Historical summary of the Roger Tenants of Coupar

2 4
Historical examples of persons bearing the
surname Roger occur in The Accounts of the
Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, edited
by Thomas Dickson, Esq., in Archbishop
Spotswood's History of the Church of Scotland,
and in Drummond of Hawthornden's History
of Scotland. First of these in the order of
time is one named Robert Roger, for whose
homicide Dionysius Cairns of Gaitgill com-
pounds in the sum of £6 13s. 4d. Scots, at a
Circuit of Justiciary held at Dumfries on the
24th of October, 1473. 8 Next is John Roger,
a black friar, who in 1544, for preaching the
doctrines of the Reformation, was apprehended
and brought to the castle of St. Andrews by the
emissaries of Cardinal Beaton, and whose life-
less body was shortly afterwards found at the
bottom of the rock below the sea-tower. 9 Then
follows Sir William Roger, Kt, the English
master of music, 1 who came into Scotland, in the
sides by the Isla and Ericht. Select for yourself, reader, and
acknowledge with thankfulness the plastic powers of Gaelic
etymology." I commend this to the notice of Professor Blackie.
8 Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, edited
by Thomas Dickson, Esq.
9 History of the Church of Scotland, by Archbishop Spots-
wood, Lond. 1655, p. 19.
1 Dr. Charles Roger, whom in my former "Account" I rele-
gated to his proper place in the pedigree, "claims to be the
representative of this ingenious but ill-fated musician ! " (See
his own statement, Traits and Stories of the Scottish people.
London : Houlston & Wright. 1867.)