Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

1640] THE LAST SETON OF P ARBROATH. 197
name itself of Skene means a kind of short dagger, in use
among the Highlanders of Scotland.
3. Elizabeth, mentioned in a charter by which her father
provides for her support.
X. Sir George Seton, Eighth and Last Baron of Par-
broath. His seal, from the Glammis Charters of the year
1 60 1, is given by Mr. Laing in his Catalogue of Ancient Scot-
tish Seals, and will be referred to in the chapter on the Her-
aldry of the Setons. Seven years later he occupied premises
in the Rectory of Dysart, a parish in Fifeshire, on the Firth
of Forth, whence it may be inferred, not that he had already
sold Parbroath, but that he could not keep it up. Yet by
what disaster or on what occasion he fell from his compara-
tively high estate is absolutely unknown. The property
was extensive, and some idea of its value can be got from
a charter dated at Parbroath, the 9th of May, 160 1, and
confirmed by the king at Edinburgh on 26th day of June,
same year, in which " the lands and Barony of Parbroath "
are described as consisting of the " manor and mains of Par-
broath, lands of Landisfern, with the mill, annualment of
£b from the lands of Ramsay-Forthir ; lands of Urquharts,
namely Easter, Middle and Loppie Urquharts; lands of Kin-
gask, with the manor; lands of Lillok, in the shire of Fife;
lands of Haystoun and Scroggarfield, in the shire of Forfar;
with castles, manors, parks, forests, fishing, etc., the teinds
and advocation of the rectorage and vicarage of the parish
church of Creich, in Fife, united to the said barony."
George Seton married twice. His first wife was Jean Sin-
clair, daughter of Henry, third Lord Sinclair, by whom he
had issue; but nothing special is known of the children, who
were living with their mother at Dvsart in 1609. They
must have died young. His second wife was Isabella, daugh-
ter of George Seton of Cariston, great-grandson of the sixth
Lord Seton, by whom he had two sons : James, who died in