Genealogy of the family of Forbes

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as is stated above, and the following epitapTi was written for his
tomb : —
Here lye the bodies of Duncan Forbes oF Ciilloden, and his spouse
Janet Forbes, lineally descended of the honourable families of Tol-
quhoun and Corsenday respectively, who departed this life, viz. the
said Janet, aged 66, upon the 8th day of November, anno 1651, and
said Duncan, aged 82, upon the 14th day of October, 1654.
These polished stones
Placed here above thy bones, '
Add to thy honour not a whitt,
VVhich was before, and still remains, complete.
Thy memory shall ever recent be
Preserved by such as draw their blood from thecj
Who in regard of thy good fame.
Receive reward by claiming to thy name ;
For thy remains do honour to this place,
And thy true virtue honours all thy race.
Accident having placed the narrative in our hands, we have
given it solely on that account.
We need add little to the history of his own familj', given by
Duncan Forbes of Culloden. The active exertions on the side
of freedom, of the first Duncan of Culloden, of his son John,
(who purchased Ferrintosh and Bunchrew, 1 670,) and of Dun-
can his son, the writer of the narrative, "gave the fan.ily great
political weight at the close of the 1,7th century. They were
generally in Parliament, and the privilege of Ferrintosh was
given by the Scotch Parliament, for their losses before and after
the revolution, and for their signal services. Mr. John Forbes,
the son of the foresaid Duncan, was a very active Patriot and
Member of Parliament : he died in 17S4, and was succeeded by
his brother Duncan, (who married a daughter of Kilravock,) then
Lord Advocate, and who from 1737, till his death in 1747, dis-
tinguished himself as Lord President of the Court of Session, and
as one of the chief supporters the House of Brunswick had in
the rebellion of 1 745. His services had been very great previ-
ously in the same cause, in 1715, as were his brother's, who ex.-