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vocabulum wamh corruptè pronunciabatur weem, et sic
Johannes Comitis Fifæ Tertius filius a Speluncis quas fre-
quentabatur cognomen sibi et posteris acquisivit.

A Duncano Comitis Fifæ natû minimus Barones a Fandui
et Craighead et multi alii cognominis Makduffi pervenerunt.

4. MILCOLUMBUS MAKDUFFUS præfati Duncani filius primogeni-
tus et Quartus Fifæ Comes bina Monasteria fundavit Anno
Chr. unum virorum in Culrossiâ, alterum vero
mulierum in Septentrionali Bervico.

5.  Milcolumbo successit Duncanus Quintus Fifæ Thanus
(unus e Sex Regentibus tempore Interregni post Alexandri
Tertii Regis obitum) qui per Abernethios postea extinctus
est.

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6.  MILCOLUMBUS MAKDUFFUS Sextus Fifæ Comes apud
Varium Sacellum pugnans pro Patriâ adversus Anglos inter-
emptus est Anno Christi 1290.

7.  DUNCANUS prædicti Milcolumbi filius et Septimus Fifæ

Comes cum Roberto Brussio adversus Anglos fideliterinservîît,
et Davidi Brussio adversus Balliolum constanter adhæsit.
Nam primo apud Duplinum a Balliolo Anno 1332 et deinde in

wamh was erroneously pronounced weem; and so John, third son
of the Earl of Fife, acquired, from the caves which he frequented,
a surname to himself and his posterity.

From Duncan, youngest son of the Earl of Fife, have come the
Barons of Fandui and Craighead, and many others of the surname
of Macduff.

4.  Malcolm Macduff, eldest son of the aforesaid Duncan, and
fourth Earl of Fife, founded two monasteries in the year of Christ
, one of men, in Culross, the other, of women, in North
Berwick.

5.  To Malcolm succeeded Duncan, fifth Thane of Fife (one of
the six Regents in the time of the Interregnum after the death
of King Alexander the Third), who was afterwards killed by the
Abernethies.

6.   Malcolm Macduff, sixth Earl of Fife, was slain while fighting
for his country against the English at Falkirk, in the year of
Christ 1290.

7.  Duncan, son of the aforesaid Malcolm, and seventh Earl of
Fife, served faithfully with Robert Bruce against the English, and
constantly adhered to David Bruce against Balliol. For first at
Duplin he was taken by Balliol in the year 1332, and then in the