Note 7 — INTRODUCTORY. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DUNDONALD FAMILY.
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“He came to be known to the king by a duel which he fought with another; and presently from an architect came to be made a courtier, and was put in a fair way of rising to some greater advancement; for, having performed some lighter matters, intrusted to him, with diligence, and also accommodating himself to the king’s humour, he was soon admitted to advise concerning the grand affairs of the kingdom; insomuch that Preston chose him to be his son-in-law.”—Buchanan, vol. ii. p. 301. “But that which made Cochran most envied was his earldom of March; which country the king had either given to him, or at least committed to his trust, upon the death of the king’s younger brother.”—Buchanan, vol. ii. p. 309.