A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . his right to hold courts within the forest, binding the Kers not to interfere with the same under penalty of 20,000 merks. And so this long-standing contention was brought to a close. Fraser, iv. 40. Cousinace is an interesting feminine form of cousin. HIS WEAKLY CONSTITUTION 187 Angus had been brought up in the Roman Catholicreligion, but, having no stomach for the role of martyr,wrote on loth October 1615 to King James, protestingthat the complaints laid against him by the clergy
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . his right to hold courts within the forest, binding the Kers not to interfere with the same under penalty of 20,000 merks. And so this long-standing contention was brought to a close. Fraser, iv. 40. Cousinace is an interesting feminine form of cousin. HIS WEAKLY CONSTITUTION 187 Angus had been brought up in the Roman Catholicreligion, but, having no stomach for the role of martyr,wrote on loth October 1615 to King James, protestingthat the complaints laid against him by the clergy werecalumnious, that the pretendit zeale whereof some makesprofessioun causs them forgett both honestie and discre-tioun, and that he would never refuiss the tuichstone ofall dew tryall in geuing full satisfactione to the mostworthie fatheries of the church. Follows a sly allusionto the Kings own disputes with the clergy. Alwayesit may veill content me to indure that which too oftenand most justlie hes moved my gratious maister andsoueranes owen patience. ^ Angus had inherited the faulty constitution of his. Fig. 42.—Signatures ofWilliam, 1st Marquess of Douglas (1611-1660). father and obtained the Kings leave to go abroad in 1616, to trauell to other cuntreis whare he may haue the aduiseand consultatioun of doctoris and men of knawledge anentthe cause and remedies of his disease and seiknes.^Returning in 1620, he claimed precedence of the Marquessof Huntly at the convention held in November, but, despiteKing Jamess written promise to the loth earl,^ his claimwas disallowed. Neither the ecclesiastical nor the physical atmosphereof his native land seems to have been to the liking ofthis earl. The King disliked the Presbyterian Assembly ^ Fraser, iv. 196. - Ibid., iii. 323. ^ See p. 175, ante. i88 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS almost as much as Angus himself did, and granted himTravels on leave of absence from Scotland for eleven yearsthe Continent, from 3ist March 1623. Leaving his es
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