A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . larger pillars in the central part of themonument, from which an oblongmarble slab (2 feet 9 inches by 2 feet)has been removed, and which borethe following inscription:— Conditumhie est quicquid mortale fuit JacobiDrummond, familiae principis, quiqueprimus familiam titulo Perthiam comi-tatus illustravit. Monumentum hocposuit amantissima et mcestissima con-junx D. Isabell Setoun Roberti Wen-toniae unica. An. Sal . .2 On one of two marble
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . larger pillars in the central part of themonument, from which an oblongmarble slab (2 feet 9 inches by 2 feet)has been removed, and which borethe following inscription:— Conditumhie est quicquid mortale fuit JacobiDrummond, familiae principis, quiqueprimus familiam titulo Perthiam comi-tatus illustravit. Monumentum hocposuit amantissima et mcestissima con-junx D. Isabell Setoun Roberti Wen-toniae unica. An. Sal . .2 On one of two marble slabs, at thebase of the monument, and separated by a monogram embracingthe letters (James Drummond) and (Isabel Seton), isthe following epitaph, composed by William Drummond, whichappears in one of the volumes of Hawthomden MSS. in theLibrary of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries :— Insteed of epitaphes and airye praise,This monument a lady chaste did raiseTo her lords living fame, and, after death,Her bodye doth unto this place bequeath,To rest with his till Gods shrill trumpet sound ;Thogh tyme her lyf, no tyme her love can 1 Conti?iuation of the House of Seytoun, 2 Nisbet:sMS. Genealogical Collections^. 217, p. 60. Advocates Library. 2 D 210 A TOUCHING EPITAPH The following quaint letter, dated in May 1622, fromWilliam Drummond to Lady Isabel Seton (then wife of FrancisStewart, eldest son of the attainted Earl of Bothwell), appears inthe volume of the Hawthornden MSS. already referred to. Itwas evidently written in reply to one from Lady Isabel, in whichshe had thanked the poet for the touching lines on the Perthmonument. As her first husband died in 1611, it would appearthat eleven years had elapsed before the epitaph was composed ;and accordingly it is quite possible that her second matrimonialexperience may have proved less satisfactory than the first, andthat this circumstance had prompted the pathetic allusion to herfirst love, in the last line
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