Volume 2

246            GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL.II

Bishop of Aberdeens Daughter who bear to him
Forbes of Alathen                          Forbes of Alathen Married

Colison daughter to Gilbert Colison Merch^t in Aberdeen the
Bairns are Young.

MALCOM 2^d Son to the Laird of Drimminer having Spent
his Time Riotously dyed and left only one Son John who by
the fashion of that part of the Countrey was Called John
Malcomson.

JOHN MALCOMSON Succeeded his father in Means & Manners
who in a Contest with the Kers of Rothymurkus about the
Bylerie of Braemarr was Killed and left behind him 3 Sons
Robert who dyed but Children, Alexander had a Son of
Good Life and Malcom.

MALCOM had 4 Sons Viz: John of Culwharie, Robert of
Bucham, James of Ledmacoy and Peter of Argerth.

Culwharie.

JOHN of Culwharie Married                          Abercrombie Who
bear to him

Bucham.

ROBERT of Bucham Married                      Bisset of Lissendrum
his Daughter

Ledmacoy.

JAMES of Ledmacoy Married a Daughter of Finlay Farquhar-
sons

Argerth.

PETER FORBES of Argerth Married                     Keith Daughter
to

JOHN FORBES 3^d Son to the above Laird of Drimminer (called
John out with the Sword) A man of Lewd Life, So the King
being Informed of his great Oppression wrote to Sir Alexander
Forbes of Drimminer to put Remeide thereto And if he would
not he would Charge Others for that Effect whereupon Sir
Alexander took him at the Kirk of Forbes, and caused Strike
off his head and Buried him behind the Kirk And Set his
grave about with tiped Stons which as yet is there to be Seen.

[page 69.]

THE CADENTS or Second Sons of ALEX-
ANDER First LORD FORBES.

Mr. John¹ Provost of St. Giles's Kirk in Edinburgh.—[By

page 68.]

¹ — Charta Magistro Willielmo Forbes Praeposito Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ
Beati Ægidii de Edinburgh de una Annua Pensione ducentarum et viginti