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three daus. and Felix von, 1697; d. 1S71, at Leipzig, just as he had offered
his services against France (Information from Col. von Senfft-Pilsach).
1708- Franz von. Lt. Col., Guards Cuirassiers, Prussian army {Rang-
liste dcr Kgl. Pnussischen Armee, 1904).
1709- George. Capt., "slain at Harlam " [Earls of Sutherland, 217).
The Bidbithan MS. says he was "killed by the M[aste]r of Monteith," but
the Earls of Sutherland says that it was his brother Alexander, 1652, who
was "slain in Monteith" (pp. 180, 217). He does not appear in Ferguson's
Scots Brigade.
Younger son of John, IV of Gight (who d. before 1542) ; m. the " Lady
of Skilmarock," and had a dau. (Bnlbitlian MS. ; House of Gordon, i. (201)).
Brother of Alexander, 1652, and John, 828-
1710- George, 2nd Marquis of Huntly. 1624, Feb., appointed Lt. in
the Scots Men-at-Arms, France (patent printed in William Gordon's Illustrious
House of Gordon, 11. 121); Apr. 19, Capt., under the following curious cir-
cumstances (ibid., II. 121): —
Two days before Ludovick [2nd] Duke of Lennox his death [1623-4 Feb. 16], the French
King's Patent under the Great Seal, for restoring the Scots Company of gens d'arms was
delivered in London by the French Ambassador to the Duke and his nephew, the Earl of Enzie.
The one received his commission as Captain, and the other to be Lieutenant And the Duke
in two days thereafter dying [suddenly in London], the Earl put in to be Captain, he being
Lieutenant, thought it his due to succeed to be Captain. In that he was much opposed by his
other uncle [the srd] Duke of Lennox. Notwithstanding which, the Earl of Enzie's interest
prevailed, and he was preferred to be Captain, and the Lord Gray was made his Lieutenant ;
and for that effect the Patent [printed verbatim, in French, by William Gordon, ibid., 11. 612]
was renewed by the French King at Campaigne, in Picardy, April ig, 1624, and delivered to
the Earl, then at London, by the Count de Tillers, the French Ambassador, June 7.
1625, Jul., made his first musters at Leith, " in presence of the King of France
his officers of the said companie, sent thither to that effect. They wer con-
ducted by Sir Robert Gordoun, tutor of Southerland, from London to Edin-
burgh, wher they wer noblie interteyned by the Earl of Enzie and the Scottish
nobilitie, and sent home agane to ther master, the French king, with great
satisfaction and content'' (Earls of Sutherland, 395; Forbes-Leith's Scots
Mcn-at-Arms, 1. 115-116). 1627, war having broken out between France and
Great Britain, the Scots Coy. was given up; but was reorganized, 1629
(Forbes-Leith's Sco^s Men-at-Arins, i. 115). 1632, Lord Enzie, summoned
by the French King, went to France ("taking England in their way), with
his company oi gens d'armes, all well appointed and in good equipage " [Earls
of Sutherland, ^66). Spalding [Trublcs, i. 32), who gives the date as " the
moneth of Februar or thairby," 1632-3, says : —