A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . Mary will everjudge harshly of the 8th Earl of Angus, closely identifiedas he was with the Protestant cause which she detested ;but it is quite consistent with profound compassion forthe misfortunes of the Queen of Scots and indignation ather cruel doom to recognise him as one of the best of theDouglases. Many modern public men have scarcely enteredupon their career at the age which brought his to a term; Pitcairn, i. 217. - Strangled. ^ Until. ^ Pitcairn, i. 241. CHARACTER OF ANGU
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . Mary will everjudge harshly of the 8th Earl of Angus, closely identifiedas he was with the Protestant cause which she detested ;but it is quite consistent with profound compassion forthe misfortunes of the Queen of Scots and indignation ather cruel doom to recognise him as one of the best of theDouglases. Many modern public men have scarcely enteredupon their career at the age which brought his to a term; Pitcairn, i. 217. - Strangled. ^ Until. ^ Pitcairn, i. 241. CHARACTER OF ANGUS 149 yet he committed few errors of judgment, and, whilemaintaining with equal sagacity and courage the politicaland religious faith which he professed, it is impossibleto support against him any charge of disloyalty to hissingularly insincere and suspicious sovereign, James VI., whothough he preferred Stuart, Earl of Arran, as a councillormore inclined to the restoration and maintenance of Epis-copacy, was personally very fond of Angus, and used to speakof him as the ministers king. As for the Presbyterian. Fig. 32.—Seal of Archibald, SthjEarrof Angus (1557-1 clergy, they adored him, Calderwood pronouncing him tohave been more religious nor anie of his predecessors,yea, nor anie of all the erles in the countrie, much belovedof the godlie. Angus had no children by his first two wives, the secondwhereof, Lady Margaret Leslie, he divorced in 1587, andin July of that year married Jean Lyon, daughter of John,10th Lord Glamis, and widow of that Robert Douglasof Lochleven who had been dissuaded by his motherfrom joining Angus in his rising in 1584. This ladybore her husband a posthumous child, named Margaret, ISO THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS who died young, having been affianced to John, eldest sonof John Lindsay of Balcarres, Secretary of State.^ Sheafterwards took a third husband, x^lexander Lindsay,brother of David, iith Earl of Crawford.
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