Note 10 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND,
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The Earl of Middleton who was appointed Governor of Tangier, was John, first Earl, so celebrated in the History of Scotland during the civil wars, and in the early years of King Charles's Restoration. He had been deprived, in 1663, of all his offices, and received the governorship of Tangier as a kind of honourable exile. Charles, second Earl of Middleton, his son, followed the fortunes of the House of Stuart, and his estate was forfeited by Act of Parliament, 1695.