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LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE
absence from yow and our dear chyld is a terror nixtt unto
death. ... I give my blissing to our dear Jeamy. . . .
I will with patience waitte upon your goode pleasure, and
ever continow, my dearest hartt, your mostt fathfull, affec-
tionatt, and obediantt, B. Douglas.’ Before 1677 Lady
Douglas had sought the intervention of the Privy Council,
and in the February of that year she renewed an application
for the judicial allocation of an aliment on which she might
live apart from her husband.1 I have given 1677 as the
conjectural date for the Duchess of Lauderdale’s letter (xxix.),
as it suits all the circumstances in a satisfactory way.
Wretched as was this unhappy lady’s condition, the ballad-
maker (if, indeed, he was thinking at all of Lady Douglas)
indulges in some considerable poetic licence in putting into her
mouth the lines:—
‘ Now Arthur-seat sail be my bed.
The sheets shall neir be fyl’d by me,
Saint Anton’s well sail be my drink.
Since my true love has forsaken me.’
A deed of separation was obtained, and she was received back
by her father to Alloa House.
Her son, ‘ Jeamy,’ born in 1671, lived to be a distinguished
officer.2 He raised the regiment known as 4 Angus’ Regiment ’
(and afterwards as ‘the Cameronians’), and in his opening
manhood fell leading his men at the battle of Steinkirk (1692).
He died unmarried. The Marquis, on the death of his first
wife, married Lady Mary Ker, daughter of Robert, Earl of
Lothian. This lady appears to have been a woman of more
force of character than Lady Barbara Erskine, and she was not
1 The Douglas Book, vol. ii. p. 449.
2 The Marquis of Douglas obtained a letter from the king, by Queensberry’s
influence, ‘ recommending to the judges the case of that antient family, and
giving his son, the Lord Angus, a pension of^200 sterling a year to breed him.’
—Fountainhall’s Decisions, p. 298.
LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE
absence from yow and our dear chyld is a terror nixtt unto
death. ... I give my blissing to our dear Jeamy. . . .
I will with patience waitte upon your goode pleasure, and
ever continow, my dearest hartt, your mostt fathfull, affec-
tionatt, and obediantt, B. Douglas.’ Before 1677 Lady
Douglas had sought the intervention of the Privy Council,
and in the February of that year she renewed an application
for the judicial allocation of an aliment on which she might
live apart from her husband.1 I have given 1677 as the
conjectural date for the Duchess of Lauderdale’s letter (xxix.),
as it suits all the circumstances in a satisfactory way.
Wretched as was this unhappy lady’s condition, the ballad-
maker (if, indeed, he was thinking at all of Lady Douglas)
indulges in some considerable poetic licence in putting into her
mouth the lines:—
‘ Now Arthur-seat sail be my bed.
The sheets shall neir be fyl’d by me,
Saint Anton’s well sail be my drink.
Since my true love has forsaken me.’
A deed of separation was obtained, and she was received back
by her father to Alloa House.
Her son, ‘ Jeamy,’ born in 1671, lived to be a distinguished
officer.2 He raised the regiment known as 4 Angus’ Regiment ’
(and afterwards as ‘the Cameronians’), and in his opening
manhood fell leading his men at the battle of Steinkirk (1692).
He died unmarried. The Marquis, on the death of his first
wife, married Lady Mary Ker, daughter of Robert, Earl of
Lothian. This lady appears to have been a woman of more
force of character than Lady Barbara Erskine, and she was not
1 The Douglas Book, vol. ii. p. 449.
2 The Marquis of Douglas obtained a letter from the king, by Queensberry’s
influence, ‘ recommending to the judges the case of that antient family, and
giving his son, the Lord Angus, a pension of^200 sterling a year to breed him.’
—Fountainhall’s Decisions, p. 298.
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