. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. e king to her majesty, and both the queen and the earlwrote to James express regarding this business. The dukeof Lennox was, in consequence, sent from court to have theaffair adjusted. He arrived at Stirling the 19th May, withthe kings approval of the proceedings of the earl and hismother, and with commission to transport both the queenand prince to England. The earl of Mar then repaired toLondon, and on his arrival at court, he was sworn a memberof the English privy coun
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. e king to her majesty, and both the queen and the earlwrote to James express regarding this business. The dukeof Lennox was, in consequence, sent from court to have theaffair adjusted. He arrived at Stirling the 19th May, withthe kings approval of the proceedings of the earl and hismother, and with commission to transport both the queenand prince to England. The earl of Mar then repaired toLondon, and on his arrival at court, he was sworn a memberof the English privy council, and installed a knight of theGarter, 27th July the same year. In 1604 he was createdLord Cardross (see vol. i. p. 587), at the same time obtain-ing the barony of that name, with the power of assigning thebarony and title to any of his male heirs. The kings reasonfor conferring this unusual privilege upon him, as stated inthe grant, was that he might be in a better condition toprovide for his younger sons, by Lady Mary Stewart, daughterof the duke of Lennox, and a relation of his majesty. Hisportrait is In the beginning of 1606, he returned to Scotland fromLondon, to assist at the trial of Mr. John Welch and fiveother ministers at Linlithgow, on a charge of treason, fox MARK, 112 ENTH EARL OF. having declined the jurisdiction of the privy council in a mat-ter purely ecclesiastical. He was rather favourable thanotherwise to the prisoners, for when the justice-depute, on apreliminary objection being taken to the relevancy of the in-dictment, declared that by the uniform votes of the wholecouncil and lords there present, the trial should proceed, theearl of Mar and two others interposed, and said, Say notall, for there are here that are not, nor ever will be, of thatjudgment. They were, however, overruled. He was amember of the court of high commission erected in 1610 forthe trial of ecclesiastical offences, and also on its renewal in1619. In December 1616, he was
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