The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. ... By George Crawfurd, Esq;.

MAULE, Earl of Panmure.

BOETHIUS, and some other Historians of the Scots Nation do reckon, that the first Ancestor of this ancient and noble Family, came from Hungary to Scotland, in the Reign of King Malcolm III. in the Retinue of Edward the Out-law of England, and of Margaret his Sister, thereafter Queen of Scotland. But as this Asser|tion of Mr. Bois's is without Autho|rity, or even so much as Probability; so I rather incline with some modern Antiquaries, who have enquired with great Curiosity into the Origin and Progress of Sirnames among us, to think the first Ancestor of the Maules to have come from France, and extra|cted from the noble Family of de Maulia, so call'd from a fair Lordship of that Name in the Dutchy of Nor mandy; the first of whom I have found using the Sirname, was Petrus de Mau|lia, Filtus Ansoldi, Filit Guarini, who gave, Anno 1076, to the Monks of Uttica, the Churches of St. Mary, St. Vincent, and St. Germain, in villa quae nuncupatur Maulia, for the Salvation of his Soula 1.1, according to the Devo|tion of these Times, when good Works were believed to be meritori|ous with Almighty GOD; and de|parting this Life in January 1101b 1.2, was inter••'d in the Cloister of Uttica, with an Epitaph over his Grave, of which this is a Part,

Post Annos Agni centum cum mille superni, Flos Procerum Petrus prope Jani decidit idus, &c.

He left Issue by Guindismoth his Wife, a Lady of a noble Family at Troyes, Four Sons, Ansold, Theobald, Guarin, and William.

Which Ansold was a very warlike Man, and did eminently signalize himself in the Wars of Italyc 1.3, par|ticularly in the Battle where Alexius the Emperor of Constantinople, received a signal Overthrow; likeas in 1106, he ratified to the Monastry of Ut|tica the Rights his Father had made to that Church; and afterward retir|ing from the World, for the better disposing himself, as he thought, to Devotion, he took upon him the Ha|bit of a Monk of St. Bennet, in that Cloister, where he ended his Days not long after, and was there interr'd with this Epitaph upon his Tomb, writ by Odo of Monstrewel,

Si quis erit si scire velit, dum vivus adesset Quis fuerat quem Tumba tegit, quod nomen haberet, Ansoldi nomen suit huic, & Militis omen, &c.

By Oldenine his Wife, Daughter of Radulphus de Malevicine, he had se|ven Sons, Petrus, Radulphus, Guari|nus, Liscardus, Guido, Ansoldus, and Hugo.

Which Petrus de Maulia married Addo, Daughter of the Count de Ghisne, but being a turbulent Man, Louis the Gross, King of France, for his insolent Demeanour, demolished his Castle, and deprived him of his Lordship of Maulta; and tho' he was afterward so far reconciled to his Prince, as that he accompanied him to the Battle of Breunivil, against Henry I. of England, in the 1••19d 1.4; yet for what I have found, he never recovered so much Favour as to be restored to the Posses|sion of his Estate. And 'tis highly probable, at least much more, so, than Boethius Story, that upon the falling low of the Family of De Maulia in

France, a Branch of them was trans|planted to S••••tland, in the Time of King David I. who••e Bounty and Ge|nerosity we know, was not confin'd to his own Subjects; but was also very liberally extended to Foreigners of Birth and Merit, who were willing to put themselves under his Protection; for in the End of that Reign, William de M••ulia is Witness in a Donation by Prince H••nry, of the Lands of Clerkingtoun to the Church of Hadding|touna 1.5. But what were the first Lands the M••uies were possessed of, I have not been able to discover; but they were ••pread into sundry Branches as early as the succeeding Reign of King Mal|colm IV. when that Prince of his Roy|al Bounty gave the same William de Ma••••••a promiscuously design'd Mas|culus and ••e M••u••••a, the Lands and Tenement of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Perth-Shire, out of whi•••• he mertified in pure and perpetual Alms, DEO, & Canonicalt Ecclesiae Sancti Andreae Capelam de Foulis, cum Terra quae eidem Cap••lae competebat, antequam Foulis esset mihi data, cum decem acris Terrae, quas in incrementum ded•• ipsi Capelae, pro salu|te Animae m••••, &c. coram Roberto Epis|copo Sancti Andreaeb 1.6. The same William Ma••culus de Foulis, gave to the Chanons of the Priory of St. Andrews & Thomae Masculo clertco nepoti suo, ecclesiam suam de Foulis, in puram ele|emosinamc 1.7, coram Willielmo Priore Sancti Andreae Comite Dunecano. Ada|mo pratre Comitis, Michaele Masculo, Ricardo nep••te suo. But he dying without Issue Male, his Estate went with his two Daughters, the Elder married to R••ger de Mortimer; and the Younger 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to Walter de Roth|ven, Paternal Ancestor to the Earls of Gowrie.

For the further Illustration of this Descent, there is a Donation made by Hugo ae Mortuomari, Lord of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whereby he confirms to the Chanons of Sr. Andrews, Capelam de Foulis, cum terra quae eidem Capelae competeba••, antequam Foulis esset data Willielmo de Masculo avo suod 1.8; and thereafter Gilbertus de Rothven, Son of Walter de Rothven, in praesentia Domini Alex|andri Regis, in curia apud Schonen, die Veneris ante Dominicam Palmarum, An|no Gratiae 1262e 1.9, resigns in due Form, Wi••••ielmo de Mortuomar••, cog|nato suo & haeredibus suis in perpetuum, totum jus illud quod ille & haeredes sui habuerunt vel habuere potuerunt per de|cessum Ciciliae aviae suae filiae domini Willielmi de Maulia, vel aliquo alio jure, mihi & haeredious meis, contin|gente in tota terra de Foulis in Gaurin, vel medietato ipsius, vel in parte ejusdem.

The direct Ancestor of this noble Family was Sir Peter de Maulia, great Nephew and Heir Male of Sir Wil|liam de Maulia, Lord of Foulis, who in the Beginning of the Reign of King Alexander II. obtained the Barony of Panmure, by the Marriage of Christi|an Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Wil|liam de Valoniis, Lord of Panmure, Great Chamberlain of Scotland.

This Sir Peter and the said Christian his Wife, did mortifie the Lands of Bra|kis and Bothmernock, to the Monks of Ar|brothf 1.10, in the Tenement of Panmure, for the Salvation of their Souls, as ap|pears from a Perambulation betwixt them and the Abbot of the said Con|vent, which narrates, that after some Dispute betwixt the Two Parties a|nent the Right of these Lands, the King had ordered the Earl of Buchan his Justiciary, to march and peram|bulate the said Lands; and the Par|ties having amicably agreed, by the Mediation of certain noble Persons, viz. William Lord Brichen, Gilbert de

Haya, and Robert de Montealto, the Af|fair at length was amicably compos'da 1.11. He dying in the 1254, left Issue

Sir William his Successor, and

Sir Thomas, who in the 1303, bravely defended the Castle of Brichen, against a strong Party of the English, for seve|ral Weeks, with the outmost Resolu|tion and Magnanimity: Of whom Matthew Westminster, an Author not to be suspected of Flattery, when he speaks in Favour of the Scots, says, That he was a Soldier of undaunted Boldness and Resolution of Mind, that the Vigour and Strength of his Body were very great, and that he did not fear to hold out the small Fortress committed to his Charge against a Royal Army. And notwithstanding King Edward was very sollicitous to have the Place, and for that Purpose brought great Prepa|rations against it, yet all was to no Purpose, insomuch, says the former Author, that one Day as the Gover|nor was standing upon the Wall, and watching where a Stone hit against it, he in Derision wiped the Place with his Handkerchief: But some Days after, when another Attack was made, the brave Governor had the Misfor|tune to receive a Wound in the Breast, of which he died the same Evening, whereupon the Castle was surren|der'd.

Which Sir Willi••m, in the 1293, ratified and confirmed to Rodolph of Dundee, the Grant of Christian de Va|loniis his Mother, of the Lands of Benvin and Balruthry, with the Patro|nage of the Church of Benvin, to which his Seal is appended; and still intire, as it is bore by his Descendants, the Heirs of this noble Familya 1.12. He was also one of those Barons who in the 1292, did Homage to King Edward I. for his Lands which he held of the Crown in the County of Forfar, when the Bulk of the Nation swore Fealty to that ambitious Princeb 1.13. He married Etham de Vallibusc 1.14, Daugh|ter of . . . . . . de Vallibus, Lord of Dirleton, by whom he had

Sir Henry his Son and Heir, Lord of the Barony of Panmure, who received the Honour of Knighthood from King Robert I. on Account of his Merit and Services to that Prince, who was a very bountiful Patron to worthy Men.

This Sir Henry Maule confirmed to John of Glassirth, Son and Heir of Ra|dulph de Dundee the Lands of Benvie and Balruthry, which his Father Sir William had formerly given to the said Radolph. Whereupon King Robert I. confirms by his Charter under the Great Seal, Donationem illam quam Willielmus de Maule, Miles Dominus de Panmure fecit Radulpho de Dundee. Militi de Terris de Banevy & Balruth|ry, cum advocatione ecclesiae ejusdem, cum molendino, & cum omnibus aliis justis pertinentiis suis, ac ratificationem, approbationem, & confirmationem Henri|ci de Maule, militis filii & haeredis Willielmi de Maule praedicti, factas Johanni de Glassrith, filio & haeredi quondam Radulphi de Dundee, de ter|ris praedict. cum advocatione ecclesiae, &c.d 1.15. Test. Waltero de Tuinham, Cancel|lario nostro, Thoma Randulpho Comite Moraviae, Domino Vallis Anandiae & Manniae, nepote nostro Jacobo Domino de Duglas, Gilberto de Haya Constabu|lario nostro, Roberto de Kieth Maris|challo nastro Scotiae, & Roberto Boyde, 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Apud Dundee quarto deci|mo 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Aprilis, Anno Regni nostri vi|cesimo quarto.

He married Margaret, Daughter of . . . . . . . . . Hay of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Prede|cessor to the Marquis, of Tweedale,e 1.16, by whom he had Walter his Suc|cessor, William, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, who ••••••k|ing himself to the Service of the

Church, enter'd into Orders, and had a Dignity in the Chapter of the See of St. Andrews, as appears from the Grants of Bishop Lamberton, who ex|erced the Episcopal Function there, under King David II.a 1.17; likewise a Daughter, Christian married to Alexander Strachan of Carmylieb 1.18, in vicecom. de Forfar.

Walter, the next of this noble Fa|mily, flourished under King David II. he gave in free Alms to the Episco|pal See of Brichen, the Chaplanry of Boath of his own Patronage, with his Lands of Carncorthy, for the Salvation of his Soulc 1.19, which Charter of this Walterus de Mau••ta King David rati|fied to his Favourite Chancellor the Bishop of that See, 20th of November 1360d 1.20. By . . . . . . Daughter of . . . . . . . . his Wife, he had Sir William his Successor, and Henry Maule, first of the Branch of the Maules of Gla|stere 1.21.

Which Sir William married Marion, only Daughter of Sir David Fleeming of Biggar, Ancestor to the present Earl of Wigtounf 1.22, by Jean his first Wife, Daughter of Sir David Barclay Lord of Brichen, by whom he had Tho|mas his Successor, and a Daughter Jean, married to Alexander Ouchter|leny of Kellyg 1.23, in vicecomitatu de Forfar.

Thomas Maule of Panmure his Son, was made a Kt. by King Robert III. and thereafter during the Regency of the Duke of Albany, when the Troubles broke out upon the Descent of Donald of the Isles, when an Army was sent against that Lord, under the Com|mand of the Earl of Mar, Sir Thomas Maule was one of those loyal Barons who joined the General in his March northward, and had a Command in the Army at the bloody Battle of Hair|law, where he was slain, in the Flower of his Age, July 25th, 1411, leaving Issue by Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter of Sir Andrew Gray of Fouls, Ancestor to the Lord Grayh 1.24, a Son born after his Death, viz.

Sir Thomas, who was served and retoured Heir to his Father in 1412i 1.25, notwithstanding of his Non-Age, in Respect of a Statute of General Council, made in Favours of those whose Predecessors were kill'd in the King's Service.

Upon the Death of that Arch-Trai|tor, Walter Earl of Athole, who mur|dered King James I. Sir Thomas Maule laid Claim to the Lordship of Brichen, in Right of his great Grandmother, who was Sister to Sir David Barclay, Lord of Brichen, whose Daughter and Heir the Earl had married; but the Ministry in the Minority of King James II. having in sundry Cases pro|cured Decisions to be made in Favours of the Crown, when the Competiti|on run betwixt the Sovereign and the Subject, so Sir Thomas Maule and the Friends of the Family of Brichen were baulked of their Right to that Lord|ship, which on the Earl of Athole's Forfaulture was immediately vested in the Crown, in Regard he was pos|sessed of it at his Deathk 1.26. But if ever Sir Thomas received afterward any Compensation for his Claim there|to, when the King came to Age, I have not been able to discover. He married Margaret, Daughter, as the Contrract designs her, of a Nobleman, Sir Thomas Abercromby of That-Ilkl 1.27, in the County of Fife, one of the

Lords of the Session in the Reign of King James II.a 1.28, and dying in the 1450b 1.29, left Issue

Sir Thomas his Son and Heir, who was a Gentleman of great Account in that Time; from a Principle of De|votion, according to the Piety of those Times, he ratified and confirmed to the Abbacy of Coupar, and to the Monks serving GOD there, certain Lands within the Barony of Panmure, with a Right to a Fishing in the east Haven of Panmure, which had been formerly given to the said Abbacy by Sir Thomas's Predecessor, Sir Philip de Valoniis, and that pro salute animae suae, Elizabethae sponsae suae, Alexandri Maule filii sui & haeredis, omntum an|tecessorum & successorum suorum in per|petu••mc 1.30. He likewise founded a Chapel at his own Manor-House of Panmure, dedicated in Honour of the Blessed Virgin, for the Con••••cration of which he obtained a Licence and Order from Julian Bishop of Ostia, the Pope's Legate, to perform there Di|vine Service, and all other Offices com|petent to a Chapel-Devotion for him and his Family continually, dated in the Year 1487d 1.31, the 3d of Pope Inno|cen. VIII. He married first the Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, Daughter of Alexan|der Earl of Crawsurde 1.32, by whom he had a Son Alexander, who died in the Lifetime of his Father, and a Daugh|ter Elizabeth, married to . . . . . . . . . . Lindsay of Evelick; and again when he was an old Man. Catharine, Daugh|ter of . . . . . . Craumond of Ald-Bar, and departing this Life in the 1498, was immediately succeeded by,

Sir Thomas his Grandson, Son and Heir of Alexander Maule of Panmure, Ju••tor, by Elizabeth his Wife, Daugh|ter of Sir David Gathry of That-Ilk, Kt. Lord High-Treasurer of Scotland in the Reign of King James III.f 1.33. This Sir Thomas was made a Kt. by King James IV. by whom he was much valued and esteemed, as a Per|son well affected to the Government both in Church and State.

As the King had a great Regard for Sir Thomas Maule, so the Churchmen profess'd a more than ordinary Ho|nour and Esteem of him; for the then Abbot of Coupar, with full Consent and Approbation of his Convent made him Baily of their Barony of Barry, a Jurisdiction, tho' of no great Va|lue of itself, yet was such as the great Men before the Reformation affected to exerce, that they might be thought friendly to the Church, which was then no ill Politick, all Things consi|dered. He married first Elizabeth, eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Sir Da|vid Rollo of Ballachieg 1.34, by Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter of Andrew Lord Gray; by whom he had Robert his Successor, and William, who married Janet, Daughter of John Carnagy of Kinnaird, the Earl of Southesk's An|cestor, and was the Root of that Branch of the Maules of Boathh 1.35; next, Chri|stian, Daughter of William Lord Gra|ham, by Jean his Wife, Daughter of George Earl of Angus, and Widow of the Laird of Gleneagles, but by her he had no Issue.

Sir Thomas being the particular Fa|vourite of his Master, King James IV. he accompanied him to the Bat|tle of Flowdon; and while he was on his Way thither, he made his Testament at Dundee, that he might free himself of all worldly Intanglemonts, and the better, as he expresses it himself, to dispose him to the Service of his King and Countryi 1.36, in the War. And 'tis recorded of this Gentleman, to his immortal Honour, that tho' many of

the first Quality left the King, before the Army engaged with the Enemy; yet he would not, tho' he was a very corpulent Man, and advanced in Age, but personally engaged in the Battle, where he fought with remarkable Courage, and received many Wounds, of which he instantly died, on the fatal 9th of September 1513a 1.37, his Estate by his Death devolving on

Robert, his Son and Heir, who was retoured to Sir Thomas his Father, in the Year 1514, the King's Precept for infefting him bears, Quod est legitimae aetatis per actum dispensationis a quondam c••rissim•• patre nostro, desuper concess.b 1.38. He was afterward one of those Barons who made that loyal and dutiful At|tempt to rescue King James V. from the Earls of Arran and Angus, who kept him in little other Condition than that of a Captive, and in order to his Libe|ration, joined the Earl of Lenn••x at the Fight at Linlithgow-Bridge, in 1526c 1.39. Tho' this generous Design prov'd abortive, and the young King still detain'd by those who had him in their Hands, and the Laird of Pan|mure oblig'd to take a Remission for it, as it had been the foulest Treason; yet the King when he came to Age, retained a very lasting Sense of that Service, as a very loyal Appearance; and ever afterward treated Panmure on that Account with the greatest Re|spect and Esteem, insomuch as after his Majesty assumed the Government on himself, he grants a Dispensation to this Robert Maule of Panmure, For the true, good and thankful Service done to his said Majesty by him, to remain and bide at Home during all the Days of his Life, from all Hosts, Roads within the Realm, or without the same, by Sea or Land, and from all Attendance on Par|liaments, Courts of Justiciary, of Cham|berlanry, &cd 1.40. But how the Lairds of Panmure came to relinquish their Pri|vilege of sitting in Parliament, I am at a Loss to know, in regard I find several of them design'd in old Writs Nobiles & potentes Domini, a Title which was afterward made a suffi|cient Authority, to establish a Family in the Dignity of Lord Barons, in the Decreet of Ranking, Anno 1606.

Tho' this Loyal Gentleman was af|ter this under no Necessity of ever appearing in any publick Action, by vertue of the King's Dispensa|tion; yet he no sooner saw his Coun|try threatned with Danger by Party and Faction, after the Death of King James V. than at the Command of the Regent the Earl of Arran, he rais'd his Vassals and Re••ainers, joined the Lord Gray and others, and attacked the Town of Perth, which the Lord Ruthven held out against the Queen's Authority; Tho' they were at first re|puls'd, and the Laird of Panmure, who first made the Attack, was taken Pri|soner; yet in the End the Affair came to be adjusted to the Satisfaction of the Governore 1.41. At the same Time the Laird of Panmure was a strenuous Opposer of the intended Match be|twixt Queen Mary and Edward VI. of England, from an Apprehension his Country might suffer, not only in its Freedom and Independency, but al|so in its other valuable Privileges, by such an Union. So that when the War broke out betwixt the two Nations, on the Breach of the Articles that had been formerly agreed to, and on which ensu'd the Battle of Pinky, Pan|mure's Affections being known that Way, the English Governor of Bruchty detached a strong Party from the Ga|rison to seize and apprehend him in his own House; and notwithstanding

of the Surprize, yet a very noble and brisk Defence was made within, and the old Gentleman himself received divers Wounds; but not being pre|pared for a Siege, he was at length forced to surrendera 1.42. Whereupon he was sent Prisoner to London by Sea, and committed to the Tower, where he remained a whole Year, till he was set at Liberty at the special Instances of the Marquis de Elbuife, the French Ambassador to Scotland, with the Re|gent of England, in whose Company he came Home in the 1549, and being by this Time aged, he thenceforth pass'd the Residue of his Time. in a happy Retirement, till Death took him away on the 2d of May 1560b 1.43. He was interr'd at the Church of Pan|b••••de, among his Ancestors, where a Monument was erected over his Grave. He married Isobel, Daugh|ter of Sir Laurence Mercer of Aldiec 1.44, an anicent Family in Perth-Shire, by whom he had Thomas his Son and Heir, John Moule, Esq Robert Maule, Esq likewise a Daughter Margaret, mar|ried to the Laird of Pitcur. After the Death of his first Wife, he married again Isobel, Daughter of Sir Robert Arbuthnot of That-Ilkd 1.45. Ancestor to the present Viscount of Arbuthnot. By her he had Three Sons, Henry, of whom sp••ang the Maules of Melgum, whose Son and Successor Henry Maule of Mel|gum wa•• a learn'd Antiquary, and the Author of the History of the Picts, which he left behind him in Manu|script, but is since publish'd; Andrew Maule of Guildie, and William Maule of G••aster, who being a Person of great Reputation for Integrity, acquir'd an opulent Fortune, which at his Death was divided among his seven Daugh|ters, who were all Co-heirs,

Marion married to Sir Alexander Seton of Kilcroich, one of the Senators of the College of Justice.

Bethea to James Murray of Skirling, and had Issue.

Margaret to Sir Archbald Murray of Blackbarony, and had Issue.

Eleanor to Alexander Morison of Pre|stongrange, and had Issue.

Jean to William Oliphant of Kirkhill.

Isobel, to James Dundas of Duding|stoun; and again to James Hamilton of Parkly, and had Issue.

Beatrix to Mr. Robert Burnet of Crimond.

Thomas Maule of Panmure, the next of this noble Family, was by the sin|gular Care of his Father brought up in all Accomplishments suitable to his Birth; and for his further Improve|ment sent to France in the Year 1538e 1.46, in the Retinue of the Abbot of Arbroth, Dr. Beaton, thereafter Bi|shop of St. Andrew's, who was Am|bassador from Scotland to that Court. Upon his Return he signaliz'd his Courage and Valour at the Fight of Haldonrigf 1.47 against the English, where he had the ill Fortune to be taken Pri|soner, and was sent to Morpeth, where he remained till after the Death of King James V. that King Henry VIII. did then politically release all the Scots Prisoners of Note and Character, in Hopes to engage them to promote the Union he designed of the Two King|doms, by the Marriage of his Son Prince Edward, and Queen Mary. But tho' the Laird of Panmure had a very grateful Sense of the Favour that Prince had done him, yet it had never the least Influence on him, to engage him in any Interest or Party that prov'd prejudicial to his Country; but upon the breaking out of the War with England, he heartily and personally engaged in the publick Service, and was at the Battle of Pinky-Cleughg 1.48, where with great Difficulty he got his Escape made; having lost ma|ny of his Friends and Vassals, parti|cularly

Thomas Maule of Boath, his own Consin-German. After the End of the War, as he liv'd in great Splen|dor at home, and made a very con|siderable Figure in the Country, so he had severals of Notes who were re|tained to serve him; and among others, I find John Scrimzeor, Con|stable of Dundee, gives him his Bond of Manrent and Service, as his Supe|rior, in Consequence of a former Obli|gation of the same Nature, which Sir James Scrimzeor his Predecessor had formerly made to Sir Thomas Maule of Panmure, which by his own Obligati|on he ratifies and renews, of the Date, 10th of May 1563a 1.49. This loyal and brave Man afterward accompa|nied Queen Mary in her Northern Progress as far as Aberdeen, and would have march'd with her all the Length she design'd in those Parts, had not the afflicted Circumstances of his Fa|mily call'd him to return Home, with the Queen's Permission, so that he was not at the Fight of Corichy, which happen'd soon thereafter; but her Ma|jesty did not want any further Testi|mony of his Loyalty, having been fully satisfied in his Fidelity and Af|fection to the Crown, by many re|peated Instances through the whole Course of his Life before.

When the Troubles broke out in this Reign he did not meddle much with either Party, but kept himself as much, if not more, out of the Broils of the Times, than any other of his Quality in the Kingdom; for in all the publick Transactions during the Course of the War, I don't find him ever concerned in any publick Deed, save in that Associationb 1.50 which was entered into, in the Year of GOD 1567, by the Bulk of the Nation, for the Inauguration of the young Prince King James VI. upon the Queen his Mother's Resignation: And I observe the Bond is not only signed by those who were the great|est Promoters of the Reformation, but even by others of the Nobility and Gentry who were of the Roman Religion, and afterward adhered to the Queen with great Firmness and Fidelity, which gives me Ground to believe they were not then throughly acquainted with the Circumstances by which the Dimission was extorted from her, otherwise I cannot think, that Men of Honour, could have shifted as so many of them did, all of a sud|den, and become most inveterate E|nemies to the Government that suc|ceeded during the whole of the young King's Minority.

This Gentleman was first espoused to the Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, Daugh|ter of David Earl of Crawfurdc 1.51, and thereafter he married Margaret, Daugh|ter of Sir George Halliburton of Pitcurd 1.52, and giving Way to Fate the 7th of March 1600e 1.53, left Issue by his Wife foresaid, beside Patrick the Heir of his Fortune, Five other Sons and a Daughter, William, David, Robert who was Commissary of St. Andrew's; in his Time he had the Reputation of a good universal Scholar, and a Person of great Integrity. Mr. Maule had a Turn to Antiquities, particularly of his own Country, in which he was very exact. He wrote several Trea|ties with great Judgment and Learn|ing, one, which he calls, Periodi Gentis Scotorum, the Abstract whereof he gives in these Words, Has in septem partiti sumus; quarum prima initium ducit a primo Scotorum ex Hispaniâ adventu, & in Albium appulsu, & tempus illud totum occupabit quo nostri sub Philarchis, usque ad primum crea|tum

Regem, fuerunt. Secunda vero exordium inde suum habebit quo primus apud Nos Monarcha ordinatus fuit, ad exilium Scotorum. Tertia vero a re|ditu ab exilio ordietur; quae & desinet in excidium Picticae gentis. Quarta vero a deletis Pictis, & duplicato jam Regno, ad Milcolumbi Canmori prin|cipatum; quo imperante novae apud Nostros Leges, novi item Honorum Ti|tuli orti. Quinta a Milcolumbo quic|quid est annorum complectitur, ad inte|ritum lachrymabilem Alexandri Tertii. Sexta autem, ab Alexandro optimo Re|ge extincto, durabit in obitum Jacobi Quinti. Septima tandem, atque ulti|ma, a Jacobi Quinti immatura morte, ad abitum Jacobi Sexti in Angliam.

He wrote likewise a History of the noble Family of which he was a Son, and in which, no Doubt, there were several great Men; as also another Treatise De Antiquitate Gentis Scoto|rum, in a tolerable pure Latin Stile, which he says, was written contra An|glorum Calumnias & Mendacia, and seems to be plainly levelled against the English Antiquary Mr. Cambden, who about that Time, I think, had published his Britannia, wherein he asserts some Things that the Scots Antiquaries were mightily displeas'd with, and none more than Commis|sar Maule, who was one of the most strenuous Asserters of the Freedom and Independency of Scotland, and among the first who attacked Camb|den; in which he was seconded by Mr. Hume of Godscroft, and afterward by the learned Mr. Drummond of Hawthorn|den. Beside other very judicious Re|marks on the History of his Country, I observe from the little I have seen of Mr. Maule's M S. that he hath happily hit upon a better Notion of the ancient Culdees, than any Author before him; and when I have Occa|sion to peruse more of his Book in Relation to that Matter, I shall not fail to do his Memory all imaginable Justice, and frankly own the Helps I had from him in a Dissertation con|cerning the Culdees I have by me, and which I intend, GOD willing, to communicate to the World.

Thomas Maule of Pitlivie the fifth Son, married Mary Daughter to . . . . . . Lighton of Ulishaven, by whom he had two Sons, Thomas and Robert Maules, Esquires, which last was Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to King Charles I. Thomas Maule the elder Brother, transport|ed himself to the Kingdom of Ireland, where he established a Family, which still continues in that Kingdom with Lustre, and being a gallant brave Man, and a most hearty Loyalist in the Service of King Charles I. in the Time of the Civil War, was Lieute|nant Colonel to the Marquis of Or|mond's own Regiment, when he a|cted as Lieutenant General for the King in that Kingdom. The Colo|nel left behind him two Sons, Wil|liam Maule, Esq Surveyor General of the Customs of Dublin, and Tho|mas Maule, Esq one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to Prince George of Denmark, and Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard in England, a Gentleman of Honour and Merit.

George Maule, Esq the sixth Son.

James Maule, Esq the seventh Son.

Margaret, only Daughter, married to James Stewart, Esq Son of John Earl of Athole.

Patrick, the next in the direct Line of this noble Family, tho he was a Gentleman of very good Parts, yet did not make so great an Appea|rance as some of his Predecessors, it being a Time of profound Peace he lived in; tho we cannot say what Fi|gure he might have made, had he had any Opportunity to exert him|self in the Service of his Country in the Wars against the English; but then all National Animosities were outwardly removed by the Union of the Crowns in the Person of King James VI. of glorious Memory, who before the Time of his Accession to the English Crown, as a Mark of his

Favour to the Laird of Panmure, did make him heretable Bailiff of the Barony of Barry, an Office his An|cestors had exerced by Commission from the Abbots of Balmerino, or o|thers who had that Abbacy in Com|mendam, and which Office his Suc|cessors enjoy heretably to this Time; and dying the first of May 1605a 1.54, left Issue by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of Sir John Erskine of Dunb 1.55, Superintendant of Angus and Mearns after the Reformation, and, as I have found him design'd, Bi|shop of that Diocesec 1.56, by Barba|ra du Borle his Wife, a French La|dy, one of the Maids of Honour to Mary of Lorrain, Wife of King James V.

Patrick the first Earl of Panmure, and several Daughters;

Jean married to David Erskine of Dun, and had Issue. And,

Barbara to James Strachan of Car|mylie, and had Issue.

Which Patrick being a Person of good Parts and Qualities, and of a Family which had always been firm to the Crown, in his Youth betook himself to the Court of King James, and being of a pleasant Humor and Disposition, of a notable Affability in his Behaviour, and well qualified by his Breeding for any Service his Master should think fit to employ him in, he quickly grew to be very acceptable to the King, and into a general Esteem with the Court, in|somuch as his Majesty in a short Time made him one of the Gentle|men of the Bedchamber, about the Time or a little after his Entrance to England in 1603, and as he attend|ed his Majesty into that Kingdom, so he lived upon his own Fortune, without any other Support than the Profits of his Place, and his Maje|sty's Favour. Mr. Maule liv'd al|ways decently, and in a fair Intelli|gence with the Favourites, having always Credit enough to provide for his own Interest, without troubling himself with that of other Men. And that which made him exceedingly beloved in the Court, was, that he never desired to get that for himself which others laboured for, but was ever ready to use his Interest with his Master, to promote the Preten|ces of worthy Men. As this his Behaviour made him many Friends, so few or none had the Confidence to avow themselves to be his Ene|mies: and as he had always a full Share in his Majesty's Esteem and Favour, who looked on him as a wise and faithful Servant, so he was gra|ciously pleased to give many Testi|monies thereof, particularly in a new Charter to him, under the Great Seal, of his ancient Barony of Panmure in 1610. The Narrative bears the Grant to be made by his Majesty, i•• Consideration of the good, loyal and ac|ceptab••e Service done and performed to Us, by Our intirely beloved, familiar, faithful and domestick Servant Patrick Maule of Panmure, one of the Gentle|men of Our Bedchamber, in his faith|ful and diligent Attendance upon Our Royal Person for these many Years past, even from his Youth, and his ready Disposition and Capacity to do Us all laudable Service at all Times and on all Occasions, as he shall be commanded by Us, of which his most faithful and ac|ceptable Service, We have full and suf|ficient Experience. Moreover in the new Gift of the same Charter, where|by the King dispones to him the Pa|tronage of the Church of Panbride; His Majesty declares his Motive to the Grant, to be upon His own suffici|ent Experience of the Wisdom, Di••cre|tion and Judgment of the said Patrick Maule of Panmure, and his prudent

Management of his own Affairs, and of the ardent Zeal and Affection which he has for the Propagation of the Gospel.

For King James was ever most so|licitous, after the restoring of Epi|scopacy, to have the Laick Patrona|ges in the Hands of such Persons as were Friends to the Church as then established by Law; and his Son King Charles of ever blessed Memory, who did not come short of his Royal Fa|ther, but rather exceeded him in his Zeal for the Church, being fully sa|tisfied of Mr. Maule's Affection that Way, and of his unblemished Inte|grity in the Protestant Religion, his Majesty gave his Royal Consent and Approbation to the Transaction, which passed betwixt him and the Earl of Dysart, by which he purcha|sed the Abbacy of Aberbrothock, which was erected into a temporal Lordship, with the Right of Patronage of the Churches of Aberbrothock, Arbirlot, Monikie, Muirhouse, Dunighton, Maynes, Lunan, Inverkilor, Ethie, Monisuith, Clova, Ruthven, Glamis, Kirriemuir, Kingoldrum, Newtyle, Gaval, Dunbug, Abernethy, Inverness, Aberchirdor, Bamff, Glamrie, Langlie, Guildie, Ki|nernie, Banchorie Trinity, Bethelvie, Forgie, Fyvie, Tarves, Nig and Feter|angusa 1.57, all sormerly belonging to the dissolved Monastry of Aberl ro|thock, which besides the old Patro|nages of his own Family, made him among the greatest Patrons of any in Scotland.

As Mr. Maule of Panmure liv'd in the greatest Favour a••d Esteem with King James, who had always a very good Opinion of him, so at his Death he commended him to his Son King Charles, as a Person to be relied on in Honour and Fidelity, of which that Prince himself was also very well satis|fied and pleased, for he not only con|tinued him in his Bedchamber, but made him also Sheriff-Principal of Forfarshire, when the Crown acqui|red the Hereditary Right of that Of|fice from the Family of Gray in 1632b 1.58, the King always lodging these new acquired Jurisdictions in the Hands of such Persons as he could confide in.

When the Troubles broke out, Mr. Maule, being a Person of most emi|nent Affection and of intire Devotion to the Crown, adhered to the King with great Honour and Fidelity, was with him in all the Battles in which his Majesty was ingaged in his own Royal Person, and thereafter went with him to Oxford, where he stay'd till the first War was brought to an End, by his Majesty's putting him|self in the Scots Army before Newark.

Assoon as it was known where the King was, Mr. Maule repaired to him and waited on him thence to New|castle, when his Majesty thought fit to put a lasting Mark of his Favour on his old faithful Servant, and made him a Peer, by the Title of Earl of Panmure, August 3d 1646c 1.59, with as great Circumstances of Grace and Favour as could be expressed: For in the Preamble to the Patent, his Ma|jesty was graciously pleased to call to Remembrance his Lordship's Servi|ces to his Father, and his Fidelity to himself, which he declared in these Words, WHEREAS We have par|ticular Knowledge of the long and faith|ful Service of Our well beloved Patrick Maule Baron of Panmure, one of the Gentlemen of Our Bedchamber, both in the Reign of Our most dear Father of ever blessed Memory, and also ever since Our Accession to the Throne, now these one and twenty Years, by a close Adhe|rence to Our Sacred Person; and seeing We are most ready to bestow some Mark of Our Royal Favour on the said Pa|trick, now that he is turning old: KNOW YE THERFORE, That We have created, &c.

Thereafter when the King was de|livered up by the Scots Army, to such Persons whom the English Par|liament had appointed to receive him, the Earl of Panmure attended on his Majesty to Holmby in Northampton|shire; and tho the Parliament's Com|missioners had declared, that his Ma|jesty should be treated with all De|monstration of Respect and Duty, and waited on by such of his Ser|vants as he should appoint, yet he had not continued there many Days before the Parliament gave Orders to dismiss such of his Servants as were there, and had waited on him at Ox+ford: And tho the Demand was very grating to the Kinga 1.60, yet that he might not seem to refuse to give them Satisfaction in any Thing they required, he yielded to their Desire, but in the Instant they were to be discharged, the King signified that it would be well pleasing to him, that the Commissioners would allow only Two of his old trusty Servants to attend him, and this he would look upon as a Testimony of their Respect to him; which being grant|ed, his Majesty was pleased to pitch upon the Earl of Panmure and the Earl of Dirletoun, both the Earls be|ing Persons in whom his Majesty had an absolute Confidence, and that he was sure neither of them would ei|ther deceive or betray him. The Earl of Panmure was with his Maje|sty, when Cornet Joice came on the 3d of June 1647, with a Troop of Horse, and violently seized on the King's Person, and carried him from Holmby to the Army, and after to Hampton-Court; his Lordship having Liberty to attend his Master in all the Removes he made, which was to his Majesty's great Satisfaction: And tho at first the King enjoyed himself much more, having the Li|berty of his own Servants, than he had before, when he was at Ho••mby: Yet alas! It was not long before the chief Officers of the Army seem'd more regardless of the King, and trea|ted his Servants with less Civility, insomuch as his Majesty (••rom an Apprehension they had some secret Design upon his Life) made his E|scape upon the 11th November 1648 from Hampton Courtb 1.61, and unhap|pily went to the Island of Wight, which prov'd so fatal to him. Thi|ther his Lordship, so soon as he had Intelligence where the King was gone, repaired to him, having no Reason to doubt but that his Presence would be very acceptable to his Masterc 1.62: And his Lordship attended in his Of|fice in the Bedchamber, till his Ma|jesty having refused to give his Roy|al Assent to the four Bills the Par|liament had then sent to him, which he said did divest him of all Sove|reignty, that Colonel Hamond the Governor of the Place, by Order from his Masters, caused all the King's Servants to be immediately put out of Carisbrook castle, and forbid any of them to repair thither any more upon their Perild 1.63; whereupon the Earl, after the King had used many gracious Expressions of his Lordships faithful Services, kissed his Majesty's Hands, and took a sad Farewell of his Master, appearing to have little Hope ever to see him again in this World, and departing for Scotland, lived quietly at his own House in the Country, keeping his Heart and Af|fections always intire for the King.

After the Murther of his Majesty, and the total Suppression of the Roy|al Cause, tho the Earl of Panmure was very aged, and so out of Capa|city himself to have appeared in any

Action for the King's Service, yet when Cromwel prevail'd, and got himself made Protector, that Arch-Tyrant and Traytor, did by an Or|dinance of his Council very arbitra|rily impose a Fine on the Earl of Pan|mure of 10000 lib Sterl.a 1.64, for no other Reason, but his being a Person of known Loyalty, and having his Sons engaged in the King's Service.

After which he lived with Ease and Plenty in his Fortune, which was ve|ry great, and in great Reputation with all those who wished well to the Crown; the Restoration of which, as no Man more heartily wished, so he had the Comfort of seeing it brought about, by a most surprising Act of Providence, when there appeared least Hope of it, and least worldly Means to bring it to pass, which was the Thing his Lordship had longed most passionately to see before he should leave the World. He died on the 22d of December 1661, and was inter'd in the Vault of his Family at Panbride Church, with his Ancestors.

This noble Earl married three Wives, first, Frances Daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimstoun, of the County of York, Knight, of the same Family with the Earl of Chesterfield in England; by whom he had four Children, viz.

George Lord Brechin, his Successor in the Honour.

Colonel Hary Maule of Balmakelly, who in the End of the Reign of King Charles I. betook himself to the Ser|vice of the King, and had a Regi|ment bestowed on him in the Army, that was raised in order to redeem his Majesty from Prison, and restore him to his Freedom and Liberty: but being taken Prisoner at the Battle of Preston, he found Means to make his Escape into Scotland, and with the same Affections the Colonel engaged again in the Service of King Charles II. and had the Command of a Regiment of Foot, at the unfortunate Battle of Dunbar, where he gain'd the Repu|tation of a stout and active Officer.

He married first Jean Daughter of John Earl of Weems, by whom he had a Daughter Mary, who died at Pan|mure Anno 1693; and again Margaret, a Lady of the Douglasses of Spot, by whom he left only one Daughter, Margaret married to Alexander Coch|ran of Barbachly, and had Issue, and dying in the Spring of the Year 1667, was on the 8th of Aprilb 1.65 interred in the Abbay Church of Holy-rood|house.

Lady Jean eldest Daughter to Pa|trick Earl of Panmure, was married to David Earl of Ethie and Northesk, and had a numerous Issue.

Lady Elizabeth first to John Earl of Kinghorn, Ancestor to the present Earl of Strathmore; and again to George Earl of Linlithgow, Justice-General of Scotland in the Reign of King Charles II. and was Mother to three Earls, viz. Strathmore, Linlithgow, and Calendar.

The Earl married to his second Wife Mrs. Mary Waldrum, one of the Maids of Honour to the Queen; and after that the Lady Mary Erskine, Daughter of John Earl of Mar, Lord High-Treasurer of Scotland, by the Lady Mary Stewart his Wife, Daugh|ter of Esme Duke of Lennox, Widow of William Earl Marshal; but by nei|ther the other Lady, nor the Countess Marshal, had he any Children that came to Age.

To Patrick Earl of Panmure suc|ceeded George Lord Brechin his Son. This noble Lord was too young to be engaged in the War when it first broke out, during which Time he had his Education in France and Italy: But by the Time King Charles II. arriv|ed

in Scotland in 1650, pursuant to the Treaty of Breda, his Lordship being now of Age, of Parts, and un|doubted Loyalty and Affection to the Crown, waited on his Majesty, his Father the old Earl being now struck in Years and troubled with the Infirmities of Age: And assoon as the Parliament raised an Army for the King, the Lord Brechin being a Nobleman not only firm to the Prin|ciples of Monarchy, but also of great Duty and Affection to the Person of the King, heartily engaged in the Service himself, and endeavoured to dispose all those, upon whom he had Influence, to take the same Resolu|tions; and it soon appeared his In|terest in the Country was very great, for his Lordship being appointed Co|lonel of the Forfarshi••e Regiment of Horse, many of the principal Gentle|men engaged themselves in the Ser|vice, and came to his Regiment out of Devotion and Respect to his Lord|ship, as well as Duty to the King, and served under him as Officers. His Lordship was at the Head of his Re|giment at the unsuccessful Battles of Dunbar and Inverkeithing, at both which he fought with very remark|able Courage, and at the last of these his Regiment behaved so well, and suffered so much, that he himself was wounded, his Lieutenant Colonel and Major and many other of his Of|ficers killed; and when the Action was over, his Soldiers were so dis|persed, that scarce sixty of them could ever be got together again. But that Misfortune did not in the least discourage him from being eve|ry Way as active and forward again in advancing and conducing all he could toward his Majesty's Service, for after the Coronation was over, in which his Lordship assisted as a young Peera 1.66, when the Parlia|ment appointed another Army to be raised for the Recovery of his other two Kingdoms, Scotland being intire|ly united in his Majesty's Service, no Body appeared more forward to advance the Work in Hand than the Lord Brechin, in order to which his Lordship was one of those who met with old General Lesly Earl of Levin, and several other Peers and Officers of Note, at Eliot in Augus, as a Place which was thought very favourable for making Levies, which they all in|tended; but they had not stay'd long there, when the Lord Brechin gave it as his Opinion, that the Place where they were had nothing for Defence, and advised the General to draw further into the Country for their Security, and told the General, that he was not sure, that if a Detachment from the Garrison of Dundee should make a brisk Attempt, they might not be all surprised and taken out of their Beds: But the General being of ano|ther Mind, his Lordship, who better knew the Country than any of the other Lords, and so more sensible of the Danger, to secure himself left the Committee, and retired to Sidlaw|hills; and it was soon evident what the Lord Brechin had advised was right, for the very Evening of the Day, or soon after he had left them, the whole Committee was surprised and taken Prisoners by a strong Par|ty of the English, and sent to London, and committed to the Tower, where all of them except General Lesly un|derwent a long Imprisonment, even till the Restoration of the King.

The Lord Brechin being at Liber|ty in the Hills, the Loyalists, from all Quarters, resorted to him, after the Fight of Worcester, and put them|selves under his Command; and his Lordship behaved in that Station ve|ry worthily, and made often Skirmi|shes

* 1.67 with the Enemy, and sometimes with notable Advantage, and made frequent Incursions in the Night in|to the English Quarters, which gave General Monk some Trouble; But being convinced of the Impossibility of keeping up an Attempt, which at last must prove ruinous to himself, and could do the King no Service, he made his Peace with the General next Year, without any other Com|pliance to the present Powers than the laying down his Arms, and thereupon retired to his own House, where he remained quietly, prepared and disposed to run the Fortune of the Crown, to which he was most entirely devoted, in any other At|tempt.

When the King came Home in 1660, his Lordship repaired to Lon|don, to congratulate his Majesty and the Royal Family upon their happy Restoration; and tho' his Majesty received his Lordship with a very good Countenance, yet he was not rewarded with any great Dignity or Preferment, as was expected, and with which some others were, who had not been so faithfull to the King, as the Earl of Panmure. But as that was the Fate of very many of the loyal Party, who had served the King with the utmost Fidelity, as well as his Lordship, so it was much more to be imputed to the Ministry than to the King himself: For 'tis report|ed, that some in great Credit with his Majesty endeavoured to instill in|to the King's Mind a Principle, that he must prefer his Enemies, and ad|vance them, to gain them to be his Friends; and for his old Friends, it was no matter how he used them, for they would be so still: And indeed it fell out so, that very many, who had suffered most in their Persons and Fortunes for the Crown, were not recompensed upon the Restoration, according to their Merit, or conside|red as they deserved: Of which Number this Noble Earl, I may tru|ly say, was one of the most eminent Instances; which mistaken Politick of the then States-men, as it was ob|served thro' that whole Reign, so ma|ny great and wise Men have thought, that its being followed, did bring no small Prejudice and Inconve••••ence to the Crown thereafter. But notwith|standing his Lordship was overlook|ed as to any Preserment, yet he did not on that Account, as many others did, oppose himself to the Court, but in all the Parliaments and National Conventions, which were called while he lived, and on which his Lordship constantly attended, he always di|stinguished himself by a hearty Con|currence in whatsoever was proposed for advancing the Honour of the Crown, and the Welfare and Happi|ness of the Kingdom, which he made manifest by his several Speeches, whereby he left behind him lasting Monuments of his great Knowledge in our Constitution and Laws, of his unshaken Loyalty to his Prince, and his intire Love to his Country, inso|much as I have heard some eminent Men, who were his Contemporaries, speak of him with great Honour, as a Nobleman in as high Reputation for his great Abilities and eminent Inte|grity as any Man of his Time, and dying 24. of March 1671, he was in|terr'd at Panbride with his Ancestors.

This Noble Earl married Jean el|dest Daughter of John Earl of Low|doun, Lord High Chancellor of Scot|land in the Reign of King Charles I.

by whom he had three Sons and a Daughter, viz.

George, Lord Maule, his Successor in the Honour,

James Maule of Balumby now Earl of Panmure,

Hary Maule of Kelly, who in his younger Years travelled into foreign Parts, and spent much of his Time at the Courts of France and England. At the Revolution he was a Member of the Convention of Estates, which he left when he perceived they would forfeit King James, and has never since been concerned in any publick Affairs, having always continued a Non-juror; but in his Retirement has greatly improved his natural Parts, by a close Application to the History and Laws of his Country. He married first Mary, Daughter of William Earl of Wigton, by Henrietta his Wife, Daughter of Charles Earl of Dumfermling, Lord Privy-Seal in the Reign of King Charles II. by whom he had George, who died an Infant, James Maule Esq William Maule Esq and two Daughters, Henrietta, who died young, and Jean. He married to his second Wife, Anne Daughter of Mr. Patrick Lindsay of Kilbirny, and of Margaret his Wife, Daughter and Heir of Sir John Crawford of Kilbirny, and Sister to John first Viscount of Garnock: By her he had Patrick, John, Thomas, and a Daughter Margaret, all young, and David and Charles who died Infants.

Lady Mary Maule, only Daughter of George Earl of Panmure, was marri|ed first to Charles Earl of Mar, and thereafter to Colonel John Erskine, Son of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva.

George Earl of Panmure being a young Nobleman of very bright and conspicuous Parts, was by King Charles II. when he came to Age, call'd to his Majesty's Privy Council, as he was likewise of the Council to King James. He married Jean, only Daugh|ter of John Earl of Wigton, by Anne his Wife, Daughter of Henry Lord Kerr, by whom he had a Son, George Lord Maule, who died an Infant, whom the Earl himself did not long survive, for Death overtook him on the 1. of February 1686a 1.68, to the great Grief, not only of his own Re|lations, but of all those who had the Honour to know him, who exceed|ingly lamented his immature Death, as a great Loss to his Country. He was interr'd in the same Vault with his Father and Grandfather, at the Church of Panbride, the Estate and Honour of the Family devolving on

James Maule of Balumby his Brother, who alter having passed the Course of his Studies at Home, together with his younger Brother, travel'd abroad into foreign Parts: He serv'd as a Volunteer at the Siege of Luxem|burgh, where he eminently signaliz'd his Courage, insomuch as his Valour was very particulary taken Notice of.

Upon his Accession to the Honour he was named one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy-Council, from which he was soon thereafter removed, for not complying with the Design of the Court, in taking away the penal Laws against Popery. But tho' his Lordship did always shew himself ve|ry firm to the Protestant Interest thro' the whole of that Reign, yet in the Convention of Estates he vigorously appeared for the Interest of King James; and when the Crown was set|tled on King William and Queen Ma|ry, he left the Meeting, and has since continued a Non-juror.

When the great Affair of the Uni|on with England came to be conside|red in the Parliament, tho' his Lord|ship did not think fit to qualify him|self by taking the Oaths enjoined by Law, to enter his Dissent against it in a Parliamentary Way as a Peer, yet no Body was more heartily averse to it, as appeared both from his meet|ing with the Principals of those who

were the most zealous Opposers of it, and in promoting and in|fluencing Addresses against it, from the Places where his Interest lay, jud|ging it against the Honour and Inte|rest of the Nation, and subversive of the Sovereignty and fundamental Con|stitution of the Kingdom. His Lord|ship married the Lady Margaret, third and youngest Daughter of William and Anne, Duke and Dutchess of Hamil|ton, but hath no Issue.

ARMS.

Parted per Pale, Argent and Gules, a Border charged with Eight Escalops, countercharged of the same. Supporters, Two Grayhounds, Argent, coloured Gules. Crest, a Dragon Vert, spouting Fire. Motto, Inest Clementia Forti.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Odericus Vitalis in his Ecclesiastical History, Book V. printed in Andrew du Chyne's Collecton of the Norman Writers.
• b 1.2

  Ibidem.
• c 1.3

  Ibidem.
• d 1.4

  Ibidem.
• a 1.5

  Reg••sters of the Priory of St. Andrews.
• b 1.6

  Ibid.
• c 1.7

  Ibidem.
• d 1.8

  Chartul. of St. Andrew's. M.S.
• e 1.9

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• f 1.10

  Ibidem, & Chartul. of Arbroth, in the Law|yers Library.
• a 1.11

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• a 1.12

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• b 1.13

  P••n's History.
• c 1.14

  Charta penes Comitem de Pan|mure.
• d 1.15

  Charta penes Magistrum Henricum Maule de Kelly, fratrem Comitis de Panmure.
• e 1.16

  G••neal. of the House of Lockarit & Yester, & Dunlop's Collections, M.S.
• a 1.17

  Chartul•• of Arbroath.
• b 1.18

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• c 1.19

  Ibid.
• d 1.20

  Ibid.
• e 1.21

  Ibid.
• f 1.22

  Ibid.
• g 1.23

  Ibid.
• h 1.24

  Ibidem.
• i 1.25

  Ibidem.
• k 1.26

  There is in the Hands of the Earl of Panmure, an Instrument taken in the 1437, by Thomas Maule of Panmure, upon Walter Earl of Athole, acknowledging, that he enjoyed the Lordship of Brichen, only by Courtesy, since the De|cease of his Wife Elizabeth Barclay, and that he had resigned the same in the King's Hands: And another Declaration in the 1435, by Thomas Bisset of Ballquillo, whereby he judicially declares, that D••me Jean Barclay, Wife of Sir David Fleeming, was Grandmother to Sir Thomas Maule, who was kill••d at Hairlaw.
• l 1.27

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• a 1.28

  Black Ac•••• of Parliament.
• b 1.29

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• c 1.30

  Ibidem ad Annum 1456.
• d 1.31

  Cl••••••a penes Comitem de Panmure.
• e 1.32

  Ibidem.
• f 1.33

  Ibidem, etiam Charta in Pub. Arch.
• g 1.34

  Ibidem.
• h 1.35

  Ibid.
• i 1.36

  Ibidem.
• a 1.37

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• b 1.38

  Ibidem.
• c 1.39

  The History of the Family of Pan|mure, wrote by Mr. Robert Maule, Commissar of St. Andrews. M.S. penes Comitem de Pan|mure.
• d 1.40

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• e 1.41

  Mr. Maule's Hist. M.S.
• a 1.42

  Mr. Robert Maule's History, M.S.
• b 1.43

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• c 1.44

  Ibidem,
• d 1.45

  Ibidem.
• e 1.46

  Mr. Maule's History.
• f 1.47

  Ibidem.
• g 1.48

  Ibidem.
• a 1.49

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Comitem de Panmure. I have seen other Bonds of Manrent in the Custody of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Panmure, by the Gentry of Forfar-shire, but this single one I thought sufficient to men|tion.
• b 1.50

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Bond at G••asgow, now printed.
• c 1.51

  Contract of Marriage penes Comitem de Panmure, a•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 1526.
• d 1.52

  Ibidem.
• e 1.53

  Ibidem
• a 1.54

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• b 1.55

  Charta penes eundem Comitem.
• c 1.56

  Pre|sentation in my Hands by Sir James Scrimzeor to one Mr. Gray, wherein he is so de|signed.
• a 1.57

  Charta penes Coinitem de Panmure.
• b 1.58

  Charta in Rotulis Caroli I. ad Annum 163••
• c 1.59

  Charta penes Comitem de Panmure.
• a 1.60

  Journal by the Earl of Panmure of what pass'd during his Lordship's Attendance on his Ma|jesty at Holmb••, penes Comitem de Panmure.
• b 1.61

  Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
• c 1.62

  Journal by the Earl of Panmure, while his Lordship waited on the King during his Imprisonment.
• d 1.63

  Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
• a 1.64

  Printed Ordinance of Cromwel's Council in 1654, penes me.
• b 1.65

  Register of the Church of Holy-rood-house.
• a 1.66

  Mr. Douglass's Sermon preached at the Coronation of King Charles II. first of January 1650.
• * 1.67

  N. B. When the Government was first alarmed by an Insurrection in the South in 1666, so soon as the Resolution was declared to raise an Army to suppress it, they who had the chief Di|rection of Affairs did repose such Confidence both in the Earl of Panmnre's Loyalty and Skill in military Affairs, that he was appointed to command the Gentry of Forfar-shire; but the Defeat at Pentland by General Dalziel prevented the raising that or any of the Northern Counties, the Peace of the Kingdom being thereby secured.
• a 1.68

  Charta in Publicis Archivis.