. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. , having law for it, he would baffle his cheiff, and takethe door of him, or put him to the necessity of being lord, which hiscircumstances could ill bear. * He was, however, defeated by the equal, ifnot superior cunning of his rival, and became what was called a brokenman—the ruiner of his house. And to follow it out to the close, saysthe historian, Sir Robert Innes of Balvenny, who broke his own estate, hada son. Sir Walter, who succeeded him to the name, but not to the Roberts circumstances were but mean, he left no heirs,
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. , having law for it, he would baffle his cheiff, and takethe door of him, or put him to the necessity of being lord, which hiscircumstances could ill bear. * He was, however, defeated by the equal, ifnot superior cunning of his rival, and became what was called a brokenman—the ruiner of his house. And to follow it out to the close, saysthe historian, Sir Robert Innes of Balvenny, who broke his own estate, hada son. Sir Walter, who succeeded him to the name, but not to the Roberts circumstances were but mean, he left no heirs, and in his deaththe family extinguished, he being the eighth generation from the first Walterwho founded it. And, mentioning some cadets of the family, he says,— The last come of the house of Balveny, and nearest that family (were * Historical Account of the Origine and Succession of the Family of Innes, collected fromauthentick Writs in the Chartor Chist of the samen.—From an original MS. in the possession ofHis Grace the Duke of Roxburghe, p. TIIE COUKTVAKl) .OK ISAIAliNV CASIl,!, ANTIQUITIES OP SCOTLAND 45 there anything to represent) is Mr. George Innes, a priest, who possesses asmall interest in Angus called Dunnoine: what lawful heirs-male he can have1 know not. * • Ibid. p. 63, 64.
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