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 96 ANGUS. one of the eight Lords, of whom three were to place themselves in the hands of the English as security for the release of David 11 [ST]. He was Great Chamberlain [S.] 1357 and 1358. On 18 Aug. 1351) he had a safe conduct tor four ships of Flanders, with which he was to join Ed. Ill at Calais, lint he broke his engagement, and in March 1359-60 was charged to return to England to fulfil his obligation as a hostage. He in., by Papal dispens., dat. 3 June 1353 (being within the fourth degree of consanguinity), Margaret, da. of Sir William St. Cl.UA of Roslia, by Isabel, da. and coheir of Malise, Earl of Strathf.rn, Caithness and Oukney [S.] Being imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle, he d. there, of the plague, 1361. His widow m. Sir John Sinclair of Herdmanstouu. XII. 1361. S. Thomas (Stewart), Earl op Angus [S.], only s. and h. An infant at his father's death. He d. s.p., 1377. XIII. 1377. 4. Margaret (Stewart), suojure Countess of Angus [S.]. eldest sister and h. of line. She m. (as his 2nd wife), Thomas, 13th Earl op Mar [S], the last Earl of Mar in the direct male line, who </. s.p., 1377. Probably in her husband's lifetime,( a ) but certainly i-cnj shortly afterwards, she became mother of a son, known as George Douglas, begotten by her late hTisband's br. -in-law, William (Douglas 1, 1st Earl of Douglas [S.], whose wife Margaret, mo jure Countess of Mar [S.] (being sister and h. of Thomas, 13th Earl of Mar above- named), was then alive, and outlived her said husband. On 9 April 13S9 the Countess of Angus resigned the Earldom (reserving for herself the frank tenement thereof for life) in favour of the said GkoRGB DOUGLAS, not however then styling him her son or alleging any relationship to him ; though in his marriage contract with the King's da., some eight years afterwards, she styles him "Lord of Angus," and aeknmded'ju him as her son. She however survived her said s., and was living 1-117, being styled "Countess of Angus and Mar," (n:., ANGUS, in her own right, and Mar, in righto/ her long deceased and only husband), but (of course) never Htyled " Countess of Douglas," as the wife of that Earl of Douglas (who was the father of her children) survived him. XIY. 1389. 1. George (Douglas), Earl of Angus [S.], illcgit. s. of William (Douglas), 1st Earl of Douglas('') [S.], by Margaret,™ hire, Countess of Angus [S.] an above mentioned, was b. not later than 1378. On 9 April 1389, by the resignation of his mother, the said Countess, he received a grant of THE EA RLDOM OF ANGUS [S]. to himself and the heirs of his body, with rem. to Elizabeth, wife of Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick (yst. and only sister of the said Countess), and the heirs of their bodies. (°) He m., contract dat. 24 May IMf, the Lady Mary Stf.wart, 2nd da. of Robert III [S ]. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon, and d. of the pestilence in England, in the same year, 1102. His ( a ) The date of the birth of her son, George Douglas (the future Earl of Angus [S.]). who «i. ju May 1397, and had three children within five years afterwards, would (if w suppose him to be 19, and no older, at his marriage) just allow of his being 6. a year after the death of his mother's husband, the Earl of Mar [S.]. M The Earldom of Douglas [&] was entailed, 26 May 1342, on the heirs male of to body of Earl William, whom failing, to « certain William Douglas and Archibald Poiujlas respectively in like manner. On the death s.p., in August 13SS, of James, 2nd Earl of Douglas [SJ, who was the only legit, s. of the said Earl William, this George Douglas (the Earl of Angus mentioned in the text), would, if ^/fti'mafe, have, of course, as h. male of the body, sue. to his father's Earldom of Douglas [SJ Under the actual circumstances, however, that Earldom devolved (according to the entail of 1342) on the Archibald Douglas abovenamed. " This singular Douglas entail now above 500 years old is given by Mr. Hiddell in [his] Stewnrtiana, pp. 83 and 84, apparently from the Torphichen charter chest " [the family of Sandilands being the representatives of the House of Douglas.] See " Sinclair's remarks on the status of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus " [S.] («) This limitation was altered in 1547. See under (xix.) 6th Earl.