. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. #!-= : I :*. TQW Kl ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 79 heroick prince, King Robert Bruce, take notice, in the first place, that thissirname (whether corruptly pronounced for Le Preux, the Valiant, as in the oldrecords it is sometimes written Le Breuse, or a tropicall [topical?] sirname DeBruis, from a town and castle of that name in the Grisons country) hathoriginally from France, where, about thi year 1145, lived Peter Brucie, famousfor writing against the Romish errors of transubstantiation, whose followers, bythe Popish writers,
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. #!-= : I :*. TQW Kl ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 79 heroick prince, King Robert Bruce, take notice, in the first place, that thissirname (whether corruptly pronounced for Le Preux, the Valiant, as in the oldrecords it is sometimes written Le Breuse, or a tropicall [topical?] sirname DeBruis, from a town and castle of that name in the Grisons country) hathoriginally from France, where, about thi year 1145, lived Peter Brucie, famousfor writing against the Romish errors of transubstantiation, whose followers, bythe Popish writers, are styled Petro Brusiarie. Henry Bruce, the last laird or baron of Clackmannan, died in 1772. Hiswidow, Catherine, who was of the same race, being a daughter of Bruce ofNewton, survived to the year 1791. The venerable Lady Clackmannan wasone of those women—not unfrequently met with among the Scottish gentry—who seem to live into a new generation, to teach it a suitable respect for thephysical and mental vigour of that which has departed. Though she lived tothe
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