Three Celtic earldoms

ANCIENT EARLDOM OF ATHOLL 33
the Royal Forests, and Coroner within the bounds of
the earldom ; his son, Sir William, was served heir to
his grandfather in 1525, and left issue. Sir William
was Controller of Scotland, 1 560-1 562, and was
knighted in 1565. He left issue, Sir John, who suc-
ceeded him as first Earl of Tullibardine, and others ;
Sir John was second heir of his father and succeeded in
1583. He was married in 1576 to Catherine, fourth
daughter of David, Lord Drummond, and left issue,
ten children; he died in 161 5. William, second
earl, was born in 1574, and married, in 1599, Cecilia,
daughter of Sir John Wemyss, but left no issue ;
secondly to Dorothy, eldest daughter and heiress of
John Stewart, Earl of Atholl, and niece of the Earl
of Gowrie, by whom he left issue, John, afterwards
Earl of Atholl ; and Mary, married to Sir John Mon-
crieff. John, Earl of Atholl, was son and heir of
William, second Earl of Tullibardine. He married
Jean, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy,
and died in 1642, leaving issue, John Murray, second
Earl of Atholl, created in 1676 first marquis.
In 1629 John Murray, only son of William, second
Earl of Tullibardine and Dorothea Stewart, eldest
daughter of John, fifth Earl of Atholl, was by Charles I.
created eighth Earl of Atholl. It is recorded that
William, second Earl of Tullibardine, when a young
man, together with his cousin, Viscount Stormont,
aided James VI. at the Gowrie conspiracy. For
this service Tullibardine was made Lord Lieutenant
and Sheriff of Perthshire, an office which had herit-
ably belonged to the Ruthvens since their appointment
to it in 1487. His brother, Patrick Murray, became
by letters patent third Earl of Tullibardine in 1628.
Patrick was succeeded by his eldest son, James, as
fourth earl. He died without issue, and the estates
went to Atholl. John Murray, the eighth Earl of
Atholl and first of the line of Murray, is described as