A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . Empire, by whom he had two sons and three daughters :— i. Alexander, born 2nd October 1704, died without issue in Jamaica in 1726. 2. William. 3. Jane, born 1705, died, unmarried, 1785. 4. Christian, born 1707, died 1788, having married George Lindsay of Plew-lands, City Clerk of Edinburgh, of thefamily of Kirkforthar. 5. Elizabeth, born 1715, married toHarie Guthrie, and died in 1807. In the year 1715 Alexander Tytlerwas sentenced to
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . Empire, by whom he had two sons and three daughters :— i. Alexander, born 2nd October 1704, died without issue in Jamaica in 1726. 2. William. 3. Jane, born 1705, died, unmarried, 1785. 4. Christian, born 1707, died 1788, having married George Lindsay of Plew-lands, City Clerk of Edinburgh, of thefamily of Kirkforthar. 5. Elizabeth, born 1715, married toHarie Guthrie, and died in 1807. In the year 1715 Alexander Tytlerwas sentenced to forty days imprison-ment in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, asa punishment for treasonable practices,having been one of a body of Jacobitecitizens who endeavoured to surprise theCastle by escalade, an attempt which would probably have succeeded hadnot an indiscretion on the part of some of the conspirators led to informa-tion being conveyed to the garrison just in time to frustrate it. Alexander Tytler was the author of the statement relative to theorigin of the family, already referred to. He died 16th December 1743,when he was succeeded by his second son,. 7. William Tytler of Woodhouselee, born 12th October 1711, educated at the High School and University ofEdinburgh, where he displayed an early proficiency in classical 1744 he was admitted into the Society of Writers to His MajestysSignet, and successfully followed the profession of the Law during a longand happy life. He first appeared as an author in 1759, when he published an Inquiry,Historical and Critical, into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots, etc.,warmly espousing the cause of the unfortunate Queen, which reached afourth edition, in two volumes, in 1790. A similar, but less skilful, attempthad been made several years previously by Walter Goodall, one of theunder-keepers of the Advocates Library, many of whose arguments Tytleradopted and re-arranged. The work was eagerly read in Great Britain, besides
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