The peerage of Scotland : containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, from their origin to the present generation: collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, the charters, and other writings of the nobility, and the works of our best historians ... . ^Jcvv/^Atz/^znaen ^2Wy^W> \&nM&r&> o^/o tf^vi. fry*/ &a^cr£At&na riuxA ^.f„„../;y,. THE PEERAGE O F SCOTLAND MWMMMMfrM-tWfflMMMMfrW HAMILTON Earl of Abe r corn. THE firft. of the illuftrious peerage ofScotland that prefents to our readers,in alphabetical order, is Ha m i
The peerage of Scotland : containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, from their origin to the present generation: collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, the charters, and other writings of the nobility, and the works of our best historians ... . ^Jcvv/^Atz/^znaen ^2Wy^W> \&nM&r&> o^/o tf^vi. fry*/ &a^cr£At&na riuxA ^.f„„../;y,. THE PEERAGE O F SCOTLAND MWMMMMfrM-tWfflMMMMfrW HAMILTON Earl of Abe r corn. THE firft. of the illuftrious peerage ofScotland that prefents to our readers,in alphabetical order, is Ha m i lt o n Earl ofAbercork, the undoubted heir-mde of thegreat and noble family of Hamilton; a fami-ly who have equally diftinguifhed themfelvesin the field and at the council-board, and havebeen no lefs remarkable in the hiftories of fo-reign nations, than in the annals of as the dignity, eftate, and honours ofthis houfe, have descended in the female aswell as in the male fucceflion, for its originand antiquity, we refer our readers to the Ti-tle Duke ofHamilton, and deduce the family ofAbercorn from their immediate predecefTor, X. James, fecond earl of Arran, and dukeof Chatelherault, the tenth generation of thefamily of Hamilton, in a direct male earl married lady Margaret Douglas,eldeft daughter of James earl of Morton, bywhom h
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