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The History of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus
The History of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus Author:David Hume 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: Of William the First Lord, created Lord of Douglas at the Parliament qf'Forfar. JN OW to return home again to the Scottish Douglases, we find that king Malcol... more »m Kenmore, in a parliament held at Forfar in Angus, in the year 1057, Es the manuscript, Major and Buchanan have it, but according to Boetius, 1 06 1 , did create many earls, and birons (or lords) and knights, a- rnongst whom there is Gulielmus a Douglas, who was made a baron. The words are these, " Malcolm the 86th king of Scots, being crowned at Scone in the year 1061, convened i a parliament at Forfar, where, according to the custom of o- ther nations, he ordained that noblemen should have their titles to be distinguished by their possessions and lands, which had not been the custom of this country in former times. And so he created some counts or earls, others barons or lords, and others cavaliers or martial knights: he made Mac- duff earl of Fife, who had been thane of Fife, Patrick Dun- bar, earl of March: he made also others of the nobility earl of Monteith, Athol, Mar, Murray, Caithness, Ross, Angus. John Souls, David Dardier of Abernethy, Simon of Twed- dale, William of Douglas, Gillespie Cameron, David Brichen, Hugh of Caldsr, were made barons or lords; others more he knighted likewise a great many, so that few thanes were left.1' This note of these very words were extracted out of the register and monuments of Icolmkill, and sent to George Buchanan, when he was in writing his history of Scotland, -whereof John Reid, (Buchanan's servitor and amanuensis) having reserved a copy, did communicate it to divers afterward. Now here this William being ranked among the nobility, who were chosen out to receive these new honours, could be no mean man; but in all likelihood, the chief and principal of that name, and so the e...« less