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 pation of the bards during the latter periods of their history. Buchanan of Auchmar seems to deduce the origin of Douglas from the famous Thane Macduff of Fife. Defoe thus celebrates the clan:

Jonston, in his. has also borne ample testimony to their fame:

P. 54. v. 408. According to some antiquaries, the ancestor of Somerville accompanied Edgar Atheling, the