Pedestrianism

APPENDIX. 265 greatly impaired hisproperty, andhe sold five valuable es­ tates. He was twice married : first, to Elizabeth, the daugh­ ter of Livingston of Dunnipace, by whom he had five sons and a daughter ; second, to Margaret Keith, grand-child to Earl Marischal. To his daughter hegave a handsomefor­ tune, and to his sons a liberal education. The two eldest died when young : David, the thirdson, became eminently conspicuous : Robert, the fourth, was rector of the Scots College at Paris; and James, the youngest, was a captain of horse, and was killed at the battle of Philiphaugh, on the 13th September 1645, where he gallantly signalized himself. (17.) Colonel David Barclay, the first of Ury, and third son of David of Mathers, was born at Kirktonhill in the county of Kincardine, in the year.1610. After being in­ structed in every accomplishment ofthe age, he went to Germany, and entered a volunteer inthe Swedish service, under the great Gustavus Adolphus. His manly and ele­ gant appearance soonattracted the attention of his majesty, and he acquired a high reputation for courage and bravery. He merited and obtained the distinguished favour of Adol- phus. But his fame as an active and experienced soldier having reachedhis native, country, he was pressingly soli­ cited by his friends to return home to take a part in the civil wars with which Scotland was then distracted. Accordingly, in the year 1640, as a proof of his charac­ ter and high merit, we find him colonel of a regiment of horse, and at the head of an army quelling aninsurrection 11 raised