THE SCOTISH GALLERY; O R, PORTRAITS O F EMINENT PERSONS O F SCOTLAND. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/scotishgalleryorOOpink Mary Qtlteeb" of Scots „ THE SCOTISH GALLERY? O R, PORTRAITS O F EMINENT PERSONS O F SCOTLAND: MANY OF THEM AFTER PICTURES BY THE CELEBRATED JAMESON, AT T AY MOUTH, AND OTHER PLACES. WITH BRIEF ACCOUNTS OF THE CHARACTERS REPRESENTED, AND AN INTRODUCTION ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN SCOTLAND. By JOHN P INKER TON LONDON: PRINTED FOR E. HARDING, NO* 98, PALL-MALL* 1799, CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE PORTRAITS. i Robert i. z David II. 3 Queen Annabella Drummond. 4 Queen Jane. 5 Firfh lord Campbell, 1445. 6 Mariotta bis wife. 7 Sir Colin Campbell,. 1460. 8 Margaret bis wife. 9 Margaret of Denmark. 10 James IV. 11 Margaret Tudor 1 12 John duke of Albany. J 13 Mary of Guife. 14 Mary Queen of Scots. 15 The Winton Family. 16 Duke of Chatelheraut. 17 George Buchanan. 18 John Knox. 19 The" fame. 20 Earl of Glencairn. 21 Abbot of Newbottel. 22 James VI. 23 Chancellor Maitland. 24 Fifth Earl MarfhalL 25 Sir Chronological List of the Portraits. 2^ Sir Alex. Frafer. 26 Mark Alex. Boyd. 27 Countefs of Mar. 28 Arthur Johnfton. 29 Marchionefs of Hamilton. 30 Drummond of Hawthornden. 31 Sir Colin Campbell, 1631. 32 Juliana his wife. 33 Sir James Ramfay. 34 Earl of Loudon. 35 Countefs of Buchah. 36 Sir Rob. Gordon. 37 Robert Traill. 38 Marquis of Gordon. 39 Sir Thomas Hope. 40 Lord Dryburgh. 41 David lord Cardrofs. 42 Earl of Strathern. 43 Earl of Ancrum. 44 Chancellor Glencairn, 45 Lord Maitland. 46 James Gregory. 47 Sir And. Forelter. 48 Fletcher of Salton. 49 David Gregory. 50 Lord Belhaven. 51 Sir John Medina. 52 Colin Maclaurin. INTRODUCTION ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN SCOTLAND. F E W traces of painting in England can be difcovered prior to the reign of Henry III, 1216— 1272. During that period the Alexanders, kings of Scotland, frequently vifited the Englifh court, and almoft conftant amity pre- vailed between the* two kingdoms — but no evidence arifes that any painter from England vifited Scotland. The ancient and continual commerce between Scodand and the Netherlands leads to the inference, that the firft ar- tifts were Flemings. That great prince, Robert I, feduloiifly promoted this in- tercourfe, and as he invited Flemifh artizans of all de- fcriptions, it is probable that a painter might be among them, efpecially as in the following century, we find painting even common in Scotland. In the account of the parilh of Houflon, in Renfrew- mire, to be found in that fingular and invaluable work, The Statiftic Account of Scotland, (Vol. I. p. 329,) is the following curious information. " Upon the fouth wall of the aile [of Houflon church] there is a large frame of timber, on which two pictures, feem- ingly INTRODUCTION. ingly done with oil-colours, but much worn out. On the right fide a man in complete armour, refembling that of a Knight Templar, with an infcription in Saxon characters over his head, fome words of which are effaced, Hie jacet Dominus Joannes Hcufion de eodsm miles, qui obiit anno Bom. M. CCCC°. On the left hand, a picture of his lady, alfo much effaced, and over her head the following infcription, Hie jacet Domina Maria Colquhoun, fponfa quondam dicli Do- mini Joannis, qu Mrs. Scott of RoJJic. Murray his wife. J Sir Adam Gordon. Gordon of Park. Dr. Dunn, founder of the Grammar School at Aberdeen. Bijftt of LeJTcndrum, Crichton Vifcount Frendraught. Sutherland Vifcountefs Frendraught. Marquis of Montrofe Urquhart of Oomartie, and his wife. » Lefly lady Frendraught. Thtfe fix Mr. Mor'fon of Bognie, Ahtrdeenfhlre, Marchionefs of Huntley. Duke of Gordon* Dr. Wm. Johnfton. Arthur his brother. Andrew Cant. Gordon of Stralcch. Sir Paul Mcnzies, Provoft of Aberdeen. Tljefe flvt Marlfthai College ^ Aberdeen. Patrick Forbes bimop of Aberdeen. ProfefTor Sandilands. Gordon. King's College. Ibid, Earl of Tweedale. tefter h»uft. Andrew Frafer of the Muckills, and his wife. Cafik Frafer % Alerdecnjblre* Gen. David Lefley. Wil. Forbes bilh p of Edinburgh. Both U>qubart of Craigjlon. Sir Th. Nicholfon lord Advocate. Earl of Kinmul, Earl of Huntley, called Luck in Hand. CountrJ's Dovjager of Abivdcen^ Carnegy of Southefk. Northefk, Craigs, Dunnichen. * Ulr D. Carnegy \ David! INTRODUCTION. David Anderfon of Fir.yean, Merchant burjrefs of Aberdeen, commonly called, from his ingenuity, Davy Jo ail things, aud uncle to Jamefon. His defcendjutt Charles Bannerman Aberdeen* Sir James Sandilands fon of Torphichen. Mr, Hamilton of Cathlavj. Sir Alexander Frafer of Fraferburgh and Philorth. Duplicate. U' fju- hart of Craigjlnn. m Lmdiay lord S per. yie, full length. Stuart of 'Gran diully. Others may be found in the Anecdotes of Painting in England. His full lengths are extremely rare, and very mafterly. It is Taid there is an architectural piece by jamelon, in King's College Aberdeen, which not only reprefents the ancient ft ate of that building, but the profeffors and ftudents in their drefTes. The mod interefting of his pictures is that belonging to the Earl of Findlater. This piece, as defcribed in a letter from a gentleman refident at Cullen-Houfe, where it remains, reprefents Jamefon himfelf, as large as life, with a round hat on his head. He is looking you in the face, with his left hand, in which is his pallet, on a table, and his right over it, the forefinger of which points to feveral fmall pictures in the back ground. Drefs, a black jacket with a white falling band. In the back ground are ten fquares, of about fix inches, reprefenting portraits, fome of them full lengths ; fome of the fquares have two or three figures, and one of them is a fea-piece. Size of the picture, within the frame, two feet, ten inches in breadth, by two feet eight, in height. In the fame houfe is another picture attributed to the fame artift, three feet, fix inches high, by two feet eight , broad. The fubjecT: mud allude to the civil war, as it re- prefents a crown, bottom upmoft \ fceptre, baton, royal ftandard, heaped near it ; a printed fcroll, a calket covered with crimfon velvet, lid open, with necklaces and toys. At INTRODUCTION. At the bottom, on the right hand, is a final 1 figure about four inches long, badly executed, of Charles I. which feems as if done with red chalk on a white ground. The moft numerous fet of Portraits by Jamefon is that at Taymouth, the feat of the Earl of tfraidalban, whofe an- ceftor, Sir Colin Campbell, was the painter's chief patron. The Earl having in the politelt manner granted permiflion to copy them, and Meilieurs Morifons, bookfellers at Perth, having provided an able artift for that purpofe, many will be found in this volume from that noble repofitory. This artift was the late ingenious Mr. Robert Johnfon of Newcaftle, whofe death, while employed in this talk, is deeply to be regretted. He had copied about fifteen ; and four remained to be done, the Marquis and Earl of Argyle, and two from the Genealogical Tree, when the editor was furprifed with an account of his deplorable fate, in a let- ter from Meffieurs Morifons dated 18th of Nov. 1796. It ftates that, a few days before, they had received a let- ter from the man with whom Johnfon lodged at the village of Kenmore, defiring them to fend for him, as he was quite delirious ; and by exprefs the day following they were in- formed of his death. That, in his anxiety to complete his labour, (he was to have been at Taymouth in June, but a fit of illnefs prevented him till Auguft), he would fit all day in a room without fire : a violent cold was the confe- quence, wmich neglect increafed to a fever, " it flew to his brain, and, terrible to relate, he was bound with ropes, beat, and treated like a madman." This ignorance of the people around him was happily enlightened by the cafual arrival of a phyfician, who ordered blifters $ and poor Johnfon died in peace ! Though the editor endeavoured to folace himfelf by the reflection that he was giving bread to an ingenious man, whofe fate was thus decreed, yet he could INTRODUCTION. could not help deeply feeling his being the innocent eaufe of an event fo deplorable in all its circumftances. His correfpondent at the fame time informed him, that Johnfon had been bound apprentice to Bewick, by his fa- ther, an aged carpenter of Ga'.eihead near Newcaftle — that Mr Bewick, obferving his uncommon genius for drawing, employed him to trace the figures on the wood in his ele^ gant hiftory of quadrupeds — that he had been employed about fix months, on his own account, before he engaged to go to Taymouih — and that his labour fupported his aged parents.* After this defcrved tribute to the memory of an amiable and ingenious a tift, let us return to the confideration of Jamefon's works at Taymouth. In the courfe of the fol- lowing pages, will be found Mr johnfon's opinion con- cerning fome erroneoufly afcribed to that painter, an opi- nion confirmed by Jamefon's own memorandums^ preser- ved in Walpole's Anecdotes. In two letters, datt-d Ken- more, Aug. 13, and Taymouth OB. 11, 179 s Mr. John- fon gives an ample detail concerning all the pictures. From the article on Duncan lord Campbell, the reader will fee that the Genealogical Tree, with miniatures, is by Jame- fon : the portraits in it being from an older fet by fome in- ferior artift, and erroneoufly fuppofed to be Jamefon's. Nor is Sir Colin, the pa : nter's patron, nor his lady, the work of that artiffc : nor the Scotifh kings, except Robert I and David II, efpecially mentioned as his in his ow T n memorandums, as are the queens, and the ladies of Glenur- chie. Of the former only four remain, Annabella Drum- mi ond, Margaret of Denmark, Mary of Guife, and Hen- * Sec more concerning this artift in the Monthly Magazine, Vol IT. p. 541, and 833 — and Vol. V. p. *88, fonncts on his death, in which it if erioneoufly mentioned that he was employed by the Earl of Braidalban, rietta INTRODUCTION. rietta Maria : the others feem to have periflied from ne- glect, while the kings, the production of a very inferior artift, are preferved. The ladies of Glenurchie amount to feven : lady Jane 1619, and lady Juliana 1633, not being by Jamefon. In his letter of the nth of 061. 1796, Mr. Johnfon fays the portraits of Robert I, and David Ii, " bear evident marks of authenticity." They are on canvas : " the Robert I may truly be faid to be refcued from oblivion, being without a frame and fo tender that I could fcarce get it copied." He adds " The Marquis of Argyle is alfo by Jamefon and, that the Genealogical Tree has ten fmall portraits, including Archibald firft lord of Argyle, all un- doubtedly by thac great painter. The editor cannot difmifs this volume, without cx- preffing his fatisfa&ion that, amid many difappointments, inconveniences, and obftacles, he has been enabled to formfuch an afTemblage of Scotifli Portraits, as is contained in this and a former work. An authentic feries of the kings has been recovered, from Robert I, after fictitious fets had been current for a century and a half : Robert II, and III, are indeed rot the moft pleafing, the original old prints . being apparently from tombs or fhtues, in which the beards, worn at hat time, are omitted, as they often are on feals, the hair being Angularly difficult for a rude ar- tift to manage. In this, and other points, the promife of the original Profpeftus has been amply fulfilled ; and where a failure has happened, it has arifen from erroneous information concerning portraits that do not exift, as Ro- bert 11 and his queen Taymouth, Robert II, at Strawberry- hill, Sir Robert Murray, Royal Society — or miftakes, as Re- gent INTRODUCTION. gent Murray at Fonthill, Cardinal Beton at Holyrood houfe. The Profpectus was iffued in 1794, and though five years have elapfed, the editor cannot accufe his want of diligence, for the obftacles and delays were fuch as none can have a proper idea of, except thofe who have undertaken a fimilar tafk. Landfcapes, or ruins, may be drawn at any time; but accefs to portraits depends on many circumftances. His fole motives were his own curiofity, and a warm in- born wifh, which has ftimulated mo ft of his literary en- deavours, that his countrymen fhould not negle6t their na- tive productions of art and literature. To emolument he never looked ; and, after the facrifice of much time, will be contented to find that he has made but a fmail facrifice of gold. Should encouragement arife, another volume of this fize might contain the mod curious of the remaining portraits ; and beyond that extent materials could hardly be found. Meanwhile the editor would rejoice if a fimilar work were commenced in Scotland where it could be conducted with more eafe, and at lefs expence. It is, at the fame time, matter of furprife that the publishers of periodical works there do not give interefting portraits, from genuine paintings, often in their own neighbourhood, inftead of views, which are repeated ad faftidium. The reader will obferve that, of two or three of the portraits here given, there are no letter-prefs descriptions, becaufe the perfons are fufficientty known. The accounts of Mark Ker, Prior of Newbottle, and of the Earl of An-* crum, were communicated by the family. From the Original a t Taynwuth ROBERT I. JL H I S celebrated monarch afFumed the fcepter of Scot- land at Scone, on the 27th day of March 1306.* The kingdom was at that time almoft entirely reduced to fervkude, by the arms and policy of Edward I of England ; and the partifans of R.obert did not exceed twenty* among whom the chief names were Randel, Scton, Lennox, Athole, Douglas, Hay, Barclay, Frafer, Somerviile, Inch- martin, Boyd, Fleming. To them were oppofed mod of the power of Scotland, and all the power of England and her allies. A more heroic enterprize never was formed nor conducted, by patient and perfevering valour, to fach complete fuccefs* It is unnecefTary to detail, the particulars of this glorious ftruggle for national independence, as they are well known to every reader of hiftory. In the courfe of feven years Robert not only delivered Scotland from the Englifh fway, but carried his arms into the ifle of Mann, and Cumberland. Edward II, fummoning the whole array of his kingdom, met the Scotifn monarch at Bannocburn, on the 23d of June 1314. Robert was reviewing his troops, when Henry de Bohun, a valiant Englifh knight, rufhed upon him, ho- ping by one bold action to decide the event ; but the king, parrying his fpear, flew him with a battle-ax. On the fol- * One reference to Dalrymple's Annals may ferve for this brief View jf the reign of the firft Robert. lowing Robert I. lowing day was fought the memorable battle, in which Ed- ward II was completely defeated, and cfcaped with the greater! difficulty. The heroifm of the prince fpread like electric fire thro* the chiefs, and the nation : and Scotland began to attract the admiration of France, and other foreign powers. Edward, the brother of Robert, pafTed to Ireland, where he was fo- lemnly crowned : but after having fubdued moll of that* kingdom, he was defeated and flain. Robert proceeded to eftablifh the tranquility of his realm by wife laws and regulations. The noted alliance be- tween France and Scotland, firft conceived by John Baliol, in order to oppofe the ufurpations of Edward I, was repeated by Robert in fuch formal terms, as to become the reference and ground of the numerous fucceeding treaties between thefe. powers. And the independence of Scotland was fealed by the treaty of Northampton, 1328, in which it was alfo agreed that David foa of Robert ihould wed Johanna the daughter of Edward II. After a glorious reign of twenty three years, Robert I died at Cardrofs on the 7th of June 1329, in the 56th year or his age. He was buried at Dunfermlin. Concerning the perfonal appearance of Robert L the early authors difsappoint euriofitjr. An old poem m Fordun's chronicle* fays he was like Paris in beauty, likq Hector in arms. Qui Paris in Jpecie, in enje Heft or rzprius* f Lib. xiw, c. ijf, Robert I. Hector Boyce 5n his fabulous work tells us that James I of Scotland [about the year 1430] vifited an old lady, near Kinnoul in Penhfhire, who had feen and remembered William Wallace and Robert Bruce. She faid Robert wa$ of eminent beauty and ftrength ; but in the latter quality was excelled by W allace.* No portrait can anfwer the idea of Robert I more than the prefent. The venerable force of the countenance, the ruddy glow of warlike exercife, the piercing blue eye, the yellow locks and beard, are all in a confonance, rendered ftill more linking by the refemblance of his fon David II, whole portrait will admit of more authentication in another article of this work. But the cofiume will require fome remarks. The fkilful antiquary would, at the firft glance, be better pleafed to find Robert I in mail or in ring, armour, than in plate > as here. The mailj confiding of fmall fcales like thofe of fifh, fattened on leather, and the ring-armour, of fmall rings interwoven, be- gan indeed to yield to the plate armour about the year 1300, Edward I of England, who died in 1307, appears, in fome portraits, in a mixture of mail and plate. Under Philip the Fair of France, 1285 — 13 14, the nobles are all reprefented in mail: and the earlier!: plate armour, in Montfaucon's work, is of the age of Philip of Valois, 13 28 — 1350. Yet in the curious contemporary portraits of the Dukes of Milan, publifhed by Jovius, Galeazzo I, who died in 1328, appears in plate-armour. On his feals, engraved early in his reign, Robert I is clothed in mail: and it may juftly be expected that W allace, * Lib, svii. fol. v. $62, edit. 15 27, executed Robert I. executed in 1305, fhould wear that armour, and the helmet of the time, inftead of plate, and the Roman helmet with d dragon, hardly known even in the varieties of the fixteenth century. Upon the whole fome learned judges of the fubject, to whom the doubts were communicated, agree that no folic! obje&icn can arife from the coftume , more efpecially as the armour and helmet are remarkably plain, and unadorned, and apparently in the infancy of the art. The mail ufual around the neck, after the invention of plate, may be hid by the flowing beard. The gold chain, and ornament with St. Andrew's crofs, bear notation to an order of knighthood — ■ the latter, it is likely, is a little box containing fome relique, as ufual in thefe fuperftitious times. The battle -ax is highly in character — but why in the left hand may be a quefliori more idle than curious. The original picture is at Taymouth, and was painted by Jamefon being fpecially mentioned among his works.* It is faid the prototypes of this, and fome other royal portraits- by Jamefon, were old limnings in the palace at Dunfermlin. They bear indeed every mark of authenticity. Robert I, it is well known, highly encouraged the commerce between his kingdom and Flanders ; whence he might be fupplied with a painter, and with his plate armour, invented, it is fuppofed, in Germany, and thence called German plate, and German rivets. The print is exactly engraved from an exquifitfe. drawing in colours by Johnfon, 1796. * Walpole's Anecdotes, VoU II, p. 184. 8vo, J^ro77z t/ze 07'i p. 184. ANNABELLA DRUMMOND QUEEN OF ROBERT III. A M O N G the Scotifh queens, painted by Jamefon at Tay mouth, it was reported that there was a picture of the queen of Robert II, that is Euphemia Rofs j for Ixis firft wife, Elizabeth More, died long before the Steward af- cended the throne. This information, as it often happens, was erroneous ; the queens of Robert II, James I and If, and IV, being now wanting in that noble collection of Jamefon's works ; while the heads of the kings, painted by fome very inferior hand, happen to be preferved. Of the queens of James I and IV other portraits exift : but thofe of Robert II and James II would be a curious dis- covery. Meanwhile is given the portrait of Annabella Drum- mond, from a drawing in colours by Johnfon, after Jamefon's painting. Its authenticity is left to the reader : but it is probable that Jamefon had fome archetype from her tomb at Dunfermlin, or fome old limning. The drefs is of the times ; but the painter may have added more eafe and expref- fion to his original. John Earl of Carrie, afterwards named Robert III, was married to this lady in, or before, the year 1357, as appears from a charter, if not mifquoted.* For in 1394 Hie was delivered of James I, an interval of thirty feven years, and if married at fifteen me was then fifty two years of age. It is probable that the inaccurate Abercromby has, for the 37th * Abercromby Vol. II, p. 157. of Queen Annabella. of the king David II, put the 27th; and that the marriage dates about 1367. However this be, Annabella was the eldefl daughter of Sir John Drummond of Drummond and Stobhail, an ancient family ; afterwards to be lords Drummond, earls and dukes of Perth.* On the 14th of Auguft 1390 fhe was crowned with her hufband Robert III at Scone. He was then up- wards of fifty years of age fhe probably about ten years younger. Her children were David duke of Rothfay, born in Oc- tober 1378 three daughters ; and laftly prince James^ af- terwards James I, born in July 1394-t The lamenefs, and mental weaknefs, of her hufband left to her considerable influence ; which fhe ufed in the moft no- ble and prudent manner. This queen, fays Buchanan, iupported the whole dignity of the court. In confirmation of this the reader is referred to her letters to Richard II of England, printed in the Appendix to the firft volume of the Hiftory of Scotland under the Houfe of Stuart, London 1797, 4to. Fordun informs us that Annabella, and Trail bifhop of St. Andrews, managed with eminent prudence the affairs of the kingdom ; appearing difcords among the nobles, and receiving foreigners with hofpitality and munificence ; fo that on their death it was a common faying that the glory of Scotland was departed. J They both died in the year 1401. Her death was foon followed by that of Rothfay, her fon, flarved to death in Eafter 1402. * Dougl. Peer. art. Perth. •f- Crawford and Stewart's Gen. &c. I Vol. II. p. 430, 431. JAMS QUEEN of SCOTLAND. Jr eldeft daughter and coheirefs of John lord Lorn, whence the family of Glenurchy, after- * Douglas Peer. art. Breadalbine. f Strong doubts arife. If a knight of Rhodes could he have married ? And his marriages with Scotilh ladies proclaim his conftant refidence in his own country, wards Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurchy. wards earls of Braidalban, quarter a galley the arms of Stuart of Lorn : by her he had Sir Duncan his heir. Sir Colin wedded afterwards two other wives of inferior rank * the laft of which bore to him the anceftor of the Campbells of Lawers, earls of Loudon. The authenticity of this portrait refts on the fame grounds with that of Duncan firft lord Campbell. The fafh feems too modern ; and the clofe laced cape is ftill more objec- tionable, being probably not more ancient than the reign of the fixth James, MARGARET STUART, WIFE OF SIR COLIN CAMPBELL OF GLENURCHY. J. HE fecond wife of Sir Colin Campbell is by Douglas named Margaret ; but the infcription around this portrait ftyles her Jonetta Stuart, daughter of William lord of Lorn, wife of Sir Colin, A. D. 1440, It is certain there never was a William Stuart lord of Lorn : and that this lord's name was John is evinced from charters. John Stuart, third lord Lorn and Innermeath, had three daughters. j. Ifabel, married to Colin firft earl of Argyle. 2. Margaret, wedded to Sir Colin Campbell of Gle- nurchy. 3. Marian, wife of Arthur Campbell of Ottar.* Such is Douglas's ftatement which deferves more credit than this Jnfcription : for being palpably erroneous in the father's name, it incurs the more fufpicion in that of the daughter. This portrait is by Jamefon, from what authority is un- certain : the drefs feems fufficiently antique. * Douglas Peer. p. 415, and in the articles of Argyle and Braidalban. MARGARET o£ DENMARK MARGARET OF DENMARK. QUEEN OF JAMES III BY JAMESON, rp 1 HIS portrait cannot pretend to much refemblance of the undoubted original at Kenfington. The inscription Spe- cially indicates Margaret daughter of Chriftiern king of Den- mark — the date is or mould be 1469 when Ihe afcended the Scotilh throne in her thirteenth year.* She might be in early youth fuch a hoyden girl as is here depicted, the painting at Kenfington is about 1482 when (he was aged twenty fix, had borne feveral children and endured misfortunes. Some fufpicion however arifes that Jamefon, mifled by ibme miftake, has put the name of Margaret of Denmark for that of Mary of Gelder wife of James II. But till a por- trait of the latter be found this muft remain doubtful — and the collector can only truft to the genuine portrait of Mar- garet of Denmark, engraved from that at Kenfington. The drawing is by Johnfton from the painting at Tay- mouth. * The commencement of the king's reign is put to the queen's \ that of James XII is 1460. JAMES IV. FROM THE PAINTING AT TAYMOUTH. J_ H I S piece is given as a fpecimen of the Scotilh kings at Taymouth, the work of fome painter who preceded Jame - fon in his employment there. The infcription only bears IACOBVS IIII. REX SCOTORVM. — PINC. ANNO MDCXXXIII, i. e. James IV king of Scots, painted in the year 1633. The other kings feem mere copies of the prints in Jon- lloni Infcriptiones publifhed in 1602. In this the counte- nance and drapery are in a fuperior ftyle to the old print, though far inferior to Jamefon's heads of Robert I and David II at Taymouth, and of James II at Newbottell. The thiftle in the hand indicates that James IV was the firft who about the year 1500 adopted this emblem. As an order of knighthood it is not older than the reign of Anne of England : nor can a fingle knight of the thiftle be mentioned till that time : an emblem, device, or order con- fined to the monarch, can never be juftly ftyled an order of knighthood. The drawing by Johnfton, and the plate, are intended faithfully to reprefent the bald manner of the original, QJJEEN MARGARET, AND JOHN DUKE OF ALBANY, HP X HESE two difnnguifhed perfonages are reprefented in a celebrated picture, formerly belonging to the Earl of Scarborough, and now to the Marquis of Bute. The lady appears to be between thirty and forty years of age ; her companion about ten years older. That fhe is Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, and widow of James IV king of Scotland, is not only a traditional fact, but is confirmed by another picture at Hampton-court, of the fame lady in an earlier flage of life. She was born on the 30th Nov. 1490. The only doubts relate to the male perfonage, who has been fuppofed to be the Earl of Angus, Margaret's iecond hufband. This cannot be for the following reafons* 1. Angus was certainly younger than the queen. In 1 5 14, when they married, fhe was aged twenty-three^ Next year Lord Dacre mentions Angus as " childifh, young."* He could not much exceed mere majority, if he had attained it. At any rate he could not be above ten years older than the queen, as in this painting* 2. The papers, ink-ftand, dice-box, &c. on the table, can never indicate Angus, a mere warrior, # Hifl» of Scotland under the Stuarts, London 1797, 4 t0 > Vol. II, p. in. 3. The Queen Margaret, and John Duke of Albany. 3. The biitterfly hints " un amour vcltige," and cannot be a fymbol of matrimony. 4. There is a fmall engraving of Angus and this queen, in ovals. That Angus has not an aquiline nofe, nor any refemblance of this. Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, imagined that lord Methven, the third hufband of Margaret, might be the peribn here pourtrayed. This is impoffible, as he was far younger than her. He is mentioned as a young man in 1524, 25, 26, when Margaret was aged from thirty-three to thirty-five.* It is impoffible to read the papers, and hiftories of the times, without conceiving Methven to have been nearly ten years younger than the queen — but that he was older is an abfolute impossibility. The Editor is clearly of opinion that the male perfonage is John duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland. 1. An amour took place between him and the queen in 1 521, 22, when me was aged thirty or thirty- one. Her brother, and Woliey, loudly accufed her of adultery. She was coquetting with him by letters in 1525, when me was aged thirty-four. Albany's return to Scotland, and preten- iions to the regency, were dreaded and fatirized by the Englifh in 1527 — nay fo late as 1532. 2. The age of Albany correfponds. From the new edition of L'Art de Verifier les Dates, Vol. II. p. 371, it appears that his father married on the 16th of February, 1480, and died in 1485. Say that Albany was born in 1482, and he was eight years older than the queen. He * One gencrr.! reference to the above hlttory, for the minority of James V, may Mce for the fake of brevity. was Queen Margaret, and John Duke of Albany. was married in 1505, probably in his twenty-third year: and died in 1536, aged about fifty-four. 3. The face rcfcmbks the old Stuart kings, in the general caft of the features, nofe rather aquiline, &c. 4. Albany was more a man of papers, than of war, bribing the queen by the grant of benefices ; and felling them by mere chance to the beft bidder, as may be indi- cated by the dice-box, &c. &c. on the table. This may alfo denote his pafTion for gaming ; which, though unmen- tioned by contemporary writers as a feature of his charac- ter, was the known vice of the French court in which he was bred. 5. The Scotifli foot-guards were revived by Albany, after having been difufed by the fourth James. The firtl letter on the breaft of the guard is not feen. We only know that he is not one of the French guards, fent over by Francis I. for the R. was never in France added to the king's initial letter. He may be a Scotiih guard, or per- haps one of the hundred Englim, fent to attend James V. in 1524. At any rate he could not appear with Angus, or Methven, and the queen had no guard. Albany, as Regent, had : and as the young king does not appear, the guard can only refer to the prefence of the Regent. 6. The butterfly, as above mentioned, indicates a mere amour like that of Margaret and Albany. 7. The piece is half fatyric ; and was probably painted in the North of England, where it was found, from ocher portraits of the perfonages. Angus was in the Engliih in- tereft — Albany always in the French ; and almofl the only perfonage, whofe importance could excite this delicate fa- tire, expreffed in a fine painting. The 1 Queen Margaret, and John Duke of Albany. The precife date of the picture cannot be afcertained. It may be 1522, when the amour became notorious. Albany was then forty, the queen thirty-one. Both had entered prematurely into active life — fo that the appearance of age may not be decifive. But if painted when fhe was forty, he forty-eight, the date muft be 1529 or 30. As fhe continued to coquet with him by letters, and his return was dreaded by the Englifh, the precife date of the fatirc is of fmall confequence. Having thus it, is hoped, afcertained the perfons repre- sented in this picture, it remains to fubjoin a fhort account of t iem. Margaret daughter of Flenry VII became queen of Scotland in 150?^ when only in her twelfth year. She had feveral mifcarriages before fhe produced an heir to the monarchy in 1512. Next year James IV, her hufband, engaging in a rafb war with Henry VIII, his brother-in- law, was defeated and (lain at Flodden. According to the w9l of the late king Margaret afTumed the Regency, which (lie loft in 15 14 by a precipitate mar- riage with the Earl of Angus. In 1 5 1 5 (he bore a daughter to this her fecond hufband, lady Mary Douglas, afterwards to be mother of king Henry Darnley, Her actions, till her fbn allurned the fcepter in 1528, are known to moft readers of Scotifh hiflory, and arc amply detailed in the above-qujted Hiftory of Scotland under the Houfe of Stuart, In Queen Margaret, and John Duke of Albany. In 1528, hving procured a divorce from Angus, fnc jnarried Lord Methven ; and appears to have died in 1541 at the age of fifty- two. She was a woman of eminent abili- ties, and diftinguimed ipirit — but not of the moil amiable moral character. John duke of Albany, the fon of Alexander duke of Albany, (brother of James III,) and Anne de la Tour, (daughter of Bertrand II Count of Auvergne and Boulogne*) was born about A. D. 1482. In 1485 his father was acci- dentally flain in a tournament at Paris. John his fon wedded his fecond coufin, Anne de la Tour, fole heirefs of Auvergne, in July 1505. This iden- tity of the names of their wives has occafioned fome con- fufion in the genealogy, which (lands thus. Bertrand II Count of Auvergne. Anne his third daughter = Alex. d. of Albany* wedded to Alex. d. of A. and afterwards to Louis Count de la Chambre, Vifcount Maurienne. John Count of Auvergne fucceeded his father. 1 l Anne, the heirefs, married John duke of Albany. John Count of Auvergne left another daughter, Mag- dalen, who in 1 5 1 S married Lorenzo de Medici, duke of Urbino, nephew of Leo X ; and was mother of the cele- brated Catherine de Medici, queen ot France. In Queen Margaret, and John Duke of Albany. In 15 1 5 John duke of Albany, a Frenchman by birth, and by his wife's vaft eftates, was unexpectedly called to the Regency of Scotland ; and he exercifed that high office, though with intervals of abfence, till 1524. He proved, as was to have been expected, a mere delegate of France, and difgraced his adminiftration by a mean fubferviency to that country. In his private character he was paflionate and opinionative. Yet he was in high favour with Fran- cis I, on account of his gay and facetious converfation^ He died in 1536. MARY ot GHTI81E TuJb *1£w> r . 7 WS. by.Lttu; ^Harding. 98. Pall Mail THE WINTON, OR RATHER SETON, FAMILY. BY SIR ANTONIO MORE. X HIS celebrated picture is now in the poffefilon of Lord Somerville. The tracing was remitted by ProferTor Ogil- vie j and is only an outline, as a finifhed drawing, and en- graving, would have exceeded the proportions, and expence, of this publication, even if an artift, capable of making a fi- nifhed dilineation, had refided near the ipot. Six perfons are reprefented. The man in the middle is marked G. S. 39, two girls R. S. 19, and M. S. 15 — three boys, I. S. 1 3 — A. S. 14. and one unmarked. Sir Antonio More was born in 15 19, and died in 1575. His chief pieces date from 1550 to his death. He refided in England during moft of the reign of Mary, 1553-^-1558* and may have vifited Scotland, or Lord Seton and his fa- mily may have refided in London, for that a family picture ihould have been painted abroad is hardly credible. This picture reprefents, G. S. 39, that is George, fixth lord Seton, who fucceed- ed his father in 1545, and died 1584. In 1557 he was one of the commiffioners, appointed to treat with the king of France, concerning the marriage of Mary with the dauphin ; and was in high favour with that queen, and her fon James VI. He married Ifabel, daughter of Sir William Plamilton of Sanquhar — but his wife was apparently dead before this piece The Winton, or rather Seton, Family. piece was painted — and his eldeft fon Robert was probably abroad, on his travels, as he does not appear. The young lady, marked R. S. 19, feems to have died unmarried, as fhe is not mentioned in the genealogy.* The other, M. S. 15, is Margaret Seton, aftrrwards wedded to Claud Hamilton Lord Paifley, anceftor of the family of Abercorn. The fon marked I. S. 18 is John Seton, anceftor of the Setons of Barns. A. S. 14 is Alexander Seton afterwards earl of Dunfernv lin and chancellor of Scotland, a man of great abilities. He died in 1622. Of his fon Charles Earl of Dunfermlin there is a medal by Simon. The boy unmarked is the 4th fon, Sir William Seton. The title of Earl of Winton was beftowed on Robert, fevenrh Lord Seton, in Nov. 1600 — but the picture is, by anticipation, ftyled the Winton family. Sir Richard Mait- land drew up an account of this family, many of whom were remarkable for their love of the arts. It was forfeited in 17 15 : and their noble adjacent refidences in Eaft Lothian, Seton and Winton Houfe, are now defolate. * This face is far from diftincl in the tracing. It may be Robert Selon the elddt fon. D'UKE of C H AT E L HE R A UT JAMES HAMILTON, EARL OF ARRAN, DUKE OF CHATELHERAUT. The life and aflions of this illuftrious perfon, Regent of Scotland in the minority of Mary, and next heir to the crown if flie had died childlefs, are fo well known to every reader of hiftory, that it w T ould be fuperfluous here to abbreviate them. It will be more appropriate to the plan of this publi- cation, to offer fome remarks on a few dates of his bio- graphy, which are Angularly embroiled, thro' the carelefs- nefs of the Scotifh hiftorians and generalogifls, to whom chronology is a foreign land. His father married Janet Eeton in 1513.* Chatelhe- raut died in Jan. 1575/t* (probably 1576 by modern efti- mation). Of courfe his age might be about fixty-one, at the time of his death. But by a date on this portrait he feems to have been 59 only, in 1575. Say then that he was born in 15 16. Yet in 1535 he appears in parliament,^ (his father having died in 153a) and a peer could hardly take his feat before his majority. What is ftill more furprizing, Douglas dates the birth of John, his fecond fon, in 1532,$ fay the eldeft was bom in 153 1, and the father was fifteen years of age ! • Peerages of Crawford and Douglas, from charters in the Hamilton femily, f Robertfon Vol. II. p. 53. J Rolls of parliament in Carroichaers T rafts* If James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, Duke of Chatelheraut. If it be a fact that Chatelheraut married Margaret Douglas, daughter of James third Earl of Morton, when he was only aged fourteen, and had a fon next year, it is not a little uncommon. This portrait is from a painting in the pofleffion of the Marquis of Abercorn, at Bentiey-lodge, near Harrow on the hill, Middlefex ; where is alfo a portrait of Lord Claud Hamilton, third fon of Chatelheraut, and anceftor of the noble family of Abercorn. Both feem to have been painted in France, and i.ord Claud's drefs is completely French. It appears that, in 1570,* Chatelheraut and Lord Claud, being fufpefted of having favoured the afTaffina- tion of Murray the Regent, they were declared traitors, and retired to France. Here they feem to have refided till fummer 1575,! when they returned to Scotland, and Chatelheraut died in Jan. 1575-6. * Robertfon Vol. II. p. 1, 9. •(• So the Peerages. Yet Robertfon II. 46, fpeaks of a treaty figned by Chatelheraut and Regent Morton at Perth, Feb. 1573. For this he is fo carelefs as to refer to his own Appendix, No. VI. which paper bears only Lord John Hamilton^ fecond fon of Chatelheraut. G K< KG E BUCHANAN' fyvm. //// /• }/'///m/. /// ■ //'/////////■// GEORGE BUCHANAN. I T would be foreign to the prefent purpofe to enter in- to minute details, concerning the life of this celebrated au- thor, which has been fo often narrated. He was born in the county of Lennox, anciently called Levenax* from the river Leven, in February 1506. His uncle James Heriot fent him to Paris, for his edu- cation, in 1 5 20. Two years after, his uncle's death, and other circumftances, conftrained him to return in gre-At poverty. • In 1524 we find him attending the fcholailic lectures of John Mair at St. Andrews. With him he went to France, and taught grammar for three years. In 1529 he became tutor to the young earl of Caffils. Five years after he appears in the fame capacity, by the king's charging him with the education of his natural fon. He had imbibed the doctrines of Luther, and publifhed his fatire againft the Fran- cifcans. In 1537 he witneffed the arrival of Magdalen of France, firft wife of James V, who having been educated by her aunt, the queen of Navarre, fome expectations were entertained that me would favour the reformation. Thefe were termi- nated by her fpeedy death : and Buchanan did not wait the arrival of Mary of Guife, but fled to England in 1538. • Literally the fields of Leven, Leuen aks. Ah is a field in Iflandic, Aker a ftnall field, whence our acre. Thence George Buchanan. Thence he proceeded to France ; where finding Cardinal Ikton, his enemy, acting as ambaflador for Scotland, he went to Bourdeaux, and taught in the public fchools for three years. He was next invited to teach in Portugal where, in 1 55 1, he tranflated many of the Pfalms into elegant latin. We afterwards find him in England, France, and Italy. At length, in his fifty feventh year, 1563, he returned to his native land, having acquired, and deferved, the reputation of being the mod: excellent latin writer of his period. He died at Edinburgh on the 28th of September 1582, the year in which his hiftory was printed. As an historian he has more claim to elegance than exact - nefs , and in treating of his own times is a mere partifan : but the elegance of his latinity will ever be venerated by fcholars. The portrait is in the Duke of Hamilton's houfe at Ha- milton : and is the only one which reprefents Buchanan when young. It is probably genuine ; but its authenticity is fuppofed to reft on tradition only. loHH Knox JOHN KNOX. H O has not heard of John Knox ? A flight com- memoration of the principal epochs of fo well known a life will be fufficient. He was born at GifFord, near Haddington, in the year 1505. He was educated at Haddington, whence he went to the univerfity of St. Andrews, and ftudied under John Mair. His vigorous mind foon faw the abfurdity of the Scholaftic divinity, and the preaching of Friar Guillim com- pleted his converfion to the doctrines of Luther. We afterwards find him in the molt ufeful capacity of a fchoolmafter, at Langindry — and at St. Andrews till 1547 ; in which year he was incited by his protefbnt friends to commence preacher. Being carried captive to France, with the garrifon of the caftle of St. Andrews, he foon efcaped to England where we find him a licenfed preacher in 1548. Three years after he appears as one of the chaplains of Edward VI. But that prince dying in July 1553, Knox fled from the fury of Mary, and refided fucceflively at Geneva and Frankfort. Some differences arifing at the latter place, he returned to Geneva in March 1555 : and in the following year revilited his native land. He again retired to Geneva in July 1556: and refided there, and at Dieppe till May 1559, when he finally return- ed to Scotland : and in July, that year, was appointed one of the minifters of Edinburgh. The remaining incidents of his Life occur in the com- mon eft John Knox. moneft pages of hiftory. He died at Edinburgh, on the 24th Nov. 1572, in his fixty-feventh year. The editor poflerTes a fcarce pamphlet, intitled cc Anc breif commendatioun, &c. of Goddis michtic prote&ioun, in preferving his maift upricht feruand . . . John Knox. Set furth in Inglis meter by M. John Dauidfone, Regent in S. Leonard's College Imprentit at Sanctandrois be Ro- bert Lekprevik. * Anno 1573." 4to, ends fign. C. ij. It is a piece of bad poetry in octave ftanza, larded with fcripture, repeating the chief events of Knox's life. This portrait in profile, from the painting in the univer- fity of Glafgow, correfponds with the common delineations, and with that in Beza's Icones, who being the friend of this reformer could hardly be mifled. To fatisfy curiofity a portrait, called that of Knox by Mr. Pennant, and others, is alfo given from the Hamilton apartments Holyroodhoufe. It is furely fome other perfon; and, according to the report of the draughtfman, there is a pair of compares in the hand. Another portrait, equally mifnamed, is in the Duke of Hamilton's houfe at Hamilton. It may be Hamilton, the noted prieft, whofe life has been illuftrated by Lord Hailes — or perhaps Archbilhop Hamilton. * So called from the village of Lekprevik, in Lanarkfhire, ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, FIFTH EARL OF GLENCAIRN. TTh I S nobleman fucceeded his father William in 1547$ and died in 1574 His piety and benevolence procured him the honourable appellation of the good earl.* He zealoufly promoted the reformation of religion, John Knox has, in his Hiftory, preferved a fatire written by this earl againft the Gray Friars *, and as the book is. little known in England, a few extracts may be agreeable to our readers. I Thomas. Hermite in Larite, St. Francis' brether Leartly greet* Befeecbmg you . with firm intent, To be watchful and diligent, For thefe Lutherans, rifen of new, Our ordour dayly do purfew : Thefe imacks fo fet their whole intent To read this Inglifh New Teftament. This pretended hermit then proceeds to ftate the vices* with which the Francifcans are reproa, :ucu i and propofes to redeem their credit by falfe miracles* A p-haiir T purpofe to ,?ar gr.ng, By counial of Frear Waiter Lang, J Douglas* Peerage p. 29^ Earl of Glencairn-. Which mall make certain demonstrations To help us in our procurations. Your holy ordor to decore. That practice he prov'd once before, Betwixt Kyrkcadie and Kinggorne : But lymmers made thereat fuch Ikorne, And to his fame made fuch digrelTion, Since fyn he heard not the King's confeffion, &c. It is curious to compare thefe rude rimes with the Fran- cifcanus of Buchanan, on the fame topic. The drawing, remitted from Scotland, is faid to be from an intaglio* $ its authenticity mufl be left to further difqui- fition. * There is an oil-painting from the feal ; both are in the poffeffion of the Countefs dowager of Glencairn, at Coats near Edinburgh ; where is 3Mb the Chancellor Glencairn, about to be engrave^. MARK KER, ABBOT OF NEWBOTTLE. OF this perfonage little is known, farther than that he was the fecond fon of Sir Andrew Ker, of Cefsford, by Agnes his wife, daughter of William, third Lord Crich- ton of Sanquhar ; his father obtained for him the Vicarage of Linton in Tweedale, and he was in poMeffion of the Ab- bacy of Newbottle, in Mid Lothian, at the period of the reformation, when by conforming to the fpirit, temper and views of its promoters, he got the benefice in commendam j and became an extraordinary Lord of SefTion, After this renunciation of popery he married Lady He- len Lefly, daughter of George, Earl of Rothes, by her he had five children, and was fucceeded by Mark, his eldeft fon, as Commendator, of which he had obtained the rever- fion from Queen Mary in 1567, and he had the good for- tune in 1587, to get the lands of the abbey erecled into a Barony, and afterwards by charter of confirmation, into a temporal Lordlhip, and himfelf created Earl of Lothian.* The Abbot died in 1584. — This portrait of him is from a rnaflerly painting in Newbottle Abbey done by Sir Thomas More, the Habit, of which the outlines only are marked in the engraving, is black in the pi&ure. * Vide — ^Nifoet's Heraldy, and Douglas's Peerage. SIR JOHN MAITLAND, CHANCELLOR OF SCOTLAND, J. H I S eminent perfon was the fecond fon of Sir Ri- chard Maitland of Lethington, and younger brother of the celebrated fecretary. In 1567 he was appointed lord privy feal, on his fa- ther's refignation. But continuing attached to Mary, he was deprived of that office in 1 570, and it was conferred on George Buchanan. Retiring to the caflle of Edinburgh he was made pri- foner, when that fortrefs was taken by Morton, and was fent to Tantallon. On Morton's fall Sir John Maitland became a favourite of James VI, was appointed a fenator of the college of juftice in 158 1, and fecretary of ftate for life in 1584. Soon afterwards he was made chancellor of the king- dom ; and accompanied the king on his matrimonial expe* dition into Denmark. On the 18th May 1590, he was rai- led to the peerage, by the title of Lord Maitland of Thirl- ftane.* He died in 1595 with a great reputation for talents anc? probity. Some of his latin poems are printed in the Delicia Poe^ tanim Scotcrutn, and fome in the Scotifti language in the collection by Sir Richard Maitland, his father, * Douglas Peerage, art. Lauderdale* &BOM 0E E3EI T H £MEarlMar,liaIl GEORGE KEITH, FIFTH EARL MARSHALL, Q OUCCEEDED his grandfather in 158 1. He was a man of great natural talents, expanded by travelling and by ftudy. In 1589 he was fent ambaflador to Denmark, to ef- poufe the princefs Anne, in the name of his mafter James VI. and tranfadted that important bufinefs in a manner ho- nourable to himfelf, and fatisfactory to all parties. In 1593 he founded the college at Aberdeen, fly led from him Marifchal College, a noble fpecimen of his muni- ficence and love of letters. He was appointed High Commiflioner to the parliament of Scotland 1609, and died at Dunotter caftle 1623, full of years and honours. This engraving is from a tracing, remitted by Profefibr Ogilvie, from a picture in the college this great man foun- ded at Aberdeen. A full and authentic life of the Fifth Earl Marfhail would be a pleafmg tribute of gratitude, from fome member of his foundation. ->>■ 3 ' ; 3 1 1 | I •3 iR Alex? Fraseb. of Fra^erbxtk^b: SIR ALEXANDER FRASER, A H I S gentleman was a defcendant of Sir Alexander Frafer, fccond fon of Sir Simon Frafer of Oliver-caftle, and brother of Sir Simon, the famous patriot. Sir Alexander fucceeded his grandfather on the 12th April 1569. He was a man of great talents and integrity, and much favoured by James VI, as appears from feveral charters under the great feal. About the time of the king's marriage to Ann of Denmark, he lent feveral fums to the royal treafury, which was exhaufted by the avarice of Mor- ton the Regent. In 1594 he was created a knight, on occafion of the fo- lemnity of Prince Henry's baptifm. To this Sir Alexander Frafer the town of Fraferburgh owes its municipal exiftence, as by his influence it was created a burgh of regality, with ample privileges, and even a power to erec"l an univerfity.* The caftle of Fraferburgh, the chief feat of his fucceffors, was alfo built by him. One of his fons was Thomas, an antiquary, who wrote Memoirs of the Family. Sir Alexander Frafer died, in an advanced age, on the 1 2th April 1623.-)- His portrait by Jamefon muft have been taken when he was very old. There is one in the pofief- fion of Lord Salton, at Philorth near Fraferburgh, and ano- * His grandfather, Alexander Frafer of Philorth, began this laudable bufinefs in 1^46. Douglas' Peer. p. 607. f Douglas' Peerage. OF FRASERBURGH AND PHILORTH. ther Sir Alexander Phaser, ther in that of Mr. Urquhart of Craigfton, from which laft the drawing was taken.* In 1669 this family fucceeded to the title of Salton, on the death of Alexander Abernethy, ninth lord Salton, the, eftate and honours proceeding in the female line, * Jamefon alfo painted Andrew Frafer of the Muckils, (anceftor oflord Frafer,) now at Caftle Frafer in Mar, the feat of Mifs Frafer of Inverallo- chy. This is mentioned to prevent any miftake from the fjmilarity of names. AiilEXAMBElR BRODiHJ S MARK ALEXANDER BOYD Was a fon of Boyd of Pinkhill in Ayrfhire, and was born on the 13th Jan. 1562. In his youth he was more diftinguiflied by his courage, than by his love of letters. He began however to apply himfelf to his ftudies at Paris, 1581. In 1587 we find him a volunteer in the army of Henry III of France againft the king of Navarre — but he foon returned to the ftudy of the Civil Law at Tholoufe. His latin poems, and epiftles, were printed at Antwerp 1592, nrno, and dedicated to James VI. He died in April 1601, aged only thirty-nine years. His beft work is the Hymni, foolifhly fo ftyled, being a defcription of plants, their culture, and ufes. But candour muft allow that nothing can be more ridiculous than the praifes that have been heaped upon him. In plain truth he was rather a rambling literary charlatan> than a man of genius. The portrait is from a fcarce print by De Leu. The copper was found in Scotland, and impreflions taken for SibbakTs Prodromus. They are all very faint — the origi- nal bears that it was engraved in 1596, and it was proba- bly prefixed to fome work of his, now fo fcarce as to efcape refearch. COUNTESS of MAE .. T-uiUfkd Du r /;)798.ln f £ciw,' i J/arduw 9Hj J aUMaU. MARY STUART, COUNTESS OF MAR, Wa S the daughter of Efme duke of Lennox. John Erfkine, feventh earl of Mar, being enamoured of her charms, and rejected by her pride, is faid to have fickened of vexa- tion. James I, learning the fituation of the companion of his boyim years, exclaimed " Be my faul Mar lhanna dee for e'er a lafs in the land ! M The king's application overcame all obftacles : and Ihe proved a fruitful mother, and excel- lent wife. The drawing was remitted by the Earl of Buchan, a de- fendant, f| Q m I© jj£ B?AlTHUR JOHNSTONE Put' t . idw'-Hardmq'JtPallMa)). ARTHUR JOHNSON. JL H I S elegant latin poet was a doftor of medicine, and rector of the univerfity of Aberdeen. He flourished in the reign of Charles I. His tranflation of the Pfalms is well known and the contefl concerning its merits, in comparifon with that by Buchanan, carried on in 1743 by Benfon and Ruddiman contributed to revive and extend its reputation. His Parerga, printed at Aberdeen 1632, prefent fome interefting pieces, and fome ftrokes of genuine humour. AN WE, Cram GUAM ANNE CUNNINGHAM MARCHIONESS OF HAMILTON. This kdy was daughter of James feventh earl of Glencairn, and wife of James fecond marquis of Hamilton j to whom fhe bore, among other children, James and Wil- liam, both afterwards dukes of Hamilton ; and remarkable for their activity in the civil commotions, and for their un- happy deaths in 1649 and 165 1. She long furvived her hulband who died in his thirty- fixth year 1625 :* and being a woman of mafculine fpirit me diflinguifhcd herfelf on the fide of the covenanters, her father's family having ever been warm friends of the prefbyterian in- tereft. Her fon James was a leader of the oppofite party 2 and it is faid that, in 1639, when he conducted the Engliili fleet to the Forth, in order to overaw the covenanters, lhe appeared among them on the more, at the head of a company of horfe, and drawing a piftol from her faddle bow, declared flie would be the firft to moot her fon, Ihould he prefume to land and attack his countrymen and country. This fpirited conduct of his mother, it is fuppofed, was one caufe which prevented the duke's debarcation of his troops s though in- deed their number, three or four thoufand, was too fmall for the occafion,f * Burnet's dukes of Hamilton, p. 1. f Guthrie's Hiftory of Scotland, Vol. IX, p. 275, from Gordon's hif- tpry of the Gordons Vol, II, p. 280, and Spang's Hiftoria Motuum in Scotia p. 35 1 , The Anne Cunningham Marchioness oi Hamilton. The portrait correfponds with the mafculine character of the marchionefs ; concerning whom we have in vain enquired for further materials. Johnfon, the ingenious limner, died before he had fi mill- ed the drapery of this drawing, which is from a painting by Jamefon at Taymouth, \ r/ ■ ////;/'/// nt'noew h6;M:liW9fa.Edw?i[art/ Ed* d Harding HWallMaU. . ROBERT TRAILL T Jl HIS chara&eriftic portrait is from a painting in Lord Buchan's pofleflion. It reprefents a rigid Calvinift of laft century, minifter of the Gray Friar's Church in Edinburgh, and an eloquent and leading preacher among the cove- nanters. Traill was one of the minifters who attended the Mar- quis of Montrofe on the fcaffold. In 1662 he was ejected, and fled into Holland where the original, whence this por- trait is engraved, was painted. GEORGE GORDON, EARL OF ENZIE, AFTERWARDS SECOND MARQUIS OF HUNTLEY. JL H I S is one of the fix delicate drawings upon cards, by Peter Oliver, in the poffefTion of Mr. Bull ; and is in- Icribed Le Marquis de Gordon. Ifaac Oliver, the father, often ufed the French language, being probably of French extract, and his fon Peter imitated him in this, as well as in other relpecls. Lord Orford mentions a drawing by Peter Oliver, 1628, in which he puts his name with a French termination, P. Olivier fecit * There can be little doubt but the perfonage here repre- fented is George Gordon, eldefl fon of the firft Marquis of Huntley, who died aged feventy-four in 1636. The coun- tenance is too young for Peter Oliver to execute of the firft Marquis ; who was alfo very feldom in England, while his fon remained many years in court. But the hiftorian of the houfe of Gordon feems to put the matter beyond doubt ; for he publifhes the commiflion of Louis XIII, king of France, appointing Le Marquis de Gordon captain of the Scotifh gens-d'armes, 1624, in the room of Ludovic duke of Lennox deceafed : and Le Marquis de Gordon takes the oath in confequence.y The author does not explain how the * Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. II, p. 21. f See alfo in the Appendix to his Second Volume, thirteen letters from Louis XIII addrefled A Monjicur le Marquis de Gordon, except the Jail, July 1637 addrefled A Monjteur k Marqu'u de Huutly, having then fucceeded to this title, eldeft EaRl of £nz1£ c cldefi: fon of Huntley came to bear this title of Marquis of Gordon, in all appearance a French creation, by permiflion of Charles I, with correfponding rank in France, on his ob- taining the command of the gens-d'armes. In Scotland his ftyle was Earl of Enzie> a diftridl on the weft of Boyn in Bamfshire, and in which Caftle- Gordon ftands : corrupted by fome writers to Ainzie, nay to Eugie* The duke of Gordon is fiill defigned Marquis of Huntley, earl of Hunt- ley and Enzie. i This Marquis of Gordon, or rather Earl of Enzie, had, by defire of James I, been educated with prince Henry in the proteftant religion, his anceftors having been leaders of the Roman catholics in Scotland. The prince died in his nineteenth year \6ii-, and it is probable the heir of Hunt- ley was about the fame age, or aged forty-three or four in 1636, when he fucceeded his father. In 16 1 8 we find the Earl of Enzie engaged in difputes with the clan of Mackintosh, which were appeafed in the enfuing year. His commiflion as captain of the Scotifh gens-d'armes, as mentioned above, dates 1624. He conti- nued in favour with Charles I, who afcended the throne the following year : but in 1629 his father Huntley, and he, were conftrained to refign the heritable fheriffships of Aber- deen and Invernefs upon a compenfation being paid. This Marquis of Gordon, fo ftyled, was eager in en- deavouring to revenge the death of his brother Vicount + Spalding's Memoirs ; but the book is incorrettly prirtei, Coto- vcl Ivat for Colin Ivat ; Perfb for Jirth^ &c The following particular.* are chiefly from that work, Gordon's family of Gordon, 1727* 2 vols, 8vo : Douglas' Peerage. Aboyne, Earl of Enzie. Aboyne, in 1630, a melancholy accident to the family. A difcord arifing between Crichton of Frendraught and Gordon of Rothemay, in which the latter and feveral perfons were killed the affair was apparently appeafed by Huntley, who ordered Frendraught to pay the widow of Rothemay 50,000 marks Scotilh money, about 4000/. fterling, in compenfation for the (laughter. On the 27th Sept. Crichton; a follower of Frendraught, wounded the fon of Lefley of Pitcaple ; who determined on revenge, and fet an ambufcade to attack Frendraught, then vifiting Huntley at his houfe of Bog of Gight. The aged Marquis to protect his gueft fent his fe~ cond fori, Sir John Gordon, Vicount Melgum and Aboyne, with fome gentlemen, among whom was John Gordon of Rothemay, fon of him recently flain. The Vicount, and his company, being perfuaded by Frendraught to flay all night at his houfe, about midnight the tower, in which Melgum and Rothemay were lodged, Was fet on fire and they with four fervants perifhed in the flames. Frendraught was believed guilty of this diabolical action, to which rio motive is apparent, except revenge for the fine, ordered by the Marquis's award to be paid for the {laughter of Rothemay's father. In 1636 his aged father, the Marquis of Huntley, dying, was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, the fubject of this memoir, and upon that event fecond Marquis of Huntley. His fub- fequent actions in the civil war are fufficiently known to every reader of hi (lory. Suffice it here to remark that, in 1639, he armed to fupport the royal caufe ; but was fur- prized and inveigled by the covenanters to Edinburgh, where he was imprifoned in the caftle, but was foon after fet Earl of Enzie. let at liberty i and remained quiet for forne years. Montrofe, who had led the covenanters againft the Marquis, having parled to the oppofite party, began his feries of victories in 1644. Wifhart his biographer, or rather panegyrift, loudly blames Huntley for want of co-operation ; but the commif- fion to Montrofc of Lieutenant General was confidered by the Marquis as an infult ; and how could he be expected warmly to affift a man who had enfnared and imprifoned him ? This Marquis was neverthelefs forfeited by the Scotifh parliament in 1645. He was fpecially excepted from par- don, March 1647 ; his houfes of Bog of Gight, (now Caf- tie Gordon,) and Strathbogie, were feized by order of par^ liament, June 1648. At length on the 2 2d of March 1649, probably about the fifty-fixth year of his age, the Marquis was executed at Edinburgh, fuffering his fate with fingular courage and com- pofure. His character wanted the decifion and intrepidity, necefTary in thofe turbulent times ; but was otherwife lauda- ble. He was a man of learning ; and the hiftorian of the houfe of Gordon has preferved two latin verfes compofed by him. A fine whole length portrait of this Marquis, after Van- dyke, was publiflied by Boydell in 1775, from a painting in the Duke of Montagu's poffeflion. The refemblance feems younger than this. SIR THOMAS HOPE. X HIS eminent lawyer was the Ton of Henry Hope, a merchant of Edinburgh, who had many commercial tranfac- tions with Holland, where he after refided, and where he married Jacque or Jacqueline de Tott.* His fon Thomas foon diftinguifhed himfelf at the bar ; and was made King's Advocate in 1627, when he was alfo created a baronet by Charles I. He however attached himfelf to the Covenanters, and was confulted by them in all difficult points. The King neverthelefs, perhaps either to render him fufpedted to that party, or with a view to win him over, appointed Sir Tho- mas commifiioner to the general Aflembly in Auguft 1643. Sir Thomas Hope died in 1646, leaving large eftates to three fons ; the youngeft, Sir James, being anceftor of the Hopetoun family, which arofe to great wealth from his mar- riage with Anne., heirefs of John Foulis of Leadhills in La- jiarkfhire, thefe mines being an unfailing fource of opulence. The works of Sir Thomas Hope on the Scotifh law continue to be valued : they are his Minor Pra&ics, and his Decifions. He alfo wrote fome Latin poems, and an ac- count of the Earls of Mar. * A fecond ibn was, it is believed, the anceftor of the famow Hopes of Amfterdam, from an 07igmal uz &te fiarl Buc/uuzs fatten. * HENRY ERSKINE, FIRST LORD CARDROSS OF DRYBURGH. 1 HIS peer was the fecond fon of John Erlkine Earl of Mar, and high treafurer of Scotland* Little is known concerning him, except that he was the bed-fellow of Henry Prince of Wales, and Dr. Birch has recorded a fpirited retort made to him by the prince. He died in 1636, and was fucceeded by his fon David. The portrait by Jamefon, 1626, is in the Earl ot Bu- chan's pofleffion. DAVID ERSKINE, SECOND LORD CARDROSS, SUCCEEDED his father Henry in 1636: and died in 1 67 1. His grandfon, in 1695, became earl of Buchan^ on the death of his coufin William. Both houfes fprung from John earl of Mar the Treafurer, fon of the celebrated regent.* Little is mentioned in hiftory of David lord Cardrofs, except his being among the few who protefted againft the delivering of Charles I. by the Scotifti army to the Eng- lifh ; a meafure of imperious neceflity, to prevent a moft unequal war between the kingdoms. He was alfo a promoter of the Engagement 1 648 j and was on that account fined in the fum of ioool. He is faid to have preached at the Trone in Edinburgh, while Cromwell was holding forth in St. Giles's Church yard > and it is reported that a circumftance in the life of David lord Cardrofs gave origin to the ftory of Erfkine and Free- port. The original portrait is in the poffeflion of General Sir William Erfkine. • Doug. Peer, WILLIAM GRAHAM, SEVENTH EARL OF MENTEITH, EARL OF STRATHERN, AFTERWARDS OF AIRTH. JL H I S remarkable perfon was the fon of John Graham, fixth Earl of Menteith, by Mary daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurchy. He was at firft highly favoured by Charles I ; who appointed him one of his Privy Council, Juftice General of Scotland, and Prefident of the Council.* Between the years 1627 and 1630, many charters of lands were granted to him, under the defignation of Earl of Menteith, lord Graham of Kinpont. But unhappily reviving the ancient claim of his family to the dignity of Earl of Strathern he was returned heir, on the 25th of May 1630, to David Earl of Strathern, eldeft fon of the second marriage of king Robert II ; whofe only daughter Euphemia Stuart wedded Sir Patrick Graham, li- neal and direct anceftor of this earl.f King James I, find- ing that the earldom belonged folely to heirs male, had, in 1428, deprived Malis Graham, earl of Strathern, of that high dignity ; and beftowed on him in return the earldom of Menteith. This aft, it is fuppofed, was one inducement to Sir Robert Graham, brother of Sir Patrick, and uncle of Earl Malis, in his cruel aflafTination of that great prince, Charles I, not forfeeing the confequences, and milled Douglas Peer. 475. f Ibid, by IlaKl 6f Airth. by his favour for this earl, ratiflc d the titles of Strathern and Menteith, by a new patent in July 1 631. At that period the fable that Elizabeth More was not the wife, but the concubine of Robert II, was generally credited. It has now been evinced by many learned authors, that me was the wife of the Steward ; nay the very bulls for the marriage have been procured from the Vatican. But if the marriage with Elizabeth More had been fet afide, the whole royal race were baftards — and in courfe the children of the seconld marriage, or of Euphemia Rols, the nrft and only wife of Robert II, as then fuppofed, were the legal heirs of the crown. Thus to William Graham, lineal defendant of the foie heirefs of David earl of Stra- thern, muft have devolved an unqueftionable right to the fcepter. A vain ambition fo far overcame this earPs prudence that, in his fervice as heir to Strathern, he is faid to have folemnly renounced his claim to the crown, referving the rights of his blood : which he ralhly faid was the reddeji in Scotland.* Not only did popular rumour become bufy on the occa- fion, but the learned and ingenious Drummond of Hawthorn- den addreifed a fpecial memorial to the king on this delicate fubject, dated December 1632^ " The reftoring of the earl of Menteith in blood, (fays Drummond,) and allowing his defcent and title to the earl- dom of Strathern, is thought to be difadvantageous to the * Scotftarvet's State art. Airth. f End of liis Wiitory, Edit. 1655 folio, Works, &c. King** Earl of Airth. King's Mnjefty : and that a more dangerous blow could not be given to the Nobleman himftlf. We may eafiiy conjecture Of things to come, and imagine them by thofe of the like nature which have preceded. The ftage of the World is the fame Hill, though in times the a&ors be changed and come about a^ain." He then mews, from Englifh and other hiftories, the great danger of a difputed, or even dubious, fucceflion. But, ignorant of the grand facts, he fuppofes the children of Elizabeth More only legitimated, and thus inferior to thofe of Euphemia Rofs. Even Graham's refignation of his claim he confiders as dangerous, and dishonourable to the crown : and fays that he might difpofe of his right to fome great fo- reign prince — or feditious fubjecls might avail themfclves of it. He concludes with obferving that for two centuries the progeny of Euphemia Rofs had been deprefled, and ought to continue in that condition. A refearch of no great labour in the archives of the, Scotilh college at Paris, and in thofe of the Vatican, would have for ever hufhed this mighty ftorm — but an antiquary was then an unknown animal in Scotland. Charles 3 alarm- ed, or difgufted, quafhed the titles of Strathern and Men- teith ; and gave to William Graham the more mean and unknown defignation of Earl of Airth* He was deprived of all his offices ; and, according to Scotftarvet* was confined in the ifle of Monteath, where he was when that author wrote about A. D. 1654. His fon Lord Kinpont was an adherent of Montrofe, and was {tabbed with a dirk or highland dagger by one Alexander Earl of Airth. Alexander Stewart in 16443 on which fad event his wife lady Mary Keith became diffracted.* In 1694 the eftates pafied to the Marquis of Montrofe, by the will of William e3rl of Airth, fon of lord Kinpont. The lineal reprefentation of the earls of Menteith is now in Graham of Gartur. In a MS. collection of poems of the feventeenth century* belonging to the editor, is one, p. 16, thus inferibed c< Earle of Airthe but whether written by this earl, or a la- mentation in his name, as then ufual, cannot be afcertained.f It ciofes thus, My croiTes, I may juftlie prove, Are all expreffiones farr above ; And greef doth in a circle move, And will doe tiil i die. The print is from an exquifite drawing by Johnfon : the original by Jamefon is at Taymouth. * Douglas, ScotHarvet, ut Aipra. $ Publiftted in Seleffc Scotim Ballads, London, 1783, Vol. I, p. 107. ROBERT, THE FIRST EARL OF ANCRAM. THIS nobleman, defcended of Sir Andrew Ker, of Fernyhirft, in Roxburghshire, and direct male lineal anceftor of the prefent Lothian family, was firft, Gentle- man, and afterwards, Lord of the Bedchamber to Charles I. who advanced him in 1633, to the dignity of the peerage by the titles of Earl of Ancram, Lord Ker of Nilbet, Long Newton, and Dolphington.* Lord Clarendon fays of King Charles, Cf that he faw and //ff ///>/? e^i //r 7//y/if/?M? 'A 1 ?}/, //'/'//^/ &1100IIY, orujizzal, izz t/zc /w/sepwn o/ 1 J / f r Carne^y r {Ifrerdsf/r JAMES GREGORY, INVENTOR OF THE REFLECTING TELESCOPE. -A- H I S celebrated mathematician was born at Aber- deen, iri 1639. He flourished in the interval betwen Des Cartes and Newton ; and may be regarded as no mean precurfor of the latter. At the age of twenty-four he publifhed his important invention of the Reflecting Telefcope, in his work called Optica Promcta, 1663. But a year or two afterwards, ha-* ving vifited London in order to have his plan put in exe- cution, it did not fucceed, owing to fome defect in minute arrangement, or want of fkill in the artifan. Sir Ifaac Newton tells us, (Phil. Tranf. No. 80,) that he had thought of fuch a telefcope in 1666, which was three years after Gregory had publifhed the firft idea ; and Sir Ifaac might, as not unufual, miftake reminifcence for inven- tion. However this be, that fub ime philofopher, (lb. No. S3,) informs us that, when he refumed the idea in 1668, Gregory's book lay before him. Thus this great invention, which has fo much improved the ftudy of aftroriomy, and led to the difcoveries of New- ton and Herichel, undoubtedly belongs to James Gregory. Facile eft inventis adder e. Newton afterwards propofed lbme alterati ns : and the Reflecting Telefcopes continue to be made either on Gregory's plan or Newton's. They were not however in ; r y ger fe till about the year 1719, when Mr, Hadi« to great perfection, adding the James Gregory, the fcrew for advancing or retiring the fmall fpeculum, fa as to accommodate any eye. One of five feet is now equal to the belt refractor, or common telefcope, of one hundred and twenty three feet. In the latter part of his life Gregory applied the fame principle of reflection, or the mirror, to burning-glafies y an invention alfo fanctioned by Newton, and which continues to be ufed in various experiments. From London Gregory appears to have proceeded to Italy, then the moft eminent foil for the cultivation of ma* thematics. In 1667 he publiflied at Padua, in 4to, his Vera Circuit Quadratura. For other difcoveries of this celebrated mathematician the reader is referred to the account of him in the Biogra- phia Britannica, whence this article is abftradted. In 1670 James Gregoiy was appointed profeiTor of ma- thematics at St. Andrew's : and he continued his ufeful dif- coveries till his death in December 1675, having then only attained his thirty feventh year. Though his life was thus brief, he had however the lingular felicity of witnefiing and applauding the moft important difcoveries of Newton. The drynefs of his ftudies did not prevent his propen- fity to humour, as appears from an ironical tract he publifh- cd, under the name of the beadle of the college, agamft one Sinclair, an ignorant pretender in natural phiiofopHy. David Gregory, the nephew of J? mes, was alfo a great mathematician. He was born in 166 1 : was, by Sir Ifaac Newton's friendfhip, appointed Savillean profefior of agro- nomy at Oxford in 1691. His Optics were publifned at Oxford 1695, 8vo: hU Aftronomy in 1702. He died in 1710. BAV3B GKEGOKT ful> a ij)er r l. rM.lw £dw*Jjm dim, 'M .ll9%.TnfEdw*ITardzny 98 Fall Modi . JOHN HAMILTON, SECOND LORD BELHAVEN. SlR Robert Douglas Viscount of Belhaven dying without ifiiie in 1639, the title became extinct, till it pafled to the Hamiltons, but only with the diftinction of Lords. Sir John Hamilton of Broomhill, a defcendant from the noble houfe of Hamilton, was created Lord Belhaven in Dec. 1647. Sir John Hamilton of Biel, who had married the grand- daughter of the firft Lord, fucceeded to the eftate and ho* nours, upon his death in 1679. In the parliaments of 1681, and 1685, lord Belhaven mewed himfelf a ftrenuous defender of the proteftant reli- gion. He was a great promoter of the revolution in 1688 ; and not only diftinguifhed himfelf as an orator, but com- manded a troop of horfe at the battle of Killicrankie in 1689. Highly favoured by William, and Anne, he was appointed a lord of the privy council, and a commiflioner of the trea- fury.* In 1706 he warmly oppofed the union of the king- doms i but the fubfequent profperity of Scotland evinces how much his patriotifm was miftaken. May that union* fo advantageous to both kingdoms, be eternal ; and may the nations be fo blended, as even to forget that they were u- pited ! But lord Belhaven difplayed on the topic unbounded * Dougl. Peer, eloquence* John Hamilton, second Lord Belhavek. eloquence, a quality perhaps the very oppofite of wifdom, which appeals to the underftanding, while elocution only moves the fancy, and aroufes the pafiions : eloquently Jath Japientix parum y a maxim applicable in all ages. The fpeeches are printed : the language is unpoliftied, the me- taphors often harm fometimes grand: button the whole, they are curious and interefting fpecimens of oppofition in a Scotifti parliament, and of the fenatorial elocution of the times. Lord Belhaven died in 1708, leaving his honours to a refpeclable line of defendants. His high mind burit at the difgrace of an arbitrary imprifonment, for fuppofed plans in favour of the exiled family : and he died immediately after his deliverance. The drawing was communicated by Lord Buchan, from a painting preferved in the family. Sir Johi Medota, SIR JOHN MEDINA THh I S painter having long refided in Scotland, and executed numerous Scotifti portraits, is intitled to a place in this work. He was the fon of a Spanifh officer who had fettled at BrufTels. After having received inftructions in his art from Du Chatel, our painter came to England, where he remained fome years, exercifing his talent in portrait-painting. By the encouragement of the Earl of Leven he vifited Scotland, where he met with fuch fuccefs as induced him to remain. He died in 171 1, aged only fifty- two years, and was buried in the Gray-friars church-yard at Edinburgh. He left a nu- merous family. Some of his fons and grandfons amufed themfelves with his art ; and a defcendant was not many years ago judicioufly employed in repairing the forged fet of Scotim kings, in the gallery at Holyrood-houfe. He was knighted by the duke of Queenfbury, lord high commiflloner, being the laft inftance of that honour conferred in Scotland, while a feparate kingdom. As a painter Medina had confiderable merit, but was often doomed to delineate obfeure perfons. In the Surgeons Hall at Edinburgh, whence this portrait is taken, there is hardly another of his portraits which deferves perfervation, as reprefenting a perfon worthy of being known by pofterity. COLIN MACLAURIN PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AT EDINBURGH. 1 H IS eminent mathematician was born at Kilmodan, near Inveraray, in 1698 his family being originally from Tirey, one of the Hebudes or Weftern Iflands. In 1709 he went to the univerfity of GJafgow: and meeting accidentally with Euclid's elements, at the age of twelve, a period about wkich the real bent of character is often difclofed, he became mafter of the firft fix books with- out afliftance. At fifteen he commenced Mafter of Arts, having compofed his Thefis on the powers of gravitation. In 1 7 17 he was chofen profeflbr of mathematics in Ma- rischal College, Aberdeen. He foon after vifited London, and embraced Newton his great mafter: and in 1722 he travelled to Paris. Mr. James Gregory, profeflbr of mathematics at Edin- burgh, requiring an afliftant, Mr. Maclaurin was nominated to that office and afterwards became fole profeflbr. His polite and eafy manners formed a general recommendation ; and the ladies flocked to fee the profeflbr, and the eclipfe, and took care to be in time, having more fcience than the French Marquis, who, when he found his fair convoy too late, faid, M. Cajfini efi de mes amis : il recommencera. In 1733 he married Anne, daughter of Walter Stuart fplicitor general for Scotland, by whom he left an ingenious and Colin Maclaurin. and refpectable offspring. His great work, on Fluxions* appeared at Edinburgh 1 742, in two volumes 4to. He en- couraged the taking of accurate maps of the weftern coafts and ifles ; and the rev. Mr. Bryce publifhed in confequence his map of the coaft of Caithnefs and Strathnaver. The rebellion of the highlanders in 1745 called this Archimedes into action, in forming plans for the fortification of Edinburgh and the fatigue and expofure to the air oc- cafioned, or increafed, the difeafe of which he was to die. But the lowlanders had forgotten the ufc of arms, and the capital surrendered. Maclaurin was not engaged in folving a problem at the time, fo he flew off at a tangent, and made a rectilinear progrefs to the north of England, where he was kindly received by Herring archbifliop of York. Colin Maclaurin died of the dropfy on the 14th of June 1 746, aged 48 years 4 months. Among his other works, and papers in the Philofophi- cal Tranfa&ions, his Geometria Organica written in early youth, and his Algebra deferve mention : but his moft po- pular production is his Account of Newton's difcoveries, a pofthumous work, from the life prefixed to which this ex- tract is made. The ' drawing, fent by Lord Buchan, was compofed from a caft, taken from the countenance after death, and from a drawing in black-lead by Fergufon the aftronomer,. Mr. Maclaurin had a fiar or defect in his left eye.