Cassillis peerage, 1760-4

Heirs Male ; which failing, to the remanent Persons
named in the ancient Charters of the Estate.
By other two Charters of the same Date,'King
James granted the Lands of Dunnure and Castle
thereof, and other Lands, and also the Custody of
the Castle of Lochdune, and Lands thereto belong-
ing, to the said Gilbert Kennedy, and his Heirs
Male.
And by a fourth Charter of the'same Date,*King
James appointed the said Gilbert Kennedy, and his
Heirs Male, to be the Head of the whole Tribe,
and granted to them the heritable Office of Bailie
of the Earldom of Carrick.
By a Charter in 1501, King James IV. granted i7thFeb. 1501.
the Lands and Baronies of Cassillis and Denure,
and others, to David Kennedy, (soon after" created
Earl of Cassillis,) upon the Resignation of his
Father, John Lord Kennedy, " Tenen' et habend'
" omnes et singulas prsedict. terras, &c. dicto
" David Kennedy, et haeredibus suis de nobis et
" successoribus nostris, &c. in feudo et haereditate,
" &c. secundum tenorem antiquarum infeodationum
" dicf terrarum eis desuper confect."
The said David, created Earl of Cassillis in 1509,
was succeeded in his Estate and Honours by his
Son Gilbert, the second Earl of Cassillis, to whom
succeeded his Son Gilbert, the third Earl of Cas-
sillis, who, in 1540, obtained a Charter from King 6th Feb . i5te .
James V., granting the whole Estate and Barony of
Cassillis, and other Lands therein mentioned, to
him and the Heirs Male of his Body; which failing
to Thomas, his Brother, and the Heirs Male of his
Body ; which failing, to David, Quintin, Archibald,