Essay on the origine of the royal family of Stewarts

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in which Charters , confirmed by the Pope, not the
leaft Efcape is allowed, becaufe the leafl Error in
Writings efpecicdly of Names ', would invalidate
the Grant contain d in the Charter : Confequently \
this dejlroys entirely the Doclors wild Affertion,
and that of fome other late Genealogifts, who de-
rive our Stewarts from Banco, whom they make
a Collector of the publlck Taxes, and one of the
Affaffins of King Duncan. His Son, if he had
any other Exiftence than that which they have
given him, was a lewd Fellow according to their
own Accounts, and, before Marriage, debauched
the Prince of Wales's Daughter. So that Walter
the Firft of our Stewarts, from whom we can de-
duce the Defcent of our Kings by indifpntable Do-
cuments, in a direcl Line, as well as the collateral
Branches, would have been, as they relate the
Matter, a Baflard. Which fooli/h and vile At-
tempt of theirs deferves an exemplary Pim'fjment^
that fo others may be deterred from rai/ing and
fpread'wg fuch falfe and abominable AJperfions*
FINIS,