A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . happy lord survived hisfather, and, had the law then stood as it does now, thefamily honours and dignity of duke must have been in-herited by the lunatic. But Oueensberry prudently exertedthe power possessed by peers of Scotland before the into the hands of the Sovereign his dukedomand the lands of the duchy, he obtained a re-grant thereof,whereby the succession was fixed upon his third son,Charles, Earl of Solway, who succeeded as 3rd Duke ofQueensberry in 171 i. O
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . happy lord survived hisfather, and, had the law then stood as it does now, thefamily honours and dignity of duke must have been in-herited by the lunatic. But Oueensberry prudently exertedthe power possessed by peers of Scotland before the into the hands of the Sovereign his dukedomand the lands of the duchy, he obtained a re-grant thereof,whereby the succession was fixed upon his third son,Charles, Earl of Solway, who succeeded as 3rd Duke ofQueensberry in 171 i. Oueensberrys services in carrying out the Union policyof the English Cabinet, received handsome Besides a pension of ;£3000 a year settled uponis created him Qut of the revenues of the post-office, heDover, 26th was raised to the British peerage by the title ofMay 1708. Duke of Dovcr, with remainder to his third son,Charles, who had already, on 17th June 1706, been createdEarl of Solway. In addition to these favours, Oueensberryalso was made joint Keeper of the Privy Seal, and, on 9th. DEATH OF THE UNION DUKE 285 February i 709, third Secretary of State. This third officeconfirmed him in what he had previously exercised, andwhich was by no means the least valuable of his acquisi-tions, namely, the chief voice in the administration ofScottish affairs, and the entire disposal of Scottishpatronage. He continued to keep a vigilant eye uponJacobite intrigues. When Nathaniel Hooke came over in170S to arrange for a rising, among other landowners hesounded Ker of Kersland, who immediately revealed whatwas in the wind to Queensberry. Statesmen had not thenacquired superfluous scruples in conducting the nationalbusiness, and Queensberrys advice to Ker was that he shouldjoin the plot, learn all the secrets of the conspirators, andcommunicate them to him as Secretary for Scotland. ThatKer did not succeed in carrying out this may be inferredfrom Queensberrys neglect
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