Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus

FERGUSONS IN ABERDEENSHIRE 271
my grandmother Heneret Douglas was a daughter of Douglas
of Glenbervie, and the house lies in a Glen.' The house of
Glenbervie were the descendants of that gallant son of old
Archibald Bell the Cat, whose brave effort to win the bridge
over the Till and cover the Scottish retreat from Flodden
field with the two hundred men he had held together, drew
from the Earl of Surrey the quick inquiry, ' What banner is
that ? ' ' That is the Douglas banner,' was the reply. ' Then,'
said the English general, ' the victory is not ours till that
JAMES FERGUSON, YR. OF KINMUNDY, C. 1745.
banner too is taken;' and he despatched an overwhelming
force against the little band, who fought so well, that of the
two hundred, only sixteen left the fatal field, and among those
who lay dead was their leader, Sir William Douglas, the
first of Glenbervie.]
V. James [known as 'the lame laird,' born 12th November
1759, died 20th November 1816] succeeded his father in the
estate of Kinmundy, and married [in 1787] Isabella Brown
[daughter of the Rev. William Brown of Craigdam], by