The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . iHar anti IBiellit ERSKINE, EARL OF KELLIE. LBXANDER, second sonof John, fourth LordErskine (see title Mar),was born about 1521,and had a charter fromhis brother John, LordErskine, Conimendator ofInchmahome, of the landsof Arnprior and others,under the designation ofAlexander Erskine ofOangnoir. He after-wards, 5 October 1560,excambed these lands forhalf the lands of Cambus-barron, co. Stirling.^ Onthe death of his brother
The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . iHar anti IBiellit ERSKINE, EARL OF KELLIE. LBXANDER, second sonof John, fourth LordErskine (see title Mar),was born about 1521,and had a charter fromhis brother John, LordErskine, Conimendator ofInchmahome, of the landsof Arnprior and others,under the designation ofAlexander Erskine ofOangnoir. He after-wards, 5 October 1560,excambed these lands forhalf the lands of Cambus-barron, co. Stirling.^ Onthe death of his brother,the Regent Mar, he was intrusted with the care of theyoung King James vi., and he and his half-brother Adam,Oommendator of Oambuskenneth, granted a bond for thehouse of Mar that the King would be kept securely inStirling Castle under the tuition of George Buchanan andPeter Young.^ In March 1577-78, on the fall of Morton, theKing nominally took the government into his own hands,and Erskine was appointed one of the fifteen members ofthe new council then formed. On 26 April following theyoung Earl of Mar, prompted by Morton, seized the castleof Stirling, ejected his uncle, and obtained possession of theKings per
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