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Genealogical History of the House of Wishart

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Page 329 note * Nisbet's System of Heraldry, Edin., 1816, folio, vol. i., p. 201.

Page 329 note † Rotuli Hundredorum, vol. i.

Page 329 note § Rotuli Hundredorum, vol. ii., p. 727.

Page 329 note ‡ Testa, de Nevill, passim.

Page 330 note * Reg. Vetus de Aberbrothoc, p. 97.

Page 330 note § Fordun, lib. x., p. 133.

Page 330 note ∥ Spottiswoode's History, Edin., 1851, 3 vols. 8vo, vol. i., p. 91.

Page 330 note † Ib., p. 179.

Page 330 note ‡ Ib., pp. 198, 199.

Page 331 note * Spottiswoode's History, Edin., 1851, 3 vols. 8vo, vol. i., p. 92.

Page 331 note † The table, commonly called Bagiment's Roll, served as a rule for the prices taken of those who came to sue for benefices at the court of Rome (Spottiswoode's History, vol. i., p. 93).

Page 331 note ‡ Fordun's Scotichronicon, lib. x., c. 28.

Page 331 note § Wyntoun's Chronicle, Edin., 1872, vol. ii., p. 258.

Page 331 note * Spottiswoode's History, vol. i., p. 93; Wyntoun, vol. ii., p. 250.

Page 332 note * Dalrymple's Historical Collections, Edin., 1705, p. 217; Reg. Vet. de Aberd., 332; Jervise's Angus and Mearns, p. 347.

Page 332 note † Reg. Vet. de Aberbrothoc, passim.

Page 332 note § Ragman Roll, pp. 103, 109.

Page 332 note ¶ Reg. Epis. Aberd., p. 331.

Page 332 note ‡ Reg. Epis. Brechin., vol. i., p. 7.

Page 332 note ∥ Reg. Epis. Brechin., vol. i., pp. 59–61.

Page 333 note * Rotuli Compotorum in Scaccaris, vol. ii., p. 177.

Page 333 note † Chamberlain Rolls, ii. 117, iii. 367.

Page 333 note ‡ Rotuli Compotorum in Scaccaris, vol. iii., p. 366.

Page 333 note § Reg. Epis. Brechin., p. 58.

Page 333 note ¶ Ib., p. 96.

Page 333 note ∥ Ib., p. 59.

Page 333 note ** Ib., ii. 63.

Page 334 note * Reg. Epis. Brechin., ii. 117.

Page 334 note † Acts of Lords of Council, 1466–1494.

Page 335 note * Clerk of the Justiciary Court.

Page 335 note ‡ Reg. Mag. Sig., lib. xviii., No. 44.

Page 335 note § Colonel Leslie's Family of Leslie, vol. ii., p. 150.

Page 335 note † Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii.

Page 336 note * Fraser's Earls of Southesk, pp. lxv., lxvi.

Page 336 note † Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. ix., fol. 76.

Page 336 note ‡ Ib., vol. xxvii., fol. 51.

Page 336 note § Matrimonial Contract in Register of Deeds, dated 8th February 1560.

Page 336 note ∥ Protocol Register of Thomas Ireland, Notary Public, in the Town-Clerk's Office, Dundee.

Page 337 note * Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxviii., fol. 94b.

Page 337 note † Ib., vol. xxxviii., fol. 31.

Page 337 note ‡ Members of the family of Wishart, chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits, resided at Carnebeg, in the parish of Fordoun, till the middle of the eighteenth century; they are represented by the Rev. James Wishart, pastor of Toxteth Church, Liverpool.

Page 337 note § Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxxv., fol. 35.

Page 337 note ∥ Protocol Book of Thomas Ireland, in Town-Clerk's Office, Dundee.

Page 337 note ¶ Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xix., fol. 43.

Page 338 note * Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxvii., fol. 51.

Page 338 note † Knox's History, edit. 1846, vol. i., pp. 267–274, 337–350, 361–451.

Page 339 note * Knox's History, edit. 1846, vol. ii., pp. 45–52.

Page 339 note ‡ Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii., p. 526.

Page 339 note ∥ Knox's History, vol. ii., p. 304.

Page 339 note † Ib., pp. 61–64.

Page 339 note § Keith's History, p. 152.

Page 340 note * Knox's History, vol. ii., p. 314, note by Mr David Laing.

Page 340 note † Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxxi., Nos. 3 and 5.

Page 340 note ‡ Knox's History, vol. ii., pp. 310, 311.

Page 340 note ∥ Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii., p. 536.

Page 340 note ** Ib., No. 131b.

Page 340 note § Ib., vol. ii., p. 356.

Page 340 note ¶ Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxxii., No. 4.

Page 340 note †† Ib., vol. xxxiii., No. 48.

Page 341 note * Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxxiii., No. 95b.

Page 341 note ‡ Ib., No. 122.

Page 341 note ¶ Ib No. 35.

Page 341 note § Ib., vol. xxxv., No. 45b.

Page 341 note † Ib., No. 115b.

Page 341 note ∥ Ib., No. 12b.

Page 341 note ** Ib., vol. xxxviii., No. 31.

Page 342 note * Acta Parl. Scot., vol. iii., pp. 476–478.

Page 342 note † Pitmedden MS.

Page 342 note ‡ Memoirs of Sir James Melvil, p. 186.

Page 342 note § Spottiswoode's History, Edin., 1851, vol. ii., p. 193; Melvil's Memoirs, p. 241.

Page 342 note ∥ Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xli., No. 90b.

Page 342 note ¶ Brunton and Haig's Senators of the College of Justice, p. 138.

Page 342 note * * Knox's History, ed. 1846, vol. ii., p. 311, note by Mr David Laing.

Page 342 note †† This gentlewoman was probably a daughter of David Wood of Craig, who was Comptroller from 1538 to 1546 (Sir John Scot's Staggering State, Edin., 1872, p. III, note by Goodal).

Page 343 note * Fraser's Earls of Southesk, pp. lxv., lxvi.

Page 343 note † Isobel Wishart, Prioress of the Grey Sisters at Dundee, received on the 16th May 1566 the gift of a nun's portion, “with chalmer, habite, silver, fyre, candill, and all other thinges necessare within the Abbey of North Berwick” (Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxxv., p. 46).

Page 343 note ‡ Edin. Com. Reg., Testaments, vol. iv.

Page 343 note § Acta Parl. Scot., vol. iii., p. 105.

Page 343 note ∥ Inq. Spec, Kincardine, No. 4.

Page 344 note * Acta Parl. Scot., vol. lv., p. 80.

Page 344 note † Scot's Staggering State, Edin., 1872, p. 111.

Page 344 note ‡ The full title is, “Assertiones Theologicӕ pro vera verse Ecclesise Nota, qua: est solius Dei Adoratio: contra falsӕ Ecclesiӕ Creaturarum Adorationem. Rupell, 1603.” The work is extremely rare. A copy is preserved in the Bodleian Library.

Page 346 note * Sir John Scot records some gossip on the subject of this union, which it is undesirable to reproduce (Scot's Staggering State, ed. 1872, p. III).

Page 346 note † Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. iii., p. 61.

Page 346 note ‡ The Christian name of young Wishart was William or Walter; the initials W. W., with the date 1622, are inscribed on a panel which formerly belonged to the Wishart family pew in the parish church of Fordoun (Jervise's Angus and Mearns, p. 387).

Page 347 note * Inquisitiones Speciales, Kincardine, No. 21.

Page 347 note † Scot's Staggering State, p. III.

Page 347 note ‡ Spottiswoode Miscellany, vol. i., pp. 110–136.

Page 347 note § James Balfour, second son of Sir James Balfour of Pittendriech, and brother of the first Lord Balfour of Burley, was created, 6th July 1619, Lord Balfour, Baron of Glenawly, in the county of Fermanagh.

Page 348 note * Spottiswoode Miscellany, vol. i., p. 134.

Page 348 note † Fraser's Earls of Southesk, p. lxvii. By the representative of Lord Carnegie, the estate of Pitarrow was sold in 1831 to Alexander Crombie of Phesdo, to whose family it still belongs.

Page 348 note ‡ Pitarrow Writs, quoted by Mr Fraser in his “Earls of Southesk.”

Page 348 note § Fasti Aberdonensis.

Page 349 note * Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. iii., p. 866; and vol. i., p. 99.

Page 349 note † This parish is now united to Borrowstounness.

Page 349 note ‡ A document addressed by the General Assembly of February 1645 to Charles I., reflecting on his conduct in the severest terms.

Page 350 note * Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. i., p. 172.

Page 351 note * Particular Register of Sasines, 10th December 1726.

Page 352 note * Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. i., pp. 56, 101.

Page 352 note † Ib., pp. 56, 121.

Page 353 note * Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. i., pp. 59, 70.

Page 353 note † Lyon Register.

Page 354 note * Dalrymple's Historical Collections, 217; Reg. Vet. de Aberd., 332.

Page 354 note † Ragman Roll, p. 146.

Page 355 note * Rymer's Fœdera, vol. i., part ii., new ed., p. 996; Prynne; Edward I., p. 1156; Tytler's History of Scotland, Edin., 1869, 12mo, vol. i., pp. 89, 94.

Page 355 note † History of Glasgow, edited by the Rev. J. S. Gordon, D.D., Glasg., 1871, P. 53.

Page 355 note ‡ Burton's History of Scotland, Edin., 1873, vol. iii., P. 429; Innes's Sketches of Early Scottish History, Edin., 1861, p. 50.

Page 356 note * Gordon's History of Glasgow, p. 58.

Page 356 note ‡ Reg. Nig. de Aberd., pp. 47, 50.

Page 356 note ∥ Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. viii., fol. 195.

Page 356 note * * Ib., vol. xii., fol. 6.

Page 356 note † Rotuli Scotise, vol. ii., p. 8a.

Page 356 note § Ib.

Page 356 note ¶ Ib., vol. ix., fol. 72.

Page 357 note * Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xiii., fol. 93.

Page 357 note † Ib., vol. xiv., fol. 52b; Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii., p. 379.

Page 357 note ‡ Edinburgh Com. Reg., Testaments, vol. ii.

Page 357 note § Record of Convention of Royal Burghs, Edin., 1866, 4to, vol. i., p. 10.

Page 357 note ∥ Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xxxii., p.11b.

Page 357 note ¶ Wedderburn's Protocols in the Town-Clerk's Office, Dundee.

Page 358 note * Edinburgh Com. Reg., Testaments, vol. iii.

Page 358 note † Reg. Sec. Sig.

Page 358 note ‡ Inq. Spec. Forfar, Nos. 188, 189.

Page 358 note ∥ Genealogical MS. in the Lyon Office.

Page 358 note § Ib., No. 76.

Page 358 note ¶ Though the statement in the text as to the Bishop George Wishart's descent seems justified by the authority of Nisbet, we are only certain that the Bishop sprung from the House of Logie Wishart.

Page 360 note * Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. i., p. 392; vol. ii., p. 394; vol. iii., p. 724.

Page 361 note * Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. i., p. 392.

Page 361 note † Ib., vol. ii., p. 768.

Page 362 note * Genealogical MS. in the Lyon Office, p. 477.

Page 362 note † Nisbet's System of Heraldry, vol. i., p. 201.

Page 362 note ‡ Protocol Book of Thomas Ireland in the Town-Clerk's Office, Dundee.

Page 362 note § Reg. Episc. Brechin., p. 309, No. 272.

Page 362 note ¶ Ib., p. 286, No. 246.

Page 362 note * * Ib., p. 292, No. 253.

Page 362 note ∥ Ib., p. 215, No. 193.

Page 362 note †† Ib., p. 247, No. 189.

Page 363 note * Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. i., pp. 597, 664; Montrose Parish Records.

Page 363 note † Montrose Parish Records.