A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . hoped to wait upon him in London. He said he feared not, he could be Eraser, ii. 471, note. - Author of Doughs, a play ; escaped from Doune Castle when imprisonedthere by the Jacobites after the battle of Falkirk. Lord Shelbumes topography was evidently somewhat imperfect. 244 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS of no use there ; he was not sufficiently infoiTned to carry any weight there ; hecould neither read nor write without great difficulty. I told him that many ofthe greatest men in the his
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . hoped to wait upon him in London. He said he feared not, he could be Eraser, ii. 471, note. - Author of Doughs, a play ; escaped from Doune Castle when imprisonedthere by the Jacobites after the battle of Falkirk. Lord Shelbumes topography was evidently somewhat imperfect. 244 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS of no use there ; he was not sufficiently infoiTned to carry any weight there ; hecould neither read nor write without great difficulty. I told him that many ofthe greatest men in the history of both kmgdoms could do neither, to which heassented. The Duke of Douglas died on 21st July 1761, havingleft instructions to his executors to bury him in the bowling-green at Douglas. They complied so far with Death of the f. . ^ ? , , . Duke of his eccentricity as not to lay him among the«stfuTi 61 departed great ones in St. Brides, but placedhis remains in a vault under the new parishkirk of Douglas, where at least the ground had not beentainted for this rigid Presbyterian by priestly consecra-. Fig. 61.—Signature of Archibald, Duke of Douglas {1752). tion. The dukedom of Douglas expired with its firstand only holder, but the marquessate of Douglas andthe earldom of Angus passed to the Duke of Hamiltonas heir-male. Archibald James Edward Steuart-Douglas, survivingtwin-son of Colonel John Steuart [afterwards Sir Johnixxvi. Archi- Steuart of Grandtully] and his wife, Lady Janebald Steuart- Douglas [Ixxv.], was educated at Westminster,LordDouglas, and on the death of his uncle, the Duke of1748-1827. Douglas, in 1761, was served heir to the Douglasestates, without any opposition on the part of the next heir,the Duke of Hamilton. Soon after, however, an action wasbrought by the Duke of Hamilton and the Earl of Selkirkto set aside his title, which was the first step in the famous Life of IViUiam, Earl of Shclbunie, by Lord E. Fitzmaurice, i, lo. THE GREAT DOUGLAS CASE 245
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