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

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ABSTRACT OF THE SIGNATURE.
Charles R.
Our Sovereign Lord, &c. ordains an Charter to be
past and expede under his Majesty's Great Seal, in
due Form, Giving, &c. To John Earl of Cassillis,
&c.
Fo. 3. (Proviso) The saids Daughters and Heirs
Female respective and successive, who shall happen
in any Time coming to succeed to the Lands and
Estate underwritten, always marrying a Gentleman
of Quality, of the Sirname of Kennedy at the least,
who, and the Heirs to be procreat betwixt them, to
succeed to the Lands and Estate underwritten, by
Virtue of this present Taillie and Provision, shall
assume, take on, bear, and use in all Time coming,
the Sirname of Kennedy, Arms and Dignity of the
Family of Cassillis.
3. All and haill the Earldom and Lordship of
Cassillis, &c.
9. All which remanent Lands, &c. were all for-
merly united, annexed, erected, and incorporated in
an whole and free Earldom and Lordship, called,
and to be called in all Time coming, the Earldom
and Lordship of Cassillis, with the Title, Dignity,
Precedency, and Priority due to the said Earl, and
his Predecessors, by the Laws and Practice of this
Realm ; conform to a Charter, granted by his Majes-
ty's umquhile dearest Father, King Charles the 1st,
of ever blessed Memory, under his Majesty's Great