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| | Clan Forbes |
 | | John, eighth Lord Forbes, was one of the five noblemen appointed by commission from the king, dated 25th July 1594, lieutenants of the northern counties, for the suppression of the rebellion of the popish Earls of Huntly and Errol. |
 | | Forbes’ lady, a daughter of Campbell of Cawdor, refused to do this without her husband’s instructions, and thereupon the Gordons fired the house, and she and her family and attendants, twenty-seven persons, were burnt within. |
 | | The fourth baronet married a daughter of the Earl of Kintore, and John, the eldest son of this union, married Mary Forbes, daughter of the third Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, through whom, on the decease of John, Master of Pitsligo in 1781, her descendants became nearest heirs and representatives of that noble family. |
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