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 BELLENDEN 99 his heirs of entail, which was confirmed by Royal Charter, 12 Dec. 1673. He d. unm., and was bur. 6 Sep. 1 671, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx., aged about 66. II. 1671. 2. John (Bellenden, formerly Ker), Lord Bellenden OF Broughton [S.], 1st cousin thrice removed, and h. according to the designation in the regrant of the Peerage as above, being 4th and yst. s. of William Ker (formerly Drummond), 2nd Earl of Rox- BURGHE [S.], by Jean, ist da. and h. of line of Harry Ker, styled Lord Ker, which Harry was ist surv. s. and h. ap. of Robert, ist Earl of Roxburghe [S.] abovenamed, maternal uncle to the said William, ist Lord Bellenden [S.]. On 23 Dec. 1671 he was served h. of entail and provision to his predecessor, whom he sue. in the office of Heritable Usher and Door Keeper of the Exchequer [S.].(^) He was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for some time, owing to his having, in July 1689, shot dead a soldier who had declared for William and Mary. Later on he himself supported the de facto Government, and being very needy, was apparently in receipt of some small pecuniary help therefrom. He ot., 10 Apr. 1683, Mary, widow of William, 3rd Earl of Dalhousie [S.], 2nd da. of Henry (Moore), ist Earl of Drogheda [I.], by Alice, da. of William (Spencer), 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton. He d. Mar. i707.('') His widow d. 17 Mar. i725/6.(') III. 1707. 3. John (Bellenden), Lord Bellenden OF Broughton [S.], s. and h., b. 1685, at Dalhousie Castle, served h. to his father 16 July 1709. Heritable Usher of the Exchequer [S.].('*) He OT., 3 Sep. 1722, at Radwell, Herts, Mary, da. of John Parnell, of Baldock, in that co. He d. 16 Mar. 1 740/1, at Westmill, Herts, aged about 55, and was bur. there. M.I. Admon., 11 Apr. 1741. His widow, who was bap. 26 June 1702, at Baldock, d. 23 Nov. 1792, in her 91st year, and was bur. at Westmill. M.I. (^) See, as to the manner of confirming him in the King's " interest," a letter dat. 31 July 1700, quoted in Douglas, vol. ii, p. 452, from the Duke of Queensberry saying "because I knew he was a little straitened, I have given him ;rioo, iifc." C') " The Lord Ballatyne {i.e. Bellenden] with his servant, Viscount Kingston's son, Sir John Leyton's rectiu% George Seton's] brother, and two other persons, who robbed the mail last August, were seized. The Lord B. for murder is committed to the Castle, and the rest to the Tolbooth." (Newsletter, I Nov. 1690. Hist. MSS. Com., 1 2th Rep., App., pt. vii). However the Privy Council's Records do not bear out the inaccurate newsman, that Lord B. was concerned in the robbery, and, indeed, he cannot have been, for, being "somewhat hotheaded," as Sir James Balfour Paul leniently remarks [Scots Peerage, sub " Bellenden "), he had (as mentioned in the text) murdered a man for expressing different political opinions to his own, and was a prisoner in the Castle at the time. The robbers were James" Seton, afterwards 3rd Viscount Kingston [S.] (see note under that title), and John Seton, br. of Sir George S. V.G. {^) According to Douglas she m., 3rdly, Samuel Collins, M.D. {^) Queen Anne writes to Harley, 11 Oct. 1 7 12, "I desire you would let Lord Ballandin have ;(^200, as soon as you can conveniently, for I am assured by others as well as his own mother that he is starving." V.G.