III. who married Winifred, daughter of Llewellen, Prince of Wales.

Colban, the second of that name, and ninth Earl of Fife, after a short possession of his dignity, gave way to his son in 1270.

Dunean IV. and tenth Earl of Fife, on the death of his Majesty Alexander III. was appointed Regent of Scotland, and was slain by the Abernethies in 1286.

Duncan V. and eleventh Earl, married Ann, daughter of his uncle, Colban, and fell in battle in 1299.

Duncan VI. and twelfth Earl, succeeded, and married Maria Mortimer, niece to Edward of England, in 1307, which marriage proved the ruin of this illustrious family, for from that time they aided the English.

Duncan VII. and thirteenth and last Earl, was the author of that lampoon, "My Letter," the contents of which no reader can be ignorant of, which was presented to Pope John XXII. by the Scottish nobility in 1320. He was made governor of Perth by Baliol, but being apprehended by the Brucian party, was, with his wife and daughter, escorted to Kildrummy castle, where he died in 1336. His daughter, Isabella, married Walter Stuart, a Prince of the blood royal, but both dying without issue, the honours and estates devolved upon his brother the Duke of Albany, Regent of the kingdom, who was succeeded by M'Ducus his son, who was beheaded by James I. and thus ended for a short time the Thanes and Earls of Fife, who had flourished for 498 years. (ƒ) David Duff, a collateral branch of the noble family of Duff, gained from his Majesty Robert III. in 1401, the barony of Muldavit, and was afterwards made Earl of Fife. barony continued to be one of the chief titles of the family, until alienated in the beginning of the reign of Charles I.

This

William Duff of Braco, who married Helen Taylor, and had only one daughter, who married Patrick Duff, Esq. of Premnay. His uncle, William Duff of Dipple, succeeded,

(f) MS. History,

and married Helen, daughter of George Gordon, Esq. of Edinglassie-issue

William, who was representative for Banffshire in 1727: was created Lord Braco of Kilboyde, by the privy seal of Queen Caroline when Regent, dated Kensington, June 17, and by patent at Dublin, July 28, 1735; and was farther advanced to the peerage, as he was created Viscount Macduff and Earl of Fife, by privy seal at St. James's, April 4, and by patent April 26, 1759. He married Janet, daughter of James Ogilvie, Earl of Findlater and Seafield, and she dying without issue, he married secondly Jane, daughter of Sir James Grant of Grant, Bart. issue fourteen children, and died September 30, 1763, and was succeeded by his son James, who was created Baron Fife, February 19, 1790, in the English peerage, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Banff. He married Dorothea, daughter of Alexander, ninth Earl of Caithness, by Margaret, daughter of Archibald Primrose, fourth Earl of Roseberry.

James died without issue, June 24, 1809, and was succeeded by his brother, Alexander, to the Earldom and Viscounty, but not to the barony of Fife, as that title became extinct. February 19, 1800, he married Mary, daughter of George Skene, Esq. of Skene, and had issue. He died April 16, 1811, and was succeeded by his son James, who married Mary Caroline, second daughter of Lady Louisa Manners: she died in December, 1805, and had no issue. Heir presumptive, Alexander, his Lordship's brother. (g)

Arms-quarterly, within a border topaz; first, a lion rampant, ruby, armed and languid sapphire-Fife. Second, sapphire, a lion ruby, passant and guardant. Third and fourth, a fesse dance, between a buck's head cabossed in chief, and an escallop topaz in base-Duff; with an escutcheon surtout pearl, having a lion rampant ruby in chief, and a tower triple towered diamond in base. Crest, a demilion ruby, bearing in his dexter paw a sword, and in his

(9) Debrett's Peerage, vol. ii. p. 333.

sinister shield a with these words on a label over proper, his head, Deo juvante, With God's assistance. Supporters over the order of Fernando and Talavera, two men nudus, wreathed round the loins, holding each in his exterior hand a bludgeon proper.-Motto, Virtute et opera, By virtue and works.

His Lordship has a hunting seat at the Backies, as already mentioned. Near the Backies stood the old castle of Badenyon, i. e. bird's bush, surrounded by a deep fosse, and covered by a tower of defence. Tradition reports it to have been reared by some of the Muat, Mowat, or Montealto family, in the thirteenth century.

Arms-argent, a lion rampant sable, armed gules, within a border of the second. Crest, an oak tree, issuing from a rock proper.-Motto, Montealto, i. e. spring up.

In 1818 part of the ruins were visible, and the shell of the culinary apartments. Here, at a place called Muat's stone, was fought the combat between Forbes and Muat.

There is an elegant Scotch air called 'John of Badenyon.' On an eminence, near the estuary of the stream, stands the old castle of Glenbucket, reared by John Gordon, descended from the family of Rothiemay. The family were called the gay Gordons, as may be found by an old song, called Glenlogie, which is here affixed.

Four and twenty nobles sat in the king's ha',

Bonnie Glenlogie is the flower amang them a'.

In came Lady Jane, skipping on the floor,

And she has chosen Glenlogie 'mong a' that were there.
She turn'd to his footman, and thus she did

say:
O what is his name, and where does he stay?
His name is Glenlogie, when he is from home,
'He is of the gay Gordons, his name it is John,'
Glenlogie, Glenlogie, an' you will prove kind,
My love is laid on you, I'm telling my mind;
He turn'd about lightly, as the Gordons do a',
I thank you, Lady Jane, my love's promis'd awa.
She called on her maidens, her bed for to make,
Her rings and her jewels all from her to take.

Says, "I'll wed you to Drumfendrick, he has more gold than

he."

Her father's own chaplain being a man of great skill,
He wrote him a letter, and indited it well,

The first lines he look'd at, a light laugh laugh'd he,
But ere he read through it the tears blinded his e'e;
O! pale and wan look'd she when Glenlogie came in,
But even rosy grew she when Glenlogie sat down.
"Turn round Jeanie Melville, turn round to this side,
And I'll be the bridegroom and you'll be the bride."
O! 'twas a merry wedding, and the portion down told,
Of bonnie Jeanie Melville, who was scarce sixteen years old.
Over the door of the castle is

Jhone Gordone, Helen Carnegie, 1590.

Nothing on earth remainis bot faime.

On the stair-case, in doggerel rhyme, is written in old Eng

lish characters,

Even as ye heare dothe finde,

I miene heylthe attende;

So love wives, life; I love
Declaire dethe a frende;

The godly love dethe, lovers vanitie;
These cry, bot paine dothe make them
Then leave to love, or love as really thine,

weepe

For love as leade do divinely cause to shine.

eternalie.

Glenbucket also held some lands in Kirkmichael, Banffshire, as is found in a wadsett or mortgage tack on the estates of Elchies and Delavorar, which William Gordon, grandson to John Gordon, first of Glenbucket, mortgaged. John Gordon of Glenbucket attended and fought at the battle of Alford, in 1646.

Macdonnell of Glengarry married, in 1737, Mary, daughter of John Gordon of Glenbucket. In 1745, William his son took part with Charles Edward Louis Cassimere Stuart, and attended him in many of his dangers. On the Prince embarking after Culloden, Glenbucket went with him, and

a few others, to France, where they landed, but made a short stay at Versailles, living incog. until they left the castle of St. Antoine, in three coaches. The first coach contained the Lords Ogilvie and Elcho, with the venerable Glenbucket, and Mr. Kelly, his secretary; in the second was the Prince, with Lord Lewis Gordon and the eldest Lochiel, who was master of the horse; in the third were four gentlemen of the bedchamber, ten footmen, and two pages, and these were all the retinue his Royal Highness had.

On this the lands of Glenbucket were forfeited to the crown, and from that time the castle gradually went to decay. Issue, David, his representative.

Arms-azure, a chevron between three boars heads erased or, all within a border counter componed of the second and first. Crest, a boar's head couped and erected, surrounded with an adder disposed orle-ways. Motto, Victrix patientæ, i. e. In victory she is patient. Badge, foy; badge of M'Kenzie, deer-grass; M'Kinon, St. John's wort; M'Lauchlan, mountain ash; M'Lean, blackberry heath; M'Leod, red whortle berries; M'Nab, roe-buck berries; M'Niel, seaware; M'Pherson, variegated boxwood, Grant, blackberry heath, or rather bill berries.

War cry of the Gordons is-Gordon! Gordon! Bydand! Grant-Stand fast, Craigellachie !

Before closing this chapter, I think it not improper to give my readers a few more of the war cries used by different families, countries, and cities..

The McPherson clan used for their war cry, Craig dhu. Clan Ranald-A Dh' ain deoin co, heireadh e !

The town of Dumfries-Lorieburn!

Hawick Terri buss and Terri o-din!

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Jedburgh-Jetharts here!

Douglas-A Douglas! A Douglas !

Darnley-Avaunt Dernle!

Scott A Bellenden !

Home-A Home! A Home!

Cranston-A Henwoodie!