1792' manoirs of the earl cf Marr. 99 



Lord Marr had pafsed over into Ireland, as soon as 

 he found it impofsible to remain in Scotland with any 

 advantage to his friends, or safety to himself; and 

 there he made some advantageous conditional pur- 

 chases of estates, looking forward to a change of af- 

 fairs at home. From thence he came over to the 

 court of queen Elizabeth, where, with the other ba- 

 nifhed lords and gentlemen, he was honourably and 

 cordially received. 



As hereditary governor of the castle of Stirling, he 

 was at the head of that patriotic afsociation for the ex- 

 pulsion of Arran, who took pofsefsion of that fortrefs 

 on the 2d of November. For which act of violence, 

 he not only, in common with his afsociates received 

 an indemnity from the king and estates of the king- 

 dom at their meeting of the loth of December, but 

 was re-admitted to the particular confidence and fa- 

 vour of James, who instantly restored to him the 

 castle, and lordfliip of Stirling, together with his 

 estates that had been alinenated, or vested in the 

 crown, in consequence of his attainder. 



Not long after, he bestowed upon Marr, in mar- 

 riage, he being now a widower, the lady Mary Stuart, 

 second daughter of Esme duke of Lennox, the king's 

 kinsman, and unfortunate favourite, of whom Marr 

 had beco^ixe deeply enamoured, not only on account of 

 her beauty but her amiable qualities *. 



• Marr, as was the superstitious custom of the t-imes, had listened to 

 the noncsensc of an Italian conjurer, who Ihewed him a limning of a 

 lady whom he said Marr's future sweet-heart and wife resembled, and 

 .Marr thought he observed these features in the lovely daughter of Len- 

 nox. He hid heard fhe was destined, by the king, for another, and 

 >\j-otc a pliiixtivc letter to James, saying that liis health had even begun 

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