ERRATA. Page 13, line 19, comma after, instead of before, only. ,, 233, lines 15-16, for recruited, read recovered. ADDENDA. Page 30, at foot of page, add-" See Appendix A. ,, 37, line 8, after the word watched, add-" Some of these officers were surprised and made prisoners on our entering the town." ,, 37, at foot of page, add—" See Appendix B. MEMOIR OF GENERAL GRAHAM. CHAPTER THE FIRST. Early life, and entrance into the Army. SAMUEL GRAHAM,* Lieutenant-General, and LieutenantGovernor of Stirling Castle-the son of Mr. John Graham and Euphanel Stenson, his wife-was born at Paisley on the 20th May 1756. The period at which his father's family were first attracted to the shrine of St. Mirrent is involved in an uncertainty, the solution of which it is not intended at present to attempt, but for several years previous to his *Buchanan of Auchmar classes the surname Graham amongst the surnames of families now reputed Scotch, whose descent is from England. He says-" According to Buchanan and some others of our historians and antiquaries, the Grahams are descended from one Fulgentius, a nobleman lineally descended from the ancient kings of the Britons, who, in the beginning of the third century of the Christian era, with an army of his countrymen attempting to free themselves and country from the Roman servitude, their just Patron saint of the Abbey of Paisley. 2 birth, Paisley seems to have been their residence. By his maternal grandmother, whose maiden name was Cecilia Millar, he was descended from a common ancestor with the family of Millar of Earnock, in Lanarkshire. endeavours were nevertheless frustrated by the superior power of their adversaries, in which exigency Fulgentius and divers of his associates were obliged to flee for refuge to Donald, first of that name, king of the Scots, then at war with the Romans, who not only gave a very kind reception to these strangers, but bestowed estates upon Fulgentius and some other principal men of them, whose posterity remained always thereafter in Scotland. The principal person of Fulgentius' progeny having, after the battle of Dun, in which Eugenius, king of the Scots, with the greatest part of his nobility and others of any account of the Scottish nation, were killed by Maximus, the Roman Legate, in conjunction with the perfidious Picts gone with divers other Scots into Denmark, he continued there till the restoration of King Fergus II., anno 404, or, as Boece, 423. "That person of Fulgentius' race who went to Denmark, whose proper name was Græme, married in Denmark, and his daughter was married to Fergus II., though others relate that Græme's daughter was mother to King Fergus, being married to Erthus, his father, which carries little probability, in regard Græme was not only a principal assistant to King Fergus in his own lifetime, but was after his death elected governor or regent of the kingdom during the minority of his son Eugenius, and having in that time broke over the wall of Abercorn, greatly harassed the dominions of the Britons, so that, from that adventure, that wall is said to have obtained the denomination retained as yet, of Graham's dyke, which denomination others assert to be taken from the Emperor Severus, who repaired that wall which was first begun by Julius Agricola, in the reign of the Emperor Domitian. The reason given for the last is, that Severus being born in Africa was of very black and swarthy complexion and that thence the dyke The rise of Paisley to its present standing of importance as a commercial town, has taken place since the time now referred to; in the middle of the last century, the population of the town did not exceed 5000 souls, was termed Grim's dyke; grim, in Irish, signifying black or swarthy, whence the Scottish word grim is derived. However this be, the first seems the most probable. And that which very much evinces Græme's origin, as above asserted, is that his grandchild Eugenius, upon assumption of the government (as our historians relate) gave for pretence of the war commenced by him against the Britons, the restitution of his grandfather Graham's lands. "Our history gives no account of the posterity of this Græme for some ages. The first to be met with of them is that Graham who, with Dunbar and the forces of Lothian, appeared in the rear of the Danes when in battle with King Indulph and his army, which was the occasion of the defeat of the first. 3 "The next was Constantine, married to Avila, daughter to Kenneth, one of the ancestors of the Stewarts, in the year 1030; and in the year 1125 William de Graham is witness to the foundation-charter of Holyrood House, in the reign of King David I. The said William's son, Sir David, got charters of Charletoun and other lands in Forfarshire in the reign of King William of Scotland; as did his son, another Sir David, from Malduin, Earl of Lennox, of the land of Strablane, and from Patrick Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar or March, of the lands of Dundaff and Strathcarron, in the reign of King Alexander II.; as did his successor, also David, the lands of Kincardine from Malise Forteth, Earl of Strathern, in the reign of King Alexander III. Before all which lands mentioned in the above charters, that surname seems to have been in possession of Abercorn, Eliestoun, and other lands in Lothian. And although one Muir is reported to have had Abercorn in the reign of King Alexander III., yet in all probability he has had but some part thereof, acquired from the Grahams, which, after having continued some little time with |