Article: The Heiresses of Buccleuch: Marriage, Money and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain.

Maurice Lee, Jr. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, Ltd., 1996. xi + 143 pp. [pounds]14.99. ISBN: 898410-49-6.

Maurice Lee has had a distinguished career as a historian of early modern Scotland and England, particularly focusing on the career of James VI and I. His most recent book, The Heiresses of Buccleuch, is rather a departure for him in a number of ways. It is set in the later seventeenth century, and for the most part focuses on interesting but much more minor characters of court politics. Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch, died young after entailing his estate on his two surviving daughters, Mary and Anna. Lee describes their marriages and their ultimate ...

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