64 'OLD Q 



Anne Kennedy, Countess of Ruglen, daughter of 

 John, seventh Earl of Cassilhs. The last owner of 

 this title married his cousin-germane, Lady Susan 

 Hamilton, daughter of John, Earl of Selkirk and 

 Ruglen, his stepfather ; upon this several ' particular 

 substitutions' in the Cassillis entail of 1698 were 

 thereupon almost determined by the Ruglen family 

 having a near prospect of succeeding to the estate of 

 Cassillis, under the limitation, ' to the heirs whatso- 

 ever ' of John, Lord Kennedy. 



The intent of this deed was to eventually secure 

 the Cassillis property and honours to the descendants 

 of Anne Kennedy, Countess of Ruglen. This suc- 

 cession might have run its intended course, but for 

 the faculty of perpetuation common to all mankind, 

 which prompted John, eighth Earl of Cassillis, to 

 execute a deed nullifying the previous settlement, 

 which is borne out by the fact that Lord Cassillis did 

 privately sign such an instrument on March 29th, 

 1759, when his Countess was at a ball, by which 

 deed a settlement in nature of a strict entail of the 

 whole lands and possessions of Cassillis was made in 

 favour of Sir Thomas Kennedy, Bart, of CuUean (his 

 lordship's nearest male relative) ; by which deed, in 

 default of his surviving the grantor, several other 

 heirs and substitutes were named therein. 



