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The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Douglas, Esq;. Douglas, Robert, Sir, 1694-1770. Pages 99 - 105
is needless to trouble our readers with more examples of the antiquity of the name of Scot; and as we cannot positively ascer∣tain the first ancestor of the house of Buck∣cleugh, we shall take the succession of the first four generations from a M. S. history of that family,*
*. M. S. hist. of the family of Buccleugh, penes M'Far∣farlane.
written by a good antiquary, who had perused their old writs, the connection whereof is submitted to the judgment of our readers, and is as follows:
1. UCHTREDUS filius SCOT, before men∣tioned, was the progenitor of this illustrious family, and from him all the Scots in Scot∣land are descended.
This Uchtredus was witness to the foun∣dation-charters of the Abbays of Holyrood∣house and Selkirk,* by king David I. anno 1128 and 1130.
The author of the M. S. does not affirm that this Uchtred had taken Scot for his sir∣name; only, that being the son of a Scotsman, he was designed filius Scot, to distinguish him from other Uchtreds, which was a numerous christian name in Scotland about that time.
He was father of
II. RICHARD, who certainly assumed the sirname of Scot, and lived in the reigns of king Malcolm IV. and king William the lion.
Richardus Scot is witness to a charter of Robert,* bishop of St. Andrews, to the abbacy of Holyroodhouse. This Robert, who found∣ed the priory of St. Andrews, died anno 1158; so the charter, which has no date, must have been granted in or before that year.
This Richard is said to have had two sons, Richard and Michael: which was the eldest we shall not pretend to determine.
Richard carried on the line of this family, and Michael was the undoubted ancestor of the Scots of Balweary, and had considerable pos∣sessions in lands about Dumfermline before the year 1200,* particularly the lands of Gas∣cumemefen, &c Vide vol. II. of this work.
III. RICHARD SCOT, son of the above mentioned Richard, in the reign of king A∣lexander
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II. married Alicia, one of the daugh∣ters and co-heiresses of Henry de Molla, by whom he got a fair estate in the county of Roxburgh;* out of which he made a donation to the abbacy of Kelso, of eight acres of land, pro salute animae suae, &c.
*. Chartul. of Kelso penes eundem.