Essay on the origine of the royal family of Stewarts

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The Irijh, who in the firft Years of Mal-
colm's Reign difturbed the publick Peace, and
filled Scotland with Blood and Confufion, were
excluded from all public Polls. And Mal-
colm IV. who erected the Office of Senefchal,
or Steward, reckoned the Irijh his mortal E-
nemies. So that the fingular Opinion of our
Author concerning the Origine of the STEW-
ARTS is altogether unaccountable.
An additional Argument againfl the Opi-
nion of Dr. Kennedy, may be taken froni
the Names of Alan and Waller, that were
proper and peculiar to our firft Senechals or
Stewarts, under the SuccefTors of Malcolm
the III. Thofe Names were unknown to
the Scots, and even to the Irijh, before the
Conquefl of their Country, by Henry the II.
King of England, which may appear from our
Charters in the nth and 12th Century; and
the Accounts we have of the Ecclefiaftical
Councils in Ireland ; in neither of which we
find the Names of Alan or Walter, but a
deal of ftrange and barbarous Words, harfli
to be pronounced, and even hardly to be put
in