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 546 CROMARTIE or CROMARTY acquitted. He got into money difficulties, and his estates were seques- trated in 1724. He m., istly, 1685 (cont. 2 and 10 Jan. 1685), Elizabeth, da. of Charles (Gordon), ist Earl of Aboyne [S.], by Elizabeth, da. of John (Lyon), Earl of Kinghorn [S.]. Her he divorced 28 July 1698. She d. s.p. He m., 2ndly, 25 Apr. 1701, Mary, 2nd da. of Patrick (Murray), 3rd Lord Elibank. [S.], by Anne, da. of Alexander Burnet, Archbishop of St. Andrews. She was l>. 28 Aug. 1681 (Cramond register), and d. before 17 17. He ;«., 3rdly (cont. 23 Oct. 1717), Anne, widow of Peter Fotheringham, and before that of Norman Macleod, da. of Hugh (Fraser), Lord Lovat [S.], by Amelia, da. of John (Murray), 1st Marquess of Atholl [S.]. He d. 20 Feb. 1730/1, at Castleleod, aged about 74. His widow d. 10 Aug. 1734. in. 1731 3. George (Mackenzie), Earl of Cromarty, Vis- to count Tarbat, Lord Macleod and Castlehaven [S.], 1746. s. and h. by 2nd wife, ir. about 1703; Grand Master of Freemasons [S.] 1737-38; was engaged in the Rising in 1745, being present with 400 of his clan at the battle of Falkirk, 18 Jan. 1745/6; was taken prisoner at Dunrobin, 15 Apr. 1746, pleaded guilty before the Lord High Steward in the House of Lords in London, 28 July, and was sentenced to death, i Aug. 1746, for high treason, whereby his estates and peerage he.ca.me forfeited.^^) He, however, received a conditional pardon, 20 Oct. 1749. He m., 23 Sep. 1724, Isabel,('') da. of Sir William Gordon, Bart. [S. 1704], of Dalpholly, by Christian or Isabel, da. and h. of Sir John Hamilton. He d. in Poland Str., 28 Sep., and was l>ur. 5 Oct. 1766, at St. James's, Westm.,('=) aged about 63. His widow d. at Edinburgh, 23 Apr. 1769, in her 64th year, and was I^ur. in the Canongate churchyard. M.I. [John Mackenzie, sty/ed Lord Macleod, ist s. and h. ap., />. 1727, and, though but 18, was in the Rising of 1745, taken prisoner with his father, tried before the Commissioners, 20 Dec. 1746, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to death. He, however, received a full pardon 26 Jan. 1748. He entered into the service of the King of Sweden in 1749, by whom he was cr. Count Cromarty, and made a Commandant of the Order of the Sword of Sweden, a distinction recognised 9 Dec. 1778 by George III. Having returned to England on the breaking out of the American war, he (*) For a list of Scottish peerages forfeited after the Risings of 1715 and 174S, see vol. i, Appendix E. C) Known as " Bonnie Bell Gordon." {Diet. Nat. Biog.). V.G. (') In later life he was in very poor circumstances, and writes in 1759 of his "miserable situation" and "load of debts." Horace Walpole, in describing the trial of the Scottish Lords, speaks of him as " an indifferent figure, much dejected, and rather sullen," and of his wife as very handsome, and actively interceding for her husband. V.G.