Charles I. whose son Henry was married to Viscount Banning's daughter, by whom he had four daughters; the eldest, Elizabeth, married Mr. George Egerton; the second married Mr. Robert Peirpoint, of Nottingham, nephew to the Marquis of Dorchester, by whom she had William, who married the Countess Dowager of Kingston; the third daughter was married to Sir John Bowyer, and the fourth to Sir R. Bradshaw.

There were at one time seventeen brothers of the family of Tullibardine, by one father and mother, of whom are descended Murray, of Struan; Murray, of Woodend; Sir Thomas Murray, of Glendogg; Murray, of Tippermuir; Murray, of Dollary; and Sir Patrick Murray, of Auchtertiers, a considerable family in Perthshire, lineally descended of the youngest of these brothers.

There are also of this name the Lord Elibank, the Lairds of Aberearney, Potmais, Blackbaronry, Philip, Haugh, and Newton, all of ancient families, and considerable estates.

Having thus, with much labour and pains, deduced and brought down the ancient and honourable House of Stanley from their original, through many genealogies, to our own time, as well in all the collateral branches as the direct line, to his grace James, Duke of Athol, the last branch of the old stock, and given you their arms and honourable titles, with their chief seats, and all the memorable and most celebrated actions performed by them in their several ages; I have considered it no less than a duty incumbent upon me, and an act of justice due to the noble, ancient, and honourable House of Athol and Tullibardine, to declare their antiquity, magnanimity, and renown, with the many and high honours conferred upon the several branches thereof, for the steady and many eminent services done by them to their prince and country, as well in England as in Scotland; which being done, I have only to add the titles and seats of his present grace of Athol, who is styled The most noble James, Duke of Athol, Lord of Man and the

Isle, Marquis of Tullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount of Ballquidder, Glenalmond, and Glenlyon, Baron Strange, Lord Murray, Balvany and Gask, heritable Steward of the stewarties of Fife and Huntingtour, heritable Lord of the regalities of Athòl and Dunkeld, heritable Captain and Constable of the Castle and Constabulary of Kincleaven, High Sheriff of Perthshire, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, one of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and Knight of the most noble and most ancient Order of the Thistle, whose chief seats are Dunkeld, Blaire castle in the Blaire of Athol, Huntingtour near Perth, and Falkland, with some others I cannot recollect.

And thus having finished what has occurred to me most remarkable of the two noble and united families aforesaid, I shall, by way of conclusion, subjoin part of an ancient poem in manuscript, wrote by a dignified member of the church, and a near relation to the honourable House of Stanley, treating of the family history for near two hundred years past, wherein the persons, lives, and actions of the Stanleys are represented to this time in a most lively manner. This was just sent to me by a private hand before my closing of the present history now before me.

And although the verse be something of the doggerel kind, and the language uncouth and obsolete, yet, upon due thought and consideration, I have resolved to give it to the public in its own natural dress, without adding or diminishing any thing from it; as what, in my sentiments, will be novel and entertaining to the curious reader, as well as pleasing and agreeable to the less learned, as it is to myself; the whole being a voucher or confirmation of many articles of antiquity asserted by me in the course of this history, with something new and unknown to me before, which I shall introduce by the author's own preface, and in his own style.

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This for the merit of the subject:

"No doubt the poet did his best, so don't reflect.”

THOMAS, FIRST EARL OF DERBY,

One hundred and seven years past.

IN KING RICHARD'S TIME.

A RIGHT, TRUE, AND MOST FAMOUS

CHRONICLE,

SET forth without any fraud or addultring flatterage (as some of our chronicles do,) of the noble and noteable acts of the Stanleys, which ungentlye be left oute of other chronicles, and yett as worthie to be notified, marked and registered for an excellent memoryall as others be, for actyveness and martiall deeds, and ready, if need require, to be proved matter of true effect, both by testimonie of writing and record of honest men yett living, that have seen and known a good part thereof, and to much pity and shame it should now be forgotten or left out, as in other. chronicles they be, which doth disclose an affection in the writers, and may well be judged and called flatterage, which is an evil office; it declareth also the Stanleys descent, and how and by what means they came by that name of Stanley, and the commencement thereof in good and perfect; agragated and compiled by Thomas Stanley, by the permission of God, Bishop of Man, alias Soder, in the year of our Lord God 1562.

Amonge all delights and worldly comfort is to heare of our auncestors great name, pleaseth and reiseath a good natural harte, soe that flattery and lyes be utterly abolished, and only the truth shall herein be moved, as by just

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record truly and well may be proved, not as some cronicles unjustly use flatterings, renowninge the worthy with them. I would such unjust writers for their untrue smatterings would offer themselves, unto, St. Thomas Waternson. But truth noe man can be offended at, not truth of right ought not to reprehended. But in martial way, hardy harts for such storyes be often wakeing in reading, or to heare now and then the stoute prowers of some valiant man; and great pitty it should not be in record, for first it bringeth the dead a noble fame and word, and allsoe to the heires thereof, giving them harts like Enterprice to atchyve in their prince's service dareing for no cost, but adventureth though land and life should be lost, and of land and life maketh no comparison to a valiant act right manfully done; True record of writinge is necessary, as appeareth by many a godly story; without writinge all fame should be lost at once; the stoute hardy men might be compared to the stones; the genitors is the cheif cause of their hardines, which in fine, is the cheife cause of forwardness, as Stanleys do specifie, what woneders hardy men have done for their lady's sake. Writinge of cronicles 'tis well reserved if Dame Fame follow well deserved. As for their honesty and truth to praise the valiant prowers of the stout Stanleys heroicke actions, and how they had the name, I will plainely and truely unfold to you by the following poems :

THEIR

names be Awdley, of verry right discent, I shall shew you how, if you give good intent, As quickly as I can, without more delay,

How the name was changed and called Stanley.

In ancient tyme, much more then two hundred years, Was our Lord Awdley, as by storyes doth appear;

Awdley by creation, also by name Awdley,

Then haveing a lordshipp that is yet called Stanley,
Which lordshipp he gave unto his second son
For valliant acts that before he had done.
Their this man dwelled many a daye,

And many yeares was called Awdley of Stanley,
Afterward he marryed the heire of Scurton,

And when Scurton dyed, thither he went to wonn,
And then he was called Stanley of Scurton;

The which name sticketh still to all his succession.

It chanced afterward a goodly man to his sonn
Espoused the daughter and heire of Hutton;
And afterwards at Hutton, as chaunce him befawled,
Hee dwelt, and Stanley of Hutton was he called.
One doth continue at this present daye,

Prayinge God that forthwith worshippe longe it may :
Thus sure undoubted, their first name was Awdley,
And thus forward by custome called Stanley.
And after a second sonn of Hutton chaunced,
By valyant acts was highly advanced.

To the English Court came the Admiral of Henod,
With gentlemen of France, to prove their manhoode:
One of them called the best with speare and shield;
The kinge sent John Stanley to meet him in the field.
He was allsoe named the chiefe of all France;
But this stout Stanley had such fortune and chance,
He did not only put his enemye to lack,

But he allsoe slew him, and broke his horse's back.