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CASSILLIS 77 He w., indly (cont. dat. 20 Feb. 1643/4), Margaret, widow of Henry Ker, Master of Roxburgh, styled Lord Ker (who d. Jan. 1643), 'i^- o^ William (Hay), Earl of Erroll [S.], by Anne, da. of Patrick (Lyon), Earl of Kinghorn [S.]. He d. Apr. i668.() His widow, who was sister and sole h. of Gilbert, Earl of Erroll [S.] (who d. s.p. 1675), was bur. 22 Apr. 1695, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx. Will dat. 12 Apr., pr. 4 July 1695. [James Kennedy, Master of Cassillis, j/y/fd'LoRD Kennedy, s. and h. ap., being only s. by ist wife, d. unm. and v.p.^ between 29 Sep. 1642 and 7 Feb. 1662/3.] Vn. 1668. 7. John (Kennedy), Earl of Cassillis, {sPc. [S.], 2nd, but only surv. s. and h., being only s. by 2nd wife, was served h. male and of line 22 Sep. 1668. In 1670 he was the only person in Pari, who voted against the act for punishing conventicles, and for his illegal protection of them was outlawed. He entered heartily into the Revolution movement, and was P.C. [S.] in 1689 to William III, and a Lord of the Treasury [S.] 1689-95. ^^ "^-i istly(cont. 26 C") Dec. 1668), Susan, 2nd and yst. sister of hnwt, suo jure Duchess of Hamilton [S.], da. of James (Hamilton), ist Duke of Hamilton [S.], by Mary, da. of William (Feilding), ist Earl of Denbigh. He »/., 2ndly, 27 Feb. 1697/8, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Midx., "Mrs. Mary Fox [or Foix] of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields," da. of John Fox, of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by Mary, da. of Thomas Weld, of Richmond, Surrey, citizen and grocer of London. He d. 23 July 1701. His widow d. at Kensington, 12, and was bur. 17 Sep. 1746, at St. BarthoIomew-the-Less, London.('^) [John Kennedy, Master of Cassillis, .«/y/f^ Lord Kennedy, s. and h. ap., being only s. by ist wife, w., 18 June 1697 (cont. dat. 15, lie. at Fac. Off., he about 25, she about 20), "at Ely House,"('^) Elizabeth, (') " He is continually referred to in the Lauderdale Papers as a proud obstinate old man, dressed in strange fashion, and eccentric in language and opinions ... he refused for fear or favour to betray his rigid Presbyterian principles by taking the oath of allegiance which in his eyes implied the Royal Supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs." {Camden Misc.y vol. viii, Preface to Letters addressed to the Earl of Lauderdale). V.G. Margaret his 1st da. (by his ist wife) m. in 1669, or 1670, Gilbert Burnet, then Professor of Divinity at Glasgow, but afterwards (1689-1715) the well-known Whig Bishop of Salisbury. () So in Privy Seat Register; Scots Peerage says 20 Dec. V.G. See pedigree of Fox in Misc. Top. et Gen., N.S., vol. i, p. 1 13. See also Robertson (p. 246), as to a claim of privilege of Peerage made "by the Ladies Mordington and Cassillis" for keeping gaming houses, disallowed by the House of Lords 29 Apr. 174S. (<') The marriage is not reg. at St. Andrew's, Holborn (where "Ely House" was, presumably, situated), but at St.^Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx., on 21 July [sic] 1697, though there stated to have taken place on 18 June [j;V] ; tlie entry (with some others from 18 Jan. 1696/7 to 19 Aug. 1697) being on fly-leaf of "Vol. of Marriages