STUART. The descent of the royal Stuarts from Banquo, Thane of Loehaber, the victim of King Macbeth, and their native Gaelic origin, are altogether visionary. The truth appears to be this. Alan, the son of Flaald, a man of whose paternal ancestry and nation nothing is clearly known, and who died very early in the

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