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

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vitoribus durante toto tempore instantis discordiae
commoretur et remaneat."
Several grants of a similar nature were made
about the same time ; the then Earl of Crawford,
who had become an adherent of the King, was by
a patent, dated the 18th of May 1488, created
Duke of Montrose, and had a grant of the town of
Montrose, which, in his favour, was erected into a
regalitv.
The grant in question, in the present case, creates
Alexander Earl of Glencairn and Lord Kilmaurs.
Lord Kilmaurs he certainly was before this period.
It also grants to him the thirty pound lands of
Drummond, and the ten pound lands of Duchray.
The lands of Drummond, as appears from the
name itself, were the estate of the Lord Drum-
mond, who was of the Prince's party; and it is stated
that the lands of Duchray are in a similar situation,
and belonged to the family of Lennox. These lands
of Drummond and Duchray are never mentioned in
any of the posterior deeds of the family, nor in the
inventory of those deeds, in which the lands are
generally marked, with exactness. As to them,
therefore, the patent, 1488, must have had no ef-
fect.
There is another singular circumstance attending
this patent. Though the grant to the Earl of Craw-
ford as Duke of Montrose was dated the 18th of
May 1488, yet as one of the witnesses to this patent,
on the 28th, he is still stated to be Earl of Crawford.
And William Bishop of Aberdeen is here mentioned
as Chancellor, though, from several instruments in
Rymer's Foedera, it appears that Colin Earl of Ar-