Note 9 — INTRODUCTORY. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DUNDONALD FAMILY.

Buchanan speaks of Preston’s alliance with Cochran as “one solicited to strengthen himself, which was not the cause but the effect of Cochran’s power at Court.... Again, the immediate Acquisition of Crown Lands which rendered Cochran most odious, is highly spoken of, notwithstanding that he obtained a Grant of the Lands belonging to a Prince of the Blood, even the Revenue of an Earl! and by such Grants outvied the Splendour of the ancient Nobility! who beheld Persons of the meanest extraction eclipse them in Lustre!”