House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time

156 THE CLAN CAMPBELL.
the patent was, by a special order, stopped at the
Chancery, and the title superseded until 1641, when it
was allowed with the original precedency. In this
year he was appointed High Chancellor of Scotland
and First Commissioner of the Treasury ; and, after
the decapitation of the King, when the Parliament re-
assembled in 1648, Lord Loudon was chosen President
of the Session which ordered the proclamation of
Charles the Second. Upon his Majesty's subsequent
defeat at Worcester, the Earl was not only deprived of
his office, but forced to conceal himself in the High-
lands, while an Act of attainder and forfeiture passed
against him. His Lordship and his son, Lord Mauch-
line, had the honour afterwards of being specially
excepted from the indemnity granted by the Usurper
to the people of Scotland. He died 15th March, 1663,
and was succeeded by his only son —
VII. James, the second Earl, who married Lady
Margaret Montgomery, daughter of Hugh, seventh
Earl of Eglinton, and had (with four daughters) —
1st. Hugh, his successor.
2nd. John, of Shanstoun, Colonel in the Army.
3rd. Sir James, of Lawers, a distinguished military
officer, who obtained the Order of the Bath from George
the Second for his gallant conduct at the battle of
Dettingen, in 1743. Sir James commanded the