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

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appears that Cuthbert his son was then Lord Kil-
maurs. This Cuthbert, I believe, must then have
been a young man, for he lived till 1540. There is
another circumstance which tends to Confirm this ;
in the account of the ceremonial of the marriage of
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King James the Fourth with Margaret of England
by Mr Young, Somerset Herald, to be afterwards
mentioned more particularly, Cuthbert Lord Kil-
maurs appears at a tournament as a challenger
against James Lord Hamilton, who was then a very
young man, as appears by the date of the marriage
of his father with the Princess Mary, sister of James
the Third.
This Cuthbert married the daughter of the Earl
of Angus, a very powerful nobleman. I find an
instrument mentioned in the inventory, which I can
only describe as it is entered there. It is dated the
20th of January 1493, and is called (i A Declara-
tion by King James, and that the Parliament made
no farther inquisition, and so was sufficient to purge
Alexander Lord Kilmaurs." This seems to have
been intended to do away all incapacity on the part
of Cuthbert on account of his father's acts. Two
other papers are material, Nos. 24 and 48 of the
inventory. The first is a charter in 1498 by King
James to Cuthbert Lord Kilmaurs, and Marieta, his
wife, and the other a charter to William, son to
Cuthbert Lord Kilmaurs, also dated in 1498. Till
this period, therefore, Cuthbert was treated only as
Lord Kilmaurs.
In 1505 it appears clearly that he was Earl of
Glencairn. On the part of the claimant, it was ar-
gued as probable, that the title had been somehow