Memorials of four old families

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uncle by the mother's side : Lord Lewis Gordon, the 3rd son, was fighting
in the ranks of the Covenanters, having previously taken up arms for the
King, and subsequently deserted the Covenanters and went over to
Montrose : the 2nd son, Viscount Aboyne, and the 4th, Lord Charles,
afterwards created Earl of Aboyne, both adhered firmly to the Royal cause.
Lord Gordon, after the battle of Inverlochy, and the defeat of Argyle,
joined Montrose, and commanded his horse at the battle of Auldearn ; and
conjointly with Sir Nathaniel Gordon, had command of his right wing at
the battle of Alford, where he was killed.
The connections by marriage between many of these combatants is
interesting.
Archibald, the 7th Earl of Argyle, married Lady Agnes Douglas, 5th
daughter of the 1st Earl of Morton, of the House of Lochleven, and 7th
Earl. Archibald, their son, the 8th Earl and 1st Marquis of Argyle,
married as his first wife, Lady Margaret Douglas, 2nd daughter of William,
2nd Earl of Morton, of the House of Lochleven.
The 9th laird of Drum married Lady Marion Douglas, daughter of
the 4th Earl of Buchan, who was 2nd brother of the 1st Earl of Morton, of
the House of Lochleven.
The 7th Earl of Argyle's eldest daughter, Lady Anne Campbell,
married in 1607 George, 2nd Marquis of Huntly : consequently their
children, Lord Gordon and his brothers and sisters, were nephews and
nieces of the 8th Earl and 1st Marquis, their mother's brother; and first
cousins of his son, the 9th Earl of Argyll.
The nth laird of Drum married Lady Mary Gordon, 4th daughter of
the 2nd Marquis of Huntly, and niece of the Marquis of Argyle, grand-
daughter of the Earl of Buchan, and grandniece of his brother, the Earl of
Morton.
The three Marquises all met their deaths on the scaffold — Huntly in
1649, Montrose in 1650, and Argyle in 1661.
During Lord Huntly's first effort in the north, a party of 1 20 horse and
300 foot, commanded by the young Laird of Drum and his brother, young
Gicht, Colonel Nathaniel Gordon and Colonel Donald Farquharson and
others, proceeded, contrary to the opinion of the Marquis, from Aberdeen,
which he had taken, to the town of Montrose, which they took, killed one
of the bailies, made the Provost prisoner, and threw some cannon into the
sea as they could not carry them away. But, on hearing that the Earl of
Kinghorn was advancing upon them with the forces of Angus, they made a
speedy retreat, leaving thirty of their foot behind them prisoners.
Somewhat later, after the young Laird of Drum and his brother were
taken prisoners at Wick, a party of Montrose's horse took Forbes of