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of Sanquhar; and second, the eldest daughter of the first
Lord Home. He had issue by the former only, viz. — -
1. Robert. 2. Alexander. 3. Walter, who was proprie-
tor of Over Donnotars. 1. Christian, married to Sir David
Stewart of Rosyth. 2. Agnes, married to Sir William Men-
teith of Carse.
Robert, third Lord Erskine, does not appear to have been
a man of great talent or note, as we do not find him occu-
pying any very high position, or filling any situation of great
responsibility, farther than in 1506 he was made Sheriff
of Stirlingshire, and in 15 13 fell with his sovereign at the
disastrous battle of Flodden. He married the eldest
daughter of Sir George Campbell of Loudoun, and had
issue five sons and four daughters, viz. —
1. Robert, who died young. 2. John. 3. James, who
held the charter of the lands of Little Sauchie. He was
ancestor of the Erskines of Balgony, and of William Erskine,
Bishop of Glasgow (who was knighted by King James IV.),
and grandfather of Janet, the countess of William, Earl of
Stirling. 4. Alexander, who appears to have been a clergy-
man. 5. William.
The daughters were — Catherine, married to Alexander,
second Lord Elphinston; Margaret, married first to Hal-
dane of Gleneagles, second to George Home of Lundies
and Argaty; Elizabeth, married to Sir John Forrester of
Torwood; and Janet, married to John Murray of Touch-
adam.
John, fourth Lord Erskine, succeeded his father in 15 13,
and like many of his illustrious ancestors, was one of the
great men of his time. In 1 5 1 5 he was, by the Estates of