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rARISII OF DOUGLAS. 449
Domini Jacobi, qui successit ad totam lisereditatem prsedictam.
Jacobus, 2do geiiitus, Magister de Douglas. Archibaldus, 3tio
genitus, comes IVIoravise. Hugo, 4to genitus comes Ormun(]ia\
Joannes, 5to genitus, Domiuus de Balvenia. Henricus, 6to genitus.
Margareta, uxor Domini de Dalkeith. Beatrix uxor Domini Joannis
Constabularii Scotise. Janeta, uxor Domini de Biggar et de Cum-
bernauld. Elizabeth Douglas, 4ta filia erat."
On the leaden coffins in the Douglas vault are the following in-
scriptions : —
" Gul. Angus. Dominus ex Jacobo Marchione Douglasite et Dour.
Maria Kerr filia Comitis Lothianas conjuge, primogenitus, natus
15 Oct., 1693, obiit 20 Mar., 1694. Maria Gordon hlia Georgii
primi Marchionis de Huntly, quam Gulielmus piimus ]\Iarchio de
Douglas in uxorem secundo duxit, qu?eque anno suae aitatis sexa-
gesimo quarto, salutis humanse 1644, mortem obiit. Hie situm est
corpus Gul. Marchionis Douglasiae eo titulo primi, qui ex diversis
et mutuis thalamis ab Hamiltoniorum et Gordoniorum gente suam
progenieni continuatam, Hamiltoniorum vero instauratam, reliquit.
Obiit 11. cal. Mart, anno 1660. setat, vero 71. Margaret Hamil-
town, Angusise Comitissa, obiit 38 anno ?etatis suae, 11 Septembris,
1623. Anna Stewarta due. Lennoxiae et Eichmondise filia, Archi-
baldo Angusise Comiti per xviii. annos nupta, obiit xvi. die
Augusti, anno MDCXLVI. fetat. xxxi. D. 0. M. Hie positum
est corpus Margarette, filise promogenitae Gul. Marchionis de
Douglas, relictae ex matrimonio cum Margareta : obiit Imo Jan.
1660. Katharina conjuga Domini de Torphichen, item Joanna
Gul. Alexandri Comitis de Sterl., setatis 49."
The coffin of the last Marquis of Douglas is thus simply in-
scribed : —
"J. M. D., Eetatis 54; obiit 25 Februarii, 1700."
In a vault under the new parish church are deposited the
remains of the Duke and Duchess of Douglas, and of other mem-
bers of the House who have died within a modern period.
In the churchyard tombstones commemorate two parochial in-
cumbents — William M'Cubbin, a noted humorist, who was ordained
to the charge in 1770, and died on the 18th April, 1820, in his eighty-
fourth year, and fifty-first of his ministry ; and Alexander Stewart,
LL.D., a native of Edinburgh, who was ordained to the cure in 1820,
and died in 1862, in his eighty-first year, and forty- third of his
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