Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

No. II. APPENDIX. 307
the Sixth, is transcribed from the Hawthornden MSS., in the Library of the Anti-
quarian Society of Scotland.
He quho to Heauen gaue starrs, and winds to Aire,
Flouers, hearbs to Earth, and waues vnto the See,
Doeth to our Age his wounders more declaire,
Since things more strange then these we see in Thee ;
Yea, that we suld cast bothe our mynds and ee
Upon his gracious and his glorious frame,
In you He hathe maide placed for to be
Quhat most was raire, quhat most is fair Madame :
Whense Love his flammes doth fetche, and netts doth make
Bright haire and eyes, that stairs and sunn doth schame
Sueit smyles, chaist wourds, that peace and weres proclame
Graue port, auld witt in youngest yeares, but lak,
With store of graces and off beautyes strainge,
Which giues to Nature law, and stay to chainge.
Page 227- — James, fourth Earl op Perth, to whom this work is dedicated,
succeeded to the estates and honours of the family, on the death of his father, in the
year 1675. In 1682, he was appointed by Charles II. to the office of Lord Justice-
General, and in 1684 to that of Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. On the accession
of King James VII. he was continued in all his places ; had the chief administration
of affairs, and declared himself of the King's religious persuasion. After the Revolution,
being obnoxious to the populace, he attempted to make his escape in disguise, but
the vessel in which he had embarked was pursued, and being brought back, he was
thrown into the common prison of Kirkaldy, and afterwards confined in Stirling
Castle till August 1693, when he was liberated on giving his bond to leave the king-
dom under penalty of L.5000. He went abroad, and adhered, with the utmost fidel-
ity, to the changed fortunes of the exiled monarch, who appointed him Governor
to the Prince of Wales, and created him Duke of Perth. In Macky's Memoirs he
is described as " of middle stature, with a quick look ; of a brown complexion, and
towards fifty years of age." He died at St. Germains, 11th March 1716, in his
58th year, and was buried in the chapel of the Scots College at Paris. (Douglas's
Peerage by Wood, Art. Perth.)
Sir Robert Sibbald, in the Memoirs of his own Lyfe, M'hich still remains unpublish-
ed, gives the following account of his first acquaintance with the Earl of Perth : —