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MONMOUTH. 333 took place two months later) was as "Sir James Scott" er., 11 Feb. 1602/3, BARON SCOTT OF TINDALL.(a) co. Northumberland, EARL OF DONCASTER, co. York, and DUKE OF MONMOUTH ;() II. A. o£ Cambridge (per tit. reg.), 16 March 1662/3, being incorp. at Oxford, 28 Sep. following; K.G., 2S March, being inst., 22 April 16(53. Having »»., 20 April 1663, at the house of her stepfather, the Ravi of Wewyaa [S.], in London, Anne, suo jure COUNTESS OF BUCGLEUCH [S.] (who was b. 11 Feb. 1661, at Dundee, and who sue. to that dignity 12 March 1660/1), he and she were <y., on the day of their marriage, LORD AND LADY SCOTT OF WHITCHESTER AND ESKDALE, EARL AND COUNTESS OF DALKEITH, and DUKE AND DUCHESS OF EUCCLEUCH [S.] ; P.O., 1670.( c ) In 1672-73 he was in command of the British Auxiliaries sent to France, and was Lieut. Gen. in the French army, distinguishing himself at the capture of Maestricbt from the Dutch. He was also in 1672 Ambassador to Paris and Utrecht, Chief Justice in Eyre, south of Trent, 1073-79 ; Great Chamberlain [SJ for life, 1073 ; Lord Lient. of the East Riding, 1673-79; Master of the Horse, 167-1-79; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1074-82; Lord Lieut, of Staffordshire, 1077-79; was in command of the British Auxiliaries sent to Flanders, in 1078, and of the forces sent to Scotland in 1679 where, 22 July 1679, he defeated the Covenanters at Bothwell bridge. P.O. [8.1 1079. In that year, however, he was deprived of all his offices (other than those for life), and ordered to leave tile kingdom. Soon after the accession of James II., he landed, 11 June 1085, at Lyme, iu Dorset, and assumed the title of King. His forces were routed, 6 July following, at Sedgemore.f 1 ) and he was captured three days afterwards when, having been attainted on the IS June of high treason, he was executed IS July 1085, in his 37th year, on lower Hill, and bur. in the chapel of St. Peter's ad viucula.( u ) His English honours, the Dukedom of Monmouth, the Earldom of Doneatter and the Barony of Seutt of TimUill became accordingly forfeited, but the Scotch peerages enjoyed, suo jure, by his widow, were not affected. This lady long survived him. See under " Buc'CLEUCU " Dukedom [S.], cr. 1663. [Charles Scott, styled Earl of Doncasteu, s. ami h. ap. ; b. 24 Aug. 1672, and'rf. 9 Feb. 1673/1.] [Jambs Scott, 4yled Earl of Doncaster till (the for- } S^P feiture of his father), 168f>, being subsequently styled E.uu. OF Dalkkitii, I ^ Bjj 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. ; b. 23 May 1671; </. before his mother, | 'Jisn 11 March 1704/5.] J ignores her mother) makes her the da. of Richard Walter, said to have assumed the name of Barlow, who was said to be son of [an undoubted] linger Walter, of Haver- fordwest, living with issue in 1609, tho', at that date, he had no son named Richard ; while another makes her " b. at Bos Market, about five miles from Haverfordwest," being da. of " Richard Walter, Esq., of Roch and Trefran, co. Pembroke," by "Bridget, da. of Henry Midleton, of Midleton Hall, co. Carmarthen, Esq. ;" but see also Howard's " Mis. Gen. ct Her.," 2d s., vol. iv, p. 204, where a nearly con- temporary (168-1) pedigree by J. F. Van Basseu, goes fully into her ancestry, making her da. of William Walters, of Roche Castell, co. Pembroke, by Elizabeth, da. of John Protheroe, of Hawkesbrook, co. Carmarthen, Master of the Requests. It is not very clear why she was generally known as " Mrs. Barlow." She was living in Paris in July 16oO. ami is believed to have died soon afterwards. ('•') In Sir William Kraser's Scotts of Bucclcmli" it is stated that in the original warrant, 10 Nov. 1002, the designation of this Barony was "of Fotheringay. " ( b ) Pepys, in his diary, 2 Feb. 1662/3, says that the Duke of Monmouth was to have precedence of the Duke of Buckingham anil all other Dukes. He speaks of him in 1665 as " the most skittish, leaping gallant that ever I saw." (<■') At some date between 1674 and 1686 the King gave licence to all his natural sons to be called " PiU Hoy," a privilege of which apparently the Duke of Monmouth, the Duke of Richmond, and the Earl of Plymouth, did not avail themselves. See vol. ii, p. 2S5, note " d," tub •' Cleveland." See " N. <fc Q," 1st S, I, 427, as to the possible whereabouts of some of the Monmouth correspondence. (•-') He had six Children all born between 1 672 and 1 678. but subsequently he deserted his wife for Henrietta, suo jure Baroness Wentworth, to whom he considered himself as lawfully married before God and who survived him but a few month?. 1 3 « a 1 o 3 O t. v 3 ' M