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Abbot Albany Alexander Andrew annulet Appendix appointed Archibald Edmonstone arms barony born Broadisland brother Calderwood Cambusnethan Castle charter church Colzium connexion Countess of Angus Crauford crest Culloden dated Edinburgh daughter of Sir death descended domino Doune Duchess of Albany Duke Earl of Douglas Earl of Lennox Earl of Montrose Earldom Earldom of Lennox Earls of Angus Edmondstoune Edmonstone of Duntreath Edmundiston Ednam elder branch eldest Elizabeth England father favour gentleman grant Hamilton heir honourable infeftment James Stewart Janet Johanni John Edmonstone Kilsyth King's knight Lady Laird of Duntreath lands of Edmonstone Livingston Lord Margaret marriage married John Mary mentioned merks Monteith moreover Napier Note notice parish Parliament resignation Riddell Robert the Second Rymer's Federa Scotland Scottish seal Setons Sir Archibald Edmonstone Sir James Edmonstone Sir James Stewart Sir John Edmonstone Sir William Edmonstone Somervilles sons succeeded third tressure wife William Livingston Willielmo
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Page 66 - In nomine Domini. Amen. Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno...
Page 77 - ... his integrity as a minister of state, or his private character as a minister of religion. Buchanan, whose prepossessions were strongly against that ancient church, of which Kennedy was the head in Scotland, has yet spoken of his virtues in the highest terms of panegyric : —
Page 10 - Utrecht, with a particular but sad accident of the Viscountess of Dundee and her son. He writes that he had dined with her and Kilsyth her husband, and after dinner, just as he had left them, the Lady and Kilsyth, and a gentleman with them, went into the room where the young child and Mrs. Melville, the Lady's woman, were. The house was covered with turf, the ordinary fuel for fire in that place, and it is thought by the weight of it the roof fell and crushed my Lady and her son and Mrs.
Page 68 - ... Claverhouse, mother to Lord Dundee, was much shocked at the match, which offended her moral sense in much the same way as the union of Hamlet's mother and uncle disgusted that most philosophical of princes. It is said, that when she received an account of the nuptials, she knelt down and fervently prayed to God, that, should he see fit to permit the unworthy couple to go out of the world without some visible token of his indignation, he would be pleased to make her some especial revelation, to...
Page 63 - Aednaham, a waste ; that with his help and my own means I peopled it, and have built a church in honour of St. Cuthbert; and this church, with a ploughgate of land, I have given to God and St. Cuthbert and his monks, to be possessed by them for evermore.
Page 17 - There was a lord of every township, usually one of the more opulent Thanes, though some townships belonged to the Sovereign as their superior. We will, however, limit our attention to the ordinary and normal case, where a resident Thane was lord of the township.
Page 68 - the Company of Undertakers for raising the Thames water in York Buildings, London,
Page 78 - Here lyes in the same grave with Mary, Countess of Angus, sister to King James the First of Scotland, from whom he is lineally descended, Archibald Edmonstone, Esq. of Duntreath, in this kingdom, and of Redhall in Ireland, who died in the year 1689, aged about fifty-one years.
Page 63 - Scots, gave to me, ^Ednaham, a desert; that with his help and my own money I peopled it, and have built a church in honour of St. Cuthbert, which church, with a ploughgate of land, I have given to God and to St. Cuthbert and his monks, to be possessed by them for ever.
Page 3 - BANNATYNE, succeeded his un-'clc, as above. He was bred to the Bar, and in 1799 was appointed one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and took his seat in the Bench by the stile and title of LORD BANNATYNE. His Lordship is unmarried. Of the daughters, three were' married, but had no surviving issue; one" died unmarried, and the youngest, ANNE, is married to Col.