Marquis Of
a Scotch noble, and a distinguished royalist leader under Charles I., known, in English history, as the "Great Marquis"; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1613. He took an active part on the side of the king, was created a marquis, and in a few months gained the battles of Perth, Aberdeen, and Inverlochy. In 1645 his fortune changed; and after suffering a defeat from Lesley, at Philiphaugh, near Selkirk, he was obliged to leave the kingdom; in 1648 he landed in Orkney with a few followers, but was soon overpowered, conveyed to Edinburgh, and there decapitated and quartered May 21, 1650.
MONTSERRAT (mont-se-rat') (Latin Mons Serratus, so named from its sawlike outline), a mountain of Catalonia, in N. E. Spain, 30 miles N. W. of Barcelona. Its height is 4,055 feet. The mountain owes its celebrity to the Benedictine abbey built halfway up it, with its wonder-working image of the Virgin, and to the 13 hermitages formerly perched like eagles' nests on almost inaccessible pinnacles. In 1811 the French, under Suchet, plundered the abbey, burned the library, shot the hermits, and hanged the monks. The place in 1827 became the stronghold of the Carlist insurrection.