A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . age. He appears tohave got into the hands of Lord Crichton, who then had posses-sion of Edinburgh Castle, and keipit him in the said castellwyth him. Through the instrumentality of the Laird of Johnston,the second husband of his grandmother (the widow of John,second Lord Seton), he was removed from Edinburgh andsecretly conveyed to the Lairds abode of Lochwood in Annandale,where the young Lord was weill nurissit langtyme. When hegrew up
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . age. He appears tohave got into the hands of Lord Crichton, who then had posses-sion of Edinburgh Castle, and keipit him in the said castellwyth him. Through the instrumentality of the Laird of Johnston,the second husband of his grandmother (the widow of John,second Lord Seton), he was removed from Edinburgh andsecretly conveyed to the Lairds abode of Lochwood in Annandale,where the young Lord was weill nurissit langtyme. When hegrew up to manhood, Lord George became ane grit hous haldar,and all gevin to nobilnes. His three immediate predecessors seem to have exhibitedthe family characteristic of lofty The transcriber of theCupar ms. of Forduns Scotichronicon says with reference toWilliam, first Lord Seton, and the three succeeding generations: 1 As already stated, since the beginning ofthe fifteenth century George has been the pre-vailing Christian name in the Seton family, for the reason suggested in the See Appendix of Miscellanies. HIS BUCHAN ALLIANCE 101. Hos quatuor milites ego, qui haec chronica collegi, bene cognovi,de quibus tres primi statura ftroceriet valentes fuerunt. George, third Lord Seton, ac-companied Crichton, the Chancellor,on his embassy to France and Bur-gundy, and had a safe-conduct topass through England, 23rd April1448. In 1469 he was one of thejury at the trial of Sir AlexanderBoyd, and others, for the abductionof the person of James in., fromLinlithgow, on the 9th of July was one of the ambassadors toEngland to whom a safe-conduct was granted in March 1472, and again in August of the yearfollowing, being designed Georgius,Dominus de Setoune. He appearsin various charters and other docu-ments before and after the middle ofthe fifteenth century. He married,1 st, Lady Margaret Stewart, onlydaughter and heiress of the gallantConstable of France, John, E
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