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The history of the Violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present: also, an account of the principal makers, english and foreign, with numerous illustrations, 1864
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1Forster reckons; however, it is in Scotland and the northern counties of England we must search for the Forster family, to which our inquiries are directed. In the "Border History of England and Scotland," by the Rev. George Ridpath, there is frequent mention of the name, and a statement that one Adam Forster, or Forrester, was sometimes serving as a royal commissioner, and at other times as an ambassador from Robert III. of Scotland to Richard II. and Henry IV. of England; also acting as conservator, with others, to various truces and peace arrangements regarding the Border district, from 1397 to 1402, and that about the last date he had been made Sir Adam, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Homeldon, and with other captives was "committed to the care of the steward of the household, to wait the king's pleasure." Whether he died a natural death, is not known; but to trust to the clemency of the Bolingbroke, who had been opposed, makes the result very doubtful. In 1424 we find John Forster acting as conservator to a truce between England and Scotland, and in 1429 he appears to become Sir John Forrester, Baron of Liberton, serving as a Scotch commissioner, with other persons named, for "mutual redress of injuries, and the speedy and effectual execution of justice in all matters under debate between the subjects of the two kingdoms;" and in the same year he is named John Forster of Corstorsyn. From the last date above stated until 1553, there is no mention of this name; we then find Sir John Forster, knight, was acting as the arbitrator for England; and in 1557, "about Martinmas, the Earl of Northumberland sent his brother, Sir Henry Percy, accompanied with Sir John Forster and others, chiefly those of the Middle March, to make an inroad into Scotland; they were met by Sir Andrew Ker and
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