CRAWFORD. XVI. 1G39. 1G. Lrnovic (Lindsay), Earl or Crawford [S.], br. and h., yst. and only surv. s. of the 13th Ear), was served h. to Kail David, bis " palruiis," 24 Aug, 1039. lie, who was called "the loi/td Earl," served, when young, in the Spanish service, hut returned to support hit own King in or before 1010. He (aided by Montrose) appear* to have been the chief of the plot called ,; the Incident," whereby the leading Covenanters (Hamilton, Argylo, Ac.) were to have been captured, but the plot being discovered, Crawford was imprisoned and his life in danger. He was, however, soon afterwards released by the influence, apparently, of his cousin, the Earl of Lindsay [S.], a leading Covenanter, who had (probably ou that condition) induced him to surrender the Earldom, of Crawford, 15 Jan. 1612, into the King's hands at Windsor, receiving it back, with a new destination, viz. (1) to Earl Ludovic and the heirs male of his body (2), to the Earl of Lindsay in like manner, failing whom (3) to the heirs male collateral of the said Earl Ludovic.( a ) When war was proclaimed, he joined the King at Nottingham, 25 Aug. 1642, fought at the head of his regiment at Edgehill, 23 Oct. following, at Lans- dowue, 5 July, and at Newbury, 20 Sep. 1013. Early in 1014 he joined Montrose in an attempt on Dumfries, for which he was excommunicated, 20 April 1014, and after having been defeated at Marston Moor on 2 July, sentence of forfeiture was pro- nounced against him by Pari. [8.1, 26 July 1644, and the Earldom of Crawford was propelled and ratified to the Earl of Lindsay (as then belougiug to hiui) under the remainder of 1612.( b ) In Oct 1641 be was token prisoner at Newcastle, carried to Edinburgh, and condemned to death, but was released after the battle of Kilsyth, Aug. 1645, being, however, excepted from pardon by the articles of Westm., 11 July 1040. In Aug. 1646 he escaped to Spain. He m. before 5 Oct. 1043, Margaret, widow of Alexander Stewart, styled Lord Garlies (who d. 103S), da. of William (Graham), Earl ok Menteth [SJ, by Margaret Moubray. his spouse. He d. s.p. certainly before 1G63, and, in all probability, in France in 1052. XVII. 1652. 17. John (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford PS.], Earl of Lindsay [S., 1033], Lord Lindsay of the Byres [S., 1445], and Lord Parbroath [S., 1633], cousin, though not heir male,( c ) but who, under the regrant o£ 1842 (abovementioned), sue. to the Earldom of Crawford,^) and who, since 1644, bad under a decree of Pari., 26 July 1644, abovementioned, said to have propelled to him the Earldom of Crawford), called himself " Earl of v'rairfmd-Lindsuij, as did also his successors. He was s. and h. of Robert (Lindsay), 9th Lonn Lindsay ok the Byres [S.], by Christian,', 0 ) da. of Thomas (Hamilton), 1st Earl ok Haddinoton [S.] Hewas b. about 1598, sue. his father 9 July 1616. Her. Steward of the Regality of St. Andrew's, 1618. During the King's visit to Scotland he was, 8 May 1633, cr. EARL OF LINDSAY(f) and LORD PARBROATH [S.] to him and his heirs male, bearing the. (») See p. 414, note " c." ( b ) " An assumption of authority on their part, to which they were confessedly in- competent." See " Lives of Lindsays." ( c ) Such heir was George (Lindsay), 3rd Lord Spynie [S.], in whom the remnant of the Crawford estate vested, but on his death s.p. iu 1071, the heirship passed to Lindsay of Edzell, who, to avoid liability for Spynie's debts, " renounced the succession." David Lindsay of Edgell claimed the Earldom (as heir male of the grantee) in 1685. On the extinction of the line of Lindsay of Edzell, iu 1744, the representation passed to James (Lindsay), 5th Earl of Balcarres, whose son (the Gth Earl) became, in 1308, entitled as such representative to the Earldom of Crawford. (i) See his (very distant) relationship to the last Earl iu tabular pedigree, p. 410, note " d." («) As "son of the celebrated Lady Christian Hamilton, better known by the name of her second husband as Lady Boyd, he had sucked in the tenets of Presbyterianism with his mother's milk, independently of the heritage of similar traditions derived from his paternal ancestry." See " Lives of the Lindsays." ( f ) " John, Lord Lindsay," Bays Sir James Dalrymple, in anno 1633, was the first Lord in the Rolls of Pari., and there being a question of precedency betwixt the Lords of Pari, and the Earl's eldest sons (anciently called Masters, and then Lords according to the custom of England) the decision being in favour of the latter, the Lord Lindsay was cr. an Earl, as Earl of Lindsay. See " Lives of the Lindsays." It is to be observed that at the decreet of ranking, " Lindsay " is the first Barony, followed by (2) Forbes (3), Glamis (4), Fleming (5) Saltoun, &c.
