Red and white book of Menzies

Book of 2f)eNzies.
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' The first of Scottish Kings that Albion boasts,
Who oft to victory led the Scottish hosts,
Was Fergus, Ferchad's son, whose mighty shield
Bore a Red Lion on a yellow field ;
Three hundred years and thirty was his reign,
Before Christ came to break sin's deadly chain."
Maynus the second son of King Fergus was,
Who on his shield emblazoned bore
A Red Chief on a white field.
fIDainus, 1st of ano ifounoer of tbe " Siol na fIDapnericb/'
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ING FERGUS, the first King of Scots, who began to
reign over Albion, B.C. 333, had two sons — first,
" Ferlegus ;" second, MAYNUS, which is the spelling
given by Boece, but Buchanan spells it Mainus, both
of which are almost exactly the euphonic spelling of
the Gaelic for Menzies to-day in the Highlands of
Perthshire. This Maynus is the great progenitor and
the first man who gave the Gaelic designation to his
descendants, who are known as the Siol na Maynerich,
or, in British, the Descendants of Menzies, or Maynus as anciently written and
still pronounced wherever the Gaelic language is spoken over the Scottish
Highlands ; thus we find the Highlanders of Inverness-shire, Argyleshire, Ross-
shire, and Aberdeenshire pronounce the name Maynus or Mainus when speaking
in Gaelic of Menzies.
On the death of King Fergus the First, his two sons being under age, their