Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

FAMILY OF DUND AS. 621
that I might see and understand guid manners and fashiones, quhan, fra the 1st
September till the 4th of March thairafter, and until the time of my marriage, he
disbursit all the charges upon me. Of the quhilk monies disbursit upon me
the said Sir Alexander never ressaivit but aucht scoir pundis, being thocht
meetest by lawyeris that I should be servit heir to my brother quha wes infeft
in the landis, to the effect that I might eschew to be heir to my guidsire, quha
gave privilege of my haill landis and woodis to my friendis of the house,"
&c. &c.
APPENDIX S (p. 377).
FAMILY OF DUNDAS.
Two years after his return from Abyssinia, James Bruce married secondly, on
the 20th of May 1776, Mary Dundas, daughter of Thomas Dundas of Fingask
by Lady Janet Maitland, daughter of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale.
Mrs Bruce died on the 10th of February 1785, aged 31 years, leaving one
son, "James," and one daughter, "Janet Maitland," an elder son, "David,"
having died in infancy.
The monument raised by Mr Bruce to their memory, and where his own re-
mains were deposited in April 1794, adjoins the churchyard of Larbert.
The Dundases of that Ilk trace their descent from Hclias, son of Uclitrcd, son
of Cospatrick, Earl of Dunbar and March ; and although the branch of the family
now holding the lands of Dundas claims to be the chief, there is no doubt that
the Dundases of Fingask descend from the elder brother, who forfeited in 1449,
with Sir Robert Bruce of Arthe, and their mutual father-in-law, " Sir Alexander
Livingstone." *
When the forfeiture was reversed, James de Dundas had restored to him
such of the estates as were still in the power of the crown — namely, Fingask,
Tulliallan, &c. On the forfeiture of James, Earl of Douglas, 8th June 1455,
" Dundas" the former seat of the family (whether by purchase or gift from the
crown is not clearly known), became the property of Sir Archibald Dundas,
second son of the late proprietor ; whilst at the same time the lands of Dum-
barny, also forfeited by the Earl of Douglas, were added to the Perthshire
estates of the elder brother, which were already more valuable than that which
gave its name to the family.
* See in " Lords of the Isles " another account of this forfeiture.
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