[5] Service of the Earl of Eglintoun, p. 8. [6] Buchan's Account of the Earls Marischal, p. 125. [7] Eglinton Case. [8] Patten, p. 52. [9] Patten, p. 54. Life of the Earls Marischal, p. 130. [10] Reay's History of the Late Rebellion. Dumfries, 1718. [11] Reay, p. 139. [12] Now of Sir Charles Stuart Menteath, Bart. [13] Reay, p. 184. [14] Id. [15] Id. p. 211. [16] Reay, p. 257. [17] Patten, pp. 224-235. Colonel Hooke's Negotiations. [18] In the Life of Lord Derwentwater. [19] Reay, p. 326. [20] See Letters in the State Paper Office from Lord Widdrington, and many others of inferior rank, No. 3. 1715. [21] State Papers, 1716, No. 3. [22] State Papers, No. 3, July 26, 1715. [23] Reay, p. 355. [24] Reay, p. 359. [25] A Faithful Register of the Late Rebellion, London, p. 65, 1718. [26] Faithful Register, p. 86. [27] Her picture, painted in the bloom of her youth, is still at Terregles, in Dumfriesshire, the seat of William Constable Maxwell, Esq., the descendant of Lord Nithisdale. To Mrs. Constable Maxwell, of Terregles, I am indebted for the following interesting description of the portrait of Lady Nithisdale, to which I have referred. "Her hair is light brown, slightly powdered, and she is represented with large soft eyes, regular features, and fair, rather pale complexion. Her soft expression and delicate appearance give little indication of the strength of mind and courage which she displayed. Her dress is blue silk, with a border of cambric, and the drapery a cloak of brown silk." [28] His son was restored to his father's honours. The title of Marquis of Powis became extinct; but the estates devolved on Lord Herbert of Cherbury, husband to the last Marquis's niece; and ultimately to Lady Henrietta Herbert, who married Lord Clive, created Earl of Powis.--_Burke's Extinct Peerage_. [29] Faithful Register, p. 84. [30] Faithful Register, p. 86. [31] Burke's History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. i. p. 329. [32] See Letters and Petitions in the State Papers, No. iii. p. 1716. [33] See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 333. [34] See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 334. [35] I am indebted to the present Mr. Craik, of Arbigland, for this correspondence. [36] I am indebted for some of these particulars to the courtesy of William Constable Maxwell, Esq., present owner of Terregles, Carlaverock, and also of the beautiful hereditary property of Lincluden. WILLIAM GORDON, VISCOUNT KENMURE. The origin of the distinguished surname of Gordon is not clearly ascertained: "some," says Douglass, "derive the Gordons from a city of Macedonia, named Gordonia; others from a manor in Normandy called Gordon, possessed by a family of that name. The territory of Gordon in Berwickshire was, according to another account, conferred by David the First upon an Anglo-Norman settler, who assumed from it the name of Gordon."