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478 DUDHOPE II. 1643. ~- James (Scrimgeour), Viscount of Dudhope, &c. [S.], and Hereditary Standard Bearer of Scotland, only s. and h., served h. 25 Apr. 1643. He m. (cont. 4 Aug. 161 8), before 25 Nov. 1618, Isabel, 2nd da. of Robert (Ker), ist Earl of Roxburghe [S.], by his ist wife, Margaret, da. of Sir William Maitland, of Lething- ton. Being in command of a regt. of infantry under the Earl of Leven,(^) who had been sent with a Scottish force to assist the Pari, against the King, he was wounded at the battle of Marston Moor, 2, and J. therefrom 23 July 1644. III. 1644 3. John (Scrimgeour), Viscount of Dudhope and to Lord Scrimgeour [S.], and Hereditary Standard Bearer 1668. [S.]; s. andh., served h. 4 Nov. 1644; was Col. of a troop of horse in the attempt made in 1648 to rescue Charles I, by the Duke of Hamilton; was with Charles II at the battle of Worcester in 1 65 1 ; and joining in the rising on his behalf, with Lord Glencairn, was taken prisoner at Angus, by the English, in Nov. 1654. App. P.C. [S.] 13 Feb. 1660/1, sworn 13 July 1661. On 8 Sep. 1660 he was cr. EARL OF DUNDEE, VISCOUNT OF DUDHOPE, LORD SCRIMGEOUR AND INNERKEITHING [S.], with rem. to heirs male whatsoever.^ He m., in 1644, Anne, 2nd da. of William (Ramsay), ist Earl of Dal- HousiE [S.], by his ist wife, Margaret, da. of David (Carnegie), ist Earl OF Southesk. [S.]. He (/. s.p., at Dudhope, 23 June 1668, since which time all his honours have remained dormant,(^) except that of Hereditary (*) In Diet. Nat. Biog. it is stated that he was an ardent loyalist! and was with Charles I at Marston Moor. The Editor believes this to be the only authority for the presence of that King at that battle. V.G. C') The patent appears never to have been written to the Great Seal, but a copy of it is in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh (MS. 25-3-4), and was printed in full in the proceedings anent tlie Standard Bearership. [House of Lords Cases, 19 10). V.G. ("=) The issue male of the grantee was probably extinct. The Earl had two brothers — (l) Captain Scrimgeour, who d. unm., being killed, "by way of duell," in London, Aug. 1661, by the Lord Cranstoun; (2) Robert, named as a witness at the bapt. of his sister Jean's children, 1660, 1662, 1664, of whom nothing more seems to be known. The collateral h. male appears to have been at the time excluded by the all-powerful Duke of Lauderdale, who, on the death of the Earl, on the ground that the Earl had died without any heir male within ten degrees, "obtained from the Crown [first] a gift of ultimus hares and [later one] of recognition of his estate in favour of his brother, Charles Maitland," though " agreeably to the settlements of the estates, 1541 and 1587, they should have devolved on the family of [Scrimgeour of] Kirkton," now represented in direct male line by Lieut. Col. Henry Scrymgeour- Wedderburn of Wedderburn (Birkhill, Cupar, Fife), Hereditary Standard Bearer of Scotland. See Wood's Douglas, vol. i, p. 466, where also an account of the family of Scrimgeour is given. The Earldom of Dundee [cr. 1660) and the Viscountcy of Dudhope [cr. 1641) are vested in the heir male, who no doubt exists. See next note.