Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

144 AN OLD FAMILY. [ a .d.
often were quickened to generosity, and Christian Duty to King and
Country ?
SIR CHRISTOPHER SETON by ROBERT A BRUCE, surnamed
the Good, merited for his Devotion to the Sacrifice of the Mass, to have after
his Death the daily Sacrifice offered for him, and this was performed by the
same King ROBERT, whose Sister he had Married, for he founded a
Chapel near Dumfrice, call'd Christel Chappel, and a IYiest to offer Sacri-
fice in it for the Soul of Good Sir Clirislofer, as he out of a loving respect
was pleased to call him. This renowned Champion dyed at London as Hon-
ourably as Cruelly by the hands of the English whom he had often stoutly-
opposed and pestured in the service of his Country.
But why was Christofer the first his Predecessor call'd more Devout than
Worry ? But because his Heart was powerfully, tho sweetly, drawn to this
Sacrament, as Iron to a Loadstone? Hoc specialiler, says Thomas a Hem-
pis 1. 4, de imit. Ch. c. I. Devotorum corda trahit, this Sacrament draws by
a special way the hearts of Devout People : and thus from a special respect
to this Sacrament a Man worthily obtains the title of Devout.
Lord George the third a Prudent Man, and very Familiar with King'
JAMES the third, devided his Devotion to the Altar with his Lady Dame
Jcane Hepburn, called by the History a Noble and Wise Lady, Daughter
to the Earl of Bothuel.
O Lord, said, the Royal Prophet, / have loved the beauty of thy House,
Psal. 25. Were not those two great Souls inflam'd with the same Zeal,
when striving as it were who might do best, they set themselves to decore
the Colledge-Church of SETON ?
The Lord paved and seiled the quire ; and the Lady raised an He on the
North-side, and having taken down that on the South side, Built by the Devo-
tion of Dame Catherine Sinclair, rebuilded it again with proportion to make
a perfit Cross, and founded two Prebends to serve the Altars. The Lord,
not to speak of other Ornaments, gave it a compleat Sute of Cloth of Gold ;
And the Lady compleat Sutes of all the Colours of the Church, for Advent,
Lent, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins ; for all the solemn Feasts of the Year
of Purple and Crimson Velvet richly flower'd wilh Gold, white Damask, &c.
Not forgetting a Sute of black Vestiments for the Dead with other fine
Chasubels. Also a great Silver Cross, a Silver Eucharist Ciborium or Re-
monstrance for the B. Sacrament with a fair Chalice Silver and Gilt, all for
the Majesty and Decorement of the Altar.
Some may think I had done better in a Dedicatory, to busie my Pen in
describing the Courage of a Governour of Berwick of the House of Seton,
who in cold Blood chused rather to see his Son violently put to Death than
to faile in his trust to King and Country, and in such like signal actions
admired by Men, than in rehersing these liberalities made to the Altar, which
are but petty things in the Eyes of worlings.
But mv avme is not so much to shew the worlv grandeur of vour Family,