Excerpt from Comments in Refutation of Pretensions Advanced for the First Time, and Statements in a Recent Work: "The Stirlings of Keir and Their Family Papers," With an Exposition of the Right of the Stirlings of Drumpellier to the Representation of the Ancient Stirlings of Cadder On examination of the documentary and other evidence which Mr Stirling adduced, backed with more either then familiar to, or shortly afterwards recovered by him, the writer saw that the case was not only an honest one, buttpossessed incidents remarkable in their way, some of them even of a tragical or affecting character.* This, coupled with the interest of certain legal questions mooted, especially excited his ardour and zeal, and he not only accepted the Offer to conduct the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.