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 514 CRAWFORD 1 5 13, being slain, with his King, at the battle of Flodden.(') He was bur. at Dundee. His widow was living 16 Jan. 1533/4. VII. 1 5 13. 7. Alexander (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], uncle and h. male, being 2nd s. of the 4th Earl. He was of Auchtermonzie,Knt., Sheriff Dep. ofForfar, 1483. He, in 15 13, was one of 4 Councillors appointed for the Queen Regent, and in 1 5 1 5 was High Justiciary North of the Forth. He m., before 18 Mar. 1470, Isobel, da. of ( — ) Campbell, of Ardkinglass. He d. at Finhaven, May 15 17, aged about 74, and was bur. at Dundee. VIII. 1517- 8. David (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], s. and h., knighted in or before 1 5 1 2, served h. 1 8 July 1 5 1 7. He was deprived by the King of large estates in the Lowlands, as also of lands in the Hebrides. By charter, confirmed by the King (after resignation), he, 16 Oct. 1 54 1, conveyed the Earldom (subject to his own life interest) to his cousin and (failing his own issue) next heir male, David Lindsay of Edzell, with rem. to his heirs in strict tail male. He m., istly, before 6 Nov. 1500, Elizabeth, da. of William (Hay), 3rd Earl of Erroll [S.], by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of George (Leslie), ist Earl of Rothes [S.]. She was living 24 Jan. 1510/1. He m., 2ndly, Catherine Stirling. He m., 3rdly, before 1526, Isobel, da. of ( — ) Lundy, of Lundy. He d. at Cairnie Castle, in Auchtermonzie, 27 Nov. 1542. His widow m., before 10 Apr. 1543, as his 4th wife, George (Leslie), Earl of Rothes, who^. 28 Nov. 1558. She d. before 2 Feb. 1549/50. [Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford, usually known as "the wicked Master," ist and only surv. s. and h. ap. by ist wife. "He had been put in fee of the Earldom by his father, and the Barony of Glenesk had been assigned to him." As early, however, as 1526, his father had claimed protection against him from "bodily harm," and on 16 Feb. 1 530/1, he was arraigned at Dundee, found guilty of constructive parricide and various other crimes, and condemned to death. By this was effected "the legal exclusion of himself and his posterity from succession to the estates and honours of Crawford, blotting them out as if they had never existed." In this exclusion he acquiesced, renouncing all his right 30 Mar. 1537. He ni. Jean,('') da. of Henry (Sinclair), Lord Sinclair [S.]. He was killed v.p., in a broil, by a cobbler of Dundee, not long before 5 July 1542. His widow d. between 1546 and 1562.] IX. 1 542. 9. David (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], frequently called " The interpolated Earl,'' and in family papers, "frank tenementar"' of the Earldom, cousin ('^) of the last Earl, and (the issue of (*) For a list of the nobles there slain see vol. v, Appendix D. ('') This Jean is itykd " Countess of Crawford " in family deeds. (<=) His relationship to the late Earl is best seen in the tabular pedigree, p. 511.