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II.
OF THE COUNTESS OF GOWRIE.
CONTENTS.
Subject proposed. Old Lines of Poetry. Claimants oi'
the Crown of England, in the year 1600. The Lady
Arabella Stewart. Timidity of early Writers. Extract
from the State Paper Office, London. Lord Strathallan
quoted. The Subject formerly was of a political kind.
Earl of Cromarty quoted. Crawfurd quoted. Bishop Bur-
net quoted. Crawfurd's Imperfect Evidence. Principal
Robertson quoted. Lessly, Bishop of Ross, quoted. David
Hume of Godscroft, Bishop Keith, and Duncan Robert-
son, quoted. The most probable Conjecture. Marriage
of William, Master of Ruthven, and Dorothea Stewart.
Character and Affections of the Countess of Gowrie.
My endeavour, in this dissertation, will be to
ascertain the parentage of Dorothea Stewart, who
was the wife of William Lord Ruthven, the first
Earl of Gowrie, and mother to the unfortunate
OF THE COUNTESS OF GOWRIE.
CONTENTS.
Subject proposed. Old Lines of Poetry. Claimants oi'
the Crown of England, in the year 1600. The Lady
Arabella Stewart. Timidity of early Writers. Extract
from the State Paper Office, London. Lord Strathallan
quoted. The Subject formerly was of a political kind.
Earl of Cromarty quoted. Crawfurd quoted. Bishop Bur-
net quoted. Crawfurd's Imperfect Evidence. Principal
Robertson quoted. Lessly, Bishop of Ross, quoted. David
Hume of Godscroft, Bishop Keith, and Duncan Robert-
son, quoted. The most probable Conjecture. Marriage
of William, Master of Ruthven, and Dorothea Stewart.
Character and Affections of the Countess of Gowrie.
My endeavour, in this dissertation, will be to
ascertain the parentage of Dorothea Stewart, who
was the wife of William Lord Ruthven, the first
Earl of Gowrie, and mother to the unfortunate
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| Description | By the Rev. James Scott, vice-president of the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth, and late senior minister of that city. Edinburgh : Printed by Balfour & Clarke, and sold by William Blackwood, 1818. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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