Historical account of the noble family of Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa and Earl of Cassilis

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in prison till the following feast of St Michael :
which King then, in a Parliament held at Perth,
at the request of the Queen, bishops and prelates,
earls and barons, remitted every offence of the
Earls of Douglas and Ross, but Kennedy was
kept in close custody.'''' A great mystery hangs
over this event. Nothing more transpires in his-
tory. But there appears, from the Chamberlain
Rolls, under the "Expense 11 for the year 1434, a voi.iu.,
payment for the expenses of Sir John Kennedy in
the castle of Stirling under the King 1 s Privy Seal,
of £\4>, 13s. 4d., which is the last notice that has
been found of him.
2. Gilbert, succeeded to his grandfather.
3. James, bishop of Dunkeld in 1438, bishop of St
Andrews in 1440, and chancellor of Scotland same
year. He was one of the regents in the minority
of James III., and died 10th May 1466.*
* It was this bishop who founded the college of St Salvator, or the " Auld
College" of St Andrews, in the year 1450. He reserved to the House of Cassillis
the right of presentation to ten prebendaries, or bursaries, provided for students
in that college. One of the Earls of Cassillis subsequently acquired other four
prebendaries from the college. By an act of the Parliament of Scotland, dated
22d July 1644, it was enacted, that a professorship of Humanity should.be insti-
tuted in St Salvator's College, and that these fourteen prebendaries should be as-
signed as part of his maintenance. It was also thereby declared that the Earl of
Cassillis, his heirs and successors, of the name and arms of Kennedy, should, in
all time thereafter, have the right of presentation of the said professor, and of
his successors in the said profession, together with the haill rents, profits, and
duties of the said fourteen prebendaries. On the 14th and 18th February 1645,
a contract was entered into between the Earl and the provost, professors, regents,
and remanent members of the college, by which it is provided that the college
shall be bound to receive and admit any party presented by the Earl, such party
being first tried and found qualified, according to the order of the visitation of
the said college. The Earl is bound to present within six months after intima-
tion of a vacancy is made to him by the said college ; and failing his doing so,
the right may be exercised pro ista vice by the college jure devoluto. By an
act passed in the year 1747 the two colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard were