The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . aron, he scorned all manner of advice and the aid of hiskinsmen. Some of these offered to discharge his liabilities onthe most friendly terms, and to restore him in the course of afew years to the full and free possession of the extensivedomains of his ancestors, but all remonstrance was in had resolved to follow in defence of the luckless house ofStuart, and, with the view of raising a company of followers,sold his patrimony, which found a ready purchaser in James,the fourth


The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . aron, he scorned all manner of advice and the aid of hiskinsmen. Some of these offered to discharge his liabilities onthe most friendly terms, and to restore him in the course of afew years to the full and free possession of the extensivedomains of his ancestors, but all remonstrance was in had resolved to follow in defence of the luckless house ofStuart, and, with the view of raising a company of followers,sold his patrimony, which found a ready purchaser in James,the fourth Earl of He accordingly left the district—the place of his birth, and the property which his forefathershad held for nearly four hundred years. But the tragedy doesnot terminate here: after spending a few years on the smallproperty of Newgate in Arbroath, he removed to Kirkwall inthe Orkney Islands, where he died in the capacity of anhostler at an inn about the middle of last century; or, asmore definitely stated by Earl James in his Memoirs, in 1744 1 Reg. de Panmure, i. p. xlviii; ii. p. m KM. / ?it i- ? 4EsX%


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