392 COMPLETE PEERAGE balneil attainted (^) and sentenced to death on i Aug. 1746. On 18 Aug. 1746 he and the said Earl of Kilmarnock were beheaded on Tower Hill, and bur. in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula there. He m. Margaret, da. of Capt. Chalmers. He d. s.p. 18 Aug. 1746 (as afsd.) in his 58th year, whereby the issue male of the ist Lord Balmerinoch failed, and the Peerage of Balmerinoch [S.], which had a few days previously been attainted, became extinct ; while that of Coupar [S.] would possibly, subject to the attainder, have passed to the h. male collateral of the ist Lord Balmerinoch. (**) His widow d. 24 Aug. 1765, in her 56th year, in poverty, at Restalrig. BALMORE i.e. " Badenoch, Lochaber, Strathavon, Balmore £s?c., " Barony [S.] {Gordon), cr. 1684, with the Dukedom of Gordon [S.], which see ; extinct 1836. BALQUHIDDER, or BALWHIDDER
- .^. "Balquhidder, " Viscountcy [S.], {Murray), cr. 1676, with the
Marquessate of Atholl [S.], which see. i.e. "Balwhidder, " Viscountcy [S.], {Murray), cr. 1703, with the Dukedom of Atholl [S.], which see. BALRATH i.e. " Balrath, " Barony [1.] {Aylmer), cr. 171 8 with the Barony of Aylmer [I.], which see. BALNEIL
- .^. "Lindsay and Balneil, " Barony [S.] {Lindsay), cr. 1 651, with
the Earldom of Balcarres [S.], which see. highest intrepidity, even to indifference. At the bar he behaved like a soldier and a man : in the intervals of form, with carelessness and humour. He pressed extremely to have his wife, the pretty Peggy, with him in the Tower. " Another zealous Hanoverian contemporary is constrained to even warmer praise : — " Thus fell Lord Balmerino, a man of the most incredible courage, the most commendable sincerity, and the most engaging simplicity, who was an honour to the worst cause, and would have been an ornament to the best. " His dying speech on the scaffold ran : — " I am afraid there are some here who may think my behaviour bold : it arises from a just confidence in God, and from a clear conscience. " It seems pitiful to have shed the blood of this truly noble loyalist, especially after the absolute failure of the Rising ; but neither generosity nor mercy were to be looked for from the " unco wee bit Garman thing " then on the throne. V.G. C) For a list of the Scots Peerages forfeited after this and the previous Rising, see Appendix E in this volume. C) See note sub John, Lord Coupar [1669].
