Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns, with an historical introduction and appendix, etc.

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OF THE
BRUGES AND THE CUMYNS
WITH AN
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
APPENDIX
FROM AUTHENTIC PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DOCUMENTS
BY
CUMM.ING BRUCE
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BRAKY
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WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
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TO THE RISING GENERATION OF TWO ANCIENT FAMILIES
WHOSE HISTORIES MAY BEST BE READ IN THE
ANNALS OF THEIR COUNTRY
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ARE DEDICATED BY ONE WHO FEELS HONOURED
BY BEARING BOTH NAMES
'' Thosewhoongloriousancestorsenlarge.
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Producethedebt welookforthedischarge."
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Old Chronicle.
< lur ancestors, ofwhom we should oft read,
And hold in mind their noble worthy deed,
We let o'erslide, through very slothfulness,
And cast us ever to otherbusiness."
—
Bund Harry's Wallace, a.d. 1361.
PREFACE.
It is now many years since, in a conversation at Albury with the late
Mr Drummond, whose interesting work on the ' Origin and Genealo-
gies of the most distinguished of the Scottish Families was then in
'
progress, that he remarked upon the difficulty of obtaining accurate
information from private records, and suggested to me collecting all
in my power concerning the two families to which we belonged.
Since then many books of " Family Records " have been published,
and much light has been thrown upon the history of our ancestors
;
and I trust this one also may establish some facts not generally known,
and overlooked by our best modern historians, regarding even the
most illustrious of our ancestors.
I have only to add that it was intended merely for private circula-
tion, but so many friends feel interested in it, and desire its publica-
tion, that I have yielded to their wishes, although painfully aware of
my own incompetence to execute, unaided, so arduous a task.
Kinnaird, Falkirk, January 1870.
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
PAGE
LOCHMABEN CASTLE, 242
CLACKMANNAN TOWER,
276
ROSYTH CASTLE, 284
LOCH-AN-DORBH,
446
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