1792' Memoirs of the Earl of Marr. 4 j 



In the beginning of September the king sent for 

 Marr, and laboured to reconcile him to Lennox and 

 his measures ; but Marr not only left the king with- 

 out listening to his proposals, but carried the heads' 

 of his party and family to Bowes, and received from 

 him the support that was allowed by Elizabeth, ta 

 the heads of opposition to the popifh faction *» 

 Bowes to Burleigh, fd. 75. Sept. 22. 



her party, with a view to prevent the returning kindnefs of the king 

 to Marr, had displaced Murray of Tullybardin, and all the connectibns 

 of the house of Erskine from the king's household, and filled their 

 places with their dependants. That the Kens of Cefsford and 

 Newbottle, and the Humes were induced, from the fear of los'ng 

 their church lands of Kelso, Newbottle and Coldingham to forsake 

 the interest of Morton and the prote'stant confederacy in the counsels 

 •f queen Elizabeth. 



* It may be doubted by affected pnides in politics, how far the 

 opponents of a dangerous faction, in the court of a foolifh or tyranni- 

 i. U prince, may be honest in receiving pecuniary aid from a foreign 

 power, to support that cause which they esteem to be of the highest 

 importance to the safety of the commonwealth, and to the liberties of 

 the people ; and Sidney and Rufsel have been taxed, by the enemies 

 •f Englifh freedom on this account. For my own part I am free to 

 declare, that there are many cases, and I think this was one o^ them, 

 in which an honest and virtuous man may use the pecuniary aid of a 

 foreign prince, to save a nation from bondage and destruction. [Tha 

 doctrine here advanced, is of a very doubtful nature. Edit.} 



On the last Wednesday of September, Mr John Dury, minister 0$ 

 Edinburgh, gave a blast from the pulpit agai'.ist Lennox, the king be- 

 ing present; and on tlie next Sunday, Lawson gave one still more vi- 

 olent; so that Lennox was intimidated, and prepared to send his 

 wife beyond s^as. This lady, Cathar'-.ne dc Balxac d''Jltttragnci, was 

 of a very noble and ancient family in Auvergne, in the Angumois cf 

 France, situated on the river Charante. See Moreris Diet. Of this, 

 fimjly, and the neice of the ducliefs of Lennox, was the beautiful 

 Mademoiselle Balz:ic, mistrcfs of Henry iv. by whom he had the 

 Due deVcrncuil; and Gabrela Angelica the wife of the duke d'Esger- 

 nop, Cf. 



