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1ST EARI SIR JOHN STEWART TRAQUAIR

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 214 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:STEWART See also:TRAQUAIR  . OF (d . 1659), Scottish statesman, was the son of See also:John See also:Stewart, the younger, of See also:Traquair in See also:Peeblesshire, of a See also:branch, originally illegitimate, of the See also:house of See also:Buchan, and was created See also:Baron Stewart of Traquair in 1628 and See also:earl of Traquair in 1633 . He was appointed treasurer depute of See also:Scotland and an extraordinary See also:lord of session in 163o, and is said to have given the casting See also:vote against the second Lord See also:Balmerino at his trial in 1634, . but afterwards obtained his See also:pardon . From 1636 to 1641 he held the See also:office of lord high treasurer of Scotland, and aided See also:Charles I. in introducing the See also:liturgy . He endeavoured to prevent a conflict by impressing on the See also:king the See also:necessity of caution and the danger of extreme See also:measures against the rioters . He was, however, compelled to publish Charles's See also:proclamation enforcing the use of the liturgy and forbidding hostile demonstrations on See also:pain of See also:treason (1638) . This was followed by military measures in which Traquair assisted by secretly conveying munitions of See also:war to See also:Dalkeith See also:Palace . He was, however, obliged to surrender the See also:place with the See also:regalia to the See also:Covenanters (See also:March 1639) . After the treaty of See also:Berwick he was appointed the king's See also:commissioner to the See also:assembly at See also:Edinburgh (See also:August 1639), and he assented in See also:writing to the See also:act abolishing See also:episcopacy, but prevented its ratification by adjourning the opening of See also:parliament . His apparent See also:double-dealing made him suspected by both parties, and in x641 the Scottish parliament issued a See also:warrant for his See also:arrest . In his See also:absence he was sentenced to See also:death, but, although the king secured the remission of this See also:penalty, he was dismissed from his office of treasurer, and in 1644, for repairing to the See also:court and opposing the See also:covenant, he was declared an enemy to See also:religion and fined 40,000 marks .

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Linton, whom he had sent to See also:Montrose with a See also:troop of See also:horse, withdrew on the See also:eve of the See also:battle of Philiphaugh (See also:September 1645) and it has been supposed that Traquair betrayed Montrose's plans to See also:Leslie . He was readmitted to parliament in 1646, raised See also:cavalry for the " engagement " between the king and the Covenanters, and was captured at See also:Preston (1648) . He was released by See also:Cromwell in 1654, and died on the 27th of March 1659 . He was succeeded by his only son John (c . 1622-1666), whose descendants held the See also:title until 1861, when on the death of Charles, the 8th earl, it became dormant or See also:extinct . See also See also:Spalding, Memorialls (Spalding See also:Club); See also:Sir See also:James See also:Balfour, See also:Annals (ed . Haig, 1824) ; See also:Diet . Nat . Biog. vol. liv .

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