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 138 HALSBURY — HAMILTON. Aug. 1886, being w. 28 June, lS8r>, BARON HALSBURY, of Halsbury, Devon. Ho hi. firstly, at Tottenham, Midx., 28 Aug. 1852, Caroline Louisa, 1st da. of William Conn Hitmfhkies, of Wood Green, Midx. She d. s.p. near Vevay in Switzerland, 30 Sep. 1 S73, aged 51. He Jtt. secondly, 11 Oct. 1874, at Twickenham, Midx., Wilhelmina, 3d da. of Henry Woodkali., of Stanmorc, Midx. HALYBURTON OF DIRLETOUN. i.e., "Dirletoun" or " Halyburton ok Dirletoun," Barony [S.], (Halyburton) cr. about 1441 ; forfeited 1600. See under " Diiuetoun." HAMKLDON. See "Hamilton of Hameldox, co. Leicester," Barony (Campbell, formerly Hamilton, nee Gunning), cr. 1776. HAMILTON^") Barony [s.] 1. Sir Jajies Hamilton, of Cadyow, co. Lanark, s. T 1445 nn< * ^ °^ J° mi ^. °^ t' le same, by Janet, da. of Sir James Douglas, of Dalkeith, was living 28 July 1397, as heir ap. of his father, whom he sue. before Oct. 1422 : was one of the hostages for the ransom of King James I. [S.] in 1124, by whom he was subsequently knighted,^) and made one of his Council, and by whose successor ho( c ) was by royal charter, ( d ) 28 June [or 3 July] 1445, er. "a hereditary Lord of our Pari." (*) There is an able and very interesting little article in the "Her. and Gen." (Vol. iv. pp. 450-455) on the "origin and descent of the Hamiltons," being a review of a" brief but very pretentious essay" (called in its preface an K examination " of the Hamilton pedigree), by " Audi alteram partem. S. A. Mowels, Sloane Street, 1867, 8vo. pp. 32." Iu this article [inter alia) it is shewn that " the royal Barony of Cadyow was at first held by the Hamilton family merely as Crown tciianls and "was not feudally acquired by that family till the reign [1329-71] of King David Bruce." " The House of Hamilton ' by John Anderson (4to. Edinburgh) tho' a work of merit lacks (of course) the numerous discoveries made since 1825 when it was published. [ h ] Probably about 1530. He is not styled Knight " in a charter of 18 April 1126, when his son James is spoken of as " s. and h. ap. of James Hamilton of Cadyow," while in a charter of 12 May 1444 " Sir James Hamilton " was of Cadyow. ( c ) That the creation refers to him (and not to his son) is (with some misgiving) set out in the text, principally because it is asserted by Mr. Hiddell (probably the best authority in such a matter) in his "Reply to [Dr. Hamilton of] Bardowie" [Edin- burgh, 1848, 4to] where mention is made of " a curious and original seal of arms of the head of the house of Cadzow, previous to 1457, which was then appended to a deed subscribed by him. It is apparently that of James, 1st Lord Hamilton, who was at least alive in 1451, tho' used, as often happened, by James, his son, the second Lord. The banner on the right, indicative of tho nearest descent, displays the arms of Douglas of Dalkeith, the mother of the first Lord, and BpouBe of his father, Sir John, of Cadzow," &<x It is also remarked (in the article alluded to in note "a" above) that the creation as a Lord of Pari, of the sixth feudal Lord (the husband of the Princess Mary) (iu lieu of the fifth feudal Lord, his father) as stated in Wood's edit, of Douglas's peerage "is contradicted by Crawfurd, and as the latter is supported by Nisbet (a better guide than either) his view is in this caso the true one." (") The " original constitution " of " all our earlier Baronies [S.], with the exception of Hamilton, is not preserved ; on this account it is impossible to rank our Baronial Peerages correctly. It may be observed that we had no hereditary Lordships of Parliament until about the reign [1437-601 of James II. [S.] The Baronial Peerage of Saint John [Torpichen] was attached to the fief and not hereditary." See " Riddcll," 1833, p. 89. Mr. Joseph Bain writes (15 March 1891) that " The Barony of Hamilton erected in 1445 carries it to the heirs of the grantee (hcrcdibus ski's) which iu Scotland includes heirs female and thus would go to the heir of line, unless any resignation or regrant occurred in the interim."