The Gordon DNA Project: www.TheGordonDNAproject.com The House of Gordon UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS. Convener: Professor JAMES W. H. TRAIL, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., Curator of the University Library. UNIVERSITY STUDIES. General Editor : PETER JOHN ANDERSON, M.A., LL.B., Librarian to the University. No. i. Roll of Alumni in Arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1596-1860. Edited by P. J. Anderson. 1900. No. 2. The Records of Old Aberdeen, 1157-1891. Edited by Alexander Macdonald Munro, F.S.A. Scot. Vol. 1. 1900. No. 3. Place Names of West Aberdeenshire. By the late James Macdonald, F.S.A. Scot. 1900. No. 4. The Family of Burnett of Leys. By the late George Burnett, LL.D., Lyon King of Arms. 1901. No. 5. The Records of Invercauld, 1547-1828. Edited by the Rev. John Grant Michie, M.A. 1901. No. 6. Rectorial Addresses delivered in the Universities of Aberdeen, 1835-1900. Edited by P. J. Anderson. 1902. No. 7. The Albemarle Papers, 1746-48. Edited by Charles Sanford Terry, M.A., Professor of History in the University. 1902. No. 8. The House of Gordon. Edited by John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. Vol. I. 1903. No. 9. The Records of Elgin. Compiled by William Cramond, LL.D. Vol.1. 1903. No. 10. The Records of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire. Edited by David Littlejohn, LL.D. Vol.1. (In the press.) The House of Gordon Edited by John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A, Volume I. Aberdeen Printed for the University 1903 THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS LIMITED cs CONTENTS. PAGE The purpose and the methods of this book ..... xiii Bibliography of Gordon genealogy . . . . . xxix Additions and corrections ........ Ixxiv The BALBITHAN MS (i) ABERGELDIE, by the Editor (69) COCLARACHIE, by the Rev. Stephen Ree, B.D (117) GIGHT, by the Editor (165) Appendices : Lists of Gordons in Scotland . . . . (311) I. Services of Heirs, 1545-1799 . . . . (325) II. Tollable Persons, 1696 ....... (453) III. Scottish Universities ....... (485) IV. Members of Parliament ...... (521) V. Advocates and Writers to the Signet .... (528) Abergeldie Castle from the North . . . . . Frontispiece (Photogravure by Annan.} Table showing the main divisions of the Gordons ix Table of the Gordons in the North of Scotland .... x Table of the Gordons in the South of Scotland xii BALLADE OF THE GAY GORDONS. In distant days of Border Raid, Ere Scot was Scot, and foe was foe, 'Twas hard to tell the hostile blade, And harder still it was to know For whom to strike the battle blow The kindly keep, the adverse moat ; Yet, even then, in weal or woe The Gordons had the guidiri 1 o't. They fought and fell in sun and shade ; The battle sometimes brought them low ; Yet never were their sons afraid To face the risks of overthrow. The slogan rang from hearts aglow With courage 'neath the mailed coat : With " Bydand ! " cry and bended bow The Gordons had the guidin' o't. The March was mastered by their aid, And proudly did the king bestow The mighty track of glen and glade Athwart the Grampians' line of snow. And since the days of Long-Ago, Where'er they've stood, where'er they've smote, The stories of their prowess show The Gordons had the guidin' o't. ENVOY. Cock of the North ! To you we owe The hearts which, at your slogan note, Are fain to prove, by veldt and voe, The Gordons hae the guidin' o't. J. M. B, IX THE LAIRD OF GORDON, Berwickshire. (Tradition says he fell at the Battle of the Standard, 1138.) Sir Adam. i John. Sir John (d. 1394). Had two natural sons. Richard Adam of Gordon. of Huntly. Sir Thomas. Alexander. I ! Sir Thomas. Adam. Alicia, d. 1280. Sir Adam (d. on his way to the Crusade). Adam (fell at Dunbar, 1296). Sir Adam (got Strathbogie, 1319, and migrated north). Sir Adam. Killed at Homildon Hill, 1402. Sir William of Stitchel. Roger of Stitchel. Sir Alexander of Kenmure. ' Jock " of Scurdargue. " Tarn " of Ruthven. Elizabeth=f Sir Alexander Seton. Roger of Stitchel. Had four sons. Said to have had eighteen | sons. Alexander, ist Earl of Huntly. William (" Young Lochinvar"). The cadets descended from "Jock" of Scur- dargue (North). The cadets of " Tarn " of Ruthven (North). The Ducal line: "Seton- Gordons" (North). The cadets of Lochinvar and in the South of Scotland. SKELETON TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF GORDON. John Gordon, grandson of Sir Sir John (d, 1394), had two natural sons. "Jock" of Scurdargue (Rhynie). Alexander, 1 John, William, 1 James, Hence Hence *~ Hence --L Hence Ardbroylach. Achanachie. Farskane. Ardmeallie. ^\ Darley. Auchleuchries. Arradoul. Artloch. Fechil. Auchintoul. Dilspro. Balmuir. Auchenhuif. Auchmull. Glenbucket. Auchline. Dorlaithers. Bonnyton (Ayr). Buckie. Auchoynany. Gollachie. Auchmenzie. Drumbulg. Braco. Cairnfield. Avochie. Hilton. Badinscoth. Drymes. Fetterletter. Cracullie. Bad. Invermarkie. Balmad. Fernachty. Haddo. ^| Deskie. Balbithan. Kindrocht. Banchory. Fulziemont. Earl of Aberdeen. \ Drumin. Botarie. Kinmundy. Barnes. Johnsleys. Lord Stanmore. J Glengarrock. Cairnburrow. Lungar. Birkenburn. Kincraigie. Methlick. Inverharrach. Cairnwhelp. Park. Blelack. Kinnoir. Nethermuir. Knawen. Carnousie. Pitlurg. Bogardie. Knock. Savoch. Knockespock. Drumhead. Rothiemay. Bourtie. Law. Scotstown \ Minmore. Drumwhindle. Soccoth. Buthlaw. Leicheston. (in Renfrew)./ Netherbuckie. Edinglassie. Straloch. Cairness. Lesmoir. Sheelagreen. Prony. Techmuirie. Coclarachie. Manar. Tillytelt. Tulloch. Coldstone. Merdrum. Wellheads. Collithie. Newton. Coynachie. Oxhill. Cracullie. Terpersie. Craig. Tilliechowdie. Crichie. Tillyangus. Culdrain. Wardhouse. The cadets of "Jock" of Scurdargue. TENTATIVE TABLE SHOWING THE CHIEF BRANCHES The descendants of the brothers "Jock" and "Tarn" and of theii XI Adam, who got Strathbogie. Sir Adam (killed 1402). " Tarn," of Ruthven, Hence Ardmillan. Auchinreath. Elizabeth=j=Alexander Seton. 1 Alexander, ist Earl of Huntly. 1 Auchinstink. Balveny. Bochrom. George, 2nd Earl. 1 1 Alexander, Hence Adam, Hence Braickley. | i l Abergeldie. Backies. Clunymore. Contlie. Alexander, 3rd Earl, Hence William, Hence James, Birkhall. Hence Craibstone. Beldornie. Drummoy. Daach. Railhead. Marquis of Huntly. Duke of Richmond. Ardlogie. Gight. Chappelton. Grandholm. Coffurach. Haffield. Golspitur. Sidderay. Kennertie. Earl of Sutherland. Cromellat. Wardhouse. Kethocksmills. Auchindown. Lord Byron. Corridoun. Kinernie. Auchdregny. Letterfurie. Noth. Birsemoir. Myrieton. Pethnick. Cluny. Orkney. Pitglassie. Cotton. Sauchen. Croughly. Delmore. Dunkinty. Gartay. Gordonstoun. Pittendreich. Ruthven. Tombae. " Tarn's" cadets. The Seton-Gordons. OF THE GORDONS IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND, (legitimate) cousin, Elizabeth, who married Alexander Seton. Xll Sir Adam Gordon, got the lands of Strathbogie, 1319. Sir Adam, Ancestor of the Gordons in the North of Scotland. Sir John, Hence Balmaghie. Barnbarroch. Buittle. Craichlaw. Culvennan. Gelston. Glenluce. Grange. Greenlaw. Holm. Kenmure. Lochinvar. Muirford. Penynghame. I Sir William, Ancestor of the Gordons in the South of Scotland. Roger of Stitchel. Alexander of Stitchel. I Roger of Stitchel. William of Stitchel and Lochinvar. (The famous "Young Lochinvar".) Alexander, Hence Airds. Auchendolly. Auchenreoch. Bar. Barharrow. Barnhead. Bristol. Burnshaw. Campbellton. Carleton. Colquha. Cullindoch. Earlston. Hallheath. Kilsture. Kirkconnel. Whytpark. Wincombe Park. George, Hence Troquhain. Roger, Hence Crogo. TENTATIVE TABLE OF THE GORDONS IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND, NOTABLY THOSE OF LOCHINVAR. This table has been compiled chiefly from the Earlston MS. Most of the Gordons in Ireland and (via Ireland) in America are descended from the various branches of the family in the South of Scotland. THE PURPOSE AND THE METHODS OF THIS BOOK. You may remember the tragedy common-place enough, no doubt, and yet so true of Mr. Henry James's poignant little story, The Madonna of the Future. It tells of an artist who became possessed of a great desire to paint a picture of the Virgin which should be an epitome of the representations of all the ages and all the schools of thought and of art. For years he accumulated materials by ransacking the galleries of the world. He knew the Raphaels and the Rubenses by heart. He had sketches of Giotto and Titian : memories of Moroni and Murillo : notes on Diirer and the Dutchmen. But he never painted his Madonna : and when he died posterity discovered that his great canvas was nothing but a paralysed daub. The moral of that story is the inspiration of this book. The endeavour to paint the picture of the House of Gordon has been extremely disappointing. It began in the middle of the sixteenth century when the Piedmontese monk, John Ferrerius, confronted the task. He was followed by a long line of patient workers ; but the sum total of their labour bears no sort of pro- portion to the time spent upon it. Delay has increased the difficulty of the subject : the difficulty has made the desideratum seem all the greater : and the desideratum has set up a standard of definitiveness, which has resulted, to use Olive Schreiner's phrase, in " a striving and striving and ending in nothing ". The desire to compass the task, however it has arisen, has always XIV HOUSE OF GORDON. been strong : and makes it unnecessary for me to apologise for the present attempt to trace the history of the House throughout its numerous branches. I could become as cynical as any- body on the "waste" of labour involved in such an endeavour : and I could show cause why it need not be undertaken. But such a criticism would be wholly superficial, for the " waste " of labour is not inherent in the desideratum ; it is merely incident to the methods by which realisation has been pursued for more than four centuries. In short, if any apology were necessary, it would be not for the work undertaken, but for the work not undertaken, or rather not published ; for therein lies the crux of the whole matter. Premising then for the moment the immense fascination of the subject, we have to attribute the failure to do anything worthy of the name of a survey to the bogey of definitiveness, which by its very desirability has by a curious irony defeated itself, and resulted in a perpetual (and pathetic) pother. In speaking thus, I am far from belittling the industry of the many workers who have devoted so much time to the subject : but I can find no other phrase to describe the endless going over of the same ground, which manuscript after manuscript demonstrates in a melancholy way. Let me explain how the enthusiasm of the worker and the timidity of the publisher have operated against the progress of the task. Few men have had the temerity to propose a survey of the whole House, as their starting point. The worker has almost invariably begun on a particular branch of the family ; and, even at that, each enthusiast has had to begin, in the absence of the printed results of his predecessors' labours, not where they left off, but almost exactly where they started. Fascinated by the in- teresting side issues of his quest, he has hesitated on the brink ot the completed monograph, and has gone on accumulating material, PURPOSE AND METHODS OF THIS BOOK. XV first on the environs of the particular sept on which he began, then on the wider issues of a leading line ; and lastly he has become possessed of the desire to tackle the whole subject. An examination of the manuscript collections of several workers has borne out this theory of the elusiveness of the subject, and I may be permitted to support it by my own experience, which is quite typical. Always fascinated by the Gordons as a mere boy I helped my father to accumulate much material for his Historic Scenes in Aberdeenshire at a time when greater attention to " versions" might have been more to the point I became thoroughly interested in the subject again in the summer of 1897 when the Byron revival began to attract notice. This resulted in the compilation of a rough (and incorrect) chart of the " Ennobled Gordons and Lord Byron" (Scottish Notes and Queries, Oct., 1897), prepared with the view of tracing the poet's wayward- ness. The necessity of having to summarise the history of the Duke of Fife's fortunate family and the achievements of the Gordon Highlanders (apropos of their famous exploit at Dargai) led me further afield ; and before I knew where I was I found myself in possession of a great mass of collateral informa- tion, much of which had never been co-ordinated into readable form. The picturesque possibilities of the subject very soon became apparent, and, though many of these had been exploited, a great number had not been touched upon. There was, for example, the alliance of Lady Catherine Gordon with the Polish statesman and poet, Count Andreas Morsztyn, by whom she became the ancestor of Stanislas Poniatowski, the last King of Poland. There were the achievements of Colonel John Gordon of the Gight family, who was partly responsible for the assassina- tion of Wallenstein in 1634 : the Jacobite intrigues with Admiral Thomas Gordon, governor of Kronstadt : the escapade of young XVI HOUSE OF GORDON. Gordon of Wardhouse, who lost his head as a spy at Brest in 1769; the crazy abduction of Mrs. Lee, De Quincey's "female infidel," by the two young Aboyne Gordons ; the elopement of Lord William Gordon, brother of the Rioter, with the charming Lady Sarah Lennox ; and so on. My point is this, that but for the inducement of being able to publish (in newspaper form) the result of my inquiries, I might have gone on, like so many of my predecessors, accumulating material for years, in the hope of one day being able to write a history of the House more or less definitive ; until I should have been too tired, or too paralysed by the vastness of the subject, to put anything on printed record at all. This is precisely what has occurred to so many workers in the same field. They have been immensely industrious : some of them have even been methodical : and most of them have collected much material, which would have been of great service to their successors if it had been printed. But how was that to be done, when the desire for a definitive work always loomed large before them, and when there was no fair chance of publishing the piecemeal effort ; for the commercial publisher has offered no inducement, and the antiquarian clubs have either tabooed the partial contribution or fought shy of a project which seemed to have no beginning and less of an end ? What has happened ? The enthusiast has passed away without being able to publish the results of his labour, without giving the next worker the chance of knowing what has been done, what might be taken as finished, and what line he might pursue to most advantage. Sometimes the very existence of the enthusiast has been forgotten and the benefit of his labour lost. His papers have been carefully guarded by his representatives for sentimental and sometimes dog-in-the-manger reasons ; or else they have been ignorantly consigned to the paper mill by executors who knew nothing, and XV11 cared less, about the matter. In very few cases have collections such as these found their way into libraries available to the public. Even if they had, it will be found all too frequently that the material so laboriously gathered is in such a state of confusion that none but the original compiler could provide a key to it, for the worker with the best intentions in the world who has no hope of publishing his discoveries ceases to have a care for their manipulation by posterity. One of the most remarkable cases in proof of the point is the so-called Balbithan MS., which forms the first item in the present volume. Here is a document of unique interest ; a guide of first-rate value and validity, which covers ground traversed by no other work. And yet, notwithstanding the fact that it has been in existence for possibly two hundred years, the student has had to wait until now for the opportunity of seeing it in print. Meantime, the MS. has been copied by several workers ; these copies, in turn, have been re-copied ; and in the process endless errors have crept in, vitiating more than one printed deduction. The extraordinary neglect of the materials for a history of the House is further illustrated in the case of Sir Robert Gordon's Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland. Written in 1630, it was not put into type until 1813, and then less as a genealogical venture than as a matter of personal pride on the part of the Marchioness of Stafford, the last of the long line of Gordons who had borne the name of Sutherland. Sir William Fraser justly contrasted the attention which had been paid to Hume's History of the Douglases, written about the same time (1644) an d published in 1743. It might be argued with some show of reason that the earlier publication of material on the House of Douglas has been the cause of the more thorough investigation of the history of that family. Accepting this explanation, one is confronted with the XV111 HOUSE OP GORDON. fact that the published accounts of the House of Gordon are very inadequate and disappointing. I do not forget that seventeen years before Hume's book on the Douglases there had appeared the History of the Antient and Illustrious Family of Gordon by William Gordon ; but it is really a history of Scotland told in terms of the ennobled Gordons. Even at that, however, it might have been followed up by further inquiries. Yet how was this done? In 1754 a Charles Gordon (whose origin is uncertain) issued a Concise History of the House, which is more or less a condensation of William Gordon's two volumes, and even the reprint of 1 890 contained little more than can be found in a good modern peerage. In fact, the first real contribution to the history of the House was the publication of Sir Robert Gordon's great work in 1813. Excepting Sir William Eraser's Sutherland Book (1892), which was an expansion, based on charter chests, of Sir Robert's monograph, nothing of first-rate quality was done until 1894, when the Records of A boy ne, edited by the present Marquis of Huntly, was issued by the New Spalding Club. In the intervening eighty years we had various efforts to ex- tend our knowledge of the subject, but nearly all of them were spasmodic and incidental. The publications of the old Spalding Club (1841-71) form an invaluable quarry of facts ; but the Club, with all its enthusiasm, shirked the task of compiling a special work on the subject. It discussed the matter at its initial meeting in the year 1839, and Mr. Murray Rose informs me that he has seen a letter in which Cosmo Innes referred to an elaborate history of the cadets of the House upon which a friend was engaged. Tran- scripts were made of all available Gordon charters ; but the scheme, if ever formulated, fell through, and the material seems to have been used up in various issues of the Club. With such a start, however, as the publications of the Club afforded, some one, it might have been supposed, would have taken up at least one line PURPOSE AND METHODS OF THIS BOOK. XIX of cadets. What has been the result? Just three monographs two on the Gordons of Lesmoir and Terpersie by Captain Wimberley, and a pamphlet on the Gordons of Croughly by the late Captain Huntly Blair Gordon. It is somewhat remarkable that both these compilers were partly of English parentage. Each of these books, however, is mainly sectional, and even at that is by no means exhaustive. In any case, they form no part of a scheme to deal with the whole family, root and branch, and therefore they represent a vast mass of duplicated labour. Some of that labour might have been profitably ex- pended on other branches of the family, for it has to be noted that none of the printed histories touches that important branch of the Gordons who elected to remain on the Borders when the great exodus to the north took place. Not only so, but most of the printed histories deal \*ith the main line repre- sented by the Marquis of Huntly and the Duke of Richmond and their cadets. The other branches which spring from "Jock" and " Tarn " Gordon have been so much neglected that even Lord Aberdeen's family has gone without a chronicler. Disappointing as the direct work on the House of Gordon has been since the year when William Gordon issued his verbose history, there has been an increasing interest in topography and genealogy in general. We have had histories of nearly all the great Aberdeenshire families the Frasers, the Farquharsons, the Forbeses (very incompletely), the Skenes, the Bairds, the Burnetts, the Leslies, the Lumsdens, the Cadenheads, and so on. The contributions to topographical literature have even been greater, and have reached the general reader in a popular County Series (Blackwoods'). Kirk Session, Municipal and Uni- versity records have been ransacked, and though there has been a strong disinclination to co-ordinate the matter thus unearthed, there is scarcely a parish that has not had its chronicler. Most XX HOUSE OF GORDON. important of all is the splendid series of records, such as the Registers of the Privy Council, and of the Great Seal, pub- lished officially during the last twenty years, which make it unnecessary for the worker to spend money on having the Register House ransacked for his special benefit. True, there are sources of information, notably the treasures in the Aberdeen Town House and Sheriff Court House, which have been imper- fectly tapped : but if we are to wait until that is done thoroughly, we shall be as far from tackling the subject as ever. A cursory glance at the materials I have enumerated will soon convince the student that the ground to be covered is enor- mous. For instance, a searching inquiry into the history of one branch alone, the Gordons of Lesmoir, who were descended from "Jock" Gordon of Scurdargue, discloses the fact that they produced some thirty distinct branches, holding different estates in as many parishes scattered over five counties. In the entire survey of land-owning families bearing the name of Gordon, we have hundreds of families, the cadets descending from " Jock " of Scurdargue alone running into a hundred families. It ought to be noted here that in making this calculation I have not attempted to trace the family further back than their appearance in Scotland : and even then, their beginnings are very doubtful. For instance, the most recent critic of the origin of the Gordons, Mr. George S. C. Swinton, suggests (Genealo- gist, New Series, vol. xv.) that they were originally Swintons, and he places the traditional brothers, Richard and Adam, thus : Ernald or Hernulf of Swinton and of Aldcambus. Cospatrick de Swinton Richard de Swinton Adam (master of the Swinton family) (afterwards de Gordon ?) (de Gordon ?) Writing in Notes and Queries (March 29, 1902) he asks : Can any human being named Gordon or de Gordun be dated in Scotland PURPOSE AND METHODS OF THIS BOOK. Xxi before 1200 ? That is the approximate date which, by comparing the witnesses with other dated charters, I give to charter cxvii. in Raine's North Durham in which Richard de Gordun and Adam de Gordun, the traditional brothers, made what is, I believe, their first appearance. Any way, this charter cannot be earlier than 1182, in which year its grantor, Patrick Earl of Dunbar, great- grandson of the above-mentioned Cospatrick, succeeded. Putting all other questions aside, we come to the solid fact that a Sir Adam Gordon got Strathbogie in 1319, and migrated from the Borders northwards. Thus the family split into two great halves. Sir Adam's eldest son, Adam, got the estates in the north ; and his descendants, mostly located in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Moray and Sutherland, represent the senior line. Adam's second son, William, retained the family holdings in the south of Scotland. Another great division then occurred among the Gordons in the north. Sir Adam (of 1319) had two great-grandsons, John and Adam. John had two natural sons, the traditional "Jock" of Scurdargue and " Tarn " of Ruthven. Adam, their uncle, had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who went to the south for a hus- band, Alexander Seton, and thus reinforced the northern strain with the old Border blood. She founded the so-called " Seton- Gordons," represented mainly by the ducal line. But the great majority of the cadets in the north are descended from "Jock" and "Tarn," who represent the senior line in its genealogical purity. The Gordons in the south of Scotland are believed to be descended from William, second son of Adam of 1319. Their history, as I have pointed out, has been followed with much less minuteness than that of the family in the north ; but enough is known to show that the southern cadets number many hundreds. They are particularly interesting as the ancestors of the Gordons in Ireland and of most of the old Gordon families in America (notably Virginia), who come of Scoto-Irish stock. XX11 HOUSE OF GORDON. The wide distribution and the fascination of the House of Gordon is not a mere theory put forward by the enthusiastic genealogist. A very curious example of the belief in the ubiquity of the race is afforded by Mr. Stead's never-ending story, " To be Continued in our Next," which was begun in the Review of Reviews, January, 1903. The story is a statement of the news of the day told in terms of fiction : We take the chief events of the month and use them as the central incident of a series of short stories, each of which ... is linked on to all its predecessors and those which will come after it by its bearing upon the fortunes of the Gordon family, whose widely scattered members are at the heart of most human affairs in all parts of the world. If this journalistic exaggeration is not quite valid, the task of tracing the fortunes of the House is so great that the individual worker, trammelled by the desire for definitiveness, can make no progress. For this reason the New Spalding Club has resolved to tackle the subject in a piecemeal way by issuing monographs on different cadets without reference, for the pre- sent, to a general scheme for a history of the family. This book, while aiming ultimately at definitiveness, starts primarily in the interests of the monograph. The issue of several of these mono- graphs under one cover, as in the present instance, is mainly accidental. The collected form has been adopted here as an earnest, an advertisement if you will, of the desire of the New Spalding Club to undertake a task which is so great a desidera- tum for all genealogists and topographical students. But the essential characteristics of the monograph are preserved, most notably in the separate pagination of the account of each family, so that those who wish to bind them up in their ultimate sequence may be able to do so. Indeed, it was the original intention to issue PURPOSE AND METHODS OF THIS BOOK. XXlii the monographs separately from time to time as occasion offered ; and once the old manuscript accounts of the family, hitherto unpub- lished, are printed off this will be done, for it is of the utmost importance to put into type as much matter as has been prepared. The idea of the Club has been to make a start, to do something to place ascertained facts on record ; and to this end the monographs that were actually ready have been printed. There has been no attempt to begin with any branch on the ground of its seniority. But it may be said that the Gordons of the direct line have been purposely passed over for the present, for they have been done over and over again ; not exhaustively, it is true, but with sufficient clearness to offer an accurate idea of their develop- ment. What has hitherto been neglected are the descendants of the other great line of the Gordons in the north, the descend- ants of " Jock " and " Tarn " ; while the smaller cadets on both sides have been scamped, although the mere fact that their poverty made men of them by driving them abroad as, for instance, the Russian General, Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries gives them an interest reaching far beyond the confines of their paternal acres. But if the selection of the families to be dealt with has been to this extent haphazard, the method of dealing with them will be found to be more or less on a definite plan. The method em- ployed is that of the undisguised chronological compilation of actual facts, set forth without comment. Each entry opens with the year, the month and the day, and closes with the citation of the authority. For the most part there has been no attempt to " run on " the matter thus brought together, for nothing is so irritating in genealogical books as the method of "setting" them as if they were connected narratives, whereas in the great majority of cases they are merely chronological compilations, with unavoidable lacunae, which make a narra- XXIV HOUSE OF GORDON. tive almost impossible. In a few cases, such as that of Colonel John Gordon, of Wallenstein notoriety, it has been possible to cast the known facts into something like the shape of a story, but the general method is chronological. It need hardly be said that if, in the present state of our knowledge, we cannot write a story, the construction of a history, in any sense worth speaking of, is still more remote, because it is essentially a de- finitive process ; and definitiveness, as I have argued, cannot be aimed at in the present state of our knowledge. In any case, the book suitable for the man who runs and reads and several such could be written about the sensational adventures of the Gordons is quite beyond the scope of an organisation like the New Spalding Club, the duty of which, I take it, is to supply a quarry rather than create a structure. The plan, then, has been to take the laird, or at any rate the senior representative (for the time being) of each cadet, as a unit. After a very brief introduction and summary of his posi- tion, his career is built up in a series of extracts (chronologically arranged), compiled from ail sorts of sources. Furthermore, these extracts have been printed in smaller type, as an indication that the busy reader may conveniently skip them if he so choose. By means of the chronological introduction of each paragraph the reader can discover at a glance whether certain facts which he may have come across are stated. At the close of these extracts, the facts about the "unit's" marriage are given, and these are followed by an account of his children and their de- scendants set out in the orthodox genealogical manner. His children are indicated by Arabic figures and one indent : his grandchildren by Arabics - within - brackets and two indents : his great-grandchildren by Roman figures: and so on as follows : PURPOSE AND METHODS OF THIS BOOK. XXV 2. > the Children of the unit. 3- ) (0) . (2) > the Grandchildren of the unit. 2 (3)) ii. > the Great-grandchildren of the unit, iii. ) V) (ii) > the Great -great-grandchildren of the unit. The surname of descendants has not been given except in cases where it is something other than " Gordon ". The families treated in this volume illustrate some of the leading characteristics that have made the name of Gordon famous all over the world. The House of Abergeldie, always strong territorially, and still powerful in the regions of its ancestors of four centuries ago, gave the world an intrepid soldier in the person of Sir Charles Gordon, who, in his thirst for adventure, showed the Prussians how to beat the Dutch at Amstelveen, in 1787 : while his brother, William, distinguished himself at the capture of Martinique and endeared himself to the people of Barbadoes. The Gordons of Coclarachie were the ancestors of Major-General Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul, who began his career in the army of Peter the Great, and put his experience to such use as a Jacobite leader. The Gordons of Gight, the most unruly family that ever reigned in Aberdeenshire, pro- duced the man who checkmated Wallenstein, and gave us the brilliant Colonel Nathaniel Gordon, of anti-Covenanting fame : while they are known universally as the maternal ancestors of Byron, who displayed so many of their lawless characteristics throughout his life. XXVI HOUSE OF GORDON. In addition to these monographs, the volume contains some very valuable repositories of facts in general about the Gordons. First and foremost is the unique Balbithan MS., which is printed for the first time. It affords the most minute account of the descendants of "Jock" and "Tarn" Gordon, and forms a most appropriate set off to a volume which starts with cadets and not with main lines. The index to Gordons in the Retours and the Services of Heirs supplies another want, for though the volumes are to be found in most public libraries they are indexed in a very puzzling way, and are not always available to the genealogist who is beyond the reach of libraries. Then there is an index to the invaluable Poll Book of Aberdeenshire, which was compiled in 1696 and printed, with a most inadequate index, in 1844. The other indexes tap various sources of information, and should prove of assistance in identifying members of the House. This opening volume is far from exhausting the material which has already been brought together. The present writer alone has ready for the printer monographs on the Gordons of Pitlurg, Cairnburrow, Park, Glenbucket, Auchleuchries, Knockes- pock, Rothiemay and the minor septs attaching to the same. He has compiled an alphabetically arranged list of Gordons who dis- tinguished themselves in every conceivable activity, in every part of the world, but whom he is at present unable to assign to the particular families to which they belong. Over and above that, he has notes, gathered from time to time in conducting systematic researches, on no fewer than 369 families who possessed lands ; and of those ninety belong to one great branch, the Gordons of Lochinvar. Captain Wimberley, the historian of the Gordons of Lesmoir and Terpersie, has placed his material, greatly enlarged since the publication of his monographs, at the disposal of the Club, and this will be printed in the second volume, PURPOSE AND METHODS OF THIS BOOK. XXV11 The justification of the piecemeal method here adopted and deliberately advocated has been proved by the fact that the announcement that the Club was to deal with the House led Rev. Stephen Ree to place at its disposal his admirable deduction of the Gordons of Coclarachie. Again, the know- ledge that I was interested in the subject led the late Father O -' William Gordon, Superior of the Brompton Oratory, to give me the elaborate notes which he had been compiling for years on his family, the Gordons of Kethocksmill, near Aberdeen. These I was able to print in Scottish Notes and Queries the very month in which he died. But for that publication his work might have been lost sight of altogether. The intense interest in the whole subject is evidenced by the many communications I have re- ceived from all parts of the English-speaking world. The most recent came from an American, Mr. John Gordon late of Buenos Ayres, who belongs to the Gordons of Holm, cadets of the Lochinvars. For years he has been making elaborate (and ex- pensive) researches into the history of his line, and he has placed all his material at the disposal of the Club. American genealo- gists, always keen on origins, have been particularly enthusiastic. I am especially indebted to the Hon. Armistead C. Gordon, Staunton, Virginia, whose work has disentangled the history of the Gordons in Ireland. Mr. Henderson Smith, Edinburgh, has come forward with his knowledge of bookplates belonging to the family, while scores of other correspondents have plied me with letters of inquiry on doubtful points in their pedigree. A glance at the skeleton tables of the cadets of the Gordons prefixed to the volume will show the wide extent of ground to be covered. Indeed the work is so vast that one can well un- derstand how it could never be attempted on a definitive basis, nor even by preconceived co-operative methods. But there is no doubt whatever that it can be ultimately overtaken in a XXV111 HOUSE OF GORDON. piecemeal way : and, if not completed, much may be done, with enthusiasm and industry, to realise the desideratum of centuries. The accompanying bibliography, incomplete in itself, indi- cates what has already been achieved. The scheme of the Club is to focus those spasmodic and tentative efforts, and produce a work more or less worthy of the great family, which, under the most varied conditions, has distinguished itself all over the world. I have to thank many helpers for suggestions, assistance and encouragement. In particular, I am indebted to Mr. P. J. Anderson, the secretary of the Club ; to the Rev. Stephen Ree, who has thrown himself with immense enthusiasm into the whole scheme ; to Captain Douglas Wimberley ; and to Mr. Murray Rose, whose vast knowledge has always been placed at my disposal. Special thanks are due to Mrs. Skelton, who undertook the very laborious task of indexing the Poll Book and the Services of Heirs, besides making tedious transcriptions with rare accuracy for other parts of this volume. In conclusion, let me say that the Club will be only too glad to hear of any research that has been made, with a view to its incorporation in the present scheme. The great difficulty involved in devising a plan of operation must be held responsible for the blunders and omissions in this opening volume. J. M. BULLOCH. 118 PALL MALL, LONDON, October, 1903. APPENDIX TO PREFACE. A SKETCH BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GORDON GENEALOGY. THE following list does not pretend to be a complete bibliography of the genealogy of the Gordons. Anything approaching dermitiveness would cause endless delay : and even then the list would be incomplete. So this biblio- graphy is the merest skeleton of the data which I have gathered for years, and only the shadow of the material that is available : but it deals with all the leading lines both in the north and south of Scotland. The literature of the Gordons in the north of Scotland is familiar. The great store-houses of information to the north-east of Scotland are the Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and 5a^"(Spalding Club, 5 vols., 1843-69) and Lord Huntly's Records of Aboyne (New Spalding Club, 1894). The history of the Gordons who remained in the south has, as I have noticed in my preface, been more neglected, but the prominence of the family may be gauged from the fact that in P. H. McKerlie's Lands and Owners in Galloway, 1870-79, there are 164 entries dealing with Gordons possessing land, and fifty-nine other entries giving only Christian names. This list has been prepared chiefly on the principle of citing monographs on different branches, and of noting books where they are mentioned, but where one might not naturally search for them. No attempt has been made to include any of the printed public records, for the searcher instinctively turns to them for information, which their elaborate indexes readily supply. These records are : Scots Acts of Parliament (1124-1707). Services of Heirs (1545-1799). Registrant Magni Sigilli (1306-1651). Register of Privy Council (1545-1630). Exchequer Rolls (1264-1588). Accounts of Lord High Treasurer (1473-1513). Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland (1108-1435). XXX HOUSE OF GORDON. Calendar of State Papers, Scotland (1509-1603). Calendar of Scottish Papers (1547-1569). Documents illustrative of the history of Scotland (1286-1303). Laing Charters (854-1837). Scots Testaments (1514-1800). Historical MSS. Commission Reports. As an example of the richness of these records, I may cite minor families of Gordon noted in the Scots Acts of Parliament alone : Aberdour (1787-93) ; Achomachy (1698) ; Adiwell (1581) ; Aikenhead ; Airtloch (1662-1703); Ardlogie (1639-56); Ardoch (1748-57); Aroquhain (1674) ; Arradoull (1663-92) ; Auchinachie (1643-1782) ; Auchinangzie (1573) ; Auchincairne (1662) ; Auchindore (1591-1633) ; Auchindoun (1587-1600) ; Auchinhalrigg (1724); Auchinhannok (1655-1710); Auchinhove (1678); Auchinreith (1647-65); Auchlean (1652); Auchlyne (1714-34); Auchmull (1744); Auchmunziel (1745); Auchridie (1702); Auchtirairne (1574); Bac- charowe (1690) ; Balcomy (1686-1703) ; Balcraig (1608) ; Balery (1607) ; Balgown (1786) ; Ballegorno (1743) ; Ballone (1649) ; Balmade (1673-74) ; Balmeg (1648-1794) ; Balmuir (1790) ; Banchory (1740-51) ; Bandane (1607) ; Bandloch (1645); Barharrow(i662); Baranrine (1595-1654); Barnfalzie(i662); Barnharnie (1690); Barns (1698-1740) ; Barrelmad (1661); Barroch (1662); Bellieturey (1649) ; Beoche (1607-16) ; Bermart (1662) ; Birkenbush (1754-70) ; Birkinburn (1647); Birness (1751-56); Blackford (1645) ; Blaikat (1548-1634) ; Blairmad (1728) ; Boddam (1685-89) ; Boghall (1661) ; Boigs of Darley (1681) ; Boytath (1720); Braichlie (1663-1704); Branelane (1669); Brora (1649); Buitle (1645-58); Cairstown (Kerston) (1750-99); Camdell (1685-96); Carrell (1643-1766) ; Carron (1797); Castraman (1610) ; Chirmers (1656-62) ; Clerkseat (1740); Clone (1596); Cloinyard (1687); Cloves (1718); Coldwells (1766-83) ; Colholstane (1559); Coliston (1690-1719); Combrie (1665); Corachrie (1622); Cowbairdy (1773-82) ; Coyanach (1704-99) ; Crabstoun (1735) ; Crago (1620) ; Craigellie (1704) ; Craigieheid (1682) ; Craigmyle (1763) ; Cranach (1689- 90); Crathienaird (1767); Creiche (1553-1663); Crimonmogate (1685-89); Cringlay (1663); Culreoch (1646) ; Cumry (1779) ; Cults (1662) ; Cuffurroch (1724); Dallochie (1685-1770) ; Dendeuch (1737); Deskfurd (1556) ; Doil (or Doll) (1648-85); Dorlathers (1753); Drumjoy (1648); Drumrash (1773); Drumwhyndle (1693-1735) ; Dungeuch (1695); Dundeauch (1682-90); Eaynbo (1648); Edintore (1742-63); Enrick (1649); Farnachtie (1737); Fetter- angus (1768); Fidderey (1649); Forskan (1713); Gaitley (Gaithy) (1700- 02); Gallachie (1647); Gararie (1672-1704); Gartie (Garve) (1678-1704); Gedgill (1662); Glascoforrest (1574); Glasnick (1649); Glass (1645-46); BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. XXXI Glassauch (1643-49); Gleanicht ( ); Glencatt (1744); Glendaveny (1774); Glenderrick (1734); Glenlady (1662); Glenluce (1610-49); Gordons- milne (1639-50); Govell (1704); Greencastle (1776); Grievshop (1778); Hallcraig (1706); Railhead (1685-1704) ; Hillhead (1712); Hilton (1735-44); Hospidell (1704); Humetoun (1686); Innermarkie (1628-33); Invergordon (1766); Invernaver (1667) ; Kegnith (1702) ; Kilgour (1723) ; Killileoch (1697) ; Killielour (1657-62); Kinaldie (1740); Kinbo (1664); Kincaldrum (1659); Kingoodie (1697); Kingsgrange (1774-77) ; Kinmundy (1704-41) ; Kinnedour (1718); Kirkdaill (1628) ; Kirketilbreke (1644); Kirkhill (1694-1708); Kirkland (1617-1731); Knarie (1605); Knockgrant (1645); Knockgray (1643-90) > Knockreoch (1610); Langdale (1661-63); Langwell (1704); Largmoir (1648- 1704) ; Laussie (1741); Law (1645-96) ; Little Cocklaw (1766-74); Littleknox (1788); Littlemylne (1647) ; Logic (1704-52) ; Lumsdeall (1661-62) ; Makait- nay (Mercartney) (1607-62); Midgarthie (1663-67) ; Midmar (1621); Migstrath (1690); Mill of Esslemont (1744); Mill of Kincardine (1744-70); Minidow (1759); Minybowie (1662); Moy (1649); Mundork (1626) ; Mureick (1645-46); Nether Boddom (1698) ; Newbigging (1704) ; Newcoundaw (1647) ; Newhall (1764-87); Newmilne (1649); Newtoun (1644); Newtyle (1681-85); ^ver- barr (1690-1708); Overhall (1647-1704); Oxhill (1647); Pennyghame (1648); Pinkaitland (1690) ; Pittendreich (1645-63) ; Rainieshill (1731) ; Rany (1645) ; Rathleif (1678) ; Robertoun (1646-62); Rogart (1667-85); Rothiemurkus ( ); Rovie (1663-85) ; Sallach (1649) ; Sands (1732) ; Seaton (1690-1704) ; Shives (1546-65) ; Skibo (1678) ; Spedoch (1687) ; Strangaslyle (1650) ; Strathdoun (1567-1606) ; Swellend (1669); Techmuir (1648-1747) ; Thornbank (1661-85); Tilliangus (1567-1663); Tillisoules (1696); Tillythroskie (1639) ; Towie (1712); Tulloch (1637-56); Uppat (1649); Waterside (1662); Wet- crage (1598) ; Whiteley (1783) ; Whitepark (1612-28) ; Woodhall (1704-46) 5 Zeochrie (1694). In this bibliography I begin with the MS. genealogies, and go on to a classified list, arranged alphabetically according to the lands held by them. I am deeply indebted to Rev. Stephen Ree for his invaluable help in examining several of the MSS. I. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES (a) ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. Ferrerius MS. Historiae compendium de origine et incremento Gor- doniae familiae, Joanne Ferrerio Pedemontano authore, apud Kinlos, 1545, fideliter collectum. Ferrerius, who was an Italian from Piedmont, was brought in 1528 to Scotland from Paris by Robert Reid, afterwards Abbot of Kinloss and Bishop of Orkney, and for XXX11 HOUSE OP GORDON. some time taught the monks of Kinloss in Morayshire. A notice of him will be found in Stuart's Records. of Kinloss (p. xiii.-xxii.). The preface to his history of the Gordon family is addressed to George, fourth Earl of Huntly, and is dated at Kin- loss, March 30, 1545 ; and in it he says that the history was written at the request of the Earl's kinsman and secretary, Mr. William Gordon, who had supplied him with an outline in Scots (idiomate vestro) of the family history. He further states that he had read the histories and annals of Scottish affairs, except those that were written in the vernacular, and that his history is based upon what he found in the public chronicles (in publicis historiarum monumentis). William Gordon, the his- torian of the house, who made use of a copy of Ferrerius, says : " That History is very short and superficial, and comes no further down than the Year 1545 ; it may be printed in less than two Sheets of Paper, and so must be very defective, as indeed it is." There are several transcripts of the MS. two in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, two in Gordon Castle. The laird of Parkhill owns a fifth. Macquair MS. Vera narratio ingentis et miraculi plenae victoriae, partae apud Avinum in Scotiae borealibus partibus a Georgia Gordonio Huntlaeo et Francisco Haijo Errolio Catholicis principibus contra Archim- baldum Cambellum Argadorutn impcratorem 5 Nonas Octobris anno domini 1594- This MS., consisting of twenty folio pages, is now in the Advocates Library, Edin- burgh (MS. 33.2.36). The writer was a priest who accompanied Huntly's forces, and is said to have been Alexander Macquair, S.J. An English translation, slightly abridged in some parts, is given (vol. i., pp. 136-52) in Sir John Graham DalyelPs Scotish Poems of the Sixteenth Century (Edinb., 1801). In vol. i., pp. 255-70, of the Spottiswoode Miscellany (Edinb., 1844), there is printed " Account of the Battle of Balrinnes 3d of October, 1594 ". This account is " from a MS. formerly belonging to the Rev. Robert Wodrow, now in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates," and is founded on the Vera Narratio, though containing some addi. tional information. The MS. of the Narratio was probably written previous to 1629, as the cover of the volume in which it occurs bears that it was presented to Camden in that year by Sir Robert Cotton. The hand is early seventeenth century. The volume contains the Battle of Balrinnes (ballad) in a different hand. Domus Gordon Comes Huntley. A genealogical table in the same volume in the Advocates Library as contains the Vera Narratio (MS. 33. 2. 36). The descent terminates with the sixth earl, and is accompanied by two coats of arms : the Earl of Huntley and the Lord Seaton. MS. of circa 1600. A MS. of nineteen folio pages, without title or date, is in the possession of Mrs. Elphin- stone Dalrymple, of Kinellar Lodge. It is called " a Gordon Pedigree of 1580 " in Records of Aboyne, p. vii., but that date is clearly erroneous, as the Battle of Glen- livet is unmistakably referred to on page 16. The MS. deals with the Houses of Petlurge, Carnburrow, Haddoch, Auchmeinzie, Tilleminnatt and Lesmoir. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. XXX111 MS. of circa 1610. A MS. of sixteen pages folio, without title, is in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh (MS. 35.5.50). It begins "This George Gordone first Marquis of Huntley suc- ceeded his father George the yeir off God ," and ends abruptly with the account of the battle between the Macleans and the Macdonalds in 1597. It was written in the lifetime of the Marquis, after 1607 and before 1620. Alexander Ross's MS. Sutherlandiae Comitum Annales : in quibus eornm origo et incrementa, vitae et res hello paceque gestae dilucide explicantur : multa quoque notatu digna in regionibus Scotiae vltra Caledonios, a Scrip- toribus nostris vel breviter tacta, vel penitus omissa, fusius proponuntur. Authore Alexandra Rossaeo Aberdonense Scoto, 1631. The original is in Dunrobin. A quarto MS. ("penes Dom. Robertum Sibbald") is mentioned in Nicholson's Scottish Historical Library, 1702 (p. 245 f). The " dedica- tion bears date from Ross's study at Southampton, August i, 1627. He begins with a description of the county, and largely proceeds with the Annals of the Earls to 1625." In the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, there is a small quarto MS. (34, 6, 18) with the title: Gordoniorttm et Soiithirlandorum historia dttobus libris descripta: quorum prior Huntileae familiae res gestas a Joanne Ferrerio Pedemontano conscriptas complectitur ; posterior vero Southirlandiae comitum originem et incrementa, vitas et res bello paceque gestas, in quo multa notatu digna in regionibus Scotiae ultra Cale- donios, a scriptoribus nostris vel breviter tacta vel penitus omissa, fusius explicantur. Authore Alexandra Rossaeo Aberdonense Scoto. The portion containing the Southir- landiae comitum Annales, etc. .extends to eighty-one pages, of which four are blank. The dedication begins: Viro stemmatis splendore et virtutibus eximio, D. Roberto Gordonio, equiti aurato, Britanniarum regi ex interioris cubiculi familiaribus, Alexandri Southirlandiae comitis filio secundo-genito, jam Southirlandiae Tutori, et primo Scotiae (ut vocant) Baronetto, Alexander Rossaeus S.P.D., and ends : Ex musaeo nostro Southamptoniae primo die Januarii anno millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo sexto. A different but contemporary hand has corrected Januarii into Augusti and sexto into septimo, and the same hand (apparently the author's) has made frequent corrections throughout the volume. In the dedication Ross states that he had the " Annales " ready for publication several years before, but the volume had been lost ; that he had now prepared them anew at the request of Sir Robert Gordon, and had dedicated them to him for various reasons, but chiefly because Sir Robert had not only incited him to write the history, but had also sup- plied him with his own observations and collections. Sir William Fraser, in the Preface to his Sutherland Book, describes Ross's " Annales " as only an abstract in Latin of Sir Robert Gordon's work. It would probably have been better to say that Sir Robert Gordon, recognising that Ross had worked up only the mate- rial he had supplied, had so freely used Ross's MS. in writing his own history, that Ross's " Annales," though written first, serves as an abstract in Latin of Sir Robert's work. Sir William Fraser deals not only with the Dunrobin copy of the MS., but also with two in the possession of Mr. Gordon of Halmyre (descended from the Gordons of Gordonstoun), XXXIV HOUSE OF GORDON. Funeral procession of the first Marquis of Huntly, 1636. An apparently contemporary representation in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The painting is on a roll of paper measuring 16 ft. 9 in. in length, by 8 in. in breadth. The dresses and armorial bearings are of great interest. Records of the Regality of Huntly (1640-1744). These are preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, and the following description has been kindly furnished by Dr. Maitland Thomson : " i. Deeds, i vol., 20 Oct., 1686 5 Jan., 1734. 2. Homings and Inhibitions, vol. i., 15 Oct., 1687 14 Apr., 1710. 3. vol. ii., ii Nov., 1717 ii Jan., 1748. (This volume, though not used till 1717, was issued by a Clerk of Session on n July, 1710). 4. Court Book, 7 Oct., 1697 30 Mar., 1711 (Huntly). 5. 10 July, 1724 2 Feb., 1739 (Huntly). 6. 24 Nov. 1721 10 Aug., 1733 (Fochabers and Gordon Castle). 7. 30 Apr., 1698 25 Aug., 1736 (Badenoch and Lochaber). 8. Volume of original papers, 19 Mar., 1700 27 Aug., 1744, with a few earlier documents (1640 onwards) added at end (Badenoch and Lochaber)." Prony MS. It will be seen from the Balbithan MS. (59, 60), that there was a " manuscript that goes under Proneys name ". The Gordons of Proney were cadets of the Buckie family. William Gordon in his History (i., 5) says, " I have an old MS. before me written by one, John Gordon, son to George Gordon of Prony ". What has become of the Prony MS. nobody knows. It was used by Theodore Gordon in his MS. history of the Gordons, and there are copies of fragments of it in the Lyon Office. MS. of circa The University Library, Aberdeen, possesses a fragment of a quarto MS. account of the Gordons. It begins at page 31 and ends abruptly at page 46. This MS. must have been used as the basis of some of the Balbithan MS. and is possibly part of the Prony MS. Delmore MS. A Genealogical Account of the Family of Gordon and their Cadets, with a note of their Lives and Fortunes. William Gordon of Delmore (fl. 1553-1604), son of Alexander (who was the second son of the third Earl of Huntly), is said to have spent his leisure hours in writing a history of the Gordons, which about the middle of the eighteenth century was in the possession of James Man, a historian resident in Aberdeen. The history, of which no trace has since been discovered, is thus described by Man (Gordon's Scots Affairs, i., p. xxxii.). " There is little in it but mere genealogy till we come to 1630 ; and the rest of it has been engrossed, almost word for word, by Spalding in his Memoirs. So there needs nothing more to be said of it, only it goes a little further than Spalding into the year 1645." " The whole of it could not have been written by William as he did not live so long." (The Cronghly Book, by Capt. G. H. B. Gordon, 1895, pp. 59, 60). He was the ancestor of the Gordons of Croughly. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. XXXV Sir Robert Gordon's Tables, compyled and collected together by the great paines and Industrie of Sir Robert Gordon, Knight baronett of Gordon- stoun, sone of Alexander Earl of Southerland, copied out of his papers and continued be maister Robert Gordone his sone, 1659. A folio MS. in Dunrobin Castle containing Genealogical Tables of Huntly, Suther- land, Gordonstoun, Ferack, Garty, Lochinvar, Drummoy, Sideray, Enbo, Backies, Craighton and Overskibo ; apparently framed by Sir Robert to accompany his Earl- dom (cf. p. 104, 1. 7 from foot). A transcript for the use of the Club has been kindly supplied by the Rev. J. M. Joass, LL.D., Golspie. Straloch MS. Origo et progressus familiae Gordoniorum de Huntly in Scotia. The author was Robert Gordon of Straloch, the mapmaker, who died 1661. It was written in his old age, and William Gordon (History of Gordons, i., p. xxiv.) says that Straloch's " old Age and the Situation of his Dwelling hindred him from searching into the Registers and publick Records, so that it is in many Things very defective. But what we have of it is very well done, and deserves the greatest Credit, for he was a Gentleman of the strictest Veracity ". The original is now in Gordon Castle, having been presented to the Duke of Gordon in 1773 by John Gordon of Craig ; and consists of forty-one pages folio, with forty-nine or fifty lines on the page. On blank pages at the end are pasted two small sheets, the one having notes by Mr. Robert Burnett of Crimond. the other having notes by Dr. George Middleton, Prin- cipal of King's College (1684-1717). James Man (Gordon's Scots Affairs, i.,p. viii.) says Straloch's " History of the illustrious Family of the Gordons, which is carried down only to the year 1595, is writ in a clear and concise Latin style and very exact as to the geography of places, with which he was so well acquainted. I have seen the original MS. of this book (which has been composed after 1655, as appears by his mentioning Spotswood's and Johnston's Histories, which were not published till that year) with the Remarks of Mr. Robert Burnett of Crimond and Dr. George Middleton, Principal of the King's College of Aberdeen, upon it. I have likewise seen several copies of it." A transcript is in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, but the first leaf is wanting. A transcript is in the possession of the laird of Parkhill ; this was copied in 1763 for Rev. Theodore Gordon, and the copy is now in Gordon Castle. A transcript (including Principal Middleton's notes) was in the possession of Rev. Dr. Woodward, Montrose, and at his death passed into the hands of A. W. Macphail, bookseller, Edinburgh, who offered it in December, 1899, for 2 155. and subsequently sold it. MS. of circa 1670. A genealogie of the name of Gordon with the branches and cadets thereof. This is a quarto MS. of 12 pages, and is bound up (with copies of the MSS. of Ferrerius and Straloch) in a volume now in the possession of the laird of Parkhill. It deals with Huntly (to about 1668) and with " Jock " and " Tam ". A copy of the part dealing with " the genealogie of Thomas Gordon of Daach," made on a foolscap sheet about 1760 for (or by) John Gordon of Craig, is now in the Univer- sity Library, Aberdeen. \\XV1 liorsi- 0|- (iOKDON. Buniet MS. Tlif pout-trait <;./" true loyalty exposed in the Family of ic it lion t ititei rnptioti to this present year 1691. with a relation of the siege of flu- C./.v//f '/ /',/<':/';////< /;/ the year 1689. I In . M i ; is now in Hlairs rollej-.o, near Aberdeen. It is a quarto volume (it VM paR s . and has the hook pl.nr .<( tin- Bootl College at Paris. The dedicatory letter, ad- dressed " i<> ih< Ui;.;hi IIon.'m.iMe du F.ule <>l Hnntly," extends to four pages (not numheinU .nui ionihi.1i--; "My I. .ml, voiu 1 o. inosl humble ;vtld most ohedient servant, W. R." William Gordon in his //;*/, v (p. xxiv.) s.i\ - it "wftl written (as I am told) by one Mi. Minuet. a Priest of the Romish Church, who lived in Scotland in King James VI I. 's Time, and I am sorry I can give no further Account of him, only I've been told he was a Mearns Gentleman ". The copy of Gordon's History in the University I.I!M.II\. Aberdeen, has the following note in the hand- writing of Professor Thomas Gordon : " This author's name was David [Burnet]. He studied in the Scots College at Rome from the year 1661 to 1669, when he \\.i-- ordained a piicst and came as a missionary to Scotland, where he remained for seven years. From 1676 to 1680 he was Prefect of Studies in the Scots College of Paris. In 1680 he returned to Scotland and died anno 1695. He was for several years Chaplain to the family of Gordon at Gordon Castle, where he was much esteemed. This information from Bishop John Geddes. T. G." William Gordon desoibes the author as "honest, loyal, and a Man of j;ood 1 earning " ; and savs also, " as he continues his History much further than any of the former Authors I have mentioned, so he is more exact and full than any of them : yet in many Things, even of Moment, he is very defective, and gives but a lame Account of what happened to the l-'amily of Gordon in the Time of the Rebellion against Charles I. and II. It appears he did never see Sir Robert Gordon's MS. History, nor has he at all looked into the Registers or Records, and so behooved to be guilty of many Omissions. He seems to have been pretty well acquainted both with the Scots and English HI--IIMI.UIS ; hut hciin; an entire Stt.uu;ei to our Ke^isters, has with them fallen into a good many chronological Mistakes." Lord Huntly had the use of this MS. in preparing his Records of Aboyne (p. vii.). There is a transcript in the Advocate I ild annotated by Mackenzie. It deals with the supposed French origin of the Gordons; the Huntly and the Gordonstoun famih- MS. of circa 1700. The abridged history of the antiente and most illustrious family of Huntly and Duke Gordone togither with the gencalogic and armes blazoned in abrupt lynes. Thit it a small quarto volume in Gordon Castle. Its contents are : The names of the anthores trom which the history is compyled, i p. The epistle to the reader, 6 pp. The Armes (pen and ink), i p. The Armes of that most noble and antient house of HIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. XXXV11 Huntlie blazoned in som abrupt lynes, 12 pp. The genealogy of that noble and illustrious family of Huntlie or the lyne of the ancestores of Duk Gordone according to the best and most exact genealogies and accountes thereofe, 18 pp. The history of the most antient and illustrious family of Huntlie or ane account of the trans actiones of the ancestoures of Duk Gordone, 197 pp. A table or index of the most materiale points contained in this traitaise, 15 pp. The history ends with a brief notice of Lewis, the third Marquis. The author's name is not given. This MS. is probably that referred to in the following note by the late Mr. C. Elphinstone Dalrymple. " Mr. Spottiswood of Spottiswood (then an old man), writing to William Gordon of Harperfield in 1781, says : ' I was told by my father's clerk, who served him all his life, that he was employed by the old Duke of Gordon, who held out the Castle of Edinburgh against King William, and in this cause he had occasion to give a history of the family, with which his grace was so pleased that he ordered the clerk to make a copy of it to be deposited in his charter kist ; which he did, but he had forgot the particulars and the year, which according to my con- jecture behoved to have been about the year 1703 or 1704'." R. M.'s MS., 1707. Genealogie of the familie of Gordon, collected by R. M. Anno. Dom. 1707. This MS. is referred to by Joseph Robertson in a footnote (p. 38) to his edition of the Diary of Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries (Spalding Club). The MS. was then in the Skene Library. In 1899 when part of that library was sold, the Duke of Fife informed the present writer that he knew nothing of the MS. Balbithan MS. This unique document is reprinted in the present volume from a copy in the possession of Mrs. Charles Elphinstone-Dalrymple, of Kinellar Lodge. It is valuable mainly as a guide to the descendants of " Jock " Gordon of Scurdargue. Lesmoir MS. Genealogy from father to son of the House of Lesmoir, (j.s /'/ was painted on the chimney of the said House, and bears date 1405, transcribed therefrom by Dr. Thos. Gordon ofCraigelly. It is printed in Captain Wimberley's Memorials of Lesmoir, p. 99. The date 1405 is probably a mistake for 1505. The pedigree comes down to the issue of Sir James Gordon, XIII. of Lesmoir, but does not give his son George as baronet. As Sir James died about 1743, the pedigree must have been made before that date. Theodore Gordon's MSS. A Genealogy of the name of Cordon " with the branches and cadets thereof agreeable to the preceding histories of Straloch and Ferrerius, and likewise to ane old MS. written by John Gordon son to George Gordon of Proney, and several other unexceptionable authori- ties ". By Theodore Gordon, minister of Kennethmont. Rev. Theodore Gordon was the son of William Gordon, Drumbulg, and married Anne Gordon, youngest daughter of Professor George Gordon, professor of Hebrew, King's College, Aberdeen, a member of Kethocksmill family. Theodore Gordon died in 1779. A copy of his work (made by the late Dr. Burnett) is in the Lyon XXXV111 HOUSE OF GORDON. Office, Edinburgh. There is also a copy of the MS. somewhere in Aberdeen, where it was copied by the late Rev. William Gordon, superior of the Brompton Oratory. He could not remember, however, who lent him the MS. In Gordon Castle there is a small quarto volume containing (i) a copy of the Ferrerius MS. ex- tending to thirty-one pages ; (2) a copy of the Straloch MS. extending to 160 pages ; and (3) continuatio historiae ac series rerum illustrissimae familiae Gordoni- orum, extending to forty-three pages and dealing only with the Huntly family to 1760. There are several marginal notes on (i) and (2), and at the end of (i) there is this note : Quae etiam ego transcripsi anno 1763 ac stricturas quasdam in margine adjeci. T. G. The volume is not in the handwriting of Professor Thomas Gordon, who was the brother-in-law of Theodore, but there is inserted at the beginning of the volume the following : " Acco 1 Profr Gordon To James Dalgarno D r To copying 31 sheets at 2 d per sheet o 5 2 To 2 Quires of 8d paper 014 6 6 OLD ABERDN, 19 Sept., 1751. Received payment of the above Accot and the same's hereby discharged by JAS. DALGARNO.'' From letters in the possession of the late Mr. C. Elphinstone-Dalrymple, it appears that Professor Gordon got the above copy made for Rev. Theodore Gordon. In Gordon Castle there is another MS. copy (24 pp. folio) of (3) Continuatio, etc., with this inscription : " Presented to His Grace the Duke of Gordon by John Gordon of Craig, 1781 ". Harperfield MS., 1784. Tables of Pedigree of the Family of Gordon in Scotland . . . 1057-1784, by William Gordon, of Harperfield, 1784. A copy of these tables is in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, and another was sold at Dowell's, Edinburgh, on December 3, 1878, for 4 173. 6d. I have failed to trace this copy. The compiler (born 1720) was the fifth son of Dr. John Gordon, of Hilton, and brother of Dr. James Gordon of Pitlurg. He was a barrister of the Middle Temple, and bought Harperfield in Lanarkshire. He died in 1787 and left Harper- field to his nephew, Colonel Thomas Gordon. Several of his tables are printed in Wimberley's Gordons of Lesmoir. Tilphoudie MS., 1788. The family of Tilphoudie is dealt with in a MS. of 1788, of which a copy, filling thirty- four folio pages and endorsed by " John Stuart, Gen. Reg. Ho.," Edinburgh, is in possession of the New Spalding Club. It goes into details of genealogy in the eighteenth century. Brydges MS. A MS. by Sir Egerton Brydges [1762-1837], bought from the Phillipps collection, is in the Advocates Library (6. i. 17). It deals with the Gordons of Embo. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. XXXIX Deuchar's MSS. " Genealogical Collections relative to the Family of Gordon." These are mentioned in an editorial note in Notes and Queries for 3oth March, 1867. Alexander Deuchar was a seal engraver in Edinburgh. Sinclair MS. Memoranda relative to the Families of Gordon and Forbes in Mr. Alexander Sinclair's collections now in Crawford Priory Library. Alexander Sinclair (1794-1877) was the second son of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, ist Bart. He was a very learned genealogist and wrote an essay on Heirs Male. Col. Robert Boyle writes to me : " Mr. Sinclair made many notes, but they are not of much use to others, as they are mostly undated, and give no authorities ; and one of his notes is frequently contradicted by another, presumably later in date ; but there is no means of knowing which of the two is the first and which the revised edition. The notes that I saw were chiefly in the form of frag- mentary tables of pedigrees." This is so typical of Gordon genealogy, as I have pointed out in my Preface. Ronald MS. A history of the Gordons in the Cabrach was compiled by William Ronald, M.A. (K.C.), 1822, schoolmaster of Cabrach. I. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES (b) ARRANGED ACCORDING TO OWNERSHIP. Abergeldie MSS. See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, vL, 712. Aboyne MSS. See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, ii., 180. To a considerable extent the earlier papers have been printed in Lord Huntly's Records of Aboyne, but several old rentals of Mar are still in MS. An inventory (MS.) of the muniments is in existence. Blairs College MSS. The Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, ii., 201, gives the titles of two manuscripts: The genealogies of the families of Scotland, collected by Sir George Mackenzie [1636-91], His Majesty's Advocate; and An account of various noble Scottish families with topographical notes, written in 1728. The college authorities decline, meantime, to permit examination of these MSS. See also Burnet MS. (supra). Charleton MS. Memoirs of the Origin and Descent of several Branches of the Surname of Gordon, 1822. Mr. More-Gordon of Charleton, Montrose, tells me that he has " a MS. book written by Cosmo Gordon in 1822, containing the history of several families of the name of Gordon ". It was given to Mr. More-Gordon's grandfather, Harry Gordon, by Cosmo Gordon, Liverpool, who was a cousin. A copy of it is now in possession of Miss Jean Anne Gordon, Elgin, daughter of the late Rev. George Gordon, LL.D., xl HOUSE OF GORDON. minister of Birnie, near Elgin. It is a quarto volume of about 318 pages and deals with the ducal Gordons (pages 1-246) and the Beldornie Gordons. Dunrobin MSS. See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, ii., 177, which refers to an inventory of the papers. See also Sir Robert Gordon's Tables and Alexander Ross's MS. (supra). Earlston MSS. A Short and Concise Abridgement of the origin of the name and illustrious family of Kenmure, with their no less renowned descendants. This manuscript contains the most elaborate account of the Gordons in the south of Scotland that I have come across. It is a folio of 101 pages, written by the fourth baronet of Earlston, Sir John Gordon (born 1720 : died 1795), and is divided into three main sections. The Kenmure family gets thirty-one pages, the families of Airds, Ayton and Earlston thirty-eight ; while the author devotes twenty-nine pages to his autobiography, in which he describes at length his experiences as an officer in the Scots Brigade in Holland. The manuscript, which is exceedingly interesting, if a little prolix, is now in the possession of Sir William Gordon, Bart., of Earlston, whom I have to thank very much for his courtesy in allowing me to examine it minutely. Fyvie MSS. See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, v., 644. A number of documents dealing with the Fyvie Gordons are in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Milne, Fyvie. Gordon Castle MSS. See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, i., 114. Selections from these papers were printed in 1846-49 by the Spalding Club : Miscellany, vols. iii. and iv. A detailed MS. inven- tory in Gordon Castle makes the documents accessible. See also Ferrerius's MS. and Straloch MS. and MS. of circa, 1700 (supra). Gordonstoun MSS. " The more important part of the papers at Gordonstoun consists of the correspondence of Sir Robert Gordon, of documents which he collected, or which came at a later period into the family archives through connections formed by the marriages of his descendants. ... A record of the Barony of Gordonstoun is preserved, beginning in 1663. . . . The collection is very extensive and miscellaneous, and contains many authentic materials for the domestic history of the North of Scotland during the seventeenth century" (Dr. John Stuart in Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, vi., 681-88). Sir William Gordon-Gumming has courteously granted permission to Mr. Ree to examine the enormous (and uninventoried) collection at Gordonstoun. Haddo MSS. See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, v., 608. These papers include many charters of the lands of Haddo, Kellie, Methlick, Auchtercoull, etc. A portion of the correspond- ence was printed in Letters illustrative of public affairs in Scotland, 1681-84 (Spalding Club, 1851). The papers are being examined by the Rev. James Brebner, M.A., with a view to a deduction being contributed to The House of Gordon by the Earl of Aberdeen. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. xli Pitfour MS. Genealogical Notices of the Gordons of Cairnburrow, Rothiemay, Glenbucket, Park, Farskane and others (ten pages}. Compiled by James Mitchell, Factor, Pitfour, circa 1830. Mitchell was a native of Banff, and entered the service of James Ferguson of Pitfour, M.P., as a lad. He was factor from 1789 to 1839, and died about 1840, leaving between 3,000 and 4,000 invested at 3^ per cent., the interest being divided yearly among the schools in Fetterangus, Longside, Rora, St. Fergus and Banff, and a sum of i IDS. every second year amongst " old men and women, widows, natives of and residing on the Pitfour estates, who have never been under church censure ". There is no date on the MS., but it is written on foolscap, bearing the watermark " Wallyfield, 1815 ". Mitchell was apparently keenly interested in local history. This volume, which belongs to the Pitfour family, and is now in the hands of the assistant factor, Mr. John Fullerton, himself an industrious antiquary, contains an account of the Duff family, running into eleven pages : notes of " Tryals " from 1537-1701 (ninety-six pages) ; copies of documents regarding the liberation of two of the domestic servants of Sir John Gordon of Haddo (eight pages) ; facsimile of the signatures of the Earls of Huntly (two pages) ; an account of the Abbey of Deer, with copies of charters (twenty-six pages) ; copy of tack by William Earl Marischal, 1699; rental of Marischal's lands in Buchan, 1712; sale of the forfeited estates of Marischal, Panmure and others, 1764 ; remarks on the purchase of Marischal's lands in Buchan by Ferguson of Pitfour (eighteen pages) ; notes on monuments in the Abbey Church of Deer (two pages), and charters by Fergus, Earl of Buchan (seven pages). Some of the items have been printed in Scottish Notes and Queries by Mr. Fullerton. The MS. deals with the families of Cairnburrow, Rothiemay, Glenbucket, Park, Edinglassie, Carnousie, Farskane, Artlock, Balbithan and Edinglassie. II. PRINTED SOURCES (forming also an Index to the " Balbithan MS."). Aberdeen (Earl of). See Haddo. Aberdour. Family of Dingwall-Fordyce ; Jervise's Epitaphs, 56, 57; Pratt's Buchan (1901), 305. Abergeldie. Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 596-97 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 378, 379; ii., 414; Records of A boy ne, 22, 219-26, 227, 275> 2 78, 3 86 5 2I J Records of Invercauld, 29, 30, 31, 35, 38, 40, 41, 66, 80, 83, 84, 86, 94, 98, 105, 112, 116, 117, 120, 155, 167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, 180, 182, 183, 186, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 239, 260, 262, 264, 278, 293, 297, 338, 361, 366, 367, 389, 390, 428, 434, 463, 465, 471, 474. Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 161-62 ; also infra under Huntly. Aberlour. Forfeited Estates papers in H.M. Register House; Macfar- lane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 18; Cramond's Annals of Banff, ii., 191. Affleck. Spalding Club Misc., Hi., 127. Afton. McKerlie's Lands and Owners in Galloway, iii., 416, 421, 424, 426 ; Book of Robert Burns, ii., 351, 352. xlH HOUSE OF GORDON. Aikenhead. See Earlston MS. Airds. McKerlie, iii., 67, no, 160, 164, 190, 204, 313, 389, 390, 408, 412, 414, 416, 418, 423, 424: iv., 54, 73, 78, 282, 298, 302, 305, 318, 408, 447 ; v., n, 52, 121, 202, 301, 361. Altyre. Betham's Baronetage, v., 547-56 ; Burke's Peerage, under Gordon-Gumming. Roualeyn George Gordon-Gumming, second son of 2nd bart., is sketched in Diet. Nat. Biog. See also Gordonstoun. Ardbroylach. Balbithan MS., infra, 57, 61 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 489. Ardestie. Cadet of Gight. Ardlogie. Cadet of Gight. Ardmachar. Cadet of Gight. Ardmeallie. Balbithan MS., 53 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 232 ; ii., 382. Ardoch. Chambers's Book of Days, ii., 41, 42 ; People's Journal, March i, 1902. These articles deal with the two daughters of Adam Gordon, who married successive Earls of Kellie : and how they rescued a baby from the sea. Ardwell. McKerlie, iii., 19, 21; iv., 261. Arradoul. Cramond's Church of Rathv en ; Donean Tourist; Balbithan MS., 64; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 386. A MS. account of this family in the handwriting of Major-Gen. Gordon on paper water- marked 1861 is in possession of Rev. John Allan, Birch Cottage, Elgin. Artloch. Balbithan MS., 33, 41, 47. Ashludie. Scottish Notes and Queries, May, 1902. Harrow School Register, 427, 441. Auchanachie. Balbithan MS., 40 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 22, 60, 188, 446 ; Buchan's Ancient Ballads, ii., 127-9. Great confusion arises out of old-fashioned spellings. It is confused with Auchynachy, Auchanassie and Auchoynany, all of which are different estates. Auchendolly. Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 600, 601. A curious fact about this estate is that it was given by Miss Gordon of Auchendolly to Michael Biddulph, the well-known London banker, because he was connected with the Gordons of Abergeldie (see infra, p. 104). Auchenreoch. McKerlie, iii., 223; iv., 54, 73, 79, 82, 470; v., 194, 308-10. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. xliii Auchinarrow. Balbithan MS., 67, 68. Auchindoir. Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 286 ; ii., 208, 209 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 25, 31, 37, 222. Auchindoun. Balbithan MS., 22, 23 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 92, 419. John and then his brothers, Adam and Patrick, sons of the 4th Earl of Huntly (Records of Aboyne, 468-69), were lairds of Auchindoun. Adam is supposed to be the " Edom o' Gordon " (of the ballad) who burned Tovvie Castle. Auchinhuif. Balbithan MS., 53, 57, 60, 61-63; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 15. Auchinreath. Balbithan MS., 66 ; Scottish Notes and Queries, ii., v., 14. Auchintoul. Balbithan MS., 52, 65 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 235 ; For- feited Estates papers in H.M. Register House. Auchleuchries. The interest of this family centres in General Patrick Gordon of Peter the Great's army, who left a very valuable diary, published in German under the title of Tagebuch des Generals Patrick Gordon [1655-1669], by Obolenski and Posselt ; vol. i., Moscow, 1849; vols. ii. and iii., St. Petersburg, 1851, 1853, 8vo. A summary of this book was published by the Spalding Club in 1859, edited by Joseph Robertson, under the title of Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon, 410, pp. 244. This edition contains an appendix dealing, from the documentary point of view, with the family of Auchleuchries : Patrick Gordon, by Alexander Brueckner, St. Petersburg, 1878 (pp. 184 : in Russian). See also " The Last of a Long Line : the Decay of the Gordons of Auchleuchries," by J. M. Bulloch, Aberdeen Free Press, April 6 and 13, 1901. Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 313. Temple's Thanage of Fermartyn, p. 309. Pratt's Buchan (1901), 450. Notes and Queries, 2, ii., 344; iii., 118. Auchlync. Balbithan MS., 47, 48. Cadet of Lesmoir. Auchmenzie. Theodore Gordon MS. ; Balbithan MS., 50 ; Macfar- lane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 238. Auchmull. Balbithan MS., 40. Auchnastink. Balbithan MS., 67. Auchoynany. Balbithan MS., 36, 39, 47. Auchterarne. Cadet of Lesmoir. Auchynachie (or Auchindachy). Balbithan MS., 49. Avochie. Balbithan MS., 32, 39, 40 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 232 ; ii., 382, 383 ; Burke's Landed Gentry (1898). i., 597, 598 ; and under Forbes-Gordon. xliv HOUSE oF GORDON. Backieleys. Balbithan MS., 52. Backies. See Sir R. Gordon's MS. Tables (supra). Bad. Cadet of Avochie. Badenscoth. Balbithan MS., 37, 46, 47, 48 ; Temple's Fermartyn, 103-5. Pratt's Biichan (1901), 387. See also under Lesmoir. Balbithan. Balbithan MS., 139 ; Temple's Fermartyn, 350. Balcomie. Cadet of Lesmoir. Balmad. Cramond's Annals of Banff, ii., 253, 254, 267, 322. Balmaghie. Burke's Landed Gentry, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions ; McKerlie, iii., 106, 112. See under Portugal. Balmuir. Cadet of Auchleuchries and Nethermuir. Banchory. Balbithan MS., 51. Bar. McKerlie, iii., 191, 313, 408; iv., 14, 19, 27, 59, 75, 263, 282, 293, 32, 33> 3 22 3 2 7 345- Barharrow. McKerlie, iii., 223; v., 173, 309. Barnbarroch. McKerlie, iii., 17, 220, 348, 349 ; iv., 55, 115. Barnes. Cadet of Lesmoir; Balbithan MS., 47. Barrack. Pratt's Buchan (1901), 189. Barskeoch. McKerlie, iv., 78-80, 97, 99, 447 ; v., 310, 312, 313. Belcherrie. Balbithan MS., 31, 32, 42, 65. Beldornie. Balbithan MS., n, 12, 57, 65 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 237 ; ii., 47, 414. See also Charleton M.S. (supra). Bellabeg. Balbithan MS., 42, 43. Binhall. Scottish Notes and Queries, Feb., 1901 ; May, 1902. Birkenburn. Balbithan MS., 33, 43, 45, 46, 49 ; Pedigree of the Gordons of Birkenburn, Cadets of Lesmoir (a single sheet folding genealogical table by Captain Wimberley in 1898); Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 165, 360. Birkenbush. Add. MSS., Brit. Museum, 28, 231 f. 176; 28, 235 ff. 187, 193. Birkhall. Cadet of Abergeldie. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. xlv Birsemoir. Balbithan MS., 21 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 246, 248 ; ii., 69, 83. Patrick Gordon, Governor of Pennsylvania, belonged to this family, Burke's Commoners, iv., 9. Blaiket. McKerlie, iii., 372, 394; iv., 75 ; v., 300, 301. Blelack. Balbithan MS., 42, 43 ; Michie's Logie-Coldstone ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 275. Bochrom. Balbithan MS., 67. Bogardie. Balbithan MS., 43. Boghole. Balbithan MS., 45. See also Crichie. BoigS. Balbithan MS., 31, 63, 64. Bonnyton (Ayrshire). Cadet of Nethermuir. Botarie. See under Pitlurg; Balbithan MS., 28, 30. Bountie. Balbithan MS., 51. Bovaglie. This family, farmers on the estate of Abergeldie, are said to be cadets of Hallhead. Mr. D. S. R. Gordon has a MS. account of this family. Braco. Balbithan MS., p. 54, 55 ; Scottish Notes and Queries, 2, i., 28; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 19, 21. This family was dealt with by J. M. Bulloch in two articles, " How the Queen might have had no Birthday," Aberdeen Free Press, May 24 and 25, 1899. Braickley. Balbithan MS., 47, 64; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 377, 379; iii., 252 ; Taylor's Braernar Highlands, 160-64 ; Michie's Deeside Guide ; Records of Invercauld, 35-43, 73, 251, 254, 278, 285, 356, 357, 475. "The murder of the Baron of Brackley (1666)," in the Aberdeen Free Press, Nov. 19 and 22, 1901 ; London Mag. (1824), ix., 355-6. The " Ballad of the Baron of Brackley " will be found in nearly all ballad collections, notably Buchan's Gleanings of Scotch . . . scarce old ballads, pp. 68-70. Broadland. Balbithan MS., 44. Buckle. Balbithan MS., 28, 56-59, 65; Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, i., 175 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 281, 282, 346. Buthlaw. Temple's Fermartyn, 272-75 and 476, 477; Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 601, 602. The most distinguished member of this family was Thomas Gordon of Cairness (1788- 1841), major-general in the Greek army, son of Charles VII. of Buthlaw. He is xlvi HOUSE OF GORDON. dealt with by Mr. Gordon Goodwin in the Dictionary of National Biography. Reference may also be made to the general's History of the Greek Revolution (pub- lished by Blackwood), 2 vols., 8vo, 1832. Cairn ban noch. Balbithan MS., 15. Cairnbulg. Burke's Landed Gentry, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions ; Pratt's Buchan (1901), 241, 245, 248; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 58. Cairnburrow. Temple's Thanage, 220-25 ; Balbithan MS., 30, 32-38, 45, 57, 58, 59, 62 ; see Pitfour MS., supra ; see also under Park ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 3, 8, 64, 237, 238, 421, 490. Cairness. Cadet of Buthlaw. Gairnfield. Balbithan MS., 65 ; Burke, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and gth editions; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 275. Cairn whelp. Balbithan MS., 15, 36, 40. Campbelton. McKerlie, iii., 52, 220, 228, 248, 373, 496 ; iv., 119, 120, 289 ; v., 202, 205, 209, 278, 279, 304. Cardoness. McKerlie, iii., 7, 15, 18 to 24, 57, 209 ; iv., 448. Garleton. McKerlie, iii., 190-95, 210, 314, 408, 417, 423 ; iv., 76, 100, 29 1 * 33> 3 22 > 480, 481. Carnousie. Balbithan MS., 36, 38 ; Pitfour MS. (supra). Carroll. Anne, the daughter of Joseph Gordon, W.S., of Carroll, married Sir William Siemens, and a good deal about the Carroll family will be found in Pole's Life of Sir William Siemens, 1888. The will of Joseph Gordon, sometime of Jamaica and lately of Navidale, and brother of John Gordon of Carroll, is a lengthy document in the Edinburgh Commissariat Testaments, cxxxi., part 2. Chapeltown. Balbithan MS., 54 ; Temple's Fermartyn, 284, 285 ; Family of Leslie, iii., 317. Lord Brougham's great-grandmother was a member of this family. Clashtirum. Scottish Notes and Queries, May, 1902 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 274, 278. James Gordon, a distinguished prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who became vicar apostolic of Scotland, belonged to this family. He is dealt with in the Dictionary of National Biography. Clethins. Balbithan MS., 49. Cloves. Cadet of Lesmoir. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. xlvii Cluny. Balbithan MS., 19-22, 62 ; Records of A boy ne, 229-36 ; G. E. C.'s Complete Baronetage, ii., 297; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 48, 127, 129-32; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 258 ; ii., 27, 28, 62, 447. Patrick Gordon the author of Britane's Distemper (Spalding Club), belonged to the Cluny family. See also Hartpury, Burke's Landed Gentry, 4th 5th and 6th editions. Clunymore. Balbithan MS., 67. Cobairdy. Gen. Acct. of James Young, etc., p. 139. Cadet oFPark. Cochlarachie. Balbithan MS., 51-53; Temple's Fermartyn, 276-79; Records of A boy ne 167-70. See Mr. Ree's deduction in the present volume. Coldwells. Mair's Presbytery of Ellon, 190; Pratt's Buchan (1901), 433- 434- To this family belonged John Gordon, Bishop of Galloway (1644-1726), described in the Diet. Nat. Biog. ; and Col. Fabian Gordon of the Polish Cavalry, fl. 1783 (Services of Heirs). Collieston. Cadet of Pitlurg. Collithie. Balbithan MS., 36, 51. Comray. Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 258, 259. GontlyBalbithtin MS., 66, 67. Cormellat. Balbithan MS., 32, 41, 59. Corrachree. Balbithan MS., 50. Cotton. Balbithan MS., 20, 21. Captain John Gordon, of the Swedish army, belonged to this family. See Deeds of Montrose, 283-85. Goynachie. Cadet of Birkenburn. Gracullie (or Craigtullie). Balbithan MS., 20, 42, 43, 61, 62, 64. Craibstone. Balbithan MS., ii, 37. Craichlaw. McKerlie, iii., 46, 296, 297, 315 ; iv., 54, 245 ; Scottish Nation, ii., 322. Craig. Balbithan MS., 49-5 1, 52 ; Harperfield MS. ; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 208, 209 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 247. Craigston. Balbithan MS., 33. Crichie. Cadet of Lesmoir; Balbithan MS., 43, 45. James Gordon, Jesuit priest, of this family, is sketched in the Diet. Nat- Blog. xlviii HOUSE OF GORDON. Crogo. McKerlie, iii., 82, 95, 96, 303. Ooughly. The Croughly Book, complied by Captain George Huntly Blair Gordon, R.E. ; edited by J. Percy Gordon, and printed by subscription for private circulation, 1895, 8vo, 103 pp. The family of Croughly in the parish of Kirkmichael are descended from Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died 1524). This pamphlet, which opens somewhat cynically in sketching the decay of the power of the Gordons, gives a very complete record of the later members of the Gordons of Croughly, who have been distinguished as a Service family, the most notable active member being General Redmond Gordon of the 15th Hussars, a brilliant cavalry leader in the South African War of 1899-1901. The author of the book, Capt. G. H. B. Gordon, R.E. (born 1857), succumbed to pneumonia, Nov. 18, 1897. He was the great-grandson of James Gordon of Croughly (1726-1818). He collected a good deal of matter on other branches of the Gordons. It is still in MS. (in the possession of Rev. Andrew Meldrum, Logierait), but is not of great value. The editor was his cousin, John Percy Gordon (born 1840), a solicitor in London. See also Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 70. Culdrain. Cadet of Birkenburn. Cullindoch. McKerlie, iii., 16, 17; iv., 271, 282-90; v., 205, 278. Cults. Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 322, 323 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 379- Culvennan. Burke's Commoners, iii., 610 ; Landed Gentry, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th editions; McKerlie, iii., 276, 365, 367, 395, 396; iv., 132, 266, 277 ; v., 94, 133, 255 ; Scottish Nation, ii., 322. Cushnie. See Hallhead. Dallachy. Cramond's Annals of Banff, ii., 323. Dalmore. Balbithan MS., 68. Dalpholly. This family held a baronetcy created 1704. Rev. Sir Adam (died 1817) is biographed in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 87, p. 556. Davoch (or Daach). Balbithan MS., 66-68 ; Scottish Notes and Queries, May, 1902. Delamont (Co. Down). See Florida. Deskie. Balbithan MS., 65. Deuchries. Balbithan MS., 55. Dilspro. Balbithan MS., 43. Dorlathers. Balbithan MS., 52. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. xlix Drimnin. Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 601. This family, which has remained Roman Catholic, is a branch of the Minmore line, and that in turn of the Knockespock. The present Roman Catholic Bishop of Jamaica is a brother of the present laird of Drimnin. See Medical Directory, 1903. Drumbulg. Balbithan MS., 43, 45, 59, 60. Drumearn. Edward Strathearn Gordon, a Lord of Appeal, was created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, 1876. The peerage became extinct 1879 (see G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage, iv., 53), but his issue will be found in the peerages since 1897, when a royal decree granted the courtesy title of Honourable to the children, of both present and deceased life peers. Lord Gordon was the son of Major John Gordon, 2nd Queen's Regiment, who was the son of Adam Gordon, of Griamacharry, Kildonan (1750-1831), beyond whom the family cannot be traced. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon (see Debrett's Knightage, 1902) is the son of Captain William Gordon, who was a son of this Adam. Lord Gordon's daughter Ella married Gen. Sir John James Hood Gordon. Drumhead. Balbithan MS., 40. Drumhill. Balbithan MS., 67. Drumin. Balbithan MS., 57, 58, 59. Drummoy. Balbithan MS., 12, 13, 32. Drummuir. Cadet of Park. Drumwhindle. Balbithan MS., 37, 41. Drymies. Balbithan MS., 50. Dunkinty. Balbithan MS., 23, 24. Earlston. The family, created baronets 1706, is described in all the baronetages, notably Burke and Debrett. See McKerlie, iii., 30, 85, 98, 145, 181, 1916, 195, 197, 229, 297, 307, 308, 314, 318, 321, 367, 387, 399, 4146, 427, 429, 435, 436, 438, 440, 441, 443; iv., 26, 61, 62, 63, 66, 76, 78, 80, 100, 282, 291, 302, 306, 318, 480, 481 ; v., 37, 43, 60, 121, 198, 300, 301 ; Scottish Nation, ii., 325; Records of the Corrie Family, A.D. 802-1899, by J[essie] E. Corrie; London: Mitchell & Hughes, 1899; vol. i., 109-129. Miss Corrie's book includes pictures of Earlston Castle, the arms of the Earlston family ; of Sir William Gordon of Afton, brother of Sir Alexander Gordon of Earls- ton ; and of the oak cabinet carved in captivity by John Gordon of Earlston. The connection between the families is clearly stated in a pedigree by Miss Corrie, printed on one sheet (57 inches by 30 inches), entitled Genealogical Table of the Houses of Gordon, Corrie and Goldie, published 1897. The Earlston family, who were zealous Protestants, figure very largely in Covenanting literature. In the Dictonary of National Biography there will be found good summaries of the line of Alexander Gordon (1587-1654), of his second son, William (1614-1679), and of the latter's son, Sir Alexander (1650-1720), all by Mr. Henry Paton. 1 HOUSE OF GORDON. Edinglassie. Balbithan MS., 33, 36, 38. Edintore. See Memoir of Dr. John Gordon by Daniel Ellis, F.R.S.E. (Edin. 1823). Edinvillie. Balbithan MS., 58. Ellon. Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 602 ; Temple's Fermartyn, 502, 503 ; Chambers's Domestic Annals, iii., 422 (for the murder of two sons) ; Times, June 9, 1873 (for the declaration of marriage by George John Robert Gordon a very strange case) ; Seven Gardens, by E. V. B., 1900 ; Sutherland Edward's Life of Sir William White, 75; Mary Boyle, 176, 177; Aberdeen Free Press, Feb. 17, 1903; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 121. Embo. The Gordons of Embo, created baronets in 1631, will be found in any baronetage, notably G. E. C.'s, ii., 392 ; Scottish Nation, ii., 324; Burke's Royal Descents, 116. See Sir R. Gordon's MS. Tables; Brydges M.S., supra. Enniskillen. See Notes and Queries, 2, x., 90. Essie. Balbithan MS., 57, 63. See also Scurdargue. Esslemont. See Hallhead. Farskane. Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 274. Cadet of Cairnburrow. Panmure Gordon, a well-known London stockbroker (died Sept. i, 1902), belonged to this family. J. M. Bulloch has in his possession a volume compiled of numerous cuttings about his curious career, and containing catalogues of his extraordinary collections. Fechil. Temple's Fermartyn, 504-6 ; Gen. Acct. of James Young, etc., p. 226. Cadet of Pitlurg. Ferack. See Sir R. Gordon's MS. Tables, supra. Fernachty. Balbithan MS., 33. Fetterangus. Cadet of Lesmoir. Fetterletter. Balbithan MS., 15, 53, 54. Florida (Co. Down). Burke's Commoners, iv., 376 ; Landed Gentry, 9th edition, ii., supra 172, 173: Dartmouth Papers, Hist. MSS. Com. Sir Lionel Smith, Bart, (created 1838), married as his second wife (in 1819), Isabella Curwen, youngest daughter of Eldred Curwen Pottinger of Mount Pottinger by his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Gordon of Florida ; and his son Lionel (and bart. , born 1833) assumed the additional name of Gordon in 1868. James Bentley Gordon (1750-1819), historian, and George Gordon (1806-79), horticultural writer, both of Irish birth, are described in the Diet. Nat. Biog. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. H Fulziemont. Balbithan MS., 42, 50. Fyvie. Temple's Fermartyn, 28-31, 45, 46; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 29, 124 ; Burke's Visitations, and series, i., 10-12. See also FyYie MSS. (supra) ; the Gordons, baronets of Halkin, in any Baronetage. Garie. Balbithan MS., 44. Garty. Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 420. See Sir R. Gordon's MS. Tables, supra. Gight. Temple's Fermartyn 72-78 ; Methlick, Haddo House, Gight and the Valley of the Ythan, 67-79 ; Lord Huntly's Records of A boy ne, 53-56 ; also deduction in the present volume. Glascoforest. Cadet of Lesmoir. Glassaugh. Cadet of Lesmoir. Glen. McKerlie, iii., 5, 33, 34, 74, 89, 159, 179, 219, 313, 334, 348, 382, 437, 488, 501, 502 ; iv., 54, 55, 92, 253, 281, 285, 290, 291, 302, 434 ; v., 194, 197^ 202, 204, 209, 292, 294, 313. Glenbucket. Balbithan MS., 36, 37, 38 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 69 ; Allardyce's Historical Papers of the Jacobite Period (1895-96,) ; 288, 310, 353, 354. 355' 37 2 > 39 1 . 397. 39 8 and 545- See also Pitfour MS. and under Knockespock. John Gordon, the famous Jacobite leader, held these estates, which have been owned by several branches of the Gordons. The editor has prepared a lengthy deduction. Glencat. This family produced a notorious swindler whose career is detailed in two pamphlets entitled Memoirs of John Gordon of Glencat, " who was thirteen years in the Scotch College at Paris, wherein the absurdities and delusions of Popery are laid open," i2mo, 1733. The Masterpiece of Imposture, " or the adventures of John Gordon and the Countess of Gordon, alias Countess Dalco, alias Madame Dallas, alias Madame Kempster, containing the reality of an history and the amusement of a romance ; being an answer to the late Memoirs of the said John Gordon of Glencat. Done with authentick account by Elizabeth Harding : London, printed for the author," 8vo, 1734. Glendaveny. Cadet of Lesmoir. Glengarack. Balbithan MS., 63. Presbytery Book of Strathbogie. Glenluce. C. A. Gordon's Concise History of the Gordons (1890), pp. 125-30. Rev. Robert Gordon, the last of the Non-juring Bishops, belonged to this family. See Lathbury's History of the Non-Jurors and The Jacobite Lairds ofGask. lii HOUSE OF GORDON. Gollachie. Balbithan MS., 33. Golspitur. See Pitcairns Criminal Trials, iii., 231 ; Balbithan MS., 13. Gordon, Parish of. See Old Stat. Acct., v., 88 ; New Stat.Acct., ii., 33 ; Chalmers's Caledonia (ed. of 1888), iii., 385. Gordonbank. See Nisbet's System of Heraldry (1804), vol. ii., Appx., p. 220. See under Portugal. Gordonstoun. See Eraser's Sutherland Book ; Douglas's Baronage, p. 2 ; G. E. C.'s Complete Baronetage, ii., p. 277 ; Foster's Members of Parlia- ment : Scotland; also Sir R. Gordon's MS. Tables, Gordonstoun MSS., supra. Grange. McKerlie, -iii., 111-277 5 i y -> 2 3 6 > 2 37> 2 99 5 v -> *95> 2 9 2 > 3 6 37- Greenlaw. Cadet of Kenmure. Also McKerlie, iii., 146, 365-68, 395, 423, 507 ; iv., 62, 66, 68, 69, 207, 235, 266 ; v., 61, 119, 232 and 387. Haddo. Balbithan MS. ,53-56 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 23-25 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 138 ; ii., 23, 37, 48, 235, 240, 482 ; Temple's Fermartyn, 1-16 ; Methlick, Haddo House, Gight and the Valley of the Ythan, 53-64 ; the Gordon letters, Spalding Club Misc., vol. iii. ; G. E. C.'s Complete Baronet- age, ii., 451. "A Gordon Vendetta of Last Century: how [the 2nd] Lord Aberdeen's son [Hon. Cosmo Gordon] killed an officer in a duel," by J. M. Bulloch, Aberdeen Free Press, Feb. 27, 1899 ; " Waterloo Day : the price that the North paid for the victory [by the death of Sir Alexander Gordon, grandson of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen]," by J. M. Bulloch, in the Aberdeen Free Press, June 17, 1899. The ennobled Gordons of Haddo, Lord Aberdeen's family, are described in all the peerages of course. Case on behalf of the Rt. Hon. John Campbell, Earl of Aberdeen in the Peerage of Scotland, claiming a writ of summons to Parliament as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, 1872, 121 pp. Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Committee for Privileges to whom was referred the petition of the Rt. Hon. John Campbell, etc., 1872, 81 pp. (The official account of the death of the sailor Earl.) Baron Stanmore (created 1893), son of 4th Earl of Aberdeen, belongs to the Haddo family. Haffleld. Burke's Commoners, ii., 219; Landed Gentry, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th editions. Cadet of Abergeldie. Halkin. Cadet of FyYie. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. Hii Hallhead. Balbithan MS., 17 ; Temple's Thanage, 512-17 ; Records of Aboyne, 27; Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 599; Scottish Notes and Queries, March and May, 1898; Pratt's Buchan (1901); 435, 438. See also Gordon-Gilmour, Burke's Landed Gentry (1898) i., 585. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70), the Australian poet, belonged to this family. See Diet. Nat. Biog : A. Patchett Martin's Beginnings of an Australian Literature : Walbrook's Life, 1891 : Percy F. Rowland's New Nation, 1903. Hallheaths. Cadet of Kenmure. Harperfield. Cadet of Pitlurg. Hartpury. Family name Gordon-Canning, descended from the Cluny Gordons. See Burke's Landed Gentry (gth edition), i., 233, 234. Holm. McKerlie, iii., 19, 746, 77, 82, 83, 89, 90, 93, 109 ; iv., 53, 86, 300, 306, 307, 342, 440 ; v., 195. Mr. John Gordon, 22 South Audley Street, London, has made large collections on the history of this family and has placed his material at the disposal of the Club. Huntly. It is a curious fact that this family, the Gordons of Huntly, both in the main and ducal line, and in the matter of its cadets, should have had more attention paid to them than any other branches of the House of Gordon. This is all the more strange in that they were not of pure Gordon blood. They were " Seton Gordons," a term that has been used (one recalls Mrs. Byron's reference), and is still sometimes spoken of with a touch of contempt. And yet nearly all the printed histories and most of the manuscripts devote themselves to this line as if it summed up the family. I have, therefore, included under the title of " Huntly " those books which really deal with this line, under the guise of histories of the whole race. Genealogie de I'illustre et ancienne maison de haut et puissant prince Mylord Due de Gourdon, Marquis de Huntly, Comte d'Ainzie, Seigneur de provinces de Badenots et Lokaber, Baron de Stradoun, d'Achindoun, de Strabolgy, etc., Pair d'Escosse, descendant par les Rois d'Escosse, des Rois d'Angleterre, des Rois de France et d'autres Princes Souverains. [Circa 1700]. A folio volume of six pages printed on parchment and now in Gordon Castle. In the same volume there is a MS. translation into English made by Archibald Anderson, library keeper at Gordon Castle, in 1748, followed by a continuation of the genealogy to 1748, and by a " short account of the principal transactions during the time of Alexander, second of that name and fourth Duke of Gordon," beginning in 1758 and ending abruptly in 1765. This volume is referred to on p. 61, of C. A. Gordon's Concise History. A MS. copy of the genealogy in French is mentioned in Nichol- son's Scottish Historical Library, 1702, as being then penes Dom. Robertum Sibbald. The History of the Ancient, Noble and Illustrious Family of Gordon, Hv HOUSE OF GORDON. from their first arrival in Scotland in Malcolm III.'s time to the year 1690 ; together with the history of the most remarkable transactions in Scotland from the beginning of Robert I., his reign, to the year 1690, containing the space of 400 years : all faithfully collected from ancient and modern Scots and foreign historians, manuscripts, records and registers of this nation. In two volumes. By Mr. William Gordon, of Old Aberdeen. Edinburgh : printed by Mr. Thomas Ruddiman, for the author, 1726-27. 8vo. Vol. i., pp. xxxi., 440 ; vol. ii., pp. viii., 624. This is an account of the Gordons told in the terms of the general history of Scotland. In his Preface to the second vol. he says " I have already, in the Introduction to the First Volume, accounted for the motives that induced me to publish this History, and the Authors from whom I collected it. In that Introduction I promised to bring down the History of the Nation, with that of the Family of Gordon, to the year 1689 ; but the many and various Accidents that happened during the Rebellion in King Charles I. 's Time having swell'd this Volume to a greater Bulk than is proper for an Octavo Book, I was forced to break it off abruptly at the martyrdom of that most excellent Prince, and confine myself to the History of the Family of Gordon." Next to nothing is known about the author save that he was a student at Marischal College, 1694-98. In his History (ii., 405), he says: " I shall give an account of it [the taking of Kelly in 1644], as I had it from an uncle of my own, Gilbert Keith of Caldhome, who was there with his chief the Earl Marischal, and other gentlemen who were present". Scott (Fasti Eccles. Scot., iii., 589), says that William Gordon minister of Kintore, 1679 to 1695 (ejected), and died 1697) married Janet Keith, and had two sons Alexander and James, and two daughters Catherine (married Mr. Rob. Keith, min. of Ballantrae) and Anna. Munro's Old Abdn. (i., 280), shows that in 1702 " Mr. Wm. Gordon, merchant burgess of Aberdeen, sone to Mr. Wm. G., min. at Kintore," was admitted a burgess of Old Aberdeen. Thus the min. of Kintore had at least one son more than those mentioned in Scott's Fasti. May not the Mr. Wm. Gordon, burgess of Old Aberdeen, in 1702, whose mother was Janet Keith, be the historian, " Mr. William Gordon of Old Aberdeen," whose uncle was Gilbert Keith ? Gordon's book is not very useful, but it is rising in price. Wodrow in a letter to Dr. James Fraser dated Aug. 27, 1728 (Analectci Scotica, i., 3, 20-1) says: " I am told Mr. Gordon of Aberdeen, who was at Sheriffmuir and who hath lately published the History of the Gordons designes an answer to my book. If he support what he sayes by no better vouchers, and breath the same bitter and violent spirit of slavery, that in my opinion is pretty plain in his History of the Gordons, I imagine, if I live to see his book, I shall notice it as little as I have done the pelts I have got from some Jacobite and high-flying writers on the other side." A concise history of the Antient and Illustrious House of Gordon, from the origin of the name to the present time : together with an account of the pedigree of his grace the Duke of Gordon and of the Right Honourable the Earl of Aboyne, and the Lord Andrew, Count Gordon, nearest collateral branches of the illustrious family ; all faithfully collected from Scotch and BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. Iv Foreign historians, manuscripts, records and registers. By C [harles] A. Gordon. Aberdeen: printed for the author, 1754. 8vo. Pp. xi., 320. It was reprinted by D. Wyllie & Son in 1890 (8vo ; pp. xi., 155): edited by A. M. Munro. Nothing is known of the author of this book (which is mainly a condensation of William Gordon's work) except his own statement that he was " a stranger in this country ". Surgundo. Edinburgh : Thomas G. Stevenson, 1837. This metrical history of the Gordons written in some 2000 doggerel couplets is really entitled The Valiant Christian, and was edited by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who printed fifty copies in 1837 as a quarto of 69 pp. The original is in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh. There is no vestige of the author's name ; but at the bottom of the first page is this memorandum : " Lent by Patrick Gordon of Bonhall [Binhall ?] to Glenbucket " ; and on the blank page at the end : " John Gordon of Glenbucket ". Its argument runs : " The Authores Proheme poyntes at his sadde fate. Gordone Duke Raymore [Moray] killes, vhich breids debate. The Gentilles rysse in armes, and him assealles ; Chrystes lawe he doeth professe, and stille preveilles." The names of persons and places in the poem are written as anagrams. Thus Aber- geldie appears as " Rabidegell " ; Avochie as " Chiava " ; Knockespok as Eaes- seneok and so on. The hero Surgundo [Gordonus] is the first Marquis of Huntly. The Records of Aboyne, MCCXXX-MDCLXXXI. Edited by Charles XL, Marquis of Huntly, Earl of Aboyne, P.C., LL.D. Aberdeen : printed for the New Spalding Club, 1894, 4to, pp. xliii., 589. This is a brilliant piece of genealogical work, in which Lord Huntly had the able assist- ance of Mr. D. Murray Rose (cf. Notes and Queries, 8, iv., 287). It contains an excellent sketch of the rise of the Gordons, and takes the reader down to Charles I., Earl of Aboyne. While primarily dealing with the ennobled Gordons of Huntly, it contains brief deductions of various cadets who crossed their path in the innumerable land transactions recorded in Lord Huntly's charter chest. It is a model of how such a book should be done. A history of the Family of Seton during eight centuries. By George Seton, advocate, M.A. Oxon. etc. Edinburgh : privately printed by T. & A. Constable, printers to her Majesty, 2 vols., 1896. These volumes, forming probably the most sumptuous of Scottish family histories, treat the Huntly branch as cadets of the great Seton family (pp. 375-459). Genealogical Collections concerning families in Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane, 1750-51, 2 vols. Edinburgh: printed for the Scottish History Society, 1900. " GORDON from the printed and MS. histories of that name composed, as also observa- tions thereon deduced from original writers." See vol. ii., pp. 409-23. h Ivi HOUSE OF GORDON. Minutes of evidence taken before the Lords Committees to whom was referred the petition of George, Earl of Aboyne, stating his right to the titles, honours and dignities of Marquess of Huntley, Earl of Enzie, and Lord Gordon and Badenoch, 1838, 43 pp. The Earl of Aboyne presented a second petition claiming the older title of Earl of Huntly, but this claim was not pressed. Lords Journals, Ixix., 27 ; Ixx., 329, 342, 35 8 , 383, 402, 47 1 - Claim of George, Marquis of Huntley to be added to the Union Roll of the peers of Scotland, 1838, 14 pp. and pedigree. When the Union Roll was drawn up the Marquisate was merged in the Dukedom. Memorials of the Troubles in Scotland and England, A.D. 1624 A.D. 1645, by John Spalding, 2 vols. 4to. Spalding Club, 1840-1. This classic contains the best account of Gordons who took part in the religious struggle mentioned. Among the families more elaborately treated (see index) are the Gordons of Ardlogie and Gight, Haddo, Newton, Birkenburn, Cairnburrow, Park, Glenbucket, Straloch, Buckie and Rothiemay. Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages. By John Riddell. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1842. Huntly, pp. 341-2, 526, 872-93, 1032-3. Caledonia. By George Chambers. Paisley, 1888. See ii., 544 ; v., 396. Pedigree of Gordon of Huntly and A bergeldie. Privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, bart. The Earls of Huntly with regard to filii carnales. By Alexander Sinclair. In Herald and Genealogist, vi., 595. Marquisate of Huntly, in Maidment's Collectanea Genealogica (Edinb., 1883), p. no. Arms of Dukes of Gordon are dealt with by G. E. C. and illustrated in Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica, iii., 133. The seals of the early members of the Huntly Gordons were described by P. J. Anderson (with illustrations) in Scottish Notes and Queries, i., xi., 65-6. The Gordon Book, edited by J. M. Bulloch, 1902. This volume (8vo, pp. 84) was published in connection with the Fochabers Reading Room Bazaar. It contains fourteen full-page pictures and articles by the editor on Jane Maxwell, wife of the fourth Duke of Gordon and on her daughter the Duchess of Richmond besides a list of all officers of the name of Gordon, who fought in the South African War, 1899-1901. A good deal of out of way gossip about Jane Maxwell has been contributed by J. M. Bulloch to Bon-Accord (Aberdeen), July 3, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. Ivil 10 and 17, 1902 ; pet. 2 and 9, 1902, and July, 16 and 23, 1903. The later volumes of Scottish Notes and Queries contain a great deal of matter about the Duchess. The Gay Gordons, in the Scottish Review, xxv., 246-69. April, 1895. Also under same title by J. M. Bulloch, in Blackwood's Magazine, Feb. 1898. The Gay Gordons is also the name of a volume of " Ballads of an ancient Scottish Clan". Edited by Armi stead C. Gordon, Staunton, Virginia. 1902. Mr. Gordon is a lawyer in Staunton, is descended from an Irish branch of the Gordons who were probably descended from the Gordons of Craichlaw in Wigtonshire. The volume (of which 250 only were printed in black and red, Jensen type) is an octavo and contains the ballads of " Edom o' Gordon," "Gordon of Brackley," " Knockespock's Lady," " Kenmure," " Young Lochinvar," " Lewis Gordon," " O Where, tell me Where, "The Baron of Brackley," "Kenmure," 1715, "Castle Gordon," " Suspense " (by a Virginian Gordon, written upon " Chinese " Gordon at Khartoum) the "Gay Gordons" by Henry Newbolt," and "Ivy" by the editor. InYercharrach. Balbithan MS., 57, 67. Invergordon. The correspondence of Sir jfohn Gordon, baronet, of Invergordon, on occasion of the Rebellion, Autumn, 1745, containing some particulars of those Times. Edited by James Maidment (Edinb., 1835). See also Eraser's Earls of Cromartie. Inverlochy. Cadet of Croughly. Invermarkie. Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 335; ii., 243, 483. Cadet of Cairnburrow. Invernettie. Temple's Fermartyn, 266, 267. Cadet of Lesmoir. Johnsleys. Balbithan MS., 44. Kenmure. Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 595 ; McKerlie, ii., 66, 74, 216, 243, 244, 254, 312, 365, 389, 410, 411, 421 ; iv., 42, 53-68, 70, 72 ; v., 199 ; G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage, iv., 344-46 ; Fergusson's Laird of Lag, 38, 50, 51, 90, 91, 126; Hewlett's Scotch Dignities, 49; Forfeited Estate papers in H.M. Register House. John and William, ist and 6th viscounts, are dealt with in the Dictionary of National Biography. A tabular pedigree of the family written on the opening of a sheet of folio paper was sold at Sotheby's in the Phillipps Collection, on May i, 1903. It was undated, but the water- mark was 1802. The pedigree went as far as Robert, " who but for the attainder would have been Lord Kenmuir ". Add. MSS. (Brit. Museum), 33, 596, f. 33. Kennertie. Records of A boy ne, pp. 22-29 an( ^ I2 6-3i> 226-29. HOUSE OF GORDON. Kethocksmill. An attempt to deal with this family was made (pp. 615-23), in Virginia Genealogies ; a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and Virginia, also of the families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlefrage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace and others, of Virginia and Maryland. By Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M.A., Wilkes-Barre, Penn., 1891-97 8vo., 759 pp. The late Rev. Father William Gordon, Superior of the Oratory, Brompton (1827-1901), spent the latter years of his life in investigating the history of his family, and the present writer was greatly indebted to him in compiling the descent of the family in Scottish Notes and Queries, July, 1900, and May, 1902. Kincraigie. Balbithan MS., 47, 51, 67. Kindroch. Balbithan MS., 31, 32. Kinellar. Cadet of Lesmoir. Kinernie. Balbithan MS., 67. Kinmundy. Temple's Fermartyn, 309-14; see also under Pitlurg. Kinnoir. Balbithan MS., 42, 43. Kirkconnell. McKerlie, iii., 21, 314; v., 194, 195, 281. Knawen. Balbithan MS., 55, 56, 57, 60, 61. Knock. Balbithan MS., 45 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 252. Knockbrex. McKerlie, iii., 199, 210, 211 ; iv., 171. Knockespock. Balbithan MS., 17, 43, 48, 57, 63, 64 ; Burke's Landed Gentry, 2nd and 3rd editions; Scottish Nation, ii., 321 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 87. Law. Balbithan MS., 47, 48. Leicheston. Balbithan MS., 33, 43, 47, 49. Lesmoir. Balbithan MS., 43-45. The Genealogy front father to son of the House of Lesmoir, as it was painted on the chimney of the said house, transcribed therefrom by Dr. Thomas Gordon of Craigelly, and printed on pp. 99, 100 of Memorials of the family of Gordon of Lesmoir, in the County of Aberdeen, by Captain Douglas Wimberley, late of the 79th, or Cameron Highlanders : printed for the author at the office of the Northern Chronicle, Inverness, 1893, 4to, pp. 170. Printed statement of the claim to the Baronetcy, by Captain Herbert Spencer Compton Gordon, 1887 ; Douglas's Baronage, 30; Temple's Fermartyn (260-71); Records of Aboyne, 75-86 and 193-99 ; G. E. C.'s Complete Baronetage, ii., 299, 300. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. lix Letterfourie. Balbithan MS., 18, 19, 57 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 277 ; Scottish Nation, ii., 323. See any Baronetage. Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, second son of Adam, Earl of Sutherland, was created premier baronet of Nova Scotia, 1625, and on the death of his great-great-grandson in 1795, without issue, this baronetcy passed to James Gordon of Letterfourie, who was descended from James I. of Letterfourie, brother of Adam, Earl of Sutherland. A branch of this family settled in Holland, and the Biographisch Woordboek der Neder- landen states that Solomon Gordon, of the Swiss Regiment in Holland, was the great- grandson of James I. of Letterfourie. Solomon's daughter, Gertrude (born 1669), was a poet, and is biographed in the Woordboek. Another member of this family was Otto Dirck Gordon, Colonel of a Company of the Civil Guards, Utrecht. Lettoch. Scottish Notes and Queries, 2 ; iv., 141. Loch Dougan. Earlston MS. Lochinvar. Balbithan MS., 7-9; G. E. C.'s Complete Baronetage, ii., 314, Wood's Walter Pringle, 93-6, 103, 107. Add. MSS. (Brit. Museum), 33, 531, f. 213. Scott's ballad of " Young Lochinvar " refers to this family. Another version appears in Buchan's Gleanings of . . . old ballads, 74-5. Logic. Pratt's Buchan (1901), 243 ; see under Ardmeallie. Lungar. Temple's Fermartyn, 310. See also under Pitlurg. Manar. Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 598 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 360 ; Scot. Notes and Queries, 2, iv., 141 ; Dingwall Fordyce, Family Record, ii., 24, 25. Gordons as Watchmakers, Scot. Notes and Queries, 2, v., 51. Merdrum. Balbithan MS., 52. Methlick. See Haddo. Midmar. See Abergeldie, and Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 323, 414. Milrig. Burke's Landed Gentry, i., 233. Minmore. Jervise's Epitaphs, i., 146 ; Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 60 1. Cadet of Knockespock. Monaughty. Cadet of Lesmoir. Murfad. McKerhe, iii., 35, 414; iv., 56, 57, 61, 262, 281, 282, 292; v., 59, 292. Netherbuckie. Balbithan MS., 57, 65. Nethermuir. Balbithan MS., 35, 55, 56 ; Dingwall Fordyce, Family Record, i., 153, 154. Paterson's History of Ayr, i., 220, 221. See also under Auchleuchries and Bonnyton. Ix HOUSE OF GORDON. Newark-upon-Trent. Betham's Baronetage, iii., 316, 317. This family was descended from the Gordons of Craichlaw. They were created baronets, 1764. The baronetcy became extinct, 1831. Add. MSS. (Brit. Museum), 32, 718, f. 60, etc. Newtimber (Sussex). Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 599. Newton. Temple's Fermartyn, 263, 264; Balbithan MS., 44 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 326 ; Scottish Notes and Queries, 2, iv., 162 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., i., 257, 335; ii., 27; Family Bible at Newton owned by Mr. A. M. Gordon. Noth. Balbithan MS., 16, 50, 51, 60. Overskibo. See Sir R. Gordon's MS. Tables, supra. Oxhill. Balbithan MS., 43. Park. Balbithan MS., 36-39 ; Temple's Fermartyn, pp. 221-26, 282, 283; Riddell's Inquiry, pp. 709-10; Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), i., 428, 429 ; Notes and Queries, 6, vii., 415. Forfeited Estates papers in H.M. Register House. Cadet of Cairnburrow. Parkhill. See Pitlurg. Parkmoir. Balbithan MS., 67, 68. Pethnick. Balbithan MS., 66, 67. Pitglassie. Balbithan MS., 67. Pitlurg. Balbithan MS., 28, 30, 31. Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 30, 31. " The Straloch Papers " in the Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. i., 3-58. These letters date from 1586 to 1646, and are addressed chiefly to Sir John Gordon of Pitlurg and Robert Gordon of Straloch, the map-maker. See also Temple's Fermartyn (pp. 303-17); Burke's Landed Gentry (1898), ii., 1356-57 ; Scottish Nation, ii., 321 ; John Gordon of Pitlurg and Park- hill, 1885. See lives of Robert Gordon, founder of Gordon's College, by A. Walker (1876), and R. Anderson (1896). Pittendreich. Balbithan MS., 17, 20, 21. Cadet of Cluny. Prony. Balbithan MS., 32, 41, 42, 55, 58, 59, 60 ; Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 410. See Prony and Theodore Gordon MSS., supra. Rhynie. Balbithan MS., 45, 52. Rothiemay. Balbithan MS., 24, 57, 65; Temple's Fermartyn, 144-150. This family were notorious in connection with the bloody vendetta which they carried on with the Crichtons of Frendraught. The first laird of Rothiemay (who belonged to the Cairnburrow family) was killed in a march dispute with Crichton in January, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. Ixi 1630, and his son, the second laird, was burned at Frendraught House in the follow- ing October, along with John, Viscount Aboyne, son of the first Marquis of Huntly. An enormous amount of literature deals with their feud, notably in the Privy Council Register. Reference may also be drawn to D. Shearer's Notes on the Parish of Rothiemay (Huntly, 8vo, 36 pp.) and Cramond's Rothiemay House (Banff, 1900). Rothney. Scot. Notes and Queries, 2, iv., 141 ; Jervise's Epitaphs, 323. RUSCO. McKerlie, iii., 34, 35, 46, 159, 219, 334, 348, 437, 488, 501, 502; iv., 27, 262, 281, 282, 322; v., 85, 86, 294. Saphak. Cadet of Crichie. Sallagh. Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh continued Gordon's Earls of Sutherland from 1630 to 1651. Sauchin. Balbithan MS., 66, 67. Savoch. Balbithan MS., 54, 55. Schives. See Gight. Scotstown. The Gordon-Oswalds are descendants of Gordon of Balmuir, a descendant of the Nethermuir family. See Walford's County Families, 1902. Scurdargue. "Jock" Gordon of Scurdargue was one of the two illegitimate cousins of Elizabeth Gordon, the heiress who founded the ducal line, and it is his descendants who occupy the main part of the Balbithan MS. Seaton. Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 217. Sempill. Add. MSS. (Brit. Museum), Catalogue for 1882-7. Shalloch. Earlston MS. Sheelagreen. Temple's Fermartyn, 264-66 ; Balbithan MS., 55. See under Newton. Shirmers. McKerlie, iii., 63, 76, 78-83, 90, 96, 104, 410 ; iv., 62 ; v., 58. A pedigree (MS.) of this family, prepared by the College of Heralds, is owned by Major Evans-Gordon, M.P. Sideray. See Sir R. Gordon's MS, Tables, supra. Smithston. Balbithan MS., 36. Soccoth. Balbithan MS., 45, 62. Sorbie. See Knowles' Account of the Coultharts, 1855 Burke's Visitations, 2nd series, i., 47, 271. Ixii HOUSE OF GORDON. Stanmore (Baron). See Haddo. Lord Stanmore, youngest son of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and created Baron, 1893, was associated when young with Bentley Priory, Stanmore. It is a curious fact that Bentley Priory is now in the possession of Mr. Frederick Gordon, the founder of the Gordon Hotels of London and elsewhere. Mr. Gordon was born in Herefordshire, but he writes that his family came originally from Aboyne. His son Vivian is an officer in the ist Gordon Highlanders. Lord Stanmore's son is an officer in the 3rd Gordons so that the two families, totally unrelated, have joined a common cause. Stitchel. See Lochinvar. Straloch. Cadet of Pitlurg. This family, which is descended from the Gordons of Pitlurg, included some notable men. Robert Gordon (1580-1661), of Straloch, together with his son James Gordon (1615 ?-i686), the famous parson of Rothiemay, contributed greatly to the maps of Scotland in Bleau's "Atlas". In addition to the Straloch MS., see the Straloch papers (Spaldlng Club Misc., 1-58) ; Scots Affairs (Spalding Club, 1841). Strathdon. Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 60, 217, 218, 418, 419, 446. Sutherland. After the Huntly Gordons themselves, the history of their cadets who became Earls of Sutherland and used the family name of Gordon until the time of John, Earl of Sutherland (1660-1733), wno "quitted" it at a date unknown has been more elaborately dealt with than that of any other branch of the family. The published histories are as follows : A Genealogical history of the Earldom of Sutherland, from its origin to the year 1630. Written by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet. With a continuation to the year 1651 [by Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh]. Pub- lished from the original manuscript. Edinburgh : printed by George Ramsay & Co., for Archibald Constable & Company, Edinburgh ; and White, Cochrane & Co., London, 1813. Folio. Pp. xvi. + 575 + xi. This fine folio is printed from the MS. in possession of the Duke of Sutherland. The writer, Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, who dedicated his work to John Earl of Sutherland, dating from Dornoch 1630, was the nth Earl of Sutherland's second surviving son by Lady Jane Gordon, daughter of the 4th Earl of Huntly. He died 1656. The work was continued (pp. 447-562) by Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh. The oldest MS. of Sir Robert Gordon is preserved at Dunrobin. It is a folio of 228 pages, to which is prefixed (according to the Sutherland Book, i., x.) : (1) An elaborate title page, extending over the whole page ; (2) Catalogue of the principal authors consulted, including volumes collected by the learned William Camden, 2 pp. ; (3) " The Epistle dedicatorie " to John, i3th Earl of Sutherland (2 pp.) ; (4 & 5) Descriptions of the armorial bearings of the Earl of Sutherland and Sir Robert Gordon (one page each) ; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX TO PREFACE. Ixiii (6) " The description of the provvince off Sutherland with the Commodities thereoff " : 7 pp. ; (7) The Preface, one page. Appended to the Genealogie proper there is a short discourse of the Earle of Southir- land his precedencee in Parliament of the Earle of Catteyness, wryten the year 1617 by Sir Robert Gordoun, 12 pp. The volume is beautifully bound in russia leather, and on a fly leaf of the modern binding is the following note holograph of the second Duke of Sutherland : " This manuscript of the History of the Family of Sutherland was given to me by Mr. Richard Gordon, descendant of Sir Robert Gordon in 1643 Sutherland." Underneath that note is another " This volume is altogether in the handwriting of Sir Robert himself." This second note is in pencil by the late Mr. Cosmo Innes. Sir William Fraser took a different view. " Throughout the copy there are many additions and alterations in the undoubted handwriting of Sir Robert, extending occasionally to whole pages, while his marginal additions are numerous. These certainly show that the finely engrossed copy was made from an earlier draft which had been superseded by the copy on which the author made his additions and emendations from time to time. In this way the copy of the original draft had come to be considered as the original." Sallagh's continuation extends to sixty-three folios. This and a copy of Sir Robert's manuscript belong to Sir Robert's son, Robert Gordon of Cluny. It was acquired by Lady Jean Wemyss, the Countess of the i4th Earl of Sutherland, and presented by her to her son the isth Earl in 1705. It is this copy that was printed. It was entrusted by the Marchioness of Stafford to Archibald Constable in October, 1806, to be printed privately as a presentation quarto, but it did not appear till 1813, and then it came out as a folio in the ordinary way. It was edited by Henry Weber (1783-1818), the crazy Anglo-Westphalian, who was Scott's amanuensis. He challenged Scott (see Lockhart's Life) in a moment of madness to a mortal duel in the year of the publication of this book. There are three other MSS. besides the Dunrobin one in existence : and the Duke of Sutherland possesses some interesting supplementary tables by Sir Robert, supra, p. xxxv. While dealing primarily with the noble house of Sutherland, Gordon's work throws a flood of light on other branches. The Sutherland Book, by Sir William Fraser, K.C.B., LL.D. In three volumes [vol. i., Memoirs, pp. xlvi. + 520 : vol. ii., Correspondence, pp. xxxviii. + 38i : vol. iii., Charters, pp. lix. + 357]. Edinburgh, 1892. Printed by Constable. 4to. This bulky work forms a dry-as-dust supplement to Sir Robert Gordon's very readable work. It is very similar to the other family chronicles by Sir William Fraser (1816- 1898). A large amount of valuable genealogical matter appeared in connection with the succession of Lady Elizabeth Sutherland to the Earldom, 1766. The i8th earl (and his wife) died of " putrid " fever at Bath in June, 1766, leaving an only daughter, Elizabeth, then thirteen months old. Her claim to succession was opposed by (i) Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, as heir male of the body of Adam Gordon, Earl of Sutherland, by his wife suo jure Countess : (2) by George Sutherland of Forss, as heir male of the first Earl of Sutherland. The literature bearing on this subject consists of i Ixiv HOUSE OF GORDON. Case of Sir Robert Gordon, Bart. : to be heard at the Bar of the House of Lords, March 16, 1769 : 15 pp., 4to. Supplemental Case of Sir Robert Gordon, Bart., in which all facts and arguments in support of his claim are stated, and the inaccuracies in his original case and appendix (which were printed before the proofs arrived from Scotland) are corrected : To be heard at the Bar of the House of Lords before the Committee of Privileges day of , 1770 : 40 pp., 4to. Pedigree of Sir Robert Gordon (in connection with the case) : one page. Brief for the Counsel of Sir Robert Gordon, Bart. : To be heard at the Bar of the House of Lords before the Committee of the Privileges on the day of March, 1771: 158 pp., 4to. ["Lady Elizabeth Sutherland's voluminous additional case was not delivered to Sir Robert till Nov. 9 last, and six weeks were employed in examining it, and in detecting the errors with which it abounds. There remained, therefore, a very short and inade- quate space of time for the preparing and the printing of the present brief. On this foundation Sir Robert Gordon rests his apology for the inaccuracies of language and errors o