Reports of claims preferred to the House of Lords in the cases of the Cassillis, Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn peerages

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being the opinion of this House, that as the
said dignity might have been granted by let-
ters patent to the grantee and a series of heirs,
not so comprehensive as to carry the said
dignity to such heirs as the claimants respec-
tively represent themselves to be, it ought,
according to law, to be presumed that the
same was not granted to such heirs ; and it
appears to this House that the said dignity
has not been in fact assumed or enjoyed since
the death of Robert Baron of Roxburghe
without heirs-male of his body begotten, by
any heir or heirs of the said Robert Baron
Roxburghe."
Accident having put the Editor in posses-
sion of authentic copies of the speeches de-
livered in the cases of Cassillis, Sutherland,
and Glencairn, and of such notes as had been
preserved of the observations of Lord Mans-
field on moving the resolutions in the claim
to the Barony of Spynie, he was induced to
preserve them in this shape, and to print for
private circulation a volume, which, it is hop-
ed, will not be unacceptable to those who take
an interest in Peerage Law.
J. M.
10, Forres Street, 10th Dec. 1839.