Lot 149
Lockhart of Lee, of Carnwath (?1681-1731)
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
eldest son of Sir George Lockhart of Lee, of Carnwath (c1630-1689), volume recording legal transactions, regarding a "tutor" (the guardian and administrator of the estate of a pupil, for George Lockhart (?1681-1731), eldest son of Sir George Lockhart of Lee, of Carnwath, folio volume, 42pp., contemporary calf, clasps, worn, cover detached, [1690-92]
Footnote
Note: On his father's death, the young George needed a tutor (the guardian and administrator of the estate of a pupil [a minor - girls under 12 or boys under 14]), and his uncle, Sir John Lockhart, Lord Castlehill of the Court of Session, was appointed. The volume seems to record some of the subsequent legal transactions.
Lockhart, who was member for the shire of Edinburgh in the Parliament of Scotland, was appointed a commissioner for arranging the union with England in 1705. After the union he continued to represent Edinburgh and, later, the Wigtown burghs. His sympathies were with the Jacobites, whom he kept informed of all the negotiations for the union; in 1713 he took part in an abortive movement aiming at the repeal of the union. Lockhart was the source of intelligence revealing the extensive bribery of Scottish parliamentarians prior to the Treaty of Union, giving rise to the famous Robert Burns line: "bought and sold for English gold". He published a list of bribes paid by the English Treasury, and was deeply implicated in the rising of 1715.
We would like to acknowledge the help of the National Records of Scotland in cataloguing this lot.