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LORD LINDSAY'S LIVES OF THR LINDSAY'S.* This work Was originally written between fifteen and twenty years ago, for the information of some junior members of the Lindsay family, and printed for private distribution only. An account of that edition in the quarterly Review, some three years since, a notice by M. Philarete Csles in the Journal cles Debate, and frequent applications to the author for the book from public libraries, and "even from beyond the Atlantic," have determined him to publish it in the usual form. The work justifies this challenge to public criticism far more than the ge- nerality of family memoirs that have preceded it; in part from the skill and ability of the author, in part from the nature of his subject. The house of Lindsay is remarkable for its antiquity, its numerous branches, and the historical eminence it attained and long supported, as well as for the individual character of many of its members. Various traditional and apocryphal stories respecting the origin of the family were received as verities, till the antiquarian research and critical inquiries of the present century placed genealogy upon a sounder basis. After an ar- gumentative survey, (which may be received as probable but not conclu- sive,) Lord Lindsay traces his family to a Norman origin. The Sires de Limesay were seated at a place of the same name, meaning "Isle of Lime-trees," in the Pays de Cana, about five leagues North-west of Rouen. Randolph de Limesay, a reputed relation of the Conqueror, gained large possessions in England ; and probably other adventurers of the family came over at the Conquest. The first recorded account of the name in Scotland is in the year 1116, when Walter de Lindsay appears as a magnate or greater baron under David the First, Prince of Strath- clyde or Cambria before his accession to the throne ; this De Lindsay being "a witness or juror in the celebrated Inquisitio, or inquest of Prince David into the possessions and rights of the see of Glasgow within his territories." The name of Walter, after figuring for a time in charters, disappears, to be succeeded by a William, apparently his son. That vanishes in turn, and is followed by Walter and William, likewise assumed to be the sons of the first William. The elder Walter seems to have left no children. It was William who carried on the succession ; and lie is the first of whose habitation (at Ercildun) there is precise legal evidence. More particulars are known of his grandson, William of Ercildun and Luffness, who flourished between 1161 and 1200. He figures as a mag- nate of Scotland, and witness to the charters of William the Maiden and William the Lion. In 1174, he was one of the hostages given in re- demption of King William, taken prisoner by Henry the Second of Eng- land; between 1189 and 1199, he was High Justiciary of Lothian, one of the highest offices under the Crown, and "always held by barons whose power enabled them to enforce the regal authority and exe- cution of the laws." He is the first Lindsay associated with the estate of Crawford in Clydesdale, whence the highest title of the family was de- rived. He married Marjory, daughter of Henry Prince of Scotland, and sister of King William the Lion and David Earl of Huntingdon; and left three sons, David, Walter, and William. The eldest, David, increased the fortunes of the family by a marriage with an heiress of the English Lindsays, about 1201; but the descendants and acquisitions (by mar- riage) of the three sons become too numerous and complicated to be in- telligibly displayed in our columns, especially as grants and similar things are the only records that remain of them. Suffice it to say, that the posterity of David and Walter soon became extinct in the male line but that the female representative of Walter Lindsay is Marie Dutchess of Angouleme. The descendant in the third degree from William was the Sir Alexander Lindsay who figures iu history as the associate and sup- porter of Bruce, and from whose son, Sir David, the various noble branches of the house of Lindsay may be said directly to spring.

From the time of this Sir David, (who flourished in the early part of the fourteenth century,) the chronicler, the ballad, and tradition, come in aid of the dryness of the formal grant for family history ; while judicial records and public acts furnish more trustworthy and perhaps as picturesque guides to those who can read them properly. Henceforth to pursue the family story of the Lindsays in detail, would be to compile an abridg- ment of the "Lives." Within some two centuries they had ramified into five noble houses : 1. Earls of Crawford;

2. Lords Lindsay of the Byres; 3. Lords (and Earls) of Balosuwes; 4. Lords of Edzell;

5. Lords of Spynie.

For a brief period, an Earl of Crawford obtained the Dukedotn of Mon- trose,—a title till then unknown in Scotland out of the Royal Family; and the Lindsays became conspicuous both as a house and by its indi- vidual members. Nicknames, for good or evil, distinguish several of the race ; many are conspicuous for loyalty, or treason, or in the "private" wars, or for those deeds of violence that devastated Sootiand,during the two centuries preceding James the Sixth's accession to the throne of Great Britain. They gave lawyers and priests to their native land as well as warriors. After the union of the crowns, Isindsay8 wereconspicuons during the religio-civil disputes and wars under the Stuarts. Jacobite principles the loss of fortune, the extinction of two branches of the house, the change of times, and perhaps a languor after so long-con- tinued an exertion, induced. a comparative obscurity in the family for the greater part of the last century; which was somewhat removed towards its close by the active public services of a band of brothers. Of the whole race, the Lord Lindsay who figured so conspicuously in the wars against Mary, and extorted her resignation of the crown in the castle of Loctilesen, 'Lives of the Lindsays; or a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Became. By Lord Lindsay. To which are added. Extracts from the Official Correspondence of Alexander sixth Earl of Balcarres, during the Maroon war; together with Persona/. Narratives by his Brothers, the Honourable Robert, Colin, James, John, and Hugh TArwlaar; and his SisterrLady Anne Barnard. In three volumes. Published by Murray% and John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir, the great lawyer and Secre- tary of State to James the Sixth, are the best known ; but the family lay claim to the poet, Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, and to the historian Lindsay of Pitscottie' as "clansmen." If we measure the extent of the blood by the numbers of the name, it flows very widely indeed. The Lindsays are very numerous in various parts of Scotland, settled in seve- ral places in Ireland, and found in America. If all these Lindsays are really and truly descended from Walter de Limesay of 1116, as our au- thor intimates, there are indeed grounds for his remark that the Norman barons were more " prolific " in Scotland than in England.

In the Lives of the Lindsays there is some dryness, from the nature of genealogy as opposed to biography, and occasionally some confusion. 'This is partly owing to the story of particular branches of the family being pursued, without the reader's attention having been sufficiently called to the purpose in view, which might readily have been managed by a greater explanatory explicitness in the text said A different typogra- phical arrangement. Subject to this drawback, the work appears to be nearly as interesting as such a book can well be made. The author is not only versed in his subject, but saturated with it. He is familiar with heraldry, tradition, ballad, chronicle, public records, and history ; while actual and repeated observation has impressed the scenery of the homes of his ancestors and kindred upon his mind. A claim of his father to the Peerage of Crawford, as nearest surviving representative, would have eirawn his attention closely to the genealogy and muniments of the family even had he been naturally disinclined to such inquiries. He has studied the family papers of the Lindsays, some of an autobiographical character, and some direct autobiographies,—for several of the race were writers, a few of them have published books, and have had books pub- lished about them ; the family, as may readily be inferred, having been a favourite subject for heralds. Lord Lindsey has also received much as- sistance from Mr. Biddle, the celebrated antiquarian lawyer, who "worked up" the Crawford Peerage case, as well as from members of the clan Lindsay.

The book, however, does not consist of the "Lives of the Lindsays" alone; the story of the `family is connected with the history of Scotland.

brief survey is taken of the early period of mixed races and dis- organized society, that Acilitated the immigration of Anglo-Saxons and Normans about the time of the Conquest, enriching particular ailventurers, and contributing to civilize the Scots-Picts. This review ie necessary to enable one to comprehend how a Norman adven- turer (very probably pennfleas) found room and struck root in Scotland. A similar review is taken,at each epoch, when a change occurs in the fauti/y succeeding to the throne, or any obvious social alteraeon, or any great shock to received opinions, like the Reformation, occurred. These, if not so necessary as the preliminary survey, are useful as explaining the changes which occur in the mode of living and career of the Lindsays at different times; and they are allowable, since one if not more of the family was always engaged in public affairs. As these passages are not overdone, they are also critically advantageous, by giving weight and in- terest to the family story, and variety to the narrative. Either from skill or from merely following the nature of his subject, Lord Lindsay adds variety of another kind. In his arclueological arguments we gain an idea of the principles and rules of genealogy ; in his direct pictures or incidental notices we have glimpses of the state of society and of family life at various times from the fourteenth to the close of the eighteenth century. The story throughout is clearly told, except where mixed and mere genealogy too much predominates ; and it is sustained throughout with the untiring energy that we noticed in this author's Christian Art. Among other results of the attention bestowed upon Lord Lindsay's private edition, one, he says rejoicingly, has been to in- duce the compilation of other family histories. We must, however, warn the ambigous, that they cannot hope to produce the same effect. They are forelled in what may be termed the literary features. The skilful in- termure of history and biography, the indirect exhibition of the principles of heraldic learning and reasoning, as well as the indirect pia- twee, will be a repetition,, mad SOW get to look like an imitation. In a Scottish peerage, too, the deeds of violence and of war, though peculiar to the family, will have a generic resemblance. "The first hound catches the hare," and Lord Lindsay is lucky in his priority. At the same time, good as the book is, it Is not difficult to imagine a more artistical work, by allowing to the different main streams a more continuous narrative, by a subordinate handling of insignificant individuals, and by a more ap- propriate use of particular anecdotes, which are sometimes inserted as foot-notes without any reason. In fact, the broad outlines of the subject might have been presented more distinctly, and the details managed with more effect. This would perhaps have been done bad the work been ori- ginally written for the public instead of for the family. The family of Lindsay ramified, as we have observed, into five noble houses. Of these, the first and moat noble was that of Crawford, whose head was the premier Earl of Scotland. The succession failed in the direct line in the middle of the seventeenth century ; and the Earldom (bs- patent) passed to the tindsays of the Byres; whose last male re- presentative, the twenty-second Eatl, died in 1808. After some delay and much litigation, the father of our author, the seventh Earl of Bal- carres, sass:seeded in establishing his claim to the Earldom of Crawford, in 1848. The last Lord of Spynie died in 1671, though the blood is still' preserved through the female line. The Edzell line, the proper representative of the Linde-aye after the extinction of the true Crawfords, but deprived of the title by the terms of a patent, was extinguished towards the middle of the last century, and set in a murky darkness. "There must be an end of all things mundane," and why not of a Lind- say Edzell ? but they did not depart with a dignity suitable to their race,

"Thelast of these Lairds was the David Lindsay already so often 'mentioned, the ison of David and. grandsou of John of Edzell. His history and that of his family is a very mournful one. He would never marry, partly owing to the de- premien of his fortunes, .and partly to an early and unrequited passion for his

cousin Jean Maria Lindsay; a lady whom he revered so very highly,' says her great-grandson, my informant, ' that sometimes he would put the point of Lis sword to his breast, and would then declare that he could freely shed hie Moos for her.' This disappointment and his other misfortunes, preying on a haughty sensitive, wayward, and unregulated spirit, drove him to excesses of all kiwis': good and bad —to gallantry, extravagance, and recklessness, and even, if report be tree, to murder,—and ended in utter ruin. He was strong in person; sa,, my venerable informant, ' as well as potent by reason of his numerous depeadeeis and followers of his fortune, while he possessed the lands of Edzell: these could well wield the broad-sword, and at his bidding follow him trustily, either in apes or a bad cause ; for it was a sad thing then to anger the Laird either bya dea ciency of fealty or disobedience to his orders.' * . It is a tradition in Angus, that a good many weeks, perhaps two or three months, after King William and Queen Mary had been called to the throne. ae honest man from Glenesk came down the country, and before going back to the glen asked at an Edzell man if there was anything new ? ' News, man !' said the inan of Edzell, there's great news; have ye no heard that since you eras down ae King's awe' and we hae got anither?" Say ye sae ? and wha hae we gotten now ? 'It's William free Holland, Prince o' Orange." But what says the Laird of Eagle [Edzell was so pronounced) to it? Does he like it? " Nae, ava!' Ou, than, it no stand.' And so he mounted his shelty, gave it a switch, and set off, quite sure that when he came down next James would be on again.

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" So much did the very Catarine or Highland cattle-stealers stand in awe of him, that they never committed any depredation on his extensive property, which included the most if not the whole four parishes of Edzell, Lochlee, Lethnot, and Haver, although in his time they committed no little havoc both on Ferne on the West and Glenbervie Eastward of EdzelL He was likewise a very noted hunter, and lived for a time in great abundance, till, owing to various causes, but chiefly to his own gross imprudence and misconduct, he was forced to gait his fine pro- perty; which was purchased by the Earl of Panenure about 1714, intending to join the cause of the Stuarta against Government, and chiefly, it was said, to obtain hardy set of swordsmen to follow him in his intended enterprise; 'and he thereby succeeded David Lindsay in possession of the Edzell estate: but this he did not long retain, as he was forfeited the very next year, when that property was sold by Government to the York Buildings Company, and David Lindsay, in the mean while, with the wreck of his fortune and by the aid of my grandfather, bought the small estate of Newgate: there he resided for some years: this little property lie was at length constrained to sell to my above grandfather, when he removed to M i rkwall n the Orkney Islands; where he died, in the capacity of an hostler at an inn, about the middle of last century, or, as stated by Earl James hi his Me- moirs, in 1744, aged about eighty years,—;landless outcast, yet unquestionably de fare Lord the Lyndissay,' as representative of David the third and of Ludowic the sixteenth Earls of Crawford. Earl James of Balearres then became chief of the Lindsays.

" 'Some years,' adds my informant, before David Lindsay was obliged to part with his estate of Edzell, such was the regard that several gentlemen yet retained for that once potent Laird, that they proposed to him to yield up his property to them in trust for seven years, at the end of which period they were to guarantee hint that it should be restored back to him free of debt, aad that during the above period he should have a handsome income from them to live on. Bat, alas! that imprudent man rejected their kind proposal; and thereby his disastrous affairs went speedily to utter ruin.", * •

"Edzell had two sisters, both of them, I believe, left early motherless; the eldest named Margaret, remembered in tradition as the proud lady of Edzell,' and married to Watson of Aitherny, the representative of an ancient and opulent family in Fifeshire, which was ruined through her extravagance; the youngest, Janet, a lovely and graceful girl, whose fate throws a shade of still deeper sadness over the darkening fortunes of her house. She fell,a victim to the arts of the younger son of a noble Scottish family, who ruined and deserted her. * C *

"A daughter was the fruit of this ill-omened love—of whom descendants still exist in England; .and the faithless lover left the country, and was killed at the battle of Almanza in Spain, in 1707.

"The circumstances of the last 'flitting ' are still remembered in the neighbourhood, and I give them in the simple but impressive words of local tra- dition. 'The Laird, like his father, had been a wild and wasteful man, and had been long awa '; he was deeply engaged with the unsuccessful party of theStuarts, and the rumours of their defeat were still occupying the minds of all the country-side. One afternoon the poor Baron, with a sad and sorrowful counte- nance and heavy heart, and followed by only one of a his company, both est horseback, came to the castle, almost unnoticed by any. Everything was silent —he ga'ed into his great big house, asolitary man—there was no wife or child to gre him welcome, for he had never been married. The castle was almost deserted; a few old servants had been the only inhabitants for many months. Neither the Laird nor his faithful follower took any rest that night. Lindsay, the broken- hearted ruined man, sat all that night in the large hall, sadly occupied—destroy- ing papers sometimes, reading papers sometimes,sometimes writing, sometimes sitting mournfully silent—unable to fix his thoughts on the present or to contem- plate the future. In the course of the following day he left the castle in the same manner in which he had come; he saw none of his people or tenants; his one at- tendant only accompanied him: they rode away, taking with them as mach of what was valuable or useful as they could conveniently carry. And, turning round to take a last look of the old towers, he drew a last long sigh, and wept. He was never seen here again." The line of Balcarres itself had a narrow escape from extinction, to- wards the middle of the last century. The family was reduced by deaths to two survivors, brother and sister, between whom a strong affection existed. The brother appears to have been a true representative of the old Scotch gentleman ; chivalrous, brave, polite, and learned, but "stiff in opinion," and full of provincial prejudices. He served the Hanoverian family for nearly forty years ; was present at the battle of Dettingen, and other conflicts ; had the recommendation of his commanders, and high interest, for even the Minister laid his claims before George the Second. Hut, through the influence of his father, he had been " out ' in the Jacobite insurrection of 1715, and the King resisted his advancement beyond the rank of Captain. He at last retired hi disgust to his estate, enctun- bered with the expenses of rebellion: and here, on the death of his sister, he feud it wan "not good for man to be alone," even with books and study. He was then nearly sixty years old, the lady of his affection Boole twenty-two. The marriage took place (in 1749) under ciroumstancee as odd. as the match itself. They are thus told by Lady Anne Barnard, his daughter,—celebrated for her touching ballad, "Auld Robin Gray", from whose manuscript memoirs Lord Lindsay quotes copiously. "Lady Balearres was the daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton, eldest OA of Sir Hew of North Berwick, Lord President of the Court of Session, and who had died before his father. The widowed Lady Dalrymple and her daughter had arrived at Moffat the night before Lord Balcarres, and they and Lord Balcarres were invited to the same party. It was at the house of a Mrs. L—, who hea an unmarried niece. In the early part of the evening the young ladies were Oa); fully speculating as to their success in captivating Lord Balearres, but 'Yon lwu not give yourselves so much trouble,' said Bilis Dalrymple, laughing, know he

ligAteM hetliattwesqlten eernathista; ,Whettle nth& hili en* lertelfh

eretunk e- said toshim-on hadhiape; ' My Lord,. hersis tholes-1k ,yoar riann4:the yonog ladiea present,. and her. niece. Ills eye &need-with jleenMt eagerness at each-of the fair circle; hecame round, and, to Miss Dal- rmple's. disinay and .astonieliment, laid hie-finger on her-shoulder, anclsaid, I ' .„.Larly Dalrymple and her daughter -immediately returned to, Ediri- hurgk;,,a441,.Balcarres fol/owed them, obtained- a formal introduction to the young leaf,- mil proffered her his hand and heart. * * * "But though Miss Dalrymple respected.and looked up to him, she was not dis- ',00seet tripass the bounds of gratitude for his marked admiration of her. Lord Weems was almost sixty, and what was worse, the world reckoned him eighty! Though his aspect was noble, and his air and deportment showed-him at once to be man of rank, yet there was no denying that a degree of sir:lento-thy attended his appearauce. To his large brigadier wig, which hung down with three tailsilie generally added a few curls of his own application, which, I suspect, would not have bean reckoned quite orthodox by the trade. His shoe, which resembled no- thing .s0 much as a little boat with a cabin at the end of it, was slashed with his penknife for the benefit of giving ease to his honest toes; here, there, he slashed it where he chose to Slash, without an idea-that the world or its fashions had the smalleat right to smile at his shoe: had they smiled, he would have smiled too, and probably said, Odsfish! I believe it is not like other people's but as to that, look, d'ye see, what matters it whether so old a fellow as-myself wears a shoe or a slipper 7' The charms of his company end conversation carried with them a powerful attraction to-the fair princesses whom he delighted to draw round him,-for I oosht to have mentioned that my tether's INISS1011 for Queen Mary gave royalty to the sex, in order to account for phrase I have often repeated, while his total want of knowledge of the world, in which he hadnever lived, might have laid him too open M the arts of those princesses, had not Providence directed his choice. "This, however, was a character which could only be taken in the aggregate. Lord Balcarres had proposed-Miss Dalrymple -had not courage to accept; she refused him-fully, frankly, finally, refused him. It hurt him deeply-he fell sick-his life was despaired of. Every man of sense may know that a fever is the best oratory a lover can use: a man of address would have fevered upon plan, but the fever of my simple-hearted father was • as real as his disappointment. Though grieved, he had no resentment; he settled upon her the half of his estate -she learnt this from his man of business; he recovered, though slowly ; and in one of those emotions of gratitude so virtuous at the moment, but which some- times hurry the heart beyond its calmer impulse, she married him."

The marriage was prolific ; no fiwer than eleven children were the issue. The house of Lindsay, after such a narrow escape from extinc- tion, seems to have revived amid the civilization of the eighteenth century with as much vigour as it originally started amid the darkness and feud- alism of the twelfth. Economy and energy characterized all the sons ; who by public service under the Crown or the more profitable East India Company, as well as by prudent marriages, acquired fortunes, feuded branches, and the head of the house of Balcarres was enabled in du time to lay claim to the Earldom of Crawford, the great peerage of the Lindsaya. The estates went under the entail to another house after the death of the Earl's sister, Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford. Her life, character, death, and burial, are thus recorded by her relation.

"Lady Mary survived her brother for a quarter of a century. No one has a right to speak of this 'remarkable lady so gratefully or affectionately as myself. She was quite a character-belonging to times that are gone by. In youth she vas extremely handsome, and retained her good looks to an advanced period of life.e-lier mind was of a masculine order, her spirit high, independent, and un- scrupnious;' her temper haughty to those who did not understand or presumed to contradict her prejudices, yet kind and coneiderate to her dependents, who were devotedly attached to her, and whom she had had around her for years. Living (at least while in Britain) in almost entire seclusion, her affections found vent Oft a curious assemblage of dumb favourites; dogs of every description, birds, and even a tame fox, formed pairt of her establishment. Her brother's charger, long the object of her care, survived her; and in her will were found minute directions how and when it should be put to death, SQ that the cessation of its existence ..might be attended with the least poasible pain,-it was to be shot sleeping. A tame deer, of great age, was a peculiar favourite; she compounded its mess of bread and milk daily with her own hands, But access to her papers enables me to speak of much of which the world in generalknew,nothing-of kind attentions, acts of generosity, little minute delicacies, most unworldly and ideal, to every one vith whom she catne into contact,-of the Judicious bestowal of money, in loan or gift, on the deserving-and constant correspondence and intercourse with her mother's old friends, maintained through years of age and illness,-which may balance the remembrance of eccentricities, many doubtless and to be regretted, kit which almost invariably, as was remarked by a commentator on her character immediately after her death, leaned to virtue's side and the cause of humanity:

"The predominant feature in Lady Mary's character was a religions reverence for feudal times and the memory of her ancestors; a reverence which she indulged in the erection of Crawford Priory, near Struthers; the ruined castle of the Lind- sap of the Byres, in Fifeshire. It was in the it.hic hall of this edifice that the

funeral service of the Church of -England read her remains, by the Rer reread J. Sinclair, on the 2ncl DeCeriber 1833. It was a day of alternate cloud and sunshine, but mild and still. About the middle of the service, the sun-rays suddenly streamed through the painted glass, on the grained reef, on the trophies of &Went armour disposed round the-walls, and lighted tqf the very pall of death With the guiles and azure of the Lindsay. cognizance emblazoned on the- Window, and then died away again. The service .over, the procession_moved slimly from the Priory door, ascending, by a winding road cut for the occasion through a wood of pines, to the mausoleum on the summit of a lofty emipence, where her brother Earl George was buried. Numbers of the tenantry, and of the townspeople of Caper and Ceres, attended, and the hills were covered with groups of spectators. A more impressive scene I never witnessed. And thus, amidst is general subdued sileoce, we committed to the dust the last of the Lindsay's of the .Byres, the last of a line of five hundred years." It was, however, by a strange circumstance that Lady Mary was the last of the Lindsays of' the Byres-4rorn the connexion of two of them With the dramatic incidents of Mary's and James's reign the most pre- eminent of the race. But for the accidents of bad advice an Earl Lindsay Slight yet have flourished. At the death of George last Earl of' Crawford of the Byres branch, the holionnepeculiar to it-to wit, the ancient Lordship of the Byres, the premier on the roll of ranking of the nobility in ISM, the Earldom of Lindsay, and Barony of Parbroath,created in 1633, the Viseceuityof Gas-neck and Baronies of Drnmry, &c.-being in no wise affected by the Crawford patent of 1642, became the right and heritage of the next heir-male of the deceased Earl, whoever that tight be. And that heir-male was found, but standing on one of the lowest reelids of fortune's ladder.

Of the early branches of the house of Byres, anterior to that of Garnock, the latest, the Lintisays of Kilquhiss, descended from Norman younger brother of „Petrick sixth Lord' Lindsay of the Byres, seems to have expired shortly after the toration; the next in propinquity was the family of Kirkforthar, sprung from

U‘Vid younger brother of John Lord Lindsay, who flourished rather before u....amdie 0. the iiixteenth Aitituryg titi-rdiksifinilliePelidedili`Captalfi Taindelakef Kirkforthar, who diestabcittt Efty.yeniti age;-bub-the.Meitt heir-MW, aL the time of Earl George's.death,;end, by gemsareace v,ho legitimate: heir te, the *Byres honours, was David Litidsay,rt„smant-Intirite.artn3q-1.11rne fether,i soldier, but a man of weak capacity,ld'heert recpgitged asoti,copain, and_ kiedly treated and provided for by the'CrawfbrerNMily.'"'DkVid'erfliited as dikes soon as he could handle irthskettE rind-laa icepiiitetPliPelfcet%iit ditirket btith among the privates and his Superior officers, whereitiewuocessionl thus O edit, him. He was served heirmaleof the Kirk.forther,familyiand the prospeot seeined Iii before him. Lord Mansfield and Genet4il:4104'41e of Alionn;Xeditiliter.effe' Sewed his case to the Duke of York; and Obtained the promise of a comensayon for bias: they also' °tared to subscribe a suet of money, to enable him toestabilsh his claim ; but he declined it, a brother of hie wife, in America who was in alfhlent circumstances, having already given }Mira. credit for whaiever money might be necessary. In the mean while, he resolved to educate laimaelf for the sphere inlife to'which he appeared to be destined: but, sad to say„ through ill claim arnligeo- relic° what path to take, instead of commencing with common elementary- in- struction; suited to his condition, he was 'recommended talogarithms and the abstruse sciences; in his utter inability to apprehend which, while lie laudably, though desperately persevered, amidst this struggle of ardentlestil with intellect,' he succumbed; a brain-fever supervened,' and carried him off in 1809, childless and without any near male relations, within,a year afterwards," - We have preferred 'tracing the story of the. decline mad fall of the four branches of the fainily; and the revival of the. fifth, to gnat:lug anecdotes of an earlier period, the best of which are probably familiar to the readets of Scottish story. But we Will take one passage deiscriptire of the homes Of the earlyLindsay& "Till the death of Sir James of Crawford, in 1391, the family hid. resided chiefly in Clydesdale; but Earl David, and Sir Alexander before him, hadspent their , lives in Angus- and that county became. henceforward the-home of their predilection. Their princiipal residence-was at Finhaven, 0. castle built on'a high bank or hill overhangingthe Lenin°, and deriving its „name Fion-abhain: Or the 'White river,' from the Mani cast up by the,rippling,of the waters of thatlittla stream at their confluence with the SOnthEsk; almost under the castle-walls. The site is not striking from elevation or otherwise; but a more favourable poai- tion in a military point of view could not have been chesen, the castle being situated at the entrance of the great valley of litrathmore;so as to command the whole of the Lowlands beneath the base of the Grampians, while at the same time it guards the passes of the highlands through the ueighbouring valleys of Gleiimia, GlenproseD, and Glinclova. Little now remains of the fortress saver the- .keep;' a lofty •square ' tower of the fourteenth century, split asunder as by lightning: and overgrown- With ivy; and from the Summit of which a view wad obtainable till recently over the whole surrounding country; bat, judging by the graceful proportion; and beautiful masonry, of _the fragment that remains, and the extent of ground enclosed Within the.fosse, Einhaven, when entire, must have been a moat stately structure. A noble. Spanish-chestnut, nearly forty-three feet in circumference, ornamented the court of-the 'castle, and probably served as the 'curio-tree,' under which tlieStirinp-Cup was drunk when guesti departed on their journey. it was in full growth and vigour in the days of Earl David's great-grandson, commonly called .'Earl...Deardie); but a elite or messenger lad, sent on an errand from the Castle of Carriston to that of Finhaven, having cut. a walking-stick from it, the Earl Was no enraged that he hanged him on a branch of it,-such at least is the tradition,-and- from that moment the tree hegisn to decay, though it was not till 1740 that the bitter frost of that year killed it, and fortwenty years later it continued standing' till a storm in 1760 finally levelled it with 'the ground. The ghost of the gillie has ever since constantly walked: between Finhaven and Carnston, under the name of Jock Barefoot; getting credit for all the tricks and rogueries commonly attributed in England to Rabin Geed. fellow. The church of Finhaven-'rebuilt; as already.. Mentioned, by Sir Alex- ander Lindsey immediately before his departure for Palestine--Larose contlitstant to the matte-walla; -and-the...neighbouring-hamlets of Aberlinuto and Tannadyce afforded accommodation to the families of the-immediate retainers. Westwardof the castle, a traet of primarird forest,. chiefly of oak,, styled the Barony of the Forest of Platane, extended for several inn-el-nominally the , property of the Crown, but de facto of the Earls of Crawford ;who held it as hereditary foresters, and had a ledge or residence in the green-wood, the vestiges of which are gal pointed out under the name ef Lindsey's Hal The forest has now entirely dis- appeared; but the tradition of the, country bears! thatthe wild cat could leap

from tree to tree from the castle of Finhaven to the hill of Kirriemnir, . • "At Certain seasons, during the *inter probably, this country residence was . exchanged for the 'Palatturn Ceinitis' the Earl's Palace,' the Great Lod '

or the 'Earl's Lodging,' as-it is variously desetibed ancient records; in t provincial capital, Dundee,-a vast and antique edifice, part of which was still standing about sixty years ago,-with the letters 'Lindsay ' embossed on the battle- ments; and which stood in what was formerly, styled the Flukergait; now the Nethergate, West of the High Street or Market-place, occupying with its offices and viridarinm' or garden, the whole space between that street and the river. A chapel, or oratory,- dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, was attached to the palace, and served for the daily devotions of the family r but on great church festivals, and on the anniversaries of their ancestors,_ wheu mass was celebrated • for their souls at the altars fouuded by themselves or, their cbildren, they attended in the perish-church of St. Mary, still further Westward, and formerly deno- minated thes‘`Kirk in the FieldW fromits situation Outside the town; aad where Earl:David-had founded the chuntries.mentioned in the pteceding chapter,-4r otherwise, in that of the -Franciscan convent lying to the North of the tows, commonly called the arayfriara,'-where genenttion. after generation of the Earls of Crawford were finally laid to rest, and where their tombs were millto be • seen, in Gothic magnificence, till the destruction both of convent and church at the , Reformation: Babsequently to that 'catastrophe they were buried in St. Illary'lf. Another religious foundation of the family, orone'at least of which they possteased the patronage, the Chapel of St. Nicholas; crowned the rock named after that- saint at the mouth of the harbour. of Dundee,-,,where they also rearisda towek and fortalice, which, with the possession of the craig,. gave them the, commend , of the port. It was at this rock that David Earl of -Huntingdon leaded on hits return from Palestine.* The Lives of' the Lintlsays is contained In two volumes ; a third volume is devoted to the Lindlsay papers nearly all of which are con- tributed by some children of that fifth Earl of Balcarres whose marriage sixth Earl wile Governor ; to military campaigns and captivity in India during the wars of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib ; and to travels and Adven- tures in various parts of the globe. To this 'Valuate we May possibly return, as its contents deserve mare notice than we can now bestow upon them.

we have recorded. They relate to the Maroon war, in Jamaica, where the