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and for Clackmannanshire in 1649-50. He was married in
the Greyfriars’ Church, Edinburgh, on the 5th of February
1639, to Marie, eldest surviving daughter of Sir Thomas Hope.1
Like his mother, an ardent supporter of the cause of the
Covenant, in July 1644, he was elected ‘by plurality of
woyces,’ one of the commissioners from the kingdom of Scotland
to the English Parliament,2 and about the same time was
appointed an additional commissioner to the famous Assembly of
Divines at Westminster.3 For the next three years he remained
in London, except for a few months in the summer of 1645, when
he paid a visit to his wife and family in Edinburgh. He was
one of the commissioners sent in January 1645 to Uxbridge
to discuss terms of peace between Charles i. and the English
Parliament. On his return to Scotland Sir Charles became
governor of the Castle of Dumbarton, a commission for putting
him in possession of the fortress having been issued by the
Committee of Estates in June 1646. He had previously re¬
ceived a commission from his cousin, James, Duke of Lennox,
its hereditary keeper. After the battle of Worcester in Sep¬
tember 1651, the Committee of Estates sent instructions to
Sir Charles to deliver up the castle to Major-General Lambert,
an order which, for a time, he refused to obey, till, finding
that a sequestration had been entered against his estate, and
his plate valued at i?400 sterling, he rendered it to Lambert
on the 5th of January 1652, under conditions which secured
immunity to the garrison, and the free use of his property to
himself.4 After this he seems to have lived the rest of his life
in comparative retirement at his house of Alva, which property
he had purchased in March 1649, from Alexander Bruce,
brother of Edward Bruce, first Earl of Kincardine, who, in
1662, became the second Earl, on the death of the latter.5 He
1 Hope’s Diary, p. 85. 2 Balfour’s Annals, vol. iii. p. 205.
3 Minutes of the Westminster Assembly, p. 40.
4 Nicoll’s Diary, pp. 71, 79 ; Irving’s Hist, of Dumbartonshire, p. 199 seq.
Reg. Mag. Sig. Ixviii. No. 283.