History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

^42 HISTORY OF THE EARLDOMS OF
Mr. Barclay *' Tliiit tile Petitioner then produced the Pa-
ciaimtothe tent Under which he claimed, and he proved by
strathemrnd evidcuce, then admitted by the Counsel for the
Monteith. Crown to be satisfactory,— i^^V*;^, that William
Petition to the Earl of Moutcith, who had been created Earl of
Queen.
1840. Airth by the Patent before mentioned, had an
only son, John Lord Kinpont, who died before
him : Secondly, That John Lord Kinpont had
issue one son, William, and two daughters, Mary
and Elizabeth : Tliirdly, That this William
succeeded his grandfather in the Earldoms of
Monteith and Airth, and died without issue :
Fourthly, That the Petitioner is the lineal heir
descended of the body of the Lady Mary, one
of the daughters of the said John Lord Kinpont,
who intermarried with Sir John Allardice of Al-
lardice, and that the issue of the Lady Elizabeth,
the other daughter, are extinct; the Petitioner,
therefore, claimed the Earldom of Airth, as the
lineal heir of the body of William seventh Earl
of Monteith, to whom the Patent of Earl of Airth
had been granted in manner before mentioned.
" That the Petitioner had always considered
himself entitled to claim also the more ancient
Dignities enjoyed by his ancestors ; but he had
been advised that it was more expedient for
him, at first, to claim the most recent of these
' Titles — the Earldom of Airth — of which he
could produce the Patent, and to establish his
right tothat Dignity, before claiming at once these