Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond

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applied to the council of Scotland, and having instructed,
by many strong evidences, the original extraction of the
name, and the particular descent of this John Escortio,
obtained a large and noble attestation of the whole mat-
ter. This noble testimony, containing the descent of the
Drummonds from that first Hungarian, admiral to Queen
Margaret in her voyage to Scotland, was sealed with the
great seal of the kingdom, and had the particular seals
appended, and the subs^fiptions added of every one of
the councillors then present, viz. James, archbishop of
S'. Andrew's, Gavin, bishop of Aberdeen, James, bishop
of Dunblane, Archibald, earl of Angus, Lord Douglas,
George, earl of Huntly, Lord Gordon, Colin, earl of
Argyll, Lord Campbell and Lorn, John, earl of Lennox,
Lord Darnly, Cuthbert, earl of Glencairn, Lord Kil-
maurs, John, Lord Lindsay, John Stirling of Keir,
James Tours of Innerleith, knights, John Charters of
Amersfield, Mr. David Kinghorn, Alexander Scot, &c.
Upon which deed, Sir Robert Barton of Overbarton,
comptroller and councellor, tutor and guardian to David,
Lord Drummond, then under minority, asked and took
instruments in the hands of Mr. John Chapman, notary
and clerk to the council. This testimony Lord Drum-
mond transmitted to his cousins in Madeira, with the
following letter.
For our dear and well beloved cousins Manuel Alphonso
Feriera Drummond, and his Irethren, gentlemen in the
isle of Madeira.
Dear and well beloved cousins, I have received, and
understood, much to my comfort, and with a very good
will, your letter from the isle Madeira of 2 d July, in the