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5i6 CRAWFORD Mary, who, on 22 Mar. 1564/5, restored the right of succession to the line of Edzel], as in the deeds of 1546 and I474.(^) On 29 July 1565, he was Cupbearer to the Queen at her marriage, and was one of the faithful few who rallied around her at the battle of Langside in 1568, but submitted to the ruling party in 1570. Member of the Privy Council, taking his seat 29 Oct. 1565. He ?»., with great pomp, at Finhaven (cont. 10 Apr. 1546), Margaret (whose dowry was 4,000 marks), illegit. da. of the celebrated David Bethune, Cardinal Archbishop of St. Andrew's, by Marion, da. of James, ist Lord Ogilvie of Airlie [S.]. She surv. him. He d. at Finhaven, or at Cairnie, shortly before i Nov. 1574, and was bur. at Dundee. Will pr. 25 July 1579. XI. 1574. II. David (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], s. and h., b. about 1557. He was, though "ane princely man, a sad spendthrift." He was P.C. from 28 Oct. 1575; was involved in a fray, 17 Mar. 1577/8, in which the Chancellor [S.] John (Lyon), 8th Lord Glamis [S.] (a family always hostile to that of Lindsay), was slain. He, the Earl of Arran (Lieut, of the Realm), and the Earl of Montrose, were the only Peers with the King, when, i Nov. 1584, he fell into the hands of the insurgent Lords at "the raid of Stirling." On 11 Sep. 1587 he was made Hereditary Constable of Brechin. In 1588 he joined the faction to make the King of Spain supreme over Scotland, and, in 1589, with 2 other Catholic Earls (Huntly and Erroll), rose in rebellion in the North, but though he fell into the King's hands, was pardoned and allowed safe conduct through England to France in 1590. He w., istly, at Perth, 12 Feb. 1572/3 (cont. dat. previous day), Lilias, da. of David (Drummond), 2nd Lord Drummond [S.], by his 2nd wife, Lilias, da. of William (Ruthven), 2nd Lord Ruthven [S.], receiving with her 10,000 marks. This lady, soon afterwards, he sent home in disgracejC') where she died. He »?., 2ndly (cont. dat. 1581, reg. 18 Jan. 1583), Dec. 1581, Grizell, 4th da. of John (Stewart), 4th Earl of Atholl [S.], by his 2nd wife, Margaret, da. of Malcolm (Fleming), 3rd Lord Fleming [S.]. He d. at Cupar, in Fife, either early in Oct. or 22 Nov.() 1607, aged ^c^., and was bur. at Dundee. (^) The entail of 1546 was renewed in 1589, and continued in force till 1642, when it was superseded, on the resignation of the 16th Earl, in favour of John, Lord Lindsay of Byres [S.] and the heirs male of his body, whereby the line of Byres " were interpolated between the [Lords Spynie] descendants of the wicked Master and the line of Edzell," whose succession to the Earldom was "thus unjustly postponed for two centuries," i.e. 1642 to (1808, or, rather, till its acknowledgment) 1848. (^) See the ballad thereon in Lives of the Lindsays, edit. 1849, ^° '> P- 47^, where the reason given is her having made a light jest as to the paternity of her child, a son who d. young. (') In Diet. Nat. Biog. it is pointed out that in the Privy Council Register (vol. vii, p. 448) of 15 Oct. 1607, his son is spoken of as "now Earl of Crawford," but the 1st edit, of this work, and the recent Scots Peerage give the date of death as