Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAMES EARLE OF PERTH,
lord drummond and stobhal, heretable thane, senescal, or
stuart of strathern and balwhidder, coroner of the same,
bayly of the abthany of dull, lord justice general of scot-
land, and one of the lords of his majesties most honour-
able privy councell, &c.
My Lord,
Take heire a view of youre noble and renowned Anceftors, of whole
blood yow are defcended in a right and uninterrupted male lyne ; as alio
of fo many of the confanguinities and ancient affinities of youre Family
in the infancy thereof, as the penurie of our oldelt records and the cre-
dit of our bell traditions hes happily preferved from the grave of obli-
vion : bot which are in the fucceeding and modern times, with all the
Items ilhewed from that fruitfull root, more clearely and more certainely
layd before yow. It hes been the regraite of many weill affected to
youre Name and Family, that ane orderly collection of the pedegree of a
trybe fo confiderable and of fo long Handing fhould find no hand, in fo
many ages, to fet about and accomplifh the fame ; for albeit diverfe
learned and judicious perfones have offered at fome parts of it, who,
through defect of Authentick documents, made bot fmall progres, and
wanted not theire own miftakes, yet not one hitherto hes adventured to
draw the entire fcheme, and finifh the work defyred.
Sir Robert Drummond of Midhoop left fome Memorialls upon this fub-
jecl; and fo did Sir Patrick Drummond, Confervator for the Scots nation