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minority of his nephew, in the roll of chieftains and landlords annexed to the statute of 1587,Cap. 95, who were requested to give pledges or find security for the peaceable conduct andgood behaviour of their respective clans; he was also chosen one of the Lords of the Articlesin the Scottish Parliament of 1600, 1606, and 1608, sitting there, in the first of these years, asCommissioner for the Sherifldom of Cromarty, and in the others for the County of Aberdeen .It was by charters under the great seal, dated first September, 1597, and twenty-fourth No-vember, 1600, to “ Johanni Urquhart, Tutori de Cromarty, et Johannse Ahernethy ejus sponsse,”that the lands and barony of Craigfintry, now Craigston, were granted.
The Tutor of Cromarty died at Craigston on the eighth of November, 1631, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and was buried within his own aisle in the church of King Edward .His eldest son was taken ill returning from his father’s funeral, and died soon after. Thecastle and barony of Craigston, after some vicissitudes, are still the property of his posterity;the present proprietrix, Mrs. Pollard Urquhart, being his lineal descendant in the seventh ge-neration. Among the pictures in the castle, are three by Jamieson, of these one is a portraitof General David Leslie, another, that of William Forbes, Bishop of Edinburgh , and the third,that of Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth. There are also portraits of the last four membersof the royal family of Stuart, namely, James , Prince of Wales, and his Princess, Clementina Sobieski , with their sons, the Prince Charles Edward and Henry , Cardinal de York ; these,with full length pictures of the last Earl Marischal and of Captain John Urquhart of Cromartyand Craigston, are originals, and painted about the year 1735, by Francesco Trevisani , aneminent portrait painter of Rome ,