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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Others got their ſurnames by offices, as Stewarde, Durwarde, and Banerman.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Alſo the proper names of many valiant cap|taynes were turned into generall ſurnames, as Kennedy, Graham, Hay, with dyuerſe other to long here to rehearſe. So that it came to paſſe then, as it hath done many tymes ſithence, that new ſurnames haue worne the olde out of vſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the foreſayde Parliament thus holden at Forfair, in the beginning of his raign, there were many holeſome ordinances eſtabliſhed, both ap|perteyning to ciuill adminiſtration, and alſo to the eccleſiaſticall iuriſdiction.

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