  nor 
meane  I  to  marry  without  his  approbation, 

so  by  that  means  I  shall  not  rune  hazarde  losse  his  freindshype.'2  Lady 

Jean's    good    looks    are    fully    established    by   her    beautiful    portrait   at 

Yester,  at.  12,  which  is  here  engraved. 

Frederick  Locker's  lines,  '  To  my  Grandmother,'  may  be  appropriately 

applied  to  Lady  Jean  Seton  : — 

'  This  relative  of  mine, 
Was  she  seventy-and-nine 

When  she  died? 
By  the  canvas  may  be  seen 
How  she  looked  at  seventeen 

As  a  bride.' 3 

Lord  Dunfermline's  third  wife4  was  the  Hon.  Margaret  Hay,  sister 
of  the  aforesaid  John,  eighth  Lord  Yester  (who  married,  secondly,  in  1633, 
James,  Lord  Almond,  afterwards  Earl  of  Calendar),  by  whom  he  had  a 
son,  Charles5  (11.),  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  two  daughters  : — 

1.  Lady  Grizel,  'a  brave  lady,  who  lived  to  a  good  age,  but  would 
never  marrie,  though  she  had  noble  suitors — the  Earle  of  Sutherland  and 
the  Lord  Lindsay,  afterwards  Earle  of  Crawford.' 6 

2.  Lady  Mary,  who  died  young. 


1  An  allusion  to  the  Chancellor's  third  wife, 
who  was  Lord  Yester's  sister. 

2  Correspondence  of  the  Earls  of  Ancram  and 
Lothian,  i.  18. 

3  Quarterly  Review,  cxxxvii.  125. 

4  From  an  entry  in  the  Great  Seal  Register 
relative  to  a  liferent  grant  to  his  third  wife  of 


the  lands  of  Dalgety,  Hailes,  etc.,  it  appears 
that  their  marriage  contract  was  signed  in 
November  1607. — Rtince's  Register,  i.  3. 

5  It  will  be  observed  that  both  of  the  Chan- 
cellor's sons  bore  the  name  of  Charles,  probably 
in  honour  of  his  royal  pupil,  the  Duke  of  York. 

0  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation,  p.  65. 


THE   CHANCELLOR'S  TESTAMENT 


653 


A  pretty  full  account  of  Lord  Dun- 
fermline's '  Testament  testamentar '  will  be 
found  in  my  Memoir  of  the  Chancellor 
(pp.  155-60).  It  is  dated  at  Holyrood- 
house,  4th  March  1620,  with  a  codicil 
appended  at  Pinkie,  12th  June  1622,  four 
days  before  the  testator's  death.  The 
provision  relative  to  his  burial,  by  his 
honourable  and  nearest  friends,  '  far  al- 
wayis  frome  all  pompe  and  gloriositie  qlk 
all  y*  knowis  me  may  know  I  never  lykit,' 
was  not  very  literally  complied  with.  '  Of 
the  place  of  my  rest,'  he  adds,  '  I  wis  to 
be  in  ye  littil  ile  big-git  be  myself  at  the 
Kirk  of  my  house  at  Dagatie  '—an  injunc- 
tion which  was  duly  attended  to. 

He  appoints  as  the  tutors  of  his 
younger    children   his   'nobill    Lord    and 


654 


INVENTAR'   OF  JEWELS,   ETC. 


Cheiff,'  his  nephew,  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  and  failing  him  his 
brother,  Alexander,  Earl  of  Eglinton,  and  his  own  brother,  Sir  William 
Seton,  and  alludes  to  the  friendly  feeling  which  had  always  prevailed 
among  the  different  members  of  his  House,  as  all  '  cumbit  of  ane  stok.' 

The  codicil  ratines  the  bonds  granted  by  the  testator  in  favour  of  his 
two  daughters,  Ladies  Jean  and  Grizel,  as  a  provision  for  their  marriages 
— .£20,000  to  the  former,  and  20,000  merks  to  the  latter.  He  desires  the 
Earl  of  Winton  to  undertake  the  charge  of  his  son  and  his  daughter  Lady 
Jean,  recommending  the  'vertuous  vpbringing'  of  the  former  'in  lettres 
and  otherwayis,  according  to  his  estait  and  ranke.' 

From  the  '  Inventar'  it  appears  that  the  Chancellor  possessed  a  large 
number  of  valuable  jewels  (including  upwards  of  500  diamonds),  and  a 
liberal  supply  of  '  goldsmith  wark  '  and  silver  plate.  One  of  the  jewels 
1  callit  Orpheus,'  with  twenty  diamonds  and  fifty  rubies,  is  valued  at  ,£1560, 
while  another  item  is  'ane  portrat  of  ye  Virgine  Marie  and  tua  of  ye  ordour 
of  Sanct  George  in  gold.' 


DUNFERMLINE'S   CHARACTER  655 

His  books,  in  the  libraries  at  Pinkie  and  Fyvie,  are  valued  at 
jCi333>  6s.  4d.  Two  of  these,  with  the  Chancellor's  book-stamp,  I  am 
fortunate  enough  to  possess  : — ( 1 )  Discours  Chrestiens  de  la  Diviniti,  la 
Creation,  etc.,  par  M.  Pierre  Charron,  Paris  1604,  with  a  good  many- 
marginal  notes  ;  and  (2)  Traictez  Philosophiques  par  le  Sr  D.  V.  (Du  Vair) 
Pr.  Pr.  au  Pari,  de  Pr.,  Paris  1606.  Another  of  the  Chancellor's  volumes, 
bearing  his  fine  signature  ('  Dunfermelyne '),  and  entitled  Traicte"  des 
Seignevries,  par  Charles  Loyseav,  Parisien,  Paris  1609,  is  in  the  library  at 
Duns  Castle. 

The  sum  of  the  entire  inventory  amounts  to  ,£43,959,  10s.  2d.  ;  and,  in- 
cluding the  debts  due  to  the  deceased  (;£  11,797,  13s.  4d.),  to  £55,757,  3s.  6d. 

It  has  been  truly  said  that  Seton's  character  must  have  been  of  no 
ordinary  kind,  when  it  elicited  the  approbation  of  such  dissimilar  men  as 
Spottiswood  and  Calderwood.  According  to  the  former,  '  he  exerced  his 
place  with  great  moderation,  and  to  the  contentment  of  all  honest  men  :  he 
was  ever  inclining  to  the  Roman  faith,  as  being  educated  at  Rome  in  his 
younger  years,  but  very  observant  of  good  order,  and  one  that  hated  lying 
and  dissimulation,  and  above  all  things  studied  to  maintain  peace  and 
quietness.' 1  Calderwood  says  that  '  howsoever  he  was  popishly  disposed 
in  his  religion,  yet  he  condemned  many  abuses  and  corruptions  in  the 
Kirke  of  Rome.  He  was  a  good  justiciar,  courteous  and  humane  both  to 
strangers  and  to  his  owne  country  people ;  but  noe  good  friend  to  the 
bishops.'  Scotstarvet  asserts  that  Seton  'professed  himself  a  Protestant 
in  outward  show,  but  died  an  avowed  Papist '  ;  but  this  statement  is  pro- 
bably open  to  question,  and  was,  no  doubt,  mainly  suggested  by  the 
circumstance  of  his  early  training  at  Rome,  and  the  well-known  traditions 
of  his  family. 

Many  other  writers  bear  testimony  to  the  Chancellor's  moral  and 
intellectual  qualities.  While  Dempster,2  somewhat  pedantically,  pronounces 
him  to  have  been  '  caput  senatus,  bonorum  corculum,  Zaleucus  alter,'  in  the 
Earl  of  Perth's  Autobiography  he  is  described  as  '  endued  with  most 
virtuous,  learned,  and  heroic  qualities,'  and  as  '  having  spent  a  great  part 
of  his  youth  in  the  best  towns  of  Italy  and  France,  where  all  good  litera- 
ture was  professed — a  man  most  just  and  wise,  deserving  greater  com- 
mendation than  paper  can  contain.'3  Crawfurd  says  that  'he  lived  in 
honour  and  prosperity,  in  the  highest  favour  both  with  prince  and  people, 
and  discharged  his  great  office  with  the  general  applause  of  the  whole 
kingdom.  ...  He  was  esteemed  one  of  the  most  eminent  lawyers  of  his 
time,  and  one  of  the  wisest  men  the  nation  then  had,  a  great  virtuoso,  and 
a  fine  poet.  There  are  some  fragments  of  his  performances  still  extant, 
scattered  in  diverse  books,  which  show  him  to  have  been  a  great  man  that 
way ' 4     Tytler,    in   his   Life   of  Sir   Thomas   Craig,  thus   indicates   the 

1  History  of  the  Church  and  State  of  Scot-  volume  in  the  valuable  library  of  Sir  Thomas 
land,  p.  J43.  Dawson-Brodie,     entitled     Georgii    Conai    de 

2  De  Scriptoribus  Scotis,  Ban.  Club,  1829.  duplici  statu   Religionis    apud  Scotos—Roime 

3  Miscellany  of  the  Spalding  Club,  ii.  396.  1628 — there  is  an  interesting  notice  of  Chancel- 

4  Officers  of  State,  p.  156.    At  p.  1 54  of  a  rare        lor  Seton. 


656       THE   CHANCELLOR'S   SCHOLARSHIP 

Chancellor's  character  :   '  He  was  an  upright  and  learned  judge,  an  inde- 
fatigable and  conscientious  statesman,  and  a  patron  of  men  of  letters.' 

In  the  Introduction  to  volume  xi.  of  the  Register  of  the  Privy  Council, 
Professor  Masson  says  that  '  the  very  length  of  the  Dunfermline  Admini- 
stration is  of  historical  significance.  .  .  .  The  Earl  of  Dunfermline  having, 
in  1605,  superseded  the  Earl  of  Montrose  in  the  Chancellorship,  and 
having  from  the  first  proved  his  peculiar  fitness,  both  by  character  and  by 
abilities,  for  the  duties  of  the  post  under  the  new  conditions,  little  wonder 
that  the  tenure  of  the  official  pre-eminency  had  been  of  so  long  duration.  .  .  . 
The  Earl  of  Mar  (High  Treasurer)  was  a  great  nobleman  certainly,  but 
still  only  the  second  official  in  the  kingdom,  and  incapable  of  any  such 
obvious  co-equality  with  Dunfermline  in  the  management  of  Scottish 
affairs  as  had  been  vested  in  the  High-Treasurership  when  that  office  was 
held  by  the  energetic  Dunbar.' 

In  a  later  volume  of  the  same  Register,  the  editor  says  that,  two  days 
before  the  meeting  of  Council  on  the  18th  of  June  1622,  '  there  had  occurred 
the  death  of  the  man,  who  for  seventeen  years  had  been  the  most  impor- 
tant member  of  the  Council,  and  the  chief  dignitary  of  the  realm- 
Chancellor  Dunfermline.  .  .  .  The  cessation  of  his  unusually  long  Premier- 
ship and  Chancellorship  for  King  James  is  an  epoch  of  no  small  mark  in 
the  History  of  Scotland.'1 

Two  of  Seton's  Latin  epigrams  prefixed  to  Bishop  Lesley's  History  of 
Scotland  are  generally  regarded  as  specimens  of  elegant  scholarship. 
While  in  the  first  he  touchingly  pleads  for  a  return  to  the  '  fides  '  and  the 
'  pietas '  of  former  ages,  in  the  second  he  refers  to  the  circumstance  of  the 
patriotic  prelate  having  composed  his  work  when  an  exile  from  his  native 
land.  Dr.  Joseph  Robertson  remarks  that  Buchanan's  celebrated  Dedica- 
tion of  his  translation  of  the  Psalms  to  Queen  Mary  appears  to  have 
fascinated  more  than  one  Scottish  writer  of  Latin  verse,  and  to  have 
suggested,  among  others,  the  lines  inscribed  to  the  same  Queen  by 
Seton,  at  an  early  period  of  his  career,  which  are  prefixed  to  the  second 
part  of  Bishop  Lesley's  History,  first  published  at  Rome  in  1578. 

A  sonnet  by  Lord  Dunfermline  to  Sir  Philip  Sidney  will  be  found  in 
a  quarto  volume  published  in  London,  in  1587,  entitled  Acad.  Cantab. 
Lachrymce  tumulo  Philippi  Sidneij  sacratce,  per  Alex.  Nevillum. 

In  a  subsequent  Appendix  the  architectural  and  heraldic  achievements 
of  the  Chancellor  will  be  duly  referred  to. 

Besides  his  juvenile  portrait  in  the  group  by  Sir  Antonio  More, 
referred  to  under  the  notice  of  his  father,  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  there 
is  a  likeness  of  the  Chancellor  {at.  55)  at  Yester,  attributed  to  Zuccaro, 
which,  with  Lord  Tweeddale's  kind  permission,  is  here  reproduced  from 
my  Memoir  of  Lord  Dunfermline,2  in  which  his  character  and  qualifications 


1  Register  of the  Privy  Council,  xii.  739.  portrait   of  Chancellor    Seton,   on   panel,   was 

*  In  the  spring  of  1888,  at  the  sale  in  Edin-  purchased  by  a  Mrs.  White,  whom  I  have  since 

burgh  of  the  pictures  and  articles  of  virtu  be-  failed  to  trace.  Another  portrait  of  the  Chancellor 

longing  to  the  late  Mr.  James  Gibson-Craig,  a  is  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Coventry  (seep.  632). 


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658  CHARLES,   SECOND   EARL 

are  thus  briefly  summarised : — '  An  able  lawyer,  an  impartial  judge,  a 
sagacious  statesman,  a  consistent  patriot,  an  accomplished  scholar,  a  dis- 
cerning patron  of  literature,  a  munificent  builder,  a  skilful  herald,  and  an 
ardent  lover  of  archery  and  other  manly  sports,  Lord  Dunfermline  may 
certainly  be  regarded  as  having  been  versatile  and  many-sided  in  no 
ordinary  degree.  His  title  to  fame,  however,  mainly  rests  upon  his  judicial 
and  political  reputation  ;  and  few  Scottish  worthies  have  so  strikingly  dis- 
played the  praiseworthy  characteristics  of  prudence,  moderation,  and 
integrity.  Up  to  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century  he  was 
unquestionably  the  greatest  lawyer  that  had  been  privileged  to  preside  in 
the  Court  of  Session  ;  and  in  the  successful  discharge  of  the  duties  of  the 
higher  office  of  Chancellor,  or  "  Keeper  of  the  royal  conscience,"  which  he 
filled  for  the  long  period  of  eighteen  years,  he  was  probably  not  surpassed 
by  any  of  the  other  distinguished  men  who  held  the  same  important 
position.' 


2.  Charles,  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 

As  the  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline  was  born  about  the  year  1608,  he 
was  little  more  than  fourteen  years  of  age  when  he  succeeded  his  dis- 
tinguished father  in  1622.  Notwithstanding  his  succession  to  a  very 
flourishing  estate,  Scotstarvet  asserts  that,  '  a  few  years  after  his  majority,  by 
playing  and  other  inordinate  spending,  all  was  comprised  from  him ;  and 
when  he  was  debarred  by  promise  to  play  at  no  game,  he  devised  a  new 
way  to  elude  his  oath,  by  wagering  with  any  one  who  was  in  his  company 
who  should  draw  the  longest  straw  out  of  a  stack  with  the  most  grains  of 
corn  thereon.' 1 

From  the  decisions  collected  by  Gibson  of  Durie,  it  appears  that  the 
young  Earl  was  greatly  harassed,  during  the  earlier  portion  of  his  life,  by 
a  series  of  lawsuits  at  the  instance  of  his  mother,  then  Countess  of  Calendar, 
which  may  have  had  something  to  do  with  his  financial  difficulties.  The 
merest  glance  at  her  portrait  at  Yester,  engraved  at  page  654,  suggests  the 
idea  of  a  woman  of  determination  and  force  of  character.  As  '  lyfrentrix 
off  Daigetie  '  in  1649,  she  incurred  the  displeasure  of  the  Kirk-Session  for 
placing  '  idolatrous  and  superstitious  images  in  the  glasse  windows  of  the 
Church ' ;  and  was  ordered  to  remove  them,  and  to  put  '  no  novelties 
upone  her  loft  {gallery)  till  the  presbytrie  be  acquainted  with  it.'  The  same 
year  the  following  entry  occurs  in  the  records  of  the  parish,  relative  to 


1  Staggering  State  of Scots  Statesmen,  p.  17.  Hope,   in  a  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Menteith,  in 

A  good  many  of  Scotstarvet's  statements  must  1631,  as  the  'reverend  father  of  lies.' — Edin- 

be  accepted  cum  grano  salts.     A  recent  writer,  burgh  Review  for  July  1S82,  p.  132. 

in  referring  to  him,  speaks  of  his  '  accustomed  See   Masson's  Drummond  of  Hawthornden, 

malignity';    and   he  is  also  believed  to  have  p.    223    et   seo.,    for  an   interesting   notice   of 

been  the  individual  described  by  Sir  Thomas  Scotstarvet, 


0^/uf 


A.W.Smciair, P.  Sc 


SIDES  WITH  THE   COVENANTERS         659 

another  misdemeanour  :  'June  17,  1649.  The  Sessione,  considering  how 
scandalous  to  the  Lord's  people  it  is  my  Ladie  Calendar  her  tarreing  at 
home  upone  the  Lordis  day  and  not  coming  to  the  kirk,  appoynts  the 
minister  and  ane  elder  to  goe  to  her  and  admonish  her.'  She  died  ten 
years  afterwards,  at  the  close  of  1659,  at  the  same  age  (sixty-seven)  as  her 
first  husband,  the  Chancellor,  whom  she  survived  for  the  long  period  of 
thirty-seven  years.  It  would  therefore  appear  that  she  was  born  about 
1592,  and  that,  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  in  1607,  she  must  have  been 
little  more  than  fifteen  years  of  age.  In  terms  of  a  letter  from  Charles  1., 
dated  4th  June  1635,  when  the  Chancellor's  widow  was  Lady  Almond,  she 
was  allowed  'to  retaine  the  place  dew  to  her  as  Countess  of  Dum- 
fermline.' 

In  the  year  1627  we  find  a  ratification  and  confirmation  of  a  specified 
tack  of  teinds  of  the  fishings  on  Spey  by  John,  Bishop  of  Moray,  to 
Charles,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  for  sums  of  money  paid  for  him  by  his  tutor, 
George,  third  Earl  of  Winton.1 

The  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline  appears  to  have  taken  an  active  part 
in  public  affairs  during  the  reigns  of  Charles  1.  and  11.  He  was  frequently 
at  the  English  Court  with  the  former,  to  whom  he  acted  as  gentleman  of 
the  bedchamber;  on  more  than  one  occasion  commanded  a  regiment  in 
the  Scotch  army ;  and  was  appointed  by  Charles  11.  to  the  office  of  Lord 
Privy  Seal,  which  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  1637  the  Bailiary  and  Justiciary  of  Dunfermline  were  conferred 
upon  him  by  royal  charter,  the  offices  being  subsequently  ratified  by  the 
Scottish  Parliament  in  1641.  According  to  Scotstarvet,  the  yearly  value 
of  the  Abbacy  of  Dunfermline,  of  which  the  Earl  got  a  three  nineteen-years' 
'  tak'  from  King  Charles  1.,  was  20,000  pounds  Scots  (about  ^1660  sterling); 
'and  in  that  space,'  he  adds,  'if  he  shall  happen  to  bruik  (enjoy)  it,  it  will 
amount  to  1,100,000  merks.' 

Contrary  to  the  ecclesiastical  traditions  of  his  family,  Lord  Dunfermline 
sided  with  the  Covenanters,  and  signed  the  National  Covenant  at  Dun- 
fermline in  1638. 

Two  years  afterwards  (31st  January  1640),  along  with  Lord  Loudon 
and  other  Commissioners,  he  was  '  sent  up  to  London  owing  to  growing 
troubles  ';2  and,  on  his  way  to  Court,  he  appears  to  have  paid  a  visit  to  the 
Earl  of  Haddington  at  Tynninghame,  shortly  after  the  Earl's  marriage  to 
Lady  Jean  Gordon,  daughter  of  the  Marquis  of  Huntly.3  About  two 
months  afterwards  (27th  March),  Lord  Huntly,  in  writing  from  London  to 
Thomas,  second  Earl  of  Haddington,  says  :  '  The  Earle  of  Dumfermling 
and  his  colleagues  have  as  yet  no  resolution  from  hence ;  and  matters  are 
very  closlye  carryed :  Wherefore  I  craue  leaue  to  reserue  my  quhessings 
(questionings  ?)  till  the  next  occasion  ;  whiche  may  be  perhaps  by  my  eldest 


1  Richmond  and  Gordon  Writs.  p.  19. 

2  Wishart's   Memoirs   of  James   Marquis   of  3  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Had- 
Montrose,  translated  by  Murdoch  and  Simpson,        dington,  i.  xxviii. 


660         WITH   CHARLES   II.   IN   HOLLAND 

sone.'1  On  the  18th  of  April  three  of  the  Commissioners — viz.  Dunferm- 
line, Sir  William  Douglas,  and  Mr.  Berkly — appear  to  have  been  in 
confinement.  The  reason  of  their  restraint  is  said  to  have  been  because 
the  Covenanters  had  imprisoned  the  Earl  of  Southesk  for  adhering  to 
the  King.2 

Lord  Dunfermline  acted  as  Commissioner  to  the  General  Assembly 
of  the  Church  of  Scotland  which  met  at  St.  Andrews  in  July  1642.  Four 
years  afterwards  (1646)  he  was  one  of  the  peers  who  made  certain 
qualifications  relative  to  the  execution  of  Colonel  Nathaniel  Gordon  and 
others ;  and  along  with  the  Earls  of  Eglinton,  Cassilis,  and  Carnwath,  he 
voted  for  the  banishment  of  the  venerable  President  Spottiswoode.3  After 
the  execution  of  King  Charles  1.,  in  1649,  Lord  Dunfermline  went  to 
Holland  to  attend  upon  Charles  11.,  with  whom  he  returned  to  Scotland 
the  following  year.  On  the  1st  of  January  1650  Wishart  writes  to  Napier 
that  Hamilton,  Lauderdale,  Dunfermline,  Calendar,  Sinclair,  etc.,  in 
Holland,  are  so  '  darned  (concealed)  that  we  hear  but  little  of  their  din.  .  .  . 
The  last  two  profess  good  will  to  Montrose.'4 

In  writing  to  the  Earl  of  Lauderdale  from  Edinburgh  on  the  5th  of 
September  1657,  Lord  Dunfermline  refers  to  his  having  been  in  Holland 
seven  years  previously,  and  to  the  'troubles  of  these  tymes.'  He  mentions 
a  cabinet  which  he  had  left  with  Lady  Lauderdale,  '  wherein,  besydes  some 
of  my  best  thingis  and  choise  papers,  ther  was  the  inventar  and  contract 
concerning  the  impignorating  of  my  other  Jewells  and  plate,  without  wch 
I  can  doe  nothing  as  to  the  recoverie  of  thame.' 5  The  seal  on  the  letter 
exhibits  a  shield  with  Seton  and  Hamilton  quarterly,  surmounted  by  a 
coronet. 

Three  years  afterwards  (21st  June  1660),  writing  to  the  same  noble- 
man from  '  Dagatie,'  he  refers  to  an  unanswered  letter  ;  mentions  his 
sickness  since  his  attendance  at  Lord  Balcarres'  funeral  as  having  prevented 
him  from  paying  his  personal  respects  to  the  King ;  and  subscribes  '  Your 
most  affectionit  vncle  and  humble  servant,  Dunfermelyne.'6  A  small  black 
circular  seal  bears  his  father's  favourite  device — a  cinquefoil  within  a 
crescent,  surmounted  by  a  coronet. 

Lord  Dunfermline  was  sworn  a  Privy  Councillor  at  the  Restoration  in 
1660;  and  nine  years  later  (2nd  November  1669)  he  was  appointed  an 
Extraordinary  Lord  of  Session. 

On  the  3rd  October  of  the  same  year  we  find  a  communication 
from  Edinburgh  to  the  King,  signed  by  Glencairne,  Rothes,  Tullibardin, 
Cardrosse,  George  Mackenzie,  James  Foulis,  etc.,  relative  to  a  complaint 
by  Alexander  Livingstoun,  nephew  of  the  Earl  of  Calendar,  '  that  the 


1  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Had-  4  Wishart's  Montrose,  p.  288. 

^mltorSd' MSS.  Commission,  Report  xii.,  ,  '  Lauderdale  Papers,  Brit.  Museum,  23,113, 

1890,  p.  i7.  f-  6l" 

3  Wishart's  Montrose,  ut  supra,  p.  169.  °  Ibid.  23,114,  f.  11. 


THE   REV.   ANDREW   DONALDSON 


66 1 


Lord  Fyvie  had  committed  a  ryot.' x     This  must  have  been  Charles,  the 
eldest  son  of  Lord  Dunfermline,  who  predeceased  his  father. 

Three  years  afterwards  (18th  November  1663)  Lord  Dunfermline,  in 
writing  from  Edinburgh  to  Lord  Lauderdale,  relative  to  his  legal  dispute 
with  Lord  Calendar,  says  :  '  Yr  friend  ye  President  of  the  Session  (Sir  John 
Gilmour  of  Craigmillar),  who  thinks  his  word  should  be  a  law,  though 
never  so  unjust,  is  the  cause  of  all  our  debates.'  Also : — '  My  Lord 
Kinkardine  told  me  anent  the  treatie  of  vnion  which  I  tolde  zour  Lop  was 
in  my  Lord  Kingstoune's  hand.  I  am  resolued  to  send  to  him  for  it,  and 
since  it  is  the  principall  signed  treatie,  I  would  be  the  more  peremtor 
in  it,  if  you  think  it  fitt  that  his  sacred  Ma*  would  command  me  to  bring 
it  vpe.'2 

Six  months  afterwards  (7th  May  1664)  Lord  Bellenden,  writing  to  the 
Earl  of  Lauderdale,  from  Edinburgh,  says  :  '  This  day  I  went  expresslie  to 
the  Earle  Dumfermling  at  Degetie.  He  hath  been  these  thrie  months  with 
a  paine  in  his  shoulder,  and  now  says  positivelie  that  the  20th  of  this 
month  he  will  begin  his  journey  towards  you,  and  to  that  purpose  doth 
keepe  Waters  with  his  coatch  heir.' 3 

In  1664  the  Rev.  Andrew  Donaldson,  minister  of  Dalgety,  who  had 
joined  the  protesting  party  in  the  Church,  was  ejected  for  not  conforming 
to  Episcopacy.  His  generous  benefactor,  Lord  Dunfermline,  who  hap- 
pened to  be  in  London  at  the  time,  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  warrant  from 
the  King  reponing  Donaldson  in  his  charge,  but  this  was  afterwards 
revoked  through  the  instrumentality  of  Archbishop  Sharp.  It  is  reported 
that  Donaldson  lived  in  a  building  at  the  west  end  of  the  church,  supported 
by  presents  from  the  parishioners.  '  For  eleven  years  the  favour  of  the 
Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  the  attachment  of  his  people,  enabled  him  to 
preach  the  gospel,  notwithstanding  the  opposition  of  Archbishop  Sharp.'4 
He  subsequently  lived  at  Inverkeithing,  and  after  the  Revolution  of  1688 
he  was  restored  by  Act  of  Parliament  to  his  old  position  of  parish  minister 
of  Dalgety. 

On  the  27th  of  September  1670  the  Earl  of  Tweeddale,  writing  from 
Edinburgh,  informs  Lord  Lauderdale  that  he  is  'opressed  w*  company, 
the  E.  of  Lithkow  and  Contes  of  Wintoune  beeng  the  last.'  '  Dum- 
fermling,' he  adds,  'was  heir,  but  went  ouer  to-day  to  Sr  Jams  Hakquet 
his  burial.  He  intends  to  begin  his  journey  on  Monday  or  Tewsday  com 
seannight.' 5 

About  the  same  date  the  Earl  of  Kincardine  informs  Lord  Lauderdale 
of  an  adverse  decision  to  Lord  Dunfermline  in  the  question  of  the  vassals 
of  the  lordship  of  Dunfermline.6 

In  the  course  of  the  following  year  (1671)  Lord  Dunfermline  appears 
to  have  been  in  pretty  frequent  communication  with  Lord  Lauderdale.     On 


1  Lauderdale  Papers,  23,114,  f.  62. 

2  Ibid.  23,120,  f.  81. 

3  Ibid.  23,122,  f.  27. 


336 


4  Taylor's  Historical  Antiquities  of  Fife,  ii. 


s  Lauderdale  Papers,  23,134,  f.  133. 
6  Ibid.  f.  195. 


662 


LITIGATION  TROUBLES 


the  14th  of  February  he  writes  to  him  relative  to  the  death  of  'Lord  Colvell 
of  Ocheltrie,'  and  to  an  application  for  'the  gift  of  his  ward  and  marriage 
to  be  signed  by  his  Ma*"5.'1  On  the  2nd  and  18th  of  March  he  communi- 
cates with  him  regarding  the  lordship  of  Dunfermline  ;  and  ten  days  later, 
in  a  letter  concerning  the  differences  between  himself  and  his  vassals,  he 
alleges  that  although  the  names  of  '  the  Lord  S*  Andrews  and  the  Earle 
of  Argyle '  are  inserted  in  the  relative  summons,  he  is  confident  that  this 
has  been  done  without  their  knowledge.  Finally,  in  the  postscript  to  a 
letter  dated  '  Edinburgh,  April  18,'  'concerning  his  business  in  the  ExcheqV 
and  signed,  '  your  own  Dunfermelyne,'  he  says :  '  Your  LoP  may  easily  guesse 
att  the  great  person  here  who  hath  brought  me  all  this  trouble,  and  hath 
acquitted  me  well  for  the  lands  of  Lugton.'2 

In  the  charter-room  at  Fyvie  Castle  there  is  an  interesting  collection 
of  documents  relating  to  public  transactions  between  1640  and  1670,  in 


1  Lauderdale  Papers,  23,134,  f.  210. 


2  Ibid.  23,135,  ff.  38,  44,  and  52. 


THE   EARL'S   PUBLIC   SERVICES 


663 


■    '/j'.,//r-/t.'j    -  Vf//<7C'  .   & '/>/// 


which  the  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline  bore  an  important  part,  including 
letters  and  instructions  from  Charles  1.,  the  negotiations  between  Charles  11. 
and  the  Commissioners  of  the  Scotch  Estates  at  Breda,  and  the  gift  of  the 
Privy  Seal  of  Scotland  ;  and  in  the  same  repository  there  are  numerous 
important  papers  connected  with  his  father,  the  Chancellor. 

I  happen  to  possess  a  thin  folio  volume,  in  the  original  binding,  con- 
taining a  series  of  financial  transactions,  extending  from  1637  to  1652, 
between  the  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline  and  the  Earl  of  Calendar  and 
others  ;  including  the  Earl  of  Tweeddale,  Lord  Colvill,  Sir  John  Wauchope 
of  Niddrie,  Sir  Alex.  Langston,  Sir  James  Hope,  and  the  Rev.  Robert  Bruce. 

Lord  Dunfermline's  public  services  are  narrated  in  an  '  Act  of  exonera- 
tion and  approbation '  in  his  favour  (22nd  September  1641),  which  declares 
that  he  'heath  in  all  integritie  diligence  and  wisdome  above  his  yeires, 
from  the  first  begining  of  the  pacification  to  the  cloising  thereof,  walked 
woorthie  of  so  great  trust  .  .  .  and  therfor  his  Matie  and  Estates  of  Parlia* 
,  ,  .  doe  honnor  him  w*  this  ther  nationall  testimony  that  he  hath  deserved 


664 


TESTAMENT  AND   MARRIAGE 


weel  of  the  publict  as  a  loyall  subject  to  the  King,  a  faithfull  servant  to  the 
Estates  of  Parlia4,  and  a  true  patriot  to  his  cuntrie.' 

After  alluding  to  the  ecclesiastical  vacillation  of  Lauderdale,  Bishop 
Guthry  remarks  that  '  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  in  his  way,  went  somewhat 
near  to  the  other.  His  worthy  father  had  been,  by  King  James,  preferred 
to  be  Chancellor  of  Scotland  and  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  had  also  this 
honour,  that  King  Charles,  being  then  Duke  of  Albany,  was,  in  his  infancy, 
educated  in  his  family,  upon  which  reasons  his  Majesty  carried  with  more 
than  ordinary  affection  to  this  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  his  son,  and  of  late 
gifted  him,  for  his  lifetime,  the  revenue  of  the  lordship  of  Dunfermline, 
reckoned  to  be  about  £1000  sterling  per  annum;  yet,  notwithstanding 
thereof,  was  he  so  forward  in  the  cause  (of  the  Covenanters)  that  he  had 
ever  been  chosen  for  the  prime  Commissioner  in  all  the  applications  they 
made  to  his  Majesty,  which  was  a  trust  they  would  not  have  put  upon  any, 
anent  whom  they  had  not  a  certain  persuasion  that  he  was  fixed  that  way.' 1 

Although  Lord  Dunfermline  appears  to  have  entered  pretty  cordially 
into  the  earlier  movements  of  the  Covenanters,  he  is  said  to  have  gradually 
veered  round  to  the  side  of  the  Royalists.  Possibly  his  marriage  to  the 
daughter  of  Lord  Morton — a  devoted  Royalist — may  have  helped  to  bring 
about  the  change. 

The  testament-dative  and  inventory  of  the  goods,  etc.,  of  'umquhile 

Charles,   Earl  of  Dunfermling,'  who  died  167-,  faithfully  made  and 

given  up  by  Arthur  Robertson,  servitor  to  '  Alexander,  now  Earl  of  Dun- 
fermling,' and  only  executor-dative  surrogate  to  him,  shows  the  sum  of 

"  °vjcxlvijlib 


debts  owinsr  to  him  to  amount  to 


To  be  divided  in  two  parts- 


J 


12° 
vnjvxxiijlib  16s 


-his  part  is  .  .  . 

Quota  32lib. — Confirmed  29th  January 
1675,  Thomas  Ker,  writer  in  Edinburgh, 


being  cautioner.' 
his   wife, 


Douglas 
third 


By  his  wife,  Lady  Mary 
(who  died  at  Fyvie  about  1659), 
daughter  of  William,  seventh  Earl  of 
Morton, — besides  other  daughters,  who 
appear  to  have  died  young  or  unmarried, 
and  Lady  Henrietta  (Grizel  ?),  married, 
first,  in  1670,  to  William,  fifth  Earl  of  Wig- 
ton,  and  secondly,  to  William,  sixteenth 
Earl  of  Crawford — he  had  three  sons  : — 

1.  Charles,  Lord  Fyvie,  already  re- 
ferred to,  born  1640,  and  killed  in  a  sea- 
fight  against  the  States  of  Holland  in 
1672. 

2.  Alexander,  third  Earl  of  Dun- 
fermline. 


1  Memoirs  of  Scottish  Affairs,  second  edition,  p.  ill. 


Edinburgh  Testaments,  vol,  lxxv. 


ALEXANDER,   THIRD   EARL  665 

3.  James,  fourth  and  last  Earl. 

The  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline  died  at  Seton  Palace  before  14th 
January  1673,  and  'was  noblie  interred  att  his  burial  place  in  Dalgaty.' 1 
He  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 

3.  Alexander,  third  Earl  of  Dunfermline, 

born  1642,  succeeded  his  father  early  in  1673,  and  died  at  Edinburgh  about 
two  years  afterwards,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-three. 

Among  the  Lauderdale  Papers  in  the  British  Museum 2  is  a  letter  to 
King  Charles  11.,  dated  'Edinburgh,  2  February  1675,'  and  signed  by 
George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  and  sixteen  others,  including  '  Rothes, 
Cancell.,'  'Atholl,'  'Douglas,'  and  'Argyll,'  relative  to  certain  advocates 
'  debarred  from  their  imployment,'  which  is  accompanied  by  a  series  of 
'  Observations '  on  the  same  subject,  extending  to  twenty-one  folio  pages, 
in  which  the  '  Processe  at  the  instance  of  the  Earle  of  Dunfermling  against 
the  Earle  of  Calendar  and  the  then  Lord  Almond '  is  fully  described,  and 
many  reasons  stated  why  an  appeal  against  the  decision  in  Dunfermline's 
favour  should  not  be  allowed ;  and  also  a  further  statement — extending  to 
nine  folio  pages — -which  concludes  by  referring  to  the  '  wilfullness  and  way- 
wardness '  of  the  debarred  advocates,  who  appear  to  have  been  counsel  for 
Lord  Calendar. 

In  the  Register  of  Edinburgh  Testaments  (vol.  lxxvi.)  we  find  an 
entry  relative  to  the  testament-dative  and  inventory  of  the  goods,  etc.,  of 
'  umquhile  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermling,'  faithfully  made  and  given  up 
by  Robert  Hamilton  of  Presmennan  (designed  '  of  Beill '  in  a  bond  there- 
in narrated),  only  executor-dative  decerned  as  creditor  to  the  defunct. 
The  said  Alexander  had  pertaining  and  owing  to  him,  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  by  Alexander,  Earl  of  Calendar,  '  as  due  by  him  by  virtue  of  the 
process,  and  on  the  event  thereof,  depending  against  him  at  the  instance 
of  the  said  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  for  the  moveables  taken  out  of  the  house 
of  Pinkie,  pertaining  to  the  late  Countess  of  Dunfermling,  the  defunct's 
grandmother,  and  for  the  bygone  rents  and  duties  of  the  half  of  the  con- 
quest acquired  by  umquhile  James,  Earl  of  Calendar,  uncle  to  the  said 
Alexander,  now  Earl  of  Calendar,  during  the  lifetime  of  the  said  late 
Countess  of  Dunfermling,  spouse  to  the  said  James,  Earl  of  Calendar,  or 
of  the  worth  and  value  of  the  moveable  goods,  etc.,  in  and  about  the  houses 
of  Dalgatie  and  Fyvie,  or  either  of  them,  or  out  of  the  plate,  Jewells,  etc., 
which  pertained  to  the  deceased  Earl  of  Dunfermling  in  his  cabinet,  within 
his  lodging  in  the  Canongate  or  other  places,  and  particularly  of  what 
interest  he  has  had  in  the  Royal  Society  of  Fishing ;  and  what  sums  the 
said  deceased  Earl  of  Dunfermling  paid  to  James  Fleming,  late  bailie  of 
Edinburgh,  of  the  debts  due  by  Lord  Kingston,  etc' 

1  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  History  2  23,137,  f.  27. 

of  ttie  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  67. 

4P 


666 


JAMES,   FOURTH   AND   LAST   EARL 


Sum  of  debts  owing  to  him 
Amount  of  free  year 


yjmlib 

viij°xxxvjlib  xiiis  iiijd. 


Confirmed  13th  February  1679,  James  Hamilton,  burgess  of  Edin- 
burgh, being  cautioner. 

As  the  third  Earl  of  Dunfermline  died  unmarried  in  1675,  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  brother, 


3  (a).  James,  fourth  Earl  of  Dtmfermline, 

who  was  probably  born  in  1644.  Lord  Kingston  states  that  the  fourth 
Earl  was  left  by  his  father  and  brother  in  considerable  debt ;  '  but,  by  his 
vertuous  wise  carriage,  he  hes  extricat  himselfe  of  the  greatest  part  of  that 
trouble  ;  and  by  his  good  and  wise  manadgment  not  only  preserves,  but 
improves  his  estate,  to  his  great  commendation  and  honour.'1 

In  his  younger  days  Lord  Dunfermline  served  in  several  memorable 
expeditions  with  the  Prince  of  Orange.  On  his  accession  to  the  title  he 
returned  to  Scotland,  and  had  a  charter  of  the  lordship  of  Urquhart  in 
1684.     His  marriage  took  place  two  years  previously  (1682),  as  appears 

from  the  relative  contract  between  'James, 
Earl  of  Dumfermling,  and  Lady  Jean 
Gordon,  daughter  of  the  deceased  Lewis, 
Marquis  of  Huntly,  with  consent  of 
George,  present  Marquis,  her  brother,' 
whereby  Lord  Dunfermline  infefts  Lady 
Jean  in  the  liferent  of  his  lands  of  the 
lordship  of  Fyvie,  while  Huntly  provides 
a  dowry  of  15,000  merks.2 

Lord  Dunfermline  attached  himself 
to  the  cause  of  King  James  vn.,  and  com- 
manded a  troop  of  horse,  under  Viscount 
Dundee,  at  the  battle  of  Killiecrankie  in 
1689.  Dundee  thus  refers  to  him  in  a 
letter  to  the  Earl  of  Melfort,  dated  '  Moy 
of  Lochaber,  June  27,  1689':  'Earl  of 
Dunfermling  stays  constantly  with  me,  and 
so  does  Lord  Dunkell,  Pitcur,  and  many 
other  gentlemen,  who  really  deserve  well,  for  they  suffer  great  hardships.'3 
In  a  ms.  in  the  Advocates'  Library,  entitled  Pourtrait  of  True 
Loyalty,  it  is  stated  that  Lord  Dundee  waited  at  the  cairn  of  Mounth  till 
Mackay  was  within  eight  miles,  and  then  marched  back  towards  Gordon 
Castle,  where  he  was  joined  by  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline  (the  Duke  of 
Gordon's  brother-in-law),  and  forty  or  fifty  gentlemen,  chiefly  vassals  of  the 


1  Continuation  of  the  History  of  the  House  of 
Seytoun,  p.  68. 

2  Richmond  and  Gordon  Writs. 


3  Letters  of  John  Grahame  of  Claverhouse, 
Viscount  of  Dundee,  p.  50 ;  Bannatyne  Club, 
1826. 


BATTLE   OF   KILLIECRANKIE  667 

Duke,  who  was  obliged  to  remain  in  Edinburgh  to  defend  the  Castle. 
Among  other  papers  relative  to  the  period  specified  in  the  Inventory  of 
the  Richmond  and  Gordon  Writs,  is  a  list  of  twelve  horses,  with  their 
respective  values — one  of  them,  called  '  Cumberland,'  being  valued  at  100 
guineas — belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Gordon,  and  '  taken  out  of  Gordon 
Castle  by  the  Earl  of  Dumfermling  from  Charles  Innes  of  Drumgaisk,  his 
Grace's  gentleman  of  horses,  and  William  Gordon,  the  groom.' 

Lord  Dunfermline's  social  position  and  military  reputation  were  such 
that,  after  the  death  of  Dundee,  he  would  have  received  the  command,  but 
for  the  unwelcome  commission  produced  by  Colonel  Cannon. 

Several  of  the  chiefs  were  strongly  opposed  to  Cannon,  and  gave  their 
voices  for  Lord  Dunfermline,  as  the  nobleman  of  most  influence  of  any 
then  attached  to  the  Stuart  cause.  The  matter  could  not  be  determined 
till  they  communicated  with  the  King  in  Ireland,  who,  with  his  usual 
infatuation,  decided  in  favour  of  Cannon.1 

In  Mr.  Murdoch's  edition  of  The  Grameid,  to  be  afterwards  referred 
to,  he  says :  '  Colonel  Alexander  Cannon  assumed  the  command  of  the 
Jacobite  army  on  the  death  of  Dundee,  and  proved  himself  unequal  to  the 
post'  He  also  says  :  '  Sir  William  Wallace  of  Craigie,  by  an  unfortunate 
job  of  his  brother-in-law  Melfort,  produced  a  commission  to  command  the 
cavalry  at  Killiecrankie,  and  superseded  Lord  Dunfermline,  by  far  the 
better  man.' 

In  referring  to  Killiecrankie,  Macaulay  states  that  half  an  hour  after 
his  gallant  leader  fell  from  a  stroke  of  a  musket-ball,  '  Lord  Dunfermline 
and  some  other  friends  came  to  the  spot  and  thought  that  they  could  still 
discern  some  faint  remnants  of  life,  when  the  body,  wrapped  in  two  plaids, 
was  carried  to  the  Castle  of  Blair.' 

Lord  Dunfermline  is  lauded  by  the  author  of  Prcslium  Gilliecran- 
kianum  in  the  following  lines  : — 

'  Nobilis  apparuit  Fermilodunensis 
Cujus  in  rebelles  stringebatur  ensis ; 
Nobilis  et  sanguine,  nobilior  virtute, 
Regi  devotissimus  intus  et  in  cute.' 

He  is  also  referred  to  in  The  Grameid,  an  heroic  poem,  descriptive  of 
Viscount  Dundee's  campaign  in  1689,  by  James  Philip  of  Almerieclose 
(1691):2- 

'  Illic  praecipitem  Spejaa  prope  fluminis  undam 
Fermelodunus  adest,  stipatus  robore  gentis 
Gordoniae,  socia  arma  ferens,  atque  agmina  jungens. 

hinc  Dundius,  illinc 

Fermelodunus  agit  niveas  in  praelia  turmas. 


1  See  Hogg's  Jacobite  Relics  of  Scotland,  p.  in  1888. 

201.  Mr.  Murdoch  says  in  a  note  :  '  I  have  trans- 

2  Edited,  with  translation,  introduction,  and  lated  incentive*  "  the  Set  on "  in  compliment  to 
notes,  by  the  Rev.  Alexander  D.  Murdoch,  Lord  Dunfermline  whose  war-cry,  as  a  Seton. 
F.S.A.  Scot.,  for  the  Scottish  Historical  Society,  was  "  Set  on  "  ! ' 


668     DEATH  OF  THE  FOURTH  EARL 

Gramus  ab  excelsi  speculatus  vertice  montis, 

jubet  incentiva  sonari 

Classica.' 

[There,  by  the  headlong  waters  of  the  Spey,  Dunfermline  meets  him  (Dundee),  bringing 
with  him  some  strength  of  the  Gordon  clan  to  join  the  standard.  .  .  .  Here  Dundee,  there 
Dunfermline,  moves  out  his  snowy  squadrons  for  the  war.  .  .  .  The  Graham,  looking  from  the 
hill-top,  bids  the  trumpet  sound  the  '  Set  on.'] 

In  the  mss.  of  S.  H.  le  Fleming  at  Rydal  Hall1  there  are  several 
references  to  Lord  Dunfermline.  Thus :  '  From  Edinburgh,  Aug*  26th 
1690,  we  hear  that  a  party  of  rebels,  numbering  250,  attacked  Lord 
Cordresse's  house,  where  there  was  a  company  commanded  by  Captain 
Gordon.  He  seeing  but  50  of  them,  marched  out  and  fell  upon  them.  But 
the  rest,  who  were  in  ambuscade,  attacked  his  rear,  killed  some  of  our  men, 
and  took  the  Captain  prisoner.  General  Mackay,  hearing  that  the  enemy 
were  decamped  in  three  bodies,  fell  upon  them,  took  seven  or  eight 
prisoners,  killed  about  200,  and  re-took  Captain  Gordon.  It  is  said  the 
Earls  of  Buchan,  Dumfermline,  and  other  persons  of  note  were  killed.' 

'September  20,  1690.  Newsletter,  Edinburgh  13th.  The  rebels,  it  is 
said,  are  fallen  upon  the  town  of  Dunkeld,  and  have  a  design  upon  Perth, 
but  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline  is  marching  towards  them  with  the  forces 
from  Stirling.' 

'April  4,  1691.  Newsletter,  Edinburgh,  March  28.  Our  letters  of  the 
21st  from  Elgin  say  that  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline  and  Colonel  Cannon, 
with  a  small  party,  came  down  upon  James  of  Cockstoune's  lands,  in  the 
shire  of  Moray,  on  the  south  side  of  the  river  Spey,  where,  missing  him, 
they  carried  off  all  the  cattle  and  sheep  they  could  get.' 

The  movements  of  Dunfermline  and  Cannon  are  referred  to  by  Sir 
George  Mackenzie  in  his  ms.  Account  of  Scottish  Families.  'The  Earl  of 
Dunfermline,'  he  says,  'hes  been  since  the  Revolution,  1689,  in  the  hills 
w*  Buchan  and  Cannon,  and  is  now  in  ffrance  w*  them  w'  K.  J.  7.' 2 

Outlawed  and  forfeited  by  Parliament  in  1690,  Lord  Dunfermline 
followed  the  King  to  St.  Germains,  where  he  was  invested  with  the  Order 
of  the  Thistle.  The  following  letter  is  given,  from  the  '  Denbigh  Collec- 
tion,' in  the  seventh  Report  of  the  Royal  Commission  on  Historical  mss.  : 
'  J'ai  apris  ce  soir  que  my  Lord  Dunferlin  est  arivee  de  Paris  en  Ecosse 
avec  des  armes  quelque  argent  et  quelques  officiers  pour  tacher  de  reveiller 
le  reste  du  party  abatu,  \\  Decembre  1691,  Vendredi.' 

Lord  Dunfermline  died  at  St.  Germains,  without  issue,  26th  December 
1694,  about  the  age  of  fifty,  when  the  representation  of  the  family  appears 
to  have  devolved  upon  the  Setons  of  Barns.3 

The  following  reference  to  the  fourth  Earl  of  Dunfermline  occurs  in 
the  Preface  to  the  Secret  Services  of  John  Macky,  Esq.  (1733):  'The 
Lords   Dumferling,    Dundee,    Dunkel ;    Colonels   Cannan,    Graham,    and 


1  Historical  MSS.  Commission,   Report  xii.,  2  Small  4to  (12,464),  in  the  British  Museum. 

1890,  pp.  288,  293,  and  324.  3  See  No.  xvn.  supra. 


INGRATITUDE   OF  JAMES  VII.  669 

several  other  Protestants,  having  forfeited  their  estates  and  families,  retired 
into  France ;  as  also  did  the  Colonels  Buchan,  Maxwell,  Wauchop,  and 
some  other  Popish  gentlemen ;  but  when  they  came  to  St.  Germain,  the 
Papists  were  immediately  preferred  to  considerable  posts,  both  in  the 
French  and  Irish  armies,  while  the  Protestants,  tho'  their  merit  was 
greater,  were  exposed  to  all  imaginable  hardships  and  contempts.  My 
Lord  Dumferling  and  Colonel  Cannan  are  too  illustrious  examples  of  King 
James's  ingratitude  to  be  here  passed  by.  The  Earl,  thro'  a  mistaken 
notion  of  loyalty  and  honour,  had  sacrificed  his  worthy  family  and  a 
plentiful  estate  to  follow  that  Prince  in  his  misfortunes ;  and  it  must  be 
granted  that  such  a  proof  of  loyalty  deserved  some  kind  returns,  yet,  hap- 
pening to  quarrel  at  St.  Germain  with  one  Captain  Brown,  a  Papist,  about  a 
trifle,  the  Captain  was  encouraged  and  countenanced  in  his  quarrel  by  the 
Court,  and  made  commander  of  a  company  of  Scots,  Reformed  officers  in 
Catalonia,  whilst  this  noble  Lord  was  despised  for  his  adhering  to  his 
religion.  This  ill-treatment  broke  his  heart,  and  he  sunk  under  the  weight 
of  his  hard  fate,  at  St.  Germain.  His  misfortune  lasted  longer  than  his 
life  ;  for  notwithstanding  his  merits,  sufferings,  and  the  interest  made  by 
his  friends,  he  could  not  obtain  a  Christian  burial ;  and  his  corps  was  hid 
in  a  chamber,  till  an  opportunity  was  found  of  digging  a  hole  in  the  fields 
in  the  night,  where  they  thrust  him  in.' 

In  referring  to  the  Court  of  James  vn.  at  St.  Germains,  Lord 
Macaulay  says : — 

'James  seems  to  have  thought  that  the  strongest  proof  of  kindness 
which  he  could  give  to  heretics  who  had  resigned  wealth,  country,  family, 
for  his  sake,  was  to  suffer  them  to  be  beset,  on  their  dying  beds,  by  his 
priests.  If  some  sick  man,  helpless  in  body  and  in  mind,  and  deafened  by 
the  din  of  bad  logic  and  bad  rhetoric,  suffered  a  wafer  to  be  thrust  into  his 
mouth,  a  great  work  of  grace  was  triumphantly  announced  to  the  Court ; 
and  the  neophyte  was  buried  with  all  the  pomp  of  religion.  But  if  a 
royalist,  of  the  highest  rank  and  most  stainless  character,  died  professing 
firm  attachment  to  the  Church  of  England,  a  hole  was  dug  in  the  fields, 
and  at  dead  of  night  he  was  flung  into  it,  and  covered  up  like  a  mass  of 
carrion. 

'  Such  were  the  obsequies  of  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  who  had  served 
the  House  of  Stuart  with  the  hazard  of  his  life  and  to  the  utter  ruin  of  his 
fortunes,  who  had  fought  at  Killiecrankie,  and  who  had,  after  the  victory, 
lifted  from  the  earth  the  still  breathing  remains  of  Dundee.  While  living, 
Dunfermline  had  been  treated  with  contumely.  The  Scottish  officers  who 
had  long  served  under  him  had  in  vain  entreated  that,  when  they  were 
formed  into  a  company,  he  might  still  be  their  commander.  His  religion 
had  been  thought  a  fatal  disqualification.  A  worthless  adventurer,  whose 
only  recommendation  was  that  he  was  a  Papist,  was  preferred.  Dunferm- 
line continued,  during  a  short  time,  to  make  his  appearance  in  the  circle 
which  surrounded  the  Prince  whom  he  had  served  too  well :  but  it  was  to 
no  purpose.     The  bigots  who  ruled  the  Court  refused  to  the  ruined  and 


670 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 


expatriated  Protestant  Lord  the  means  of  subsistence  :  he  died  of  a  broken 
heart,  and  they  refused  him  even  a  grave.'1 

From  the  deposition  of  Lieutenant  John  Nisbet,  of  Viscount  Ken- 
mure's  regiment  of  foot,  embraced  in  the  process  of  forfeiture  against  the 
representatives  of  Lords  Dundee  and  Dunfermline,  it  appears  that  '  he  saw 
the  Earle  of  Dumfermling  in  armes  after  the  fight  at  Kellachranky  .  .  . 
and  being  interrogat  of  what  stature  and  visage  the  sd  Earle  wes,  Depones 
he  was  a  midle-sized  man,  weel  favoured,  and  high  nosed.' 2  It  would 
seem,  therefore,  that  the  fourth  Earl  bore  a  strong  resemblance  to  his 
father,  whose  aquiline  nose  forms  a  very  prominent  feature  in  his  medallion 
in  the  British  Museum,  as  well  as  in  his  portrait  at  Yester. 


Armorial  Bearings. 

Quarterly:  1st  and  4th,  or,  three  crescents  within  a  royal  tressure, 
gules,  for  Seton  ;  2nd  and  3rd,  argent,  on  a  fess,  gules,  three  cinquefoils  of 
the  first,  for  Hamilton. 

Supporters — two  horses  at  liberty,  argent. 

Crest — a  crescent,  gules. 

Motto—'  Semper.' 3 

Before  adopting  the  quarterly  arrangement,  the  first  Earl  of  Dunferm- 
line appears  to  have  first  carried  the  paternal  coat  of  Seton,  and  afterwards 
Seton  and  Hamilton  in  a  combined  form,  thus  :  or,  on  a  fess  above  three 
crescents  within  a  royal  tressure,  gules,  as  many  cinquefoils,  argent.  Four 
of  his  seals  are  engraved  in  this  work. 


1  History  of  England,  chap.  xx. 

2  Acts  of  the  Parliament  of  Scotland,  1690, 
App.  p.  56. 

In  a  subsequent  Appendix  reference  will  be 


made  to  the  stature  of  the  Dunfermline  family. 

3  This  is  the  blazon  given  at  p.  28  of  a  large 
folio  MS.  in  the  British  Museum  (Bibl.  Harl. 
1423),  entitled  Scotland s  Nobility  and  Gentry. 


KYLESMURE   BRANCH 


671 


XIX.  Kylesmure 


fi^^QHE  fifth  and  youngest  son  of  George,  seventh  Lord 
Seton,  was 

1.  Sir  William  Seton  of  Kylesmure, 

who  was  born  in  1562.  Lord  Kingston  describes 
him  as  'a  brave  man,  and  for  some  years  chiefe 
justice  in  the  south  border  of  Scotland.  After 
King  James  was  King  of  England,  he  was  one 
of  his  Majesties  master-household,  and  master  of 
the  Posts  of  Scotland,  for  both  which  he  had  a  pension  of  King  James 
and  King  Charles  the  First.'1 

On  the  20th  April  1588  there  is  a  confirmation  by  the  King  of  a 
charter  by  '  William  Seytoun,  lawful  son  of  the  late  George,  Lord  Seytoun,' 
to  William  M'Kie  in  Kirriquhirne  and  Margaret  Mure  his  spouse,  of  the 
lands  of  Kirriquhirne,  Wigtonshire.2 

About  the  same  date  (at  Holyroodhouse,  8th  February  1587-8)  we 
find  a  charter  by  the  King  to  '  William  Setoun,  brother-german  of  Robert, 
Lord  Setoun,'  of  numerous  lands  in  the  lordship  of  Galloway  '  under  Cree,' 
stewartry  of  Kirkcudbright,  as  well  as  of  others  in  the  same  lordship 
'  above  Cree,'  in  the  shire  of  Wigton, — with  manors,  fortalices,  mansions, 
mills,  and  fishings  ;  holding  of  the  King  in  feuferme.3 


1  Continuation  of  the  History  of  the  House  of 
Seytoun,  p.  68. 


2  Great  Seal  Register,  Lib.  xxxvii.,  No.  197. 

3  Ibid.  No.  51. 


672  SIR  WILLIAM   SETON 

The  said  William  Setoun  resigned  the  lands  of  Meikle  Sanrick  or 
Dunrod  Sanrick  to  James  Charteris,  son  and  heir  of  Robert  Charteris  of 
Kelwode  (old  native  tenant  of  the  lands),  on  which  the  King  granted 
charter,  12th  July  1588.1 

Three  years  afterwards  (5th  March  1 591-2)  there  is  a  confirmation 
by  the  King  of  a  charter  by  '  William  Seytoun,  brother-german  of  Robert, 
Lord  Seytoun,'  to  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  Knight,  of  the  half  of  the  lands 
of  Quhytepark  and  others,  in  the  lordship  of  Galloway  below  Cree,  and  of 
Aultoun  and  others  above  Cree,  with  manors,  castle,  etc.2 

On  the  14th  of  December  1591,  Sir  Patrick  Vans  of  Barnebarroch, 
Knight,  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice,  renounces  to  and  in 
favour  of  the  Right  Honourable  William  Seytoun,  brother-german  to 
Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  '  all  and  whole  the  5  merkland  of  Clawchrie,  lying 
in  the  parish  of  Kirkinner  and  sheriffdom  of  Wigton,  in  consideration  of 
certain  sums  of  money  paid  and  delivered  to  him  by  the  said  William.'3 

At  Holyroodhouse,  23rd  January  1597-8,  there  is  a  letter  of  gift  to 
'  Sir  William  Seytoun  of  Kylesmure,  Knight,'  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander 
Simsoun,  burgess  of  Haddington,  now  in  the  King's  hands,  through  the 
said  Alexander  being  put  to  the  horn  on  8th  October  last,  by  virtue  of 
letters  raised  against  him  at  the  instance  of  William  Naper,  merchant- 
burgess  of  Edinburgh,  for  non-payment  of  ^258  ;  and  about  five  years 
afterwards  (15th  December  1602)  special  licence  is  granted  to  him  'to 
transport  furth  of  this  realm  40  lasts  of  tallow,  to  the  parts  of  France, 
or  any  other  parts  beyond  sea,  that  he  shall  think  most  expedient,  for  his 
best  profit,  for  his  trouble  and  the  great  debt  he  sustained  in  bringing  of 
certane  number  of  craftsmen  clothiers,  for  the  great  benefit  of  his  native 
country  in  the  perfection  of  that  art  and  making  cloth,  etc' 4 

On  the  4th  December  1609  we  find  confirmation  of  a  charter 
granted  by  Patrick  Home  of  Garvaldgrange,  with  consent  of  Jean  Ogill 
his  spouse,  and  of  Marion  Sleich  his  mother,  to  Sir  William  Seytoun  of 
Kylesmure,  Knight,  and  Lady  Agnes  Stirling  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of 
Garvaldgrange,  kirklands  of  Garvald,  etc.,  in  the  constabulary  of  Had- 
dington and  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh,  to  be  holden  of  the  King  in  place  of 
the  monastery  of  Haddington.5 

Two  commissions  were  issued  at  Greenwich  by  King  James  vi.,  on  the 
15th  of  June  and  the  1st  of  July  161 1,  of  which  the  first  appointed  Sir 
William  Seton  of  Kylesmure  and  three  others  Justiciaries  over  the  border 
counties ;  while  under  the  second  he  was  nominated  one  of  eight  Com- 
missioners, for  both  kingdoms,  to  settle  and  establish  peace  on  the 
borders.6 

Two  letters  from  Sir  William  Seton  to  Thomas,  Lord  Binning,  in 
16 1 6,  turn  up  in  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Haddington?     On 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  Lib.  xxxvii.  No.  156.  6  Great  Seal  Register,  Lib.  xlvi.  No.  27. 

2  Ibid.  Lib.  xxxviii.  No.  7.  6  Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Had- 

3  Register  of  Deeds,  Scott  Office,  xl.  91.  dington,  i.  liv. 

1  Privy  Seal  Register,  lxix.  201,  and  lxxiii.  131.  7  ii.  129,  i.  125,  and  ii.  131. 


POSTMASTER-GENERAL,    ETC.  673 

the  10th  of  February  he  writes,  as  Sheriff  of  Edinburgh,  with  reference  to 
rewards  for  his  services,  and  incidentally  mentions  the  funeral  of  his  sister 
Margaret,  wife  of  Lord  Claude  Hamilton.  Seven  days  later  he  indites  a 
communication  respecting  the  cattle-stealing  propensities  of  the  Borderers, 
and  gives  an  account  of  an  Assize  Court  held  at  Peebles,  which  dealt  with 
forty-one  culprits,  of  whom  twenty-one  were  hanged,  four  banished,  and 
sixteen  outlawed  for  non-appearance.  He  expresses  much  concern  at  having 
to  execute  so  many  '  propper  men,  als  featt  be  appearance  for  better  service 
as  was  in  the  land.'  '  It  is,'  he  says,  '  ane  pietie  of  the  greitt  bowtcharie 
we  mak  of  prettie  men.  We  greive  in  our  actiouns,  abhoris  the  crweltie 
of  our  executiounis,  and  ar  eschamed  of  our  service  in  regaird  of  the  littell 
amendement  in  the  cuntrey.' 

On  the  9th  of  January  1617  Sir  William's  'absence  and  not  com- 
peirance  to  accept  the  schirefship  of  Hadingtoun  is  excuisit  and  continewit 
to  Tyesday  next'  ;  and  the  following  year  (18th  June  1618),  as  one  of  the 
Masters  of  Household,  he  receives  £1000  for  services  during  the  King's 
visit  to  Scotland.1 

Sir  William  Seton  is  named  a  '  counsallour '  in  the  Latter  Will  of 
'  James  Erie  of  Abercorne,  etc.,  the  tyme  of  his  deceis,  quha  deceist  w*in 
the  parochin  of  Mounktoune,  vpon  the  xxiij  day  of  Merche,  the  yeir  of 
God  Jajyjc  and  auchtein  yeiris  : — 

'  I  ordane,  etc.,  and  that  be  the  advys  and  counsall  of  Alexr  erle  of 
Donefermeling,  James  marqueis  of  Hamiltoune,  Wm  erle  of  Angous, 
Alexr  erle  of  Eglintoune,  George  erle  of  Wintoune,  Johnne  vicount  of 
Lader,  Hew  Lord  of  Loudoune,  Thomas  Lord  of  Bynning,  and  Sr  Wm 
Seytoune  of  Kylismuir,  Knicht,  my  most  affectionat  vncle,  or  the  maist 
pairt  of  thame  only  for  the  tyme.' 2 

Two  years  later  (1620),  as  Postmaster-General,  Sir  William  Seton 
pursues  the  several  postmasters  of  Colbrandispeth,  Haddingtoun,  and  Canon- 
gate  for  various  kinds  of  mismanagement ;  and  owing  to  the  non-appear- 
ance of  the  defenders  the  Lords  direct  the  Treasurer  and  Receiver  of  his 
Majesty's  rents  to  pay  in  future  to  the  pursuer  and  his  successors  in  the 
service  the  fees  of  the  said  postmasters  and  their  successors,  that  he  may 
pay  according  to  the  service  done — always  finding  caution  to  the  post- 
masters for  payment  of  their  fees  '  according  to  the  tymes  of  thair  service 
and  thair  behavioure  and  cariage  thairintill.'3 

Towards  the  end  of  the  same  year,  Sir  William  appears  to  have  made 
an  unsuccessful  complaint  against  the  burghs  of  Burntisland  and  Kinghorn 
for  infringements  of  his  patent  for  the  supply  of  post-horses  throughout 
the  kingdom.4 

In  November  162 1,  Douglas  of  Cavers  is  summoned  for  speaking 
irreverently  of  Sir  William  Seton,  and  four  months  later  (18th  March  1622), 


1  Register  of  Privy  Council,  edited  by  Pro-  3  Register  of  Privy  Council,  xii.  82  and  365. 
fessor  Masson,  xi.  4  and  387.  l  Hid.  389. 

2  Conf.  Sept.  2,  1620,  Com.  Rec.  of  Glasgow. 

4Q 


674    SIR  WILLIAM,   SECOND  OF   KYLESMURE 


along  with  the  other  commissioners,  he  is  requested  to  take  steps  for  the 
repression  of  theft  and  other  crimes  on  the  Border.1 

By  his  wife,  Stirling,  '  daughter  to  the  House  of  Glorat,'2  Sir 

William  Seton  had  two  sons  and  three 
daughters : — 

i.  William,  who  succeeded  his  father. 
2.  John,  'ane  officer  in  France,  wher 
the  said  John  dyed.' 

Of  the  three  daughters  (whose  Chris- 
tian names  do  not  transpire),  the  eldest 
married  '  Fairly,  barron  of  Bred  ';3  and  the 
second  Sir  John  Auchmouty  of  Gosford, 
Groom  of  the  Bedchamber,  as  mentioned 
in  a  letter,  written  in  1616,  from  Anna, 
first  Countess  of  Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of 
Eglinton,  to  the  wife  of  John  Murray, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Annandale.4 

According  to  Lord  Kingston,  Sir 
William  Seton  '  dyed  of  73  years  of  age, 
in  his  house  att  Haddington,  anno  1634; 
and  was  buried  in  the  colledge  kirk  of 
Seton.'5  From  the  record  of  his  testament,  however,  it  appears  that  he 
died  in  July  1635  ;  that  his  executor-dative  was  William  Seton,  his  eldest 
lawful  son  ;  that  the  sum  of  his  inventory  was  vjclxiiijlib  vjs  viijd ;  that 
no  debts  were  owing  to  him ;  and  that  among  the  debts  due  by  him  was 
one  to  Sir  John  Seton  of  [Barns?]  for  the  ferme  of  his  land  'occupied 
by  the  defunct  of  jc  lib.'  The  testament  was  confirmed  6th  August  1636, 
George  Forrester,  postmaster  in  Haddington,  being  cautioner.6 


2.  Sir  William  Seton,  second  of  Kylesmure, 

succeeded  his  father  as  Master  of  the  Posts  in  Scotland,  during  his  life- 
time. This  appears  from  a  charter  by  the  King,  dated  at  Theobald's 
2nd  April  1623,  constituting  'William  Seytoun  of  Grange,  eldest  son  of 
Sir  William  Seton  of  Kylesmure,'  his  Majesty's  Chief  Postmaster,  which 
office  was  vacant  by  the  demission  of  the  said  Sir  William  ;  with  power, 


1  Register  of  Privy  Council,  xii.  650,  672 
et  seq. 

2  Sir  William  Seton's  marriage  is  not  men- 
tioned by  Mr.  Joseph  Bain  in  the  privately 
printed  account  of  The  Stirlings  of  Craigbe?tiard 
and  Glorat ;  but  at  p.  26  of  that  work  reference 
is  made  to  the  marriage  (in  1657)  of  Sir  George 
Stirling,  first  Baronet  of  Glorat,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  '  Sir  George  Seaton  of  Haillis,'  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  child,  Mary,  married  to 
James  Stirling,  brother-german  to  the  Laird  of 
Keir. 


3  'The  Fairlys  of  Braid  seem  to  be  quite  dis- 
tinct from  the  more  ancient  family  of  Fairly  of 
that  ilk,  near  Largs,  in  Ayrshire  ;  and  are  said 
to  be  derived  from  a  natural  son  of  one  of  the 
Stewart  kings.  Robert  Fairly  of  Braid  will  be 
remembered  by  his  friendship  to  John  Knox.' — 
Notes  to  Maitland's  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  101. 

4  Letters  and  State  Papers  of  the  Reign  of 
James  VI.,  p.  289. 

6  Continuation  of  the  History  of  t lie  House  of 
Seytoun,  p.  68. 
6  Edinburgh  Testaments,  lvii. 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS  675 

after  the  decease  or  deprivation  of  the  present  under-postmasters,  to  appoint 
others,  or  to  remove  and  deprive  them  ;  with  a  fee  of  .^oo.1 

Two  years  later  (Whitehall,  26th  May  1625)  there  is  another  charter 
by  King  Charles  the  First,  ratifying  a  grant  to  Sir  William  Setoun,  knight, 
and  after  his  death  to  William  and  John,  his  sons,  of  a  yearly  pension  of 
^1200;  also  ratifying  the  gift  of  the  Postmastership  and  fee  of  ^500, 
already  mentioned.2 

The  second  Sir  William  Seton  never  married.  '  He  dyed  of  good 
age,  in  anno  1662  :  and  was  buried  in  the  colledge  kirk  of  Seton.'3 

Armorial  Bearings. 

Or  on  a  chevron  azure  a  cinquefoil  of  the  first  between  three  crescents, 
all  within  a  royal  tressure gules. — MS.  Book  of  Blazons  in  the  Lyon  Office, 
bearing  the  name  of  '  John  Stacey,  Ross  Herald,  1682.' 

I  have  been  unable  to  ascertain  what  Crest  and  Motto  were  carried 
by  this  branch  of  the  family. 


1  Great  Seal  Register,  ii.  303.  3  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation,  p.  69. 

2  Ibid.  ii.  381. 


676 


EGLINTON   LINE 


XX.  Eglinton  (Seton-Montgomerie) 


HE  importance  of  this  distinguished  branch  of  the 
family  has  been  materially  increased  since  it  came 
to  be  regarded  as  inheriting  the  representation  of 
the  House  of  Seton,  after  the  failure  of  the  King- 
ston and  Garleton  branches  in  the  male  line.  It 
must  be  borne  in  mind  that,  like  several  of  the 
cadets  who  adopted  other  surnames,  the  Earls  of 
Eglinton,  since  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  though  nominally  Montgomeries,  have 
been  really  Setons,  and  hence  their  claim  to  the 
headship  of  the  great  historic  House. 

Upwards  of  thirty-five  years  ago  (1859)  two  sumptuous  quarto  volumes, 
entitled  Memorials  of  the  Montgomeries,  Earls  of  Eglinton,  were  compiled 
by  Mr.  (now  Sir)  William  Fraser  for  the  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton  ;  and 
accordingly  a  comparatively  brief  record  of  this  line  of  the  family  seems  to 
be  all  that  is  required  in  the  present  work.  Besides  an  elaborate  Preface, 
the  first  of  these  volumes  embraces  an  account  of  the  Seton  Earls  and  their 
cadets,  extending  to  upwards  of  one  hundred  pages,  followed  by  a  highly 
interesting  series  of  letters,  332  in  number,  which  nearly  all  relate  to  the 
Seton  portion  of  the  pedigree.  Besides  several  miscellaneous  illustrations 
in  the  shape  of  views,  coats  of  arms,  etc.,  the  volume  contains  engravings 


FAMILY  CORRESPONDENCE  677 

of  twenty-one  family  portraits,1  collected  from  Auchans,  Skelmorlie,  and 
elsewhere,  which  are  all  connected  with  the  Seton  Earls. 

The  second  volume  (424  pages)  is  entirely  occupied  with  upwards 
of  250  charters  and  other  family  papers,  ranging  from  1170  to  1728,  of 
which  the  large  majority  relate  to  the  Montgomerie  Earls.  Besides 
numerous  engravings  of  seals,  it  contains  an  extensive  series  of  facsimile 
signatures. 

The  letters  may  be  roughly  classified  under  the  two  heads  of  historical 
and  domestic ;  but  not  unfrequently  the  same  effusion  exhibits  a  curious 
combination  of  both  characteristics.  Some  of  the  most  interesting  letters 
of  the  former  class  (which  include  fourteen  royal  epistles)  are  addressed  to 
Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton  ('Greysteel') — the  first  of  the  Seton  Earls, 
— who,  as  we  shall  afterwards  see,  took  a  very  prominent  part  in  public 
affairs  during  the  reigns  of  Charles  1.  and  11.  Among  the  occasional  writers 
are  the  Marquis  of  Argyll,  General  Dalzell  of  Binns,  General  Monk, 
Zachary  Boyd,  Archbishop  Sharp,  Samuel  Rutherford,  Bishop  Burnet, 
and  Jeremy  Taylor. 

A  considerable  number  of  the  Seton  letters  are  from  Alexander,  sixth 
Earl  of  Eglinton,  his  Countess  Anna  Livingstone,  his  brother  George, 
third  Earl  of  Winton,  and  his  uncle  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline ; 
while  others  are  from  Lady  Isabella  Seton,  Countess  of  Perth,  Sir  William 
Seton  of  Kylesmure,  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  Margaret  Montgomerie, 
Dowager  Countess  of  Winton,  and  Susanna  Kennedy,  Countess  of 
Eglinton. 

The  Countess  of  '  Greysteel '  addresses  her  absent  Lord  respecting 
'home  affairs,'  while  he  affectionately  assures  his  'sueitteste  herte '  of  his 
speedy  return.  A  present  of  aquavitce,  and  children's  colds  and  fevers, 
form  the  subjects  of  a  letter  to  another  Countess  from  her  mother-in- 
law  ;  my  Lord  Winton  writes  to  his  brother  Eglinton  regarding  an 
exchange  of  dogs,  and  the  Queen's  death  ;  the  Earl  of  Cassilis  announces 
the  demise  of  his  '  deir  bedfellow ' ;  and  Sir  Robert  Montgomerie  of  Skel- 
morlie entreats  his  uncle's  forgiveness  for  the  '  crime '  of  marrying  without 
his  knowledge. 

The  quaint  and  touching  simplicity  of  nearly  all  these  letters  could 
hardly  be  surpassed.  The  mixture  of  affection  and  formality  in  the  style 
of  address  is  also  very  curious.  Thus,  in  the  case  of  a  wife  to  her  husband, 
'  My  dearest  sweet  hert ' — heart  being  sometimes  rudely  drawn  instead  of 
written — concluding,  'Yours  most  dewtifullie  affectionat  whilst  I  live,'  and 
addressed,  '  To  my  lord  and  well-beloued  husband,  the  Earlle  of  Eglintoun.' 
Again,  a  mother  to  her  son,  commencing,  '  My  verie  goode  lord  and  loving 
sone,'  and  concluding,  '  Your  lordship's  most  loving  mother  at  power,'  with 
the  address,  '  To  my  verie  honorable  lord  and  loving  sone  the  Earle  of 


1  In  his  Preface  the  Editor  states  that  '  whilst  gardener's  house  at  Weirston.     The  house  was 

the  present  Castle  of  Eglinton  was  being  built,  accidentally  burnt,  and  the  portraits  perished  in 

the  portraits  of  the  family,  which  had  been  in  the  conflagration.' 
the  old  castle,  were  removed  to  a  loft  in  the 


678  THE   SETON   EARLS 

Eglintoun.'  Postscripts  then,  as  now,  are  by  no  means  uncommon,  par- 
ticularly in  the  case  of  ladies'  letters  ;  while  the  large,  distinct,  and  elaborate 
signature  of  most  of  the  writers  forms  rather  a  striking  contrast  to  the 
shabby  and  frequently  illegible  subscription  of  the  present  day.1 

By  an  arrangement  between  the  families  of  Eglinton  and  Winton  it 
was  agreed  that  the  third  son  of  the  Countess  of  Winton,  who  was  the 
nearest  heir  of  Hugh  Montgomerie,  fifth  Earl  of  Eglinton,2  should  be  his 
successor  in  the  Earldom.  Accordingly,  on  the  28th  of  November  161 1, 
a  Crown  charter  was  obtained  in  favour  of  that  Earl,  whom  failing,  to  Sir 
Alexander  Seton  of  Foulstruther,  Knight,  third  son  of  Lady  Margaret 
Montgomerie,  Countess  of  Winton,  and  others,  and  their  respective  heirs- 
male,  of  the  barony  of  Kilwinning  and  the  Earldom  of  Eglinton,  which,  on 
the  death  of  the  fifth  Earl  on  the  4th  of  September  1612,  were  then  trans- 
ferred to  the  Seton  family. 

THE  EARLS  OF  EGLINTON  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  SETON 

1.  Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

third  son  of  Robert  Seton,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  and  Lady  Margaret 
Montgomerie,  was  born  in  1588,  and  appears  to  have  been  provided,  at  an 
early  age,  with  the  lands  of  Foulstruther  and  St.  Germains,  in  the  county 
of  Haddington.  On  the  20th  October  16 12  he  was  served  heir  to  the 
Earldom  of  Eglinton  before  a  distinguished  inquest,  but  the  King 
(James  vi.)  challenged  the  transmission  of  the  honours  without  the  royal 
sanction,  and  for  a  time  declined  to  acknowledge  Sir  Alexander  as  Earl  of 
Eglinton ;  while  the  Court  interfered  with  his  rights  of  property,  the  lord- 
ship of  Kilwinning  having  been  granted  to  Sir  Michael  Balfour  of  Burleigh 
by  Act  of  Parliament.  After  repeated  remonstrances,  Sir  Alexander  found 
his  way  to  the  Earl  of  Somerset,  the  King's  chief  favourite,  and  boldly 
demanded  justice.  Though  unskilled  in  the  subtleties  of  law,  he  led 
Somerset  to  understand  that  he  was  acquainted  with  the  use  of  the  sword  ; 
and  from  his  spirited  conduct  on  the  occasion  the  Earl  obtained  the 
sobriquet  of  '  Greysteel,'  by  which  he  is  still  known  in  family  tradition. 
Through  the  influence  of  his  distinguished  uncle,  Chancellor  Seton,  the 
King  was  ultimately  induced  to  relent,  and  formally  to  recognise  Sir 
Alexander  as  Earl  of  Eglinton,  who  duly  acknowledged  a  'gracious  and 
princelie  letter'  from  his  'maist  sacred  soueraine,'  announcing  his  reception 
into  royal  favour.  Under  the  title  of  '  Staite  bussines  for  ye  zeirs  161 2  and 
1613'  (Adv.  Lib.  ms.  33.  1.  1)  is  a  beautifully  written  letter  of  the  Earl's 


1  Abridged  from  the  author's  Gossip  about  tional  26,676),  it  is  said  :  '  They  be  of  stomack 
Letters  and  Letter-Writers  (1870),  pp.  20  et  stoute  and  hardie,  enemies  sometime  to  the 
seq.  house  of  Glencarne  and  Boyde.      They  have 

2  In  the  notice  of  Montgomery,  Erie  of  Eglin-  matched  with  the  houses  of  Argile,  Leuinox, 
ton,'  contained  in  a  curious  MS.  in  the  British  Ardkinglas,  Cadder,  and  others — his  power  of 
Museum  entitled  '  Arms  and  Pedigrees '  (Addi-  himselfe  not  great.' 


ALEXANDER,   SIXTH   EARL 


679 


relative  to  his  title,  beginning  'maist  noble  and  maist  honorable  good 
Lords. ' 

For  nearly  half  a  century  'Greysteel'  enjoyed  his  titles  and  estates,  and 
appears  to  have  continued  in  favour  with  James  vi.,  being  present  at  his 
funeral  on  the  7th  of  May  1625. 

During  the  troubled  reigns  of  the  '  martyr  king '  and  his  gay 
successor,  the  Earl  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  and,  contrary  to  the 
traditions  of  his  House,  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  the  Covenanters.  On 
the  occurrence  of  the  Irish  rebellion  in  1641  the  Earl  commanded  the 
troops  which  were  sent  to  protect  the  Scottish  settlers,  and  after  his  return 
he  fought  under  the  united  armies  of  Parliament  and  the  Covenant.  In 
their  early  movements  he  was  associated  with  Cassilis  and  Rothes.  '  He 
took  part  as  a  ruling  elder  in  the  Assembly  which  framed  the  Solemn 
League  and  Covenant,  and  voted  in  the  Parliament  which  surrendered  the 
King  to  the    English.'  x     His   bravery   at   the  battle  of  Marston  Moor 


Wishart's  Memoirs  of  Montrose,  translated  by  Murdoch  and  Simpson,  p.  121. 


68o 


BATTLE   OF   MARSTON   MOOR 


(where  his  son  and  successor  fought  as  a  Royalist)  is  specially  referred  to 
in  one  of  Robert  Baillie's  letters.  '  The  disadvantage  of  the  ground,'  he 
writes,  '  and  violence  of  the  flower  of  Prince  Rupert's  horse,  carried  all 
our  right  wing  doune ;  only  Eglintoune  keeped  ground  there,  to  his  great 
loss.  His  lieutenant,  Cronner,  a  most  brave  man,  I  fear  shall  die,  and  his 
son  Robert  be  mutilate  of  ane  arme.'1 

It  was,  however,  from  no  feeling  of  disloyalty  that  the  Earl  and  his 
friends  of  the  Covenant  opposed  the  King  in  civil  war.  His  distress  at 
the  cruel  execution  of  his  Sovereign  was  openly  indicated,  and  it  was 
chiefly  by  the  exertions  of  the  Covenanting  noblemen  that  Charles  n.  was 
restored  to  the  throne  of  his  ancestors.  On  the  King's  arrival  in  Scotland 
in  1650  Lord  Eglinton  was  one  of  the  first  to  give  him  a  warm  welcome, 
and  soon  afterwards  he  obtained  the  appointment  of  Captain  of  the 
Royal  Horse  Guards.  In  165 1  he  was  surprised  at  Dumbarton  by  a 
party  of  English,  and  remained  in  prison  till  the  Restoration.2 

Judging  from  the  terms  of  the  family  letters,  the  domestic  life  of 
'  Greysteel '  appears  to  have  been  a  very  happy  one.  The  tenderness  of  his 
affection,  and  his  consideration  for  the  young,  frequently  crop  up  in  his  corre- 
spondence. His  frequent  allusion  to  the  want  of  money  is  supposed  to  have 
given  rise  to  two  prayers  or  proverbs  which  have  been  attributed  to  him  : 
'  God  send  us  some  money,  for  they  are  little  thought  of  that  want  it ' ;  and 
'  God  keep  all  gear  out  of  my  hands,  for  if  my  hands  once  get  it,  my  heart 
will  never  part  with  it.'  Although  derisively  called  the  '  pious  Eglinton,' 
there  seems  to  be  little  doubt  that  his  religion  was  heartfelt  and  genuine. 

He  died  at  Eglinton  Castle  on  the  14th  of  January  1661,  aged 
seventy-three,  having  been  twice  married — first,  on  22nd  June  1612,    to 

Lady  Anna  Livingstone,  eldest  daughter 
of  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Linlithgow, 
and  for  some  time  a  maid  of  honour  to 
Anne  of  Denmark,  Queen  of  James  vi., 
by  whom  he  had  five  sons  and  three 
daughters : — 

1.  Hugh,  seventh  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

2.  Sir  Henry  Montgomerie  of  Giffen, 
born  26th  June  16 14,  and  baptized  21st 
August,  '  the  Quein's  Majestie  being  his 
god-mother.'  He  was  a  student  at  the 
University  of  Glasgow  in  1628,  and 
travelled  on  the  Continent  four  years  after- 
wards. He  married,  in  1640,  Lady  Jean 
Campbell,  sister  of  Archibald,  Marquis  of 
Argyll,  and  relict  of  Robert,  first  Viscount 
Kenmure,  but  '  died  without  heirs,'  3rd 
May  1643. 


1  Baillie's  Letters,  ii.  174. 


Wishart,  ut  supra. 


GREYSTEEL'S'   TWO   MARRIAGES 


68 1 


3.  Alexander,  born  8th  November  161 5.  Like  his  brother  Henry,  he 
was  educated  at  Glasgow,  and  travelled  with  him  in  France.  He  was  a 
Colonel  in  the  Scots  army  acting  against  the  Irish  rebels,  and  died 
unmarried  in  July  1642,  leaving  an  illegitimate  daughter,  Katherine. 

4.  Colonel  James  Montgomerie  of  Coilsfield,  ancestor  of  the  present 
Earl  of  Eglinton. 

5.  Robert,  who  adopted  the  military  profession,  and  was  severely 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Marston  Moor  in  1644.  Six  years  afterwards 
(31st  July  1650)  he  defeated  the  English,  under  Cromwell,  near  Mussel- 
burgh, and  behaved  with  great  gallantry  at  the  battle  of  Worcester.  He 
was  imprisoned  in  Edinburgh  Castle  in  1654,  and  made  his  escape  in  1658, 
finding  his  way  to  the  south  of  France. 

Notwithstanding  an  intimated  resolution  to  lead  a  single  life,  General 
Montgomerie  married,  in  1662,  Elizabeth  Livingstone,  daughter  of  James, 
Viscount  Kilsyth,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter  and  two  sons  (Alexander 
and  James),  who  all  appear  to  have  died  without  issue.  Law  relates  a 
curious  case  of  witchcraft  which  occurred  at  the  house  of  General  Mont- 
gomerie in  Irvine.1 

6.  Lady  Margaret,  born  20th  February  161 7,  married  first,  in  1642, 
John,  first  Earl  of  Tweeddale  (as  his  second  wife),  and  had  one  son,  William 
Hay  of  Drummelzier.  Robert  Baillie,  who  was  minister  of  Kilwinning 
at  the  time  of  the  marriage,  gives  a  graphic  account  of  the  attendant 
festive  excesses,  besides  deploring  the  presence  of  Lord  Seton,  Lord 
Semple,  and  '  other  papists.' 2 

Lady  Margaret  married, 
by  whom  she  had  no  issue, 
in  her  forty-eighth  year. 

7.  Lady  Helenor,  born  26th  July 
16 1 8,  and  died  young. 

8.  Lady  Anna,  died  unmarried  in 
1649. 

Anna,  Countess  of  Eglinton,  died 
1 2th  November  1632,  and  was  buried  at 
Kilwinning,  '  without  ceremony  of  armes, 
and  a  preaching  was  made.' 3 

The  sixth  Earl  married,  secondly, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Walter,  first  Lord 
Scott  of  Buccleuch,  and  widow  of  James, 
sixth  Lord  Ross,  by  whom  he  had  no 
issue.  She  died  at  Hull,  where  the  Earl 
was  a  prisoner,  5th  October  1651,  and 
her  body,  after  being  embalmed,  was 
brought  by  sea  to  Dalkeith,  by  her  nephew 
Francis,  Earl  of  Buccleuch. 


secondly,  William,  ninth  Earl  of  Glencairn, 
She  died  at  Edinburgh,  27th  January  1665, 


1  Memorials,  p.  219. 


2  Letters,  ii.  6,  7. 
4R 


Balfour's  Annals,  ii.  192. 


682  HUGH,   SEVENTH   EARL 

2.  Hugh,  seventh  Earl  of  Eg  lint  on, 

born  30th  March  1613,  succeeded  his  father,  the  sixth  Earl,  14th  January 
1 66 1.  During  his  earlier  years  he  lived  much  at  Seton  with  his  grand- 
mother, Margaret,  Dowager  Countess  of  Winton,  and  appears  to  have  been 
educated  along  with  his  young  kinsmen.  In  the  family  correspondence 
between  161 7  and  1620  he  is  referred  to  as  'ane  good  scoller'  and  as 
'bussie  leirning  euerie  day';  and  in  1628  he  was  enrolled  as  a  student 
of  the  University  of  Glasgow. 

In  the  beginning  of  1633,  when  Lord  Montgomerie,  he  found  his  way 
to  Paris,  with  the  view  of  prosecuting  his  studies,  and  particularly  the  art 
of  fortification  and  other  military  matters.  One  of  his  instructors  was  the 
celebrated  Robert  Baillie,  afterwards  Principal  of  Glasgow  College,  who, 
as  a  jealous  Covenanter,  does  not  appear  to  have  been  altogether  satisfied 
with  the  young  lord's  conduct  in  Church  matters.1 

After  visiting  various  parts  of  the  Continent,  Lord  Montgomerie 
returned  to  England,  and,  like  his  gallant  father  '  Greysteel,'  took  an  active 
part  in  the  civil  wars.  In  1640  he  accompanied  the  army  of  the  Covenant 
to  England.  Baillie  speaks  of  Lord  Montgomerie's  regiment  as  among 
the  strongest,  and  specially  refers  to  the  piety  and  military  discipline  by 
which  it  was  distinguished.2 

Different  accounts  appear  to  be  given  of  his  political  conduct  at  a  later 
period;  but  on  the  26th  of  October  1650  the  Committee  of  Estates  held 
at  Perth  passed  an  Act  in  his  favour,  which  declared  him  to  be  capable  of 
public  trust.  The  following  year  (165 1)  Lord  Montgomerie  was  com- 
missioned by  Charles  11.  to  convoke  the  Committees  of  War  in  the  bailliery 
of  Cuninghame  and  sheriffdom  of  Renfrew,  and  fought  for  the  King  at  the 
battle  of  Worcester,  where  he  appears  to  have  been  taken  prisoner.  Four 
years  later  the  state  of  his  health  for  a  time  disqualified  him  from  active 
service. 

In  1662,  after  his  succession  to  the  Earldom,  King  Charles  11.  granted 
him  the  Citadel  of  Ayr,  in  consideration  of  the  good,  true,  and  thankful 
service  done  by  himself  and  his  progenitors  to  his  Majesty  and  his 
deceased  father,  and  in  partial  compensation  for  the  damage  he  had 
sustained  in  the  Royal  interest.  This  was  evidently  in  response  to  an 
urgent  letter  from  Lord  Eglinton  to  the  King — dated  '  Edinburgh,  8th 
October  1661  ' — in  which  he  humbly  entreats  his  Majesty  that,  'considering 
the  very  low  condition  of  that  family,  at  present  whereof  I  am  now  head, 
together  with  the  love  and  good-will  we  have  all  of  us  caried  to  yor  Matie, 
and  what  have  been  our  sufferings  for  yor  Ma*  (whereof  I  love  not  to 
boast,  seeing  all  we  did  and  suffered  was  but  or  duty),  your  MaMe  would 
gratiousely  be  pleased  to  caus  compleat  that  grant  of  the  Cittadell  of  Aire 
for  me.'3 


1  Baillie's  Letters  ii.  35.  3  Lauderdale  Papers,  British  Museum,  23,116. 

2  Ibid.  i.  201.  f.  141. 


HIS   TWO   MARRIAGES 


683 


In  the  beginning  of  1665  he  was  directed  by  the  Earl  of  Rothes  to  carry 
out  the  orders  of  the  Government  relative  to  the  seizure  of  all  arms  in  the 
hands  of  the  lieges,  and  appears  to  have  executed  the  disagreeable  task 
with  considerable  reluctance,  as  indicated  in  a  letter  to  Lord  Rothes,  dated 
'  Eglintoun,  21  April  1665.'  In  consequence  of  his  recommendation, 
gentlemen  were  permitted  to  keep  and  wear  their  swords. 

Lord  Eglinton  was  twice  married;  first,  in  163 1,  to  Lady  Anne 
Hamilton,  eldest  daughter  of  James,  second  Marquis  of  Hamilton,  by 
whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Lady  Anna,  whose  first  husband  is  said  to  have 
been  Robert,  son  of  Sir  John  Seton  of  Hailes,  by  whom  she  had  a  post- 
humous son  in  1655.     In  1658  she  married  James,  third  Earl  of  Findlater. 


Lord  Eglinton  married,  secondly,  in  1635,  Lady  Mary  Leslie,  eldest 
daughter  of  John,  sixth  Earl  of  Rothes,  who  gave  his  daughter  a  tocher 
of  25,000  merks  Scots.  The  issue  of  this  marriage  was  two  sons  and  five 
daughters : — 

1.  Alexander,  eighth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

2.  The  Hon.  Francis  Montgomerie  of  Giffen,  who  received  that 
estate  from  his  father  in  1669.  For  several  years  he  represented  Ayrshire 
in  the  Scotch  Parliament,  and  after  the  Union,  which  he  warmly  supported, 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Parliament  of  Great  Britain.  He  was 
also  a  Privy  Councillor,  and  one  of  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  to  King 
William  and  Queen  Anne.  He  married  first,  in  1674,  Margaret,  Countess 
of  Leven,  who  died  the  same  year  without  issue ;  secondly,  Elizabeth 
(born  1650),  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Sinclair  of  Longformacus,  Baronet, 
and  widow  of  Sir  James  Primrose  of  Barnbougle,  by  whom  he  had  : — 

(1)  John  Montgomerie,  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  3rd  regiment  of 
Foot  Guards,  and  M.P.  for  Ayrshire.  Colonel  Montgomerie  was  Master 
of  the  Mint  in  Scotland,  and  one  of  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Bedchamber  to 


(^LIBRARY; 


684  ALEXANDER,    EIGHTH    EARL 

King  George  n.  when  Prince  of  Wales.  He  married,  in  1704,  Lady  Mary 
Carmichael,  second  daughter  of  John,  first  Earl  of  Hyndford,  by  whom  he 
had  a  daughter,  Beatrix,  who  died  unmarried.  Colonel  Montgomerie  was 
appointed  Governor  of  New  York,  where  he  died  in  1760. 

(2)  Colonel  Alexander  Montgomerie,  died  of  his  wounds  at  the  battle 
of  Almanza,  in  Spain,  in  171 1,  without  issue. 

(3)  Elizabeth,  married  the  Hon.  Colonel  Patrick  Ogilvy  of  Lonmay 
and  Inchmartin,  second  son  of  James,  third  Earl  of  Findlater,  and  died  in 
1753,  having  had  issue. 

(4)  Mary,  born  7th  February  1690. 

The  five  daughters  of  the  seventh  Earl,  who  were  all  born  previous  to 
November  1658,  were  : — 

3.  Lady  Mary,  married  to  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton.  '  The 
Earle  of  Wintoune,  being  but  a  youth,  married  Lady  Mary  Montgomery, 
the  Earl  of  Eglintoun's  eldest  daughter.  The  marriage  feast  stood  at  her 
father's  house  in  the  West  country,  4th  September  1662.' x  They  had  one 
daughter,  Lady  Mary,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three  years.  The  Countess 
of  Winton  died  in  the  year  1677. 

4.  Lady  Margaret,  married  James,  second  Earl  of  Loudon,  and  had 
issue. 

5.  Lady  Eleonora,  married,  before  1679,  Sir  David  Dunbar  of  Baldoon, 
Baronet,  and  had  issue.     She  died  at  Kilwinning  in  September  1687.2 

6.  Lady  Christian,  married,  16th  February  1672,  John,  fourth  Lord 
Balmerino,  and  had  issue.     She  died  before  7th  June  1687. 

7.  Lady  Anne,  married  Sir  Andrew  Ramsay  of  Abbotshall,  Baronet, 
by  whom  she  had  a  son,  who  died  unmarried. 

The  seventh  Earl  of  Eglinton  died  at  Eglinton  in  the  end  of  February 
1669,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six,  having  possessed  the  titles  and  estates  for  only 
eight  years. 

3.  Alexander,  eighth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

was  born  about  the  year  1640,  and  succeeded  his  father  when  'a  very 
young  man.'  Comparatively  little  is  known  of  his  personal  history,  as  he 
transferred  his  estates  to  his  eldest  son,  Lord  Montgomerie,  on  the  occasion 
of  his  marriage,  in  1676,  relinquishing  the  active  charge  of  them  on 
receiving  an  annuity  of  6000  merks  Scots.  His  second  and  third  wives 
were  both  English,  and  he  resided  almost  entirely  on  the  south  side  of 
the  Tweed. 

In  1674  he  was  admitted  a  Mason  in  the  Court  of  the  Lodge  of 
Kilwinning,  and  was  sworn  a  Privy  Councillor  on  the  accession  of  William 
and  Mary. 

Fifteen  years  afterwards  (1689)  he  was  ordered  by  the  Council  to 
march,  with  3000  troops,  to  the  Highlands,  with  the  view  of  engaging 
Lord  Dundee,  and  on  that  occasion  he  commanded  the  cavalry. 


Lnmont's  Diary.  2  See  Wodrow's  Analecta,  ii.  157. 


HIS   THREE    MARRIAGES 


685 


The  eighth  Earl  was  thrice  married  : — 

First,  in  January  1658,  to  Lady  Elizabeth  Crichton,  daughter  of  the 
Earl  of  Dumfries,  '  a  gentlewoman  bred 
in  England,  but  having  little  or  no  por- 
tion.'1 Robert  Baillie  speaks  of  the  union 
as  an  '  unexpected  pranck,  worse  to  all  his 
kinn  than  his  death  would  have  been  '; 
and  asserts  that  he  might  have  secured 
the  Countess  of  Buccleuch,  'the  greatest 
match  in  Brittain.'2  The  issue  of  this  mar- 
riage was  three  sons  and  two  daughters : — 

1.  Alexander,  ninth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

2.  Hugh,  a  Major  in  the  Army,  who 
died  without  issue  before  1725. 

3.  John,  also  a  Major  in  the  Army, 
who  married  '  Dame  Jean  Gibsone,'  and 
died  without  issue  before  5th  July  1693. 

4.  Lady  Margaret,  married,  in  1683, 
Sir  James  Agnew  of  Lochnaw,  Baronet, 
and  had  issue. 

5.  Lady  Margaret — 'Kind  Mag,' — died  without  issue  before  15th 
June  1687. 

Elizabeth  Crichton,  Countess  of  Eglinton,  died  before  23rd October  1673. 

The  Earl  married,  secondly,  about  1678,  Grace,  daughter  of  Francis 
Popley  of  Woolley  Moorehouse,  Yorkshire,  and  widow  of  Sir  Thomas 
Wentworth  of  Bretton,  Baronet,  who  appears  to  have  died  within  a  year 
after  her  marriage. 


1  Lamont's  Diary. 


2  Letters,  iii.  366. 


686  ALEXANDER,   NINTH   EARL 

The  Earl  married,  thirdly,  at  St.  Bride's  ^'Church,  London,  on  8th 
December  1698,  Catharine,  Lady  Kaye,  daughter  of  Sir  William  St. 
Quintin  of  Harpham,  in  the  county  of  York,  who  had  already  been  three 
times  married,  and  who  had  reached  the  mature  age  of  ninety  when  she 
accepted  the  hand  of  Lord  Eglinton.  She  died  6th  August  1700,  and 
was  survived  by  the  Earl  little  more  than  a  year,  till  the  end  of  1701. 


4.  Alexander,  ninth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

born  c.  1659,  who  from  the  death  of  his  grandfather,  the  seventh  Earl,  in 
1669,  was  boarded  with  Mr.  Matthew  Fleeming,  minister  at  Culross. 
During  his  early  life  he  appears  to  have  been  subject  to  severe  indis- 
position, suffering  from  small-pox  and  other  ailments.  In  1673  his  father 
made  arrangements  for  his  being  educated  at  the  University  of  St. 
Andrews,  where  he  was  duly  entered  as  '  Alexander  Mongomery  Dominus 
Mongomery  Comitis  Eglintoun  filius,'  and  continued  in  the  ancient  'city 
by  the  sea'  till  Lammas  1676. 

A  few  months  after  his  departure  from  St.  Andrews  he  married  Lady 
Margaret  Cochrane,  on  which  occasion  his  father  made  over  to  him  the 
Eglinton  estates,  which  were  managed  by  him  with  remarkable  success  till 
the  death  of  his  father  in  1701.  Both  before  and  after  his  accession  to 
the  Earldom  he  held  many  important  offices  of  State.  He  was  a  member 
of  King  William's  Privy  Council,  and  a  Commissioner  of  the  Treasury. 
He  was  also  a  Privy  Councillor  to  Queen  Anne,  and  in  1710  and  1713 
was  elected  one  of  the  sixteen  representative  peers  of  Scotland.  On  the 
occasion  of  the  rising  in  favour  of  the  Stewarts  in  1715,  unlike  the  then 
head  of  his  House,  the  Earl  ofWinton,  he  was  a  strenuous  supporter  of  the 
family  of  Hanover,  in  whose  service  he  raised  the  regiment  of  Ayrshire 
Fencibles. 

He  cleared  his  paternal  estates  of  very  heavy  debts,  and  added  greatly 
to  his  domains  by  the  purchase  of  extensive  property,  including  Dundonald, 
Kilmaurs,  Glassford,  and  Southennan.  Shortly  before  his  death  he 
executed  two  entails  of  his  estate  and  earldom,  and  suddenly  closed  his 
career  at  Eglinton  Castle,  on  the  18th  of  February  1729.  He  was  buried 
on  the  20th  of  March,  and  the  Caledonian  Mercury  of  the  following  day 
records  that  '  at  the  funeral  of  the  late  Right  Honourable  Earl  of  Eglinton 
there  were  betwixt  900  and  1 000  beggars  assembled,  many  of  whom  came 
over  from  Ireland,  who  had  £50  of  that  noble  lord's  charity  distributed  to 
them.' 

Like  his  father,  the  eighth  Earl,  he  was  three  times  married,  and  had 
no  fewer  than  twenty-one  children.  His  first  wife  (contract  dated  December 
1676)  was  Lady  Margaret  Cochrane,  eldest  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Cochrane,  and  grand-daughter  of  William,  first  Earl  of  Dundonald,  the 
cost  of  a  gold  ring  which  he  purchased  on  the  occasion  being  £23  sterling. 
Law,  in  his  Memorials,  gives  a  curious  account  of  the  stoppage  of  Lord 


ALSO   THRICE   MARRIED 


687 


Dundonald's  'coatch,'  at  the  house  of  a  witch,  on  its  way  to  the  wedding. 
Of  this  marriage  there  were  three  sons  and  six  daughters  : — 

1.  Hugh,  Master  of  Montgomerie,  born  1680,  died  unmarried,  while 
at  the  University  of  Glasgow,  in  1696. 

2.  Alexander,  died  young.  » 

3.  John,  born  1688,  who  also  died  young. 

4.  Lady  Catherine,  married  James,  fifth  Earl  of  Galloway,  and  had 
issue.     She  died  in  December  1757. 

5.  Lady  Elizabeth,  born  1684,  and  died  young. 

6.  Lady  Jean,  born  1689,  who  also  died  young. 

7.  Lady  Euphemia,  married,  in  1697,  George  Lockhart  of  Carnwath, 
author  of  Memoirs  of  Scotland,  by  whom  she  had  seven  sons  and  eight 
daughters.     She  died  1st  December  1738,  three  years  after  her  husband. 

8.  Lady  Grace,  married,  19th  January  17 10,  Robert  Dalyell,  sixth 
Earl  of  Carnwath,  who  was  attainted  in  1 7 1 5. 

9.  Lady  Jean  (No.  2),  married,  29th  December  171 1,  Sir  Alexander 
Maxwell  of  Monreith,  Baronet,  by  whom  she  had  three  sons  and  four 
daughters.  She  died,  much  lamented  by  her  husband,  28th  May  1726,  at 
the  early  age  of  thirty-six. 

Lord  Eglinton  married,  secondly,  Lady  Anne  Gordon,  daughter 
of  George,  first  Earl  of  Aberdeen,  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  and  by  her, 
who  died  before  1 709,  of  surviving  issue  had  only  one  daughter  : — 

10.  Lady  Mary,  born  20th  November  1704,  a  celebrated  beauty,  and 
the  subject  of  several  poems  by  William  Hamilton  of  Bangour.  She 
married  Sir  David  Cuninghame  of  Milncraig  and  Livingstone,  by  whom 
she  had  several  children. 


The  Earl  married,  thirdly,  in  June  1709,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Sir 
Archibald  Kennedy  of  Culzean,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  eight 
daughters : — 


688  SUSANNA   KENNEDY 

ii.  James,  Lord  Montgomerie,  born  19th  April  17 18,  and  died  26th 
August  1724.  His  death  is  touchingly  recorded  by  his  father  in  a  family 
Bible  at  Eglinton. 

12.  Alexander,  tenth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

13.  Archibald,  eleventh  Earl. 

14.  Lady  Elizabeth,  born  4th  July  17 10.  '  This  moneth,'  says  Wod- 
row,  'my  LadyEglintoun  was  brought  to  bedd  of  a  daughter,  which  my  Lord 
took  very  ill  and  unchristianly.  It's  noe  wonder  God  froun  for  this.'1 
Five  or  six  daughters  were  born  before  Countess  Susanna  had  a  son.  In 
1738  Lady  Elizabeth  declined  an  offer  of  marriage  made  by  a  Mr.  Ogilvie, 
but  eleven  years  afterwards  (1749)  she  accepted  the  hand  of  Sir  John 
Cunningham  of  Caprington,  one  of  the  most  accomplished  scholars  of  his 
day,  by  whom  she  had  two  sons,  and  died  in  Edinburgh,  19th  February 
1 800,  at  the  age  of  ninety-three. 

15.  Lady  Helen,  born  16th  January  1712,  married,  4th  January  1745, 
the  Hon.  Francis  Stewart  of  Pittendriech,  third  son  of  James,  eighth  Earl 
of  Moray,  and  died  14th  January  1747,  leaving  an  only  son,  Francis,  who 
died  unmarried. 

16.  Lady  Susanna,  married  to  John  Renton  of  Lamberton  before  1st 
August  1739,  and  died  at  Blackadder  27th  July  1754,  leaving  issue. 

Lady  Susanna  was  grandmother  of  Charles  Kirkpatrick-Sharpe. 

17.  Lady  Margaret,  married,  in  April  1739,  with  the  warmly  expressed 
approbation  of  her  brother,  the  tenth  Earl,  Sir  Alexander  Macdonald  of 
Macdonald,  by  whom  she  had  three  distinguished  sons.  When  Flora 
Macdonald  landed  in  Skye  with  Prince  Charles  after  his  escape,  Lady 
Margaret,  in  the  absence  of  her  husband,  who  had  joined  the  King's  party, 
confided  the  secret  to  her  husband's  factor,  Macdonald  of  Kingsburgh,  who 
assisted  the  Prince  in  his  flight.     Lady  Margaret  died  30th  March  1799. 

18.  Lady  Frances,  died  unmarried  after  26th  January  1755. 

19.  Lady  Christian,  married  James  Moray  of  Abercairny  in  1737,  by 
whom  she  had  three  sons,  successively  lairds  of  Abercairny.  She  died  at 
Abercairny  19th  July  1748. 

20.  Lady  Grace,  married,  12th  March  1751,  against  the  wishes  of  her 
family,  Charles  Byne,  a  Cornet  in  Bland's  Dragoons.  The  marriage  proved 
a  short  and  unhappy  one ;  and  Lady  Grace  died  in  Edinburgh  three 
months  afterwards — 15th  June  1 75 1. 

21.  Lady  Charlotte,  who  died  unmarried,  at  Hamilton,  7th  October 
1732. 

The  ninth  Earl's  third  and  last  Countess,  Susanna  Kennedy,  was  a 
very  remarkable  personage.  Of  unusually  tall  stature,  she  was  generally 
acknowledged  to  be  the  most  beautiful  woman  of  her  time,  besides  possess- 
ing the  attractions  of  genius  and  great  accomplishments.  She  had  long 
been  destined  to  become  the  wife  of  Lord  Eglinton,  and  the  prediction  was 
confirmed  by  the  curious  circumstance  of  a  hawk,  with  Lord  Eglinton's 
name  on  its  bells,  having  one  day  alighted  on  her  shoulder  while  she  was 


1  Analecla,  i.  287. 


ALLAN    RAMSAY'S    DEDICATION  689 

walking  in  her  father's  garden  at  Culzean.  There  was  a  great  disparity  in 
the  ages  of  the  parties,  and  Susanna  had  numerous  admirers ;  but  when 
the  Earl's  second  Countess  passed  away,  he  had  no  difficulty  in  carrying  off 
the  coveted  prize.1 

Countess  Susanna  was  an  enthusiastic  patroness  of  literature,  and  in 
his  Dedication  of  The  Gentle  Shepherd  to  her  Ladyship,  Allan  Ramsay 
elaborately  recounts  her  numerous  merits.  William  Hamilton  of  Bangour 
thus  eulogises  the  Countess  and  her  charming  daughters  : — 

'  Unlike,  O  Eglintoun  !  thy  happy  breast, 
Calm  and  serene  enjoys  the  heavenly  guest ; 
From  the  tumultuous  rule  of  passions  freed, 
Pure  in  thy  thought,  and  spotless  in  thy  deed : 
In  virtues  rich,  in  goodness  unconfined, 
Thou  shin'st  a  fair  example  to  thy  kind ; 
Sincere  and  equal  to  thy  neighbour's  name, 
How  swift  to  praise  !  how  guiltless  to  defame ! 
Bold  in  thy  presence  bashfulness  appears, 
And  backward  merit  loses  all  its  fears. 
Supremely  blest  by  Heaven,  Heaven's  richest  grace 
Confest  is  thine,  an  early  blooming  race ; 
Whose  pleasing  smiles  shall  guardian  wisdom  arm, 
Divine  instruction  !  taught  of  thee  to  charm ; 
What  transports  shall  they  to  thy  soul  impart 
(The  conscious  transports  of  a  parent's  heart), 
When  thou  behold'st  them  of  each  grace  possest, 
And  sighing  youths  imploring  to  be  blest : 
After  thy  image  formed,  with  charms  like  thine, 
Or  in  the  visit,  or  the  dance  to  shine  ! 
Thrice  happy  who  succeed  their  mother's  praise, 
The  lovely  Eglintounes  of  other  days.' 

After  the  death  of  the  Earl  in  1729  his  widow  devoted  herself  to  the 
education  of  her  numerous  family,  and  her  able  and  judicious  conduct  is 
fully  displayed  in  her  extensive  correspondence  with  Lord  Milton,  who 
acted  for  many  years  as  her  children's  guardian.  On  one  particular  occa- 
sion she  had  written  no  fewer  than  four  times  to  the  learned  judge  before 
she  received  a  reply,  and  one  of  her  communications  embraced  the  follow- 
ing postscript : — '  This  is  my  third  lettr  without  anie  ansuer — 

'  There  is  no  hate  like  love  to  hatred  turned, 
Nor  annie  furie  like  a  woman  scorned.' 

During  her  residence  at  Auchans  she  lived  in  great  state,  and  her 
magnificent  entertainments  were  justly  admired.  She  had  a  strange 
penchant  for  rats,  which  she  tamed  and  petted  ;  and  she  sometimes  com- 
plained of  never  having  met  with  gratitude  except  from  her  four-footed 
proteges. 

In  her  declining  years  she  entertained  Dr.  Johnson  on  his  return  from 
the  Hebrides.      Boswell  gives  the  following  account  of  the  interview : — 


1  Chambers's  Traditions  of  Edinburgh,  i.  262. 

4S 


690  INTERVIEW  WITH    DR.   JOHNSON 

'  Lady  Eglintoune,  though  she  was  now  in  her  eighty-fifth  year,  and  had 
lived  in  the  country  almost  half  a  century,  was  still  a  very  agreeable  woman. 
She  was  of  the  noble  House  of  Kennedy,  and  had  all  the  elevation  which 
a  consciousness  of  such  birth  inspires.  Her  figure  was  majestic,  her 
manner  high-bred,  her  reading  extensive,  and  her  conversation  elegant. 
She  had  been  the  admiration  of  the  gay  circles  of  life  and  the  patroness  of 
poets.  Dr.  Johnson  was  delighted  with  his  reception.  Her  principles  in 
Church  and  State  were  congenial  with  his.  In  the  course  of  conversation  it 
came  out  that  Lady  Eglintoune  was  married  the  year  before  Dr.  Johnson 
was  born  ;  upon  which  she  graciously  said  to  him  that  she  might  have  been 
his  mother,  and  she  now  adopted  him.' 

Lady  Eglinton  died  at  Auchans  House  on  the  18th  of  March  1780,  in 
the  ninety-first  year  of  her  age  and  the  fifty-first  of  her  widowhood.  Her 
stately  mien  and  brilliant  complexion  descended  to  her  daughters  ;  and  '  the 
Eglintoune  aire  '  came  to  signify  all  that  was  stately  and  dignified.  When 
at  toilet  the  Countess  once  asked  her  daughter,  Lady  Bettie,  what  she 
would  give  to  be  as  pretty  as  her  ?  To  which  Lady  Bettie  replied,  '  Not 
half  so  much  as  you  would  give  to  be  as  young  as  I  am.' 

One  of  the  Countess  Susanna's  numerous  admirers  was  Sir  John 
Clerk  of  Penicuik,  who  sent  her  a  flute  as  a  love-gift.  When  she  attempted 
to  blow  the  instrument,  something  was  found  to  interrupt  the  sound,  which 
turned  out  to  be  a  copy  of  verses  in  her  praise.1 

'It  was  a  goodly  sight,' says  Dr.  Robert  Chambers,  'a  century  ago, 
to  see  the  long  procession  of  sedans,  containing  Lady  Eglinton  and  her 
daughters,  devolve  from  the  Old  Stamp  Office  Close  and  proceed  to  the 
Assembly  Rooms,  where  there  was  sure  to  be  a  crowd  of  plebeian  admirers 
congregated,  to  behold  their  lofty  and  graceful  figures  step  from  the  chairs 
on  the  pavement.  It  could  not  fail  to  be  a  remarkable  sight — eight  beauti- 
ful women,  conspicuous  for  their  stature  and  carriage,  all  draped  in  the 
splendid  though  formal  fashions  of  that  period,  and  inspired  at  once  with 
dignity  of  birth  and  consciousness  of  beauty.  Alas !  such  visions  no  longer 
illuminate  the  dark  tortuosities  of  Auld  Reekie ! ' 2 

In  the  same  connection  Dr.  Chambers  describes  the  ninth  Earl  as 
'  one  of  those  patriarchal  peers  who  live  to  see  advanced  age — indefatigable 
in  the  frequency  of  their  marriages  and  the  number  of  their  children — who 
linger  on  and  on,  with  an  unfailing  succession  of  young  Countesses,  and 
die  at  last  leaving  a  progeny  interspersed  throughout  the  whole  of  Douglas's 
Peerage!* 

5.  Alexander,  tenth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

was  born  10th  February  1723,  and  was  accordingly  only  six  years  old 
when  he  succeeded  his  father  in   1729.     Shortly  before  his  death  the  ninth 

1   Traditions  oj  Edinburgh  (1880),  p.  212.  2  Ibid,  p.  214.  3  Ibid.  p.  211. 


ALEXANDER,   TENTH    EARL  691 

Earl  addressed  a  long  and  touching  letter  to  his  son,  full  of  good  advice 
respecting  his  duty  to  his  mother  and  sisters,  his  choice  of  associates,  and 
his  political  conduct.  In  speaking  of  the  rival  claims  of  the  Houses  of 
Stuart  and  Hanover,  he  recommends  his  son  'not  to  intermeddle  with 
either,'  and  refers  to  'the  misery  and  slavery  of  being  united  to  England' ! 
Towards  the  end  of  the  letter  he  strongly  advises  his  successor  to  make 
choice  of  'a  Scots  lady'  as  his  wife,  on  the  ground  that  English  women  are 
more  extravagant  and  wasteful  than  their  northern  sisters. 

After  spending  a  short  time  at  the  Irvine  Grammar  School,  Lord 
Eglinton  and  his  brother  Archibald,  in  October  1738,  set  out  for  England  ; 
and  ultimately  both  brothers  settled  at  Winchester.  Towards  the  end  of 
17^.2,  the  Earl,  accompanied  by  his  Governor,1  Michael  Ramsay,  set  out 
for  Paris,  where  he  soon  showed  great  proficiency  in  the  elegant  accom- 
plishments of  dancing,  riding,  and  fencing.  He  evinced  a  strong  passion 
for  'antiques,'  and  in  one  of  his  letters  Mr.  Ramsay  complains  of  his  extra- 
vagance in  the  purchases  of  'curiositys.'  In  an  amusing  letter  to  Lord 
Milton,  the  young  nobleman,  after  repudiating  the  charge  of  extravagance, 
threatens  to  write  a  book  on  the  benefits  of  starvation,  for  which  he  con- 
sidered himself  specially  qualified,  in  consequence  of  his  limited  remit- 
tances ! 

In  1759  he  was  appointed  Governor  of  Dumbarton  Castle,  and  on 
the  accession  of  George  ill.,  in  the  following  year,  he  was  made  one  of  the 
lords  of  the  bedchamber.  He  showed  great  aptitude  for  public  business, 
and,  like  the  present  Lord  Coleridge,  seriously  contemplated  the  surrender 
of  his  peerage,  with  the  view  of  entering  the  House  of  Commons. 

On  the  abolition  of  heritable  jurisdictions  in  1748,  Lord  Eglinton 
received  ^7800  for  the  sheriffship  of  Renfrew,  the  regality  of  Cuninghame, 
and  the  bailliary  of  Kilwinning — his  claim  for  compensation  having  been 

;£l  2,000. 

He  made  vast  improvements  on  his  various  estates,  after  having 
carefully  studied  the  systems  of  farming  in  England  and  elsewhere. 

On  the  24th  of  October  1769,  Lord  Eglinton's  useful  career  was  cut 
short  in  a  very  melancholy  manner,  his  Lordship  having  been  shot  by 
Mungo  Campbell,  an  exciseman,  whom  he  checked,  for  the  second  time, 
for  poaching  on  the  estate  of  Ardrossan.  Campbell  had  obtained  per- 
mission to  shoot  on  several  adjoining  properties,  and  was  known  to  have 
frequently  trespassed  on  the  Eglinton  estate.  While  accompanied  by 
Lord  Kellie,  and  a  train  of  servants  and  dogs,  for  a  day's  sport,  Lord 
Eglinton's  attention  was  called  by  one  of  his  attendants  to  some  tres- 
passers on  his  demesne,  one  of  whom  proved  to  be  Campbell.  His 
Lordship  galloped  towards  the  offender,  and  insisted  on  his  delivering 
up  his  fowling-piece.  This,  however,  the  exciseman  firmly  declined  to  do  ; 
and  on  Lord  Eglinton  approaching  him,  he  said,  '  Keep  off,  my  Lord,  or 
I  shall  be  obliged  to  shoot  you  in  my  own  defence.'    Lord  Eglinton  then 


i.e.  Tutor. 


692  ARCHIBALD,    ELEVENTH    EARL 

dismounted,  and  directing  his  servant  to  charge  one  of  his  guns,  replied, 
'  I  can  shoot  as  well  as  you.'  As  Campbell  retreated,  Lord  Eglinton  con- 
tinued to  advance ;  and  in  his  retrograde  movement  the  exciseman  tripped 
upon  a  stone  and  fell  backwards.  Rushing  forward  to  seize  the  weapon, 
Lord  Eglinton  was  prevented  from  doing  so  by  receiving  the  entire  charge 
in  his  body.     Campbell  was  forthwith  seized  and  conveyed  to  prison. 

The  unfortunate  occurrence  naturally  caused  great  sensation,  and 
although  Campbell  had  some  sympathisers,  in  consequence  of  what  was 
regarded  as  a  too  tenacious  enforcement  of  the  Game  Laws,  the  untimely 
end  of  the  promising  young  nobleman,  cut  off  in  his  prime,  was  universally 
lamented. 

After  considerable  delay,  Campbell  was  tried  for  the  murder,  and  the 
circumstances  of  the  Earl's  death  are  fully  set  forth  in  the  relative  indict- 
ment. A  pretty  full  account  of  the  trial  is  preserved  in  a  letter  to  Baron 
Mure  of  Caldwell  from  Mr.  Alexander  Belshes,  dated  Edinburgh,  27th 
February  1770.1  Campbell  was  found  guilty  by  a  considerable  majority, 
and  sentenced  to  be  executed  in  the  Grassmarket  on  the  nth  of  April; 
but  he  committed  suicide  in  prison  the  morning  after  his  trial.  His  body 
was  privately  buried  under  Salisbury  Crags,  but  was  exhumed  and  tossed 
about  by  the  Edinburgh  rabble,  and  afterwards  sunk  in  the  sea  by  Camp- 
bell's friends,  to  prevent  further  outrage. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  the  Earl  of  Eglinton  was  engaged  to  be 
married  to  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Maxwell  of  Pollok-Maxwell,  and 
widow  of  James  Montgomerie  of  Lainshaw.  He  survived  the  fatal  shot 
till  midnight  of  the  day  of  the  assault,  and  his  aged  mother  received  a 
dreadful  shock  from  the  untoward  occurrence. 


5  (a).  Archibald,  eleventh  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

born  1 8th  May  1726,  succeeded  his  brother  in  1769.  He  does  not  appear 
to  have  been  much  addicted  to  study,  but  one  of  his  early  instructors 
intimates  that  although  he  did  not  '  carry  away  a  great  deal  of  Latin  with 
him '  from  school,  he  left  behind  him  the  character  of  '  a  sensible,  ingenu- 
ous, manly,  well-behaved  boy.' 

Having  made  choice  of  the  military  profession,  he  entered  the  Army 
in  1744  as  a  Cornet  in  the  Scots  Greys.  After  various  promotions,  he 
raised  the  78th  regiment  of  Highlanders,  and  was  appointed  their  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel in  the  beginning  of  the  year  1757.  He  accompanied  the 
regiment  to  America,  saw  a  good  deal  of  service  under  General  Amherst, 
and  particularly  distinguished  himself  in  an  expedition  against  the  Cheroo- 
kees,  a  powerful  Indian  tribe,  whom  he  reduced  to  perfect  obedience.  At 
the  general  election  of  1761  he  was  returned  for  the  county  of  Ayr,  and 
was  appointed  one  of  her    Majesty's  equerries.       He   held   at   different 


1  Memorials  of  the  Montgomeries,  i.  124.     See  also  The  Lounger's  Common-Place  Book,  i.  200. 


HUGH,   TWELFTH    EARL 


693 


periods  the  offices  of  Governor  of  Dumbarton  Castle,  Deputy- Ranger 
of  St.  James'  and  Hyde  Park,  Colonel  of  the  51st  regiment  of  Foot, 
Governor  of  Edinburgh  Castle,  and  Colonel  of  the  Scots  Greys.  In  1776, 
and  on  three  subsequent  occasions,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  sixteen 
representative  Scottish  Peers,  and  attained  the  rank  of  General  in  October 

1793- 

He  successfully  carried    out  the  various   agricultural   improvements 

introduced  by  his  lamented  brother,  and  purchased  Giffen  and  other  estates. 

After  an  active  and  useful  life,  the  eleventh  Earl  died  at  Eglinton 
Castle,  30th  October  1796,  aged  seventy-three. 

He  married,  first,  30th  March  1772,  Lady  Jean  Lindsay,  eldest 
daughter  of  George,  eighteenth  Earl  of  Crawford,  who  died  without  issue, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  on  the  22nd  of  January  1778. 

He  married,  secondly,  9th  August  1783,  Frances,  only  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Twisden  of  Raydonhall,  Kent,  by  whom  he  had  two 
daughters : — 


1.  Lady  Mary,  born  5th  March  1787,  and  married,  28th  March  1803, 
Archibald,  Lord  Montgomerie,  eldest  son  of  Hugh,  twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

2.  Lady  Susanna,  born  26th  May  1788,  and  died  suddenly  at  Col- 
chester, 1 6th  November  1805,  in  her  eighteenth  year. 


6.   Hugh,  twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

On  the  death  of  the  eleventh  Earl  in  1 796,  the  succession  opened  to 
the  Coilsfield  line,  as  shown  in  the  annexed  table,   Hugh,   twelfth   Earl, 


694  EGLINTON   CASTLE 

being  third  in  descent  from  Colonel  James  Montgomerie,  first  of  Coilsfield, 
who  was  fourth  son  of  Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

Alexander  (Seton),  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

I 

Colonel  James  Montgomerie  (fourth  son), 

first  of  Coilsfield. 

I 
Hugh  Montgomerie  of  Coilsfield  (second  son). 

Alexander  Montgomerie  of  Coilsfield. 

I 
Hugh,  twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

The  twelfth  Earl  was  born  in  November  1739.  He  succeeded  his 
mother  (Lilias,  eldest  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Robert  Montgomerie, 
Baronet)  in  the  estate  of  Skelmorlie,  and  his  father  in  the  estate  of 
Coilsfield,  in  1783.  Besides  five  sisters,  the  twelfth  Earl  had  five  younger 
brothers,  of  whom  three  (Robert,  Thomas,  and  James)  died  without  issue, 
while  the  two  others,  Alexander  and  Archibald,  both  left  descendants. 
The  elder  of  these  was  Alexander,  first  of  the  Montgomeries  of  Annick 
Lodge,  in  the  parish  of  Dreghorn,  and  county  of  Ayr,  whose  grandson  is 
Alexander  Montgomerie,  now  of  Annick  Lodge,  born  10th  November  1824. 

The  twelfth  Earl  entered  the  Army  in  1756,  and  saw  a  good  deal  of 
service  in  America.  In  1788  he  was  raised  to  the  rank  of  Major.  Eight 
years  previously  (1780)  he  was  elected  member  of  Parliament  for  Ayrshire, 
and  again  in  1784.  In  1789  he  was  appointed  Inspector  of  Military  Roads 
in  Scotland,  and  discharged  his  official  duties  in  a  most  satisfactory  manner. 
When  war  broke  out  in  1793  he  was  appointed,  by  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Argyllshire  Fencible  regiment.  He  raised  the 
regiment  of  West  Lowland  Fencibles  about  the  same  time,  and  afterwards 
the  Glasgow  regiment  of  Fencibles,  which,  however,  was  reduced  in  1 795. 
Lord  Eglinton  also  held  the  office  of  Governor  of  Edinburgh  Castle.  At 
the  general  election  in  1 796  he  was  a  third  time  returned  for  the  county 
of  Ayr,  but  had  soon  to  vacate  his  seat  on  succeeding  his  cousin  as  Earl 
of  Eglinton.  In  1798  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  representative  Scottish 
Peers,  on  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Errol,  and  was  re-elected  in  1802.  Four 
years  afterwards  (1806)  he  was  created  a  Peer  of  the  United  Kingdom,  by  * 
the  title  of  Baron  Ardrossan  of  Ardrossan,  with  limitation  to  the  heirs- 
male  of  his  body.  He  held  the  office  of  Lord- Lieutenant  of  the  county 
of  Ayr,  and  was  appointed  one  of  the  State  Councillors  for  Scotland  to 
the  Prince  Regent,  and  afterwards  a  Knight  of  the  Thistle. 

Soon  after  his  accession  to  the  Earldom,  he  rebuilt  the  castle  of 
Eglinton  and  greatly  enlarged  and  improved  the  adjoining  grounds.  The 
structure  has  been  described  as  'an  attempt  to  combine  the  style  of  a 
feudal  fortress  with  the  lights  and  conveniences  of  a  modern  dwelling- 
place,'  which  Sir  Walter  Scott  partially  imitated  at  Abbotsford.  His  most 
formidable  undertaking  was  the  construction  of  Ardrossan  Harbour  and 


LORD    MONTGOMERIE 


695 


the  Paisley  Canal,  of  which  the  former  has  very  largely  increased  the 
importance  of  the  town  of  Ardrossan.  Lord  Eglinton  was  a  proficient 
musician,  his  favourite  instrument  being  the  violoncello.  In  the  County 
Hall  at  Ayr  is  an  excellent  portrait  of  his  Lordship  in  the  uniform  of  the 
78th  Highlanders. 

He  married,  in  1772,  his  cousin  Eleonora,  fourth  and  youngest  daughter 
of  Robert  Hamilton  of  Bourtreehill,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  three 
daughters  : — 

1.  Archibald,  Lord  Montgomerie,  who  died  before  his  father. 

2.  The  Hon.  Roger  Montgomerie,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Navy, 
who  died  unmarried,  in  Jamaica,  in  January  1799. 

3.  Alexander,  died  young. 

4.  Lady  Jane,  who  married,  in  1828,  Archibald  Hamilton  of  Carcluie, 
by  whom  she  had  no  issue. 

5.  Lady  Lilias,  married,  first,  in  1796,  Robert- Dundas  Macqueen  of 
Braxfield ;  secondly,  21st  August  18 17,  Richard- Alexander  Oswald  of 
Auchincruive,  by  neither  of  whom  she  had  any  issue. 

6.  Lady  Mary,  died  young. 

Eleonora,  Countess  of  Eglinton,  died  17th  January  181 7,  in  the 
seventy-fifth  year  of  her  age,  and  her  husband  on  the  15  th  of  December 
1 8 19,  aged  eighty  years,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  his  grandson,  the 
thirteenth  Earl. 


7.  A  rckibald,  Lord  Montgomerie, 

was  born  30th  July  1773.  He  entered  the  Army  as  an  Ensign  in  the  42nd 
Highlanders,  and  afterwards  became  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Glasgow 
regiment,  which  was  raised  by  his  father.     He  was  also  Colonel  of  the 


696  ARCHIBALD-WILLIAM,  THIRTEENTH  EARL 

Ayrshire  Militia.  In  1809  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major- General, 
and  in  1812-13  was  employed  on  active  service  in  Sicily.  He  was  obliged 
to  leave  the  island  on  account  of  bad  health,  and  died  at  Alicant,  4th 
January  18 14.  He  was  buried  in  the  Convent  Chapel  of  Gibraltar, 
where  the  monument  to  his  memory  bears  a  poetical  inscription,  supposed 
to  have  been  composed  by  George  Canning. 

Lord  Montgomerie  married,  28th  March  1803,  Lady  Mary  Mont- 
gomerie,  only  surviving  daughter  of  Archibald,  eleventh  Earl  of  Eglinton, 
and  heiress  of  the  large  estates  acquired  by  her  grandfather,  the  ninth 
Earl — the  male  and  female  lines  of  the  family  being  thus  united.  Of  this 
marriage  there  were  four  sons  : — 

1,  2.  Two  sons,  both  of  whom  only  survived  a  few  hours. 

3.  Hugh,  Lord  Montgomerie,  born  24th  January  181 1,  and  died  at 
Eglinton  Castle,  13th  July  18 17. 

4.  Archibald-William,  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

Lady  Montgomerie,  married,  secondly,  in  18 15,  Sir  Charles-Monto- 
lieu  Lamb  of  Beauport,  Baronet,  by  whom  she  had  one  son,  and  she 
died  1 2th  June  1848,  survived  by  her  second  husband. 


8.  Archibald-William,  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

born  at  Palermo  29th  September  181 2,  succeeded  his  grandfather  in  18 19, 
at  the  early  age  of  seven.  He  was  educated  at  Eton,  and  soon  after  taking 
his  seat  in  the  House  of  Lords  took  part  in  the  debates,  and  ultimately 
became  a  prominent  member  of  the  Conservative  party. 

In  February  1852,  when  the  Earl  of  Derby  was  called  upon  to  form  a 
Government,  Lord  Eglinton  was  appointed  Lord- Lieutenant  of  Ireland, 
and  his  admirable  discharge  of  the  duties  of  that  important  office  was 
cordially  acknowledged  by  parties  of  every  political  creed.  Nine  months 
afterwards  he  was  elected  Lord  Rector  of  Glasgow  University,  and  after- 
wards of  Marischal  College,  Aberdeen. 

On  the  return  of  the  Derby  Ministry  to  office  in  1858,  Lord  Eglinton 
was  again  appointed  Lord- Lieutenant  of  Ireland. 

In  1840  he  was  served  nearest  and  lawful  heir-male  general,  and  also 
nearest  and  lawful  heir-male  of  provision,  of  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton, 
Lord  Seton  and  Tranent.  He  was  advised  by  eminent  counsel  that  the 
right  to  the  Seton  honours  was  not  absolutely  forfeited,  but  was  only  in 
abeyance  during  the  existence  of  the  attainted  Earl  of  Winton  and  the 
heirs  entitled  to  succeed  under  the  same  substitution  with  himself,  and  that 
on  their  failure  the  right  to  the  honours  revived  in  the  collateral  line  of 
Eglinton.  On  resigning  the  Lord-Lieutenantcy  of  Ireland,  Lord  Eglinton 
was  created  Earl  of  Winton  in  the  peerage  of  the  United  Kingdom  of 
Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  with  limitation  to  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  by 
patent  dated  17th  June  1859. 

In  an  article  in  the  Quarterly  Reviezv  for  October  1893,  on  the  respec- 


WINTON   EARLDOM 


697 


tive  Peerages  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke  and  '  G.  E.  C.,'  the  writer  makes  the 
following  reference  to  the  service  of  1840  and  the  British  title  of  1859  : — 
'  At  the  recent  death  of  the  14th  Earl  of  Eglinton,  it  was  asserted,  by  those 
who  claimed  to  be  specially  well  informed,  that  his  father  had  succeeded  in 
1840  to  the  Scottish  Earldom  of  Winton  (1600).  Ulster  admits  this 
succession,  although  the  only  proof  is  that,  after  the  title  had  been  dormant 
nearly  a  century,  Lord  Eglinton  caused  himself  to  be  "  served  heir-male 
general  "  to  the  Earls  of  Winton.  "  G.  E.  C."  does  not  admit  the  validity 
of  this  proof,  and  pronounces  the  title  of  Earl  of  Winton  (United 
Kingdom),  conferred  on  the  family  in  1859,  to  have  been  "  a  very  improper 
one"  under  the  circumstances.  We  observe  that  "  G.  E.  C."  considers 
the  attainder  of  17 16  (ignored  by  Ulster)  a  bar  to  the  succession,  though 
Mr.  Riddell,  we  believe,  held  that  it  was  saved  by  a  specialty.' 

Doubtless  the  claim  of  the  Eglinton  family  to  the  Scottish  Earldom 
of  Winton  and  headship  of  the  House  of  Seton  has  not  yet  been  legally 
established  in  the  House  of  Lords ;  but  it  is  generally  acknowledged  by 

4T 


698 


HIS  TWO   MARRIAGES 


genealogists  that  the  very  elaborate  printed  '  Case  '  (of  which  I  possess  a 
copy),  prepared  by  Mr.  Riddell  for  the  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  satis- 
factorily proves  the  justice  of  the  claim.  It  is  admitted  that  the  Kingston 
branch  was  the  first  in  succession  after  the  direct  line  of  Winton.  But  the 
male  line  of  Kingston  became  extinct  on  the  death  of  James,  third  Viscount, 
in  1 719,  when  the  Garleton  branch  became  next  in  degree.  On  the  death 
of  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton  in  1 749,  Sir  George  Seton,  third  Baronet  of 
Garleton,  became  sixth  Earl,  dejure ;  and,  on  his  death  without  issue,  in 
1769,  his  first  cousin,  Ralph  Seton  (son  of  his  uncle  John),  became  seventh 
Earl.  Ralph  died  without  issue  in  1782,  when  his  nephew  John  (son  of 
Ralph's  brother  John)  became  eighth  Earl;  and  on  John's  death  without 
surviving  male  issue,  in  1796,  the  succession  opened  to  Hugh,  twelfth 
Earl  of  Eglinton,  great-grandfather  of  the  present  Earl,  who  would  thus 
appear  to  be  twelfth  Earl  of  Winton  de  jure. 

Lord  Eglinton  resigned  the  Colonelcy  of  the  Prince  Regent's  Royal 
regiment  of  Ayrshire  Militia  on  being  appointed  Lord- Lieutenant  of  Ayr- 
shire;  and  he  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Thistle  in  1853.  He  married, 
first,  17th  February  1841,  Theresa,  daughter  of  Charles  Newcomen,  and 
widow  of  Richard  Howe  Cockerell,  Commander  R.N.,  and  by  her,   who 

died  1 6th  December  1853,  had  three  sons 

and  one  daughter : — 

1.  Archibald- William,  Lord  Mont- 
gomerie,  afterwards  fourteenth  Earl  of 
Eglinton. 

2.  Hon.  Seton-Montolieu,  born  15th 
May  1846,  who  assumed  the  surname  and 
designation  of  Hamilton  of  Bourtreehill, 
a  Lieutenant  in  the  Scots  Fusilier  Guards. 
He  married,  nth  June  1870,  Nina-Janet, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Peers 
Williams  of  Temple  House,  Berks,  and 
died  26th  November  1883,  having  had 
three  daughters,  May-Egidia,  Alowen- 
Dorothy-Rose,  and  Viva-Seton,  of  whom 
the  first  died  when  eight  months  old. 

3.  Hon.  George- Arnulph,  afterwards 
fifteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton. 

4.  Lady  Egidia,  born  17th  December  1843,  married,  4th  July  1861, 
Frederick-William  Brook,  fifth  Lord  Rendlesham,  and  died  13th  January 
1880. 

The  thirteenth  Earl  married,  secondly,  3rd  November  1858,  Lady 
Adela-Caroline-Harriet  Capel,  only  daughter  of  Arthur,  Earl  of  Essex,  and 
by  her  (who  died  31st  December  i860)  had  two  daughters  : — 

5.  Lady  Sibyl-Amelia-Adela. 

6.  Lady  Hilda-Rose,  married,  23rd  February  1881,  Tonman  Mosley 
Esq.,  second  son  of  Sir  Tonman  Mosley,  Baronet,  and  has  issue. 


A   'POPULAR   PATRICIAN' 


699 


The  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton  died  somewhat  suddenly  at  St. 
Andrews,  4th  October  1861. 

In   alluding   to    the   sad  event,    Lord   Malmesbury   in    his  Memoirs 
(ii.  261)  says  :  '  Lord  Eglinton  is  a  sad  loss  to  our  political  party,  and  to 
me  personally.     He  used  to  complain  to  me  that  he  constantly  saw  a 
figure  retreating  before  his  eyes  disappear, 
and  appear  again — an  evident  proof  that 
his  brain  had  suffered  under  some  kind  of 
pressure.' 

An  admirable  notice  of  Lord  Eglinton, 
from  the  pen  of  James  Hannay,  appeared 
in  the  Edinburgh  Courant  the  day  after 
the  funeral,  from  which  I  make  the  follow- 
ing extracts : — 

'  Yesterday  was  laid  in  his  family  vault 
at  Kilwinning  the  most  popular  patrician 
of  his  time.  It  is  no  exaggeration  to  apply 
this  description  to  the  thirteenth  Earl  of 
Eglinton,  and  it  embodies  at  once  what 
was  most  characteristic  of  him,  and  what 
he  would  most  have  wished  to  be  re- 
membered for — himself.  Other  men  of 
his  order  were   as  much    respected,   and 

some  were  abler,  more  learned,  or  higher  in  the  State  ;  but  no  noble  of 
the  three  kingdoms  was  so  widely  and  generally  loved.  This  is  a  kind 
of  fame  which  excites  less  emulation  than  some  kinds,  but  which  is  rarer 
and  higher,  and  more  consolatory  to  those  who  have  to  lament  his  life 
suddenly  broken  and  his  too  early  grave. 

'  History  and  nature  combined  to  make  Lord  Eglinton  a  thorough 
gentleman.  His  career  cannot  be  separated  from  his  ancestry,  because  his 
ancestry,  both  consciously  and  unconsciously,  inspired  and  created  it.  As 
heir-male  of  the  House  of  Seton,  and  heir-general  of  the  House  of  Mont- 
gomerie — the  descendant  of  some  of  the  bravest  among  men  and  the  fairest 
among  women — he  drew,  from  roots  that  lay  deep  in  the  past,  the  qualities 
of  character  which  bloomed  into  such  engaging  flower.  Representing 
through  his  pedigree  the  best  of  the  Norman  colonists  who  did  so  much 
not  only  for  the  civilisation  but  for  the  independence  of  Scotland,  it  was 
natural  in  him  to  be  at  once  a  friend  of  improvement  and  a  lover  of 
nationality.  If  there  was  no  better  landlord  and  no  truer  Scotsman,  this 
was  not  by  accident,  but  because  these  were  the  characters  belonging  to 
his  blood.  There  met  to  form  Lord  Eglinton  something-  of  what  was  best 
in  the  different  lines  which  centred  in  him — the  earnestness  of  old  "  Grey- 
steel  "  the  Marston-Moor  man,  the  chivalry  of  the  ballad  hero  of  Otterburn 
— with  the  strong  local  feeling  and  honest,  if  mistaken,  instincts  of  a  recent 
Earl  who  talked  of  the  "misery  and  slavery  of  being  united  to  England  "! 
These  qualities  were,  however,  so  harmoniously  proportioned  in  him  that 


700  SCENE  AT   HIS    FUNERAL 

the  sentiment  never  ran  away  with  the  good  sense,  nor  the  generosity  with 
the  prudence  of  his  character.  ...  His  popularity,  like  that  of  Sir  Philip 
Sydney,  depended  less  on  what  he  achieved  than  on  what  he  was,  and 
sprang  from  a  general  admiration  of  his  whole  bearing  and  conduct,  similar 
to  that  excited  by  the  unconscious  goodness  of  a  child  or  beauty  of  a 
woman.  .  .  . 

'He  was  first  made  famous  by  the  Tournament  of  1839 — a  splendid 
poetic  extravagance,  easily  traceable  to  the  influence  of  Sir  Walter  Scott, 
and  that  school  of  literature,  on  a  youth  of  large  fortune,  whose  ancestors 
had  tilted  before  half  the  courts  of  Europe.  A  less  selfish  sacrifice  of 
money  in  the  way  of  amusement  could  hardly  have  been  devised  ;  and  this 
was  the  character  of  Lord  Eglinton's  amusements  through  life.  .  .  . 

'  His  Conservatism  in  politics  was  of  a  piece  with  everything  else 
about  him.  It  was  based  on  sentiment — fortified  by  common  sense,  and 
tempered — while  adorned — by  geniality.  He  wished  to  see  our  institutions 
preserved,  but  he  wished  them  to  be  so  administered  that  the  people  should 
love  them.  He  may  be  excused  for  "standing  by  his  order,"  because  he 
meant  it  to  be  like  himself.  Following  up  these  ideas,  he  became  a 
member  of  Lord  Derby's  first  Government  in  1852,  and  again  in  1858; 
each  time  discharging-  the  high  and  difficult  office  of  Lord- Lieutenant  of 
Ireland  with  a  care  that  satisfied  every  intellect,  and  a  kindness  that 
touched  every  heart  in  the  island.  It  was  characteristic  of  Lord  Eglinton 
that  while  his  mere  talent  was  never  the  most  prominent  thing  about  him, 
yet  he  always  rose  rather  above  expectation  when  the  occasion  came.  His 
speech  at  the  Burns  Festival  in  Ayrshire  was  perfectly  admirable,  and  may 
be  read  with  pleasure  even  now,  when  a  herd  of  inferior  animals  have 
trodden  over  and  over  the  ground.1  ...  If  any  nobleman  ever  acted  on 
the  maxim  of  Noblesse  oblige  it  was  Lord  Eglinton,  and  that  he  did  this 
from  traditional  inspiration  the  whole  set  of  his  conduct  showed.  .  .  .  To 
describe  him  is  to  praise  him  ;  and  the  chief  consolation  his  admirers  will 
feel  is  that  the  very  suddenness  of  his  death  is  likely  to  stamp  deep  on  the 
world's  memory  the  impression  of  his  example.' 

The  scene  at  the  interment  is  said  to  have  been  very  striking.  Besides 
innumerable  Lords  and  Lairds,  many  of  whom  came  uninvited,  the  presence 
of  countless  humble  mourners  formed  an  interesting  feature  in  the  large 
gathering — the  labourer,  begrimed  with  toil,  to  whom  the  departed  Lord 
had  spoken  a  kindly  word,  and  the  poor  widow,  with  child  in  hand,  who 
had  tasted  the  good  Earl's  bounty.  Such  an  unusual  concourse  eloquently 
testified  to  the  genuine  affection  with  which  the  deceased  was  universally 
regarded.     He  had  a  way  of  doing  kind  acts,  which  never  failed  to  touch 


1  It  is  somewhat  strange  to  find  that  in  1877  touching  epistle  to  the  young  nobleman's  pre- 

Lord   Eglinton's  son   and  successor,  the  four-  decessor,   in    acknowledgment    of   his   'muni- 

teenth  Earl,  at  the  comparatively  mature  age  of  ficence'  and  'patronage' ;  and  the  graceful  and 

thirty-five,  publicly  announced  that  he  had  the  prominent  part  (referred  to   by   Mr.   Hannay) 

'bad  taste'  to  appreciate  neither  the  poetry  nor  which  his  father  took  at  the  inauguration  of  the 

the  character  of  Robert  Burns  !     Only  ninety  Doon  monument  will  not  soon  be  forgotten, 
years   previously   the   grateful   bard  indited    a 


ESTIMATES   OF   HIS   CHARACTER  701 

the  hearts  of  the  receivers.  The  mere  giving  of  money  was  with  him  the 
least  of  the  charity,  for  he  was  charitable  in  everything  that  could  contri- 
bute to  human  happiness. 

The  Irish  press  vied  with  that  of  England  and  Scotland  in  describing 
Lord  Eglinton's  good  qualities ;  and  the  Corporation  of  Dublin  unani- 
mously adopted  a  resolution  which  declared  that,  by  his  death,  '  Ireland 
had  been  deprived  of  one  of  her  warmest  friends.' 

In  his  Days  of  the  Dandies,  the  late  Lord  Lamington  refers  to  the 
great  sensation  caused  by  the  Tournament.  '  At  this  time,'  he  says,  '  a 
certain  halo  of  poetry  and  romance  surrounded  society  :  the  railway  had 
not  exercised  its  levelling  influence  on  all  around.  Lord  Eglinton  was 
himself  the  very  type  of  chivalry,  and  in  the  Tournament  he  gratified  not 
merely  his  own  taste,  but  the  spirit  of  the  age.  .  .  .  Until  the  Tournament 
he  was  only  known  as  a  genial,  frank,  open-hearted  nobleman ;  but  after 
that  event  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading  political  men  of  the  day, 
and  was  certainly  in  the  confidence  of  Lord  Derby,  who  sent  him  to  Ire- 
land, where,  as  Lord-Lieutenant,  he  achieved  a  great  success.  His  warm- 
hearted nature  sympathised  with  the  generous  qualities  of  the  Irish  nation  ; 
he  moved  amongst  and  entered  into  the  lives  and  interests  of  all  classes. 
Lord  Eglinton  was  a  proof  how  much  heart  can  do  in  attracting  all  sorts 
and  conditions  of  men  ;  for  although  he  seemed,  when  he  entered  on  his 
high  office,  to  gain  those  qualifications  which  are  especially  required  for  its 
due  fulfilment,  he  was  not  a  highly  gifted  man,  nor  in  his  early  youth  had 
he  devoted  much  time  to  serious  occupation ;  yet  he  surprised  those  who 
knew  him  best  by  his  admirable  speeches,  the  clearness  of  his  judgment, 
and  his  power  of  work.  .  .  . 

'What  a  loss  Lord  Eglinton  was!  He  was  well  known  to  Maga,1 
and  at  his  death  he  received  from  us  the  rare  tribute  of  an  "In  Memoriam." 
We  wrote  of  him  as  one  who  had  conciliated  the  deep  affections  of  the 
people.  Honour  was  his  polar  star,  and  no  consideration  could  induce  him 
to  move  one  step  to  the  right  hand  or  to  the  left  from  what  he  felt  was  the 
path  of  duty.  Such  was  the  high  esteem  in  which  his  character  was  univer- 
sally held,  and  so  sincere  the  admiration  which  his  high  qualities  inspired, 
that  he  was  without  exception  the  most  popular  nobleman  in  Scotland,  and 
even  those  whose  views  were  most  diametrically  opposed  to  his,  acknow- 
ledged his  merits.  In  such  terms  wrote  Maga  in  186 1  ;  and  now  in  1890, 
after  a  generation  has  passed  away,  his  memory  is  still  dear  to  all  classes 
in  the  Lowlands  of  Scotland.' 

The  two  following  extracts  are  from  the  pen  of  the  late  Sir  Archibald 
Alison,  the  historian  : 2 — 

'  Never  was  there  a  man  who  discharged  the  duties  of  a  kind  and  high- 
bred host  better  than  Lord  Eglinton,  or  who  won  the  hearts  of  all  classes 
more  completely  by  the  charm  of  a  courteous  disposition,  and  the  graces 
of  a  singularly  captivating  manner.     He  was  gifted  with  natural  talents  of  no 


1  Blackwood's  Magazine.  2  Life  and  Writings,  i.  601,  and  ii.  337. 


702  HIS   SKILL   IN   MANLY  SPORTS 

ordinary  kind,  which  enabled  him  to  make  a  striking  appearance  in  public 
whenever  he  was  called  on,  although  his  education  had  been  much  neglected, 
and  he  had  never  been  at  a  University.  This  great  disadvantage,  which  to 
ordinary  men  would  have  been  fatal  in  public  speaking,  was  surmounted  in 
him  by  a  ready  elocution,  great  tact  in  addressing  his  audience,  and  a  happy 
selection  of  the  topics  most  likely  to  please  them.  There  was  neither  learn- 
ing nor  originality  in  his  speeches,  but  great  skill  and  address,  and  occasional 
felicity  of  thought  and  expression.  His  manner  and  delivery  were  perfect, 
and  he  never  failed  to  dismiss  his  audience  charmed  with  the  speaker,  the 
subject,  and  themselves.  Passionately  fond  of  rural  sports  and  games,  in 
which  he  drew  the  farmers  and  peasantry  of  his  estates  and  adjoining 
country  around  him,  he  was  eminently  popular  with  his  countrymen  of  all 
ranks  and  parties,  and  never  made  his  appearance  in  public  without  being 
received  with  thunders  of  applause.  .  .  .  There  is  no  public  man  in  this  age 
who  has  been  more  warmly  and  generally  lamented  than  Lord  Eglinton.  .  .  . 
He  was  beyond  all  doubt  the  most  popular  nobleman  in  Scotland,  or  perhaps 
in  the  British  Empire ;  and  he  was  so,  although  no  one  was  more  opposed 
to  the  encroachments  of  democratic  power,  or  descended  less  to  flatter  its 
passions  in  order  to  win  the  suffrages  of  the  popular  party.' 

The  following  is  the  inscription  on  Lord  Eglinton's  monument  in 
Wellington  Square,  Ayr  : — 

'  In  memory  of  Archibald  William,  Earl  of  Eglinton  and  Winton, 
P.C.,  K.T.,  K.P.,  Lord- Lieutenant  of  Ayrshire  1843-61,  Lord  Rector  of 
Glasgow  University  1852-3,  and  Lord- Lieutenant  of  Ireland  1852  and 
1858-9.  Born  29  September  1812,  died  4  October  1861.  This  statue  was 
erected  by  a  public  subscription  of  all  ranks  and  classes,  in  testimony  of 
admiration  for  his  public  character,  of  affectionate  remembrance  of  his 
private  virtues,  and  of  universal  regret  for  the  loss  occasioned  to  his  friends 
and  his  country  by  his  too  early  death.' 

The  thirteenth  Earl  has  been  described  as  '  a  veritable  Crichton  in  all 
manly  sports ' — excelling  as  he  did  in  racing,  coursing,  hunting,  shooting, 
golfing,  curling,  tennis,  and  billiard-playing.  For  upwards  of  twenty  years 
his  tartan  jacket  was  always  the  favourite  with  the  public  ;  and  its  wearers 
knew  full  well  that  their  only  orders  were — to  win  if  they  could.  Among 
his  many  good  horses  were  Pompey,  Aristides,  St.  Bennet,  Blue  Bonnet, 
Van  Tromp,  and  The  Flying  Dutchman,  which  last  won  both  Derby  and 
St.  Leger — the  '  double-first '  of  the  Turf.  The  author  of  Out-door  Sports 
in  Scotland,  after  mentioning,  in  his  Introduction,  Lord  Glasgow,  Sir  David 
Baird,  Sir  James  Boswell,  Robertson  of  Ladykirk,  Lord  John  Scott,  Mr. 
Hope  Johnstone,  Sharpe  of  Hoddam,  and  Ramsay  of  Barnton,  says  :  '  But 
before  all  these  may  be  mentioned  the  Earl  of  Eglinton,  whose  name 
has  a  sweet  savour  in  connection  with  the  Turf.' 

Lord  Eglinton's  devotion  to  the  national  game  of  curling  is  well  known, 
and  many  good  stories  are  told  in  Ayrshire  of  his  performances  on  the  ice 
along  with  his  'redoubtable  henchman,'  Hugh  Conn.  At  a  curling  dinner 
at  Kilmarnock,  in  1842,  in  replying  to  the  toast  of  his  health,  his  Lordship 


TOURNAMENT  OF    1839  7°3 

said  : — '  I  have  the  earnest  wish  to  encourage  the  games  and  sports  of  my 
native  country,  and  more  especially  such  games  and  sports  as  by  their  nature 
are  open  alike  to  poor  and  rich.  Among  them  I  am  sure  there  is  none  that 
can  be  compared  to  the  game  of  curling.'  The  county  of  Ayr  possesses 
the  finest  curling  trophy  in  the  world — '  the  Eglinton  Cup,  which  is  said 
to  have  cost  ^360,  and  which  is  much  prized  as  a  memorial  of  the  famous 
Earl,  as  well  as  for  its  great  value.'1 

One  of  the  most  interesting  episodes  in  Lord  Eglinton's  comparatively 
brief  career  was  the  famous  Tournament  (already  referred  to),  which  took 
place  at  Eglinton  Castle  in  the  summer  of  1839,  when  he  was  in  his  twenty- 
seventh  year,  and  one  of  the  handsomest  men  of  his  day.  His  object 
appears  to  have  been  to  reproduce,  in  his  own  park,  an  imitation  of  such 
a  tournament  as  Sir  Walter  Scott  describes  in  Ivanhoe.  The  cost  of  the 
relative  preparations  amounted  to  upwards  of  ,£40,000,  but  unfortunately 
the  success  of  the  brilliant  effort  was  greatly  marred  by  unpropitious  weather. 
The  scene  of  action  covered  four  acres,  and  two  enormous  galleries  were 
erected  on  either  side,  for  the  accommodation  of  private  guests  and  invited 
spectators.  Nearer  the  Castle  two  vast  canvas  saloons  were  set  apart  for 
the  banqueting-hall  and  ball-room,  and  each  of  the  twelve  knights  was 
provided  with  a  marquee. 

The  Marquis  of  Londonderry  filled  the  office  of  King  of  the  Tourna- 
ment, while  Lady  Seymour,  nde  Sheridan  (afterwards  Duchess  of  Somerset), 
was  Queen  of  Love  and  Beauty.  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  knights, 
each  of  whom  was  accompanied  by  two  esquires  : — 

1.  Earl  of  Eglinton.  7.  Hon.  Mr.  Jerningham. 

2.  Marquis  of  Waterford.  8.  Sir  Frederick  Johnstone. 

3.  Earl  Craven.  9.  Captain  Beresford. 

4.  Viscount  Alford.  10.   Hon.  Charles  Maynard. 

5.  Viscount  Glenlyon.  11.   Mr.  Charles  Lamb. 

6.  Hon.  Captain  Gage.  12.  Mr.  Lechmere. 

The  grand  stand  was  filled  with  ladies  magnificently  attired  in  the 
costumes  of  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries,  to  whom,  on  entering  the 
lists,  each  knight  paid  his  devoir.  At  two  p.m.  the  procession  started  from 
the  Castle,  in  the  midst  of  a  drenching  rain,  which,  as  already  stated,  greatly 
spoilt  the  splendour  of  the  fete.  The  venerable  King  of  the  Tournament, 
clad  from  head  to  foot  in  a  panoply  of  burnished  armour — valued  at  £"1000,— 
presented  a  somewhat  grotesque  spectacle,  under  the  canopy  of  an  enormous 
gingham  umbrella !  Despite  the  unfavourable  weather,  several  jousting- 
matches  took  place,  in  one  of  which  Lord  Eglinton  got  the  better  of  the 
Marquis  of  Waterford,  on  whose  breast  he  shattered  two  spears. 

On  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day,  when  the  weather  somewhat 
improved,  the  sports  were  confined  to  the  ball  tent,  in  which  Prince  Louis 
Napoleon  (afterwards  Napoleon  in.)  engaged  in  a  series  of  mimic  combats 
on  foot  against   Mr.    (afterwards   Sir)  Charles  Lamb.      The  proceedings 


Kerr's  Hf-story  of  Curling,  pp.  249  and  zt 


704    ARCHIBALD-WILLIAM,   FOURTEENTH   EARL 

came  to  a  conclusion  on  the  third  day  with  a  general  m$lde,  in  which  the 
various  knights,  armed  with  swords,  met  their  opponents  in  amicable  fray. 
The  concourse  of  spectators  was  variously  estimated  at  from  80,000  to 
200,000  persons,  and  included  visitors  from  all  parts  of  the  kingdom,  from 
the  Continent,  the  Colonies,  and  the  United  States.  A  humorous 
account  of  the  mock  fighting  and  the  imitation  of  old-world  chivalry 
was  written  for  an  American  journal  by  the  late  N.  P.  Willis.  There  is  an 
amusing  reference  to  the  '  spectacle '  in  the  recently  published  Recollections 
of  the  Dean  of  Salisbury,  who  happened  to  give  a  graphic  description  of 
the  Tournament  to  the  late  Lord  Cockburn.  '  I  look  on  it  as  a  great 
folly,'  said  the  worthy  judge,  '  but  I  think  I  should  like  to  have  been  there 
after  all ' ! 

9.  Archibald-  William,  fourteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

born  3rd  December  1841,  succeeded  his  father  in  October  1861,  and  was 
a  Deputy- Lieutenant  for  the  counties  of  Ayr  and  Lanark.  He  received  a 
considerable  part  of  his  early  education  from  the  Rev.  Mr.  Corson,  English 
master  in  Irvine  Academy,  who  for  some  time  acted  as  his  private  tutor. 
The  Earl  acquired  an  early  liking  for  a  life  of  active  adventure  ;  and  when 
about  thirteen  years  of  age  entered  the  service  of  the  Royal  Navy  as  a 
midshipman  on  board  the  Conqueror.  The  love  of  the  sea  never  left  him  ; 
and  so  long  as  his  health  permitted,  he  passed  a  good  deal  of  his  time 
either  on  board  his  own  yacht,  or  in  long  voyages  in  the  P.  and  O. 
steamers. 

Lord  Eglinton  was  of  a  singularly  retiring  disposition,  and  except  as 
Master  of  the  Eglinton  foxhounds — in  which  position  he  was  very  popular 
— he  seldom  appeared  in  any  public  capacity.  When  he  was  made  a 
burgess  and  guild  brother  of  the  ancient  burgh  of  Irvine  he  could  not  be 
prevailed  upon  to  go  through  the  usual  formalities  in  the  Council  Chambers, 
and  accordingly  the  Provost  had  to  initiate  and  enrol  his  Lordship  in  the 
business  room  at  Eglinton  Castle.  Though  a  man  of  few  words,  Lord 
Eglinton  was  possessed  of  excellent  judgment ;  and  by  his  careful  manage- 
ment he  did  much  to  repair  the  inroads  made  on  the  family  estates  by  the 
hospitality  and  expenditure  of  his  father. 

About  the  year  1867  he  presided  at  a  meeting  in  Irvine  which  was 
held  in  anticipation  of  the  rumoured  Fenian  rising ;  and  he  made  a  short 
speech  at  the  laying  of  the  foundation-stone  of  the  new  public  school  at 
Kilwinning,  after  the  Education  Act  came  into  force.  On  one  occasion,  at 
another  meeting  relative  to  a  proposal  regarding  the  sewage  of  Glasgow, 
where  a  late  Provost  of  Ardrossan  was  inflicting  a  long-winded  speech,  the 
orator  was  bluntly  cut  short  by  Lord  Eglinton — much  to  the  amusement 
of  the  audience, — and  all  the  subsequent  speakers  had  the  good  sense  to 
confine  their  remarks  within  reasonable  bounds. 

Lord  Eglinton  did  not  take  any  active  part  in  politics,  and  never  took 
his  seat  in  the  House  of  Lords. 


GEORGE-ARNULPH,    FIFTEENTH    EARL    705 

For  several  years  before  his  death  he  suffered  from  a  serious  internal 
malady,  to  which  he  ultimately  succumbed  when  in  his  fifty-first  year — his 
father  having  died  at  the  age  of  forty-nine.  The  work  which  will  mainly 
preserve  the  memory  of  the  fourteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton  is  the  extension  of 
the  harbour  of  Ardrossan,  the  new  '  Eglinton  Dock  '  having  been  opened 
only  a  few  months  before  his  death. 

He  married,  6th  December  1862,  Lady  Sophia- Adelaide-Theodosia, 
daughter  of  Charles-Anderson  Worsley,  second  Earl  of  Yarborough,  and 
by  her  (who  died  21st  September  1886)  had  four  daughters  : — 

1.  Lady  Sophy-Constance,  born  28th  November  1863,  married,  15th 
January  1885,  Captain  Samuel  Hynman-Allanby  of  Garnsgate  Hall,  and 
has  issue. 

2.  Lady  Theresa,  born  17th  July  1866,  married,  15th  July  1886, 
John  Cross,  Esq.  of  East  Bank,  co.  Renfrew,  and  has  issue. 

3.  Lady  Gertrude,  born  26th  July  1867,  married,  7th  February  1893, 
Ernest-Bruce-Ackland  Lawford,  Esq.,  and  has  issue. 

4.  Lady  Diana,  born  19th  March  1870,  married,  14th  December  1889, 
Claud,  only  son  of  General  Sir  Claud  Alexander  of  Ballochmyle,  Baronet, 
and  has  issue. 

This  marriage  was  judicially  dissolved  in  July  1894. 

She  married,  secondly,  30th  August  1 894,  Harold- Kenneth  Allison,  Esq. 

The  fourteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton  died  30th  August  1892. 


1  o.  George- A  rnulph,  fifteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

born  23rd  February  1848,  hereditary  Sheriff  of  Renfrewshire,  D.L.  for  co. 
Ayr,  and  late  Lieutenant  in  the  Grenadier  Guards,  succeeded  his  brother, 

4U 


706 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 


the  fourteenth  Earl,  in  August  1892,  and  married,  13th  November  1873, 
Janet-Lucretia,  daughter  of  Boyd-Alexander  Cuninghame,  Esq.,  and  has 


issue 


2. 

3- 
4- 
5- 


Archibald-Seton,  Lord  Montgomerie,  born  23rd  June  1880. 
Hon.  William- Alexander,  born  29th  October  1881. 
Hon.  Francis-Cuninghame,  born  27th  January  1887. 
Lady  Georgina-Theresa,  born  8th  May  1876. 
Lady  Edith-Mary,  born  21st  July  1877. 


Armorial  Bearings. 

As  given  in  Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland,  the  arms  of  Eglinton  are, 
quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  azure,  three  fleurs-de-lis  or,  for  Montgomerie ;  2nd 
and  3rd,  gules,  three  annulets  or,  stoned  a2ure,  for  Eglinton  ;  all  within  a 
bordure  or  charged  with  a  royal  tressure  gules,  for  Seton. 


MODERN   COAT  707 

Supporters — two  dragons  vert  vomiting  fire  (the  crest  of  the  Setons, 
Earls  of  Winton) ;  formerly  two  women  or  angels  in  dalmatic  habits. 

Crest — a  lady,  representing  Hope,  dressed  in  rich  ancient  apparel 
azure,  holding  in  her  dexter  hand  an  anchor,  and  in  her  sinister  a  savage 
head  by  the  hair. 

Motto—  'Garde  bien.'1 

As  blazoned  in  the  latest  edition  of  Burke's  Peerage,  the  Eglinton 
coat  is,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  grand  quarters,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  azure, 
three  fleurs-de-lis  or,  for  Montgomerie ;  2nd  and  3rd,  gules,  three  rings  or, 
gemmed  azure,  for  Eglinton,  all  within  a  bordure  or,  charged  with  a  double 
tressure,  flory-counterflory  gules : — 2nd  grand  quarter,  quarterly,  1st  and 
4th,  or,  three  crescents  gules  for  Seton  ;  2nd  and  3rd,  azure,  three  garbs  or 
for  Buchan ;  over  all  an  escutcheon  per  pale,  gules  and  azure,  the  first 
charged  with  a  sword  in  pale,  proper,  pommelled  and  hilted  or,  supporting 
an  imperial  crown,  within  a  double  tressure  of  the  last ;  the  second  charged 
with  a  star  of  twelve  points  argent,  for  the  title  of  Winton ;  3rd  grand 
quarter,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  or,  a  lion  rampant  within  a  royal  tressure 
gules,  a  label  of  three  points  of  the  last  for  the  Royal  House  of  Stewart ; 
2nd  and  3rd,  or,  a  fesse-chequy  azure  and  argent,  a  label  of  three  points 
gules,  for  Stewart ;  over  all  an  escutcheon  azure  charged  with  three  garbs 
or  for  the  Earldom  of  Buchan. 

Supporters,  Crest,  and  Motto  as  in  Douglas's  Peerage. 


1  In  a  i2mo  MS.  in  the  British  Museum  (Harl.  verted  anchor  ;  (2)  out  of  a  crown  or  a  hand 
1384)  entitled  'Arms  of  English,  Scottish,  and  gules  holding  a  fleur-de-lis  of  the  first.  Motto— 
Irish  Nobility,'  two  crests  are  given  :  (1)  an  in-        'Garde'  only. 


708 


FAMILY  OF  OLIVESTOB 


XXI.  Olivestob  and  St.  Germains 
(i)  Olivestob. 

HE  HON.  SIR  THOMAS  SETON,  fourth  son 
of  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  '  was  provyded 
by  his  father  to  the  lands  of  Holliestob,  now, 
vulgo,  Olivestobe.' *  The  original  name  of  this 
estate  is  commonly  believed  to  have  been  Holy 
Stob  (or  Stop),  the  place  where  the  Host  stopped 
when  it  was  being  carried  in  procession  from 
Preston  to  the  Cistercian  Abbey  of  Newbattle.2 

Olivestob  House,  which  since  the  latter  part 
of  the  eighteenth  century  has  been  known  as 
Bankton,  is  an  old  mansion,  surrounded  by  some  fine  trees,  within  a  short 
distance  of  the  site  of  the  battle  of  Prestonpans  (1745) ;  and  in  the  adjoin- 
ing grounds  there  is  a  monument  to  the  gallant  Colonel  Gardiner,  who 
was  the  owner  of  Olivestob  at  the  time  of  his  death  on  the  battle-field 
aforesaid.  At  one  time  the  interior  of  the  house  was  richly  panelled  in 
oak,  but  all  the  woodwork  was  unfortunately  destroyed  by  a  fire  which 
occurred  in  the  beginning  of  the  present  century. 

Sir  Thomas  Seton  married  '  Dame  Agnes  Drummond,  daughter  to 


1  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  History 
of  the  House  of  Seyloun,  p.  73. 


2  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  quoted  in 
Anderson's  House  of  Hamilton. 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 


709 


Drummond  of  Corskelpy,1  of  the  family  of  Perth,'  by  whom  he  had  three ; 
daughters  : — 

1.  Margaret,  married  to  George 
Seton,  fourth  Baron  of  Cariston  (see  No. 
xvi.  supra). 

2. ,  married    to    Major    Keith, 

Sheriff  of  the  Mearns.  James  Keith  of 
Aforsk  was  Sheriff-depute  of  Kincardine 
(or  Mearns)  in  1704. 

3.  Grissell,  married  to  James  Inglis, 
'  in  Edinburgh,'  who  was  born  in  1630. 

The  marriage  appears  to  have  taken 
place  at  Tranent  in  1655  ;  and  two  years 
afterwards  (1657)  a  daughter,  Isabel  Inglis, 
was  born  in  Seton  Palace,  who  married 
Alexander  Reid,  goldsmith  in  Edinburgh. 
Their  great-grandson  and  representative 
was  Charles- William  Reid  of  the  Audit 
Office,    Somerset    House,    who    married 

Catharine- Sophia,    daughter  and  co-heiress   of  Benjamin    Duncombe   of 
Penlyne  Castle,  Jamaica,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter, 

Ellen-Elizabeth  Reid  of  Oxmantoun  Hill,  co.  Dublin,  now  residing 
at  Leyton,  Essex,  who,  in  1867,  assumed  the  surname  of  Seton,  as  is 
duly  set  forth  in  a  blazon  of  her  arms  in  the  Lyon  Register.  In  a  com- 
paratively recent  issue  of  Burke's  Peerage  and  Baronetage,  we  find  the 
following  statement  under  '  Eglinton  ' : — '  Thomas  (Sir),  ancestor  of  the 
Setons  of  Olivestob,  now  represented  by  Miss  Reid-Seton  of  Leyton, 
Essex.'  The  author  of  this  work  claims  to  be  the  representative  of  Sir 
Thomas  Seton  of  Olivestob,  as  the  direct  descendant  of  Margaret,  Sir 
Thomas's  eldest  daughter. 

It  is  supposed  that  Olivestob  was  purchased  from  the  Setons  by  John 
Hamilton  of  Muirhouse,  in  the  parish  of  Cramond,  who  is  said  to  have 
resided  at  Olivestob  in  the  year  1624.3 

Armorial  Bearings. 

No  special  arms  appear  to  have  been  borne  by  Sir  Thomas  Seton  of 
Olivestob,  who  probably  carried  the  coat  of  Winton  with  the  mark 
of  difference  (a  martlet)  pertaining  to  the  fourth  son. 


1  The  first  Drummond  of  Corskelpy  appears 
to  have  been  Thomas,  fourth  son  of  Malcolm 
Drummond  of  Deanston,  who  was  great-grand- 
son of  Sir  Malcolm  Drummond,  '  eleventh  chiefe 
of  the  Familie.' 

'Som  thinks  these  of  this  sirname  to  have 
been  Campbell,  and  to  be  descended  of  one 
Duncan,  called  Dromock,  because  he  was  the 
first  cam  over  the  cairn  Drum  upon  which  are 
three  cairns  or  hills  of  stone  betwixt  Argyle  and 
Pearthes  shyres,  and  these  say  that  the  barrs  wav£ 
(of  the  Drummond  coat)  are  these  three  hills  ; 


but  the  more  generall  tradition  is  that  they 
cam  from  Hungary  w4  Q.  MargV — Sir  George 
Mackenzie's  Account  of  Scottish  Families — MS. 
12,464,  British  Musenm. 

2  In  the  MS.  account  of  the  Setons  of  Caris- 
ton already  referred  to,  a  fourth  daughter  of 
Sir  Thomas  Seton  is  said  to  have  married  Gray 
of  Skibo. 

3  An  interesting  account  of  the  Hamiltons  of 
Olivestob,  by  the  Rev.  Arthur  Wentworth 
Hamilton  Eaton,  B.A.,  was  privately  printed  at 
New  York  in  1893. 


7io  FAMILY  OF  ST.   GERMAINS 


(2)  St.  Germains. 

1.    The  Hon.  Sir  John  Seton  of  St.  Germains, 

fifth,  and  youngest,  son  of  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  '  gott  the  lands  of 
St.  Germains1  after  his  brother,  Sir  Alexander,  obtained  the  Earledome 
of  Eglingtone.' 2 

On  the  14th  of  January  161 7  a  charter  of  Aldingstone  and  Green- 
dykes  was  granted  to  Sir  John  Seton  and  his  mother  ;  and  three  and  a  half 
years  later  (3rd  July  1620)  he  and  his  'affidate  spouse,'  Margaret  Kellie, 
had  another  charter  of  the  lands  of  St.  Germains  from  his  brother  George, 
third  Earl  of  Winton. 

Again,  on  the  15th  of  February  162 1,  there  is  a  charter  by  the  King 
to  '  John  Seytoun  of  Sanct  Germains '  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Foulden, 
in  the  shire  of  Berwick,  apprised  from  William  Arnote  of  Cokburnespeth, 
and  sold  to  the  said  John  Seytoun  for  2500  merks,  due  to  Mr.  William 
Kellie,  W.S.3 

Some  nine  years  afterwards  (31st  December  1629)  we  find  a  registered 
discharge  by  Alexander,  Earl  of  Eglinton,  George,  Earl  of  Winton,  and 
Sir  William  Seton  of  Kylesmure,  in  favour  of  their  'beloved  brother,'  John 
Seton  of  St.  Germains,  from  the  obligation  which  he  had  granted  to  them 
and  the  late   Margaret,  Countess  of  Winton,   in  June   1620,  not  to  sell 


1  St.  Germains,  formerly  an  establishment  of  2  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  History 

the   Knights-Templars,   was,   after    their    sup-  of  tlie  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  7 '3. 
pression,   bestowed    by  James   IV.   on    King's 

College,   Aberdeen. — New  Statistical  Account  3  Great  Seal  Register,  R.  M.  S.  (P.  R.),  ii. 

of  Scotland,  Haddington,  p.  293.  180. 


THE   HON.    SIR  JOHN   SETON 


711 


his  lands,  in  consideration  that  he  was  now  of  age  to  manage  his  own 
affairs.1 

On  the  7th  of  November  1636,  letters  of  horning  were  issued  against 
Sir  John  Seton  of  St.  Germains  ('formerly  designed  John  Seton,  son  of 
the  late  Robert,  Earl  of  Wintoun'),  and  John  Ramsay  of  Edington,  for 
not  observing  the  decreet-arbitral  between  them  and  Alexander  Home, 
portioner  of  Chirnsyde,  and  Elizabeth  Forrester  his  spouse,  the  judges 
being  Mr.  Robert  Balcanquell,  minister  at  Tranent,  Robert  Seton,  servitor 
to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  on  the  part  of  Sir  John  Seton  and  John  Ramsay, 
and  George  Home  of  Diringtoun,  and  Mr.  John  Clappertoun,  minister  at 
Ednam,  on  the  part  of  the  Homes.2 

Sir  John  Seton  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Mr.  William  Kellie, 
one  of   the  Senators   of  the  College  of 
Justice,  by  whom  he  had,  at  least,  two 
sons  and  four  daughters  : — 

1.  John,  who  succeeded  his  father. 

2.  Francis,  married  to  Helen  Inglis, 
and  died  in  June  1666,  as  appears  from 
the  following  entry  in  the  Commissariot 
of  Edinburgh  Testaments  (vol.  Ixxii.): — 
'  Testament  dative  and  inventory  of  the 
goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  the  deceased 
Francis  Seton,  brother  to  the  Laird  of 
St.  Germaines,  who  died  in  the  month  of 
June  1666,  given  up  by  Helen  Inglis,  his 
relict,  only  executrix-dative  decerned  to 
the  deceased,  on  3rd  November  1666. 
Free  gear    .  ^3.965.  4S- 

'  The  Earl  of  Winton  was  owing  to 
the  said  Francis,  by  bond,  for  the  sum  of 

4000  merks ;  and  the  said  Francis  was  due  to  George,  Earl  of  Winton,  for 
the  crop  1666,  the  sum  of  ,£686,  2s.  2d.' 

Confirmed  7th  December  1666,  David  Halyday,  Chamberlain  to  the 
Lady  St.  Germains,  elder,  being  cautioner.3 

3.  Margaret,   married  to  Hamilton  of  Preston,  who   'dyed  without 
succession.'     Her  second  husband  was  Ramsay  of  Edington. 

4.  Isobell,  who  died  unmarried. 

5.  Jean,  married  to  Alexander  Menzies  of  Coulterallers,  by  whom  she 
had  several  sons  and  daughters. 

6.  ,  who  died  young. 


1  Books  of  Council  and  Session,  13th  January 
1630. 

2  Inventory  of  Old  Writs  of  St.  Germains, 
1623-78. 

3  From  the  recorded  testament  of  Elizabeth 
Seton,  spouse  to  Mark  Hamilton,  chirurgeon- 


apothecary,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  afterwards 
of  Saltpreston,  who  died  in  July  1667,  it  appears 
that  Sir  Thomas  Hamilton  of  Preston  was 
owing  to  John  Seton  of  St.  Germains  5000 
merks,  and  to  Dame  Margaret  Kellie,  Lady 
St.  Germains,  elder,  1000  merks. — Edinburgh 
Testaments,  vol.  lxxiii. 


712 


SECOND   AND  THIRD   LAIRDS 


Sir  John  Seton  'dyed  in  good  age  [July  1638],  and  was  buried  in  the 
buriall  place  of  Seton.' *  This  appears  from  the  record  of  his  '  Testament 
Testamentar'  in  the  Edinburgh  Register,  wherein  he  constitutes  Dame 
Margaret  Kellie,  his  spouse,  his  only  executrix  and  tutrix  to  his  children. 
The  free  gear  amounted  to  v°xxxiijlib,  and  Robert  Seton  of  Monkmylne 
is  a  witness. 

Sir  John  Seton  must  have  died  before  5th  May  1640,  as,  in  'Letters 
of  Inhibition '  of  that  date,  Margaret  Kellie  is  described  as  his  '  relict.' 

Twelve  years  afterwards  (18th  February  1652),  'Dame  Margaret 
Kellie,  relict  of  Sir  John  Setoun  of  St.  Germains,  Knight,'  grants  a  seven 
years'  'tack'  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Greendykes,  in  favour  of  'John 
Huide,  fermorer  (farmer),  in  Hadderweik,  and  Katherine  Cundeit,  his 
spouse.' 2 

Again,  on  the  5th  of  December  1671,  '  Dame  Margaret  Kellie,  Lady 
St.  Germains,'  appears  in  a  notarial  instrument  relative  to  the  disposition 
of  her  moveable  estate  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Alexander  Menzies  of 
Coulterallers,  and  David  Halyday,  'servant  to  the  said  Dame  Margaret.'3 

Sir  John  Seton  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 


2.  John  Seton  of  St.  Germains, 

who    married   Anna   Turnbull,    by   whom,    we    learn    from   the   Tranent 

Register  of  Baptisms,  he  had  a  son  and 
a  daughter : — 

1.  George,  baptized  27th  April  1675. 

2.  Anna,    baptized    15th    December 
1676. 

3.  George  Seton  of  St.  Germains 

appears  to  have  succeeded  his  father,  and 
to  have  been  a  writer  in  Edinburgh.  From 
the  following  entry  in  the  Commissariot  of 
Edinburgh  Testaments,  kept  at  Hadding- 
ton (vol.  Ixxxvi.),  we  find  that,  besides 
Anna,  already  mentioned,  he  had  three 
other  sisters,  Mary,  Margaret,  and  Alison : 
— '  Testament  dative  and  inventory  of  the 
goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  the  late  George 
Seton  of  St.  Germans,  writer  in  Edin- 
burgh, who  died  on  1  ith  January  17 18,  given  up  by  Andrew  Hay,  brother- 
german  to  the  late  James  Hay  of  Carriber,  husband,  and  in  name  of  Mary 


1  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation,  p.  74. 

2  Inventory  of  Old  Writs  of  St.  Germains, 
1623-78. 


3  Inventory  of  Old  Writs  of  St.   Germains, 
1623-78. 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 


7i3 


Seton,  his  spouse,  by  Margaret  Seton,  residenter  in  Bristo,  and  by  James 
Kelburn,  chamberlain  to  the  Viscount  of  Garnock,  husband,  and  in  name 
of  Alison  Seton  his  spouse ;  which  Mary,  Margaret,  and  Alison  Seton  are 
sisters-german  and  only  executors-dative  decerned  to  their  said  brother 
on  5th  February  17 18. 

'  Inventory  and  debts  owing  to  the  deceased  .     .£12,377,  16s.  3d. 

'  Robert  Seton,  writer  in  Edinburgh,  James  Seton,  writer  there,  and 
John  Seton,  elder,  barber  and  wigmaker  in  Edinburgh,  are  mentioned  as 
indebted  to  the  said  George  Seton  by  bond,  dated  23rd  May  17 16,  for  the 
sum  of  500  merks.'  Confirmed  7th  February  1718,  Sir  William  Menzies 
of  Gladstanes  being  cautioner. 

If  George  Seton  of  St.  Germains  was  married,  the  name  of  his  wife 
does  not  transpire ;  and  it  would  appear  that  the  family  is  extinct  in  the 
male  line. 

Armorial  Bearings. 

Or,  a  fesse  between  three  crescents  in  chief  and  as  many  fleur-de-lis  in 
hzse  gules  barways.  'So  cut  upon  stone,'  says  Nisbet,  'above  the  entry 
to  the  House  of  St.  Germains.'  The  herald  adds  that  the  first  Seton  of 
St.  Germains  '  married  one  of  the  name  of  Kellie,  for  which  the  fleurs-de-lis 
are  added  in  base.'1 

Neither  the  Crest  nor  the  Motto  is  mentioned  by  any  of  the  writers 
on  Scottish  Heraldry. 


System  of  Heraldry,  first  edition,  i.  244, 


4X 


7H 


KINGSTON   LINE 


&^) 


XXII.   Kingston 

HE  first  of  this  family  was  the  third  son  of  George, 
third  Earl  of  Winton,  viz.  : — 

i.  Alexander  Set  on,  first  Viscount  Kingston, 

born  162 1,  who,  when  King  Charles  1.  visited  Seton 
in  1633,  welcomed  him  with  a  Latin  oration  at  the 
iron  gate  of  the  Palace,  where  his  Majesty  sat  in 
state,  surrounded  by  the  nobility.  The  youthful 
scholar  was  attended  by  his  schoolmaster,  a  peda- 
gogue, and  other  four  masters  of  arts,  all  grave  and  learned  men,  clothed 
in  black  cloth  and  cloaks  lined  with  velvet,  the  ground  being  covered 
a  great  way  from  the  throne  with  a  carpet.  Young  as  he  was,  he  delivered 
his  oration  boldly,  with  suitable  gesture,  for  which  he  had  the  applause 
of  his  Majesty  and  all  present ;  and,  before  he  rose  off  his  knee,  the  King 
conferred  upon  him  the  honour  of  knighthood,  saying :  '  Now,  Sir 
Alexander,  see  that  this  does  not  spoil  your  school  ;  by  the  appearance 
you  will  be  a  scholar'  ;  to  which  the  juvenile  knight  calmly  replied,  '  No, 
please  your  Majesty.' 

In  1636  he  was  sent  to  France,  and  lived  two  years  at  the  College 
of  La  Fleche ;  then  passed  to  Italy,  where  he  remained  for  a  year. 
Embarking  at  Leghorn,  he  landed  at  Alicant,  from  which  he  went  to 
Madrid,  and  there  resided  seven  months.  On  leaving  Spain  he  embarked 
at  St.   Sebastian,   and  found  his  way  to  Rochelle,  and  after  travelling 


ALEXANDER,    FIRST  VISCOUNT 


715 


through  the  greater  part  of  France,  came  to  England  in  1640.  To  avoid 
subscribing  the  Covenant,  in  1643,  he  went  to  Holland  for  eight  months; 
and  on  his  refusing  to  subscribe  after  his  return  to  Scotland,  he  was 
excommunicated  in  Tranent  Church,  on  the  8th  of  October  1644.  He 
then  passed  over  to  France,  where  he  attended  upon  Prince  Charles  till 
1647,  when  he  returned  to  London. 

He  was  employed  in  several  important  negotiations  by  King 
Charles  11.,  and  was  created  Viscount  of  Kingston,  with  limitation  to  the 
heirs-male  of  his  body,  14th  February  1651. 

On  the  same  day  he  writes  the  following  plucky  letter  from  Tantallon 
Castle  to  the  Earl  of  Lothian  : — '  My  Lord,  Be  pleased  schow  his  Majestie 
that  we  hier  arre  doeing  our  best  for  his  Majesties  seruice  (according  to 
our  bund  duetie),  and  sail  endeuoaure  (be  God's  helpe)  to  render  his 
Majestie  such  account  of  this  place  as  becomes  loyall  and  true  subjects. 
Our  conditione  for  the  present  is  gud  :  (as  can  be  that  of  men  now  8  dayes 
seiged)  and  laks  for  nothing :  for  quhat  we  ar  be  all  gud  fellows  and  of 


716  SIEGE   OF  TANTALLON 

on  meind,  purpossing  to  stand  to  it  to  the  last.  Alwayes  I  hope  this  will 
not  hinderre  our  releiwe ;  being  confident  of  your  Lordship's  caire  of  that 
(as  allwayes  it  is  in  quhat  concerns  King  and  cuntrie)  quhich  sail  be  ane 
obligatione  neuer  to  be  forgotte  be  him  who  is  your  Lordship's  most 
obedient  and  humble  seruitor,  SE  Al.  Seatoune. 

'  Themptalloune,  14  Februarre  165 1. 

'  To  the  right  honorablle  my  verie  noble  Lord,  my  Lord  the  Earle  of 
Lothian.'1 

Tantallon  Castle  was  at  this  time  besieged  by  Oliver  Cromwell.  It 
was  surrendered  on  the  evening  of  21st  February,  'after  he  had  battred  at 
the  for  wall  1 2  dayes  continually  with  grate  canon.  Capitaine  Alexander 
Setton  defendit  the  same  gallantly,  bot  after  that  the  enimeyes  canon  had 
oppind  a  warey  large  breache,  and  filled  the  dray  ditche  with  the  wall,  he 
entred  it  by  storme.'  The  Captain  and  his  men  thereupon  betook  them- 
selves to  the  tower,  and  only  surrendered  upon  quarter  being  granted 
them.2 

The  following  statement  occurs  in  Thomas  Kirk's  Tour  in  Scotland 
in  1677:  'From  Dunbar,  though  in  a  valley,  we  saw  three  high  hills, 
Depender-law  (Traprain),  North- Berwick  law,  and  the  Basse  island. 
They  told  us  that  my  Lord  of  Kingston  would  convene  his  tenants  on  the 
top  of  Depender-law  tomorrow,  being  the  29th  of  May,  and  make  them 
merry,  and  fire  a  gun  or  two  there.' 3 

In  Sir  George  Mackenzie's  MS.  Account  of  Scottish  Families  in  the 
British  Museum  (12,464),  after  giving  the  parentage  and  marriages  of  the 
first  Viscount,  the  writer  states  that  he  '  died  poor,  having  spent  both  his 
own  estate  and  his  lady's.' 

Among  the  Lauderdale  Papers  in  the  same  repository  (23,116,  f.  70) 
is  a  letter  to  King  Charles  11.  on  his  marriage,  dated  Edinburgh,  17th 
May  1 66 1,  which  bears  a  large  number  of  signatures,  including  that  of 
Lord  Kingston.  In  the  same  collection  (23,126,  f.  142)  we  find  a  com- 
munication from  the  Viscount  to  Lord  Lauderdale,  dated  Edinburgh,  23rd 
March  1667,  relative  to  the  proposed  levying  of  more  troops  'in  this 
kingdome,'  in  which  he  assures  Lord  Lauderdale  of  his  desire  to  be  looked 
upon  as  'ane  obedient  loyall  subjeckt.'  About  a  year  later  (19th  May 
1668)  he  writes  to  Lord  Lauderdale  from  '  Whyttyngame,'  and  gratefully 
refers  to  the  King  having  appointed  him  to  command  the  Militia  of  East 
Lothian.  '  Neither  by  word  nor  writ,'  he  says,  'can  I  thankfullye  enough 
express  myselff  for  your  Lo.  noble  remembrance ;  itt  hes  been  these 
severall  generations,  both  by  blood  and  obligation,  to  the  nearest  off  my 
relations  a  deutye  to  serve  your  Lo.  and  your  noble  famellye ;  et  si  licet 
parva  componere  magnis,   I   doo  presume  to  inroll  myselff  amongst  the 


1  Correspondence  of  the  Earls  of  Ancram  and  3  Supplement  to  Hume  Brown's  Early  Travel- 
Lothian,  ii.  340.                                                               lers  in  Scotland,  p.  10. 

2  Balfour's  Annals,  iv.  249. 


^^J^J€<^m^^^p^0^^ 


HIS   FIRST  AND   SECOND  WIVES  717 


number.'1     The  letter  bears  a  very  fine  signature  ('  Kingstoune '),  while 
the  seal  exhibits  the  quarterly  family  coat,  sur- 
mounted by  a  coronet. 

In  1667  the  valued  rent  of  Lord  Kingston 
was  .£555,  3s.  6d.  Scots,  out  of  a  total  oi  £1614., 
9s.  7d.2 

Lord  Kingston  married,  first,  Jean,  daughter 
of  Sir  George  Fletcher,  Knight,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  the  Hon. 
Jean  Seton,  married  to  James,  third  Lord  Mordington. 

He  married,  secondly,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Archibald  Douglas 
of  Whittinghame,3  in  the  county  of  Haddington,  heiress  of  her  brother 
Archibald,  who  died  28th  November  1660,  and  to  whom  she  was  served 
heir  in  May  1662.     They  had  issue  : — 


1  Lauderdale  Papers,  23,129,  f.  108,  British 
Museum. 


2  Morham  Parochial  Register,  vol.  i. 


7i8 


ISSUE   OF   SECOND   MARRIAGE 


i.  Charles,  Master  of  Kingston,  who  died  unmarried  in  the  lifetime 
of  his  father. 

2.  Hon.  George  Seton,  who  died  a  young  man,  after  he  had  been  for 
some  years  a  Captain  in  Douglas's  regiment  in  France. 

3.  Hon.  Alexander  Seton,  a  distinguished  scholar,  who  died  young. 

4.  Archibald,  second  Viscount  Kingston. 

5.  Hon.  John  Seton,  died  at  nine  years  of  age. 

6.  James,  third  Viscount  Kingston. 

7.  Hon.  Isabel  Seton,  died  in  her  eighth  year. 

8.  Hon.  Barbara  Seton,  died  in  her  sixteenth  year. 


SECOND  AND  THIRD   VISCOUNTS         719 

9.  Hon.  Elizabeth  Seton,  married  to  the  Hon.  William  Hay  of 
Drumelzier,  whose  posterity  were  owners  of  Whittinghame. 

The  Viscount  married,  thirdly,  the  Hon.  Elizabeth  Hamilton,  third 
daughter  of  John,  first  Lord  Belhaven ;  and  fourthly,  3rd  August  1686, 
Lady  Margaret  Douglas,  daughter  of  Archibald,  Earl  of  Angus,  and  sister 
of  James,  second  Marquis  of  Douglas — -in  both  cases  without  issue. 

2.  Archibald  Seton,  second  Viscount  Kingston, 

was,  under  the  style  of  '  Master  of  Kingston,'  served  heir  of  Charles, 
Master  of  Kingston,  his  eldest  brother,  9th  October  1683,  and  of  Elizabeth 
Douglas,  his  mother,  8th  September  1684.  He  died  unmarried  in  17 14, 
when  he  was  succeeded  by  his  younger  brother, 

2  (a).  James  Seton,  third  Viscount  Kingston, 

an  Ensign  in  the  regiment  of  Scottish  Fusiliers,  commanded  by  Colonel 
Buchan,  about  1687. 

Three  years  afterwards  (16th  August  1690)  he  turns  up  in  a  strange 
adventure,  narrated  by  Dr.  Chambers  in  his  Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland  i1 
— 'Adam  Cockburn,  the  post-boy,  who  carried  the  packet  or  letter-bag  on 
that  part  of  the  great  line  of  communication  which  lies  between  Cockburns- 
path  and  Haddington,  had  reached  a  point  in  his  journey  between  the 
Alms-house  and  Hedderwick  Muir,  when  he  was  assailed  by  two  gentlemen 
in  masks;  one  of  them  "mounted  on  a  blue-gray  horse,  wearing  a  stone- 
gray  coat  with  brown  silk  buttons";  the  other  "riding  on  a  white  horse, 
having  a  white  English  gray  cloak  coat  with  wrought  silver  thread  buttons." 
Holding  pistols  to  his  breast,  they  threatened  to  kill  him  if  he  did  not 
instantly  deliver  up  "the  packet,  black-box,  and  by-bag,"  which  he  carried; 
and  he  had  no  choice  but  to  yield.  They  then  bound  him,  and  leaving 
him  tied  by  the  foot  to  his  horse,  rode  off  with  their  spoil  to  Garleton 
House  near  Haddington. 

'As  the  packet  contained  Government  communications  besides  the 
correspondence  of  private  individuals,  this  was  a  crime  of  a  very  high  nature, 
albeit  we  may  well  believe  it  was  committed  on  political  impulse  only. 
Suspicion  seems  immediately  to  have  alighted  on  James  Seton,  youngest  son 
of  the  Viscount  Kingston,  and  John  Seton,  brother  of  Sir  George  Seton  of 
Garleton  ;  and  Sir  Robert  Sinclair,  the  Sheriff  of  the  county,  immediately 
sought  for  these  young  gentlemen  at  their  father's  and  brother's  houses, 
but  found  them  not.  With  great  hardihood,  they  came  to  Sir  Robert's 
house  next  morning,  to  inquire,  as  innocent  men,  why  they  were  searched 
for,  when  Sir  Robert,  after  a  short  examination  in  presence  of  the  post- 
boy, saw  fit  to  have  them  disarmed  and  sent  off  to  Haddington.  It  was 
Sunday,  and  Bailie  Lauder,  to  whose  house  they  came  with  their  escort, 


1  Vol,  iii.  page  32. 


720 


A   MYSTERIOUS  AFFAIR 


was  about  to  go  to  church.  If  the  worthy  bailie  is  to  be  believed,  he 
thought  their  going  to  the  Sheriffs  a  great  presumption  of  their  innocence. 
He  admitted,  too,  that  Lord  Kingston  had  come  and  spoken  to  him  that 
morning.  Anyhow,  he  concluded  that  it  might  be  enough  in  the  meantime 
if  he  afforded  them  a  room  in  his  house,  secured  their  horses  in  his  stable, 
and  left  them  under  charge  of  two  of  the  town-officers.  Unluckily,  however, 
he  required  the  town-officers,  as  usual,  to  walk  before  him  and  his  brother- 
magistrates  to  church ;  which,  it  is  obvious,  interfered  very  considerably 
with  their  efficiency  as  a  guard  over  the  two  gentlemen.  While  things 
were  in  this  posture,  Messrs.  Seton  took  the  prudent  course  of  making 
their  escape.  As  soon  as  the  bailie  heard  of  it,  he  left  church,  and  took 
horse  after  them  with  some  neighbours,  but  he  did  not  succeed  in  over- 
taking them. 

'  The  Privy  Council  had  an  extraordinary  meeting,  to  take  measures 
regarding  this  affair,  and  their  first  step  was  to  order  Bailie  Lauder  and 
the  two  town-officers  into  the  Tolbooth  of  Edinburgh  as  close  prisoners. 
A  few  days  afterwards  the  magistrate  was  condemned  by  the  Council  as 
guilty  of  plain  fraud  and  connivance,  and  declared  incapable  of  any  public 
employment.  William  Kaim,  the  smith  at  Lord  Kingston's  house  of 
Whittingham,  was  also  in  custody  on  some  suspicion  of  a  concern  in  this 
business  ;  but  he  and  the  town-officers  were  quickly  liberated. 

'John  Seton  was  soon  after  seized  by  Captain  James  Denholm  on 
board  a  merchant-vessel  bound  for  Holland,  and  imprisoned  in  the  Castle 
of  Edinburgh.  He  underwent  trial  in  July  1691,  and  by  some  means 
escaped  condemnation.    A  favourable  verdict  did  not  procure  his  immediate 

liberation ;  but,  after  three  days,  he  was 
dismissed  on  caution  to  return  into  custody 
if  called  upon.  This  final  result  was  the 
more  remarkable,  as  his  father  was  by 
that  time  under  charge  of  having  aided  in 
the  betrayal  of  the  Bass.'1 

Engaging  in  the  '  Rising '  of  1 7 1 5,  the 
third  Viscount  was  attainted  by  Act  of 
Parliament,  his  estates  and  honours  being 
forfeited  to  the  Crown. 

He  married  Lady  Anne  Lindsay, 
eldest  daughter  of  Colin,  third  Earl  of 
Balcarres,  and  widow  of  Alexander,  fifth 
Earl  of  Kellie,  their  post-nuptial  contract 
being  dated  16th  April  1714;  but  by  her, 
who  died  at  Edinburgh,  4th  February 
1743,  had  no  issue.  Lord  Kingston  died 
about  1726,  and  in  him  terminated  the 
male  line  of  Alexander,  first  Viscount  Kingston. 


1  See  MSS.  of  S.  H.  le  Fleming  at  Rydal  Hall — Historical  MSS.  Commission,  12th  Report,  p.  327 
(1890). 


THE   HAYS   OF   DRUMELZIER 


721 


Armorial  Bearings. 

Quarterly :  1st  and  4th,  or,  three  crescents  within  a  royal  tressure 
gules;  2nd  and  3rd,  argent,  a  dragon  vert,  with  wings  expanded  and  tail 
nowed,  as  a  coat  of  augmentation,  being  the  crest  of  the  Seton  family. 

Supporters — two  blackamoors,  wreathed  about  the  head  and  middle 
with  laurel,  and  armed  with  darts  proper. 

Crest — a  flame  of  fire  issuing  out  of  a  crescent,  gules. 

Motto—'  Habet  et  suam.'1 


The  heirs  of  line  of  the  Kingston  family  are  the  Hays  of  Duns  Castle, 
through  theirdirect  descent  from  the  Hon.  Elizabeth  Seton,  only  surviving 
daughter  of  Alexander,  first  Viscount 
Kingston,  by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth 
Douglas,  heiress  of  Whittinghame,  who 
married,  as  we  have  already  seen,  the 
Hon.  William  Hay  of  Drumelzier,  born 
1649,  son  of  John,  first  Earl  of  Tweeddale, 
by  whom — besides  a  younger  son,  William, 
who  died  without  issue,  and  a  daughter, 
Margaret,  married  to  Robert,  seventh 
Lord  Blantyre — she  had  an  elder  son, 

1.  Alexander  Hay  of  Drumelzier  and 
Whittinghame. 

The  Hays  of  Drumelzier  were  long 
the  proprietors  of  Whittinghame.  '  They 
were  accounted  most  excellent  landlords, 
— were  highly  esteemed  by  their  equals, — 


1  In  a  folio  MS.  in  the  British  Museum  (Add. 
33,260)  entitled  'Illuminated  Peerage  of  Scot- 


land,' Encore  Avant  is  given  as  the  Kingston 
motto. 


4Y 


722     ROBERT   HAY   OF   DRUMELZIER,    ETC. 

and  revered  and  beloved  by  their  tenants  in  every  county  where  they  had 
property.     Their  representatives  still  retain  the  same  amiable  character.'1 
Alexander  Hay  married,  first,  the  Hon.  Anne  Stuart,  fourth  daughter 

of  Alexander,  fifth  Lord  Blantyre,  and  by 
her  (who  died  in  1 743)  had  five  sons  and 
two  daughters : — 

1.  William,  who  died  without  issue. 

2.  Alexander,  an  officer  of  the  Nor- 
folk East   Indiaman,  died  at   Kinsale  in 

li-  ,  1758. 

m  |f  3.  Robert,  his  father's  heir. 

J     '  L.         j  4-  James,  of  Nunraw. 

kWM:>x  7  5-  John. 

:,      r    /  6.  Anne,   married,  first,   in  175 1,   to 

Sir  Patrick  Murray  of  Balmanno,  Baronet ; 
secondly,  in   1769,  to  Archibald   Stirling 
v-  of  Keir. 

/  7.   Margaret,   married  to  Sir  Henry 

^^^r^  Seton  of  Culbeg,  Baronet. 

Mr.  Hay  married,  secondly,  in  1752, 
Jean,   daughter  of  Lord   David    Hay  of 
Belton,    and   dying    13th    March    1789,    in    his   eighty-eighth    year,    was 
succeeded  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 


born    6th    January    1799, 
numerous  researches  and 


2.  Robert  Hay  of  Drumelzier, 
Whittinghame,  and  L  inphim, 

born  13th  April  1731,  who  was  for  thirty- 
eight  years  in  the  East  India  Company's 
Civil  Service.  He  married,  7th  February 
1786,  Janet,  eldest  daughter  of  James 
Erskine  of  Cardross,  and  by  her  (who  died 
29th  August  1808)  had  issue  five  sons  and 
four  daughters  : — 

1.  William,  of  whom  afterwards. 

2.  James,  of  Linplum,  born  2nd  May 
1790,  died  2nd  December  1819. 

3.  Alexander,  of  Nunraw,  born  6th 
September  1796,  killed  at  Waterloo,  18th 
June  1815. 

4.  Robert,  of  Linplum  and  Nunraw, 
a    well-known    Eastern   traveller,    who    made 

a  large  collection  of  antiquities  in  Egypt,  and 


1  New  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  Had- 
dington, p.  64.      The  estate  of  Whittinghame 


was  sold  in  1817  to  Mr.  James  Balfour,  second 
son  of  John  Balfour  of  Balbirnie. 


WILLIAM    HAY  OF   DUNS  CASTLE 


723 


was  author  of  Illustrations  of Cairo.  He  married,  in  1828,  Kalitza  (who 
died  5th  June  1885),  daughter  of  Alexandres  Psaraki,  Chief  Magistrate 
of  Apodhulo,  Crete,  and  died  at  Amisfield,  East  Lothian,  4th  November 
1863,  having  had  issue  : — 

(1)  Robert- James- Alexander,  M.A.,  Magdalen  College,  Cambridge, 
born  14th  May  1840,  married,  5th  April  1875,  Caterina- Maria-Teresa,  third 
daughter  of  the  late  Marchese  Frescobaldi,  of  a  Florentine  patrician  family, 
and  has  had  issue  : — 

(a)  Robert- William-Seton,  born  24th  July  1878. 

(b)  Charles,  born  and  died  nth  June  1879. 

(c)  Alexander-James-Dino,  twin  with  his  brother  Charles. 

(2)  James- William,  born  5th  August  1841,  married,  12th  January 
1874,  Josephina-Maria  Molyneux,  and  has  two  daughters  : — 

(a)  Kalitza- Janet-Erskine-Christian,  married,  in  1863,  to  George 
Stirling- Home-Drummond  of  Blair-Drummond  and  Ardoch  (for  whose 
first  marriage  see  below),  who  died  3rd  June  1876. 

(6)  Henrietta-Maria,  died  unmarried  9th  February  1875. 

5.  Charles-Erskine  of  Nunraw,  born  20th  October  1801,  died  at  Paris 
5th  May  1827. 

6.  Christian. 

7.  Henrietta,  married,  29th  January  1822,  Charles- Alexander  Moir 
of  Leckie,  and  died  6th  August  1854. 

8.  Anne,  died  unmarried  27th  February  1882. 

9.  Elizabeth-Seton,  died  unmarried  8th  March  1858. 

Mr.  Robert  Hay  died  21st  August  1807,  and  was  succeeded  by  his 
eldest  son, 


3.    William  Hay  of  Duns  Castle, 

born  29th  February  1788,  J. P.  and  D.L., 
Colonel  of  the  Militia,  Convener  of  the 
county  of  Berwick,  and  a  keen  and  popular 
sportsman,  married,  13th  May  1816,  Mary, 
elder  daughter  of  Major  John  Bradstreet 
Garstin,  65th  regiment,  only  son  of  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Robert  Garstin,  D.L.,  of 
Harold  House,  co.  Bedford,  and  by  her 
(who  died  10th  June  1863)  had  three  sons 
and  six  daughters  : — 

1.  William-James,    of    whom    after- 
wards. 

2.  Alexander-Charles,  General  Madras 
Army,  born  24th  February  1829,  married, 

1 8th  April  i860,  Annie,  daughter  of  Major-General  Dobbs,  late  of  the 
Mysore  Commission  and  died  8th  May  1893,  leaving  issue  : — 


724  WILLIAM-JAMES   HAY   OF   DUNS   CASTLE 


(i)  William- Hope,  born  8th  June  1862,  the  present  heir  of  line  of  the 
Setons,  Viscounts  Kingston. 

(2)  Francis-Stuart,  born  22nd  July  1863. 

(3)  Charles- Alfred,  born  15th  December  1867. 

(4)  Alexander-Graham,  born  9th  June  1871. 

(5)  Edward-George,  born  21st  October  1879. 

(6)  Mary-Henrietta,  married,  in  1886,  to  Colonel  Neville  Chamberlain. 

(7)  Helen-Cordelia. 

3.  Robert- Mordaunt,  who  succeeded  his  eldest  brother  William. 

4.  Mary,  married,  nth  August  1840,  to  George  Home-Drummond, 
younger  of  Blair- Drummond,  and  d.  s.p.  4th  April  1855. 

5.  Christian-Henrietta. 

6.  Anne-Elizabeth,  married,    19th  February  1855,    Robert  Graham- 
Moir  of  Leckie,  co.  Stirling,  who  died  3rd  March  1864,  leaving  issue. 

7.  Cordelia,  married,  28th  June  1848,   J.   B.  Yonge  of  Puslinch,  co. 
Devon,  who  d.  s.p.  12th  November  1863. 

8.  Janet-Matilda,   married,  8th  October   1856,   Charles-Thomas-Con- 
stantine  Grant  of  Kilgraston,  co.  Perth,  and  has  issue. 

9.  Harriet-Scott. 

Colonel    Hay  of  Duns  Castle  died   16th   May    1876,  when  he  was 

succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 


4.    William-James  Hay  of  Duns  Castle, 


J. P.  and  D.L.,  born  26th  May  1827, 
passed  his  earlier  years  in  the  Bengal 
Civil  Service,  and  married,  12th  January 
1865,  Margaret-Caroline,  second  daughter 
of  William  Hay  of  Hopes,  co.  Hadding- 
and  d.  s.p,  18th  December  1893.  Mrs. 
Hay  died  29th  March  1894.  Mr.  Hay 
evinced  a  deep  interest  in  the  duties  which 
devolved  upon  him  as  an  extensive  land- 
owner, and  throughout  a  period  of  pro- 
tracted agricultural  depression  he  proved 
a  most  considerate  proprietor. 

Mr.  William  Hay  was  succeeded  by 
his  youngest  brother, 


4  (a).  Robert- Mordatmt  Hay  of  Dims  Castle, 

born  4th  October  1833. 

Prior  to  1820  Duns  Castle  was  a  large  rectangular  building,  with  a 
square  tower  of  considerable  elevation  at  the  east  end,  and  a  lower  semi- 
circular tower  to  the  back.     The  eastern  tower  was  the  original  castle  or 


ANTIQUITY  OF   DUNS   CASTLE 


725 


fortalice,  built  (probably  about  1320)  by  Thomas  Randolph,  Earl  of  Moray, 
who  took  a  prominent  part,  under  Bruce,  in  the  War  of  Independence,  and 
on  whom  the  town  and  lands  of  Duns  were  bestowed  by  the  King  as  a 
reward  for  his  services.  The  walls  of  Randolph's  castle  are  of  enormous 
thickness,  and  the  structure  must  have  been  a  place  of  considerable 
strength. 

Duns  Castle  was  the  headquarters  of  General  Alexander  Leslie  when 
the  Covenanters  lay  encamped  on  Duns  Law  in  1639.  About  the  close  of 
the  seventeenth  century  an  addition  was  made  to  the  castle,  when  it  came 
into  the  possession  of  the  Drumelzier  family,  by  the  Hon.  William  Hay, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Seton,  daughter  of  the  first  Viscount  Kingston.  At 
a  later  period  the  semicircular  tower,  already  mentioned,  was  added  by 
Alexander  Hay  of  Drumelzier,  great-grandfather  of  the  present  proprietor. 
Nothing  more  seems  to  have  been  done  to  the  building  till  1820,  when 
Colonel  William  Hay  threw  off  at  the  angles  of  the  old  structure  the  tall 
battlemented  turrets  which  now  form  very  characteristic   features  of  the 


726       FAMILY   PAPERS   AT   DUNS   CASTLE 

edifice,  added  a  main  doorway  on  the  south  side,  and  converted  the 
original  square  windows  into  large  lights  of  Gothic  form,  with  appropriate 
tracery.  At  the  same  time  a  good  many  bedrooms  were  sacrificed  in  the 
centre  of  the  building  to  make  way  for  the  elegant  new  entrance-hall,  while 
an  addition  was  made  to  the  west  side,  constructed  by  Mr.  Alexander 
Hay.  In  this  way  the  external  aspect  of  the  castle  was  completely  trans- 
formed ;  but  the  original  walls  are  still  almost  entire,  and  very  little  change 
has  been  made  upon  the  ground-plan,  which  is  given,  on  a  small  scale,  in 
the  fifth  volume  of  Messrs.  Macgibbon  and  Ross's  valuable  book  on  Scottish 
Castellated  a7id  Domestic  Architecture. 

Among  the  family  papers  at  Duns  Castle  are  numerous  documents 
connected  with  the  process  raised  by  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  against 
the  Viscount  Kingston,  James  Seton  his  brother,  the  Laird  of  Drumelzier, 
and  others.  I  happen  to  possess  a  printed  copy  of  the  relative  '  Informa- 
tion,' extending  to  five  folio  pages,  and  signed  by  'David  Dalrymple,' 
afterwards  Lord  Hailes.  After  stating  that  the  Earl,  during  his  absence 
abroad,  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  his  father,  mother,  and  only  brother, 
it  is  said  that  while  his  estate  was  '  in  the  hands  of  servants,  certain 
relatives  of  his  family  '  calmly  took  possession  of  the  property.  '  The 
Earl's  house  was  possessed,  his  furniture  carried  away  and  disposed  of, 
the  jewels  and  plate  of  his  family  transported,  his  servants  dispossessed,  his 
granaries  broke  open,  and  his  casual  rent,  as  well  as  real,  which  is  of  con- 
siderable yearly  value,  intromitted  with ;  the  casual  rent  indeed  entirely, 
and  the  real  rent,  as  far  as  the  tenants  could  be  prevailed  with  to  pay, 
without  a  title.'  It  is  also  stated  that  the  defenders  '  were  at  no  pains  to 
take  care  and  secure  the  writs  and  effects  of  the  defunct,  as  required  by  the 
Act  of  Sederunt  of  23rd  February  1692  ;  and  therefore  they  fall,  under  the 
certification  of  that  Act,  to  be  held  as  Imbazlers  (sic)  of  writs,  evidents, 
money,  or  precious  moveables ;  and  therefore  the  coming  there  at  that 
time,  without  due  regard  for  preserving  the  interest  of  the  heir,  is  so  far 
from  being  an  alleviation  that  it  fortifies  the  pursuer's  intention.  But 
further,  this  excuse  ought  never  to  have  been  mentioned ;  for  it  is  too  well 
known  with  what  atrocious  circumstances  of  contempt  the  defenders  pre- 
tended to  dispose  of  the  late  Earl's  body,  and  of  the  body  of  Mr. 
Christopher,  his  son,  at  that  time.'  It  is  further  asserted  that  'several 
things  were  transmitted  from  Seton  to  the  house  of  Whittinghame,  where 
Drumelzier  keeps  family,  and  where  the  hail  other  defenders  reside.  .  .  . 
The  spirit  and  direction  of  the  management  appeared  in  the  hands  of  Mr. 
Gordon,  a  principal  servant  of  Drumelzier's,  and  a  domestick,  and  entrusted 
by  him  in  the  management  of  his  other  affairs.' 

The  '  Information  '  concludes  as  follows  : — '  It  requires  an  extraordinary 
degree  of  prepossession  and  folly  to  imagine  that  the  defenders  should 
believe  that  a  nearer  than  the  Viscount  of  Kingston  would  not  appear  and 
claim  so  valuable  a  succession  and  estate  as  the  estate  of  Winton,  especially 
when  it  was  so  notour  that  the  present  Earl  was  alive ;  and,  as  he  had  just 
reason,  was  exceedingly  dissatisfied  with  the  usage  he  met  with,  whereof 


LETTER  TO  THE   LAIRD   OF   DRUMELZIER  727 

indeed  there  are  no  examples  to  be  met  with  in  the  history  of  his  country, 
nor  indeed  in  the  histories  of  any  other  civilised  nation.' 

The  following  curious  letter  to  the  Laird  of  Drumelzier,  evidently  from 
the  '  Mr.  Gordon '  referred  to  in  the  '  Information,'  turns  up  among  the 
family  papers  at  Duns  Castle  : — 

'  Sir, — The  accott  I  promised  to  send  is  on  the  oyr  page :  They  wer 
all  bought  cheap  att  publict  roup,  in  regard  the  person  who  I  imployed  to 
bidd  for  me  told  all  ther  present  not  to  exceed  his  offerr,  because  he  was  to 
bue  them  for  the  ffreinds  of  the  ffamilie  :  And  sea11  years  since,  I  was 
offerred  the  same  vallue  from  the  gold  smiths,  and  a  4th  p*  more,  from  some 
oyr  gentlemen  for  some  of  the  peices  of  gold  :  but  haveing  given  in  a  Nott 
of  them  to  my  Lady  your  mother,  she  desyred  me  att  noe  rate  to  disspose 
of  them,  for  she  would  take  and  keep  them  for  your  use,  and  satisfie  me  to 
the  full  for  them.  I  have  now  lain  long,  above  1 1  yeares,  out  of  my  money, 
And  ab*  six  yeares  since  I  ffirst  gaue  in  the  tables  to  my  Lady  Blantyre. 
You  will  therfor  please  wth  convenience  to  order  the  pay*  eyr  by  bond,  bill, 
or  oyr  wayes,  as  you  think  ffitt.  I  begg  leave  also  to  lay  beffor  you,  your 
uncle's  bond,  all  writt  with  his  oune  hand,  of  20lb  Star,  and  except  a  dutch 
black  coatt,  all  advanced  to  him  in  readie  cash,  wth  @rent  from  17  Octor 
171 2.  Drumellier  and  my  Lady  assured  me  that  I  should  not  loose  that 
money.  I  am  now  to  betake  myselffe  to  anoyr  state  of  lyffe ;  this  cropt 
1727,  being  the  last  of  19  yeares,  I  can  continue  in  that  great  trust,  my 
Lord  Hoptoun  for  soe  long  a  time  hath  honoured  me  with  :  And  wer  nott 
oyr  reasones  then  I  have  from  his  Lop,  I  would  not  yett  give  itt  over,  and  I 
have  at  the  same  time  a  just  sence  and  a  gratefull  remembrance  to  the 
memory  of  him,  wth  whom  I  spent  pairt  of  my  your  yeares  soe  hapiely  as  to 
improve  my  selffe,  to  be  capable  now  to  perform  soe  great  a  charge.  I 
know  you  will  excuse  the  trouble  of  this  long  letter.  Wishing  all 
prosperitie  and  happiness  to  you,  your  ffamillie,  your  broyr,  and  my  Lady 
Blantyre  :  permitt  me  alwayes  to  acknowledge  my  selffe  in  all  duetie,  and 
wth  great  respect  to  be,  Sir,  your  most  Duetiefull  and  very  obedient  Humle 
Serv',  Jo.  Gordon. 

'Niddry  Castle, 

\2ih  Janry.  1728. 


'  Please  direct  for  me  to  be  lefft  att  Mr  Tho.  Gordon's,  Watchmaker  in 
Edinr,    over    agst   the    Guard,    or   att    Mr  Alex.    Hepburn's,     Merch 
Haddington.' 


*   in 


It  will  be  observed  that  the  account  in  question  includes  the  '  Silver 
Tables  and  men,'  the  'two  gold  dice,'  the  medal  bearing  the  monogram  of 
George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  and  Isabel  Hamilton  his  wife,  and  the  three- 
sided  steel  seal  engraved  at  page  721.  The  Mary  Seton  necklace, 
however,  does  not  appear. 


728 


HEIRLOOMS  AT   DUNS   CASTLE 


Mr  Alexr  Hay  of  Drumellier,  Debtr  To  Jo:  Gordon. 


Imp.  the  Silver  tables  and  men  weighting  6  pd.  9  un.  8  drp 

It.  the  2  gold  dice  weight  7  drop 

It.  on  thick  peice  of  gold  with  a  cross  the  motto  '  In  hoc  signo 

vinces '  w'  1  Unce  2  \  drp. 
It.  on  large  pca  of  gold  the  motto  'providentia  .    .    .    divina 


Star. 


It. 
It. 


obnoxia '  w'  1  Un  2  drp 


on  pce  gold  Mary  Queen  Scotts  w*  4  drp 
It.  on  pce  gold  Phi.  4th  Spain  wl  2  drp  25  Gr 
It.  on  pce  gold  the  motto  '  Concordia  res  parvae  crescunt ' 
It.  on  pce  gold  the  motto  '  Nemo  potest  duobus  dominis  servire 

we3jdrp    .... 
It.  on  Spanish  pce  w'  2  drp  26  Gr 
It.  2  or  3  small  pees  w*  3  drp  24  Gr 
It.  3  gold  rings  on  enameled  w'  3  drp  20  Gr 
It.  on  ring  wtb  a  cross  of  8  diamonds 
It.  2  pr.  gold  butt:  on  pr  gold  Earings  w*  7  drp  19  Gr 
It.  on  seall  cutt  in  steell  wth  3  sides 
It  on  silver  seall — nothing. 


26 

1 


6  : 
2  : 


07  :  6 
15: 

1  :g 

19  : 

3:6 
14  :  6 

9:8 

19  =  3 

14  :  8 

18  :  8 

19  : 

1  : 

2  : 
14  :  8 


53  =  00 


'  This  account  is  pay'd  and  the  discharge  is  amongst  Jo:  Hay's  accounts.' 

[Addressed  on  back — 'To  Mr  Alexander  Hay  off  Drumellier  att 
Dunss  Castle.'] 

Another  series  of  documents  (1713-25)  relate  chiefly  to  the  settlements 
of  Anna,  Viscountess  Kingston  (wife  of  the  last  peer) — one  very  long 
paper,  dated  1 713,  being  signed  by  William  Hay  and  James  Seton. 

In  an  inventory  of  heirlooms  we  find  the  'silver  tables'  or  draught- 
board already  referred  to  {supra  p.  135);  the  gold  medal,  with  monogram 
of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton  and  his  wife,  Isabel  Hamilton  [supra 
p.  153) ;  ten  gold  coins,  of  which  one  pertains  to  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary  ; 
and  a  '  family  tree  of  Seton,'  which  seems  to  have  disappeared. 

There  are  also  preserved  at  the  Castle  a  beautifully  printed  Missal, 
bearing  the  arms  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton  (engraved  at  p.  197 
supra) ;  several  exquisitely  illuminated  books  of  devotion,  executed  in  the 
fifteenth  century ;  deeds  signed  by  Queen  Mary  and  her  son  James  vi. ; 
one  of  the  originals  of  the  National  Covenant ;  and  locks  of  the  hair  of 
Prince  Charles- Edward  and  his  brother  the  Cardinal,  Duke  of  York. 

Many  of  the  papers  relate  entirely  to  the  Hays  of  Drumelzier,  and 
include  the  contract  of  marriage  between  Lord  John  Hay  and  Lady 
Margaret  Montgomery. 

A  small  clasped  pocket-book  contains  a  beautifully  engrossed  genealogy 
of  the  Setons  and  a  number  of  birth  and  death  entries  which  are  printed  in 
Mr.  Sharpe's  edition  of  Maitland's  Hotise  of  Seytoun. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  documents  at  Duns  Castle  relating  to  the 
Seton  family : — 


PAPERS   AT   DUNS   CASTLE  729 

1.  Note  of  the  Earl  of  Winton's  charter,  dated  31st  July  1686. 

2.  Minute  of  Proceedings  at  Cockenzie  on  15th  January  1705,  at 
meeting  between  Mr.  James  Seton,  Sir  Walter  Scott,  the  Laird  of  Touch, 
and  William  Seton,  younger  of  Pitmedden,  in  reference  to  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Winton  Estate. 

3.  Copy  Libel,  Sinclair  v.  Mr.  James  Seton,  14th  April  1705. 

4.  Inventory  of  Books  belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  now  in  John 
Fraser's  house,  relating  to  accounts  on  the  estate. 

5.  Instrument  of  Protest  by  Mr.  James  Seton,  brother  to  the  Viscount 
Kingston,  against  the  Managers  of  the  estate  of  Winton,  for  not  exhibiting 
their  account-books  at  Port  Seton,  4th  August  1705. 

6.  Similar  Protest  by  both  parties  anent  the  delivery  of  the  keys  of 
the  Earl  of  Winton's  Girnels,  4th  August  1705. 

7.  Protest  by  Mr.  James  Seton  to  the  same  effect,  8th  August  1705. 

8.  Protest  by  the  same  against   Norman    Blackadder,   9th  August 

x7°5- 

9.  Consent  of  the  Creditors  on  the  Estate  of  Winton  to  the  appoint- 
ment of  Mr.  James  Seton  as  judicial  factor  thereon,  1706. 

10.  Information  for  the  Viscount  Kingston  as  next  apparent  heir  of 
Winton,  in  reference  to  the  affairs  of  the  Earldom,  and  for  the  appointment 
of  his  brother,  Mr.  James,  as  factor,  1st  July  1706. 

1 1-23.  Papers  relating  to  the  Creditors  and  Management  of  the  Estate 
of  Winton,  1706-7. 

24.  Instrument  of  Protest  by  George,  Earl  of  Winton,  and  delivery  to 
him  of  the  keys  of  the  Granaries,  etc.,  at  Tranent,  9th  November  1707. 

25-31.  Papers  in  Process  between  Lord  Winton  and  Mr.  James  Seton, 

1707-9. 

32.  Paper  containing  '  some  matters  of  Fact '  in  reference  to  the  origin 
of  the  case. 

33-56.  Papers  in  Process,  1709-17 12. 

57-94.  Papers  in  Process,  171 2-1 714. 

95-103.   Kingston  Papers,  1713-1725. 

List  of  Documents  produced  and  founded  on  by  the  thirteenth  Earl  of 
Eglinton  in  his  service  as  heir-male  general  of  George,  fourth  Earl  of 
Winton,  in  1840,  which  appear  to  relate  to  the  family  of  Seton,  Viscounts 
Kingston : — 

1.  MS.  Record  of  the  Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths  of  the  principal 
members  of  the  Winton  family  from  1593  to  1624,  in  the  handwriting  of 
George,  third  Earl  of  Winton  (1606-50). 

2.  Extracts  from  the  Family  Bible  at  Duns  Castle,  containing  entries 
of  the  Marriages,  Births,  and  Deaths  of  the  Kingston  family  from  1650  to 
1695,  a^  made  by  the  first  Viscount  Kingston  (1 651 -91),  with  the  exception 
of  three,  which  were  made  by  the  second  Viscount  (1691-1714). 

3.  Confirmed  Testament  of  Alexander,  first  Viscount  Kingston,  the 
decree  upon  which  is  dated  26th  December  1696. 

4.  General  Retour  of  Archibald,  Master  of  Kingston,  as  '  hseres  Caroli 

4z 


730  DOCUMENTS  AND   PORTRAITS 

Magistri   de   Kingston   fratris  germani  immediate   senioris,'   dated    17th 
September  1683. 

5.  Special  Retour  of  the  said  Master  of  Kingston  as  '  haeres  Dominae 
Elizabethae  Douglas,  Vicecomitissat  de  Kingston,  matris,  in  terris  et 
Baronia  de  Whittinghame,'  dated  8th  September  1684. 

6.  Certified  copy  Summons  of  Declarator  before  the  Court  of  Session, 
at  the  instance  of  Archibald,  Viscount  of  Kingston,  nearest  lawful  and 
apparent  heir  to  the  deceased  George,  (fourth)  Earl  of  Winton  (1650- 1704), 
against  George  Seton  (fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  1704-16).  Signeted  23rd,  and 
with  execution  thereon  dated  24th  May  17 10. 

7.  Printed  information  in  an  action  between  the  said  Viscount  and 
George,  (fifth)  Earl  of  Winton,  19th  July  1711. 

8.  Contract  between  Archibald,  Viscount  of  Kingston,  and  Mr.  James 
Seton,  his  brother,  whereby  the  Viscount  disposes  to  his  brother  the 
Barony  of  Whittinghame,  under  burden  of  an  aliment  to  himself  of  2000 
merks,  dated  26th  March  1713. 

9.  Post-nuptial  Contract  of  Marriage  between  Mr.  James  Seton, 
brother-german  to  the  Viscount  of  Kingston,  and  Anna,  Countess  of  Kellie, 
dated  26th  April  17 14. 

10.  Instrument  of  Sasine  in  favour  of  Anna,  Viscountess  Kingston, 
dated  17th  December  17 19,  and  recorded  in  the  Particular  Register  at 
Edinburgh  4th  January  1720. 

11.  Decreet  of  Locality,  Anna,  Viscountess  of  Kingston,  against 
William  Hay  of  Drumelzier  and  others,  dated  2nd  February  1720. 

12.  Ante-nuptial  Contract  of  Marriage  between  William  Hay  of 
Drumelzier,  lawful  son  to  the  deceased  John,  Earl  of  Tweeddale,  and 
Lady  Elizabeth  Seton,  lawful  daughter  to  the  deceased  Alexander,  Viscount 
of  Kingston,  dated  23rd  November  1695. 

The  Seton  Portraits  at  Duns  Castle  are  as  follows  : — 

1.  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  and  his  family.  From  the  original  in 
the  possession  of  the  Somerville  family. 

2.  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie,  his 
Countess,  and  their  daughter  Isabella,  successively  Countess  of  Perth  and 
Bothwell. 

3.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  set.  40. 

4.  Lady  Anna  Hay,  his  first  Countess,  aet.  32. 

5.  Lady  Isabella  Seton,  wife  of  Francis,  sixth  Lord  Semple. 

6.  Alexander  Seton,  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton  ('Greysteel'). 

7.  Major-General  the  Hon.  Robert  Montgomerie,  fifth  son  of 
No.  6. 

8.  Alexander,  first  Viscount  Kingston  (in  black  dress). 

9.  Do.  do.  after  the  battle  of  Worcester. 

10.  Do.  do.  (in  armour). 

11.  Elizabeth  Douglas,  heiress  of  Whittinghame,  first  Viscountess 
Kingston. 

12.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Garleton,  first  Baronet. 


AT   DUNS   CASTLE  731 

13.  Hon.  Elizabeth  Seton,  daughter  of  Alexander,  first  Viscount 
Kingston, wife  of  the  Hon.  William  Hay  of  Drumelzier,  by  Runciman. 

a  t    j       vi,  (  Ladies  Isabel,  Anne,  and  Mary, 

4'  „       T  ',.        .  .    .  '         ,  a  l  daughters  of  George,  third  Earl 

15.  Two  Ladieswith  dog  and  flowers,  1        to  |-^.    & 

16.  A  Lady  unknown,  set.  19,  1625.  (Lady  Jean  Drummond, 
daughter  of  James,  first  Earl  of  Perth,  and  wife  of  John,  seventeenth  Earl 
of  Sutherland  ?) 

In  a  series  of  interesting  notes  on  the  Duns  Castle  pictures,  by  the 
late  Mr.  George  Home-Drummond  of  Blair-Drummond,  he  attributes  the 
original  of  the  portraits  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  and  his  family 
(No.  1)  to  Cornelius  Jansen,  whereas  it  has  always  been  regarded  as  from 
the  brush  of  Sir  Antonio  More.  Mr.  Home-Drummond  calls  attention  to 
the  necklace  worn  by  Lady  Semple  (No.  5)  as  being  similar  to  the  Mary 
Seton  jewel  at  Duns  Castle,  figured  at  page  134,  supra. 

Among  the  many  other  family  portraits  are  those  of  Lady  Isabel 
Douglas,  successively  Countess  of  Roxburgh  and  Marchioness  of  Montrose; 
John,  first  Duke  of  Roxburgh  ;  Alexander,  fifth  Lord  Blantyre,  and  Anne 
Hamilton,  his  second  wife ;  James,  seventh  Lord  Yester ;  James,  fifth 
Earl  of  Linlithgow,  and  Lady  Margaret  Hay  (Errol),  his  Countess ;  John, 
first  Earl  of  Tweeddale  ;  the  Hon.  William  Hay  of  Drumelzier,  his  second 
son  ;  Margaret  Hay,  second  wife  of  the  seventh  Lord  Blantyre ;  William 
Hay  of  Edington;  Robert  Hay  of  Drumelzier;  James  Erskine  of  Cardross; 
Lady  Christian  Bruce,  his  wife  ;  and  Charles  Erskine,  younger  of  Cardross, 
his  son,  of  which  the  five  last  are  by  Raeburn.  There  is  also  a  very  good 
quarter-length  of  King  James  vi.,  by  Cornelius  Jansen,  and  four  .very 
interesting  later  Stuart  portraits,  presented  by  the  exiled  Royal  family  to 
Alexander  Hay  of  Drumelzier,  an  ardent  Jacobite,  in  recognition  of  the 
important  services  rendered  by  his  family,  viz.  : — 

1.  The  Chevalier  St.  George  (James  vin.). 

2.  Clementina  Sobieski  of  Poland. 

3.  Prince  Charles- Edward. 

4.  Prince  Henry  (Cardinal  of  York). 

Among  the  miscellaneous  pictures  are  two  landscapes,  by  the  Rev. 
J.  Thomson  of  Duddingston ;  the  Woman  taken  in  Adultery,  by  Annibal 
Carracci ;  Vestal  Virgin,  by  Paul  Veronese  ;  two  Male  Heads,  by  Titian 
and  Rembrandt;  Fox  in  a  Poultry-yard,  by  Hondekoeter;  March  of 
Troops,  by  Bloemart ;  Banditti,  from  the  collection  of  Louis  xviii.  (pre- 
sented by  the  Marquis  of  Oueensberry)  ;  and  Old  Henwife  at  Whitting- 
hame,  by  Sir  George  Chalmers. 

In  the  dining-room  is  a  colossal  modern  oak  mantelpiece,  erected  by 
Mr.  Adams  of  Oueensferry  Street,  Edinburgh,  representing  Niddry  Castle 
and  two  incidents  in  the  career  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  viz.  : — 
Queen  Mary's  escape  from  Lochleven,  and  the  battle  of  Langside. 


732 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 


Armorial  Bearings. 

Quarterly:  ist,  azure,  three  cinquefoils  argent,  for  Fraser ;  2nd, 
quarterly,  ist  and  4th,  or,  three  crescents  within  a  royal  tressure  gules,  for 
Seton;  2nd  and  3rd,  argent,  a  dragon  with  wings  expanded,  tail  nowed 
vert,  for  Kingston ;  3rd,  ermine,  on  a  chief  gules  two  mullets  argent,  in 
base  a  cinquefoil  sable,  for  Douglas  of  Whittinghame  ;  4th,  gules,  three  bars 
ermine,  for  Gifford  of  Yester.  Over  all,  on  an  escutcheon,  argent,  three 
escutcheons^/^,  for  Hay. 

Crest — a  goat's  head  erased  argent,  armed  or. 

Motto—1  Spare  Nought' 


WHITTINGHAME  TOWER. 


GARLETON   LINE 


733 


XXIII.  Garleton  and  Windygoul 


(i)  Garleton. 


The  Honourable  Sir  John  Set  on,  first  Baronet. 

)HE  fifth  son  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  by 
his  second  wife,  the  Hon.  Elizabeth  Maxwell, 
daughter  of  John,  seventh  Lord  Herries,  was  Sir 
John  Seton,  born  29th  September  1639,  'who  got 
the  lands  of  Garletoun  and  Ethanstanfoord,1  which 
his  father  did  acquire.  This  Ethanstanfoord,  so 
called  from  the  English  and  Saxon  king  Ethan- 
stanus,  at  which  the  king  of  Scotland  did  overcome 
in  battle  the  said  Ethanstanus.  Near  to  which 
place,  as  our  Scots  story  relaits,  the  S4  Andrew's 

Cross  did  appear  to  the  Scots  king  and  his  army,  which  was  then  called 

the  place  of  Miracle,  now,  vulgo  and  corrupt,  Markle.'2 

'  Garleton  Castle  is  overlooked  by  a  series  of  picturesque  crags  which 

extend  along  the  northern  slope  of  the  Garleton  Hills,  about  two  miles 


1  The  lands  of  Athelstaneford  appear  to  have 
belonged  to  Sir  Adam  Hepburn  of  Humbie 
about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
Sir  John  Hepburn,  who  was  born  in  the  village 


of  Athelstaneford,  was  slain  in   1637,  fighting 
for  King  Louis  in  Lorraine. 

2  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  History 
of  the  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  86. 


734 


SIR  JOHN,   FIRST   BARONET 


distant  from  the  town  of  Haddington.  The  building  has  consisted  of  an 
extensive  courtyard,  enclosed  with  a  strong  wall.  The  main  portion  of  the 
structure  is  in  a  state  of  complete  ruin.  It  occupies  the  north-east  corner 
of  the  courtyard,  and  contains  the  remains  of  three  arched  cellars.  .  .  .  The 
round  tower  projecting  outside  the  east  wall,  which  is  furnished  with  various 
shot-holes,  is  tolerably  entire.  .  .  .  There  is  an  extensive  old  garden  round 
the  south,  north,  and  east  sides,  while  the  courtyard  and  the  site  of  the 
Castle  are  occupied  by  kitchen-gardens.  In  the  centre  of  the  west  side 
of  the  courtyard  is  situated  the  well. 

'  Garmylton  (as  the  name  was  formerly  spelt)  formed  part  of  the  ad- 
joining barony  of  Byres,  and  in  1478  David  Lindsay  of  the  Mount, 
grandfather  of  the  poet,  had  sasine  of  the  lands.  .  .  .  The  poet  died  about 
1555,  and  the  probability,  judging  from  the  style,  is  much  greater  that  he 
built  the  Castle  than  that  he  was  born  in  it. 

'  Garleton  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  Earl  of  Haddington  in 
1637,  and  in  1686  it  was  in  the  hands  of  the  Seton  family,  from  whom  it 
was  purchased  by  the  Earl  of  Wemyss  in  1724.' 1 

Sir  John  Seton,  who  was  created  a  Knight-Baronet,  9th  December 
1664,2  married  Christian  (Isabel  ?),  daughter  of  Sir  John  Home  of  Renton, 

by  his  wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Stewart,  Prior  of  Coldingham, 
second  son  of  Francis  Stewart,  last  Earl 
of  Bothwell,  whose  father,  the  Lord  Prior 
of  Coldingham,  was  the  illegitimate  son 
of  King  James  v.  The  issue  of  the  mar- 
riage was  six  sons  and  four  daughters  : — 

1.  George,  his  father's  successor. 

2.  John,  who  died  in  Germany  in 
171 5,  having  married,  nth  July  1695, 
Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Neale 
of  Plassy,  Baronet,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons : — 

(1)  Ralph,  born  27th  June  1702,  and 

died  without  issue  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne 

in  December  1782,  being  described  in  the 

register  of  his  burial   as    '  Lord    Seton,' 

and  '  representative  of  George  Seton,  Earl 

of  Winton,   attainted   in    17 15,'  who,  on  the  death  without  issue  of  Sir 

George   Seton,  third   Baronet  of  Garleton,  in    1769,  became  heir  to  the 

Winton  honours. 

In  the  charter-chest  at  Duns  Castle  there  is  an  interesting  joint  family 
bond  and  engagement  relative  to  Ralph  Seton,  to  the  following  effect : — 
'  We,  whose  subscriptions  are  hereto  annexed,  considering  the  indigent 


1  The  Castellated  and  Domestic  Architecture 
of  Scotland,  iv.  189-91,  where  a  ground-plan  and 
also  a  view  from  the  south-west  are  given.    See 


also  Chalmers's  Caledonia,  ii.  407  and  434. 
2  Great  Seal  Register,  Lib.  lxiii.  No.  13. 


RALPH   SETON 


735 


circumstances  of  Ralph  Seton,  the  representative  of  the  family  of  Winton, 
and,  from  our  connection  with  that  family,  resolving  to  contribute  something 
for  his  support,  do  hereby  bind  and  oblige  ourselves,  and  our  heirs  and  repre- 
sentatives, to  pay  to  James  Keay,  writer  in  Edinburgh,  the  sums  annexed 
to  our  respective  subscriptions,  yearly,  at  the  term  of  Martinmas,  beginning 
the  first  year's  payment  at  the  term  of  Martinmas  1771,  and  so  to  continue 
yearly  during  the  life  of  the  said  Ralph  Seton,  etc.  In  witness  whereof, 
these  presents,  being  written  by  Alexander  Keay,  writer  in  Edinburgh,  on 
stamped  paper,  are  subscribed  (at  different  dates  between  October  1771  and 
January  1772)  by  Alexander,  Duke  of  Gordon,  at  Gordon  Castle  ;  by  Lord 
Adam  Gordon,  at  Prestonhall ;  by  Margaret,  Lady  Blantyre,  at  Lennox- 
love  ;  by  Alexander  Hay  of  Drummelzier,  at  Whittingham ;  by  Archibald, 
Earl  of  Eglinton,  at  Eglinton ;  by  Hugh  Seton  of  Touch,  Esquire,  at 
Touch  ;  and  by  William,  Lord  Blantyre,  at  Lennox-love,' — all  in  presence 
of  witnesses,  whose  names  are  duly  inserted,  followed  by  the  amount  of  the 
respective  subscriptions. 

(2)  John,1  of  St.  George  the  Martyr,  county  of  Middlesex,  born  22nd 


1  See  Riddell's  Keir  Perfomiance,  p.  252, 
where  he  is  described  as  an  upholsterer,  and 
where  the  author  adduces  other  examples  of 
family  decadence. 

Little  more  than  twenty  years  ago,  a  male 
representative  of  Simon  de  Montford,  the  first 


English  baron,  was  a  saddler  in  Tooley  Street, 
London  Bridge ;  a  great-grandson  of  Oliver 
Cromwell — 'the  patron  saint  of  the  middle 
classes' — a  porter  in  Cork  market ;  and  a  Planta- 
genet,  descendant  of  the  fifth  son  of  Edward  III., 
a  verger  in  St.  George's,  Hanover  Square. 


736 


MRS.   BROADBENT,   N&E  SETON 


June  1707,  in  Crossgate  parish,  Durham,  and  died  in  January  1775, 
having  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Francis  Newton  of  Irnham,  co. 
Lincoln,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  one  daughter : — 

(a)  John,  also  of  the  parish  of  St.  George  the  Martyr,  who,  on  the 
death  of  his  uncle  Ralph,  in  1782,  became  representative  of  the  Winton 
family.  He  was  born  in  December  1755,  and  died  3rd  August  1796,  when 
the  succession  to  the  Winton  honours  is  believed  to  have  opened  to  Hugh, 
twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton.  By  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Hughes  of 
Berryhall,  Warwickshire,  whom  he  married,  16th  February  1786,  John 
Seton  had  (besides  two  sons,  John  and  John-Joseph,  and  a  daughter  Mary, 
who  all  predeceased  their  father  in  infancy)  a  surviving  daughter,  Mary- 
Catherine,  born  2nd  June  1796,  and  married  to  Mr.  John  Broadbent,  by 
whom  she  had  several  sons  and  daughters,  who  assumed  the  surname  of 
Seton.  Either  in  1840  or  1841,  along  with  my  kinsman,  the  late  Miles- 
Charles  Seton,  I  had  an  interview  with  Mrs.  Broadbent,  at  her  house  in 
Cheapside,  London,  where  she  followed  the  vocation  of  milliner.     I  was 


SIR  GEORGE,   SECOND   BARONET  737 

greatly  struck  by  Mrs.  Broadbent's  intelligence  and  dignified  appearance, 
and  felt  no  little  interest  in  conversing  with  the  undoubted  heir  of  line  of 
the  House  of  Seton. 

(b)  Robert,  died  a  minor,  unmarried,  in  April  1778. 

(c)  Barbara,  married  to  Thomas  Douglas,  Esquire,  and  died  without 
issue  in  1784. 

The  third  son  of  Sir  John  Seton,  first  of  Garleton,  was 

3.  Robert,  styled  '  Father  Robert  Seton,'  a  Roman  Catholic  priest, 
born  in  1667,  entered  the  Society  of  Jesuits  at  Toulouse,  7th  September 
1688,  and  died  at  Deeside  in  1732,  celebrated  for  his  '  indefatigable  labour 
and  great  charity.' 

From  a  manuscript  formerly  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lee, 
Principal  of  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  entitled  '  Information  anent 
Papists  in  Mar,  April  1703,'  we  obtain  some  particulars  relative  to  '  Father 
Robert  Seton ' : — '  Lews  Farquharson  of  Auchindrein  not  only  keeps  a 
priest,  but  has  also  frequent  conventions  and  masses  at  his  house,  whereof 
many  instances  and  pregnant  probation  might  be  given  ;  but  we  judge  a 
few  may  serve.  First,  Mr.  Robert  Seton  stayed  at  his  house  throughout 
the  whole  month  of  December  last,  going  about  all  the  ridiculous  and 
superstitious  rites  usual  in  the  Romish  Church  in  time  of  Yule,  etc.  .  .  . 
Thirdly,  Mr.  Seton  did,  at  Auchindrein,  solemnise  the  marriage  of  John 
Forbes  in  Ennerchanlig,  Protestant,  with  a  Popish  woman.  .  .  .  Mr. 
Seton  did  also  baptize  a  child.'  In  another  ms.  List  of  Papists,  etc.,  in 
Glenmuick,  in  the  Presbytery  of  Kincardine-o'-Neil,  and  sheriffdom  of 
Aberdeen,  in  May  1704,  Mr.  Robert  Seton,  brother  to  Seton  of  Garleton, 
is  mentioned  as  having  been  for  seven  years  a  priest  in  that  locality.1 

4.  Alexander,  apprenticed  to  John  Hay,  merchant,  in  April  1688,  and 
died  unmarried  about  1 705. 

5.  6.  Christopher  and  Charles,  who  both  died  young  before  1694. 
Sir  John  Seton's  four  daughters  were  : — 

1.  Margaret,  who,  after  four  years'  residence  in  a  nunnery  in  Paris, 
'  dyed  in  France  a  young  woman.' 

2.  Christian. 

3.  4.   Elizabeth  and  Isobel,  who  both  died  young. 

Sir  John  Seton  'was  a  vertuous  man;  much  given  to  policie ;  ane 
improver  of  his  fortune.'2  He  died  in  the  year  1686,  at  the  comparatively 
early  age  of  forty-seven,  and  was  buried  at  the  Church  of  Athelstaneford. 
His  eldest  son  and  successor  was, 

2.  Sir  George  Seton,  second  Baronet, 

who  the  same  year  (1686)  was  retoured  in  the  lands  and  town  (villa  et 
terris)  of  Athelstaneford.     Sir   George  Seton   went  abroad   when   very 


1  Service  of  the  Thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton  to         also  Rae's  History  of  the  Rebellion  in  17 1 5. 
the  Earldom  of  Winton,  in  1840,   p.  38.     See  2  Lord  Kingston's  Continuation,  p.  87. 


5  A 


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SIR  GEORGE,  THIRD   BARONET 


young,   travelling   in   England,    Flanders,    France,    Italy,   Germany,  and 
Bohemia. 

He  married  Barbara,  daughter  of  Andrew  Wauchope  of  Niddry,  by 

whom    he    had    four    sons     and    three 
daughters : — 

r.  George,  of  whom  afterwards. 

2.  James,  Captain  in  Colonel  Keith's 
regiment,  and  resident  in  France,  died 
without  issue  before  1769. 

3.  John,  a  Roman  Catholic  priest, 
born  9th  November  1695,  and  died  in 
Edinburgh,  16th  July  1757.  At  one 
period  he  appears  to  have  resided  with  the 
Traquair  family.  On  the  20th  of  Septem- 
ber 1 7 16  he  entered  the  Society  of  Jesus 
at  Madrid,  joined  the  Scottish  Mission  in 
1725,  and  ten  years  later  made  his  solemn 
vows  at  Aberdeen. 

4.  Andrew,  an  officer  in  Irelande's 
(formerly  Wauchope's)  regiment,  died 
without  issue,  at  the  Camp  of  Randasso, 
in  Sicily,  10th  October  17 19. 

These  four  sons  are  all  distinctly  specified  in  a  deed  of  division  dated 
1 2th  September  17 16,  and  recorded  in  the  Books  of  Council  and  Session 
1 8th  August  1 72 1. 

Sir  George  Seton's  three  daughters  were  : — 

1.  Margaret,  described  in  her  testament-dative— which  was  given  up 
by  her  sisters  Barbara  and  Mary — as  '  eldest  lawful  daughter  to  the  late 
Sir  George  Seton  of  Garleton,'  and  her  death  took  place  in  June  1730. 
The  debt  owing  to  the  deceased  amounted  to  ^5015,  13s.,  which  sum  was 
due  to  her  by  Sir  George  Seton  of  Garleton,  third  Baronet,  by  bond  dated 
1st  December  1720,  in  which  she  is  designed  '  Mistress  Margaret  Seton, 
his  sister-german.' * 

2.  Barbara. 

3.  Mary,  who  married  John  Arrat  of  Fofarty,  and  on  the  16th  of 
November  1724  granted  an  assignation  in  favour  of  Colonel  Francis 
Charteris,  with  consent  of  her  curator,  Mr.  James  Don,  Advocate.  On 
the  1st  of  December  1769  Mrs.  Arrat  was  served  as  '  legitima  et  propin- 
quior  hseres  lines,  cum  beneficio  inventarii,'  to  Sir  George,  '  sui  fratris 
germani,'  which  establishes  the  fact  that  before  that  date  her  three 
brothers,  James,  John,  and  Andrew,  must  have  died  without  issue. 

Sir  George  Seton  was  succeeded,  between  20th  June  17 18  and  2nd 
May  1720,  by  his  eldest  son, 


Commissariot  of  Edinburgh  Testaments,  vol.  xcv.,  25th  April  1733. 


WINTON   REPRESENTATION 


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3.  Sir  George  Set  on,  third  Baronet, 

born  in  1685,  who,  but  for  the  attainder  of  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton 
(who  died  in  1749),  would  have  been  sixth  Earl,  the  Kingston  branch 
having  previously  failed.  He  was  commonly  styled  '  Earl  of  Winton ' ; 
was  living  at  Paris  in  December  1750;  and,  about  two  years  afterwards,  at 
Versailles.1  He  died  without  issue  9th  March  1769,  when  Ralph  Seton, 
already  referred  to,  became  heir  to  the  Winton  honours.  The  following 
announcement  appeared  in  the  Scots  Magazine  for  April  1 769  :  '  At 
Versailles,  in  the  eighty-fourth  year  of  his  age,  Sir  George  Seton  of 
Garleton,  representative  of  the  Winton  family.'  In  the  notice  of  his  death 
in  the  Annual  Register  for  1769  he  is  described  as  '  Lord  George  Seton,  a 
Scottish  Peer,  and  a  Baronet  of  Great  Britain.'  In  point  of  fact  he  was 
a  Baronet  of  Nova  Scotia. 

The  descendants  of  Sir  John  Seton,  first  Baronet  of  Garleton,  will 
be  more  clearly  traced  in  the  following  tabular  pedigree  : — 

Sir  John  Seton,  first  Baronet  of  Garleton. 


Sir  George  Seton, 
second  Baronet. 


John  Seton. 


Mil 
Four  other  sons, 

all  d.  s.p. 


mi 

Four  daughters. 


*Sir  George  Seton, 

third  Baronet 

(succeeded  to  the 

representation  of  the 

Winton  family  on  the 

death  of  the  fifth  Earl 

in  1749,  and  d.  s.p. 

1769). 


Ill 
Three  other 
sons,  all  d.  s.p. 


Ill 

Three 

daughters. 


*John  Seton 

(succeeded  his  uncle  Ralph 

in  the  representation  of  the 

Winton  family  in  1782,  and 

died  1796,  when  the  male 

representation  is  believed  to 

have  opened  to  *Hugh, 

twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton). 


Two  sons  and  one  daughter, 

who  all  predeceased  their 

father  in  infancy. 


*Ralph  Seton, 

(succeeded  his 

cousin,  Sir  George 

Seton,  in  the 

representation  of  the 

Winton  family  in 

1769,  and  A. s.p. 

1782). 


John  Seton. 


Robert  Seton, 

died  unmarried, 

1778. 


Barbara  Seton, 

(Mrs.  Douglas), 

d.  s.p.   1784. 


Mary-Catherine  Seton=John  Broadbent. 

heir  of  line  of  the 

Winton  family. 

Born  1796. 

Died  18—. 

Several  sons  and 

daughters,  who  assumed 

the  surname  of  Seton. 


1  See  a  curious  letter  from  this  Baronet,  dated  27th  February  1757,  in  the  Appendix. 


74o 


ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 


Armorial  Bearings. 

The  following  blazon  occurs  in  a  folio  MS.  in  the  British  Museum 
(20,701),  entitled  'Arms  of  the  Nobility  and  Gentry  of  Scotland  regis- 
tered in  the  Lyon  Office,'  and  bearing  the  book-stamp  of  Alexander 
Deuchar,  seal  engraver,  Edinburgh  : — 

'  Sir  John  Seton  of  Garleton,  Bart.,  3d  (sic)  lawfull  son  of  ye  E.  of 
Winton,  carrys  two  coats  quarterly,  1  and  4  or  three  crescents  w*in  a 
doub.  tress.,  counterflowered  w*  flouer  de  lisses  gules  for  Seton;  2  and  3 
azure  three  garbs  or  for  Cumming,  all  w*in  a  bordure  quartered  azure  and 
or,  w*  the  badge  of  Nova  Scotia,  as  Baronet. 

'  Crest — a  star  of  six  points  in  its  splendor. 

'  Motto — Habet  et  suam.' 


WILLIAM,  FIRST  LORD  SETON. 


GEORGE,  THIRD  LORD  SETON. 


GEORGE,  (?)  LORD  SETON. 


SIR  ROBERT  SETON  OF  WINDYGOUL  741 


(2)    WlNDYGOUL. 

The  sixth  and  youngest  son  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  by 
his  second  wife,  the  Hon.  Elizabeth  Maxwell,  daughter  of  John,  seventh 
Lord  Herries,  was  the  Hon.  Sir  Robert  Seton  of  Windygoul,1  born  10th 
November  1641,  created  a  Knight- Baronet  of  Nova  Scotia,  24th  January 
1671,2  and  who  died  without  issue  in  November  1671.  His  elder  brother, 
Sir  John  Seton  of  Garleton,  was  served  heir  to  him  on  the  20th  of  February 
1672.3 

Lord  Kingston  describes  him  as  'ane  hopefull  young  gentleman  and 
a  good  schollar ' ;  and  mentions  that  he  was  buried  in  the  '  Colledge  Kirk 
of  Seton.'4 

The  date  of  his  death  appears  in  the  entry  in  the  record  relative  to 
his  testament-dative  and  inventory  of  goods,  etc.,  given  up  by  Anna, 
Countess  of  Traquair,  Isobel,  Lady  Semple,  and  Lady  Mary  Seton,  his 
sisters-german  and  only  executors. 

Amount  of  debts  owing  to  the  deceased  .  .     ,£62,800,  10s. 

'  Intromitted  with  by  Sir  John  Seton  of  Garleton  presently  of  ready 
money,  gold,  etc.,  lying  beside  the  deceased,  his  abulziements,  furniture 
of  his  lodging,  certain  horses,  etc.,  value  5000  merks.' 


1  In  the  parish  of  Tranent,  and  so  called  from 
its  being  situated  on  a  spot  much  exposed  to 
the  -wind.  The  name  is  also  applied  to  a  portion 
of  Arthur's  Seat,  near  Edinburgh. 


2  Great  Seal  Register,  Lib.  lxii.  No.  286. 

3  Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland,  ii.  647. 

4  Continuation  of  the  History  of  the  House 
of  Seytoun,  p.  78. 


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ARMORIAL  BEARINGS 


Confirmed  7th  April  1673,  Captain  Francis  Wauchope,  brother  to  the 
Laird  of  Niddrie,  being  cautioner.1 

Armorial  Bearings. 

The  Winton  coat  with  a  fleur-de-lis  as  the  mark  of  difference  of  the 
sixth  son. 


1  Edinburgh  Testaments,  lxxiv. 


UNASSIGNED  SCOTTISH   SETONS 


743 


I 


XXIV.  Unassigned  Scottish  Setons 


UMEROUS  Setons  turn  up  in  the  public  records, 
whom  I  have  hitherto  been  unable  to  connect 
with  any  of  the  preceding  branches  of  the  family. 
A  few  of  these  are  here  given. 


I.   Great  Seal  Register. 


15th  March  1425-6.  Gilbert  of Setoun,  Esquire, 
Lord  of  Haystoun,  witness  to  a  charter  by 
Archibald,  Earl  of  Douglas  and  of  Longueville,  to  Adam  Forman,  his 
esquire,  of  the  lands  of  Hutoun  in  Berwickshire. — ii.  70. 

3rd  April  1467.  Margaret  Seton,  wife  of  James  Balfoure,  son  of 
George  Balfoure  of  Munquhanny,  mentioned  in  a  charter  of  confirmation 
by  James  in.  Among  the  witnesses  are  William  Setotm,  John  Setoun, 
Gilbert  Setoun,  and  David  Setoun. — vii.  1 1 3. 

28th  July  1534.  Confirmation  of  charter  by  Cristofer  Seytoun  of  the 
lands  of  Myretoun  in  the  county  of  Forfar.  Among  the  witnesses  are 
Mr.  David  Seytoun,  Vicar  of  Strathmiglo,  and  Robert  Seytoun. — xxvi.  139. 

24th  December  1538.  Mr.  David  Seitoun,  Canon  of  Aberdeen,  and 
his  grandson,  John  Seitoun  of  Balbirny,  mentioned  in  a  charter  of  con- 
firmation of  certain  annualrents. — xxvii.  68. 

16th  May  1555.  Confirmation  of  charter  of  the  lands  of  Torsoppy 
and  fishing  on  the  Tay  in  favour  of  Cristofer  (or  Christall)  Seytoun  and 
Alexander,  his  son — David  and  James  Seytoun  being  bailies  appointed  to 
give  sasine. — xxxii.  294. 

30th  April  1556.  Confirmation  of  the  lands  of  Forgandenny,  Perth- 
shire, in  favour  of  the  said  Cristofer  Seytoun. — Ibid.  296. 

20th  September  1 566.  William  Seton  of  Easter  Disblair,  and  Marjory 
Tulydaff  his  spouse,  mentioned  in  two  charters. — xxxi.  529. 

2nd  May  1573.  Confirmation  of  charter  to  John  Ogilvy  of  Froscan, 
and  Janet  Seytoun  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Glassauch,  Banffshire — one 
of  the  witnesses  being  William  Seton  of  Meldrum. — xxxv.  551. 

7th  May  1589.  Confirmation  of  charter  of  certain  lands  in  Tranent 
by  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  in  favour  of  John  Seytoun,  dyer,  burgess  of 
Edinburgh,  and  Margaret  Nesbit  his  spouse. — xxxvii.  344. 

28th  May  1594.  Confirmation  of  charter  by  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun 
of  Oycorne  to  his  brother-german,  George  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif  of  the 
lands  of  Kirkton  of  Daviot,  co.  Aberdeen. — xl.  2. 


744  GREAT  SEAL   REGISTER 

19th  July  1600.  Confirmation  of  charter  by  George  Auchinleck  of 
Balmanno  to  George  Seyton  of  Auchinhuif  and  Janet  Cheyne  his  spouse, 
of  the  lands  of  Schettin  and  Little  Meldrum. — xlii.  170. 

1 6th  November  1620.  Confirmation  of  two  charters  by  Mr.  George 
Seytoun  of  Barra,  Chancellor  of  Aberdeen. — xlix.  220. 

26th  June  162 1.  Charter  to  John  Seytoun,  eldest  son  and  apparent 
heir  of  William  Seytoun  of  Easter  Disblair,  and  Margaret  Irving  his  spouse. 
— Ibid.  340. 

27th  June  1635.  Charter  by  Charles  I.  to  John  Seatoun  of  Au- 
quhorties,  and  Alexander  his  son,  spouse  of  Anna  Gordon,  of  certain  lands 
in  the  barony  of  Udnie,  Aberdeenshire. — lvi.  57. 

31st  July  1637.  Charter  by  Charles  1.  to  Sir  William  Seatoun  of 
Thornetoun,  Mr.  William  Seton  his  eldest  son,  and  Jean  Leythe  his 
spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Raniestoun. — lvi.  14. 

29th  November  1638.  Confirmation  of  charter  by  the  late  John 
Seattoune  of  Auquhorties  to  James  Seattoune,  his  son,  of  certain  lands  in 
Aberdeenshire. — lix.  116. 

7th  March  1653.  Charter  to  Mr.  John  Seatoune,  now  of  Shethune, 
brother  and  heir  of  late  William  Seatoune  of  Shethune,  of  the  lands  of 
Reschivit,  co.  Aberdeen. — Ibid.  34. 

15th  February  1655.  Confirmation  of  charter  by  Mr.  George  Seatoune 
of  Shethin  to  Mr.  John  Seatoune,  minister  at  the  kirk  of  Foverane,  of  the 
mains  of  Shethin,  in  the  parish  of  Tarves  and  county  of  Aberdeen. — 
Ibid.  188. 

30th  August  1662.  Charter  to  John  Seaton,  younger  of  Thorntoun, 
of  the  lands  of  Thorntoun,  in  the  parish  of  Glamis  and  shire  of  Forfar,  in 
which  mention  is  made  of  Mr.  Alexander  Seaton  of  Tillirie  and  Margaret 
Bannerman  his  spouse,  and  of  George  Seaton  of  Woodhill,  now  of  Thorn- 
toun, father  of  the  aforesaid  John. — Ix.  156. 

26th  January  1665.  Charter  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seaton,  Advocate,  in 
the  burgh  of  Edinburgh,  of  the  lands  of  Allathine. — lxi.  34. 


II.  Privy  Seal  Register. 

15th  June  1515.  Presentation  of  Mr.  Christopher  Seton  to  the 
Vicarage  of  Logydurno  (Aberdeenshire?). — v.  1. 

26th  November  15 16.  Letter  made  with  the  consent  of  Mr.  David 
Seyton,  Canon  of  Aberdeen. — Ibid.  102. 

27th  July  1 54 1.  Precept  of  Legitimation  to  Alexander  Seytoun, 
'bastard  son  natural'  of  Robert  Seytoun — 'at  Temptallon.' — xv.  9. 

25th  January  1542-3.  Precept  for  charter  of  feu  to  Mr.  George 
Seytoun  over  a  small  portion  of  the  town  of  Auchtermuchty. — xvii.  10. 

13th  February  1548.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun  of 
certain  escheated  goods. — xxii.  80. 

24th  March  1546.     Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  alienation 


PRIVY   SEAL  REGISTER  745 

made  by  Alexander  Myretoun  of  Randelstoun,  co.  Fife,  and  Christiane 
Seytoune  his  spouse,  to  Christopher  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees. — 
xxiv.  63. 

24th  March  1550.  Respite  to  George  Seytoun  for  treasonable  assist- 
ance to  Englishmen  'in  time  of  war,  coming  with  them  to  the  burning  of 
Dalkeith.'— Ibid.  58. 

6th  July  1565.  Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  on  infeftment 
made  to  Christopher  Seylotm  of  Kirkland  of  Strathmiglo,  and  Alex- 
ander Seytoun,  his  natural  son,  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Pitlowre. — 
xxxiii.  126. 

20th  July  1566.  Licence  to  John  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif  to  remain 
at  home  from  '  oistis  raidis/  etc.,  for  all  the  days  of  his  life,  on  condition  of 
his  sending  '  an  able  man  in  his  stead.' — xxxv.  59. 

2 1st  April  1567.  Precept  of  Remission  to  William  Seytoun,  in  Caltoun, 
at  Aberdeen,  for  the  slaughter  of  William  Gordon. — xxxvi.  75. 

7th  March  1570.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  'indweller  in  the 
Canongate,'  of  the  escheat  of  certain  goods,  etc.,  in  which  mention  is  made 
of  Archibald,  Alexander,  and  Margaret  Seytoun,  children  of  the  deceased 
John  Seytoun  in  Tranent. — xlvii.  43. 

20th  February  1576.  Precept  of  Legitimation  to  William  Seytotm, 
'son  bastard'  to  the  late  John  Seytoun  of  Disblair. — xliv.  45. 

16th  October  1577.  Precept  of  Legitimation  to  John  Seytoun,  natural 
son  of  the  late  Mr.  George  Seytoun. — Ibid.  1 1 3. 

20th  November  1581.  Letter  to  John  Seytoun,  'indweller  in  the 
Canongate,'  constituting  him  '  one  of  the  ordinary  gunners  within  the 
Castle  of  Edinburgh.' — xlviii.  54. 

10th  January  1583.  Letter  of  Gift  to  the  same  of  the  escheat  of 
certain  goods-;  etc. — 1.  39. 

15th  April  1587.  Letter  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  burgess  of  the 
Canongate,  constituting  him  '  coilfurnesar '  to  the  King's  household. — 
lv.  48. 

2 1  st  August  1587.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun  of  Pettodie  of  the 
escheat  of  certain  goods,  etc. — lvi.  23. 

17th  October  1587.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  cook,  of  the 
escheat  of  certain  goods,  etc. — Ibid.  61. 

28th  October  1587.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Thomas  Ogilvie  of  Inverrichaul 
of  the  escheat  of  the  goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  Mr.  James  Seytoun,  '  person 
of  Ouhytsone.' — Ibid.  75. 

30th  March  1588.  Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of 
certain  goods,  etc.,  which  pertained  to  umquhile  Elizabeth  Baxter,  spouse 
of  Alexander  Auchmowtie,  burgess  of  Kirkcaldy,  and  now  in  the  King's 
hands  through  the  said  Elizabeth  '  devoring  and  drowning  of  herself  to  the 
dead  in  ane  sink  hoill  within  the  burgh  and  territorie  of  Kirkcaldie,  com- 
mitted be  hir  upoun  the  nynetene  day  of  March  instant.' — lvii.  yj. 

5th  April  1588.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  'in  the 
Cannongait,'  of  the  escheat  of  certain  goods,  etc. — Ibid.  86. 

5B 


746  PRIVY  SEAL   REGISTER 

24th  July  1589.  Precept  of  Remission  to  George  Seytoun  of  Auchin- 
huif  for  assisting  George,  Earl  of  Huntly,  and  others,  in  the  burgh  of 
Aberdeen  against  the  King. — lx.  37. 

25th  September  1589.  Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Seytoun,  'our 
soverane  lordis  coilman,'  of  the  escheat  of  certain  goods,  etc. — Ibid.  63. 

1 2th  February  1590.  Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun,  bailie  in 
Tranent,  of  the  escheat  of  the  goods,  etc.,  which  pertained  to  Meg. 
Begloun,  spouse  to  Andro  Cowie,  now  in  the  King's  hands,  'throw  hir 
puting  of  violent  handis  on  hir  awin  persoun  and  cruellie  and  unnaturallie 
hanging  of  herself  to  the  deid.' — Ibid.  143. 

1 8th  February  1590.  Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun,  son  to 
William  Seytoun  '  in  Kingis  Sait,'  of  the  escheat  of  William  Seytoun  '  in 
Kingis  Sait.' — Ibid.  147. 

15th  March  1590.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of 
John  Burn  and  others. — Ibid.  lxii.  13. 

27th  July  1590.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun  of  the 
escheat  of  certain  goods,  etc. — lxi.  14. 

8th  August  1 59 1.  Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Gray,  Gentleman  of  the 
King's  Bedchamber,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Strathmiglo. 
— Ibid.  154. 

1st  October  1591.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Thomas  Stevin,  servitor  to  Sir 
Robert  Melville  of  Murdocairny,  Knight,  of  the  escheat  of  David  Seytoun 
in  Tranent. — Ibid.  186. 

14th  October  1591.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  Servitor  to  the 
King,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Cubie. — Ibid.  223. 

13th  January  1591.  Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  sale 
granted  by  George  Seytoun,  feuar  of  the  Kirklands  of  Strathmiglo,  to  Captain 
Patrick  Seytoun. — lxiii.  122. 

8th  February  1591.  Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of 
William  Leirmont  of  the  Hill  and  Robert  Leirmont  in  Moram,  and  now  in 
the  King's  hands  throw  their  being  '  convict  be  ane  assyse  fugitive  fra  the 
lawis  and  at  the  horn  or  becum  in  will  for  airt  and  pairt  of  the  treassonabill 
cuming  upone  the  xxvij  day  of  Deer,  last  by  past,  under  silence  and  elude 
of  nicht,  to  his  hienes  palice  of  Haliruidhouse,  brekking  up  of  his  zettis 
and  durris,  and  assailzeing  of  his  hienes  maist  nobill  persoun  for 
his  slauchter,  accumpanied  with  Francis,  sumtyme  Earl  Both  well' — 
Ibid.  170. 

14th  March  1592.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Auchinleck,  servitor  to 
Sir  Robert  Melville  of  Murdocairny,  Knight,  of  the  escheat  of  William 
Seytoun  of  Easter  Disblair  and  others  for  failure  to  remove  from  certain 
lands  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Aberdeen. — lxv.  45. 

15th  May  1592.  Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Seytoun,  burgess  of  Aber- 
deen, of  the  escheat  of  Thomas  Fermour. — lxiii.  263. 

1 6th  June  1592.  Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of 
William  Leirmont  of  the  Hill  for  non-compearance  before  his  Majesty  and 
the  Privy  Council. — lxiv.  29. 


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19th  June  1592.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  foreman  of  the 
King's  Court  Kitchen,  of  the  escheat  of  William  Adison. — lxiv.  36. 

17th  September  1592.  Letter  of  Gift  to  the  same  of  the  escheat  of 
Walter  Strathauchin  for  his  '  treasonable  abiding  at  home  from  the  army- 
appointed  to  convene  at  Perth.' — Ibid.  131. 

30th  November  1592.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Aittoun  of  the 
escheat  of  John  Seytoun,  portioner  of  Auchtermuchtie. — Ibid.  180. 

23rd  February  1593.  Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Seytoun,  second  lawful 
son  to  John  Seytoun  of  Pittedie  of  the  escheat  of  the  said  John. — 
lxvi.  70. 

29th  June  1593.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Ludovick,  Duke  of  Lennox,  of  the 
escheat  of  David  Seytoun,  elder  in  Tranent,  now  in  the  King's  hands 
through  the  said  David  being*-  fugitive  from  the  law  and  at  the  horn  for 
the  slaughter  af  umquhile  John  Cokburn  in  Wodheid. — Ixv.  171. 

14th  July  1593.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Bog,  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
of  the  escheat  of  David  Seytoun,  elder,  in  Tranent. — lxv.  197. 

9th  August  1593.  Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytomi,  'servitor  to  Sir 
Robert  Melvill  of  Bruntyland,  Knight,'  of  the  escheat  of  John  Grant  and 
William  Anderson. — lxvi.  16. 

7th  December  1593.  Letter  of  Gift  to  the  same  of  the  escheat  of 
John  Dobie  in  Cramond. — Ibid. 

14th  May  1594.  Letter  of  gift  to  John  Robertson,  maltman  in 
Burntisland,  servitor  to  Sir  Robert  Melvill  of"  Murdocairny,  Knight,  of  the 
escheat  of  John  Seytoun  in  Auchtermuchty  and  Alexander,  his  son. — 
Ibid.  127. 

17th  January  1596-7.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  'foirman  in 
his  Majesty's  Court-kitchen,'  of  the  escheat  of  William  Seytoun  'in 
Strameglo.' — lxix.  28. 

2nd  July  1598.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Clapen  (Clephane  ?),  portioner 
of  Kilcairny,  of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun  of  Pittedie. — lxx.  119. 

26th  June  1599. — Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun  aforesaid  of  the 
escheat  of  John  Wallace  'in  the  Elay.' — lxxi.  5. 

26th  November  1599. — Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Cleghorne,  servitor  to 
David  Moysie,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Seytoun  'in  Stramiglo.' — 
Ibid.  82. 

15th  February  1600.  Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  granted 
by  John  Chalmer  of  Balbethane  to  his  eldest  son  George,  and  Margaret 
Seytoun,  his  spouse  of  certain  lands  in  Aberdeenshire. — Ibid.  177. 

6th  March  1600.  Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  by  William 
Seytoun  of  Easter  Disblair  to  William  Seytoun,  his  eldest  lawful  son,  of 
the  lands  of  Easter  Disblair. — Ibid.  160. 

10th  March  1600.  Letter  constituting  James  Seytoun,  only  'Coal- 
furnisher  '  to  thair  Majestie's  houses,  which  office  pertained  to  John 
Seytoun  his  father,  and  was  demitted  by  him. — Ibid.  166. 

19th  June  1600.  Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  sale  by 
George  Auchinleck  of  Balmanno  to  George  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif  and 


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Janet  Cheyne  his  spouse,  of  certain  parts  of  Schethin  and  Little  Meldrum, 
in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen. — Ixxi.  239. 

25th  June  1600.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Thomas  Elphingstoun  of  the 
escheat  of  David  Seytoun,  elder,  in  Tranent. — Ibid.  237. 

17th  November  1600.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  'Coalman  to 
the  King,'  of  the  escheat  of  David  and  John  Horn,  for  the  slaughter  of 
John  Drew. — Ibid.  310. 

24th  November  1600.  Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Ker,  merchant,  burgess 
of  Edinburgh,  of  the  escheat  of  Janet  Seton,  Lady  B  erf ut. — Ibid.  313. 

14th  January  1601.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  Chamberlain  of 
Fyvie,  of  the  escheat  of  the  late  David  Gordon  of  Knaven. — Ibid.  342. 

4th  April  1 60 1.  Precept  for  charter  of  apprising  to  Gilbert  Seytoun, 
helper  in  the  royal  kitchen,  of  certain  lands  pertaining  to  Alexander 
Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  and  of  certain  other  lands  pertaining  to  John 
Seytoun  of  Pittedie,  as  cautioner,  all  in  the  shire  of  Fife. — Ixii.  40. 

26th  June  1 60 1.  Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Achesoun,  son  of  Alex- 
ander Achesoun  of  Gosfurd,  of  the  escheat  of  David  Setoun  of  Wedderlie. 
— Ibid.  102. 

28th  July  1602.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Walter  Seytoun,  servitor  to  Maister 
George  Seytoun  of  Barroch,  of  the  escheat  of  Thomas  Fraser. — lxiii.  56. 

30th  July  1603.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  sometime  in  Fet- 
hill,  now  in  Gynthoune,  of  the  escheat  of  Patrick  Cheyne  of  Esselmonth. 
— lxiv.  60. 

24th  January  1604.  Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  son  to  umquhile 
John  Seytoun,  elder  of  Pittadie,  of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun,  younger. 
— Ibid.  116. 

10th  July  1604.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Pitcairn,  brother  to  Patrick 
Pitcairn  of  Pitloure,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo. — 
Ibid.  212. 

3rd  June  1605.  Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seaton,  burgess  of 
Edinburgh,  of  the  ward,  etc.,  of  the  lands  of  Panmure,  in  the  shire  of 
Forfar,  which  formerly  pertained  to  umquhile  Patrick  Maull  of  Panmure. 
— Ibid.  322. 

III.   Commissariot  Register  of  Edinburgh. 

13th  November  1569.  Testament-testamentar  of  Elizabeth  Seitoun, 
relict  of  William  Spittell  of  Luichquhat,  given  up  by  Cristell  (Christopher) 
Seitoun,  her  brother-german. — Vol.  ii. 

20th  May  1574.  Testament-dative  of  Margaret  Seytoun,  given  up  by 
Katharine  Wemis. — Vol.  iii. 

29th  January  1574-5.  Testament-testamentar  of  William  Setoun, 
'dwelling  in  the  toun  of  Setoun,'  the  executors  being  Helen  Ballenden, 
his  spouse,  George  Setoun,  his  son,  and  his  'superior  and  oversman,'  his 
cousin,  David  Seytoun,  in  Tranent. — Vol.  iii. 

27th  October  1574.     Testament-dative  of  David  Seytoun  in  Btirnt- 


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island,  given  up  by  '  Master  James  Seytoun,'  his  brother  and  executor. — 
Vol.  iii. 

22nd  May  1576.  Testament-dative  of  Janet  Seytoun,  spouse  of 
Walter  Allardyce,  portioner  of  Kincragy,  in  which  mention  is  made  of 
Alexander  Seytoun,  her  brother. — Vol.  iv. 

4th  January  1 580-1.  Testament-testamentar  of  Isobell  Seytoun, 
relict  of  Walter  Peirson,  '  in  Quhitfeild,  beside  Dundee.' — Vol.  viii. 

6th  May  1585.  Testament-testamentar  oi  Jo  line  Seytoune,  sometime 
bailie  of  Tranent,  spouse  of  Elizabeth  Achesoune,  in  which  mention  is 
made  of  his  children,  John,  David,  James,  Thomas,  Marion,  Agnes,  Helen, 
Janet,  and  Katharine. — Vol.  xiv. 

26th  September  1589.  Testament-testamentar  of  Margaret  Scott, 
spouse  to  John  Seytoun,  mariner,  Leith,  in  which  mention  is  made  of  her 
son  John  Seytoun,  and  John  Seytoun,  'litster,  burgess  of  the  Cannongate.' 
— Vol.  xx. 

8th  December  1589.  Testament-testamentar  of  George  Seytoun  'in 
Ramelrie,  in  Fife,'  in  which  mention  is  made  of  his  children  Andrew  (eldest 
son),  John,  and  Margaret. — Vol.  xxi. 

14th  December  1590.  Testament-dative  of  Christopher  Seytoun  in 
Stramiglo,  co.  Fife,  in  which  mention  is  made  of  his  son  Alexander  and  his 
'oy  '  (granddaughter),  Janet  Seytoun. — Vol.  xxii. 

13th  June  1 60 1.  Testament-testamentar  of  Dame  Geillis  Seytoun, 
'  Lady  Inchmartyne,'  spouse  of  Patrick  Ogilvy  of  Inchmartyne,  co.  Perth  ; 
Patrick  Kynnaird  of  that  ilk  being  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxv. 

7th  December  1601.  Testament-testamentar  of  Elspeth  Seytoun,  'in 
the  town  of  Seytoun  and  parish  of  Tranent,'  John  Ker,  '  servitor  to  Robert, 
Lord  Seytoun,'  being  her  'universal  legator.' — Vol.  xxxvi. 

1  st  May  1604.  Testament-testamentar  of  Andro  Seytoun,  'some- 
time foreman  in  the  King's  Court  Kitchen,'  and  spouse  of  Marion  Broun, 
his  only  executrix,  in  which  mention  is  made  of  Gilbert  Seytoun,  his 
'kinsman,'  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  and  George  Seytoun,  'servand 
to  the  said  Andro.' — Vol.  xxxix. 

24th  May  1604.  Testament-dative  oi  James  Seytoun  of  Orky,  parish 
of  Lathrisk  and  county  of  Fife,  given  up  by  Janet  Seytoun  his  daughter, 
jjjjc  lib.  being  dug  t0  him  by  George,  Lord  Seytoun. — Ibid. 

20th  May  1605.  Testament-testamentar  of  John  Seytoun,  elder, 
'  skipper  indweller  in  Leith,' in  which  mention  is  made  of  the  late  John 
Seytoun  in  Kirkcaldy,  John  Seytoun  in  Pittedie,  and  John  Seytoun,  younger, 
his  son  and  apparent  heir. — Vol.  xl. 

10th  July  1605.  Testament-dative  of  David  Seytoun  of  Waiderlie,  in 
the  parish  of  Tranent,  given  up  by  Margaret  Watt,  his  relict,  in  name  of 
his  sons  George  and  Matthew. — Ibid. 

20th  February  1606.  Testament-dative  of  Marie  Maitland,  spouse  of 
John  Seytoun  of  Aquhortie,  Chamberlain  to  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunferm- 
line, and  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  their  sons  Robert,  John,  and  William 
being  executors. — Vol.  xli. 


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nth  September  1612.  Testament-dative  of  Elizabeth  Seytoun,  spouse 
of  Alexander  Dunlop,  Writer  to  the  Signet. — Vol.  xlvii. 

15th  December  161 2.  Testament-dative  of  John  Seytoun,  'Master 
Coalman  furnishour  to  his  Majesty,  and  indweller  in  the  Canongate,'  given 
up  by  his  lawful  daughter  Margaret,  Mark  Seytoun,  '  attirer,  indweller  in 
EdinV  being  cautioner. — Ibid. 

25th  July  16 1 5.  Testament-testamentar  of  John  Seytoun,  tailor, 
burgess  of  Edinburgh,    spouse  of  Margaret  Halkey,  Janet  Seytoun,  his 

lawful  daughter,   being  his  executrix,   in  which  mention  is  made  of 

Seytoun  of  Northrig, Seytoun   of  Touche,    John    Seytoun,    George 

Seytoun,   servitor  to   James   Maxwell,   and   James    Seytoun    of  Falsyde. 
— Vol.  xlviii. 

5th  October  161 6.  Testament-dative  of  Janet  Seytoun,  spouse  of 
Adam  Gardin,  merchant,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  in  which  mention  is  made 
of  Henry  Seytoun,  burgess  of  Edinburgh — Vol.  xlix. 

4th  June  1624.  Testament-dative  of  George  Seytoun,  'in  Seytoun,'  in 
the  parish  of  Tranent,  given  up  by  his  son  Robert  Seytoun. — Vol.  lii. 

4th  February  1625.  Testament-testamentar  of  John  Seatoun,  'within 
the  parish  of  Tranent,'  in  which  mention  is  made  of  Margaret  Seatoun, 
'  his  relict  spouse,'  Robert  Seytoun  his  brother-in-law,  James  and  Robert, 
brothers-german  to  George  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  Janet  Seytoun,  and 
Robert,  son  of  Henry  Seytoun. — Vol.  liii. 

22nd  March  1626.  Testament-dative  of  John  Seytoun,  'skipper 
indweller  in  Leith,'  given  up  by  Margaret  Gourlay,  his  '  relict  spouse,'  in 
behalf  of  their  children,  Robert  and  Margaret— Ibid. 

14th  July  1626.  Testament-dative  of  Helen  Achesone,  spouse  to 
Henry  Seytoun,  merchant,  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
in  which  mention  is  made  of  their  children,  Patrick, 
John,  Alexander,  William,  George,  Janet,  and 
Isobel. — Ibid. 

1st  January  1634.     Testament-dative  of  David 

Seatoune,     '  writer,    burgess    of    Edinburgh,'   who 

died  in  Wintoun  in  June  1632,   given  up  by  his 

'  relict  spouse,'  Helen  Brand,  in  which  mention  is 

made  of   Robert    Seaton   in    Seaton,    '  callit    Reid 

Robert,'  and  George  Seatton  of  Craigfod. — Vol.  lvi. 

1 8th  February  1636.     Testament-dative  of  Helen  Seattozm,  spouse  to 

John  Pook,  merchant,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  now  indweller  in  Tranent,  in 

which  mention  is  made  of  Sir  Thomas  Seattoun,  '  Quhyt  Robert  Seatton 

in  Fenton,'  and  Robert  Seaton  of  Monkmylne.— Vol.  lvii. 

24th  March  1638.  Testament-testamentar  of  David  Seatoun,  'servitor 
to  the  Laird  of  Frendraught,'  indweller  in  Edinburgh,  in  which  mention  is 
made  of  Marie  Cousland  his  spouse,  Margaret  Seatoun  his  daughter, 
Anna  Seatoun  his  sister,  and  John  and  James  Seatoun  his  brothers. — 
Vol.  lviii. 

3rd  July  1 66 1.     Testament- dative  of  Sir  George  Seattoun  of  Haills, 


'ANTIQUITIES   OF  ABERDEEN,*   ETC.      751 

Knight,  among  whose  debtors  were  the  Earl  of  Winton,  Viscount  King- 
ston, and  King  Charles  11. — Vol.  lxx. 


The  Register  of  Acts  and  Decreets,  and  the  Parochial  Registers  of 
Tranent,  Pencaitland,  Kennoway,  Kettle,  and  Markinch,  contain  numerous 
entries  relative  to  Setons,  many  of  whom  cannot  be  identified,  and  which 
are  here  omitted  for  want  of  space. 

The  following  references  to  unassigned  Scottish  Setons  are  derived 
from  the  Antiquities  of  Aberdeen  and  B miff,  printed  for  the  Spalding  Club, 
and  various  other  sources  : — ■ 

1226.  Alexander  de  Seton,  witness,  along  with  Roger  de  Ouincey,  to 
a  charter  of  Kinloss  by  King  Alexander  11. — Antiquities  of  Aberdeen,  etc., 

ii.  235. 

1345.  '  Frater  Alexander  de  Seton  dominus  ejusdem  miles  custos 
elemosinarie  domus  Sancti  Johannis  Jerosolomitani  de  Torfechyn  infra 
regnum  Scotise,'  mentioned  in  a  charter  of  William  de  Melgdrume. — Ibid. 

i.  3i8- 

1471.  An  'actioune  and  caus  of  summondis'  by  Alexander  Setoune 
against  Alexander  Forbes  of  Petslego  '  for  the  wrangwiss  vptakin  and 
withhaldin  of  a  yeiris  male  of  the  landis  of  Kilmondess.' — Ibid.  i.  471,  note. 

1509.     Alexander  Setoune,  Vicar  of  Bothelmy. — Ibid.  iii.  224. 

1528.     David  Seton,  Vicar  of  Creich. — Ibid.  iii.  333. 

1548-9,  10th  February.  John  Seytoun,  Vicar  of  Creich,  a  witness  to 
a  charter. — Register  of  St.  Andrews  Kirk-Session  (Scottish  History 
Society),  p.  172. 

1 549.  Alexander  Setone,  Chancellor  of  Aberdeen,  witness  to  an  asse- 
datio. — Antiquities  of  Aberdeen,  i.  351. 

c.  1560.  When  the  Knight-Templars  were  deprived  of  their  patri- 
monial interest  through  the  instrumentality  of  their  Grand-Master,  Sir 
James  Sandilands,  they  drew  off  in  a  body,  with  David  Seton,  Grand  Prior 
of  Scotland  (nephew  of  Lord  Seton  ?),  at  their  head.  This  transaction  is 
alluded  to  in  a  curious  satirical  poem  of  that  period,  entitled  Haly  Kirk 
and  her  Theeves,  which  is  evidently  the  production  of  a  staunch  Catholic, 
who  does  not  spare  Sandilands  for  his  breach  of  trust : — 

'  Fye  upon  the  traitor  then, 
Quhas  has  brocht  us  to  sic  pass, 
Greedie  als  the  knave  Judas  ! 
Fye  upon  the  churle  quhat  solde 
Haly  erthe  for  heavie  golde  ; 
Bot  the  tempel  felt  na  loss, 
Quhan  David  Setoune  bare  the  crosse.' 

David  Seton  died  abroad  in  158 1,  and  is  said  to  have  been  buried  in  the 
church  of  the  Scotch  Convent  at  Ratisbon. — Historical  Notice  of  the  Order 
of  the  Temple,  1843. 


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1562,  23rd  September.  Mr.  Jhone  Setoun,  reader  in  Creych,  and 
Eteyn  Nycholl,  delated  to  the  Superintendent  for  misconduct. — Register 
of  St.  Andrews  Kirk-Session  (Scottish  History  Society),  p.  172. 

1585,  7th  June.  John  Lesly  to  Lord  Edward  Stewart,  announcing  his 
arrival  in  Ghent  with  Captain  Seton. — Calendar  of  the  MSS.  at  Hatfield 
(part  iii.,  1889),  p.  99. 

1585-6.  The  Prior  of  Seton  referred  to  in  two  letters  to  the  Queen 
of  Scots. — Ibid.  pp.  119,  135. 

1 6 14.  Letter  to  the  King  anent  a  pardon  for  forgery  committed  by 
George  Seton. — MSS.  in  Adv.  Lib.,  '  State,'  94,644 — 33.  1.  1. 

1623.  Menie  bought  from  Gordon  of  Gight  by  William  Seton  of 
Udny,  of  whom  Seton  of  Scolsmill,  in  Longley  (?)  parish,  pretends  to  be 
the  representative.— Antiquities  of  Aberdeen,  etc.,  i.  285  (under  Belhelvie). 

Tillery,  a  court,  now  the  seat  of  Forbes  of  Foveran,  begun  by  the 
Setons  of  Minnis,  'who  possessed  it  about  the  middle  of  the  last  age.' — 
Ibid.  i.  366. 

1634.     Alexander  Seton,  minister  of  Banff. — Ibid.  ii.  no. 

1647,  24th  May.  The  Commission  of  the  General  Assembly  refers 
to  the  Presbytery  of  Ellon  Robert  Seatoun,  ordaining  them  to  deduce 
probation,  and  so  to  proceed  against  him  with  the  highest  censures  of  the 
Kirk  in  case  he  appear  not  and  give  satisfaction. — Records  of  the  Commis- 
sions of  the  General  Assemblies  of  the  Church  of  Scotland,  1646-7  (Scottish 
History  Society,  1892),  vol.  i.  p.  271. 

1647,  25th  November.  Letter  from  the  Commission  to  the  same 
Presbytery  concerning  Schethin's  sentence  of  excommunication.  William 
Seytoun  of  Schethin  was  forfeited  for  taking  part  with  the  Marquis  of 
Huntly. — Ibid.  p.  331. 

1650-88.  Alexander  Seton,  minister  of  Mortlach. — Antiqzuties  of 
Aberdeen,  ii.  258. 

1650,  20th  November.  George  Seton  of  A uc hor ties  and  Mr.  Alexander 
Seton  of  Thornton,  mentioned  in  a  renunciation  by  James  Brisbane, 
merchant,  Dundee. — Particular  Register  of  Forfarshire  Sasines,  third 
series,  vol.  ii.  244. 

c.  1650.  George  Seton,  sometime  of  Woodhill,  mentioned  in  a  renun- 
ciation by  Robert  Haigie,  schoolmaster  at  Forfar,  in  favour  of  Robert 
Watson,  now  of  Woodhill. — Ibid.  121. 

1663,  17th  January.  George  Seton  of  Thornton,  and  John  Seton  his 
eldest  lawful  son,  mentioned  in  a  sasine  in  favour  of  Robert  Watson, 
merchant,  burgess  of  Dundee,  of  the  lands  of  Woodhill  and  others. — Ibid. 
i.  217. 

1665,  9th  January.  Died  at  Cupar,  Thomas  Seaton,  who  is  described 
as  'a  great  exciseman,'  meaning  a  farmer  of  the  revenue  over  a  consider- 
able district.  '  He  died  a  Catholic  Roman,  which  was  never  divulged  till 
his  death.' — Lamont's  Diary.  See  also  Chambers's  Domestic  Annals  of 
Scotland,  ii.  301. 

1672,  1 6th  May.     Latin  letter  to  King  Charles  11.  signed  by  '  Alex- 


LAUDERDALE   PAPERS,   ETC.  753 

under  Setone,  Prebendary  (of  Edinburgh),'  and  seven  others,  including 
Dr.  Laurie,  Bishop  of  Brechin,  and  Dr.  John  Paterson,  successively 
Bishop  of  Galloway  and  Edinburgh,  and  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  (a  fine 
signature). — Lauderdale  Papers,  23,135,  f.  164,  British  Museum. 

1672.  James  Seaton,  son  and  heir  of  William  Seaton,  minister  at 
Logie-Buchan,  owner  of  the  lands  of  Shethin. — Antiquities  of  Aberdee?i, 
etc.,  iii.  76. 

1676.  Jean  and  Helen  Seaton,  heirs-portioners  of  their  father,  George 
Seaton,  in  Auquorsk,  parish  of  Kinkell. — Ibid.  iii.  427. 

1678.  A  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Seaton  mentioned  in  a  household  book  kept 
at  Tynninghame. — Fraser's  Memorials  of  the  Earls  of  Haddington, 
i.  225,  230. 

1745.  The  following  entries  appear  in  a  list  of  disbursements  by 
Oliphant  of  Gask,  in  1745,  about  two  months  after  the  victory  at 
Prestonpans : — 

'  Decr  4.  To  ane  express  from  Chr.  Seaton  at  Leven       .  .     2s. 

'  Decr  9.  Ane  express  fm  Mr.  Seaton  at  Leven     .  .  .     2s.' 

— Oliphant's  facobite  Lairds  of  Gask,  pp.  142,  144. 

1747,  2nd  February.  William  Seton,  salt  officer,  Kirkcaldy,  'dis- 
charged for  being  concerned  in  the  last  Rebellion.' — Jacobite  Papers,  1 745- 
55  ;  British  Museum,  Additional,  33,050,  p.  187. 

c.  1790.  A  woman  of  the  name  of  Seton  died  at  Blackford,  Perthshire, 
who,  from  historical  facts  that  she  mentioned,  was  supposed  to  be  four  or 
five  years  above  a  hundred. — Old  Statistical  Account,  parish  of  Blackford. 

1843.  George  Seton,  farmer,  died  at  Sheriff  hall  Mains,  near  Dalkeith, 
on  the  9th  of  July. — Edinburgh  Advertiser,  July  18,  1843. 

1846.  Captain  J.  B.  Seton,  1st  Fusiliers  (Bombay  regiment),  died  of 
cholera  at  Kurrachee.  '  He  was  a  man  of  great  strength  and  powerful 
frame,  and  struggled  for  three  days.' — Bombay  Times,  June  30,  1846. 

1853.  The  Rev.  Alexander  Seyton  died  at  the  house  of  his  uncle,  in 
Aberdeen,  on  the  1st  of  November. — Edinburgh  Courant,  November  12, 

l853- 

1854.  Corporal  James  Seaton,  Scots  Fusilier  Guards,  was  killed  at 

the  battle  of  Alma,  on  the  20th  of  September. 


SC 


754 


ENGLISH   SETONS 


XXV.  English  Setons 


i.   Co.  Rutland. 

HE  following  particulars  and  relative  pedigree  are 
from  Bridges'  Northamptonshire  (ii.  45  et  seq.), 
edited  by  the  Rev.  Peter  Whalley  of  St.  John's 
College,  Oxford,  and  published  in  1791. 

'  Maidwell,'  in  Domesday  Book  Medewelle, 
and  in  later  records  Maydenwell.  Alan  de  Maid- 
well  was  Sheriff  of  Northamptonshire  in  the  twenty- 
seventh  year  of  Henry  11.  ...  His  successor  was 
Simon,  his  son,  who  in  the  same  reign  obtained  a 
grant  of  free-warren  in  Maidwell,  and  left  issue, 
Alice,  an  only  daughter,  the  wife  of  Sir  Richard  Seyton,  Kt,  who  by 
virtue  of  this  marriage  became  possessed  of  the  manor  in  Maidwell.  This 
gentleman  was  the  second  son  of  Sir  Erasmus  Seyton,  Kt.,  Lord  of  Seyton 
and  other  places  in  Rutlandshire,  by  Briget,  daughter  of  William  Mauduit, 
Lord  Chamberlain  of  England,  and  heir  to  his  brother  Sir  Roger  Seyton, 
Kt.,  Chief-Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  as  shown  in  the  pedigree  on 
opposite  page. 

In  the  History  and  Antiquities  of  the  Coitnty  of  Rutland,  by  James 
Wright,  Barrister-at-Law  (1684),  we  are  told,  at  p.  113,  that  Seyton  lies  in 
the  hundred  of  Wrangdike  (within  a  short  distance  of  Uppingham).  In 
the  Conqueror's  time,  Robertus  de  Todeni  held  in  this  town  (then  called 
Segetone)  one  hide  and  one  bovate  of  land,  etc.  Robert  was  '  a  noble  Norman 
who  came  into  England  in  the  Conqueror's  army,  and  having  a  large  estate 
given  to  him  by  the  victorious  William,  for  his  military  service,  he  built 
Belvoir  Castle,  and  seated  himself  there.' 

In  the  31  Henry  11.  Alice  de  Beaufow,  widow  of  Thomas  de  Beaufow, 
and  daughter  of  Walterus  Oiry,  was  found  to  be  at  the  King's  disposal, 
being  twenty  years  of  age.  Her  land  in  Seaton  was  valued  at  eight  marks 
per  annum,  with  certain  specified  stock. 

In  the  9  Edward  11.  John  of  Bellafage  (or  Beaufoe),  John,  son  and 
heir  of  Nicholas  de  Seyton,  at  that  time  within  age,  and  William  de  Sancto 
Licio,  were  Lords  of  Seyton  and  Thorpe. 

In  the  church  of  Seaton  is  an  ancient  monument,  without  any  existing 
epitaph,  bearing  two  coats  of  arms,  of  which  the  first  is  quarterly,  1st  and 
4th,  two  lioncells  passant ;  2nd,  bendy  of  ten  ;  3rd,  two  bars  surmounted  of 
a  bend.  The  other  coat  displays  a  lion  passant  crowned.  The  church — 
which  has  been  restored — has  a  good  early-English  chancel,  with  a  later 
tower  and  spire. 


CO.   RUTLAND 


755 


Sir   Erasmus   Seyton,    Kt.,=BRiGET,  daughter  of  William 


Lord  of  Seyton,  Thorp,  and 
other  places  in  Rutlandshire. 


Mauduit,  Lord  Chamber- 
lain of  England. 


Sir  Roger  Seyton,  Kt,        Sir  Richard  Seyton,  Kt.,=ALicE,  daughter  of  Simon 


c.    1268,  Chief-Justice 
of  England,  ob.  s.p} 


heir  to  Sir  Roger. 


Maidwell,  Lord  of  Maidwell. 


Sir  John  Seyton,  Kt. =Eleanor,  daughter  of  Baldwin  Wake. 


Five  daughters. 


Sir  Nicholas  Seyton,  Kt.=SusAN,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Verdon. 


Fourteen         Three        Joane,  daughter=Sm  John  Seyton,: 
daughters.  sons.  of Rayner.  Kt. 


Briget,  daughter  of 
Lord  Basset,  1st  wife. 


Sir  John  Seyton,  Kt.,= Joane,  daughter  of  John  Longville. 
died  at  Jerusalem  1396.2 


daughter  of =John  Seyton,  '  with  a  broken : 


Digby,  2nd  w. 


back,'  of  Seyton,  Esq. 


Everard  Seyton  of = 
Maidwell,  Esq. 


|2  |I 

Frs.  Metecalfe= Joane.       Anne. 


-  daughter  of  Will. 
Bellers,  1st  w. 


Joane,  daughter  of  - 
Fielding,  1  w. 


=Thomas  Seyton  of= 
Seyton,  1  son. 

II 

Alice,  daughter  of 

Beard,  3  w. 


Joane,  daughter  of  ■ 
Wycome,  2  w. 


3.  Edward. 

4.  Robert. 


Leonard  Seyton 
of  Seyton. 


"I 

John  Seyton  of=IsABEL,  daughter  of 


Tho.  Mallorie. 


\ 


Maidwell-Hall, 
h.  to  his  brother 

Leonard. 
Died  17th  year 
of  Henry  vm. 


Thomas  Seyton  of  Maidwell.3 


1  See  Foss's  Judges  of  England,  pp.  607-8. 
A  Thomas  de  Setone  was  Chief-Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench  in  1357. 

2  His  body  appears  to  have  been  conveyed  to 
England,  and  deposited  on  the  south  sideSof  the 
chancel  of  Maidwell  Church,  where  is  still  re- 


maining a  cross-legged  statue  in  armour,  with 
the  arms  of  Seyton  on  his  shield,  and  his  head 
supported  by  a  horse's  leg. 

3  From   whom    the    estate   passed    into   the 
hands  of  John  Haslewood,  Esq. 


756 


CO.   DURHAM 


Patroni. 

Incunib.  et  temp.  Institut. 

Ric.  de  Seyton,  rot.  cust.  her. 

Mag.  Rog.  de  Seyton, 

Sim.  de  Maydewell. 

anno  1263. 

Ric.  de  Seyton,  Mil. 

Mag.  Joh.  de  Seyton, 

17  Cal.  Feb.  1279. 

Dom.  Joh.  de  Seyton.  Mil. 

Dom.  Joh.  de  Seyton,  Mil. 

Johan  quond.  uxor  Joh.  de  Seyt 

on, 

Mil. 

Nic.  Syward  &  al.  feoff.  Joh.  de 

Seyton. 

Joh.  de  Seyton,  Mil. 

Joh.  Seyton. 

Nic.  Gryffyn  &  alii  feoff. 

Everard  Seyton,  Arm. 

Joh.  Seyton,  Arm. 

Mag.  Geo.  Seyton,  LL.B.  Archidiac.  Oxon. 
12  Nov.  1524. 

Under  '  Martinsthorp '  we  find  the  following  : — 

'  This  mannour  formerly  belonged  to  the  family  of  St.  Liz,  otherwise 
called  de  Seyton — a  branch  of  the  most  noble  family  of  St.  Liz,  sometime 
Earls  of  Northampton  and  Huntingdon — till  about  the  reign  of  Henry  vi. 
Sir  William  Feilding,  Knight,  marrying  Agnes,  daughter  and  heir  of  John 
de  St.  Liz,1  alias  Seyton,  this  estate  came  by  that  match  into  the  noble 
family,  .  .  .  from  which  William  the  Earls  of  Denbigh  are  descended. 

'  Arms  of  St.  Liz — Argent,  two  bars  gules  fretty  or — in  chief  three 
fleurs-de-lis  of  the  second.' — Baker  s  History  of  Northampton,  ii.  744. 

2.   Co.  Durham. 

In  Surtees'  Durham  (iii.  45)  we  are  informed  that  '  Foxton  lies  about 
three  miles  full  south  from  Sedgefield.  The  manor  of  Foxdene  belonged  to 
the  Knights  Templars,  whose  possessions,  on  the  dissolution  of  their  Order, 
were  transferred  to  the  Knights  Hospitallers  of  St.  John.  In  1360  Thomas 
de  Seton,  Chivaler,  held  the  manor  of  Foxden  under  the  Prior  of  St.  John.2 
His  descendants,  the  Setons,  Carrowes,  and  Sayers,  held  the  same  estate, 
and  under  them  the  De  la  Poles  held  lands  by  subinfeudation.3 

At  Shotton,  a  small  hamlet  to  the  east  of  Foxton  {ibid.  p.  48),  the 
Setons  and  Carrowes  held  property,  attached  to  their  manor  of  Foxden.  .  .  . 
In  1404  Isabel,  widow  of  Thomas  de  Seton,  held  a  messuage  and  sixty 
acres,  as  the  heir  of  Carrowe,  in  whom  the  manor  was  vested.  A  moiety 
of  the  general  estate  of  the  Setons  descended  to  the  Sayers.' 

According  to  '  Hatfield's  Survey,'  John  de  Carrowe  paid  for  the  lands 
of  Thomas  de  Seton  in  Preston — a  small  village  on  the  Tees,  two  miles 
south  of  Stockton — at  the  four  great  terms  (ibid.  p.  1 88).  .  .  .  The  chief 
property,  which  latterly  at  least  was  described  as   manorial,  belonged    to 


1  See  Burke's  Extinct  Peerages,  p.  468,  note, 

2  Inqs.  p.  m.  Thome  de  Seton,  15  Hatfield; 
Joh.  fil.  Thome  Carrowe,  6  Fordham  ;  Isabella 
de  Seton,  16  Skirlaw  ;  John  Sayer,  17  Booth  ; 
William  Sayer,  7  Ruthall. — See  the  pedigree  of 


Seton,  etc.,  under  'Seton-Carrowe.' 

3  115  acres,  2  oxgangs,  and  7s.  rent  held  of 
John  Sayer  and  Thomas  Seton. — Inq.  p.  m.  Mich. 
De  la  Pole,  10  Langley. 


SETONS  AND   SAYERS 


757 


the  Setons.  In  1360  Thomas  de  Seton,  Chivaler  (already  referred  to), 
died  seized  of  ten  messuages  and  eight  oxgangs  in  Preston,  held  of  the 
Bishop  by  10s.  rent;  and  of  eight  oxgangs,  held  by  18s.  ;  and  of  twenty- 
three  acres  held  in  drengage.  Alice,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas 
Seton,  married  Sir  Thomas  Carrowe,  Knight.  Their  son  John  de  Carrowe 
d.  s.p.  in  1386,' *  seized  of  the  same  lands;  and  his  heirs,  ex  parte  materna, 
were  William  Sayer  and  Joan,2  wife  of  Laurence  of  Seton,  who  represented 
the  daughters  of  Adam  of  Seton,  brother  of  Sir  Thomas  first  named.  In 
1404  John  Laurenson  of  Seton  held  by  the  curtesy  a  messuage  in  Preston, 
leaving  Thomas  his  son  and  heir,  who  seems  to  have  re-assumed  the 
maternal  name  of  Seton;  and  in  1426,  by  the  style  of '  Thomas  Seton  of 
Worsale,  Esq.,'  granted  all  his  lands  in  Shotten,  Foxden,  Preston,  and 
Egglesclyffe  to  trustees  for  the  uses  of  his  last  Will.  The  Sayers,  repre- 
senting Agnes,  the  elder  daughter  of  Adam  de  Seton,8  held  lands  in 
Preston,  frequently  described  as  'The  Manor,'  till  a  later  date. — Hat- 
field's Survey,  p.  189. 

The  following  pedigree  of  Seton  and  Sayer  of  Worsall  and  of  Preston- 
on-Tees  is  given  at  p.  190  : — 

Seton= 


Alice 


1.  Thomas  de  Seton, 

Chivaler,  Lord  of 
Worsale  and  Preston. 


2.  John  de  Seton, 
ob.  s.p. 


3.  Adam  de  Seton. 


Alice,  daughter=SiR  Thomas 


and  heir, 
at.  21. 


Carrowe, 
Knight. 


1.  Agnes, = John  Sayer. 
daughter 
and  co-h. 


.'.  Joane— John  Laurenson 
de  Seton. 


John  de  Carrowe, 
ob.  s.  p.  1387. 


= William  Sayer, 

co-heir  with 

Thomas  Seton 

of  John  de 

Carrowe. 


Thomas  Laurenson,  son  and  heir, 
at.  22  in  1404,  afterwards  styled 
'  Thomas  Seton  of  Worsall,  Esqr.,' 
by  charter,  2nd  January,  4  Hen.  vi., 
1425-6.  Co-heir  of  John  de  Car- 
rowe, ex  parte  materna. 


John  Sayer,  born  141  o,  whose 
descendants  are  given  to  the 
end  of  the  seventeenth  century. 


1  Inq.  6  Fordham.  Isabel,  his  widow,  is  stated 
to  have  held  in  dower  the  third  part  of  the  Manor 
of  Preston — Inq.|i6  Skirlaw.  John,  son  of  John 
Sayer,  at.  3,  and  Thomas,  son  of  John  Lauren- 
son de  Seton,  at.  21,  heirs  of  her  husband. 

2  William  Sayer  was  son,  and  Joan  daughter, 
of  Agnes,  daughter  of  Adam  de  Seton,  brother 
of  Sir  Thomas. 

3  John  Sayer,  son  of  William,  son  of  Agnes  de 


Seton,  was  baptized  at  Norton,  at.  3,  in  1404. 
The  following  appears  in  Rot.  Langley  E.  29 
relative  to  Thomas  Seton  de  Worsale,  Arm. 
'  Sciatis  me  dedisse  etc.  Will0  Bell,  persone  de 
Kilvyngton  etc.  omnia  terras  et  tenementa  mea 
in  Seton-Karrowe  etc' — 22nd  Janr.  4  Hen.  v. 
There  is  an  indenture  'inter  Thomam  Seton  de 
Worsall,  Arm.  et  Will'um  Hoton  de  Herdwyk 
Arm.,'  and  the  Christian  name  of  Thomas  Seton's 
wife  appears  to  have  been  Katherine. 


758  SEATON-CARROWE 

John  Sayer  of  Worsall  was  owner  of  Elvet  Myers  in  1588.  The 
Sayers  derived  that  property  from  their  remote  maternal  ancestors,  the 
Setons  ;  for  Isabel,  wife  of  Thomas  de  Seton,  held  dower  of  a  third  part  of 
Elvet  Myer. — Surtees'  Durham,  iii.  197,  note. 

On  the  part  of  the  Bishop,  commission  to  inquire  against  John  de 
Carrowe  and  other  malefactors,  who  had  entered  '  our  Castle  of  Stockton,' 
vi  et  armis,  and  forcibly  took  away  John,  son  and  heir  of  Alice,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Thomas  Seton,  being  under  age  and  in  ward  of  the  Bishop 
— 18th  October  1376. — 31  Hatfield,  ibid.  p.  403. 

Seaton-Carrowe  (corruptly  Carew,  a  Cornish  name)  is  situated  on  the 
coast,  about  three  miles  to  the  south  of  Hartlepool.  The  prefix  appears  to 
have  been  formerly  spelt  Seton.  It  has  long  been  a  place  of  considerable 
resort  in  summer,  and  possesses  a  well-known  golf  links.  There  are  no 
remains  of  the  ancient  chapel  of  Seaton,  dedicated  to  St.  Thomas  the 
Martyr  (Becket),  and  given  by  Brus,  with  the  mother  church  of  Stranton, 
to  Guisbrough  Abbey.  In  1200,  Ronald,  Prior  of  Guisb rough,  granted  a 
chantry  within  Seaton  Chapel  to  Walter  Carrowe;  and  in  13 12  Prior 
Geoffrey  determined  that  the  Vicar  of  Stranton  was  bound  to  provide  for 
the  maintenance  of  Seaton  Chapel. — Ibid.  p.  130. 

Some  Roman  antiquities  were  found  on  the  sands  to  the  north  of 
Seaton-Carrowe  by  Mr.  Edward  Pease  of  Darlington ;  and  at  another 
Seaton  (in  the  parish  of  Seaham)  other  Roman  remains  were  found  several 
years  ago. — Ibid.  p.  402. 

Arms — Seton,  a  fesse  between  three  birds,  and  a  bordure  engrailed 
(tinctures  not  given) ;  Sayer,  gules,  a  chevron  between  three  seamews 
argent} 

3.  Co.  York. 

The  surname  of  Seton  (or  Seaton)  turns  up  very  frequently  in 
the  public  records  and  elsewhere  in  connection  with  Yorkshire,  and  the 
Rev.  Prebendary  Douglas  Seaton,  Vicar  of  Goodrich,  Herefordshire  (to  be 
afterwards  referred  to),  has  most  kindly  supplied  me  with  a  great  deal  of 
interesting  information  on  the  subject. 

The  annexed  pedigree  relates  to  an  important  branch  of  the  family, 
originally  in  Nottinghamshire,  and  afterwards  at  Doncaster,  Pontefract,  and 
other  places  in  the  county  of  York. 

Grimethorpe  Hall,  a  curious  old  brick  residence  in  the  township  of 
Brierly,  was  built  by  Robert  Seaton,  who  is  said  to  have  been  a  Quaker, 
in  the  seventeenth  century.  It  passed  from  the  possession  of  the  Seatons 
about  a  hundred  years  ago,  and  is  now  the  property  of  Mr.  John  Farrar 
Crookes  of  Tunbridge  Wells. 


1  The  following  blazon  for  the  name  of  Seton        and  azure,  and  per  fesse  gules,  three  such  piles 
is  given  in  Holmes'  Accadeinie  of  Armory,  i.  x.         in  point  argent. 
105  (1688) : — Parted  per  pale  indented  ermine 


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YORKSHIRE  WILLS 


At  one  time  I  was  disposed  to  think  that  the  Yorkshire  and  Swedish 
Seatons  may  have  been  descended  from  David,  a  younger  son  of  George 
Seton,  third  Baron  of  Cariston  {supra  p.  587),  who  settled  in  Yorkshire, 
and  left  issue ;  but  I  now  incline  to  believe  that  they  must  look  for  another 
ancestor,  and  that  they  are  probably  sprung  from  either  the  Rutland  or 
the  Durham  Setons.  The  arms  carried  by  the  Gothenburg  family  are, 
gules,  a  bend  argent  between  six  martlets  or.  Crest — a  martlet.  Motto — 
'  Hazard  zet  forward.'  Accordingly,  only  the  motto  gives  indication  of 
Scottish  descent. 

The  Rev.  Douglas  Seaton  has  copies  of  a  good  many  Wills  of  York- 
shire Seatons  (including  that  of  Gervase  Seaton,  who  died  in  1673),  and 
the  two  following  lists  are  extracted  from  his  family  note-books  : — 


Surname. 

Christian 
Name. 

Year. 

Month. 

Parish  or  Record. 

Details  of  Entry  or  Record. 

Seyton 

Roger 

1272 

Lambeth 
Library 

Mentioned  in  Archbishop  Reek- 
ham's  Register. 

Seyton 

John,  Lord 

1293 

Maidwell 

Became  Patron  of  Maidwell, 
Northamptonshire. 

Seyton 

John,  Lord 

1348 

Maidwell 

Became  Patron  of  Maidwell. 

Seaton 

Thomas 

1358 

Calendar  of 
Chancery  Rolls 

Appointed  a  Commissioner. 

Seyton 

John 

1444 

Nov.  14 

Ardlethorpe 

John  Seyton,  Presbyter,  pre- 
sented to  living  by  Prior  of 
Spalding. 

Seton 

John 

1447 

Feb.  20 

Kingscliffe 

Inducted  to  living  of  K.  C. 
Northants. 

Seton 

William 

1492 

Yorkshire  fines 

Plaintiff  in  suit  about  land, 
Howick,  Yorkshire. 

Seyton 

Robert 

1534 

Yorkshire  fines 

Plaintiff  in  suit  about  land  at 
Workingham. 

Seaton 

Jacob 

1581 

Barrow  Parish 
Register 

Will  proved ;  Lincoln  Registry. 

Seaton 

Edward 

1586 

Oct.  3 

Aswarty 

Edward,  son  of  Thomas  Seaton, 
baptized. 

Seaton 

Jane 

1587 

April  21 

Keilby 

Daughter  of  James  Seaton,  bap- 
tized and  buried  Sept.  5th. 

Sayton 

Edmund 

1587 

Jan.  19 

Blyth 

Edmund  Sayton  and  Elizabeth 
Wood  married. 

Seaton 

Thomas 

1588 

Spalding 

Will  proved ;  Lincoln  Registry. 

Sayton 

Alexander 

1588 

Aug.  24 

Blyth 

Baptized. 

Seaton 

Edward 

1589 

Sept.  8 

Keilby 

Edward,  son  of  James  Seaton, 
baptized  and  buried,  Septem- 
ber 1 8th.          % 

Seaton 

Francis 

iS9i 

Feb.  8 

Rotherham 

Made  Will :  2  sons,  Henry  and 
Francis;  3  daughters,  Anne, 
Margaret,  and  Gertrude ;  wife, 
Anne. 

Seyton 

John 

IS95 

May  1 

Easington 

Made  Will :  2  sons,  George  and 
Richard;  wife,  Elizabeth. 

Sayton 

Matthew 

1610 

Nov.  20 

Blyth 

Matthew  Saytoun  married  Agnes 
Townsend. 

YORKSHIRE   WILLS,    ETC. 


761 


Surname. 

Christian 
Name. 

Year. 

Month. 

Parish  or  Record. 

Details  of  Entry  or  Record. 

Seaton 

William 

1613 

Barrow 

Made  Will:  son,  William;  daugh- 
ter, Barbara ;  wife,  Agnes. 

Seaton 

James 

1613 

Oct.  24 

Aswarty 

Made  Will :  son,  John ;  wife, 
Elizabeth. 

Seaton 

Edward 

1613 

Aswarty 

Made  Will:  father, Thomas;  wife, 
Frances ;  son,  Thomas. 

Seaton 

Thomas 

1616 

Aswarty 

Made  Will. 

Seaton 

Robert 

1621 

Aug.  30 

Blyth 

Robert  Seaton  married  Margery 
Woodward. 

Seaton 

John 

1623 

Dec.  17 

Blyth 

John  Seaton  married  Mary 
Woodward. 

Seaton 

Thomas 

1626 

May  14 

Ordsall 

Died,  left  3  sons,  John,  Thomas, 
and  Nicholas. 

Sayton 

Elizabeth 

1627 

Mar.  26 

Blyth 

Was  buried ;  probably  wife  of 
Edmund  (see  above). 

Seton 

George 

1628 

Calendar  of 

State  Papers 1 

Grant  of  denization  to  George 
Seton,  clerk,  of  Scotland. 

Sayton 

Anne 

1628 

Dec.  20 

Blyth 

Was  buried. 

Seaton 

Richard 

1629 

Oct.  20 

Kirby  Moorside 

Made  Will ;  buried  at  Shetton  ; 
father  was  George,  brother  was 
Christopher . 

Seaton  ' 

Richard 

1631 

Jan.  22 

Skinningrave 

Made  Will ;  buried  at  Easington; 
son  of  above  John  Seyton. 

Seaton 

Thomas 

1647 

Dec.  26 

Blyth 

Thomas  Seaton  married  Alice 
Hanson. 

Seaton 

Elizabeth 

1649 

Mar.  20 

Blyth 

Daughter  of  Gervase  Seaton  was 
baptized. 

Seaton 

Margaret 

1650 

Mar.  5 

Skinningrave 

Widow  of  Zachary  Seaton,  made 
Will;  3  sons,  Richard,  Zachary, 
and  Nathan. 

Seton,  Robert  de 
Seton,  William  de 
Seton,  Thomas 
Seton,  Robert 
Seton,  William 
Seyton,  Robert 
Saiton,  Richard 
Sayton,  John 
Seaton,  Agnes 
Seten,  Robert 
Seaton,  John 
Seaton,  Edmund 
Seaton,  Thomas 
Saiton,  Dorothy 
Seaton,  John 
Seaton,  Edward 
Seaton,  Thomas 


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1401 

York  Registry  Adm. 

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do. 

111.  237. 

1451 

Probate  Act    . 

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1460  (?) 

■     "■  437- 

1476 

. 

v.  9. 

1538 

Buried  at  Esyngton 

xi.  33°- 

1555-9 

York  Registry 

xv.  part  11.  112. 

1 555-9 

do. 

xv.  part  iii.  153 

1570-5 

do. 

xix.  117. 

1576-80 

do. 

xxi.  40. 

1580-5 

do. 

xxn.  105. 

1 

1580-5 

do. 

1580-5 

do. 

1585-8 

do. 

xxin.  205. 

1594 

do.                   .         .         . 

xxvi.  130. 

1594 

do.                   .         .         . 

xxvi.  444. 

? 

do.                    . 

xxxix.  401. 

1  Seaton  of  Whitbystrand  in  Yorkshire,  and  Seaton-Delaval  in  Northumberland,  are  mentioned 
at  p.  77  supra. 

5D 


762  MISCELLANEOUS   SETONS 


4.  Miscellaneous. 

In  Sim's  Index  to  the  Heralds  Visitations  in  the  British  Museum 
(1849),  only  one  Seton  occurs — viz.,  in  the  Visitation  of  Kent,  16 19 
(1548,  f.   105  b.):  'Anne  (daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Midleton,  Knight,  of 

,  co.  Cumberland),  wife  of  John  Seton  of  Croydon,  whose  daughter, 

Alice,  married  William  Ellsden,  in  the  county  of  Derby.' 

Simon  de  Seyton,  dead  6  Edward  11.  (13 12),  first  husband  of  Sarah, 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Richard  de  Oakley  of  Great  Oakley,  and  father 
of  Simon  de  Seyton  of  Great  Oakley,  living  20  Edward  in.  (1346). — 
Records  of  Sir  A.  de  Capell  Brooke,  Bart.,  in  Baker's  History  of  North- 
ampton, ii.  751. 

Henry  de  Seton,  Principal  or  Warden  of  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  in 
1323. — University  Calendar. 

John  Seton,  B.A.  1528-9,  Fellow  of  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge; 
MA.  1532;  D.D.  1544;  incorporated  14th  April  1544;  Chaplain  to 
Gardiner,  Bishop  of  Winchester  ;  Rector  of  Hinton  Ampner,  Hants,  1545  ; 
Master  of  St.  Mary's  Hospital,  Winchester,  and  Rector  of  Sussex  1554; 
Canon  of  Winchester  1553,  and  of  York  1554;  a  recusant  1561.  See 
Cooper,  i.  218  ;  Fasti,  i.  144,  and  Foster's  Index  Eccl. 

I  possess  a  copy  of  a  little  i2mo  volume,  entitled  '  Dialectica  Joan. 
Setoni,  Cantabrigiensis,  annotationibus  Petri  Carteri,  ut  clarissimis  ita 
brevissimis  explicata.  Cantabrigise,  163 1.'  It  contains  dedications  to 
Stephen  Gardiner,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  and  Edward  Stanley,  third  Earl 
of  Derby,  and  bears  the  signatures  of  two  former  owners,  viz.,  '  David 
Seton'  and  'Jo.  Lee,'  Principal  of  the  University  of  Edinburgh. 

In  the  mss.  of  the  Earl  Cowper,  Historical  mss.  Commission,  12th 
Report,  Appendix,  Part  11. ,  vol.  ii.  p.  10,  is  a  letter  dated  'Whitehall,  18th 
May  1633,' from  Sir  Francis  Windebank,  'for  your  Honour'  (Sir  John 
Coke?),  in  which  the  following  passage  occurs  : — 'Sir  John  Fiennes  says 
that  Colonel  Seton,  lately  returned  from  the  Hague,  thinks  an  ambassador 
from  Poland  (Polacci  ?)  will  be  here  before  the  end  of  the  next  week,  and 
intends  to  hasten  into  Scotland  to  his  Majesty.' 

At  page  153  of  vol.  iii.  of  the  same  Report,  under  'Papers  without 
Date,'  we  find  the  following  : — 

'  /.  Setone,  Edinburgh,  a.  Monsieur  de  Malmy,  agent  pour  le  Roi  de 
France  aupres  du  Roi  de  la  Grande  Bretagne  en  Cour.  "  Etant  arrive  en 
ce  pays  pour  voir  mes  parens  et  pour  donner  ordre  a  mes  affaires, 
Monseigneur  le  Chancelier  me  fit  prisonnier  sans  m'accuser  d'aucune  chose 
sinon  que  c'etait  la  volonte  du  Roi.  Je  vous  prie  devoir  sa  Majeste  : 
aussitot  que  je  pourrai  donner  quelque  ordre  ici  pour  mes  affaires  je  me 
rendres  aupres  sa  Majeste  pour  repondre  de  mes  actions." 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Seaton,  M.  A.,  late  Fellow  of  Clare  Hall,  Cambridge, 
bequeathed  to  the  University,  in  1738,  the  rents  of  his  Kislingbury  estate, 
now  (1839)  producing  clear  £\o  per  annum,  to  be  given  yearly  to  that 


MISCELLANEOUS   SETONS  763 

Master  of  Arts  who  shall  write  the  best  English  poem  on  a  sacred  subject. 
The  Vice-Chancellor,  the  Master  of  Clare  Hall,  and  the  Greek  Professor 
(who  are  the  disposers  of  this  premium),  determine  the  subject,  which  is 
announced  in  January,  and  the  poem  has  to  be  sent  to  the  Vice-Chancellor 
on  or  before  the  29th  of  September  following.  The  poem  is  printed, 
and  the  expense  deducted  out  of  the  product  of  the  estate,  the  remainder 
being  given  as  a  reward  to  the  composer. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Seaton  was  a  native  of  Stamford,  Northamptonshire 
(Murray's  Northamptonshire,  p.  98). 

Job  Seton  (or  Seyton),  '  Ser.'  of  Ch.  Ch.  Oxon.,  matriculated  22nd 
July  1658. — F oster's  Alumni  Oxonienses,  1892. 

Christopher  Seton,  son  of  James  Seton  of  London,  p.  p.  Line.  Coll. 
Oxon.,  matriculated  20th  May  1697,  aged  eighteen;  B.A.  1701  ;  M.A. 
1 71 2;  Rector  of  Epperstone,  Notts,  1706,  as  '  Christopher  Raleus  Seton.' 
—Ibid. 

Alexander  Seton,  eldest  son  of  James  Seton  of  Perrymount,  co. 
Tyrone,  Esquire,  admitted  to  Gray's  Inn,  23rd  November  1792. — Foster's 
Register  of  Admissions,  1889. 

Letter  from  James  Seton  to  H.  Boase,  Esq.,  Penzance,  dated 
'  Adelphi,  27th  October  181 5,'  enclosing  a  communication  from  Charles 
Weston,  dated  '  Brompton  Crescent,  24th  October  18 15,'  relative  to  the 
proceeds  of  certain  '  diamonds  of  considerable  value,'  which  had  been 
stolen  in  London  from  Madame  du  Barre,  '  the  celebrated  mistress  of 
Louis  xvi.  (sic).'  The  diamonds  were  ultimately  recovered,  and  sold 
under  an  amicable  suit  in  Chancery.  Mr.  Weston's  communication  was  in 
behalf  of  Madame  du  Barre's  next  of  kin. 

The  seal  of  James  Seton's  letter — of  which  only  the  upper  portion 
remains — bears  a  dragon  on  a  ducal  coronet  for  crest,  and  two  crescents, 
surrounded  by  a  royal  tressure,  in  the  upper  part  of  the  shield,  below  which, 
no  doubt,  was  a  third  crescent,  and  probably  a  mark  of  difference  in  the 
centre. — British  Museum,  Additional,  29,281,  f.  78. 


764 


FOREIGN   SETONS 


XXVI.  Foreign  Setons 


iN  my  notice  of  the  family  of  Preston  (No.  vi.) 
reference  has  been  made  to  the  connection  of  the 
Setons  with  Sweden  in  the  persons  of  George  Seton 
(born  in  1696),  who  settled  as  a  merchant  at 
Stockholm  in  17 18,  and  of  Colonel  Seton,  whom 
I  have  failed  to  identify,  and  whose  interesting 
adventure  with  Gustavus  Adolphus  is  given  at 
page  370.  Again,  in  the  preceding  section  relative 
to  English  Setons,  I  have  alluded  to  the  branch 
of  the  Yorkshire  family  which  has  been  located 
at  Gothenburg  since  the  early  part  of  the  present  century. 

In  Robert  Monro's  curious  work  entitled  His  Expedition  with  the 
wort/id  Scots  Regiment,  called  '  Mackeyes  Regiment,'  levied  in  August  1626, 
we  find  the  following  reference  to  a  Colonel  Alexander  Seaton  : — '  Imme- 
diately after  the  death  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Arthur  Forbes,  Sanders 
Seaton  was  by  his  Majestie's  patent  made  Lieutenant-Colonel  to  the  Regi- 
ment, who  did  bring  a  strong  company  of  well-exercised  souldiers,  which 
were  joyned  to  strengthen  the  regiment.  .  .  .  Lieutenant-Colonel  Seaton 
was  preferred  against  the  officers'  wills,  who,  once  placed,  would  refuse 
nothing  unto  his  Majestie  he  would  command.' 

Among  other  'Scots  Colonells  that  served  at  this  time  in  Sweden, 
Leesland,  and  Spruce,'  Monro  mentions  : — 

'  James  Seaton,  Colonell  to  foote  of  Swedes  ; 
Colonell  Kinninmond,  do.,  succeeded;  and 
Sir  John  Meldrum,  Colonell  in  Spruce  to  foote.' 
Among  numerous  memoranda  in  my  possession  I  find  a  note  (with- 
out any  reference)  of  a  James  Seton,  '  of  a  noble  family  in  the  North  of 
Scotland,'  who  went  to  Norway  in  1628,  as  well  as  the  following  statement 
(also  without  reference)  respecting  another  James,  ten  years  earlier : — 

'  16 1 8.  Requeste  voir  Capn  James  Seyton.  James  Seyton  makes  a 
protest  against  the  intended  appointment  of  Donaldson  as  sergeant-major. 
This  Donaldson  was  formerly  merchant  of  stockings  at  Flushing,  then  he 
became  Captain,  but  he  is,  as  Seyton  says,  very  incapable,  and  does  not 
merit  such  an  appointment,  as  there  are  capable  officers  enough  in  the 
regiment.'  An  Alexander  Seton  turns  up  in  Germany  in  161 2,  who  may 
perhaps  have  been  the  famous  alchemist,  respecting  whom   there  is  an 


SETONS   IN   FRANCE  765 

interesting  paper  in  a  comparatively  recent  number  of  Chambers's  Journal, 
by  the  late  Mr.  John  Small  of  the  Edinburgh  University  Library. 

In  Pepys's  Diary  (iii.  169)  mention  is  made  of  Captain  Seaton  of  the 
Urania — 76  guns  and  400  men — which  took  part  in  the  victory  over  the 
Dutch  on  the  3rd  of  June  1665. 

Probably,  however,  more  Setons  have  found  their  way  to  France  than 
to  any  other  country  on  the  continent  of  Europe.  Under  the  notice  of 
John,  first  Baron  of  Cariston  (p.  583  supra)  mention  has  been  made  of  two 
of  his  three  sons  turning  up  in  that  kingdom,  viz. :  Sir  John  Seton,  Captain 
in  the  Scots  Guards,  who  married  a  daughter  of  the  Count  de  Bourbon, 
and  his  younger  brother  James,  who  appears  to  have  been  resident  in 
France  in  the  year  1601.  I  have  also  referred  to  '  Jehan  Seton,  Ecuyer, 
Sieur  de  Cariston' — supposed  to  be  Sir  John's  son — who,  in  1622,  married 
'Demoiselle  Catherine  Eustache,'  and  who  died,  in  1661,  at  Coulonniers, 
about  two  leagues  from  Meaux,  whose  interesting  testament  will  be  found 
in  the  Appendix  of  Miscellanies. 

In  the  manuscripts  of  the  Duke  of  Hamilton  (Historical  mss.  Com- 
mission, nth  Report,  Appendix,  Part  vi.  p.  91)  we  find  a  letter  to 
the  Marquis  of  Hamilton,  signed  '  J.  Setone,'  apparently  John  or  Sir  John 
Seton,  one  of  the  Scots  Guard  in  the  service  of  the  King  of  France.  At 
the  close  of  the  communication  he  adds  :  '  As  for  neuis  ve  hier  the 
Emprieur's  arme  is  strong,  and,  God  willing,  his  Maestes  [Louis  xiii.] 
arme  vilbe  abouufe  four  scoir  thousand  men  this  spring.  I  suld  desyr 
from  my  hert  that  our  leues  vair  granted  for  completting  of  our  Scotis' 
regement  for  al  they  that  ar  heer  dois  viel  and  ar  in  goud  account.  As 
for  our  Scotis  gards  I  vil  neuer  vreit  any  moir.  Sine  their  is  no  cair  taking 
to  restablis  it,  I  sal  tak  my  tym  and  salbe  most  sory  to  be  the  last  Scotis 
Lieutennant,  sua  I  kis  your  hands  as  ane  that  is,  your  Lordship's,  etc. — 
Paris,  3  November  1634.' 

As  already  stated  (under  Cariston)  several  John  Setons  are  specified 
by  Francisque-Michel  in  his  Ecossais  en  France.  He  mentions  the 
Setons  (i.  15)  among  'les  families  les  plus  considerables'  who  came  from 
France  to  Scotland  ;  and  he  elsewhere  (ii.  295)  describes  them  as  '  une 
famille  etroitement  liee  a  toutes  les  epoques  avec  notre  pays.'  We  have 
already  seen  that  the  fourth  Lord  Seton  had  an  exciting  encounter  with 
the  Dunkirkers  on  his  way  to  France ;  that  the  second  wife  of  the  sixth 
Lord — the  mother  of  Mary  Seton — was  a  Frenchwoman ;  that  the  maid 
of  honour  herself  spent  her  declining  years  in  a  convent  at  Rheims ;  and 
that  the  seventh  Lord  Seton — Queen  Mary's  devoted  adherent — as  well 
as  his  son  the  Chancellor  and  several  of  his  later  descendants,  were 
repeatedly  on  French  soil.  Other  Setons  in  France,  mentioned  by  Michel, 
are  'Alexander  Seton,  Lord  de  Gordon'  (c.  1422);  'Master  Seton, 
escuier  d'Escosse,'  otherwise  described  as  '  Thomas  Ston  (sic),  Cappitaine 
de  gens  d'armes '  (about  the  same  date) ;  '  Williame  de  Setoune,'  Master 
of  Seton,  and  eldest  son  of  John,  second  Lord,  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Verneuil  in  1424  ;  '  Guillaume  Seton,'  an  archer  in  the  Scots  Guard,  about 


766  DR.  WILLIAM   SETON 

1467;  George  Seton,  also  a  member  of  the  'Garde  Ecossoise,'  in  1575; 
'le  Capitaine  Seton,'  on  whose  behalf  Archibald  Douglas  applied  for  a 
passport  in  1598  ;  Sir  John  Seton,  in  the  service  of  Louis  xm. ;  and  'le 
docteur  William  Seton'  (c.  1640),  pronounced  by  Tomasini  to  have  been 
one  of  'les  plus  savants  hommes  de  son  temps,'  and  described  by  another 
writer  as  'le  flambeau  de  l'epoque.'  Michel  (ii.  296)  gives  a  short  quota- 
tion from  Sir  Thomas  Urquhart's  high  estimate  of  the  learned  doctor,  but 
a  fuller  extract  from  the  eulogy  of  the  translator  of  Rabelais  will  be  found  in 
the  chapter  entitled  'The  Scholar  and  the  Author'  in  Dr.  Hill  Burton's 
Scot  Abroad.  Sir  Thomas  informs  us  that  Seton  was  '  not  a  doctor  of 
divinity,  but  one  that  had  his  degrees  at  Padua,  and  was  doctor  utriusque 
juris ;  for  whose  pregnancy  of  wit,  and  vast  skill  in  all  the  mysteries  of 
the  civil  and  canon  laws,  being  accounted  one  of  the  ablest  men  that 
ever  breathed,  he  was  most  heartily  desired  by  Pope  Urban  the  Eighth  to 
stay  at  Rome.'  After  discharging  for  some  time  the  office  of  '  chief  pro- 
fessor '  in  the  '  Sapience  College,'  with  great  honour  and  reputation,  being 
a  '  proud  man,'  he  came  to  loggerheads  with  //  Collegio  Romano,  '  the 
supremest  seat  of  the  Jesuites,'  and  found  his  way  to  various  parts  of  Italy. 
He  ultimately  took  up  his  abode  in  Paris,  '  where  he  was  held  in  exceeding 
great  reputation  for  his  good  parts,  and  so  universally  beloved  that  both 
laicks  and  churchmen,  courtiers  and  scholars,  gentlemen  and  merchants, 
and  almost  all  manner  of  people  willing  to  learn  some  new  thing  or  other, 
were  ambitious  of  the  enjoyment  of  his  company,  and  ravished  with  his 
conversation.'  '  I  have  seen  him,'  continues  Sir  Thomas,  '  circled  about  at 
the  Louvre  with  a  ring  of  French  lords  and  gentlemen,  who  hearkened 
to  his  discourse  with  so  great  attention,  that  none  of  them,  so  long  as  he 
was  pleased  to  speak,  would  offer  to  interrupt  him ;  to  the  end  that  the 
pearles  falling  from  his  mouth  might  be  the  more  orderly  digested  in  the 
several  treasures  of  their  judgements  :  the  ablest  advocates,  barristers,  or 
counsellors  at  law  of  all  the  Parlement  of  Paris,  even  amongst  those  that 
did  usually  plead  en  la  chambre  dore"e  did  many  times  visit  him,  to  get  his 
advice  in  hard  debatable  points.'  Finally,  he  states  that  Balzac  was  so 
charmed  with  the  strain  of  Seton's  letters  that  he  lovingly  presented  him 
with  a  golden  pen,  'in  acknowlegement  of  his  excelling  him  both  in 
rhetorick  and  the  art  of  perswasion.' 

According  to  Michel  (ii.  295)  the  '  Chateau  de  Ceton,'  in  the  Department 
of  Orne,  and  not  very  far  from  the  battle-field  of  Verneuil,  '  n'existait  plus  a. 
la  fin  du  xve  siecle.'  In  the  month  of  April  1894  I  paid  a  visit  to  the  quaint 
little  village  of  Ceton,  about  a  hundred  miles  south-west  of  Paris,  passing 
Chartres  en  route.  Accompanied  by  the  courteous  and  intelligent  cure 
(M.  Hugo),  I  inspected  the  ancient  church,  the  tower  of  which  is  said  to 
be  a  portion  of  the  old  chateau.  It  contains  some  fairly  good  stained-glass 
windows,  and  a  curious  recumbent  effigy  of  our  Saviour  (?),  surrounded  by 
five  figures.  In  the  nave  I  noticed  a  shield  of  arms  charged  with  three 
escallop  shells,  but  I  looked  in  vain  for  crescents.  M.  Hugo  was  unable  to 
give  me  any  information  relative  to  the  connection  of  the  Setons  with  the 


FRENCH   AND   SPANISH    SETONS  767 

locality ;  and  on  calling  at  the  '  Mairie '  I  was  informed  that  it  contained  no 
ancient  documents  of  any  kind,  the  Revolution  of  '  quatre-vingt-treize ' 
getting  the  credit  of  their  destruction  ! 

In  the  '  Retenues  de  Brigadiers,  sous  Brigadiers,  et  Gardes  du  Corps 
de  la  compagnie  de  Noailles,'  dated  at  St.  Germain,  31st  December  1679, 
among  the  National  Archives  of  France  (O.  23,  fo.  82),  the  name  of  Seton 
occurs  as  one  of  four  '  Brigadiers  creez,'  and  in  the  same  document,  '  Han- 
bourg '  is  entered  among  the  Gardes  du  Corps,  '  par  la  demission  de 
Seton.' 

The  following  curious  entries  are  from  the  records  of  the  Scots 
College  at  Douay,  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maxwell  Witham.1 

1594.  '  Gulielmus  Gordon,  frater  Comitis  Huntlaei,  vixit  in  seminario 
sub  legibus  seminarii  sed  propriis  expensis,  factus  Franciscanus  non 
perseveravit.' 

1 596.  '  Mr  Alex1  Seton,  Calvinianus,  juvenis  modestus  et  boni 
ingenii.     Agitur  de  eius  conversione  de  qua  est  bona  spes.' 

6th  June  1620.     Gilbert  Seton  dismissed  'ob  mores  insolentes.' 

31st  October  1620.  Henry  Seton,  natural  brother  of  Laird  of 
Munie. 

31st  October  1620.     John  Seton,  his  brother,  died  in  poverty  at  Paris. 

1625.  John  Seton,  son  of  the  Chamberlain  of  Fife,  became  Superior 
of  the  Scottish  Seminary  at  Madrid. 

7th  October  1627.  David  Abercromby  of  Petelpie  entered  as  a 
student  of  composition.  On  account  of  his  health,  he  departed  in  June 
1631.  In  1640  he  became  tutor  to  the  second  son  of  the  Earl  of  Winton, 
and  some  years  later  devoted  himself  to  medicine  in  London. 

1658.  Robert  Seton,  younger  son  of  the  Earl  of  Winton,2  at  his  death 
in  1673,  left  30,000  merks  Scots  to  the  College. 

25th  May  1675.  '  Georgius  Setonus,  primogenitus  Joannis  Baronis  de 
Garleton,  equitis  aurati,  et  Christinae  Hume,  filiae  Baronis  de  Renton, 
10  annos,  Parisiis  adductus  a  R.  P.  Alexandro  Conaeo.' 

1 68 1.  Charles  Gordon,  11,  and  Patrick  Gordon,  9,  sons  of  Charles, 
Lord  Aboyne. 

1 8th  April  1698.  'Georgius  Seton,  12  annos,  ex  patre  Georgio  de 
Garleton,  post  philosophiam  in  Scotiam  rediit.' 

July  1714.  '  Andreas  Seton,  16  annos,  frater  Georgii  et  Joannis  ex 
Garleton,  ivit  in  Hispaniam,  ubi  factus  est  miles.' 

We  have  already  seen  (supra  p.  108)  that  Robert,  second  son  of 
George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  died  in  the  Castle  of  Milan,  leaving  two  sons, 
one  of  whom  (William)  was,  like  himself,  '  ane  man  of  armes  in  France.' 

Again,  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns  (supra  p.  623)  was  a  Knight  of  the 
distinguished  Order  of  St.  Jago,  and  Master  of  the  Household  to  Philip  11. 
of  Spain. 


1  Historical  MSS.  Commission,  App.  to  Fifth         Earl  of  Winton,   by  his   second   wife,  who  at 
Report.  p.  228  supra  is  said  to  have  '  died  in  infancy.' 

2  This  must  have  been  a  son  of  George,  third 


768 


MILANESE   SETONS 


An  Italian  branch  of  the  Seton  family  appears  to  have  flourished  in 
or  near  Milan  from  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century.  Prefixed  to  a 
curious  and  rare  thin  Latin  folio  in  my  possession,  extending  to  68  pages, 
relative  to  the  admission  of  'D.  Johannes  de  Sitonis'  into  the  illustrious 
Order  'Judicum,  Equitum,  et  Comitum  inclytae  civitatis  Mediolani,'  in  the 
year  1703,  are  the  detailed  proofs  of  his  nobility.  He  deduces  his  descent, 
through  eight  generations,  from  'D.  Franciscus  de  Sitonis,'  as  in  the 
following  table  : — 

D.  Franciscus  de  Sitonis,  ex  antiquis  Nobilibus  Regni  Scotiaa, 
Tritaui  Auus. 

I 

D.  Johannes  Jacobus, 
Tritaui  Pater. 

Spectabilis  D.  Franciscus  ex  Patronis,  ac  Fundatoribus  Ecclesise  Parochialis  S.  Viti  ad 

Carrubium  P.  T.  Mediolani, 
Tritauus. 

Nobilis  et  Magnificus  Vir  D.  Johannes  Jacobus,  Equitum  Italorum  Colonellus  sub 

Ferdinando  1.  Romanorum  rege,  etc., 

Atauus. 

I 

Spectabilis  et  Magnificus  D.  Johannes  Franciscus, 
Abauus. 


Nobilis  D.  Hieronymus  Ducalis 

Peditum  Capitaneus,  acVisitator 

Generalis  Urbium,  ac  Fortalitiorum 

in  Lotharingia.     Item  Dux  contra 

Turcas  pro  Serenissimo  Ernesto 

Archiduce  Austrian, 

Propatruus. 


Magnificus  D.  Camillus  I.V.D., 
Proauus. 

I 

Perillustris  D.  Johannes  Baptista, 

Auus. 

I 

D.  Canullus  I.V.D., 

Pater. 

I 
Johannes  I.V.D., 

Petens. 


The  narrative  refers  to  the  distinguished  position  of  the  Seton  family 
in  England,  and  afterwards,  in  the  time  of  Malcolm  Canmore,  in  Scotland, 
where  they  derive  their  surname  '  a  nobili  urbe  Setonio,  Edimburgum 
inter  et  Germanici  sequoris  littus  posita.'  This  is  followed  by  a  reference 
to  a  worthy  scion  of  the  family  at  the  beginning  of  the  second  century ! 
'Anno  Domini  112,  Ecclesiastica  Scotorum  Historia  curiosum  memorat 
antiquarium,  obitum  scilicet  Diui  Beati  Sitonij  primi  in  Occidente  Monaci, 
S.  Petri  Apostolorum  Principis  discipuli,  ac  Heluetioru  Apostoli,  de  quo 
cecinit  Garnefelt.'  From  the  '  beatus  Apostolus'  the  petitioner  suddenly 
drops  to  '  Alexander,  Dux  Generalis,'  the  brave  Governor  of  Berwick  in 
1330,  and  specifies  the  various  Lords  and  Earls  (including  Huntly,  Winton, 
Dunfermline,  and  Kingston)  down  to  the  year  1684. 

The  first  Italian  Setons  are  stated  to  have  been  three  'nobiles  viri,' 


SETON  ARMS  AT   BOLOGNA 


769 


bearing  the  names  of  John,  James,  and  Adam,  who  appear  to  have  located 
themselves  in  Insubria  (the  Duchy  of  Milan),  in  the  reign  of  Charles  vm. 
of  France.  Several  distinguished  members  of  the  family  are  stated  to  have 
flourished  during  the  sixteenth  century,  towards  the  beginning  of  which 
(15 1 8)  it  appears  that  the  family  of  Seton  was  enrolled  among  the  '  Nobiles 
Mediolanenses.'  Documentary  evidence  is  adduced  of  the  petitioner's 
descent  from  '  Franciscus  de  Sitonis,'  already  referred  to,  who  flourished 
'ante  annum  salutis  humanse  1485.'  It  is  elsewhere  stated,  that  '  familia 
Sitona  e  Scotia  in  Italiam  accessit  anno  1450.'  The  name  of  '  Joh.  de 
Sitonis,  J.  C.  et  Advocatus,'  appears  on  the  title-page  of  a  thin  Latin  folio 
volume  of  Italian  Genealogies,  of  which  a  copy,  bearing  the  book-plate  of 
the  Hon.  Frederick  North,  was  in  the  possession  of  the  late  Dr.  David 
Laing  of  the  Signet  Library.  He  appears  to  have  been  the  author  of 
other  learned  works,  including  a  treatise  '  de  antiquis  et  modernis  in 
Insubria  Monetis.' 

Through  the  good  offices  of  my  friend  Mr.  Robert  J.  A.  Hay,  late  of 
Linplum,  I  obtained  the  annexed  blazon  of  the  arms  of  '  D.  Joannes 
Setonivs  Scotvs  Melledroni  (Meldrum  ?)  Dominvs '  (who  studied  at  the 
University  of  Bologna  in  1603),  which  appears  on  one  of  the  walls  of  the 
'  Archiginnasio,'  formerly  the  University,  and  now  the  Public  Library. 
It  will  be  observed  that  the  tinctures  are  erroneous.  The  blazon  implies 
the  fact  of  John  Seton  having  been  elected  a  '  councillor '  by  his  fellow- 
students  of  the  same  Nation.  Seton's  name  occurs  in  a  list  of  fourteen 
students  of  Law  of  the  English  Nation  between  1554  and  1603,  of  which 
the  original  is  in  the  '  Biblioteca  Estense'  at  Modena.  Fitzherbert,  Fitz- 
william,  and  Griffiths  appear  .among  the  English  names,  but  Seton,  who 
is  described  as  '  Anglus  Scotiensis,'  is  the  only  Scotchman. 


5E 


770        ARCHITECTURAL  ACHIEVEMENTS 


II.    ARCHITECTURAL  ACHIEVEMENTS   OF 
THE   SETON   FAMILY 


)N  the  preceding  accounts  of  the  Huntly  line  and 
other  cadets  of  the  family,  reference  has  been  made 
to  the  castles  of  Strathbogie  and  Bog-o-Gight,  as 
well  as  to  Touch,  Barns,  Garleton,  and  other  impor- 
tant structures.  I  shall  here  confine  myself  to  the 
principal  edifices  erected  by  the  main  line  of  the 
House  (four  in  number),  and  the  two  magnificent 
mansions  which  owed  their  existence  to  Chancellor 
Seton.  Under  the  notice  of  Pinkie  House,  in  the 
fourth  volume  of  Billing's  Baronial  and  Ecclesiasti- 
cal Antiquities  of  Scotland,  Dr.  Hill  Burton  says: — 'As  this  collection  of 
illustrations  has  served  to  show,  Scotland  owes  many  of  her  architectural 
ornaments  to  the  munificent  taste  of  the  family  of  Seton.  They  built 
Seton  Church  and  the  Palace  adjoining  it,  which  has  now  disappeared. 
They  built,  according  to  their  family  historian,  the  old  bridge  of  Mussel- 
burgh, which  tradition  makes  a  Roman  work.  That  peculiar  and  beautiful 
structure,  Winton  House,  was  erected  as  a  mansion  for  the  head  of  the 
family.  Lastly,  Alexander  Seton,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  who  added  the 
ornamental  parts  to  Pinkie,  was  the  same  who  got  built  for  himself 
the  even  more  stately  and  beautiful  castle  of  Fyvie.' 


SETON   CHURCH 


771 


't^^r^i 


I.    Seton  Church 


'  As  in  a  vault,  an  ancient  receptacle, 
Where,  for  these  many  hundred  years,  the  bones 
Of  all  my  buried  ancestors  are  packed.' 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iv.  3. 

The  revival,  in  the  fifteenth  century,  of  church-building  in  Scotland, 
which  had  been  suddenly  arrested  by  the  invasion  of  Edward  1.,  'was  no 
longer  an  affair  of  the  nation.  .  .  .  Proprietors  were  now  content  to  raise 
chapels  on  their  estates,  and  endow  them  sufficiently  to  maintain  a  proper 
service  in  them.  Hence  arose  a  very  interesting  group  of  Collegiate 
Churches,  each  served  by  a  "  College,"  or  fixed  number  of  priests  and 
choristers,  whose  stipends  were  paid  out  of  the  endowments.'1  No  fewer 
than  nine  of  these  were  erected  in  the  Lothians,  of  which  not  the  least 
important  was  Seton,  almost  under  the  shadow  of  the  magnificent  palace  of 
the  same  name,  to  be  afterwards  noticed. 

In  the  earlier  periods  of  Scottish  Ecclesiastical  Architecture  there  was 
a  strong  affinity  with  the  styles  which  prevailed  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Tweed ;  but  after  our  great  war  with  England  the  artistic  tendencies  of 


1  Macgibbon  and  Ross's  Scottish  Architecture,  iii.  25. 


772  VIEWS   OF   SETON   CHURCH 

the  northern  portion  of  the  kingdom  manifested  a  decided  leaning  towards 
continental  tastes,  which  was  largely  influenced  by  the  intimate  political 
relations  between  France  and  Scotland. 

Much  interesting  information  regarding  the  construction  and  enlarge- 
ment of  Seton  Church  is  contained  in  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  valuable 
Chronicle  of  the  family,  while  important  notices  occur  in  Grose's  Antiquities 
of  Scotland,  Sir  Walter  Scott's  Provincial  Antiquities,  Muir's  Ancient 
Scottish  Churches,  and  Billings'  Baronial  and  Ecclesiastical  Antiquities; 
and  from  these  various  sources  a  pretty  full  account  of  the  venerable  fane 
can  be  easily  compiled.  Besides  the  views  in  Grose,  Scott  (by  Blore), 
and  Billings — an  exterior  and  interior, — there  is  a  pretty,  small  engraving 
of  the  church,  by  Swan,  in  the  Maitland  Club  edition  of  the  House  of 
Seton  ;  and  the  same  work  embraces  a  full-page  illustration  of  a  portion  of 
the  interior  of  the  choir,  showing  the  former  position  of  the  recumbent 
effigy  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  and  the  elaborate  monument  of  the 
first  Earl  of  Perth.  The  last  of  these  is  from  a  drawing  by  the  '  Duchess- 
Countess'  of  Sutherland,  when  Marchioness  of  Stafford  (paternally  Seton), 
to  which  she  makes  reference  in  a  letter  to  Charles  Kirkpatrick  Sharpe, 
editor  of  the  Maitland  Club  edition  of  the  House  of  Seton,  dated  February 
18th,  1821  : — 'I  have  finished  my  drawing,  or  rather  have  spoilt  your 
sketch,  of  the  Seton  Chapel,  which  I  shall  send  you  by  the  first  oppor- 
tunity. ...  It  has  occurred  to  me  that  if  I  were  to  get  for  you  four 
etchings  or  lithographic  plates  of  things  in  this  chapel,  or  relating  to  the 
Setons,  of  a  small  quarto  size,  and  that  you  were  to  publish  their  memoirs 
with  notes,  and  with  such  prints,  the  book  would  sell  well,  and  might  be 
made  a  curious  one  as  to  Scotch  domestic  history  and  anecdote  relating  to 
remarkable  persons.  If  of  use,  I  would  etch  any  of  the  architecture 
plates.'1  Many  years  ago  I  received  from  Mr.  Sharpe  a  clever  etching  of 
Seton  Church,  by  Sir  Archibald  Alison,  the  historian,  whose  wife  was  a 
Tytler  (see  page  536  supra).  I  also  possess  a  spirited  water-colour  of  the 
church,  painted  in  the  height  of  summer,  by  Mr.  Alexander  Fraser,  R.S.A., 
son-in-law  of  the  gifted  Thomas  Duncan.  A  view  of  the  ancient  fabric,  in 
oil,  by  the  late  James  Drummond,  was  exhibited  in  Edinburgh  in  1848,  and 
the  church  has  long  been  a  favourite  subject  with  artists.  About  sixteen 
years  ago  it  was  admirably  illustrated  by  a  series  of  elaborate  drawings, 
elevations,  ground-plans,  specimens  of  the  windows,  buttresses,  corbels, 
recesses,  monuments,  fonts,  piscinas,  and  other  interesting  details,  in  the 
Sketch-Book  of  the  Edinburgh  Architectural  Association. 

The  earliest  notice  of  Seton  Church  in  Sir  Richard  Maitland's 
Chronicle  of  the  family  occurs  under  his  account  of  William,  first  Lord 
Seton,  who  died  c.  1409,  and  whose  widow,  Catherine  Sinclair  of  Her- 
mandston,  '  biggit  ane  yle  on  the  south  side  of  the  paroche  kirk  of  Seytoun, 
of  fyne   astler ;    pendit  and  theikit  it  wyth  stane ;    wyth   ane   sepulture 


1  C.  K.  Sharpe's  Correspondence,  ii.  223.    The        at  the  sale  of  the  late  Mr.  James  Gibson-Craig's 
sketch  here  referred  to  was  sold  in  Edinburgh        pictures  and  engravings. 


LADY  JANET   HEPBURN  773 

thairin,  quhair  sche  lyis  ;  and  founditane  priest  to  serve  thair  perpetuallie.'1 
Her  grandson,  George,  third  Lord  Seton,  ' biggit  the  queir  of  Seytoun,  and 
pendit  it,  sa  fer  as  it  is,  with  rymbraces '  ;  while  his  son  and  successor, 
George,  fourth  Lord,  'pendit  the  queir  from  the  rymbrasis  but  {about), 
fundit  and  erectit  the  college  thairof,  and  devydit  the  personage  thairof 
betuix  the  provest  and  the  prebendaries.'  The  fourth  Lord  also  'biggit 
the  revestre  (vestry) ;  pendit  and  theikit  it  wyth  stane.'  George,  fifth 
Lord,  who  fell  at  Flodden,  'theikit  the  queir  of  Setoun  wt  staine,  and 
repairit  the  samyn  with  glaising  windois,  maid  the  dasks  thairin,  and 
cylerings  aboue  the  altar,  and  pauementit  the  said  queir,  and  gaue  to  it 
certane  vestments,  ane  haill  compleit  stand  of  claith  of  gold,  and  vthers  of 
silkis.'  But  one  of  the  principal  benefactors  of  the  ancient  fane  was  his 
widow,  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  who  survived  her  husband  for  forty-five 
years,  and  was  also  the  foundress  of  the  Convent  of  St.  Catherine  of 
Sienna,  near  Edinburgh.  '  This  Ladie,'  says  Sir  Richard  Maitland, 
'  biggit  the  foirwerk  of  Seytoun,  aboue  the  yet ;  and  als  scho  biggit  the 
north  corss  yle  of  the  collage  kirk  of  Seytoun.  And  tuk  doun  ane  yle, 
biggit  be  Dame  Katherine  Sinclair,  on  the  south  syd  of  the  said  collage 
kirk,  becaus  the  syd  of  it  stude  to  the  syd  of  the  kirk,  to  mak  it  ane 
perfyt  and  proportionat  croce  kirk ;  and  biggit  the  said  yle  again,  and 
compleitit  it  as  it  is  now.  And  als  sche  biggit  the  stepill  thairof  to 
ane  grit  hicht,  sua  that  it  wantis  ly till  of  compleiting.  This  Ladie  gave 
mony  ornamentis  to  the  kirk  of  Seytoun  :  as  ane  compleit  stand  of  pur- 
pule  veluat  flourit  with  gold ;  ane  compleit  stand  of  crammase  (crimson— 
Fr.  cramoisi)  veluat,  flourit  with  gold ;  ane  compleit  stand  of  quhyt 
dammas  ;  ane  compleit  stand  of  grein  chamlot  of  silk  ;  ane  compleit  stand 
of  blak  doubill  wourset ;  with  vther  certane  cheissebillis,  and  vestimentis  of 
sundre  silkis.  And  als  gave  to  the  said  kirk  ane  grit  croce  of  silver ;  ane 
eucharist  of  silver  ;  ane  grit  challice  of  silver,  overgilt ;  ane  pendicle  to  the 
hie  altar  of  fyne  wovin  arres,  with  vther  pendiclis.  She  loftit  the  revestrie, 
and  maid  grit  lokit  almaries  thairin.  Scho  foundit  twa  prebendaries,  and 
biggit  thair  chalmaris  vpon  voltis  '  (vaults)." 

In  the  time  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton  (son  of  Lady  Janet  Hepburn) 
— May  1 544 — Seton  Church  appears  to  have  suffered  greatly  at  the  hands 
of  the  English  invaders,  who,  besides  burning  and  destroying  the  Castle, 
'  spulzeit  the  kirk,  took  away  the  belis,  organis,  and  all  vther  tursable 
(portable)  thingis,  and  pat  them  in  their  schipis,  and  burnt  the  tymmer 
work  with  the  kirk.' 

The  last  Earl  of  Winton,  at  his  trial  for  implication  in  the  '  rising '  of 
1 71 5,  in  answer  to  the  articles  of  impeachment,  after  alluding  to  the  attack 
upon  Seton   Palace  by  the  militia  of  the   shire  of  Lothian,   '  under  the 

1  The  late  Dr.   Joseph    Robertson   informed  son's  Documents  illustrative  of  the  History  of 

me  that  '  Eccla.  de   Seethun,  1242,'  was  men-  Scotland,^.  55. 

tioned   in   the    Pontifical   MS.  in  the  National  2  The  worthy  chronicler's    observations    on 

Library  of  Paris  ;  and   a   presentation   to   the  Lady  Seton's  liberality  in  connection  with  Seton 

church  of  Seyton,  in  the  year   1296,  occurs   in  Church  will  be  found  in  the  first  volume,  under 

the  second  volume  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Steven-  the  notice  of  her  husband. 


774  MADE   'COLLEGIATE'   IN    1493 

specious  pretence  of  serving  the  Government,'  proceeds  as  follows  : — 
'  The  most  sacred  places  did  not  escape  their  fury  and  resentment ;  they 
broke  into  his  chapel,  defaced  the  monuments  of  his  ancestors,  took  up  the 
stones  of  their  sepulchres,  thrust  irons  through  their  bodies,  and  treated 
them  in  a  most  barbarous,  inhuman,  and  unchristianlike  manner.'  Again, 
Mr.  Charles  Kirkpatrick  Sharpe,  in  his  preface  to  the  Edinburgh  edition  of 
Sir  Richard  Maitland's  House  of  Seton,  refers  to  the  circumstance  of  the 
building  having  been  '  much  defaced,  the  tombs  broken,  and  the  pavement 
raised  by  the  rabble  and  common  soldiers  in  their  search  for  hidden 
treasure.' 

Both  Grose  and  Sir  Walter  Scott  support  the  opinion  that  there  must 
have  been  a  parochial  church  on  the  site  of  the  present  edifice  from  an  early 
period  ;  and  this  view  is  confirmed  by  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  mention  of 
the  burial,  in  Seton  Church,  of  certain  ancestors  of  the  Lords  Seton,  to  be 
afterwards  referred  to.  As  already  stated,  the  existing  church  was  made 
collegiate,  out  of  several  chaplainries,  by  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  on 
the  20th  of  June  1493 — the  foundation  consisting  of  a  provost,  six  pre- 
bendaries, two  singing-boys,  and  a  clerk.  The  relative  charter  was  after- 
wards confirmed  by  Andrew,  Abbot  of  Newbattle,  as  the  Apostolus  sedis 
Delegatus.  Grose  describes  the  church  as  standing  in  1789  within  the 
walls  of  the  adjoining  castle,  and  states  that  the  spire  appears  to  have  never 
been  completed. 

From  the  Haddington  Presbytery  Records  it  appears  that,  in  1568, 
Seton  church  and  parish  were,  along  with  Tranent,  under  the  pastoral 
care  of  Mr.  Alexander  Forrester.  In  1576  Thomas  Raith  acted  as  Reader 
at  Seton,  while  Tranent  was  separately  supplied  by  Forrester.  After 
1580  Seton  was  united  to  Tranent,  and  in  1589  the  Presbytery  applied  to 
Lord  Seton  to  appoint  a  minister.  In  1592,  William  Seton,  'pretendit 
Provost  of  Seton,'  was  summoned  to  appear  before  the  Presbytery,  with  a 
view  to  his  deposition  for  non-residence.  He  appeared  on  the  20th  of 
June  1593,  and  (1)  denied  that  the  College  Kirk  of  Seton  was  '  ane 
benefice  of  cure  or  ane  parish  kirk';  (2)  'but  that  quhatsomever  service 
was  done  there,  competent  to  be  done  in  ane  parish  kirk,  was  done  there 
by  dispensation,  at  the  least  by  the  permissioun  and  tolerance,  of  the  Vicar 
of  Tranent ;  and  (3)  that  if  ever  it  was  ane  benefice  of  cure,  he  ought  not 
to  serve  the  same,  but  the  ordinarie.' 

It  was  again  proposed  that  Seton  should  be  erected  as  a  parish,  and 
enjoined  by  the  Commission  for  Plantation  of  Kirks,  17th  April  1650  ;  but 
Lord  Winton  delayed  compliance,  and  meanwhile,  in  the  following  week,  he 
entreated  the  Presbytery  to  remit  his  fines,  '  in  respect  of  the  great  charges 
he  will  incur  in  erecting  the  new  kirk  at  Seton.'1 

The  following  passage  is  extracted  from  the  notice  of  the  church  in 
Billings'  valuable  work,  which  is  understood  to  have  been  from  the  pen 


1  Scott's  Fasti  Ecclesia  Scoticana. 


DR.   HILL   BURTON'S   NOTICE  775 

of  the  late  Dr.  Hill  Burton : — '  The  building  appears  never  to  have 
been  completed  according  to  its  original  cruciform  plan,  of  which  only  the 
chancel  and  transepts  are  to  be  seen,  surmounted  by  the  tower  of  an 
intended  spire.  The  architecture  is  a  mixture  of  the  Early  English  and 
the  later  styles,  corresponding  with  the  different  periods  at  which  the  works 
were  constructed.  There  is  a  fine  oriel  or  apse  of  three  pointed  arches  at 
the  end  of  the  chancel.  On  the  north  side,  within  a  niche  in  the  perpen- 
dicular style,  are  the  monumental  effigies  of  one  of  the  Lords  of  Seton  and 
his  wife,  somewhat  mutilated,  but  in  a  less  unseemly  condition  than  such 
monuments  are  to  be  found  in  Scotland.  The  male  figure  is  in  plate 
armour,  with  a  wreath  round  the  helmet.  On  the  head  of  the  female  the 
reticulated  work  is  still  distinct.  The  hands  are  closed  in  the  usual  attitude 
of  prayer.1  Opposite  to  this  monument  is  a  richly  decorated  piscina  in 
good  preservation.  .  .  .  Every  slab  on  the  pavement  has  some  monu- 
mental purpose,  and  the  visitor  is  the  more  forcibly  reminded  of  the  dust 
added  unto  dust  that  lies  beneath  his  feet,  by  the  earth  being  in  some  places 
disturbed,  and  showing  the  shape  and  dimensions  of  the  graves  by  laying 
bare  portions  of  the  flagstones  by  which  their  sides  are  cased.  Some  of  the 
flat  monumental  stones  have  an  appearance  of  greater  antiquity  than  any 
portion  of  the  church.  On  one  of  them  may  be  traced  the  earliest  symbol 
that  is  to  be  found  on  any  stones  in  Scotland,  ascertained  to  be  monu- 
mental— the  great  cross-handled  sword,  which  served  at  once  to  indicate 
the  warlike  career  of  the  dead,  and  his  trust  in  the  religion  of  peace.  The 
roof  is  of  pointed  Gothic  and  ribbed,  and  by  one  of  the  caprices  so  often 
found  in  Gothic  architecture,  the  base  of  the  ground  arch  under  the  tower 
is  not  in  a  line  with  the  apex  of  the  chancel  arch.  A  round-topped  Norman- 
looking  arch  gives  access  to  a  cell  behind  the  monumental  niche  already 
referred  to,  in  which  there  lie  some  remnants  of  sculptural  ornaments  which 
time  or  violence  has  detached  from  their  proper  position.  Here,  embedded 
in  the  wall,  a  large  black  marble  slab  contains  a  Latin  epitaph,  which  might 
more  properly  be  called  a  biography,2  relating  to  the  services  of  George,  the 
seventh  Lord  Seton,  who  having  negotiated,  as  Ambassador  for  Scotland, 
the  marriage  of  the  Dauphin  to  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  remained  ever  after- 
wards one  of  the  most  devoted  and  disinterested  adherents  of  that  Princess, 
encountering  in  her  service  a  series  of  adventures  which  would  make  the 
materials  of  many  a  romance.' 

In  the  late  Mr.  T.  S.  Muir's  Descriptive  Notices  of  Ancient  Scottish 
Churches  there  is  a  detailed  architectural  notice  of  Seton  Church.  While 
he  states  the  '  orientation '  to  be  '  E.  \  S.,'  he  is  unable  to  specify  the  name 
of  the  saint  to  whom  the  church  was  dedicated  ;  and  in  the  absence  of  any 
positive  information  on  the  subject,  I  venture  to  suggest  St.  Benedict,  or 
St.  Bennet,  the  patron  saint  of  the  family. 

'  The  style  of  the  church,'  says  Mr.  Muir,  '  is  Middle- Pointed  ;  and  the 
plan  comprises  a  choir,  of  three  bays,  with  a  semi-hexagonal  termination  ; 


1  Engraved  at  p.  no  supra.  2  See  Appendix  of  Miscellanies. 


776 


MR.   MUIR'S   DESCRIPTION 


a  north  chantry  ;  transepts  of  two  bays  ;  and  a  low  square  tower,  capped  by 
a  truncated  octagonal  spire  with  plain  haunches  dying  off  at  the  corners  of 
the  tower,  at  the  intersection.  The  west  elevation  shows  a  purposed  nave, 
but  no  part  of  it  has  ever  been  added.     Externally,  the  dimensions  are  : — 


Choir,  65  ft.  3  in.  long. 
S.  Transept,  31  ft.  3  in.  long 
N.  Transept,  29  ft.  6 
Tower,  24  ft.  6  in. 


in. 


long. 


lone. 


'  Access  to  the  interior  is  by  the  nave  and  choir  arches,  the  only  con- 
structive entrance  being  the  priests'  door,  which  is  blocked.  It  is  a  small 
round-headed  aperture  in  the  south  middle  bay  of  the  choir,  composed  of 
a  few  continuous  roll-and-fillet  mouldings,  surmounted  by  a  heavy  under- 
cut label  with  foliage  terminations.  .  .  .  The  windows  are  of  two  and  three 
lights,  have  foliated  loop-tracery  in  the  head,  and  a  moulded  hood  with 
floriated  and  pictorial  ends.  Those  in  the  transepts — two  on  the  west,  and 
one  on  the  north  and  south  respectively — are  of  larger  size,  and  are  either 
empty,  or,  like  the  others  in  the  choir,  have  their  days  and  tracery-openings 
entirely  blocked.  .  .  .  The  buttresses  are  divided  by  narrow  moulded  set- 
offs into  three  stages  terminating  in  a  plain  square  pinnacle,  and,  here  and 
there,  a  crocketed  finial  and  crope.  One  or  two  plain  shelving  mouldings 
are  carried  round  the  foot  of  the  first  stage  as  a  basement ;  and  on  the 
second  stage  there  is  an  enriched  canopy  over  a  bracket  supported  by  a 
large  floriated  boss,  in  some  instances  the  figure  of  an  angel  holding 
a  blazoned  shield,  as  on  the  bracket  affixed  to  the  west  angle-buttress  of 
the  south  transept ;  while  on  that  belonging  to  the  corresponding  one  to 

the  east  are  sculptured  the  instruments  of 
the  Passion,  the  three  (?)  nails  transfixing 
a  heart  encircled  by  the  ropes  intertwined, 
and  at  the  four  corners  respectively  the 
hands  and  feet.  .  .  .  The  belfry-stage  of  the 
tower  rises  immediately  above  the  ridge  of 
the  roof  of  the  choir  and  transepts,  and 
contains  a  plain  recessed  pointed  light  of 
two  chamfered  orders  without  tracery,  in 
the  middle  of  each  face.  At  the  east  angle 
of  the  south  wall  there  is  a  polygonal  turret 
with  a  pyramidal  stone  capping,  and  a 
newel  ascent  from  a  square-headed  door- 
way opening  on  the  north-east  angle  of 
the  south  transept.  .  .  .  On  the  south  of  the  nave-arch,  and  close  to  the 
angle,  is  a  curiously  designed  stoup  partly  within  and  partly  without  a  low 
moulded  ogee-headed  niche.  .  .  .  The  roof  is  a  pointed  vault,  and  is 
quite  plain  from  the  west  end  to  about  the  middle.  ...  In  the  south 
wall,  and  a  little  to  the  east  of  the  priests'  door,  is  a  large  shallow  recess 
containing  a  continuous  stone  bench  or  sedile,  7  feet  in  length  and  1  foot 


ARCHITECTURAL   DETAILS 


777 


8  inches  deep.  .  .  .  On  the  east  of  this  ...  is  an  octagonal  piscina.  .  .  . 
The  chantry  chapel  stands  in  the  north  middle  bay  :  internally  it  is  14  feet 
8  inches  long  by  12  feet  8  inches  wide.  .  .  . 
There  is  a  plain  vaulted  roof  over  the  chapel ; 
a  fireplace  in  the  north  wall ;  a  square-shaped 
window  near  the  top  of  the  west  wall ;  and 
another  of  the  same  description  occupying 
a  relative  position  in  the  wall  opposite.  .  .  . 
Adjoining  the  piscina,  and  immediately  to 
the  east  of  the  entrance  to  the  chapel,  is 
a  wide  and  deeply-recessed  square-shaped 
hagioscope  opening  in  the  form  of  a  small 
square  window  on  the  north  wall  of  the 
choir.  It  is  placed  diagonally  in  the  wall, 
and  diminishes  gradually  in  size  as  it  ap- 
proaches the  external  plane.  .  .  .  Lying 
loose  near  the  doorway  is  the  octagonal 
basin  of  a  baptismal  font ;  its  form  is  pretty 
entire,  but  the  edges  and  faces,  and  the 
retiring  mouldings  below,  are  considerably  worn  and  mutilated.  .  .  . 
As  is  almost  universally  the  case  in  Scottish  examples,  the  transepts  of 
this  church  appear  to  have  been  designed  for  mortuary  chapels.  ...  A 
large  recess,  under  the  south  window  of  the  south  transept  ...  is  the 
best  moulded  detail  belonging  to  the  building.  The  width  of  the  recess 
is  7  feet,  and  its  depth,  if  intended  for  a  monument,  is  sufficient  only 
to  contain  a  single  effigy.  .  .  .  The  south  transept  is  used  as  a  car- 
penter's shop !  The  whole  of  this  church  is  in  a  very  good  condition ; 
and  although  long  since  abandoned  as  a  place  of  worship,  affords  every 
facility  to  any  design  which  may  hereafter  be  proposed  for  its  complete 
restoration.' 

In  the  Gentleman  s  Magazine  for  December  1848  (the  year  in  which 
Mr.  Muir's  work  was  published)  there  is  a  notice  of  a  visit  of  the  Society 
of  Scottish  Antiquaries  to  Seton  Church,  and  of  a  contemplated  memorial 
to  the  Earl  of  Wemyss,  the  owner  of  the  fabric,  '  for  a  further  grant  of 
money  to  be  applied  to  the  restoration  of  the  church,  and  the  preservation 
of  one  of  the  most  interesting  relics  of  Scottish  antiquity.' 

A  few  observations  seem  to  be  called  for  upon  the  preceding  state- 
ments of  Dr.  Hill  Burton  and  Mr.  Muir.  The  former  writer  refers  to  the 
interest  and  antiquity  of  the  '  flat  monumental  slabs '  forming  the  pavement 
of  the  old  church,  and  he  specially  mentions  one  of  these  as  exhibiting  the 
early  symbol  of  a  'great  cross-handled  sword,'  combining  an  indication  of 
the  warlike  career  of  the  departed  and  his  trust  in  the  religion  of  peace. 
Since  the  year  1836  I  have  been  familiar  with  every  stone  in  this  vener- 
able memorial  of  a  once-powerful  race ;  and  many  a  pilgrimage  have  I 
made  to  the  ancestral  shrine,  under  the  influence  of  the  sentiments  em- 
braced in  Tickell's  address  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick  : — 


778 


RESTORATION  OF   1878 


'  Oft  let  me  range  the  gloomy  aisles  alone 
(Sad  luxury !  to  vulgar  minds  unknown), 
Along  the  walls  where  speaking  marbles  show 
What  worthies  form  the  hallowed  mould  below : 
Proud  names  who  once  the  reins  of  empire  held, 
In  arms  who  triumphed,  or  in  arts  excelled ; 
Chiefs  graced  with  scars,  and  prodigal  of  blood ; 
Stern  patriots  who  for  sacred  freedom  stood ; 
Just  men,  by  whom  impartial  laws  were  given ; 
And  saints,  who  taught  and  led  the  way  to  heaven.' 

On  the  occasion  of  a  comparatively  recent  visit  to  Seton  Church,  after 
an  interval  of  a  good  many  years,  I  was  horrified  to  discover  that  no  fewer 
than  nine  or  ten  sepulchral  slabs  had  entirely  disappeared,  including  (as  I 
believe)  the  stone  specially  mentioned  by  Dr.  Hill  Burton.  Fortunately, 
in  1 85 1,  I  had  made  careful  drawings  or  rubbings  of  the  missing  slabs; 
and  I  considered  it  desirable  to  preserve  a  record  of  them  in  a  paper  which 
I  read  before  the  Society  of  Scottish  Antiquaries  in  March  1888,1  and 
which  embraces  engravings  of  six  of  the  slabs  in  question,  to  be  afterwards 
referred  to.  Immediately  after  my  discovery,  I  communicated  with  Lord 
Wemyss,  who  appeared  to  be  under  the  impression  that  the  slabs  had  been 
removed  and  broken  up  during  the  lifetime  of  his  grandfather  (who  died 
in  1853),  by  an  incompetent  tradesman  employed  to  prepare  the  church  for 
a  place  of  burial.  In  1878  the  church  was  partially  restored  by  the  late 
Earl  of  Wemyss,  under  the  direction  of  the  late  Mr.  Maitland  Wardrop, 
architect,  whose  share  of  the  alterations,  however,  was  confined  to  the 
restoration  and  glazing  of  the  windows,  which  was  most  successfully  accom- 
plished. The  rest  of  the  work  embraced  the  removal  of  two  large  mural 
monuments  from  the  chancel  to  the  transepts,  the  construction  of  three 
vaults  in  the  centre  of  the  chancel,  and  the  covering  of  the  entire  floor  of 
the  church  with  sea-gravel — and  these  various  operations  were  carried  out 
under  the  superintendence  of  a  mason  from  Aberlady.  Lord  Wemyss  has 
been  good  enough  to  inform  me  that  when  he  carries  out  his  contemplated 
idea  of  substituting  concrete  tiles  for  the  sea-gravel,  he  will  authorise  an 
investigation,  with  the  view  of  ascertaining  whether  any  of  the  missing 
slabs  still  exist.2 

I  consider  that  I  cannot  do  better  than  reprint  the  portion  of  my  paper 
which  relates  to  the  various  monuments. 


1  Proceedings  of  the  Society,  1S87-88,  p.  174 
et  seq. 

2  A  recent  number  of  Truth  contains  the 
following  reference  to  the  deliberate  removal  of 
old  family  fmonuments  from  a  church  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Tweed.  '  Some  years  ago, 
a  wealthy  brewer  bought  an  estate  in  the  Mid- 
lands from  a  family  in  whose  possession  it  had 
been  for  between  two  and  three  centuries.  A 
short  time  back  the  new  owner  had  the  parish 
church  restored,  and  in  the  course  of  the  work 
certain  of  the  old  family  monuments  were  re- 
moved from  their  former  positions.      The  dis- 


covery of  this  has  greatly  vexed  a  member  of 
the  family  in  question,  and  he  desires  me  to 
hold  up  to  public  reprobation  the  conduct  of  the 
"  gilded  parvenu  "  (so  he  called  the  brewer)  and 
the  parson,  who  were  jointly  responsible  for  the 
outrage.  Perhaps  they  would  have  shown  better 
taste  if  they  had  consulted  the  wishes  of  the 
parties  interested  in  the  memorials.  Still,  I  am 
not  disposed  to  judge  them  so  severely  as  my 
correspondent  does.  No  doubt  they  acted 
under  the  impression  that  the  family  monu- 
ments were  knocked  down  with  the  rest  of  the 
property ' ! 


EXISTING   MONUMENTS  779 

1.  Existing  Monuments. 

1.  Recumbent  effigies,  already  referred  to,  of  one  of  the  Lords  Seton 
and  his  lady,  near  the  north-east  corner  of  the  chancel.  Mr.  Muir,  no 
doubt  correctly,  conjectures  that  the  figures  represent  George,  fourth  Lord 
Seton  (ob.  1508),  by  whom  the  church  was  made  collegiate,  and  his  wife 
Lady  Margaret  Campbell,  daughter  of  Colin,  first  Earl  of  Argyll.1 

This  monument  is  pretty  well  shown  in  the  drawing  by  the  Duchess 
of  Sutherland,  and  it  also  appears  in  the  E.  A.  A.  Sketch-Book.  At  the 
sale  of  Mr.  Samuel  Edmonston's  pictures,  a  few  years  ago,  I  secured  a 
very  faithful  representation,  in  oil,  of  this  interesting  monument,  which 
appeared  in  the  Catalogue  as  '  A  Tale  of  Bygone  Days.' 

2.  The  elaborate  mural  monument  of  James,  first  Earl  of  Perth,  who 
married  Lady  Isabel  Seton,  daughter  of  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton, 
already  referred  to  {supra  p.  209). 

3.  The  mural  monument  of  James  Ogilvie  of  Bernes,  son  of  Sir 
George  Ogilvie  of  Dunlugas,  who  married  Beatrix,  fourth  daughter  of 
George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  and  who  died  in  16 17,  formerly  on  the  south 
wall  of  the  chancel,  now  occupies  the  east  wall  of  the  north  transept, 
and  is  accurately  figured  in  the  E.  A.  A.  Sketch-Book.  It  bears  a  Latin 
inscription  in  Roman  characters,  which  is  surmounted  by  three  large 
crescents,  and  the  Ogilvie  arms,  with  helmet,  crest  (a  rock  ?),  and  motto 
{Ex  unguibus  leonum) ;  quarterly,  1  st  and  4th,  a  crowned  lion  passant 
gardant,  for  Ogilvie ;  2nd  and  3rd,  three  paginoes,  for  Home  of  Fastcastle 
— surtout,  also  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  a  lion  rampant  surmounted  of  a 
ribbon,  for  Abernethy ;  2nd  and  3rd,  three  piles,  for  Wishart.  The 
inscription  is  as  follows  : — 

Soli  Deo  trino  et  uni 

Omnis  honor  laus 

et  gloria 

Monumentum  hoc  Jacobo  Ogvelvie  de 

Bernes  filio  tertio  genito  domini  Ge- 

orgii  Ogvelvie  a  Bamff  de  Dunlougus  mi- 

litis  et  Beatricis  Seton  hujus  familias 

filiae  Georgius  Ogvelvie  de  Carnousis 

frater  et  hseres  maerens  posuit. 

Febre  violenta  correptus  hie  apud 

sanguine  et  amicitia  conjunctissimos 

obiit  vicesimo  nono  Januarii 

Anno  Domini  cididcxvii. 

Ex  defuncti  mandato  et  in  fratris  gratiam 

curavit  ^)P>   fieri.2 


1  The  Campbell  gyrons  appear  with  the  Seton  Lord  Seton,  is  said  by  the  family  historian  to 

and  Sinclair  arms  upon  an  interesting  octagonal  have  been  experienced  in  all  games,  and  to 

font  still  preserved  in  the  church.      In  1849  a  have  been  reckoned  the  best  falconer  of  his 

circular  font  (also  still  preserved)  was  dug  up  time.     Both  of  these  fonts  are  very  accurately 

outside  the  church,  and  was  found  to  contain  engraved  in  the  E.  A.  A.  Sketch-Book  and  at 

several  coins,  hawks'-bells,  etc.,  which  are  now  p.  118  supra. 

at  Gosford.    As  already  stated,  George,  sixth  2  Seep.  114  supra. 


780 


MISSING  SLABS 


4.  Large  black  marble  slab  (5  feet  6  inches  by  4  feet  8  inches),  on  the 
west  wall  of  the  chantry  chapel,  with  a  long  Latin  inscription  commemorat- 
ing George,  seventh  Lord  Seton  (pb.  1585),  the  faithful  adherent  of  Mary 
Queen  of  Scots,  and  his  wife  Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Hamilton  of 
Sanquhar,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  Scotland  {pb.  1604).  In  his  Lives  of 
Scottish  Writers  (iii.  217),  Mackenzie  states  that  the  inscription  was  the 
production  of  the  scholarly  pen  of  one  of  the  younger  sons  of  the  deceased, 
viz.,  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline  and  Chancellor  of  Scotland.  It  is 
printed  in  Grose's  Antiquities,  and  an  English  translation,  from  a  Ms.  in 
the  possession  of  the  Earl  of  Wemyss,  is  given  in  the  Edinburgh  edition 
of  Maitland's  House  of  Seton} 

5.  Two  detached  pieces  of  a  slab,  bearing  a  shield  of  arms  apparently 
charged  with  four  mullets  (one,  two,  and  one),  between  the  letters  '  G.  L.' 
with  a  surrounding  inscription  in  Roman  letters  : — '  Heir  lyis  George 
Livistone  ....  deceased Februar  1608.' 

Possibly  the  slab  may  commemorate  George,  son  of  '  John  Levingtoun 
of  Salt-cottis,'  who  married  Beatrix,  illegitimate  daughter  of  George,  fourth 
Lord  Seton.2 

11.  Missing  Slabs. 

1.  Oblong  stone,  5  feet  7  inches  by  2 
feet  10  inches,  with  one  of  the  upper  corners 
broken  off,  exhibiting  a  floriated  Cross 
and  Calvary,  without  any  inscription,  very 
similar  to  one  at  Holyrood,  described  in 
a  paper  which  I  read  before  the  Society 
in  1 85 1,  and  printed  in  the  fourth  volume 
of  the  Archceologia  Scotica. 

I  am  disposed  to  think  that  this  is  the 
slab  mentioned  by  Dr.  Hill  Burton  as 
bearing  '  a  great  cross-handled  sword.' 

2.  Matrix  of  a  monumental  brass,  7 
feet  by  3^  feet,  broken  across  the  centre, 
dug  up  outside  the  church  in  1849;  in 
all  probability  the  tombstone  of  either 
Catherine  Sinclair  of  Hermandston,  wife  of 
William,  first  Lord  Seton,  or  of  Lady  Janet 
Hepburn,  widow  of  George,  fifth  Lord,  who 
fell  at  Flodden,  both  great  benefactresses 
of  the  sacred  edifice,  as  the  matrix  very 
clearly  indicated  the  outline  of  a  female 
figure  under  an  ornamental  canopy,  with  a 
surrounding  inscription.      The  interest  of 


1  See  Appendix  of  Miscellanies. 

2  Nisbet  gives  quite  a  different  coat  for  Livingston  of  Saltcoats. 


STEWART  OF  CARDONALD 


781 


this  slab  was  greatly  enhanced  by  the  circumstance  of  there  being  very  few 
Scottish  examples  of  either  monumental  brasses  or  their  matrices.1 

3.  Oblong  slab,  5  feet  7  inches  by  2  feet  7  inches,  with  a  small  part 
of  the  upper  portion  broken  off  (fig.  1  below),  bearing  a  shield  of  arms 
above  a  death's-head  and  cross-bones,  and  the  following  surrounding  in- 
scription in  Roman  characters  : — '  [Heir  •  lyis  •  James]  •  Stevart  •  son  •  to 
Captane  •  James  •  Stevart  •  of  •  Cardonald  •  [quha  •  deceisit]  •  the  •  18  •  of  • 
Febrvar  •  1608.'  The  armorial  bearings  were,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  three 
fleurs-de-lis,  for  France ;  2nd  and  3rd,  a  fess  cheque,  for  Stewart — surtout, 
an  escutcheon  charged  with  a  saltire  engrailed,  cantoned  by  four  roses,  for 
Lennox,  between  a  line  of  oval  buckles  (three  on  each  side),  for  Aubigny, 
forming  the  horizontal  division  of  the  principal  quarters — a  somewhat 
unusual  arrangement.  The  individual  commemorated  was  the  son  of 
James  Stewart  of  Cardonald,  Captain  of  Perth  for  Queen  Mary,  and 
fifth  in  descent  from  Sir  Alan  Stewart  of  Darnley,  who  married 
Catherine,  daughter  of  William,  Master  of  Seton,  in  virtue  of  which 
descent  the  late  Mr.  John  Riddell  considered  that  the  interment  took  place 
in  Seton  church. 


4.  Fragment  of  a  slab  bearing  a  chalice,  and  part  of  a  surrounding 
inscription  in  Old  English  characters. 


1  Engraved  at  p.  96  supra. 


782  VARIOUS   INSCRIPTIONS 

5.  Two  upper  portions  of  a  slab  exhibiting  a  coronet  of  five  points, 
which  is  engraved  in  my  Scottish  Heraldry,  and  at  p.  717  supra,  with  the 
following  inscription  in  Roman  letters  : — 

heir  •  lyes  •  dame  •  ieane  •  fletcher  • 

vicevntesse  •  of  •  kingston  •  who  •  deceised  • 

[the  •  ]  .  .  .  of  •  ag[vst  •  165 1]. 

The  Viscountess  was  the  only  daughter  of  Sir  George  Fletcher,  of 
the  family  of  Salton,  and  first  wife  of  Alexander  Seton,  first  Viscount 
Kingston,  the  gallant  defender  of  Tantallon  Castle,  and  the  continuator 
of  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  House  of  Seton,  now  represented  by  Mr.  Hay 
of  Duns  Castle. 

6.  Two  fragments  of  the  black  marble  tablet,  showing  eight  or  nine 
letters  of  the  Latin  inscription  in  Roman  characters,  formerly  occupying 
the  centre  of  the  Earl  of  Perth's  monument  already  referred  to. 

The  six  preceding  slabs  lay  within  the  chancel. 

The  three  following,  each  measuring  about  6  feet  by  2J  feet,  were 
near  the  entrance  to  the  church,  between  the  two  transepts,  and  are 
distinctly  indicated  in  one  of  Billings'  engravings  : — 

7.  An  ornamental  shield  (fig.  2,  p.  781),  charged  with  three  crescents, 
between  the  letters  '  I.  S.'  and  a  surrounding  inscription,  commencing 
'heir  •  lyis  •  iohne  •  seton.'  The  lower  portion  of  the  slab  was  broken 
off,  and  the  remainder  of  the  inscription  illegible,  with  the  exception  of 
the  two  words  '  Margaret '  and  '  August.' 

8.  Impaled  shield  (fig.  1,  p.  783).  Dexter,  three  crescents.  Sinister, 
a  bend  charged  with  three  roses  or  cinquefoils — on  a  chief,  two  (three?) 
mullets. 

Inscription. — '  heir  •  lyis  •  david  •  seton  •  merchant  •  bvrges  •  of  • 

EDINBVRGH  •  SPOVS  •  TO  •  IEIN  •  BRAND  •  QVHA  •  DECEISED  •  IN  •  VINTON  ■  THE 

•  22  •  DAY  ■  OF  •  IVLIE  •   1632.' 

Brand  of  Baberton,  sprung  from  a  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
bore  a  bend  charged  with  three  mascles,  and  three  spur  rowels  (or  mullets) 
on  a  chief. 

9.  Another  impaled  shield  (fig.  2,  p.  783).  Dexter,  three  crescents. 
Sinister,  three  roses  or  cinquefoils. 

Inscription. — '  heir  •  lyis  .  .  .   (corner  of  slab  broken  off)   alisone 

•  MORTANE  •  QVHA  •  DECEISIT  •  IN  •  SETON    .    .    .    MBER  •   1604.' 

I  can  find  no  blazon  for  the  surname  of  Morton  corresponding  with 
the  sinister  impalement  in  this  escutcheon. 

Beside  these  three  slabs  was  a  fourth,  without  any  arms  or  inscription, 
which  was  said  to  be  the  tombstone  of  the  mother  of  General  Don, 
Governor  of  Gibraltar,  who  died  about  the  end  of  last  century,  and  who 
was  the  last  person  buried  in  Seton  Church  till  the  interment  of  the  late 
Countess  of  Wemyss  in  1882. 


DETACHED   SCULPTURINGS 


783 


in.  Detached  Sculptured  Stones. 

1.  Block,  about  4  feet  by  2  feet,  exhibiting  a  shield  surmounted  by  a 
coronet,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  a  saltire,  with  a  label  in  chief,  for  Maxwell; 
2nd  and  3rd,  three  hedgehogs  or  hurcheons  (French,  kSrissons),  for 
Herries.1     I  am  not  quite  clear  as  to  the  raison-d1  itre  of  this  armorial 


F^DwfPPfSr^^. 


stone.  There  were,  however,  at  least  two  alliances  between  the  Maxwells 
and  the  Setons — (1)  Herbert  Maxwell  of  Caerlaverock,  first  Lord  Maxwell 
of  Herries  (whose  first  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Sir  Herbert  Herries  of 
Terregles),  married,  secondly,  Catherine,  daughter  of  William,  Master  of 
Seton,  widow  of  Sir  Alan  Stewart  of  Darnley,  and  mother  of  John,  first 
Earl  of  Lennox  ; 2  (2)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John,  seventh  Lord  Herries, 
was  the  second  wife  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton. 

2.  Broken  block,  about  3  feet  long  and  1  foot  high,  with  the  letters 
'G.  S.'  and  'A.  H.' — probably  George  Seton,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  the 
'magnificent  builder'  of  Winton   House,  and  his  first  wife   Lady  Anna 


1  See  Seton's  Scottish  Heraldry,  p.  73  and  Plate  ii. 


See  p.  99  supra. 


784  UNIQUE   HAGIOSCOPE 

Hay,  daughter  of  Francis,  eighth  Earl  of  Errol — arranged  as  a  monogram, 
in  high  relief. 

3.  Small  block,  bearing  the  same  initials  (?)  within  a  triangular  device. 

4.  Mutilated  slab,  4  feet  7  inches  by  3  feet  4  inches,  exhibiting  the 
Winton  arms,  with  mottoes  and  all  the  exterior  ornaments,  finely  carved, 
said  to  have  formerly  surmounted  the  principal  entrance  to  Seton  Palace, 
engraved  at  p.  742  supra. 

5.  Fragment  (a  thigh  ?)  of  a  mailed  figure. 

With  regard  to  the  incompleted  spire  of  Seton  Church,  we  have  seen 
that  the  widow  of  the  fifth  Lord  '  biggit  the  stepill  to  ane  grit  hicht,  sua 
that  it  wantis  lytill  of  compleiting.'  Of  course,  it  may  have  been  finished 
at  a  subsequent  date,  but  the  general  impression  of  architects  and  other 
competent  judges  appears  to  be  against  that  view.  Again,  with  respect  to 
the  nave,  Mr.  Muir  states  that  'the  west  elevation  shows  a  purposed 
nave,  but  no  part  of  it  has  ever  been  added.'  Not  many  years  ago,  in  the 
course  of  certain  drainage  operations  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood  of 
the  church,  the  unmistakable  fotmdations  of  a  nave  were  brought  to  light ; 
and  after  a  careful  measurement  it  was  found  that  their  dimensions  are 
almost  identical  with  those  of  the  choir.  Looking,  therefore,  to  the 
injury  which  the  edifice  more  than  once  sustained  from  the  attacks  of 
English  invaders,  it  is  probable  that,  at  one  time,  a  geometrical  cruciform 
church  may  have  existed  in  its  entirety. 

The  hagioscope,  or  'squint,'  is  a  very  curious  feature.  In  the 
introduction  to  his  Ancient  Scottish  Churches,  Mr.  Muir  refers  to  only  two 
Scottish  examples  of  a  hagioscope,  viz.,  at  Seton  and  Holy  Trinity, 
Edinburgh — sacrilegiously  levelled  to  the  ground  to  make  way  for  the  North 
British  Railway ! — so  that  the  Seton  example  is  probably  now  unique. 
While  residing  at  Port  Seton  in  1851,  I  one  day  happened  to  find  my  way 
into  the  chancel  while  a  couple  of  masons  were  engaged  in  repairing  some 
portions  of  the  inside  walls,  and  was  just  in  time  to  prevent  them  from 
filling  up  the  open  space  constituting  the  hagioscope,  which  they  innocently 
regarded  as  a  hole  in  the  wall.  It  is  pleasant  to  be  able  to  add  that  the 
south  transept  is  no  longer  used  as  a  'carpenter's  shop,'  and  that  the  win- 
dows of  the  church  are  not  now  'blocked'  as  in  1848,  the  mullions  and  other 
tracery  having  been  successfully  restored  and  glazed,  as  already  stated. 
No  serious  objection  can  be  offered  to  the  removal  of  the  two  mural  monu- 
ments formerly  in  the  chancel,  where  the  recumbent  effigies  of  the  fourth 
Lord  Seton  and  his  lady  still  rest  in  peace.  Indeed,  their  removal  was  abso- 
lutely necessary,  in  order  to  carry  out  the  due  restoration  of  the  windows. 

A  very  interesting  heraldic  memorial,  already  referred  to,  presents 
itself  on  the  outside  of  the  south  wall  of  the  chancel,  over  the  '  priests'  door ' 
mentioned  by  Mr.  Muir.  It  is  fully  described  by  Nisbet,  as  follows,  in  a 
manuscript  transcribed  into  one  of  Robert  Mylne's  genealogical  volumes  in 
the  Advocates'  Library,  which  is  printed  in  Mr.  Sharpe's  edition  of  the 
House  of  Seton  : — '  On  a  stone  over  ye  south-east  door  of  that  chapell,  she 


OLD  CHURCH   BELL,   ETC. 


785 


(Catherine  Sinclair  of  Herdmanston)  placed  ye  armes  of  her  husband, 
William,  first  Lord  Setoun,  which  are  yet  to  be  seen,  viz.,  3  crescents  within 
a  double  tressure.  The  shield  is  couche  by  yc  sinister  chiefe,  and  yron  a 
closs  syde  standing  helmet,  adorned  with  a  ducall  croun  (conforme  to 
qch  ]y[n  Nisbet  has  placed  the  lyke  croun  upon  ye  helmet  of  ye  present 
Earle  Georges  atchievement),  yrout  of  for  crest,  a  crescent  betuixt  two 
plums  of  feathers,  or  tuo  branches  of  palmes,  or  else  tuo  wings  :  tuo 
beasts  supporting  ye  casque,  whither  mertricks  or  lyons  I  cannot  be 
positive,  ye  stone  being  worne  by  time  and  weather,  but  they  probablie 
conclude  that  ye  crest  is  a  crescent,  betuixt  tuo  plums  of  feathers,  and  ye 
supporters  mertricks,  because  his  grandchild's  armes  is  so  distinctly  adorned 
on  ye  rooff  of  the  house  of  Seton  ;  on  ye  dexter  corner  of  that  stone  is  her 
oun  armes,  viz.,  a  cross  ingrailed  for  Sinclair.' 

Since  the  learned  herald  wrote,  'time  and  weather'  have  continued  to 
tell  upon  the  condition  of  the  tablet,1  but  some  of  the  figures  which  he 
describes  may  still  be  deciphered. 

Not  far  from  the  tablet,  on  one  of  the  buttresses  of  the  church,  is  an 
impaled  shield,  bearing  on  the  dexter  side  the  paternal  coat  of  Seton  ;  and 
on  the  sinister  three  mullets  within  a  double  tressure  for  Murray — and 
probably  commemorating  Sir  Alexander  Seton  and  his  wife  Margaret, 
daughter  of  William  Murray,  Captain  of  Edinburgh  Castle.2  The  coat  of 
Seton  (three  crescents  within  a  royal  tressure)  occurs  both  inside  and 
outside  the  church,  while  a  small  shield  on  the  ceiling  of  the  chancel  is 
charged  with  a  rampant  lion. 

The  curious  old  Bell?  forged  in  Holland,  was  long  suspended  in  the 
tower  of  Tranent  Parish  Church,  from  which  it  was  removed  to  Gosford 
about  twenty  years  ago,  and  afterwards  replaced  in  its  original  position  in 
the  tower  of  Seton  Church.  Besides  the  arms  and  name  of  '  George 
(seventh)  Lord  Seton '  and  two  small  classical  groups,  it  bears  the  follow- 
ing Dutch  inscription  : — '  Iacop  eis  mynen  naem  ghegoten  van  Adriaen 
Steylaert  int  iaer  mccccclxxvii.' 

Closely  adjoining  Seton  Church,  to  the  westward,  is  the  '  Priest's 
Well,'  in  which  a  quaint  smoking  pipe  of 
malleable  iron,  and  a  small  flat  glass  bottle, 
along  with  two  larger  ones  of  the  same  shape 
(now  at  Gosford),  were  found  in  1851,  at  a 
depth  of  forty  feet,  by  Robert  Kellie,  mason, 
from  whom  I  received  the  pipe  and  small  bottle 
more  than  ten  years  after  their  discovery. 


1  Engraved  at  p.  94  supra. 


Engraved  at  p.  88  supra. 
5G 


Engraved  at  p.  770  supra. 


786  BURIALS   IN   SETON   CHURCH 

The  following  list  of  persons  buried  in  the  Church  is  chiefly  compiled 
from  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  Chronicle,  and  is,  of  course,  far  from  com- 
plete : — 

Sir  Alexander  Seton,  Governor  of  Berwick,  ob.  cir.  1365. 

Sir  Alexander  Seton,  his  son  and  successor,  ob.  cir.  1385. 

Catherine  Sinclair,  wife  of  William,  first  Lord  Seton.1 

John,  second  Lord  Seton,  ob.  cir.  1435  (aisle  on  south  side). 

John,  Master  of  Seton,  eldest  son  of  George,  third  Lord,2  ob.  ante 
1465. 

George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  ob.  1 508  (choir  at  high  altar  end). 

George,  fifth  Lord  Seton,  ob.  1 5 1 3  (beside  his  father,  the  fourth  Lord). 

George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  ob.  1549  (beside  his  father,  the  fifth  Lord). 

Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  widow  of  fifth  Lord,  ob.  1558  (beside  her 
husband). 

George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  ob.  8th  January  1584-5,  cet.  55. 

Isabel  Hamilton,  his  widow,  ob.  12th  November  1606. 

Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  ob.  24th  March  1603. 

Seton,  spouse  of  Alison  Morton,  ob.  1604. 

James  Stewart,  son  of  Captain  James  Stewart  of  Cardonald,  ob.  18th 
February  1608. 

George  Livingstone,  ob.  February  1608. 

Robert,  second  Earl  of  Winton,  ob.  c.  1635. 

James  Drummond,  first  Earl  of  Perth,  ob.  161 1. 

Lady  Isabel  Seton,  his  wife. 

James  Ogilvie  of  Birnes,  son  of  Sir  George  Ogilvie  of  Dunlugas,  and 
husband  of  Beatrix,  fourth  daughter  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  ob.  29th 
January  1617. 

David  Seton,  merchant,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  ob.  22nd  July  1632. 

John  Seton.     (The  shield  of  arms  indicates  the  seventeenth  century.) 

Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  Knight  of  the  Royal  Spanish  Order  of  St. 
Jago.  _ 

Sir  William  Seton,  Master  of  the  Posts  of  Scotland,  ob.  1634. 

(The  two  last  were  younger  sons  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton.) 

Sir  John  Seton  of  St.  Germains,  fifth  son  of  the  first  Earl  of 
Winton,  ob.  July  1638. 

George,  Lord  Seton,  eldest  son  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  ob. 
1648,  est.  35. 

George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  ob.  17th  December  1650,  cet.  65. 

Jean  Fletcher,  first  wife  of  Alexander  Seton,  first  Viscount  Kingston, 
— ob.  August  1 65 1.3 


1  William,  first  Lord  Seton,  died  cir.  March  2  George,  third  Lord  Seton,  who  died  c.  15th 

1409  and  was  buried  in  the  '  Cordelere  (Fran-  July  1478,  was  buried  in  'the  place  of  the  Blak 

ciscan)  Freires '  at  Haddington,  whose  site  is  freiris    of    Edinburgh.'— Maitland's    House    of 

supposed  to  be  now  occupied  by  the  present  Seton,  p.  34. 

parish  church,  usually  called  Luccrna  Laudonice,  3  The   coronet   on   her  monumental  slab   is 

or  the  '  Lamp  of  Lothian,'  engraved  at  p.  717  supra. 


MISS   MATTY   SETON 


787 


Sir  William  Seton  of  Kyllesmure,  son  of  Sir  William  Seton  supra, 
also  Master  of  the  Posts  of  Scotland,  ob.  1662. 

Sir  Robert  Seton  of  Windygoul,  Knight  Baronet,  sixth  son  of  third 
Earl  of  Winton,  ob.  1671. 

George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  ob.  6th  March  1704  (whose  coffin- 
plate,  formerly  the  property  of  Charles  Kirkpatrick  Sharpe,  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  the  Earl  of  Eglinton).1 

From  the  Scots  Magazine  for  1750  we  learn  that  Miss  Matty  Seton, 
daughter  of  the  deceased  George  Seton,  Esq.,  representative  of  the  Earl 
of  Dunfermline,  was  buried  in  Seton  Church  on  the  8th  of  December  of 
that  year ;  and  the  following  lines,  relative  to  the  interment,  from  the  pen 
of  Hamilton  of  Bangour,  appear  in  the  same  publication  : — 


'  In  these  once  hallowed  walls'  neglected  shade, 
Sacred  to  piety  and  to  the  dead, 
Where  the  long  line  of  Seton's  race  repose, 
Whose  tombs  to  valour  or  to  wisdom  rose ; 
Tho'  now  a  thankless  age  to  slavery  prone, 
Past  fame  despising,  careless  of  its  own, 
Records  no  more,  each  public  virtue  fled, 
Who  wisely  counselled  or  who  bravely  bled ; 
Tho'  here  the  warrior  shield  is  hung  no  more, 
But  every  violated  trophy  tore — 

Heaven's  praise,  man's  honour,  share  one  shameful  lot, 
God  and  His  image  both  alike  forgot ; 
To  this  sweet  maid  a  kindred  place  is  due, 
Her  earth  shall  consecrate  these  walls  anew ; 
And  where  we  now  perform  our  mournful  part, 
May  still  be  seen  the  pilgrims  of  the  heart.'2 


1  George,  fifth  and  last  Earl  of  Winton,  at- 
tainted 1 7 16,  died  at  Rome  in  1749,  at.  70,  but 
the  place  of  his  burial  has  not  been  ascertained. 
See  pp.  272  and  279  supra. 

2  In  the  Poems  of  Hamilton  of  Bangour,  pub- 
lished in  1760,  the  two  concluding  lines  (after 


'these  walls  anew')  are — 

'  The  muse,  that  listens  to  desert  alone, 
Snatches  from  Fate,  and  seals  thee  for  her  own,' 
and   in   the   Scots  Magazine,  after  the   words 
'pilgrims  of  the  heart,  six  additional  lines  are 
given. 


788  SETON   PALACE 


II.  Seton  Palace 

'  The  Halls  of  my  fathers — where  are  they  ? 
Echo  answers,  "  Where  ?  " ' 

Of  this  magnificent  structure,  which  was  regarded  as  the  most  princely 
Scottish  mansion  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries,  scarcely  a 
fragment  now  remains.  Brief  notices  of  the  Palace  occur  in  the  Family 
Chronicle,  in  Grose's  Antiqtdties,  and  in  Macky's  Journey  through  Scot- 
land, published  in  1723  ;  and  fortunately  excellent  drawings  of  the  grand 
old  pile  made  by  Clerk  of  Eldin  about  1790,  and  subsequently  engraved 
by  the  Bannatyne  Club,  besides  two  views  by  Grose  (one  in  1 789,  and  the 
other  many  years  previously),  and  a  sketch  by  William  Foster  in  1759, 
reproduced  by  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  furnish  a  very  fair  idea  of  what 
was  long  the  'glory  of  the  Lothians.'  A  castle  of  the  Lords  Seton  had 
for  centuries  occupied  the  same  site,  and  more  than  once  suffered  from  fire, 
in  the  course  of  attacks  by  the  English — the  northern  and  oldest  portion  of 
the  stronghold  having  been  greatly  destroyed  in  Hertford's  invasion  in 
1 544.  A  considerable  part  of  the  later  structure  was  erected  by  George, 
seventh  Lord  Seton,  Queen  Mary's  devoted  adherent. 

From  about  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century  the  term  Palace  was 
invariably  applied  to  the  mansion,  in  consequence  of  the  frequent  residence 
of  royalty  within  its  hospitable  walls.  As  we  have  already  seen,  Queen 
Mary  was  a  frequent  visitor,  while  James  vi.,  Charles  1.,  and  Charles  11., 
were  also  at  Seton  on  various  occasions  ;  and  during  the  visit  of  one  of 
these  monarchs  a  number  of  knights  were  '  dubbed.' 

From  the  following  entry  in  the  Lord  High  Treasurer's  Accounts, 
edited  by  Dr.  Thomas  Dickson,  it  would  appear  that  James  iv.  was  at 
Seton  in  1498  : — 

'  Item,  the  viij  day  of  Maij,  payit  to  Martin  Bailze,  that  he  laid  doune, 
be  the  Kingis  command,  in  Setoune,  to  the  women  that  met  the 
King  and  sang,  that  time  he  passit  to  Dunbar ....     xviij  s.' 

Doubtless  other  earlier  Kings  of  Scotland  found  their  way  to  Seton, 
although  no  record  of  their  visits  appears  to  have  been  preserved. 

In  many  respects  Seton  Palace  resembled  the  style  of  Winton  House 
(to  be  afterwards  noticed),  and  other  buildings  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
in  which  the  features  of  the  Elizabethan  architecture  of  the  South  gradually 
displayed  themselves.  The  following  extract  from  Macky's  Journey  gives 
some  idea  of  the  extent  and  splendour  of  the  edifice  towards  the  beginning 
of  the  eighteenth  century  : — '  The  Palace  of  Seton  stands  in  the  middle  of  a 


PICTURES  AND   FURNITURE  789 

large  plantation  of  trees,  of  at  least  twelve  acres,  with  a  large  garden  to  the 
south  and  another  to  the  north.  The  House  consists  of  three  large  fronts 
of  freestone,  and  in  the  middle  is  a  triangular  court.  The  front  to  the  south- 
east hath  a  very  noble  apartment  of  a  Hall,  a  Drawing-room,  a  handsome 
parlour,  bed-chamber,  dressing-room,  and  closet.  This  apartment  seems  to 
have  been  built  in  the  reign  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  ;  for  on  the  cieling  of 
the  great  Hall  are  plaistered  the  arms  of  Scotland,  with  the  arms  of  France, 
on  one  hand,  and  those  of  Francis  the  Second,  then  Dauphin,  with  his  consort 
Queen  Mary,  in  one  escutcheon  on  the  other ;  the  arms  of  Hamilton,  Duke 
of  Chateauherault,  with  several  other  noblemen's  arms  and  supporters, 
with  the  French  Order  of  St.  Michael  round  them.  The  front  to  the  north 
seems  to  be  a  much  older  building  than  this.  The  apartments  of  state  are 
on  the  second  storey,  and  very  spacious  ;  three  great  rooms,  at  least  forty 
feet  high,  which  they  say  were  finely  furnished  ever  since  Mary  Queen  of 
Scots,  on  her  return  from  France,  kept  her  Court  there  ;  also  two  large 
galleries,  that  were  filled  with  pictures  ;  but  on  my  Lord  Winton's  forfeiture, 
all  these  were  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry,  or  stolen  by  the 
servants  ;  and  now  there  is  not  a  whole  window  on  that  side  of  the  House. 
The  third  front  is  full  of  good  lodging  rooms,  but  all  out  of  order.  At 
every  angle  of  the  House,  and  on  each  side  of  the  gate,  are  handsome 
towers. 

'  There  are  a  great  many  offices  in  the  outer  courts,  and  a  handsome 
church  or  chapel,  where  are  some  old  marble  monuments.  The  situation 
of  this  Palace  is  very  fine,  in  the  middle  of  an  estate  of  5000  pounds 
sterling  a  year,  and  the  three  touns  of  Cockeny,  Tranent,  and  Long  Nidry, 
where  the  tenants  live,  each  within  half  a  mile  of  his  seat ;  and  the  whole 
estate  he  could  see  from  his  windows ;  yet  this  Earl  would  throw  himself 
into  the  Rebellion,  and  forfeit  all. 

'  About  two  miles  from  Seton  is  another  palace  called  Winton,  a  more 
modern  and  fashionable  building,  yet  entirely  out  of  repair,  though  the 
gardens,  which  are  very  spacious,  are  very  well  kept ;  the  York  Buildings' 
Company,  who  purchased  the  forfeited  estates,  having  let  them  to  a 
gardener  ;  but  the  house  is  too  big  for  any  family,  and  must  fall  down. 

'  The  family  of  the  Setons  is  one  of  the  noblest  families  in  the  kingdom  ; 
there  being  few  families  of  any  antiquity  but  are  either  come  of  them,  or 
are  allied  to  them.  They  were  great  opposers  of  the  Reformation,  and  all 
Revolutions  since.  They  always  lean  on  the  Popish  side,  although  most 
of  them  professed  themselves  Protestant.  They  are  also  very  ancient. 
Shakespeare  in  his  tragedy  of  "  Macbeth  "  brings  in  the  Lord  Seton ;  but 
that  I  take  to  be  no  authority.  .  .  . 

'  The  fine  furniture  of  crimson  velvet,  laced  with  gold  (the  Seton  livery), 
in  the  great  apartments,  was  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry  but  the 
other  day.  The  great-grandson  to  the  third  Earl  was  tried  and  condemned 
at  London  for  the  Rebellion  at  Preston,  and  forfeited  honours  and  estate.'1 


1  See  also  Fynes  Moryson's  Itinerary  (1598),         Travels  (1636),  in  Hume  Brown's  Early  Travel- 
and    Sir    William    Brereton's  Account  of  his        lers  in  Scotland,  pp.  82  and  136. 


790  ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 

Reference  is  made  in  the  preceding  passage  to  the  armorial  bearings 
in  the  great  hall  of  Seton  Palace,  of  which  Nisbet  gives  a  detailed  account. 
In  the  first  volume  of  his  System  of  Heraldry  he  says  of  George,  seventh 
Lord  Seton,  that  '  on  the  great  Hall  of  the  House  of  Seton  his  arms  are 
yet  to  be  seen,  quartered  with  those  of  the  Earldom  of  Buchan,  surrounded 
with  the  collar  of  the  Order  of  the  Thistle,  with  the  badge  of  St.  Andrew 
pendent :  which,  with  the  Sovereign's,  are  to  be  seen  finely  carved  on  the 
boxing  of  the  chimney  of  that  magnificent  hall.  He  likewise  repaired 
the  fore  part  of  the  House  of  Seton,  and  especially  that  room  called 
"Samson's  Hall,"  which  he  adorned  with  a  roof  of  a  curious  structure, 
whereupon  are  twenty-eight  large  achievements,  being  those  of  Scotland, 
France,  Lorraine,  and  the  noble  families  that  were  allied  with  his  family, 
curiously  embossed  and  illuminated,  and  are  the  most  exact  pieces  of 
armories  to  be  met  with.'  In  his  smaller  work  on  the  Ancient  and  Modem 
Use  of  Armories,  published  in  1718,  the  same  writer  speaks  of  these 
twenty-eight  achievements  as  being  'curiously  embossed  and  illuminated 
in  the  year  1524 *  (?)  by  the  order  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  a  noble 
and  eminent  patriot  for  his  Sovereign  and  country  in  the  worst  of  times,' 
whose  own  special  bearings  he  fully  describes  as  being  '  dimidiat  with 
those  of  his  Lady,  Isobel  Hamilton.'  Lastly,  in  his  ms.  in  the  Advocates' 
Library,  already  referred  to,  he  specifies  the  various  coats  as  being  '  the 
atchievements  of  King  James  ye  5,  impaled  with  his  Queen's ;  Queen 
Marie's  impaled  with  France  ;  the  Duke  of  Guise ;  Hamilton,  Earle  of 
Arran,  Duke  of  Chatelrault ;  Earle  of  Angus,  now  Marquis  of  Douglas ; 
Earle  of  Argyle;  Earle  of  Huntly,  y*  of  his  grandfather's  impaled  with  his 
grandmother's,  y'  of  his  father's  impaled  with  his  mother's ;  his  oun,  with  this 
inscriptione,  "George,  Lord  Seton,  5th  of  y*  name,  aged  29,  1562,  caused  me 
to  be  made";  Maitland  of  Ledingtoun;  Forrester  of  Corstorphine;  Preston 
of  Craigmiller;  Lauder  of  Bass;  Setoun  of  Carriston,  Johnston  of  Elphing- 
ston,  Stewart  of  Craighall,  Dundas  of  y*  ilk,  and  many  others,  all  curiously 
done,  with  yr  helmets,  crests,  supporters,  collars  of  ye  Orders  of  several 
Knighthoods,  and  other  marks  of  dignities  and  offices,  of  which  more 
particularly  in  another  place  shall  be  fully  spoke  to — the  armes  of  his  lady 
as  on  the  forsd  hall ;  gules,  3  cinquefoils  argent,  within  a  double  tressure 
or,  impaled  with  those  of  her  husband ;  supporter  on  the  dexter  being  a 
martricks,  and  y*  on  ye  sinister  a  man  in  a  priestly  habit.' 

Nisbet  further  mentions,  in  his  Essay  on  Armories,  already  referred 
to,  that  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  widow  of  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton,  'above 
the  gate  of  Seton  House  caused  cut  on  a  large  stone  her  husband's  arms 
with  her  own,  by  way  of  an  entire  impalement.'2 

De  Foe,  in  his  Tour  through  Great  Britain?  says  :  '  I  must  here  add 
the  antient  and  noble  Houses  of  Seton  and  Winton,  both  palaces  (for  so 


1  This  date  is  clearly  a  mistake,  as  the  seventh  engraved   in   my  Convent  of  St.  Catherine  of 
Lord  was  only  born  in  1533.     It  is  correctly  Sienna,  and  at  p.  lib  supra. 

given  in  the  subsequent  extract. 

2  This  impaled  coat  occurs  on  her  seal,  as  3  Vol.  iv.  (Scotland),  p.  79. 


ADDITIONS   AND  ALTERATIONS  791 

they  deserved  to  be  called)  of  the  late  Earl  of  Winton,  who  did  so  many 
weak  and  rash  things  in  the  affair  of  the  Rebellion  in  171 5.  They  are 
now  in  a  state  of  ruin,  as  is  the  estate  on  which  they  stand  ;  which,  for  its 
value,  is  as  fine  as  any  in  Scotland,  lying  all  contiguous  with  itself,  and 
valued  at  almost  ^5000  sterling  per  annum  ;  but  all  being  under  forfeiture 
it  was  sold  to  the  York  Buildings'  Company.  The  fine  gates  and  stone 
wall  were  demolished  by  the  Government,  after  it  had  been  made  a 
garrison  by  the  Highlanders,  who  from  hence  began  their  hair-brained 
march  to  England,  which  expedition  ended  at  Preston.' 

From  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  Chronicle  and  Lord  Kingston's  Con- 
tinuation we  gather  sundry  pieces  of  information  relative  to  the  construction 
of  the  Palace  of  Seton.  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton,  who  fell  at  Flodden, 
'  compleitit  the  jammy *  house  (projecting  addition)  of  Seytoun  fra  the  first 
jaistis  vp  (quhilk  was  fundit  and  biggit  vp  tua  hous  hicht  affoir  be  Lord  Johne 
— 2d  Lord — his  forgrandschir  {great-grandfather))  and  rasit  the  turngreis2 
{winding-stair)  thereof,  and  reparit  all  the  haill  grit  dungeon ' ;  while  his 
widow,  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  'biggit  the  foirwerk  of  Seytoun,  aboue  the 
yet '  {gate). 

In  the  time  of  George,  sixth  Lord,  'the  Inglismen,  efter  the  burning 
of  Edinburgh  and  Leyth,  come  and  lay  in  Seytoun,  and  brint  and  destroyit 
the  castell  and  place  thairof.'  His  son  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton — 
Queen  Mary's  adherent — '  biggit  ane  grit  dyk  and  wall  of  stane  about  the 
yarde  and  grit  orcheart  of  Seytoun ;  and  als  biggit  ane  pretty  hous  vpon 
the  gardin  syd  thairof,  besouth  the  grit  tour,  and  reparallet  the  foir  werk 
thairof,  brint  be  the  Inglismen.  In  this  Lords  time,  vpon  the  16  day  of 
Februar,  the  zeir  of  God  1561  yeiris,  the  grit  dungeoun  of  the  auld  tour  of 
Setoun  fell  to  the  ground,  but  as  God  wald  haue  it,  it  did  no  bodie  harme. 
The  caus  of  the  fallin  thairof  was  be  reason  it  was  verie  auld,  and  also 
thair  was  sindrie  translatiouns  maid  into  it,  and  especially  in  the  ground, 
quhilk  was  not  sa  good  as  the  rest  of  the  wark.  This  Lord  George  biggit 
the  great  new  hous  south  frae  the  said  great  tour,  vpon  the  syde  of  the 
gairding.  He  biggit  also  the  great  stane  dyk  with  stane  and  lyme,  about 
the  zaird  and  orchaird  thairof.  .  .  .  From  the  south  side  of  the  dungeon 
he  built  the  great  quarter  of  the  hall ;  and  he  built  all  the  dykes  from  the 
old  entry  down  to  the  links,  over  the  banke.  .  .  .  To  shew  the  loyalltie 
of  himselfe  and  his  family,  he  caused  carve  in  stone,  in  great  guilded 
letters,  above  the  great  doore  to  the  entry  of  that  quarter  he  built,  and 
other  iminent  places  of  the  house,  this  inscription  in  French  : 

UN  DIEU,  UN  FOY,  UN  ROY,  UN  LOY.' 3 

About  the  same  period  '  the  grit  tour  of  Setoun  and  the  jammy  hous 


1  Fr.  jambe,  a  corbel  or  pier.  (erroneously  called  'Alexander')  was  'one  of  the 

2  Fr.  tourner,  to  turn,  and  gre,  contr.  from  greatest  builders  in  that  age  ;  and  at  that  very 
degri,  pi.  degrez,  steps.  time — 1584 — had  the  King's  master  of  worke 

3  See  p.  165  supra.     In  the  Memorie  of  the  at  Setoune,  building  that  large  quarter  of  his 
Somerviiles  it  is  stated  that  this  Lord  Seton  palace  towards  the  north-east.' 


792  YORK   BUILDINGS'   COMPANY 

thairof  was  appreallit  {embellished}')  and  mendit  be  Sir  Williame  Hamiltoun, 
father-in-law  of  the  said  Lord  George,  better  nor  euer  it  was  befoir  the 
said  burning.' 

George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  built,  in  1630,  two  quarters  of  the 
house  of  Seton,  '  beginning  at  Wallace's  tower  att  the  east  end  thareof, 
which  was  all  burnt  by  the  English,  and  continued  the  building  till  Jacob's 
tower,  on  the  north  syde  of  the  house.  By  reason  his  predecessors  were 
great  enemies,  and  very  active  in  the  warrs  against  the  English,  the  house 
having  been  three  tymes  burnt  by  them,  he  caused  carve,  in  fine  stone, 
upon  the  frontispice  of  his  new  building,  a  crown,  supported  by  two  roses 
and  the  thristell,  being  the  conicenses  {cognizances)  of  the  two  Kingdomes 
of  England  and  Scotland ;  and  the  emblame  enegmatically  signifying  the 
Union  of  the  two  Kingdomes.  Under  this  embleme  he  caused  carve  and 
sett  out  in  gold  letters  this  verse  : — 

UNIO  NUNC  FATIS,  STOQUE  CADOQUE  TUIS.' 

Grose,  in  his  notice  of  Seton  Palace,  states  that  '  a  castle  or  mansion 
is  said  to  have  stood  hereabouts  from  a  very  distant  period.  .  .  .  The 
eastern  end  of  the  building  seems  rather  older  than  the  rest,  and  is  not  in 
a  line  with  it,  but  forms  a  very  obtuse  angle.  The  whole,  both  mansion 
and  church,  are  enclosed  with  an  outer  wall,  defended  by  towers  pierced 
with  loop-holes  for  musquetry.  In  the  year  1715  a  party  of  the  rebels  made 
Seton  House  a  garrison  for  some  time,  and  when  they  abandoned  it,  it  was 
occupied  by  the  King's  troops.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Robert  Patten,  who  relates 
the  circumstance,  calls  it  "  an  ancient  castle,  very  large,  encompassed  with 
a  very  high  stone  wall,  but  no  ditch."  .  .  .  This  magnificent  edifice  has 
stood  empty  for  many  years,  except  that  some  common  tradesmen  occupied 
a  corner  of  it  about  twenty-six  years  ago.  The  sole  use  to  which  it  is  now 
put  is  that  of  a  storehouse  for  the  fruit  and  potatoes  raised  by  the 
gardener  who  occupies  the  grounds.' 

As  we  have  already  seen,  the  Winton  estates  were  forfeited  in  17 16, 
and  three  years  afterwards  they  were  purchased  from  the  Government  by 
the  York  Buildings'  Company.  In  1732,  owing  to  the  embarrassment  of 
its  affairs,  the  Company  executed  a  trust-deed  in  favour  of  certain  creditors; 
and  in  1777  the  whole  of  their  Scotch  estates  were  sequestrated.  On  the 
6th  of  August  in  that  year,  Alexander  Mackenzie,  Writer  to  the  Signet 
(afterwards  of  Portmore,  co.  Peebles),  was  appointed  'common  agent' — 
his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Elphinstone,  formerly  '  factor '  on  the  sequestrated 
estates,  when  he  became  Sheriff  of  Aberdeenshire,  having  been  succeeded 
as  factor  by  Mr.  Buchan  Hepburn,  Advocate.  In  February  1779  the 
Winton  estates  were  sold  in  Edinburgh,  by  Act  of  Parliament,  in  the 
presence  of  Lord  Monboddo,  a  '  Senator  of  the  College  of  Justice,'  when 
both  Mackenzie  and  Buchan  Hepburn  made  purchases,  the  two  first  lots 
— embracing  Seton  Palace — being  bought  by  Mackenzie. 

In  1784  a  lengthened  litigation  was  commenced,  at  the  instance  of 
the  creditors  of  the  York  Buildings'  Company,  against  the  common  agent, 


DEMOLITION   OF  SETON   PALACE  793 

in  the  shape  of  a  Summons  of  Reduction,  Declarator,  and  Damages,  which, 
after  passing  through  the  Court  of  Session,  was  carried  to  the  House  of 
Lords;  and  in  May  1795  that  tribunal  reversed  the  judgment  of  the 
inferior  Court  (which  sustained  the  sale),  and  found  that  'the  common 
agent  in  ranking  is  disqualified  from  purchasing  at  the  judicial  sale  carried 
on  under  his  direction.'  The  appellants'  case  embraced  other  reasons  for 
reversal,  involving  incapacity,  misconduct,  want  of  bona  fides,  fraud,  com- 
bination, and  damage,  which  do  not  appear  to  have  been  established. 
Meanwhile,  unfortunately,  the  grand  old  palace — the  '  glory  of  the  Lothians  ' 
— had  been  entirely  demolished  by  Mackenzie.  One  of  his  witnesses — 
Adam  Russell,  mason  and  housebuilder  in  Edinburgh — deponed  that  he 
and  his  brother  entered  into  a  contract  with  Mackenzie,  in  November 
1 789,  relative  to  the  building  of  a  house  at  Seton,  and  that  they  began  to 
pull  down  the  ruins  of  the  palace  a  month  or  two  after  the  contract  was 
executed.  In  speaking  of  the  disappearance  of  the  venerable  pile,  Mr. 
Riddell,  in  his  printed  '  Case '  for  the  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  claiming 
the  Winton  titles,  makes  the  following  remarks  : — '  The  Palace  of  Seton, 
the  abode  of  Queen  Mary  and  of  so  many  kings,  with  its  magnificent 
Samson's  Hall,  and  chivalrous  and  heraldic  glories,  all  (saving  the  vener- 
able chapel,  which  still  stands)  were  levelled  to  the  dust  by  a  barbarous 
Celt,  the  purchaser  of  the  former — who,  however,  was  forced  afterwards 
to  disgorge  his  illegal  gains,  and  who  erected  in  their  room  a  hideous 
structure,  only  fit  for  barracks,  to  which  use  it  actually  came  to  be  destined 
— which,  it  has  been  justly  said,  would  have  been  prevented  had  the  palace 
and  neighbouring  lands  been  first  acquired  by  its  present  noble  possessor, 
the  Earl  of  Wemyss,  from  his  "acknowledged  good  taste," — besides  being 
a  Seton  by  female  descent.' 

Upwards  of  forty  years  ago,  on  the  occasion  of  a  visit  to  Seton,  I  was 
told  by  a  residenter  whose  '  forebears '  had  long  lived  in  the  locality,  that 
after  Mackenzie  had  demolished  the  palace,  an  old  woman,  who  resided  in 
the  immediate  neighbourhood,  indignantly  declared  that  he  would  never 
'  raise  reek '  in  his  new  house ;  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  she  survived  to 
witness  the  fulfilment  of  her  prediction. 

In  a  subsequent  Appendix  will  be  found  details  of  the  sales  and  litiga- 
tion, etc.,  embracing  notices  of  the  timber  on  the  estate  sold  to  various 
purchasers,  which  I  compiled  from  the  '  Session  Papers '  (Arniston  Collec- 
tion, vol.  clxxxvii.)  many  years  ago. 

A  few  interesting  remnants  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood  of  Seton 
have  still  to  be  noticed.  Among  a  number  of  excellent  photographs  kindly 
given  to  me,  in  T888,  by  Mr.  W.  B.  Dunlop,  then  lessee  of  Seton  Castle, 
is  a  view  of  a  ruinous  fragment  of  an  old  wall  with  two  small  window 
spaces,  a  little  to  the  west  of  the  castle,  which  I  incline  to  think  formed 
a  part  of  the  Dungeon  already  referred  to,  of  which  an  engraving  will  be 
found  under  the  notice  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton.  In  their  chapter 
on  Scottish  sun-dials,1  Messrs.  Macgibbon  and  Ross  give  three  excellent 

1  Castellated  and  Domestic  Architecture  of  Scotland,  v.  384. 

SH 


794 


SETON   CASTLE 


cuts  of  the  Dial  on  a  bastion  tower  in  the  old  garden  wall.  But  probably 
the  most  interesting  portion  of  the  ancient  walls  and  abutments  which 
still  encircle  the  site  of  the  ancient  palace  is  the  Roundle  at  the 
south-west  corner  of  the  old  garden  wall,  in  which  James  the  Sixth  was 
'graciously  pleased  to  rest  himselfe,'  on  his  journey  to  London,  in  1603, 
to  take  possession  of  the  English  Crown,  when  he  happened  to  encounter 
the  funeral  cortege  of  the  first  Earl  of  Winton.  The  view  of  the  roundle 
at  page  217  supra  is  from  an  accurate  drawing  made,  in  1824,  by  the  late 
Mr.  J.  G.  Wood,  Writer  to  the  Signet,  and  engraved,  at  my  suggestion, 
in  Ballingall's  Edinburgh  Past  and  Present.  Both  the  roundle  and  the 
adjoining  road  were  slightly  altered  when  the  North  British  Railway  was 
constructed  in  1845  >  an<^  Dut  f°r  tne  judicious  intervention  of  the  grand- 
father of  the  present  Lord  Wemyss,  the  quaint  historical  memorial  might 
have  been  entirely  swept  away. 

The  present  '  Seton  Castle,'  in  the  English  Baronial  style,  is  from  a 
design  by  John  Adam  (one  of  the  four  sons  of  the  celebrated  William 
Adam) ;  and  from  its  comparatively  elevated  position  it  commands  a  magni- 
ficent view  of  Arthur's  Seat,  Calton  Hill,  and  the  spires  of  the  Scottish 
Metropolis,  as  well  as  of  the  greater  portion  of  the  southern  shores  of  the 
'  Kingdom  '  of  Fife.  A  few  fine  trees  still  linger  around  the  ancient  church 
and  modern  castle,  and  help  to  recall  the  pristine  grandeur  of  the  princely 
place. 


MONOGRAM  AT  WINTON. 


WINTON   HOUSE  795 


III.  Winton  House 

'  The  oaken  wainscot  richly  graced 
With  gay  festoons  of  mimic  flowers, 
The  armorial  bearings,  now  defaced, 
All  speak  of  proud  and  long  past  hours. 

The  ceiling  quaintly  carved  and  groined, 

With  pendent  pediments  reversed, 
A  bygone  age  recalls  to  mind, 

Whose  glories  song  hath  oft  rehearsed.' 

Barton. 

In  speaking  of  the  great  advance  in  Scottish  baronial  architecture 
between  the  Reformation  and  the  Restoration,  Burton  says  : — '  The  French 
style  of  tall  round  towers  or  turrets  with  conical  tops  prevailed.  In  some 
instances  the  old  square  tower  was  surmounted  with  turrets  and  other 
decorations,  and  many  dwellings  were  wholly  built  in  the  style  of  Chantilly 
and  other  great  French  chateaux.  Of  these  there  are  fine  specimens  in 
Winton,  Pinkie,  Glammis,  Fyvie,  Castle  Fraser,  Craigievar,  and  Crathes  n 
— three  of  the  seven  examples  being  the  work  of  Setons.  Pinkie  and 
Winton  are  cited  by  the  authors  of  the  Architechire  of  Scotland  as  good 
examples  of  the  gradual  influence  of  English  taste,  'the  former  being  a 
mixture  of  Scotch  and  English  features,  while  the  latter  is  almost  entirely 
English  in  feeling  and  detail.' 

Sir  Richard  Maitland's  earliest  mention  of  Winton  House  is  under 
his  notice  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  who  waged  war  against  the 
Flemings,  and  who  died  in  1 508,  of  whom  he  says  : — '  He  biggit  the  haill 
place  of  Wintoun,  wyth  the  yard  and  garding  thairof.  In  the  quhilk  gardin 
I  haue  sein  fyve  scoir  torris  of  tymber,  about  the  knottis  of  the  flouris  ; 
ilk  ane  twa  cubite  of  hicht,  haveand  tua  knoppis  {knobs)  on  the  heid,  ane 
aboue  ane  vther,  als  grit  everilk  ane  as  an  row-boull,  overgilt  with  gold  ; 
and  the  schankis  thairof  paintit  with  dyuers  hewis  of  oylie  colouris.' 

In  his  '  Continuation '  of  the  family  chronicle,  Lord  Kingston,  speaking 
of  the  present  mansion,  states  that  George,  tenth  Lord  Seton,  and  third 
Earl  of  Wintoun,  '  built  the  house  of  Wintone,  being  burnt  by  the  English 
of  old,  and  the  policy  thereof  destroyed,  in  anno  1620:  he  founded  and 
built  the  great  house  from  the  foundation,  with  all  the  lairge  stone  dykes 
about  the  precinct,  park,  orchard,  and  gardens  thereof.' 

The  existing  House  of  Winton — about  a  mile  from  Pencaitland,  and 


1  History  of  Scotland,  vii.  365. 


796  DESCRIPTION   OF  THE   FABRIC 

twelve  miles  south-east  of  Edinburgh — is  situated  on  the  edge  of  a  steep 
bank  sloping  down  to  the  valley  of  the  river  Tyne,  and  is  generally 
supposed  to  have  been  taken  by  Sir  Walter  Scott  as  his  model  for  Ravens- 
wood  in  the  Bride  of  Lammermoor.  During  the  present  century  con- 
siderable additions  have  been  made  to  the  north  and  west  sides  of  the  house, 
which  by  no  means  improve  the  general  effect  of  the  fabric  ;  but  fortunately 
they  are  not  high  enough  entirely  to  conceal  the  most  striking  features 
of  a  very  fine  specimen  of  a  Scottish  mansion  of  the  seventeenth 
century. 

'  The  south  front  is  very  plain.  ...  At  a  later  time  the  north  and 
east  fronts,  and  parts  of  the  west  front,  were  enriched  and  added  to,  while 
the  south  front,  although  heightened,  was  otherwise  left  in  very  much  its 
original  condition.  The  evidence  of  the  staircase  towers,  and  the  orna- 
mental windows  and  chimney-stacks  of  the  north  and  east  fronts,  being 
insertions  and  additions  to  the  existing  house  is  very  obvious.  The  late 
Mr.  David  Rhind,  architect,  in  the  Transactions  of  the  Architectural 
Institute  of  Scotland,  185 1-2,  expresses  an  opinion  that  the  house  stood 
unfinished  for  some  time  at  the  height  of  two  stories,  and  that  when  it 
was  resumed,  it  was  continued  in  a  more  elaborate  manner.  .  .  .  The  main 
portion  of  the  house  is  an  oblong,  measuring  about  79  feet  long  from  east 
to  west,  by  about  3 1  feet  in  width,  with  a  wing  at  the  north-east  corner  about 
25  feet  square,  having  a  turret  staircase  in  the  re-entering  angle.  These 
portions  appear  to  have  formed  the  original  house,  which  was  thus  con- 
structed on  the  old  L  plan.  In  connection  with  the  later  extensions,  there 
was  added,  at  the  north-west  angle,  a  large  staircase  tower  about  1 7  feet 
square.  .  .  .  The  staircase  in  this  tower  ceases  as  usual  at  the  first  floor 
level,  and  is  continued  in  an  angle  turret,  the  tower  itself  becoming  avail- 
able for  bedrooms.  The  wall  of  the  south  front  extended  westwards  of 
the  west  gable.  .  .  .  The  building  is  three  stories  high  towards  the  north, 
but  owing  to  the  slope  of  the  ground  to  the  south,  an  additional  basement 
story  is  gained  in  the  main  block,  in  which  are  situated  the  kitchen  and 
offices  entering  from  the  south,  and  communicating  with  the  first  floor  by  a 
straight  flight  of  steps. 

'  The  principal  entrance  doorway  was  almost  certainly  in  the  large  stair- 
case tower  at  the  north-west  angle.  This  staircase  led  on  the  first  floor 
into  the  present  drawing-room,  which  was  then  the  Hall.  The  room  to 
the  east  of  this,  now  called  "  King  Charles's  Room  "  (which  has  access  by 
a  separate  staircase)  was  probably  the  drawing-room,  and  the  room  to  the 
north  of  it  the  owner's  private  room.  .  .  .  The  upper  floors  consist  of  bed- 
rooms entering  off  a  passage  or  corridor  running  along  the  north  side. 
These  have  been  modernised,  but  the  old  panelled  plaster  ceilings  are  in 
many  cases  preserved.  Most  of  the  interior,  with  the  exception  of  the 
drawing-room  and  King  Charles's  Room,  has  also  been  modernised.  .  .  . 
The  fine  plaster  ceilings  and  ornamental  fireplaces  are  characteristic  of  the 
time  of  James  1.' x 

1  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  Castellated  and  Domestic  Architectwe  of  Scotland,  ii.  520  et  seq. 


THE   SUPPOSED  ARCHITECT 


797 


The  late  Dr.  David  Laing,  while  examining  various  official  records, 
found  a  notice  which  seemed  to  leave  no  doubt  that  Winton  House  was 
designed  and  built  by  William  Wallace,  who  was  appointed  King's  Master 
Mason  for  Scotland  in  1617,  and  died  in  163 1.  In  a  paper  read  before  the 
Architectural  Institute  of  Scotland  in  185 1  Dr.  Laing  says  : — 'The' house 
of  Winton  may  have  contributed,  through  the  recommendation  of  Mr. 
Robert  Balcanquall,  then  minister  of  Tranent,  to  his  brother  Dr.  Balcan- 
quall  (Dean  of  Rochester),  along  with  Wallace's  established  character,  and 
the  personal  knowledge  of  his  fellow-citizens  in  Edinburgh,  to  his  being 
employed  in  the  erection  of  Heriot's  Hospital,'  which  was  begun  in  1628. 
The  following  extract  from  the  Register  of  Confirmed  Testaments,  12  th 


^*! 


If 


December  1632,  is  believed  to  be  the  notice  on  which  Dr.  Laing  founds 
his  conclusion  that  Wallace  designed  Winton  House  : — '  Item  :  Thair  was 
awin  to  the  said  umquhill  William  Wallace  be  George  Earle  of  Wintoun, 
in  acknowledgment  of  his  panes  in  his  Lordship's  works,  conforme  to  his 
Lordship's  tiket,  subscrivit  with  his  hand,  the  sowme  of  500  merkis,  quhilk 
sowme  of  500  merkis  is  upliftit  sen  the  Defunctis  deceas  be  Nicoll  Adwart, 
baillie,  and  as  yit  is  in  his  handis  and  custodie.  Item  :  Be  his  Majistie's 
Thesaurer  for  the  Defunctis  fees  as  Master  Massone  to  his  Majistie,  and 


798 


THE   'WALLACE  TOWER' 


for  his  leveray  clothes  due,  to  be  pait  be  his  Majistie's  Thesaurer  and 
Ressareris,  the  last  of  October  1631,  330  merkis.'1 

'  The  manner  of  slating  adopted  in  the  curved  roof  of  the  "  Wallace 
Tower "  is  peculiar,  the  slates  being  cut  into  patterns,  in  a  very  unusual 
manner.  There  is  a  high  terrace  wall  continued  eastwards  from  the  house, 
a  few  feet  in  advance  of  the  south  front,  ornamented  on  the  top  with  an 
open  arcaded  parapet,  of  the  same  design  as  that  round  the  top  of  the 
"  Square  Tower,"  and  otherwise  the  wall  is  enriched  on  the  face  with  coats  of 
arms,  etc.  Stairs  descend  from  the  terrace  to  the  lower  grounds,  and  there 
are  indications  that  the  ornamental  pleasure-grounds  were  at  one  time  of 
considerable  extent.  .  .  .  Although  the  general  character  of  Wintoun  House 
is  Scottish,  .  .  .  the  tall  stone  chimneys  ornamented  with  spirals  and  other 
enrichments,  and  the  cornice  and  parapet  of  the  square  tower,  are  strikingly 
English  in  feeling,  while  the  octagonal  angle  turret  and  windows,  with 

1  Inigo   Jones   has   been  pronounced  by  others  to  have   been   the   designer  of   both   Heriot's 
Hospital  and  Winton  House. 


CEILINGS  AND   FIREPLACES 


799 


entablatures  surmounted  with  interlacing  scroll-work,  have  rather  more  of 
a  Scottish  character.'1 

In  Billings'  Antiquities  of  Scotland,  besides  a  good  view  of  the 
exterior  of  Winton  House,  and  a  woodcut  of  an  elaborate  doorway,  there 
are  two  excellent  engravings  of  the  drawing-room  and  '  King  Charles's 
Room,'  in  which  the  beautiful  ceilings  and  fireplaces  are  admirably  shown. 
'The  stone  of  which  the  house  has  been  built,'  says  the  writer  of  the 
accompanying  notice,  'appears  to  have  been  peculiarly  well  selected. 
There  is  no  appearance  of  decay  ;  the  tracery  is  clean  and  sharp,  as  if  it 
were  fresh  from  the  chisel.  There  is  no  mouldering  or  discolourment,  and 
while  the  edifice  has  a  decided  air  of  age,  it  has  suffered  less  from  the 
corroding  influence  of  time  than  many  a  modern  mansion  in  its  vicinity, 
and  seems  as  if  it  bore  its  years  under  the  happy  influence  of  the  dry 
atmosphere  of  some  Eastern  country.     The  building  is  not  in  the  usual  style 


1  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  ii.  528.     This  excellent  work  contains  several  interesting  engravings  of 
Winton. 


800  HERALDIC   DECORATIONS 

of  Scottish  baronial  architecture  of  the  seventeenth  century,  which  is  a 
peculiar  adaptation  of  the  French.  It  follows,  in  the  decorated  chimneys 
and  the  tops  of  the  windows,  the  Tudor  style ;  but  it  is  quite  distinguish- 
able from  that  era,  and  is  in  many  respects  a  work  of  original  genius,  that 
might  not  be  unworthy  of  the  principal  planner  of  Heriot's  Hospital. 
There  is  a  peculiarly  rich,  lofty  effect  in  the  grouping  of  the  stacks  of 
columned  chimneys,  and  the  centre  chimney  of  the  group  of  three  is 
distinguished  from  the  others  by  a  perpendicular  string  of  leaves  falling 
down  each  fluted  side,  in  very  high  relief.  Some  additions  which  have 
been  made  to  the  building  on  the  English  baronial  (omitted  in  the  engrav- 
ing) tend  much  to  destroy  the  harmony  of  the  old  design. 

'  The  interior  is  worthy  of  the  external  features.  The  drawing-room 
has  a  light  airy  effect,  very  different  from  the  gloomy  vaulted  rooms  of 
old  Scottish  houses.  It  has  a  broad,  flat  cornice,  on  which  a  pattern  of 
fruit  and  flowers  is  raised  with  great  boldness  and  beauty.  The  whole 
roof  is  covered  with  symmetrical  mouldings  in  bas-relief,  consisting  of  com- 
partments made  of  angles  and  curves  interlaced.  The  character  is  partly 
heraldic,  partly  classical,  the  caduceus  predominating  in  the  central  orna- 
ment. In  compartments  round  the  fireplace,  and  within  the  jambs,  there 
are  four  classical  groups  of  a  sacrificial  character,  probably  a  late  addition. 
Other  two  rooms  on  the  same  suite  are  in  a  corresponding  style  of  decora- 
tion. One  of  them,  from  being  traditionally  said  to  have  been  occupied 
by  Charles  i.  in  his  visit  to  Scotland  in  1633,  is  generally  called  King 
Charles's  Room.' 

Among  the  heraldic  decorations,  on  the  ceilings,  are  the  letters  C.  R. 
(Carolus  Rex),  the  royal  arms  of  Scotland  and  England — the  unicorn  being 
the  dexter  supporter — the  Scottish  crest  (a  lion  sejant),  crowns,  sceptres, 
thistles,  roses,  fleurs-de-lis,  Prince  of  Wales's  feathers,  coronets,  interlaced 
crescents,  and  other  figures.  In  the  centre  of  the  drawing-room  mantel- 
piece is  the  monogram  of  the  builder  and  his  wife — George  Seton  and 
Anne  Hay — surmounted  by  an  Earl's  coronet,  below  a  dragon,  the  family 
crest,  and  engraved  at  p.  794. 

In  the  wall  of  the  upper  terrace  is  an  elaborate  stone  panel,  exhibiting 
the  royal  arms  and  the  legend  'James  1.,  King  of  Britain,  France,  and 
Ireland,'  which  is  said  to  have  surmounted  the  original  entrance  to  the 
mansion. 

The  lands  of  Winton  were  sold  by  the  York  Buildings'  Company  to 
Hamilton  of  Pencaitland,  and  '  Winton  Castle,'  as  it  is  now  generally  called, 
became  the  manor-house  of  the  combined  estates.  The  alterations  and 
additions  already  referred  to  were  made  by  Colonel  Hamilton,  under  the 
management  of  Mr.  William  Burn,  architect,  the  entrance  being  changed 
from  its  former  position  adjoining  the  present  kitchen-door.  The  existing 
terraces  were  the  work  of  Lord  and  Lady  Ruthven,  by  whom  also  the 
old  village  of  Winton,  formerly  in  the  centre  of  the  park,  was  entirely 
removed.  Colonel  Hamilton  was  succeeded  in  the  ownership  of  Winton 
by  his  sister,  Mrs.    Hamilton  Campbell  of  Shawfield,  mother  of  the  late 


SCULPTURED  SHIELDS  OF  ARMS 


80 1 


Lady  Ruthven  (widow  of  the  fifth  Lord  Ruthven),  of  whom  there  is  an 
interesting  memorial  in  the  'Winton  aisle'  of  Pencaitland  Church.  The 
present  proprietor  of  Winton  is  Mrs.  Nisbet-Hamilton-Ogilvy  of  Belhaven, 
Dirleton,  etc.,  who,  a  few  years  ago,  succeeded  to  the  estate  on  the  death, 
and  under  the  will,  of  Lady  Ruthven. 


Si 


8o2  NIDDRIE   CASTLE 


IV.  Niddrie  Castle 

'  A  spectre  of  departed  days, 
Yon  castle  gleams  upon  the  gaze, 
And  saddens  o'er  the  scene  so  fair, 
And  tells  that  ruin  hath  been  there ; 
And  wheresoe'er  my  glance  is  cast, 
It  meets  pale  footprints  of  the  past.' 

Niddrie,  West  Niddrie,  or  Niddrie-Seton,  by  which  designation  it 
was  anciently  known,  to  distinguish  it  from  Niddrie- Marischal  in  Mid- 
Lothian,  is  situated  about  three  miles  east  of  Linlithgow,  and  in  the  county 
of  the  same  name,  near  the  Winchburgh  Station,  and  can  be  seen  for 
a  few  moments  by  the  traveller  on  the  rail  between  Edinburgh  and 
Glasgow.  It  stands  upon  a  hillock,  once  skirted  by  a  burn  along  the 
north-west,  (a  tributary  of  the  Almond  Water).  '  The  building  is  of 
the  L  plan,  and  is  quite  empty,  ruinous,  and  roofless.  The  door  at  the 
re-entering  angle  is  protected  in  front  by  a  wall  of  probably  later  con- 
struction than  the  castle.  It  opens  into  a  lobby  giving  access  to  the 
main  building,  which  measures  inside  30  feet  9  inches  by  18  feet  3  inches, 
and  leading  off  this  is  a  dark  vaulted  chamber  or  dungeon  in  the  wing, 
measuring  1 1  feet  by  9  feet  9  inches.  The  dungeon  is  two  stories  high, 
and  vaulted.  The  upper  floor  was  of  timber,  resting  on  corbels,  and 
entered  from  the  wheel  stair.  It  was  lighted  by  a  long  narrow  slit,  having 
a  shot-hole  beneath.  The  walls  are  on  an  average  9  feet  thick.  A  cork- 
screw stair  adjoining  the  door  leads  to  the  top,  but  the  steps  are  nearly 
all  gone,  and  the  floors,  which  were  all  of  timber,  are  wanting.  The 
stone  corbels  for  supporting  the  floors  still  remain.  The  great  hall,  on 
the  first  floor,  had  a  large  fireplace  at  the  west  end,  but  it  is  entirely 
gone.  When  increased  accommodation  was  wanted  at  Niddrie,  security 
from  attack  was  evidently  of  greater  consequence  than  convenient  arrange- 
ment of  plan ;  so,  instead  of  extending  the  walls,  the  proprietor  rather 
added  a  story  or  two  to  the  already  lofty  keep.  The  building  had  origin- 
ally a  parapet  walk  round  the  top,  the  corbel  table  of  which  still  remains, 
and  the  roof  probably  rose  at  once  above  this,  as  at  Elphinstone,  Whitting- 
ham,  and  many  other  places.  The  parapet  was  now  raised  as  the  wall 
of  an  additional  story,  and  thus  a  feature  was  created  which  afterwards 
became  the  usual  form  of  the  upper  floors  of  later  designs.  Some  of  the 
windows  of  this  raised  portion  are  deeply  recessed  and  splayed  outwards. 
They  resemble  in  these  respects  the  east  windows  of  Linlithgow  Palace 


MONOGRAMS,   ETC.  803 

built  about  1 500.     They  seem  to  have  had  pointed  arched  pediments  of 
a  curious  and  unusual  design.' x 

The  stronghold  is  said  to  have  been  built  by  George,  fifth  Lord 
Seton,  who  fell  at  Flodden,  and  the  castle  and  adjoining  lands  remained 
in  the  possession  of  the  Seton  family  till  the  time  of  Charles  1.,  when  they 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Hopes,  ancestors  of  the  Earls  of  Hopetoun. 
The  earliest  mention  of  Niddrie  in  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  Chronicle  occurs 
under  his  notice  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  who  is  said  to  have  '  redemit 
the  toun  of  Wincheburgh  and  certain  lands  in  Langnethrie,  wedset  be  his 
gudschir  {grandfather) ;  and  repairalit  and  biggit  ane  grit  part  of  the 
hous  and  place  of  Westnethrie.  And  gat  in  few  from  David  Beaton, 
Cardinall  of  Sanctandrois,  the  lands  of  Kirkliston'  and  others.  His  son, 
the  seventh  Lord,  'bought  the  rest  of  the  lands  of  West  Nidrie,  and  the 
haill  reversions  thereof,  not  conquest  by  his  predecessors.' 

From  the  late  Mr.  Archibald  Nimmo,  of  the  British  Linen  Company 
Bank — an  intelligent  native  of  West  Lothian — I  received  some  informa- 
tion relative  to  certain  old  sculptured  stones  formerly  at  Niddrie.  One 
of  these,  which  was  removed  from  the  castle  to  the  adjoining  garden,  had 
disappeared  in  1 869  ;  and  according  to  the  then  tenant  of  the  garden 
(Mr.  Stevenson),  it  was  away  before  he  came,  about  ten  years  previously. 
Mr.  Stevenson  showed  me  two  square  stones  from  the  castle,  under  a 
water-barrel,  bearing  similar  monograms  in  relief,  of  which  I  took  heel- 
ball  rubbings.  They  were  formerly  on  the  highest  part  of  the  south 
wall,  and  Mr.  Stevenson  removed  them  because  they  were  loose  and 
threatening  to  fall.  A  nearly  similar  monogram  still  (?)  occupies  a  pedi- 
ment over  the  highest  south  window  in  the  castle.  It  is  somewhat  singular 
that  H  is  the  initial  letter  of  the  surnames  of  the  wives — Hepburn,  Hay, 
and  Hamilton — of  the  fifth,  sixth,  and  seventh  Lords  Seton,  who  all  appear 
to  have  had  some  connection  with  the  construction  of  Niddrie  Castle ;  and 
accordingly  it  is  more  difficult  than  it  might  otherwise  have  been  to 
identify  the  monograms.  In  the  case  of  the  monogram  over  the  south 
window,  the  letter  E  is  pretty  clearly  shown,  and  it  probably  relates  to 
George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Hay.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  water-barrel  monograms,  one  of  which  is  engraved  at  p.  172 
supra,  probably  refer  to  George,  seventh  Lord,  and  Isabel  Hamilton,  the 
initial  letter  of  Isabel  being  represented  by  the  portion  of  the  H  which 
passes  through  the  initial  of  her  husband's  surname  (S). 

Mr.  Nimmo  also  mentioned  an  ornamental  stone  bearing  a  sixteenth- 
century  date  (15 — )  and  other  lettering,  in  the  west  wall  of  Niddrie  farm- 
house, which  was  not  visible  in  1869,  the  house  having  been  recently 
'harled.'  At  the  same  date,  a  good  specimen  of  a  tirling-pin  still  sur- 
vived on  the  door  of  the  entrance  to  the  garden. 

In  1869  I  also  saw  two  detached  broken  stones,  on  which  the  Seton 


1  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  i.  324. 


804 


MISSING   HISTORICAL  TABLET 


supporters — two  foxes — were  evidently  sculptured,   and  which   are   here 
figured  from  a  careful  sketch  made  at  the  time. 


A  most  interesting  historical  inscription  on  an  oblong  stone  tablet 
which  formerly  surmounted  the  east  window  of  the  castle,  and  of  which 
a  friend  made  a  rough  sketch  in  1852,  had  also  disappeared;  and  Mr. 
Stevenson  knew  nothing  about  it !  That  sketch  is  engraved  in  Ballingall's 
Edinburgh  Past  and  Present,  and  is  reproduced  at  p.  172  supra.  It  will 
be  seen  that  the  inscription — block  letters  in  relief — is  in  the  following 
terms  : — 

'  LORD  •  GEORGE  •  SETON  •  OF  •  HIS  •  AGE  •  36  •  1 567,' 

only  a  year  before  Queen  Mary's  brief  sojourn  at  Niddrie,  after  her  escape 
from  Loch  Leven.  It  is  painful  to  have  to  record  another  instance  of  what 
I  can  only  call  wanton  carelessness  and  unworthy  disregard  of  historical 
associations. 

According  to  the  learned  author  of  the  article  on  the  parish  of  Liber- 
ton,  in  the  first  volume  of  the  Archceologia  Scotica,  Niddrie,  in  Gaelic, 
signifies  the  King's  Champion — Niadh  —  Champion  ;  Ri,  Rwgh  =  K'mg, — 
and  denotes  that  it  once  was  the  place  of  his  residence.  If  that  be  the 
correct  etymology,  the  West  Lothian  Castle  of  the  Setons  formed  a  most 
appropriate  abode  for  the  gallant  protector  of  the  unfortunate  Queen  of 
Scots. 

No  notice  of  Niddrie  occurs  either  in  Grose  or  Billings.  There  is 
a  small  woodcut  of  the  castle  in  the  Abbotsford  edition  of  the  Waverley 
Novels  {Abbot,  v.  554),  and  I  possess  a  good  oil  painting  of  the  ancient 
stronghold  by  the  late  Mr.  William  Simson,  R.S.A. 


FYVIE  CASTLE  805 


V.  Fyvie  Castle 

'  He  hied  him  hame,  and  having  spieled 
To  the  house-top  o'  Fyvie, 
He  blew  his  trumpet  loud  and  shrill, 
'Twas  heard  at  Mill  o'  Tiftie.' 

Aberdeenshire  Ballad. 

A  stronghold  existed  on  the  site  of  Fyvie  Castle  at  least  as  early  as  the 
thirteenth  century,  but  'of  the  "  Fywie  Chastel,"  where  Edward  1.  stayed  in 
his  northern  invasions  in  1296  and  subsequent  years,  nothing  now  remains. 
The  tradition  of  the  visits  of  the  great  "  Hammer  of  the  Scots  "  still  lingers 
in  the  locality,  and  finds  a  local  habitation  in  one  of  the  rooms  of  the 
fifteenth-century  Preston  Tower,  which  is  confidently  pointed  out  as 
Edward's  bedroom.'1 

The  estate  of  Fyvie  was  acquired  by  the  Prestons  in  1390,  and  about 
1440  by  the  Meldrums,  from  whom  it  appears  to  have  been  purchased  by 
President  Seton  in  1596.  Of  Gaelic  etymology,  the  name  is  said  to  be 
derived  from  Fia  Chein,  signifying  '  Deerhill,'  and  there  is  a  hill  in  the 
parish  which  still  bears  that  name.  Towards  the  very  end  of  the  fourteenth 
century,  the  '  Castel  of  Fivy '  was  gallantly  defended  by  the  '  gud  lady '  of 
Sir  James  Lindsay,  cousin  of  Robert  in.,  although  'assegit  straitly '  by  her 
undutiful  nephew,  Robert  de  Keith,  son  of  the  Marischal. 

The  noble  existing  pile  is  situated  in  the  lowlands  of  Aberdeenshire, 
and  occupies  a  strong  position  on  the  north-east  bank  of  the  Ythan,  within 
an  extensive  park,  containing  a  lake  well  stocked  with  fish,  and  some  fine 
timber.  While  Fyvie  possesses  sylvan  beauties  and  other  picturesque 
surroundings,  '  its  chief  attractions  are  archaeological,  historical,  legendary, 
and  romantic.  Aberdeenshire  is  rich  in  fortified  baronial  residences  of 
more  or  less  pretensions.  Fyvie  Castle  is  by  far  the  noblest  of  them  all. 
In  fact,  with  the  solitary  exception  of  Glamis,  there  is  nothing  in  Scotland 
that  is  finer  in  the  style.  Like  Glamis,  it  has  witnessed  stirring  events, 
and  received  many  illustrious  visitors  under  its  roof;  even  more  than 
Glamis,  perhaps,  it  associates  itself  with  Scottish  history,  through  a  long 
succession  of  proprietors  from  days  that  are  lost  in  the  mists  of  antiquity. 
Like  the  Castle  of  Glamis,  it  has  its  secret  chamber ;  like  the  Palace  of 


Tlie  Castellated  and  Domestic  Architecture  of  Scotland,  ii.  355. 


806  FYVIE  AND   MONTSABERT 

Holyrood,  it  has  a  "murder  room,"  with  ineffaceable  blood-stains  on  the 
floor.  It  has  its  spirit  that  haunts  the  great  vaulted  staircase,  bringing 
warnings  of  death  or  disaster  like  the  Irish  banshee ;  and  signs  and 
portents  are  to  be  sought  and  found  in  the  very  stones  of  the  ancient 
battlements.' 1 

As  is  well  known,  Fyvie  Castle  was  mainly  built  by  Alexander  Seton, 
first  Earl  of  Dunfermline  and  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  who  '  adhered  to  the 
old  Scotch  style,  so  as  to  maintain  the  character  of  the  old  keep,  to  which 
he  added.  But  he  could  not  avoid  the  prevailing  tendency  to  symmetry, 
the  principal  front  being  arranged  with  the  doorway  in  the  centre,  and  the 
elevation  made  to  balance  on  each  side  of  it  by  repeating  the  form  of  the 
old  keep  at  the  other  end.' 2  In  my  Memoir  of  the  Chancellor,  besides 
stating  that  he  is  believed  to  have  called  in  the  services  of  a  French 
architect  to  beautify  the  towers  of  his  northern  abode,  I  venture  to  say 
that  the  Chateau  de  Montsabert,  as  figured  in  Victor  Petit's  sumptuous 
work  on  the  Castles  in  the  valley  of  the  Loire,  '  bears  a  very  striking 
resemblance  to  Fyvie.'  Messrs.  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  however,  in 
referring  to  my  remarks,  state  that  '  on  comparing  that  view  with  Fyvie, 
they  could  not  detect  the  similarity  of  design.'  In  order  to  satisfy  them- 
selves on  the  subject,  the  accomplished  authors  of  The  Castellated  and 
Domestic  Architecture  of  Scotland  resolved  to  make  a  pilgrimage  to 
Montsabert ;  and  as  the  result  of  that  expedition  they  give  two  views  of 
the  French  chateau  in  their  first  volume,  and  ask  their  readers  to  determine 
'  whether  there  is  any  foundation  for  the  supposed  resemblance.'  The 
two  castles,  they  admit,  have  turrets  and  steep  roofs,  and  '  in  these  points 
Fyvie  and  Montsabert  agree,  but  beyond  this  there  are  no  features  of  the 
two  buildings  which  correspond  in  architectural  details.'  They  further  state 
that  '  if  an  example  were  to  be  selected  of  any  building  in  which  the  work 
is  more  peculiarly  characteristic  of  the  Scottish  style  than  another,  they  do 
not  think  a  better  instance  could  be  adduced  than  Fyvie  Castle.'  In  the 
course  of  their  strictures  on  the  subject,  they  refer  to  Mr.  Billings'  '  strong 
views  on  the  French  origin  of  Scottish  architecture,'  in  connection  with  his 
description  of  Tolquhon  Castle,  which  they  cite  as  '  a  fine,  though  fanciful 
piece  of  writing.'  Possibly  I  may  be  wrong  in  stating  that  Montsabert 
bears  '  a  very  striking  resemblance '  to  Fyvie ;  but  having  examined  the 
two  views  of  the  former,  I  am  still  disposed  to  think  that  one  of  them  at 
least  presents  more  than  a  general  similarity  to  Fyvie,  and  further,  I  fully 
concur  with  Mr.  Billings  in  his  opinion  as  to  the  potent  influence  of  our 
French  alliance  on  Scottish  architecture,  which  is  indorsed  by  the 
intelligent  correspondent  of  the  Times,  whom  I  have  already  quoted. 
Towards  the  end  of  their  fifth  volume,  in  referring  to  the  former  practice 
of  proprietors  making  contracts  with  master  masons,  and  personally 
superintending  the  erection  of  their  mansions,  Messrs.  Macgibbon  and 
Ross  inform  us  that  '  the  great  edifices  of  Fyvie,  Pinkie,  etc.,  were  erected 


1  Times,  5th  February  1885.  2  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  ii.  19. 


y 


..V 


DESCRIPTION   OF  THE   CASTLE  807 

under  the  supervision,  and  probably  from  the  designs,  of  Chancellor  Seton. 
...  In  like  manner,'  they  continue,  '  Huntly  Castle  was  built  by  the 
Marquis  of  Huntly ;  and  both  of  these  noblemen  were  distinguished  men 
who  had  travelled  abroad,  and  whose  observation  of  what  they  had  seen 
is  impressed  on  many  of  the  features  of  their  mansions.'  Not  only  did  the 
learned  Chancellor  travel  abroad,  but  he  resided  several  years,  first  in 
Rome,  and  afterwards  in  France ;  and  shortly  after  his  '  call '  to  the 
Scottish  bar,  he  accompanied  his  father,  Lord  Seton,  in  an  embassy  to  the 
court  of  Henry  in. 

Fy  vie  Castle  '  forms  two  sides  of  a  quadrangle,  with  the  principal  front 
towards  the  south,  along  which  it  measures  147  feet.  The  other  front, 
facing  the  west,  is  137  feet  long.  At  the  three  corners  are  massive  square 
towers  furnished  with  angle  turrets  and  high  crow-stepped  gables,  and  in 
the  centre  of  the  south  front  are  two  projecting  drum  towers  with  the  main 
entrance  to  the  castle  between  them.  These  two  towers,  at  the  height  of 
about  42  feet  from  the  ground,  are  united  by  a  bold  arch  1 1  feet  wide,  into 
one  grand  central  mass  or  pavilion  called  the  "Seton  Tower."  Just  beneath 
the  springing  of  the  arch  the  drums  are  corbelled  out  to  the  square,  and  on 
either  side  they  terminate  in  turrets,  with  a  fine  gable  in  the  centre,  and 
dormers  between  the  gable  and  turrets,  the  whole  forming  a  magnificent 
centre  to  what  is  perhaps  the  most  imposing  front  of  any  ancient  domestic 
edifice  in  Scotland. 

'At  the  south-east  corner  stands  the  "Preston  Tower,"  which  is  the 
earliest  portion  of  the  building,  having  been  begun  by  Sir  Henry  Preston 
about  the  year  1400.  It  consisted  of  a  tower  about  24  feet  square,  with  a 
projecting  wing  for  the  staircase,  square  externally  and  circular  inside.  At 
the  south-west  corner  is  the  "  Meldrum  Tower,"  so  called  after  the  next 
proprietors  of  Fyvie,  who  possessed  the  estate  from  1440  to  1596.  They 
erected  this  part,  and  probably  the  whole  range  of  the  south  front  between 
this  and  the  Preston  Tower,  except  the  Seton  Tower  in  the  centre.  .  .  . 
It  is  however  to  the  Seton  family,  in  the  person  of  Alexander  Seton, 
Lord  Fyvie  and  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  that  the  Castle  of  Fyvie  owes  its 
greatest  splendour.  Besides  building  the  tower  above  described,  which 
bears  his  name,  he  adorned  the  Preston  and  Meldrum  Towers  with  their 
fine  turreted  and  ornamental  upper  stages,  raising  the  staircase  towers, 
enlarging  the  windows,  and,  in  short,  creating  the  splendid  south  front.  It 
is  not  possible  to  say  how  much  of  the  west  side,  to  the  north  of  the  tower 
bearing  their  name,  was  built  by  the  Meldrums  ;  but  the  tower  at  the 
extreme  north  end  of  the  west  front  was  built  by  the  Honourable  General 
Gordon,  second  son  of  William,  second  Earl  of  Aberdeen,  sometime  about 
the  middle  of  last  century,  hence  called  the  "Gordon  Tower."  .  .  .  The 
only  regret  in  connection  with  the  Gordon  Tower  is  that  its  erection 
necessitated  the  removal  of  the  chapel,  which  stood  on  this  site.  .  .  . 

'  The  original  entrance  to  the  courtyard  was  through  the  Seton 
Tower  in  the  south  front,  guarded  by  an  iron  "yett"  placed  some  8  or 
9  feet  in  from  the  outer  door.     Inside  the  "yett"  a  door  on  either  hand 


808      IRON   'YETT'  AND   'MURDER  HOLE' 

leads  to  the  guard-rooms,  one  in  each  drum  tower.  The  vaulted  entrance 
passage  continues  to  the  opposite  wall,  and  from  thence  a  corridor,  right 
and  left,  runs  round  the  castle,  giving  access  to  the  various  rooms  and 
staircases.  .  .  .  The  great  staircase  adjoining  the  Gordon  Tower  is 
a  splendid  specimen  of  architectural  skill,  and,  like  all  the  ornamental  work 
at  Fyvie,  was  built  by  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline.  It  is  a  wheel  stair 
occupying  a  rectangular  space  which  measures  20  feet  4  inches  by  18  feet 
6  inches,  with  a  massive  stone  newel,  1  foot  9  inches  in  diameter.  .  .  . 
The  average  length  of  the  steps  is  8  feet  1 1  inches.  .  .  .  The  great  stair- 
case terminates  at  an  entresol  over  the  second  floor,  .  .  .  and  the  newel 
ends  in  a  kind  of  carved  Gothic  finial.'1 

The  iron  gate  referred  to  in  the  preceding  description  is  formed  of 
huge  bars,  and  fastened  by  iron  bolts  drawn  out  of  the  wall  on  either  side. 
'  It  is  hung  in  the  low,  vaulted  passage,  a  few  feet  within  the  outer  door, 
which  was  of  oak  and  heavily  clenched  with  iron  nails.  The  most 
ponderous  in  Scotland,  with  the  exception  of  that  at  Drumlanrig  in 
Dumfriesshire,  it  is  as  remarkable  for  its  workmanship  as  for  its  size 
and  weight.  The  horizontal  and  vertical  bars  are  ingeniously  interlaced, 
each  being  welded  alternately  around  the  other.  Considering  the  enormous 
mass  of  the  metal,  it  swings  lightly  on  its  hinges,  and  the  heavy  bolts  that 
secure  it  to  the  opposite  wall  can  be  pushed  or  drawn  with  a  couple  of 
fingers.  In  short,  it  is  an  exceptional  specimen  of  the  ordinary  defence  of  the 
old  Scottish  fortalice,  or  peel-tower,  which  "  the  Author  of  Waverley  "  has 
described  in  his  Monastery,  when  the  practised  skill  of  the  reiving  rider  of 
the  Clinthill  extricated  the  imprisoned  inmates  of  Glendearg.' 2  Above  the 
doorway  is  a  large  aperture  called  the  '  Murder  Hole,'  through  which 
unbidden  visitors,  in  former  days,  received  a  warm  welcome,  in  the  shape 
of  a  shower  of  molten  lead.  In  the  base  of  the  '  Meldrum  Tower'  is  an 
inaccessible  chamber,  with  neither  door  nor  window,  supposed  to  have 
been  formerly  used  as  a  place  for  concealing  arms. 

In  the  second  volume  of  Billings'  Baronial  and  Ecclesiastical  Anti- 
quities of  Scotland  there  are  three  admirable  engravings  of  Fyvie,  and  in 
the  relative  description  the  following  statement  occurs  : — '  Its  three  princely 
towers,  with  their  luxuriant  coronet  of  coned  turrets,  sharp  gables,  tall  roofs 
and  chimneys,  canopied  dormer-windows,  and  rude  statuary,  present  a  sky 
outline  at  once  graceful,  rich,  and  massive,  and  in  these  qualities  exceeding 
even  the  far-famed  Glammis.  The  form  of  the  central  tower  is  peculiar  and 
striking.  It  consists  in  appearance  of  two  semi-round  towers,  with  a  deep 
curtain  between  them,  retired  within  a  round-arched  recess  of  peculiar  height 
and  depth.  The  minor  departments  of  the  building  are  profusely  decorated 
with  mouldings,  crockets,  canopies,  and  statuary.  The  interior  is  in  the 
same  fine  keeping  as  the  exterior.  .  .  .  The  great  stair  is  an  architectural 
triumph  such  as  few  Scottish  mansions  can  exhibit ;  and  it  is  so  broad  and  so 


1  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  ii.  348  et  seq.  2  Times,  ut  supra. 


THE   HERALDRY  OF   FYVIE  809 

gently  graduated  as  to  justify  a  traditional  boast  that  the  laird's  horse  used 
to  ascend  it.' 1 

In  his  'Continuation'  of  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  'House  of  Seton,' 
besides  referring  to  Chancellor  Seton's  classical  and  mathematical  attain- 
ments, Lord  Kingston  specially  mentions  his  '  great  skill  in  architecture 
and  herauldrie ' ;  and  the  following  passage  occurs  in  my  own  Memoir  of 
the  learned  statesman  : — '  While  evidence  of  Chancellor  Seton's  taste  for 
heraldry  appears  at  both  Pinkie  and  Dunfermline,2  his  weakness  for  the 
"  noble  science  "  is  most  conspicuously  displayed  at  Fyvie  Castle.  Both 
outside  and  inside,  his  family  arms,  impaled  with  those  of  his  first  wife, 
occur  in  more  than  one  position,  in  one  instance  accompanied  by  the  date 
1598  ;  while  his  paternal  coat  is  repeated  at  every  turn  of  the  great  stair- 
case, and  in  other  parts  of  the  interior.  The  charter-room  is  beautifully 
panelled  with  crescents  and  cinquefoils — the  principal  charges  in  the  Seton 
and  Hamilton  escutcheons — and  exhibits,  in  two  places,  the  Chancellor's 
monogram,  which  also  occurs  on  the  old  entrance  to  the  castle,  already 
referred  to  as  the  "  Seton  Tower."  His  family  bearings,  in  the  combined 
form,  are  blazoned  on  the  "factor's  pew,"  in  the  parish  church  of  Fyvie, 
above  the  words  "Alexander  Seton,  Lord  Fyvie,"  and  the  date  "  1603  "  ; 
and  quarterly,  on  a  chaste  silver  communion  cup  belonging  to  the  same 
parish,  bearing  the  following  inscription  relative  to  its  presentation  :  "  Deo 
sacrisque  in  Ecclesia  Fyvaeana  faciendis  dicavit  Alexander  Setonius 
Fermelinoduni  Comes,  etc.  Anno  Salutis  1618."3  The  escutcheon  is  sur- 
mounted by  a  large  coronet  under  a  crescent  and  the  Dunfermline  motto, 
"  Semper."  .  .  .  The  following  legend,  in  large  Roman  letters,  appears  at 
the  top  of  the  great  staircase  of  the  castle,  the  first  four  words  being 
alternately  separated  by  crescents  and  cinquefoils  (Seton  and  Hamilton), 
and  the  others  by  buckles,  the  bearings  of  the  Leslie  family  : — 

"  Alexander  Seton  Lord  Fyvie — Dame  Gressel  Leslie  Ladie  Fyvie — 1603.'" 

The  impalement  of  the  Chancellor's  arms  with  those  of  his  first 
wife,  already  mentioned  as  occurring  both  inside  and  outside  the  castle,  is 
blazoned  as  follows  : — Dexter,  or,  on  a  fess,  above  three  crescents,  within 
a  double  tressure  flowered  and  counter-flowered  gules,  as  many  cinquefoils 
argent.  Sinister,  or,  three  bars,  waved  gules  (for  Drummond).  The 
dexter  coat  is  a  combination  of  the  Seton  and  Hamilton  charges,  in  lieu 

1  The  round  tower  of  the  chateau  of  Amboise  book-stamp,  on  two  volumes  in  my  possession, 
is  '  so  spacious  and  well  built  that  a  carriage  already  referred  to.  The  full  Dunfermline  arms 
and  four  horses  can  drive  up  from  the  bottom  to  were  blazoned  on  a  board  formerly  affixed  to  the 
the  battlements  and  terrace  at  the  top.' — Lord  front  of  the  Earl's  gallery  in  the  Abbey  Church, 
Malmesbury's  Memoirs,  ii.  260.  which  for  some  time  was  preserved  in  the  col- 
lection of  antiquities  formed  by  the  father   of 

2  A  cinquefoil  within  a  crescent,  surmounted  Sir  Noel  Paton. 

by  an  Earl's  coronet  and  the  date  1607,  is  sculp-  3  Described  and  engraved  at  p.  267  of  Burns's 

tured  over  the  south  door  of  Dunfermline  Abbey,  Old  Scottish  Communion  Plate  ;  see  also  p.  213 

and  the  same  pretty  design  appears  upon  one  of  of  the  same  valuable  work  for  an  engraving  and 

five  seals  of  the  Chancellor,  described  in  Laing's  description  of  a  communion  cup  presented  to  the 

Catalogues  of  Scottish  Seals,  and   also,   as   a  parish  of  Inveresk  by  Chancellor  Seton. 

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of  which  the  family  afterwards  carried  a  quarterly  escutcheon  : — ist  and  4th, 
or,  three  crescents  within  a  double  tressure  flowered  and  counter-flowered 
gules  ;  2nd  and  3rd,  argent,  on  a  fess  gules,  three  cinquefoils  of  the  first — 
the  crest  being  a  crescent  gules,  with  the  motto  "  Semper,"  and  two  horses, 
"at  liberty,"  as  supporters.' 

In  an  interesting  paper  on  old  Scottish  heraldic  glass,1  my  late  lamented 
friend  Mr.  J.  M.  Gray  refers  to  the  fine  rondel  found  about  twelve  years 
ago  in  the  drawer  of  an  old  table  at  Fyvie  Castle,  and  now  in  one  of  the 
staircase  windows,  which  I  describe,  not  quite  correctly,  in  my  Memoir  of 
Chancellor  Seton.  Along  with  the  date  1599,  it  exhibits  the  arms  of  the 
Chancellor,  when  Lord  Fyvie,  in  the  combined  form,  on  a  highly  orna- 
mental escutcheon,  surmounted  by  a  helmet  and  mantling,  on  which  is 
placed  a  crescent  with  a  similar  figure  inverted  under  the  motto 
'  Semper.' 

Montrose  is  said  to  have  passed  a  night  at  Fyvie  Castle,  which  has  a 
popular  place  in  Scottish  poetry,  in  connection  with  the  loves  of  its  valiant 
trumpeter  Andrew  Lammie,  and  the  '  Mill  o'  Tiftie's  Annie.'  True  to  the 
legend,  the  figure  of  a  trumpeter,  springing  from  the  summit  of  one  of 
the  castle's  turrets,  still  points  his  bugle  towards  his  sweetheart's  abode. 

The  castle  and  the  surrounding  domain  were  acquired  by  a  branch  of 
the  Gordons,  Earls  of  Aberdeen,  in  1726,  and  a  few  years  ago  came  into 
the  possession  of  the  present  proprietor,  Mr.  A.  J.  Forbes- Leith. 


Proceedings  of  the  Society  of  Scottish  Antiquaries,  December  14,  1891. 


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PINKIE   HOUSE  811 


VI.  Pinkie  House 

'  By  Pinkie  House  oft  let  me  walk, 
And  muse  o'er  Nelly's  charms  ! 
Her  placid  air,  her  winning  talk, 
Even  envy's  self  disarms.' 

Old  Song. 

This  interesting  old  mansion,  surrounded  by  venerable  chestnuts  and 
sycamores,  is  situated  at  the  east  end  of  the  town  of  Musselburgh — about 
six  miles  from  Edinburgh ;  and,  with  the  exception  of  an  addition  made  in 
the  beginning  of  the  present  century,  it  still  retains  the  leading  character- 
istics of  the  architecture  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries.1 

It  is  generally  believed  that  the  principal  portion  of  Pinkie  House, 
including  the  '  King's  Room  '  and  '  Painted  Gallery,'  owes  its  existence  to 
Lord  Dunfermline,  who  made  extensive  additions  to  an  existing  Scottish 
Castle.  The  family  chronicle  informs  us  that  '  he  acquired  the  lands  of 
Pinkie,  where  he  built  ane  noble  house,  brave  stone  dykes  about  the 
garden  and  orchard,  with  other  commendable  policie  about  it ' ;  and  the 
following  inscription,  although  unfortunately  no  longer  visible,  in  conse- 
quence of  modern  additions,  is  cut  upon  the  front  of  the  mansion : — 
'  Dominus  Alexander  Setonius,  hanc  domum  aedificavit,  non  ad  animi, 
sed  fortunarum  et  agelli  modum,  1613.'2 

The  central  edifice  consists  of  a  massive  square  tower,  the  walls  being 
of  great  thickness,  and  the  ground  floor  strongly  arched.  The  turrets 
attached  to  the  angles  of  the  tower,  as  well  as  those  on  the  corners  of  the 
lower  portion  of  the  structure,  present  very  characteristic  features.  It  is 
supposed  that  the  building  was  intended  to  have  been  quadrangular,  with 
the  elaborate  fountain,  which  stands  in  front  of  the  house,  in  the  centre  of 
the  court.  The  mansion  forms  two  sides  of  a  square,  having  originally  had 
the  square  completed  with  high  ornamental  walls  (of  which  only  a  portion 
now  exist),  enclosing  a  courtyard  of  about  120  by  140  feet.  Although  both 
Fyvie  and  Pinkie  are  indebted  to  the  same  individual  for  their  principal 
features,  there  is  only  a  very  general  resemblance  between  the  two  struc- 
tures. '  The  eastern  block  forms  the  principal  portion  of  the  house,  and 
is  148  feet  6  inches  long  by  27  feet  wide.  It  is  three  stories  in  height, 
and  has  a  lofty  oblong  tower  in  the  centre  on  the  courtyard  side.     The 

1  See  a  reference  to  Pinkie  in  Thomas  Kirk's  doors  and  windows  as  there  are  days  in  the  year.' 

Tour  in  Scotland  {1677),  in  supplement  to  Hume  2  The  concluding  portion  of  this  legend  is  cut 

Brown's  Early  Travellers  in  Scotland,  where  it  is  over  the  doorway  of  St.  Bennet's,  Edinburgh, 

stated  that '  it  used  to  be  told  of  this  house  (though  for  upwards  of  thirty  years  the  residence  of  the 

without  foundation  in  fact)  that  it  had  as  many  author  of  this  work. 


812  THE   PAINTED   GALLERY 

northern  part  of  this  block,  including  the  tower,  is  the  oldest  part  of  the 
building,  and  formed  originally  a  castle  of  the  L  plan,  measuring  65 
feet  long,  and  having  the  entrance  in  the  tower,  or  wing,  which  contains  the 
staircase  to  the  first  floor,  the  upper  floor  being  reached  by  a  turreted 
wheel  stair.  The  second  portion  of  the  buildings  includes  the  remainder 
of  the  east  front  and  the  southern  wing,  which  has  a  frontage  of  125  feet. 
.  .  .  The  principal  entrance  into  the  courtyard  was  through  a  flat  arched 
gateway  and  passage  under  the  southern  block,  and  led  straight  to  the 
old  doorway.  This  entrance  is  now  done  away  with,  and  converted  into 
a  room.  A  new  scale  and  platt  staircase  was  subsequently  built  in  the 
centre  of  the  eastern  main  building,  beneath  which  a  small  door  leads  out 
to  the  extensive  walled  gardens,  while  two  wheel  staircases  on  the  inner 
side  of  the  south  wing  lead  to  the  upper  floors.  Several  of  the  upper 
floor  rooms  in  the  eastern  block  are  of  considerable  size  and  importance, 
especially  the  fine  painted  gallery,  measuring  85  feet  long  by  19  feet  wide. 
It  has  a  curved  ceiling  of  timber,  elaborately  painted  with  mythical  and 
allegorical  subjects.  .  .  .  The  painting  was  continued  down  the  walls,  but 
was  probably  removed  when  the  wall  of  the  east  front  was  heightened, 
thus  converting  what  was  formerly  the  top  story,  with  dormer  windows, 
into  a  full  story.  The  rooms  adjoining  the  gallery  have  fine  plastered 
ceilings  ...  in  the  style  of  the  seventeenth  century.'1  A  pretty  full 
account  of  the  ceiling  of  the  '  Painted  Gallery '  will  be  found  in  a  paper 
which  I  read  before  the  Society  of  Scottish  Antiquaries  in  1887,2  the 
greater  portion  of  which  I  shall  here  introduce  : — 

'  The  wooden  roof  is  entirely  covered  with  paintings  and  inscriptions, 
executed  in  water-colour  "tempera."  .  .  .  Many  of  them  embody  incidents 
to  which  a  moral  is  attached,  and  the  subjects  are  usually  classical.  .  .  . 
The  learned  lawyer  to  whom  Pinkie  owes  its  glory  seems  to  have  had  a 
passion  for  Latin  inscriptions.  They  occur  in  many  parts  of  the  stone- 
work, and  the  Painted  Gallery  is  thickly  strewed  with  them.  They  are 
moral  apophthegms,  some  of  them  inculcating  a  special  modesty  in  reference 
to  the  vanity  of  magnificent  houses,  which  sounds  rather  oddly  in  the  midst 
of  so  much  architectural  magnificence,  and  seems  to  import  that  their  author 
was  conscious  that  his  besetting  weakness  lay  in  that  direction.  The 
painting  of  this  chamber  had  evidently  been  continued  from  the  ceiling 
along  the  walls,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  these  have  been  modern- 
ised. .  .  .  The  painted  chamber  is  a  very  suitable  place  for  spectral  horrors. 
A  grim  forbidding  portrait  of  a  female,  whose  name  is  associated  with  a 
traditional  crime,  is  said  to  come  forth  in  shadowy  embodiment,  and  stalk 
through  its  gloomy  length  by  night.'3 

The  length  of  the  '  Painted  Gallery '  given  by  Billings,  on  the 
authority  of  the  New  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  is  considerably 
over  stated,  as  it  is  only  about  86  (instead  of  120)  feet  in  length;  the 

1  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  ii.  392  et  seq.  3  Usually  called  the  '  Green  Lady,'  from  the 

2  Proceedings  of  the  Society  of  Scottish  Anti-        colour   of   her   dress,    and   supposed  to   be   a 
quaries,  12th  December  1887.  member  of  the  Seton  family. 


DESCRIPTION   OF  THE   CEILING  813 

breadth  being  not  quite  20  feet;  and  the  height  13  feet  7  inches.1    The 
ceiling  may  be  conveniently  described  under  three  divisions  : — 

First,  or  Central  Compartment,  embracing — 
Nine  coats  of  arms  ; 

Four  symbolical  devices,  with  relative  mottoes  ; 
Four  principal  legends,  of  three  lines  each  ;  and 
Four  border  legends. 


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Second,  or  Entrance  Compartment,  embracing — 
Six  symbolical  devices,  with  relative  mottoes ; 
Two  principal  legends  ;  and 
Ten  border  legends,  of  which  four  are  now  illegible. 

Third,  or  Oriel  Window  Compartment,  also  embracing — 
Six  symbolical  devices  with  relative  mottoes  ; 
Two  principal  legends  ;  and 
Ten  border  legends,  of  which  four  are  now  illegible. 

Accordingly  the  total  number  of  symbolical  devices  and  legends  are 
sixteen  and  thirty-two  respectively.  All  the  mottoes  and  legends  are  in 
Roman  characters. 

First,  or  Central  Compartment. 

In  this  compartment  the  arms  of  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline  occupy  the 
middle  of  the  central  octagonal  figure,  between  those  of  his  chief,  the  Earl 
of  Winton  on  the  one  side,  and  the  coat  of  the  Earl  of  Angus  on  the  other ; 
while,  in  the  two  side  borders,  the  shield  of  the  Earl  of  Bothwell  occurs 
between  the  escutcheons  of  Lord  Yester  and  Ferquhard  of  Gilmulscroft,  and 
that  of  the  Earl  of  Cassilis  between  the  coats  of  Lord  Borthwick  and  the 
Marquis  of  Hamilton,  the  latter  of  which  is  now  almost  entirely  effaced. 
The  following  are  the  blazons  of  these  nine  armorial  coats  : — 

I.  'The  Earle  of  Dunfermline.' — Quarterly,  ist  and  4th,  or,  three 
crescents  within  a  double  tressure,  flowered  and  counter-flowered  gules,  for 
Seton.  2nd  and  3rd,  argent,  on  a  fess  gules,  three  cinquefoils  of  the  first, 
for  Hamilton.  Supporters — two  horses  at  liberty  argent.  Crest — over 
a  coronet,  a  crescent  gules.  Motto — '  Semper.'  Under  the  shield,  in  a 
ribbon,  'A.  E.  D.'  (Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline). 

II.  'The  Earle  of  Winton.' — Quarterly,  ist  and  4th  as  in  No.  1.  2nd 
and  3rd,  azure,  three  garbs  or,  for  the  Earldom  of  Buchan.  Surtout — azure, 
a  blazing  star  of  twelve  points  argent,  within  a  double  tressure  flowered  and 
counter-flowered  or,  for  the  title  of  Winton.  Supporters— -two  foxes  proper, 
collared  or,  with  chains  attached  to  the  collars,  passing  between  the  forelegs, 
and   reflexing   over  the   backs.     Crest — over  a   coronet,  a  dragon   vert, 


1  The  celebrated  gallery  at  Hard  wick,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  is  180  feet  long,  and  of  a 
proportionate  breadth. 


814  ARMORIAL   BEARINGS 

spouting  fire  proper,  with  wings  elevated,  and  charged  with  a  star  argent. 
Motto — '  Hazard  yit  fordward.' 

III.  '  The  Lorde  Yester.' — Quarterly,  ist  and  4th,  azure,  three  cinque- 
foils  argent,  for  Fraser.  2nd  and  3rd,  gules,  three  bars  ermine,  for  Gifford  of 
Yester.  Surtout — argent,  three  inescutcheons  azure  (usually  gules),  the 
paternal  coat  of  H ay.  (The  1  st  and  2nd  quarters,  the  upper  portion  of  the  coat 
surtout,  and  the  crest  and  motto,  are  quite  effaced. )    Supporters — two  stags. 

IV.  'The  Earle  of  Cassilis.' — Argent,  a  chevron  gules  between  three 
cross-crosslets  fitched  sable,  all  within  a  double  tressure  flowered  and 
counter-flowered  of  the  second.  Supporters — two  swans  proper.  Crest — 
over  a  coronet,  a  dolphin  azure.     Motto — 'Avise  la  fine'  (sic). 

V.  '  The  Earle  of  Bothvell.' — Quarterly,  ist  and  4th,  or,  a  bend  azure, 
for  Vass,  Lord  Dirleton.  2nd  and  3rd,  gules,  on  a  chevron  argent,  two 
lions  pulling  at  a  rose  of  the  first,  for  Hepburn.  Surtout — the  arms  of 
Scotland.  Supporters — two  lions  guardant  gules.  Crest— over  a  coronet, 
and  in  front  of  a  tree  (?)  vert,  a  horse  argent,  caparisoned  gules.  Motto — in 
ribbon  over  crest,  illegible  (probably,  '  Keip  traist '). 

In  the  admirable  coloured  plate  of  the  arms  of '  The  Lordis  of  Liddis- 
dail  of  auld,'  in  Mr.  Armstrong's  History  of  Liddesdale,  etc.,  two  coats  are 
given  for  the  Earl  of  Bothwell,  of  which  the  second  corresponds  with  the 
Pinkie  blazon ;  while  in  the  first  there  is  no  shield  surtout.  Patrick,  first 
Earl  of  Bothwell,  received  a  grant  of  the  lordship  of  Liddesdale  in  1491-2, 
and  perhaps  he  carried  the  royal  arms  on  an  inescutcheon,  on  account  of 
his  official  position  as  High  Admiral  of  the  Kingdom. 

VI.  '  Ferqvhard  of  Gilmvlscroft.' — Quarterly,  ist,  or,  a  lion  rampant 
gules.  2nd,  argent,  three  sinister  hands  couped  paleways  gules.  3rd, 
argent,  a  lymphad  sable  with  flag  of  the  second.  4th,  or,  a  chevron  cheque 
argent  and  sable  between  three  water-bougets  of  the  second.  Crest — over 
a  helmet,  a  dexter  hand  gules,  couped  as  the  former.  Motto — 'Atovt.' 
Nisbet  (Heraldry,  i.  278)  gives  the  following  as  the  arms  of  Robert 
Farquhar  of  Gillmyrs-croft : — Argent,  a  lion  rampant  sable,  armed  and 
langued  or,  between  three  sinister  hands,  two  and  one,  couped  paleways 
gules.     Crest,  as  on  the  ceiling.     Motto — '  Sto,  cado,  fide  et  armis.' 

VII.  'The  Lorde  Borthvick.' — Argent,  three  cinquefoils  sable.  Sup- 
porters— two  angels  proper,  winged  or.  Crest — on  a  wreath  (no  coronet),  a 
savage's  head  couped  proper  (?).     Motto — '  Qui  conducit.' 

VIII.  'The  Earle  of  Angvs.' — Quarterly,  ist,  azure,  a  lion  rampant 
argent,  for  the  Earldom  of  Galloway.  2nd,  or,  a  lion  rampant  gules, 
surmounted  of  a  ribbon  sable,  for  the  lordship  of  Abernethy.  3rd,  argent, 
three  piles  azure,  for  Wishart  of  Brechin.  4th,  or,  a  fess  cheque  argent 
and  azure,  surmounted  of  a  bend  sable,  charged  with  three  buckles  of  the 
second,  for  Stewart  of  Bonkill.  Surtout — argent,  a  man's  heart  gules 
ensigned  with  an  imperial  crown  proper,  and  on  a  chief  azure,  three  stars 
of  the  first,  the  paternal  coat  of  Douglas.  Supporters — dexter,  a  savage 
proper  holding  a  baton  erected  and  wreathed  about  the  middle  with  laurel 
vert ;  sinister,   a  stag  proper  (armed  and   unguled  or  ?).     Crest — over  a 


ILLUSTRATIVE   PEDIGREE 


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coronet  (chapeau  gules,  turned  up  ermine  ?),  a  salamander  vert,  in  the 
middle  of  flames  of  fire.  Motto — 'Jamais  arriere.'  The  achievement  is  placed 
within  a  pale  of  wood,  wreathed  and  impaled,  by  way  of  'compartment' 

This  blazon  corresponds  with  the  seals  of  the  eighth  and  ninth  Earls 
of  Angus,  as  given  in  Laing's  Catalogue,  Nos.  253-4.  In  Mr.  Armstrong's 
plate,  on  the  other  hand,  the  field  of  Galloway  in  the  first  quarter  is  gules 
instead  of  azure  ;  while  Soulis — ermine,  three  chevronels  gules — takes  the 
place  of  Wishart  of  Brechin  in  the  third  quarter. 

IX.  'The  Marqveis  of  Hamilton.' — With  the  exception  of  a  coronet 
below  the  remains  of  the  crest  (probably  an  oak-tree  and  frame-saw)  and 
the  horns  of  the  supporters  (two  stags  or  antelopes),  this  achievement  is 
entirely  effaced.  In  the  lower  portion  of  the  shield  there  are  faint  traces 
of  cinquefoils,  and  probably  the  blazon  embraced  three  of  these  charges, 
which  constitute  the  paternal  coat  of  Hamilton.  It  seems  strange  that  the 
arms  of  the  head  of  the  family  should  have  been  introduced  in  lieu  of  those 
of  the  Chancellor's  maternal  grandfather,  Sir  William  Hamilton  of  Sorn 
and  Sanquhar,  who  bore  gules,  three  cinquefoils,  ermine,  within  a  double 
tressure,  flowered  and  counter-flowered  or,  as  illuminated,  according  to 
Nisbet,  on  the  House  of  Seton.  In  a  marginal  note,  by  the  late  Mr. 
Stodart,  on  one  of  the  volumes  of  Paterson's  Ayrshire  Families  in  the 
Lyon  Office,  it  is  stated  that  Sir  William  Hamilton  was  allowed  the  double 
tressure  in  1539. 

The  subjoined  table  exhibits  Lord  Dunfermline's  connection  with  the 
families  to  whom  the  preceding  Coats  Armorial  pertain  : — 


James,  ist  Earl  of  Morton. 


Archibald,  5th  Earl  of  Angus. 
VIII. 


Lady  Janet 
Douglas. 


George, 

5th  Lord 

Seton. 


=  Patrick, 

1st  Earl  of 

Bothwell. 

V. 


George,  =  Elizabeth 


Master  of 
Angus.1 


Drummond. 


Alexander  Farquhar 
of  Gilmilscroft. 
VI. 


William, 

3rd  Lord 

Eorthwick. 

I  VII. 


■■  Lady  Janet 
Hepburn. 


John,; 
3rd  Lord 
Yester. 

III. 


Elizabeth 
Douglas. 


John  Hamilton  : 
of  Camskeith. 


George,  6th  Lord  Seton=HoN.  Elizabeth  Hay. 


Catharine      David, 
Farquhar.      ist  Earl 
of  Cassilis. 
IV. 


Hon.  Agnes 
Borthwick. 


Sir  William  Hamilton  =  Lady  Catharine 


of  Sorn  and  Sanquhar 

(2nd  Son) 

(cadet  of  Marquis  of 

Hamilton). 

IX. 


Kennedy. 


I  I 

George,  7th  Lord  Seton  — Isabel  Hamilton. 
(father  of  Robert,  ist 
Earl  of  Winton). 
II. 

Alexander  Seton,  ist  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 
I. 


Elder  brother  of  Gavin  Douglas  the  poet,  Bishop  of  Dunkeld. 


816  DEVICES  AND   LEGENDS 

The  following  four  symbolical  devices  and  relative  mottoes  in  the 
central  compartment  are  placed  within  oval  figures  : — 

i.  An  old  man  surrounded  by  barrels.  Dives  •  inops  •  ratio  •  Anti- 
cyram  destruit  .  .  .  (Whether  a  man  be  rich  or  poor  [wine]  will  destroy 
his  reason  (?)). 

The  last  word  in  this  legend  (of  which  the  last  letter  is  '  m ')  is  nearly 
effaced,  and,  as  it  stands,  the  translation  is  somewhat  doubtful.  Anticyra 
was  a  town  in  Phocis  celebrated  for  its  hellebore,  which  was  of  great 
medicinal  value. 

2.  Two  men  holding  goats  in  their  arms.  A  •  teneris  •  adsuesce  • 
labori  (Accustom  yourself  to  labour  from  your  earliest  years). 

3.  A  white  stag.  Serviat  •  seternum  •  qui  •  parvo  •  nesciet  •  uti  (May 
he  be  ever  dependent  who  knows  not  how  to  put  up  with  limited  means). 

4.  A  conical  rock.  Stat  •  cunctis  •  immota  •  minis  (It  stands  unmoved 
by  every  threat). 

The  four  principal  legends  are  placed  within  oblong  panels  : — 

5.  Natura  •  necessaria  •  docuit  •  quae  ■  sunt  •  pauca  •  et  ■  parabilia. 
Stultitia  •  superflua  •  excogitavit  •  quae  •  sunt  •  innumera  •  et  •  difficilia 
(Nature  has  taught  us  what  things  are  necessary,  which  are  both  few  and 
easily  attained.  Folly  has  devised  superfluities,  which  are  countless,  and 
difficult  to  be  acquired). 

6.  In  •  magria  •  fortuna  •  ut  •  admodum  •  difficile  •  sic  •  admodum  • 
pulchrum  •  est  •  seipsum  •  continere  (In  great  prosperity,  as  it  is  very 
difficult,  so  it  is  very  beautiful,  to  exhibit  moderation). 

7.  Ad  •  laeta  •  et  •  aspera  •  pariter  •  nati  •  sumus  •  nisi  •  pari  •  utroque 
•  animo  .  .  .  sumus  (  ?  ). 

8.  Vis  •  Phyloclaea  •  divitem  •  reddere  •  non  •  adjiciendum  •  pecuniae  • 
sed  •  detrahendum  •  cupiditatibus  (Dost  thou  wish  to  enrich  Philocles  ? 
Add  not  to  his  wealth,  but  take  from  his  desires). 

Philocles  was  an  admiral  of  the  Athenian  fleet  during  the  Pelopon- 
nesian  war,  who  recommended  his  countrymen  to  cut  off  the  right  hands  of 
their  captured  enemies,  that  they  might  be  rendered  unfit  for  service. 

The  four  border  legends,  in  small  oblong  panels,  are  as  follows  : — 

9.  Virum  •  bonum  •  non  •  ordo  •  sed  •  mores  •  praestant  (Not  rank, 
but  demeanour  demonstrates  the  good  man). 

10.  Hominem  •  se  •  esse  •  non  .  .  .  qui  •  injuriarum  •  non  •  oblivis- 
citur  (He  is  not  worthy  of  the  name  of  man  who  cannot  forget  an  injury). 

11.  Utile  •  est  •  ad  •  usum  •  secundorum  •  per  •  adversa  •  venisse  (It 
is  useful  to  have  reached  good  fortune  through  adversity). 

12.  ^Equora  •  ventis  •  turbantur  •  Populum  •  oratores  •  movent  (The 
seas  are  agitated  by  the  winds — Orators  move  the  populace). 

Second,  or  Entrance  Compartment. 

The  six  symbolical  devices  and  relative  mottoes  in  this  compartment 
are  placed  within  heater-shaped  shields,  and  may  be  briefly  described  as 
follows : — 


SECOND   COMPARTMENT  817 

13.  A  female  figure  with  bandaged  eyes,  and  a  dark-complexioned 
dwarf  at  her  feet.  Fortuna  •  non  •  mutat  •  genus  (Fortune  does  not 
change  our  race). 

14.  Diogenes  in  his  barrel  addressing  three  individuals.  Qui  •  sapit  • 
innumeris  •  moribus  •  aptus  •  erit  (The  wise  man  will  adapt  himself  to 
countless  fashions). 

15.  A  mailed  figure  carrying  an  old  man  on  his  back.  Sat  •  patriae  • 
Priamoque  •  datum  (Enough  has  been  rendered  to  our  country  and  to 
Priam). 

16.  Two  individuals  in  affectionate  embrace,  and  two  others  looking 
on.  Nil  •  ego  •  contulerim  •  jucundo  •  sanus  •  amico  (When  sound  in 
mind,  I  would  prefer  nothing  to  a  pleasant  friend). 

17.  Two  figures  accompanied  by  a  number  of  dogs.  Firma  •  amicitia 
(In  firm  friendship). 

18.  A  lion  with  neck  encircled  by  a  snake.  Quam  •  bene  •  con- 
veniunt  (How  well  they  agree). 

The  two  principal  legends  are  placed  within  smaller  shields  of  a  some- 
what similar  shape  to  those  which  embrace  the  symbolical  devices,  and  are 
as  follows : — 

19.  Vir  •  bonus  ■  patriam  •  amat  •  non  •  quia  •  dives  •  aut  •  opulenta  • 
sed  •  quia  •  sua.  Sic  •  Ulysses  •  ad  •  Ithacae  ■  saxa  •  non  •  minori  •  studio  • 
contendit  •  quam  •  Agamemnon  •  ad  •  nobiles  •  Mycaenarum  ■  muros  (A 
good  man  loves  his  country  not  because  it  is  rich  or  opulent,  but  because  it 
is  his  own.  Thus  did  Ulysses  hasten  to  the  rocks  of  Ithaca  with  no  less 
zeal  than  Agamemnon  to  the  mighty  walls  of  Mycenae). 

20.  Curandum  •  magis  •  ut  •  laete  •  quam  •  ut  •  late  •  habitemus.  Saepe  • 
in  •  palatiis  ■  labor  •  et  •  dolor  •  in  •  tuguriis  •  quies  •  et  •  gaudium  •  habitant 
(We  should  take  care  rather  to  have  happy  than  extensive  abodes.  In 
palaces  labour  and  sorrow,  in  cottages  peace  and  joy,  often  dwell). 

Of  the  ten  border  legends,  two  on  each  side  (21,  22,  23,  and  24)  are 
placed  within  small  oblong  panels,  and  are  all  effaced ;  while  the  six  others 
occupy  semicircular  figures,  and  are  as  follows  : — 

25.  Bona  •  mens  •  omnibus  •  patet.  Omnes  •  ad  •  hoc  •  nobiles  •  sumus 
(A  good  mind  is  open  to  all.     To  this  extent  we  are  all  noble). 

26.  Vita  •  nostra  ■  temperanda  •  inter  •  bonos  •  mores  •  et  •  publicos 
(Our  life  ought  to  be  apportioned  between  good  conduct  and  public  service). 

27.  Cuique  •  suum  •  rependit  •  posteritas  •  decus  (Posterity  renders 
to  every  man  the  honour  that  is  his  due). 

28.  Nemo  •  regere  •  potest  •  nisi  •  qui  •  et  •  regi  (No  one  can 
govern  unless  he  can  also  be  governed). 

29.  Bene  •  ferre  •  magnam  •  disce  •  fortunam  1  (Learn  to  bear  great 
prosperity  with  moderation). 

30.  Vis  •  expers  •  consilii  •  mole  •  ruit  •  sua  (Power  without  guidance 
falls  by  its  own  weight). 

1  Perhaps  suggested  by  a  favourite  motto  of        Seton) : — '  In  adversitate  patiens,  in  prosperitate 
the  Chancellor's  father  (George,  seventh  Lord        benevolus — Hazard  zet  fordward.' 

5  L 


818  THIRD   COMPARTMENT 

Third,  or  Oriel  Window  Compartment. 

The  devices  and  legends  in  this  compartment  are  arranged  in  precisely 
the  same  manner  as  those  in  the  entrance  compartment.  The  six  devices 
and  relative  mottoes  are  : — 

31.  A  satyr  and  other  figures  dancing  in  front  of  a  circular  tower. 
Nympharumque  •  leves  •  cum  •  satyris  •  chori  •  secernunt  •  me  •  populo 
(The  graceful  dances  of  nymphs  and  satyrs  separate  me  from  the 
common  herd). 

32.  Three  individuals  standing  beside  a  king  seated  on  his  throne. 
Pax  •  optima  •  rerum  (Peace  is  the  best  of  things). 

33.  A  man  drawing  water  from  a  fountain,  and  another  figure  floating 
down  a  stream.     Nihil  •  amplius  •  opto  (I  wish  nothing  more). 

34.  Two  females  in  a  small  boat — one  sitting  in  the  stern,  the  other 
(naked)  standing  and  holding  a  sail.  Sit  •  virtus  •  Tiphys  (Let  virtue  be 
the  pilot). 

Tiphys  was  the  pilot  of  the  ship  of  the  Argonauts. 

35.  A  gouty  man  on  a  couch,  with  an  attendant  standing  beside  him. 
Semper  avarus  eget  (The  covetous  man  is  always  in  need). 

36.  Two  warriors  in  front  of  a  figure,  seated  on  a  pedestal,  and  holding 
a  cornucopia.  Nullum  •  numen  •  abest  •  si  •  sit  •  prudentia  (No  divine 
aid  is  awanting  if  prudence  be  present). 

The  two  principal  legends  are — 

37.  Placeat  •  homini  ■  quicquid  •  Deo  •  placuit  •  ratio  •  quam  ■  qui  • 
amat  •  contra  •  durissima  •  armatus  •  est  (Let  whatever  be  the  will  of  God 
be  that  of  man,  a  rule  which  he  who  loves  is  armed  against  the  hardest 
calamities). 

38.  Regiae  •  amplissimseque  •  opes  •  si  •  in  •  malum  •  et  •  improvidum  • 
inciderint  •  momento  •  dissipantur  ■  at  •  quamvis  •  modicee  •  bono  •  custodi  ■ 
traditse  •  usu  •  ipso  •  crescunt  •  et  •  augentur  (If  princely  and  extensive 
possessions  fall  to  the  lot  of  a  wicked  and  improvident  master,  they  are 
straightway  dissipated  ;  but  riches,  however  moderate,  if  bestowed  upon  a 
good  keeper,  grow  by  their  use  and  are  increased). 

As  in  the  case  of  the  entrance  compartment,  four  of  the  ten  border 
legends,  two  on  each  side  (39,  40,  41,  and  42),  are  effaced,  the  six  others 
being  as  follows  : — 

43.  Dignum  •  laude  •  virum  •  musa  •  vetat  •  mori  (The  muse  forbids 
that  the  man  worthy  of  laudation  should  die). 

44.  Pax  •  una  •  triumphis  •  innumeris  •  potior1  (One  peace  is  better 
than  innumerable  triumphs). 

45.  Bene  •  est  •  cui  •  Deus  •  obtulit  •  parca  •  quod  •  satis  •  est  •  manu 
(Well  is  it  for  him  on  whom  God  with  a  frugal  hand  has  conferred 
enough). 

46.  Cuique  •  mores  •  fortunam  •  fingunt  •  sui  (A  man's  character 
determines  his  fortune). 

1  Like  No.  32,  worthy  of  the  Chancellor  of  James  VI.,  whose  motto  was  '  Beati  pacifici.' 


THE   'KING'S    ROOM,'   ETC.  819 

47.  Scilicet  •  improbae  •  crescunt  •  tamen  ■  curtse  •  nescio  •  quid  • 
semper  •  abest  •  rei 1  (Though  riches  are  insatiate,  yet  are  they  ever 
straitened.     Something  is  always  wanting  to  a  man's  fortune). 

48.  Saepe  •  acri  •  potior  ■  prudentia  •  dextra  (Prudence  is  often  better 
than  a  strong  right  arm). 

After  I  had  copied  the  legends,  the  late  Sir  John  Hope2  kindly  sent 
me  a  '  List  of  the  Inscriptions,'  made  by  a  friend  of  the  family  about  forty 
years  ago,  and  embracing  twenty-nine  of  the  forty-eight  legends  and 
mottoes,  besides  two  others  in  Greek  characters,  on  the  ceiling  of  the  oriel 
window,  which  I  had  unaccountably  overlooked.  The  Greek  legends  are 
as  follows : — 

49.  MH  •  IIANNTXION  (Not  the  whole  night). 

50.  OT  •  XPH  •  IIANNTXION  •  ETAEIN  •  BOTAH$OPON  •  ANAPA 
(A  counsellor  ought  not  to  sleep  the  whole  night). 

In  a  few  instances  the  transcriber  has  misread  some  of  the  words  ; 
but,  speaking  generally,  the  transcripts  correspond  with  my  own  copies. 
The  centre  of  the  oriel  ceiling  is  occupied  by  a  stork  standing  on  one 
leg,  surmounted  by  a  ribbon  bearing  the  first  of  the  two  Greek 
inscriptions,  while  the  other  is  below,  on  another  ribbon  arranged  in 
three  divisions.  Besides  two  fleurs-de-lis  and  other  ornaments,  the  panel 
exhibits  a  cinquefoil  within  a  red  crescent  (a  favourite  device  of  Chan- 
cellor Seton's),  and  his  initials,  combined  with  those  of  his  third  wife, 
Margaret  Hay,  under  a  coronet,  as  on  more  than  one  of  the  bedroom 
ceilings  at  Pinkie. 

Many  other  portions  of  the  interior  of  Pinkie  are  possessed  of  con- 
siderable interest.  One  lofty  chamber,  called  the  'King's  Room,'  is  said 
to  have  been  occupied  by  Prince  Charles  on  the  night  after  the  battle  of 
Prestonpans.  Chancellor  Seton's  initials  (A.  S.)  are  frequently  intertwined 
on  the  ceilings  of  two  other  apartments  on  the  same  floor  as  the  '  King's 
Room,'  interspersed  with  coronets,  crescents,  and  cinquefoils.  In  the 
smaller  of  these  two  rooms  the  full  armorial  ensigns  of  Lord  Dunferm- 
line, beautifully  moulded  in  stucco,  surmount  the  mantelpiece,  accompanied 
by  the  following  good  advice  : — 

Nee  cede  adversis  rebus, 
Nee  crede  secundis — 

which  is  only  an  adaptation  of  the  words  inscribed  by  his  chivalric  father 


1  One  of  the  prayers  or  proverbs  attributed  to  the  possession  of  Sir  William  Hope: — 'This  Book 
another  Alexander  Seton— the  sixth  Earl  of  was  given  by  the  old  Earle  of  Wintoun  to  Sir 
Eglinton,  better  known  as  'GreysteeF — was  as  Thomas  Hope  of  Craighall,  the  King's  Advocate, 
follows  : — '  God  send  us  some  money,  for  they  and  his  Maties  Commissioner  at  that  time,  about 
are  little  thought  of  that  want  it.'— Kelly's  the  year  of  God  1628.  The  reason  for  which 
Scottish  Proverbs,  113.  the   Earle  gave  it  was,  because  the  said  Sir 

2  The  following  note  occurs  at  the  end  of  a  Thomas  his  Lady  D.  Elizabeth  Bennet  was  ane 
MS.  copy  of  the  Chronicle  and  Historic  of  the  oye  of  the  House  of  Wintoun,  for  hir  mother, 
Hous  and  Surname  of  Setoun,  bearing  the  callit  Grissell  Seton,  was  a  brother's  daughter  of 
initials  of  Sir  Thomas  Hope,  Lord  Advocate,  in  the  House.     Her  father  lived  in  Tranent' 


820 


DE   FOE'S  ACCOUNT  OF   PINKIE 


at  his  Palace  of  Seton,  already  referred  to,  in  allusion  to  his  own  painful 
experiences  after  the  battle  of  Langside. 


In  his  Tour  through  Great  Britain x  the  author  of  Robinson  Crusoe 
says :  '  The  glory  and  beauty  of  Inveresk  is  Pinkey,  which  formerly 
belonged  to  Seton,  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  but  now  to  the  Marquis  of 
Tweddale,  who  usually  resided  here,  before  his  house  at  Yester  was 
finished ;  which,  though  it  be  the  most  magnificent  building,  yet  is  not  so 
agreeably  situated  as  Pinkey,  which  stands  near  the  sea,  just  as  we  enter 
into  Musselburgh.  .  .  . 

'  The  great  hall  on  the  right,  as  you  enter,  is  adorned  with  views  of  the 
great  cities  of  Italy ;  and  in  a  drawing-room  adjoining  to  it  is  a  billiard 
table.  The  great  staircase  on  the  left  is  ballustraded  with  iron  and 
crowded  with  pictures. 

'  The  first  apartment  consists  of  a  dining-room,  drawing-room,  and 
bed-chamber,  all  very  spacious,  curiously  wainscotted  with  oak,  and  hung 
with  the  Seasons  in  tapestry,  of  the  small  figures,  and  best  sort :  the  bed 
is  of  crimson  velvet,  in  an  alcove,  neatly  supported  with  pillars.  The 
chimneys  are  of  marble,  and  above  that  of  the  dining-room  is  painted  the 
finest  inside  of  a  church  that  is  anywhere  to  be  seen. 

'  The  great  gallery  is  very  long  and  spacious,  the  ceiling  whereof  is 
full  of  Latin  inscriptions,  suitable  to  the  several  paintings.      Here  are  a 


1  Vol.  iv.  (Scotland),  p.  82. 


WELL   RENAISSANCE  821 

family  picture  of  the  Lord  Seton  with  his  four  sons  and  daughters  by  Hans 
Holbein  ;  Mr.  Henderson,  the  Covenanter,  by  Vandyke ;  the  whole-length 
of  King  Charles  1.  and  his  Chancellor,  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  in  his 
robes,  by  the  same  hand.1  The  first  Earl  of  Tweedale,  with  his  eight 
sons  and  seven  daughters,  all  in  one  picture,  as  big  as  the  life,  takes  up 
almost  one  end  of  the  room.  There  are  fine  altar-pieces,  Passion-pieces, 
and  others  of  that  kind,  which  were  saved  from  plunder  out  of  monasteries 
at  the  Reformation.  Here  is  likewise  a  good  picture  of  the  Earl  of 
Strafford,  and  another  of  the  Duke  of  Lauderdale  (who  married  his  only 
child  to  the  heir  of  this  family),  with  great  numbers  of  family  pictures  of 
the  Hays  and  Setons.  There  is  also  well  preserved  the  genealogical  tree 
of  the  family,  from  the  year  970  to  this  time  ;  viz.,  the  Hays,  Giffords,  and 
Frasers.     But  most  of  the  pictures  have  been  carried  to  Yester. 

'  The  parterre  behind  the  house  is  very  large,  and  nobly  adorned  with 
ever-greens ;  and  on  each  side  of  it  spacious  gardens.  The  whole  stands 
in  a  park,  which  is,  however,  now  greatly  reduced  in  extent ;  but  it  was 
formerly  well  planted  with  fir-trees,  and  walled  round  with  stone.  I 
confess,  if  I  had  been  owner  of  Pinkey,  I  should  hardly  have  built  Yester ; 
for  Pinkey  stands  nobly,  and  has  a  commanding  prospect,  not  only  over 
the  adjacent  country,  but  also  of  the  coast  of  Fife,  over  the  sea,  at  nine 
miles'  distance ;  whereas  Yester,  as  I  have  said,  lies  in  a  bottom,  and  all 
its  views  are  bounded  within  itself.  Yester,  it  is  true,  is  the  ancient  seat 
of  the  family ;  whose  title  to  Pinkey  is  but  late,  and  (some  say)  was 
precarious.' 

An  interesting  notice  of  Pinkie,. by  the  late  Mr.  J.  M.  Gray,  appears 
in  the  Scottish  Art  Review  for  July  1889.  It  is  chiefly  devoted  to  an 
account  of  the  interior  and  its  present  contents.  Mr.  Gray  mentions  that 
the  late  Sir  John  Hope  considered  that  the  fine  Renaissance  well  in  front 
of  the  house  bears  a  strong  resemblance  to  the  work  of  Vignola,  who  was 
much  employed  by  the  Farnese  family,  and  was  the  architect  of  their  palace 
near  Viterbo ;  and  further,  that  Chancellor  Seton,  '  whose  early  residence 
and  education  in  Italy  must  have  familiarised  him  with  foreign  art,  em- 
ployed Italian  workmen  upon  this  and  other  portions  of  the  Pinkie 
buildings.'  The  notice,  which  is  accompanied  by  several  excellent  views 
of  both  the  exterior  and  interior,  concludes  with  a  pretty  full  account  of 
the  Painted  Gallery,  and  the  writer  truly  states  that  '  it  would  form  an 
admirable  and  rewarding  subject  for  a  careful  monograph.'  I  have  reason 
to  believe  that  the  ceiling  is  at  present  engaging  the  attention  of  Mr. 
Hamilton  More-Nisbet,  who  may  perhaps  be  induced  to  carry  Mr.  Gray's 
suggestion  into  practical  effect. 

'  In  the  centre  of  the  courtyard  there  is  a  very  beautiful  well  canopy, 
having  four  square  piers  supporting  arches,  with  engaged  round  columns  of 
the  Roman  Doric  order,  above  which  is  an  open  lantern  of  four  pointed 


1  Hans  Holbein  is  a  mistake  for  Sir  Antonio        Vandyke)  ought  to  be  the  Chancellor's  son,  the 
More,  and  the  second  of  the  full-lengths  (by        second  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 


822  LATIN   INSCRIPTIONS 

arches,  the  whole  surmounted  by  a  vase.  The  erection  is  profusely 
decorated  with  carving,  monograms,  and  heraldic  devices,  having  reference 
to  the  Seton  family,  with  the  following  inscriptions  round  the  frieze : — west 
side,  vtilis  vnda  •  fluit  ;  north  side,  et  •  capiti  •  et  •  membris  ;  east  side, 

QVO  •  NON  •  VEL  •  PVRIOR  •  ALTER  ;  SOUth  side,  fFONTE  •  HOC  •  FRIGIDIOR.     The 

structure,  which  stands  on  three  steps,  is  about  24  feet  high.' 1 

The  following  inscriptions,  in  Roman  characters,  appear  on  two  slabs, 
each  about  three  by  four  feet,  which  lay  detached  at  Pinkie  for  many  years, 
and  were  built  into  the  garden  wall,  by  Sir  John  Hope,  in  1884,  under  the 
coronet  and  monogram  (A.  S.  and  M.  H.)  of  the  Earl  and  Countess  of 
Dunfermline : — Sibi  •  posteris  •  bonis  •  omnibus  •  humanis  •  urbanisque 
hominibus  •  urbanitatis  •  omnis  •  humanitatisque  •  amantissimus  •  Alexander 
Setonius  •  villam  •  hortos  •  et  •  haec  •  suburbana  •  aedificia  •  fundavit 
exstruxit  •  ornavit  ■  nihil  •  hie  •  hostile  •  ne  •  arcendis  •  quidem  •  hostibus 
non  •  fossa  •  non  •  vallum  •  verum  •  ad  •  hospites  •  benigne  •  excipiendos 
benevole  •  tractandos  •  fons  •  aquae  •  virginis  •  viridaria  •  piscinae  ■  avaria 
amcenitatem  •  omnia  •  ad  •  cordem  •  animumque  •  honeste  •  oblectandum 
composuit  •  quisquis  .  .  .  haec  •  furto  •  ferro  •  flamma  .  .  .  quo  .  .  .  hosti 
liter  •  se  •  gesserit  •  esse  •  omnis  •  caritatis  •  urbanitatisque  •  expertem 
immo  •  humanitatis  •  omnis  •  humanique  •  generis  •  hostem  •  profiteatur 
lapides  •  sancti  •  loquentur  •  et  •  promulgabunt. 

Deo  •  Optimo  •  Maximo  •  rerum  •  omnium  •  Authori  •  Largitori 
Conservatori  •  Iehovae  •  Statori  •  cujus  •  nutu  •  beneficioque  •  stant 
bona  •  omnia  •  certa  •  Honor  •  Omnis  •  Gloria.  ETAOriA  •  KAI 
ETXAPISTIA. 

James  Makgill  of  Rankeillor,  Lord  Clerk  Register  (whose  grand- 
nephew  became  Lord  Oxfurd  in  1651),  appears  to  have  resided  at  Pinkie — 
of  which  he  may  have  been  the  owner — about  1577.  The  estate  was 
purchased  by  the  Tweeddale  family  shortly  before  the  forfeiture  of  the 
fourth  and  last  Earl  of  Dunfermline  in  1690;  and  about  a  hundred  years 
later  (1788),  it  was  acquired  from  the  Hays  by  Sir  Archibald  Hope  of 
Craighall,  grandfather  of  General  Sir  William  Hope,  the  present  pro- 
prietor. 


1  Macgibbon  and  Ross,  ii.  398. 


ARMS   OF  THE   SETONS 


823 


III.    ARMORIAL  BEARINGS 


)  T  the  request  of  the  late  Mr.  R.  R.  Stodart  I  pre- 
pared a  short  statement  relative  to  the  Armorial 
Bearings  of  the  Seton  family,  which  appears  in 
the  second  volume  of  his  valuable  work  on  Scottish 
Arms,  under  his  notice  of  the  Armorial  de  Gelre, 
compiled  in  the  fourteenth  century.1  I  there 
conjecture  that,  as  descendants  of  the  Norman 
family  of  Say,  the  Setons  retain  the  heraldic 
tinctures  of  that  ancient  House  {or  and  gules), 
taking  three  red  crescents  for  charges  upon  a  golden 
field.  Nisbet  quaintly  assigns,  as  a  reason  for  their  assumption,  the  fact  of 
their  lands  in  East  Lothian  being  '  formed  by  the  Forth  in  three  great  bays, 
like  half-moons ' !  but  it  has  usually  been  considered  more  probable  that, 
being  the  symbols  of  Mussulmans,  these  figures  were  adopted,  as  by  other 
Christian  conquerors,  to  commemorate  some  victory  over  the  Turks  or 
Saracens.  The  statement,  however,  of  Pere  Anselme  (who  wrote  in  1663), 
that  the  Ottomans  took  crescents  'as  a  symbol  of  the  ambition  of  their 
conquests,'  is  called  in  question  by  a  recent  writer,  who  informs  us  that  '  the 
Crescent  was  the  special  mark  of  Constantinople  ;  it  lasted  there  for  centuries, 


1  A  useful  paper,  by  Captain  Archibald 
Hamilton  Dunbar,  correcting  Mr.  Stodart's  in- 
accuracies in  his  account  of  the  Armorial  de 


Gelre,  will  be  found  at  p.  9  of  the  Proceedings  of 
the  Society  of  Scottish  Antiquaries  for  1890-1. 


824  THE   ROYAL  TRESSURE 

as  a  local  and  thoroughly  Christian  emblem.  The  Turks  found  it  there  and 
adopted  it ;  but  they  no  more  invented  it  than  Prussia  invented  the  black 
eagle.  Even  now,  at  Moscow,  and  in  other  Russian  towns,  the  Crescent  is 
to  be  seen  on  churches  with  the  Cross  above  it,  the  object  of  their  union 
being  to  signifiy  the  Byzantine  origin  of  the  Russian  faith.  The  antithesis 
of  the  Crescent  and  the  Cross  is  therefore  a  modern  illusion ;  there  is  no 
original  hostility  between  them ;  the  supposed  contrast  of  their  meanings 
has  grown  up  by  habit  during  the  last  four  hundred  years,  but  it  has  no 
foundation  in  the  genealogy  of  the  Crescent.'1 

Alexander  de  Setun  witnessed  a  charter  by  Gillemur,  son  of  Gilleconel, 
to  the  Church  of  Lesmahagow,  in  1144,  but  the  earliest  Seton  seal  is  that 
of  Sir  Alexander  de  Seton,  c.  12 16,  bearing  three  crescents  and  a  label  of 
three  points.  On  the  later  seal  of  another  Alexander  Seton,  attached  to 
the  celebrated  letter  of  the  Scottish  barons  to  the  Pope  in  1320,  the  three 
crescents  are  placed  on  a  bend? 

The  son  (?)  and  successor  of  Sir  Christopher  Seton,  eighth  of  the  family 
on  record  (who  married  Christian  Bruce,  sister  of  Robert  1.),  placed  the 
double  tressure  round  his  paternal  crescents  on  account  of  his  royal  descent, 
as  on  his  seal  in  1337  ;3  and  Nisbet  specially  refers  to  the  presence  of  the 
tressure  in  the  Seton  achievement  on  the  double  ground  of  '  maternal  descent 
and  merit.'  It  is  said  that  he  also  obtained  from  the  King  a  coat  of  aug- 
mentation, viz.  : — gules,  a  sword  in  pale  proper,  pommelled  and  hiked  or, 
supporting  an  imperial  crown  within  a  double  tressure  of  the  last,  to  per- 
petuate the  services  rendered  to  his  country  by  himself  and  his  progenitors. 
This  coat,  however,  is  not  to  be  found  on  any  seal  used  by  the  successive 
representatives  of  the  family,  nor  does  it  appear  in  any  known  heraldic  MS. 
Sir  George  Mackenzie  mentions  that  it  was  borne  in  his  time  (before  1680)  : 
and  Nisbet,  who  had  the  best  opportunity  of  knowing  from  personal  obser- 
vation, and  because  his  father  had  been  agent  to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  says 
that  it  was  to  be  seen,  cut  in  stone,  on  the  old  House,  or  Palace,  of  Seton. 

In  common  with  earlier  writers,  Nisbet  adopts  the  tradition  which 
assigns  the  assumption  of  the  rampant  lion  in  the  Royal  Arms  of  Scotland 
to  Fergus  1.,  who  is  alleged  to  have  nourished,  as  king  of  Scotland,  about 
330  years  before  Christ !  He  also  refers  to  the  celebrated  league  which 
Charlemagne  is  said  to  have  entered  into,  in  the  beginning  of  the  ninth 
century,  with  Achaius,  king  of  Scotland,  on  account  of  his  assistance  in 
war ;  '  for  which  special  service  performed  by  the  Scots,  the  French  king 
encompassed  the  Scots  lion,  which  was  famous  all  over  Europe,  with 
a  double  tressure,  flowered  and  counter-flowered  with  flower-de-luces  (the 
armorial  figures  of  France)  of  the  colour  of  the  lion,  to  show  that  it  had 
formerly  defended  the  French  lilies,  and  that  these  thereafter  shall 
continue  a  defence  for  the  Scots  lion,  and  as  a  badge  of  friendship.'4 


1  Internatio7ial  Vanities,  by  Frederic  Marshall,        82  supra. 

p.  217.  3  Engraved  at  p.  81. 

2  These  two  seals  are  engraved  at  pp.  69  and  4  System  of  Heraldry,  ii.  Part  III.  p. 


ORIGIN   OF   FLEUR-DE-LIS  825 

'  This  awfull  beist  full  terrible  wes  of  cheir, 
Persing  of  luke,  and  stout  of  countenance, 
Rycht  strong  of  corpis,  of  fassoun  fair,  but  feir, 
Lusty  of  schaip,  Iycht  of  deliuerance, 
Reid  of  his  cullour,  as  in  the  ruby  glance ; 
On  field  of  gold  he  stude  full  mychtely, 
With  flour  de  lycis  sirculit  lustely.'  1 

On  the  other  hand,  Chalmers  observes  that  these  two  monarchs  were 
probably  not  even  aware  of  each  other's  existence,  and  suggests  that  the 
lion  (which  first  appears  on  the  seal  of  Alexander  n.)  may  have  been 
derived  from  the  arms  of  the  old  Earls  of  Northumberland  and  Hunting- 
don, from  whom  some  of  the  Scottish  kings  were  descended.  He  adds, 
however,  that  the  lion  was  the  cognisance  of  Galloway,  and  perhaps  of  all 
the  Celtic  nations.  Chalmers  also  mentions  an  'ould  roll  of  armes,' 
preserved  by  Leland,  said  to  be  of  the  age  of  Henry  in.  (12 16),  in  which 
the  arms  of  Scotland  are  thus  described  : — '  Le  roy  de  Scosce  dor  a  un  lion 
de  goules  a  un  bordure  dor  flurette  de  goules.'  According  to  Sir  George 
Mackenzie,  '  tressure  is  trescheur  in  the  French,  which  comes  from  tressouer, 
or  tressoir,  a  tressing  ;  and  I  conceive,'  he  says,  '  that  these  tresses  were 
introduced  in  heraldry  upon  coat-armours  to  represent  the  silver  and  gold 
laces  with  which  coats  were  usually  adorned.'2  'By  our  ancient  and 
modern  practice,' says  Nisbet,  'the  double  tressure  is  not  allowed  to  be 
carried  by  any  subject,  without  a  special  warrant  from  the  sovereign,  and 
that  in  these  two  cases  :  first,  to  those  who  are  descended  of  daughters  of 
the  royal  family,  and  so  to  them  it  is  a  tessera  of  a  noble  maternal  descent, 
as  the  orle  is  to  the  Spaniards.  And,  secondly,  to  those  who  have  merited 
well  of  their  King  and  country,  as  a  special  additament  of  honour.'3 

Among  other  Scottish  families  bearing  the  double  tressure  in  their 
escutcheons  are  the  Douglases,  Marquises  of  Queensberry,  the  Kennedys, 
Earls  of  Cassilis,  the  Erskines,  Earls  of  Kellie,  the  Gordons,  Earls  of 
Aberdeen,  the  Maitlands,  Earls  of  Lauderdale,  the  Lyons,  Earls  of 
Strathmore,  the  Charterises,  Earls  of  Wemyss,  the  Murrays,  '  especially 
those  of  Tullibardine  and  Athole,'  the  Scotts  of  Thirlestane,  the  Grahams  of 
Fintry,  the  Buchanans  of  that  ilk,  and  the  Edmonstones  of  Duntreath.4 
In  the  coat  of  the  Earl  of  Aboyne,  as  already  stated,  the  tressure  was 
flowered  with  fleurs-de-lis  within,  and  adorned  with  crescents  (for  Seton) 
without ;  while  in  that  of  the  Earl  of  Aberdeen  it  is  flowered  and  counter- 
flowered  with  thistles,  roses,  and  fleurs-de-lis  alternately. 

The  origin  of  the  fleur-de-lis  has  afforded  an  ample  field  for  contro- 
versy, and  in  the  year  1837  a  work  on  the  subject  by  M.  Rey  appeared 
in    France,    in  two   volumes  8vo.      It   has    been   variously  supposed   to 

1  The  Thistle  and  the  Rose,  by  Dunbar.  found  at  p.   119  of  my  Scottish  Heraldry.     See 

2  Science  of  Heraldry,  chap,  xxxiv.  a,so  the  late  Mr-  Guthrie-Smith's  interesting 
,  ~  ,  .  ,.  , .  .  „  ,  volume  on  Stratliblane,  p.  103,  and  the  privately 
\  System    of  Heraldry,    1.    180       See  also            inted  Genmiogicai  Account  of  the  Family  of 

Science  of  Heraldry,  chapters  11.  and  xxi.  Edmonstone  of  Duntreath  (pp.  12,  18,  and  32), 

4  Some  remarks  on  the  identity  of  the  arms        in   which  it  appears   to   be  assumed  that  the 
of  the    Setons   and  the   Edmonstones  will  be        Edmonstones  are  really  Setons. 

S  M 


826  THE   'GARBS'   OF   BUCHAN 

represent  a  water-lily,  an  iris,  a  toad,  a  bee,  and  a  lance-head !  Upton 
calls  it  '  flos  gladioli,'  the  flower  of  the  glader  or  sword-grass  ;  and  the  book 
of  St.  Albans  describes  the  arms  of  France  as  'iij  flowris  in  maner  of 
swerdis,  which  were  certainli  sende  be  an  Aungell  from  Heaven.'1 

As  already  stated,  George,  third  Lord  Seton,  married  Lady  Mar- 
garet Stewart,  daughter  and  heir  of  John,  Earl  of  Buchan  (grandson  of 
Robert  n.),  in  whose  right  he  claimed  the  Earldom  ;  and  on  that  account  his 
descendants  have  always  quartered  the  feudal  arms  of  Buchan,  azure,  three 
garbs  or.  This  assumption  is  thus  referred  to  in  the  MS.  History  of  the 
Cumings  of  Ernsyde,  compiled  in  1622  ;  and  although  the  alleged  motive 
is  erroneous,  the  statement  forms  a  curious  corroboration  of  the  fact :  '  Being 
also  requisitt  to  vnderstand  ye  reasone  why  ye  Lord  Seattoune,  now  E.  of 
Wintone,  weareth  ye  six  Bear  sheawes — thrie  in  everie  cross  of  his  bagge 
— I  being  in  the  Palace  of  Seattoune,  ffamiliar  w*  my  old  Lord,  demandat 
at  his  Lo:  for  what  cause  the  Hous  of  Seattoune  weare  ye  Cumings' armes 
in  y1  maner  ?  My  Lord  answered  me  y*  his  predicessors  gatt  the  lands  and 
lordship  of  Troup,  in  Buchan,  fra  ye  Earle  of  Buchane,  Cuming ;  soe,  as 
ane  tockin  of  perpetuall  band  of  freindship,  ye  Lo :  Seattoune  att  y*  tyme 
adioyned  ye  Six  Sheawes  to  his  own  armes,  qlk  remaines  w*  y*  Hous  as 
Memorie  of  auld  Kyndnes,  and  not  y*  ye  lands  wes  gevin  be  allienacne 
to  tack  any  pairt  of  ye  Cumings'  armes  ;  and  soe,  if  auld  love  and  kyndes 
should  be  respected,  it  is  ane  great  motive  and  occasione  to  profes  a 
good  will  and  freindship  to  remaine  betwixt  the  said  Surnames.'2 

Robert,  eighth  Lord  Seton,  on  being  created  Earl  of  Winton  (p.  208 
supra),  was  allowed  an  additional  coat  of  augmentation,  viz.,  azure,  a  star 
of  twelve  (sometimes  eight)  points  argent,  within  a  double  tressure  flowered 
and  counter-flowered  or.  On  a  large  detached  stone  in  Seton  Church, 
believed  to  have  formerly  surmounted  the  principal  doorway  of  Seton 
Palace,  and  engraved  at  p.  742,  the  full  Winton  arms  are  sculptured  in 
high  relief,  the  only  charges  in  the  inescutcheon  being  the  star  and  royal 
tressure,  as  on  the  seal  of  George,  third  Earl,  in  1608.  The  impalea 
inescutcheon  was  displayed,  at  his  funeral,  in  the  achievement  of  the 
fourth  Earl  (p.  249  supra),  and  also  appears  on  a  damask  napkin  in  my 
possession  (p.  275)  bearing  the  name  of  the  maker — 'John  Ochiltrie, 
weauer  in  Edinburgh,'  and  exhibiting  the  armorial  bearings  of  George,  fifth 
Earl  of  Winton,  under  the  following  legend  : — '  Insignia  Georgii  ix.  de 
Seton,  Comitis  de  Winton,  Domini  de  Seton,  171 2.'  Over  the  shield  is  an 
Earl's  coronet  surmounted  by  helmet,  crest,  and  motto  ;  and  behind,  two 
batons  in  saltire,  in  allusion  to  the  office  of  Master  of  the  Royal  Household 
formerly  held  by  the  family.  The  supporters  hold  banners,  of  which  the 
dexter  is  charged  with  the  arms  of  Seton,  and  the  sinister  with  a  circle  and 
triangle  interlaced,  surrounded  by  the  word  '  Indissoluble,'  the  device 
adopted  by  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  on  the  ensign  of  the  ship  Eagle 


1  See  also  Marshall's  International  Vanities,  2  Quoted   in   Maitland's   House  of  Seytoun, 

p.  199.  p.  96. 


SUPPORTERS,   CREST,   AND   MOTTOES     827 

which  he  equipped  to  avenge  himself  against  an  attack  by  the  Dunkirkers. 
In  the  four  corners  are  interlaced  crescents  and  other  devices,  with  legends, 
the  whole  being  within  a  bordure  charged  with  crescents  and  fleurs-de-lis. 

The  seal  of  Robert,  Lord  Seton,  in  1600,  presents  a  variation  of 
marshalling ;  the  crescents  of  Seton  being  there  quartered  with  the  garbs 
of  Buchan,  and  the  whole  surrounded  by  the  royal  tressure. 

Supporters. — While  the  seal  of  William,  first  Lord  Seton,  1384, 
exhibits  two  lions  sejant  gardant,  as  supporters,  on  that  of  his  great-grand- 
son George,  third  Lord,  c.  1440,  they  are  represented  as  rampant  gardant. 
According  to  Nisbet,  George,  fifth  Lord,  who  fell  at  Flodden,  used  a 
mertrick 1  and  a  lion,  but  the  supporters  carried  by  the  Earls  of  Winton 
were  two  foxes  (or  mertricks)  proper,  collared  and  chained  or,  each  collar 
charged  with  three  crescents  gules.  In  the  sixteenth  century,  the  collars, 
as  given  in  heraldic  mss.,  were  gules  charged  with  five  plates. 

Crest. — The  Crest  given  in  the  Armorial  de  Gelre  (an  antelope's 
head)  appears  on  the  seal  of  William,  Lord  Seton,  in  1384,  but  does  not 
seem  to  have  become  hereditary ;  the  same  Lord,  c.  1400,  used  a  crescent 
between  two  plumes  of  feathers  issuing  from  a  coronet,  as  sculptured  on  a 
stone  over  the  south-east  door  of  Seton  Church.2  In  Workman's  ms.  the 
crest  is  a  serpent  gliding  among  foliage.  Another  ms.  of  the  sixteenth 
century  has  a  crescent  between  two  branches,  but  the  established  crest  of 
the  Winton  family  was  a  dragon  or  wyvern  vert,  spouting  fire,  wings 
elevated,  and  charged  with  a  mullet  argent,  issuing  from  a  ducal  coronet. 
Sometimes  a  scroll  with  the  war-cry  '  Set  on ' 3  issues  from  the  dragon's 
mouth.4 

Mottoes. — '  Zet  fordward,'  or  '  Hazard  zet  fordward'  (Dare  to  advance 
a  little  further).     Below  the  shield  '  Invia  virtuti  via  nulla'  (Ovid,  Met. 


1  Martin,  in  his  Description  of  the  Western  4  The  following  note  to  the  expression  '  raiss 
Isles,  1703,  says  that  '  the  mertrick,  a  four-footed  dragoun '  (Barbour's  Bruce,  ii.  205)  occurs  in  Dr. 
creature  about  the  size  of  a  big  cat,  is  pretty  Skeat's  recent  edition  of  that  well-known  poem: 
common  in  the  isle  of  Harris.'  '  Lit.  raise  the  dragon.     Jamieson  explains  it  by 

2  Engraved  at  p.  94  supra  ;  see  also  p.  785.  "to  deliver  up  to  military  execution."   The  con- 

3  Speaking  of  the  Crimean  War,  Mr.  Ruskin  text  rather  implies  that  it  signifies  to  harry,  to 
indicates  as  his  belief  that  it  has  been  'produc-  act  tyrannically,  or  probably  "to  play  the  devil." 
tive  of  more  good  than  evil'  ;  and  in  support  of  We  learn  from  the  Chanson  de  Roland,  1.  1641, 
that  view,  he  appeals,  not  to  '  those  who  have  that  to  "  raise  the  dragon  "  was  used  of  raising 
suffered  nothing,'  and  whose  cry  will  be  for  the  devil's  standard  by  a  pagan  host.  Ducange 
peace,  but  to  those  'to  whom  the  war  has  gives — "Draco,  (1)  vexillum  in  quo  draconis 
changed  the  aspect  of  the  earth,  and  imagery  of  effigies  effecta  ;  (2)  Effigies  draconis,  qua;  cum 
heaven,  whose  hopes  it  has  cut  off  like  a  spider's  vexillis  in  ecclesiasticis  processionibus  deferri 
web,  whose  treasure  it  has  placed,  in  a  moment,  solet,  qua  vel  diabolus  ipse,  vel  hasresis  desig- 
under  the  seals  of  clay.  .  .  .  Ask  their  witness,  nantur,  de  quibus  triumphat  ecclesia."  We  are 
and  see  if  they  will  not  reply  that  it  is  well  with  all  familiar  with  St.  George  and  the  Dragon, 
them,  and  with  theirs  ;  that  they  would  have  it  wherein  the  dragon  represents  evil.' 

no  otherwise  :  would  not,  if  they  might,  receive  On  the  other  hand,  we  learn  from  Baker's 

back  their  gifts  of  love  and  life,  nor  take  again  Chronicle  that  '  after  Ambrosius  succeeded  Uter 

the  purple  of  their  blood  out  of  the  cross  on  the  .  .  .  called  Pendragon,  of  his  royal  banner  borne 

breastplate  of  England.   Ask  them  :  and  though  ever  before   him  ;  wherein   was   pourtrayed   a 

they  should  answer  only  with  a  sob,  listen  if  it  dragon  with  a  golden  head,  as  in  our  English 

does  not  gather  upon  their  lips  into  the  sound  camps  it  is  at  this  day  borne  for  the  Imperial 

of  the  old  Seyton  war-cry — "  Set  on." ' — Modern  standard.'] 
Painters,  vol.  iii.  Part  iv.  p.  334. 


828   HERALDIC   MSS.    IN   BRITISH   MUSEUM 

xiv.  113),  and  on  scrolls  passing  over  the  middle  of  the  supporters, 
'  Intaminatis  fulget  honoribus'  (Hor.  Carm.  iii.  2.  18). 

The  wyvern  crest  was  used  by  Roger  de  Quincy,  Earl  of  Winchester 
(p.  67  supra),  and  is  believed  by  Nisbet  and  others  to  have  been  adopted 
by  the  Setons  with  the  title  of  Winton,  on  account  of  their  relation  to  the 
family  of  De  Quincy. 

In  the  various  heraldic  mss.  in  the  British  Museum  there  are  numerous 
blazons  of  the  Seton  arms,  with  relative  notes,  from  which  I  select  the 
following : — ■ 

'  Seyton,  Lord  Seyton — or  3  cressantes  g.  a  double  tressell  flourtie 
g.'  (Crest)  '  On  a  wreathe  or  et  az.  a  cressant  g.,  on  eache  syde  thereof 
2  slippes  of  lawrell  v'.' 

This  is  followed  by  a  statement  relative  to  the  genealogy  and  alliances 
of  the  family,  somewhat  similar  to  that  given  under  the  notice  of  the  first 
Earl  of  Winton  (p.  205,  note  1,  supra),  which  appears  to  have  been  written 
during  the  lifetime  of  the  seventh  Lord  Seton,  as  it  thus  concludes  :  '  The 
last  (sixth  Lord)  maryed  a  frenche  woman.  He  (seventh  Lord)  hath  bene 
hurte  by  assisting  the  late  Oueene  of  Scottes.' 1 

'  The  lord  Seattoune — y*  like — The  poysey,  "  Zitt  fortward  " ' — accom- 
panied by  the  paternal  coat  of  Seton  supported  by  two  foxes,  with  helmet, 
mantling,  and  crest — the  crest  being  the  same  as  in  the  preceding  extract.2 

'  Seyton  lo.  Seyton  of  Seyton  by  the  sea,  is  descended  from  Sr  Alex- 
ander Seyton  K'  an  English  man  that  kept  the  towne  of  Barwick  in  the 
time  of  King  Ed.  3d.'  Coat  and  supporters  as  in  the  previous  blazon. 
Motto — 'Sett  forward' — -two  crests  being  given:  (1)  a  crescent  gules  in 
front  of  five  laurel  branches  vert ;  (2)  a  snake  vert  spouting  fire.3 

'  Seton  Lorde  Seton.'  Paternal  coat  of  Seton  with  finely  executed 
helmet  and  mantling,  supported  by  two  foxes.     Motto — 'Yet  Forwarde.'* 

'  Lord  Setton  of  that  like.'  A  well-executed  drawing  of  the  paternal 
coat  of  Seton  supported  by  two  chained  foxes.  Crest — a  red  crescent  in 
front  of  ten  branches  of  laurel.     Motto — '  Zit  forward.' 5 

In  another  ms  (Harl.  4622)  I  found  the  names  of  '  The  Baronis  and 
Lordis '  of  Scotland,  without  date,  which  included  : — 

'  The  Setounes  : 

Setoun  Lord  Setoun. 
Setoun  of  Touche. 

Parbrothe. 

Lathrisk. 

Carriston. 

Greindykes. 

Northrig. 

Rumgai.' 


1  Arms  and  Pedigrees — Additional,  26,676.  bility — Harl.  1384. 

2  Arms  of  the  Scottish  Nobility — Lansdowne,  4  Arms  of  the  Scots  Kings  and  Nobility- 
877.  Harl.  115. 

3  Arms  of  English,  Scottish,  and  Irish  No-  °  Arms  of  Scottish  Nobility,  etc.,  26,69s. 


POLYGLOT   BLAZON  829 

Some  curious  allusions  to  the  symbolical  character  of  the  charges  in  the 
Seton  arms  will  be  found  in  the  Dedication  to  Sir  John  Seton  of  Garleton, 
prefixed  to  the  Answer  to  De  Rodon's  Funeral  of  the  Mass,  and  printed  in 
the  Appendix  of  Miscellanies. 

The  following  blazon,  in  English,  French,  and  Latin,  is  from  Nisbet's 
Collection  of  mss.  in  the  Advocates'  Library,  34.  3.  5  : — 

Atchievement 

of  the  Right  Honourable  George  eighth  of  that  name,  twelfth 
Lord  Setoun  and  fourth  Earle  of  Wintoun, 

Is  quarterly  first  or  three  crescents  within  a  double  tressure  counter- 
flour'd  gules  (the  paternall  coat  of  Setoun),  second,  azure  three  garbs  or 
(as  a  coat  of  pretention  to  the  Earldom  of  Buchan),  third  as  the  second, 
fourth  as  the  first,  over  all  an  Escochion  azure  charged  with  a  blazon  star 
within  a  double  tressure  counterfloured  or  (as  a  coat  of  augmentation 
assumed  when  this  familie  was  honoured  with  the  dignity  and  title  of  Earle), 
above  the  shield  a  crown  and  helmet  suitable  to  his  lordships  qualitie, 
ensigned  with  a  ducal  crown  in  place  of  the  Wreath,  and  thereon  for  a  crest 
a  Dragon  vert  spouting  out  fire  behind  and  before,  charged  with  a  blazon 
star  or  on  the  wing ;  supporters  two  martricks  proper,  collared  and  therto 
chaines  affixed,  passing  betwixt  their  foreleggs  and  reflexed  over  their 
backs  or,  standing  upon  a  compartment  with  these  words  therein  '  Intami- 
natis  fulget  honoribus,'  all  within  a  manteau  gules  fringed  or  and  doubled 
ermyne,  on  the  laps  therof  the  forsaid  Blazon,  and  above  all  on  an  Escroll 
for  motto,  '  Hazard  zit  fordward.' 

Thus  blazoned  in  French  : — 

Ecartele  au  ier  et  4ime  d'or  a  trois  croissans  enfermes  dans  un  double 
trecheur  fleuronne  de  gueules,  au  26me  et  3ime  d'azur  a  trois  jarbs  d'or  et 
sur  le  tout  d'azur  a  l'etoille  d'or  a  huit  pointes  enferme  dans  un  double 
trecheur  fleuronne  de  mesure ;  Timbre  de  la  couronne  et  du  casque  de 
comtes  cimier  sur  un  heaume  couronne  est  un  dragon  sinople  jettant  de  feu 
et  devant  et  d'arier.  L'aile  charge  d'un  etoile  a  huit  pointes  d'or,  les  sup- 
ports duex  martres. 

Et  envelope  du  manteau  de  gules  frange  d'or  et  double  de  hermines. 

In  Latin  thus : — 

Gerit  scutum  quadripartitum,  in  prima  et  quarta  area  aurea  tres  lunulas 
rubeas  (cornibus  sursum  versis)  intra  ejusdem  coloris  tractum  duplicem 
utrinque  liliatum  ;  in  2da  et  tertia  area  caerulea  tres  fasces  frumentarios  ex 
auro ;  medio  scuti  loco  parmula  imponiter  cyanea  stellam  auream  octo 
radiorum  continens  tractu  duplice  ejusdem  coloris  utrinque  liliate  inclusum. 


830    'GENUINELY  ARMIGEROUS   PERSONS' 

Scuto  imponitur  corona  comitale  et  super  earn  galea  mitra  ducali  tecta  que 
sustinet  draconem  viridem  Stella  aurea  in  ala  impressam  et  flamas  ex 
anteriore  et  posteriore  eructantem  Lacinie  circumfluunt  ex  coccinio  et 
vellere  muris  armenij. 

The  coats  of  the  various  cadets  are  given  under  their  respective 
sections ;  and  numerous  allusions  to  the  arms  of  the  Seton  family  will  be 
found  in  the  works  of  Alexander  Nisbet,  Henry  Laing,  and  other  writers 
on  Scottish  Heraldry. 

Two  heraldic  publications  have  recently  appeared,  in  which  the  bearings 
of  many  important  families  are  not  embraced  because  they  are  not  to  be 
found  in  the  Public  Registers  of  Arms.  The  first  of  these  is  an  Ordinary 
of  Arms  by  Mr.  James  Balfour  Paul,  who  now  ably  presides  over  the 
Scottish  Heraldic  Department ;  while  the  second  is  a  huge  quarto  of  more 
than  noo  pages,  besides  112  sheets  of  engraved  coats  of  arms,  entitled 
Armorial  Families,  by  Arthur-Charles  Fox-Davies.  So  far  as  Scotland  is 
concerned,  it  is  all  but  universally  believed  that,  besides  the  valuable 
Register  of  Sir  David  Lindsay  in  the  Advocates'  Library,  earlier  armorial 
records  at  one  time  existed  than  any  now  in  the  Lyon  Office; *  and  even  if 
that  cannot  be  positively  established,  it  is  well  known  that  many  Scottish 
families  who  do  not  appear  in  either  of  the  volumes  in  question  have  no 
difficulty  in  proving  that  they  descend  from  ancestors  who  carried  arms 
long  before  1672,  which  is  the  date  of  the  earliest  official  Register.  In  a 
review  of  Mr.  Paul's  work  in  the  Genealogist  for  October  1893,  the  writer 
truly  says : — '  What  emphasizes  the  probability  of  the  disappearance  of 
other  besides  the  present  records  in  the  Lyon  Office  is  the  absence  of  the 
arms  of  many  well-known  families  of  undoubted  ancient  lineage.' 

Mr.  Fox-Davies  appears  to  consider  that  'the  Herald  proper,'  who 
supplies  novi  homines  with  coats  armorial,  is  a  much  more  important 
personage  than  'the  man  who  simply  writes  books  on  Heraldry.' 
'  Genuinely  Armigerous  persons '  are  printed  in  Roman  type,  while  the 
bearers  of  what  Mr.  Fox-Davies  terms  'bogus'2  coats  are  either  honoured 
with  italics  or  entirely  ignored.  He  appears  to  place  upon  the  same  level 
families  who  have  carried  coats  of  arms  for  six  or  seven  centuries — as 
established  by  charter  seals  and  other  good  evidence — and  men  of  yesterday 
who  have  procured  armorial  bearings  from  '  painter-fellows '  and  '  heraldic 
stationers '  for  the  modest  sum  of  3s.  6d.,  on  the  ground  that  the  coats  do 
not,  in  either  case,  appear  in  any  public  Register  of  Arms.  Among  the 
•  bogus  '  fraternity — to  confine  myself  to  Scotland — we  find  the  Marquises 
of  Lothian  and  Tweeddale,  the  Earls  of  Dunmore,  Newburgh,  and  Mans- 
field, Viscount  Strathallan,  Lords  Blantyre,  Herries,  Reay,  and  Ruthven, 
the  Hon.  Constable  Maxwell-Scott,  Sir  Ralph  Anstruther  of  Balcaskie, 
Sir  Uthred  Dunbar  of  Mochrum,  Sir  Archibald  Edmonstone  of  Duntreath, 


1  See  Seton's  Scottish  Heraldry,  p.  71.  applied  to  counterfeit  coin,  and  hence  denoting 

2  ^  Bogus = spurious.    A  cant  term  originally        anything  counterfeit.' — Webster's  Lictionary. 


TRUE   ARMORIAL   RIGHTS  831 

Sir  Arthur  Grant  of  Monymusk,  Sir  Peter  Halkett  of  Pitfirrane,  Sir 
Reginald  Ogilvy  of  Inverquharity,  Sir  James  Ramsay  of  Bamff,  the  Right 
Hon.  A.  J.  Balfour,  M.P.,  William  Garden  Campbell  of  Troup,  Murdoch 
Maclaine  of  Lochbuie,  William  Rutherfurd  of  Edgerston,  Alexander  Seton 
of  Mounie,  Henry  Seton-Karr  of  Kippylaw,  M.P.,  John  Anstruther 
Thomson  of  Charleton,  and  Henry  Scrymgeour  Wedderburn  of  Birkhill, 
Hereditary  Royal  Standard-bearer  of  Scotland. 

In  the  Dedication  to  Lord  Bruce  (afterwards  fourth  Earl  of  Elgin)  of 
his  metrical  Life  of  Robert  Bruce,  Mr.  Harvey  says  : — -'Your  noble  family, 
my  Lord,  need  not  have  recourse  to  the  Herauld  Office  for  a  coat,  or 
an  escutcheon  ;  you  have  many  a  gallant  field  to  furnish  out  the  Device, 
and  Bannockburn  to  distinguish  the  bearingr' 

The  following  sensible  letter  relative  to  the  right  of  ancient  Scottish 
Barons  to  bear  arms,  appeared  in  Notes  and  Queries,  Sixth  Series,  vol.  ii. 

P-  443  ■— 

'  I  would  draw  attention  to  a  class  tolerably  numerous,   I  fancy,  who 

would  be  unwilling  either  to  accept  a  grant  of  arms  or  to  relinquish  the  use 
of  those  to  which  they  conceive  they  have  a  right.  I  am  one  of  such,  and 
my  case  is  this.  My  ancestor  held  the  barony  in  Scotland  from  which  they 
took  their  name,  in  the  earlier  part  of  the  twelfth  century,  and  probably  even 
in  the  eleventh,  and  continued  to  hold  it  down  to  about  1645.  Their  arms 
may  be  seen  on  seals  of  the  fourteenth  century — probably  on  earlier  ones — 
and  on  stone  carvings  of  various  dates  ;  but  so  far  as  I  know,  no  registra- 
tion of  such  arms  was  ever  entered  in  the  Scottish  Heralds'  book.  Junior 
branches  of  the  family  became  baronets  in  Scotland  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  their  coats,  with  differences,  are,  I  believe,  duly  registered  in 
the  Lyon  Office.  I  descend  from  a  cadet  of  the  original  family  who  settled 
in  Ulster  about  1610-20,  but  who  did  not  register  his  arms  in  the  Heralds' 
Office  in  Dublin.  I  have,  on  old  deeds,  seals  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
with  the  simple  coat,  undifferenced,  and  my  family  have  always  used  it 
unchallenged  by  any  one.  The  Heralds  may  say  that  I  have  no  right  to 
bear  it,  but  my  opinion  is  that  I  bear  it  by  a  right  which  originated  long 
before  Heralds'  Colleges  or  rules  of  heraldry  existed.  It  is,  of  course, 
utterly  unlikely  that  any  legislation  on  the  subject  should  take  place ;  but 
if  there  were  any,  such  cases  as  mine  ought  to  be  duly  considered. 

'  ScOTO-HlBERNICUS.' 


832 


'TALL  AND   PROUD' 


IV.    STATURE  OF  THE  SETONS 


iN  the  Introduction  and  elsewhere  I  have  referred 
to  the  fact  of  lofty  stature  being  a  characteristic 
of  the  family  of  Seton.  Dr.  Robert  Chambers, 
in  his  Popular  Rhymes  of  Scotland,  etc.,  has  an 
interesting  chapter  on  Family  Characteristics,  in 
which  the  learned  author  enumerates,  among 
others,  the  '  handsome  Hays,'  '  the  haughty 
Hamiltons,'  the  '  light  Lindsays,'  '  the  saucy 
Scotts,'  the  'gay  Gordons,'  and  the  'gallant 
Grahams ' ;  while  the  Setons  are  described  as 
'  tall  and  proud,' and  a  '  fair-complexioned  race.'  Some  curious  details  of 
the  family  stature — for  which  I  am  mainly  responsible — are  given  at  the 
end  of  the  same  volume,  which  Dr.  Chambers  pronounces  to  be  '  not 
unworthy  of  some  attention  from  the  ethnologist'  Brief  allusion  has 
already  been  made  to  the  attribute  of  pride ;  and  accordingly  I  shall  here 
confine  my  remarks  to  the  physical  characteristic  of  the  Setons. 

Judging  from  the  size  and  weight  of  his  two-handed  sword  in  my 
possession,  Bruce's  gallant  brother-in-law,  Sir  Christopher  Seton,  was 
probably  a  man  of  commanding  presence.  '  With  a  sweep  of  this  formid- 
able weapon,'  writes  the  munificent  restorer  of  St.  Giles'  Cathedral,  '  Sir 
Christell  is  said  to  have  done  immense  execution ' ;  and  again,  '  with  the 
war-cry  of  Set  on,  Set  on !  and  a  sense  of  protection  from  St.  Bennet,  the 
patron  saint  of  the  family,  the  Setons,  in  the  olden  times,  rushed  head- 
long like  a  troop  of  giants  on  the  enemy,  carrying  all  before  them.'1 

The  earliest  reference  to  the  lofty  stature  of  the  family  is  by  the 
transcriber  of  the  Cupar  ms.  of  Fordun's  Scotichronicon,  which  I  have 
quoted  under  the  notice  of  George,  third  Lord  Seton.  In  alluding  to 
William,  first  Lord  Seton,  and  the  three  succeeding  generations,  he  says  : — 
'  Hos  quatuor  milites  ego,  qui  haec  chronica  collegi,  bene  cognovi,  de  (e  ?) 
quibus  tres  primi  statura  proceri  et  valentes  fuerunt.' 

In  the  appendix  to  the  Glasgow  edition  of  Sir  Richard  Maitland's 
House  of  Seytoun,  there  is  an  interesting  notice  of  Alexander  Seton,  a 
Dominican  Friar,  Confessor  to  King  James  v.,  and  afterwards  chaplain  to 
the  Duke  of  Suffolk,  by  the  Rev.  Robert  Wodrow.  The  Confessor,  who 
died  in   1542 — the  same  year  as  his  sovereign— appears  to  have  been  a 


1  Stories  of  Old  Families — The  Setons — pp.  10,  n,  by  Dr.  William  Chambers. 


PARBROATH  AND  OTHER  BRANCHES  833 

learned  theologian,  and  is  described  as  'of  a  quick  ingyne,  and  of  tall 
stature.' 

Again,  as  we  have  already  seen,  Sir  Richard  Maitland  informs  us  that 
David  Seton,  '  parson  of  Fettercairn,'  and  a  younger  son  of  Sir  Gilbert 
Seton  of  Parbroath,  who  flourished  in  the  reign  of  James  iv.,  was  'ane 
large  man  of  body  as  was  in  his  dayis,  and  stout  thairwy  th  ;  the  best  lyk 
agfeit  man  that  evir  I  saw.'  The  American  descendants  of  the  Parbroath 
line  appear  to  have  inherited  the  characteristic  of  stature.  I  have  men- 
tioned (p.  305)  that  all  the  children  of  William  Seton,  who  emigrated  to 
America  in  1763,  were  distinguished  by  their  'tallness  and  good  looks'; 
and  that  his  sister  Elizabeth,  mother  of  the  two  celebrated  Miss  Berrys 
(p.  301),  is  described  by  one  of  her  daughters  as  '  a  tall,  thin  young  woman.' 
In  a  letter  from  Monsignor  Robert  Seton,  dated  8th  May  1883,  he  says  : 
'  I  am  afraid  that  pride  is  still  a  characteristic  of  the  race,  even  in  demo- 
cratic America ;  but  I  know  that  tallness  is.  I  am  considered  tall,  and 
have  even  been  described  as  such  in  one  of  our  first  New  York  newspapers, 
reporting  a  magnificent  procession  of  Roman  Catholic  clergy  at  the 
opening  of  the  new  cathedral  some  years  ago.  My  uncle  Richard,  who 
died  on  the  coast  of  Africa  in  1823,  was  familiarly  called  "  The  Giant,"  being 
six  feet  three  inches  on  his  bare  feet.  Other  members  of  our  family  have 
also  been  far  above  the  average  height ;  but  you  are  aware,  I  presume,  that 
our  climate  has  a  tendency  to  dwarf  the  European  race.1  All  our  family 
are  long-lived,  frequently  going  into  the  seventies  and  eighties,  and  even 
sometimes  into  the  nineties.' 

The  characteristic  of  height  is  also  displayed  in  the  Preston  branch  of 
the  family.  The  late  Alexander  Seton  of  Preston,  who  died  in  1884,  was 
close  upon  six  feet.  His  eldest  son — the  present  representative,  who 
resides  at  Stockholm — is  six  feet  one  inch,  while  three  of  his  four  younger 
sons  are  each  about  six  feet — the  fourth  being  five  feet  nine  inches,  and 
the  average  height  of  his  three  sisters  five  feet  seven  inches. 

In  Macky's  Memoirs  of  his  Secret  Services  (1733),  under  the  notice  of 
the  first  Duke  of  Gordon  (paternally  Seton),  he  says  that  '  he  is  very  hand- 
some, and  taller  than  the  ordinary  size '  ;  while,  on  the  other  hand,  he 
describes  the  fifth  and  last  Earl  of  Winton,  as  '  of  low  stature.' 

The  present  Marquis  of  Huntly  is  about  six  feet  in  height ;  and  while 
Major  Alexander  Seton  of  Mounie  is  about  an  inch  above  six  feet,  his 
father  is  five  feet  eleven  inches,  and  his  uncle  David  was  five  feet  ten  inches. 

An  interesting  illustration  of  the  lofty  stature  of  the  Setons,  towards 
the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  turns  up  in  the  Dunfermline  branch 
of  the  family.     Upwards  of  forty  years  ago  (185 1)  I  received  from  the  late 


1  In  some  cases,  however,  atmospheric  condi-  and  mother  were  each  six  feet  four  inches  in 

tions   do  not   appear  to   exert  a  degenerating  height ;  while  the  average  stature  of  their  six 

influence.     A  few  years  ago  a  correspondent  of  sons  was  six  feet  five  inches,  and  of  their  three 

the  Ohio   Citizen  contributed  to  the  editor  an  daughters,   six  feet   three   and   a   half   inches, 

account  of  a  remarkable  family,  of  good  social  Several  of  the  grandchildren  were  over  six  feet 

position,  in  Bourbon  Co.,  Kentucky.    The  father  six  inches,  and  still  growing. 

5N 


834  CARISTON   LINE 

Mr.  John  Philipps,  Chamberlain  to  the  Earl  of  Moray,  a  '  memorandum'  by 
James  M'Farlane  of  Doune  relative  to  the  opening  of  the  Dunfermline 
vault  in  Dalgetty  Church,  in  the  summer  of  1822,  when  three  'openings 
formed  of  dressed  stones '  were  found,  containing  leaden  coffins,  covered  by 
similar  stones  about  eight  feet  in  length.  '  The  first  coffin  examined  was 
an  Earl  of  Dunfermline  (the  third  Earl),  who  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-three, 
and  must  have  been  of  large  stature,  as  the  skeleton  measured  6T%  to  6^- 
feet'  Other  curious  particulars  are  specified  by  Mr.  M'Farlane  regarding 
the  older  coffins — evidently  those  of  the  first  and  second  Earls, — in  which, 
however,  no  reference  is  made  to  the  size  of  the  skeletons  which  they 
contained.  As  we  have  seen  (p.  670),  the  fourth  and  last  Earl  was  'a  midle- 
sized  man,  weel  fauoured,  and  high-nosed ' ;  but  the  Chancellor  (the  first 
Earl)  appears,  from  his  likeness  at  Yester,  to  have  been  a  tall  man  of  fair 
complexion,  while  the  full-length  portrait  of  his  son,  the  second  Earl,  by 
Vandyke,  indicates  a  stature  of  upwards  of  six  feet. 

Probably  the  Cariston  branch  of  the  family  can  furnish  more  examples 
of  lofty  stature  than  any  of  the  other  cadets.  The  earliest  instance  that  I 
am  able  to  specify  is  George,  fourth  Baron  (c.  1637),  whom  I  have  already 
described  as  '  a  man  of  large  stature  and  fine  accomplishments.' 

The  family  of  Colonel  William-Carden  Seton,  of  the  Connaught 
Rangers  (grandson  of  Christopher  Seton,  second  son  of  the  fifth  Baron), 
who  was  himself  about  six  feet,  were  all  considerably  above  the  average 
height — his  eldest  son,  Miles-Charles  Seton,  having  been  six  feet  two 
inches,  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  M 'Alpine,  about  five  feet  nine  inches.  The 
family  of  Miles-Charles  Seton,  by  his  second  wife  (daughter  of  the  second 
Viscount  Sidmouth) — whose  own  height  is  very  little  short  of  six  feet — 
presents  a  remarkable  record.  Five  of  the  eight  sons  produce  an  average 
of  six  feet  three  inches,  one  of  them  being  fully  six  feet  five  inches  ;  while 
the  only  son  of  one  of  these  five  (Malcolm  C.  C.  Seton  of  Oriel  College, 
Oxford)  is  six  feet  six  inches.  The  average  height  of  the  three  surviving 
daughters  is  five  feet  ten  inches. 

Of  the  seven  children  of  the  seventh  Baron  of  Cariston  who  reached 
maturity  the  'dwarf  (Mrs.  Barland)  was  five  feet  ten  inches;  her  sister 
Margaret — my  paternal  grandmother — having  been  close  upon  six  feet,  and 
her  brother,  Major  Christopher  Seton,  six  feet  four  inches.  My  father,  as 
well  as  my  paternal  grandfather,  were  each  only  about  five  feet  ten  inches, 
but  possibly  the  growth  of  the  former  may  have  been  checked  by  his  having 
gone  to  sea  when  little  over  fifteen  years  of  age.  My  uncle,  David  Seton, 
was  about  five  feet  eleven  inches,  and  my  two  aunts  (Mrs.  Blair  and  Mrs. 
Dawson)  five  feet  eight  inches  and  five  feet  ten  inches  respectively.  Three 
of  Mrs.  Blair's  sons  were  six  feet  three  inches,  six  feet,  and  five  feet  ten 
inches  respectively  ;  while  Mrs.  Dawson's  only  son  is  six  feet  two  inches, 
and  her  second  daughter  was  six  feet.  My  younger  sister,  Mrs.  Buchanan- 
Hamilton — whose  husband  is  six  feet — was  five  feet  nine  inches,  all  her 
three  sons  being  upwards  of  six  feet,  of  whom  the  youngest  is  six  feet  three 
inches.     My  own  height  is  six  feet  five  and  a  half  inches  (present  weight 


TALL   ENGLISH    FAMILIES  835 

fifteen  stones  five  lbs.) ;  my  only  son,  a  shade  over  six  feet ;  and  my  three 
daughters  each  about  five  feet  eight  inches. 

Lofty  stature  appears  to  have  been  a  characteristic  of  the  Hopes,  the 
Sinclairs,  and  the  Macleods,1  and  also  of  several  old  English  families, 
including  the  Mainwarings,  the  Herberts,  the  Actons,  and  the  Ameses. 
Of  the  Mainwarings  and  Herberts  I  am  unable  to  give  any  detailed  parti- 
culars. Speaking  of  the  three  intermarriages  between  members  of  his 
family  and  the  Actons,  Gibbon,  in  his  Memoirs  (i.  10),  says  : — '  I  am  thus 
connected  by  a  triple  alliance  with  that  ancient  and  loyal  family  of  Shrop- 
shire baronets.  It  consisted  about  that  time  of  seven  brothers,  all  of 
gigantic  stature ;  one  of  whom,  a  pigmy  of  six  feet  two  inches,  confessed 
himself  the  last  and  the  least  of  the  seven ;  adding,  in  the  true  spirit  of 
party,  that  such  men  were  not  born  since  the  Revolution.' 

From  Genealogical  Memoranda  of  the  Family  of  Ames,  by  Reginald 
Ames,  M.A.,  privately  printed  in  1889,  we  learn  that  Levi  Ames  of  the 
Hyde,  co.  Beds,  (born  1778,  died  1846),  fifth  in  descent  from  Matthew 
Ames  of  Doulting,  co.  Somerset,  was  six  feet  and  a  quarter  of  an  inch, 
while  his  wife,  Ann  Bird  Metcalfe,  was  five  feet  seven  and  a  half  inches  in 
height.  Of  their  two  sons,  Lionel,  of  the  1 7th  Lancers,  was  six  feet  five 
inches,  and  Henry-Metcalfe  six  feet  two  and  a  quarter  inches  ;  while  the 
average  height  of  their  four  daughters  was  slightly  over  five  feet  eight 
inches.  By  his  wife,  Augusta  P.  Wilson  (five  feet  eight  and  one-third 
inches),  Lionel  Ames  had  six  sons  and  one  daughter,  whose  average  height 
was  upwards  of  six  feet  three  inches,  the  daughter  being  six  feet  one  inch, 
and  two  of  the  sons  six  feet  seven  inches  and  six  feet  eight  inches  respec- 
tively, of  whom  the  last,  jocularly  known,  I  believe,  as  the  '  Baby  of  the 
British  Army,'  presents  a  magnificent  aspect  at  the  Holyrood  levees  and 
elsewhere,  in  the  uniform  of  the  Second  Life  Guards. 

In  my  Oxford  days,  the  tallest  undergraduate  was  Haughton  Charles 
Okeover  of  Christ  Church,  now  of  Okeover — or,  as  we  say  in  Scotland,  of 
that  ilk, — co.  Derby,  whose  height  is  six  feet  seven  inches,  and  for  whom 
I  was  erroneously  taken  at  Cannes,  about  six  years  ago !  The  family  of 
Okeover  is  said  to  have  enjoyed  the  lordship  of  that  name  for  upwards  of 
seven  hundred  years.  In  reply  to  a  recent  communication  on  the  subject,  Mr. 
Okeover  courteously  informs  me  that  his  father,  who  died  when  he  was  an 
infant,  was  only  the  average  height.  '  I  do  not  know,'  he  writes,  '  that  any  of 
the  Okeovers  were  remarkable  in  that  line,  and  I  believe  that  I  inherit  my 
height  from  the  Ansons,  on  my  mother's  side.  I  was  six  feet  at  thirteen 
years  of  age,  and  afterwards  grew  seven  inches,  as  you  can  remember  me, 
fifty  years  ago,  at  Oxford.  None  of  my  children  are  much  above  the 
average  height,  and  take  more  after  their  mother's  family.  I  wish  I  could 
have  given  you  more  information  on  this  interesting  subject.'  The  only 
other   tall    Oxonians   of  the  early  forties   that   I    can  recall  are  Samuel 


1  The   Rev.    Dr.  John    Macleod,   commonly        of  the  General  Assembly  in  1S51,  was  six  feet 
called  the  '  High  Priest  of  Morven,'  Moderator        seven  inches  in  height. 


836  FEMALE   STATURE 

Reynolds  Hole  of  Brazenose,  the  genial  Dean  of  Rochester,  six  feet  four 
inches,  whose  only  son  has  the  audacity  to  beat  his  worthy  sire  by  some- 
thing like  three  inches ;  the  late  Hon.  Henry  Addington  (brother  of  the 
Hon.  Mrs.  Seton),  and  the  late  Rev.  John  Home,  both  of  Balliol  College 
— each  six  feet  three  inches ;  but,  at  a  comparatively  recent  date,  these 
were  all  completely  eclipsed  by  Mr.  Lascelles  of  Magdalen,  commonly  called 
'  The  Magdalen  Giant,'  whose  height  is  no  less  than  six  feet  ten  inches — two 
inches  more,  by  the  way,  than  that  of  Matthew  James  Higgins,  better 
known  as  'Jacob  Omnium,'  of  the  Times,  of  whom  an  interesting  Memoir 
was  published  by  the  late  accomplished  Sir  William  Stirling- Maxwell. 

During  a  tour  through  the  Spanish  Peninsula  in  the  autumn  of  1878,  I 
paid  a  visit  to  the  interesting  little  Carthusian  Monastery  of  Miraflores, 
near  Burgos,  where  the  chapel  buttresses  reminded  me  of  Seton  Church. 
My  guide  was  one  of  the  inmates,  a  diminutive  monk  of  the  Order  of  San 
Bruno,  who  asked  me  to  accompany  him  to  the  vestry,  in  which  he  showed 
me  the  following  mural  record  of  a  youthful  Portuguese  : — '  Talla  de  un 
Portugues  de  19  afios  de  edad,  1858.'  I  calmly  requested  him  to  mount 
a  chair  and  mark  the  altitude  of  the  '  short  Scotchman '  below  that  of  the 
Southern  Goliath,  whose  height  exceeded  mine  by  nearly  seven  inches ! 

Not  many  years  ago  the  tallest  company  in  the  British  Army  was 
the  right  flank  company  of  the  1st  Battalion  of  Scots  Guards,  under  the 
command  of  Colonel  Barrington-Bulkeley  Campbell,  brother  of  Lord 
Blythswood.  None  of  the  ninety-three  men  on  its  roll  were  under  six  feet 
in  height,  of  whom  the  tallest  was  slightly  over  six  feet  seven  inches,  while 
no  fewer  than  twelve  were  above  six  feet  four  inches — the  average  height 
of  the  company  being  six  feet  two  and  a  quarter  inches. 

When  1 50  of  the  Queen's  Scottish  Body-guard — of  which  I  have  the 
honour  to  be  the  '  right-hand  man ' — turned  out,  at  the  opening  of  the 
Edinburgh  Exhibition  in  1886,  about  one  hundred  of  that  number,  or  two- 
thirds  of  the  whole,  were  six  feet  and  upwards  ! 

It  is  a  frequent  observation,  in  the  present  day,  that  lofty  stature  is  a 
much  commoner  characteristic  than  formerly  among  the  female  population 
of  the  British  Isles  ;  and,  in  the  ball-room  and  elsewhere,  tall  women  are 
continually  noticed  as  the  partners  of  comparatively  short  men.  Medical 
practitioners  and  other  competent  observers  usually  attribute  the  develop- 
ment in  question  to  the  more  general  indulgence,  on  the  part  of  the  softer 
sex,  in  out-door  sports,  such  as  tennis,  golf,  cricket,  skating,  and  cycling ; 
and  there  appears  to  be  a  good  deal  of  truth  in  that  explanation  of  the 
altered  circumstances.1 

Among  other  aspects  of  heredity,  Mr.  Francis  Galton  has  published 
some  curious  conclusions  relative  to  the  subject  of  stature. 


1  For   the   supposed   consequences  of  female        of  family  features  will  be  found  in  Chambers's 
altitude  see  the  Graphic  for  27th  January  1894.  Journal  for  5th  July  1845. 

Some  interesting  remarks  on  the  persistency 


FAMILY   PORTRAITS 


837 


V.    FAMILY   PORTRAITS 


N  the  preceding  pages  numerous  references  have 
been  made  to  the  Portraits  of  the  Seton  family. 
With  regard  to  those  pertaining  to  the  Main 
Line  we  have  seen  that  after  the  forfeiture  of 
the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton  in  17 16 — if  not  before 
that  date — the  family  portraits  were  scattered  to 
the  four  winds  (p.  199  note);  and  since  my  boy- 
hood I  have  endeavoured  to  trace  as  many  of 
them  as  possible.  So  far  as  I  am  aware,  there 
are  no  existing  portraits  of  any  of  the  Lords 
Seton  except  the  seventh — the  devoted  adherent  of  Mary  Stuart,  of  whom 
there  appear  to  have  been  at  least  three,  to  which  reference  is  made  at 
p.  198.  There  also  appears  to  have  been  a  portrait  of  his  wife,  Isabel 
Hamilton  (2  ft.  4  in.  x  1  ft.  10  in.),  as  it  is  distinctly  mentioned  in  a 
catalogue  at  Yester,  but  unfortunately  it  cannot  now  be  identified.  There 
are  portraits  of  all  the  five  Earls  of  Winton  except  the  second,  as  well  as 
several  of  the  Countesses,  to  which  reference  has  already  been  made. 

In  the  case  of  most  of  the  Cadets  similar  references  will  be  found 
under  their  respective  notices,  including  Parbroath  (p.  306),  Kippilaw 
(p.  328),  Touch  (p.  350),  Abercorn  (p.  365),  Preston  (p.  374),  Pitmedden 
(p.  483),  Mounie  (p.  491),  Sutherland  (p.  516),  Aldourie  and  Woodhouse- 
lee  (p.  566),  Cariston  (p.  617),  Barns  (p.  632),  Dunfermline  (pp.  656-8), 
Eglinton  (p.  677),  and  Kingston  (p.  730).  A  detailed  list  of  all  the 
portraits  engraved  in  this  work — including  three  pertaining  to  the  Huntly 
line — will  be  prefixed  to  vol.  i. 

It  will  be  observed  that  the  large  majority  of  the  most  interesting 
portraits  are  at  Duns  Castle,  Yester,  and  Touch. 

At  Balcaskie  there  is  a  portrait  of  Lady  Anne  Seton,  daughter  of  the 
Chancellor,  and  wife  of  Alexander,  Viscount  Fentoun,  in  a  lace  head-dress  ; 
and  not  many  months  ago  I  saw  at  the  house  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Mollerus  le-Champion,  in  Redcliffe  Square,  an  interesting  little  portrait, 
which  was  described  as  '  Lord  Seytoun,  page  in  waiting  to  Mary  Queen 
of  Scots,'  which  the  Colonel  purchased  from  a  London  picture-dealer. 

There  are  also  a  considerable  number  of  portraits  connected  with  the 
Setons  at  Traquair,  of  which  the  following  is  a  pretty  complete  list : — 

1.  The  Seton  Family,  by  Antonio  More,  on  panel,  with  only  one  male 


838  TRAQUAIR  CASTLE 

figure  on  Lord  Seton's  left — George,  Master  of  Seton,  who  died  in  1562, 
being  omitted.     The  face  of  the  daughter  (Margaret)  is  very  comely. 

2.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  in  crimson  robes  trimmed  with  fur, 
holding  a  coronet  in  his  right  hand — flowing  auburn  locks,  and  apparently 
not  more  than  forty  years  of  age.     5  ft.  x  3!  ft. 

3.  The  Hon.  William  Seton,  and  1      sons  of  No.  2.     Both  drowned 

4.  The  Hon.  Christopher  Seton,  J  July  1648. 
On  the  back  of  No.  3  is  'Will:  Seton,  Windy  Gowll.' 

5.  Lady  Elizabeth  Maxwell,  only  daughter  of  John,  Lord  Herries 
(who  succeeded  to  the  Earldom  of  Nithsdale  in  1667),  and  second  wife  of 
George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  and  her  two  sons.  Taking  them  to  Douay 
for  their  education,  they  all  perished  at  sea.     7  ft.  x  5  ft. 

6.  John,  second  Earl  of  Traquair,  whose  second  Countess  was 

7.  Lady  Anne  Seton,  daughter  of  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton. 

8.  Lady  Mary  Seton,  daughter  of  the  third  Earl  of  Winton  by  his 
second  wife,  and  Countess  of  James,  fourth  Earl  of  Carnwath. 


daughters  of  the  third  Earl 
of  Winton  by  his  second 
wife.  Both  by  Cornelius 
Janssen. 


9.   Lady  Isobel  Seton,  wife  of  Francis, 
sixth  Lord  Semple,  and 

10.   Lady    Jean    Seton,   who    died   un- 
married, at.  25, 

Besides  numerous  portraits  of  Earls  and  Countesses  of  Traquair,  the 
following  may  be  mentioned  : — John,  second  Earl  of  Perth  ;  Lady  Lucy 
Douglas,  wife  of  Robert,  fourth  Earl  of  Nithsdale,  by  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller; 
and  the  poet  Dryden.  Among  other  heirlooms  are  the  cradle  of  King 
James  vi.,  a  large  glazed  case  filled  with  miniatures,  jewels,  and  articles  of 
vertu,  and  a  large  box  containing  tapestry  and  embroideries.  An  interesting 
old  library  occupies  two  adjoining  rooms.  On  an  oak  door  at  the  bottom 
of  one  of  the  staircases  is  a  quaint  iron  knocker  under  an  Earl's  coronet. 

The  ancient  castle  of  Traquair — where  Queen  Mary  more  than  once 
resided,  and  probably  the  oldest  inhabited  house  in  Scotland — stands  near 
the  junction  of  the  Leithen  and  the  Tweed — 'a  grey  forlorn-looking 
mansion,  stricken  all  over  with  eld.'  On  each  side  of  the  gateway  is  a 
huge  '  Bradwardine  stone  bear ' — the  armorial  supporters  of  the  family ; 
and  in  the  immediate  vicinity  is  the  remnant  of  the  '  Bush  aboon  Traquair,' 
rendered  classical  by  Crawford's  well-known  song. 

'The  whole  place,' says  Dr.  John  Brown,  'like  the  family  whose  it 
has  been,  seems  dying  out — everything  subdued  to  settled  desolation.  The 
old  race,  the  old  religion,  the  gaunt  old  house,  with  the  small,  deep,  comfort- 
less windows,  the  decaying  trees,  the  stillness  about  the  doors,  the  grass 
over-running  everything — nature  re-asserting  herself  in  her  quiet  way — 
all  this  makes  the  place  look  as  strange  and  pitiful  among  its  fellows  in  the 
vale  as  would  the  Earl  who  built  it  three  hundred  years  ago  if  we  met  him 
tottering  along  our  way  in  the  faded  dress  of  his  youth  ;  but  it  looks  the 
Earl's  house  still,  and  has  a  dignity  of  its  own.' 

On  the  death  of  the  eighth  Earl  in  1861,  in  his  eighty-first  year,  the 
title  became  extinct.       His  sister,    Lady    Louisa    Stewart,    continued    to 


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possess  the  estates  and  to  reside  in  the  antique  mansion  till  December 
1875,  when  she  passed  away  in  the  hundredth  year  of  her  age.  The 
venerable  gentlewoman  was  not  depressed  by  the  decayed  fortunes  of  her 
house,  or  by  the  reflection  that  she  was  the  last  of  her  race.  Cheerful  and 
active,  kind  and  charitable  to  the  last,  her  stately  manners  were  the  natural 
accompaniment  of  her  position  and  descent ;  and,  old  as  she  was,  her 
death  caused  sadness  and  regret  throughout  the  whole  of  Tweeddale. 
The  estates  passed  to  the  Hon.  William  Constable  Maxwell,  a  younger 
son  of  Lord  Herries,  whose  ancestor,  the  sixth  Earl  of  Nithsdale,  married 
his  cousin,  the  fourth  daughter  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Traquair.1 

In  Mr.  Curtis's  charming  little  volume,  Prue  and  I,  is  an  interesting 
and  amusing  chapter  entitled  '  Family  Portraits,'  in  which  the  following 
passages  occur  : — 

'  This,'  says  Minim  Sculpin,  with  unction,  '  is  Sir  Solomon  Sculpin,  the  founder  of  the 
family.' 

'  Famous  for  what  ? '  I  ask  respectfully. 

'  For  founding  the  family,'  replies  Minim  gravely,  and  I  have  sometimes  thought  a  little 
severely. 

'  This,'  he  says,  pointing  to  a  dame  in  hoops  and  diamond  stomacher,  '  this  is  Lady 
Sheba  Sculpin.' 

'Ah  !  yes.     Famous  for  what?'  I  inquire. 

'  For  being  the  wife  of  Sir  Solomon.' 

Then,  in  order,  comes  a  gentleman  in  a  huge  curling  wig,  looking  indifferently  like  James 
the  Second  or  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  and  holding  a  scroll  in  his  hand. 

'The  Right  Honourable  Haddock  Sculpin,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  etc.  etc' 

A  delicate  beauty  hangs  between,  a  face  fair,  and  loved,  and  lost,  centuries  ago — a  song  to 
the  eye- — a  poem  to  the  heart — the  Aurelia  of  that  old  society. 

'  Lady  Dorothea  Sculpin,  who  married  young  Lord  Pop  and  Cock,  and  died  prematurely 
in  Italy.' 

Poor  Lady  Dorothea !  whose  great-grandchild,  in  the  tenth  remove,  died  last  week,  an 
old  man  of  eighty  ! 

Next  the  gentle  lady  hangs  a  fierce  figure,  flourishing  a  sword,  with  an  anchor  em- 
broidered on  his  coat  collar,  and  thunder  and  lightning,  sinking  ships,  flames,  and  tornadoes 
in  the  background. 

'  Rear-Admiral  Sir  Shark  Sculpin,  who  fell  in  the  great  action  off  Madagascar.' 

So  Minim  goes  on  through  the  series,  brandishing  his  ancestors  about  my  head,  and 
incontinently  knocking  me  into  admiration.  .  .  .  But  even  Prue  grants  that  Minim  has  some 
reason  for  his  pride.  Sir  Solomon  was  a  respectable  man,  and  Sir  Shark  a  brave  one ;  and 
the  Right  Honourable  Haddock  a  learned  one ;  the  Lady  Sheba  was  grave  and  gracious  in 
her  way  ;  and  the  smile  of  the  fair  Dorothea  lights  with  soft  sunlight  those  long-gone  summers. 
The  filial  blood  rushes  more  gladly  from  Minim's  heart  as  he  gazes ;  and  admiration  for  the 
virtues  of  his  kindred  inspires  and  sweetly  mingles  with  good  resolutions  of  his  own. 

Time  has  its  share,  too,  in  the  ministry,  and  the  influence.  The  hills  beyond  the  river 
lay  yesterday,  at  sunset,  lost  in  purple  gloom ;  they  receded  into  airy  distances  of  dreams  and 
faery ;  they  sank  softly  into  night,  the  peaks  of  the  delectable  mountains.  But'I  knew,  as  I 
gazed  enchanted,  that  the  hills,  so  purple-soft  of  seeming,  were  hard  and  grey  and  barren  in  the 
wintry  twilight,  and  that  in  the  distance  was  the  magic  that  made  them  fair. 

So,  beyond  the  river  of  time  that  flows  between,  walk  the  brave  men  and  the  beautiful 
women  of  our  ancestry,  grouped  in  twilight  upon  the  shore.  Distance  smooths  away  defects, 
and,  with  gentle  darkness,  rounds  every  form  into  grace.  It  steals  the  harshness  from  their 
speech,  and  every  word  becomes  a  song.     Far  across  the  gulf  that  ever  widens  they  look  upon 


See  Taylor's  Historic  Fatnilies  of  Scotland,  ii.  83. 


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'A   FAMILY   PORTRAIT  GALLERY' 


us  with  eyes  whose  glance  is  tender,  and  which  light  us  to  success.  We  acknowledge  our 
inheritance ;  we  accept  our  birthright ;  we  own  that  their  careers  have  pledged  us  to  noble 
action.  Every  great  life  is  an  incentive  to  all  other  lives ;  but  when  the  brave  heart  that  beats 
for  the  world,  loves  us  with  the  warmth  of  private  affection,  then  the  example  of  heroism  is 
more  persuasive  because  more  personal. 

This  is  the  true  pride  of  ancestry.  It  is  founded  in  the  tenderness  with  which  the  child 
regards  the  father,  and  in  the  romance  that  time  sheds  upon  history.  .  .  . 

But  let  the  love  of  the  family  portraits  belong  to  poetry  and  not  to  politics.  It  is  good 
in  the  one  way,  and  bad  in  the  other.  The  sentiment  of  ancestral  pride  is  an  integral  part  of 
human  nature.  Its  organisation  in  institutions  is  the  real  object  of  enmity  to  all  sensible  men, 
because  it  is  a  direct  preference  of  derived  to  original  power,  implying  a  doubt  that  the  world 
at  every  period  is  able  to  take  care  of  itself. 

The  family  portraits  have  a  poetic  significance ;  but  he  is  a  brave  child  of  the  family  who 
dares  to  show  them.  They  all  sit  in  passionless  and  austere  judgment  upon  himself.  Let 
him  not  invite  us  to  see  them,  until  he  has  considered  whether  they  are  honoured  or  disgraced 
by  his  own  career — until  he  has  looked  in  the  glass  of  his  own  thought  and  scanned  his  own 
proportions.  .  .  .  But  it  is  apart  from  any  historical  associations  that  I  like  to  look  at  the 
family  portraits.  The  Sculpins  were  very  distinguished  heroes,  and  judges,  and  founders  of 
families ;  but  I  chiefly  linger  upon  their  pictures  because  they  were  men  and  women.  Their 
portraits  remove  the  vagueness  from  history  and  give  it  reality — ancient  valour  and  beauty 
cease  to  be  names  and  poetic  myths,  and  become  facts.  I  feel  that  they  lived,  and  loved,  and 
suffered  in  those  old  days.  The  story  of  their  lives  is  instantly  full  of  human  sympathies  in 
my  mind,  and  I  judge  them  more  gently,  more  generously. 

Then  I  look  at  those  of  us  who  are  the  spectators  of  the  portraits.  I  know  that  we  are 
made  of  the  same  flesh  and  blood,  that  time  is  preparing  us  to  be  placed  in  the  cabinet  and 
upon  canvas,  to  be  curiously  studied  by  the  grandchildren  of  unborn  Prues.  I  put  out  my 
hands  to  grasp  those  of  my  fellows  around  the  pictures.  '  Ah !  friends,  we  live  not  only  for 
ourselves.  Those  whom  we  shall  never  see  will  look  to  us  as  models,  as  counsellors.  We 
shall  be  speechless  then.  We  shall  only  look  at  them  from  the  canvas,  and  cheer  or  dis- 
courage them  by  their  idea  of  our  lives  and  ourselves.  Let  us  so  look  in  the  portrait  that 
they  shall  love  our  memories — that  they  shall  say,  in  turn,  "  They  were  kind  and  thoughtful, 
those  queer  old  ancestors  of  ours ;  let  us  not  disgrace  them."  If  they  only  recognise  us  as 
men  and  women  like  themselves,  they  will  be  the  better  for  it,  and  the  family  portraits  will  be 
family  blessings.' 

From  another — although  a  somewhat  less  poetic — point  of  view,  the 
following  lines  by  Mr.  J.  Williams,  in  the  79th  volume  of  Temple  Bar 
(1887),  may  perhaps  be  considered  worth  preserving : — 


A  FAMILY  PORTRAIT  GALLERY. 

Just  some  thirty  or  so, 

All  arranged  in  a  row, 
Since  about  sixteen  hundred  and  fifty ; 

No,  the  art  is  not  high, 

There  is  good  reason  why, 
The  Squires  at  the  Hall  were  all  thrifty. 

There 's  a  Kneller  or  two, 

And  a  Lely  in  blue, 
With  bold  eyes  and  plain  signs  of  tight-lacing, 

Whilst  the  vacuous  face 

Of  a  George  the  First  grace 
From  the  canvas  is  sweetly  grimacing. 


HEREDITARY  TENDENCIES  841 

Here  a  matron  appears 

Of  some  forty  odd  years, 
In  the  splendour  of  patches  and  powder, 

While  her  daughter  may  wear 

But  a  rose  in  her  hair, 
It  was  all  that  the  painter  allowed  her. 

With  a  crook  or  a  spade 

Two  or  three  masquerade, 
In  the  dress  of  the  farm  or  the  garden  ; 

Others  gaze  from  green  bowers, 

Holding  baskets  of  flowers, 
And  in  hats  that  recall  Dolly  Varden. 

Here  is  one  I  should  say 

Was  a  toast  in  her  day, 
With  a  something  quite  modish  about  her, 

Not  a  doubt  that  her  gown 

Was  the  talk  of  the  town, 
Ere  she  grew  less  the  ton  and  grew  stouter. 

In  the  men  there  is  seen 

A  more  countrified  mien, 
And  their  faces  have  less  of  variety ; 

They  are  painted  '  in  pink ' 

As  a  rule,  nor,  I  think, 
Did  they  err  on  the  side  of  sobriety. 

Not  a  squire  out  of  all 

Who  have  lived  at  the  Hall 
Can  have  passed  his  existence  austerely, 

Still  they  all  look  too  staid 

For  a  brick  or  a  blade, 
And  they  loved  the  old  homestead  too  dearly. 

Quite  content  with  their  lot, 

The  men  hunted  and  shot, 
Little  troubled  with  learning  and  Latin ; 

The  dames  simpered  and  sighed, 

And  they  lived,  danced,  and  died, 
In  the  days  of  brocade  and  black  satin. 

In  the  Quarterly  Review  for  January  1895  there  is  an  interesting 
article  on  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  in  which  the  writer  remarks  upon  the 
influence  of  hereditary  tendencies  being  illustrated  in  '  Elsie  Venner  '  and 
'  The  Guardian  Angel.'  '  Holmes,'  he  says,  '  compares  the  body  in  which  we 
travel  over  the  isthmus  of  life,  not  to  a  private  carriage,  but  to  an  omnibus, 
filled  inside  and  out  with  our  ancestors.  ...  He  recognised  that  the  self- 
made  man,  who  is  "  whittled  into  shape  with  his  own  jack-knife,"  is  of 
necessity  imperfectly  made.  He  preferred  the  man  of  good  birth  who  is 
descended  from  four  or  five  generations  of  gentlemen  and  gentlewomen. 
Other  things  being  equal,  he  liked  the  inheritor  of  family  portraits  better 
than  the  owner  of  the  2 5 -cent  daguerreotype.' 

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842  EARLY  CHARTERS 


VI.     CHARTERS,  ETC.,  RELATING  TO  THE 
FAMILY  OF  SETON 

i.  List  of  Early  Charters  made  by  the  late  Professor  Cosmo  Innes 

(c.  1 100-1557). 

^HARTER  of  Confirmation  by  Roger  de  Quincy,  knight,  Earl  of 
Wintoun,  to  Saer  de  Settone,  knight,  of  the  lands  of  Tranent, 
in  the  sheriffdom  of  Haddington  {twelfth  century). 

Charter  by  the  same  to  Sayer  de  Settone,  son  of  Dugal,  of 
five  shillings  and  six  pennies  (nummos)  of  sterlings  yearly,  from 
the  mill  and  mill  lands  of  Tranent,  belonging  to  the  said  Roger, 
for  his  service,  and  one  good  '  ligamen  cum  colerio  ad  unum 
cersitium,'  for  all  other  service.  Witnesses  :  William  de  Bosco, 
Bernard  de  Repill,  Duncan  Sybald,  William  de  Hay,  and  Robert 
de  Bettone,  knights.  At  Haddingtone,  5th  August  (twelfth 
century). 

Charter  of  Confirmation  by  King  William  the  Lion  to  Philip 
de  Settune  (son  of  Saher),  dated  at  Stirling,  11 69*  (Maitland's  Home  of  Seytoun,  page  17, 
and  Lord  Eglinton's  Service  to  the  Earldom  of  Winton,  page  2).  The  words  of  the  charter 
are  as  follows  : — '  Willielmus  Dei  gra.  rex  Scotorum,  episcopis,  abbatibus,  comitibus,  baronibus, 
justiciariis,  vicecomitibus,  ministris,  et  omnibus  probis  [hominibus]  totius  terrae  suae,  clericis 
et  laicis,  salutem.  Sciatis  presentes  et  futuri  me  concessisse,  et  hac  carta  mea  confirmasse, 
Phillipo  de  Seytune  terram  quae  fuit  patris  sui,  scilicet,  Seytune  et  Wintune  et  Winchelburgh, 
tenendam  sibi  et  hasredibus  suis  de  me  et  hasredibus  meis  in  feodo  et  hereditate ;  in  bosco  et 
piano,  in  terris  et  aquis,  in  pratis  et  pascuis,  et  in  omnibus  earundem  terrarum  justis  pertinentiis; 
cum  sacca  et  socca,  tholl  et  them,  [et]  infangentheif,  cum  furca  et  fossa ;  libere  quiete 
plenarie  et  honorifice,  per  seruitium  vnius  militis.  Testibus,  D.  Dauide  fratre  meo,  comite 
Dunecano  justiciario,  Ricardo  de  Moruill  constabulario,  Waltero  Olefer  justiciario,  Alano 
dapifero,  Waltero  de  Bercly  camerario,  Willielmo  de  Lind.,  Ricardo  de  Humphraville,  Joanne 
de  London  ;  Apud  Striviling.' 

Charter  of  Confirmation  by  King  William  the  Lion  to  Alexander,  son  of  Philip  de  Settune, 
dated  at  Forfar,  16th  June  1170. — Ibid. 

Charter  by  Alexander  de  Settone  of  that  ilk  to  Adam  de  Pollilway,  with  Emma,  the 
granter's  sister,  in  marriage,  of  all  the  lands  of  Beth,  in  the  shire  of  Fife,  to  them  and  the 
survivor  of  them,  and  the  heirs  procreated  between  them :  rendering  therefor  yearly  to 
the  granter  twelve  shillings,  viz.,  six  shillings  at  the  feast  of  Michaelmas,  and  six  shillings  at 
the  feast  of  Easter :  on  account  of  which  they  shall  have  the  merchets,  and  all  the  forfeits, 
excepting  those  which  belong  to  the  crown  of  our  lord  the  King.  Witnesses :  David,  son  of 
the  Earl,  Humphrey  de  Balioll,  William  de  Balfour,  William  de  Grahame,  and  Constantine  de 
Locher,  knights,  with  many  others  of  good  faith.     Dated  at  Dunfermline  5th  May  1171  (?). 

Confirmation  by  King  William  of  a  charter  granted  by  Patrick  de  Dunbar,  Earl  of  March, 
to  Bertram,  son  of  Alexander  de  Settone,  of  the  lands  of  Richelkellach,  by  their  right  bounds, 
according  to  which  Adam  held  the  lands  before,  with  increase  to  the  farthest  way  of 
Stevenstone  and  Salowhild,  saving  the  King's  service :  with  all  privileges,  as  the  said  Earl 
held  the  same.  Witnesses :  William,  Bishop  of  Glasgow,  chancellor,  William  de  Hay,  Philip 
de  Landyne,  Ranulph  Soullis.  At  Stirling,  22nd  February,  seventh  year  of  the  King's  reign 
(11 72). — Lord  Eglinton's  Service,  p.  2. 

Confirmation  by  King  William  of  a  charter  granted  by  Patrick,  Earl  of  March,  of  certain 
tofts  in  the  town  of  Tranent. 

*  Engraved  at  p.  68  supra. 


CHARTERS   BY   ROBERT   I  843 

Charter  by  Roger  de  Quincy,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and  Constable  of  Scotland,  to  Master 
Adam  de  Settone,  of  the  ward  of  the  whole  land  which  belonged  to  Allan  de  Fausyde,  which 
he  held  of  the  granter,  and  the  marriage  of  the  eldest  son  and  heir  of  the  said  Allan,  and  the 
marriage  of  Agnes,  his  relict.  Witnesses :  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone,  knight,  Bernard  de 
Rippell,  William  de  Bosco,  Duncan  Sybald,  Gilbert  de  Thirnby.  In  the  year  1246. — Maitland's 
House  of Seytoun,  page  92. 

Charter  by  Robert,  King  of  Scots,  narrating  that  Christopher  de  Settone,  his  beloved 
brother-in-law,  died  in  the  royal  service ;  and  Christian  de  Bruys,  his  spouse,  and  the  King's 
sister,  founded  and  built  a  chapel  in  honour  of  the  cross  of  the  Lord  in  the  place  where  he 
died,  near  Dumfries  ;  therefore  the  King,  on  account  of  the  good-will  and  love  which  he  had, 
not  undeservedly,  towards  the  said  Christopher  while  he  lived,  grants  and  confirms  to  one 
chaplain,  to  be  presented  by  the  King  and  his  heirs,  Kings  of  Scotland,  for  ever,  to  celebrate 
divine  service  in  the  said  chapel,  for  the  soul  of  the  said  Christopher,  and  for  the  souls  of  all 
the  faithful,  one  hundred  shillings  of  sterlings  of  annual  rent,  in  free,  pure,  and  perpetual 
alms-gift,  to  be  levied  by  the  hands  of  his  Majesty's  sheriff  of  Dumfries,  and  his  bailies  who 
shall  be  for  the  time,  from  the  annual  rent  due  to  the  King  out  of  the  barony  of  Carlaverocke. 
Dated  at  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  the  last  day  of  December,  the  nineteenth  year  of  the  King's 
reign  (1325). — Sir  Lues  Stewart's  Co/ketions,  150. 

Charter  of  Donation  by  John  de  Strauchyne  to  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone  of  that  ilk, 
knight,  for  his  vital  service  against  all  mortals,  the  King  and  his  heirs  excepted.  At  Perth, 
7th  August  1309  (?). 

Charter  of  Confirmation  by  Robert  the  Brus,  King  of  Scots,  to  Sir  Alexander  Settone, 
knight,  of  the  tenement  of  Halsingtone  in  the  shire  of  Berwick.  At  Colbranspeth,  1320; 
confirmed  at  Perth  in  the  sixteenth  year  of  the  King's  reign  (1322). 

Charter  by  Robert  the  First,  King  of  Scots,  to  Sir  Alexander  Settone,  knight,  for  his 
good  service  performed  in  Ireland  and  Scotland,  of  the  lands  of  Barnes,  and  the  east  mill  of 
Haddington.  Witnesses :  William  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  Duncan  Earl  of  Fife,  Thomas  of 
Randolph,  Earl  of  Moray,  Lord  of  Annandale,  Lord  of  Douglas.  At  Berwick  upon  Tweed, 
the  26th  of  March,  in  the  fourteenth  year  of  the  King's  reign  (1320). 

Charter  by  Robert  the  First,  King  of  Scots,  to  Alexander  de  Settone,  of  the  barony  of 
Elphingstone  in  Lothian.     At  Scone,  10th  July,  sixteenth  year  of  the  reign  (1322). 

Charter  by  Robert  the  First,  King  of  Scots,  to  Sir  Alexander  of  Settone,  knight,  granting 
that  he  and  his  heirs  should  have  the  lands  of  Settone  in  free  warren  and  forest  for  ever,  and 
therefore  prohibiting  every  one  from  cutting  (wood),  hawking,  hunting,  or  fishing,  in  the 
lochs,  rivers,  or  pools  belonging  to  him,  without  licence  of  the  said  Sir  Alexander  and  his 
heirs,  under  pain  of  forfeiture.  At  Berwick,  16th  April,  sixteenth  year  of  the  King's 
reign  (1322.) 

Charter  by  Robert  the  First,  King  of  Scots,  to  Sir  Alexander  Settone,  knight,  of  the 
lands  of  Barnes,  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh,  in  free  barony ;  doing  therefor  to  the  King 
and  his  heirs  the  service  of  two  bowmen  for  the  army,  and  three  suits  of  court  at  the  King's 
court  of  Hadingtone,  at  the  three  head  pleas  to  be  held  there  yearly,  for  all  other  services. 
At  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  10th  April,  sixteenth  year  of  reign  (1322.) 

Charter  by  the  same  to  the  same  of  that  part  of  the  barony  of  Tranent  in  the  constabulary 
of  Haddingtone  which  belonged  to  the  late  William  de  Ferreirs,  knight,  with  the  tenandry  of 
the  whole  land  of  Fawside ;  also  the  whole  lordship  of  the  land  of  Mylles.  Witnesses  : 
Bernard,  Abbot  of  Arbroath,  chancellor,  James,  Lord  of  Douglas,  John  de  Menteith,  Gilbert 
de  Hay,  constable.    Given  at  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  10th  April,  sixteenth  year  of  reign  (1322). 

Charter  by  King  Robert  the  First  to  Sir  Alexander  Settone,  knight,  of  the  whole  lordship 
of  Dundass,  and  one  ploughgate  of  land  of  the  Queensferry,  pertaining  to  the  said  lordship  : 
also  the  lordship  of  all  the  land  of  Western  Cragyne,  in  the  shire  of  Edinburgh  :  doing  there- 
for the  services  due  and  wont.  Given  at  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  13th  April,  sixteenth  year  of 
reign  (T322). 

Confirmation  by  King  Robert  the  First  of  a  charter  of  donation  by  Patrick,  Earl  of 
March,  to  Sir  Alexander  Settone,  of  the  whole  tenement  of  Halsingtone  in  the  shire  of 
Berwick.  At  Colbranspeth,  the  Monday  after  the  feast  of  Barnabas  the  apostle,  in  the  year 
1320 :  confirmed  at  Perth  in  the  sixteenth  year  of  the  King's  reign  (1322). 

Charter  by  King  Robert  the  First  to  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone,  knight,  of  the  whole 


844     CHARTERS  TO  ALEXANDER  DE   SETON 

lordship  of  the  land  of  Elphingstone  in  the  shire  of  Edinburgh.  At  Scone,  ioth  July,  six- 
teenth year  of  the  reign  (1322). 

Charter  by  King  Robert  the  First  to  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone,  knight,  granting  that  he 
should  have  his  toun  of  Settone  in  free  burgh,  with  a  market  to  be  holden  in  the  same  on 
each  Lord's  day.  Witnesses :  Duncan,  Earl  of  Fife,  Walter,  Steward  of  Scotland,  Patrick, 
Earl  of  March,  and  James,  lord  of  Douglas,  knights.  At  Dunfermline,  16th  January, 
eighteenth  year  of  reign. — Maitland's  House  of  Seytoun,  p.  93. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  the  same  of  a  piece  of  land  in  the  burgh  of  Aberdeen,  which 
belonged  to  William  Marischal,  burgess  of  said  burgh.  At  Aberdeen,  8th  April,  nineteenth 
year  of  reign. 

Resignation  by  John  Lamberton  to  Sir  Alexander  Settone,  knight,  of  one  acre  of  arable 
land  of  the  territory  of  Nidriffe.     At  Winchburgh,  16th  February  1328-9. 

Resignation  by  John  de  Lambingstone  to  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone  of  that  ilk,  knight, 
of  the  lands  of  Lambingstone.  Witnesses :  William  de  Forsyth,  John  de  Linlithgow.  At 
Winchburgh,  1328. 

Confirmation  by  King  Robert  the  First  of  a  charter  of  donation  by  John  de  Vallibus  to 
Sir  Alexander  de  Settone,  of  the  lands  of  Gogar,  in  the  shire  of  Edinburgh. 

Charter  by  King  Robert  the  First  to  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone  of  the  husband-lands  in 
the  town  of  Nidriffe  which  belonged  to  the  late  Alan  la  Such. 

Charter  of  Donation  by  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone,  knight,  for  the  welfare  of  his  soul,  and 
the  souls  of  his  predecessors,  and  for  the  souls  of  his  heirs  and  successors,  granting  to  God 
and  the  blessed  Mary,  and  Saint  Francis,  and  to  all  the  saints,  and  to  the  Friars  Minors  of 
Haddingtone,  for  the  help  of  the  ornaments  and  vestments  of  the  said  church,  twenty  shillings, 
to  be  taken  yearly  from  the  fermes  of  the  mill  of  Barnes.  Dated  at  Dunbar,  in  the  feast  of 
the  nativity  of  the  Lord,  1337. 

Charter  of  Donation  in  pure  alms  by  Alexander  Settone  of  that  ilk  to  the  monasteries  of 
Haddington,  of  twenty  shillings  yearly  from  the  mill  of  Barnes.  At  Edinburgh,  in  the  feast 
of  the  nativity  of  the  Lord,  1337. 

Confirmation  by  David  the  Second,  King  of  Scots,  of  a  donation  by  Thomas  Vitchard 
to  Sir  Alexander  de  Settone,  knight.  The  confirmation  is  dated  at  Dumbarton,  30th 
September,  tenth  year  of  the  King's  reign  (1339). 

Charter  by  Thomas  Vitchard  of  Nidriffe  to  Sir  Alexander  Setton,  knight,  of  a  carucate 
of  land  in  the  town  of  Nidriffe  which  belonged  to  the  granter's  mother.  Witnesses :  Sir 
Robert,  Steward  of  Scotland,  then  keeper  of  the  kingdom,  Sir  Eustache  de  Maxwell,  and 
William  de  Levingstone,  knights.     At  Settone,  8th  September  1339. 

Charter  of  Donation  by  John  de  Dunbar,  Earl  of  Moray,  lord  of  Annandale  and  of  the  Isle 
of  Mann,  to  Sir  Alexander  Setton,  knight,  of  the  lands  of  Collodoune  in  Moray :  rendering 
therefor  to  the  granter  one  pair  of  gilded  spurs,  for  all  other  service  and  relief.  The  witnesses 
are  Sir  Andrew  de  Moray,  panetar  [?]  of  Scotland,  Alexander  de  Moubray,  Ranulph  de  Soullis, 
and  Thomas  de  Erskyne,  knights,  William  de  (Douglas),  and  Laurence  de  Preston. 

Charter  by  Patrick,  Earl  of  March  and  Dunbar,  to  Alexander  de  Settoune  of  that  ilk,  of 
the  lands  of  Ruchland. 

Charter  by  Allan  de  Hertsheved  to  Alexander  de  Settone,  lord  of  that  ilk,  of  the  whole 
land  of  Hertsheved,  with  warrandice  against  all  men  and  women.  Witnesses  :  Robert  Lauder, 
justiciar  of  Lothian,  John  de  Giffard,  lord  of  Yester,  and  Sir  Thomas  de  Moray,  knights. 

Charter  by  William  de  Morvell,  lord  of  Lauderdaill  and  Constable  of  Scotland,  to  William 
de  Hertsheved,  of  the  land  which  Heden  Steming  held  in  the  granter's  town  of  Hertsheved. 
Witnesses :  Christian,  spouse  of  the  granter,  William  Marischall,  Peter  de  la  Hay,  Albin  the 
chaplain,  Duncan,  son  of  Earl  Duncan.  (Without  date ;  a  similar  charter  found  among  the 
Wintoun  papers  in  Exchequer,  1810.) 

Confirmation  by  William,  first  Lord  Settone,  of  a  donation  by  David  de  Annand,  knight, 
to  Patrick  de  Halwick,  warden  of  the  friars  of  Haddingtoun,  which  was  given  to  them  by  the 
said  Sir  David's  predecessors,  of  as  many  coals  as  they  can  burn  for  their  own  use,  from  his 
town  and  barony  of  Tranent.  Dated  at  Mylles,  26th  November  1380;  confirmed  at  Setton, 
with  consent  of  John,  son  and  heir  of  the  said  Lord  William,  6th  October  1404. 

Charter  by  William,  Lord  Settone,  to  his  beloved  and  special  Patrick  Gray,  of  all  and 
sundry  lands  in  the  tenement  of  Langnidyrie  in  the  granter's  barony  of  Tranent :  rendering 


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therefor,  yearly,  the  said  Patrick  and  his  heirs  to  the  granter  and  his  heirs,  one  pair  of  white 
gloves  or  two  pennies  of  silver,  in  name  of  blenchferme,  at  the  town  of  Tranent.  At  Settone, 
6th  January  1381-2.  Witnesses:  John  of  Dunbar,  Earl  of  Moray,  James  de  Lindesay,  Lord 
of  Craufurd,  Sir  John  Lyone,  Chamberlain  of  Scotland,  and  Sir  John  Edmenistone,  knights. 

Confirmation  by  Robert  the  Third,  King  of  Scots,  of  a  charter  by  William,  Lord  Settone, 
to  his  son  and  heir,  John  de  Settone,  and  Catherine  de  Saint  Clar  his  spouse,  of  .£40  of  the 
lands  of  Barnes.  Witnesses  :  Walter,  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  Robert,  Earl  of  Fife  and 
Menteith,  the  King's  brother,  Archibald,  Earl  of  Douglas,  lord  of  Galloway,  James  Douglas, 
lord  of  Dalkeith,  and  Thomas  de  Erskyne,  knights,  the  King's  kinsmen,  and  Alexander 
Cockburn  of  Langton,  keeper  of  the  great  seal.  At  Edinburgh,  8th  March,  third  year  of 
reign  (1392-3). 

Charter  by  Archibald,  Earl  of  Douglas,  to  his  dearest  cousin  John,  Lord  Setton,  son  of 
William,  late  Lord  de  Settone,  of  the  lands  of  Altham  in  the  barony  of  Roxburgh.  Witnesses  : 
Sir  William  Lindesay,  lord  of  Byres,  William  de  Hay,  William  de  Abernethy,  John 
Edmonstone,  and  William  de  Borthwick,  knights.     At  Edinburgh,  4th  March  ^09-10. 

Confirmation  by  Robert,  Duke  of  Albany,  Earl  of  Fife  and  Menteith,  Governor  of  the 
kingdom  of  Scotland,  to  his  beloved  cousin  John  de  Settone,  knight,  of  the  whole  lands  and 
baronies  of  Tranent  and  Settone,  and  the  whole  lands  of  Winchburgh.  Witnesses  :  Henry, 
Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  William,  Bishop  of  Glasgow,  Archibald  Earl  of  Douglas,  Alexander 
Earl  of  Mar,  Gilbert,  Bishop  of  Aberdeen,  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  George  de  Dunbar  Earl 
of  March,  James  de  Douglas,  lord  of  Dalkeith,  William,  Lord  de  Graham,  John,  Steward  of 
Lome,  and  Andrew  de  Hawyk,  secretary  to  the  Duke.  At  Edinburgh,  14th  March  1410,  and 
of  his  government  the  fifth  year. 

Discharge  by  George  Dunbar,  son  and  apparent  heir  of  George,  Earl  of  March,  to  John, 
Lord  Settone,  for  three  hundred  merks  Scots,  given  in  tocher  with  his  sister  Janet.  Dated  at 
Dunbar,  3rd  March  1413-14. 

Resignation  by  John  de  Annand  to  his  reverend  and  superior  lord,  John,  Lord  Settone, 
of  the  lands  of  Mylles.  Witnesses :  Archibald  de  Edmistone,  knight,  and  William,  his  son 
and  heir,  William  de  Annand,  the  resigner's  cousin,  John  and  Hugh  de  Lindesay,  esquires. 
At  Edinburgh,  28th  November  142 1. 

Ratification  of  a  testificate  produced  before  the  provost  and  bailies  of  Edinburgh  by 
Margaret  Stewart,  daughter  and  heir  of  the  late  mighty  and  potent  lord,  Sir  John,  Earl  of 
Buchan,  Constable  of  the  kingdom  of  France,  and  spouse  of  a  great  and  noble  lord,  George, 
Lord  Settone,  under  the  great  seal  of  France,  and  subscribed  with  Charles,  King  of  France, 
his  own  hand,  wherein  he  ordains  the  said  Earl  of  Buchan  to  be  captain  of  a  company  of 
gentlemen,  to  the  number  of  an  hundred  and  fifty,  all  Scotsmen,  for  guarding  of  the  person 
of  the  said  King ;  and  for  encouraging  of  him  to  continue  in  his  good  service  to  the  crown  of 
France,  he  gives  him  a  yearly  pension  of  three  thousand  crowns,  to  be  paid  furth  of  the 
county  of  Soysons,  together  with  the  county  of  Vallans,  for  his  valorous  assistance  of  the  said 
King  with  a  thousand  Scots  against  the  English  at  the  battle  of  Alencourte  (sic).  This  deed 
is  dated  at  Paris,  9th  December  1424. 

The  grant  is  registered  in  the  public  records  of  the  city  of  Edinburgh,  and  extracted 
under  the  seals  of  George  Fauside,  provost,  and  John  Lamb,  bailie,  and  the  town's  common 
seal,  16th  February  1451-2,  before  these  witnesses  :  James,  Earl  of  Moray,  James  Edmonstone 
of  that  ilk,  knight,  William  de  Preston,  lord  of  Craigmillar,  Alexander  Napier  of  Philpde  (?), 
with  many  others  of  worthy,  honest  name,  and  also  from  among  the  great  company  of  the 
burgesses  assembled  together. 

Indenture  betwixt  Colin,  Earl  of  Argyll,  Lord  Campbell,  on  the  one  part,  and  George, 
Lord  Setton,  on  the  other  part,  wherein  the  said  Colin  takes  burden  on  him  for  his  daughter 
Marionna,  of  the  age  of  twelve  years,  and  in  case  of  her  decease  before  the  solemnising  of 
marriage  with  the  said  Lord  Settone,  then  he  obliges  to  give  him  in  marriage  his  second 
daughter,  Helena,  and  with  her  1000  merks  of  tocher.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  14th 
September  1469. 

Retour  of  the  service  of  George,  Lord  Settone,  as  heir  to  George,  Lord  Settone,  his 
grandfather,  in  the  lands  and  superiorities  of  Munte  and  Johnstoune  in  the  shire  of  Perth. 
Dated  at  Perth  25th  June  1482. 

Indenture  between  George,  Lord  of  Settone,  on  one  part,  and  Patrick  Cockburn,  burgess 


846  INDENTURES,    RETOURS,   ETC. 

of  Haddington,  on  the  other,  whereby  the  said  Lord  Settone  sells  to  the  said  Patrick  his 
whole  tenement  of  land  lying  in  the  said  burgh,  to  be  held  for  the  burghal  ferme  due  and 
wont  to  the  King,  and  five  shillings  of  annual  rent  to  the  parish  church  of  Haddington ;  also 
to  the  warden  and  convent  of  the  Minorite  Friars  of  Haddington,  six  shillings  and  eight 
pennies  of  annual  rent.  The  witnesses  are  John  Settone,  brother-german  of  the  said  Lord, 
Sir  Antony  Mouraffe,  rector  of  Settone.     At  Settone,  7  th  April  1491. 

Retour  of  the  service  of  George,  Lord  Settone,  as  heir,  to  Dame  Christian  Lindsay,  his 
mother,  in  the  dominical  lands  of  Winchburgh.     At  Linlithgow,  nth  March  1496. 

Retour  of  the  service  of  George,  Lord  Settoune,  to  George,  sometime  Lord  Settone,  his 
father,  in  the  lordship,  baronies,  and  lands  of  Settone,  Wintoun,  and  Tranent,  with  the  towers 
and  fortalices  thereof.  Expede  in  the  court-house  of  the  burgh  of  Haddington,  17  th 
October  1513. 

Procuratory  granted  by  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  Lady  of  Settone,  widow  and  relict  of 
George,  sometime  Lord  Settone,  for  uplifting  several  annualrents  due  to  her.  Dated  20th 
April  1541. 

Charter  by  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  widow  of  George,  Lord  Settone,  of  twenty  merks  from 
her  lands  called  Spens  lands  in  Fortoun,  for  building  the  north  part  of  the  collegiate  church 
of  Settone.     At  the  Monastery  of  the  Sisters  of  Schenis,  near  Edinburgh,  20th  April  1541. 

Charter  of  Foundation  of  the  collegiate  church  of  Settone,  by  Janet  Hepburn,  daughter 
of  the  late  noble  and  potent  lord,  Patrick,  Earl  of  Bothwell,  Lord  Haills,  etc.,  and  Lady 
Settone,  widow  of  the  noble  and  potent  lord,  George,  Lord  Settone,  whereby  in  her  pure 
widowhood,  for  the  praise  and  honour  of  God  Almighty,  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Spirit,  and  of 
the  blessed  Virgin  Mary,  mother  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  of  all  the  sainted  men  and 
women,  patrons  of  the  collegiate  church  of  Settone;  and  for  the  increase  of  divine  service  in 
the  same ;  for  the  safety  and  healthful  and  prosperous  estate  of  the  serene  princess,  Mary 
Queen  of  Scots,  and  of  her  predecessors  and  successors ;  also  for  the  weal  of  her  own  soul 
and  the  soul  of  George,  her  son,  the  present  Lord,  and  for  the  soul  of  her  late  spouse,  George, 
also  sometime  Lord  Settone,  she  gives  and  confirms  in  pure  almsgift,  for  the  support  of  two 
chaplains,  all  her  lands,  conquest  in  her  pure  widowhood,  namely,  the  Templar  lands  called 
Spenslands,  lying  in  the  town  of  East  Fortoun,  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh  and 
constabulary  of  Haddingtone :  and  all  and  whole  her  Templar  lands  of  Settone,  etc. :  paying 
therefor  the  said  chaplains  to  the  Lord  of  St.  John,  preceptor  of  Torphichen,  the  annual 
rents  and  services  due  to  him  from  the  Templar  lands  of  East  Fortoun,  Settone,  and  Wester 
Duddingstone,  as  is  more  clearly  contained  in  the  charters  of  the  said  lands.  In  faithful 
testimony  of  all  which,  her  own  seal,  together  with  that  of  her  dearest  son,  George,  Lord 
Settone,  are  appended,  with  their  manual  subscriptions,  before  these  witnesses :  Sir  Adam 
Otterburn  of  Redhall,  knight,  Mr.  Thomas  Wymes,  Alexander  Gibson,  notary,  etc. 

Charter  of  Confirmation  of  this  foundation  by  John  Hamilton,  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews, 
under  his  subscription  manual  and  round  seal  At  Edinburgh,  20th  July  1556,  and  tenth 
year  of  his  consecration. 

Retour  of  the  service  of  George,  Lord  Settone,  as  heir  to  his  father,  in  the  lands  of 
West  Nidriffe.     Expede  in  the  court-house  of  the  burgh  of  Linlithgow,  19th  May  1550. 

Retour  of  service  of  the  said  George,  Lord  Settone,  as  heir  to  his  father,  in  the  barony 
of  Winchburgh.     At  Edinburgh,  5th  October  1557. 

Letter  by  King  James  the  Sixth  to  the  King  of  France,  with  congratulations  on  the 
ancient  alliance  between  the  two  kingdoms,  which  in  troublous  times  had  remained  unbroken, 
and  intimating  his  desire  for  a  renewal  of  the  treaty  of  friendship  between  them,  for  which 
purpose,  with  consent  of  his  council,  he  sends  his  beloved  cousin  George,  Lord  Settone,  one 
of  his  council,  as  his  ambassador,  with  full  power  to  conclude  the  matter.  Dated  at  Stirling 
Castle,  26th  October  1583.  Signed  by  the  King,  the  Earls  of  Morton,  Montrose,  March, 
Gowry,  Rothes,  Argyll,  Bothwell,  Huntly,  Marischal,  Craufurd,  and  the  Lords  Newbotle, 
Thirlestane,  Daer,  Douglas,  Herries,  Ogilvy. 


REGISTER  OF  GREAT   SEAL  847 

2.    Register  of  Great  Seal.1 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  First  of  the  charter  of  alienation  granted  by  John  of 
Seton,  knight,  to  John  Forestare  of  Corstorfyne,  knight,  of  an  annual  rent  of  ioo  merks  and 
43  pennies  from  the  lands  of  the  said  John  Forestare  in  Langnudre,  which  belonged  before 
to  the  late  John  of  Haliburton,  and  Nicholas  of  Erskyne,  knights.  The  reddendo  is  one 
penny  of  silver  yearly  in  name  of  blench  ferme,  payable  to  the  granter.  Dated  at  Edinburgh, 
15th  July  1424. — Lib.  ii.  No.  20. 

William  of  Seton,  son  and  heir  of  John  of  Seton,  lord  of  that  ilk,  is  witness  to  a  charter 
by  Archibald,  Earl  of  Wygtoun,  confirming  a  charter  of  the  late  Archibald,  Earl  of  Douglas,  to 
John  of  Heriot  of  Trabroun,  of  the  lands  of  Trabroun.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  2nd  December 
1423. — Lib.  ii.  No.  10. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  John  of  Seton,  knight,  lord  of  that  ilk,  and  lord  of 
the  barony  of  Winchburgh,  to  James  of  Dundas,  son  and  heir  of  James  of  Dundas  of  that  ilk, 
the  King's  esquire,  of  the  lands  of  Dundas.     At  Setoun,  29th  November  1423. — Lib.  ii.  No.  1. 

Gilbert  of  Setoun,  esquire,  lord  of  Haystoun,  is  witness  to  charter  by  Archibald,  Earl  of 
Douglas,  and  of  Longueville,  to  Adam  Forman  his  esquire,  of  the  lands  of  Hutoun  in  Ber- 
wickshire.    At  Perth,  15th  March  1425-6. — Lib.  ii.  No.  70. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Second  of  charter  by  George  of  Setoun,  lord  of  that  ilk, 
knight,  to  Robert  of  Setoun,  for  his  homage  and  faithful  service,  of  the  lands  of  East  Bernys, 
in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington  and  shire  of  Edinburgh  :  To  be  holden  to  the  said 
Robert  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  revert  wholly  to  the  said  George  and 
his  heirs  whatsoever.  At  Edinburgh,  12th  December  1438.  Witnesses:  Sir  Alexander  of 
Setoun,  lord  of  Gordon,  knight ;  Sir  William  of  Crichtoun,  lord  of  that  ilk,  knight ;  David 
of  Dunbar,  lord  of  Cokburne,  knight;  James  of  Hamiltoun,  of  Fingaltoun,  knight;  John  of 
Fawsyde,  lord  of  that  ilk  ;  James,  his  son  ;  Michael  of  Hirdmanstoun,  notary.  Confirmed  at 
Stirling,  iSth  September  1439. — Lib.  iii.  No.  121. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Second  of  charter  by  George,  lord  of  Setoun  and  of 
Langnudre,  knight,  granting  to  Lady  Katerine  of  Setoun,  relict  of  the  deceased  Sir  William  of 
Setoun,  lord  of  that  ilk,  grandfather  of  the  said  George,  the  lands  of  that  tenandry  or 
husbandry  of  6  merks  and  40  pennies,  in  the  territory  of  Langnudre,  on  the  east  side  of  the 
stream  of  Langnudre,  in  the  constabulary  of  Hadingtoun  and  shire  of  Edinburgh,  in  excam- 
bion  for  her  reasonable  third  part  of  the  lands  of  Lowstoun  and  Kynwed  in  the  shire  of  Perth. 
At  Setoun,  20th  June  1449.  Witnesses  :  John  of  Saintclair  of  Hirdmanstoun,  Alexander  of 
Setoun,  esquires,  etc.     Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  28th  March  1450. — Lib.  iv.  No.  n. 

Confirmation  of  charter  by  John  of  Haliburtoun,  lord  of  that  ilk,  to  John  of  Achtinlek, 
son  and  heir  of  the  late  Sir  James  of  Achtinlek,  of  that  ilk,  knight,  for  his  counsel  and  help, 
of  an  annual  rent  of  50  merks  from  the  barony  of  Tranent,  as  well  of  lands  as  of  coalheuchs, 
as  in  the  charter  of  Sir  William  of  Setoun  to  the  late  Sir  Walter  of  Haliburtoun,  father  of  said 
John  of  Haliburtoun,  of  the  said  annual  rent,  is  more  fully  contained  :  To  be  holden  to  the 
said  John  of  Achtinlek,  from  the  granter,  of  the  King,  until  Sir  George  of  Setoun,  lord  of  that 
ilk,  knight,  or  his  heirs,  shall  have  paid  to  the  said  John  of  Achtinlek,  or  his  heirs,  in  the 
parish  church  of  Gulyne,  the  sum  of  500  merks.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  17th  October  1449. 
Confirmed  26th  October  1450. — Lib.  iv.  No.  125. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Second  of  charter  by  George,  Lord  Setoun,  to  Sir 
William,  Lord  Crechtoun,  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  for  his  counsel  and  help,  of  the  lands  of 
Wyntoune,  in  the  barony  of  Setoun.     (Incomplete.)     1451. — Lib.  iv.  No.  195. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Second  to  George,  Lord  Seitoune,  of  the  lands  of  Hertished 
and  Clentis,  in  the  shire  of  Berwick,  which  were  resigned  by  the  said  George :  To  be  holden 
to  him,  and  Cristiana  his  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them,  and  the  heirs-male  procreated 
between  them  ;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs  whatsoever  of  the  said  George — rendering  therefor 
yearly  one  penny  in  name  of  blench  ferme.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  8th  January  1458-9. — Lib. 
v.  No.  45. 


1  The  purport  of  a  good  many  of  the  following        of   the   entries   in   the  record,    although   this  course 
writs  has  already  been  given,  but  I  have  considered        necessarily  involves  some  repetition, 
it  desirable  not  to  break  the  chronological  continuity 


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Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Third  of  charter  by  John,  Lord  Setoune,  ratifying  the 
grant  made  by  Sir  Robert  of  Creichtoun  lord  of  Sanquhare,  to  Robert  Charteris,  lord  of 
Amysfelde,  of  13  mercates  of  land  in  the  town  of  Langnudre.  At  Edinburgh,  17  th  October 
1463.     Confirmed  same  day. — Lib.  vi.  No.  132. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Third  of  charter  by  George  of  Balfoure  of  Mun- 
quhanny,  to  James  Balfoure  his  son,  and  Margaret  Setoun  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Bellow  (?) 
in  Fife,  which  the  said  James  resigned  at  the  toun  of  Achtermunsy  :  To  be  holden  in  conjunct 
fee  from  the  granter  of  the  King.  Dated  at  Achtermunsy,  27th  March  1467.  Witnesses: 
David  Lindissay  of  Mont,  William  Setoun,  John  Setoun,  Gilbert  Setoun,  David  Setoun. 
Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  3rd  April  1467. — Lib.  vii.  No.  113. 

Charter  to  George,  Lord  Gordon,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  of  Culsawarty,  and  forests  of 
Bonye  and  Aynze,  in  the  shire  of  Banff,  resigned  by  Alexander  Setoun  of  Tulybody.  At 
Edinburgh,  21st  May  1470. — Lib.  xiv.  No.  349. 

Charter  to  Alexander  Setoun  of  Parbroith,  and  Katerine  of  Creichtoune  his  spouse,  of  the 
half  of  the  lands  of  Leuchland,  and  an  annualrent  of  20  shillings  from  the  lands  of  Bal- 
birny,  in  the  lordship  of  Brechin  and  shire  of  Forfar ;  on  resignation  by  the  said  Alexander. 
Dated  at  Edinburgh,  8th  January  1472-3. — Lib.  vii.  No.  275. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Third  of  charter  by  George,  Lord  Setoun,  of  the  feu  of 
the  lands  of  Hertside,  by  which  he  granted  to  Hugh  Douglas  of  Borg,  and  Cristiane  his 
spouse,  the  lands  of  Clints,  and  three-quarters  of  the  lands  of  Nether  Hartside,  in  the  lord- 
ship of  Lauderdale  and  shire  of  Berwick, — for  the  marriage  contracted  between  the  said 
Hugh,  and  Cristiane,  daughter  of  the  said  George,  Lord  Setoun  :  To  be  holden  to  them  and 
the  heirs  of  the  marriage  for  one  penny  yearly  in  name  of  blench  ferme.  Dated  at  Setoun 
15th  July  1478.  Witnesses:  James  Setoun,  etc.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  26th  January 
1478-9. — Lib.  viii.  No.  139. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Third  of  a  donation  by  George,  Lord  Setoun,  with 
consent  of  Cristian  of  Murra  his  spouse,1  to  the  church  of  the  Predicant  Friars  of  Edinburgh, 
of  an  annualrent  of  20  merks  out  of  the  lands  of  Hertishede  and  Clynts  in  the  shire  of 
Berwick,  for  the  weal  of  the  soul  of  King  James  the  Second,  etc.  At  Edinburgh,  14th  May 
1473. — Lib.  vii.  No.  289. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Third  of  charter  by  Robert,  Lord  Maxwell,  to  Lady 
Katerine  of  Setoune,  his  mother,  wife  of  the  late  Sir  Herbert,  lord  the  Maxwell,  knight,  of  the 
lands  of  Carnsolach  and  Dursquen  in  the  shire  of  Dumfries,  in  one  free  lordship.  Dated  at 
Carlaverok,  20th  March  1456-7.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  12th  January  1475-6. — Lib.  vii. 
No.  362. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Fourth  of  charter  by  Alexander  Setoun  of  Meldrum  to 
William  his  son  and  apparent  heir,  and  Elizabeth  Lesly  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Balcarne, 
in  the  lordship  of  Meldrum.  At  Aberdene,  12th  July  1490.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  15th 
March  1490-91. — Lib.  xii.  No.  287. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Fourth  of  charter  by  George,  Lord  Setoun, to  Robert  Vans, 
burgess  of  Edinburgh,  of  the  lands  of  Monyvy,  Lowstoun,  and  Kynvaid,  in  the  shire  of  Perth. 
At  Edinburgh,  27th  November  1493.    Confirmed  24th  December  thereafter. — Lib.  xiii.  No.  97. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Fourth  of  charter  by  Peter  .Petblado  of  that  ilk  to 
Thomas  Grundistoun  of  Kyngask,  and  Isabella  Setoun  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Kyngask, 
in  the  lordship  of  Petblado  and  shire  of  Fife.  At  Edinburgh,  nth  April  1495.  Witnesses  : 
Mr.  David  Setoun,  rector  of  Fethircarne,  John  Setoun  of  Lothrisk,  etc. — Lib.  xiii.  No.  150. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  John  Setoun,  son  of  John  Setoun  and  Jonet 
Louthreisk,  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Louthreisk,  Cuthland,  and  Dernok,  lands  of  Orky,  with 
mill  thereof,  and  fourth  part  of  the  lands  of  Easter  Louthreisk,  in  the  shire  of  Fife — reserving 
the  frank  tenement  to  the  said  Jonet,  and  John  Setoun  her  spouse.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  nth 
April  1495.- — Lib.  xiii.  No.  151. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  Alexander  Setoun  of  Meldrum,  and  Muriella 
Sutherland  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Yonyr,  Auld  Meldrum,  and  mill  of  Cromlat,  in  the  lord- 
ship of  Meldrum  and  shire  of  Aberdene,  following  on  the  said  Alexander's  own  resignation. 
At  Aberdene,  12th  November  1499. — Lib.  xiii.  No.  620. 

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Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  his  familiar  knight,  Alexander  Setoun  of  Tulch- 
fresall,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  of  Burncastle,  in  the  lordship  of  Lauderdale,  which  William 
Furd  resigned.     At  Strivelin,  22nd  December  1502. — Lib.  xiv.  No.  71. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  George,  Lord  Setoun,  of  the  fourth  part  of  the  lands 
of  Bynnyng,  with  the  principal  mansion  and  garden  of  the  same,  in  the  shire  of  Linlithgow, 
which  were  apprised  from  John  Bynnyng  of  that  ilk,  and  were  sold  to  the  said  Lord  Setoun. 
At  Edinburgh,  14th  July  1503. — Lib.  xiii.  No.  587. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  Mungo  Setoun,  son  of  Alexander  Setoun  of 
Perbroth,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Luchland,  and  20  shillings  of  annualrent  of  the  lands  of 
Balbirny,  in  the  lordship  of  Brechin  and  shire  of  Forfar,  which  the  said  Alexander  and 
Katerine  Creichtoun  his  spouse  resigned,  reserving  their  frank  tenement.  Dated  at  Edinburgh, 
7th  October  T498. — Lib.  xiii.  No.  400. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Thomas  Coupland,  for  his  good  service,  of  the  half  of  the  lands 
of  Udach,  Ardris,  Auchry,  Buchquhanyoquhy,  etc.,  in  the  barony  of  Kinedward  and  shire  of 
Aberdene,  which  were  a  tenandry  of  the  said  Thomas,  and  formerly  held  of  the  said  barony  ; 
and  which  lands  and  barony  were  adjudged  to  the  King  by  reason  of  non-entry  by  the  decease 
of  John,  Earl  of  Buchan,  Constable  of  France,  Chamberlain  of  Scotland,  and  baron  of 
Kinedward  ;  and  which  George,  Lord  Setoun,  who  was  heir  thereof,  and  had  obtained  brieves 
of  chancery  for  recovery  of  the  same,  afterwards  renounced  for  ever.  At  Striveling,  15th 
August  1505. — Lib.  xiv.  No.  140. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  George  Seytoun,  son  and  heir-apparent  of  George, 
Lord  Seytoun,  and  Jonet  Hepburn,  spouse  of  said  George,  younger,  of  the  ^40  lands  in  the 
toun  and  territory  of  Seytoun,  in  the  shire  of  Edinburgh  and  constabulary  of  Hadington ; 
all  which  were  resigned  by  the  said  Lord  Seytoun.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  25th  January  1506-7. 
— Lib.  xiv.  No.  419. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  George,  Lord  Setoun,  and  Jonet  Hepburn  his 
spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Wyntoun,  with  manor,  fortalice,  orchyards,  yards  and  mills,  lying  in 
the  barony  of  Seytoun,  as  a  pendicle  thereof;  also  the  lands  of  the  mains  of  Myllis,  with 
manor  thereof,  in  the  barony  of  Tranent,  as  a  pendicle  of  the  same ;  which  lands  the  said 
George  resigned :  To  be  holden  to  him  and  his  said  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them  in 
conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs  of  their  marriage  ;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs  whatsoever  of  the 
said  George,  heritably — reserving  the  coalheughs,  with  power  to  make  new  coalheughs  in 
places  necessary  within  the  said  lands,  where  no  damage  to  the  manors  may  follow.  Dated 
at  Edinburgh,  6th  April  1508. — Lib.  xv.  No.  5. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Alexander  Setoun  of  Tulibody,  knight,  by  which 
he  sold  to  Alexander,  Earl  of  Huntlie,  his  lands  of  Fothirty,  with  mill  and  brewhouse  thereof, 
in  the  earldom  of  Ross.  Dated  at  Invernys,  27th  July  1509  (sic).  Adam  Gordon  of  Obyne 
is  a  witness.     Confirmed  at  Jedburgh,  4th  December  1508. — Lib.  xv.  No.  141. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Jonet  Hepburn  his 
spouse,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Bernis,  called  East  and  West  Bernis,  following  on  their 
own  resignation.     Dated  at  Edinburgh,  1st  February  1511-12. — Lib.  xviii.  No.  12.         * 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fourth  to  John  Setoun,  grandson  (nefioti)  and  heir  of 
Alexander  Setoun  of  Perbroith,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Perbroith  ;  namely, 
the  manor  and  mains  of  Perbroith,  lands  of  Landisfern,  with  mill,  annualrent  of  £6  from 
the  lands  of  Ramsay-Forthir ;  lands  of  Urquharts,  namely,  Easter  Urquhart,  Myddil 
Urquhart,  and  Loppy  Urquhart,  in  the  shire  of  Fife ;  lands  of  Haistoun  and  Scrogarfield  in 
the  shire  of  Forfar :  which  had  been  in  the  King's  hands  for  fifty  years  and  more,  by  reason  of 
non-entry,  with  the  fermes  of  the  same  for  the  said  period,  which  fermes  the  King  gave  to  the 
said  John,  under  the  privy  seal,  until  the  entry  of  the  true  heir;  and  which  lands,  by  defect  of 
moveable  goods  beyond  the  sum  of  ^236,  10s.  for  the  residue  of  the  said  fermes,  extend- 
ing to  ^4930,  3s.  4d.  were  apprised  and  assigned  to  the  said  John :  and  which  the  King, 
for  favour,  incorporated  in  one  free  barony  of  Perbroith  :  Rendering  for  Urquharts  the 
services  contained  in  the  old  charter  granted  by  King  James  the  First  to  the  predecessors  of 
the  said  John :  and  for  the  residue  of  the  barony  three  suits  of  court  at  the  three  head  pleas 
of  the  shire  of  Fife — reserving  to  the  said  Alexander  his  frank  tenement  thereof.  Dated  at 
Edinburgh,  28th  July  15 12. — Lib.  xviii.  No.  78. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Fourth  of  charter  by  Mathew  Quhite  of  Kilmarone,  in 

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favour  of  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  vicar  of  Bothelny,  as  assignee  to  Peter  Petblado  of  that  ilk, 
of  the  lands  of  Kilmarone,  in  the  lordship  of  Petblado  and  shire  of  Fife,  which  were  sold  by 
the  said  Peter  to  the  said  Mathew  under  reversion,  which  the  said  Mr.  Alexander  had  paid. 
At  the  burgh  of  Cupar,  25th  April  1513.  Witnesses:  John  Seitoun  of  Balbirny,  and  David 
Seytoun,  sons  of  John  Seytoun  of  Lothrisk.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  24th  May  15 13. — Lib. 
xviii.  No.  176. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Fourth  of  charter  by  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  vicar  of 
Bothelny,  granting  to  John  Seytoun  of  Louthrisk,  and  Jonet  Admolty  (Auchmouty)  his  spouse, 
his  five-twelfth  parts  of  the  lands  of  Kilmarone  and  Pettinluig,  which,  as  assignee  to  Peter 
Petblado,  he  had  redeemed  from  Mathew  Quhite  :  To  be  holden  to  the  said  John  and  Jonet 
in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs  of  their  marriage,  of  the  King,  in  fee.  Dated  at  Edinburgh, 
25th  July,  and  confirmed  2nd  August  1513. — Lib.  xix.  No.  7. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fifth  to  John  Seton,  and  Jonet  Turnbull  his  spouse,  of  the 
fourth  part  of  the  lands  and  mill  of  Gargunnock,  and  £$  lands  of  the  barony  of  Plane, 
Stirlingshire ;  and  half  of  the  seventh  part  of  the  lands  of  Fordale,  Fifeshire,  which  the  said 
Jonet  resigned  :  To  be  holden  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs  of  their  marriage ;  which 
failing,  to  the  heirs  whatever  of  the  said  John.  At  Edinburgh,  23rd  November  1515. — Lib. 
xix.  No.  76. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fifth  confirming  charter  by  John  Seyton,  and  Jonet  Trumbill 
his  spouse,  portioners  of  Gargunnock  and  Fordale,  whereby,  for  a  sum  of  money,  they  sold  to 
William  Spittale  of  Luquhat,  and  Elizabeth  Seyton  his  spouse,  the  half  of  the  seventh  part 
of  the  lands  and  mill  of  Fordale,  in  the  barony  of  the  same,  and  shire  of  Fife.  Dated  at 
Edinburgh,  10th  December  1515.  Witnesses:  Mr.  Alexander  Seyton,  vicar  of  Bothelny, 
John  Seyton  of  Balbirny,  etc.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  nth  January  1515-6. — Lib.  xix. 
No.  93. 

Confirmation  by  King  James  the  Fifth  of  charter  by  Jonet  Turnbull,  elder  daughter,  and 
Elizabeth  Turnbull,  younger  daughter,  heirs  of  the  lordship  and  lands  of  Gargunno,  whereby, 
with  consent  of  John  Seyton,  spouse  of  the  said  Jonet,  and  of  William  Elphinston,  spouse  of 
said  Elizabeth,  they  sold  to  John  Ker,  son  of  Andrew  Ker  of  Farnyhirst,  five  husband  lands 
in  Langton,  Roxburghshire,  which  belonged  to  them  by  decease  of  their  grandfather  and 
sister.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  8th  December  1524.  Confirmed  3rd  January  1524-5. — Lib.  xxii 
No.  240. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fifth  to  John  Seyton,  son  of  the  late  Alexander  Seyton  of 
Meldrum,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Rothnok,  six  oxgates  of  Auchlevin,  sixth  part  of  the 
mill  thereof,  half  of  the  lands  of  Drumrossy,  four  oxgates  of  Ardone,  half  of  Kingudy,  etc., 
half  of  the  lands  of  Rudrestoun,  with  fishing  on  the  Dee,  with  the  right  of  patronage  of  the 
chaplainries  founded  by  the  late  William  Leith,  at  the  altar  of  St.  Laurence,  within  the 
parish  church  of  Aberdeen,  which  Jonet  Leith,  relict  of  said  Alexander  Seyton,  mother  of 
the  said  John,  and  one  of  the  heirs  of  the  late  George  Leith  of  Bernys,  resigned — reserving 
her  own  frank  tenement.     At  Dundee,  15th  February  1526-7. — Lib.  xxi.  No.  62. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fifth  to  George,  Lord  Seyton,  and  Elizabeth  Hay  his 
affianced  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Winchburgh,  in  the  barony  thereof  and  shire  of  Linlithgow  : 
To  be  holden  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs  of  the  marriage,  etc.  At  Edinburgh,  15th  June 
1527. — Lib.  xxi.  No.  33. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John,  Lord  Erskine,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of 
Tulibody,  and  lands  of  Banchry,  which  were  apprised  from  Ninian  Seytoun  of  Tulibody,  for 
the  non-entry  fermes  of  the  same  during  fifty  years,  since  the  decease  of  Alexander,  Earl 
of  Ffuntlie,  lord  of  the  conjunct  fee,  husband  of  the  late  Lady  Egidia  Hay,  heir  of  the  said 
lands,  the  said  fermes  extending  yearly  to  ^82,  5s.  4d.  At  Stirling,  nth  September  1529. — 
Lib.  xxiii.  No.  77. 

Remission  by  the  King  to  John,  Master  of  Forbes,  for  his  treasonable  absence  from  the 
army  at  Solway  and  Werk,  and  for  the  slaughter  of  Alexander  Seyton  of  Meldrum.  At 
Dundee,  10th  October  1530. — Lib.  xxv.  No.  276. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Jonet  Turnbull  of  Gargunnock,  with  consent  of 
John  Seyton  her  husband,  selling  to  Thomas  Somervell  of  Plane,  and  Margaret  Levingstoun 
his  spouse,  her  lands  of  Plane,  extending  to  nine  mercates,  in  the  barony  of  Plane  and  shire 
of  Stirling.     Dated  at  Stirling,  7th  June  1530.     Ninian  Seyton  of  Tulibody,  knight,  Mr.  Alex- 


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ander  Levingstoun  of  Donypace,  and  others,  are  witnesses.  Confirmed  at  Stirling,  20th  June 
1530. — Lib.  xxiv.  No.  19. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Hugh,  Earl  of  Eglingtoun,  whereby,  in  implement 
of  matrimonial  contract  between  Hugh  Montgomery,  Master  of  Eglingtoun,  his  grandson  and 
apparent  heir,  and  Marion  Seytoun,  Mistress  of  Borthwik,  sister  of  George,  Lord  Seytoun, 
he  grants  to  the  said  Hugh  and  Marion  four  mercates  of  the  lands  of  Corslie,  with  the  tower 
and  fortalice  thereof,  and  various  other  lands,  in  the  shire  of  Renfrew :  To  be  holden  to 
them  in  conjunct  fee,  and  the  heir  of  the  marriage,  etc.  Dated  at  Polnone,  8th  February 
1530-31.     Confirmed  at  Stirling,  15th  February  1530-31. — Lib.  xxiv.  No.  280. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  John,  Lord  Hay,  of  Yester,  whereby,  for  a  sum 
of  money,  he  sold  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  his  heirs,  the  lands  of  Gammylstoun  and 
Reidshill,  in  the  barony  of  Yester,  constabulary  of  Haddington,  and  shire  of  Edinburgh  :  To 
be  holden  of  the  King.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  22nd  June  1531.  Among  the  witnesses  are 
Mr.  Cristofer  Seytoun,  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  and  George  Seytoun.  Confirmed  at  Perth,  28th 
July  1531. — Lib.  xxiv.  No.  188. 

1532,  July  16. — John  Seytoun  of  Balbirny  is  on  assize  of  apprising  of  lands  of  Birdhouse 
and  others,  near  Cupar  in  Fife,  in  favour  of  William  Lyndesay  of  Piotstoun. — Lib.  xxiv.  No.  243. 

1534,  Sept.  29. — Walter  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Ninian  Seyton  of  Towch,  is 
witness  to  charter  by  James,  Lord  Lyle,  to  John,  Lord  Erskin,  of  third  part  of  the  salmon 
fishing  in  the  Clyde.— Lib.  xxviii.  No.  1. 

Charter  by  King  James  the  Fifth  to  Walter  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Ninian 
Seittoun  of  Tulibody,  knight,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Touch-Fraser,  with  the  fortalice  and 
manor  of  Touche,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Stirling  ;  and  the  lands  and  barony  of  Tulibody,  in  the 
shire  of  Clakmannane,  which  the  said  Ninian,  and  Janet  Chisholme  his  spouse,  resigned. 
Dated  at  Stirling,  14th  January  1534-5. — Lib.  xxv.  No.  339. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John  Seittoun,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  John  Seittoun,  and  Janet 
Turnbull  his  spouse,  of  half  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Gargonnok,  in  the  shire  of  Stirling — 
reserving  the  frank  tenement  thereof  to  the  said  John,  elder,  and  Janet  his  spouse.  At 
Stirling,  19th  January  1534-5. — Lib.  xxv.  No.  343. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  William  Setoun  of  Meldrum,  and  Janet  Gordoun  his  spouse,  of 
the  Mains  of  Meldrum,  with  tower  and  fortalice  of  the  same,  toun  and  lands  of  Auld  Meldrum, 
with  mill  of  Crumlee,  lands  of  Parcak,  with  alehouse  thereof,  toun  and  lands  of  Ardconan  and 
Balcarne,  with  mill  thereof,  toun  and  lands  of  Gonir,  Fosterhill,  Cawte,  Cardrum,  Tulach, 
toun  and  lands  of  Belhelvy  (Bethelny?),  toun  and  lands  of  Ardquhork,  toun  and  lands  of 
Kilblene,  in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen :  all  resigned  by  said  William,  and  which  the  King  incor- 
porated into  one  free  barony  of  Meldrum.  At  Stirling,  8th  February  1534-5. — Lib.  xxv.  No. 
166. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Thomas  Fotheringhame  of  Powry,  and  Alisone 
Charteris  his  spouse,  whereby  for  a  sum  of  money  they  sold  to  Cristofer  Seytoun  and  his  heirs 
the  lands  of  Myretoun,  in  the  barony  of  Brychte  and  shire  of  Forfar.  Dated  at  Dundee,  28th 
July  1534.  Witnesses  :  Mr.  David  Seytoun,  vicar  of  Strathmiglo,  Robert  Seytoun,  etc.  Con- 
firmed at  St.  Andrews,  1st  March  1535-6. — Lib.  xxvi.  No.  139. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John  Seytoun,  younger  of  Gargunnok,  and  Helen  Callander  his 
spouse,  of  the  half  of  his  half  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Gargunnok,  with  half  of  the  mill, 
which  the  said  John  personally  resigned :  To  be  holden  to  them  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  their 
heirs  heritably.     At  Stirling,  18th  July  1536. — Lib.  xxv.  No.  301. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John  Seitoun  of  Lauthrisk,  of  the  lands  of  Fairleislands,  of  the 
yearly  value  of  ^10,  in  the  lordship  of  Wester  Lauthrisk,  and  shire  of  Fife:  which  had  been 
in  the  hands  of  King  James  the  Fourth  during  fifty  years,  the  non-entry  thereof  having  been 
granted  by  the  said  King  to  Patrick  Lauthrisk  for  composition  made  with  the  treasurer;  which 
Patrick  constituted  the  said  John  Seitoun  his  assignee  :  and  on  8th  January  1537  they  were 
apprised  and  sold  to  him  for  ^200.     Dated  at  Edinburgh,  24th  July  1538. — Lib.  xxviii.  No.  7. 

31st  Oct.  1538. — John  Seytoun  of  Lauthrisk  and  William  Seytoun  of  Rumgally  are  on 
assize  of  apprising  of  the  lands  of  Gylstoun,  from  Walter  Lundy  of  that  ilk  to  Mr.  David 
Ramsay. — Lib.  xxvi.  No.  181. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  a  charter  by  Mr.  James  Strathauchin,  canon  of  Aberdeen  and 
of  Moray,  executor  of  the  testament  of  his  uncle,  the  late  Mr.  Gilbert  Strathauchan,  protho- 


852 


REGISTER  OF 


notary  apostolic,  and  canon  of  the  said  churches,  whereby,  for  the  soul  of  King  James  the 
Fifth,  of  Mary  his  spouse,  of  the  late  James,  Duke  of  Ross,  of  Alexander  Stewart,  archbishop 
of  St.  Andrews,  and  of  the  deceased  Mj.  David  Seitoun,  canon  of  Aberdeen,  etc.,  he  granted 
in  pure  almsgift  to  Mr.  William  Seitoun  and  Sir  Thomas  Mortoun,  chaplains,  and  their 
successors,  serving  at  the  altar  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary,  and  St.  Andrew 
the  Apostle,  in  the  chapel  founded  by  the  said  Gilbert,  in  the  south  part  of  the  parish  church 
of  Creich,  in  the  diocese  of  St.  Andrews,  an  annualrent  of  10  merles  from  the  lands  of  Mekil 
Bernys,  in  the  shire  of  Kincardine ;  4  merks  from  the  lands  of  Flemyntoun,  with  mill  thereof, 
in  Forfarshire ;  8  merks  from  the  lands  of  Chapelton,  in  the  barony  of  Invermegoty,  in  the 
shire  of  Forfar,  with  various  other  annualrents  from  other  lands  :  and  the  granter  willed  that, 
after  his  decease,  the  gift  of  the  said  chaplainries  should  belong  to  John  Seitoun  of  Balbirny, 
grandson  of  Mr.  David  Seitoun,  and  his  heirs-male,  bearing  the  surname  and  arms  of  Setoun, 
and  to  the  heirs  of  the  said  Mr.  James,  by  turns  ;  which  failing,  to  Andrew  Setoun  of  Perbroth, 
and  his  heirs-male  bearing  the  said  surname  and  arms.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  20th  December 
1538;  confirmed  24th  December  thereafter. — Lib.  xxvii.  No.  68. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  George,  Lord  Seitoun,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of 
Wyncheburgh,  lands  of  Upcragy,  with  castles,  towers,  fortalices,  mills,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of 
Linlithgow,  which  the  King  of  new  incorporated  into  the  free  barony  of  West-Nudry,  ordaining 
the  tower  and  fortalice  of  West-Nudry  to  be  the  chief  messuage  thereof:  Rendering  one  penny 
of  silver  yearly  in  name  of  blench  ferme.  Dated  at  St.  Andrews,  2nd  August  1539. — Lib. 
xxvi.  No.  291. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  and  barony 
of  Wincheburgh,  lands  of  Cragy  and  Dundas,  with  castles,  etc.,  which  the  said  George  per- 
sonally resigned,  and  which  the  King,  for  his  good  service,  of  new  incorporated  into  the  free 
barony  of  West-Nudry,  as  in  the  charter  preceding.  At  Edinburgh,  12th  March  1540-41. — 
Lib.  xxviii.  No.  160. 

Charter  by  the  King,  whereby,  for  his  special  love  towards  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  he 
erects  the  toun  and  lands  of  Tranent,  in  the  shire  of  Edinburgh  and  constabulary  of  Hading- 
ton,  into  a  free  burgh  in  barony ;  granting  to  the  inhabitants  power  to  buy  and  sell,  and  that 
they  may  be  burgesses  ;  and,  with  consent  of  the  said  George  and  his  heirs,  may  elect  bailies, 
etc.,  yearly ;  and  have  a  market  cross,  and  a  weekly  market  on  the  Lord's  Day  :  and  free  fairs 
yearly  on  the  festivals  of  St.  Bartholomew  and  St.  Katherine.  At  Petlethy,  13th  March  1541-2. 
— Lib.  xxviii.  No.  179. 

Letters  of  Legitimisation  by  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  to  Christopher  Seytoun,  bastard  son 
natural  of  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  to  William  Seytoun,  bastard  son  natural  of  Alexander 
Seytoun  of  Meldrum.     Edinburgh,  rgth  December  1544. — Lib.  xxix.  No.  181. 

Confirmation  by  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  of  charter  by  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  John 
Seytoun,  his  second  son,  of  the  lands  of  Wountoun,  with  manor,  mansion,  yards,  orchyards, 
and  mill,  in  the  barony  of  Seytoun,  constabulary  of  Hadington,  and  shire  of  Edinburgh  :  To 
be  holden  to  the  said  John  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  George  Seytoun, 
son  and  heir  apparent  of  the  said  Lord,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  James 
Seytoun,  third  son  of  the  granter,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  etc.  At  Stirling,  18th  May 
1545. — Lib.  xxix.  No.  230. 

Charter  by  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  as  Princess  and  Stewardess  of  Scotland,  to  Hugh,  Earl 
of  Eglingtoun,  and  Lady  Marion  Seytoun  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  and  lordship  of  Eglishame, 
etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Renfrew ;  and  the  lands  and  lordship  of  Robertoun,  in  the  shire  of  Ayr, 
on  resignation  by  the  said  Earl.     At  Edinburgh,  15th  May  1546. — Lib.  xxix.  No.  343. 

Confirmation  by  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  of  charter  by  John  Seytoun  of  Gargunnok, 
whereby,  for  a  sum  of  money,  he  sold  to  Walter  Seytoun  of  Tulibody,  and  his  heirs-male 
whatsoever,  his  half  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Gargunnok,  and  of  the  mill  thereof;  holding 
of  the  Queen,  with  precept  of  sasine  directed  to  Alexander  Seytoun  and  David  Flemying, 
bailies  of  the  said  John  in  that  part.  Witnesses  :  John  Seytoun,  elder,  servitor  of  the  granter, 
Alexander  Seytoun,  etc.  Dated  at  Stirling,  28th  August  1547  (sic).  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh, 
29th  August  T547. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  168. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  by  Robert  Hunter,  lord  of  the  half  part  of 
Newtown  of  Reres,  whereby,  for  the  amicable  affection  which  he  had  towards  John  Seytoun 
of  Lauthrisk,  and  towards  Margaret  Seitoun  his  own  spouse,  he  grants  to  the  said  John,  his 


GREAT   SEAL  853 

heirs  and  assignees,  his  lands  of  Newtown  of  Reres,  in  the  shire  of  Fife :  To  be  holden  of  the 
Queen,  rendering  therefor  yearly  ^12,  3s.  4d.  of  money,  10  bolls  of  corn,  12  bolls  2  firlots  of 
barley,  12  capons,  24  poultry.  Dated  2nd  August  1547.  Witnesses:  Mr.  David  Seytoun, 
Alexander  Seitoun,  etc.     Confirmed  at  Stirling,  8th  December  1547. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  167. 

Charter  by  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Lady  Mary  Pyeres  his 
spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them,  in  conjunct  fee,  and  the  heirs  whatsoever  of  the  said  George, 
of  the  Mains  of  Wincheburgh,  with  castle  of  West  Nudry,  with  orchyards,  yards,  close  and 
ward  of  the  same,  as  it  is  built  within  the  fosses  thereof,  in  the  barony  of  West  Nudry,  which 
the  said  George  resigned  :  To  be  holden  without  breaking  of  the  said  barony.  At  Edinburgh 
27th  June  1548. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  181. 

1548,  May  3rd. — William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  and  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  chancellor 
of  Aberdeen,  are  witnesses  to  a  charter  by  William  King,  of  Barroch  of  Bourte,  to  his  son 
James,  and  Elizabeth  Gray  his  spouse,  of  lands  in  Aberdeenshire. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  184. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  granted  by  Thomas  Lumisden  of  Ardrye  to  his 
affianced  spouse,  Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  of  Andrew  Seytoun  of  Perbroith,  of  his  lands  of 
Cipseis,  in  liferent,  in  the  barony  of  Ardrye,  by  annexation,  in  the  shire  of  Fife.  At  Parbroith, 
4th  October  1548.  Witnesses:  Mr.  David  Setoun,  Mr.  John  Setoun.  Confirmed  30th 
November  1548. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  250. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  by  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  to  Margaret 
Innes,  relict  of  James  Innes  of  Fynnarsye,  then  in  her  pure  widowhood,  in  liferent,  for 
marriage  to  be  contracted  between  himself  and  her,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Gowner,  in  the 
shire  of  Aberdeen.  At  Meldrum,  6th  January  1548-9.  Witnesses  :  John  Seytoun,  Mathew 
Seytoun,  etc.     Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  22nd  January. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  397. 

Charter  by  the  Queen  to  John  Seytoun  of  Lathreisk,  and  Janet  Auchmoutie  his  spouse, 
and  either  of  them,  in  liferent,  and  to  John  Seytoun  their  son  and  apparent  heir,  and  the  heirs- 
male  of  his  body,  heritably,  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Lathreisk,  etc.  Personally  resigned  by  the 
said  John,  elder.     Dated  at  Edinburgh,  7th  May  1551. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  679. 

Charter  by  the  Queen  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Isobella  Hammyltoun  his  spouse,  of 
the  lands  and  barony  of  West  Nudry,  which  the  said  Lord  resigned.  Moreover,  the  Queen 
granted  to  them  the  non-entry  and  fermes  of  the  said  lands,  since  the  death  of  George,  Lord 
Seytoun,  who  was  slain  in  the  battle  of  Flowdoun — reserving  the  frank  tenement  of  the  Mains 
of  Wincheburgh,  with  the  castle,  manor,  and  fortalice  of  the  same,  to  Mary,  Lady  Seytoun,  spouse 
of  the  late  George,  Lord  Seytoun.    Dated  at  Linlithgow,  25th  May  1552. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  736. 

Charter  by  the  Queen  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  fiar  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Lauthreis, 
and  Alisone  Bonar  his  spouse,  of  the  shadow  half  of  Wester  Lauthreis,  etc.,  resigned  by  the 
said  John  :  To  be  holden  to  him  and  his  said  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them,  and  to  the 
heirs-male  procreated  between  them ;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs  of  John  Seytoun,  elder,  of 
Lauthreis.     At  Stirling,  21st  March  1551-2. — Lib.  xxx.  No.  738. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  a  charter  by  John  Seitoun  of  Lauthrisk  to  Bernard 
Oliphant,  and  Janet  Seitoun  his  spouse,  daughter  of  the  said  John,  of  five-twelfth  parts  of  the 
lands  of  Kilmaron,  Fifeshire.  Dated  at  Lauthrisk,  12th  October  1552.  Witnesses  :  Mr. 
William  Seitoun,  George  Seitoun,  etc.  Confirmed  at  Linlithgow  18th  October  thereafter. 
— Lib.  xxxii.  No.  653. 

Charter  by  the  Queen  to  John  Seyttoun,  brother-german  of  George,  Lord  Seyttoun,  and 
Isobella  Balfour  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Carraldstoun,  with  manor,  houses,  etc.,  in  the 
shire  of  Fife,  which  the  said  Isobella  resigned  :  To  be  holden  to  them  and  the  survivor  of 
them  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs  procreated  between  them ;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs 
whatsoever  of  the  said  John.     Dated  at  Linlithgow,  9th  April  1553. — Lib.  xxxi.  No.  172. 

Charter  by  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  to  George  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  George, 
Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  West  Nudry,  with  castles,  towers,  fortalices,  manors, 
etc.,  incorporated  into  one  barony,  in  the  shire  of  Linlithgow ;  lands  of  Hartisheid  and 
Clentis  in  the  shire  of  Berwick,  which  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  resigned — reserving  the 
frank  tenement  to  himself,  and  a  reasonable  third  part  to  Lady  Isobell  Hamilton  his  spouse. 
Dated  at  Edinburgh,  6th  August  1554. — Lib.  xxxi.  No.  236. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  the  said  George  Seytoun  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Seytoun  and 
Wintoun,  with  castles,  towers,  manors,  etc.,  advocation  of  the  collegiate  church  of  Seytoun, 
prebends  thereof,  etc.,  lands  and  barony  of  Tranent,  with  castles,  etc.,  which  George,  Lord 


854 


REGISTER  OF 


Seytoun,  his  father,  resigned — reserving  the  frank  tenement  of  the  lands  of  Wintoun,  with  the 
manor,  ^40  of  the  lands  of  Seytoun,  and  ^20  of  Langnudry,  to  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  lady 
of  Setoun  :  the  frank  tenement  of  all  the  lands  to  the  said  Lord,  and  a  reasonable  third  part  to 
Dame  Isobella  Hamiltoun  his  spouse.     At  Edinburgh,  6th  August  1554. — Lib.    xxxi.  No. 

237- 

The  Queen  grants  Letters  of  Legitimisation  to  Alexander  Seytoun,  bastard  son  natural  of 
Christopher  Seytoun  in  Strameglo.     Edinburgh,  15th  January  1555-6. — Lib.  xxxii.  No.  269. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  by  Alison  Charteris,  relict  of  Thomas  Fothringhame 
of  Powry,  whereby  for  a  sum  of  money  she  sold  to  Cristofer  (or  Cristall)  Seytoun  in  liferent, 
and  to  Alexander  Seytoun  his  son,  heritably,  her  lands  of  Torsoppy,  with  boats  and  fishings  for 
salmon  and  other  fishes  on  the  river  Tay.  David  and  James  Seytoun  are  appointed  bailies  to 
give  seizin.  Dated  at  Wester  Powrie,  16th  May  1555.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  30th  April 
1556. — Lib.  xxxii.  No.  294. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  by  the  said  Alison  Charteris,  whereby  for  a  sum 
of  money  she  sells  to  Cristofer  Seytoun  the  lands  of  Forgandeny,  Perthshire :  Holding  of 
the  Queen,  with  precept  of  seizin  to  Alexander  Rankelour  and  John  Spens.  Witnesses : 
Sir  John  Brown,  Walter  Peirsoun,  Thomas  Peirsoun,  David  Peirsoun.  Dated  at  Powrie, 
3rd  November  1554.     Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  30th  April  1556. — Lib.  xxxii.  No.  296. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  by  Cristofer  Seytoun,  brother-german  of  John 
Seytoun  of  Lathrisk,  granting  to  Alexander  Myretoun,  and  Cristina  Seytoun  his  spouse,  in 
liferent,  and  to  David  Myretoun  their  son  in  fee,  the  lands  of  Randelstoun  and  Ladilands, 
in  the  constabulary  of  Craill  and  shire  of  Fife.  Dated  at  St.  Andrews,  9th  August  1557. 
Confirmed  at  Edinburgh  30th  September  same  year. — Lib.  xxxii.  No.  310. 

Charter  by  the  Queen  to  Patrick  Gordoun,  son  and  apparent  heir  of  Alexander  Gordoun 
of  Knokbleuris,  and  Jonet  Seytoun  his  spouse,  in  conjunct  fee,  of  the  lands  of  Middleton  of 
Knokbleuris  and  others,  united  into  one  barony  of  Knokbleuris.  Dated  at  Aberdeen,  19th 
October  1556. — Lib.  xxxi.  No.  328. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  charter  by  Walter  Ogilvy  of  Dunlugus,  knight,  with 
consent  of  Alisone  Hume  his  spouse,  to  George  Ogilvy,  his  eldest  son  and  apparent  heir,  and 
Beatrice  Seytoun  his  spouse,  of  half  of  the  lands  of  Dunlugus  and  Meirdene,  etc.,  in  the 
barony  of  Dunlugus  and  shire  of  Banff.  Dated  at  Edinburgh  28th  March.  Confirmed  21st 
May  1557. — Lib.  xxxi.  No.  411. 

Confirmation  by  the  Queen  of  instrument  of  seizin  given  by  George  Nesbit,  baron  of 
Dalzell,  as  bailie  in  that  part  of  (the  late)  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  John  Seytoun  in  Tranent, 
as  attorney  of  Robert  Seytoun,  son  of  the  said  Lord,  lawfully  begotten  between  him  and  Lady 
Mary  Peiris,  then  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Mylis,  in  the  barony  of  Tranent,  in  virtue  of 
precept  by  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  after  his  grant  of  the  said  lands  to  the  said  Robert 
and  his  heirs-male,  until  he  should  infeft  him  in  the  lands  of  the  barony  of  Bernis.  Dated  at 
Edinburgh  25th  February  1548:  and  also  an  instrument  of  same  date  infefting  the  said 
Robert  in  the  lands  of  Grenedykes.     Confirmed  at  St.  Andrews,  22nd  February  1562-3. 

Charter  by  the  Queen  to  James  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Walter  Seytoun  of 
Tulybody,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Touch-Fraser,  with  fortalice  and  manor  of  Touch ; 
advocation  and  donation  of  churches  and  chaplainries  thereof;  15-merk  lands  of  Gargunnok, 
with  mansion  and  fortalice  thereof,  mills,  advocation  of  churches,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Stirling ; 
and  lands  and  barony  of  Tulybody  in  the  shire  of  Clakmannan,  which  the  said  Walter  per- 
sonally resigned — reserving  to  himself  the  frank  tenement,  and  to  Elizabeth  Erskine,  his 
spouse,  the  conjunct  fee  of  the  50-shilling  lands  of  Tulybody.  Dated  at  Donypace,  2nd  July 
1563. — Lib.  xxxii.  No.  358. 

The  King  and  Queen  grant  charter  to  Cristina  Tulydaff,  and  Mr.  James  Stevin  in  Thorn- 
toun  her  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Orchartoun,  in  the  barony  of  Tulydaff,  which  Jonet  Tulydaff, 
and  William  Knowis  her  husband,  and  Marjory  and  Cristina  Tulydaff,  portioners  of  said  lands, 
with  consent  of  William  Seytoun  of  Easter  Disblair,  husband  of  said  Marjory,  resigned.  Dated 
at  Edinburgh,  20th  September  1566. —  Lib.  xxxi.  No.  529. 

Charter  by  the  King  and  Queen  to  Marjory  Tulydaff,  and  William  Seytoun  of  Wester 
Disblair  her  spouse,  of  the  south  part  of  the  lands  of  Logyruff  and  others,  resigned  by  the 
other  persons  named  in  preceding  note.     20th  September  1566. — Lib.  xxxi.  No.  530. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  George,  Lord  Setoun,  by  which,  for  a  sum  of 


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money,  he  sold  to  Lord  Mark  Ker,  commendator  of  Newbottill,  and  Helen  Leslie  his  spouse, 
the  lands  of  Easter  and  Wester  Bernis,  in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington :  To  be  holden 
of  the  said  George,  Lord  Setoun,  in  blench  ferme,  for  one  penny  yearly.  At  Edinburgh,  13th 
May  1567.  Witnesses:  Andrew  Setoun,  brother  of  John  Setoun  of  Lathrisk,  Henry  Setoun, 
son  of  Alexander  Setoun  of  Northrig,  Thomas  Raith,  provost  of  Setoun,  etc.  Confirmed  at 
Edinburgh,  15th  April  1569. — Lib.  xxv.  No.  404. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  James  Seytoun  of  Tullebodye,  whereby,  with 
consent  of  John,  Earl  of  Mar,  Alexander  Erskin  of  Gogar,  John  Craigingelt  of  that  ilk,  and 
Mr.  James  Seytoun,  rector  of  Quhitsum,  his  curators,  for  implement  of  contract  entered  into 
with  Elizabeth  Erskin,  his  mother,  and  for  renunciation  made  by  her  of  her  reasonable  terce 
and  conjunct  fee  falling  to  her  by  occasion  of  the  late  Walter  Seytoun  of  Tullebodye,  her 
husband  (excepting  the  lands  of  Touchemaillair,  in  the  barony  of  Toucheadam),  he  granted 
to  the  said  Elizabeth  in  liferent  the  lands  of  Bathokston,  Shaw,  Sheilcroft,  Tullebodye,  and 
others,  in  the  shires  of  Stirling  and  Clackmannan.  Dated  at  Tullebodye  24th  August  1569. 
Witnesses :  David,  commendator  of  Dryburgh ;  John  Bellenden  of  Auchnoule,  knight, 
Justiciary  Clerk ;  Alexander  Seytoun,  apparent  of  Gargunnok ;  Henry  Seytoun,  vicar  of 
Aberfuilye;  Robert  Seytoun,  vicar  of  Logy.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  7th  December  1569. — 
Lib.  xxxii.  No.  98. 

Confirmation  of  charter  by  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  whereby  he  sold  to  James  Aitkinson, 
burgess  of  the  Canongate,  near  Edinburgh,  an  annualrent  of  24  bolls  victual  furth  of  the 
lands  of  Uperagie,  in  the  barony  of  West  Nudry.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  15th  June  1554. 
Witnesses:  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Morhame,  etc.  Confirmed  at  Leith,  1st  March  157 1-2. — 
Lib.  xxxiii.  No.  22. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of — (1)  Charter  by  Claud,  commendator  of  Paisley  and  convent 
thereof,  confirming  a  charter  by  James,  Duke  of  Chastellherault,  Earl  of  Arran,  in  favour  of 
Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  of  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  lands  of  Monktounhill,  etc.,  in 
the  regality  of  Paisley,  bailiery  of  Kyle,  and  shire  of  Ayr,  which  were  resigned  by  Lord  Claud 
Hamiltoun,  son  of  the  said  Duke,  in  implement  of  contracts  between  John  Hamiltoun,  com- 
mendator of  Arbroath,  son  of  the  said  Duke,  and  the  said  Claud,  on  the  one  part,  and  the 
said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Margaret,  on  the  other  part,  of  date  at  Linlithgow  15th  and 
1 6th  June  1574,  for  this  new  infeftment :  To  be  holden  to  the  said  Margaret  and  the  heirs 
whatsoever  to  be  procreated  of  her  body ;  which  failing,  to  the  said  Claud  and  the  heirs-male 
of  his  body  ;  which  failing,  to  the  said  John  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  rendering 
therefor  to  the  monastery  of  Paisley  ^127  yearly,  and  to  the  said  Duke  one  penny  at  Monk- 
toun,  with  service  in  time  of  war,  in  name  of  blench  ferme — reserving  the  frank  tenement  to 
the  said  Duke.  Dated  28th  June  1574.  Confirmed  8th  July  same  year.  (2)  Charter  by  the 
said  Duke  to  the  said  Margaret  Seytoun,  of  the  lands  of  Elastoun,  in  the  lordship  of  Kinpont 
and  shire  of  Linlithgow.  Dated  at  the  Castle  of  Hamiltoun,  4th  July  1574.  (3)  Charter  by 
James,  Earl  of  Arran,  as  fiar  of  the  lands,  with  consent  of  the  said  Duke,  his  father,  and  of 
the  said  John  and  Claud,  his  brothers,  whereby,  for  implement  of  contracts  aforesaid,  he 
granted  to  the  said  Margaret  Seytoun  in  liferent  the  lands  of  Halsyde,  in  the  barony  of 
Drumsargart  and  shire  of  Lanark.  Dated  at  the  Castle  of  Hamiltoun,  28th  June  1574.  All 
confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  15th  July  1574. — Lib.  xxxiv.  No.  764. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of — (1)  Charter  by  John,  commendator  of  Arbroath,  to  Margaret 
Seytoun  aforesaid,  of  the  lands  of  Bothwellmuir,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Lanark,  on  resignation 
by  Lord  Claud  Hamiltoun,  brother-german  of  the  granter.  Dated  at  the  Castle  of  Hamiltoun, 
29th  June  1574.  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  is  a  witness.  (2)  Charter  by  the  aforesaid  Duke  to 
the  said  Margaret  Seytoun,  of  an  annualrent  of  74  merks  8  shillings  from  the  land  of 
Elastoun.  Dated  at  the  Castle  of  Hamiltoun,  6th  July  1574.  Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse, 
15th  July  1574. — Lib.  xxxiv.  No.  166. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  William,  bishop  of  Aberdeen,  whereby  he  sold 
to  John  Setoun,  second  son  of  William  Setoun  of  Meldrum,  the  lands  of  Pittynoun,  etc.,  in 
the  parish  of  Daviot,  which  the  bishop  had  granted  to  the  said  William  Setoun,  and  which 
the  said  William  resigned  in  favour  of  the  said  John,  for  his  service  rendered  to  him.  At 
Aberdeen,  nth  October  1569.  Mr.  Alexander  Setoun,  chancellor  of  Aberdeen,  is  a  witness. 
Confirmed  31st  January  1575-6. — Lib.  xxxiv.  No.  335. 

Grant  by  the  King  to  James  Douglas,  son  natural  of  James,  Earl  of  Mortoun,  regent  of 


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Scotland  (already  examined  by  George,  bishop  of  Moray)  during  life,  of  the  priory  of 
Pluscardyn,  with  its  dignities  and  patrimony,  which  belonged  to  Alexander  Seytoun,  alleged 
prior  of  Pluscardyn,  son  of  George,  Lord  Seytoun;  and  the  Lords  of  Council,  on  16th 
January  1576-7,  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  David  Borthwick  of  Lochhill,  the  King's  Advocate, 
decerned  the  said  Alexander  to  have  lost  all  his  benefices,  because  he  had  not  as  yet  sub- 
mitted to  the  discipline  of  the  true  Church,  and  participated  of  the  sacraments  thereof,  nor  had 
he  come  to  the  bishop,  superintendent,  or  commissary  of  the  diocese  or  province,  for  adhibit- 
ing his  assent :  nor  had  he  subscribed  the  articles  of  the  true  and  Christian  religion,  contained 
in  the  Acts  of  Parliament,  and  given  his  oath  for  acknowledging  the  authority  of  the  King,  nor 
had  brought  a  testimonial  thereupon ;  neither  had  he  presented  himself  on  a  Lord's  day  in 
time  of  sermon  or  public  prayers  in  the  church  of  the  said  priory,  and  read  his  said  testimonial 
and  confession,  and  of  new  taken  the  said  oath,  according  to  the  order  of  the  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment.    Dated  at  Holyroodhouse,  6th  February  1576-7. — Lib.  xxxiv.  No.  451. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  John,  Abbot  of  Landores,  whereby,  for  200 
merks,  he  set  in  feuferme  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  laird  of  Lauthreis,  and  Alison  Bonar  his 
spouse,  in  liferent,  and  John  Seytoun,  their  son  and  apparent  heir,  heritably,  the  lands  of 
Lumquhat,  in  the  regality  of  Landores  and  shire  of  Fife.  Dated  at  the  Abbey  of  Landores, 
4th  February  1558-9.  Confirmed  at  the  Palace  of  Holyroodhouse,  iSth  October  1580. — Lib. 
xxxv.  No.  210. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  the  deceased  Henry  Seytoun,  vicar  of  Aberfule, 
to  Malise  Grahame  in  Clas,  of  the  manse  and  glebe  of  Aberfule,  in  feuferme.  Alexander  Seytoun 
of  Northrig,  father  of  the  said  Henry,  is  a  witness.  Dated  21st  December  1567.  Confirmed 
10th  March  1580-81. 

Legitimation  of  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  and  James  Seytoun,  bastard  sons  natural  of  the  late 
William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  by  Margaret  Innes,  then  wife  of  William  Gordon  of  Arrandole. 
Dated  8th  December  1581. — Lib.  No.  xxxv.  473. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  with  consent  of 
Mary  Gray  his  spouse,  to  Mr.  John  Scharpe,  of  the  lands  of  the  Three  Urquharts,  namely, 
Eastertoun,  Lawsonstoun,  and  Luppie,  in  Fifeshire.  John  Seytoun  in  Urquharts,  uncle  of 
said  David,  is  bailie  in  the  precept  of  sasine.  Dated  at  Parbroth,  30th  May  1581.  Confirmed 
10th  December  1581. — Lib.  xxxvi.  No.  376. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  William,  bishop  of  Aberdeen,  to  John  Ogilvy  of 
Froscan,  and  Janet  Seytoun  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Glassauch,  in  the  lordship  of  Fordyce 
and  shire  of  Banff,  which  were  resigned  by  the  said  John.  Dated  at  Aberdeen,  2nd  May 
1573.  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  is  a  witness.  Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  14th  Decem- 
ber 1 58 1. — Lib.  xxxv.  No.  551. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  John  Seytoun,  younger  of  Lathrisk,  with  consent 
of  Margaret  Ross  his  spouse,  to  John  Duncanson,  minister  of  the  Word  of  God,  and  Janet 
Watson  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Coull,  in  the  shire  of  Fife.  Dated  at  Falkland,  8th 
November  1583.  George  Seytoun  in  Rumelrie  is  a  witness.  Confirmed  at  Falkland,  1st  July 
1584. — Lib.  xxxvi.  No.  547. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Alexander  (Seytoun),  prior  of  Pluscarden,  to 
James  Geddie  in  Urquhart,  and  Janet  Davidson  his  spouse,  of  10  acres  of  the  lands  of 
Urquhart,  etc.,  Elginshire.  Dated  at  Pluscarden,  28th  October  1582.  James  Seytoun,  lawful 
brother  of  the  laird  of  Lathrisk,  is  a  witness.    Confirmed  20th  August  1584. — Lib.  xxxv.  No.  918. 

The  King  appoints  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  and  his  heirs,  heritable  keepers  of  the 
East  and  West  Lowmonds  of  Falkland,  with  power  to  pasture  their  own  cattle  thereon,  and 
other  privileges  :  rendering  therefor  the  keeping  and  pasturing  of  1000  sheep  within  the  said 
bounds,  or,  if  these  sheep  should  not  be  delivered  to  him,  paying  yearly  200  merks  of  feu- 
ferme.    Dated  at  Holyroodhouse,  8th  December  1584. — Lib.  xxxvi.  No.  5. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  granted  by  his  councillor,  Alexander  (Setoun),  com- 
mendator  of  Pluscarden,  to  Sir  John  Setoun  of  Barnis,  knight  (she  equiti  aurato),  of  the 
salmon  fishing  of  one  boat  upon  the  water  of  Inverspey,  in  the  regality  of  Urquhart  and  shire 
of  Elgin.  Dated  at  Pluscarden,  25th  April  1587.  Confirmed  at  Falkland,  1st  July  same 
year. — Lib.  xxxvi.  No.  359. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  whereby,  in 
implement  of  contract  of  marriage  between  Alexander  Setoun,  his  elder  son,  and  heir  apparent, 


GREAT   SEAL  857 

with  Cristina  Fraser,  daughter  of  Michael  Fraser  of  Hassiewod,  of  date  at  Mukkall,  21st 
October  1584,  he  granted  to  the  said  Cristina  in  liferent  the  shadow  half  of  the  lands  of 
Ardconnane,  lands  of  Balcarne,  etc.,  in  the  barony  of  Meldrum,  and  shire  of  Aberdeen  :  and 
also,  to  the  said  Alexander  his  son,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  the  lands  of  the  Mains  of 
Meldrum,  with  tower  and  forralice  thereof,  lands  of  Auld  Meldrum,  and  others — reserving 
his  own  frank  tenement  of  the  lands  granted  to  the  said  Cristina  Fraser.  Dated  at  Meldrum, 
3rd  December  1584.     Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  15th  July  1587. — Lib.  xlvii.  No.  90. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  William  Seytoun,  lawful  son  of  the  late  George, 
Lord  Seytoun,  to  William  M'Kie  in  Kirriquhirne,  and  Margaret  Mure  his  spouse,  of  the  lands 
of  Kirriquhirne,  Wigtounshire.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  20th  April  1588.  Confirmed  2nd 
May  1588. — Lib.  xxxvii.  No.  197. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  William  Setoun,  brother-german  of  Robert,  Lord  Setoun,  of  the 
half  of  the  lands  of  Quhytepark,  lands  of  Grange  of  Sannik,  Meitfield,  Larkway,  Craiginvey, 
Tressok,  Bursky,  Logane,  Clerthog  Meikle  and  Nether,  Clonyaisk,  Carsok,  Largmone, 
Knokinchene,  Barskeauch  Over,  Middle,  and  Nether,  with  fishings,  Barnetagart,  Garvorie, 
Slevindan,  Arnelosk,  Cubboys  and  Dalcharrachin,  Culcraigs,  Corscraig,  etc.,  in  the  lordship  of 
Galloway  under  Cree,  stewartry  of  Kirkcudbright ;  lands  of  Knokane,  Kildarroch,  Kerequerne, 
Garnskauch,  Knokincuis,  Clauchrie,  and  Kerebrewin,  in  the  same  lordship  above  Cree,  in  the 
shire  of  Wigtown,  with  manors,  fortalices,  mansions,  mills,  and  fishings  :  holding  of  the  King 
in  feuferme.     At  Holyroodhouse,  8th  February  1587-8. — Lib.  xxxvii.  No.  51. 

The  said  William  Setoun  resigned  the  lands  of  Meikle  Sannik,  or  Dunrod  Sannik,  to 
James  Charteris,  son  and  heir  of  Robert  Charteris  of  Kilwode  (old  native  tenant  of  the  lands), 
on  which  the  King  granted  charter  on  12th  July  1588. — Lib.  xxxvii.  No.  156. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  in  favour  of  John  Seytoun, 
dyer,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  and  Margaret  Nesbit  his  spouse,  of  two  oxgates  of  land  in  the 
east  end  of  Tranent,  in  the  Schotts,  commonly  called  Murehalffares,  Pilmure  and  Kingsfield, 
in  the  lordship  and  barony  of  Tranent,  which  were  resigned  by  David  Seytoun,  son  of  the  late 
John  Seytoun,  bailie  of  Tranent,  in  favour  of  said  John  and  Margaret.  Dated  at  the  Palace 
of  Seytoun,  7th  May  1589.  Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  30th  August  thereafter. — Lib.  xxxvii. 
No.  344. 

John  Seytoun  of  Barns,  knight  (eques  auratus),  as  comptroller,  witnesses  many  crown 
charters  at  this  period. 

The  King  ratifies  a  charter  of  feuferme  granted  by  John  Gresoun,  prior  of  the  friars 
preachers  of  Scotland,  to  the  late  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  his  heirs-male  whatsoever,  of  the 
space  of  land  in  St.  Andrews  where  the  monastery  of  that  order  was,  on  the  south  side  of  the 
South  Street  of  that  city  :  now  granted  by  the  King  in  feuferme  to  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  and 
his  heirs.     At  Holyroodhouse,  31st  July  1590. — Lib.  xxxvii.  No.  433. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  a  charter  granted  by  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  Lady 
Margaret  Montgomery  his  spouse,  in  liferent,  of  the  lordship  and  baronies  of  Seytoun,  Wyn- 
toun,  Tranent,  Langnudrie,  Myldis,  Easter  and  Wester  Wyndegowles,  and  Grenedykes,  with 
castles,  etc. — reserving  the  liferent  of  Lady  Isobella  Hammylton,  mother  of  said  Robert, 
Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  part  assigned  to  her  for  her  terce.  In  implement  of  contract  of  date 
1st  August  1589,  between  the  said  Lady  Margaret,  with  consent  of  Robert,  Master  of  Eglin- 
toun,  her  brother,  and  Hugh  Montgomery  of  Hessilheid,  on  one  part,  and  Alexander  Seytoun 
of  Urquhard,  brother-german  of  said  Lord  Robert,  and  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of 
Justice,  on  the  other  part ;  and  in  full  consentation  of  the  lands  which  might  pertain  to  the 
said  Margaret,  by  virtue  of  infeftment  of  liferent  or  conjunct  fee,  and  also  in  full  satisfaction 
of  her  terce.     Dated  at  Seytoun,  12th  August  1589. — Lib.  xxxvii.  No.  321. 

The  King,  knowing  that  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  has  incurred  great  expense  for  the  con- 
struction of  the  haven  near  the  seashore,  at  the  lands  of  Cowkany,  in  the  barony  and 
lordship  of  Seytoun,  for  the  reception  of  ships  and  boats,  for  his  good  service  erected  the 
said  harbour  into  a  free  port,  with  power  to  the  said  Robert  and  his  successors  to  levy  the 
haven  silver,  small  customs,  anchorage,  and  other  dues  belonging  to  a  free  port;  and  has 
demitted  to  him  and  his  successors  in  the  barony  and  lordship  of  Seytoun  the  great  customs 
of  the  said  port :  and  further  has  erected  the  toun  of  Cowkany  into  a  burgh  of  barony,  with 
power  to  the  said  Robert  to  make  bailies,  burgesses,  officers,  etc.  :  and  with  power  to  the 
burgesses  to  buy  and  sell,  pack  and  feill:  with  power  also  to  the  said  Robert  and  his  succes- 

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sors  to  hold  a  court  (pretoriicm)  and  market  cross  and  weekly  market  on  the  Sabbath  day 
(i.e.  Saturday),  with  one  free  fair  in  the  year,  on  the  day  of  Symon  and  Jude,  with  privilege  of 
holding  markets,  collecting  customs,  receiving  resignations,  and  of  disponing  the  same,  holding 
burgh  courts,  etc. :  Rendering  for  the  port  and  burgh  one  penny  of  silver  in  name  of  blench 
ferme;  for  the  great  customs  ten  merks  of  feuferme.  Dated  at  Dalkeith,  ist  April  1591. — 
Lib.  xxxviii.  No.  265. 

David  Seytoun  of  Parbroath,  as  comptroller,  witnesses  many  charters  from  1590  onwards. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  William  Seytoun,  brother-german  of  Robert,  Lord 
Seytoun,  to  John  Seytoun  of  Barns,  knight,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Quhytepark,  and 
others,  in  the  lordship  of  Galloway  below  Cree,  and  of  Aultoun  and  others  above  Cree,  with 
manors,  castles,  etc.     At  Holyroodhouse,  5th  March  1591-2. — Lib.  xxxviii.  No.  7. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  his  heirs-male,  etc.,  of  the  lands  and 
barony  of  Easter  and  Wester  Barnes,  in  the  constabulary  of  Hadington  and  shire  of  Edin- 
burgh, which  were  held  of  the  King  by  service  of  ward,  by  the  late  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and 
were  become  in  the  King's  hands  by  recognition,  on  account  of  the  alienation  of  the  same  by 
the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  the  late  William,  Lord  Yester,  the  late  Sir  John  Seytoun, 
second  son  of  the  said  George,  or  to  any  other  person,  without  licence  from  the  King.  Dated 
at  Holyroodhouse,  ist  June  1594. — Lib.  xl.  No.  19. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Oycorne  to  his  brother- 
german,  George  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif,  of  the  lands  of  Kirkton  of  Daviot,  in  parish  thereof 
and  shire  of  Aberdeen.  Dated  at  Aberdeen,  28th  May  1594.  Confirmed  at  Aberdeen,  8th 
November  same  year.— Lib.  xl.  No.  2. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  James  Ramsay  of  Orbeckye  to  John  Seytoun, 
fiar  of  Wester  Luthrisk,  and  Margaret  Ros  his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Coule.  Dated  at 
Forfar,  21st  August  1582.     Confirmed  at  Linlithgow,  ist  November  1597. — Lib.  xli.  No.  214. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Lady  Isobella  Hamiltoun,  Lady  Seytoun,  in  liferent,  and  to 
Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  President  of  the  College  of  Justice,  and  Lady  Lilias  Drummond  his 
spouse,  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  the  heirs-male  of  their  marriage;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs-male 
and  assignees  of  the  said  Alexander,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Fyvie,  alias  Foirmartene ;  with 
fortalice,  manor-place,  wood,  parks,  etc.,  in  the  parish  of  Fyvie  and  shire  of  Aberdeen.  And 
the  King,  on  account  of  the  eminent  services  rendered  by  the  said  Lord  Urquhart  for  many 
years  past  in  the  Privy  Council,  Session,  and  Exchequer,  and  in  other  public  affairs,  as  well 
within  as  without  the  kingdom,  of  new  grants  the  said  lands  to  him  and  his  aforesaids, 
erecting  the  same  into  the  free  barony  of  Foirmartene,  of  which  seizin  is  to  be  taken  at  the 
Castle  of  Fyvie  :  Rendering  therefor  yearly  one  penny  of  silver  in  name  of  free  blench.  Dated 
at  Edinburgh,  5th  July  1596. — Lib.  xli.  No.  93. 

Charter  by  the  King  narrating  the  preceding  grant  to  Lady  Isobella  Hamiltoun  in  life- 
rent, and  to  Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  President  of  the  College  of  Justice  (lawful  son  of 
George,  Lord  Seytoun,  who  last  died,  and  brother-german  of  Robert,  now  Lord  Seytoun),  and  to 
Lady  Lilias  Drummond  his  spouse,  heritably,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Fyvie,  incorporating 
the  same  into  a  free  barony,  and  calling  to  mind  the  honourable  service  of  the  said  Alexander, 
and  the  many  good  qualities  wherewith  he  is  endued ;  respecting  also  his  descent  from  the 
ancient  house  of  Lord  Seytoun,  and  weighing  what  a  number  of  the  lords  of  parliament  had 
decreed,  the  King  erects  the  aforesaid  barony  into  a  free  lordship  of  parliament,  giving  to  the 
said  Alexander  and  his  heirs-male  (as  in  the  former  charter),  the  title  and  honour  of  a  lord  of 
parliament,  vote  and  suffrage  in  parliaments,  etc.,  and  that  he  should  be  decorated  with  an 
addition  of  ensigns  and  arms  to  the  proper  arms  of  his  house,  for  the  memory  of  the  said 
lordship ;  and  that  the  said  Alexander  and  his  heirs  should  be  called  Lord  Fyvie.  Dated  at 
Holyroodhouse,  4th  March  1597-8. — Lib.  xli.  No.  250. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth  to  Mr.  Edward 
Bruce,  commendator  of  Kinloss,  and  Magdalene  Clerk  his  spouse,  of  an  annualrent  of  800 
merks  out  of  the  lands  of  the  three  Urquharts,  in  the  parish  of  Stramiglo,  Fifeshire.  Dated 
at  Edinburgh,  24th  June  1598.  Andrew  and  John  Seytoun,  lawful  sons  of  said  David,  are 
witnesses.     Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  24th  May  1598. — Lib.  xliii.  No.  in. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  chancellor  of  Aberdeen,  brother-german  of 
the  late  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of  the  edifice,  land,  and  tenement,  with  enclosure, 
houses,  and  yards,  in  the  canonry  of  Old  Aberdeen,  which  formerly  belonged  to  the  canonry 


GREAT   SEAL  859 

of  Aberdeen :  also  the  shadow  half  of  the  lands  of  Sklatie,  and  croft  of  Waiglie,  and  croft  and 
lands  of  Mylnehill,  with  mills,  mill  lands,  fishings,  etc.,  in  parish  of  Saint  Machar  and  shire  of 
Aberdeen,  which  formerly  belonged  to  the  bishopric  of  Aberdeen :  To  be  holden  to  the 
said  George  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  Mr.  William  Seytoun,  son  of  the 
late  William  Seytoun,  portioner  of  Belhelvie,  son  of  the  brother  of  the  said  George.  Dated  at 
Holyroodhouse,  14th  June  1598. — Lib.  xli.  No.  381. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  John,  Lord  Forbes,  whereby  for  great  sums  of 
money  paid  by  John,  Earl  of  Mar,  and  Seytoun  of  Touche,  cousins  on  the  mother's  side  of 
Arthur  Forbes,  eldest  son  of  said  Lord,  by  Lady  Jonet  Seytoun  his  spouse,  he  grants  to  the 
said  Arthur  the  lands,  lordship,  and  barony  of  Forbes.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  20th  December 
1598.     Confirmed  28th  of  same  month.- — Lib.  xli.  No.  498. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  of  the  sunny  half  of  the  lands 
of  Barrach,  half  of  Westerhous,  mill  of  Bourty,  sixth  part  of  Petgaveny,  and  others,  in  parish 
of  Bourty  and  shire  of  Aberdeen :  which  were  in  the  King's  hands  by  recognition,  through 
default  of  Alexander  Blackhall  of  that  ilk,  and  of  William  King  of  Barrack  and  James  his  son  : 
To  be  holden  to  the  said  George  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  James 
Seytoun  of  Bourty,  burgess  of  Aberdeen,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to 
John  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body.  Dated  at  Holyroodhouse,  26th 
January  1598-9. — Lib.  xli.  No.  476. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  John  Seytoun  of  Lawthrisk,  whereby,  for  im- 
plement of  contract  of  marriage  between  himself  and  Patrick  Seytoun  his  son  and  heir 
apparent,  on  the  one  part,  and  Robert  Arnot  of  Newtoun  on  the  other  part,  of  same  date, 
he  sold  to  Barbara  Arnot,  lawful  daughter  of  said  Robert,  and  future  spouse  of  said  Patrick 
Seytoun,  in  liferent,  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Lawthrisk,  with  half  of  the  Bowhous  thereof,  and 
of  the  meadows.  Dated  at  Wester  Lawthrisk,  23rd  March  1598-9:  Also  to  the  said  Patrick 
and  the  heirs-male  of  his  marriage  with  said  Barbara ;  which  failing,  to  the  nearest  heirs-male 
of  the  said  Patrick,  bearing  the  arms  and  surname  of  Seytoun,  the  lands  of  Wester  Lawthrisk, 
Cuithland,  Darnoch,  Jargomyre,  Fairlieslands,  with  fortalices  and  manors ;  half  of  Easter 
Lawthrisk,  and  lands  of  Balcutmyre  ;  lands  of  Orky,  with  mill ;  lands  called  Linlithquhoslands 
— reserving  to  the  said  John  his  frank  tenement  of  the  half  of  Balartmyre  and  of  Wester 
Lawthrisk,  with  the  whole  buildings  and  the  tower  within  the  gate  of  Wester  Lawthrisk,  with 
orchyards,  yards,  and  the  '  haill  ring '  of  the  manor  of  Wester  Lawthrisk,  with  half  of  the 
houses,  yards,  barns,  stables,  and  ox-stalls,  without  the  gate.  Dated  at  Wester  Lawthrisk,  5th, 
and  confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse  19th,  April  1599. — Lib.  xlii.  No.  143. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  George  Auchinleck  of  Balmanno,  to  George 
Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif,  and  Jonet  Cheyne  his  spouse,  of  two  third  parts  of  the  lands  of  Schethin 
and  of  Little  Meldrum.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  30th  May,  confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  19th 
July  1600. — Lib.  xlii.  No.  170. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Alexander,  Lord  of  Urquhart,  President  of  the 
College  of  Justice,  whereby,  for  implement  of  contract  registered  in  the  books  of  Council  of 
the  date  hereof,  with  consent  of  Lady  Lilias  Drummond  his  spouse,  for  the  sum  of  ^40,000 
he  sold  to  Kenneth  Mackenzie  of  Kintaill,  his  heirs-male,  etc.,  the  manor  of  Pluscarden,  lands 
and  barony  thereof,  etc.,  as  therein  described — reserving  to  the  said  Alexander  the  privilege 
of  holding  courts  upon  the  hill,  at  the  mill  of  Elgin,  called  the  Courthill  of  Pluscarden.  The 
charter  is  dated  at  Edinburgh,  2nd  September  1595  ;  and  confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  25th 
February  1595-6. — Lib.  xli.  No.  53. 

The  King,  considering  that  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  is  descended  of  the  most  illustrious 
and  ancient  family  of  Seytoun,  who  for  many  centuries  past  have  borne  the  dignity  of  free 
barons  and  lords  of  Parliament ;  and  that  the  ancestors  of  the  said  Robert  remained  steadfast 
in  fidelity  towards  the  King ;  and  that  the  said  Robert  has  so  deserved  of  the  King  that  his 
regal  munificence  demands  that  he  should  not  be  destitute  of  merited  honours,  therefore,  with 
the  advice  of  the  lords  and  chief  estates  of  the  kingdom,  he  has  created  the  said  Robert 
and  his  heirs-male  Earls,  with  the  title  and  dignity  of  Earl  of  Wentoun,  and  has  ensigned, 
invested,  and  really  ennobled  the  said  Earl  with  the  said  honour  by  girding  him  with  the 
sword,  and  placing  the  cap  of  honour  and  dignity  and  circlet  of  gold  about  his  head.  Dated 
at  the  Palace  of  Holyrood,  16th  November  1600. — Lib.  xliv.  No.  136. 

Confirmation  by  the   King  of  charter  granted   by  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  with 


860  REGISTER  OF 

consent  of  Mary  Gray  his  spouse,  to  George  their  eldest  son,  and  the  heirs-male  procreated 
between  him  and  Jean  Sinclair  his  spouse ;  which  failing,  to  the  nearest  heirs-male  of  the 
said  George,  bearing  the  arms  and  surname  of  Seytoun,  irredeemably,  of  the  lands  and 
barony  of  Parbroith,  namely,  the  manor  and  mains  of  Parbroith,  lands  of  Lawdifferone,  with 
the  mill,  annualrent  of  £6  from  the  lands  of  Ramsay-Forther ;  lands  of  Urquharts, 
namely,  Easter,  Middle,  and  Loppie  Urquharts ;  lands  of  Kingask,  with  the  manor,  lands 
of  Lillok,  in  the  shire  of  Fife ;  lands  of  Haystoun  and  Scroggarfield,  in  the  shire  of  Forfar : 
with  castles,  manors,  parks,  forests,  fishings,  etc. ;  the  teinds  and  advocation  of  the  rectorage 
and  vicarage  of  the  parish  church  of  Creich,  in  Fife,  united  to  the  said  barony  :  Also  to  the 
said  Jean  Sinclair  in  liferent  the  said  lands  of  Kingarth,  Lawdifferone,  and  Urquharts — re- 
serving the  liferent  of  Parbroith,  Lillok,  and  Lawdifferone  to  the  said  David  and  Mary :  Also 
to  Elizabeth  Seytoun,  their  daughter,  the  right  of  the  lands  of  Urquharts.  Dated  at  Parbroithe, 
9th  May  1 60 1.  Robert  and  John  Seytoun,  sons  of  said  David,  are  witnesses.  Confirmed 
at  Edinburgh,  26th  June  1601. — Lib.  xliii.  No.  156. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  George  Seytoun,  fiar  of  Parbroth,  whereby,  in 
implement  of  contract  between  Patrick  Gray  of  Invergowry  on  one  part,  and  the  said 
George  Seytoun  and  James,  Master  of  Rothes,  and  George  Seytoun  of  Carrestoun,  his  sureties, 
on  the  other  part,  of  date  at  Leslie,  Carrestoun,  and  Dundee,  10th  and  12th  October  1601, 
and  for  certain  large  sums  of  money  paid  to  him  and  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  his  father, 
he  sold  to  the  said  Patrick  Gray  and  his  heirs  the  lands  of  Haystoun  and  Scrogerfield,  in  the 
barony  of  Parbroth  by  annexation,  and  shire  of  Forfar.  Dated  at  Dundee,  13th  October  1601. 
William  Setoun,  brother-german  of  said  George,  is  a  witness.  Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse, 
2nd  December  1602. — Lib.  xliii.  No.  190. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  by  Robert,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Setoun,  with 
consent  of  Dame  Margaret  Montgomerie  his  spouse,  whereby,  for  implement  of  contract  of 
marriage  between  them  and  Robert,  Master  of  Wintoun,  their  son  and  heir  apparent,  and 
Walter  Dundas  of  that  ilk  and  others,  their  cautioners,  on  one  part,  and  Dame  Jean  Flemyng, 
Countess  of  Cassillis,  Lady  Kennedy,  with  consent  of  John,  Earl  of  Cassillis,  her  spouse,  and 
Anne  Maitland,  daughter  lawfully  begotten  between  the  late  John,  Lord  Thirlestane,  Chan- 
cellor of  Scotland,  and  the  said  Jean,  with  consent  of  James,  Master  of  Paisley,  Richard 
Cokburne  of  Clerkington,  knight,  Keeper  of  the  Privy  Seal,  and  Thomas  Hamiltoun  of 
Priestfield,  curators  of  said  Anne,  on  the  other  part,  of  date  29th  and  31st  January 
T603,  registered  in  the  books  of  the  Lords  of  Council,  he  granted  to  the  said  Robert, 
Master  of  Wintoun,  and  Anne  Maitland  his  future  spouse  in  her  virginity,  the  lands  and 
lordship  of  Wintoun,  with  castle,  mill,  manor,  woods,  lochs,  fishings,  etc.,  with  precept  of 
sasine  directed  to  Robert  Setoun,  brother-german  of  George  Setoun  of  Northrig.  Dated  at 
Setoun,  31st  January  1603.  Alexander,  Lord  Fyvie,  Sir  James  Elphinstoun  of  Barntoun, 
knight,  the  King's  Secretary,  William  Setoun  of  Kyllismure,  knight,  etc.,  are  witnesses. 
Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  22nd  March  1603. — Lib.  xliii.  No.  326. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  charter  granted  by  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  High 
Chancellor  of  Scotland,  whereby,  in  implement  of  matrimonial  contract,  of  date  at  Edin- 
burgh, Bothanes,  Callender,  Newbottill,  and  .  .  .,  7th,  nth,  13th,  and  15th  November  1607, 
registered  in  the  books  of  the  Lords  of  Council,  between  James,  Lord  Hay  of  Yester,  with 
consent  of  Lady  Margaret  Ker,  Lady  Yester  his  spouse,  and  Lady  Margaret  Hay  their  only 
daughter,  and  the  said  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  for  his  marriage  with  the  said 
Margaret  Hay,  he  grants  to  her  in  liferent  the  lands  of  Dalgatie  and  Dunduf,  in  the  shire 
of  Fife,  tenandry  of  Haillsbrig,  kirklands  of  Haills,  mill,  etc.,  in  the  parish  of  Haills  and 
shire  of  Edinburgh,  with  an  annual  rent  of  1000  merks  from  the  lordships  of  Fyvie  and 
Urquhart.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  7th  November  1607.  Confirmed  1st  March  1608. — Prince's 
Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  3. 

Confirmation  of  charter  by  James,  Earl  of  Perth,  to  Lady  Isobella  Seytoun,  his  future  spouse, 
of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Cargill,  etc.  The  marriage  contract  on  which  the  charter  proceeds 
is  dated  at  Edinburgh,  5th  March  1608,  and  is  recorded  in  the  books  of  the  Lords  of  Council ; 
the  parties  on  the  lady's  side  being  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie,  Countess  of  Wentoun,  and 
George,  Earl  of  Wentoun,  her  son,  and  the  said  Lady  Isobella  is  described  as  daughter  of  the 
late  Robert,  Earl  of  Wentoun,  and  the  said  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie.  Dated  at  Drummen, 
16th  March  1608.     Confirmed  12th  April  same  year. — Prince's  Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  n. 


GREAT  SEAL  861 

Confirmation  of  charter  by  George  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  and  Margaret  Forrest  his  spouse, 
to  Mr.  Patrick  Forrest,  advocate,  of  a  tenement  called  the  Blakhall,  in  Dirltoun,  and  other 
subjects.    Dated  at  Dirltoun,  2nd  July  1602.   Confirmed  12th  March  1607. — Lib.  xliv.  No.  379. 

Charter  by  James  the  Sixth  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  of  the  Earldom  of  Wintoun, 
with  the  estate  and  title  thereof,  lands,  lordship,  and  barony  of  Seytoun  and  Wintoun,  with 
castles,  manors,  mills,  fishings,  etc.,  advocation  of  the  provostry  and  prebendaries  of  the 
collegiate  church  of  Seytoun,  and  of  other  churches,  chaplainries,  and  offices  of  parish  clerk- 
ships ;  lands  and  barony  of  Tranent,  etc. ;  lands  and  barony  of  Easter  and  Wester  Barnes ; 
lands  and  barony  of  West  Nudrie ;  lands  and  barony  of  Wincheburgh ;  lands  of  Upcragie,  etc., 
which  Robert,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Seytoun,  resigned  in  favour  of  the  said  George,  his 
brother-german,  and  which  the  King,  for  the  service  rendered  to  himself  and  his  predecessors, 
during  many  centuries  past,  in  peace  and  war,  by  the  ancient  progeny  of  the  House  of  Seytoun, 
of  new  gave  to  the  said  George  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  Sir  Alexander 
Seytoun  of  .  .  . ,  knight,  his  brother-german,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing, 
to  Thomas  Seytoun  of  .  .  .,  his  brother-german,  and  heirs-male  of  his  body  ;  which  failing,  to 
John  Seytoun  of .  .  .,  his  brother-german,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body  ;  which  failing,  to  the 
nearest  and  lawful  heirs-male  mentioned  in  the  infeftment  of  the  lordship  of  Seytoun,  bearing 
the  surname  and  arms  of  the  family  of  Seytoun.  Dated  at  the  Palace  of  Whythall,  1 2th  May 
1607. — Lib.  xlv.  No.  12. 

Charter  to  Patrick  Seytoun  of  Lathrisk  of  the  sunny  half  of  Easter  Lathrisk  and  Moncute- 
myre,  in  Fife,  resigned  by  David  Melville  of  Touch.    10th  February  1608. — Lib.  xlv.  No.  137. 

Charter  of  Apprising  in  favour  of  George  Clephane  of  Carslogie  of  the  lands  of  Parbroith, 
with  the  manor-place,  etc.,  which  were  apprised  from  George  Seatoun  of  Parbroith  (who  was 
duly  admonished  at  his  house  in  the  burgh  of  Dysart,  where  his  wife  and  children  made  their 
daily  residence)  on  7th  January  1609,  for  a  debt  of  1700  merks.  Robert  Seatoun  appeared 
on  behalf  of  Mary  Gray,  lady  elder  of  Parbroith,  his  mother,  Mr.  James  Bruce  of  Newbirne 
for  Jean  Sinclair,  spouse  of  the  said  George  Seatoun,  and  David  Seatoun  in  Urquhart  for 
John  Seatoun  his  father,  and  Michael  Seatoun  his  brother,  for  their  respective  interests. — 
Paper  Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  7  2. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  a  charter  by  George  Seytoun  of  Parbroith  to  Lady  Jean 
Sinclair  his  spouse,  in  liferent,  in  compensation  of  her  liferent  of  the  north  half  of  Easter 
Gellet,  and  of  the  Mains  of  Parbroith,  with  kinds,  etc.  Dated  at  the  burgh  of  Dysert,  3rd 
June  1608. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  37. 

James  Seatoun  of  Tullibody,  and  John  his  son  and  heir  apparent,  are  cautioners  for 
Lady  Elizabeth  Bellenden,  relict  of  James  Lawson  of  Humbie,  in  the  marriage  contract  of 
her  daughter,  Jonet  Lawson,  with  James  Fawsyde,  son  of  Robert  Fawsyde  of  that  ilk.  Of 
date  at  Humbie,  20th  September  1605.  Charters  thereon  confirmed  27th  November  1609. — 
Lib.  xlvi.  No.  121. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  Thomas,  Viscount  Fentoun,  Lord  Dirletoun,  to 
Alexander,  Master  of  Fentoun,  his  son  and  apparent  heir,  and  Lady  Anne  Seytoun  his 
affianced  spouse,  eldest  daughter  of  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Chancellor  of  Scotland, 
of  the  lands  of  Fentoun  Tower,  called  Over  Sydeserf,  etc.  Dated  at  Westminster,  in  England, 
6th  April,  and  confirmed  6th  June  1610. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  219. 

Charter  to  John  Seytoune  of  Auquhorties,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  lands  of  Mynnes,  manor- 
place  thereof,  and  Carbydonnoch,  with  mill  of  Mynnes,  etc.,  in  the  barony  of  Udny,  parish  of 
Foveran,  and  shire  of  Aberdeen,  on  resignation  by  William  Udny  of  that  ilk  and  others,  with 
consent  of  William  Seytoun  of  Muny.     5th  July  1610. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  222. 

Charter  to  John,  Lord  Thirlestane,  and  Lady  Issobel  Seytoun  his  spouse,  daughter  of 
Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  the  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  in  conjunct  fee,  and  to  their 
heirs-male,  etc.,  of  the  lands  of  Gilbertoun,  Ugstoun,  Little  Newtoun,  Carfrae,  Snawdown, 
etc.,  in  the  regality  of  Thirlestane.     Dated  iSth  June  1610. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  218. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  William,  Earl  of  Angus,  and  William,  Lord  Douglas, 
Master  of  Angus,  his  eldest  son,  whereby,  in  implement  of  contract  between  them  on  one 
part,  and  Robert,  Earl  of  Wentoun,  Lord  Seytoun,  Claud,  Lord  of  Paisley,  Lady  Margaret 
Seytoun  his  spouse,  Alexander,  Lord  of  Fyvie,  President  of  the  Supreme  Royal  Senate, 
James,  Master  of  Paisley,  eldest  son  and  heir  apparent  of  the  said  Claud,  Lady  Margaret 
Hamilton,  eldest  daughter  of  the  said  Claud,  and  Sir  William  Seytoun  of  Kylismuir,  knight, 


862  REGISTER  OF 

brother-german  of  said  Earl  of  Wentoun,  on  the  other  part,  of  date  at  Edinburgh,  nth  July 
1 60 1,  they  grant  to  the  said  Margaret  Hamilton,  future  spouse  of  said  Master  of  Angus,  the 
lordship,  barony,  and  regality  of  Bothwell,  with  castles,  etc.  Dated  nth  September  1601. 
Confirmed  15th  January  161 1. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  192. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  High  Chancellor  of  Scotland, 
of  new  granting  to  him  the  lands,  lordship,  and  barony  of  Urquhart,  as  therein  specified ; 
the  lands,  lordship,  and  barony  of  Fyvie,  alias  Foirmerteine ;  and  the  lands  of  Dalgatie, 
Dunduffe,  Serjeantslands  and  Muirislands  of  Pettincreiff,  in  the  barony  of  Inverteill ;  also 
the  title  and  dignity  of  Earl  of  Dunfermline  :  all  which  were  resigned  by  the  said  Alexander, 
and  were  by  the  King  incorporated  into  one  free  earldom  and  lordship,  to  be  called  the 
earldom  of  Dunfermline  and  lordship  of  Urquhart  and  Fyvie  ;  one  seizin  taken  at  the  manor- 
place  of  Dalgatie,  to  stand  for  the  whole  :  To  be  holden  to  the  said  Alexander  and  his  heirs- 
male  lawfully  procreated  of  his  body,  which  failing,  to  Sir  William  Setoun  of  Kyllismuir, 
knight,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  the  said  Alexander,  his  heirs-male 
bearing  the  surname  and  arms  of  Setoun,  and  assignees  whatsoever:  Rendering  therefor  550 
merks  of  blench  ferme,  and  paying  to  the  rector  of  Urquhart  4  chalders  2  bolls  1  firlot  of 
barley,  and  £&  ;  to  the  rector  of  Bellie  80  merks  ;  for  the  manse  of  the  precentor  53  shillings 
4  pennies  of  feuferme ;  and  doubling  the  feuferme  at  the  entry  of  heirs  ;  for  fishing  of  salmon, 
etc.,  within  the  floodmark  at  the  mouth  of  Spey ;  £4  and  13  shillings  and  4  pennies  for  the 
tenandry  of  Hallisbrig  of  feuferme;  and  to  the  minister  of  Hailles  ^70,  ns.  iod.  in  full 
satisfaction  of  his  stipend  of  the  teinds  pertaining  to  the  preceptory;  for  Fyvie  one  penny 
of  silver  at  the  castle  of  Fyvie  ;  for  Dalgatie  and  Dunduffe  one  red  rose  ;  for  Serjeantslands, 
etc.,  one  penny  of  silver  in  name  of  blench  ferme.  Dated  at  the  Court  of  Roystoun,  6th  April 
161 1. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  374. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  Mr.  Robert  Williamson  of  Muriestoun,  writer, 
proprietor  and  superior  of  all  the  templar  lands  in  Scotland,  whereby  he  sold  to  Alexander, 
Earl  of  Dunfermline,  his  heirs-male  and  of  taillie,  irredeemably,  the  templar  tenement  in  the 
burgh  of  Dunfermline,  with  houses,  yards,  rigs,  etc. ;  the  tenement  of  the  Nethertoun  of 
Dunfermline;  the  templar  lands  of  Pettincreiff ;  of  Kinglassie;  templar  tenement,  houses,  etc., 
in  the  Newbigging  within  the  lordship  of  Mussilburghschyre ;  templar  tenement,  with  houses, 
rigs,  etc.,  within  the  liberty  of  the  burgh  of  Mussilburgh  in  the  Loganeraw,  alias  Wester 
Holmes ;  templar  tenements  in  Fischeraw  and  in  Inveresk ;  templar  lands  of  Waterstoune, 
Easter  Ellein,  and  Crayhead ;  temple  lands  of  Fyvie,  etc.,  with  the  office  of  bailiery  of 
Dunfermline  and  privilege  of  free  regality,  and  other  privileges  in  the  old  infeftments  of  the 
lordship  of  Torfichen,  granted  by  Queen  Mary  to  the  late  Lord  of  Torfichen.  The  charter 
is  dated  at  Edinburgh  21st  July  1610,  confirmed  22nd  March  1611. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  332. 

The  King  appoints  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  etc.,  keeper  of  the  Palace  of 
Holyroodhouse  during  life,  vacant  by  the  death  of  George,  Earl  of  Dunbar,  treasurer.  Dated 
at  Roystoun,  6th  April  161 1. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  127. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  Anne  Maitland,  daughter  of  the  late  John,  Lord 
Thirlestane,  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  with  consent  of  Robert,  Master  of  Wintoun,  her  spouse, 
etc.,  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  in  liferent,  and  Alexander  Seytoun,  his  third  son,  heritably, 
of  the  lands  of  Thankertoun,  etc.,  in  Lanarkshire,  and  an  annualrent  of  ^50  out  of  the  lands 
of  Kers,  Stirlingshire,  under  reversion  of  7000  merks,  dated  4th  March  1603.  Also  confirming 
charter  granted  by  Sir  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Foulstruther,  knight,  third  son  of  the  late 
Robert,  Earl  cf  Wintoun,  in  favour  of  John,  Lord  Thirlestane,  of  the  aforesaid  lands  and 
annualrent — reserving  the  redemption  thereof  to  John,  Lord  Flemyng,  and  his  heirs  of  taillie, 
for  7000  merks.  Dated  at  Edinburgh  24th  January,  confirmed  22nd  August,  1611. — Lib. 
xlvii.  No.  386. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  Patrick  Home  of  Garwaldgrange,  with  consent  of 
Jean  Ogill  his  spouse,  and  of  Marion  Sleich  his  mother,  by  which  he  sold  to  Sir  William 
Setoun  of  Kylesmuir,  knight,  and  Lady  Agnes  Stirling  his  spouse,  the  lands  of  Garwald- 
grange, kirklands  of  Garwald,  etc.,  in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington  and  sheriffdom  of 
Edinburgh  :  To  be  holden  of  the  King  in  place  of  the  monastery  of  Haddington.  The 
charter  is  dated  4th,  and  confirmed  18th,  December  1609. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  27. 

Charter  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees  whatsoever,  of  the  lands  of 
Innernytie,  with  manor-place,  mill,  fishings  in  the  water  of  Tay,  in  the  Thanage  of  Kinclevin 


GREAT  SEAL  863 

and  shire  of  Perth  ;  which  belonged  to  Sir  Robert  Crichton  of  Cluny,  knight,  and  became  in 
the  King's  hand  through  the  non-payment  of  the  feufermes  by  the  said  Sir  Robert.  Dated 
30th  January  1612. — Lib.  xlvi.  No.  420. 


The  King  appoints  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Great  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  his 
commissioner  vicegerent  in  the  Parliament  to  be  holden  at  Edinburgh  on  12  th  October  161 2, 
until  the  end  thereof,  with  power  to  represent  his  person,  and  to  do  other  things  towards 
the  perfecting  of  the  said  Parliament  as  lawfully  as  Ludovic,  Duke  of  Lennox,  the  late  John, 
Earl  of  Montrose,  or  George,  Earl  Marischall,  commissioners  of  the  King,  did.  At  the 
Palace  of  Theobalds,  20th  September  1612. — Lib.  xlvii.  No.  39. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  John  Seytoun  of  Touch,  with  consent  of  Elizabeth 
Home  his  spouse,  whereby  he  sold  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Gargunnok,  his  brother- 
german,  an  annualrent  of  600  merks  from  the  lands  and  barony  of  Touch-Fraser,  with  fortalice, 
manor,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Stirling.  Dated  at  Touch  29th  January,  and  confirmed  nth  June, 
1612. — Lib.  xlvii.  No.  5. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  Mr.  Alexander  Hay  of  Forresterseat,  one  of  the 
Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice,  to  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Lord  Fyvie  and 
Urquhart,  Great  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  of  the  manse,  with  garden  and  dovecot,  of  the 
vicarage  of  Elgin,  within  the  Cathedral  College  thereof.  Dated  1st,  and  confirmed  8th,  June 
1613. — Lib.  xlvii.  No.  163. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  John  Swinton,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Mark  Swinton, 
provost  of  Inverkeithing,  to  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Great  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  of 
the  place,  tenement,  or  hospice  of  Inverkeithing,  with  dovecot  and  garden.  Dated  2nd,  and 
confirmed  8th,  July  1613. — Lib.  xlvii.  No.  139. 

Charter  to  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  etc.,  principal  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  of  the 
teind-sheaves  of  the  lands  and  mains  of  Fyvie,  lands  of  Haddo,  Cammaloun,  and  others,  in 
the  parish  of  Fyvie  and  shire  of  Aberdeen,  on  resignation  by  James,  Marquis  of  Hamilton, 
Lord  Evan  and  Aberbrothok.     Dated  17th  November  1614. — Lib.  xlvii.  No.  385. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Seytoun,  etc.  ; 
whereby,  with  consent  of  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  etc.,  Chancellor  of  Scotland; 
James,  Earl  of  Abercorn,  Lord  Paisley;  Thomas,  Lord  Bynning,  Secretary  of  Scotland;  Sir 
William  Seytoun  of  Kylesmuir,  knight;  also  of  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie,  Countess  of 
Wintoun,  elder,  for  implement  of  contract  of  the  same  date  as  the  charter,  he  granted  to  his 
spouse,  Lady  Anne  Hay,  Countess  of  Wintoun,  younger,  eldest  daughter  of  Francis,  Earl  of 
Errol,  Lord  Hay,  Constable  of  Scotland,  in  liferent,  the  lands,  lordship,  and  barony  of  Seytoun 
and  Wintoun  ;  lands  and  barony  of  Tranent,  with  castles,  etc. ;  lands  and  barony  of  Easter  and 
Wester  Barnes,  in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington  and  shire  of  Edinburgh;  and  that  in 
exchange  for  the  lands  of  Winchburgh,  with  coalheuchs,  mains  of  West  Nuddrie,  with  fortalice 
and  manor,  lands  of  West  Nuddrie,  with  mill,  etc.,  lands  of  Upcragie,  mains  of  Kirkliston, 


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REGISTER  OF 


etc.  Dated  at  Seytoun,  Haddingtoun,  and  Edinburgh,  2nd,  21st,  and  24th  August  1615. 
Witnesses  :  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Ullistobe,  brother-german  of  the  said  George ;  John  Dundas 
of  Newlistoun,  etc.     Confirmed  23rd  November  1615. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  i.  No.  323. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  Alexander,  Earl  of  Eglinton,  with  consent  of  George, 
Earl  of  Wentoun,  his  brother-german,  to  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie,  Countess  of  Wentoun, 
in  liferent,  and  John  Seytoun,  younger  son  procreated  between  the  late  Robert,  Earl  of 
Wentoun,  and  the  said  Lady  Margaret,  heritably,  of  the  east  third  part  of  the  lands  of 
Aldinstoun,  called  Greindykes,  and  \\  husbandlands  of  Langnudrie,  adjacent  to  the  south 
part  of  the  high  road  from  the  palace  of  Seytoun  to  the  burgh  of  Haddingtoun,  in  the  barony 
of  Tranent ;  also  of  the  lands  of  Saint  Germans,  in  the  constabulary  of  Hadingtoun  and  shire 
of  Edinburgh  :  To  be  holden  to  the  said  Lady  Margaret  in  liferent,  and  to  the  said  John  and 
the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Olivestobe,  his  brother- 
german,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  revert  to  the  said  George  and  his 
heirs-male  succeeding  to  the  Earldom  of  Wentoun,  bearing  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Seytoun,  irredeemably.  Dated  at  Seytoun  and  Edinburgh,  23rd  and  26th  December  1615. 
Confirmed  14th  January  1617.  —Lib.  xlviii.  No.  187. 

Charter  de  novo  damns  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  in  liferent,  and  to  George,  Lord 
Seytoun,  his  son,  in  fee,  of  the  Earldom  of  Wintoun,  with  the  name  and  state  of  the  same, 
lands,  lordship,  and  barony  of  Seytoun  and  Wintoun,  with  castles,  manors,  etc.,  burgh  of 
barony  of  Cowkeny,  and  free  port  thereof,  with  the  haven  silver,  petty  customs,  anchorage 
dues,  and  great  customs  of  the  said  harbour ;  lands  and  barony  of  Tranent ;  lands  and  barony 
of  Easter  and  Wester  Barnes ;  lands  and  barony  of  West  Nudrie,  with  lands  and  barony  of 
Winchburgh,  etc. ;  lands  of  Hartisheid  and  Clintis  in  Berwickshire,  on  resignation  by  the 
said  Earl :  And  whereas,  at  the  erection  of  the  burgh  of  barony  of  Tranent,  the  weekly  market 
was  appointed  to  be  held  on  the  Lord's  day,  and  a  free  fair  yearly  on  certain  days  ;  and 
whereas  other  markets  are  held  within  burghs  not  far  distant  on  the  Lord's  day  and  other  fairs 
in  divers  places  about  the  same  time  as  that  of  Tranent,  the  King  grants  that  the  weekly 
market  may  be  held  there  on  Friday,  and  two  free  fairs  yearly,  on  St.  Paul's  day  (26th  June), 
and  St.  Columba's  day  (27th  September),  and  if  these  days  should  happen  on  a  Lord's  day, 
on  the  Monday  next  thereafter ;  and  of  new  incorporating  all  the  above  in  the  free  earldom 
of  Wintoun,  ordaining  the  castle  and  manor  of  Seytoun  to  be  the  principal  messuage  :  To  be 
holden  to  the  said  Earl  as  above,  to  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his 
body ;  which  failing,  to  the  said  Earl  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to 
Alexander,  Earl  of  Eglintoun,  immediate  younger  brother  of  the  said  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and 
the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  bearing  the  surname  and  ensigns  of  Seytoun  and  the  Earldom  of 
Wintoun,  and  not  otherwise ;  which  failing,  to  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Olivestobe,  brother-german 
of  the  said  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body  ;  which  failing,  to  John  Seytoun 
of  Saint  Germans,  brother-german  of  the  same,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing, 
to  the  lawful  and  nearest  heirs-male  of  the  late  Sir  John  Setoun  of  Barnes,  immediate  younger 
brother  of  the  late  Robert,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  father  of  the  said  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun, 
bearing  the  surname  and  ensigns  of  Seytoun  and  of  the  said  Earldom  of  Wintoun,  and  not 
otherwise :  Providing  that  whenever  the  said  Earl  of  Wintoun,  in  his  lifetime  only  (heirs  and 
assignees  being  excluded),  shall  pay,  in  the  collegiate  church  of  Seytoun,  one  rose  noble  of 
gold  (or  16  merks),  upon  the  premonition  of  24  hours,  or  shall  consign  the  same  in  the  hands 
of  any  trustworthy  person,  he  shall  have  regress  to  the  fee  of  the  aforewritten  subjects  :  And 
that  if  the  said  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and  Lord  Seytoun,  should  die  without  heirs-male  of  their 
bodies,  the  said  Earl  of  Eglintoun  and  his  heirs  shall  renounce  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Montgomerie  and  of  the  Earldom  of  Eglinton,  and  shall  for  ever  assume  the  surname  and  arms 
of  Seytoun  and  of  the  Earldom  of  Wintoun,  and  shall  denude  themselves  of  the  Earldom  of 
Eglintoun,  and  the  lands  thereof,  in  favour  of  the  nearest  heir  of  taillie  of  the  House  of 
Eglintoun,  according  to  the  charter  granted  thereupon  to  the  said  Alexander ;  and  if  they 
fail  to  do  so,  they  shall  fall  from  the  right  of  the  Earldom  of  Wintoun,  which  shall  go  to  the 
said  Thomas  and  the  heirs  following.  Dated  at  Edinburgh,  22nd  April  1618. — Lib.  xlix. 
No.  152. 

The  King  confirms — (1)  a  charter  by  Mr.  George  Seytoun  of  Barra,  whereby  he  sold  to 
Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  High  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  in  liferent,  and  to  Charles, 
Lord  Fyvie,  his  son  and  heir  apparent,  and  his  heirs-male,  etc.,  a  building  and  land  and 


GREAT   SEAL  865 

tenement,  with  enclosure,  within  the  canonry  of  Old  Aberdeen.  Dated  at  Holyroodhouse 
21st  February  1620.  (2)  Another  charter  by  the  same  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  as  chancellor  of 
Aberdeen,  with  consent  of  the  bishop,  dean,  and  chapter  thereof,  confirming  the  charter  above 
noted,  because  the  King,  after  the  act  of  annexation,  had  disponed  to  the  said  George  the  said 
building,  etc.,  called  the  Mansion  of  the  Chancellor,  which  Act  was  annulled  in  the  Parliament 
in  1617,  so  far  as  concerned  the  lands  of  prebendaries  and  members  of  chapters.  At  Aber- 
deen, 26th  April  1620.     Confirmed  at  Edinburgh,  16th  November  1620. — Lib.  xlix.  No.  220. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John  Seytoun  of  Sanct  Germans,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of 
Foulden,  in  the  shire  of  Berwick,  apprised  from  William  Arnote  of  Cokburnespeth,  and  sold 
to  the  said  John  Seytoun  for  2500  merks,  due  to  Mr.  William  Kellie,  W.S.  Dated  15th 
February  162  r. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  ii.  No.  1S0. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John  Seytoun,  eldest  son  and  apparent  heir  of  William  Seytoun 
of  Easter  Disblair,  and  the  heirs-male  procreated  between  him  and  Margaret  Irving  his 
spouse ;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs-male  and  assignees  of  the  said  John,  of  the  lands  of  Easter 
Disblair  and  mill  of  Cavil:  also  to  the  said  John  and  Margaret  in  conjunct  fee,  and  their 
heirs-male  heritably  (as  above),  of  the  lands  of  Maillinsyde,  south  part  of  Logyruiff,  Mylne- 
fields,  etc.,  all  in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen,  which  were  resigned  by  the  said  William,  and  Isabella 
Seytoun  his  spouse.     Dated  26th  June  162 1. — Lib.  xlix.  No.  340. 

Charter  by  the  King,  constituting  William  Seytoun  of  Grange,  eldest  son  of  Sir  William 
Seytoun  of  Kyllismure,  his  Majesty's  chief  Postmaster,  which  office  was  vacant  by  the  de- 
mission of  the  said  Sir  William ;  with  power,  after  the  decease  or  deprivation  of  the  present 
under  postmasters,  to  appoint  others,  or  to  remove  and  deprive  them,  with  a  fee  of  ^500. 
Dated  at  Theobalds,  2nd  April  1623. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  ii.  No.  303. 

Charter  by  King  Charles  the  First,  ratifying  a  grant  by  the  late  King,  his  father,  to  Sir 
William  Setoun,  knight,  and  after  his  death  to  William  and  John,  his  sons,  of  a  yearly 
pension  of  ^1200:  also  ratifying  the  gift  of  the  Postmastership,  with  fee  of  ^500  above 
noted.     Dated  at  Quhythall,  26th  May  1625. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  ii.  No.  381. 

The  King  confirms — (1)  Charter  by  John  Forbous  of  Monkmylne  to  Henry  Seytoun,  second 
son  of  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  of  the  grain  mill  of  Monkmylne,  with  the  lands  of  Monk- 
hauche  adjacent  thereto,  with  the  multures  of  the  grain  growing  on  the  lands  of  Easter  and 
Wester  Monkriggs,  and  Coitwalls,  etc.,  in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington  and  shire  of  Edin- 
burgh :  To  be  holden  to  the  said  Henry  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  John 
Seytoun,  his  brother-german,  and   successively  to   George  and  Thomas,  also  his  brothers- 

german,  of  the  Abbot  of  Newbottle,  in  feu  ferme.     Dated December  1564.    (2)  Charter 

by  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  burgess  of  Haddington,  heir-male  of  the  said  Henry,  who  was 
brother  of  his  grandfather,  John  Seytoun  (above  mentioned),  in  favour  of  Robert  Seytoun,  now 
of  Monkmylne,  of  the  said  mill,  lands,  etc.  Dated  at  Haddington,  29th  April  1629.  Con- 
firmation 31st  July  1629. — Lib.  lii.  No.  22r. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  John  Seatoune,  younger  of  Lathrisk,  and  the  heirs-male  pro- 
created between  him  and  Grissell  Balfour  his  spouse ;  which  failing,  to  his  own  heirs-male 
of  his  body,  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Lathrisk  and  others  in  the  shire  of  Fife :  Also  to  Barbara 
Arnote,  spouse  of  Patrick  Seatoun,  elder  of  Lathrisk,  in  liferent,  of  the  said  lands  of  Wester 
Lathrisk,  with  the  houses  on  the  south  and  west  sides  of  the  enclosure  of  the  manor-place 
of  Lathrisk,  between  the  'yetts'  thereof:  Also  to  the  said  Grissell  Balfour  in  liferent  of  the 
lands  of  Easter  Lathrisk,  etc. — reserving  to  the  said  Patrick  Seatoun  his  liferent  of  Wester 
Lathrisk.     Dated  13th  February  1630. — Lib.  lii.  No.  188. 

Charter  by  the  King  to  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Petmedden  of  the  lands  of  Barrach  and 
others  in  the  parish  of  Bourtie,  all  incorporated  into  the  barony  of  Barrach,  with  parts  of 
Petgevin,  which  were  resigned  by  William  Setoun  of  Meldrum  and  Mr.  Robert  Burnet,  elder, 
advocate.     Dated  at  Holyroodhous,  10th  July  1630. — Lib.  lii.  No.  286. 

Confirmation  by  the  King  of  a  charter  granted  by  Charles,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  whereby, 
with  consent  of  William,  Earl  of  Erroll ;  John,  Earl  of  Rothes ;  Alexander,  Earl  of  Linlithgow ; 
and  John,  Lord  Hay  of  Yester,  his  curators,  and  in  implement  of  marriage  contract  of  date 
at  Holyroodhouse  and  Aberdeen,  29th  April,  2nd  March,  and  9th  November  1632,  he  granted 
to  Lady  Mary  Douglas  his  spouse  (daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Mortoun),  in  liferent,  and 
during  the  lifetime  of  Lady  Margaret  Hay,  Countess  of  Dunfermline,  his  mother,  the  lands, 
lordship,  and  barony  of  Fyvie,  alias  Foirmairteine,  with  tower  and  ma,nor-place  thereof,  etc.  etc. 


866  REGISTER  OF 

Dated  at  Holyroodhouse  and  Canongate,  9th,  17th,  and  28th  of  November  and  6th  December 
1632.     Confirmed  at  Holyroodhouse,  10th  November  1632. 

Confirmation  of  charter  in  similar  terms,  and  of  the  same  date,  by  the  said  Charles, 
Earl  of  Dunfermline,  in  favour  of  the  said  Lady  Mary  Douglas  his  spouse,  in  liferent,  of 
4  oxgates  of  the  lands  of  Inveresk,  with  the  manor-place  (formerly  belonging  to  John  Ache- 
sone,  portioner  of  Inveresk),  in  the  lordship  of  Musselburghschyre,  regality  of  Dunfermline,  and 
shire  of  Edinburgh ;  lands  of  Othe,  five-sevenths  of  Eastbarns,  alias  Grange,  kirklands  of  Haillis, 
various  lands  in  Fife,  and  an  annualrent  of  ^300  for  the  lands  of  Pinkie  in  the  lordship  of 
Musselburgh.     Confirmed  10th  November  1632. — Paper  Register,  Lib.  iii.  Nos.  217,  2t8. 

Charter  by  King  Charles  the  First  to  Alexander  Seattoun  of  Gradene,  his  heirs-male  and 
assignees,  heritably,  of  those  ten  husbandlands  of  the  lands  of  Gradene,  formerly  belonging 
to  Mark  Cas,  son  of  the  late  Richard  Cas  of  Fordell,  and  conquest  by  him  from  Mr.  Patrick 
Home,  second  son  of  Sir  John  Home  of  North  Berwick,  knight,  and  Elizabeth  Home  his 
spouse,  with  mansion-houses,  etc.,  lying  in  the  earldom  of  March  and  shire  of  Berwick  :  on 
resignation  by  the  said  Mark  Cas,  in  favour  of  the  said  Alexander  Seattoun.  Dated  at  Holy- 
roodhouse, nth  January  1634. — Lib.  liv.  No.  209. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Seton,  his  heirs-male  and  of 
taillie,  of  the  free  burgh  of  barony  of  Cokenie,  with  free  harbour  and  haven  thereof,  with  all 
the  privileges  and  profits  of  the  same,  used  and  wont,  on  resignation  by  the  late  Robert,  Earl 
of  Wintoun.     Dated  25th  January  1634. — Lib.  liv.  No.  218. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  John  Seattoun,  fiar  of  Pitmeddene,  eldest  son  of  Alexander 
Seattoun  of  Pitmeddene,  and  the  late  Beatrice  Ogilvie  his  spouse,  and  to  Elizabeth  Johnstoun, 
spouse  of  said  John,  in  conjunct  fee,  and  the  heirs-male  of  their  marriage,  of  the  lands  of 
Auldbourtie,  mill  and  multures  thereof,  etc.,  and  to  the  said  John  Seattoun,  and  the  heirs-male 
of  his  body  by  the  said  marriage,  which  failing,  to  the  heirs-male  of  the  body  of  the  said  Alex- 
ander Seattoun,  of  the  lands  of  Craig,  Allathine,  Ardinmoir,  etc.,  all  in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen 
— reserving  to  the  said  Alexander  his  liferent  of  all  the  lands  in  which  the  said  Elizabeth  John- 
stoun is  infeft  as  above  :  on  resignation  by  the  said  Alexander,  in  favour  of  himself,  and  then 
upon  assignation  by  him  to  the  said  John  as  above  :  now  of  new  granted,  and  all  incorporated 
into  one  barony  of  Allathine.     Dated  at  Edinburgh,  15th  March  1634.— Lib.  liv.  No.  307. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  Alexander  Seatoun,  son  of  Sir  Alexander  Seatoun  of  Kilcreuch, 
knight,  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice,  and  to  Janet  Cornewall  his  spouse,  and 
the  heirs-male  of  their  marriage,  of  the  third  part  of  the  lands  of  Graden ;  proceeding  on 
resignation  by  Sir  David  Home  of  Wedderburne,  knight,  with  consent  of  George  Home,  his 
eldest  son.     Dated  12th  August  1636. — Lib.  lv.  No.  342. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  Sir  William  Seatoun  of  Thornetoun,  in  liferent,  and  to  William, 
his  eldest  son,  and  the  heirs  of  his  body,  of  the  lands  of  Raniestoun,  with  manor-place,  etc., 
in  the  parish  of  Logy  Buchan,  and  shire  of  Aberdeen  :  Also  to  the  said  Mr.  AVilliam  Seattoun, 
and  Jean  Leythe  his  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them,  in  satisfaction  to  the  said  Jean  of  her 
conjunct  fee  or  terce,  and  to  the  said  William  Seattoun,  their  son,  in  fee,  of  the  mill  and  mill 
lands  of  Raniestoun,  etc.     Dated  31st  July  1637. — Lib.  lvi.  No.  14. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  John  Seatoun  of  Auquhorties,  in  liferent,  and  after  his  decease 
to  Mr.  Alexander  Seatoun,  his  son,  by  Helen  Leithe  his  spouse,  in  fee,  of  the  lands  of  Fullive, 
in  the  barony  of  Udnie,  parish  thereof,  and  shire  of  Aberdeen ;  also  of  the  lands  of  Tilliery, 
which  were  parts  of  the  barony  of  Udnie  and  Auchloun,  proceeding  on  resignation  by  William 
Udnie,  sometime  of  that  ilk,  and  in  virtue  of  the  sale  thereof  by  him  to  the  said  John  Seatoun, 
then  of  Mynnes,  in  liferent,  and  to  George  Seatoun,  his  eldest  son,  by  the  said  Helen  Leithe, 
in  fee,  in  virtue  of  contract,  dated  24th  April  1630,  between  the  said  John  Seatoun  and  George 
his  son,  on  the  first  part,  William  Seatoun,  also  son  of  said  John  Seatoun,  by  Anna  Gordoun 
his  spouse,  on  the  second  part,  and  the  said  William  Udnie,  for  himself  and  for  Anna  Udnie 
his  daughter,  and  she  for  herself,  and  they  both  with  consent  of  Alexander  Seatoun  of  Pet- 
medden,  donator  to  the  escheat  of  the  said  AVilliam  Udnie,  Mr.  Robert  Udnie  of  Lamyngton, 
William  Seaton,  now  of  Udnie,  and  John  Forbes  of  Balnagask,  on  the  third  part :  and  the 
multures,  sequels,  and  knaveships  of  the  lands  of  Tillive,  which  belonged  to  the  said  William 
Seatoun,  now  of  Udnie,  were  by  him,  with  consent  of  Margaret  Grahame  his  spouse,  resigned 
in  favour  of  the  said  John  Seatoun  of  Auquhorties,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  heritably.  Dated 
27th  June  1635. — Lib.  lvi.  No.  57. 


GREAT   SEAL  867 

Charter  by  the  same  to  John  Seatoun,  fiar  of  Lathrisk,  of  the  lands  of  the  Mains  of  Malar, 
with  the  tower,  fortalice,  and  manor-place,  and  salmon-fishings  on  the  water  of  Erne,  lying 
in  the  parish  of  Forteviot,  and  shire  of  Perth,  on  resignation  thereof  by  Mr.  Hew  Moncreiff, 
sometime  of  Malar.     Dated  9th  August  1642. — Lib.  lvii.  No.  89. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  the  same,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Strabrok,  in  the  shire  of 
Linlithgow,  on  resignation  by  William,  Earl  Marischal.  Dated  24th  December  1638. — Lib. 
lvi.  No.  58. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  his  heirs-male  and  of  taillie,  of  the 
lordship  and  barony  of  Haills,  with  the  castle  and  fortalice,  except  the  portions  thereof  dis- 
poned to  the  said  George  principally,  and  to  Francis,  Earl  of  Buccleuch,  in  warrandice  and 
security,  as  therein  mentioned ;  with  the  patronage  of  the  church  of  Hauche,  called  the 
prebendary  of  Lintoun  and  chaplainry  of  Markle ;  lands  and  barony  of  Auldhamstoks,  with 
patronage  of  the  church  thereof  and  of  the  chaplainry  of  Coldbrandspeth  and  hospital  thereof; 
lands  of  East  Craig  and  Hoprig,  and  of  Morhame,  with  tower  and  fortalice,  mill,  etc.,  and 
patronage  of  the  kirk  thereof,  lying  within  the  shire  of  Edinburgh  and  constabulary  of 
Haddington ;  lands  and  barony  of  Creichtoun,  with  castle  and  manor-place,  etc.,  with  patron- 
age of  the  provostry  of  Creichtoun  and  chaplainries  thereof;  lands  of  Murehous,  within  the 
shire  of  Edinburgh,  for  the  principal;  the  lands  of  Quhitsun,  etc.,  with  patronage  of  the  kirk 
thereof,  in  the  shire  of  Berwick;  lands  of  Ferningtoun,  with  hospital  of  the  same;  lands  of 
Langnewtoun,  with  tower,  mill,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Roxburgh  ;  lands  and  barony  of  Dryvisdaill 
and  Carruthers,  with  patronage  of  the  kirk  of  the  latter  place,  in  the  stewartry  of  Annandale 
and  shire  of  Dumfries  ;  lands  and  barony  of  Dunsyre,  Lanarkshire,  of  Kirkmichael,  Ter- 
raughtie,  Drumlark,  Mabie,  and  Cruiks ;  lands  and  barony  of  Earlstoun,  etc.,  in  shire  of 
Dumfries :  and  in  like  manner  granting  to  the  said  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and  his  heirs 
aforesaid  heritably,  and  to  the  aforesaid  Francis,  Earl  of  Buccleuch,  and  his  heirs-male,  etc., 
in  special  warrandice  and  security,  under  the  conditions  contained  in  a  contract  between  the 
said  Francis,  on  one  part,  and  Charles  Stewart,  son  and  heir  of  the  late  Francis  Stewart,  who 
was  eldest  son  of  the  late  Francis,  Earl  of  Bothwell,  the  said  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and 

George  Seton,  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  some  other  persons,  on  the  other  part,  of  date  

1647    and  1648;  the  lands  of  Traprain ;  lands  of  Nether  Hailes,  being  parts  of  the 

said  lordship  and  barony  of  Hailes,  lying  in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington  and  shire  of 
Edinburgh:  which  all  and  sundry  lands,  baronies,  etc.,  belonged  before  to  the  said  Francis, 
Earl  of  Buccleuch,  and  were  resigned  by  him  in  Exchequer  at  Edinburgh,  for  this  new  infeft- 
ment,  with  4000  ...  to  the  said  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  etc.,  and  erecting  again  the 
barony  of  Hailes.     Dated  1st  March  1648. — Lib.  lviii.  No.  141. 

Charter  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  of  the  lands  of  the  Earldom  of  Wintoun,  of  new 
erected.     Dated  at  Newcastle,  27th  January  1647. — Lib.  lviii.  No.  193. 

Charter  by  the  Keepers  of  the  Liberties  of  England  to  Alexander  Seatoun  of  Graden, 
and  Janet  Cornewall  his  spouse,  approving  of  a  bond  and  obligation  and  precept  of  seizin 
therein  contained,  granted  by  John  Cornewall  of  Bonhard  on  17th  December  1652  to  the 
said  Alexander  and  Janet,  of  an  annualrent  of  266  merks  from  the  lands  of  the  said  John 
Cornewall.     Dated  7th  March  1653. — Lib.  lix.  No.  32. 

Charter  by  the  same  to  Mr.  George  Seatoune,  now  of  Shethune,  brother  and  heir  of  the 
late  William  Seatoun  of  Shethune,  of  the  lands  of  Reschivit,  etc.,  in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen. 
Dated  7th  March  1653. — Lib.  lix.  No.  34. 

Charter  by  the  same  confirming  charter  made  by  the  late  John  Seattoune  of  Auquhorthes 
to  James  Seattoune  his  son,  and  the  late  Bessy  Bisset,  therein  designed  his  future  spouse,  in 
conjunct  fee,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Cowhill,  mill  thereof,  etc.,  in  the  barony  of  Barra 
and  shire  of  Aberdeen.  Dated  at  Lessindrum,  29th  November  1638.  Confirmed  at  Edin- 
burgh, 3rd  January  1654.— Lib.  lix.  No.  116. 

Confirmation  by  Oliver,  Lord  Protector,  of  a  charter  by  Mr.  George  Seatoune  of  Shethin, 
to  Mr.  John  Seatoune,  minister  at  the  Kirk  of  Foverane,  of  the  mains  of  Shethin,  in  the 
parish  of  Tarves  and  shire  of  Aberdeen :  To  be  holden  of  the  said  Mr.  George,  in  feuferme, 
or  of  Gilbert,  Earl  of  Errol,  in  fee.  Dated  15th  February  1655.  Confirmed  8th  June  same 
year. — Lib.  lix.  No.  188. 

Charter  by  Charles  the  Second  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  of  the  lands  of  Athelstan- 
furd,  Gairmiltoun,  and  others,  united  and  incorporated  into  one  whole  barony  of  Athelstanfurd  : 


868  REGISTER  OF 

To  hold  as  therein  mentioned  to  the  said  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun  in  liferent,  and  to  John 
Seatoun,  his  now  eldest  surviving  son,  begotten  between  him  and  Lady  Elizabeth  Maxwell, 
Countess  of  Wintoun,  his  spouse,  for  himself  and  as  heir-male  and  of  taillie  of  the  late 
Christopher  Seatoun,  his  eldest  brother  of  the  same  marriage,  in  fee,  and  to  the  heirs-male 
of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  Robert  Seatoun,  his  brother,  also  of  the  same  marriage,  and 
the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  Sir  Alexander  Seatoun  of  Craigiehall,  knight, 
also  their  brother,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  the  said  Earl  George,  his 
nearest  heirs  and  assignees  whatsoever,  under  the  provisions  therein  specified,  one  of  which 
is  that  the  said  John  Seatoun  shall  be  obliged  to  warrant  a  disposition  and  infeftment  granted 
by  his  father  and  him  to  the  said  Robert,  his  brother,  of  the  lands  of  Easter  and  Wester 
Windygowls,  Newmains,  Mildeis,  etc. :  Proceeding  on  resignation  by  the  late  Sir  Alexander 
Touris,  younger  of  Innerleith,  as  to  Garmilltoun,  and  by  Sir  Adam  Hepburn  of  Humbie  and 
John  Hepburn  of  Wauchtoun  as  to  Athelstanefurd.  Dated  13th  August  1649.  William 
Seatoun,  deceased,  is  also  mentioned  as  one  of  the  brothers  of  the  said  John. — Lib.  lviii.  No.  194. 

Charter  to  Walter  Seaton,  lawful  son  of  Alexander  Seaton  of  Graden,  and  his  heirs- 
male,  of  the  lordship  and  barony  of  Abercorn,  etc.,  on  resignation  by  Alexander,  Viscount  of 
Kingston.     Dated  17th  January  1662. — Lib.  lx.  No.  125. 

Charter  to  John  Seaton,  younger  of  Thorntoun,  of  the  lands  and  mains  of  Thorntoun,  etc., 
in  the  parish  of  Glamis,  and  shire  of  Forfar :  which  lands,  etc.,  pertained  before  to  John 
Thorntoun,  sometime  of  that  ilk,  and  were  resigned  by  him  for  new  infeftment  of  the  same 
to  be  given  to  Margaret  Benerman,  spouse  of  Mr.  Alexander  Seatoun  of  Tilbirie,  afterwards 
of  Newark,  in  liferent,  and  to  the  said  Mr.  Alexander  Seaton,  his  heirs-male  and  assignees, 
heritably,  and  again  resigned  by  them  in  favour  of  George  Seaton  of  Woodhill,  now  of  Thorn- 
toun, in  liferent,  and  of  John  Seaton  his  son,  heritably.  Dated  30th  August  1662. — Lib.  lx. 
No.  156. 

Charter  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seaton,  advocate,  in  the  burgh  of  Edinburgh,  and  his  heirs, 
of  the  lands  of  Allathine,  etc.,  as  the  same  were  then  possessed  by  James  Seaton  of  Pitmedden 
and  others,  and  were  resigned  by  them  to  the  said  Mr.  Alexander.  Dated  26th  January  1665. 
— Lib.  Ixi.  No.  34. 

Charter  to  John  Seatoune  of  Lathrisk,  eldest  son  of  the  late  John  Seatoune,  elder  of 
Lathrisk,  and  the  heirs-male  procreated  between  him  and  Agnes  Beatoun,  his  spouse,  of  the 
lands  of  Wester  Lathrisk,  Easter  Lathrisk,  etc.,  formerly  incorporated  into  one  barony.  Dated 
18th  June  1669. — Lib.  lxii.  No.  90. 

Charter  to  James  Seaton  of  Touch  in  liferent,  and  to  James,  his  eldest  son,  and  the 
heirs-male  of  his  body,  in  fee,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Touchfraser,  with  tower,  fortalice, 
etc.,  in  the  parish  of  Gargunnock  and  shire  of  Stirling:  on  resignation  by  the  said  James 
Seaton,  elder.     At  Whitehall,  9th  March  1603. — Lib.  lxii.  No.  113. 

Diploma  to  Sir  Robert  Seatoun  of  Windigoull,  son  of  the  late  Earl  of  Wintoune,  and  to 
the  heirs-male  of  his  body  of  the  title  and  dignity  of  Knight-Baronet.  Dated  at  Whytehall, 
24th  January  1671. — Lib.  lxii.  No.  286. 

Diploma  in  favour  of  John  Seatoun  of  Garletoun,  son  of  the  late  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun, 
and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  of  the  title  and  dignity  of  Knight-Baronet.  At  Whytehall, 
9th  December  1664. — Lib.  lxiii.  No.  13. 

Confirmation  of  charter  granted  by  George  Seatoun  of  Carrestoun,  with  consent  of  the 
late  George,  Earl  of  Wintoune,  and  Robert  Seaton,  bailie  of  Tranent,  to  Margaret  Seatoun, 
eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Sir  Thomas  Seatoun,  brother-german  of  the  said  Earl  of  Wintoun, 
now  wife  of  the  said  George  Seatoun  of  Carrestoun,  in  liferent,  of  the  lands  of  Carrestoun. 
Dated  25th  June  1673. — Lib.  lxiv.  No.  15. 

Charter  to  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  any 
person  or  persons  he  should  nominate  by  writ  under  his  hand,  during  his  lifetime  or  in  the 
article  of  death,  and  the  heirs-male  of  their  bodies,  under  the  conditions  contained  in  the  said 
nomination ;  which  failing,  to  his  nearest  heirs  and  assignees,  the  eldest  daughter  always 
succeeding  without  division,  marrying,  however,  a  gentleman  of  the  name  of  Seton,  or  who 
shall  assume  the  name  and  wear  the  arms  of  the  family  of  Wintoun,  of  the  earldom  and 
lordship  of  Wintoun,  together  with  the  title  and  honour  of  the  Earl  of  Wintoun  :  Proceeding 
on  resignation  by  the  said  George,  Earl  of  Wintoun,  with  a  de  novo  damns,  and  new  erection. 
Dated  at  Windsor  Palace,  31st  July  1686. — Lib.  lxxi.  No.  94. 


PRIVY   SEAL  869 

Charter  to  Christopher  Seatone  of  Carrestoun  in  liferent,  and  to  George  Seatone,  his  eldest 
son,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body  in  fee;  which  failing,  to  his  other  sons,  or  the  heirs-male 
of  the  body  of  the  said  Christopher,  and  the  heirs-male  of  their  bodies ;  which  failing,  to  his 
daughters  or  heirs-female,  and  the  heirs-male  of  their  bodies,  etc.,  of  the  lands  and  mains  of 
Carrestoun,  with  tower,  fortalice,  manor-place,  mill,  etc.  :  Also  the  lands  of  Ballinkirk, 
Rameldrie,  etc. :  Proceeding  on  resignation  by  the  said  Christopher — reserving  to  Helen 
Watsone,  his  present  spouse,  those  parts  of  the  lands  provided  to  her  in  liferent.  Dated  at 
Edinburgh,  21st  July  1706. — Lib.  lxxxii.  No.  168. 

Charter  to  Elizabeth,  alias  Betty,  Seton  of  Touch,  wife  of  Mr.  Hew  Seton  (late  Paterson), 
younger  of  Bannockburn,  advocate,  only  surviving  child  of  the  late  Archibald  Seton  of  Touch, 
by  his  marriage  with  the  late  Barbara  Hunter,  and  the  heirs-male  of  the  body  of  the  said 
Elizabeth ;  which  failing,  to  the  nearest  heirs  and  assignees  of  the  said  deceased  Archibald 
Seton,  heritably,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Touch-Seton,  with  tower,  fortalice,  etc.,  the 
heritable  office  of  armour-bearer  and  esquire  of  the  Royal  Body,  with  the  salary  attached 
thereto,  of  old  granted  by  King  James  to  the  deceased  Sir  Archibald  Seton,  then  of  Tullibodie, 
ancestor  of  the  said  Elizabeth,  and  confirmed  by  King  Charles  the  Second,  by  charter  under 
the  Great  Seal,  of  date  19th  October  1681,  together  with  a  salary  of  ^200  sterling  for  the 
said  hereditary  office,  etc.  etc.  :  Proceeding  on  resignation  under  the  marriage  contract  between 
the  said  Archibald  Seton  of  Touch-Seton  and  Barbara  Hunter,  of  date  27th  April  1721,  in 
favour  of  the  heirs  therein  mentioned.     Dated  12th  February  1743. — Lib.  xcvii.  No.  285. 

(Search  continued  to  1760.) 


3.  Register  of  Privy  Seal. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Seton,  son  and  apparent  heir  of  Alexander  Seton  of  Tulch- 
fresal,  of  the  maills  and  duties  of  the  lands  of  Mekill  Geddes  for  all  the  terms  they  had  been 
in  the  King's  hands  through  non-entry,  till  he  recover  state  thereof.  Dated  9th  February 
1494-5. — Vol.  i.  fol.  11. 

Letter  of  Sale  from  the  King  (James  iv.)  to  Lord  Setoun,  of  the  ship  called  the  Egill, 
with  all  the  '  stuff,  artilzery,  and  abulzementis,  tow  and  takill  being  in  hir,'  for  ^500,  with  a 
quitclame  thereof,  and  a  charge  to  James  Makison  to  deliver  the  said  ship  to  the  said  Lord 
Setoun.     Dated  22nd  January  1498-9. — Vol.  i.  fol.  67. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Patrick^Gordon  of  Aldaich,  of  the  ward  of  the  lands  of  Meldrum,  lying 
within  the  sheriffdom  of  Aberdeen,  and  of  other  lands,  with  advocation  and  donation  of  kirks 
and  chaplainries,  being  in  the  King's  hands  by  reason  of  ward  through  the  decease  of  Alex- 
ander Setoun  of  Meldrum,  together  with  the  marriage  of  Alexander  Setoun,  'nevo  (grandson  ?) 
and  air  to  the  said  Alexander,  his  grantschir,'  and  failing  by  decease  of  him  unmarried,  the 
marriage  of  the  heir  or  heirs  whatsoever  that  shall  come  to  the  said  Alexander's  heritage. 
Dated  20th  March  1500. — Vol.  ii.  fol.  38. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  James  Seytoun,  carnal  son  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  in  common 
form.     At  Edinburgh,  15th  May  1500. — Vol.  ii.  fol.  72. 

Precept  of  charter  of  apprising  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  fourth  part  of  the  lands 
of  Bynnyng,  with  principal  mansion-house  and  yard  thereof,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of 
Linlithgow,  pertaining  to  John  Bynning  of  that  ilk,  and  holden  by  him  of  the  King :  and 
apprised  to  the  King  by  the  sheriff-depute  of  Linlithgow,  and  others,  for  the  sum  of  200  merks, 
due  to  the  King  for  certain  unlaws,  which  lands  were  granted  to  the  said  Lord  Seytoun  for 
the  sum  of  200  merks.     At  Edinburgh,  14th  July  1503. — Vol.  ii.  fol.  105. 

Precept  for  charter  of  resignation  to  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Tulchfresell,  of  the  lands  of 
Bruntcastle,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Berwick,  which  belonged  to  William  Furd  heritably, 
and  were  resigned  by  him  in  the  hands  of  the  King  in  favour  of  the  said  Alexander  and  his 
heirs  :  To  be  holden  of  the  King  in  fee  and  heritage.  Dated  22nd  December  1502. — Vol.  ii. 
fol.  128. 

Presentation  in  favour  of  James  Seytoun,  student  in  the  University  of  Aberdeen,  to  the 
vicarage  of  Bothelny,  now  vacant  by  the  decease  of  Mr.  Alexander  Setoun,  late  vicar  thereof. 
Of  date  at  Edinburgh,  24th  November  1505. — Vol.  iii.  fol.  27. 


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REGISTER  OF 


Precept  for  charter  of  conjunct  infeftment  to  George  Seyton,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
George,  Lord  Seyton,  and  Janet  Hepburn,  spouse  to  the  said  George,  younger,  of  the  £40 
land  lying  in  the  town  and  territory  of  Seyton,  lands  of  East  Bernis,  extending  to  ^20  lands, 
lying  in  the  barony  of  Bernis,  and  of  ^£20  lands  of  Lang  Niddry,  lying  in  the  barony  of 
Tranent,  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh,  and  constabulary  of  Haddington.  At  Edinburgh,  25th 
January  1506-7. — Vol.  iii.  fol.  137. 

Precept  for  charter  of  conjunct  infeftment  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Janet  Hepburn 
his  spouse,  of  the  lands  of  Wyntoun,  with  manor-place,  fortalice,  mill,  etc.,  lying  in  the  barony 
of  Seytoun,  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh,  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  and  the  dominical 
lands  of  Mylis,  with  manor-place  thereof,  etc.,  lying  in  the  barony  of  Tranent ;  which  belonged 
heritably  to  the  said  Lord  Seytoun,  and  were  resigned  by  him  in  the  King's  hands ;  for  new 
infeftment  thereof  to  himself,  his  said  spouse,  and  the  heirs  lawfully  procreated  or  to  be  pro- 
created between  them ;  whom  failing,  to  the  nearest  and  lawful  heirs  of  the  said  George  what- 
soever.    At  Edinburgh,  6th  April  1508. — Vol.  iii.  fol.  171. 

Licence  to  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of  Touchfresel,  knight,  to  sell  ^20  worth  of  his  lands 
of  Tullybody,  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Clackmanan,  to  whomsoever  he  pleased,  without  prejudice 
either  to  himself  or  them,  notwithstanding  that  he  holds  them  of  the  King  in  ward  and  relief. 
At  Stirling,  22nd  April  1509. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  22. 

Licence  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  pass  to  any  place  out  of  the  realm,  with  any  of  his 
kinsmen  and  servants  that  he  shall  choose,  and  to  remain  furth  thereof  for  the  space  of  three 
years  and  forty  days  after  the  expiry  thereof;  during  which  time  the  King  takes  under  his 
protection  all  the  possessions,  lands,  etc.,  belonging  either  to  the  said  Lord  or  to  his  said 
kinsmen  and  servants  who  may  accompany  him,  and  exempts  them  from  compearing  at  any 
justice  or  chamberlain  ayres,  or  any  sheriff-courts,  during  that  time.  At  Stirling,  19th  April 
1 5 10.— Vol.  iv.  fol.  63. 

Letter  to  Master  David  Setoun,  person  of  Fetherkerne,  of  the  gift  of  the  marriage  of  John 
Bonar,  son  and  heir  of  umquhile  James  Bonar  of  Rossy,  together  with  the  non-entry  of  lands 
lying  in  Leuchars,  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife,  extending  yearly  to  10  merks  worth  of  land, 
and  two  parts  of  the  lands  of  Baldivy,  extending  to  8  merks  worth  of  land,  called  Disert, 
within  the  sheriffdom  of  Forfar :  for  all  the  time  they  have  been  in  the  King's  hands  since 
the  decease  of  the  said  umquhile  James,  through  the  non-entry  of  the  righteous  heir  thereto. 
At  Edinburgh,  31st  January  1506. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  74. 

Precept  for  charter  to  Alexander  Setoun  of  Tulchfraser,  knight,  of  the  lands  and  barony 
of  Tulchfraser,  etc.,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Stirling  ;  which  were  by  the  said  Alexander 
and  his  predecessors  for  a  long  time  enjoyed,  and  by  decreet  of  the  Lords  of  Council,  dated 
28th  February  1504,  were  adjudged  to  pertain  in  property  to  the  King  :  Because  that  the  same 
pertained  to  the  late  Murdoch,  Earl  of  Fife,  by  infeftment  from  the  late  John  Stewart,  Earl 
of  Buchan,  his  brother ;  and  for  certain  crimes  and  treason  committed  by  the  said  Murdoch, 
the  said  lands  and  barony  were  forfeited.  At  Edinburgh,  4th  November  1510. — Vol.  iv. 
fol.  103. 

Precept  for  charter  to  John  Setoun  of  Lauthrisk,  of  the  lands  of  Fairlelands  and  Riggis, 
lying  in  the  barony  of  Lauthreisk,  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife,  which  were  formerly  reputed 
tennandry  to  the  said  John  Seton,  and  now  by  decreet  of  the  Lords  of  Council  are  decerned 
to  have  been  and  to  be  in  the  hands  of  the  King  and  his  predecessors  for  the  space  of  fifty 
years,  and  which  lands  the  King  unites  with  the  said  John's  lands  and  barony  of  Wester  Lau- 
thrisk ;  and  the  King  wills  that  the  services  of  the  said  barony  of  Wester  Lauthrisk  shall  be 
for  the  aforesaid  lands  of  Fairleland,  because  they  are  now  united  to  Lauthrisk.  At  Edin- 
burgh, 10th  August  1511. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  155. 

Precept  on  charter,  George,  Lord  Setoun,  and  Janet  Hepburn  his  spouse,  in  conjunct 
fee,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Barnes,  called  East  Barnes  and  West  Barnes,  lying  in  the 
constabulary  of  Haddington  and  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh,  which  belonged  heritably  to  the 
said  George,  and  were  resigned  by  his  procurators  :  To  hold  to  the  said  George  and  Janet, 
and  the  heirs  lawfully  procreated  or  to  be  procreated  between  them ;  which  failing,  to  the 
heirs  of  the  said  George  whatsoever,  of  the  King.  At  Edinburgh,  1st  February  1511-12. — 
Vol.  iv.  fol.  172. 

Precept  for  confirmation  to  Alexander  Setoun  of  Tullybody,  knight,  of  a  charter  made  to 
him  by  Robert  Colville  of  Uchiltree,  knight,  of  five  mercates  of  the  lands  of  old  extent  of 


PRIVY  SEAL  871 

Gargunnok,  with  tower,  fortalice,  and  mansion-house  of  Gargunnok,  lying  in  the  sheriffdom  of 
Stirling.     At  Edinburgh,  22nd  February  1511-12. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  174. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Setoun,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  maills,  profits,  and  duties,  of  the  lands 
and  barony  of  Parbroath,  with  pertinents,  etc.,  viz.,  the  place  and  mains  of  Parbroath  Ladi- 
feron,  with  the  mill;  £6  annualrent  out  of  Ramsay -Forthir ;  the  lands  of  Easter,  Myddle,  and 
Loppy  Urquhart,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife ;  the  lands  of  Hayston,  Scrogarfield,  lying 
in  the  shire  of  Forfar,  being  in  the  King's  hands  for  the  space  of  fifty  years,  until  the  entry  of  the 
righteous  heir  with  a  prornit  to  infeft  the  said  John,  if  the  lands  happen  to  fall  in  the  King's 
hands,  providing  that  the  frank  tenement  thereof  be  enjoyed  by  Alexander  Setoun  of  Parbroth 
during  his  lifetime.     At  Edinburgh,  13th  March  15 11. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  177. 

Gift  to  Alexander  Setoun  of  Parbroth,  and  Janet  Setoun  his  daughter,  of  the  maills, 
profits,  and  duties  of  the  lands  of  Parbroth,  and  others,  specified  in  the  gift  made  before  to 
John  Setoun,  for  all  the  days  of  their  lives,  freely  to  be  bruiked  and  joysed  by  them.  At 
Edinburgh,  10th  March  15 12. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  180. 

Precept  for  charter  of  apprising  to  John  Setoun,  grandson  and  heir  of  Alexander  Setoun 
of  Parbroth,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Parbroth,  viz.,  the  place  and  lands  of  Parbroth,  the 
lands  of  Ladifferon,  with  mill  thereof,  an  annualrent  of  £6  out  of  the  lands  of  Ramsay- 
Forthir,  lands  of  Urquharts,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife :  the  lands  of  Hayston  and 
Scrogarfield,  in  the  shire  of  Forfar :  which  lands  were  in  the  hands  of  the  King  and  his  prede- 
cessors for  the  space  of  fifty  years,  by  reason  of  non-entry — reserving  the  frank  tenement  to 
the  said  Alexander.     At  Edinburgh,  28th  July  15 12. — Vol.  iv.  fol.  194. 

Presentation  of  Mr.  Christopher  Seton,  directed  to  the  vicars-general  of  the  cathedral  church 
of  Aberdeen,  to  confer  on  him  collation  of  the  vicarage  of  Logydurno,  now  vacant  by  decease 
of  the  late  Mr.  William  Lyei,  last  vicar  thereof.    At  Edinburgh,  15th  June  1515. — Vol.  v.  fol.  1. 

Precept  for  charter,  with  consent  of  the  Governor,  to  John  Seytoun,  and  Jonet  Trumbill 
his  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them,  in  conjunct  fee,  and  their  heirs,  of  the  fourth  part  of  the 
lands  of  Gargunnok,  mill  thereof,  etc.,  and  ^3  lands  of  the  barony  of  Plane,  lying  in  the  shire 
of  Stirling,  and  the  half  of  one-seventh  part  of  the  lands  of  Fordale,  in  the  shire  of  Fife  ;  which 
pertained  heritably  to  the  said  Janet,  who  resigned  the  same  in  the  hands  of  the  Governor,  in 
name  of  the  King.     At  Edinburgh,  23rd  November  1515. — Vol.  v.  fol.  30. 

Letter  made,  with  consent  of  the  Governor,  to  Mr.  David  Seytoun,  canon  of  Aberdeen,  of 
the  gift  of  ^5,  to  be  uplifted  yearly,  furth  of  the  lands  of  Disclune,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Kin- 
cardine, and  of  the  maills  and  profits  of  a  croft  called  Forestar  Croft,  in  the  said  shire,  of  all 
the  terms  they  have  been  in  the  King's  hands,  through  non-entry  of  the  righteous  heirs,  since 
the  decease  of  Andrew,  Lord  Gray,  the  King's  immediate  tenant  of  the  same.  At  Edinburgh, 
26th  November  1516. — Vol.  v.  fol.  102. 

Letter  of  Gift,  with  advice  of  the  Treasurer,  to  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of  the 
ward  of  all  lands,  fishings,  etc.,  which  pertained  to  the  deceased  Magnus  Mowat  of  Loscragy, 
and  now  in  the  King's  hands  by  reason  of  ward.  At  Edinburgh,  1st  December  1526. — Vol. 
vi.  fol.  39. 

Precept  of  Remission  to  Andrew  Seytoun  of  Parbroth  and  David  Seytoun  for  complicity 
with  Archibald,  Earl  of  Angus.     At  Edinburgh,  15th  December  1526. — Vol.  vi.  fol.  50. 

Precept  for  charter  to  John  Seytoun,  son  of  the  late  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  over 
the  half  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Rothnok,  six  oxgates  of  the  lands  of  Auchlevin,  sixth  part  of 
the  mill  thereof,  the  half  of  the  town  of  Drumrossy,  four  oxgates  of  the  lands  of  Ardone,  the 
half  of  the  lands  of  Kingudy,  the  half  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Rudrestoun,  with  fishings  on 
the  water  of  Dee,  together  with  the  right  of  patronage  of  the  chaplainries  founded  by  the 
late  William  and  Henry  Leith,  at  the  altar  of  St.  Laurence,  within  the  parish  church  of  Aber- 
deen, which  belonged  heritably  to  Janet  Leith,  relict  of  the  said  deceased  Alexander,  and 
mother  of  the  said  John.     At  Dundee,  15th  February  1526-7. — Vol.  vi.  fol.  52. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Niniane  Seytoun  of  Tulch,  of  the  non-entry  and  relief  of  the  lands  and 
barony  of  Tullybody.     At  Edinburgh,  29th  March  1527. — Vol.  vi.  fol.  56. 

Respite  to  Niniane  Seytoun  of  Tulybody,  knight,  and  180  others,  for  .  .  .  At  Edin- 
burgh, 14th  March  1526-7. — Vol.  vi.  fol.  62. 

Letter  to  John  Seytoun,  brother-german  of  Ninian  Seytoun  of  Tulybody,  knight,  making 
him  gentleman  of  the  King's  house,  with  ^40  yearly  of  fee  during  his  lifetime.  At  Edinburgh, 
15th  December  1526. — Vol.  vi.  fol.  68. 


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REGISTER  OF 


Precept  for  charter  of  conjunct  infeftment,  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Elizabeth  Hay 
his  affianced  spouse,  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Wyncheburgh,  lying  in  the  barony  thereof,  and 
shire  of  Linlithgow.     At  Edinburgh,  15th  June  1526. — Vol.  vi.  fol.  69. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Niniane  Seytoun  of  Tulybody,  knight,  of  all  maills,  profits,  and  duties, 
of  the  half  of  the  lands  of  Brouncastell,  lying  in  the  lordship  of  Lauderdaill,  and  shire  of 
Berwick,  with  the  relief  thereof.     At  Edinburgh,  12th  August  1527. — Vol.  vii.  fol.  85. 

Precept  of  Remission  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  six  others,  for  remaining  from  the 
royal  army  at  Sol  way.     At  Edinburgh,  4th  January  1527-8. — Vol.  viii.  fol.  5. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  escheat  goods  of 
Cuthbert  and  Patrick  Cranstouns,  sons  to  Thomas  Cranstoun  in  Dodds,  and  now  pertaining 
to  the  King,  through  the  said  Cuthbert  and  Patrick  being  fugitives  from  the  land,  and  at  the 
horn,  for  art  and  part  of  the  slaughter  of  umquhile  Andro  Reidpath  of  Deridoun.  At  Edin- 
burgh, 12th  October  1529. — Vol.  viii.  fol.  102. 

Precept  for  Confirmation  to  Gilbert  Seytoun,  of  a  charter  made  to  him  by  Andrew  Seytoun 
of  Parbroth,  his  father,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Parbroth,  with  tower,  mill,  etc.,  in  the 
shire  of  Fife  :  excepting  the  lands  of  Urquhart  Easter,  Middill  Urquhart,  and  Loppy  Urquhart, 
lands  of  Lillok,  in  Fife,  and  the  half  of  lands  of  Ardoch,  in  shire  of  Forfar.  At  Edinburgh, 
10th  March  1529-30. — Vol.  viii.  fol.  172. 

Letter  to  Niniane  Setoun  of  Touch,  knight,  ratifying  the  gift  of  non-entry  made  to  him  of 
the  lands  and  barony  of  Tulybody,  both  in  property  and  tenandry.  At  Stirling,  27th  March 
1530. — Vol.  viii.  fol.  209. 

Ratification  by  the  King  to  Ninian  Seytoun  of  Tough,  knight,  of  the  former  gift  of  the 
non-entry  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Tulybody.  At  Stirling,  2nd  March  1530. — Vol.  viii. 
fol.  243. 

Precept  for  Legitimation  to  John  Seytoun  of  Gargunnok,  bastard  son  natural  of  the  late 
Alexander  Setoun  of  Tulibody.     At  Stirling,  31st  January  1530-31. — Vol.  ix.  fol.  5. 

Precept  for  Remission  to  William  Seytoun  in  Auchinhufe  and  three  others,  for  remaining 
from  the  King's  army  at  Solway,  etc.     At  Aberdeen,  nth  February  1527-8. — Vol.  ix.  fol.  23. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Setoun,  son  and  heir  of  the  deceased  Alexander  Setoun  of 
Meldrum,  of  the  said  William's  own  marriage,  pertaining  to  the  King,  through  the  decease  of 
his  said  father,  and  failing  of  him  by  decease  unmarried,  the  marriage  of  any  other  heir  or  heirs- 
male  or  female  of  the  said  Alexander,  that  shall  happen  to  succeed  him  in  his  heritage.  At 
Edinburgh,  20th  February  1531-2. — Vol.  ix.  fol.  85. 

Precept  for  confirmation  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  a  charter  granted  to  him  by  John, 
Lord  Hay  of  Yester,  of  the  lands  of  Gamylstoun  and  Redishall,  lying  in  the  barony  of  Yester, 
constabulary  of  Haddington,  and  shire  of  Edinburgh.  At  Perth,  28th  July  1531. — Vol.  ix. 
fol.  95. 

Precept  for  confirmation  to  Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  of  Ninian  Seytoun  of  Tulibody, 
knight,  for  all  the  days  of  her  life,  of  a  charter  of  gift  to  her  by  David  Somervell,  younger, 
Lord  of  Plane,  of  four  mercates  of  the  lands  of  Plane,  in  the  barony  of  Plane,  and  shire  of 
Stirling.     At  Stirling,  22nd  May  1532. — Vol.  ix.  fol.  104. 

Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  all  the  goods,  moveable  or 
immoveable,  which  pertained  to  the  deceased  Mr.  Christopher  Seytoun,  and  now  pertaining  to 
the  King  by  reason  of  escheat  and  'law  of  bastardy,'  because  the  said  Mr.  Christopher  was 
born  and  died  bastard,  without  lawful  disposition  of  his  goods  in  his  lifetime.  At  Edinburgh, 
17th  December  1532. — Vol.  ix.  fol.  171. 

Precept  for  confirmation  to  Christopher  Seytoun  of  a  charter  made  to  him  by  Thomas 
Fotheringhame  of  Powry,  of  the  lands  of  Myretoun,  lying  in  shire  of  Forfar.  At  St.  Andrews, 
29th  February  1535-6. — Vol.  x.  fol.  90. 

Precept  for  charter  to  John  Seytoun,  younger  of  Gargunnok,  and  Helen  Callendar  his 
spouse,  in  conjunct  fee,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Gargunnok,  with  the  half  of  the 
mill  thereof,  lying  within  the  shire  of  Stirling ;  which  belonged  heritably  before  to  the  said 
John,  and  were  personally  resigned  by  him  in  the  hands  of  the  King  at  Stirling.  At  Stirling, 
18th  July  1536. — Vol.  x.  fol.  135. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  ward  of  all  lands, 
etc.,  which  pertained  to  umquhile  Philip  Nesbett  of  that  ilk,  and  now  in  the  King's  hands  by 
reason  of  ward,  till  the  lawful  entry  of  the  righteous  heir  or  heirs  thereto,  being  of  lawful  age, 


PRIVY   SEAL  873 

with  the  releif  thereof :  Also  the  gift  of  the  marriage  of Nesbett,  son  and  heir  of  the 

said  umquhile  Philip,  and  failing  of  him  by  decease  unmarried,  the  marriage  of  any  other  heir 
or  heirs-male  or  female  whatsoever  of  the  said  Philip,  who  shall  happen  to  succeed  him  in 
his  heritage.     At  Edinburgh,  27th  April  1537. — Vol.  x.  fol.  186. 

Gift  to  David  Carncros  of  Balmaschynnar  of  the  non-entry  of  Torbeg  in  Forfarshire,  since 
the  decease  of  the  late  John  Carncros  of  Balmaschynnar,  guidschir  to  the  said  David.  8th 
May  1537. — Vol  x.  fol.  190. 

Precept  for  charter  of  apprising  to  John  Seytoun  of  Lauthrisk,  over  the  lands  of  Fair- 
leislands,  lying  in  the  lordship  of  Wester  Lauthrisk,  and  shire  of  Fife,  apprised  for  ^200  in 
defect  of  moveable  goods.     At  Edinburgh,  24th  July  1538. — Vol.  xii.  fol.  41. 

Precept  for  charter  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Wincheburgh, 
and  lands  of  Upcragy,  with  tower,  fortalice,  etc.,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Linlithgow,  which 
belonged  heritably  to  the  said  George,  and  were  personally  resigned  in  the  hands  of  the  King 
at  St.  Andrews :  Holding  to  the  said  George  and  his  heirs  of  the  King  and  his  successors, 
for  one  penny  of  silver  payable  at  the  Castle  of  Nudry,  at  the  feast  of  Whitsunday  yearly,  in 
name  of  blenche  ferme.    At  St.  Andrews,  2nd  August  1539. — Vol.  xiii.  fol.  18. 

Precept  for  charter  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Wincheburgh, 
lands  of  Craigy,  and  Dundas,  with  tower,  fortalice,  etc.,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Linlithgow, 
which  belonged  heritably  to  the  said  George,  and  were  personally  resigned  by  him  in  the 
hands  of  the  King  at  Edinburgh — rendering  therefor  yearly  one  penny  silver  at  the  castle  of 
West  Nudry  in  name  of  blench  ferme.     At  Edinburgh,  12th  March  1540. — Vol.  xiv.  fol.  65. 

Letter  of  Regress  to  John  Seytoun  of  Lauthrisk,  over  five  twelfth  parts  of  the  lands  of 
Kilmaron,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Fife,  sold  by  him  to  William  Hunter  and  Grissel  Ramsay  his 
spouse.     At  St.  Andrews,  29th  February  1540. — Vol.  xiv.  fol.  70. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  Alexander  Seytoun,  bastard  son  natural  of  Robert  Seytoun. 
At  Temptalloun,  27th  July  1541. — Vol.  xv.  fol.  9. 

Letter  of  Regress  to  Walter  Seytoun  over  some  lands  of  Tulybody  sold  by  him  to  John 
White.     At  Edinburgh,  22nd  October  1541. — Vol.  xv.  fol.  40. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  escheat  goods  of 
Sir  David  Nisbet,  chaplain,  pertaining  to  the  King,  through  deforcement  made  by  the  said 
Sir  David  and  his  servants,  on  the  King's  officers  and  servants  of  the  sheriffdom  of  Berwick, 
when  they  were  poinding,  for  the  Castle  Wards  of  the  lands  of  West  Nisbet  owing  to  the 
King.     At  Perth,  1st  November  1541. — Vol.  xv.  fol.  45. 

Precept  for  Charter  of  Feu  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  over  the  twelfth  part  of  the  south 
quarter  of  the  town  of  Auchtermuchty,  with  common  pasture,  etc.,  lying  within  the  stewartry 
and  shire  of  Fife,  which  pertained  to  Alexander  Stirk  in  feuferme,  and  was  resigned  by  him 
in  the  hands  of  the  Lord  Governor.     At  Edinburgh,  25th  January  1542-3. — Vol.  xvii.  fol.  10. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  marriage  of 
Robert  Logane,  younger,  fiar  of  Restalrig,  with  all  proffits  thereof,  which  marriage  pertained 
to  David  Wod  of  the  Crag,  comptrollar,  and  was  renounced  by  him,  in  the  hands  of  the  late 
King,  for  certain  sums  of  money,  paid  to  the  said  David  therefor.  At  Edinburgh,  10th 
January  1542-3. — Vol.  xvii.  fol.  27. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun  of  Lathrisk,  Janet  Auchmouty  his  spouse,  and  their  heirs, 
of  the  non-entry  of  the  lands  of  the  Mylntoun  of  Orky,  and  mill  of  the  same,  with  common 
pastures,  etc.,  of  all  terms  that  they  have  been  in  the  Queen's  hands  since  the  death  of 
Alexander  Lathrisk.     At  Edinburgh,  16th  April  1543. — Vol.  xvii.  fol.  46. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun  of  the  maills  of  the  lands  called  the  Castell  riggis 
of  Kinghorne,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Fife,  of  all  terms  that  the  same  have  been  in  the  hands  of 
the  late  King  or  his  predecessors,  as  superiors  thereof,  by  reason  of  ward  or  non-entry,  since 
the  decease  of  the  last  lawful  possessor  thereof,  and  till  the  entry  of  the  lawful  heir  thereto. 
At  Edinburgh,  30th  April  1543.— -Vol.  xvii.  fol.  53. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  his  heirs,  of  the  escheat  goods  which  per- 
tained to  William  Haliburton  in  Wolfstruther,  and  now  in  the  Queen's  hands  through  the 
said  William  being  denounced  rebell  and  put  to  the  horn,  for  not  payment  of  £$o  to  James 
Kirkcaldy  of  the  Grange,  treasurer  for  the  time.  At  Edinburgh,  15th  February  1543-4. — Vol. 
xviii.  fol.  28. 

Respite  to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  for  art  and  part  of  the  slaughter  of  umquhile 

5S 


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REGISTER  OF 


James  Seytoun,  recklessly  committed  by  the  shot  of  a  hagbut,  to  last  for  19  years.  At  Edin- 
burgh, 12th  December  1544. — Vol.  xviii.  fol.  97. 

Letter  to  Marioun,  Beatrix,  Helenor,  and  Marie  Seytouns,  daughters  lawful  to  George, 
Lord  Seytoun,  and  their  assignees  (making  mention  that  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  has 
done  faithful  service  since  the  decease  of  the  late  King,  to  the  Queen  her  tutor  and  governor 
in  her  name,  remaining  continually  in  her  service,  etc.  Therefore  in  compensation  thereof,  in 
case  the  said  George  happen  to  be  slain  or  die  in  her  or  her  said  tutor's  service,  before  the 
perfect  age  of  George  Seytoun  his  son  and  apparent  heir,  and  failing  of  him  by  decease  un- 
married, or  any  other  his  heir  or  heirs-male  succeeding  to  him),  of  the  gift  of  the  ward  of  all  lands 
which  it  shall  happen  the  said  Lord  Seytoun  to  possess  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  the 
non-entry  of  the  same  during  the  ward  thereof,  and  till  the  entry  of  the  righteous  heir  or  heirs 
thereto ;  Together  with  the  marriage  of  the  said  George  Seytoun  his  son ;  and  the  Queen 
decerns  that  this  present  gift  of  ward  shall  be  of  as  much  avail  as  if  it  were  made  after  the 
decease  of  the  said  Lord  Seytoun,  notwithstanding  it  was  made  before  it.  At  Linlithgow,  14th 
November  1544. — Vol.  xviii.  fol.  114. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  charter  of  gift  by  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  John  Seytoun, 
his  second  lawful  son,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  George  Seytoun,  the 
granter's  son  and  heir  apparent,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  James 
Seytoun,  his  third  lawful  son,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body ;  which  failing,  to  the  lawful  and 
nearest  heirs  of  the  said  Lord  whatsoever,  of  the  lands  of  Wountoun,  with  manor-place,  etc., 
lying  in  the  barony  of  Seytoun,  constabulary  of  Haddington,  and  shire  of  Edinburgh.  At 
Stirling,  18th  May  1545. — Vol.  xix.  fol.  13. 

Precept  for  charter  of  conjunct  fee  to  Walter  Seytoun  of  Tulybody,  and  Elizabeth 
Erskine  his  spouse,  and  the  heirs  lawfully  procreated  or  to  be  procreated  between  them,  of  the 
50s.  land  lying  in  the  barony  of  Tulybody  and  shire  of  Clackmanan,  which  belonged  to  the 
said  Walter  heritably,  and  were  resigned  in  the  hands  of  the  Lord  Governor,  at  Stirling,  5th 
June  1545  :  To  hold  of  the  Queen,  who  wills  that  the  said  resignation  shall  not  be  to  the  per- 
judice  of  the  privilege  of  the  said  barony,  granted  by  her  or  her  predecessors,  to  the  said 
Walter's  progenitors.     At  Stirling,  6th  June  1545. — Vol.  xix.  fol.  62. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  ward  and 
non-entry  of  ten  merks  of  annualrent  furth  of  the  lands  of  Murse,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Kin- 
cardine, of  all  the  terms  that  the  same  has  been  in  the  Queen's  hands  by  reason  of  ward  and 
non-entry  since  the  decease  of  Gilbert  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  knight,  till  the  entry  of  the 
righteous  heir.     At  St.  Andrews,  13th  December  1546. — Vol.  xx.  fol.  71. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Ninian  Cokburn  of  the  goods  which  pertained  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun, 
and  now  in  the  hands  of  the  Queen  by  reason  of  escheat,  through  deforcement  committed  by 
him  on  the  Sheriff  of  Fife's  officer  when  poinding  certain  goods.  At  Edinburgh,  31st  May 
1547. — Vol.  xxi.  fol.  13. 

Precept  for  confirmation  to  Walter  Seton  of  Tulybody,  of  a  charter  by  John  Seton  of 
Gargunnok,  to  him  and  his  heirs-male,  of  the  half  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Gargunnok, 
with  half  of  the  mill  thereof,  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Stirling.  At  Edinburgh,  27th  August  1547. 
— Vol.  xxi.  fol.  34. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of  the  non-entry  of  the  lands  of  Balcarne, 
lying  in  the  barony  of  Meldrum  and  shire  of  Aberdeen,  of  all  terms  since  the  decease  of  Eliza- 
beth Lesley,  '  guddame '  of  the  said  William,  '  wha  deceassit  twa  years  syne.'  At  Edinburgh, 
13th  April  1548. — Vol.  xxi.  fol.  95. 

Precept  for  charter  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Lady  Marie  Pyerret  his  spouse,  of  the 
town  and  mains  of  Winchburgh,  with  castle,  manor,  and  fortalice  of  West  Nudry,  lying  in  the 
barony  of  West  Nudry,  and  shire  of  Linlithgow,  which  belonged  to  the  said  George  heritably, 
and  were  resigned  personally  by  him  in  the  hands  of  the  Queen  at  Edinburgh,  etc.  At  Edin- 
burgh, 7th  June  1548. — Vol.  xxii.  fol.  9. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Dame  Marion  Seytoun,  Countess  of  Eglintoun,  of  the  ward  and  non- 
entry  of  the  lands  and  lordship  of  Ardrossan,  of  all  terms  that  the  same  has  been  in  the 
Queen's  hands,  or  of  her  predecessors,  as  superiors  thereof,  since  the  decease  of  Hugh,  last 
Earl  of  Eglintoun,  Hugh,  Earl  of  Eglintoun,  his  '  guidschir,'  or  any  others  their  predecessors, 
till  the  lawful  heir  or  heirs  of  the  said  deceased  Hugh,  last  Earl  of  Eglintoun,  be  sixteen  years 
of  age.     At  Edinburgh,  12th  September  1548. — Vol.  xxii.  fol.  40. 


PRIVY  SEAL  875 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  charter  of  gift  made  by  Thomas  Lumsdane  of  Ardree,  with 
consent  of  John  Wemyss  of  that  ilk,  and  Mr.  Robert  M'Nair,  rector  of  Assent,  his  curators, 
to  Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  to  Andrew  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  in  the  said  Margaret's  pure 
virginity,  in  liferent,  and  the  heirs  lawfully  to  be  procreated  between  her  and  the  said  Thomas, 
of  his  lands  of  Cipseis,  lying  in  his  barony  of  Ardree,  by  annexation  and  shire  of  Fife.  At 
Edinburgh,  30th  November  1548. — Vol.  xxii.  fol.  54. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  alienation  by  Andrew  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  to 
Patrick  Gardin  of  that  ilk,  in  liferent,  and  Mirabell  Gardin,  his  daughter,  their  heirs  and 
assignees,  of  the  sunny  half  of  the  lands  of  Luchland,  which  were  occupied  by  Thomas  Bell 
and  William  Watt,  lying  in  the  barony  of  Parbroith  and  shire  of  Forfar.  At  Edinburgh,  13th 
February  1548. — Vol.  xxii.  fol.  79. 

Letter  of  Regress  to  Andrew  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  over  the  foresaid  lands.  At  Edin- 
burgh, 13th  February  1548. — Vol.  xxii.  fol.  79. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  David  Bruce 
in  Ballindorane,  and  now  in  the  Queen's  hands  by  reason  of  escheat,  for  his  remaining  from 
the  '  oist  and  army  appoyntit  and  proclamit  to  convene  with  the  Governor  upoun  Gladismuir, 
the  20  day  of  August  last.'     At  Edinburgh,  13th  February  1548.— Vol.  xxii.  fol.  80. 

Letter  of  Regress  to  Andrew  Seyton  of  Parbroth,  of  the  shadow  half  of  the  west  half  of 
the  said  Andrew's  lands  of  Leuchland,  lying  within  the  barony  of  Parbroth  and  shire  of  Forfar  ; 
sold  by  him  to  Mr.  James  Strathauchin,  rector  of  Fettercairn,  and  his  heirs  and  assignees. 
At  Edinburgh,  28th  May  1549. — Vol.  xxiii.  fol.  15. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  alienation  by  Andrew  Seyton  of  Parbroith  to 
William  Batie,  burgess  of  Montrose,  and  Margaret  Cragy  his  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of 
them,  in  conjunct  fee,  and  their  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  lands  of  Leuchland,  extending  to 
half  of  the  lands  of  Leuchland,  viz.,  the  sunny  half  thereof,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Forfar.  At 
Edinburgh,  22nd  June  1550. — Vol.  xxiii.  fol.  88. 

Regress  to  said  Andrew  Seytoun  of  the  foresaid  lands.  At  Edinburgh,  same  date. — Vol. 
xxiii.  fol.  88. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  ward  of  all  lands  and  annualrents,  both 
property  and  tenandry,  with  castles,  etc.,  which  pertained  to  the  deceased  George,  Lord 
Seytoun,  and  are  now  in  the  Queen's  hands,  by  reason  of  ward,  till  the  entry  of  the  lawful 
heir  thereto  :  Together  with  his  own  marriage,  and  failing  of  him  by  decease  unmarried,  of 
any  other  heir  or  heirs-male  or  female,  of  the  said  deceased  George,  that  shall  succeed  him  in 
his  heritage.     At  Edinburgh,  30th  July  1550. — Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  9. 

Respite  to  George  Seytoun  for  his  treasonable  assistance  given  to  Englishmen  in  time  of 
war,  coming  with  them  to  the  burning  of  Dalkeith,  etc.  At  Jedburgh,  24th  March  1550. — 
Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  58. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  alienation,  made  by  Alexander  Myretoun  of 
Randelstoun,  with  consent  of  Cristiane  Seytoun  his  spouse,  lady  of  the  conjunct  fee,  of  the 
lands  of  Randelstoun,  to  Christopher  Seytoun  and  his  heirs,  of  the  said  lands,  lying  in  the 
shire  of  Fife.     At  Edinburgh,  24th  March  1546. — Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  63. 

Precept  for  charter  to  John  Seytoun  of  Lathrisk,  and  Janet  Auchmoutie  his  spouse,  in 
liferent,  and  John  Seytoun,  their  son  and  apparent  heir,  heritably,  of  the  lands  of  Wester 
Lathrisk,  Auchland,  Darnoch,  etc.,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Fife ;  which  belonged  heritably  to 
the  said  John  Seytoun  elder,  and  were  resigned  by  him  personally  in  the  hands  of  the  Lord 
Governor  at  Edinburgh  :  Holding  of  the  Queen  and  her  successors.  At  Edinburgh,  7th  May 
1551. — Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  84. 

Presentation  to  Gilbert  Seytoun,  son  of  John  Seytoun  of  Lauthrisk,  to  the  vicarage  of 
Strameglo,  in  the  diocese  of  Dunkeld,  now  vacant  by  the  resignation  or  demission  of  Mr. 
David  Seytoun.     At  Drumfreis,  17th  July  1551. — Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  87. 

Precept  for  confirmation  to  Elizabeth  Seytoun,  daughter  of  John  Seytoun  of  Lauthrisk, 
of  a  charter  of  liferent  made  to  her  by  James  Spens  of  Lathalland,  of  one-fourth  part,  with 
half  of  the  other  fourth  part,  of  the  lands  of  Lathalland,  in  the  shire  of  Fife.  At  Edinburgh, 
27th  October  1550. — Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  105. 

Precept  for  charter  of  conjunct  infeftment  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Issobell  Hamil- 
ton his  spouse,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  West  Nudrie,  with  castle,  tower,  etc.,  now  united 
and  incorporated  into  one  whole  and  free  barony,  lying  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Linlithgow ;  which 


876 


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were  resigned  by  the  said  George  in  the  hands  of  the  Lord  Governor  at  Linlithgow :  Holding 
to  him  and  his  heirs  of  the  Queen  and  her  successors ;  rendering  therefor  the  sum  of  one  penny 
of  silver  at  Whitsunday  in  name  of  blench  ferme — reserving  the  free  tenement  and  liferent 
of  the  Mains  of  Winchburgh,  with  the  castle,  manor,  and  fortalice  of  West  Nudrie,  which  are 
parts  of  the  said  barony,  to  Marie,  Lady  Seytoun,  spouse  of  the  late  George,  Lord  Seytoun, 
in  liferent.     At  Linlithgow,  25th  May  1552. — Vol.  xxiv.  fol.  144. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  of  the  relief  and  non-entry  of  the  half  of 
the  lands  of  Kingudy,  Dunrossy,  Rothney,  Rudristoun,  with  fishings  thereof,  six  oxengang  of 
land  in  Auchlevin,  two  oxengang  of  land  of  Ardowne,  and  thirty  pennyworth  of  land  of  Hair- 
law,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen,  which  pertained  to  the  deceased  John  Seytoun,  portioner 
of  Kingudy,  and  now  in  the  Queen's  hands  through  seasin  given  or  to  be  given  to  George 
Seytoun,  brother  and  heir  of  the  said  deceased  John,  by  reason  that  he  held  the  same  imme- 
diately of  the  Queen  by  service  of  ward  and  relief;  together  with  the  marriage  of  the  said 
George.     At  Elgin,  16th  July  1552. — Vol.  xxv.  fol.  7. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Walter  Seytoun  of  Touch  of  the  non-entry  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Lecky, 
extending  to  a  £10  land  of  old  extent,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Stirling,  of  all  terms  since  the 
decease  of  John  Leckie  of  that  ilk.     At  Edinburgh,  3rd  March  1553. — Vol.  xxvi.  fol.  61. 

Letters  of  Tack  made  to  Walter  Seytoun  of  Tulibodie,  making  mention  that  through  the 
decease  of  James,  commendator  of  the  Abbeys  of  Kelso  and  Melrose,  the  said  Abbey  of  Kelso 
is  in  the  Queen's  hands  till  the  promotion  of  an  abbot  to  the  same  :  Therefore  she  sets  to  the 
said  Walter  Seytoun  the  vicarage  of  the  Kirk  of  West  Gordon,  with  the  teind-sheaves  of  the  toun 
of  West  Gordoun,  etc.,  pertaining  to  the  said  abbey,  lying  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Berwick,  for 
the  space  of  five  years,  their  entry  beginning  at  Hallowmes  1 557  :  He  paying  to  the  Queen 
the  sum  of  ^40,  and  for  the  said  teind-sheaves  of  the  Kirkland  and  Chancerrieland  20  merks, 
with  2  merks  yearly  to  the  chapel.     At  Edinburgh,  28th  October  1557. — Vol.  xxix.  fol.  3. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun  of  Carraldstoun  of  the  non-entry  of  the  lands  of  Ramelry, 
lying  in  the  shire  of  Fife,  being  in  the  Queen's  hands  through  the  decease  of  Margaret  Duding- 
stoun,  conjunct  fiar  thereof,  with  the  relief  of  the  same,  owing  and  pertaining  to  the  Queen 
by  reason  of  seasine  thereof,  given  or  to  be  given  to  Issobell  Balfour,  spouse  to  the  said  John. 
At  Edinburgh,  20th  July  1558. — Vol.  xxix.  fol.  43. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  Alexander  Seytoun,  bastard  son  natural  of  Christopher  Seytoun. 
At  Edinburgh,  15th  January  1558. — Vol.  xxix.  fol.  59. 

Letter  of  Gift  made  to  Robert,  John,  Alexander,  and  Margaret  Seytoun,  sons  and  daughter 
of  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  ward  and  non-entry  of  all  lands,  lordships,  baronies,  and  others 
in  which  it  shall  happen  the  said  Lord  Seytoun  to  die  infeft,  until  the  lawful  entry  of  the 
righteous  heir  or  heirs,  being  of  lawful  age ;  together  with  the  marriage  of  George  Seytoun, 
heir  apparent  to  the  said  Lord  Seytoun.  At  Edinburgh,  28th  March  1560. — Vol.  xxx. 
fol.  28. 

Letter  ratifying  the  gift  to  Robert,  John,  and  Alexander  Setoun,  sons  lawful  of  George, 
Lord  Setoun,  of  yearly  pensions,  as  follows,  viz. :  To  the  said  Robert  the  sum  of  ^460 ;  to 
the  said  John,  ^340;  and  to  the  said  Alexander,  ^260;  extending  in  all  to  ^£io6o  yearly, 
to  be  taken  furth  of  the  readiest  of  the  maills  and  duties  of  the  Abbacy  of  Melrose,  as  is  more 
fully  contained  in  a  previous  gift  thereof  by  the  Queen  Regent.  At  Joinville,  17th  April  156 1. 
—Vol.  xxx.  fol.  40. 

Letter  of  Gift  by  the  Queen  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  temporality  of  the  lands, 
fishings,  mills,  corfhouses,  with  maills,  profits,  etc.,  of  the  Priory  of  Pluscardine ;  since  the 
decease  of  Mr.  Alexander  Dunbar,  last  prior  thereof,  till  an  intrant  to  the  said  priory  shall  be 
entered  thereto  by  the  Queen,  pertaining  to  her  by  privilege  of  her  crown.  At  Joinville,  17th 
April  1561. — Vol.  xxx.  fol.  40. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Nicolas  Wardlaw  of  the  ward  of  all  lands  which  pertained  to  the  late 
Andro  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  of  all  terms  since  his  decease,  and  during  the  ward  thereof,  and 

of  the  marriage  of Seytoun,  heir  to  the  said  Andro.     At  Edinburgh,  4th  February  1563. 

— Vol.  xxxi.  fol.  126. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  Margaret  Seytoun,  bastard  daughter  natural  to  the  late  George, 
Lord  Seytoun.     At  Dunbar,  19th  November  1564. — Vol.  xxxii.  fol.  in. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Seytoun  of  the  ward  and  non-entry  of  the  lands  which  per- 
tained to  the  deceased  George  Muschat  of  Towgarth ;  together  with  the  marriage  of  James 


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Muschat,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  the  said  George.     At  Halyroodhouse,  18th  January  1564. 
—Vol.  xxxii.  fol.  139. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  William 
Seytoun  of  Cottoun,  and  were  escheated  through  his  being,  or  when  it  shall  happen  him  to 
be,  fugitive  from  the  law,  convict,  or  at  the  home,  for  art  and  part  of  the  slaughter  of  the  late 
William  Gordon,  at  Gordounsmylne,  alias  the  Newmilne,  committed  on  2nd  September 
instant.     At  Dundee,  the  8th  September  1564. — Vol.  xxxiii.  fol.  51. 

Ratification  of  Tack  by  Robert,  commendator  of  the  Abbey  of  Holyroodhouse,  and  con- 
vent thereof,  to  Robert  Seytoun,  son  lawful  of  the  late  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  by  Dame  Maria 
Peir  his  spouse,  of  the  teind-sheaves  of  the  lands  of  Greendyks,  in  the  parish  of  Tranent, 
for  nineteen  years.    Tack  dated  6th,  and  ratification  20th,  January  1563-4. — Vol.  xxxiii.  fol.  61. 

Grant  of  Yearly  Pension  of  £100  to  William  Seytoun,  pursuevant,  on  account  of  his 
infirmity  and  sickness  '  contracted  by  him  throw  continewall  service  alsweile  done  be  him  to 
oure  said  soverane  ladyis  umquhile  derrest  moder  as  to  hir  Majesteis  self  in  thair  Cunzehouse,' 
etc.,  which  pension  is  to  be  paid  out  of  the  readiest  of  their  Majesties'  customs  of  the  Trone 
of  Edinburgh.     At  Halyroodhouse,  4th  August  1565. — Vol.  xxxiii.  fol.  85. 

Letter  of  Gift  for  good  services  rendered  by  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  to  their  Majesties,  to 
Alexander  Seytoun,  son  of  the  said  George,  of  the  priory  of  Pluscardin,  in  the  diocese  of 
Moray.     At  Dunfermline,  17th  September  1565. — Vol.  xxxiii.  fol.  98. 

Precept  for  Remission  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  John  Seytoun  of  Carraldstoun  his 
brother,  George  Seytoun  in  Tranent,  and  Alexander  Seytoun,  laird  of  Touch,  brothers,  for 
art  and  part  of  the  slaughter  of  Francis  Douglas  of  Borg,  in  the  month  of  December  last. 
At  Edinburgh,  21st  September  1565. — Vol.  xxxiii.  fol.  99. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  granted  by  Mr.  William  Scott  of  Balwery  to 
Christopher  Seytoun  of  Kirkland  of  Stramiglo  in  liferent,  and  Alexander  Seytoun,  his  natural 
son,  and  the  heirs  of  his  body  lawfully  procreate ;  whom  failing,  to  the  heirs  and  assignees  of 
the  said  Christopher,  of  the  lands  of  Wester  Pitloure  and  Auchenary,  lying  in  the  barony  of 
Stramiglo  and  shire  of  Fife.     At  Edinburgh,  6th  July  1565. — Vol.  xxxiii.  fol.  126. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Seton,  younger  of  Tulch,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods,  etc.,  which 
pertained  to  John,  Archibald,  and  Alexander  Dogs,  now  at  the  home,  and  the  said  Alexander 
being  fugitive  from  the  law,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  William  Bell,  burgess 
of  Stirling,  for  not  finding  of  surety  of  lawburrows  that  he  should  be  harmless  and  skaithless 
of  them ;  and  the  said  Alexander  for  remaining  at  home  treasonably  from  the  host  and  army 
summoned  to  convene  at  Stirling  on  30th  September  last.  At  Edinburgh,  23rd  January 
1565-6. — Vol.  xxxiv.  fol.  41. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  first  Master  of  the  Royal  Household,  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  Robert  Bog,  now  escheated  through  his  being  denunced  rebel  and  put  to 
the  horn,  as  fugitive  from  the  law,  for  art  and  part  of  the  slaughter  of  George  Hammiltoun,  son 
of  William  Hamiltoun  of  Pardoven.    At  Edinburgh,  6th  February  1565-6. — Vol.  xxxiv.  fol.  52. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  of  the  ward  of  all  lands  which  pertained  to 
the  deceased  George  Seytoun,  portioner  of  Kingudie,  lying  in  the  lordship  of  Gareauch  and 
sheriffdom  of  Aberdeen  ;  together  also  with  the  gift  of  the  marriage  of  William  Seytoun,  son 
and  heir  of  the  said  George.     At  Edinburgh,  19th  February  1565-6. — Vol.  xxxiv.  fol.  57. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  H.M.  first  Master  of  the  Household,  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  James  Johnston  of  Elphingstoun,  now  at  the  horn,  for  not  compearing 
before  the  Lords  to  answer  to  certain  charges.  At  Edinburgh,  17th  May  1566. — Vol. 
xxxiv.  fol.  81. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Dame  Marie  Pear,  Lady  Seytoun,  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to 
Constantine  Stevenson  and  Agnes  Pollok,  now  at  the  horn,  by  letters  at  the  instance  of  Mr. 
Henrie  Kinross,  procurator-fiscal,  before  the  Commissaries  of  Edinburgh,  and  Janet  Paterson 
for  her  interest,  charging  the  said  Constantine  and  Agnes  to  cease  cohabiting  with  one  another, 
conform  to  the  Commissaries'  decreet  given  thereupon.  At  Edinburgh,  17th  July  1566. — 
Vol.  xxxv.  fol  55. 

Licence  to  John  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif  to  remain  at  home  from  '  Oistis,  raidis,'  etc.,  for 
all  the  days  of  his  life ;  providing  always  that  he  provide  and  send  an  able  man  in  his  stead. 
At  Edinburgh,  20th  July  1566. — Vol.  xxxv.  fol.  59. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith  of  the  ward  and  non-entry  of  all  lands  which 


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pertained  to  the  deceased  Andro  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  of  all  terms  since  his  decease  ;  also  of 
the  marriage  of  the  said  David,  '  nevoy,'  to  the  said  Andro.  At  Edinburgh,  8th  February 
1566. — Vol.  xxxvi.  fol.  7. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  first  Master  of  H.M.  Household,  of  the  ward  of 
all  lands  in  which  the  deceased  George  Seytoun,  his  son  and  apparent  heir,  was  infeft  as  of 
fee  :  and  now,  through  his  decease,  in  ward  by  reason  of  non-entry ;  together  with  the  marriage 
of  Robert  Seytoun,  brother  and  heir  of  the  said  George  Seytoun.  At  Seytoun,  28th  February 
1566. — Vol.  xxxvi.  fol.  13. 

Precept  of  Remission  to  William  Seytoun  in  Caltoun,  at  Aberdeen,  for  the  cruel  slaughter 
of  the  late  William  Gordon  in  Gordonsmylne,  in  the  month  of  September  1564.  At  Edinburgh, 
21st  April  1567. — Vol.  xxxvi.  fol.  75. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  all  goods  which 
pertained  to  George  Seytoun  in  Tranent,  and  others,  in  household,  men,  servants,  tenants, 
and  cottars  pertaining  to  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  dwelling  on  his  property,  and 
now  pertaining  to  the  King  by  reason  of  escheat,  through  the  said  persons,  or  any  of  them, 
being  convicted  by  an  assize,  become  in  will,  fugitive  from  the  law,  or  put  to  the  horn,  '  ffor 
airt  and  pairt  of  the  tressonabill  convoying  of  oure  soverane  lordis  derrest  moder  furth  of  the 
place  and  fortalice  of  Lochlevin,  scho  beand  captive  thairintill,  to  the  castell  of  Hammiltoun, 
in  the  moneth  of  May  last  by  past ;  and  thaireftir  tressonabillie  cuming  in  plane  and  arrayit 
battell  aganis  his  Majestie,  his  said  derrest  cousing  and  regent,  and  faithfull  counsallouris, 
for  the  invasioun  of  thair  personis  with  fyir  and  swerd,  at  the  Langsyid,  upoun  the  thretteine 
day  of  May  foirsaid ;  or  for  airt  and  pairt  of  the  felloun  and  crewell  slaughter  of  umquhile 
James  Ballany  in  Prestoun,  James  Douglas,  Suddart,  and  William  Purves,  servant  to 
Alexander  Hume,  committit  the  same  day,'  etc.  At  Edinburgh,  1st  July  1568. — Vol.  xxxvii. 
fol.  73. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith  of  the  non-entry  of  the  lands  of  Urquharttis, 
lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife,  of  all  years  and  terms  that  the  same  has  or  shall  be  in 
the  hands  of  the  King,  since  the  decease  of  Andro  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  his  '  guidschir,'  last 
lawful  and  immediate  tenant  to  the  King  of  the  said  lands,  and  till  the  entry  of  the  righteous 
heir  or  heirs  thereto  (1568). — Vol.  xxxvii.  fol.  81. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Captain  Ninian  Cokburn  and  Alexander  Ramsay  of  the  escheat  of  all 
goods  which  pertained  to  David  Seytoun,  sometime  of  Parbroth,  and  now  in  the  King's  hand 
by  reason  of  escheat,  through  process  of  forfeiture  orderly  led  against  the  said  David  for 
certain  crimes  of  treason  and  lease-majesty  committed  by  him.  At  Leith,  1st  November 
157 1. — Vol.  xl.  fol.  19. 

Precept  for  Remission  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  Alexander  Leyne  and  John  Brown, 
his  servants,  for  their  assisting  of,  and  participation  with,  James,  sometime  Duke  of  Chattel- 
larault,  George,  sometime  Earl  of  Huntly,  William  Kirkcaldy,  sometime  of  Grange,  knight, 
and  others,  their  accomplices,  rebels  and  enemies  of  the  King's  and  his  Regent's  authority, 
in  their  fortifying  and  detaining  the  burgh  and  castle  of  Edinburgh  against  the  King  and  his 
Regent.     At  Holyroodhouse,  2nd  April  1573. — Vol.  xli.  fol.  70. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  marriage  of 
George  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  of  umquhile  John  Seytoun  of  Carralstoun,  and  failing  of  him 
by  decease  unmarried,  the  marriage  of  any  other  heir  or  heirs,  male  or  female,  that  shall 
happen  to  succeed  the  said  deceased  John  and  Issobell  Balfour  his  spouse,  in  their  lands  and 
heritage  pertaining  to  the  King,  or  which  by  the  decease  of  the  said  Issobell  Balfour,  shall 
happen  to  pertain  to  his  Majesty,  because  she  and  the  said  John  her  spouse,  in  conjunct  fee, 
held  the  lands  of  Carralstoun  of  the  King  by  ward  and  relief.  At  Holyroodhouse,  20th  July 
1573. — Vol.  xli.  fol.  94. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  by  William,  bishop  of  Aberdeen,  with  consent  of 
the  chapter  of  the  Cathedral  Church  there,  to  John  Seytoun,  second  son  of  William 
Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  and  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  whom  failing,  to  his  nearest  and  lawful 
heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  lands  of  Pettymoun,  with  Quhytmyre,  Brounhills,  and  Greenfurd, 
lying  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Aberdeen.  At  Holyroodhouse,  31st  January  1575. — Vol.  xliii. 
fol.  56. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  William  Seytoun,  son  bastard  of  the  late  John  Seytoun  of 
Disblair.     At  Holyroodhouse,  28th  February  1576. — Vol.  xliv.  fol.  45. 


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Precept  of  Legitimation  to  John  Seytoun,  natural  son  of  the  late  Mr.  George  Seytoun. 
At  Dalkeith,  16th  October  1577. — Vol.  xliv.  fol.  113. 

Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  son  and  apparent  heir  of  James  Seytoun  of  Tullybody,  of  the  ward 
of  the  lands  of  Huntlie,  Over  and  Nether  Fawsyde,  and  others,  lying  in  the  lordship  of 
Gordoun,  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Berwick,  pertaining  to  the  said  James  Seytoun  in  heritage, 
holden  by  him  of  the  late  George,  Earl  of  Huntly,  of  all  years  and  terms  since  the  decease  of 
the  said  Earl.     At  Holyroodhouse,  23rd  November  1577. — Vol.  xliv.  fol.  121. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  of  the  ward  of  the  shadow  10  oxengate  of 
Blairmad,  sometime  occupied  by  Adam  Ord,  Robert  Chalmer,  and  Thomas  Mureson,  lying 
in  the  forest  of  Oboyne  and  sheriffdom  of  Banff,  pertaining  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  son  of 
the  said  William ;  holden  by  him  of  umquhile  Alexander  Innes  of  that  ilk,  who  held  the 
same  of  umquhile  George,  Earl  of  Huntly,  that  last  deceased,  of  all  years  and  terms  since 
the  death  of  the  said  Earl.     At  Holyroodhouse,  12th  January  1577-8. — Vol.  xlv.  fol.  2. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Christell  Seytoun,  brother-german  of  James  Seytoun  of  Tulybody,  of  the 
escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  James  Hopper,  who  was  convicted  of  the  slaughter  of 
umquhile  William  Malice,  on  24th  August  last.  At  Holyroodhouse,  5th  September  1580. — ■ 
Vol.  xlvii.  fol.  10. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  indweller  in  the  Canongate,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  John  Innes  of  Unthank,  now  at  the  horn,  by  letters  raised  at  the  instance 
of  Sir  Richard  Maitland  of  Lethington,  knight,  and  others,  against  him,  for  not  fulfilling  a 
contract  betwixt  the  said  John  Innes  on  the  one  part,  the  said  Sir  Richard,  Archibald, 
Alexander,  and  Margaret  Seytoun,  daughter  lawful  of  the  deceased  John  Seytoun  in  Tranent, 
on  the  other  part,  of  date  7th  March  1570,  and  registered  30th  April  1580.  At  Holyrood- 
house, 9th  December  1580. — Vol.  xlvii.  fol.  43. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andrew  Seytoun,  son  lawful  of  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  of  the 
escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  the  latter,  and  now  in  the  King's  hands  through  his 
being  put  to  the  horn,  by  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Margaret  Home,  daughter  natural 
of  umquhile  Mr.  Andro  Home,  pensioner  of  Lawder,  and  James  Hume  her  spouse,  against 
the  said  David,  as  one  of  the  cautioners  for  Alexander,  Lord  Hume,  for  not  warranding  and 
releiving  the  said  Margaret  and  her  said  spouse  of  the  yearly  maill  of  200  merks  specified  in 
the  said  letters.     At  Holyroodhouse,  22nd  April  1581. — Vol.  xlvii.  fol.  112. 

Letter  constituting  Sir  John  Seytoun,  knight,  son  of  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  principal 
master  of  all  his  Majesty's  horses  and  stables,  during  his  lifetime,  with  all  the  privileges 
pertaining  thereto.     At  Edinburgh,  9th  May  1581. — Vol.  xlvii.  fol.  116. 

Grant  to  Sir  John  Seytoun,  knight,  Master  of  H.M.  horses  and  stables,  and  second 
lawful  son  of  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  heritably,  in  feuferme, 
of  the  lands  and  mains  of  Listoun,  called  Halberins,  with  manor-place  of  Halzardis,  lying  in 
the  regality  of  Torphichen  and  sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh  :  which  belonged  formerly  to  James, 
Earl  of  Morton,  and  were  forfeited  by  him  for  certain  crimes  of  lese-majesty  committed  by 
him.     At  Dalkeith,  10th  June  1581. — Vol.  xlviii.  fol.  32. 

Letter  to  John  Seytoun,  indweller  in  the  Canongate,  constituting  him  one  of  the  ordinary 
gunners  within  the  Castle  of  Edinburgh,  during  his  lifetime,  which  office  had  fallen  vacant 
through  the  decease  of  Charles  Burdeaulx,  for  the  sum  of  _£S,  6s.  8d.,  to  be  paid  to  him 
monthly  for  his  ordinary  wage.  At  Holyroodhouse,  20th  November  1581. — Vol.  xlviii. 
fol.  54. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun  and  James  Seytoun,  bastard  sons  natural 
procreated  between  the  late  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum  and  Margaret  Innes,  now  spouse  to 
William  Gordon  of  Arrandoule.    At  Holyroodhouse,  8th  December  1581. — Vol.  xlviii.  fol.  60. 

Letter  ratifying  the  provision  given  to  Robert  Seytoun,  son  of  umquhile  Walter  Seytoun 
of  Tullibody,  of  the  prebendary  of  the  parish  of  Logy  in  the  diocese  of  Dunblane,  vacant  by 
the  decease  of  umquhile  Sir  John  Forfar,  prebendar  thereof:  which  provision  was  dated  27th 
November  1562.  Ratification  dated  at  Holyroodhouse  3rd  March  1581-2. — Vol.  xlviii. 
fol.  108. 

Precept  for  Remission  to  James  Seytoun  of  Tullybody,  Robert  Seytoun  his  brother,  John 
Seytoun,  portioner  of  Gargunnok,  Alexander  Seytoun  and  Andrew  Seytoun,  his  sons,  and 
Henry  Fairbairn  in  Gordon,  for  art  and  part  in  the  capture  and  forcible  detention  of  the  King 
in  and  near  Ruthven,  committed  in  the  month  of  August   r582,  and  thereafter  at  Perth, 


880  REGISTER  OF 

Stirling,  Edinburgh,  and  elsewhere,  within  this  kingdom,  and  for  all  other  actions  and  crimes. 
At  Stirling,  24th  October  1583. — Vol.  xlix.  fol.  167. 

Letter  making  mention  that  the  King  has  resolved  'to  direct  his  traist  cousing  and 
counsallour  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  hienes  ambassadour,  to  his  derrest  broder  and 
cousing  the  maist  christian  King  of  France,  for  certane  his  Majestie's  speciall  and  wechtie 
affairs,  tending  to  his  hienes  weill  and  honour,  and  to  the  common  weill  of  his  realme ' ;  and 
granting  special  licence  to  him,  and  to  Alexander,  commendator  of  Pluscardin,  his  son, 
passing  with  him  in  company,  '  to  remane  and  abyde  absent  furth  of  this  realme  for  the  better 
attendance  on  his  hienes  service  in  the  pairtis  of  France  or  utherwyis  in  the  other  pairtis 
beyond  sey,  as  they  salbe  directit,  for  the  space  of  sevin  yeiris  efter  the  dait  heirof,  except 
thay  thameselffis  sal  think  meit  mair  haistelie  to  returne,'  etc.  At  Stirling,  29th  October 
1583. — Vol.  xlix.  fol.  174. 

Letter  making  mention  that  his  Majesty  has  been  pleased  to  direct  George,  Lord  Seytoun, 
and  his  sons  after  named,  'as  ambassadry  to  the  parts  and  realm  of  France,  to  intreat  on  sundry 
matters,  whereunto  he  is  now  to  take  journey  to  that  effect ;  yet  understanding  that  sundry 
envious  persons  in  absence  of  the  said  George  intend  to  pursue  or  trouble  him,  and  also 
Alexander,  Prior  of  Pluscardin,  and  Sir  John  Seytoun,  knight,  his  lawful  sons,  their  lands, 
rents,  etc.,  by  some  pretended  denunciations  of  horning,'  therefore  the  King  promises  that  he 
shall  not  give  or  dispone  to  any  person  or  persons  the  escheat  of  any  lands  which  shall  fall  in 
his  hands  through  the  denunciation  of  the  saids  parties.  At  Holyroodhouse,  17th  December 
1583.— Vol.  1.  fol.  17. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  one  of  the  ordinary  gunners  of  the  Castle  of  Edinburgh, 
of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  James  Hamilton,  son  and  apparent  heir  to 
Jeromie  Hamilton  in  the  Canongait ;  and  now  in  the  King's  hands  through  the  said  James 
being  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Euphame  M'Calzean,  lawful 
daughter  of  umquhile  Mr.  Thomas  M'Calzean  of  Cliftonhall,  and  Patrick  M'Calzean  her 
spouse,  for  non-fulfilment  of  a  contract  betwixt  the  said  Euphame  and  Patrick  on  the  one  part, 
and  the  said  James  on  the  other,  of  date  5th  December  1579.  At  Holyroodhouse,  10th 
January  1583. — Vol.  1.  fol.  39. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Arthur  Forbes,  son  lawful  of  John,  Master  of  Forbes ;  which  failing,  to 
Katharine  Forbes,  his  sister-german,  of  the  escheat  of  that  part  of  the  goods  which  pertained, 
or  in  any  way  may  pertain,  to  John,  Master  of  Forbes,  as  husband  of  Dame  Janet  Seytoun,  upon 
whatsoever  lands  pertaining  to  her  in  conjunct-fee  or  liferent,  by  decease  of  Sir  John  Bellenden 
of  Auchinowle,  knight,  Justice-Clerk,  her  late  husband,  or  of  any  other  lands  conquest  by  her 
since  his  death,  within  the  shires  of  Wigton,  Stirling,  Linlithgow,  Lothian,  Fife,  or  Forfar,  and 
now  in  the  King's  hands  through  the  said  John  being  put  to  the  horn  for  not  fulfilling  of  a 
decreet-arbitral  to  George,  Earl  of  Huntly,  pronounced  by  the  King,  and  registrat  in  the 
books  of  Council,  and  through  his  being  fugitive  from  the  laws  for  art  and  part  of  the 
slaughter  of  umquhile  George  Gordon  of  Geicht  and  Patrick  Gordon  his  servant.  At  Stirling, 
4th  May  1584. — Vol.  1.  fol.  126. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Seytoun  of  Carrestoun  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods,  etc.,  which 
pertained  to  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Robert,  Master  of  Seytoun,  his  son  and  heir  apparent, 
and  now  in  the  King's  hands  through  the  said  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Robert  being  de- 
nounced rebels  and  put  to  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  purchased  and  executed  at  the  instance 
of  Nicoll  Udwart,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  against  them,  for  debt.  At  Holyroodhouse,  29th 
December  1584. — Vol.  li.  fol.  166. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Seytoun  of  Carrestoun  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained 
to  Sir  John  Seytoun,  lawful  son  of  umquhile  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  now  at  the  horn,  for  a  debt 
of  ;£So,  being  his  part  of  the  taxation  of  ,£40,000  of  his  pension  of  the  lands  and  lordships  of 
Kylesmure,  pertaining  to  him  furth  of  the  Abbacy  of  Melrose,  etc.  At  Holyroodhouse,  13th 
February  1584-5. — Vol.  lii.  fol.  8. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun,  son  lawful  of  umquhile  John  Seytoun  of  Gargunnok, 
of  the  non-entry  of  the  fifteen-shilling  land  of  the  half  part  of  the  principal  manor-place  per- 
taining to  the  said  umquhile  John,  lying  on  the  east  part  of  Byirburne,  within  the  sheriffdom 
of  Stirling  and  barony  of  Gargunnok,  as  the  same  has  been  in  non-entry  since  the  decease  of 
Katharine  Livingstoun,  or  the  said  umquhile  John  Seytoun  her  spouse,  or  either  of  them, 
immediate  tenants  of  the  King  therein.     At  Holyroodhouse,  26th  May  1586. — Vol.  liv.  fol.  18. 


PRIVY   SEAL  88 1 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Patrick  Murray,  domestic  servant  to  the  King,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  James  Seton  in  Carrastoun,  now  at  the  horn  for  the  slaughter  of  umquhile 
David  Sibbit  in  Orkymylne,  or  otherwise  for  mutilation  of  him.  At  Falkland,  23rd  July 
1586.— Vol.  liv.  fol.  lvi. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  knight,  of  the  ward  and  non-entry  of  the 
£10  land  of  Peirstoun  Barclay,  with  tower  and  mansion-place  thereof,  lying  within  the  bailliary 
of  Cunyngham  and  sheriffdom  of  Ayr,  of  all  years  and  terms  since  the  decease  of  umquhile 
William  Barclay  of  Peirstoun,  last  lawful  immediate  heritable  tenant  of  the  King ;  together 
with  the  marriage  of  William  Barclay,  son  and  heir  of  the  said  umquhile  William.  At  Falkland, 
12th  August  1586. — Vol.  liv.  fol.  75. 

Letter  constituting  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  knight,  first  Master  of  His  Majesty's  house- 
hold, and  giving  him  the  office  thereof  for  his  lifetime,  with  all  the  privileges  and  fees  thereof, 
for  his  good  services  done  to  the  King.    At  Holyroodhouse,  3rd  January  1586. — Vol.  lv.  fol.  2. 

Letter  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  burgess  of  the  Canongate,  constituting  him  'Coilfumesar ' 
to  the  King's  household,  for  his  lifetime,  in  the  same  manner  as  the  deceased  William  Fair- 
bairne  possessed  the  same  office  before,  for  which  he  is  to  receive  ^50  for  his  ordinary  fee, 
with  50  merks  for  his  livery,  etc.     At  Holyroodhouse,  15th  April  1587. — Vol.  lv.  fol.  48. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Auchinleck  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to 
William  Seytoun  of  Easter  Disblair,  the  said  William  having  been  put  to  the  horn  for  not 
payment  of  his  part  of  a  taxation  of  the  sum  of  ^20,000,  granted  by  the  three  Estates  for 
resisting  of  all  foreign  invasion,  and  for  repressing  of  thieves  and  broken  men.  At  Holyrood- 
house, 28th  March  1587. — Vol.  lv.  fol.  84. 

Letter  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  knight,  first  Master  of  H.M.  household,  con- 
stituting him  comptroller  and  intromitter  with  all  revenues  and  casualties  of  his  Majesty's 
property  during  his  lifetime,  with  all  the  privileges  thereof,  and  500  merks  for  '  exercing '  of 
of  the  said  office.     At  Falkland,  8th  July,  1587.— Vol.  lv.  fol.  98. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun  of  Pettodie  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to 
William  Kirk  in  Drunzie,  Henry  Watterstoun  there,  and  John  Berclay  there,  now  pertaining  to 
the  King  through  their  being  put  to  the  horn  for  not  obeying  of  the  King's  letters  purchased 
at  the  instance  of  the  said  John  Seytoun.     At  Stirling,  21st  August  1587. — Vol.  lvi.  fol.  23. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  cook,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to 
Andro  Robertson,  portioner  of  Auchtermuchty,  now  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at 
the  instance  of  Marie  Livingston,  liferenter  of  the  town,  land  and  mill  of  Auchtermuchty,  for 
not  payment  to  her  of  his  part  of  the  sum  of  ^1104,  5s.  as  for  the  fermes  of  the  said  lands. 
At  Holyroodhouse,  17th  October  1587. — Vol.  lvi.  fol.  61. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Master  Thomas  Ogilvie,  of  Inverrichane,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  Mr.  James  Seytoun,  person  of  Quhytsone,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of 
letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  William,  commendator  of  Pettinweem,  for  not  payment  to 
him  of  the  third  of  the  66  years'  crop,  extending  to  ^22,  4s.  6Jd.  At  Holyroodhouse, 
28th  October  1587.— Vol.  lvi.  fol.  75- 

Charter  granted  to  Lady  Margaret  Seytoun,  Lady  Halsyde,  spouse  of  Lord  Claud 
Hamilton,  commendator  of  Paisley,  and  the  heirs  lawfully  procreate  or  to  be  procreate 
betwixt  them,  etc.,  of  the  offices  of  mair  of  fee  and  serjeantry  of  the  sheriffdom  of  Linlithgow, 
etc.     At  Holyroodhouse,  6th  January  1587-8. — Vol.  lvi.  fol.  127. 

Letter  granted,  with  consent  of  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barns,  Keeper  of  the  Rolls,  to  David 
Seytoun  of  Parbroath,  appointing  him  Keeper  of  the  East  and  West  Lowmondis  of  Falkland, 
lying  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife.     At  Holyroodhouse,  16th  March  1587-8. — Vol.  lvii.  fol.  55. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  umquhile 
Elizabeth  Baxter,  spouse  of  Alexander  Auchmowtie,  burgess  of  Kirkcaldy,  and  now  in  the 
King's  hands  through  the  said  Elizabeth  '  devoring  and  drowning  of  herself  to  the  deid  in  ane 
sink  hoill  within  the  burgh  and  territorie  of  Kirkcaldie,  committit  be  her  upoun  the  nynetene 
day  of  Marche  instant.'     At  Holyroodhouse,  30th  March  1588. — Vol.  lvii.  fol.  77. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  in  the  Cannogait,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  James  Stewart,  son  of  umquhile  Sir  John  Stewart  of  Cragyhall,  knight, 
now  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  George  Lundie,  for  not  finding 
caution  that  he  should  be  skaithless  of  the  said  James,  etc.  At  Holyroodhouse,  5th  April  1588. 
—Vol.  lvii.  fol.  86. 

5T 


882  REGISTER  OF 

Letter  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  constituting  him  '  our  souerane  lordis  comptrollare 
through  his  haill  realme,'  with  all  dignities  pertaining  thereto.  At  Holyroodhouse,  25th 
November  1588. — Vol.  lviii.  fol.  57. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  knight,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which 
pertained  to  Mr.  John  Bartane,  Dean  of  Dunkeld,  now  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised 
at  the  instance  of  Alexander  Robertson,  reader  at  Cluny,  for  not  payment  of  ^20  for  his 
assigned  stipend  of  the  year  15 — .  At  Holyroodhouse,  20th  December  1588. — Vol.  lviii. 
fol.  102. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  comptrollar,  of  the  ward  and  non-entry  of  the 
lands  of  Innerdovat,  with  manor-place,  etc.,  which  pertained  to  umquhile  .  .  .  Lessellis  of 
Innerdovat,  lying  in  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife.     At  Edinburgh,  3rd  June  1589. — Vol.  lx.  fol.  4. 

Precept  for  Remission  to  George  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif,  son-in-law  of  Mr.  John  Chene, 
advocate  in  Aberdeen,  and  to  Robert  Chene  at  Mill  of  Auchry,  in  the  parishes  of  Tarves  and 
Turreff  respectively,  and  shire  of  Aberdeen,  for  assisting  George,  Earl  of  Huntly,  Francis,  Earl 
of  Enroll,  and  others  their  accomplices,  in  the  burgh  of  Aberdeen,  against  the  King  and  his 
nobles  in  the  month  of  April  last.     At  Aberdeen,  24th  July  1589. — Vol.  lx.  fol.  37. 

Letter  of  Tack  to  Andro  Seytoun,  second  son  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  and  John 
Fenton,  comptrollar  clerk,  with  their  helpers  and  factors,  of  the  coals  found  or  to  be  found 
within  the  bounds  of  the  Lowmonds  of  Falkland,  for  the  space  of  nineteen  years.  At  Edin- 
burgh, 14th  August  1589. — Vol.  lx.  fol.  46. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  '  our  soverane  lordis  coilman,'  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods 
which  pertained  to  umquhile  James  Hamiltone  of  Stanehouse,  now  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of 
letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Robert  Cathcart,  writer,  as  prebendar  of  the  prebendary  of 
.  .  .,  '  founded  and  situate  of  auld  within  the  College  Kirk  of  Boithuell,'  for  not  payment  to  him 
of  certain  teinds  pf  the  crop  1580. — At  Edinburgh,  25th  September  1589. — Vol.  lx.  fol.  63. 

Letter  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  comptrollar,  constituting  him  her  Majesty's  Chamber- 
lain and  receiver  of  the  lordship  of  Dunfermline,  with  all  lands,  etc.,  thereof,  lying  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Forth,  with  power  to  make  deputies,  for  whom  he  shall  be  answerable.  At 
Holyroodhouse,  25th  May  1590. — Vol.  lx.  fol.  133. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to 
Thomas,  James,  and  William  Brown,  James  Davidson  and  John  Burnet,  tenants  and  occupiers 
of  the  fourth  part  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Fawnis,  now  at  the  horn,  for  not  removing  them- 
selves from  the  said  lands  lying  in  the  shire  of  Berwick.  At  Holyroodhouse,  27th  July  T590. 
— Vol.  lxi.  fol.  14. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnes,  knight,  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which 
pertained  to  the  deceased  Mr.  John  Bartane,  Dean  of  Dunkeld,  who  was  at  the  horn  (and 
died  without  being  relaxed  therefrom)  by  letters  at  the  instance  of  William,  commendator 
of  Pittenween,  captain  principal  of  the  King's  guard,  for  not  payment  of  certain  sums  and 
victual,  for  the  third  and  superplus  of  the  Provostry  of  Creichton  and  Deanery  of  Dunkeld. 
At  Falkland,  10th  August  1590. — Vol.  lxi.  fol.  27. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  brother  of  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of  the 
ward  of  the  lands  which  pertained  to  umquhile  Alexander  Seytoun,  apparent  of  Meldrum, 
since  the  decease  of  the  said  Alexander,  till  the  entry  of  the  righteous  heir.  At  Stirling,  22nd 
August  1590  — Vol.  lxi.  41. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  brother  of  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of 
the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  James  King,  fiar  of  Barra,  David  King  in  Fallaw, 
brother  of  William  King  of  Barra,  David  King,  vicar  of  Bourtie,  Alexander  Lumisdean, 
brother  of  the  Laird  of  Cuschny,  Mr.  Gilbert  Annand,  son  and  apparent  heir  of  Mr.  William 
Annand  of  Collyhill,  who  were  denounced  rebels  and  put  to  the  horn  for  non-compearance 
before  the  justice,  to  underlie  the  law  for  art  and  part  of  the  murder  and  slaughter  of 
umquhile  Alexander  Seytoun,  apparent  of  Meldrum.  At  Perth,  9th  September  1590. — Vol. 
lxi.  fol.  41. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  brother  to  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of 
the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  William  King,  portioner  of  Barra  in  Bourtie, 
who  was  at  the  horn  for  not  payment  of  his  part  of  the  late  taxation  of  ^1000.  At 
Holyroodhouse,  6th  October  1590. — Vol.  lxi.  fol.  56 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Frenche  of  the  escheat  of  all  goods  which  pertained  to  George 


PRIVY   SEAL  883 

Seytoun,  in  Seytoun,  and  George  Dempster,  who  were  at  the  horn  at  the  instance  of  William 
Vaus,  sword-slipper,  for  not  payment  to  him  of  ,£100.  At  Holyroodhouse,  16th  January 
1590. — Vol.  lxi.  fol.  120. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun,  bailie  in  Tranent,  of  the  escheat  goods  which  pertained 
to  Meg  Begtoun  in  Spilmiffermyln,  spouse  of  Andro  Cowie,  and  now  in  the  King:s  hands 
'  throw  hir  putting  of  violent  handis  in  hir  awin  persoun,  and  crwellie  and  unnaturallie  hanging 
of  hirself  to  the  deid.'     At  Holyroodhouse,  12th  February  1590. — Vol.  lxi.  fol.  143. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  William  Seytoun,  son  to  William  Seytoun  in  Kingis  sait,  of  the  escheat 
of  William  Seytoun  in  Kingis  sait,  who  was  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the 
instance  of  William  Menzies  of  Boighoill,  and  Elizabeth  Cokburn  his  spouse,  for  not  payment 
of  the  multure  of  the  Mill  of  Boghall.  At  Holyroodhouse,  18th  February  1590. — Vol.  lxi. 
fol.  147. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  John  Burn,  John  Mudy,  Thomas 
Mudy,  Cristian  Harper,  and  Helen  Cowy,  in  Easter  Gallet,  who  were  at  the  horn,  at  the 
instance  of  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  his  Majesty's  Comptrollar,  for  not  removing  furth 
of  the  said  lands  of  Easter  Gallet.     At  Dalkeith,  15th  March  1590. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  13. 

Precept  of  Legitimation  to  Christopher  Seytoun,  son  natural  of  the  late  Sir  Ninian 
Seytoun  of  Tullibody,  knight.     At  Dalkeith,  23rd  March  1590. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  23. 

Charter  to  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  successors,  of  the  great  customs,  etc.,  of 
his  town  and  lands  of  Cowkanie,  lying  in  the  barony  and  lordship  of  Seytoun,  within  the 
sheriffdom  of  Edinburgh  and  constabulary  of  Haddington :  holding  to  him  of  the  King 
and  his  successors  in  fee  heritably.     At  Dalkeith,  1st  April  1591. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  29. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Gray,  gentleman  of  the  King's  Chamber,  of  the  escheat  of 
Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  who  was  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  and  executed 
against  him  at  the  instance  of  Captain  Patrick  Seytoun,  heritable  fewar  of  the  manse,  gleib, 
and  kirklands  of  the  vicarage  of  Stramiglo,  for  his  not  removing  therefrom.  At  Falkland 
8th  August  1591. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  154. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  comptrollar,  of  the  escheat  of  the  liferent 
of  half  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Barra  of  Bourtie,  in  the  parish  of  Bourtie  and  sheriffdom  of 
Aberdeen,  which  pertained  to  James  King,  son  and  apparent  heir  of  William  King  of  Barra, 
and  fiar  thereof,  and  now  in  the  King's  hands  through  the  said  James  being  put  to  the  horn 
for  non-compearance  before  the  justice,  to  underlie  the  law  for  art  and  part  of  the  cruel 
slaughter  of  umquhile  Alexander  Seytoun,  apparent  of  Meldrum.  At  Stirling,  30th  August 
1591. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  180. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  brother  of  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of 
the  escheat  of  the  said  James  King.     At  Falkland,  10th  September  1591. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  184. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Thomas  Stevin,  servitor  to  Sir  Robert  Melville  of  Murdocairney,  knight, 
of  the  escheat  of  David  Seytoun  in  Tranent,  who  was  at  the  horn  at  the  instance  of  Alexander 
Creichton  of  Newhall,  for  a  debt  of  ^18,  16s.  At  Linlithgow,  1st  October  1591. — Vol.  lxii. 
fol.  186. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  servitor  to  the  King,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Cubie 
in  Preston,  who  was  at  the  horn  at  the  instance  of  William  Calderwood,  younger,  in  Dalkeith, 
for  not  payment  (as  cautioner  for  Katherine  Browne,  his  mother)  to  the  said  William  of  200 
merks.     At  Holyroodhouse,  14th  October  1591. — Vol.  lxii.  fol.  223. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Northrig  of  the  escheat  of  Thomas  Hall  in  Preston, 
and  John  Hall  his  brother,  now  at  the  horn  at  the  instance  of  the  said  Thomas  Seytoun  for 
not  payment  to  him  of  £$  for  each  boll  of  360  bolls  victual.  At  Holyroodhouse,  19th 
November  1591. — Vol.  lxiii.  fol.  17. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  sale  granted  by  George  Seytoun,  feuar  of  the 
kirklands  of  Stramiglo,  to  Captain  Patrick  Seytoun,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the  kirklands 
of  Stramiglo,  with  gleib,  manse,  houses,  etc.,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Fife :  holding 
of  the  King  in  fee  and  heritage.     At  Holyroodhouse,  13th  January  1591. — Vol.  lxiii.  fol.  122. 

Charter  to  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Urquhart,  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice, 
and  his  heirs-male,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Pluscardin,  Farnanen,  Urquhart,  and  Focka- 
beris,  with  towers,  etc.,  creating  them  into  one  whole  and  free  barony,  called  the  barony  of 
Urquhart.     At  Edinburgh,  28th  January  1591. — Vol.  lxiii.  fol.  146. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  William  Leirmont  of  the  Hill,  and 


884 


REGISTER  OF 


Robert  Leirmont  in  Moram,  and  now  in  the  King's  hands,  because  they  were  '  convict  be 
ane  assyse  as  fugitive  fra  the  lawis  and  at  the  horn  or  becum  in  will,  for  airt  and  pairt  of  the 
treassonabill  cuming  upone  the  xxvij  day  of  December  last  by  past,  under  silence  and  elude 
of  nicht,  to  his  hienes  palice  of  Haliruidhous,  brekking  up  of  his  yettis  and  durris,  and 
assailzeing  of  his  hienes  maist  nobill  persoun  for  his  slauchter,  accumpaneit  with  Francis, 
sumtyme  Earl  Bothwell.'     At  Edinburgh,  8th  February  1691. — Vol.  lxiii.  fol.  170. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Seytoun,  burgess  of  Aberdeen,  of  the  escheat  of  Thomas  Fermour, 
now  at  the  horn  for  a  debt  due  to  the  said  James  Seytoun  of  210  merks.  At  Dalkeith,  15th 
May  1592. — Vol.  lxiii.  fol.  263. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  William  Leirmonth  of  the  Hill,  now 
at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  and  execute  against  him  for  non-compearance  before 
his  Majesty  and  Lordis  of  Secret  Counsal  to  answer  to  such  things  as  should  be  laid  to  his 
charge,  etc.     At  Holyroodhouse,  16th  June  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  29. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  foreman  of  the  King's  Court  kitchen,  of  the  escheat 
of  William  Adison,  portioner  of  the  Grange,  beside  Lindores,  at  the  horn  for  not  payment  to 
John  Aslowane,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  of  ^80.  At  Holyroodhouse,  19th  June 
1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  36. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  King,  advocate,  of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun  of  Munie, 
now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  the  said  Alexander,  and  Janet  King  his  spouse,  for  not 
payment  to  them  of  one  thousand  merks.  At  Holyroodhouse,  29th  June  1592. — Vol.  lxiv. 
fol.  38. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Seytoun,  lord  of  Urquhart,  of  the  escheat  of  Mr.  James 
Dundas,  chantour  of  Murray,  at  the  horn  for  not  obeying  of  letters  purchased  at  the  instance 
of  Patrick  Dunbar  of  Blarie,  commanding  him  to  pay  to  the  said  Patrick  the  sum  of  ^5  for 
every  boll  of  64  bolls  victual.     At  Falkland,  27th  June  1592.     Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  41. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Setoun,  lord  of  Urquhart,  of  the  escheat  of  William  Dunbar  of 
Hempriggis,  now  at  the  horn  at  the  instance  of  Archibald  Ros,  servitor  to  the  said  Alexander 
Seton,  for  a  debt  of  ,£20.     At  Edinburgh,  2nd  July  1592. — Vol.  lxix.  fol.  49. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  son  natural  of  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  comptrollar, 
of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Gray,  brother-german  to  Andro  Gray  of  Lour,  who  was  at  the 
horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  the  brother  and  remanent  kin  and  friends  of 

umquhile Maxwell,  brother-german  to  David  Maxwell  of  Teiling,  for  non-compearance 

before  the  Justice  to  underlie  the  law,  for  art  and  part  '  of  the  crewell  slawchter  of  the  said 

umquhile Maxwell ' :  And  also  being  convicted  by  an  assize  '  and  justifeit  to  the  deid 

ffor  the  crewell  slawchter  of  umquhile  James  M'llmun,  servand  to  Dame  Kennedie,  Lady 
Orknay,  committit  upoun  the  twentie  day  of  June  last  by  past  in  the  Cannogait  besyde 
Edinburgh.'     At  Edinburgh,  17th  July  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  55. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  brother  of  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  of  the 
escheat  of  Sir  James  Sandielands  of  Slammanan,  knight,  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters 
directed  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  John  Graham  of  Halzairds,  against  him  for  not  finding  caution, 
to  keep  the  said  Mr.  John,  his  tenants  and  servants,  harmless  and  skaithless  of  him,  etc. 
At  Holyroodhouse,  2nd  July  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  90. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  foreman  of  the  Court  kitchen,  of  the  escheat  of  Walter 
Strathauchin,  in  the  Waterhauch,  within  the  barony  of  Egill,  now  at  the  horn  for  his  treasonable 
abiding  at  home  from  the  army  and  raid  appointed  to  convene  at  the  burgh  of  Perth  on  the 
19th  April  last  bypast.     At  Dalkeith,  17th  September  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  131. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Captain  Patrick  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  David  Barclay  of  Strowie,  now 
at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  against  him  at  the  instance  of  Adam  Young,  father,  and 
the  other  kin  and  freinds  of  umquhile  William  and  Henry  Young  ;  for  non-compearance  before 
the  justice  to  underlie  the  law  for  art  and  part  in  the  cruel  slaughter  of  the  said  William  and 
Henry  Youngs,  alleged  committed  in  the  month  of  September  1591.  At  Edinburgh,  15th 
October  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  138. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  comptrollar,  of  the  escheat  of  Thomas 
Wentoun  of  Stramertene,  now  at  the  horn  for  art  and  part  of  the  slaughter  of  umquhile  David 
Guthrie  in .     At  Edinburgh,  8th  October  1592.     Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  138. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  charter  made  by  Alexander  Seytoun,  son  and  heir  apparent 
to  William  Seytoun  of  Meldrum,  to  the  late  John  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif,  and  his  heirs-male ; 


PRIVY   SEAL  885 

whom  failing,  to  the  said  Alexander,  and  his  heirs-male,  lords  of  Meldrum ;  whom  also  failing, 
to  the  heritable  lord  of  Meldrum,  whomsoever :  of  the  lands  of  Auchinhuif,  lying  in  the 
barony  of  Tarras,  shire  of  Aberdeen,  and  regality  of  Aberbrothock  :  Holding  of  the  said 
Alexander  and  his  heirs  and  successors,  in  fee  and  heritage  for  ever.  At  Dalkeith,  21st 
August  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  146. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  son  lawful  of  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroith,  comptrollar, 
of  the  escheat  of  the  said  David,  now  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance 
of  Margaret  Home,  daughter  natural  of  umquhile  Mr.  Andro  Home,  pensioner  of  Lauder, 
and  James  Home  her  spouse,  for  not  freeing  her  and  her  said  husband  of  the  yearly  maill 
of  200  merks,  for  the  maills  of  the  teind-sheaves  of  the  town  and  lands  pertaining  to  the 
personage  pensionary  of  Lauder,  at  the  hands  of  the  Commendator  and  Convent  of  Dryburgh, 
etc.     At  Edinburgh,  20th  November  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  162. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Aittoun  of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun,  portioner  of  Auchter- 
muchty,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  Henry  Robertson,  his  son-in-law,  portioner  of 
Auchtermuchty,  for  not  fulfilling  of  his  part  of  a  contract  between  them.  At  Holyroodhouse, 
30th  November  1592. — Vol.  lxiv.  fol.  180. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Auchinleck,  servitor  to  Sir  Robert  Melville  of  Murdocairny, 
knight,  of  the  escheat  of  William  Seytoun  of  Easter  Disblair,  and  others,  now  at  the  horn 
by  virtue  of  letters  raised  against  them  at  the  instance  of  the  said  Robert  Auchinleck,  for  their 
not  removing  furth  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Logyruiff,  lying  within  the  sheriffdom  of  Aber- 
deen :  'except  ane  pleugh  of  land  of  the  same,  quhairfra  absolvitour  is  given.'  At  Aberdeen, 
4th  March  1592. — Vol.  lxv.  fol.  45. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Ludovick,  Duke  of  Lennox,  Great  Chamberlain,  etc.,  of  the  escheat  of 
David  Seytoun,  elder  in  Tranent,  now  at  the  horn  for  the  slaughter  of  umquhile  John  Cok- 
burne  in  Wodheid,  committed  by  him  23rd  May  1593.  At  Holyroodhouse,  29th  June  1593. 
— Vol.  lxv.  fol.  171. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Bog,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  of  the  escheat  of  David  Seytoun,  elder 
in  Tranent,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  the  said  Robert  Bog, 
for  a  debt  of  ^50.     At  Holyroodhouse,  14th  July  1593. — Vol.  lxv.  fol.  197. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun,  servitor  to  Sir  Robert  Melvill  of  Bruntyland,  knight,  of 
the  escheat  of  John  Dobie,  elder,  in  Cramond,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  directed 
at  the  instance  of  William  Adamson  of  Craigcruik,  for  not  finding  of  sufficient  caution  for 
him  that  the  said  William  and  his  tenants  shall  be  skaithless  of  him  in  their  bodies,  lands,  etc., 
specially  in  their  possession  of  the  lands  of  Cramond  regis,  lying  in  the  lordship  of  Cramond 
and  shire  of  Edinburgh.     At  Edinburgh,  7th  December  1593.- — Vol.  lxvi.  fol.  16. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun,  servitor  foresaid,  of  the  escheat  of  William  Grant,  malt- 
man,  burgess  of  Perth,  and  John  Anderson,  younger,  son  to  umquhile  John  Anderson,  malt- 
man,  burgess  there,  now  at  the  horn  for  not  finding  caution  to  underlie  the  law  for  the  slaughter 

of  umquhile Melvill,  son  of  John  Melvill,  burgess  of  Perth.     At  Holyroodhouse,  9th 

August  1593. — Vol.  lxvi.  fol.  16. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Setoun,  second  lawful  son  of  John  Seytoun  of  Pittedie,  of  the 
escheat  of  the  latter,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  James 

Elphingstoun,  brother  of  ,  Lord  Elphingstoun,  for  a  debt  of  100  merks.     At  Stirling, 

23rd  February  1593. — Vol.  lxvi.  fol.  70. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Robertson,  maltman  in  Bruntisland,  servitor  to  Sir  Robert  Melvill 
of  Murdocairney,  knight,  of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun  in  Auchtermuchty,  and  Alexander 
Seytoun  his  son,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  of  lawburrows  purchased  at  the  instance 
of  Bessie  Stirk,  spouse  to  the  said  John  Seytoun.  At  Stirling,  14th  May  1594. — Vol.  lxvi. 
fol.  127. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Seytoun  of  Carraldstoun  of  the  escheat  of  William  Coilzear, 
sometime  in  Kilmux,  and  David  Coilzear  in  Tretoun  his  son,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of 
letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  the  said  George  Seytoun,  for  not  relieving  him  of  certain 
cautionries.     At  Holyroodhouse,  28th  February  1595. — Vol.  lxviii.  fol.  122. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  foirman  in  his  Majesty's  Court  kitchen,  of  the  escheat 
of  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Strameglo,  now  at  the  horn  for  not  payment  to  Captain  Patrick 
Seytoun  of  Stramiglo  glebland,  of  certain  fermes  and  duties  thereof.  At  Holyroodhouse,  17  th 
January  1596-7. — Vol.  lxix.  fol.  28. 


886  REGISTER  OF 

Precept  for  Remission  to  William  Setoun  of  Muny,  for  art  and  part  of  the  murder  of  the 
late  Alexander  King,  advocate,  in  the  month  of  November  1595.  At  Holyroodhouse,  27th 
January  1596-7. — Vol.  lxix.  fol.  37. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Setoun,  brother  of  umquhile  Alexander  Setoun  of  Mel- 
drum,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Forbes  of  Fenzeis,  and  Cristiane  Fraser  his  spouse,  and 
also  of  William  Setoun  of  Muny,  now  in  the  King's  hands,  through  the  said  Alexander  and 
Cristiane  being  put  to  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Gilbert  Gray  in 
Tulloch,  for  not  relieving  him  of  the  sum  of  ,£3  for  each  boll  of  300  bolls  oatmeall,  contained 
in  an  obligation  made  by  umquhile  Alexander  Setoun,  younger  of  Meldrum,  as  principal,  and 
the  said  Gilbert  as  cautioner  for  him,  to  George  Setoun  of  Auchinhowe,  at  the  hands  of  the 
said  George :  Also  through  the  said  William  Setoun  of  Muny  being  put  to  the  horn  for  not 
finding  caution,  or  for  non-compearance  before  the  Justice,  to  have  underlain  the  law  for  the 
slaughter  of  umquhile  Alexander  King,  advocate.  At  Holyroodhouse,  4th  February  1596-7. 
— Vol.  lxix.  fol.  42. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Setoun,  tutor  of  Meldrum,  of  the  escheat  of  George  Mel- 
drum of  Drumbrek,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  purchased  at  the  instance  of  Sir  James 
Creichton  of  Frendraught,  knight,  and  Alexander  Howesoun,  burgess  of  Aberdeen,  for  not 
compearing  before  the  Lords  of  Secret  Counsal  to  have  answered  to  a  complaint  made  by  the 
said  Sir  James  and  Alexander  upon  the  said  George  Meldrum  '  for  allegit  persewing  and 
invading  of  the  said  Alexander  Howesoun  in  his  dwelling  hous  within  the  burgh  of  Abirdene 
for  his  bodilie  harm  and  slauchter.'     At  Edinburgh,  19th  July  1597. — Vol.  lxix.  fol.  134. 

Precept  for  ratification  of  two  charters  of  sale,  the  one  granted  by  Mr.  Richard  Irrowing, 
burgess  of  Aberdeen,  to  the  late  John  Setoun,  for  the  time  of  Lumfurde,  and  Marjorie  Pantoun 
his  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them  in  conjunct  fee,  and  their  heirs  of  the  lands  of  Mownie, 
lying  in  the  regality  of  Daviot  and  shire  of  Aberdeen ;  the  other  granted  by  the  said  Mr. 
Richard  to  the  said  John  Setoun  and  Marjorie  Pantoun,  and  their  heirs,  of  the  town  and  lands 
of  Petblanie,  lying  as  above.     At  Edinburgh,  19th  July  1597. — Vol.  lxix.  fol.  135. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Sir  William  Seytoun  of  Kyiesmure,  knight,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander 
Simsoun,  burgess  of  Haddington,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance 
of  William  Naper,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  against  him  for  a  debt  of  ^258.  At 
Holyroodhouse  23rd  January  1597-8. — Vol.  lxix.  fol.  201. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  David  Seytoun  of  Parbroth  of  the  escheat  of  Patrick,  Lord  Gray,  now 
at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  George  Adamson,  for  debt.  At  Falkland,  30th  July  1598. — 
Vol.  lxx.  fol.  30. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Seytoun  of  the  escheat  of  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Northrig  (as 
cautioner  for  Thomas  Home,  brother-german  to  George  Home  of  Cramecruk),  now  at  the 
horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Marjory  Danielstoun,  lawful  daughter  of 
umquhile  Mr.  Peter  Danielstoun,  person  of  Dunce,  for  a  debt  of  100  merks.  At  Holyrood- 
house, 20th  December  1598. — Vol.  lxx.  fol.  117. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Clapen,  portioner  of  Kilcairny,  of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun  of 
Pittedie,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  Peter  Sibbald,  brother- 
german  of  Andro  Sibbald  of  Rankelour,  against  him  for  a  debt  of  500  merks.  At  Holyrood- 
house, 2nd  July  1598. — Vol.  lxx.  fol.  119. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  foirman  in  his  Majesty's  Court  kitchen,  of  the  escheat  of 
John  Wallace  in  the  Elay,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  James 
Somerville  in  Edinburgh,  for  not  payment  to  him  (as  assignee  constitute  by  Christopher 
Mortimer,  Englishman)  of  ^193.     At  Falkland,  26th  June  1599. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  5. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Cleghorne,  servitor  to  David  Moysie,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander 
Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  now  at  the  horn  for  not  payment  to  Captain  Patrick  Seytoun  of 
Stramiglo  of  glebland,  of  certain  profflts  and  duties  thereof.  At  Holyroodhouse,  26th 
November  1599. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  82. 

Precept  for  Charter  of  Feuferme  to  Robert,  Lord  Seytoun,  of  the  lands  of  St.  Germains, 
with  manor-house,  etc.,  lying  in  the  constabulary  of  Haddington  and  shire  of  Edinburgh, 
which  lands  pertained  heritably  before  to  William  Little,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  and 
Anne  Sharp  his  spouse,  and  were  resigned  in  the  King's  hands  as  immediate  lawful  superior, 
in  favour  of  the  said  Robert  and  his  heirs,  and  for  new  infeftment  to  be  granted  by  the  King. 
At  Holyroodhouse,  14th  December  1599. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  96. 


PRIVY   SEAL  887 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  George  Seytoun,  tutor  of  Meldrum,  of  the  escheat  of  umquhile 
William  King,  portioner  of  Barrache,  and  Mr.  Gilbert  Annand,  son  of  umquhile  Mr.  William 
Annand  of  Gellyhill,  now  at  the  horn  for  not  payment  of  the  taxation  of  ^100,000  granted 
for  the  decoration  of  his  Majesty's  marriage ;  and  the  said  Mr.  Gilbert  for  non-compearance 
before  the  Justice  to  underlie  the  law  for  the  murder  of  umquhile  Alexander  Seytoun,  fiar 
of  Meldrum.     At  Holyroodhouse,  20th  February  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  152. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  gift  and  disposition  granted  by  William  Seytoun 
of  Easter  Disblair  to  William  Seytoun,  his  eldest  lawful  son,  his  heirs  and  assignees,  of  the 
lands  of  Easter  Disblair,  mill  of  Kevill,  lying  in  the  regality  of  Lindores  and  sheriffdom  of 
Aberdeen :  Holding  of  the  King  and  his  successors  in  fee  and  heritage — rendering  therefor 
yearly  the  sum  of  £16,  ns.     At  Holyroodhouse,  6th  March  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  160. 

Letter  constituting  James  Seytoun  only  coal  furnisher  to  their  Majesties'  houses,  which 
office  pertained  formerly  to  John  Seytoun  his  father,  and  was  demitted  by  him,  with  ^50 
yearly  for  '  exerting'  the  said  office.    At  Holyroodhouse,  10th  March  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  166. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  and  disposition  granted  by  John  Chalmer  of 
Balbethane  to  George  Chalmer,  his  eldest  son,  and  Margaret  Seytoun  his  spouse,  and  the 
survivor  of  them  in  conjunct  fee,  and  the  heirs-male  lawfully  procreate  or  to  be  procreated 
between  them ;  which  failing,  to  the  heirs-male  and  assignees  of  the  said  George  whatsoever, 
of  the  lands  of  the  Mains  of  Balbethane,  with  manor-place,  etc.,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Kinkell 
and  shire  of  Aberdeen,  etc.     At  Holyroodhouse,  15th  February  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  177. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Thomas  Elphingstoun  of  the  escheat  of  David  Setoun,  elder  in 
Tranent,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  Robert  Thomson,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
for  a  debt  of  ^97.     At  Holyroodhouse,  25th  June  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  237. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  charter  of  sale  granted  by  George  Auchinleck  of  Balmanno 
to  George  Seytoun  of  Auchinhuif,  and  Janet  Cheyne  his  spouse,  and  the  survivor  of  them  in 
conjunct  fee,  and  the  heirs-male  lawfully  procreate  or  to  be  procreated  between  them ;  which 
failing,  to  the  nearest  and  lawful  heirs-male  of  the  said  George  Seytoun  whatsoever,  of  two 
parts  of  the  lands  of  Schethin  and  Little  Meldrum,  lying  in  the  shire  of  Aberdeen.  At 
Holyroodhouse,  19th  June  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  239. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Richard  Prestoun  of  the  escheat  of  Thomas  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  now 
at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  Alexander  Seytoun  and  John  Gibson,  for  debt.  At  Holyrood- 
house, 19th  November  i6oo.-^-Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  297. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  coalman  to  the  King,  of  the  escheat  of  David  and  John 
Horn,  baxters  in  Kincardine  beside  Culross,  now  at  the  horn  for  the  slaughter  of  umquhile 
John  Drew,  committed  by  them  in  the  month  of  August  1600.  At  Holyroodhouse,  17th 
November  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  310. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  James  Ker,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  of  the  escheat  of  Janet 
Setoun,  Lady  Berfut,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  Patrick  Hepburn  of  Stevinstoun,  for 
a  debt  of  760  merks.     At  Holyroodhouse,  24th  November  1600. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  313. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  chamberlain  of  Fyvie,  of  the  escheat  of  umquhile  David 
Gordon  of  Knaven,  now  at  the  horn  by  virtue  of  letters  raised  at  the  instance  of  George,  Earl 
Marshall,  and  William  Jak  his  chamberlain,  for  not  payment  to  them  of  his  teind-sheaves 
of  his  lands  of  Knaven  and  Nethermuir,  in  shire  of  Aberdeen,  of  the  years  1597  and  1598. 
At  Holyroodhouse,  14th  January  1601. — Vol.  lxxi.  fol.  342. 

Precept  for  charter  of  apprising  to  Gilbert  Seytoun,  helper  in  the  royal  kitchen,  of  the 
lands  of  Easter  Pitloure,  lying  in  the  town  of  Stramiglo,  and  of  lands  of  Stedmureland,  in  the 
barony  of  Pitgormo,  pertaining  to  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  as  principal,  and  of  lands 
of  Easter  and  Wester  Pittedies,  pertaining  heritably  to  John  Seytoun  of  Pittedie,  as  cautioner, 
all  lying  in  the  shire  of  Fife,  and  apprised  to  the  said  Gilbert  for  the  sum  of  671  merks  6s.  Sd. 
At  Edinburgh,  4th  April  1601. — Vol.  lxxii.  fol.  40. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Alexander  Cunyngham,  servitor  to  George  Seytoun  of  Parbroth,  younger, 
of  the  escheat  of  John  Seytoun  of  Pittedie,  now  at  the  horn,  by  virtue  of  letters  direct  at  the 
instance  of  Mrs.  Jean  Sinclair,  lawful  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Sinclair,  and  George  Seytoun, 
fiar  of  Parbroth,  her  spouse,  for  a  debt  of  1200  merks.  At  Edinburgh,  26th  June  1601. — 
Vol.  lxxii.  fol.  90. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Achesoun,  son  of  Alexander  Achesoun  of  Gosfurd,  of  the  escheat 
of  David  Setoun  of  Weddirslie,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  Gustavus  Rollok,  and 


888  TESTAMENTS   IN 

Frances  Vandowne  his  spouse,  for  a  debt  of  ^112.  At  Holyroodhouse,  26th  June  1601. — 
Vol.  lxxii.  fol.  102. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Walter  Seytoun,  servitor  to  Master  George  Seytoun  of  Barroch,  of  the 
escheat  of  Thomas  Fraser,  brother  to  the  laird  of  Mukalls,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance 
of  Mr.  John  Fraser,  brother-german  of  Sir  Alexander  Fraser  of  Fraserburgh,  knight,  for  not 
payment  to  him  of  sixty  crowns  of  the  sun,  or  ^3,  6s.  8d.,  for  the  price  of  each  piece  of  the 
same.     At  Falkland,  28th  July  1602. — Vol.  lxxiii.  fol.  56. 

Letter  granting  to  Sir  William  Seytoun  of  Killismure,  knight,  licence  to  transport  furth 
of  this  realm  forty  lasts  of  tallow  to  the  parts  of  France,  or  any  other  parts  beyond  sea,  that 
he  shall  think  most  expedient  for  his  best  profit :  for  his  trouble,  and  the  great  charges  he 
sustained  in  bringing  of  a  certane  number  of  craftsmen,  clothiers,  for  the  great  benefit  of  his 
native  country  in  the  perfection  of  that  art  of  making  cloth.  At  Holyroodhouse,  15th 
December  1602. — Vol.  lxxiii.  fol.  131. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Andro  Seytoun,  sometime  in  Fethill,  now  in  St.  Gynthoune,  of  the  escheat 
of  Patrick  Cheyne  of  Essilmonth,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  the  said  Alexander 
(sic)  Seytoun,  for  a  debt  of  300  merks.     At  Edinburgh,  30th  July  1603. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  60. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Master  James  Raith, 'servitor  to  Alexander,  Lord  Fyvie,  President  of  the 
College  of  Justice,  of  the  escheat  of  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Bogin  Jhoun,  now  at  the  horn,  at 
the  instance  of  Mr.  John  Cardno  of  Scothlie,  for  not  finding  caution  of  law  borrows.  At 
Holyroodhouse,  30th  November  1603. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  100. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  John  Seytoun,  son  of  umquhile  John  Seytoun,  elder  of  Pittedie,  of  the 

escheat  of  John  Seytoun  younger,   son  of  umquhile of  Pittedie,  now  at  the  horn,  at 

the  instance  of  Robert  Irwing,  burgess  of  Kinghorne,  for  not  infefting  him  and  his  heirs 
in  the  lands  of  Easter  Pittedie.     At  Edinburgh,  23rd  January  1604. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  116. 

Precept  for  confirmation  of  a  charter  and  disposition  by  James  Seytoun  of  Tullybodie 
to  John  Seytoun,  his  eldest  son  and  apparent  heir,  and  the  heirs  lawfully  procreate  or  to  be 
procreated  between  him  and  Elizabeth  Home  his  spouse ;  which  failing,  to  the  lawful  and 
nearest  heirs  of  the  said  John  whatsoever,  heritably,  of  the  lands  and  barony  of  Tullybodie, 
in  the  shire  of  Clackmanan.     At  Falkland,  24th  July  1602. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  172. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Robert  Pitcairn,  brother  to  Patrick  Pitcairn  of  Pitloure,  of  the  escheat  of 
Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  now  at  the  horn,  at  the  instance  of  Patrick  Pitcairn  of  Pitloure, 
for  not  payment  to  him  of  certain  sums  of  money  :  or  at  the  instance  of  Captain  Patrick 
Seytoun,  for  not  fulfilling  of  a  decreet  mentioned  in  the  said  letters  of  horning :  or  at  the 
instance  of  Gilbert  Seytoun,  in  the  Court  kitchen,  for  not  fulfilling  of  a  contract  with  him. 
At  Perth,  10th  July  1604. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  212. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  George  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  of  the  escheat  of  Patrick  Learmonth  in 
Aberleddie,  and  Adam  Learmonth  his  son,  who  were  convicted  by  an  assise  held  in  the 
Tolbooth  of  Edinburgh,  15th  March  instant,  for  art  and  part  of  the  dismembering  and 
amputation  of  David  Fowler  in  Morhame,  '  of  a  joint  of  his  finger  nixt  the  little  finger  in  his 
left  hand.'     At  Edinburgh,  16th  March  1605. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  268. 

Letter  of  Gift  to  Mr.  Alexander  Seaton,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  of  the  ward  of  the  lands 
and  barony  of  Panmure,  with  manor-place,  etc.,  lying  in  shire  of  Forfar  :  which  formerly  per- 
tained to  umquhile  Patrick  Maull  of  Panmure,  of  all  years  and  terms  that  the  same  has  been 
in  ward  since  the  decease  of  the  said  umquhile  Patrick,  umquhile  Thomas  Maull  of  Panmure, 
or  any  other  their  predecessors,  immediate  tenants  of  the  same,  and  till  the  entry  of  the 
righteous  heir  or  heirs  thereto,  with  the  marriage  of  Patrick  Maull,  now  of  Panmure,  eldest 
son  and  apparent  heir  of  the  said  deceased  Patrick,  or  to  the  said  deceased  Thomas.  At 
Edinburgh,  3rd  June  1605. — Vol.  lxxiv.  fol.  322. 


4.    Testaments  in  the  Commissariot  Registers  of  Edinhirgh 

and  St.  Andrews. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile 
Elizabeth  Seitoun,  the  relict  of  umquhile  William  Spittell  of  Luichquhat,  the  time  of  her 


EDINBURGH   REGISTER 


889 


iijcxiiijlib  xviijs 


iiijd. 


decease,  who  died  on  27th  January  1569-70,  given  up  by  Cristell  (Christopher)  Seitoun,  her 
brother-german,  whom  she  constituted  her  only  executor  testamentar  on  the  13th  November 
1569. 

Amount  of  Inventory  ..... 

Debts  owing  to  the  deceased  .....    jcviijlib  x3. 

Amount  of  Inventory  with  debts  iiijcxxiijllb  viij3  iiijd,  without  division. 
Her  Latter  Will  is  dated  at   the   dwelling  house  of  Luichquhat,   13th   November    1569. 
Andrew  Spittell,  her  son,  is  a  witness. 

Quota  20  merks.  Confirmed  14th  February  1569-70.  The  said  Christopher  Seitoun  is 
cautioner. — Vol.  ii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile 
Walter  Seytoun  of  Tullebody  the  time  of  his  decease,  who  died  in  the  month  of  October  1568, 
given  up  partly  by  himself,  and  partly  by  James  Seytoun,  his  son  and  heir,  whom  he  con- 
stituted his  executor. 


vclxiijlib  vj8  viijd. 
xjclxxxxixllb  vjs  viijd. 
jmviijclxijub  xiijs  iiijd. 
iijcxviijlib  xiiijB 
jmvcxliijUb 


XV11J8 

vcxiiijllb  xijs  xd. 


vinj" 
viijd 


Inventory  ..... 

Debts  owing  to  the  deceased 

Amount  of  Inventory  with  the  debts 

Debts  owing  by  the  deceased 

Amount  of  free  geir,  debts  deduced  (deducted}) 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  dead's  part 
The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Touchfraser,  8th  October  1 5 6S,  whereby  he  constitutes  James 
Seytoun  his  son,  and  Elizabeth  Erskine  his  spouse,  his  executors.    Mr.  James  Seytoun  person 
of  Quhitsum  is  a  witness. 

Quota  ;£xij. 
Confirmed  on  17th  March  1569-70,  the  said  James  his  son  being  cautioner. — Vol.  ii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Margaret 
Seytoun  the  time  of  her  decease,  who  died  in  March  1573,  given  up  by  Katharine  Wemyss, 
executrix-dative  discerned  to  her. 

.     ixcliiijllb  vj3  viijd. 


Sum  of  Inventory   ...... 

Debts  owing  to  her  ..... 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts  .....     j^nfnj11"  vjB  vnju 

Among  the  debts  due  by  her  is  one  to  George  Seitoun  of  10  merks,  and  to  James  and 
Patrick  Seitoun  12  merks. 


iiijcxlixlib. 
Qiijciijlib  vjB 


Sum  of  debts  ....... 

Amount  of  free  gear,  debt  deduced  (deducted!)    ~    . 
To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  her  part  is  .  .  . 

Quota  xijub. 
Confirmed  20th  May  1574.     The  said  Katharine  Weymss  is  cautioner.- 


lxxiiijlib  vj3 
jmijcxxixlib. 
iiijcixub  xiij3 


vuja 


mju 


-Vol. 


The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile 
William  Setoun,  dwelling  in  the  town  of  Setoun,  the  time  of  his  decease,  who  died  in  1573, 
given  up  by  his  own  mouth,  30th  August  1573,  before  witnesses. 


lxxviij 


;iib  ; 


IX"  111JU 

lxxxvijub. 
jclxvub  ixs  iiijd. 

xvijlib  vJjs_ 

jcxlviijub 


ij3  mj 


w 


xlixIib  vij3  vd 


Sum  of  Inventory 

Debts  due  to  him 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts  , 

Debts  due  by  him 

Amount  of  free  gear 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  his  part  is 

Quota  xlix8. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  30th  August  1573,  whereby  he  nominates  Helen  Ballenden  his 
spouse,  and  George  Setoun  his  son,  his  executors,  and  also  constitutes  David  Setoun  in 
Tranent,  his  cousin,  his  superior  and  oversman,  to  see  that  the  said  executors  faithfully  fulfil 
his  latter  will :  and  wills  that  after  his  debts  are  paid  the  free  gear  be  divided  equally  among 
his  three  children  :  his  wife  having  the  use  thereof  during  their  minorities.  Confirmed  29th 
January  1574-75.     The  said  Helen  Ballenden  is  cautioner. — Vol.  iii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  John 

5U 


890 


TESTAMENTS   IN 


vijcxliijllb  xijd. 
lxvjlib  xiij8  iiijd. 
viijcixIlb  xiiij8  iiijd 
lxiijlib  iiijs  iiijd. 
vij°xlvjub  yB 


iijclxxiijlib  v3. 


Seytoun,  laird  of  Wester  Lathreisk,  the  time  of  his  decease,  who  died   in  the  month  of 
November  1564,  given  up  by  Alexander  and  George  Seytoun,  executors  decerned  to  him. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory 

Debts  owing  to  him 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Debts  owing  by  him 

Amount  of  free  gear 

To  be  divided  in  three  parts,  his  part  is 

Quota  xx  merks. 
Confirmed  20th  May  1575. — Vol.  hi. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  David 
Seytoun  in  Bruntisland  the  time  of  his  decease,  who  died  in  July  1574,  faithfully  made  and 
given  up  by  Master  James  Seytoun,  his  brother,  executor-dative  decerned  to  him  by  the 
Commissary's  decreet  of  date  27th  October  1574. 

Among  the  goods  mentioned  there  were,  pasturing,  in  the  hands  of  John  Seytoun  in 
Lawsounstoun,  15  ewes,  1  wedder,  1  ram,  and  8  hogs. 

Price  of  the  piece  overhead         .  jj  xnj° 

Sum         ........     xxv  merks. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory 

Among  the  debts  due  to  him  is  one  by  Jonet  Setoun,  Lady  Rankeillour,  elder,  viij  merks. 

Sum  of  debts 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Debts  owing  by  him 

Amount  of  free  gear 

No  division. 

Quota  x  merks. 
Confirmed  29th  November  1575. 
Vol.  iii. 


iiijd 


iiijcxxvlib  vjd. 
iiijlib. 
iiij°xxjlib  vjd. 


The  said  Mr.  James  Seytoun,  executor,  is  cautioner.- 


The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Jonet  Seytoun, 
sometime  spouse  to  Walter  Allerdyce,  portioner  of  Kincragy,  the  time  of  her  decease,  who 
died  in  the  month  of  April  1575,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  the  said  Walter  Allerdyce 
her  spouse,  in  name  and  behalf  of  William,  John,  Issobell,  Jonet,  Margaret,  and  Bessie 
Allerdyce,  their  lawful  children  and  executors  decerned  to  their  said  mother. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory 

Debts  owing  to  her         ..... 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .... 

Among  the  debts  due  by  her  is  one  to  Alexander  Seytoun  her  brother  of  xlviij3,  and  to 
Elspeth  Allerdyce,  spouse  to  John  Gardner  in  Falkland,  of  tocher  good  100  merks. 

Sum  of  debts       .  .  .  .  .  .     iijcxllib  viij3. 


mjcxijlib  xviij8  viijd. 
vlib_ 

iiijcxvijlib  xviij8  viijd 


Free  gear 
Confirmed  22nd  May  1576. 


.     lxxvijlib  xs  vnju 
The  said  children  are  cautioners. — Vol.  iv. 


The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Alex- 
ander Seytoun  of  Northrig  the  time  of  his  decease,  who  died  in  the  month  of  January  1567-8, 
faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  himself  at  his  dwelling  place  of  Northrig  1st  August  1567, 
before  witnesses,  viz.,  John  Seytoun,  bailie  in  Tranent,  and  others,  and  thereafter  in  the 
month  of  January  same  year  before  the  said  bailie  and  other  witnesses. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vjcxxxiijlib  xr 

Debts  owing  to  him        ..... 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .... 

Among  the  debts  due  by  the  deceased  is  one  to  Henry  Setoun,  Provost  of  Dirleton,  of 
lxllb  which  the  testator  took  up  of  his  benefice. 

Sum  of  debts       .......     iiijcxxjlib  iiij8  viijd. 

Amount  of  free  gear        ......     iijcllib  xviij3  viijd. 

In '  his  Legacy  he  leaves  '  his  body  to  be  bureit  within  the  College  Kirk  of  Seytoun 
amang  the  sepulturis  of  his  auld  fatheris ' ;  also  he  constitutes  George  Seytoun,  his  son,  his 
assignee  to  the   sum  of  ^100  owing  by  Archibald   Preston,   goodman   of  Valleyfield,  in 


jcxxxviijllb  viij"  iiijd. 
vijclxxijllb  iij8  iiijd. 


EDINBURGH   REGISTER  891 

complete  payment  of  his  daughter's  tocher  good :  also  he  leaves  his  whole  goods  and  gear  to 
Jonet  Sinclair  his  spouse,  during  her  lifetime,  to  have  the  use  and  profit  of  the  same,  to  the 
upbringing  of  the  children  :  constituting  the  said  Jonet  Sinclair  and  David  Sinclair  of  Blans 
his  executors,  to  act  with  the  advice  of  George,  Lord  Seytoun,  his  chief  lord  and  oversman  : 
and  in  case  the  said  Jonet,  for  fear  of  curatory  and  intromission  with  his  goods,  shall  intromitt 
with  her  own  part,  he  constitutes  Henry,  John,  and  George  Seytoun,  his  sons,  executors, 
and  ordains  them  to  use  the  Council  of  their  said  mother.  Registered  22nd  May  1576. — 
Vol.  iv. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory,  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Jonet 
Sinclair,  relict  of  umquhile  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  the  time  of  her  decease,  which  was 
in  the  month  of  August  1574,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  hers  atelf,  the  Northrig,  20th 
August  1574,  before  witnesses. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vij°jub  iiijs  viijd. 

Debts  owing  to  her  ......     lxxiijub  iiij3. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .....     vijclxxiiijlib  viij8  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  the  deceased  are — To  George  Seytoun  ^113,  6s.  8d.  To  John 
Seytoun  80  merks.  To  Captain  Symon  Cokburne,  conforme  to  an  Instrument  granted  by 
him  in  favour  of  George  Seytoun  her  son,  ^100;  To  Henry,  John,  and  George  Seytoun, 
three  of  the  five  executors  of  the  late  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  for  their  part  of  gear 
which  fell  to  them  by  reason  of  executry  ^63,  10s.  4d. :  Also  to  them  for  their  portion 
natural  ^1 1 7,  us.  6d. 

Amount  of  debts  due  by  her       .....     vjcxlviijlib  xvij3  vijd. 

Amount  of  free  gear        ......     jcxxvlib  xjs  id. 

Her  Latter  Will  is  dated  20th  August  1574,  whereby  she  left  to  George  Seytoun  her  son 
^40,  and  constitute  Henry  Seytoun,  her  son,  her  only  executor  testamentar.  Registered 
22nd  May  1576. — Vol.  iv. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Isobell 
Seytoun,  relict  of  umquhile  Walter  Peirsoun  in  Quhytfeild  beside  Dundee,  the  time  of  her 
decease,  which  was  in  the  month  of  November  1579,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  herself. 
At  Quhytfeild,  21st  November  1579,  before  witnesses. 

Amount  of  Inventory      ......     vcxlUb. 

Among  debts  due  by  her  are — To  Thomas  Peirson  her  son,  resting  of  his  legacy  left 
him  by  his  father  130  merks  :  Also  to  Alexander  Peirson  her  son  of  similar  legacy  xxlib.  To 
James  Peirson  her  son  of  similar  legacy  xxUb. — Vol.  viii. 

Her  Legacy  and  Latter  Will  is  dated  21st  November  1579,  whereby  she  desired  her 
body  to  be  buried  in  the  Kirk  of  Mains.  She  leaves  to  Margaret  Davidsoun,  her  daughter, 
xxxlib,  and  certain  clothing  to  be  distributed  between  her  and  Margaret  Peirson,  spouse  to 
David  Aberdene,  her  other  daughter:  Also  to  Thomas  Peirson,  her  son,  310  merks,  of  which 
there  is  130  merks  contained  in  his  father's  Testament:  Also  to  said  Margaret  Davidson  xx 
merks  :  To  James  Peirson  140  merks  :  To  Alexander  Peirson  140  merks  :  To  David  Aberdene, 
and  Margaret  Peirson  his  spouse,  140  merks:  To  David  Aberdene's  daughter  certain  clothing. 
She  nominates  the  said  James  and  Alexander  Peirson,  her  sons,  to  be  her  executors.  Con- 
firmed 4th  January  1580-1.     The  said  James  Peirson  is  cautioner. — Vol.  viii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventar  of  the  guids  geir  soumes  of  money  and  dettis 
pertaining  to  umquhile  Isobell  Balfoure  Lady  Carrelstoun  sumtyme  spous  to  James  Seytoun 
in  Rameldrie  in  the  parochin  of  Lathrisk  the  tyme  of  hir  deceis  quha  deceist  in  Rameldrie 
upoun  the  xxiij  day  of  Merche  the  zeir  of  God  jmvclxxix  zeris  faithfullie  maid  and  givin  up 
be  hir  self  at  Rameldrie  the  xviij  daye  of  Merche  the  zeir  of  God  foirsaid  befoir  thir  witnessis 
John  Arnot  in  Chapell  Alexr  Williamsoun  in  Kettill  Thomas  Williamsoun  in  Dounfeild  John 
Falkland  and  Alexr  Falkland  in  Rameldrie  with  utheris  divers. 

Summa  of  the  Inventar  .....     viijcxxxvijlib  xiiijs. 

Summa  of  the  Debts  owing  to  the  deid  ....     iijcxxlib  xiijs  iiijd. 

Summa  of  the  Debts  owing  be  the  deid  .  .  .     ixcvijlib  xiijs  iiijd. 

Rests  of  Free  Geir  ......     ijcilib  xiij8. 

Followis  the  deidis  Legacie  and  Latter  Will.  At  Rameldrie  the  xviij  day  of  Merche  the 
zeir  of  God  jmvclxxix  zeris.      The  quhilk  day  the  said  Isobell  Balfour  Lady  Carrelstoun 


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spous  to  James  Seytoun  in  Rameldrie  maid  hir  Latter  Will  and  Legacie  as  followis  viz* 
Item  the  said  Issobel  Balfour  Lady  Carrelstoun  being  haill  in  mynd  aud  seik  in 
body  eftir  ressoning  and  conferring  how  and  be  quhat  force  the  dettis  auchtand  to  hir 
suld  be  recoverit  and  inbrocht  and  siclyk  how  the  dettis  auchtand  be  hir  suld  be  payit 
and  how  the  guids  perteining  to  her  suld  be  disponit  Scho  for  certaine  ressonabill  caussis 
moving  hir  and  for  the  weill  of  hir  bairnes  and  upbringing  thairof  traistand  and  hoipand 
in  her  spous  James  Seytoun  and  that  he  wuld  dispone  all  thingis  according  to  her  will 
and  wele  of  hir  bairnes  hes  nominat  and  constitut  the  said  James  Seytoun  hir  spous  hir 
onelie  Executour,  haill  intromettour  with  the  guidis  and  geir  perteining  to  hir  and  left  to 
him  the  haill  gudis  geir  and  dettis  that  pertenit  to  hir  or  may  apperteine  to  hir  with  power  to 
him  to  intromett  with  the  same  in  maist  ample  forme  and  constitution  for  the  wele  of  hir 
bairnes.  This  wes  done  befoir  thir  witnessis  John  Arnot  in  Chapell,  Alexander  Wmsoun  in 
Kettill,  Thomas  Williamsoun  in  Dounfeild,  John  Falkland  and  Alexander  Falkland  in 
Rameldrie,  with  utheris  diveris.  Sic  Subscribitur  Alexr  Mure  Minister  of  Kylgour  and  Lathrisk 
with  my  hand.     Confirmed  the  22nd  October  15S0.     No  cautioner  named. — Vol.  viii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Johne 
Seytoun,  sometime  bailie  of  Tranent,  the  time  of  his  decease,  which  was  on  the  9th  March 
1573-4,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  himself,  at  Tranent,  5th  March  1573. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     iijcxlvijIib  vj3  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  him  are — To  Marioun  Seytoun,  his  daughter,  xxvjlib,  and  to 
John  Seytoun,  his  son,  ^112. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Tranent,  5th  March  1573,  whereby  he  constitutes  Elizabeth 
Achesoune,  his  wife,  his  executrix,  and  ordains  her  to  discharge  so  much  of  the  debt  as  the 
Inventory  extends  to,  the  rest  to  be  paid  by  his  heirs.  He  leaves  all  his  rooms  and  possessions 
to  his  said  wife,  during  her  lifetime.  He  leaves  to  his  bairns,  viz.  :  Agnes,  Helen,  Janet, 
Katharine,  James,  and  Thomas  Seytoun,  the  sum  of  ^1000,  in  bairn's  part  of  gear,  to  be 
paid  to  them  by  his  heirs,  to  be  modified  to  them  at  the  discretion  of  Archibald  Stewart  in 
Edinburgh,  Alexander  Acheson  of  Gosfurd,  and  Alexander  Cubie  in  Prestoun,  to  whom  he 
constitutes  his  Master,  Lord  Seytoun,  oversman,  in  case  of  their  not  agreeing ;  also  he  leaves 
to  his  son,  John  Seytoun,  £,112  owing  by  him,  together  with  ^100  in  bairn's  part  of  gear, 
and  in  security  of  these  sums  he  ordains  him  to  'bruik  and  joise'  that  2  oxingait  of  land 
which  he  presently  occupies  till  the  said  heirs  should  pay  the  said  sums ;  also  he  leaves  to  his 
son,  David  Seytoun,  £100,  bairn's  part  of  gear,  on  a  like  security.  Confirmed  6th  May  1585. 
The  said  Elizabeth  Achesoun  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xiv. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Mar- 
garet Scott,  sometime  spouse  to  John  Seytoun,  mariner,  in  north  side  of  the  Brig  of  Leith, 
the  time  of  her  decease,  which  was  in  the  month  of  September  1587,  faithfully  made  and 
given  up  by  herself  at  the  north  side  of  the  Brig  of  Leith,  10th  September,  year  foresaid. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     ij°xxxiijhb  vjs  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  owing  by  her  are — To  John  Seytoun,  litster,  burgess  of  the  Cannongate, 
iijlib  xxijd,  and  to  John  Seytoun,  her  son,  which  was  left  to  him  by  umquhile  Margaret  Mathie, 
his  good  dame,  and  intromitted  with  by  his  said  umquhile  father  and  mother,  the  sum  of 
;£jcxxviij.  She  constitutes  the  said  John  Seytoun,  her  husband,  skipper  in  Leith,  her  only 
executor.  Confirmed  26th  September  1589,  the  said  John  Seytoun,  skipper,  being  cautioner. — 
Vol.  xx. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile 
George  Seytoun  in  Ramelrie  in  Fife,  the  time  of  his  death,  which  was  in  the  month  of  February 
1587,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  himself  on  12th  January  preceding. 

Sum  of  Inventory  .......     vj°lxjub. 

Among  the  debts  owing  by  him  are — To  the  Laird  of  Carlestoun,  for  ferme  mail  lxxxxixhb. 
The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Ramelrie,  12th  January  1587,  whereby  he  constitutes  Andro 
Seytoun,  his  eldest  son,  his  executor :  and  leaves  his  whole  gear  to  be  equally  divided 
among  Andro,  John,  and  Margaret  Seytoun,  his  sons  and  daughter,  amounting  to  each  of 
them  to  jcvub  xiij8  iiija.  Confirmed  8th  December  1589.  The  said  Andro  Seytoun  is 
cautioner. — Vol.  xxi. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Christopher 


EDINBURGH    REGISTER  893 

Seytoun  in  Stramiglo  in  Fife,  the  time  of  his  death,  which  was  in  February  1586-7,  was  faith- 
fully made  and  given  up  by  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  his  son,  in  name  and  behalf  of 
Janet  Seytoun,  daughter  to  the  said  Alexander  and  'oy'  to  the  testator  and  executrix-dative 
surrogate  to  him,  on  9th  December  1590. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     lxvjlib  xiijs  iiijd. 

Confirmed  14th  December  1590. — Vol.  xxii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Eliza- 
beth Erskene,  relict  of  Walter  Seytoun,  laird  of  Touche,  within  the  parish  of  St.  Ninians, 
and  sheriffdom  of  Stirling,  the  time  of  her  death,  which  was  on  5th  June  1598,  faithfully  made 
and  given  up  by  Robert  Seytoun,  her  son  lawful,  whom  she  nominated  her  executor. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory      ......     vij°xlvijlib  vj8  viijd. 

Debts  owing  to  her  ......     viijclxxxxijIlb  xija  8d. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .....     jmvjcxllib  iij8  4d. 

Among  the  debts  owing  by  her  is  one  to  Elizabeth  Seytoun,  for  her  year's  fee  iijlib  vj3  viijd. 

Amount  of  free  gear         ......     jmvclxxxviijlib. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Craignewen,  26th  February  1597,  whereby  she  nominates  her 
foresaid  executor,  and  leaves  to  Elizabeth  Reddoche  her  '  oye,'  xlllb  :  To  Elizabeth  Lennox,  her 
'  oy,'  xllib  :  To  Jelis  Seytoun,  her  '  oy,'  2  young  kye  :  Item,  to  William  Lennox,  her  '  oy,'  llib  : 
To  James  Seytoun,  her  '  oye,'  llib :  To  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  son  to  the  Laird  of  Touch, 
100  merks :  To  Jean  Seytoun,  the  Laird's  daughter,  4  young  kye  :  To  Marie  Lennox  and 
John  her  brother,  equally  between  them,  jc  merks  :  To  Katharine  Reddoche,  and  Elspeth 
Seytoun,  Christopher's  daughter,  her  servants,  each  of  them  100  merks  :  To  David  Muschett, 
her  'oy,'  xllib :  To  Patrick  Muschett,  xllib :  To  John  and  Robert  Muschett,  between  them, 
100  merks:  To  Elspeth  Douglas,  her  'oy,'  lub :  To  James  Reddoche,  her  son-in-law,  100 
merks :  To  Elspeth  Seytoun,  her  daughter,  4  bolls  meall :  and  the  rest  of  her  goods  to  her 
said  executor  :  and  constitutes  James  Seytoun  of  Tullibodie,  her  son,  oversman,  to  see  her 
Will  executed.  Alexander  Seytoun  of  Gargunnock,  Archibald  Seytoun  (not  designed),  are 
witnesses.  Confirmed  25th  October  1598.  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  son  to  the  Laird  of  Touche, 
is  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Cristell 
Seytoun,  brother-german  to  James  Seytoun  of  Tullybody,  who  died  in  1596,  faithfully  made 
and  given  up  by  himself,  on  the  28th  July  same  year,  as  far  as  concerns  the  nomination  of 
executors,  legacies,  etc.,  and  partly  by  Rebecka  Cornuell,  his  relict  spouse,  and  Robert 
Seytoun,  his  brother-german,  in  so  far  as  concerns  the  Inventory. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory     ......     vcxiijllb  vj3  viijd. 

Debts  owing  to  him        ......     vjcviijlib  xiij3  iiijrt. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts      .....     jmjcxxijlib. 

Summa  of  debts  due  by  him       .....     xlvjbb. 

Amount  of  free  geir        ......     jmlxxvjlib. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Stirling,  28th  July  1596,  whereby  he  constitutes  his  said  spouse, 
and  Robert  Seytoun,  his  brother,  his  executors,  and  his  said  spouse  to  be  only  intromitter 
during  her  widowhood  :  and  in  case  she  marry  again,  leaves  the  guiding  of  his  room  in 
Boquhame  to  his  said  brother  '  for  the  weill  of  his  bairnes ' ;  also  he  leaves  to  Archibald 
Seytoun,  his  eldest  son,  1000  merks,  being  upon  Lord  Livingstone's  land,  together  with  his 
lodging  in  Stirling.  To  Walter  Seytoun,  his  other  son,  he  leaves  600  merks,  being  upon 
John  Bruce  of  Auchinbowie's  lands ;  also  more  to  him,  other  600  merks,  being  on  the  Abbot 
of  Cambuskenneth's  lands ;  also  400  merks  and  200  merks  to  Margaret  Seytoun,  his 
daughter;  also  to  her  323  merks  due  to  him  for  wine  ;  also  100  merks  to  Elspeth,  his  other 
daughter.  He  ordaines  the  plenishing  of  Boquhame  to  remain  in  the  room  for  the  behoof 
of  his  said  eldest  son.  Leaves  to  Gellis  Seytoun,  his  other  daughter,  ioolib,  whereof  she  has 
received  xxvjlib ;  also  200  merks  to  Elspeth,  his  daughter.  To  John  Seytoun,  his  bastard 
son,  xlub  to  put  him  to  a  craft.  He  leaves  his  third  part,  amounting  to  358lib  133  4d,  to  his 
wife,  during  her  widowhood  :  and  to  her  children  after  her  marriage,  to  be  governed  by  his 
said  brother.  Confirmed  25th  October  1598.  Mr.  Alexander  Seytoun,  son  lawful  to  James 
Seytoun  of  Tullibody,  George  Cornwall,  son  lawful  to  Nicol  Cornwall  of  Ballinhard,  and  the 
said  Robert  Seytoun,  executor,  are  cautioners. — Vol.  xxxii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  Margaret 


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Ross,  sometime  spouse  to  John  Seytoun  of  Lathrisk,  within  the  parish  of  the  same  and  shire 
of  Fife,  who  died  on  8th  March  1597-8,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  the  said  John 
Seytoun,  her  spouse,  as  father  and  lawful  administrator  to  William,  Henry,  Elspeth,  Margaret, 
Issobell,  and  Christian  Seytoun,  their  lawful  bairns,  and  executors-dative  decerned  to  their 
said  mother,  by  decreet  of  the  Commissary  of  Edinburgh.    At  Edinburgh,  19th  January  1598. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory    ......     jmviijclxiiijlib  xiijs  iiijd. 

Debts  owing  to  her        ......     iijclib. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     ijmjclxiiijlib  xiij3  4d. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  the  said  Margaret  are  these : — 

To  Mr.  David  Carmichaell,  portioner  of  Baiglie,  for  his  tiends       lxxxxvjub. 

To  Captane  Patrick  Seytoun  of  annual  rent       .  .  .     jcxliiijlib. 

Amount  of  free  gear      ......     jmvjclxxxxviijlib. 

To  be  divided  in  three  parts,  his  part  is  vclxvjlib. 

Confirmed  19th  January  1598.     Mr.  David  Carmichaell  of  Baiglie  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Captain 
Patrick  Seytoun,  brother-german  to  umquhile  John  Seytoun  of  Lathrisk,  who  died  '  in  Elgin 
in  Murray  within  the  duelling  hous  of  the  rycht  nobill  and  potent  lord,  Alexander,  Lord  of 
Fyvie,  president,'  on  the  16th  day  of  September  1600,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  himself 
at  Elgin,  14th  September  1600. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory    ......     jclxxiiijlib  xiij3  iiijd. 

Among  the  debts  owing  to  him  are  these : — By  John  Setoun  of  Lathrisk,  conform  to  a 
contract,  charter,  and  sasine,  with  instrument  of  requisition  following  thereon,  the  sum  of 
jmvjcxxxij  merks ;  by  Alexander  Spens,  brother-german  to  Arthour  Spens  of  Lathalland,  jmlib; 
by  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stramiglo,  and  Andro  Seytoun,  cook  in  his  Majesty's  kitchen,  lij 
bolls  victuall,  price  ijclxlib;  by  Archibald  Henderson,  servitor  to  Lord  Seytoun,:  30  crowns 
of  the  sun,  jchb;  by  John  Seytoun,  third  son  to  the  Laird  of  Parbroath,  20  crowns  of  the 
sun,  lxvjlib  xiijs  iiijd. 

Sum  of  debts  owing  to  him        .....     iijmviijcliiijub. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     iiijmxxviijlib  xiij8  4d. 

The  debt  due  by  him  is  one  to  Mark  Swinton  in  Innerkeithing,  conform  to  a  contract  of 
marriage,  voUb. 

Amount  of  free  gear      ......     iijmvjclxxxxvUb  vj3  viijd. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Elgin  14th  September  1600,  whereby  he  nominates  Arthur 
Spens  of  Lathalland,  and  Alexander  Spens,  his  brother-german,  his  executors,  and  the  said 
Alexander  his  only  intromittor,  to  be  comptable  always  to  his  brother.  '  Item  I  ordane  my 
said  executors  to  delyver  to  John  Seytoun  my  nevoy  and  air  of  lyne  the  soume  of  ixc  merkis 
quhilk  I  ordane  to  be  tane  of  the  first  end  of  the  xvjc  and  xxxij  merks  quhilk  is  awand  to  me 
be  John  Seytoun  of  Lathrisk,  Item  I  leif  to  Issobell  Swintoun  my  guid-dochter,  and  lawfull 
dochter  to  Mark  Swintoun,  iijc  merks,  to  be  tane  out  of  the  rest  of  the  xvjc  and  xxxij  merks 
quhilk  will  extend  to  tham  of  the  said  sowme  to  xijc  merkis  swa  as  to  the  rest  of  the  said 
sowme  of  xvj°  and  xxxij  merks  I  leif  therof  to  David  Barclay  of  Strowie  and  Grissell  Barclay 
his  sister  the  sowme  of  iijc  merks  equally  to  be  divided  betuix  tham,  Item  I  leif  to  David 
Setoun  my  nevoy  in  France  fyve  hundreth  merkis  to  be  tane  out  of  the  thowsand  pundis 
awin  to  me  be  Thomas  Tyrie;  Item  I  leif  to  George  Seytoun  my  nevoy  lykwayes  the 
obligatioun  of  threttie  crounes  awin  to  me  be  Archibald  Hendersoun,  togidder  with  uther 
fyftie  merkis  contenit  in  the  obligatioun  maid  to  me  be  Mr.  James  Wod,  of  xxx  crounes : 
Item  I  leif  the  rest  of  Mr.  James  his  obligatioun  quhilk  extendis  to  xx  crounes  to  Thomas 
Oliphant,  also  my  nevoy  :  Item  I  leif  to  Henry  Oliphant  my  nevoy  the  obligatioun  of  xx 
crounes  maid  to  me  be  Johne  Seytoun  thrid  sone  to  the  Laird  of  Parbroth,  Item  I  leif 
the  xviij  bolls  of  beir  awand  to  me  be  Richard  Archibald  of  Drummaird,  and  Mr.  David 
Archibald  of  Blakhall,  his  brother,  to  be  given  to  Jonet  Seytoun  my  niece,  sister  to  Margaret 
Seytoun,  spous  to  Mark  Swintoun,  Item  I  leif  tua  hundreth  merkis  to  Jonet  Duddingstoun, 
Lady  Lathalland,  to  be  tane  of  the  thousand  pundis  awand  be  Thomas  Tyrie,  togidder  with 
my  braislettis  of  gold,  silver  salt  fatt,  and  twa  silver  spwnes  with  a  coupe.  Item  I  leif  to 
Patrik  Spens  my  godsone  my  hors,  with  ane  hundreth  merkis  of  silver  to  be  tane  out  of 
Thomas  Tyrie's  debt.  Item  I  leif  my  montur  (sic)  to  be  onlie  as  airschip  to  Johne  Seytoun 
my  nevoy  and  air,'  etc.  Alexander,  Lord  of  Fyvie,  president,  is  a  witness.  Confirmed  19th 
November  1600.     The  said  Arthur  Spens  of  Lathalland  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxv. 


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895 


The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  Dame  Geillis 
Seytoun,  Lady  Inchemartyne,  sometime  spouse  to  Patrick  Ogilvy,  Laird  of  Inchemartyne, 
within  the  sheriffdom  of  Perth,  the  time  of  her  death,  on  5th  February  1600,  faithfully  made 
and  given  up  by  the  said  Patrick,  whom  she  constitutes  her  executor  testamentar. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory    ......     iijmixclxxviijlib. 

Debts  owing  to  her 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Debts  owing  by  her 

Amount  of  free  gear 

To  be  divided  in  two  parts,  her  part  is 

Quota  lxub. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Inchemartyne,  26th  September  1598,  whereby  she  leaves  all 
her  goods  and  gear  to  her  said  husband.  Confirmed  13th  June  1601.  Patrick  Kynnaird  of 
that  ilk  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxv. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  Elspeth  Seytoun, 
in  the  town  of  Seytoun,  in  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  the  time  of  her 
death,  in  July  1601,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  John  Ker,  servitor  to  Robert,  Lord 
Seytoun,  universal  legator  nominated  by  her  in  her  Latter  Will. 

0  lib 


vmvij°lxxviijlib. 

jmxxvlib_ 

iiijmvijcliijub. 
ijmiijclxxvjlib  xB. 


J 

jclxxvjllb. 
ijclxxvjlib. 


Sum  of  Inventory 

Debts  owing  to  her 

Sum  of  Inventory  and  debts 

No  Division. 

Quota  gratis. 
The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Edinburgh,  7th  June  1586,  whereby  she  constitutes  the  said 
John  Ker  her  only  cessioner  and  assignee,  and  leaves  all  her  goods  to  him.     Confirmed  7  th 
December  1601.     Francis  Irving,  son  of  John  Irving  of  Kynnok,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxvi. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Geillis 
Seytoun,  sister-german  to  George  Seytoun  of  Caristoun,  the  time  of  her  decease,  on  18th 
November  1601.1 — Vol.  xxxvi. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile 
Alexander  Seytoun  of  Gargunnock,  within  the  parochin  of  St.  Niniane  and  sheriffdom  of 
Stirling,  the  time  of  his  decease,  on  8th  October  1602,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Janet 
Buchanan,  his  relict  spouse,  only  executrix  nominated  by  him  in  his  Latter  Will. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory 


lxxxvjub  XIIJ5 
iiij°lxxxvjlib. 


mju 


vclxxijUb  xiij8  4d 
xlub. 
vcxxxijlib  xiijs 


jclxxvijlib  xjs 


4" 


Debts  owing  to  him 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Debts  owing  by  him 

Amount  of  free  gear 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  his  part  is 

Quota  vUb. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Gargunnock,  xxij  September  1602,  whereby  he  nominates  the 
said  Janet  Buchanan,  his  spouse,  his  executrix,  with  the  provision  that  she  shall  pay  his  and 
her  debts,  and  in  case  she  be  wronged  by  her  children  or  others,  he  appoints  the  Laird 
of  Touche  and  Robert  Seytoun,  his  brother,  to  assist  and  maintain  her.  Confirmed  21st 
January  1603.     John  Seytoun,  tailor,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xxxvii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Andro 
Seytoun,  sometime  foreman  in  the  King's  Court  kitchen,  the  time  of  his  decease,  on  5th 
January  1603,  faithfully  made  and  partly  given  up  by  himself  on  the  said  day,  and  partly  by 
Marion  Broun,  his  relict  spouse,  whom  he  nominated  his  only  executrix. 


Sum  of  Inventory 

Debts  owing  to  him 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Debts  owing  by  him 

And  so  the  debts  exceed  free  goods 

1  Printed  ad  longum  under  Cariston,  p.  584  supra. 


jcxxllb  XIIJ8  4d. 

lxUb. 

jclxxxvub  xiij8  4d. 

jclxxxviijlib  xvjs  8d. 

iijbb  iijs  4d. 


896 


TESTAMENTS   IN 


rlib 


111) 


iolib 


urrx! 

jjcylib 


lib 


In  his  Latter  Will,  dated  4th  January  1603,  the  said  Andro  nominated  the  said  Marion 
Broun  his  executor  to  his  bairns  and  goods,  and  Gilbert  Seytoun,  his  kinsman,  and  Andro 
Brown,  gardner  of  the  King's  north  yards,  overseers  to  the  said  Marion  and  his  bairns,  and 
with  them  John  Acheson,  portioner  of  Innerask,  as  oversman.  Alexander  Seytoun  in  Stra- 
miglo,  and  George  Seytoun,  servand  to  the  said  deceased  Andro,  are  among  the  witnesses. 
Confirmed  1st  May  1604.  Alexander  Thomsoun,  indweller  in  the  Cannogait,  is  cautioner. — 
Vol.  xxxix. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  James  Seytoun 
of  Orky,  within  the  parish  of  Lathrisk.  and  sheriffdom  of  Coupar  in  Fife,  the  time  of  his 
decease,  in  September  1587,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Janet  Seytoun,  his  daughter, 
executrix-dative  decerned  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ..... 

Summa  of  debts  due  to  him,  due  by  George,  Lord  Seytoun 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .... 

To  be  divided  into  2  parts,  his  part 

Quota  is  v  merks. 

Confirmed  24th  May  1604.  Mr.  William  Echlene,  apparent  of  Pittadro,  is  cautioner. — 
Vol.  xxxix. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  John 
Seytoun,  elder,  skipper,'  indweller  in  Leith,  the  time  of  his  death,  on  28th  September  1603, 
given  up  by  himself,  1 2th  of  said  month. 

Sum  of  Inventory,  ......     xxlib. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  him  are  :  '  Item,  by Fergusons,  bairns  of  umquhile  Laurence 

Ferguson,  skipper  in  Leith,  xxvlib ;  Item,  by  Janet  Scott,  relict  of  umquhile  John  Seytoun  in 
Kirkcaldy,  borrowed  by  her  from  the  defunct,  xvijub  xs ;  Item,  by  John  Seytoun  in  Pittedie, 
of  borrowed  money,  xviijlib ;  Item,  by  John  Seytoun,  son  to  the  deceased,  lijUb,  for  the  by- 
run  annuals  of  500  merks,  xxvjlib,  and  xxvjlib  which  he  has  in  venture  with  his  said  son  at 
the  sea.' 

Sum  of  debts  owing  to  him  .... 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .... 

Among  the  debts  owing  by  him  are  :  '  Item,  to  William  Ferguson,  his  son-in-law,  conform 
to  his  bond,  jolib;  Item,  to  Lawrence  Ferguson,  his  other  son-in-law,  conform  to  his  obliga- 
tion, jcvlih ;  Item,  to  John  Seytoun,  younger,  his  son,  conform  to  a  contract  of  marriage, 
jc  merks.' 

Sum  of  debts  owing  by  him         .....     iijclijlib  vjs  8d. 

And  so  the  debts  exceed  the  free  goods  .  .  .     xviijHb  iij8  4d. 

His  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Leith,  xij  day  of  September  1603,  whereby  he  nominates 
Margaret  M'Neill  his  spouse,  and  John  Seytoun,  younger,  his  son  and  apparent  heir,  his 
executors ;  and  also  nominates  Alexander  Peirson,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  and 
James  Logan,  clerk  of  the  Canongate,  oversmen  conjunctly  to  his  said  testament ;  and  he 
leaves  to  the  poor  on  the  north  side  of  the  brig  of  Leith  v]hh,  to  be  distributed  by  the  minister 
and  session  thereof.  Henry  Seytoun,  son  to  John  Seytoun,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  is  a  witness. 
Confirmed  20th  May  1605.     John  Vaus  in  Leith  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xl. 


iijcxiiijlib  iij3  4d. 
iijcxxxiiijlib  3s  4d 


The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining 
of  Parbroth,  comptrollar  to  the  King,  in  the  parish  of  Creich  and 
time  of  his  decease,  on  24th  November  1601,  given  up  by  Robert 
dative  surrogate  to  his  said  umquhile  father. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory 

Debts  owing  to  him 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Summa  of  debts  owing  by  him 

Rests  of  free  gear 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  his  part  is 

Quota  l,ib. 

Confirmed  6th  June  1605.      Sir  William   Auchterlony,  youngfer 
Vol.  xl. 


to  umquhile  David  Seytoun 
shire  of  Coupar  in  Fife,  the 
Seytoun,  his  son,  executor- 

iiijmlxxiiijlib  xiij8  4d. 
jmiiijcxxxjlib  vjs  8d. 
vmvcvjlib. 

vjjcxjjlib  xiJjs  ^d_ 

iiijmvijclxxxxiijlib  6s  8d. 

jmvc[xxxxvjjlib  xvs  yjd 

of  Kellie,  is  cautioner. — 


EDINBURGH   REGISTER  897 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  David  Seytoun 
of  Waiderlie,  within  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  who  died  in 
November  1600,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Margaret  Watt,  his  relict  spouse,  in  name 
of  George  and  Matthew  Seytoun,  his  lawful  sons,  executors-dative  decerned  to  their  said 
umquhile  father. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     jclxxxlib  vj8  8d. 

Debts  owing  by  him        ......     xUb. 

Amount  of  free  gear        ......    jclxxub  vjs  8d. 

To  be  divided  into  3  parts,  his  part  is     .  .  .  .     lvjlib  xvs  viijd. 

Quota  is  xiij3  iiijd. 
Confirmed  10th  July  1605.    John  Cunynghame,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. 
—Vol.  xl. 

The  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Robert,  Earl  of 
Wintoun,  Lord  Seytoun,  within  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  who 
died  on  22nd  March  1603,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  himself,  as  far  as  the  nomination 
of  executors  and  legacies  :  and  partly  by  Dame  Margaret  Montgomerie,  Countess  of  Wintoun, 
his  relict  spouse,  so  far  as  concerning  the  Inventory. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory      ......     iijmvijclxvilib  13s  4d. 

Debts  owing  to  him         ......     vjmiijcxviijlib  xjs  8d. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .....     xjmlxxxvub  vs. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  him  are — To  Henry  Seytoun,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
of  borrowed  money,  ;£iooo  :  To  Margaret  Watt,  relict  of  umquhile  David  Seytoun  of  Waiderlie, 
1000  merks  :  To  Lady  Cassillis  for  the  repairing  and  bigging  of  the  place  of  Wontoun,  to  be 
a  dwelling-house  to  Robert,  Master  of  Seytoun,  his  eldest  son,  and  Mrs.  Anna  Maitland  his 
spouse,  conforme  to  contract  of  marriage,  the  sum  of  2000  merks  :  To  Sir  William  Seytoun 
of  Kylesmure,  knight,  1000  merks :  To  Robert  Seytoun,  servant,  for  his  year's  fee,  xllib :  To 
George  Seytoun,  baron  officer,  for  his  year's  fee,  100  merks. 

Sum  of  debts  due  by  him  .....     iiijmvijclvlib  vjs  8d. 

Amount  of  free  gear        ......     vmiijcxxixlib  xviijs  iiijd. 

To  be  divided  into  3  parts,  his  part  is     .  .  .  .    jmvijclxxvjlib  xijs  ixd. 

Quota,  xxub. 
In  his  Latter  Will  he  ordains  '  my  bodie  to  be  bureit  haill  in  maist  humbill  quyet  modest 
and  Cristiane  maner  without  all  extraordinarie  pomp  or  unlawful  serimonie  within  my  college 
Kirk  of  Seytoun  amangis  my  progenitours  of  worthie  memorie.'  He  constitutes  the  said 
Dame  Margaret  Montgomerie,  his  spouse,  his  only  executor,  giving  her  power  to  pay  the 
above  debts  due  by  him:  'Attour  I  leif  in  legacie  to  the  particular  persounes  following  the 
particular  sowmes  of  money  underwritten  That  is  to  say  I  leif  in  legacie  to  Johne  Seytoun 
my  youngest  laufull  sone  in  full  and  compleit  payment  and  satisfactioun  of  quhatsumevir 
thrid  bairnis  part  of  geir  or  portioun  naturall  he  may  acclaime  or  that  in  ony  wayis  may  fall 
to  him  throw  my  deceis  the  sowme  of  ten  thousand  merkis :  To  Sir  Johnne  Hammiltoun  of 
Encleve  Knicht  my  sister  sone  thrie  hundreth  merkis  :  To  Hanniball  Seytoun  son  natural 
to  umquhile  Sir  Johne  Seytoun  of  Barnis  Knicht  my  brother  ane  hundreth  pundis  :  To  George 
Seytoun  now  of  Carrelstoun  my  cousing  ane  thousand  merkis,  instantlie  to  be  laid  for  profeit 
upone  land  or  annualrent  quhair  best  securitie  and  commoditie  may  be  fundin,  the  yerlie 
profeit  and  annualrent  of  the  samyn  to  be  payit  to  George  Seytoun  his  eldest  sone  and 
appearand  air,  during  the  lifetyme  of  the  said  George  Seytoun  now  of  Carrelstoun,  his  father, 
with  power  alwayis  to  the  said  George  Seytoun  now  of  Carrelstoun  befoir  his  decis  to  leif  and 
dispone  the  said  sowme  of  ane  thousand  merkis  be  legacie  or  testament  to  ony  of  his  other 
bairnes  ane  or  ma  as  he  sail  think  expedient :  To  Elizabeth  Seytoun  sister  germane  to  my 
said  cousing  thrie  hundreth  merkis,'  and  the  rest  of  his  goods  and  gear  to  his  said  spouse  and 
executrix :  '  And  finallie  I  be  thir  presents  makis  nominatis  and  constitutis  my  said  darrest 
spous  during  all  the  dayis  of  hir  lyftyme,  at  the  leist  during  hir  wedowheid,  onlie  tutrix  and 
curatrix  and  universall  gubernatrix  to  George,  Alexander,  Thomas,  and  the  s-.id  Johnne 
Seytoune  our  sounes,  and  to  Maistres  Issobell  Seytoun  our  onlie  dochter ;  during  thair 
minorities  and  non  ageis  respective,  quhilk  nonaige  I  declair  to  be  quhill  my  sounes  be  xxj 
yeiris  compleit,  and  my  dochter  laufullie  mareit.'  And  in  case  his  said  spouse  should  marry 
again,  he  wills  that  she  should  in  such  case  make  payment  of  his  said  bairns'  gear,  '  to  my 


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TESTAMENTS    IN 


lovit  brother  Alexander  Lord  of  Fyvie,  President,  and  Sir  William  Seytoun  of  Kylesmure, 
Knycht,  quhome  I  have  in  that  cais  nominat  conjunctlie  and  severallie  to  be  tutors  to  my  said 
bairns.'  Dated  28th  February  1603.  Robert,  Master  of  Seytoun,  his  eldest  son,  Mr.  James 
Seytoun  parson  of  Quhitsum,  and  George  Seytoun  messenger,  are  witnesses.  Confirmed  18th 
February  1606.     Richard  Addingstoun,  fiar  of  that  ilk,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xli. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  Marie 
Maitland,  sometime  spouse  to  John  Seytoun  of  Auquhortie,1  chamberlain  to  Alexander,  Earl 
of  Dunfermline,  Lord  Fyvie,  and  Urquhart,  Great  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  within  the  parish  of 
Tarves  and  sheriffdom  of  Aberdeen,  who  died  on  10th  May  1604,  faithfully  made  and  given 
up  by  the  said  John  Seytoun  her  spouse,  as  father  and  lawful  administrator  to  Robert,  John, 
and  William  Seytoun,  their  lawful  children,  and  executors-dative  decerned  to  their  said 
deceased  mother. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory    ......     iijmiiijcxiijIib  vjs  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  her  are — To  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  for  the  ferme  of 
Haddo,  4  chalders  oatmeal,  price  of  boll  iijUb ;  sum,  jclxxxxijlib ;  to  John  Urquhart,  tutor  of 
Cromarty,  j"lijlib. 

Sum  of  debts  due  by  her  .....     viij°xxvUb  1 3s  4d. 

Amount  of  free  gear      ......     ijmvclxxxvijlib  13s  4d. 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  her  part  is  .  .     viijclxijlib  xjs  jd. 

Quota  vjlib. 
Confirmed  20th  February  1606.    Cautioner  not  named. — Vol.  xli. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  James  Seytoun 
of  Tullibodie,  within  the  parish  of  St.  Ninians  and  sheriffdom  of  Stirling,  who  died  on 
14th  February  1606,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Mr.  Alexander,  Mr.  Robert,  George,  and 
Mr.  James  Seytoun,  sons  lawful  to  the  defunct,  and  executors-dative  decerned  to  him. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory  ......     ijmvclxxxxvjlib. 

Debts  owing  to  him      ......     iiijmijciiijxxxijHb  xixs  iiijd. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  the  debts  ....     vjmviijclxxxviijlib  xixs  iiijd. 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  his  part  is  .  .     ijmijclxxxxvjllb  vj3  4d. 

Quota  is  jc  merks. 
Confirmed  12th  February  1607.     John  Seytoun,  now  of  Tullybody,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xlii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir  John 
Seytoun  of  Barnis,  knycht,  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice,  who  died  in  May 
1594,  given  up  by  John  Seytoun,  now  of  Barnis,  his  eldest  lawful  son,  and  executor-dative 
surrogate  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory 

Debts  owing  to  him 

Summa  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Debts  due  by  him 

Free  gear  .... 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  his  part  is 

Quota  xx  merks. 
Confirmed   30th   June    1607.     Sir  William  Se 
Vol.  xlv. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Elizabeth 
Seytoun,  sometime  spouse  to  Alexander  Dunlop,  Writer  to  the  Signet,  who  died  on  the  18th 
May  161 2,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  the  said  Alexander  Dunlop,  her  spouse,  as  father 
and  lawful  administrator  to  John  Dunlop,  their  lawful  son  and  executor-dative  decerned  to 
his  said  mother. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vijclxvjlib  xvjs  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  owing  to  the  deceased  is  one  by  Henry  Seytoun,  merchant  burgess  of 
Edinburgh,  conform  to  two  obligations,  the  sum  of  1000  merks. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     jmixciiijIib. 
Confirmed  nth  September  1612.     James  Dunlop  of  that  ilk  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xlvii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  John  Seytoun, 

1  Doubtless  the  couple  whose  initials  (I.  S.  and  M.  M.)and  impaled  coat  appear  on  the  oak  bedstead  at 
Mounie  ;  see  p.  492  supra. 


jmjcxxxjbb  xiijs  4d. 

• 

nijm. 

vmj°xxxjlib  13s  4d. 

iiijmlxxixlib  138  4d. 
jmiijclixlib  17s  8d. 

un  of  K 

.ylismure, 

knight,    is   cautioner 

EDINBURGH   REGISTER  899 

master  coalman  furnisher  to  his  Majesty,  and  indweller  in  the  Cannongate,  who  died  in 
March  1607,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Margaret  Seytoun,  lawful  daughter  to  the 
defunct,  and  executrix-dative  surrogate  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     xllib. 

Debts  owing  to  him       ......     jmijcxviijllb. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     jmijclviijllb. 
Confirmed    15th    December    1612.     Mark    Seytoun,    attirer,    indweller   in    Edinburgh,   is 
cautioner. — Vol.  xlvii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  John 
Seytoun,  tailor  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  who  died  on  the  24th  March  1615,  faithfully  made  and 
given  up  by  himself,  on  13th  March  1615,  as  concerning  the  nomination  of  executors,  and  by 
Janet  Seytoun  his  lawful  daughter,  in  so  far  as  concerns  the  Inventory. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory   .  .  .  .  .  .     jc  lib. 

Among  the  debts  owing  to  him  are — Item,  by  Mark  Swinton,  j°xijlib  xiiijs. ;  Item,  by 

Seytoun  of  Northrig,  xlib  xijs  xd  ;  Item,  by Seytoun  of  Touche  jcxijlib ;  Item,  by  John 

Seytoun  xiijlib  xijs;  Item  by  George  Seytoun,  xxxijlib  yjs,  etc. 

Sum  of  debts     .  .  .  .  ■  .  .     ijmjclvlib  xs  viijd. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     ijclvlib  xa  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  him  are — To  Mr.  James  Seytoun  of  Falsyde,  yjc  merks ;  to  the 
same  iiijxxlib;  To  Mr.  James  Seytoun,  lxlib;  To  George  Seytoun,  servitor  to  James  Maxwell, 
^14  sterling. 

Sum  of  said  debts  ......     ijmvjclxxiijlib  16s. 

So  the  debts  exceed  the  goods  by  .  .  .     iiijcxviijlib  v3  iiijd. 

Quota  nihil. 
The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Edinburgh,  13th  March  16 15,  whereby  he  constitutes  the  said 
Janet  Seytoun,  his  daughter,  his  executrix,  and  leaves  his  part  of  his  free  goods  and  gear  to 
her,  and  ordains  Margaret  Halkey,  his  spouse,  to  have  her  liferent  use  of  his  said  free  goods ; 
and  he  ordains  Mr.  James  Seytoun  of  Falsyde,  John  Gibson,  and  John  Ros,  writers  in  Edinburgh, 
conjunctly  to  be  overseers  for  his  said  daughter.     Confirmed  25th  July  1615. — Vol.  xlviii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  James  Seytoun, 
indweller  in  Dalkeith,  within  the  parish  thereof  and  shire  of  Edinburgh,  who  died  in  Septem- 
ber 161 2,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Elspeth  Calderwood,  his  relict  spouse,  in  name  and 
behalf  of  Elspeth,  Margaret,  Elizabeth,  and  Christian  Seytouns,  minors,  lawful  children  to  the 
defunct,  and  executors-dative  decerned  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     xxjlib  viijs. 

Confirmed  27  th  June  1616.     William  Calderwood,  bailie  of  Dalkeith,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xlix. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Janet  Seytoun, 
sometime  spouse  to  Adam  Gardin,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  who  died  on  20th  July 
16 12,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  the  said  Adam  Gardin,  her  spouse,  as  father  and 
lawful  administrator  to  Issobell  and  Katharine  Gardin,  minors,  their  lawful  children,  and 
executors-dative  surrogate  to  their  said  mother. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     iiijmviijcxxvij,ib  18s  4d. 

Among  the  debts  owing  to  her  is  one  by  Henry  Seytoun,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  for 

£S14>  13s-  4d. 

Sum  of  debts     .......     ijmiiijcxxHb  13s  4d. 


vijmijcxlviijub  xjs  8d. 

jjjmjjcjjjlib  gs. 

iijmixclxxxxvjlib  3s  8d. 
jmiijcxxxijlib  is  3d. 


Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts 

Sum  of  debts  due  by  her 

Amount  of  free  gear 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  her  part  is 

Quota  is  llib. 

Confirmed    5th   October   1616,    Robert   Saische,    skipper    in    Leith,  and  William    Gardin, 
baxter  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  are  cautioners. — Vol.  xlix. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  George 
Seytoun  in  Seytoun,  in  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  the  time  of 
his  death  in  December  1610,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Robert  Seytoun  in  Seytoun, 
son  lawful  to  the  defunct,  and  executor-dative  decerned  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  .,,,..     lxijlib  xiijs  iiijd. 


900  TESTAMENTS   IN 

Confirmed  4th  June  1624.     James  Smith,  servitor  to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  is  cautioner. — 
Vol.  lii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  John 
Seatoun,  within  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  who  died  on  26th 
August  1618,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  himself  on  the  23rd  August  1618,  and  partly 
by  Margaret  Seatoun,  his  relict  spouse. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     ijcxub. 

Among  the  debts  owing  to  him  is  one  by  Robert  Seytoun,  his  brother-in-law,  of 
lxxiijub  13s  4d  resting  of  200  merles,  conform  to  contract  of  marriage. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  him  are — To  James  Seytoun,  brother-german  to  George 
Seytoun  in  Northrig,  100  merks;  to  the  Countess  of  Wintoun,  for  the  ferme  of  the  mill  and 
mill  land  of  ,  xvij^  bolls  malt,  at  yjs  boll,  and  three  bolls  wheat  at 

x  merks  the  boll,  jcxxIib ;  to  Janet  Seytoun,  xiij  merks. 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Seytoun,  23rd  August  1618,  whereby  he  constitutes  Margaret 
Seytoun,  his  spouse,  his  only  executrix,  and  also  nominates  her  tutrix  testamentar  to  his 
children  during  her  widowhood,  and  in  case  of  her  marriage,  he  nominates  Robert  Seytoun, 
younger,  in  Tranent,  tutor  in  her  place,  and  recommends  his  wife  and  children  to  the  Earl 
and  Countess  of  Winton,  to  be  governed  by  them.  He  leaves  to  Robert  Seytoun,  son  to 
umquhile  Henry  Seytoun,  xllib  to  help  him  to  a  craft.  Robert  Seytoun,  brother-german  to 
George  Seytoun  of  Northrig,  is  a  witness*.  Confirmed  4th  February  1625.  James  Smith, 
servitor  to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  liii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  John  Seytoun, 
skipper,  indweller  in  Leith,  who  died  in  December  1624,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by 
Margaret  Gourlay,  his  relict  spouse,  in  name  and  behalf  of  Robert  and  Margaret  Seytoun, 
minors,  lawful  children  and  executors-dative  to  the  defunct. 

Sum  of  Inventory  .  .  .  .  .  ij° lib. 

Confirmed  22nd  March  1626.     David  Robesone,  notary  in  Leith,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  liii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Dame 
Anna  Fleming,  sometime  spouse  to  Sir  John  Seytoun  of  Barnis,  knight,  in  the  parish  of 
and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  who  died  in  Edinburgh  in  June  1625, 
faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  the  said  Sir  John,  her  husband. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vmxxvijllb  xs. 

Sum  of  debts  owing  to  her        .....     jmiiijcxiijllb  3s  4d. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     vjmiiijcxlub  13s  4d. 
The   Latter  Will  is  dated  at  the  Barns,    1st  May  1625,   whereby  she  nominates   her  said 
husband  her  only  executor.     James  Hamiltoune,  brother  to  said  Sir  John  Seytoun  {sic),  is  a 
witness.     Confirmed  17th  June  1626.     Mr.  Robert  Nairn,  advocate,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  liii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Helen 
Achesone,  sometime  spouse  to  Henry  Seytoun,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  who  died 
on  6th  April  1625,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  the  said  Henry  Seytoun  as  father  and 
lawful  administrator  to  Patrick,  John,  Alexander,  William,  George,  Janet,  and  Issobell 
Seytoun,  minors,  their  lawful  children  and  executors-dative  surrogate  to  their  said  mother. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     viijcxxlib  13s  4d. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  her  is  one  by  George  Seytoun  of  Northrig  of  ijc  ub. 
Confirmed  14th  July  1626.     Andro  Robesone,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. 
—Vol.  liii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Dame 
Margaret  Montgomerie,  Countess  of  Winton,  relict  of  umquhile  Robert,  Earl  of  Wintoun, 
Lord  Seytoun,  in  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  who  died  on  9th 
April  1624,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  herself,  and  partly  by  Dame  Issobell  Seytoun, 
Countess  of  Perth,  her  lawful  daughter. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vjmvjcxlviijlib  133  4d. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  her  are — By  Robert  Seytoun,  younger,  in  Tranent,  Robert 
Seytoun,  elder  there,  and  others,  tenants  in  the  lordships  of  Seton  and  Tranent, 
viijmiiijcxxxvijlib  xij8  viijd,  etc. 


EDINBURGH   REGISTER  901 

Sum  of  debts  due  to  her  .   ,  .  .  .     xmjcxliiijub  6B  4d. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     xvjmviijciijub  ixs  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  her  are — To  Robert  Seytoun,  Master  of  Household,  for  his 
year's  fee,  v°  merks ;  to  David  Seytoun,  servant,  for  his  year's  fee,  xxxub. 

Summa  of  said  debts    ......     ijmlvijlib  vjs  vijd. 

Amount  of  free  gear      ......    xiiijmvijcxlvjlib  3a. 

No  division. 

Quota  is  iiijc  lib. 
The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Seytoun,  8th  April  1624,  whereby  she  nominates  Dame 
Issobell,  Countess  of  Perth,  her  only  daughter,  to  be  her  executrix.  '  Item  scho  leaves 
Laidy  Jeane  Drumond  dochter  to  the  said  Countess  of  Perth,  to  the  governament  and 
educatioun  of  the  Countes  of  Perth,  hir  mother,  hir  darrest  sones  George  Earle  of  Wintoun, 
and  Alexander  Erie  of  Eglingtoune ;  and  declaires  that  scho  hes  maid  to  the  said  laidy  of 
the  proffeit  of  hir  awin  moneyis  and  geir  (and  of  the  said  Countes  hir  awin  benevolence)  the 
sowme  of  tuentie  thrie  thousand  merkis,  quhairof  ten  thousand  merkis  in  the  handis  of  the 
said  George  Erie  of  Wintoune  fyve  thousand  merkis  in  the  handis  of  the  said  Alexander, 
Erie  of  Eglintoune,  fyve  thousand  merkis  in  the  hands  of  the  Laidie  Bruchtoune,  and 
thrie  thousand  merkis  in  the  handis  of  Sir  William  Seytoune :  Of  the  quhilkis  sowmes  there 
is  ten  thousand  merkis  quhilk  perteines  properlie  to  the  said  Laidy  Jeane,  and  uther  thretteine 
thousand  merkis  is  of  the  gift  and  benevolence  of  the  said  Countes,  and  quhilk  the  said 
Countes  leives  to  the  said  Laidy  Jeane,  and  to  the  airis  laufullie  to  be  gottin  of  hir  bodie, 
quhilkis  failzeing,  to  the  Countes  of  Perth  her  mother,  executor  foirsaid :  Item  the  said 
Countes  leives  to  the  Erie  of  Eglintoune  the  fermis  and  dewties  of  the  lands  perteining 
heretablie  to  the  said  nobill  erle  of  the  Erledome  of  Eglintoune,  and  haill  landis  and  teinds 
perteining  therto,  quhairof  the  said  nobill  lady  had  the  lyfrent :  Item,  the  said  nobill  lady 
leives  in  legacie  to  Thomas  Seytoune  hir  sone,  iijm  merks  :  Item,  to  John  Seytoune  hir  sone, 
ijm  merks  money :  Item  to  Robert  Seytoune  brother-german  to  George  Seytoune  of 
Northerige,  and  Jonet  Mongomrie  his  spous,  vm  merkis  money :  Item  to  Marioune 
Mongomrie  jm  merks,'  etc.  '  Item  the  said  nobill  Laidy  Countes  leives  to  the  said  George 
Erie  of  Winton,  hir  said  sone,  the  haill  hingingis  silver  warke  and  uther  moveabillis  within  the 
place  of  Seytoune,  quhilk  was  left  be  Robert  Erie  of  Wintoune,  hir  husband,  to  his  eldesc 
sone,  Robert  Erie  of  Wintoune,  in  his  testament ;  and  leives  all  the  rest  of  hir  guidis  to  the 
said  Countes  of  Perth  hir  dochter.'  Confirmed  27th  July  1626.  The  said  Thomas  Seytoune, 
brother  to  the  Erie  of  Wintoune,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  liii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Dame  Jean 
Seytoun,  Lady  Yester,  sometime  spouse  to  John,  Lord  Hay,  of  Yester,  within  the  parish  of 

and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  who  died  in  August   162- ;  faithfully  made  and 

given  up  by  the  said  John,  Lord  Hay  of  Yester,  as  father  and  lawful  administrator  to  John 
Hay,  minor,  their  lawful  son,  and  executor-dative  surrogate  to  his  said  mother. 


Sum  of  Inventory 


;lib 


xjmvj  XXllj       XJb  Vll' 


xxmxlib  6s  gd 

xxxjmyjcxxxiijlib  18s  4d. 
xxxjmvjclxxxiijIib  6s  8d. 
xlixllb  viijs  iiijd 


Debts  owing  to  her 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     . 

Sum  of  debts  owing  by  her 

So  the  debts  exceed  the  goods  by 
Confirmed  19th  January  T627.     Robert  Dicksone,  servitor  to  Sir  Jerome  Lindsay,  is  cautioner. 
—Vol.  liv. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  David 
Seatoune,  writer,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  who  died  in  Wintoun  in  June  T632,1  faithfully  made 
and  given  up  by  Helen  Brand,  his  relict  spouse  and  executrix-dative  surrogate  to  him. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  him  is  one  by  Robert  Seaton  in  Seaton,  callit  '  Reid  Robert,' 
100  merks. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     iiijclxhb. 
Confirmed    1st  January    1634.     Henry   Adminstoune,   flesher,    burgess    of    Edinburgh,   is 
cautioner. 


1  His  monumental  slab  in  Seton  Church  is  engraved  at  p.  783  supra. 


902  TESTAMENTS   IN 

Eik  to  said  Testament,  dated  17th  January  1643,  whereby  there  was  owing  to  the  said 
David  by  George  Seatton  of  Craigfod  ijc  merks  as  the  half  of  iiijc  merks,  and  ten  pounds  as 
half  of  xxUb  of  penalty  contained  in  his  bond  of  date  9th  June  161 8. — Vol.  lvi. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Bessie 
Seattoun,  sometime  spouse  to  John  Rind,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  the  time  of  her 
death,  on  27th  March  1634,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  her  said  husband  as  father  and 
lawful  administrator  to  James  and  Issobell  Rind,  minors,  their  lawful  children  and  executors- 
dative  surrogate  to  their  said  mother. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     lxxmijclxxxxvjlib. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  her  are — By  Alexander,  Earl  of  Eglintoun,  by  bond 
iijmxxxviijlib ;  by  Charles,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  by  decreet  of  the  Lords,  xmijclxxxvijBb ;  by 
William  Seattoun  of  Meldrum,  by  bond,  iijclxxxijlib  x5 ;  by  Alexander  Seatton  of  Dreddane, 
jcxhb  ^  by  £arj  of  Wintoun,  vjmixclxxxxvlib  xvs  iiijd  ;  by  Henrie  Seatton,  xxxvijlib  xixa ;  by  Issobell 
Seatton,  xxiiijlib  xiij8  viijd ;  by  James  Seatton,  iijlib  xviijs ;  by  Robert  Seatton,  vjcxxxiijub  xiij3 
vijd;  by  William  Seatton,  lxxjlib  vs  iiijd;  by  Robert  Seaton  in  Tranent,  ijcxlviijub  iijs;  by  Sir 
Thomas  Seytoun,  jcIil>;  by  Robert  Seattoun  elder,  lxvjlib  iijs  iiid;  by  the  laird  of  Barnis, 
jcxxxijlib;  by  Lord  Seytoun,  xllib  vij8 ;  by  Barbara  Seatton,  jclxxviijlib  xs  vjd;  by  Helen  Seatoun, 
xlvjlib  ijs  viijd,  etc. 

Sum  of  debts  due  to  her  .....     viijxsxiijmv°xjlib. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     xijXIiijmviijclvijlib. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  her  is — To  Robert  Seaton  in  Tranent,   ijmvjclxvjlib  xiijs  iijd,  etc. 

Sum  of  debts  due  by  her  .....     xijxxjmjcviijub. 

Amount  of  free  gear      ......     ijmvijcxlixlib 

To  be  divided  into  three  parts,  her  part  is  .  .     ixcxvjlib  vj8  viijd. 

Quota  34lib. 
Confirmed  nth  February  1635.     Patrick  Wood,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. 
—Vol.  lvii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Helen 
Seattoun,  sometime  spouse  to  John  Pook,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  and  now  indweller 
in  Tranent,  the  time  of  her  death,  in  December  1634,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  her 
said  husband,  executor-dative  surrogate  to  her. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     jmliijlib  vj8  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  her  are — By  the  Laird  of  Fasyd,  xxiijlib  xviijs ;  by  Sir  Thomas 
Seattoun,  xliiijlib  xvjs;  by  Robert  Seatton,  called  '  Quhyt  Robert  Seatton,'  in  Fenton,  iiijlib  xij3; 
by  William  Seaton  in  Fenton  place  iiijlib  xvjs ;  by  Robert  Seaton  of  Munkmylne,  vijlib  xs. 

Sum  of  said  debts  ......     vj°xxviijlib  xiiij8  vjd. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts     .....     jmvjclxxxijlib  js  ijd. 

Debts  due  by  her  ......     ijmjcxlviij'ib. 

So  the  debts  exceed  the  goods  ....     iiijclxvlib  xviij3  xd. 

Confirmed  18th  February  1636.  Alexander  Hangitsyde,  skinner,  burgess  of  Edinburgh, 
is  cautioner. — Vol.  lvii. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir  William 

Seattoun  of  ,  indweller  in  Haddington,  the  time  of  his  death,  in  July  1635,  faithfully 

made  and  given  up  by  William  Seattoun,  his  eldest  lawful  son,  and  executor-dative  surrogate 
to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vjclxiiijlib  vj8  viijd. 

No  debts  owing  to  him. 

Among  the  debts  due  by  him  is  one  to  Sir  John  Seattoun  of for  the  ferme  of  his 

land  occupied  by  the  defunct  of  jolib.  Confirmed  6th  August  1636.  George  Forrester, 
postmaster  in  Haddington,  is  cautioner. — Vol.   lvii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  David 
Seatoun,  servitor  to  the  Laird  of  Frendraught,  indweller  in  Edinburgh,  the  time  of  his  death, 
on  15th  December  1637,  faithfully  made  and  partly  given  up  by  himself  on  10th  October  1637, 
and  partly  by  Marie  Cousland  his  relict  spouse,  in  so  far  as  concerns  the  Inventory. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     ixclib. 


EDINBURGH    REGISTER  903 

The  Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Edinburgh,  ioth  October  1637,  whereby  he  nominates  the  said 
Marie  Cousland  his  spouse  his  executrix,  during  her  widowhood,  and  if  she  marry  again,  he 
leaves  to  her  the  annualrent  of  3000  merks,  and  ordaines  the  rest  of  his  goods,  etc.,  to  be 
used  for  the  entertainment  of  Margaret  Seattoun  his  daughter,  and  on  her  marriage,  if  it  shall 
happen  before  that  of  her  mother,  she  is  to  receive  a  portion  of  the  insight  and  plenishing, 
with  the  whole  silver  work  pertaining  to  the  said  David.  He  leaves  to  Anna  Seatoun,  his 
sister,  vc  merks,  and  the  rest  of  the  same  to  John  and  William  Seytoun,  his  brothers,  to  be 
equally  divided  between  them.  Confirmed  24th  March  1638.  James  Barnes,  burgess  of 
Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  lviii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir  John 
Seatton  of  St.  Germains,  knight,  in  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington, 
the  time  of  his  death  in  July  1638,  faithfully  made  and  given  up,  partly  by  himself  on  4th 
July  1638,  and  partly  by  Margaret  Kellie,  his  relict  spouse. 

Amount  of  free  gear        ......     vcxxxiijllb. 

Latter  Will  is  dated  at  Edinburgh  4th  July  1638,  whereby  he  constitutes  Dame  Margaret 
Kellie,  his  spouse,  his  only  executrix,  and  tutrix  to  his  children.  Robert  Seaton  of  Monkmylne 
is  a  witness.  Confirmed  6th  March  1640.  Patrick  Robertson,  merchant  burgess  of  Edin- 
burgh, is  cautioner. — Vol.  (?). 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  George  Seaton 
in  Langnidry,  in  the  parish  of  Tranent  and  constabulary  of  Haddington,  the  time  of  his  death, 
in  December  1642,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Jean  Dishingtoun,  relict  of  the  said 
George,  in  name  and  behalf  of  Robert  Seaton,  minor,  his  lawful  son  and  executor-dative 
decerned  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     iiijmiiijclxxxlib  xiijs  iiijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  him  is  one  by  his  said  son  Robert  of  ij°xxxiijUb  vj8  iijd.  Among 
the  debts  due  by  him  is  one  to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  master  of  the  ground,  for  the  ferm  and 
duty  of  21  bolls  wheat  sown  on  the  lands  of  Langnidry,  amounting  to  jc  llib.  Confirmed  28th 
May  1645.     James  Dishingtoun  is  cautioner. — Vol.  lxi. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir 
Alexander  Seattoune,  sometime  one  of  the  Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice,  who  died  in 
September  1645,  faithfully  made  and  given  up,  partly  by  himself  on  6th  September  1645,  a°d 
partly  by  Issobell  Seattoune,  his  lawful  daughter. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     jclxxixub  viij8. 

Among  the  debts  owing  to  him  is  one  by  Alexander  Seattoune,  his  eldest  lawful  son, 
of  1000  merks. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .....     xmiiijcxxvjub. 
By  his  Latter  Will  he  nominates  the  said  Issobell  Seattoune,  his  daughter,  his  only  executrix 
and  intromitrix  with  all  his  goods,  which  he  leaves  to  her  exclusively.    Dated  at  Edinburgh  6th 
September  1645.     Confirmed  1st  January  1646.     Mr.  James  Lawtie,  advocate,  is  cautioner.- — 
Vol.  lxi. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  Lady  Jean 
Seattoun,  daughter  lawful  to  the  deceased  George,  Earl  of  Wintoune,  who  died  in  160-,  faith- 
fully made  and  given  up  by  George  Jaffray,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  and  Alexander 
Andersone,  also  merchant  burgess  there,  only  executors-dative  decerned  to  her. 

No  Inventory. 

The  debt  due  to  her  is  by  the  heirs  and  executors  of  the  said  deceased  George,  Earl  of 
Wintoun,  the  sum  of  ^1240  Scots,  as  a  part  of  a  greater  sum  due  by  him  to  her. 

No  division. 
Confirmed  17th  June  1661.      Thomas  George,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  and  William 
Anderson,  merchant  burgess  there,  are  cautioners. — Vol.  lxx. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir  George 
Seattoun  of  Haills,  knight,  who  died  160-,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  John  Ross,  writer 
in  Edinburgh,  only  executor-dative  decerned  as  creditor  to  him. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     iijclxxiijub  vjs  viijd. 

Among  the  debts  due  to  him  are — By  the  Earl  of  Wintoun  and  Lord  Kingstone  the 


904  TESTAMENTS   IN 

um  of  xijm  merks,  conform  to  their  bond ;  by  King  Charles  the  Second,  conform  to  his  bond, 
xviijm  merks ;  '  The  said  defunct  had  in  his  dwelling  house  the  tyme  of  his  said  decease  ane 
great  four  corned  cabennat  full  of  wryts  wherein  also  were  the  foirsaids  bands  and  quhilk  wes 
seilled  arreisted  and  secured  be  the  toune  of  Edinburgh  for  the  use  of  the  said  John  Ross  by 
ordor  of  the  judges,  yit  notwithstanding  thairof  intromitted  with  be  the  relict  of  the  said 
umquhile  Sir  George  and  Francis  Kinloch,  merchant  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  pretendit 
donators,  estimat  to  the  sum  of  xm  merks.' 

Sum  of  said  debts  ......     xxvijmvjclxvjlib  13s  4d. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts       .....     xxvijmxllib. 

No  division. 
Confirmed  3rd  July  1661.     William  Naper,  tailor  in  Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  lxx. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  Sir 
Robert  Seatoun  of  Windegoull,  who  died  in  November  1671  ;  faithfully  made  and  given  up 
by  Anna,  Countess  of  Traquair,  Issobell,  Lady  Semple,  and  Lady  Marie  Seatoun,  sisters- 
german  to  the  defunct  and  only  executors-dative  decerned  to  him. 

Debts  owing  to  him ;  intromitted  with  by  Sir  John  Seatoune  of  Gareltoune,  goods  and 
money  to  the  value  of  vm  lib. 

Sum  of  said  debts  ......     lxijmviijcxlib. 

No  division. 
Confirmed  7th  April  1673.       Captain  Francis  Wauchop,  brother  to  the  Laird  of  Niddrie, 
is  cautioner. — Vol.  Ixxiv. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  of  umquhile  Charles,  Earl  of 
Dunfermling,  who  died  16  7-,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Arthur  Robertson, 

servitor  to  Alexander,  now  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  and  only  executor-dative  surrogate  to  him. 

Sum  of  debts  owing  to  him  ...  .  .  .     jmvjcxlvijlib  12s. 

To  be  divided  in  two  parts,  his  part  is     .  .  .  .     viijcxxiijlib  16s. 

Quota  32ub. 
Confirmed  29th  January  1675.     Thomas  Ker,  writer  in  Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  lxxv. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  Lady 
Marie  Montgomery,  Countess  of  Wintoun,  the  time  of  her  decease,  who  died  in  1677,  faith- 
fully made  and  given  up  by  Marie  Cairncross,  relict  of  John  Rimor,  tailor  in  the  Canongate, 
and  others,  only  executors-dative  decerned  as  creditors  to  her. 

Sum  of  Inventory  ......     vclxxjlib  iijs. 

Confirmed  18th  June  1678.    Mr.   William  Pittindreich,  writer  in   Edinburgh,  is  cautioner. 
— Vol.  lxxvi. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  of  umquhile  Alexander,  Earl 
of  Dunfermling,  who  died  in  166- ;  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Robert  Hamilton  of 
Presmennan  (designed  in  a  bond  therein  narrated  '  of  Beill '),  only  executor-dative  decerned 
as  creditor  to  the  said  defunct. 

The  said  Alexander,  E.  of  Dunfermling,  had  pertaining  and  owing  to  him  at  the  (said) 
time  of  his  death,  by  Alexander,  E.  of  Callendar,  as  due  by  him  by  virtue  of  the  process,  and 
on  the  event  thereof  depending  against  him  at  the  instance  of  the  said  E.  of  Dunfermling 
for  the  moveables  taken  out  of  the  house  of  Pinkie,  pertaining  to  the  late  Countess  of  Dun- 
fermling, the  defunct's  grandmother,  and  for  the  bygone  rents  and  duties  of  the  half  of  the 
conquest  acquired  by  umquhile  James,  Earl  of  Callendar,  uncle  to  the  said  Alexander,  now 
Earl  of  Callendar,  during  the  lifetime  of  the  said  late  Countess  of  Dunfermling,  spouse  to  the 
said  James,  Earl  of  Callendar,  or  of  the  worth  and  value  of  the  moveable  goods,  etc.,  in  and 
about  the  houses  of  Dalgatie  and  Fyvie,  or  either  of  them,  or  out  of  the  plate,  Jewells,  etc., 
which  pertained  to  the  deceased  Earl  of  Dunfermling  in  his  cabinet,  within  his  lodging  in 
the  Canongate,  or  other  places,  and  particularly  of  what  interest  he  has  had  in  the  Royal 
Society  of  Fishing ;  and  what  sums  the  said  deceased  Earl  of  Dunfermling  paid  to  James 
Fleming,  late  bailie  of  Edinburgh,  of  the  debts  due  by  Lord  Kingston,  etc. 

Sum  of  debts  owing  to  him  .....     vjm  lib. 

Amount  of  free  gear  ......     viijcxxxvjlib  xiij8  iiijd. 

Confirmed    13th   February    1679.     James   Hamilton,    merchant  burgess   of  Edinburgh,  is 
cautioner. — Vol.  lxxvi. 


ST.   ANDREWS    REGISTER  905 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  pertaining  to  umquhile  George, 
Earl  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Seattoun  and  Tranent,  who  died  in  1704;  faithfully  made  and  given 
up  by  Mr.  William  Colt  of  Garturk,  Dame  Elizabeth  Syme,  relict  of  Sir  Robert  Colt,  advocate, 
and  William  Robertson,  one  of  the  under-clerks  of  Session,  only  executors-dative  decerned 
as  creditors  to  the  said  Earl. 

Sum  of  the  Inventory        ......     viij™ llb. 

Sum  of  debts  owing  to  him  .....     viijm  lib. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts         .....     xvjm  ub. 
Confirmed  5th  March  1706.     Mr.  Adam  Colt,  advocate,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  lxxxii. 

Notes  of  Search  in  Commissariot  of  St.  Andrews. 

The  Inventory  and  Testament  Dative  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  of  umquhile  Catharine  Wilsoun, 
spouse  to  David  Seattoun,  elder,  merchant  burgess  of  Bruntisland,  in  the  parish  thereof  and 
shire  of  Fife,  who  died  intestate  in  the  month  of  July  1620;  faithfully  made  and  given  up 
by  John  and  James  Seatoun  for  themselves,  and  in  name  of  Andro  Seattoun,  their  brother, 
all  lawful  sons  and  executors-dative  decerned  to  the  defunct.  Among  the  debts  due  to  her 
is  one  by  David  Seattoun,  her  lawful  son,  of  ,£125,  10s.  4d. 

Sum  of  Inventory  with  debts         .....     ^4415,  10s. 
Confirmed    13th  December   1620.     John  Harrower,  burgess   of  Bruntisland,   is   cautionei 
— Vol.  vii. 

The  Testament  Testamentar  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  ot  the  deceased  John 
Seattoun  in  Stramiglo,  in  the  parish  thereof  and  shire  of  Fife,  who  died  in  the  month  of 
April  1654.     Given  up  by  himself  at  Stramiglo,  26th  April  1654. 

Inventory  and  debts      .....  .     (sic) 

In  his  Latter  Will  he  leaves  to  Robert  Thomson,  wobster  in  Stramiglo,  his  sister's  son, 
to  be  paid  at  the  decease  of  Margaret  Rankine,  spouse  to  the  said  deceased  John,  ^100,  and 
nominates  the  said  Margaret  his  sole  executrix.  Dated  as  above.  Confirmed  nth  October 
1654.     Henry  Bontavron,  burgess  of  Falkland,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xi. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  of  umquhile  Isobell  Lindesay, 
spouse  to  Alexander  Seatoun,  lawful  son  to  George  Seatoun  of  Carestoun,  the  time  of  her 
decease,  who  died  ;  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  David  Lindesay 

of  Pitscandlie,  brother's  son  and  executor-dative  decerned  to  her. 

Inventory  and  debts  ......     ^1086,  13s.  4d. 

Confirmed  1st  November  1682.      William  Nicolson,  writer  in  Forfar,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xiv. 

The  Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  the  Goods,  etc.,  of  umquhile  Captain  Michael 
Seatton,  late  bailie  of  Bruntisland,  in  parish  thereof  and  shire  of  Fife,  the  time  of  his  decease, 
who  died  in  November  1691,  faithfully  made  and  given  up  by  Elspeth  Wilson,  relict  of  the 
said  Captain,  and  executrix-dative  decerned  to  him.  Confirmed  7th  May  1692.  John 
Cowan,  Baxter  in  Bruntisland,  is  cautioner. — Vol.  xv. 


5  Y 


906         LETTER  TO   POPE   GREGORY   XIII 


VII.     LETTERS 

ANT  of  space  prevents  me  from  including  many  curious  letters 
pertaining  to  the  main  line,  as  well  as  to  the  cadets,  of  the  House 
of  Seton ;  and  accordingly  only  a  few  are  here  given,  of  which 
several  relate  to  the  Cariston  branch  of  the  family. 

As  already  stated  (pp.  676-7  supra),  a  very  interesting  series 
of  Seton  letters  is  embraced  in  Sir  William  Fraser's  Memorials  of 
the  Montgo??ieries,  Earls  of  Eglinton,  and  extracts  from  others 
will  be  found  in  the  Tenth  Report  of  the  Historical  MSS.  Com- 
mission, p.  42  et  seq.  A  few  copies  of  the  facsimiles  of  the 
signatures  of  the  writers  are  given  on  the  opposite  page. 

The  following  letter  (of  which  the  original  was  probably  in  Latin)  was  written  to  Pope 
Gregory  xm.  by  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  about  nine  months  before  his  death : — 

'To  our  Most  Holy  Lord, — I  need  not  explain  to  your  Holiness  the  part  which  I 
have  taken  in  defending  the  Catholic  religion,  and  the  authority  of  the  Supreme  Pontiff,  for  I 
would  rather  leave  this  to  others.  Having  been  sent  hither  by  my  most  serene  master,  the 
King  of  Scots,  to  implore  the  aid  of  the  most  Christian  King  in  our  dreadful  emergencies,  I 
could  not  do  otherwise  than  write  to  your  Holiness  some  account  of  the  state  of  our  affairs. 
Briefly,  after  the  ministers  had  succeeded  in  sending  the  Duke  of  Lennox  away  from  Scotland, 
the  King  was  so  offended  that  he  would  hold  no  communication  with  them,  though  previously 
he  had  always  acted  in  accordance  with  their  advice.  They  took  offence  in  turn,  and  set  on 
foot  a  violent  insurrectionary  movement  against  his  authority,  partly  by  means  of  the  agents 
of  the  Queen  of  England,  and  partly  through  their  own  rebel  leaders.  Being  reduced  to 
extremity,  he  has  implored  the  aid  of  the  most  Christian  King,  and  more  particularly  that  of 
his  relative  the  Duke  of  Guise,  a  proceeding  which  has  raised  the  hopes  of  Catholics  to  the 
highest  point.  So  favourable  an  opportunity  never  occurred  before,  and  could  not  have  been 
expected  or  looked  for ;  and  it  is  doubly  important  that  it  should  not  be  lost.  The  King  has 
so  high  an  opinion  of  the  Duke  of  Guise  that  we  are  in  hopes  he  will  be  guided  in  everything 
by  his  advice.  Indeed,  he  has  not  only  written  as  much  to  the  Duke,  but  has  charged  me 
with  a  message  to  the  same  effect.  Our  hope  is  that  your  Holiness  will  both  animate  and 
encourage  the  Duke  to  make  some  effort  in  the  cause  of  religion,  and  also  give  him  sub- 
stantial assistance.  God  Himself,  beyond  all  our  hopes,  seems  to  have  provided  your 
Holiness  with  this  opportunity  of  extending  religion  and  of  obtaining  never-ending  glory. 
The  King's  age,  his  perilous  and  critical  position,  the  unbridled  insolence  of  the  ministers, 
are  all  circumstances  in  our  favour.  But  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  to  lose  no  time,  or 
the  chance  will  pass  away.  The  Queen  of  England  is  straining  every  nerve  to  crush  the 
King  of  Scots  by  a  rebellion  in  his  own  country,  and,  if  successful,  she  will  suppress  the 
Catholic  religion  altogether.  The  Duke  of  Guise,  to  whom  I  have  transmitted  the  King  of 
Scotland's  letter  for  your  Holiness,  will  doubtless  explain  matters  in  detail.  But  I  would 
implore  your  Holiness  not  to  let  the  existence  of  these  communications  be  known  to  any  one, 
for  this  would,  at  the  present  juncture,  place  the  King  in  the  most  extreme  difficulty.  At  a 
later  period  we  hope,  by  the  aid  of  your  Holiness,  that  he  will  be  free  to  declare  himself 
openly  a  son  of  your  Beatitude.  At  present  he  is  so  situated,  and  so  completely  in  the 
power  of  his  enemies,  that  he  is  scarcely  at  liberty  to  do  anything  whatever ;  from  this  con- 
dition it  is  for  your  Beatitude  to  rescue  him.  God  preserve  you  long  to  his  Church. — Your 
Holiness's  most  humble  servant,  Seton. 

'Paris,  March  14th,  1584.'1 


1  Theiner,   Annates  Eccksiastki,  iii.  598.     The  letter  i     printed  in   Forbes-Leith's  Narratives  of  Scottish 
Catholics,  p.  186. 


LETTER  TO   KING  JAMES   VI 


907 


Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton  ('Greysteel'). 


Daughter  of  third  Earl  of  Winton  and  wife  of  William,  seventh  Earl  Marischal. 


Susanna  Kennedy,  Countess  of  Eglinton. 


Letter  to  the  King  from  Chancellor  Seton.1 

(Advocates'  Library,  33.  1.  1,  vol.  ii.) 

'  Maist  Sacret  Soverane, — Schortlie  befoir  the  entrie  to  our  Parliament  I  resaved  fra 
my  Lord  of  Scoone  your  Sacred  Majestie's  gracious  Letter  in  a  pairt  testifeing  baith  your 
Hienes  good  rememberance  off  my  foirbears  good  service,  and  your  favourable  and  benigne 
acceptatioun  of  my  awin  goodwill  and  endewore  to  employe  sic  qualiteis  and  giftes  as  God 
hes  bestowed  on  me  at  your  Hienes  devotioun  and  command  with  greater  accompt  thairoff 

1  This  letter  is  briefly  referred  to  at  p.  81  of  my  Memoir  of  the  Chancellor. 


908  LETTER  TO   KING  JAMES   VI 

nor  ewer  I  can  be  hable  to  deserve  and  in  a  pairt  remembering  me  off  my  dewtie  in  all 
respects  and  degreis. 

'As  the  first  binds  me  in  all  dewtie  to  thankfull  and  cairfull  service  to  sa  thankfull 
gracious  and  sa  kyndlie  a  Soverane  Swa  does  the  Secund  remember  me  the  weyht  and  im- 
portance of  the  burding  I  onderly  in  sa  honorable  a  charge  to  ane  sa  wyse  grave  and  weell 
beand  Prence  wha  examines  and  weyis  all  his  subjects  and  speciallie  his  officiars  actiounis, 
baith  in  favour  wisdome  equitie  and  justice.  I  protest  befoir  God,  that  nixt  to  that  dewtie 
I  aught  to  God  for  my  saull  and  haill  being  your  Sacred  Majestie's  honour  will  and  weall  is 
and  shall  ewer  be  my  first  intentioun  and  principall  butt  of  all  my  actiounes  whairto  my  haill 
Industrie  and  studie  shall  be  directed  in  all  sinceritie  and  ernestnes. 

'  I  will  not  be  curious  to  purge  me  off  all  imputatiouns  whilk  naa  man  in  sic  charges  and 
sic  distance  of  plaices  fra  thair  maisters  sight  can  eschew.  I  repose  haillie  on  your  Hienes 
cleir  perspicacitie  heiche  judgement  and  constant  zeal  to  justice,  whilk  I  am  certane  will 
newer  condamne  me  in  the  smallest  enclein  of  your  mynd  onhard  and  tryed,  and  in  good 
tryall  I  am  eiwer  certane  to  preiwe  my  actiounes  conform  to  your  maist  gracious  Hienes 
directiounes,  to  your  will,  plesour  and  devotioun ;  ffor  that  has  ewer  bene,  and  swa  God 
willing  sail  continew  my  Cynosura  and  Leidar  Starne  to  follow  and  obey  in  all  humilitie 
your  prencelie  wisdome  in  all  deliberatiounes  and  conclusiounes. 

'  I  doubt  not  bot  the  progress  and  success  of  all  affairis  in  the  Parliament  was  signifeyed 
unto  your  Sacred  Majestie  att  all  tymes  and  occasiounes  be  my  Lord  of  Balmerinoch 
Secretair.  In  the  midst  of  the  Parliament  we  celebrat  very  solemlie  the  5  day  of  August 
the  day  of  your  Hienes  blissed  deliverie  from  Gowreis  treasonable  conspiracie,  in  the  whilk 
Mr.  Patrick  Galloway  maid  the  Sermone  in  the  Heiche  Kirk  werie  weell  to  the  purpose,  and 
discharged  his  dewtie  to  your  Majestie  werie  honestlie ;  geving  to  the  haill  auditorie  cleir 
evidentis  off  the  cair  God  had  off  your  Hienes  preservatioun  for  the  speciall  weell  off  the 
haill  natioun,  off  your  Majesteis  innocencie  and  good  meaning,  off  the  treacherous  intentiouns 
and  behaviour  of  the  conspiratouris  whilk  God  turned  all  miraculouslie  to  thair  confusioun, 
and  to  your  Majesteis  (as  his  chosen  serwante)  weill  honour  and  advancement,  for  his  text 
was  the  1 2  r  Psalme,  whilk  he  applyed  werie  purpoislie  to  this  intent.  This  maist  humblie 
taking  my  leive,  with  ernest  prayer  to  the  Almichtie  for  your  Hienes  lang  and  happie 
reigne. — Restis  Yr  Sacred  Maiesties  maist  humbil  and  obedient  Subiect  and  Servitour, 

'  DUNFERMELYN. 
'  DUNFERMLJNE, 

21  August  1607.' 
Endorsed — '  Chancellour  to  His  Majestie.' 

Letter  to  the  King  from  William  Seton,  Provost  of  Haddington. 

(Advocates'  Library,  33.  1.  i,  vol.  ii.) 

'  May  it  pleiss 

Your  most  gratious  Majestie, 

Si  accussasse  sufficiat,  as  saithe  Tacitus,  quis  Innocens,  zit  is  delatioun  and 
suspitioun  farre  inferiour  thairto  thocht  all  wayke  in  convictioun  without  confessioun,  preuffe 
or  euther  tryall — schall  I  presume,  in  my  baisse,  abiect,  and  contemtible  estaite  to  makke 
rakkening  off  my  intentioun  and  aernest  devotioun  ever  posessit  to  your  Heiness  service, 
thocht  without  all  habilite  to  performe  anye  offise  worthe  off  the  Samine  :  or  sail  I  be  baulde 
to  remember  your  Heiness  moste  sweitte  and  bontefull  speytches  quhairwith  (be3onte  all 
desert)  I  was  gracete  at  my  returne  from  the  Lawer  House  and  geiven  me  for  my  last  gude- 
nicht  be  gour  Majestie  my  onlye  contentment,  and  entertenment  off  my  houpes  ever  sence  : 
or  schall  I  thinke  ane  symple  and  inteire  hairte,  tawarts  God  and  30ur  Sacret  Majestie  fyffe 
and  conversatioun  to  the  uttermaist  off  my  powar  (with  modeste  be  it  saide)  onreprovable, 
with  preceise  obedience  in  all  respectis  geiwene  to  all  lawes  constitutiouns  and  dissipline 
civill  politique  and  ecclesiasticall  that  aither  anye  ane  or  all  togeither  soulde  to  ane  honest 
mynde  be  sufficient  gairde  from  delatiouns  and  naiket  suspitioun.  Or  with  the  poet  schall 
I  saye  hie  murus  asneus  esto  nil  conscire  mali,  nulla  pallescere  culpa.  Latte  the  waille  of 
gour  Heiness  moste  gratious  favour  couver  my  bauldeness  and  pardoune  my  presumptioun, 


TO   'THE    LAIRDE   OF   PANMURE'  909 

sence  tuitchit  in  poynte  of  credit  I  am  forcet  to  speike  as  ane  honest  manne.  This  thretteine 
3eires  my  residens  hes  bein  in  this  poure  brouche,  beiring  maiste  pairte  the  principall  charge  of 
magistratschippe,  under  jour  Heiness,  and  my  Lord  Dukke  of  Lenox,  alsweill  in  the  Schyre 
as  toune,  and  am  raeddy  without  exceptioun  off  anye  quhatsoever  calling,  estaite,  or  pro- 
fessioun,  publique,  prevatt  or  ecclesiastique,  thaie  be  off  within  the  Schyre  or  toune,  to  abyde 
thaire  accusatioun,  censure  or  tryall  for  my  wourdis  actiouns  or  behaviour,  nocht  onlye  in  the 
heest  kynde  off  offence  by  proffessioun  off  contraire  opinioun  bot  eiven  for  the  offer  off  the 
leiste  obiect  off  sklander,  nocht  refusing  for  the  meinest  offence  the  graettest  punischement. 
Intraetting  moste  humble  30m  sacret  Majestie  (nochtwithstanding  the  meiness  off  my  estaite) 
to  be  persuadit  off  all  punishement  able  to  be  devysitt  against  me,  the  heiest  to  haiff  beine 
ayemitt  att  daethe  nocht  being  in  anye  sorte  comparable  thairto  It  being  the  payement  off 
natures  dept  Bot  to  be  spoyllit  off  our  Princes  favour,  or  to  committ  that  quhilk  maye 
procure  the  samine,  as  in  naether  is  anye  necessite,  sua  hes  the  haille  stokke  I  haiffe  the 
honnour  to  be  ane  poure  brainsche  off  this  sax  hundreth  5eires  paste,  ever  thocht  the  paye- 
ment off  that  dept  sweitte  at  all  occasiouns,  sua  be  the  samine  thaie  micht  entertaine  thaire 
Soveraines  favour  and  bring  the  posterite  ane  memorie  off  vertu. 

'  This  in  all  humilite  and  devotioun  imploring  the  Kingue  off  all  Kingues  to  grante  sour 
Heiness  in  all  honour  and  prosperite  langue  and  happe  lyfe  to  raingne  auuer  ws. — Restes  yor 
heiness  maste  humble  subiect  and  seruitor, 


^^si^^fcrmi 


'  Hadingtoun,  this  13  October 
1608.' 

Endorsed — 'To  the  King  his  most  excellent  Majestic' 

And  in  another  hand — '  Sir  Williame  Seytoun  to  his  Majestie.' 

The  seal  bears  the  initials  of  the  writer — '  W.  S.' 

The  following  letter  from  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  was  found  by  the  late  Mr.  Andrew 
Jervise  at  Panmure  Castle  in  1875.  It  evidently  relates  to  an  important  'Petitioune'  pre- 
sented to  the  King  by  the  writer's  brother,  the  precise  object  of  which,  however,  cannot 
be  ascertained  from  the  statement  which  it  contains.  The  letter  is  addressed,  '  To  my  verry 
honnorable  and  loving  freind  The  Lairde  of  Panmure,  one  of  his  Most  sacred  Matie's  bedd- 
chalmer.     These.' 

'  Honorable  and  Loving  ffREiND, — By  occassioune  of  oure  Lord  Thesaurar  his  retorne 
I  find  his  Matie  wold  tak  no  notice  of  the  petitioune  formerlie  presented  be  my  Lord  my 
brother,  set  hes  benne  weall  pleasit  (not  onlie)  to  grant  most  greitiouslie  what  micht  be 
craved  for  me,  bot  also  particularlie  to  recommend  to  the  Lord  Thesaurar  that  at  his  retorne 
heir  he  schould  againe  renew  the  rememberence  of  that  bussines  bak  to  his  Ma*  vrtche  his 
Lop.  hes  doone  at  lenthe  heirw*  as  lykwayes  to  Mr.  Maxwell  quha  wes  pnt  at  his  Matcis 
first  conference  and  promeis,  and  to  quhome  the  Lord  Thesaurar  at  his  pairting  did  parlie 
recomend  the  cariage  of  that  bussines  for  my  better  furtherance.  Whairfore  my  piit  desyre 
is  onlie  that  as  I  have  at  lenthe  wreatten  to  Mr.  Maxwell  myself,  so  I  intreat  gif  the  Lord 
Deputie  be  to  tak  his  leive  schortlie  or  vtherwayes  as  se  may  find  it  necessr  3c  be  weall 
pleasit  to  assist  and  concure  w*  Mr.  Maxwell  that  this  sex  thousand  aiker  of  land  desyret  be 
the  Lord  There  and  grauntit  be  his  Matie  for  my  behooff  may  be  fullie  obtenit  and  y*  wtch0  I 
assuredlie  expect  vpone  more  easier  and  better  conditionnes  then  the  ordiner  generalie  pre- 
served wtche  vtherwayes  may  prove  rather  hurtfull  then  proffitable  to  any  of  my  conditioun 
or  qualetie  to  follow.  I  had  intentioun  to  send  vp  one  of  my  owin  to  haue  followed  the  sam 
w*  sour  favorable  concurrence,  bot  fearing  the  Lord  Deputie  micht  be  gone  befoir  I  could 
haue  one  yr  I  maid  choyse  rather  vpone  the  suddaine  to  put  sow  my  freindes  thair  to  this 
truble  wisching  to  be  acqueintit  w'  the  first  occasionne  of  the  Lord  Deputie's  dyet  and  of  the 
generall  course  of  these  affaires  and  q*  goodlie  I  may  expect  for  my  p*  of  the  same.  Re- 
ferring all  I  could  say  forder  hereannent  to  sour  spell,  caire  of  what  may  so  mutche  concerne 


910         QUAINT   EPISTLE   FROM   MADRAS 

me  at  our  Maisters  handes  bothe  in  credeit  and  esteat,  wtch0  I  houp  $e  sail  find  to  be  remem- 
beret  w*  all  thankfulness  on  ye  p4  off,  your  most  faithfull  ffreind  and  Servand, 

'  Wintoun. 
Cannogait, 

19  Novemb.  1636. 

'  Gif  5e  find  necessr  I  send  one  frome  this  vpone  30ur  adverteisment  I  schall  observe  sour 
ordour  w*  all  caire  and  diligence.' 

I  have  failed  to  identify  Francis  Seaton,  the  writer  of  the  following  extraordinary  letter, 
in  the  possession  of  General  John  Hay  (son  of  Charles  Crosland  Hay,  of  the  family  of  Hopes), 
which  is  believed  to  have  been  addressed  to  one  of  the  General's  predecessors. 

'Madrass,  Jan?  the  4  day  1697. 

'Esteemed  Sr, — I  received  yor  kinde  Letter  from  Edinburgh  dated  the  7  day  Jany  1697 
(sic).  Sr  you  may  believe  that  it  was  great  Joy  to  mee  to  hear  from  Soe  Worthie  a  gentleman 
&  my  ould  acquaintance,  and  since  you  have  been  soe  kinde  as  to  honor  mee  with  yora  I 
am  in  honor  bound  to  answer  soe  worthie  a  friend.  You  write  mee  neues  y*  you  are  maried 
which  I  am  very  glad  to  hear :  but  I  understand  yor  Lady  is  Ded  which  I  am  heartyly  sorey  to 
heare  that  soe  sweete  and  comfordable  a  cuple  should  be  parted  ;  but  since  it  hes  pleased  God 
to  take  her  to  his  self  you  must  rest  contented,  for  it  was  once  my  own  case.  Dear  Cumrade, 
I  must  put  you  in  minde  of  an  ould  saying  yfc  ye  world  saies  that  '  a  ded  wife  and  a  thousand 
pounds  in  a  house  is  two  good  moveables ' :  The  Ded  wife  to  put  five  foot  in  ye  ground,  and 
the  thousand  pounds  in  yor  pocket  will  give  good  incoragement  to  looke  out  sharp  for  another 
pritty  Lady.  You  writ  mee  all  the  news  of  the  wares  (wars  ?)  for  which  I  humbly  thank  you. 
You  likewies  tell  mee  y*  ye  believe  that  the  day  of  Judgment  is  very  nighe.  I  would  aduise 
you  and  all  the  Rest  of  my  ould  friends  y*  is  afrade  of  that  day  to  cum  ouer  to  mee,  for  wee 
neuer  soe  much  as  think  of  any  such  thing  heare,  for  wee  are  in  a  verey  frutfull  &  pleasant 
cuntery  and  Drinks  our  Boule  of  good  Goe  Arrack  punsh  and  all  other  injoyements  wee  want 
none.  Now  as  for  my  owne  parte  noe  man  cann  be  hapery  then  I  am,  for  I  want  for  nothing 
y*  this  world  afordes,  for  I  am  mareyed  the  second  time :  Neuer  was  man  more  hapery  yn  I 
am  in  both  wifes.  I  had  by  my  first  wife  fower  children,  two  boys  and  a  girll  is  Ded,  and  my 
Daughter  Ann  whoe  is  alive.  Shee  is  in  England  at  bording  Scoule  under  the  care  of  Cap' 
Wm  Heath  whoe  lives  at  Miles  End  by  London.  Cumrad,  I  will  Desire  the  favor  of  you  if 
you  goe  to  London  to  goe  and  see  my  child,  and  I  shall  take  it  very  kindly  from  you.  I  have 
by  ye  present  wife  two  children  alive  and  she  now  is  with  childe  of  the  third.  The  greatest 
news  I  cann  write  you  y*  there  is  a  fortt  within  three  days  march  of  ys  place  called  "  Guggee  " 
which  hess  indewered  a  Sige  dewering  tenn  years  past,  and  it  is  now  taken  by  ye  great  Mogull 
Ozembseb  his  Armey.  The  fift  of  ye  instant  Jan?  1697  there  came  a  Shipp  into  ye  porte  which 
tells  us  Shee  was  taken  by  ye  Peiratts,  coming  from  Chaparro  ;  the  ship  belonged  to  the  Jaues  (?) 
and  Chaeineis  being  Lodened  with  Rice  and  bailie  goods :  they  have  given  this  Vessell  to  one  of 
or  conteryman  whose  name  is  Walleck  home  (whom  ?)  they  had  taken  before  :  hee  alsoe  tells  Us 
that  ye  Peiratt  ye  "  Moke  "  ffriget  by  name  is  gon  to  Achend,  where  wee  belive  Shee  will  Ly  & 
wate  for  or  Chaney  ships  whearin  I  am  Deeply  Conseerned — the  most  what  I  am  worth  is 
there.  In  the  Reading  of  my  Brothers  Letter  hee  tells  mee  y*you  are  now  maried  again  to  the 
second  Lady :  my  wife  gives  her  Love  and  seruis  to  youer  Lady  and  good  self  with  mine.  I 
prey  give  my  seruis  to  all  ffriends  and  to  my  Brother  Lawther  and  Mr  David  fforest  whome 
I  am  much  obleiged  tow.     I  am  yor  afection.  Cumrade  and  humble  Servant, 

'  Francis  Seatoun.' 

The  following  (in  a  somewhat  different  tone)  was  transcribed,  24th  April  1845,  from  a 
copy  of  the  original  letter  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Balderstone,  sister  of  Sir  Dugald  Gilmour 
(of  the  family  of  Craigmillar),  then  residing  in  Maitland  Street,  Edinburgh. 

The  letter  is  endorsed  'A  double  of  y°  letter  by  Sir  John  Clerk  of  Pennycook  to  his  lady 
and  children  sometime  before  his  death,  17 18.  He  died  in  March  1722.'  It  extends  to  six 
pages,  and  the  following  is  written  at  the  top  of  page  first : — '  A  double  of  ye  letter  by  Sir  John 


LETTER   FROM   SIR  JOHN   CLERK         911 

Clerk  of  Pennycook  to  his  wife  and  children,  ioth  of  January  1696,  at  Newbiging — revised 
and  written  over  again  2nd  January  1714  and  (again)  revised  and  adhered  to  by  him.' 

'  To  my  dearly  beloved  wife  Christian  Kirkpatrick  (sic),  my  well  beloved  son  John  Clerk,1 
and  my  dear  children,  Elizabeth,  Henry,  Barbara,  William,  Sophia,  Mary,  James,  Cathrine, 
Christian,2  Robert,  Margret,  David,  Hugh,  and  Alexander  Clerks. 

'  Fearing  I  might  be  surprised  with  death  and  hurried  into  Eternity  (as  many  are),  and 
loose  the  opportunity  of  putting  my  house  in  order  and  acquainting  you  with  some  things 
which  concerns  your  comfortable  living  together  in  the  fear  of  the  Lord,  I  have,  in  waknes 
and  as  ye  Lord  gave  me  Streanth,  laid  hold  on  his  Covenant,  and  resigning  all  my  earthly  con- 
cerns and  worldly  substance  to  him  most  chearfully,  I  have  reserved  for  myself  the  hope  of 
Salvation  and  of  that  inheritance  which  is  incorruptible,  undefiled,  and  that  fadeth  not  away. 
I  have  by  my  testament  and  by  my  bonds  of  provisione  in  favours  of  my  younger  children 
made  my  Will  known  as  to  the  most  equall  division  of  that  estate  which  the  Lord  was  pleased 
to  bestow  upun  me,  and  as  he  directed  and  assisted  me  to  distribute  the  same  and  I  have 
choisen  this  occasion  of  giving  my  counsell  and  last  advise  to  all  of  you,  that  when  I  come  to 
dye,  I  may  have  nothing  to  doe  but  to  dye,  and  O  that  I  may  be  helped  thro'  grace  to  live  and 
dye  in  the  Lord.  Be  thankfull  and  content  with  what  ye  Lord  hath  provided  for  you,  and 
studie  godliness  which  with  contentment  is  great  gain.  Bear  one  another's  burden  in  ye  Lord. 
Your  Mother-in-law  as  she  has  been  most  dutifull  and  affectionate  to  me,  so  has  she  always, 
according  to  her  power,  promotted  your  interest  and  studied  your  comfort,  and  that  of  all  my 
children.  I  intreat  you,  therefore,  my  dear  Sone  John,  to  be  a  kind  oblidging  Sone  to  her,  a 
loving  brother  and  an  affectionate  father  to  our  children.  I  am  very  confident  you  will  doe 
this  according  to  your  power  and  their  deservings,  and  therefor  shall  suppress  all  arguments 
that  might  excite  you  to  the  performance  of  that  dutie  towards  them  all,  which  I  am  persuaded 
you  will  do  most  cheerfully  of  your  own  accord  in  the  streanth  of  ye  Lord.  By  concord  small 
things  come  to  ane  good  account,  therefore  I  advise  you  to  live  together  if  posable,  for  this 
will  contribute  to  your  honour  and  interest,  and  because  sometimes  differences  do  arise 
amongst  [those]  that  have  the  root  of  ye  matter  in  them,  and  are  sincere  belivers ;  therefore 
I  requier  and  command  you  in  ye  Lord  that  in  case  any  such  differences  should  happen  among 
you  to  end  ye  same  by  a  friendly  reference  thereof  to  a  newtrall  person  and  not  to  go  to  Law. 
(Cor:  1  st,  6  chapr  1  verse — ). 

'The  day  ere  long  will  break  and  ye  shadows  will  fly  away,  and  ye  morning  of  ye 
resurection  will  appear.  O  that  you  may  studie  them  and  make  it  your  chief  bussinness  to 
get  ane  interest  in  ye  first  resurection,  that  when  Christ  that  is  our  life  shall  appear,  you  may 
also  appear  with  him  in  glory;  and  in  order  to  this  I  know  nothing  more  suitable  and 
necessarie  for  you  than  to  be  making  a  sure,  a  saving  interest  in  God,  and  ye  everlasting 
covenant  thro'  Jesus  Christ,  before  the  time  when  you  shall  come  to  walk  through  the  valey 
of  ye  shadow  of  death,  that  you  may  fear  no  ill,  and  may  have  an  undauted  right  to  all  ye 
great  and  precious  promises  thro'  Christ,  and  be  enabled  to  answere  all  challanges  arising 
from  temptations,  afflictions,  or  desertions,  and  may  plead  confidently  with  ye  Lord  for  ye 
performance  of  all  his  promises.  I  earnestly  request  you  all,  in  ye  strenth  of  ye  Lord,  to  make 
a  personall  covenant  with  ye  Lord  speedily  and  yet  deliberatly,  sincerely,  and  expressly  in 
Wryte,  and  that  you  sign  it  with  your  heart  and  hand,  for  herein  consists  the  very  direct  formall 
act  of  justifying  faith.  For  your  direction  in  this  duty  you  may  consult  with  what  those  learn'd 
and  godly  men,  Masters  Guthrie,  Wedderburn,  Allen  Dickson,  Clerk,  etc.  etc.,  have  writen 
on  that  subject,  and  for  your  encouragement  I  must  tell  you  that  since  that  day  (which  was  in 
ye  year  1683),  I  was  directed  by  ye  Lord  to  set  about  that  solemn  duty,  I  have  (as  I  think) 
thriven  and  prosper'd  more  both  as  to  my  soul  and  body  than  ever  I  did  before  that  time.  I 
found  no  small  advantage  also  by  my  keeping  a  spirituall  journall  wherein  I  wrote  down  dayly 
my  experiances  and  practises,  with  ye  divine  providences  that  occur'd.  I  advise  you  to  try 
and  sett  about  this  duty  more  diligently  than  ever  I  did,  for  this  will  give  you  a  nice  and 
criticall  view  of  all  the  various  steps  and  degrees  of  God's  methods  of  grace  to  your  souls,  and 
will  acquaint  you  with  the  wickednes  and  deceatfulness  of  your  own  hearts,  and  with  Satan's 


1  Second   Baronet,  and  author  of  the   interesting  -  Wife  of  David  Seton  of  the  family  of  Cariston, 

Diary  referred  to  at  p.  592,  note  I.  p.  592. 


912         LETTER   FROM   SIR  JOHN   CLERK 

deseits  and  his  manner  of  managing  his  tentations ;  this  will  discover  to  you  what  progress 
you  make  in  Santification,  and  whether  your  stock  of  grace  be  on  the  growing  or  decaying 
hand,  and  this,  thro'  the  blising  of  ye  Lord,  will  be  your  remembrance  many  ways  in  many 
things  to  the  great  advantage  and  satisfaction  both  of  yourselves  and  others.  Neglect  not,  I 
pray  you,  for  Lord's  sake,  to  set  up  the  worship  of  God  in  your  familes,  that  he  may  have  a 
visible  throne  erected  in  every  one  of  your  houses ;  but  above  all  prepare  a  habitation  for  him 
in  your  hearts,  for  he  is  your  God  and  your  Father's  God.  Keep  up  comunion  with  him  by 
secret  prayer  and  meditation,  by  ye  dilligent  observance  of  all  his  ordinances  and  practise  of 
all  commanded  duties,  walking  always  in  his  presence,  and  aspiring  ever  into  perfectione  thro' 
ye  spirit  of  ye  Lord.  Be  kindly  affectionate  one  to  another,  with  brotherly  love,  in  honour 
preferring  one  another,  not  slothfull  in  business,  fervent  in  spirit,  serving  the  Lord.  Beware  01 
entering  rashly  into  familiarity  and  intimate  friendship  with  any  persons.  Let  those  be  your 
chief  Comarads  whom  you  may  have  ground  to  believe  will  be  your  companiones  in  heav'n. 
Look  never  upon  any  person  as  worthie  of  your  intimate  love  and  respect  with  whom  you  may 
not  carrie  on  a  heav'nly  correspondance  and  fellowship  in  time,  by  prayer  and  divine  con- 
ferences. Acquaint  yourselves  much  with  the  scriptures  and  take  the  help  of  ye  best 
commentaries  thereon,  which  you  can  purchis,  for  those  are  the  glasses  wherein  you  can  best 
see  the  mercy  and  goodness  of  God  in  Christ,  your  own  vileness  and  the  absolute  need  you 
have  of  a  mediator  and  redeemer  and  Phisitson.  Look  upon  religion  as  the  highest  improve- 
ment of  ye  humane  nature  and  the  best  guide  of  humane  life.  I  judge  presbeterian  government 
to  be  agreeable  to  the  word  of  God,  and  commanded  by  our  Lord  and  master,  and  that 
Episcopacy  hath  ever  been  a  grevious  plague  to  this  nation,  and  followed  with  visible  marks 
of  God's  displeasure.  I  earnestly  then  recommend  to  your  love  and  respect  all  the  faithfull 
ministers  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  and  would  have  you  studie  all  opportunities 
of  serving  and  oblidging  them  in  the  Lord,  espacialy  of  receaving  the  gospell  of  your  salvation 
kindly  from  their  mouths.  O  that  the  Lord  may  let  you  know  the  infinate  advantage  of  being 
the  objects  of  his  love  and  the  subjects  of  ye  prayers  of  his  saints  and  people ;  I  earnestly  beg 
it  of  you,  and  if  I  have  any  (wight  at  you  ?)  I  command  that  my  burial  and  interement,  when 
the  Lord  shall  determine  it,  be  according  to  a  particular  memoir  which  is  in  my  closet,  written 
and  sign'd  by  me,  so  far  at  least  as  is  possible  in  every  point.  I  have  heard  many  wise  persons 
cry  out  against  the  vanities  and  extravagance  committed  at  burialls,  and  yet  good  people  many 
times  being  led  by  the  stream  of  the  fashion  and  to  prevent  reproaches,  have  been  forced  to 
run  into  those  extravagances  at  the  interment  of  their  deasesed  friends,  and  all  because  they 
left  no  particular  order  in  wryte  themselves  anent  their  interment,  which  seeing,  I  tor  my  part 
have  studied  to  obviate ;  I  hope  you  will  take  care  to  please  me  in  this.  As  for  my  spirituall 
journall  carried  on  by  me  from  the  year  1683  to  this  day,  and  my  written  personal  covenant 
with  my  Lord  and  my  God  in  Christ,  with  some  excerpts  out  of  ye  Scripture,  I  leave  them  to 
your  perusall  and  then  to  be  burned  when  you  shall  think  fit.  Finally  I  exhort  you  all  that 
you  sorrow  not  for  me,  as  those  who  have  no  hope  of  a  glorious  resurection,  for  tho'  I  change 
my  place  I  change  not,  I  trust,  my  master,  but  go  to  my  God  and  your  God,  to  my  father  and 
your  father,  the  author  of  my  life,  and  the  life  and  love  of  my  soul.  Within  a  litle  space  I 
hope  we  '11  meet  again  together  in  glory,  and  joyn  for  ever  with  angels  above  and  the  spirits  of 
just  men  made  perfect,  in  the  shewing  furth  the  praises  of  our  Lord,  ye  Prince  of  the  Kings  of 
the  earth,  who  loved  us  and  washed  us  from  our  sins  in  his  own  blood,  and  has  made  us  Kings 
and  Priests  unto  God ;  who  has  called  us  from  death  to  Life,  and  made  us  partakers  of  his 
divine  nature  and  sharers  of  his  eternall  happiness.  Ferewell,  be  perfect,  be  of  good  comfort, 
for  our  glorious  redeemer  and  blessed  Saviour  is  gone  up  with  a  shout  into  heaven,  and  shall 
come  again  with  the  sound  of  a  trumpet.  Sing  praises  to  God,  sing  praises ;  sing  praises  to 
our  King,  sing  praises.  Be  of  one  mind.  Live  in  peace,  and  the  God  of  love  and  peace  shall 
be  with  you.  Now  unto  him  that  is  able  to  keep  you  from  falling,  and  to  present  you  faultless 
before  the  presence  of  his  glory  with  exceeding  joy,  to  the  only  wise  God  and  our  Saviour,  be 
glory  and  majestie,  Dominion  and  Power,  for  ever,  Amen. — I  am,  my  dearly  beloved,  yours  in 
the  Lord,  John  Clerk.' 

The  following  epistle,  which  is  addressed  to  'Mr  Jno   Baird,   Mercht  in  Leith,'  and 
docqueted  on  the  back   'Crister.   (Christopher)  Seton,  Leven,   18th  Jany  1732,'  is  in  the 


LETTER   FROM   PARIS  913 

possession  of  the  Rev.  A.  T.  Grant  of  St.  Margaret's  Rectory,  Leven,  and  evidently  relates 

to  something  approaching  to  smuggling  transactions  : — 

'  Fridy,  12  acklock. 

'  DR  Sir, — Y  Recieved  yours  and  am  mighty  glade  things  are  yet  in  such  a  good  way, 
altho  att  the  same  time  its  more  By  good  Luck  then  by  the  Governement  of  your  captain.  Y 
shall  take  care  of  Your  affairs  Recomended  to  me  here  as  it  were  my  owen.  Y  am  not  fully 
satisfyd  with  the  way  your  Goods  are  Lodged  just  now,  for  there  is  too  much  att  Abberdower 
to  be  Lodged  in  one  House,  likeways  att  Dinibirscell.  My  oppinion  is  you  send  a  trusty  hand 
and  cawse  Lodge  it  in  twos  and  threes  att  Both  Places,  and  the  proper  person  for  finding  out 
the  Places  is  the  men  that  has  the  present  Care  of  them.  The  Nighbouring  gentlemens  Houses 
is  the  Propper  Places,  and  if  Posible  some  in  Lord  Murray's  and  some  in  Lord  Abber- 
dowers  cellars.  What  is  att  Kinghorne  is  better,  but  not  yntirely  Safe.  Yf  you  could  make 
a  stepp  over,  Y  am  Persweded  that  Mr  Brand  &  Mr.  Bailie,  Each  might  Buy  a  Hhd,  and 
might  Lodge  one  or  two  more.  This  I  think  worth  your  while.  Yn  the  mean  time  Y  would 
cawse  enter  Haxtons  wine,  and  transpert  it  Directly  to  your  cellurs  att  Musleburgh,  and  a  few 
days  after  Y  would  venture  a  Boat  full  over  of  whats  up  the  water. — Y  am  sincerely,  Sir,  your 
most  Hu11  Ser*,  C.  Seton. 

'  .P.S. — You  may  come  in  a  yoall  and  Doe  your  Business  att  Kinghorn  and  be  Back  att 
Leith  in  3  hours,  but  be  sure  to  bring  Jn°  Boid  along  with  yow.' 

The  following  curious  letter,  referred  to  under  Garleton,  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Robert-Mordaunt  Hay  of  Duns  Castle,  whose  nephew,  William-Hope  Hay,  is  the  heir  of 
line  of  the  Setons,  Viscounts  Kingston.  The  person  to  whom  it  is  addressed  was  probably 
Alexander  Hay  of  Drumelzier  and  Whittinghame,  great-grandfather  of  Mr.  Hay.  The  writer 
of  the  letter  was  evidently  Sir  George  Seton  of  Garleton,  third  Baronet,  and  dejure  sixth  Earl  of 
Winton.  His  father,  Sir  George  Seton,  second  Baronet,  married  Barbara,  daughter  of  Andrew 
Wauchope  of  Niddrie,  whose  brother  was  probably  the  '  Niddry '  mentioned  in  the  letter  : — 

'  Febry  17,  1757. 
'  DE  SE, — Enfin  done,  grace  a  Dieu,  on  apprend  depuis  quelque  jours  par  l'arive  a  Paris 

depuis  quelque  tems  d'un  certain  Don  Gulielmo ,*  honet  home  de  nos  amis  est  dans  la 

tere  des  vivans  et  en  bonne  sante,  done  je  suis  tres  rejouie.  Amongst  friends,  what  do  you 
think  that  3  letters  I  wrot  since  your  arrival  the  tother  syde  of  Tweede  could  never  obtain 
so  much  as  one  line  from  your  honour,  mais  ne  parlons  plus  de  cela ;  had  you  wrot  I  designd 
to  begg  the  fauour  you  would  endeauour  to  persuade  L  Somervile  to  give  up  the  family 
picturs,  now  in  his  custody,  particularly  the  familie  pice  done  by  holbens ; 2  he  alwaise  said 
he  would  give  them  up  to  the  family.  I  know  no  body  has  more  right  than  I  in  that  respect, 
wherfor  I  houpe  he  '1  not  refuse  to  comply ;  you  may  thinke  in  what  proper  maner  to  propose 
it,  should  you  think  fitt  to  speak  to  his  neighbour  Niddry,  or  if  it  was  necessary  I  should 
wryt  to  him  myselfe,  in  short  I  'm  resolveid  he  shall  say  yea  or  no.  It  would  not  bee  much 
for  his  honour  I  should  think  to  say  no,  whereby  to  take  advantage  of  the  malheur  of  my 
poor  famely.  The  aald  wife  Pitcairn,3  I  supose  you  know,  would  do  nothing  befor  her 
death  as  to  the  monie  quelle  avoit  escamobe ; 4  she  has  furnisiht  an  apartment  in  Winton 
house  of  the  debris  and  plunder  of  Seton  house,  wherin  was  placed  lykewaise  that  famous 
pale5  that  cost  1000^,  with  several  other  things  I  supose  now  in  the  custody  of  Buchan.6 
Has  he  a  mind  too  to  keep  all  that  plunder?  He  may  content  himselfe  with  perhaps  20000^ 
he  has  made  of  the  estate.    If  you  dont  think  fitt  to  medle  yourselfe  in  such  an  afair,  pray  you 


1  This  word  is  smeared  out — Hay  ?  from  Lat.  pallium  .  .  .  Scandinavian  pell .  .  .  French 

2  Evidently  the  group  of  the  Seton  family,  usually  palle,poile.  Isl.  pell  denotes  cloth  of  the  most  precious 
attributed  to  Sir  Antonio  More.  kind  ;  textum  pretiosum.  .  .   .  Old  French  paile  de- 

3  See  under  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  p.  258,  noted  cloth  of  silk.' 

note  2,  supra.  6  Either  George  Buchan  of  Kelloe  or  John  Buchan 

4  Pilfered  or  filched.  of  Lethem   (respectively  grandfather  and   father    of 

5  Spelt  in  Jamieson's  Scottish  Dictionary  '  pall '  and  George  Buchan-Hepburn,  referred  to  at  p.  792  supra), 
'peal,'  and  defined  'any  rich  or  fine  cloth,  particu-  who  had  long  been  lessees  of  the  Seton  estates  under 
larly  purple.'     Ruddiman  'seems  to  derive  the  word  the  York  Buildings  Company. 


914  A   FOND   MOTHER'S   LETTER 

desire  Rob  Seton  to  enquire  a  litle.  You  may  say  after  what  I  have  losst  its  not  worth  while 
to  enquir  for  such  trifles,  vero,  but  I  must  tell  you  it  may  hapne  on  certain  occasions  that 
such  things  could  they  bee  disposed  of  might  even  bee  of  use  to  certain  foleks.  A  litle  after 
you  left  this  place  I  had  2  or  3  letters  from  Niddry  that  the  Yorck  buildings  creditors  ware  to 
put  the  estate  to  a  sale  immediately,  desird  to  comunicat  to  my  friends  which  I  did,  since 
which  I  have  heard  no  more  of  the  mater.  I  should  bee  glad  to  know  the  meaning  of  that. 
Now  as  to  the  picturs  I  mentiond,  should  they  bee  pickt  out  of  that  certain  Lord's  fingers,  I 
would  desire  the  favour  you  would  take  them  into  your  custody  and  place  them  rather  at 
Whitengham,  it  beein  in  east  Lothian,  en  atendant  the  palazo  a  la  paladio  you  are  to  build  to 
answer  to  your  portico  sur  quoi  je  vous  fais  mes  complimens.  As  to  our  friend  Don  Gulielmo, 
I  must  tell  you  he 's  fat  and  fair,  the  chocolat  and  the  olios  have  done  well  with  him ;  as  to  his 
compagnion  de  voiage  Brincadoro  he 's  a  verie  douce  grave  fellow,  with  a  countenance  much 
as  you  may  supose  a  Corregidor.1  Now  I  must  begg  leave  to  pay  my  compliments  to  your 
Lady.  I  had  the  honour  to  see  her  at  Belton,  and  althou  no  great  botleman,  yet  I  have 
had  the  pleasure  of  drinkin  her  health  several  times.  I  houpe  you  '1  pay  my  compliments 
lykewaise  to  Lady  Blantyre,  your  daughter,  the  Widow,  and  the  2  young  ladys,  and  par- 
ticulary  to  my  friend  William.  As  to  the  India  sparks  I  reckon  they  are  filling  their  pouches 
fou  of  Rupees.  I  hear  William  is  a  chasseur.  I  must  tell  him  when  he  goes  to  Kinglidors 
to  take  care  of  the  bogs  and  the  Twedel  rains  which  is  a  fall  of  bukets  of  water.  When 
that  hapnes,  il  faut  doner  de  deux  et  ganier  le  gist.2  You  '1  excuse  if  I  have  been  too  tedious. 
Belive  me  to  bee  alwaise  your  most  Affect  and  Obdnt  Seruant,  Dr  Sr, 

'G.  S.  W TON.' 

The  writer  of  the  following  letter  was  Susan  Moray  of  Abercairney,  wife  of  James  Seton, 
Governor  of  St.  Vincent  (of  the  family  of  Barns).  It  is  addressed  to  her  son  James,  after- 
wards Colonel  Seton  of  Brookheath,  Hants.  The  original  is  in  the  possession  of  Colonel 
Seton's  daughter,  Mrs.  Coventry,  of  Burgate  House,  Fordingbridge,  Hants : — 

'Moor  Park,  Aprile  17,  1779. 
'  My  dear  James, — I  have  wrote  several  letters  since  I  came  here ;  I  expect  to  hear 
from  you  to-day.  I  see  by  the  newspapers  the  signal  is  given  for  all  the  troops  to  go  abroad, 
which  makes  me  think  you  will  not  be  long  of  sailing.  The  newspapers  say  you  are  not 
going  to  New  York  but  to  Carolina,  to  join  General  Campbell,  how  far  it  is  true,  God  knows. 
I  beg,  my  dear,  you  will  tell  Colonel  Dundas  I  wou'd  take  it  as  a  favour  if  he  will  let  me 
know  where  the  Reg'  is  order'd  for;  your  papa  is  quite  miserable  till  he  is  made  certain 
about  it.  Now,  my  dear  James,  when  you  do  sail,  let  me  entreat  you  will  let  no  opportunity 
escape  of  writing,  were  it  but  a  line.  You  may  have  a  chance  ship  pass  you  at  sea  before 
you  get  to  America,  and  a  line,  if  you  are  able,  to  say  how  you  hold  out  will  be  a  great 
comfort  to  your  father  and  me.  I  trust  in  God,  my  dear  child,  you  will  never  forget  your 
duty  to  God ;  by  being  punctual  in  that,  it  will  bring  every  other  duty  in  your  mind,  and 
prevent  bad  advice  and  example  from  taking  root  in  your  heart.  Remember  what  I  told 
you  about  being  polite  and  civil  to  all,  but  be  of  no  party,  which  there  often  are  in  Regts. 
Where  you  meet  with  kindness  return  it  with  gratitude,  if  from  a  worthy  person — but  cuning 
people  are  often  kind  to  people  to  draw  them  in.  Always  take  Colonel  Dundas'  advice — he 
has  seen  much  of  the  world ;  and  if  you  repose  a  confidence  in  him,  it  will  make  him  like 
you  and  will  be  of  infinite  advantage  to  you — his  good  character,  everybody  speaks  well  of 
him,  and  whatever  character  he  gives  of  the  officers  in  his  Reg4  will  be  believ'd  before  any- 
body. So,  my  dear  child,  always  be  pleasant  and  obeydient  to  him.  Never  dispute  what  he 
says,  even  tho'  you  shou'd  think  him  in  the  wrong.  Keep  your  mind  to  yourself,  and  when 
you  speak,  always  be  diffident  of  yourself — hear  others  and  make  your  own  use  of  it.  Your 
knowledge  of  the  world  is  very  small,  so  never  be  positive.  Young  people  are  often  wrong, 
as,  from  want  of  experience,  their  notion  cannot  be  just — the  longer  you  live,  my  dear  James, 
you  will  be  the  more  sensible  how  necessary  all  this  that  I  have  often  told  you  is  to  practice, 
and  one  cannot  keep  well  with  a  variety  of  people  without  it.  Be  sure  when  you  meet  with 
Sir  William  Erskine  to  be  his  slave,  to  serve  him  day  and  night,  if  in  your  power.     On  him 


=  Spanish  magistrate.  2  Equivalent  to  'one  must  spur  one's  horse  and  gain  the  main  point.1 


JAMES   SETON   (CARISTON)  915 

and  Colonel  Dundas'  good  character  does  all  your  future  promotion  attend.  Nothing  will 
recommend  you  to  Sir  William  so  much  as  to  be  constantly  employ'd ;  he  is  a  man  that  will 
not  quarrel  you  much,  but  he  will  speak  about  it  to  others,  if  he  sees  anything  wrong.  So, 
my  dear  child,  be  on  your  guard.  Pray  have  you  got  the  letter  Lord  Eglintone  promis'd  to 
write  ?  I  beg  you  will  let  me  know.  You  shou'd  get  some  oil'd  silk  or  bladder  for  the  crown 
of  your  hat.  The  heat  in  America  is  very  great.  I  will  not  shut  this  letter  till  the  post  come, 
that  I  see  if  I  hear  from  you.  Read  this  with  attention  at  your  leisure  hours.  My  dear 
child,  may  God  Almighty  be  your  guide  is  the  prayer  of  your  aff*  mother,  S:  Seton. 

'  The  Dutchess  and  all  the  young  folks  are  well.     Charlotte  is  quite  happie  with  them. 

'  If  you  receive  the  letter  from  Eglintone,  be  sure  and  dress  yourself  as  well  as  you  can, 
and  deliver  it  yourself — upon  no  account  send  it.  To  deliver  it  yourself  may  be  of  use  to 
you.  A  gentleman  need  never  be  ashamed  to  wait  on  anybody  if  he  behaves  like  a  gentle- 
man. For  God's  sake,  take  care  of  cold.  Keep  your  warm  night-cap  on,  and  be  careful  of 
yourself.  You  will  not  find  so  good  a  .  .  .  as  .  .  .  when  you  are  sick,  so  you  must  nurse 
yourself.  I  beg  to  know  if  you  are  aboard  the  same  ship  with  Colonel  Dundas.  The  post 
is  come  and  no  letter  from  you.  My  dear  child,  I  again  pray  a  thousand  blessings.  Your 
ever  afp  mother  S.  Seton.' 

The  two  following  extracts  are  from  letters  from  my  great-granduncle,  James  Seton,  the 
youthful  soldier  of  Culloden  (p.  60 1  supra).  The  first  is  addressed  to  'Robert  Seton,  Esqr, 
London,'  and  the  second  to  a  young  relative  in  that  city,  after  his  return  from  India. 

(1)  The  first  letter  embraces  a  pretty  full  statement  relative  to  the  Setons  of  Blackhall, 
(p.  591  supra),  and  concludes  as  follows : — 

'  The  above  was  wrote  for  the  information  and  entertainment  of  Robert  Seton,  Esquire, 

of Street,  London,  son  of  Captain  David  Seton  above  mentioned,  the  fourth  generation 

and  male  representative  of  the  Setons  of  Blackhall,  and  the  heir  of  line  of  the  Archibalds 
of  D°,  by  his  affectionate  Cousin  and  faithful  humble  servant, 

'  Cariston,  Sl/i  September  1 802 .'  J    '  «i^U7?7 

(2)  The  earlier  portion  of  the  second  letter  relates  to  personal  matters,  after  which  the 
writer  proceeds  as  follows  : — 

'At  this  period  it  will  be  natural  for  you,  as  I  believe  it  is  to  all  mankind,  to  know 
something  of  your  ancestry.  In  Douglase's  Baronage  of  Scotland  you  will  see  a  short 
account  of  the  Setons  of  Cariston.  I  drew  most  of  it  up  myself  from  family  papers  and 
gave  it  to  Sir  Robert  Douglas,  when  he  published  the  Scottish  Baronage,  being  well 
acquainted  with  him ;  and  if  you  wish  for  a  more  remote  account  of  the  family,  you  may  have 
recourse  to  Douglase's  Scottish  Beerage  (article  "  Seton,  Earl  of  Winton  ")  wrote  by  the  same 
gentleman.  You  will  see  that  we  can  boast  of  as  high  antiquity  as  most  or  any  in  Scotland.' 
(This  is  followed  by  a  remarkably  good  summary  of  the  family  history,  which  is  closed  by  a 
short  notice  of  the  Cariston  line,  from  which  an  extract  will  be  found  at  p.  608  supra,  relative 
to  the  alienation  of  the  estate.)  '  I  have  wrote  all  these  family  matters,'  he  continues,  '  solely 
for  your  own  amusement,  and  you  may  keep  it  by  you  to  divert  you  at  times,  but  show  it  to 
nobody  else — it  savours  of  vanity  to  be  fond  of  family  antiquity.  .  .  .  Your  sincere  friend  and 
well-wisher,  Mrs.  Seton,  is  reading  at  my  side,  waiting  my  conclusion  that  she  may  join  me 
in  love  to  you,  and  to  say  with  me,  God  bless  you. — Affectionately  yours,  Ja.  Seton. 

'  Cariston,  21st  March  1810.' 

The  following  is  a  full  copy  of  the  letter  from  Major  Christopher  Seton  to  his  uncle 
James,  respecting  Cobbett  and  the  court-martial,  from  which  an  extract  is  given  at  p.  604 
supra : — 

'  London,  No.  i  i  Haymarket, 
51/1  April  1792. 

'  Dear  Uncle, — Your  kind  and  obliging  letter  I  received,  and  wou'd  have  answered  it 
on  receipt  had  I  not  wished  to  acquaint  you  fully  of  the  issue  of  the  Court  Martial,  at  least 


916  MAJOR  CHRISTOPHER   SETON 

as  far  as  I  am  in  possession  of  the  proceedings  to  do  it  with,  that  is  to  say,  I  can  only  now 
annex  you  a  copy  of  Sir  Charles  Gould's  letter  to  me  of  the  2nd  inst,  by  which  you  will  see 
that  the  three  culprits  have  been  most  honorably  acquitted,  and  which  has  since  been 
approved  by  his  Majesty. 

'In  my  letter  to  Peggie  of  the  27th  ult°  I  desired  her  to  inform  you  that  the  Villain  who 
had  exhibited  the  charges  against  us  thought  proper  to  disappear,  tho'  not  till  after  he  had 
put  us  to  all  the  trouble  and  expense  in  his  power.  Report  says  he  is  gone  to  France,  and  I 
shall  only  add  that  I  wish  he  was  in  Hell,  as  he  fully  deserves  a  warm  berth.  He  only  gave  in 
the  names  of  47  non-commissioned  officers  and  Privates  of  the  Reg*  to  Sir  Charles  Gould, 
as  his  evidence  to  support  him  in  the  business,  all  of  whom  appeared  at  the  Horse  Guards, 
and  before  the  Court,  not  one  of  them  having  a  word  to  say,  nor  did  they  know  what 
brought  them  there.  We  were  also  obliged  to  have  all  or  the  greatest  part  of  the  officers  here 
who  came  home  with  us,  with  upwards  of  20  non-commissioned  officers  and  Privates  ;  so  you 
can  easily  judge  what  trouble  the  scoundrel  has  put  us  to  on  the  occasion,  for  which  I  hope 
he  will  be  Damned. 

'  I  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  your  friend  Captain  Clephane  two  days  ago ;  he  was  on  his 
way  to  call  upon  me  when  I  met  him.  I  have  since  called  on  him  and  his  Lady,  but  both  were 
from  home.  As  I  intend  to  take  my  departure  from  hence  in  two  days,  I  am  very  busy  at 
present,  therefore  shall  only  add  that  I  beg  my  compliments  to  Mrs.  Seton  and  my  young 
cousin. — I  remain,  my  dear  Uncle,  yours  ever  sincerely, 


^S^/K/^fe_^ 


'  P.S. — My  last  informed  you  that  we  were  soon  to  march  to  Tinmouth,  which  I  now 
understand  is  altered  to  Deal  and  Dover,  in  Kent.  I  wish  we  had  gone  to  the  former  place. 
Write  me  soon.  If  you  can  send  a  copy  of  Sir  Charles  Gould's  letter  to  Rumgally,  do  it,  and 
I  also  beg  that  you  may  show  it  to  all  my  acquaintances  that  you  may  see.  I  also  annex 
a  list  of  the  Members  of  the  Court  Martial,  which  you  will  see  were  all  of  high  rank  in 
the  service.' 

The  two  following  letters  from  the  same  correspondent  to  Mr.  James  Watson,  bookseller, 
Edinburgh,  are  contained  in  a  small  folio  MS.  in  the  Advocates'  Library  (No.  34.  3.  6),  entitled 
'  Materials  for  Baronage  of  Scotland.'     (See  Analecta  Scotica,  2nd  Series,  pp.  32,  33.) 

'  KlRKFORTHAR,  igt/l  Deer.  180O. 

'Sir, — By  the  advertisement  in  the  Newspapers  the  "Baronage  "  is  to  be  published  early 
in  the  winter,  and  if  not  too  late,  this  is  to  acquaint  you  that  I  wish  to  have  the  family  included 
with  which  I  am  connected.  But  before  I  transmit  particulars,  I  wish  to  know  the  terms, 
subscription,  etc.,  and  if  on  my  becoming  a  subscriber  the  same  will  be  inserted.  It  is  generally 
a  transcript  of  what  is  to  be  found  in  Douglase's  "  Baronage,"  but  with  considerable  additions. 
It  will  occasion  little  trouble,  as  it  is  all  properly  arranged  and  ready  for  insertion.  I  will 
expect  to  hear  from  you  in  course,  and  am,  Sir,  your  most  obed'  Servant, 

'Christ.  Seton. 
'  Mr.  James  Watson,  Bookseller,  Edinburgh.' 

'  KlRKFORTHAR,  BY  FALKLAND, 
igth  December  1800. 

'  Sir, — I  am  favoured  with  yours  in  answer  to  mine,  and  suspect  there  is  a  misunder- 
standing. If  the  "  Baronage,"  published  about  30  years  ago  by  Sir  Robert  Douglas,  is  to 
be  considered  as  the  first  volume  of  the  intended  publication,  it  will  look  awkward  to  insert 
the  same  family  in  the  2nd  volume,  as  it  is  already  in  the  first.  If  this  be  an  entirely  distinct 
work,  there  can  be  no  impropriety  in  giving  it  a  place.  Having  been  out  of  the  country,  I  am 
quite  a  stranger  to  the  intended  plan.  I  have,  however,  sent  you  herewith  a  copy  of  what  I 
wished  to  have  inserted,  supposing  the  present  to  be  unconnected  with  Douglase's.  I  will 
therefore  beg  the  favour  of  you  to  let  me  hear  from  you  again  how  far  this  can  be  comply'd 
with,  and  if  it  is  I  shall  certainly  be  a  purchaser  of  both  volumes.  Perhaps  I  have  been  too 
diffuse,  and  the  exordium,  if  I  may  so  call  it,  may  be  thought  superfluous,  yet  there  is  nothing 
but  facts,  which  those  acquainted  with  subjects  of  that  kind  will  easily  know. 


A  TOUCHING   EPISTLE  917 

'  I  beg  you  will  be  so  good  as  return  the  enclosed  by  the  Falkland  carrier,  in  case  it  does 
not  correspond  with  my  wishes  and  the  plan  of  the  Editors. — I  am,  Sir,  your  most  obed' 
Servant,  Christ.  Seton. 

'  Mr.  James  Watson,  Bookseller,  Edinburgh.' 

The  following  is  the  unsigned  and  undated  letter  referred  to  at  p.  615  supra,  from 
Margaret  Seton,  daughter  of  George,  seventh  Baron  of  Cariston,  and  wife  of  Henry  Seton, 
of  the  Chasseurs  Britanniques,  to  her  sons  David  and  George.  The  writer  died  19th  October 
1803,  and  the  letter  was  probably  written  shortly  before  that  date : — 

'  A  LETTER  TO  BE  SENT  TO  MY  TWO  DEAR  SONS  AFTER  MY  DEATH. 

'  It  has  been  my  constant  rule  every  day  since  I  parted  with  you  to  recommend  you  to 
the  care  of  God,  morning  and  evening.  Now  that  I  am  grown  very  tender,  and  do  not 
know  the  time  that  I  may  be  separated  from  my  dear  family,  as  the  last  request  of  your  loving 
mother,  I  doubt  not  but  that  you  will  comply  with  it  to  the  utmost  of  your  powers. 

'  If  it  is  the  will  of  Heaven  to  spare  your  dear  Father  after  me,  as  you  both  know  your  duty 
to  your  parent,  I  daresay  that  you  will  always  perform  it  with  pleasure,  by  aiding  in  every  way 
to  make  the  evening  of  his  life  pass  over  in  ease.  In  this  world  he  has  experienced  many 
trying  scenes,  in  many  of  them  I  have  borne  an  equal  share,  but  God  is  ever  merciful  and 
never  left  us  to  despair.  His  days  as  well  as  mine  must  now  be  short.  My  two  dear  girls, 
the  thoughts  of  leaving  them  without  a  support  through  this  life  is  such  a  painful  idea  that  my 
heart  cannot  bear  the  thoughts  of  it.  The  only  relief  that  I  find  is  the  trust  which  I  have  in 
your  promise  to  take  care  of  them,  and  my  confidence  in  you  will  soothe  to  me  the  pillow  of 
death.  And  I  hope  that  if  God  is  pleased  to  put  it  in  your  power  that  you  shall  think  it  a 
happie  task,  not  only  to  support  them,  but  to  superintend  their  actions  and  to  contribute 
cheerfully  to  the  happiness  of  their  future  life,  as  their  second  parents.  I  hope  that  it  will 
give  you  much  satisfaction,  and  that  their  good  behaviour  and  gratitude  will  be  a  sufficient 
recompence. 

'  Remember,  my  dears,  that  God  is  the  wise  disposer  of  all  events ;  that  there  never  was 
such  a  thing  as  true  happiness  in  this  world ;  and  whatever  trials  He  is  pleased  to  inflict  upon 
you,  endeavour  to  submit  with  a  becoming  resignation,  and  say,  Not  my  will,  but  Thme  be  done. 
Never  let  despair  take  place  in  your  bosoms ;  that  would  certainly  be  impious,  and  tho'  the 
sun  may  rise  and  see  you  unhappie,  and  setting  leave  you  the  same,  yet  on  its  return,  God 
may  have  you  changed,  and  your  face  which  was  yesterday  clouded  with  tears  may  to-morrow 
brighten  into  smiles.'1 

Letter  from  George  Seton,  Commander  H.E.I.C.S.,  to  his 

Grand-uncle,  James  Seton,  Esq. 

'Madras,  22^  August  1805. 
'  My  dear  Sir, — Your  kind  letter  dated  6th  Sept.  duly  came  to  hand  on  the  arrival  of  the 
Fleet  from  Europe,  and  altho'  it  is  the  first  I  ever  had  the  satisfaction  to  receive  from  yourself, 
still  my  dearest  parent — alas  !  no  more — never  failed  to  write  most  particularly  of  you  and  yours. 
Her  unalterable  attachment  to  you  was  with  great  justice  sincere  indeed ;  you  do  me  more 
credit  than  I  deserve,  wherein  you  mention  the  little  assistance  I  gave  my  mother.     I  thank 


1  The  following  are  specimens  of  the  entries  in  the  Chapel  of  Kirkforthar. ' 
same  writer's  imperfect  memorandum-book,  also  al-  '  My  dear  husband,  Henry  Seton,  went  away  from 

ready  referred  to  : —  Edinburgh  to  the  West  Indies  the  7th  April  1773,  and 

'  Margaret  Seton  (the  recorder)  was  born  at  Cariston  it  pleased  God  to  return  him  back  in  safety  the  12th 

15th  of  May  1745,  and  baptized  there  by  the  Rev.  of  August  17S4,  after  a  long  absence  of  eleven  years.' 
Mr.  Preston,  Minister  of  Markinch.'  'My   dear    brother    Christopher   was    married    at 

'It  pleased  God  to  call   my  dear  father,  George  Kirkforthar,  10th  August   1797,  to  Mrs.  Carmichael, 

Seton  (seventh  Baron  of  Cariston),  to  glory  on  Tues-  co-heiress   of    Kirkforthar,    after  the   death    of    her 

day  2nd  of  November  1762,  about  six  at  night,  aged  brother,  Captain  David  Lindsay.' 
4S  years.     He  was  buried  on  Saturday  the  6th  in  the 


918    CAPTAIN   GEORGE   SETON  (CARISTON) 

the  just  God  for  giving  me  the  means — inclination  never  was  wanting — and  the  manner  in 
which  you  speak  of  her  is  grateful  to  my  feeling  in  the  extreme.  I  know  not  how  it  is,  and 
conjecture  is  endless — but  from  her  cradle  to  her  grave,  she  was  a  stranger  to  ease  and  com- 
fort. The  will  and  dispensation  of  Providence  is  beyond  human  comprehension;  and  if 
there  is  a  future  state,  which  I  most  firmly  trust  to  and  believe  in,  she  will  doubtless  receive 
there  what  was  denied  her  (for  some  wise  purpose)  in  this  life.  As  an  example  of  real  worth 
and  virtue,  she  may  have  left  an  equal,  but  I  doubt  much  if  she  has  left  a  superior,  and  if  the 
daughters  follow  her  steps  in  all  but  her  misfortunes,  I  shall  be  well  satisfied.  I  am  thankful 
for  your  account  of  my  Perth  relations,  who  I  am  a  stranger  to.  I  had  a  letter  from  Mr.  Blair 
sometime  back.  He  seems  a  very  sensible  well-informed  man.  I  have  written  both  to  him 
and  to  Mr.  Barland  *  to  take  charge  of  Melville.  In  consequence  of  my  poor  mother's  indis- 
position, I  fear  her  education  has  been  much  neglected.  Her  late  letters  are  neither  written 
with  care  nor  judgment,  and  with  a  forward  confidence  rather  unbecoming  so  young  a  woman. 
You  may  consider  me  severe,  and  perhaps  I  am  so,  tho'  not  from  either  a  want  of  sensibility  or 
affection,  and  all  that  I  shall  offer  in  my  own  vindication  is,  my  comments  may  be  the  effects 
or  produce  of  acquired  Oriental  ways  of  thinking,  and  not  natural,  inherent  dislikes.  With 
respect  to  David,  I  can  say  but  little.  His  conduct  thro'  life  seems  to  be  at  variance  with 
common  sense,  and  he  must  just  get  on  as  well  as  he  can.  Young  George  Seton  of  Bogside2 
I  have  not  yet  seen.  When  he  arrived  at  Bombay,  I  was  on  the  Coromandel  coast  in  com- 
mand of  the  Marquis  Wellesley,  which  ship  I  have  since  left ;  but  a  letter  from  George 
Douglas  some  time  ago  informs  me  that  he  is  third  officer  of  the  Luvjii  Family,  Capt.  Gibson, 
in  one  of  the  first  employs  from  Bombay.  The  ship  is  now  on  a  voyage  to  China,  and  in 
time  I  daresay  the  young  man  will  do  well.  I  am  intimate  with  Gibson,  and  shall  leave  no 
stone  unturned  to  promote  his  views.  This  far  I  promise,  which  you  may  trust  to.  Mer- 
cantile times  are  so  changed  in  India  from  the  ruinous  war  that  I  am  by  no  means  determined 
how  I  shall  employ  myself.  I  do  not  think  it  likely  that  I  shall  again  go  to  sea.  I  have 
tolerable  interest  at  the  Government  House,  and  if  anything  is  to  be  given  away  out  of  the 
line  of  the  service,  I  stand  a  fair  chance.  In  many  transactions  I  have  been  extremely  unlucky. 
Within  these  last  four  years  I  have  lost  above  ^10,000,  which  I  worked  hard  for,  and  if  I 
escape  from  the  failure  of  Chan  Chinery,  M'Dowall  &  Co.,  I  shall  think  myself  lucky  indeed. 
I  had  letters  from  Mrs.  George  Simson  in  March  last.  She  is  a  charming  little  woman,  and 
one  of  the  most  friendly  creatures  in  the  world.  I  often  see  a  son  of  your  old  friend  Colonel 
Hepburn.  He  is  on  this  establishment,  and  a  most  amiable  man.  I  do  not  remember 
the  distance  between  Cariston  and  Kirkforthar,  but  I  believe  not  far.  My  poor  mother  had 
always  so  much  to  say  on  family  matters  that  she  gave  me  fewer  details  of  the  progress  of  the 
Fife  folks  than  perhaps  you  would  suppose.  I  never  heard  whether  my  uncle  Christopher 
had  any  family,  or  rather  children,  by  Mrs.  Seton,  and  I  always  thought  Balmblea  belonged 
to  her.  Who  has  got  Auchtermairnie — or  did  Captain  Lundin  sell  it  ?  I  should  like  that 
place  if  I  had  money  enough.  Cariston  is  a  low  situation,  and  altho'  I  do  not  like  to  be 
upon  the  sea,  still  I  like  to  look  at  it.  My  paper  is  near  done.  Pray  offer  my  best  respects 
to  Mrs.  Seton,  who  I  hope  is  well.  Also  to  Major  and  Mrs.  Seton,  yr  neighbours.  Do 
indulge  me  with  another  epistle,  and  address  to  the  care  of  Colonel  Brunton,  Auditor-General, 
Madras. — I  am,  my  dear  Sir,  yours  with  much  sincerity, 


1  The  Barlands  occur  as  glovers,  in  the  Perth  records,  during 
the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

2  Afterwards  of  Polterhill,  Perth. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY   OF  THE   SETONS 


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VIII.    BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  THE  SETONS 


HE  following  list — which  does  not  profess  to  be  complete — has 
been  chiefly  compiled  from  the  large  consulting  Catalogue 
in  the  British  Museum.  It  does  not  embrace  the  numerous 
literary  productions  of  the  Tytler  branch  of  the  family,  which, 
however,  are  referred  to  in  the  notice  of  that  line.  Besides 
works  by  persons  bearing  the  name  of  Seton,  it  includes 
such  books  as  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  History  of  the  House  of 
Seytoun  and  Memoirs  of  individual  members  of  the  family. 
The  arrangement  is  alphabetical,  in  accordance  with  the 
Christian  names  of  the  authors,  their  respective  works  being 
placed  in  the  order  of  date. 

I. — Seton. 

Alexander  Seton — 

De  lapide philosophorum  tractatus  duodecim,  etc.     [By  M.  Sendwogius?  or  A.  Seton?]. 

8vo.     161 1 
Alexander  Seton,  1st  Viscount  Kingston — ■ 

A  Continuation  of  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  History  of  the  House  of  Seytoun.        4to.     1829 

Alexander  Seton,  Baronet,  Sir  (Lord  Pitmedden) — 

A  Treatise  on  Mutilation  and  Dei?iembration,  in  two  parts*     (The  Laws  of  Scotland  in 

matters  Criminal,  etc.,  by  Sir  George  Mackenzie.)  fol.     1699 

An  Explanation  of  the  xxxix  chapter  of  the  Statutes  of  King  William  concerning  Minors  ; 

containing  divers  questions  on  the  said  Statute,  useful  in  practice.  .  .  .  With  notes 

.  .  .  by  A.  Bruce.  i6mo.     1728 

Dejure  Relationis  Nobilium  Scotice,  with  additions  and  remarks  by  Lord  Pitmedden. 

4to.     1828 
Alexander  Seton,  1st  Earl  of  Dunfermline — 

Memoir  of  by  George  Seton,  Advocate,  M.A.  Oxon. 


Archibald  Seton — 

A  Short  Account  of  the  Proceedings  at  t he  Trial  of  .  .  .  A.  S.for 


sm.  4to.     1882 

Treason,  etc. 

fol.     1709 
David  Seton  of  Mounie — 

The  Wreck  of  the  Birkenhead.  post  8vo.     1890 

Elizabeth  Ann  Seton,  Mrs. — 

Biographical  Notice.  i6mo.     1851 

Narratives  of  Conversions,  containing  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Seton.  8vo.     186 1 

Memoirs,  Letters,  and  Journal  of  Elizabeth  Seton,  edited  by  Robert  Seton?.       2  vols. 

8vo.  1869 
The  Life  of  S.  W.G.  Brute,  etc.  [Additions  from  his  life  by  Mrs.  Seton  ?.]  nmo.  1870 
[Life]  De  Vere  (A.  T.),  Poet.     Heroines  of  Charity,  etc.  ? 

Life  of  Mrs.  E.  A.  Seton,  by  J.  C.  White,  D.D.,  with  copious  extracts  from  her  writings, 

etc. 
La  Vie  D 'Elizabeth  Seton,  par  Madame  de  Barberey.  8vo.     1868 

Fifth  edition  of  the  same  work,  2  vols.  post  8vo.     1892 


920  BIBLIOGRAPHY 

George  Seton — 

The  Address  and  Petition.  fol.     1695 

A  Modest  Vindication  of  Mr.  Seton's  Address,  etc.  fol.        ? 

George  Seton,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton — 

The  Tryal  of  George  Earl  of  Wintonn  upon  the  articles  of  Impeachment  of  High  Treason. 

fol.     1 7 1 6 

George  Seton  (Advocate,  M.A.  Oxon.) — 

Genealogical  Table;  exhibiting  the  Kings  of  England  and  Scotland;  the  Descent  of  Her 

Majesty  Queen  Victoria  through  the  Anglo-Saxon,  Scottish,  and  Norman  lines ;  the 

Representation  of  the  House  of  Stuart,  etc.  large  oblong  sheet.     1845 

The  Treatment  of  Social  Evils.  post  8vo.     1853 

Sketch  of  the  History  and  Imperfect  Condition  of  the  Parochial  Records  of  Scotland. 

post  8vo.     1854 
Practical  Analysis  of  the  Acts  relating  to  the  Registration  of  Births,  Deaths,  and  Marriages 

in  Scotland.     Fifth  Edition.     (First  Edition  was  published  in  1855.)         Svo.     1861 
The  Causes  of  Illegitimacy,  particularly  in  Scotland.  8vo.      i860 

The  Law  and  Practice  of  Heraldry  in  Scotland,  with  numerous  Illustrations.    Svo.     1863 
'  Cakes,  Leeks,  Puddings,  and  Potatoes'     A  Lecture  on  the  Nationalities  of  the  United 

Kingdom,  with  Four  Illustrations.  post  Svo.     1864 

Second  and  abridged  edition  of  the  same  work.  i2mo.     1865 

Gossip  about  Letters  and  Letter-  Writers.  post  8vo.     1870 

The  Convent  of  St.   Catherine  of  Sienna  near  Edinburgh,  with  Illustrations.     (Privately 

printed.)  4to.     18  71 

The  Social  Pyramid ;  a  Plea  for  extended  Sympathy  among  the  Different  Classes  of  Society. 

i2mo.     1878 
St.  Kilda,  Past  and  Present,  with  Twelve  Illustrations.  4to.     1878 

Amusements  for  the  People.  post  8vo.     1880 

Memoir  of  Alexander  Seton,  Earl  of  Dunfermlitie,  President  of  the  Court  of  Session,  and 

Chancellor  of  Scotland;  with  Eight  Illustrations.  4to.     1882 

Recollections  of  Jonathan  Alexander,  formerly  of  the  52nd  and  66th  Regiments,   with 

Portrait.  i2mo.      1886 

A  Budget  of  Anecdotes  relating  to  ike  Current  Century.  post  8vo.     1887 

Second  and  enlarged  edition  of  the  same  work.  post  8vo.     1887 

The  House  of  Moncrieff.     (Privately  printed — 150  copies — for  Sir  Alexander  Moncrieff  of 

Culfargie,  K.C.B.)  410.     1890 

Memorials  of  an  Ancient  Scottish  House — a  History  of  the  Family  of  Seton  during  Eight 

Centuries.     2  vols.     Profusely  illustrated.     (Impression  limited  to  212  copies,  of 

which  12  on  large  paper.)  4to.     1896 

Henry-Wilmot  Seton,  Hon.  Sir — 

Forms  of  Decrees  in  Equity,  and  of  orders  connected  with  them,  with  practical  notes. 

Svo.     1830 
(Followed  by  References  to  four  later  editions,  1854-91.) 
Early  Records  in  Equity.     (Privately  printed.)  8vo.     1842 

Heywood-Walter  Seton-Karr — 

Ten  Years'  Wild  Sports  in  Foreign  Lands. 
Shores  and  Alps  of  Alaska. 
Handy  Guide- Book  to  the  Japanese  Islands. 
Bear-hunting  in  the  White  Mountains. 

James-Lockwood  Seton — 

The  Select  Dramatic  Works  of  J.  Dry  den,  edited  by  J.  L.  S.  8vo.     1877 

James-Lumsden  Seton,  Baronet,  Sir — 

Notes  on  the  Operations  of  the  North  German  Troops  in  Lorraine  and  Picardy,  etc. 

Svo.     1872 


Svo. 

1869 

8vo. 

1887 

8vo. 

?j 

8vo. 

1891 

OF  THE   SETONS 


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Goeben  (A.  von),  General.  Contributions  to  the  History  of  the  Campaign  in  the  North- 
West  of  France  .  .  .  translated  .  .  .  by  J.  L.  S.,  author  of  the  preceding  Notes. 
To  which  are  added  corrections  on  the  latter  work.  8vo.     1873 

Organisation  of  our  Infantry  Forces.     A  Letter,  etc.  8vo.     1880 

Jane  Seton 

or  the  King's  Advocate,  a  Scottish  historical  romance,  by  James  Grant.     2  vols. 

post  8vo.     1853 

The  Witch  of  Edinburgh,  or  the  King's  Advocate.    A  Historical  Drama  in  five  acts.     [And 

in  prose,  by  W.  D.  Baldie.]  i2mo.     1878 

John  Seton,  Sir — 

Letter  from  Sir  J.  S.,  Manchester,  ye  25  M'ch,  1643,  edited  by  T.  Heywood. 
Manchester  Chetham  Society,  vol.  57.  4to.     1862 

Joannes  Setonus — 

Dialectica  .  .  .  annotationibus  P.  Carteri .  .  .  Explicata.     Huic  accessit 
Arithmetica. 
Second  Edition  of  the  preceding. 
(Two  later  editions  published  in  1584  and  1611.) 
Panegyrici  in  Victoriam  .  .  .  Marise,  Anglias  Reginas  etc.     Item  in  coronationem  ejusdem 
.  .  .  Reginae,  congratulatio.     Ad  hasc  de  sacrosancta  Eucharistica  carmen. 

4tO.     1553* 
Mary  Seton — 

In  Ladies'  Company.     Six  interesting  Women.     By  Mrs.  Florence  Fenwick  Miller. 

post  8vo.     1892 
Matthew  Seton — 

The  Net  with  the  Golden  Meshes.    [A  Novel.]  8vo.     1881 

Patricius  Baron-Seton — 
Dissertalio  Medica 


G.  Buddei 
8vo.  1572 
8vo.     1574 


de  paralysi,  etc. 


Richard-Somner  Seton  (Colonel)- 
Treatise  on  Shrapnel  Shells. 


8vo. 


8vo. 


1787 
1854 


Robert  Seton,  D.D.  (Monsignor) — 
Memoirs  of  Elizabeth  Seton  (supra). 

Essays  on  Various  Subjects,  chiefly  Roma?i.     Catholic  Publication  Society  Co.,  New  York. 

8vo.     1882 
The  Dignity  of  Labour.  8vo.     1893 

S.  W.  Seton— 

The  Abecedarian,  for  Lnfant  Schools;  comprising  the  comparative  and  analytical  Alphabet. 

8vo.     1880 
William  Seton  of  Pitmedden,  Baronet,  Sir — 

The  Interest  of  Scotland,  in  three  Essays  [by  W.  S.]  8vo.     1700 

Another  edition  of  the  preceding.  i2mo.     i702f 


*  Two  letters  to  John  Seton  appear  in  an  interest- 
ing volume  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Archibald 
Constable,  entitled : — 

'  Disertissimi  Viri  Rogeri  Aschami  Angli,  Regiae 
olim  Maiestati  a  Latinis  Epistolis,  Familiarium  Episto- 
larum  libri  tres,  magna  orationis  elegantia  conscripti 
nunc  postremo  emendati  et  aucti.  Quibus  adiunctus 
est  etc'  Londini  1590.     540  pp.  i2mo. 

The  first,  at  p.  97  is  addressed : — '  Moderato  et 
Ervdito  viro  loan.  Setono,'  and  concludes: — 'Vale. 
Et  Aschamum  tuum,  vt  soles,  ama.  Anno  Domini 
1542.     Calend.  Ianuar.' 

The  second,  at  p.   129,   'D.   Ioanni  Setono,' com- 
mences as  follows  : — '  Qvid  scribam,  nunquam  mihi 


deesse  potest,  quoties  ad  Setonum  scribo  :  Quod  sane 
libenter  semper  facio,  nunquam  tamen  libentius  quam 
hoc  tempore,  cum  me  et  mea  sponte  currentem 
vehementer  ad  id  incitauit  etiam  Watsonus  Noster ' ; 
and  concludes  : — '  Rescribe  qua;so,  nihil  literarum 
tuarum  sermone  dulcius  esse  potest.  Vale.'  (no  date. ) 
t  The  following  is  from  a  comparatively  recent  book 
catalogue: — '[Seton,  W.,  of  Pitmedden.]  The 
interests  of  Scotland  considered  with  regard  to  its 
Police  in  imploying  of  the  poor,  its  Agriculture,  its 
Trade,  its  Manufactures  and  Fisheries.  Engraving  on 
title-page,  and  arms  on  first  page  of  dedication, 
small  Svo,  old  calf,  gilt,  21s.  Edin.  1733 

'Dr.  Laing's  copy  brought £2,  2s.' 


6a 


8vo. 

1867 

post  8vo. 

1874 

post  8vo. 

1882 

post  8vo. 

N.D. 

922  BIBLIOGRAPHY 

William  Seton  of  Pitmedden — continued. 

A  Short  Answer  to  a  Large  Paper  [by  Sir  W.  S.]  intituled  A  Continuation  of  Brief 

and  Modest  Reflections,  etc.  4to.     1703 
Some   Thoughts  on    Ways  and  Means  for  making  this   Nation   a    Gainer  in   Foreign 

Commerce.  8vo.     1705 

Scotland 's  great  advantages  by  a  Union  with  England.  4to.     1706 

A  Speech  in  Parliament  the  second  day  of  November  1706  ...  on  the  first  article  of  the 

Treaty  of  Union.  410.     1706 

William  Seton,  New  York — 

Nat  Gregory,  or  the  Old  Maid's  Secret. 

The  Pioneer.     A  Poem. 

Rachel's  Fate,  and  other  Tales. 

The  Pride  of  Lexington.     A  Story  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Walter-Scott  Seton-Karr — 

Selections  from  Calcutta  Gazettes  of  the  years  1784-8,  showing  the  Political  and  Social 

Condition  of  the  English  in  India  eighty  years  ago.  4to.     1864 

Rulers  of  India  :  The  Marquis  of  Cornwallis.  post  8vo.     1890 

The  Sepoy  Mutiny  of  1857-8  in  Belgaum  and Jessore.     (Privately  printed.)  1894 

History  of  the  House  of  Seytoun,  by  Sir  Richard  Maitland.     Two  Versions,  both  4to,  Glas- 
gow 1829,  and  Edinburgh  1830. 

Story  of  the  Setons  ('Stories  of  Old  Families'),  by  Dr.  William  Chambers.       post  8vo.  1878 

History  of  the  Family  of  Seton,  by  George  Seton,  Advocate,  M.  A.  Oxon.     2  vols.    4to.  1896 

II. — Seat 'on. 

A.  E.  Seaton. 

A  Manual  of  Marine  Engineering  .  .  .  with  .  .  .  tables  and  illustrations,  etc. 

8vo.     1883 
Speed  in  Ocean  Steamers.  8vo.     1892 

Abraham  Seaton — 

A  First  Book  of  Practical  Examples  in  Arithmetic,   containing  nearly  1500  graduated 
examples  in  the  simple  and  compound  rules  and  decimal  coinage.  8vo.     1863 

Alexander  Seaton — 

A  testimony  of  tender  advice  and  counsel  given  forth  from  our  half-year's  meeting  in  Dublin, 
the  9th  of  the  9th  month  1688,  etc.  4to.     [1688] 

A  short  account  of  .  .  .  G.  Gray,  of  the  Society  of  Friends.     (With  a  Preface  by  A.  S.) 

i6mo.     1692 

Edward  Seaton — 

Public  Health  Reports.  .  .  .  Edited  .  .  .  by  E.  S.  8vo.     1887 

Annual  Report  of  the  Medical  Office  of  Health  for  1882  .  .  .  by  E.  S.  8vo.     1883 

Edward-Cator  Seaton — 

Report  of  the  Medical  Officer  of  the  Privy  Council  [E.  C.  S.]  relative  to  the  Sanitary 

state  of  the  City  of  Chichester.  8vo.     1865 

Vaccination.     Reynolds  (J.  R.),  A  System  of  Medicine.     Vol.1.  8vo.     1866 

A  Handbook  of  Vaccination.  8vo.     1868 

J.  Seaton  (of  Her  Majesty's  Theatre) — 

The  Ball-room  Manual  and  Etiquette  of  Dancing.  32010.     1848 

John  Seaton — 

Great  Circle  Sailing  made  Easy ;  or  the  method  of  calculating  with  accuracy  and  ease 
the  several  parts  required  for  the  practice  of  sailing  approximately  to  a  great  circle. 

8vo.     1850 


OF  THE   SETONS  923 

John  Seaton,  Sir — 

A  perfect  relation  of  the  taking  of  the  Town  of  Preston  ...  by  the  Parliament's  forces 

under  .  .  .  Colonell  Sir  J.  S.,  etc.  4to.     1642 

A  true  relation  of  the  late  proceedings  of  the  London  Dragoneers  sent  down  to  Oxford  .  .  . 

under  .  .  .  Sir  J.  S.  4to.     1642 

Joseph  Seaton  (General  Baptist  Minister) — 

[Funeral  Sermon.]     Kingsford  (S.).     The  End  of  the  Good  Man  Peace :  A  Sermon, 
etc.  N.D. 

Joseph  Seaton,  M.D. — 

The  Present  State  and  Prospects  of  Psychological  Medicine,  with  suggestions  for  improving 
the  laws  relating  to  the  cure  and  treatment  of  Lunatics.  8vo.     1853 

Rose  Seaton — 

Romances  and  Poems.  8vo.     1891 

Samuel  Seaton — 

A  true  account  of  that  dreadful  fire  which  happened  in  the  house  of  Mr.  S.  Seaton  ...  at 
the  corner  of  White  Cross  Street,  .  .  .  London,  on  the  27th  of  March  1687. 

4to.     1687 
Thomas  Seaton — 

The  Divinity  of  our  Saviour  proved,  in  an  Essay  on  the  Eternity  of  the  Son  of  God. 

8vo.     1719 

The  Conduct  of  Servants  in  Great  Families,  consisting  of  dissertations  upon  several  passages 

of  the  Holy  Scriptures  relating  to  the  Office  of  Servants,  etc.  i2mo.     1720 

The  Defects  of  the  Objections  against  the  New  Testament  application  of  the  Prophecies  in  the 

Old  exposed;  and  the  Evangelists'  application  of  them  vindicated  in  a  sermon  on 

Luke  xxiv.  27.  8vo.     1726 

A  Compendious  View  of  the  Grounds  of  Religion,  both  Natural  and  Revealed,  in  two 

dissertations.  8vo.     1729 

The  devotional  life  rendered  familiar,  easy,  and  pleasant,  in  several  hymns  upon  the  most 

common  occasions  of  human  life,  composed  and  collected  by  T.  S.        i2mo.     1734 

Another  Edition.     Edited  by  W.  Godfrey.  i2mo.     1855 

Thomas  Seaton  (of  Cambridge) — 

Muses  Setoniance,  a  complete  collection  of  the  Cambridge  Prize  Poems,  from  their  first 
institution,  by  T.  S.  in  1750,  to  the  present  time.  8vo.     1773 

Thomas  Seaton,  Sir — 

From  Cadet  to  Colonel — the  record  of  an  active  service.     2  vols.  8vo.  1866 

Another  Edition,  with  illustrations.  8vo.  1877 

A  Manual  of  Fret-cutting  and  Wood-carving,  with  diagrams.  8vo.  1875 

William  Seaton,  Curate  of  St.  Thomas',  Salisbury — 

Penitents  pardoned,  or  patterns  of  mercy — a  sermon  on  Zechariah  iii.  2.  8vo.     1820 

William  Seaton,  Minister  of  Wandsworth  Chapel — 

The  Church  in  the  Wilderness,  or  the  Encampments  of  the  Israelites ;  in  which  are  dis- 
played the  treasures  of  Providence  and  the  rules  of  Grace.     2  vols.        i2mo.     182 1 
The  Church  in  Canaan,  or  Heirs  in  possession  receiving  the  Promises.     2  vols. 

i2mo.     1823 
William  Seaton,  Incumbent  of  St.  Thomas',  Lambeth — 

The  Sinless  Perfection  of  Chris fs  human  nature  vindicated,  etc.  [by  W.  S.].         8vo.     1833 
Profession  without  Principle,  and  Principle  without  Profession.  ...  A  new  year's  address. 
Second  edition.  i2mo.     1855 

The  Atonement  made,  and  the  Plague  stayed — a  sermon  on  Numbers  xvi.  48,  etc. 

i2mo.     1862 


924  SETON  AS  A  NOM  DE  PLUME 

William  Seaton — continued. 

Ten  Invitations  given  to  come  to  Church,  and  four  Excuses  met.     Fourth  thousand. 

I2IT10.        1862 

The  Church  of  England:  her  Doctrine  of  Baptism  scriptural,  and  her  Catechism  'a  form 
of  sound  words,'  a  sermon  on  Hebrews  vi.  2,  in  reply  to  the  misrepresentations  and 
unfounded  accusations  of  .  .  .  C.  H.  Spurgeon.     Fourth  edition.  8vo.     1864 

A  Prayer  for  the  Daily  Use  of  Young  Persons  .  .  .  under  Christian  training.  With  130 
Scripture  references,  etc.  i2mo.     [1866] 

William  John  Seaton — 

Report  on   the    Conservancy  and  Management  of\the  Forests  of  British  Burniah,  etc. 

Powell  (B.  H.  B.),  The  Forest  System  of  British  Burmah,  etc.  fol.     1874 

Report  on  the  Forests  and  Alpha  resources  of  Algeria,  etc.  8vo.     1876 

Seaton — 

Voyage  between  Havre  and  Rouen.  Havre.     i2mo.     1826 

The  following  are  from  Bibliografia  Enciclopedica  Milanese  (Milano,  1857) : — 

Camillo  Sitone,  de  Scozia — 

Six  different  works  by  (p.  574). 

Gio.  Francesco  Sitone — 
Work  by  (p.  575). 

The  works  of  'D.  Johannes  de  Sitonis'  of  Milan  (c.  1700)  have  already  been  referred 
to  at  p.  769  supra. 


The  name  of  Seton  seems  to  be  a  favourite  with  rising  literary  men  in  the  present  day, 
including — 

1.  'Gabriel  Setoun' — Mr.  Thomas  Nicoll  Hepburn, — author  of  Barncraig  and  Sunshine 
and  Haar. 

2.  'Henry  Seton  Merriman' — Mr.  Hugh  Stowell  Scott, — author  of  With  Edged  Tools, 
The  Grey  Lady,  and  other  popular  works. 

Mr.  Hepburn  informs  me  that  he  'tried  many  other  names  before  fixing  upon  Setoun, 
which  was  suggested  by  a  friend,  and  at  once  adopted.'  He  regards  it  as  '  an  ancient  name,  a 
musical  one,  and  it  is  easily  remembered.' 

Mr.  Scott  'embodied  Seton  in  his  nom  deplume  from  a  liking  for  the  name  itself,  and  in 
memory  of  the  close  connection  between  his  own  maternal  ancestors  and  the  family  of  Seton 
in  the  days  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots.' 


A  propos  of  the  adoption  of  surnames,  a  few  remarks  may  be  made  on  the  assumption  of 
ancient  historical  titles.  Lord  Clarendon  informs  us  that  Sir  Henry  Bennet — one  of  the 
Cabal  ministry — had  no  estate  from  which  he  could  take  a  title,  so  he  fixed  upon  the  ancient 
barony  of  Cheney,  which  had  expired  in  1587,  although  he  was  in  no  way  connected  with  the 
family  who  had  formerly  held  it.  The  warrant  was  drawn  out,  and  for  some  days  he  was 
called  '  Lord  Cheney.'  But  a  gentleman  of  Buckinghamshire,  who,  although  he  had  no  title 
to  the  barony,  was  of  the  same  family,  and  had  inherited  most  of  the  property,  went  to 
Bennet  and  desired  him  'not  to  affect  a  title  to  which  he  had  no  relation;  and  to  which, 
though  he  could  not  pretend  of  direct  right,  yet  he  was  not  so  obscure  but  that  himself,  or 
a  son  of  his,  might  hereafter  be  thought  worthy  of  it  by  the  Crown,  and  in  that  respect  it 
would  be  some  trouble  to  him  to  see  it  vested  in  the  family  of  a  stranger.'  As  the  patent  had 
not  been  prepared,  Bennet  contented  himself  with  the  name  of  the  little  farm  of  Harlington, 
which  had  once  belonged  to  his  father,  but  had  since  been  sold.  In  assuming  the  name, 
however,  he  blundered  in  Cockney  fashion,  and  left  out  the  H,  so  that  the  title  was  given  as 
'Arlington.' 


ASSUMPTION   OF   OLD  TITLES 


925 


It  is  to  be  regretted  that  a  similar  course  was  not  followed  when  Sir  John  Colborne  and 
Sir  Charles  Wood  were  created  'Lord  Seaton'  and  'Viscount  Halifax,'  in  1839  and  1856. 
Every  genealogist  knows  that  the  title  of  Halifax  was  held  by  the  Saviles  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  I  am  not  aware  that  the  Woods  have  any  connection  with  that  ancient  house. 
With  regard  to  Sir  John  Colborne,  it  may  perhaps  be  urged  that  his  title  was  derived  from 
Seaton,  in  Devonshire ;  but  the  sound  is  the  same  as  Seton,  and  the  former  orthography  has 
sometimes  been  followed  by  the  Scottish  family,  and  still  presents  itself  in  Seaton-Delaval  and 
Seaton-Carew.1 


1  See  an  excellent  article  by  Lord  Dundonald  on 
'  Protection  for  Surnames,'  in  the  Nineteenth  Century 


for  January  1894,  proposing  legislation  on  the  subject; 
also  Chapter  ix.  of  the  Author's  Scottish  Heraldry.   __, 


SHIELDS  AT  ELPHINSTONE  TOWER, 


MONUMENT  OF  WILLIAM  SETON  AT  HADDINGTON. 


926      COMPARATIVE   PEDIGREE   OF  THE   SETONS 

IX.— MISCELLANIES 


i.  Comparative  Pedigree  of  the  Seton  Family.     [Referred  to  at  p.  57 etseq.] 

Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland, 
2nd  Edition,  1813. 


Maitland's  House  of  Seytotm 
(Glasgow  1S29). 

Doug  all  Seton. 

Seher  Seton. 


Philip  Seton. 

Alexander  Seton,  I. 

Bartine  Seton. 

Adame  Seton. 

I 

Christell  Seton,  I. 

I 

Christell  Seton,  II. 

I 
Sir  Christopher  Seton  (Christell,  III.). 

I 

Sir  Alexander  Seton,  II. 

I 

Sir  Alexander  Seton,  III. 

I 
Alexander  Seton,  IV. 

William,  1st  Lord  Seton.2 

John,  2nd  Lord  Seton. 


George,  3rd  Lord  Seton,  I. 

I 
John,  Master  of  Seton. 

George,  4th  Lord  Seton,  II. 

I 
George,  5th  Lord  Seton,  III. 

George,  6th  Lord  Seton,  IV. 

George,  7th  Lord  Seton,  V. 


Robert,  8th  Lord  Seton  and  1st  Earl 
of  Winton. 


Robert,  9th  Lord     George,  10th  Lord 
Seton  and  2nd  Seton  and  3rd 

Earl  of  Winton.        Earl  of  Winton,  VI. 


I 
George,  Lord  Seton,  VII. 

I 

George,  nth  Lord  Seton  and  4th  Earl 
of  Winton,  VIII. 

I 

George,  12th  Lord  Seton  and  5th  Earl 

of  Winton,  IX. 


Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland, 
1st  Edition,  1764. 

DOUGALL  DE  SETON. 

I 

SECHER  DE  SETON. 
I 

Alexander  de  Seton. 

Philip  de  Seton. 
Sir  Alexander  Seton. 

Sir  Serlo  Seton. 
Sir  Alexander  Seton. 


Sir  Christopher  Seton. 

I 
Sir  Alexander  Seton. 

I 

Sir  Alexander  Seton. 

I 
Sir  Alexander  Seton. 

I 
Sir  William  Seton. 

I 
John,  1st  Lord  Seton. 

William,  Master  of  Seton. 

I 
George,  2nd  Lord  Seton. 

I 

John,  Master  of  Seton. 

George,  3rd  Lord  Seton. 

I 
George,  4th  Lord  Seton. 

I 
George,  5th  Lord  Seton. 

I 
George,  6th  Lord  Seton. 


Robert,  7th  Lord  Seton 
and  1st  Earl  of  Winton. 


Secher  de  Say. 

I 
Alexander  de  Seton. 

I 
Philip  de  Seton. 

Sir  Alexander  Seton. 

Serlo  (or  Secher)  de  Seton. 

Sir  Alexander  Seton. 


Sir  Christopher 
Seton. 


Sir  Alexander 
Seton. 


Margaret  Seton. 


Sir  William  Seton. 

I 
Sir  John  Seton. 

Sir  William  Seton. 

I 
George,  1st  Lord  Seton. 

I 
John,  Master  of  Seton. 

George,  2nd  Lord  Seton. 

I 
George,  3rd  Lord  Seton. 

George,  4th  Lord  Seton. 

George,  5th  Lord  Seton. 
I 

I  I 

George,  Master     Robert,  6th  Lord 
of  Seton.  Seton  and  1st 

Earl  of  Winton. 


II  II 

Robert,     George,  8th  Lord  Robert,  7th  Lord    George,  8th  Lord 

Lord            Seton  and  2nd  Seton  and  2nd            Seton  and  3rd 

Seton.         Earl  of  Winton.  Earl  of  Winton.         Earl  of  Winton. 


I 

George,  Lord  Seton. 


George,  Lord  Seton. 


George,  9th  Lord  Seton  and  George,  9th  Lord  Seton  and  4th  Earl 
3rd  Earl  of  Winton.  of  Winton. 

I  I 

George,  10th  Lord  Seton  and  George,  10th  Lord  Seton  and  5th  Earl 
4th  Earl  of  Winton.  of  Winton. 


1  These  three  Alexanders  are  considered  by  Lord 
Hailes  to  have  been  one  and  the  same  person.  (See 
p.  93i  infra.) 


2  A  fifth  Alexander  is  inserted  before  William,  1st 
Lord  Seton,  in  Mr.  Kirkpatrick  Sharpe's  edition  of 
the  House  of  Seytoun,  Edinburgh  1830. 


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DESCENT   FROM   ADAM 


3.  Descent  of  the  Author's  Son  from  Adam! 

As  indicated  at  p.  5  note  2,  and  notwithstanding  the  remonstrances  of  more  than  one 
valued  friend,  I  venture  to  subjoin  a  rival  pedigree  to  that  of  the  translator  of  Rabelais, 
bearing  in  mind  Mr.  Augustine  BirrelPs  definition  of  an  obiter  dictum. 

The  number  of  generations  only  amounts  to  82,  while  Sir  Thomas  Urquhart  appears  to 
make  out  that  he  was  the  143rd  in  descent  from  the  first  occupant  of  Paradise.  (See  Edinburgh 
Review  for  July  1884,  p.  63.)  The  usual  calculation  is  thirty  years  to  a  generation;  but 
allowing  a  very  much  greater  average  to  the  ten  antediluvian  patriarchs,  and  accepting  the 
old-fashioned  chronology,  if  Sir  Thomas's  reckoning  is  approximately  correct,  the  Setons 
would  require  to  invent  a  much  longer  line  of  ancestors  ! 


ADAM. 

I 

1 

1 

1 

Gewis. 

Algatha, 

William, 

Seth. 
1 

1 

Elesa. 

(daughter). 
1 

Master  of  Seton. 
1 

Enos. 

1 

Cospatrick,    , 
Earl  of        * 

George, 

1 

Cerdic 

3rd  Lord  Seton. 

Cainan. 

1 

Northumberland. 

1 

1 

Creoda. 

1 

John, 

Mahalaleel. 

1 

Cospatrick, 

Master  of  Seton. 

1 

Cynric. 

Earl  of 

1 

Jared. 

1 

Dunbar  and  March. 

George, 

1 

Ceawlin. 

1 

4th  Lord  Seton. 

Enoch. 

1 

Cospatrick, 

1 

1 

Cuthwin. 

2nd  Earl  of 

George, 

Methuselah. 
1 

1 

CUDAM. 

Dunbar  and  March, 
i 

5th  Lord  Seton. 
1 

Lamech. 

1 

Cospatrick, 

George, 

1 

Ceolwald. 

3rd  Earl  of 

6th  Lord  Seton. 

NOAH. 

1 

Dunbar  and  March. 

1 

1 

COENRED. 

1 

John  Seton, 

Shem. 

| 

Waldeve, 

1st  Baron  of  Cariston. 

1 

Ingild. 

4th  Earl  of 

1 

Bedwig. 

1 

Dunbar  and  March. 

George  Seton, 

1 

EOPPA. 

1 

2nd  Baron  of  Cariston. 

GUALA. 

1 

Lady  Alice  Dunbar. 

1 

1 

Eafa. 

1 

George  Seton, 

Hathra. 

1 

Sir  Alexander 

3rd  Baron  of  Cariston. 

1 

Elmund. 

Seton 

1 

Itermon. 

1 

(3rd  or  4th  of  the 

George  Seton, 

1 

EGBERT, 

family  on  record). 

4th  Baron  of  Cariston. 

Heremod. 

1st  King  of  England. 

1 
Bartine  (or  Ber- 

1 

1 

| 

Sceldi. 

Ethelwulf, 

trand)  Seton. 

Christopher  Seton,      David  Seton, 

1 

King  of  England. 

1 

5th  Baron  of  Cariston.         of  Blackhall. 

Beaw. 

1 

Adam  (Secher  or 

| 

1 

Alfred  the  Great, 

Serlo)  Seton. 

George  Seton, 

Taetwa. 

1 

King  of  England. 

1 
Christell  Seton. 

6th  Baron  of  Cariston. 
| 

Geat. 

Edward 

1 

George  Seton,         David  Seton. 

1 

the  Elder, 

Sir  Christopher 

7th  Baron  of  Cariston.                     1 

Finn  of  Godwulf. 
1 

King  of  England. 

Seton. 
1 

Margaret  Seton=Henry  Seton. 

Frithuwdlf. 

Edmund  I., 

Sir  Alexander 

1 

King  of  England. 

Seton. 

Frealaf. 

1 

I 

George  Seton, 

1 

Edgar, 

Alexander  Seton. 

Commander,  H.E.I. C. S. 

Frithowald. 

King  of  England. 

1 

1 

1 

1 

William, 

George  Seton, 

WODEN. 

Ethelred  II., 

1st  Lord  Seton. 

present  representative  of  the 

1 

King  of  England. 

1 

family  of  Cariston. 

Beldeg. 

1 

John, 

1 

1 

Elgive 

2nd  Lord  Seton. 

George  Seton, 

Brond. 
1 

(daughter). 
1 

| 

born  13th  February  1852 

Authorities. — Adam  to  Shem,  Genesis  v.     Shem  to  Egbert,  Asser's  Life  of  Alfred  the  Great.     Egbert 
to  Ethelred  II.,  all  English  History.     Subsequent  descent,  Douglas's  Peerage  and  Baronage  of  Scotland,  etc. 


EXTRACTS   FROM    HAILES'  ANNALS     929 
4.  Extracts  from  Hailes'  Annals  of  Scotland,  ii.  356  and  374. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  58  note,  and  p.  84  note  I.] 
Of  the  Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  Seton  in  the  Fourteenth  Century. 

Our  genealogical  writers  have  given  a  fair  pedigree  of  the  family  of  Seton  in  the 
fourteenth  century. 

Christopher  Seton,=Christian  Bruce,  sister  of  Robert  1. 
suffered  death  1306. 


Alexander  Seton,  =Isobel,  daughter  of  Duncan, 
slain  at  Kinghorn  1332.  10th  Earl  of  Fife. 


I 
Alexander  Seton,  Governor  of=CHRlST!AN  Cheyne,  daughter  of 
Berwick  1333,  died  1337.  Cheyne  of  Straloch. 

I  i  ~1 

1.  William,  slain  at  2.  Thomas,  slain  at  3.  Alexander,  who  carried  on 

Berwick  1333.  Berwick  1333.  the  line  of  the  family,  and 

was  a  commissioner  to  Eng- 
land in  1340. 

This  pedigree,  however,  will  not  stand  the  test  of  historical  criticism. 

That  all  possible  indulgence  may  be  shown  to  it,  let  it  be  supposed  that  both  Alexander 
the  son,  and  Alexander  the  grandson  of  Christian  Bruce,  were  married  at  fourteen,  and  that 
each  of  them  had  a  son  at  fifteen. 

This  is  to  hold  circumstances  for  true  which  are  always  exceedingly  improbable,  and 
which  can  scarcely  ever  happen  in  times  of  public  disorder. 

The  first  husband  of  Christian  Bruce  was  Graitney  Earl  of  Marr.  Their  children  were, 
Donald  Earl  of  Marr,  slain  at  Duplin  in  1332,  and  Helen,  or  Ellyne,  through  whom  the 
earldom  of  Marr  did,  in  after  times,  devolve  on  the  family  of  Erskine.  Graitney  Earl  of 
Marr  was  alive  in  1296.1 

Sir  Robert  Douglas  says,2  that  Graitney  Earl  of  Marr  died  about  1300;  but,  of  this 
assertion,  he  produces  no  evidence,  and  therefore  I  lay  no  weight  on  it,  although  it  would 
make  considerably  for  the  argument  which  I  am  to  use.  Indeed,  I  do  not,  at  present, 
recollect  any  mention  of  Graitney  Earl  of  Marr  after  autumn  1296 ;  and,  therefore,  let  it  be 
supposed  that  he  died  in  the  end  of  that  year. 

We  cannot  suppose  that  Christian  Bruce  married  her  second  husband  Christopher  Seton 
before  1297,  or  that  she  could  have  had  a  son  by  him  till  about  1298. 

This  son  Alexander  (slain  at  Kinghorn  1332)  may  have  been  married  at  fourteen,  to 
Isobel  the  daughter  of  Duncan,  10th  Earl  of  Fife,  an.  13 12,  and  may  have  had  a  son 
(Alexander,  governor  of  Berwick  1333),  an.  1313. 

Alexander,  governor  of  Berwick,  may  have  been  married  at  fourteen,  an.  1327,  and  may 
have  had  a  son  William,  an.  1328,  and  a  son  Thomas,  an.  1329  (both  said  to  have  been  slain 
before  the  walls  of  Berwick  1333),  and  also  a  son  Alexander,  an.  1330  (who  carried  on  the 
line  of  the  family). 

All  this  is  matter  of  figures,  and  the  reader  is  entreated  to  attend  to  the  calculation,  and 
to  observe  its  consequences. 

1.  If  Alexander  Seton,  the  son  of  Christian  Bruce,  married,  in  13 12,  the  daughter  of 
Duncan,  10th  Earl  of  Fife,  when  he  himself  was  but  fourteen,  it  follows  that  his  wife  was 
twenty-four  at  least;  for  Duncan,  10th  Earl  of  Fife,  her  father,  died  in  1288.3 


1  Annah  of  Scotland,  i.  285,  290.  3  Annals  of  Scotland,  i.  225. 

'-  Peerage  ofScotlajid,  460. 

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93o  LADY  CHRISTIAN   BRUCE 

2.  As  Alexander  Seton,  the  grandson  of  Christian  Bruce,  could  not  have  been  born 
before  1313,  and  yet  was  governor  of  Berwick  in  1333,  he  must  have  been  intrusted  with  that 
government  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  A  very  eminent  person,  having  a  numerous  vassalage, 
might  have  obtained  such  a  command ;  but  it  is  not  probable  that  it  would  have  been 
conferred  on  a  private  baron,  at  so  early  a  time  of  life,  when  the  preservation  of  Berwick  was 
the  great  object  of  the  national  councils. 

3.  As  William  the  eldest  son  of  Alexander  Seton,  governor  of  Berwick,  could  not  have 
been  born  sooner  than  1328,  he  must,  if  given  as  an  hostage  to  Edward  in.  in  1333,  have  been 
put  to  death  when  he  was  a  child  of  five  or  six  years  old. 

4.  As  Thomas,  the  second  son  of  Alexander  Seton,  governor  of  Berwick,  could  not  have 
been  born  sooner  than  1329,  he  must,  if  given  as  an  hostage  to  Edward  in.  in  1333,  have  been 
put  to  death  when  he  was  a  child  of  four  or  five  years  old. 

5.  As  Alexander,  the  third  son  of  Alexander  Seton,  governor  of  Berwick,  could  not  have 
been  born  sooner  than  1330,  it  follows,  that  he  was  a  commissioner  to  treat  of  peace  with 
England  in  1340,  at  the  age  of  ten. 

Thus  the  consequences  of  this  pedigree  of  the  Setons,  when  viewed  in  the  most  favour- 
able light,  are  inconsistent  with  all  the  probabilities  of  moral  evidence.1 

Some  new  hypothesis  may,  perhaps,  be  devised  in  order  to  prop  the  old  one :  The  most 
specious  would  be,  that  Christian  Bruce  might  have  been  divorced  from  Graitney  Earl  of 
Marr,  and  might,  during  his  lifetime,  have  married  Christopher  Seton.  This  would  have  the 
consequence  of  advancing  the  birth  of  her  son  and  grandson  some  few  years ;  and,  by  that 
means,  would,  in  some  measure,  soften  the  deformity  which  appears  on  the  face  of  the  popular 
tale.  The  hypothesis,  however,  of  a  divorce,  can  gain  no  credit.  For,  \st,  The  very  tender 
age  of  the  child  who  was  heir  of  Marr  in  1306,  precludes  the  notion  of  such  a  divorce  before 
1296,  in  which  year,  I  am  willing  to  hold,  that  Graitney  Earl  of  Marr  died.2  2nd,  Christian 
Bruce  possessed  the  castle  of  Kildrummy,  the  chief  seat  of  the  family  of  Marr,  in  1333,  which 
she  would  not  have  done  had  she  been  divorced  from  Earl  Graitney. 

The  reader  will  now  be  led  to  inquire,  Whether  the  received  genealogy  of  the  family  of 
Seton  is  to  be  overturned,  without  anything  more  probable  being  substituted  in  its  place? 
To  reduce  things  into  a  state  of  scepticism  is  very  different  from  what  I  hold  to  be  the  office 
of  an  historian ;  and  they  who  ascribe  this  to  me  do  me  great  wrong. 

It  has  been  shown,  that  Alexander  Seton,  slain  at  Kinghorn  1332,  Alexander  Seton, 
governor  of  Berwick  in  1333,  and  Alexander  Seton,  a  commissioner  to  treat  with  England  in 
1340,  cannot  all  subsist  together,  as  son,  grandson,  and  great-grandson,  of  Christian  Bruce. 
The  question  is,  which  shall  we  reject? 


1  If  the  age  of  Christian  Bruce  could  be  discovered,  at  the  supposed  death  of  the  Earl  of  Marr  in  1296, 
a  collateral  argument  might  thence  arise.  Let  us  in-  and,  as  she  brought  him  two  children,  she  must  have 
quire  what  may  be  done  in  that  way.  Robert  Bruce,  remained  in  wedlock  for  two  years,  and  she  must  have 
the  father  of  Christian,  could  not  have  married  the  been  married  in  1294,  at  the  age  of  13.  If  she  married 
Countess  of  Carrick  before  1271 ;  for  the  Earl  of  Christopher  Seton  in  1297,  she  must  have  been  a 
Carrick  (either  her  father  or  her  husband)  died  in  widow  with  two  children,  and  have  married  a  second 
the  holy  wars,  an.  1270.  As  Isobel  the  mother  of  husband  at  the  age  of  16.  According  to  this  hypo- 
Randolph  was  her  eldest  daughter,  and  as  her  son  thesis,  it  appears  that  the  events  of  her  life  were 
Robert  Bruce  was  born  nth  July  1274,  it  follows  that  strangely  crowded  ;  but,  if  we  suppose,  with  Douglas, 
Christian  Bruce  could  not  have  been  born  sooner  than  that  the  Earl  of  Marr  lived  to  about  1300,  and  that 
1273.  If  she  was  born  in  1273,  she  was  aged  53  in  Christian  Bruce  married  Christopher  Seton  in  1301, 
the  year  1326.  But  we  know,  from  Fordun,  that,  in  everything  will  have  a  probable  appearance. 
1326,  she  was  married  for  the  third  time  to  Sir  Andrew  Christian  Bruce  born  .  .  .  1281 
Moray  of  Bothwell,  Lib.  xiii.  c.  12.  It  is  admitted,  Married  Earl  of  Marr 
that  she  brought  him  two  sons,  who  were  successively  Bare  a  son,  Donald,  Earl  of  Marr 
Lords  of  Bothwell.  Therefore,  she  must  have  borne  Bare  a  daughter  Ellyne 
the  elder  at  the  age  of  54,  and  the  younger  at  the  age  A  widow  ..... 
of  55.  Now,  this  is  exceedingly  improbable  ;  and,  Married  Christopher  Seton  . 
therefore,  we  may  conclude,  that,  when  Christian  Bare  a  son  Alexander  . 
Bruce  was  married  for  the  third  time  in  1326,  she  was  A  widow  ..... 
considerably  younger  than  53,  and,  consequently,  that  Married  Sir  Andrew  Moray 
she  was  born  several  years  after  1273.  Let  us  see  how  Bare  a  son  .... 
calculations  will  answer  on  the  hypothesis,  that,  in  Bare  another  son 
1326,  at  the  age  of  45,  she  married  Sir  Andrew  Moray; 
if  so,  she  was  born  in  1281,  and,  consequently,  was  15             -  Annals  of  Scotland,  ii.  20. 


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THE   BERWICK  TRAGEDY  931 

If  Fordun  intended  to  say,  that  Alexander  Seton,  slain  at  Kinghorn  1332,  was  the  father 
of  Alexander  Seton,  governor  of  Berwick  in  1333,  and  the  grandfather  of  William  and  Thomas, 
slain  at  Berwick  in  1333,  it  has  been  demonstrated  that  that  story  is  absurd  and  impossible. 
For  Alexander,  the  son  of  Christian  Bruce,  could  not  have  been  above  32  years  of  age, 
and,  consequently,  his  grandson  could  not  have  been  a  soldier  in  the  same  year.  We  must 
either  hold,  that  the  son  of  Christian  Bruce  was  not  slain  at  Kinghorn  in  1332,  or  that  the 
Alexander  Seton,  who  had  two  sons  slain  at  Berwick  in  1333,  was  not  the  grandson  of 
Christian  Bruce  ;  and,  of  course,  we  must  hold,  that  all  the  genealogical  writers  who  have 
supposed  this  pedigree  have  been  in  an  error. 

If  we  adhere  to  the  first  part  of  the  story,  and  hold  that  Alexander  Seton,  the  son  of 
Christian  Bruce,  was  slain  at  Kinghorn  in  1332,  the  tragical  event  of  his  grandsons,  the  young 
Setons,  put  to  death  at  Berwick  in  1333,  is  annihilated ;  and  it  must  be  admitted  to  have  been 
wholly  a  fable. 

But  although,  by  adhering  to  the  first  part  of  Fordun's  story,  as  understood  by  later 
writers,  we  should  be  relieved  for  ever  of  the  story  of  the  cruelty  of  Edward  in.  at  Berwick, 
yet  I  cannot  lay  hold  on  such  evidence. 

To  me  it  seems  probable,  that  Fordun  has  either  committed  a  mistake  as  to  the  name  of 
the  person  slain  at  Kinghorn  in  1332,  or  that  the  Alexander  Seton  mentioned  by  him  was  some 
other  person,  of  whose  parentage  we  have  no  knowledge. 

And,  inclining  to  be  of  this  opinion,  I  also  think,  that  the  Alexander  Seton,  who  was  one 
of  the  persons  that  addressed  the  letter  to  the  Pope  in  1320,  who  is  said  by  Fordun  to  have 
been  governor  of  Berwick  in  1333,  who  was  present  at  Balliol's  parliament  in  Edinburgh 
1333-4,  and  who  was  a  commissioner  to  England  in  1340,  was  one  and  the  same  person,  the 
son  of  Sir  Christopher  Seton  and  Christian  Bruce  ;  and  thus  the  pedigree  of  the  son,  grandson, 
and  great-grandson  of  Christian  Bruce  will  be  curtailed,  and  the  events  which  have  been 
supposed  applicable  to  three  Alexander  Setons  will  be  found  to  have  relation  to  one  and  the 
same  person. 

Whether  Edward  HI.  put  to  Death  the  Son  of  Sir  Alexatider  Seton 
at  Berwick,  in  1333. 

Fordun  relates,  that  the  besieged  in  Berwick  obtained  a  truce  from  Edward  in.  and 
became  bound  to  deliver  up  the  town,  unless  relieved  within  a  time  limited ;  that,  for  the 
faithful  execution  of  this  treaty,  Thomas,  the  son  and  heir  of  Alexander  Seton,  governor  of  the 
town,  was  given  as  an  hostage  ;  that,  after  the  lapse  of  the  time  limited,  Edward  required  those 
in  Berwick  to  surrender,  and,  on  their  refusal,  hanged  Thomas  Seton  on  a  gibbet  before  the 
gates,  in  sight  of  both  his  parents.1 

Boece,  and  his  imitator,  Buchanan,  improve  on  the  simple  narrative  of  Fordun,  and 
relate,  that  Edward  hanged,  not  only  the  hostage,  but  also  another  son  of  Alexander  Seton, 
who  was  a  prisoner  of  war. 

This  seems  to  have  been  added  to  heighten  the  horrors  of  the  narrative ;  and  it  is  not 
improbable  that  Boece,  much  conversant  in  antiquity,  might  have  held  it  lawful,  in  certain 
circumstances,  to  kill  an  hostage;  and  therefore,  that,  to  make  the  character  of  Edward 
completely  detestable,  he  represented  him  as  a  violator  of  the  law  of  nations,  by  murdering  a 
prisoner. 

The  heroic  speech  uttered  by  the  wife  of  the  governor  is  now  given  up  on  all  hands  as  a 
rhetorical  fiction. 

In  none  of  the  ancient  English  historians  hitherto  published  is  there  any  mention  made 
of  this  cruel  incident ;  and  hence  the  modern  historians  of  that  nation  are  generally  inclined 
to  consider  it  as  a  tale  absolutely  fabulous. 

Tyrrel,  however,  has  drawn  up  a  narrative  from  the  Chronicle  of  Lanercost,  and  the 
treatise  called  Scala  Chronica,  both  in  ms.,  which  greatly  favours  the  account  given  by  Fordun.2 
What  he  says,  when  divested  of  embarrassed  expressions,  pleonasms,  and  tautology,  amounts 
to  this  :  *  The  besieged  obtained  a  truce  for  fifteen  days,  and  became  bound  to  surrender,  if 
not  relieved  within  that  term ;  for  this  there  were  given  twelve  hostages,  and,  among  them,  the 


1  Fordun,  xiii.  27,  28.  2  Tyrrel,  iii.  379. 


932  EXTRACT   FROM   THE 

son  of  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  the  governor.  After  the  lapse  of  the  term,  Edward  required  the 
governor  to  surrender ;  but  he  refused.  Then  Edward,  by  advice  of  his  council,  commanded 
young  Seton  to  be  hanged  in  sight  of  his  father.  This  severity  so  intimidated  the  other 
persons  whose  children  were  hostages,  that  they  sought  and  obtained  a  prolongation  of  the 
truce  for  eight  days  more,  under  the  condition  of  surrendering,  if  they  were  not  relieved ' ;  and 
'  that  the  Scots  having  ineffectually  attempted  to  relieve  Berwick,  a  capitulation  was  concluded.' 

The  story  in  Tyrrel  is  certainly  incorrect ;  for  we  learn  from  an  authentic  instrument, 
Foedera,  T.  iv.  pp.  564-568,  that  what  is  called  the  second  truce  was  not  for  eight  days,  but  for 
a  shorter  space,  from  the  15th  to  the  19th  of  July. 

To  the  story,  as  related  by  Fordun,  and  in  Tyrrel,  there  lies  a  capital  objection,  which, 
since  the  publication  of  Foedera  Angliae,  is  obvious  to  every  one,  namely,  '  That  Alexander 
Seton  is  said  to  have  been  governor  of  the  town  of  Berwick  in  July  1333;  whereas  it  is 
certain,  from  record,  that  Sir  William  Keith  held  that  office,  and,  in  the  character  of  governor 
of  the  town  of  Berwick,  entered  into  a  negotiation  with  Edward  ill.' 

Mr.  Ruddiman  observes,1  that  it  might  be  answered,  '  That,  when  Sir  William  Keith,  the 
governor,  obtained  permission  to  go  from  Berwick,  and  lay  the  state  of  affairs  before  the 
Regent,  he  left  Sir  Alexander  Seton  as  his  deputy.' 

But  this  solution  is  altogether  unsatisfactory.  1.  Any  one  who  peruses  Fordun  with 
attention  must  perceive  that  he  supposed  Alexander  Seton  to  have  been  governor  of  the  town 
of  Berwick  from  the  beginning  of  the  siege.  2.  The  passport  granted  by  Edward  ill.  to  Sir 
William  Keith  is  dated  16th  July,  and  therefore,  if  there  were  two  treaties,  must  relate  to  the 
second.  Now,  if  Sir  William  Keith  appointed  Alexander  Seton  to  be  deputy-governor  in  his 
own  absence,  this  must  have  happened  after  the  second  treaty  was  made,  and,  consequently, 
after  the  death  of  young  Seton,  who  is  said  to  have  been  put  to  death  because  the  conditions 
of  the  first  treaty  were  violated ;  and  this  seems  effectually  to  confute  the  story,  that  at  the 
death  of  young  Seton  his  father  was  deputy-governor  in  absence  of  Sir  William  Keith. 

Another  attempt  might  be  made  to  get  free  of  this  difficulty,  and  it  is  by  supposing, 
'That,  on  occasion  of  the  first  treaty,  Sir  William  Keith  obtained  a  passport  to  go  to  the 
Scottish  army ;  that  he  left  Seton  as  his  deputy ;  that  he  returned  in  the  interval  between  the 
death  of  young  Seton  and  the  second  treaty ;  and  that  then  he  obtained  another  passport, 
which  is  on  record,  to  go  again  to  the  Scottish  army.'  But  this  hypothesis  is  awkward  and 
improbable,  and  is  not  supported  by  any  evidence. 

Hitherto  the  weight  of  the  argument  is  against  the  story  related  by  Fordun,  and  the 
presumption  seems  to  be  for  the  general  opinion  of  the  later  English  historians. 

As  to  the  Ms.  authorities  of  the  Chronicle  of  La?iercost,  I  can  say  nothing,  never  having 
been  able  to  discover  in  what  library  it  is  preserved. 

With  respect  to  Scala  Chronica  I  have  been  more  fortunate,  having  obtained  a  copy  of 
what  it  contains  with  respect  to  the  siege  of  Berwick,  an.  1333. 2 

The  reader  will  not  be  displeased  to  see  the  passage  from  Scala  Chronica ;  it  brings  many 
curious  circumstances  to  light,  and  may  serve  in  a  great  measure  to  terminate  the  controversy 
concerning  the  death  of  young  Seton. 

'  Le  roy  desirant  les  armys  et  honors,  et  soun  counsail  enprovauntz  et  coveittaunz  les 
gueres,  qy  tost  sez  acorderent  a  cest  conditioun,  et  le  plus  tost  par  desire  a.  reconquer  lors 
pris  sur  eaux,  par  queux  ils  le  avoint  perduz.  Des  plus  priv^  du  counsail  le  Roy  moverent 
ove  Edward  de  Baillol.  Qui  en  le  second  semayn  de  qarresme  assigerent  la  vile  de  Berewyk 
par  mere  et  terre ;  et  procheynement  devaunt  la  Pentecost,  le  Roy  d'Englet.  y  veint  meismes, 
et  assaillerent  la  vile,  mais  ne  la  pristrent  point ;  mais  reaparaillerent  meutz  lors  horduz  pour 
reassailler  la  dit  vile.  En  le  meme  temps  ceaux  dedenz  la  vile  parlerent  de  condiciouns,  que 
sils  ne  ussent  rescous  devaunt  un  certain  jour,  qu'ils  renderoint  la  vile;  et  sur  ceo  baillerent 
hostages.  Devaunt  quel  temps  limitez  tout  le  poair  d'Escoce,  un  si  graunt  multitude  dez  genz 
qi  a  mervail,  passerent  l'eaw  de  Twede  en  un  aube  de  jour  a.  le  Yarforde,  et  ses  monstrerent 
devaunt  Berewik  del  autre  Twede  devers  Engleter  au  plain  vieu  du  Roy  et  de  son  ost,  et 
bouterent  gentz  et  vitaillis  dedenz  la  vile,  et  demourerent  Ih.  tout  le  jour  et  la  nuyt.     Et 


1  Not.  ad  Buchanan,  429.  by  Archbishop  Parker.     The  Rev.  Mr.  Nasmith,  late 

2  The  manuscript  of  Scala  Chronica  is  in  the  library         Fellow  of  that  College,  transcribed  it  for  my  use  with 
bequeathed  to  Corpus  Christi  College  in  Cambridge,         a  ready  politeness  which  enhanced  the  favour. 


SCALA   CHRONICA  933 

lendemain  a  haut  hour  delogerent  et  moverent  parmy  la  tere  le  Roy  en  Northumbreland, 
ardauntz  et  destruyauntz  le  pays  au  plain  vieu  del  ost  as  Engles.  Cestes  gentz  departys  a.  la 
maner  le  counsail  le  Roy  al  assege  demanderent  la  vile  selonc  lez  condiciouns,  le  terme  passe 
de  lours  rescous.  Ceaux  dedenz  disoint,  qils  estoint  rescous  et  dez  gentz  et  des  vitails. 
Si  monstrerent  novelis  gardeins  de  la  vile  et  chevalers  eynz  boutes  de  lour  ost,  dount  Willm 
de  Keth  estoit  un  od  autres.  Fust  avys  au  dit  counsail  qe  ils  avoint  perduz  louz  ostages.  Si 
firent  pendre  le  fitz  Alex,  de  Setoun  gardeyn  de  la  vile.  Cest  ostage  mort  a  la  maner,  lez 
autres  dedenz  la  vile  par  tendresce  de  lours  enfauntz  q'estoient  ostages,  renovelerent  condicioun 
par  assent  des  chevalers  einz  boutes  as  queux  estoit  avys  qe  lour  poair  d'Escoce  surmountoit 
le  ost  le  Roy  d'Englet.  Si  pristrent  tiel  novel  condicion  qe  devaunt  lez  xv.  jours  ils  butroient 
ij  centz  homs  darmis  par  force  par  sek  tere  dedenz  la  vile  entre  l'ost  des  Engles  et  la  haut 
mere,  ou  qe  ils  lez  combateront  au  playn.  Willm.  de  Keth,  Willam  de  Prendregest,  et  Alex. 
Gray,  chevalers  qestoient  einz  boutez  dedenz  la  vile  avoient  conduyt  a.  passer  parmy  l'ost 
devers  lour  gentz  d'Escoce,  od  cest  condicioun  qe  furent  amenez  par  conduyt  parmy 
Northumb.  qi  lour  ost  d'Escoce  troverent  a.  Witton-Undrewod,  et  les  reamenerent  a  Berewik 
a  performer  lour  rescous,  ou  ils  vindrent  combattre,  et  ou  ils  furent  descounfitz.  Archebald 
de  Douglas  al  hour  gardein  d'Escoce  de  par  le  Roy  David  de  Brus  fust  la.  mort,  lez  Countis  de 
Rossce,  Muret,  de  Meneteth,  de  Levenaux,  et  de  Suthirland,  furent  la.  mortz.  Le  Seignour 
de  Douglas  Fitz  James  de  Douglas  qi  morust  en  le  frounter  de  Cernate  sur  lez  Sarazins, 
qavoit  empris  cest  saint  veage  od  le  quere  Robert  de  Bruys  lour  Roys  qi  le  avoit  devise  en 
soun  moriaund,  et  touz  plain  dez  barouns  dez  chevalers  et  dez  comunes  furent  illoeqs  un  tres 
graunt  noumbre  mortz.  La  vile  se  rendy  sur  condiciouns  taille.  Le  Count  de  la  Marche 
qavoit  le  chastel  de  Berewik  a.  garder,  deveint  Engles,  qi  n'avoit  my  graunt  gree  de  nul  coste, 
qi  en  le  mene  temps  fist  affermer  par  suffraunce  le  Roy  soun  chastell  de  Dunbar,  qi  puis  fist 
grant  mal.' 

That  is,  '  The  King  was  eager  to  be  at  the  head  of  armies,  and  to  gain  renown.  His 
counsellors  approved  of  war,  and  wished  for  it :  And  therefore,  they  speedily  agreed  to  the 
conditions  proposed  (by  Balliol  and  his  adherents).  And  this  the  rather,  because  they  sought, 
by  the  means  of  the  Scots  themselves,  to  recover  what  the  Scots  had  taken  from  England. 
Some  of  the  chief  counsellors  of  the  King  went  with  the  army  of  Edward  Balliol :  and,  in  the 
second  week  of  Lent,  they  laid  siege  to  the  town  of  Berwick,  by  sea  as  well  as  on  the  land 
side.  And  shortly  before  Whitsuntide,  the  King  of  England  came  thither  in  person.  They 
assaulted  the  town ;  but  they  did  not  master  it.  Then  they  busied  themselves  in  repairing 
their  hurdles  for  a  new  assault.  At  this  time,  the  besieged  entered  into  a  treaty  with  the 
besiegers,  and  agreed  to  surrender  the  town,  unless  succoured  before  a  certain  day :  And  to 
that  effect  they  gave  hostages.  Before  the  day  thus  limited,  the  whole  power  of  Scotland,  in 
astonishing  numbers,  crossed  the  river  of  Tweed  one  morning  at  daybreak,  at  the  Yareford, 
and  showed  themselves  before  Berwick,  on  the  south  side  of  the  river,  towards  England,  in  full 
view  of  the  King  and  his  army.  They  conveyed  some  men  and  provisions  into  the  town,  and 
they  remained  on  their  ground  all  the  day  and  the  night  following;  and  next  day,  before 
noon,  they  removed  into  the  territories  of  the  King  in  Northumberland,  burning  and  ravaging 
the  country  in  full  view  of  the  English  army.  These  men  having  thus  departed,  the 
King's  counsellors  required  the  town  to  be  given  up,  as  the  term  stipulated  for  their 
being  succoured  had  now  elapsed.  The  besieged  made  answer,  that  they  had  received 
succours  both  of  men  and  of  provisions ;  and  they  showed  that  there  were  new  governors 
in  the  town,  and  also  knights,  who  had  been  sent  from  their  army.  Sir  William  Keith 
was  one,  and  there  were  others  besides.  It  was  the  opinion  of  the  English  council  that 
the  Scots  had  forfeited  their  hostages,  and,  therefore,  they  caused  the  son  of  Alexander 
Seton,  governor  of  the  town,  to  be  hanged.  On  his  death,  after  this  sort,  the  other 
people  of  the  town,  from  affection  for  their  children,  who  were  also  hostages,  renewed  the 
treaty  of  capitulation.  The  Scottish  knights  who  had  found  entrance  into  the  town,  advised 
them  to  this,  being  of  opinion  that  their  forces  were  superior  to  the  army  of  the  King  of 
England.  By  the  new  conditions,  it  was  agreed  to  surrender  the  place,  unless,  within  fifteen 
days,  the  Scots  should  either  throw  200  men  at  arms  in  a  body  into  the  town  by  dry  land, 
between  the  sea  and  the  English  army,  or  combat  (and  overcome)  the  English  army  in  open 
field.  William  de  Keith,  William  de  Prendegest,  and  Alexander  Gray,  all  knights  who  had 
thrown  themselves  into  the  place,  had  a  passport  to  go  through  the  English  camp  to  their 


934  S ETON'S  SONS,   OR   THE 

countrymen  in  Northumberland.  They  found  the  Scottish  forces  at  Witton  Underwood,  and 
brought  them  back  to  the  relief  of  Berwick.  The  Scots  fought,  and  were  discomfited. 
Archibald  Douglas,  then  Regent  of  Scotland  for  King  David  Bruce,  was  there  slain,  together 
with  the  Earls  of  Ross,  Murray,  Menteth,  Lenox,  and  Sutherland.  The  Lord  Douglas  also 
fell.  He  was  the  son  of  James  Douglas,  who  perished  on  the  frontiers  of  Granada,  in  battle 
against  the  Saracens.  This  James  Douglas  had  undertaken  that  holy  expedition  with  the 
heart  of  Robert  Bruce,  King  of  Scots,  in  consequence  of  his  dying  request.  There  were  slain, 
besides  them,  many  barons  and  knights,  and  a  great  multitude  of  the  common  sort.  The 
town  surrendered  according  to  treaty.  The  Earl  of  March,  who  held  the  castle,  became 
English ;  a  man  lightly  esteemed  by  all  parties.  At  the  same  time,  by  permission  of  the 
English  King,  he  fortified  his  own  castle  of  Dunbar,  which  afterwards  had  fatal  consequences.' 

Such  is  the  narrative  in  Scala  Chronica,  of  which  Leland  has  made  this  very  brief  extract : 
'  After  that  the  hole  Englisch  hoste  had  faught  with  the  Scottes,  and  had  so  great  a  victory, 
the  toune  of  Berwick  was  given  up  to  King  Edward.' 1 

The  narrative  of  Scala  Chronica  appears,  in  general,  to  be  authentic,  although  not 
altogether  free  from  errors. 

From  it  we  discover  the  solution  of  that  difficulty  in  the  accounts  given  by  the  Scottish 
historians,  which  hitherto  has  been  inexplicable ;  namely,  '  how  Sir  Alexander  Seton  could 
have  been  governor  of  the  town  of  Berwick  in  July  1333,  while  it  appeared  from  record,  that, 
at  that  very  time,  Sir  William  Keith  was  governor.' 

We  now  learn,  that  Sir  Alexander  Seton  had  been  originally  governor,  but  that  Sir  William 
Keith,  having  found  means  to  enter  Berwick  towards  the  end  of  the  siege,  assumed  the 
command,  with  a  view,  no  doubt,  to  favour  the  pretext  of  Berwick  having  received  succours, 
according  to  the  letter  of  the  treaty. 

Hence,  also,  we  may  discern  why  the  English  were  so  exceedingly  minute  in  the  second 
treaty,  as  to  what  should  be  held  as  succours  to  Berwick.  It  was  to  prevent  any  ambiguity 
like  that  which  had  arisen  from  the  too  general  terms  in  which,  as  it  seems,  the  first  treaty  had 
been  conceived. 

The  right  of  putting  an  hostage  to  death,  when  the  conditions  of  the  treaty,  for  which  he 
was  given  in  pledge,  are  not  performed,  has  been  examined  by  the  writers  on  the  law  of 
nations,  more  diligent  in  collecting  precedents  than  in  establishing  principles?  That  parties 
contracting  may  agree  to  give  some  of  their  own  number  as  hostages,  to  be  put  to  death  if  the 
treaty  is  violated  on  their  part,  appears  to  be  a  proposition  of  more  difficulty  than  is  generally 
apprehended ;  but  that  they  may  agree  to  give  their  children  as  hostages,  under  such  con- 
ditions, is  repugnant  to  every  notion  of  morality ;  and,  therefore,  I  neither  pretend  to  justify 
Sir  Alexander  Seton  for  exposing  his  child  to  death,  nor  Edward  III.  for  killing  him. 

5.  Ballad  of  '  Seton's  Sons,  or  the  Beleaguering  of  Berwicke,' 
from  Sheldon's  Minstrelsy  of  the  English  Border. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  84  note  2.] 

'  My  Mither  weeps,  my  mither  greets, 

And  winna  comfort  tak, 
Pray  for  my  soule  all  Chrystan  Men, 

For  holy  Chryste  his  sake. 

'  I  hearde  a  sweet  bird  sing  solemnlie, 

This  simmers  early  morn, 
The  mavis  he  lilted,  the  cushat  crooned, 

Whilst  the  laverock  cheep'd  in  the  corn. 

'  The  Englysh  Kyng  hath  broughten  schyps, 

To  ding  down  Berwicke  Wa' ; 
They  've  rowed  them  up  by  the  san  ston  seel, 

And  the  anchors  loot  doun  fa'. 


1  Leland,  Collecta.,  i.  554.  -  Grotius  de  Jure  Belli  el  Pads,  Hi.  4,  14. 


BELEAGUERING   OF  BERWICKE  935 

'  They  threw  shotte  from  the  Tweedmouth  shore 

Syne  o'er  the  hill  it  passed, 
But  my  auld  feyther  laughed  at  the  sport, 

And  still  the  gates  held  fast. 

'  They  rowit  a  schyp  close  to  the  quay, 

And  their  yardis  touchit  the  wa' ; 
The  saylor  loons  cloomb  up  the  shrovvds, 

And  along  the  banks  they  sta'. 

'  But  my  feyther  he  loupit  out  from  the  stane, 

That  was  biggit  firmly  doun  ; 
I  wat  he  handled  the  saylors  sayre, 

And  broke  the  foremost  croun. 

'  He  fixit  a  tow,  and  let  in  a  low 

On  Kyng  Edward's  loftie  schyp ; 
She  lunted  in  the  heavens  sae  high, 

Then  canted  in  her  tryp. 

'  We  made  a  foray  upon  their  camps, 

The  brig  we  barred  up  well ; 
How  I  and  my  brither  Richard  got  ta'en 

Was  wycked  wark  o'  hell. 

'  Hugh  Elliot — oh  !  thoust  dune  a  deed, 

To  earn  a  traytors  name, 
In  heat  o'  fyght,  he  closed  Brig  gates, 

And  left  us  to  be  ta'en. 

'  Kyng  Edward  now  swears  by  the  roode, 

He  '11  hang  up  both  sae  high, 
Gif  my  feyther  winna  Berwicke  yield, 

The  de'il  flyte  hym  ere  he  flee. 

'  My  mither  weeps,  my  mither  greets, 

And  winna  comfort  take  ; 
Pray  for  our  soules  all  Chrystan  men, 

For  holy  Chryste  his  sake.' 

Lady  Seton  was  wauking  yet, 

And  sat  in  her  lonely  bower; 
The  yewe  and  the  lammie  had  layd  doun  to  rest, 

But  the  mither  she  wept  in  her  tower. 

'  My  luvely  lord,  why  sorrow  sae, 

Gif  Yedward  will  make  sic  dinne, 
Gyve  up  the  gates  o'  caud  Berwicke 

My  sons  soulis  do  not  sinne. 

'  It  is  my  bonnie  sons  that  lie 

In  chaynes  sae  glum  and  doure ; 
It  was  their  voices  that  I  heard 

Call  on  me  frae  the  shore. 

'  They  cried,  "  Oh  !  we  are  baith  too  young, 

To  wear  halters  on  our  hawse ; 
My  mither  dear,  speak  for  our  lives, 

Our  feyther 's  no  that  fause. 


936  SB  TON'S  SONS,   OR   THE 


'  "  Let  him  gie  up  the  Berwicke  keys, 

When  Percy  toots  his  horn, 
Or  we  shall  die  nae  faire  strae  death, 

Upon  to  morrow's  morn." ' 

Seton  he  groant  in  trouble  sair, 
As  he  stampit  roun  the  roome : 

'  What  have  I  done  good  honey  Chryst, 
That  thou  suldst  deal  this  doome? 

'  Feeling  is  strong,  but  duty  more, 

What  dule  so  e'er  it  bryng ; 
How  coulde  I  gie  my  trustis  uppe 

Wi'  conscience  to  my  kyng. 

'  My  name  as  yet  is  fayrly  dight, 

Och  then  in  my  last  breath, 
Dinna  let 's  fyle  the  precious  gift 

Wi'  the  sorn  o'  a  base  Menteath. 

'  Better  my  buirdly  sounes  suld  die, 

A  thoosand  tymes,'  he  sayd, 
'  Than  lyve  and  see  their  feyther  shunned 

As  a  knycht  dishonnered. 

'  Duty  and  feelin  fecht  within, 

0  then  my  luvely  wyfe, 
Never  weigh  honour  on  the  Steele, 

Against  disgracefulle  lyfe.' 

The  ladye  moant  and  the  ladye  wept 

Sic  byg  drops  she  loot  fa', 
The  pearlis  on  the  Queen  her  hawse, 

1  wat  to  them  were  sma'. 

Quo  she,  and  wringt  her  lily  handes, 

Like  one  in  trouble  sair ; 
'  Duty  is  natheless  hard  to  thole, 

But  feeling  it  is  mair. 

'  We  may  recover  our  honour,  luve, 
But  never  our  sonnes  sae  dear : 

A  mither's  tears  will  not  be  held 
By  any  talk  or  lear.' 

'  Thou  reasonst  falsely,  ladye  luve, 

For  honour,  it  is  playne, 
Once  fyled  or  misted  with  distruste, 

Will  ne'er  grow  fayre  agayn. 

I  will  not  do  it,  sae  help  me  Chryst,' 
Quo  he,  '  I  '11  keep  gude  fayth ; 
I  winna  yield  the  Berwicke  toun, 
Come  a'  my  sonnes  to  scaith.' 

She  rowed  her  head  in  her  whyte  wymple, 

Syne  laid  it  on  a  buird, 
Looked  in  his  eye  wi'  siccan  a  face, 

But  never  spak  a  word. 


BELEAGUERING  OF  BERWICKE         937 


He 's  cast  him  doun  upon  a  stool, 
Sae  doure  and  grym  his  woe, 

The  blood  sprang  frae  his  lips  sae  whyte, 
As  he  rockit  to  and  fro. 


Fytte  Second. 

'  King  Edward  he  had  mynstrels  fyve, 
And  they  sung  a'  each  their  sang ; 

When  he  soddenle  strak  the  buird  wi'  his  fist, 
That  the  Chrystalrie  all  rang. 

'  Gae  up  intill  that  auld  traytor, 

That  dwells  in  yon  bear  march  toun  ; 

Tell  him,  I  redde  he  tent  my  words, 
Or  ere  the  nicht  be  dune. 

'  Lorde  Percy  this  shalt  thou  tell  this  carle, 

I  hold  his  sonnes  in  fee, 
And  if  he  disna  yield  the  morn, 

Hangit  they  baith  sail  be.' 

Lorde  Percy  he  rose  frae  the  buird, 

And  to  Berwicke  bent  his  waye  : 
'  My  feyther's  sonne  never  so  base  an  errand, 

Before  this  nicht  did  gae.' 

He  chappit  upon  the  brigs  middle  yett, 

'  I  come  wi'  a  worde  o'  grace, 
Sae  tak  me  to  your  Governor, 

For  I  maun  see  his  face.' 

They  blynded  his  e'en  as  they  gaed  up  the  bank, 

And  alang  the  Berwicke  wa' ; 
Syne  o'er  the  drawbridge  abune  the  ditch, 

And  into  the  castle's  ha'. 

They  lifted  the  bendish  frae  his  e'en, 

In  the  banquet  ha'  sae  high  ; 
'  Lord  Seton  I  come  to  save  your  sonnes, 

Or  surely  maun  they  die. 

'  Gin  ye  yield  no  the  Berwicke  keys, 

Kyng  Edward  he  has  sworn, 
By  Chryst  his  rood  to  hang  them  baith, 

As  falls  the  coming  morn.' 

Seton  he  gaspit  and  he  girned, 

And  shewed  his  teeth  sae  whyte, 
His  e'en  were  glaikit  like  a  man's 

That 's  strycken  wi'  affryghte. 

Quo  he,  '  Lorde  Percy,  dinna  thynk 

I  speak  your  lugs  to  blaw ; 
But  let  him  spare  my  twa  brave  sonnes 

And  at  his  feet  I  '11  fa'. 

6C 


938  SE  TON'S  SONS,   OR   THE 


'  And  wat  them  wi'  these  happing  tears 
That  wash  my  auld  auld  e'en ; 

That  channel  doun  these  wrynkelets, 
Gin  he  will  list  bedeen.' 

'  My  bairnies,'  quo  the  mither  then, 

'  That  I  hae  kist  sae  aft, 
Canna  we  save  them  frae  their  death, 

But  sic  a  pryce  we  coft. 

'  Thare  pretty  necks  I  've  slibber'd  sae  : 

Ah  !  Percy,  gentil  lorde, 
To  hae  them  raxed  upon  a  tree, 

And  strangled  wi'  a  cord  ! 

'  O  Jesu  !  'tis  unkenned  the  wyte 

Upon  my  herte  sae  sair, 
To  hang  my  bairns,  or  mak  their  feyther 

Disgracit  for  ever  mair.' 

'  My  honour,  gentle,  gentle  lord, 

I  weepe  to  mak  me  blynde, 
How  shall  I  gyue  the  keys  to  him, 

And  yet  my  honour  fynd  ? 

'  My  childiren  are  deere  to  me, 
I  've  hyked  them  in  these  arms  ; 

Baith  have  their  mither's  voice  and  feyce, 
My  blude  theyre  bosom  warms. 

'  I  '11  die  for  them,  gif  your  kyng  likes, 

And  freely  do  the  same  : 
Oh  Percy  !  tell  me  what  to  do, 

Save  them,  and  scaith  all  blame.' 

Percy  he  fidgit  to  gang  awa', 

And  syne  he  rubbit  his  e'e ; 
'  Curse  on  the  stoure,  it  blynds  one  sae, 

The  de'il  a  thyng  I  see.' 

He  joukit  cannily  oot  o'  the  room, 
For  the  leddy  she  grippit  him  sair ; 

And  Seton  he  bow'd  him  to  the  yett, 
Syne  doun  the  ramparts  stayre. 


They  biggit  a  gallows  on  hangie  dyke  neuk, 
And  the  hangman  came  there  betyme, 

The  cock  crow'd  loudly  o'er  the  muirs, 
'  Seton's  sounes,  'tis  matin  pryme.' 

The  trumpets  sounded  out  oure  the  Tweed 

Wi'  a  blast  o'  deadly  sound  ; 
Auld  Seton  and  wyfe  gaed  up  on  the  wa's, 

For  theyre  sonnes  to  death  were  bound. 

They  kent  the  tread  o'  their  gallant  bairns 

As  they  cam  forth  for  to  dee ; 
Richard  he  mounted  the  ladder  fyrst, 

And  threw  himself  frae  the  tree. 


BELEAGUERING  OF  BERWICKE         939 

William  he  was  his  mither's  pride, 

And  he  looked  sae  bauldly  on  : 
Then  kyst  his  brithers  lyefless  hands, 

When  he  fand  the  breath  was  gone. 

'  My  feyther  he  looks  frae  the  castle  wa's, 

My  mither  and  friends  are  there ; 
To  die  a  cur's  death,  for  na  faut  ava, 

Gude  feyth, — but  'tis  dispayr. 

'  But  there 's  a  heaven  abune  us  a', 

And  a  kindly  God  forbye ; 
And  a  burning  hell  as  Edward  sail  ken, 

When  the  day  comes  he  maun  die. 

'  My  mither  weeps  and  my  mither  greets, 

And  winna  comfort  tak ; 
Pray  for  my  soule  all  Chrystan  men, 

And  holy  Chryste  his  sake.' 

He  leaped  from  aff  the  bitter  tree, 

And  flauchtered  in  the  wynd, 
Twa  bonnie  flowers  to  wither  thus, 

And  a'  for  yae  man's  mind. 


O  !  there  was  a  shriek  rose  in  the  air, 

So  wylde,  so  death  lyke  gien  ; 
A  mither's  wail  for  her  gallant  bairns, 

Such  sight  was  seldom  seen. 

It  called  the  grey  gull  frae  the  sea, 

For  he  wist  his  mate  had  spake, 
Never  a  mither  in  city  walled, 

Wi'  a  heart  that  wadn't  break. 

Scarce  had  the  breath  been  out  o'  their  bouks, 

When  Douglass  he  cam  in, 
And  brought  relyf  to  Berwicke's  town, 

Wi'  fifteen  hundred  men. 

They  drave  pale  Edward  o'er  the  hill, 

And  burnt  his  hail  schipping ; 
But  all  the  blood  could  never  lyfe 

Unto  those  twa  lads  bryng. 

Douglas  he  fired  ane  hospital, 

And  the  wounded  English  shrieked  sair ; 
'  So  crys  a  ratton,'  said  grim  Douglass, 

'  When  the  hindis  smoke  their  lair.' 

He  tuke  a  wealthy  merchant  wight 
With  three  more  o'  his  countre  syde  ; 

And  stringt  them  up  on  the  same  gallowes, 
Whare  Seton's  bairnies  died. 

They  proffered  him  the  gude  red  gold, 

But  he  aye  cry'd  '  Seton's  sonne : 
Did  ye  count  down  the  haill  o'  Englande's  wealth, 

Ye  suld  hang  till  the  lyfe  were  dune.' 


940        'CHRYSTAL'S   CHAPEL,'   DUMFRIES 

6.  Charter  of  'Chrystal's  Chapel,'  1323,  from  M'Dowall's 
History  of  Dumfries,  2nd  Edition,  p.  765. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  78  note.] 

Charta  Capellani  celebrantis  pro  anima  Christopheri  de  Seton.  Robertus,  Dei  gratia 
Rex  Scotorum,  etc.,  Christopherus  de  Seton,  miles,  dilectus  noster  mortuus  est  in  servitio 
nostro,  ac  Christiana  de  Brois,  sponsa  sua  sororque  nostra  dilecta  in  loco  quo  mortem  subiit 
prope  Drumfreis,  in  honorem  crucis  Dominicae  quandam  Capellani  fundavit  et  extruxit :  Sciat ; 
propter  benevolentiam  et  affectionem  quam  non  immerito  erga  dictum  quendam  Christo- 
phorum  habuimus  Donavisse  Dedisse  et  Confirmasse  uni  Capellano  in  eadem  Capella  pro 
anima  dicti  Christophori  animabus  omnium  Fidelium  Divina  in  perpetua  celebrare ;  ac  pro 
nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  Regibus  Scotia  presentando  centum  solidos  Strivilingorum  annui 
reditus  per  manus  Vicecomitis  nostri  de  Drumfreis,  et  Balivorum  suorum  qui  pro  tempore 
fuerint  de  annuo  reditu  nobis  de  dicta  Baronia  de  Carlaverock  ad  terminos  Pentecostes  et 
Sancti  Martin,  proportionaliter,  singulis  annis  in  liberam  puram  et  perpetuam  eleemosynam 
recipiendos.  Quare  Vicecomiti  nostro  de  Drumfreis  et  Balivis  suis  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint 
precipimus  et  mandamus  quaternos  dictos  centum  solidos  annui  reditus  dicto  Capellano,  ad 
terminos  predictos  plenarie  persolvant  in  perpetuam.  Quos  quidem  centum  solidos  predicto 
Vicecomiti  et  Balivis  suis  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint  in  computis  sui  annuis  volumus  pro  nobis  et 
heredibus  nostris  plenius  collocare.  In  cujus  rei  fidem,  etc.,  apud  Berwicum  supra  Tuedam 
ultimo  die  Novembris  anni  regni  nostri  nonodecimo,  etc. — Robertus  Brussius,  Scon  coronatus 
erat  1306,  mense  Aprilis. — General  Hutton's  mss.,  in  Advocates'  Library. 

7.  Notes  by  John  Riddell,  Advocate,  under  'Seton,  Earl  of 
Winton,'  in  his  Copy  of  Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland,  now  in 
the  Advocates'  Library. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  59  supra.] 

I.  Secher  de  Say,  who  possessed  lands  in  East  Lothian,  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Philip. 

For  several  Winton  papers  and  those  of  Garleton  and  the  Larg(?),  see  bef.  132  (1)  about 
middle  and  the  very  end. 

For  Winton  papers  in  top  of  the  Parliament  House,  see  b.  m.  126  midd.1 — Douglas's 
Peerage  of  Scotland,  vol.  ii.  p.  638. 

For  American  Setons  and  those  connected  with  the  Cayley  Family  in  England,  see  b.  m. 
145  towards  the  end :  also  Correspondence  between  me  and  George  Seton  in  America,  a 
logymachy.  There  is  a  separate  parcel  which  lies  lower,  of  the  Barns  Setons :  com- 
munication from  Mr.  Cayley  about  Seton,  including  the  American  ones :  also  b.  m.  145 
towards  end. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  638.) 

An  Alexander  de  Seton  is  witness  to  a  charter  of  Riddell  by  David  the  First ;  must  at 
least  have  been  before  the  year  1159.  Vide  Nisbet's  Heraldry,  vol.  2,  App.  page  295,  new 
Edit.     He  is  there  simply  designed  '  Alexandra  de  Seton.' 

(Foot  of  column  2  page  638.) 

Willielmus  Dei  gratia  Rex  Scotorum  Sciatis  presentes  me  dedisse,  etc.  Philippo  de 
Settone  terram  illam  que  fuit  Saheri  patris  sui,  viz.,  Settone  Vintone  et  Vinchbrughe — Testes 
sunt — David  Comes  frater  meus  Duncanus  Justiciarius  Richardus  de  Morvill  Constabularius 
Walterus  Olifurd  Alanus  Dapifer  noster  et  Will8  de  Lundy.  Apud  Streueling  afio  regno  nr' 
5to  (i.e.  1 170.) — Copy  from  original  by  Anderson,  author  of  Dip.  Scot.,  who  appears  to  have 
got  hold  of  many  of  the  Winton  papers.      Vide  Genealogical  Collection,  v.  1,  p.  108. 

1  I  have  failed  to  ascertain  the  meaning  of  this  and  certain  other  references. 


JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES  941 

(Notes  top  of  column  i  page  639.) 

Petition  (1668)  by  Sir  John  Seton,  Lieut,  to  the  Scotts  Guard  of  the  King  of  France  for 
a  Borbrieff.  He  had  got  a  testificat  from  Earl  of  Winton  and  Viscount  of  Kingston,  b.  m.  41 
near  beg. 

Carta  facta  Sahero  de  Seton  filio  Dugalli  per  Rogerum  de  Quincy  Comitem  Wintonie  et 
Constabularium  Scotie,  of  20  mil  out  of  mill  of  Tranent  belonging  to  the  Earl :  Ws  Will0  de 
Bosco  Duncan  Sybald  Will0  de  Haya,  etc.,  militibus,  etc. — Gen.  Coll.  v.  1,  p.  114.  (Roger, 
E.  of  Winton,  was  E.  of  Winton  from  1221  to  1264.)  Vide  Nisbet,  vol.  2,  Exterior  Orna- 
ments, p.  15,  for  a  description  of  Earl's  Seal,  which  had  a  winged  Dragon  in  it.  Roger  de 
Quincy  could  not  have  been  Constable  before  1234. 

(Column  1  page  639.) 

At  the  end  of  the  printed  account  of  [Sir  Alexander  Seton  of  Seton],  Mr.  Riddell  has 
written  after  the  words  ['  chamberlain  of  Scotland,  a  son ']  IV.  Bertramus ;  and  has  the 
following  note  on  the  margin : — Carta  Confirmt.  cont.  fact.  Bertramo  filio  Alexandri  de 
Settone  per  Patt.  de  Dumbar  Marchiarum  Comitem,  terrarum  de  Richel-Kelloch,  etc. 
Testibus  Willielmo  Glasgueft  Epo.  Cancellario  nfo  Ranulpho  de  Soulis,  etc. — Gen.  Coll. 
v.  1,  p.  115.     Also  another  to  him  de  toftis  in  villa  de  Tranent. 

Carta  Will1  Regis  Scottorum  facta  Alexandro  filio  Philippi  de  Setton,  terrarum  quae 
fuerunt  patris  sui,  viz.,  Settone,  Vintone  et  Vinchburghe.  T.  Hugone  Cancellario,  Saero  de 
Quincey  Phillipo  de  Vallon  Camerario,  etc.  Vide  Gen.  Coll.  v.  i,  p.  114.  Also  wit03  Hugone 
Cancellario  Saero  de  Quincey  Phillipo  de  Vallon  Camerario. 

(Foot  of  column  1  page  639,  under  'V.  Serlo,'  etc.) 

Comput.  Alexandri  Cumyn  Comiti  Buchan  Custodis  duarum  partium  terrarum  quondam 
Rogeri  de  Quincy  in  Laudonia  fact,  per  Serlonem  de  Setun  militem  alternatim  summa  re 
recept.  ejusdem  per  firmas  duarum  partium  et  per  duas  partes  de  Travyrnent  et  duas  partes 
de  Noderyf,  Lauedir,  Heruyt,  et  Mertin,  etc.,  alio  1264,  prntd  Chan.  Rolls,  v.  1,  p.  52. 

Note  to  '  Alisaundre  de  Seton,  vallet,'  among  the  Barons  of  the  county  of  Edinburgh. 
Vallettus  is  probably  equivalent  to  '  escuyer,'  and  means  a  lower  degree  in  chivalry. 

Carta  facta  per  Alexandrum  de  Seton  de  eodem  Ade  de  Polilluey  au  (et  ?)  Emma  sorore 
sua. — Gen.  Coll.  v.  1,  p.  116.  Wes  Davide  filio  Comitis  Humphredo  de  Baliol,  Willielmo 
de  Balfour,  Will0  de  Grahame  et  Constantino  de  Lochor,  ib. 

John  Seton  of  Seton  e£  in  (sic)  Yorkshire,  and  of  certain  lands  in  Cumberland,  md  a  Lady 
called  Emma,  by  whom  he  had  Sir  Cristopher.  He  is  probably  the  same  John  Seton  who 
swore  fealty  to  Edward  I.  among  the  Barons  in  Dumfriesshire  in  1296.  Vide  my  Statement  in 
Portfolios  at  (sic)  Seton. 

Edmund  Manlay  obtained  from  Ed.  1.  a  Grant  of  the  Manor  of  Seton  in  Whitling 
Strand  (in  Com.  Ebor.)  which  was  part  of  the  lands  of  Christopher  Seton,  who  md  sister  of 
K.  of  Scotland,  Dug.  Bar.  vol.  1,  p.  737,  Manlay.  Rex  concessit  Petro  de  Malolaia  .  .  . 
custodi  manerii  de  Seton  in  Whity  Strand  juxta  Mulgemene — in  Com.  Eboracensi  41  Ed.  3. — 
Gen.  Coll.  v.  1,  p.  471. 

John  Seton==Erminia  Lascells. 


Cristopher=Christiana  Bruce.  John. 

Cumbr  'R.  Rico  Oyselen'  ult  Trentsalt.  quia  accepimus  per  inquisioem  quod  Joiles  de 
Seton  def'  p  cartam  suam  dedit  et  concessit  Roberto  de  Brus  et  Christianas  ux'  ejus  villas  de 
Gamelsby  et  Unthank  in  com'  Cumbr'  tenend  eisdem  Roberto  et  Christianas  et  heredibus 
de  corporibus  suis  legitime  procreatis,  etc  etc,  qctq,  Cristopherus  de  Seton  filius  predicti  Joftis 
est  heres  ejus  gropinquior  et  plene  etatis  cepimus  homagium  ipsius  Cristopheri  de  villis  pre- 
dicts et  'et  ideo  vobis  mandamus  qd  accepta  securitate,  etc.,  de  racionabili  relevio  suo,'  ib. 
p.  145  Ed.  1.  33  (1305). — Abbreviate  Rot.  Orig.  Secan.  (?). 


942  JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES 

Eod  modo  mon'  R.  Ermina  que  fuit  ux.  Johis  de  Seton  qd  cu  ipsa  in  curia  R.  apud 
West,  recupasset  seisinam  suam  v'  Edmundum  de  Malo  locu  de  quadraginta  sex  solid  et 
octo  denariar.  dits  cu  ptis  Suthbrunie  (2  E.  2,  p.  166). — Ib.  1309. 

'Xfoforus  de  Seyton  qui  cum  Johanne  Buteturle  in  obs.  R.  in  partibus  Scotie  moratur 
habet  literas  Regis  de  protectione  dns'  ut  supra.'     31  Ed.  1,  Rot.  Scot.  p.  52. — 1303. 

Cristoferus  de  Seyton  qui  cum  Johanne  Buteturle  etc.  habet  literas  R.  de  respectu  debi- 
torum  R.  vie.  Ebor.     T.  R.  apud  Kynlos  xix.  die  Sept. — Ib. 

'  Item  Margerie,  la  fille  Robert  de  Brus  soit  liveree  a  Monsieur  Henry  de  Percy  por  la 
mettre  en  Engleterre,  en  sauve  garde,  d'ausint  Cristine  la  soer  le  dit  Robert  qi  feut  la  femme 
C'ustefre  de  Seten,  por  estre  mise  en  garde  en  Engleterre,  en  meisme  la  manere'  (among) 
Nomina  plur.  qui  secut.  Robertum  Brus  et  missi  in  Prisona  Anglian. — R.  F.  p.  1014,  v.  2, 
1306. 

Dispensat.  for.  '  nob.  viro  Andree  de  Moravia  dfio  de  Bothevile  et  .  .  .  Nobili  Mulieri 
Christiane  de  Setono  Nate  quondam  Roberti  de  Bruys  GlasgueS  Dicoi.'  a.d.  1326. — And. 
Stewart's  Hist.  p.  429. 

'De  Sorore  Roberti  de  Brus  liberanda.  Mand.  est  Priori  de  Siphill  ordinis  de  Sem- 
pryngham  quod  corpus  Christianas,  Sororis  Roberti  de  Brus,  que  fuit  uxor  Christopheri  de 
Seyton  et  qua;  in  domo  ipsius  Prions  sub  custodia  sua  existit  vicecomiti  Regis  Lincolnite 
sine  dilatione  qualibet,  liberet,'  to  be  brought  to  the  K.  at  York. 

Rex  concessit  Willo  C  Latymer  in  fido  duas  partes  Manerii  de  Lambinby  in  Com. 
Cumbri'  ac  etiam  hamlitta  Salmesby  et  de  Unthanke  nuper  Christopheri  Seton  rebellis  per 
Servic.  debit.    34  Ed.  1,  1306.      Vide  p.  31,  v.  2,  Dug.  Baronage. — Rot.  Pat.  p.  66. 

De  inquirendo  pro  Tho'  de  Lascelles  et  Christiana  ux.  ejus  de  Maner.  de  Gaucessleby  et 
Glaussanby  in  Com.  Cumbri.     42  Hen.  3,  1258. — Rot.  Pat.  p.  30. 

(Top  of  column  1  page  640.) 

Resignatio  unius  terra;  arabilis  in  territorio  de  Nideriffe  facta  Dfio  Alx°  Settone  militi 
per  Johm  Lamberton  fiL  Will1  Lamberton  16  Feb.  1328. — Gen.  Coll.  v.  1,  p.  113. 

See  Rob.  Ind.  .  .  .  and  Excerpts  from  ms.  British  Museum  for  proof  of  Langton  by 
Alexr  Seaton. 

(Top  of  column  2  page  640.) 

Nation.  Chan.  Rolls,  v.  1,  p.  335  afio  1359  of  'Baronia  de  Lambyngston,'  Lanarkshire. 
Resignatio  facta  Dfio  Alx°  de  Settone  de  eodem  militi  terfm  de  Lambingstone  per  Joiiem 
de  Lambingstone  filiQ  primogenit.  Will1  de  Lambingstone  afio  1328. — Gen.  Coll.  v.  1, 
p.  123. 

Alx°  de  Seton  patri  ad  pridere  faciend.  p  nuptiis  (of  Dod.  2)  anno  132S.  Print11  Chan. 
Rolls,  v.  1,  p.  23.  Dfio  Alx°  de  Seton  Senescallo  dm  Comitis  de  Carrik,  ib.  p.  62.  So 
much  received  by  Shffs  afio  1329,  ib.  p.  91,  from  Alx°  de  Seton  pro  introitu  Baronie  de 
Lambyniston  dfio  Alex0  de  Seton,  Serv.  domus  Comitis  de  Carrik,  ib.  afio  1329,  p.  92,  by 
what  nabo  (?)  at  ps  152,  153,  he  appears  to  have  been  Receiver  General  of  the  Kingdom; 
he  certainly  seems  to  have  been  a  great  public  character. 

Sir  Alexander  seems  to  have  had  complete  superintendence  of  Earl  of  Carrik's  House- 
hold, mid.  p.  118,  119,  etc.  etc. 

After  the  printed  footnotes  at  the  end  of  column  2  p.  640,  Mr.  Riddell  has  the 
following  note : — '  Lands  of  Culloden  in  hands  of  Dni  Alx1  Seton  de  quibus  respondebit  afio 
1337.     Printed  Exr  Rolls,  v.  i,  p.  243.' 

(Column  1  page  641.) 
[3  William,  drowned,  etc.,  in  July  1333.] J 

[VIII.  Margaret  Seton,  heiress  of  Seton,  married  Alan  de  Wyntoun.] — [Wyntoun,  ii.  267  ; 
Fordun,  ii.  337.] 


1  '  Indite  proeliando  Patre  spectante  de  muris  Will"3  de  Seton  infra  naves  submersus.' 


IN   DOUGLAS'S  PEERAGE  943 

(Foot  of  column  i  page  640.) 
Family  of  Winton. 

Aleyn  de  Wynton  swears  fealty  to  Ed.  1.  among  Edinburghshire  Barons,  ano  1296. 
Vide  Gen.  Coll.  v.  1,  p.  13.  Aleyn  de  Wynton  and  Thomas  de  Wynton  swear  fealty  among 
Ayrshire  Barons,  ib.  p.  18.  G5de  de  Wynton  also  swears  fealty  among  Barons  of  Edinburgh- 
shire, ib.  p.  23.  Charter  by'  Rob.  1.  to  Andrew  Douglas,  of  the  lands  of  Cresswell,  '  que  fuit 
quondam  Henrici  de  Winton]  in  barony  of  Carnwath,  Lanarkshire,  p.  8.  Charter  to  Acte 
P'orrester,  of  two  parts  of  the  lands  of  Wrighthouses,  by  resignation  of  Henry  Winton  and 
Amy  Broun,  Rob.  2d,  Rob.  Ind.  p.  124.  Charter  by  Robert  Maitland  to  Robert  Winton,  of 
lands  in  the  town  of  Cronbies  and  Auchindalde  in  barony  of  Cronby,  and  lands  and  town  of 
Clese,  Fifeshire,  Rob.  3,  ib.  p.  149.  Also  ib.  to  Robert  Winton  of  the  barony  of  Hird- 
manston,  called  Curry,  Edinburghshire.  '  Domino  Alano  de  Wynton,  Domino  Milone  Corbet, 
Domino  Alexandra  de  Seton,  Dno  Roberto  de  Sancto  Claro,  Alano  de  Fausid,  Will0  de 
Trawernent,'  wit8  to  Grant  by  Petrum  de  Grame  to  Soltray,  of  so  much  arable  land  in  Elwyn- 
ston.— Char4*  of  Soltray. 

Adv.  Lib.  M'Farlan's  transcript,  Dip.  Coll.  p.  151  vol.  2,  Jac.  5,  4,  23. 

This  charter  is,  I  think,  before  the  year  1300.  Ingelram  de  Winton  witness  along  with 
a  Mortimer,  etc.,  to  an  old  deed  before  1400,  probably  Douglas  Charter  Chest  b.  m.  31 
before  midd. 

A  charter  by  'John  de  Maxwell,  filius  quondam  Domini  Johannis  de  Maxwell  de 
Pencatelands  militis,'  of  Patronage  of  Church  of  Pencateland  to  Dryburgh,  supposed  to  be 
circa  1343,  is  witnessed,  inter  alios,  by  'Alexandra  de  Setton,  Domino  ejusdem — Ingeramo 
de  Wynton,  Domino  de  Fenton — Hugone  de  Wynton.'  Prefix  "and  Appendix  to  the  Dry- 
burgh Chartulary,  anno  1847,  presented  to  the  Bannatyne  Club  by  John  Spottiswoode,  p.  271. 
An  Ingelram  Winton  undertakes  to  challenge  any  one  in  the  15th  century,  I  believe,  who 
claimed  right  of  Lord  Erskine  to  the  Earldom  of  Mar,  as  the  Mar  writs  ? 

(Column  2  page  641.) 

[IX.  Sir  William  Seton  of  Seton — quondam  Willielmum  Seton  de  Echt  fratrem  quondam 
domini  Alx1  Seton  prope  Seton. — Exchqu.  Roll.  b.  m.  26  midd. — the  only  son],  etc.  etc. 

(At  top  of  column  2  page  641,  Mr.  Riddell  has  the  following  notes.) 
Charter  of  Confirmation  by  William,  1st  Lord  Setton,  of  a  Grant  by  David  de  Anandia, 
miles,  to  the  Moniales  at  Haddington,  of  coals  ex  villa  sua  et  Baronia  de  Tranent.     Donatio 
est  Apud  Myllis  26  Nov.  1380.     Confirmed  apud  Setton  'cum  consensu  Johannis  filii  et 
heredis  nostri'  6  Oct.  1404. — Gen.  Coll.  v.  1.  p.  109. 

Willielmus  de  Seton  Dominus  ejusdem  nepos  et  hasres  quondam  Alexandri  Seton  de 
eodem  confirms  'terras  de  Dundas  Jacobo  de  Dundas,'  etc.,  20  September  1406.  Vide 
charter  quoted  in  Nisbet's  Heraldry,  v.  2,  p.  268,  new  Edit. — quondam  Willielmum  Seton  de 
Echt  fratrem  quondam  Domini  Alexandri  Seton  prope  Seton, 'per  Excheqr  Rolls,  b.  m.  26  midd. 

(On  margin  of  column  2  page  641,  opposite  the  eighth  line  from  the  top.) 

Charter  produced  by  King  David  out  of  the  Register  to  Adam  Blantroddoky,  of  the 
lands  of  Cragy  Westermalar,  Perthshire,  which  belonged  to  umquhile  Johne  of  Seton,  K',  and 
came  to  Crown  by  forfeiture  of  the  'dochter  and  aire  of  the  saide  umquhile  Johne'  1507. — 
Act.  Dom.  Con.  vol.  19,  p.  66,  b.  m.  6  beg. 

(Another  note  on  margin  of  column  2  page  641.) 

'  An  Alexander  Seytton  was  .  .  .  coheir  with  Maule  of  the  Barclays  (?)  of  Breti  {Brechin  ?), 
early  in  the  15th  century.  See  Excerpts  from  the  Panmure  Inventory  ms.  145,  not  far 
from  beg.  There  is  more  upon  this  subject  in  an  early  MS.  that  I  got  from  Will.  Maule,  with 
other  Maule  notices.' 

(Page  642,  top  of  column  1.) 

'X.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Seton,  the  eldest  son,  miles  acerrimus,  etc.',  note  as  follows: — 
'Non  onerat  de  quatuor  libris  da?  pro  una  pipa  vini  dno  Johanni  de  Seton,'  ano  1410. — Chan. 
Roll.  v.  3,  p.  35. 


944  JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES 

For  grants  of  lands  of  Seton  to  Dundas  family  more  than  four  centuries  ago,  see  b.  m.  107. 

Carta  Confirmat.  Robert5  3ti0  Regis  Scotorum  of  a  charter  Will'  domini  Setton,  de 
quadraginta  lib  terr.  de  Barns  filio  suo  et  heredi  Johanni  de  Settone  et  Catharine  de  Sancto 
Claro  ejus  sponse,  3d  year  of  his  reign. — Gen.  Coll.  v.  1,  p.  in. 

Dn.  Johanne  de  Seton  dfio  ejusdem,  witness  in  1416  to  charter  by  Archd  E.  of  Douglas 
to  David,  cousin  of  the  Earl,  b.  m.  107  at  beg. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  642.) 

Discharge  to  John  Lord  Settone  by  Geo.  Dunbar,  son  and  apparent  heir  to  Geo.  Earl  of 
March,  of  300  merks  Scots  money  given  in  tocher  with  his  sister  Janet,  aiio  1413. — Gen.  Coll. 
v.  r,  p.  109.  Charter  'Charissimo  consanguineo  nostro  Johanni  Domino  Setton  filio 
Willielmi  quondam  Domini  de  Setton,'  by  Archibald,  Earl  of  Douglas,  of  the  lands  of  Althum, 
Roxburghshire,  4  March  1409,  ib.  p.  no. 

'  Sir  Will.  Crichton  had  intromitted  with  the  Seton  and  Winton  estate,  then  in  ward  after 
the  death  of  late  King  as  well  as  others,  in  payment  "  sponse  quondam  Johi  de  Seton  de  eodem 
militis  pro  tertia  sue.'"     Exch:  Roll,  beg.  1436,  and  d.  b.  m.  133  after  middle. 

'Jofte  de  Seton  dfio  ejusdem'  witness  to  quitclaim  by  ...  in  1426,  b.  m.  117  at  beg. 

Deed  in  reference  to  land  of  Bord,  14  May  1402,  where  there  is  mention  of  Willielmus 
de  Seton  miles  dominus  ejusdem  dilectus  frater  meus  Patricius  Fleming  dilectus  frater  meus 
(is  this  last  correct  ?)  David  Fleming  de  Biggar.  Witnesses,  Andrea  de  Hamylton  Willielmo  de 
Boyd,  Alexandro  de  Seton,  Johanne  de  Scougal,  et  Patricio  de  Wynton ;  dated  at  Seton. — 
Wigton  (Winton?)  Charter  Chest,  b.  117  at  beg.,  and  see  p.  632. 

(Top  of  column  2  page  642. — 'XII.') 

Dispensatio  Nobili  Georgio  de  Seton  militi  et  nobili  mulieri  Margarete  Stewart  et 
afio  1436  Dispensat'. — Andrew  Stewart,  p.  462. 

Payment  '  domino  Will0  de  Crichton  Capitano  Castri  de  Edinburgh — Georgio  de  Seton 
militi  primogenito  Willielmi  de  Seton  et  Janeta  de  Seton  matris  dicti  Georgii,'  1434,  lands  of 
Winchburgh  then  in  ward,  ib.  b.  m.  133  (a)  alludes  to  Halyburton  and  coals  in  Tranent. 
See  p.  641. 

(Top  of  column  1  page  643. — 'XIV.') 

Charter  by  James  4,  August  14,  1505,  to  Thomas  Copland,  of  half  of  the  lands  in  the 
barony  of  Kinedward,  which  are  stated  to  be  in  King's  hands  by  nonentry  since  the  death  of 
John,  Earl  of  Buchan,  Constable  of  France,  avi  quondam  Jotiis  Comitis  Buchanie,  con- 
sanguinei  nostri  Georgius  dominus  Seyton  legitimus  et  propinquior  heres  existit.  and  b.  m. 
SS  at  beg. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  643,  opposite) 

'XIV.  George,  second  Lord  Seton,'  etc.: — 'George  Lord  Seyton,  lawful  heir  of  John  Earl 
of  Buchan,  Constable  of  France,  1505. — Great  Seal  Record,  b.  m.  55  beg.' 

(Column  2  page  643,  opposite) 

'He  married  Lady  Margaret  Campbell,  etc'     Contracted  by  Indenture,   14th  Sepf  1469, 
to  her. — Gen.  Coll.  vol.  1,  p.  no.     She  was  then  12  years  of  age,  her  tocher  100  merks. 

(On  margin  of  column  2  page  643,  opposite) 

'where  she  died  in  1558/  etc.      'Jane  Hepburn,  Lady  Seton,  relict  of  umquhile  George 
Lord  Seyton,  8  July  1557,  b.  m.  90,  immediately  after  midd.' 

(At  top  of  column  1  page  644.) 

Beatrix  Seton,  Helen  Seton,  Marie  Seton,  drB  of  umquhile  Geo.  Lord  Seyton,  1549,  b.  m. 
14,  considerably  bef.  middle.  Rob.  and  Marie  Seyton,  son  and  dr  of  umquhile  Geo.  Lord 
S.  Marie  Peir  their  mother,  and  under  curatory  of  Lord  Erskin,  1565,  b.  m.  45  at  beg. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  644.) 
1.  Marian,  servitrix  of  Queen  Mary  of  Lorraine,  etc.     'John,  earl  of  Menteith,  ag'  Geo. 


IN   DOUGLAS'S  PEERAGE  945 

Lord  Seton '  as  to  m.  contract  bet.  him  and  'Marion  Seton,  called  Servatrix '  of  Mary,  Dowager 
of  Scotland,  1551,  b.  m.  14  before  middle. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  644,  opposite) 

['3.  Eleanor,  married  to  Hugh,  seventh  Lord  Somerville.']     See  b.  m.  44  in  two  places 
before  and  at  the  middle.     Also — 

Dame  Marie  Peir  Lady  Seton  ag*  John  Seyton,  Beatrix  S.,  and  Helenor  S.,  drs  of 
umquhile  Geo.  Lord  Seyton,  and  spouse  to  the  said  Dame  Marie,  b.  m.  90  after  7>iiddle.  See 
as  to  Marion  Seton,  servitrix  of  Queen,  dr  of  Geo.  Lord  Seton,  1554  (or  as  to)  Mary  Seton  her 
mother,  Mary  Peirs,  who  afterwards  md  a  Frenchman,  etc.,  b.  m.  91  about  middle,  and  after, 
from  Act.  Dn.  Con.  et  Sess. 

(Column  2  page  644.) 

'  4.  Beatrix,  married  to  Sir  George  Ogilvy,  of  Dunlugus.']    See  b.  44  bef.  middle. 

Lord  Seton  married,  secondly,  Mary  Pyerres,  or  Peris,  a  French  lady,  who  came  into 
Scotland  with  Mary  of  Lorrain,  who  md  Peir  de  Clivis,  senr  de  Bryant,  by  whom  he  had  a 
son],  and  dr  Mary.  See  b.  m.  44  before  middle,  and  Hist,  of  Fam.  of  Seton,  pub.  by  Maitland 
Club,  p.  42.     See  also  b.  45  infra,  and  b.  m.  92  at  beg.,  ib.  near  end. 

'  Dame  Marie  Peir,  relict  of  umquhile  Geo.  Lord  Seton,  and  Peir  de  Clivis,  Seignor 
Bryant  her  spouse,'  b.  m.  91  midd.,  and  Mary,  under  curatory,  with  Robert  her  brother,  to 
Lord  Erskine  in  1565.     See  b.  m.  45  near  beginning;  and  b.  m.  14  before  middle. 

(Top  of  column  2  page  644.) 

Was  not  Mary  Seton,  dr  of  Lord  S.  by  his  last  me  (marriage),  one  of  the  four  Maries  ? 
See  Jamieson's  Diet,  and  Chalmers'  Life  of  Queen  Mary,  pp.  69,  284-5. 

There  was  a  Janet  Seaton,  it  is  believed,  of  the  daurs  of  Touch,  ibid.  p.  69,  but  she 
was  only  a  female  attendant.  See  Expenses  of  Queen  Mary's  Establishment,  printed  by 
Thomson,  Executory  Dame  Marie  Peir,  Lady  Seyton,  25  Janr  1576,  Edr.  Comsry  Records, 
b.  m.  102  end.  This  all,  no  more,  ib.  Mary  Seton,  dr  of  Geo.  Lord  Seyton.  Mary  Peir 
died  Aug.  1554,  with  full  designation  of  her  mother,  then  spouse  of  Peir  de  Clivis,  Seyer 
Bryant,  b.  m.  91  middle.  Could  not  write,  because  young.  Deed  by  Marie  Seton,  one  of  the 
dochters  of  umquhile  Geo.  Lord  Seton,  and  Marie  Peir  his  spouse,  in  1554,  mentions  Marion, 
Beatrix,  and  Helenor,  'my  sisters,'  and  her  brother  George,  b.  m.  91  midd.     (Curious.) 

(On  the  margin  of  column  2  page  644.) 

'For  proof  that  Mary  Pyers  had  a  dr  Mary  Seton,  see  b.  m.  12,  not  far  from  beginning, 
mention  here  of  Robert  Seyton,  son  lawful  to  umquhile  Geo.  Lord  Seyton,  bet.  him  and  Dame 
Marion  Peir  my  moder,  Mary  Seton  my  sister.  The  mother  had  been  md  to  umquhile 
Peior  de  Clois.  See  Maitland's  Hist,  of  Fam.  of  Seton,  pub.  by  Maitland  Club,  Glasgow,  notes 
p.  97.  Dame  Marie  Peir  Lady  Seton  ag4  John  Seton,  Beatrix  Seton,  and  Helenor  Seton,  sone 
and  dochters  of  umquhile  Geo.  Lord  Seton;  they  had  annual-rents  of  her  conjunct-fee  lands  in 
anno  1555,  b.  m.  90  after  midd.  'Robert  and  Marie  Seton,  sone  and  daughter  of  umquhile 
Geo.  Lord  Seton,  "  an  honorable  Lady  Dame  Marie  Seton  our  moder  "  with  consent  of  her 
spouse'  under  curatory  to  Lord  Erskine,  1565,  b.  m.  45  near  beg.  As  to  Mary  Beton,  friend 
of  Mary  Seton,  see  vol.  ii.  p.  508,  and  Douglas's  Baronage,  p.  289. 

(Top  of  column  1  page  645,  under) 

['XVII.  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton']: — '  Capitane  Robert  Setone  sumtyme  Archear  to  the  Kingis 
Maties  gard  of  France,'  1588,  b.  m.  112,  a  good  deal  bef.  midd. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  645,  opposite) 

['I.  George,   Master  of  Seton,'  etc.] :— George   Lord  Seton,  Robert,  John,  and  Alexander 
Seton,  his  lawful  sons,  their  father,  their  tutor,  etc.,  1565,  b.  m.  92,  after  midd. 

6D 


946  JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES 

['  3.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  Knight  of  the  Order  of  St.  Jago.'  *] 

(On  the  margin  of  column  1  page  645  down  to  the  end  thereof.) 

For  Title  Deeds  of  Barns  when  first  in  the  Setons  and  downwards,  see  Lord  Wemyss.  See 
b.  m.  132,  about  middle. 

Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  Kt,  and  William  S.  his  brother,  ag'  Mr.  Peter  Primroiss  as  to 
Kils  of  Marretleis  and  Michills  (?),  1588,  b.  m.  112  midd. 

Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  Kt.,  George  Lord  Seton  his  brother,  1590,  b.  m.  93  after  midd. 

Test,  of  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barnes,  Feb.  20,  1662,  b.  m.  91  near  beg.  Also  Charles 
Seton,  sone  to  umquhile  Sir  John  S.  of  Barnes,  ib. 

George  Lord  Seton  as  tutor  and  factor  to  Robert,  John,  and  Alexander  Seton,  our 
lawful  sons,  1567,  b.  m.  45  bef.  midd. 

(Top  of  column  2  page  645,  under) 

['XVII.  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton'] : — Test.  24  Aug.  1655  of  Robert  Seaton,  eldest  lawful  son 
to  Sir  Geo.  S.  of  Haills,  Knight.  Edr  Com.  Records,  b.  m.  99  x  beg.  Vide  30  Aug.  1665 
of  Robert  S.  of  Haills,  ib.  middle.    I  am  sure  these  are  of  Winton. 

Test.  3  July   166 1,  of  Sir  Geo.  Seatton  of  Haills,   Kt.,  mention  of  E.  of  Winton,  and 

Lord  Kingston,  b.  m.  98  middle.     Sir  Geo.  Settone  of  Hailles  knighted  at  Perth day  of 

Nov.  1650.     Balfour,  Annals,  v.  4,  p.  179. 

Test.  Robert  Seton  of  Hailes.     Edr  Com.  R.  b.  m.  43. 

Robert  Seaton  oy  to  the  deceased  Sir  Geo.  Seaton  mentioned  along  with  Sir  Geo. 
Stirling  of  Glorat,  Bart.,  16  Feb.  1679,  Privy  Seal  Reccl  vol.  3,  1675-1685,  b.  m.  89 
middle.2 

Test.  Sir  Geo.  Seaton  of  Hailes,  3  July  1661,  b.  m.  91  near  beg. 

(On  margin  of  column  2  page  645.) 

Test.  Sir  Walter  Seaton,  indweller  in  Haddington,  6  Aug.  1636,  b.  m.  91,  not  far  from 
beg. 

(Note  opposite) 

['XVIII.  Robert,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  etc.']  : — For  Winton  Titles,  chiefly  from  this  date  (14 
Dec.  1599),  and  downwards,  see  from  originals  at  Gosford.  See  b.  m.  132,  about  middle. 
[Mag.  Sig.,  L.  xxxvii.  No.  433.     L.  xxxviii.  No.  265.] 

(Note  opposite) 

['  He  was  created  Earl  of  Wintoun,'  etc.]  : — Dated  '  ex  arce  nra  Sancruciana  die  decimo 
sexto  Novembris  afio  dni  (1600)  coram  his  testibus  predilectis  nrs  consanguineis  et  consiliariis 
Jac  Marchione  de  Hamilton,  etc.,'  and  many  others.     (Subscribitur)  'Jacobus  Rex.' 

(Also  opposite) 

['He  died  in  1603,'  etc.]: — See  fol.  MS.  Collect.  Adv.  Lib.  v.  5.  6,  where  there  is  a 
Pedigree  of  the  Setons  and  other  notices  about  them ;  and  where  opposite  this  intimation 
there  is  an  observation  in  hand  of  Mylne  the  antiquary,  that  James  being  interrupted  by  a 
funeral  in  his  journey  was  a  bad  omen,  and  foretold  the  future  calamities  of  the  House  of 
Stewart,  (p.  46)  ib. 

This  note  is  inserted  in  the  print  as  follows : — [His  Majesty  was  pleased  to  rest  himself 
at  the  south-west  round  of  the  Orchard  of  Seton,  on  the  highway,  till  the  funeral  was  over.] 

(Note  opposite) 
'  1.  Robert,  second  Earl  of  Wintoun  ' : — '  Mention  of  Robert  Seton,  eldest  lawful  son  of  umquhile 


1  He  was  Comptroller  to  the  King  in  1587-9.     See         deal  about  these  Setons.     Did  they  not  spring  from 
b.  m.  57  midd.  the  brother  of  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns? 

"  In  the  Glorat  Charter-chest  I  think  there  is  a  good 


IN   DOUGLAS'S   PEERAGE  947 

Sir  Thomas  Seton,  brother  german  of  umquhile  Geo.  E.  of  Winton,  1673,  b.  m.  98  after 
middle. 

Among  the  Winton  Papers  in  1838  was  a  Deed  in  1603  having  the  seals  of  Margaret 
Montgomerie  and  the  Earl  her  husband;  hers  is  on  the  right,  giving  Montgomerie  the 
preference.  The  Earl's  seal  has  the  motto  Hazard  zit  forward,  and  the  arms  as  they  are  in 
Nisbet. 

(At  foot  of  column  2  page  645.) 

Obligation  by  Alexander  Seton,  brother  german  of  the  Laird  of  St.  Germains,  to  subscribe 
a  tack  of  some  husband-lands  in  Athelstaneford,  formerly  taken  by  him  from  Sir  John 
Seton  of  Garleton,  and  24  Dec.  1666. — Sheriff-Court  Records  of  Haddington. 

Test,  of  Sir  John  Seaton  of  St.  Germains,  4  March  1640,  b.  m.  91  near  beg. 

(Top  of  column  1  page  646.) 

A  'Sir  John  Seaton'  had  in  1642  lands  in  Ireland  Lodge,  v.  81,  p.  379.  Note,  he  and 
Lady  Longford  fled  for  safety  ag8t  the  rebels  to  Castle  Forbes. 

Hannibal  Seton  son  to  Sir  John  Seton,  12  May  1656. — Haddington  Sheriff-Court 
Records 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  646,  opposite) 

['XIX.  Robert,  second  Earl  of  Wintoun '] : — Spe.  service  of  Robert  Earl  of  Winton  as 
heir  of  George  Lord  Seton,  avi,  in  the  Estates,  21  April  1607. — Inq.  Spe.  Hadd. 
Also  of  Robert  E.  of  Winton  his  father,  same  day,  ib.  Spe.  service  of  Robert  Seyton  '  as 
heir  of  Robert  Earl  of  Winton  his  father,  in  part  of  Cockeny,'  24  Dec.  1633,  ib.  Spe.  S. 
of  Rob.  E.  of  Winton  as  heir  of  George  Mr  of  Seyton  his  brother,  in  West  Nudre. — Inq. 
Spe.  Linlithgow,  Feb.  3,  1603.  Gen.  service  of  Rob.  S.  filius  leg.  Roberti  Comitis  de  Winton 
hasres  portionaria  linea  Hugonis  Comitis  de  Eglinton  filii  avunculi,  Dec.  28,  1636. — Inq. 
Gen.  See  Godscroft's  Poem  on  Anna  Metallana  et  Cassilissa  filia  Roberto  Setonio  Comiti 
Wintonio  mentis  parum  compoti  nupta.  Poems,  Edit.  1639,  p.  114.  She  died  very  young, 
and  shortly  after  her  mother.     See  p.  748  of  this  volume. 

Note  at  end  of  [XIX.  Robert,  second  Earl  of  Wintoun]  : — 1619,  b.  m.  56  after  midd. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  646  opposite) 

['  XIX.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton '] :  Summons  '  Geo.  Earl  of  Winton,  Robert  E.  of 
Winton  his  brother,  as  heirs  of  Robert  Earl  of  Winton  thair  father,  Geo.  Lord  Seyton  thair 
goodschir,'  etc.,  anno  1620. — Decreets  of  Council  and  Session,  vol.  337,  p.  353  (among  one  of 
my  Ker  note-books). 

Action  in  1620  by  George  Earl  of  Winton,  as  heir  of  William  Lord  Seyton,  very  far  back 
at  the  mid.  of  Contoph  (?)  as  to  Niddry,  etc.,  b.  m.  89  towards  end.  This  contains  the  long 
Genealogy  of  Seton  mentioned  above  from  vol.  337,  from  Acta  D.  C.  and  S.  Several  deeds 
produced. 

(At  end  of  column  1  page  646.) 
Charter  of  the  Earldom  of  Winton,  etc.,  to  Geo.  Earl  of  Winton,   in  liferent,  and  to 
George  Lord  Seton  his  son,  and  heirs-male  of  his  body,  w.  failing  '  Alexandra  Comiti  de  Eglinton 
proximo  et  immediate  ]umori  fratri  germano  prefati  Geoi  Comitis  de  Winton,'  and  h.  m.  of  his 
body,  etc.,  dated  29  April  1619. — Reg.  Mag.  Sig.,  Lib.  49,  No.  152. 

(At  top  of  column  2  page  646.) 

For  Winton  and  Eglinton  conveyances  see  book  m.  1633,  before  midd.,  and  132  (1) 
end. 

Grant  by  Alexr  Earl  of  Eglinton,  14  Janr  161 7,  where  allusion  to  '  Palatio  de  Seyton.' — 
P.  S.  R.  b.  m.  88  (2),  after  middle. 

(On  margin  of  column  2  page  646  under  ['  XIX.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton  ']), 
Charter   of  Earldom   of  Winton,  with   honor  and   dignity,   16  July  1642,   dated  at  Edin- 
burgh, b.  m.  89,  bef.  middle.     P.  Seal  Charter  to  Geo.  Earl  of  Winton  of  the  Earldom  of 
Winton,  on  his  resignation,  27  January  1647. — Reg.  Mag.  Sig.,  Lib.  58,  193. 


948  JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES 

(Opposite  the  words) 

['but  died  on  the  i-jth  of  December  1650']: — See  Sir  James  Balfour's  Annals,  vol.  4,  p.  255. 

(And  the  fol.  opposite) 

['  3.  Alexander,  Viscount  of  Kingston ']  : — Called  of  Craigiehill.  See  Settlement  of  Athel- 
staneford  in  1649,  b.  m.  89  before  middle. 

(After  the  last  line  of  column  2  page  646,  under) 

['XIX.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton '],  which  last  line  reads  thus  : — [The  Earl  of  Winton 
married,  secondly]  : — 18  May  (1654),  Dame  Elizabeth  Maxwell,  Countess  of  Winton.  James 
Lord  Moretoun  her  spouse.  Who  was  James  Lord  Moretoun  ?  This  communication  from 
Roliet  ?     Authority,  Haddington  Sheriff-Court  Records. 

Sir  Alexander  and  Thomas,  brothers  to  the  Earl  of  Winton. — Balfour's  Annals,  vol.  4, 

P-  367- 

(At  top  of  column  1  page  647.) 

A  Mr.  Buchanan — an  agent,  I  suppose — called  on  me,  Nov.  1829,  and  wished  me  to 
undertake  the  case  of  a  Seton  in  Ireland,  heir-male,  as  supposed,  of  an  uncle  of  the  forfeited 
Earl.  He  added,  a  Mr.  Seton  in  the  West  Indies,  after  the  middle  of  last  century,  was  the 
heir-male,  a  respectable  person,  and  that,  if  he  had  lived,  by  interest  of  Government  would 
have  been  restored  to  the  titles.  The  former  is  asserted  to  be  the  heir-male  of  the  family  of 
Seton. 

Mr.  B.  said  that  the  Seton  from  the  West  Indies  was  related  to  Stewart  of  Allanbank. 
He  was  clearly,  I  think,  Seton  of  Touch. 

Mr.  Waldie's  and  Sir  John  Sinclair's  acquaintance  was  the  heir-female,  about  whom  I  had 
been  applied  in  1825  or  so.  I  have  merely  some  notice  of  this  in  my  note-books,  vide 
MSL.*  They  say  they  are  sprung  from  Robert  Seaton,  who  came  to  Ireland  with  Lord 
Abercorn  in  1715,  see  p.  of  MSL.  turned  down  about  the  middle.     The  Mr.  Seton  in 

Ireland,  I  believe  in  Dublin.     See  also  communication  from  Charles  Seton  Seton,  b.  133, 

about  middle. 

*  Remember  that  Mr.  Macallan,  W.S.,  agent  for  Mr.  Charles  Seaton,  a  papermaker  in 
Liverpool,  and  who  keeps  hunters,  he  asserts,  heir-male  of  the  Robert  Seaton  who  went  to 
Ireland,  (stated)  that  this  Robert  was  one  of  three  brothers  who  accompanied  him  ;  and  on  my 
calling  Robert  an  officer  he  did  not  contradict  me.  He  added  that  their  monument  with  Seton 
arms  is  still  extant  in  Armagh.  Admits  there  is  nothing  to  connect  Robert  or  them  with 
Winton  Family.     So  Mr.  Macallan  told  me  when  he  called,  26  Octr  1839. 

(On  margin,  near  top  of  column  1  page  647,  opposite) 

Vide    /  [x  1.  Hon.  Christopher  Seton],  and 
p.  581    (  [  x  2.  Hon.  William  Seton.] 

(Also  on  margin  of  same  column,  opposite) 
['  3.  Hon.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Gairmiltoun  ']  : — See  first  edition  of  this  work  at  Winton.      Vide 
Ferguson's  Commissary  Reports  for  divorce — Wauchope  agl  Sir  Geo.  Seton  of  Garleton  her 
husband,  quoting  from  the  Commissary  Record.     See  Maitland's  Hist,  of  Seton,  pub.  by 
Maitland  Club,  Glasgow,  p.  112  notes. 

Captain  Robert  Seton  of  Queen's  Foot  Guards  among  the  subscribers  to  Ruddiman's 
Gavin  Douglas,  1716. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  647,  under  [XIX.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton],  opposite) 
[4.  Hon.  Sir  Robert  Seton  of  Windygoul] : — Test,  of  Sir  Robert  S.  of  Windegoul,  7  April 
1673,  Countess  of  Traquair,  Lady  Semple,  and  Lady  Mary  S.,  his  only  dr. — Edin.  Com. 
Reg.,  b.  m.  99  x  end. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  647,  opposite) 

['4.  Lady  Jean,  born  26  January  1636,  died  unmarried']: — Test.  17  June  1661  of  Lady 
Jeane  Seattone,  dr  lawful  to  the  deceased  Geo.  E.  of  Winton,  b.  m.  98,  middle.  Excerpt  there, 
but  nothing  remarkable  from  it. 


IN   DOUGLAS'S   PEERAGE  949 

(At  foot  of  column  i  page  647,  under) 

['  XX.  George  Lord  Seton,  the  eldest  son ']  : — Grant  to  '  Robert  Seaton,'  son  to  the  late  E.  of 
Winton,  1667,  of  ward  of  Traquair,  b.  m.  89  middle. 

For  a  chivalrous  notice  of  a  Colonel  Seaton  and  Gustavus  Adolphus  see  Edinb  Review, 
1842,  p.  432. 

(Top  of  column  2  page  647.) 

Alexander  Seaton,  mentioned  in  Halsberge  in  Iceland  or  Island?  1704,  b.  m.  81  beg. 
And  the  fol.  note  is  on  the  margin  of  the  foresaid  column  opposite  ['  2.  Hon.  Alexander 
Seton,  born  21  January  1644,  died  young']: — In  Test.  1667  mention  of  M"  Alexr  Seaton, 
brother-german  of  Earl  of  Winton,  b.  m.  99  x  after  middle. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  647  opposite) 

['  XX.  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton ']  : — Charter  by  Geo.  E.  of  Winton,  with  consent  of 
Alexr  Viscount  of  Kingston,  his  tutor,  1656,  b.  m.  89,  before  middle.  Spec.  Service  of 
Geo.  Earl  of  W.  as  heir-male  of  Geo.  Earl  of  Winton,  his  goodschir,  in  the  estates,  12  May 
1653. — Inq.  Spec.  Hadd.  Act  Pari.  1670  in  fav.  of  Geo.  E.  of  Winton,  and  to  heirs-male  of 
body,  w.  f.  to  his  heirs-male  of  tailzie  in  his  infeftment  by  James,  161 9,  under  Great  Seal,  of 
Earldom  of  Winton,  afterwards  to  his  retour  to  E.  Geo.,  his  guidschir,  Act.  v.  8,  p.  51. 

Look  out  copies  from  Signatour  in  State  Paper  Office  for  another  Grant  and  Entail  of  the 
Winton  Titles  and  Estates  to  this  Earl  previous  to  1686.  It  is  as  follows  : — Charter  to  Geo. 
Earl  of  W.,  and  h.  m.  of  body  lawfully  to  be  procreated,  w.  f.  to  such  of  the  heirs-female  of  his 
own  body,  or  of  the  male  heirs  of  umquhile  Geo.  E.  of  Winton,  his  goodschire,  as  he  shall 
designe,  and  heirs-male  of  their  bodies,  w.  f.  to  Cristopher  Seaton,  his  youngest  brother,  and 
h.  m.  of  his  body,  w.  f.  to  the  sons  of  Alexander  Viscount  of  Kingston,  and  their  heirs-male, 
w.  f.  to  Earl's  heirs-male  of  tailzie  and  others  of  Earldom  of  Winton  Estate,  together  with  the 
dignity  and  title  of  honor  upon  Earl's  resignation,  with  a  novo  damns  of  all,  dated  28  Septr 
1674,  b.  m.  73  bef.  middle;  has  irritant  clauses  as  to  honors;  but  see  Patent  Marquisate  of 
Montrose. 

For  excerpts  from  the  Patent  see  b.  m.  89  at  beg.,  and  for  signature  b.  m.  73  near  end. 

See  also  Fountainhall,  24  June  17 10,  vol.  2,  p.  580.  In  the  signature  I  think  it  is  'other 
heirs  male.' 

*  This  mark  by  Mr.  Riddell  points  to  a  similar  mark  by  him  in  the  Print  under 
['  XXI.  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,']  etc.,  at  the  words  [  x  A  charter  was  granted  to  George 
Earl  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Seton,  and  Tranent,  31  July  1686,  of  the  earldom,  etc.,  of  Wintoun, 
and  his  title,  honour,  and  dignity,  to  him  and  the  heirs-male  to  be  procreated  of  his  body.] 

1  To  be  procreated.' — For  some  instance  as  authority  throwing  light  upon  the  phrase  under  the 
particular  circumstances  of  the  case  vide  Morrison's  Dicty,  or  some  of  the  reports  of  Decisions. 
See  ms.  Collection  of  Patents  b.  m.  106,  p.  119.     Original  series  Lord  Wemyss. 

See  Thomson's  Acts,  v.  n,  p.  134,  of  Earldom  of  Orkney  to  go  to  his  heirs-male 
'  succeeding  to  his  power  and  dignity,'  but  Orkney  sold  afterwards  to  Sir  Laurence  Dundas. 

(At  foot  of  column  2  page  647,  under) 

['XXI.  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Wintoun']: — Resignation  1673,  by  George  Earl  of  Winton  of 
the  Winton  estate,  his  heirs  mentioned  in  the  procuratory  b.  m.  126. 

As  to  '  procreandis '  in  Winton  Patent  in  1686,  see  what  Christenius  says  in  Be  Causis 
Matrimonialibus,  p.  326  et  sea.,  Adv.  Lib7,  unfavourable. 

See  as  to  'procreandis,'  Collins  on  Baronies,  p.  266,  referred  to  in  Index. 

(Top  of  page  648  above  column  1,  under) 

['  XXI.  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Wintoun '] : — John  Gordon,  Writer,  ag*  Geo.  E.  of  Winton 
'and  his  deceast  Lady.' — Edr.  Comy  Regr,  29  Feb.  1704,  beg. 

General  Service,  George  Earl  of  Winton  as  heir  of  George  Earl  of  Winton  patris,  July  4, 
17 10. — Gen.  Ret. 


950  JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES 

See  Signature  of  this  charter,  12  August  1686,  b.  m.  73  near  end — power  apparently  only 
given  him  to  alter  in  so  far  as  regarded  the  nomination  of  the  heirs-male  to  be  procreated. 

Testament,  18  June  1678,  of  Lady  Marie  Montgomerie,  Countess  of  Winton,  who  died 
1677,  given  up  by  Marie  Cairncross,  relict  of  John  Hume,  tailor  in  Canongate,  and  Edr  Com. 
R.  b.  m.  100  before  middle. 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  648,  opposite) 

['  *  Lady  Mary  Montgomery,  eldest  daughter  of  Hugh,  seventh  Earl  of  Eglintoun  ']  : — *  Her 
testament  is  dated  18  June  1678,  Ed.  Corny  Rec.  b.  m.  100  bef.  middle.     Also — 
Test.  Geo.  E.  of  Winton  5  March  1706.     Ed.  C.  Records,  b.  m.  29  beg. 

(And  on  margin  of  same  column,  opposite) 

['2.  Hon.  Christopher  Seton,  who  died  in  1704,  unmarried']: — is  not  his  will  in  Com.  Regr 
of  Edr.  ? 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  648,  under) 

['XXI.  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Wintoun '] : — it  is  dated  1  August  1706.  Christopher  is  said  by 
Mylne  in  one  of  his  MS.  Adv.  Lib.  to  have  died  prematurely  when  22,  in  consequence  of  a 
fever  brought  on  by  a  debauch  with  '  the  drunken  Earl  of  Sutherland.'  * 

*  See  pedigree  of  Seton,  Adv.  Lib. — James  5.  7.  5  among  Mylne's  Coll.  at  the  time  of  the 
father  of  last  E.  of  Winton,  which  ends  thus  (p.  509),  after  noticing  Christopher — '  in  quhom  is 
to  be  found  such  a  lyvely  transcript  of  the  manie  qualities  which  ennobled  yr  predecessoris 
that  they  may  deservedly  be  termed  the  worthy  progenites  successores  of  their  noble  ancestores 
progenitores '  (then  what  follows,  in  Mylne's  hand,  '  Mr.  Cristopher  wes  cut  of  by  death  5  Jan? 
1705  to  the  grate  regrate  of  all  that  knew  him.  The  drunken  Earl  of  Sutherland  who  had 
been  at  Seaton  at  his  chastening  (christening?)  drunk  him  so  hard  that  he  brought  him  in 
a  feaver  quherof  he  died.  Robert  Mylne,  wryter,  sould  have  bene  with  thame  and  forgot  the 
coach  and  thai  stayed  several  hours,  bot  he  kept  out  of  the  way.' 

(On  margin  of  column  1  page  648,  opposite) 

['  *  XXI.  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Wintoun  ']  : — He  was  absent  7  or  8  years  before  1 1  Novr  1 707, 
and  on  death  of  Christopher,  his  brother,  in  1703,  Mr.  James  S.,  brother  to  the  Viscount  of 
Kingston,  had  intruded  into  management  of  Seton  estate  by  the  advice  of  friends  as  the  nearest 
relative  appearing  to  Ad.  (administer?). — FountainhalPs  Decisions,  vol.  2,  pp.  391  and  676-7. 
Earl  came  home  8  Nov.  1702;  apparently  Earl  dead  in  1703.  See  article  'Kingston,'  in  this 
vol.  p.  40.  See  b.  m.  132  about  middle.  Earl  was  born  several  years  before  his  father  md  his 
mother — in  the  Litigation  between  E.  of  Winton  and  Kingston,  it  being  stated,  I  think,  that 
the  estate  was  likely  to  be  carried  off  by  diligence  or  debts.     See  Fountainhall,  vol.  4,  580. 

(Top  of  column  2  page  648,  under) 

['  XXI.  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Wintoun ']  : — The  old  Chartulary  of  Winton  was  in  the  hands  of 
Mr.  Tait,  agent  for  Sir  William  Pulteney,  in  1794.  See  receipt  or  memorandum  to  this  effect, 
Mr.  Ure,  W.S.,  in  1836. 

'  Drimillier  was  md  on  the  24  Nov.  to  the  Viscount  of  Kingston's  dr.  The  Earl  of 
Winton  is  come  home  after  seven  years  absence,  and  is  staying  at  Seton.' — Letter,  Hay  of 
Carriber  to  Earl  of  Errol,  b.  m.  119  bef.  middle. 

(On  margin  of  column  2  page  648.) 

In  vol.  39  of  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for  1853  there  are  curious  accounts  of  this  for- 
feited Earl  of  Winton  when  at  Rome  subsequently  to  his  forfeiture,  from  ms.  Diary. 

Article  about  Winton  Service,  Couranl,  Saturday,  13  Feb.  1841. 

Of  Dr.  Cuningham,  afterwards  Bart.,  of  Prestonfauld,  see  pp.  22,  159,  263,  579.  Is 
there  not  some  more  in  next  vol.  of  Gentleman's  Magazine,  No.  40  ? 

For  memorial  as  to  consequences  of  Lord  Eglinton's  taking  of  the  Winton  representa- 
tion, see  b.  m.  a  good  deal  after  middle  132  (1). 


IN   THE   AUTHOR'S    POSSESSION  951 

8.  Notes  by  John  Riddell,  Advocate,  relative  to  the  Seton  Family, 
in  the  possession  of  the  author. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  151  supra.] 

'57  Melville  Street,  Edinburgh, 
glli  December  1850. 

'  My  dear  Sir, — I  herewith  enclose  what  I  promised  about  the  Setons.  Of  course  more 
may  transpire  from  full  copies  of  most  of  the  deeds  or  authorities  I  refer  to,  my  excerpts 
(dispersed  in  different  Memoranda  or  Note-books)  being  but  partial,  and  taken  very  long 
ago. — I  remain,  yours  sincerely,  John  Riddell. 

'  George  Seton,  Esqre.' 

Excerpts  from  Public  Records  and  elsewhere  about  Seton  in  the 

Sixteenth  Century. 

1.  Summondis  (by  John,  Earl  of  Monteith)  aganis  George  Lord  Seytoun,  sone  are  ande 
successor  to  umquhile  George  Lord  Seton  his  fader,  John  Lord  Hay  of  Yester  and  Richard 
Maitland  of  Lethington,  his  curatouris,  to  here  and  see  ane  contract  maid  betuix  oure 
soverane  ladies  darrest  moder,  Marie  dowerar  of  Scotland  for  hir,  and  Marion  Seton  hir 
servitrice,  dochter  to  ye  said  umquhile  George  Lord  Seton  and  John  Earl  of  Monteith,  about 
their  marriage  (that  of  Earl  John  and  Marion)  and  recorded,  I  suppose,  the  above  being  a 
summary  excerpt  I  took  long  ago  (see  also  No.  7). — Record  of  Acts  and  Decreets  of  the  Court 
of  Session  in  1551.     The  volume  was  unbound  and  unnumbered. 

2.  George  Lord  Seyton  prays  that  the  interdiction  by  him  to  John  Lord  Hay  of  Yester, 
and  Sir  Richard  Maitland  of  Lethington,  be  loosed,  as  he  is  now  of  age  and  it  was  only 
intended  for  his  minority.  Granted  by  the  Court.  Neither  Lord  Hay  of  Yester  nor  Sir 
Richard  (the  Seton  historian)  appear.  They  were  Lord  George's  curators  (see  No.  1). — Ibid. 
vol.  x.,  for  1553-4,  p.  331. 

3.  Bond  by  George  Lord  Seyton  to  Sir  William  Hamilton  of  Sanquhar,  Knyt,  '  my  fader- 
in-law,'  mentioning  also  Beatrix  and  Helenor  Seyton, '  my  sisters-germane,'  all  quite  consistently 
with  the  ordinary  accounts. — Ibid.  p.  418. 

4.  Process  Marie  Peir,  Lady  Seyton,  against  Johne  Seyton,  Beatrix  Seyton,  ande  Helenor 
Seyton,  sone  and  dochteris  of  umquhile  George  Lord  Seyton,  and  spous  to  ye  said  Dame 
Marie,  the  pursuer  (who  were  not  descended  from  her,  but  of  the  previous  Hay  connection), 
for  arresting  the  'males'  of  her  conjunct  fee  lands.  Of  course  it  was  not  unnatural  then  that 
there  should  be  casual  disputes  of  such  a  kind  between  a  mother-in-law  (stepmother?)  and 
children  in  the  relative  situation.  John  obviously  was  the  Cariston  ancestor  (see  No.  9). — 
Ibid.  vol.  xiv.,  for  1556-7,  p.  306. 

5.  Bond  affecting  Robert  and  Marie  Seyton,  sone  and  dochter  of  umquhile  George  Lord 
Seyton  in  the  year  1565,  mentioning,  inter  alia,  'ane  honorabill  Lady  Dame  Marie  Pier  our 
moder,  with  consent  of  our  spouse.' — Register  of  Bonds  and  Obligations,  vol.  vii.,  1564-7,  pages 
not  numbered. 

6.  Bond  affecting  Robert  Seyton,  '  sone  lauchful  to  umquhill  George  Lord  Seyton,  gotten 
betuix  him  and  Marie  Peior  my  moder,'  stating  that  '  albeit  my  saide  moder,  wyt  consent  of 
umquhill  Peiour  de  Clois,  Lord  Bryand,  hir  spous,  maid  me  and  Mary  Seyton  my  sister' 
assignees  to  her  property  in  Scotland,  in  the  year  1563,  yet  he  renounces  the  assignation  and 
repones  her  in  possession  of  the  same.  Robert  is  styled  of  '  Grendikis '  and  his  mother 
'Dame  Marie  Peiris.' — Ibid.  vol.  viii.,  1565-6. 

7.  Marie  Quene  doweriaire  of  Scotland  to  '  warrand  and  releif  George,  now  Lord  Seyton, 
sone  and  are  of  umquhile  George  Lord  Seyton,  his  faider,  of  ye  soume  of  twenty-five  hundred 
merks  money  of  yis  realme — with  allusion  to  contract  between  '  our  soverane  ladies  moder 
and  Meriane  Seytoun  hir  servatrix,  dochter  to  the  saide  umquhile  George  Lord  Seytoun  and 
Johne  Erie  of  Menteith.'  Dated  at  Falkland,  8th  October  154S  (see  also  No.  1). — Acts  and 
Decreets  of  Council  and  Session,  vol.  viii.,  1552-4,  p.  37  ib. 


952  JOHN   RIDDELL'S   NOTES 

8.  Deed  as  follows  : — '  Be  it  kend  till  all  men.  We,  Marie  Settoun,  one  of  ye  dochteris 
of  umquhile  George  Lord  Settoun,  gotten  lauchfullie  betuix  him  and  Marie  Peire  my  moder, 
his  spouse ' — mentioning  Marioun,  Beatrix,  and  Helenor  Seyton,  '  my  sisters,'  and  sealed  and 
subscribed  by  her.  This  is  an  assignation  of  her  interest  in  a  grant  of  non-entries  of  lands  to 
her  brother  George,  etc.,  and  bears  to  be  'als  (also)  under  ye  signe  and  subscription  mannuell 
of  ane  legal  notar  in  France,  befoir  famous  witnesses,  because  ye  said  Marie  Settoun  is 
presentlie  yair'  (of  course  with  Queen  Mary).  The  deed  is  dated  6th  October  1554,  and 
mentions  her  mother  '  Dame  Marie  Peir,  relict  of  umquhile  George  Lord  Seytoun,  and  Peir 
de  Clwise,  Seignour  Bryant,  hir  spous.' 

The  above  is  clearly  Mary  Seton,  one  of  the  famous  Marys  of  her  royal  mistress. 
Chalmers  (i.  69  and  283-4)  specifies  Mary  Betoun,  Mary  Livingstone,  and  Mary  Seton,  and 
the  last  mentioned  is  included  in  the  list  from  the  State  Paper  Office  in  1568,  of  those  who 
accompanied  Queen  Mary  to  Carlisle  and  Bolton.  Knox,  in  his  History,  says  that  'the 
nyntyne  day  of  August  (1561),  arryved  Marie,  Quene  of  Scotland,  furth  of  France.  In  hir 
company,  besides  hir  gentlewomen,  called  the  Maries,  wer  hir  uncles,'  etc.  (See  Laing's 
edition  of  Knox's  Works,  i.  267-8,  especially  p.  268,  note),  where  there  is  corroboration  of 
the  fact  of  Mary  Seton  being  one  of  the  Marys,  all  of  good  family,  and  having  the  name  of 
Mary. — Ibid.  p.  622. 

9.  Letters  at  the  instance  of  Robert  Seyton,  sone  lauchfull  to  umquhile  George  Lord 
Seyton  and  Dame  Marie  Peirs  his  spous,  against  Johne  Seyton  of  Carraldston  (see  No.  4), 
and  the  said  Dame  Marie  Peirs,  Lady  Seyton.  Robert  was  past  the  years  of  pupillarity,  and 
the  above,  as  his  nearest  relatives,  are  cited  in  usual  form  prior  to  his  choosing  curators,  who 
are  here  given  to  him  in  the  persons  of  John,  Lord  Erskine,  and  Mr.  Robert  Creichton,  the 
last  obviously  of  Eliok,  Lord  Advocate,  and  father  of  'the  Admirable  Crichton.' 

Of  Robert,  who  obtained  the  lands  of  Grenedikes  (as  formerly  shown),  little  more  is 
known,  and  there  is  every  reason  to  think  that  he  left  no  issue. 

10.  In  the  Commissary  Register  of  Edinburgh  there  is  mention  of  the  executors  of  'Dame 
Marie  Peir,  Lady  Seyton,'  under  date  23rd  January  1576 ;  so  she  may  have  survived  till  nearly 
then.  There  are  many  distinguished  French  families  of  the  name  of  '  Pierre ' — perhaps  the 
same.  It  might  be  desirable  to  look  about  the  same  date  into  the  Register  of  Testaments 
and  the  Act  and  Decreet  Record,  and  to  examine  the  relative  procedure.  It  might  let  out 
whether  there  are  still  any  descendants  of  the  lady  through  Mary  Seton,  or  otherwise. 

11.  Contract  in  1556  between  Jane  Hepburn  Lady  Seytoun,  George  Lord  Seytoun,  Beatrix 
Seytoun,  '  neise *  to  the  said  nobill  Lady,  and  sister  german  to  the  said  nobill  Lord,'  with 
consent  of  Richard  Maitland  of  Lethington,  knight,  his  curator,  and  Sir  Walter  Ogilvie  of 
Dunlugus,  knight  (ancestor  of  the  Lords  Banff),  Dame  Alisone  Hume  his  spouse,  and  George 
Ogilvie,  yair  eldest  sone  and  apperand  air,'  etc.  George  is  to  marry  Beatrix.  Lady  Seyton 
is  called  her  'gudame'  (grandmother),  and  the  lady  betrothed  had  a  gift  of  the  marriage 
(maritagium)"1  of  her  brother,  Lord  George.  This  marriage  contract  is  long,  and  contains 
a  specification  of  the  estate. — Register  of  Bonds  and  Obligations,  vol.  ii.,  for  1556-8. 

12.  Renunciation  by  Beatrix  Seyton,  sister-german  of  George,  Lord  Seyton,  with  consent 
of  her  curator,  Maitland  of  Lethington,  of  the  grant  of  his  ward  and  marriage,  in  return  for 
500  merks  paid  to  her  and  'to  ye  nobill  lady  Jehanne  Hepburn  Lady  Seyton  my  gudame,  in 
my  name,  be  ye  hand  of  ane  right  honorabill  man,  Sir  William  Hamilton  of  Sanquhar,  Knyt.' 
It  appears  that  the  Regent  Chastelherault  had  given  the  sisters  of  Lord  Seyton  a  grant  of  the 
ward  and  marriage  of  their  brother,  and  'ane  thousand  punds'  had  been  decerned  to  be  given 
to  Beatrix  and  her  sisters  Eleanor  and  Marie  Seton  '  of  my  said  brother's  tocher,  as  is 
expremit  in  ye  contract  of  marriage  maid  betuix  my  said  brother  and  Issobel  Hamilton, 
dochter  to  ye  said  Sir  William.'  This  deed  is  dated  19th  February  1550,  'at  ye  place  of  sisteris 
callit  ye  Senis  (Sciennes),  besyde  Edinburt,'  the  well-known  residence  of  that  worthy  and 
remarkable  personage  '  Jehanne  Hepburne  Lady  Setone.' — Ibid. 

13.  Receipt  by  James,  Lord  Somerville,  from  Jane  Hepburn,  Lady  Seyton,  of  the 
sum  of  two  thousand  merks,  '  in  full  and  compleit  payment  of  the  same  sum  expremit  in  y6 


1  Niece  occasionally  denoted  granddaughter.  from  the  heir  of  his  former  vassal,  on  the  heir's  mar- 

2  '  Marriage '  was  a  casualty  in  ward-holding  which         riage,  or  on  his  becoming  marriageable.     Ward-hold- 
entitled  the  ward  superior  to  demand  a  certain  sum        ing  was  abolished  by  the  Statute  20  Geo.  II.  c.  50. 


IN  THE  AUTHOR'S   POSSESSION  953 

contract  of  marriage  maid  by  me,  and  Hew  Somerville  my  sone  and  apperand  air,  and  ye  said 
nobill  Laidy  and  George  Lord  Seyton,  and  Helenor  Seyton  his  sister-german,'  dated  Edin- 
burgh, nth  February  1557.  This  marriage,  as  is  well  known,  took  effect.  Hew  afterwards 
succeeded  as  Lord  Somerville,  the  last  of  that  ancient  and  distinguished  family  who  held  the 
large  estates  of  his  ancestors,  which  were  wasted  and  dilapidated  in  the  person  of  his  heir. 
Of  the  above  marriage  the  subsequent  Lords  Somerville  are  descended. 

14.  Contract,  dated  Edinburgh,  last  of  March  1556,  between  'George  Lord  Seyton  and 
ane  nobill  Ladie,  Dame  Marie  Peir,  relict  of  umquhile  George  Lord  Seyton,  and  Maister 
James  Macgill  of  Rankeilour,  procurator  of  Monsieur  Peir  de  Cluse,  Seigneur  Bryant,  hir 
spouse,'  Robert  Seyton,  George's  brother,  etc.  'We,  Marie,  by  ye  grace  of  God  Queen 
Dowerer  and  Regent  of  Scotland,  being  riplie  and  at  lenth  advisit,  wyt  our  deir  cousingis  and 
counsaloris  Lord  Henry  Clewtyne,  Lord  Ville  Pareis  Doysell,  and  Saint  (?)  Angnew,  lieutenant 
general  to  ye  Kingis  Maiestie  of  France  in  yis  part  of  Scotland,  Monsieur  Ruben,  Keeper  of 
ye  grete  seille  of  Scotland,~and  Maister  Abraham  Creichton,  Provest  of  Dunglas,'  pronounce  a 
decree  arbitral  '  betwixt  George  Lord  Seyton  and  Dame  Mary  Peirs,  etc.,  in  relation  to  the 
tierce  of  Seyton  due  to  Mary  by  the  death  of  Jane  Hepburn  Ladie  Seyton,  gudhame  (grand- 
mother) to  the  said  George  Lord  Seyton.'  This  is  all  I  took  from  the  Record  many  years  ago, 
and  as  I  have  added  to  the  excerpt  'very  long'  {i.e.  the  procedure),  it  may  possibly  let  out 
other  interesting  particulars. — Register  of  Bonds  and  Obligations  for  1554-6,  vol.  i. 

15.  In  a  Scotch  Act  of  Parliament,  7th  July  1548,  in  reference  to  the  marriage  of  Queen 
Mary  with  the  Dauphin,  there  is  prominent  mention  of  '  Monsieur  Dessy,  Lieutenant-General 
of  the  navy  and  armee,  sent  be  the  maist  Christian  King  of  Fraunce  for  support  of  this 
realme ' ;  and  there  is  also  mention  of  '  Monsieur  Dosell,  his  Ambassader.'  Further  in 
1551,  of  'Monsieur  Dosel,  the  maist  Christin  Kingis  Ambassader';  but  the  previous  deed,  in 
the  Record  of  Bonds,  gives  more  fully  his  family  designations. — Scotch  Acts,  last  edition, 
ii.  481-489. 

George,  Lord  Seyton,  had  evidently,  by  his  first  wife,  Dame  Elizabeth  Hay,  two  sons  and 
three  daughters : — 

1.  George,  Lord  Seyton  ; 

2.  John  Seyton  of  Carriston  ;  and 

Marion,  Beatrix,  and  Helenor  Seyton,  of  whom  Marion  married  John,  Earl  of  Menteith ; 
Beatrix,  George  Ogilvie,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Archibald  Ogilvie  of  Dunlugas ;  and  Helenor, 
Hew  Somerville,  afterwards  Lord  Somerville,  son  and  heir  of  James  Lord  Somerville. 

In  the  copies  of  Sir  Richard  Maitland's  History  of  the  Seytons  (Maitland  Club  Edition, 
p.  42)  there  is  mention  of  another  daughter  of  the  same  connection,  '  Margaret,  quha  was 
mariet  on  Robert  (Logan),  lard  of  Restalrig,  and  diet  without  bairns  ' — probably  young  also, 
which  may  account  for  her  not  appearing  in  the  authorities  which  I  quote. 

The  above  George,  Lord  Seyton,  had  issue  by  his  second  and  last  wife,  Dame  Mary  Peirs 
(who  survived  both  him  and  her  subsequent  husband  '  Monsieur  Peir  de  Cluse,  Seigneur 
Bryant,  and  died  before  23rd  January  1576),  one  son  and  one  daughter, — 

Robert  Seyton  of  Greendike,  of  whom  almost  nothing  is  known,  and  who  may  probably 
be  held  to  have  no  existing  descendants  ;  and 

Mary  Seyton,  one  of  Queen  Mary's  Maries,  or  maids,  of  whose  marriage  there  is  no  trace 
yet  discovered. 

Sir  Richard  Maitland  adds  another  son,  James,  but  he  evidently,  I  think,  must  have  died 
in  infancy,  or  in  pupillarity,  from  being  quite  omitted  in  the  family  settlements  and  transac- 
tions, as  shown  in  regard  to  Robert  and  Mary,  his  full-blood  brother  and  sister.  It  hence 
follows  that,  by  the  law  of  Scotland,  the  direct  lineal  descendant  and  heir-at-law  of  Robert 
and  Mary,  through  John  Seyton  of  Carriston,  their  immediate  elder  brother,  must  be  both 
heir  of  conquest  and  heritage,  in  exclusion  of  Lord  George,  the  eldest  brother,  however 
different  it  might  be  according  to  English  law. 

It  transpires,  too  (see  Nos.  1  and  7),  that  Marion  Seyton,  Countess  of  Menteith,  which 
she  became  in  1548,  was  '  servitrice,'  or  Lady  of  the  Household  or  Bedchamber  to  Mary  of 
Lorraine — a  fact,  I  believe,  hitherto  unknown — while  Mary  Seyton,  her  younger  half-sister, 
held  much  the  same  position  in  France  and  Scotland  at  the  Court  of  her  daughter. 

Touching  Queen  Mary,  I  lately  found,  in  a  rather  singular  quarter — a  medical  and 
statistical  account  of  the  lower  and  dissolute  orders  of  Paris,  with  suggestions  of  reformation, 

6  E 


954  LETTERS    FROM    MR.    RIDDELL 

par  A.  J.  B.  Parent-Duchatel,  published  at  Brussels  in  1837 — that  the  'rues  aux  Feves  et 
St.  Eloi  dans  la  cite,'  and  '  ceux  de  la  rue  Marie  Stuart,  autrefois  Tire  (?)  Boudin,'  from  a  very- 
early  period,  were  '  les  plus  sales  et  les  plus  degoutantes  de  Paris,  de  tout  temps  consacrees  a 
la  prostitution.'  Can  the  name  of  Mary  Stuart  have  been  given  to  the  locality  from  the 
residence  of  the  Queen  when  at  Paris,  in  like  manner  as  '  Scotland  Yard '  in  London,  from 
formerly  lodging  the  Kings  of  Scotland  ?     If  so,  the  site  has  been  but  ill  chosen. 

Arms  of  Seton  of  Carriston,  or  Carraldston. 

In  an  original  MS.  '  Endex  written  be  me,  Robert  Porteous,  Snaddoun  Herald,  Septem- 
ber i66r,' x  and  bought  from  his  widow  by  Joseph  Stacey,  Ross  Herald,  in  December  1664, 
according  to  his  autograph  intimation  at  the  beginning,  the  arms  are  thus  given  : — 

'  30.  Seaton  of  Caralston— Seaton,  a  otter  heid  in  fess  sable.' 

The  above  official  Index  to  the  Lyon  Records  at  the  time  is  much  more  valuable  than 
anything  there  now,  from  their  complete  conflagration  subsequently,  as  is  notorious.  Seton  of 
Cariston,  in  Fife,  carries  Seton  and  Balfour  quarterly.  The  first  of  this  family  was  John  Seton, 
second  son  of  George,  Lord  Seton,  and  Lady  Elizabeth  Hay.  John  Seton  carried  first  or,  three 
crescents  within  a  double-tressure  counter-flowered  gules,  and  for  his  difference  as  a  younger  son 
of  the  House  of  Seton,  charged  one  of  the  crescents  with  a  bezant,  as  on  the  roof  of  Samson's 
Hall,  in  the  House  of  Seton. — Essay  on  the  Ancient  and  Modern  use  of  Armories,  by  Alexander 
Nisbet,  Edinburgh,  17 18,  p.  108.  This,  a  thin  quarto,  is  the  interesting  work  I  mentioned 
containing  several  notices  of  '  Samson's  Hall,'  and  the  House,  or  Palace,  of  Seton. 

In  the  Office  Index  to  the  Record  of  Testaments  of  the  Commissary  Court  of  Edinburgh 
there  is  that  of  Issobel  Balfour,  Ladie  Carrelstoun,  nth  October  1580,  which  possibly  might 
let  out  something  curious. 

In  the  Household  Expenses  of  Queen  Mary  in  1562  (H.M.  Register  House)  the  following 
occurs : — ■ 

'  Table  des  dames  ou  mangeront : — 
Madamoiselle  de  Pinguiller  (?),  Madame  de  Brian te,  Madame  de  Crig,  Mad"es  de  Cobron,  Flamyn, 
Cetton  (Seton),  Bethon,  Leviston  laisne,  etc.,  auront  par  jour  chacune  11.  ps.  cy.  xvm.  ps.' 

There  are  subsequently  such  entries,  especially  regarding  a  Madame  de  Briante,  who  with 
Mademoiselle  Cetton  (or  Seton)  composes,  I  think,  part  of  a  family  group,  the  former  being 
probably  a  near  relative  (perhaps  sister)  of  '  Peir  de  Clwise,  Seigneur  Bryant,'  stepfather  of 
Mary  Seton,  and  second  husband  of  '  Dame  Marie  Peir,'  Dowager  Lady  Seton.    (See  No.  8,  etc.) 


The  following  is  a  copy  of  another  letter  which  I  received  from  Mr.  Riddell  about  the 
same  date : — 

'57  Melville  Street, 
Edinburgh,  17th  December  1850. 

'  Mv  dear  Sir, — I  herewith  send  you  the  two  printed  copies  of  the  Winton  Case  I 
alluded  to  yesterday ;  one  complete  (so  far  as  it  is  yet  prepared)  and  the  other  not,  which 
I  regret  I  can  only  offer  you  at  present. 

'  I  may  merely  add  that,  in  a  few  instances,  I  have,  according  to  an  avowed  practice 
(intimated  in  one  of  my  printed  works),  given  also  secondary  evidence  in  support  of  a  point — 
not  that  that  should  be  received  per  se  as  legal  proof,  but  that  everything  known  should  be 
fairly  submitted  to  the  Lords,  or  the  public. 

'  The  practice,  too,  has  been  the  means  of  eliciting  more  information  of  a  higher  and 
better  kind,  and  it  is  received  in  practice  or  in  law  that  lower  proof  is  admissible  when  better  is 
wanting. — I  remain,  dear  Sir,  yours  sincerely,  John  Riddell. 

'George  Seton,  Esq. 

'  P.S. — Newspapers  have  been  admitted  in  some  cases,  but  certainly  the  best  and  highest 
proof  must  be  adduced,  if  recoverable.' 

1  '  Penes  ?ne,  by  purchase  long  ago,  J.  R.' 


THE   SETONS   OF  CLATTO  955 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  third  letter  from  Mr.  John  Riddell,  dated  20th  April 
1853:— 

'With  respect  to  the  Cardonald  point,  John  Stewart,  first  Earl  of  Lennox,  and  Lord 
Darnley,  had  a  younger  son,  Alan  Stewart,  proprietor  of  Cardonald,  which  he  acquired.  This 
Alan  had  issue,  John  Stewart,  who  predeceased  his  father,  but  had  an  only  son,  James,  his 
grandfather's  heir,  which  James  was  Captain  of  Perth  for  Queen  Mary  in  1548,  and  married 
Helen  Semple,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Semple,  and  had  by  her  James  of  Cardonald,  and 
Alan,  made  Abbot  of  Crossraguel,  in  1566  ;  and  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  married  to 
Robert,  son  of  Alexander  of  Garlies  (of  the  noble  family  of  Galloway),  who  had  no  issue  ; 
Margaret,  married  to  John  Stuart  of  Minto ;  and  Dorothy,  married  to  John  Pollock  of  that  ilk. 

'James  of  Cardonald  having  died  without  issue,  his  estate  of  Cardonald  came  to  Walter, 
Prior  of  Blantyre,  son  of  the  marriage  between  John  Stewart  of  Minto  and  Margaret  Stuart, 
sister  of  James  of  Cardonald  ;  and,  in  consequence  of  that  marriage,  the  estate  of  Cardonald, 
which  originally  belonged  to  Isabella  Norvell,  the  wife  of  Sir  William  Stuart  of  Castelmilk, 
came  to  Lord  Blantyre's  family '  (descended  from  the  above  Walter,  Prior  of  Blantyre). 

'  The  above  is  from  Andrew  Stuart's  Genealogical  History  of  the  Stuarts,  published 
in  1798,  pp.  229-30.  At  p.  169  he  states  that  Sir  Alan  Stuart,  of  Darnley,  married  Katherine 
Seton,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Seton  of  Seton,  by  whom  he  had  John,  first  Earl  of  Lennox, 
and  Lord  Darnley,  father  of  the  preceding  Alan  Stuart  of  Cardonald,  ancestor  of  the 
Cardonald  branch,  who  thus  directly  sprang  from  the  house  of  Seton,  and  might  well 
be  buried  in  their  chapel.' 

9.  The  Setons  of  Clatto. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  314.] 

The  following  statement  is  from  the  notice  of  the  Parish  of  Kettle,  Co.  Fife,  by  the 
Rev.  Peter  Barclay,  in  the  old  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  i.  381  : — 

'The  lands  of  Clatto,  which  constitute  the  east  end  of  the  parish  of  Kettle,  and  through 
which  lay  the  old  road  from  Cupar  to  Kinghorn,  belonged  to  a  family  of  Setons,  who  are 
celebrated  in  tradition  for  the  most  cruel  robberies  and  murders.  The  grounds  about  Clatto 
Den  are  still  desert.  In  the  face  of  the  brae,  which  forms  one  side  of  the  den,  is  a  cave,  that 
is  said  to  communicate  with  the  old  castle  or  tower  of  Clatto,  a  furlong  distant,  the  remains  of 
which  are  still  visible.  The  same  cave  is  said  to  have  had  another  opening  to  the  road,  at 
which  the  assailant  rushed  out  on  the  heedless  passengers,  and  dragged  them  into  the  cavern, 
whence  there  was  no  return.  All  appearance  of  a  cave  is  now  obliterated  by  the  breaking  down 
of  the  banks.  A  similar  cavern  was  found  not  many  years  ago  at  Craighall  in  Ceres  parish. 
Of  these  Setons  many  stories,  replete  with  the  superstitions  of  preceding  ages,  are  still  current 
among  the  country  people.  One  may  suffice.  One  of  the  Scottish  kings,  said  to  be  James  iv., 
passing  that  way  alone,  as  was  common  in  those  days,  was  attacked  by  a  son  of  Seton's.  The 
king  having  a  hanger  concealed  under  his  garment,  drew  it,  and  with  a  blow  cut  off  the  right 
hand  that  seized  his  horse's  bridle.  This  hand  he  took  up,  and  rode  off.  Next  day,  attended 
by  a  proper  retinue,  he  visited  the  Castle  of  Clatto,  wishing  to  see  Seton  and  his  sons,  who 
were  noted  as  hardy  enterprising  men,  fitted  to  shine  in  a  more  public  station.  The  old  man 
conducted  his  family  into  the  king's  presence.  One  son  alone  was  absent.  It  was  said  that 
he  had  been  hurt  by  an  accident,  and  was  confined  to  bed.  The  King  insisted  on  seeing  him, 
and  desired  to  feel  his  pulse.  The  young  man  held  out  his  left  hand.  The  King  would  feel 
the  other  also.  After  many  ineffectual  excuses,  he  was  obliged  to  confess  that  he  had  lost 
his  right  hand.  The  king  told  him  that  he  had  a  hand  in  his  pocket,  which  was  at  his  service 
if  it  would  fit  him.     Upon  this  they  were  all  seized  and  executed.' 

My  aunt  Dawson  informed  me  that  the  author  of  the  preceding  statement  once  remarked 
to  one  of  her  uncles,  '  A  pretty  set  of  ancestors  you  must  have  had ! '  forgetting  that  the 
Cariston  branch  of  the  family  did  not  spring  from  the  main  line  till  the  days  of  Mary  Stuart — 
the  result  of  the  minister's  observation  being  a  summary  horsewhipping  ! 

The  tradition  is  set  forth  in  a  poem  extending  to  no  fewer  than  eighty  stanzas,  in  a  little 
volume  of  Scottish  Ballads,  etc.,  by  'G.,'  published  at  Cupar-Fife  in  1881. 


956  JAMES  V.   AT  SORN   CASTLE 

10.  Royal  Visit  to  Sorn  Castle. 

[Referred  to  in  the  note  at  p.  153.] 

The  following  is  the  passage  in  question  in  the  old  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland  (parish 
of  Sorn)  vol.  xx.  p.  169,  by  the  Rev.  George  Gordon  : — 

'  The  only  other  article  worthy  of  notice,  under  this  head,  is  the  castle  of  Sorn.  By 
whom,  or  at  what  precise  time,  this  castle  was  built,  I  have  not  been  able  to  ascertain  ;  but 
it  was  most  probably  some  time  in  the  course  of  the  fourteenth  century,  if  not  at  an  earlier 
period.  The  proprietors  of  this  castle,  and  their  descendants,  were  once  among  the  most 
illustrious  families  in  the  kingdom,  as  appears  from  the  following  short  account,  which  has 
been  obligingly  communicated  to  me  by  a  right  honourable  lady  in  the  neighbourhood,  not 
more  distinguished  by  her  rank  than  by  her  character,  talents,  and  general  information. 

'About  the  year  1406  the  lands  of  Sorn,  with  several  others  in  the  district  of  Kyle,  were 
acquired  by  Andrew  Hamilton,  third  son  of  Sir  David  Hamilton  of  Cadzow,  ancestor  to  the 
Duke  of  Hamilton.  This  Andrew  Hamilton  married  Agnes,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Hugh 
Campbell  of  Loudon,  Sheriff  of  Ayr,  and  by  her  had  a  son,  Sir  Robert  Hamilton  of  Sorn  and 
Sanquhar.  Sir  Robert  married  a  daughter  of  Sir  William  Crawfurd  of  Lochnorris ;  and 
Sir  William  Hamilton  of  Sorn  and  Sanquhar,  a  son  of  this  marriage,  was  one  of  the  Senators 
of  the  College  of  Justice,  and  Lord  Treasurer  to  King  James  v.  This  Lord  Treasurer 
married  a  daughter  of  the  family  of  Cassillis,  by  whom  he  had  an  heiress,  Isobel  Hamilton, 
who  married  George,  Lord  Seton,  and  by  him  was  mother  to  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton,  to 
Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  Margaret,  the  wife  of  Claud  Hamilton,  Lord  Paisley, 
ancestor  to  the  Earl  of  Abercorn.  The  lands  and  castle  of  Sorn  were  sold  by  the  succeeding 
Earl  of  Winton  to  the  family  of  Loudon,  and  after  remaining  in  this  family  upwards  of  150 
years,  they  were  sold  to  William  Tennent,  Esq.,  of  Poole,  in  1782. 

'  There  is  a  tradition,  well  authenticated,  that  King  James  v.  honoured  his  Treasurer,  Sir 
William  Hamilton,  with  a  visit  at  Sorn  Castle,  on  occasion  of  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  to 
Lord  Seton.  The  chair  on  which  his  Majesty  sat  on  that  occasion  was  always  carefully 
preserved  at  the  castle  till  the  sale  of  the  estate,  when  it  was  transferred  to  Loudon  Castle, 
where  it  is  still  kept  as  a  relick  of  ancient  times.  It  is  a  large  chair  of  oak,  curiously  carved, 
and  the  arms  of  Sir  William  Hamilton  are  on  the  back  of  it  in  large  figures.' l 

11.  Epitaph  of  George,  Seventh  Lord  Seton,  and  Isabella  Hamilton 
his  Wife,  in  Seton  Church.  From  a  copy  made  in  1767  for  the 
Marquis  of  Abercorn,  and  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  Father 
Forbes-Leith  of  Selkirk.2 

[Referred  to  at  p.  200  note  and  p.  780.] 

D.  O.  M. 

Ad  australe  Sacelli  hujus  latus  condita  sunt  Corpora 
Georgii  Setonii  &  Isabellas  Hamiltonise  nobilissimarum 
et  seterna  memoria  dignissimarum  Animamm  Domicilia. 

Georgius  hoc  nomine  Quintus,  Setonii  Dominus  et   Familise  Princeps,  Latifundia  et 


1  '  The  King's  visit  at  Sorn  Castle  took  place  in  like  King  James,  for  want  of  better  accommodation, 

winter,  and,  being  heartily  tired  of  his  journey  through  to  sit  down,  about  mid-way,  by  the  side  of  a  well 

so  long  a  track  of  moor,  moss,  and  miry  clay,  where  (hence  called  King's  Well),  and  there  take  a  cold 

there  was  neither  road  nor  bridge,  he  is  reported  to  refreshment  in  a  cold  day.     At  that  very  same  place 

have  said,  with  that  good-humoured  pleasantry  which  he  might  now  find  a  tolerable  inn  and  a  warm  dinner.' 
was  a  characteristic  of  so  many  of  his  family,  that, 

'  were  he  to  play  the  Deil  a  trick,  he  would  send  him  -  Another  copy,  in  which  there  are  several  mistakes, 

from  Glasgow  to  Sorn  in  the  middle  of  winter.'     The  will  be  found  in  Grose's  Antiquities  of  Scotland,  i.  68, 

trick  nowadays  would  not  prove  a  very  serious  one ;  and  an  English  translation,  in  the  possession  of  the 

for  Satan,  old  as  he  is,  might  travel  very  comfortably  Earl  of  Wemyss  (in  which  there  are  a  few  inaccuracies), 

one  half  of  the  way  in  a  mail-coach,  and  the  other  is  printed  at  p.  57  of  the  Edinburgh  edition  of  Sir 

half  in  a  post-chaise.     Neither  would  he  be  forced,  Richard  Maitland's  House  of  Seytoun. 


EPITAPH   IN  SETON  CHURCH  957 

Rem  a  majoribus  tradita,  difficillimis  Reipub:  temporibus  honorifice  tenuit  et  ampliavit. 
Jacobo  Quinto  regnante  natus,  Adolescens,  cum  in  Galliis  ageret,  Patre  optimo  orbatus.  Ad 
suos  reversus,  brevi  post  Regni  Ordinum  Decreto  eodem  remittitur,  ibique  unus  Legatorum 
Mariae  Reginae  et  Francisci  Franciae  Delphini  nuptias  et  antiqua  Gallorum  Scotorumque 
Fsedera  sancivit  firmavitque.  Domum  regressus,  Religionis  et  Sacrorum  Innovatione,  bellis 
turn  externis  turn  civilibus  flagrantem  Patriam  invenit,  cum  in  Scotia  Anglus  Gallusque 
Germanus  et  Hispanus,  Scoti  etiam  inter  se  dimicarent.  y£des  suas  bis  terre  ab  Anglis 
incensas  et  funditus  deletas,  devastatis  etiam  Praediis  omnibus,  in  ampliorem  denuo  splendi- 
dioremque  formam  restituit.  In  omnem  Fortunam  liber  semper  et  intrepidus,  trucidato  a 
perditissimis  hominibus  Rege,  acta  in  Exilium  Regina  a  Principum  Patribus,  Majorum  more 
semper  constans  stetit.  Hac  firmitate  saepe  carcere  et  custodia  afflictus,  saepe  in  exilium  actus, 
et  bonis  omnibus  exutus,  ejusmodi  calamitates  innumeras,  Fidei  in  Patriam  et  veros  Principes 
Testes,  forti  animo  non  modo  tulit  sed  sprevit  &  superavit.  Tandem  ab  Jacobo  Sexto,  cujus 
auspiciis,  Prudentia  et  Consiliis,  Scotia  procellis  omnibus  et  difficultatibus  liberata,  splendori 
suo  restituta  est,  Ipse  etiam  honorifice  pro  meritis  acceptus  et  habitus,  majorum  suorum 
Locum  et  Dignitatem  tenuit,  primusque  ab  eo  ad  Hen.  III.  Galliarum  Regem  Legatus,  cum 
amplissimis  ad  firmandam  Amicitiam  mandatis  mittitur.  Quo  in  munere  cum  gratam 
acceptamque  utrique  Principum  operam  navaret,  lethalem  ipsi  morbum  anteactas  vitae  labores 
adferunt,  in  Patriam  redit,  intra  mensem  ad  Superos  migrat,  VI.  Id.  Jan.  An.  Domini 
CIDIDLXXXV,  JEta.t.  circiter  LV. 

Domina  Isabella  Hamiltonia  nobilissimis  Parentibus  nata,  Patre  nimirum  D.  Willielmo 
de  Sanquhar  Equite  et  Matre  Katherina  Kennedie  Cassilissae  Comitis  Filia,  Ipsa  Forma, 
Moribus,  omnibusque  turn  Animi  turn  Corporis  dotibus  insignis,  et  inter  aequales  praestans. 
Georgium  hunc  Setonii  Dominum  maritum  nacta,  in  adversis  illi  omnibus  Adjumento  et 
Solatio,  in  prosperis  Ornamento  fuit. 

Conjugi  charissimo  duodeviginti  annos  superstes  cum  communibus  Liberis  liberaliter  et 
conjunctissime  vixit;  Quidquid  a  marito  Fortunarum  acceperat,  cum  Natis  amanter  com- 
municavit,  eorumque  conatus  omnes  et  honesta  studia  Bonis  suis  fovit  et  promovit,  nee 
exiguos  Pietatis  hujus  et  maternae  Charitatis  fructus  vivens  percepit.  Liberorum  muneribus, 
Dignitatibus  et  ornamentis,  Ipsa  quoque  clarior  et  illustrior,  donee  senio  et  articulorum 
Doloribus  morbisque  afflicta,  Deo  animam  reddidit  II.  Id.  Novemb.  Anno  Domini 
CIOIDCVI,  Annum  agens  circiter  LXXV. 

Tarn  claris  Parentibus  orta  est  haec  Soboles. 

Robertus  Setonus  primogenitus  et  primus  Wentoniae  Comes,  hoc  Titulo  ob  propria  et 
majorum  merita  ab  Jacobo  Sexto  ornatus. 

Joannes  Eques  eidem  Regi  imprimis  charus,  ab  intimis  consiliis,  Questura  et  pluribus 
muneribus  auctus,  in  flore  setatis  e  vivis  sublatus,  Liberis  tamen  relictis. 

Alexander  multis  annis  Senator,  et  ab  intimis  Consiliis,  turn  Princeps  Senatus  ab  ipso 
ordine  electus,  demum  a  Rege  prudentissimo  qui  primus  Scotiam  Angliamque  in  unum 
contulit  Dominatum,  utriusque  Regni  Consiliorum  Particeps,  Fermelinoduni  comes,  et  Regni 
Scotiae  factus  est  Cancellarius. 

Willielmus  Eques,  Louthianae  Vicecomes  et  unus  turn  Scotia?  turn  Angliae  limitum  e 
Praefectis  et  Procuratoribus. 

Margareta  Filia,  Claudio  Hamiltonio  Pasleti  Domino  nupta,  Jacobi  primi  Abercorniae 
Comitis  Mater,  totiusque  illius  prosapiae  Fratrum  Sororumque  dicti  Comitis  fascunda  Parens. 

Haec  Posteri  norint,  et  tanti  Viri  spectata^que  adeo  Fceminae  memoriam  colant. 
Virtutes  aemulentur,  bonisque  Moribus  bona  verba. 

Magnorum  Virorum  Memoria  non  minus  utilis  est  quam  Praesentia. 

A.  S.  F.  C.  F.  F.1  A.  S.  CIDIDCX. 


Alexander  Setonius  Fermelinoduni  Comes  fieri  fecit. 


958 


TESTAMENT  DE 


12.  Testament    de    Marie    de    Seton,    fille    d'honneur    de    Marie 
Stuart,  fait  devant   notaire  A  Reims  le   14   Avril    1602,    et 

REVOQUE   LE    "]   JuiN    SUIVANT. 


[Referred  to  at  p.  147.] 


14  Avril  1602. 


Bailie1  en 
bref  audict 
Dozet  pour 
ladicte  tes- 
tateresse 
pour  en- 
voyer  en 
Escosse. 


Compartjt  en  sa  personne  damoiselle  Marie  de  Seton,  fille  d'honneur  de  la  feue  Royne 
d'Escosse,  demourant  en  la  maison  abbatialle  de  Saint  Pierre  de  Reims,  estant  malade,  couche 
en  un  lict  d'une  chambre  haulte  de  ladicte  maison,  ayant  bon  sens,  memoire  et  entendement, 
comme  il  est  apparu,  considerant  qu'il  n'est  chose  plus  certaine  que  la  mort  ne  rien  plus  incer- 
tain  que  l'heure  d'icelle,  non  voulant  decedder  de  ce  mortel  monde  intestat,  mais  desirant  de 
tout  son  cceur  pourveoir  au  remede  et  salut  de  son  ame,  a  fait  son  testament  et  ordonnance 
de  derniere  volunte  en  la  forme  et  maniere  qu'y  ensayt,  en  cassant,  revoiquant  et  adnullant 
tous  aultres  testamens  et  codicilz  qu'elle  a  ou  pourroit  avoir  faict  par  cydevant,  voulant  cestuy 
present  son  testament  sortir  son  plain  et  entier  effect  tant  de  droict  que  de  coustume. 

Premier  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  a  recommande  et  recommande  son  ame  a  Dieu 
nostre  Createur,  a  la  sacre"  vierge  Marie,  a  Monsieur  Sainct  Pierre  et  a  toute  la  court  celeste 
de  paradis. 

Veult  ses  debtes  estre  payees  et  acquittees  partout  ou  il  apparestera  par  les  mains  des 
executeurs  de  cestuy  present  son  testament  cy  apres  nommez. 

Desir  son  corps  apres  son  trespas  estre  inhumee  et  entente  en  l'eglise  dudict  Sainct 
Pierre,  en  tel  lieu  qu'il  plaira  a.  Madame  du  diet  St.  Pierre,  relligieuses  et  couvent  soulz  leur 
bon  plaisir. 

Veult  et  ordonne  que  son  enterraige  soit  fait  par  le  couvent  dudict  Sainct  Pierre,  services 
obsecques  et  funerailles,  selon  la  volunte  et  ainsy  que  les  executeurs  dudict  present  testament 
adviseront,  ausquelz  enterraiyes,  services,  obsecques  es  funerailles  sera  par  lesdicts  executeurs 
employe  jusques  a  la  somme  de  cent  escus  soleil,  ainsy  aussy  qu'ilz  adviseront  pour  le  mieulx. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  a  donne  legue,  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  a. 
Catherine  Hany  sa  servante  la  somme  de  cent  escus  soleil  pour  s'en  retourner  en  Escosse  en 
la  maison  de  Monsieur  du  Fayme  milore  d'Escosse,  nepveux  de  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse, 
quelle  supplie  vouloir  recepvoir  ladicte  Catherine,  la  nourir,  loger  et  entretenir  le  reste  de  sa 
vye,  et  ce  en  consideration  des  bons  et  agreables  services  qu'elle  a  faict  a.  ladicte  damoiselle 
par  le  passe. 

Item  ladicte  testateresse  veult  et  ordonne  qu'il  soit  paye  a.  Jehanne  son  aultre  servante 
la  somme  de  trente  escus  soleil  tant  pour  les  services  qu'elle  luy  a  faict  par  le  passe1  que  pour 
argent  qu'elle  luy  a  preste. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  veult  estre  paye  a  Jehan  Bourgeois  appoticaire 
demourant  a.  Reims  la  somme  de  vingt  ou  vingt  cinq  escus  soleil  sy  tant  se  trouvent  monter 
ses  partyes  de  medecine  depuis  ses  dernieres  partyes  par  elle  acquitees. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  veult  estre  paye  a  Claude  Roussel,  bourgeois  de 
Paris,  la  somme  de  cincquante  escus  soleil,  tant  pour  ce  qu'il  a  paye  desbource  pour  ladicte 
damoiselle  testateresse  a  la  poursuite  d'un  proces  qu'elle  a  en  Parlement  a,  Paris  a  l'encontre 
du  Sieur  de  Brillebault  que  pour  ce  que  icelluy  Roussel  peult  avoir  desbourse'  au  voyage  qu'il 
a  faict  a  Berry  pour  l'execution  de  l'arrest  contre  le  Sr  de  Brillebault,  que  pour  ses  services  et 
vaccations  en  ladicte  poursuite  et  voyage. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  veult  estre  pareillement  paye"  a.  Nre 

Bonnefoy,  procureur  en  Parlement,  la  somme  de  huict  escus  soleil  qui  luy  sont  deubz  pour 
frais  et  sallaires  pour  ledict  proces. 

Item  ladicte  testateresse  a  donne',  legue,  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  a  sceur 
Francoise  Pagesse,  relligieuse  au  prieure'  de  nostre  Dame  de  Pitit;  de  Joinville,  la  somme  de 
cincquante  escus  soleil  pour  subvenir  a  ses  necessitez  particulieres  et  affin  d'estre  particippant 
en  ses  prieres  et  oraisons,  priant  Madame  la  prieure  dudit  lieu  permettre  a  ladite  Francoise 
Pagesse  d'accepter  ledit  don  pour  luy  subvenir  comme  diet  est. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  a  donne'  legue",  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  a 


MARIE   DE   SETON  959 

honnorable  homrae  Mre  Benoist  Dozet  esleu  et  conseillier  pour  le  roy  nostre  sire  en  testation 
dudict  Reims,  la  somme  de  cent  escus  soleil  tant  pour  son  remboursement  des  deniers  par  luy 
advancez  pour  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  audit  proces  que  pour  ses  peines  et  vaccations 
davoir  des  longtemps  assiste  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  en  ses  affaires. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  veult  et  ordonne  que  pour  l'accomplissement  de 
sondit  present  testament  qu'il  soit  vendu  par  les  executeurs  du  present  testament  sy  faire 
se  peult  six  vingtz  cinq  livres  tournois  de  rente  deulz  a  ladicte  testateresse  par  damoiselle 
Clarmonde  de  Fer  veufue  de  Mre  Francois  Thuret  et  aultres  denommez  audict  contract  de 
rente  de  ladicte  constitution  de  rente,  montant  le  sort  principal  d'icelle  a  la  somme  de  six  cens 
escus  soleil,  desquelz  y  en  a  remboursement  faict  de  la  somme  de  cent  escus  soleil,  n'estant 
plus  le  sort  principal  d'icelle  rente  que  de  cincq  cens  escus.  Et  ou  lesditz  executeurs  ne 
trouvent  a  vendre  ladicte  rente  de  six  vingtz  cincq  livres  tournois,  les  legataires  et  debiteurs 
prendront  par  les  mains  desditz  executeurs  chacun  a  rata  des  sommes  leguez  et  declare  estre 
deubz  aux  sus  nommez  ladicte  rente. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  a  donne,  legue,  donne  legue  par  ces  presentes  a  dame 
Margueritte  Kirkcaldye  relligieuse  en  ladicte  abbaye  de  Sainct  Pierre,  tous  et  chacuns  ses 
biens  meubles  a  elle  appartenant  quy  sont  en  ladicte  maison  de  Sainct  Pierre,  pour  en  faire, 
joyr  et  disposer  a.  sa  volunt6,  suppliant  madicte  dame  de  Sainct  Pierre  luy  permectre 
d'accepter  ledit  leg  et  d'en  user  et  disposer  par  icelle  Kirkcaldye  ainsy  qu'elle  advisera  bon 
estre,  excepte  ladicte  rente  deue  par  ladicte  Clarmonde  destinee  par  les  legz  et  acquictz  des 
debtes  cy  dessus. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  a  diet  et  declaire  qu'il  luy  est  deub  par  Baptiste  de 
la  Chastre  escuyer  Sr  de  Brevillebault  la  somme  de  deux  mil  escus  par  contract  et  arrest  de 
nosseigneurs  de  Parlement  de  Paris,  ensemble  les  interestz  de  ladite  somme  ainsy  que  porte 
est  par  ledict  arrest  avec  les  despens  taxez  et  a.  taxer  a  lemontre  dudit  Sr  de  Brevillebault, 
lesquelles  sommes,  interestz  et  despens  et  tous  les  droictz  dactions  ypothecques  et  contrainctes 
que  icelle  testateresse  a  contre  ledict  Sr  de  Brevillebault  et  aultres  qu'il  appartiendra,  elle  les 
a  donne,  legue,  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  a  illustre  princesse  Madame  Renee  de  Lorraine, 
nagueres  abbesse  de  Sainct  Pierre  dudict  Reims,  en  consideration  des  grandes  faveurs,  assis- 
tances et  bienfaicts  quelle  a  receue  depuis  seize  ou  dix  sept  ans  qu'elle  sest  retiree  audict  Sainct 
Pierre,  de  feue  de  tres  louable  memoir  Madame  Renee  de  Lorraine,  grande  tante  de  ladicte 
dame  abbesse,  et  en  son  vivant  abbesse  d'icelle  abbaye,  nagueres  decedde,  a  la  charge  toute- 
ffoys  que  madicte  dame  Renee  de  Lorraine  a  present  abbesse  dudict  St.  Pierre,  lorsqu'elle 
aura  receu  lesdicts  deux  mil  escus  interests  et  despens,  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  la  supplie 
tres  humblement  d'employer  lesdictz  deux  mil  escus  ainsy  qu'il  sensuyt  savoir  d'en  delivrer 
telle  somme  qu'il  convyendra  aux  quatre  ordres  des  mandiens  et  minimes  dudict  Reims  pour 
achecter  pour  chacun  desdits  mandiens  quinze  livres  tournois  de  rente  et  auxdits  minimes 
vingt  livres  tournois,  pour  les  obleiger  chacun  deulx  a  dir  et  celebrer  chascun  an  perpetuelle- 
ment  ung  service  de  trois  messes  haultes  et  vigilles  en  l'eglise  de  ladicte  abbaye  de  Sainct 
Pierre  pour  le  repos  de  l'ame  d'icelle  damoiselle  testateresse,  excepte  lesditz  minimes  quy 
diront  ledict  service  en  leur  eglise,  et  seront  tenuz  fournir  lesditz  quatre  ordres  de  mandiens 
et  minimes  les  luminaires  qu'il  conviendra  pour  lesdictz  services,  dont  sera  faict  mention  par 
lesdictes  constitutions  de  rente,  ausquelles  ladicte  dame  de  Sainct  Pierre  sera  appellee  pour 
en  passer  les  contracts. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  affin  que  lesdicts  services  ne  soient  obmis  a  estre 
celebrez  selon  l'intention  de  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse,  que  elle  supplie  madicte  dame 
lesdicts  services  estre  celebrez  durant  le  caresme,  icelle  testateresse  supplie  madicte  dame  de 
delivrer  telle  somme  qu'il  convyendra  audict  Dozet  pour  achecter  vingt  livres  tournois  de 
rente  pour  appartenir  a.  icelluy  Dozet  et  a  ses  enffans  et  posterite  a.  la  charge  d'avoir  l'ceuil  luy 
et  les  siens  que  lesdictz  services  soient  celebrez  selon  l'intention  de  ladicte  testateresse  sus 
declaire ;  lequel  Dozet  ou  les  siens  lesdicts  mandiens  et  minimes  advertiront  du  jour  desdicts 
services  pour  y  assister ;  et  laquelle  rente  de  vingt  livres  tournois  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse 
a  donne,  legue,  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  audict  Dozet  pour  en  faire,  joyr  et  disposer 
par  luy  et  ses  hoirs  comme  de  leur  propre  chose  aux  fins  que  dessus. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  supplie  pareillement  madicte  dame  de  Sainct  Pierre 
de  delivrer  telle  somme  qu'il  convyendra  pour  achecter  la  somme  de  cent  livres  tournois  de 
rente  que  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  donne  et  legue  par  ces  dictes  presentes  a  l'enfermerye 


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TESTAMENT  DE 


de  ladicte  abbaye  de  Sainct  Pierre  pour  estre  par  la  dame  enfermiere  employe  perpetuelle- 
ment  aux  necessitez  de  vivres,  boys  et  aultres  dont  les  relligieuses  malades  en  icelle  enfermerye 
auront  besoing,  et  sans  que  lesdicts  cent  livres  tournois  de  rente  puissent  estre  convertiz  ny 
employez  en  aultre  effect  que  pour  les  necessitez  desdictes  relligieuses  malades ;  laquelle 
somme  a  ses  fins  sera  bailie  a  ladicte  dame  enfermiere  par  la  dame  depositaire  de  ladicte 
abbaye,  a  la  charge  de  rapporter  par  ladicte  dame  enfermyere  estat  de  la  despence  au  bureau 
de  ladicte  abbaye  y  assistante  madicte  dame,  ou  a  madicte  dame  seulle  a  la  fin  de  chacune 
annee.  Sur  laquelle  somme  sera  pris  quatre  livres  tournois  pour  estre  bailie;  par  chascun  an 
aux  quatre  chanoines,  chappellains  et  clerc  de  ladicte  eglise  de  Sainct  Pierre,  pour  cellebrer 
ung  service  de  trois  messes  haultes  et  vigilles  a  ladicte  eglise  de  Sainct  Pierre  pour  le  repos 
de  Tame  de  feue  Marye  Stuart,  vivant  Royne  d'Escosse  et  pour  le  repos  de  Fame  de  ladicte 
testateresse,  laquelle  somme  de  quatre  livres  tournois  sera  de'livre'  par  ladicte  dame  enfermiere 
par  chascun  an  aus  diets  chanoines,  chappellains  et  clerc  le  jour  dudict  service  qu'il  plaira  a. 
madicte  dame  d'ordonner  estre  diet  durant  le  caresme  ou  a  aultre  temps  soubz  le  bon  plaisir 
de  madicte  dame,  ensemble  lesdictz  services  desdictz  quatre  ordres  de  mandiens,  ausquels 
ledict  couvent  sera  tenu  fournir  les  omemens  seullement. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  supplie  aussy  ladicte  dame  de  Sainct  Pierre  de 
delivrer  telle  somme  qu'il  convyendra  pour  constituer  la  somme  de  dix  livres  tournois  de 
rente  a  dame  Anne  Danquoy  et  dix  livres  tournois  de  rente  a  dame  Marie  Mathei,  relligieuses 
en  ladicte  abbaye,  que  ladicte  testateresse  leur  a  le'gue"  et  donne"  pour  en  joyr  leur  vye  durant, 
affin  de  les  obligier  a  prier  Dieu  pour  l'ame  d'icelle  testateresse.  Et  apres  le  deces  desdictes 
Danquoy  et  Mathei,  lesdictes  rentes  appartiendront  audix  Dozet  et  a  ses  hoirs  ou  ayans  cause 
pour  en  joyr  par  eulx  d'icelles  deux  rentes  tort  et  incontinent  le  deces  desdictes  Danquoy  et 
Mathei  ou  de  l'une  d'elles,  auquel  Dozet  sesditz  hoirs  ou  ayans  cause  icelle  testateresse  a 
donn£,  le'gue,  donne  et  legue  lesdicts  deux  rentes  comme  dess  is  pour  les  grandes  obligations 
qu'elle  a  envers  ledit  Dozet  de  luy  avoir  continuellement  assists  en  ses  affaires  et  secouruz  en 
ses  necessitez. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  supplie  encore  madicte  dame  de  delivrer  telle  somme 
qu'il  conviendra  pour  acheter  cent  livres  tournois  de  rente  pour  estre  les  lettres  de  constitution 
mis  es  mains  dudit  Dozet,  affin  d'employer  ladicte  somme  a  faire  cellebrer  par  chacun  jour 
perpetuellement  une  messe  basse  en  l'eglise  dudict  Sainct  Pierre  pour  le  repos  et  remede  de 
l'ame  de  ladicte  testateresse,  laquelle  messe  elle  desir  et  supplie  Mre  Anthoine  Personnet 
icelle  dir  et  celebrer  tant  qu'il  n'aura  charge  ou  benefice  qu'il  luy  puisse  empescher  la  cele- 
bration de  ladicte  messe,  et  en  ce  cas  qu'il  ne  puisse  commodement  celebrer  icelle  messe,  sera 
pourveu  par  ledict  Dozet  d'un  aultre  homme  d'eglise  tel  qu'il  advisera. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  supplie  aussy  madicte  dame  de  fournir  telle  somme 
qu'il  convyendra  pour  achecter  soixante  livres  tournois  de  rente  et  estre  la  constitution  d'icelle 
mise  es  mains  du  dit  Dozet  pour  recepvoir  et  employer  lesdites  soixante  livres  tournois  de  rente 
a  faire  apprendre  mestier  a  trois  pauvre  filles,  et  pour  la  premiere  annee  veult  ladicte  testateresse 
lesdite  soixante  livres  tournois  estre  baillez  a  la  niepce  de  sceur  Marie  Merresse,  a  la  niepce 
de  Jehanne  servante  de  ladicte  testateresse  et  a.  la  fille  de  Jehan  Ytasse,  et  pour  les  aultres 
annees  a.  telles  pauvres  filles  que  ledit  Dozet  et  ses  hoirs  adviseront  pour  le  myeulx. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  supplie  pareillement  madicte  dame  d'employer  telle 
somme  qu'il  convyendra  pour  achetter  vingt  livres  tournois  de  rente  qu'elle  a  donne"  legue"  par 
ces  presentes  aux  cordelieres  dudict  Reims  a  la  charge  de  celebrer  par  chacun  an  a  tousjours 
perpetuellement  en  leur  eglise  ung  service  de  trois  messes  haultes  et  vigilles  pour  le  salut  de 
l'ame  de  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  et  seront  les  omemens  et  luminairez  fourniz  par 
lesdites  religieuses  cordelieres. 

Item  ladicte  damoiselle  testateresse  a  donn6,  legue,  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  a 
madicte  dame  de  Sainct  Pierre  le  surplus  desdict  deux  mil  escus,  interests  et  despens,  laquelle 
elle  supplie  ensemble  tous  lesdictz  legataires  desdictez  deniers  de  tenir  la  main  au  recouvre- 
ment  desdictes  sommes,  priant  aussy  ledict  Dozet  de  les  y  assister  en  la  poursuite  luy 
fournissant  deniers  pour  ce  faire  par  madicte  dame  et  legataires  chacun  au  rata  de  leur  legz. 

Item  ladicte  testateresse  a  pour  les  fins  que  dessus  cedde  touttes  ses  actions  et  poursuites 
et  ypothecques  a  madicte  dame  mesmer  de  faire  adnuller  le  contract  faict  avec  ledict  Sr  de 
Brevillebault  a  faulte  de  payement  et  disposer  et  allyener  les  droictz  mentionnez  endict  con- 
tract a  telle  personne  ou  personnes  que  bon  luy  semblera  sauf  touteffoys  employer  par  madicte 


MARIE   DE   SETON  961 

dame  les  deniers  aux  effects  que  dessus,  et  sans  que  madicte  dame  puisse  estre  inquiette  pour 
la  delivrance  des  diets  deniers  sy  non  apres  qu'elle  les  aura  receuz. 

Item  ladicte  testateresse  a  diet,  declare  que  combien  quelle  ayt  laisse  les  meubles  estant 
en  sa  chambre,  garderobbe  et  cabynet  a  dame  Margueritte  Kircaldye  pour  en  disposer  a  sa 
volunte,  neanmoings  ladicte  testateresse  veult  et  entend  que  ladicte  Kircaldye  distribue 
des  diets  meubles  selon  et  ainsy  qu'elle  luy  a  ordonne  verballement  et  dont  elle  veult  icelle 
Kircaldye  estre  creue  par  sa  simple  parolle. 

Et  pour  lequel  present  testament  accomplir  et  mectre  a  execution  deue  de  poinct  en 
poinct  selon  sa  forme  et  teneur  a  icelle  damoiselle  testateresse  nomme  et  esleu  pour  executeurs 
d'icelluy  venerable  et  discrette  personne  Mre  Anthoine  de  Beauchesne,  prebtre,  chanoine  et 
soulz  chantre  en  l'eglise  de  Reims  et  ledict  Mre  Benoist  Dozet,  ausquelz  et  a  chacun  deulx 
elle  a  donnd  et  donne  par  ces  presentes  plain  pouvoir  puissance  auctorite'  et  mandement  special 
d'icelluy  present  testament  accomplir  en  soubmectant  pour  ce  faire  entre  leurs  mains  tous  et 
chacuns  ses  biens  jusques  a  plain  et  entier  accomplissement  d'icelluy,  auquel  de  Beauchesne 
ladicte  damoiselle  a  donne  et  legue  son  orloge  pour  ses  peines  de  ladicte  execution  testa- 
mentaire.  Lequel  present  testament  a  este  nomme,  dicte,  et  devise  par  ladicte  damoiselle 
testateresse  mots  apres  aultres  et  a  elle  leue  et  releue  par  l'un  de  nous  notaires  l'aultre  present 
qu'elle  a  diet  avoir  bien  entendu  et  estre  sa  derniere  volunte.  Ce  fut  faict  en  ladicte  maison 
abbatialle  de  St.  Pierre  apres  midy  le  quatorsiesme  jour  d'Avril  l'an  mil  six  cens  et  deux  par 
devant  nous  notaires  royaulx.     Et  a  ladicte  dame  testateresse  signe  ces  presentes. 

(Signe)        Marie  de  Seton. 

J.    ROGIER. 

G.  Charlier. 

7  Juin  1602. 
Cejourdhuy  septiesme  jour  de  Juing  du  diet  an  mil  six  cens  et  deux,  est  comparu  en 
personne  pardevant  nous  notaires  du  roy  nostre  sire  hereditaires  en  son  bailliaige  de  Ver- 
mandois  demourans  a.  Reims  soubz  signez,  damoiselle  Marie  de  Seton  testateresse  denomme 
en  testament  devant  transcript  et  quy  a  diet  et  declaire  qu'elle  a  revocque  et  revocque  par 
ces  presentes  son  diet  testament  devant  transcript  quelle  veult  et  entend  qu'il  soit  de  nul  effect 
et  valleur,  n'entend  s'en  servir  ny  ayder  en  aucune  chose  et  maniere  et  qu'il  soit  et  demeure 
cas  et  nul  et  comme  chose  non  advenue  et  la  revocque  et  revocque  par  ces  presentes,  comme 
diet  est,  en  tous  ses  poinctz  forme  et  teneur.  Dont  et  de  laquelle  revocation  et  chose  susdicte 
ladicte  damoiselle  Marie  de  Seton  nous  a  requis  le  present  acte  pour  luy  servir  et  valloir  en 
temps  et  lieu  ce  que  de  raison.  Faict  en  la  maison  abbatialle  du  diet  S.  Pierre  apres  midy 
les  jour  et  an  que  dessus,  et  a  ladicte  damoiselle  de  Seton  signe  ces  presentes. 


(Signe) 


mrie  rfzstf&i 


J.  ROGIER. 

G.  Charlier. 


(Extrait  des  minutes  de  G.  Charlier,  notaire  a.  Reims,  copie  par  A.  Duchenoy,  employe 
a  la  Bibliotheque  de  Reims,  et  certifie'  conforme.) 

[Copie  transcrite  par  M.  A.  Duchenoy  employe  a,  la  Bibliotheque  de  Reims,  et  transmise 
a.  M.  Seton  sur  sa  demande  le  4  Novembre  1893. 

H.  Jadart. 
Conservateur  adj.  de  la  Bibliotheque.  ] 


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ENGLISH   TRANSLATION   OF 


Abstract 
placed  in 
the  hands 
of  the  said 
Dozet  for 
the  said 
testatrix  in 
order  that 
the  same 
might  be 
sent  to 
Scotland. 


English  Translation  of  the  Will  of  Mary  Seton,  Maid  of  Honour 
to  Mary  Stuart,  drawn  up  before  a  notary  at  Rheims  on  the 
14th  April  1602,  and  revoked  on  the  7th  of  the  following  June. 

141/1  April  1602. 

Having  compeared  in  person  Damoiselle  Mary  Seton,  maid  of  honour  to  the  late 
Queen  of  Scotland,  living  in  the  abbey-house  of  St.  Peter  at  Rheims,  being  sick  and  laid  on 
a  bed  in  an  upper  chamber  of  the  said  house,  being  of  sound  sense,  good  memory  and 
intelligence,  as  it  appeared :  Considering  that  nothing  is  more  certain  than  death,  or  more  un- 
certain than  the  hour  of  the  same,  not  wishing  to  pass  from  this  mortal  scene  intestate,  but 
wishing,  with  all  her  heart,  to  provide  for  the  welfare  and  salvation  of  her  soul,  has  made 
her  Will  and  ordinance  of  her  last  wishes,  in  the  form  and  manner  which  follows,  by  can- 
celling, revoking,  and  annulling  every  other  Will  and  codicil  which  she  has  made  or  may  have 
made  hitherto,  wishing  this  her  present  Will  to  have  full  and  entire  effect  both  by  law  and 
custom. 

First,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  recommended  and  does  recommend  her  soul  to  God 
our  Creator,  and  to  the  holy  Virgin  Mary,  to  St.  Peter,  and  to  all  the  celestial  court  in 
Paradise. 

Wishes  her  debts  to  be  paid  and  acquitted  as  far  as  they  shall  appear,  by  the  hands  of 
the  executors  of  these  presents,  her  Will,  to  be  afterwards  named. 

Wishes  her  body,  after  death,  to  be  inhumed  and  interred  in  the  church  of  the  said 
St.  Peter,  in  such  place  as  it  shall  please  the  lady  of  the  said  St.  Peter,  the  nuns  and 
convent,  according  to  their  good  pleasure. 

Wishes  and  orders  that  her  interment  shall  be  conducted  by  the  said  convent  of  St. 
Peter,  the  funeral  services  and  obsequies  being  according  to  the  Will  and  as  the  executors  of 
the  said  present  Will  shall  advise,  for  which  interment,  funeral  services,  and  obsequies  the 
said  executors  shall  employ  up  to  the  sum  of  one  hundred  escus  sokil,  as  they  shall  advise 
for  the  best. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  given  and  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these 
presents,  to  Catherine  Hany,  her  servant,  the  sum  of  a  hundred  escus  sokil,  that  she  may 
return  to  Scotland,  to  the  house  of  Monsieur  du  Fayme  (?),  '  my  lord '  of  Scotland,  nephew  of 
the  said  lady  testatrix,  whom  she  requests  to  receive  the  said  Catherine,  to  feed,  lodge,  and 
keep  her  during  the  rest  of  her  life,  and  this  in  consideration  of  the  good  and  acceptable 
services  which  she  has  rendered  in  the  past  to  the  said  lady. 

Item,  the  said  testatrix  wishes  and  orders  that  there  shall  be  paid  to  Joanna,  her  other 
servant,  the  sum  of  thirty  escus  sokil,  as  much  for  the  services  which  she  has  rendered  in  the 
past  as  for  money  which  she  has  lent  to  her. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  wishes  that  there  shall  be  paid  to  John  Bourgeois,  apothecary, 
living  at  Rheims,  the  sum  of  twenty  or  twenty-five  escus  sokil,  if  her  accounts  for  medicine 
amount  to  so  much,  since  the  last  accounts  paid  by  her. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  wishes  that  there  shall  be  paid  to  Claude  Roussel,  a  citizen 
of  Paris,  the  sum  of  fifty  escus  sokil,  as  much  for  what  he  has  paid  and  disbursed  for  the  said 
lady  testatrix  in  the  course  of  a  lawsuit  which  she  has  in  the  Parliament,  in  Paris,  against  the 
lord  of  Brillebault,  as  for  what  the  said  Roussel  may  have  disbursed  in  the  journey  which  he 
made  to  Berry  to  execute  the  arrest  against  the  lord  of  Brillebault,  as  for  his  services  and 
absences  in  the  said  prosecution  and  journey. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  wishes  that,  in  like  manner,  there  shall  be  paid  to  M. 
Bonnefoy,  procurator  in  Parliament,  the  sum  of  eight  escus  sokil  which  are  due 
to  him  for  expenses  and  outlay  in  the  said  lawsuit. 

Item,  the  said  testatrix  has  given,  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these  presents, 
to  Sister  Frances  Pagesse,  nun  in  the  priory  of  Our  Lady  of  Pity  of  Joinville,  the  sum  of 
fifty  escus  sokil  to  provide  for  her  private  necessities,  and  in  order  to  participate  in  her  prayers 
and  supplications,  praying  the  lady  prioress  of  the  said  place  to  allow  the  said  Frances 
Pagesse  to  accept  the  said  gift  to  provide  for  her  as  has  been  said- 


MARY  SETON'S  TESTAMENT  963 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  given,  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these 
presents,  to  the  honourable  man,  Mre  Benoit  Dozet,  esleu  and  counsellor  for  our  lord  the  King, 
at  the  election  in  the  said  Rheims,  the  sum  of  a  hundred  escus  soleil,  as  much  to  reimburse 
him  for  money  advanced  by  him  for  the  said  lady  testatrix  in  the  said  lawsuit,  as  for  his 
labour  and  outlay  in  having  for  a  long  time  assisted  the  lady  testatrix  in  her  business. 

Hem,  the  said  lady  testatrix  wishes  and  orders  that  for  the  accomplishment  of  her  said 
present  Will  there  shall  be  sold  by  the  executors  of  the  present  Will,  if  that  can  be  done,  six 
hundred  and  twenty-five  livres  tournois  of  income  due  to  the  said  testatrix  by  the  lady 
Clarmonde  de  Fer,  widow  of  Mre  Francis  Thuret,  and  others  named  in  the  said  contract,  of 
income  of  the  said  constitution  of  income,  raising  the  principal  part  of  this  to  the  sum  of 
six  hundred  escus  soleil,  of  which,  there  being  a  reimbursement  made  of  one  hundred  escus 
soleil,  the  principal  part  of  the  same  being  only  five  hundred  crowns.  And  should  the  said 
executors  not  be  able  to  sell  the  said  income  of  six  hundred  and  twenty-five  livres  totirnois,  the 
legatees  and  debtors  shall  take,  from  the  hands  of  the  said  executors,  each  according  to  value 
of  the  sums  bequeathed  and  declared  to  be  due  to  the  above  named  of  the  said  income. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  given,  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these 
presents,  to  Dame  Margaret  Kirkcaldy,  nun  in  the  said  Abbey  of  St.  Peter,  all  and  each  of  the 
moveable  goods  belonging  to  her,  which  are  in  the  said  house  of  St.  Peter,  to  enjoy  and 
dispose  of  at  her  will,  entreating  the  said  lady  of  St.  Peter  to  allow  the  said  legacy  to  be 
accepted,  used,  and  disposed  of  by  the  said  Kirkcaldy,  as  she  shall  see  it  good  to  do,  except 
the  said  income  due  by  the  said  Clarmonde  destined  for  the  legacy  and  discharge  of  the 
debts  above  named. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  said  and  declared  that  there  is  due  to  her  by  Baptist  de 
la  Chastre,  Knight,  lord  of  Brevillebault,  the  sum  of  two  thousand  crowns,  by  contract  and 
decree  of  our  lords  of  the  Parliament  of  Paris,  together  with  the  interest  of  the  said  sum,  as 
is  shown  in  the  said  decree,  with  the  expenses  charged  and  to  be  charged  against  the  said 
lord  of  Brevillebault,  which  sums,  interest,  and  expenses,  and  all  the  rights,  claims,  hypothecs, 
and  constraint  that  this  testatrix  has  against  the  lord  of  Brevillebault,  and  others  belonging 
to  him,  she  has  given,  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these  presents,  to  the  illustrious 
princess,  Madame  Renee  of  Lorraine,  formerly  abbess  of  St.  Peter  in  the  said  Rheims, 
in  consideration  of  the  great  favour,  assistance,  and  benefit  which  she  has  received  during 
the  sixteen  or  seventeen  years  which  she  has  spent  in  the  said  St.  Peter,  from  the  late  and 
very  praiseworthy  lady,  Madame  Renee  of  Lorraine,  great-aunt  of  the  said  lady  abbess, 
and  during  her  life  abbess  of  the  said  Abbey,  lately  deceased,  on  condition,  however, 
that  when  the  said  lady  Renee  of  Lorraine,  at  present  abbess  of  the  said  St.  Peter,  shall 
have  received  the  said  two  thousand  crowns,  interest,  and  expenses,  the  said  lady  testatrix 
very  humbly  entreats  her  to  use  the  said  two  thousand  crowns  as  follows,  viz.,  to  pay 
such  a  sum  as  may  be  needful  to  the  Orders  of  Mendicants  and  Minims  in  the  said 
Rheims,  to  purchase  for  each  of  the  said  Mendicants  fifteen  livres  tournois,  and  for  the 
said  Minims  twenty  livres  tournois,  to  oblige  each  of  them  to  say  and  to  celebrate,  each 
of  them  in  perpetuity,  a  service  of  three  high  masses  and  vigils  in  the  church  of  the  said 
Abbey  of  St.  Peter,  for  the  repose  of  the  soul  of  this  lady  testatrix,  unless  the  said  Minims 
shall  say  the  said  service  in  their  church,  and  shall  be  bound  to  supply  the  four  Mendicant 
and  Minim  Orders  with  the  lights  suitable  for  the  said  services,  of  which  mention  will 
be  made  in  the  said  constitutions  of  income,  to  which  the  said  lady  of  St.  Peter  shall  be 
called  to  confirm  the  contracts. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix,  in  order  that  the  said  services  be  not  omitted  to  be 
celebrated  according  to  the  intention  of  the  said  lady  testatrix,  entreats  the  said  lady  that 
the  said  services  may  be  said  during  Lent,  the  said  testatrix  entreats  the  said  lady  to  deliver 
such  a  sum  as  shall  be  suitable  to  the  said  Dozet  to  purchase  twenty  livres  tournois  of  income 
to  belong  to  the  said  Dozet  and  his  children  and  posterity,  on  condition  that  he  and  his  will 
see  that  the  said  services  shall  be  celebrated  according  to  the  intention  of  the  said  testatrix 
above  declared,  and  the  said  Mendicants  and  Minims  shall  advise  the  said  Dozet  and  his 
of  the  day  of  the  said  services,  to  be  present  at  them,  and  which  income  of  twenty  livres 
tournois  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  given  and  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these 
presents,  to  the  said  Dozet,  to  be  enjoyed  and  disposed  of  by  him  and  his  heirs  as  their  own 
property,  for  the  ends  above  named. 


964 


ENGLISH   TRANSLATION  OF 


Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  also  entreats  the  said  lady  of  St.  Peter  to  deliver  such  a  sum 
as  shall  be  suitable  to  purchase  the  sum  of  a  hundred  livres  tournois  of  income,  that  the  said 
lady  testatrix  gives  and  bequeaths  by  these  presents  to  the  infirmary  of  the  said  Abbey  of  St. 
Peter,  to  be  used  in  perpetuity  by  the  lady  superintendent  for  the  necessities  of  food,  fire-wood, 
and  other  things  which  the  invalid  nuns  in  this  infirmary  may  need,  prohibiting  the  said  hundred 
livres  tournois  from  being  converted  or  put  to  any  other  use  than  for  the  necessities  of  the 
said  invalid  nuns,  which  sums,  for  these  purposes,  shall  be  given  to  the  said  lady  superintendent 
by  the  lady  storekeeper  of  the  said  Abbey,  on  condition  that  the  said  lady  superintendent  shall 
report  the  state  of  expense  each  year  at  the  office  of  the  said  Abbey,  the  said  lady  being  present, 
or  to  the  said  lady  alone.  From  which  sum  shall  be  taken  four  livres  tournois,  to  be  given  each 
year  to  the  four  canons,  chaplains,  and  clerk  of  the  said  church  of  St.  Peter,  to  celebrate  a 
service  of  three  high  masses  and  vigils  in  the  said  church  of  St.  Peter  for  the  repose  of  the 
soul  of  the  late  Mary  Stuart,  Queen  of  Scotland,  during  her  life,  and  for  the  repose  of  the  soul 
of  the  said  testatrix,  which  sum  of  four  livres  tournois  shall  be  delivered  by  the  said  lady  super- 
intendent each  year  to  the  said  canons,  chaplains,  and  clerk,  on  the  day  of  the  said  service,  as 
it  shall  please  the  said  lady  to  order  its  being  said  during  Lent  or  at  any  other  time  according 
to  the  good  pleasure  of  the  said  lady,  together  with  the  said  services  of  the  said  four  Orders 
of  Mendicants,  for  which  the  said  convent  shall  be  bound  to  supply  only  the  ornaments. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  also  entreats  the  said  lady  of  St.  Peter  to  deliver  such  a  sum 
as  shall  be  needed,  in  order  to  provide  the  sum  of  ten  livres  tournois  of  income  to  dame  Anne 
Danquoy,  and  ten  livres  tournois  of  income  to  dame  Mary  Mathei,  nuns  in  the  said  Abbey, 
which  the  said  testatrix  has  bequeathed  and  given  to  them  to  enjoy  during  their  life,  in  order 
to  oblige  them  to  pray  to  God  for  the  soul  of  this  testatrix.  And  after  the  decease  of  the  said 
Danquoy  and  Mathei,  the  said  incomes  shall  belong  to  the  said  Dozet  and  his  heirs,  or 
those  entitled  to  enjoy  these  two  incomes,  instantly  and  unconditionally,  on  the  decease  of 
the  said  Danquoy  and  Mathei,  or  of  one  of  them,  to  which  Dozet,  his  said  heirs,  or  those  having 
a  title,  this  testatrix  has  given,  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  the  said  two  incomes  as 
above  for  the  great  obligations  which  she  has  to  the  said  Dozet  for  having  continually  assisted 
her  in  her  business  and  succoured  her  in  her  necessities. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  also  entreats  the  said  lady  to  deliver  such  a  sum  as  shall  be 
suitable  in  order  to  secure  a  hundred  livres  tournois  of  income,  to  be  the  letters  of  constitution 
put  into  the  hands  of  the  said  Dozet,  in  order  to  employ  the  said  sum  in  causing  to  be 
celebrated,  each  day,  in  perpetuity,  a  low  mass,  in  the  church  of  the  said  St.  Peter,  for  the 
repose  and  wellbeing  of  the  soul  of  the  said  testatrix,  which  mass  she  desires  and  entreats 
Mre  Anthony  Personnet  to  say  and  to  celebrate,  so  long  as  he  may  have  no  charge  or  benefice 
which  may  prevent  him  from  celebrating  the  said  mass,  and  in  case  he  cannot  conveniently 
celebrate  the  said  mass,  another  churchman  shall  be  provided  by  the  said  Dozet,  as  he 
may  advise. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  entreats  also  my  said  lady  to  furnish  such  a  sum  as  shall  be 
suitable  to  purchase  sixty  livres  tournois  of  income,  and  trie  constitution  of  the  same  to  be  put 
into  the  hands  of  the  said  Dozet  to  receive  and  to  use  the  said  sixty  livres  tournois  of  income 
in  teaching  a  trade  to  three  poor  girls,  and  for  the  first  year  the  said  lady  testatrix  wishes  the 
said  sixty  livres  tournois  to  be  applied  for  the  niece  of  Sister  Mary  Merresse,  for  the  niece  of 
Joanna,  servant  of  the  said  testatrix,  and  for  the  daughter  of  John  Ytasse,  and  for  the  other 
years  to  such  poor  girls  as  the  said  Dozet  and  his  heirs  shall  advise  for  the  best. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  also  entreats  my  said  lady  to  employ  such  a  sum  as  shall  be 
suitable  to  purchase  twenty  livres  tournois  of  income,  which  she  has  given  and  bequeathed  by 
these  presents  to  the  Cordeliers  of  the  said  Rheims,  on  condition  of  celebrating  each  year,  and 
in  perpetuity  in  their  church,  a  service  of  three  high  masses  and  vigils  for  the  salvation  of  the 
soul  of  the  said  lady  testatrix,  and  the  ornaments  and  lights  shall  be  furnished  by  the  said 
Cordelier  nuns. 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  given,  bequeathed,  gives  and  bequeaths,  by  these 
presents,  to  my  said  lady  of  St.  Peter,  the  surplus  of  the  said  two  thousand  crowns,  interest 
and  principal,  and  she  entreats  all  the  said  legatees  together  of  the  said  funds  to  lend  a 
hand  in  recovering  the  said  sums,  also  requesting  the  said  Dozet  to  assist  them  in  this  pursuit, 
providing  them  with  funds  to  make  it,  by  my  said  lady  and  legatees,  each  according  to  the 
value  of  their  legacy. 


MARY  SETON'S  TESTAMENT  965 

Item,  the  said  lady  testatrix  has  given  up,  for  the  above  purposes,  all  her  deeds  and 
prosecutions  and  hypothecs  to  my  said  lady,  even  to  the  annulling  of  the  agreement  made 
with  the  said  Lord  of  Brevillebault,  in  default  of  payment,  and  to  dispose  and  alienate  the 
rights  mentioned  in  the  said  contract  to  such  person  or  persons  as  shall  seem  good  to  her, 
excepting  always  to  employ  by  my  said  lady  the  money  or  effects  as  above,  and  without  my 
said  lady  being  disturbed  about  the  delivery  of  the  said  sums  until  she  has  received  them. 

Item,  the  said  testatrix  has  said  and  declared,  that  although  she  has  left  the  moveables  in 
her  room,  wardrobe,  and  cabinet  to  lady  Margaret  Kirkcaldy  to  dispose  of  according  to  her 
will,  nevertheless  the  said  testatrix  wishes  and  means  that  the  said  Kircaldy  shall  distribute 
the  said  moveables  according  as  she  has  settled  it  verbally,  of  which  she  wishes  the  said 
Kircaldy  to  be  believed  on  her  simple  word. 

And  in  order  that  this  present  Will  may  be  accomplished  and  put  into  execution  from 
point  to  point  according  to  its  form  and  tenor,  the  same  lady  testatrix  has  named  and  chosen 
as  executors  of  the  same  the  venerable  and  discreet  Mre  Anthony  of  Beauchesne,  priest,  canon, 
and  subchanter  in  the  church  of  Rheims,  and  the  said  Mre  Benoit  Dozet,  to  whom  and  to 
each  of  them  she  has  given,  and  gives,  full  power,  '  puissance,'  and  authority,  and  special 
mandate  by  this  present  Will  to  accomplish,  by  placing  in  their  hands,  to  do  this,  all  and  each 
of  her  goods  for  the  full  and  entire  accomplishment  of  the  same,  to  which  de  Beauchesne  the 
said  lady  has  given  and  bequeathed  her  time-piece  for  the  trouble  of  the  said  testamentary 
execution.  Which  present  Will  has  been  named,  dictated,  and  devised,  one  word  after  another, 
by  the  said  lady  testatrix  and  read  and  re-read  to  her  by  one  of  us  notaries,  the  other  being 
present,  which  she  has  said  she  understood  well,  and  that  it  is  her  last  wish.  This  was  done 
in  the  said  Abbey-house  of  St.  Peter,  in  the  afternoon  on  the  fourteenth  day  of  April,  in  the 
year  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  two,  before  us,  notaries-royal.  And  the  said  lady  testatrix 
has  signed  these  presents.  (Signed)         Marie  de  Seton. 

J.  Rogier. 
G.  Charlier. 

yth  June  1602. 

On  this  day,  the  seventh  of  June  in  the  said  year  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  two, 
there  compeared  in  person  before  us,  notaries  of  the  King  our  lord,  heritors  in  his  bailiwick 
of  Vermandois,  living  at  Rheims,  the  undersigned  damoiselle  Mary  of  Seton,  named  testatrix 
in  the  Will  before  transcribed,  and  who  has  said  and  declared  that  she  has  revoked,  and  revokes 
by  these  presents,  her  said  Will  before  transcribed,  that  she  wishes  and  desires  that  it  should 
be  of  no  effect  or  value,  wishes  that  it  be  not  used  in  any  thing  or  manner,  and  that  it  may  be 
and  may  remain  null  and  void,  and  as  a  thing  not  having  happened,  and  she  has  revoked  and 
revokes  by  these  presents,  as  is  said,  all  its  points,  form,  and  tenor.  Of  which,  and  of  which 
revocation  and  things  above  said,  the  said  lady  Mary  of  Seton  has  required  from  us  the 
present  deed  to  be  of  use  and  value  in  reasonable  time  and  place. 

Done  in  the  Abbey-house  of  the  said  St.  Peter,  afternoon,  on  the  above  named  day  and 
year,  and  the  said  lady  of  Seton  has  signed  these  presents. 

(Signed)        Marie  de  Seton. 
J.  Rogier. 
G.  Charlier. 

[Copy  transcribed  by  M.  A.  Duchenoy,  employed  in  the  Library  of  Rheims,  and 
transmitted  to  Mr.  Seton,  at  his  request,  4th  November  1893. 

(Signed)     H.  Jadart, 

Assistant  Keeper  of  the  Library. ] 


966 


EDINBURGH   COUNCIL  RECORDS 


13.  Extracts  from  the  Edinburgh  Council  Records  during  the 
Provostship  of  Alexander,  First  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 

[Referred  to  at  page  645.] 

1598,  Nov.  7.  The  which  day  Henry  Nisbet,  Provost,  the  Bailies,  etc.,  being  convened 
for  election  of  the  Provost,  Bailies,  Dean  of  Guild,  and  Treasurer  for  the  year  to  come,  upon 
report  made  to  them  by  my  Lord  Provost  of  His  Majesty's  will  and  mind  declared  to  his 
Lordship  that  day  in  presence  of  the  Lords  of  Council  and  Session,  they  agreed  and  ordained 
that  my  Lord  Alexander  Lord  Vrquhart  and  Fyvie,  President,  be  put  upon  the  Leets  of  the 
Provost  in  place  of  the  name  of  John  Robertson,  and  the  said  John's  name  deleted  forth 
thereof. — Vol.  x.  fol.  210. 

The  same  day  Alexander  Lord  Vrquhart  and  Fyvie,  President,  is  made  burgess  and  guild 
brother  of  this  burgh  by  right  of  the  late  George  Lord  Seytoun  his  father,  burgess  and  guild 
brother  of  the  same,  and  gave  his  burgess  and  guild  oath  as  use  is. — Vol.  x.  fol.  210. 

The  same  day  '  Electis  creattis  and  constitutes  Alexander  Lord  Vrquhart  and  Fyvie 
Prouest  of  this  burght  for  the  yeir  to  cum,'  John  Moreson,  William  Hamilton,  John  Lowry, 
and  James  Forman,  bailies  ;  David  Williamson,  Dean  of  Guild ;  and  Robert  Hereis,  Treasurer. 
The  said  Lord  Provost,  James  Forman,  and  David  Williamson  compearing,  accepted  the 
said  offices,  and  gave  their  solemn  oaths  for  due  administration  of  the  same. — VoL  x. 
fol.  210. 

1598,  Nov.  8.  A  list  of  the  new  Council  is  given  on  this  date,  beginning  '  Prouest, 
Alexander  Lord  Fyvie,  President,'  etc.  etc. — Vol.  x.  fol.  211. 

The  said  Lord  Fyvie's  name  appears  frequently  as  Provost  in  annis  1598-9,  noticeably 
on  special  occasions,  such  as  choosing  commissioners  to  the  Convention  of  Estates,  etc. 

1598,  Nov.  11.  The  which  day  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie  and  Vrquhart,  President  of  the 
College  of  Justice,  and  Provost,  the  Bailies,  etc.,  being  convened  in  council,  compeared 
Captain  John  Ramsay  and  confessed  his  offence  done  to  Henry  Nisbet,  late  Provost,  and 
submitted  himself  to  the  Council's  will,  etc. — Vol.  x.  fol.  211. 

1599,  March  6.  The  Bailies  and  most  part  of  the  Council  being  convened,  grant  unto 
Mr.  George  Seytoun  the  escheat  goods  of  the  late  James  Ramsay,  pertaining  to  the  Town 
through  his  conviction  and  execution  before  them  for  slaughter,  and  for  what  he  gets  more 
than_^io8  owing  to  himself,  he  is  to  account  for  to  the  Treasurer. — Vol.  x.  fol.  226. 

1599,  Sept.  28.  This  day  elect  the  persons  following  to  be  on  the  Leets  of  the  new 
Provost,  Bailies,  etc.,  which  should  be  chosen  to  serve  in  the  said  offices,  to  wit : — Provost — 
Alexander  Lord  Fyvie,  President,  William  Lyttili,  William  Naper ;  Bailies — Thomas  Fyschear, 
etc.  etc.  etc. — Vol.  x.  fol.  250. 

1599,  Octr.  10.  The  which  day  the  Bailies  and  one  part  of  the  Council  being  convened, 
compeared  Alexr.  Inglis,  servitor  to  my  Lord  Provost,  and  in  name  of  '  ane  nobill  Lady 
Deyme  Issobell  Hamiltoun  Lady  Setoun,'  delivered  to  William  Hamilton,  Bailie,  the  sum  of 
;£8o  as  for  the  silver  duty  of  the  teinds  of  Easter  and  Wester  Barnis,  pertaining  to  the  Abbey 
of  Haddington,  of  the  crops  and  years  of  God  1595,  1596,  1597,  and  1598.  Discharge  the 
said  noble  Lady,  her  heirs,  etc.,  of  the  said  sum. — Vol.  x.  fol.  250. 

1599,  Nov.  7.  The  Bailies  and  most  part  of  the  Council  being  convened  for  confirma- 
tion of  the  charter  made  by  James  Abernethie  in  Saltoun  to  Sir  William  Seytoun,  of  the  lands 
of  Gilstoun  holding  of  the  Prebendaries  of  the  Trinity  College,  grant  the  composition  thereof 
to  the  said  Sir  William  gratis  for  the  Town's  part. — Vol.  x.  fol.  253. 

1599,  Nov.  10.  The  which  day  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie,  President  of  the  College  of 
Justice,  and  Provost  of  this  burgh,  with  the  Bailies,  Dean  of  Guild,  etc.,  being  convened  in 
Council  for  electing  of  the  new  Provost,  Bailies,  Dean  of  Guild,  Treasurer,  etc.,  for  the  year 
to  come,  it  was  reported  by  my  Lord  Provost,  That  it  was  His  Majesty's  will  and  mind  that 
(sic)  Earl  of  Montrose,  Chancellor,  should  be  put  in  the  Leet  of  the  Provost  of  this 
burgh  in  place  of  William  Lyttili,  to  which  the  said  Provost  and  Bailies  consented,  and  pro- 
ceeding to  the  election  they  voted  and  elected  of  new  the  said  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie  to  be 
Provost  for  the  year  to  come,  who  compearing  accepted  the  said  office  and  gave  his  oath  de 
fideli,  etc. — Vol.  x.  fol.  253. 


FROM    1598  TO   1608  967 

1600,  Augt.  6.  The  which  day  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie,  President,  Provost  of  this  burgh, 
the  Bailies,  etc.  etc. : — My  Lord  Provost  exhibited  and  caused  to  be  read  before  them,  and  in 
presence  of  Mr.  Robert  Bruce,  Mr.  James  Balfour,  and  (sic),  Ministers  of  this  burgh, '  ane 

Lettre  missive  direct  from  Falkland  to  his  Lordship  be  David  Moyes,  writer,  declayring  at  lentht 
the  forme  and  maner  the  treasonabill  conspiracie  intendit  be  umquhile  (sic)  Erie  of 

Gowrie  and  Mr.  Alexander  his  brother  for  murthering  of  His  Majestie  in  the  said  Lordis  hous 
zisterday  after  none  the  fyft  of  this  moneth,  and  how  His  Majestie  be  the  providence  of  God 
escaippet  the  samyn ;  and  als  producit  ane  uther  Lettre  presentit  be  Sir  Patrik  Murray  dirict 
be  His  Majestie  to  my  Lord  Chancellar  anent  the  sam  mater,  and  bering  ane  command  to 
the  Ministrie  to  conveyne  thair  flokis  and  prayse  God  for  His  Majesties  delyverance ;  and  als 
that  the  castell  suld  shuitt  thair  haill  ordnance,  and  the  haill  bellis  of  this  burght  suld  regne  for 
joy  of  His  Majesties  preservatioun.  Quhilk  beand  red  and  publist  to  the  said  Ministeris 
beand  personallie  present  thay  tuik  thame  to  thair  advysement.  And  the  said  Provest, 
Baillies  and  Counsall  for  thair  pairtis  thanket  God  for  His  Majesties  preservatioun,  and 
ordanit  that  the  haill  bellis  of  this  burght  suld  be  ringand,  bayne  fyres  sett  furth ;  and 
appoyntes  Thomas  Fyschear  and  Thomas  Geddes  to  pas  to  the  Secreitt  Counsall  and  declair 
to  thame  the  Townis  mynd,  and  to  inquyre  quhen  the  said  bellis  suld  ring  and  quhow  lang.' 
—Vol.  xi.  fol.  8. 

1600,  Augt.  6.  The  same  day  the  said  Provost,  Bailies,  etc.,  being  convened  in  the 
afternoon,  ordain  Thomas  Fyschear  and  Andrew  Scott  'be  direct'  to  Falkland  to  His  Majesty 
with  their  missive  to  congratulate  His  Majesty's  deliverance,  require  His  Majesty's  'ower- 
cuming,'  and  to  offer  the  Town's  service.— Vol.  xi.  fol.  8. 

1600,  Augt.  8.  The  Bailies  and  Council,  understanding  that  His  Majesty  is  to  come  over 
the  water  on  Monday  next,  find  it  expedient  that  the  whole  Council  meet  His  Majesty  in 
Leith  in  their  best  armour,  and  ordain  that  the  neighbours  be  warned  to  this  effect  under  pain 
of  ^20.— Vol.  xi.  fol.  8. 

1601,  Nov.  3.  Which  day  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie,  President  of  the  Council  and  Provost 
of  this  burgh,  with  the  Bailies,  Council,  and  Deacons  of  Crafts,  with  Council  old  and  new, 
being  convened  for  electing  of  the  Provost,  etc.,  by  a  plurality  of  votes  elected  the  persons 
under  written  from  the  Leets  made  on  25th  September  last,  to  wit,  the  said  Alexander  Lord 
Fyvie  to  be  Provost  for  the  year  to  come,  who  being  removed  and  compearing  accepted  the 
said  office,  and  gave  his  oath,  etc.     List  of  new  Council  given  same  day. — Vol.  xi.  fol.  62. 

1602,  Septr.  21.  The  said  day  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie,  President,  Provost  of  this  burgh, 
with  the  Council,  being  convened,  there  was  presented  a  letter  from  His  Majesty  desiring  that 
the  Town  should  provide  fifty  '  Hakbuters'  against  the  28th  September  instant,  to  attend  upon 
His  Majesty  toward  the  west  borders  during  the  time  of  his  remaining  there.  The  Provost 
and  Council  being  advised  therewith,  resolved  that  they  would  not  take  upon  them  the 
burden  of  the  whole  burghs ;  and  albeit  his  suit  was  not  reasonable,  yet  they  were  ready  to 
pay  their  own  part  of  50  men  for  2  months,  amounting  to  1200  merks,  and  appoint  my  Lord 
Provost,  the  Bailies,  John  Marjoribanks,  George  Heriot,  and  Gilbert  Primrose,  to  pass  to  His 
Majesty's  Treasurer  and  report  answer. — Vol.  xi.  fol.  101. 

1604,  Aug.  29.  The  which  day  the  Bailies,  etc.,  being  convened,  ordain  Ninian  M'Morane 
and  James  Formane  to  pass  to  '  my  Lord  Chancellar  and  Lordis  of  Secreit  Counsell,  who  ar 
to  convene  the  morne  at  Perthe,'  and  to  show  their  Lordships  the  state  of  Henry  Nisbet  and 
his  disease,  whereby  he  is  not  able  to  pass  into  England ;  and  desire  that  their  Lordships 
would  give  the  Town  liberty  to  elect  one  of  the  town  to  supply  his  place  in  England  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Commissioners  appointed  by  the  burghs  for  the  matter  of  the  union  of  both 
Realms. — Vol.  xi.  fol.  155. 

1605,  March  1.  The  which  day  'Alexander  Erie  of  Dunfermline  Lord  Fyvie  and  Provost 
of  this  burgh,  with  the  Baillies,  Deyne  of  Gild,  Thesaurer  and  Counsall  for  the  maist  pairt 
beand  convenit,  the  said  Lord  Provest  acceptit  his  office  and  gaif  his  ayth  thairof,  and  thair- 
efter  the  said  Provest,  Baillies,  and  Counsall  ratefeyet  and  approvet  the  Actis  maid  of  befoir 
ordaining  that  the  Magistratts  and  Counsall  suld  convene  and  sitt  in  Counsall  cled  with 
Gownis,  and  ordanit  the  sam  to  be  observet  in  tyme  coming,  and  to  begyn  the  first  of  Aprile 
nixt.' — Vol.  xi.  fol.  169. 

1605,  May  8.  The  which  day  the  Bailies,  Treasurer,  and  Council  presently  convened, 
ordain  John  Robertson,  Dean  of  Guild,  to  cause  repair  the  Provost's  seat  in  the  Council 


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EDINBURGH   COUNCIL   RECORDS 


Loft,1  and  to  take  away  '  the  forme  and  plaice  ane  chyre  there,  and  mak  ane  plaice  before  to 
lay  his  Lordschippis  cuscheoun  upoun,  as  alswa  to  mak  ane  clayth  of  velvett  to  cover  the 
sam.' — Vol.  xi.  fol.  174. 

1606,  May  21.  The  which  day  'ane  nobill  and  potent  Lord  Alexander  Erie  of  Dun- 
fermling  Lord  Fyvie  and  Urquhart  Greitt  Chancellare  of  Scotland  and  Provest  of  Edinburghe,' 
the  Bailies,  etc.,  being  convened  in  council  anent  the  Supplication  given  in  by  James  Kinloch, 
Deacon  of  the  Chirurgeons,  against  John  Makilrow  and  others,  Barbers,  representing  that  it 
is  statute  and  ordained  among  them  that  no  person  of  their  craft  who  is  but  a  simple  barber, 
and  not  otherwise  qualified  in  the  art  of  Chirurgery,  shall  in  nowise  use  any  points  of  Chirurgery : 
The  said  Provost,  Bailies,  etc.,  Decern  and  Ordain  the  said  Barbers  to  desist  and  cease  from 
exercising  any  point  of  the  art  of  Chirurgery  within  the  liberties  of  this  burgh,  but  only  to 
'  cow  (dtp),  schaif,  wasche,  and  to  mak  aquavitie  allannerlie,'  and  to  act  themselves  in  the 
Town's  Books  to  that  effect. — Vol.  xi.  fol.  202. 

1607,  May  1.  James  Nisbet,  etc.,  Bailies,  the  Dean  of  Guild,  with  the  Council,  'Under- 
standing that  it  is  the  custome  of  maist  renownit  citeis  to  haif  the  effigie  or  Statue  of  thair 
Prince  sett  up  upoun  the  maist  publict  pairts  of  thair  citie,  and  the  Provest  Baillies  and 
Counsall  having  now  put  to  thair  hand  to  the  reparatioun  of  thair  Nether  Bow  of  purpost  to 
sett  ane  Steipill  and  ane  knok  thairupoun,  Thairfore  thai  haif  thocht  expedient  and  ordanet  to 
affixe  and  sett  up  upoun  the  maist  publict  and  honorabill  pairt  of  the  said  Port  the  image  or 
Statue  of  His  Majestie  gravin  in  maist  prynclie  and  decent  forme  in  remembrance  of  His 
Majestie  and  of  thair  sincere  affectioun  borne  unto  him.'  And  to  that  effect  they  give  com- 
mission to  the  said  Bailies,  Dean  of  Guild,  etc.,  to  consult  and  advise  how  the  same  may  be 
most  honourably  and  perfectly  done. — Vol.  xi.  fol.  227. 

1608,  Sept.  28.  The  which  day  compeared  Mr.  Patrick  Galloway,  Mr.  John  Hall,  and 
Mr.  Peter  Hewatt,  Ministers  of  this  burgh,  and  produced  the  King's  Majesty's  Letter  under 
written,  directed  to  the  Bailies  and  Council,  who  ordained  the  same  to  be  registered  in  their 
Council  Book,  whereof  the  tenor  follows  :■ — ■ 

'  James  R.  Trustie  and  weill  belovet,  We  greitt  you  weill :  Quhairas  it  hes  bene  formerlie 
appoyntet  by  Statute  of  Parliament,  that  every  Burght  suld  mak  choice  of  thair  Magistratts 
within  thameselffis  that  so  the  administratioun  of  the  Toun  suld  be  committet  to  none  bot 
suche  as  being  of  the  estaitt  of  burgessis  had  the  knawlege  and  skill  in  those  meaynes  quhilk 
may  enriche  any  borrough  or  citie  quhiche  is  tradeing  and  merchandice,  and  thairfore  We 
haif  thocht  meitt  speciallie  to  will  and  command  you  to  mak  choice  for  your  Provest  this  year 
(of)  some  one  of  youre  ordinare  burgessis  of  best  worth  and  qualitie  according  to  the  forme  of 
other  electiounes  usit  all  amangis  yow'before  the  late  corruptioun  of  the  chesing  of  nobilmen, 
whiche  we  hold  to  haif  done  muche  harm  to  the  estaitt  of  the  cities  and  borrowes  of  that  our 
Kingdome,  and  whiche  We  intend  to  haif  generallie  remediet  through  that  hole  (sic)  king- 
dome  :  And  thairfore  our  speciall  pleasour  will  and  command  is  that  yow  at  this  your  electioun 
mak  choice  of  one  of  your  awin  burgessis  for  your  Provest,  and  thairat  have  a  speciall  cairand 
regairde  that  none  be  putt  upoun  any  of  the  Lyttes  of  any  sorte  of  Magistracie  within  this 
burgh  bot  suche  as  ar  knawin  to  be  weill  affected  in  Religioun,  without  the  leist  presumptioun 
of  any  suspitioun  to  the  contrair,  as  ye  will  answer  thairupoun  at  your  perill :  And  so  we  bid 
yow  fairweill  from  our  Court  at  Hamptoun  the  24  of  September  1608.' — Vol.  xi.  fol.  268. 

1608,  Sept.  30.    The  same  day  the  Bailies  and  Council,  old  and  new,  presently  convened, 
they  elected  the  persons  under  written  to  be  upon  the  Leets  of  the  Provost,  Bailies,  etc.,  to 
wit : — Provost — Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  Lord  Chancellor,  Sir  John  Arnott  of 
(sic),  William  Naper.' — Vol.  x.  fol.  269. 

1608,  Oct.  4.  The  which  day  Alexander  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  Lord  Fyvie  and  Urquhart, 
Great  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  and  Provest  of  this  burgh,  the  Bailies,  etc.,  with  the  Council, 
being  convened  for  electing  the  Provost,  Bailies,  etc.,  of  the  said  burgh,  who  should  occupy 
the  offices  for  the  year  to  come  (sic). — Vol.  xi.  fol.  269. 

[Note. — On  fol.  270  follows  a  List  of  the  new  Council,  containing  all  the  names  except 
that  of  the  Provost,  which  is  left  blank,  thus: — 'Provest  .'] 

1608,  Nov.  15.  The  Bailies  and  Council,  old  and  new,  being  convened, '  Understanding 
that  the  King's  Majestie  is  hielie  offendit  at  the  Toun  for  the  electioun  of  the  Provest  maid 


1  Fol.  188,  'in  the  Kirk.' 


CHANCELLOR  SETON  969 

the  fourt  of  October  last  and  takis  the  sam  in  evill  pairt  as  nocht  agreane  with  His  Majesties 
Lettre  direct  unto  tharae  and  registrat  the  xxviij  of  September  last,  and  that  my  Lord 
Chancellare  than  electit  Provest  will  nocht  accept  the  office,  and  is  content  that  thai  mak  new 
electioun :  Thairfore  the  said  Baillies,  Deyne  of  Gild,  Thesaurer  and  Counsall  awld  and  new 
with  the  Deykins  of  Crafts  hes  furth  of  the  Lyttes  of  the  Provest  maid  the  last  of  September 
foresaid  electit  creatt  and  constitutit  Sir  Jhonne  Arnott  of  Bersik  Knight,  Thesaurer  Deputt 
of  Scotland,  thair  Provest  for  the  year  to  cum,  quha  comperand  acceptit  the  said  office  and 
gaif  his  ayth  de  fide/i,'  etc.  Further,  they  appoint  James  Nisbet  and  William  Rig,  merchants, 
their  commissioners,  to  pass  to  His  Majesty,  and  excuse  themselves,  and  show  His  Majesty 
their  reasons  moving  them  to  their  former  election ;  and  to  satisfy  and  pacify  His  Majesty  in 
all  things,  to  show  of  their  new  election  presently  made  for  obedience  of  His  Majesty's 
goodwill  and  pleasure. — Vol.  xi.  fol.  274. 

Vol.  xii.  fol.  ia. — The  first  entry  in  this  volume  is  a  list  of  the  Town  Council  for  the 
year  1608-9,  as  follows: — 'At  Michaelmes  1608.  Provest — Sir  Jhonn  Arnott  of  Bersik, 
Knycht,  Thesaurer  Deputt  of  Scotland ;  Baillies — Thomas  Fyschear,'  etc.  etc.  Then  follows 
the  name  of  Dean  of  Guild  and  Treasurer,  after  which  : — '  Counsall — Alexander  Erie  of 
Dunfermling  Lord  Fyvie  and  Urquhart  Greitt  Chancellare  of  Scotland,  and  in  his  Lordschippis 
absence  Alexander  Peirsoun  merchant,'  etc.  etc. 

[The  foresaid  Sir  John  Arnot  appears  to  have  continued  Provost  up  to  1615.] 


14.  Notice  of  Alexander  Seton,  First  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  in 
Georgii  Con/EI  De  duplici  statu  Religionis  apiid  Scotos,  Romse, 
Typis  Vaticanis,  mdcxxviii.  ;  communicated  by  Sir  Thomas  Dawson- 
Brodie,  Bart. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  655.] 

Dum  comites  exularet,  vix  dici  potest  in  quantam  audaciam  insolens  ministrorum 
nequitia  creuerit,  quod  nulla  superesse  in  Scotia  potetiam  putaret  qua  impia?  temeritatis 
gradus  sisti  posset.  Sic  ejectis  regno  orthodoxa?  fidei  strenuis  propugnatoribus,  ad  ca?teros 
opprimendos  sese  accingunt.  Hac  in  parte  dum  regem  qui  plures  catholicos  publicis  ac 
privatis  adhibebat  consiliis,  expectatione  sua  inuenissent  segniorem,  quasi  furiis  perciti  templa, 
fora,  et  plateas  seditiosis  querelis  impleuere.  Regem  purioris  euangelii  pertasum,  Papismo  jam 
palam  fauere :  frustra  i?i  popido  eradiendo  laborare  verbi  Dei  ministros,  frustra  vitas  suas 
Papistarum  inuidia  obijcere :  quos  rex  non  modo  vinere  sineret,  sed  pracipuis  dignitatibus 
ornaret.  Se  Deum  hominesque  testes  vocare,  fidei  causa  non  a  se,  sed  d  rege  prodita.  Unus  erat 
Alexander  Setonius  contra  quern  comune  et  consentiens  ministroru  omniu  odium  apparebat, 
ac  querela?  non  obscurse  spargebantur.  Hie,  ex  nobilissima  et  Catholica  Setonioru  Comitu 
familia,  Roma?  multis  annis  vixit,  virtutis  no  minus,  quam  pietatis  studiosus,  in  patriam  redux, 
cu  generis  nobilitate,  ac  prudetia?  laude  clarus  esset,  Regi  in  paucis  charus  fuit.  A  quo 
opuletis  praediis  auctus  supremi  Senatus  Prases  primum,  turn  magnus  Scotia?  Cacellarius 
euasit  in  eo  munere  tantam  justitia?  integritatisque  famam  adeptus  est,  ut  morientis  funus  luctu 
publico  ornatum  fuerit.  Hie,  ante  annos  quatuor,  dum  animam  ageret,  coram  frequentissima 
procerum  multitudine,  ipsisque  adeo  inspectantibus  et  audientibus  hasreticis  nonnullis,  et 
ex  ministrorum  factione  primariis,  orthodoxam  veritatem  palam  et  constanter  professus 
asseruit,  se  nihil  in  vita  a?que  poenitendum  egisse,  quam  quod  remissiorem  et  minus  acrem  in 
vera  fide  profitenda,  ut  Principi  more  gereret,  se  exhibuerit.  Ha?c  no  sine  lachrymis 
loquutus,  adstates  rogavit,  ut  testes  essent,  ipsum  in  Catholica  Romana  Ecclesia  mori.  Qua? 
addidi  ut  Scoti  mei  ilium  virum  imitentur  morientem,  quem  viventem  tantopere  mirati  sunt. 
Ego  interea  ad  Puritanos  revertor  :  quorum  effra?nam  audaciam  dum  ego  narro,  tu  detestaberis 
pie  lector. 


6g 


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DUNFERMLINE   DOCUMENTS 


15.  List  of    Documents  connected  with  the   Earls  of  Dunfermline 

IN     THE      POSSESSION      OF     CAPTAIN      EDWARD      DuNBAR-DuNBAR      OF 

Seapark,  Forres. 

1.  Acquittances  by  Alexander  Seton,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline  and  Chancellor  of 
Scotland,  to  William  Dunbar,  1608-9. 

2.  Do.  do.,  1611-16. 

3.  Discharge  by  Charles  Seton,  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  to  David  Dunbar,  1655-6. 
4-  Do.  do.,  1657. 

5.  Tack  of  Fishings  on  the  Spey  in  favour  of  James  Dunbar,  signed  by  Charles  Seton, 
second  Earl,  and  James  Seton,  fourth  and  last  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  1655  and  1686. 
( Vellum.) 

6.  Tack  of  Fishings  by  the  Factor  of  the  last  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  in  which  his  creditors 
are  mentioned,  1699. 

7.  Letter  relative  to  money  matters  from  Jean,  Countess  of  Dunfermline  (widow  of  the 
fourth  and  last  Earl),  daughter  of  Lewis,  third  Marquis  of  Huntly,  and  sister  of  George, 
first  Duke  of  Gordon,  1702. 

With  the  exception  of  that  of  the  Chancellor  (whose  various  signatures  will  be  found  at 
p.  657),  facsimiles  of  the  signatures  are  annexed. 


(jO-u^if^^' 


CHARLES,  SECOND  EARL  OF  DUNFERMLINE. 


yuun/er)/ie/ii^r 


JAMES,  FOURTH  EARL  OF  DUNFERMLINE. 


LADY  JEAN  GORDON,  COUNTESS  OF  THE  FOURTH  EARL 


'DRIPPING   STONE'   OF   FYVIE  971 

16.  Letter  from  King  Charles  I.  to  John,  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews 
and  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  relative  to  the  precedency  of  Chan- 
cellor Seton's  widow.  From  a  contemporary  copy  at  Brechin  Castle, 
communicated  by  the  late  Mr.  Andrew  Jervise.  The  letter  is 
indorsed  by  Patrick  Maule,  through  whom  the  application  which  it 
embraces  may  have  been  made. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  659.] 

Charles  R. — Richt  trustie  and  right  welbelouit  cousine  and  counseller,  the  right  reverend 
father  in  God,  Wee  greet  you  weill.  Being  humblie  suied  vnto  us  in  behalfe  of  the  Ladie, 
our  richt  trustie  and  weel-belovitt,  the  Lady  Almond,  That  we  would  be  pleased  to  give  order 
that  schoe  micht  not  lose  the  place  quhilk  schoe  had  as  the  wyfe  of  hir  late  husband  the 
Earle  of  Dumfermeline,  sumtyme  our  chanceller  of  that  our  Kingdome,  Wee,  for  some  good 
respectis  moveing  us,  ar  heerby  pleased  to  signifie  vnto  you  That  it  is  our  pleasor  that  schoe 
have  place  as  Countes  of  Dumfermeline,  And  to  that  effect  you  give  such  order  as  you  sail 
think  fitt  to  prescrive.  Wee  bid  you  farewelle.  From  our  Court  at  Whitehall,  the  tenth  of 
Apryll,  1635. 

17.  The  'Dripping  Stone'  of  Fyvie. 

In  my  notice  of  Fyvie  Castle  (p.  805  supra)  I  neglected  to  mention  an  interesting 
relic  still  preserved  in  the  ancient  stronghold,  to  which  reference  is  made  in  the  following 
lines  of  Thomas  the  Rhymer.  Like  others  of  a  similar  kind,  it  is  supposed  to  have  been 
a  boundary-mark  abstracted  from  ravished  church-lands,  and  carrying  a  curse  to  the 
descendants  or  successors  of  sacrilegious  robbers.  Be  this  as  it  may,  it  is  somewhat  strange 
that  although  Fyvie  has  been  transmitted  through  three  or  four  families  for  many  successive 
generations,  no  male  heir  has  been  born  in  the  Castle  for  five  hundred  years. 

'  Fyvyns  riggs  and  towers, 
Hapless  shall  your  mesdames  be, 
When  ye  shall  hae  within  your  methes 
Frae  harryit  Kirk's  lands  stanes  three  ; 
Ane  in  Preston's  tower  ; 
Ane  in  my  ladye's  bower  ; 
And  ane  below  the  water  yett ; 
And  it  ye  shall  never  get.' 

Two  of  the  three  stones  are  said  to  have  been  found,  but  the  one  beneath  the  '  water 
yett'  is  still  unaccounted  for.  According  to  the  author  of  Buchan  (Dr.  Pratt),  'a  stone  is 
preserved  in  the  Castle  and  shown  as  one  of  the  three  weird  stones.  It  is  called  "the 
dripping  stone,"  and  it  is  asserted  that  this  stone  at  times  gives  out  such  a  quantity  of  damp 
as  to  half  fill  the  bowl  in  which  it  is  kept  with  water ;  while  at  other  times  it  absorbs  the 
whole.  It  is  not  known  how  or  when  this  mysterious  stone  came  to  occupy  the  place  it 
now  does.' 

Mr.  Ferguson  of  Kinmundy  informs  us  that  the  '  dripping  stone ' — sometimes  called 
'  the  weeping  stone ' — used  to  be  kept  in  the  uppermost  room  in  one  of  the  towers,  and  that 
he  saw  it  on  two  different  occasions.  '  On  the  one  occasion  the  bowl  was  nearly  full  of  water, 
and  the  stains  on  the  floor  showed  that  it  sometimes  overflowed.  On  the  other  occasion  the 
bowl  was  dry  and  the  stone  encrusted  with  a  white  salty  efflorescence.'1 


1  Scenery  and  Antiquities  of  the  Great  North  0/ Scotland  Railway,  p.  55- 


972  CLAIM   TO  THE 

1 8.   Lines  addressed  to  'Lady  Seyton,'  Wife  of  Robert,  Eighth 
Lord  Seton  and  First  Earl  of  Winton. 

OF  MY  LADY  SEYTON. 
M.  M.1 

O  happy  star,  at  evening  and  at  morne, 

Vhais  bright  aspect  my  maistres  first  out  [fand  !] 

O  happy  credle !  and  O  happy  hand 

Vhich  rockit  hir  the  hour  that  sho  was  b[orne  !] 
O  happy  pape,  ze  rather  nectar  hor[ne,] 

First  gaiv  hir  suck,  in  siluer  suedling  band  ! 

O  happy  wombe  consavit  had  beforne 

So  brave  a  beutie,  honour  of  our  land  ! 
0  happy  bounds,  vher  dayly  zit  scho  duells, 

Vhich  Inde  and  Egypts  happynes  excells  ! 

O  happy  bed  vharin  sho  sail  be  laid ! 

O  happy  babe  in  belly  sho  sail  breid ! 
Bot  happyer  he  that  hes  that  hap  indeid, 
To  mak  both  wyfe  and  mother  of  that  [maid.] 

19.  Claim  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  James  Seton,  of  the  Family  of 
Barns,  to  the  Earldom  of  Dunfermline.2 

[Referred  to  at  p.  633.] 

'To  the  Kings  most  excellent  Majesty,  the  Humble  Petition  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  James 
Seton,  late  of  your  Majesty's  Thirty-second  Regiment  of  Foot, 

'  Afost  Humbly  Sheweth, — 

'That  in  the  year  1597  King  James  the  Sixth  of  Scotland  was  graciously  pleased,  by 
Letters  Patent,  to  create  Alexander  Seton  (a  younger  son  of  George,  Lord  Seton)  Lord  Fyvie, 
to  him  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  whom  failing,  to  his  heirs-male  whatsoever. 

'That,  in  1605,  the  same  King  created  this  Alexander,  Lord  Fyvie  (then  Great  Chancellor 
of  Scotland)  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Lord  Fyvie  and  Urquhart.  Also  to  him  and  the  heirs-male 
of  his  body,  whom  failing,  to  his  heirs-male  whatsoever. 

'  That  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  having  resigned  these  Honours  and  Dignities  into 
his  said  Majesty's  hands,  King  James  was  again  graciously  pleased  (by  Charter  under  the 
Great  Seal  passing  on  a  Royal  signature,  dated  at  Royston  the  6th  day  of  April  161 1),  to 
re-grant  the  same  unto  the  said  "  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  to  the  heirs-male  of 
his  body  lawfully  procreated  or  to  be  procreated,  whom  failing,  to  Sir  William  Seton, 
Killesmuir,  Knight,  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body  lawfully  procreated  or  to  be  procreated ; 
whom  failing,  to  the  said  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  his  heirs-male  whatsoever,  carrying 
the  name  and  arms  of  Seton." 

'That  by  an  Act  of  the  Parliament  of  Scotland  passed  in  the  year  1690,  James,  Earl  of 
Dunfermline,  grandson  of  the  before  named  Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  was  attainted 
of  high  treason,  and  having  escaped  to  foreign  parts,  died  in  a  few  years  without  issue. 

'  That  now,  by  the  extinction  of  all  the  male  descendants  of  the  body  of  Alexander,  first 
Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  of  the  body  of  the  before-mentioned  Sir  William  Seton  of  Killesmuir, 
Knight,  the  Honours  and  Dignities  aforesaid  have  by  virtue  of  the  last  Remainder  or  Limita- 


1  Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie,  afterwards  Countess  {ne'e  Seton)  of  Burgate,  Hampshire. 
of  Winton.     From   the   Poems  of  Alexander  Mont-  Note  by  R.  K.    (Robert   Kingston,  who   married 

gomerie    (Scottish   Text   Society),   edited   by  James  Catherine  Wakefield,  daughter  of  Eglinton  Seton): — 

Cranstoun,  LL.D.,  1887,  p.   113.     See  also  pp.  214  'This  is  a  correct  Copy  of  the  Petition  of  Col.  Seton, 

and  216  for  other  poems  on  the  same  lady.  Governor  of  St.  Vincent,  from  the  original.' 

3  From  copy  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Coventry 


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tion  in  the  before  recited  patents  and  charter,  descended  to  and  vested  in  your  Petitioner,  the 
collateral  heir-male  of  the  grantee,  the  said  Alexander,  the  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  as  heir- 
male  of  the  body  of  Sir  George  Seton  of  Barns,  the  immediate  elder  brother  of  the  said 
Alexander,  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 

'  Your  Petitioner  therefore  humbly  prays  your  Majesty  will  be  graciously  pleased 
to  declare  that  the  said  Honours  and  Dignities  of  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  Lord 
Fyvie  and  Urquhart,  do  belong  to  your  Petitioner. — And  your  Petitioner  shall 
ever  pray.' 

'  St.  James's,  April  bth,  1773. 

'  His  Majesty  is  pleased  to  refer  this  Petition  to  the  Right  Honourable  the  Lord  Advocate 
of  Scotland,  to  consider  thereof  and  to  report  his  opinion  what  may  be  properly  done  therein, 
whereupon  his  Majesty  will  declare  his  farther  pleasure.  Suffolk.' 

Memorial  and  Qtteries  for  Colonel  James  Seton,  Governor  of 
St.  Vincent,  1J73. 

'  George  Lord  Seton  had  issue  four  sons : — 

1.  Robert,  his  eldest  son,  afterwards  Earl  of  Winton. 

2.  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns. 

3.  Alexander,  afterwards  Lord  Fyvie  and  Earl  of  Dunfermline. 

4.  Sir  William  Seton  of  Killismuir. 

'  Alexander,  the  third  son,  acquired  the  lands  and  baronies  of  Urquhart  and  Fyvie, 
and  under  the  title  of  Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  President  of  the  College  of  Justice, 
obtained  a  Patent  from  King  James  vi.  erecting  the  lands  and  barony  of  Fyvie  into  a  free  4'h  March 
Lordship,  giving  and  granting  to  the  said  Alexander,  Lord  Urquhart,  and  to  the  heirs-male  I597' 
procreate  or  to  be  procreate  between  him  and  Lady  Lilias  Drummond,  his  spouse,  which 
failing,  to  the  nearest  lawful  heirs-male  whatsoever  of  the  said  Alexander  and  their  successors 
in  all  time  coming,  the  title,  honour,  rank,  and  state  of  a  Lord  of  Parliament,  and  that  the 
said  Alexander,  and  his  heirs-male  foresaid,  and  their  successors,  should  perpetually  thereafter 
be  called  Lords  Fyvie — as  fully  set  forth  in  a  copy  of  the  Patent  taken  from  record  herewith 
produced. 

'  Thereafter  King  James  vi.  granted  another  Patent  to  the  said  Alexander  Seton,  Lord  4th  March 
Fyvie,  granting  to  him  "  et  hctredes  suos  masculos  Comites  de  Dunfermline  eisdemque  nomen 
statum  gradum  titulum  honorem  et  dignitatem  comitum  de  Dunfermline  cum  omnibus  pre- 
rogatives, etc.,  ad  comitis  dignitatem  pertinentibus." 

'Thereafter  King  James  vi.  granted  a  charter  "  Dilecto  nostro  consanguineo  et  consiliario   6th  April 
Alexandra   Fermeloduni   Comiti   Domino   Fyvie   et   Urquhart    magno   regni   nostri   Scotia?  I- 

Cancellario  et  hcEredibus  masculis  de  corpore  suo  legitime  procreatis  seu  procreandis  Quibus 
deficientibus  Domino  Willelmo  Setoun  de  Killismuir  militi  et  hseredibus  masculis  de  corpore 
suo  legitime  procreatis  seu  procreandis  Quibus  deficientibus  prasfato  Alexandra  Fermeloduni 
Comiti  suis  hasredibus  masculis  cognomen  et  arma  de  Setoun  gerentibus  et  assignatis  quibus- 
cunque,"  of  the  lands  and  baronies  of  Urquhart  and  Fyvie,  etc.  "  Et  similiter  creamus 
ordinamus  constituimus  ereximus  designavimus  declaravimus  et  vocavimus  tenoreque  pre- 
sentium  creamus,  etc.,  praefatum  Alexandrum  Fermeloduni  Comitem  suos  hmredes  masculos  et 
tallice  supra  script.  Fermeloduni  Comites  et  damus  et  concedemus  iisdem  nomen  statum 
gradum  titulum  honorem  et  dignitatem  Comitum  de  Dumfermling  cum  omnibus  prerogativis 
privilegiis  ornamentis  et  aliis  quibuscunque  ad  dignitatem  Comitis  infra  Regnum  nostrum 
Scotise  pertinent." 

'  This  charter  proceeds  on  the  grantee's  resignation  of  the  dignity  as  well  as  of  the  lands 
— contains  a  novodamus  of  both  lands  and  dignity — erects  the  whole  lands  and  baronies  "  in 
unum  integrum  et  liberum  comitatum  et  dominium  nunc  et  omni  tempore  affuturo  Comitatum 
de  Dumfermling  Dominum  de  Fyvie  et  Urquhart  nuncupand.,'  and  is  dated  "apud  curiam 
nostram  de  Roystoun,"  6th  April  161 1. 

'  A  full  certified  copy  is  herewith  produced. 

'  This  Alexander  was  succeeded  in  his  dignity  and  estate  by  his  only  son— 


974  CLAIM   TO  THE 

'  Charles,  Earl  of  Dumfermling,  who  left  issue  male  three  sons : — 
i.  Alexander,  his  heir. 

2.  Charles,  killed  in  a  sea-engagement  against  the  Dutch  in  1672. 

3.  James. 

'Alexander,  the  eldest,  succeeded  his  father,  but  dying  unmarried  was  succeeded  by  his 
brother  James. 

'  This  James,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  having  unfortunately  joined  the  Viscount  of 
14th  July  Dundee  and  others  who  took  up  arms  for  King  James  vn.  in  1689,  was  forfeited  in  1690, 
1  S0-  conform  to  a  decreet  whereof  a  copy  is  herewith  produced,  by  which  "  Their  Majesties  and 
the  Estates  of  Parliament,  by  the  mouth  of  John  Ritchie,  Dempster  of  Parliament,  decern 
and  adjudge  the  said  James,  Earl  of  Dunfermling,"  and  several  other  persons  herein  named, 
"  To  be  execute  to  the  death,  denounced  as  traitors,  and  underlie  the  pains  of  treason  when- 
ever they  shall  be  apprehendit,  and  that  at  such  times  and  places,  and  in  such  manner,  as  their 
Majesties  or  the  Estates  of  Parliament  or  the  Commissioners  of  Justiciary  shall  appoint ;  and 
ordains  the  said  persons,  their  name,  fame,  memory,  and  honours  to  be  extinct,  their  blood  to 
be  tainted,  and  their  arms  to  be  riven  furth  and  delett  out  of  the  books  of  arms,  so  that  their 
posterity  may  never  have  place  nor  be  able  hereafter  to  bruik  or  joyse  any  honours,  offices, 
titles,  or  dignities,  in  time  coming,"  etc. 

'Earl  James  followed  King  James  to  the  Court  of  St.  Germains,  and  died  there  in  1694 
without  issue, 

'Whereby  the  honours  of  Dunfermling  (barring  the  forfeiture)  would  have  devolved  on 
the  said  Sir  William  Seton  of  Killismuir  and  his  issue  male.  But  the  fact  is  (which  can  be 
instructed)  that  the  said  Sir  William  Seton  had  only  two  sons,  both  of  whom  died  unmarried 
without  issue. 

'So  that  the  succession  at  the  time  of  the  forfeiture  opened  to  George  Seton  of  Barns, 
great-grandson  and  lineal  heir-male  of  the  said  Sir  John  Seton  of  Barns,  immediate  elder 
brother  of  the  said  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermling. 

'  This  George  Seton  of  Barns  (the  Memorialist's  father)  was  engaged  in  the  Rebellion  of 
1715,  taken  prisoner  at  Preston,  and  carried  to  London,  where  he  judicially  acknowledged  his 
crime,  and  having  supplicated  the  King's  mercy  was  set  at  liberty.  His  Majesty  thereafter 
granted  him  an  ample  remission  under  the  Union  Seal  (whereof  an  extract  is  herewith 
produced): — "A  predict,  perduellionis  crimine  et  ab  omnibus  proditionibus  seu  proditionum 
misprisionibus  quae  ab  illo  perpetrari  fuerunt  ante  20  diem  Februarii  17 16,  etc.  Et  nos 
ex  speciali  nostra  gratia  dementia  et  favore  Rehabilitamus  Redintegramus  Restituimus  et 
Reponimus  dictum  Georgium  Seton  ejusque  posteros  ad  liberam  et  pacificam  possessionem 
et  fruitionem  omnium  Terrarum  Haereditatum  Dominiorum  Baroniarum  Molendinorum 
Silvarum  Piscationum  Decimarum  Officiorum  Jurium  et  Capacitatum  Honorum  Dignitatem 
Bonorum  Rerum  omniumque  aliorum  jurium  Mobilium  et  Immobilium  quorumcunque  que 
post  hac  ad  ilium  jure  successionis  devolvi  aut  ab  eo  acquiri  queant  Declarando  omn.  hasredes 
ejus  posteros  capaces  habiles  et  Dignos  frui  possidere  gaudere  et  acquirere  Terras,  etc.,  officia 
Honores  Dignitatis,  etc.,  adeo  plenae  ac  libera?  ac  si  nunquam  diet.  Rebellionis  reus  seu 
particeps  fuisset." 

'  This  George  Seton,  the  Memorialist's  father,  was  sometimes  styled  Earl  of  Dunfermline, 
and  took  that  title  in  company  and  private  letters  wrote  to  and  by  him,  though  not  in  any 
publick  writing. 

'  The  Memorialist,  being  now  the  undoubted  heir-male  to  the  said  Alexander  Lord  Fyvie, 
and  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  has  been  advised  to  claim  under  that  character  these  honours 
of  Lord  Fyvie  and  Earl  of  Dunfermline.  But  before  prosecuting  his  claim  he  wishes  to  be 
well  advised — 

'  imo.  How  far  the  forfeiture  of  James,  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  in  1690,  bars  his  right  to  the 
honours  ? 

'  2d0.  The  title  of  Lord  Fyvie  not  being  mentioned  in  the  forfeiture,  and  appearing  to  be 
separate  and  distinct  from  that  of  Earl  of  Dunfermling,  whether  or  not,  supposing  the  title 
of  Dunfermling  to  be  forfeited,  is  the  Memorialist  well  founded  in  his  claim  to  the  title  of 
Lord  Fyvie  as  heir-male  of  the  patentee  ? 

'  The  Memorialist  knows  no  precedent  for  governing  the  present  case.  A  very  respectable 
friend  of   the  Memorialist's    has  bestowed  some  trouble  in  considering  it,   and   what   has 


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occurred  to  him  is  set  forth  in  a  memorandum  herewith  produced,  and  referred  to  for  the  sake 
of  brevity. 

'  George's  Square,  Novr.  27th,  1773. — This  is  the  memorial  and  queries  answered  by  me  of 
this  date.  Robert  M'Queen.' 

'James,  grandson  of  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  was  attainted  14th  July  1690 
by  the  same  Decreet  of  the  Scots  Parliament  as  Sir  John  Drummond,  ancestor  of  the  present 
Viscount  Strathallan,  which  attainder  is  now  reversed. 

'The  words  of  the  decree  of  forfeiture  are  "Earl  James  and  his  posterity,"  since  which 
time  the  several  honours  in  him  have  been  considered  forfeited,  although  no  mention  is  made 
in  the  decree  of  heirs  whatsoever,  so  that  to  this  day  they  have  not  been  assumed  by  any 
person  whatever. 

'Earl  James  followed  King  James  to  the  Court  of  St.  Germains  and  died  there,  1694, 
without  issue,  whereby  the  honours  of  Dunfermline  (barring  the  forfeiture)  would  have 
devolved  on  Sir  William  Seton  of  Killismuir  and  his  issue  male.  But  Sir  William  had  only 
two  sons,  both  of  whom  died  unmarried  without  issue,  so  that  the  succession  at  the  time  of 
the  forfeiture  opened  to  George  Seton  of  Barns,  great-grandson  and  lineal  heir-male  of  Sir 
John  Seton  of  Barns,  immediate  elder  brother  of  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline.  This 
George  Seton  of  Barns,  the  claimant's  grandfather,  was  engaged  in  the  Rebellion  in  171 5, 
taken  prisoner  at  Preston,  and  judicially  acknowledged  his  crime,  supplicated  the  King's 
mercy,  and  was  set  at  liberty.  His  Majesty  afterwards  granted  him  an  ample  remission  under 
the  Union  Seal.  He  was  styled  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  took  that  title  in  company  and 
private  letters  written  to  and  by  him,  though  not  in  any  public  writing.  His  son  and  heir,  the 
claimant's  father,  served  in  the  campaigns  in  Flanders,  under  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duke 
of  Cumberland,  and  returned  with  the  British  troops  to  march  against  Viscount  Strathallan, 
Lord  Nairne,  and  others  then  in  rebellion,  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Lafelat,  attained 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  army,  afterwards  that  of  Captain-General,  Governor-in- 
Chief,  and  Vice- Admiral  of  his  Majesty's  Island  of  St.  Vincent  and  its  dependencies,  etc., 
where  he  resided  as  Representative  of  his  Majesty  eleven  years,  with  honour  to  himself,  and 
to  the  acknowledged  satisfaction  of  his  Majesty  and  Ministers. 

'  (Enclosure  No.  1.) — Duke  of  Portland.  The  claimant  joined  the  army  in  North  America 
in  1779,  attained  the  rank  of  Captain  in  1783,  and  served  ten  years  as  such,  afterwards  that 
of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Commandant  of  the  regiment  of  St.  Vincent  Rangers,  raised  by  him 
for  the  protection  and  defence  of  that  colony  during  the  insurrection  and  invasion  there  in 
the  year  1795,  and  was  honoured  with  the  acknowledgments  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  Island 
for  his  services. 

'  (Enclosure  No.  2). — Address 

'  The  papers  and  opinions  of  this  case  are  in  the  office  at  (sic). 

'  Case. — Note  by  R.  K. — This  is  a  copy  of  a  draft  case  for  Colonel  Seton  of  Brookheath. 
There  are  pencil-marks  and  writing,  which  are  here  distinguished  in  italics.  There  are  no 
italics  in  the  original ;  the  address  of  the  "  office  at"  is  rubbed  out  and  wholly  illegible.' 

Answers  to  the  Memorial  and  Queries  for  Colonel  James  Seton. 

'  I  have  considered  said  Memorial  and  Queries,  and  the  subject-matter  of  them,  with  all 
the  attention  in  my  power,  and  upon  the  whole  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that  the  forfeiture 
(1690)  of  James,  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  is  a  bar  to  the  Memorialist's  right  to  the  honours  of 
that  family,  although  the  Memorialist  is  the  person  who,  in  the  event  that  has  happened, 
would  have  succeeded  to  the  honours  if  the  forfeiture  had  not  intervened. 

'  I  own  I  am  very  little  conversant  in  the  law  of  England,  and  can  therefore  form  a  very 
indistinct  idea  of  points  that  are  in  apicibus  of  that  law.  But,  according  to  my  apprehension 
of  the  matter,  I  entertain  some  doubt  how  far  the  Memorialist  would  in  the  case  be  entitled 
to  claim  in  bar  of  the  forfeiture  as  an  heir  in  remainder  to  Alexander  Earl  of  Dunfermline 
under  the  charter  161 1.  That  charter,  containing  both  estate  and  titles,  proceeding  upon 
the  King's  sign-manual,  is  granted  to  Alexander  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his 
body,  which  failing,  to  Sir  William  Seton  of  Killismuir  and  the  heirs-male  of  his  body,  which 
failing,  to  the  said  Alexander  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  his  heirs-male,  and  assignees  whatsoever. 


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CLAIM  TO  THE 


'  It  is  under  this  last  substitution  that  the  Memorialist  alone  can  claim,  and  I  entertain 
some  doubts  if,  agreeable  to  the  Judgment  of  the  House  of  Peers  pronounced  in  the  case  of 
Captain  Gordon  of  Park,  the  Memorialist  would,  in  bar  of  the  forfeiture,  be  entitled  to  claim 
as  an  heir  in  remainder.  The  Judgment  of  the  House  of  Peers  in  that  case  was,  that  the 
barony  and  estate  of  Park  did  "become  forfeited  to  the  Crown  by  the  said  Sir  William 
Gordon's  attainder  during  his  life,  and  the  continuance  of  such  issue  male  of  his  body  as 
would  have  been  inheritable  to  the  said  estate  tailie  in  case  he  had  not  been  attainted,  as  also 
for  such  Estate  and  Interest  as  was  vested  in  or  might  have  been  claimed  by  the  said  Sir 
William  Gordon  by  virtue  of  the  last  Limitation  in  the  said  settlement  to  the  heirs  and 
assigns  whatsoever  of  the  said  Sir  James  Gordon  after  all  the  substitutions  therein  contained 
shall  be  expired  and  determined."  It  seems  to  be  implied  in  that  Judgment  that  the  right  of 
the  heirs  whatsoever  was  not  saved  from  the  forfeiture,  and  that  any  rights  vested  in  them  was 
not  similar  to  an  estate  in  remainder  in  the  law  of  England,  which  is  unaffected  by  the  attainder 
of  the  tenant  in  tail,  and  the  only  difference  betwixt  that  case  and  the  present  is  that  in  that 
case  the  last  termination  is  to  the  heirs  and  assigns  whatsoever  of  Sir  James  Gordon,  the 
maker  of  the  tailie ;  whereas  in  the  present  case  the  last  termination,  and  under  which  the 
Memorialist  claims,  is  to  the  heirs-male  and  assignees  whatsoever  of  Alexander  Earl  of  Dun- 
fermline. 

'But  whatever  be  in  the  foresaid  observations,  upon  the  supposition  that  the  question  was 
to  be  determined  by  the  law  of  England,  it  does  not  appear  to  me  that  prior  to  the  Act  1690 
any  such  thing  was  known  in  the  law  of  Scotland  similar  to  an  estate  in  remainder,  and 
which  was  saved  from  the  forfeiture  of  the  person  who  at  the  time  stood  vested  in  the  right  of 
the  estate.  On  the  contrary,  no  taillie  saved  from  the  forfeiture  of  the  person  in  right  of  the 
estate  at  the  time  the  right  or  interest  of  any  of  the  substitutes  of  the  taillie,  but  the  whole 
went  to  the  Crown  in  the  same  manner  as  if  the  estate  had  stood  in  the  forfeiting  person  in 
fee-simple,  and  indeed  the  Statute  1685,  from  which  taillies  received  a  sanction  in  the  law 
of  Scotland,  does  expressly  provide  that  nothing  in  that  Act  should  prejudge  his  Majesty  as 
to  confiscations  or  other  fines  in  the  punishment  of  crimes. 

'It  is  certain  that  in  ancient  times  there  were  sundry  territorial  dignities  in  Scotland, 
and,  indeed,  they  originally  stood  upon  that  footing,  and  if  the  estate  to  which  the  dignity 
was  annexed  went  to  the  Crown  by  the  forfeiture  of  the  person  in  the  right  at  the  time,  in  pre- 
judice of  the  whole  heirs  that  might  be  interested  in  the  estate,  it  is  difficult  to  conceive  how 
the  dignity  annexed  to  the  estate  should  be  safe  from  the  forfeiture  for  behoof  of  any  of  the 
after  heirs. 

'  And  although  titles  of  honour  were  afterwards  conferred  by  patents  from  the  Sovereign, 

yet  I  do  not  see  anything  in  our  Law-books,  or  in  any  of  the  judicial 1  the  case  of 

territorial  dignities. 

'And  I  am  fortified  in  this  my  opinion  [by]  the  very  style  and  conception  of  Decreets  of 
Forfeiture,  particularly  of  the  very  Decree  of  Forfeiture  that  was  pronounced  against  the  Earl 
of  Dunfermline  in  1690. 

'It  ordains  "the  name,  fame,  memory,  and  honours  to  be  extinct,"  which  is  surely  incon- 
sistent with  the  idea  of  the  honours  lying  dormant  until  the  succession  should  open  in 
favours  of  the  collateral  heirs  of  the  forfeiting  person,  and  accordingly  it  appears  to  me  to  be 
the  opinion  of  our  lawyers,  as  well  as  the  sense  of  the  nation,  that  prior  to  the  Revolution  the 
estate  went  to  the  Crown,  and  that  the  honours  were  totally  extinguished  by  the  forfeiture  of 
the  person  in  the  right  at  the  time. 

'  It  is  true  that  the  rigour  of  forfeitures  was  greatly  mitigated  by  the  Act  23d  Parliament 
1690.  It  was  thought  hard  that  a  man  should  confiscate  by  his  crime  the  rights  and  interests 
of  third  parties  which  could  not  be  affected  by  his  voluntary  deeds.  But  then  I  am  afraid 
that  that  Act  will  not  aid  the  Memorialist  in  this  case.  For,  in  the  first  place,  this  Statute  is 
posterior  to  the  Decreet  of  Forfeiture  pronounced  against  the  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and  I 
doubt  much  if  it  has  a  retrospect ;  and,  2dly,  the  Statute  does  not  apply  to  the  case  of 
honours,  but  only  to  the  case  of  such  as  had  a  patrimonial  interest  in  the  estate  of  the 
forfeiting  person.  Besides,  another  reason  does  occur  why  titles  of  honour  should  not  be 
saved  by  that  Statute,  although  the  rights  of  heirs  of  entail  were  thereby  saved ;  and  it  is  this, 


Some  words  have  apparently  been  omitted  here. 


EARLDOM   OF   DUNFERMLINE  977 

that  by  an  entail  a  right  was  vested  in  the  respective  heirs  of  entail  that  could  not  be 
defeated  by  the  heir  in  possession,  and,  as  the  Statute  very  properly  observes,  it  was  thought 
unreasonable  that  a  man  should  confiscate  by  his  crime  what  was  not  in  his  power  to  alienate 
by  consent.  Whereas  it  is  well  known  that,  before  the  Union,  Titles  of  Honour  were  daily 
resigned  in  the  hands  of  the  Crown  in  favour  of  heirs  different  from  the  heirs  of  the  original 
patent.  Such  resignations  were  never  refused,  but  uniformly  accepted  of  by  the  Crown,  and 
a  new  grant  made  to  the  resigner  and  such  heirs  as  he  inclined.  This  circumstance  clearly 
establishes  that  the  heirs  of  a  patent  had  no  indefeasible 'right  vested  in  them,  and,  therefore, 
upon  the  principles  of  the  Law  of  Scotland,  even  as  modelled  at  the  Revolution,  there  was  no 
reason  why  the  honours  should  not  be  totally  extinguished  by  the  forfeiture  of  the  person  who 
was  in  the  right  at  the  time.  And  so,  indeed,  it  seems  to  have  been  understood  by  the  nation 
in  general,  as  well  as  by  the  writers  upon  our  Law,  and  the  contrary  doctrine  is  taken  from 
the  ideas  of  the  Laws  of  England,  by  which  I  am  afraid  the  present  case  does  not  fall  to  be  de- 
cided, although  there  is  no  doubt  that,  as  this  question  will  in  reality  be  determined  by  English 
Judges,  the  ideas  of  the  Laws  of  England  will  have  considerable  influence  upon  their  judgment. 

'  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that  the  title  of  Lord  Fyvie  will  not  be  saved  from  the  forfeiture   To  Query 
because  he  was  not  attainted  under  that  title.     I  do  not  apprehend  that  that  was  necessary,       2nd- 
as  he  was  attainted  under  a  proper  description,  and  his  fame,  memory,  and  honours  declared 
to  be  extinct,  and  his  blood  to  be  tainted.     I  think  the  necessary  consequence  of  this  decree 
is  to  extinguish  the  whole  honours  that  then  centred  in  his  person,  and  to  forfeit  every  right 
that  was  then  vested  in  him. 

'  The  opinion  of 

'Robt  M 'Queen. 
'George's  Square, 

Nov.  27th,  1773.' 

'  Observes  upon  the  Opinions  of  the  several  Lawyers  that  have  been  advised  in  the  case  of 
Colonel  James  Seton,  concerning  his  title  to  the  Honours  of  Dunfermline  and  Fyvie, 
with  the  utmost  deference  to  these  Opinions. 

'  Upon  Solicitor  Dundas's  Opinion. 

'That  although  before  the  Act  of  Parliament  1690  no  Entail  was  available  to  protect 
future  heirs  in  a  Land  Estate  from  the  consequences  of  a  forfeiture  of  a  Proprietor  in  possession, 
yet  it  is  submitted,  if  that  did  not  proceed  upon  this  principle,  the  securing  a  Land  Estate  from 
a  forfeiture  by  the  provisions  of  an  Entail  was  considered  as  fraudem  facere  fisco  and  derogare 
jure  publico  by  private  conventions,  which  does  not  apply  to  titles  of  Honour,  supposing  these 
to  be  unalienable  in  their  own  nature. 

'  That  while  Dignities  continued  territorial,  as  it  is  believed  they  originally  were,  these 
Dignities,  it  is  humbly  thought,  were  equally  subject  to  be  carried  off  by  the  Diligence  of 
Creditors  as  the  Lands  to  which  they  were  annexed,  in  the  same  manner  as  at  this  day  an 
Estate,  the  Proprietor  whereof  is  entitled  to  vote  for  a  member  of  Parliament,  may  be  so 
carried  off,  during  which  period  the  act  of  the  Crown  granting  a  new  charter  was  merely 
ministerial,  but  that  in  later  times,  after  it  was  understood  that  Dignities  could  not  be  affected 
by  crers,  these  Dignities  behoved  to  be  transmitted  in  terms  of  the  original  grants  thereof, 
unless,  upon  the  Resignation  of  the  former  Patentee,  these  honours  were  transmitted  by  the 
voluntary  act  of  the  Crown  to  another. 

'That  although  the  Act,  1690,  cannot  be  considered  to  have  a  retrospect  at  large,  yet  it  is 
submitted  if  it  ought  not  naturally  to  be  constructed  {construed})  to  retrospect  to  the  time  that 
the  Crown  was  tendered  to  King  William  and  Queen  Mary,  alongst  with  the  grievances  to 
which  that  Act  expressly  refers,  especially  that  it  is  believed  that  the  claims  of  all  Creditors 
upon  forfeited  Estates  have  since  the  Revolution  been  sustained. 

'  That  although  there  is  nothing  in  the  words  of  that  Act  which  applies  to  Titles  of  Honour, 
it  is  submitted  if  these  ought  not  to  be  understood  to  be  comprehended  therein,  there  seeming 
to  be  greater  reason  to  save  such  from  a  forfeiture  than  even  Land  Estates,  and  because,  if  they 
are  not  understood  to  be  comprehended  therein,  no  Entail  could  possibly  secure  them,  as  not- 
withstanding of  the  strictest  provision  of  an  Entail,  the  heir  in  possession  might  have  resigned 
them  in  his  Majesties  hands,  and  thereupon  obtained  a  new  grant  to  a  different  series  of  heirs. 

6h 


978 


LINES   ON   SURNAME   OF  SETON 


'  Upon  Mr.  Af'Queen's  Opinion. 

'  That  upon  the  footing  of  the  Law  of  England  there  seems  to  be  a  remainder  Estate  in 
the  person  of  Colonel  Seton,  which  could  not  be  affected  by  the  forfeiture  of  the  Earl  of 
Dunfermline  in  the  year  1690.  The  heirs-male  of  the  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline  being  called 
to  the  Titles  upon  the  failure  of  the  heirs-male  descended  of  his  Body,  that  Estate,  it  is 
thought,  according  to  the  principles  of  the  Law  of  England,  became  an  Estate  tail  upon  the 
failure  of  the  male  issue  of  the  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  and,  therefore,  that  the  Judgment 
in  the  case  of  the  Estate  of  Park  does  not  apply  to  it,  for  in  that  case  any  claim  Sir  William 
Gordon,  the  attainted  person,  could  have,  in  virtue  of  the  last  termination,  was  to  a  fee  simple. 

'That  it  is  submitted  if  the  words  of  the  Decree  of  forfeiture  in  the  year  1690  ought 
to  have  much  weight.  The  particular  conception  of  the  Patent  of  honour  was  not  before  the 
Parliament  when  they  pronounced  that  Decree,  and  therefore  they  must  naturally  have  had 
in  view  only  the  Person  convict  of  the  treason,  and  such  as  claimed  as  heirs  under  him. 

'  What  is  above  said  applies  in  some  degree  likewise  to  the  Opinion  of  Mr.  Lockhart.' 

20.  Lines  on  the  Surname  of  Seton,  addressed  to  Miss  Eglinton 
Seton,  Daughter  of  James  Seton  of  Brookheath,  by  her 
Governess,  Miss  Evans. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  630.] 

TO  MISS  S. 

Behead  a  name  familiar  to  your  ear, 
And  a  famed  public  school  will  straight  appear, 
Beheading  this,  gives  weight  to  modish  grace, 
And  this  again,  bids  loiterers  mend  their  pace. 

The  whole  reversed  will  young  and  old  delight, 
While  nature  charms  the  ear,  or  wealth  the  sight ; 
Curtailed,  an  adverb  of  negation 's  told, 
Again,  a  stern  denial  checks  the  bold. 

If  yet  untired,  your  farther  search  may  find — 

Too  often  sought — the  home  of  feathered  kind  ; 

What  oft  entraps  them,  and  a  kind  of  tune, 

A  child,  and  what  for  building  's  mostly  hewn ; 

Part  of  the  foot,  a  feature,  and  to  place, 

A  preposition,  and  conjunction  trace  ; 

The  number  most  of  us  too  highly  prize, 

And  that  of  sacred  laws  no  sect  denies. 

The  drunkard  ends  my  long  and  humble  strain ; 

But  if  the  puzzle  please,  I  have  not  rhymed  in  vain. 


21.  The  Setons  of  Greenknowe. 

Under  the  notice  of  James  Seton,  fifth  of  Touch  (p.  341  supra),  reference  is  made  to  his 
supposed  marriage  to  Eline  (or  Jane)  Edmonston  of  that  ilk;  and  the  conjecture  appears  to 
be  satisfactorily  confirmed  by  a  lintel  over  the  doorway  of  the  ruinous  castle  of  Greenknowe, 
in  Berwickshire,  bearing  the  date  '  1581/  and  two  shields,  respectively  charged  with  the  arms 
of  Touch  and  Edmonston,  between  the  initials  'I.  S.'  and  'I.  E.'  (James  Seton  and  Jane 
Edmonston).  In  the  seventeenth  century  Greenknowe  belonged  to  Walter  Pringle,  a  zealous 
Covenanter,  having  passed  by  purchase  from  the  Setons  of  Touch,  by  whom  the  castle  was 
built,  to  the  Pringles  of  Stitchel.     The  Setons  acquired  the  property  of  Greenknowe  by  the 


SETONS  OF  GREENKNOWE 


V^ 


979 


marriage  of  Alexander  Seton  with  the  heiress  of  Gordon,  in  the  beginning  of  the  fifteenth 
century.  A  short  account  of  the  old  fortalice,  accompanied  by  two  different  views  of  the 
building,  will  be  found  in  the  third  volume  of  the  Castellated  and  Domestic  Architecture  of 
Scotland;  and  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Memoirs  of  Walter  Pringle  of  Greenknowe  (1847), 
edited  by  the  Rev.  Walter  Wood,  there  is  a  brief  notice  of  the  Setons  of  Greenknowe,  in 
which  the  following  statement  occurs  relative  to  the  erection  of  the  existing  tower  by  the 
above-mentioned  James  Seton  : — '  It  is  said  that  during  that  very  unsettled  period,  especially 
on  the  border,  a  party  of  English  made  a  raid  on  Seton's  property  and  destroyed  his  house. 
The  laird  and  his  lady  were  forced  to  flee  and  conceal  themselves  where  they  best  could ; 
and,  when  the  fray  was  over  and  the  lady  made  her  reappearance,  she  replied,  in  answer  to 
a  question  of  the  laird's,  that  she  had  found  shelter  "  doon  amang  the  rashes  on  the  green- 
knowe." (This  was  on  a  round  knowe,  or  small  hill,  on  the  margin  of  the  great  moss  of 
Gordon,  where  the  tower  now  stands.)  The  laird  gallantly  said,  "If  he  lived,  he  would  find 
her  a  better  shelter  on  that  knowe  than  the  rashes,"  and  in  the  year  following  his  coming  into 
possession  of  the  estate  he  must  have  built  the  tower,  as  is  shown  by  the  date  upon  it.  It 
has  ever  since  been  "  Greenknowe  Tower." 

'  It  must  have  at  first  been  a  place  of  some  strength,  being  surrounded  by  marshes,  and 
having  a  moat  or  deep  ditch  all  round  it,  the  remains  of  which  are  still  seen.  It  was  habitable 
till  within  the  last  forty  years,  but  is  now  shut  up,  and  the  common-place  additions  which 
had  been  made  to  the  original  building  having  been  removed  by  the  taste  of  the  present 
possessor,  it  now  stands  a  venerable  and  picturesque  ruin,  surrounded  by  fine  large  lime-trees 
and  embedded  in  plantations.' 


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22.   'Bonnie  John  Seton,'  1639. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  473  note  2.] 

Upon  the  eighteenth  day  of  June, 

A  dreary  day  to  see, 
The  Southern  Lords  did  pitch  their  camp 

Just  at  the  Bridge  of  Dee. 

Bonnie  John  Seton  of  Pitmedden, 

A  baron  bold  was  he, 
He  made  his  testament  ere  he  went  out, 

The  wiser  man  was  he. 

He  left  his  land  to  his  young  son, 

His  Lady  her  dowery, 
A  thousand  Crowns  to  his  daughter  Jean, 

Yet  on  the  nurse's  knee. 


98o  'BONNIE   JOHN   SETON' 


Then  out  and  came  his  Lady  fair 

A  tear  into  her  e'e, 
Says,  '  Stay  at  home,  my  own  good  Lord 

O  !  stay  at  home  with  me.' 

He  looked  over  his  left  shoulder, 

Cried  '  Souldiers  follow  me ; ' 
O  !  then  she  looked  in  to  his  face, 

An  angry  woman  was  she ; 
'  God  send  me  back  your  steed  again, 

But  ne'er  let  me  see  thee.' 

His  name  was  Major  Middleton 
That  manned  the  Bridge  of  Dee 

His  name  was  Colonel  Henderson 
That  let  the  cannons  flee. 

His  name  was  Major  Middleton 
That  manned  the  Bridge  of  Dee ; 

His  name  was  Colonel  Henderson 
That  dung  Pitmedden  in  three. 

Some  rode  upon  the  black  and  grey, 
And  some  rode  on  the  brown, 

But  the  Bonnie  John  Seton 
Lay  gasping  on  the  ground. 

Then  by  there  comes  a  false  Forbe's, 

Was  riding  from  Driminere, 
Says  '  Here  there  lies  a  proud  Seton, 

This  day  they  ride  the  rear.' 

Craigievar  says  to  his  men, 

'  You  may  play  upon  your  shield, 

For  the  proudest  Seton  in  all  the  land 
This  day  lies  on  the  field.' 

'  O  spoil  him  !  spoil  him  ! '  cries  Craigievar, 

'  Him  spoiled  let  me  see  ! 
For  on  my  word,'  says  Craigievar, 

'  He  bore  no  good  will  to  me.' 

They  took  from  him  his  armour  clear 
His  sword,  likewise  his  shield ; 

Yea,  they  have  left  him  naked  there 
Upon  the  open  field. 

The  Highland  men  they  're  clever  men 
At  handling  sword  and  shield ; 

But  yet  they  are  too  naked  men 
To  stay  on  battle  field. 

The  Highland  men  are  clever  men 

At  handling  sword  or  gun ; 
But  yet  they  are  too  naked  men 

To  bear  the  cannon's  rung. 

For  a  cannon's  roar  in  a  summer's  night 

Is  like  thunder  in  the  air ; 
There's  not  a  man  in  Highland  dress 

Can  face  the  cannon's  roar. 


PITMEDDEN  GRANT  OF  ARMS  981 

23.  Grant  of  Arms  to  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  Lord  Pitmedden,  1684. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  488.] 

To  all  and  sundrie  whom  it  effeers, — I,  Sir  Alexander  Areskine  of  Cambo,  Knight  and 
Baronet,  Lyon  King  of  Armes,  Considering  that  be  the  twentie  one  Act  of  the  third  sessione 
of  the  second  Parliament  of  our  dread  Soveraigne  Lord,  Charles  the  Second,  by  the  Grace 
of  God  King  of  Scotland,  England,  France,  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  I  am 
impowered  to  visit  the  whole  armes  of  Noblemen,  Prelats,  Barons,  and  Gentlemen  within 
this  kingdome,  and  to  distinguish  them  with  congruent  differences,  and  to  matriculat  the 
same  in  my  Books  and  Registers,  and  to  give  armes  to  vertuous  persons,  and  extracts  of  all 
armes  expressing  the  blazoning  thereof  under  my  hand  and  seall  of  office,  which  Register  is 
thereby  ordained  to  be  respected  as  the  true  and  unrepealable  rule  of  all  armes  and  bearings 
in  Scotland  to  remain  with  the  Lyon  Office  as  a  publict  Register  of  the  Kingdome ;  and 
further  Considering  that  it  hath  pleased  his  said  sacred  Majestie  to  advance  the  Right 
Worshipful  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of  Pitmedden,  formerlie  Knight  Batchellor  and  one  of  the 
Senators  of  the  Colledge  of  Justice  to  the  degree  of  Baronet,  als  weell  upon  consideratione 
of  his  oune  zeall  always  exprest  in  his  Majestie's  service,  as  of  the  signall  loyaltie  of  the 
deceast  John  Seton  of  Pitmedden,  his  father,  and  of  the  deceast  James  Seton  of  Pitmedden, 
his  eldest  brother,  and  the  great  sufferings  of  both  (the  father  being  killed  at  the  Bridge  of 
Dee  in  the  year  1639,  in  the  service  of  his  Majestie's  deceast  father  of  ever  blessed  memory, 
and  haveing  his  heart  shot  out  of  his  body  by  a  cannonball  as  he  was  defending  the  Royall 
Standard  against  the  then  rebels,  and  the  brother  couragiously  falling  in  his  Majestie's  Navall 
Warr  against  the  States  Generall  of  the  United  Provinces  in  the  year  1665),  and  hath  therfor 
conferred  on  him,  the  said  Sir  Alexander,  and  the  heirs  male  lawfully  procreat  or  to  be 
procreat  of  his  body,  the  Dignity,  Title,  Degree  and  Honor  of  ane  Knight  Baronet,  and 
hath  commanded  me,  and  my  brethren  Heraulds,  to  give  such  additions  to  the  said  Sir 
Alexander  his  former  coat  armour  as  are  usual  to  be  given  in  such  caices.  Therfor,  conforme 
to  the  power  given  to  me  be  his  said  Majestie,  and  the  tenor  of  the  said  Act  of  Parliament, 
I  testifie,  declare,  and  make  knowen  that  the  said  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  whose  great-grandfather 
was  James  Seton  of  Pitmedden,  procreat  betuixt  William  Seton  of  Meldrum,  and  Janet 
Gordon,  daughter  to  Lessmore,  and  which  Sir  Alexander  is  consequently  descended  by  the 
father  of  Alexander  Seton  (alias  Gordon)  Earle  of  Huntley,  Bears,  and  he  and  his  heirs  male 
may  in  all  time  comeing  Use  and  Bear  for  the  Ensignes  armoriall  two  Coats,  Quarterlie,  his 
paternall  coat  by  the  name  of  Seton,  viz.  Or  three  crescents  within  a  double  tressure 
floured  and  counter-floured  with  flowers-de-lis  gules,  and  (to  the  memory  of  his  father's 
sufferings)  in  the  center,  a  man's  heart  distilling  drops  of  blood  proper.  Second,  the  coat 
of  Meldrum,  being  argent,  an  otter  issueing  from  a  fess  (vulgo  a  barr)  waved  sable,  on  his 
head  an  antique  croune  or;  three  as  the  second,  4th  as  the  1st;  over  all,  the  badge  of  Nova 
Scotia  as  Baronet ;  on  ane  helmit  befitting  his  degree  with  a  mantle  gules  doubled  or  is  placed 
for  his  Crest  issueing  out  from  a  wreath  or  gules  argent  and  sable,  a  souldier  from  the  midle 
bearing  up  the  Royall  Banner  bendways  and  displayed,  all  proper.  Supported  on  the  dexter 
by  a  dear  hound  argent,  haveing  about  his  neck  a  collar  gules,  charged  with  crescents  or,  and 
on  the  sinister  ane  otter  sable  with  this  symboll  in  ane  escroll  above  "Sustento  sanguine 
signa,"  which  atcheivement  above  blazoned  I  have  matriculat  in  my  said  publict  Register 
upon  the  day  and  date  of  these  presents,  and  hereby  allow,  approve,  and  confirme  the  same 
to  him  and  his  heirs  aforsaid.  In  testimonie  wherof  I  have  subscrived  this  extract  with  my 
hand,  and  have  caused  append  my  seall  of  office  therto.  Given  at  Edinburgh  the  fyftointh 
day  of  January,  and  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord's  reigne  the  threttioth  fyfth  year,  1684. 

Alexr  Areskine,  Lyon. 


982  TESTAMENT   DE 

24.  Testament  de  Jean  de  Seton  Sr  de  Cariston. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  583.] 

Coulommiers,1  15  May  1661. 
Arch.  L'an  mil  six  cent  soixante  un,  le  dimanche  quinziesme  jour  du  mois  de  May,  environ  les 

Neonates,  deux  heures  de  rellevee,  moy  Jean  Leger  lesn£,  notaire  roial  gardenotes  hereditaire  en  la 
M.  544.  ville  et  baillage  de  Meaux  soussigne,  ayant  este  mande  de  la  part  de  Messire  Jean  de  Seton, 
chevallier,  Seigneur  de  Cariston  et  de  Coulommiers  en  Brye,  et  autres  lieus,  resident  audict 
Coulommiers,  je  me  suis  transports  en  sa  maison  et  hostel  Seigneurial  dudict  Coulommiers, 
distant  de  ladicte  ville  de  Meaux  d'environ  deux  lieues,  lequel  j'ay  trouve  gisant  en  son  lict, 
maladde,  en  l'une  des  chambres  en  forme  de  cabinet  de  son  hostel,  et  luy  ayont  demande  le 
subject  pour  lequel  il  m'avoit  mande,  m'a  diet  que,  se  voyant  maladde,  ne  sgachant  l'heure 
et  le  temps  auquel  il  plaira  a  Dieu  l'appeller  de  ce  monde  en  l'autre,  considdrent  son  vieil 
aage,  il  desiroit,  tandis  qu'il  estoit  en  bon  sans  et  entendement  disposer  de  ses  affaires  et 
faire  son  testament  et  ordonnance  de  derniere  pour  faire  que  ses  enfans  apres  son  trespas 
puissent  tousjours  vivre  en  bonne  paix  et  union  par  ensemble,  ce  qu'il  leur  recommande  de 
tout  son  coeur,  n'ayant  rien  a  desirer  d'avantage  que  leur  paix,  pour  a  quoy  parvenir  m'a 
requis  voulloir  rediger  son  dit  testament  et  ordonnance  de  derniere  volonte ;  ce  que  j'ay  luy 
accorde,  a  quoy  inclinant,  apres  qu'il  m'est  apparu  estre  en  tres-bon  sens  et  entendement  et 
aux  temoins  cy-apres  nomez  par  ses  parolles  et  maintien,  j'ay  icellicy  mis  et  redige  par  escript, 
ainsy  quil  a  voulu,  dicte  et  nom£,  en  la  presence  desdicts  tesmoins,  en  la  forme  et  maniere 
qu'il  en  suit. 

Premierement,  comme  bon  chrestien,  et  catolique,  s'est  recomande  de  tout  son  coeur  a. 
Dieu  son  Createur,  a.  ce  que  par  les  merites  du  sang  precieux  de  Nostre-Seigneur  Jesus-Christ, 
il  luy  plaise,  arrivant  son  decez,  colloquer  son  ame  en  son  royaume  de  Paradis,  implorant  a 
ceste  fin  l'intercession  de  la  bienheureuse  Vierge  Marie  et  de  tous  les  Saincts  et  Sainctes  de 
Paradis,  Anges  et  Archanges,  qu'il  prye  estre  ses  intercesseurs  envers  Dieu. 

Veut  et  ordonne  son  corps  estre  enterre  en  l'Eglise  parrochiale  St.  Laurent  dudict 
Coulommiers,  proche  deffuncte  Madame  sa  femme,  et  que  les  sieur  Cure  et  marguiliers  feront 
faire  pour  le  repos  de  son  ame  son  enterrement  et  service  comme  il  l'a  ordonne  par  contract 
pour  les  services  de  feue  Madame  sa  femme,  suivant  lequel  les  trente-trois  livres  six  solz  huict 
deniers  tournois  de  rente  a.  luy  deubz  par  Marie  Le  Comte,  veuve  de  Mr  Claude  de  la  Voste, 
demeurante  a.  Meaux,  appartiendront  a  ladicte  Eglise  et  Cure"  Saint  Laurent  de  Coulommiers, 
et  se  diront  les  deux  services  qu'il  a  ordonnes  estre  faictz  a  perpe'tuite,  l'un  le  jour  de  son 
trespas,  et  l'autre  le  jour  de  Nostre  Dame  d'Aoust,  le  tout  par  l'advis  de  son  exdeuteur  cy-apres 
nomme,  declarant  qu'il  a  en  sa  maison  des  ornaments  qui  seront  fournys  lorsque  Ton  fera 
ses  dictz  services  et  que  Ton  prisa  Dieu  pour  luy,  qui  y  demeureront  tant  que  son  executeur 
le  trouvera  bon. 

Diet  qu'ayant  desir  que  sa  famille  soit  maintenue  en  sa  qualite  et  condition  par  son  filz 
aisne,  il  luy  a  donne  et  l^gue',  comme  il  luy  donne  et  legue  par  ces  presentes  la  maison  et 
hostel  Seigneurial  ou  il  est  demourant  audict  Coulommiers,  appelle  le  fief  de  Coulommiers 
et  de  Cramaille,  avec  tout  ce  qui  est  enclos  et  ferme  de  murailles,  droictz  de  justice  et 
Seigueuriaux,  sans  rien  reserver,  contenant  l'enclos  en  fond  de  terre,  quarante  arpens  ou 
environ,  sans  rien  reserver,  avec,  outre  ci,  la  petite  ferme  appelle'e  Sainct  Faron,  assize  audict 
Coulommiers  terres  et  prez  en  despendons,  qui  conciste  en  cent  arpens  ou  environ,  sans 
aussy  rien  reserver  de  la  nature  qu'elle  est,  et  le  tout  a.  luy  appartenant  de  ses  acquestz 
comme  il  a  diet ;  et  de  plus  luy  donne  de  ses  autres  terres  et  prez  a  choisir  par  son  diet  filz 
aisne  dans  touttes  les  autres  terres  et  prez  qui  luy  appartiennent,  assis  audict  Coulommiers, 
ce  qu'il  luy  en  fauldra  pour  faire  avec  ceux  sus  donnez  et  leguez  jusques  a  deux  cent  arpens, 
pour  en  jouir,  faire  et  disposer  par  son  diet  filz  aisne  comme  de  chose  a.  luy  appartenante 
en  consequence  du  present  don  et  legz,  tout  pour'son  prdciput,  a  luy  deu  suivant  la  coustume 
que  pour  ce  qu'il  pourroit  appartenir  en  la  succession  de  luy,  testateur,  son  pere,  que  celle 
de  ladicte  deffuncte  sa  femme,  mere  de  son  diet  filz,  n'ayant  fait  aucun  inventaire  apres  son 
decez,  ains  vescu  en  communaulte  avec  ses  enfans,  et  par  forme  et  maniere  de  partage  pour 


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JEAN   DE   SETON  983 

les  faire  vivre  en  paix  et  amitie  ensemble,  a  la  toutes  fois  que  si  les  dictes  choses  donnees 
a.  son  diet  filz  exceddoient  les  droictz  qui  luy  pourroient  apartenir  tant  comme  filz  aisne  que 
pour  sa  part  successife,  en  ce  cas,  qu'il  sera  tenu  recompenser  la  plus  valleur  a  ses  frere 
et  sceurs  coheritiers,  l'intention  dudict  sieur  testateur  estant  de  rendre  ses  enfans  dans 
l'egalite  suivant  la  coustume,  mais,  pour  maintenir  sa  maison,  a  ordonne  le  present  don  a. 
son  diet  filz  aisnd,  nomme  Jean  de  Seton,  priant  ses  autres  enfans  de  le  voulloir  ainsi  accorder 
comme  estant  sa  volonte  derniere. 

Quant  a  Heiiry  de  Seto?i,  son  second  filz,  luy  donne  et  legue  aussy,  par  forme  et  maniere 
de  partage,  une  petite  ferme  a  luy  sieur  testateur  appartenante,  provenante  pareillement  a  ses 
acquestz,  assize  audict  Coulommiers,  en  laquelle  est  a  present  demeurant  avec  toutes  les 
terres,  prez  et  heritages  en  deppendents,  concistans  en  cent  arpens  ou  environ,  et  s'ilz  n'y 
estoient  poinct,  seront  pris  dans  ses  autres  heritages,  a  choisir  apres  son  diet  frere  aisne,  et 
de  la  nature  et  condition  que  le  tout  est  a  condition  pareillement  que  si  Iadicte  ferme  et  les 
diets  cent  arpens  d'heritages  se  trouvent  excedder  la  part  et  portion  a  luy  afferante  tant  en 
la  succession  future  du  diet  sieur  son  pere  que  de  celle  de  la  dicte  feue  dame  sa  mere,  qu'il 
sera  aussy  tenu  rendre  et  rapporter  aux  autres  heritiers  et  les  recompenser  pareillement  de  la 
plus  valleur,  le  tout  suivant  et  aux  termes  de  la  coustume  a  laquelle  ledict  sieur  testateur 
entend  toujours  demeurer.  Et  seront  tous  les  titres,  papiers  et  contractz  concernans  les 
choses  susleguees,  bailies  et  delivres  incontinant  apres  son  decedz  a  ses  dictz  enfans,  apres 
toutesfois  l'estimation  faicte ;  et  en  attendant  le  tout  demeurera  en  mains  de  son  diet 
executeur  testamentaire. 

Au  regard  de  dame  Catherine  de  Seto7i,  sa  fille,  femme  et  espouze  de  Messire  Claude  de 
Bertin  de  Relincourt,  chevalier,  Seigneur  du  diet  lieu,  ne  croyt  pas  le  sieur  testateur  qu'elle 
veuille  ny  le  diet  sieur  son  mary  venir  a.  sa  succession  ny  a  celle  de  Iadicte  deffuncte  dame  sa 
mere,  attendu  les  advantagemens  a  eux  faictz  et  par  eux  receuz,  qui  sont  de  trente  mille  livres 
tournoiz  et  plus,  scavoir :  vingt  un  mille  livres  tournoiz  par  contract  de  mariage  et  neuf  mille 
livres  et  plus  qu'ilz  ont  lors  et  du  depuis  remis,  dont  il  croyt  que  Ton  trouvera  des  receuz, 
acquitz  et  memoires  parmy  ses  papiers,  ayant  ledict  sieur  testateur  nourry,  loge  et  desfraie  en  sa 
maison  de  Coulommiers  par  longue  espace  de  temps  ledict  sieur  de  Relincourt,  Iadicte  dame  son 
espouze  train  et  chevaux.  Neantmoins  en  cas  qu'ilz  y  veullent  venir  et  succedder  aux  termes 
de  la  coustume,  faire  le  pourront  en  rapportant  leur  avantagement,  et  ce  qu'il  leur  conviendra 
sera  pris  sur  la  masse  de  ses  biens  et  de  Iadicte  feue  dame  son  espouze,  sans  touttesfois  faire 
prendre  ni  changer  les  legs  par  luy  cy  dessus  faictz,  qui  seront  executez  aux  termes  y  portez. 

Reste  damoiselle  Angeliqae  de  Seton,  sa  fille,  qui  est  demeurante  avec  luy,  a  laquelle  sera 
bailie  sa  part  et  portion  contingente  suivant  la  coustume,  sans  toutesfois  desroger  ny  changer 
lesdicts  legs  aux  conditions  qu'ilz  sont  faictz. 

Diet  que,  considerant  les  bons  services,  soins  et  assistance  que  Iadicte  damoiselle 
Angelique,  sa  fille,  a  pris  pour  luy,  tant  en  sa  maladie  que  pour  la  conduite  de  sa  maison,  en 
quoy  il  a  recognu  qu'elle  luy  a  faict  un  notable  proffict,  et  pour  aucunement  la  recompenser 
luy  donne  et  legue  pour  une  fois  payee  la  somme  de  mille  livres  tournoys,  priant  ses  enfans  de 
n'impugner  ny  debattre  ce  legz,  parce  qu'autrement  il  en  auroit  dispose.  Et  si  veut  et  entend 
que  pour  son  partage  elle  preyne  et  ayt  une  ferme  audict  testateur  appartenante,  assize  a 
Boulleur,  ou  est  demeurant  Tassine  Caillot,  avec  touttes  les  appartenances  et  despendances 
d'icelles  terres,  prez  et  autres  heritages  en  despendans,  sans  rien  reserver,  a  condition 
pareillement  que  si  Iadicte  ferme  et  despendances  exceddoit  la  valeur  de  son  droict  successif, 
tant  pour  la  succession  du  diet  sieur  son  pere  que  de  celle  de  Iadicte  feue  dame  sa  mere  qu'elle 
sera  tenue  recompenser  et  satisfaire  de  la  plus  valleur  aux  autres  heritiers. 

Et  pour  ce  qui  concerne  ses  quatre  autres  filles  religieuses  professes,  dont  trois  sont  au 
couvent  de  Noefort  de  Meaux,  et  l'autre  a  celuy  des  Ursulines  du  diet  Meaux,  outre  les  dots 
et  pensions  qu'il  leur  a  faictz  leur  donne  encores  a  chacune  d'elles,  leur  vie  durant  seullement, 
cinquante  livres  tournoiz  de  pension  personnelle,  qu'elles  toucheront  et  receptront  par  leurs 
mains,  et  sans  les  quitances  de  six  mois  en  six  mois  par  egalle  portion  portees  en  leur  maison, 
a.  commencer  a.  courir  du  jour  de  son  dictz  decedz,  qui  sont  deux  cent  livres  pour  les  quatre  : 
pourquoy  sera  laisse  entre  les  mains  du  dictz  sieur  filz  aisne  un  bien  capable  et  suffizant  pour 
1'assignat  des  dictes  deux  cent  livres  de  pension,  et  a  fur  et  mesure  qu'elles  decedderont, 
les  dictes  pensions  demeureront  extainctes. 

Pour  ce  qui  est  de  la  ceremonie  de  ses  services  et  enterrement,  s'en  remect  entierement 
a.  la  discretion  de  son  diet  executeur  cy-apres  nomine,  s'assurant  qu'il  en  fera  un  debvoir,  joinct 


984         TESTAMENT   DE   JEAN   DE   SETON 

le  contract  qu'il  a  faict  avec  ladicte  Eglise  et  cure,  le  tout  decemment  et  honnestement  sans 
aucune  pompe  funebre. 

Veut  et  ordonne  ses  debtes  estre  payeez  et  acquittees,  et  ses  tortz  faictz  reparez  et  amendez 
si  aucuns  s'en  trouvent. 

Veut  qu'il  soit  distribue",  le  jour  de  son  enterrement,  aux  pauvres  habitans  du  diets 
Coulommiers  trente  livres  par  l'advis  de  Madame  sa  fille. 

Item,  veult  qu'il  soit  rabbattu  a.  Mathieu  son  cocher  sur  ce  qu'il  luy  doibt  cent  livres ;  le 
reste,  le  payera  a  ses  heritiers,  et  ce,  pour  recompense  de  ses  bons  services. 

Item,  donne  a  Jeanne  Trippe,  sa  servante,  pour  recompense  de  ses  services  cent  livres 
tournoiz. 

A  Noelle,  aussy  servante,  cent  cinquante  livres  pour  pareille  recompense  de  ses  loyers 
et  services. 

A  Magdelaine,  aussy  servante,  soixante  livres  tournoiz,  aussy  pour  recompense  de  ses 
services. 

Et  a.  Margot,  petite  servante,  qui  est  payee  de  son  service,  luy  donne  vingt  livres. 

Le  tout  pour  une  fois  payer. 

A  Robert,  son  chartier,  luy  sera  paye"  soixante  livres  pour  reste  du  loyer  de  son  annee. 

A  Francois,  son  jardinier,  luy  sera  pay£  ce  qui  luy  est  deub  de  ses  gages  a  vingt  quatre 
escus  par  an. 

Donne  a  Gran  Jean,  son  laquais,  vingt  livres  tournoiz. 

A  Petit  Jean,  son  autre  laquais,  seize  livres. 

Le  tout  pour  leurs  loyers  et  services. 

Et  sy  veut  que  tous  ses  domestiques  soient  rehabillez  de  doeil  a.  son  enterrement,  affin 
de  se  souvenir  de  prier  Dieu  pour  luy. 

Item,  donne  au  maistre  d'Escolle  pour  une  fois  payer  dix  livres  pour  avoir  soin  des 
ornementz. 

Item,  donne  et  legue  a  la  fille  de  chambre  de  ladicte  damoiselle  Angelique  de  Seton,  sa 
fille,  en  consideration  des  services  qu'elle  luy  a  renduz,  tant  a  luy  qu'a.  sa  dicte  fille  et  qu'il 
espere  qu'elle  continuera,  la  somme  de  cent  livres  tournoiz,  pour  une  foys  payer,  affin  qu'elle 
ayt  memoire  de  luy. 

Veut  et  entend  que  ses  officiers  de  judicature  audict  Coulommiers  soient  conservez  et 
maintenuz  en  leurs  charges  tant  qu'ilz  se  comporteront  fidellement,  et  que  le  prevost,  procureur 
fiscal  et  greffier  soient  rdhabillez  de  doeil  a  son  enterrement,  affin  qu'ilz  ayent  memoire  de  luy. 

Item,  donne  et  legue  a.  Mr  Nicolas  Patron,  advocat  du  Roy  a.  Meaux,  la  somme  de  trois 
cent  livres  tournois  pour  une  fois  payer,  pour  l'affection  et  amitye  qu'il  luy  porte. 

Et  pour  executer  le  present  son  testament  icelluy  accomplir  de  poinct  en  poinct  par  et 
selon  sa  forme  et  teneure,  plutost  par  augmenter  que  diminuer,  a  faict,  nomme  et  esleu,  ledict 
sieur  testateur,  la  personne  du  diet  sieur  Jean  de  Seton,  son  filz  esne,  escuier,  es  moins  duquel 
a.  cete  fin  il  s'est  dessaisy  et  devestu  de  tous  ses  diets  biens  jusques  a.  l'entier  accomplissement 
de  son  diet  testament,  revocquant  en  ce  faisant  tous  autres  testamentz  et  codicilz  qu'il  a  ou 
pourroit  avoir  cy-devant  faitz,  voullant  celuy  seul  sortir  son  effect  comme  estant  sa  derniere 
volonte,  auquel  a  persevere  apres  qu'il  luy  a  este  leu  et  releu  par  ledict  notaire,  en  presence 
des  diets  tesmoins,  et  qui  a  este  par  luy  dicte  et  nomme  ainsi  que  dit  est  Faict,  passe"  et  regeu 
par  moy  notaire  susdict  et  soussigne,  le  tout  en  la  presence  de  Mr  Anthoine  Tourre',  docteur 
en  m^decine,  demeurant  a  Coulommiers  en  Brie,  estant  de  present  audict  Coulommiers  en 
Brie,  et  Francois  Leger,  clerc  a  Meaux,  tesmoins  a  ce  requis,  et  appellez.  Et  pour  approbation 
a  ledict  sieur  testateur  signe  avec  le  notaire  et  tesmoins  k  la  minutte  des  presentes,  les  an  et 
jour  que  dessus,  lequel  minutte  est  demeuree  par  devers  et  en  la  possession  du  diet  notaire 
pour  y  avoir  recours  suivant  l'ordonnance  du  Roy  nostre  Sire. 

Controlle        Leger. 


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CHRISTOPHER,  FIFTH  BARON  OF  CARISTON.  GEORGE,  SIXTH  BARON  OF  CARISTON. 


SIR  JOHN   SETON  985 

English  Translation  of  the  Testament  of  Sir  John  Seton, 

Lord  of  Cariston. 

COULOMMIERS,  1 5  May  1661. 

The  year  1661,  Sunday  the  fifteenth  day  of  the  month  of  May,  about  two  o'clock  p.m.,  French 
I,  the  undersigned,  Jean  Leger  the  elder,  royal  notary,  hereditary  keeper  of  the  records  in  National 
the  town  and  bailiwick  of  Meaux,  having  been  sent  for  by  Sir  John  Seton,  Chevalier,  Lord  m.  544^' 
of  Cariston,  and  of  Coulommiers  in  Brye,  and  other  places,  residing  in  the  said  Coulommiers, 
I  repaired  to  his  manor-house  and  '  hotel '  in  the  said  Coulommiers,  distant  about  two  leagues 
from  the  said  town  of  Meaux,  and  found  him  confined  to  bed,  unwell,  in  one  of  the  rooms  of 
his  '  hotel,'  in  the  form  of  a  cabinet  (study  ?) ;  and  having  asked  his  object  in  sending  for  me, 
he  told  me  that,  being  unwell,  not  knowing  the  hour  and  the  time  when  it  might  please  God 
to  call  him  from  this  world  to  another,  considering  his  advanced  years,  he  wished,  while  in 
full  possession  of  his  faculties,  to  dispose  of  his  affairs,  and  make  his  last  Will  and  settlement, 
in  order  that  his  children,  after  his  decease,  might  always  live  in  peace  and  unity  together, 
which  he  earnestly  begged  them  to  do,  having  nothing  so  much  at  heart  as  their  peace ;  to 
insure  which  he  requested  me  to  draw  up  his  said  last  Will  and  settlement,  to  which  request 
I  inclined  and  assented  after  it  became  manifest  to  myself  and  the  witnesses  hereinafter  named, 
from  his  words  and  address,  that  he  was  in  full  possession  of  his  faculties.  I  have  set  down 
and  drawn  up  in  writing  what  he  wished,  said,  and  appointed,  in  the  presence  of  the  said 
witnesses,  in  the  form  and  manner  following : — 

In  the  first  place,  like  a  good  Christian  and  Catholic,  he  commends  himself  with  all  his 
heart  to  God  his  Creator,  that,  through  the  merits  of  the  precious  blood  of  Our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  it  may  please  Him,  after  his  decease,  to  place  his  soul  in  His  kingdom  of  Paradise, 
imploring,  for  that  end,  the  intercession  of  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary,  and  of  all  the  saints 
(Saincts  et  Sainctes)  of  Paradise,  angels  and  archangels,  whom  he  besought  to  be  his  inter- 
cessors before  God. 

Desires  and  directs  that  his  body  be  interred  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Laurence,  in  the 
said  Coulommiers,  beside  his  deceased  wife,  and  the  '  sieur '  Cure  and  churchwardens  should 
make  arrangements  for  the  repose  of  his  soul,  his  burial  and  services,  as  he  had  formally 
directed  the  services  for  his  late  wife,  in  accordance  with  which  agreement  the  thirty-three 
pounds  six  halfpennies  and  eight  '  deniers  tournois '  of  rent  owing  to  him  by  Marie  le  Comte, 
widow  of  M.  Claude  de  la  Voste,  residing  in  Meaux,  should  belong  to  the  said  church  and 
Cure,  St.  Laurence  of  Coulommiers,  and  there  shall  be  said  the  two  services  which  he  has 
ordained  in  perpetuity,  the  one  on  the  day  of  his  decease,  and  the  other  on  the  day  of  Our 
Lady  of  August,  subject  to  the  instructions  of  his  executor  hereinafter  mentioned,  declaring 
that  he  had  in  his  house  some  ornaments  which  shall  be  furnished  for  the  celebration  of  the 
said  services,  and  on  the  occasion  of  prayers  being  offered  up  for  him  to  God,  which  should 
continue  as  long  as  his  executors  shall  think  good. 

Says  that,  desiring  that  the  title  and  rank  of  his  family  should  be  maintained  by  his  eldest 
son,  he  has  given  and  bequeathed  to  him,  as  by  these  presents  he  gives  and  bequeaths,  the 
manor-house  and  '  hotel '  where  he  was  then  living,  in  the  said  Coulommiers,  called  the  fief 
of  Coulommiers  and  of  Cramaille,  with  all  that  is  enclosed  and  bounded  by  walls,  legal  and 
manorial  rights,  without  reservation,  containing  the  enclosure  at  the  bottom  of  the  land  (?), 
forty  acres  or  thereby,  without  reservation  (sic),  along  with,  outside  thereof,  the  little  farm 
called  Saint  Faron,  adjoining  the  said  Coulommiers,  dependent  lands  and  meadows,  which 
consist  of  an  hundred  acres  or  thereby,  also  without  reservation  as  to  its  nature,  and  all  that 
pertains  to  him  of  his  common  property,  as  he  has  said  ;  and  moreover  gives  him  of  his  other 
lands  and  meadows  to  be  chosen  by  his  said  eldest  son  among  all  the  other  lands  and  meadows 
which  at  the  present  time  belong  to  him,  situated  in  said  Coulommiers,  that  which  he  shall 
need,  along  with  those  above  given  and  bequeathed,  amounting  to  two  hundred  acres,  to  enjoy, 
manage,  and  dispose  of  by  his  said  eldest  son,  as  to  the  things  pertaining  to  him  in  conse- 
quence of  present  gift  and  bequest.  So  much  for  his  legal  inheritance,  and  what  is  due  to 
him,  according  to  the  custom,  which  belongs  to  him  through  his  father's  testament,  as  well  as 
that  of  the  said  deceased  wife,  mother  of  the  said  son,  not  having  made  any  inventory  after  her 
decease,  but  living  with  his  children  in  the  form  and  manner  of  sharing  peace  and  friendship 

6l 


986 


TESTAMENT   OF 


together  at  all  times ;  that  if  the  said  things  given  to  his  said  son  exceed  the  rights  which 
should  belong  to  him  (so  much)  as  eldest  son's  succession  of  the  said  '  sieur '  testator,  so  as 
to  render  his  children  provided  for,  according  to  custom,  he  shall  be  bound  to  recompense 
the  full  value  to  his  brother  and  sister  co-heirs,  has  appointed  the  present  gift  to  his  said  eldest 
son,  named  'Jean  de  Seton,'  begging  his  other  children  willingly  to  concur,  this  being  his 
last  Will. 

As  to  '  Henry  de  Seton,'  his  second  son,  he  gives  and  bequeaths  to  him  also,  by  mode 
and  manner  of  partition,  a  little  farm  pertaining  to  him,  the  '  sieur '  testator,  providing  in  like 
manner  for  his  possession,  situated  at  the  said  Coulommiers,  on  the  which  he  is  at  present  resid- 
ing, with  all  the  lands,  meadows,  and  heritages  thereon  dependent,  consisting  of  one  hundred 
acres  or  thereby ;  if  these  should  not  be  forthcoming,  then  they  shall  be  taken  from  his  other 
heritages,  to  choose  from  after  his  said  elder  brother,  and  of  that  nature  and  condition  in  which 
the  whole  is,  on  like  conditions,  that  if  the  said  farm  and  the  said  hundred  acres  of  heritage 
are  found  to  exceed  the  part  and  portion  to  accrue  to  him  as  much  in  the  future  succession 
to  the  said  '  sieur '  his  father,  as  in  that  of  the  said  late  lady  his  mother,  that  he  shall  also  be 
held  bound  to  render  and  apportion  to  the  other  beneficiaries,  and  in  like  manner  to  recom- 
pense them,  at  full  value,  the  whole  according  to  the  terms  and  custom  by  which  the  said 
'  sieur  '  testator  means  always  to  stand.  And  all  the  titles,  papers,  and  contracts  concerning 
the  things  bequeathed  shall  be  bailed  and  delivered  incontinently  after  his  decease  to  his  said 
children,  but  only  after  a  complete  valuation  has  been  made,  and  till  then  all  shall  remain  in 
the  hands  of  his  said  testamentary  executor. 

With  regard  to  the  lady  'Catherine  de  Seton,'  his  daughter,  wife  and  spouse  of  Messire  Claude 
de  Bertin  de  Relincourt,  knight,  lord  of  said  place,  the  '  sieur '  testator  does  not  believe  that  she 
wishes  that  she  or  the  said  'sieur'  her  husband  should  come  into  his  succession,  nor  into  that 
of  the  said  defunct  lady  her  mother,  seeing  the  benefit  made  for  them  and  received  by  them, 
which  is  thirty  thousand  livres  tournois  and  more,  to  wit :  twenty-one  thousand  livres  tournois 
by  marriage  contract,  and  nine  thousand  livres  and  more  which  they  have  then  and  since 
remitted,  and  of  which  he  believes  they  will  find  the  receipts,  acquittances,  and  memor- 
andum among  his  papers,  the  said  'sieur'  testator  having  fed,  housed,  and  been  at  the  expense 
of,  in  his  house  of  Coulommiers  for  a  long  time,  the  said  'sieur'  de  Relincourt,  the  said  lady 
his  wife,  train  and  horses  ;  nevertheless  in  case  they  wish  to  come  into  succession  and  terms, 
according  to  custom,  they  shall  be  able  to  do  this  by  making  repayment  of  these  benefits, 
and  the  portion  that  shall  then  accrue  to  them  shall  be  taken  from  the  whole  of  his  posses- 
sions and  those  of  the  said  lady  his  wife,  without,  however,  touching  or  changing  the  legacies 
left  by  him  as  above  narrated,  which  shall  be  executed  on  the  terms  there  laid  down. 

There  remains  '  demoiselle  Angelique  de  Seton,'  his  daughter,  who  resides  with  him,  and 
to  whom  shall  be  delivered  her  contingent  part  and  portion  according  to  custom,  without 
however  deranging  or  changing  the  said  legacies  or  the  conditions  which  he  has  made. 

Says,  that  considering  the  good  services,  care,  and  assistance  which  the  said  '  demoiselle 
Angelique,'  his  daughter,  has  rendered  to  him,  both  during  his  illness  and  in  the  manage- 
ment of  his  house,  in  which  he  has  recognised  that  she  has  made  a  remarkable  improvement, 
and  in  some  sort  to  recompense  her,  has  given  and  bequeathed  to  her,  as  a  single  payment, 
the  sum  of  one  thousand  livres  tournois,  begging  his  children  not  to  impugn  or  dispute  this 
legacy,  because  otherwise  he  would  have  disposed  of  it.  And  likewise  wishes  and  gives  to 
understand,  that  for  her  share  she  is  to  take  and  possess  a  farm  pertaining  to  the  said  testator, 
adjoining  Boulleur,  where  Tassin  Caillot  dwells,  with  all  the  appurtenances  and  dependencies 
of  these  lands,  meadows,  and  other  heritages  in  the  form  of  out-houses,  without  any  reserva- 
tion ;  provided  likewise  that  if  the  said  farm  and  dependencies  should  exceed  the  value  of  her 
legal  succession  aforesaid,  by  'sieur'  her  father  and  that  of  the  said  lady  her  mother,  that  she 
shall  be  bound  to  recompense  and  make  good  the  extra  value  to  the  other  heirs. 

And  as  to  what  concerns  his  four  other  daughters,  professed  nuns,  of  whom  three  are  in 
the  convent  of  '  Noefort  de  Meaux,'  and  the  other  in  that  of  the  '  Ursulines '  in  the  said 
Meaux,  besides  the  portions  and  allowances  which  he  has  given  them,  further  gives  to 
each  of  them,  in  liferent  only,  fifty  livres  tournois  of  personal  allowance,  which  shall 
be  given  into  their  own  hands,  and  at  each  half-year  by  equal  portions,  to  their  house, 
to  commence  to  run  from  the  day  of  his  said  death,  which  is  two  hundred  livres  for 
the  four ;  for  which  shall  be  left,  in  the  hands  of  the  said  eldest  son,  enough  of  goods, 


SIR  JOHN   SETON  987 

amounting  to  the  said  sum  of  two  hundred  livres  pension,  and  that  proportionally,  as  they  shall 
die  the  said  pension  shall  become  extinct. 

With  respect  to  the  mode  of  ceremony  of  his  service  and  burial,  he  leaves  it  entirely  to 
the  discretion  of  his  said  executor  hereafter  named,  being  assured  that  he  will  fulfil  the  duty 
in  terms  of  the  agreement  which  he  has  made  with  the  said  church  and  cure,  all  decently  and 
honourably,  without  any  funereal  pomp. 

He  wishes  and  directs  his  debts  to  be  paid  and  discharged,  and  his  wrongs  repaired  and 
amended,  if  any  are  to  be  found. 

He  wishes  to  be  distributed,  on  the  day  of  his  burial,  among  the  poor  of  the  said 
Coulommiers,  thirty  pounds,  according  to  the  direction  of  '  Madame  sa  fille.' 

Item,  wishes  an  abatement  to  Matthew,  his  coachman,  of  what  he  owes,  of  one  hundred 
livres;  the  balance  to  be  paid  to  his  heirs,  in  acknowledgment  of  his  good  service. 

Item,  gives  to  Jeanne  Trippe,  his  maid-servant,  in  acknowledgment  of  her  services,  one 
hundred  livres  tournois. 

To  Noelle,  also  maid-servant,  one  hundred  and  fifty  livres,  as  a  similar  acknowledgment 
of  her  hire  and  services. 

To  Magdelaine,  also  maid-servant,  sixty  livres  tournois,  also  in  acknowledgment  of  her 
services. 

And  to  Margot,  the  little  maid-servant,  who  is  paid  for  her  services,  he  gives  to  her 
twenty  livres. 

All  single  payments. 

To  Robert,  his  carter,  shall  be  paid  sixty  livres,  as  the  balance  of  the  hire  of  the  year. 

To  Francois,  his  gardener,  shall  be  paid  what  is  due  of  his  wages,  at  the  rate  of  twenty- 
four  crowns  per  annum. 

Gives  to  big  Jean,  his  lacquey,  twenty  livres  tournois. 

To  little  Jean,  his  other  lacquey,  sixteen  livres. 

All  for  their  hire  and  services. 

And  he  wishes  that  all  the  domestics  should  be  provided  with  mourning,  at  his  interment, 
as  a  reminder  to  pray  to  God  for  him. 

Item,  gives  to  the  schoolmaster  ten  livres  for  the  care  of  the  ornaments,  in  single 
payment. 

Item,  gives  and  bequeaths  to  the  '  fille  de  chambre '  of  the  said  '  demoiselle '  Angelique 
de  Seton,  his  daughter,  in  consideration  of  the  services  which  she  has  rendered,  as  well  to  him 
as  to  his  said  daughter,  and  which  he  hopes  she  will  continue,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  livres 
tournois,  as  a  single  payment,  as  an  inducement  to  remember  him. 

Wills,  and  gives  to  understand,  that  the  staff  of  officials  in  the  judicature  of  the  said 
Coulommiers  shall  be  kept  and  maintained  in  their  charges,  so  long  as  they  shall  faithfully 
comport  themselves,  and  that  the  provost,  procurator,  and  clerk  shall  wear  mourning  at  his 
burial,  to  the  end  that  they  may  hold  him  in  remembrance. 

Item,  gives  and  bequeaths  to  M.  Nicolas  Patron,  King's  Advocate  at  Meaux,  the  sum  of 
three  hundred  livres  tournois,  as  a  single  payment,  for  the  affection  and  friendship  which  he 
bears  to  him. 

And  in  order  to  execute  his  present  testament,  and  to  secure  the  accomplishment  of  the 
same  in  every  particular,  by  and  according  to  its  form  and  tenor,  rather  by  increasing  than 
diminishing,  has  made,  named,  and  chosen  (the  said  '  sieur '  testator)  the  person  of  the  said 
'sieur'  Jean  de  Seton,  his  eldest  son,  esquire,  executor,  into  whose  hands  he  has  disseised 
and  divested  himself  of  his  whole  said  possessions,  until  the  entire  accomplishment  of  his  said 
testament ;  revoking,  in  making  it,  all  other  testaments  and  codicils  which  he  has  or  may 
have  formerly  made,  wishing  this  only  to  have  effect,  as  being  his  last  Will,  to  which  he  has 
adhered,  after  it  has  been  read  and  re-read  to  him  by  the  said  notary,  in  the  presence  of  the 
said  witnesses,  and  which  has  been  by  him  declared  and  named  as  such.  Done,  passed,  and 
received  by  me,  notary  aforesaid  and  undersigned,  all  in  the  presence  of  M.  Anthony  Fourre, 
doctor  of  medicine,  residing  at  Coulommiers  in  Brye,  and  Francois  Leger,  clerk  in  Meaux, 
called  as  witnesses  for  this  purpose,  and  for  consent  the  said  '  sieur '  testator  has  signed  with 
the  notary  and  witnesses  this  present  minute,  the  above  year  and  day,  which  minute  is  to 
remain  in  the  hands  and  in  the  possession  of  the  said  notary,  according  to  the  ordinance  of  the 
King  our  Sire.  Registered  (Signed)  L£ger. 


988         PROFESSOR  GEORCE   SINCLAIR'S 

25.  Dedications  to  Members  of  the  Seton  Family. 

(1)  Professor  George  Sinclair's  Ars  nova  et  magna  Gravitatis  et  Levitatis — 
to  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  1669. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  238.] 

Nobilissimo  Illustrissimoque  Domino  Propria  virtute,  juxta  ac  antiqua  nobilitate,  & 
proavorum  gloria  insigni,  Domino  Georgio  A.  Wintonio  Comiti,  Domino  Seton,  Baroni  a 
Tranent,  Westnidre,  &  Hartside,  vetustissima  Setoniorum  gentis  principi,  Domino  suo  humanis- 
simo,  Patrono  &  Mascenati  benignissimo,  &  plurimum  colendo.     Salutem. 

Cogitanti  mihi  saspenumerb  (Comes  nobilissime)  ac  in  varios  intuenti  Patronos,  ut  nomen 
aliquod  prasclarum,  hisce  novis  Experiments  Philosophicis  in  fronte  prsescriberem,  uti  jam 
olim  consuetudo  dicandorum  voluminum,  ad  nos  veterum  auctoritate  deducta,  invaluit,  Tu 
solus  omnium  Msecenatum  occurristi  memoria  felicissimus,  sub  cujus  patrocinio  in  lucem  a 
me  emitterentur.  Nam  sive  generis  claritudinem,  sive  morum  probitatem,  sive  Tuam  in  me, 
ac  meos  humanitatem,  sive  demum  mentis  judicium  pensitem,  quis  me  temeritatis  arguerit, 
quod  Te  unum  ex  omnibus  compellem  ?  Quin  potius  fequissimo  jure  censebor  egisse,  quod 
Te  generis  claritate  tarn  egregium  elegerim  patronum,  non  solum  regia  stirpe  oriundum,  sed 
de  cujus  familia  Principes  &  Scotorum  Reges  originem  &  genus  traxere.  Certe  nobilissimi 
hominis,  atque  optimi  viri  Christofori  tertii,  inter  tuos  majores  magni  nominis,  summam 
dignitatem,  ob  singularem,  &  prasstantissimam  virtutem,  Annales  Scotici  non  tacent,  quem 
idcircb  Robertas  Brussius  Rex  idem,  atque  patriae  libertatis  magnanimus  vindex,  Christina 
sororis  matrimonio,  amplissimisque  prasdiis  dignatus  est. 

Quis  venerabilior  sanguis  t  qua  major  origo 
Quam  regalis  erit  ?    Non  te  privata  dedere 
Limina,  nee  tantum  poterat  cotttingere  nomen 
Angustis  laribus,  patruo  te  principe  ceisum 
Bellipotens  illustrat  avus. 

Recenti  adhuc  memoria  Alexandrum,  in  altissimo  dignitatis  gradu  etiam  collocatum 
memoro,  Gulielmi  Setonii,  Katharinaque  de  Sancta-  Clara  filium  secundum,  ob  animi  prse- 
stantiam,  corporisque  decorem  vetustissima?  Gordoniorum  gentis  Principem,  ducta  in  uxorem 
haerede,  factum :  unde  nobilissimi  Huntilai  Comites,  &  Marchiones,  viri  admodum  strenui, 
originem  per  trecentos  fere  annos,  duxere.  De  tanti  viri  Matre  (ornatissime  patrone)  memini, 
non  solum  quod  familias  Hermistonia,  id  temporis  etiam  vetustse,  atque  opulentae,  filia  fuerit, 
unde  ipse,  paterque,  utpote  filius  ejusdem,  originem  ducimus,  adeb  ut,  quo  Virgilius  sEneam, 
Evandrum  sermone  compellasse  fingit,  ego  Dominationem  Tuam,  vere,  &  absque  jactantia 
compellare  queam ; 

Sic  genus  amborum  scindit  se  sanguine  ab  uno. 

Veriim  etiam,  quod  ex  ilia  lectissima.  muliere,  ut  communi  matre,  orti  sint  Levinice  Comites, 
unde  regia  Scotorum  soboles.  Nam  vidua  relicta,  quatuor  filias  patre  orbas,  in  luculentis- 
simas  totius  regni  familias  locavit,  quarum  unam  Isobellam,  Joanni  Stuarto  Darlao  nobili 
adolescenti,  nuptum  dedit.  Sed  ut  ad  inceptum  redeam,  quid  memorem  Georgium  hoc 
nomine  quintum,  Oeconomias  regise  praefectum,  tuum  abavum,  qui  unus  legatorum  regni 
ordinum  decreto  in  Galliam  missus,  Maria  Regina,  Franciscique  Francice  Delphini  nuptias, 
&  antiqua  Gallorum  Scotorumque  fcedera  sancivit  confirmavitque.  Postea  a  Jacobo  VI. 
Scotorum  Rege,  primus  ad  Henricum  tertium  Galliarum  Regem  legatus,  cum  amplissimis  ad 
confirmandam  amicitiam  muneribus  mittitur :  cujus  filius  tertius,  Alexander,  ob  civilem 
prudentiam,  multis  annis  Senator,  postea  Senatui  praeses,  &  Regi  a  consiliis  fuit.  Demum  a 
prudentissimo  rege,  qui  primus  Scotiam,  Angliamque  in  unum  contraxit  dominatum,  utriusque 
regni  consiliorum  particeps,  a.  Fermelinodttno  Comes,  &  regni  Scotici  factus  est  Cancellarius  : 
unde  duo  nepotes  ex  filiabus  (quos,  quoniam  res  obtulerat,  silentio  praeterire  non  fuit  con- 
silium) alter  Joannes  Metellanus  Lauderia,  alter  Joannes  Hajus  Tuedia  Comites,  ambo  ingenti 
virtute. 


ARS  NOVA   ET  MAGNA,   ETC.  989 

Fortes  creantur  fortibus,  &>  bonis 
Est  in  juvencis,  est  in  equis  patrum 

Virtus  :  nee  imbellem  feroces 
Progenerant  aguilce  columbam. 

Sed  plus  tibi  laudis  affert  (clarissime  Maecenas)  quod  ab  iis  sis  oriundus,  qui  Regibus 
regni,  patrise  libertatis,  posteris  fortunarum,  sibique  gloriaa  auctores  extiterunt,  quorum  primus 
Dugaldus,  vir  armis  ac  pietate  insignis,  a.  quo  Tu  vicesimus  quintus  recta  serie  originem  ducis ; 
qui  a  Milcolumbo  tertio  Scotorum  Rege,  sexcentis  retro  annis,  cognomen  a.  suo  agro  conse- 
quutus  est.  Christofori  etiam  supra  memorati  virtutem  appello,  qui  quadraginta  solum  comi- 
tatus,  ducentos  aggredi  est  ausus  :  cui  uni  vitam  rex  Brussius  acceptam  referebat,  quern  pene 
captum,  Anglorum  manibus  eripuit :  cujus  ille  virtutis  haud  immemor,  praeter  sororem  cum 
illo,  jugali  vinculo  sociatam,  tribus  crescentibus  Lunis,  quas  antiquitiis  Insignia  Tuae  domus 
habuere,  Iridem  e  suis  mutuatam,  potissimum  Scotorum  Regis  Insigniorum  ornamentum 
subdidit. 

Illi  ego  non  Decios  pulchros,  forteisve  Mctellos 
Prattulerim,  non  qui  P atrium  domuere  ferocem 
Scipiadas,  Gallisque  genus  fatale  Camillos 

non  illi  quisquam  impuni  tulisset 
Obvius  armato,  seu  cum  pedes  iret  in  hostem, 
Seu  spumantis  equi  foderet  calcaribus  armos. 

Neque  illustrem  equitem  Alexandrum,  eo  nomine  tertium  taceo,  licet  a.  nostrate  Buchanano, 
ipsius  fama  &  gloria  per  totam  Europam  percrebuerit,  quem  neque  pericula,  neque  praemia  a 
Bervico  tuendo  dimovere  potuerunt. 

Nam  cum  prsesidio  impositus,  obsessa  ab  Anglis  urbe,  cum  magna  penuria  commeatuum 
laboraretur,  aliquot  dierum  inducias  cum  hoste  paciscitur,  nisi  obsessis  ante  statutum  diem 
subveniretur,  in  ejus  potestatem,  urbem  venturam.  Interea.  appropinquantibus  Scotorum 
copiis,  Anglus  prgefectum  urbis  ante  praefinitum  tempus,  minis  ad  deditionem  impellit,  quod 
cum  a  se  frustra  fieri  cerneret,  duos  praefecti  filios,  alterum  obsidem,  alterum  bello  captum, 
cruci  affigi  jussit.  At  magnanimus  pater  ad  incitas  redactus  fortissime  se  gerit :  paternum 
affectum,  crescentem  adolescentium  virtutem,  deditionem  suadentia,  animo  pellit :  majorumque 
memoriam,  patriae  amorem,  ipsiusque  proditionis  turpitudinem,  in  memoriam  revocat,  pulsoque 
privato  affectu,  liberis  patriam,  perfidiae  fidem,  dedecori  gloriam  praeposuit. 

Justum  6°  tenacem  propositi  virion 
Non  civium  ardor  prava  jubentium 
Non  vultus  instantis  tyranni 
Mente  quatit  solida. 

Sed  quorsum  tuorum  majorum  virtutes  &  laudes  recorder  ?  An  quia  non  est  quod  de  te 
dicam  ?  Nequaquam.  Verum  est  te  a.  viris,  seu  potius  Heroibus  originem  duxisse  ;  quorum 
olim  alii  in  pace,  alii  in  bello,  in  otio,  in  negotio,  domi,  forisque,  consilio  atque  manu, 
patriae  profuere.  At,  vix  ea  nostra  voco,  ais.  Non  stupes  in  majorum  titulis,  &  imaginibus. 
Inquis. 

Stemmata  quid faciunt,  quid prodest  Pontice  longo 
Sanguine  censeri,  pictdsque  ostendere  vultus 
Majorum  ? 

Permagni  tamen  interest  (illustrissime  Comes)  quod  egregie  in  Belli  Jugurthini  initio,  a. 
Salustio  docetur,  cujus  verbis  utar.  Scepe  audivi  (inquit)  Q.  Maximum,  &  P.  Scipionem, 
preetered  civitatis  nostra  prceelaros  viros  solitos  ita  dicere,  cum  Majorum  imagines  intuerentur, 
vehementissime  sibi  animum  ad  virtutem  accendi,  scilicet  non  ceram  Mam  neque  figuram,  tantam 
vim  in  se  habere,  sed  ?nemoria  rerum  gestarum,  earn  flammam  egregiis  viris  in  pectore  crescere, 
neque  prius  sedari  qudm  virtus  eorum  famam  atque  gloriam  adatquaverit.  Haec  ille.  Sed 
quis  omnium  est,  qui  magis  probitate,  &  industria  cum  majoribus  suis  contendat  ?  quorum 
vestigiis  insistens,  adolescentiam  in  iis  studiis  collocas,  quas  viro  subsidio,  seni  solatio,  utrique 
aetati  ornamento  erunt :  posteris  divitias,  fortunis  incrementum  adjicient.  Imb  hoc  verb 
tuis  majoribus  praeluxisti,  quod  purioris  religionis  vindex,  a  Papistica  superstitione  domum 
purgaveris,  quem  honorem  principum  tuse  familias  elargitus  est  deus  ante  te  nemini.     In 


990  SATAN'S  INVISIBLE 

vultu  porro  earn  video  modestiam,  in  congressu  affabilitatem,  erga  amicos  amicitiam,  in  victu 
&  amictu  sobrietatem,  qua?  me  adeo  affecerunt,  ut  in  laudes  tuas  frequenter  inter  amicos 
effundar.  Neque  de  tua  in  me,  mebsque  humanitate,  &  liberalitate  tacere  possum,  quern 
officio  &  loco  pulsum,  hoc  temporis,  hospitio  suscepisti.  Hie  prseclara  mihi  specimina  ingenii 
tui  celeritatis  in  hisce  legendis  lucubrationibus  exhibuisti,  quarum  partem  maximam,  adeo 
fructuose  trivisti  ut  intrepide  afHrmare  ausim,  te  tarn  egregium  patronum,  illis  (nisi  muneris 
tenuitate,  longe  infra  tua  merita  subsiderent)  maxime  dignari.  Sed  ut  proverbio  utax,  fare 
litavit,  qui  non  habet  thus.  Quicquid  igitur  laboris,  vel  industrial  in  illis  concinnandis  exant- 
lavi,  id  tibi  (dignissime  patrone)  tanquam  perpetui  mei  in  te  amoris  reKji-qpiov,  submisse  con- 
secro,  ut  hoc  quantulocunque  Philosophico  monumento,  clarissimum  tuum  nomen,  quemad- 
modum  Majorum  virtutes,  apud  exteras  nationes  inclarescat.  Digneris  itaque  tenue  hoc 
munusculum  libenti  animo  suscipere,  atque  nominis  tui  splendore  collustratum,  tuaque 
benevolentia  munitum,  in  lucem  prodire  patiaris.  Et  ciim  ea  desint  mihi,  grati  memorisque 
animi  specimina,  qua?  tanto  patrono  reponerem,  credas  ideo  velim,  me  deum  op.  max. 
subinde  ac  sa?pius  oraturum,  ut  tibi  suo  spiritu  adsit,  te  regat,  &  dirigat,  tandemque,  ut  hac 
corporis  mole  exutus,  &  liberatus,  cum  ipso  lsetitia  perfruaris  immortali,  sic  precatur. 

Tuo  honori  6°  amplitudini  ad  omnem  cultum,  &•  observantiam  addictissimus, 

E  tuo  hospitio  Georgius  de  Sancto-Claro. 

Tranentensi, 
Calend.  Janua. 
cioidc  lxviii. 


(2)  Professor  George  Sinclair's  Satan's  Invisible  World  Discovered, — 

to  the  same  Earl,  1685. 

[Referred  to  at  pp.  73  and  238.] 

To  the  Right  Honourable  George  Earl  of  Winton,  Lord  Seton  and  Tranent,  etc. 
And  one  of  His  Majesties  most  Honourable  Privy  Council. 

My  Lord, — I  present  Your  Lo:  with  an  Oblation,  both  Lame  and  Imperfect.  'Tis  all 
which  my  Ability  can  afford.     I  must  Sacrifice  with  Barley-Meal,  because  I  want  Frankincense. 

Farre  litabit  qui  non  habet  thus. 

But  what  Imperfection  is  in  it,  I  supply  it  with  the  Sincerity  of  my  Respects,  who  presents 
it.  'Tis  a  Subject,  that  the  Learndest  Prince,  and  greatest  Monarch  in  His  time  was  not 
ashamed  to  treate  of.  I  seriously  implore  your  Lordship's  Protection,  for,  I  have  to  do  with 
many  Adversaries  of  this  Visible  World,  who  will  not  fail  to  ride  tilts  at  me,  with  Bul-rushes 
and  Windle-strawes.  As  for  those  of  Satans  Invisible  World,  in  the  Name  of  the  LORD, 
I  defy  them.  I  know  the  acutness  of  your  Lordships  Ingine  and  Profoundness  of  your 
Knowledge,  in  all  such  and  other  Matters,  that  there  is  no  Theme  which  I  am  able  to  treat 
of,  or  Thesis  which  I  am  able  to  publish,  but  your  Lordship  is  able  by  your  Power  and 
Authority  to  protect  it,  and  by  your  Reason  to  defend  it. 

I  am  the  more  encouraged  to  offer  this  to  your  Lordship,  A  Noble  Patrician,  because 
I  have  seen  Tracts  of  this  Subject  consecrated  to  Kings,  Dukes,  and  Princes.  I  have  sure 
Experience  of  your  Lordships  Bounty  and  Favourable  Aspect,  which  gave  Wings  to  my 
New  Philosophical  Experiments,  to  flie  thorow  Holland,  France  and  Germany,  which  have 
made  them  so  acceptable  to  Strangers. 

Neque  Phosbo  gratior  ulla  est, 
Quam  sibi  quae  Vari  prascripsit  pagina  nomen. 

If  my  Writings  had  such  good  Fortune  and  Success  abroad,  by  the  auspicious  Conduct 
of  your  Lordships  name  upon  the  Frontispice,  what  must  they  have  at  home,  where  your 
Power,  Interest,  and  Relations  are  so  considerable  ?  Where  your  Ancestors  are  so  famous, 
having  been  useful  to  their  Countrey,  in  Peace  and  War ;  others  of  them  imployed  in  Publick 
Affairs  at  home  and  abroad,  and  all  of  them  most  eminent  for  their  unstained  Loyalty  to 


WORLD  DISCOVERED  991 

their  Prince,  and  Zeal  for  his  Interest ;  and  that  since  Malcome  the  third,  six  hundred  years 
agoe,  to  your  Lordship,  who  is  the  twentieth  and  fifth,  Lineally  descended  from  Dougald  the 
first  of  the  Family. 

What  a  Faithful  Achates,  and  Companion  was  Christopher  Seton  the  third,  to  King 
Robert  the  Bruce,  in  all  his  troubles  ?  whose  love  to  his  King,  was  like  the  love  of  Jonathan 
to  David,  for  which,  and  his  valiant  Atcheivements,  he  bestowed  his  Sister  Christin  upon  him 
in  Marriage,  and  the  Flower-de-Luce  to  his  Coat  of  Arms,  one  of  the  chief  Ornaments  of  the 
Royal  Badge. 

— Patruo  te  Principe  celsum, 
Bellipotens  illustrat  Avus. 

Was  not  Alexander  Seton,  the  second  Son  of  Lord  William,  and  Lady  Katharin  Sinclar, 
or  rather,  Saint  Katharin,  who  builded  the  famous  Chappel  of  Seton,  for  his  excellent  en- 
dowments of  Body  and  Mind,  made  Head  of  the  noble  Family  of  Gordons,  by  marrying  the 
Heretrix  of  Huntly ;  and  that  three  hundred  years  ago  ?  And  was  not  his  Sister  Isabel,  by 
the  same  Mother,  bestowed  in  Marriage  upon  that  most  Princely  Youth  John  Stuart  of 
Darnly,  from  which  two,  the  Royal  Race  is  descended ;  So  that  I  may  say  without  Flattery, 
your  Family  is  come  off  Princes,  and  reciprocally,  Princes  are  come  off  your  Family. 

Quis  venerabilior  sanguis,  quse  major  origo 
Ouam  regalis  erit? 

What  was  that  illustrious  Knight  Alexander  the  third,  who  during  the  time  of  John  the 
Balliols  Usurpation,  three  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  was  made  Governour  of  Berwick, 
whom  the  King  of  England,  while  he  was  beseiging  the  Town,  could  neither  by  Threatnings, 
nor  fair  Promises,  inveigle  or  perswade  to  betray  his  Trust.  The  Garison  labouring  under 
great  penurie  of  Provision,  a  Truce  was  made  upon  this  Condition,  That  if  Relief  came  not 
before  such  a  limited  day,  the  Town  should  be  delivered  up.  The  Scottish  Army  approach- 
ing, under  the  Conduct  of  the  Valiant  Douglas,  and  King  Edward  fearing  that  the  Town 
might  be  releived,  sent  to  the  Governour,  certifying  him  (though  the  dayes  of  Truce  were 
not  yet  expired)  that  if  he  did  not  render  it  forthwith,  both  his  Sons,  the  one  an  Hostage, 
the  other  a  Prisoner  of  War,  should  be  crucified  immediately  before  his  eyes. 

But  the  magnanimous  Father,  and  incomparable  Mother,  being  driven  to  this  insuper- 
able Dilemma ; 

Dextrum  Scylla  latus,  lasvum  implacata  Charybdis 
Obsidet 

Love  to  their  Dearest  Children  perswading,  and  Love  and  Respect  to  their  Countrey, 
and  Familie  disswading,  carrie  like  two  invincible  Hero's,  and  by  admirable  Resolution,  and 
Constancy,  beyond  what  Roman  Histories  can  parallel,  they  prefer  their  Countrie  to  their 
dearest  Pledges,  Fidelity  to  Treacherie,  and  Glory  to  Shame.  On  which  barbaritie,  the 
Famous  Poet  Johannes  Johnstonus  Aberdonensis,  writteth  thus  in  his  Book  intituled,  The 
Scots  Hero's, 

Hue  averte  oculos,  neu  tristia  fata  tuorum, 

Respice— — 
Vincit  amor  Patriae  constansque  in  pectore  virtus, 

Omnia  pro  Patria  sustinuisse  valens. 

This  strange  Tyrannical,  Barbarous,  and  Monstruous  Fact,  is  suppressed  in  the  Histories 
of  England,  and  buried  in  silence,  not  unwiselie,  it  being  capable  neither  of  defence,  nor 
Excuse. 

My  Lord, 
Neither  can  I  pass  over  in  silence  Lord  George,  the  fifth  of  that  Name, 
Claros  inter  habent  nomina  clara  viros. 

Your  Great  Grand-Fathers  Father,  who  being  Master  of  the  Royal  Oeconomy  to  the 
Queen,  was  sent  by  Order  of  Parliament  to  France,  to  make  up  a  match  between  Francis  the 
Dolphin,  and  Mary  Queen  of  Scots.  And  after,  was  sent  by  King  James  her  son,  to  Henry 
the  third,  for  confirming  the  ancient  Alliance,  whose  third  Son  Alexander,  for  his  Knowledge 
and  Skill  in  Juris-Prudence,  was  manie  years  a  Senator  of  the  Colledge  of  Justice,  and 


992  A  SCOTTISH   ARCHIMEDES 

thereafter  President  to  the  Senate,  and  one  of  the  Kings  honourable  Privy  Counsellors,  and 
at  last  made  by  King  James,  Earl  of  Dumfermling,  and  Lord  High  Chancellour  of  Scotland  ; 
from  whom,  by  his  two  Daughters  he  had  two  Grand  Children,  two  matchless  Hero's,  John 
Duke  of  Lauderdale,  and  John  Earl  of  Tweeddale,  both  of  them,  as  was  said  of  Julius  Cassar 
and  Cato,  Ingenti  Virtute,  Men  of  most  eminent  Parts  and  Endowments. 

Fortes  creantur  fortibus,  &  bonis 
Est  in  Juvencis,  est  in  equis  patrum 

Virtus  :  nee  imbellem  feroces 
Progenerant  aquilas  columbam. 

I  come  at  last  to  your  Lordships  Father  and  Grand-Father,  who  imitating  their  Noble 
Ancestors,  were  notable  examples  of  Love  and  Piety  towards  their  Soveraign :  both  of  great 
Humility  and  Goodness.  Your  Grand-Father  was  admirable,  even  to  excess  for  Liberalitie 
to  his  other  Children,  and  Hospitalitie  to  Friends  and  Strangers,  more  becoming  a  Prince, 
than  a  Subject.  Your  Mother  of  the  Renowned'  Gordons,  a  Paragon  of  Nature  for  her 
matchless  Beauty  and  Goodness, 

Rara  quidem  facie,  forma  pulcherrima  Dido. 

My  Lord, 

I  have  touched  a  little  the  Historie  of  your  Familie,  but  cannot  relate  all  it  deserves.  It 
is  well  done  by  others,  and  augmented  by  the  Learned  Notes  of  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of 
Pitmeden,  Knight  Baronet,  that  honourable  Gentleman,  one  of  the  honourable  Senators 
of  the  Colledge  of  Justice. 

But  for  what  end  (my  Lord)  have  I  celebrated  the  praises  of  your  Predecessors?  Is  it 
because  I  have  nothing  to  say  of  Your  self?  Far  be  it.  Your  large  Possessions  purchased 
by  the  Prudence  and  Heroick  Valour  of  Your  Fore-Fathers,  are  managed  with  Frugalitie 
and  Moderation. 

Non  minor  est  virtus  quam  quaerere,  parta  tueri : 
Casus  inest  illic,  hie  erit  artis  opus. 

The  ancient  Honour  and  Dignitie  of  Your  Familie  is  preserved  without  the  least  stain  or 
spot  of  Disloyalty;  so  that  I  may  trulie  say,  as  is  ingraven  upon  the  Frontispiece  of  Your 
statelie  Palace,  Decus  decori  addis  avito. 

This  Treatise  is  called  Satans  Invisible  World  Discovered,  but  I  am  ascertain'd, 
that  by  Your  transcendent  Skill,  you  have  discovered  an  Invisible  World,  far  beyond  what 
any  of  your  Ancestors  could  do ;  I  mean  your  subterraneous  World,  a  work  for  a  Prince,  and 
a  Subject  to  Write  of,  by  that  great  Philosopher  Kircher.  What  Meanders  and  Boutgates 
are  in  it,  are  rather  to  be  admired  then  beleived.  There  Daadalus  for  all  his  skill  would 
mistake  his  way  ?  What  running  of  Mines,  and  Levels  ?  What  piercing  of  Gaes  ?  What 
cutting  of  impregnable  Rocks,  with  more  difficultie,  than  Hannibal  cutted  the  Alpes. 

— Qui  montes  rupit  aceto. 

What  Deep-Pits,  and  Air-holes  are  digged !  What  diligence  to  prevent  Damps,  which 
kill  Men  and  beasts  in  a  moment !  What  contriving  of  Pillars,  for  supporting  houses  and 
Churches,  which  are  undermined !  What  floods  of  Water  run  thorow  the  Labyrinths,  for 
several  miles,  by  a  free  Level,  as  if  they  were  conducted  by  a  Guide  !  How  doth  Art  and 
Nature  strive  together,  which  of  the  twain  shall  advance  Your  Lordships  Interest  most ! 
What  curious  Mechanical  Engines  has  Your  Lordship,  like  another  Archimedes,  contrived  for 
your  Coal-works,  and  for  draining  of  Coal-sinks  !  What  a  moliminous  Rampier,  hath  Your 
Lordship  begun,  and  near  perfected,  for  a  Harbour  of  deep  Water,  even  at  Neip-Tides  ! 

Portus  ab  accessu  ventorum  immotus  &  ingens. 

How  bountiful  has  Nature  been  in  forming  a  choice  Coal  under  ground,  within  a  stone- 
cast  of  your  New-haven  ? 

Your  Experimental  Skill  in  improving  your  Coal,  for  making  of  Salt,  is  praise  worthie. 
Your  defending  of  the  Salt-pans  against  the  imperious  Waves  of  the  raging  Sea,  from  the  N.E. 
is  singular.  Your  renting  of  Rocks,  for  clearing  of  Passages  into  your  Harbours,  which  none 
of  your  Predecessors  were  able  to  do,  is  stupendious. 


CALDER'S   'EPISTLES  OF   IGNATIUS'     993 

As  the  Result  of  the  wise  Government  of  your  Affairs,  redounds  to  your  self,  so  does  it 
to  the  publick  Advantage  of  the  Countrie,  and  others,  so  that  men  may  say, 

Te  toti  genitum  se  credere  genti. 

How  manie  hundreds  of  Young  and  Old  have  their  Beeing  and  Livelie-hood,  by  their 
dependence  on  your  Lordships  vertuous  Actions  about  the  Coal  and  Salt,  and  things  be- 
longing thereunto,  who  art  your  self  the  greatest  Coal  and  Salt-Master  in  Scotland,  who  is  a 
Nobleman,  and  the  greatest  Nobleman  in  Scotland,  who  is  a  Coal  and  Salt- Master ;  Nay, 
absolutelie  the  best  for  skill  in  both,  of  all  Men  in  the  Nation.  What  fruitful  Corn-fields, 
where  Ceres  hath  her  chief  habitation  lye  within  the  prospect  of  your  dwelling  house  at  Seton  ? 
Which  perswades  me  to  maintain  this  Paradox,  There  is  no  Subject  in  Britan  has  so  much 
Casual  and  Land-Revenue  within  a  mile  of  his  house,  as  your  Lordship  has. 

In  a  word,  your  Affability  in  Converse,  your  Sobriety  in  Dyet  and  Apparel,  your  Friend- 
ship and  Kindness  to  Your  Friends,  your  Candor  and  Ingenuity,  with  the  prudent  manage- 
ment of  your  Affairs,  have  indeared  all  Men  to  You ;  So  that  I  may  say,  If  your  Predecessors 
were  famous  of  Old  for  their  Feats  of  War,  in  the  time  of  War,  so  is  your  Lordship  famous 
for  your  Arts  of  Peace,  in  the  time  of  Peace.  But,  my  Lord,  I  fear  I  am  wearisome,  and 
therefore  I  shall  close  as  I  began,  imploring  your  Patrocination  to  this  small  Enchiridion. 
And  as  I  have  been  long  since  Devoted  to  You  in  all  Dutie  and  Love,  so  shall  I  ferventlie 
pray  for  Your  Preservation  and  Happiness  here  and  hereafter,  while  I  live,  and  shall  think 
my  self  happie  to  be  under  the  Character  of  Your  Lordships,  Most  Dutiful  and  Obedient 
Servant,  George  Sinclar. 


(3)  Robert  Calder's  Genuine  Epistles  of  Ignatius — to  George, 
fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  1708. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  251.] 

To  the  Right  Honourable  and  truly  Noble,  George  Earl  of  Winton,  Lord  Seton, 
Baron  of  Tranent,  etc. 

I  present  Your  Lordship  with  the  Genuine  Epistles  of  St.  Ignatius  Bishop  of  Antioch,  and 
Diciple  to  St.  John  the  Divine,  written  originally  in  Greek,  and  translated  into  English  by 
a  learn'd  Pen,  to  which  I  have  annext  one  Vindication  by  a  French  Hand,  and  another  (such 
as  it  is)  by  my  self.  St.  Ignatius  being  one  of  the  most  Ancient  Fathers,  and  one  of  the  Noble 
Army  of  Martyrs,  I  thought  this  a  very  suitable  Dedicatio7i  to  Yotcr  Lordship,  who  is  the 
Representative  of  an  Ancient  and  Noble  Family  :  So  ancient  that  you  are  the  Twenty  seventh 
Generation,  in  a  Male  lineal  Descent  from  that  worthy  patriot  Dowgald  de  Seton,  eminently 
Active  in  Restoring  King  Malcom  the  III.  to  his  just  Right  to  the  Crown  of  Scotland:  whose 
Son  Secher  de  Seton,  and  Philip,  Secher's  Son,  were  no  less  Loyal  to  King  Malcom  the  Ill's 
Children,  as  appears  by  King  William's  Charter  of  Cotifirmation  of  the  Lands  of  Seton,  and 
others,  to  Philip  de  Seton,  which  Charter  is  yet  in  Your  Lordship's  Custody,  although  (as 
I  am  inform'd)  some  Documents  of  Honour  are  lately  a  missing,  but  what  you  have  are 
sufficient  to  instruct  the  Heroick  Atchievements  Descents  and  Inter-marriages  of  Your  Noble 
Family :  which  eminent  Antiquaries  are  waiting,  with  Your  Lordship's  allowance,  to  publish 
to  the  World. 

Your  Lordship  is  now  the  Twelfth  Lord  Seton,  and  Fifth  Earl  of  Winton  :  Your  Nobility 
by  Blood  is  so  Lllustrious,  that  it  is  Descended  of  the  Royal  Family,  by  Sir  Christopher's 
Marriage  with  Christin,  Sister  to  King  Robert  the  Bruce,  and  several  Noble  and  Honourable 
Branches  have  sprung  from  Your  Family,  some  still  continuing  in  the  Name,  and  others 
have  been  Ingrafted  into  other  Noble  Families  of  whom  have  sprung  a  Potent  Duke  and  Two 
Noble  Earls  :  As  you  are  Descended  of  the  Kings  of  Scotland,  so  Kings  are  Descended  of  you 
by  a  Daughter  of  the  Family,  who  was  Married  to  the  Earl  of  Lennox,  of  whom  came  John 
Lord  Darnley. 

But  the  Family  is  no  less  Noble  by  Merit,  than  it  is  by  Blood;  for  the  Kingdom  and  its 
Kings  owed  sometimes  their  Safety  and  Deliverance  to  the  Valiant  Heroes,  who  were  Your 

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994  A   MODEL   NOBLEMAN 

Lordship's  Ancestors,  witness  the  foresaid  Sir  Christopher,  who  lost  his  Life  in  his  King  and 
Countrie's  Cause,  and  as  great  an  Estate  in  England,  as  he  had  in  Scotland,  which  then  a 
Days  was  prodigiously  vast. 

And  what  shall  I  say  of  Sir  Alexander  his  son,  nephew  to  King  Robert  the  Bruce,  who 
was  not  an  ordinary  Knight,  being  design'd  not  Miles  Noster,  but  Miles  Patriae,  as  I  have  it 
from  a  learn'd  Herauld,  who  observes  this  from  Publick  Charters,  which  makes  some 
t  Antiquaries  conclude  that  he  was  a  Knight  of  the  most  Ancient  Order  of  St.  Andrew :  He 
was  likewise  honoured  with  a  Coat  of  Augmentation,  the  first  that  Heraulds  find  to  be  given 
in  Britain,  viz. : — A  Sword  Supporting  a  Royal  Crown,  to  shew  that  he  and  his  Predecessors 
had  supported  the  Crown  of  Scotland,  when  in  distress  by  the  English  and  Ballot's  Usurpation. 

His  Fortune  was  likewise  Augmented  by  several  Baronies,  and  might  have  been  greater 
afterwards  by  a  Right  to  the  County  of  Buchan,  which  belonged  to  Lady  Jean  Stewart  Heiress 
thereof,  who  was  married  to  George  Lord  Seton,  in  the  days  of  King  James  the  II.  which 
Your  Lordship's  Family  shews  by  their  Atchievement,  in  which  the  Amies  of  the  Earldom  of 
Buchan  are  quarter 'd,  as  a  Coat  of  Pretension  to  that  Earldom,  since  the  Reign  of  that  King 
with  other  Marks  of  Dignity,  as  being  Master  Houshold  to  the  Royal  Family :  And  yet  for 
all  the  Alterations  and  Changes  that  have  come  upon  great  Fortunes,  very  few  in  the  kingdom 
have  so  plentiful  an  Estate  as  Your  Lordship,  and  none  so  Contiguous,  Compact,  and 
Convenient,  both  for  Sea  and  Land,  for  Casual  and  Real  Rents,  for  Advantages  of  Salt  and 
Coal,  with  the  accommodation  of  pleasant  and  well  inhabited  Towns  and  Villages,  all 
belonging  to  Yourself,  and  that  without  any  addition  to  it  by  Marriages,  Forfeitures  or 
Kirk-Lands. 

In  a  word,  the  Family  has  still  been  Famous  in  Peace  and  in  War,  for  Arts  and  Armes 
as  Loyal  Subjects,  good  Patriots,  kind  Neighbours,  faithful  Friends,  merciful  Landlords  and 
just  Masters ;  so  that  its  Motto  still  holds  true,  Intaminatis  fulget  Honoribics,  That  it  shines 
with  Unstained  Honours. 

And  that  which  weighs  mightily  with  all  Good  and  Virtuous  Men,  is  the  Honour  and 
Honesty  of  Your  Family ;  so  Just  they  have  been  in  Dealings,  that  whatever  Loss  they  have 
been  at  by  others,  yet  no  Man  was  ever  a  Loser  at  their  Hands  in  Principal  or  Annual-rent, 
for  Credit  or  Cautionry.  The  Tradition  of  this  has  been  transmitted  from  Father  to  Son, 
that  both  the  Representatives  and  the  Cadets,  take  great  pleasure  in  telling  this  Story,  and 
good  reason  have  they,  for  Virtue  creates  inward  Joy,  and  is  a  Reward  to  itself. 

And  now,  My  Lord,  I  hope  no  Man  will  call  this  a  Flattering  of  the  Living  to  bring  to 
Remembrance  the  untainted  Loyalty,  Justice,  Hotiour  and  Honesty  of  the  Dead :  For  it  is  but 
what  Printed  and  written  Histories  and  old  Charters  have  conveyed  to  us :  This  may  serve 
as  a  Mirrour  or  Looking-glass  to  the  surviving  Generation,  to  behold  the  Heroick  Actions  of 
their  Predecessors,  and  a  pungent  Motive  to  insist  in  the  beaten  Road  of  Hereditary  Virtue. 

And  'tis  well  known  of  Your  Lordship,  that  You  did  bear  the  Yoak  in  Your  Youth,  and 
You  know  what  Lnjuries  and  Afflictions  are :  And  'tis  as  well  known,  that  if  Justice  in 
Dealing,  owing  no  Man  any  thing  but  Love,  admirable  Temperance,  Looking  to  Business, 
profitable  Recreations,  spending  of  Time  regularly  and  usefully,  shunning  whatever  leads  to 
Riotousness  and  licentious  Living,  abhorring  the  Scandalous  Sparkishness  of  a  loose  Age,  if 
these,  (I  say)  be  a  Mean  to  Preserve  and  Exalt  a  Family,  then  surely  Your  Lordship's 
cannot  perish  in  your  own  Person.  And  therefore  I  conclude  in  the  Words  of  an  English 
Poet, 

Do  as  your  great  Progenitors  have  done, 
And  by  your  Virtues  shew  yourself  their  son. 

This  is  heartily  wish'd  and  pray'd  for  Your  Lordship's  Person  and  Family,  By,  My  Lord,  Your 
Lordship's  most  Humble  Servant,  Rob.  Calder. 


'ANSWER  TO   M.   DE   RODON'  995 

(4)  An  Answer  to  M.  de  Rodoris  Funeral  of  the  Mass,  by  N.  N. — to  SIR  JOHN 
Seton,  first  Baronet  of  Garleton,  1681. 

[The  Funeral  of  the  Mass,  or  the  Mass  dead  and  buried  without  hope  of  Resurrection, 
was  published  in  Edinburgh  in  1681,  and  is  now  extremely  rare.  It  was  written  by  M. 
de  Rodon  of  Nismes,  and  translated  by  S.  A.  He  had  to  flee  to  Geneva  to  escape  the  fire. 
The  book  was  burnt  by  the  common  hangman.  There  was  a  Popish  movement  among 
Edinburgh  publishers  of  the  period,  and  this  little  volume  was  probably  issued  as  a 
counterblast.] 

To  the  Honourable,  Sir,  Iohn  Seton  of  Garleton,  Son  to  Lord  George, 
Late  Earl  of  Winton. 

Sir, — The  great  Obligations,  I  had  to  your  Honour  afore  I  parted  from  Scotland,  claim 
with  much  reason  to  some  Fruit  of  my  Labour.  Be  pleased  then  to  accept  of  a  little  work 
of  mine  from  Flanders. 

I  am  confident  the  Subject  will  please  you,  because  it  is  sutable  to  your  Devotion,  and 
to  the  piety  of  your  most  Noble  and  ancient  Family. 

Our  Saviour  by  the  occasion  of  the  Jews  seeking  him  for  Bread,  spoke  to  them  of  the 
Bread  of  Life,  and  I,  by  the  occasion  of  three  sheafs  of  Corn,  I  find  in  your  Scutchion,  or 
in  the  Honours  of  your  House,  will  speak  to  you,  in  reference  to  the  Subject  of  this  little 
Book,  of  the  Bread,  termed  by  the  Church,  the  Bread  of  the  strong,  I  mean  of  the  most 
Holy  Sacrifice,  and  Sacrament  of  the  Altar. 

Ligor  ne  dispergar  sayes  your  motto,  /  am  bound  lest  I  scatter,  your  glorious  ancestors 
being  united  and  tyed  together  in  the  Faith  of  this  Sacrament,  were  not  scattered  by  the 
Enemies  of  their  Souveraign,  when  helped  by  the  miraculous  valour  in  a  Child  of  the  house 
of  Duglas,  they  galantly  brought  Queen  Mary  out  of  the  Bondage  of  Lockleven,  and  lodged 
Her  safely  the  first  night  in  my  Lord  Seton's  own  House  at  Netheree  in  West  Lothian. 
They  keeping  still  Faith  to  God  and  their  Soveraigns,  after  this  action  spread  even  under 
Persecution,  as  Camamoile  trodden  down,  both  to  more  Wealth  and  Honour. 

'Twas  for  the  Vertue  of  the  Seton's  that  Noble  Motto  invia  virtuti  via  nulla,  no  way 
hard  or  unpassable  to  Vertue,  was  given  them.  And  where,  I  pray,  in  their  perswasion  then, 
and  still  in  yours  is  the  seat  of  Vertue  but  in  this  Bread  of  the  strong  ? 

If  the  Prophet  Elias  refreshed  with  that  Bread,  which  was  only  a  Figure  of  our  Sacrament, 
walked  fourty  days  and  as  many  nights,  wonder  you  that  those  great  Men,  of  whom  you 
have  the  Honour  to  descend,  receiving  it  often  were  quickned  to  generosity,  and  Christian 
Duty  to  King  and  Country  ? 

Sir  Christofer  Seton  by  Robert  A  Bruce,  surnamed  the  Good,  merited  for  his  Devotion 
to  the  Sacrifice  of  the  Mass,  to  have  after  his  Death  the  daily  Sacrifice  offered  for  him,  and 
this  was  perform'd  by  the  same  King  Robert,  whose  Sister  he  had  Married,  for  he  founded 
a  Chapel  near  Dumfrice,  call'd  Christel  Chappel,  and  a  Preist  to  offer  Sacrifice  in  it  for  the 
Soul  of  Good  Sir  Christofer,  as  he  out  of  a  loving  respect  was  pleased  to  call  him.  This 
renowned  Champion  dyed  at  London  as  Honourably  as  Cruelly  by  the  hands  of  the  English, 
whom  he  had  often  stoutly  opposed  and  pestured  in  the  service  of  his  Country. 

But  why  was  Christofer  the  first  his  Predecessor  call'd  more  Devout  than  Worly  ?  But 
because  his  Heart  was  powerfully,  tho  sweetly,  drawn  to  this  Sacrament,  as  Iron  to  a  Load- 
Stone?  Hoc  specialiter,  sayes  Thomas  a  Kempis  1.  4,  de  imit.  Ch.  c.  1.  Devotorum  corda 
trahit,  this  Sacrament  draws  by  a  special  way  the  hearts  of  Devout  People ;  and  thus  from  a 
special  respect  to  this  Sacrament  a  Man  worthily  obtaines  the  tittle  of  Devout. 

Lord  George  the  third  a  Prudent  Man,  and  very  Familiar  with  King  fames  the  third, 
devided  his  Devotion  to  the  Altar  with  his  Lady  Dame  Jeane  Hepburn,  called  by  the 
History  a  Noble  and  Wise  Lady,  Daughter  to  the  Earl  of  Bothuel. 

O  Lord,  said,  the  Royal  Prophet,  /  have  loved  the  beauty  of  thy  House,  Psal.  25. 
Were  not  those  two  great  Souls  inflam'd  with  the  same  Zeal,  when  striving  as  it  were  who 
might  do  best,  they  set  themselves  to  decore  the  Colledg-Church  of  Seton  ? 

The  Lord  paved  and  seiled  the  quire ;  and  the  Lady  raised  an  He  on  the  North-side, 


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and  having  taken  down  that  on  the  South  side,  Built  by  the  Devotion  of  Dame  Catherine 
Sindar,  rebuilded  it  again  with  proportion  to  make  a  perfit  Cross,  and  founded  two  Prebends 
to  serve  the  Altars.  The  Lord,  not  to  speak  of  other  Ornaments,  gave  it  a  compleat  Sute 
of  Cloth  of  Gold  :  And  the  Lady  compleat  Sutes  of  all  the  Colours  of  the  Church,  for  Advent, 
Lent,  Martyrs,  Confessors,  Virgins ;  for  all  the  solemn  Feasts  of  the  Year  of  Purple  and 
Crimson  "Velvet  richly  flower'd  with  Gold,  white  Damask,  6-v.  Not  forgetting  a  Sute  of  black 
Vestiments  for  the  Dead  with  other  fine  Chasubels.  Also  a  great  Silver  Cross,  a  Silver 
Eucharist  Ciborium  or  Remonstrance  for  the  B.  Sacrament  with  a  fair  Chalice  Silver  and 
Gilt,  all  for  the  Majesty  and  Decorement  of  the  Altar. 

Some  may  think  I  had  done  better  in  a  Dedicatory,  to  busie  my  Pen  in  describing  the 
Courage  of  a  Governour  of  Barwick  of  the  House  of  Seton,  who  in  cold  Blood  chused  rather 
to  see  his  Son  violently  put  to  Death  than  to  faile  in  his  trust  to  King  and  Country,  and  in 
such  like  signal  actions  admired  by  Men,  than  in  rehersing  these  liberalities  made  to  the 
Altar,  which  are  but  petty  things  in  the  Eyes  of  worlings. 

But  my  ayme  is  not  so  much  to  shew  the  worly  grandeur  of  your  Family,  as  the 
Devotion  to  this  Mystery,  (which  makes  the  Subject  of  my  Book)  of  the  great  ones  in  it. 
This  their  Devotion  made  them  truly  great.  Take  from  a  Man  the  sense  and  respect  he  has 
for  God,  and  for  what  relates  to  him,  and  what  is  he  with  all  he  has,  or  may  possess  ?  little, 
a  nothing,  an  object  of  contempt.  As  God  dismaly  at  last  slights  them  who  slight  him,  and 
what  regards  his  Honour,  so  he  stupendiously  glorifies  them,  who  have  made  it  their  work  to 
seek  his  Glory,  i  Samuel  2  v.  30.  Live  then  for  ever  Souls  nobly  affected  to  contribute  to 
the  Majesty  of  this  daily  Sacrifice,  which  is  upon  Earth  God's  greatest  Glory. 

O  change  of  times  and  manners!  where  is  he  or  she  in  Scotland  now  a  dayes,  who 
make  it  their  study  to  imitate  those  fore-mentioned  Noble  Persons  ?  What  a  loss  is  the  want 
of  such  for  the  House  of  God !  How  many  poor  Families,  Monasteries,  Churches,  and 
Altars  mourned  at  the  Death,  especially  of  that  pious  Lady  ? 

If  the  monastery  of  Seins  in  Burromure  nigh  Edinburgh  were  standing,  it  would  tell 
you  'twas  hither  she  retired  herself  after  the  decease  of  her  Lord ;  to  attend  in  solitude  with 
more  freedom  to  God.  I  am  now  defac'd,  she  is  Dead,  who  having  chiefly  founded  me, 
while  she  lived,  conserved  me,  and  decored  me. 

Sir,  can  you  forget,  or  not  respect  the  memory  of  so  much  piety?  To  which  they  were 
powerfully  moved  by  the  belief  they  had  of  the  adorable  Sacrifice  of  the  Altar.  As  often  as 
you  see  the  three  Crescents  in  your  Arms,  remember  that  you  must  increase  or  grow  as  they 
did  in  a  lively  Faith  of  this  Mystery,  which  is  the  seed  of  Divine  Love  and  Charity  to  your 
Neighbour.  I  know  you  have  hazarded  something  already  for  your  Faith,  but  if  an  other 
occasion  be  given  you,  mindful  of  one  of  the  Noble  Motto's  of  your  House,  hazard  yet 
further,  in  what  is  prudently  acknowledged  to  be  the  Service  of  God,  there  is  no  danger  to 
be  redouted,  or  so  much  as  apprehended.  Your  very  name  Set-on  minds  you  of  generosity 
in  what  you  act  for  God,  or  may  undertake  for  the  Service  of  his  Vice-gerent  upon  Earth, 
the  King. 

God  and  you  know  best  what  hope  you  have  lay'd  up  in  Heaven,  as  the  Apostle  speaks 
to  the  Colos.  1  v.  5,  But  much  of  Your  Charitie  the  World  has  seen.  I  am  the  Subject  of  a 
notable  part  of  it,  and  Witness  of  your  sheltring  poor  Strangers,  considering  distressed 
Tenents,  clothing  the  naked,  feeding  orphelins,  visiting  the  imprisoned  in  Person,  the  sick 
by  almes,  entring  some  fore-lorne  into  the  number  of  your  domesticks,  and  honestly  burying 
the  Dead,  that  had  no  Friend  or  Relation,  able  to  do  that  Duty.  Such  actions  done  in  the 
Spirit  of  Christ,  make  savour  at  present  in  the  Eucharist,  the  sweetness  of  the  hidden  Manna 
there,  and  will  Crown  hereafter  the  Christian  in  the  solemn  day  of  the  general  Resurrection. 

Infin,  Since  the  Treassures  of  your  Arms  being  Flower  Deludes,  as  good  as  tell  you, 
you  must  flowrish,  strive  to  flowrish  in  the  Faith  of  your  ancestors.  Ambulo  in  fide,  sayes 
the  Author  of  the  Imitation  of  Christ,  /.  4,  C.  11,  exemplis  confortatus  Sanctorum,  I  walk  in 
the  Faith  of  the  Real  Body  and  Blood  of  Christ  in  the  Eucharist,  comfortably  held  in  it  by 
the  example  of  the  Saints,  this  Faith  gives  Men  a  Victory  over  the  World  making  them  fear, 
esteem  and  Love  only  this  God  of  Love,  (a  Love  surprising  in  this  Mystery.)  And  being 
fully  satisfied,  with  the  expected  possession  of  him,  breath  now  after  the  Loveliness  of  his 
Eternity.  This  flowrishing  condition,  I  cordially  wish  you  as  I  am,  Sir,  Your  most  humble 
and  obliged  Servant,  N.  N. 


CAPTAIN   ROBERT  SETON  997 


26.   Inventory  of  the  Papers  of  Captain  Robert  Seton,   Grandson 
of  Sir  George  Seton  of  Hailes. 

1.  Parcel  containing  a  very  large  number  of  receipts  for  money,  and  discharged  accounts 
— not  arranged,  and  of  various  dates,  1 688-1 705. 

2.  An  Edinburgh  Burgess  and  Gild  Ticket — date  illegible. 

3.  Precept  under  the  sign-manual  of  Charles  1.  directed  to  Sir  John  Mallarie,  Kt., 
Governor  of  Skipton,  for  payment  of  ^200  to  Sir  Francis  Cobb.  Dated  at  Newarke,  28th 
October  1645. 

4.  Band  by  David  Litle  in  Tranent  to  Mr.  George  Seatoun  of  Hailes.     8th  May  1649. 

5.  Band  by  James  Dunlape,  Writer,  Edinburgh,  to  Sir  George  Seatton  of  Hailes.  4th 
October  1650. 

6.  Gift  under  the  sign-manual  of  Charles  11.  in  favour  of  Sir  George  Seaton  of  Hailles 
for  the  yearly  pension  of  ^1000  English.     Dated  at  Perth,  26th  November  1650. 

7.  Indenture  between  Dame  Barbara  Cobb,  widow,  and  Sir  William  Cobb.  1st  Decem- 
ber 1677. 

8.  Bond  by  Robert  Seattoun  to  Harie  Sinclair,  writer,  Edinburgh.  London,  19th  August 
1680. 

9.  Agreement  between  Robert  Settoun,  son  to  the  deceased  Robert  Settoun  of  Hailes, 
and  James  Charteris,  W.S.,  on  their  departure  for  London  (to  go  together).  Edinburgh,  15th 
March  1682. 

10.  Letter,  the  Earl  of  Findlater  to  Robert  Seaton,  Cullen.     29th  January  1685. 

11.  Letter  to  Lieutenant  Seton.     9th  May  1687. 

12.  Letter  from  John  Gifford.     2nd  January  1688. 

13.  Commission  under  the  sign-manual  of  James  vn.  to  Robert  Seton  to  be  '  Captain 
Lieutenant,'  dated  1688.     (Imperfect  from  decay.) 

14.  Commission  to  Robert  Seaton  to  be  Captain  in  Sir  Edward  Hale's  Regiment.  27th 
November  1688. 

15.  Attestation  that  Robert  Seaton  has  received  the  Sacrament.     168-. 

16-18.  Three  letters  from  Sir  William  Cobb,  dated  2nd  and  14th  January  and  2nd 
February  1690-91. 

19.  The  Testament  of  Dame  Frances  Smith,  wife  of  Sir  Edward  Smith,  Bart.  28th 
November  1692. 

20.  Letter  from  to  Robert  Seaton,  Esq.     28th  February  1692. 

21.  Obligation  by  Rebecca  Hayes.     Dated  23rd  March  1692-93. 

22.  Letter  from  to  Captain  Seaton.     29th  October  1694. 

23.  Messenger's  Copy  of  Privy  Council  Warrant  for  the  arrest  of  Captain  Seton  for  high 
treason.     Kensington,  23rd  February  1695-96. 

24.  Baile  for  Robert  Seton,  Esq. 

25.  Draft  Letter  of  R.  S.  to  Sir  William  Cobb.     August  1697. 

26.  Letter  to  Lady  Cobb.     29th  June  1699  [89?]. 

27.  Memorandum  of  Accompts  between  T.  W.  and  R.  S.     1695. 

28.  Release  by  Alexander,  Earl  of  Eglinton,  to  his  nephew,  Robert  Seton.  6th  February 
1700. 

29.  Letter  of  Procuratory  (Missive)  by  the  Earl  of  Eglinton  to  Robert  Seton.  21st 
October  1700. 

30.  Articles  of  Agreement  between  Joseph  Sanders  of  Legh  (Leith),  merchant,  Thomas 
Sanders  of  London,  merchant,  and  Robert  Seton.     3rd  November  1701. 

31.  Letter  from  John  Bogle,  Glasfgow],  to  Captain  Robert  Seton.     8th  August  1705. 

32.  Packet  containing  fifteen  letters  of  various  dates  from  Lady  Barbara  Cobb,  a  memo- 
randum-book, and  an  envelope  containing  a  lock  of  the  hair  of  Sir  John  Fenwick,  beheaded 
on  Tower  Hill,  London,  28th  January  1696-7. 

33.  A  Diploma  of  the  University  of  St.  Andrews  to  Master  George  Seton,  with  fine  seal 
attached.     1629. 


998 


SIR  GEORGE   SETON   OF   HAILES 


34.  Household  Book  of  Lady  Barbara  Cobb  from  about  1660  to  1680. 

35.  Ane  Compt  of  the  losses  of  Sir  George  Seattoun  of  Hailes  and  his  Tenants  within 
the  parish  of  Prestonhaugh  since  the  Inglisch  armie  came  into  Scotland.     1650-51. 

36.  Charge  of  the  Money  received  by  James  Millar  of  Gurlabank  belonging  to  Sir  George 
Seattoun  of  Hailes  from  28th  August  1651  to  28th  September  1652. 

The  papers  referred  to  in  the  preceding  Inventory  were  found  in  an  old  trunk  in  one  of 
the  cellars  below  the  dome  of  the  Register  House,  Edinburgh,  in  November  1895,  by  Mr. 
M.  Livingstone,  Deputy  Keeper  of  Records,  to  whom  I  am  indebted  for  the  interesting  list. 
The  annexed  pedigree  will  show  the  relationship  of  several  of  the  persons  referred  to : — 


Hugh,  seventh  Earl  of  Eglinton. 


Sir  George  Seton  of  Hailes. 


Alexander,  eighth 
Earl  of  Eglinton. 


James,  third=LADY  Anne  Montgomerie=Robert  Seton. 
Earl  of  Findlater. 


Captain  Robert  Seton. 


Marie  Seton. 


I  have  hitherto  failed  to  ascertain  the  parentage  of  Sir  George  Seton  of  Hailes,  who, 
before  being  knighted,  appears  in  the  Great  Seal  Register  as  '  Mr.'  and  '  Dr.'  In  the  elaborate 
Diploma  of  the  University  of  St.  Andrews  (No.  33  of  the  Inventory),  he  is  described  as  a 
Doctor  of  Theology  and  a  Fellow  of  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge. 

The  Edinburgh  Burgess  Ticket  (No.  2),  of  which  the  date  is  illegible,  relates  to  either 
the  Robert  Seton  who  married  Lady  Anne  Montgomerie,  or  to  his  son,  also  Robert. 

The  'Attestation'  (No.  15)  is  from  the  Church  of  St.  Martin-in-the-Fields,  Middlesex. 

Sir  William  Cobb  (Nos.  7  and  16)  was  probably  son  and  successor  of  Sir  Francis  Cobb 
(No.  3)  by  his  wife  '  Dame  Barbara.' 

The  'Arrest'  mentioned  in  No.  23  was  in  all  likelihood  connected  with  the  'Assassination 
Plot'  against  William  of  Orange,  in  which  Sir  John  Fenwick  (No.  32)  was  concerned. 


ALEXANDER,  THIRD  EARL  OF  HUNTLY. 


INSTRUCTIONS   BY  LORD  WINTON        999 

27.  Instructions  by  George,  Fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  to 
Sir  George  Ramsay,  1689.1 

Instructiones  be  The  Earle  of  Wintoun  to  Sr  Johne  Ramsay. 

13:  Sep"  1689. 

Instructiones  be  the  Earle  of  Wintoune  to  Sr  Johne  Ramsay  relative  to  his  Comissione 
granted  of  this  dayes  date  for  collecting  his  Lo/  reall  and  Casuall  rent  and  vyrs  yrin 
related  to. 

1.  That  yow  take  Care  that  such  as  yow  Imploy  collect  from  our  tenents  ther  present 
rent  for  the  yeir  Jaj  vjc  &  eightie  nyne,  togither  v*  the  rests  due  be  them  related  to  in  yor 
Comissione  And  that  yr  Cornes  be  secured  and  vyr  legall  diligence  done  against  them  in  so 
far  as  they  have  Moveable  estate  as  accords  And  if  any  ballance  happen  to  remain  due  be 
them  that  the  same  may  be  constitut  by  decreit  or  bond. 

That  all  persones  lyable  to  us  in  pay'  of  q*soever  Soumes  of  money  due  to  ws  by  bond 
compt  releefe  Caiirie  ballances  of  voyadges,  yow  give  ane  exact  list  yrof  to  our  agent  or 
whom  our  Comiss's  shall  think  fit  to  intrust  as  agriet  to  for  that  as  accords  And  q'  money 
shall  be  recovered  from  them  yow  are  to  receive  the  same  and  charge  yorselfe  yrwl  in  yor 
accompt  to  us. 

2.  Yow  are  weeklie  or  monethlie  at  leist  by  yorselfe,  or  qm  yow  apoint  to  audit  our  Casuall 
weeklie  accompts  of  our  coall  and  Salt  and  receive  the  product  yrof  and  allow  of  our  Coalliers 
and  'locadors'  payt  at  leist  to  such  as  shall  not  be  adebted  to  yow  for  the  above  sd  Cropt  or 
lyain  rests  transmitted  to  yow  with  all  Just  and  necessarie  oncost  In  and  about  the  Coall- 
works  And  so  far  as  is  possible  that  the  Coall  greaves  heikers  and  streikers  vnder  and  above 
ground  w*  the  callers  of  the  gin  observe  the  rules  given  be  us  in  relatione  to  the  regulating 
and  takeing  in  the  tikets  of  the  Coall  and  wood  boxes  and  gin  and  receiveing  the  money  and 
ordering  the  '  intakeing '  of  the  weeklie  accompt  yrof  conforme  to  our  partar  instructions 
yranent  recordet  in  our  Sederunt  book  the  third  of  August  last  bypast  And  in  cace  of  anie 
of  the  sds  persones  transgressing  that  yow  fyne  Imprissone  or  put  them  from  yr  employments 
And  Input  and  place  vyrs  w*  consent  of  our  Comissioners  as  yow  and  they  shall  think  fit. 

3.  As  lykewayes  yow  are  to  take  care  that  the  saltgreives  observe  weeklie  the  instructiones 
given  be  us  to  them  and  recordet  in  our  Sederunt  the  ellevinth  of  July  last  bypast  And  in 
cace  of  yr  transgressione  that  they  be  also  proceedet  against  conforme  yrw'  and  put  from  yr 
employments  and  such  vyr  Imployed  in  yr  places  yow  w4,  consent  of  our  sd  Comissioners 
shall  think  fit  And  in  respect  yow  Judge  be  the  qualitie  of  our  Comissione  to  yow  Anent  the 
collecting  of  the  product  of  our  Casualtie  would  obleidge  yow  to  be  lyable  for  our  salters 
debts  or  Intaikes  of  girnells  we  declare  we  meane  no  such  thing  bot  that  yow  should  be  alto- 
gether frie  yrof  onlie  the  greives  and  salters  to  be  lyable  to  us  yrfor. 

4.  That  yow  take  Care  according  to  our  Comissione  that  out  of  the  first  and  readiest  of 
our  estate  yow  punctuallie  pay  to  our  Creditors  yr  ©rents  and  what  bills  we  charge  vpone  yow 
And  what  excressens  yrof  shall  appear  in  ballance  that  yow  pay  the  same  to  such  of  our 
creditors  as  we  or  our  Comissrs  shall  appoint  yow  together  w'  what  expensss  our  sds 
Comissrs  shall  be  necessarlie  at  in  prosecuting  our  Law  affaires  whether  in  persuit  or  defense 
and  in  mannadgeing  our  vyr  affaires  and  estate  Not  exceeding  thrie  punds  Scots  per  diem. 

Thir  four  Instructiones  preceading  are  subscryved  w*  our  hand  att  Seatoune  the  thirteine 
day  of  September  Jaj  vjc  &  eightie  nyne  yeares  Befor  thir  witness^  George  Seton  sone  to 
Sr  Walter  Seton  of  Northbank  Wm  Seton  our  servant  and  James  Smyth  our  clerk  of  Tranent 
wryter  herof  and  of  the  forsds  Instructiones. 

Wintoun. 

Geo:  Seton,  witnes. 

WM  Seton,  witnes. 

JAS  Smythe,  witnes. 

1  Copied  by  the  Rev.   A.   T.   Grant  of    Leven    from   the  original,   in  the   charter-room   at   Whitehill, 
Midlothian. 


iooo  DEBTS   DUE  TO   THE 


Book  Containing  severall  Debts  Due  to  the  Earlle  of  Winttoune 

Anno  1689. 


Ane  List  of  the  Debts  Dew  to  the  Earle  of  Winttoune. 


lib.       sh.     d. 


1.  Inprimis:  be  the  Laird  of  Carristoune  of  prinu  f  @rent  at  Whitsonday 

1689:  is  10279  Lib:  Scots.  It.  of  expenss3-  Inde  of  both  soumes 
payed  be  the  Earlle  ffor  Carristoune    ..... 

2.  It.  Dew  be  the  Maister  of  Kingstoune  qrof  it  is  feared  ye  Earlle  will  not 

get  releefe  of  prin11   1333  lib.  6  sh.  8d.  f  @rent  ffrom  Whitsonday 

1677  is  960  lib.     Inde  in  both  .....         2293     6     8 

3.  It.  Dew  be  the  Viscount  of  Kingstoun  to  the  Earlle  as  assig.  constitute  be 

the  Laird  of  Hoptoune  allowed  to  him  of  the  pryce  of  the  sds  (sic) 
Landes  of  West  Lothian  sold  be  the  Earlle  to  him  3333  lib.  6  sh.  8d. 
f  ©rent  since  1677       . 

4.  It.  Dew  be  Whyt  Robert  Setone  as  pr  accompt  of  prin11 :  4203  =  7=4d. 

©rent  since  Whitsonday  1677  Inde     .....         7986     7     4 
that  he   be   removed  from   his   Land   f  house  f  the  Earll  put  in 
possesione  f  the  same  addit  to  the  rentall. 

5.  It.  Dew  be  Mr  Adam  Kilgowars  aires  of  prin11 :  3909  lib.  2  sh.  8d.  wfc 

@rent  from 

That  as  the  Landes  is  in  the  Earls  possesione  soe  the  relict  may 
be  removed  from  the  few  house  f  the  Earlle  put  in  posse. 

6.  It.  Dew  to  the  Earlle  as  assignay  be  Ard  Waddell  to  ane  apprysing  Led 

at  the  instance  of  Ard  Waddell  in  the  name  of  Mr  Wm  Douglas  Ag* 
the  Marques  of  Douglas  of  prin11 :  1000  lib.  @rent  since 

7.  It.  Dew  be  Andrew  Sincklare  fewer  in  Tranent  pr  accompt  f  bond  of 

prin11:  1200  lib.  f?  ©rent  from  the  daite  .... 

That    possessione   of    his    few   be    taikine    f   the    same   sold   at  ane 
valuabell  pryce  cane  be  had  therefor. 

8.  It.  Dew  be  the  Laird  of  Hoptoune  as  the  remainder  of  his  Land  58000: 

Merks,  to  the  Laird  of  Keir  25000:  Merckes,  to  la:  Mclurge  f  to  Pit- 
meddine  4000:  Mrks,  Inde  remaining  of  the  sd  bond  of  Prin11  2000:  lib. 
w*  ©rent  since  this  debt  allowed  f  Dischairg    .... 

9.  It.  resting  be  Mr  Auchmuttie  as  be  his  bond  of  prin11  supposed  to  be 

240  lib.  w*  ©rents  since  ther  daites      ..... 

Pitmeden  to  be  pershewed  for  this  Debt  being  aire  to  Awhmuttie. 
It.  fyve  bondes  due  be  Setone  of  Munies  for  300  lib.  Scots  wk  ©rent 

since  ye  daites  ........ 

It.  Due  be  the  Laird  of  Brackensyde  of  prin11  1333  : 6  :  8d.  w'  ©rent 

since  the  date  of  the  bond        ...... 

It.  Dew  be  the  Earlle  of  Dunefermling  I466=i3=4d.  prin11  w' ©rent 

since  the  date  of  the  bond  being  .  .  .  .  .       ,, 

13.  It.  Due  be  the  Laird  of  Parttoune  be  bond  of  Prin11  3200  lib.  wk  ©rent 

since  the  date  of  the  bond       .  .  .  .  . 

14.  It.  Clame  agfc  the  Marques  of  Hunttlie  prin11  Mr  John  Innies  ?  the  Laird 

of  Latterfarrie  Caurs  which  wes  the  Ladie  Setons  towcher  being 
20000:  lib.  &  ©rent  since         ...... 

15.  It.  Clame  ag*  the   Marques   of  Douglas   for  releefe   of  the  Earlle  of 

Abercornes  Caurie  for  which  the  sd  Marques  receved  the  pryce  of  the  ,'■ 

Lands  of  Paislie  from  the  Lord  Cochrine  qch  wes  disponed  be  the 
Earlle  of  Abercorne  for  releefe  of  the  sd  Caurie  22000  lib.  w*  ©rent 
since  ye  dait  of  the  Disposi'ne  . 


FOURTH   EARL  OF  WINTON 


IOOI 


16.  It.  thrie  nynttine  yeirs  tack  of  Geo:  Younges  Land  in  West  Lowthiane 
to  rune  after  his  death  valued  to  500  lib.  Scots  pr  annum  or  yrby  qrof 
Sir  Walter  Seton  is  to  bring  eist  a  list  of  the  tennendries  yearly  pay- 
ment to  the  effect  ye  same  after  his  death  may  come  to  the  E  behoofe. 
It  is  to  be  considered  wher  all  Geo:  Younges  Landes  lyes  w*  the 
particulare  bounding  of  each  aicker  &  qr  the  same  are  dispersed  t?  be 
qom  possesit  f  y*  each  year  yr  be  ane  new  List  of  the  posesors  of  it  f 
what  is  the  present  rent  therof  both  be  himselfe  t3  the  particulare 
subtennants  :    . 

It.  Due  be  ye  aires  of  Baillie  McClaire  be  bond  of  prin11  w4, 

@rent  since  ye  dait  of  ye  sd  bond. 

To  inquire  for  ye  diligence  done  be  Mr  Da:  Balfoure  ag*  his  salt  pans 
be  adjudicate  ?  agst  his  salt  be  ariestment. 

It.  Due  be  Baillie  Hendersons  aires  by  bond  f  adjudicatione  of  his  house 
f?  salt  pans  of  prin11  &  @rent  since. 

It.  Due  upon  ye  esteate  of  Aldinstoune  qch  wes  acquired  from  Marione 
Craige  be  Ja.  Smyth  for  the  E:  behoofe.  Ye  pap1*  are  in  Mr  Drum- 
monds  custodie  for  drawing  ane  translate  therof  in  favours  of  the 
Earle 

It.  Dew  be  Mr  David  Balfoure  for  his  intromissione  w*  ye  Earls  propertie 
housse  in  Cockeny  the  soume  of  ....  . 

It.  Due  be  him  of  prin11  f  @rent  yrof  by  bond 

Due  one  accompt  of  the  Coalers  boxe  is  .  .  .  ... 

It.  that  ye  housse  f  salt  pans  in  Ppans  acqyred  be  Mr  Da:  Balfore  for  y° 
E:  behoofe  from  Baillie  Smettoune  in  Haddingtoune  f? 
Ro*sone  be  disposed  of  at  a  valuable  rate  f  the  rent  of  the  Sitte  (?) 
house  considered  one  qm  they  may  be  chairged 

It.  due  be  the  tennants  as  pr  partticulare  list  seigned  be  Mr  Drumond 
his  Intromissione  ....... 

It.  by  ane  seigned  list  during  Ja:  Smythes  Intromissione 

It.  be  brewers  Ditto  space  ...... 

It.  a  seigned  list  during  Geo:  Setone  his  Intromissiones  Crope  1686  f 
1687:.  ........ 

It.  the  balance  of  the  Crope  1688 :  after  the  tennants  are  Accompted 
w*  be  Georg  Seton  In  pfis  of  Sir  Jo:  Ramsay  .... 

It.  be  the  brewers  in  :  86 :  f  87  : 


lib.   sh.  d. 


2700  o  o 

3830  o  o 

1700  o  o 

7134  1  9 


3739  J3  2 


Ane  Just  extract  out  of  the  Cap'nes  Leger  of  soume  dew  one  accompt  of 

ye  voyadges. 
List  of  thes  that  are  still  due  to  the  Earlle. 


Baillie  Kirkwood  in  Dumbar  as  the  ballance  of  a  Loading  of  Salt  sent  to 

Dumbar  f  sold  be  him 
Sir  Jo:  Ramsay 
Ja:  Smyth  clerk  of  Tranent     . 
James :  Ramsay 
James  :  Wilsone  in  Winttoune 
James  Smyth  architector  for  wainscott  planckes 

ffor  carrying  Ditto     . 
Ro4  Black  in  Dumbar 

Da:  Gray  ..... 
James  Slushes  aires  Debitor  for  650  bolls  salt 
Wm  Gerard  for  36  Chaldrs  salt  as  pr  Contract 


6L 


lib.     sh.     d. 


205     0 

0 

30    0 

0 

12     0 

0 

1216     0 

0 

272 
096 

0 
0 

°} 

33     0 
368     0 

1   10 
4  10 

975     0 
900     0 

0 

0 

0 
0 
0 
0 

Totall  is 

1002 


ACCOUNTS   OF  THE 


List  of  the s  who  heath  intrometed  w*  returnes  and  to  accompt 
therfor  to  the  Earlle. 


Norman :  Blackader    . 
Ro*:  Ballinden 
Ja:  Trottar       . 

Ro*  Seton  of  Munckmylne  for  yron    .  .  .  447  = 

ffor  Leither  to  Alexr  Wobster    .  .  184 

Jo:  Buchannan 
Wm  Jacke  for  ten  barrils  tare 

Tho:  Wawch  for  glass  imported  in  the  voayedge  fro  brem 
The  Earls  accompt  for  the  wairehouse  his  Lo/  :  house  of  Seton  Winttoune  \ 


15  =  6  \   {sic) 
0=0  J    x    ' 


Lib. 

sh. 

d. 

6i5 

0 

O 

S44 
206 

7 
0 

0 
0 

658 

15 

6 

140 

0 

0 

70 

0 

0 

2S8 

0 

0 

salt  pans  pr  accompt  the  Captin  is  to  get  atested  wnder  the  serall  \     2 141     2     9 


Geo: 
Ro' 


intrometers  and  worckmens  handes 

Seton  out  of  the  seall  voayadges  accompt  for     . 

Seton  of  Munckmylne  to  accompt  for  Tho:  Coocke  t  Ja:  fforsters 
Loading  salt  to  Grinoocke  no  Chaldr  salt  aboord  of  Coocke  f  s2 
Chaldr  aboorde  off  fforrester  in  all  162  Chaldr  qrof  the  debt  @rent 
mentioned  to  be  due  be  James  Sluches  aires  is  a  pairt 


3793     6     5 


8426  11     9 


Accompt  of  what  is  resting  of  the  Seals  of  Wynes  over  £  above  Captane 


Colinson  and  Mr  Alexr  Drummond  ther  intromissions  yrof  f  Chairged 

in  ther  seall  accompts. 

Hheads,         Lib.     sh.   d. 

Ro*  Seton  of  Munkmylne     . 

40             62     0     0 

Widow  Balfouer                             | 

41           124     0     0 

Jo:  Buchannan 

S     1          108  13    4 

Ja:  Trottar  . 

6     1           252     0     0 

Da:  Murry   . 

5     0          276  12     0 

ffrancis  Broune 

8     0          624     0     0 

Mr  James  Lawder 

4     0           312     0     0 

Mris  Ogalvie 

2     3           204     0     0 

Androw  Niccolle 

4     0           312     0     0 

Ard  Purvis    . 

10             78     0     0 

Ard  Trent     . 

02             44     0     0 

Garmeltoune 

10             78     0     0 

Wm  Simpsone 

3     0           122     0     0 

Widow  Cranstoune 

30             36     0     0 

Agnis  Andersone 

41           364     0     0 

Wrighthouss 

10             78     0     0 

Viscount  of  Kingstoune 

2     0           156     0     0 

Christopher  Knouls 

2     1           147     0     0 

Wm  Heriot   . 

33           240     0     0 

Ro*  Yeaman  ffor  Alexr  Loraine 

2     0           156     0     0 

Mra  Byres     . 

20             76     0     0 

Widow :  Livingstoune 

20             66     0     0 

Widow :  ffinlaw 

10             66     0     0 

M™8 :  Jonstoune 

10             78     0     0 

Baillie  Strawchan 

8     0           168     0     0 

FOURTH   EARL  OF  WINTON 


1003 


Hheads. 

Lib. 

sh. 

d. 

Widow :  Morisone     .             .            .             .            .             .            .01 

52 

0 

0 

Lyvetenant  Collonell  Murray 

1      O 

78 

0 

0 

Ro4  Hoge  in  Winttoune 

1      0 

28 

0 

0 

Alexr  Skine  for  (sic) . 

2      0 

74 

0 

0 

Alexr  Bruntfield 

1      0 

78 

0 

0 

James  :  Ramsay 

2      0 

132 

0 

0 

John  :  Maxwell 

4     0 

264 

0 

0 

Wm  :  Somervaill 

2      0 

44 

0 

0 

John  :  Hendersone  of  Crouckstoune 

2      0 

156 

0 

0 

Baillie  Douglas         .... 

2      0 

78 

0 

0 

My  Lord  Ballinden  . 

1      0 

78 
5290 

0 
S 

0 

4 

Continues  Debts  Dew  to  the  Earlle. 

It.  Sr  Wm  Sherp's  Debts  of  1700:  lib.  be  bond  wb  @rent  since  the  daite  being 

It.  the  debt  due  be  the  Earle  of  Dumfermling  for  qch  ther  wes  actione  intendit  befor  ye 

Lords  ag*  ye  Laite  Earle  f  renewed  ag4  the  Laite  Earlle. 
It.  Barnes  his  reliefe  of  Caurie  for  3000:  M.  f  ©rents  therof  f  of  8000:  M.  w'  @rents  yrof. 
It.  to  Remember  that  ye  Earls  bond  to  Sawghtoune  is  for  8000:  M:  notwithstanding  ther  wes 

never  more  payed  but  3000:  M.  as  appears  by  Sawghtounes  Declara'ne  in  old  Barrines 

his  custodie  that  is  to  be  adverted  to  y'  the  Earlle  may  be  cliered  therof. 
It.  ballance  due  by  Ro'  Setone  of  Munckmylne  his  intromissione  w*  our  Caswalitie  prior  Jary 

1688  is  also  to  be  persewed. 
It.  James  :  Watt :  his  ballance,  till  ...  of  June  last  w4  what  elese  he  can  be  chairged  w4 

one  our  accompt. 

The  Parlar  forgoeing  soumes  as  they  are  expressed  in  this  f  the  faive  preciding  paidges  dwe 
to  ws  be  the  Parlar  persones  therin  mentioned  In  cace  of  not  ffriendlie  w*  owr  commis- 
sioners they  are  to  procied  to  persew  them  w4  all  diligence  as  wittnes  owr  hand  at 
Seatoune  the  threttint  day  of  Sepr  Jaj  vj°  &  aughttie  nyne  years. 


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ACCOUNT  AND   DISCHARGE 


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29.  Herald  Painter's  Account  against  George,  Fifth  Earl  of 
Winton.     (From  the  original  at  Duns  Castle.) 

Accompt  the  Right  hon"  the  {Fifth']  Earle  of  Winton  to  Henry 
ffraser  Herauld  Painter. 


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Impr.  for  painting  and  gilding  the  Earles  whole  Acheivement  with  supporters 
christ  and  motto  all  within  a  manto  upon  a  lairge  skine  of  fyne  vellum  with 
four  divisis  one  at  each  corner  all  richly  done  .... 

June  1 7 14.  It.  for  painting  and  gilding  ane  chariot  four  coats  of  airms  and 
tuo  divisis  upon  the  litle  pannells  carriage  and  wheels 

It.  for  work  of  painting  agried  upon  and  delivered  to  his  Lop.    . 


It.  Accompt  of  charges  debursed  by  the  sd  Henry  ffraser  in  useing  dilligence 

ag*  James  Menzies  coatchwright  by  ye  E.  order. 
Impr.  regs'ing  ye  contract  betuixt  George  porteous  and  his  Lop.  in  ye  Abay 

court  books  .... 

It.  intimating  ye  assignation  by  porteous  to  him 
It.  chargeing  Menzies  upon  ye  contract  by  ye  officer 
It.  act  of  warding  yrupon 
It.  when  Menzies  absconded  and  lurked  that  he  could  not  be  apprenhended  by 

the  act  of  warding  and  raising  horning 
It.  chargeing  him  by  a  messr  yron 
It.  denunceing  regs'ing  and  raising  Caption 
It.  to  ye  Mes?r  that  apprehended  Menzies 
It.  for  ye  dues  of  ye  Tolbuith 


Summa  totalis 


30.  Discharge  by  George  Seton,  Fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  in  the 
Tower  of  London,  17 16.  (Copied  from  the  original  by  Mr.  [now 
Sir]  William  Fraser,  S.S.C.) 

[Referred  to  at  p.  258  note  2.] 

We,  George,  Earle  of  Wintoun,  Lord  Seton  and  Tranent,  and  the  Miles,  etc.,  Grant  us 
to  have  received  now  and  of  before  since  our  comeing  into  the  Touer  of  London  from 
Elizabeth  Stevensone,  Relick  of  Archibald  Pittcairne  of  that  Ilk,  doctor  of  Medicine,  the 
soume  of  ,£12,000  Scotts  money,  In  Reall  and  trew  value  at  London,  without  including 
exchange  or  any  other  charge,  which  soume  with  the  Exchange  and  charges  we  oblige  our- 
selves, our  aires  and  successores,  to  allow  to  the  said  Elizabeth  Stevensone  at  compting  for 
her  Intromission  with  the  Rents  of  our  Estaite,  had  or  to  be  had  by  hir  according  to  the 
Comission  granted  by  us  for  that  effecte  : 

In  Wittnes  whereof  (written  by  Charles  Menzies  of  Kinmundie  in  Scotland)  we  have 
subscryved  ther  presents  att  and  within  the  Tour  of  London,  this  sixth  day  of  February  171 6 
years,  before  these  wittnesses,  John  Stewart,  our  servitor,  and  the  said  Charles  Menzies. 

Wintoun.1 

John  Stewart,  Witness. 

Cha:  Menzies,  Witness. 


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1  A  facsimile  of  the  signature  will  be  found  at  p.  280. 


ioo6  MEMORANDUM    RELATIVE  TO 


31.  Memorandum  by  Sir  Walter  Elliot  of   Wolfelee,  and   Notes 
by  the  Author  relative  to  George,  Fifth  Earl  of  Winton. 

'Wolfelee,  Hawick,  15M  Octr.  1871. 

1  Dear  Mr.  Seton, — I  have  now  the  pleasure  to  send  you  the  memorandum  I  made 
about  the  soi-disant  male  representative  of  the  last  Earl  of  Winton,  of  which  I  told  you  the 
last  time  we  met. 

'  It  is  quite  in  the  rough,  just  as  I  wrote  it  in  the  little  inn  at  Bellingham. 

'  I  would  have  sent  it  sooner,  but  I  have  been  little  at  home  since  August  till  now. 
Let  me  have  it  again  when  you  have  done  with  it. — Yours  truly,  Walter  Elliot. 

'  There  is  little  doubt,  I  think,  that  Margaret  M'Clear  was  the  Earl's  mistress. 
'George  Seton,  Esq.' 

Seton,  Earl  of  Winton. 

'May  19,  1868.  Being  on  my  way  to  Whalton  to  see  my  brother  John,  Maria  and  I 
halted  at  Bellingham,  having  come  from  Saughtree  by  the  9.53  train  a.m.,  which  reaches 
Reedsmouth  at  n,  and  the  Wandsbeck  line  train  does  not  leave  till  3.30  p.m.  We  therefore 
remained  at  Bellingham,  where  there  is  good  accommodation,  and  drove  to  Reedsmouth, 
which  is  only  \\  mile,  at  3  o'clock. 

'  Remembering  that  Wm.  Oliver  had  told  me,  when  at  Langraw  a  few  days  before,  that 
he  had  got  a  curious  bronze  implement  from  a  remarkable  man  residing  at  Bellingham,  a 
saddler  named  Seton,  who  claimed  to  be  the  last  representative  of  an  ancient  noble  family, 
brought  to  ruin  by  the  Rebellion  of  1715  (Wm.  O.  believed  the  Earl  of  Derwentwater),  I 
made  inquiry  for  him,  and  learnt  that  he  had  died  some  14  or  15  years  before.  An  old 
woman,  "who  did  for  him,"  was,  however,  stated  to  be  living  near,  and  I  accordingly  called 
upon  her.  Her  name  was  Margaret  Walker.  She  was  connected  with  Seton,  and  had 
attended  him  at  his  death.  The  only  remnant  she  possessed  was  a  ms.  which  contained  an 
account  of  a  process  in  Edinburgh  by  which  Seton  proved  his  title  as  heir  of  line  before  an 
inquest  ordered  by  the  Court  of  Session  in  1825.  She  complained  that  a  half-brother  named 
George  Walker,  a  mason  in  N.  Shields,  had  come  to  Bellingham  after  Seton's  death,  claimed 
his  property  as  heir-at-law,  and  carried  away  everything  else.  I  took  the  MS.  to  the  hotel, 
and  extracted  from  it  Seton's  genealogy  and  some  of  the  evidence,  which  is  given  on  the 
next  page,  and  then  returned  it. 

'  When  I  was  writing,  Mr.  Young,  the  U.P.  clergyman  of  the  place,  called  on  me.  He 
had  heard  I  was  making  inquiries  about  Seton,  and  came  to  give  me  any  information  I 
required,  as  he  had  known  Seton  well,  who  had  been  one  of  his  congregation,  and  because 
the  old  woman  was  not  a  good  character  nor  altogether  to  be  depended  on.  He  described 
Seton  as  a  fine-looking,  handsome  man,  proud  of  his  descent,  and  holding  himself  somewhat 
aloof  from  his  own  class  in  life.1  He  was  a  strictly  religious  man,  a  rigid  Calvinist,  well  read 
in  polemical  divinity,  a  great  admirer  of  Toplady,  and  fond  of  discussing  abstruse  points  of 
divinity.  He  had  given  some  trouble  to  Mr.  Young's  predecessor  by  his  zeal  against 
unfaithful  members  of  the  congregation  ;  but  Mr.  Young  always  found  him  a  strictly  upright 
and  rigidly  conscientious  good  man.  He  was  fond  of  antiquities,  and  had  a  collection  of 
coins.     When  he  went  to  Edinburgh  to  prove  his  descent,  several  friends  advanced  money  to 


1  '  Some  years  ago  a  young  man  in  humble  life  came  not  prosecuted  ;  but  of  one  fact  there  could  be  no 

forward  to  claim  the  restoration  of  the  forfeited  titles  doubt,  that  the  young  man  so  nearly  resembled  the 

of  the  Setons,  Earls  of  Winton,  his  grandfather  having  sons  of  the  seventh  Lord  Seton,  as  represented  in  a 

been  assured  that  he  was  a  legitimate,  though  obscurely  family  picture  painted  by  Antony  More,  that  he  might 

born,  son  of  the  noble  who  lost  honours  and  lands  by  have  passed  for  their  brother.     These  persons  lived  in 

joining  in  the  insurrection  of  1715.     From  want  of  the  latter  half  of  the  sixteenth  century. — 'Persistency 

evidence,  the  claim  was  a  hopeless  one,  and  it  was  of  Family  Features, '  Chambers' s  Journal,  July  5, 1845. 


THE   FIFTH   EARL  OF  WINTON  1007 

enable  him  to  do  so,  apparently  under  the  mistaken  idea  that  he  might  thereby  recover  his 
estates.  During  his  last  illness,  Mr.  Young  advised  him  to  make  his  Will.  He  begged  him 
to  draw  one  up  directing  his  effects  to  be  sold,  his  debts  paid,  and  a  tombstone  erected  to 
his  memory,  detailing  his  genealogy  and  the  success  of  his  appeal  to  the  Court  of  Session. 
But  before  he  could  sign  it,  this  woman  Walker  and  the  doctor  attending  him  laid  their  heads 
together  and  dissuaded  him  from  doing  so  immediately,  the  doctor  telling  him  he  had  many 
days  to  live.  The  Will  was  thus  left  unexecuted,  and  on  his  death,  which  followed  immediately 
after  Mr.  Young  left  him,  these  people  plundered  the  old  man's  effects.  When  the  heir-at-law, 
his  cousin,  George  Walker,  came  from  Shields,  he  claimed  the  property,  and  the  matter  was 
decided  in  the  County  Court  in  his  favour,  and  he  recovered  some  of  the  things.  There  was 
a  handsome  ebony  cabinet  which  had  been  presented  to  or  acquired  by  one  of  the  Earls  of 
Winton  abroad,  which  went  to  Shields.  There  was  also  an  old  pocket-Bible  which  had 
belonged  to  the  last  Earl,  which  George  Seton  had  promised  to  Mr.  Young.  This,  which 
disappeared  in  the  sack  of  the  house,  was  given  to  Mr.  Young  by  George  Walker.  It  is  a 
small  i8mo,  printed  at  Oxford  in  1698,  with  the  New  Testament,  1696,  and  the  metrical 
Psalms,  Sternhold  and  Hopkins'  version.  Margaret  Walker  appears  to  have  been  a  person 
of  indifferent  character.  She  said  herself  she  never  had  agreed  with  Seton,  and  that  it  was 
only  in  his  last  illness  that  she  had  attended  on  him. 

'  There  was  no  writing  of  any  kind  in  the  Bible,  only  a  loose  book-plate  of  Ralph  Seton, 
the  shield,  quarterly,  the  arms  of  Seton,  three  crescents  within  a  double  tressure,  and  those  of 
Buchan,  three  garbs.' 

'  Substance  of  the  Deposition  taken  in  1825. 

'Charles  Seton's  mother  came  to  Bellingham,  where  he  was  born,  before  the  rising  of 
1 715,  and  was  confined  there  in  1711  when  on  her  way  to  Dilston.  The  infant  was  nursed 
by  Michael  Thomson  of  Roxty,  and  reared  at  Denterly  in  Bellingham,  afterwards  at  Brear- 
ridge,  worked  for  Edward  Charlton  of  Hesley-side.  The  Countess  was  confined  in  the 
house  of  William  Robson  at  Bellingham,  then  the  principal  inn,  being  taken  in  premature 
labour  on  her  way  to  Dilston,  the  seat  of  the  Earl  of  Derwentwater.  She  was  attended  on 
the  occasion  by  Mary  Weir,  the  innkeeper,  Robson's  daughter,  and  by  Jane  Cameron  of 
Bellingham.  After  a  month  the  Countess  went  away,  leaving  the  child  with  Michael 
Thomson.  She  also  left  provision  for  maintenance,  and  two  rings,  and  supplied  money 
afterwards  from  time  to  time.  After  the  failure  of  the  rising  in  1715  Lord  Winton  came  in 
disguise  to  Berwick,  and  sent  instructions  to  Michael  Thomson  to  bring  the  child  there ;  but 
before  this  was  effected  the  Earl  was  obliged  to  fly,  and  escaped  to  Rome. 

'  In  Michael  Thomson's  deposition  the  aunt  (?)  is  called  Catharine  Maclear,  and  lived  at 
Prestonpans. 

'  An  inquisition  was  made  before  a  jury  summoned  by  order  of  the  Court  of  Session  on 
a  petition  presented  to  the  Bailies  of  the  Canongate,  which  served  Charles  (George  ?)  Seton 
heir-male  of  line  in  general  to  his  great-grandfather,  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  on  the 
25th  July  1825.     A.  M'Cheyne,  W.S.,  Chancellor  of  the  Jury,  and  Alexander  M'Dougal  B. 

'  Retoured  5th  July  1825. 

'  The  evidence  of  the  witnesses  taken  in  Northumberland  and  at  Prestonpans,  etc.,  was 
given  in  full,  as  shortly  stated  in  the  notes  to  the  pedigree,  after  which  came  extracts  from 
Registers,  several  letters  from  Catharine  M'Clear  to  her  nephew,  Charles  Seton,  the  return  of 
the  Jury,  the  Retour,  etc.  The  ms.  was  not  perfect,  and  had  contained  more,  but  several 
pages  at  the  beginning  and  end  were  missing. 

'  The  pedigree  does  not  agree  with  that  given  by"  Douglas,  and  is  evidently  wrong  in 
several  particulars.  George,  fourth  Earl,  appears  to  have  lived  some  years  with  his  second 
wife,  Christian  Hepburn,  before  marriage,  and  his  two  sons  by  her,  George,  fifth  Earl,  and 
Christopher,  were  both  born  before  wedlock,  so  that  their  cousin,  Lord  Kingston,  was  disposed 
to  dispute  George's  succession.  Douglas  describes  both  as  dying  unmarried.  The  flaw  in 
the  Bellingham  pedigree  is  evidently  the  marriage  of  the  fifth  Earl  with  Margaret  Maclear, 
who  was  probably  his  mistress.  W.  E.' 


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NOTES   FROM   SESSION   PAPERS  1009 

During  a  short  visit  to  Tynemouth  in  the  summer  of  1873,  I  succeeded,  with  some 
difficulty,  in  tracing  the  widow  of  George  Walker  (referred  to  in  Sir  W.  Elliot's  Memorandum) 
to  South  Shields,  where  she  kept  a  small  furniture-broker's  shop  in  a  miserable  slum  adjoining 
St.  Hilda's  Church,  being  married  to  a  third  husband  named  Rogerson.  Her  first  husband, 
George  Walker,  sold  the  cabinet  to  a  namesake  of  his  own,  then  Mayor  of  North  Shields, 
shortly  after  the  death  of  George  Seton  of  Bellingham,  to  help  to  pay  the  expenses  of  the 
litigation  referred  to  in  the  memorandum.  She  thought  he  got  about  ,£20  for  it,  but  did  not 
know  whether  the  purchaser  is  alive,  or  indeed  anything  about  him.  No  doubt,  however,  the 
cabinet  might  still  be  traced.  She  thought  there  was  nothing  of  an  armorial  or  other  character 
to  connect  it  with  the  Seton  family.  It  was  ornamented  with  carvings  of  incidents  in 
Scripture  history,  including  (as  she  said)  Samson  killing  Goliath  !  The  only  other  things  now 
in  her  possession  that  belonged  to  Seton  are: — (1)  a  common  modern  eight-day  clock,  with 
the  full  Winton  arms  and  '  George  Seton '  painted  above  the  face ;  (2)  the  same  arms  (also 
modern)  worked  in  silk  on  a  piece  of  white  satin  in  a  frame ;  (3)  a  few  papers  and  letters 
connected  with  Seton's  claim  to  the  Winton  title ;  also  a  vellum  pedigree  showing  his  alleged 
descent,  as  embraced  in  the  memorandum.  Her  first  husband  went  to  America  and  died 
there  about  the  year  1862.  By  him  she  had  thirteen  children,  of  whom  only  three  (two 
sons  and  a  daughter)  survived.  The  elder  son  and  the  daughter  (Catharine)  were  in  Texas, 
doing  well,  and  the  daughter  had  in  her  possession  '  Lady  Seton's  Ring,'  with  date  and  initials, 
the  latter  being  those  of  Margaret  M'Clear,  the  alleged  wife  of  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton.  The 
younger  son,  George  Seton-Walker,  was  in  this  country.  George  Walker's  mother  was  Ann 
Seton,  cousin  of  George  Seton  of  Bellingham.  Mrs.  Rogerson  entertained  a  strong  grudge 
against  the  Bellingham  doctor  (Rutledge)  mentioned  in  the  memorandum.  She  not  only 
believed  that  Seton  was  the  undoubted  representative  of  the  family  of  Winton,  but  also  that, 
on  his  death,  her  husband's  children  inherited  the  honours  ! 

32.  Notes  from  the  Session  Papers  (Arniston  Collection),  and 
other  Sources,  relative  to  the  Sale  of  the  forfeited  Winton 
Estates. 

The  four  following  Advertisements  appeared  in  the  Scots  Courani  during  1719-20  : — 
(1)  Edinburgh,  August  20th,  1719.1 

By  order  of  the  Commissioners  and  Trustees  for  the  Forfeited  Estates  in  Scotland,  this  is 
to  give  notice  that  on  the  6th  day  of  October  next,  at  10  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon,  will  be 
exposed  to  sale  by  cant  or  auction  at  the  said  Commissioners'  and  Trustees'  office  in  Edin- 
burgh, the  forfeited  real  estate  of  George,  late  Earl  of  Winton,  consisting  of  the  Baronies  of 

Neat  Annual  Produce. 


Winton 

Longnidry 

Seton     . 

Cockenzie 

Tranent 

Two  Coal-mines 

and  twelve  Salt-pans    . 

.     ^267     6     o\  Sterling 
691   10     7I        „ 
704  15     9 
•       ,£25    12    IO^ 

706     s   10  \    1731   18     8 
1000     0    oj 

Total        .            .  ^3395  II  0I 

All  lying  within  the  shire  of  East  Lothian,  eight  miles  to  the  east  of  Edinburgh,  and  thirty 
from  Berwick,  on  the  coast  of  the  Frith  of  Forth.  Particulars  whereof  and  of  the  terms  of  sale 
may  be  had  at  the  said  office,  and  at  Mr.  M'Euen's,  bookseller  in  Edinburgh. 

Thomas  Pringle,  Secretary. 

(From  the  Scots  Courant,  No.  2147,  Aug.  21-24,  I7I9-) 


1  Some  previous  notices  had  been  published  addressed  to  the  Claimants  on  Winton  and  the  other  forfeited 
estates. 

6  M 


ioio         NOTES   FROM   SESSION   PAPERS 

(2)  Advertisement  of  the  sale,  at  the  same  time,  of '  the  Right  of  Superiority  of  the  East 
third  part  of  the  lands  of  Aldingstone,  commonly  called  Green-dykes,  with  the  pertinents,  and 
of  that  husband-land  and  fourth  part  of  a  husband-land  of  Longniddry,  commonly  called 
Chesterhall,  lying  on  the  south  part  of  the  King's  highway,  leading  from  the  House  of  Seton 
to  Haddingtoun,  near  to  St.  German's,  ...  as  also  the  right  of  superiority  of  the  lands  of 
St.  German's,  with  the  pertinents,'  which  were  holden  taxward  and  feu  respectively  of  George, 
late  Earl  of  Winton. 

(From  the  Scots  Courant,  No.  2159,  Sept.  18-21,  1719.) 

(3)  The  same  day  (October  6th,  17 19),  at  10  o'clock,  the  real  estate  of  George,  late 
Earl  of  Winton,  was  exposed  to  sale  by  the  Honourable  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry,  at 
their  office  in  Edinburgh,  when  the  same  was  sold  in  parcels,  and  purchased  by  the  following 
gentlemen,  viz.  : — 

The  barony  of  Winton,  by  Robt.  Hacket,  Esq.,  for       .  .    ^5,600     o     o  Sterling. 

„  Longniddry,  by  Robt.  Hacket,  Esq.,  for  .      14,000     00         „ 

The  baronies  of  Seton,  Cockenzie,  and  Tranent,  with  the  two 

coal-mines  and  twelve  salt-pans,  by  John  Wicker,  Esq.,  for      30,700     00         ,, 
And  the  right  of  superiority  of  Greendykes,  St.  German's,  etc., 

by  William  Menzies  of  Gladstanes,  for       .  .  .  182     o     o        ,, 

(From  the  Scots  Courant,  No.  2166,  Oct.  5-7,  1719.) 

(4)  The  Governor  and  Company  of  undertakers  for  raising  Thames  Water  in  York 
Buildings,  London,  do  hereby  give  notice  that  having  purchased  the  estates  of  the  late  Earls 
of  Winton  and  Panmuir,  Viscount  of  Kilsyth,  and  Mr.  Crow,  they  are  ready  to  let  the  same, 
or  any  parcels  thereof,  to  the  present  tenants,  or  any  other  person  or  persons,  for  a  long  term 
of  years,  that  so  the  tenants  may  be  encouraged  to  improve  the  lands.  Application  to  be 
made  to  Mr.  John  Billingsley,  Mercers'  Hall,  London. 

(From  the  Scots  Courant,  No.  2224,  Feb.  17-19,  1720.) 

York  Buildings  Company  v.  Alexander  Mackenzie. 

(Session  Papers,  Arniston  Collection,  Vol.  162,  Nos.  10,  11,  14,  and  15.) 

17 15-16.  Forfeiture  of  the  Winton  Estates. 

1 7 19.  Purchased,  along  with  others,  from  the  Government  by  the  York  Buildings 
Company. 
dr.  1732.  The  Company  executed  a  trust-deed  in  favour  of  certain  creditors,  their 
affairs  having  become  seriously  involved. 
Various  processes  of  ranking  and  sale  were  subsequently  raised,  and  on — 
— June  24,  1777        the  whole    of   their    estates   within    Scotland  (except    Kilsyth)   were 
sequestrated. 
George  Buchan  Hepburn,  Advocate,  appointed  Factor,  vice  Mr.  Elphinston 
(brother-in-law  of  Alexander  Mackenzie,  W.S.),  who  was  chosen  Sheriff 
of  Aberdeen. 
Aug.  6         ,,      Alexander  Mackenzie,  W.S.,  appointed  Common  Agent. 
Feb.  15,  1779.  Winton   Estates  sold  at  Edinburgh  by  Act  of  Parliament,  in  presence  of 
Lord  Monboddo,  when  both  Buchan-Hepburn  and  Mackenzie  made 
purchases. 
1782-3.  The  rest  of  the  Company's  Scotch  estates  were  sold  in  these  years. 
June  29,  1784.  Petition,  York  Buildings  Company  v.  the  Factor,  for  producing  his  accounts 
and  vouchers. 
Petition,  York  Buildings  Company,  for  restraining  Alexander  Mackenzie  from 
drawing  more  money  in  the  character  of  Common  Agent,  etc. 
July  9  ,,      Answers  for  the  Factor  and  Common  Agent. 

June  7         „      Summons  of  Reduction,  Declarator,  and  Damages,  The  York  Buildings  Com- 
pany v.  Alexander  Mackenzie  (Common  Agent  in  the  Sales),  purchaser 
of  the  first  and  second  lots  of  the  lordship  of  Seton — with  twenty-one 
reasons  of  reduction — extending  to  46  quarto  pages. 
(This  Summons  was  afterwards  abandoned.) 


RELATIVE  TO  WINTON   ESTATES        ion 

(Vol.  187.) 

June  30,  1791.  State  of  the  Process  of  Reduction,  etc.,  The  York  Buildings  Company  v. 
Mackenzie : — 

Summons  (January  15,  1790),  much  shorter  than  that  of  1784. 

Condescendence  and  Answers  for  Pursuers  and  Defender. 

Proof 'for  Pursuers  and  Defender  (forty-six  and  thirty-five  Witnesses 

respectively). 
Productions,  Exhibits  for  Defender,  and  Appendix. 
Summons  of  1784  (v.  supra). 

Oct.  13         „      Cases  for  both  parties. 

Nov.  26        ,,      Minutes  of  the  Roup  of  the  Winton  Estates. 

Dec.  2  „      Minutes  by  both  parties  recapitulating  the  previous  steps  in  the  process,  etc. 

Dec.  16  ,,  Pec.  Petition  by  York  Buildings  Company  against  Inner  House  Inter- 
locutor of  December  7,  1791,  repelling  the  reasons  of  reduction  by  a 
majority  of  five  to  four  (101  quarto  pages). 

Jan.  26,     1792.  Answers  for  Mackenzie  to  the  same  (152  quarto  pages). 

Sept.  6  ,,      Petition,  Alexander  Mackenzie,  W.S.,  against  Inner  House  Interlocutor,  of 

July  6,  1792,  reducing  the  sale  in  toto.  (The  Judges  were  equally 
divided — six  to  six — but  the  President,  who  was  for  sustaining  the  sale,  was 
unable  to  vote  in  such  circumstances  by  the  Constitution  of  the  Court.) 

Nov.  15  ,,  Answers  for  the  York  Buildings  Company  to  the  same  (in  which  the  Court 
is  called  upon  so  far  to  alter  their  ratio  judicandi  by  adding  a  finding  of 
fraudulent,  or  at  least  improper,  conduct  on  the  part  of  the  defender 
to  his  incapacity  to  purchase  as  Common  Agent). 

Dec.  5  „      Additional  Petition  by  York  Buildings  Company,  of  which  the  prayer  suggests 

a  whole  host  of  findings.     ('  Not  given  in  to  Court.') 

Jan.  8,        1793-  Answers  for  Mackenzie  to  the  same. 

Feb.  12,23    >>      Minutes  for  both  parties. 

March  8  ,,  Sale  sustained  by  the  Court  (in  accordance  with  the  Interlocutor  of  December 
7,  1 791)  by  a  majority  of  seven  to  five.  (Lord  Monboddo  was  non 
liquet.) 

House  of  Lords. 

Appellants'  Case  (44  folio  pages),  arranged  under  eleven  Heads. 

Interlocutors  appealed  against: — December  7,  1791;  July  6,  1792;  and 
March  8,  1793. 

Nine  Reasons  for  reversal,  involving  incapacity  (as  Common  Agent),  mis- 
conduct, want  of  bona  fides,  fraud,  combination,  and  damage  to  the 
Appellants. 

Pespondent's  Case  (only  17  folio  pages),  with  four  Counter  Reasons.  Besides 
answering  some  of  the  principal  heads  in  the  case  for  the  Appellants, 
a  point  is  made  of  their  '  acquiescence  for  eleven  years.' 
May  13,  1795.  Reversal  of  the  judgment  of  the  Court  of  Session,  the  House  of  Lords 
holding  that  '  the  Common  Agent  in  a  Ranking  is  disqualified  from 
purchasing  at  the  judicial  sale  carried  on  under  his  direction.'  (See 
Morison's  Dictionary,  13367.) 

Notes  from  the  Process. 

Purchasers'  names  and  prices  of  the  lots  of  the  Estate  of  Winton,  sold  15th  February 
1779:— 

Lot  1.  Seton,  by  Alexander  Mackenzie,  W.S.,  at     .   £9,739     o     2\ 
»    2-  ..  .,  •        8,732  13     3^ 

.£18,471   13     6i 

„    3.       „      by  Robert  Hunter  of  Thurston  ....        7,600     o     o 


Forward  .  .  £26,071  13     6^ 


1012         NOTES   FROM   SESSION   PAPERS 

Brought  over 
Lot  i.  Longniddery,  by  John  Glassell,  late  of  Virginia 

,,2.  „  by  said  Robert  Hunter     . 

„    3.  „  by  James  Craig,  Baker  in  Edinburgh 

„    4-  i)  by  James  Walker,  W.S.    . 

Lot  1.    Tranent  and  Cockenzie,  by  George  Buchan  Hepburn,  Advocate 

,,    2.  „  ,,  (with  coal  and  salt-works),   by  John 

Graeme,  W.S.  .... 

,,    3.    Tranent  and  Cockenzie,  by  said  John  Graeme    . 
Barony  of  Winton,  by  James  Walker,  W.S. 


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Total  .  «£m, 325  J3     6TV 

(Vol.  162,  No.  11.) 

The  fourth  Longniddery  lot  was  purchased  for  Messrs.  Barclay  and  Gray,  the  second 
and  third  lots  of  Tranent  and  Cockenzie  for  William  and  John  Cadell,  and  the  Winton 
Barony  for  Mrs.  Hamilton  of  Biel. 

John  Cadell,  lessee  of  the  Coal  at  a  low  rent,  out  of  which  he  had  made  a  large  fortune, 
was  married  to  a  sister  of  Mr.  B.  Hepburn,  another  of  whose  sisters  married  Mr.  Glassell. 

George  Buchan  of  Kelloe  and  John  Buchan  of  Lethem  (grandfather  and  father  of  George 
Buchan-Hepburn)  had  long  been  lessees  of  the  Seton,  Winton,  and  Longniddery  Estates  under 
the  York  Buildings  Company.  In  1777  the  latter  possessed  these  estates  under  tacit  reloca- 
tion at  a  rent  of  about  ^2400,  but  the  rent  drawn  from  the  tenants,  or  natural  possessors, 
was  nearly  double  that  sum.  '  It  was  said  that  one  of  the  lots  (Tranent  No.  2)  was  shaped 
out  purposely  for  Cadell  of  Cockenzie,'  and  before  the  sale  it  had  been  called  '  Mr.  Cadell's  lot ' 
(Pursuers'  Proof,  p.  87).  The  object  of  the  pursuers'  proof  was  to  show  that  the  sale  had  been 
hurried, — that  others,  including  Braidwood  and  Hunter  of  Thurston,  intended  to  offer,  etc. 

Large  produce  of  the  coal  and  salt-works  (Defender's  Proof,  p.  217). 

Description  of  the  two  first  lots  of  Seton. 

Lot  1.  'Comprehending  Seton  ruins,  with  the  gardens,  parks,  and  village,  the  mills  of 
Seton  and  mill-lands,  together  with  the  East  and  West  Mains,  extending  from  the  Den,  at  the 
march  with  Longniddery,  to  the  Fishergate  road,  which  Den  and  road  forms  the  east  and  west 
boundaries  of  this  lot;  and  line  from  the  direction  of  the  said  road  by  the  Maiden  Bridge,  through 
the  links  to  the  sea,  which  makes  the  north  boundary ;  the  great  road  between  Longniddery 
and  Preston,  along  the  dikes  of  St.  Germain's  and  parks  of  Seton,  is  the  march  on  the  south  ; 
and  along  said  road,  till  its  junction  with  the  road  at  mill-dam,  leading  by  the  west  end  of 
Seton  village,  and  eastward  to  Fishergate  as  above  (with  the  privilege  of  a  servitude  of  the 
present  mill,  mill-dam,  and  of  the  right  of  scouring  and  cleaning  the  same,  according  to  use 
and  wont) ;  containing  255  acres  2  roods  39  falls  of  arable  land;  of  grass  and  meadow  grounds 
41  acres  1  rood  9  falls ;  the  village  of  Seton,  with  the  areas  of  the  farm-houses  and  yards, 
23  acres  2  roods  32  falls;  links,  87  acres  2  roods  35  falls;  the  great  road  and  others  of  com- 
munication through  the  grounds,  5  acres  r  rood  7  falls; — in  all  413  acres  3  roods  2  falls.' 

Lot  2.  '  Comprehending  the  North  Crofts  and  Seally  Shot,  lying  below  the  foot-road  from 
Seton  to  Preston,  and  betwixt  the  waggon-road  and  Fishergate ;  also  the  grounds  called  the 
South  Crofts,  lying  betwixt  the  great  road  and  foot-road  from  Preston ;  and  also  the  Thorn- 
tree  lands,  west  of  the  waggon-way  at  the  march  with  Preston,  with  the  feu-duties  of  Port 
Seton  and  rents  of  houses  there,  the  port  or  harbour  of  Port  Seton  and  the  usual  port  or 
anchorage  dues  thereof;  the  great  road  forms  the  march  of  this  lot  on  the  south,  the  lands 
of  Preston  west,  and  by  the  foot-road  and  waggon-way  which  separates  it  from  Mr.  Cadell's 
enclosures,  lying  betwixt  the  said  waggon-way  and  lands  of  Preston,  and  turning  eastward 
by  the  link  dike  of  the  Seally  Shot,  about  250  ells  to  a  stake  in  said  link  dike,  from  thence 
northward  to  the  sea,  by  east  of  a  round  hillock  in  the  links,  and  east  side  of  Begbie's  Yard 
to  the  sea,  a  little  to  the  east  of  the  salt-pans,  and  along  the  sea-coast,  till  it  joins  the  march  of 
lot  1  by  the  line  of  Fishergate,  and  pertinents'  (Stale  of  Process  of  Reduction,  etc.,  pp.  2,  37). 

(For  a  state  of  the  price  of  these  two  lots,  with  Mackenzie's  outlay  and  rents  from  1779- 
1789,  see  State  of  Process,  p.  270.) 


RELATIVE  TO  WINTON   ESTATES        1013 

' James  Keay,  writer  in  Edinburgh  .  .  .  depones  that  he  has  occasion  to  know  that 
Mr.  Hay  of  Drummelzier,  and  several  other  friends  of  the  family  of  Winton,  some  of  whom 
were  subscribers  to  an  annuity  for  support  of  the  heir,  and  which  passed  through  the  hands 
of  the  deponent,  had  it  in  view  to  have  purchased  the  estate  for  the  benefit  of  that  gentleman, 
in  the  hopes  of  gaining  something  for  him ;  that  Mr.  Hay  of  Drummelzier  .  .  .  told  him  that 
they  gave  up  their  intention  of  making  the  purchase  of  any  part  of  the  estate  on  account  of  its 
being  exposed  to  sale  in  lots  .  .  .  depones  (farther)  that,  so  far  as  he  had  access  to  know,  the 
scheme  of  purchasing  the  estate  for  the  heir  of  the  family  arose  from  an  expectation  that  the 
favour  of  the  public  would  prevent  a  competition'  (Pursuers'  Proof,  p.  79). 

From  the  evidence  of  Robert  Hunter  of  Thurston  it  distinctly  appears  that  he  was  prepared 
to  give  ^2000  above  the  upset  price  of  the  first  lot  of  Seton,  and  that  after  the  sale  he  thought 
he  would  have  gone  the  length  of  ^13,000  for  the  said  lot.  Also  that  Mr.  Buchan-Hepburn, 
whom  he  consulted  on  the  subject,  '  wished  him  not  to  bid  for  it,  as  Mr.  Mackenzie  meant 
to  bid  ,£13,000  for  it'  (ibid.  pp.  85,  164). 

Mr.  Hunter's  evidence  is  corroborated  by  that  of  his  agent,  John  Hunter,  W.S.,  father 
of  Alexander  Hunter,  of  Hunter,  Blair,  and  Cowan  (ibid.  p.  134). 

Note  by  Mr.  Hunter  of  Thurston  of  his  resolutions  respecting  the  first  lot  of  the  barony 
of  Seton  referred  to  in  his  deposition  of  nth  June  1791  :— 

'  The  first  lot  of  Seton,  exclusive  of  the  mill  rent  .  .  .       .£389  n     2\ 

Mill  rent  ........  107   18     5 


^497     9     ih 


A. 

R.     F. 

255 

2  39 

49 
20 

3     ° 
2     8 

87 

2  35 

413 

3     2 

Upset  price       .  .  .  .£9.739     °     ° 

Arable  land      ...... 

Meadow  ...... 

Houses,  yards,  and  loanings     .... 

Links    ....... 


'Rent  of  the  land,  £389,  ns.  2|d. ;  at  twenty-five  years'  purchase,  ,£9739. 

'  No  value  put  on  the  timber,  which  I  was  assured  might  be  cut  to  the  amount  of  ,£300 
without  injury  to  the  beauty  or  shelter  of  the  place. 

'  No  value  put  on  the  mills,  as  every  purchaser  paid  a  price  to  be  relieved  of  the  thirlage. 

'  No  value  put  on  the  links.    So  that  the  timber,  mills,  and  links  were  disposed  of  without 
being  valued. 

'I  considered  the  value  of  the.  arable  and  meadow  to  be  30s.  per  acre  at  a  very  moderate 
rent,  which  upon  305  acres  is  per  annum  .....     £460     o     o 

And  at  twenty-five  years' purchase  amounts  to       .  ,£11,500     o     o 

The  timber,  mills,  and  links   I  considered  to  be  worth, 

at  a  very  moderate  value,  at  least       .  .  .      1,500     o     o 

Making  in  all  .  ,£13,000     o     o 


'  This  price  I  should  not  have  hesitated  to  give,  had  the  first  lot  not  been  sold  before 
I  got  to  the  Parliament  House,  which,  however,  it  was  before  twenty  minutes  after  four 
o'clock  p.m.' 

Real  value  of  the  Estates. 

Alleged  by  the  pursuers  that  the  two  lots  purchased  by  Mackenzie,  instead  of  .£18,471, 
14s.  2^d.,  'would  now  (1790),  if  fairly  sold,  yield  a  price  of  above  ,£45,000  and  more  pro- 
bably of  ,£5 0,000'  (Condescendence,  p.  16). 

The  estate  first  sold  was  that  of  '  Winton  in  East  Lothian,  lying  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  the  metropolis,  in  a  farming  county,  where  agriculture  had  been  brought  to  higher  perfec- 
tion than  in  any  other  part  of  Scotland '  (Answers,  p.  28). 


ioi4  SETON   PALACE 

The  first  advertisement  sets  forth  the  great  advantages  of  the  estate,  of  which  the  valued 
rent  is  said  to  be  as  follows : — 

Baronies  of  Seton,  Winton,  and  Longniddery         .  .  .    £8,615     o     o  Scots. 

„  Tranent  and  Cockenzie  ....        3,525     5  10     „ 

Total  .  .£12,140     5  10  Scots. 

{Answers,  p.  33.) 

John  Taylor,  W.S.,  conjectures  that  the  estate  of  Winton  was  first  brought  to  sale  because 
it  '  was  in  great  repute,  and  (being)  supposed  to  be  a  valuable  property,  would  fetch  a  good 
price,  etc,'  .  .  .  '  and  because  he  himself  was  fully  impressed  with  the  idea  that  it  would  sell 
higher  in  proportion  than  other  estates  belonging  to  the  Company  in  Scotland '  {Pursuers' 
Proof,  p.  93). 

'  By  the  proof  taken  of  the  value  of  the  Winton  estate,  I  think  it  should  sell  for  ,£130,000 
to  £150,000;  for  it  is  a  most  noble  and  beautiful  estate'  (Mackenzie's  letter  to  one  of  the 
Creditors,  March  26,  1778).  'I  should  think  it  a  good  purchase  at  £120,000'  (Do. 
Dec.  3,  1778).     {Productions,  pp.  262-266.) 

(Some  of  Mackenzie's  letters  are  very  suspicious.) 

Rental  of  the  first  and  second  lots  of  Seton  as  proposed  to  be  divided  into  different  farms 
by  Mr.  Ro.  Gillespie,  in  a  letter  to  Mackenzie,  dated  1st  June  1779,  conform  to  Gillespie's 
valuation : — 

Number  of  divisions  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  16 

Total  arable  land     .......  499  a.  2r.  28/ 

Links,  etc.    .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   126       2        5 

Rates  per  acre  averaging  about  35s.      Total  rental,  £863,  14s.  4d.  Sterling  {Productions, 
P-  338). 

Palace  of  Seton. 

'  The  remains  of  the  noble  and  stately '  edifice,  situated  on  one  of  Mackenzie  lots,  '  as 
the  pursuers  have  been  informed,  would  at  this  day  (1790)  sell  for  £3000  as  a  quarry,  and 
which,  they  have  also  heard,  is  the  use  the  defender  proposed  to  make  of  them  in  the  building 
of  a  splendid  house,  etc'  {Condescendence,  p.  n). 

The  defender  pronounces  this  a  '  ludicrous '  assertion,  and  states  that  '  in  contracting  for 
his  house  he  found  that  it  would  be  attended  with  more  expense  to  take  down  these  ruins 
than  working  a  common  quarry  of  freestone,  which  abounds  in  that  quarter '  {Answers, 
p.  49). 

The  ruins,  or  at  least  a  portion  of  them,  said  to  have  been  taken  down  by  Mackenzie 
'this  summer'  (1790)  by  two  of  the  witnesses  {Pursuers'  Proof,  p.  89). 

Adam  Russell,  mason  and  housebuilder  in  Edinburgh,  depones  that  he  and  his  brother 
entered  into  a  contract  with  Mackenzie,  dated  12th  November  1789,  relative  to  the  building  of 
a  house  at  Seton,  and  that  '  they  began  to  pull  down  the  ruins  of  the  House  of  Seton  in  a 
month  or  two  after  the  contract  was  executed  :  that  the  using  the  materials  of  the  old  house 
was  rather  a  disadvantage,  as,  in  his  opinion,  stones  might  have  been  procured  cheaper  from 
the  quarry,  and  that  they  would  not  have  used  one  half  of  the  materials  from  the  old  house, 
had  they  not  been  taken  bound  to  remove  the  ruins  :  that  there  were  no  materials  in  the  old 
house,  except  the  stones,  of  any  value '  {Defender's  Proof,  p.  207). 

James  Maclaren,  architect  in  Edinburgh,  considered  that  '  the  site  of  the  old  house  was 
the  proper  situation  for  the  house  proposed  to  be  built :  that  he  was  informed  that  there  was 
a  good  quarry  of  freestone  at  St.  Germain's,  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Seton :  and  that,  as 
Mr.  Mackenzie  intended  to  build  a  house  of  about  £3000  value  only,  he  considered  that 
the  pulling  down  and  removing  the  ruins  would  be  much  more  expensive  than  the  quarrying 
and  leading  of  stones  from  St.  Germain's'  {ibid.  p.  213). 

Timber. 

In  the  Summons  of  1784  the  timber  on  the  two  lots  of  Seton  purchased  by  Mackenzie  is 
said  to  be  worth  about  £1000  sterling.  On  the  other  hand,  the  defender  alleges  that  it  was 
'  rather  ornamental  than  profitable,'  and  that  '  there  was  no  copsewood '  {Answers,  p.  48). 


TIMBER  AND   'RENTALLERS'  1015 

From  the  'Particulars  of  the  lots  of  Seton  timber,  exposed  to  sale  on  31st  October 
1780,' it  appears  that  there  were  120  lots  sold  to  various  purchasers  for  the  total  sum  of 
^317,  is.,  viz.  :— 

Ash.  Plane.  Elm.        Aballsaugh.      Chestnut.      Oak.        Beech.        Total. 

486  372  161  6  13  4  1  1043 

(Productions,  p.  279.) 

'  No  value  was  put  either  upon  the  growing  timber  on  the  estate  of  Winton,  which  was 
of  considerable  value — not  less  than  ^1500  or  ^2000  ;  and  more  particularly  no  value  was 
put  on  the  timber  in  lot  1st  of  Tranent,  worth  about  ^500,  nor  on  that  of  the  lots  of  Seton, 
worth  ,£600  sterling  or  thereabout,  etc'  {Appendix  to  State  of  Process,  p.  6). 

The  value  here  stated  said  to  be  'excessively  exaggerated'  {ibid.  p.  15). 

No  value  is  said  to  have  been  put  upon  certain  subjects  in  the  town  of  Seton,  part  of 
the  links,  the  kelp,  the  privilege  of  dragging  oysters,  etc.  {ibid.  pp.  5,  6.). 

Notice  of  the  Rentallers  or  kindly  tenants  of  Seton,  against  whom  Mackenzie  raised  an 
action  of  removing,  in  which,  on  payment  of  compensation,  he  obtained  the  right  of  letting 
all  their  possessions  at  the  full  value.  No  value,  however,  was  put  upon  them  at  the  sale 
{Appellant's  Case,  p.  8). 


'  The  destruction  of  the  famous  old  Castle  [Palace]  of  Seton  was  not  the  only  act  of 
Vandalism  of  which  Mackenzie  was  guilty  during  the  short  time  he  possessed  the  property. 
A  few  hundred  yards  to  the  west  of  the  Castle  stood  the  ancient  village  of  Seton,  which  in 
1 79 1  was  inhabited  by  eighty-six  persons,  mostly  weavers,  tailors,  and  shoemakers,  each  family 
possessing  a  house  and  a  small  piece  of  ground.  This  industrious  little  community,  which 
for  centuries  had  thriven  under  the  fostering  care  of  the  Seton  family,  was  entirely  broken  up 
and  dispersed  by  the  unscrupulous  lawyer  who  had  illegally,  if  not  fraudulently,  obtained 
temporary  possession  of  the  estate.  When  called  upon  by  him  to  produce  the  title-deeds  of 
their  little  properties,  it  was  found  that  most  of  them  had  no  titles  to  show,  their  houses  and 
lands  having  been  handed  down  from  father  to  son  through  many  generations.  Those  who 
were  unable  to  produce  their  titles  were  at  once  turned  out  of  their  houses,  while  it  is  alleged 
that  the  few  who  possessed  the  requisite  documents,  and  sent  them  to  Mackenzie's  office  in 
Edinburgh,  never  saw  them  again,  and  were,  like  the  others,  shortly  after  compelled  to  remove 
from  their  ancient  heritages  without  receiving  any  compensation.  Only  one  of  the  villagers 
escaped  eviction.  He  somehow  learned  that  his  property  had  been  registered  when  it  was 
purchased,  and  he  was  consequently  enabled  to  set  at  defiance  the  attempts  of  the  usurper 
to  rob  him  of  his  patrimony.' x 


Upwards  of  twenty-five  years  ago  I  received  from  the  late  Mr.  Ralph  Erskine-Scott  a 
printed  'Report  upon  the  Affairs  of  the  York  Buildings  Company  and  their  Creditors,' by 
Archibald  Swinton,  dated  'Edinburgh,  27th  February  1809,'  extending  to  upwards  of  forty 
pages  4to,  from  which  I  make  the  two  following  extracts  relative  to  the  Estate  of  Seton  : — 

'The  Reversionary  Fund  consists  of  two  particulars: — 1st,  the  balance  of  the  ^10,000 
agreed  to  be  paid  to  the  Company  in  terms  of  the  general  agreement ;  and,  2nd,  the  surplus 
price  of  the  Estate  of  Seton.  .  .  .' 

'  With  regard  to  the  second  fund.  .  .  .  This  estate  was  one  of  those  brought  to  judicial  sale 
in  1779,  and  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Alexander  Mackenzie  for  ,£18,471,  13s.  sid.  The  York 
Buildings  Company  raised  an  action  of  reduction  of  the  purchase;  the  Court  of  Session 
decided  in  favour  of  Mr.  Mackenzie,  and  assoilzied  him  from  the  action  ;  but  upon  an  appeal 
to  the  House  of  Lords  the  decision  was  reversed,  and  it  was  declared,  "  That  the  decreet  of 
sale,  and  subsequent  titles  in  favour  of  the  defender,  ought  to  be  set  aside  and  avoided,  to 
such  extent  and  degree  as  is  hereafter  provided,  etc. ;  but  without  prejudice  to  the  title  of  the 
defender  to  reclaim  all  such  sums  of  money  as  he  hath  paid  for  the  original  price  of  the 
estate,  and  also  for  the  permanent  improvement  of  the  same,  with  the  interest  thereof,  etc.  ; 
and  also,  without  prejudice  to  the  title  of  the  common  creditors,  to  have  the  value  of  the 
estate  in  question,  and  the  amount  of  the  intermediate  produce  thereof,  applied  in  payment  of 
their  demands,  as  fully  as  the  same  might  have  been  done  if  the  foresaid  decreet  and  instru- 


M'Neill's  History  of  Tranent,  quoted  in  Dr.  Taylor's  Historic  Families  of  Scotland,  i.  140. 


1016  MR.   MURRAY'S   PAPER  ON  THE 

ment  following  thereon  had  not  passed,  the  expenses  incurred  by  the  pursuers  in  recovering 
the  same  being  first  deducted. 

'  Upon  the  application  of  certain  creditors  the  estate  of  Seton  was  sequestrated ;  and 
having  afterwards  been  exposed  to  sale  (16th  November  1797),  was  purchased  by  the  Earl  of 
Wemyss  for  ,£47,100  sterling,  bearing  interest  from  the  term  of  Whitsunday  1797.  The 
original  price  of  £18,471,  13s.  5^d.  paid  by  Mr.  Mackenzie,  with  the  sums  laid  out  upon  the 
permanent  improvement  of  the  estate,  and  for  which  he  was  found,  by  the  judgment  of  the 
House  of  Lords,  to  be  a  preferable  creditor,  having  been  ascertained  to  be  £27,715,  16s.  6d., 
were  paid  by  the  Earl  of  Wemyss ;  and  interim  payments  having  also  been  made  to  Messrs. 
Lowndes,  Freeman,  and  others,  to  the  Company's  agents  for  law  expenses,  and  to  Mr.  Plaskett, 
their  Secretary,  as  stated  in  the  schedule,  there  remained  a  balance  in  Lord  Wemyss'  hands  of 
£7933>  5s-  2d-,  which  was,  on  15th  May  1805,  consigned,  by  authority  of  Court,  in  the  Bank 
of  Scotland,  to  bear  interest  at  3  per  cent.' 

In  1883  an  interesting  paper  entitled  The  York  Buildings  Company,  a  Chapter  in  Scotch 
History,  by  Mr.  David  Murray,  M.A.,  F.S.A.Scot.,  read  before  the  Institutes  of  Bankers  and 
Chartered  Accountants,  Glasgow,  was  published  by  Messrs.  Maclehose  and  Sons.  Besides  a 
graphic  account  of  the  very  questionable  proceedings  of  the  Government  and  the  York 
Buildings  Company,  it  contains  numerous  references  to  the  Seton  estates,  as  well  as  much 
general  information,  including  some  interesting  remarks  on  the  sympathy  of  the  public  with 
the  representatives  of  the  forfeited  families. 

Thus  :  '  In  the  autumn  of  17 19  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry  were  ready  to  commence 
selling,  and  advertised  for  sale,  "  by  cant  or  auction,"  the  estates  of  Viscount  Kilsyth,  Mr. 
Craw  of  East  Reston,  the  Earl  of  Winton,  and  the  Earl  of  Panmure.  Mr.  Case  Billingsley's 
negotiations  were  so  far  advanced  that  the  Company,  or  rather  the  intended  new  proprietors, 
sent  down  Mr.  Robert  Hacket  and  Mr.  John  Wicker  to  attend  the  sales.  On  6th  October 
the  Winton  estate  was  put  up,  and  the  whole,  with  a  trifling  exception,  was  purchased  on 
behalf  of  the  Company  at  the  price  of  £50,300.' 

In'  speaking  of  the  Panmure  estates  Mr.  Murray  says,  'Their  present  rental  is  £11,975, 
14s.  8d.,  or  about  twenty  times  what  it  was  in  1719.  If  the  rental  of  the  whole  estates 
purchased  by  the  Company  had  risen  in  the  like  proportion,  it  would  represent  upwards  of 
£280,000,  a  sum  not  shown  in  the  rent-roll  in  Scotland  of  any  single  landed  proprietor  at  the 
present  day.' 

Again,  contrasting  the  present  agricultural  condition  of  Scotland  with  that  of  the  middle 
of  the  eighteenth  century,  he  says : — 

'Sweeping  past  Falkirk  by  train,  or  through  East  Lothian  or  the  Carse  of  Gowrie,  or 
making  an  excursion  to  Brechin  or  Peterhead,  gives  no  idea  whatever  of  the  condition  of  these 
districts  a  century  and  a  half  ago.  The  impression  conveyed  by  the  present  face  of  the 
country  would  indeed  be  exactly  the  reverse  of  the  truth.  The  estates  were  in  little  better 
than  a  state  of  nature.  Patches  of  cultivation,  on  bare,  open  fields,  appeared  at  intervals 
between  the  swamps  and  wastes  which  formed  the  pervading  character  of  the  landscape. 
Land  improvement  had  not  been  thought  of;  drainage  was  unknown ;  enclosing  had  not  been 
commenced.  .  .  .  On  only  one  of  these  great  estates  was  wheat  raised  to  any  extent,  and  that 
was  on  Tranent,  in  East  Lothian,  eight  miles  from  Edinburgh. 

'  When  the  purchases  were  resolved  upon,  Mr.  Case  Billingsley  and  his  friends  foresaw 
that  it  would  be  impossible  for  the  Company  to  cultivate  the  estates  themselves,  or  to  manage 
the  tenants  and  get  in  their  rents,  if  they  let  them  out  in  the  ordinary  way.  They  decided, 
therefore,  to  lease  them  to  middlemen,  leaving  it  to  them  to  deal  with  the  village  tenants. 

'John  Billingsley  was  appointed  Secretary  and  Cashier  to  the  Company  on  16th  October 
1719.  He  was  dismissed  at  the  end  of  1720,  when  he  stood  indebted  to  the  Company  in 
£27,726,  13s.  6d.,  which  was  never  recovered. 

'  Some  years  later  the  Company's  confidential  correspondent  in  Scotland,  George  Buchan 
of  Kelloe,  the  husband  of  Christian,  Lord  Cullen's  second  daughter,  and  consequently  brother- 
in-law  of  Sir  Archibald  Grant  of  Monymusk,1  the  evil  genius  of  the  Company,  obtained  a 
twenty-nine  years'  lease  of  the  baronies  of  Seton,  Winton,  and  Longniddry,  at  the  rent  of 
£1500  a  year.  On  his  death  he  was  succeeded  in  the  lease  by  his  son,  John  Buchan  of 
Letham,  and  on  its  expiry  it  was  continued  for  some  time  by  tacit  relocation.    What  the  result 

1  See  table  of  the  Monymusk  connections,  p.  1019  infra. 


YORK   BUILDINGS   COMPANY  1017 

of  it  was  in  early  years  we  do  not  know,  but  towards  its  close  the  tenant  had  a  profit  from  it 
of  1200  guineas  a  year. 

'  Amongst  the  assets  of  the  Earl  of  Winton  which  the  Company  had  acquired  were  the 
coal-works  and  salt-pans  at  Tranent,  which  stood  in  the  rental  of  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry 
at  the  annual  value  of^iooo.  These  the  Company  took  in  hand.  They  fitted  up  one  of 
the  new  fire-engines,  the  first  of  the  kind  in  Scotland,  and,  still  more  wonderful,  they  made  a 
wooden  railway  between  one  and  two  miles  long,  connecting  the  pits  with  the  salt-works  at 
Preston  and  the  harbour  at  Port  Seton.  After  an  expenditure  of  ^3500  they  could  not  clear 
^500  a  year  from  the  coal-pits  and  salt-pans  combined.  They  let  them  for  ;£  1000  a  year  to 
"  a  competent  person,"  but  he  gave  up  the  lease  very  shortly,  as  he  could  not  make  sufficient 
to  pay  the  rent ;  and  in  1729  the  Company  is  found  petitioning  the  Barons  of  Exchequer  for 
an  abatement  of  ^2000  from  the  price  of  this  part  of  the  Winton  estate. 

'  Another  branch  of  industry  which  these  purveyors  of  water  undertook  was  glass-making, 
a  manufactory  for  which  they  set  up  at  Port  Seton. 

'After  the  defeat  of  Sir  John  Cope  at  Prestonpans  in  1745,  the  "Pretender,"  in  retalia- 
tion for  the  proceedings  of  17 18,  sequestrated  the  estate  of  Winton,  and  appointed  as  factor 
John  Arrol  of  Fossarty  ( Arrat  of  Fofarty  1),  who  compelled  the  tenants  to  exhibit  their  tacks 
and  to  pay  up  their  rents,  which  were  mostly  returnable  in  grain. 

'  According  to  the  old  practice,  the  agent  for  the  creditor  who  brought  an  action  of  ranking 
and  sale  had  the  carriage  of  it  throughout.  A  new  regulation  had  been  introduced  by  Act  of 
Sederunt  in  1 746,  by  which  the  various  creditors  interested  were  required  to  elect  a  common 
agent  to  take  charge  of  the  proceedings  on  behalf  of  all  interested.  After  the  passing  of  the 
Act  of  1777  the  creditors  met  in  accordance  with  this  rule  and  elected  Mr.  Alexander 
Mackenzie,  W.S.,  as  common  agent  in  the  process  of  ranking  and  sale  of  1750.  He  was  the 
private  law-agent  of  Walsh,  by  whom  he  had  been  employed  when  he  became  involved  with 
Mackintosh.  It  thus  became  necessary  for  Mr.  Mackenzie  to  investigate  the  Company's  affairs, 
and  having  made  himself  thoroughly  acquainted  with  its  history  and  position,  the  present 
Act  was  applied  for.  In  1783  the  practical  control  of  the  Company  passed  into  the  hands  of 
Mr.  Robert  Mackintosh,  Advocate,  who  had  no  friendly  feeling  towards  him,1  and  in  name  of 
the  Governor  and  Company  persistently  objected  to  him ;  and  in  the  end  with  some  effect, 
in  consequence  of  an  unfortunate  transaction  connected  with  one  of  the  sales. 

'  On  his  appointment  as  Common  Agent,  Mr.  Mackenzie  applied  himself  to  the  duties  of 
his  office  with  great  zeal.  In  1779  the  estates  of  Winton,  East  and  West  Reston,  the  house 
and  parks  of  Panmure,  a  small  outlying  part  of  the  Marischal  estate,  and  the  barony  of 
Arnhall,  part  of  Southesk,  were  brought  to  sale.  The  sale  of  Kilsyth,  Fetteresso,  Dunottar, 
Belhelvie,  and  Leuchars  followed  in  1782,  while  the  realisation  of  the  whole  was  completed 
next  year  by  the  sale  of  Callendar,  Fingask,  Clerkhill,  and  Downieshill,  the  two  latter  being 
small  portions  of  the  Marischal  estate. 

'The  estate  of  Winton  being  of  great  extent,  it  was  thought  that  no  one  purchaser  would 
be  got  for  the  whole,  and  it  was  therefore,  by  authority  of  the  Court,  put  up  in  lots.  Of  these 
lots  Mr.  Mackenzie  himself  bought  two,  which  included  the  beautiful  ruin  of  Seton  Castle,  at 
the  price  of  ;£r8,47r,  T4S.  2^-d.  The  purchase  was  duly  completed  without  objection  on  the 
part  of  the  Court  or  of  the  creditors,  but  thirteen  years  subsequently  an  action  of  reduction 
was  brought  at  the  instance  of  the  Company,  and  the  transaction  was  set  aside  as  a  breach  of 
trust  on  the  part  of  the  Common  Agent.  They  not  only  raised  the  general  question,  but  made 
special  and  strong  assertions  with  regard  to  Mr.  Mackenzie's  conduct  in  this  particular  case. 
The  manner  in  which  the  proven  rental  had  been  made  up  was  not  satisfactory,  and  the 
knowledge  which  Mr.  Mackenzie  had  of  the  particulars  of  the  estate  was  of  material 
advantage  to  him.  The  sale  itself  seems  likewise  to  have  been  hurried  through.  According 
to  the  practice  of  the  day,  it  was  advertised  to  take  place  "  between  the  hours  of  4  and  6 
afternoon" — a  latitude  allowed  for  "want  of  punctuality  in  the  Judge,  the  clerks,  and  other 
persons  immediately  concerned  "—so  that  5  o'clock  came  to  be  considered  the  real  hour.  On 
this  occasion,  Lord  Monboddo,  the  Ordinary  before  whom  the  sale  was  to  proceed,  having 
had  a  hint  to  be  punctual,  arrived  at  the  Parliament  House,  and  took  his  seat  upon  the 
Bench  exactly  as  the  hour  struck  four.     Proceedings  commenced  immediately,  and  the  first 

1  See  Ramsay's  Scotland  and  Scotsmen,  i.  428. 

6  N 


1018  THE   WINTON    ESTATE 

and  second  lots  having  been  put  up  successively,  were  knocked  down  to  Mr.  Mackenzie, 
without  awaiting  the  outrunning  of  the  half-hour  sand-glass  as  required  by  the  Articles. 
Several  persons  who  had  intended  to  offer  found,  therefore,  to  their  chagrin,  when  they 
arrived,  that  all  was  over.     In  reply  to  this  part  of  the  case,  the  creditors,  who  had  no  interest 
to  cut  down  the  sale,  give  a  curious  explanation.     They  say  that  "  one  gentleman  who  meant 
to  have  offered  for  these  lots,  happening  that  day  to  give  an  entertainment  to  some  guests  of 
quality,  his  respect  to  them  led  him  to  sit  after  dinner  a  good  deal  longer  than  he  ought  to  have 
done,  so  that  he  did  not  come  to  Court  till  about  six  o'clock,  before  which  time  the  sale  was  far 
advanced."    They  urged  very  properly  that  this  should  not  affect  the  purchase,  but  the  case 
presented  by  the  Company  was  too  strong,  and  the  House  of  Lords,  reversing  the  decision  of 
the  Court  of  Session,  decided  in  their  favour.     (Mr.  George  Buchan-Hepburn,  the  factor  on 
the  estates,  purchased  the  baronies  of  Tranent  and  Cockenzie  at  the  same  sale,  but  the 
transaction  was  not  challenged.)    The  lands  in  question  were  again  exposed  for  sale,  and 
were  purchased  by  the  Earl  of  Wemyss  in  1798,  at  three  times  the  price  that  had  been  paid 
by  Mr.  Mackenzie. 

'Mr.  Mackenzie  resigned  office  in  1789,  when  he  was  succeeded,  on  the  nomination  of 
the  Company,  by  Mr.  Walter  Scott,  W.S.,  who  then  had  as  his  apprentice  his  son,  the  great 
novelist.     The  latter  had  thus  an  opportunity  of  becoming  acquainted  with  the  Company's 
history,  and  his  short  notice  of  it  in  his  Tales  of  a  Grandfather  \%  almost  the  only  account 
that  is  accurate. 

'  The  result  of  the  sale  of  the  Winton  Estate  (in  1779)  was  as  follows  : — 

Seton  .......     ,£26,071   13     6T\r 

Long  Niddry  ......         32,504     o     o 

Tranent  and  Cockenzie  (including  the  coal  and  salt-works)         39,25°     °     ° 
Barony  of  Winton  ......         13,500     °     ° 

£111,325  13     6jV 

'  Land  had  now  risen  greatly  in  value.  The  Winton  Estate  sold  at  thirty  years'  purchase. 
.  .  .  The  valued  rent  of  a  century  and  a  quarter  previous  was  £12,140,  5s.  iod.  Scots,  or 
£1011,  13s.  iod.  sterling.  The  rent  paid  to  the  Company  by  its  lessees  was,  including 
minerals,  £2540,  while  that  which  they  actually  received  was  £4386.  The  barony  of 
Tranent,  part  of  the  estate,  had  in  1635  been  valued  by  the  Commissioners  of  Teinds  at 
£200  sterling  per  annum.  A  few  years  later,  the  valued  rent  of  Cockenzie  and  Tranent  was 
fixed  at  £293,  15s.  6d.  In  1719  their  rental,  according  to  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry, 
was  £731,  16s.  8d. ;  in  1779  it  was  stated  at  £1301,  6s.  io^d.  The  rents  of  the  portions 
of  Seton,  purchased  by  Mr.  Mackenzie,  were,  in  1779,  £738,  17s.  4^-d.  The  proven  rental 
of  1796  was  £1876,  6s.  4j%d.' 

The  following  is  from  the  '  Abstract  of  several  Surveys  of  the  Forfeited  Estates  real, 
lying  in  Scotland,  taken  by  the  Surveyor  and  his  Deputy,  upon  the  Oaths  of  the  several 
Tenants,  Possessors,  etc.,  by  order  of  the  Commissioners  of  Inquiry,  in  the  years  17 16  and 
1 7 1 7,  containing  the  particulars,  rents,  and  the  yearly  value  thereof. 

'Report  to  Parliament,  1719-20,  page  170  (MS.  Register  House). 

Estate  of  George,  late  Earl  of  Winton. 

Money — Rent  payable  in  money  ..... 

Wheat — 1683  bolls,  2  furlets,  2  pecks,  3-^  lippies,  at  10s.  sd.  per  boll 
Barley — 1957  bolls,  2  furlets,  2  pecks,  i~g  lippies,  at       do.      per  boll 
Oats — 318  bolls,  3  furlets,  3  pecks,  1  \  lippies,  at  do.     per  boll 

Straw — 504  thraves,  at  5d.  per  thrave  ..... 

Capons — 749J,  at  iod.  each     ...... 

Hens — 802^-,  at  6fd.  each       ...... 

Salt-pans — 12,  and  2  Coal  Heughs  or  Pits,  reckoned  to  be  about 


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33.  Story  of  the  Mysterious  Fakeer. 

[Referred  to  at  p.  346.] 

I  had  long  been  under  the  impression  that  the  strange  story  embraced  in  the  following 
letter  to  Mrs.  Seton  May,  from  her  friend  Mrs.  Campbell  (nee  Dyce),  related  to  Hugh  Seton 
of  Touch ;  but,  as  stated  in  the  text,  it  is  repudiated  by  that  family.  '  Seton  of  Seton ' 
would  of  course  indicate  the  head  of  the  House,  and  is  no  doubt  a  mistake  for  some  unknown 
cadet,  probably  connected  with  Aberdeenshire. 

'Dunstrom,  Southampton, 
21st  July  1892. 

'  My  dearest  C, — I  am  only  too  glad  to  be  able  to  give  you  any  information  on  the 
subject  of,  may  I  say,  our  mysterious  kinsman,  Seton  of  Seton.  I  deeply  regret,  however, 
that  I  am  unable  to  supply  the  name  of  the  Governor-General  of  India  concerned,  the  date  of 
the  occurrence,  or  the  place.  But  the  mere  facts  I  have  frequently  heard  narrated  by  my 
father,  both  to  myself  and  others.  I  know  from  domestic  circumstances  that  the  date  must 
have  been  before,  probably  long  before,  1795. 

'  Seton  of  Seton  having  had  a  quarrel,  killed  his  opponent,  more,  I  imagine,  in  the  heat  of 
passion,  without  premeditation,  than  anything  else.  Horror-struck,  and  dreading  the  con- 
sequences, he  fled  for  his  life,  and  all  trace  of  him  had  been  lost  for  many  years  before  the 
occurrence  I  am  about  to  relate. 

'The  Viceroy  in  question  was  making  a  tour,  or  "progress,"  in  the  Madras  Presidency, 
and  at  some  place  held  a  great  "  Durbar,"  receiving  the  customary  homage  and  offerings  from 
the  native  ruler,  his  ministers,  and  other  natives  of  high  position.  My  grandfather,  the  late 
Lieutenant-General  Dyce,  was  in  the  Viceroy's  escort,  and  therefore  in  a  position  to  observe 
all.  After  all  the  high  personages  had  paid  their  respects  and  their  compliments,  and  pre- 
sented their  rich  offerings,  a  Fakeer  (holy  man)  approached  with  deep  reverence,  and, 
addressing  the  Viceroy,  paid  the  customary  tribute  of  respect  and  compliment,  adding  that 
of  course  he,  a  poor  humble  Fakeer,  a  recluse,  could  bring  no  gift  worthy  of  the  acceptance 
of  so  exalted  a  personage,  but  that  he  would  show  his  Excellency  the  face  of  the  greatest  man 
in  India,  at  the  same  time  holding  up  to  the  Viceroy  a  small  mirror !  Both  the  language 
chosen  and  the  act  itself  were  marked  by  extreme  grace  and  refinement,  and  attracted  the 
attention  of  all.  My  grandfather,  who  had  closely  observed  the  Fakeer,  sent  a  little  pencilled 
slip  round  to  another  Aberdeenshire  man  who  was  present,  with  the  words,  "  If  Seton  of 
Seton  is  alive,  that  is  he."  At  the  conclusion  of  the  Durbar  my  grandfather  and  his  friend 
went  in  search  of  the  Fakeer,  who  had  disappeared  the  moment  after  his  audience,  and  had 
no  difficulty  in  finding  him  in  his  abode  or  temple  in  the  village.  Addressing  him  in  English, 
they  taxed  him  with  being  the  long-lost  Seton  of  Seton;  and,  finding  denial  useless,  he 
confessed  the  fact.  He  told  them  that  having  managed  to  escape  to  India,  he  disguised 
himself  as  a  native,  adopted  native  habits  and  religion,  and  became  a  Fakeer,  or  holy  man,  at 
this  place,  enjoying,  in  virtue  of  the  sanctity  of  his  position,  the  greatest  consideration  and 
respect  and  the  supply  of  all  necessaries.  He  had  become  thoroughly  native,  had  no  cares, 
and  even  if  he  had  had  no  fears  of  the  consequences  of  his  rash  act,  had  no  wish  to  return 
to  a  country  and  position  for  which  long  years  of  native  life  had  rendered  him  perfectly 
unsuited.  My  grandfather  heard  no  more  of  him;  and  doubtless  in  due  course  Seton  of 
Seton  died  in  the  odour  of  sanctity  in  his  remote  Indian  home ! 

'  My  father  said  my  grandfather,  in  later  years,  often  regretted  that  he  had  not  made 
copious  records  of  the  many  extraordinary  persons  and  things  he  had  met  with  in  India,  this 
Fakeer  Seton  being  one  of  them.  India  was  at  that  time  so  remote  and  so  unknown  that 
many  equally  strange  episodes  occasionally  came  to  light  by  some  accident.  It  would  be 
indeed  interesting  if  the  full  history  of  this  Seton  of  Seton  could  be  traced  and  his  identity 
established. — With  much  love,  yours  affectionately,  Jane  Campbell.' 


CAPTAIN    R.    SETON'S   BOOKS,    ETC.       1021 

34.  Note  of  the  Catalogue  of  the  Books,  etc.,  of  Captain  Robert 

Seton,  1739.     (From  a  printed  copy  in  the  possession  of  the  late 
Dr.   David  Laing  of  the  Signet  Library,  in  1853.) 

'  A  Catalogue  of  curious  and  valuable  Books,  among  which  are  some  fine  editions  of  the 
Classicks,  a  good  collection  of  Scots  Law,  many  of  the  best  modern  Historians  and  writers 
in  Philosophy,  Mathematicks,  Divinity,  and  Physick ;  with  all  the  Manuscripts  belonging  to 
the  late  Captain  Seton,  which  will  be  sold  by  auction  on  Monday,  the  12th  of  February  1739, 
by  A.  Kincaid,  Bookseller,  at  the  auction-house  in  Writer's-Court  .  .  .  Edinburgh,  printed 
in  the  year  1739.' 

The  printed  books  occupy  84,  and  the  mss.  8,  pages  i2mo.  The  sale  appears  to  have 
lasted  twelve  days.     Among  the  mss. — 68  in  number — were  the  following  : — 

No.  7.  (Besides  various  other  articles)  'Instructions  from  the  Pope  to  the  Bishop  of 
Ross,  and  articles  of  the  Lord  Seton's  negotiations  with  the  Duke  of  Alva,  with  several  letters 
from  him.'     Folio. 

No.  15.  'Sir  James  Turner's  Tracts,  Critical  and  Historical  .  .  .  written  with  Captain 
Seton's  own  hand.'    Folio. 

No.  18.  'The  historical  genealogy  of  the  ancient  and  noble  House  of  Seton,  written  by 
Sir  Richard  Maitland  of  Lethington,  daughter's  son  of  the  said  House,  and  Senator  of  the 
College  of  Justice  in  Queen  Mary's  reign.  The  said  history  beginning  at  Dougal  Seton,  who 
first  took  the  name  of  Seton  in  King  Malcolm  Kenmore  his  time,  who  reigned  anno  io6r, 
which  Dougal  was  oye  to  one  Dougal  who  possest  the  lands  of  Seton,  how  long  before  not 
recorded.  Sir  Richard  wrote  the  history  to  the  fifth  George  Lord  Seton,  to  whom  he  was 
tutor,  and  the  history  was  collected  by  him  out  of  the  ancient  evidences  of  the  House  and 
histories  of  Scotland  in  the  year  1545,  and  now  enlarged  by  Alexander,  Viscount  of  Kingstown, 
second  son  of  the  said  House,  to  this  eleventh  Lord  Seton,  and  seventh  Lord  of  the  name 
of  George,  and  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  in  the  year  1687.'     Folio. 

No.  19.  'Andrew  Wynton  his  original  chronicle,  etc.  .  .  .  wrote  by  Captain  Seton's 
own  hand,  ...  to  which  he  has  added  a  table  of  the  contents  and  a  preface,  etc.,  finely 
bound.'    Folio. 

No.  20.  'The  genealogy  of  the  illustrious  House  and  surname  of  Seton,  by  Sir  Richard 
Maitland  of  Lethingtoun.' 

No.  37.  '  Miscellanea  Scotica  Curiosa,  etc.,  collected  and  copied  from  the  originals  by 
Captain  Robert  Seton.'     Folio. 

No.  38.  'The  Royal  Genealogy  of  the  ancient,  high-born  and  most  famous  Kings  of 
Scotland,  etc.     Written  by  Captain  Seton's  own  hand.'     Folio. 

No.  45.  '  Extracta  ex  chronicis  Scotia;.     Written  with  Captain  Seton's  own  hand.'    Folio. 

35.  Two  Letters  relative  to  the  Subscription  in  behalf  of  Ralph 

Seton,   1783.     (From  Transcripts  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  (now 
Sir)  William  Fraser,  S.S.C.,  in  1847.) 

[Referred  to  at  p.  735.] 

John  Wauchope,  W.S.,  to  the  Duke  of  Gordon. 

'iWi  February  1783. 
'  My  Lord, — I  must  request  your  Grace  will  pardon  the  liberty  I  am  about  to  take  of 
informing  that  your  pensioner,  Mr.  Ralph  Seton,  the  representative  of  the  family  of  Winton, 
is  dead,  and  at  same  time  to  solicit  a  continuance  of  your  Grace's  bounty  to  Mrs.  Arrat  and 
her  daughter,  the  sister  and  niece  of  the  late  Sir  George  Seton  of  Garleton.  The  mother  is 
very  old  and  blind.  The  daughter  made  two  unfortunate  marriages.  By  the  first  marriage 
she  has  a  son  about  1 2  years  of  age.     The  distressed  situation  of  these  two  women  is  scarce 


1022  DEATH   OF   RALPH   SETON 

to  be  described.  They  are  now  the  only  remains  of  the  once  great  family  of  Winton.  The 
only  remnant  they  had  of  the  grandeur  of  their  family  was  the  mortcloth,  and  by  accident  I 
heard  they  were  under  the  necessity  of  disposing  of  it,  to  save  them  from  absolute  want.  I 
have  represented  their  truly  pitiable  case  to  Lord  Eglintoune,  and  I  have  his  Lordship's 
authority  to  continue  to  them  the  allowance  he  gave  to  Ralph  Seton,  and  he  expresses  his 
wish  for  the  other  contributors  doing  the  same. — I  have  the  honor  to  be,  very  respectfully, 
your  Grace's,  etc.,  John  Wauchope.' 

Lord  Blantyre  to  Mr.  Wauchope. 

'  St.  John  St.,  March  5, 1783. 

'  Dear  Sir, — The  small  sum  I  gave  Ralph  Seton  I  had  allotted  to  a  family  in  distress 
in  the  event  of  Ralph  Seton's  death,  which  I  had  not  heard  of  before  I  received  your  letter. 
I  thought  Mrs.  Arrat  had  been  dead  some  time  ago.  I  believe  she  and  her  daughter  have 
not  much,  but  are  not  quite  so  destitute  as  you  are  made  to  believe.  They  have,  I  know, 
about  ;£6oo  in  Lord  Strathmore's  hands,  the  reversion  of  Mrs.  Arrat's  estate,  the  interest  of 
which  is  paid  them  regularly.  If  the  Duke  of  Gordon,  Lord  Eglintoun,  and  Drumellier, 
continue  to  them  what  they  gave  Ralph  Seton,  with  what  they  have  of  their  own,  should  make 
them  pretty  comfortable  :  more  so,  I  imagine,  than  at  any  time  during  her  husband's  life.  But 
notwithstanding  this,  if  you  do  not  succeed  in  your  good  endeavours  to  make  up  a  reasonable 
fund,  I  will  willingly  contribute  my  mite  during  the  old  woman's  life.  There  still  exists 
another  branch  of  that  family.  John,  brother  to  Ralph  Seton,  left  two  sons,  but  in  what  way 
they  are  I  know  not. — I  am,  with  great  regard,  dear  Sir,  your  most  humble  serv*, 

'  Blantyre. 

'  To  John  Wauchope,  Clerk  to  the  Signet,  Edinburgh. 


INDEX 


INDEX 


The  FIRST  VOLUME  ends  at  page  576,  and  accordingly  all  references  after  that  number  pertain  to  VOL.  II. 
As  a  rule,  the  names  of  younger  sons  and  unmarried  daughters  are  not  inserted.     In  the  case  of  the  Main 
Line,  as  well  as  the  Cadets — of  whom  there  are  twenty-three — each  representative  is  separately  entered,  followed 
by  the  paginal  references,  thus  : — 


THE  FIVE  EARLS— 

1.  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Winton      ....... 

2.  Robert,  second  Earl  of  Winton  ...... 

3.  George,  third  Earl  of  Winton,  etc.        ...... 

CARISTON,  SETONS  OF— 

1.  John  Seton,  first  Baron  of  Cariston        ...... 

2.  George  Seton,  second  Baron  of  Cariston  ..... 

3.  George  Seton,  third  Baron  of  Cariston,  etc.      ..... 

With  few  exceptions,  the  name  of  Seton  only  appears  in  such  references  as  the  following : — 
Seton  Palace,  Seton  Church,  etc. 

The  spelling  of  Seaton  and  Seyton  are  occasionally  entered. 

It  has  been  considered  desirable  not  to  index,  in  detail,  the  following  Appendices  : — 
No.  I.  (xxiv.).  Unassigned  Scottish  Setons. 

IV.   1.   List  of  Early  Charters  made  by  Professor  Cosmo  Innes. 

2.  Excerpts  from  Great  Seal  Register. 

3.  Excerpts  from  Privy  Seal  Register. 

4.  Excerpts  from  Edinburgh  and  St.  Andrews  Registers  of  Testaments. 

VIII.  Bibliography  of  the  Setons. 
IX.  Miscellanies. 


page    67,  etc. 

215,  etc. 

61,  etc. 


114,  etc. 

585-7 
294,  etc. 


A, 


lbeilles,  or  Bees,  567. 
Abbot,  Scott's,  48,  49,  13S  n.,  141  n. 
Abbotsford,  694. 
Abercorn,  Setons  of,  45,  342,  353,  355-366,  3S1, 

385.     (S^Culbeg.) 

Arms  of  the  Setons  of,  366. 

intermarriages,  35. 

miniatures,  365. 

■ — —  Castle  and  Church,  355-6. 

Duke  of,  201,  355. 

Family,  301-2. 

James,  first  Earl  of,  201,  673. 

Lady  (Margaret  Seton),  death  of,  647. 

John-James,  first  Marquis  of,  956. 

Abercrombie,  Sir  Ralph,  438,  446. 

Aberdare,  Lord,  on  Col.  Alexander  Seton  (Mounie), 

5°4- 
Aberdeen,  Bishop  of  (William  Gordon),  395,  463. 


Aberdeen  burgess-ticket  (Mounie),  494. 

Cathedral,  489. 

Chancellor  of  (Alexander  Seton),  462,  464,  467. 

Earl  of,  253. 

■ Earls  of,  462,  810. 

■ George,  first  Earl  of,  6S7. 

William,  second  Earl  of,  439,  629,  S07. 

second  and  third  Earls  of,  492. 

Irvine  Monument  at,  377. 

Lord,  on  Pitt's  Peerages,  31. 

Sheriffship  of,  379. 

Aberdeenshire  Militia,  455. 
Aberdour  Castle,  650  «. 

Lord  (1732),  913. 

Aberfule,  Vicar  of  (Henry  Seton),  539,  541. 
Abergeldie,  Gordons  of,  382. 
Aberlemno,  battle  of,  578. 
Abernethy  Arms,  587  «.,  600  n. 


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INDEX 


Abemethy,  Lord  Salton,  395  «. 

of  Salton,  Alexander,  sixth  Lord,  466. 

'  Ablution '  of  the  House  of  Lords,  16. 

Abner  the  son  of  Ner,  411. 

Aboyne  Branch  of  Huntly  (q.v.),  450-59. 

1.  Charles,  first  Earl  of  Aboyne,  451,  473. 

2.  ■ second  Earl  of  Aboyne,  452. 

3.  John,  third  Earl  of  Aboyne,  452-3. 

4.  Charles,  fourth  Earl  of  Aboyne,  453-4. 

5.  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Aboyne  (afterwards  ninth 

Marquis  of  Huntly),  455-7. 

6.  Charles,    sixth    Earl    of    Aboyne    and    tenth 

Marquis  of  Huntly,  457-8. 

7.  seventh  Earl  of  Aboyne  and  eleventh 

Marquis  of  Huntly,  45S-9. 

Aboyne  Arms,  449  n.  ,825. 

Castle,  450. 

Charles,  Lord  (16S1),  767. 

Earls  of,  272. 

James,  second  Viscount  of,  429. 

Lady,  420. 

lands  of,  378-9. 

Records  of ,  Lord  Huntly's,  375  n.,  431,  459. 

Viscount,  427. 

Absalom  and Ahitophel,  Dryden's,  267. 

Absenteeism,  evils  of,  17. 

'  Abulziements,'  etc.,  627,  651  «.,  741. 

Abyssinian  Campaign,  4S4. 

Academia  Eccksiastica,  309. 

Academy,  Seton  Hill,  313. 

Account-book  of  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  663. 

Achaius,  King,  824. 

'  Acte'  at  Rheims  relative  to  Mary  Seton,  147. 

Actons,  lofty  stature  of  the,  835. 

Adair,  Elizabeth,  597. 

John  (geographer),  595. 

Major  James,  78-9. 

Adam,  descent  from,  5>  928. 

de  Seton  (Durham),  756. 

John,  architect,  794- 

Adams,  Mr.,  Queensferry  Street,  Edinburgh,  276-7. 
Adamson,  James,  Treasurer  of  Edinburgh  Council,  157. 

of  Graycruck,  24S. 

Patrick,  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews,  410. 

Addington,  Hon.  Henry,  836. 
Addiscombe,  325. 
Adinstons  of  that  ilk,  248,  583. 
Admill  (?),  murder  of  Robert,  468. 
'Advertisements  from  Edinburgh,'  185. 
Advocates,  debarred,  665. 

Faculty  of,  and  the  Duchess  of  Gordon,  434. 

Library,  907-8,  940. 

MSS.,  55,  916. 

Adwart,  Bailie  Nicoll,  586,  797. 
Afghanistan  Campaign,  575. 
Agincourt,  battle  of,  101  n. 
Agnew  of  Lochnaw,  Sir  James,  685. 
Agricultural  condition  of  Scotland  in  1750,  1016. 

improvements,  436,  442  ».,  44S. 

at  Aboyne,  453. 

(tenth  and  eleventh  Earls  of  Eglinton),  691, 

693- 

at  Mounie,  496. 

at  Touch,  345. 

Agriculture  in  East  Lothian,  early,  87. 
Ahmed,  etc.,  actions  of,  575. 

Aikenhead, ,  571. 

David,  645. 

Airlie,  James,  second  Earl  of,  431,  433. 
Aitchison,  Elizabeth  (Gosford),  540  ». 
Aitkin,  gardener  at  Seton,  279  n. 


Aitkin's  Scottish  Songs,  571  n. 
Akersberg,  lands  of,  369. 
Albany,  third  Duke  of,  90  n. 

Duke  of  (1515),  396. 

(Charles  I. ),  664. 

Regent,  377. 

Robert,  Duke  of,  101. 

and  York,  Duke  of  (James  VII.),  237. 

Alchemist,  a  famous  (Alexander  Seton),  764. 
Aldercreutz,  Baron  Carl  Gustaf,  371. 
Aldingstone,  lands  of,  710. 
Aldourie  and  Woodhouselee  Branch,  546-60. 

1.  Seton-Tytler,    Chaplain    to    fifth    Lord 

Seton,  548. 

2.  Tytler  of  Learnie,  549. 

3.  ■ Tytler  of  Corsindae,  549. 

4.  Alexander  Tytler  of  Corsindae,  549- 

5.  William  Tytler  (1696),  549. 

6.  Alexander  Tytler,  Writer  in  Edinburgh,  547, 

549-50. 

7.  William  Tytler  of  Woodhouselee,  550-2. 

8.  Alexander  Fraser-Tytler,  Lord  Woodhouselee, 

552-7- 

9.  William  Fraser-Tytler  of  Aldourie,  etc.,  557-8. 

10.  Fraser-Tytler  of  Aldourie,  etc.,  558. 

10  (a).  Charles  Edward  Fraser-Tytler  of  Aldourie, 
etc.,  558-9. 

11.  Edward  Grant  Fraser-Tytler  of  Aldourie,  etc., 

559-60. 
Aldourie  Arms,  548,  560. 
Ale,  the  best  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton),  243. 
Alexander  I.,  57,  65. 

II.,  70,  102  «. 

II.,  seal  of,  825. 

11.  and  in.,  450. 

in.,  70,  556. 

VI.,  Pope,  105. 

of  Ballochmyle,  Sir  Claud,  705. 

Alexandria,  anniversary  of  the  battle  of,  447. 
Alford,  battle  of,  429. 

Viscount  (1839),  703. 

Alicant,  696. 

Alienated  lands  and  honours  of  the  Setons,  545- 

Aliment,  action  for,  589. 

Alison,  Sir  Archibald  (the  historian),  536  ».,  549  «., 

552. 

on  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  701. 

etching  of  Seton  Church  by,  535  n. ,  772. 

Alison's  Life  and  Writings,  572  n. 
Allan,  John,  slaughter  of,  409. 
Allan  Qttatcrmain  quoted,  14. 
Allen,  Cardinal,  205. 
Allison,  Harold  K.,  705. 
Almacks  of  Melford,  150. 
Almanza,  battle  of,  6S4. 
Almond,  James,  Lord,  652. 

Water,  S02. 

Alsace  and  Lorraine,  429. 
Altachoylachan,  battle  of,  412. 
Alva,  Duke  of,  174-S0. 

Lady,  534. 

Lord  (Hon.  James  Erskine),  552. 

Ambassador  to  France  (George,  seventh  Lord  Seton), 

178-9. 
Amboise,  chateau  of,  S09  n. 
American  inconsistency,  23. 

marriages,  17. 

Setons,  55,  296-313. 

stature  of  the,  833. 

War,  592,  603. 

Ames  Family,  Genealogical  Memoranda  of  the,  835. 


INDEX 


1027 


Ameses,  lofty  stature  of  the,  S35. 
Amherst,  General,  692. 
Amiel  on  Equality,  12. 
Amsterdam,  609. 

fourth  Earl  of  Winton  at,  246. 

Analecta  Scotica,  588  «.,  916. 
Ancestors  slain  at  Flodden,  113. 
Ancestry,  true  pride  of,  840. 

various  opinions  on,  1,  2. 

Ancilla,  or  handmaid,  146. 

Ancrum  and  Lothian,  Correspondence  of  the  Earls  of, 

648,  652  «.,  716  «. 
Anderson  of  Cobinshaw,  James,  497,  499. 
Anderson's  Diplomata  Scotia,  96. 

House  of  Hamilton,  70S. 

Andre,  Major,  304. 

'  Anglus  Scotiensis,'  769. 

Angus  Arms  at  Pinkie,  814. 

■ 'Judex'  of,  578-9. 

George,  fourth  Earl  of,  381. 

Archibald,  fifth  Earl  of,  290. 

eighth  Earl  of,  189,  191. 

William,  ninth  Earl  of,  412. 

precedency  of  the  tenth  Earl  of,  165  n. 

eleventh    Earl   of    (Marquis   of   Douglas), 

424. 

228,  231. 

Archibald,  twelfth  Earl  of,  22S,  231,  527,  719. 

Earls  of,  113  n. 

Elizabeth,  370. 

Isobel,  321. 

Janet,  322. 

Annabella,  Princess,  386,  3S9,  517. 
Anna-Maria  Seton  (a  celebrated  beauty),  305. 
Annandale,  Anns  of  lordship  of,  90  «. 

Marquis  of,  474,  492. 

Anne  of  Denmark  (wife  of  James  VI.),  638,  642,  647, 

649  n. ,  680. 

Queen,  683,  686. 

Annick  Lodge,  Montgomeries  of,  694. 

Annual  Register  (1769),  739. 

Anselme,  Pere,  823. 

Anster,  Mr.  William,  210. 

Anstruther,  Captain  Robert,  581. 

Answer  of  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  to  the  charge 

of  treason,  260. 
Antietam,  battle  of,  311. 
Antigua,  Island  of,  581. 

Antiquaries,  Society  of  Scottish,  90  n.,  552,  777-8. 
Proceedings  of  the  Society  of  Scottish,  810  «., 

812,  823. 
Antiquity  of  the  Setons,  7S9. 
Antrim,  Earl  of,  430. 

Randal,  first  Earl  of,  524. 

Apostasy,  confession  of,  413. 

Apostolides,  Stylianos,  510. 

Aquavita,  present  of,  677. 

Aquaviva,  Father,  643. 

Aquila,  the  ship,  106. 

Arbroath,  Malcolm,  Abbot  of,  461. 

Arbuthnott  of  that  ilk,  Sir  Robert,  357. 

Robert,  third  Viscount,  527. 

Arch  at  Parbroath,  284. 

Archaologica  Scotica,  75  «.,  597  ».,  7^°,  S04. 
Archer  in  French  Scots  Guards  (1467),  765. 
Archers,  Scottish  (Royal  Body-Guard),  447,  615-7. 
Archery  at  Seton,  168. 

Chancellor  Seton's,  649. 

and  Golf,  524. 

Archibald  of  Blackball,  Marjory,  590-1,  593. 
Archimedes,  a  Scottish,  992. 


Architectural  achievements  of  the  Seton  Family,  48, 

770-822. 

achievements  of  Chancellor  Seton,  656. 

Institute  of  Scotland,  116  «. 

Architecture,  Scottish  Baronial,  795,  800. 
Ardendrach,  burning  of,  461. 
Ardkinglass,  House  of,  678  n. 
Ardrossan,  Baron  of  (1806),  694. 

harbour  (fourteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  694,  705. 

Provost  of,  704. 

Argyll,  Countess  of  (Lady  Anna  Mackenzie),  651. 

Archibald,  third  Duke  of,  256. 

George,  eighth  Duke  of,  his  Scotland  as  It  Was 

and  Is,  131,  273  n.,  442  n. 

dukedom,  236  n. 

Colin,  first  Earl  of,  104,  10S  n. ,  779. 

third  Earl  of,  395,  513,  520. 

Archibald,  second  Earl  of,  392,  395. 

fifth  Earl  of,  168,  175,  183,  581. 

seventh  Earl  of,   232  ».,  412,  425,  429, 

662. 
eighth  Earl  of  (and  first  Marquis),  225,  421, 

426,  428,  430,  677,  680. 

ninth  Earl  of,  237. 

House  of,  678  n. 

and  Huntly  reconciled,  414. 

Argyll's  insurrection  (16S5),  527. 

Argyllshire  Fencibles,  694. 

Ariosto's  Orlando  Ftirioso,  379  n. 

Aristocracies  of  birth  and  wealth,  15. 

Aristocracy,  true,  10. 

Aristocrats,  modern,  10. 

Arlington,  Lord,  924. 

Armada,  Spanish,  410. 

'  Armigerous  persons,'  830. 

Armorial  Bearings  of  the  Setons,  S23-31. 

at  Seton  Palace,  116,  163-4,  7S9-90. 

etc.,  at  Winton,  Soo. 

at  Fyvie  Castle,  809-10. 

in  Pinkie  Gallery,  813-15. 

Pedigree  (Henry  Laing),  618. 

Seton,  at  Touch,  351. 

Armour-bearer,  hereditary,  337,  343-5.  349- 

Arms  of  English  Nobility  (ms.    British    Museum), 

216  n. 

of  Scotland,  S24. 

of  Gordons  of  Cluny,  395. 

at  Seton  Church  (Seton  and  Murray),  88. 

(Seton  and  Sinclair),  94. 

of  the  Earls  of  Winton,  280. 

of  Seton  sculptured  at  Winton,  230. 

of  the  Setons  of  Preston,  374. 

of  the  Setons — various  blazons,  82S. 

of  Seton  (Durham)  and  Sayer,  758. 

at  Seyton,  Co.  Rutland,  754. 

'Arms  and  Pedigrees'  (Brit.   Mus.),  quotation  from, 

523- 

Armstrong,  Elina,  363. 
Armstrong's  Bruces  of  Airth,  338  n. 

History  of  Liddesdalc,  814-5. 

Armstrongs,  the,  389. 

Arnold  (Matthew)  on  inequality,  12. 

Stanley's  Life  of  Dr.,  331  n. 

Arnot,  Sir  John,  Provost  of  Edinburgh,  293,  969. 

ofWoodmylne,  Robert,  113. 

Arnote  of  Cokburnespath,  William,  710. 
Arran,  James,  Earl  of,  161. 

Earl  of  (1584),  187,  194-5. 

Regent,  1 19-120,  398-9,  408. 

Arrat,  of  Fofarty,  John,  73S,  1017. 
Mrs.,  102 1 -2. 


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INDEX 


'  Arrangers,'  genealogical,  Mark  Napier  on,  23. 

Ars  nova  et  magna  Gravitatis,  etc.,  Sinclair's,  23S, 

988. 
Arthur's  Seat,  443,  741  n. 
Articles,  Lords  of  the,  519. 

Arundel  Society  (George,  seventh  Lord  Seton),  198. 
Ascensione  Domini,  De,  634. 
Ashton  of  Fy field,  Christopher,  391. 
Assembly,  General,  660. 
Asser's  Life  of  Alfred  the  Great,  928  ». 
Assumption  of  old  titles,  924-5. 

of  Seton  surname  (Mounie),  497. 

'  Assythement,'  418. 
Athelstaneford,  223,  733  «.,  737. 

Church  of,  737. 

Athole,  Countess  of  (Margaret  Fleming),  145. 

Countess  of  ('  Dame  Marie  Ruthvene '),  623. 

John,  first  Duke  of,  439. 

James,  second  Duke  of,  438. 

■ Duke  of,  Dr.  John  Brown  on  the  sixth,  II. 

John,  first  Earl  of,  394. 

second  Earl  of,  518. 

fourth  Earl  of,  137,  183. 

fifth  Earl  of,  195,  409. 

disorders  in,  644. 

fastnesses  of,  75- 

■ witches  of,  129. 

Auchans  House,  689-90. 
Auchendrane  tragedy,  645. 
Auchindoun,  Lord  Adam  Gordon  of,  424. 
'  Auchinhufe,'  William  Seton  in,  117  n. 
Auchinhuif,  George  Seytoun  of,  467. 
Auchmoir,  lands  of,  472. 
Auchmoutie,  Robert,  161. 
Auchmouty,  Janet,  315,  317. 

of  Gosford,  Sir  John,  674. 

Katharine,  286. 

Auchterarne,  charter  of,  424. 
Audacious,  H.M.  ship,  325. 
Audley,  George,  eighteenth  Lord,  543. 

Hugh,  Lord,  66. 

Augmentation,  coat  of,  208,  S24,  S29. 

of  Seton  Arms,  61,  72. 

Auld  Meldrum,  lands  of,  461,  463. 

'  Auld  Reekie,'  690. 

Auquhorties,  John  Seytoun  of,  489  n. 

Aveland,  Gilbert  H.,  second  Baron,  45S. 

Avenels,  the,  356. 

Ayr,  citadel  of,  682. 

Sheriff  of,  172. 

Ayrshire  Fencibles,  686. 

Militia,  696,  698. 

Ayton,  Captain  Andrew,  586  n. 

■  Colonel,  R.A.,  5S6  ». 

of  Dunmure,  586  n. 

of  that  ilk,  Sir  John,  585,  586  n. 

Aytons  of  Berwickshire,  585  n. 
Aytoun,  Professor,  Lays  of,  412. 
Aytoun's  Edinburgh  after  Flodden,  113. 


.Dab.  Seton,  Miss,  301  n. 
Babington's  conspiracy,  147  n. 
'  Baby  of  the  British  Army,'  the,  835. 
Bacon  on  National  Unions,  642  n. 
Badad,  L'Abbe  G.,  307. 
Badajoz,  battle  of,  595. 
Badenoch,  lordship  of,  392,  396. 
Wolf  of,  377  n. 


Papers,     186 
and    Glorat, 


Badge  of  Setons  and  Gordons,  5 1 . 
Bagenoch  (Badenoch),  416. 
Bailefuar  (Balfour),  578. 
Bailie  of  Tranent,  John  Seton,  103. 
Baillie,  James,  323. 

of  Letham,  John,  342. 

of  Mellerstain,  forfeiture  of  Robert,  433. 

of  Polkemmet,  Mary  Isabella,  372. 

Baillie's  Letters  (Robert),  680-2,  685. 
Bain    (Joseph),     Calendar    of  Border 

et  sea. 
Sterlings    of    Craigbernard 

674  n. 
Baird  of  Auchmeddan,  Agnes,  36S. 

Sir  David,  435  n. 

John,  merchant  in  Leith,  912. 

of  Newbyth,  Lady,  533. 

Baker's  History  of  Northampton,  756,  762. 
Balbirnie,  Balfours  of,  581,  603  n. 

Setons  of,  2S6,  315. 

Balcanquall,  Rev.  Robert,  797- 
Balcarres,  Colin,  third  Earl  of,  720. 

Countess  of  (Lady  Anna  Mackenzie),  651. 

Balcaskie,  Seton  portrait  at,  837. 
Balderstone,  Mrs.,  910. 

Miss  Euphemia,  592  n. 

Balfour  of  Balbirnie,  John,  722  n. 

of  Burleigh,  290. 

Michael,  288. 

Sir  Michael,  678. 

of  Cariston,  Arms  of,  61S-20. 

David,  28S,  577,  580. 

Castle  of,  577. 

of  Denmylne,  Alexander,  16S. 

■  of  Denmiln,  Michael,  316,  318. 

House  of,  577-8. 

Pedigree,  578. 

pronunciation  of,  578. 

Sir  James  (Lyon),  619. 

Balfour's   Annals,    159   n.,    357   «.,   429,    6S1    : 

716  n. 

MSS.,  619. 

Balgarvy,  Balfours  of,  577-8. 
Balgonie  Parks,  59 1- 
Baliol,  Edward,  86,  932-3. 

John,  71,  75  n. 

Ballad,  Aberdeenshire  (Fyvie),  805. 

of  the  '  Four  Maries,'  132. 

of  '  Seton's  Sons,'  934-9. 

of  '  Bonnie  John  Seton,'  473  «.,  979-80. 

Ballangeich,  Gudeman  of,  448. 
Ballantayne,  Steine,  schoolmaster,  212. 
Ballingall's  Edinburgh  Past    and  Present,    116 

19S  ».,  794,  S04. 
Ballinkirk,  581. 
Ballochallan,  Lady  at,  272  «. 
'  Balloon  Tytler,' 571. 
Balmblae  (Falkland),  607. 
Balmerino,  John,  fourth  Lord,  684. 

Lord,  637. 

trial  of  Lord,  531. 

Balmuto  House,  599  n. 

Baltinglass,  Viscounts  of,  543. 

Balveny  Castle,  Athole  and  Huntly  Arms  at,  404. 

motto  at,  395. 

Lord,  395  n. 

Balzac  and  Dr.  Wm.  Seton,  766. 

Bamboo  Khan,  346. 

Banchry,  lands  of,  338. 

'  Band  of  Friendship,'  104. 

Banff,  George,  first  Lord,  472,  483. 


INDEX 


1029 


Banff,  town  of,  433. 

Bangalore  Arsenal,  326. 

'  Banished  servants,'  Mary  Stuart's,  179. 

Bank  of  Scotland,  first  office  of  the,  476. 

Bankton  House  (formerly  Olivestob),  708- 

Lord  (Andrew  M'Dowall),  1019. 

Bannatyne  Club,  130. 

Richard,  on  Lord  Seton's  return  from  Flanders, 

180  n. 
Bannatyne's  Journal  of  the  Transactions  in  Scotland, 

176  n.,  408  n. 
Bannatynean  Committee,  556. 
Bannockburn,  battle  of,  73  «.,  831. 
Banquet  in  honour  of  Queen  Mary,  157. 
Baptism  of  Prince  Charles,  645. 
Barach,  lands  of,  473. 
Barberey,  Madame  de,  307. 
Barbers  and  chirurgeons,  968. 
Barbour's  Bruce,  73,  827  n. 
Barclay,  Sir  David,  90-1. 

Jean,  91. 

Margaret,  91. 

Rev.  Peter  (Kettle),  955. 

■  Walter  (Chancellor  or  Chamberlain),  69. 

Barclays  of  Collairpie,  295. 

Barelli,  346-7. 

Barfoord,  Laird  of,  626. 

Barie,  estate  of,  473. 

Barland  of  Rosebank,  Thomas,  607,  918. 

Barmbahoch,  Laird  of,  621. 

Barnewell,  Bartholomew,  510. 

Barnwell,  Mary,  304. 

Barns,  Setons  of,  62,  301,  621-33,  668. 

1.  Sir    John    Seton,    first   of   Barns,    201,   292, 

539   n.,    586,   621-5,   636,   672,   674,    677, 
767. 

2.  second  of  Barns,  625-7. 

3.  George  Seton,  third  of  Barns,  628. 

4.  Sir  John  Seton,  fourth  of  Barns,  628. 

5.  Sir  George  Seton,  fifth  of  Barns,  256-7,  62S-9, 

633- 

6.  James  Seton,  Governor  of  St.  Vincent,   629, 

631,  633- 

7-  of  Brookheath,  630-3. 

Barns,  Arms,  623  n.,  633. 

Castle,  624,  770. 

intermarriages,  37. 

saleof(i7i5),  633. 

Baroche,  lands  of,  464. 

Baroda,  331. 

Baron,  or  Seton,  Alexander,  369-70. 

of  Preston,  Arms  of,  370. 

■  Patrick,  368. 

Baronetcies  in  the  Seton  family,  26,  28. 
Baronets  defined,  31  n. 

Order  of,  30,  31  n. 

and  Knights  contrasted,  31  n. 

Baronies,  582  n. 

Barons  and  Lords  of  Scotland  (MS.  British  Museum), 

82S. 

minor,  5S3  «. 

Barra,  George  Seton  of  (Chancellor  of  Aberdeen),  464, 

47,1,  650. 
Barre,  Madame  du,  763. 
Barron,  Alexander,  367. 

Barroun,  Alexander,  Bailie  of  Edinburgh,  157-61. 
Bartane,  John,  Dean  of  Dunkeld,  623. 
Bartholomew,  St.,  Massacre  of,  418. 
Barton,  lines  by,  795. 
Bass,  the,  716. 
betrayal  of  the,  720. 


Basset,  Lord,  755. 

'  Bastard  bairns'  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  107. 

Bastards,  succession  of,  107  n. 

Bastardy,  law  of,  118. 

Bathelnie,  Vicar  of,  462,  467. 

Bathurst,  Frances,  572. 

Baxter  of  Kincaldrum,  Edward,  612. 

Bayley,  Bishop,  313. 

Dr.  Richard,  305. 

Beaconsfield,  Lord,  32. 

Beale,  Robert  (Secretary  to  Queen  Elizabeth),  144-5, 
408. 

to  Burghley,  relative  to  Mary  Stuart,  186. 

Thomas,  612. 

'  Beardie,  Earl,'  379. 

Beauchesne,  M.  Antony  of,  148. 

Beaufow,  Thomas  de,  754. 

Becket,  Thomas  a,  758. 

Beckford  of  Fonthill,  William,  454. 

Bedchamber,  Gentleman  of  the  (second  Earl  of  Dun- 
fermline), 659. 

Groom  of  the,  674. 

Bedfellow,  Chancellor  Seton's,  647. 

Bedfellow,  demise  of  a  dear,  677. 

Bedford,  John,  Duke  of,  444. 

Earl  of,  and  Randolph  to  th9  Council  (1566), 

167. 

Rev.  W.  K.  R.,  56. 

Bedini,  Cardinal,  309. 

Bedstead,  oak,  with  Seton  and  Maitland  Arms,  492. 

Beerage  and  Peerage,  30. 

Beggar  mourners  (ninth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  6S6. 

Begum  Sumroo,  346. 

Beill,  Robert  Hamilton  of,  665. 

Beldormie,  George  Gordon  of,  3S2. 

Belgaum,  331-2. 

Belhaven,  John,  first  Lord,  719. 

Belhelvie,  William  Seton,  portioner  of,  464. 

Bell,  Silver  Race  (Dunfermline),  645. 

at  Seton  Church,  770,  785. 

Bellafage,  John  of,  754. 

Bellenden,  Lord,  359,  661. 

Sir  William,  565. 

Bellers,  William,  755. 

Bellingham,  1006-7. 

Belsches  of  Tofts,  565. 

Belshes,  Alexander,  692. 

James  Seton  of,  323. 

of  Invermay,  592  n. 

Belsies,  Elizabeth  Seton  of,  300. 

Seton  of,  296  «.,  297. 

Belsis  and  Belsisland,  323-4. 

Belting,  or  cinctura  gladii,  207  n. 

Belton,  914. 

Belvoir  Castle,  754- 

Benarty,  Hill  of,  170  n. 

Benbow,  Admiral,  574. 

Bennet,  Dame  Elizabeth,  S19  n. 

Sir  Henry  (Lord  Arlington),  924. 

Robert,  Dean  of  Faculty,  435. 

Beresford,  Captain,  703. 

Bergen,  battle  of,  446. 

Bergen-op-Zoom,  siege  of,  602. 

Berkeleys,  the,  43  n. 

Berkly,  Mr.,  660. 

Bernard's  House  of  Bourbon,  5S3  n. 

Berry,  Mr.,  297. 

Mrs.  Robert  (Elizabeth  Seton),  301. 

Journals  and  Correspondence  of  Miss,  301  n. 

Berrys,  the  Miss,  301-2,  S33. 

Berth,  a  warm,  916. 


1030 


INDEX 


Berwick,  Governor  of  (Alexander  Seton),  768. 

siege  of,  82-6,  931-4. 

Berwick,  drama  of  the  Siege  of,  301. 

Besancon,  siege  of  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton  at),  234. 

Besley,  Charles  R.,  456. 

Bethelny,  or  Balthelney,  460. 

Bethune.     See  Beton. 

Bethunes,  the,  577-8. 

Beton,  Andrew  (Mary  Seton's  suitor),  139-43. 

Cardinal  David,  56,  117,  119,  140,  153,  398. 

ofCreich,  David,  140. 

John,  104. 

James,  Archbishop  of  Glasgow,  140-5,  396. 

of  St.  Andrews,  140. 

John  (Lochleven),  171. 

Master  of  the  Household,  139. 

Mary,  104,  130-2,  136-8,  404-5. 

(or  Bethune)  of  Balfour,  140. 

family,  pedigree  of,  140. 

Bevan,  Arthur-Talbot,  480-1. 

Bible,  family,  at  Eglinton,  688. 

Bibliography  of  the  Setons,  919-24. 

Billings'  Baronial  and  Ecclesiastical  Antiquities  of 
Scotland,  770,  772,  774,  782,  799,  806,  S08. 

Billingsley,  Mr.  Case,  1016. 

Bingham's  Marriages  of  the  Bourbons,  583  n. 

Binning  of  Dunino,  587,  5S9. 

lands  of,  105. 

Thomas,  Lord,  647,  672. 

Birke?ihead,  wreck  of  the,  500-4. 

Birrell,  Mr.  Augustine,  928. 

'Birse  yont,'  377. 

Birth,  sentiment  of,  4. 

• true  nobility  of,  14. 

Birth-brieve  of  Lord  Pitmedden,  475. 

Bishops'  rents,  Scottish,  478. 

Bisset  of  Balwillo,  Thomas,  90. 

Bissets  of  Aboyne,  450. 

Blacater  of  Tullyallane,  John,  581. 

Black,  Agnes,  541,  544. 

Rev.  David,  639. 

Rev.  Dr.  (of  Coylton),  556. 

'  Black  Wednesday,'  441. 

Blackfriars,  Edinburgh,  102. 

Blackhall  of  that  ilk,  Alexander,  468. 

David  Seton  of,  593,  608. 

lands  of,  591. 

Setons  of,  915. 

Blackie's  Biographical  Dictionary  of  Eminent  Scots- 
men, 571  n. 

Blackness  Castle,  119,  356,  411,  531. 

and  Captain  Robert  Seton,  255  «. 

Blacksmith,  confidential,  at  Seton,  274. 

■ journeyman  (fifth  Earl  of  Winton),  249,  254. 

Blackwood's  Magazine,  555,  701. 

Blair,  Alexander  (Dunrod),  562. 

of  Avonton,  William,  477. 

Castle,  667. 

lands  of  (Bourtie),  462. 

Mr.,  918. 

William,  614. 

Blair's  Close,  434. 

Blair-Drummond,  345. 

Blanche  de  Castille,  165  n. 

Blantyre,  Lady  (1728),  727. 

(1757).  914- 

(1771),  735- 

Lord  (1783),  1022. 

William  Lord  (1771),  735. 

Alexander,  fifth  Lord,  722,  731. 

Robert,  seventh  Lord,  721. 


Blazon,  ignorance  of,  9. 

Bligh,  General,  438. 

Blind  Harry,  354. 

Blood,  threefold  classification  of,  43  n. 

Blore's  view  of  Seton  Church,  772. 

Blue  blood,  43  n. 

Blunt,  Sir  Charles-William,  361. 

Blyth,  Gervase  Seaton  of,  759-60. 

Miss  Phoebe,  147. 

Boase,  H.  (Penzance),  763. 

Boca,  Cavalier  de  la,  624. 

Boccaccio's  Decameron,  21. 

Body-Guard,  Queen's  Scottish,  615,  617,  S36. 

Boece,  931. 

on  the  siege  of  Berwick,  83,  84. 

Bog-o'-Gight  Castle,  389,  416,  420,  422,  433,  770. 

Bogside,  George  Seton  of,  918. 

'  Bogus '  Coats  of  Arms,  S30. 

Boigfechale,  lands  of,  466. 

Bologna,  Arms  of  John  Seton  at  (1603),  769. 

Bolton,  Queen  Mary  at,  139. 

Bonar,  Alisone,  317. 

of  Rossy,  John,  288. 

William,  581. 

Thomas,  557. 

Bone,  H.  (R.A.),  199  n. 

Bonhard  mansion-house,  358. 

Bonn,  University  of,  309. 

Bonnet,  M.  Pierre,  480. 

Bonnets,  black,  3S0. 

'  Bonnie  Earl '  of  Moray,  murder  of  the,  41 1. 

'  Bonnie  John  Seton,'  Ballad  of,  473  n.,  979-S0. 

Boog,  Thomas,  brewer,  323. 

Book-plate  of  the  Author,  620. 

of  Ralph  Seton,  1007. 

Book-plates  (Dunfermline),  632. 
Book-stamp  of  Bishop  William  Gordon,  395. 

■  of  Chancellor  Seton,  809  «. 

Bordeaux  wine  of  Edinburgh  Town  Council,  645. 
Border  crime,  repression  of,  674. 

Justiciaries,  672. 

Papers,  Bain's  Calendar  of,  1 86  et  seq. 

Borders,  disturbances  in  the,  645. 
Borg,  mutilation  of  the  laird  of,  122-3. 
Borthwick,  Sir  Algernon,  134. 

Arthur,  Master  of,  112. 

David  (King's  Advocate),  635. 

Lord  (1566),  167,  169. 

Anns  at  Pinkie,  814. 

Boskett  of  London,  Thomas,  591. 
Boswell  of  Auchinleck,  Thomas,  113. 

of  Balmuto,  Arms  of,  600  n. 

David,  598-9. 

Margaret,  617. 

Marjory,  140. 

■ — — Sir  John,  645. 

■ of  Craigincat,  David,  645. 

Captain,  609. 

HosweWsfohnson,  689. 

Boswells  of  Balmuto  and  Flodden,  1 13. 

Bothwell  Arms  at  Pinkie,  814. 

Bridge,  battle  of,  236,  5S9. 

Lady  Anne,  566. 

Countess  of  (Margaret  Gordon),  391. 

Earl  of  (1584),  195. 

Earl  of,  168. 

Francis  Stewart,  Earl  of,  2I0-I,  291  «.,  734. 

Lord  Holyroodhouse,  223. 

Patrick,  first  Earl  of,  112. 

■  second  Earl  of,  113. 

James,  fourth  Earl  of,  404-5,  521. 


INDEX 


103 1 


Bothwell,  seal  of  James,  fifth  Earl  of,  713. 
Bothwell's  contemplated  conspiracy  in  15S9,  205. 

raid  on  Holyrood,  411. 

tavern  supper,  168. 

'throat,'  206. 

trial,  205. 

Bourbon,  Charles,  Cardinal  of,  194. 

Count  of,  5S3,  765. 

House  of,  583  n. 

Bourchier,  Charles,  329. 
Bourtie,  lands  of,  471. 
Bowden,  barony  of,  320. 
Bowes,  622. 

Sir  Robert,  397. 

to  Burghley,  1S7,  205. 

to  Walsingham  (Lord  Seton's  visit  to  France), 

1S9. 

(arrival  of  Lord  Seton  at  Leith),  194. 

190,  409. 

Bowie,  Mrs.  [nee  Seton),  305. 
Boyd,  Sir  Alexander,  trial  of,  101. 

Zachary,  677. 

Boyd  of  Trochrig's  Diary,  626. 

Boyer,  Thomas,  573. 

Boyle,  Col.  the  Hon.  Robert,  1004. 

Dean,  His  Recollections,  704. 

Brabazon,  Thomas,  372. 

Bracelets,  gold,  317. 

Braemar,  lordship  of,  397. 

Brain  pressure  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  699. 

Brand  of  Baberton,  7S2. 

Brandenburg,  house  of,  417. 

Branksome,  Lady  of  (Grissel  Beton),  104,  140. 

Brankston  Moor,  112. 

Brantome,  131  «.,  141. 

Brass,  matrix  of  a  monumental,  7S0. 

Brechin,  battle  of,  37S-S0. 

Castle,  971. 

seventh  Lord  Seton  and  three  sons  in, 

185. 

MS.  at,  232  k. 

Adam,  Bishop  of,  92. 

estate  of,  90. 

Breda,  663. 

Brereton,  William,  priest,  187. 

Breteuil,  439. 

Brewers'  grievances  in  16S2,  242. 

Bride,  an  aged,  686. 

Bride  of  Lammermoor,  lines  quoted  in  the,  219. 

Bridge  of  Dee,  battle  of,  430. 

Bridge's  Northamptonshire,  754. 

Brierly,  township  of,  758. 

Briery-yards  near  Hawick,  365. 

Briggs,  Alexander,  330. 

Miss,  297. 

Mrs.  (Rebecca  Seton),  330. 

Brincadoro,  914. 

British  Museum,  Seton  pedigree  in  the  (1604),  927. 

MSS.  in  the,  passim. 

Brittany  custom  of  armorial  renunciation,  8. 
Broadbent,  John,  736,  739. 

Mrs.  (Mary- Catherine  Seton),  736,  739. 

Brodie  of  Arnhall,  Alexander,  44S. 

Elizabeth  (Duchess  of  Gordon),  448-9. 

of  Brodie  (Lyon  King-of-Arms),  198  n. 

of  Idvies,  John-Clerk,  613. 

Sir  Thomas  Dawson,  613,  969. 

library  of,  655  n. 

Seton,  Alexander,  593  n. 

Brodies,  the,  377  n. 
'  Broken  clans,'  419. 


Broken  heart,  a  (fourth  Earl  of  Dunfermline),  670. 

Brookheath  Arms,  631. 

Col.  James  Seton  of,  632,  914. 

James  Seton  of,  978. 

Brooks,  Sir  William  Cunliffe,  459. 

Brora  coal-pits  and  salt-pans,  523. 

industries  at,  405. 

Brotherhood,  modern  want  of,  19. 

Broughty  Castle,  291. 

Broun  of  Colstoun,  George,  104  n.,  53S-9,  1019. 

Brounfield  of  Eastfield,  James,  541-2. 

Brown,  Captain,  630. 

David-Dyce,  M.D.,  4S0. 

Dr.  John  (Sketch  of  a  Jacobite  Family),  272. 

on  Traquair,  838. 

of  Glastonbury,  William,  45S. 

Browne,  Rev.  Thomas  C. ,  456. 

Brownlow,  Francis,  C.B.,  574. 

Broxburn,  barony  of,  222. 

Bruce,    Lady   Christian,   60,    72,    351,    615,    S24, 
929-31. 

King  David,  S3,  86,  320,  392. 

Edward,  73  n. 

Mr.  (Dysart),  609. 

of  Grangemuir,  Captain  Thomas,  609. 

of  Powfoulis,  Andrew,  339. 

Robert,  Earl  of  Carrick,  60. 

Lord  of  Annandale,  60,  787. 

(servant  to  Bishop  of  Glasgow),  1S5. 

Rev.  Robert,  639. 

King  Robert,  71-2,  80,  208,  450,  615,  624  n., 

725. 

Brace's  sword,  75  n. 

Braces,  Lords  of  Annandale,  273  n. 

Bruno,  Order  of  San,  836. 

Brunton  (now  Barnslee),  600  n. 

Colonel,  918. 

and  Haig's  Senators  of  the  College'  of  Justice, 

357  «• 

Brus,  Robert  de,  59. 

Bryante,  Madame  de  (Lady  Seton),  128-9. 

Signor,  124,  128. 

Brydges  (Sir  Egerton)  on  good  birth,  I. 

Buccleuch,  Countess  of  (1658),  685. 

Duke  of,  his  great  genealogical  position,  236  «. 

family,  5. 

Francis,  second  Earl  of,  236,  6S1. 

Walter,  first  Lord  Scott  of,  681. 

■  and  Seton  kinship,  236. 
Buchan,  Earl  of  (Alexander  Cumyn),  66. 

Earldom  of,  826. 

Earldom,  Arms  of,  102. 

Arms  at  Seton  Palace,  790. 

of  Auchmacoy,  472. 

Colonel,  66S-9,  719. 

John  Stewart,  Earl  of,  99,  101,  102  n. 

William  Erskine,  eighth  Earl  of,  668. 

Henry,  twelfth  Earl  of,  and  Queen  Mary,  4. 

General,  481  n. 

Major-General  Thomas,  472. 

of  Kelloe,  George,  1016,  1018-9. 

of  Letham,  John,  1016,  1019. 

Buchan-Hepburn,  Mr.,  792,  1013. 

Sir  George,  1019. 

Buchan-S)'dserff  of  Ruchlaw,  Francis,  1019. 
Buchanan,  George,  84,  931. 

■ Epitaph  by,  383. 

Latin  translation  of  the  Psalms,  656. 

Buchanan-Hamilton  of  Leny,  etc.,  John,  613. 

Mrs.  (Margaret  Seton),  618. 

Buffon  and  Louis  XVI.,  20  n. 


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INDEX 


Burgate  House,  Hampshire,  629  «.,  632. 
Burgh,  Lord,  to  Burghley,  205. 

Muir,  Edinburgh,  114,  116,  1 19. 

Burghley,  Lord,  letters  to,  205. 

and  the  invasion  of  Scotland,  1S0. 

Burghly,  622. 

Burghs  of  barony  and  royal,  81. 

Burgon,  Dean,  556-7. 

Burgon's  (Dean)  Life  of  Patrick  Fraser-Tyller,  107  «., 

546. 
Burgundy,  conquest  of,  432. 
Burials,  extravagant,  912. 

in  Seton  Church  (navies  not  indexed),  7S6-7. 

Burleigh,  Michael  Balfour  of,  578. 

succession,  598  «. 

Burke  and  North,  441. 

Sir  Bernard,  297. 

Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  545- 

Pierage  and  Baronetage,  58-9,  537>  697. 

Vicissitudes  of  Families,  43  n. 

Burmese  War,  first,  483. 

Burn,  the,  Kincardineshire,  438. 

William,  architect,  800. 

Burncastle,  lands  of,  337. 
Burns,  Robert,  438,  571,  700  n. 

festival,  700. 

on  the  Stuart  Kings,  273. 

on  William  Tytler,  551. 

and  the  white  rose,  262  n, 

Burns's  '  Kenmure's  on  and  awa','  269. 
Burns-Begg,  Mr.  Robert,  170  n. 
Burnett,  Archbishop,  677. 

George  (Lyon  King-pf-Arms),  59. 

on  heraldic  manuals,  24. 

of  Leys,  Sir  Thomas,  478. 

Burnetts,  the,  377  n. 

Burning  of  Seton  Church  and  Castle,  120,  773,   7SS, 

791-2. 
Burntisland,  David  Seton  of,  321. 

John  Seton,  Town-Clerk  of,  322. 

Burton,  Dr.  Hill,  565,  770,  774,  777,  778,  7S0. 

on  the  fascination  of  Genealogy,  5. 

on  the  Regent  Moray,  165  n. 

account  of  the   '  Burning  of  Frendraught,' 

41 7  et  sea. 

History  of  Scotland,  425  et  seq.,  795. 

Scot  Abroad,  579  ». ,  766. 

Burton's  and  Froude's  insinuations,  406. 

'  Bush  aboon  Traquair,'  838. 

'Busker'  of  hair,  138. 

Bute,  Setons  of,  297. 

Butler,  Katharine,  heiress  of  Rumgavye,  286. 

— —  of  Warren  Wood,  Charles,  592  n. 

'  Bydand, '  meaning  of,  449  «. 

Byne,  Cornet  Charles,  688. 

Byng,  Hon.  Vice- Admiral,  573. 

Bynnyng,  lands  of,  10S. 

Byres,  barony  of,  734. 

Byron,  Lord,  390,  536. 

and  his  pedigree,  4. 

Captain  John,  391. 

Elizabeth,  363. 

Byzantine  origin  of  the  Russian  faith,  S24. 


c 


•abal  Ministry,  924. 
Cabinet,  a  modern  British,  637. 

ebony,  of  the  Winton  family,  1007,  1009. 

of  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  660,  665. 

Cabrach,  Forest  of,  392. 


Caddell,  Thomas,  brewer,  322. 

Cadder,  House  of,  67S  n. 

Cadell  of  Cockenzie,  1012,  1019. 

Cadet  to  Colonel,  Sir  Thomas  Seaton's,  759. 

Cadets,  portraits  of  the,  837. 

Cadwalader,  216  n. 

Caer  Guineach,  354. 

Caesar,  Sir  Julius,  647. 

Cairn   and   inscription   at   St.    Bennet's,   Edinburgh, 

116  «. 
Cairnes,  Mary-Anne,  of  Gladswood,  543. 
Cairns,  John,  butcher  in  Edinburgh,  571. 
Cairo,  Hay's  Illustrations  of,  723. 
Caithness,  George,  fourth  Earl  of,  521. 

fifth  Earl  of,  408. 

Earl  of,  415. 

family,  conspiracy  by  the,  520. 

and  Sutherland,  Earls  of,  409. 

Calatrava,  Order  of,  624  n. 

Calder,  Rev.  Robert,  251,  993-4. 

Calderwood,     William     (Jacobite     Quartermaster), 

262-3. 
Calderwood's  (David)  description  of  George,  seventh 

Lord  Seton,  166. 
■ ■  estimate  of  Chancellor  Seton,  639,  642-3,  646, 

655- 
Caledonian  Mercury  (1729),  6S6. 
Calendar,  Countess  of  (Margaret  Hay),  658-9. 

James,  first  Earl  of,  652. 

Earl  of  (1669),  660,  663,  665. 

Call,  John,  burgess  of  Dieppe,  166. 
Callander,  Helen,  353. 
Callimachus,  Works  of,  571. 
Cambridge,  George,  301. 

Seatonian  prize,  762-3. 

Cambuskenneth  Abbey,  8 1 ,  389. 
Cameron,  Lieut. -General  William  N.,  509. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  G.,  509. 

Campbell  Arms,  779  n. 

of  Auchinbreck,  Richard,  332. 

Sir  Colin,  484. 

Colonel  Barrington-Bulkeley,  S36. 

of  Dunmore,  Mary,  371. 

General,  914. 

James  (Sheriff-Substitute),  573, 

Lady  Margaret  (wife  of  George,  fourth  Lord 

Seton),  no,  618. 

Mungo,  exciseman,  691-2. 

Mrs.  (nee  Dyce),  1020. 

Sir  Neil,  81. 

of  Shawfield,  Mrs.  Hamilton,  Soo. 

of  Stonefield,  John,  543. 

Thomas  (sculptor),  556. 

of  Trinzeane,  Hew,  623. 

Campbell's  Lives  of  the  Chancellors,  271. 
Candechyll  (Deeside),  420. 
Canmore,  Malcolm,  205  ».,  351,  768. 
Canning,  George,  lines  by,  696. 
Cannon,  Colonel,  667-8. 

Riding  of  the,  173. 

Canongate,  Lord  Seton 's  'lugeing'  in  the,  196-7. 

—  tenements,  245. 

Cant  of  Over  Liberton,  Henry,  107. 

Canterbury,  Archbishop  of,  415. 

Cap,    embroidered    (handiwork    of   Queen    Mary), 

491. 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  A  Voyage  from,  572. 
Capel,  Lady  Adela  (Countess  of  Eglinton),  698. 
Captain,  H.M.  Ship,  457. 
Carberry,  Queen  Mary's  surrender  at,  136*7. 
Card-counter,  mother-of-pearl,  with  Seton  Arms,  300. 


INDEX 


1033 


577-620, 
151. 155. 


7°9. 


Cardonald,  Stewarts  of,  955. 

Cardross,  Lord  (1690),  66S. 

Careston  (or  Cariston),  Balfours  of,  577-9- 

■ ■  derivation  of,  578-9. 

Carey  to  Burghley,  205. 
Carfrae,  Mrs.,  591. 
Caril  and  Carald,  578. 
Cariston,  Setons  of,  52,  74,  75  ».,  199  n. 
709  «.,  906,  915-6,  953-5. 

1.  John,  first  Baron,  114,  123,  124,  126, 

577-S5,  615,  765. 

2.  George,  second  Baron,  5S5-7. 

3.  third  Baron,  294,  5S7-S,  650,  760. 

4.  >  fourth   Baron,    58S-94,   599,    60S, 

834- 

5.  Christopher,  fifth  Baron,  594-9,  617,  9S4. 

6.  George,  sixth  Baron,  599,  603,  984. 

7.  seventh  Baron,  593,  597-8,  603-7,  608  »., 

617,  917. 

8.  — —  eighth  Baron,  607-8,  610. 

8(a).  Major  Christopher  Seton,  294,  5S8  n. ,  595  n. , 
598,  603-7,  60S-9. 

9.  Captain  David  Seton,  609,  615. 

10.  George  Seton,  Advocate  (present  representa- 
tive), 615-8. 

[Sir  John  Seton,  Scots  Guards  in  France, 
582-3. 

Alexander  Seton,  magistrate  of  St.  An- 
drews, 587. 

Captain  Alexander  Seton  (Kennoway), 
590. 

David  Seton  of  Blackhall,  590-4. 

M.D.,  592. 

Henry  Seton,  Chasseurs  Britanniques,  592- 
3,  598,  614  «.,  615,  617. 

David  Seton,  Bailie  of  Kennoway,  593  n. 

Colonel  William-Carden  Seton,  595. 

Miles-Charles  Seton  of  Trekersby,  595-7, 

736- 

James  Seton  (Culloden),  601-2,  604,  607. 

George   Seton,   Commander    H.E.I.C.S., 
609-13,  617.] 
Cariston  Arms,  618-20,  831,  954. 

at  Seton  Palace,  790. 

David  Seton  of,  911  n. 

Elizabeth  Seton  of,  216. 

family,  MS.  account  of,  294,  5S8-9  n. 

stature  of  the,  834. 

intermarriages,  37,  38. 

James  Seton  of,  letters  and  signature  of,  915. 

Jean  de  Seton,  Seigneur  de,  Testament  of,  982-7. 

Sir  John  Seton  of  the  family  of,  248. 

Ladie  of,  114. 

mansion-house,  581-2. 

■  portraits,  617-8. 

signatures  of  fifth  and  sixth  Barons  of,  984. 

situation  of,  918. 

'Cariston,  Sieur  de,'  765. 

Carkettle  of  Over  Liberton,  Helen,  541-2. 

Carlaverock,  Book  of,  272  n. 

'  Carle  now  the  King 's  come,'  447. 

Carlisle,  Earl  of  (1780),  455. 

■ ■  Queen  Mary  at,  137,  139. 

Carlyle,  Thomas,  607. 

on  Genealogy,  29. 

Carmichael  of  Balmblae,  Robert,  607. 

of  Eastend,  Maurice,  561. 

Carmichael,    James   (Dean  of  Guild,    Edinburgh), 
156-7. 

Mary,  132. 

Mrs.  (heiress  of  Kirkforthar),  917  n. 


Carnegie  of  Colluthie,  Sir  David,  637. 

epitaph  of  Johnnie,  3. 

Carnwath,   Countess  of  (Lady  Mary  Seton),  229-30, 

241,  632. 

James,  fourth  Earl  of,  230,  242. 

Robert,  sixth  Earl  of,  255,  257,  258,  262,  269, 

687. 
Carpenter,  General,  256,  261. 
'  Carpenter's  shop, '  formerly  in  Seton  Church,  784. 
Carraldstone,  David  Balfour  of,  578. 
Carrelstoun  (Cariston),  George  Seton  of,  215. 
Carrie,  Sir  Gilbert  de,  76. 
Carrick,  Robert  Bruce,  Earl  of,  72. 
Carrington  parish,  592. 
Carroll,  Albert-Henry,  313. 

■ of  Carrollton,  Charles,  30S. 

Carrowe,  Sir  Thomas,  756. 
Carrowes,  The,  756-S. 
Carrubber's  Close  Chapel,  32S. 
Carver,  Royal,  207. 
Cassie  of  Kirkhouse,  587. 
Cassilis  Arms  at  Pinkie,  814. 

Gilbert,  third  Earl  of,  162. 

John,  sixth  Earl  of,  318,  677,  679. 

Lady,  215. 

Caste,  English,  19. 

Castelnau,  Michel  de,  144. 

Castle  of  Oxford,  George,  484. 

Castlefield,  the  (Parbroath),  284. 

Castlereagh,  Lord,  556. 

Catalogue  of  Books,  etc.,  of  Captain  Robert  Seton 

(1739),  1021. 
Cathcart,  pronunciation  of,  578. 
Catherine  of  Medicis,  Queen,  131. 
'Catherine  Seyton'  of  the  Abbot,  49,  138  «.,  141  ». 

and  Roland  Gramme,  116. 

Catholic  meetings  in  Edinburgh,  434. 

Religion,  defence  of  the,  906. 

Catholics,  Narratives  of  Scottish,  644  11. 
Cattle-stealing  on  the  Borders,  673. 
'Cauld,  cauld!'4o8. 

in  doctrine,  211  n. 

Causey-work  account  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton),  243. 

Causier,  Captain,  603. 

Caussin   on   Queen   Mary's  escape   from    Lochleven, 

1 70  n. 
Cawnpore,  relief  of,  484. 
Cayley,  Lady  (Isabella  Seton),  300,  323. 

Sir  Thomas,  300,  323. 

Cecil,  minute  by  (Lord  Fyvie),  643. 

■ Sir  Robert  (Lord  Cranbourne),  641-2. 

Cecill,  John,  to  Cardinal  Allen  and  Robert  Parsons, 

205. 

Robert,  206. 

Cedar  '  proud  and  tall, '  49  n. 

Ceilings  at  Winton,  799-800. 

Celt,  a  barbarous  (Seton  Palace),  793- 

Cepedas  of  Avila,  30  n. 

Cess  imposts  in  1657-8,  240. 

Ceton  (Seton),  Chateau  de,  766. 

Church,  of,  arms,  etc.,  in,  766. 

Ceylon  plantations,  372. 
Chadwick,  Sir  Andrew,  270. 
Chair  of  Winton  family,  279  «. 

of  Lord  Kilcreuch,  357. 

old,  at  Loudon  Castle,  956. 

Chaisterwod,  126. 

Chalice,  slab  bearing  a  (Seton  Church),  781. 

Chalmers,  Rev.  Alexander,  442. 

of  Balbithan,  466 . 

George,  556. 


6p 


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INDEX 


Chalmers'  Caledonia,  64,   67  «.,   81,   161-2,   734  »., 

825. 

History  of  Dunfermline,  63S  n. 

Chamberlain,  Colonel  Neville,  724. 
Chambers,  Dr.  Robert,  56,  556. 

Dr.  William,  on  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  253. 

Chambers's  Book  of  Days,  75  n. 

Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland,  416  et  sea.,  595  n., 

599  «.,  719- 

Journal,  476  «.,  836  «.,  1006  «. 

Popular  Rhymes  of  Scotland,  832. 

Russian  War,  759  ». 

Stories  of  Old  Families,  270,  832  n. 

Traditions  of  Edinburgh,  198,  434-5  «. ,  444,  689. 

Chan  Chinery,  M'Dowall  &  Co.,  918. 

Chance,  Frederick  W.,  331. 

Chancellor  Seton,  77°-     (Set  Dunfermline,  first  Earl 

of.) 

Conjeus'  notice  of,  969. 

■  his  character  summarised,  658. 

influence  of,  44. 

■ inscription  of,  1 16  n. 

letter  from,  907-S. 

Memoir  of ,  634,  641  n. ,  643  n.,  644  ».,  650, 

653,  806,  810. 

■ portraits  of,  656. 

signatures  of,  657. 

testament  of,  653-5. 

various  estimates  of,  655. 

Chanell,  Anna,  358. 

'  Character,'  a  (George,  fourth  Lord  Seton),  103. 

Characteristics,  Scottish  family,  832. 

Charity,  Sisters  of,  311-2. 

Charlemagne,  League  with,  824. 

Charles,  baptism  of  Prince,  645. 

Christian  name  of,  652  n. 

Charles  I.,  357,  379,  417,  420,  429,  472-3,  58S,  625, 

641,  671. 

a  prisoner  at  Carisbrook,  226. 

at  Seton,  714. 

at  Winton,  800. 

coronation  of,  473. 

execution  of,  428,  430,  660,  6S0. 

his  departure  from  Edinburgh  in  1641,  225. 

letter  from   (precedency  of  Chancellor  Seton's 

widow),  971. 

third  Earl  of  Winton  with,  in  1639,  225. 

Charles  I.   and  II.,  343-4,  451,  659,  663,  677,  679, 

7S8. 
Charles  II.,  359,  424,  431-2,  474,  660,  682,  715-6. 

at  Dunnottar,  228  n. 

his  coronation  at  Scone,  230,  491. 

his  favour  for  the  third  Earl  of  Winton,  230. 

and  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  234. 

in  Scotland  in  1650,  230,  240. 

Restoration  of,  526,  680. 

Charles  Edward,  Prince,  437,  492,  531,  731. 

at  Grange  House,  476. 

hair  of,  612,  618,  728. 

at  Pinkie,  819. 

relics  of,  350. 

Charles  VII.  of  France,  101  «.,  579. 

x.  of  France,  309  n. 

Charron's  Discours  Chrestiens,  655. 
Charter,  early  Seton  (1 169),  68. 
Charteris,  Colonel,  629,  738. 

of  Kelwode,  Robert,  672. 

Charters  to  William,  first  Lord  of  Seton,  94. 

etc.,  relating  to  the  family  of  Seton,  842-905. 

1.   List  of  Early  Charters  made  by  the  late  Pro- 
fessor Cosmo  Innes,  842-6. 


Charters,  etc. ,  relating  to  the  family  of  Seton — continued. 

2.  Register  of  Great  Seal,  847-69. 

3.  Register  of  Privy  Seal,  .S69-88. 

4.  Testaments   in    Edinburgh  and   St.  'Andrews 

Commissariot  Registers,  8S8-905. 
( These  are  not  indexed  in  detail. ) 

Charters  of  the  Sutherland  family,  517. 

Chartres,  766. 

Chasseurs  Britanniques  (Henry  Seton),  592,  917. 

Chastellux,  House  of,  107  n. 

Chatelherault,    Duke    of,    152-60,    175,     182-3,    402> 
406. 

Chatsworth,  Queen  Mary  at,  139. 

Chattan,  Clan,  420. 

Chelmsford,  Lord,  599  n. 

Chelsea  Hospital,   Colonel  Alexander  Seton's  monu- 
ment in,  501-2. 

Cheney,  Lord,  924. 

Cherookees,  expedition  against  the,  692. 

Chesham,  Charles,  first  Lord,  457. 

Chester,  Earl  of  (Hugh  Keuolocke),  66. 

Chevenix-Trench,  Melesma,  329. 

Cheyne  of  Straloch,  Christian,  82-3,  86. 

Childebert  (La),  inmates  of,  9  n. 

China  and  common  ware,  3. 

at  Kippylaw,  old,  334  «. 

tea-pot,  etc.,  of  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  278. 

China,  nobility  of,  43  n. 

Chirurgeon  to  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  246  n. 

Chisholm  of  Cromlix,  Sir  Edmund,  338. 

Jonet,  33S-9. 

Chivalry  of  the  N.-E.  of  Scotland,  377  n. 

Christian  names  in  Seton  family,  favourite,  52-4. 

Prince  and  Princess,  457. 

Christie,  Susan  (Duchess  of  Gordon),  444. 

Robert  R.  (Madras  Light  Cavalry),  596. 

Christopher,  Mrs.  (Sarah-Caroline  Seton),  329. 

■  of  Norton,  329. 

Rev.  Alfred  M.  W.,  329. 

Alfred-Charles,  329. 

■ Henry  Seton,  329. 

J.  C.,296. 

'  Chrystal's  Chapel,  76,  78,  79. 

charter  of,  940. 

Church-lands,  grants  of,  519. 

Church  'restorations,'  778 «. 

Churchill,  Rev.  William,  510. 

Circle  and  triangle  interlaced,  106. 

Civil  Service  Examinations,  Scotland,  615. 

Clan  Chattan,  Captain  of  the,  397. 

Clandonald  rebellion,  647. 

Clannishness,  Scottish,  11. 

Clapperton,  Rev.  John,  71 1. 

Claret,  doses  of,  433. 

rummers  of,  470. 

Clarilaw,  331. 

Clark,  Alexander,  to  Cecil,  163. 

Andrew,  205. 

of  Kennoway,  Mrs.  William  (Janet  Seton),  276, 

594  »• 
Classical  groups  at  Winton,  800. 
Clatto  Tower,  Setons  of,  314,  955. 
Claverhouse's  sword,  566-7. 
Clawchrie,  Markland  of,  672. 
Clement  XII.,  Pope,  275. 
Clephane,  Captain,  916. 

of  Carslogie,  David,  601. 

Clerk,  Alexander,  Bailie  of  Edinburgh,  16S. 

of  Pitteucher,  322. 

Christian,  napkin  of,  592  n. 

of  Eldin,  drawings  of  Seton  Palace  by,  788. 


INDEX 


1035 


Clerk  of  Penicuik,  Sir  James,  349. 

■ — — Sir  John,  690. 

(first  Baronet),  592,  91 1-2. 

(second  Baronet),  592  «.,  911 n. 

Clock  of  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  277. 
Cloth,  precious,  913  n. 
Clothiers,  importation  of,  672. 
Clovis,  Pierre  de,  124,  12S. 
Cluny,  Gordons  of,  395. 

lands  of,  37S-9,  392. 

Clyde,  Lord,  4S4. 

salmon-fishing  in  the,  339. 

Coach  for  Mary  Stuart,  186. 

in  Scotland,  first,  163. 

Coal  and  salt-master,  the  greatest  in  Scotland,  238. 
Coal-grieve  of  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  243. 
Coal-heugh,  '  intermynyng '  with  a,  122. 
Coal-hewers  of  Seton,  246  n. 

legal  question  regarding  (1666),  234  n. 

Cobbett,  William,  603-7,  915-6. 

Cobham,  Lily,  591. 

Cochrane,  William,  Lord,  529. 

'Cock  of  the  North,'  377,  381,  398,  401,  417. 

'  Cock  o'  the  North,  my  Huntly  bra','  447- 

Cockades,  blue  and  white,  262. 

Cockayne,  Hon.  and  Rev.  Henry,  332. 

Cockburn  of  Ormiston,  Adam,  Justice-Clerk,  254  ft. 

Adam  (post-boy),  719. 

Isabella,  96. 

of  Wodheid,  John,  212. 

Lord,  704. 

Patrick,  burgess  of  Haddington,  103  n. 

Sibilla,  96. 

Cockburns  of  Brunton,  600  n. 
Cocke  of  Camborne,  Josias,  596. 
Cockenzie,  1009  et  seq. 

harbour,  204,  224. 

port  of,  222. 

salt-pans,  224,  244. 

Cockerell,  Richard-Howe,  698. 

Cocklarachie,  Aisle  of,  378. 

Cockleroi,  hill  of,  368. 

Cockstoune,  James  of,  668. 

Coffin-plate  of  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  249,  787. 

Coilsfield  Montgomeries,  693-4. 

Coilzear,  William  and  David,  587. 

Coins,  etc.,  at  Duns  Castle,  728. 

Coke,  Sir  John,  762. 

Colborne,  Sir  John  (Lord  Seaton),  925. 

Colburn's  U.  S.  Magazine  (Colonel  Alexande   Seton), 

5°4- 
Coldingham,  Laird  of,  176. 
Colds  and  fevers,  677. 
Coleridge  on  democracy,  12  «. 

second  Lord,  691. 

Colinton,  Laird  of,  177. 
Collairnie  Castle,  295. 
College  of  Justice,  635. 
Collegiate  Church  of  Seton,  105. 

churches,  771. 

Colliesone,  Captain  Robert,  244. 
Collins'  Peerage,  29. 
Colonsay,  Lord,  599  n. 
Colours,  presentation  of,  445  «• 
Colquhoun,  Sir  James  (1740),  531. 

of  Luss,  389. 

Colstoun,  Pear,  the,  104  » 
Columbarium  in  Fife,  the,  285  ». 
Colvel,  Robert,  poem  by,  534. 
Colvill,  John,  171  n. 
Colville,  Lord,  416. 


Colville  of  Ochiltree,  Lord,  death  of,  662. 

Colvin,  Elizabeth,  554. 

'  Comely  wench,'  a  (Lady  Jean  Seton),  652. 

Comers,  Alexander  Tytler  of,  549. 

Commissariot  Register  of  Edinburgh  (unassigned  Scot- 
tish Setons),  748-50. 

'  Commissioner  Vicegerent '  (Chancellor  Seton),  646. 

Commissioners  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Winton  in  1670, 
241. 

Communion  cups  at  Fyvie  and  Inveresk,  809. 

at  Kennoway,  594  n. 

Comparative  pedigree  of  the  Seton  family,  926. 

Compartments  of  Pinkie  ceiling,  S13. 

Compensation  claim  (sixteenth   Earl   of  Sutherland), 

S3'- 

'  Compositio '  and  '  Mistio,'  642  n. 

Comptroller  of  Scottish  Revenue  (Sir  David  Seton), 

292. 

to  the  King,  622. 

Comyn,  Jean,  392  n. 

slaughter  of,  76. 

Consei  (Georgii),    De  duflici  statu   Religionis  apud 

Scotos,  655  n.,  969. 
Concession,  Coat  of,  20S. 
Conde,  Prince  de,  592  n. 
Condolence,  letter  of,  448. 
Confession  of  Faith,  644. 

and  thirteenth  Earl  of  Sutherland,  524. 

Lady  Seton's,  214. 

Lord  Seton's  sons,  215. 

Congalton  of  that  ilk,  Edward,  99. 
Congregation,  Lords  of  the,  399. 
Coningsby  quoted,  31. 
Conn,  Hugh,  702. 
Conolly's  Fifeslrire  Biography,  57S. 
Conqueror,  H.M.  Ship,  704. 
Conquest,  heir  of,  151. 
Constable,  Archibald  (1806),  535. 

(1896),  83,  921  n. 

of  Scotland,  165  n. 

Constantinople  and  the  Crescent,  S23. 
Continental  Setons,  55. 
Convention  of  Estates  (1689),  527. 
Conveyancing,  Professor  of  (Edinburgh),  563. 
Conyngham,  Henry,  first  Marquis  of,  457. 
Coorg,  hostilities  in,  326. 
Coote,  Sir  Eyre,  480. 

Captain  George,  480. 

Cope,  Sir  Charles,  455. 

Sir  John,  1017. 

Copenhagen,  609. 

C^rand  Cerebrum,  216  n. 

'  Cordelere  Freires,'  Haddington,  786  n. 

Cordelib'e  on  monument  at  Paisley,  201. 

Cornille,  Oscar  F.  H.,  456. 

Cornwall  Arms  at  Linlithgow,  35S  n. 

■  of  Bonhard,  Tanet,  358. 

Nicholas,  358. 

Cornwallis,  Lord,  453. 

Charles,  second  Marquis  of,  444. 

Coronach  at  Harlaw,  377. 

Coronet  of  Viscountess  Kingston  (Jean  Fletcher)  at 

Seton  Church,  717. 
Corpus  Christi  College,  Cambridge,  932  n. 
Corregidor  (Spanish  magistrate),  914. 
Corrichie,  battle  of,  399,  400,  406,  547-9. 
Corrigan,  Archbishop,  311. 
Corsinday,  Aberdeenshire,  548-9. 
Corson,  Rev.  Mr.,  704. 
Cosmo  de  Medicis  in.,  439. 
Cossins  of  Weymouth,  John,  543. 


1036 


INDEX 


Cosway,  R.  (R.A.),  632. 

CSti  du  manche,  273. 
Cotter,  Nelson-Kearsay,  M.D.,  596. 
Cottoun,  William  Seytoun  of,  465. 
Couche  shield  at  Seton  Church,  94. 
Coucis  (de),  the  French,  49. 
Coucy,  Enguerraud  III.  de,  165  n. 
Coulommiers,  583-4,  765,  982  el  seq. 
'  Countess  Sobieski '  (Jean  Seton),  607. 
Coupar  Law,  263. 
Couper,  Alex.,  565. 
Courcelles,  Madame,  137. 

Marie,  144,  170. 

Monsieur,  146-7. 

Court,  Mabel-Katherine,  596. 

Court-martial  (Christopher  Seton),  603-7,  915-6. 

of  Session  business  (President  Seton),  642. 

scene  in  the  (1598),  639. 

'  Couvrez  vous,  mon  cousin,'  43  n. 
Covenant,  army  of  the,  682. 

refusal  to  subscribe  the,  715. 

Covenanters,  the,  425-8. 

of  Fife,  588. 

plunder  by  the  (1639),  474. 

surprise  by  the  (1638),  473. 

and  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  659,  664. 

■ and  '  Greysteel,'  679. 

Coventry,  Mrs.  (Catherine  Seton),  631-2,  914,  972  n. 

- of  Burgate,  John,  630. 

George  William,  sixth  Earl  of,  630. 

Queen  Mary  at,  139. 

Cowdenknowes,  Laird  of,  626. 

Cowgate,  President  Seton's  house  in  the,  637  n. 

Cowper,  Diary  of  Countess,  270-1. 

Sir  William  (Lord  High  Steward),  259,  263-6, 

271. 
Cowtis,  Allane,  Bailie  of  Edinburgh,  161. 
Cox  of  Dublin,  Richard,  595. 
Crabb-Robinson  on  good  birth,  4. 
Cracock,  House  of,  405. 
Cradock  Arms,  389. 

Sir  Mathew,  391. 

Craig  of  Dalnair,  Arms  of,  560. 

James,  552. 

Sir  James  (Governor  of  Canada),  554. 

Sir  Thomas,  293,  642. 

Craig,  Sir  Thomas,  Life  of,  555. 

Craigengelt,  David,  5S7. 

Craighall,  588. 

Craigie  of  Glendoick,  Robert  (Lord  President),  531. 

Craigievar,  795. 

Craigmillar,  Gilmours  of,  910. 

Craik,  Rev.  Dr.,  593  «. 

Crail,  Erskine-Beveridge's,  291  n. 

Crail  Parochial  Register,  594  n. 

Cranston  of  that  ilk,  Sir  William,  341. 

Cranstoun,  Cuthbert  and  Patrick,  escheated  goods  of, 

117. 

of  Burncastell,  211  n. 

Crathes,  795- 

Crauford  of  Lochquoit,  Andrew,  358. 
Craven,  Earl  (1839),  703. 
Crawford,  Earl  of  (1445),  379. 

567. 

(1503).  392. 

-(1540),  397. 

(*.  1630),  652. 

his  precedence,  528. 

William,  sixteenth  Earl  of,  664. 

George,  eighteenth  Earl  of,  693. 

Alexander,  twenty-fifth  Earl  of,  65 1 . 


Crawford,  John,  Ear  of,  602. 

■  Earls  of,  43  ».,  283. 

Earldom  of,  594  n. 

'  Wicked'  Master  of,  391. 

(Earl  of)  on  Ancestry,  2-4. 

■ on  Chancellor  Seton,  655. 

Lives  of  the  Lindsays,  38. 

■  Professor,  600  n. 

■  William,  612. 

'  Bush  aboon  Traquair, '  83S. 

of  Jordanhill,  273  n. 

Crawfurd's  MS.  Blazons,  619. 

■  Officers  of  State,  642. 

Peerage  of  Scotland,  636. 

Cree,  Galloway,  625. 

under  and  above,  671. 

Creich,  parish  of,  283. 
Crescent  as  an  emblem,  824. 

between  feathers  as  a  Seton  Crest,  S27. 

Crescents  in  Seton  Arms,  51. 

of  Seton,  Nisbet  on  the,  823. 

Crest  of  the  Seton  Arms,  827. 
Crichton,  Chancellor,  101,  378,  383. 

of  Eliok,  Robert,  124-5. 

Elizabeth,  379-80,  382. 

of  Frendraught,  James,  469,  524. 

Sir  James,  465. 

House  of,  418-9. 

of  Invernytie,  392. 

Katherine,  288. 

(King's  Advocate),  635. 

■  Lord,  3S5. 

■ Keeper  of  Edinburgh  Castle,  100. 

of  Newhall,  Alexander,  166. 

Robert,  158. 

Lord,  93. 

William,  Lord,  382,  507. 

the  Admirable,  952. 

Crichton,  Life  of  the  Admirable,  555- 
Crichtons,  the,  379. 

Crighton,  ,  565. 

Croc,  M.  le,  182. 
Croft  to  Cecil,  162. 
Crolly,  Comte  de,  431. 
Cromartie,  trial  of  Lord,  531. 
Cromarty,  John,  second  Earl  of,  451. 
Cromer,  Lieutenant,  680. 
Cromwell,  defeat  of  (1650),  6S1. 

great-grandson  of,  735  n. 

and  Huntly,  Indenture  between,  431. 

and  Tantallon,  716. 

Cromwell's  medal,  435. 
Crookes,  John  Farrar,  758. 
Cross  and  Calvary,  780. 

and  Crescent,  824. 

of  East  Bank,  John,  705. 

Cross-legged  statue  at  Maidwell,  755  Ut 

Crown  Agent  (James  Tytler,  W.S. ),  562. 

Crowns,  Union  of  the,  216. 

Croydon,  John  Seton  of,  762. 

Crucifix  scandal,  646. 

Crystal  coffin,  76. 

'Crystal  of  Seton'  (Sir  Christopher),  73- 

Culbeg,  or  Abercorn,  Setons  of,  342,  355-66. 

1.  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of  Kilcreuch,  357-8. 

2.  Alexander  Seton  of  Graden,  358. 

3.  Sir  Walter  Seton  of  Abercorn,  first  Baronet, 

359- 

4.  second  Baronet,  360. 

5.  Sir  Henry  Seton,  third  Baronet,  360. 

6.  fourth  Baronet,  361,  722. 


INDEX 


1037 


Culbeg,  or  Abercorn,  Setons  of — continued. 

7.  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  fifth  Baronet,  361-4. 

8.  Sir  Henry-John  Seton,  sixth  Baronet,  364,  3S5. 
8  (2)  Sir   Charles-Hay  Seton,   seventh  Baronet, 

364- 

9.  Sir  Bruce-Maxwell  Seton,  eighth  Baronet,  364- 

5.  3S5»  592  n. 
[Surgeon-Captain  Bruce-Gordon  Seton,  362-3.] 
Culcreuch  (or  Kilcreuch),  Lord,  357-8,  367. 
Cullen,  Lord,  1016,  1019. 
Culloden,  battle  of,  44-8,  438,  531,  601-2,  915. 
Culross,  Abbey  of,  128. 
Culture,  centres  of,  18. 
Culzean  Garden,  6S8. 

'  Cumber '  between  Morton  and  Seton,  167. 
Cumberland,  Duke  of,  492,  531,  602. 
Cumin,  William,  Justiciar  of  Scotland,  70. 
Cuming  of  Culter,  Sir  Alexander,  492. 
Cumings  of  Ernsyde,  102  «.,  826. 
Cummin  of  Birnes,  472. 
Cumming,  Alexander,  of  Preston,  279  n. 

of  Altyre,  Robert,  513. 

Captain,  609. 

Cumming-Gordon,  Sir  Alexander,  514. 

Cundeit,  Katherine,  712. 

Cuningham,    Dr.   Alexander,   his  visit   to   Rome   in 

1736,  275. 

of  Barns,  590. 

of  Caprington,  Sir  John,  6SS. 

Cuninghame,  bailiery  of,  6S2. 

Boyd- Alexander,  706. 

of  Milncraig,  Sir  David,  6S7. 

regality  of,  691. 

Cuninghame-Graham's   (Mrs.)   Santa  Teresa  quoted, 

30  n. 
'  Curiosities,'  weakness  for,  691. 
Curie,  James,  bailie  of  Edinburgh,  157-9. 
Curling,  love  of  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  702-3. 
Curriehill,  Laird  of,  177. 
Curtis,  James  B. ,  562. 
Curtis 's  Prue  and  I,  839-40. 
Curzon  of  Baltimore,  Richard,  303. 

Rebecca  and  Anna-Maria,  304. 

Cust,  Lady  Anna-Maria,  332. 
Cyphers  of  Mary  Stuart,  etc. ,  409. 
Czartorinski,  Prince,  431. 


.LyACRE,  depredations  of  Lord,  394. 
Dagger  and  sheath  of  the  Governor  of  Berwick,  298. 
Daguerrotype,  the  25-cent,  841. 
'Dal.'  (William-Dalrymple)  Seton,  302. 
Dalgety  Church  (Chancellor  Seton),   587  «.,  649-50, 
653,  65S,  665. 

opening  of  vault  in,  S34. 

house,  650  n.,  651  n.,  661,  665. 

lands  of,  646. 

Dalginche,  barony  of,  600  n. 
Dalgleish,  Edward,  630. 
Dalhousie,  house  of,  285. 

Marquis  of,  332. 

Dalkeith,  6S1. 

Dalmahoy,  Sir  Alexander,  257. 

Dalrymple,  Sir  David  (Lord  Hailes),  250,  534. 

Sir  Hew  (1686),  243. 

Dalyell,  General,  590,  677. 

Dalyell's  Illustrations  of  Scottish  History,  408  n. 

Musical  Memoirs  of  Scotland,  1 84. 

Daly  vale,  ransom  of  John,  121. 
Danger,  Cape,  500. 


Danish  vessel  purchased  by  fourth  Earl  of  Winton, 

243- 
Dante  on  social  changes,  22. 
Darnley,  Lord,  196. 

and  Moray,  murders  of,  183. 

and  Queen  Mary  at  Seton  and  Dunbar,  167,  168. 

Darnley 's  murder,  128,  136. 
Dartmouth,  William,  fourth  Earl  of,  543. 
D'Aubigne,  Sieurs  (Lennox),  416. 
Dauphin  of  France,  377-8. 

Charles  (1424),  99. 

his  marriage  to  Mary  Stuart,  162. 

David  I.,  69,  356. 

n.,  87. 

and  Windsor  Tournament,  262  «. 

David  and  Joab,  411. 
Davidson,  Mr.  John,  213. 

Sir  Robert,  377. 

Daviot,  notice  of,  491. 

Davison  to  Walsingham,  187,  194. 

Dawson,  George,  on  Cobbett,  607. 

Captain  Henry,  614. 

Mrs.  (Melville-Seton),  5S1,  595  n.,  612,  614,  955. 

of  Tayside,  William,  614. 

William  (Glasgow),  614. 

Deadrig  obelisk,  75  n. 

Deans,  James,  565. 

Death,  approach  of  (Chancellor  Seton),  648. 

Debts  due  to  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,   1000 

et  sea. 
Decadence,  family,  735  K- 
Decay  of  old  families,  Kidd  on  the,  7,  8. 
Decisions,  Dictionary  of,  553. 
Dedication  to  President  Seton  (Pont),  640. 

to  Chancellor  Seton  (Napier  of  Merchiston),  64S. 

by  Sir  Richard  Maitland,  153-4. 

Dedications  to  members  of  the  Seton  family,  988-96. 

Dee,  battle  of  Bridge  of,  473,  487,  491. 

De  Foe's  Tour  through  Great  Britain,  790,  S20. 

Deer-stalking  in  1629  and  1633,  416-20. 

Deil,  the,  956  n. 

Delorain,  pronunciation  of,  57S  n. 

'  Delta's'  lines  on  Seton  Chapel,  no. 

'  Demands '  of  Mary  Stuart,  144. 

Democracy,  Coleridge  and  Amiel  on,  12  n. 

Demolition  of  Seton  Palace,  793- 

Dempster  on  Chancellor  Seton,  655. 

of  the  Scottish  Parliaments,  579. 

Denbigh,  Earls  of,  756. 

MSS.,  66S. 

Denholm,  Captain  James,  720. 

Denison,  Mr.  (miniature  of  Lord  Seton),  199  n. 

Denmylne,  Balfours  of,  577-8. 

Dent,  Captain  W.  D.,  R.N.,  331. 

Depender-law  (Traprain),  716. 

Derby,  Edward,  third  Earl  of,  762. 

fourteenth  Earl  of  (Prime  Minister),  696,  700-1. 

on  the  English  aristocracy,  15. 

fifteenth  Earl  of,  on  the  Reform  Bill  of  1867,  19. 

Derham,  Walter,  572. 

Descent,  mere  antiquity  of,  44  n. 

pride  of,  10. 

Deskford,  Lords  of,  578. 

Despenser,  Hugh,  Earl  of  Winchester,  67. 

Dessy,  M.,  953. 

Deuchar,  Alexander,  297,  487,  600  «.,  740. 

De  Veres,  43  «. 

Device  of  Chancellor  Seton,  favourite,  644,  660. 

Devices  and  Legends  in  Pinkie  Gallery,  816-9. 

Devil's  standard,  827  n. 

Devonshire,  heraldry  in,  6. 


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INDEX 


Devotion,  books  of,  at  Duns  Castle,  728. 
Dialectica  Joan.  Setoni,  Cantabrigiensis,  762. 
Dick,  John,  594. 

of  Grange,  William,  476. 

Dick-Lauder,  Sir  Thomas,  476. 
Dickson,  Adam,  imprisonment  of,  159. 

Dr.  ( Treasurer's  Accounts),  396  n. 

Walter,  W.S.,  595  n. 

William-Gillespie  (Sheriff  of  Lanarkshire),  573' 

Dieppe,  deaths  of  Scottish  commissioners  at,  162. 
Dignity  of  Labour,  by  Monsignor  Robert  Seton,  310. 
Dillecarew,  battle  of,  71. 
Dingwall,  castle  of,  3S7. 

John,  messenger  in  Edinburgh,  126. 

'  Diploma  Abredonense, '  495  n. 

Diplomata  Scotitz,  author  of,  43. 

Dirleton  Church,  Provost  of  (Henry  Seton),  539- 

Discharge  by  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton  (Tower  of 

London),  1005. 
Discipline  of  the  Kirk,  65S-9. 
Dispensation,  Papal,  101. 
Diurnal  of  Occurrents,  168,  196,  435  «.' 
Divorces  in  Huntly  family,  387. 
Dobbs,  Major-General,  723. 
Documentary  evidence,  89. 
Doegs,  denounced  rebels,  341. 
Dogs,  exchange  of,  677. 
'  Dollers,  Legit,'  592  n. 
Dominic,  Order  of  St.,  102  n. 
Dominican  Convent  at  Perth,  394. 
Dominus  de  Seton,  93. 
Don,  James,  Advocate,  73S. 

of  Edinburgh,  John,  629. 

General,  443,  782. 

Sir  George,  629. 

Gulielmo,  913-4. 

Donald  Dubh,  392. 

of  the  Isles,  377,  394. 

Donaldson,  Rev.  Andrew  (Dalgety),  661. 

Captain,  764. 

Doncaster  Seatons,  758. 

Donibristle  Castle,  411,  913. 

Donnelly,  Captain,  609. 

Dornoch  Cathedral,  536. 

Dosell,  M.,  953. 

Douay,  Setons  and  Gordons  at  the  College  of,  767. 

Douglas,  Archibald  (Guardian  of  Scotland),  84,  85. 

• ■ fourth  Earl  of,  98,  99. 

205  n. 

(Regent),  933-4. 

and  Richard,  621-2. 

Bishop  Gavin,  815  n. 

of  Salisbury,  55°- 

of  Borg,  Hugh  and  Francis,  122-3. 

Francis,  mutilation  of,  173. 

of  Cavers,  673. 

of  Corehead,  Hugh,  102. 

Earls  of,  356. 

Elizabeth,  heiress  of  Whittinghame,  721,  730. 

of  Whittinghame,  Sir  Archibald,  717. 

■  George,  179,  918. 

Sir  George  (Longniddry),  223. 

George  and  William,  170. 

■ of  Glenfinart,  Archibald,  332. 

James,  933-4- 

— second  Marquis  of,  719. 

(Morton),  635. 

of  Kilspindy,  Archibald,  161-2,  339. 

Lady  Isabel,  731. 

Marquis  of,  424. 

Mrs.,  591. 


Douglas,  Richard,  Edinburgh  macer,  157. 

Sir  Robert,  on  the  House  of  Seton,  272. 

and  Seton  rivalry,  47. 

Thomas,  737- 

Sir  William,  659. 

Willie,  and  Queen  Mary's  escape  from  Lochleven, 

170  n. 
Douglas's  Baronage  of  Scotland,  341,  915-6,  928. 
Peerage  of  Scotland,  5S,  S7-8,  165  «.,  625,  641, 

690,  706-7,  915,  926,  92S. 

Peerage  and  Baronage,  55. 

Peerage,  John  Riddell's  Notes  on,  940-50. 

regiment,  718. 

Douglases,  entails  of  the,  598  ». 

red  and  black,  1 13  n. 

slain  at  Flodden,  113. 

the,  379. 

true  character  of  the,  47. 

Dovecot  at  Parbroath,  2S5. 

Dowry,  the  best  Scottish,  525. 

Doyle,  Sir  Francis  H,  his  lines  on  the  loss  of  the 

Birkenhead,  502-3. 
Dozet,  Mre  Benoit,  148,  959-61,  963-5. 
'  Draco '  as  defined  by  Ducange,  827  n. 
Dragon  crest  of  De  Quinceys  and  Setons,  67. 

of  the  Setons,  827. 

spouting  fire,  107. 

Dragon,  the  ship  (1686),  244. 
Draught-board,  Mary  Seton's,  135. 
Dreghorn  parish,  694. 
Drinking-cup  (Cariston  heirloom),  612. 
'Dripping  stone'  of  Fyvie,  971. 
Dromock,  Duncan,  709  n. 
Drum,  Cairn,  709  n. 

House,  Midlothian,  195. 

shield  of  arms  at,  151. 

Drumaird,  Robert  Seton  of,  594  «. 
Drumelzier  Line  (Kingston),  721-32. 

1.  Alexander  Hay  of  Drumelzier  and  Whitting- 

hame, 361,  721-2,  725-6,  731,  735,  913. 

2.  Robert  Hay  of  Drumelzier,  Whittinghame,  and 

Linplum,  722-3,  731. 

3.  William  Hay  of  Duns  Castle,  723-5. 

4.  William-James  Hay  of  Duns  Castle,  724. 

4  (a).   Robert-Mordaunt    Hay   of    Duns    Castle, 

724,  913- 
Drumelzier  Arms,  732. 
Drumlanrig  Castle,  808. 
Drummie,  Muir  of,  581. 
Drummond  Arms,  209,  709  n, 

of  Corskelpy,  Agnes,  589,  708. 

of  Deanston,  Malcolm,  709  n 

of  Hawthornden,  603  n. 

Sir  Malcolm,  709  n. 

family,  genealogy  of  the,  210-1. 

of  Megginch,  John,  438. 

James,  first  Earl  of  Perth,  208. 

(R.S.A.),  90  n. 

picture  of  Lord  Winton's  funeral  by,  217  /;. 

view  of  Seton  Church  by,  772. 

Lady  Jean,  150,  208,  218. 

her  large  dowry,  525. 

Lilias  (Countess  of  Dunfermline),  63S-9,  651  «. 

Margaret,  396. 

Patrick,  third  Lord,  150  «.,  650. 

(Thomas),  M'Lennan's  Memoir  of,  15. 

William,  epitaph  by,  209. 

letters  from,  210-11. 

Drummonds,  Fair,  650. 

History  of  the,  536. 

Drummuy,  John  Gordon  of,  382. 


INDEX 


1039 


Drumravok,  lands  of,  5S0. 

Drumraw,  lands  of,  5S2. 

Drury  to  Burghley,  relative  to  Lord  Seton,  1S2. 

Dryborough,  Captain,  609. 

'  Dubbing '  of  Knights  at  Seton,  788. 

Dublin  Herald's  Office,  831. 

Du  Cange,  146. 

Duchenoy,  A.  (Rheims),  961,  965. 

Diicker,  Counts,  373. 

Duddingston,  571. 

Janet,  317. 

Duddingstone  of  Sandford,  Janet,  140. 
Duddingstoun,  Margaret,  582. 
Duffus,  James,  second  Lord,  508. 

Kenneth,  Lord,  508. 

Tutor  of,  626. 

Dugdale's  Baronage  of  England,  77. 
Dukedom  of  Gordon,  433. 
Dumax'  Maison  de  Bourbon,  583  n. 
Dumbarton  Castle,  131,  691,  693. 

Earl  of,  237. 

'  Greysteel '  surprised  at,  680. 

Dumfries,  76,  78. 

Gallowshill,  76. 

John  (servant  of  Mary  Seton),  139. 

William,  Earl  of,  343. 

Earl  of  648. 

.(1658),  6S5. 

Dunbar,  Archbishop,  396. 

of  Baldoon,  Sir  David,  6S4. 

Captain  Archibald  H.,  276,  S23  n. 

Castle,  159,  406. 

Arms  at,  89,  90  «. 

of  Grangehill,  David,  472. 

Earl  of  (Home),  645-6,  656. 

Patrick,  Earl  of,  70. 

Waldeve,  Earl  of,  69. 

Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Moray,  3S5-6. 

James,  Earl  of  Moray,  382. 

Castle,  Queen  Mary  at,  167,  169. 

and  Seton  intermarriages,  38-9. 

Dunbar  of  Durn,  Sir  William,  512. 

of  Hempriggs,  Sir  William,  514. 

Dunbar-Dunbar,  Captain  Edward,  970. 
Dunbar's  Thistle  and  Rose,  825. 
Dunbarrow,  Setons  of,  321,  321  n. 
Dunblane,  Bishop  of,  105. 

burial  at,  396. 

William,  Bishop  of,  339. 

Dunbreck,  lands  of,  472. 
Duncan,  Dr.  Andrew,  443. 

King,  578. 

■  Thomas,  R.S.A.,  772. 

Duncombe,  Benjamin,  709. 
Dundas  of  Airth,  257. 

of  Arniston,  20. 

James,  younger  of  Arniston,  435. 

of  Arniston,  Robert  (President),  554. 

Philip  (Arniston),  611. 

— — ■  Right  Hon.  William,  61 1. 

Robert-Adam,  611  n. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Philip,  611  n. 

of  Baldowie,  John,  323. 

Colonel,  914-5. 

and  Cragy,  lands  of,  118. 

of  that  ilk,  55  n. 

"  George,  359. 

of  Manor,  298. 

of  Philipstoun,  John,  371. 

R.N.,  Captain  Ralph,  298. 

Robert,  369-70. 


Dundas,  Solicitor-General,  437,  977. 
Dundee,  Viscount,  294,  528,  567,  666-70,  6S4. 
Dundonald,  William,  first  Earl  of,  686. 

Earl  of  (16S2),  242. 

lands  of,  6S6. 

Dunfermline,  Setons,  Earls  of,  634-70. 

1.  Alexander,  first  Earl,  44,  155-6,  166,  216,  317, 

468,  617,  623  n.,  632-3,  634-5S,  673,  677-S, 
765-70,  780,806-7,  809-11,  907.  (See  Chan- 
cellor Seton.) 

2.  Charles,  second  Earl,  632,  658-64,  821  ». 

3.  Alexander,  third  Earl,  588,  665. 

3  (a).  James,  fourth  Earl,  431,  638  ».,  666-70,  822. 
Dunfermline  Abbey,  635. 

Abbacy,  granted  to  Huntly,  413. 

Arms,  670,  809-10. 

at  Pinkie,  813,  819-20. 

Bailiary  of,  659. 

Earldom,  assumption  of,  628-9. 

claim  to,  629,  633. 

■ ■ by  Lieut. -Colonel  James  Seton, 

972-8. 

creation  of,  643. 

regrant  of,  646. 

representative  of,  787. 

Earls,  documents  connected  with  the,  970. 

signatures  of,  970. 

family,  stature  of  the,  833-4. 

House,  Elgin,  638. 

intermarriages,  ^"J. 

Laird  of  (1571),  179. 

Lordship  of,  410,  662. 

Palace,  63S. 

race-course,  645. 

regality  of,  58S,  638. 

Dungeon  at  Seton,  m,  15S-9,  164,  791,  793. 
Dunglass  Castle,  430. 
Dunkeld,  668. 

Bishops  of,  355. 

Lord,  666. 

Dunkinty,  Gordon  of,  420. 

repulse  at,  380. 

Dunkirkers,  attack  by  the,  827. 

Dunlop,  Mr.  W.  B.,  793. 

Dunlugus,  Beatrix  Seton,  Lady  of,  114,  121-2. 

Dunn,  Andrew,  of  Southwark,  457. 

Dunninow,  Ladye,  587. 

Dunnottar  Castle,  impaled  coat  of  arms  at,  227-S. 

third  Earl  of  Winton  at,  232  n. 

Dunrobin  Castle,  516,  519,  525,  531,  534. 
Duns  Castle,  724-6. 

charter-chest,  734. 

family  papers  at,  726-30. 

library,  655. 

manuscript,  215  n. 

portraits  and  pictures  at,  19S-9,  730-1,  S37. 

— — Seton  medal  at,  153,  166. 

relics  at,  135. 

Law,  725. 

Dunsinnan,  Lord,  444. 

Durbar,  an  Indian,  1020. 

Durham,  Dean  of,  to  Burghley,  205. 

Setons,  756-8,  760. 

Dury,  George  and  John  (Louvain),  179. 

John,  329. 

Dussieux's  Maison  de  Bourbon,  5S3  n. 
Dutch,  victory  over  the  (1665),  474,  765. 

attack  by,  at  Chatham  (1667),  474. 

inscription  (Seton  Church  bell),  785. 

Duthac,  shrine  of  St.,  394. 

Du  Vair's  Traictez  Philosophiques,  655. 


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INDEX 


Dyce,  Lieutenant-General,  1020. 
Dysart,  rectory  of,  293. 

XLagle,'  the  ship  (George,  fourth  Lord  Seton),  106, 

826. 
'  Earl  John  Glas'  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Sutherland),  524. 
'Earl  John  Roy'  (fifteenth  Earl  of  Sutherland),  527. 
Earldom   declined   by  George,  seventh   Lord   Seton, 

164-S,  203. 
Earle,  Colonel,  573. 
Early  English  style,  775. 

generations  of  Seton  family,  62. 

Seton,  an  (a.d.  112),  768. 

East  India  Company  ships,  611  n. 

Lothian  Militia,  716. 

- — ■ Regiment  at  battle  of  Pentland  Hills,  234. 

Eaton,    Rev.   A.   W.   Hamilton,   his   account   of  the 

Hamiltons  of  Olivestob,  709  n. 
Ecclesiastical  discipline  of  the  seventeenth  century,  231. 
Echlin  of  Pitaddro,  314. 
Echo  answers,  '  Where  ? '  788. 
'  Ecossaisen  France  '(Francisque-Michel),  99 n.,  128  n, 

163  «.,  297  n. 
'  Ecossois,  Gardes,'  580. 
Edgar,  King,  216  n. 

Patrick,  435  n. 

Edinburgh  Amusements  in  the  seventeenth  century, 

551- 

Architectural  Association  Sketch- Book,  772,  779. 

Edinburgh  Castle,  187,  550,  667,  681,  720. 

— Governors  of  (eleventh  and  twelfth  Earls  of 

Eglinton),  693-4. 

plague  in,  173. 

salute  from,  in  1641,  225. 

siege  of,  433. 

Council  Records,  645  n. 

Extracts  from  (Provostship  of  Lord  Seton), 

156-61. 

■ ■  Extracts  from  (Provostship  of  Lord  Dun- 
fermline), 966-9. 

Edgar's  plan  of  (1742),  196  n. 

Exhibition  (18S6),  836. 

■  Gordon's  bird's-eye  view  of  (1647),  197. 

High  School,  550,  552,  555. 

'  lodging '  of  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  243-4. 

Provost  of  (Alexander  Seton),  645. 

Review,  658  «.,  928. 

Sheriff  of,  673. 

Treasurer's  Accounts,  645. 

University,  322,  550,  553,  555,  557,  563,  570,  615. 

Edmonston,  Samuel,  painting  by,  779. 

and  Touch  arms,  97S-9. 

Edmonstone  Arms,  825  «. 

Edmonstones  of  Duntreath,  Genealogy  of  the,  S25  n. 

Edmonstoun  of  that  ilk,  John,  341. 

Edward  I.,  59,  77,  80,  376,  591  n.,  S05. 

and  Aboyne,  450. 

invasion  of,  771. 

(Malleus  Scotorum),  82  ». 

II.,  67. 

in.,  82-3,  735  k. 

and  the  son  of  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  931-4. 

: vi.,  398. 

Edward  VI.  and  Mary,  England  tender,  556. 

Edward  of  England,  Prince,  120. 

'  Efauld,'  422. 

Egglesclyffe,  756. 

Eglinton  Arms,  706-7. 

bond,  discharge  of,  by  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  240. 

Castle,  677  k.,  694. 


Eglinton,  Countess  of,  114. 

Hugh,  second  Earl  of  (Montgomerie),  112. 

third  Earl  of  (Montgomerie),  208. 

fifth  Earl  of  (Montgomerie),  123,  208,  678. 

Earl  of,  his  agricultural  improvements,  442  n. 

Earls  of,  272. 

Earldom,  646,  678. 

'  Eglinton  Dock,'  Ardrossan,  705. 
Eglinton  foxhounds,  704. 

and  Glencairn  feud,  644. 

intermarriages,  37. 

necklace,  134. 

portraits,  677. 

Seton  portraits  at,  199  n. 

Seton,  Miss,  978. 

Eglinton  Line  (Seton),  676-707. 

1.  Alexander  Seton,  sixth  Earl  ('Greysteel'),  20S, 

415,  452,  654,  660,  673-4,  678-81,  710,  730, 
819  n. 

2.  Hugh,  seventh  Earl,  246,  682-4. 

3.  Alexander,  eighth  Earl,  684-5. 

4.  ninth  Earl,  629,  6S6-90. 

5.  tenth  Earl,  690-2. 

5  (a).  Archibald,  eleventh  Earl,  692-3,  735,  915, 
1022. 

6.  Hugh,  twelfth  Earl,  693-5,  736,  739- 

7.  Archibald,  Lord  Montgomerie,  695-6. 

8.  Archibald-William,   thirteenth    Earl,   60,    69, 

135.  269,  696-705,  729,  737  11. 

9.  fourteenth  Earl,  700  ».,  704-5. 

9  (a).  George-Arnulph,  fifteenth  Earl,  705-6. 

'  Eglintoune  aire,  The,'  690. 

Egyptian  antiquities,  722. 

Ekolsund,  Sweden,  369,  373-4. 

and  Preston,  family  of,  367-74- 

Eldon,  Lord,  556. 

Elegiac  Verses,  Scottish,  530. 

Elegy  on  George,  fourteenth  Earl  of  Sutherland,  527. 

Elgin,  burial  of  first  Marquis  of  Huntly  at,  421. 

fourth  Earl  of,  831. 

seventh  Earl  of,  611  n. 

mansion  of  Chancellor  Seton,  638. 

Provost  of  (Alexander  Seton),  638. 

shields  of  Arms  at  (Seton,  etc.),  638  n. 

vicarage  of,  646. 

Elizabeth  (Queen),  621,  906. 

and  the  fountain  of  honour,  30. 

to  Duke  of  Norfolk,  1 73. 

licence  of,  to  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton, 

173  «• 

on  the  '  doings  of  Lord  Seton,'  182. 

death  of  Queen,  641. 

Ellacombe  (Henry),  his  addiction  to  Genealogy,  6. 

Elliot  of  Wolflee,  memorandum  by,  (fifth  Earl  of  Win- 
ton), 1006-8. 

Elphingston,  gift  of  Seton  estate  to,  225. 

Elphinstone,  802. 

Alexander,  fourth  Lord,  523. 

Father  George,  644. 

Lord  James,  644. 

Mr.,  792. 

Miss,  362. 

Seton,  Dr. ,  593  n. 

Tower,  shields  at,  925. 

Elsie  Venner,  Holmes',  841. 

Elton  on  Norwegian  nobility,  22. 

Elvet  Myers,  758. 

Embassy  to  France,  636. 

Embo  Arms,  511. 

documents  destroyed  by  fire,  5 1 1. 

intermarriages,  36. 


INDEX 


1041 


Embo  Family  (Seton-Gordon),  507-11. 
I.  John  Gordon  of  Drummoy,  507. 
2. of  Embo,  507. 

3.  Sir  John  Gordon,  first  Baronet,  507. 

4.  Sir  Robert  Gordon,  second  Baronet,  508. 

5.  Sir  John  Gordon,  third  Baronet,  508. 
6. fourth  Baronet,  508. 

7. fifth  Baronet,  508. 

8.  Sir  James  Gordon,  sixth  Baronet,  509. 

8  (a).   Sir  William  Gordon,  seventh  Baronet,  509. 

9.  Sir  John  Gordon,  eighth  Baronet,  510. 

9  (a).   Sir  Orford  Gordon,  ninth  Baronet,  510. 

10.  Sir  Home  Gordon,  tenth  Baronet,  510. 

11.  Sir  Seton  Gordon,  eleventh  Baronet,  51 1. 
Emerick's  British  Chasseurs,  592. 
Emmitsburg,  convent  at,  312. 

Emulous,  H.M.  ship,  325. 
Encyclop&dia  Britannica,  571. 
Endoser,  John  Beton's  monument  at,  139. 
England,  invasion  of  (1513),  394,  640. 

truce  with  (1484),  388. 

Englisfield,  Sir  Francis,  176. 
English  possessions  of  the  Setons,  77- 

■  Setons,  754-63- 

women,  extravagance  of,  691. 

'  English  Will,'  419. 

Englishman  in  Paris,  The,  9  n. 

Ennoblement  of  the  Seton  family,  89. 

Ensie,  Earl  of,  416. 

Entails  in  Scotland,  effect  of,  11. 

Enzie,  Forest  of,  388. 

Epigrams,  Latin,  by  Chancellor  Seton,  656. 

Episcopacy  and  Presbytery,  912. 

Epitaph  of  Margaret  Seton  of  Mounie,  498-9. 

at  Paisley  (Margaret  Seton),  202. 

of  James  Seton  of  Pitmedden,  471. 

in  Seton  Church  (George,  seventh  Lord  Seton), 

200,  775,  956-7. 
Equality  doctrines,  12. 
Erasmus  Seton,  Sir,  754-5. 
Erochside,  Loch,  571. 
Errol,  Agnes  Sinclair,  Countess  of,  408. 

Andrew,  Master  of,  485. 

first  Earl  of,  387. 

Nicol,  second  Earl  of,  382. 

— —  William,  third  Earl  of,  391. 

sixth  Earl  of,  520. 

Francis,  eighth  Earl  of,  226,  236,  485-6,  784. 

ninth  Earl  of,  424. 

Earl  of  (1592),  412. 

(1633),  473. 

(I79S),  694- 

allowed  to  go  abroad,  413. 

the  '  first  subject  in  Britain,'  165  n. 

family,  seals  of,  485. 

House  of,  38. 

Erskine  of  Aberdona,  James,  552. 

Arthur,  167. 

of  Cambo,   Sir  Alexander   (Lyon  King),  486, 

981. 

Sir  Charles  (Lyon  King),  486. 

of  Cardross,  James,  722,  731. 

■ — -  Charles,  younger  of  Cardross,  731- 

of  Dun,  John,  162. 

■ Lady  Elizabeth,  92  «.,  337,  339-40. 

Hon.  James  (Lord  Alva),  552. 

John,  Lord  (1559),  160. 

■ ■ 124.  338-9.  428. 

Lord  Kinneddar,  138  n. 

of  Pittodrie,  Thomas,  466. 

Sir  Thomas,  91. 


Erskine,  Sir  William,  915. 

Erskine-Scott,  Mr.  Ralph,  1015. 

Erskine's  defence  of  Lord  George  Gordon,  441. 

Escape  of  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  269-72. 

Escus  soleil,  148  «.,  958  et  sea. 

Esquires  of  the  Body,  146  n. 

Essays  by  Monsigndr  Robert  Seton,  309. 

Essex,  Arthur,  Earl  of,  698. 

Estates,  Committee  of  (1650),  682. 

Convention  of,  433,  519,  640. 

Ethanstanfoord  (Athelstaneford),  lands  of,  733. 
Ethanstanus,  king,  733. 
Eton  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  696. 
Eustace  of  Robertstown,  Rev.  Charles,  543- 

Sir  William,  592  n. 

surname  assumed,  543. 

Eustache,  Demoiselle  Catherine,  583,  765. 
Evans,  Captain,  629. 

Miss,  lines  by,  630  n.,  978. 

Evidence,  documentary,  89. 
Excommunication  of  eighth  Lord  Seton,  212. 
Exeter  College,  Oxford,  615. 


JT  able  and  history,  25. 

Factor  to  the  Earl  of  Winton  (George  Seton),  359. 

Faerie  Queen,  the,  3. 

Fair  Maid  of  Perth,  Scott's,  263  n. 

Fairbairn,  Colonel,  632. 

Henry,  341. 

Fairley  of  that  ilk,  674  n. 

Fairlielands,  lands  of,  315. 

Fairly  of  Braid,  674. 

Fakeer,  the  mysterious,  346,  1020. 

Fala  Moor,  156. 

Falconer,  a  skilful  (George,  sixth  Lord  Seton),  118. 

Falconry,  implements  of,  779  n. 

Falkland,  handfasting  at,  127. 

lands  of,  316. 

notary,  587. 

scuffle  at  (1683),  594. 

Fallowing,  436. 
Family  credit,  15. 

features,  persistency  of,  836  n.,  1 006  n. 

History,  scope  of  a,  25. 

litigation,  a,  726. 

records,  value  of,  24. 

reverses,  55. 

transactions  and  disputes,  121  et  sea. 

Farnese  family,  821. 

Farnihurst,  anonymous  letter  from,  to  Mary  Stuart, 

189. 
Farquhar,  Canon,  590  «. 

of  Gillmyrscroft,  Arms  at  Pinkie,  814. 

of  Maine,  Sir  Robert,  513. 

Sir  Robert,  491. 

Farquhara  of  Pitscandly,  590  n. 
Farquharson  of  Auchindrein,  Lewis,  737. 
Fasti  Ecclesice  Scoticance,  570  «. 
'  Father '  James  Seton,  643. 

Robert  Seton,  737. 

Fawsyde,  Allan  of,  70. 

coal-heughs,  242. 

James  Seton  of,  650. 

Laird  of,  211  n. 

Fearn,  Forfarshire,  570. 
Feather,  present  of  a,  208. 
Female  and  male  descent,  5- 
population,  stature  of  the,  836. 


6Q 


1042 


INDEX 


Female  sovereigns,  50. 

Fenian  Rising  of  1S67,  704. 

Fentoun,  Alexander,  Viscount,  650,  837. 

Tower  (Over  Sydeserf),  650. 

Fentrie,  the  Lord  of,  409. 

Fergus  I.,  216  n.,  824. 

Ferguson  of  Kinmundy,  Mr.,  971. 

of  Raith,  301. 

Fergusson  of  Kilkerran,  Sir  James  (1726),  529. 

Ferlan,  Robert,  539. 

'  Ferm  victual,'  414. 

'  Fermorer '  of  the  customs,  359. 

Fernandina  (Florida),  attack  on,  302. 

Charles  Seton  of,  302. 

Ferniehurst,  Lady,  409. 

■  Laird  of,  189,  194. 

Ferrers,  House  of,  43  n. 

William  de,  66. 

Fettercairn,  Parson  of  (David  Seton),  2S6-7,  833. 
Feud  between  Sutherland  and  Caithness  families,  521, 

523,  526. 
Fidler,  Mr.  William,  581. 
Fieffe's  EtrangZres  au  Service  de  France,  5S0. 
Fiennes,  Sir  John,  762. 
'Fierte  des  Ecossais,  La,'  99. 
Fife,  Colbane,  Earl  of,  578. 

David  Seton,  Stewart-Clerk  of,  322. 

Duncan,  Earl  of,  63,  581. 

Murdoch,  Earl  of,  338. 

Fife  Herald,  602. 

Findlater  and  Deskford  estates,  402. 

James,  third  Earl  of,  6S3-4. 

Rev.  John,  630. 

Margaret,  630-32. 

Finger,  loss  of  a,  54°' 

Finlason  of  Jamaica,  William,  591. 

Finlay,  Muir  and  Co.,  616. 

'  Fire  and  Sword,  Letters  of,'  411  n. 

Fisheries,  Scottish,  inspection  of,  497. 

Fishing,  Royal  Society  of,  665. 

Fitzclarence,  Lady  Augusta,  455. 

■  Rev.  Lord  Augustus,  456. 

Fitzgerald,  Colonel  James,  597. 

Lord  Edward,  606. 

Fitzgeralds,  43  n. 
Fitzroy,  Hon.  Mr.,  347. 
Five  times  married,  291  n. 
Flanders  campaign,  603. 

George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  in,  1 73-7. 

Fleeming,  Rev.  Matthew,  686. 
Fleming,  Lady  Anne,  626-7. 

Sir  David,  91. 

John,  second  Lord,  388. 

Malcolm,  third  Lord,  145  ». 

James,  fourth  Lord,  162,  402. 

John,  fifth  Lord,  171,  179. 

John,  sixth  Lord,  626-7. 

James,  Bailie  of  Edinburgh,  665. 

Jehan,  Madame,  and  Anne,  131  n. 

Jonet  and  Marion,  91. 

Mary,  130-2,  136,  138  «.,  146,  148. 

S.  H.  le,  of  Rydal  Hall,  668. 

Flemings,  the,  and  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  106, 

in,  795- 
Fletcher,  Dr.,  327. 

Sir  George,  717. 

Jean  (Viscountess  Kingston),  717,  7S2. 

Fleur-de-lis,  origin  of  the,  825-6. 

Flint,  Sir  Charles,  329. 

Flodden,  battle  of,  47,   1 1 1-2,  2S9,  338,  394,  546-S, 

579-80,  594  k.,  773.  78o>  791,  803,  827. 


'Flowers  of  the  Forest,'  112,  394. 
Flushing,  764. 

attack  on,  325. 

bombardment  of,  447. 

Flute,  love-gift  of  a,  690. 

Fogo,  lands  of,  405. 

Foirmartene  (alias  Fyvie),  639. 

Fontenay  to  Mary  Stuart  (Seton  family),  194. 

Fonts  in  Seton  Church,  118,  779  n. 

Forbes  of  Towie,  Alexander,  403. 

of  Finges,  Alexander,  467. 

Alexander,  slaughter  of,  462. 

of  Craigievar,  Sir  Arthur,  492. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Arthur,  764. 

Duncan  (Lord  President),  435,  437. 

James,  second  Lord,  381. 

William,  third  Lord,  3S3. 

■ seventh  Lord,  622,  625. 

John,  eighth  Lord,  404. 

■  Arthur,  ninth  Lord,  569. 

John,  Master  of,  463. 

'  Maister  Johne,'  644. 

■ John,  in  Ennerchanlig,  737- 

Rev.,  479. 

Richard,  Dean  of  Aberdeen,  383. 

of  Callendar,  William,  444. 

of  Keldrum,  William,  461. 

and  Gordon  feuds,  403-4. 

Forbes-Leith  of  Fyvie,  Mr.  A.  J.,  810. 

Rev.  Father,  956. 

Forbes-Leith's    Narratives    of  Scottish    Catholics, 

906  n. 
Force,  Marechal  de  la,  429. 
Fordun,  72  n.,  84,  86  «.,  87,  88,  931. 
Fordun's  Scotichronicon,  100,  S32. 
Fordyce,  of  Ay  ton,  Rev.  Alexander,  1019. 

Thomas,  1019. 

Lieutenant-Colonel,  500. 

Foreign  Setons,  764-9. 

Forfar  and  Kincardine  Artillery  Militia,  505. 

Forfeited  Estates  papers,  240,  541. 

Forfeiture  of  George,  fourth  Earl  of  Huntly,  400. 

of  Huntly  and  Errol  revoked,  406,  413. 

of  Winton  family,   166   «.,    199   «.,   265,   837 

1009-18. 
'For  lack  of  gold, '438. 
Formality  and  affection  combined,  677- 
Forman's  Roll  of  Arms,  619. 
Forrest,  Margaret,  539,  541. 

of  Gimmersmills,  541-2- 

Forrester,  Rev.  Alexander,  21 1-3,  774- 

Rev.  Andrew,  211  «.,  646. 

of  Corstorphine,  223. 

David  (Edinburgh  Town  Council),  157-9. 

Elizabeth,  711. 

George  (Haddington),  674. 

Lord,  264. 

Forrester,  H.M.  Ship,  325. 
Forster,  Adam,  93. 

to  Walsingham,  188-9. 

Forsyth  of  Glengorm,  James,  596. 
Forsyth's  Beauties  of  Scotland,  579  n. 
Forth,  Bays  of  the,  823. 
Fortingall,  Chronicle  of,  400,  407. 
Forty-second  Highlanders,  446-7. 
Foss'  Judges  of  England,  755  "• 
Foster,  Major-General  John  Gray,  309. 

William,  Sketch  of  Seton  Palace  by,  788. 

Foster's  Alumni  Oxoniensis,  763. 

Members  of  Parliament,  343  ». 

Fotheringay,  144  «. 


INDEX 


1043 


Fotherty,  lands  of,  337. 

Foulden,  lands  of,  7 10. 

Foulis  of  Ratho,  257. 

Foullerton,  Adam,  160. 

Foulstruther,  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of,  678. 

■  lands  of,  114,  584,  678. 

Fountainhall,  Lord,  his  mss.  in  Advocates'  Library, 

159  ft. 
Fountainhall's  Scottish  Affairs,  589,  594- 
Four  Georges,  M'Carthy's  History  of  the,  267. 
'Four  Maries,'  the,  130-2,  136,  615. 
Foular,  William,  complaint  by,  156. 
Fowler,  David,  in  Morhame,  540. 
Fox-Davies'  Armorial  Families,  830. 
Foxes  (or  Mertricks),  Seton  Arms  supporters,  S27. 
Foxton  (Foxdene),  756. 
France,  Court  of,  401. 

Embassies  to,  203. 

Lord  Seton's  visit  to,  189. 

National  Archives  of,  9S2,  9S5. 

'Queen  Mother'  of,  177,  192. 

Setons  in,  5S3  n.,  765-7. 

and  Scotland,  political  relations  between,  772. 

alliance  between,  1S8-91,  642,  806. 

Francis  II.  of  France,  133. 

Franco-German  War,  484. 

Franklin's  taste  for  pedigree,  4. 

Fraser,  Sir  Alexander,  tenth  Lord  Salton,  469  n. 

74.  451- 

Alexander,   water-colour  of  Seton   Church,   by, 

772. 

of  Balnain,  Arms  of,  560. 

■ William,  553. 

Castle,  795. 

heiress,  383. 

■ Major,  632. 

Margaret,  378. 

of  Reelick,  James  Baillie,  557. 

of  Stainywood,  Michael,  467. 

of  Strichen,  Alexander,  492. 

■ Sir  Simon,  74. 

surname,  assumption  of,  554.  5°i. 

Sir  William  (Bart.),  his  Hie  et  Ubique,  301  «. 

(Knight),  1005,  1021. 

Fraser's  Earls   of  Haddington,    181,    190,   194,  430, 

476  «.,  636-7  «.,  642  «.,  646-7  »-,"  659  11.,  660  «., 

672. 
Memorials  of  the  Montgomeries,  56,  676,  692  n., 

906. 

Stirlings  of  Keir,  42S. 

Sutherland  Book,  56,  516-7,  521,  528. 

Frasers  of  Oliver  Castle  and  Touch,  335. 
Fredayne,  M.,  609. 
Freedom,  Barbour's  apostrophe  to,  80. 
French  Archbishop  and  cart-wheel,  13. 

blazon  of  Seton  Arms,  829. 

'  Gend'armes'  (Scottish  Body-guard),  579. 

inscription  at  Seton  Palace,  791. 

Frendraught  Castle,  burning  of,  418-9,  524. 

Tower,  420  n. 

Viscount,  469. 

Frescobaldi,  Marchese,  723. 
'  Friends  of  the  People,'  571. 
Froude  on  the  Bothwell  Bond,  168. 

on  Equality,  12. 

on  the  Regent  Moray,  164  n. 

on  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  169  n. 

Fry,  family  of,  591  n. 

of  Philadelphia,  Alfred-Augustus,  591. 

Fuentes,  battle  of,  592  n. 
Fuller's  taste  for  pedigree,  4. 


Fullford  Castle  (now  Woodhouselee),  565. 
Funeral  of  Chancellor  Seton,  318. 

of  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  700. 

of  first  Earl  of  Winton,  216. 

oration  (John  Seton),  213. 

'  Funerals '  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  246. 

Furniture  at  Seton  Palace,  fine,  789. 

'  Furth  Fortune  and  Fill  the  Fetters,'  395. 

Fusiliers,  Scottish,  719. 

Fyfield  Church,  monument  in,  391. 

Fyvie,  Alexander,  Lord,  216,  317. 

Baron,  636-9. 

barony  of,  398. 

Castle,  423,  639,  770,  795,  805-10. 

Charter-room,  662. 

Charles,  Lord  (ob.  ziit.  pat.),  66 1 -4. 

Church,  Chancellor  Seton's  Arms  at,  809. 

'  Dripping  Stone,'  971. 

lands  of,  646-7. 

Lord,  Arms  of,  810. 

lordship  of,  666. 


vJaberlunzie,  a  noble,  448. 
Gaelic  etymology  of  Niddrie,  804. 

of  Fyvie,  805. 

Gage,  Hon.  Captain,  703. 

(pawn),  Lord  Seton's  silver  vessels  at,  191. 

Galbraith  of  Battocharan,  James,  353. 

■  of  Culcreoch,  Robert,  353  n. 

Galloway,  Alan  of,  66. 

Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of,  454. 

James,  fifth  Earl  of,  687. 

■  Mr.  Patrick,  90S. 

Galloway's  Entry,  Edinburgh,  196  n. 
Gallowshill,  Dumfries,  76. 
Galton,  Francis,  S36. 

■  on  family  decay,  8. 

Game  Laws,  enforcement  of  the,  692. 
Gamylstoun  and  Redishall,  lands  of,  117. 
'  Garbs '  of  the  Earls  of  Buchan,  102,  S26. 
'Garde  Ecoisoise,'  766. 
Garden,  Lord,  343. 

of  Troup,  Alexander,  1019. 

at  Winton,  795. 

Gardes  du  Corps,  a  Seton  in  the  (1679),  767. 
Gardiner,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  762. 

Colonel,  70S. 

Gargonow,  Peel  of,  354. 
Gargunnock  Branch  (Touch),  353-4. 
Gargunnock,  Alexander  Seton  of,  650. 

Arms  of  the  Setons  of,  354. 

house,  354. 

lands  of,  338,  340. 

Garleton,  Setons  of,  733-40,  767. 

1.  Hon.  Sir  John  Seton,  first  Baronet,  116,  22S, 

73°.  733-7,  739.  74r.  S29,  995. 

2.  Sir    George     Seton,    second     Baronet,    719, 

737-9- 

3. third  Baronet,  257,  734-9,  913. 

Garleton  Arms,  740. 

'  Bonnie  Parks '  of,  594  n. 

Castle,  733-4,  770. 

hills,  624,  733-4. 

house,  719. 

intermarriages,  38. 

— —  lands  of,  223. 

line,  failure  of  the,  698. 

Garmylton  (now  Garleton),  734. 
Garnefelt,  768. 


1044 


INDEX 


Gamett  of  Green  Park,  Henry,  597. 

Garnock,  Viscount  (1718),  713. 

Garstin,  Major  John  Bradstreet,  723. 

Garter,  Order  of,  for  King  of  France  (1584),  194. 

Garth,  fortalice  of,  396. 

Garvaldgrange,  lands  of,  672. 

Gay  Gordons,  380  ». 

'  G.  E.  C.,'  Peerage  of,  697. 

Geddes,  Rev.  Dr.  Alexander,  438. 

Geddie,  James,  636. 

Geddie's  Fringes  of  Fife,  285  n. 

Geilles  Seton  (Cariston),  584-5. 

Gelre,  Armorial  de,  86,  95,  823,  827. 

Genealogical  mysteries,  92. 

mythology,  23. 

Genealogist,  The  (Oct.  1S93),  S30. 
Genealogy,  fascination  of,  5. 

professors  of,  23. 

sarcastically  defined,  2. 

General  Assembly  and  Huntly,  415. 

Registry  Office,  Edinburgh,  615. 

Genesis,  chap,  v.,  928. 

Geneva,  Count  of,  386. 

Gentle  Shepherd,  The,^(&. 

'  Gentleman,  a  thorough '  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton), 

699. 
Gentleman  of  the  King's  house  (John  Seton),  33S. 
Gentleman's  Magazine  (1848),  777. 
Gentry,  the  old,  17. 

of  the  United  Kingdom,  20. 

George  1.,  434,  517,  537. 

coronation  of,  528. 

II.,  436,  493,  531. 

III.,  533,  629,  691. 

coronation  of,  493. 

IV.  in  Scotland,  447,  536. 

the  prevailing  name  in  the  Seton  family,  52-4, 

100  «. 
Georges,  break  in  the  succession  of,  203  n. 

continuous  succession  of,  590. 

Getherer,  Bishop,  547. 

Ghost  of  Woodhouselee,  565-6. 

'Giant,  the'  (Richard  Seton),  833. 

Gibbet  at  Meldrum  House,  470. 

Gibbon  on  family  pride,  2. 

■ — —  on  the  Fielding  pedigree,  3. 

on  the  patricians,  7. 

Gibbon's  taste  for  pedigree,  4. 

Memoirs,  835. 

Gibraltar,  convent  chapel  of,  696. 
Gibson,  Captain,  918. 

of  Durie,  Alexander  and  John,  492. 

of  Durie's  Decisions,  658. 

of  Pentland,  Sir  Alexander,  494. 

Gibson-Craig,  James,  656  n.,  772  ». 
Gibsone,  Dame  Jean,  685. 
Giffen  estate,  693. 

Hon.  Francis  Montgomerie  of,  683. 

Gifford,  Hugh,  Lord  Yester,  70. 

Sir  Hugh,  104  k. 

Gight,  Gordons  of,  390-1,  512. 

Laird  of,  380,  394,  647. 

Gilbertoun,  lands  of,  651. 
Gilchrist,  Dougal,  327. 
Gilliecrankie,  battle  of,  567. 
Gillies,  Adam,  Lord,  572. 

of  Little  Keithosk,  Robert,  572. 

of  London,  William,  572. 

Gilmour  of  Craigmillar,  Sir  John,  661. 

Sir  Dugald,  910. 

Girnigo,  522. 


'Gjaer,'  the  Norwegian,  22. 

Gladsmuir,  parish  of,  239. 

Gladstanes,   George    (Archbishop    of    St.    Andrews), 

646. 
Gladstone  on  the  love  of  aristocracy,  12. 
Glammis  Castle,  795,  805,  808. 

John,  sixth  Lord,  396. 

Glamorgan  Light  Infantry  Militia,  511. 
Glasgow,  Archbishop  of,  129,  17S-9,  1S4-5. 

Bishop  of,  163,  190-1. 

Fencibles,  694-5. 

Lord  (1584),  195. 

— —  of  Mountgreenan,  Robert  Robertson-,  543. 

sewage  (fourteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  704. 

— —  University,  680-2,  6S7. 

library  of,  626. 

Lord  Rector  of  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton), 

696. 
Glass  bottle,  flat,  found  near  Seton  Church,  785. 
Glencairn  and  Boyd,  house  of,  678  n. 

and  Eglinton  feud,  644. 

Robert,  second  Earl  of,  103. 

Alexander,  fifth  Earl  of,  156. 

— —  William,  ninth  Earl  of,  681. 

Glencorse,  parish  of,  567-8. 

Glendinning,  Sir  Halbert,  of  the  Abbot,  13. 

Glendonwyn  of  that  ilk,  William,  514. 

Glengarry,  Laird  of,  530. 

Glenlivat,  battle  of,  404,  412,  423. 

Glenlyon,  Viscount  (1839),  703. 

Glenmuick,  379. 

Glens  of  Inchmartin,  600  n. 

Glentanner,  379,  392. 

Glide  =  \dte,  239  n. 

'  Glory,'  call  to,  917  n. 

'  Glory  of  the  Lothians,'  the  (Seton  Palace),  7SS,  793. 

Gloucester  frigate,  wreck  of  the  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton), 

237- 
Glove,  embroidered  (gift  of  Charles  II.),  491. 
Godolphins,  wit  of  the,  46  n. 
God's  enemies,  receivers  of,  409. 
Goeben,  General  Von,  484. 
Golden  pen,  gift  of  a  (Dr.  William  Seton),  766. 
Golf  at  Seton  Palace,  136  «.,  168. 

—  and  archery,  524. 

'  Good  old  times,  the,'  274  n. 
'  Good  Regent,'  the,  411. 
Goodal,  Walter,  550. 
Gordon  Arms,  434,  449. 

assumption  of  surname  of,  382-3. 

barony  of,  360,  377. 

Castle,  416,  448,  666-7. 

Dukes  of,  93,  272.     (See  under  Huntly  Line.) 

extinction  of  the  Scotch  Dukedom  of,  448. 

family,  375. 

■  heiress  of,  45,  93,  97. 

Highlanders,  444-5. 

kirk  of  West,  340. 

lands  of,  379. 

and  Hay  controversy,  424. 

'  Gordon  Tower,'  Fyvie,  807-8. 

Gordon  of  Aboyne,  Adam,  394,  512,  517,  536. 

of  Arrandoule,  William,  465. 

of  Auchindoun,  Sir  Adam,  403. 

Sir  Patrick,  403. 

of  Auchintoul,  472. 

■ of  Buckie,  41 1. 

of  Cardnay,  John,  397. 

of  Cluny,   Sir   Alexander   and    Sir   Thomas, 

468. 


INDEX 


1045 


Gordon  of  Cocklarichie,  George,  472,  518. 

of  Dunkinty,  Alexander,  408. 

of  Fyvie,  Hon.  Colonel  William,  629. 

of  Garty,  Gilbert,  518,  520. 

of  Gight,  3S0. 

of  Gordounsmylne,  William,  465. 

of  Gordonstoun,  Sir  Robert,  415. 

of  Haddo,  Sir  George  (afterwards  Earl  of  Aber- 
deen, 237. 

Patrick,  462. 

of  Huntly,  Baron  (1S07),  446. 

of  Knokespock,  James,  468. 

of  Lesmoir,  James,  463. 

'  of  Letterfourie,  James,  Admiral  of  Scotland, 

512. 

of  Lochinvar,  376. 

Sir  Robert,  625. 

of  Milnetown,  472. 

■  of  Navidale,  Sir  Alexander,  522. 

of  Schivas,  William'  390. 

of  Strathdoun,  Alexander,  408. 

Gordon,  Adam,  Dean  of  Caithness,  3S2,  507. 

Lord  of  Aboyne,  390. 

Lord  Adam,  43S,  493,  735. 

■  Sir  Adam,  375,  406. 

Alexander,  Archbishop  of  Athens,  396. 

Lord  Alexander,  443. 

Lord  de  (Alexander  Seton),  765. 

Captain  (1690),  668. 

Lord  Charles,  437. 

Colonel  Nathaniel,  660. 

Lord  Douglas  W.  C,  457. 

Lord  Esme-Stuart,  458. 

Lord  George,  336,  440-1. 

Rector  of  Chesterton,  455. 

Rev.  George  (Sorn),  956. 

General,  437. 

Lord  Granville  A.,  458. 

James,  a  Papist,  214. 

(Jesuit),  403. 

'  Parson  of  Rothiemay, '  430. 

John,  Lord,  396. 

Hon.  John  (ob.  1778),  453. 

John,  servant  of  Drumelzier,  726-7. 

Sir  John  (1562),  399. 

■ ■  execution  of,  402. 

Lord  Henry,  430. 

Lieut. -Colonel,  612. 

Lord  Lewis,  437,  457. 

Hon.  Lockhart,  453. 

Lord  Ludovic,  428. 

Lord  (1629),  416. 

Robert  (killed  1572),  404. 

Thomas  (buried  in  St.  Giles',  Edinburgh),  404. 

William,  Bishop  of  Aberdeen  (1567),  403. 

Chancellor  of  Aberdeen,  382. 

(Order  of  St.  Bennet),  408. 

Lord  William,  440. 

William-Seton,  296,  299. 

Gordon,  Lady  Anne  (Countess  of  Aberdeen),  439. 

(wife  of  Rev.  Alexander  Chalmers),  442. 

(wife  of  Comte  de  Crolly),  431. 

(Lady  Drummond),  420,  428. 

(Countess  of  Perth),  430. 

Lady  Catherine,  388-9. 

(wife  of  Mr.  Booker),  442. 

■ (wife  of  Count  Morstain),  451. 

(Countess  of  Wemyss),  439. 


Gordon,  Lady  Catherine  (Duchess  of  Gordon),  439. 

Lady  Charlotte,  439. 

(Duchess  of  Richmond),  443. 

Elizabeth,  heiress  of,  451. 

Lady  Elizabeth  (wife  of  Rev.  John  Skelly),  439. 

Lady  Georgina  (Duchess  of  Bedford),  444. 

■  Lady   Henrietta  (Lady   Seton  and  Countess  of 

Traquair),  229  «.,  232,  420,  428,  430. 

(died  1789),  439. 

Lady  Jane,  521-2. 

Lady  Jean,  404-5. 

(died  1792),  439. 

(Countess  of  Dunfermline),  431,  628,  638//., 

666. 

(Countess  of  Haddington),  421,  428,  430. 

(Duchess  of  Perth),  436. 

Louisa  (Huntly?),  513. 

Lady  Louisa  (Marchioness  of  Cornwallis),  444. 

Lady  Madelina  (Lady  Sinclair  and  Mrs.  Palmer), 

443- 

Lady  Margaret  and  Knox,  404. 

Marjorie,  abduction  of,  468. 

Lady  Mary,  439. 

(wife  of  Irvine  of  Drum),  431. 

(wife  of  Urquhart  of  Meldrum  and  Countess 

of  Perth),  431. 

Lady  Susan  (Duchess  of  Manchester),  444. 

(Countess  of  Westmoreland),  441. 

Gordon's  Scots  Affairs,  427. 
Gordons,  the,  377  «.,  379. 
Gore-Browne,  General,  510. 
Gosford  House,  779  n.,  785. 
Gostling,  Major  C.  H.,  563. 
Gothenburg  Seatons,  759,  764. 

■ Arms  of  the,  760. 

Gottingen,  533. 

Gould,  Sir  Charles,  604-5,  9l&- 

'  Governor'  or  Tutor,  691. 

Gower  and  Leveson  Arms,  516,  537. 

Gowner,  lands  of,  465. 

Gowns,  petticoats,  etc.,  bequests  of,  585. 

Gowrie  Conspiracy,  644,  967. 

Earl  of  (1600),  640. 

trial  of  the  Earl  of,  192. 

Graden,  Alexander  Seton  of,  358. 

lands  of,  358. 

Grasdon,  minister  of  (William  Seton),  357. 
Graeme,  Charles  de  Jersey,  372. 

of  Garvock,  James,  372. 

of  Gorthy,  General  David,  602. 

Roland,  196-7. 

Graham  of  Halzairds,  John,  465. 

of  Mossknowe,  453. 

'in  Perthshire,'  598. 

Grahame  of  Claverhouse,  John,  567. 

of  Fintry,  Sir  David,  340. 

Lawrence,  358. 

Malise,  539. 

Grahams,  the,  388. 
Grameid,  The,  667. 
Grange  House,  Edinburgh,  476. 

Laird  of,  180. 

William  Seton  of  (Kylesmure),  674. 

Grant,  Rev.  A.  T.,  59,  170  ».,  395,  565,  59S  «.,  913, 

999  «• 

of  Arms  (Pitmedden),  487-8. 

of  Burdsyards,  Arms  of,  560. 

of  Burdsyards,  George,  557. 

Castle,  431. 

of  Grantsfield,  Alexander,  452. 


1046 


INDEX 


Grant,  Mr.  James,  324. 

Sir  James,  431. 

of  Kilgraston,  Charles  T.  C. ,  724. 

of  Knockando,  James,  452. 

■ ■  Laird  of,  II. 

of  Monymusk,  Sir  Archibald,  1016,  1019. 

Grant's  Memoirs  of  Sir  John  Hepburn,  602  «. 

Old  and  New  Edinburgh,  196  «.,  434  n. 

Granville,  Joan-Frederica,  329. 

Granvilles,  loyalty  of  the,  46  n. 

Graphic  (January  1894),  836  «. 

Gray,  Alexander,  933. 

Andrew,  third  Lord,  396. 

Elizabeth  (Lady  Glammis),  393. 

in  Tulloch,  Gilbert,  467. 

of  Foulis,  James,  Lord,  51 8. 

John  M.,  566,  592  «.,  810. 

his  notice  of  Pinkie,  821. 

'  La  bande  de,'  195. 

Mariot,  541,  544. 

Patrick,  fourth  (?)  Lord,  391. 

sixth  Lord,  293. 

of  Skibo,  709  n. 

slaughter  of,  546-7. 

the  poet's  taste  for  pedigree,  4. 

Great  North  of  Scotland  Railway,  scenery  and  anti- 
quities of  the,  971. 

Seal  Register,  847-69. 

Seal  Register  (unassigned  Scottish  Setons),  743-4. 

'  Greatest  friend '  of  Mary  Stuart  (Lord  Seton),  1S3. 

Greek  legends  in  Pinkie  gallery,  Si 9. 

Green,  Mr.  Everard,  5  n. 

'  Green  Lady'  (Pinkie),  812  n. 

Greendykes,  lands  of,  127,  710,  712. 

Robert  Seton  of,  124-7,  l5I- 

Greene,  Edward  J.,  562. 

Greenknowe,  Setons  of,  97S-9. 

tower,  979. 

Gregory,  Dr.,  553-4. 

XIII.,  Pope,  634,  906. 

Gregory's  Western  Highlands,  647  11. 

Grenada,  island  of,  631. 

Grey,  house  of,  43  n. 

'  Grey  Earl,  the'  (Sutherland),  524. 

Greyfriars,  Edinburgh,  subscription  of  the  Confession 
of  Faith  at,  524. 

cemetery,  Perth,  613. 

'  Greysteel '  (Alexander  Seton,  sixth  Earl  of  Eglinton), 
134.     (See  Eglinton  Line.) 

correspondence  of,  6S0. 

sobriquet  of,  678. 

Grierson  of  Lag,  257. 

Grimethorpe  Hall,  758. 

Groome's  Ordnance  Gazetteer,  650  n. 

Grose's  Antiquities  of  Scotland,  76,  90  n.,  200  «.,  772, 
774.  78o,  7S8,  792,  956  «• 

Grotius  de  jure  Belli  et  Pacts,  934  n. 

Guadaloupe,  action  at  (1810),  496. 

Guard,  officer  of  H.M.  (William  Seton),  241. 

Scoto-French,  191. 

Guardian  Angel,  Holmes',  841. 

Guerin,  Eugenie  de,  55. 

Guerre  Sourde,  the,  20. 

Guggee,  siege  of,  910. 

Guisbrough  Abbey,  758. 

Guise,  Louis,  Cardinal  of,  194. 

Duke  of,  149,  193,  195,  906. 

and  Joyeuse,  Dukes  of,  190. 

Marie  de,  163  n. 

Monsieur  de,  189. 

Guises,  the,  401. 


Gunn,  John,  the  ex-caird,  272. 
Gustaf  in.,  369. 

iv.,  371. 

Gustavus  Adolphus,  524,  764. 

descent  from,  373. 

and  Colonel  Seton,  370. 

Guthrie,  Alexander,   '  Common  Clerk  '  of  Edinburgh, 

157-9- 

(Edinburgh),  627. 

Harie,  550. 

Guthrie-Smith's  Strathblane,  825  n. 

Guthry,  Bishop,  on  the  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline, 

664. 
Guzman  el  Bueno,  86  n. 


JTT.ADDENRIG,  battle  of,  397. 
Hadderweik  (Hedderwick),  712. 
Haddington,  '  Cordelere  freiris '  of,  94. 

Earls  of,  239. 

Thomas,  first  Earl  of,  66«. ,  637. 

second  Earl  of,  430,  659. 

third  Earl  of,  734. 

family,  as  agricultural  improvers,  442  n. 

horse-race,  155. 

monastery  of,  Si,  672. 

monument  of  William  Seton  at,  925. 

Presbytery  (1645-54),  231. 

Records,  21 1-5,  774. 

Provost  of  (William  Seton),  544-5. 

letter  from,  90S-9. 

schoolmaster  of  (Alexander  Seton),  544. 

Sheriff  of  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton),  237. 

Sheriffship  of,  673. 

town  of,  734. 

'  Hagbuittis  and  pistollettis,'  353  n. 
Hagioscope  at  Seton  Church,  776,  784. 
Haigs  of  Bemerside — a  fraternal  difference,  64S. 
Hailes,  Lord,  72,  74,  80,  87,  534,  926  ft. 

Annals  of  Scotland,  58,  60,  62,  84,  929-34. 

'  Information '  signed  by,  726. 

Sir  George  Seton  of,  674  n.,  997-S. 

Sir  John  Seton  of,  683. 

Hair  of  Prince  Charlie  and  Cardinal  of  York,   612,' 

618,  72S. 
Hair-dressing,  Mary  Seton's,  13S. 
'  Hakbuters,'  967. 

Haldane  of  Gleneagles,  Bernard,  94. 
Haldane,  Memoirs  of  Robert  and  James,  611  n. 
Halifax,  Viscount  (Sir  Charles  Wood),  925. 
Halkerstone  of  Southwood,  391. 
Hall,  Henry,  612. 

Lieutenant,  603. 

Thomas  (Edinburgh  jailer),  156. 

Hallewell,  Henry  Lonsdale,  563. 
Halyburton  of  Pitcur,  James,  454. 

John,  second  Lord,  99. 

Lord  John-Frederick  Gordon-,  455. 

Sir  Thomas,  63. 

William,  in  Wolfstruther,  119. 

Halyday,  David  (St.  Germains),  711-2. 
Hamerton  on  Heraldry,  9. 

on  French  Aristocracy,  19. 

on  Good  Birth,  9. 

Hamesucken,  626. 
Hamilton  of  Baldoon,  257. 

of  Bangour,  William,  687,  6S9. 

lines  by,  787. 

of  Bothwellhaugh,  172,  565. 


INDEX 


1047 


Hamilton  of  Bourtreehill,  Robert,  695. 

■ ■ assumption  of,  698. 

of  Carcluie,  Archibald,  695. 

— —  of  Crawfurd,  James,  172. 

of  Glenure,  Sir  William,  124. 

■ of  Machlene  (Mauchline?),  Sir  William,  181. 

of  Muirhouse,  John,  709. 

of  Parkly,  James,  357,  367. 

of  Pencaitland,  Colonel,  Soo. 

James,  1019. 

of  Presmennan,  Robert,  665. 

of  Preston,  94,  212,  711. 

David  and  Sir  Robert,  107. 

Sir  Thomas,  711- 

of  Priestfield,  Thomas,  181,  637  n. 

of  Rochbank,  James,  171. 

of  Samuelstoun,  James,  539. 

of  Sanquhar,  Sir  William,   124,  152-3,  156,  196, 

780,  792,  S15. 

Arms  of  Sir  William,  956. 

Isabel,  152. 

■ Mark,  of  Saltpreston,  711. 


Hamilton,  Lord  Claude,  1S2,  195,  201-2,  409,  5S5-6, 

673- 

Duke  of,  358  ».,  591. 

(156S),  171. 

Sir  George,  234. 

Sir  James,  647. 

James,  second  Marquis  of,  647,  6S3. 

third  Marquis  of  (and  first  Duke),  225-6, 

765. 

William,  second  Duke  of,  344. 

James,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  666. 

John,  178. 

Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews,  153. 

burgess  of  Edinburgh,  622. 

(secular  priest),  637  n. 

Lord  John,  1S2. 

General  Richard,  365. 

Hamilton,  Alison,  205. 

Lady  Anne,  408,  565-6. 

Lady  Barbara,  402. 

Dame  Isabel  (Lady  Seton),  1 87,  623,  638. 

signature  of,  200. 

Mademoiselle,  131  n. 

Mary,  132. 

Hamilton-Ogilvy,  Mrs.  Nisbet,  801. 

Hamilton  Arms  (Earl  of  Dunfermline),  S09. 

at  Paisley,  201. 

at  Pinkie,  815. 

Duke  of,  mss.  of  the,  765. 

execution  of  the  Duke  of,  428. 

family,  5. 

Palace  collection    (miniature    of    Lord   Seton), 

199  n. 

Queen  Mary  at,  171. 

Hamiltons  of  Olivestob,  709  n. 

the,  and  Lord  Seton,  191. 

and  Setons,  quarrel  between,  212. 

'  Hammer  of  the  Scots '  (Edward  I.),  805. 
Hampden,  Mr.,  on  Lord  Winton's  impeachment,  261, 

266  n. 
Hamper,  Lord's  Winton's  escape  in  a,  272. 
Hand,  a  lost,  955.     (Seton  of  Clatto.) 
Handfasting,  127. 
Handwriting  of  Mary  Seton  and  Mary  Stuart,  139. 


'  Hang-a-Dyke  Neuk,'  85. 
Hannay,  James,  546,  700  n. 

on    thirteenth    Earl    of   Eglinton,    699- 

700. 

on  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  107. 

on  family  histories,  25. 

on  female  descent,  5  n. 

Hanover,  House  of,  6S6,  691. 

Harbertson,  Archibald  ('  Exul  Scotus  '),  206. 

Harcourt  family,  24. 

Hardwick,  gallery  at,  S13  n. 

Hardwicke,  Lord  Chancellor,  550. 

Harlaw,  battle  of,  91-2,  377. 

Harlech,  William  R.,  second  Baron,  458. 

Harleian  mss.  (British  Museum),  644. 

Harper  of  Baltimore,  General,  308. 

Harper's  Magazine,  299. 

Harquebus,  a  pirate's,  186. 

Harris,  Sir  William  Cornwallis,  498. 

Harte's  Gustavus  Adolphus,  370  n. 

Hartfell,  James,  Earl  of,  474. 

Hartlepool,  758. 

Hartsyde,  lands  of,  102. 

Harvey's  Life  of  Robert  Bruce,  831. 

Harwich,  naval  engagement  near  (1665),  474. 

Haslewood,  John,  755  n. 

Hatfield,  mss.  at,  144  et  sea.,  622  n. 

(Chancellor  Seton),  641  ». 

Hatfield's  Survey,  756. 

Havelock,  Sir  Henry,  4S4. 

'  Haven '  at  Seton,  205. 

Hawk  incident,  6SS. 

Hawking  implements  found  at  Seton  Church,  11S. 

Hawthornden  mss.,  209-10. 

Hawthorne  on  the  English  love  of  aristocracy,  12. 

Hawthorne's  House  of  the  Seven  Gables,  306. 

Hay  of  Aberlady,  John,  627. 

of  Ardendrach,  William,  461. 

of  Belton,  Lord  David,  722. 

of  Carriber,  James,  712. 

of  Dalgetty,  disinterment  of,  526. 

of  Drumelzier,  Alexander,  361,  913. 

Hon.  William,  681,  719. 

Mr.,  1013,  1022. 

and  Duns  Castle,  721. 

of  Duns  Castle,  782.     (See  Drumelzier. ) 

Mr.,  135-6. 

■  Robert  M.,  913. 

of  Edington,  William,  731. 

of  Fosterseat,  Alexander,  646. 

of  Hopes,  John,  330. 

■ William,  724. 

of  Kilmalamak,  391. 

of  Kinninmonth,  George,  628. 

of  Linplum,  James,  722. 

— —  Robert,  272  ».,  722. 

J.  A.,  769. 

of  Nunraw,  Alexander,  722. 

Charles-Erskine,  723. 

James,  722. 

of  Strowie,  Francis,  318. 

of  Tullibody,  John,  335,  37S,  3S2. 

of  Tallo,  William,  121. 

Hay,  Sir  Gilbert,  81. 

■  John,  merchant,  737- 

General  John,  910. 

John,  Provost  of  Dundee,  140. 

Rev.  Walter,  539. 

William,  merchant  in  Edinburgh,  627. 

Hon.  William,  725,  730-1. 


1048 


INDEX 


Hay,  Lady  Anne  (Countess  of  Winton),  226. 

Egidia,  335,  338,  378,  381,  383. 

Elizabeth  (first  wife  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton), 

117,  121. 

Lady  Elizabeth,  387. 

Margaret,  628. 

(Countess  of  Dunfermline),  819. 

Hay,  Arms,  485. 

and  Gordon  controversy,  424. 

and  Seton  intermarriages,  38,  41. 

Hays,  Genealogical  Tree  of  the,  821. 

—  handsome,  650. 
of  Hopes,  910. 

as  agricultural  improvers,  442  n, 

Haytien,  Cape,  298. 

Hayward's  Selected  Essays,  43  «. ,  504  n. 

'  Hazard  zet  fordward,'  47,  107,  197  ».,  760. 

Hazlett,  Margaret,  595. 

Headache,  cure  for,  460. 

Headship  of  the  House  of  Seton,  676. 

Heart  in  Pitmedden  Arms,  473,  487. 

Hector,  Mr.,  327. 

Hedderwick  Muir,  719. 

Heir  of  line  of  the  House  of  Seton,  737,  739. 

Heiress  of  Seton,  Margaret,  86. 

Heirlooms  of  American  Setons,  302. 

at  Duns  Castle,  728. 

Parbroath,  298-300. 

■  Pitmedden,  481-2. 

at  Touch,  350. 

at  Woodhouselee,  566. 

Heirs-female  as  successors,  598. 
Heirs  of  line,  598  n. 
Helen,  the  ship,  609-10. 
Helensburgh,  town  of,  531. 
Henderson,  Colonel  Patrick,  496. 

Colonel  George,  496. 

James,  Indian  Judge,  496. 

Truro,  48 1  ». ,  495  n. 

Margaret  and  Marion,  125. 

of  Nether  Parkly,  Mr.,  365. 

of  Newton,  William,  495. 

Admiral  Robert,  496. 

Hendersoun,  James,  of  Fordel,  287-8. 
Henry  in.,  66. 

iv.,  39  «.,  90  «. 

VI.,  756. 

vii.,  Queen  of,  146  n. 

viii.,  397. 

and  Holbein,  30. 

11.  of  France,  131. 

his  gift  to  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton, 

162. 

in.  of  France,  636. 

Prince,  425,  641-2. 

baptism  of  Prince,  206. 

Prince,  death  of,  207,  646. 

present  to,   from   first  Earl  of  Winton, 

208. 

Henryson,  Sir  Thomas,  649. 
Henrysoun,  James,  of  Fordel,  287-8. 
Hepburn  of  Adinston,  John,  246. 

Christian  (Countess  of  Winton),  246,  583. 

her  ancestry  and  Arms,  247-8. 

paternal  descent  of,  1004. 

Colonel,  918. 

of  Humbie,  Sir  Adam,  733  11. 

Sir  John,  733  n. 

Lady  Janet  (wife  of  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton),  96, 

112,  1 14-6,  122,  196,  579,  773,  780,  790-1. 


Hepburn,  Lady  Janet,  Arms  of,  1 16. 

of  Keith,  257. 

Patrick,  Earl  of  Bothwell,  388. 

of  Smeaton,  Patrick,  1019. 

of  Wauchton,  Patrick,  531. 

of  Waughton,  Sir  Patrick,  223. 

Thomas  Nicoll  ( '  Gabriel  Setoun  '),  924. 

William,  541-2. 

Herald  painter's  account  (fifth  Earl  of  Winton),  1005 
Heraldic  badges,  51  n. 

mss.  in  the  British  Museum,  82S,  etc. 

skill  of  Chancellor  Seton,  634,  809. 

Heraldry,  Papal,  310. 

in  the  sixteenth  century,  30  n. 

Herbert,  Lady  Winifred  (Countess  of  Nithsdale),  272. 

Herberts,  lofty  stature  of  the  835. 

Herdmanston,  Sinclairs  of,  96. 

Hereditary  principle,  importance  of  the,  29. 

Heredity  (stature),  836. 

Hereot,  Rev.  George,  258. 

of  Trabroun,  James,  581. 

Heriot,  George,  300. 

of  Burnturk,  William,  581. 

of  Niddry-Marischal,  98. 

Heriot's  Hospital,  797,  Soo. 

Heritable  jurisdictions,  abolition  of,  691. 

Herries  of  Terregles,  783. 

fourth  Lord,  47-8. 

John,  seventh  Lord,  226,  733. 

Lord  (156S),  171. 

839. 

'  Herschippes '  or  plunderings,  387. 

'  Hert,  Sueitteste,'  677. 

Hertford's  invasion,  788. 

Hesse,  Frederick,  Prince  of,  602. 

Hewlett,   Henry  G.,   his  lines  on  the  loss  of   the 

Birkenhead,  502. 
Hibbert,  George,  556. 
Hidalgo  defined,  43  n. 

Higgins,  Matthew  James  {Jacob  Omnium),  836. 
Highland  Chieftain's  Welcome,  447. 
Highlanders,  42nd,  695. 

78th,  692,  695. 

Hilliard,  Deputy  Surgeon-General  John,  575. 
Hillside,  James  Seton  of,  296,  324. 
Hiltly,  Co.  Linlithgow,  357-8,  372. 

George  Seton  of,  367,  369. 

Hippocrates,  twins  of,  216  «. 

Hislop,  Mr.  Fowler  (Prestonpans),  279. 

Historians,  earlier,  on  the  Regent  Moray,  165  «. 

Historical  MSS.  Commission,  416,  906. 

Historical  Society,  Scottish,  592  n. 

History  and  fable,  25. 

Professorship  (Edinburgh),  553,  557. 

Lord  Woodhouselee's  works  on,  553-4. 

Hoby,  Sir  Edward,  194-5-  • 

Hodge,  Edward,  of  Grangepans,  359. 
Hoffman,  Martin,  305. 

Nicholas,  of  New  York,  304. 

Hofjagmastare  (Master  of  Buckhounds),  372. 
Hog  of  Newliston,  Thomas,  557. 
Hogg's  Jacobite  Relics,  255,  667  n. 

Queen's  Wake,  132,  200. 

Holbein,  821,  913. 

and  Henry  VIII.,  30. 

Holbein's  portrait  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton, 

1 98. 
Hole,  Samuel  Reynolds  (Dean  of  Rochester),  836. 
Holey,   Sir   Edward,   to  Burghley   (Lord   Seton   in 

France),  194. 
Holland   George,  seventh  Lord  Seton  in,  173. 


INDEX 


1049 


Holland,  residence  in  (first  Viscount  Kingston),  715. 

Scottish  refugees  in  (1650),  660. 

sea-fight  with,  664. 

States  of,  509. 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell,  841. 
Holmes's  Accademie  of  Armory,  758  ». 
Holt,  Father,  1S8,  190. 

■  William,  a  Jesuit  at  Seton,  187. 

Holy  Cross  Monastery,  395. 

■  Island,  contemplated  French  occupation  of,  163. 

Stop  (Olivestob),  708. 

Holyrood  Abbey,  Sutherland  monument  at,  527. 

Chapel,  635,  647. 

keepership  of,  646. 

levees,  S35. 

Palace,  438,  806. 

Prince  Charlie  at,  612. 

sanctuary  of,  571. 

slab  at,  780. 

Honours,  surrender  of,   by   Robert,    second   Earl   of 

Winton,  220. 
Hope,  Edward,  Bailie  of  Edinburgh,  161. 

Sir  Archibald,  S22. 

Sir  John,  819,  821-2. 

Sir  Thomas,  5S8,  658  «.,  S19  n. 

Sir  William,  819  «.,  822. 

Hope-Oliphant,  John  (Rossie),  611. 
Hopes  of  Craighall,  Baronets,  20. 

lofty  stature  of  the,  S35. 

Hopetoun,  Earl  of,  284,  355. 
■ — —  first  Earl  of,  239. 

Earls  of,  20. 

Laird  of  (1682),  237. 

Lord  (172S),  727. 

Home,  Alexander  (Chirnside),  711. 

Lord,  338,  5S6  n. 

Earldom,  creation  of,  643. 

Rev.  George  (Chirnside),  543. 

Henry  (Lord  Karnes),  Memoir  of,  554. 

Lord,  137,  205. 

. of  Dirington,  George,  711. 

of  Garvaldgrange,  Patrick,  672. 

of  North  Berwick,  Sir  John,  626. 

■  of  North  Berwick  Mains,  Alexander,  181. 

of  Polwarth,  24S. 

of  Renton,  Sir  John,  734. 

of  Wedderburn,  Sir  George,  292,  342. 

Home-Drammond,  George  (afterwards  Stirling-Home- 

Drummond),  723-4,  731. 
Plomildon,  battle  of,  9S,  376. 
Home,  Rev.  John,  S36. 
Horsburgh,  James,  612. 
Horse  Guards,  916. 

Captain  of  the  Royal  ( '  Greysteel '),  6S0. 

Horse,  Master  of  the,  621. 

(John  Seton),  188. 

race  in  the  Canongate,  444. 

'  Horseleache,  the  connynge,'  47. 

Horse-racing  in  Scotland,  155. 

Horses  at  Gordon  Castle,  valuable,  667. 

Hosack's  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  and  her  Accusers,  167. 

Hospital  for  consumptives,  Seton,  311. 

Host,  stoppage  of  the,  708. 

Hostages,  execution  of,  93 1  -34. 

Houghton,  Mrs.,  573. 

House  of  Lords,  abolition  of,  16. 

and  Commons  contrasted,  16. 

'  House-heating'  in  1S04,  442. 

Household,  Master  of  the  Royal,  97,  621-2,  671,  673, 

S26. 
(George,  seventh  Lord  Seton),  163. 


Household,  Master   of  the   (George,  fourth   Earl   of 

Winton),  328. 
Howard,  Lady  Elizabeth  (Duchess  of  Gordon),  434. 
Howards  and  Percys,  43  n. 
Howden,  Miss,  her  watch  of  fifth  Earl  of  Winton, 

279. 
Howesone,  Cristian,  4S9. 

Howesoun,  Alexander,  burgess  of  Aberdeen,  465. 
Hubert  of  Rouen  (watchmaker),  567. 
Hudibras  on  heralds,  23. 
Hughes,  Archbishop,  307,  311. 

of  Berryhall,  John,  736. 

Hugo,  M.  (cure  of  Ceton),  766. 

Huide,  John  (farmer),  712. 

Humble  life,  good  blood  in,  6. 

Hume-Brown's   Early    Travellers   in   Scotland,   416, 

470  «.,  648  «.,  650  «.,  716  n.,  Sn  n. 

Scotland  before  1700,  357  ». 

Hume  Castle,  321. 
Hume,  David,  543. 

on  family  pride  temp.  James  VI.,  10. 

taste  for  pedigree,  4. 

of    Godscroft,    lines    by,    on    Anne    Maitland, 

Countess  of  Winton,  220. 

of  Huttonhall,  John,  340. 

of  Polwarth,  Patrick,  565. 

of  Renton,  767. 

■  of  Wedderburn,  257. 

Hume's  Commentaries,  5  78. 

Hungarian  origin  of  the  Drummonds,  709  n. 

Hunsdon,  Lord,  622. 

to  Burghley,  1S0,  1S2,  183. 

tp  Walsingham  (Scottish  pirates),  186. 

Hunter  of  Muirhouse,  Alexander,  345. 

of  Newton  of  Reres,  Robert,  317. 

of  Seaside,  James,  612. 

Margaret,  617. 

of  Thurston,  James,  615,  617. 

Robert,  166  ».,  1011-3. 

Sarah-Elizabeth,  615,  618. 

Huntingdon,    Earl   of,   to   Randolph    (Lord    Seton), 

186. 
Huntly  Line,  45,  52,  375459- 

1.  Elizabeth  de  Gordon,  376-8. 

2.  Alexander  de   Seton,   first   Earl  of  Huntly, 

335,  360,  378-85,  5°7- 
George,    second    Earl   of  Huntly,   335,    360, 

3S5-92,  512,514,  517. 
Alexander,    third    Earl    of    Huntly,    392-6, 

99S. 
John,  Lord  Gordon,  396-7. 
George,  fourth  Earl  of  Huntly,  160,  379-405, 

513,  520-1. 

—  fifth    Earl    of   Huntly,    167-S,    175-6, 
1S3,  405-8,  5S1. 

—  sixth     Earl     and     first     Marquis     of 
Huntly,  195,  336,  40S-24,  622,  639. 

—  second    Marquis     of    Huntly,      225, 
232,  424-31,  473,  659. 

Lewis,  third  Marquis  of  Huntly,  43 1 ,  666. 
George,     fourth     Marquis     of     Huntly    and 

first  Duke    of   Gordon,    432-6,    492,   527, 

666-7,  S33- 

12.  Alexander,    second    Duke   of  Gordon,   255, 

436-9-  493- 

13.  Cosmo-George,     third     Duke     of    Gordon, 

439-42- 

14.  Alexander,   fourth  Duke   of   Gordon,  442-4, 
629,  735,  1021-2. 

15.  George,     fifth    and   last    Duke    of    Gordon, 
444-9. 


3- 


5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 

9- 

10. 
11. 


6r 


1050 


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Huntly  Line — continued, 
Aboyne  Branch,  450-9. 

1.  Charles,  first  Earl  of  Aboyne,  451. 

2.  second  Earl  of  Aboyne,  452. 

3.  John,  third  Earl  of  Aboyne,  452-3. 

4.  Charles,  fourth  Earl  of  Aboyne,  453-4. 

5.  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Aboyne  (afterwards  ninth 

Marquis  of  Huntly),  455-7. 

6.  Charles,    sixth    Earl    of   Aboyne    and    tenth 

Marquis  of  Huntly,  375  «.,  457-9,  S33. 
Huntly  Arms  quartered,  537. 

country,  the,  549. 

and  Bothwell,  205. 

Castle  (olim  Strathbogie),  392,  416,  420,  422-3, 

S07. 

Earldom  of,  379. 

Earls  and  Marquises  of,  93. 

estates  restored,  432. 

family,  services  of  the,  433. 

house  of,  power  of  the,  401,  417-8. 

intermarriages,  35. 

Pedigree  in  the  British  Museum,  3S3-4. 

Hutton,  Laurence,  299. 

Hutton's  (General),  mss.  in  Advocates'  Library,  940. 

Hyltoun,  lands  of,  5S1. 

Hyndford,  John,  first  Earl  of,  684. 

Hynman-AUenby,  Captain  Samuel,  705. 


Idolatry,  damnable,  160. 

Idriaquez,    M.,    letter   to,    from  eighth   Lord    Seton, 

204. 
Ignatius,  Genuine  Epistles  ^/"(Robert  Calder),  993. 
//  Collegio  Romano,  766. 
Ilk,  of  that,  50. 
Images,  idolatrous,  658. 
Imagines  Majorum,  14. 
'  I  'm  eighty-two  as  well  as  you,'  443. 
Impaled  Arms  of  Hamilton  and  Seton,  201. 
Impeachment,  Lord  Winton's  Articles  of,  259. 
Impey,  Dr.  Elijah,  572. 
'  In  adversitate  patiens,'  etc.,  166. 
'  Incentiva '  (Set  on  !),  667  n. 
Inchaffray  Abbey,  397. 
Incharoth,  lands  of,  626. 
Inchkeith,  Captain  of,  137. 
'  Incumb.  et  temp.  Institut.,'  756. 
Independence,  Declaration  of,  308,  313. 

War  of,  725. 

Independent  judge,  an  (President  Seton),  640. 
India,  Political  State  of,  by  Alexander  Tytler,  555. 
Indian  Mutiny  campaign,  483-4. 
'  Information '  for^the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  250. 
Inglis,  Alexander  (servitor),  585. 

Helen,  711. 

■ James,  '  in  Edinburgh,'  709. 

of  Loganbank,  A.  W.,  566. 

Inescutcheon  in  Winton  Arms,  826. 
Inhibition,  letters  of,  712. 
Innernytie,  Perthshire,  222. 
Innes  of  that  ilk,  Alexander,  520. 

of  Drumgaisk,  Charles,  667. 

Cosmo,  66,  94,  842. 

of  Fynnarsye,  464-5. 

of  Leuchars,  464. 

Margaret,  wife  of  William  Gordon,  465. 

Inscription  at  Fyvie  Castle,  809. 

at  Niddrie  Castle,  missing,  804. 

at  Woodhouselee,  Latin,  552. 

Inscriptions  at  Pinkie,  Latin  and  Greek,  811,  819,  822. 


'  Intaminatis  fulget  honorilius,'  45. 

Intercepted  letter  of  Lord  Seton  to  Mary  Stuart,  193. 

Intermarriages  of  the  Setons,  34-S. 

between  Setons,  608  n, 

'  Inventar,'  Chancellor  Seton's,  654-5. 
Invented  'forebears,'  23. 
Inveresk  Church,  649. 
Inverness,  Castle  of,  392. 

defence  of  (1719),  530. 

■  Hereditary  Sheriff  of,  393. 

Inverness-shire,   Sheriff  of  (William   Fraser    Tytler), 

5S7- 
Inverqueich  Castle,  391. 
Inverspey,  Water  of,  636. 
Ireland,    Lord-Lieutenant    of    (thirteenth    Earl    of 

Eglinton),  696. 

troops  sent  to  (1608),  644. 

Ireland  profiting  by  Example,  by  Lord  Woodhouselee, 

554- 
Irelande's  (formerly  Wauchope's)  Regiment,  738. 
Irene,  Sister,  312. 
Irish  Rebellion  of  1641,  679. 

(1798),  446. 

Iron  Cross,  Order  of  the,  484. 
Irrowing  (Irving),  Richard,  490. 
Irvin,  Dr.  James,  275. 
Irvine  Academy,  691,  704. 

of  Beatty,  Patrick,  473. 

Charles,  ninth  Viscount  of,  440. 

of  Drum,  Alexander  (1411),  377. 

(c  1573).  465- 

(1643).  431- 

■  '  Bonnie  Peggie,  '451. 

Irvines  of  Drum,  44  «.,  54  ». 

the,  377  n. 

Irving,  Dr.  David,  556. 
Isles,  Lord  of  the,  382. 
Italian  letter  from  Alexander  Seton,  iSS. 

Setons,  76S-9. 

workmen  at  Pinkie,  821. 

Italians  and  Teutons  contrasted,  21. 
Ivy,  the  badge  of  the  Setons,  51. 


J 


ACKSON,  Mrs.  (Elizabeth  Seton),  618. 

of  Swordale,  Major  Randle,  612. 

■  of  Upwell,  etc.,  Edward-James,  612. 

'Jacob  Omnium'  (M.  J.  Higgins),  S36. 
Jacobite,  Lord  Macaulay's  Epitaph  on  a,  279. 

sympathy,  437. 

Jacobites,  The,  272  n. 

Jacobites,  Thomson's  Memoirs  of  the,  253. 

Jadart,  H.  (Rheims),  961,  965. 

James  1.,  97-8,  162,  290,  37S,  512,  517. 

murder  of,  378. 

release  of,  377. 

James  I.,  Poetical  Remains  of ,  551. 
James  11.,  357,  378-S0,  386,  394,  405. 
James  III.,  336,  392. 

abduction  of,  101. 

assassination  of,  38S,  392. 

James  IV.,   109,  III,  337-8,  392,  461-2,  546,  548  «., 

565,  710  n. 

and  the  Setons  of  Clatto,  955. 

and  David  Seton,  287. 

and  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  106. 

and  Flodden,  112. 

'  ane  familiar  servand '  of,  107. 

at  Sauchie,  388. 

at  Seton,  788. 


INDEX 


105 1 


James  v.,  117,  119-21,  127-8,  153  n.,  338-9,  368,  394, 

397-8,  463,  471,  5S6  n. 

at  Sorn  Castle,  956. 

confessor  of,  832. 

illegitimate  son  of,  734. 

James   VI.,    150  «.,    194,    216,    396,   406,  410,   416, 

624,  637-8,  664,  671-2,  678-9,  788,  S18  ».,  906. 

and  the  Court  of  Session,  640. 

and  the  Order  of  Baronets,  30. 

at  Seton,  224,  794. 

death  of,  649  «. 

deeds  signed  by,  728. 

expenses  of  292. 

his  favour  for  Robert,  eighth  Lord  Seton,  204. 

his  visit  to  Scotland  (1617),  647-8,  673. 

news  of,  from  Lord  Seton,  185. 

portrait  of,  731. 

■ ■  statue  of,  968. 

to  Henry  in.  of  France  (Lord  Seton's  embassage 

to  France),  189. 
to  his  mother  (Lord  Seton's  return  from  France), 

194. 

to  Woddryngton  (Sir  John  Seton),  187. 

to  Edinburgh  Town  Council,  96S. 

James  the  Sext,  Historie  and  Life  of,   171-2,    174-5? 

177,  291. 
James  VII.,  433,  476,  666. 

a  burgess  of  Stirling,  237. 

■ ingratitude  of,  669. 

ring  with  hair  of,  481. 

James  VII.  and  VIII.,  472. 
Jameson,  George,  portrait  by,  617. 

Margaret,  543. 

Jamieson,  Dr.,  "j6. 

Jamieson's  Scottish  Dictionary,  127,  136  «.,  913  n. 

'  Jammy  House,'  at  Seton,  791. 

Jansen,  Cornelius,  731* 

Jardine,  Sir  Robert,  613. 

'Javellour'  (jailer)  of  Edinburgh  Corporation,  156. 

Jedburgh,  James  VI.  at,  206. 

Forest,  71. 

'Jeddart  justice,'  263  n. 
Jeffrey,  Francis,  Lord,  302,  327  n. 
Jekyll,  Sir  Joseph,  on  Loyalty,  262. 
Jennings,  Elizabeth,  617. 

Thomas,  to  Mr.  Hacket,  176. 

Jeremiah  the  prophet,  607. 
Jericho,  the  builders  of,  643. 
Jerningham,  Hubert  (M.P.),  85. 

Hon.  Mr.,  703. 

Jerningham's  Siege  of  Berzaick,  85,  301. 

Jerusalem,  Sir  John  Seyton  at,  755. 

Jervise,  Andrew,  232  «.,  909,  971. 

Jervise's  Land  of  the  Lindsays,  570  n. ,  579  n.,  598  n. 

Jerviswoode,  lands  of,  405  n. 

Jessore,  332. 

'Jesuitism  and  Jacobitism,'  435. 

Jesuits,  the,  766. 

at  Rome,  Lord  Seton's  letter  to,  188. 

at  Seton,  188. 

College,  Rome,  634. 

■  Society  of,  737- 

Jesus,  Society  of,  643,  73S. 

Jevons,  Thomas,  311. 

Jewels,  Chancellor  Seton's,  654. 

etc.,  of  third  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  665. 

family,  525. 

Johns,  Mrs.  (nee  Seton),  30;. 
Johnson,  Dr.  Samuel,  550,  689-90. 

on  Lord  George  Gordon,  441  n. 

Johnston,  Arthur,  419,  650. 


Johnston,  Arthur,  Epitaphs  by,  471,  485  n. 

James,  of  Port  Seton,  277. 

of  that  ilk,  Sir  Adam,  98. 

of  Lochwood,  100. 

Johnston's  Scots  Heroes,  83. 

Johnstone  of  Elphinstone,  Sir  Samuel,  473,  486. 

Sir  Frederick,  703. 

of  Warriston,  524. 

Johnstoun  of  Commistoun,  James,  5S1. 

of  Elphingstoun,  Andrew,  122. 

Jones  of  Dollardstoun,  Henry-Shaw,  597. 

Inigo,  798  n. 

Jones's  Battle  of  Flodden  Field,  112  k. 

Jonson  (Ben),  on  ancestry,  1. 

Joplef,  Ingraham,  Lord,  63. 

Joseph  the  carpenter,  of  the  race  of  David,  6  «. 

Journals  and  note-books  of  Commander  George  Seton, 

609-10. 
Judgment,  the  Day  of,  910. 
Jus  imaginum  of  the  Romans,  21. 
Justiciary  of  Northern  Scotland,  387,  392. 
Juvenal  and  genealogy,  2. 
Juvenile  epistle  (seventeenth  Earl  of  Sutherland),  532. 


K, 


ABUL,  Amir  of,  332. 
Kafir  War,  500. 

Kaidisle  (Caddell  ?),  Robert,  125. 
Kaim,  William  (blacksmith),  720. 
Kames,  Lord,  554. 
Kandahar,  battle  of,  485. 
Karistoune,  heretrix  of,  579-80. 
Karr,  adoption  of  surname  of,  330-1. 

Arms,  334. 

Colonel  Andrew,  320-1. 

of  Kippilaw,  Katharine,  328. 

Kater,  Edward,  329. 

Kay's  Portraits  and  Caricatures,  439,  443-4. 

Keay,   James  and  Alexander,  writers  in  Edinburgh, 

735- 

Kebbel's  English  Country  Life,  18. 

Kebercurnig,  356. 

Keddie,  Miss  (Sarah  Tytler),  54S  n. 

Keir,  Laird  of  (170S),  344. 

Keith,  Alexander  (Chapleton),  485. 

Elizabeth,  37S,  383,  397. 

of  Aforsk,  James,  709. 

Jean,  378,  3S1,  3S3,  387. 

Major,  709. 

Robert,  98. 

■  de,  S05. 

Lord,  378. 

■  Sheriff,  589. 

William  (1481),  388. 

de,  70. 

Sir  William  (Berwick),  932-4. 

{c.  1350),  451. 

378. 

Keith-Marischal,  George  M.  Tytler  of,  561,  566  n. 

Arms  at,  561  n. 

Keith's  Regiment,  Colonel,  738. 

Kelburn,  James,  713. 

Kellie,  Alexander,  fifth  Earl  of,  720. 

Anna,  Countess  of,  730. 

fleur-de-lis  of,  713- 

Lord  (1769),  691. 

Margaret,  7 10-2. 

Thomas,  first  Earl  of,  650. 

William,  Senator  of  the  College  of  Justice,  711. 

W.S.,  711. 


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INDEX 


Kellie-MacCallum  of  Braco,  George,  559. 
Kelly,  Robert,  East  Lothian  mason,  278,  785. 

Forfarshire,  442. 

Kelly's  Scottish  Proverbs,  819  n. 
Kelso,  Abbey  of,  340. 

Abbot  of,  320. 

Kemback  parish,  614. 

Kemp,  George  M.,  architect,  565. 

Sir  Robert,  296. 

Kenmure,  Robert,  first  Viscount,  680. 

Viscount  (171 5),  255-9,  262,  26S-9. 

Viscounts,  376. 

'  Kenmure 's  on  and  awa','  269  n. 
Kennedy  of  Culzean,  Sir  Archibald,  6S7. 

of  Girvanmains,  Sir  Hugh,  518. 

James-Gilbert,  597. 

Jane,  170. 

John,  Lord,  94. 

second  Lord,  383. 

Dame  Katherine,  182. 

Lady  Margaret,  150  n. 

■ Susanna  (Countess  of  Eglinton),  677,  6SS-90. 

Kennedy-Erskine,  Hon.  John,  456. 
Kenneth,  king  of  Scotland,  90  n. 
Kennoway,  Bailie  of  (David  Seton),  593  «. 

Christopher  Seton  of,  276. 

communion  cups,  594  n. 

parish,  village,  and  church  of,  5S1,  590. 

Kensington  Academy,  552. 
Kentucky,  tall  family  in,  833  n. 
Kepdarroch,  merkland  of,  339. 
Ker  of  Liteldane,  David,  538. 

house  of,  320. 

Mark  (Commendator  of  Newbattle),  291  n.,  5S1. 

Robert,  first  Earl  of  Roxburgh,  150  n, 

Thomas,  writer  in  Edinburgh,  664. 

of  Yair,  320. 

Kers  of  Cessford,  320. 

Keraldus  and  Keraldistone,  579. 

Kerr,  Sir  Robert  (Earl  of  Ancram),  64S,  652. 

Kerr-Grant,  Sir  William,  457. 

Kerr's  History  of  Curling,  703  n. 

Kettle  (olim  Lathrisk),  314,  316,  318,  581,  60S,  955. 

Key  of  Cariston  charter-chest,  581. 

Kidd's  Social  Evolution,  7. 

Kilconquhar,  minister  of  (1596),  639. 

Kilcreuch,  Lord  (Alexander  Seton),  342,  357. 

Kildare,  Earls  of,  43  «. 

Kildrummie  Castle,  76,  930. 

Killiecrankie,  battle  of,  567,  666-7,  669. 

Killygrew  and  the  invasion  of  Scotland,  1S0. 

Kilmadock,  monumental  slab  at,  354. 

Kilmarnock,  trial  of  Lord,  531. 

Kilmaron,  lands  of,  315. 

Kilpatrick,  Rev.  James  and  Christian,  592-3- 

Kilsyth,  battle  of,  5SS. 

■  Dowager  of,  626. 

James,  first  Viscount  of,  626  n. 

second  Viscount  of,  681. 

Kilwinning,  bailliary  of,  691. 

barony  of,  678. 

burial  at,  681. 

lodge  of,  684. 

public  school,  704. 

Kincardine,  Alexander,  second  Earl  of,  661. 

third  Earl  of,  244. 

'  Kind  Mag.'  (Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie),  6S5. 
Kindly  tenants,  273  n. 

of  Seton,  1015. 

King,  Alexander,  623. 
■  Advocate,  490. 


King,  Captain,  on  Col.  Alexander  Seton  (Mounie),  504. 
'  King  Charles'  Room '  at  Winton,  796,  799,  800. 
King,  James  and  David,  464. 

William,  in  Baroche,  464. 

King's  College,  Aberdeen,  710  n. 
'  King's  Room'  at  Pinkie,  811,  S19. 
King's  Well,  956  n. 
Kinghorn,  590,  913. 

Alexander  Seton  killed  at,  S6. 

John,  second  Earl  of,  451. 

skirmish  at  (c.  1 560),  519. 

Kinglass,  lands  of,  294. 
Kinglidors,  914. 

ICings  of  Scotland  at  Seton,  early,  7S8. 
Kingsley's  Life  and  Letters,  504  n. 
Kingston  Branch,  714-32. 

1.  Alexander,  first  Viscount  Kingston,  232-3,  661, 

714-9,  729-30,  782. 

2.  Archibald,  second  Viscount  Kingston,  719,  729. 
2  (a).  James,  third  Viscount  Kingston,  719-20. 

Kingston,  Viscount,  '  information '  against,  250. 

next  heir  to  the  Winton  Earldom,  252. 

Viscounts,  361. 

heir  of  line  of  the,  724,  913. 

Viscounty,  creation  of,  715. 

Lord,  debts  due  by,  665. 

Anna,  Viscountess,  728,  730. 

Lord,  on  picture  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton, 

in  Seton  Palace,  173. 

Arms,  721. 

intermarriages,  38. 

■  male  line,  failure  of  the,  69S,  720,  739. 

Robert,  972  «.,  975. 

Kingston's  Continuation  of  the  House  of  Seyton,  46, 

50,   56,  624  n.,  625  n.,  634  «.,  641,  665  n.,  666, 

671.  674-5,  70S  ».,  710  ».,  733  "■>  737  «•,  741. 

791.  795.  809. 
Kingussie,  town  of,  381. 
Kinloss,  Abbot  of,  396. 
Kinmundy,  336. 
Kinnaird,  Patrick,  third  Lord,  452. 

Charles,  sixth  Lord,  452. 

Kinninmond,  Colonel  (Sweden),  764, 

Kinross,  170. 

Kintale,  Lady,  626. 

Kintessock,  Alexander  Gordon  of,  519- 

Kippendavie,  Laird  of  (1708),  344. 

Kippilaw,  Seton-Karrs  of,  320-34. 

1.  David  Seton,  321-2. 

2.  John  Seton,  322. 

3.  James  Seton  of  Belshes,  323. 

4.  Seton  of  Hillside,  324. 

5.  Seton,  324-7. 

3(2).  John  Seton  of  Slate  House,  327. 

4.  Daniel  Seton  of  Powderhall,  327-30. 

5.  John  Seton-Karr  of  Kippilaw,  330-1. 

6.  Andrew     Seton  -  Karr      of     Kippilaw, 

331-2- 

7.  Rev.    John     Seton-Karr    of    Kippilaw, 

332. 

8.  Henry  Seton-Karr  of  Kippilaw,  M.P., 

332-4- 

[Richard-Sommers  Seton,  R.A.,  325-7. 

Sir  Henry-Wilmot  Seton,  329. 

Hey  wood-Walter  Seton-Karr,  331. 

Walter-Scott  Seton-Karr,  331-2.] 
Kippilaw,  estate  of,  330. 
Kirk  of  Field,  102  «. 
Kirk's  command,  the,  410. 

Tour  in  Scotland  (1667),   433,  469,  650,   716, 

811  n. 


INDEX 


1053 


Kirkaldy  of  Grange,  Sir  William,  137,  150  n. 

betrayal  of,  407. 

and  Lord  Seton,  jar  between,  1S2-3. 

■ James,  119. 

Margaret,  14S,  150,  959,  961,  963,  965. 

Kirkcudbright,  Sir  John  Seton  at,  192. 
Kirkforthar,  916-8. 

chapel  and  house,  595  n. 

Lindsays  of,  550. 

Kirkliston,  lands  of,  153. 

teinds,  237  n. 

Kirkpatrick  (or  Kilpatrick),  ^Christian  (Lady  Clerk), 

592,  911. 
Kirkton,  Balfours  of,  577. 
Kirkwood,  John  of,  338. 

Knight,  a  youthful  (first  Viscount  Kingston),  714. 
Knights  and  Baronets  contrasted,  31  n. 

at  the  Eglinton  Tournament,  703. 

Hospitallers  of  St.  John,  756. 

or  Lairds,  the  ten  Seton,  64. 

Templars,  710  »•>  756. 

Knollys,  Sir  Francis,  on  Mary  Seton,  13S. 
Knowsley,  Aristotle,  645. 
Knox,  John,  1S0  n.,  400,  674  re. 

and  Cardinal  Beton,  120. 

and  Lady  Margaret  Gordon,  404. 

on  Queen  Mary's  return  from  France,  132. 

Koecher,  J.  M.,  612. 
Kylesmure,  Setons  of,  671-5. 

I.  Sir  William  Seton,  first  of  Kylesmure,   201, 
216,  625,  646,  650,  654,  671-4,  677,  710. 

2. second  of  Kylesmure,  674-5. 

Kylesmure  Arms,  675. 

intermarriages,  37. 

lordship  of,  ;86,  623. 

Kyll,  David  (Haddington),  544. 
Kynedward,  lands  of,  102  re. 
Kynynmond,  Cecilia,  587-9. 

family,  5S7-8. 

of  that  ilk,  David,  587. 

Kynynmonth,  Jean,  294. 

.Labanoff,  Prince,  299. 

Labanoff's  Letters  of  Mary  Stuart,  145  ».,  173,  17S-9, 

184-5. 
Labour,  Monsignor  Seton  on  The  Dignity  of,  6  n. 
Lace-merchant  in  Edinburgh,  327. 
La  Fleche  College,  7T4- 
Lageneau  on  family  decay,  8. 
Laing,  Dr.  David,  556,  769,  797,  1021. 

Henry,  618. 

Catalogues  of  Charter  Seals,  67,  69,  72,  82  re.,  95, 

286  re.,  293,  485  ».,  809  re. 
Laing's  (Alexander)  Lindores  Abbey,  288  re. 
Lairds  or  knights,  the  ten  Seton,  64. 
Lalethen,  Alexander  Seton  of,  590. 
Lamb,  Mr.  (afterwards  Sir)  Charles-Montolieu,  696, 

703- 
Lambe,  Rev.  Robert  (Norham),  543. 
Lamington's  Days  of  the  Dandies,  Lord,  701. 
Lammie,  Andrew,  810. 
Lamont,  John,  surgeon,  598. 

Christopher  (Newton),  598. 

of  Newton,  591. 

Lamont's  Diary,  5S6  «.,  598  «.,  684  re. 
'  Lamp  of  Lothian,'  544,  7S6  n. 
Landor  on  good  birth,  14  n. 
Lanercost,  Chronicle  of,  931-2. 
Langflat,  lands  of,  316. 
Langlands  of  Borrowstouness,  John,  359. 


Langniddrie,  213. 

Langside,  battle  of,  172,  202,  406,  731,  820. 

Langtoft's  reference  to  the  battle  of  Methven,  75. 

Laricie,  Ambrosio,  206. 

Lascelles,  Erminia,  60. 

Mr.  (the  '  Magdalen  Giant'),  836. 

Lathrisk,  Setons  of,  286,  314-9. 

1.  John  Seton,  316-7. 

2.  Seton  of  Lathrisk,  317. 

3.  Seton  of  Lathrisk,  317. 

4.  George  Seton  (younger)  of  Lathrisk,  31S. 

5.  John  Seton  of  Lathrisk,  318. 

6.  Patrick  Seton  of  Lathrisk,  318. 

7.  John  Seton,  fiar  of  Lathrisk,  318-9. 

8.  Seton  of  Lathrisk,  319. 

Lathrisk,  Alexander  Seton  of  (1622),  650. 
Jonet,  314,  316. 

Laird  of,  636. 

Arms  of,  319. 

house,  314. 

parish  of,  5S0-I. 

Wester,  315,  317. 

Latimer,  Lord  William,  77- 
Latin  blazon  of  Seton  Arms,  829. 

histories  of  the  Gordons,  412  n. 

inscription  at  Seton  Palace,  792. 

■  oration,  juvenile,  714. 

pedigree  of  Seton  family,  104. 

Latitude  and  longitude  calculations,  610. 
Laudationes  of  the  Romans,  25. 
Lauder  Arms  on  tankard,  492. 

Bailie,  720. 

of  Fountainhall,  Sir  John,  476. 

Henry,  Queen's  Advocate,  122. 

Margaret,  portrait  of  (Pitmedden),  483. 

of  Pitscandly,  George,  590  n. 

of  Poppill,  94. 

Sir  Thomas  Dick,  133. 

William,  Clerk  of  Session,  476. 

Lauderdale,  Duke  of,  42;?.,  45, 15012.,  237, 486, 649-50. 

monument  at  Haddington,  219-20. 

John,  first  Earl  of,  218,  650. 

second  Earl  of  (afterwards  Duke),  344,  359, 

432,  660-1,  716. 

fifth  Earl  of,  529. 

Papers  (Brit.   Mus.),  432,  586  re.,  621,  660-2  re., 

665,  682  11.,  716-7. 
Laurenson  of  Seton,  John,  756. 
Law  Arms,  601  re. 

James,  Archbishop  of  Glasgow,  647. 

of  Brunton,  James,  600. 

Margaret,  617. 

Law's  Memorials,  681,  686. 
'  Lawborros,'  process  of,  539. 
Lawford,  Ernest  B.  A.,  705. 
Lawrence,  Lord,  332. 
Lawson  of  Cariston,  581. 

Richard,  2S7-8. 

Sir  Wilfrid,  on  Modern  Peerages,  30. 

Sir  William,  2S7  n. 

League  between  Scotland  and  France,   188-91,  204, 

642. 
Learnie,  near  Kincardine  O'Neil,  548-9. 
Le-Champion,  Lieut. -Col.  Mollerus,  837. 
Lechmere,  Mr.,  703. 
Lecke,  Admiral  Sir  H.,  485. 
Lecky's  England  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,  440. 
Lee,  Colonel  George-Arthur,  572. 

Principal  John,  556,  737,  762. 

(Sleigh),  Mally,  198. 

Lees'  (Dr.  Cameron),  Abbey  of  Paisley,  202  re. 


1054 


INDEX 


Legend,  a  fabulous,  3S0. 

Legends  and  devices  in  Pinkie  gallery,  816-9. 

Legge,  Lady  Katherine,  543. 

Legitimacy  of  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  252. 

Legitimation,  letters  of,  107,  465-6. 

Leicester,  President  Seton  at,  641. 

to  Walsingham  (1575),  183. 

Leirmonth  in  Aberleddie,  Patrick  and  Adam,  539. 
Leith  of  Barns,  George,  462. 

Colonel,  629. 

Leland's  Collections,  76,  934  re. 
Lennox  family,  416. 

House  of,  678  re. 

Lieutenant-Colonel,  455. 

Regent,  406. 

Esme,  first  Duke  of,  187,  410,  424. 

Ludovick,  second  Duke  of,  522,  646,  906,  909. 

James,  fourth  Duke  of  (1641),  225. 

John,  first  Earl  of,  99,  783. 

third  Earl  of,  520. 

Matthew,  fourth  Earl  of,  177. 

Earls  of,  273  re. 

Lennox-Love,  olim  Lethington,  109. 

Leny  muniments,  353. 

Lesley's  History  of  Scotland,  656. 

Leslie,  Alexander,  merchant  in  Glasgow,  480. 

of  Balquhain,  550. 

of  Balquhane,  John,  465. 

of  Findrassie,  Robert,  507. 

General  Alexander,  725. 

Grizel  (Countess  of  Dunfermline),  632,  65l».,So9. 

Lady  Helen  (Lady  Parbroath),  291. 

of  Iden,  Sir  Patrick,  549. 

James,  Solicitor,  25S. 

of  Myres,  General  John,  31S. 

of  Pitcaple,  418. 

of  Rothes,  Norman,  98. 

of  Tarbert,  Sir  Edward,  454. 

of  Tochar,  John,  495. 

of  Wardis,  Alexander,  462. 

of  Warthill,  Alexander,  494-5. 

James,  495. 

William,  merchant  in  Aberdeen,  549. 

and  Seton  scuffle,  618. 

Leslies,  the,  377  n. 
Leslie's  History  of  Scotland,  131. 
Lesmahagow,  church  of,  824. 
Lethington,  Lady,  185. 

Laird  of,  177,  180. 

now  Lennox-Love,  109. 

Letter,  touching  (Cariston),  615. 

to  the  Laird  of  Drumelzier  (family  heirlooms),  727. 

Letters  and  Letter-  Writers,  Gossip  about,  67S  n. 
Letters  of  the  Seton  family,  676-8,  906-18. 

of  the  Sutherland  family,  516-7. 

LETTERFOURIE  family  (Seton-Gordon),  513-5. 

1.  Hon.    Sir    Robert    Gordon   of   Gordonstoun, 

first  Baronet,  513,  517,  518,  522. 

2.  Sir  Ludovick  Gordon,  second  Baronet,  513. 

3.  Sir  Robert  Gordon,  third  Baronet,  513. 
4. fourth  Baronet,  514. 

5. fifth  Baronet,  514. 

6.  Sir  William  Gordon,  sixth  Baronet,  514. 

7.  Sir  James  Gordon,  seventh  Baronet,  512,  514. 

8.  Sir  William  Gordon,  eighth  Baronet,  515. 

9.  Sir  Robert  Glendonwyn  Gordon,  ninth  Baronet, 

515- 

Letterfourie  Arms,  515. 

intermarriages,  37. 

James  Gordon  of,  391. 

Leuchard,  357-S. 


Leven,  614. 

Christopher  Seton  of,  913. 

Earl  of,  591. 

General,  524. 

Lodge,  Edinburgh,  533. 

Margaret,  Countess  of,  683. 

Leveson-Gower,   George   G.   (Marquis  of   Stafford), 

534-5- 
Levi,  Elias,  453. 
Levi  (de)  family,  3,  43  re. 

Levington,  Thomas,  letter  to  Mary  Stuart,  204. 
Levingtoun  of  Salt-cottis,  780. 
Lewis  XI.  of  France,  97. 
Lewis,  Lady  Theresa,  301  re. 
Lexington,  The  Pride  of,  by  William  Seton,  311. 
Leyden  the  poet,  566. 

fourth  Earl  of  Winton  at,  246. 

Library,  Chancellor  Seton's,  655. 

Licence  for  absence  to  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton,  in. 

royal,  to  go  abroad,  235,  523. 

Liddell,  Rev.  Edward,  558. 

Lieutenant  of  Northern  Scotland,  3S8,  397-S. 

Ligertwood  of  Tillery,  James,  479. 

Lilies  of  France  (Fleurs-de-lis),  824. 

Lindesay  of  Feddinch,  William,  612. 

James,  treasurer  of  Edinburgh  Council,  157. 

of  Pyetstoun,  David,  582. 

Lindsay  of  Annatland,  Sir  Jerome,  64S. 

■ ■  of  Balcarres,  Lord,  651. 

of  Byres,  John,  first  Lord,  103,  2S9. 

David,  second  Lord,  3SS. 

John,  tenth  Lord  (first  Earl  of  Lindsay),  297. 

of  Kirkforthar,  David,  599. 

■ George,  601,  607. 

John,  594. 

Patrick,  288. 

of  the  Mount,  Sir  David,  734. 

his  armorial  register,  294,  536-7,  S30. 

■ Sir  David  (No.  2),  413  n. 

of  Pitscandly,  590. 

of  Plewlands,  George,  550,  567. 

of  Wormeston,  Elizabeth,  594. 

Lindsay,  Captain  David,  917  ». 

Mr.  David,  212. 

■ ■  Dame  Christian,  105. 

Isabella,  monument  of,  590. 

Sir  James,  805. 

Janet  (servant  of  Mary  Seton),  139. 

John  (Parson  of  Menmuir),  637. 

Lord  [c.  1571),  177. 

Secretary,  45. 

Lindsay  and  Pitcairn  Arms,  595  re. 

and  Seton  intermarriages,  38,  40. 

Lindsays,  Lives  of  the,  Lord  Crawford's,  38. 

Lindsay's  escape  from  Tantallon,  194. 

Lindsays,  the,  379,  388. 

Lincoln,  Earl  of  (Lacy),  66. 

Lines   on  Susanna  Kennedy,  Countess  of  Eglinton, 

689. 

the  surname  of  Seton,  978. 

Linguistic  and  other  attainments  of  Colonel  Alexander 

Seton  and  his  brother  David,  504-5. 
Linlithgow,  minister  of  (Alexander  Seton),  35S. 

Alexander,  first  Earl  of,  6S0. 

second  Earl  of,  424. 

James,  fifth  Earl  of,  731. 

Palace,  368,  802. 

Linlithgowshire,  Heritable  Sheriff  of,  359. 


INDEX 


1055 


Lion  of  Scotland,  S24. 
Liston  of  Langton,  Patrick,  369. 
Little-Gilmour,  family  of,  592  n. 
Littleton,  lands  of,  394. 
Livet,  stream  of,  412. 
Livingston,  Elizabeth,  3S2. 

James  (fourth  Earl  of  Calendar  ?),  245. 

Mary,  130-2,  136,  167. 

Livingstone,  Anna,  Countess  of  Eglinton,  677. 

■ James,  337. 

■  of  Salcoals,  John,  107. 

Katharine,  353. 

-Lord(i56S),  171. 

Mary  and  Magdalene,  142  «. 

Mr.  Matthew,  998. 

of  Darnchester,  Sir  William,  626  «.,  627. 

Livingstones,  the,  378. 

Livingstoun,  Alexander,  complaint  by  (1669),  660. 

Livistone,  George,  monument  of,  780. 

Livres  Tournois,  148  n. ,  959  et  seq.,  983  et  seq. 

Loch,  Emma- Elizabeth,  362. 

James,  535. 

Lochaber  rebels,  3S7. 
Lochdoon  Castle,  76. 
Lochgellie,  Easter,  58S. 
Lochleven,  Queen  Mary  at,  137. 

Queen  Mary's  escape  from,  170-1,  731. 

Lochmaben,  kindly  tenants  of,  273  n. 

Lochnoreis,  Laird  of,  177. 

Lochore  Castle,  76. 

Locker,  Frederick,  lines  by,  652. 

Locker's  Patchwork  quoted,  31  n. 

Locket,  enamelled  (Martha  Seton),  632. 

Lockhart  of  Carnwath,  George,  452-3,  687. 

Lockhart-Ross,  Rev.  John,  348. 

Locks  and  doors,  'masterfull  breaking  up  of,'  1 66. 

Lockshy  Hall  Sixty  Years  Ago,  7. 

Logan,  Robert,  younger  of  Restalrig,  118. 

of  Restalrig,  Sir  Robert,  126. 

Logan-Home  of  Edrom,  Colonel,  596. 

George-Ninian,  597. 

Logarithms,  the  inventor  of,  648. 
Logie-Buchan,  parish  of,  472. 
Logy,  Prebendar  of  (Robert  Seton),  340. 
Lomonds,  keeper  of  the,  292. 
London  in  1654,  a  visit  to,  526. 

Lord  Mayor  of  (1769),  506. 

London  Chronicle  (1792),  606. 

Londonderry,  Marquis  of  (Eglinton  Tournament),  703. 

Longniddry,  lands  of,  173,  222,  1009  et  seq. 

Longville,  John,  755- 

Lonsdale,  Hugh  C,  fifth  Earl  of,  458. 

MS.  of  the  Earl  of,  416. 

Lorraine,  Cardinal  of,  129,  172. 

Charles,  Duke  of,  194. 

Mary  of  (Queen  Dowager),  156,  160,  162-3,  36S, 

519- 

'servitrice'  of,  123,  133. 

Princess  of,  and  James  VI.,  191. 

Madame  Renee  of,  132,  148. 

Lothian,  first  Earl  of,  291  n. 

Earl  of  (1651),  715-6. 

Schomberg-Henry,  ninth  Marquis  of,  64S. 

Militia,  773. 

Loudon,  James,  second  Earl  of,  684. 

Lord  (1640),  659. 

Louis  IX.,  165  n. 

xiii.,  148  n.,  416,  583  ».,  765-6. 

xvi.,  535,  763. 

Coronation  of,  579. 

Louisiana,  Edward-Augustus  Seton  of,  305. 


Lounger,  The,  554. 

Lounger's  Common  Place  Book,  692  n. 

Lovat,  House  of,  553. 

Hugh,  eighth  Lord,  525. 

Lovell,  George,  burgess  of  Dundee,  166. 

'  Lovely  and  pleasant  in  their  lives,'  etc.,  533. 

Louvain  in  Flanders,  519. 

Louvre,  Dr.  William  Seton  at  the,  766. 

Lowrie,  Captain,  609. 

Loyalty  of  George,  first  Marquis  of  Huntly,  409. 

of  the  Setons,  44,  46,  90,  165,  248,  265,  375, 

791. 

of  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  260,  265. 

plea  of,  5S6  n. 

questioned,  5'7- 

'  Loyalty,  The  Pourtrait  of  True,'  433-4. 
Loyseau's  Traictt  des  Seignevries,  655. 
Lucknow,  relief  of,  484. 
Luddington  (Lethington),  Lady,  144. 
Lumisdaine  of  Cusny,  John,  464. 
Lumphard,  John  Seton  of,  463,  4S9,  490. 
Lumsden,  Andrew,  275. 

of  Airdrie,  Thomas,  290-1. 

of  Cushnie,  Henry,  480. 

Lundin  of  Auchtermairnie,  Captain,  91S. 

James,  59 1- 

Richard,  612. 

Lundy  of  Balgony,  Robert,  587. 
'  Lydford  Law,'  264  n. 
Lye,  Captain  W.  J.,  612. 
Lyle,  James,  Lord,  339. 

John,  Lord,  94. 

Robert,  Lord,  103. 

Mrs.  (ne'e  Seton),  305. 

Lymington,  John,  Viscount,  453. 

Lyon  Depute  (James  Tytler,  W.S.),  562. 

King  of  Arms,  creation  of  a,  648. 

Office  MS.,  675. 

Registers  of  Arms,  830-1. 

IVI'Call,  Margaret,  368. 

Macalpine,  Rev.  William-Henry,  595- 

M'Carthy,  Justin,  on  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  267. 

Macaulay ,  594. 

Lord,  his  '  Epitaph  on  a  Jacobite,  '279. 

on  James  VII.,  669. 

on  battle  of  Killiecrankie,  667. 

Maccunn's  Ethics  of  Citizenship,  13  n. 

M'Calzeane,  Thomas,  157. 

M'Clear,  Margaret,  1006-7,  1009. 

M'Cleish  of  Maryfield,  Dr.,  278. 

M'Culloch,  Ebenezer  (Whitefoord  House),  197. 

M'Diarmid's  Picture  of  Dumfries,  78. 

Macdonald  of  that  ilk,  Sir  Alexander,  6SS. 

Flora,  6S8. 

of  Kingsburgh,  688. 

of  Staffa,  Reginald,  347,  349. 

M'Dougall,  Colin,  482. 

M'Dowall's  History  of  Dumfries,  78,  940. 

Macduff,  Thane  of  Fife,  600  n. 

Macfarlane's  MS.,  Genealogical  Collections,  140  n. 

Macgibbon  and  Ross'sScottish  Architecture,  354,  423-4, 

624  «.,  726,  734  n.,  771  «.,  793,   796,  799,  805  n., 

806-8,  812  n.,  822,  979. 
M'Gill,  James,  315. 
M'Inroy  of  Lude,  Mrs.,  594  n. 
Mackay  of  Eriboll,  Donald,  530. 

General,  666,  668. 

of  Farr,  Hugh,  521. 

of  Strathnaver,  518. 


1056 


INDEX 


Mackeye's  regiment,  764. 

Macky,  Y.,  521. 

blacky's  foumey  through  Scotland,  199  «.,  788. 

Memoirs  (1733),  668,  833. 

(George,  first  Duke  of  Gordon),  434. 

( fifth  Earl  of  Winton),  267. 

(William,   sixteenth   Earl  of  Sutherland), 

S32- 
Mackenzie,    Alexander,    W.S.,    and   York    Buildings 

Company,  792-3,  1010  et  seq. 

Lady  Anna,  651. 

Memoir  of  Lady  Anna,  Lord  Crawford's,  44. 

Sir  George,  9,  824-5.  „ 

(Account  of  Scottish  Families'),  219  n.,  228 

».,  246  n.,  668,  709  ».,  716. 

Science  of  Heraldry,  486  «.,  624  n. 

Henry  ('Man  of  Feeling'),  552-3,  556. 

of  Kintail,  Kenneth,  638. 

Mackenzie's     Lives   of    Scottish    Writers,    200    «., 

7S0. 
M'Kie,  William,  671. 
M'Killop,  Captain,  R.N.,  759. 
Mackintosh  of  Bordlim,  259. 

Brigadier,  255-6. 

Hector,  397. 

Sir  James,  55^- 

Robert,  Advocate,  1017. 

M'Intosh,  Laird  of,  530. 

Macivar,  Miss  Anne  (Mrs.  Grant),  446. 

Mackreth,  Margaret,  507. 

Macleod,  Rev.  Walter,  66  n. 

Macleods,  lofty  stature  of  the,  S35. 

Macnab,  Laird  of,  3. 

M'Nab,  a  'disciple  of  Judas,'  76. 

M'Nair,  Robert,  291. 

M'Neill's  History  of  Tranent,  81  «.,  1015. 

Macqueen   of    Braxfield,    Robert-Dundas,    695,   975, 

977-8. 
Mactaggart,  William,  612. 
Madras  Fusiliers,  first,  483-4. 

Madras,    letter    from    (Commander    George    Seton), 
917-8. 

squall  off,  614. 

Madrid,  residence  at  (first  Viscount  Kingston),  714. 

Scottish  Seminary  at  (John  Seton),  767. 

Maestricht,  siege  of,  432. 

'  Maga'  on  the  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  701. 

Magdalen  Giant,  the,  836. 

Magna:  Nobilitatis  Domini,  44. 

Magus  Muir,  590. 

Mahralta  War,  346. 

'  Maiden,  the,'  429. 

Maidment's  Liber   Conventus  S.  /Catherine  Senensis, 

115. 
Maidwell,  county  Rutland,  754-6. 

Church,  Arms  at,  755  n. 

Setons,  pedigree  of,  755. 

Mails  and  Duties,  1S2,  582. 
Makgill  of  Rankeillor,  James,  822. 
Main  Line  of  the  Family,  57-2S0. 

I.  The  Ten  Lairds  or  Knights,  64-88. 

1.  Dougall  de  Seton,  65,  351. 

2.  Seher  de  Seton,  65-7. 

3.  Philip  de  Seton,  68-9. 

4.  Alexander  de  Seton,  69. 

5.  Bartine  (or  Bertrand)  de  Seton,  70. 

6.  Adam  (Seher  or  Serlo)  de  Seton,  70. 

7.  Christell  (or  Alexander)  de  Seton,  71. 

8.  Sir  Christopher  Seton,  71-80,  351. 

9.  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  Sl-6,  298. 
10.  Alexander  Seton,  87-8. 


Main  Line  of  the  Family — continued. 
II.  The  Seven  Barons,  89-202. 

11.  William,    first    Lord    Seton,    90-7,    100, 

772,  7S0,  786  n.,  827,  832. 

12.  John,  second  Lord  Seton,  97-8,  765. 

13.  William,  Master  of  Seton,  98-9. 

14.  George,  third  Lord  Seton,  99,  100-3,  773, 

786  n.,  826-7,  832. 

15.  John,  Master  of  Seton,  103. 

16.  George,  fourth   Lord  Seton,  103-10,  617- 

8,  765.  772,  774-5,  78o,  7S4.  795, 
826. 

17.  George,  fifth  Lord  Seton,  93,  m-6,  773, 

780,  790-1,  803,  827,  828. 

18.  George,  sixth   Lord    Seton,   61,    104  »., 

117-29,   151,  520,  579,  582,  618,645, 

773,  779  «• 

[Mary   Seton,    121-2,    125,    127,   130-51, 
167,  170,615,952-3. 

and  golf,  168  «. 

her  contemplated  marriage,  49. 

letters  of,  147-50. 

mother  of,  765. 

signature  of,  147,  961. 

Will  of,  147-8,  958.] 

19.  George,   seventh  Lord  Seton,  75  n.,  93, 

124,  126,  142,  152-202,  350,  579-80, 
582,  5S4,  586,  621,  623,  624  «.,  634-5, 
638,  645,  656,  671,  730-1,  765,  775, 
780,  785,  78S,  790-1,  793,  S03,  807, 
817,828,  837,  906,  956. 
III.  The  Five  Earls,  203-80. 

20.  Robert,  eighth  Lord  Seton  and  first  Earl 

of  Winton,  67,  184,  203-1S,  491,  525, 
5S4,  589,  617-8,  623,  634,  671,  678, 
708,  711,  730,  779,  794,  826-8,  972. 

21.  Robert,  ninth  Lord  Seton  and  second  Earl 

of  Winton,  215,  218-21. 

22.  George,  tenth  Lord  Seton  and  third  Earl 

of  Winton,  61,  127-8,  215  «.,  218, 
222-32,  415,  485  «.,  588-9,  617,  632, 
64S-50,  654,  659,  673,  710,  714,  729, 
73i,  733,  74i,  767,  774,  783,  797,  Soo, 
S26,  909,  100S. 

23.  George,  Lord  Seton  (ob.  vit.  patris),  226, 

232-3. 

24.  George,  eleventh  Lord  Seton  and  fourth 

Earl  of  Winton,  233-50,  430,  599,  665, 
684,  729-30,  S26,  829,  98S,  990,  999, 
1000,  1007. 

25.  George,    twelfth    Lord    Seton    and   fifth 

Earl  of  Winton,  69,  250-80,  492,  628, 
686,  726,  729-30,  734,  739,  773,  7S7"-, 
789,  791,  S26,  833,  S37,  913,  993, 
1005-6,  1009. 

Maineville,  Monsieur  de,  194. 

Mainwarings,  lofty  stature  of  the,  S35. 

Maitland,  Mrs.  Anna,  215. 

Hon.  Anne,  Countess  of  Winton,  218. 

her  monument  at  Haddington,  220. 

Arms  on  bedstead,  492. 

of  Baltimore,  M.,  305. 

.  Chancellor,  45,  637,  650. 

. Club,  24. 

. of  Gight,  Sir  Patrick,  391. 

James,    letter    of,    relative    to    Mary    Seton, 

148-9. 

. Sir  John  (Lord  Thirlstane),  148. 

Sir  Richard,  38,  56,  72,  78,  83,   86,    123,  155, 

582. 

Maitland's  House  of  Seytoun,  passim. 


INDEX 


io57 


Maitland,  Sir  Richard,  his  Dedication  of  the  House  of 

Seytoun,  153-4. 

■ his  faithful  record,  107. 

on  Loyalty,  46. 

of  Lethington,  Robert  (?),  157. 

William  (ob.  1513),  108.  « 

Secretary,  136,  148,  176,  195,  401. 

'  Maitland  of  Lethington,'  Skelton's,  400-1. 
Maitland  and  Seton  intermarriages,  38,  42. 
Maitland's  History  of  Edinburgh,  434. 
Major's  History  of  Greater  Britain,  83. 
Mak,  George,  writer,  622. 
Malacca  cane  (Pitmedden),  482. 
Malantic,  French  privateer,  302. 
Malar,  Mains  of,  31S. 
Malbone,  miniature  by,  306. 
Malcolm  of  Balbedie,  Michael,  595. 

Canmore,  57,  65. 

Male  and  female  descent,  5- 

representatives  of  great  men,  rarity  of,  5. 

Malice,  slaughter  of  William,  340. 

Mallorie,  Thomas,  755. 

Malmesbury's  Memoirs,  Lord,  699,  809  n. 

Malmy,  M.  de,  762. 

Mamore,  lands  of,  392. 

Man  of  Feeling,  The,  552. 

Man,  Isle  of,  Sir  John  Seton  at,  192. 

Arms  of  Isle  of,  90  ». 

'  Man  of  arms '  (Robert  Seton),  108. 

(William  Seton),  108. 

Manchester,  William,  Duke  of,  444. 

Manie,  Sir  Henry,  332. 

Manly,  Edmond,  77. 

Manrent,  bonds  of,  336,  3S1,  41S  n. 

Mansfield,  Lord,  441,  598  n. 

Mantelpiece  at  Duns  Cnstle,  modern,  731. 

Mantlings,  heraldic,  250  n. 

Manuscript   copy   of   House    of  Seytoun  at   Pinkie, 

819  n. 
Manzeville,  French  ambassador,  196. 
Maple,  Sir  John  Blundell,  M.P.,  134. 
Mar,  Graitney,  Earl  of,  72. 

Thomas  Erskine,  second  Earl  of,  337,  380. 

John,  fifth  Earl  of,  340. 

sixth  Earl  of,  180. 

seventh  Earl  of,  189,  191,  342,  641-2. 

and  Countess  of  (1622),  649. 

eleventh  Earl  of,  256,  269,  436. 

(illegitimate  son  of  'Wolf  of  Badenoch'), 

377- 

and  Moray  Earldoms  (1562),  399. 

March,  Arms  of,  90  n. 

Countess  of  (Christian  Seton),  90. 

Patrick  (seventh  and  ninth?),  Earls  of,  71,  81. 

ninth  Earl  of,  933-4. 

George,  tenth  Earl  of,  3S-9,  52,  90,  97-S. 

■  Earldom  of,  39  n. 

Earls  of,  375. 

Marches,  Earl  of  the,  83. 
Margaret  of  Scotland  (1436),  378. 

-Queen  (1 519),  394- 

Marion,  foundering  of  the  ship,  302. 

Marischal  College,  Lord  Rector  of  (thirteenth  Earl  of 

Eglinton),  696. 
Countess  (Lady  Elizabeth  Seton),  227,  228  «., 

632. 

William,  first  Earl,  98. 

second  Earl  of,  391. 

fourth  Earl,  402. 

seventh  Earl,  227. 

Earls,  70. 


Marjoribanks,  Campbell,  329. 

of  that  ilk,  Thomas,  599. 

Markinch  manse,  603  «. 

parish,  581. 

Markle  (Miracle),  733. 

Marlborough,  Duke  of,  476. 

Marley,  Miles,  595. 

Alarqztis  Wellesley,  the  ship,  610. 

Marquisate  conferred  on  Huntly,  413. 

Marriage,  casualty  of,  952  n. 

contract  of  George,  sixth  Lord  Seton,  121. 

Marriages,  early,  of  Seton  family,  63. 

Marryat's  One  Year  in  Sweden,  369-70,  588  «. 

Marryatt'sy"a//;rf  in  Search  of  a  Father,  595  n. 

Marshall,  Captain  Robert-Seton,  324. 

■  Rev.  William  F.,  313. 

Marshall's  International  Vanities,  824  n.,  S26  n, 

Marston  Moor,  battle  of,  679,  681. 

Martial  Law,  Lord  Woodhouselee's  work  on,  554. 

Martin  of  Clermont,  5SS. 

Margaret,  549. 

Martin's  Western  Isles,  827  //. 

Martinsthorp,  756. 

Marie  Antoinette,  libel  on,  441. 

'  Marie  Huntlye,'  432. 

'Maries,  The  Four,'  130-3,  136-8. 

Jamieson's  definition  of,  136  n. 

Alary  and  Florence  (Anne  Tytler),  557. 

Mary  of  Lorraine,  126. 

Queen  of  Scots,  203,  505  «.,  521,  547-9,  656,  775, 

780-1,    788-9,    790-1,    793,   82S,   837,   952-5,  960, 
964. 

a  lover  of,  403. 

and    George,    seventh    Lord    Seton,    their 

marvellous  rapport,  191. 

correspondence  with,  172-93. 

her  opinion  of,  178-9. 

and  Huntly,  400. 

and  Mary  Seton's  love-affair,  141-3. 

at  Niddrie  Castle,  S04. 

at  St.  Germain,  163. 

birthplace  of,  368. 

deeds  signed  by,  728. 

described,  131  n.,  169  n. 

her  first  marriage,  157. 

inventories  of,  130. 

mass  for  the  repose  of  the  soul  of,  148. 

miserable  condition  of,  at  Sheffield,  185. 

portraits  of,  29S-9,  566. 

to  Queen  Elizabeth,  165,  167. 

■ watch   and   solitaire   of  (Woodhouselee), 

566-7. 

William  Tytler's  Works  on,  550-1. 

Mary-Stuart  Seton,  617-8. 

Masonic  Lodge  at  Rome  (1735),  274-5. 

Mass,  Funeral  of  the,  Dedication  of,  115. 

Mass,  trial  for  hearing,  129. 

Massie  (Mary  Stuart's  attendant),  567. 

Masson,  Professor,  on  Chancellor  Seton's  administra- 
tion, 656. 

Masson's  Drjimmond  of  Hawthornden,  210,  658  n. 

'  Master'  of  Gordon,  377. 

of  Kingston,  719. 

title  of,  377. 

and  '  Miss  '  as  used  in  Scotland,  220  n. 

Maternal  appeal,  touching,  917. 

Matrimonial  advice  (tenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  691. 

■  indenture,  108  n. 

Matrix  of  monumental  brass  at  Seton  church,  96. 

Matthew  of  Westminster,  74,  76. 

Matthew's  History  of  St.  Ives,  596  n. 


6s 


1058 


INDEX 


Mauduit,  William,  754-5. 

Maule  family,  90-1. 

of  Glaster,  Marion  and  William,  357. 

of  Panmure,  367. 

William,  91. 

Patrick,  971. 

Thomas  de,  91. 

Mauvissiere,  192-3. 

Maynard,  Hon.  Charles,  703. 

Mayo,  Lord,  332. 

'  May  this  night  be  devoted,'  etc.,  442. 

Maxwell  of  Caerlaverock,  Herbert,  Lord,  99. 

of  Calderwood,  Sir  James,  321. 

Sir  William,  514. 

of  Monreith,  Sir  Alexander  (1711),  687. 

Sir  William,  443. 

of  Pollock,  Sir  John  (1769),  692. 

of  Preston,  William,  533. 

■  Hon.  Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Winton,  226. 

Jane  (Duchess  of  Gordon),  443-4. 

John,  Lord,  127  n. 

Mr.  (1636),  909. 

■  Hon.  William  Constable-,  S39. 

•  and  Herries  Arms,  227  «.,  783. 

and  Seton  alliances,  7S3. 

Maxwell-Witham,  Mr.  and  Mrs.,  767. 

Maxwell's  Scottish  Landnames,  578. 

Meall,  James,  614. 

Mearns,  Sheriff  of  the,  709. 

Meaux,  583-4,  9S2  et  sea. 

Medal,  gold  (George,  seventh  Lord  Seton),  153,  166, 
727-S. 

Peninsular  (Pitmedden),  481. 

of  '  Pretender,'  434. 

Medallion  in  British  Museum  (second  Earl  of  Dun- 
fermline), 670. 

Megget,  Rebecca,  32S. 

Mekill  Geddes,  lands  of,  337. 

Meldrum,  Setons  of,  93,  351,  378,  460-70,  5S6. 

1.  Alexander,  first  Laird,  461. 

2.  William,  younger  of  Meldrum,  461. 

3.  Alexander,  second  Laird,  462-3. 

4.  William,  third  Laird,  463-5. 

5.  Alexander,  fourth  Laird,  465-6. 

6.  younger  of  Meldrum,  467. 

6  (a).  John,  fifth  Laird,  467-8. 

6  (b).  William,  sixth  Laird,  469. 

7.  Elizabeth,  heiress  of  Meldrum,  469-70. 
Meldrum,  Arms  of,  470. 

Baron,  459. 

of  Drumbeck,  George,  465. 

Elizabeth  de,  460. 

of  Fyvie,  805,  807. 

House,  460,  470. 

intermarriages,  36. 

Old,  lands  of,  397. 

representative  of  the  Setons  of,  469  n.    470. 

Sir  John  (Sweden),  764. 

trial  of  John,  420. 

Walter  Seton  of  (1622),  650. 

William  Seton,  who  married  the  heiress,  46 

of,  473,  489. 

'Meldrum  Tower,'  Fyvie,  807. 
Melfort,  Earl  of,  666-7. 
Melgum,  Viscount  of,  417-9,  424. 
Mellerstain,  lands  of,  336,  433. 
Melville,  Andrew,  413. 

James,    to   Walsingham  (Lord  Seton's   visit   to 

France),  189. 

Robert,  to  Cecil,  168. 

to  Croft,  163. 


Melville,  Sir  Robert,  137,  195. 

(Lord  Melville),  on  Chancellor  Seton),  645-6. 

— —  General  Robert,  614. 

first  Lord,  554. 

Viscount,  325. 

Viscounts,  20. 

Memento-mori  watch  of  Mary  Seton,  133,  477  n. 
Memoirs  of  Scotland,  Lockhart's,  6S7. 
Memorandum,  curious,  by  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  243. 
Mendicant,  a  mock,  447. 
Mendoza  in  Paris,  190. 

Menteith,  Countess  of  (Marion  Seton),  114,  121,  123, 
126,  133. 

John,  fourth  Earl  of,  123,  520. 

William,  seventh  Earl  of,  65S  11. 

Menzies  of  Coulterallers,  Alexander,  71 1-2. 

of  Gladstanes,  Sir  William,  713. 

of  Kinmundie,  Charles,  solicitor,  258. 

of  Kinmundy,  Alexander,  473. 

of  Pitfoddels,  Sir  Gilbert,  524. 

Sir  Robert  (1503),  395. 

Mercer  of  Mekillour,  383. 
Merchants'  marks,  9. 
Merchiston  Castle  School,  615. 

Tower,  406. 

Merriman.     (See  Scott,  Hugh  Stowell. ) 
Mertricks  (or  foxes),  Seton  Arms  supporters,  827. 
'  Messenger'  (George  Seton),  245. 
Metcalfe,  Frs.,  755. 
Methel,  591,  610,  614. 
Methven,  battle  of,  72-5,  79. 

Henry,  Lord,  518. 

Melros,  Lord,  649. 

Melrose,  Abbacy  of,  635. 

— -  Abbey,  340,  623. 

Michel's  Ecossais  en  France,  5S3  n.,  j6$-6. 

'Middle-pointed'  style,  775. 

Middleton,  Jean,  569. 

Midmar,  Sir  Alexander  Gordon  of,  3S2. 

parish,  549. 

Milan,  Castle  of,  108,  53S,  767. 

Setons  at,  768-9. 

Military  ardour  of  the  Setons,  47. 

roads,  (twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  694. 

Mill's  British  India,  555. 

Miller,   Mrs.   Fenwick,  her  memoir  of   Mary  Seton, 

i33>  137,  139.  141,  145- 

John,  consular  service,  496. 

Miller's  Baldred  and  the  Bass,  594  n. 

Siege  of  Berwick,  86. 

poem  on  the  'heiress  of  Seton,'  88. 

Milne,  John,  King's  Master  Mason,  195. 

Milner's  History  of  Winchester,  67  «• 

Milton,  Lord,  689. 

Milward,  James,  456. 

Miniature,  loss  and  recovery  of  a,  614  «. 

Mint,  Master  of  the  Scottish,  6S3. 

Minto,  Lord,  588. 

Miraflores  Monastery,  836. 

Mirror,  The,  554. 

Mirror  of  Winton  family,  279  n. 

Missal  at  Duns  Castle  (George,  seventh  Lord  Seton), 

728. 
Missing  slabs  at  Seton  Church,  7S0-2. 
'  Mists  of  antiquity,'  25. 
Mitchell,  Janet,  322. 
Modena,  '  Biblioteca  Estense '  at,  769. 
Mohamra,  capture  of,  4S5. 
Moir  of  Leckie,  Charles  Alexander,  723. 

Robert  Graham-,  724. 

of  Stoneywood,  272. 


INDEX 


1059 


Molesworth  (Sir  William)  on  the  love  of  aristocracy, 

12. 
Molyneaux,  Josephina-Maria,  723. 
Monboddo,  Lord,  792,  1017. 
Monck,  General,  677. 
Moncreiff,  James,  first  Lord,  298. 
Moncreiffe,  Sir  Thomas,  345,  437. 
Moncrieff,  Sir  Alexander,  of  Culfargie,  K.C.B.,  I  «., 

592  n. 

of  Malar,  Hew,  319. 

of  Reidie,  314. 

■ Andrew,  31S. 

Moncrieff,  Seton's  House  of,  1  v.,  49. 
Monghyr,  India,  572. 
Monkmylne,  Setons  of,  53S-42. 

Robert  Seton  of  (163S),  712. 

Arms,  545. 

Monkrig,  542. 

Monkshall,  Aberdeenshire,  497. 

Monkton  parish,  673. 

Monmouth,  Duke  of,  at  Seton,  236. 

commander  of  the  royal  army,  237. 

Earl  of  (Robert  Carey),  memoirs  of,  641  11. 

Monmouth's  '  treat '  at  Seton  in  1679,  242. 
Monogram  at  Winton,  794. 
Monograms,  etc.,  at  Fyvie  Castle,  S09. 

at  Niddrie  Castle,  117,  S03-4. 

Monro  of  Foulis,  Robert,  520. 

Colonel  Robert,  425. 

Monro's  Expedition,  etc.,  764. 

Monsignori,  Dean  of  the  U.S.  (Robert  Seton),  309. 

Montagu,  Duke  of,  236  n. 

Montagues  of  Somersetshire,  591  «. 

Montaigne,  translation  by,  644. 

Montalembert,  on  the  loss  of  the  Birkenhead,  504. 

Montegut's  Souvenirs  de  Bourgogne,  107  n. 

Montfort,  Simon  de,  735  n. 

Montgomerie,  Alexander,  the  poet,  21S. 

his  lines  to  'Lady  Seyton,'  972. 

surname,  assumption  of,  676. 

of  Coilsfield,  Colonel  James,  6S1. 

of  Giffen,  Hon.  Francis,  6S3. 

Hew,  647. 

of  Lainshaw,  James,  692. 

■ Lady  Margaret  (Countess  of  first  Earl  of  Winton), 

208,  214,  216,  677-8,  682. 

latter  will  of,  2 1 8. 

her  portrait  by  Jameson,  218. 

Lady  Mary  (Countess  of  fourth  Earl  of  Winton), 

246. 

of  Skelmorlie,  Sir  Robert,  677. 

Montgomeries,  charters,  etc.,  of  the,  677. 
Montgomeries,  Memorials  of  the,  Fraser's,  56. 
Montgomery,  Robert,  348. 

Sir  James,  349. 

Montmorencys,  The,  43  n. 

Montrose,  John,  third  Earl  of,  195,  643,  656. 

resigns  the  Chancellorship,  642. 

James,  first  Marquis  of,  226,  233,  473,  524,  625, 

660. 

and  the  Covenanters,  426-7 . 

at  Fyvie  Castle,  810. 

his  execution  in  Edinburgh,  430,  525. 

disinterment  of  the  Marquis  of,  526. 

Montrose,  Deeds  of,  431. 

Montsabert,  Chateau  de,  S06. 

Monturs  (saddle-horses),  317. 

Monument  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  no. 

Monumental  slabs  at  Seton  Church,  775  et  sea. 

Monycabock,  lands  of,  388. 

Monypeny,  Elizabeth,  140. 


Monypeny  of  Petmuly  (Pitmilly),  David,  5S0. 

Monypenys  of  Rothmelry,  581. 

Moody  Stuart's  Memoir  of  the  Duchess  of  Gordon, 

449. 
Moore,  Amy-Geraldine  (Mrs.  Seton),  616. 

Lord  Cecil-James  Gordon-,  456. 

of  Moresfort,  Maurice  C. ,  456. 

Moors,  siege  of  Tarifa  by  the,  86  71. 

Morane,  Thrid  of,  538. 

Moray  of  Abercaimey,  James,  629,  688. 

Susan  (Mrs.  James  Seton),  letter  from,  630, 

914. 

Bishop  of  (1464),  381. 

■  John,  Bishop  of  (1627),  659. 

of  Bothwell,  Sir  Andrew,  72  n. 

■ Thomas  Randolph,  Earl  of,  725. 

David,  Earl  of  (son  of  James  11.),  385. 

James,  third  Earl  of,  424. 

eighth  Earl  of,  688. 

ninth  Earl  of,  452. 

Earl  of  (natural   son  of  James  IV.),  513, 

520. 

John  Randolph,  Earl  of,  86. 

James  Dunbar,  Earl  of,  3S0. 

Earldom  of,  398. 

Regent,  152  n.,  168  n.,  173,  565-6. 

■ assassination  of  the,  174,  406,  413. 

his  character,  164  n. 

Mordaunt,  Lady  Henrietta  (Duchess  of  Gordon),  436, 

442  «. 
Mordington,  James,  third  Lord,  717. 
More,  Sir  Antonio,  656,  731,  821  n.,  913,  1006  n. 

(Seton  group),  198-9. 

More-Nisbet,  Mr.  Hamilton,  821. 

Morehame,  minister  of,  539- 

Moreville,  Richard  de,  96. 

Morgan,  195. 

C.  O.,  M.P.,  his  collection  of  clocks  and  watches, 

279. 
Morham  Parochial  Register,  717  n. 
Morison  of  Prestongrange,  William,  530. 
Morley ,  Lord,  to  Earl  of  Leicester,  1 76  n. 
Morpeth  Castle,  398. 
Morris,  General,  442. 

Staats  Long,  General,  440. 

Morstain,  Count,  431. 

Mortane,  Alisone,  782. 

'  Morter,  Knights  of  the,'  425. 

Mortimers  of  Aberdour,  2S6. 

Morton,  James,  fourth  Earl  of,  192. 

William,  seventh  Earl  of,  225,  664. 

James,  ninth  Earl  of,  454. 

■ —  surgeon,  322. 

Lord,  137,  177,  1S4. 

Regent,  163  n.,  167,  465,  635. 

and  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  181. 

■  execution  of  Regent,  187. 

'  Morven,  High  Priest  of,'  835  n. 

Moscow,  S24. 

Mosley,  Sir  Tonman,  698. 

'Mother'  Seton  (Catherine),  307,  312. 

Motto  of  Cornwall  family,  358  «. 

Mottoes  of  the  Seton  family,  827. 

Mounie,  Setons  of,  4S9-506. 

1.  George,  first  Laird  (Advocate),  476,  493-6. 

2.  William,  second  Laird,  496. 

3.  Margaret,  heiress  of  Mounie,  496-9. 

4.  Alexander  Anderson-Seton  of  Mounie,  499. 

5.  Colonel  Alexander  Seton  of  Mounie,  500-5. 

6.  David  Seton  of  Mounie^297,  505. 

7.  Alexander-David  Seton  of  Mounie,  505,  833. 


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INDEX 


Mounie,  Major  George  Seton,  Sutherland  Highlanders, 

500. 

John  Seton  of  (1622),  650. 

(Muny),  William  Seatoun  of,  469,  489  n,,  490. 

Arms,  499,  505-6. 

heirlooms  at  Truro,  496  n. 

intermarriages,  36. 

(or  Pitmounie),  lands  of,  489,  490. 

manor-house,  490-1. 

muniments,  492. 

portraits  and  heirlooms,  491-2. 

Mounth,  Cairn  of,  666. 

Mountwhanney,  Balfours  of,  577-8. 

Mourovia,  Richard  Seton  of,  307. 

Mowbray,  Sir  Philip,  73. 

Mozley's  Oxford  Reminiscences,  6. 

Muir's  Ancient  Scottish  Churches,  772,  775,  777,  779, 

784. 
Mull,  Highland,  presentation  of  a,  446. 
Multis  Me  bonis,  etc.,  304. 
Multray  (Moultrie)  of  Seafield,  George,  587. 

Arms  of,  587  n. 

Munster,  George,  first  Earl  of,  455. 
Munti  (?)  and  Johnstoune,  lands  of,  105. 
'  Murder  hole '  at  Fyvie  Castle,  808. 
Murdoch's  edition  of  the  Grameid,  667. 
Mure  of  Caldwell,  Baron,  692. 

■ Margaret,  671. 

Murray  Arms  at  Seton  Church,  785. 

of  Ayton,  Patrick,  602. 

of  Balmanno,  Sir  Patrick,  722. 

of  Broughton,  Mrs.  (at  Holyrood),  262  n. 

Mr.  David,  on  the  York  Buildings  Co.,  1016-S. 

T°hn  (Earl  of  Annandale),  647,  649,  674. 

■  (publisher),  556. 

of  Melgum,  Sir  Alexander,  588. 

Patrick  (James  v.),  583. 

Sir  Patrick  (1617),  647. 

of  Priestfield,  Sir  Robert,  360. 

■ of  Stanhope,  257. 

Lieutenant  Stewart,  on  '  Discipline,'  505  n. 

of  Tullibardine,  Sir  William,  102,  28S.; 

William,  Captain  of  Edinburgh  Castle,  87,  7S5. 

of  Woodside,  Mackenzie,  613. 

Murray's  Northamptonshire,  763. 
Music,  a  'settar'  in,  103,  617. 
Music,  Essay  on  Scottish,  551. 
Musical  Society  of  Edinburgh,  551. 

tastes  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton,  103. 

Muskerry,  third  Baron  of,  329. 
Musselburgh,  137,  649,  811,  S20,  913. 

bridge  of,  116,  770. 

Mussulmans,  symbols  of,  823. 
Mutiny  of  1S57-S,  Sepoy,  331-2. 
Myldis,  lands  of,  125. 
Mylne,  Robert,  579  n. 

his  genealogical  MSS.,  579,  784. 

quaint  note  by,  47. 

and  the  Winton  family,  247. 

Myltoun,  James  Seton  of  (son  of  George,  sixth  Lord 

Seton),  125,  127. 
Mynnes,  John  Seatoun  of,  469. 
Mysterious   death  of  George,   fifth  Earl   of   Huntly, 

407-8. 
Mystery,  genealogical,  580. 

1\  AIRN,  Hon.  Mr.,  602. 

Lord  (171 5),  257-8,  269. 

Nairne,  Sir  William  (Lord  Dunsinnan),  444. 

Name  and  arms,  provision  relative  to  (Cariston),  598. 


Names  of  places  and  persons,  49. 

Naper,  William,  burgess  of  Edinburgh,  672. 

Napier  of  Edinbillie,  Sir  Archibald,  339. 

Helen,  587. 

of  Magdala,  Field-Marshal  Lord,  484. 

of  Merchiston,  Sir  Alexander,  338-9. 

■ John,  648. 

Mark,  on  genealogical  'Arrangers,'  23. 

■ ■  Memoirs  of  John  Napier  of  Merchiston,  648  n. 

■  of  Wrightshouses,  William,  293. 

Napiers  of  Wrychtishouses,  567. 
Napkin  (Penicuik),  592  n. 

with  Winton  Arms,  275,  594  n.,  826. 

Napkins  of  the  Mounie  family,  496  n. 

Napoleon  III.,  703. 

Nasmyth  or  Nesbyt,  a  'conveyor  of  letters,'  183. 

Nau,  Queen  Mary's  secretary,  185. 

Nau's  Memorials  of  Alary  Stuart,  46  11.,  170  n. 

Nave  of  Seton  Church,  784. 

Navigation,  teaching  of,  614-5. 

Neale,  Sir  Richard,  734. 

Necklace,  Mary  Seton's,  133-5,  731- 

Necromancy,  104. 

Nelson  Colony,  New  Zealand,  563. 

of  Glasgow,  Dr.  573. 

'  Nemo  potest  duobus,'  etc.,  166. 

Nesbyt  or  Nasmyth,  a  'conveyor  of  letters,'  183. 

Nethalen,  Saint,  460. 

Nether  Lanerk,  lands  of,  339. 

Newbattle  Abbey,  708. 

■  Andrew,  Abbot  of,  774. 

Commendator  of,  542. 

Lord,  640. 

Newbattle-Grange,  Laird  of,  211  n. 

Newcastle,  592. 

Newcomen,  Charles,  698. 

Newgate  prison  burned,  441. 

New  Orleans,  George  Seton  of  (1852),  296. 

Newspapers  as  evidence  in  Peerage  cases,  954. 

Newton  of  Irnham,  Francis,  736. 

Laird  of  (1708),  344. 

Margaret,  298. 

Newtoun  Adam  (Dean  of  Durham),  644. 
New  York,  Bank  of,  304. 

Governor  of  (Col.  John  Montgomerie),  684. 

Samuel  Seton  of,  305. 

Nicholas  Seyton,  Sir,  754-5. 
Nicolas,  St.,  Aberdeen,  378. 
Niddrie,  355. 

Castle  (olim  Niddrie-Seton),  117,  618,  731,  802-4. 

marriage  at,  201. 

monogram  and  tablet  at,  172. 

Queen  Mary  at,  164,  170-2. 

lands  of  West,  164. 

Niddrie-Marischal,  802. 
Niddrie-Seton,  garrison  of,  177- 

siege  of,  406. 

Niebuhr  on  family  tradition,  25  n. 

Niece  sometimes  equivalent  to  grand-daughter,  952  n. 

Nimmo,  Mr.  Archibald,  803. 

Nimmo's  History  of  Stirlingshire,  354. 

Ninety-second  Gordon  Highlanders,  444. 

Centenary  of  the,  445  n. 

Nisbet,  Alexander,  heraldic  writer,  72,  259,  784-5- 

on  the  Crescents  of  Seton,  823. 

on  the  Seton  tressure,  824. 

Works  on  Heraldry,  55- 

Essays  on  Armories,  207  «.,  469  n.,  618, 

624  n.,  790,  954. 
Genealogical   MSS.   in  Advocates'  Library, 

63,  106,  209  ».,  619,  829. 


INDEX 


1061 


Nisbet,  Alexander,  Heraldic  Plates,  250  «. 

MS.  account  of  the  Seton  family,  87,  247  n. 

System  of  Heraldry,  94, 163,1486  ».,  586-7  n. , 

601  ».,  619-20,  713,  790. 

Sir  David,  escheated  goods  of,  118. 

Lieutenant  John,  670. 

Nisbet-Hamilton,  Right  Honourable  Robert  Hamilton-, 

611  n. 
Nithsdale,  William,  fifth  Earl  of,  257-8,  270,  272. 

escape  of,  from  the  Tower,  258. 

Earl  and  Countess  of,  279. 

John,  sixth  Earl  of,  839. 

'  N.  N.'  Answer  to  Rodon's  Funeral  of  the  Mass,  995. 
Noailles,  Due  de,  580. 
Nobiles  Barones,  92. 

defined  by  Sir  Edward  Coke,  21. 

Nobility  of  Scotland    (Ms.  in   Advocates'   Library), 

181  n. 

true  definition  of,  20. 

Nobles,  House  of  Swedish,  372. 

Noblesse  oblige,  18,  700. 

Nom  de  flume,  Seton  as  a,  924. 

Nordlingen,  battle  of,  524. 

Norfolk,  Thomas,  third  Duke  of,  397. 

fourth  Duke  of,  173,  180. 

Edward,  ninth  Duke  of,  442  n. 

Henry,  sixth  Duke  of,  433-4. 

Norfolk,  East  Indiaman,  722. 

Norfolk,  English  army  under  (1542),  119. 

North  Bridge  of  Edinburgh,  fall  of,  328. 

North  British  Advertiser,  595  «. 

North  British  Railway  (Seton  Roundle),  794. 

North,  Hon.  Frederick,  769. 

Northampton  and  Huntingdon,  Earls  of  756. 

Northbank,  Seton  of,  359. 

Northberwick  Law,  716. 

Northern  Liberties,  the  ship,  302. 

Northey,  Sir  Edward  (Attorney-General),  262. 

NORTHKIG     AND     MONKLYME,    Setons    of,     108    »., 

538-45- 

Northrig,  Janet  Sinclair,  heiress  of,  108. 

George  Seton  of,  21 8'. 

Thomas  Seton  of  (1591),  623. 

Arms,  544-5- 

Northumberland,  Countess  of,  176,  1 82  n. 

■  Earl  of,  183. 

Norton,  Christopher,  and  Mary  Seton,  139. 

and  Lord  Seton,  190. 

Norway,  Setons  in,  764. 
Norwegian  nobility,  22. 

timber  for  Seton,  in  1634,  225. 

Norwich,  Earldom  of,  442. 

'  Not  my  will,  but  Thine  be  done,'  917. 

Notary-public,  William  Seton,  302. 

seal  of,  304. 

Notes  and  Queries,  165  «.,  S31. 

Notre  Dame,  Indiana,  University  of,  310. 

Paris,  162. 

Nottingham,  Lord  (1716),  271. 

Treaty  of,  105. 

Nottinghamshire  Seatons,  759. 
Nova  Scotia,  603. 

Baronet's  badge  (Pitmedden),  481. 

Nouveatt  riche,  the,  31. 
Novi  homines,  23. 

■  Arms  of,  830. 

Nuns  (Harriet,   Cecilia,   Anne-Maria,    Rebecca,   and 

Helen  Seton),  305,  307,  311. 
dispersion  of,  116. 


v^ak  chest  with  Seton  and  Ogilvie  Arms,  472  n. 

Oakes,  Sir  Henry,  607,  612. 

'  Ob  mandatum  criminis, '  589. 

O'Briane's  Naval  Biographical  Dictionary,  325. 

'  Occultus  non  Extinctus,'  548,  560,  568. 

Occurrents  out  of  Scotland,  185. 

Ochiltree,  John,  weaver  in  Edinburgh,  826. 

Lord,  395  n. 

Octavians,  the,  637,  639. 
O'Farral  family,  626. 
Ogden,  Henry,  304. 

of  Ogdensbury,  Gouverneur,  305. 

Ogilby,  Captain,  433. 

Ogill,  Jean,  672. 

Ogilvie  Arms  at  Seton  Church,  779. 

of  Bernes,  James,  monument  of,  779. 

of  Boyne,  Alexander  (husband  of  Mary  Beton), 

136,  140,  404.5,  521. 

of  Dunlugas,  Lord  George,  179. 

Sir  George,  779. 

Sir  Walter,  472. 

of  Forglen,  quarrel  with,  487. 

John  and  Thomas  (Louvain),  179. 

Mr.,  688. 

Ogilvies,  the,  377  «.,  379. 
Ogilvy  of  Dunlugas,  George,  184. 

■  of  Findlater,  Alexander,  382. 

James,  392. 

■ George,  126. 

and  Gordon  feud,  399,  402. 

Henry-Thomas,  611  n. 

■ of  that  ilk,  Alexander,  402. 

Lady  (Beatrix  Seton),  124,  126. 

■  of  Lintrathen,  Sir  John,  94. 

of  Lonmay,  Hon.  Colonel  Patrick,  6S4. 

Lord,  185,  187,  622. 

monument  in  Seton  Church,  1 14. 

of  Powrie,  Isabella,  625-7. 

Ogle,  Dr. ,  statistical  paper  by,  8. 

Oiry,  Walterus,  754. 

Okeovers  of  Okeover,  stature  of  the,  835. 

Oldfold  Manor,  James  Seton  of,  329. 

Oliphant,  Bernard,  317. 

Oliver  Cromwell,  565. 

Cromwell's  troopers,  5S9. 

Olivestob,  Setons  of,  708-9. 

Sir  Thomas  Seton  of  Olivestob,  208,  5S9,  608  n., 
615,  708-9. 
Olivestob  Arms,  709. 

House  (now  Bankton),  708. 

intermarriages,  37. 

Omond's  Lord  Advocates  of  Scotland  and  Arniston 

Memoirs,  435  n. 
Onslow,  Captain  Matthew,  329. 
Orange,  Prince  of,  325,  433,  666. 
Organs,  ornaments,  etc.,  inventory  of,  184. 
Oriel  College,  Oxford,  564,  596,  613. 
Orientation  of  Seton  Church,  775. 
Orkney,  Duke  of  (Bothwell),  169. 

Robert,  Earl  of,  622. 

Orle  of  the  Spaniards,  825. 

Ormiston,  alleged  death  of  fifth  Earl  of  Winton  at, 

274. 

George,  538. 

Laird  of,  212. 

Ormond,  Earl  of,  380. 

'  Ornamentis '  of  Seton  Church,  773. 

'  Ornaments,' Church,  115. 

Orne,  Department  of,  766. 

Orr  river,  577. 


1062 


INDEX 


Orthography  of  Seton,  65. 

Orton,  Emma,  362. 

Oscar,  king  of  Sweden,  372-3. 

Oswald  of  Auchincruive,  Richard- Alexander,  695. 

'  0  tempora !  O  mores,  '387. 

Otterburn,  battle  of,  376. 

Otway,  Ca?sar-Hastings,  596. 

Oudenard,  432. 

'  Our  Lady's  Well,'  Meldrum,  460. 

'  Out '  with  Prince  Charlie,  323. 

Outram  family,  498. 

Sir  James,  484,  498. 

Overbury  (Sir  Thomas)  on  family  pride,  I. 
'  O  where,  tell  me  where,'  446. 
Oxley,  Colonel,  446  n. 
Ozembseb,  Mogull,  910. 

PjEDOTROPHIA,  Tytler's,  572. 
Paget,  Charles,  to  Mary  Stuart,  195. 
'  Painted  Gallery'  at  Pinkie,  811-21. 
Paisley  Canal,  695. 

James,  Master  of,  5S5. 

Lord  (Claude  Hamilton),  201,  355. 

■  Lady  (Margaret  Seton),  201. 

'  Palace '  of  Seton,  44,  7S8. 

Pale  (or  pall),  913. 

Palermo,  birthplace  of   thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton, 

696. 
Palestine,  pilgrimage  to,  311. 
Pallmall  and  golf  at  Seton,  168. 
Panbride,  Forfarshire,  379. 
Panegyric  on  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  Sir  R.  Maitland's, 

115. 
Panmure  Castle,  909. 

Laird  of  (1636),  909. 

Panmure,  Registrum  de,  Stuart's,  90,  92  n. 
Panther  of  Pitmedden,  486  n. 
Pantoun  of  Pittmedden,  John,  465. 

John  and  George,  seals  of,  4S6. 

Marjorie,  490. 

Pape,  William  (Dornoch),  522. 

Paper-mark,  early,  75  n. 

Papers  of  Captain  Robert  Seton  (Hailes),  997-8. 

Papist  and  Protestant,  416,  452. 

'  Papistry'  renounced  by  Huntly  and  Errol,  413. 

'  Papists,'  Robert  Baillie  on,  681. 

Papists  in  Mar  and  Glenmuick,  737. 

at  Seton,  English,  187. 

Parbroath,  Setons  of,  283-313,  323,  351. 

1.  John  Seton,  first  of  Parbroath,  285. 

2.  Alexander  Seton  of  Parbroath,  285-6. 

3.  Sir  Gilbert  Seton  of  Parbroath,  286-8. 

4.  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of  Parbroath,  288. 

5.  Alexander  Seton,  289. 

6.  John  Seton  of  Parbroath,  289-90. 

6  (2).  Andrew  Seton  of  Parbroath,  290-1. 

7.  Gilbert  Seton,  291. 

8.  Sir  David  Seton  of  Parbroath,  292-3,    300, 

584. 

9.  Sir  George  Seton  of  Parbroath,  293-4. 
American  Setons ,  296-313. 

10.  Robert  Seton  of  Parbroath,  297-S. 

11.  James  Seton,  298. 

12.  John  Seton,  298-302. 

13.  William  Seton,  300,  302-5. 

14. merchant,  296  «.,  305-8. 

15. U.S.  Navy,  308-11. 

16. U.S.  Volunteers,  283,  311-3. 

[Monsignor  Robert  Seton,  283,  294-9,  3°9" 
ii.  3!3»  S33.] 


Parbroath,  representative  of  the  Setons  of,  306,  • 
5S7. 

■ Arms  of  the  Setons  of,  294. 

heirlooms,  298-300. 

intermarriages,  35. 

— —  Marion  Seton  of,  5S7,  60S  n. 

Setons,  stature  of  the,  833. 

Parient-Duchatell,  954. 

Paris,  Alexander,  tenth  Earl  of  Eglinton  in,  69T. 

Charles,  fourth  Earl  of  Aboyne  in,  453. 

dissolute  Orders  of,  953. 

national  library  of,  583. 

nunnery  in,  737. 

Parker,  Archbishop,  932  n. 

Mrs.  (Catherine  Seton),  329. 

Thomas,  Lord,  265. 

Parrish,  Sarah-Redwood,  311. 

Parry-Hodges,  Caroline,  364. 

Parsons,  Robert,  205. 

Paske,  Louisa  H.  M.,  363. 

'Pasmentis,'  585. 

Passion,  instruments  of  the  (Seton  Church),  776. 

Passport  to  France  for  Mary  Seton,  144. 

Past,  English  regard  for  the,  13. 

Paston,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  612. 

Paternal  epistle,  a,  91 1-2. 

Paterson  of  Bannockburn,  Hugh,  345. 

of  Eccles,  Sir  John,  479. 

of  Edinburgh,  James,  591. 

of  Cranly,  Charles-Robert,  372. 

Sir  John,  479. 

Sir  Nicholas,  392. 

Patersone,  Stevin,  587. 
Paterson's  Ayrshire  Families,  815. 

Land,  Edinburgh,  476. 

Paton,  Lieutenant,  325. 

Sir  Noel,  S09  11. 

Patricians  and  plebeians,  7. 
Patron,  M.  Nicolas,  584. 

Saint  of  the  Setons  (St.  Bennet),  48. 

'  Patroni,'  756. 

Patten,  Rev.  Robert,  256,  264  n.,  792. 

Paul's  Ordinary  of  Arms,  830. 

Payne,  Louisa,  456. 

Pease  of  Darlington,  Edward,  758. 

Peats,  removal  of,  5S2. 

Pedigree,  illustrative  (Earl  of  Dunfermline),  Si 5. 

of  Preston  family,  MS.,  367. 

Pedigrees,  Seton  (different  versions),  64. 

and  potatoes,  1. 

'  Pedisequa  Regime  Scotorum,'  146. 

Peebles,  Assize  Court  at,  673. 

Peel,  Laurence,  457. 

Peerages,  modern,  29. 

— — ■  in  the  Seton  family,  26,  27. 

Peers  Williams,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  698. 

Pegge's  Curialia,  146  n.,  449  n. 

Pegus,  Rev.  Peter  W.,  457. 

Peirs.     (See  Piers. ) 

Pembroke,  Earl  of  (Aymer  de  Valence),  72. 

Penang,  611. 

Pencaitland,  795,  801. 

Pendragon,  827  n. 

Peninsular  war,  364,  479,  595- 

Pennant's  Tour  in  Scotland,  127  n. 

Pentland  Hills,  battle  of,  234,  590. 

Pepys  on  absenteeism,  17  «• 

Pepys's  Diary,  765. 

Percie,  Lord  Joplef,  Ingraham,  63. 

Percy,  house  of,  5. 

Percys  and  Howards,  43  n. 


INDEX 


1063 


Perkin  Warbeck's  love-letter,  389,  391. 
Perrymount  (Tyrone),  James  Seton  of,  763. 
Persigny,  Due  de,  and  his  humble  origin,  13. 
Perth,  611. 

(bene  murata),  72. 

Earldom,  creation  of,  643. 

James,  first  Earl  of,  20S-9,  525,  650,  731,  779. 

■ •  monument  of  the  first  Earl  of,  209-11,  772,  782. 

James,  third  Earl  of,  430. 

fourth  Earl  of,  431. 

Countess  of  (Lady  Isabel  Seton),  208-11,  216, 

218,  677. 

■  her  portrait  by  Jameson,  21 8. 

Duke  of,  436-7,  531. 

Duchess  of,  435. 

family  of,  208  «.,  70S. 

Perth,  Autobiography  of  the  Earl  of ,  655. 
Perth,  death  of  third  Earl  of  Huntly  at,  394. 

design  upon  (1690),  668. 

Treaty  of  (1572),  406. 

Peryis.     (See  Piers.) 

'  Pest,'  the,  643. 

Petblanie,  lands  of,  490. 

'  Peter,  Mr.,'  187. 

Peterborough,  Charles,  Earl  of,  436,  442  n. 

Pettmedden,  Pantoun  of,  465. 

Pettynoun,  lands  of  (Daviot),  464. 

Philip  of  Almerieclose,  James,  667. 

II.  of  Spain,  176,  201,  623-4,  7^7- 

Philiphaugh,  battle  of,  226,  474. 

family  of,  588. 

Philipps,  Mr.  John,  834. 
Phipps,  Sir  Constantine,  258,  266. 
Pianketank  (Virginia),  296. 
'  Picks  and  Muravians,'  51. 
Pictures  at  Duns  Castle,  731. 

formerly  at  Pinkie,  821. 

at  Seton  Palace,  789. 

at  Woodhouselee,  566 . 

Pidgeon,  Henry  C. ,  90  n. 

Piercy  of  Marchweil  Hall,  613. 

Piers,  Lady  Mary  (second  wife  of  George,  sixth  Lord 

Seton),  122-30,  143,  150  «.,  151,  951-4. 
Pierstoun  Barclay,  lands  of,  622. 
Pilkington  of  Roby  Hall,  William,  333. 
Pilot  newspaper  (Perth),  602. 
Pinkerton,  Rev.  Mr.,  603  11. 
Pinkerton's  History  of  Scotland,  90  n. 

Ichnographia,  198-9. 

Pinkie  (or  Pinkycleuch),  battle  of,   102  «.,  2S6,  291, 

398,  402,  51S. 

■  House,  423,  665,  770,  795,  806,  S09,  811-22. 

death  of  Chancellor  Seton  at,  649. 

lines  on,  811. 

'  Pious  Eglinton '  ('  Greysteel '),  680. 

Pipe,  smoking,  found  near  Seton  Church,  7SS- 

Pirates,  Scottish,  1S6. 

Piscina  at  Seton  Church,  776. 

Pius  ix.,  309. 

Pitcairn,  the  'aald  wife'  (Elizabeth  Stevenson),  25S  11., 

913,  1005. 

of  Forther,  David,  290-1,  581. 

and  Lindsay  Arms,  595  n. 

Pitcaim's  Criminal  Trials,  123  ».,  129  n. 

Pitcarne,  Robert,  581. 

'  Pitcur,'  666. 

Pitlurg,  Gordon  of,  3S0. 

Pitmedbek,  Setons  of,  133,  297,  471-87. 

1.  James,  first  Laird,  471. 

2.  Alexander,  second  Laird,  472,  483. 

3.  John,  third  Laird,  473. 


PlTMEDDEN,  Setons  of — continued. 

4.  James,  fourth  Laird,  474. 

4(a).  Sir  Alexander,  first  Baronet  (Lord  Pitmed- 
den,  q.  v.),  244-5,  4747.  4§l- 

5.  Sir  William,  second  Baronet,  478,  482. 
works  by,  478. 

6.  Sir  Alexander,  third  Baronet,  479. 

6  (a).   Sir  William,  fourth  Baronet,  479,  481  n. 
6  (b).   Sir  Archibald,  fifth  Baronet,  479,  481  «. 

7.  Sir  William,  sixth  Baronet,  479,  482. 
[Major  James  Seton,  92nd  Highlanders,  479, 

4S1.] 

8.  Sir  William -Coote,  seventh  Baronet,  480-3. 

9.  Sir  James-Lumsden,  eighth  Baronet,  483-4. 
works  by,  484. 

9  (a).  Sir  William-Samuel,  ninth  Baronet,  485-7. 
[Matthew  Seton,  barrister-at-law,  480.] 
Pitmedden,  Lord  (Sir  Alexander  Seton),  474-7,  481  «., 

486-7,  492-3. 

■  created  Baronet  in  1683,  474,  481,  486. 

grant  of  arms  to,  98 1. 

his  birth-brieve,  475. 

his  legal  abridgments  and  library,  476. 

portrait  of,  483. 

works  by,  474. 

writs  relating  to,  486. 

Arms,  487-8,  496  n. 

charters,  etc.,  485. 

estate,  sale  of,  4S5. 

■  heirlooms,  48 1. 

house,  482. 

intermarriages,  36. 

lands  of,  471. 

Pitscandly,  lands  of,  590  n. 
Pitt's  Peerage  prodigality,  31. 
Pizarro,  Gonzalo,  75  n. 
Plane  (Plean),  lands  of,  339. 
Plantagenet,  verger,  a,  735  n. 
Plaque  with  the  Winton  Arms,  276. 
Playfair,  Mr.,  553. 

Provost,  of  St.  Andrews,  17. 

Plebeian  instincts,  Blackwood  on,  14. 

Plucky  letter  from  first  Viscount  Kingston,  715-6. 

Pluscardine,  Commendatoi  of  (Alexander  Seton),  5S4-6. 

Courthill  of,  638. 

Priory,  635-6. 

Poaching  affray  (tenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  691-2. 

Pocket-book  at  Duns  Castle,  728. 

Poetic  significance  of  family  portraits,  840. 

Points  of  law  and  fact  (Lord  Winton's  trial),  265. 

Poisoning  at  Helmsdale,  520. 

Poland,  king  of,  430. 

Poles,  the  de  la,  756. 

Political  State  of  Great  Britain  (1716),  270. 

Pomfret,  Yorkshire,  William  Seton  of,  296. 

'  Pomp  turned  to  penury,'  191. 

Ponsonby,  Hon.  Ashley  G.  J.,  456. 

Pont,  Robert,  640. 

Rev.  Timothy,  640  n. 

Pontefract  Seatons,  758.     (See  Pomfret.) 

Pony  race  on  Arthur's  Seat,  443. 

Poole,  Colonel  Matthew,  613. 

Poor,  Edinburgh  Society  for  Improving  Condition  of 

the,  615. 
Pope,  Scottish  Barons'  letter  to  the  (1320),  82,  824. 
Pope's  Nuncio  in  Paris,  190. 
Popery,  errors  of,  412. 

increase  of,  440. 

'  Popish  servands'  at  Seton,  231. 

Popley  of  Woolley  Moorhouse,  Francis,  6S5. 

'  Popular  Patrician,  a,'  699. 


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INDEX 


Porcelli,  Major  Alfred,  R.E.,  574. 
Port  Seton,  240,  784. 
Portrait  gallery,  lines  on  a  family,  840-1. 
Portraits,  family,  837-41. 

as  family  blessings,  840. 

at  Burgate  House,  632. 

Cariston,  617-8. 

at  Duns  Castle,  730-1. 

loss  of  Eglinton,  677  n. 

Pitmedden,  burning  of,  483. 

at  Preston,  374. 

Seton  family,  913-4. 

of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  198-9. 

at  Touch,  350. 

at  Traquair,  837-8. 

Portuguese  giant,  836. 

Post, ,  of  New  York,  305. 

Postboy  assaulted,  719. 

Post-horses,  supply  of,  673. 

Postmaster,  action  against,  673> 

Posts  of  Scotland,  master  of  the,  671,  673-5. 

Postscripts,  678. 

Potatoes  and  pedigrees,  1 . 

Potinger  {apothecary),  127. 

Potter  of  Pennsylvania,  Bishop,  304. 

Potterhill,  George  Seton  of,  918  n. 

Mrs.  Seton  of,  27S. 

Pourtrait  of  True  Loyalty,  666. 
Powderhall,  Daniel  Seton  of,  321,  327. 

house,  328. 

Powell,  Captain,  603. 

Powis,  William,  first  Marquis  of,  272  n. 

Preelium  Auminanum,  412  11. 

Gilliecrankianum,  667. 

Pratt's  Buchan,  971. 
Precedence,  loss  of,  203. 

of  the  Earldom  of  Sutherland,  522,  527-8,  534. 

Precedency  of  Lady  Almond   (widow   of  Chancellor 
Seton),  659,  971. 

in  the  olden  time,  165  n. 

Premier  Baron  of  Scotland  (Seton),  49,  92. 

Earldom  of  Scotland  (Sutherland),  534. 

Marquis  of  Scotland  (Huntly),  459. 

Premnay,  Aberdeenshire,  570. 

Prendregest,  William,  933. 

'  Prentice  Roll '  of  Aberdeen,  549. 

Presbyterian  ministers,  vile,  437. 

Presbytery  and  Episcopacy,  912. 

Prescott's  Conquest  of  Peru,  75  n. 

President   Seton   (afterwards    Earl    of    Dunfermline), 

215.  637-42- 
Prestige,  family,  15. 
Preston  and  Ekolsund,  Setonsof,  359,  367-74,  764. 

1.  Alexander    Seton,    Collector     of     Excise    at 

Linlithgow,  368. 

2.  Margaret  Seton,  368-9. 

3.  Alexander  Baron,  or  Seton,  369-71. 

4.  Patrick-Baron  Seton,  371. 

5.  Alexander   Seton   of  Preston   and   Ekolsund, 

371-2. 

6.  Patrick-Baron  Seton  of  Preston  and  Ekolsund, 

372-4- 
Preston,  family,  stature  of  the,  833. 

House,  368. 

intermarriages,  35. 

— —  battle  of  (1649),  228  «. 

Sir  Henry,  807. 

Jacobite  surrender  at,  263-4,  628. 

Rev.  Mr.  (Markinch),  917  n. 

and  Prestonpans,  242. 

on  Tees,  756-7. 


Preston  of  Fyvie,  805. 

Tower  (Fyvie),  805,  807. 

of  Valleyfield,  Griselda,  539-41. 

Archibald,  540-1. 

of  Whitehall,  Thomas,  103,  538. 

Prestongrange,  Lord  (William  Grant),  1019 
Prestonhall,  437. 
Prestonpans,  battle  of,  708. 

Register  of  Burials,  213. 

'  Pretender,'  the,  344,  628. 

proclaimed  king  and  prayed  for,  260. 

'  Prettie '  men,  '  Bowtcharie '  of,  673. 
'Prettiest  Gordon  alive,  the,'  526. 
Pretyman,  Rev.  John,  558. 
Pride  contrasted  with  haughtiness,  2. 

as  defined  by  Dr.  Johnson,  2. 

of  the  Setons,  49,  141-2. 

'  Priest's  door  '  at  Seton  Church,  784. 
— —  well '  (Seton  Church),  785. 
Prime  family,  309  n. 

Nathaniel,  309. 

Ward,  and  King,  bankers,  309. 

Primrose  of  Barnbougle,  Sir  James,  683. 
Prince  'Charlie,' 688. 

hair  of,  612,  618,  728. 

in  Rome,  535. 

Regent,  554,  694. 

letter  from  the  (1814),  481. 

of  Wales  Island  (Penang),  346,  611. 

Pringle  of  Greenknowe,  Memoirs  of,  979. 

Pringle,  Professor,  553. 

Pringles  of  Stitchel,  978. 

Prior,  epitaph  by  Matthew,  3. 

Priory,  St.  Andrews,  612. 

'  Privilege,'  attacks  upon,  17. 

Privy  Council  on  death  of  Chancellor  Seton,  649. 

Register  (Professor  Masson),  656,  673  n. 

Seal,  Lord  (second  Earl  of  Dunfermline),  659. 

Register  (unassigned  Scottish  Setons),  744-S. 

extracts  from,  869-88. 

Procuratory  of  resignation  by  Robert,  second  Earl  of 

Winton,  220. 

■ (Cariston),  598. 

'  Propper '  men,  execution  of,  673. 
Protestant  Association  (17S0),  440. 

and  Papist,  416,  452. 

Protestantism  of  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  266-7. 
Protest  alio  Propositi,  160. 
Prothonotary  Apostolic,  309. 
Protocols,  Edinburgh,  627. 
Proverb,  French,  914. 

■  relative  to  Prince  Henry,  207. 

Proverbs  of  '  Greysteel,'  6S0. 

Provost  of  Edinburgh  (George,  seventh  Lord  Seton), 

156-61. 
(Alexander,    first    Earl    of    Dunfermline), 

966-9. 

of  Seton  Church,  774. 

Prue  and  I,  562,  839-40. 

Prussia,  king  of  (Frederick-William  IV.),  502. 

Psaraki,  Alexandras,  723. 

Public  services  of  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  663. 

Purdon  of  Tinerara,  Simon  G. ,  543. 

Purvis,  Adam  (Tranent),  259. 

of  Bury  Hall,  Captain  Charles-Hotham,  61?. 

Sir  William,  565. 

Pyetstoun,  594. 
Pyett,  Alexander,  290. 
Pyncheon,  Clifford,  306. 
Pyrenees,  battle  of  the,  481. 


INDEX 


1065 


v^uaint    Correspondence    (Seton-Montgomeries), 

677-S. 
Quarterly  Review  (1S93  and  1895),  696,  841. 

■  on  Burgon's  Life  of  Patrick  Fraser-Tytler,  546. 

Hannay's  Essays  from  the,  546  n, 

Quatre  Maries,  Les,  130-2,  136. 

Queen  Regent  (1560),  398-9,  635. 

Queensberry,  Duke  of,  236  ». 

Quhytepark,  lands  of,  624. 

Quincey  (De),  Roger,  Earl  of,  63,  65,  66,  67,  70. 

Robert  de,  66. 

Seyer  de,  66. 

Quinceys,  Arms  of  the  de,  286  n. 

Earls  of  Winchester,  crest  of  the,  82S. 

XVace-horse,  price  of  a,  134. 

Rachel's  Rate,  by  William  Seton,  311. 

Radical  misrepresentations,  1 8. 

Rae's  History  of  the  Rebellion,  256  et  seq.,  737  n. 

Raeburn,  portraits  by,  731. 

*  Raise  the  Dragon,'  explained,  827  n. 

Raith,  Thomas  (Reader  at  Seton),  211. 

Raleigh,  Life  of  Sir  Walter,  556. 

Rally,  an  attendant  of  Mary  Stuart,  145. 

Ralph     Seton     (Winton    representative),    735,    739, 

1021-2. 
Rameldrie,  James  Seytoun  in,  5S0. 
Ramsay,  Allan,  198  «.,  327  «.,  568. 

and  Gilbert,  321. 

portrait  by  (Dunrobin),  533. 

at  Rome,  275. 

of  Abbotshall,  Sir  Andrew,  684. 

Andrew-Sandeford,  329. 

of  Benholm,  Sir  James,  626. 

Hon.  Captain,  442. 

of  Dalhousie,  Sir  Alexander,  113. 

of  Edington,  John,  711. 

of  Idington,  711. 

Jean,  328. 

Colonel  John,  592  n. 

Sir  John,  instructions  to  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton), 

999- 

Michael,  691. 

Sir  Nicol,  285. 

of  Parbroath,  28;. 

Elizabeth,  heiress  of  Parbroath,  86,  2S5. 

Peter  (stabler),  444. 

of  Whitehall,  Sir  John,  244,  246,  252. 

Ramsay-Karr,  Andrew,  330. 

Ramsay's  Gentle  Shepherd,  689-90. 

Scotland  and  Scotsmen,  269  n.,  272  n.,  274  n., 

346  ».,  1017  n, 
Randasso,  camp  of,  73S. 
Randolph,  English  Ambassador,  400. 

to  Cecil  (Mary  Livingstone's  marriage),  167. 

to  Hunsdon,  186. 

Ranken,  Mrs.,  592. 

Ranking,  Decreet  of  (1620),  60. 

Ransom,  case  of,  538. 

'  Rarities,'  repository  of,  435. 

Rat  penchant,  689. 

Rathmelry  or  Rothmelry  (Rumeldrie),  5S0,  5S2. 

Ravenscraig,  294. 

Rawlinson,  Alicia  (Mrs.  Seton-Karr),  331. 

Ray,  John,  burgess  of  Aberdeen,  4S9. 

'  Reasoner,  an    ignorant '  (George   Seton   in   Seton), 

214. 
Reay,  John,  Lord,  525-6. 
Rebel's  goods,  escheat  of,  464. 


Record  Office,  tinted  sketch  of  surrender  at  Carberry 

in,  136. 
Recruiting  Duchess,  a,  446  n. 
Recumbent  monument  in  Seton  Church,  775. 
Red  blood,  43. 

Redside,  James  Seton  of,  324. 
Redwood  Library,  311  n. 

Archbishop,  311  n. 

Reform  Bill  of  1832,  17. 

Reformation,  the,  789. 

Reformed  religion,  the,  635. 

Re-foundation  of  an  ancient  family,  II. 

Refuge,  House  of,  Edinburgh,  tablet  at,  196  n. 

Registrar-General  of  Scotland,  Examiner  of  Registers, 

515- 
Reid,  Alexander,  goldsmith,  709. 

Charles-William  (Audit  Office),  709. 

Hugo,  90  11. ,  598  n. ,  608  11. 

of  Oxmantoun  Hill,  Ellen-Elizabeth,  709. 

Rawson  H.  B.,  457. 

Robert,  President  of  Court  of  Session,  162. 

Reid-Seton  of  Leyton,  709. 

Reidpath  of  Deridoun,  Andro,  slaughter  of,  117. 

Relics  of  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  275-9. 

Relief  Act,  440. 

Religion,  alteration  of,  1S8. 

Religious  differences  (1559),  160. 

Relincourt,  Claude  de  Bertin  de,  584. 

Remission,  no,  in  Seton  charter-chest,  46. 

precept  of  (1527-8),  117. 

Rendlesham,  Frederick,  fifth  Lord,  69S. 
Renee  de  T  orraine,  Madame,  959,  963. 
Renfrew,  Sheriffship  of,  691. 
Rent  of  Lord  Kingston  in  1667,  717. 

■  roll  of  George,  first  Marquis  of  Huntly,  414. 

Rentallers  or  kindly  tenants,  273  n. 

of  Seton,  1015. 

Renton  of  Lamberton,  543. 

John,  6SS. 

Rents  and  living  in  1675-7,  241. 
Reres,  Newton  of,  316. 
Rescobie,  parish,  590  n. 
Restoration,  the,  474,  660. 
Retribution,  divine,  643. 
Reubie,  Monsieur,  399. 
Revenues  of  Scotland,  637  n. 
Revolution  of  16S8,  527,  661. 

■ ■  the  French  (1793),  767. 

Rey,  M.,  on  the  Fleur-de-lis,  S25-6. 
Rheims,  convent  at,  132. 

library,  147. 

Mary  Seton's  testament  at,  958-65. 

Rhind,  David,  architect,  796. 
Rhine,  Count  Palatine  of  the,  225. 
Richard  Seyton,  Sir,  754-5. 
Richardson,  Elizabeth  and  Beatrix,  321. 

of  Smeaton,  Sir  James,  241. 

Richmond,  Charles,  fourth  Duke  of,  443. 

and  Gordon,  Duke  of,  445  n. ,  448. 

writs,  628-9,  667. 

and  Lennox,  Ludovick,  Duke  of,  416. 

Richter  (Jean  Paul)  on  Ancestry,  I. 

Riddarhus  of  Stockholm,  370. 

Riddell,  John,  60,  151,  360,  556,  599,  697-8,  7S1. 

on  true  genealogy,  24. 

on  good  blood  in  humble  life,  6. 

on  the  Gordon  barony,  377,  385. 

on  the  House  of  Seton,  44-5. 

on    the    destruction     of    Seton    Palace, 

793- 
letters  from,  951,  954,  955. 


6  T 


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INDEX 


Riddell,  John,   notes  by,   on  Winton  Earldom,  in 

Douglas's  Peerage,  940-50. 

in  the  author's  possession,  951-55. 

Riddell's  (John)  Keir  Performance,  735  n. 

copy  of  Douglas's  Peerage,  59. 

Scottish  Peerage  Law,  165  71.,  20S  n. 

Riddell  of  Glenriddell,  257. 

Walter,  of  LUisclive,  69. 

Ridpath's  Border  History,  82  «. 
Rig,  Mr.  Hew,  121. 
Rigganhead,  farm  of,  166. 
Riggs,  lands  of,  315. 
Ring,  costly  marriage,  686. 
- — -  Lady  Seton's,  1009. 

with  Prince  Charlie's  hair,  612,  618. 

Riots,  the  Gordon,  441. 

Ripley,  Mrs.  (Emma-Alice  Seton),  363. 

Phcebe-Elizabeth,  363. 

Sir  Henry- William,  363. 

'Rising' of  1715,  254  «.,  517,  52S,   530,   720,   773, 

789,  791-2,  1006  n. 

of  1745,  437,  517,  601-2. 

Ritchie,  Dr.  Peel,  594  n. 

Rizzio's  assassination,  167,  519. 

Rob  Roy,  quotation  from,  relative  to  Heraldry,  9  n, 

'  Rob '  Seton,  914. 

Robert  I.  (Bruce),  81,  517,  583,  S24,  933-4. 

II.,  87,  91,  101,  565. 

coronation  of,  92. 

III.,  93-4,  377  ».,  S05. 

sword  of,  75  11. 

Robertson,  Alexander,  Reader  in  Cluny,  623. 

Argyll,  M.D.,  543. 

Rev.  Frederick  L.,  543. 

Rev.  F.  W.  on  hereditary  rank,  15. 

■ ■  Captain  George,  R.N.,  298. 

of  Glediswode,  543- 

James,   to  his   brother   (Lord   Seton's    visit  to 

France),  189. 

Dr.  Joseph,  656,  773  n. 

(Inventories  of  Quee?i  Mary),  130,  135  «., 

136  «. 

Robert  (Sheriff-Substitute),  543. 

of  Prenderguest,  Robert,  543. 

of  Ladykirk,  Roger,  75  re. 

William  (Monkmylne),  541-3. 

- —  Rev.  Dr.  William,  the  Scottish  historian,  239  n. 

■ (New  Greyfriars),  543,  545. 

of  Surrey,  Dr.  William,  298. 

and  Seton  Arms,  quarterly,  545. 

Robertson-Glasgow,  Robert  (Advocate),  543. 

Robert-Bruce,  543,  545. 

Robertson's  Index  of  Scottish  Charters,  66  «.,  81. 

Rochefoucauld  (La)  on  hypocrisy,  23. 

Rochester,  Viscount,  148. 

Rodon's  Funeral  of  the  Mass,  829,  995. 

Roe  of  Mount  Annville  Park,  Henry,  458. 

Roger  Seyton,  Sir,  755. 

Rohans  and  Voltaire,  the,  165  n. 

'  Rois  ne  puis,'  etc.  (Rohan),  165  n. 

ne  suis,'  etc.  (De  Coucy),  165  n. 

'  Roland  Graeme '  of  the  Abbot,  49. 
Rolland,  William  (Master  of  the  Mint),  471. 
Roman  nobles  described,  21. 

Prelatura,  309. 

remains,  75^- 

Rome,  Chancellor  Seton  at,  634. 

death  and  burial  of  fifth  Earl  of  Winton  at,  272, 

279. 
Romeo  and  Juact  quotation  from,  771. 
Rondel  at  Woodhouselee,  stained  glass,  566. 


Roscoe,  Sir  Henry,  M.P.,  311. 

the  historian,  311. 

Rose,  white,  262. 

Rosebery,  Lord,  on  Pitt's  peerages,  32. 

Rosencrantz,  Beate-Louise,  373. 

Ross,  Andrew,  Marchmont  Herald,  259  n. 

Bishop  of  (1569),  173  re. 

examination  of,  180. 

Captain,  279  n. 

of  Craigie,  Thomas,  31 8. 

Alexander,  tenth  Earl  of,  37S. 

John,  eleventh  Earl  of,  382,  387. 

Earldom  of,  377. 

Lt. -Colonel  Hugh,  572. 

James,  sixth  Lord,  681. 

Ross's  Scottish  Sundials,  567. 

Rossi,  Commendatore  de,  309. 

Rothes,  George,  third  Earl  of,  162,  396,  507. 

■ ■  fourth  Earl  of,  291. 

John,  fifth  Earl  of,  679. 

sixth  Earl  of  (Chancellor),  246,  476,  683. 

seventh  Earl  of  256. 

James,  Master  of  (1601),  652. 

Rothesay,  David,  Duke  of,  38. 
Rothiemay,  Gordon  of  418-9,  424. 
Rothnock,  lands  of,  462. 
Roundle  at  Seton  (James  VI.),  217,  794. 
Rourke  of  London,  Joseph,  591. 
Rowe,  Mr.,  surgeon,  493. 
Roxburgh  Club,  592  n. 

Duke  and  Earl  of,  320. 

John,  first  Duke  of,  731. 

Robert,  third  Earl  of,  237. 

Madame  de,  150. 

Royal  alliances  of  the  Setons,  33-4,  101  n. 

Society  of  Edinburgh,  554. 

Rubislaw,  Skene  of,  293. 

Ruble's  (De),  Premie're  feunesse  de  Marie  Stuart,  1 3 1  ». 

Ruchelaw,  lands  of,  70. 

Ruddiman,  Mr.,  932. 

Rumeldrie  (or  Rameldrie),  581. 

Rumgally,  near  Cupar,  60S-9,  614,  916. 

William  Seton  of,  286. 

Rumgavye,  Katherine  Butler  of,  286. 

Rupert,  Prince,  680. 

Rural  reform  in  Scotland,  442  n. 

Ruskin  on  the  Crimean  War  (Seton  war-cry),  827  n. 

Russell's  Haigs  of  Bemerside,  64S. 

Modern  Europe,  602  n. 

Russian  nobleman  on  his  descent,  3. 
Rutherford,  Rev.  John,  639. 

Samuel,  677. 

Ruthven  in  Badenoch,  416. 

Lady,  800-1. 

Patrick,  third  Lord,  167,  518. 

William,  fourth  Lord,  187. 

Raid  of,  192,  314. 

Rutland,  Lord,  Randolph's  letter  to,  136. 
Rutlandshire  Setons,  754-6,  7^0. 
Rutledge,  Dr.,  1009. 
Rymer's  Fadera,  72  n. 
Rympett,  Andrew,  398. 


Oacrament  of  Lord's  Supper,  636. 

Sadler,  Sir  Ralph,  120. 

Sadlier  to  Cecil,  162. 

Safe-conduct  through  England  to  France,  167. 

Safe-conducts  into  England,  82,  98,  101. 

St.  Albans,  Book  of,  826. 

St.  Andrew  Boat  Club,  615. 


INDEX 


1067 


St.  Andrews,  Archbishop  of  (1513),  112. 

■ ■ U.  1561),  164. 

(1635),  971. 

(1616),  415. 

Bishop  of  (1517),  396. 

Castle  of,  120. 

Cross,  733. 

University,  6S6. 

seventh  Lord  Seton  and  three  sons  at,  185. 

Justice -General  of  (George,  third  Earl  of  Winton), 

222,  223  ?i. 
St.  Barbe,  John,  558. 
St.  Bennet,  S32. 

'  St.  Bennet  and  Set  on  ! '  48,  197. 
St.  Bennet's,  Edinburgh,  116  «.,  Su  11. 
St.  Cas,  438. 
St.  Clair,  General,  533. 

of  Rosslyn,  Sir  Oliver,  104. 

St.  Catherine  of  Sienna,  convent  of,  630-1,  773,  790. 
St.  Catherine's  Place,  Edinburgh,  tablet  at,  116  n. 
St.  George,  Chevalier,  731. 

and  the  Dragon,  827  n. 

St.  Germains,  163. 

■ Court  of,  668. 

first  Duke  of  Gordon  at,  434. 

St.  Germains,  Setons  of,  710-3. 

1.  Hon.  Sir  John  Seton  of  St.   Germains,  127, 

208,  710-2. 

2.  John  Seton  of  St.  Germains,  712. 

3.  George  Seton  of  St.  Germains,  215,  712-3. 
St.  Germains  Arms,  713. 

House  of,  713. 

intermarriages,  37. 

lands  of,  678. 

writs,  711  n. 

St.  Giles's  Cathedral,  Edinburgh,  524,  S32. 

■ Arms  of  George,  Lord  Seton  (son  of  third 

Earl  of  Winton)  at,  233. 
St.  Helen's,  borough  of,  333. 
St.  Ignatius,  Epistles  of,  Dedication  of,  to  fifth  Earl 

of  Winton,  251. 
St.  Ives,  the  Cockes  of,  596  n. 
St.  Jago,  Order  of,  201,  623. 
St.  Jerome,  maxim  of,  310. 
St.  John,  Prior  of,  756. 
St.  Joseph,  community  of,  307. 
St.  Joseph's  Church,  New  Jersey,  309. 
St.  Laurence  House,  Haddington,  627. 
St.  Liz  (alias  Seyton),  family  of,  756. 
St.  Machar,  Church  of,  429. 

heraldic  ceiling  of,  391  n. 

St.  Magdalen's  Day,  83,  84. 

St.  Mary's  College,  Maryland,  309. 

Dumfries,  78. 

St.  Michael,  Order  of,  398,  401,  519,  7S9. 

St.  Mirrinus  Chapel,  Paisley,  201. 

St.  Nicholas,  Aberdeen,  413. 

St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  New  York,  311. 

St.  Pierre  aux  Dames,  Rheims,  146. 

Madame  of,  149. 

St.  Quentin  of  Harpham,  Sir  William,  686. 
St.  Vincent,  French  and  Carribs  of,  603. 

Governor  of  (James  Seton),  914. 

island  of,  629,  631. 

St.  Vincent  Gazette,  631. 
Sala,  George-Augustus,  546  n. 
Salamanca,  battle  of,  595. 

Mass,  639. 

Salem,  Massachusetts,  571. 

Salisbury  Crags  (Mungo  Campbell),  692. 

Lord  (160S),  644-5. 


Salisbury,  Recollections  of  the  Dean  of,  704. 

Robert,  Earl  of,  649  n. 

Salt,  foreign,  letter  relative  to,  234. 

'Samson's  Hall'  at  Seton  Palace,   164,  619,  789-90, 

793.  954. 
Sancto  Licio,  William  de,  754. 

Sandford's  Genealogical  History  of  the  Kings  of  Eng- 
land, 108  n. 
Sandilands  of  Slamannan,  Sir  James,  465. 
Sandwich,  Lord  (1780),  441. 

Sangler,  Charles  (from  Flanders),  imprisonment  of,  157. 
Sanquhar,  William,  seventh  Lord,  on  Chancellor  Seton, 

648. 
Sanrick,  Meikle,  or  Dunrod,  672. 
'  Sapience  College '  at  Rome,  766. 
Saracinesca  quoted,  21. 
Satan's  Invisible    World  Discovered,  Sinclair's,    23S, 

990. 
Sauchie,  battle  of,  3S8. 
'  Saucy  Setons,'  49. 
Saunders,  Dr.  Nicholas,  1S2  n. 
Savele,  Mr.  Harry,  644. 
Say  family,  50,  64-5,  823. 

armorial  bearings  of  the,  5 1. 

■  Seher  de,  58. 

Sayer  of  Worsall,  John,  757-8. 

Sayers,  the,  756-8. 

Saytun  or  Seyton,  64. 

Scsevola  de  St.  Marthe,  572. 

Scala  Chronica,  84,  93 1 -2. 

Scepticism  and  credulity,  26. 

Sceptre,  right  to  carry  the  (Sutherland),  536. 

Schaw,  Elen,  of  Dirletoun,  565. 

Scheldt,  expedition  to  the,  447. 

Schethin,  George  Seatoun  of,  469. 

Schmidt, 304. 

Schonberg,  Baron,  573. 

Sciennes,  Convent  of  the,  1 13-6,  141,  952. 

Scone,  Abbots  of,  442  n. 

Scoone,  Lord,  907. 

Scoonie  Parochial  Register,  614. 

Scot  of  Ardross,  59S. 

John  (Customs),  598. 

of  Scotstoun,  David,  514. 

Scotch  family  pride,  Sir  Walter  Scott  on,  11. 

Scotia  Rediviva,  167  n.,  206. 

'Scotica  Nobilitas,'  British  Museum  (i5S9),~202  »., 

205  ».,  410,  522. 
'  Scotishe  promises,'  186. 
Scotland,  independency  of,  82. 

Yard,  954. 

Scotland,  New  Statistical  Account  of,  710  n. 

Tytler's  History  of,  556. 

Weldon's  Description  of,  648. 

Scotland's  Nobility  and  Gentry  (MS.  British  Museum), 

537,  577«-,67c.«. 
Scoto-Franco  Society,  642  n. 

'Scoto-Hibernicus,'on  prescriptive  right  to  Arms,  831. 
Scots  Brigade  colours,  438. 

Greys,  692-3. 

Guards  in  France,  101  n.,  204,  416-7,  425,  765. 

■ ■  first  battalion  of,  836. 

Scots  Courant  (1719),  269-70,  1009-10. 

Scots  Magazine  (1750),  739,  7S7. 

Scotstarvet  on  the  Abbacy  of  Dunfermline,  659. 

on  Chancellor  Seton,  655. 

on  the  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  65S. 

on  the  Setons  of  Parbroath,  283. 

his  'accustomed  malignity,'  658  n. 

Scotstarvet's  notice  of  Robert,  second  Earl  of  Winton, 

219. 


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INDEX 


Scott  of  Balwearey,  Sir  William,  172. 

of  Buccleuch,  Sir  Walter,  140. 

of  Duninald,  Sir  David,  511. 

Dr.  J.,  567. 

Montagu-David,  511. 

Captain  Robert,  612. 

Rev.  Robert  (Glasgow),  627. 

Fasti  Ecclesice  Scoticana:,  774  n. 

Sir  Walter,  536,  555-6,  641  n.,  694,  700. 

on  the  'Four  Maries,'  132. 

his  taste  for  pedigree,  4,  56. 

on  Scotch  family  pride,  II. 

two  letters  to  P.  F.  Tytler,  556. 

on  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  267-8. 

his  Monument,  565. 

Scott-Kerr  of  Chatto,  William,  564. 

Hugh-Stowell  ('  Henry  Scton  Merriman '),  924. 

Scott's  Abbot,  116,  138  «.,  196,  S04. 

Bride  of  Lammermoor,  796. 

Familiar  Letters,  579  «.,  602  n. 

Heart  of  Midlothian,  435  «.,  437. 

Ivanhoe,  703. 

Journal,  535. 

Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  104. 

Lord  of  the  Isles,  79. 

■ ■  Marmion,  113,  116  n. 

Monastery,  808. 

Provincial  Antiquities,  90  11.,  105,  19S-9,  274  n., 

772. 

Quentin  Durward,  579. 

grandfather,  602  n. 

Scottish  Art  Review  (1889),  821. 
Ballads  by  G.  (1SS1),  955. 

National  Memorials   (1890),    74>    75   "•>    I33> 

275. 

Presbyterian  Eloquence  Displayed,  251  n. 

Worthies,  Lives  of,  556. 

Scottish  families  entitled  to  the  double  tressure,  S25. 

History  Society,  667  n. 

nobility,  how  affected  (1585),  409. 

Peers  at  Lord  Winton's  trial,  265. 

Scriptural  statements  on  Genealogy,  5  n. 
Scrope,  Anna-Maria,  479. 

to  Walsingham  (Sir  John  Seton),  192. 

Scropes  of  Danby,  43  n. 

Scrymgeour  of  Dudhope,  Sir  John,  294. 

Sculpin  family,  the,  839-40. 

Sculpture  at  Winton  House,  224. 

Scutcheons,  alleged  contempt  of,  23. 

Seafield  earldom,  11. 

Seaforth,  Colin,  first  Earl  of,  651. 

Earl  of,  578. 

Seal  of  Sir  Alexander  Seton  (1320),  82. 

of  Robert  Bruce,  Lord  of  Annandale  (c.  1240),  7S7. 

of  Chancellor  Seton,  643. 

Cornelian,  with  Arms  of  Miller,  Henderson,  and 

Seton,  496  n. 

earliest  Seton,  824. 

of  James  Seton,  London  (1815).  763. 

of  Alexander,  third  Earl  of  Iluntly,  998. 

steel,  with  Cariston  Arms,  619. 

with  Kingston  Arms,  721. 

of  first  Viscount  Kingston,  717. 

of  Roger  de  Quincey,  second  Earl  of  Winchester, 

67. 
Seals  of  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  660. 

of  William,  first  Lord  Seton,  95. 

of  three  Lords  Seton,  740. 

and  signatures  of  the  Montgomeries,  677. 

Seaton-Carew  (Carrowe),  758,  925. 
'  Seaton,  Captain,'  205. 


Seaton-Delaval,  77,  925. 
Seaton  Chapel  (Durham),  758. 

in  Devonshire,  925. 

Dorothy  (1730),  296. 

— —  Rev.  Prebendary  Douglas,  758,  760. 

Francis,  letter  from,  910. 

Henry  (1706),  296. 

Lord  (Sir  John  Colborne),  925. 

Rev.  Thomas  (Clare  Hall,  Cambridge),  762. 

W.  W.  (1855),  296. 

of  Whitbystrand,  77. 

Seatonian  Prize  (Cambridge),  762. 
Secondary  evidence  in  Peerage  cases,  954. 
Sedans,  procession  of,  690. 

Sederunt,  Acts  of  (President  Seton),  641. 

Books  of,  476. 

Seethun,  Eccla.  de  (1242),  773  n. 

Segetone  (Seyton),  Co.  Rutland,  754- 

Seggat,  Thomas,  schoolmaster  to  Lord  Seton,  213. 

Selby,  Sir  John,  187. 

Self-made  men,  13-4,  841. 

Selwyn,  Right  Hon.  Sir  Charles,  559. 

'Semper'  (Dunfermline  motto),  197. 

Semple,  Baroness  (Lady  Isobel  Seton),  229,  730"1,  741- 

Robert,  third  Lord  (husband  of  Mary  Living- 
stone), 136. 

Hugh,  fifth  Lord,  681. 

Francis,  sixth  Lord,  229. 

'Mistress'  (Mary  Livingstone),  137. 

Sentence  of  the  forfeited  peers  (1716),  25S. 

Sentiment  of  ancestral  pride,  S40. 

Seringapatam  (Thomas  Seton),  330. 

Serpent  among  foliage  as  a  Seton  crest,  827. 

Servants  at  Seton  in  1686,  243. 

'  Service  Book,'  imposition  of  the,  524. 

Service  to  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  1007. 

'  Servitor '  to  eighth  Lord  Seton  (James  Seton),  214. 

Session  Papers  (Arniston  collection),  notes  from  (for- 
feited Winton  estates),  793,  1009-18. 

Sethon  of  Egypt,  51. 

Seton  Church,  94-5,  102,  105,  III,  211,  213,  215, 
429,  536  »■,  5S6,  629,  674-5,  712,741,  770,  771-S7, 
827,  836,  955. 

Sir  Archibald  Alison's  etching  of,  535  "• 

Arms  at,  S26. 

burial  in,  525. 

and  Lady  Janet  Hepburn,  114-5. 

interior  of,  618. 

Latin  epitaph  in,  956-7- 

Castle,  773. 

House,  255-6. 

. — -  Palace,    136,   294,   5SS-9,  665,   6S2,   709,    714, 


726. 
954' 


77°,  771,  773,  7S4,  7SS-94,  S20,  S24,  S26,  91 


•  burning  of,  224. 

and  Church  rifled  and  desecrated,  260. 

demolition  of,  1014-5. 

■ ■ encounter  near,  181. 

great  hall  of,  204. 

hospitality  of,  204. 

.  James  VI.  at,  224. 

■ marriage  at,  525. 

timber  at,  1014-5. 

Seton,  building  operations  at,  195-6. 

Hall  College,  313. 

■ and  Douglas  rivalry,  47. 

■  dungeon  at,  158-9,  164. 

Earls  of  Eglinton,  678-706. 

family,  importance  of  the,  26. 

genealogy  in  the  fourteenth  century,  929-31. 

headship  of  the  House  of,  697. 


INDEX 


1069 


Seton,  Houston  &  Co.,  bankers,  324. 

lairds  and  knights.     (See  under  MAIN  LINE  of 

the  family.) 

lands  of,  68,  ill,  117,  156. 

Lodge,  North  Berwick,  326. 

Lords.     (Sec  under  Main  Line  of  the  family). 

Maitland  &  Co.,  304-5. 

pedigrees,  926-7. 

Queen  Mary  at,  167,  16S. 

sands,  181. 

surname,  assumption  of,  709,  736,  739. 

lines  on  the,  978. 

'  Seton  Tower,'  Fyvie,  807,  S09. 

town  of,  81. 

Wallace  &  Co.,  324. 

Setons,  notices  of  the,  55. 
Seton's  Close,  Edinburgh,  198. 

Land,  Edinburgh,  198. 

Scottish  Heraldry,  782-3,  S25  ;/.,  S30  n. 

'  Seton's  sons,'  ballad  of,  84,  934-9. 
Seton-Gordon  pedigree,  93. 
Seton-Gordons,  the,  45,  390. 
Seton- Karr  Arms,  334. 
Seton-May,  Mrs.,  1020. 
Seton-Steuart,  Sir  Alan-Henry,  349. 

Archibald,  348-9. 

Sir  Henry-James,  34S-9. 

Sir  Reginald  Macdonald,  347. 

Seton-Sutherlands,  the,  517. 
'  Setonissimus  Setonorum,'  608  n. 
Setoun,  Gabriel  (Thomas  Nicoll  Hepburn),  924. 
Seymour,  Sir  Edward,  and  the  Duke  of  Somerset, 
20  n. 

■ Frederick  C.  W.,  457. 

Lady  ('  Queen  of  Beauty '),  703. 

*  Seyton  '  in  Macbeth,  46. 

Seyton  (or  Seaton),  Co.  Rutland,  754. 

Church  of,  754. 

Shafton  Castle,  foundering  of  the,  329. 
Shakespeare  on  Ancestry,  I. 
Shakespeare's  Macbeth,  789. 

'  Seyton, '  46. 

Shanghai,  monument  at,  617. 
Sharp,  Archbishop,  661,  677,  590. 
works  relative  to,  590  n. 

Sharpe,  Charles  Kirkpatrick,  56,  63,  132,  198-9  «., 
215  «•,  247  "■,  325.  S36  «•,  556>  6l7,  6SS,  774, 
7S7,  926  n. 

correspondence  of,  535,  772. 

prints  of,  365. 

Shee,  Hon.  Sir  William,  514. 

Sheffield,  Mary  Seton  at,  186  n. 

Manor,  Queen  Mary  at,  139. 

prison,  discomforts  of  Queen  Mary,  1S5. 

Sheldon's  Minstrelsy  of  the  English  Border,  S41. 

Shields  of  Anns,  etc.,  at  Winton,  797,  Soi. 

Shepherd,  Hon.  Frances  J.,  440. 

'Shepherd's  room,'  at  Woodhouselee,  566,  56S. 

Sheriffmuir,  battle  of,  436. 

Sheriffships  of  Aberdeen  and  Inverness,  417,  425. 

Shirley  (Evelyn)  on  family  decay,  8. 

Noble-  and  Gentle-men  of  England,  II,  43  n. 

Shotton,  756. 

Thomas  (Scottish  pirates),  186. 

Shrapnel  Shells,  Treatise  on,  326. 

Sibbald  of  Lethanie,  David,  586. 

Matilda  and  Caroline,  302. 

Sir  Robert,  on  House  of  Parbroath,  2S3. 

Fife  and  Kinross,  5S6  «.,  58S  n.,  594  n.,600  n. 

Memoria  Balfouriana,  577- 

Sibbald's  History  of  Linlithgow,  35S  n. 


Sibbit  in  Orkymylne,  David,  583. 

'  Sic  transit  gloria  mundi,'  608. 

Sicilian  Vespers,  418. 

Sicily,  service  in,  696. 

Sidmouth,  William,  second  Viscount,  596. 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  656. 

Sienna,  Convent  of  St.  Catherine  of,  11 3-6. 

Signal  of  Queen  Mary  at  Lochleven,  170  n. 

Signature  of  Captain  James  Seton  (Cariston),  915. 

of  Major  Christopher  Seton  (Cariston),  916. 

of  Commander  George  Seton  (Cariston),  918. 

of  Isabel  Seton,  Countess  of  Perth,  280. 

of  Lady  Jean  Gordon  (Countess  of  Dunfermline), 

970. 

of  Mary  Seton,  147,  961. 

Signatures  of  fifth  and  sixth  Barons  of  Cariston,  9S4. 

of  Chancellor  Seton,  657. 

of  second  and  fourth  Earls  of  Dunfermline,  970. 

of  Seton  Earls  of  Eglinton,  etc.,  907. 

elaborate,  678. 

■  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton,  and  wife,  200. 

of  third  and  fifth  Earls  of  Winton,  280. 

Silver  basin,  etc.,  receipt  for  a,  155. 

bell,  horse-race  for  a,  155. 

fir  at  Woodhouselee,  568. 

plate  account  (fourth  Earl  of  Winton),  243. 

sale  of,  632. 

'  Silver  mail,'  414. 

spoon,'  the,  12. 

warke,'  etc.,  at  Seton  Palace,  218. 

vessels,  receipt  of,  582. 

Sim's  Heralds'  Visitations,  762. 

Simson  of  Brunton,  Anne  (Mrs.  James  Seton),  602. 

■ John,  602. 

Mrs.  George,  918. 

William   (R.S.A.),   painting   of   Niddrie   Castle 

by,  804. 
Simsons  of  Brunton,  600  n. 

Simsoun,  Alexander,  burgess  of  Pladdington,  672. 
Sinclair  Arms,  544,  779  n.,  7S5. 

Lady  Barbara,  521. 

of  Carlowrie,  Henry,  359. 

David,  eighth  Lord  Seton's  tutor,  214. 

of  Dunbeath,  51S. 

Professor  George,  988,  990. 

his  two   Dedications   to   the   fourth 

Earl  of  Winton,  23S. 

of    Herdmandston,    Catherine    (Lady    Seton), 

93-6,  "5,  772-3,  78o,  785- 

—  Sir  William,  93,  96. 

Henry,  third  Lord,  206. 

Isobel,  520. 

Jonet,  of  Norfhrig,  10S,  538-41. 

of  Longformacus,  Sir  Robert,  6S3. 

Margaret,  543. 

.  Patrick,  565. 

■  of  Petcaryne,  121. 

Sir  Robert,  719. 

of  Stevenston,  Sir  Robert,  444. 

of  Ulbster,  George,  531. 

of  Westera,  Sir  William,  392. 

Sinclairs,  lofty  stature  of  the,  S35. 
Sinclair's  Ars  Nova,  etc.,  23S,  9SS-90. 

Satan's  Invisible  World,  73,  990-3. 

Singers  at  Seton  in  1498,  788. 
'  Sister '  Katherine  Seton,  108. 
'  Sister's  son   of  the  House  of  Seton '  (Sir  Richard 

Maitland),  107. 
Sitonuvi  gens,  50. 
Sixhill,  Prior  of,  72  n. 
Skeat,  Rev.  Dr.,  73  n. 


1070 


INDEX 


Skelley,  Rev.  John,  439. 
Skelmorlie  estate,  694. 

Skelton,  John,   on  the  fourth  Earl  of  Huntly,   400, 
402. 

Maitland  of '  Lethington,  146. 

Skene  of  that  ilk,  John,  569. 

Sir  John,  468,  637. 

of  Potterton,  David,  293. 

of  Rubislaw,  George,  562. 

■ ■ (Advocate),  562. 

Skene-Ogilvy,  Rev.  Dr.,  495,  500. 

Skene-Tytler  branch  of  Seton-Tytlers,  549,  569-76. 

5.  James  Tytler,  569. 

6.  John  Tytler  of  Corsindae,  369. 

7.  Rev.  George  Tytler,  570. 

8.  James  Tytler  ('Balloon  Tytler'),  570-1. 
8  (a).   Henry-William  Tytler,  M.D.,  571-3. 

9.  Robert  Tytler,  M.D.,  573. 

10.  Colonel  Robert-Christopher  Tytler,  573-4. 

11.  General  Robert,  F.  C.  A.  Tytler,  574-5. 
Skene-Tytler  Arms,  575-6. 

Skibo,  castle  of,  521. 

Skirven,  Captain,  609. 

Skirving,  Archibald,  portrait  by,  566  n. 

Sklatie  (Slatie),  lands  of  (St.  Machar),  464. 

Slate  House,  John  Seton  of,  327. 

Slatie,  William  Seton  of,  464. 

Slaughter  of  Alexander  Seton  of  Meldrum,  463,  465. 

■ of  James  Seytoun,  463. 

Sleich,  Marion,  672. 

Sligo  of  Seacliffe,  George,  498. 

Small,  John  (Edinburgh  University  Library)  765. 

Smith,  Archbishop,  498. 

Hugh  (afterwards  Seton),  345,  349. 

James,  Clerk  of  Tranent,  252. 

Sydney,  566. 

Smith-SIigo,  A.  Vincent,  49S. 
Smith's  Historical  Antiquities,  133  n. 

Life  of  Cobbett,  (tad. 

Smollett,  Tobias,  550. 
Smuggling  transactions,  913. 
Snuff-box,  shell  (Pitmedden),  4S2. 

silver  (Pitmedden),  4S2. 

tortoise-shell  (Pitmedden),  496  n. 

shell,  with  Seton  Arms  (American  family),  300. 

Sobieski  of  Poland,  Clementina,  731. 
Social  changes,  17. 
'  Solemn  League  and  Covenant,'  679. 
Solitaire  at  Woodhouselee,  567. 
Solway,  the  army  at,  463. 

raid  of,  103. 

Somer,  David,  161  n. 

Somerset,  Duchess  of  ('  Queen  of  Beauty '),  703. 

■ Edward,  first  Duke  of,  102  n. 

Earlof(l6l2),  678. 

Memoirs  of  the  twelfth  Duke  of,  16  n.,  44  n. 

Somervell  of  Plane,  David,  339. 

family,  953. 

their  Seton  portraits,  198-9. 

Gilbert,  322. 

James,  sixth  Lord,  171. 

Hugh,  seventh  Lord,  122,  195. 

James,  thirteenth  Lord,  913-4. 

Master  of,  171  n. 

Lady  (Eleanor  Seton),  114,  121,  122,   124,  126, 

171  n. 
Somervilles,    Memorie    of  the,   56,    163  «.,    171   «., 

192;*.,  195,  791. 
Somerville's  Life  and  Times,  603  11. 
Somners,  Mary,  324. 
Sonnet  by  Chancellor  Seton,  656. 


'Soothfast  witnessing,'  90-1. 
Sorn  Castle,  Royal  visit  to,  956. 

parish  of,  153  n. 

Soulis,  Sir  John  de,  75  n. 
Souters  of  Selkirk,  113. 
Southesk,  David,  first  Earl  of,  660. 
Southey,  lines  by,  312. 
Sow-riding  in  St.  Mary's  Wynd,  444. 
Spain,  Consuls  in,  645. 

Court  of,  410. 

Huntley's  correspondence  with  (1592),  412. 

King  of  (c.  1569),  173-4. 

Lord  Seton's  son's  journey  to  (1580),  1S5. 

Setons  in,  767. 

Spalding,  the  annalist,  420-1,  426,  428. 

Club,  New,  459. 

History  of  the  Troubles,  etc.,  232  ».,  473  «.,  etc. 

Professbr,  581. 

Spanish  marriage  for  James  VI.,  188,  193. 

wine  of  Edinburgh  Town  Council,  645. 

'  Spangare '  (Alexander  Forbes),  462. 

'  Spare  nought,'  577  n. 

Spectator,  The  (Addison's),  on  good  birth,  I. 

(1852)  on  the  wreck  of  the  Birkenhead,  505. 

Spedding's  Life  of  Bacon,  642  n. 
Spellings  of  Seton,  various,  52. 
Spens  of  Conde,  John,  125,  157-61. 

of  Lathallan,  314,  317. 

of  Wormiston,  594  11. 

Spenser's  Faerie  Queen,  3. 
Spey,  fishings  on  the,  659. 
Spinning-wheel,  a,  as  a  tocher,  5S9. 
Spire  of  Seton  Church,  incomplete,  7S4. 
Spittell,  Jonet,  338. 
Spoons,  etc.,  silver,  317. 

silver  (with  Tytler  and  Skene  initials),  576. 

Sport,  Chancellor  Seton's  patronage  of,  645. 

Seton  family  addicted  to,  155. 

Sports,  love  of  (thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  702. 
Spotswoode,  Sir  Robert  (President),  357,  660. 
Spottiswood,  John,  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews,  647. 
Spotdswood's  estimate  of  Chancellor  Seton,  655. 

History  of  the  Church  of  Scotland,  192  n.,  642  n. 

Spuyten  Duyvil  Parkway,  311. 

Spynie,  416. 

Squint.     (See  Hagioscope. ) 

Squire,  Colonel,  573. 

Squirearchy,  the,  19. 

Stacey,  John,  Ross  Herald,  675. 

Joseph,  Ross  Herald,  354. 

■ Heraldic  MS.  of,  633  n. 

Stafford,   Sir  Edward,   letter   from    (Lord    Seton    in 

Paris),  190. 
to  Walsingham  (Lord  Seton's  hospitality), 

190. 

(Lord  Seton),  204. 

letter  from  (Lord  Seton  and  the  Scoto-French 

Guard),  191. 

and  Seton,  tiff  between,  204  n. 

Marchioness  of,  772. 

Marquis  of,  517. 

of  Mayne,  Berkeley  B.,  552. 

Staircase  at  Fyvie  Castle,  808. 

Standard-bearers  to  the  House  of  Seton,  248,  583. 

Star  in  Winton  Arms,  blazing,  248. 

State  Papers,  Scottish  (British  Museum),  621. 

religion,  profession  of,  644. 

Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  New,  283,  812. 

Old,  955-6. 

Statuettes  by  Catherine  Anne  Tytler,  562. 
Stature  of  Dunfermline  family,  670  n. 


INDEX 


1071 


Stature,  family  characteristic  of,  287. 

of  the  Setons,  48,  100,  13S,  5SS,  832-6. 

Steeplechase  over  ice,  597* 
Stein,  Robert,  348. 
Sterne's  Sentimental  Journey ,  8  «. 
Steuart  of  Allanton,  Arms  of,  352. 

Sir  Henry,  346,  34S-9,  556.    • 

Stevenson,  Father,  170  n. 

■ Professor  John,  553. 

Mr.  (Niddrie  Castle)  S03-4. 

Robert- Louis,  54. 

Stewart  of  Cardonald,  955. 

James,  781. 

of  Darnley,  Sir  Alan,  93  ».,  7S1,  783. 

of  Ethay,  Captain  Robert,  526. 

of  Grantully,  Sir  Thomas,  343. 

of  Pittendriech,  Hon.  Francis,  688. 

of  Rossyth,  Robert,  316. 

Kings,  674  n. 

- and  Lennox  Arms,  781. 

Provost  of  Aberdeen,  446  n. 

John,  fourth  Earl  of  Athole,  404. 

Earl  of  Athole  (1455),  395  n. 

Walter,  Earl  of  Athole  (son  of  Robert  II.),  91. 

Earl  of  Athole  {c.  1600),  468. 

Sir  John,  Prior  of  Coldingham,  734. 

Earl  of  Buchan,  John,  338. 

Major  Charles,  Bengal  Army,  509. 

David,  91. 

Dugald,  553. 

Elizabeth-Margaret  (afterwards  Seton),  347,  349. 

Francis  (son  of  Earl  of  Bothwell),  210- 1. 

Lady  Jean,  393-4. 

Lady  Louisa,  83S-9. 

Mabel,  372. 

Margaret  (illegit.  daughter  of  James  IV.),  396. 

Lady  Margaret  (first  wife  of  George,  third  Lord 

Seton),  101. 

Robert,  Writer  to  the  Signet,  321. 

Sir  Robert,  91. 

Walter  (Prior  of  Blantyre),  637. 

Steylaert,  Adriaen,  7S5. 

Stirling, ,  344. 

burgess,  the  fourth  Earl  of  Winton  a,  237. 

Castle,  399. 

of  Garden  and  Keir,  Sir  Archibald,  343. 

of  Keir,  674  n. 

■ Archibald,  722. 

Sir  George,  234,  42S. 

of  Gargunnock,  John  S.,  354. 

of  Glorat,  674. 

Stirling-Home-Drummond,  George,  723-4. 
Stirling-Maxwell,  Sir  William,  S36. 
Stobhall,  436. 
Stockholm,  George  Seton  of,  369. 

Setons,  764. 

Stockton,  756,  758. 
Stodart,  Mr.  R.  R.,  S15. 

Scottish  Arms,  65,  86,  823. 

'  Stomack  stoute  and    hardie '   (the    Montgomeries), 

678  n. 
Strabrok,  lands  of,  222. 
Strangways,  James,  391. 
Stranton,  Vicar  of,  758. 
Strasburg,  battle  of,  432. 
Strathbane,  Claud,  first  Lord,  424. 
Strathbogie  (Huntly)  Castle,  401,  416,  420,  422,  770. 

entertainment  at,  398. 

lands  of,  379. 

— —  lordship  of,  376-7. 
Strathern,  Robert,  Earl  of,  547. 


Strathisla,  lands  of,  396. 
Strathmiglo  Vicarage,  316,  317. 
Strathmore,  Patrick,  third  Earl  of,  452. 

John,  tenth  Earl  of,  1022. 

Strathor,  Balfour  of,  578. 

Stratton,  William,  of  Bombay,  329. 

Straw  gambling,  65S. 

'  Streamers  and  flags '  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton, 

106. 
Street  skirmish  in  Edinburgh,  415. 
Strickland's  (Miss),  Historic  Scenes  and  Poetic  Fancies, 

1 70  72. 

Letters  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  193  n. 

memoir  of  Mary  Seton,  133.    ' 

on  Niddry  Castle,  171-2. 

'  Strong  language,'  605. 

Struan  Robertsons,  543. 

Struggles  for  place,  20. 

Struthers,  Rev.  Dr.,  211,  278. 

Stuart  House  of,  272,  307,  310,  669,  691. 

of  Darnley,  Alan,  99. 

Mrs.  Alexander,  545  n. 

Lady  Arabella,  645. 

Gilbert  (American  artist),  304. 

James,  Prior  of  St.  Andrews,  162,  399. 

Dr.  John,  90. 

Colonel  John  Roy,  492. 

John  Sobieski-  (  Vestiarium  Scoticum),  477  11. 

Henrietta,  Countess  of  Huntly,  409,  413,  423. 

■  Miel,  131  n. 

Stuart's  Genealogical  History  of  the  Stuarts,  955. 
Stubbs,  Bishop,  on  English  and  continental  nobility,  20. 
'  Studio  fallente  laborem,'  610. 
Succession,  altered  (Meldrum),  467,  469. 
Summons,  irregular  execution  of  a,  121. 
Sunday  market  at  Tranent,  212. 
Sunderland  Hall,  heraldic  MS.  at,  544. 
Sun-dial  at  Seton,  794. 
Sun-dials,  Scottish,  793. 

at  Woodhouselee,  567. 

'Sunt  comites,'  etc.,  165. 
Supporters,  right  to,  583  n. 

at  Niddrie  Castle,  heraldic,  S04. 

of  the  Seton  Arms,  827. 

Surat,  Daniel  Seton,  Governor  of,  328,  331. 

David  Seton,  Governor  of,  330. 

Surgery,  System  of,  571. 

Surname,  proposed  change  of  (Gordon  and  Suther- 
land), 52S. 
Surplices  over  armour,  75. 
Surtees  History  of  Durham,  38,  756- 
Survey  of  Scotland,  640  n. 
'  Suspected  persons,'  530. 
Sutherland,  John,  eighth  Earl  of,  517- 

ninth  Earl  of,  517. 

Sutherland    Line  (Seton-Gordon-Sutherland),   45, 

5I6-536- 

1.  Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Sutherland,  507,  517-8. 

2.  Alexander,  Master  of  Sutherland,  519. 

3.  John,   tenth  Earl  of  Sutherland  (the  'good 

Earl'),  406,  512,  51S-20. 
his  seal,  526  ».,  537. 

4.  Alexander,  eleventh  Earl,  404-5,  513,520-2. 

5.  John,  twelfth  Earl,  513,  522-4. 

6.  thirteenth  Earl  ('  Earl  John  Glas'),  208, 

524-6,  652. 

his  seal,  537- 

7.  George,  fourteenth  Earl,  526-7- 

8.  John,  fifteenth  Earl,  436,  527-9. 

armorial  warrant  to,  517,  537- 

his  portrait  at  Dunrobin,  528. 


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INDEX 


Sutherland  Line — continued. 

9.  William,  Lord  Strathnaver,  530. 

10.  sixteenth  Earl,  531-2. 

11.  seventeenth  Earl,  514,  532-3. 

portrait  of,  by  Allan  Ramsay,  533. 

12.  Elizabeth,    '  Duchess-Countess '     of    Suther- 

land, 512,  516-7,  533-6,  772. 
Sutherland  Arms,  516-7,  522,  534  n.,  536-7. 

Case  (1771),  5M,  517.  528,  534.  598  «. 

descent  from  the  '  Seton-Gordons,'  523. 

family,  5. 

Highlanders,  535. 

intermarriages,  36. 

succession,  393. 

Duke  of,  517,  536. 

Alexander  (Duffus),  461. 

of  Forse,  George,  517. 

of  Prousy,  James,  508. 

William,  508. 

Sutherland  Book,  Fraser's,  56,  461  n. 

Sutherland  Family ,  SirR.  Gordon's  History  of  the,  535. 

'  Sutherland  Giants,'  the,  535. 

Suttie  of  Balgone,  Sir  George,  628-9. 

Swan's  engraving  of  Seton  Church,  772. 

Swansea  Church,  tomb  at,  3S9,  391  n. 

Swedish  Setons,  370,  760,  764. 

Sweeney,  Helen  M.,  312  n. 

Swethope,  Richard  de,  450. 

Swinburne  on  England's  stability,  13. 

Swinburne's  lines  on  'Grace  Darling,'  502. 

Swinton,  Mark,  provost  of  Inverkeithing,  647. 

Swiny,  Elizabeth  F.  M.,  363. 

Sword,  Sir  Christopher  Seton's  two-handed,  74,  75  n. 

of  St.  Jago,  623. 

of  State  and  Sutherland  family,  522. 

supporting  crown  in  Seton  Arms,  824. 

Swords,  permission  to  wear,  6S3. 

two-handed,  75  '*■ 

Swynno,  Ralph,  raid  by,  181. 

Swyntoun,  584. 

Sydney,  Sir  Philip,  700. 

'  Sydney's  Button '  (Sydney  Smith),  566. 

Symmer,  David,  159. 

Synnott,  Lady  (Jane  Seton),  301. 

Sir  Walter,  301. 

X  ABLES,'   the   (silver-gilt   draught-board   of   Mary 
Seton),  135,  727-8- 
Tacitus,  quotation  from,  50. 
Tagellos,  Royal  House  of,  6. 
'  Tall  and  proud,'  48. 
Tallness,  characteristic  of,  305. 
Tallow,  exportation  of,  672. 
Talmash,  Sir  Lionel,  529. 
Tankard,  silver,  Lord  Pitmedden's,  492. 
Tantallon  Castle,  782. 

siege  of,  715-6. 

Tapestry  at  Dalmahoy  (wrought  at  Lochleven),  137. 

at  Pinkie,  820. 

Tarifa,  siege  of,  86  n. 
Tartan  of  the  Setons,  52. 
Taylor,  Jeremy,  677. 

the  '  Water  Poet,'  416. 

Taylor's  Historic  Families  of  Scotland,  43,   839  »., 

1015. 
Tea-caddy,  lines  to  a,  301  n. 
Tel-el-Kebir,  battle  of,  331. 
Temple  Bar  (1887),  840. 
'  Tempora  mutantur,'  54- 
Tenants  of  Seton,  etc.,  summons  by,  122. 


Tennent,  Francis,  159. 

Tennyson  on  descent,  y. 

Territorial  aristocracy,  benefits  of  a,  1 6. 

possessions  of  the  Setons,  54. 

Terry, ■  552. 

Test  Laws,  repeal  of  the,  476. 

Testament  of  Sir  John  Seton,  first  of  Barns,  625. 

fourth  of  Barns,  628. 

of  Geillis  Seton  (Cariston),  584-5. 

(French  and  English),  of  Jean  de  Seton  (Cariston), 

583,  982-7. 

of  Countess  of  Dunfermline,  651  n. 

of  Alexander,  first  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  653-5. 

of  Charles,  second  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  664. 

of  Alexander,  third  Earl  of  Dunfermline,  665. 

of  Mary   Seton   (French   and   English),     147-8, 

958-65. 

of  Francis  Seton  (St.  Germains),  711. 

of  George  Seton  of  St.  Germains,  712-3. 

Teynham,  Lord,  303. 

Thackeray,  Dr.  Thomas,  533- 

Theiner's  Annates  Ecclesiastici,  906  n. 

Theobalds,  Palace  of,  646,  674. 

Thirlstane,  John,  first  Lord,  21S,  293. 

second  Lord  (and  first  Earl  of  Lauderdale), 

650-1. 

Seton  portraits  at,  199  n. 

Thistle,  Order  of  the,  790. 

(fourth  Earl  of  Dunfermline),  668. 

(twelfth  and  thirteenth  Earls  of  Eglinton), 

694,  698. 

revival  of  the  Order  of  the,  433. 

Thurlow,  Chancellor,  441. 

Thomas  the  Rhymer,  971. 

Thompson,  Livingstone  (nth  Hussars),  574- 

Thomson,  Agnes,  371. 

Robert,  323. 

■ Thomas,  76. 

■ ■ -(apothecary),  159. 

Sir  William,  265-6. 

Mrs.,  on  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  253. 

Memoirs  of  the  facobites,  262  n. 

Thomsoun,  John,  582. 

Thorburn,  Jane  (Mrs.  Seton-Karr),  334. 

Tickell,  verses  by,  529. 

address  by,  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  777. 

Tide  what  may  (magazine),  545  n- 
Tiftie,  Millo',  805,  810. 
'  Tiger  Earl,'  the  (Crawford),  379. 
Tignum  =  Chevron,  449  n. 
Tilibody,  etymology  of,  335  n. 
Timber  at  Seton,  1014-5. 

at  Woodhouselee,  568. 

Times,  the,  on  Fyvie  Castle,  S06,  808. 
Tippoo  Saib,  612  n. 
Tirie,  invasion  of,  237. 
Tirling-pin  at  Niddrie  Castle,  803. 
Titles,  assumption  of  historical,  924-5. 
'  Titulers,'  appellation  of,  547. 
Tocher,  a  large,  208,  683. 

of  a  spinning-wheel,  5S9. 

'Tocher  good,'  232  n. 

Tochers,  provision  of,  114,  123. 

Tocqueville  (de)  on  caste,  19. 

Todeni,  Robertus  de,  754. 

Tolbooth  of  Edinburgh,  323,  550,  594,  720. 

Tolquhon  Castle,  S06. 

Laird  of,  486-7. 

Tomasini  on  Dr.  William  Seton,  766. 

Torchlight  burial,  421. 

Torches  of  Edinburgh  Town  Council,  645. 


INDEX 


1073 


Torphichen,  Lord  (1715),  256. 

Torrance,  Rev.  Alexander  and  William,  567. 

'  Torture,'  charge  of,  530. 

Touch,  Setons  of,  93,  335-52,  381. 

1.  Sir  Alexander    Seton,   first  of   Touch    and 

Tullibody,  335-7. 

2.  Sir  Alexander  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  337-8. 

3.  Sir  Ninian  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  338-9,  353. 

4.  Sir  Walter  Seton  of  Touch,   etc.,  339-40, 

353- 

5.  James    Seton    of  Touch,   etc.,   340-2,  404, 

978-9. 

6.  John  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  342. 

7.  James  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  342-3,  650. 

8.  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  343. 

9.  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  244-5,  343-4- 

10.  Archibald  Seton  of  Touch,  344-5. 

11.  James  Seton  of  Touch,  etc.,  345,  360. 

11  (2).  Elizabeth  Seton,  heiress  of  Touch,  etc., 

345-6- 

12.  Hon.  Archibald  Seton  (paternally  Smith)  of 

Touch,  346-7. 

13.  Elizabeth-Margaret  Steuart,  347-8. 

14.  Sir  Henry-James  Seton-Steuart,  348-9. 

15.  Sir  Alan-Henry  Seton-Steuart,  349-51. 
Touch  armorial  pedigree,  285. 

Arms  of  the  Setons  of,  351,  366. 

and  Edmonston  arms,  978-9. 

Carse  of,  346. 

House,  770. 

Hugh  Seton  of,  345,  735,  1020. 

intermarriages,  35. 

Seton  portraits  at,  837. 

Touch-Fraser,  335. 

Tour,  Castle  de  la,  454. 

Touris  of  Innerleith,  Sir  James,  339. 

Right  Hon.  John,  622. 

Tournament,  Eglinton,  700-1,  703-4. 

Tower  of  London,  258  «.,  1005. 

Towers  of  Inverleith,  Sir  John,  223. 

Towie,  burning  of,  403. 

Townsend,  Viscount  (1716),  270. 

Trabroun,  lands  of,  98. 

'  Tradition  of  the  Past,'  25. 

Traditions,  local,  relative  to  the  fifth  Earl  of  Winton, 

273-4- 
Train-bands,  322,  327. 
Traitor,  a  condemned,  644. 
Tranent,  1009  et  sea. 

Bailie  of  (David  Seton),  212-3. 

John  Seton,  Bailie  of,  538,  540. 

baptismal  register,  712. 

barony  of,  94. 

Church,  785. 

excommunication  in,  71 5- 

George  Seton  in  (1565),  123. 

Kirklands  of,  245. 

manor  of,  66,  67  n. 

parish,  visitation  of,  212. 

and  Seton,  union  of,  774- 

Transplanted  and  Grizel  Romney,  by  Mary  E.  Tytler, 

562. 
Traprain  (Depender-law),  716. 
Traquair  Castle,  838. 

Countess  of  (Lady  Anne  Seton),  229. 

Anna,  Countess  of,  741. 

John,  second  Earl  of,  229,  233,  430. 

his  sad  condition,  226  n, 

Charles,  fourth  Earl  of,  839. 

family,  738. 

low  condition  of,  229  n. 


Traquair,  Seton  and  other  portraits  at,  199  ».,  837-8. 

Travell,  Dame  Frances,  529. 

Travels,  extensive,  615. 

'  Treason,  constructive,'  441. 

impeachment  for  high,  257. 

trial  for  high  (1708),  344. 

Treasurer,  royal,  624. 

Treasurer's  Accounts  (Dr.  Thomas  Dickson),  788. 

Treaties  with  England  (1497-9),  105. 

Tree,  Seton  family,  at  Touch,  350. 

Trelawneys,  courage  of  the,  46  n. 

Trento,  Baptista  di,  184. 

Tressure,  double,  in  Arms  of  Scotland,  824-5. 

of  the  Setons,  824. 

royal,  grant  of,  72,  517,  528,  537,  815. 

Trevelyans  of  Cornwall,  44  n. 

Treves,  antiquity  of  the  town  of,  44  n. 

Trial  of  George,  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  259-72. 

Triangle  and  circle  interlaced,  106. 

Trinity  Church,  Edinburgh,  destruction  of,  784. 

Trottenschaw,  farm  of  (Lammermoors),  181. 

Troup,  General  Colin,  597. 

'Truest  friend,'  Mary  Stuart's,  198. 

Trumpeter  of  Fyvie,  810. 

Trumpeters  of  Edinburgh  Town  Council,  645. 

Trunk,  fourth  Earl  of  Winton's,  244. 

Truth  on  the  removal  of  family  monuments,  778  "• 

Tub  as  a  desk,  571. 

Tucker,  Lieutenant  Frederick,  597- 

Tudor,  Margaret,  105. 

Tulch-frisal,  335-7. 

Tullibody,  Alexander  Seton  of,  379,  385-6. 

Tullybody,  James  Seytoun  of,  586. 

Turenne,  Marshal  de,  432. 

'  Turf,  the,'  and  Chancellor  Seton,  645. 

and  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  702. 

Turks  and  Saracens,  823. 
Turnbull,  Anna,  712. 

of  Bedrule,  Arms  of,  354. 

Janet,  of  Gargunnock,  353. 

Turnbulls,  the,  389. 

Turner  of  Deysbrook,  Alfred,  505. 

Tumor  of  Panton  Hall,  Edmund,  458. 

Turriff,  Trot  of,  427. 

Tuscany,  Grand  Duke  of,  439. 

Tutbury  Castle,  Queen  Mary  at,  139. 

Tutors  of  the  '  Duchess-Countess '  of  Sutherland,  534. 

Tweeddale  Arms,  235. 

■  family,  38. 

and  Pinkie,  822. 

John,  first  Earl  of,  681,  721,  731. 

first  Marquis  of,  652. 

fourth  Marquis  of,  S20. 

Tweedmouth,  Poorhouse,  85. 

Twisden,  Sir  William,  693. 

Two-handed  sword  of  Sir  Christopher  Seton,  615,  832. 

Tyne,  river,  796. 

Tynemouth,  author's  visit  to  (fifth  Earl  of  Winton), 

1009. 
Tynninghame,  659. 
Tyrrel,  931-2. 
Tytler  surname,  assumption  of,  546. 

intermarriages,  37. 

Major-General  Sir  James  M.  B.,  557. 

John  Adam  (Brigader),  572. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Patrick  (ob.  1849),  552. 

Patrick  F.,  on  Cardinal  Beton,  120. 

Robert  A.  N.,  Gordon  Highlanders,  575. 

Sarah  (Miss  Keddie),  548  n. 

William-Gillies  (Advocate),  572. 

Tytlers,  Seton  descent  of  the,  546-8. 


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INDEX 


Tytler's  History  of  Scotland,  163,  168,  1S1,  1S6,  216, 

639-40. 
Life  of  Sir  Thomas  Craig  (Chancellor  Seton), 

655. 
Tywardreath,  Cornwall,  630. 

U  dny,  William  Seton  of,  650. 
Umballa  Durbar,  332. 
Umfraville,  Gilbert,  450. 

Un  Dieu,  une  Foy,  un  Roy,  tine  Loy,  165,  166  n. 
Unassigned  Scottish  Setons,  743-53. 
I.  Great  Seal  Register,  743-4. 
II.  Privy  Seal  Register,  744-8. 
III.  Commissariot  Register  of  Edinburgh,  748-50. 
Miscellaneous  sources,  751-3. 
Unett,  William-Wilkes,  Captain,  613. 
Union  of  England  and  Scotland  (1603),  55^» 

(sculpture  at  Winton),  224. 

(1707),  478,  527,  641-2. 

United  Service  Institution,  Journal  of,  592  k. 

Universal  History,  Tytler's  abridgment  of  the,  571. 

Unrecorded  Arms,  examples  of,  830-1. 

Unsigned  letter  of  a  fond  mother  (Cariston),  917. 

'  Unstable  as  water,'  etc.,  402. 

Upcraigie,  lands  of,  222.  . 

Uppingham,  754. 

Usborne,  Eleanor  (Mrs.  Seton-Karr),  331. 

Urania,  Captain  Seaton  of  the  ship,  765. 

Urban  VIII.,  Pope,  766. 

Urquhart  of  Craigfintry,  John,  469. 

of  Cromarty,  Walter,  472. 

lands  of,  289-90,  636. 

Lord  (Alexander  Seton),  206,  468,  623,  636-8. 

lordship  of,  666. 

of  Meldrum,  460,  469. 

Adam,  431. 

Priory,  638. 

Sir  Thomas,  766,  928. 

his  descent  from  Adam,  6. 

William,  Aberdeen  surgeon,  408. 

Urr,  Loch,  75,  76. 

U.S.  Infantry,  Henry  Seton,  309. 

Navy,  William  Seton,  308. 

Volunteers,  William  Seton,  311. 

V  ALENCE,  De,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  72. 
Vandalism,  an  act  of  (Seton  Palace),  1015. 
Vandyke,  portraits  by,  821. 
Vanity  of  family  antiquity,  915. 
Vans  of  Barnebarroch,  Sir  Patrick,  672. 
Vasaborg,  Count  Gustaf  of,  373. 
Vatican,  the,  634. 
'Vaults,'  the  (Barns  Castle),  624. 
Veitch,  Miss  Agnes,  296. 

George,  merchant  in  Edinburgh,  324. 

George  Seton,  324. 

Professor,  on  the  battle  of  Methven,  74. 

Vela,  Blasco  Nunez,  75  n. 
Verdon,  Sir  John,  755. 
Verneuil,  battle  of,  99,  765. 
Verney  Family,  Memoirs  of  the,  24. 
Vemon,  Admiral,  532. 
Versailles,  739- 
Versatility  of  Chancellor  Seton,  658. 

Hugo  Reid,  598  n. 

Verscoyle,  William  H.  F.  (Tassaggart),  613. 

Verses  addressed  to  Mary  Seton,  150. 

Vetripont  or  Vipond,  2S6. 

Vice-Chancellor  of  Scotland  (Alexander  Seton),  641. 

Victoria,  Queen,  33,  502. 


Vieuxpont,  Francoise  de,  131. 

Vigii,  storming  of  the,  603. 

Vignola,  821. 

'Vigorous'  language  of  1792,  916. 

Vining,  Hon.  John  Middleton,  305. 

Violoncello  player  (twelfth  Earl  of  Eglinton),  695. 

Vipont  Arms,  285-6. 

Mary,  285. 

Vision,  Ramsay's,  551- 

Vitrified  forts,  554. 

Vitry,  village  of,  401. 

'  Volet '  in  Heraldry,  250  n. 

Voltaire  and  the  Rohans,  165  n. 

'  Voluptie  and  plesour '  of  George,  fourth  Lord  Seton, 

107. 
Vow  of  celibacy,  Mary  Seton's,  141 -3. 

W  addell,  Penelope,  609. 
Wadset,  redemption  of  a,  III. 
Waggoner,   at  Seton   Palace,    George,   seventh   Lord 

Seton,  as  a,  173. 
Wake,  Baldwin,  755. 

and  Sir  William,  500. 

Wakefield,  Rev.  J.  B.,  630. 
Wales,  Prince  of,  373. 

(1799),  446. 

Walker,  Margaret,  1006-7. 
Wallace  Arms,  600  n. 

of  Leven,  Alexander,  591. 

Rev.  Donell,  539. 

John  (priest),  436. 

Lady,  444. 

Rev.  Robert,  215. 

Mr.  Robert  (M.P.),  on  a  'Duke-worshipping' 

Government,  30. 
'Wallace  Tower,'  Seton  Palace,  224,  792. 

■ Winton,  798. 

Wallace,  William  (Master  Mason),  797. 

of  Craigie,  Sir  William,  667. 

Wallace's  sword,  75  n. 

Waller,  Mrs.,  630,  632. 

Walmesley,  Captain  William-Gerard,  456. 

Walpole,  Horace  (Earl  of  Orford),  301. 

Mr.  (Attorney-General),  266. 

Walsingham,  144  ».,  193,  621-2. 

to  Dawson  and  Hunsdon  (Lord  Seton),  194. 

letters  to,  204. 

Walton,  Oriel  F.,  456. 

Wampo,  609. 

'Wand-bed,'  421. 

War-cry,  Seton,  47,  667  ».,  668,  827,  832. 

War  Office,  606. 

Warden's  Angus  or  Forfarshire,  578,  583  ».,  590  n. 

Ward-holding,  952  n. 

Wardlaw,  Nicholas,  292. 

Wardlaws  of  Brunton,  600  n. 

Wardrop,  Mr.  Maitland,  778. 

Warrior,  H.M.  ship,  325. 

Wark,  assault  of,  157,  162. 

Warkworth,  176. 

Warwick,  Earl  of,  Tickell's  address  to  the,  777. 

Wasa,  Order  of,  370,  373. 

Washington,  ancestry  of,  10  n. 

National  Intelligencer,  293. 

Watch,  memento-mori,  of  Mary  Seton,  133. 

of  fifth  Earl  of  Winton,  278. 

of  Mary  Stuart  at  Woodhouselee,  566. 

Watch-spring  (Lord  Winton's  escape),  270-1. 
Waterford,  Marquis  of  (1839),  703. 


INDEX 


1075 


Waterloo,  battle  of,  509. 
Waterpery,  Curzons  of,  303. 
Watson  of  Athernie,  587. 

Helen,  598. 

Mrs.  W.  L.  (Elizabeth  L.  Seton),  616,  618. 

James,  bookseller,  916-7. 

William,  lines  by,  502. 

of  Ayton,  William-Livingstone,  616. 

Watt,  William,  of  Port  Seton,  277. 
Wattes,  William,  priest,  187. 
Watts,  George-Frederick,  R.S.A.,  etc.,  558. 
Wauchope  of  Niddrie,  Andrew,  738,  913. 

Captain  Francis  (Niddrie),  742. 

Ewfame,  341. 

John(W.S.),  1021-2. 

Wauchting  (heavy  drinking),  413. 

Waziristan,  363. 

Weak  points  recorded  by  Sir  Richard  Maitland,  107. 

'  Wealth  is  Wealth,'  10. 

Weapont  or  Vipont,  285-6. 

Webster,  Rev.  Dr.  Alexander,  324. 

Wedderburn  of  Blackness,  Sir  Alexander,  476. 

Sir  David,  611. 

George,  368. 

of  Isla  Bank,  Peter,  612. 

Weir  of  Edinburgh,  587. 

Weirston,  fire  at,  677  n. 

Weld,  Joseph,  630. 

Weldon,  Sir  Anthony,  on  Chancellor  Seton,  648. 

Well,  Renaissance,  at  Pinkie,  821. 

Wellesley,  Marchioness  of  (1836),  296. 

Marquis  of,  346. 

Wellington,  Arthur,  first  Duke  of,  325,  446  n. 

Welsh  families,  43  n. 

Wemyss  of  Bogie,  Sir  John,  360. 

of  Cariston,  Major,  602. 

Countess  of  (1882),  782. 

of  Denbrae,  David,  612. 

Duncan  of,  92. 

Major,  581. 

of  that  ilk,  John,  291. 

Sir  David,  113. 

of  Unthank,  Thomas,  155- 

(Wemis)  of  that  ilk,  Sir  John,  581. 

of  Wemyss,  Hon.  James,  532. 

of  Wemysshall,  Colonel,  612. 

David,  second  Earl  of,  527. 

third  Earl  of,  532. 

James,  fourth  Earl  of,  734. 

Francis,  fifth  Earl  of,  439. 

sixth  Earl  of,  327,  1016,  1018. 

seventh  Earl  of,  611  n. 

eighth  Earl  of,  777,  793-4. 

ninth  Earl  of,  778,  780,  956. 

Wentworth  of  Bretton,  Sir  Thomas,  685. 

West  Lowland  Fencibles,  694. 

Westbury,  Lord,  599  n. 

Westcotts  and  Walters  of  Devonshire,  591  n. 

Westfield,  Crosby,  R.N.,  509. 

Weston,  Charles,  763. 

Wetherall,  Sir  Edward,  456. 

Wexford  insurgents  (1798),  446. 

Wheat,  exportation  of,  from  Seton  to  Bergen  in  1634, 

225. 
White  blood,  43  n. 

cockade  of  the  Jacobites,  262  n. 

ribbon  and  house  of  Stuart,  262  n. 

rose,  a  Pitmedden  relic,  477. 

of  the  Stuarts,  262  n. 

Dr.  J.  C,  307. 

of  Wateringbury  Hall,  Thomas,  456. 


'  White  Rose,'  the  (Lady  Catherine  Gordon),  389. 
Whitefoord  House,  Edinburgh,  197-8. 
Whithorn,  Bishop  of,  105. 
Whittinghame,  251,  716,  721,  722  n.,  732,  S02. 

barony  of,  730- 

House,  726. 

Tower,  732. 

Whyte-Melville  of  Bennochy,  Mr.,  614. 
Whyte-Melville's  Queen's  Maries,  138. 
Wicklyff,  Life  of  John,  555. 
Widdrington,  Lord,  269. 
Wife,  a  deceased,  910. 
Wigmaker  in  Edinburgh,  713. 

vocation  of,  322,  327. 

Wigton,  William,  fifth  Earl  of,  664. 
Wilkes,  Mrs.  John  (Mary  Seton),  302. 
William  the  Conqueror,  754. 

the  Lion,  60,  66,  68,  69. 

of  Orange  (William  ill.),  434,  527,  683,  686. 

and  Mary,  684. 

IV.,  coronation  of,  536. 

I.  of  Germany,  484. 

Williams,  Mr.  Peer,  258,  266. 
Williamson,  Alexander,  316,  319. 

Isabella,  593  n. 

Mrs.  (Agnes  Seton),  319. 

Willis,  N.  P. ,  on  the  Eglinton  Tournament,  704. 

Willison,  John,  M.D.,  614. 

Wills,  General,  257,  259,  263. 

Wilmot  of  Farnborough  Hall,  Henry,  329. 

Wilson,  Catharine  and  Elspeth,  321  n. 

Sir  Daniel,  74,  75  n. 

Reminiscences  of  Old  Edinburgh,  102  «.,  196. 

■  Scottish  Archeology,  74. 

Captain  John,  E.I.C.S.,  480. 

Sir  Robert,  556. 

Winchburgh,  barony  of,  127. 

lands  of,  68,  105,  117,  118. 

Station,  802. 

Winchester  College,  616,  691. 

Hugh  Despenser,  Earl  of,  67. 

De  Quincey,  Earl  of,  66. 

and  Winton,  167. 

Windebank,  Sir  Erancis,  762. 
Windygoul,  Setons  of,  741-2. 

Hon.  Sir  Robert  Seton  of  Windygoul,  Bart.,  228, 
741. 
Windygoul  Arms,  742. 

intermarriages,  38. 

Wine,  French,  for  fourth  Earl  of  Winton,  244. 

Wingfield  Manor,  Queen  Mary  at,  139. 

Winkelsells,  Petrus,  246. 

Winning  side,  the,  273. 

Wintle,  Mrs.  (Margaret-Montgomerie  Seton),  616,  618. 

Vyvyan-D'Oyly,  616. 

Winton,  Alan  de,  86. 

Arms,  plaque  with  the,  276. 

at  Pinkie,  813. 

formerly  at  Seton  Palace,  742. 

sculpture  of,  784. 

Case,  Lord  Eglinton's  (1840),  954. 

Countess  of  (Lady  Margaret  Montgomerie),  710. 

Earldom  created,  207. 

charter  of,  in  1686,  239. 

(Peerage  of  United  Kingdom),  696-7. 

■  sixth  Earl  of  {dejure),  913. 

Earls  of,  Edinburgh  House  of,  197. 

(See  under  Main  Line  of  the  family.) 

family,  representatives  of  the  (1769  and   1782), 

734,  736. 
forfeiture,  789,  792. 


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INDEX 


Winton  honours,  service  of  thirteenth  Earl  of  Eglinton 

to,  696-7. 
House,  105,  215,  223,  430,  432,  770,  783,  789, 

795-801,  913. 

lands  of,  68. 

'  Winton '  troop  at  Preston,  263. 

Winton  and  Winchester,  67. 

Winton's  Chronicle,  84. 

Wise  of  Virginia,  H.  A.,  304. 

Wishart's  Memoirs  of  Montrose,  659  11.,  660  n.,  679- 

80  n. 
Witch  incident,  687. 
Witchcraft,  case  of,  681. 

Witnesses  from  Seton  (Lord  Winton's  trial),  259. 
Wod  of  Bonytoun,  Patrick,  292. 
Woddrynton  to  Walsingham,  187,  189,  204. 
Wodrington,  Sir  Henry,  621. 
Wodoley  (Woodhouselee),  565. 
Wodrow  on  the  thirteenth  Earl  of  Sutherland,  525. 

on  the  Duchess  of  Gordon,  435. 

Wodrow's   notice   of  Alexander   Seton   (confessor   to 

James  v.),  832. 

Analecta,  684  ».,  685  «.,  688. 

Wood,  Sir  Charles  (Viscount  Halifax),  925. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  H.  A.,  485. 

Mr.  J.  G.  (roundle  at  Seton),  794. 

Wood's  (John-Philip)  edition  of  Douglas's  Peerage  of 

Scotland,  58-9. 

(Rev.  Walter),  Memoir  of  Walter  Pringle  of 

Greenknowe,  979. 

Woodcock,  Adam,  196. 
Woodford,  Lieut-Colonel,  442. 
Woodhouselee  Branch  of  the  Tytlers,  561-8. 

1.  James  Tytler  of  Woodhouselee,  561-2. 

2.  James- Stuart  Fraser-Tytler  of  Woodhouselee, 

562-3. 

3.  James- William  Fraser-Tytler  of  Woodhouselee, 

564. 
Woodhouselee  Arms,  548,  568.  _ 

Lord.     (See  under  Aldourie. ) 

pictures  and  heirlooms  at,  566-7. 

purchase  of,  552. 

Woodhouselee,  Book  of,  563,  565. 
Woolmerston  or  Wormiston,  594  «. 
Worcester,  battle  of,  681-2. 
Workman's  heraldic  MS.,  537,  827. 
Worsale,  Thomas  de  Seton  of,  '  chivaler,    756. 
Wright-Vaughan  of  Woodstone,  T.,  455. 


Wright's  History  of  Rutland,  754. 
Wyndham  of  Bukkulla,  Hugh,  596. 
Wyntoun,  Alan  de,  58-9,  87-8. 

Wyvern  crest  of  the  Quinceys,  Earls  of  Winchester, 
828. 


Y  arborough,  Charles,  second  Earl  of,  705. 
Yenikale,  759. 

Yeomanry  Cavalry,  Midlothian,  556. 
Yester  Arms  at  Pinkie,  814. 

House,  820-1. 

Seton  portraits  at,  652,  656,  658,  670,  837. 

missing  portrait  of  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton, 

formerly  at,  198. 

motto,  577  n. 

Lord  (Hugh  Gifford),  70. 

John,  third  Lord,  126,  577,  579,  618. 

fourth  Lord,  117,  121,  123,  155. 

William,  fifth  Lord,  169. 

James,  seventh  Lord,  731. 

John,  eighth  Lord,  652. 

'  Yett '  at  Fyvie,  iron,  807. 

'  Ylia  des  contes,'  etc.,  165. 

Yonge  of  Puslinch,  J.  B.,  724. 

York  Buildings  Company,   116  n.,  789,   791"2.   s°°) 

914,  1010  et  sea.,  1015  et  sea. 

Cardinal  of,  731- 

hair  of,  728. 

Richard,  Duke  of,  389. 

Duke  of  (Charles  I.),  641,  652  n. 

(1665),  474. 

(1788),  455. 

595,  603,  608. 

and  Albany,  Duke  of  (James  VII.),  237. 

Yorkshire  Setons,  587,  758"6l>  764- 

Setons  or  Seatons,  wills  of,  760-1. 

Young,  Peter  (Master  Almoner),  637. 

Writer  to  the  Signet,  571. 

Young's  Annals  of  Elgin,  638  ti. 

Ythan,  river,  805. 

Yvery,  House  of,  Boswell  on  the,  14. 


Aeigler,  Mr.,  goldsmith  in  Edinburgh,  592. 
Zouche,  Alan  la,  66. 
Zuccaro,  portrait  by,  6 1 7,  656. 


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George  Gray,  Esq. ,  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  Glasgow. 
Mr.  Charles  Green,  Edinburgh. 

John  Buchanan-Hamilton,  Esq.,  of  Leny  and  Bardowie. 
Messrs.  Hatchards,  187  Piccadilly,  London. 
R.  J.  Hay,  Esq.,  Florence. 
Robert  M.  Hay,  Esq.,  of  Duns  Castle. 
William  J.  Hay,  Esq.,  of  Duns  Castle  (2  copies). 
William  H.  Henderson,  Esq.,  Bath. 
J.  Fowler  Hislop,  Esq.,  Castlepark,  Prestonpans. 
Captain  John  Hope,  R.N.,  St.  Mary's  Isle. 


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Colonel  HUNTER,  Plas  Coch,  Anglesey. 

Major  Randle  Jackson  of  Swordale  (2  copies). 

Capt.  George-Henry  Jackson,  St.  Andrews  (2  copies). 

Edward  James  Jackson,  Esq.,  St.  Andrews. 

John  W.  Jackson,  Esq.,  University  Club,  Edinburgh. 

Thomas  E.  Jevons,  Esq.,  New  York. 

Mr.  Geo.  P.  Johnston,  Edinburgh. 

Madame  Alfred  de  Lassence,  Pau. 

W.  A.  Lindsay,  Esq.,  Windsor  Herald. 

James  D.  Logan,  Esq.,  Matjesfontein,  South  Africa. 

Alexander  Macdonald,  Esq.,  Glasgow. 

John  M.  Macdonald',  Esq.,  Harley  St.,  London  {2  copies). 

W.  Rae  Macdonald,  Esq.,  Edinburgh. 

William  C.  M'Ewen,  Esq.,  Edinburgh. 

Barty  M'Farlane,  Esq.,  Perth. 

jEneas  J.  G.  Mackay,  Esq.,  Sheriff  of  Fifeshire. 

Mrs.  Duncan  MacKinnon,  16  Hyde  Park  Square,  W. 

Messrs.  Maclehose  &  Sons,  Glasgow  (2  copies). 

Rev.  Walter  MacLeod,  Edinburgh. 

Major  Robert  Seton  Marshall,  Edinburgh  (4  copies 

— one  large  paper). 
Ralph  Marshall,  Esq.,  Craigmillar. 
Mrs.  Seton  May,  Lymington,  Hants. 
Admiral  Montgomerie,  C.B.,  Annick  Lodge,  Dreghorn. 
John  H.  Montgomery,  Esq.,  of  Newton. 
Mrs.  Mackenzie  Murray,  Woodside,  Coupar-Angus. 
Henry  Vining  Ogden,  Esq.,  New  Orleans. 
Mrs.  Hamilton  Ogilvy,  Biel. 
Mr.  Archibald  Orrock,  Edinburgh  (2  copies). 
Mrs.  Paterson,  Nether  Parkley,  Linlithgow. 
R.  W.  Cochran-Patrick,  Esq.,  of  Woodside,  Beith. 
George  M.  Paul,  Esq.,  Edinburgh. 
J.  M.  Dick-Peddie,  Esq.,  Edinburgh. 
John  Polson,  Esq.,  Paisley. 
J.  Stewart-Robertson,  Esq.,  of  Edradynate. 
Andrew  Ross,  Esq.,  Marchmont  Herald. 
Mrs.  Rylands,  Longford  Hall,  Manchester. 
John  Scott,  Esq.,  C.B.,  of  Hawkhill,  Greenock  (2  copies 

— one  large  paper). 
Captain  William  Sandilands,  Edinburgh. 
A.  E.  Seaton,  Esq.,  Gothenburg  (2  copies). 
W.  S.  Seton-Karr,  Esq.,  Lowndes  Sq.,  London  (2  copies). 
Hon.  Mrs.  Seton,  16  Randolph  Road,  London,  W. 
David  Seton,  Esq.,  of  Mounie  (2  copies). 
Major  Seton,  of  Mounie  (4  copies). 
Rev.  A.  R.  Wilmot  Seton,  Elsted  Rectory. 
Captain  William  C.  Seton,  Edinburgh. 
Colonel  Charles  Seton,  Treskerby,  Cornwall. 
George  Seton,  Esq.,  Junr.,  Egerton  Mansions,  London. 


Monsignor  Seton,  D.D.,  Jersey  City,  U.S.A.  (large  paper 

copy). 
William  Seton,  Esq.,  New  York  (large paper  copy). 
Alfred  Seton,  Esq.,  Junr.,  New  York. 
Captain  Henry  Seton,  U.S.  Army. 
Bertram  W.  Seton,  Esq.,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Patrick  Baron  Seton,  Esq.,  of  Preston  (large paper  copy). 
Surgeon-Captain  Bruce  Gordon  Seton. 
Major  Winton  Seton,  Leinster  Regiment. 
Miss  Mary  Stuart  Seton,  late  of  St.  Bennet's. 
Reginald  V.  F.  Seton,  Esq.,  Haverstock  Hill. 
George  Seton,  Esq.,  Author  (5  copies — one  large  paper). 

D.  Lister  Shand,  Esq.,  Edinburgh  (2  copies). 
J.  T.  Spalding,  Esq.,  Nottingham. 

W.  Strang  Steel,  Esq. ,  Philiphaugh  (large  paper  copy). 

James  Steuart,  Esq.,  Dalkeith  House. 

Archibald  Stirling,  Esq. ,  of  Keir. 

Mrs.  A.  Stuart,  Edinburgh. 

James  Syme,  Esq.,  Edinburgh. 

Mr.  James  Thin,  Edinburgh  (2  copies). 

John  Tinline,  Esq.,  St.  Helen's  Place,  London. 

E.  G.  Fraser-Tytler,  Esq.,  of  Aldourie. 

George  M.  Fraser-Tytler,  Esq.,  of  Keith  Marischal. 
J.  W.  Fraser-Tytler,  Esq.,  of  Woodhouselee. 
Major-General  R.  F.  C.  A.  Tytler,  London. 
George  Seton  Veitch,  Esq.,  Friarshall,  Paisley  (2  copies 

— one  large  paper). 
Miss  Watson,  Inchyra,  Perth. 
William  Livingstone  Watson,  Esq.,  of  Ayton,  Aber- 

nethy  (2  copies — one  large  paper). 
Mrs.  Watts,  Little  Holland  House,  Kensington. 
Mrs.  Webster,  Stoke  Newington,  London. 
James  A.  Wenley,  Esq.,  Edinburgh. 
Lieut. -Col.  Gould  Hunter-Weston,  of  Hunterston. 
Robert  Williamson,  Esq.,  34  Leadenhall  Street,  London. 
V.  D'O.  Wintle,  Esq.,  395  Oxford  Street,  London. 
The  Advocates'  Library,  Edinburgh. 
The  British  Museum  Library. 
The  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford. 
The  Exeter  College  Library,  Oxford. 
The  Lyon  Office  Library,  Edinburgh. 
The  Mitchell  Library,  Glasgow. 
The  Public  Library,  Boston. 
The  Public  Library,  Toronto. 
The  Royal  Library,  Berlin. 
The  Royal  Library,  Stockholm. 
The  Signet  Library,  Edinburgh. 
The  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  Scotland. 
The  University  Library,  Edinburgh. 


CORRECTIONS    AND    ADDITIONS 

At  pp.  33  and  34  of  the  Introduction,  Catherine,  wife  of  Sir  Alan  Stewart  of  Darnley,  is  represented 
as  the  daughter  of  William,  first  Lord  Seton,  in  accordance  with  Sir  Richard  Maitland's 
statement  (p.  93  note),  whereas  she  is  correctly  entered  at  p.  99  as  the  daughter  of 
William,  Master  of  Seton. 
Page    82,  line  19,  for  1302  substitute  1320. 

115,  delete  note  and  '  in  line  6. 

1 26,  in  ninth  line  from  bottom,  for  eleventh  substitute  tenth. 

134,  line  3,  for  thirteenth  substitute  fourteenth. 

157,  line  10,  for  Robert  substitute  Richard)?). 

200,  delete  the  last  nine  words  of  the  Note. 

204,  delete  the  first  paragraph,  which  relates  to  George,  seventh  Lord  Seton  (see  page  191). 

246,  in  third  line  from  bottom,  for  John  substitute  George. 

258,  add  the  following  to  note  - : — See  Appendix  of  Miscellanies  No.  30. 

334,  line  3,  after  1881  add: — died  2nd  April  1896. 

365,  in  seventh  line  from  bottom,  for  two  of  which  are  substitute  one  of  which  is. 

375,  line  1,  after  Huntly  insert  (Seton-Gordon). 

3S0,  line  2,  for  on  marrying  substitute  through  his  father's  marriage  to. 

432,  line  16,  for  II.  substitute  VII. 

444,  line  11,  for  Mrs.  substitute  Susan. 

519,  lines  9  and  10,  for  his  grandfather,  the  ninth  Earl,  substitute  to  the  Earldom. 

581,  line  4,/w  Walter  substitute  William. 

598,  note  3,  for  Elie  substitute  Leven. 

631,  line  3,  after  Gertrude-Mary-Philomena  insert: — married,  15th  January  1896,  to  Henry- 
Joseph-Francis,  second  son  of  Sir  Joseph  Percival  Pickford  Radcliffe,  Baronet,  of 
Rudding  Park,  Yorkshire. 

659,  line  10,  for  4th  June  substitute  10th  April. 

6S5,  line  18,  for  Margaret  substitute  Mary. 

705,  in  third  line  from  bottom,  for  10  substitute  9  (a). 

717,  in  third  line  from  bottom,  after  Whittinghame  delete  3. 

731,  line  7,  for  seventeenth  substitute  thirteenth. 

768,  in  last  generation  but  one  in  the  pedigree,  for  Canullus  substitute  Camillus. 

768-9.  With  reference  to  the  'Milanese  Setons,'  I  have  lately  been  informed  that  they  are  now 
extinct,  and  that  their  supposed  descent  from  the  Scottish  family  was  not  satisfactorily 
established.  From  the  following  blazon  of  their  arms  it  will  appear  that  these  bore  no 
resemblance  to  the  Scottish  coat : — '  D'argento,  ad  un  ponte  di  tre  archi  di  rosso,  sotto 
cui  scorre  una  riviera  al  naturale,  sostenente  un  castello  a  due  torri,  aperto  e  finestrato 
del  campo,  ad  un  aquila  de  nero  appoggiata  sopra  le  torri.' — Giornale  Araldico- 
Genealogico-Diplomatico,  Bari,  Marzo  1894,  p.  59. 

785,  in  third  line  from  bottom,/??-  Kellie  substitute  Kelly. 

790,  note  I,  for  1533  substitute  1531. 

821,  heading,  for  Well  Renaissance  substitute  Renaissance  Well. 

833,  in  eleventh  and  twelfth  lines  from  bottom,  for  sisters  and  brothers  substitute  daughters  and  sons. 

837,  in  thirteenth  line  from  bottom,  for  three  substitute  two. 

933,  in  second  line  from  bottom,  for  Prendegest  substitute  Prendregest. 

999,  line  2,  for  George  substitute  John. 


EDINBURGH 

T.    and    A.    CONSTABLE 

Printers  to  Her  Majesty 

1896