The KINGS of SCOTLAND (4)

2. Claricia, died unmarried.

3. Hodierna, died unmarried.

4. Henry, Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon,
married in 1139 Ada, daughter of William, Earl of
Warenne, second Earl of Surrey. He predeceased his
father David I. ,12 June 1152, and was buried at Kelso.
His wife died 1178. By her he had :

(1) MALCOLM, afterwards Malcolm iv. the Maiden.'

(2) WILLIAM, afterwards William ' the Lion.'

(3) David, Earl of Huntingdon, born about 1144 ; married 26
August 1190 Maud, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester. He
died at Jerdelay 17 June 1219, leaving issue :

i. Robert, died an infant, and was buried at Lindores.
ii. Henry, died an infant, also buried there,
iii. John le Scot, Earl of Chester and Earl of Huntingdon ;
d. s. p. June 5, 1237.
iv. Margaret, was married to Alan, Lord of Galloway, in
1209. Her third daughter, Devorgilla, was married to
John Baliol of Barnard Castle, and had with other
issue :
(i) JOHN BALIOL, who was a Competitor in 1291,
and afterwards King of Scotland,
(ii) Alianora, was married to John Comyn of Badenoch
and Tynedale. (See title Badenoch.)
v. Isabella was married to Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale.
(See title Annandale.) It was through her that
King Robert Bruce had a claim to the crown.
vi. Ada was married to Henry de Hastynges ; her grandson
John was a Competitor in 1291.
Earl David had also three illegitimate children :
(i) Henry of Stirling.
(ii) Henry of Brechin. These appear frequently in
charters of the period as sons of Earl David.
Henry of Stirling died apparently unmarried or
s. p. Henry of Brechin held the lordship of that
name, and by a wife named Julian, had issue,
(iii) Ada, was married to Malise, son of Earl Ferteth
and brother of Earl Gilbert of Strathearn.

(4) Ada was married in 1161 to Florent III., Count of Holland ;
her great grandson Florence V., Count of Holland, was a
Competitor in 1291.

(5) Margaret, was married first, in 1160, to Conan iv., Duke of
Brittany, Earl of Richmond, and by him had issue ;
second, to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford.

(6) Matilda, died young 1152.


more to follow.............

Scottish Banking(part 12)

....and sharp as a needle. One day, in the course of
paying a farmer a small account,there happened
to be a half-guinea among the change. The farmer
did not like to receive gold in payment in case of its
 being of light weight, and therefore, carefully
inspecting the half-guinea, he asked Mr. Macalpine
 if he was quite sure of it's being good weight. Mr.
Macalpine,taking the coin back from the farmer,
placed it on the tip of his elbow, and then poised it
as if he had been weighing it,after which he returned
 the piece to the farmer, saying, " Yes, yes, I'll
warrant it to be good weight!"
The farmer,however, was not satisfied with Mr.
 Macalpine’s mode of weighing gold,and after again
 carefully examining the half—guinea on both sides
,said,“I dinna ken,sir,but I think it looks unco bare!"
 "Bare,bare!” exclaimed Sandy. " Od’s my life,man
,would you have hair upon it?"
The poor farmer was quite dumbfounded at this
 sally, and so pocketed the half—guinea
without uttering another word.

Usually bankers are men of pacific demeanour,but
there are exceptions to every rule, as the following
story shows.

Towards the end of the eighteenth and early in the
nineteenth century the Cross was the great business
centre of the city. There the Exchange was situated,
where the newspapers were read and the war news
discussed by the Virginia Dons who strutted about in-
wigs and scarlet cloaks. Not far from the Cross, in
Gibson’s Wynd (now Princes Street, City), some 150
years ago, the Glasgow Post Office was situated. It
consisted of three apartments ;the front one measured
twelve feet square, the other two were mere pigeon-
holes, each ten feet by six, or thereby. The rent of the
premises was £6 or £8 a year. The delivery hole or
wicket was a hole broken through the wall of the close.
At this time the West Indian mail arrived only once
a month,and upon the arrival of the mail the pressure
that took place at the delivery of letters was quite over-
powering. So anxious were merchants to get their
letters that they attended personally, and were wont
to push and scramble at the little wicket window in
the close for first delivery of their expected remit-
tances.

Upon one of these occasions a fracas took place
between Henry Monteith, afterwards Lord Provost,
and Robert Watson, banker. From high words they
proceeded to downright fisticuffs, and had a regular
set—to in Princes Street. So long as the contest was
confined to words, the future Lord Provost and M.P.
had the best of it; but when it came to blows, the
banker showed himself the better man. Their friends,
however, interfered and separated them, and they are
said to have been afterwards fast friends.

Naturally, the success of the Ship and the Glasgow
Arms Bank tempted other institutions to endeavour
to obtain a share in the growing commercial
 prosperity of the City.


The first which sent a branch to Glasgow was the
Paisley Bank, or, as it was familiarly called,the"Old
Paisley.” This took place in 1784. At that period the
population of Glasgow was about 47,000 and of
Paisley about 21,000. The bank itself had been
established...............