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 CRAWFORD 519 was taken prisoner at Newcastle, carried to Edinburgh, and condemned to death, but was released after the battle of Kilsyth, Aug. 1 645, being, however, excepted from pardon by the articles of Westm., 11 July 1646. In Aug. 1646 he escaped to Spain, and was living at Madrid, "in great honour and credit," during the year 1649. He ?;?., before 5 Oct. 1643, Margaret, widow of Alexander Stewart, styled Lord Garlies (who d. 1638), da. of William (Graham), Earl of Menteith [S.], by Agnes, da. of Patrick Lord Gray [S.]. He d. s.p. /egit.,{) of ague, at the Hague, about 7 Nov. 1652. His wife was living 4 Dec. 1649, being said to have " turned Catholicke Romane." XVn. 1652. 17. John (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], Earl OF Lindsay [S. 1633], Lord Lindsay of the Byres [S. 1445], and Lord Parbroath [S. 1633], cousin, though not heir male,() but who, under the regrant of 1 642 (abovementioned), sue. to the Earldom of Crawford,('') and who, since 1644, had under a decree of Pari., 26 July 1644, abovementioned, which was alleged to have propelled to him the Earldom of Crawford, called himself '•'■Earl of Crawford-Lindsay" as did also his successors. He was s. and h. of Robert (Lindsay), 9th Lord Lindsay of the Byres [S.], by Christian,('^) da. of Thomas (Hamilton), 1st Earl of Haddington [S.]. He was b. 1596, sue. his father 9 July 1 6 16. Hereditary Steward of the Regality of St. Andrew's, 161 8. During the King's visit to Scotland he was, 8 May 1633, cr. EARL OF LINDSAYC') and LORD PARBROATH [S.], to him and his heirs male bearing the name and arms of Lindsay; his cousin, Sir David Lindsay of (^) The following entry appears in the Douai Diary under date 7 Mar. 1656/7, "Henricus Lindsaius, aet. 12 . . . filius unicus Comitis Crawford et Margaretse Graemiae Comitis Monteithii filias. Dimissus quia illegitimus." V.G. C") Such heir was George (Lindsay), 3rd Lord Spynie [S.], in whom the remnant of the Crawford estate vested, but on his death i.p. in 167 1, the heirship passed to Lindsay of Edzell, who, to avoid liabihty for Spynie's debts, " renounced the succes- sion." David Lindsay of Edzell claimed the Earldom (as heir male of the grantee) in 1685. On the extinction of the line of Lindsay of Edzell, in 1744, the representation passed to James (Lindsay), 5th Earl of Balcarres, whose son (the 6th Ear!) became, in 1808, entitled as such representative to the Earldom of Crawford. ('^) See his (very distant) relationship to the last Earl in tabular pedigree, p. 511. {^) As " son of the celebrated Lady Christian Hamilton, better known by the name of her second husband as Lady Boyd, he had sucked in the tenets of Presby- terianism with his mother's milk, independently of the heritage of similar traditions derived from his paternal ancestry." {Liva of the Lindsays). (*) John, Lord Lindsay, says Sir James Dalrymple, in anno 1633, was the first Lord in the Rolls of Pari., and there being a question of precedency betwixt the Lords of Pari, and the Earl's eldest sons (anciently called Masters, and then Lords according to the custom of England), the decision being in favour of the latter, the Lord Lindsay was cr. an Ear/, as Earl of Lindsay. {Lives of the Lindsays). It is to be observed that at the decreet of ranking, " Lindsay " is the first Barony, followed by (2) Forbes, (3) Glamis, (4) Fleming, (5) Saltoun, &c.