History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

OF STRATHERN AND MONTEITH. 35
tinue, as ye have begun, to advance our ser- Wiluam
vice in your hands, we bid you farewelh 9th orMJ"!™''
November, 1629." ' ^^^°-
The King's Letter to the Advocate, of the
29th of September, was not deHvered to him
until the 24th of December, nearly two months
after its date^; when, considering that the Re-
nunciation which the Earl had executed on the
14th of August, and which had been sent to the
King, had become void in law, because it was
not registered in due time according to the Act
of Parliament, Sir Thomas Hope caused a new
Renunciation of the Earldom of Strathern to be
prepared, which was subscribed by the Earl of
Monteith on the 22nd of January, 1630.^
This Renunciation, after reciting the grant of
the Earldom of Strathern by King Robert the
Second, in 1371, to his son David and his
heirs, by the Charters before noticed, proceeded :
" And forasmuch as I the said Earl of Monteith
am undoubted heir of blood and successor to
the said late David Earl of Strathern, being
descended lineally from Patrick Graham and
Euphemia Stewart, daughter to the said David,
and thereby having good and undoubted right
1 Sir John Scot's "True Relation," Appendix, No. IX.
p. xl,
2 Sir Thomas Hope's "Trew Estait," Appendix, No. VIII.
p. xxii.
3 Ibid.
D 2