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as are also these other Cadets of it, to wit, Easter Moncreif,
Colfargie, Wester-Rind and Kintullo. Only Tippermallo
stands and is well.

THIS Last Sir John was an accomplished Gentleman discreet
and prudent. He never married, and so has no Posterity.

[page 67.]

THE Fortune is acquired by Thomas Moncreif who came
from Orknay about The Year 1648. He married Bethia
Hamilton Daughter to Mr. Alexander Hamilton Writer to
The Signet. He has been long Clerk to The Exchecquer and
Thesaury of Scotland; As yet he has no Issue, but is The
richest and has The most opulent Fortune that ever any of
The Name had in The Kingdom, and is a Knight Baronet
having risen to Riches and Honour by The Favour and Means
of John Earl of Crawford Thesaurer of Scotland and by his
own Industry and Parsimony.

[page 71.]¹
vol. i. p. 323.

MORTON of CAMBO his old WRITS.

1.  KING William The Lyon's 3d Charter to Robert of
Newham of The Lands of Cambo. But The Charter wants a
Date. Tenend. a Comitissâ Matre Regis et Hæredibus suis
sicut Carta dictæ Comitissæ (i.e. Adamæ) testatur et confirmat
per Servitium unius Hominis in Exercitu meo &c. Testibus
Willielmo de Blakole Camerario, Alexandro de Sainto Martino
apud Strivelin. Nota. This Adama was Daughter to William
Earl of Warren and was married to Prince Henry commonly
called Earl Henry Son to King David 1st called St. David,
Youngest Son to King Malcolme Canmore. She bore to Earl
Henry King Malcolme the 4th (surnamed The Maiden) King
William and David Earl of Huntington and Three Daughters
Adama, Margaret and Maude, and after The Prince's Death she
was married to McDuff 2d of The Name Earl of Fyffe.

2.  DUNCAN Earl of Fyffe gives a Charter of The Lands of
Thamastoun cum superiori Dominio omnium Liberetenentium
ejusdem Terræ et cum ipsius Terræ Hominibus nativis. Teste
Willielmo Priore Sancti Andreæ, Io. Michael de Weyms,
Michael Scot, David de Weyms, Andrew de Valouns et Io.

¹ Pages 68, 69, and 70 of MS. are blank.