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 5IO CRAWFORD thereof he received his death wound while vainly endeavouring to prevent a bloody fray, fought 13 Jan. 1445/6, between the Ogilvies and Lindsays at Arbroath. He m. (mandate for Papal disp. to m. 4 Kal. Mar. 1422/3) IVIarjory, da. of Alexander Ogilvie, of Auchterhouse, Sheriff of Angus. His wife is said to have smothered her cousin, Alexander Ogilvie of Inver- quharitie, then a wounded prisoner at Finhaven, in revenge for her husband's approaching death. He d. 17 Jan. 1445/6 (after great suffering) at Finhaven Castle (the day twelvemonth since he ravaged " St. Andrew's land," in Fife), and remained unburied 4 days till the excommunication was taken off. His widow was living 1476. IV. 1446. 4. Alexander (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], s. and h., the victor in the fray of Arbroath mentioned above, was knighted before i July 1445, and ^^^ known as ^^ the Tiger" or "Earl Beardie." (^) Hered. Sheriff of Aberdeen 1446 till 1452, when he was deprived. Like his father, he allied himself with the Earl of Douglas (as also with the Lord of the Isles) C') against the Court party. He was Ambassador to England, 1451. After the murder of Douglas by the King, he rebelled, but was defeated by the Earl of Huntly, 1 8 May 1452, after a desperate fight, near Brechin, when his " lands, life and goods " were declared forfeit, but were, on submission, restored in Apr. of the next year; Guardian of the Marches, 1453. He m. Margaret, da. and h. of Sir David Dunbar, of Cockburn and Auchtermonzie, br. of George, last Earl of Dunbar, or March [S.]. He d. at his Castle of Finhaven, Sep. 1453, but six months after his pardon, and was liur. " regia ptvpe pompa ''^) in the Grey Friars, at Dundee. His widow, afterwards wife of Sir William Wallace, of Craigie, about 1470, d. between July 1498 and Jan. 1499/1500. V. 1453. 5. David (Lindsay), Earl OF Crawford [S.], s. and h., />. I440.('') Sheriff of CO. Forfar Oct. 1466. He greatly increased his influence through the interest of his wife's family. On 9 Mar. 1472/3 he was granted for life the Lordships of Brechin and Navar, which, joined with his former possessions, made him absolute in Forfarshire; on 17 July 1473 he was made Keeper (for 3 years) of Berwick, and in May 1476, High Adm. of Scotland. In 1474 he entailed the family estates on his heirs male for ever. He was "for 20 years employed in almost every embassy (^) " Dictus Tigris, qui totam Angusiam in subjectione tenuit" {De chronicis Scotorum Brevia, MS.); surnamed Beardie or David with the long beard (Sir James Balfour, MS., Adv. Lib.), but "according to a comparatively modern authority" (Lord Strathallan, in his House of Drumniond, i68i) it was "from the little reverence in which he held the King's courtiers," that he was known " by the designations of Earl Beardie or Beard the best of them." C") i.e. " Macdonald," but that patronymic was not in use till a later date. (<=) "Boethius," fo. 376. i^) See tabular pedigree.