A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . he possession ofMajor Adair, a copy of which hekindly sent to me in 1851. MajorAdairs interest in the ancientfane arose from the fact of hisbeing maternally descended fromKing Robert the Bruce. There are at least two allusions to Sir Christopher Seton inScotts Lord of the Isles. The first occurs towards the end ofthe second Canto: Wheres Nigel Bruce ? and de la Haye,And valiant Setonâwhere are they ?Where Somerville, the kind and free ?
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . he possession ofMajor Adair, a copy of which hekindly sent to me in 1851. MajorAdairs interest in the ancientfane arose from the fact of hisbeing maternally descended fromKing Robert the Bruce. There are at least two allusions to Sir Christopher Seton inScotts Lord of the Isles. The first occurs towards the end ofthe second Canto: Wheres Nigel Bruce ? and de la Haye,And valiant Setonâwhere are they ?Where Somerville, the kind and free ?And Fraser, flower of chivalry ? In the other (Canto iv.), reference is also made to the survivorsof the disaster at Methven, and other battles, rallying roundtheir patriotic sovereign : Men too were there that bore the scars Impressed in Albyns woful wars, At Falkirks fierce and fatal fight, Teyndrums dread rout and Methven s flight; The might of Douglas there was seen, There Lennox with his graceful mien ; Kirkpatrick, Closeburns dreaded knight; The Lindsay, fiery, fierce, and light; The Heir of murdered de la Haye, And Boyd the grave, and Seton gay. 80 ASSOCIATES OF BRUCE In a quaint metrical Life of Robert Bruce, published in theearly part of the eighteenth century, Sir Christopher Seton findsa place, in connection with a grandiloquent description of thesurname which he bore: The noble Seton, ever dear to Fame,A god-like Patriot, and a spotless Name ;By factious Treason in Lochdown betrayed,And to Augustas hostile towers1 conveyed ;For Scotias sake resigned his gallant Breath,Great in his Life, and glorious in his ! thou brave, thou ever loyal Name !How the Muse warms with the exalted Theme!Let Rome no more her famed Preservers boast,Camillus, Curii, and the Fabian Host;Old Albion, in her Setons, vaunts her Odds,A race of Heroes rising into Gods. Posterity, says Lord Hailes, ought to remember the chiefassociates of Bruce in his arduous attempt to restore the li
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