General Notes

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Comptroller of Scotland, 1499.
"In the Service of Lieuten ant Home, as nearest heir male of Patrick,
first Earl of Marchmont in 1799, a nd again in his Petition to the King in
1804, Patrick Hume (the Founder of th e Family of Polwart) is represented
to have died before 1480, and to have bee n succeeded by a son, Patrick
(afterwards Sir Patrick) Hume, who is said to h ave obtained a grant of
the lands of Birghamshiels from the Duke of Albany in 1483, to have died
in 1504, and to have been succeeded by his son Alexander Hume; but in all
the Claimant's subsequent statements, the two Patrick Humes are
considered one and the same person."
....
The "Birth Brief," (A Copy of this Document will be found in the
Appendix, No.I.) which is still extant, i n the Marchmont Repositories,
with the Great Seal of Scotland attached, is ad dressed by the King to all
Foreigh Emperors, Kings, Princes, &c. It traces th e Pedigree of Alexander
Hume up to Sir David Home of Wedderburn (second son o f the Earl of Home),
and agrees in all points (except respecting the two Patr ick Humes in
question) with the main line of Hume of Polwart, as it has been proved by
the Claimant, which favours the presumption that it is no less accu rate
throughout.(b)
....
(b) The earliest three generations of the Polwart Family are thus
described in the Birth Brief; "Qui vero Alexander" (that is, Alexander
Hume, in the Pedigree) "fuit filius legittimus domini Patricij Hume de
Polwart dicti regni nostri thesaurarij inter eum et dominam Mariam
Edmo nstoun ejus sponsam filiam Joannis Edmonstoun De eodem genitus. Et
qui Patric ius Hume fuit filius legittimus Patricij Hume De Polwart inter
eum et Margare tam Sinclair ejus uxorem filiam Joannis Sinclair Comarchi
De Hermistoun natus ."
[Case on the Part of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell of Marchmont, Baronet, in
rel ation to the Claim of Francis Douglas Home, Esquire, to the Titles,
Honours a nd Dignities of Earl of Marchmont, Viscount of Blazonberry, Lord
Polwart of P olwart, Reidbraes and Greenlaw. Presented to the Lords in
1843. Printed by Sp ottiswooDe and Robertson, Westminster; pp. 76, with
chart.]
Sir Patrick of P olwarth, had a grant of Birgamshiels from the Duke of
Albany, and in 1497, a grant from the King of the Lands of Argaty and
Lundies; had a summons for tre ason issued against him in 1478, for his
adherence to the Duke of Albany. In 1493, he made a pilgrimage to
Canterbury. In 1499, he was knighted and made C omptroller of Scotland,
died before 1504. In 1434, John Sinclair, of Herdmans ton, brought an
action against George and Patrick for "ye wranguis takin and withalding
of ye Hous of Hirdmanston," by which it would appear that they wou ld not
wait to inherit their father-in-law's property, but had actually ouste d
him. (Marchmont case).
[From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummo nd's Noble British
Families, William Pickering, London 1846]
In the Birth-br ief of Lord Marchmont there is another generation of a
Patrick who married Ma ry Edmondstone, daughter of Edmondstone of that
ilk; but it is difficult to r econcile this with the persons in the next
generation, who were undoubtedly t he issue of the above two marriages;
and it is mentioned nowhere else. He may have been an elder son who died
vivente patre.
[From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummond's Noble British
Families, William Pickering, London 1846]