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baety ; in his manners, he was active, sprightly, and 

 witty, affecting much of the poignant manner of his 

 master Buchanan, as he did occasionally to pk^ase the 

 king, the rougher salt of the Stuarts -, and many of his 

 jokes, as well as those of the king, in his company, 

 are repeated in Scotland, which would be improper 

 I for a grave narration. 



On the first day of April 1608, he had executed a 

 last will and testament, whereby, leaving the tuition of 

 the children of his second marriage to their mother, 

 : he gives to his son, the earl of Buchan, the hundred 

 of Ofcham, to relieve him from the incumberance of 

 legacies to his In'others and sisters. To his eldest son, 

 lord Erfkine, he leaves, as a memorial of his particu- 

 lar affection, the bason and laver, set with mother-of- 

 pearls, which he had from queen £,lizabeth J, to re- 

 I main with his house, together with all his silver plate, 

 I and fine, tapestry,, excepting always such part as my 

 I lord of Dryburgh 5, Mr John Preston, the mas- 

 I tet general ||, and my cousin the laird of Dunnipaifs 

 have got. To lord Erflcine, his fairest jewel which he 

 got from Henry the great, king of France, To his 

 I wife, the fine jewel he bought in London from Sir 

 William Lerick. *' Lastly I leive my hairt to my mais- 

 ter the king's majesty, maist houmblie intreating his 

 Inenefs to be a patron to my wyffe, that nane doe her 

 wrong ; as also I leive unto my yonge sueitte maister 



t These arc still preserved entire in the house of Alloa by his heir. 

 § Ancestor of the earl of Buchan. 



I His third son of the sceoml marriage, Sir Alexander Erflcine, blown 

 «p at Dunjjlafi castle, ar.m 1640, and died without jfsu«. 



