General Notes

REFN: 1689AN
REFN: P1689
"In the Service of Lieutenant Home, as nearest heir male of Patric k,
first Earl of Marchmont in 1799, and again in his Petition to the King in
1804, Patrick Hume (the Founder of the Family of Polwart) is represented
to have died before 1480, and to have been succeeded by a son, Patrick
(afterwa rds Sir Patrick) Hume, who is said to have obtained a grant of
the lands of B irghamshiels from the Duke of Albany in 1483, to have died
in 1504, and to ha ve been succeeded by his son Alexander Hume; but in all
the Claimant's subseq uent 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
ap pendix, No.I.) which is still extant, in the Marchmont Repositories,
with the Great Seal of Scotland attached, is addressed by the King to all
Foreigh Emp erors, Kings, Princes, &c. It traces the Pedigree of Alexander
Hume up to Sir David Home of Wedderburn (second son of the Earl of Home),
and agrees in all points (except respecting the two Patrick Humes in
question) with the main l ine of Hume of Polwart, as it has been proved by
the Claimant, which favours the presumption that it is no less accurate
throughout.(b)
....
(b) The ear liest 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 thesaur arij inter eum et dominam Mariam
Edmonstoun ejus sponsam filiam Joannis Edmon stoun De eodem genitus. Et
qui Patricius Hume fuit filius legittimus Patricij Hume De Polwart inter
eum et Margaretam Sinclair ejus uxorem filiam Joannis Sinclair Comarchi
De Hermistoun natus."
[Case on the Part of Sir Hugh Hume C ampbell of Marchmont, Baronet, in
relation to the Claim of Francis Douglas Ho me, Esquire, to the Titles,
Honours and Dignities of Earl of Marchmont, Visco unt of Blazonberry, Lord
Polwart of Polwart, Reidbraes and Greenlaw. Presente d to the Lords in
1843. Printed by SpottiswooDe and Robertson, Westminster; p p. 76, with
chart.]
In the Birth-brief of Lord Marchmont there is another ge neration of a
Patrick who married Mary Edmondstone, daughter of Edmondstone o f that
ilk; but it is difficult to reconcile this with the persons in the nex t
generation, who were undoubtedly the issue of the above two marriages;
an d it is mentioned nowhere else. He may have been an elder son who died
vivent e patre.
[From History of Dunbar Hume and Dundas from Drummond's Noble British
Families, William Pickering, London 1846]
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