Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

S4 AN OLD FAMILY. [a.D. 1448
was sustained bv the Master of Ceremonies. To conclude
a short digression, Setons are found officers and gentlemen-
privates * in this celebrated corps from 1419 to 1679, the
last of our name on the list and muster-rolls being " David
Seton, Brigadier."
XVIII. George, Third Lord Seton. He succeeded to
the title and estates while still a minor, " being bot nyne yeirs
of age, "and was secured as a rich prize by Sir William
Crichton, the powerful but unscrupulous Lord Chancellor,
who then held possession of Edinburgh Castle. After a
while he regained his libertv through the efforts of the Laird
of Johnstone, who seems to have been connected bv marriage
with the Seton family, which accounts for his interest in the
heir. He was well cared for by this noble and kind-hearted
Borderer in his castle of Lochwood, in Annandale. When
George grew up he accompanied Crichton, who, after all,
could not well have meant him wrong, on an embassv to
France and Burgundy, and had a safe conduct to pass through
England, April 23, 1448.1" He was very tall and handsome,
a good scholar, and an accomplished courtier. He made a
great match, marrying Lady Margaret Stewart, only daughter
and heiress of the gallant John, Earl of Buchan, younger son
of Robert, Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland, and grand-
son of King Robert II., of which branch of the royal Stuarts
the Setons are the only Representatives. For his victory at
Bauge, 22d March, 14.21, the earl was made Constable of
France. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald,
fourth Earl of Douglas in Scotland, and Duke of Touraine
in France. He was one of the foremost warriors of his
* Father Forbes-Leith, in an " Important Observation on the Muster
Rolls" (II., 209), calls our attention to the fact that " all the men-at-arms
and archers named in the Muster Rolls were, nevertheless, men of rank
and birth."
f Elizabeth, the Chancellor's eldest daughter, was married to Alexander
Seton, Earl of Iluntly.