Pedestrianism

APPENDIX. 267 fn the following year,the colonel found leisure to at­ tend to his domestic concerns, andmarried Catharine, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonston, who was se­ cond son of the Earl of Sutherland, by Jane, daughter of the Marquis of Huntly. Sir Robert Gordon was cousin to King James the Sixth of Scotland, by his grandmother. Lady Hslen Stewart, his majesty's grand-auntj and being a man of great parts, was highly esteemed at Court. As the different estates which formerly belonged to the Bar­ clays ofMathers, were now nearly alldisposed of by the colonel's father, he entered into a contract withEarl Ma- rischal for the barony of URY , where he fixed thefuture re? sidence of the family, which has since been designed by the name of that property. Colonel Barclay being an activeand experienced officer, and perfectly devoted to th^ cause in which he had en­ gaged, was appointed to command in the shires of Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness. The nation at that time was much interested in the fate of Charles I.; and the parlia­ ment of Scotland sentan army to hisassistance inEngland, under the Duke of Hamilton ;and the internal protection of the kingdom was committed to the Earl of Lanark, the laird of Gartland, and ColonelBarclay. The whole country to the north of the Tay, including thetown of Perth, was placed under thecolonel's authority; and he executed this important commission with vigour and fidelity. But the Duke of Hamilton's overthrow at Preston, destroyed the hopes of hisfriends; and the opposite party gaining the t 12 - ascen-