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BUCCLEUCH 367 aged nearly 81, and was bur. at Dalkeith.(^) Will dat. 16 Mar. 1723, pr. Feb. 173 1/2. [Charles Scott, styled Earl of Doncaster, s. and h. ap., b. 24 Aug. 1672, d. an infant, ^'./)., 9, and was bur. 10 Feb. 1673/4, in Westm. Abbey, aged I year, 5 months, and 15 days. M.I.] [James Scott, styled Earl of Doncaster, till the forfeiture of his father in 1685, but subsequently. Earl of Dalkeith, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. ap., ^. 23, and ^ii/. 26 May 1674. Served in the campaign in Flanders 1692. K.T. 7 Feb. 1704. He »;., 2 Jan. 1693/4, (lie. at Fac. off.) Henrietta, (*>) 2nd da. of Laurence (Hyde), ist Earl of Rochester. He d. v.m., of apoplexy, in Albemarle Str., 14, and was bur. 19 Mar. 1704/5, in Westm. Abbey, in his 31st year. Admon. 20 Sep. 1748. His widow d. 30 May, and was bur. 3 June 1730, in Westm. Abbey afsd., aged 53.] DUKEDOM [S.]^ II. EARLDOM [S.] V. BARONY [S.] VI. 2, 5 and 6. Francis (Scott), Duke of Buccleuch, &'c. [S.], grandson and h., being s. and h. of James Scott, sty/ed¥jAS.L of Dalkeith, by Henrietta his wife abovenamed. He was b. y J-,- ii> ^i^d bdp. 20 Jan. 1694/5, at St. James's, ' '^ ' Westm.; F.R.S. 12 Mar. 1723/4; Grand Mas- ter of Freemasons 1723-24; K.T. 2 Feb. 1725. Rep. Peer [S.] i 734-41. ("=) On 22 Mar. 1742/3 he and the heirs male of his body were restored by Act of Pari, to the English Peerages of " BARON SCOT OF TINDAL and EARL OF DONCASTER," forfeited by his grandfather's attainder (j') She is described by Evelyn as "one of the wittiest and craftiest of her sex." She was a patroness of the poets Dryden and Gay. Lady Cowper, in her Diary, says of her, "She had all the life and fire of youth, and it was marvellous to see that the many afflictions she had suffered had not touched her wit and good nature, but at upwards of threescore she had both in their full perfection." Her marriage to a 3rd husband, the Earl of Selkirk, is mentioned in vol. v of Luttrell's Brirf Relation, as having taken place "some days since," 10 Aug. 1703. See A'^. is" 0., 7th Series, vol. X, p. 327. This marriage seems ignored by all, but is not impossible, though she would at that date have been aged 52 and the Earl but 40. C') Swift writes of her in Feb. 1 7 1 2/3, " I did not like her, she paints too much." V.G. {'^) He was at first a supporter of Walpole, and voted for the address approving the Special Convention of 1739, but afterwards went oerto the Opposition, and voted in 1741 for the motion to remove Walpole from the King's Councils. V.G.