Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

ccxiv JAME?;, EARL OF ANNAXDALE AND UARTFELI,, 1G53-1672.
Earl of Aunandale and Hartfell, Viscount Auiian, and Lord Locbmaben
^Yhich coutiuned to be his designation till the close of his life.
When his father was arranging to join the army of the Covenant,
" whithersocvir tlie saniin is houn," in August 1C40, he made his latter will
and testament, appointing his son, the ilaster of Johnstone, the only executor
of his large estate. As the Slaster was then under age, his father showed
great confidence in the piudcnce of his young son to intrust to him this
important oflice.
Four years later he was involved, witli his father and only brother.
Colonel "William Johnstone, in tlie varying struggles betweeii the royalists on
the one side, and the covenanters on the other : but he took no prominent
position in these struggles. He was imprisoned with his fatliur in 1644, on
suspicion of complicity in i\Iontrosc's attempt on Dumfries. After the battle
of Ivilsyth in August 1G4.5, he joined lloutrose and assisted him at Philip-
liaugh on tlio loth of September, where he was captured, and incarcerated in
diflerent castles for a considerable time. Eut parliament did not tahe pro-
ceedings against Lord Johnstone as in the case of his father.
In the month of May, less than four months previous to his capture at
Philiphaugh, Lord Johnstone allied himself in marriage to Lady Henrietta
Douglas. Her ladyship was tlie eldest of the six daughters of William, first
Jlarquis of Douglas, by his second marriage with Lad}' JIary Gordon, third
daughter of C4eorge, first Marquis of Huntly. This marriage of Lord John-
stone and the previous marriage of bis fatlicr, tlie ICarl of Hartfell, with Lady
IMargaret Douglas, of Drumlanrig, brought the Johnstones into close alliance
M'ith the Douglases, including William Douglas, Earl of Selkirk and Duke of
Hamilton. Lady ^Margaret Douglas was descended from James, the second
Earl of Douglas and Mar, mIio was the hero of Otterbuin in 1388, while
Lady Henrietta Douglas was descended fiom AVilliam, the first Earl of
Douglas and Mar through the Douglas line of the Earls of Angus. The
marriage contract between James, Lord Johnstone, and Lady Henrietta