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 BROXMOTJTH — BRUCE. 41 BBOXMOUTH. i.e. "Viscount of Brox.moutit " [S] Sim; " Roxburghe " Dukedom of IS), er. 1707. BRUCE or T)K BRUCE. = - ■ Barony by /. ROBERT DE BRUCE, wllO, ffOIll 1271 to 1292, "1 g-j Writ. Wft g K.uu. ui.- Caiuuck [S}jure uxoris, wits sum. to Pari. [E.las I j k I I .ii)- -,i Baron (LORD BRUCE) by writ directed /?o6'(o ifc 5nt». Ho ] g = tnu alio sum. to attend tliu King ;it Salisbury. 20 Jan. I £ (129.J/7) M Kd. !.( •) Hoe 1 . 1304. > fe - II. 1301. HomRT(m Bruce), Loud Bruce [E.], also Earl of Cahhwk [S]. b. trod h. He was crowned KING OF SCOT- LAND, 27 March ISjJft With that Crown the Barony of Bruce became united till on the accession «if James VI. rs] to the Kingdom of England it became merged in tile Crown, j BRUCE < IE KINLOSS (.-,'. 1004, 1608 and 1033). Barony [S.] /. KdwABD BRUCE, 2d s. of Sir Edward B. of Blairhall, I 1 00 1 ' "• ClackmanuaB, by Alison, sister of Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney, da. oi William Rki» of Aikonhoad, eo. Clackmannan, was b. about ,. lofto 1549; ed. at the Scotch Bar ; one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh, II. I liU. . . Conanendatorof theCistereian Abbey of Kinloss, eo. Elgin. P.C. and a Lord of Session, 1597-1604. On i Feb. 1601/2( b ) he had, mi his resignation, a Charter of Kinloss with the title of Free Baron ami LOUD KINLOSS, [Si] with rem. to his heirs and uwign*. Having been Ambassador tu England in 1000, lie was, through the means of Cecil, very instrumental in procuring the peaceful accession of his King to that throue. Accordingly he was made P.C. and Mastkii OP TUK Kotxs for life, 18 May 1'iO*, receiving grants of the manor of Whoriton and tho Abbey of Jervaulx, co. York. On 8 .Inly K-04, he was cr. BARON BRUCE OF KINLOSS [S.] with rem. to heirs male of his body, whom failing, to his heirs mule wluitsoever( c ) ; ("} See ante Vol. I. p. Ill, note " b " its to this writ not being valid as a regular writ of Summons to Purl. ('') This date of creation is allowed in the decreet of Hanking (1600) where this Peerage is placed below " Londoun " (cr. 30 June 1001), and immediately above "Abercoru " (cr. f. April 1003). (°) His description therein being " Edwardm Brute, Mites, Bolulorum MagitUr." The reason why the Lord Kinloss (of 1602} had in 1604, another grant of a Peerage seems to have been the distrust (at that period) in the legal competency of grants of Church lamli constituting (najmru/ Aon/sains. There are some valuable remarks on this subject in " Kiddell," chap, iii, and particularly, pp. 249-205, as to this very Peerage. It there appears that as early as 1 587, " Mr. Edward Bruce, Abbot of Kinloss defended his right to sit in the House, when a petition was presented to remove therefrom " the /'relates, as having Ho authority from the Church and the most of them no function or charge in it at all." This right and also that to the peerage title of Loan KlXLOSS [S.] would appear to us, in these days, to have been settled by the charter of 2 Feb. 1601/2, but "that such was not the fact," at that dale, appears from the. patent of 8 July 1601, by which, after stating in the preamble that tin. King had determined "illustiium Baronium numerum aiujcre," the grantee, under the designa- tion (nut of Lord Kinloss, but) of " Edward Bruce, Knight" is created " Baiion BaucE of Kinloss [S.] Yet, per contra, the creation of 1602 was, apparently, allowed in tho "ranking" of 1606 (see ante, note "b"), and was officially recognised in the allowance (21 July 1888) of that Peerage to the Duke of Buckingham and Chaudos as heir of line. See " Kinloss," Barony [S.1, cr. 1602. The grantee, as "Ridded" observes, " must have been rather whimsical and vacillating in respect to his heirs, as in all human probability he must have wished his titles and lands to have gone together." This vacillation probably accounts fortius third and last grant of Peerage, 3 May 160S, which was to heirs general, instead of (as in 1604) to heirs ?!ia/c whatso- ever; thus according with tho first grant (1602) of the Vnrony of Kinloss, and, in some degree, with the ultimate devolution of the large Yorkshire estates of the thrice