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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 39; in Florence. He began at Paris a curious com- pilation of the folk lore of his time, under the title of Tarielies ; or a Surveigh of Rare and Excellent Matlem, Ne- cessary and Delectable for all Horts of Persons. Published in London in 1G35, this book is ftill found in old libraries, and is much prized by book collectors. It is pre- faced by many commen- datory notices in Latin and quaint old English verse. One of these by WUliam Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, closes with the distich : — " This booke a world is ; here if errours be, the like (nay worse) in the great world we see." " Mr." David Person had issue : 1. Thomas, s. his father, but d. s.p. ; 2. James, s. his brother, but d. s.p. ; 3. David, s. his father, d. s.p. 1667 ; 4. " Mr." William. The fourth son, " Mr." William, took the M.A. degree at St. An- drews, and qualified for the Church of Scotland. He was appointed minis- ter of Kinnaird parish, from which he was transferred to Dunferm- line, 1663 ; to Paisley in 1666, and in 1673 the D.D. degree was con- ferred upon him. He was appointed to a charge in Stirling, 1676. By Mary Livingstone, his wife, he had issue, five sons and two daugh- ters, viz., 1. " Mr." Wil- liam, of whom again ; 2. Thomas; 3. David; 4. John ; 5. Robert ; 1. Agnes ; 2. Mary. The eldest son, " Mr." William, took an active part for James II of England in the cam- paign of Claverhouse,* Lochiel, Dimdee's disposition of his troops at the battle of Killiecrankie is thus given : — " Sir John McLean, then a youth of about 18 years, was posted with his battalion on the right, on his left the Irishmen under the command of Collonell Pearson ; nixt then the Tutor of Clanranald, with his battalion ; Olengarry with his men were placed nixt to 1689. He was one of the rebels in France in the list with Buchan, Cannon, John Crichton, Captain of Clanranald, Sir John McLean of that ilk, &c., against whom the decree of for- faulture was issued, 2nd July, 1695. The decree of forfaulture was set aside in '■ Mr." William Pear- eon's instance by the granting of a cliarter by William III, 23rd September, 1696, where- by the estate of Barne- grene and Loehlands passed into the liands of James Peirsone, younger of Balmadies, and became incorpo- rated in one free barony of Balmadies. II. " Mr." Archibald, of Eister Powrie, second son of David of Barnegrene, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Gardyne of Law- ton. His only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, m. her cousin, James Pierson, eldest son and heir of " Mr." Alex- ander Pierson, of Balmadies. III. George, the third son of David of Barnegi-ene, was first burgh tieasurer of Ar- broath, and commissioner at the Convention of Eoyal Burglis, held at St. Andrews, 1601. I. Elizabeth, m. David Eamsay, who had a charter of the Barbour's Croft, Arbroath Abbey, 1602. II. Katherine, m. David Her- ring, of the Haltoun of Essie. Thomas Peirson's second son by his first wife, Walteb Peieson, occuijied land in Quhytfeild (Whitefleld or Whcatfield), Dun- dee, and retained an interest in the lands of Eister Liff, Blackness, which had belonged to Thomas Pierson of Blackness,* 1450. With Clanranald. The few horses he had were placed in the centre, and consisted of Low Country gentlemen, and some remains of Dundee's old troop. Nixt them was Lochiell, and Sir Donald (Mac Donald's) battalion on the left of all." — Special commissions were freely dispensed by James II for this cam- paign, but the accepted leader of Cannon's Irish contingent was Colonel Pursell, unless he was superseded by one of these commis- sions, notwithstanding that he was trusted by Cannon. — (See The Grdmeid, pp. 237- 240.) Lyell before 1570.
 * In Drummond of Balhaldy's memoir of
 * Blackness was sold to Captain Henry