Salt-foot controversy

JtEPLY TO THE REMARKS. 9*
things. He will only believe what may be agree-
able to Sir Henry Steuart upon two conditions.
1st. That he produce evidence of the existence of
" Sir Allan the Banneret" — more especially an au-
thentic extract, if not the original, of the charter in
1393, demonstrating him to be there.
2dly, That he publish the family manuscript with
a fact simile of the hand writing, by which it shall
appear not to be of modern date. If Mr G. R. can
engage the Honourable Baronet to accede to this re-
quest, he will then most readily, without any further
scruple, swear to the truth and accuracy of every
link of his pedigree.
He afterwards proceeds, in his usual manner, to beg
the question, asserting that the family of Allanton are
one of" the most ancient and respectable branches of
the House of Stewart," and, according to Genealo-
gists, descended either from the sixth son of Sir
John Stewart of Bonkill, or a " younger branch of
the House of Darnly — (So at last, some doubt
is entertained of the first origin !) that he has
distinctly proved, and by charters too, that they
have held lands in Lanarkshire for more than four
hundred years back!" and, on these assumptions,
which he converts into facts, charges me with illi-
berally, injustice, and wilful misrepresentation !*
" But now (says he) comes the * main proposition'
of Mr J. R., including the whole pith, sum, and sub-
* He here, (Remarks, p. 72.) talks of a " Genealogical persecu-
tion" which, it seems, has been long instituted against " the learn-