Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

612 THE LIVINGSTONES.
When Queen Mary went to France Lord Livingstone went with her, A.D.
1547, and died there in 1550, leaving his daughter "Mary"* as one of her
Maries. Lady Fleming, a half-sister of King James V., and Lord Erskine,
who were also with the young queen, returned home on Lord Livingstone's
death.
The Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King James VI., born at Dun-
fermline, 19th August 1596 (or, as some say, in the old palace of Falkland), was
reared and educated by the Lady Livingstone, in the house of Callendar, near
Falkirk, where Louise Gordon, afterwards the wife of Sir Robert Gordon of
Gordonstown, was educated along with her, under the superintendence of Dame
Genevieve, her mother, wife of John Gordon, Lord of Glenluce and Dean of
Salisbury. When the young princess was presented at her father's court, the
king and queen returned grateful thanks to the Lord and Lady Livingstone
(now Earl and Countess of Linlithgow) for the care they had bestowed upon
her. Alexander, seventh Lord Livingstone, had been created Earl of Linlith-
gow, Lord Livingstone and Callendar, at the baptism of Prince Charles, 25th
December 1 600. The charter of the barony of Callendar, 13th March 1600,
makes honourable mention of the great care and fidelity bestowed upon the
education of the king's children, and the expense incurred in maintaining them
and their servants by the Lord Livingstone and his lady (the Lady Eleanora
Hay, only daughter of Andrew, the seventh Earl of Errol).
By this it would appear that Prince Henry also, and perhaps Prince Charles,
had been for a time under their care. Thus, in the Princess Elizabeth, who
married in 1613 Frederick V, the Elector Palatine of the Rhine, and was
mother of the Electress Sophie, mother of George I., the Livingstones fostered
the house of Hanover, but their allegiance was ever with the Stewarts, — with
and for whom, as long as either house existed, they fought and fell.
The second son of the first Earl of Linlithgow had been created Earl of
Callendar.
In 1693 the third Earl of Callendar, an only son, became also heir of his
uncle, and in 1695 was Earl of Linlithgow and Callendar. In the troubles of
17 1 5 his honours and estates were attainted. That year his only son died ; and
in his daughter, the Lady Ann Livingstone, his name was lost. His wife, the
Lady Margaret Hay, had been the second daughter of John, twelfth Earl of
Errol. Lady Anne Livingstone, her only surviving child, married " William,
fourth Earl of Kilmarnock," who fell a victim to his loyalty, iSth August 1746,
and their eldest son succeeded to his grandmother's elder sister, " The Countess
of Errol," in 1758, the Livingstone and Kilmarnock titles being all forfeited.
* Who afterwards married John Semple.