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History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and Of Gen, ?<G^r X Qv "s^S^7 kO' •J.II'.K AKY • HISTORY OF THE CA RN EGI E S, EARLS OF SOUTHESK, AND OF THEIR KINDRED. Impression : One Hundred Copies, in Two Volumes. Printedfor tlie Earl of Southesk. No.y/>. Presented to &£ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://archive.org/details/historyofcarnev100fras — — Ill CONTENTS. VOLUME I. The Lords Carnegie and Earls of PAGE Southesk, 1616-1715, . 70 Preface— v XL David first Earl, 1598-165S, . 70 of Carnegie Introduction—Baronies XII. James second Earl, 1658-1669, 135 Kinnaird— Farnel—Old Montrose XIII. Kobert third Earl, 1669-168S, . 145 Lenchars Forest of Monrommon— XIV. Charles fourth Earl, 168S-1699, 160 Colluthie Pittarrow—Ethie — Red- — XV. 1. James fifth Earl, 1699-1730, 172 castle Boysack Balnamoon Lour, xxi — — — XV. 2. Sir James Carnegie of South- of the Carnegies, xcviii Armorial Bearings esk, third Baronet, 1729-1765, 196 . civ-cx Index Pedigrees, . XVI. Sir David Carnegie of Southesk, History of the Family of Carnegie, . 1 fourth Baronet, 1765-1805, . 215 c. 1210-1275, 3 I. John de Balinhard, XVII. Sir James Carnegie of Southesk, II. Christinus de Balinhard, c. 1275- fifth Baronet, 1805-1849, . 233 3 1306, XVIII. James present Earl of Southesk, 238 III. John de Balinhard, c. 1306-1340, 4 IV. John de Balinhard, c. 1340-1375, 4 VOLUME II. The Carnegies of that Ilk, 1340-1530, 5 BRANCHES of the Carnegie Family, 241 V. 1. John de Carnegie, second of I. The Carnegies of Pittarrow, that Ilk, 1375-1430, . 5 previous to their becoming the VI. John de Carnegie, third of that Heirs-Male of Southesk, . 241 Ilk, c. 1430-1460, 5 XII. Sir Alexander Carnegie, first of VII. Carnegie, fourth of that Pittarrow, 1639-16S2, . 241 Ilk, c. 1460-1500, 6 XIII. Sir David Carnegie, first Baronet VIII. James Carnegie, fifth of that Ilk, of Pittarrow, 1682-1708, . 251 c. 1500-1530, 6 XIV. Sir John Carnegie, second Baro- net, 1708-1729, . .266 The Carnegies of Kinnaird, 1375-1616, 9 Margaret Carnegie, Lady Salton, V. 2. Duthac de Carnegie, first of and Henry Fletcher, her hus- Kinnaird, 1375-1411, . 9 band, 1688-1745, . .275 VI. Walter de Carnegie, second of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, Kinnaird, 1411-1479, . 14 their son, .... 292 VII. John Carnegie, third of Kin- II. The Carnegies of Tarrie, . 295 naird, 1479-150S, 20 III. Junior Branch of the Carnegies VIII. John Carnegie, fourth of Kin- of Pittarrow, from naird, 1508-151 3, 22 XV. George Carnegie of Pittarrow, IX. Sir Robert Carnegie, fifth of 1767-1799, . .304 Kinnaird, 1513-1565, . 24 Susan Scott, his wife, . 304 John Carnegie, of that Ilk, and IV. The Carnegies of Stronvar, . 327 of Seaton, 1562-1604, . 45 V. The Earls of Northesk, . 341 X. 1. Sir John Carnegie of Kin- XL John 1st Earl, 1579-1667, . 341 naird, 1565-1595, 53 XII. David 2d Earl, 1667-1679, . 359 X. 2. David Carnegie of Colluthie, XIII. David 3d Earl, 1679-1688, . 365 1559-1598, .... 57 XIV. David 4th Earl, 1688-1729, . 373 — IV CONTENTS. PAGE XV. 1. David 5th Earl, 1729-1741, . 395 XV. 2. George 6th Earl, 1741-1792, 397 ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I. XVI. William 7th Earl, 1792-1831, . 419 XVII. William present Earl, . 424 PAGE Title-page, containing the of the. Pedigrees of other Branches, viz., Arms Earl of Southesk and Cadets of the VI. The C'arnegies of Finhaven, . 425 Family. For Blazon of the Arms, vide ciii VII. The Carnegies of Lour, . 426 Old Map of Angus and Mearns, showing VIII. The Carnegies of Kinfauns, . 428 the Lands now and formerly belonging IX. The Carnegies of Boysack, . 429 to the Carnegie Family, facing . xxii X. The Carnegies of Balnamoon, . 431 Kinnaird Castle before the recent Altera- XL The Carnegies op Balmaohie, . 434 tions, xxxvii XII. The Carnegies of Cookston, . 436 ..... Kinnaird Castle, North and West, . xxxix XIII. The Carnegies of Craigo, . 438 Kinnaird Castle, South and West, . xli Armorial Sir Robert Carnegie, APPENDIX of Letters, Charters, etc., 441 Bearings of Letters from Lady Katherine Carnegie, 441 c. 1542, ...... xcix xcix Poem by Alexander Craig to King Armorial Seals of Sir Robert Carnegie, etc., Impaled Arms of Sir David Carnegie, and James VI., at Kinnaird, . 447 . xcix Dedication of Miscellanea et Epigram- his wife, Margaret Lindsay, Portrait of David first Earl of Southesk, mata Sacra to Lord Carnegie, . 452 Dedication of Principia Juris Feudalis facing ...... 70 to James Earl of Southesk, . 454 List of the ' Bebel Colours' burned at the Cross of Edinburgh, in 1746, . 455 Pedigree of the Family of Symmer, . 458 ILLUSTRATION IN VOLUME II. Pedigree of the Family of Elliot, . 460 Description of Mrs. Elliot's Property, . 461 Facsimile in Lithograph of Charter by Pedigree of the family of Lysons, . 463 King Malcolm the Maiden, facing . 475 Poems by Mrs. Carnegie of Pittarrow, . 465 Appendix of Charters, 1153-155S, . 475 Lithographed by Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston, Abstract of the Charters, . 533 Engravers, etc. , to the Queen, 4 Saint Andrew Description of Armorial Seals, . 545 Square, Edinburgh. Description of Armorial Bearings, . 547 List of Portraits op the Carnegies, . 551 Catalogue of Pictures at Kinnaird, . 553 Index of Persons, .... 559 Armorial Bearings of the present Earl of Index of Places, 590 Southesk on the side of Book. PREFACE. Before the Earl of Southesk intrusted me with the editing of a Book on the family of Carnegie, I had already become well acquainted with the history of the Earls of Southesk and their ancestors, from the investiga- tions made by me to aid in substantiating the claims of the Earl and his father, the late Sir James Carnegie, to the peerage. It is due to Lord Southesk to record that he was one of the first noblemen who proposed a work of this description, although from peculiar circumstances, which it is unnecessary to explain, similar Memorials of other families have been undertaken and completed by me whilst the present work was in pre- paration. The delay in executing his commission, however much to be regretted in other respects, has been attended with the advantage of bring- ing to light several documents of interest, which would not have appeared in this work had it been finished at an earlier period. The charters of the Carnegie family were destroyed by the burning of the mansion-house of Kinnaird after the battle of Brechin in the year 1452. The family afterwards formed an extensive collection of muniments, particularly in the time of Sir Bobert Carnegie, and his sons, Sir John and David Carnegie, and his grandson, the first Earl of Southesk ; but these again suffered from the confusion of the times, having been dispersed on the forfeiture of the fifth Earl in 1716,. when the Family papers were taken possession of by the Commissioners on the forfeited estate of South- esk. Another disaster awaited these papers, for many of them, while in the 1 vi PREFACE. possession of the Barons of Exchequer, who came in place of the Com- missioners on the Forfeited Estates, appear to have been burned in the fire which occurred in the early part of the present century in the Old Exchequer Chambers at Edinburgh, where they were deposited. But notwithstanding these misfortunes, there still remained in the Charter-room at Kinnaird a large collection of valuable muniments, all of which were placed at my service by the present Earl. The labour of dealing with this mass of writings was much increased by the want of any pre- vious arrangement or inventory of them, but they have been all carefully examined, and it is believed that little contained in them, having any material bearing on the family history, has passed unnoticed in the present work. The Introduction, which forms the first division, contains a history of the territorial Earldom of Southesk, including the baronies and castles of Carnegie, Kinnaird and Farnell, also of the Earldom of Montrose, com- monly called Old Montrose, the Great Moor or Forest of Monrommon, the lordship, castle, and church of Leuchars, the lands of Colluthie, the barony and castle of Pittarrow, the barony and mansion-house of Ethie, and the baronies of Bedcastle, Balnamoon, and Lour. In the account of the barony of Carnegie some remarks will be found on the etymology of that surname, and on the reputed origin of the family of Carnegie ; while under the history of Kinnaird is given a full descrip- tion of the castle, policies, and parks, as these have recently been enlarged, improved, and ornamented by the Earl of Southesk. To the Introduction is added a brief account of the armorial bearings of the Carnegie family. The History of the Main Line of the Carnegie Family, which occu- pies the first part of the work, traces the descent of the family from John de Balinhard in the thirteenth century, to the present Earl of Southesk. This 1 division inc> 3s notices, in some instances brief from scantiness of mate- PREFACE. VU rials, of the Balinhards of Balinhard, and of the Carnegies of that Ilk, and afterwards of Kinnaird, and full memoirs of the Lords Carnegie and Earls of Southesk. After the main line of the Family, are given detailed Memoirs of those houses which branched off from time to time from the parent stock. These include the line of Pittarrow, which has carried on the male representation of the family, and from which have sprung many influential families of the name of Carnegie. Under this head notice is taken of Margaret Carnegie, Lady Salton, and her husband, Henry Fletcher of Salton, and their eldest son, Lord Milton.
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