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 218 BALCARRES. Earls [s.j ] £ Colin (Lindsay), Earl p* Baloahrb^ k& HI [S.], br. and h. b. 1652. At the age of Id he was introduced I (3(J-) to the Sing, Charles II, who gave him a troop of horse ami n Barons [&] r "' lit".! pension of £1000 a year. He was with the Duke of -i jy " ill the well fought battle of Solcbay, 28 May l(i7J, im ,l enjoyed a great ."hare of his Highness' confidence, anil it was then that the friendship was probably cemented, with which at a later period he had it in his power to sooth his Royal M;ister."( c ) P.O. 3 June lflgO. Sheriff of Fifeshiro, 16S2. Commissioner of the Ti easnry, 3 Sep. 1686, being one of the Council of Six in whom the Scottish administration was lodged. His spirited proposition to apply the £99,000 then in the Scottish exchequer to the levying of troops to support James II against the invasion of the lYince of Orange was overruled by Melfort. He and Lord Dundee [S.] were the last who were in attendance on King James, before his final expulsion from London. They then proceeded to Scotland to call a Pari, at Stirling, but the Karl was taken prisoner and kept in the Tolbootli at Edinburgh for some months. He again joined, in 1CH0, in Sir James Montgomery's scheme for restoring the exiled King, whom (on its discovery) he joined at fit. Oermains. After an exile of ten years he returned to Scotland in 1700, was received in court by Queen Anne. He voted in favour of the Scotch Union, lie obtained likewise a pension of £f>00 a year for ten years in lieu of the one of £1000 lost at the Revolution. I'.C. April 1705. His attachment to the House of Stuart led him to join the rising of 1715, but having surrendered himself he was included in the indemnity. He, also, was a man of letters and was fond of art, as well as of books.Cj He W.(*J firstly, when very young, about 1070, Mamiti.t UK Nassau, da. of Lotus, Count of Bevf.rwaet and Ai'veiuji'kuquk in Holland (illegit s. of Maurice, Princi ok Obs.NGe), by Elizabeth, Countess ok Horn. She d. s.p. within the year. He m.( h ) secondly Jane, da of David (Carnegie), 2nd Earl ok Niirthesk [S.], by Jean, da. of Patrick (Maule), 1st Eahi. ok Panmimie. She (/. s.p.m.s., six years afterwards, about 1680. He m. thirdly Jean, da. of William (Kerii, formerly Dru.MMONB), 2nd K.UII. ok RoxiiURGHE [S.], by Jean, da. of Harry Keiui, ' Master of ltoxburghe,' rifled LuM> Kehr. He m. fourthly Margaret, da. of James (CAMPBELL), 2nd Kaiii. ok LOtFnooH [S.], by Margaret, da. of Hugh (MiiNTUomerie), 7th Kahl ok Eo.LINTOUN [S.] He </. at Balcarres 1722, in his 73rd year, and was bur. in the chapel there. His widow was hving Aug. 1737. [Colin Lindsay, " Master of Balcarres," styled LORD CUmiER- LAND,(0 s. and h. ap. by 3rd wife. Capt. of Dragoons and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Marlborough, d. unai., v.p., Nov. 1708.] Earls [S.] "1 5. Alexander (Lindsay), Earl of Balcahres, &. jy rSs], 1st surv. s. and h. by 4th wife. He served in the wars in ■ 1722 "*odera in 1707 and was wounded at the siege of St. Tenant, Barons [S]. ~ ' but owing to his father's share in the rising of 1715 it was not ■y till 1732 that he obtained a company in the Foot Guards. In 1734 was chosen a Rep. Peku [S.] He was a friend of the celebrated Duncan Forbes, Presideut of the Court of Session. He m. in 1718, Elizabeth, da of David Scott of Scorstarvet, CO. Fife. He d. s.p. 25 July 1736. Admon. as of Balcarres, co. Fife, 3 Aug. 1737. His widow d. at Edinburgh i Sep. 1768. Earls [S.] ] G. James (Lindsay), Earl of Balcarres, &c. y [S.], br. and h. being yst. s. of the 3rd Earl, b. 14 Nov. 1691. I I Lieut. R.N. He joined his father at the rising of 1715 arid Barons [S.] ' ' was Capt. of a troop which acted with great gallantly at the , v T battle of Sheriffmuir. He was, however, pardoned and made V L J Lieut, in the 2nd or Royal North British Reg. of Dragoons under his uucle Sir James Campbell ; was in command at the ( c ) See p. 217, note "b." (d) He was author of " An accouut of the affairs in Scotland relating to the Revo- lution, 1688," and as such has a place among Walpole's " Noble Authors." m («) See romantic story about both these weddings in the " Lives of the. Lindsays, (f) This title was taken from Cummerland, part of the estate of Balcarres. bee " Douglas," p, 175.