having been wounded in the Leslie-Seyton skirmish in the streets. of Edinburgh. He also writes of a Dick Seyton of Wyndygoul, who was run through the arm by Ralph Leslie in the same encounter, but says two of the Leslies suffered phlebotomy at the same time. He likewise speaks of a Catharine Seyton and a Henry Seyton, twin brother and sister, children of Lord Seyton, both of whom assisted at the escape of Queen Mary from Lochleven Castle, where she was held a prisoner. From Scott's remarks it seems that Catharine and Mary Seyton were one and the same person. He describes her as "a modest young lady of sixteen, with soft and brilliant, deep-blue eyes, well-formed eyebrows, rich wavy tresses, of excellent shape, bordering perhaps on embonpoint, and therefore rather a Hebe than a Sylph, but beautifully formed, with round and taper fingers. She was an attendant of Queen Mary's at Lochleven Castle."

Henry Seyton was described as being a fiery youth, bold and fearless, with laughing full blue eyes, a nose with the slightest possible inclination to be aquiline, of a firm, bold step. He is represented as applying his riding-whip to the shoulders of a lout who stood before him and maintained his position with clownish obstinacy, or stupidity. He was dressed in purple velvet and embroidery. To a maid of the inn he promised a groat to-night and a kiss on Sunday, "when you have on a cleaner kirtle," for some slight service she was to perform for him.

To Adam Woodcock, the falconer of Sir Halbert Glendenning, who offered him a drink, by way of courtesy, and to sing him a song railing at the Pope, he replied: "He who speaks irreverently of the Holy Father of the Church in my presence is the cub of a wolf-bitch, and I will switch him as I would a mongrel cur." And when the singer started in again, Henry struck him a blinding blow across the eyes. He is said to have killed one Dryfesdale, who spoke slightingly of his religion and collared Henry and tried to have him arrested, and was himself killed in the battle of Langside, following the flight from Lochleven Castle, at which time. George Douglas also met his death, as the story goes.

During the time of this Lord Seton, in the year 1539, King James V. came to Edinburgh and from thence removed to Seaton,

where he caused James Hamilton, Sheriff of Linlithgow, to be brought to his trial and the king's court was duly convened there, when the prisoner was convicted of breaking open the royal bedchamber with a design to kill the king, and condemned. head was struck off, his body dismembered, after execution, and the quarters hung up in the public places in Edinburgh. Such was the inhuman practice in England and Scotland in that barbarous age, as we are assured by Buchanan in his History of Scotland.

CHAPTER XI.

“GEORGE, SEVENTH LORD SETON, was born in 1531, and succeeded his father in 1549. It was to this noble and mighty lord' that Maitland dedicated his history of the Seyton Family, begun at the request of his father. He was addicted to horse-racing and to hawking in his youth, and on May 10, 1552, won a silver bell which was run for at Haddington, the county town.

"Before he was twenty he married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, at the time one of the Senators of the College of Justice in Edinburgh Castle, a singular combination of peace and war. She brought him the Manor of Sorn and other lands in Kyle. A number of gold medals were struck to commemorate this union, on account, especially, of the bride's relationship to the Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland and Duke of Chatellerault in France. The medal is now very rare. The Hamiltons have ranked for upward of four hundred years among the most prominent and powerful of the Scottish nobility. "Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar was also Lord-Treasurer to James V., and invited his Majesty to Sorn Castle, in Ayrshire, to be present at the marriage of his daughter to Lord Seton. On the eve of the appointed day the king set out on the journey; but he had to traverse a long and dreary tract of moor, moss, and miry clay, where there was neither road nor bridge; and when about half-way from Glasgow, he rode his horse into a quagmire, and was with difficulty extricated from his perilous seat in the saddle. Far from a house, exposed to the bleak wind of a cold day, and environed on all sides by a cheerless moor, he was compelled to take a cold refreshment in no better position than by the side of a prosaic well.' The well at which he sat and swore is still there, and is called the King's Well; and the quagmire in which his horse floundered is ironically called the King's Stable.

"Soon after coming of age, Lord Seton was elected Provost of Edinburgh, and governed the capital for several tumultuous years with firmness and discretion. On one occasion there was an uproar in the city, whereupon two of the municipal officers hurried out to the Provost at Seton; but he, finding that they were to blame, promptly confined them in his castle dungeon, while he rode into Edinburgh, summoned the guard, and suppressed the riot."

When the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and the Dauphin of France, afterward Francis II., was under consideration, in 1558, eight ambassadors were chosen in Scotland to go over to France to complete the arrangements. Among these was named George Seton, Governor of Edinburgh. Soon after they had embarked a violent gale of wind arose, in which two of the ships were sunk. The rest of the fleet was scattered, but sometime later arrived at different ports in France. The commissioners could not come to any satisfactory agreement with the French court, and were dismissed the court. Before they had time to embark for Scotland, four of their number died, from poisoning as some thought, but George Seton's name does not appear among those who died, and he returned to Scotland, as Buchanan tells the tale. On this occasion we are told that the king made George. Lord Seton, a present of magnificent silver plate, superior to anything seen in Scotland, which, after serving at banquets prepared for royalty at Winton House and Seton Castle, was finally stolen and beaten to pieces or melted down, at the time the castle was plundered in the troublous times of 1715. One of the noteworthy deeds of Lord Seton was the bringing of the first coach to Scotland when the Queen returned from France.

After the marriage of Mary Stuart and Francis II. was finally consummated, Lord Seton was sent to England to present Queen Mary's portrait to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, and was entertained in a sumptuous manner at the English court. He also went to France to accompany Queen Mary back to Scotland after her husband had died, and she made him one of her Privy Council, and appointed him Master of the Household. He was also a knight of the most noble Order of the Thistle.

In June, 1567, Queen Mary and Bothwell, with several lords, who had answered their unhappy sovereign's appeal, and a considerable force assembled for battle, marching along gathering friends and distributing arms among her subjects as she went. Before night they reached Seton, but, there being so many of them, they could not all be quartered there, so they divided their numbers, some going to each of two neighboring villages.

On various parts of his castle he inscribed, as representing his religious and political creed, the following French legend:

"Un Dieu, un Foy, un Loy."

Robert Seton gives a slightly different rendering of this inscription, as follows:

"Un Dieu, Une Foy, Un Roy, Une Loy."

He is said to have declined to be promoted to an earldom which Queen Mary offered him at the same time she advanced her natural brother to be Earl of Mar. On refusing this honor, Mary wrote or caused to be written, according to Chambers, the following lines. in Latin and French:

"Sunt comites, decesque alii, sunt denique regis,
Setoni dominum sit sates esse mithi.

Il a des comptes, des roys, des duces, ainsi

C'est assez pour moy d'estre Seigneur Seton."

Which was rendered by Sir Walter Scott as follows:

'Earl, duke or king, be thou that list to be;

Seton, thy lordship is enough for me."

Robert Seton says this inscription was written by Mary, herself, with her diamond ring, upon a window of the great hall called Sampson's Hall, at Seton.

Lord "Seyton" was described by Sir Walter Scott in "The Abbot" as he appeared at his castle after the encounter with the Leslies in the streets of Edinburgh, as a tall man whose dark hair was already grizzled, though his eye and haughty features retained all the animation of youth. On that occasion the upper part of his person was undressed to his Holland shirt, whose ample folds