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wath, 14th June, 1634, and 11th July, 1635. succeeded to the title of the Earl of Carnwath in 1639. On the 25th February, 1643, he was accused with five other earls of having written a letter to the Queen from Derby informing her of the designs of the Scots to arm against the King, for which they were summoned before the Convention of Estates. The whole obeyed the summons except the Earl of Carnwath; and in June, 1643, he was discerned to have incurred a penalty of £1000 Scots for his contumacy in not entering his person in prison. On some words spoken by him to His Majesty, wherewith the Estates were dissatisfied, decreet of forfeiture was passed against him, 25th February, 1645. He raised horse and foot during the Civil War for King Charles, and is said, by his ill-judged action, to have lost the battle of Naseby, 14th June, 1645. He married Christian, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig, Earl of Queensberry, leaving at his death two sons-Gavin, his successor, and William, who died unmarried in 1647.

GAVIN, 3RD EARL of Carnwath, was taken prisoner at Worcester in 1651, and detained several years in captivity. He married, first, Margaret, eldest daughter and co-heir of David, Lord Carnegie, and had two sons and one daughter-James, 4th Earl, and John, 5th Earl, and Jane, married to Claud Muirhead of Lachop. He married, secondly, the Lady Mary Erskine, daughter of Alexander, the third Earl of Kellie, by whom he had no issue. He died in June, 1674, and was succeeded

by his elder son.

JAMES, 4th Earl of Carnwath. He married Lady Mary Seton, daughter of George, second Earl of Winton, and by her had a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Lord John Hay, second son of the second Marquis of

Tweedale; but having no male issue he was succeeded by his brother,

JOHN, 5TH EARL of Carnwath, who died unmarried in 1703, when the estates and honours descended on

SIR ROBERT DALZIEL, 3rd baronet of Glenae, 6TH EARL of Carnwath. He was the great-grandson of Robert the first Earl. He joined in the rebellion against King George I. in 1715, and was taken prisoner at Preston. He was tried at London, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, on the 18th February, 1716, his estates forfeited, and his honours attainted. The sentence of death was remitted, but part of the Earl's estates was sold by the Government. He married-First, Lady Grace Montgomery, third daughter of Alexander, ninth Earl of Eglinton; secondly, Grizel, daughter of Alexander Urquhart of Newhall, by whom he had a son Alexander; for his third wife he had Margaret, daughter of John Hamilton of Bangour; and his fourth and last wife was Margaret, daughter of Thomas Vincent of Bambrough Grange, Yorkshire, by whom he had a son Robert, whose son, Robert Alexander, was restored to the Earldom by Act of Parliament, 26th May, 1826.

The Earls of Carnwath during their retention of the lands of Eliock had a town residence in Sanquhar. The house stood in the High Street at the top of the opening long known as the "Calton Close," but now named Baron's Court.' It was a strong, substantial building. It was demolished about sixty years ago.

ARMS of the Earls of Carnwath-Sable, a naked man with his arms extended proper. Crest-On a wreath, a dagger erect, the pommel and hilt or. SupportersTwo chevaliers in complete armour, each having a target on his exterior arm, proper. Motto "I Dare.'

VEITCH OF ELIOCK.

WILLIAM VEITCH, Writer to the Signet, a cadet of the family of Veitch of Dawick, in Peebleshire, purchased the Estate of Eliock in 1723, from the attainted Earl of Carnwath. In 1728, he further bought from the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates the following lands formerly belonging to Lord Carnwath, viz. :-The £10 land of Dalruscan, £10 land of Trailflat, and £5 land of Amisfield, in the parish of Tinwald. He also acquired lands in the Barony of Kirkmichael. These lands were first disponed to Alexander, son of the late Earl of Carnwath, but there was a contract for repurchase, dated 11th September, 1724. In July, 1724, William Veitch, for £16,000 10s 2d, Scots, the price put upon them by the Lords Commissioners, bought the lands of Frenchland; and in 1728 there is a discharge of a bond on the Nithsdale Estate by Hugh Maxwell of Dalswinton to William Veitch of Eliock, of the house and lands of Frenchland, which was registered at Dumfries, November 29, 1739. He had a daughter Mary, married to Robert Irving, W.S., the marriage contract being dated June 7, 1764. William Veitch of Eliock, died 25th October, 1747. At his death his affairs were in a somewhat embarrassed condition, the primary cause being his advancing a great deal of money on landed property, Frenchland amongst others. The Veitches of Frenchland were his near relatives, and by Lord Eliock, who entailed the Eliock Estates, were named as next heirs after Henry Veitch's family. Lord Eliock's father had a sister Marion, married in 1683 to Patrick Govan, and their daughter Christian Govan, born 1684, married William Veitch of Frenchland. John Veitch, merchant in Edinburgh, was served heir to his father, William Veitch of French

land, Writer in Edinburgh, 5th December, 1758. William Veitch of Eliock was succeeded by his son,

THE HON. JAMES VEITCH, LORD ELIOCK, one of the senators of the College of Justice. He was admitted Advocate, 15th February, 1738; constituted SheriffDepute of the County of Peebles, 13th July, 1747; elected M.P. for the County of Dumfries in 1755, continuing member till 1760, when he was raised to the Bench in place of Andrew M'Dowall of Bankton, taking his seat on the 6th March, 1761, by the title of Lord Eliock. His lordship was an accomplished scholar, singularly handsome, and a man of such striking personality that, when travelling in Germany, he succeeded in interesting and making a friend of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. He, as already stated, entailed the Estate of Eliock, restricting the succession to the heirs male. On 26th July, 1751, there is a charter of resignation of Mr James Veitch of the house and lands of Frenchland; and on June 20, 1783, there is a trust disposition by G. Muir in favour of the Honourable James Veitch of Eliock, Senator of the College of Justice, of the £5 lands of Windimills and those parts of the 20 merk lands of Middlebie belonging to him. In 1787, December 27, there is a disposition by James Veitch, Lord Eliock, as trustee for Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelltown, Bart., in favour of Robert Anderson, of the lands of Gordonstone. Lord Eliock died, unmarried, 1st July, 1793. He was a great stickler for the rights of primogeniture, and, although Colonel Veitch was almost like a son to him, he put first in the entail a certain James Veitch, because he was a degree nearer to him in kinship, this James Veitch being a first cousin's son, while Colonel Henry Veitch was a second cousin's son.

JAMES VEITCH was a lieutenant in the army, and was with his regiment in India when Lord Eliock died. He came to England as soon afterwards as possible to take possession, but never got further than London, where he died of fever in 1796.

HENRY VEITCH, who now succeeded, was the son of John Veitch, the son of the Rev. Henry Veitch, minister of the parish of Swinton, in Berwickshire, Lord Eliock's first cousin. He entered the service of the Marines in 1780, whence he exchanged into the line, and became in 1796, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 98th Regiment of Foot. He married, in 1796, Zepherina, daughter of Thomas Loughnan, Esq., of Lower Seymour Street, London, and formerly of Madeira, and great grand-daughter of Alexander Fergusson of Craigdarroch and Annie Laurie of Maxweltown-the famous beauty, whose charms have been immortalized in the well-known lyric of "Maxweltown Braes are Bonnie."'* Colonel Veitch was one of the Commissioners of Customs for Scotland. He died 1st May, 1838, leaving issue:James, his heir; William Douglas, who also succeeded

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* The old song of Maxweltown Braes" was written by a Mr Douglass of Fingland, upon Annie, one of the four daughters of Sir Robert Laurie, first baronet of Maxweltown (created 27th March, 1685), by his second wife, a daughter of Riddell of Minto, by whom also he had three sons. Annie Laurie, however, was not sufficiently charmed by the chivalrous affection displayed by Mr Douglass in his poem, for she gave her heart and hand to Mr Alexander Ferguson of Craigdarroch, The line connecting the celebrated beauty with the Eliock family is as follows:-Alexander Ferguson married Annie Laurie, and Robert Ferguson, their second son, married Clementine Douglas of Dornock; and their daughter, Philadelphia Ferguson, married Thomas Loughnan, and had four daughters. Of these sisters-great-grand-daughters of Annie Laurie-the eldest married Sir Charles Stuart Menteith of Closeburn; the second married Colonel Henry Veitch of Eliock; the third was the wife of the well-known Sir Sydney Beckwith; and the fourth married Major John Jamieson.