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 WINTOUH, 193 IV. 1660. 4. OxoRGB (Sbtok), Earl of Wntoun, &a [S.], gnuidion and h., being 1st ■. and h.(*) of George Snov, ifyled Lord SiTOV, and Harriet his wife, both abevenamed ; b, 4 May 1642, and tuc. to &€ peeroffe [S] 17 Deo. 1660, being tenred heir to hia grandfather's estates in Uie counties of Berwick, Edinburgh, Haddington, Linlithgow, Stirling, Banff and Elgin in 1653 and 1656. He was, tho* but a boy, fined £2,000 in 1654 under CromwelFs Act of Qraee ; senred in the French army at the siege of Bizaulson ; P.O. to Charles II. ; was in command at the defeat of the Covenanters at Pentland in 1666, and at the battle of Bothwell bridge, 1679, after which he entertained the Duke of Monmouth and his oflloeni at Seton ; was Sheriff of en, Haddington, 1682, in which Tear he accompanied the Duke of Tork to Scotland. He received a novodamui, 81 July 1686, of his titles, with rem. to the heirs male of his body, which failing to any he should nominate with like rem., and, falling such nomination, to his heirs male, fidlinff whom to his nearest heirs and assigns. He m. firstly, 4 Sep. 1662, Mary, 2nd da. of Hugh (MoKTaOMiRiB), 7th BiBL or EoLnrroN [S], being 1st da. by his second wife, Maxy, da. of John (Lnui), Earl or Rothib [8.] Shed. B.p.m. He m, secondly, in or before 1682,(^) Christian, da. of Qeorge Hsfburn, of Aldinstoune, co. Haddington, by Margaret^ aa. of Robert Aldhibtoumii, of that ilk. She d. 18 Not. 1703, and was hur. in Seton ohnreh. He is 8aid(®) to haTe d, 6 March 1704, but his burial (probably a re- interment) took place at Seton, 1 Not. 1707. y. 1704 1 5. Gborgb (Sbton), Earl of Wintoun [16001 Lord 1716 poerag* of Scotland, Ist and only sunr. s. and h.(') ; ). about 1678, scTeral Tean before the marriage of his parents, which marriage was established by the Court of Session in 1710.(«) He was at Rome when he iue. to tke peerage [S.], probably in March 1704, to which he was retoured heir, 4 JuIt 1710. He raised a troop of horse, wherewith, 10 Oct 1715, he joined at Kelso the Rising of that year, and, tho* he strenuously opposed the marching into England, was taken prisoner at the defeat at Preston, 14 Not. I7I69 found guilty of high treas<»n and condemned to death, 15 March 1716/6, whereby o/l hie Aonoiirf became forfeiied.{^) He escaped out of the Tower of London, 4 Ang. 1716.(>) He J. num. at Rome, 19 Dea 1749, aged aboTe 70.(l>) (*) The 8 yr. sons all d. young or nnm. (t>) Sir Qeorge Mackensie, in his '* Aeoount of SeoUieh PamVee** writes of this Cliristian in 1682, that the Earl ** has now married [her] and legitimated the children." She was, howcTer, a person of position and heiress of the estate of Aldinstoune. The names of her eight great-grandparents are giTcn by Seton (see p. 191, note "a "), her grandparents being John Hepburn, of Craik, who m. a diL of Hepoum, of Smeeton ; and the aboTenamed iUibert Aldinstoune, who m. a da. of Sir John Seton, Capt. of the Scots gv^nsdarmes, by the " Count do Bourbon's daughter." (o) Seton (see p. 191, note "a ") writes, <* according to Nisbet " he died 6 March 1704, adding that hia *< tesUment datiTc (Angliee Admon.) " is in Tol, 82 of EdinbuiKh Testaments, but omitting to give the date thereof. (^) Christopher, 2d and yst son, d, 1704, unm. (*) Viscount Kingston [S.], who descended from the 2d sunr. son of the 8rd Earl, questioned his legitimacy, he himself beinff the next heir to the Earldom. (0 See T0I. iii, p. 192, note <*a," $ub ^Durrna," for a list of Scotch and other peerages forfeited at that date. (K) Lady Cowner, in her *' Diarp,** writes that " My Jjonl Winton had sawed an iron bar with the spring of his watch Tcry near in two in order to make his escape, but it was found out He received sentence of death, but behaved himself in a manner to persuade a world of people that he was a natural fool or mad, tho' his natural character is that of a stubborn illiterate ill-bred brute. He has eight wives." He appears, indeed, to have been a man of very weak intellect, and his obvious incapacity to conduct his own defence, made the scandal, of his t>eiog denied legal assistance at his trial, very groes. Macky, in his " Charadert,* snys of him *' when not 26," that he natural to his family ; hath a good estate ; is of low stature ; a eealous Protestant^ but his family are enemins to England.'* (h) It is remarked in Wood's ** Douglat ** that " Thus terminated one of the prin- cipal houses in Britam [t.e. that of Seton] after subeistiug for upwards of 600 yeara in East Lothian and from thence spreading mto several flourishhig branches in Scotland:
 * to SiTOR [1448 1] and LoBD Sroh and Tranbht 11600], in the
 * ' hath been much abroad in the world ; is mightv subject to a particular caprice,