The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . n of the Crownuntil it was granted to I. John Stewart,fourth, but third surviv-ing, son of King James ii.,born about or afterOctober 1456, who was created between 21 June 1458and 23 June 1459, EARL OF MAR AND appears little on record except as a witness to afew royal charters, and his career was both brief and un-fortunate. He is described by a quaint Scottish his-torian as young, fair, and lustie, ane man of hi
The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . n of the Crownuntil it was granted to I. John Stewart,fourth, but third surviv-ing, son of King James ii.,born about or afterOctober 1456, who was created between 21 June 1458and 23 June 1459, EARL OF MAR AND appears little on record except as a witness to afew royal charters, and his career was both brief and un-fortunate. He is described by a quaint Scottish his-torian as young, fair, and lustie, ane man of highstatur, fair and plessant faceit, gentill in all his haweingisand maneris and knew na thing bot nobilitie. He wasalso, it is said, fond of hunting and hawking, archeryand other knightly games; while he encouraged the im-portation of a large breed of horses and mares to improvethe native stock and supply cavalry in war. Historiansagree that designing persons for their own purposes did theirbest to sow discord between King James iii. and his twobrothers, Albany and Mar. They are represented as being1 Exch. Bolls, VI. cxxvii. 516. = Pitscottie, Scot. Text Soc, i. 638 STEWART, EARL OF MAR active and ambitious, and probably with the carelessnessof youth gave some ground to the accusations made againstthem. Pitscottie states that the King sent for his brothers,and that ]\Iar came obediently to Court, but was mur-dered and slain in the Canongate in a bath. This has beena charge against King James iii. ever since, but Drum-mond of Hawthornden, on the authority of Bishop Elphin-stone of Aberdeen, a contemporary, tells a different also refers to the plotting against the King, and says: The Earl of Mar, young and rash, purblind in foreseeingthe events of things, is stirred up to begin the unwisely spoke too freely to the King as to the latterscompanions, and as a punishment was committed to wardin Oraigmillar Castle. His imprisonment so wrought uponhim that his
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