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A62398 A true history of the several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot in the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of ancient chronicles, histories, and traditions of our fathers. By Captain Walter Scot, an old souldier, and no scholler, and one that can write nane, but just the letters of his name. Scot, Walter, ca. 1614-ca. 1694. 1688 (1688) Wing S948; ESTC R219942 82,296 178

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