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INTRODUCTION
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December 1582, is too well known to require recapitulation
here. He died the following May (1583), and on hearing of
his death King James resolved to extend to his children the
same favour which he had shown to their father. He sent for
Ludovic, his eldest son, whom he confirmed in the heirship ta
his father’s title and estates, while Lennox’s three daughters,
Henrietta, Marie, and Gabriella, remained still in France with
their mother till 1587, when they were sent for by James.
The following year Henrietta, the eldest, became the wife of
George, Earl of Huntly; and while Gabriella, the youngest,
entered a French convent at Glatteny, in the province of
Berri, and became a nun, Marie, the second daughter, was
ultimately married to John, seventh Earl of Mar, in December
1592. Several amusing traditions have been handed down
about the courtship of the latter, and of the manner in which
Lord Mar enlisted the aid of his royal master in the successful
prosecution of it. (See Sketch of' the Life of John Earl of
Mar, son of the Regent, by David Stewart Erskine, Earl of
Buchan, in The Bee, an Edinburgh periodical, in 1792, vol. vii.
p. 99).
Though born and brought up amongst those who, on both
sides of the house, were strenuous and ruthless opponents of
Protestantism—her grandfather, John Stewart,Lord d’Aubigny,
and her maternal uncles, taking leading parts in the war of
Huguenot extermination—Lady Mar not only embraced the
Protestant faith, and succoured some of the leading ministers
who suffered for it, during the earlier years of her married life,
hut ultimately warmly espoused the Covenanting cause, and
took a prominent part in the great public transactions of the
period usually called that of the ‘ Second Reformation.’ She
contributed her money and silver-plate to replenish the
Covenanters’ exchequer, and sent three of her sons, Alexander,
Arthur, and John, to serve in the army encamped under the
command of Alexander Leslie, at Duns Law in 1639. Her
husband, John, the seventh Earl of Mar, died in December
79
December 1582, is too well known to require recapitulation
here. He died the following May (1583), and on hearing of
his death King James resolved to extend to his children the
same favour which he had shown to their father. He sent for
Ludovic, his eldest son, whom he confirmed in the heirship ta
his father’s title and estates, while Lennox’s three daughters,
Henrietta, Marie, and Gabriella, remained still in France with
their mother till 1587, when they were sent for by James.
The following year Henrietta, the eldest, became the wife of
George, Earl of Huntly; and while Gabriella, the youngest,
entered a French convent at Glatteny, in the province of
Berri, and became a nun, Marie, the second daughter, was
ultimately married to John, seventh Earl of Mar, in December
1592. Several amusing traditions have been handed down
about the courtship of the latter, and of the manner in which
Lord Mar enlisted the aid of his royal master in the successful
prosecution of it. (See Sketch of' the Life of John Earl of
Mar, son of the Regent, by David Stewart Erskine, Earl of
Buchan, in The Bee, an Edinburgh periodical, in 1792, vol. vii.
p. 99).
Though born and brought up amongst those who, on both
sides of the house, were strenuous and ruthless opponents of
Protestantism—her grandfather, John Stewart,Lord d’Aubigny,
and her maternal uncles, taking leading parts in the war of
Huguenot extermination—Lady Mar not only embraced the
Protestant faith, and succoured some of the leading ministers
who suffered for it, during the earlier years of her married life,
hut ultimately warmly espoused the Covenanting cause, and
took a prominent part in the great public transactions of the
period usually called that of the ‘ Second Reformation.’ She
contributed her money and silver-plate to replenish the
Covenanters’ exchequer, and sent three of her sons, Alexander,
Arthur, and John, to serve in the army encamped under the
command of Alexander Leslie, at Duns Law in 1639. Her
husband, John, the seventh Earl of Mar, died in December
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| Description | Contents:The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner -- Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law -- Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul -- Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson -- Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden -- The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul -- The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noël Paton -- Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar -- Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton -- General index -- Index to the library of James VI. |
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