Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

i4?7- [ 44i] JOHN, SECOND LORD SETON. 51
Haldane is a rare name and now but seldom heard, yet the
Haldanes were barons of considerable consequence in Perth-
shire as early as 1296. The Earl of Camperdown (Haldane-
Duncan), a descendant in the female line, owns the old
estate of Gleneagles ; but the heir male and representative ot
the family is the Rt. Rev. James Robert Alexander Chinnery-
Haldane, Protestant Bishop of Argyll and The Isles.
Lord Seton belonged to the third Order of Saint Francis,
and dying in February, 1409, was buried in the Church of
the Franciscan Friars in Haddington, to whom he left by will
six loads of coal weekly, out of his coal-pit of Tranent,
and forty shillings annually, to be charged on his estate of
Barnes. His widow is described as a virtuous and energetic
woman, who got husbands for four of her daughters, and
built a chantry on the south side of the parish church of Seton,
prepared a tomb for herself there, and made provision for a
priest to say mass perpetually for the repose of her soul.
XVI. John, Second Lord Seton. He was intended for
the Heiress of Gordon, but secretly wedded Janet Dunbar,
daughter to the Earl of March, much to his father's dis-
pleasure. He had one son by her, who predeceased him, and
three daughters. Lord Seton was appointed Master of the
Household by King James I., and was sent on a mission to
France. He is described as a good fighter and a great hater
of the English — Miles acerrimus et Jug/is semper infestus — and
was taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon Hill, in 1402.
He had several safe conducts to England between 1409 and
1421, and died about 1441, when he was buried in his
mother's chantry at Seton Church. His daughters were dis-
posed of as follows : Christian married Norman Leslie of
Rothes, by papal dispensation from the fourth degree of con-
sanguinity, obtained in December, 1415; Janet married Sir
Robert Keith, son of the Earl Marischal ; Marian married Sir
William Baillie of Laminton, in Lanarkshire, now represented