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countrymen, Gray and Carlisle, to assassinate the unfortunate 

 English swordsman. For this atrocious act he was tried at 

 the bar of the King's Bench in Westminster, found guilty, and 

 sentenced to be hanged. Great interest was made to procure 

 his pardon, but in vain, and he was hung June 29, 161 2, on 

 a gibbet erected in Great Palace Yard, before the gates of 

 Westminster Hall. William, 7th Lord Crichton, who was 

 advanced to the title of Viscount Air, at Newmarket, February 

 2, 1622, entertained James I. at Sanquhar Castle, in July, 1617, 

 during the royal progress in Scotland. In addition to the 

 viscounty conferred upon this Scot, he was further advanced 

 to the dignity of Earl of Dumfries, when Charles I. visited 

 Scotland in 1633, by patent dated Douglas, June 12, in 

 that year. John Patrick Crichton Stuart, K.T., LL.D., the 

 present Marquis of Bute, is the 8th Earl of Dumfries and 

 Viscount Air, having succeeded his maternal great-grand- 

 father in the latter titles, and now represents this Newmarket 

 creation. 



^^ Lord Jedburgh was half-brother of the deposed favour- 

 ite, Robert, Earl of Somerset, and the only son and heir of 

 Sir Thomas Kerr (or Carr), of P"ernihurst, by his first marriage. 

 Sir Andrew had been a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber 

 in Scotland, having been appointed to that office in 1591. 

 He was succeeded by his son James, with whose son Robert 

 the 3rd lord, the male line of the eldest branch of the 

 family terminated in 1692. This title then devolved, pur- 

 suant to an entail made in 1670, on William, Lord Newbottle, 

 son and heir-apparent of Robert, 4th earl, and afterwards 

 Marquess of Lothian, Lord Jedburgh's nearest heir male, and 

 Schomberg-Henry, the 9th and present Marquess of Lothian, 

 now represents this Newmarket creation. 



Another royal visit to Newmarket occurred in the 

 month of November, the court having left 1622. 

 Hampton Court about October 5, and, with- November. 

 out passing through London, the royal party pro- 



