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HOUSE OF ROWALLANE.
237
That the harmeless endevouring to preserve from the death of
oblivione, & in some sort to keepe alive Them who by paths
of vertue haue left yr remembrance honorable & precious to
posteritie (the glansing back vpon the worth of our lyne in them,
proveing a whetstone & incitement to follow q* is found in them
praiseworthie and yr errors and short comeings serving for a
beacon to divert from yr rocks) That a taske of this nature (con-
tributting manely to the reviveing of the neer expyred & almost
outworne knowledge of the mutuall entrestes of ancient kindred
and blood & holding out the more recent bands & tyes wch most
strongly link the living together) cannot be supposed, vpon any
just ground to nead to stand in feare of supercilious censure ex¬
cept in the envyous who is miserable evir throw others happiness.
A draught of the discent of the house of Rowallane,
And of the branches fof male and female.
It is out of contraversie, the Barronies of Rowallane &
Pokelly, the lands of Limflare & Lowdown Hill with oyr con¬
siderable possessiones, wer the proper inheretance of the house
of Rowallane at [of] the surname of Mure, as ancientlie as any
extant record doeth furnish light for looking back vpon the altered
face of time, in order to the searching into the originalls of fami¬
lies & of surnames within this land, &ct.
The familie forsd. through God’s blessing, being continwed in
the same race & surname to us the present possessor8, from
wnknawne antiquity, pleads (w* submissione) to be the stock &
origine of wch, the whole surname of Mure, have (in yr seasones)
sprouted forth, throughout this nation, if not the whole Island.
We have it transmitted from our forefathers that there originall
was from the ancient tribe of O-More in Ireland, the Irish de¬
nomination of Rowallane & Pokellie imposed (as would ap-
peare) by them in yr owne language, making schew for proof
thereof.
It is lykewise most certaine, the most ancient pronunciation
in all those thrie nighbouring kingdomes was More, after the
237
That the harmeless endevouring to preserve from the death of
oblivione, & in some sort to keepe alive Them who by paths
of vertue haue left yr remembrance honorable & precious to
posteritie (the glansing back vpon the worth of our lyne in them,
proveing a whetstone & incitement to follow q* is found in them
praiseworthie and yr errors and short comeings serving for a
beacon to divert from yr rocks) That a taske of this nature (con-
tributting manely to the reviveing of the neer expyred & almost
outworne knowledge of the mutuall entrestes of ancient kindred
and blood & holding out the more recent bands & tyes wch most
strongly link the living together) cannot be supposed, vpon any
just ground to nead to stand in feare of supercilious censure ex¬
cept in the envyous who is miserable evir throw others happiness.
A draught of the discent of the house of Rowallane,
And of the branches fof male and female.
It is out of contraversie, the Barronies of Rowallane &
Pokelly, the lands of Limflare & Lowdown Hill with oyr con¬
siderable possessiones, wer the proper inheretance of the house
of Rowallane at [of] the surname of Mure, as ancientlie as any
extant record doeth furnish light for looking back vpon the altered
face of time, in order to the searching into the originalls of fami¬
lies & of surnames within this land, &ct.
The familie forsd. through God’s blessing, being continwed in
the same race & surname to us the present possessor8, from
wnknawne antiquity, pleads (w* submissione) to be the stock &
origine of wch, the whole surname of Mure, have (in yr seasones)
sprouted forth, throughout this nation, if not the whole Island.
We have it transmitted from our forefathers that there originall
was from the ancient tribe of O-More in Ireland, the Irish de¬
nomination of Rowallane & Pokellie imposed (as would ap-
peare) by them in yr owne language, making schew for proof
thereof.
It is lykewise most certaine, the most ancient pronunciation
in all those thrie nighbouring kingdomes was More, after the
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| Description | Edited with introduction, notes and glossary by William Tough. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1898. Contents: V. 1. Introduction. Early miscellaneous poems. Sonnets. Dido and Æneas. A spirtuall hymne. Doomesday. Fancies farewell. The trve crucifixe for true Catholickes. Sonnets. -- v. 2. A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor. Caledons complaint. The cry of blood. Some psalmes translated. The historie and descent of the house of Rowallane, [in prose] Notes. Glossary. |
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