LINDSAY. This distinguished family, who boasted of twenty Earls of Crawford, extending from the year 1398 to 1808, and whose deeds have been recorded by a noble member of the house, in his " Lives of the Lindsays," were in all probability of English origin, and the name appears to have been derived from the divisiou of the county of Lincoln still called the " Parts of Lindsey," though some genealogists deduce it from the manor of Lindsey in Essex.

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