Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ;M£^., ^-^^. DUNROBIN FROM THE SEA Dnnrobin Castle 215 the Sutherlands have, as well as the Gowers, several royaldescents.^ The tenth Earl was also a warrior, and apparently an un-lucky one ; for, being taken prisoner and kept in durance inEngland, his beautiful sovereign, Queen Mary, wrote a letterdated Holyrood, 1565, to Elizabeth, entreating for the Earl, aprisoner at Newark. The next Earl, the eleventh, was also a fighter, but he ap-pears to have preferred harassing his neighbours in Ross andCaithness to taking a wider field.
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ;M£^., ^-^^. DUNROBIN FROM THE SEA Dnnrobin Castle 215 the Sutherlands have, as well as the Gowers, several royaldescents.^ The tenth Earl was also a warrior, and apparently an un-lucky one ; for, being taken prisoner and kept in durance inEngland, his beautiful sovereign, Queen Mary, wrote a letterdated Holyrood, 1565, to Elizabeth, entreating for the Earl, aprisoner at Newark. The next Earl, the eleventh, was also a fighter, but he ap-pears to have preferred harassing his neighbours in Ross andCaithness to taking a wider field. Earl Alexander, as this onewas named, had married Jean Gordon, the first wife of this marriage a curious circumstance is attached: had theCountess chosen to produce a dispensation for her marryingBothwell, which only came to light a few years back at Dun-robin, Jean Sutherland might have prevented the Queen frommarrying Bothwell, which, had she so done, would have changedthe whole course of Scottish and perhaps of English history. The thirteenth Earl was known
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