Stirling peerage

INTRODUCTION. 1 {
was sisted in consequence of proceedings to be subse-
quently noticed. *
In June 1831, he instructed his agent, Mr Ephrairn
Lockhart, to issue this proclamation to the Baronets of
Nova Scotia :
" NOTICE TO THE BAKONETS OF NOVA SCOTIA.
" Whereas upon the institution of the order of Knights
Baronets of Nova Scotia, King Charles I. by his Royal
Charter, under the Great Seal of Scotland, dated 12th May
1625, was pleased to grant licence and authority to Sir
William Alexander, (afterwards Earl of Stirling,) his
Majesty's Hereditary Locum Tenens, and Proprietary Lord
of the said Colony of Nova Scotia, to nominate and create
certain persons, at his discretion, into the honor and dignity
of Knights Baronet of the said country, with a descendable
inheritance therein ; and also to apportionate to every Baronet
so created a particular district of land to be erected into a
free barony. And whereas in virtue of such charter, many
persons were created baronets, and had seisin of the lands
assigned to them, to enjoy with the right and privilege of
working the mines on their respective territories, &c. (as
appears from the Register of Seisins.) It is hereby made
known to the heirs representatives of the said persons, that
very important interests are at this moment vested in them, of
which, from the lapse of time, and the mistaken idea of the
* In reference to this action, Banks, in February 1824, published a
most insolent and Bobadillian, as well as stupid pamphlel, entitled " A
Letter to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, respecting what are called
" The Defences of the Officers of State," to a certain action of declarator
now sisted before the Court of Session, at Edinburgh, shewin" the
tmcan^id, covert, and invidious assertions therein unnecessarily intro-
duced ; wbich having been printed, tend, as doubtless meant, to the pre-
judice of the pursuer, in the merits of his action, and of his public char-
acter, before trial of the cause, —
winch rogue ought most to be condemned to sbame,
AVho sfials my purse, or he who saps my ?myite ?
Edinburgh, William Tait, 1834." This he very prudently took care to
recall soon after publicatioD.