A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . als, in some of which Hugh Mackayof Farr was intimately concerned. The Earl died at Dunrobin, 6th December 1594, in the forty-third yearof his age, and was buried in DornochCathedral. Sir Robert Gordon describeshim as ane honorable and hyemyndedman ... He was verie vpright in all hisactions, vnfitt for these our dayes, whereinintegritie lyeth speechles and vpright deal-ling is readie to give vp the ghost. The eleventh Earl was twice ma
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . als, in some of which Hugh Mackayof Farr was intimately concerned. The Earl died at Dunrobin, 6th December 1594, in the forty-third yearof his age, and was buried in DornochCathedral. Sir Robert Gordon describeshim as ane honorable and hyemyndedman ... He was verie vpright in all hisactions, vnfitt for these our dayes, whereinintegritie lyeth speechles and vpright deal-ling is readie to give vp the ghost. The eleventh Earl was twice mar-ried :— First, as already mentioned, to LadyBarbara Sinclair, daughter of Georpfe,fourth Earl of Caithness ; Secondly, in 1573, to Lady JaneGordon (born 1546), daughter of George,Earl of Huntly, married in February1565-6 to James Hepburn, fourth Earl ofBothwell, who shortly afterwards obtaineda divorce, which enabled him to marry Mary Queen of Scots. After the death of the Earl of Sutherland, she mar-ried, thirdly, Alexander Ogilvie of Boyne, and died in 1629, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. Sir Robert Gordon gives her a very high character. 3U. 522 JOHN, TWELFTH EARL The following statement occurs in a small quarto MS. in the BritishMuseum (Harl. 1371), entitled Scotica Nobilitas, 1589, containing quaintcoloured blazons of arms with short notices of the bearers :— N. Gordonof 32 years. His mother was sister to the E. of Lennox, and so greateaunte to the K. His wife, a Gordon, sister to the old E. Huntly, andaunte to this E. y* now is, being before divorced from the old E. children many. His living in Sotherland and Morray. The armsgiven are, quarterly, 1st and fourth, gules, three mullets or; 2nd and 3rd,azure, a boars head couped or. In another folio ms. (Harl. 1423) we find Gourdon Earle of Souther-land descended from Gourdon Earle Huntley, untotwhose landes his landesdoth adioyne, both lyeinge in the northermost part of Scotland. Therelative coat is
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