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THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND. 145
ilie was accufed, by fufpedted witneffes, (if not falfe,) that fhe and her
fone and fome others had gone about to take away King James the
Fifth his lyfe by witchcraft ; whereupon fhe was brunt upon the Caftle
Hill of Edinburgh, with great commiferation of the people, in regaird
of her noble blood and fingular beautie, fhe being in the prime of her
age, and fuffering with a mafculine courage, al men conceaveing that
the King's hatred to her brothers had brought her to that end. Her
fone John, who was next lord, was alfo condemned and forfaulted ;
yet, becaufe he was a minor, referved in prifon untill he mould be of
age to have his fentence put in execution. Bot after the King's death,
in anno 1542, he was againe reftored to his lyfe, eftate, and honor, and 1542.
was father to John Lyon, Lord Glames, Chancellor of Scotland ; whofe
fone was Patrick the firft Earle of Kinghorn, and married to Anna
Murray, daughter to John, then Laird of Tullibardine, begot upon
Catharine Drummond, daughter to David Lord Drummond ; this
Patrick, the firft Earle, was grandfather to Patrick, now Earle of
Strathmore and Kinghorn. The families lineally defcended of this
Lady Glames, befydes Strathmore, are Duke Hamilton, Earle of
Cafulls, Earle of Morton, and Lord Spynie.
Its alfo faid, that there was yet ane other daughter of that marriage,
betwixt George Matter of Angus and Elifabeth Drummond, and that
fhe was either Lady Drumlanrig or Lady Cleefh Colvill.
John Lord Drummond's third daughter, was Eufame Drummond. John Lord
She married John Lord Fleeming, fone to Robert Lord Fleeming, third daugh-
and had to him John Lord Fleeming, and five daughters. John Lord ter '
Fleeming, fone to John Lord Fleeming, by Eufame Drummond, mar-
ried and had to him a fone called Malcolm, the
next lord, and a daughter, called Fair Margaret Fleeming. She was
firft married to the Lord Erfkine, bot had no children ; the fecond time
fhe married William Earle of Montrofe, and had to him John Earle of
Montrofe, firft chancellor then viceroy of Scotland ; and the third time
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