. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. commissioners chosen forScotland to sit in the parliament of England. He succeededhis father in 1658, and in August 1660 he killed the masterof Gray in a duel near London. He was sworn a privy coun-cillor to Charles II., and had a grant of the office of sheriflof Forfar. He died at Kinnaird in March 1669. By his Rachel Ker, relict of Halyburton of Pitcur, and young-est daughter of the first earl of Roxburghe, he had, with twodaughters, a son, Robert, third earl
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. commissioners chosen forScotland to sit in the parliament of England. He succeededhis father in 1658, and in August 1660 he killed the masterof Gray in a duel near London. He was sworn a privy coun-cillor to Charles II., and had a grant of the office of sheriflof Forfar. He died at Kinnaird in March 1669. By his Rachel Ker, relict of Halyburton of Pitcur, and young-est daughter of the first earl of Roxburghe, he had, with twodaughters, a son, Robert, third earl of Southesk. Robert, 3d earl, was captain in the Scottish guards inFrance, and afterwards colonel of the Forfarshire had a grant of the office of sheriff of Forfar, to him andhis son, 29th April 1682. He died 19th February 1688He married Lady Anne Hamilton, eldest daughter of the 2dduke of Hamilton, a lady who figures conspicuously in the1 Memoires de Grammont, in which work is an engraving ofher ladyship, from a drawing after Sir Peter Subjoinedis a woodcut of the seal of James, earl of Southesk •. They nao. two sons, Cnanes, fourth ean of Southesk, andthe Hon. William Carnegie, killed in a duel at Paris, in 1681,by William Talmash, son of the duchess of Lauderdale. The fourth earl of Southes* was, on 8th May 1688, servedheir maie of his father in his extensive estates in the countiesof Aberdeen, Dumfries, Fife, Forfar, Kincardine, Kirkcud-bright, Peebles, and Selkirk. Disapproving of the Revolu-tion, he never went to court or parliament after that event,and died 9th August 1699. By his wife. Lady Mary Mait-land, second daughter of the third earl of Lauderdale, he hadJames, fifth earl. This nobleman engaged in the rebellion of1715, and was attainted by act of parliament. His that time of the annual rental of £3,271, probably abouta tenth of their present value were forfeited to the crown SCALDING. 493 SPEIRS. fn 1717 an act passed to enable his
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