True relation of William Earle of Monteath's affair concerning the Earldome and title of Straitherne

by Mr. Lawrence Scot, the first day that he was
admitted a Lord of Session, to beware of the Earle,
who he found to be his small freind, who not long
thereafter, by his credit with the King, obtained
warrand upon sinistrous information, as how being
made Lord of the Session that he should be re-
moved from his place of Secret Councel. The
same day he receaved his message from Buckleugh,
he called to mind that at his being in England he
had caused coppie a paper which was given him
by the Earle of Seaforth, containing a brief infor-
mation concerning the Earldome of Straitherne,
sent to the Earle of Tullibardine by James Murray,
shewing that the King had wronged himself in
granting that style to any subject, which paper he
made the ground work of his subsequent accusa-
tion.
The deduction of the present state of the
Earldome of Straitherne.
When and in what Kings tyme Straitherne was
erected into ane Earldome I cannot perfectly de-
signe. Allways the first notable race of the Earles
thereof was that of the fforeteiths [qr. ?] of the whilk
was Gilbert Count palatine of Straitherne, so called
in ane Evident found in the Abbay of InchafTray,
about the year of Christ 1219, In the reign of
Alexander
If.