Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

1687-1695] SETON JESUITS. 231
at Douay for his Philosophy. Entered the Society at Tour-
nay, October 3, 1687, and was sent to Scotland in 1700.
Professed of the four vows in 1703. On the mission in
Aberdeenshire in 17 10. He was relieved of the mission for
ill-health, and retired to Douay, where he died in 1729.
" He was highly eulogized for his many virtues."
Father Alexander Seton ^3), alias or vere Scringer. Henry
Folev, S.J., tell us in his Collectanea (VII., p. 938) that
the real name of this " very good and humble man, ready for
every duty of charity, as far as his infirm health would allow,"
was Seton.
Father John Seton (1). He is mentioned in a letter of
Father John Lesley to the General, 30th September, 1633,
in which he relates the distress of the Scotch Mission by the
death of its benefactor, Colonel Semple, in Spain. It does
not appear that this Father was ever on the Mission in Scot-
land. He was either Rector of the College of Scotch Jesuits,
in Madrid, at the date of this letter, or was sent there very
soon afterward, and in consequence of it, for the letter says:
" Res Hispaniensis summa diligentia P. Joanni Seton, commendanda
ut orani labore et studio soliti auxilii prorogatio impetretur."
Father John Seton (2) was formed in the Toulouse Prov-
ince of the Society, " and became a very superior missionary."
He worked for more than twenty years in Galloway, and in
December, 1686, was in Perthshire. He was one of the
earliest victims of the persecution arising from the Orange
Revolution of 1688, and was arrested and imprisoned in Black-
ness Castle. In the spring of 1693, wnen seventy years of
age, he and other priests were promised their liberty if they
would leave the country ; but thev refused the terms, and were
at length discharged by proclamation. " By his engaging