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OF STRATHERN AND MONTEITH. 59
at Court, took measures for counteracting his William
'-' ^ SEVENTH Earl
designs, Morton stipulating, as the price of his of ivionteith.
services, that Monteith should solicit the King
to give him the Order of the Garter. They
represented to His Majesty that the charges
brought against Monteith were frivolous and
unfounded ; but, notwithstanding the strong
bias in the Royal mind in his favour, Charles
gave Sir John Scot another interview, to hear
his further accusations against Monteith, when
he again adduced " certain quotations from
History" and other facts, to shew that His
Majesty had been abused both by his Advocate
Sir Thomas Hope, and by the Earl. Sir John
Scot then produced copies of His Majesty's
Letters of November, 1629, of the Earl's Renun-
ciation, and of the Patent of 1631, confirming
the Earldom of Strathern, already noticed, and
stated that " Monteith, by serving himself heir
to the eldest son of the former marriage, might
have served himself heir to the father of tliat
son." He then shewed the King a pedigree
which the Earl had had drawn up, in support of
his claim to the lordship of Urchat, *' wherein
His Majesty was placed on the left hand ;" on
seeing which, Scot says, and it may readily be
credited, " the King was somewhat commoved
therewith." ^
1 Sir John Scot's " True Relation," Appendix, No. IX.
p. xliv.
at Court, took measures for counteracting his William
'-' ^ SEVENTH Earl
designs, Morton stipulating, as the price of his of ivionteith.
services, that Monteith should solicit the King
to give him the Order of the Garter. They
represented to His Majesty that the charges
brought against Monteith were frivolous and
unfounded ; but, notwithstanding the strong
bias in the Royal mind in his favour, Charles
gave Sir John Scot another interview, to hear
his further accusations against Monteith, when
he again adduced " certain quotations from
History" and other facts, to shew that His
Majesty had been abused both by his Advocate
Sir Thomas Hope, and by the Earl. Sir John
Scot then produced copies of His Majesty's
Letters of November, 1629, of the Earl's Renun-
ciation, and of the Patent of 1631, confirming
the Earldom of Strathern, already noticed, and
stated that " Monteith, by serving himself heir
to the eldest son of the former marriage, might
have served himself heir to the father of tliat
son." He then shewed the King a pedigree
which the Earl had had drawn up, in support of
his claim to the lordship of Urchat, *' wherein
His Majesty was placed on the left hand ;" on
seeing which, Scot says, and it may readily be
credited, " the King was somewhat commoved
therewith." ^
1 Sir John Scot's " True Relation," Appendix, No. IX.
p. xliv.
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| Histories of Scottish families > History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth > (87) Page 59 |
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| Description | With a report of the proceedings before the House of Lords on the claim of Robert Barclay Allardice, Esq., to the earldom of Airth. By Sir Harris Nicolas. London: William Pickering, 1842. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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