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 AUMALE— AVANDALE. 205 AUMALE, or AUMARLE ; see Albemarle. AUNGIER OE LONGFORD. i.e. " Aungier OS Longford, co. Longford," Baron [I.], a: 1621, ex. 1704. See under " Longford." AVALON. See "Mordaunt of Avalon, co. Somerset," Viscount, a: 1659, ex. 1814. AVANE. t'.e, "Lord op A vane and Hamilton" [S.], doubtless a clerical error for AiJAN'E or ArraN. See " Arran," Earl of [S.], a: 1581, forfeited 1585. AVANDALE, AVENDALE, AVOXDALE, or EVANDALE. Earls [S.] J. James Douglas of Balveny, 2nd s. of Archibald, 3rd t ijor Earl ok Douglas [S.J, by Joan, widow of Thomas Moray of L ' Bothwell, being Warden of the Marches, was, in U37, ci: EARL . jt- OF AVANDALE, having charter of lands, in co. Peebles, 22 Dec. 1400. 1439 (confirmed 20 Sup. 1440) as " Earl of Avendale and Lord op Balveny " [S.] In 1440 lie sue. his grand nephew as " Earl op Douglas " [S.], in which Earldom this title was merged 'till both became forfeited in 1455. See "Douglas," Earl of [S.], cr. 1356-7. Barons [S.] 1. Andrew Stewart, styled " of Albany," eldest of the ] 1459 illegit. sons( il ) of Sir Walter Stewart (who was 1st siu'v. s. and h. j. Q ' ap. of Murdoch, DUKE OF Albany [S.], by (it is presumed) a da., ,qq of Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochow), was, as early sis Aug. 1440, p c t0 Jamea n rg^ ;l Gent _ of the Bedchamber to James III [S.], by whom he was Knighted, and from that King obtained in 1456 the Barony of Avondale, co. Lanark, forfeited by the Earl of Douglas [S.] In 1459 he was it. LORD xiVONDALE [S.] He was Warden of the East Marches and one of the Lords of the Regency in 14G0 ; High Chancellor [S.] 1460 to 1482, and ia raid to have obtained precedence next to blood royal. On 4 April 1471 he had a grant of the whole of the Earldom of Lennox for his life, which had been forfeited by Ilia great grandfather Earl Duncan in 1424. On 17 April 1479 he obtained under the Great Seal letters of legitimation for himself and his brothers Arthur and Walter,^) ( a ) See p. 50, note " a." The legitimacy of Walter Stewart of Morphia, the youngest of these is ably urged by "the Hon. and Rev. Andrew Godfrey Stuart" in his "Sketch of the Stuarts of Castle Stuart, Ireland (Edinburgh, 1854, 4 to). If indeed such was the fact (other that by the partial legitimation of 1479), one curious result would be that such legitimacy would apparently have invalidated the succession of Queen Mary to the throne of Scotland, under the settlement of 1373, by which heirs female were postponed to all lawful descendants in the male line of Robert TL In strict law, however, the attainder of Duke Murdoch would have been a bar to the right of his issue. Another argument against such legitimacy is that Alexander Stewart (s. and h. of the said Walter) who, if his father had been legitimate would have represented Isabel, Duchess of Albany and suo jure Countess of Lennox [S.], made no claim to the great estates of that Earldom, but on the contrary appears as " homolo- gating the claim of Elizabeth Menteith [a descendant of a i/oungcr sister of the Countess Isabel] by attesting the proclamation of the King's letters of Privy Seal in ui her favour."— See "Stewart Genealogy," by George Burnett, Lyon, in Preface to vol iv (p. clxxx, note 1) of the " Exchequer Rolls " [S.] Q