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 BALCARRES COMPLETE PEERAGE 377 tallias et provisionis in ejus infeofamentis expressis, seu exprimendis. " He was Hereditary Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh (an office after- wards surrendered by his widow), and High Commissioner to the Gen. Assembly of the Kirk, i6 July 1651. He was in command of the troops north of the Forth, and by mortgage and by sale of his plate raised ;^8,ooo for the Royal cause. After the King's defeat at Worcester in Sep. 1651, he capitulated to Cromwell. He again took arms for Charles II in 1653, and his estate being sequestrated, joined his King on the Continent in that year. He was considered the head of the Presbyterians or Scottish Consti- tutionalists, and was the King's Secretary of State for Scotland. He tn., in Apr. 1640 (cont. 22 and 23 Apr.), his ist cousin Anne, ist of the two daughters and coheirs of Colin (Mackenzie), ist Earl of Seaforth, by (his mother's sister) Margaret, da. of Alexander (Seton), ist Earl of Dunfermline [S.] afsd. He d. in exile, at Breda, 30 Aug. 1659, and was bur. 12 June 1660, aged 41, at Balcarres. His widow, who was an intimate friend of Richard Baxter, the well-known divine, m. (as his 2nd wife), 28 Jan. 1670, Archibald (Campbell), 9th Earl of Argyll [S.], who was beheaded 30 June 1685. She d. 2, and was bur. 29 May 1707, at Balcarres. Fun. entry in Lyon office. EARLDOM [S.] IL BARONY [S.] in. ' 1659. 2 and 3. Charles (Lindsay), Earl of Balcarres, i^c, s. and h., bap. 7 Feb. 1651, at Dundee. He d., " a large stone being found at his heart, " (") at Balcarres, 1 5, and was there bur. 21 Oct. 1662, aged 11. earldom [s.] iil BARONY [S.] IV. 1669 of Solebay, 28 ness' confidence ' 1662. 3 and 4. Colin (Lindsay), Earl of Balcarres, ^c. [S.], br. and h., bap. 23 Aug. 1652, at Kilconquhar. At the age of 16 he was presented to the King, Charles II, who gave him a troop of horse and a life pension of ;^iooo a year. He sat in Pari, when still a minor 19 Oct. He was with the Duke of York " in the well fought battle May 1672, and enjoyed a great share of his High- "(^) P.C. 3 June 1680. Sheriff of co. Fife, 1682. Commissioner of the Treasury, 3 Sep. 1686, being one of the Council of Six in whom the Scottish administration was lodged. His spirited prop- osition to apply the ;^90,ooo then in the Scottish exchequer to the levying of troops to support James II against the invasion of the Prince 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 Earl was taken prisoner, and kept in the Tolbooth at Edinburgh for some (*) See note " b " on previous page. 49