Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

xii CORRESPONDENCE OF EARL OF SEAFIELD
to writt, and besides a verie unplesent subject, so I shall
leave itt, and lett you know that my sister was verie well
in France the last time I heard from her. She is with
Queen mother, and I blese God in verie much reputation ;
and tho we ar all so farr distant on from another, yet I
doe not dispare of all our metting heire againe, which
that itt may be sone I doubt not but that you will joyne
in the wishing with, deare cousen, Your most affect,
cousen and servant, Hamilton.
Duke William’s third daughter Mary was three times
married : first to the Earl of Callander, then to Sir James
Livingston of Westquarter, and third to James, third
Earl of Findlater.
The Eglintoun connections were also large and powerful.
Lady Anna Montgomerie’s grandfather, Alexander Mont¬
gomerie, son of Robert Seton, first Earl of Winton, married,
on 22nd June 1612, Anna, eldest daughter of Alexander,
first Earl of Linlithgow. Her father, Hugh, was a learned
nobleman. Both grandfather and father were zealous
Royalists and suffered in that cause.
Writing to Ladie Anne Montgomerie from ‘ Bredicke ’
on ‘ 11th Apriell 1651,’ in answer, the Duchess of Hamil¬
ton says:—
Deare Cousen,—I have receved both yours, and must
tell you that I have a part of your grefe, you shoulde
not be senceablie of what has befallen your gran-
father. I can not wishe but to be so afflected as I
finde you are, may ofende the Lord, who even in this
dispentation has showed great mercie to you. Your
father tho takein yet itt plessed the Lord to delivere
out of thare hands, and your granfather is alife ; and if
the Lord thinke fett he will allso deliver him. And, my
deare cousen, submite to the Lord who doth all thinges
for the best to them that love him ; and in so doien you
shall finde comfort in your greatest treble, etc. . . .
Her uncles, Colonel James Montgomerie of Coilsfield
and Major-General Robert Montgomerie, also fought on