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222 HISTORY OF AYRSHIRE
married Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock ; second, Lady
Isabel Ruthven, daughter of William Earl of Gowrie,
the divorced wife of Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar,
by whom he had two daughters, one married to Sir David
Cunninghame of Cunninghamehead, the other to David
Craufurd of Kerse ; and, third, to Margaret, daughter of
Sir George Home of Wedderburn, and widow of Thomas
Makdougal of Makerston, by whom he had no issue. He
died in 1622, and was succeeded by his granddaughter,
Margaret, Baroness Loudoun, who married in 1629 Sir
John Campbell of Lawers, who was elevated to the
peerage, May 12, 1633, by the titles of Baron Farrinyeane
and Mauchline, and Earl of Loudoun, to him and to
his heirs male for ever.
Born in 1598, the Earl's sympathies were early with
the Presbyterian cause, and when, about 1637, the
second Reformation struggle began, he at once identified
himself with the movement and became a principal
promoter of it. He was largely endowed with the gift
of eloquence, and when the General Assembly sat at
Glasgow in 1638, he attended almost every session of it,
and proved himself a valuable auxiliary, not only by the
excellent speeches he delivered, but by the wise counsel
he was able to offer in the adjustment of the many
difficult matters that came before it. Two years before,
on the authority of the King alone, the Bishops had
resumed their Episcopal costumes, and the use of the
new Service Book had been ordered without the approval
of the General Assembly. Against these innovations on
the Presbyterian form of church service the Kirk pro-
tested strongly, and Loudoun not the least forcibly.
The right of the King to compel obedience to his own
behests, and merely by virtue of the royal authority, he
stoutly denied, and he told the Marquis of Hamilton, the
King's Commissioner, that " they knew no other bonds
betwixt a King and his subjects, but religion and laws ;
that, if these were broken, men's lives were not dear to
them ; that they would not be so ; that such fears were
past with them." These were bold words, and they were