Braemar Highlands : Their Tales, Traditions and History . es as seventeenth LordErskine and thirty-eighth Earl of Mar. He was alsoattached to the interests of Charles II., and wasmade a member of his Privy Council in 1682. Heraised, at his own charge, a regiment of foot, andcontinued colonel of it until his death. The regi-ment is still known as The Royal Scots Fusiliers—the 21 st. After his death, in 1689, his son John succeededas eighteenth Lord Erskine and thirty-ninth Earlof Mar. Shortly after his accession he was ap-pointed one of the Privy Council for Scotland;and among many other honour
Braemar Highlands : Their Tales, Traditions and History . es as seventeenth LordErskine and thirty-eighth Earl of Mar. He was alsoattached to the interests of Charles II., and wasmade a member of his Privy Council in 1682. Heraised, at his own charge, a regiment of foot, andcontinued colonel of it until his death. The regi-ment is still known as The Royal Scots Fusiliers—the 21 st. After his death, in 1689, his son John succeededas eighteenth Lord Erskine and thirty-ninth Earlof Mar. Shortly after his accession he was ap-pointed one of the Privy Council for Scotland;and among many other honours and offices, wasone of the sixteen Scots Peers in the first BritishParliament. He continued in favour until thedeath of Queen Anne, when, being deprived of allhis offices, he went north to the Castle of Kildrumwy, CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGE. 129 and soon after, unfortunately for himself and country,went to Glenlivety and proclaimed the Chevalierde St. George under the title of James vill.; thesequel of which event belongs to another part ofthis PART THE THIRD. THE RISE OF THE FARQUHARSONS. Those mighty chiefs who once had sway,But vanished now like mist away. 131
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