| Francis Eyre,===Miss Gladwin. Other
mar. 1786; | died 1843. | 6th Earl | issue.
died 1809. | No issue. Newburgh; |
| born 1762; |
+----------------------+ mar. 1787; |
| | died 1827. |
William, 11th, and Other |
present, Lord issue. +----------------------+------------------+-+-+
Petre. | | | | |
Thomas Eyre, 7th Earl Francis Eyre, 8th, Three
Newburgh; born 1790; and present, Earl daughters.
mar. 1817; died 1833. Newburgh.
No issue.

No. III.

The following address affords a curious specimen of the subtlety of Lord
Lovat, and the mode usually adopted by him of cajoling his clan. It was
copied by Alexander Macdonald, Esq., from an old process, in which it
was produced before the Court of Session, and it is preserved in the
Register House, Edinburgh; the signature, date, and address are,
holographs of Lord Lovat.

THE HONOURABLE THE GENTLEMEN OF THE NAME OF FRASER.

My dear Friends,

Since, by all appearances, this is the last time of my life I shall
have occasion to write to you, I being now very ill of a dangerous
fever, I do declare to you before God, before whom I must apear, and
all of us at the great day of Judgement, that I loved you all, I
mean you and all the rest of my kindred and family who are for the
standing of their chief and name; and, as I loved you, so I loved
all my faithful Commons in general more than I did my own life or
health, or comfort, or satisfaction; and God to whom I must answer,
knows that my greatest desire and the greatest happiness I proposed
to myself under heaven was, to make you all live happy and make my
poor Commons flourish; and that it was my constant principle to
think myself mutch hapier with a hundred pounds and see you all live
well at your ease about mee than have ten thousand pounds a year,
and see you in want or misery. I did faithful