Volume 2

382            GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. II

of the Lands now Erected into the Earldom formerly
granted by King Robert the 1^st And King David the 2^d
To Sir David Grahame which is to himself et heredibus

Suis.

5 May
1431.

7. CHARTER KING JAMES 1^st Dilecto Consanguineo Suo
Albano Senescallo militi de toto et integro Comitatu de
Caithness on the Resignation of Walter Earl of Athole his
father Tenend. et Habend. predicto Albano et heredibus Suis
Masculis de Corpore Suo legitime procreatis Seu procreandis
[Register Books of the Great Seall                          ]

Dece^r
1476.
(Col. 2.)

CHARTER KING JAMES 3^d Dilecto Cansanguinio Nostro
Willielmo Sinclair filio dilecti Consanguinei nostri Willielmi
Comitis Cathanie et Domino de Santo Claro inter ipsum &
Consanguineam nostram Marjoriam Comitissam Cathanie
genito. The fee of the Earldom of Caithness on the Earls
Resignation Tenend. et Habend. Dicto Willielmus filius
Omnes et Singulis Terris Comitatus Cathanie et Heredibus
Suis Quibuscunque de Nobis et Heredibus Nostris [Publick
Register                                                    ].

N.B. [Here Remark the late Instance of the Succession
when the heir Male came to be Distinct from the heir
of Line.]

2^d Octob^r
1479.

8. CHARTER KING JAMES 3^d To Sir James Stewart of Auch-
terhouse his Uncle of the Earldom of Buchan And to the
heirs Male of his Body which failling to return to the Croun
[Registers of the Great Seall page                           ]

[page 304.]

18 Mar.
1480.

9. CHARTER KING JAMES 3^d To John Earl of Athole his
Uncle of the Earldome of Athole Sibi et heredibus Suis Mas-
culis de Corpore Suo legitime procreatis Seu procreandis Quibus
Deficientibus nobis et Heredibus Nostris Reversarus [Publick
Archives                          ].

1 Octor
1488
(Col: 2)

CHARTER KING JAMES 4th To Patrick Lord Haills Erecting
the Lop. of Bothwell into ane Earldom And Decoring and
Inobling him et heredibus Suis with the Title of Earls of
Bothwell per Cincturam Gladii ut moris est [Registers of
Parliament, page                          ]

12 June
1501.

10. CHARTER KING JAMES 4^th To James Stewart his Natural
Son procreate betwixt him and Jean Kennedy of the Earldom
of Murray. The Descent of the honour is Limited to the