Stirling peerage

Ixxvi APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION.
9. That the document, No. VII. is in the handwriting of
Monsieur Mallet.
10. That the document, No. VIII. appears to have heen
written at Lyons by a person of the name of Caron St
Estienne, of whom the defender cannot find any trace : That
the document, No. IX. is in the handwriting of Flechier,
Bishop of Nismes, a person of well-known celebrity.
11. That the document, No. X. is the letter holograph of
Mr John Alexander of Antrim to the Marchioness de Lam-
bert, above referred to : That part of the letter and the seal
still remain, and that the impression of the seal is the same
with that on the parchment cover above referred to.
12. That the document. No. XI. is a marginal note in the
handwriting of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, and authen-
ticates Mr Alexander's letter.
13. That the document, No. XII. is a copy of the inscrip-
tion on the tombstone of Mr John Alexander. It bears to
have been made by W. C. Gordon, junior, who is supposed
to have been a son or other relative of Mr William Gordon,
the agent in Scotland of the Rev. John Alexander, sometime
of Stratford-upon-Avon ; but the defender has as yet been
unable to obtain any satisfactory information on this point.
14. That the short memorandum. No. XIV. is in the hand-
writing of Louis XV. King of France.
15. That the defender avers, and is prepared to instruct by
proof, that the above-mentioned documents are in the hand-
writing of the individuals above mentioned ; and he further
avers and states, that he never knew of the existence of any
of these documents until he was informed of them by Made-
moiselle Le Normand, in the manner above set forth.
In respect whereof, ^c.
John Hope.
Adam Anderson.