which it severely fractured. He lingered till the following day. His death took place on the 27th March, 1822, and his remains were interred at Auchinleck. In the following verses, John Goldie, an Ayrshire poet, celebrated his obsequies:— “O! heard you the trumpet sound sad on the gale, O! heard you the voice of weeping and wail? O! saw you the horsemen in gallant array, As in sorrow and silence they moved on their way. “The people’s deep wailing, the trumpet’s shrill tone, Were the breathings of sorrow for him that is gone; And yon dark plumes of death that did mournfully wave, Deck’d the bier that bore on their lov’d chief to the grave. “When the train of lone mourners arrived at the path, That leads to the desolate mansions of death, O! marked you each horseman lean sad on his sword, When the corse slowly passed of the chief he adored. “And mark’d you each manly heart heave with a sigh; And mark’d you the tear-drop that gush’d in each eye Of those who were robed in the garments of woe, When they saw him in Death’s dreary mansion laid low. “Thy halls, Auchinleck! are all desolate now, Aye! roll on in sorrow, in solitude flow; For low lies thy bard who so sweetly did sing,— Thy chieftain so true to his country and king.”[102] Sir Alexander married in November, 1799, Grace, fifth daughter of Thomas Cumming, banker, Edinburgh, representative of the ancient family of Erenside. By this marriage he became father of one son and three daughters. Grace Theresa, the eldest daughter, married Sir William Francis Eliott, Bart., of Stobs, and became mother of the present baronet, with other issue. Grace Jane died in childhood, and Margaret Emily, the youngest daughter, is wife of Major-General Vassall, and resides at Balhary, Perthshire. James, only son of Sir Alexander Boswell, was born in December, 1806. He studied at Brazenose College, Oxford, and after succeeding to Auchinleck resided chiefly on his estate. In 1830 he espoused his cousin, Jessie Jane, elder daughter of Sir James Montgomery Cunningham, Bart., of Corsehill; of which marriage were born two daughters. In 1850, Sir James Boswell instituted a legal process to prove the invalidity of the Auchinleck entail. He was opposed by Thomas Alexander Boswell, of Crawley Grange, next heir-male, but it was held by the judges that as the material word “irredeemably” was written upon an erasure, the entail was inoperative.[103] Relieved from the settlement of 1776, Sir James Boswell bequeathed Auchinleck to his two daughters as co-heiresses. Sir James died in 1857 when the baronetcy became extinct. Julia, his elder daughter, married George Mounsey, solicitor, Carlisle, some time mayor of that city. Emily Harriet, the younger daughter, married in 1873, the Hon. Richard Wogan Talbot, eldest son of Lord Talbot de Malahide.