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loquar) indocilis temerare pactam, vitâ honestus, et moribus
probis. Initam semel amicitiam solido coluit animo, corpore
infirmo et valetudinario, atto tamen et ingenti animo, qui,
vigesimo secundo Novembris Die 1660 (quo Carolus Secundus
suo Regno est restauratus) quadragesimo ætatis Anno, corrup-
tibilem corporis sarcinam deposuit, atque in Templo Pettiensi
cum suis Majoribus in eodem reconditus est monumento.

LAUCHLANUS, Secundus Domini Lauchlani filius, Marischal-
anam Abredoniæ Academiam adivit Anno 1632, ubi, rei
Philosophicæ triennii spatio operam dedit. Regressû inde
facto, assiduis, bonarum literarum studiis suum intendit
animum usque quo frater ejus Dominus Makintosh copulam
iniit Matrimonialem. Hoc vero tempore, inter Regem eosque
ex suis Subditis, qui Fœderati dicebantur, exortis Civilis Belli
tumultibus, cùm ipse D. Makintosh (obstante, viz. corporis
infirmitate, tantum operæ et laboris, quantum, suarum rerum
angustiis et variis perplexitatibus rite et ad amussim disponen-
dis sufficeret, adhibere nequiret) hic firmo animi consilio inito,
omnibus rerum molestiis sustinendis suos humeros substituere
determinat, quo ipsius frater, infirm us putà, et parum prosperâ
valetudme(nebulosis hisce tempestatibus), majori cum libertate,

may say with the poet) untaught to violate his plighted troth;
honourable in his life, and of good manners: friendship once
formed he cherished with steadfast heart; with a weak and sickly
body, he yet had a lofty and great mind. He laid down the
corruptible burden of his body on the 22nd of November 1660
(in which year Charles the Second was restored to his kingdom),
in the fortieth year of his age, and was buried in the church of
Petty, in the same tomb with his ancestors.

Lauchlan, second son of Sir Lauchlan, went, in 1632, to Mari-
schal College at Aberdeen, where he gave himself to the study
of philosophy for the space of three years. On his return from
thence, he applied his mind assiduously to the study of letters,
until his brother the laird of Mackintosh married. But at that
time, the tumult of civil war having arisen between the king and
those of his subjects who were called Covenanters, seeing that the
laird of Mackintosh himself, by reason of bodily weakness, was not
able to give so much labour as would suffice for rightly settling
according to rule the difficulties and varied perplexities of his
affairs, Lauchlan resolved, with firm purpose of mind, to bear upon
his own shoulders all the trouble of these affairs, whereby his
infirm brother, with little favourable health, might (in these dark