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in 1747; and, secondly, to the sixteenth Ear! of Craw-
ford.
2. Charles, Lord Fyvie, born in 1640, who was killed in a
sea-fight with the Dutch in 1672.
3. Alexander, third earl.
4. James, fourth earl.
Lord Dunfermline died at Seton in January, 1673, and
was nobly interred at his burial-place in Dalgety.
III. Alexander, Third Earl of Dunfermline. Born
in 1642, he succeeded his father, and died at Edinburgh at
the early age of thirty-three. Was buried at Dalgety.
Dying unmarried, he was succeeded by his brother.
IV. James, Fourth and Last Earl of Dunfermline.
He was born in 1644, and being a younger son went abroad
and took service for some years as an officer of a Scotch regi-
ment serving " under the States of Holland, where he behaved
himself gallantly," says Lord Kingston in his Continuation,
p. 67. Some time afterward he returned to Scotland, and in
1682 married Lady Jane Gordon, daughter to Lewis, third
Marquess of Huntly.
At the Revolution he took the part of King James, with the
accustomed loyalty and devotion of the Setons, and com-
manded a troop of horse at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.
It was a victory, but bought at a great price, for the com-
mander of the royal army was killed. :: " When last seen in
the battle, Dundee, accompanied only by the Earl of Dun-
fermline and about sixteen gentlemen, was entering into
the cloud of smoke, standing up in his stirrups, and waving
to the others to come on. It was in this attitude that he
appears to have received his death wound." f
Outlawed and forfeited by Parliament in 1690, the earl
went to France and joined the king at Saint Germains, where
* The celebrated John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee,
f Aytoun : Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, p. Si.