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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
During the spring of 1872, while engaged in the Public Record Office in some important researches, I chanced to discover a small quarto MS. volume, bearing the following inscription:—“Index of ye Nobility of Scotland in ye Time of James ye First.” The volume was in the handwriting of Sir Joseph Williamson, and, though undated, clearly belonged to the period between 1666 and 1701, when the transcriber held office as Keeper of the State Papers. Along with a written narrative concerning the nobility and their several families were descriptions of their armorial escutcheons, partly in French, and other entries of an extraneous and unimportant character.
page 223 note * “History of the College of Arms,” by the RevNoble, Mark, Lond. 1804, p. 252Google Scholar.
page 223 note † “Collection of Curious Discourses,” by Hearne, Thomas A.M., Oxford, 1720, 8voGoogle Scholar.
page 223 note ‡ John Withie was a herald painter in the city of London. His son, “John Withy,” followed the same occupation. In the will of this person, registered in Doctors' Commons, and dated 14th August 1677, he mentions his sons Vere and Fauconberge. He was a member of Bridewell Hospital.
page 224 note * Bishop Keith's Appendix, 174.
page 224 note † Melvill's Memoirs, 205.
page 224 note ‡ See postea.
page 225 note * Books of Sederunt.
page 226 note § Spotiswoode, 379.
page 226 note † Acts of Scot. Parl., iii. 138.
page 226 note ∥ Acts of Scot. Parl., iii. 626.
page 226 note ‡ Moyse, 71, 72.
page 226 note ¶ Books of Sederunt.
page 226 note * Kennedy's, “Annals of Aberdeen,” Lond. 1818, 2 vols. 4to. Vol. i. p. 420Google Scholar.
page 227 note * Inverary.
page 227 note § Dunnottar.
page 227 note † Dunoon.
page 227 note ∥ Innerugie.
page 227 note ‡ Lothian.
page 227 note ¶ Crichtons.
page 228 note * Darnley.
page 228 note † Inchmurrin.
page 228 note ‡ Aubigny.
page 228 note § Kennedy.
page 228 note ∥ Dunure.
page 229 note * Finlayston.
page 229 note † Crichton.
page 229 note ‡ Lothian.
page 230 note * Kincardine.
page 230 note § Fintry.
page 230 note † Perth.
page 230 note ∥ Erskine.
page 230 note ** Edzell.
page 230 note ‡ Mugdock.
page 230 note ¶ Cumbray.
page 231 note * Nithsdale.
page 231 note † Buchan.
page 232 note * Auchterhouse.
page 232 note † Carse.
page 232 note ‡ Dundee.
page 232 note § Buchan.
page 233 note * Randolph.
page 233 note † Perth.
page 233 note ‡ Inchmahon.
page 234 note * Bannockburn.
page 235 note * Our author's assertions with respect to the dishonour of this illustrious house are not historically borne out. For an account of the attachment of James IV. to Margaret Drummond, see “Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland,” ii. 156.
page 236 note * Melville.
page 236 note † Strathearn.
page 236 note ‡ Kirkcudbright.
page 237 note * Cambusnethan.
page 237 note † Plean.
page 237 note ‡ Tullibody.
page 238 note * Borthwick Castle is situated on the river Tyne.
page 238 note † Sir John Borthwick early embraced the Reformed doctrines, and was, in 1540, cited before the ecclesiastical court at St Andrews on an indictment embracing thirteen charges of heresy. He fled for protection to the Court of Henry VIII. By the decree of Cardinal Beaton, he was burnt in effigy at St Andrews.
page 239 note * Terregles.
page 239 note † Ravenscraig.
page 240 note * Sanquhar.
page 243 note * Fraser.
page 243 note † Torthorwald.
page 244 note * Solway.
page 244 note † Lochaber.
page 244 note ‡ Strathnairn.
Page 245 note † From Appendix to “Original Letters of Mr John Colville, 1583–1602,” printed for the Bannatyne Club, 1858.
Page 262 note * The words in italics are underlined in the original.
Page 278 note * “D,” Spanish ducats.
Page 282 note * In pages 335, 336, I find a few corrections were overlooked, viz., Dunotter, Drumlanrig, Glenurquhey, Tungesby, Dunrobyn, forfalted.
Page 288 note * “Dafter,” daughter; probably written as a contraction. Lok's orthography, however, in this paper is very peculiar.
Page 293 note * This list has no date, but the reference to “Gourie's late treason,” in August 1600, shows that it was subsequent to that date, but previous to the accession of King James to the crown of England, in March 1603, if not to February 1602, when Edward Bruce of Kinloss was raised to the Peerage as Lord Bruce of Kinloss. In 1603, Sir David Murray had been succeeded as Comptroller by Peter Rollock, Bishop of Dunkeld.