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!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Bart., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, Vol. 2, Second Edition, John Philip Wood, Esq., Editor, Edinburgh, 1813, p. 9. IX. Alexander, Lord of the Isles, succeeded his father, and was, with his mother Lady Margaret, who assumed th etitle of Countess of Ross, arrested by King James I. when he held a parliament at Inverness, in spring 1427, that monarch wishing to humble him, as his predecessors had asserted an independency dangerous to Scotland, and had treaed with the English Kings as sovereign princes. The Lord of the Isles was soon released [Alexander de Yle, Lord of the Isles, gave the island of Barra to Gillcownan Rodrici Murchardi Macneill, by charter, dated 23d June 1427. Mag. Sig. L. xiii. No. 152.]; but his mother was detained in prison probably as an hostage for her son, who, however, in 1429, raised a body of men, and burnt the town of Inverness; the King overtook him in Lochaber, and totally defeated the invader, 23d June 1429. Reduced to despair, the Lord of the Isles sent an embassy to entreat peace, which being refused, he resoved to throw himself on the King's mercy. For this purpose he came privately to Edinburgh, and on the 27th of August 1429, attired only in his shirt and drawers, he, before the high altar of Holyrood church, upon his knees, presented his drawn sword to the King, in presence of the Queen and nobles. His life was spared, in consideration of his humble submission; but he was committed to Tamtallan castle, under the charge of the Earl of Angus; and his mother, the Countess of Ross, was sent to the island of Inchcolm, in the Frith of Forth. She appears to have died the same year, when her son assumed the title of Earl of Ross, as Alexander de Isle, Comes Rossiae, on the 24th October 1429, granted a precept to Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath. A free pardon was granted to the Earl of Ross, in a parliament held at Perth, 1431. After the death of James I. he had the office of Justiciary of Scotland benorth of the Forth, as, in a charter in the possession of Innes of Innes, dated 22d February 1438, the Earl of Ross is called Justiciarius Scotiae ex parte boreali aquae de Forth. He granted a charter of the lands of Kilravock to John Ross, 22d June 1440; and died in the end of 1448, or beginning of 1449. By his wife, Elisabeth, only daughter of Alexander Seton, Lord of Gordon and Huntly, he had issue.