18 MEMOIR OF 



published under the title of Analecta Scotica ; 

 this affords the principal authority for his life up 

 to that date. 



The family of Sibbald is of great antiquity, 

 and the name frequently occurs in charters of 

 the thirteenth century. George Douglas, Earl 

 of Angus, who died in 1461, married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Andrew Sibbald of Balgony, in 

 the county of Fife. Of this marriage was born 

 Archibald, Earl of Angus, father of the learned 

 Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld, the translator 

 of Virgil. In the reign, however, of King James 

 the Fourth, Sir Andrew Sibbald of Balgony, 

 sheriff of Fife, dying without sons, Robert 

 de Lundin, a younger son of the Laird of 

 Lundin, married Helena, his daughter and heiress, 

 and got the estate, still retaining the name of Lun- 

 din. In King Charles the First's reign, the estate 

 again passed into a new family, being purchased 

 by the celebrated General Alexander Leslie, 

 afterwards created Earl of Leven, by whose de- 

 scendants it is at present possessed. * 



From the younger branches of the Balgony 

 family was Sir Robert descended, being the fifth 

 child of David Sibbald, " third brother to Sir 

 James Sibbald of Rankeilor, knight baronet, by 

 Margaret Boyd, eldest daughter of Mr Robert 

 Boyd of Kipps, advocate. His father was 



* Sibbald's Fife and Kinross, 8vo. edition, p. 368. 



