Note 278 — REIGN OF CHARLES II.: 1673-1685. (continued 2)
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It might have been supposed that this was a descendant of Sir Robert Bruce; but the account of the Clackmannan family in Douglas’s Baronage takes no notice of such a person; and it was beyond doubt Peter de Bruis, ‘a Flandrian,’ who is mentioned several times in Fountainhall’s Decisions as building a harbour at Cockenzie, and obtaining a privilege for making playing-cards.