The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . A . CELAYIT . ANTI-QVITAS . LVMINARIA >AVXn . PACILIORBM . AS-CENSVM . PRAEBVIT . OR-NATIORBM . REDDIDIT ,JOANNES . M^TELLANUS .LA^-DERIAE . COMES . AN ^^RAE . CHR . MDCXXVI. And the same obscurity surrounds the origin of the Mait-land race itself. The Italian descent, which had been ascribed to theMaitlands bj Martin of Clermont, is rejected by Sir RobertDouglas, wlio suggests that more probably they came fromPrance, a
The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . A . CELAYIT . ANTI-QVITAS . LVMINARIA >AVXn . PACILIORBM . AS-CENSVM . PRAEBVIT . OR-NATIORBM . REDDIDIT ,JOANNES . M^TELLANUS .LA^-DERIAE . COMES . AN ^^RAE . CHR . MDCXXVI. And the same obscurity surrounds the origin of the Mait-land race itself. The Italian descent, which had been ascribed to theMaitlands bj Martin of Clermont, is rejected by Sir RobertDouglas, wlio suggests that more probably they came fromPrance, a theory which Mr. Wood adopts, and the nameMautalent certainly appears in Lelands Roll. As withmany another ancient house, their earlier muniments areno longer available to the investigator. For the purpose ofsecurity these were, after the battle of Dunbar, depositedin three iron chests in the yeard of Balcarras, but unfor-tunately the underwater came throw the seemes of the Poems of Sir Richard Maitland, Maitland Club, Ixiii. See MacGibbonand Ross, iii. 257, where with other variants Jeoprii is given Ihe Battle Abbey Roll, i. xxix ; Scalacronica, 276 MAITLAND, EARL OF LAUDERDALE yron chists in which they were put and spoyled the saidswrits. It turned out, however, that the first Earl ofLauderdale—the author of the Lethington inscription—whose reputation for integrity and accuracy stood veryliigh, had with liis own hand made an inventory of hismuniments, and that that inventory was safely , after the Restoration, an Act of Parliament was passedreciting the inventory at length, and making it equivalentin law to the original writs which it contained. But noAct of Parliament can supply the descriptions of lands,the names and designations of witnesses, and all the otherdetails so valuable for genealogical purposes, which arelost for ever; and it also contains mistakes, which, thoughobvious, it is often impossible to rectify. It is clear that vario
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