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 CRAVEN 507 CRAVEN OF RYTON, co. Salop."e) He ;«., 4 Dec. 1634, at Brington, Northants, Elizabeth, da. of William (Spencer), 2nd Baron Spencer of WoRMLEiGHTON, by Peiiclope, da. of Henry (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton. He d. s.p., 1 647/8, aged 38, when his Peerage became extinct. Will, in which he provided /'loo a year for 2 poor scholars (•>) at Oxford and 2 at Cambridge, dat. 28 May to 25 June 1647, ?>"• 26 Feb. 1647/8. His widow m. (lie. Lond. 7 July 1648, he 28, and she 29) the Hon. Henry Howard, of Revesby, co. Lincoln (3rd s. of Thomas, ist Earl of Berk- shire), who d. s.p., 1663. She m., 3rdly, William (Crofts), Baron Crofts OF Saxham, who also d. s.p. in 1677. She, who was b. 16 Feb., and bap. 3 Mar. 1 61 7/8, at Brington, d. i, and was bur. 18 Aug. 1672, at Saxham. CRAWFORD(^) EARLDOM [S.] David Lindsay,(<') b. about 1360, s. and h. of Sir T n Alexander L., of Glenesk, in Angus, by his ist wife, ■^^ ' Catherine (heiress of the same), da. of Sir John Stirling, of Edzell (which Alexander was 3rd s. of (^) See Creations, 1 483-1 646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records. (^) The value of these Craven scholarships has since been increased. ('^) See Lives of the Lindsays, or a memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres, by Alexander W. C. Lindsay, styled Lord Lindsay, afterwards [1869-80] Earl of Crawford [S.], 1843 and 1858. This valuable work is generally admitted to be a model for the history of a family. (^) Although the account of the Lindsay family here given begins no earlier than the title of Cravjford, some allusion is not inappropriate to the continuous sittings in Parliament enjoyed by the ancestors of the first Earl, more especially as, though other families in Scotland may have more historic interest, none can in genealogical impor- tance equal that of Lindsay, not only as to antiquity in the male line, but in all pro- bability as to the number of Parliamentary sittings, such sittings beginning, also, at the earliest period of which any record exists, and, though not conferring of themselves (as has been held in England) an hereditary peerage dignity, shew at least the high position held from the remotest antiquity by that family. The first of their ancestors who settled in Scotland was Sir Walter Lindsay, who as " Noble and Knight " was a witness to the inquisition of the See of Glasgow, in 1 1 16, having doubtless attended David, Earl of Huntingdon, afterwards King David I, in his colonization of the Low- lands. During a great part of the period of some 300 years that elapsed between that time and the creation of the Earldom, there were three contemporaneous branches of the family of Lindsay (descendants of the abovenamed Sir Walter), holding the follow- ing baronies; one branch holding Lamberton in Scotland, as also Kendal and Moles- worth in England; another branch holding Luffness and Crawford in Scotland, as also half the Barony of the Limesis in England; and the third branch holding Breneville and Byres in Scotland, as also certain lands (such lands, however, not being held by Barony in chief of the King of England) in England. The heads of these three branches all sat in Pari. [S.], holding the highest offices of State in every generation, before the elevation in 1398 of the heir male and chief of the house to the rank of Earl. The family (as also was the case with some other families, most of which, however, are now extinct), were undoubtedly "Magnates" ab initio, although the first person