History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

1633.
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it was the territorial^ and not the personal Earl- William
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doms that were united, it would be found m the of Monteith.
record of the reception of the Earl of Airth by
the Privy Council of Scotland; and in the alien-
ation of the territorial Earldom of Monteith from
the territorial Earldom of Airth, as well as in
the proposed alienation of the personal Dignity
of Monteith from the personal Dignity of Airth,
which will be afterwards noticed.
On the 28th of March, 1633, Thomas Earl
of Haddington, Lord Privy Seal, produced be-
fore the Lords of the Council, the Patent where-
by his Majesty was pleased, out of remembrance
of the services of William Earl of Monteith,
President of the Council, " to erect the lands
and harony of Airth, pertaining heritably to
the said Earl of Monteith, into a free Earldom,
to he called in all time coming, the Earldom op
Airth, and to annex and unite thereunto the
lands and Earldom of Monteith, without pre-
judice always of the Charter of the Earldom of
Monteith, granted by his Majesty's predecessor
of famous memory, King James the First, to
Malise Earl of Monteith, and his heirs, unto
whom the said William Earl of Monteith is un-
doubted heir of line and succession served and
retoured, which Charter is of the date the sixth
day of September, 1428 years, and in the 22nd
year of the said King's reign, likeas our said
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