Some account of John Duke of Argyll and his family

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unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, yet a direct attempt
to claim the Crown was a fact to be jealously remem-
bered by its successive wearers; and, so far from
reversing his attainder and restoring his honours, as
was done in other cases (for instance, to the Argylls
themselves), William hastened to bestow the title else-
where, creating Lord Mordaunt Earl of Monmouth.
The Duchess presently married a second husband,
Lord Cornwallis, who had his own interests to mind.
Lord Dalkeith, her eldest son, died in her lifetime, at
thirty years old ; and her grandson, now Duke of Buc-
cleuch, a man of mean understanding and meaner
habits, did no credit to his ancestry. In Ins youth a
match was settled between him and your grandmother,
Lady Jane Douglas, but broken off ; and her brother,
the Duke of Douglas, fought a duel with him in conse-
quence. Supposing a story true winch was current at
the time, that she had owned to the Duke of Buccleuch
her repugnance, and, throwing herself on his honour,
desired to be screened from the anger of her relations,
this duel would seem to denote something chivalrous
on his part, auguring better things than ensued. He
married another Lady Jane Douglas, the Duke of
Queensberry's sister ; but, after her death, which hap-
pened in a few years, plunged into such low amours,
and lived so entirely with the lowest company, that,
although he resided constantly in the neighbourhood of
London, his person was scarcely known to his equals,
and his character fell into utter contempt.*
* It was believed that not long before his death he married a