Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CCCXX WILLIAM, FH;ST MARQUIS OF ANNANDALE, 1672-1721.
Westminster on the ISth of tlie same month. A .suitable mouuinent was
afterwards erected by her eldest son, James, second Marquis of Aunandale,
to commemorate her memory. The monument was executed by James Gibl)S,
architect, and bears the following inscription:
"yEterure memoriffi sacrum lecti-^simtcmatrono^D. Sojihire Fairliolm, Annandite
Marcliioiiissre, Scotia ortn:, cujus ingenii nioruincjuo elegantia cum cximia cor])oris
forma certabat, matris uxorisque laudibus inclyt.'o, tain diligcutis autcm matris
familias ut oblatam rnrum doinesticarum niolcm animo virili et uegotio pari su.s-
tinuerit ; tot deuique virtutibus ornata; ut vitam summa omnium cum admii ationc
morte omnibus dejdorata fiuiverit : Monuuicntum lioc qualccuiii|Ue pietatisgratique
auimi indicium moereus posuit Jac. Jo., fil[ius] nat[u] ma\[imus], Auuandia;
Marcliio. Obiit 13 Deccmbris, anno D. 171C. ^T.tatis 49." i
On tlie same monument arc inscriptions to Lord ^\'il]!am Jolmstouo, and
James, second marquis, both interred in the abbey, but tlie latter in the north
cross thereof.
"Hie etiam jussu ejusdem JIarchionis rcconditas sunt reliquia; D. Gulielmi
Jolmston, fi'atris sui charissinii, ct filii natu sccimdi dicta; jMarchionissaj, c[ui obiit
24° Dec. 1721, Anno ajtatis 26. Ja. Gibes, archi."
"Near this place is also interred James, Jlarqucs of Anuaudale, a nobleman
of great parts and many exccdlent qualities, who died at Naples, 21st February
1730." 2
After the lapse of two years the marquis entered into a second matri-
monial alliance with Charlotta Vauden Bempde, only daugliter of John
Vanden Bempde of Hackness, by Temperance, daughter of John Packer, with
whom he acquired considerable property. The marriage was celebrated on
20th November 1718. A bond of provision was granted by the marquis to
" his beloved spouse," Charlotta, Marchioness of Annandale, for the yearly sum
of £1000 sterling to be paid to her, after the marquis's decease, if he
' Thu Kt/gistcr of BuriaU in Westmiuster Tuesday the ISth December 1716." [Aunnn-
A'ul)ey coiitaiu3 the eutry, "The Hou'''". dale Peerage Minutes of Evidence, ISSO,
Sojihia, Marohioucs.se of Anu:irulale, was p. lOoO.]
buried iu the south crosse of the abbey on - Hid. \t. 1030.
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