[45] Napier, ii. 385-393.  The contract was first printed in the volume of Claverhouse’s letters edited by George Smythe for the Bannatyne Club in 1826.  That volume contains also portraits of the bride and bridegroom, a drawing of which was made by Sharpe for Napier.  The portrait of the latter is the one known as the Leven portrait, now in possession of Lady Elizabeth Cartwright.  The portrait of Lady Jean is from a picture then belonging to the editor.  There is also an engraving of a mourning ring belonging to the editor’s grandmother, Catherine Cochrane, wife of David Smythe of Methven, said to have been given to her by her father, Lady Dundee’s brother.  The ring contains a lock of Dundee’s hair, on which the letters V.D. are worked in gold, with a Viscount’s coronet above.  The motto is “Great Dundee for God and me.  J. Rex.”  One child was born of the marriage in April 1689, and he died three months after his father fell at Killiecrankie.  Lady Dundee married secondly William Livingstone, afterwards Lord Kilsyth, of whom mention will be made elsewhere.  A son was born also of this marriage, but in the autumn of 1695 both mother and child were killed by the fall of a house in Holland.  Lord Kilsyth was “out in the Fifteen,” and died an outlaw at Rome in 1733, after which the title became extinct.  Napier (iii., Appendix 2) gives a curious account of the opening of Lady Dundee’s coffin more than a hundred years after her burial in the family vault at Kilsyth Church.

[46] “So when we came to Streven (Strathavon), I left the command to Colonel Buchan, and desired him to return the troops to their quarters; but, in his march, to search the skirts of the hills and moors on the Clydesdale side; which he did, and gave me an account that, going in by the Greenock-head, he met a man that lives down on Clydeside, that was up buying wool, who told him that on Lidburn, which is in the heart of the hills on the Clydesdale side, he had seen a great number of rebels in arms, and told how he had considered the commanders of them.  One of them, he said, was a lusty black man with one eye, and the other was a good-like man, and wore a grey hat.  The first had on a velvet cap.  But before he (Colonel Buchan) could come near the place, a party of foot, that he had sent to march on his right, fell accidentally on them.  Four of our soldiers going before to discover, were fired on by seven that started up out of a glen, and one of ours was wounded.  They fired at the rebels, who, seeing our party of foot making up, and the horse in sight, took the alarm, and gained the hills, which was all moss.”  Claverhouse to the Archbishop of Saint Andrews (Alexander Burnet), Paisley, June 16th, 1684.

[47] Claverhouse to the Archbishop, Paisley, June 16th, 1684.

[48] “Privy Council Register,” Edinburgh, September 10th, 1684:  Napier, ii. 410.

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