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AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO AT PAGE 17, FROM " THE
GENEALOGY OF THE STEWARTS REFUTED?*
" iSJ ext to the writers, Sir, (addressing himself to Andrew
Stewart) who have treated this subject (the Pedigree of
Castlemilk, I should recommend, to your attentive peru-
sal, the Tables which the best genealogists, and particu-
larly Sir Robert Douglas, and Mr John Brown, have com-
piled on the name of Stewart. Of the former the accu-
racy is well known, and justly applauded ; although from
the confusion of names, (as, for example, in the case of
Jedworth) he may inadvertently have fallen into some
errors.—" In regard to Mr Brown, his work is, without
doubt, one of the most ample and correct views of any
surname ever delivered to the Publick," (It is here ad-
ded in a note " This Table is handsomely engraved, and
was published at Edinburgh, with a very numerous list of
subscribers, 1797. 1 ') Here, in particular, the delineation of
the House of Bonkill is executed with great impartiality
and precision, and is every way consistent with existing docu-
ments. No generations in the Darnley line, are invected
or annihilated ; nor is there an unaccountable omission
(which in your Table is conspicuous) of Sir Robert the
* The Work already mentioned of which the Honourable Ba-
ronet was the anonymous Author, published in the year 1799.
p. 136—7.