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WILLIAM DOUGLAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 44 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:DOUGLAS , loth See also:earl (c. 1554-1611), was the son of William, the 9th earl (1533–1591)• He studied at St See also:Andrews University and joined the See also:household of the earl of See also:Morton. Subsequently, while visiting the See also:French See also:court, he became a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and was in consequence, on his return, disinherited and placed under See also:restraint. Nevertheless he succeeded to his See also:father's titles and estates in 1591, and though in 1392 he was' disgraced for his complicity in See also:Lord See also:Bothwell's See also:plot, he was soon liberated and performed useful services as the See also:king's See also:lieutenant in the See also:north of See also:Scotland. In See also:July 1592, however, he was asking for help from See also:Elizabeth in a plot with See also:Erroll and other lords against See also:Sir See also:John See also:Maitland, the See also:chancellor, and protesting his See also:absolute rejection of See also:Spanish offers, while in See also:October he signed the Spanish Blanks (see ERROLL, See also:FRANCIS See also:HAY, 9th EARL oF) and was imprisoned (on the See also:discovery of the See also:treason) in See also:Edinburgh See also:Castle on his return in See also:January 1593. He succeeded on the 13th in escaping by the help of his countess, joining the earls of See also:Huntly and Erroll in the north. They were offered an See also:act of " oblivion " or " abolition " provided they renounced their See also:religion or quitted Scotland. Declining these conditions they were declared traitors and " forfeited." They remained in See also:rebellion, and in July 1594 an attack made by them on See also:Aberdeen roused See also:James's anger. Huntly and Erroll were subdued by James himself in the north, and See also:Angus failed in an See also:attempt upon Edinburgh in See also:concert with the earl of Bothwell. Subsequently in 1597 they all renounced their religion, declared themselves Presbyterians, and were restored to their estates and honours. Angus was again included in the privy See also:council, and in See also:June 1598 was appointed the king's lieutenant in See also:southern Scotland, in which capacity he showed See also:great zeal and conducted the " See also:Raid of See also:Dumfries," as the See also:campaign against the Johnstones was called. Not See also:long afterwards, Angus, offended at the See also:advancement of Huntly to a'marquisate, recanted, resisted all the arguments of the ministers to bring him to a " better mind," and was again excommunicated in 1608.

In 1609 he withdrew to See also:

France, and died in See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:March 1611. He was succeeded by his son William, as filth earl of Angus, afterwards 1st See also:marquis of Douglas (1589–166o). The See also:title is now held by the See also:dukes of See also:Hamilton.

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