Memorial as to the Ruthven peerage
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The possession of the Title has thus been uninterrupted from the original
Creation in 1651 down to the present time, and was as fully adopted by
females, when the succession opened to them, as by males. Since the first
female succession to the Dignity, in 1701, the title has been enjoyed by herself
and her successors, male and female, for upwards of a century and a half.
In addition to the evidence which has been noticed of the descent and
possession of the title in the persons of the successive Peers and Peeresses, there
is evidence of a general nature applicable to several periods of the succession,
which also requires to be stated.
On the 12th June, 173.9, the House of Lords ordered, " That the Lords of
" Session in Scotland do make up a Poll or List of the Peers of Scotland at the
" time of the Union, tchose Peerages are still continuing."
The return was made on 27 February, 1740. It commences with a
reference to the Roll of Peers at the time of the Union. The Lords of Session
found a writing entituled "Roll of Parliament, 1706," bearing, first, a List of
the Peers according to their rank, next a " List of Commissioners from Shires
" to that Parliament, and then a List of the Commissioners from Boroughs, and
" this writing, some of the officers who were then employed under the Lord
" Register say, was the very Roll or List that was daily called over in the last
" Parliament of Scotland, pursuant to the constant practice of calling over the
" Roll both of Peers and Commons who sat together in one house before the
" house proceeded to business, and also of collecting the voices by calling over
" the Rolls when any point was to be resolved by a question. They also found
" that this Roll or List has, ever since the Union, been looked upon as authentic,
" and that copies thereof, so far as concerns the Peerage, have been made use
" of, with some additions hereafter to be mentioned, and called over at every
" meeting of the Peers of Scotland for the Election of one or more Peers to
" serve in the Parliament of Great Britain, from the year 1708 down to this
" time."
" They further report that this Roll or List of Peers, which they consider
" as that which was de praxi made use of, and called over in the last Parlia-
" ment of Scotland, in which the Union was enacted, and therefore deemed to
" be a true one," &c.
In this Roll of 1706 the Lord Ruthven is entered between Lords Colville
and Rutherford, the former having been created in the year 1651, and the latter
in the year 1661.
The Roll of 1706 must have been prepared in that year so as to include
the Commissioners who had been elected for the respective Shires and Buro-hs.
But in so far as it related to the Peers, who were hereditary and not elective,
like the Commissioners, the Clerks of Parliament had included those whose
Peerages were then subsisting, and the Roll affords evidence that the Ruthven
Peerage still subsisted in the person of Jean Lady Ruthven, and had not
become extinct five years before on the death of her Brother, in 1701. If the
title had died with him, it woidd not have been continued in the Roll of Parlia-
ment as a subsisting Peerage.
But this is not the only Roll showing the existence of the Ruthven Title
after the death of David, the Second Lord. On the 22nd of December, 1707
the House of Lords ordered that the Lord Clerk Register for Scotland, " do
" forthwith lay before this House an authentic List of the Peerage of that part
" of Great Britain called Scotland, as it stood the 1st day of May last."
The possession of the Title has thus been uninterrupted from the original
Creation in 1651 down to the present time, and was as fully adopted by
females, when the succession opened to them, as by males. Since the first
female succession to the Dignity, in 1701, the title has been enjoyed by herself
and her successors, male and female, for upwards of a century and a half.
In addition to the evidence which has been noticed of the descent and
possession of the title in the persons of the successive Peers and Peeresses, there
is evidence of a general nature applicable to several periods of the succession,
which also requires to be stated.
On the 12th June, 173.9, the House of Lords ordered, " That the Lords of
" Session in Scotland do make up a Poll or List of the Peers of Scotland at the
" time of the Union, tchose Peerages are still continuing."
The return was made on 27 February, 1740. It commences with a
reference to the Roll of Peers at the time of the Union. The Lords of Session
found a writing entituled "Roll of Parliament, 1706," bearing, first, a List of
the Peers according to their rank, next a " List of Commissioners from Shires
" to that Parliament, and then a List of the Commissioners from Boroughs, and
" this writing, some of the officers who were then employed under the Lord
" Register say, was the very Roll or List that was daily called over in the last
" Parliament of Scotland, pursuant to the constant practice of calling over the
" Roll both of Peers and Commons who sat together in one house before the
" house proceeded to business, and also of collecting the voices by calling over
" the Rolls when any point was to be resolved by a question. They also found
" that this Roll or List has, ever since the Union, been looked upon as authentic,
" and that copies thereof, so far as concerns the Peerage, have been made use
" of, with some additions hereafter to be mentioned, and called over at every
" meeting of the Peers of Scotland for the Election of one or more Peers to
" serve in the Parliament of Great Britain, from the year 1708 down to this
" time."
" They further report that this Roll or List of Peers, which they consider
" as that which was de praxi made use of, and called over in the last Parlia-
" ment of Scotland, in which the Union was enacted, and therefore deemed to
" be a true one," &c.
In this Roll of 1706 the Lord Ruthven is entered between Lords Colville
and Rutherford, the former having been created in the year 1651, and the latter
in the year 1661.
The Roll of 1706 must have been prepared in that year so as to include
the Commissioners who had been elected for the respective Shires and Buro-hs.
But in so far as it related to the Peers, who were hereditary and not elective,
like the Commissioners, the Clerks of Parliament had included those whose
Peerages were then subsisting, and the Roll affords evidence that the Ruthven
Peerage still subsisted in the person of Jean Lady Ruthven, and had not
become extinct five years before on the death of her Brother, in 1701. If the
title had died with him, it woidd not have been continued in the Roll of Parlia-
ment as a subsisting Peerage.
But this is not the only Roll showing the existence of the Ruthven Title
after the death of David, the Second Lord. On the 22nd of December, 1707
the House of Lords ordered that the Lord Clerk Register for Scotland, " do
" forthwith lay before this House an authentic List of the Peerage of that part
" of Great Britain called Scotland, as it stood the 1st day of May last."
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