Henry Lindsay, 13th Earl of Crawford (died 1623) also known as Harry Charteris, was a Scottish landowner and courtier. Henry Lindsay was a younger brother of David Lindsay

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, a son of

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and Margaret Beaton, daughter of

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and

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. However, he took the name Charteris in 1584 and was adopted as heir to John Charteris of Kinfauns and Janet Chisholm. He was laird of

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near

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and Careston in Angus. He was Master of the Household for

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and audited her household accounts, with

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. This position was not as lucrative as he hoped, and in 1592 with a cousin and fellow Master of Household,

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of Melgund, he complained about their arduous roles and low wage compared to other officers. In December 1591 Lindsay, during the

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, defended the door of the queen's chamber at

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against the followers of

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. He probably built the house at Careston or "Carrestoun" which has fireplaces following the patterns of the French designer

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. In 1598 he built the Charteris burial aisle at Kinfauns where his heraldry features conjoined with that of his wife Helen Chisholm, with their initials "HC" and "HCL". Helen was the daughter of Sir James Chisholm of Cromlix and Jean Drummond a daughter of

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. In June 1592 Lindsay and 40 armed followers attacked the Place of Pitfour at night. They hid themselves close to the house and sent a messenger boy to get the yard gates or "yetts" opened. The trick worked but David Cochrane's defenders beat them back and closed the gates. Lindsay's men then managed to break into the castle, forced the family and their retainers out, and put in his own men under his servant John Tweedy. In 1594 Lindsay attempted to evade rents for lands and fishing at

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owed to

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but the

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found against him. On 21 September 1594 he attempted to intercede with James VI for the

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and offered to help capture the rebel

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, but the king dismissed his intervention. In July 1602 his followers and other retainers of the Lindsay family attacked David Ogilvy, a son of Lord Ogilvy, on his way from

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. Ogilvy was badly injured and his servant William Innes was killed. This outrage, near to the King's

, was thought to be a quarrel of

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. In 1603 Sir George Home of Spott and Thomas Hamilton complained to the

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that Lindsay had gone to Perth with a dozen armed men to find his enemy Patrick Eviot. They found him at the South Inch and shot at him but he was able to escape in a little boat. Lindsay was imprisoned in

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. In November 1618 Lindsay, his servant David Knight, and others captured Patrick Lindsay of Barnyards at Glenquiech and imprisoned him at Finavon and the Kirk of Oathlaw, and tried to make him sign away his heritage. The threats were renewed in 1619 in Lindsay's house in Edinburgh and at Patrick's house at Corsuquhy, when Patrick was again imprisoned at

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and made him sign documents at

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. Lindsay became Earl of Crawford in 1621. As earl, he began to molest the tenants of David Lord Carnegie. One day Henry Finlayson was walking on his farm at Watterstoun and encountered Lindsay, who grabbed his staff from his hands and beat him with it. He died in 1623.

Family

Henry Lindsay married three times. His first wife was Beatrix Charteris. They had no children. His second wife was Helen Chisholm. These were connections of the Kinfauns family. His third wife was Euphemia or Elizabeth Schaw, a daughter of James Schaw of

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. After the death of Harry Lindsay, she appealed to King James for financial and legal assistance. The King asked the treasurer of Scotland, the Earl of Mar, to help because she had been a faithful servant to Anne of Denmark. Three sons survived him, George, Alexander, and

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, who all became Earl of Crawford in turn. Another son John died before him, John had married Jean Abernethy. William Drummond
''The genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond'' (Glasgow, 1879), p. 200.
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References

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