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BALFOUR COMPLETE PEERAGE 381 V. 1713 5. Robert (Balfour), Lord Balfour OF Burleigh [S.], to only s. and h. He was tried, 4 Aug. 1709, for the 1715. murder of Henry Stenhouse, a Schoolmaster of Inver- keithing (who had m. a girl to whom he, being then the Master of Burleigh, was attached), and was sentenced (29 Nov.) to be beheaded on 6 Jan. 1709/10, but escaped by changing clothes with his sister. He engaged in the Rising of 1715 on behalf of the exiled Royal family, and (not having surrendered himself by 30 June 17 16) was, under the designation of "Robert, Lord Burleigh," attainted from 13 Nov. 17 1 5 (*), whereby his estate of ;^697 a year and his Peerage hec^mG forfeited. He d. unm., and was bur. at Grey Friars, Edinburgh, 20 Mar. 1757. 1757. Margaret Balkour, spinster, ist sister and h. of line, who, but for the attainder, would suo jure have been Lady Balfour of Burleigh [S.]. She d. unm., 12 Mar. 1769, at Edinburgh, and was bur. in the Canongate there. 1769. Robert Bruce, of Kennet, co. Clackmannan, nephew and h., being s. and h. of Brig. Gen. Alexander Bruce, of the same, by Mary (sister of Margaret abovenamed), 2nd and yst da. of Robert (Balfour), 4th Lord Balfour of Burleigh [S.]. He was b. 29 Dec. 1 71 8, sue. his father 8 Aug. 1747, and his mother (who d. before her elder sister abovenamed) 7 Nov. 1758. He was one of the Lords of Session [S.], by the denomination of " Lord Kennet, " from 1 764, and a Lord of Justiciary, from 1 769 till his death. On the death of his maternal aunt in 1769 (as above) he, but for the attainder, would have become Lord Balfour of Burleigh [S.]. He w., 21 May 1754, Helen, sister of the gallant Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B., and da. of George Abercromby, of Tullibody, by Mary, da. of Ralph Dundas. He d. 8 Apr. 1785, aged 66. His widow d. 1786. 1785. Alexander Bruce, of Kennet afsd., s. and h., b. 17 July 1755. Sometime a merchant in China. Hew., 13 Feb. 1793, Hugh [j/V], yst. da. of Hugh Blackburn, of Glasgow. He d. 12 July 1808, at Kennet, aged nearly ^t^. His widow, who was b. 13 Aug. 1768, at Killearn, near Glasgow, d. Dec. 1851, at Edin- burgh. 1808. Robert Bruce, of Kennet afsd., s. and h., b. 8 Dec. 1795. Ed. at Eton, and at Oxford. Ent. the Army Dec. 1813 ; Capt. in the Grenadier Guards 1820 ; served in the Penin- sular war, and was at the battle of Waterloo, retiring 1824. M.P. (Tory) for co. Clackmannan, 1820-24. But for the attainder he would have been Lord Balfour of Burleigh [S.], to which Barony he laid C) See Appendix E in this volume, for a list of the Scottish peers attainted at that date.