hstorphine.1 THE FORRESTERS. I21
took the name of Ruthven, and occupied the castle,
the family honours and estates, which came by his
first wife, went by the patent quoted to another
branch of the family. Dreading that the young
Ruthvens might play foully with the late lord?s charter
chest, and prejudice their succession, Lilias
Forrester Lady Torwoodhead, her son Williani
Baillie, William Gourlay, and others, forced a
passage into the castle of Corstorphine, while the
dead lord?s bloody corpse lay yet unburied there,
and took possession of a tall house, from which they
annoyed the defenders, although they were unable
to carry the post.? 3
He afterwards became colonel of the Scottish
Horse Grenadier Guards. His son, the sixth lord,
was dismissed from the navy by sentence of a
court-martial in 1746 for misconduct, when captain
of the Dejance, and died two years after. His
brother (cousin, says Burke) William, seventh lord,
succeeded him, and 04 his death in 1763 the title
TOMB OF THE FORRESTERS, CORSTORPHINE CHURCH.
and furiously demanded the charter chest, of which
the Lords of Council took possession eventually,
and cast these intruders into prison.
Young Baillie become third Lord Forrester of
Corstorphine. The fourth lord was his son William,
who died in I 705, and left, by his wife, a daughter of
Sir Andrew Birnie of Saline, George, the fifth Lord
Forrester, who fought against the House of Stuart at
Preston in 17 15 ; and it is recorded, that when
Brigadier Macintosh was attacked by General Willis
at the head of five battalions he repulsed them all.
?The Cameronian Regiment, however, led by their
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Forrester, who displayed
singular bravery and coolness in the action, succeeded
in effecting a lodgment near the barricade,
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devolved in succession upon two Baronesses
Forrester, through one of whom it passed to
James, Earl of Verulam, grandson of the Hon.
Harriet Forrester; so the peers of that title now
represent the Forresters of Corstorphine, whose
name was so long connected with the civic annals
of Edinburgh.
It may be of interest to note that the armorial
bearings of the Forresters of Corstorphine,
as shown on their old tombs and elsewhere,
were-quarterly I st and 4th, three buffaloes?
horns stringed, for the name of Forrester; with,
afterwards, 2nd and grd, nine mullets for that
of Baillie; crest, a talbot?s head; two talbots for
supporters, and the motto S?ero.
