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THE 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 HOUSE OF SEYTOUN 
 
 TO THE YEAR M.D.LIX. 
 
 BY SIR RICHARD MAITLAND 
 
 OF LETHINGTON, KNIGHT. 
 
 
 WITH THE CONTINUATION, 
 
 BY ALEXANDER VISCOUNT KINGSTON, 
 
 TO M. D C. L X X X V 1 1. 
 
 PRINTED AT GLASGOW, 
 M.DCCC.XXIX. 
 
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 PRINTED BY HUTCHISON & BROOKMAN. 
 
At a Meeting of the Committee of Management of the 
 Bannatyne Club, held at Edinburgh, on the 26th day of 
 November, 1828. 
 
 An appUcation having been made to the Committee relative to the 
 disposal of part of the extra impression of Spalding's History to the 
 Members of the Maitland Club, Glasgow, which was accompanied 
 with an offer to furnish copies of any work to be undertaken by them ; 
 and it having been stated at the same time, that arrangements were 
 made for printing The Histouie ok Chboxicle of the House of 
 Seyton, by Sm Richard Maitland of Lethington, with Lord 
 Kingston's Continuation, from two Manuscripts in the Library of the 
 Faculty of Advocates, it was 
 
 Resolved, That an application be made for permission to have One 
 Hundred Copies of that Work printed on the paper of the Bannatyne 
 Club, for the use of the Members. 
 
 David Laing, Secretary. 
 
 1)8^4:^ 
 
I In I I ■! 
 
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Maitland Club, 
 held at Glasgow, July 29th, 1828, 
 
 Resolved, 
 
 That the History of The House of Seytoun, by Sir Richard 
 Maitland of Lethington, with the Continuation by Alexander 
 Viscount Kingston, be printed for the Members of the Club, from 
 two Manuscripts belonging to the Library of the Faculty of Advo- 
 cates ; — and that the printing of it be superintended by John Ful- 
 LARTON, Esq. one of the members of the Club. 
 
 John Wylie, Secretary. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 X HE History of the House of Seton by Sir Richard Maitland of 
 Lethington has ever been regarded as an authentic and valuable Me- 
 moir of that ancient and distinguished family — ^whUst it contains many 
 particulars of a nature more generally interesting and curious. At the 
 close of nearly three centuries, this history is now first printed, from an 
 original manuscript : great part of it no doubt has been made known 
 by the quotations of successive compUators, and probably few ge- 
 nealogical writings have ever been more frequently referred to ; but 
 these excerpts, often printed from inaccurate transcripts, have not 
 certainly lessened the utility of a careful edition of the entire work. 
 
 The following impression, including the Continuation by Lord 
 Kingston, as previously stated, is printed from two manuscripts in the 
 Library of the Faculty of Advocates — the latter part being collat- 
 ed with a copy belonging to Thomas Thomson, Esq. Deputy Clerk 
 Register of Scotland. Lord Kingston has besides made some slight 
 additions to the principal liistory, and these, though seldom . resting 
 on any authority, it has been deemed proper to preserve in the notes 
 affixed to the present volume. 
 
 . Regarding the manuscript of the original work, the following par- 
 ticulars have been obligingly communicated by Mr David Laing, se- 
 cretary to the Bannatyne Club, and a member of this institution : — 
 
 " The earliest manuscript of the History of the House of Seyton 
 is contained in the first of two volumes, in folio, preserved in the Ad- 
 vocates' Library, entitled " Grant MSS." from their former possessor. 
 It has not been ascertained whether they came to the Library by dona- 
 
vi PREFACE. 
 
 tion or purchase, having only been discovered a few years ago lying in a 
 neglected corner, without any mark or reference ; but under the book- 
 plate of " The Hon"" Alexander Grantt of that Ilk," in the inside of 
 the boards of each volume is written : — " Castlegrant, March 30, 
 1740. — This Book is gifted to Lord Elches by Lud. Grant." 
 
 "These volumes consist of papers written or collected by Sir Richard 
 Maitland of Lethington, including a copy of his Practicks of the Law 
 of Scotland, and a Catalogue of the Kings of Scotland, France, and 
 England, compiled in the year 1560. In that portion which contains 
 the History of the Seytons it is worthy of notice that a leaf has been 
 inserted at a subsequent but not very distant period, containing an 
 " Eik" or addition to the account of Seyton [p. 20], but which does 
 not occur in any of the other MSS. of the Avork ; and this circum- 
 stance may serve to confirm the supposition that these volumes had 
 remained in the possession of the venerable author." 
 
 To these memorials of the family of Seton is now subjoined an Ac- 
 count of Alexander Seaton, Confessor to King James the Fifth, by the 
 laborious histoi'ian of the Sufferings of the Scottish Church ; a per- 
 formance, though supplying little not previously known, which would 
 seem properly to claim a place in the history of that family and name 
 from which this early disciple of the Reformation primarily derived 
 his descent. 
 
 And the interesting and curious Engravings by which the volume is 
 illustrated are the gift of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. a gentleman 
 whose many disinterested favours of this nature to his country will long 
 recommend his name to the grateful regard of the historian and anti- 
 quary. 
 
 The Life of Sir Richard Maitland, the author of the follow- 
 ing work, has engaged the talents of the first of Scottish antiquaries, 
 and it has justly been remarked that he is never mentioned by 
 writers but with respect, as a man of great abilities and virtue. 
 The amiable feelings of this learned and good man are pleasingly dis- 
 closed in the following short introduction prefixed to the Catalogue of 
 Kings, and as all such regarding him must prove acceptable, this ad- 
 
PREFACE. vu 
 
 dress may with little impropriety preface The Historie of the House 
 OF Seytoun — the Catalogue is titled, "Heir followis ane hreif' and 
 compendious Tabill or Cathalog of the names of the Kingis of Scotland, 
 France, and Ingland, with the dait ofthair regnis ; togidder with the 
 successioun of King Malcolme Cainmoir, and of all Kingis of Scotland 
 sensyn, to the dait heirof ; quham thay mareit, quhat successioun thay 
 had, with wham thay war ally at. Collectit, gatherit, and setfurth be 
 S' Richart Maitland of Lethingtoun, Kny'. The yeir of God J" v 
 and thre scoir yeiris, the xiiij day of the monethe of October : — 
 
 " The caus quhy that I, ane ignorant, did handUl the thingis con- 
 tenit in this lytiU Buik, of fmale valour (O gentill redaris, to quham I 
 dire6l the famin). It will pleis yow vnderfland that (thankis be to 
 God) I am vifeit with fie infirmete fa that I can nocht haue corporale 
 exercitioun to fatiffie my fpreit and confait as I have had in tymes 
 bygan. And fen all mortale, of thair awin nature, quhen thair ingyn 
 and mynd is ydill, will rather imagin and revolve ewill thingis of dif- 
 plefour, nor gud thingis and plefand ; thairfor, to efchew ydilnes of 
 mynd, and to occupy tyme fwa that the famin, and the debilite of my 
 body be mair portabUl, I thocht gud to be exercit with fum thing : 
 both becaus in thir dayes I think parell to mell with materis of grit 
 importance, howbeit I war qualifeit, as I am nocht. Quhairfor, amang 
 vther labouris, I gatherit and colle6lit the thingis fet forth in this lytill 
 volume, quhilkis, as I beleve, will offend naman ; exhortand the redaris 
 to corre6t the famin, and nocht to detra6t it, excufand my ignorance. 
 And howbeit this be written in diners Hiflories befoir, yit it heir mair 
 breiflie, mair compendious, and mair eafie to find; thairfor, all men 
 excufe my ignorance, and accept my gud mynd and will, quhilk 
 fain wald have done weill, as knawis Almychtie God, to quham I 
 commit the conferuation, gowemament and gyding of our Queenis 
 maieft.ie, the haill eftait and commoun weill of this our native cuntre 
 of Scotland." 
 
• ••• , • 
 
 •• • 
 
 
SaWtDW (Dmi!.FIEIL. 
 
THE HISTORIE 
 
 AND CRONICLE OF THE 
 
 HOUS AND SURENAME OF SEYTOUN, 
 
 TO THE MONETH OF NOVEMBER, 
 
 IN THE YEIR OF GOD Jf V^. LIX. YEIRIS. 
 
 COLLECTIT, GADERIT, AND SET FURTH, 
 
 BE SCHIR RICHART MAITLAND 
 
 OF LETHINGTOUN, 
 
 K N Y C H T, 
 
 DOCHTERIS SONN 
 
 OF THE SAID HOUS, ETC. 
 
 a 
 
THE TABLE OF 
 THE KINGIS OF SCOTLAND, 
 
 
 WITH THE DAIT OF THAIR REGNIS, ' ' 
 
 CONTEMPERAND WYTH THE HISTORIE FOLLOWlNb, 
 
 SEN KING MALCOLME CAINMOIRE, INCLUSIVE, TO 
 
 THE YEIR OF GOD J". V: LIX. YEIRIS; 
 
 AND QUHA PLESIS TO REID THE SAID HISTORIE, 
 
 AND DESYRIS TO KNAW THE DAIT OF THE 
 
 REGNIS OF THE SAID KINGIS, MAY 
 
 HAVE RECURS TO THIS TABLE. 
 
 In primis, King MALCOLME CAINMOIR began his regne in 
 anno J" Ixj yeir, in the xix yeir of Henrye tlie Firfl, king of France, 
 and in the xix yeir of Edward the Confeflbur, king of Ingland ; 
 quhilk Malcolme rang xxxvij yeiris. 
 
 DONALD, brother to the faid Malcolme, vfurpit the crowne, in the 
 yeir of God J™ Ixxxxvij ; and rang ane yeir and ane half! 
 
 DUNCANE, ballarde fone to the faid Malcolme, began to vfurpe the 
 crowne in anno J"" Ixxxxix j and rang ane yeir and ane half. 
 
 EDGAR, fourt fone to the faid Malcolme, began his regne in anno 
 J" y and ane yeir, and in the xxvuj yeir of Philip the Firfl, king of 
 
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iv THE KINGIS OF SCOTLAND 
 
 France, and in the xij yeir of Williame, callit Reid, king of England ; 
 and rang viij yeiris. 
 
 "■\0 ."•/ A-ttKXANDER, fyft fone to King Malcolme Cainmoir, began his 
 : I-'- •/{.•'■/Ijregneirianno J" j= ix yeiris, and in the xxxvij yeir of Philip the Firft, 
 
 king of France, and in the nyne yeir of Henrie the Firft, king of Ing- 
 
 land ; and rang xvij yeiris. 
 
 DAUID the Firft, the fext fone to King Malcolme Cainmoir, began 
 his regne in anno, etc. J" j° xxvj, and in the firft yeir of Lues the Firft, 
 king of France, and in the xxvj yeir of Henrie Bewcleir, king of Ing- 
 land ; and rang xxviij yeiris. 
 
 MALCOLME the Madin, nepot to Dauid, began his regne in anno 
 J™ j" liij, and in the xiij yeir of the regne of Lues, fone to Lues the Grit, 
 king of France, and in the fewintent yeir of Stephane, king of Ing- 
 
 land J and rang xiij yeiris. 
 
 -.j-MiM- iii^ i^--~>'' M- r 
 
 WILLIAME, brother to Malcolme the Madyne, began his regne in 
 anno, etc. J" j° Ixv, and in the xxv yeir of the forfaid Lues, king of 
 France, and in the tent yeir of Henry the Secund, king of Ingland ; 
 and rang xlix yeiris. 
 
 ALEXANDER the Secund, fone to Williame, began his regne in anno 
 J"" ij" xiiij yeiris, and in the xxxj yeir of Philip the Secund, king of 
 France, and in the xv yeir of Johne, king of Ingland ; and rang xxxv 
 yeiris. 
 
 ALLEXANDER the Thryd, fone to Allexander the Secund, begane 
 his regne in anno J" ij° xlix yeiris, and in the xxiij yeir of the regne of 
 
SENMALCOLMECAINMOIR. v 
 
 Sandl Lues, king of France, and in the xxxij yeiris of Henrie the 
 Thryd, king of Ingland ; and rang xxxv yeiris. 
 
 Efter quhais decefs, wythout fucceffioun, quhUk was in the yeir of God 
 J" ij° Ixx yeiris, and in the xiiij yeir of Philip the Thryd, king of France, 
 and in the twelt yeir of Edward the Firft, callit Langfchankis, king of 
 Ingland ; the Pley began betuix the Bruce and the BalioU for the 
 Crowne of Scotland. In the tyme of the quhilk pley, the realme wes 
 gouemit fex yeiris and fex monethis be certane gouemouris, chofin 
 thairto. 
 
 JOHNE BALIOLL began his regne in anno J"" ij" Ixxxxj, and in the 
 firft yeir of PhiHp the Fourt, callit the Fair, king of France, and in the 
 xix yeir of the forfaid Eduard, king of Ingland ; and rang four yeiris. 
 This BalioU was maid king be fupport of Edward Langfchankis, kyng 
 of Ingland ; and efter that he had rung four yeiris, as faid is, he was 
 depofit, depryvit, and expellit, be the faid Edward. And thairefter 
 fled in Normandie, quhair he deit. Efter quhais deprauatioun and 
 expultioun, the realme was gouemit fumtyme be WUliam Wallace, 
 and fum tyme be vther trew barrounis, chofin thairto, the fpace of 
 nyne yeiris ; or Robert Bruce culd obtene the crowne. 
 
 ROBERT the BRUCE began his regne in anno J" iij" v yeiris, and in 
 the nyntene yeir of Philip, callit the Fair, king of France, and in the 
 xxxiij yeir of the fou-faid Edward, kyng of Ingland; and rang xxv yeiris. 
 
 DAUID BRUCE, fone to Robert Bruce, begane his regne in anno 
 J" iij° xxix yeiris, and in the firft yeir of Philip de Vallois, king of 
 France, and in the thryd yeir of Edward of Windiflioir, king of Ing- 
 land ; and rang xxxix yeiris. 
 
vi THE KINGIS OF SCOTLAND 
 
 ROBERT the Secund, firft of the Stewartis, began his regne in anno 
 J"" iij° Ixix yeiris, and in the firft yeir of CharUs the Fyft, king of 
 France, and in the xliij yeir of the forfaid Edward, king of Ingland ; 
 and rang xx yeiris. 
 
 ROBERT the Thryd, fecund of the Stewartis, began his regne in 
 anno J" iij" Ixxxix yeiris, and in the fext yeir of Chariis the Sext, king 
 of France, and in the xij yeir of Richart the Secund, king of Ingland ; 
 and rang xvj yeiris. Efter quhais decefs, quhilk was in the yeir of 
 God J" iiij° V yeiris, and in the xxij yeir of the forfaid Chariis, king of 
 France, and in the fext yeir of Henry the Fourt, king of Ingland ; 
 Scotland was gydit be Robert, duik of Albany, xiij yeiris, and be 
 Duke Murdo four yeir : in the quhilk tyme, James the Firft was 
 prefoneir in Ingland. 
 
 JAMES the Firft began his regne in anno J"" iiij' xxiij yeiris, and 
 in the firft yeir of Chariis the Sewint, king of France, and in the 
 firft yeir of Henrie the Sext, king of Ingland ; and rang xiij yeiris. 
 
 JAMES the Secund, fone to James the Firft, began his regne in anno 
 J iiij" xxxvj, and in the xiij yeir of the forfaid Chariis, king of France, 
 and in the xiij yeir of the forfaid Henrye, kyng of Ingland ; and rang 
 xxiij yeiris. 
 
 JAMES the Thryd, fone to James the Secund, began his regne in 
 anno J"° iiij" lix yeiris, and in the firft yeir of Lues the XJ. kyng of 
 France, and in the xxxvij yeir of the forfaid Henry, king of Ingland ; 
 and rang xxviij yeiris. 'I. 
 
 JAMES the Fourt, fone to James the Thryd, began his regne in anno 
 
SEN MALCOLME CAINMOIR. vii 
 
 J" iiij° Ixxxvij yeiris, and in the thryd yeir of Charlis the Aucht, kyng 
 of France, and in the fecund yeir of Henry the Sewint, kyng of Ing- 
 land ; and rang xxv yeiris. 
 
 JAMES the Fyft, fone to James the Fourt, began his regne in anno 
 J" v° and xiij yeiris, and in the xvj yeir of Lues the XIJ, kyng of 
 France, and in the fourt yeir of Henry the Aucht, kyng of Ingland ; 
 " and rang xxix yeiris. 
 
 MARIE, dochter to James the Fyft, began hir regne in anno J" v' 
 xhj yeiris, and in the aucht and twentie yeir of Francois the Firft, 
 king of France, and in the xxxiij yeir of Henrye the Aucht, king of 
 Ingland j and rang .......... 
 
 [CONTINUATION OF THIS TABLE BY LORD KINGSTON.] 
 
 Which noble Queen [Mary] was murdered 
 
 by Queen Elizabeth, in December, 1586. She reigned 44 years, 
 having been 19 years prifoner to Queen EUzabeth. 
 
 JAMES the Sixth was borne -in the caftle of Edinburgh, the 19 day of 
 June, 1566. By the rebellious subje6ts againft the mother. Queen 
 Mary, [he] was crowned the 29th of July, 1567 : fo, counting from 
 his coronation to his death, which was the 25 March, 1625, he reigned 
 58 years ; but counting from his mother's death, anno 1586, to his 
 own death, in anno 1625, he reigned only 39 years. 
 
 CHARLES the Firft was borne att Dumfermline, in the year 1600 ; 
 
viii THE KINGIS OF SCOTLAND, &c. 
 
 a moft wife learned king, and in his time the beft of men ; was mur- 
 dered by diaboHcal bloody traitors, the 30 of January, 1649 : reigned 
 24 years. 
 
 CHARLES the Second was borne att St James' palace in England, 
 May 29, 1630 ; a brave, wife, gallant king ; who, after he was King, 
 was exiled by his crueU traitors, Englilh fubje6i;s, eleven years in 
 France, Germany, and Holland. In the year 1660, was, by God's 
 mercy, reflored to his three kingdomes, without any blood, to the great 
 joy of all his three kingdomes : was moft mercifuU to his rebellious fub- 
 je6ls who 'tempted rebellion againft him in Scotland and England. 
 He died, to the great griefe and lamentatioun of all his fubjedls, the 
 5th February, 1685 : reigned 36 years. 
 
 JAMES the Seventh, his fecund brother, fucceeded to him ; now, by 
 the mercy of God, happily reignes : whofe long life and prolperity 
 is the great bleffing of God to all his three kingdomes. 
 
TO ANE 
 NOBILL AND MYCHTYE LORD 
 
 GEORGE LORD SEYTOUN, 
 
 FYFT OF THAT NAME, 
 
 SCHIR RICHART MAITLAND 
 
 OF LETHINGTOUN, KNYCHT, 
 
 WISSIS HELTH, HONOUR, 
 
 AND PROSPERITIE. 
 
 >^EN I haue tane travaill and diligence to colledl and gadder the 
 hiftorie and cronicle of thy hous and furename of Seytoun, and to fet 
 furth the famin ; quhilk culd nocht weill be done wythout pane and 
 labour, as thow may knaw be the procefs and infpe6lioun of this lytill 
 buke ; quhilk I prefent to the, willing the famin to be thankiuUie 
 refauit, thocht it be of fmall valour. Accept my gude mynd for the 
 reft. 1 defyr non vther recompenfs hot that thow wiU follow thy maift 
 honorable predeceffouris, and fle and forbeir all wyce, and efchew all 
 thingis contrair to thy honour and gude confcience. 
 
 And firft of all, I exhort the wyth all my hart and mynd, to behave 
 the towart Almychty God our hewinhe father, as becummis the dewitie 
 of ane gude and faythfuU criftin man ; and that all thy doingis and pro- 
 cedingis be to his plefour honour and gloir, ay praying for his grace in 
 all thy a^is and effairis. Secundlie, that thow be trew loyall and obe- 
 dient to thy Princefs, and authoritie of this thy native cuntrie ; and to 
 
 A 
 
X THE DEDICATION. 
 
 attempt no thing that may [be] fkaythfuU or dampnable thairto, or 
 contrair to the commoun weill thairof. Thridlie, that thow keip fociete 
 peax and cherite wyth thy nychtbouris, and hurt thame nocht in 
 thair fame bodie nor gudis, nor provoik thame nocht to yre ; and gif 
 thame no occafioun nor caus of difplefour aganis thy felf, or ony vther. 
 And Ferdhe, that thow treit thy tenentis and thame that ar in thy 
 cure wyth meiknes and mercy, and lat nane of thame do wrang 
 to vther, bot hald thame in gude ordour be jullice. Defend thame 
 from oppreffioun of thair inimeis : opprefs thame nocht thy felf be 
 importable fervice and extorfiounis. Tak thy dewite of thame wyth 
 difcretioun ; and gif ony of thame, be aventure, fall in pouerte, gif 
 thame, len thame, and feiil thame of thy geir. Defend wedois and 
 puir orphalingis. Remove nane of thy pure tennentis fra thair pof- 
 feffounis wythout notable probable and intoUerable caufis. Bring vp 
 thy barnis in vertu, fcience, and knawledge of God. The quhUk to 
 do, I pray our hewinlie Father to fend the his holy Spreit to gyd the 
 and thy pollerite. Amen. 
 
THE PROLOG. 
 
 J.T war veray gude, honorable, plefand, and profitable, that everie 
 grit nobiU and gentillmen of heritage, and fpeciaUe men of grit 
 houfis, put in remembrance and maid cronicle of thair houfis and 
 furename ; of thair begynning and procefs of thair predecefTouris lyvis, 
 perticularlye of actis and deidis that thay did in thair tyme ; quhat 
 fucceffioun thay had, wyth quhom thay war allyat, and quhat was 
 thair end. 
 
 It war grit plefour to ane man to knaw the originall and begynnyng 
 of his hous and furename, and how lang it hes ftand, wyth gud a6lis 
 and vertu of his predeceffouris ; and it war richt profitable, becaus 
 quhen ane man remembris the gud begynnyng of his hous and fure- 
 name, the lang fl;anding thairof, the honorable and vertuous a6tis of 
 his predecefTouris, [it] will gif occaflioun tUl everie man to conferve 
 and mantene the hous that his forbearis hes conqueifl;, and will be the 
 mair layth to do ony thing that may be the hurt or decay of the 
 famyn. And mairower, quhen he heiris or reidis, or heiris red, the 
 nobill a6tis of his predeceffouris put in writ ; that howbeit that thay 
 be deid bodelie, thair fame is yit levand recentlie ; it will give thame 
 occafioun to exerce thame felfis in vertu and honour, fua it may be 
 writtin of thame as of thair gude predeceffouris ; that thak fame and 
 name may leif and lefl; lang and mony yeiris efiter thair bodie be deid. 
 And gif ony of thair predeceffouris hes bene vicious, and thair vyce fet 
 
xii THEPROLOG. 
 
 furth in remembrance, it may gif everie man occafioun to efchew all 
 thingis difhonorable or deteftable, in eventure that it be fpokin mony 
 yeiris efler thair deceifs from this warld, to thair fclander and fchame. 
 
 Thair is bot certane maneris of begynnyng of houfis in this cuntrie of 
 Scotland : ane is by gift of princeis or grit men, for trew and thankfUll 
 fervice ; ane vther is be iufl conquefs be ane mannis filuer or geir ; the 
 thrid is be maryage of ladyis of heritage ; and ferdhe, quhen be even 
 ture heretage faUis to ane man be his mother, or fum vther famell his pre- 
 decelTour. And gif fua beis that ane mannis hous hes had begynnyng 
 be gift of princeis or grit men, it will gif occafioun to thair pofteritie to 
 be trew and thankfull fervandis to thair fuperiouris, to that effect that 
 thay may augment thair hous thairby. And gif it hes begun be iufl 
 conques wyth ane mannis filuer or geir, it will gif occafioun in lyk 
 maner to thair poflerite to be vertuous, and na waiflouris, that thay 
 may eik thair heretage be iufl conquefs. And gif it hes begun be 
 mariage of ladyis of heretage, it will gif ficlyk occafioun to thair 
 poflerite, quhen fie ane thing happennis, to preis thairat. And gif it 
 hes cumit be fucceffioun of [a] fameU, it wUl gif occafioun tiU everie 
 man to allya his fone and appeirand ayr wyth the befl and maifl hon- 
 efl; hous and party that he may win to, in hope that fie chance 
 may fall to his poflerite be maryage. Thair is certane maneiis of 
 begynnyng of houffis quhilk ar verray deteftable, and contrair to all 
 lawis bayth of God and man, quhilk I wald exhort all men to forbeir 
 (howbeit thay be owermekle vfit in this cuntrie) : That is to fay, 
 be circumventioun of the ignorant and innocent, or be extreme necef- 
 fite of the pure, cojnpellit thairby ; or be inuentioun of new lawis 
 and pra6lifes, and vther ewUl confaitis ; or werfl of all, be reif and op- 
 preffioun. QuhHkis thingis I can nocht call begynningis of houfis, 
 becaus thay ar fene ofl tymes [toj cum to ane ewUl end ; for we may 
 
THE PROLOG. xiii 
 
 fe be experience how mony grit houfis hes bein in this reahne, and 
 now fa far decayit, that fcanthe is left ony of thair pofteiite, and 
 thair haill houffis and heritage is tranllatit fra thair furenames in to 
 the princeis handis, or fum vther ftrangear. I culd fchaw mony in 
 fpeciall, and part in my tyme, war nocht fum wald be offendit thair- 
 wyth ; bot it is nocht neidfull, becaus thair is mony weill aneuche 
 knawin. The cans of this decay hes bein fum wrang conques ; or 
 be fum grit oppreffioun done be fum of that hous : ffor we fe fum 
 men, barrownis and fmall gentill mennis houffis, quhUk began be- 
 fore fum of the faid grit houffis, now decayit, and continewit all thair 
 tyme, and yit ftandis lang efter thame in honour and fufficient leving. 
 
 Bot now to cum to my purpois. I was requeiftit be ane nobUl 
 and trew barroun, George Lord Seytoun the ferd of that name, to 
 collect gadder and fet furth the hiftorie and cronicle of his hous and 
 furename, quhUk hes bein verray ancyent and honorable. The cans 
 of his requeift to me was be reiToun that I knew the evidentis and 
 wrytingis of his hous beft of ony man in thir dayis, and had oftefl fein 
 and handlit thame : and als becaufe I was ane dochteris fone of the 
 faid hous. To the quhUk requeift I grantit and promifit to do the 
 famyn, fa far as I vnderftude and knew. Bot becaus the tyme hes 
 bein verray trublus, I haue had mony impedimentis, fua that I micht 
 nocht performe my promeis. Exhortand all reidaris, gif I omit ony 
 thing, it fall be imput to negUgence and ignorance, and nocht to wil- 
 fulnes. For [I] fall fay no thing bot I fall haue for me gude apper- 
 ance, to the quhUk all refonable reidaris fall be juge ; or the croniclis 
 of this realme of Scotland, or the evidentis and wrytingis of the faid 
 hous, or be the rehers of honorabill men quha in my opinioun ar 
 faythfuU and of gude fame, or eUis the thingis that I haue fene or 
 hard in my awin tyme. 
 
THE 
 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN 
 
 AND FIRST, OF THE BEGYNNING OF THE 
 SURENAME OF THE SAMIN. 
 
 A T is to be notit and knawin to everie man, thair wes few furenames 
 in this cuntre of Scotland before the tyme of King Malcolme Cainmoir, 
 quha began to regne in the yeir of God J" thre fcoir ane yeiris, and 
 rang xxxvij yeiris. Bot thair faderis name was ay thair furename, as 
 Johne male Williame or WiUiamfone, WUhame male Allexander, as yit 
 is in thir dayis the vfe of the Heyland of Scotland ; quhUl the faid 
 Malcolme gef to his nobillis and gentUmen certane perticulair fure- 
 names, fum be refoun of thair offices, fum efler the names of the landis 
 quhilk thay pofleffit for the tyme, and fum for ane caus moving him 
 and fum for vther. Amang the quhUkis, he gaif to the predeceflbur 
 and forbear of my Lord Seytoun the furename of SEYTOUN, as the 
 Cronicle of Scotland tellifiis. Appeirandlie, be reffoun that the gen- 
 tillman that firft refauit this furename poffeffit the landis of Seytoun 
 for the tyme, quhilk hes bein the occafioun of the giffin to him that 
 furename ; for thay landis ar callit Seytoun for ane grit caus, becaus 
 thay ly hard vpon the Sey coll, and the Toun thairof is neir to the fey. 
 
16 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 and at that tyme wes neireft to the fey of ony toun ane grit fpace 
 thairabout. Heir we may colledl twa thingis : ane is that he was ane 
 gentilman that refauit firft the furename, becaus the king gaif fure- 
 names to nane bot gentilmen ; and fecundlie, that he was landit, be- 
 caus he tuk the furename be reffoun of the landis that he poiTedit 
 for the tyme, as faid is. And it may weUl Hand, that his forbearis 
 had broukit the faid landis lang befoir that tyme, howbeit thair be na 
 infeftment to fchaw thairvpon ; and howbeit thair had bein infeft- 
 mentis, thay micht weill haue bein tint fenfyn, be reffoun of the grit 
 fuddane and cruell weiris that hes bein in this realme of Scotland, and 
 fpecialie in thir partis of Lothyane. 
 
 I can nocht find ane proper name of him that refauit firft the fure- 
 name : bot the firft proper name that I find is ane callit Dougall. 
 
 OFFDOUGALLSEYTOUN. 
 
 This Dougall was fone or oy, as appeiris, to him that firft refauit the 
 furename, and was in the tyme of King AUexander, fyft fone to King 
 Malcolme Cainmore. 
 
 OFF SEHER SEYTOUN. 
 
 Seher Seytoun fuccedit to Dougall, quhilk I beleve was his father, 
 becaus I find it convenient wyth the tyme. This Seher was in the 
 tyme of King Dauid, quha was fext and yongeft fone to King Mal- 
 colme Cainmoir, quha fuccedit to AUexander his brother. 
 
 OFF PHILIP SEYTOUN. 
 
 Phillip Seytoun fuccedit to Seher Seytoun, his father, and wes in the 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 17 
 
 tyme of Malcolme the Madene, quha fuccedit to the forfaid King Da- 
 uid, his gudfchir. This PhUhp deit in the xiiij yeir of the regne of 
 King Williame, quha fuccedit to his brother Malcolme the Madene. 
 And the faid Williame gaif to this Phillip ane charter of new infeft- 
 ment of the landis of Seytoun, Wintoun, and Wincheburgh, quhilk was 
 auld heritage of before, as the faid charter tellifiis. Of the quhilk the 
 tenour foUowis : 
 
 Willielmus Dei gra. rex Scotorum, epifcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, 
 baronibus, julliciariis, vicecomitibus, miniftris, et omnibus probis [homi- 
 nibus] totius terras fuse, clericis et laicis, falutem. Sciatis prefentes et 
 futuri me concefliffe, et hac carta mea confirmafle, PhUlipo de Seytune 
 terram quae fuit patris fui, fcihcet, Seytune et Wintune et Winchel- 
 burgh, tenendam fibi et haeredibus fuis de me et hseredibus meis in 
 feodo et haereditate ; in bofco et piano, in terris et aquis, in pratis et 
 pafcuis, et in omnibus earundem terrarum jullis pertinentiis ; cum 
 facca et focca, tholl et them [et] infangen theif, cum furca et fofla ; 
 libere quiete plenarie et honorifice, per feruitium vnius mUitis. Tefti- 
 bus, D. Dauide fratre meo, comite Dunecano jufliciario, Ricardo de 
 Mormll conflabulario, Waltero Olefer jufliciario, Alano dapifero, 
 Waltero de Bercly camerario, Willielmo de Lind. Ricardo de Hum- 
 phravUle, Joanne de London ; Apud Striviling. 
 
 OFF ALEXANDER SEYTOUN, 
 
 THE FIRST OF THAT NAME. 
 
 Alexander Seytoun fuccedit to Phillip his father ; quhilk Allexander 
 deit in the fex and fourtie yeir of the regne of King Williame, fore- 
 faid, quha gaif to the faid Allexander ane new charter of infeftment 
 of the faidis landis, conforme in wourd and fentence to the charter 
 aboue writtin, giffin to Phdip his father. 
 
t 
 
 18 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 OFF BARTINE SEYTOUN. 
 
 Bartine Seytoun fuccedit to Allexander, his father, and was in the 
 tyme of the faid King Wniiame ; and deit in the tyme of King Allex- 
 ander the Secund, fone to King WiUiame, forfaid. To this Bartine 
 Patrick erle of Marche gaif the landis of Ruchelaw, quhilk gift was 
 confirmit be King WUliame forefaid. 
 
 OFF ADA ME SEYTOUN. 
 
 Adame Seytoun, ane maifter clerk, fuccedit to Bartine, his fader, 
 the tyme of the faid AUexander the fecund ; and deit in the tyme of 
 Allexander the Thryd, fone to King Allexander the Secund. 
 
 OFF CHRISTELL SEYTOUN. 
 
 ChrifteU Seytoun fuccedit to Maifter Adame Seytoun, his father; and 
 deit in the thretye yeir of Allexander the Thryd. This ChrifteU was 
 mair gevin to deuotioun nor wardlinefs. 
 
 OFF CHRISTELL SEYTOUN, 
 
 THE SECUND OF THAT NAME. 
 
 ChrifteU the fecund of that name fuccedit to ChrifteU the firft, his fa- 
 ther, in the tyme of AUexander the Thryd, and was ane nobill man, and 
 did mony gud adlis aganis the Inglifmen, quhen the Crowne was defolat 
 and in pley betuix the Bruce and the BalioU. QuhUk ChrifteU, quhen he 
 micht nocht brouk the lawland of Lowthyane, quhair was his duelling 
 place, duelt and remainit wyth his kyn and freyndis in Jedburgh 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 19 
 
 forreft, ay awating his tyme contrare the Inglifinen ; and deit in the 
 tyme of Williame Wallace. 
 
 OFF CHRISTELL SEYTOUN, 
 
 THE THRYD OF THAT NAME. 
 
 Chriftell the thryd fuccedit to Chryftell the fecund, his father, 
 in the tyme of WilUame Wallace ; quhilk Chriftell was efter maid 
 knycht be King Robert Bruce, and for his monye gude a6lis done 
 againis the Inglifinen was callit Gud S^ Chriftell. Quha quhen King 
 Robert Bruce was tane prefonare in handis be the Inglifinen at ane 
 feild befyde Methven, and thay that tuke him cryit in fcome and deri- 
 fioun, Quha will help the new maid King? quhilk cry the faid S' Chryf- 
 tell hard, and come in all haift and ftraik at erd him that had 
 the king in handis ; and thair he and his freindis refkewit the faid 
 King Robert, and pat him to Ubertie. This Chryftell maryit the faid 
 King Robert Bruce fifter, and thairfor the faid King Robert gaif to 
 the faid S^ Chriftell the dowbil trefour of flour de lycis, to be worne 
 about his armes and the armes of his pofterite, lyk as the king weris 
 thame. Efter mony grit and notabUl a^is done be the faid S' Chryf- 
 tell contrair Ingland, he wes tane at the laft, and had to Londoun, and 
 thair put to deid in maift cruell maner. In this mene tyme, King Ro- 
 bert Bruce hapnit to be in the toun of Dunfreis, and pafTand furth till 
 ane lytUl knoU befyd the faid toun to tak the air, quhair the word and 
 tythingis come to him of the crewell flauchter of the faid S' Chryf- 
 tell, quhilk the king heirand maid grit lamentatioun wyth fum teiris, 
 faying. It is ane piete that fa nobill ane knycht fuld die fa crewell ane 
 deid. And incontinent, in the famin place quhair he wes ftandand 
 quhen the tythingis come to him, gart found ane chapell in honour 
 of the Virgene Marie ; and in remembrance of the faid S' Chriftell 
 
 b2 
 
20 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 foundit ane preift to do devyne fervice thairin perpetuallie, and pray for 
 the faid Schir Chriftell ; and gaif to the faid preift and his fucceffouris 
 the fowme of iyve pundis Streviling, to be tane of the baronie of Car- 
 lauerok, for thair fuflentatioun. Quhilk fundatioun I haue had oft 
 in my handis, and red it findrie tymes. The quhilk chapell was 
 ftandand hadl and vndecayit in the yeir of God J° v*^ lii yeiris, as I 
 faw my felf ; and as I beleve ftandis yit in the famin maner, and is 
 caUit be all the inhabitaris in that cuntre Chrillallis chapell. 
 
 N«ta,-The ANE EIK OF Sr CHRISTOPHER OF SETOUN 
 
 £ik upone 
 
 the follow- THE THRID OF THAT NAME. 
 
 ing leiif to 
 
 here, as it u It is to wit that efter that I had wryttin the Hiftorie of the Hous of 
 
 markit. "^ 
 
 Setoun, I haue fund in the greit Cronicles of Ingland, fet furth fen 
 I wret the hiftorie of Setoim, quhilk ar as efter followis : 
 
 «> 
 " Efter this was the caftell of Lochdore taiken, and wythin it Chrif- 
 topher Seitoun, that had maried the lifter of Robert le Bruce ; [and 
 bicaufe he was no Scot but an Englilhman borne,] the King of Ing- 
 land commandit that he fuld be led wnto Dunfreis, quhar he had kUlit 
 on of the kingis knychtis, and thair to be hangit drawin and quarter- 
 it : The wyf of this Chriftopher Seitoun he apoyntit to be keipit in 
 the monefterie of Thixell in Lyndfay." " Morouer, the manor of 
 Seitoun, in Quhytbeftroud, he gaue wnto the Lord Edmonde de Maw- 
 lay, and thofe wther landis that belongeth to the faid Chriftopher 
 Seitoun in Northumberland he gaue wnto the Lord WiUiame Latemer." 
 
 And howbeit that I wret of before as I wes informit for the tyme. 
 That the firft tyme that King Robert the Bruce com to Dunfreifs efter 
 that S'' Chriftopher Setoun was crewellie flane in Ingland, that in the 
 fam place quhar the king was quhen the thydingis com till him he garde 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 21 
 
 bige ane chapell, and dottit the famyng perpetuallie to pray for the 
 faid S' Chriftopher ; hot now it apeiris be the IngUs Cronicles, That 
 quhan the faid king com to Dunfreis, that quhan it was reportit till 
 him be the inhabeturis of the faid toun the crewell marterdome of the 
 faid S' Chriftopher, that he garde bige the faid chapell in the famyng 
 place quhar the faid S"" Chriftopher was pute to deid and executtit. 
 Of the quhilk chapell I haue red the foundatioun and infythment of 
 ane preift onder the faidis kingis greit feill ; and hes hard Mes in 
 the famyng chapell, quhilk ftandis as I beleif to this prefent day. 
 
 OFF ALEXANDER, THE SECUND 
 
 OF THAT NAME. 
 
 Alexander, the fecund, fifter fone to King Robert Bruce, fuccedit to 
 Gud S' Chriftell, his father, and was maid knycht be King Robert 
 Bruce j quha gaif to him, for fervice done be his father and him felf, the 
 landis of Dundas and Cragye, as the charter beris, Gevin at Berwik 
 vpon Tweid the xiij day of Apryle, and of his regne the xvi yeir. And 
 als the faid King Robert gave to the faid Allexander the barony of 
 Trenent, wyth the tenendury thairof for the tyme, viz. Falfyde mylis 
 and Elphinftoun, as the chartouris teftifus gevin thairupoun. At Ber- 
 wik and Scone refpe6tiue, the forefaid yeir of his regne. Alfwa the 
 faid King Robert gave to the faid Schir Alexander the landis and ba- 
 rony of Bamis, aboue Hadingtoun, for fervice done be him, fpecialie 
 in the partis of Yrland, as the charter teftifiis, Gevin at Berwik the 
 XV day of Apryle, the forfaid yeir of his regne; with dyuers vther landis 
 quhilk I omit for fchortnes, and ar nocht now at the Hous, howbeit 
 the evidentis thairof remainis yit prefentlie. In this mannis tyme, 
 Edward Balioll vfurpand the crown of Scotland, to obtene the famin, 
 come wyth ane armye of Inglifmen be fey and landit in Fyff", at King- 
 
22 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 orne, quhair the faid S" AUexander was for the tyme with ane few num- 
 ber of men, quha fet vpon the faid Edward Baholl and his cumpanye 
 at thair landing and hurt and flew dyuerfs of thame. Bot becaus the 
 number and powar of the faid Edward was fa fer aboue the number 
 being wyth the faid S"^ Alexander, at lall thay overthrew him and his 
 cumpany ; quhair the faid S' Alexander was flane, the yeir of God J™ 
 iii' xxxij yeiris, in the fecund yeir of the regne of King Dauid Bruce, 
 fone to King Robert Bruce. 
 
 OFF ALEXANDER SEYTOUN, 
 
 THE THRYD OF THAT NAME. 
 
 Schir Alexander Seytoun, the thryd of that name, fuccedit to S' 
 Alexander the fecund, his father, and was ane nobUl knycht, and 
 made capitane and keiper of Berwik. At quhilk tyme, Eduard the 
 Thryd, king of Ingland, caUitof Windiftioir, come wyth ane grit army e 
 and feigit the faid toun verray fcharpUe, bayth be fey and land ; bot 
 the faid S"^ Alexander debaitit it verray valyeandlie for the fpace of 
 thre monethis. Out of the quhilk toun the faid S"" Alexander and his 
 cumpanye yfchit findrie tymes, and flew their watchis and brint monye 
 of thair fchippis ; quhifl at ane fcarmifche Williame Seytoun, fone to 
 S' Alexander, foUowit fa fafl; that he was takin prifonare and prefentit 
 to the king. And als ane young valyeand man, baft.ard fone to the 
 faid S"" Alexander, invadand the Inglifs fchippis vnder nicht, happin- 
 nit to drowne. And at the lafl;, the vi6tuall grew fcant in the faid 
 toun, and dyuerfs thairin hurt and flane ; for the quhUk cans, the faid 
 S"" Alexander fend to the rewlaris of Scotland for the tyme, in the non 
 age of the king, to get refltew wyth all diligence: and in the menetyme, 
 fend to the king of Ingland and defyrit trewis for certane dayis vpon 
 conditioun, gif he gat na reflcew affoir the day appointit, he fuld de- 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 23 
 
 lyver the faid toun to the faid king of Ingland ; and, for obferving 
 and keiping of the forfaid conditioun, he delyuerit his eldeft fone and 
 appeirand air, callit Thomas, in plage to him. In the mein tyme of 
 trewis, the rewlaris of Scotland gadderit ane grit armye ; of qu[hose3 
 cuming the king of Ingland heirand, prevenit the tyme, haveand na 
 refpedl to his promeis, and defyrit the toun to be randerit afFoir the 
 day appointit, or eUis he fuld hang bayth his fonnis. To the quhilk 
 anfuerit the faid S"" Alexander, Gif he wald vfe fie creweltie, contrair 
 his fayth and promeis, ga to his purpois, for he wald nocht rander 
 the toun. Than incontinent, the king of Ingland gart drefs yp ane 
 gallous befoir the faid toun, and brocht the faid S' Alexanderis tua 
 fonnis (the ane delyuerit in hollage, the vther tane prefonar) bund 
 thairto, and thair hangit thame in maill cruell maner. Thair father, 
 howfone he faw the gallous put vp and his fonnis brocht bund thair- 
 to, wald nocht byd to fe his fonnis put to deid, in aventure fatherlye 
 pietie fuld haue movit him to haue gevin ower the toun, hot paffit to 
 his chalmer wyth extreme grit dolour. His wyfT, callit Criftiane Chene, 
 ane nobill woman and ane wyfe, perfaving the grit dolour of hir 
 hulband, by the commoun cuftome of wemen, layit by hir moderlie 
 forow, and began to confort hir hufband, delyrand [himj to leif his 
 dolour, and fchew him gude and ftark reffonis quhy he fuld do the 
 famin, quhilk is writtin in the CronicUs of Scotland at length be Maif- 
 ter He6lour Boece. Bot and I durft I wald repreve the faid Maif- 
 ter Hedlour ; becaus quhair he fettis furth the refounis and orifoun 
 maid be the faid S' Alexanderis wyf to hir hufband, he partlie defacies 
 and miniffis the honour of the faid S' Alexander, and in ane maner 
 wald gif the gloir to the woman. Howbeit everie man may confider 
 quhat this S"^ Alexander was, ane nobill valyeand and wyfe man, or ellis 
 he had nocht bein chofen to fie au6lhorite and ofiice ; and appeirand- 
 lie of gritar curage nor ony woman culd be. And gif he wald haue 
 
24 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 favit his fonnis he wald nocht haue ftoppit for ane woman ; for the 
 orifone that the woman maid to hir hulband, was efter he come in his 
 chalmer, and his fonnis put to executioun and deid alreddy, as cleirhe 
 appeiris in dyuers of the auld cronicUs of Scotland quhilk I haue red. 
 
 This fege of Berwik was in the yeir of God J" iii<= xxxiij yeiris, and 
 in the thryd yeir of Dauid Bruce. This King Dauid gave to the faid 
 S' Alexander the heritrix of Parbroth, callit Elizabeth Ramfay, doch- 
 ter and air to S' Nicl Ramfay knycht ; quhilk Elizabeth the faid S"^ 
 Alexander gave in maryage to his fone callit Johne, as I fall efter 
 fchaw. This S"^ Alexander deit in the latter [days] of the forfaid 
 King Dauid, and was of grit age ; and was bureit in the paroche kirk 
 of Seytoun. 
 
 Heir I will mak ane lytUl degreffioun, and fchaw fum quhat of the 
 hous of Parbroth fra the begynning at the Seytounis to the yeir of 
 God J" v' Ix yeiris. 
 
 OFF THE FIRST GUMMING 
 OF PARBROTH TO THE SEYTOUNIS, 
 AND OF THE SUCCESSIOUN THAIROF. 
 
 This Alexander Seytoun that kepit Berwik had four lauchfiill 
 fonnis : the eldeft twa, callit Thomas and Williame, war hangit at 
 Berwik, as faid is ; the thryd fon, callit Alexander, fuccedit to his fa- 
 theris heritage. The fourt fone, callit Johne, mariit the foirfaid Eliza- 
 beth Ramfay, heretrix of Parbroth, quha bair to him ane fone, callit 
 Alexander ; quhilk Alexander begat S"^ Gilbert, knycht. This S"" Gilbert 
 
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 mariit Marioun Petcarne, vpone quhom he gat fyve fonnis : the eldeft, 
 callit S' Alexander, knycht, quha fuccedit till his father ; the fecund 
 fone, callit WiUiame, — quha had aHb ane fone callit Williame that mariit 
 Katherine Butlair, heritrix of Rumgavye ; the thryd fone of the faid 
 S" Gilbert, callit Johne, mareit Jonet Lauthryfk, heritrix of that Ilk, — 
 of the quhilk Johne ar defcendit the Seytounis of Lauthrylk and 
 Baubimy ; the fourt fone, callit Maifler Dauid, quha was ane fingulare 
 honeft man, and mariit all his eldeft brotheris dochteris, efter his de- 
 ceifs, on landit men and payit thair tocheris, and coft ladyis of heritage 
 to his brotheris fonnis. 
 
 In the tyme of King James the Ferd, thair wes ane procefs led aganis 
 the barounis callit recognitionis. Amangis the quhilkis, George lord 
 Seytoun, fecund of that name, was callit to heir and fe the baro- 
 nye of Wincheburgh recognofcit, for the maift part than alienatit 
 without confent of the king. It happinnit that the king him felf come 
 to the counfalhous amang the lordis of feffion ; and that famin day, 
 the king being prefent, the faid adtioun aganis the faid lord Sey- 
 toun was callit. At that tyme, thair was aduocat for the king and 
 juftice clerk Maifter Richart Laufoun, quha yeid to the bar, and con- 
 currit and afliftit to him Maifter James Henryfoun, quha efter fuc- 
 cedit to the faid Maifter Richart in his oflSces. The faid Maifter 
 Richart and Maifter James becaus of the kingis prefence war the 
 mair halt and rigorus in the mater. The faid Maifter Dauid [Sey- 
 toun], ane of the aduocatis for the lord Seytoun, perfaving the hicht 
 of the faid Maifter Richart, faid to him, " Howbeit thay call you 
 Lawis fone, ye ar nocht lawis fader, to mak lawis at your plefour." 
 And than he faid to the king, " Schir, quhen our forbearis gat yon 
 land at your maift nobiU predeceffouris [handis] ffor thair trew fer- 
 vice ; fumtyme gevand the blade of thair bodie, and fumtyme thair 
 
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26 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 lyvis, in defence of this realme ; at that tyme thair wes nothir Laufoun 
 nor Henryfoun, quha now wald invent wayis to diftieris the barronis 
 of Scotland." The Kingis Grace faid to the faid Maifter Dauid, 
 " How now, ye foryet your felf ; ye wait nocht quhair ye ar ; ye ar 
 mair lyk ane man of weir nor ane aduocat : it appeiris that ye wald 
 fecht for the mater." Than anfuerit the faid Maifter Dauid and faid, 
 " Schir, and it micht ftand wyth your Graces plefour, I pray God 
 gif it war at that, to fe gif bayth Laufoun and Henderfoun durft fecht 
 wyth me in that querile, als auld as I am" (for he wes than moir nor 
 Ix yeiris). The Kingis Grace, quha wes the maift nobill and humane 
 prince in the warld, havand confideratioun of the age of the man, and 
 of his grit affectioun to his cheiffis a^ioun, he fmylit and leuch a lytill, 
 and faid na mair. 
 
 This Maifter Dauid was perfoun of Fettercarne and Balheluy ; and 
 ane large man of body as was in his dayis, and ftout thairwyth ; the 
 beft lyk ageit man that ever I faw. He levit quhiU he wes Ixxx 
 yeiris, vndecripit, and did mony vther a6lis wordy to be put in 
 remembrance, quhUk I omit for fchortnes. The fyfl fone, caUit Gil- 
 bert, ane maifter clerk, deit in Rome. 
 
 The faid S' Alexander, eldeft fone to the faid S"" Gilbert, mariit 
 Murray, dochter to the lard of Tulybardin, and gat on 
 hir ane fon, callit Alexander, quha deit befoir his father. This Alex- 
 ander mareit Katherine, dochter to the lord Lyndefay of the Byris, 
 and gat vpon hir tua fonnis : the eldeft, callit Johne, quha fuccedit to 
 his gudfchir, and was flane at Houdane, levand behind him na fuc- 
 ceffioun of his bodie ; ane vther, callit Andro, quha fuccedit to the faid 
 Johne, his brother, and levis prefentlie. This Andro mareit 
 Balfour, dochter to the lard of Burlie, and gat vpone hir ane fone. 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 27 
 
 callit Gilbert, quha was flane at the feild of Pinkye, his fader yit 
 leifFand. This Gilbert mareit Margrat Leflie, dochter to the erle of 
 Rothos, on quhom he gat Dauid, appeirand air to his gudfchir, An- 
 dro. The rest of the fuccefRoun of the hous of Parbroth, and the 
 granis coUaterall of the famin, wyth their fucceffioun and adlis done be 
 thame, I refer to thame that are discendit of the famin hous ; and I 
 will retume to my principall hiftorie. 
 
 OFF ALEXANDER SEYTOUN, 
 
 THE FERD OF THAT NAME. 
 
 Alexander, the fourt of that nam, fuccedit to Alexander, his father, 
 being his thrid fone, and was ane nobill and vertuous man ; and in 
 the tyme of Robert the Secund, firil king of the Stewartis, quha fuc- 
 cedit to King Dauid Bruce. Quhilk Alexander, efiter he had ievit 
 to gude age honourable, deit and was bureit in the paroche kirk of 
 Seytoun. -' 
 
 OFF LORD WILLIAM E. 
 
 William Seytoun fuccedit to Alexander the ferd, his father, and 
 was the firft. creatit and maid Lord in the parUament: and he 
 and his pofterite to haue ane voce thairin, and be callit Lordis. 
 This Williame mareit Katherine Sinclare, dochter of the hous of 
 Hirdmeftoun, quha was ane grit hous at that tyme. And als this 
 Williame bowcht the Ladie Gordoun, of heritage, to haue been mareit 
 on his eldeft fone, caUit Johne, and thairby to haue eikit his hous 
 and leving ; bot the faid Johne had ane favour to ane dochter of the 
 
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28 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 erle of Merches, quhom he mareit vnwitting of his fader. For the 
 quhilk caus, his father was sumthing difpHceit, bot at the laft he wes 
 appeifit and fatisfeit, becaus fcho was dochter to fa grit ane man, and 
 ane honeft partie and allya. Than the faid WUliame gave the faid 
 Ladie Gordoun to his fecund fone, calUt ; of the quhilk 
 
 ar cumit and difcendit the erUs and famous hous of Huntlie, the 
 Seytounis of Tuche and TeUbodie, and the Seytounis of Meldrum. 
 And howbeit the erlis of HuntHe fenfyn changit thair furename from 
 Seytoun to Gordoun, yit trewhe thay are cumit of Seytounis on thair 
 faderis fyde ; and to verifie the famin, thay weir the armes of the 
 hous of Seytoun in ane quarter of thair fchield. 
 
 This WUliame was in the tyme of King Robert the Thryd, fecund 
 of the Stewartis, fone to King Robert the Secund. This WUliame had 
 bot tua fonnis wyth his wyf, and fevin dochteris : the eldeft of the tua 
 fonnis was caUit Johne'; the fecund .■ . ■ . The eldeft doch- 
 
 ter of the faid Lord WUliame was mareit on the lord DenUie, foirbear 
 to the erle of Lenox ; the fecund on the lord Kennedye, foirbear to 
 the erle of CafTiUis ; the thrid on the foirbear of the lord OgUuy ; the 
 fourt on the foirbear of the lord CarlUl ; the fyft on Halden lard of 
 Glennegis ; the fext on HammUtoun lard of Preftoun ; the fewint on 
 Lauder lard of PoppUl. This WUliame, efter that he had levit ane 
 honeft lyve lang tyme, he deit and was bureit in the Cordelere 
 freiris in Hadingtoun ; quhamto, weklie, he fundit fex laid of coUs, to 
 be tane of his coUpot of Trenent, and fourtye fchUlingis of annueU, to 
 be tane of the Bamis. 
 
 Efter quhais deceis, his wyf, quha was ane honorabUl ladye, levit 
 all hir dayis in pure wedoheid, and did mony gud adlis : Scho 
 mareit four of hir faid dochteris efter hir huftjandis deceis ; fcho big- 
 
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 git ane yle on the fouth fyd of the paroche kirk of Seytoun, of fyne 
 aftler j pendit and theikit it wyth ftane ; wyth ane fepulture thairin, 
 quhair fche lyis ; and foundit ane preift to ferve thair perpetuallie. 
 This ladie, in her wedoheid, duelt quhair now ar the preiftis chahneris 
 now in Seytoun, and plantit and maid all thair yardis that thay haue 
 yit. This ladie held ane grit houlhald and ane honourable ; that quhen 
 hir fone, quha wes lord, raid to ony place, to his honour, fche fend in 
 cumpanye wyth him certane honeft men, quhUk fche daylie nuriffit in 
 hir hous, to do him fervice and awate on him, fa lang as he was fra 
 hame ; and fend hir ftewart wyth thame to beir thair chargeis, fa that 
 thay fuld tak na expenflis of hir fone, bot at his plefour, quhill he re- 
 tumit hame agane to his awin hous, and than thay enterit agane to 
 hir in houlhald. 
 
 OF THE DISCENDING OF THE 
 
 HOUSIS OF HUNTLIE, MELDRUM, AND TUCHE, 
 
 OF THE PRINCIPALL HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 
 
 Heir I will mak ane lytill degreffioun, and fchaw fum thing in Ipe- 
 ciall how the famous hous of Hunthe, the Seytounis of Tehbodie and 
 Meldrum, ar defcendit of the principaU hous of Seytoun, as efter fol- 
 lowis. That is to fay, the faid Lord Wilhame Seytoun had tua fonnis, 
 as faid is : the eldeft, callit Johne ; the fecund, callit Alexander, quha 
 mareit the lady of heritage of Gordoun, Strabogy, and vther grit 
 landis. 
 
 This Alexander Seytoun gat vpon the faid ladye tua sonnis : the 
 eldeft, callit Alexander Seytoun, quhilk was the firft erle of Huntlie; — 
 
30 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 the fecund, callit Williame Seytoun, quhilk mareit the heretrix of Mel- 
 drum, quha gat vpon hir ane fone, caUit Alexander Seytoun ; quha 
 mareit Mureyald Sutherland, dochter to the lard of DufFus, quha gat 
 vpone hir Williame Seytoun ; quha mareit Elizabeth Leflie, dochter 
 to the lard of Wardefs, and gat vpon hir Alexander Seytoun ; qulia 
 mareit Agnes Gordoun, dochter to the lard of Haldok, and gat on 
 hir Williame Seytoun, now lard ; quha mareit Jonet Gordoun, dochter 
 to the lard of Lefmoir. 
 
 The faid Alexander Seytoun, firft erle of Huntlie, as faid is, mareit 
 Gelis Hay, heritrix of the Enye and vtheris grit landis, quha gat on 
 hir ane fone, callit Alexander Seytoun, firft lard of Tuche and Teli- 
 bodie. This Alexander Seytoun of Telibodie mareit Elizabeth Er- 
 fldn, dochter to the lord Erfkin, quha gat on hir S' Alexander Sey- 
 torni knycht ; quha mareit Margrat Hume, dochter to the lord Hume, 
 quha gat on hir S' Niniane Seytoun knycht; quha mareit Jonet 
 Cheiiholme, wedo of Merchinftoun, and gat on hir Walter Seytoun, 
 now lard of Tuche ; quha mareit Erfkin, dochter to 
 
 Johne lord Erfkin. The remanent coUateralHs and branchis of the faid 
 hous' of Meldrum and Telibodie, and a6lis done be thame, I refer to 
 fum freyndis of ather of the houffis, to put in memorie. 
 
 The faid Alexander Seytoun, firft erle forfaid, quha mareit the faid 
 Gelis Hay, had fie moyanis of the faid Gelis, that fche refignit all 
 hir landis in heritage to remane wyth hir faid hufband and his airis. 
 Syn efter, the faid Alexander Seytoun, erle forfaid, mareit to his fe- 
 cund wyf Crichtoun, dochter to the lord Crichtoun, of 
 Lowthyane, and Margaret Maitland, of the hous of Lethingtoun. 
 This Alexander, erle forfaid, gat on the faid Crichtoun 
 ane fone, callit George, to quham the faid Erie Alexander, forfaid, gaif 
 
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 all his landis, and maid him his fucceffour to the erldome of Huntlie ; 
 
 and [that in] fum menis be perfuafioun of the faid 
 
 Crichtoun his fpous, and moder to the faid George, quha was ane 
 
 wyfe woman. This George, fecund erie of Huntlie, changeit his 
 
 fumame fra Seytoun to Gordoun ; of quhat occafioun I can nocht 
 
 tell. 
 
 This was the firll erle of the Gordounis, of quham is difcendit the erlis 
 of Huntlie to this day, the erle of Sutherland, and mony vther grit 
 landit men and gentilmen : quhilk are difcendit of the faid Alexander 
 Seytoun, firll erle of Huntlie ; and fuld all be callit Seytounis, be ref- 
 foun forfaid. I wryt na mair of the genologie of the faid hous of 
 HuntUe ; becaus thay changeit thair furename, and concemis na mair 
 to my mater. And fua I will retume to my principall hillorie. 
 
 OFF LORD JOHNE. 
 
 Johne Seytoun fuccedit to Lord Williame, his fader, and was ane no- 
 bill man, and maifter houlhald to King James the Firll. Be quham 
 he was fend in France wyth his dochter, quha was mareit on the 
 Daulphin of France, Lewis the Elewint. Efter the faid Johne come 
 hame agane, he levit honeftlie certane yeiris, and fyne deyt and [was] 
 bureit in the paroche kirk of Seytoun, in the yle foundit be his moder. 
 This Lord Johne was in the tyme of King James the Firll ; and he 
 mareit the erle of Merchis dochter, as faid, quha bair to him ane 
 fone, callit George, and ane dochter, quha wes mareit on the erle Mer- 
 fcheU. 
 
32 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 OFF LORD GEORGE, THE FIRST 
 
 OF THAT NAME. 
 
 George lord Seytoun, firft of that name, fuccedit, haveand bot 
 nyne yeiris of age, to Lord Johne his father. In the meintyme, 
 the lord Crichtoun, being grit in the court, and haveand the caftell of 
 Edinbrugh in his handis, gat the faid George and keipit him in the 
 faid caftell wyth him. 
 
 In this meintyme, the lard of Johnftoun, in Anderdale, defyrit the 
 faid Georgeis mother in maiyage ; quha, amang vther talk and com- 
 municatioun, fchew to the faid laird that fche was ewill contentit that 
 hir faid onlie fone was in the Crichtounis handis, and had fufpitioun 
 thairof ; becaus the faid George had bot an onlie fifter, quhUk was 
 nerreft air to the haUl lordfchip, failzeing of him. The faid lard of 
 Johnftoun perfaving that the faid Georgeis mother wald haue had hir 
 fone furth of the Crichtounis handis, he watit his tyme and maid fie 
 moyane in the caftell, that he gat the faid Lord George furth of the faid 
 caftell and convoyit him fecreitlie away in Ananderdale to his place, 
 caUit the Lochwod, quhair he was weiU nuriffit lang tyme. The faid 
 ladie hereing tell that the faid lard had convoyit hir fone out of 
 the Crichtounis handis, fche was content to marie him, and bair to 
 him mony fonnis, quhilkis all war brether to the faid Lord George on 
 the motheris syd. Of the quhilkis, the eldeft was callit Gilbert 
 Johnftoun, quha wes efter ane nobUl valyeand man, and maid knycht. 
 This S' Gilbert mareit the heretrix of Elphinftoun, and was the firft 
 lard of Elphinftoun of the furename of the Johnftounis. 
 
 This Lord George was ane grit hous haldar, and all gevin to 
 nobilnes. And mareit the dochter and air of John erle of Buchane, 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 33 
 
 conflable of France, quha was flane in the battell of Vernoll, and begat 
 on hir tua fonnis : the eldeft, callit Johne ; the fecund, callit Dougall, 
 quha, efter he was cumit to perfyte age, deit wythout fucceflioun ; and 
 ane dochter, callit Chrilliane, quha was mareit on Hew Douglas of 
 Corheid, quha was ane gud lyk man, and ane wyfe ; and ane gydar 
 and counfalour to the faid Lord George. To the quhilk Hew the faid 
 Crifliane caft fie favour that fche wald marye none vther bot him, fwa 
 that it micht pleis hir fader. Quha perfavit the mynd of his dochter, 
 gave hir in maryage to the faid Hew ; and als gave to him the landis of 
 Hartfyd and Clyntis, to eik his leving. The faid Lord George alfo had 
 ane baftard fone, callit James ; ane wyfe man ; quha was flane at the 
 feUd of Flowdane, levand behind him tua fonnis, bayth callit Johnnis. 
 The eldefl Johne duelt in the Salt pannis, and was ane honeft man, 
 and had four fonnis : the eldeft, callit Alexander, quha wes ane hable 
 man of his bodie, and deit without fucceflioun ; the fecund, caUit Tho- 
 mas, quha was ane preift ; the thrid, callit Williame ; and the fourt, 
 callit NichoU. The fecund Johne deit without fucceflioun. 
 
 The eldeft fone of the faid Lord George mareit ane dochter 
 of the lord Lyndefayis of the Byris, quha bair to him thre fonnis, 
 and ane dochter, quha was mareit on the lord Lylle. The eldeft of the 
 thre fonnis, callit George, quha efter was Lord, the fecund of that 
 name ; the fecund, callit Johne, — quha had ane fone, callit Archebald, 
 that was flane be the theifiis in Ananderland, cximand fra ane army 
 with the Duke of Albany, callit the Raid of Sulway. This Arche- 
 bald had thre fonnis : the eldeft, callit George ; the fecund, Archebauld, 
 qulia was ane maifter clerk ; the thryd, James, quha deyit of ane 
 hurt. The thryd fone of the faid Johne maifter of Seytoun, callit 
 Alexander, had dyuerfs fonnis, quha deit all wythout fucceflioun, ex- 
 cept ane, Johne, duelling in Tranent, baillie thairof. And this laid 
 
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34 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 Alexander had ane dochter, callit Chriftiane, quha was mareit on Tho- 
 mas Prefloun of Quhythill. 
 
 This Johne, eldeft fone to the faid Lord George, deceiffit befor his 
 father ; and was bureit in the paroche kirk of Seytoun. Efter quhais 
 deceis, his wyf mareit the lord of Kylmawris, and bair to him Cuthbert 
 erle of Glencarne, quha was half brother, on the motheris fyd, to 
 George lord Seytoun, fecund of that name. , .r 
 
 This Lord George, firft of that name, efter the deid of his firft 
 wyf, dochter of the erle of Buchan, mareit the fecund wyf, callit 
 Dame Chriftiane Murray, dochter to the lard of Telibardin, quha had 
 na fucceffioun. ■ 
 
 This George biggit the queir of Seytoun, and pendit it, fa fer as it 
 is, wyth rymbraces. And efter that he had levit lang time ane ho- 
 norable lyf, he deyit, of gud age, in the place of the Blak freiris of 
 Edinburgh, quhau- he lyis, in the queir of the famin. To quhom he 
 foundit XX markis of annuell, to be tane of Hartfyd and the Clyntis. 
 This Lord George was in the tyme of King James the Secund, fone 
 to Kyng James the Firft ; and deit in the tyme of King James the 
 Thryd, fone to King James the Secund. 
 
 OFF LORD GEORGE, 
 
 THE SECUND OF THAT NAME. 
 
 George the fecund fuccedit to George the firft, his gudfchir, and was 
 mekle gevin to lettres, and was cunnyng in dyuers fciences, as in 
 aftrologie, mufeik, and theologie. He wes fa gevin to lettres, that, 
 efter he was mareit, he paffit to San6landrois, and thair remanit lang 
 
OFF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 35 
 
 tyme at his ftudie ; andthairefter paffit to Paris, and remanitthair ane 
 gud fpace. He pendit the queir of Seytoun from the rymbrafis but, 
 fundit and ere6lit the Collage thairof, and devydit the perfonage 
 thairof betuix the proveft and the prebendaris. He biggit the haill 
 place of Wintoun, wyth the yard and garding thairof. In the quhilk 
 gardin I haue fein fyve fcoir torris of tymber, about the knottis of the 
 flouris ; ilk ane twa cubite of hicht, haveand tua knoppis on the held, 
 ane aboue ane vther, als grit everilk ane as ane row-bouU, overgilt 
 with gold ; and the fchankis thairof paintit with dyuers hewis of oylie 
 colouris. 
 
 This George was tane prefoneir be the Phlemmenis, induellaris of 
 Dunkirk, and was fpulyeit of all his geir and fubflance ; he being in 
 his voyage to France. For the quhilk caus, to be revengit on the faid 
 Flemmyngis, he coft ane grit fchip, callit the Aquila, and held lang 
 tyme mony man of weir thairin vpon the fey ; and gat findry revengis 
 vpon the faid Flemmyngis, and flew dyuerfs of thame. The haldin of 
 the faid fchip and men of weir wes fa coftlie to him, that he wes com- 
 pellit to wodfet and annalie the barony of Bamis, the toun, mainis, 
 and mUne, of Wincheburgh, certane landis in Langnetherie, and cer- 
 tane in Tranent. 
 
 - This George mareit the eldeft dochter of Collyne the firft erle of 
 Argyle, quha bair to him thre fonnis and tua dochteris : The eldeft 
 fone, callit George, quha efter was Lord ; the fecund, callit Robert, 
 quha deit ane man of armes in France, in the caftell of MUlane — and 
 left behind him tua fonnis : ane, callit Williame, now prefentlie ane man 
 of armes in France ; the fecund, callit Alexander, quha mareit Jonet 
 Sinclair, heretrix of the Northrig and thrid of Morame. The thryd 
 fone of the faid Lord George, callit Johne, deyit wythout fucceffioun. 
 
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36 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 The eldeft dochter of the faid Lord George, callit Margaret, was 
 mareit on Wilhame Maitland of Lethingtoun ; the fecund, callit Ka- 
 therine, wald never marie, howbeit fche micht have had mony gud 
 maryageis, hot vowit chaiftite, and enterit and was ane filler of the 
 ordour of San6l Katherine of the Senis ; and enterit in religioun in the 
 place befyd Edinburgh of the Senis, of xxxvj yeiris, and remanit thair 
 the Ipace of xlij yeiris, and deit of the age of Ixxviij yeiris, in the faid 
 place, quhair fcho wes bureit. 
 
 Nochtwithllanding that this Lord George wes ane weill letterit and 
 ane nobill man, yit he was fumpairt gevin to voluptie and plefour, 
 quhilk was the cans of his truble in his lyf tyme, quhairthrow he hurt 
 his heritage. I wald exhort all nobUl men to forbeir this vice for the 
 mekle mifcheif that foUowis thairon. He had monye baftard baimis : 
 as ane, callit Williame, quha deit wythout fucceflioun ; ane vther, callit 
 James, quha lykwyfs deit without fucceflioun ; ane, callit Maifter Chrif- 
 tell, quha deit within ordouris ; and ane, caUit Thomas, quha was ane 
 familiar fervand to King James the Ferd — ^he had thre fonnis : the 
 eldeft, caUit George, quha deit without fonnis ; the fecund, callit 
 Johne, quha deit aHb without fonnis ; the thrid, callit Alexander, ane 
 chaplane in the collage. This Lord George tuk the armes of Buchane, 
 quhilk ar thre Gumming fchevis, quarterlie wyth his awin armes, al- 
 legeand him [felf ] to be air of the faid erldome, be reflxjun of his gud- 
 dame. He had alfo four baftarde dochteris : the eldeft, callit Beatrix, 
 quha was mareit on Johne Levingtoun of Salt-cottis; the fecund, 
 callit Margaret, quha was firft mareit on Henrie Cant of Over- 
 Libbertoun, and efter partit wyth hun, and was mareit on Maifter 
 Dauid Hammiltoun, lawfull fone to Schir Robert Hammiltoun of 
 Preftoun, knycht. The vther tua, callit Elizabeth and Jonet, deit 
 vnmareit. 
 
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 This Lord tiike grit plefour of the cumpany of cunning men : he 
 was ane grit fettar in mufeik. He biggit the reveftre of Seytoun ; 
 pendit and theikit it wyth llane. He wes alfo callit be King James 
 the Ferd, to heir the barony of Wincheburgh recognofcit, for the 
 maift part annalit ; flfbr the quWlk he payit ane thoufand markis of 
 compofitioun. And efter lang ficknes, he deit, being of gude age, 
 in the xx yeir of the regne of King James the Ferd, fone to King 
 James the Thryd ; and was bureit in the queir of Seytoun, at the 
 hie altar end. 
 
 OFF LORD GEORGE, 
 
 THE THRYD OF THAT NAME. 
 
 George the thryd fuccedit to George the fecund, his fader, and was 
 ane gud wyfe man ; and richt familiar to King James the Ferd. 
 
 This George loufit the landis of the Barnis, the Manis of Winche- 
 burgh and the mUne of the famin, and certane landis in Tranent, wodfet 
 be his fader. He compleitit, alfo, the jammay hous of Seytoun fra 
 the firft jaiflis vp (quhUk was fundit and biggit vp tua hous hicht 
 afFoir be Lord Johne, his forgrandfchir), and rafit the turngreifs thair- 
 of, and reparit all the haill grit dungeoun. And als he theikit the queir 
 of Seytoun with llane, and reparalit the famin wyth glafing win- 
 dowis ; maid the daikis thairin and cyleringis aboue the altaris, and 
 pauimentit the faid queir ; and gave to it certane veftmentis, ane haill 
 compleit ftand of clayth of gold, and vtheris of vther filkis. 
 
 This George mareit the dochter of Erie Patrik, the firft erle Both- 
 well of the Hepbumis. Quhilk dochter was callit Jahne, quha bair 
 to him thre fonnisand ane dochter : the firft, callit George, quha deit 
 
38 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 of xiiij dayis auld ; the fecund, alfo callit George, the fourt of that 
 name, quha was Lord thairefter ; the thryd, caUit Archbauld, deit of 
 the age of xv yeiris. The dochter, callit Marioun, was mareit on Ar- 
 thur maifler of Borthuik, to quhom fche had na barnis. Efter quhais 
 deceifs, fche was mareit on Hew erle of Eglintoun. 
 
 This George was bot five yeiris Lord, and was flane in the feild of 
 Flowdoune, wyth King James the Ferd, in the yeir of God J"" v'= xiij 
 yeiris, the nynt day of September ; and was brocht hame furth of the 
 faid feild, and erdit in the queir of Seytoun, befyd his fader. 
 
 Efter quhais deceifs, his [ladye] remanit wedo continualie xlv yeiris. 
 Sche was ane nobill and wyfe ladye. Sche gydit hir fonnis leving 
 quhill he was cumit to age ; and thairefter fche paffit and remanit in 
 the place of Senis, on the Borrow mvre, befyd Edinburgh, the reft of 
 hir lyvetyme. QuhUk place fche helpit to fund and big as maift prin- 
 cipale. Sche did mony [gude] a6tis : for, efter hir hulbandis deceis, 
 fcho mareit hir faid dochter, callit Marioun, firft on the maifter of 
 Borthuik fyne on the erle of Eglintoun, and payit bayth the tocharis ; 
 fche helpit to marie tua of hir fonnis dochteris, — ane to the erle of Men- 
 teith, and ane vther to the lard of Reftalrig, and helpit to pay bayth 
 thair tocharis, in hir fonnis tyme ; and efter hir fonnis deceifs, fcho 
 mareit tua of hir fonnis dochteris, — the eldeft of the tua, callit 
 Beatrix, on the eldeft fone and air of S' Walter OgUuy of Dunlugus 
 knycht, — the youngeft, on Hew maifter of Symmervale, eldeft fone and 
 appeirand air of James lord Symmervale, and payit of thair tocharis 
 threttie fewin hundreth markis, — the reft was payit be George lord 
 Seytoun, thair brother, quhilk was ane thoufand markis, togidder 
 wyth the reft of the haill expenffis of the faidis mariagis. This Lord 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 39 
 
 [lafl mentioned] gave to his thre fifteris that was to marie, ane thou- 
 fand pundis to thair maryage, of his tochar, quhilk was mekle to him 
 to forbeir, his guddame and his faderis fecund wyf haveand the tua- 
 part of his leving. This forfaid Ladie, by all conditioun and thingis 
 forfaid, gave to her dochter and fonnis barnis large fowmes of money, 
 a lytdl affoir his deid : That is to fay, To hir dochter, countes of Eg- 
 lintoun, fyve hundreth markis ; to the laird of Carielloun, fyve hund- 
 reth markis, vpon ane annuell of the lord Yefteris landis and tua hund- 
 reth markis in liluer ; to Marioun countes of Monteith, fyve hundreth 
 markis ; to Beatrix ladie of Dunlugus, thre hundreth markis ; and to 
 Helynor maiftres of Symmervale, thre hundreth merkis. And als fcho 
 left in to her Teftament dyuers fowmes of money, to be gevin to hir 
 freyndis, to pure folk, and to religious places and kirkis. 
 
 This Ladie biggit the foirwerk of Seytoun, aboue the yet ; and als 
 fcho biggit the north corfs yle of the collage kirk of Seytoun. And 
 tuk doun ane yle, biggit be Dame Katherine Sinclair, on the fouth 
 fyd of the faid college kirk, becaus the fyd of it ftude to the fyd of the 
 kii-k, to mak it ane perfyt and proportionat croce kirk ; and biggit 
 the faid [yle again], and compleitit it as it is now. And als fche big- 
 git the ftepill thairof to ane grit hicht, fua that it wantis lytUl of com- 
 pleiting. This Ladie gave mony omamentis to the kirk of Seytoun : 
 as ane compleit Hand of purpide veluat, flourit ^vith gold ; ane 
 compleit ftand of crammafe veluat, flourit with gold ; ane compleit 
 Hand of quhyt dammas ; ane compleit fland of grein chamlot of 
 filk ; ane compleit fland of blak doubill wourfet ; with vther certane 
 cheifTebillis, and veflimentis of findre filkis. And als gave to the faid 
 kirk, ane grit croce of filver ; ane eucharift of filver ; ane grit challice 
 of filver, overgilt ; ane pendicle to the hie altar of fyne wovin arres, 
 with vther pendiclis. She loflit the reveflrie, and maid grit lokit 
 
40 HISTORIEORCRONICLE 
 
 almaries thairin. Scho foundit twa prebendaries, and biggit thair 
 chalmaris vpon voltis. 
 
 Peraduenture, fum in thir dayis will think that beilding of kirkis, 
 gevin of ornamentis thairto, and funding of preiflis, ar fuperflitious 
 thingis, and mantenance of ydolatrie ; and, thairfor, nocht worth to be 
 put in memorie. Bot quha will pleis to reid the hiftoreis and croni- 
 clis of all cuntreis, fall find maift writtin and tretit of conquefling of 
 cuntreis and landis, moving of weiris, and ftryking of feildis and bat- 
 tellis ; fua that quhafaever conqueiflit monyeft cuntres and landis, and 
 fpeciaUe be the fwerd, movit griteft weiris, vinqueiffit and flew mony- 
 eft in feildis and battellis, war eftemit maift valyeand and victorious 
 conquerouris, and maift put in writ, to thair fame and glorie : howbeit 
 the faid conques and doingis procedit of maift infafiable gredines and 
 maift crewell tiranny, contrare all law, bayth of God and man. And 
 fen thingis vnleiflum as thir ar writtin to the commendatioun of the 
 doaris thairof, Quhy may I nocht fet furth fie worlds as, throw all 
 Chriftindome and wyth all the eftaitis thairof, war haldin of griteft 
 commendatioun and maift godlye ? Bot how thay plefit God I refer 
 to him felf, quha feis the hartis and intentioun of all creature. Bot, at 
 the leift, it fchawis the liberale and honourabill hart of the doaris 
 thairof, that rather wald fpend thair geir and gudis vpon fie vifible 
 and commendit adtis, for the tyme, nor to haue hurdit and poikit vp 
 the famin in coflaris, or waiftit it vpone vnleflum fenfualite or prodi- 
 gahte. And gif I had nocht writtin the faidis werkis, haldin godlie for 
 the tyme, fum wald, or micht, haue reprevit me for omitting and for- 
 yetting fie thingis ; as the lyk and femlable ar writtin in vther hif- 
 tories, in commendatioun and loving of the doaris thairof. 
 
 Bot I will returne to my hiftorie. This Ladie coft the ladie of 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 41 
 
 Careftoun, of heritage, and gave hir in maryage to hir fonnis fecund 
 fone, callit Johne ; and cofl alfo the landis of Foulftrudour, and gave 
 to him ; and did vtheris mony gud a6tis. And leilfit to gud age ; and 
 deit in the yeir of God J"" v*^ and Iviij yeiris, in the faid place of the 
 Senis ; and was tranfportit honorabhe be her oy, George lord Sey- 
 toun, the fyft of that name, and wes bureit in the queir of Seytoun, 
 befyd her hufband. The cans that I fet furth the fpeciall a6tis and 
 deidis of this Ladie, is to gif occafioun tiU all ladyis in tyme to cum 
 that happinnis to be in the faid hous, or ony vther hous, to follow the 
 faid Ladie in honefl conuerfatioun and challite ; and in kyndnefs and 
 liberalite to the hous quhamto thay ar allyat, and quhamof thay haue 
 thair leving. 
 
 OFF LORD GEORGE, 
 
 THE FERD OF THAT NAME. 
 
 George the ferd of that name fuccedit to George thryd, his fader, 
 and was ane gud wyfe and vertuous man. He redemit the toun of 
 Wincheburgh and certane landis in Langnetherie, wedfet be his gude- 
 fchir ; and conqueiflit the hous and ane grit part of the landis of 
 Weftnetherie : and reparaUit and biggit ane grit part of the hous and 
 place of Weftnetherie. And gat in few at Dauid Betoun, cardinall of 
 San6landrois, the landis of Kirkliftoun, Inchemauchan, Catelbokis ; 
 the bifchoppis land of Lafwad and Dalkeyth. He was ane man weill 
 experimentit in all games ; and tuk grit plefour in balking, and was 
 haldin the beft falconar in his dayis. 
 
 He mareit Elizabeth Hay, dochter to Johne lord Hay of Yefter, quha 
 bair to him tua fonnis and fyve dochteris : the eldeft fone, callit 
 George, efterwart Lord, the fyft of that name ; the fecund, callit Johne, 
 
42 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 quha maxeit the heritrix of Careftoun. The eldest dochter, callit 
 Jehane, quha deit of tua yeir auld ; the fecund, callit Marioun, quha 
 was mareit, as faid is, on Johne erle of Monteth ; the thrid, callit 
 Margaret, quha was mareit on Robert [Logan] lard of Rellalrig, and 
 deit without bairnis ; the ferd, callit Beatrix, quha was mareit on the 
 eldeft fone and air of Schir Walter OgQuy of Dunlugus, knycht ; the 
 fyft, callit Helynor, quha wes mareit on Hew maifter of Symmervale. 
 
 This George, efter the deceifs of his firll wyf, [mareit the fecund wyf ], 
 callit Marie Pieris, ane Tranche woman, quha come in Scotland with 
 Quene Marie, dochter to the Duik of Gweis, and wyf to King James the 
 Fyft, — quha gave to the faid Lord George the barony of Wincheburgh 
 to be haldin in fre blanfche, with the tenendrijs thairof, foreuir ; 
 quhilk befoir was haldin in ward and releif. This fecund wyf of the 
 faid Lord George bair to him tua fonnis and ane dochter : the ane 
 fone callit Robert, the vther James, and the dochter Marie. 
 
 This Lord George was in the tyme of King James the Fyft ; and 
 deit the xvij day of Julij, the aucht yeir of the regne of Quene Marie, 
 in the yeir of God J" v' xlix yeiris, in the abbay of Culrofs, quhair he 
 wes bureit, in the queir thairof; becaus the Inglifmen was in Had- 
 ingtoun, and war maifteris of Eill Lothyane. Bot efter, quhen the 
 peax was tane, and the Inglifmen had left Hadingtoun, his bodie was 
 tane vp, being in ane kill, and tranfportit be his wyf and freyndis to 
 the collage kirk of Seytoun, quhair he was honelllie bureit, in the queir 
 thairof, befyd his fader. ■ 
 
 In the mene tyme of this Lord George, the Inglifmen, efter the 
 burning of Edinburgh and Leyth, come and lay in Seytoun, and brint 
 and deflroyit the caftell and place thairof ; fpulyeit the kirk, and tuk 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 43 
 
 away the bellis, organis, and all vther turfable thingis, and pat thame 
 in thair fchippis, and brint the tymber wark within the faid kirk, in 
 the moneth of Maij, the yeir of God J" v° xliiij yeiris. 
 
 OFF LORD GEORGE, 
 
 THE FYFT OF THAT NAME. 
 
 George the fyft of that name luccedit to George the ferd, his fa- 
 ther ; and was lang nuriflit in France. And mareit Iffobell, dochter 
 to S' Williame Hammiltoun of Sanquhar, knycht, that tyme capitane 
 of the caftell of Edinburgh, and ane of the fenatouris of our fouerane 
 Ladies college of jullice. The caus of this maryage wes be reflbun 
 that my lord duik of Chattellarault, erle of Arrane, lord Hammiltoun, 
 etc. was gouemour of this realme, and his brother, Johne arche- 
 bifchop of San6landrois, was thefaurar, and was fumthing fcharp to 
 the faid Lord George, and maid him impediment in the brouking of 
 certane few landis of Kirkliftoun, that the faid Lord Georgeis fader 
 gat in few of Dauid Betoun, cardinale of San6tandrois. For the 
 quhilk caus, the faid Lord George thocht gude to allya him felf with 
 fum of my lord duikis freyndis and furename ; and becaus the faid 
 S' WilHame was griteft, maift fubflantious and honeft, of that fure- 
 name, nixt my faid lord duikis felf, haveand dochteris at age to mary, 
 he thocht gud to marey his dochter, thinkand thairthrow to haue the 
 mair favour and mantenance of the lord duik and his brother, the 
 archiebifchop of San6landrois : and for refonable tocher and gra- 
 tuiteis gevin and done to the faid Lord George ; and becaus my lord 
 duik allegit his mareage to be in our fouerane Ladies handis and his, 
 be reffoun of his office, as the indenture of mareage mair fullelie pro- 
 portis, in the quhilk my faid Lord and the faid Archebifchop are 
 contradlaris, 
 
 E 2 ■ 
 
44 * . HISTORIE OR CRONICLE 
 
 In this Lord Georgeis tyme, the grit tour of Seytoun, and the jammay 
 hous thairof, was reparallit and mendit be S' WUliam Hammiltoun, 
 fader in law to the faid Lord George, better nor ever it was befoir the 
 faid burnyng. 
 
 This Lord George was fend in France as ane of the embaffa- 
 douris contenit in the commiffioun to trait and mak contra6l off 
 maryage betuix our fouerane Ladle, Queen Marie, and Francis, 
 Daulphin of Viennois, eldeft fone and air to Henrie the Secund, king 
 of France ; and to fe the faid mareage tak end and effect : quhUk was 
 compleit in the face of haly kirk, in the cietie of Parife, in the cathe- 
 drale kirk thairof, the day of , in the yeir of 
 
 God J"" v° Iviij yeiris, the faid embaflaldouris being prefent. For the 
 quhilk, the faid Lord George was honeftUe rewardit be the faid King 
 of France, with certane filver vefchale and ane yeirhe penfipun of 
 xij° fi-ankis, etc. "? '^\s^ /:-^-:^yi\'% f^ro " link Bfl:; 
 
 •-';!- ■ SfMii^-'' 
 
 And als this Lord coft the reuerfiounis and reft of the landis of 
 Weftnudry, vncoft be his father. And als he gat of Johne, arche- 
 bifchop of San6landrois, ane confirmatioun of his few landis of Kirk- 
 liftoun, togither with the principall baUierie of the famin of the landis 
 annext to the faid barony ; togither with the ojQSce of juftice of the 
 regalite of San6tandrois of all landis lyand on the fouth fyd of Forth. 
 And als this Lord biggit ane grit dyk and wall of ftane about the 
 yarde and grit orcheart of Seytoun ; and als biggit ane pretty hous 
 vpon the gardin fyd thairof, befouth the grit tour, and reparallit the 
 foir werk thairof, brint be the Inglifmen. 
 
 In this Lordis tyme, vpon the day of , the yeir of 
 
 God J" v° Ixj yeiris, at tua houris in the morning, or thairby, the grit 
 
OF THE HOUS OF SEYTOUN. 45 
 
 dungeoun of Seytoun fell to the grund, hot, be the grace of God, it 
 did na flcayth, nother to man nor beifl. The cans of the falling thair- 
 of wes partlie be the grit eild of the famin, and partlie [be] breiking 
 of grit lichtis and eiftmentis in it, the wall and work thairof, beand 
 auld, confumit. 
 
 The foir werk of Seytoun, aboue the foirentres, biggit be this Lordis 
 guddame, Jane Hepburne, beand haill brint and maid rwinus be the 
 Inglifmen; this Lord biggit and reparit thefamyn, mair fumptuous and 
 colllie nor ever it wes of befoir : be the quhilk reparatioun and tranfla- 
 tion, thair wes lytill or nathing, of effect, left of the auld werk ; fua 
 that the biggin, reparatioun, and tranflatioun, wes mair coftlie to the 
 faid Lord nor he had biggit the famyn fra the gmnd vp. And als the 
 laid Lord biggit the new werk on the north fyde of the faid foirentres, 
 joynand with the famyn, with the entres thairto on the eill fyde of the 
 clois, fra the grund vp ; and convoyit be conduitis fufficient waltir to 
 ferve the kitchin and vther office houfis neceflar in the faid werk, with 
 all vther commoditeis requyrit to the famyn. 
 
 And howbeit fum wald allege that it is flatterie to wryt ony thing 
 prayfable in the mannis lyftyme of quham it is writtin ; nochtwith- 
 (landing, my opinioun is contrair : That ony thing prayfable done, 
 and fpecialie in making of policy, may be weill aneuche writtin in the 
 doars awin tyme, fua that the werk be done modeftlie. And howbeit 
 it be fumptuous and coftlie mair nor neceffitie requyris, yit it is the 
 maift tollerable kynd of prodigalitie and of fumptuous and immoderate 
 coft ; becaus the famyn will be fteidable to the pofteritie, and decoir 
 of the cuntrey. And gif it falhappin the faid Lord to do ony thing 
 contrair his honour and godlie dewitie, or contrair the honour or 
 commoun weill of his hous, to the fcayth and perpetuall hurt of the 
 
46 
 
 HISTORIE OR CRONICLE, &c. 
 
 famyii ; I fall fet furth fie doingis done be him als larglie and weill 
 extendit till his difprayfe as I haue done in ony thing befoir faid to his 
 loving, he' nocht amendand and redrefland the famyn in his lyftyme, 
 gif God fortounis me to leiff and be hable thairto. Bot I pray God, 
 that the faid Lord fall nocht in fie inconuenientis, to gif me, or ony 
 man, occafioun to wryt ocht of him bot honorable. 
 
 SMWIESISI ®IF 
 
 TT®H, 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 THE HOUSE OF SETON 
 
 FURTHER INLARGED, 
 
 BY ALEXANDER VISCOUNT OF KINGSTON, 
 
 SECOND LAWFULL SON OF THE SAME HOUSE; 
 
 FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE FIFT GEORGE 
 
 LORD SETON TO THIS THE SEVENTH 
 
 GEORGE LORD SETON, OF THAT NAME, 
 
 AND THE ELEVENTH LORD SETON, 
 
 FOURTH EARLE OF WINTON, 
 
 NOW LIVING, 
 IN THIS PRESENT 
 YEAR OF GOD, M. DC. LXXXVIL 
 
EPISTLE DEDICATORIE. 
 
 My noble Lord, and dear Nephew, 
 
 The Hiftoricall Genealogie of your Lordlhip's ancient and noble 
 Houfe of Seton I have inlarged from the fourth George Lord Seton 
 (at whofe life Sir Richard ends his hiilory), to this prefent year of 
 God, 1687. ■ : . .;. ,v. , .. 
 
 Sir Richard begins your Genealogie att one Dougall Seton, who was 
 grandchild to him who firft tooke the name of Seton, in King Mal- 
 colme Kenmoir's tyme, who reigned in anno 106L This Dougall 
 Seton married Jennet Quintfey, daughter to Rodger Quintfey Earle of 
 Wintone [Winchefler], Conftable of Scotland ; and was in the time 
 of Alexander the Firft, fifth fone to King Malcolme Kenmoir, who 
 reigned in anno 1109. By which marriage it appeares the faid Dou- 
 gall Seton gott the lands of Winton. . - 
 
 Sir Richard would have the originall of the furname to be from the 
 two old Saxon words Sey and Ton : the word fey fignifying the fea, 
 and ton a manfion place, in our language. The reafon, as he fayes, 
 why he gott the furname of Sey-ton, was by the reafon the town and 
 lands then called Seyton was fo called being neareft the fea of any lands 
 for a great fpace therabout att that time. Others, are of the opinion, 
 that the furname (of the originall) is from Set on (now, vulgo, Seton), 
 as the ancient Slughane of the Houfe fignifies, called the motto, — 
 Hazard yet forward. 
 
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 50 EPISTLE DEDICATORIE. 
 
 But my opinion, my Lord, is, that the furname of Seton came with 
 feme of that name out of the eaft pairts of Germany ; my reafon to 
 be fo perfwaded is out of that famous noble hiftorian Cornelius Ta- 
 citus. In his book De Moribus Germanorum, defcryving the qualities 
 of the people [of 3 the confynes and limits of the eaft country of Ger- 
 many, he says, — 
 
 " Jam dextro Suevici maris Htore Aeftyorum gentes adluuntur : qui- 
 bus ritus habitufque Suevorum ; hngua Britannicae propior." " Suioni- 
 bus Sitonum gentes continuantur. Cetera fimiles, uno differunt, quod 
 femina dominatur : in tantum non modo a libertate, fed etiam a fervi- 
 tute degenerant." 
 
 They having a queen j for which, he doth fo calumniate that nation 
 of the Sitones. By which (with all duetifull refpe6l to that noble Hif- 
 torian), it would feem he hath not obferved the ancient Afiatick and 
 Grecian hiftorians relating fully, that, in many great kingdomes in 
 Afia, queens have been abfolute in their kingdomes ; as Herodotus, 
 in his ancient famous hiftory, towards the end of his firft booke, 
 called CUo, he writts how Tomeris, Maffagetarum regina, a great 
 kingdome in Scythia Aiiatica, now called Tartaria, did valiantly fight 
 and kill in battle the great Cyrus the 1ft. Perfian Emperour. He 
 fays : " Ut hanc pugnam ex omnibus, quae inter barbaros extiterunt 
 acerrimam cenfeam extitiffe." As alfo the fame hiftorian, in his 
 eight booke, called Urania, records of that heroina for wifdome, 
 conduct, counfell, and valour, Artemifia queen of Caria, who 
 aflifted Xerxes in the great expidition againft Greece; praifing 
 her as ane valiant experimented generaU, and a wife counfeUor, in 
 the government of his armies, and in fighting his land and navall 
 battles. 
 
EPISTLE DEDICATORIE. 51 
 
 Recorded it is by feverall authors of ecclefiaftick hiftory, as Theodo- 
 ret, Rufinus, and Sozonius, that Maria queen of the Saracens, in the 
 time of Vallance the Arian Emperour, flie fighting in perfon, did 
 beat and overcome the Roman army ; and they were glad to implore 
 her peace. Likeways, the German hiftory of the Emperours makes 
 mention of the Emperefs Irene, mother of Conftantine the 6th. who 
 governed the impire with great policie, wifdome, and valour, ten 
 year, in her fon's minority ; and after his depofition from the empire, 
 was again chofen by the Princes to goveme, which flie performed 
 many years, to the great applaufe of all. 
 
 In our modeme times, att home, [we have 3 our heroick Queen 
 Mary, the two wife Queens, Mary and Elizabeth, of England : fo that, 
 either in the moft ancient or moderne times, there has been brave 
 Queens to command nations as foveraignes ever was ; or is [this] re- 
 corded in any ancient or modeme hiftory, in reproach, as a difparage- 
 ment to the nation and people, except [by] Tacitus. 
 
 As for that nation called by Tacitus gentes Sitonum, it is no lefs con- 
 fentaneous to reafone : they, lying on the fea coaft of the Eaft Ger- 
 many, might have come from thence and inhabited this place of Lothian 
 now called Seton, lying on the Forth; more, as the Picks andMuravians, 
 both people of the inland of Germany, did take and poflefs great 
 lands in this kingdome : the Picks, the beft halfe of Scotland ; the 
 Muravians, Murray-land, to which countrey the people gave the name, 
 and to the Clan, yet extant and flourifliing in this kingdome. 
 
 For this my opinion of the true originall of the fumame of Seton in 
 this kingdome, I have produced famous authentick hiftory, and con- 
 vincing reafons. 
 
 F 2 
 
52 EPISTLE DEDICATORIE. 
 
 My Lord, your Lordfhip now being the eleventh Lord Seton, the 
 feventh George Lord Seton, and the fourth Earle of Wintone, from 
 father to fon, without intermiffion : The firfl Lord Seton was cre- 
 ated Lord in the beginning of the reigne of Robert the Third, now 
 three hundred years Lords of parhaments ; your great attavus, called 
 Robert, was created Earle in the beginning of King James the Sixth 
 his reigne, being the firft Earle he created in Scotland. 
 
 My noble Lord, Your geneologie is Propago vetus, profapia nobUis ; 
 generofa origo, et intaminatis fulget honoribus, [there] being, to my 
 certaine knowledge, no Remiflion in your charter chill. All which 
 are Ornamenta hominis, fed magis hominis illius, quern non fanguis 
 folum, fed et vrtus nobUitat ; ille vere nobiUs eft qui ftrenue agendo 
 nobilitatem fibi peperit non nafcendo accepit. 
 
 • Your Lordlhip has in your houfe the true images of fome of your 
 generous and virtuous predecelTors. In which cafe, a grave author 
 fays,— 
 
 " Ssepe audivi, praeclaros viros noftri temporis folitos ita dicere, cum 
 majorum imagines intuerentur, vehementiffime fibi animum ad virtu- 
 tem accendi ; non ceram illam, neque figuram tantam vim in fe, ha- 
 bere, fed memoria rerum geftarum, earn flammam egregiis viris in 
 pe6lore crefcere, neque prius fedari quam virtus eorum flammam at- 
 que gloriam, adaequaverit." . • ^^ 
 
 " Per fafces numerantur avi, femperque renata 
 • • Nobilitate virent ; et prolem fata fequuntur," 
 
 The which, none that has the happinefs to converfe with your Lord- 
 
EPISTLE DEDICATORIE. 53 
 
 fhip has reafone to doubt ; beholding your Lordfhip's dayly proje6ls, 
 virtuous and advantageous defignes, not only for the prefervation, 
 but alfo for the augmentation of the inheritance of your ancient 
 noble Houfe ; that it may be truly faid of your Lordlhip, 
 
 Solus praeteritis major, meliorque futuris. 
 
 And that your Lordfhip in your defignes, which are noble, may 
 profperoufly perfevere, and continue long profperous, will be the great 
 fatiffadlion of all your noble relations and cadets ; but to none more, 
 as none more oblidged, than to, 
 
 My noble Lord, 
 
 Your Lordlhip's moll afFe6tionat Uncle, 
 
 And humble Servant. 
 
 KINGSTONE. 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 THE HOUSE OF SETON 
 
 FURTHER INLARGED. 
 
 OF GEORGE, THE FIFTH 
 
 LORD SETON. 
 
 JL HE fifth George lord Seton fucceeded to the fourth George lord 
 Seton, his father. This Lord George, after he came from his travells 
 in France, was fent ane ambafladour to France, To treat of the mar- 
 riage betwixt Queen Mary and Francis the Second, then Dolphin. 
 Att his return, having given ane full fatiffaiftory accompt of his 
 commiffion, went the fecond time ambafladour to France, with 
 Queen Mary, To fee that marriage perfe6led : the whilk marriage 
 was folemnized in Nollerdame, the great cathedrall church of Paris, 
 the 24 of ApriU, 1558 years, the faid ambafl!adour being prefent. 
 Att the which time, the faid Lord George had ane noble prefent 
 fent him of filver plate by Henry the Second then king of France, 
 with ane yearly penfion of 1200 francks. 
 
 Queen Mary, after the deceafe of Francis the Second, her hulband, 
 att her coming home, made the faid Lord George her great mafter 
 houfhold, as his predeceflbr. Lord John, had been to King James the 
 Firft. The faid Lord George was, when Leith was befidged (having had 
 
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 there att that time feverall fharpe raincounters with the king's pairty), 
 with the French, on Queen Marie's fyde. 
 
 The Queen, after her unfortunatt marriage with the Earle of Both- 
 well, gathered fome forces together att Carberry hUl, againft her then 
 rebeEs ; from whence, Bothwell flying, without fighting, the Queen was 
 forced to capitulat with her rebells, and rendered herfelf to their dif- 
 cretion, who fent her Majefl;ie prifoner to the cafl;le of Lochleven. 
 From whence, the faid Lord Seton brought her to his caflle of Nidrie, as 
 is recorded both in French and Scots hift:ories. From whence he went 
 with her to the battle of Landfyde, near Glafgow ; where the queen's 
 majefl;ie's pairty war defeat, and difperfed, and the Queen herfelfe forced 
 to flee to England, for help and expe6ted fafety and rehefe, in that her 
 faid diftrefs, from her cufigne, EUzabeth queen of England j who, to 
 her eternall and infamous memory, upon her fuppofed jealoufies, caufed 
 murder the faid gallant queen moft. inhumanly, cruelly, and unchrif- 
 tianly, in the caftle of Fotheringame, after the faid queen had been 
 unjuftly detained 18 years her prifoner. ' -i" ,!...,)^i 
 
 After that unfortunate battle of Landfyde, the faid Lord George was 
 forced to flee to Flanders, and was ther in exile two years, and di'ove a 
 waggon of four horfes for his livelyhood. His pi(9:ure, in that condition, 
 I have feen, drawn and vively painted, upon the north end of the long 
 gallery in Seton, now overlaid with timber. From Flanders, the faid Lord 
 George went to HoUand, and there endeavoured to feduce the two 
 Scots regiments to the Spanifli fervice, upon a defigne thereby to 
 ferve his foveraigne, the Queen, the king of Spaine being very much 
 her freind. Which plott of his being revealed, the rebellious States of 
 Holland did imprifon, and condemne the faid George to ryd the can- 
 on ; but by the freindlhip and refpedt the Scots officers had to him 
 
OF THE HOUSE OF SEYTOUN. 57 
 
 and his quallity, he was fett by them att liberty : the rebellious States 
 having no hand in it. This is alfo relaited in Bilhop Spotfwood's hiftory. 
 
 This Lord George bought the reft of the lands of Weft Nidrie, and 
 the haill reverfions thereof, not conqueft by his predeceflburs. He 
 agreed alfo with the archbiftiop of St Andrews for the confirmation of 
 the feu of Kirklifton, together with the office of juftitiary of all the 
 lands and regaUities pertaining to the faid archbiftioprick. 
 
 In this Lord's time, in the year 1561, the great dungeon of Seton 
 fell to the ground, without hurt of any. From the fouth fide of 
 which, the faid Lord George built the great quarter of the hall ; and 
 he built aU the dykes from the old entry down to the links, over the 
 banke. 
 
 Out of the great refpe6t and favour the Queen's majeftie car- 
 ried to the faid Lord George, for his great fervice done to her, ihe 
 would have created him Earle when flie created her baftard brother 
 Earle of Murray ; but the faid Lord George, being att that time the 
 eldeft Lord in parUament, did, with moft himible thanks, excufe him- 
 felfe att her Majeftie's hands. Upon which occafion, ftie caufed wryte 
 thefe verfes in Latine and French : 
 
 Sunt comites, ducefque alii, funt denique reges : 
 Setoni dominum fit fatis efle mihi. 
 
 YHa des comtes, des roys, des dues j ainfi, 
 Cet aflez pour moy d'eftre figneur de Seton. 
 
 This faid Lord George, to ftiew the loyaUtie of himfelfe and his 
 family, caufed carve in ftone, in great gmlded letters, above the great 
 
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 doore to the entry of that quarter he built, and other iminent places 
 of the houfe, this infcription in French : 
 
 ' '' ■ ' * UN DIEU, UN FOY, UN ROY, UN LOY. 
 
 He had for his own particular motto, under the picture where he is 
 drawen with the mailer houfliald's batton, 
 
 IN ADVERRSITATE, PATIENS; 
 IN PROSPERITATE, BENEVOLUS. 
 HAZARD YET FORWARD. 
 
 '\'-:-./ '• '•;';> -tv Uf. 1 ■- ' 
 
 This faid Lord George married Ifobell, daughter to Sir William Ha- 
 milton of Sanchor, fhirrife of Air, ane of the lords of feflion, and att 
 that time captain of the caflle of Edinburgh. His motive for his mar- 
 riage was, by reafone his waird of marriage fell in the Queen's hands 
 the time the duke of Chalterault, earle of Arran, was regent to Queen 
 Mary ; and his brother, John Hamilton, archbifhop of St Andrews, 
 did trouble Lord George in peaceable injoying the lands of Kirk- 
 lillon, which Lord George, his father, had gott confinned in few by 
 Cardinall Beton, archbifhop of St Andrews. By this allaya, he gott 
 the confirmation of the lands of Kirklifton, with the forfaid fuperiori- 
 ties, renewed by the faid Archbifhop HamOton. In the contra6l of 
 marriage, the duke of Chauterault and his brother, the archbifhop, are 
 contra6lers with the faid Sir William Hamilton of Sanchor, their 
 cufigne, att that time the greatefl man of power amongfl the Hamil- 
 tons, next to the duke. " • • 
 
 By this vertious lady, he had five fons and ane daughter : his eldefl 
 fon, James, dyed a young man ; Robert, who was Lord after him ; 
 
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 John ; Alexander ; and William. His daughter, Ifobell [Margaret] 
 Seton, was married to the lord Paifley, fecond fon to the faid regent 
 duke of Chaulterault and earle of Arran, of whom came the noble 
 houfe of Abercorne, the eldeft fon of the faid Lord Paifley being 
 made Earle of Abercorne by King James the Sixth. 
 
 This Lord George was long time proveft of Edinburgh. After 
 King James the Sixth did take the government of the kingdome upon 
 himfelfe, he fent this Lord George ambafladour to France, To renew 
 the old Allay betwixt the two kingdomes, by a moll ample and honour- 
 able commiffion, wherin he ftyles him his moft trufty and well belov- 
 ed Cuiigne and Counfellour ; which commiffion I have read myfelfe. 
 A few years after he came home, he dyed, in the beginning of 
 King James the Sixth's reigne ; and was buried in the coUedge kirk 
 of Seton. , 
 
 OF ROBERT THE EIGHT LORD SETON, 
 
 AND FIRST EARLE OF WINTONE. 
 
 This Lord Robert fucceeded to his father. Lord George. This Lord 
 Robert was the firft Earle King James the Sixth created in Scotland, — 
 by a very noble patent ; and was in great favour and efteem with 
 King James. He was very hofpitable, and keeped a noble houfe, the 
 King and Queen being frequently there ; and aU French and other am- 
 baffadours, and ftrangers of quaUity, was noblie entertained in his houfe. 
 The faid Robert earle of Winton putt on the roofe of the great hall 
 of Seton ; he buUt the old harbour of Cockainie, for which King James 
 the Sixth granted him a large chartour, a free conqueft, with the gift 
 and privUidge of cuftome and anchorage of aU fhips and goods import- 
 ed and exported, with all other privilidges which burgh royalls have. 
 
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 He married Lady Margaret Montgomerie, eldeft daughter to the 
 earle of Eglingtone. He had by her, fyve fons, Robert, George, Alex- 
 ander, Thomas, and John ; and ane daughter, called IfobeU, who 
 was married to the earle of Perth, by whom fhe had one daughter 
 only. Lady Jean Drummond — who married the earle of Sutherland, in 
 anno 1629, who gott in tocher with her 50000 merkes, the greateft 
 portion that was ever given in Scotland, before that time. She had 
 to the faid earle feverall children ; whofe eldeft fon is earle of Suth- 
 erland now living. This faid Lady Ifobell Seton, countefs of Perth, 
 married to her 2d hulband, Francis Stewart, eldeft fon to the earle of 
 BothweU, by whom Ihe had feverall fons and daughters, who dyed 
 aU unmarried. 
 
 This Lord Robert, allthough his father left him in great debt, by 
 the great trouble he had in Queen Marie's tyme, and by feverall 
 ambaflays, upon his own charge, to France ; yet, by his own hand, 
 and by his vertious ladie's good government, putt his eftate in good 
 condition ; provyded his fons and daughters to good fortunes. He 
 dyed in anno 1603 ; was buried that day King James the Sixth tooke 
 his journey from Holyroodhouse to England, to take poffeffion of that 
 Crown. His Majeftie was gracioufly pleafed to reft himfeUe att the 
 fouthweft round of the orch-yard of Seton, on the high way, till the 
 funerall was over, that he might not withdraw the noble company. 
 His Majeftie was pleafed to fay publickly, in the hearing of all by him. 
 He had loft a good, faithfull, and loyaU fubjeft. He was buried in 
 the colledge kirk of Seton. 
 
OF THE HOUSE OF SEYTOUN. ' til 
 OF SIR JOHN SETON OF BARNES, 
 
 THIRD SON TO THE FIFTH GEORGE, LORD SETON. 
 
 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 royall order of St Jago, att that tyme, the order of knighthood 
 in that kingdome of greateft efteem. In memory whereof, he and his 
 heirs, has a fword in their coat of armes, being the badge of that or- 
 der. King PhilUp alfo preferred him to be gentleman of his chamber, 
 and cavaUer de la Boca (which is mafter-houfhold) : he alfo carried 
 the golden key att his fyde, in a blew ribbing : all which, were the 
 greateft honours King Phillip of Spaine could give to any of his fub- 
 je6ls, except to be made a grandee of Spaine. He had a penfion 
 granted to him and his heirs of two thoufand crowns yearly : when 
 I, the wryter hereof, was att the king of Spaine his court, I was cer- 
 tainely informed of the truth of all this. 
 
 The faid Sir John, in the heights of his favour with King Phillip" of 
 Spaine, was commanded home by King James the Sixth, unwilhng to 
 want fo gallant a fubje6l out of his court and fervice. Att his return 
 home, he preferred him to be thefaurer of his houfe ; was in great favour 
 with his Majeftie. It was not doubted, if he had lived fome time after 
 the King's coming to the crown of England, he would have highly ad- 
 vanced 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 round a 
 court. 
 
 He married the eldeft daughter to the lord Forbes, by whom he 
 
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 had two fons and one daughter. His fecond fon dyed a young man. 
 He himfelfe dyed in the ftrength of his age, a young man ; and was 
 buried in the coUedge kirk of Seton. 
 
 OF THE SECOND SIR JOHN SETON 
 
 OF BARNES. 
 
 This Sir John Seton of Barnes fucceeded to his father ; ane gallant 
 man ; likeways, gentleman of the privy chamber to King Charles the 
 Fii-ft. He did acquire, from Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar, land 
 in Irland worth five hundi'eth pound Sterling a year. The faid Sir 
 John was imprifoned, and fyned in a confiderable foume of money, by 
 the then rebells in Scotland, for being with the marquefs of Montrofs, 
 King Charles the Firft his generall, by ane ample commiffion, againft 
 the Scots rebells, in the year 1646. 
 
 He married to his firft lady, Ogilvy, daughter to the laird 
 
 of Poury, Ogilvy ; by her, he had one fon and three daughters. His 
 fon, called Alexander, married in Irland, ane daughter of ane noble 
 Irish family of Ophuall : dyed without fucceffion. His eldeft daugh- 
 ter, Ifobell, married the laird of Barfoord ; the fecond daughter, 
 Margaret, married to the tutor of Duffus, in Murray ; his third 
 daughter, Lilias, married Sir James Ramfay of Benhame, in the 
 Mairns. 
 
 To his fecond marriage, he married the dowager of KUUyth, daugh- 
 ter to lord Fleming, by whom he had no fucceffion. 
 
 To his third wife, he married the only daughter of Sir John Home 
 
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 of Northberwik, by whom he had two fons, George and Charles, and 
 one daughter, Jean : Charles dyed a young man, fhortly after his fa- 
 ther : his daughter Jean was married to John Hay of Aberlady. His 
 eldeft fon, George, yet living, poffeffor of the lands of Barnes. 
 
 OF ALEXANDER SETON, 
 
 FOURTH SON TO LORD GEORGE THE FIFTH. 
 
 [He was] fo named by Queen Mary, who gave to him ane god- 
 baime gift, the lands of PlufcaJie, in Murray. He was fent by his fa- 
 ther when he was young to Rome, finding him of a great fpirit, in- 
 tending att that time to make him a churchman. Att Rome, he was 
 bred young in the Roman coUedge of the Jefuites, wher he excelled 
 in learning. He declaimed, not being 16 years of age, ane learned 
 oration of his own compofing, De Ascensione Domini, on that feftivall 
 day, publickly before the Pope, Gregory the 13th, the cardinall, and 
 other prelats prefent, in the pope's chapel in the Vatican, with great 
 applaufe. He was in great efteem att Rome for his learning, being a 
 great humanift in profe and poecie, Greek and Latine ; well veifed in 
 the mathematicks, and had great (kill in archite6ture and herauldrie. 
 I was told att Rome, if he had ftayed ther, it was not doubted but 
 he had been Cardinall. 
 
 After he came from Italy, he ftudied the law in France. Shortly 
 after that he came to Scotland, he made his public leffon of the law 
 before King James the Sixth, the fenators of the coUedge of juftice, 
 and advocats prefent, in the chapell royall of Holyroodhoufe, in his 
 
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 lawer gown and four nooked cape, as lawers ufe to pafs their try alls 
 in the univerfities abroad, to the great applaufe of the King and all 
 prefent. After which, he was received by the colledge of juftice as 
 ane lawer ; and fome years after made lord of the feflion : not many 
 years after that, made prefident of the feflion (the earle of Montrofs 
 being then chancellour) ; and lord Fyvie of parliament. After the 
 earle of Montrofs his death, he was made lord high chancellour of 
 Scotland. 
 
 He acquired the lands of Fyvie, a confiderable falmon filhing in 
 Spey, with fome other lands in Murray j the lordfliip of Dalgatie in 
 Fyfe, with fome confiderable lands in the lordfhip of Dumfermeline, 
 and very confiderable fuperiorities ther. He acquired the lands of 
 Pinkie, where he built ane noble houfe ; brave Hone dykes about the 
 garden and orchard, with other commendable policie about it. 
 
 He married, to his firft wife, Lady Ifobell Drummond, eldeft fifter 
 to the earle of Perth, and had by her feveraU fons, who died young, 
 and four daughters : the eldeft, called Lady Sophia, married to the 
 lord Fentoun, fon to the earle of Kellie ; the fecond. Lady Ifobel, 
 married to the earle of LauderdaUl, only fon to Chancellour Mait- 
 land, lord Thirlftone, whofe fon was by King Charles the Second 
 three feverall times his majeftie's commiflioner for parliaments and con- 
 ventions in Scotland j and by the faid King created Duke of Lau- 
 derdaill, marquefs of March, during his life, whofe third brother, 
 Charles earle of Lauderdaill, is now living. The third daughter mar- 
 ried the earle of Seaforth, by whom fhe hade no fons that leaved, but 
 two daughters : the eldeft married the lord BairredaUl, eldeft fon to 
 the earle of Kaithnefs, by whom flie had two fons, who dyed without 
 heirs. To her fecond huftjand, flie married the lord Duffus, by whom 
 
 •V, 
 
OF THE HOUSE OF SEYTOUN. 65 
 
 flie had noe children that hved. The fecond daughter married the 
 earle of Ballcarras, heir to the firll lord Ballcarras, whofe fon is now 
 earle of Ballcarras. To the fecond hulband, Ihe married the laft 
 earle of Argyle, by whom fhe had noe children. The Chancellour 
 his fourth daughter married to the laird of Ballcarras, created Lord 
 of parliament by King Charles the Firft, in anno 1633, whofe pofleri- 
 ty now flourilhes, as faid is. 
 
 The faid Lord Chancellor, earle of DumfermeUne, married, to his fe- 
 cond wife, Lady Grifell Leflie, daughter to the earle of Rothes, by 
 whom he had only one daughter, married to the lord Yefter, mother 
 to this earle of TwedaiU now hving. 
 
 To his third wife, he married Lady Margaret Hay, filler to the faid 
 lord Yefter, by whom he had only ane fon and ane daughter : his fon, 
 Charles, fucceeded him : his daughter. Lady Grifell, a brave lady, lived 
 a good age, but would never marrie, though Ihe had noble fuitors, — ^the 
 earle of Sutherland and the lord Lindfay, afterward earle of Crawford. 
 
 The firft Earle of Dumfermeline, lord high chancellour of Scotland, 
 by his Letter- will, left George earle of Winton, his nephew, fole tutor 
 to his fone, Charles earle of Dumfermeline, who keeped him and his 
 fifter, and their fervantts, in his houfe, free gratis, all the years of his 
 tutory. Att the expiring whereof, the faid George earle of Win- 
 tone, — Shaving payed of his estate 30000 merks of portion with his 
 fifter, who married the faid lord Yefter, and 30000 merks with his 
 fifter, Lady Grifell Seton, who dyed unmarried, which flie left to her 
 brother at her death ; and at the expiry of the tutory, gave, likeways, 
 to the faid Charles earle of DumfermeHne 10000 merks gold of the fup- 
 erplus of his rent, which foume he configned in the face of the lords of 
 
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66 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 feffion, Chancellour Hay being prefent. This the faid George earle 
 of Winton did the 4 (?) years he was his tutor, though his mother life- 
 rented 20000 merks yearly, with the houfe of Pinky and Dalgaty ; 
 yet he left him, at the expyring of the faid tutory, the eftate free of all 
 debt whatfomever, with all his jeweUs and lilver plate, which were 
 confiderable great, with the houfhold furniture, and all other move- 
 ables whatfomever. 
 
 Alexander earle of DumfermeHne had left to his cuftody and keep- 
 ing and government by King James and Queen Ann, when their ma- 
 jellies went to England, their fecond fon, Charles, then not three 
 years of age, whom he keeped in his houfe three years, and carried 
 him into England himfelfe, by land, to the King and Queen's 
 majefties, well and in health ; for which faithfuU fervice the King's 
 majeftie was thankfuU to him. 
 
 This Alexander earle of Dumfermline, lord chancellour, dyed in his 
 houfe att Pinkie, in ApriU, 1622, of his age 67 years ; and was fuc- 
 ceeded in his office by Chancellour Hay — Spot. f. 542 : and dyed 
 with the regreat of all that knew him, and the love of his countrie : 
 was interred att his buriall place in Dalgaty, the May therafter, with 
 great honour. 
 
 OF CHARLES SECOND EARLE 
 
 OF DUMFERMELINE. 
 
 This Charles fecond earle of Dumfermeline was much att the court 
 of England with King Charles the Firft, to whom he was gentleman 
 of the bed chamber ; and by King Charles the Second made lord 
 privy feal, in the which place he dyed. 
 
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 . He married Lady Marie Douglas, daughter to "William earie of 
 Morton, who was knight of the garter. By her he had many chil- 
 dren : his eldeft fone, Alexander ; the fecond was called Charles, 
 was killed in one of the king's fliips of warr in the battle againft the 
 States of Holland ; his third fon, James. His eldeft daughter. Lady 
 Margaret, never married; his fecond daughter. Lady Hendrieta, mar- 
 ried to the earle of Wigton, to whom ihe had two fons, now living. 
 To her fecond hufband, Ihe married the earle of Crawford, Lindfay, to 
 whom Ihe hath feverall children. 
 
 This Charles earle of Dumfermeline fyded with the [Covenanters], 
 and carried a commiflioun from them to the King. 
 
 The faid Charles fecond earle of Dumfermline dyed in anno I672, in 
 Seton houfe; and was noblie interred att his buriall place in Dalgaty. 
 
 OF ALEXANDER THIRD EARLE 
 
 OF DUMFERMELINE. 
 
 This Alexander third earle of Dumfermline dyed att Edinburgh, a 
 young man, a few years after his father ; and was noblie interred 
 att his buriall place in Dalgaty. 
 
 OF JAMES FOURTH EARLE 
 
 OF DUMFERMELINE. 
 
 This James earle of Dumfermeline, who fucceeded to his brother, 
 Alexander, after his father's deceafe, was fome years ane officer in a 
 Scots regiment, under the States of Holland, where he behaved him- 
 felfe gallantly. Some time after he came home, and married Lady 
 
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 Jean Gordon, filler to the marquefs of Huntly, now duke of Gordon. 
 
 This James earle of Dumfermeline was left by his father and brother 
 in confiderable debt ; but, by his vertuous wife carriage, hes extricat 
 himfelfe of the greatefl part of that trouble : and by his good and 
 wife manadgment, not only preferves, but improves his eftate, to his 
 great commendation and honour. This James earle of Dumfermeline 
 is now hving. 
 
 OF SIR WILLIAM SETON, FIFTH SON 
 
 TO THE FIFTH GEORGE LORD SETON. 
 
 This Sir WiUiam Seton, a brave man, was for fome years chiefe 
 juftice in the South border of Scotland. After King James was king 
 of England, he was one of his majeftie's mafter-houlhold, and mailer 
 of the Polls of Scotland, for both which he had a penfion of King 
 James and King Charles the Firll. 
 
 He married Striveling, daughter to the houfe of Glorat, by 
 
 whom he had two fons, WUliam and John : WiUiam fucceeded to 
 his father ; John was ane officer in France, in the Scots regiment un- 
 der CoUonell Hepbume, marilhall de camp in France, wher the faid 
 John dyed. The faid Sir WiUiam had three daughters : liis eldell 
 daughter married Fairly barron of Bred ; the fecund married Sir 
 John Auchmouty of Goffoord. 
 
 This Sir WUliam dyed of 73 years of age, in his houfe att Hadding- 
 ton, anno 1634 ; and was buried in the coUedge kirk of Seton. 
 
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 OF SIR WILLIAM SETON, SECOND. • 
 
 Sir William Seton fucceeded to the laft Sir William, his father, to 
 the place of the mailer of the Polls of Scotland, during his life, for 
 which he had a penfion from the King. He never married ; he dyed, 
 of good age, in anno 1662 : buried in the colledge kirk of Seton. 
 
 NOW FOLLOWES THE POSTERITY 
 OF ROBERT THE FIRST EARLE OF WINTON. 
 
 I mull here fett down Sir Alexander Seton, third fon to the faid 
 Robert the firll earle of Winton, by himfelfe, and his pofterity, from 
 his being Earle of Eglingtone, to this year of God, I687 ; by reafon, 
 though he was third brother and had of the houfe of Seton, yet, as 
 Earle of Eglingtone, was oblidged to change his name from Seton to 
 Montgomery, and carrie the armes of the Houfe of Eglingtone, as 
 chiefe of that Family and Clane. 
 
 OF SIR ALEXANDER SETON, 
 
 THIRD SON TO ROBERT FIRST EARLE OF WINTONE, 
 
 WHO, SHORTLY AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH, 
 
 WAS EARLE OF EGLINGTONE. 
 
 This Alexander earle of Eglingtone was fent for out of France by 
 his uncle, the earle of Eglingtone, who, having noe heirs of his own 
 body to fucceed to the Earledome of EgHngtone, difponed his eftate 
 freely to this Sir Alexander Seton, his filler's son ; on whom King 
 
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 James the Sixth, after the deceafe of the faid earle of EgUngtone, his 
 uncle, did gracioufly confer (on this Sir Alexander Seton, the faid 
 earle's nephew, and heir of his eftate,) the honours and titles of the 
 Earle of Eglingtone, with the fame place in parliament as the ancient 
 noble Houfe of Eglingtone did polTefs. 
 
 This Alexander earle of Eglingtone was much imployed in the 
 warr the time of the Scots and Irifh rebelHons ; and bred three of 
 his fons fouldiers. In anno 1650, when King Charles the Second 
 came to Scotland, within ane month came a rebellious Englilh army, 
 commanded by that arche-traitour Oliver Cromwell ; att which time, 
 the faid King Charles tlie Second made this Alexander earle of Eg- 
 lingtone captain of his lifeguard of horse, being ane valiant experi- 
 mented fouldier. He was furprifed by ane Englilh pairty of horfe 
 being in the Weft of Scotland, and taken prifoner, in anno 1651 ; fent 
 firft to the town of Hull, then to Berwick, where he was prifoner fe- 
 verall years. ' > • 
 
 He married, to his firft wife, Lady Ann Livingfton, eldeft daughter 
 to the earle of Linlithgow, by whom he had fyve fons and two daugh- 
 ters : Hew, lord Montgomery ; Sir Henry, who died without heirs ; 
 Sir Alexander, a coUonell in Irian d, in the Scots army against the 
 rebeUs there — ^he died in Irland ; James, likeways ane coUonell 
 in Irland, in thefe warrs, who conquiftied the barony of Colffield, 
 which his fon and heir now pofleffes ; his fifth fon, Robert, was firft 
 a captain in Irland, againft the faid rebells, therafter a coUoneU of 
 horfe in the rebellious warrs of Britaine. 
 
 When King Charles the Second went with a Scots army, in anno 
 1651, to Worchefter, he was generaU-major of his majeftie's horle 
 
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 in that unfortunat expedition, and was att that time hurt and taken 
 prifoner ; and was many years a prifoner at Hull, and therafter many 
 years a prifoner in the caftle of Edinburgh, out of which he and the 
 late earle of Kinnoull efcaped in difguife, in anno 1659, and went to 
 Holland, to the King. He left his heirs ane good eftate in money.-'^ 
 
 The eldeft daughter of this Earle of Eglingtone,Lady Margaret, mar- 
 ried the earle of TwedaUl, father of this earle of Twedaill now living, 
 to whom Ihe had one fon that came to perfe6t age, flylled Drumelior : 
 her daughter. Lady Grifall, dyed very young. The faid Lady Mar- 
 garet Montgomery married, to her fecond hulband, the earle of Glen- 
 cairne, lord high chancellour of Scotland. The fecond daughter, 
 Lady Ann, dyed unmarried. 
 
 This Earle of Eglingtone married, to his fecond wife, the Lady Rofs, 
 dowager. He dyed in his houfe att Eghngtone, in the age of 73, in 
 anno 1661. 
 
 This noble Earle was a perfon of true honour, generofity, and loy- 
 allty, but, in the beginning of the inteftine warrs, was much carried 
 on by the Prefbyterian miniflers againft the King ; and in anno 164)8, 
 rofe with thefe of his countrie, againft the Remonftrators, that en- 
 gadged for the King. 
 
 OF HEUGH LORD MONTGOMERY, 
 
 EARLE OF EGLINGTONE. 
 
 This Earle of Eglingtone fucceeded to his father, Alexander earle 
 of Eglingtone. He married, to his firft wife, Anna Hamilton, eldeft 
 lifter to the then marquifs of Hamilton, afterwards duke of Hamilton, 
 
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 by whom he had only one daughter, — who was married to the earle of 
 Findlater, whofe land flie hath aired. 
 
 And to his fecond wife, he married Lady Mary Lefly, daugh- 
 ter to the earle of Rothes, by whom he had two fons, Alexander and 
 Francis : Francis married the heir of the earledome of Leven, by 
 whom he had noe children, yet, by that marriage, he polTeffes, during 
 his life, the barrony of Inchmartine, in the Carfs of Gowry. He 
 had five daughters : the eldeft. Lady Mary, was married to the earle 
 of Winton ; the fecond daughter, Margaret, married the earle of 
 Lowdon ; the third married Dumbar of Balduns ; the fourth married 
 the mailer of Balmerino ; the fifth married Sir Alexander Ramfay of 
 Wauchtone. . , ,. 
 
 This Heugh earle of Eghngtone dyed att the houfe of Eglingtone, 
 in anno 1673, and 60th year of his age. 
 
 OF THE SECOND ALEXANDER, 
 
 EARLE OF EGLINGTONE. 
 
 This Alexander earle of Eglingtone fucceeded to his father, Heugh 
 earle of Eglingtone, being a very young man. He married, in Eng- 
 land, Creighton, daughter to the earle of Dumfries, by whom 
 he had three fons and two daughters. The eldeft fone, lord Mont- 
 gomery, married Lady Cochrane, daughter to the lord Coch- 
 rane, fifter to this earle of Dundonald. . , , ,. 
 
 This Alexander earle of Eglingtone married, to his fecond wife, 
 ane Englifli widdow lady, of ane good fortune. He lives conftantly 
 with her att her houfe in Yorklhyre, in this prefent year, I687. 
 
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 Here ends the Genealogie of Alexander Earle of Eglintone, third 
 brother to the Houfe of Seton, from the time of his being 
 Earle of Eglingtone to this prefent year, I687. 
 
 OF SIR THOMAS SETON, 
 
 FOURTH SON TO ROBERT EARLE OF WINTON. 
 
 This Sir Thomas Seton was provyded by his father to the lands of 
 HoUieftob, now, vulgo, Oliveftobe. He married Dame Agnes Drum- 
 mond, daughter to Drummond of Corfkeply, of the family of Perth : 
 by her he had three daughters, of whom, Margaret, the eldeft, was 
 married to George Seton of Cariftone ; his fecond daughter, 
 
 , was married to Major Keith, IherifF of the Mearns ; and 
 Sir Thomas's third daughter, , married *'" '• - Inglis 
 
 in Edinburgh. 
 
 [SETON OF ST GERMAINS.] 
 
 Sir John Seton, who was fifth fon to Robert earle of Winton, gott 
 the lands of St Germains after his brother. Sir Alexander, obtained 
 the earledome of Eglingtone. He married Margaret Kellie, daughter 
 to Mr WilUam Kellie, one of the senators of the coUedge of juf- 
 tice ; he had by her feverall fons : his eldeft fon, John, yet living, 
 poffeffor of the lands of St Germains. He had four daughters : 
 the eldeft, Margaret, was married to the laird of Prefton, Hamilton, 
 who dyed without fucceffion. To her fecond huft)and, ftie married 
 
74 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 Ramfay of Idington. His fecond daughter, Ifobell, dyed 
 unmarried ; his third daughter, Jean, was married to Menzies of 
 Coulterais, by whom fhe had feverall fons and daughters yet Uving ; 
 his fourth daughter dyed a young woman. 
 
 The faid Sk John dyed in good age, and was buried in the buriall 
 place of Seton. 
 
 OF ROBERT THE NINTH LORD SETON, 
 
 AND SECOND EARLE OF WINTONE. 
 
 This Robert earle of Wintone married Lady Jean Maitland, only 
 daughter to Chancellour Maitland, lord Thii-liftoun. He dyed with- 
 out heirs of his body. 
 
 OF GEORGE TENTH LORD SETON, 
 
 THIRD EARLE OF WINTONE. 
 
 This George earle of Wintone fucceeded to his brother, Robert earle 
 of Wintone. He lived honourablie all his life, and keeped a great 
 houfe at Seton. When King James the Sixth came to Scotland in 
 anno 16 17, he entertained him and his whole court a night att his 
 houfe, upon his own charges. 
 
 He built the houfe of Wintone, being burnt by the Englifti of old, 
 and the pohcy thereof deftroyed, in anno 1620 : He founded and 
 built the great houfe from the foundation, with all the lairge (lone 
 dykes about the preciniSl, park, orchard and gardens thereof. 
 
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 He built, in anno 1630, two quarters of the houfe of Seton, begin- 
 ning at Wallace' tower att the eaft end thereof, which was all burnt 
 by the EnglHh, and continued the building till Jacob's tower, on the 
 north fyde of the houfe. By reafon his predeceffors were great ene- 
 mies, and very a6live in the warrs, againft the Englilh, the houfe hav- 
 ing been three tymes burnt by them, he caufed carve, in fine ftone, 
 upon the frontifpiece of his new building, a crown, fupported by two 
 rofes and the thriftell, being the conicenfes of the two kingdomes of 
 Scotland and England ; and the embleme, enegmaticaUy, fignifying 
 the Union of the two kingdomes. Under which embleme he caufed 
 carve and fett out in gold letters this verfe : — 
 
 UNIO NUNC FATIS, STOQUE CADOQUE TUIS. 
 
 He built in Cockainie twelve faltpans, wher never any formerly was. 
 He buUt, to his great charge, ane harbour in the weft end of Cockainie, 
 which was deftroyed by a ftorme in January, anno 1635. 
 
 When King Charles the Firft, in anno 1633, came to Scotland to 
 be crowned, he entertained him a night att his houfe, with all the 
 Englifh nobility and court, noblie, with ane open houfe to all. 
 Within a month after, att his Majeftie's returne to England, he enter- 
 tained the Englilh nobility, and the King and his whole court, from 
 the Saturday till the Moonday, royalUe, att ane open houfe, as former- 
 ly ; both which entertainments was upon the faid Earle his own 
 charges. 
 
 In anno 1639, when the Scots rebellion did firft begine, he left 
 the countrey, and waited on his Majeftie, King Charles the Firft ; for 
 which, the rebells in Scotland fequeftrat from him his eftate, taking 
 
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76 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 from his fervantts all the keys of his corne and fait girnells. Never- 
 thelefs, he flayed conftantly att the King till the treatie of Pacifica- 
 tion, betwixt his Majeftie and the rebells. Att the fame time, the re- 
 bells did take upon them to ufe a kinde of forfaulture againft him, and 
 gifted the eftate, out of their mad and diabolicall diflra6lion (in the 
 lieat of their cruell and godlefs rebellion), to a gentleman of the name 
 of Elphingfton, of fmall account, ftyled . But it was 
 
 thought, it was for the reall behoofe of that arch, cruell, and bloody 
 traitor the then earle of Argyle, created the firft Marquifs of Argyle 
 by King Charles the Firft, in anno 1641. After which year, the faid 
 rebells renewing their rebellion anno 1643, in which rebellion, the 
 faid firft marquifs of Argyle was ring-leader, promoter, and arch- 
 traitour, in carrieing on of the Scots army which was att the battle 
 of York, in anno 1644 ; wher the king's army, under the condu6t of 
 Prince Rupart, was beat, and did prove the firft ftep to King Charles 
 the Firft's ruine, cruell and unchriftian murder. 
 
 In anno 1643, they did fyne the faid George earle of Wintone, att 
 two feverall times, in the foume of 36 thoufand merks, which he was 
 forced to pay, or have his eftate fequeftrat. 
 
 In anno 1645, when the marquifs of Montrofs, by King Charles the 
 Firft's commifTion, was in Scotland, in armes againft the rebells in Scot- 
 land, George lord Seton, fon to the faid earle of Winton, joyned him- 
 felfe to Montrofs, for his Majeftie's fervice. And att the fight at Phillip- 
 haugh, Montrofs his forces being defeat, the faid Lord George Seton 
 was taken prifoner, and carried, in the winter time, to the Scots army 
 in England, befiedging the town of Newarke upon Trent ; from thence 
 carried back prifoner (having a guard of horfe, both the times, upon his 
 own expenfes) to the then caftle of St Andrews, where he lay pri- 
 
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 foner, in hazard of his life, till fuch time his father payed fourty 
 thoufand pounds Scots ; which foume, by the rebellious States (as 
 they ftylled themfelves, the States of Scotland), att that time fitting 
 in parliament att St Andrews, was dillribute among their fellow adtive 
 rebells. 
 
 In anno 1648, when James firft duke of Hamilton went, as generall, 
 with ane rich royall army, lifted and fent to England by the power of 
 that loyall parliament, for the reliefe of King Charles the Firft, then 
 prifoner att Carift)airo caftle in the Ifle of Wight ; the faid George 
 earle of Wintone gave, in free gift, to the faid James duke of Hamil- 
 ton, for ordering his equipage for that journey, ane thoufand pound 
 Sterline. 
 
 The faid George earle of Wintone, did conquefli two confiderable 
 feu lands in Longniddrie, hereditarilly : the ane, from Sir George Doug- 
 las, in the eaft end of the faid town ; the other, from the then laird of 
 Corfterphine. As alfo, he bought, hereditarilly, the teynds of Long- 
 niddrie from the then Both well, lord Holyroodhoufe. He alfo bought 
 the houfe and lands of Gourleton ; the halfe of Ethelftanfoord, from 
 Sir John Tours, laird of Inverleith, and the other halfe thereof, from 
 Sir Patrick Hepburne of Waughton : which lands he provyded to his 
 eldeft fon then living of the 2d marriage, called Sir John Seton, 
 created knight baronet of Scotland by King Charles the Second. 
 
 He married, to his firft lady, Anna Hay, eldeft daughter to Francis 
 earle of ErroU, by whom he had five fons and three daughters ; of 
 which, three fons and one daughter dyed young. His eldeft fon. 
 Lord George, fliall be fpoken of hereafter ; his fecond fon, Alexan- 
 der, is yet living. His eldeft daughter. Lady Margaret Seton, dyed a 
 
78 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 young woman, of 20 years of age, unmarried, in anno 1 637 ; the fe- 
 cond daughter. Lady EUzabeth, married to WilUam earle of Mariihal], 
 with whom, att her marriage, in anno 1637, he gave him in portion 
 fourty thoufand pound Scots. The faid earle of Marifliall had feve- 
 rall fons, who dyed all young : fhe herfelf dyed after fhe was brought 
 to bed of her youngeft daughter ; Ihe dyed of 28 years of age, in 
 anno 1650. The faid earle of Marifliall had, by her, four daughters : 
 the eldefl. Lady Mary, was married to the lord [of] Hoptone, to 
 whom flie had a fon and a daughter ; her fon. Sir William Hope, yet 
 living. The faid lady Marie married, to her 2d hufljand, Blackbarrony, 
 to whom flie had feverall fons, yet living : flie dyed young. His fecond 
 daughter, Lady Elizabeth, was married to the vifcount of Arbuthnot, by 
 whom flie had only ane fon, who married the daughter of the earle of 
 Sutherland now living, — ^their 2d daughter married the baron of Lees, 
 Burnet, in the Mairnes. The third daughter. Lady [Ifabell], married, 
 in England, to Sir Edward Turner, a gentleman of five thoufand pound 
 Sterling a year, whofe father was long Speaker of the low hoiife of 
 Parliament in England. The fourth daughter married the lord Bamffe, 
 both yet living, to whome flie hath tuo fons alive, and tuo daughters. 
 
 The faid George earle of Wintone married, to his fecond wife, Lady 
 Elizabeth Maxwell, only daughter to the lord Herres, by whom he 
 had fix fons : Chrifl;oplier and Robert, who dyed young ; another 
 Chrift.opher, and William, two hopefuU young gentlemen — Chrifl;opher 
 was a great fchoUar, — who both going to their travells abroad, were 
 cafl; away att sea, upon the coafl;s of Holland, in anno 1648 ; his fift 
 Ton, Sir John, of whom fliall be Ipoken of hereafter; the 6tli fon, 
 Robert, knight baronet of Scotland, ane hopefull young gentleman, 
 and a good fchollar, dyed young, in anno I67I ; buried in the col- 
 ledge kirk of Seton. By this marriage, he had alfo fix daughters : 
 
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 Lady Ann, who dyed young ; Lady Sophia, who dyed young ; Lady 
 Ifobell, who married Francis lord Sempill — the faid Lord dyed young, 
 without fucceffion, and his lady would never marry fince, — yet liv- 
 ing ; Lady Ann, married the earle of Terquair, a hopefuU young man, 
 by whom fhe had three fons : James, who dyed a young man ; 
 Charles, att this prefent earle of Tarquaire, a hopefuU young man, well 
 travelled abroad, Roman catholick ; his third fon, John, dyed young. 
 Her only daughter. Lady Elizabeth Stewart, a brave hopefull young 
 lady, dyed of 20 years of age. The faid Lady Anna, countefs of 
 Tarquaire, would never marry after her hulband's death. The faid 
 George earle of Winton's fifth daughter. Lady Jean, died unmarried ; 
 his 6th daughter. Lady Mary Seton, married to the earle of Camwath, 
 by whom Ihe had one fon, who died young, and one daughter. Lady 
 Elizabeth, yet hveing. The faid countefs of Camwath is yet liveing. 
 
 This faid George earle of Wintone, in anno 1650, when King 
 Charles the Second came to Scotland, from his Majellie coming to 
 Leith, wher the Scots army then lay, he waited conftantly upon his 
 Majellie ; and after that the Scots army was routed at Dumbar, went 
 over with his Majellie to DumfermeUne, and did attend conftantly upon 
 him ther, and att St Johnftoun, tUl the month of November, 1650, 
 being in great efteem and favour with his Majeftie. He had his per- 
 miffion to goe to his own houfe in Eaft Lothian (in which houfe and 
 lands, many of the Englilh army and officers did quarter themfelves, 
 to his lofs of that year's rent), the better to prepare himfelfe, to have 
 the honour to be prefent att his Majeftie's coronation, which was fo- 
 lemnized in Scoon the 1ft of January, 1651. He fell fick in the 
 beginning of December, and dyed the lyth day thereof, anno 1650, 
 of his age 65 ; and was buried in his buriall place of Seton. 
 
80 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF GEORGE LORD SETON. 
 
 This George lord Seton, eldeft fon to George the third earle of 
 Winton, married Lady Hendrieta Gordon, daughter to the marquifs 
 of Huntley, by whom he had only four fons : George ; Alexander, 
 who dyed a young man ; Chrillopher, yet alive ; Francis, who dyed a 
 child of tuo years old. 
 
 This George lord Seton being with the marquifs of Montrofs att 
 the fight of Philliphaugh, was taken prifoner, as is fully related in the 
 preceeding Life of his father. He dyed att Seton, in June, 1648, two 
 years before his father j of his age, 35 : interred in his buriall place att 
 Seton. And he was fined in a confiderable foum for being with 
 Montrofs. Vide A61 7- P- 3. Sefs. 6. anno 1647, conjoyned with 
 A6t 6. anno [16] 46. 
 
 OF SIR ALEXANDER SETON, 
 
 SECOND SON TO GEORGE THE THIRD EARLE OF WINTON, 
 NOW VISCOUNT OF KINGSTON. 
 
 This Sir Alexander Seton is of the faid George earle of Winton his 
 firft marriage, with Lady Anna Hay, daughter to Francis earle of 
 Erroll. 
 
 This Sir Alexander Seton, in anno 1633, when King Charles the 
 Firft came to Seton, being then not 12 years of age, he wellcomed 
 the King, with ane Latine oration, att the iron gate of Seton ; wher 
 his Majeftie fatt in state, all the Englilh nobility fitting round about 
 
OFTHE HOUSE OFSEYTOUN. 81 
 
 him. The faid Sir Alexander being attended with his fchoolmafter, 
 with a pedagogue, and other four Mailers of Art ; all grave learned 
 men, cled in fyne black cloath, and cloaks lined through with pan 
 velvet ; the ground being covered a great way from the throne with 
 carpet : Whef, after due reverence thrice made to his Majeftie by 
 the faid Sir Alexander and his matters, the faid Sir Alexander 
 did deliver his oratione boldly, with a gefture fuitable to the pur- 
 pofe, for which he had the applaufe of his Majeftie, and all pre- 
 fent ; and, before he rofe from his knees, his Majeftie did him the ho- 
 nour to knight him, and faid to him, " Now, Sir Alexander, fee this 
 doe not fpoill your fchooU ; by appearance, you will be a fchoUar." 
 The faid Sir Alexander boldly anfwered, " No, pleafe your Majeftie, 
 it fliall not." Immediately after the King went from Scotland, the 
 faid Sir Alexander returned to fchooU, and ftudied humanity three 
 years thereafter, with more alacrity and affiduity than formerly, by 
 reafon of his promife to the King. 
 
 In anno 1636, the faid Sir Alexander was fent to France by his fa- 
 ther J and he, not acquainting his father, immediately went to the 
 col ledge of La Flefli, of the Jefuits, wher he ftudied two years his 
 philofophie ; defended his thelifs pubUckly in the faid colledge from 
 10 to halfe 12 in the forenoon, and two till half four in the 
 afternoon, he, and another fyne gentleman of quality, having a 
 throne layed with carpets, erected for them, in the fchool, with a 
 cover of crimfon taffity above their heads, and courtanes drawen about 
 them. Which thelifs were printed in whyte fatine, with the full armes 
 of the Houfe of Seton, with ane oration dedicatory on the head of 
 them ; he fent them home to my Lord, his father, being dedicat to him. 
 
 After which, he went to Italy, wher he ftayed a year ; imbarqued 
 
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82 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 att Leghorne, in a great Engliih veffel, and landed att Alicant, in the 
 kingdome of Vallantia, in Spaine, and went to the court at Madrid, 
 wher he flayed feven months. From Spaine, he imbarqued at St Se- 
 baflian, and landed att Rotchell, in France, in June therafter, having 
 been fix dayes att fea ; then travelled, all that fiammer, through the 
 moft pairt of France. Came home by the Court of England, in anno 
 1640 ; from which. King Charles the Firft (having imprifoned in the 
 Tower the lord Lowdon, and the other Scots commiffioners in the 
 fhirriffes of London their houfes, who was fent from the rebellious pre- 
 tended Ellates of Scotland to the King) fent the faid Sir Alexander 
 with letters to the marquifs of Huntley, earle of Nidfdaill, his own 
 father, and others his loyall fubjedls, to be carefuU of themfelves, leaft 
 they fliould be in danger, for imprifoning the faids rebellious com- 
 miffioners ; ordering the fecretary. Sir Hendry Vain, to give him 
 ane ample pofl-warrand, with an order to Sir Thomas Earle, then 
 governour of Berwick, to prefs a fhip or bark for him for Scotland, 
 if fo he defired ; which order was written by the Secretary his own 
 hand. 
 
 In anno 1643, being troubled in Scotland to fubfcryve the Scots 
 rebellious Covenant, to evite the famyn, was neceffitat to go to 
 Holland : having, for that caufe, been from his father's houfe, and in 
 Holland, 8 months, thinking in that time the rebellious fury would 
 be abated againft him ; yet, att his returne, they continued their 
 perfecution, in urging his fubfcription to the rebellious Covenant : The 
 which he abfolutely refofing, they, by the order of the rebellious 
 Church AfTembly, did, in Tranent church, the October ther- 
 after, by the mouth of Mr Robert Ballcanquaill, minifler therof, 
 at ane time, excommunicat the faid Sir Alexander, — the Countefs of 
 Winton, his mother in law, — the Lady Seton, his filler in law. 
 
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 After which, the faid Sir Alexander was forced to flee, and goe to 
 France, by fea, in the winter time, who was twife in hazard of being 
 cafl away in that voyage, not daring to goe through England, for the 
 Scots rebellious army lying all over the north of England, he was 
 forced to go to France. And in France, after Charles the Se- 
 cond, then Prince of Wales, came there, did conftantly attend him 
 till the letter end of the year 1647- When, upon ane occafion, 
 he went to London, from whence he fhortly received [orders] to re- 
 tume to France ; bought ther three gallant horfes, refolving to pre- 
 fent them to the Prince of Wales. In the time of his (lay in England, 
 was frequently with King Charles the Firft, at Hamptoun Court. 
 The King, thinking himfelfe not fecure, was advyfed to efcape out of 
 their hands, incognito, to the Ifle of Weight ; to the which place the 
 faid Sir Alexander was the firft that went to him, refolving to receave 
 his commands for his Queen and the Prince of Wales, before his re- 
 turne to France, as the King had ordered him foiu* dayes before he 
 went to the Ifle of Weight. From thence, his Majeftie did fend him 
 with letters to his Queen and the Prince of Wales, to France. By 
 fortune, there was, in the time, a Scots veflTel, the mafter being of his 
 acquaintance, bound for France. His Majeftie, for his and the fliip's 
 fecurity, did give him a writt, fuperfciived by himfelf, wherin he owns 
 him as his fervantt fent in that fliip by his order for France, defiring 
 noe Dunkirker, nor any other, to moUeft him, the faid fliip, or his 
 fliip goods. The which wryte, written in French, he has ftill. Re- 
 ceaving his majeftie's letters, with a fecret verball commifllon to the 
 Queen, commanding him particularly as a fecret to reveal it to none 
 but the Queen herfelfe ; which was, That he was aflTured, in the be- 
 ginning of the next fummer, 1648, there would be ane confiderable 
 Scots army for his reliefe in England. This he did not writt, only 
 fliew in his letter I had fomething to imparte to her, which he 
 
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 would not writt. Which after her Majeflie had read, [flie] called 
 for him, being in her bed-chamber, defiling to know what he had 
 to impairt ; which I did. She faid, " I wifh it may be fo." This 
 commiflion he never revealed during the King's life. After he had 
 receaved the King's command, as faid is, he was the third day 
 att St Germains, wher the Queen and Prince were, wher he Hayed 
 two days ; and after the receipt of their letters, delivered them to the 
 King in the Ifle of Weight the 12th day thereafter, being the 20th day 
 of December, the faid year. 
 
 The faid Sir Alexander, laying to heart the commiffion his Majeflie 
 gave him to the Queen, chainged his refolution for France ; came to 
 Scotland with his horfes, refolving to ingadge in that Scots army, 
 when levied, for the King's reliefe ; and was ane leutenant collonell 
 of horfe in that unfortunat army. 
 
 In anno 1650, when King Charles the Second came to Scotland, 
 he conftantly attended him ; and, in anno 1651, the fifth day after 
 his Majellie's coronation att Scoon, he was gracioufly pleafed to grant 
 to the faid Sir Alexander, for his loyallty, pains-taking, and fervices 
 done to his Majeftie's father, of bleffed memory, and liimfelfe, a pa- 
 tent with the title of honour of Vifcount, being the firft title of ho- 
 nour he gave to any, after his coronation, not having made a knight 
 before that time. 
 
 His Majefl^ie being informed that his father had left him Tutor tef- 
 tamentar to his grandchild, this earle of Wintone, now living ; for the 
 love and refpe6t his Majeftie gracioufly carried to the memory of the 
 faid Earle, and well underfl:anding of his houfe, commanded him 
 to look to and be carefull of all affairs of that family, which I 
 
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 did faithfully performe five full years, to my great trouble and 
 expence. 
 
 The faid Vifcount of Kingfton, in anno 1666, with the earle of 
 Wintone, now living, had the command of the Ihire of Eaft Lothian, 
 and was at the fight of Pentland hills, in the king's anny, under the 
 command of Generall Dallyell ; wher the army of the Weft coun- 
 trey rebells was defeat. In anno I678, he was with his majeftie's mi- 
 litia troop in the Weft countrey, upon his own expence, with the 
 king's forces — to ftop any rifing of the Weft countrey rebells — under 
 the command of the earle of Linlithgow, then major generall of his 
 majeftie's forces therein. Anno 1679, was ordered by his majeftie's 
 counfell to have the command of the flaire of Eaft Lothian — againft 
 the army of Weft countrey rebells — under the command of the Duke 
 of Monmouth, generall of 14000 men of his majeftie's forces, att 
 Bothwell bridge, upon his own proper charges ; where the rebell 
 army was totally defeat. The faid Vifcount Kingfton had the com- 
 mand of the militia troup of Eaft Lothian 14 years. 
 
 The faid Sir Alexander married, to his firft wife, Mrs Jean Fletcher, 
 daughter to Sir George Fletcher, gentleman of the privy chamber in 
 ordinary to King Charles the Firft, and in good efteem with him, who 
 was niece to the lord Innerpeafer, fenator of the coUedge of juftice ; 
 by whom he had only one daughter, — was married to the lord Mor- 
 dingtone. 
 
 To his fecond wife, he had Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Sir 
 Archibald Douglas of Whittingame, by whom he had feven fons and 
 three daughters : the eldeft, Charles, dyed a young man ; George, 
 after he had been fome years a captain of Douglas' regiment, in 
 
86 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 France, dyed a young man ; Alexander, a great fchollar, dyed a 
 young man ; Archibald, yet living ; John, dyed of nine years old ; 
 James, att prefent in England, enfigne in a Scots regiment, under the 
 command of Colloneli Buchan. His eldeft daughter, Ifobell, of that 
 marriage, dyed of eighteen years of age ; Barbara of fixteen years 
 of age ; Elizabeth yet living. 
 
 The faid Vifcount married to his third wife, Elizabeth Hamilton, 
 daughter to the firft lord Belhaven, by whom no children. 
 
 To his fourth wife, he married Lady Margaret Douglas, filler to the 
 marquifs of Douglas, and fifter to the earle of Forfar. The faid Vif- 
 count of Kingllon and his Lady, Lady Margaret Douglas, are att 
 prefent living. 
 
 OF SIR JOHN SETON, KNIGHT BARONET, 
 
 OF GARLETOUN. 
 
 This Sir John Seton was the fourth fon of George the third earle 
 of Winton, of the fecond marriage, with Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter 
 to the lord Herries.; who got the lands of Garletoun and Ethanftan- 
 foord, which his father did acquire. This Ethanftanfoord, fo called 
 from the Englilh and Saxon king Ethanfl;anus, at which the king of 
 Scotland did overcome in battle the faid Ethanftanus : Near to which 
 place, as our Scots ftory relaits, the St Andrew's Crofs did appear to 
 the Scots king and his army, which was thens called the place of Mi- 
 racle, now, vulgo and corrupt, Martle. 
 
 The faid Sir John Seton married Chriftian Home, daughter to Sir 
 
OF THE HOUSE OF SEYTOUN. 87 
 
 John Home of Renton, whofe lady was Margaret Stewart, daughter to 
 Sir John Stewart, prior of Coldinghame, fecond fon to Francis Stewart 
 laft earle of Bothwell ; who was fon to the lord prior of Coldinghame ; 
 who was naturall fon to King James the Fifth. This Sir John Seton 
 had by his lady fix fons, George, John, Robert, Alexander, Chrifto- 
 pher, and Charles, which two laft dyed young ; [and] four daughters : 
 Margaret, who, after four years bred in a Nunrie in Paris, dyed in 
 France a young woman ; Chriftian, yet liveing ; EUzabeth and IfobeU 
 dyed young. 
 
 This faid Sir John was a vertuous man ; much given to policie ; 
 ane improver of his fortune. He died in anno I686, of his age 47 
 years. He was buried at Ethanftanfoord church. 
 
 OF SIR GEORGE SETON, KNIGHT BARONET, 
 
 OF GARLETOUN. 
 
 This Sir George, eldeft fon to the faid Sir John Seton of Garle- 
 toun, went young abroad ; he is well travelled in Flanders, France, 
 Italy, Germany, Bohemia, and England. He married Wauchop, 
 
 daughter to the laird of Niddrie- Wauchop, who is at prefent liveing. 
 
 OF GEORGE THE ELEVENTH LORD SETON, 
 
 AND SEVENTH LORD OF THE NAME OF GEORGE, AND THE 
 FOURTH EARLE OF WINTON, NOW LIVING. 
 
 This George earle of Winton fucceeded to his grandfather, George 
 earle of Winton, when he was abroad in his travells in France, 
 
88 CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY 
 
 a young man. He was in the king of France his army at the 
 fiedge of Bizantium, in the county of Burgundy. After he came 
 home by England, his Majeftie made him a privy counfellour, and 
 gave him a commiffion to command the regiment of foot in Eaft 
 Lothian. 
 
 In anno 1666, he was ordered to command the Ihyre of Eaft Lo- 
 thian — to goe againft the rebells att Pentland hills — under the com- 
 mand of Generall Dallyell ; where they were defeat. 
 
 In anno 1679, he went with his regiment, upon his own charges, 
 with all his vaflalls in noble equipage, in his majeftie's army of 14000 
 men, commanded by the duke of Monmouth, generall thereof, to Both- 
 well bridge, againft the army of the Weft country rebells ; att which 
 place, the faid rebells were totally defeat. After he came home to his 
 houfe att Seton, gave ane fplendid royall treat to the duke of Mon- 
 mouth, generall, and all his officers, Scots and Englifli ; who was na- 
 turall fon to King Charles the Second, with whom he was in great 
 favour att that time ; whofe wife is dutches of Balcleugh, now living, 
 coufigne german, by the mother fide, to this Earle his father. 
 
 Att the death of the duke of Lauderdaill, ftiirrife of Eaft Lothian, 
 his Majefty was pleafed to beftow that place upon the faid earle of 
 AVinton. 
 
 In anno 1685, he was with his regiment, upon his own expenfe, 
 with his vaflalls, in the Weft countrey, in the expedition againft the 
 rebellion of the laft earle of Argyle : was with the king's army under 
 the command of the earle of Dumbarton, generall. After whofe 
 defeat the faid earle of Argyle was given in cuftody and keeping to 
 
OF THE HOUSE OF SEYTOUN. 89 
 
 the earle of Winton, who fent hun prifoner to the caftle of Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 The fame year, 1685, the duke of Queenfberry being commilTioner 
 to this King James the Seventh for his parUament in Scotland, didj by 
 his majeftie's commiffioun, ferve the faid commiffioner, as great mafter- 
 houfhold of his majeftie's familie in Scotland. Which place his prede- 
 ceffors had : Lord John, in King James the Firft's time ; as alfo Lord 
 George, the fifth of that name, had dui-ing all the time of Queen Ma- 
 rie's reigne. Which office of great mafter-houfhold, by reafon of the 
 faid Lord George the fifth his great troubles for Queen Marie, and 
 long banilliment for his loyall fervice to her, was, in the interim, till 
 King James the Seventh, exercifed by the carles of Argyle. 
 
 This Earle of Wintoun has built a new harbour be eaft Cockannie, 
 called, for diftin6lion of the weft harbour, Port-Seton. 
 
 This George earle of Winton married Lady Mary Montgomery, 
 daughter to Heugh earle of Eglingtone, and eldeft fifter daughter of 
 the earle of Rothes, lord high chancellour of Scotland, by whom 
 he had only one daughter, Lady Mary Seton, who dyed a child of 
 three years of age. The faid George earle of Winton is now living in 
 this prefent year of God, I687 years. 
 
 END OF THE CONTINUATION. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 Phillip Seytoun — P. 17. — The two charters granted by William the First 
 to this Philip and his successor, Alexander, are both printed in Dr M<=Kenzie's 
 Lives of Scottish Writers. And it is fortunate that these ancient documents, so 
 material to the early history of the family of Seton, have likewise been transcribed 
 by the author of the Diplomata Scotia, and that the transcripts are still pre- 
 served, being now in the possession of Mr Dillon, one of the members of the 
 Maitland Club. To these Mr Anderson has affixed the following Note: — 
 
 " Sept. 24, 1701. I copied these two charters from the originals at Seton, by 
 the noble courtesy of the Earl of Winton." 
 
 The charter to Philip, given above, has been collated with the former of 
 these transcripts — the latter, to Alexander, is inserted below. 
 
 Lord Kingston adds, that Philip " married Helen, daughter to the earle of 
 Marche." 
 
 Alexander Seytoun, first of that name — Ibid. — The following is the copy of 
 the charter he obtained from King William, above alluded to : — 
 
 Willielmus Dei gratia rex Scotorum episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baroni- 
 bus, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, prepositis, ministris, et omnibus probis hominibus 
 terrae suae, clericis et laicis, salutem. Sciatis presentes et futuri me concessisse, 
 et hac carta mea confirmasse, Alexandre, filio Philipi de Setune, terram quae 
 fuit Philipi, patris sui, scilicet, Setune et Wintune et Wincelburg, tenendam 
 sibi et hseredibus suis de me et haeredibus meis in feodo et haereditate ; in boscho 
 et piano, in terris et aquis, in pratis et pascuis, in moris et maresiis, in stagnis 
 et molendinis, per rectas universas praedictarum terrarum, et cum omnibus aliis 
 ad praefatas terras juste pertinentibus ; cum socca et sacca, cum Tol et Them, 
 et infangan thef, cum furca et fossa : libere et quiete, plenarie et honorifice, per 
 servitium unius militis, sicut carta mea patri suo, inde facta testatur. Testibus, 
 Hugone cancellario meo, Willielmo de Morvill constabulario, Roberto de 
 
 l2 
 
99 NOTES. 
 
 Quincy, Alano filio Walter! dapifero, Philippo [Valoines ?] camerario, Hen- 
 rico de Quincy, Willielnio de Haia, Johanne de Hasting, Roberto de Berkely, 
 Davide de Haia, Willielmo Flandrense, Herberto Marescallo. Apud Forfar, 
 xvj Junij. 
 
 He '• married Jean, daughter to Walter Barclay, chamberlain to King Wil- 
 liam." — Addition by Lord Kingston. 
 
 Bartine Seytoun — P. 18. — This is probably a corruption of the name Bar- 
 tholomew — in Lord Kingston's transcript it is written ' Bartime.* Nothing cor- 
 roborative of his existence seems to have been discovered. According to the 
 above authority, he " married Margaret, daughter to William Cummin, great 
 justice" of Scotland. 
 
 Adame Seytoun — Ibid.— It would seem to be doubtful, however, whether this 
 Adame's name was not Alexander. Yet Sir Robert Sibbald quotes a charter by 
 the Earl of Winchester to Adame de Seton, anno 1246, " De maritagio heredis 
 Alani de Fauside."— ^w^. of Fife, p. 369. 
 
 Alexander de Seton is a witness to a confirmation of the charter of the burgh of 
 Glasgow by Alexander II. Nov. 22, 1225, — " Deo & Sancto Kentigerno, et Wal- 
 tero episcopo Glasguensi, et singulis episcopis, eius successoribus ut burgum, 
 habeant apud Glasgue ; cum foro die Jouis," &c. " Sicut carta domini regis 
 Willielmi, patris nostri, inde facta Jocelino, quondam episcopo Glasguensi, testa- 
 tur. Testibus Waltero Olifard justiciario Laudon., Henrico de Baylliol ca- 
 merario, Johanne de Makeswell vicecom. de Rokesburg, Henrico Marescallo, 
 Alex, de Seton, Rob. de Sancto Claro, Willo. de Hertesheued vicecom. de 
 Lanarc. Apud Cadihou, xxij Nouembris, anno regni nostri undecimo." — Car- 
 tularium Glasguense. 
 
 Christell Seytoun, the third of that name — P. 19. — Modern genealo- 
 gists, with great probability, seem to hold the several notices of all the three 
 Christells mentioned here as relating to one and the same individual, namely, 
 that Sir Christopher Seton who lent so early and efficient aid to the founder 
 of the latter Scottish dynasty in his arduous enterprise to possess himself of the 
 desolated throne. Though doubtless unable wholly to reject the fabulous incrus- 
 tations of the family annals, it must nevertheless be allowed that our author has 
 shown little inclination to countenance the improbable multiplicity of represen- 
 tatives which crowd the early part of the pedigree of the House of Seton, or to 
 complete his labours by recording the details of their imaginary biography — many 
 of which we see were still available at the distance of more than a century after 
 
NOTES. 911 
 
 his time. For, from such authority, it is stated by the noble Continuator, that 
 the first Christell Seton " married Mauld Percie, daughter to Ingrahame 
 Percie" — the second, " Agnes, daughter to Patrick Earle of Marche." Of the 
 marriage of the undoubted Sir Christopher there could indeed be no uncer- 
 tainty. 
 
 For the subjoined particulars regarding Christell's Chapel at Dumfries the 
 reader is indebted to the courtesy of Mr Kirkpatrick Shai-pe, as well as for other 
 interesting notices which follow here : — 
 
 " The remains of this chapel were overthrown in the year 1715, to defend 
 Dumfries from the Chevalier's army — vide Rae's History of the Rebellion. 
 Many of the stones, but all without ornaments, are still to be discerned in the 
 neighbouring dykes. The site of the chapel was used, for many years, as a place 
 of interment for criminals hanged at Dumfries." 
 
 Alexander Seytoun, the ferd of that name — P. 27. — A like uncertainty appears 
 to exist in the history of the three immediate successors of Sir Christopher as 
 himself; and the importance of the error seemed sufficient to induce the emi- 
 nent Lord Hailes to write a dissertation expressly on the subject — concluding 
 that the notices of all the three refer to " one and the same person, the son 
 of Sir Christopher Seton and Christian Bruce." But it is not undoubted that 
 Alexander who succeeded to Sir Christopher was his son. The allusion to the 
 marriage of but one of the Alexanders in the statement of Sir Richard Maitland, 
 it will be perceived, so far favours the hypothesis of Lord Hailes. 
 
 Lord Kingston only adds that the first Alexander " married Isobell, daugh- 
 ter to Duncan Earle of Fyffe," — leaving the marriage of the third unaccounted 
 for, 
 
 Dr M'^Kenzie alludes to a charter by Robert I. in the 18th year of his reign, 
 in favour of Sir Alexander Seton, successor to Sir Christopher, granting to the 
 " Town of Seaton tlie liberty of having a weekly market every Lord's day 
 after Mass," which would seem very clearly to illustrate the origin of these 
 institutions. The merchants exposed their wares in booths by the church, 
 if not occasionally under the roof itself ; and the exactions on the sales of com- 
 modities belonged to the clergy, whose presence, and the sanctity of the place, 
 would no doubt tend to the preservation of order and decorum. The almost 
 invariable disposition of parochial churches, not in the centre, but close by 
 the northern boundaries of their enclosures, has probably originated with a 
 view to the better accommodation of those assembled on such occasions, and 
 that the building might afibrd them its protection from the chilly blasts of a ri- 
 gorous climate. Instances of the people's adherence to the ancient locality of 
 
94 NOTES. 
 
 their commercial intercourse existed even in the present century, if indeed it be 
 yet wholly discontinued. 
 
 Seytoun of Parbroth — P. 24. — Parbroth appears to be situated on the north 
 side of the shire of Fife ; the liouse was ruinous, and the estate had been alien- 
 ated from the Setons at the beginning of the last century. — Hist, of Fife, 409. 
 
 Mr David Seytoun, of this family, who figures so interestingly in the 
 presence of the knightly leader of Flowdon field, occurs, indeed something re- 
 markably, in company with his two opponents, in attesting an Instrument of 
 resignation, April 14, 1497 — " Terrarum de le Scroggys [jacentium infra 
 vicecomitatum de Peblis] ad altare Sanctorum Stephanj et Laurentij, martyr- 
 um, in ecclesia metropolitana Glasguensi. Acta erant haec in hospitio praefati 
 reverendissimi patris, infra oppidum de Edinburgh. . , . praesentibus ibidem. 
 . . . viris magistris David Cunynghame praeposito de Hamiltoun, David Se- 
 toun rectore de Fethercarne, Riccardo Lauson, Jacobo Henrison clericis. . . . 
 testibus ad praemissa. . . ." — Cart, Glasg. 
 
 Mr James Henderson of Fordel, the person alluded to here, was Lord Advo- 
 cate, and also Justice-Clerk, 1494—1307. — Hist, of Fife, 262. But the ' proces' 
 mentioned above probably occurred before the year 1505. — See Bal. ^n. 1. 227. 
 — Lawson seems to have been ancestor of the Lawsons of Cairnmuir. 
 
 David Seton of Parbroth was Comptroller of the Scottish revenue, 1589 — 1595. 
 —Hist, of Fife, 262. 
 
 Seytoun of Lauthrysk — P. 25. — Lathrisk is likewise in Fife, near the Eden, and 
 is thus noticed by Balfour : — " In the village of Kettle is the parish church, for- 
 merly seated at Lathrisk, belonging to the priory of St Andrews. West of this 
 is Lathrisk, an old house with gardens and enclosures, the seat of Mr Patrick 
 Seaton, a cadet of the Earl of Winton : a predecessor of his got these lands by 
 marrying the heiress, of the same name with the lands, — Lathrisk," 
 
 Lord Williame — P. 27. — The family of Herdmanston, a daughter of which 
 this Lord married, appears to have succeeded to the peerage of Sinclair in the mid- 
 dle of the seventeenth century. About which time, the latter family seem to 
 have been connected with the city of Glasgow : — " Dame Margaret Cockburne, 
 Ladie Sinckelair, w' in the bur' of Glasgow y' tyme of her deceis, deceissit 
 on y"^ last day of Junij 1657 yeiris." She nominates, &c. Henrie Sincke- 
 lair her lawful son only executor, &c. — Probate of her Will, Oct. 3, 1657. 
 Com. of Glas. " Elisoun Cobroune Ladie Sinklar" appears October, 1633. — 
 Ibid. But this is certainly an error in the name of the same person. 
 
NOTES. 95 
 
 The preistis chalmeris now in Seytoun — P. 29. — " These chambers are said to 
 have been near the garden wall, on the north side : some remains of buildings 
 are still to be seen, but apparently not so ancient as the ' chalmeris' mentioned 
 here. — Cam. by Mr K. Sharpe. 
 
 Housis OF HuNTLiE, &c. — Ibid. — To these Lord Kingston adds this notice of 
 the family of Sutherland : — 
 
 « OF THE EARLES OF SUTHERLAND. 
 
 The Earledome of Sutherland, because failyeing of heirs maill, the second bro- 
 ther of the earle of Huntley married the heretrix of Sutherland — of whom this 
 fiorle of Sutherland, now living, is descended, being the fifth Earl from that man 
 who married the heretrix, — who did gett the place of the Earles of Sutherland, 
 though he retained his own name of Gordon, which surname they keep to this 
 day." 
 
 Lord George, the first of that name — P. 32. — Georgio domino Ceton is a 
 witness in Carta Jacobi 3'^ regis de civitate, baronia, et regalitate de Glasgow, 
 A. D. 1476.— Car^. Glasg. 
 
 Lord George the secund of that name — P. S^ — " George, 2** of that name, 4"' 
 Lord Setoun, son of George the master of Setoun, succeeded his grandfather 
 in the lordship of Setoun. As he was in his voiage to France, he was taken 
 by the Dunkirkers, and spoiled of his goods j for the which, to be revainged, he 
 caused outrick a great ship, which was called the Eagle, upon his own ex- 
 pencess, — of a considerable burden, as appears by the streamers and flags, which 
 are yet to be seen in the house of Setoun. They are of rid silk : on the flage 
 are the armes of Setoun, and on the other sid a Circle interlassed with a Tri- 
 angle, in Gold, with this word, indissolubile ; the streamers are also of ride 
 silk, seme of Crescents of Gold, with a Hand issueing out of a cloud brandishing 
 a sword, with these words, hazard yit fordward; and below that a Dragon, 
 Vert, spouting out fire behind and before. He keept this ship at sea against the 
 Dunkirkers for severall years. He married Margaret Campbell, eldest daugh- 
 ter to Collin Earle of Argyll." — Nisbet's Gen. Col. MS. Ad. Lib. 
 
 This Lord George tuk the armes of Buchane, &c. — P. 36. — The family of Se- 
 ton's assuming the arms of Buchan is thus alluded to in an introductory sketch 
 to a history of the Cumings of Ernsyde, written in 1622 — penes Dr W. Cumin, 
 
96 NOTES. 
 
 Glasgow ; — and though mistaking the motive of such assumption, the statement 
 is yet curious, and corroborative of the fact: — 
 
 " Being also requisitt to vnderstand y* reasone v?hy y' Lord Seattoune, now 
 E : of Wintone, weareth y' six Bear sheawes — thrie in everie cros of his bagge 
 I being in the palace of Seattoune, ffamilliar w' my old Lord, demandat at his 
 Lo : for what cause the Hous of Seattoune weare y* Cumings' armes in y' maner ? 
 My Lord answered me, y' his predicessors gatt the lands and lordship of Troup, 
 in Buchan, fra y' Earle of Buchane, Cuming; Soe, as ane tockin of perpetuall 
 band of freindship, y' Lo : Seattoune, att y' time, adioyned y° six Sheawes to his 
 own armes, q" remaines w' y' Hous, as memorie of auld kyndnes, and not y' y' 
 lands wes gevin be alliena°ne to tack any pairt of y" Cumings' armes : and soe, 
 if auld love & kyndnes should be respected, it is ane great motive and occasione 
 to profes a good will and frindship to remaine betwixt the said Surnames." 
 
 Lord George, the ferd of that name — P. 41. — The Logans of Restalrig, one 
 of whom married a daughter of this Lord Seton, were not less illustrious from 
 their connections and ancient descent than they became conspicuous by the po- 
 litical intrigues and fate of an after representative. Of that strange historical 
 enigma, the Gowrie conspiracy, Wodrow relates the following singular particu- 
 lars — Life of Mr John Malcom, Minister at Perth, MS. Having stated the 
 sentiments of English writers as to this affair, he adds : — 
 
 " If I may mix in any thing of my own, after so many authorities, let me add 
 a verbal account of this matter, which I have from an old minister (my own 
 worthy father — but this needs not be copyed), upon whose part, in the relation, I 
 can fully depend, who was at the old house, where the Earle of Gowrie was kill- 
 ed, a little after the Restoration ; and met there with an aged grave country- 
 man, who had been present on the .5 of August, 1600, being then one of the 
 Earie's servants. He showed my informer the room from quhich the King 
 knocked down, and Ramsay and another came up, and his master, the Earle, was 
 killed. What passed above he could not tell ; but neither he, nor any in the 
 house, observed any disorder about tlie Earle that day : but he well minded, 
 that the King's coming was a perfect surprise to them all, — a servant of the Earle 
 of Gowrie's being married that day, and the wedding dinner being in the Earie's 
 house. When the King came, the Earle most lovingly welcomed him, and told 
 him, He did not expect to see him that day. The King said, He was come from 
 the hunting, and would take a share of the Bride's dinner : everj- thing passed 
 in tlie greatest pleasantry, till after dinner, the King desired the Earle to go to 
 an upper room with him, quhich they did in the most freindly way. The old 
 man told all this with tears trickling down his cheeks, 60 and mo years after, 
 being now near 90, but very firm in his health, judgment, and memory. My 
 
NOTES. 97 
 
 informer asked him, what was then said about it. The old man answered, He 
 heard it reported that the King was jealouse of his master ; and the occasion of 
 jealousy, as reported to him, was this : Some time after the Earle's return from 
 travel!, he went to Court, and the King made very much of him — his master, 
 he said, was one of the handsomest, loveliest men ever he set his eyes upon. 
 Some time after, the King and Queen being together, he asked her whom she 
 thought to be the handsomest man she knew ? The Queen replied, His Majesty. 
 Well, said the King, I believe you think so ; but next to me, whom think you 
 the properest man in Scotland ? The Queen said. She saw none more hand- 
 some than the young Earle of Gowrie. After that the King took up a jealousy. 
 
 " My informer said, the old man's relation was so simple and natural, and wth 
 so much affection, that he could not but give him credit. Upon the whole, I 
 hope the Earle's, and much more the Queen's character, will save them from the 
 imputations of guilt and jealousy, quhich sometimes rises on very trifling grounds, 
 and is as the rage of a man." 
 
 Lord Kingston adds, — " This Lord is marked among the Lords of Session 
 in the Sederunt 15 November, 1544." 
 
 Marie Seytoun — P. 42. — With the Letters of Lady Margaret Burnet, lately 
 published, there is printed a letter in French, signed " Marie de Seton," 
 which seems popularly to have been ascribed to Lady Mary Seton, " one of the 
 four Maries who waited upon Queen Marie of Scotland;" but which the Editor 
 supposes rather to have been written by Marie Pieris, the second wife of George 
 fourth Lord Seton, her mother. Mary the daughter of Lord Seton, by the 
 above Lady, whose name is omitted in the Peerage, was probably about an 
 age with the Queen, and it must be allowed her connections and circumstances 
 give her the fairest claim imaginable to the honour of one of these celebrated 
 Ladies. As regards the letter alluded to, the uncertainty of the writer is no doubt 
 greatly increased by the want of the year in which it was written; yet it may be 
 remarked, that at that time it was surely far from usual for ladies, of whatever 
 degree, to subscribe the names or titles of their husbands. 
 
 Lord George, the fyft of that name — Pp. 43, 45. — Lord Seton seems throun^h- 
 out entirely to have espoused the cause of the hapless Mary, but could not, of 
 course, altogether escape imputation. 
 
 " The 21. February, [1571], the Cecretar left his ludgeing of the Castell, and 
 was conveyed as a Prince, be the Lord Seatoun, first to the place of Seatoun, 
 and thairefter to Lethingtoun. And sua, the grittest enemie to the King, and to 
 his authority, yea, to God and his Word, takes the protectioune of him that 
 wald be sene grit friend to both." — Ballantyne's Journal, MS. 
 
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98 NOTES. 
 
 " When the Lord Seton, about 1555, was Provost of Edinburgh, there was 
 an uproar in it, and two of the bailyies came out to their Provost at Seton, and 
 he finding they were accessary to the conspiracy, he imprisoned them in the Pit 
 of Seton (a place I have seen), which was a dreadful contumely ; and rode in 
 presently to Edinburgh, and appeased and choakt the commotion." — Lord 
 Fountainhall's MSS. Adv. Lib. Balfour, who is more picturesquely circum- 
 stantial, seems to place this in 1558. An. I. 310. 
 
 " There is a curious picture of this Lord and his children, abominably en- 
 graved in Pinkerton. Lord Somerville had one, origmal, done on wood — Mr 
 Hay of Drummelzier has another, on canvass. I never saw Lord Somerville's, 
 but Mr Hay's is extremely well painted, and very old — though such pictures, on 
 wood, are generally the most genuine. I think Mr Hay's as old as the time ; 
 but not having seen both originals, one cannot be positive as to priority. — Some 
 account of the dispersion of the pictures at Seton is given by Grose. Mr Hay 
 of Drummelzier has a great many portraits that, I am persuaded, came from Seton." 
 — Com. by Mr K. Sharpe. 
 
 Battle of Langsyde— rP. 56. — The subjoined particulars, from Wodrow's 
 Life of Robert Campbell of Kinyeandeugh, MS. possess some interest in relation 
 to the Field of Langside, and are still more curious as regards the individuals to 
 whom they particularly refer. 
 
 " A remarkable Passage about Kinyeancleugh, the night before 
 the Battaill of Langside, June 13. 1568. 
 
 " The next thing I meet with concerning him is at the time of the battaile of 
 Langside, upon quhich indeed the fate of the Reformation in Scotland did in a 
 great measure hang. Had the Queen and the party who gathered to her after 
 her escape, defeat the Regent and his army, inferior to them in numbers, it's 
 very probable Popery had again been re-setled in this land. At this time, and no 
 wonder, the whole praying Christians in the West of Scotland, and other places, 
 who knew the choak things stood in, wer giving themselves to prayer ; and many 
 of them, particularly Mr Campbell, wer endued with a singular measure of the 
 spirit of supplication : and it was agreeable to God's kind methods with liis people 
 in their straits, that he should vouchsafe answers of prayer to some who could 
 bear, and especially stood in need of them ; and this was done to Kinyeancleuch. 
 
 " I am well informed by a worthy and learned minister, whose business led 
 him to have some concern in that family, and who hath seen their papers, That 
 the following account is handed down in that family to this time, and their pa- 
 pers vouch it ; and I may give it as that may be depended on, Mr Campbell, 
 
NOTES. 99 
 
 when he heard of the Queen's escape, and the Regent's coming to Glasgow, came 
 in company with the Gentlemen of Air, and as many of their followers as they 
 could bring. The good Regent had a great value for Mr Campbell, and knew 
 his courage and piety now for 10 years, or more. When the Queen's forces came 
 from Hamiltoun, on their way to Dumbarton, and encamped at Langsyde hill, 
 the Regent and his officers, lying at Glasgow, resolved to attack them while in 
 the open country, and before they reached the castle and the hills. When Kin- 
 yeancleugh knew of the resolution upon the 12 of May, 1658, the day before the 
 scuffle, he spent some time in Prayer, in secret, for the Lord's appearing and de- 
 ciding the righteous cause, referred to him in warr ; and there he got such liberty, 
 and assurances of victory, that he did not at all question the event of the battail. 
 The family of Loudoun, of quhich his family came, was at present represented 
 by a young gentleman, not yet major; and by the caresses of his cusine, the Earl 
 of Argyle, who was at this time with the Queen, and other methods, the young 
 Sheriff of Air, for that was the ordinary stile of the family, was brought to be 
 upon the Queen's side. Kinyeancleugh knew this, and designed him a service, 
 and the publick also. Accordingly, early next morning, June 13. Mr Campbell 
 went into the Regent, who soon allowed him access. Kinyeancleugh told his 
 Grace, that he was come to ask what he reckoned a very great favour. He said 
 they wer now going to engage with the enemye, and he did not doubt of their 
 success ; that he supposed that, in that event, the Regent and Council would for- 
 fault the landed men who had joyned with the late Queen ; that his chiefe, the 
 Sheriff of Air, a young raw youth, had been unadvisedly drawn over to that side, 
 and would come to be forfaulted with the rest ; and he was come at this time, as 
 the first applyer, to ask a gift of his chiefe's esheat, not that he had any covetous 
 view to so good an estate, but that thereby he might get the youth, not much 
 above 18 years, under his command and management; and he hoped to make 
 him a good subject to the King, and useful for his Grace and the Reformation in 
 the West : for he knew he was of a good temper and excellent dispositions. The 
 Regent smiled, and said, " Robert, it's soon enough to ask this," and wished 
 his hope might be well founded, for the outward probability was not so great. 
 My Lord, said he, I will never doubt of that; for my God, who never forled me, 
 has said it to me ; and insisted he might grant him his request, in that event. 
 The good Regent was satisfyed, to be sure, to see such peremptoryness in so emi- 
 nent a wrestler as he knew the man to be, and said, " Well, Robert, I'le call the 
 Lords and Counsellors in the other room." Quhich he did, and communicat Mr 
 Campbell's desire ; in short, it was yielded, in the supposition of a victor}'. The 
 event showed Kinyeancleugh's positive hope was well ibunded, and he got his 
 chiefe's forfaulture gifted to him. 
 
 31 2 
 
100 NOTES. 
 
 " As soon as it was expede, he went home to his house, and sent an express to 
 the young gentleman, desiring him to come to Kinyeancleugh about matters of 
 the nearest concern to him, assuring him of safety. He came, and, as I was in- 
 formed, Mr Campbell keeped him some weeks, or months, with him, and dealt 
 so with him, as he thoroughly convinced him how far wrong he was, and brought 
 him over from the Queen's side ; and so instructed him and dealt with him, as 
 after that he was always a firm friend to the Reformation, to his dying day ; and 
 then he made a resignation of his whole lands to him, and by his interest got him 
 brought to the Regent's favour. My informer tells me, that, as a small to-here, 
 (and it was all Mr Campbell would take) for so great a favour to the family of 
 Loudoun, the Sheriff disponed a mill and some four acres of land about it to Kin- 
 yeancleugh, and his heirs whatsomever; and the disposition bore a good deal of 
 what is above, as the reason of it." 
 
 Robert the first Earle of Wintone — P. 59. — Lord Somervill states, that this 
 Lord Seton, whom by mistake he names Alexander, was " One of the greatest 
 builders in that age ; and at that very time [1584] had the king's master of worke 
 at Seatoune, building that large quarter of his palace towards the north-east." — 
 Mem. of the Somervills, I. 460. 
 
 Seton from about this period appears to have been commonly denominated a 
 palace, which may have been so from the circumstance of Queen Maiie's having 
 for a short time held her court in that princely residence. There are two se- 
 parate views of the ruins of Seton, with many interesting notices, preserved in Mr 
 Grose's Antiquities of Scotland; and it is understood that Lord Eldin is in pos- 
 session of some very beautiful drawings of these remains, done by his father, the 
 late Mr Clerk. 
 
 " In 1790, the whole was taken down by the present proprietor, to make way 
 for a house, now al most finished, on a design of the late Mr Adam, in the old 
 castle form." — Stat. Ace. What an exchange ! 
 
 Seton of Barnes — P. 61. — " At the same time, [July, 1625], dyed at Edin- 
 burgh, the Lady Kilsyth, younger; since her husband's death, married to Sir 
 John Seaton of Barnes : A virtuous Lady, fearing God ; the worthy daughter of 
 her excellent mother, the Lady Fleming." — Boyd of Trochrig's Obituary, apud 
 Life of Trochrig, MS. in Bib. Col. Glas. 
 
 Alexander, Earle of Dumfermeline — P. 63. — " In June Q1622] Mr Alexander 
 Seaton, Earle of Dumfermling, and Chancelour of Scotland, dyed. Mr Calder- 
 wood sayes, he was popishly disposed in his religion ; but condemned many of the 
 
NOTES. 101 
 
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 abuses of the Church of Rome. He was a good Justiciar, and no great friend to 
 the Bishops. The Bishop of Saint Andrews had a view to succeed hini, and dis-' 
 posed of his office, as Lord of Session, to his son, afterwards Sir Robert, but was 
 disappointed for some years as to being Chancelour." — L,ife of Archbishop Spots- 
 wood, MS. in Bib. Col. Glas — " The 16 of Junij this zeire, 1622, betuix 6 and 
 7 houres in the morning, at Pinkie, in Lothean, deyed Alexander Earle of Dun- 
 fermeling." — Balfour's Annals, 
 
 Sin William Seton, fifth son to George Lord Seton — P. 68. — This Sir Wil- 
 liam Seton was designed of Kylismuir ; the family appears to have failed in the 
 person of his successor. Sir William is named a " counsallour" in the Latter- 
 will of " James erle of Abercorne, etc. the tyme of his deceis, cjuha deceist w'in 
 the parochin of Mounktoune, vpone the xxiij day of Merche, the yeir of God 
 Jaj vj° and auchtein yeiris : — " 
 
 " I ordane," &c. " and that be the advys and counsall of Alex', erle of Done- 
 fermeling, James marqueis of Hamiltoune, W". erle of Angous, Alex', erle of 
 Egliiitoune, George erle [of] Wintoune, Johnne vicount of Lader, Hew Lord 
 of Loudoune, Thomas lord of Bynning and S'. W". Seytoune of Kylismuir, 
 knicht, my most affectionat vncle, or the maistpairt of thame onlyf for the tyme." 
 — Conf. Sept. 2. 1620. Com. Rec. of Glas. 
 
 The Fairlys of Braid, mentioned here, seem to be quite distinct 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, 
 probably father of the above individual, will be remembered by his friendship to 
 John Knox long after the period to which any family pretensions whatever could 
 have transmitted his name. 
 
 Sir Alexander Seton, Earle of Eglingtone — P. 69. — From Sir Alexander 
 Seton have been derived the noble family of Eglinton to the present time. In 
 Balfour's Annals his succession seems mistakingly placed in the year 1607. The 
 honours, however, appear not to have followed the destination of the estate, and 
 from which, it is obvious, has arisen much vexatious impediment to Sir Alexan- 
 der. The unwearied Wodrow, who well merits all the encomiums paid him by 
 Mr Fox, has picked up some letters of Bishop Spotswood's, who was much in- 
 terested in the matter, which afford many curious particulars, not only as re- 
 gards the earldom of Eglinton, but as reflecting light on the ways of that pro- 
 vident prelate himself and the tortuous policy of his times. — Life of Spot. MS. ut 
 supra. The following extracts however are confined exclusively to the family of 
 Eglinton. The first is from a pretty long letter, relating chiefly to the recovery 
 
102 NOTES. 
 
 of (EeiifHn heritable jurisdictions to the Crown; and is thus prefaced: — " In 
 ' ihe Coileotipn oi! Ecclesiastical Papers in the Advocats' Library, I find the fol- 
 lowing letter from the A. Bishop dated Edinburgh, July 14. this year [1614]. 
 The person to whom it's writt is omitted in my transcript of it; but I suppose 
 
 it's to Mr Murray of the Bed-chamber," &c. 
 
 * * * *■ * . * 
 
 " I have spoken with the Chancellour, * and his nephew, Sir Alexander Seaton. 
 The Chancellour sayes, that in his life, never any thing troubled him more than 
 his Majesty's offence at that business of Eglintoun ; and that both he and Sir 
 Alexander, with many words and oaths, protest, that they are so far from stand- 
 ing in termes with his Majesty, that, to give his Highness contentment, they will 
 not fear to submitt their lives, honours, land and all. Only, Sir Alexander being 
 provided to the succession of that living, and coming in against the liking of many 
 of the friends of that House, feared, as he sayes, to do any thing that might bring 
 in question the honour and rank they had formerly keeped amongst the nobility. 
 For, if he should have taken his Honour by a new creation, the old would have 
 been forgotten ; and his enemies ascribed this to his weakness : Otherwise, that 
 he can enjoy no honnour or living but as from his Majesty, and by his High- 
 ness' favour and benefit. As he were to think it, so does lie take no pleasure to 
 enjoy any of them, without his Majesty's good pleasure ; and if he may be so 
 happy, as to obtain his Highness' favour, it shall be all his study to do in his 
 place the best service he can possibly. Such as I shew his Majesty, the young 
 man is of good expectation, and one who I hope shall prove worthy of his Ma- 
 jesty's favour. And so if it please his Majesty to provide, that, in honnour and 
 place due to the House of Eglingtoun, he be not prejudged, his Highness may 
 command him in what sort he pleases; and prescribe any thing for it, and he 
 shall be obeyed. You would, therefore, be pleased to entreat his Majesty, that, 
 in such manner as his Majesty shall think convenient for his honour, this business 
 may find a setling, which, I trust in God, his Majesty shall never repent ; and 
 if his Highnes may be pleased to admitt him to presence, and accept him in place, 
 ye may advise the Chancellour of the time and manner. Alwise, it shall be fitt, 
 in the end of the errand, to remember the Bailziary of Cunningham, and adver- 
 tise the Chancellour thereof, when you write of the rest, that all may be prepared, 
 and those things done together. For I have craved nothing thereof, nor can 
 well do, because I have been thought by the Chancelloui", and others, to be the 
 only instigator of those matters against the Heretable SherrifFs ; and it 
 
 will be meetest that ye signify the same to him upon his Majesty's command." 
 
 • The Earl of Dumfermline. 
 
NOTES. 103 
 
 And in his next letter to Mr Murray, Edin. July 29, 1614, the following pas- 
 sage occurs : — 
 
 " I wrote before touching matters committed to me anent the Sheriffs and the 
 Earle of Eglingtoun, whereof I have expected your answer, which is not 
 yet come. In the mean time, we have ended with Burlye * anent his right to 
 Kilwinning, and contracted with him for 10 thousand pound, whereof I take upon 
 me the half payment. He is to come himself with the securitys, and gift of the 
 Abbacy in my person, whereof if you hear of any thing, I pray you, give it the 
 furtherance that you may. If he take another advise to stay, and not to come 
 hastily, I will send in the same Gift to be signed, and his letter testifying his 
 consent, which, because of the season, must be furthered, that I may have, upon 
 the Gift, Inhibitions to be raised in time upon the Kirks." 
 
 Upon the 3d of August 1614, he writes again to the same person thus: — 
 
 • Sir Michael Balfour, first Lord Balfour of Burleigh, had a charter, Sep. 7th, ICli, of the barony 
 of Kilwinning, with the title of Lord Kilwinning, &c. — Peer. But this property had been acquired by the 
 family of Eglinton, on the resignation of William Melville, about the year 1603 ; and the grant to Bal- 
 four seems to have been felt as an intolerable act of injustice. 
 
 The Abbay of KQwinning was amongst the most sumptuous of the monastic edifices in Scotland, as it 
 is now amongst the most dilapidated. Such fragments of it however still remain as may enable the mind 
 . to form some idea of its former grandeur and extent, whilst they show it to have belonged to the best era 
 of Gothic building ; and must ever awaken the most painful feelings that may arise on reflecting on the 
 circumstances which have thus irretrievably despoiled the country of those wonderful monuments of early 
 piety and taste — at once the depositories and manifestations of its history. 
 
 Tradition has assigned a kind of pre-eminence to Kilwinning in the estimation of its former possessors, 
 — probably arising from the masonic pretensions of the place ? and the following prophetic rhyme is still 
 adduced as expressing the hopes of the humbled church : — 
 
 Between uld Sanot-toun and the sea, 
 What we have lost, we there shall win — 
 In victory I 
 
 Kilwinning is yet known in the neighbourbood by the appellation of Sanctoun, corruptly Segton, allusive 
 to St Winnin, the titular patron, to whom some of the most extraordinary miracles on record are . 
 ascribed. It is said, and there seems to be some evidence of the fact, that the Earl of Glencaim, who 
 obtained some right to this monastery at the Reformation, pulled down from the chiu-ch the entire materials 
 of a large mansion house which he then erected at Stevenston, in the neighbourhood, — and no doubt 
 his example would soon be followed by other like purifiers. But of all the actors of that dismal 
 catastrophe probably none pursued the work of destruction more unrelentingly than did the Earl 
 of Glencairn. At a meeting at the kirk of Craigie in 1559, with a view to aid the reformers at Perth, 
 his Lordship, finding those present hesitate to comply with his unmitigated measures, thus remarkably 
 discovered his impatient ardour — exclaiming : — " Let every man serve his own conscience, I \vill, by 
 Grod's grace, see my brethren in Saint Johnstoun ; nay, albeit never man should accompany, I will go, 
 tho' it should be but with a pick on my shoulder : for I had rather die with that company than live after 
 them." The Earl's talents are well known, and lose little by this politic appeal. 
 
104 NOTES. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 This paquett has the Signature for Kilwinning, for which we have agi-eed 
 to pay to him 10,000'' pounds at Martimas, and have made him securi- 
 ty. I have also passed our Contract, in the manner I have shewed his Ma- 
 jesty and you, whereby I have him bound to sett all the Cunningham's teinds to 
 themselves. I wrote to you before anent his answer to me about the submission 
 of himself in the matter of the Earldome to the King : thereanent, I expect to 
 hear from you ; and, praying God to give a happy progress, I rest 
 
 Yours ever to command, 
 Edinburgh, August 3. 1614. Glasgow. 
 
 P. S. Sir, — The Signature would be hasted, because of the season, that I 
 may, in time, have Inhibitions served ; therefore, I pray you, send it to me by the 
 first occasion. The Chancellour has testified our Agreement by his letter, and 
 mine to his Majesty is only for that purpose." 
 
 The following appears to be the letter to the King here alluded to : 
 " Most Sacked and Gracious Majesty, 
 
 The agreement for the Abbay of Kilwinning is made between the Lord 
 Burly and me. In like sort are the conditions perfected between Sir Alex- 
 ander Seaton and me anent the tythes of the Cunninghams, where they have 
 any within the churches allotted to him. For the speciall churches where 
 the Earle of Glencairn and his friendship have their lands fall in that portion 
 which, by your Majesty's favour, is assigned to me. I trust the Lord Chan- 
 cellour has testifyed so much by his letter to your Majesty ; and now, because of 
 the harvest season, wherein Inhibitions would be served upon the Tythes, I have 
 sent the Signature of the Abbacy, to which I most humbly intreat your Majesty's 
 hand. If it please the Lord I live a little while, the posterity shall find a prince- 
 ly work done by your Majesty's liberality to our Colledge, and your Highnes' 
 favour shall be seen to be well bestowed. Neither have any of the Cunninghames 
 cause to complain, being better provided for in the surety of their tythes than 
 themselves could have done; at least in this, that they fell not into the Competi- 
 tors' hands : nor are they to do them any reverence in that behalf. Humbly in- 
 treating your Majesty's favonr for signing the Gift, I pray God Almighty to bless 
 your Highness with long and happy dayes. 
 
 Your Majesty's most Humble, 
 
 And Obedient Servant, 
 Edinburgh, August 3, 1614. Glasgow." 
 
 The second Alexander, Earle of Eglingtone— P. 72.— The second wife 
 of Lord Eglinton, alluded to here, « was Frances, daughter of Francis Popeley 
 
NOTES. 105 
 
 of Woolley Moorhouse, and widow of Sir Thomas Wentworth, Bar', of Bretton 
 — both of these estates are in Yorkshire. This Countess is not mentioned in the 
 Peerages — her marriage with Lord Eglintoune took place before August 19. 
 1685, as is proved by an original letter from his Lordship to her, in the posses- 
 sion of Mr Beaumont, Yorkshire. Lord Eglintoune married to his third wife, a 
 lady of 90, and thrice a widow — Catharine, daughter of Sir William St. Quintin 
 of Harpham, also in the county of York." — Com. by Mr K. Sharpe. 
 
 George tenth Lord Seton — P. 74. — It is understood, that Mr Hay of Drum- 
 melzier is in possession of a good portrait of Lady Anna Hay, the first wife of 
 this Lord Seton. 
 
 George Lord Seton — P. 80. — The subjoined is probably a fuller list of the 
 principal officers taken at Philiphaugh than has hitherto appeared. It is copied 
 from an evidently co-eval writing, which has been preserved by the ancient fa- 
 mily of Rowallan, some of whose connections appear in it : — 
 
 '• List of the Prisoners of quality taken at Philiphaugh, 
 the 13 of September, 1645. 
 / 
 Lords. — Seatoun, — Drummond,— -Gray, — Ogilvie. 
 
 Knights. — S"" Alex'. Lesly, Gen. Major ; William Murrey, brother to Tilli- 
 barne ; S'' Ja. Douglas, sone to the E. of Mortoun ; S"^ David Ogilvie, sone to 
 the L. Ayrly ; S"^ Robert Spottswood, President Secretary ; S'' Johne Hay, late 
 Clark Registar ; S' Hary Grahame, brother natural to James Grahame, some- 
 times Montrose ; S"" Johne Byres ; S"^ William Rollock, Colonel ; S'^ Johne Sea- 
 toun of Barnes ; S' David Murrey of Stennop ; S"" Hew Wallace of Cragy ; S"^ 
 Johne Mure of Auchindrain ; S"^ Henry Spottiswood. 
 Gen. Maj. — Gen. Major Nathaniel Gordoun. 
 
 CoL. — Col. James Hay; Col. Ocaen; Col. William Stewart, once Adjutant 
 in our army. 
 
 Lieu. Col. — Lieu. Col. Ogilvie, taken before at Carlile; Lieu. Col. Ogilvie, 
 brother in law to Col. Lyell ; Lieu. Col. Thomas Ogilvie of Pury. 
 Majors. — Ma. Laughlane. 
 Lairds. — Enderquharrety, younger ; Urchill ; Rosline ; Gloret. 
 
 [The following appear to have been subsequently added, and are in a different hand.] 
 
 Cap. — Cap. Jo. Stewart; Cap. Will. Stewart; Cap. Melvine; Cap. Ogilvie; 
 
 Cap. Ja. Hamilton ; Cap. Charters, brother to Hempsfield. 
 
 Arch. Primrose, late Clark to the Counsell and Committe of Estats." 
 
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106 NOTES. 
 
 George eleventh Lord Seton — P. 87. — Though the connection of the fa- 
 mily of Buccleuch with the house of Seton, as alluded to in the narrative, 
 may not seem to require that it be adverted to in this place ; yet as the fol- 
 lowing document appears to have some reference to a very celebrated individual 
 of that family — Janet Beaton, Lady Buccleuch, — and has not probably before 
 been made known, little apology may be deemed necessary in thus introducing 
 it here. These extracts are copied from the Records of the Commissariot of 
 Glasgow : — 
 
 " Inuentarium omnium Bonorum quondam Jacobi Creichtoun de Cranstoun- 
 Riddall, militis, factum in loco de Branxholm, cum consensu magistri Stephani 
 Betone et Valteri Scott de Syntoun, suorum curatorum xiij mense 
 
 Junij a° etc. Lj [1551]. Coram Valtero Scott de Edschaw, Willmo. Scott de 
 Harden, dno. Alex" Syntoun, Georgio Synclare, dno. Jo"" Greynlaw vicario 
 de Keithhumbe, ac notario pub.''" 
 
 In pRiMis, fatetur se habere vnum equum, cum sella, fraeno, & 
 
 ceteris ornamentis. . . . . . x li. 
 
 liem, in indumentis. ..... xx li. 
 
 Item, fatetur se habere vnam torquem auream. . . xl li. 
 
 And, inter alia, he ordains — " corpusque meum sepeliendum in ecclesia Sanctae\ 
 Crucis, juxta villam de Pebhs.* Item, constituo et ordino Dnam. Jo"' Betone, 
 meam matrem, heredes suos et assignatos, raeos veros legitimos et indubitatos 
 cessionarios et assignatos, in et ad lie kyndnes qu£e habeo, habui aut habere 
 potero ad molendina de Mussilburgh, . . . . Item, 
 
 constituo et ordino Valterum Scott de Branxholm, militem, et Grisilidam Scott, 
 meam sororem, meos legitimos et indubitatos cessionarios et assignatos in et ad 
 omnia bona mea hereditaria jure mihi pertinentia per obitum quondam Georgij 
 Creichtoun per obitum Petri Creichtoun de Nachtan, et Will. 
 
 Creichtoun rectoris de Vyn. Item, constituo dictos Valterum et Grisilidam 
 meos legitimos cessionarios et assignatos ad bona mea hereditaria suscepta de 
 castro Edinburgi per Dauidem Creichtoun, nunc de Nachtan, tunc temporis in 
 possessione mea et predict! mei iuris existen. Item, constituo et ordino dictos 
 Valterum et Grisilidam meos legitimos cessionarios et assignatos in et ad omnem 
 actionem seu citationem per me, seu nomine meo, intentatam sen intendendam con- 
 tra et aduersus Heriot de Trabroun, Hugonem Dovglas de Langnudry, 
 Georgium Brovne de Colstoun, seu contra alios contra quos de jure libell. 
 
 • There is a view of the Cross diurch of Peebles in Grose's Antiquities, the walls of which seem 
 to be pretty entire. 
 
NOTES. 107 
 
 et propter combustionem, deuastationem et depredationem fortalicij et 
 ville mee de Cranstoun," &c. 
 
 " Ita est Thorn. Westoun vicarius de Hassyndene, 
 ac notarius publicus manu propria." * 
 
 The author of Satan's Invisible World Discovered, has dedicated the first 
 edition of that curious Collection to the Earl of Winton, and as this address 
 contains some interesting particulars of his Lordship's pursuits and life, it is now 
 reprinted, as an appendix to his history. Mr Sharpe, to whom we are indebt- 
 ed for having pointed out this singular production, has accompanied it with 
 the following remarks : — " I send you a transcript of Sinclair's very amusing 
 dedication of his Satan's Invisible World, to Lord Winton, the first edition 
 of which is so rare, that, besides one in my possession, I never heard but of 
 one other copy. In the subsequent editions the dedication is omitted; so this 
 has almost the rarity of a MS. it is in none of our Libraries here, f Sinclair 
 also dedicated his 'Ars nova et magna gravitatis et levitatis ,- sive dialogorum 
 philosophicorum libri sex de aeris vera ac reali gravitate, &c.' printed in 4to. at 
 Roterdam, 1669, to George, Earl of Winton, in the same strain of flattery as 
 to his ancestors." 
 
 To the Right Honourable Geouge Eabl of Winton, Lord Seton and 
 Tranent, S^c. 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 
 
 » "According to Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections, MS. in Bibl. Jurid. vol. I. p. 40. Janet Betoun 
 was first married to the Laird of Cranstoun; secondly, to the Laird of CraigraiUer (Prestoun), from 
 whom she parted, and married Sir Walter Scott of Bucclcuch, elder. There is, in the public register, a 
 
 charter to Sir Simon Prestoun of Craigmiller, and Janet Betoun, his wife, 5th June 1343 Mag. Sig. 
 
 L. xxviii. No. 489. The marriage to Cranstoun is not authenticated. " — Peerage, last Ed. L 250. 
 
 The above, it will be observed, substantially confirms the statement of Macfarlane, whilst it explains 
 the ambiguity which he would seem to have fallen into from the omission of the word RiddaU in the de- 
 signation of the first husband of Lady Buccleugh. 
 
 f Edinburgh, printed by John Reid, 1685, 12mo. To this very rare list, however, must be added a third 
 copy, though rather imperfect, in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 
 
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108 NOTES. 
 
 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 protec- 
 tion, 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 Sa- 
 tan's INVISIBLE WORLD, in the name of the Lord, I defy them. I know the acut- 
 ness of your Lordship's 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 autho- 
 rity, 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 Lordship's bounty aud favourable as- 
 pect, which gave wings to my new philosophical experiments, to flie thorow 
 Holland, France, and Germany, which have made them so acceptable to stran- 
 gers. 
 
 Neque Phaebo gratior ulla est, 
 Quam sibi quae Vari praescripsit pagina nomen. 
 
 If my writings had such good fortune and success abroad, by the auspicious 
 conduct of your Lordship's 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 of all 
 them most eminent for their unstained loyalty to their Prince, and zeal for his in- 
 terest ; and that since Malcome the Third, six hundred years agoe, to your Lord- 
 ship, 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 Christian 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 Kath- 
 arin Sinclai-, or rather. Saint Katharin, who builded the famous Chappel of Seton, 
 for his excellent endowments 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 
 
NOTES. 109 
 
 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, quae major oiigo 
 Quam regalis erit ? 
 
 What was that illustrious knight Alexander the third, who during the time of 
 John the Balliol's usurpation, three hundred and fifty years ago, was made Gover- 
 nour 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 approaching, 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 ex- 
 pired) 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 
 
 insuperable dilemma ; 
 
 Dextmm Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis 
 Obsidet 
 
 Love to their dearest children perswading, and love and respect to their coun- 
 trey and family disswading, carrie like two invincible heros, and by admirable re- 
 solution 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, writ- 
 teth thus in his book intituled, The Scots Heros : — 
 
 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 nei- 
 ther 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-father's father, who being master of the royal oecononiy to 
 the Queen, was sent by order of parliament to France, to make up a match be- 
 tween 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, 
 
110 NOTES. 
 
 whose third son, Alexander, for his knowledge and skill in juris-prudence, was 
 manie years a senator of the colledge of justice, and thereafter president to the 
 senate, and one of the king's 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, that matchless hero John 
 Duke of Lauderdale, and John Earl of Twedle, both of them as was said of Julius 
 Caesar and Cato, Ingenti virtute, Men of most eminent parts and endowments, 
 
 Fortes creantur fortibus, et bonis 
 
 Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum 
 Virtus : nee imbellem feroces 
 
 Progenerant aquilse columbam. 
 
 I come at last to your Lordship's 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-lather was admirable, even 
 to excess, for liberalitie to his other children, and hospitalitie to freinds and stran- 
 gers, 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 pulckerrima Dido. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I have touched a little the historic of your familie, but cannot relate all it de- 
 serves. 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 predeces- 
 sors ? Is it because I have nothing to say of yourself? 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 
 
 frontispice of your statelie palace, DECUS DECORI ADDIS AVITO. 
 
 This Treatise is called Satans Invisible World Discovered, but I am as- 
 
 certain'd, that by your transcendent skill, you have discovered an Livisible 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 than 
 
 beleived. There Daedalus for all his skill would mistake his way? What running 
 
 of mines and levels ? What piercing of gaes ? What cutting of impregnable 
 
NOTES. Ill 
 
 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 support- 
 ing 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 Lordship's 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 et 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. 
 
 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 Lordship's vertuous actions about the coal and salt, and 
 things belonging thereunto, who are 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, lay 
 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 
 friendship and kindness to your freinds, your candor and ingenuity, with the 
 prudent management of your affairs, have indeared all men to you ; So that I 
 may say. If your predecessors were famous of old for their feates 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 
 
112 NOTES. 
 
 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. 
 
 Seytoun of Rumgavye — P. 25. — David Seytoun of Ringavy was delatit for re- 
 maining fra the Raid of Leith, Nov. 24. 1571. — Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, 
 Part I. just published — a work which must throw great light on the manners and 
 condition of Scotland throughout an interesting portion of its history; and we trust 
 the Editor will meet with every encouragement in the prosecution of his meri- 
 torious and arduous undertaking. 
 
 o' 
 
 Seytoun of Northrig — P. 35. — Thomas Seytoune of Northrig is on an Inquest 
 May 13. 1588.— 75iW. 
 
 Seton of Garletoun — P. 86. — " The house of Garleton appears to have been a 
 place of magnificence, but is now almost in ruins. It is beautifully situated at the 
 foot of the Garleton hills, and commands a delightful prospect of a large propor- 
 tion of the lower lands of East Lothian. — Stat. Ace. of Athelstaneford. 
 
 The following genealogy of this bi'anch is copied from a history of the family 
 of Winton, MS. belonging to the Earl of Eglinton, part of which is continued to 
 about the year 1760 : — 
 
 " Sir John Seton of Gairmiltoun, 3d son (and Istof the 2d marriage) of George 
 3d Earl of Wintoun, married [Christian, others say Isobel, daughter of Sir John 
 Home of Renton], by whom he had 3 sons: 1. Geoi-ge, of whom afterwards; 
 
 2. John, who left 2 sons — 1st, John, who married, and hath a son ; 2d, Ralf; — 
 
 3. Robert, who was bred to the church. 
 
 Sir George Seton of Gairmiltoun, the eldest son, married a daughter of Wau- 
 chope of Nidry, by whom he had 3 sons : 1st. George, of whom afterwards ; 2d. 
 Capt". James, an officer in the French service ; 3d. John. 
 
 Sir George Seton of Gairmiltoun, the eldest son, who is now the heir male of 
 this noble family ; who, had it not been for the attainder of the 5th Earl, would 
 have been the 6th Earl of Wintoun." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 COLLECTIONS UPON THE 
 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON, 
 
 DOMINICAN FREIR, 
 
 CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES THE FIFTH, 
 
 AND AFTERWARDS CHAPLAIN TO THE 
 
 DUKE OF SUFFOLK, IN ENGLAND. 
 
 BY THE REV. ROBERT WODROW, 
 
 MINISTER OF EASTWOOD. 
 
NOTICE. 
 
 To the account of the Life of George fourth Lord Seton, Lord Kingston has 
 subjoined the following Note : — 
 
 " In anno 1541, which was in Lord George the fourth's time, Alexander Se- 
 ton, a learned man, a theolog, by nation a Scotsman, wrott a Commentar upon 
 the 1 and 2 Epistles of Peter, Epistle of St James, and upon the 18 chapter of 
 the Acts ; etiam Processum siue Examinationis, et Sermones ad utrumque statum. 
 Vixit anno 1541. — Vide Epit. Bibliothecce Gesneri, at the name Alexander, edit. 
 Tiguri, 1555." 
 
 Some of the most distinguished writers of the affairs of the Reformed church 
 have given accounts of this learned divine, though part of their relations still re- 
 mains unpublished ; and from their writings chiefly has the author of The His- 
 tory of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland composed the following Me- 
 moir of him. The manuscript is in Mr Wodrow's own hand-writing, and 
 was discovered a few years ago, by the Rev. Mr Leitch of Largs, in the isle of 
 Little Cumbrae, where latterly some of the author's descendants resided and 
 died ; and it now forms part of the voluminous Collection of Presbyterian Bio- 
 graphy, from the same pen, belonging to the Library of the University of Glas- 
 gow. The extracts from Knox's History, as quoted, have all been carefully re- 
 collated with the original manuscript referred to, which is still preserved in the 
 above Library. The author usually notes the time of writing the different Lives 
 in this work — the Life of Seton is dated, at the beginning, " March 21. 1729," 
 — at the end, the day following, which shows the wonderful facility he possessed 
 in these labours. 
 
 o2 
 
COLLECTIONS UPON THE 
 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON, 
 
 DOMINICAN FREIR, 
 CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES THE FIFTH, 
 AND AFTERWARDS CHAPLAIN TO THE 
 DUKE OF SUFFOLK, IN ENGLAND. 
 
 JL HAVE not much to add to what Mr Knox hath preserved to us concerning this 
 valuable man, and almost the first open preacher of the Truth in Scotland ; but 
 some hints have offered to me this way, and this good man deserves to have the 
 whole remains about him put together, and the rather that he is misrepresented 
 by some and overlooked too much by other writters, and his Life has not been, 
 that I know of, attempted. Any materials I can recover, will give but a very 
 short and imperfect view of him. 
 
 It is but very little I can give of him, till he comes upon the publick stage as 
 a preacher, and confessor of the truth, in Scodand and England. Mr Caider- 
 wood, in his MS. sayes he finds in Mr Davidson's scrolls, That Mr Seaton was 
 brother to Ninian Seaton laird of Touch, in Stirlingshire, a family that was, 
 if I mistake not, a branch of the ancient family of Seatons, better knowen by 
 the stile of Winton, descended from Alexander de Seaton, whom Sir James 
 Dalrymple gives us as a witnes in a charter of our King David to the very an- 
 cient family of Riddel of that Ilk. Whatever be in this, this gentlman, as was 
 ordinary at this time, had education, and probably for services in the church. 
 Whether he had forraigne travail joyned at it, I know not. But its not impro- 
 bable, since he was pitched upon to be Confessor to King James the Fifth, and 
 the Capellanus Regis was anciently, as some think, much of the same nature, and 
 a post of great honour and trust; and even that of Confessor, in those times, and 
 ut present, in Popish countries, is a very important post. When he was made 
 
118 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON, 
 
 Chaplain I know not ; but Spotswood and Knox make him to be in this post at 
 the time of Mr Patrick Hamiltoun's martyrdom. It's probable they wer freinds 
 and fellow lovers of the truth. 
 
 Whatever be in that, all our writters agree, that he was entered into the Do- 
 minican order of freirs, and Mr Knox calls him a Black freir. The knowledge 
 of the truth, as we have seen, was making it's way pretty fast during this reigne, 
 and severall of the freirs wer beginning to be enlightned with it, by the occasions 
 and springs I have hinted at in the Introduction. * Whether he had his light 
 from Mr Patrick Hamiltoun I cannot say, no doubt he was established and en- 
 couraged to a more publick confession of it by his martyrdorae. But it's proba- 
 ble he might receive this himself in forraigne countrys ; and it's no so probable, 
 that had he learned the truth so lately from Mr Hamiltoun, that he would have 
 so soon and distinctly preached it. 
 
 The time of his preaching the truth is a litle uncertain, as to it's pi-ecise time ; 
 but most of our writters place his sermons a litle after Mr Hamiltoun's suffer- 
 ings. Mr Calderwood, in his MS. finds himself at a loss as to this, and sayes, at 
 the close of his account of him, " I cannot find the precise time of Freir Alexan- 
 der's flight out of this country, yet since he is placed by Mr Knox in his His- 
 tory as a sufferer for the truth not long after Mr P. Hamiltoun's death, I have 
 inserted his acts after him." 
 
 Mr Knoxes account of Mr Seaton being the ground work of what all the rest 
 of our writters since give us as to him, while in Scotland, I'le begin with that 
 from his MS. and then add what I find in the rest different from him. Mr 
 Knox tell us " That God schort efter (Mr Hamiltoun's death, and some other 
 appearances for the truth by Ferrier and Carmichael, of quhich before), rayssit up 
 against thame stronger champiounis. For Alexander Seytoun, a Blak freir of 
 gude leirning and estimatioun, began to tax the corrupt doctrine of the Papis- 
 trie. For the space of a whole Lent, he taucht the Commandimentis of God onlie, 
 everbeatten in the eiris of his auditoris, That the Law of God had of many yeiris 
 nocht bein trewlie taucht : for mennis Traditiounis had obscurit the puritie of it. 
 These wer his accustomed propositiounis : First, Christ Jesus is the end and per- 
 fectioun of the Law. 2. Thair is no sin quhair Godis law is nocht violated. 3. To 
 satisfie for synnis lyis nocht in manis power; bot the remissioun thairof cumethe be 
 unfenyeit repentance, and be Fayth, apprehending God the Father mercyfull in 
 Christ Jesus, his sone. While often tymes he puttis auditouris in mynd of these 
 and the lyke Heidis, he makis no mentioun of Purgatorie, Pardones, Pilgramages, 
 Prayeris to Sanctis, nether of suche triffellis. The dum Doctouris, and the rest of 
 
 * General Introduction to the Work. 
 
CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES V. 119 
 
 that foirsuorne rabill, begane to suspect him : and yit thei said nothing publictlie, 
 till Lent was endit, and he passit to Diindie, and thane in his absence, hyred for 
 that purpois, opinlie condemned the holie doctrine whiche befoir he haid taucht. 
 Whiche cuming to his earis, the said Freir Alexander, thane being in Dundie, 
 without delay, he returned to S. Androis ; caussit immediatlie to jow the 
 bell, and to gifF significatioun that he wald preiche, as that he did indeid. In 
 the whiche sermone he affirmed, and that more planelie than at any uther tyme, 
 whatsoevir he had taucht in all his sermonis befoir, the hole Lent tyde preceiding : 
 adding, that within Scotland thair war no trew bischoppis, gif that bischopis sould 
 be knawin be sick notes and vertewis as Sanct Paull requires in bischopis." Bishop 
 Spotswood gives us the same account, and cites Knox as his voucher, only with 
 this difference, that the bishop (and Mr Petry also from him) makes the first 
 point he taught to be — That the Law of God is the only Rule of rightiousnes. Mr 
 Collier, with his ordinary temper, quhen he speaks of our Scots Reformers, whom 
 he on all occasions endeavours to blacken, tells us : " Here (in the propositions 
 above, with Spotiswoo<l's alteration, quhich is certainly a great truth,) is truth and 
 error blended. The 2 first propositions (That the Lam of God is the only Rule of 
 rightiousnes, and T'hat if God's Law be not violated, there is no sin committed) are 
 crude and indefensible : they seem to release the conscience from the obligation of 
 human lawes, and make the authority of Church and State insignificant." I only 
 insert Collier's words, not to defend the safe propositions here attacked, for with 
 Protestants, or any body that reflects upon a supreme cause, they need no de- 
 fence ; but to give an instance of overdriving matters in this odd casuist : his 
 divinity certainly must be very bad, as many places of his History will not bear 
 an apology. In both he seemes exceedingly byassed towards Rome ; and I hope 
 a writter that directly charges that proposition. That the Law of God is the only 
 Rule of rightiousnes, as crude and indefensible, and flatly contradicts the Scrip- 
 ture, — Whosoever committeth sin transgreseth the Law, for sin is the transgres- 
 sion of the Law ; will not be much regarded in his fnrious attacks upon our Re- 
 formation in Scotland, and the Instruments of it, Mr Seaton, Mr Knox and 
 others. 
 
 But to go on, Mr Seaton was very soon persecuted for his freedom, as Mr 
 Knox tells us, quhare I broke off: — "This delatioun flew with winges to the bisch- 
 opis eiris, quho, but farder delay, send for the said Freir Alexander ; quho begane 
 grevouslie to complain, and schairplie to accusse, that he had so sclanderoushe spo- 
 kin of the dignitie of bischopis, as to say That it behovit a bischope to be a preicheour, 
 or ellis he was but a dumne dog, and fed nocht the flock, boifed his awin bellie. The 
 man being wittie, and myndit of that quhilk was his ane maist assured deffence, 
 said, ' My Lord, the reporteris of sick thingis are manifest lieris.' Quhairat, the 
 
120 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON, 
 
 bischop reioyssit, and said, ' Your answer pleissis me weill. I nevir could think 
 of yow that ye wald have bein so foolische as to affirme sick thingis ; quhar ar 
 thay knaves that hes brocht me this taill ?' Quho compeiring, and affirming 
 the samin that thai did befFoir, he still replyit, That thai war lieris. Bot quhille the 
 witnes wer multiplyit, and men war brocht to attentioun, he turned him to the 
 bischope, and said, ' My Lord, ye may heir and considder quhat eiris thir asses 
 have, quho can nocht descerne betwix Paull, Isaij, Zacharie and Malachie, and 
 Freir Alexander Seytoun. In verrie deid, my Lord, I said that Paul sayis. It 
 behovis a bischop to be a teicher. Isaij sayis, Yai that fid nocht the Jlock ar dum 
 doggis : and Zacharie sayis, Yai ar idell pastouris. I of my awin held, affirmit 
 nothing, bot declared quhat the Spirit of God befoir had pronuncit : at quhome, 
 my Lord, gif ye be nocht offendit, justlie, ye can nocht be ofFendit at me ; and 
 sa yit agane, my Lord, I say, that thei ar manifest lieris that reportit unto you 
 tl;at I said that ye, and utheris that preiche nocht, ar no bischopis, but bellie- 
 godis. 
 
 " AUbeit, efter that, the bischope was heichlie ofFendit, alsweill at the skuiF and 
 bitter mock, as at the bald libertie of that leirnit man, yit durst he nocht hazarde, 
 at that present, to execut his malice consivit ; for nocht onelie feirit he tiie leirn- 
 ing and bald spirit of the man, bot also the favour that he had, alsweill of the 
 pepill, as the Prince, King James the Fyft, of quhom he had gud credite ; for 
 he was at that tyme his Confessour, and had exhortit him to the feir of God, to the 
 meditatioun of Godis Law, and unto puritie of lyffe. Bot the bischope, with his 
 complices, foirseing quhat danger mycht cum to thair estait, gif sick familiaritie 
 sould continew betwix the Prince and a man so leirnit, and so repugning to 
 thair affectiounis, labourit be all meinis to mak the said Freir Alexander odious 
 wnto the Kingis Graice, and easilie fand the meinis, be the Gray Freiris (who be 
 thair hypocrisie deceaveth mony), to traduce the innocent, as ane heretyk. This 
 accusatioun was easelie recevit of the carnall Prince, quho altogither wes gevin unto 
 the filthie lustis of the flesche ; and abhorit all counsaill that repugnit thairto ; 
 and becaus he did remember quhat a terrour the admonitiounis of the said Alex- 
 ander wes unto his corrupted conscience, without resistence, he subscryvit to thair 
 accusatioun, affirming, that he knew mair thane thai did in that matter ; for he 
 understude weill aneuche that he smellit of the ncm Doctrine, by suche thingis as 
 he had schawin to him under confessioun : and, thairfoir, he promeissit that he 
 sould follow the counsaill of the bischopis, in punisching off him, and of all utheris 
 of that sect. 
 
 " These thingis understand be the said Alexander, alsweill be informatiounis 
 of his freindis and familiaris, as be the strange continance of the King unto 
 him, he provydit the nixt way, to avoyd the furie of a blindit Prince : and so. 
 
CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES V. 121 
 
 in his habit, he departit the realme ; and earning to Bei'wik, he wrait back 
 to the Kingis Graice, his complaint and admonitioun, The veray tenour and copie 
 whairof foUowis, and is this : — 
 
 Maist Gracious and Soverane Lord, under the Lord and King of all, of 
 quhome onelie thy Hienes and Majestie hes power and auctie. to exerceis iustice 
 within this thy realme, under God, quho is King and Lord over all realmes ; and 
 thy Graice and all mortall Kingis ar bot onely servaneis wnto that onlie immortal 
 Prince, Christ Jesus. 
 
 It is not, I wait, unknawin to thy Graces Hienes, how that thy Grace's umquhill 
 servane and oratour, (and evir salbe to my lyves end) is departed out of the 
 realme, unto the nixt aiacent of Ingland ; nocht the les, I beleve, the cans 
 of my departing is unknawin to thy Graces Majestie; whilk onlie is, becaus 
 the bischopis and kirkmen of thy realme hes had heirtofoir sick auctie. upoun 
 thy subiectis that, appeiranelie, they war rather king, and thow the subiect — 
 quhilk iniust regiment is of the self fals, and contrair to holie scripture and law 
 of God — then thow thair king and maister is, and they thy subiectis, quhilk is 
 very trew, and testifyit expreslie be the Worde of God ; and allso becaus thay 
 will gif no man of any degrie or stait (whome thei oft falslie call heretyckis) 
 audience, tyme nor place to speik, nor have defence, quhilk is against all law, 
 both the auld law, callit the Law of Moyses, and the new law of the evangell ; so 
 that gif I myght have had audience and plaice to speik, and have schawin my iust 
 defence conforme to the Law of God, I sould nevir have fled to any wther 
 realme, suppois it sould have coist me my lyife. Bot becaus I beleive, that I 
 sould have had no audience, nor plaice (they ar so grit with thy Graice), 
 I departit, nocht doutand, bot movit of God, unto ane better tyme, that God il- 
 luminet thy Graces reyoin, to gif everie man audience (as thow souldest, and 
 may, and is bound of the Law of God) who are accused to the deithe : and to 
 cERTiFiE thy Hienes that thir ar na vane wordis, bot of deid and effect, heir I 
 offer me to thy Graice, to cum in thy realme agane, so that thy Graice will 
 gif me audience, and heir quhat I have for me, of the Law of God ; and caus 
 ony bischope or abbote, freir or seculare, quhilk is maist cunning (sum of thame 
 can nocht reid thair matinis, that ar maid judges of heresie), to impugne me be the 
 Law of God ; and if my parte be found wrang, thy Graice being present, and 
 judge, I refuis na pane worthie or condigne for my fault. And gif that I convict 
 thame, be the Law of God, and that thai have nothing to lay to my chairge, bot 
 the law of man, and thair awin inventiounis, to uphald thair vane gloir and pryde- 
 fuU lyf, and daylie scourging of thy pure lieges, I report me to thi Graice, as 
 judge, quhither he hes the victorie quhilk haldis him at the Law of God, quhilk can 
 nocht faill, nor be fals, or they quhilk haldis thame at the law of man, quhilk is rycht 
 
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122 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON, 
 
 oft plane contrarie and against the Law of God, and thairfoir of necessitie fals and 
 full of lesingis; ffor all thingis quhilk is contrarie to the veritie (quhilk is Christ and 
 his law) is of necessitie a lesing. And to witnes that this cumis of all my hairt, I 
 sail reinane in Beruik whill I get thy Graces answer ; and sail without faill returne, 
 having thy hand write, that I may have audience and place to speik, no moir 
 I desyire of the; quhairof gif I had bein suir, I sould nevir have departit : that 
 thow may knaw the treuth thaii'of, gif feir of the iustnes of my caus, or dredour 
 of persecutioun for the same, had movit me to depairt, I could nocht so pleissanely 
 revert; only distrust was the caus of my departing. Pardone me to say that 
 whilk lyis to thy Graces charge : thou art bound be the law of God (suppoise 
 thay falslie lie, saying it perteinis nocht to thy Grace till intromet with sick mat- 
 teris) to caus everie man, in ony cais accused of his lyif, to have his iust defence, 
 and his accussaris producit, conforme to thair awin law. They blind thy Graces 
 ein, that knawis nathing of this law. Bot gif I prove nocht this out of thair awin 
 law, I offer me wnto the deithe. Thy Graice, thairfoir, by experience, may daylie 
 leirne (seeing they nether feir the King of Hevin, as thair lyiffis testifyis, nether 
 the, thair naturall prince, as thair usurped power in thy actiounes schawls) quhy 
 thy Hienes sould ly no langer blindit. Thou may considder that they pretend na- 
 thing ellis botonlie the manteinance and uphald of thair bairdit mules, agmenting 
 of thair insatiabill avarice, and continuall down thringing and swallowing upe thy 
 puir lieges ; nether preiching nor teiching out of the law of God (as they schould) to 
 the rud ignorant pepill, bot ay contendand quha may be maist hie, maist ryche, and 
 narrest thy Graice, to put the temporall Lordis and lieges out of thi conceat and 
 favour — quho sould be, and are, maist tender servandis of thy Grace in all tyme of 
 neid, to the defence of the and thy Croun : and quhair they desyre thy Graice to 
 put at thy temporall Lordis and lieges becaus they dispise their vicious lyif. Quhat 
 ellis intend thei bot onlie thy deithe and distructioun? as thow mayest easelie pir- 
 cave, suppois they cuUour thair fals intend and mynd with the persute off" heresie ; 
 FOR gUHEN thy Barounis ar put down, quhat art thow bot the king of bane ; and 
 thane of necessitie man be guidit be thame, and thair, no dout, quhair a blind man 
 is guyde, man be a fall in the myre. Thairfoir, lat thy Graice tak hardiment, and 
 authoritie, quhilk thow hes of God, and suffer nocht thair cruell persecutioun to 
 proceid, without audience gevin to him that is acusit, and just plaice of defence ; 
 and than, no dout, thou sail have thy liegis hairtis, and all that they can or may 
 do in tyme of neid, tranquilitie, justice and policie in thy realme; and, finallie, 
 the kingdome of the hevines. Pleis to gar have this, or the copie, to the clergie 
 or kirkmen, and keip the principall ; and thy Grace sail have experience gif I 
 go against ane word that I have hecht. I sail daylie mak my hairtlie devotioun 
 for thy Graice, and the prosperitie and weilfair of thy bodie and sauU. I dout 
 
CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES V. 123 
 
 not bot thy gracious Hienes will gif answer of thir presentis unto the presenter 
 of this unto thy hienes. 
 
 Of Beruik, be thy Hienes Servand and Oratour, 
 
 fSic subscribitur ) Alexander Seyton. 
 
 " This letter," adds Mr Knox, " wesdeliverit to the Kingis awin handis, and of 
 mony red ; bot quhat could greitle admonitious (so it runs in my MS. and the 
 Glasgow copy) * avail! whair the pryde and corruptioun of prselatis commandit 
 quhat thay pleissit ; and the flatterie off courteouris fostered the insolent prince to 
 all impietie." Thus far Mr Knox goes, and I see nothing further worth notticing 
 in Spotswood, Petry, Burnet, or our other historians. This matter stands, I 
 think, much better in Mr Knox and Mr Seaton's own words than in their ab- 
 stracts of them. 
 
 When Mr Seaton saw he had no answer to expect from Scotland, and he was 
 to expect no justice there, he went up to London, and was very much esteemed 
 there, and justly ; he became Chaplain to Charles Duke of Suffolk, who enter- 
 teaned him till his death. While there, he was attacked by Bishop Gardiner, 
 and made a kind of recantation ; but, for all that, Spotswood, Knox, and the rest 
 of our writters, believe that he parted with no truth that he had professed. I 
 can give no account of him while in England almost, save as to his persecution 
 from Bishop Bonnar, quhich hapned a short time before his death. He seems to 
 have lived and preached the gospell there for 14 or 15 years after his leaving 
 Scotland. I'le give what accounts I have of him there from Knox, [Spotswood, 
 and] Calderwood, and make some additions from Fox ; and soon end. 
 
 Mr Knox tells us : — " Alexander Seytoun remanit in England, and publictlie 
 (with grit prays and confort of mony) taucht the evangell in all sinceritie certane 
 yeiris. And albeit the craftines of Winchester and of utheris, circumveinit the said 
 Alexander, that thai causit him, at Paules croce, to affirme certane thingis that re- 
 pugnit to his former trew doctrine; yet it is no dout bot that as God potentlie had 
 roung with him in all his lyif, that also in his deithe (whiche schortlie efter follow- 
 ed) he fand the mercie of his God, wherupoun he exhorted all men evir to depend." 
 Bishop Spotswood is of the same opinion of his innocency with Knox, and sayes, 
 that quhen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, by his crafty and subtile perswa- 
 sion, induced Mr Seaton to make a recantation of sundry points at Paul's Cross, 
 yet still his sound belife, as to most of the articles of the Christian Faith, appears 
 in the Treatises he left behind him; and adds, that his examination by Gardiner 
 and Bonner (quhich he likewise published, discovering the policy used to cir- 
 cumveen him) doth testify his constancy in the truth, and that he never denyed 
 any point quhich formerly he had taught. 
 
 • Our author read this — " gentle admonitions," and of course was not quite satisfied. 
 
 f2 
 
124 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON. 
 
 Mr Calderwood gives us a fuller account, mostly from Mr Fox, quhlch I shall 
 give in his own words : — "Mr Seaton, quhen in England, became Chaplain to the 
 Duke of Suffolk. He was detected and presented by 3 preists — one was Fellow 
 of Whittington Colledge, called Richard Taylor, — the other, John Smith, — the 
 other, John Huntingtoun, who was afterward converted to the same doctrine. 
 Mr Seaton made answer, by writing, to the objections of his adversaries, who had 
 gathered certain articles out of his sermon, preached Nov. 13. 154.1, at St An- 
 thonie's, London : First, denying many things therein objected against him, 
 taking upon his conscience, that he never spoke diverse of those words ; and 
 again, many other things he never meaned to such end and purpose as they did 
 wrest them. But for all that he could say for himself, the Ordinary did proceed 
 in his consistory judgment, ministering to him certain interrogatories, after the 
 Popish course, to the number of ten articles. The greatest matter laid against 
 him was for preaching free justification by Faith in Christ Jesus ; against false 
 confidence in good works; and man's free will. He was also challenged for af- 
 firming, that privat masses and diregees, and other prayers, profited not the 
 souls of the departed. In the end, he and W. Tolwine, parson of St Anthonie's, 
 who had been examined by Bishop Bonner, for suffering Freir Alexander to 
 preach in his church, having no license of his Ordinary, and allowing his ser- 
 mons, * and for making the holy-water without the generall exorcisme, wer forced 
 to recant at Paul's Cross, and bear a faggot, anno 1541. For at this time cer- 
 tain persons wer troubled for the Six Articles of Popery which King Henry the 
 Eight re-established. — In his sermon he had these words : — ' Put the case, I 
 had two servants, the one is called John, the other Robert, and I promise to send 
 you such a day twenty pound by John, my servant; and at my day I send you 
 by Jo. my servant 20 pound, wanting a farthing, which Robert doth bring thee 
 and so thou hast thy twenty pound, every penny and farthing. Yet will I aske, 
 if I be true of my promise, or no, and thou maist say nay. And why ? Because I 
 promised to send thee whole that twenty pound by John, and did not, for there 
 lacked a farthing, which Robert brought. Wherefore I say, if thy works do merit, 
 or bring one little jot or title towards thy justification, then is Christ false of his 
 promise, which said, he would do altogether." 
 
 That we may have a fuller view of Mr Seaton's doctrine, in the very morning 
 of the Reformation, I'le subjoyn, from Mr Fox, the Articles gathered out of his 
 sermons by his adversaries. After Mr Fox hath given much the same account 
 of his sermon, and triall, Nov. 1541, as Mr Calderwood gives, he tells us thai 
 the Duke of Suffolk made him a free denizen, and that he was a Scotsman, and a 
 
 • " Which he preached against Dr Smith."— i^oa:, I. 534. 
 
CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES V. 125 
 
 worthy preacher. The objections or cavillations picked up by his adversaries 
 are as follow : — 
 
 [^Certain places or Articles gathered out qfSeton's Sermons by his 
 
 adversaries. 
 " The sayings and words of Alexander Seton, spoken and preached by him in 
 his sermon, made the thirteenth day of November, at afternoone, in the parish 
 Church of Saint A. in London : — ] 
 
 " Paul saith. Of ourselves we can do nothing ; I pray thee then where is thy 
 will ? Art thou any better then Paul, James, Peter, and all the Apostles ? hast 
 thou any more grace then they? Tell me now if thy will be any thing, or no- 
 thing. If it be any thing, tell me whether it be to do good or ill ? If thou say 
 to do ill, I will grant thou hast a greater deal. If thou say to do good, I aske 
 whether is more somewhat or nothing ? For Paul said he could do nothing, 
 and I am sure thou hast no more grace then Paul and his companions. 
 
 " Scripture speaketh of three things in man ; the first is will, the other two are 
 consent and deed. The first, that is will, God worketh without us, and besides us. 
 The other two he worketh in us, and with us. And here he alledgeth Saint 
 Augustine to prove that we can will nothing that is good. Moreover he said 
 thou hast not one jot, no not one tittle to doe any good. 
 
 " There is nothing in Heaven or in earth, creature or other, that can be any 
 mean towards our justification, nor can any man satisfie God the father for our 
 sin, save only Christ, and the shedding of his bloud. 
 
 " He that preacheth that workes do merit, or be any mean to our salvation, or 
 any part of our justification, preacheth a doctrine of the Devill, 
 
 " If any thing else, save onely Christ, be any mean towards our justification, 
 then did not Christ onely justifie us. 
 
 " 1 say, that neither thy good workes, nor any thing that thou canst do, can 
 be one jot or tittle towards thy justification. For if they be, then is not Christ 
 a full justifier; and that I will prove by a familiar example : Be it in case, I have 
 two servants, the one is called John, and the other Robert," &c. as above. 
 
 " One Scripture I will bring you, which they cannot writhe, to prove that 
 Christ was only promised to be our onely justifyer, our onely mean, and that is 
 in the two and twentieth of Genesis, where it is written. In thy seed shall all peo- 
 ple be blessed, meaning thereby onely Christ, and he said not in thy seedes, nor 
 in the workes of thy seedes. Wherefore all they that preach that workes be any 
 part or mean toward our justification, do make God false of his promise. 
 
 " They that preach that works do merit, do make works the tree, quhich are 
 
126 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON, 
 
 but the fruits of justice, wrought by him that is already a just man, which cannot 
 chuse but bring forth good fruit. 
 
 " I would ask a question, whether he that worketh be a good man or bad, 
 for he must be one of them. If he be a good man, he cannot chuse but bring 
 forth good fruits, — if he be an ill man, he can bring forth no fruit but ill fruit ; 
 for a good tree cannot bring forth ill fruit. 
 
 " He that saith that workes doe merit any thing towards our salvation, doth 
 make workes check-mate with Christ and plucketh from Christ that is his, and 
 giveth it to works. Some will ask. Wherefore then should I do good works ? 
 I answer, good workes are to be done for no cause else, but onely for the 
 glorie of God, and not that tiiey doe merit any thing at all. And he that saith 
 that good workes are to be done for any other cause, than for the glory of God 
 onely, and will have them to merit, or be any mean towards our justification, I say 
 he lieth, and beleeve him not. 
 
 " He that can shew me in any Scripture, that works do merit, or be any mean 
 to our justification, for the first Scripture, I will (without any further judgment) 
 lose both mine eares, for the second, my tongue, and for the third, my neck. 
 For I dare say, he cannot prove in all the whole Scripture one title : wherfor be- 
 leeve them not. 
 
 " Men say that we deny good works, and fasting, and prayer. They lie on us, 
 we denie nothing but popish works, and popish fasting, and popish prayer ; and 
 he that preacheth that works doe merit, or fasting doth merit, or praier doth me- 
 rit, doth preach a popish doctrine. 
 
 " If you ask me when we shall leave preaching of workes? even when they 
 do leave to preach that works do merit, and suffer Christ to be a whole satisfier, 
 and onely meane to our justification ; and till then, we will not cease, in God's 
 cause, to set forth onely Christ to be a full and perfect, and only satisfaction. 
 
 " If you ask if good workes shall be rewarded, I say yea, and with no lesse 
 then eternall glory ; but for no merit that they deserve, for they deserve nothing, 
 but onely because God hath promised, not for the merit of the work, but for his 
 promise sake, and he will not break his promise." 
 
 Mr Fox adds some other articles, gathered out of Mr Seaton's sermons, quhich 
 I shall likewise insert here, that the reader may have all the remains of this learned 
 and piouse man: — 
 
 " Touching Reconciliation spoken of by Doctor Smith (the same I suppose 
 (juhoni Mr Strype, as we have seen in the Introduction, saves, made so many 
 turns for and against the truth), preaching in the forenoone at Paul's Cross, Alex- 
 ander Seton, preaching at afternoone at Saint Anthonie's, and reciting his sayings 
 and scriptures, reproved him for alledging this saying, Reconciliamini Deo, and 
 
CONFESSOR TO KING JAMES V. 127 
 
 Englishing the same thus, Reconcile your selves to God ; because it is there spoken 
 passively, and not actively, so that there should be nothing in man pertaining to 
 reconciliation, but all in God. 
 
 " Also reproving the said Doctor Smith for that the said D. said that man 
 by his good works might merit. Which saying of Doctor Smith the said Alex- 
 ander Seton reproved in the pulpit at S. Anthonie's, the 13. day of November, the 
 yeere of our Lord 1541. as naughtily spoken. 
 
 " Moreover the said Alexander Seton said in the same place, that it w?as a 
 shame that any such preacher should be suffered so openly to preach such erro- 
 nious doctrine as to say that works should merit, adducing, Non sunt condigncc 
 passiones, &c. Et postquam Jeceritis omnia, &c. 
 
 " Finally, Seton said, peradventure ye will say, the Church hath determined this 
 matter touching workes. And I say, quoth he, that it is Ecclesia malignantium, 
 so determining any thing against Scripture." 
 
 This is all I find in Fox concerning Mr Seaton. We have seen that Mr 
 Seaton refused some of those expressions, as not spoken by him. The doctrine, 
 in the generall, he was not, nor needed be, ashamed of; it's the doctrine of the 
 Bible, consonant to sense and reason, and that of the Reformed churches. The 
 Antinomians and Libertines wrest some expressions of our first Reformers 
 against merite, and upon justification ; but the Bible itself is not free from the at- 
 tacks of ill-minded men. Bishop Spotswood insinuates that Mr Seaton left a 
 vindication behind him of his innocency, and Dtr. M'Kenzie goes further, with- 
 out any voucher, that I can find — " That he was perswaded to renounce severall 
 of the doctrines of the Reformers, at Paul's Cross. But repenting of quhat he 
 had done, he published a Vindication, and the whole particulars of his Examina- 
 tion, quhich is still extant in Fox's Martyrology." I have set down above all 
 I find in Fox relative to him ; and the Dtr. appears to me, without consulting of 
 Fox, to have asserted that his published vindication is there, and 1 must receive 
 this among his many mis- citations he gives us. 
 
 Before I leave Mr Seaton's persecution at London, let me add a passage I find 
 as to Huntington and him in Strype's Memoirs, vol. 3. " About this time (1540) 
 John Huntington, a zealous preist and poet, compiled a poem intituled The Ge- 
 nealogy of Hereticks, mentioning only the names of such godly men as had been 
 no freinds to the Pope, and no other hereticks wer touched at ; as if there wer 
 no hereticks but such as opposed the Pope. By this Huntington and two other 
 preists, was one Seaton, a Scots freir, and an excellent preacher, in London, 
 detected and informed against : but Huntington was afterward converted to the 
 same doctrine himself, notwithstanding of these his present oppositions." 
 
128 LIFE OF ALEXANDER SEATON. 
 
 Mr Seaton did not live long after this prosecution ; and continued till his 
 death in the Duke of Suffolk's family : and probably the interest of that great 
 man preserved him from greater crueltys, designed against him by Bonner. Dtr. 
 M^Kenzie fixes his death in the year 1542. His character may be gathered from 
 what is above. By his Letter, and the notes gathered from his sermons, he ap- 
 pears to have been a learned, solid, zealous person. Mr Stryp and others term 
 him an excellent preacher. Mr Calderwood, from Mr Davidson's scrolls, sayes 
 he was of a quick ingyne, and of a tall stature. 
 
 I have not seen any of his works, but Dempster sayes — " Scripsit Processus 
 Sua; Examinationis. In utramque Epistolam Petri. In Canonicam Jacobi. Con- 
 dones. So, besides his Examination, or Vindication, according to this author, he 
 wrote a Commentary on both the Epistles of Peter, on that of James, and a vo- 
 lume of Sermons. Mr Chartres, in his account of our Scots divines, sayes — 
 " Alexander Seaton, a Dominican Monk, fled out of Scotland, 1527, being sus- 
 pected of heresy. He wrote a Commentary In utramque Epistolam Petri. In 
 Canonicam Jacobi. In Actorum, Cap. 18. Processus Suce Examinationis. Sermones 
 ad utrumque Statum." He seems to have copied this out of Gesner's Bibliotheca, 
 who adds, Vixit Anno Domini 1541, and calls him natione Scoius, et ikeologus 
 insignis. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abercorne, Earl of, 59. 
 Albany, Duke of, 33. 
 Angous, Earl of, 101. 
 Arbuthnot, the Viscount of, IB. 
 Argyle, Earl of, 35, 65, 76, 88, 89. 
 Auchmouty of Gosfoord, 68. 
 Ananderland, thiefs of, 33. 
 
 Balcleugh, family of, 88, 106. 
 Balioll, Edward, 21. 
 Ballcanquaill, Mr Robert, 82. 
 Ballcarras, Earl of, 65. 
 Balmerino, Master of, 72. 
 Bamffe, Lord, 78. 
 Barfoord, Laird of, 62. 
 Barnes, family of, 68, 101. 
 Belhaven, Lord, 86. 
 Betoun, Cardinal, 41, 43, 58. 
 Betoun, Janet, Lady Buccleugh, 106. 
 Binning, Lord, 101. 
 Blackbarrony, Laird of, 78. 
 Borthwik, Master of, 38. 
 Bothwell, Hepburne, Earl of, 37. 
 Bothwell, Stewart, Earl of, 60, 87. 
 Buchane, Colonel, 86. 
 Buchane, Earle of, 32, 34. 
 Burlie, Laird of, 26— Lord, 103. 
 Burnet of Lees, 78. 
 Butlair of Rumgavy, 25. 
 Berwick, siege of, 22. 
 Bizantium, siege of, 88. 
 Bothwell bridge, battle of, 85, 88. 
 Buchane, arms of, 36, 95. 
 
 Campbell of Kinyeancleuch, 98. 
 Campbell of Lowdoun, 99, 101. 
 Cant of Over-Libertoun, 36. 
 Carlill, Lord, 28. 
 Camwath, Earl of, 79. 
 Charles, Prince, (Charles L), 66. 
 Chattellarault, Duke of, 43, i>8. 
 Cheisholme, Janet, 30. 
 Chene, Christian, 23. 
 Commissioners, Scots, 82. 
 Corsterphin, Laird of, 77. 
 Crawford, Earl of, 65, 67. 
 Creichtoun of Cranston-Riddell, 106. 
 Crichtoun, Lord, 30, 32. 
 Cummin, William, great justice, 92. 
 Carlaverock, barony of, 20. 
 Catelbokis, lands of, 41. 
 Chapel, Christalis, at Dumfries, 20, 93. 
 Cockannie, village of, 59, 75. 
 Colsfeild, barony of, 70. 
 
 Dallyell, General, 85. 
 Dernlie, Lord, 28. 
 Douglas of Corheid, 33. 
 Douglas, Sir George, 77. 
 Douglas, Marquis of, 86. 
 Douglas of Whittingame, 85. 
 Drummond of Corskeply, 73. 
 Duffus, Lord, 64. 
 Dumbar of Balduns, 72. 
 Dumbarton, Earl of, 88. 
 DuMFERMELiNE, family of, 63. 
 Dumfreis, Earl of, 72. 
 
 Q 
 
130 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Dundonald, Earl of, 72. Gordon of Lochinvar, 62. 
 
 Dunkirkers,Lord Seton's expedition against Gweis, Duke of, 42. 
 
 the, 35, 95. Glasgow, charters to, 92, 95- 
 Dalgatie, lordship of, 64 — House of, 66. — College of, 104 
 
 Dumbai-, battle of, 79. Gourleton, lands of, 77. 
 
 Dundas, &c. lands of, 21. Gowrie, conspiracy of, 96. 
 
 -Church of, 94 
 
 Earle, Sir Thomas, 82. 
 Eglintoun, Earl of, 38, 60. 
 Eglingtone, family of, 69, 101, 104. 
 Elphinstoun, the heiress of, 32. 
 ErroU, Earl of, 77, 80. 
 Erskin, Lord, 30. 
 
 Edinburgh, Lord Seton provost of, 59, 98. 
 Ethanstanfoord, legend of, &c. 86. 
 
 Fairly of Braid, 68, 101. 
 Fauside, Alanus de, 92. 
 Findlater, Earl of, 72. 
 Flandrense, Willielmus de, 92. 
 Fleming, Lord, 62. 
 Fletcher, Sir George, 85. 
 Forbes, Lord, 61. 
 Fyffe, Earl of, 93. 
 Falsyde, mylls, &c, of, 21. 
 Flowdoune, field of, 38. 
 Foulstrudour, lands of, 41. 
 Freiris, Black, church of, Edinburgh, 94. 
 Freiris, Cordelere, church of, Hadding- 
 ton, 28. 
 Fyvie, lands of, 64. 
 
 Garletoun, family of, 86, 112. 
 Glencaim, Earl of, 34, 71. 
 GoRDOUN, family of, 29— Duke of, 68. 
 Gordoun of Haldok, 30. 
 Gordoun of Lesmoir, 30. 
 
 Haia, Davide de, 92. 
 Haia, Willielmus de, 92. 
 Halden of Glennegis, 28. 
 Hamilton, Duke of, 71, 77, 101. 
 Hamilton of Prestoun, 28, 36, 73. 
 Hamilton, John, Archbp. of St Andrews, 43, 
 
 58. 
 Hamilton of Sanquhar, 43, 58. 
 Hasting, Johan. de, 92. 
 Hay, John, of Aberlady, 63. 
 Hay, Chancellor, 66. 
 Hay of Drumelior, 71, 105. 
 Hay, Gelis, heiress of the Enye, 30, 
 Henryson, Mr James, 25, 94. 
 Hepburne, Colonel, 68. 
 Hepburne of Waughtone, 77. 
 Herres, Lord, 78. 
 
 Home, Sir John, of North Berwick, 62. 
 Home of Renton, 87. 
 Hoptone, Laird of, 78. 
 Hugone, cancellarius, 91. 
 Hume, Lord, 30. 
 Humphi-aville, Ricardus de, 17. 
 Huntly, Marquis of, 80, 82. 
 Hartsyd and Clyntis, lands of, 33, 34. 
 Holland, States of, battle against the, 67. 
 
 James IV. anecdote of, 25. 
 
 James VI. his progress to England, 60, 
 
 Inglis, in Edinburgh, 73. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 131 
 
 Innerpeafer, Lord, 85. 
 Johnstoun, Lard of, in Anderdale, 32. 
 Jedburgh, forest of, 18. 
 Inchemauchan, lands of, 41. 
 Ireland, rebelliou in, 70. 
 
 Kathness, Earl of, 64!. 
 
 Keith, Major, 73. 
 
 Kellie, Earl of, 64. 
 
 Kellie, Mr William, Lord of Session, 73. 
 
 Kennedie, Lord, 28. 
 
 Kilsythe, Dowager of, 62. 
 
 Kingston, family of, 80. 
 
 Kinnoul, Earl of, 71. 
 
 Kylismuib, family of, 68, lOL 
 
 Kilwinning, Abbay of, 103. 
 
 Kirkliston, lands of, 41. 
 
 Lader, Viscount of, 101. 
 Latemer, Lord William, 20. 
 Lauder of Poppill, 28. 
 Lauderdaill, Duke of, 64, 88. 
 Lausoun, Mr Richart, 25, 94, 
 Lauthrysk, family of, 25, 94. 
 Leslie of Wai'dess, 30. 
 Levingtoun of Saltcottis, 36. 
 Lind. Willielmus, 17. 
 Linlithgow, Earl of, 70. 
 Logan of Restalrig, 38, 42, 96. 
 London, John, 17. 
 Lowdon, Earl of, 72, 82. 
 Lylle, Lord, 33. 
 Lindesay, Lord, 26, 33. 
 La Flesh, college of, 81. 
 Langside, battle of, 56, 98. 
 Laswade and Dalkeith, lands of, 41. 
 Leven, earldom of, 72. 
 
 Lochdore, castle of, 20. 
 Lochleven, castle of, 56. 
 Lochwod, in Annandale, 32. 
 
 Maitland, Chancellor, 74. 
 
 Maitland of Lethington, 30, 36. 
 
 Marche, Earl of, 18, 28, 31, 91, 93. 
 
 Mawlay, Lord Edmonde de, 20. 
 
 Meldrum, family of, 29. 
 
 Menteith, Earl of, 38, 39, 42. 
 
 Menzies of Coulterais, 74. 
 
 Merschell, Earl of, 32, 78. 
 
 Monmouth, Duke of, 85. 
 
 Montross, Marquis of, 62 — Earl of, 64, 76. 
 
 Mordington, Lord, 85. 
 
 Morton, Earl of, 67. 
 
 Morvill, Richard, 17. 
 
 Millane, castle of, 35. 
 
 Nidsdaill, Earl of, 82. 
 
 Niddrie, castle and lands of, 41, 56, 57. 
 
 Ogiivy of Dunlugus, 38, 39, 42. 
 
 Ogilvy, Lord, 28, 
 
 Ogiivy of Poury, 62. 
 
 Olipher, Walter, Justiciary, 17. 
 
 Olivestobe, family of, 73. 
 
 Opbuall (or Opharil) family of, 62. 
 
 Parbroth, family of, 24, 94. 
 Percie, Ingrahame, 93, 
 Perth, Earl of, 60, 64. 
 Petcarne, Mareoun, 25. 
 Pieris, Marie, Lady Seton, 42. 
 Popeley of Woolley, 104. 
 Prestoun of Quhythill, 34. 
 Pentland hills, battle of, 85, 88. 
 
132 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Philliphaugh, battle of, 76, 80— Prisoners 
 
 taken at, 103. 
 Pinkie, house and lands of, Bi, 65. 
 Pluscalie, lands of, 63. 
 
 Queensberry, Duke of, 89. 
 Quincy, Henricus de, 92. 
 Quincy, Robertas de, 91. 
 Quhytbestroud, 20. 
 
 Ramsay of Benholme, 62. 
 Ramsay, Elizabeth, of Parbroth, 24. 
 Ramsay of Idington, 74. 
 Ramsay of Wauchton, 72. 
 Ross, the Lady Dowager, 71. 
 Rothes, Earl of, 27, 65, 72, 89. 
 Ruchelaw, lands of, 18. 
 
 St Germains, family of;. 73. 
 
 Seaforth, Earl of, 64. 
 
 Sempill, Lord, 79, 
 
 Seaton, Alexander, Life of, 113. 
 
 Secretary [Lethington], the, 97. 
 
 Seton, Sir Alexander, Lord Pitmeden,l 10. 
 
 Seton, Lady, excommunicated, 82. 
 
 Seytoun of Baubirny, 25. 
 
 Seytoun, Mr David, 25, 94. 
 
 Seytoun, John, baillie of Tranent, 33. 
 
 Seytoun, Marie, 42, 97. 
 
 Seytoun of Northrig, 35, 112. 
 
 Seytoun of Rumgavye, 25, 112. 
 
 Sinclare of Herdmestoun, 27, 94. 
 
 Sinclair of Nortlu-ig, 35. 
 
 Spotswood, Bishop, Letters of, 102. 
 
 Stewart, Prior of Coldinghame, 87. 
 
 Striveling of Glorat, 68. 
 Sutherland of DufFus, 30, 62, 
 Sutherland, Earl of, 60, 63, 78. 
 Sutherland, family of, 95. 
 Symmervale, Lord, 38, 39, 42. 
 Siitan's Invisible World, dedication of, 107. 
 Senes, nunnery of, 36, 38, 41. 
 Seytoun, church of, 29, 34, 37, 39, 75. 
 
 college of, 35. 
 
 house of, 37, 39, 42, 44, 57, 75, 100. 
 
 market at, 93. 
 
 paintings there, notice of, 98. 
 
 Terquair, Earl of, 79. 
 Tours of Inverleith, 77. 
 TuCHE, family of, 29. 
 Tulybardin, Laird of, 26, 34. 
 Turner, Sir Edward, 78. 
 Twedaill, Earl of, 65, 71. 
 Thixell, monastery of, 20. 
 Trenent, barony of, 21, 28. 
 
 Vain, Sir Henry, 82. 
 Valoines, Philip, 92. 
 
 Wallace, Sir William, 19. 
 
 Wauchope of Niddrie-Wauchop, 87. 
 
 Went worth of Bretton, 105, 
 
 Wigton, Earl of, 67. 
 
 Winchester, Earl of, 49. 
 
 Winton, Countess of, excommunicated, 82. 
 
 Winton, Earl of, 84. 
 
 Winton, house of, 35, 74. 
 
 Worchester, battle of, 71. 
 
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