Genealogy of the family of Forbes

OF THE
GfeNE ALOGIE
OF THE
HOUSS OF FORBES:
COIIPTLED BT
MR MATHEW LUMSDEy,
OF TILLIKERNB.
1580.
(S iNCE SO it IS that everie man desires particularlie to know, (as
writt the Philosophers) so my Master, John Master of Forbesj
has laboured at me with great instance to make him informa'ne
and knowledge of the genealogie and surename of the houss of
Forbes, by reason, as he alleadges, ther is dail of years past on
me, and I being willing to obey his request, have done the same
as I have heard and learned, that is to say, begining at the first
begining, and as how they tooke ther surname, from the slaugh»
ter of a beast, I will referr it to that most cunning Doctor, Mr.
Hector Boyes, holding him famous and authentick, as may be
seen in the thretteent book of his Cronicles, and as may appear
short while after, in the Bruce tyme. The field of Rossling was
stricken by Syraen Fraser and John Cujnine, and that this g^,-
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