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DKATH OF THK KARL AND COUNTESS. ccxlvii
had removed to Lcith, to a house occupied by Lady JIary Gordon,
Marchioness of Douglas, who was the mother of his countess.
Although the earl was in feeble health, he wrote and subscribed a careful
mcruoraudum of directions for the ninnnor of his funeral, only two days before
his death, in the following terms :
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"For the manner of my buriall, I ordain tliat, how soon eftcr it shall please
God to call vpon me things can be pi'ovided, my corps shall be caried in an open
mourning coacli, without any otiicr ceremony, and be accompanied by my i)ar-
ticular friends to the buriall place of my aucestours at Johnstoune, where I appoint
it to be interred in tlie night, with torches and without ceremony. And on the v.-ay
from the place of my death to that of my buriall I desire the gentlemen hereabout
may be entreated to doe me this last duty of waiting on my corps to Lintoun, and
the gentlemen of the other shires tlirough wluch my body is to be carried shall be
likewise desired to wait vpon it tlu-ough their scvcrall sliires of Peblcs, Dumfreis,
and Anandale. And tliis declaration of my pleasure about my buriall, taken from
my mouth and written according to my direction, I have signed with my hand,
at Leith, the fifteenth of July in this present year 1G72. Anxaxdale."'
The Countess of Anuaudale survived her husband only for eleven montlis,
ha\'ing died on the morning of Sunday, 1st June 1G73.^ The body of the
countess v.-as put in a lead coffin, at Edinburgh, and transported to the kirk
of Johnstone, to be placed by the side of her husband, whose body had been
placed there, in lead and wainscoat coffins, in the previous year. There is
preserved a copy- of the inscription on their respective tombs, as follows :
" Here lyes the right honorable James, Earle of Anuaudale and Hartfcll, etc.,
who died the 17th of .July 1G72, and of his age 47." Sunj'ounted by an earl's
coronet and blank shield for arms, and the initials " J. E. A.
'" Here lyes Uame Henrietta, Countess of Annandale and Ilartfeli, daughter to
William, Marquess of Douglas, who died the first of June 1G73, aitatis 10."^
Of the mnrriage of the earl and countess tliere were born eleven children,
four sons and seven daughters. The eldest surviving son was William, who
' Original writ in Annancliilu Cliarttr-chest.
- Accounts of JuLn Muir, W.S., and others, H'i'J.
^ Copy inscriptions and accounts for coffins and other t'uueral expenses, ihirf.
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