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 . rebel forbeing concerned alongwith the Earl and Coun-tess of Atholl in a raidagainst Walter Leslie of Moircleuch, who was takenprisoner and shut up in the Oastle: ^ and there are otherreferences to him down to 1612. It is said, apparently onthe authority of Macfarlane, that George Leslie was thesecond son of George Leslie, first Laird of Drummuir, whowas the third son of Alexander Leslie, first of Kininvie,who was the seco
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 . rebel forbeing concerned alongwith the Earl and Coun-tess of Atholl in a raidagainst Walter Leslie of Moircleuch, who was takenprisoner and shut up in the Oastle: ^ and there are otherreferences to him down to 1612. It is said, apparently onthe authority of Macfarlane, that George Leslie was thesecond son of George Leslie, first Laird of Drummuir, whowas the third son of Alexander Leslie, first of Kininvie,who was the second son of George Leslie, first of NewLeslie, who was the second son of Sir William Leslie, fourthBaron of Balquhain. Macfarlanes account of his parentage,however, is very confused, and it may be pointed out thattliere was a George Leslie, Captain of Blair, in 1549, whena precept of sasine was directed to him for the infeftmentof James Bannatyne in certain lands in Perthsliire. This > Erasers The Melvilles, i. 387; Hist. Records of the Family of Leslie,iii. 355; Macfarlanes Gen. Coll., ii. 432. = p. c. Reg., iv. 541. Ibid., * Reg. Mag. Sig., 1 A\ LESLIE, EARL OF LEVEN 373 George Leslie could not have been the person of that namewho held the same offices iu 1612, and who was undoubtedlyAlexander Leslies father, as the latter had a legitimatedaughter, Margaret, who was married for the first time in1643, and again after the death of her first husband in 1647,and to whom her half-brother, the Earl of Leven, gave atocher of 13,000 merks. But the two Georges may havebeen father and son. Who the mother of Alexander Leslie was is not says, he was gotten in Mr. Leonard Lesslyshouse at Coupar, when he was Ooininendator of Cupar, andalso that he was born there. His mother is styled awench in Rannoch by a contemporary diarist. It is saidthat his father, after the death of his wife, married theEarls mother in order to legitimise him, but this state-ment
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