William Kerr (born c. 1605, died October 1675) was the son of Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancrum, and in 1631 he was created Earl of Lothian. In that year he had married Anne, Countess of Lothian in her own right, and there was some litigation about the title. The Earl was at the Battle of Newbury in 1643; he was Governor of Newcastle, and a man of much political importance. He was a Commissioner of the Treasury in Scotland, and Lieutenant-General of the Scottish army in Ireland. In 1642 he went to France for the purpose of considering the position of the Scottish Guard at the French Court. Lord Lothian was one of the commissioners sent by the Scottish Parliament to protest against the proceedings against Charles I., and he also served on several of the commissions which were appointed about that time concerning the Restoration of Charles II. [Illustration] KINNEAR, JOHN GARDINER _Arms._--Quarterly. 1st and 4th; sa., on a bend or, 3 martlets vert., a bordure of the second. _Kinnear._ 2nd and 3rd; arg., on a fret gu., 4 hearts, one in each angle, gu., and in every interstice a rose of the second. _Gardiner._ _Crest._--An anchor in pale az. _Motto._--SPEM FORTUNA ALIT. [BANNATYNE CLUB. _The Palice of Honour._ Edinburgh, 1827.] John Gardiner Kinnear was a banker of Edinburgh. He was a member of the Bannatyne Club, to which he was admitted in 1826. The Kinnears were well known as a family of bankers, and they also had literary tastes. The particular book from which I have taken the accompanying coat-of-arms is one that was presented to the Bannatyne Club in 1827, and reprinted in that year for Mr. J. G. Kinnear. The text is taken from a rare book written by Gawyn Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, called _The Palice of Honour_, and "Imprentit at Edinburgh be Johne Ros, for Henric Charteris, Anno 1579." [Illustration] LAUD, WILLIAM, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY _Arms._--Impaled. Dexter: Az., an archiepiscopal staff, headed with a cross pattée or, surmounted by a pall arg., charged with 4 crosses pattée fitchée sa., fringed and edged or. _See of Canterbury._ Sinister: Sa., on a chevron or, between 3 estoiles of 6 points of the second, as many crosses pattée fitchée gu. _Laud._ [LAUD. _A relation of the Conference between William Lawd ... and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite, etc._ London, 1639.]