PERSONAL NARRATIVES BY HIS BROTHERS, THE HON. ROBERT, COLIN, JAMES, JOHN, AND HUGH LINDSAY; IN THREE VOLUMES.-VOL. II. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1849. 13-406227 SECT. I. Sir David Lindsay, first Lord Balcarres-his character- an era of peace and advancing civilization - his education abroad - his library his pursuits, scientific and literary ---- friendship with Drummond of Haw- thornden - decay of the old Scottish language and literature- his wife, Lady Sophia Seyton- the family circle- death of Sir David's daughter, Margaret - his other children — character of his eldest son, Alexander Master of Balcarres - Lord Balcarres' letter to him on returning to - SECT. II. Commencement of the troubles the cloud like a man's hand rising --- treated with contempt subscription of the National Covenant, Lord Lindsay one of the leaders abolition of Episcopacy - Charles and the Covenanters meet in arms at Dunselaw SECT. III. Marriage of the Master of Balcarres with Lady Anna MacKenzie, death of David Lord Balcarres, 1641 his character letter from Lord Lauderdale to Alexander Lord Bal- Page SECT. I. The last descendants of the Wicked Master David the twelfth or Prodigal Earl of Crawford - Henry the thirteenth Earl, and his three sons, George, Alexander, and Ludovic, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth Earls of Crawford - the seven young Crawford cousins thirty years' – Alexander second Lord Spynie — gradual aggrandisement of the Lindsays of the Byres character of John Earl of Lindsay, their repre- sentative - Crawford and Spynie loyalists, Balcarres and Lindsay Co- |