. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. rivileges, had been conferredupon her by the king. Among these was the manorof Musselburgh, a grant of which had been made tothe abbey of Dunfermline by David I., that sairsaunt to the croon. The regality of Musselburghand the property connected with it had, someyears before the queens marriage, come into thepossession of Chancellor Maitland, and as he re- fused to resign them to the queen, her animositywas but the more increased against him. By ihekings advice he passed
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. rivileges, had been conferredupon her by the king. Among these was the manorof Musselburgh, a grant of which had been made tothe abbey of Dunfermline by David I., that sairsaunt to the croon. The regality of Musselburghand the property connected with it had, someyears before the queens marriage, come into thepossession of Chancellor Maitland, and as he re- fused to resign them to the queen, her animositywas but the more increased against him. By ihekings advice he passed the following year inthe country, but in May 1593 he returned to court,and was restored to the exercise of his vast estate, it may be stated, of the lordshipof Musselburgh, or of the whole of the ancientGreat Inveresk and Little Inveresk, continued inthe family till 1709, when it was purchased byAnne, duchess of Buccleuch, the widow of theduke of Monmouth, from John, fifth earl of Lau-derdale, who died the following year. Subjoinedis the chancellors portrait, from an engraving inSmiths Iconographia The keeping of the young prince Henry hadbeen intrusted by the king to the earl of Mar, butas the queen wished to remove him from Marscharge, the chancellor, willing to make a friend ofher majesty, entered into her plans. This rousedthe anger of James, who reproved him verysharply for his interference in a matter with whichhe had nothing to do. Deeply mortified, he re-tired to Lauder, where, after two months illness,he died, October 3d, 1595. He was visited on hisdeathbed by Andrew Melville and his nephew,Robert Bruce, and had he lived it is thought that MAITLAND. 83 MALCOLM the evils with which, soon after, the nationalchurch was assailed, would have been king regretted him much, and composed anepitaph to his memory. Lord Thirlestane, like his father, has obtaineda high character from his contemporaries, for hiseminent abilities and amiable dispositi
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