The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . at the age of twenty-nine. He had added the lands of Warriston to the family property. His wife was Isabel, daughter of Sir John Auchmuty of Gos- ford, Keeper of the Wardrobe to Charles i. Their son, the third John Byres of Coates in succession, also took an active share in the public events of the time. He is described in a family memoir as a man of parts, but much addicted to gallantry and pleasure —his period was that of the Restoration— and having an expensive turn he spent his estate. He married, as appears from
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . at the age of twenty-nine. He had added the lands of Warriston to the family property. His wife was Isabel, daughter of Sir John Auchmuty of Gos- ford, Keeper of the Wardrobe to Charles i. Their son, the third John Byres of Coates in succession, also took an active share in the public events of the time. He is described in a family memoir as a man of parts, but much addicted to gallantry and pleasure —his period was that of the Restoration— and having an expensive turn he spent his estate. He married, as appears from entries in the record kept by his father-in-law, the writer of the Account Booh, published by the Scottish History Society, Jean, third daughter of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston. The marriage took place in Corstorphine Kirk in August 1658, when the bridegroom, like his father before him, was only nineteen years of age. She died in childbirth a year later, and was buried in ye Greyfriar Yard, in ye middle of old John Byres, his tombe. Their son George seems to have pre-. Byres Tomb in Greyfriars. 138 SCULPTURED STONES deceased his father, who married, in 1666, as his second wife,Lilias, eldest daughter of Sir John Grant of Grant and Freuchie,ancestor of the Earls of Seafield. It was probably throughthis northern connection that the Laird of Coates acquired,in 1676, an interest in the lands of Ruthven in Badenoch, theoverlord of which, Lewis, third Marquis of Huntly, hadmarried another daughter of the Laird of Grant. Hitherto the family associations had been chiefly Presby-terian. But we find from the second volume of CramondsRecords of Elgin—New Spalding Club—that Bjnres and hislady had become Roman Catholics, and they are dealt withafter the manner of the day by the Elgin Presbytery, withinwhose jurisdiction they were dwelling. A daughter of thispair, Mary Byres, lived with her aunt, the Marchioness ofHuntly, and had an annuity out of the lands of Coates until1702, when
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