Alexander Baile Skene

III.— Mr. Alexander Skene of Newtyle.

On 15th January, 1625, Alexander Skene, eldest son of Robert Skene, burgess of Aberdeen, is admitted burgess "jure paternitatis et dispens. cum jure jurando quia pupillus est et infra setatem " ; and, on 20th June, 1648, he served heir to his father, Robert Skene, and is infeft
in the tenement " in vico lemurum."

On 26th August, 1646, he was married at Kirkaldie to Lilias Gillespie, daughter of Mr. John Gillespie, minister of Kirkaldie who died soon after.

In 1656 we find him one of the magistrates of Aberdeen ; and in 1657 he acquired, from Sir Alexander Forbes of Foveran, the lands of Newtyle, in the Parish of Foveran.

In 1669 "Alexander Skene, a magistrate in Aberdeen, his wife Lilian became a quaker, also Alexander Skene himself. He narrates of him-self that having once before his conversion to quakerism bitterly reviled the quakers, he became seized with the complaint called Cynicus Spasmus, by which his mouth continually turned about, which lasted sometime" (MS.E). In 1677 he published a pamphlet with the title " The Way Cast up," and on the 5th of the fifth month, 1679, he wrote an address to the Presbyterians, entitled " A^Plain and Peaceable Advice to those called Presbyterians in Scotland," by Alexr. Skene (London, 1681).

His other literary works, including MS.A., are noticed in the Introduction.

The arms of "Mr. Alexander Skene of Newtyle" are thus recorded in the Lyon Register? " Parted per chief azur and gules three skenes argent hefted and pomelled or, surmounted of as many woolf-heads couped of the third." Crest : " A dexter hand holding a corona triumphalis." Motto : " Sors mihi grata cadet."

By his wife, Lilias Gillespie, who died in 1697, he had the following
children : —

1. I. Robert Skene, born 29th October, 1647 ; died young.
2. ' II. John Skene.
3. III. Lilias Skene, baptised 31st August, 1651.

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