iAJ 'w^ Bt.ij . CtMJ* 12.2 CORRESPONDENCE OF Sir Eoijtrt Itrr, jfitst (Bui of Enctam AND HIS SON tlliam, €\)ixii (Buxi of lnt\)mx — CORRESPONDENCE Sir Enlitrt Eerr, jTirst <Eatl of Siuram AND HIS SON illiiim, SCljirtr ®aii ot lotijiatt IN TWO VOLUMES Vol. I. 1616-1649 EDINBURGH: MDCCCLXXV Piinied by R. & R. CLARK, EdMnrgh. TO THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF €^l)e Bannatpne Club, THESE VOLUMES, CONTAINING THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EARLS OF ANCRAM AND LOTHIAN, PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL LETTERS AT ARE PRESENTED BY THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT, May 1875. CONTENTS. VOL. I. PAGE Preface ......... i Memoir of Robert, Earl of Ancram ..... v Memoir of William, Earl of Lothian ..... xlv Genealogical Tables ... .... cxiii Claim of Robert, Lord Kerr of Newbattle, to the Earldom of ROXBURGHE, 1658 ....... Cxi.X Robert Leighton and the Parish Church of Newbattle . cxxii James Kerr, Keeper of the Record.s ..... cxxvii Additions and Corrections ...... cxxix CORRESPONDENCE. 1616-1649 1-2.1 VOL. II. CORRESPONDENCE, 1649-1667 ..... 249-480 Additional Letters— Ancram Letters, 1625-1642 ...... Lothian Letters, 1 631- 166 7 Appendix— No. L Pfalms in Englifli Verfe, by Sir Robert Kerr, Earl of Ancram, 1624 ... 487 No. IL Letters from Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, to Sir Robert Kerr 507 No. III. Letters from Drummond of Hawthornden to Sir Robert Kerr . 517 No. IV. Accounts for Books and Notes of Paintings purchafed for the Earl of Lothian, 1643-1649 . 524 No. V. Newbattle Abbey and its Library . 532 Index of Letters ........ 543 Index of Names ........ 55° LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL I. Seals of the Rarls of Ancram and Lothian . Title-page Sir Robert Kerr, Earl of Ancr,\m ..... page v Lady Anne Stanley, Countess of Ancram ..... x.xvi William, Third Earl of Lothian ...... xlv Anne Kerr, Countess of Lothian ...... civ Monogram at Newbattle Abbey of Willia.m and .\nne Kerr, Earl and Countess of Lothian, i666 ...... c.xii Stone at Ancram House, erected by Robert Kerr and Isobel Home, 1558 51 Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby . loi James, Seventh Earl of Derby ...... 186 VOL. II. General David Leslie, Lord Newark .... 298 Robert, Earl of Ancram ...... 383 Archibald, Marquess of Argyll ..... 448 Crypt of Newbattle Abbey ...... 533 SuN-DiAL AT Newb.attle Abbey, erected by William, Earl of Lothian 540 FACSIMILES OF SIGNATURES. VOL. I. Anne, Countess of Ancram . xlii Charles, Second Earl of Ancram . cxi Sir Robert Kerr of Ancram 4 William Drummond of Hawthornden 25 list of illustrations. PAGE Samuel Daniell .... Charles, Prince of Wales . 28 Sir William Kerr .... 45 William, Earl of Lothian . 59, 166 General Sir Alexander Leslie, Earl of Leven 103 John Hampden .... 131 Robert, Earl of Warwick . 144 Robert, Earl of Ancram 156 Earl of Essex .... 162 Sir John Maitland .... 177 John, Earl of Lauderdale . 179 Berthuc [Borthwick?] 181 Robert Leighton, Bishop of Dunblane i86 James, Seventh Earl of Derby 187 Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby- Sir Henry Vane .... Archibald, Marquess of Argyll 204 James, Duke of Hamilton . 228 VOL. II. Charles the Second" 258 John, Earl of Loudoun, Lord Chancellor 27s General David Leslie, Lord Newark 298 Mr. Robert Blair, Minister of St. Andrews 309 Oliver Cromwell .... 319 Anne Kerr, Countess of Lothian 443 Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's S08 PREFACE ^ PREFACE. pHE Correfpondence between Sir Robert Kerr, firft Earl of Ancram, and his fon William, third Earl of Lothian, now printed for the firft time, is poffeffed of fome inte- reft in connexion with literature, and is of greater hifto- rical importance as ferving to throw new light on the part taken by Scotland during the period of the Civil wars in the feventeenth century. The original letters, preferved at Newbattle Abbey, had remained undifcovered during the long minority of the late Marquefs of Lothian, otherwife they would probably have been printed many years ago, as fearches were made with this obje6l, but without refult. About the year 1858 it was propofed to have the Library at Newbattle Abbey examined and re-arranged preparatory to forming a new catalogue, and the late Marquefs having confulted me on the fubjeft, I fuggefted that, as I could not perfonally undertake it, the work might yet be done under my fuperintendence, by ]\Ir. Alex- ander Orrock junior, who had been one of my affiftants in the Signet Library. It was while that work was ftill in progrefs that his Lordfliip brought under my notice, along with feveral valuable manufcripts and — ii Preface. printed books, the colleftion of Original Letters/ which had been Separated from the Library, and removed, evidently for greater fecu- rity, to a fecret clofet in his ftudy, early in the prefent century, by William, fixth Marquefs of Lothian, who had taken much intereft in all matters connefled with literature and hiflory.^ A portion of thefe Letters had previoufly been bound in three volumes, fele6led out of a confiderable number of others which remained folded and tied up in feparate packets. Thefe the late Marquefs, from time to time, examined and docqueted, but foon found it would be defirable to have the entire colleftion arranged and claffified. This I willingly undertook at his Lordfhip's requeft, and they now form a feries of fixteen volumes, handfomely bound in morocco, befides two fmaller volumes of Mifcellaneous Papers. They are arrangfed as follows : I, Royal Letters Preface. Hi accomplifhed fcholar. His cultivated tafte in art as well as litera- ture is exemplified in a volume, printed anonymoufly for private circulation, with the title of " Fragment of a parallel between the Hiflory, Literature, and Art of Italy in the Middle Ages:" Edinb. 1863, poft 8vo, pp. 478; and alfo by the publication, during the Civil War in America, of " The Confederate Seceffion :" Edinb. 1864, poft 8vo, pp. 226 — a work which, written at intervals during ill-health, is held in great eftimation by the people of the Southern States. If his Lordfhip had not been proflrated by a ferious and long-continued illnefs, it is very probable, from his literary habits, and the great interefl taken by him in the old family letters and papers, that he himfelf would have undertaken the taflc of feledling, illuftrating, and publifhing the Correfpondence of his anceftors in fome definite form. The prefent Marquefs foon after his acceffion contributed to the Roxburghe Club, in his brother's name, a metrical French romance entitled " Floriant et Florete," edited by M. Francifque-Michel, from a unique manufcript of the fourteenth century, preferved in the Library at Newbattle Abbey. His Lordfhip alfo propofed to prefent to the fame Club a feries of the Letters contained in the prefent volumes. Knowing the interefl that I took in thefe matters, and that his brother had confulted me upon the fubjeft, his Lordfhip wifhed that I fhould undertake to edit this Work. Averfe as I naturally was to come under frefli obligations, having actually on my hands more work of a like kind than I can ever expedl to accomplifh, I could not well decline, as his Lordfhip propofed that copies fliould be prefented to the furvlving Members of the Bannatyne Club, of which I had been Honorary Secretary during the whole period of its exiftence fince the year 1823, and of which both his father and brother, Marqueffes of Lothian, had been members. It will not be neceffary to enter here upon the hiftory of the various branches of the Kerr Family. All indeed that may be required, for illuftrating the prefent volumes, is to colIe6l the chief fafts relating to Sir Robert Kerr, firft Earl of Ancram, and his eldeft iv Preface. fon William, third Earl of Lothian, to whofe correfpondence they exclufively relate. The accompanying tables, however, may be ufeful to fhow at a glance how fome portions of the family branched out from, or became merged into, one another during the fixteenth and the following centuries. From the very extenfive and valuable feries of Portraits in the Gallery of Newbattle Abbey, the Marquefs of Lothian has fele6led thofe which feemed moft fuitable for illuftrations to thefe volumes. The biographical introduction is divided into two parts ; but the Letters are arranged in chronological order from their mutual connexion, and fuch explanatory notes as feem to be required have been added. That the entire Ancram Correfpondence has not been preferved is much to be regretted, as the Letters written by or addreffed to him during the firft quarter of the century might have proved of an interefting literary chara6ler. Thofe of the next quarter contained in thefe volumes are, however, fufficient both in number . and importance to illuflrate the refpeftive chara6lers of the Earls of Ancram and of Lothian, while placed in apparent oppofition to each other in matters connedled with the hiflory of the period. The one, having been attached to the houfehold of King Charles the Firft for the greater part of his life, had rendered long and faithful fervice with the beft feelings of a courtier ; the other, in a more aflive courfe of life, and influenced by patriotic and high-minded principle, had appeared in oppofition to the Royalift party, without either of them lofing thofe affectionate and refpedlful feelings^f devoted attachment fo apparent in every letter that has been difcovered. I cannot conclude without flating that in preparing thefe volumes for the prefs I was fortunate in having the affiftance of Mr. Alex- ander Orrock junior, not only in feeing that the original Letters were accurately tranfcribed and collated, and fupplying the Indexes, but alfo in collecting materials required for the two Memoirs, which, for want of time, I could not perfonally undertake. DAVID LAING.