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1)6 AN OLD FAMILY.
he was invested with the Order of the Thistle. He died
there without issue, on the 26th of December, 1694, and with
him ended the line and peerage of Dunfermline. Macaulay
singles him out as a peculiarly atrocious example of King
James's bigotry and ingratitude in his exile, but .the affair is
deeply colored by the historian for the sake of Whiggery and
fine writing.

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Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America
DescriptionBy Monsignor Seton. New York : Brentano's [Printed by J. J. Little & Co.], 1899.
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Histories of Scottish families
DescriptionA 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.