Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 405
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
Introduction, page 12, line 7, — " and the Gaelic thanes" &c. The office or dignity of
Thane was of Anglo-Saxon, not of Gaelic origin.
History, page 28, note, line 8. A curious addition to the testimony of Boece, &c. is sup-
plied by the testimony of the Regent, Duke of Chatelherault, himself. " As to the Govemour,
(says Sir Robert Sadler,) &c. And they say he must needs he a good Englishman, for his an-
cestors ivere Englishmen ; as indeed the govemour himself hath told me divers times that his an-
cestors came oat of England, and that he is come of the house of Hampton in England," &c.
— Letter to my Lord Suffolk, Parr, and Durham, 9th June 1543. From Sir Robert Sadler's
State Papers, vol. i. p. 215, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
Page 28, note, line 30 — 32, from — " There is a William de Hamilton, &c. to — Bruce," dele.
In supplement and correction of the whole note, it maybe added, that a more accurate and
precise quotation of the charter, alluded to by Father Hay, is given in a volume of Genealogical
Collections preserved in the Advocates' Library, in the hand-writing of Walter Mylne's clerk,
and entitled on the back, " Geneal. W. M." In an Alphabetical Index of Families, the author,
who is evidently a man of information and research, says, speaking of the House of Hamilton,
" This family is come of William, third son of Robert de Blanchemains, Earle of Leicester in
England, who took his designation from the manor of Hambledon in Buckshire, where he was
born. He married Mary, Countess of Strathearn, daughter and heiress of Earle Gilbert, A.
1220, reign of Alexander II. ; which is made out by a charter of the lands of Ogleville in Straih-
earne to Maurice de Moravia, bearing, ' que terre fuerunt in manibus regis ratione forisfacture
Marie de Strathcrn, Comitisse ejusdem, quondam nuptiate (sic) Willielmo de Hambledon,
Anglo, inimico nostro.' Gilbert, son of William, makes the funeral oration upon King Robert
Bruce, (John Randell, Canon. Glasg.) and Walter Fitz-Gilbert de Hambledon is in ye Ragman
Roll in Lanarkshire. Both Gilbert and Walter, his son, are frequent in ye Chartulary of Pais-
ley, and David, filius Walteri, is in ye two taillies of ye crown by King Robert II. in ye first
and third years of his reign."
As a further proof of the antiquity of the surname, the author cites the extracts made by Sir