A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . ation on the genealogy of theSeton family in the fourteenth century, Lord Hailes should have made no allusion to the marriage of thesaid Margaret to Alan de Winton, although he mentions it in hisAnnals (ii. 329) under the year 1336 (following Fordun); whileWyntoun, in his chronicle, assigns the event to the year 1347. Alan de Winton, says Lord Hailes, forcibly carried off the youngheiress of Seton. This produced a feud in Lothian, while
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . ation on the genealogy of theSeton family in the fourteenth century, Lord Hailes should have made no allusion to the marriage of thesaid Margaret to Alan de Winton, although he mentions it in hisAnnals (ii. 329) under the year 1336 (following Fordun); whileWyntoun, in his chronicle, assigns the event to the year 1347. Alan de Winton, says Lord Hailes, forcibly carried off the youngheiress of Seton. This produced a feud in Lothian, while somefavoured the ravisher, and others sought to bring him to punish-ment. Fordun says that, on this occasion, a hundred ploughs inLothian were laid aside from labour—an interesting indication ofthe progress of agriculture at that early period. Alan appears tohave been supported by William Murray, Governor of the Castleof Edinburgh, already mentioned as the father-in-law of Alex-ander Seton. Among the missing charters of David 11. is oneto Margaret Seton, daughter of the deceased Sir AlexanderSeton, of her tocher of the twenty-pound land of Lamington,. 88 THE HEIRESS OF SETON which, however, is not sufficient to establish the fact that shewas her fathers sole heir; or, as she is described in WoodsDotiglas, the heiress of Seton. In another of Mr. Millerspoems, entitled Alan of Winton and the Heiress of Seton, thefollowing verse is inspired by Forduns statement relative tothe suspension of agricultural pursuits : One hundred ploughs unharnessed lie,The dusky collier leaves his mines, A Seton ! is the gathering cry,And far the fiery dragon shines.
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