A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . of WilliamSeton of Meldrum, for the slaughter ofJohn Allan of the Auld Mylne of The estate of Meldrum having cometo the Setons by an heir-female, and thecourse of succession havino- continued long-settled on heirs-general, this Williamthought it just and reasonable that itshould go in the same channel; and accord-ingly, in 1635, he made a new entail of his whole estate, failing heirs of his own body, in favour of the issueo
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . of WilliamSeton of Meldrum, for the slaughter ofJohn Allan of the Auld Mylne of The estate of Meldrum having cometo the Setons by an heir-female, and thecourse of succession havino- continued long-settled on heirs-general, this Williamthought it just and reasonable that itshould go in the same channel; and accord-ingly, in 1635, he made a new entail of his whole estate, failing heirs of his own body, in favour of the issueof his niece Elizabeth, the only childof his eldest brother, Onhis death, without issue, soon afterwards,the succession was carried on throughthe said 7. Elizabeth Seton, heiress of Meldrum, who, in 1610, married John Urquhart ofCraigfintry, tutor of Cromarty, by whomshe had several children, of whom theeldest, Patrick, succeeded to the estateof Meldrum, and was the first of theUrquharts of This was probably the Laird of Mel-drum referred to by Thomas Kirk in hisTour in Scotland in 1677: We in-tended, Kirk writes, to have lain at the. 1 Register of Privy Seal, xii. 302. 2 According to Nisbet—Essay on A?-mories,p. 201—the male representative of the Setonsof Meldrum was Robert Seton, late Captain inthe Regiment of Scots Guards.—See also hisSystem of Heraldry, i. 237. A Captain Robert Seton, Judge-Advocate- General of H. Forces in North Britain/appears as a subscriber to Lindsay of PitscottiesHistory of Scotland, published in 1728. 3 The second husband of Elizabeth Seton,heiress of Meldrum, was Sir Alexander Fraserof Philorth, tenth Lord Salton, by whom shehad a son, Alexander, eleventh Lord Salton. 47o ARMORIAL BEARINGS Laird of Meldrums house, but a mile before we came there, we understoodhe was not at home, and we were forced to take up at that poor villagecalled Old Meldrum, but we got wine, ale, and bread from the Lairdshouse. . Near this Meldru
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