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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. VI. 137., Aug. 14. '68. 



rich may perhaps not be unacceptable ; tbey are 

 extracted from a MS. work I am at present com- 

 piling, chiefly on the plan of the late Sir N. H. 

 Nicolas's Synopsis of the Peerage of England, and 

 giving the dates of creation, descent, &c., of every 

 Scotish title of peerage which has existed since 

 the accession of King Malcolm Cean-mhor, a,d. 

 1057, — a desideratum in our genealogical litera- 

 ture which I hardly feel capable of supplying, at 

 least with the resources available in India, and 

 removed as I am from all public libraries and 

 kindred sources of reference. But I must remark 

 that there is actually no Peerage of Scotland, 

 worthy of the name, in respect to accuracy or re- 

 search, in existence at the present day : — 



Earls. 

 I. 1185. 1. 



II. 12 . . 2. 



Countess. 

 1250. 3. 



Earls. 

 III. ]2;j- 



" Carrick. 



Duncan MackJowall, eldest s. and h. of Gil- 

 bert, Lord of Galloway (s. of Fergus, first 

 Lord, or Prince of Galloway, on record, 

 ante 1142, ob. 12 May, UGl), resigned his 

 claims to that lordship on his father's 

 death, 1 .Jany, 1185, at the desire of King 

 William the Lyon, and in favour of bis 

 cousin, Roland (who, consequent!}-, be- 

 came Lord of Gallowaj', aiid ob. in Dec. 

 1200) : created Earl of Carrick, co. Ayr, 

 in Sept. 1185, by King William ; ob. post 

 1201. 



Keil Mackdowall, s. and h., ob. 23 



June, 1250, s. p. m. 



Jfarjory Mackdowall, dau. and h. She m. 

 1°, ante 1255, Adam de Kilconcath, who 

 ob. 1270, s. p. ; and 2", in 1273, Robert de 



Brus the elder, who survived her, 



ob. cir. 1292. 



Adam de Kilconcath, jure uxoris, ob. 1270, 

 s. p., at the siege of Acre, in Palestine, 

 during the Crusade. 



IV. 1274. 1. Robert de I'rus, jure uxoris; s. and b. of 

 Robert de Brus, fifth feudal Lord of An- 

 nandale, and 'competitor' fertile Crown 

 of Scotland, 1286-92 (ob. Nov. 1295), be- 

 came Earl of Carrick on his marriage, 

 but resigned the dignity in favour of his 

 eldest son, 1293, and ob. 1304. 

 V. 1293, 2. Robert de Brus, the younger, s. and h., 

 succeeded on his father's resignation ; and 

 having been crowned King of Scots, 27 

 March, 1306, as Robert I., this earldom 

 became United to the Crown. 



VI. 1314. 3. Edward Bruce, Lord of Galloway, created 

 Earl of Carrick, cir. 1314, by his elder 

 brother. King Robert I., crowned as iving 

 of Ireland in May, 1315 ; and killed at 

 the battle of Dundalk, 5 October, 1318, 

 s. p. 1. 

 VI [. 1318. 4. Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale, nat. s., 

 on whom the eaiddom was bestowed by 

 his nncle, K. Robert I., after his father's 

 death in Ireland, on which the dignity 

 had again become United to the Crown, for 

 want of legitimate heirs. Ob. 12 Aug. 

 1332, s. p., at the battle of Dupplin. 

 VIII. 1332. 5. Alexander Bruce, brother and h. (being 

 also a natural sou of King Edward Bruce). 



X. 13 



Ob. 20 July, 1333, s. p. ni. sup., at the 

 battle of Halidou-hill. 

 Countess. 



II. 1333. 6. Elinor Bruce, only dau. and h. She m. 

 1° Sir William de Cunyngbame, Knt., of 

 Kilmaurs ; and 2", Sir Duncan Wallace, 

 Knt, (which latter, however, does not 

 appear to have had the title in right of 

 his wife, though she is still stvled Coun- 

 tess of Carrick in a charter of fc Rob. II. 

 to herself and her husband). Ob. post. 

 1374 (and in the reign of K. Robert II. as 

 appears from charters). 



Earh. 

 IX. 13G1. William de Cunyngbame, jure uxoris: and 

 confirmed in the dignity by King David 

 II., an. 33° : as he appears to have had no 

 issue by this (his second) with the Coun- 

 tess of Carrick, the dignity again became 

 United to the Crown, cir. 1363. 

 3C3. 1. John Stewart, Lord of Kyle, eldest s. and 

 h. of Robert, the Steward of Scotland ; 

 created Earl of Carrick 22 June, 1363, by 

 ♦ his grand-uncle, King David II. ; and, on 



his father's accession to the throne of 

 Scotland as King Robert II., in 1371, he 

 resigned the earldom, and obtained a new 

 charter of the dignity to " himself, Anna- 

 bella his wife, and the heirs of their bodies 

 in fee," 1 June, 1374: succeeded to the 

 crown in 1390 as King Robert III., when 

 the title descended to his eldest son. 

 XI. 1390. 2. David Stewart, Prince of Scotland, s. and 

 h., became Earl of Carrick on his father's 

 accession to the throne; created also 

 Duke of Rothesay 28 April, 1398; and ' 

 ob. 2G March, 1102, s. p. 

 XII. 1404. 3. James Stewart, brother and h., Prince of 

 Scotland, 1402 : created Earl of Carrick 

 10 Dec. 1404, by his father K. Rob. IIL ; 

 sue* to the throne as King James I. in 

 1406 (though not crowned till 21 May, 

 1424, owing to his captivity in England), 

 when this dignity finally merged in the 

 crown ; and has ever since been always 

 borne by the heir-apparent to the throne 

 of Scotland, from 1430 to 1566 ; and by 

 the Prince of Wales since the union of 

 the two crowns in 1603. The present 

 possessor of the title, H. R. H. Albert 

 Edward, Prince of Wales, is the thirtieth 

 Earl of Carrick, in direct succession from 

 the original creation of the title." 



A. S. A. 

 Barrackpore, E. I., June, 1858. 



PHOTOGHArHY. 



Direct Carbon Printing. — Having been the first to 

 communicate to you the particulars, so far as divulged, 

 connected with "the discovery of Direct Photographic 

 Printing in Carlmn b)' Mr. John Pouncy of Dorchester, 

 may I beg of you to transcribe from Saturday's Times the 

 following remarkable attestation thereof from the organ of 

 the French Society of Photographers, as communicated to 

 that journal by M. Horace M. Moule, but the original of 

 which I have perused? 



" The subjoined extracts from the Bulletin de la Sociite 

 Frangaise de Photographie will be interesting to all prac- 



