. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . ady Mary Cochrane was mostsolicitous that she should write to his Lordship on her behalf againsttheir relation, Colonel John Erskine, whom her Ladyship, although shewished him well, could not help thinking to have dealt unjustly and* hardly with Lady Mary; and begging his Lordship to consider the matter and befriend her. Circa 1705, . . .313 THE END OF VOLUME T his Book of the Earls of Cromaetie owes its existence to the liberalityof their
. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . ady Mary Cochrane was mostsolicitous that she should write to his Lordship on her behalf againsttheir relation, Colonel John Erskine, whom her Ladyship, although shewished him well, could not help thinking to have dealt unjustly and* hardly with Lady Mary; and begging his Lordship to consider the matter and befriend her. Circa 1705, . . .313 THE END OF VOLUME T his Book of the Earls of Cromaetie owes its existence to the liberalityof their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Her Grace wascreated, in 1861, Countess of Cromartie. As the representative of the Earlsof Cromartie, and ? heiress of their estates, Her Grace inherited a large col-lection of the Correspondence of her distinguished ancestor, George first Earlof Cromartie, a statesman who exercised great influence during a long was born in the year 1630, in the reign of King Charles the Eirst, anddied in the year 1714, in the reign of King George the First. He thus livedin the reigns of seven sovereigns. Six of these he served faithfully in highjudicial and political offices, and he was, when he finally retired from publiclife, the oldest servant of the Crown, having been for the long period of sixtyyears in the active service of his country. Although much of his correspondence has been lost, owing to the for-feiture of his grandson, the third Earl of Cromartie, in 17earlsofcromartv100fras
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