5i8 CRAWFORD XIV. 1623. 14. George (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], and^) but ist surv. s. and h., served h. to his br. 1 1 Apr. or I Aug. 161 5. He "sold Finhaven and the tombs of his ancestors" to his cousin, Lord Spynie [S.], and served abroad as " Col. of a Foot Company of Dutch " under Gustavus of Sweden. He m. (cont. dat. 2 1 May 1 621) Elizabeth, da. of George (Sinclair), 5th Earl of Caithness [S.], by Jean, da. of George (Gordon), 5th Earl of Huntly [S.]. He d. s.p.m.,{^) 1633, being "basely killed" by a Lieut, of his own regt., and was i?ur. at Staten, in Germany. XV. 1633. 15. Alexander (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], br. of the half-blood and h. male, being s. of the 13th Earl by his 2nd wife. He was a minor in 1617; first sat in Pari. [S.] in 1633. He d. unm., 1639, before 29 Aug., being "frantic" or insane. XVL 1639. ^6- Ludovic (Lindsay), Earl of Crawford [S.], br. and h., only surv. s. of the 13th Earl, was served h. to Earl David, his "patruus," 24 Aug. 1639. He, who was called "ike loyal Ear/," served, when young, in the Spanish service, but returned to support his own King in or before 1640. He (aided by Montrose) appears to have been chief contriver of the plot called "the Incident," whereby the leading Covenanters (Hamilton, Argyll, <yc.) 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 on that condition) induced him to surrender the Earldom of Crawford, 15 Jan. 164 1/2, into the King's hands at Windsor, receiving it back, with a new destination, viz. (i) 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.() When war was proclaimed, he joined the King at Nottingham, 25 Aug. 1642, fought at the head of his regt. at Edgehill, 23 Oct. following, at Lansdowne, 5 July, and at Newbury, 20 Sep. 1643. Early in 1644 he joined Montrose in an attempt on Dumfries, for which he was excommunicated, 26 Apr. 1644, and after having been defeated at Marston Moor on 2 July, sentence of forfeiture was pronounced against him by Pari. [S.], 26 July 1644, and the Earldom of Crawford was propelled and ratified to the Earl of Lindsay (as t/ten belonging to him) under the remainder of i642.() In Oct. 1644 he (^) His elder br.. Sir John Lindsay, who had been cr. K.B. at the Coronation of James I in 1603, and who m. (cont. 8 Dec. 1607) Jean, da. of George (Abernethy), Lord Saltoun, d. v.p., in 161 5, leaving 2 daughters. () Lady Margaret Lindsay, his only child, b. 3 Nov. 1625, d. unm. 1655, in Caithness. Will dat. 24 May 1655. (■=) See ante, p. 516, note "a." (^) "An assumption of authority on their part, to which they were confessedly incompetent." {Lives of the Lindsays).
