_The Hereditary Standard Bearer._--In Crawford's _Peerage of Scotland_ it
is mentioned, that in the year 1107 Alexander I., by a special grant,
appointed a member of the Carron family (to whom he gave the name of
Scrimgeour, for his valour in a _sharp fight_) the office of Hereditary
Standard Bearer. Can you inform me how the Scrimgeours were deprived of
this honour? The family is not extinct, and yet I see the Hereditary Royal
Standard Bearer is now a Wedderburne, and the Earl of Lauderdale is also
Hereditary Standard Bearer. There surely must have been injustice committed
some time to cause such confusion. When and how did it take place?