History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

* HISTORY OF
Remarks on of the Acts of Parliament and other proceedings
the Marriages r o
of King Robert for the Settlement of the Crown in 1371, 1373,
and 1374. But a more satisfactory refutation
was a charter ^ granted by Robert Stewart in
1365, which proved that he was first married to
Elizabeth Muir, and referred to a dispensation
he had obtained from the Pope for that mar-
riage. Many other works appeared on each
side of the question ; but the most numerous of
the controversialists supported the first mar-
riage, and the legitimate descent of the Royal
Family. ^
1632) are cited by Sir George Mackenzie in his " Jus
Regium." Mackenzie's Works, folio, vol. ii. p. 480.
1 This Charter was first published by Lewis Hay, 4to.
Paris, 1694 ; and reprinted in the Preface to Anderson's
" Diplomata Scotiae," pp. 38, 39. ; with a reply to Attwood's
objections to its authenticity in his " Superiority and direct
Dominion of the Imperial Crown of England over the Crown
and Kingdom of Scotland," 8vo. 1704 ; which work was
ordered by the Scottish Parliament to be burnt by the com-
mon hangman. The Charter was dated at Perth, on the 12th
January, 1364-5, and had the seal of John Stewart Lord of
Kyle, eldest son and heir of Robert Stewart, as well as his
own seal, attached to it. Its genuineness was completely
established by the discovery of the dispensation to which it
refers.
2 All these works are noticed in the " Genealogical History
of the Stewarts." The question was also discussed in a very
learned manner by John Gordon, a Scottish advocate, whose
dissertation is prefixed to Goodall's edition of Fordun ; folio.
Edinb. 1759.