On the 28th of December, the Presbytery of Lanark ordered the following declaration to be recorded in their books, ad perpetuam memoriam:-"I, Sir James Carmichael, Lord TreasurerDepute, do declare, by these presents, in sincerity and in sight of God, that I am truly weighted and grieved in conscience for subscribing the late Act of Parliament for premoving the late sinful engagement, and by thir presents renounceth the said Act of Parliament and engagement, as sinful and contrary to the Covenant, according to the declarations of the Church of Scotland thereanent, and promiseth, by the grace of God, to adhere more firmly to the Solemn League and Covenant, and carrying on of the work of God, and maintaining the privileges of the Church of Scotland, according to the Covenant, against all tentations and oppressions, in time to come." This submission, ample as it appears, was not sufficient to assuage the displeasure of the dominant party, who, on the 10th March, 1649, obtained a decree in Parliament, depriving Sir James of his office of Treasurer-Depute, and bestowing it on his second son, Sir Daniel of Hyndford and Mauldeslie (Act Parl., VI., 421, 422). For his services to Charles I., he received a patent, on the 27th December, 1647, raising him to the Peerage, by the title of Lord Carmichael; but he never appears to have acted upon it until it was ratified by Charles II. on the 3d of January, 1651. Cromwell deprived him of the office of Privy Councillor, to which he had been appointed on the accession of the latter King, and in 1654 imposed upon him, by his Act of Grace and Pardon, a fine of £2000 (Douglas Peerage). Lord Carmichael died in the ninety-fourth year of his age, on the 9th of November, 1672 (Ibid).

His eldest son, Sir William, Master of Carmichael, went over to France in his youth, and entered the Gens d'Armes of Louis XIII. (Ibid). In 1643 he was named one of the Commissioners for the county of Lanark entrusted with the superintendence of raising its share of a sum of 2200 merks Scots, expended on the forces sent to Ireland, and also appointed colonel of the foot ordered to be raised in the shire. In both of these commissions he is described as Sir William Carmichael, "fier of that ilk" (Act

Parl., VI., 29, 51, 53). In the following year he sat in Parliament as member for Lanarkshire, and was added to the Committee entrusted with full powers to raise men, appoint officers, to borrow money, and to collect the excise and other revenues. He was also appointed one of the Committee of War for that part of the county which was included in the bounds of the Presbytery of Lanark (Ibid, 95, 83, 138, 132). In 1645 he was again appointed one of the permanent Committee of the Estates, and also a member of a special Committee on Finance (Ibid, 189). On the 1st of May of this year he was elected ruling elder for the Presbytery of Lanark; and on the 2d of October was thanked by that body for his commendable adherence to the Covenant (Pres. Rec.) In the following one he commanded the Clydesdale Regiment, in the service of Parliament, at the battle of Philiphaugh (Douglas Peerage), and was appointed one of the Committee of War for Lanarkshire (Act Parl., VI., 213). In 1648 he was again appointed a Commissioner for the same purpose (Ibid, 296), and again in 1649. On the same day he was nominated to be one of the colonels or commanders of horse and foot for Lanarkshire, in the Act "for putting the kingdom in a posture of defence" (Ibid, 372). He predeceased his father in the year 1657 (Douglas Peerage).

XIV. His son, John, succeeded his grandfather as the second Lord Carmichael in 1672, and was, in 1678, named one of the Commissioners of Supply for the county (Act Parl., VIII., 224). On the 14th of March, 1689, he was appointed one of the Committee of Parliament on controverted elections (Ibid, IX., 6). On the 16th he signed the declaration that, before a letter from King James was read, Parliament should resolve that, whatever be its contents, they should continue undissolved till they had secured the religion and liberties of the kingdom (Ibid, IX., 9), and on the 23d he signed, along with the other members, a letter to William of Orange, as King of England, thanking him for having convened the Estates (Ibid, 20). From the proclamation "for calling out the militia on this side Tay," issued on the 30th, we learn that he was colonel of the troop belonging to the Nether Ward of Lanarkshire (Ibid, 25). In the Act for new elec

tion of Town Councils in the Royal Burghs, he was named overseer for that of Lanark (Ibid, 52). He was a Commissioner of Supply for Lanarkshire (Ibid, 70), and was appointed a Privy Councillor (Douglas Peerage). In 1689 he was one of the Committee of Parliament anent the settling of the church government, and a member of others on fines and forfaltures, in the interval of Parliament, and for carrying out the Act rescinding the forfaltures and fynes since the year 1665 (Ibid, 114, 161, 169). He was appointed Commissioner to the General Assembly (Ibid), and also named one of the commission for the visitation of universities, colleges, and schools, whereof he was chosen præses. This continued to sit for no less than ten years, and must have laboured with great diligence, as would appear by a petition presented to Parliament by Mr Robert Henderson, bibliothecan of the college of Edinburgh, in which he states that the commission and the delegates of the colleges met in the library under his charge; "that these meetings were held twice every other day for the space of four months yearly during the ten years 1690-1700, the sederunts each day lasting commonly from eight or nine in the morning till twelve or one, and from two or three afternoon to six, seven, or eight at night; and that he was at no small expense during all these long sederunts, by being obliged to keep a servant extraordinary, over and above several incident charges for coal, candles, paper, and pipes, tobacco, and what else to refresh" (Act Parl., XL., App. 137; IX., 164; Mun. Univ. Glas., I., 493). Lord Carmichael was, in 1692, elected Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. The following entries occur in the accounts of the Principal relative thereto: "By a journey to Carmichael to wait on my Lord Carmichael to deliver his commission to be Chancellor of the University, nine days, whereof there is only six days here charged, and horse hire, £6-L24." "By the writing and guilding the said Lord Carmichael's commission to be Chancellor -£8 14s” (Mun. Univ. Glas., III., 309, 583). In 1693 he was one of a committee of three appointed by Parliament to draw up a dutiful letter to his majesty King William (Act Parl, IX., 308), and had a regiment of dragoons conferred upon him

(Douglas Peerage). He was again Commissioner to the General Assembly in the following year (Ibid). On the death of Queen Mary in 1695, he was chosen one of the Committee of Parliament for the security of the kingdom (Act Parl., IX., 351). In 1696 he was appointed Secretary of State. On the 10th of September in that year he was elected one of the Committee of Parliament for trade, and on the same day subscribed the bond of association on account of the late wicked and cruel conspiracy against his Majesty's person and kingdoms (Ibid, X., 9, 10). He afterwards signed this document a second time, as Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, in which he established a bursary for a student in philosophy (Mun. Univ. Glas., I., 445; II., 545). In the course of the following year he was one of a Committee of Parliament on the course of instruction in the colleges (Ibid, II., 552). He was on several occasions in 1698 chosen a member of committees appointed in Parliament for the security of the kingdom (Act Parl., X., 123, 193, 206). In 1699 he was one of the Royal Commission for settling the communication of trade between the burghs royal and the burghs of regality and barony (Ibid, X., App. 107). He was also a third time Commissioner to the General Assembly (Douglas Peerage). By a patent granted by King William at Kensington on the 5th June, 1701, he was created Earl of Hyndford, Viscount Inglisberry and Nemphlar, and Lord Carmichael of Carmichael (Act Parl., XI., 11). On the accession of Queen Anne he was retained in his offices of Secretary of State and Privy Councillor. In 1702 he was again chosen one of a Parliamentary Committee for the security of the kingdom (Ibid, XI., App. 3). In the following year he dissented from a clause in the Act of Security, that the same person should not in future hold the crowns of Scotland and England, unless the Parliament of the latter granted to the subjects of the former a free communication of trade, the freedom of navigation, and the liberty of the plantations, and joined the Earl of Marr in a protest against another clause (Ibid, XI., 70, 73). He was named a Commissioner of Supply for the county in 1704 (Ibid, XI., 141). In 1705 he was on a Parliamentary Commission anent trade, and when an

tion of Town Councils in the Royal Burghs, he was named overseer for that of Lanark (Ibid, 52). He was a Commissioner of Supply for Lanarkshire (Ibid, 70), and was appointed a Privy Councillor (Douglas Peerage). In 1689 he was one of the Committee of Parliament anent the settling of the church government, and a member of others on fines and forfaltures, in the interval of Parliament, and for carrying out the Act rescinding the forfaltures and fynes since the year 1665 (Ibid, 114, 161, 169). He was appointed Commissioner to the General Assembly (Ibid), and also named one of the commission for the visitation of universities, colleges, and schools, whereof he was chosen præses. This continued to sit for no less than ten years, and must have laboured with great diligence, as would appear by a petition presented to Parliament by Mr Robert Henderson, bibliothecan of the college of Edinburgh, in which he states that the commission and the delegates of the colleges met in the library under his charge; "that these meetings were held twice every other day for the space of four months yearly during the ten years 1690-1700, the sederunts each day lasting commonly from eight or nine in the morning till twelve or one, and from two or three afternoon to six, seven, or eight at night; and that he was at no small expense during all these long sederunts, by being obliged to keep a servant extraordinary, over and above several incident charges for coal, candles, paper, and pipes, tobacco, and what else to refresh" (Act Parl., XI., App. 137; IX., 164; Mun. Univ. Glas., I., 493). Lord Carmichael was, in 1692, elected Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. The following entries occur in the accounts of the Principal relative thereto: "By a journey to Carmichael to wait on my Lord Carmichael to deliver his commission to be Chancellor of the University, nine days, whereof there is only six days here charged, and horse hire, £6-L24." "By the writing and guilding the said Lord Carmichael's commission to be Chancellor -L8 14s" (Mun. Univ. Glas., III., 309, 583). In 1693 he was one of a committee of three appointed by Parliament to draw up a dutiful letter to his majesty King William (Act Parl, IX., 308), and had a regiment of dragoons conferred upon him