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

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of Drummelzier, James Harper, and David Mitchell,
merchant-burgesses of the city of Edinburgh, and
to have been resigned in the hands of the Crown for
new infeftment, " consanguineo Alexandro Domino
Spynie, heredibus suis rnasculis et assignatis"
These lands and patronages are distinct from
those originally erected into the Barony of Spynie,
and were intended to be substituted in their place,
as will be seen from the following clause, by which
a new destination is apparently given to the descent
both of titles and estates. It may be here as well
to remark, that there never appears to have been
any resignation of the honours of Spynie in the
hands of the Crown by the second Baron — unques-.
tionably a valid mode of changing the order of suc-
cession — but, on the contrary, there was merely a
new creation, with a different remainder, without
any other attempt at destroying the original substi-.
tution.
" Praeterea, nos considerantes, quod nos ex nostra
specialibus gratia et favore, erga dictum quondam
Alexandrum Dominum Spynie, patrem dicti nostri
prsedelicti consanguinei, Alexandri, nunc Domini
de Spynie, gesto .... die mensis Anno Do-
mini Millesimo fecimus et creavimus dic^
turn quondam Alexandrum Dominum Spynie tempo-
ralem Dominum, ac dedimus et disposuimus dicto
quondam Alexandro Domino Spynie, totas et inte-
gras temporales terras Episcopatus de Murray, quse
in unum liberum dominium et baroniam, Dominium
de Spynie nuncupat., unita fuerunt, et quod postea,
nos, episcopos ad suam integritatem restaurare de-
terminati, dictus quondam Alexander, Dominus