A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . XIII. Sutherland (Seton-Gordon-Sutherland). HREE handsome quarto volumes, bearing thedate of 1892, were issued two years afterwards,entitled The Sutherland Book, edited for theDuke of Sutherland by Sir William Fraser. Onan elaborate heraldic title-page, where the coat ofSeton is conspicuous by its absence, eight shieldsof arms appear, viz. :—Sutherland, Scotland, Argyll,Stewart, Gordon (apparently twice, in differentforms), Drummond, a
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . XIII. Sutherland (Seton-Gordon-Sutherland). HREE handsome quarto volumes, bearing thedate of 1892, were issued two years afterwards,entitled The Sutherland Book, edited for theDuke of Sutherland by Sir William Fraser. Onan elaborate heraldic title-page, where the coat ofSeton is conspicuous by its absence, eight shieldsof arms appear, viz. :—Sutherland, Scotland, Argyll,Stewart, Gordon (apparently twice, in differentforms), Drummond, and Leveson-Gower, withSutherland surtout. Of the nineteen portraits involume i. no fewer than ten are paternally Seton. The other illustrationsconsist of views of Dunrobin Castle, etc., two coloured coats of arms fromSir David Lindsays Register, a few facsimiles of charters, and a number ofsignatures and seals. Two of the portraits represent the accomplished Duchess-Countess (paternally Seton), who died at Hamilton Place,London, in January 1839, as set forth on a mural tablet at DornochCathedral. The name of Seton hardly ever appears in the course ofthe narrative, and occurs only ten times in a
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