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THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND. 19
tranfmitterent, putaverunt enim grata in vulgus nomina commenda-
tionem perfonis adferre pojfe.
Bot the records of that, as alfo whom he married, and what children
he left, are inlackeing 1 , and thereby the names of tno heads of the family
who immediatly followed him not fo certaine as the reft of the genera-
tion, yet fo inftru6ted by probable prefumptiones and tradition that
they can not eafily be difproved. And this is no extraordinary thing-, if
we confider, that even the records of the nation in generations long after
him are fo defective that they doe not inform us of the particular names
of all the heads of our ancienteft trybes, nor of fome of the male chil-
dren of the Royal Family ; fuch as the fones of David Earle of Hun-
tingtoune, King Williams brother, from whofe daughters a fucceffor
behoved to be found to King Alexander the Third ; and even amongft
the ofspring of thefe daughters there wants not miftakes concerning the
names and primogeniture of the filters from whom the competitors
pleaded theire rights ; neither does our Genealogifts agree upon all the
names and order of the fucceffors of Walter the Firft of the Royal Fa-
mily of the Stuarts. It may be alfo confidered, that this Hungarian,
himfelfe being a ftranger, leaveing his children young in a time of much
trouble, occafioned both by the invafions of England, inteftine warrs
betwixt the fucceeding kings, and the rebellious commotions amongft
the fubjects, when either litle was committed to wryte, or if any hes
been relateing to him, might, by the injurie of the times, or the follow-
ing feads and quarrells which befell that family, readily have been loft ;
ane accident which alfo hes befaln many of the ancient trybes of this
nation, whereby fome uncertaintyes or blanks may happen amongft the
names of the heads of theire families, by the fame or fome fuch lyke
contingents, yet nothing derogateing from the truth and fufficient
knouledge of the fucceflions extraction.
A Francifcan frier, called Adam Abel, in his hiftorie of our nation,
tranfmitterent, putaverunt enim grata in vulgus nomina commenda-
tionem perfonis adferre pojfe.
Bot the records of that, as alfo whom he married, and what children
he left, are inlackeing 1 , and thereby the names of tno heads of the family
who immediatly followed him not fo certaine as the reft of the genera-
tion, yet fo inftru6ted by probable prefumptiones and tradition that
they can not eafily be difproved. And this is no extraordinary thing-, if
we confider, that even the records of the nation in generations long after
him are fo defective that they doe not inform us of the particular names
of all the heads of our ancienteft trybes, nor of fome of the male chil-
dren of the Royal Family ; fuch as the fones of David Earle of Hun-
tingtoune, King Williams brother, from whofe daughters a fucceffor
behoved to be found to King Alexander the Third ; and even amongft
the ofspring of thefe daughters there wants not miftakes concerning the
names and primogeniture of the filters from whom the competitors
pleaded theire rights ; neither does our Genealogifts agree upon all the
names and order of the fucceffors of Walter the Firft of the Royal Fa-
mily of the Stuarts. It may be alfo confidered, that this Hungarian,
himfelfe being a ftranger, leaveing his children young in a time of much
trouble, occafioned both by the invafions of England, inteftine warrs
betwixt the fucceeding kings, and the rebellious commotions amongft
the fubjects, when either litle was committed to wryte, or if any hes
been relateing to him, might, by the injurie of the times, or the follow-
ing feads and quarrells which befell that family, readily have been loft ;
ane accident which alfo hes befaln many of the ancient trybes of this
nation, whereby fome uncertaintyes or blanks may happen amongft the
names of the heads of theire families, by the fame or fome fuch lyke
contingents, yet nothing derogateing from the truth and fufficient
knouledge of the fucceflions extraction.
A Francifcan frier, called Adam Abel, in his hiftorie of our nation,
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| Description | Edinburgh: Printed by A. Balfour and Co., 1831. Contains a reproduction of the title-page of the 1681 edition. Appendix: no. 1. Historie of the familie of Perth by William Drummond of Hawthornden ... no. 2. Notes on Lord Strathallan's genealogie of the house of Drummond. |
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| Shelfmark | A.114.a.7 |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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