Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time, and statements in a recent work "The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers"

CONTENTS. xvii
A DDE NDA.
No. I.
Statement of the peculiar legal custom of " Saint Mimgo," or " Saint Mungo's Widow," in
the Diocese of Glasgow, curiously illustrated by legal practice in 1532, in the very case
then cited from record of Marion Tleming, the widow of Alan Heriot, proprietor of
lauds there, and subsequent wife of Robert Stirling of Bankeir and Letter, the Drum-
pellier ancestor, reported by Sir James Balfour, Lord President then of the Court of
Session, in his Practiques of the Law of Scotland, and deemed worthy of special
notice by Chalmers in his Ca^ec^oftia, . . . . .218,219
No. II.
The See of Glasgow a Eegality or Regal Barony, and Cadder holding of it as a Barony,
proved by what follows, «6ic?., ...... 219,220
No. III.
Allusion here to the Ragman RoU in 1292 and 1296, as yet inadequately given or illus-
trated, with a suggestion of its being a good medium, together with natural and
accessible accessories, for minute and interesting accounts of Scotch families, . 220, 221
No. IV.
Singular instance of the Keir Editor in effect also ignoring the writer and others on the
occasion of the Winton Service in 1840, precisely as the leading features and merits
of the Drumpellier case in the Keir Performance, .... 221-223
This involves the progress of the case of the Service of the Earl of Eglinton, as heir-male
of the Earls of Winton, from 1825 to 1840, how it originated, and who were through-
out its main and sole legal conductors to the exclusion of any others, in refutation of
what may follow from a narrow, inadequate, or biassed statement thereof in a recent
work of the Editor.
CHAPTER VII.
Biographical and historical sketches and notices of the preceding Sir John Stirling of
Keir and Thomas Bischop, who acted such important parts in reference to the Cadder
Family and otherwise, both publicly and privately, .... 224-249
L Sir John Stirling of Keir (1503-1539), .... 224,234
II. Thomas Bischop, Armiger (his chivalrous and due style), . . 234-249
ADDENDA.
No L
Remarkable instance, in the seventeenth century, of the dangerous influence and attrac-
tions of sons of Edinburgh burgesses with the higher and most beautiful of the fair
sex, ....... 260, also partly 253