Lives of the Lindsays - Or, a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres; To Which Are Added, Extracts From the Official Correspondence of Alexander Sixth Earl of Balcarres, During the Maroon War; Together With Personal Narratives ... #230892

" - Wisdom is a pearl with most success<br>Sought in still water and beneath clear skies."<br><br>Cowper.<br><br>"And with them came the valiant people nurst<br>On fair Balcarres' sunward-sloping farms,<br>Beneath their valiant lord, whose soul athirst<br>For glory kindles at the war's alarms,<br>As to the sun, expanded broad and fair,<br>His gilded banner flaps its many stars in air."<br><br>Tennant.<br><br>Section I.<br><br>Lord Menmuir was succeeded in his estate of Balcarres by his eldest son, John Lindsay. "I askit him," says his mother, "earnestly of the Lord; and sa far as in me is, I have dedicate him to the Lord." He died, however, while yet a youth and unmarried, in January, 1601. He had been affianced to Lady Margaret Douglas, daughter and heiress of Archibald Earl of Angus, in 1590, the year after her father's death, in consequence, as it was supposed, of witchcraft, - Lord Menmuir and William Earl of Angus, her nearest but distant relation, being the contracting parties. She too died young, "a maid and unmarried, about the age of fifteen years." Her mother was the well-dowered widow, to whose acceptance King James had so earnestly recommended his friend and chamberlain, Lord Spynie.