Genealogical collections concerning the sir-name of Baird, and the families of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Sauchton Hall in particular

10 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS
1648. In Joly's Voyage, or Minutes printed at Amsterdam, in 1670, when he
mentions the public ministers at the treaty of Westphalia, he says, —
" For the King of France, in the first place, was sent Monsieur de la
Barde, not in the character of resident, as the lists of the Plenipo-
tentiarys, printed first at Cologne and afterwards at Paris, call him.
It is a mistake. For he had been formerly sent by the King as
ambassador into Switzerland, and was acknowledged and treated as
such at the congress by Monsieur de Longueville." He has written the
History of Queen Anne of Austria's Regency with great distinctness,
elegance, and judgment.
1720. About this time Baird, of Weston, in England, died and left three
daughters, co-heiresses, of whom one was this year Countess of
Castlehaven. — Irish Peerage.
And there are still some gentlemen of the name in the counties of Buckingham,
Gloucester, Hereford, Middlesex, Somerset, Stafford, and Sussex.
And in the south-west counties of Scotland, there are still some gentlemen's
families of the name, particularly one in the shire of Lanark, and
another in the shire of Ayr, and a number of the Commons of Lanark,
Renfrew, Peebles, and the Merse, and about Glasgow ; and in Glasgow
are several gentlemen of the name in trade, and others in good
circumstances and esteem. 1
1 The name, however, is not common in Scotland. — Ed.