Account of the families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill

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AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, SINCE THE LOSS OF THAT ESTATE.
AS ALSO OF
AND THEIR DESCENT, TO THE PURCHASE THEROF BY MR JOHN BIRNIE,— OF
HIS MATCHING WITH THEM, AND HIS ISSUE: CONFORME TO THE SEVERAL
PAPERS NOW IN THE CHARTER-CHEST AT BROOMHILL. FROM THE YEAR
OF GOD M.CCCC.LXXIII. TO THE PRESENT YEAR M.DCC.XXXIII.
HERE is in wrytt a tradition in the familie, that in
the year of God 838, or thereby, Alpin, King of
Scots, with many of his prime men, being taken pri-
soners in battle by the Picts, and thereafter mur-
dered in cold blood, and the King's head in a base
manner sett on a pole in one of their chieflf cities,
Kenneth the Second, his son, a brave prince, soon rais'd ane armie to be
revenged on the actors of so barbarous a murder. All his followers were
desperate and resolute, and had many conflicts several days together,
amongst whom was one Birnie, Irish, and in English Bright, then called
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