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G. Decanus de Stichel. 



Eobert (his son.) 



Nicholas de Stytcheel .. .. 1200 



Willielmus de Stichel . . . . 1 207 



David, Vicar of Stichil .. .. 1214 



Philip of Stichil .. .. •;. 1221 



William, Vicar of Stychil .. .. 1260 



James of Lumisden, Vicar of Stichel , . 1440 



James Hume, Vicar of Stichill .. 1512 



Eduardus Brus, Vicar of Stichill . . 1543 



Guilielmiis Schaw. 



Thomas Kiiilot. 



William Hude, Eeader .. .. 1574 



Eobert Franche . . . . . . 1574 



John Fairbairn, Eeader . . . . 157» 



James Young, Vicar of the Parish of Stichell 1587 



James Frenche, A.M. .. .. 1605 



David Courtie, A.M. .. .. 1613 



David Starke, A.M. .. .. .. 1648 



Andrew Darling, A.M. .. .. 1683 



John Glen .. .. .. .. 1691 



John Glen .. .. .. .. 1719 



Alexander Home ., .. .. 1734 



George Eidpath .. .. .. 1743 



Andrew Scott . . . . . . 1773 



James Patterson ... . . . . 1822 



Peter Buchanan . . . . . . 1827 



Dugald Macalister .. .. .. 1837 



George Gunn, M.A. .. .. .. 1878 



APPENDIX III. 



The Gordons of Stichill. 



The usual legendary narratives of the ancestry of the 

 Gordons may be read in the well known Histories of the 

 Family, in Nisbet's Heraldry, in Douglas's Peerage, and in the 

 Eecords of Aboyne by Lord Aboyne (New Spalding Club, 1894.) 



The family is not heard of in Britain before their 

 representative is supposed to have come over with the 

 Conqueror. Before this date, the name was well known in 

 France, where one had been Constable of France and General 

 in Brittany during the reign of Charlemagne. 



Malcolm III., pursuing his policy of civilising his countrymen by 

 settling Southern or Norman soldiers among them, gave a certain 

 Gordon a district in the Merse, which he called Gordon, probably 

 from recollection of the town in Aquitaine bearing his patronymic 



