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 CROMARTIE or CROMARTY 545 estates, lo Sep. 1654, in which year he raised a force to attempt the King's restoration, and maintained it for a year, when he was forced to an honourable capitulation. He then escaped to the Continent, and remained there till the Restoration. On i June 1 66 1 he was made a Lord of Session [S.], but was deprived 16 Feb. 1663/4, under the administration of Lauderdale. P.C. [S.], app. 23 Apr., sworn 5 June 1662; Lord Justice General [S.], Oct. 1678 to June 1680; Lord Clerk Register [S.], Oct. 168 i to Apr. 1689, and again (under William III, by whom he was not at first employed) Mar. 1692 to 1695; a Lord of Session [S.] again in 168 1, having thenceforth the chief management of Scottish afFairs till the deposition of James IL By that King, on 15 Apr. 1685, he was cr. VISCOUNT OF TARBAT, LORD MACLEOD AND CASTLEHAVEN [S.]. F.R.S. 30 Nov. 1692. By Queen Anne he was cr., i Jan. 1702/3 (being her first creation of a Scottish peer), EARL OF CROMARTY, VISCOUNT OF TARBAT, LORD MACLEOD AND CASTLEHAVEN [S.J, sibi et h^redibus suis masculis et taUU.(f) One of the principal Secretaries of State Nov. 1702 to 1705, when he resigned; Capt. Gen. of the Royal Co. of Archers [S.] May 1703 till his death; Lord Justice General [S.] again 1705, which office he resigned in 17 10. He was a zealous promoter of the Union [S.], not only by votes and speeches, but by numerous writings. Orig. F.R.S.C") He m., istly, in 1654, Anna, da. of Sir James Sinclair, istBart. [S. 1631], of Cunnisbay and Mey, by Elizabeth, da. of Patrick (Leslie), ist Lord LiNDORES [S.]. She d. 1699. He m., 2ndly, 29 Apr. 1700 (Cramond register), Margaret, suo jure Countess of Wemyss [I.], widow of James (Wemyss), Lord Burntisland [S.]. She d. May, and was bur. i June 1705, in East Wemyss Church, aged 45. He ^. 17 Aug. 17 14, in his 84th year, at New Tarbat. II. 1 7 14. 2. John (Mackenzie), Earl of Cromarty, tfc. [S.], 2nd but 1st surv.('') s. and h. by ist wife, b. about 1656; was M.P. for co. Ross in 1685, when it was resolved that "by reason his father was nobilitate," he could not represent that shire. He was tried Apr. 1 69 1, before the Court of Justiciary, for the murder of the Sieur de la Roche (who had been killed in a brawl in a tavern at Leith), but was (*) " If the word et be read, as in the Polwarth case, as equivalent to whom failing, then the grant was to Viscount Tarbat and his heirs male, whom failing to his heirs of entail; but as no special entail is mentioned, the words as to the entail might pro- bably be held to be too uncertain to create a valid destination. Lord Cromarty held several different estates, and the entail affecting each of them might be different." [Hewlett, p. 131). C") In the Society's official list he is placed under 1692 with a query. "A gentleman of very polite learning and good parts; hath a great deal of wit, and is the pleasantest companion in the world; a great master in philosophy, and much esteemed by the Royal Society of London. He hath been very handsome in his person, is tall, fair complexioned, and now past 70 years old." (Macky's Characters). (■=) His elder br., Roderick Mackenzie, d. young and v.p. V.G. 69