Genealogy of the family of Forbes

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jsrwards this came to be pronounced corruptedly For-beast. Bocc,
and many a transcriber from bim, relate the story with the utmost gra-
vity of historical narrative. Martin (Genealogical Collections, volume
2d, page 17th) says, that one Salvathius Forbes married Moravilla,
daughter of Gregory the great king of Scotland, about 870, and that
all the Forbeses in Scotland are descended from him ; but Nisbet, vol.
11, page 517, says that Ochonacher, an Irishman of quality, slew a
monstrous wild boar, and from that event took the name of Forboar.
.There is a confusion here o? Boars and Bears which I will not pretend
to unravel. Sir Thomas Urquhart, in one of his rapsodies says, that
i'horbas, a Greek, was the ancestor of the family ; and that, as fre-
quently happens, the appellative became a surname."
From the general conditions of the capitulation of Bruce and the
Scotch in 1503, to king Edward the First, the following persons were
excepted : the Bishop of Glasgow, the Stewart, Sir John Soulis, Da-
vid de Graham, Alexander de Lindsay, Simon Fraser, Thomas Bois,
and Sir William WaUace — men devoted to their country, and of course
to the utmost ftiry of the conqueror, whtbh inoet of tliem felt in all it'^
horrors.
As the beginning of every work is generally the last printed, %ut
itiay here apologise for a few er7-ors, the result of a very difficult
ancient hand-writing ; likewise for a small error in page Zth, re-
garding the arms of Mackay...and Forbes; the word Should be
Bears' heads, not £oars' heads, as to Forbes ; and the cheveron in
3Iackay's shield is Or, not Argent: they hear likewise a deer's
hcadfoT Reay. Our . giving collective nouns a plural verb per-
haps hardly needs apology. — Page 4, line 2, of Essay, pid is for are ;
tnid in line 3 of Note to page 7, his for their. JVe believe there
are few other errors, even of inadvertence.