Historical summary of the Roger Tenants of Coupar

PREFACE.
The following pages embody the result of a
search made under my direction in the public
records, to which I gained access through the
courtesy of Mr. Dickson, of H.M. General
Register House. To that gentleman I am
indebted for procuring me the services of Mr.
Walter Macleod, an experienced searcher con-
nected with that great storehouse of national
muniments, and whose labours I have adopted
in the facts herein set forth. Perhaps it may
be agreeable to Mr. Macleod I should state that,
while accepting the facts furnished by him, he is
not responsible for the inferences which I have
drawn from them. Though a total disbeliever
in the alleged descent of the Roger tenants of
Coupar from the soldiers of the Norman
conquest through the beadle of Roxburgh, 1 I
cannot but suppose that their learned bio-
grapher, the historian of The Scottish Branch of
the Norman House of Roger, will feel grateful
1 " Roger the Janitor," whom, on no evidence that I can
discover, Dr. Roger[s] calls " a landowner of considerable
extent," is named in Origiiies Parochiales Scotice, among the
tradesmen of Roxburgh, with " Huthred the Baker," " Henry
the hangman," &c, (p. 470),