ANE ACCOUNT

THE FAMILIE OF INNES.

V ANE ACCOUNT

OF THE FAMILIE OF INNES

COMPILED BY

DUNCAN FORBES OF CULLODEN 1698.

AN APPENDIX OF CHARTERS AND NOTES.

ABERDEEN:

PRINTED FOR THE SPALDING C L I' B.

1864.

m)t ^palirmff Club.

M.DCCCLXIV.

THE DUKE OF EICHMOND.

3?i«-|]rjsib{nts. THE EARL OF KINTOBE. THE EARL OF SEAFIELD. THE EARL OF . THE LORD LINDSAY. THE LORD SALTOUN.

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The Lord Provost of Aberdeen. The Eight Rev. James'liyle, D.D.. Pieshoine.

I John Angus, City Clerk, Aberdeen. D. Laing, Esq , Signet Library. Sir James H. Burnett, Baronet. Alexander Morrison of Bognie.

John Hill Burton, Advocate, . Colonel Forbes Leslie.

Charles Chalmers of Monkshill. Wm. Leslie of Warthill, M.P.

John I. Chalmers of Auldbar. Cluny Macpherson of Cluny.

James Gibson Craig, W.S. .James Dyce Nicol of Ballogie. Archibald Davidson, Sheriff of Aberdeenshire. John Ramsay of Barra.

Charles Elphinstone Dalrymple. Joseph Robertson, General Register House, M. E. Grant Duff of Eden, M.P. Edinburgh.

Sir James D. H. Elphinstone, Baronet. Professor Scott, Aberdeen University.

TheEarlof ErroU. Professor J. Y. Simpson, Edinburgh.

Lord Forbes. The Earl of Southesk.

James Giles, R.S.A., Aberdeen. The Rev, Alex. Taylor, D.D., Leochel William Cosmo Gordon of Fyvie. Cushuie.

George Grub, Advocate, Aberdeen. Alexander Thomson of Banchory. Cosmo Innes, Advocate, Edinburgh. George Tulloch, LL.D., Aberdeen. Alex. F, Irvine of Drum. John Webster, Advocate, Aberdeen.

John Stdart, General Register House, Edinburg

irtasttrtr- John Ligertwood, Advocate, Aberdeen.

CONTENTS.

The Preface page iii—vii Duncan Fokbes's Account of the Family of Innes, compiled

IN 1698. p. 1—44 The Lord Lyon's Diploma and Patent op Arms to Sir Harry

Innes, 1698 p. 45—48

Charters and Notes, chiefly from the Innes Charter-chest

AT Floors p. 49—192

Notice of some Cadent Families of Innes, chiefly from the

Charter-chests of Leuchars and Dunkintie p. 193—259

Index of Names and Places p. 263

PEEFACE.

The " historical account ofthe origiue and succession of the familie of Innes " was written no doubt for more obvious considerations, but also for the specific purpose of warranting a grant or confir- mation of Arms by the Lord Lyon— a practice worthy of all commendation, however rarely followed. Long after it had served its first purpose, the work had become known from

Pennant having extracted from it the account of the family tragedy of 1580. A formal copy being found in the Innes charter-chest along with the Lord Lyon's patent, they were privately printed in 1820, at the expense of the late Duke of Roxburghe, who wanted, as he afterwards told me himself, " to show those proud Kerrs that he was of as good blood on his father's side as on his great grandmother's." It was printed, according to the rigorous fashion at that time, without note or explanation, and it was only on studying the Diploma at the end, that a reader learnt who the author was. When the Council of the Spalding Club asked me to undertake a new Edition of the book, I made search and was lucky enough to find the author's original MS. at Culloden, and I have to acknowledge the courtesy of the present Laird of Culloden who allowed me the use of it for this Edition.

I have said something of the author in the notes which I have added to his history (p. 191) and I have referred in many places to the honest care and industry with which he performed a conscientious task, neither glossing nor wresting facts, nor as- serting anything unproved.

It might have been possible to re-write his history more smoothly, and to array the pedigree and its proofs more systema- tically from the contents of the family charter-chest. But a new history would have wanted some of the weight which a