propose to throw off an edition, limited according
to the rules of that erudite Society, with a facsimile
of the manuscript, emblazonry of the family arms,
surrounded by their quartering, and a handsome
disclamation of family pride, with _H
c nos novinus
esse nihil_, or _Vix ea nostra voco_.
In the meantime, to speak truth, I cannot but
suspect, that though my worthy ancestor puffed
vigorously to swell up the dignity of his family, we
had never, in fact, risen above the rank of middling
proprietors. The estate of Glentanner came to us
by the intermarriage of my ancestor with Tib Sommeril,
termed by the southrons Sommerville,* a
* The ancient Norman family of the Sommervilles came
into this island with William the Conqueror, and established
one branch in Gloucestershire, another in Scotland. After the
lapse of 700 years, the remaining possessions of these two
branches were united in the person of the late Lord Sommerville,
on the death of his English kinsman, the well-known
author of ``The Chase.''
daughter of that noble house, but I fear on what
my great-grandsire calls ``the wrong side of the
blanket.'' Her husband, Gilbert, was killed fighting,
as the _Inquisitio post mortem_ has it, ``_sub vexillo
regis, apud prlium juxta Branxton_, lie _Floddenfield_.
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