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ESTIMATE OF HIS LOSSES AXD SUFFKRIXfiS. ccxxxvu
incurred in liis defence, and such liardships as that his M-hole rents were
seized, two troops of horse were quartered on liis Lands, the loss and damage
of which, the commissioners of their own knowledge say, can be no less than
£40,000, and liis house of Newbie was plundered, and silver plate and
household plenishings to the value of £15,000 carried away. The commis-
sioners estimated the whole losses of the carl at £288,700 Scots, which
represents in English money £24,058 sterling. The report of the commis-
sioners was subscribed by them at Edinbnrgli on 15th June IGCl. Parlia-
ment appointed the report to be recorded in their books, and regarding
the Earl of Annandale's losses and sufferings recommended him to his
JNIajesty.^
King Charles the Second liad not sufficient funds to reimburse the Earl
of Annandale and Hartfell in money ; he had, however, other modes of
recompensing his loyal subject. He could confer honours and offices.
Charles had already acknowledged the loyalty and sufferings of the earl in
this way by creating him Earl of Annandale, Yiscount of Annan, and Lord
Lochmaben. These new dignities were held by the earl conjointly with the
old and with the precedency of the date of the creation of the Earl of
Hartfell. In addition to these the king now granted to the Earl of Annan-
dale and Hartfell the magna carta of his earldom of Annandale and Hartfell,
with baronies, lordships, and regalities, as previously explained, with an
extended class of heirs-female in accordance with the earl's desire. He also
bestowed other royal favours upon him. He made him a privy councillor.-
He also made him heritable and principal steward of the stewartry of
Annandale, by a grant nnder the privy seal at "Whitehall, 23d April 1GG2,
and hereditary keeper of the castle of Lochmaben, by the crown charter of
1CG2, as previously related.
' Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. vii. pp. 277, 27S.
- 13th July ICOl, AunanJ.ile Peerage illuutc.5 cf Evidence, 187S, p. 721.