4 Memoirs of the Earl of Marr. yatt.^.- 



killed at tlie surprise of Stirling castle 1578, 1 no- 

 mas, who became a great favourite of the king's, 

 and was supposed to save him from Cowrie's afsaf- 

 sination, was made Viscount Fenton and Earl of 

 Kelly, and after the king went to London, a knight 

 c£ the garter, George became one of the Lords^ 

 of sefsion or Scotch judges, and living to a good 

 old age, used to recount many of the little anecdotes 

 of the royal college at Stirling, to his grandson the 

 learned Earl of Cromarty ; by whom they were 

 im-parted to Dr George Mackenzie, author of the 

 lives and characters of the most eminent writers 

 of the Scotch nation ; a book, which thoxigh loaded 

 with extraneous matter, contains many authentic 



king in the struggle, killed the poor fparrow. Buchanan gave the 

 king a box on the ear for his. tyranny and crueky I 



Would to God we had a breed of Buchanans, to train young prin- 

 ces to humanity and justice ! Mackenzie's lives. 



After the appointment of Morton to the regency, the Lords of the se- 

 «ret council by the admonition of the estates of Parliament, gave a charge 

 to Alexander Erskine, the late regent's brother, the original of which, 

 is in the archives of the family of Marr at Alloa castle, wherein are 

 the following decrees and admonitions : " That the faid Alexander 

 ke himself, and the friends of the young Earl of Mar his nephew, for 

 quilks he sail be answerable, sail keip the castel of Striveling, in 

 name, and to the use and behufe of our Sovereign Lord; and sail 

 alswa surely and faithfully, keip and observe the maist nobill person 

 of his Hienefs within the said castle, at the devotion of his said present 

 regent, his Hienefe continuing as afore, under the noriture of the l.idy 

 Countefee of Marr his Majesty's govemante, as toward his mouthe 

 and ordering of his person, &c. And that the instruction and educa- 

 tion of our said sovereign Lord on literature and religion, under 

 Mais'ers George Buchanan and Peter Voung his present pedagogis, or 

 such as sail hereaftir be appointit be the said Lord Regent, agreeing 

 in religion with the said George and Peter, as it is approvit in Parlia- 

 ment, and usit in the said castdl, &£- (Sc^ 



