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and Marie Stewart He, or more likely, his older half-brother, the Master of Mar, danced in '' Lord Haddington's masque'' in 1608. Henry and his brother Alexander Erskine took an extended

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in France and Italy from 1618 to 1620 and met

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in Venice. In March 1624 he wrote to his father from London, with news of the parliament. It had been decided to formally abandon the

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. His brother Alexander Erskine was raise a company of Scots horsemen for the Prince of Orange. He had not written to his mother, as he did not want to get involved in the affairs of his lately deceased uncle,

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, despite the unwelcome intervention of

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suggested that one of the Erskines, Alexander or Henry, should marry one of her ladies in waiting, Mistress Margaret or Margery Croft (d. 1637), a daughter of the Catholic Sir Herbert Croft of

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and Mary Bourne. The marriage plan, which did not take place, was examined by

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, who supposed that Croft was not of sufficient status to marry the son of an earl. Henry Erskine married Margaret Bannatyne or Bellenden in 1626, daughter of Sir James Bellenden of Broughton. Their son David Erskine succeeded to the barony of Cardross, and in 1646 married Anne Hope, daughter of Sir Thomas Hope.David Matthew, ''Scotland under Charles I'' (London, 1955), p. 74.

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