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46 BBYN-KINALT— BUCCLEUCH. yoi Wi BRYN-KINALT. See " Trevor of BrtH-Kmalt, co. Denbigh," Barony ; a: 1S80. BUCCLEUCH or SCOTT OF BUCCLEUCH. (») Barony [S.] 1. Sir "Walter Scott of Bueo.leuch and Branxholme, co. Roxburgh, only s. and h. of Sir Walter S. of, the same, by Margaret, da. of David (Douglas), EaSIi ok Angus [S.], b. 156:"), sue. his Father (who d. aged 25) 17 April 1574, being then very oung ; was knighted at the coronation of Ann, the Queen Consort [S.], and was Varden of the West Marches, Keeper of Liddesdale, Sec, 1590 ; and, having taken a leading part in some of the border raids (more especially in an attack on Carlisle Castle) against the English, was in Oct. 1597 surrendered as a prisoner to Queen Eliz. On the accession of James VI. [S.], to England, he distinguished himself in composing the border strifes, and subsequently served in the war in the Netherlands, under Maurice, Princo of Orange. He was, " by a commission " directed to the Viceroy of Scotland, dat. 18 March 1605/6, cr. LORD SCOTT OF BUCCLEUCH [S.] He was P.C. 26 Feb. 1611. He m. (contract 1 Oct, 15S6) "with a tocher of 10,000 merks Scots." Mary, sister of Robert, 1st Earl op Roxburgh [S.], da. of Sir William Ker of Cessford, by Janet, da. of Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig. He d. 15 Dec. 1611 at Branxholm. His wife survived him. II. 1611. 1. Walter (Scott), Lord Scott of Buccleucii IS. J, only s. and h. He commanded a Regiment in the service of Holland Earldom [S.] against the Spaniards. By patent, dat. at Newmarket, 16 March T , „, n 1619, he was a: BARON SCOTT OF QUHITCHESTER (i.e. Whit- L lbIJ - Chester) AND ESKDALLL AND EARL OF BUCCLEUCH [S], with rem. to his heirs male which rem. was, apparently, altered by a subsequent patent or charter, to heirs gen. He l». (contract 11 and 15 Oct. 1616) Mary, da. of Francis (Hay), Earl of Errol [S], by his 3d wife, Elizabeth, da. of William (Douglas), Earl of Morton [S]. She d. at Newark Castle in Yarrow, shortly after the birth, 11 April 1881, of her da. Mary. He d. in London 20 Nov. 1633, and was bur. at Hawick 11 June following, the ship conveying the body having been driven over to Norway in a storm (Fun. entry at Lyon office). [Walter Scott, master of Buecleuch, dyled Lord Scott h. 13 and bap. 20 Nov. 1625 ; d, in childhood, v.p. before 2 April 1629]. Earldom [S.] ~| 2. Francis (Scott), Earl of Buccleucii, &c, jj [S], only surv. s. and h., b. 21 Dec. 1626 ; ed. at St. I Andrew's Univ. 1636-42. On 27 Feb. 1634 he was served — rs 1 r'l®**' h. to his Father in vast estates in the counties of Berwick, » L ' J Dumfries, Edinburgh, Haddington, Lanark, Roxburgh and HI. Selkirk. He possessed the extensive domain of Liddesdale J and acquired the great Barony of Dalkeith, from the family of Douglas of Morton, in 1642, &c. He was so con- spicuously loyal to his King that in the "act of Grace," 12 April 1654 no less a fine tlian £15,000 was imposed by Cromwell on his heirs. He m. (contract at Edinburgh, 25 July 1646), Margaret, widow of James Leslie, styled Lord Balgony, (who d. soon after 1642), sister of John, Duke of Rothes [S]. by Ann, da. of John (Erskine), Earl of Mar [S]. He tl. s.p.m., at Dalkeith Castle, 25 Nov. 1651 in his 25th year. His widow m. 13 Jan. 1652,3 at Sheriffhall (as his 3d wife) David (Wemyss) 2d Earl of Wemyss [S], who d. June 1679. She (/. (his widow) 1088. a A copious account of this family is given in "The Scotts of Buccleucii, by William Fraser," 2 vols., 4to., Edinburgh, 1878. The graphic description by Sir Walter Scott (in his •' Lay nf the. last Minstrel ") of the style of life at Branxholm, refers (apparently) to a time when Janet (Betlmne) relict of Sir Walter Scott (who was slain by Kerr of Cessford in 1552), was holding the castle.