. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . ns which have occurred since the Crwin-bawchty of Macbeth. Two persons of the same name, as well as the two properties, also requirea word of explanation. These are Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Tarbat,afterwards Earl of Cromartie, and Sir George Mackenzie of Eosehaugh, LordAdvocate to King Charles the Second. Being of the same Christian and sur-names, both connected with Eoss-shire, and contemporaries in the publicservice, they have been frequently m
. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . ns which have occurred since the Crwin-bawchty of Macbeth. Two persons of the same name, as well as the two properties, also requirea word of explanation. These are Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Tarbat,afterwards Earl of Cromartie, and Sir George Mackenzie of Eosehaugh, LordAdvocate to King Charles the Second. Being of the same Christian and sur-names, both connected with Eoss-shire, and contemporaries in the publicservice, they have been frequently mistaken, the one for the other. Lord Tarbat was born in 1630, six years before his kinsman the LordAdvocate, whom he survived for twenty-two years. They were frequentlyassociated in the public transactions of the reign of King Charles the Second,and the subscriptions of their names are to be found alongside each other inpublic documents. The following woodcuts afford a specimen of these. The xbi PREFACE. first signature is that of Sir George Mackenzie the Lord Advocate, and thesecond is that of Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Tarbat. ^Urf&lgr. It will be observed that the signature of the former of the first half ofhis surname is Mac in full, while the latter is Mc. This difference is oneway of identifying these two public officers of the same name. The profession of the law has often been a favourite and successfulone with persons of the name of Mackenzie. Besides the two Sir GeorgeMackenzies now mentioned, Eoderick Mackenzie, Lord Prestonhall and LordJustice-Clerk, and Sir James Mackenzie, Lord Eoyston, were both youngersons of the Tarbat branch. Within my own time I have known three Lords ofSession under the title of Lord Mackenzie. The first was Joshua Henry Mac-kenzie, an able, upright, and amiable judge, with much of the mildness ofmanner of his father, the author of the Man of Feeling. The second wasThomas Mackenzie, author of Studies in the Eoman Law, and an The
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