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Ivi HOUSE OF GORDON.
May it therefore please your Sacred Majestie to take your Petitioner's sadd and low con-
dition, together with his father's and his own faithful! services, and their great sufferings and
losses to your Royall consideration and for the reliefe of your Petitioner's estate and future
and supply of his own necessities, to bestow upon him the gift of a Lord Viscount in Scotland,
in case your Petitioner shall be able to put out a competent and fitting person, both for his
fortune and loyalty upon whom the same may be conferred [S.P. Dotn., Charles II., bundle 15,
p. 42, P.R.O.).
Son of Nathaniel, 1116; served liis heir, 1656, Jan. 2 {House 0/ Gordon,
I. (221)).
92- line 15, read, "North Britain" for " Gt. Britain," and add, "till
1798" ; line 18, for " Son of" read " Fourth son of" ; line 23, read, "' H. P.
Danloux, P. Audinet," for " Danlori.x-Audinet ".
94-5- line 4, read, "Indep. Coy." for "Ind. Coy."
97- line 10, read, "John, 953a," for "John, b. 1791 " ; lines 16-17, read,
"but for the attainder, loth Viscount, 897," for " loth Viscount".
110- add, "The Cheltenham Colonel Newcome ". Portrait produced
in The Poems 0/ Adam Lindsay Gordon, arranged by Douglas Sladen (Con-
stable, 1912), p. 21. See also Adam Lindsay Gordon and his Friends in
England and Australia, by Douglas Sladen and Edith Humphris, 1912.
116. lines 6-7, read, " gd-father of George, 4th Earl of Huntly, 470,"
for "had George, 3rd Earl of Huntly ".
131- line 17, add, "1743, Aug. 7, writes 'hath been an officer in the
Army forty-three years, and being infirm, and having procured an annuity
for his life, begs leave to retire from the Service ' " (S. P. Dom., Entry Books,
Petitions, P.R.O.).
139a. Alexander. 1716, or earlier, Lt., ist Ft.; May 16, his father
William, banker, Paris, writes, " he has lost not only half but whole pay in
Orkney's Regiment". Gordon himself writes from Paris, same date; "after
a very troublesome and tedious voyage, and what was yet more shocking,
lurking in England, I am at last arrived here. It vexed me very much I
had not the honour to be a sharer of my country's and my friends' fortunes.
However since it pleased God they should not succeed at this time, I am in
hopes He will not suffer those murderers and parricides to go on longer in
their career and restore that Prince they have so barbarously treated ; " Oct.
12, Maj. of Ft. [Stuart Papers, Hist. MSS. Com., 11. 158, iii. 70).
Onlj' son of William, d. 1727, Feb. [Edin. Com.) ; formerly banker, Paris,
later merchant in Boulogne, afterwards of Campvere, and then merchant in
Edinburgh, whose origin is obscure ; served his heir 1729, vSep. 11. Possibly
2058.
147- Add, line 4, " 1744, Mar. 29, writes to the Lords of the Admiralty
regretting that they will not grant him three days in town to settle an estate,