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This, in brief, is the history of the Utigation which 

 ensued, though the lawyers on both sides, as they 

 frequently do, enlarged upon both the appellant's 

 and respondent's case. 



Lord March was not the man to let titles and 

 ' bawbees ' elude his grasp for want of trying to secure 

 them ; he therefore proceeded in the manner related. 

 But, though his lordship claimed as 'general heir,' 

 and assumed the Cassillis title — which, being an 

 older creation than his own, he placed first, styling 

 himself in his legal petitions and other documents 

 Wilham, Earl of Cassillis, March, and Ruglen — Sir 

 Thomas Kennedy of Cullean also considered the 

 prize worth contesting ; so at it peer and commoner 

 went, in the strict spirit of the motto of the family 

 whose dignities they were fighting over — ' Avisez la 

 fin ' — Consider the cause or end. 



Having cited on what grounds Lord March based 

 his claim, I now briefly relate how, other than by 

 the deed aforesaid, Sir Thomas Kennedy sought to 

 prove his title. This astute Scot and his legal ad- 

 visers imparted a ' leetle ' more ancestry into the case, 

 whether to prolong the cause or to fatten the lawyers 

 I leave for surmise. They therefore began with a 

 charter dated 1404, by which the lands of Cassillis 

 were granted by Robert iii., King of Scotland, to Sir 



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