Salt-foot controversy

REPLY TO CANDIDUS. 17
Laird of Cambusnethen's table — which for ordinary
every Sabboth they dyned at, as did most of the
honest men within the parish of any account."*
An assertion which he also makes when talking of
his brother, Sir James Stewart of Kirkfield and
Coltness, whom he styles " a gentleman of very
mean familie upon Clyde, being brother-germ an to
the goodman of Allentone (a fewar of the Earle of
Tweddill's in Auchtermuire, within Cambusnethen
parish), whose predecessors, before this man, never
came to sit above the Laird of Cambusnethen's salt-
foot."!
On the other hand, the Allantons stoutly main-
tain, that both Sir Walter's immediate, and more
remote ancestry, were princely and baronial, forming
" one of the most ancient branches of the House of
Stewart," that had existed as a separate family
for no less than five centuries, directly asserting their
claim to the following splendid descent :
\ 1. Sir Robert Stewart, first baron of Daldiie,
born long before the year 1300, sixth son of Sir
John Stuart of Bonkil — which last was lawful bro-
ther of James, high steward of Scotland, grandfather
* Memorie of the Somervilles, vol. ii. p. 394. f Ibid. p. 380.
X The descent bestowed upon the family by Candidus, virtually
involves the pedigree in the text — most of what he has specifically
condescended upon, and the entire remainder in the text, has been
directly acknowledged by " the learned and worthy Baronet," in
his Genealogical History of the Stewarts refuted. Vide pages
29, 60, 136, 137 ; — the matriculation of his arms in the Lyon
Office, — and elsewhere. £Vid. also Appendix].
B