A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . me. Of the two sons of the 2nd Marquess of Douglas [Ixxii.]by his second wife. Lady Margaret Ker, the elder, William,only lived a few months. The younger, bald, born 1694, succeeded at the age of six^T^sTnuke y^^^^ ^^ 3^^ marquess. Under his fathers will,of Douglas, his mother became his guardian jointly with his* grandfather, the Earl of Lothian, the Earl ofMorton, Lord Jedburgh, and Lord Charles Ker. In 1703Queen Anne created the boy Duke of Douglas andMarquess of
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . me. Of the two sons of the 2nd Marquess of Douglas [Ixxii.]by his second wife. Lady Margaret Ker, the elder, William,only lived a few months. The younger, bald, born 1694, succeeded at the age of six^T^sTnuke y^^^^ ^^ 3^^ marquess. Under his fathers will,of Douglas, his mother became his guardian jointly with his* grandfather, the Earl of Lothian, the Earl ofMorton, Lord Jedburgh, and Lord Charles Ker. In 1703Queen Anne created the boy Duke of Douglas andMarquess of Angus. She showed the same anxiety as hadbeen felt by Charles II. for the proper education of the heirof this ancient house, and paid ;6^400 a year out of thelordships of Dunbar and Ettrick for this purpose. TheMarchioness of Douglas, assisted by the other guardians,carefully nursed the estates, but the first quarter of theeighteenth century was a period of extreme commercial and Original in Riddel Collection [No. 15], Advocates Library, Edinburgh,quoted by Fraser, ii. 462. - See frontispiece to this THE ONLY DUKE OF DOUGLAS 231 agricultural depression in Scotland, and the reduction ofdebt on the Douglas estates was a slow process. Accord-ingly in I 710, when the duke was sixteen, the Governor ofthe Leeward Islands was directed by the Queen to pay himan additional pension of ;£^SOO a year. Such transactionsread strangely in our day, but for long after the Revolutionof 1688 it was considered essential to the security of theCrown and Constitution that territorial magnates should bebolstered up and shielded from the indignity of narrowmeans. In this instance Queen Annes bounty was asingularly bad investment, as time was to prove. Meanwhile the young dukes hereditary privileges hadbeen closely watched by his guardians, who obtained fromthe Scottish Parliament before its dissolution in 1707 anact confirming and securing them; in conformity where-with the duke carried the c
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