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Edinburgh or sent further testimony. In May 1591 the Master of Forbes claimed his brothers had turned his father against him, and while Lord Forbes was lying sick at Dundee they had entered and robbed the House of Druminnor. The younger Forbes brothers obtained
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Arthur, 9th Lord Forbes (1581–1641) — retrospectively reduced from 10th when his brother's lordship was discounted. In
February 1601 he married Jean Elphinstone, a daughter of
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118:James VI
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116:, with
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