K792* ffiemoirs of the earl of Marr. ' 1^3 



a gold key, and next year a grant of the abbeys and 

 church-lands of Cannbuskenneth, Dryburgh, and Inch- 

 mahome, dated the 27th of March 1604. " For the 

 good, true, and faithful services, and acceptable pains, 

 and tare taken by his ancestors, in the education of 

 his majesty, and his progenitors, and particularly of 

 his own by the regent, as of his son by Marr, and for 

 his speedy and dutiful discharge of his errand in the 

 several embafsys wherein he had been employed by his 

 majesty, disannexing these chureh-lands from the 

 crown, and erecting them into a temporal lordfhip, 

 with suffrage in parliament, to be called, in all times 

 coming, the lordlhip of Cardrofs, to him, and heirs, 

 and succefsors that fhould happen to be provided by 

 him to the said lordlhip j and in consequence of this 

 grant, lord Marr conveyed this estate and honour to 

 Henry the godson of the prince of Wales, his second 

 son, by his second marriage, whose descendants sate 

 in the parliaments of Scotland, as lord Cardrofs of 

 Dryburgh, &c. until the death of William earl of 

 Buchan in 1693, when it was merged in a superior 

 title- 

 In the year 1606, his eldest son, by the lady Mary 

 Stuart, was married to Mary Douglafs countefs of 

 Buchan. The heirefs of that honour from James Stu- 

 art of Lome, uterine brother of James the second of 

 Scotland by Jane Plantagenet, daughter of the earl of 

 Somerset, and grand-daughter of king Edward the m. 

 widow of James the i. 



This marriage was obtained by the king's patronage, 

 and Buchan went, by tlie king's appoiJitment, with 

 the Baby Charles to Spain. 



{To be conftudrd in mr next.) 



