A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . 1 Tranent, or Trev-er-nent, which subse-quently became a junior title of the Earls ofWinton, according to the author of Caledonia(iv. 523 and v. 160), signifies, in the Britishspeech, the habitation or village on the ravineor vale. Trenant, in the same language, signi-fies the habitation or village at the ravine or vale; and both forms of the name are equallydescriptive of the situation of Tranent. 2 Milners History ofWinchester, 1798.
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . 1 Tranent, or Trev-er-nent, which subse-quently became a junior title of the Earls ofWinton, according to the author of Caledonia(iv. 523 and v. 160), signifies, in the Britishspeech, the habitation or village on the ravineor vale. Trenant, in the same language, signi-fies the habitation or village at the ravine or vale; and both forms of the name are equallydescriptive of the situation of Tranent. 2 Milners History ofWinchester, 1798. 3 No. 682. See also paper by John GoughNichols, read before the Archaeological of Great Britain and Ireland in September1845- 68 PHILIP DE SETON 3. Philip de Set on. The third link of the pedigree is established by undoubteddocumentary evidence, to wit, a charter of confirmation by KingWilliam the Lion, in 1169, to Philip de Seton, of the lands of. Seton, Winton, and Winchburgh, previously held by hisfather Seher. This is one of the oldest Scottish charters in ALEXANDER DE SETON 69 existence, and it is now in the posses-sion of the Earl of Mostof the lands which it conveys con-tinued in the possession of Philipsdescendants till the forfeiture of thefifth Earl of Winton, in 1716— upon five and a half married Alice (or Helen)daughter of Waldeve, Earl of Dunbar,and is said to have died in thefourteenth year of the reign of KingWilliam (1179), when he was suc-ceeded by his son Alexander.
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