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2 Jketch of the life of lord Cardrofs. Sept. 4. 
very of king Charles the first to the army of the 
Englith parliament, at Newcastle, in the year 1646; 
and he educated his son in the same principle of ho- 
nour and fidelity to the laws and personal engage- 
ments, without which no character can be respec- 
table. 
The subject of this’ fhort memoir was born at 
Cardrofs in Perthfhire, the family seat, antiently 
the rural residence of the abbots of Inchme-homoe. 
‘The elementary part of his education was conduct- 
ed at Edinburgh ; and from thence he was sent to 
study at Leyden under the most eminent profefsors. 
Afterwards he travelled for some time on the con- 
tinent, but more witha view to acquire useful know- 
ledge, than to admire the splendour of courts, or 
partake of fafhionable amusements. 
On his coming of age in the year 1671, he re- 
turned home, and soon after married Katherine Stew- 
art, daughter of Sir James, and grand daughter of 
Sir Lewis Stewart, lord justice general of Scotland. 
The same year his father died, and from the politia 
cal complexion of the times, he was forced to take a 
part in the opposition to the arbitrary measures .of 
the Landerdale administration. On this account 
the fhare he had of the illegal and cruel opprefsion 
of the times, are fully set forth in Wodrow and 
Cruikfhanks, their narratives of those unhappy dis- 
putes; and are unnecefsary to be repeated in this — 
place. Itis sufficient to mention that for the bap- 
tism, of his son (afterwards earl of Buchan,) by a 
clergymam of the prefbyteriau communion, he was 
forced to pay a fine of great amount, and for suffers 
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