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

Jtirlings of Keir and their Family Papers,"
I. Sir A
styled "('
'don.
of C
in 15
heire
fami!
of B
ance!
Tree
t [The link between Sir William and
John de Strivelin, in 1338, tlie first
admissible Keir ancestor only, is con-
fidently maintained by Drumpellier tn
be quite fabulous and ideal, and is
here, therefore, marked in red ink. J
I
John.
I
William.
William.
Lewis,
I
William,
ancestor of the knightly
family of Ardoch.
[Mr David, a new character, decenied,
in 1547, executor - dative, as "propin-
QUIOREM de sauijniiie " to Sir John, his
father, and hence literally ex verhis his heir-
at-law. He thus might have been eldest
of these four brothers.]
Sir Archibald,
2d and Yodnger Son,
by .Jean Chisholm, dau'. of William Bishop
A of Dunblane, upon whom, 1579, unmiiiatim,
though not liis heir, he entailed both Keir
and Cadder.
Ancestor of the Present Family of
Keir.
the Keir Performance the writer is not answerable.
Banken, their son, was lawful (as admitted on all hands), obriouslyalone owing
Lucas.