A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . annay, in his review,in the Quarterly, of Dean Burgons Life of PatrickFraser- Tytler, the historian, challenges the accuracyof the tradition relative to the Seton descent of theTytiers. The biographer, he says, assumes thetruth of the tradition that the Tytlers descend from a brother of theGeorge, Lord Seton, who fell at Flodden. But it happens that we haveparticular information about the Setons of that period in the quaint oldbook, th
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . annay, in his review,in the Quarterly, of Dean Burgons Life of PatrickFraser- Tytler, the historian, challenges the accuracyof the tradition relative to the Seton descent of theTytiers. The biographer, he says, assumes thetruth of the tradition that the Tytlers descend from a brother of theGeorge, Lord Seton, who fell at Flodden. But it happens that we haveparticular information about the Setons of that period in the quaint oldbook, the History of the House of Seytoztn, by Sir Richard Maitland ofLethington, whose mother was one of the family, and who wrote in thesixteenth century. He is very particular in telling whatever is curiousabout the House . . and must have known so singular a circumstance asthe one recorded by way of accounting for the change of name from Setonto Tytler, and if he had known it, would have stated it, which he nowheredoes. We feel sure, therefore, that whatever was the origin of the tradi-tion in question, it is not in the form in which the Tytlers accept ita. 1 Essays from the Quarterly, p. 369. Somehighly interesting recollections of James Hanna y will be found in the recently published Life andAdventures of George Augustus Sala, i. 327. CHANGE OF SURNAME 547 The following is a copy of a statement on the subject, engrossed onvellum, by Alexander Tytler, writer in Edinburgh, in the possession of thefamily of Woodhouselee :— Alexander Tytler, Writer in Edinburgh, having diligently enquiredinto the Origin of the Family and Sirname of Tytler, has transmitted in hisown handwriting the following account supported by immediate and wellfounded Tradition from Father to son for several generations :— My father and uncle James Tytler have often told me, as have alsoseveral other old people who knew my grandfather (who lived till he wasnear eighty, and died about the year 1690), that they w
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