A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . ne Fuller, an apothecary in Piccadilly,sued the dukes executors for ;£ 10,000, representing fees for9340 visits and attendance en 1215 nights, during the lastseven years and a half of his patients life. Fuller actuallyobtained a verdict for ;£7Soo. In his native country Old O. is chiefly remembered forhaving ruthlessly felled the fine woodlands round Drum-lanrig and Neidpath, to provide a marriage portion forMaria Fagniani, whom he imagined to be his daughter,when she married the E
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . ne Fuller, an apothecary in Piccadilly,sued the dukes executors for ;£ 10,000, representing fees for9340 visits and attendance en 1215 nights, during the lastseven years and a half of his patients life. Fuller actuallyobtained a verdict for ;£7Soo. In his native country Old O. is chiefly remembered forhaving ruthlessly felled the fine woodlands round Drum-lanrig and Neidpath, to provide a marriage portion forMaria Fagniani, whom he imagined to be his daughter,when she married the Earl of Yarmouth. The ruin thuscreated fired even Wordsworth to unwonted bitterness:— Degenerate Douglas ! oh, the unworthy lord !\\hom mere despite of heart could so far please,And love of havoc (for with such diseaseFame taxes him), that he could send forth wordTo level with the dust a noble horde,A brotherhood of venerable an ancient dome and towers like theseBeggared and outraged. Dying in 1810, at the age of eighty-six, he was buriedin St. Jamess Church, Piccadilly. His immense QUEENSBERRY AND DRUMLANRIG 287 amounting to over a million sterling, accumulated in largemeasure by betting and gambling, was divided by his willamong an immense number of persons. His British peerageexpired with his life, but Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch,succeeded under entail to the Drumlanrig estates, and, asheir of line, to the dukedom of Queensberry. The marques-sate passed into another line of Douglas, being claimed bySir Charles Douglas of Kelhead, as descended from the William Douglas of Kelhead, second son of the ist Earlof Queensberry [Ixxx.], and therefore heir-male of Douglasof Drumlanrig. Sir Charless claim was supported by hisfather-in-law, Henry, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry,and was established in his favour by the House of Lordson 9th July 1812. This accounts for the puzzling ano-maly of a dukedom and marquessate of Queensberry beingheld simult
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