A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . the ancientreligion had been receiving fresh encour-agement in the north. For this familyto be at variance in so important a respectwith the country at large was unfortunateboth for themselves and the country. Itwas an evil now at length to be broughtto an The Duke married, in 1706, LadyHenrietta Mordaunt, daughter of the cele-brated general, Charles, Earl of Peter-borough and Monmouth. She broughtup all her children in the Prote
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . the ancientreligion had been receiving fresh encour-agement in the north. For this familyto be at variance in so important a respectwith the country at large was unfortunateboth for themselves and the country. Itwas an evil now at length to be broughtto an The Duke married, in 1706, LadyHenrietta Mordaunt, daughter of the cele-brated general, Charles, Earl of Peter-borough and Monmouth. She broughtup all her children in the Protestant faith,and with a respect for the reigning House,and on that account was granted a pensionof ^1000 per annum by George 11., in1735, for the better support of herself and her family. Her orthodoxywas warmly commended in many quarters, and in 1730 she received acordial letter of thanks from the General Assembly. Inheriting her fathersenterprising genius, the Duchess also signalised herself by introducing im-portant agricultural improvements into Scotland, including the system offallowing, hitherto unknown in the north ; the proper mode of hay-making;. 1 Chamberss Domestic Annals of Scotland, iii. 466. 2 Ibid. iii. 554. LORD LEWIS GORDON 437 the laying out of gardens, and the planting of moorlands. As observes : It is rather remarkable that Scotland should havereceived her impulse towards agricultural improvements from England,which we have in recent times seen, as it were, sitting at her feet as apupil in all the various particulars of a superior rural Notwithstanding her Protestant loyalty, the energetic Duchess onceshowed a tendency to sympathise with the principles of the one of her sons, Lord Lewis Gordon, went out for the House ofStuart in 1745, the Duchess layed out a breakfast for the young Chevalieron the road-side at her park-gate, as he marched past, target on shoulder,on his way to England; for which single act of misapplied ho
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