THE ROYAL PROVINCE 
 
 OP 
 
 NEW SCOTLAND, 
 
 *MiD 
 
 HER BARONETS. 
 
 BY 
 
 Major FRANCIS DUNCAN, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D, 
 
 ROYAL ARTILLERY. 
 
 AUTHOR OF 'THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY,* 
 
 'THK ENGLISH IN SPAIN,' ETC, ETC. 
 
 " A matter importing specially our honour, and the good of that our ancient 
 kiagdam."— -Later from King James I. to the Privy Council of Scotland. 
 
 LONDON: 
 WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, 13, CHARING CROSS. 
 
 1878, 
 
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 THE ROYAL PROVINCE 
 
 OF 
 
 NEW SCOTLAND, 
 
 AND 
 
 HER BARONETS. 
 
 BY 
 
 Major FRANCIS DUNCAN, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., 
 
 ROYAL ARTILLERY. 
 
 AUTHOR OF 'THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY,' 
 
 'THE ENGLISH IN SPAIN,' ETC., ETC. 
 
 "A matter importing specially our honour, and the good of that our ancient 
 kingdom." — Letter from King James I, to the Privy Council oj Scotland, 
 
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 PREFACE 
 
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 From conversation with a descendant of one of the old 
 Puritans, who first settled the New England colonies of 
 America, and thence went over and took possession of 
 many of the rich agricultural and mineral districts, and 
 of the numerous harbours and fishing coves of the adjacent 
 colony of Nova Scotia, or New Scotland, the author has 
 been led to make inquiries concerning the ancient baronets 
 of Nova Scotia, the results of which are embodied in these 
 pages. The pleasure of his work was enhanced by memories 
 of some happy years of military service in this beautiful 
 and Royal Province, which was so fondly loved by King 
 James I,, the founder of the Ancient Order, and over the 
 destinies of which Her Majesty Queen Victoria has sent one 
 of her daughters to share in presiding. 
 
 November, 1878. 
 
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 ROYAL PROVINCE OF NEW SCOTLAND, 
 AND HER BARONETS. 
 
 The story to be told in this pamphlet is a proof, inter alia, 
 that there is a value in a name. The Canadian Province 
 of Nova Scotia — rich in minerals, lakes, pastures, and 
 teeming fisheries — has suffered incalculably in public esti- 
 mation from the circumstance that the official documents 
 concerning it were written in the first instance in Latin. 
 
 Nova Scotia was meant to be in the New World the same 
 complement of Scotland, as the sister province of New 
 England was to the mother-country from which it derived 
 its name. Unfortunately the accidental Latin of the 
 warrants clung to the name of the Province, when the 
 warrants themselves had been forgotten, or had periShed. 
 New Scotland soon had no more in common with old 
 Scotland, than had Nova Zembla itself. 
 
 This same accident has led also to the perpetration of an 
 injustice on the character and memory of a British king, 
 who — although certainly afflicted with some of the evil con- 
 sequences of lifelong flattery — was yet in many important 
 points far in advance of his time. The colonial policy of 
 James L had in it much of the paternal, as was to be 
 expected in days when the rights of kings were considered 
 divine : but it was also eminently shrewd, far-seeing, and 
 
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 commercial. To persuade men to quit their homes, however 
 poor and rough these homes might be, was in the beginning 
 of the seventeenth century a very different thing from what 
 it is now. In these days no eloquence is needed to induce 
 men to quit the companionship, in crowded cities, of disease 
 and discomfort and crime, or to abandon rack-rented hold- 
 ings in an uncertain climate for cheap freeholds of virgin 
 soil in a land where the colder winter is compensated by 
 regularity of seasons, bluer skies, and increased warmth in 
 summer and autumn. In these days, also, the individual 
 emigrant is common : the throbbing steamer carries in its 
 hull many hundreds of self-contained men, each confident 
 of carving out his fortune independently of his neighbours. 
 In the reign of James I. such an emigrant was unknown : 
 there were farmers — but they were also soldiers — oi fortune. 
 The figuratively mailed hand had to seize the land, before 
 the naked hand could till in safety.* The emigrant to a 
 soil unsettled, uncivilized, and without law, dared not go 
 out a lonely pioneer, but must be one of a strong and 
 sympathetic band. Temptation of no ordinaiy degree was 
 need.ed to secure a good stamp of emigrants. In the case 
 of New Scotland, it took the form of titular honours, com- 
 bined with prospective possession in a land which a patriotic 
 king had determined should have a special alliance and 
 sympathy with the country of his birth. 
 
 James I. conceived the scheme : it was uppermost in his 
 mind when he died : but it fell to his son to carry it into 
 execution. The interest felt by the former in the coloni- 
 zation of New Scotland first found official expression in a 
 letter dated 5th August, 162 1, addressed to the Lords of 
 the Privy Council of Scotland, in which he said that " he 
 
 * Vide Armb of Nova Scotia, Title page. 
 
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 had ever been ready to embrace any good occasion whereby 
 the honour and profit of his kingdom of Scotland might be 
 advanced:" and inVhich he d-rected them to "grant unto 
 Sir William Alexander (then principal Secretary of State 
 for Scotland) and to his heirs, assignees, and any others 
 who should join him in the undertaking, a signature under 
 the Great Seal of Scotland, of the Royal Province of Nova 
 Scotia, to be holden of the Crown and kingdom of Scot- 
 land as a part thereof, with such powers to colonize, 
 govern, and dispose of the same, as had at any time past 
 ever been delegated by the Crown to any subject what- 
 soever." This was followed by a Royal Charter, in the 
 preamble of which it was stated that tnese grants were 
 made to promote the prosperity, opulence, and peace, of 
 the mother-country and the colony.* 
 
 Three years later, on the i8th October, 1624, King James 
 announced to the Privy Council his intention of erecting 
 the hereditary order or dignity of Baronet within the king- 
 dom of Scotland /<?r tJte purpose of advancing the plantation 
 of Nova Scotia. With some fervour he added that he pro- 
 posed to make this undertaking, of which he was so hope- 
 ful, a work of his own : and he felt confident that from so 
 noble a purpose the whole nation would have honour and 
 profit. In their reply t the Lords of the Privy Council 
 showed that the/ clearly recognized the king's patriotic 
 motive, for they alluded to " his Majesty's great affection 
 toward his ancient kingdom of Scotland, and his most 
 judicious consideration in making choice of so excellent a 
 means, both noble and fit, for the good of the same." 
 
 On his death-bed.t with plaintive but earnest words, the 
 king again alluded to what was still uppermost in his 
 
 * Charter, Jac. I. t November 23, 1624. J March 23, 1625. 
 
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 thoughts, although to his son was to fall the privilege of 
 carrying out his scheme. He spoke of it as a good work, 
 a Royal work, and one for the good of the kingdom in 
 general^ as well as for the particular interest of every 
 baronet. 
 
 It will thus be seen that King James I. was actuated by 
 pure motives in founding this new order : that he desired 
 to establish across the Atlantic a country which should be 
 a complement of his old kingdom of Scotland, and which 
 should be knit to it by special ties of commerce and of 
 sentiment ; and that he endeavoured by the offer of titular 
 honour, and promises of land, to tempt men to emigrate, 
 whose social position would ensure them a considerable 
 number of followers, and assist them in maintaining their 
 authority as leaders in the distant community which it was 
 proposed to form. It is to be regretted that partly through 
 misunderstanding of the original scheme — partly through 
 the vicissitudes of subsequent conquests — the special connec- 
 tion between old and new Scotland, except in the districts 
 of Cape Breton and Pictou, has never been established. 
 The special rights given to the baronets on their creation 
 have long fallen into desuetude, and, except with the con- 
 sent of the Provincial Government, could never be revived. 
 
 The number of baronets of New Scotland created at 
 various times, was as follows : — 
 
 The premier baronet. Sir Robert Gordon, was created by 
 Charles I. on 28th May, 1625, and he received — on the re- 
 signation of Sir William Alexander — a grant of 16,000 
 acres of land in Nova Scotia, erected into a Free Barony 
 and Regality of Gordon. Between the 28th May, 1625, and 
 the 19th July following, nine other baronets were created, 
 with similar grants of land. King Charles I. also at the 
 
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 latter date appointed a Royal Commission, with full powers 
 to appoint baronets under the Great Seal of Scotland " with 
 such like privileges, prerogatives, immunities, liberties, and 
 others whatsoever, which are granted and to be granted in 
 the Charters already passed to the Baronets of the said 
 kingdom, made by His Majesty to be enjoyed and pos- 
 sessed heritably as an especial token of His Royal favour." 
 Between the date of this Commission and the year 1630, 
 upwards of fifty baronets were created, with grants to each 
 of 16,000 acres, either in Nova Scotia proper, or that part 
 of it now the province of New Brunswick. Between 1630 
 and 1633, fifteen other baronets were created, all receiving 
 the same grants of land ; and between 1633 and the Union 
 in 1707 upwards of 120 baronets were created "with no 
 less liberty and extent of right in all respect " than the 
 baronets previously created. These were the last created ; 
 but in the year 1845* there were in Great Britain about 
 160 baronets of Scotland and Nova Scotia, of whom up- 
 wards of 40 were peers. 
 
 Before examining the legal rights of the baronets, it will 
 be interesting to see what responsibilities attached to the 
 honour in the earlier days of its existence, and how these 
 responsibilities were met.t 
 
 We find that by the Articles of Plantation each baronet 
 was bound to furnish six men "towards His Majesty's 
 Royal Colonic, armed, apparelled, and victualled for two 
 years," or else to pay 2000 marks towards the undertaking, 
 and 1000 marks towards the expenses incurred by the 
 Earl of Stirling in exploring and settling Nova Scotia. 
 That in the early days of the order of baronets the above 
 
 * Memoranda on the Nova Scotia Question, 1845. 
 t Letter of Privy Council, November 23, 1624. 
 
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 obligation was interpreted as rigorously binding is evident 
 from a statement in ' Balfour's Annals ' * to the effect that 
 "about the end of February, 1630, a fleet of fourteen ships 
 sailed, furnished with men, women, and children, and all 
 necessaries, divej^ of them being handicraftsmen of good 
 quality and substance, to make a firm plantation in those 
 parts of America called New Scotland, lying between the 
 degrees of 42 and 48. They had with them two hundred 
 and sixty kine and other live cattle, for their use on arrival." 
 It would also appear that — in all — some 480,000 marks 
 were furnished by the baronets in aid of the plantation of 
 Nova Scotia at various times.f 
 
 As to the permanence intended by the various kings for 
 the rights and privileges of the baronets of Nova Scotia,t 
 there is very little doubt. "On the 31st July, 1630, the 
 Charters of King James I. and King Charles I., erecting the 
 baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia, and all the acts 
 and proceedings of the Privy Council thereanent, were 
 approved and conjoined by the Parliament of Scotland." 
 . ..." In June, 1632, King Charles I. addressed a letter 
 to * the Lord Advocate of Scotland, requiring him to draw 
 up a sufficient warrant for His Majesty's signature, to pass 
 under the Great Seal to the Earl of Stirling, and those his 
 loving subjects who intended to advance the plantation of 
 Nova Scotia, to go on with the said work whensoever they 
 should think it fitting to do so.' His Majesty also promised, 
 on the ivord of a Prince, that he should at all times be 
 ready, by his gracious favour to protect them in the under- 
 taking." § - ■ 
 
 In June, 1633, King Charles being in Scotland, an Act 
 
 * Vol. ii., fol. 117. t Memoranda on the Nova Scotia Question, 1845. 
 \ Ibid. § King Charles I. to the Lord Advocate, June 14, 1632. 
 
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 was passed by Parliament, which has been well described 
 in these terms : — " By this statute law, made and passed 
 unanimously by the three estates of Scotland, the King 
 himself being present in person, the various Charters to the 
 Baronets have the force and effect of Acts of Parliament 
 absolute and irredeemable : and rights from the Crown so 
 constituted are onerous against the State. For it is 
 declared and established that ' the said Charters are and 
 shall be valid, sufficient, and effectual, in all time corning, 
 in all parts thereof as set forth, for ever to the said 
 Baronets, and each of them in law against King Charles !.» 
 his heirs and successors ; and against all other persons 
 whatsoever, in all his courts, and those of his heirs and 
 successors ; and in all other places whatsoever, at all times 
 and occasions, notwithstanding whatsoever law, custom, 
 prescription, practice, ordinance or constitution hitherto 
 made, ordained, and published, or provided, and notwith- 
 standing any other matter, cause, or occasion whatsoever.' " 
 
 Charles II., James II., William and Mary, and Queen 
 Anne ratified all the former privileges to the baronets of 
 Nova Scotia. And by the Treaty of Union in 1707,* it was 
 declared that "no alteration shall be made in the laws 
 which concern private rights, except for the evident utility 
 of the subject within Scotland." 
 
 To sum up. In the trenchant words of the writer of the 
 pamphlet already quoted :t " In the Charters founding the 
 order, it is declared in verba principis by the Royal Founder 
 that * no lapse of time, non-user, or other adverse circum- 
 stances, shall ever bar the rights and privileges which they 
 convey.' These Charters have been twice ratified by Acts 
 
 * Act of Union, 1707. 
 • t Memoranda on the Nova Scotia Question, 1845. 
 
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 of Parliament, it being covenanted in the latter of these 
 Acts that the Letters Patent granted to any individual 
 baronet of Scotland whatsoever ' shall stand and continue 
 in force with all liberties and privileges, &c., granted there- 
 with, in as ample a manner as if the bodies of the said 
 Letters Patent were therein particularly engrossed and ex- 
 pressed.' At the present moment there are about i6o 
 baronets of Scotland and Nova Scotia, the first patent 
 being dated in 1625, and the last in 1707. There are there- 
 fore, exclusive of the Foundation Charters of the Order, the 
 Proclamations of the Privy Council, and the two public 
 Acts of the Scottish Legislature, 160 Letters Patent by 
 Charles L, Charles IL, James II., William and Mary, and 
 Anne, each having the force and effect of a statute law of 
 the realm. Further, it is to be observed that all these legal 
 instruments are rendered indefeasible by the Treaty of 
 Union of the two kingdoms in 1707 : nor can they be an- 
 nulled without a dissolution of that union and a violation of 
 every principle of national law, justice, and honour." 
 
 This piling of Pelion upon Ossa is not done with a view to 
 urging that the Provincial Government of Nova Scotia 
 should be compelled to hand over 16,000 acres of land to 
 every surviving baronet of that province and of Scotland 
 who may demand it. Some things are just, but not expe- 
 dient. It would be impossible and ludicrous to demand a 
 revival of the seigneurial, legislative, or personal rights of 
 the baronets, involving as these did the holding of courts, 
 levying of customs and tolls in their respective territories, 
 the right of voting in all assemblies, parliaments, synods, 
 and conventions in Nova Scotia, freedom from arrest, and 
 exemption from all penalties of the laws. It would be 
 equally impossible to obtain, after so many years of indif- 
 
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 ference and absenteeism, land which was given on the under- 
 standing that it was to be peopled and cultivated through 
 the instrumentality of the grantee, but which is now either 
 as wild as in the days of J-*mes I., or has been tilled and 
 occupied by others. It may be admitted — on good ?<'ithority, 
 and apparently endorsed by the present Lord Chancellor in 
 a recent utterance — that the rights of the baronets in Nova 
 Scotia were not extinguished even by French conquest, or by 
 the transfer to France of that province until 1763, but that 
 they remained merely dormant. All that the baronets can 
 say in favour of their rights in the Royal Province might be 
 frankly admitted, although any practical consequence would 
 have to be forbidden. To revive antiquated claims on 
 behalf of men whose ancestors for several generations had 
 been unable or unwilling to act up to their responsibilities, 
 and to revive them in the face of a high-spirited and self- 
 governing people, would have the effect of alienating loyal 
 subjects, and defeating the original scheme of the royal 
 founder of the order, which sought for close union between 
 the parent country and the child. 
 
 But if the revival of these claims would be intolerable, 
 the revival of the responsibilities would be beneficial and 
 wise. Noblesse oblige: the members of an order so dis- 
 tinguished should not be indifferent to or ignorant of the 
 province whose arms they wear, and whose name enters 
 into their titles. It is a province of which they might well 
 be proud : one for which nature has done great things, 
 and man might do much. More than thirty years ago, 
 the following spirited appeal was made on behalf of this 
 New Scotland, the Acadia of the French, the Nova 
 Scotia of pedantic charters. " Look at the map, and ask 
 yourselves, where on the face of the earth you find any- 
 
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 thing to compare to the position of Nova Scotia and 
 Cape Breton. Where do you find elsewhere throughout 
 the globe anything equal to its harbours, its mines, its 
 facility of transport, and whatever has furnished the 
 richness of England, its fisheries, its navigation, its mari- 
 time greatness, its means of constructing ships, and of 
 forming the men by whom they are to be navigated ? 
 Cape Breton and Nova Scotia are the very sources of 
 maritime power : it is thence the trident has sprung^ Since 
 these words were written, Nova Scotia has assumed a fresh 
 importance. The consolidation of the Canadian Provinces 
 into one Dominion has given a prominence to Nova Scotia 
 as containing the winter port : and it furnishes — in Halifax 
 -the terminus of that network of railways for defensive 
 and com;ner»;i.,* purposes which embroiders the whole of 
 Lj^tish Noith America. To rule over this marvellous 
 section of the earth's surface the son-in-law of the Sovereign 
 has been sel^icted — the Sovereign who is the descendant of 
 the Sijme ''ar-seeing king who created an order of baronets 
 to cultivate and people Nova Scotia. 
 
 Of t'le carlif^r members of that order Charles I. was 
 able to write ** how well the work was begun ; " * — this 
 same work which is not yet finished ; for in the intervale 
 lands, the noble fbre-;ts, the untouched mines of New Scot- 
 land, there yet !S room for energy, capital, and numbers. 
 Will not those in who^e families the name of this province 
 has held so honoured a place, do something to realize the 
 dream of the king who was the fountain of their cherished 
 honours ? They might do so much, and with so little risk : 
 they might do so much, and with so great honour. The 
 arrival in person in Nova Scotia of one of its baronets, 
 
 * July 12, 1631. 
 
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 knowing his legal rights, but waiving them, would be wel- 
 comed with singular warmth and interest. Tiie study of 
 the idiosyncrasies of the people, of the capabilities and 
 resources of the province, would furnish interest and enjoy- 
 ment to those for whom the name had been a mystical 
 but honourable tradition. The contemplation of the 
 beauties and natural wealth of New Scotland would fire 
 those on whom the behest of their order's founder had sat 
 too lightly. The fulfilment of that behest would become a 
 duty and a glory : the continued indifference to it would 
 make the boasted honours an intolerable sham. 
 
 The old arms of New Scotland and her baronets are 
 attached to these pages, and described in an Appendix. 
 The wild man pictured in them has almost disappeared ; 
 but the civilization has not been due to those for whom the 
 task was prescribed. The conquest by the mailed hand 
 has been effected : but only to a few of the Order is the 
 credit due of being among the pioneers. But every baronet 
 may still — as he extends a hand of sympathy and aid — ex - 
 claim, " Munit haec : " and by bringing the merits of the 
 Royal Province before the world, he will build up walls of 
 protection in flesh and blood — will develop ties of union 
 between the old country and the new — will cultivate the 
 unsettled soil until it vies with the lovely valley round the 
 old town of the baronets, Annapolis itself. In so doing he 
 will pay a compensation to history, and will discharge the 
 responsibilities which he cannot separate from the old 
 King's honours. Under our Queen's daughter, shall the 
 baronets fail ? 
 
APPENDIX A. 
 
 From the " Scots Compendium or Rudiments of Honour I' &c. 
 i2mo, Lond.y $th ed.^pp. 496. 
 
 " The Armorial Bearing first granted by King Charles to this Order 
 of Baronets was a scutcheon argent, a saltire azure, the standard of 
 St. Andrew counterchanged, surcharged with an inescutcheon of the 
 Royal Arms of Scotland, namely.i sol, a lion rampant, within a double 
 tressure counterflowing with flcurs de lis ; Mars, having an imperial 
 crown above the inescutcheon, the whole encircled with the motto, 
 * Fax mentis honest;e gloria,' and was appended to an orange riband, 
 and worn about their necks, as Plate 87, No. i. Afterwards there was 
 a crest ard supporters added ; for crest a branch of laurel and a thistle 
 issuing from two hands conjoined, one armed, the other naked. The 
 right supporter was the royal unicorn, and that on the left a savage, or 
 wild man proper, as Plate 87, No. 2, and the motto was, ' Munit haec et 
 altera vincit ; ' but by many of late the original badge, without crest, 
 supporters, and motto, hath been placed in a canton or shield of pre- 
 tence, as in Plate 87, Nos. 3 and 4," 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 The following list of the baronets of Nova Scotia is taken from a 
 pamphlet published in September, 1842 : — 
 
 ROLL OF THE BARONETS OF SCOTLAND AND 
 
 NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 *^ Since the erection of the Baronetage in 1625, forty-three of its Members 
 have been raised to higher titles of honour. A very considerable proportion of 
 the persons created Baronets were ancient Free Barons of the Realm of Scotland, 
 and as such had hereditary right to seat and voice in the Scottish Parliament. 
 The lands in Nova Scotia granted' to the Baronets created by King Charles I. 
 were all erected into Free Baronies and Regalities, and by the Constitution 
 of the Order, its Members are entitled to have seat and voice in all the Legislative 
 Assemblies of the Province of Nova Scotia. 
 
 The first iii Baronets received the stipulated territorial qualification of 16,000 acres each, and 
 those marjced f took seisin of their grants. 
 1625. 
 
 May 28, i^ox(fiQXi, oi GoxAoxi, Premier Baronet .. .. Nova Scotia. 
 
 fStrachan, of Strachan New Brunswick. 
 
 Keith, Earl Marischal New Brunswick. 
 
 May 29, fCampbell, of Glenorchay Campbell, Marquess 
 
 of Breadalbane Anticosti. 
 
 flnnes, of New Innes, Z>«^^ ^^('.f^wrg-^ .. .. Anticosti. 
 tWemyss, of New Wemyss, Earl of Wemyss 
 
 and March Anticosti. 
 
 May 30, tLivingston, of Dunipace Livingston New Brunswick. 
 
 fDouglas, of Douglas New Brunswick. 
 
 July 14, Macdonald, of Macdonald, Lord Macdonald .. New Brunswick. 
 
 July 19, ^MvLvray, o{ CozV]ioo\, Earl Mansf eld .. . New Brunswick. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
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 1625. 
 
 Aug. 30, fColquhoun, of Colquhouu Nova Scotia. 
 
 Aug. 31, fGordon, of New Cluny, Marquess Huntly ,. New Brunswick. 
 
 Sept. I, JLesly, of Ijcsly New Brunswick. 
 
 Sept. 2, JGordon, of New Lesmore New Brunswick. 
 
 Sept. 3, fRamsay, of Ramsay New Brunswick. 
 
 Nov. 17, JForrester, of Corstorphine, Ear/ Veriilam Nova Scotia. 
 
 Dec. 28, Erskine, of Erskine Anticosti. 
 
 Graham, of Braco Anticosti. 
 
 Hume, of Polwarth. 
 1626. 
 
 Mar. 30, t Forbes, of Forbes New Brunswick. 
 
 Mar. 31, t Johnston, of Johnston New Brunswick. 
 
 Apr. 21, tBumett, of Leys Burnett New Brunswick. 
 
 Apr. 22, tMoncrieff, of Moncrieff New Brunswick. 
 
 Apr. 24, Ogilvie, of New Camousie New Brunswick. 
 
 May I, Gordon, of Lochinvar, Viscount Keumore. 
 
 June I, fMurray, of Murray New Brunswick. 
 
 July 18, fBlackadder, of Blackadder Anticosti. 
 
 Sept. 29, Ogilvy, of Ogilvy Inuerquharity New Brunswick. 
 
 1627. 
 
 Mar. 18, fMackay, of Reay, Zt)r</ ^^flj Anticosti. 
 
 Mar. 28, fMaxwell, of Mauldslie New Brunswick. 
 
 Stuart, of Bute, Marquess of Bute, 
 Apr. 18, Stewart, of Corsewall, ifrt/V^Ga/Z^wrfy.. .. New Brunswick. 
 
 May 2, Napier, of Napier, Z£»r</ A^a/zVr New Brunswick. 
 
 June 25, t Livingston, of Kinnaird, i?ar/<7/A''«<;^«r^A .. Anticosti. 
 
 July 4, fCunningham, of Cunningham Anticosti. 
 
 July 17, fCarmichael, of Carmichael Nova Scotia. 
 
 July 19, tM 'Gill, of M 'Gill Anticosti. 
 
 July 20, tC)gilvy» of Banff Ogilvy, Zorrf .5fl«^ .. .. New Brunswick. 
 
 Oct. 18, tjohnston, of New Elphinstone New Brunswick. 
 
 Nov. 21, fCockbum, of Cockburn New Brunswick. 
 
 Dec. 13, fCampbell, of Lundie Campbell Anticosti. 
 
 Campbell, of Aberuchill Anticosti. 
 
 1628. 
 Jan. I, Acheson, of Monteagle, £ar/ f7(7j/t>r</ .. .. Anticosti. 
 Jan. 10, Sandilands, of Sandilands, Lord Torpichen , , Anticosti. 
 fMontgomerie, of New Skelmorly, Earl of 
 
 Eglinton Anticosti. 
 
 Jan. 12, Haliburton, of Pitcur Anticosti. 
 
 fCampbell, of New Auchinbreck Anticosti. 
 
 flnnes, of Balveny Nova Scotia. 
 
 Jan. 14, fCampbell, of New Ardnamurchan Anticosti. 
 
 Feb. 19, fHope, of Craighall Anticosti. 
 
 Feb. 22, Skene, of Curriehill New Brunswick. 
 
 Preston, of Preston Airdrie New Brunswick. 
 
 Gibson, of Durie Anticosti. 
 
 May 14, Crawford, of Kilbimy Anticosti. 
 
 fRiddell, of New Riddell Anticosti. 
 
 May 15, tMurray, of Blackbarony Anticosti. 
 
 May 16, fMurray, of Elibank Murray, Lord Elibank , . Anticosti. 
 
 May 21, Cadell, ofCadell Anticosti. 
 
 ^M.z.c\itTait, oi Tdshtt, Earl of Cromarty .. Anticosti. 
 
 June 20, fElphinstone, of New Glasgow New Brunswick. 
 
 Sept. 29, fForbes, of Castle Forbes, Earl Granard . . Nova Scotia. 
 ^Hamilton, of Killa,ch{Dovfn), Marquess of A 6er- 
 
 corn Nova Scotia. - 
 
l8 APPENDIX. 
 
 i6a8. 
 
 Oct. 2, Stewart, of Ochiltree, Earl of Caslltstewart , . Nova Rcoti'n. 
 
 tUarret, Lord Ncwburgh New Brunswick. 
 
 1629. 
 
 June 26, tUnice, of Stenhouse New Brunswick. 
 
 fNicolson, of Lasswadc Anticosti. 
 
 fArnot, of Amot Anticosti. 
 
 June 28, tOliphant, of Oliphant Anticosti. 
 
 Agnew, of Agnew Nova Scotia. 
 
 Keith, of Luuquhaim Nova Scotia. 
 
 Nov. 30, St. Estienne, of la Tour Nova Scotia. 
 
 1630. 
 
 Mar. 3», Hannay, of Mochnim New Brunswick, 
 
 Apr. 20, Forl>es, of New Craigievar New Brunswick. 
 
 Apr. 34, SiGVfOxiy Lord Ochiltree New Brunswick. 
 
 Crosbie New Brunswick. 
 
 Crosbie, of Crosbie Park (Wicklow) ., .. New Brunswick. 
 
 May 12, St. Estienne, of St. Deniscourt Nova Scotia. 
 
 July 2.}, tSibbald, of Rankeillor Sibbald Antirx>sti. 
 
 Oct. 2, tMurray, of New Duneam New Brunswick. 
 
 Nov. 13, fRichardson, of Pcncaithland New Brunswick. 
 
 Nov. 25, Maxwell, of Pollock Nova Scotia. -^ 
 
 Cuningham, of New Robertland Nova Scotia. -^ 
 
 1631. 
 
 Mar. 5, fWardlaw, of Wardlaw Nova Scotia. 
 
 June 2, tSinclair, of Cannisby, Earl of Caithness .. . . Anticosti. 
 
 June 18, fGordon, of New Embo Anticosti. 
 
 Sept. 3, Maclean, of Morvaren Anticosti. 
 
 1633. 
 
 Dec. 22, Balfour, of Denmiln Cape Breton. 
 
 Dec. 23, tCuningham, of Auchiiiharvie Cape Breton. 
 
 1634. 
 
 June 7, Vemate, of Carleton (Yorkshire) Cape Breton. 
 
 Bingham, of Castlebar (Mayo), Earl of Lucan Cape Breton. 
 
 fMonro, of Foulis Cape Breton. 
 
 fFoulis, of Colinton Cape Breton. 
 
 1635. 
 
 Jan. 6, Hamilton, of Hamilton, Z<»r</^^/Artzv>< .. .. Cape Breton. 
 
 June 8, ft'ascoigne, of Bamebow (Yorkshire) .. .. Cape Breton. 
 
 June 18, tNorton, of Chestone (Suffolk) Cape Breton. 
 
 June 29, fPilkington, of Stainlie (Yorkshire) Cape Breton. 
 
 Sept 26, fWiddrington, of Cairtington (Northumberland) Cape Breton. . 
 
 Dec. 10, fHay, of Smithfield Cape Breton. 
 
 Dec. 19, BoUes, of Cudworth (Notts) Cape Breton. 
 
 Raney, of Ru tarn (Kent) Cape Breton. 
 
 1636. 
 
 Feb. 17, Fortesque, of Salden (Bucks) Cape Breton. 
 
 Feb. 20, Thomson, of Duddingston .. .. Cape Breton. 
 
 June 17, Browne, of Neale (Mayo), Zor^ A'//w«j//^ .. Cape Breton. 
 
 June 18, More, of Longford (Notts) Cape Breton. 
 
 Abercromby, of Birkenbog Cape Breton. 
 
 fSinclair, of Stevenson Cape Breton. 
 
 Curzon, Kedlestone (Derbysh.), Lord Scarsdale Cape Breton. 
 
 Nov. 21, Baillie, of Lochend Cape Breton. 
 
 1637. 
 
 Jan. 16, fNicolson, of Carnock Cape Breton, 
 
 Mar. 13, t Preston, of Valleyfield Cape Breton. 
 
 July 31, fKer, of Greenhead Cape Breton. 
 
APPENDIX. 19 
 
 1638 Pollock, of Jordanhill. 
 Musgrave, of Ilayton Castle. 
 
 1639 Turing, of Foveran. 
 
 1642 Gordon, of ll&ddo, £ar/ 0/ A dt-ri/fi-tt. 
 
 1646 Mamilton, of Silverton Hill. 
 
 1648 Seton, of Abcrcom. 
 
 1651 Primrose, of Chester, Earl of Roscberry. 
 
 1663 Carnegy, of South Esk. 
 Hay, of Park. 
 
 1664 Murray, of Stanhope. 
 Dalmriple of Stair, Viscount Stair. 
 Sinclair, of Longformacus. 
 
 1665 Purves (Hume Campbell), of Purvcs. 
 Malcolm, of Balbeadie. 
 
 1666 Menzies, of that Ilk. 
 
 Dalziel, of Glencae, Earl of Carnwath, 
 
 Erskine, of Alva, Earl of Rosslyn. 
 
 Erskine, of Cambo, Earl of Marr and Ktllie. 
 
 Wood, of Boneytown. 
 
 Elliot, of Stobs. 
 
 Ramsay, of Banff. 
 
 1667 Shaw Stewart, of Greenock. 
 
 1667 Don, of Newton. 
 
 Douglas, of Kelhead, Marquess of Qiieensberry, 
 
 1668 Barclay, of Piersion. 
 
 1669 Wallace, of Craigie. 
 
 Conigham, of Caprington {now Dick, Baronet of Prcstonfield). 
 
 167 1 Halkett, of Pitiirrane. 
 Cockburn, of that Ilk. 
 Home, of Blackadder. 
 Scott, of Ancmm. 
 
 1672 Cunningham of Corsehill. 
 Ross, of Balnagowan. 
 Jardine, of Applegirth. 
 
 1673 Murray, of Ochtertyre. 
 Cuninghame, of Auchenharvie. 
 Mackenzie, of Coul. 
 
 1675 Hamilton, of Preston. 
 
 1679 Clerk of Pennycuick. 
 
 ilocYixsiXLC oi OdnXixee, Earl of Dundonalti. 
 
 1680 Baird, of Saughton Hall. 
 
 llizXiXaad. oi YizXiaa, Earl of Lauderdale. 
 
 1681 , Maxwell, of Monreith. 
 
 1682 Maxwell, of Pollock. 
 
 Kennedy of Culzean, Marquess of Ailsa. 
 Bannerman, of Elsick. 
 
 1683 Stewart, of Grand tully. 
 Pringle, of Stitchel. 
 Maxwell, of Sprinkell. 
 Seton, of Pitmedden. 
 
 1685 Grierson, of Lag. 
 Kilpatrick, of Closeburn. 
 Laurie, of Maxwelton. 
 Dalyell, of Binns. 
 Moncrieff, of that Ilk. 
 
 1686 Broun, of Colstoun, .. , : . 
 Kinloch, of Gilmerton. ' 
 Nicholson, of Tillycoultry. ^ " ' 
 
90 AI'PKNDIX. 
 
 (iordon, of Park. 
 
 1687 Calder, of Muirtun. 
 Stuart, of Allanbnnk. 
 Hall, uf I)un(;las. 
 Thriei)lnn(l, of I'intjask. 
 
 1688 Dick I.niuler, of Fountainhall. 
 tlrant, of Dalvcy. 
 
 1693 Stewart, of C'oltncsg. 
 Dunbar, of Mochruin. 
 Anstruther, of that Ilk. 
 Anstrutlicr, of Halcaskie. 
 
 1697 Dunbar, of Durn. 
 
 1698 Dalrymple, of North Berwick. 
 Dalrympic, of Couslantl, Visf 01411! Stair. 
 
 1700 Mackenzie, of (iairloch. 
 Forbes, of Foveran. 
 Livinfjstone, of Westijuarter. 
 Johnstone, of Westcrhall. 
 Elliot, of Minlo, Earl of Miiito. 
 iJunbar, of Northficid, 
 
 1702 Cunninj;hamc, of Milnriaifj- 
 (Jrant .Suttie, of Halgoiie. 
 
 1703 Mackenzie, of Scatwell. 
 Cathcart, of Carleton. 
 Fer^jussou, of Kilkerran. 
 ReicI, of Barra. 
 
 Hay, of Alderston. 
 
 1704 Murray, of Melgun, Count Murray. 
 Wcmyss, of Bogie. 
 
 Grant, of Grant, Earl of Sea field. 
 Sinclair, of Dunbeath. 
 Wedderburn, of Blackness. 
 
 1705 Grant, of Monymusk. 
 Holbourne, of Kirshie, 
 
 1706 Gordon, of Earlston. 
 Naesmith, of Posso. 
 
 Dunbar, of Hemprigs, Lord Duffus. 
 X'jQrj Dick, of Prestonfield (cilso Baronet of Caprington), 
 Stewart, of Tillicoultry. 
 Craigie, of Gairsay. 
 
 APPENDIX C 
 
 " The Nova Scotia baronets are, by their patents of creation, allowed 
 to carry supporters, notwithstanding that privilege was not granted to 
 the English baronets at the time of the institution of their dignity. 
 —Clark's * Heraldry.' 
 
 LONDON: FKINTED BY WM. CLOWBS AND SONS, STAMFORD STHBBT AND CHARING CROSS.