142 Memoirs of the carlipf Marr. "Jatu 2'- 



SKETCH OF THE LIFE 



yOHN EARL OF MARK, 



( Continued from p. io<}. and concluded.) 



On the 17th of December 1615, on the fall of Ker, 

 earl of Somerset, the king gave his white stalf, as trea- 

 surer of Scotland, to the carl uf Marr, which he kept 

 for more than fifteen years, when, being old and infirm, 

 he voluntarily resigned it into the hands of the king, 

 who conferred it on the earl of Morton. 



As the part IVLut bore in his negotiation v/ith Cecil, 

 i:i concert and commifsion with the lord Bruce of 

 Klnlofs, has found its way into several publications, 

 and collections of state papers, I have forborne to 

 swell this memoir with an account of it, and fhall con- 

 clude v/ith observing, ihat the good old earl lived seve- 

 ral years after his retreat from the court, at his castle 

 of Alloa, in the county of Clackmannan, and ad- 

 dicted himself to study, and rural solacements, having 

 marrifcd his four daughters to the earls of Marishall, 

 Rothes, Strathmore, and Haddington, and cstabliihcd 

 al' his sons in very honourable situation?. 



He died at his house, as governor cf Stirling castle, 

 being the mefsuage of his lordfhip of Stirling, on the 

 14th day of December 1634; and was solemnly inti:rrc4> 

 with a concourse of his family and friends attcmliiig, 

 in the ch;ipel of the family at Alloa, on the 7th! 

 cf April 1635. In his persf>n, as appears from an otU 

 ginal portrait by Cornelius Jansen, as well as by'cne 

 by George Jamesone, he appears to have had a ilirewd 

 and animated countenance^ and well-proporlioiK 



