Volume 2

276               GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. II

[page 121.]

AN EXACT and Well Vouched GENEA-
LOGIE of the Ancient Family of KNOC
or KNOX of RANFURLIE in the Barony
& County of RENFREW in the King-
dom of SCOTLAND.

[page 122.]

In an Inquiry by Some Antiquaries into the Origine and
progress of Sirnames among us it is Asserted that the Original
Ancester of the Family of Ranfurlie in the Shire of Renfrew
was Adam Filius Uchtredi who in the Reign of Alexander the
Second Obtained from Walterus Filius Allani Senescallus
Scotiæ the Progenitor of the Serene Race of the Stewarts,
The Lands of Knock in Baronia Sua de Renfrew Tenendas
de Se et Heredibus Suis¹ And According to the prevailing
Custom at that time he Assumed from thence a Sirname for
its an Agreed Maxim Amongst Antiquarians That it is a
Sufficient Proof of Antient Descent That the Inhabitant hath
his Name from the place he Inhabits.² The family got Also
from the Great Stewart the Lands of Ranfurlie Grief Castle
in Few and Heritage, In feodo et Hereditate, which Continued
in their family while they Existed.

The Son of Adam filius Uchtredi is Joannis de Knox in
the Reign of King Alexander the 3^d. He is a witnes to the
Donation which Sir Anthony Lombard made to the Abbot
and Convent of the Abbacy of Paisly de tertia parte Terarum
de Fulton the third part of the Lands of Fulton in the Barony
of Renfrew in Anno 1274.³ Altho' they were Considered
as one of the Chief and principal families where they Resided
yet they had not been able to preserve the more Antient

¹  The Charters of Ranfurlie I have Seen in the Custody of the Earl of Dun-
donald.

²  Cambdens Remains the Learned Antiquary Mr. Cambden.

³  The Chartulary of the Abbacy of Paisley which I had the Honour to peruse
by the favour of the Earl of Dundonald.