Chronicles of the Frasers - v. 47 Author:James Fraser Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POLICHRONICON SEU POLICRATICA TEMP011UM PREFACE AND EPISTLE LIMINAKY Genealogy and antiquity is the glory of a name or nation, nml scing nighbours and ... more »conativcs seldom or never agree in scrmo dc o'rig- the decision of what is debeatably controverted as to the J" original! antiquity and continued line of their own, much lesse of our name and famely, it is most just tbat we all rest in the determination of learned knoweing strangers who were exact and impartial! antiquaries amongst us, for no history admits nor requires a mathematical or legal! proofe, but rests satisfied with such moral certanty as is inferred from probable tradition, old manuscripts, credible historians, and persuasive reasone, a proofe sufficient in such cases. The Annals of our monks is a very good historical! foundation to owre own history in lustur and splendour to all succeeding generations and posterity. That we have a vitum dominiian, a right conveyed to us by our ancestors, for 400 yeares preceeding anno 1650 bypast, and, jure prlsco, now ancient posesors here in the North of Scotland, and tearmed Frasers of Lovat, by an uninterrupted succesion from father to sone, never falling to a daughter or collaterall line dureing the aforsaid space, is unquestionably evinced, and that in a punctual!, methodical! directory and description, dcduccing the true chronology or chronological! legend, pedegry, and lineal descent of the most honorable and ancient famely of the Frasers of Lovat, without breach, or conveyance to collaterall lines, nor femalls to bring in strangers, continuing in a straight and evin line, course, and trackt of succession untill our dayes, from Sir Simon Fraser Genearcha or cheefe of all that stock. And now, although ceps.'" in processe of time the ancient Lord Fraser of Kinc...« less