Interesting statement of the claims of Thomas Drummond, of New Penshaw ... in the County of Durham, to the ancient honours & entailed estates of the Earldom of Perth

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of Lords, 1/20 ; — by this means the estates were preserved to the
family, although the granter joined in the rebellion.
He was attainted of High Treason by Act of Parliament, 1. Geo.
I. (1715) by the style of "James Drummond, Esquire, commonly
" called Lord Drummond, eldest son and heir apparent of the Earl
of Perth." — In the same Act of attainder were included, John,
Earl of Mar, William Murray, Esquire, commonly called Marquis
of Tullibardine, eldest son and heir apparent of John Duke of
Athol, and James, Earl of Linlithgow.
He (James Drummond — 5th Earl, and 2nd Duke) married
(contract dated 5th August, 1706) Lady Jean Gordon, only daugh-
ter of George, first Duke of Gordon, and Lady Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of Henry, Duke of Norfolk ; — by her he had two sons,
and two daughters, — viz.
1. JAMES DRUMMOND, his Heir,— (accounted 6th Earl,
and 3rd Duke of Perth), born May 11th, 1713,— died at Biddick,
County of Durham, in June, 1782.
(OF WHOM SEE MORE AFTERWARDS.)
2. JOHN DRUMMOND,— commonly called Lord John Drum-
mond ; — died at Antwerp, in 1747, unmarried.
3. Lady MARY DRUMMOND.
4. Lady HENRIET DRUMMOND.
Who both died unmarried.
Upon the death of her husband (in 1717) his lady, who was
commonly called the Duchess of Perth, returned to Scotland, and
for many years resided at Drummond Castle, with great respecta-
bility ; she was accounted a woman of great spirit and activity,
and entered warmly into the views and measures of the Stuart fa-
mily, so much so, that, for her support of the rebels, she was com-
mitted prisoner to Edinburgh Castle, 11th February, 1746, and
liberated, on bail, 17th November, 1746 ; — on the forfeiture of the
family estates, in 1746, she was compelled to quit Drummond Cas-
tle and retired to Stobhall, where she ended the daj s of her long
and eventful life, in January, 1773, aged about ninety ; — she was
(as above) the mother of the unfortunate Tames Drummond, com-
monly called Duke of Perth, who, so fatally for himself, engaged
in the rebellion, 1745,— and report and tradition say, that he was,
in a great measure, instigated thereto, by the urgent solicitations of
his mother, and contrary to his own judgment and inclinations, —
and it has been said, that though she lived to within about nine
years of the time of the death of her son (which happened in 1782),