History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

246 - HISTORY OF THE EARLDOMS OF
Mr. Barclay (also gi'and-uncle of Earl Malise), who in her
Claim to the Hght became Earl of Monteith ; this Robert
strathemrnd ^fterwards became Regent of the Kingdom, and
Monteith. Duke of Albany ; and on the forfeiture of his
Petition to the gQn, the Regent Murdach, the Title ao-ain be-
Queen. ^ °
1840. came vested in the Crown.
•' That, while Earl Malise remained a hostage
in England, those lamentable events belonging
to history occurred, which resulted from the
doubts then existing, or suggested, as to the
marriage of Elizabeth Muir, and which appear
to have been called to the attention of King
Charles the Eirst at a much later period, as after
mentioned : King James the First of Scotland
was assassinated, and his uncle, Walter Earl of
Atholl, and others of his near kinsmen, perislied
miserably on the scaffold.
" That the said Malise, then described as Earl
of Monteith, appears to have remained in Eng-
land (where he married) till 1453. Upon his
death he was succeeded by his grandson, Alex-
ander Earl of Monteith, and the Title was en-
joyed for several generations in a direct course
of lineal descent from father to son, down to
William the seventh Earl of Monteith. It seems
probable that after the events of the reign of
James the First, which have been alluded to.
Earl Malise and his successors abstained from
using the Title of Earl of Strathern, to which it
is submitted they were clearly entitled, content-