Historical and genealogical account of the principal families of the name of Kennedy

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BY HIS ADWYISE. P. 55.
In this and numerous other instances in the History, and also in similar wri-
tings of that age, ' by' signifies without, in opposition or contrary to.
BY MAKING HIM FOIRSEINE. IBID.
In like manner, this denotes ' without previously forewarning the Earl,' or
acquainting him with the fact.
MY GUDE-SISTER1S GUD WILL. IBID.
The sense of this passage is, ' I am in as great danger to lose the good will of
my sister-in-law, Lady Bargany, as he is in to forfeit my Lord's,' &c.
THOMAS AND HIS SETTIS FOR HIM. — IBID.
The Laird of Drummurchie and his accomplices lay in wait, or in ambush.
This old phrase is peculiarly expressive, and denotes the intensity of the act.
Perhaps the sporting term to ' set,' as a pointer, &c. may be borrowed from it.
THE prowestschew off the coli.edge of mayboll, &c. IBID.
The Laird of Colzeane, if ' the Hiftorie' is correct, (which, upon that point,
there is no reason to doubt,) had Jive sons, 1 Thomas, James, Alexander, John,
and David. Thomas, younger of Colzean, must have died, in France, at the close
of the year 1601, or early in anno 1602 — for his brother James was served and
retoured heir to him, May 18, 1602. 2 He had got the Provostship of the Colle-
giate Church of Maybole conferred on his eldest son by the Earl of Cassillis, the
patron ; and, from his long services, and his intimate connexion with the family,
he naturally expected it would have been bestowed on James, his successor ; but
when it ' waikitt,' (vaked,) or became vacant, the Earl bestowed it upon a crea-
ture of his own, Gilbert Ross, a Notary. This occasioned a serious quarrel, which
terminated fatally, as is described in the text.
1 The Peerages only notice the three first of these sons of Sir Thomas Kennedy. ' See
Wood's Peerage, I. 336. Crawford's Peerage. Play/air's Brit. Fam. Antiquities, &c.
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