Memorials of four old families

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Gin' ye'd been come o' noble bluid,
As ye're o' low degree, O ;
We might hae walked into the street
Amang gude companie, O.
T tauld ye lang ere we were wed,
I was o' low degree, O ;
An' now I am your wedded wife,
I scorn this slight frae ye, O.
When you are dead, an' I am dead,
An' baith laid i' the grave, O ;
An seven lang years are come and gane,
Fu' justice I will hae, O.
She had nae been forty weeks his wife,
Till she brought him a son, O ;
She was as weel a loved lady
As ever was in Drum, O.
This laird, the i ith, died in 1687, and was buried in Drum's aisle, his
funeral being attended by the magistrates and citizens under arms. He
was succeeded by his eldest son.
XII. ALEXANDER, the 12th laird, born about 1646, died 1696. He
married Marjory or May, daughter of Forbes of Auchreddie, but had no
issue.
He does not appear to have had any enjoyment of his paternal estates.
These must have been considerably reduced in extent and value. Kelly
and probably Forglen had been sold to pay fines and debts, contracted
during the civil war, and his father further burdened the estates with
provisions to his children or their husbands, and to his second wife, and
especially to his son by her.
The late laird had also appointed trustees and administrators for some
reason or another for his son, Alexander, and had nominated Alexander
Irvine of Murthill as his executor, as administrator for Alexander, his eldest
son, and as tutor for Charles, his second son.
It may be that the eldest had offended him by his marriage with
Marjory Forbes, daughter of Forbes of Auchreddie, for I find a reference,
in a discharge granted to Irvine of Murthill dated 6th January 1688, to a
claim made by Patrick, Count Leslie, for expenses going to Edinburgh
with the Laird of Drum " in pursuit of the reduction of the marriage alleged
to be made betwixt him and Marjory Forbes : " from which one may infer
that he was married before his father's death. This marriage must have
been recognized as valid, for his widow had a jointure paid to her for many
years as the Dowager Lady Drum,