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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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son who went over to Ireland and settled in the City of 

 Dublin in the Trading way whereby he got great Wealth 

 and much greater Reputation for a man of Integrity. He 

 had a son its said Sir John Knox who was Lord Mayor 

 oftheCitvof Dublin. He left his Estate partly to an 

 only daughter and partly to keep up and preserve the 

 name and memory of his Family to Thomas Knox of 

 Dungannon Esq. his nephew. 



" Thomas Knox the Eldest Son who was bred to Bus- 

 suness and Trade in which he was so successful that he 

 raised up and considerably enlarged his Estate that was 

 left him by his father. He married Bessie or Elizabeth 

 Spang daughter of Andrew Spang a Merchant of Repu- 

 tation and a man of great wealth in the City of Glasgow. 



"Its Reported to the Hononr of her Memory that 

 she was a woman of consumate prudence Industry and 

 Virtue. She had Tssue to Mr. Knox — Thomas Knox 

 Esq. of Dungannon in the Kingdom of Ireland where he 

 settled. 



"William Knox merchant in Glasgow whom the 

 Drawer of this Memorial well knew He dyed without 

 Issue in the month of April, 1728 aged 76. He left a 

 considerable money Estate to his Nephew Thomas Knox 

 Esq. in Ireland. 



" There was a Third Son John Knox Esq. who went 

 over and settled in Ireland near his Brother Mr. Knox 

 of Dungannon where he got a good Estate which is pos- 

 sessed by his son and Thomas Knox Esq. 



" Thomas Knox of Dungannon Esq. who has the cha- 

 racter of one of the Worthyest Gentleman of his time 

 that his countrey had produced or any other — He settled 

 altogether in Ireland where he got a fine Estate at Dun- 

 gannon in the County of Tyrone. He was all his life 

 long firmly attached to the Protestant Interest and dis- 

 tinguished himself eminently that way in the reign of 

 King James the Seventh, as he had always the settle- 

 ment of the Crown in the Protestant line much at heart, 

 So when he saw that settled by act of Parliament no 

 man had greater Joy or expressed more satisfaction in it 

 as the surest and firmest Bulwark of the Religion and 

 Liberties of the subject. Mr. Knox eminently distin- 

 guished himself in his zeal in the latter end of the Reign 

 of Queen Ann in Maintaining and Suporting the Right 

 of Succession in the Illustrious House of Hanover, and 

 even lessened his Estate at least for a time in making 

 Representatives for the House of Commons in Ireland 

 that were all firm to the Protestant succession. 



" Upon the Accession of King George the first to the 

 Crown, Mr. Knox's eminent merit and services having 

 been justly Represented and laid before His Majesty, 

 His Majesty had so due a sense of his great merit as he 

 propose*; to raise him to be a Peer of the Realm of Ireland 

 and named him one of the Lords of his Most Honourable 

 Privy Council. By reason of his great age and that he 

 had no heir male of his own Bodie and even from an 

 excess of modesty he declined the Honour of Peerage 

 which could not have subsisted long, since dignities in 

 that Kingdom as conferred on the Patentee and the heirs 

 male of their Bodies, are not descendable to heirs of Line 

 and Law without a special limitation. But tho Mr. Knox 

 had left Scotland and settled in Ireland yet he took care 

 that a record an authentick voucher should remain in 

 Scotland of bis descent from the antient family of Ran- 

 furly and which in his own time he came to be the 

 Representative. For he applyed to the Lord Lyon Sir 

 Charles Erskine of Cambo to get his coat of arms matri- 

 culate which was done accordingly and is recorded in 

 the Lyon Office, viz. Thomas Knox Esq. in tho Kingdom 

 of Ireland Lawful son to Thomas Knox descended of the 

 family of Ranfurlie in the Kingdom of Scotland, Gules a 

 Fal< on Volant Or, within an Orb. Waved on the Outer 

 Side and Ingrailed on tho Inner side argent. Crest a 



Falcon perching Proper, Motto, Moveo et Profieeor. But 

 this Coat of Arms was given to Mr. Knox when he was 

 but a Cadet and a branch of the House of Ranfurlie, but 

 when he came to be heir male and Representative of the 

 family himself he might in my humble oppinion have 

 disused this Mark of cadency the Ingrailling of the bor- 

 der on the inner side and worn it altogether waved as the 

 principal coat, and his heirs of lineTaylizie and Provision 

 may do the same. 



" The Geneahgie of Bessy or Elisabeth Spang spouse to 

 Thomas Kno.v Merchant in Glasgow. 



"The Spangs Mrs. Knox's Progenitors were Burgesses 

 and Citizens in Glasgow, Her Grandfather William Spang 

 was an eminent appothyearie. He was appointed Visitor 

 of the chierurgeons with Dr. Robert Hamilton and Dr. 

 Peter Low of all the Practisers of Chierurgery within the 

 Burgh and Regality of Glasgow the Shires of Lanerk, 

 Air, Dumbarton, and Renfrew when the Chierurgeons 

 Physicians Apothecarys at Glasgow were first erected 

 into a Facultie and corporation by King James the 6 th 

 Under the Privy Seall at Holyroodhouse the Penult of 

 November 1599.* This Mr. William Spang married 

 Christian Hamilton of the House of Silverton hill, Then 

 an Eminent Family of the name of Hamilton and Barons 

 of a Great Estate in the Shyre of Lanerk and in the Re- 

 gality of Glasgow. They were Lords of the Barony of 

 the Provand. They were come of an immediate son of 

 the Noble and Illustrious House of Hamilton. His Son 

 was Andrew Spang who was bred to trade and thereby 

 acquired a great stock and estate in money. His wife 

 was Mary Buchannan. He had a son Mr. William Spang 

 a very learned man who wrote a treatise on the Civil wars 

 in Brittain and was a minister of the Scotts Congregation 

 at Rotterdam in Holland, and a daughter Bessy who was 

 married to Mr. Thomas Knox merchant in Glasgow 

 mother to Thomas Knox of Dungannon Esq. in the 

 Kingdom of Ireland whose Pedigree and descent is from 

 this Memorial Vouched to be Lineally come of a Race of 

 Ancestors by the House of Ranfurlie Inferior to no Gen- 

 tleman in the Kingdom since it evidently appears from 

 the Vouchers here cited that the Family of Ranfurlie is 

 both very antient and nobly allied with many of the best 

 familvs in the Western parts, where they had their chief 

 Residence, and tho they have now Transplanted to ano- 

 ther Kingdom yet they are now possessed of many oppu- 

 lent estates and spread into more numerous Branches 

 than they had by farr in the Kingdom they were ori • 

 ginallv of. 



"This Account of the House of Ranfurlie and Silvre- 

 Jand of which the family of Dungannon are the heirs 

 Male was Drawn by me Mr. Crawfoord Historiographer 

 and Antiquarie." 



Here follow three or four short extracts from 

 charters relative to the Knox family, chiefly in 

 Latin. William Galloway. 



Edinburgh. 



BOLLED. 



(2 n4 S. ix. 28. 251. 309.) 



Perhaps the following examples, collected by 

 me for a work on this and similar words in the 

 Auth. Version of the Bible, may throw some light 

 on the meaning of the English term, however 



* Original Gift and Erection of the facultie of Phisi- 

 cians and Chierurgeons at Glasgow I have seen. 



