en saith the collector), as also
ane testimonie written in latine by Roger Mc Adame, priest of our Ladie
Marie's chapel (in Kyle), that the said Roger maried Robert and
Elizabeth forsds. But yrafter durring the great troubles in the reign
of King David Bruce, to whom the Earl of Rosse continued long a great
enemie, at perswasion of some of the great ones of the time, the Bishop
of Glasgow, William Rae by name, gave way that the sd marriage should
be abrogate by transaction, which both the chief instrument, the Lord
Duglasse, the Bishope, and in all likelihood the Great Stewart himself,
repented ever hereafter. The Lord Yester Snawdoune, named Gifford, got
to wife the sd Elizabeth, and the Earl of Rosse's daughter was maried
to the Great Stewart, which Lord Yester and Eupheme, daughter to the
Earle of Rosse, departing near to one time, the Great Stewart, being
then king, openly acknowledged the first mariage, and invited home
Elizabeth Mure to his lawfull bed, whose children shortlie yrafter the
nobility did sweare in parliament to maintaine in the right of
succession to the croune as the only lawfull heirs yrof."

"In these harder times shee bare to him Robert (named Johne
Fairneyear), after Earle of Carrick, who succeeded to the croune;
Robert, after Earl of Fyffe and Maneteeth, and Governour; and
Alexander, after Earle of Buchane, Lord Badyenoch; and daughters, the
eldest maried to Johne Dumbar, brother to the Earl of March, after
Earle of Murray, and the second to Johne the Whyt Lyon, progenitor of
the House of Glames, now Earle of Kinghorn."

So much for the marriage of Elizabeth Mure, as given by the historian of
the House of Rowallane. Can any of your readers inform me whether Elizabeth
had any issue by her second husband, Lord Yester Snawdoune? If so, there
would be a relationship between Queen Victoria and the Hays, Marquesses of
Tweeddale, and the Brouns, Baronets of Colstoun. One of the latter family
received as a dowry with a daughter of one of the Lords Yester the
celebrated WARLOCK PEAR, said to have been enchanted by the necromancer
Hugo de Gifford, who died in 1267, and which is now nearly six centuries
old. In the _Lady of the Lake_, James Fitz-James is styled by Scott
"Snawdon's knight;" but why or wherefore does not appear, unless Queen
Elizabeth Mure had issue by Gifford. Robert II. was one of three Scottish
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