Pedigree of Scott, of Stokoe, in the parish of Symondburn, and County of Northumberland,

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these pedigrees : he died without male issue. There
are but few particulars we are now able to discover
concerning this person's private history ; from his
said book, tradition, and accounts handed down
from his daughter, &c. he appears, however, to
have been in the British army in 1629, and that
he entered into the service of the illustrious Gus-
tavus, King of Sweden, probably some time in or
about the year 1631 ; and he seems to have been
in the said service during all that king's great and
astonishing wars in Germany, and to have con-
tinued in the said army long after that king's
death ; for he does not appear to have returned
home to Scotland until a considerable time after
the peace of Munster in 1648. He, some time
after his return home, and when, an old man,
married a young woman, by whom he had the said
daughter, whom he called Gustava, in memory of
his illustrious master ; and he seems to have lived
to a very great age, for his said book was not
printed till 1688. The eldest daughter of the
said Walter of Whitslade married the Laird of
Black-Ormiston ; the second to Langlands,
of that Ilk ; the third to the Laird of Tosturnbull ;
the fourth to the Laird of Ailmor ; the fifth to the
Laird of Fanash ; the sixth to the Laird of Chap-
pellmiddlemiss ; and the seventh, first to Philip
Scott, of Kirkhope, secondly, to William Scott,
of Wall, and thirdly, to Alexander Chisholm, of
Parkhill : all or most of these places are, we be-
lieve, in Roxburghshire. He was succeeded in
the estate of Whitslade by
ROBERT, the eldest son of the second mar- 9 . th Genera-
tion ; and 1st
of Whitslade.